> Is there a flag for B::Deparse that retains comments?

no¹, but -l will point you to the original source line 

-l

    Add '#line' declarations to the output based on the line and file 
+locations of the original code.

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for instance

perl -MO=Deparse,-l tst_glob.pl
#line 1 "tst_glob.pl"
$\ = "\n";
#line 3 "tst_glob.pl"
$n = 123;
#line 5 "tst_glob.pl"
$gr = \*n;

...

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so just write yourself a post processor script to reinclude the missing lines as comments or POD or here-docs or whatever.

I recommend using Perl, it's good at text processing. ;-)

Cheers Rolf

PS: Je suis Charlie!

¹) IIRC does B::Concise have an option to include original code... (update: yes -src )

In reply to Re: B::Deparse (with comments) by LanX
in thread B::Deparse (with comments) by fionbarr

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