Easy solution: tell your programmers to run their perl-scripts through PerlTidy before they check-in their code. It will thus become automatically "reformatted" as per the style rules.

As the programmers will next time start working on their newly checked-out scripts (which are now in the canonical style format) after a while adhering to the style rules will become second-nature.

Don't go the way of checking whether your programmers adhere to the style rules (and be some sort of a style-police) and chewing them out if they don't follow the rules.

What is more important? Happy programmers who write working code in whatever way they can and transform it then easily into stylish perl or unhappy programmers who dread the moment their work is scrutinized by some "Big Brother"?

CountZero

"If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law

In reply to Re: perl check style by CountZero
in thread perl check style by InfiniteLoop

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