It's a nice idea, but surely your editor of choice already has the means to produce a template for you, determined by the extension of the new file you are creating. I use perl-support.vim which provides an uber template file for producing .pl, .pm, .t files and others. Here's the the .pl template that i use, notice how it is large enough to warrant a template and not line by line print statements: 

§%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%%%%%%%%%%%
== comment.file-description-pl == start ==
#!/usr/bin/env perl 

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

use Pod::Usage;
use Getopt::Long;

GetOptions (
    'help' => \my $help,
    'man'  => \my $man,
);
pod2usage( -verbose => 0 ) if $help;
pod2usage( -verbose => 2 ) if $man;

<CURSOR>


__END__
=head1 NAME

|FILENAME| -

=head1 SYNOPSIS

|FILENAME| [options]

 Options:
   --help           list usage
   --man            print man page

=head1 OPTIONS

=over 8

=item B<-help>

Print a brief help message and exits.

=item B<-man>

Prints the manual page and exits.

=back

=head1 DESCRIPTION

B<This program>

=cut

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Perhaps you noticed the <CURSOR> token in the middle? That's where my editing cursor appears, ready to insert code. Very handy.

jeffa

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)

In reply to Re: simple Perl script template by jeffa
in thread simple Perl script template by Dumu

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