(I suppose it might not actually be that hard to write something that would remove all of the newlines from a script, dealing with heredocs and tossing podstuff and comments correctly, but .... why?)

although handling implicit looping over contents of files passed on the command line and print etc may be a little more challenging, but as you say, "Why"?

Perl is the programming world's equivalent of English

Apologies Monks.

I should have elaborated, this was/is not by any means critical. There is no need, just my own esoteric curiosity. I've been playing around with 'the problem' for a bit now and wondering if it was a thing which had already been handled. Every search gave results for the converse situation of turning a one-liner into a program, thus my desire to get more insight.

Thank you for your attention.

j--a: I share the puzzlement of wrog and GrandFather as to why one would need something like this. Can you say a bit more about why you would want this? What need would this fulfill for you?