Hello Monks,

I'm trying to make my posts more-readable and was advised to take a look at Perl::Tidy, which I downloaded from CPAN:

http://search.cpan.org/~shancock/Perl-Tidy-20101217/lib/Perl/Tidy.pm

The treatment there is a bit above my head, so I google for Perl::Tidy examples to learn that it is also a bash command:

http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/perltidy.html

So I get that too, and see that they talk about default behavior, which I test on the following script:

$ perltidy pt1.pl
$ cat pt1.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use WWW::Mechanize;
use LWP::Simple;
use feature ':5.10';
my $domain = 'http://www.yahoo.com';
my $m = WWW::Mechanize->new( qw/ autodie 1 /); 
$m->get( $domain);
my @list = $m->images();
my $counter = 0;
my $dir = &DirPP;
for my $img (@list) {
    my $url = $img->url_abs();
    $counter++;
    my $filename = "$dir". "/image_". "$counter";
    getstore($url,$filename) or die "Can't download '$url': $@\n";
}

    sub DirPP {

        use Errno qw/ EACCES /; # permission denied
        state $counter2 = 1;
        my $word    = "site";
        my $name ;
        my $made = 0;
        while(1){
            $name = sprintf '%s%3d', $word, $counter2;
            last if not $made = mkdir $name, 0755 ;
            die $! if $! == EACCES;
        }
        return $name if $made;
        return;
    }



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So, so far, I've got nothing. It occurs to me, if I get this feature squared away, then the Virtue of Laziness will be doing my formatting indefinitely.

q1) How do I proceed? Do you have a perltidy install that works for you?

q2) Can someone discuss the difference between Perl::Tidy and perltidy()? Are they related under the hood, for example?

TIA.

In reply to using Perl::Tidy/perltidy() by Aldebaran

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