Hi

I want to transform a hash definition like this: 

%some_hash = (
               key => "value1",
               larger_key => "value2",
               even_larger_key => "value3",
             );

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to something like this: 
%some_hash = (
               key             => "value1",
               larger_key      => "value2",
               even_larger_key => "value3",
             );

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i.e. make the fat commas line up in perl source code.

By "transform" I mean a perl-script that takes the key-value lines from stdin and prints the prettyfied versions to stdout so I can call it from vim.

As this seems to be a quite natural requirement I assume some module does things like that already (lazyness is a virtue right).

So could someone please point me to such a modules (I am NOT looking for someone to code this for me).

In reply to prettyfy hashes by morgon

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