Re^2: Your Favorite Options for Perltidy

Thanks so much. But when does .perltidyrc get executed?

automatically when we start a perl script? or
when we pass the command: $ perltidy myfile.pl ?

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Re^3: Your Favorite Options for Perltidy by pboin (Deacon) on Nov 06, 2005 at 11:54 UTC
Nothing's automatic per se. Perltidy is a filter that you run on source. As TheDamian has it setup, it will print to STDOUT, so you can do something like this: `perltidy sloppy_format.pl > cleaned_up.pl` .perltidyrc will be automatically called for configuration details. Once you get that figured out, you can even hightlight one block in vim and do "! perltidy" to cleanup just a block within a file. Good luck and perservere. Tidy code is a worthwhile endeavor, whether you create it that way or beat it into submission with a tool.	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^3: Your Favorite Options for Perltidy
by pboin (Deacon) on Nov 06, 2005 at 11:54 UTC

Nothing's *automatic* per se. Perltidy is a filter that you run on source. As TheDamian has it setup, it will print to STDOUT, so you can do something like this:

perltidy sloppy_format.pl > cleaned_up.pl

.perltidyrc will be automatically called for configuration details. Once you get that figured out, you can even hightlight one block in vim and do "! perltidy" to cleanup just a block within a file.

Good luck and perservere. Tidy code is a worthwhile endeavor, whether you create it that way or beat it into submission with a tool.

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