I am writing one a small and naïve script that uses String::CamelCase to decamelize perl source code. The script uses PPI::Tokenizer to split the input into tokens. It works as expected except for the added whitespace. I would like the whitespace to be preserved as is, but the output contains lots of newlines.

How do I get rid of the extra newlines in the output?

use strict; use warnings; use String::CamelCase qw(decamelize); use PPI::Tokenizer; my @lines = <DATA>; my $tokenizer = PPI::Tokenizer->new(\@lines); while (my $token = $tokenizer->get_token) { no warnings q{uninitialized}; my $no_decam = 0; ++$no_decam if $token =~ m/^\s*$/; # skip whitespace ++$no_decam if $token =~ m/^__\w+__$/; # skip packages ++$no_decam if $token =~ m/::/; # skip modules ++$no_decam if $token =~ m/^['"].*['"]$/; # skip quoted strings ($no_decam) ? print $token : print decamelize($token); } 1; __DATA__ sub new { my $Class = shift; my $Self = {}; bless($Self, $Class); $Self->{FooBar} = Foo::Bar->new(base => __PACKAGE__); if (!$Self->{FooBar}) { croak("Foo::Bar init failed!"); } return $Self; }
Actual output:
sub new { my $class = shift; my $self = {}; bless($self, $class); $self->{foo_bar} = Foo::Bar->new(base => __PACKAGE__); if (!$self->{foo_bar}) { croak("Foo::Bar init failed!"); } return $self; }
Wanted output:
sub new { my $class = shift; my $self = {}; bless($self, $class); $self->{foo_bar} = Foo::Bar->new(base => __PACKAGE__); if (!$self->{foo_bar}) { croak("Foo::Bar init failed!"); } return $self; }
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In reply to Preserve whitespace with PPI::Tokenizer by andreas1234567

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