By default, perltidy handles list with fat commas differently than plain lists. See "Controlling List Formatting" in the perltidy man page. This worked for me:

perltidy -st -cab=1 -mft=1 -lp -vt=1 -boc PM_503139_02.pl

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Output:
my @list = ( '1',
             '2',
             '3',
);

my %hash = ( a => '1',
             b => '2',
             c => '3',
);

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Key:
-boc     --break-at-old-comma-breakpoints
-mft=n   --maximum-fields-per-table=n
-cab=n   --comma-arrow-breakpoints=n
         
-lp      --line-up-parentheses
-pt=n    --paren-tightness=n
-vt=n    --vertical-tightness=n
-vtc=n   --vertical-tightness-closing=n

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The real problem was in stopping @list from being flattened into one line, which perlytidy wants to do whenever the list *could* fit on a single line. The '-boc' flag, which tells it to using existing linebreaks, keeps @list in multi-line form, but this may be non-optimal for formatting the rest of your program.

In reply to Re: perltidy list formatting by Util
in thread perltidy list formatting by perrin

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