richill has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Im using BBEDIT, is there a good way to format perl automatically with this program.

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Re: Perl formating
by kvale (Monsignor) on Apr 27, 2006 at 00:02 UTC
    BBEdit has the ability run both applescripts and perl programs. If I wanted to to this, I would install Perltidy and write a small script to run Perltidy on the current buffer. The excellent BBEdit documentation should be able to show you how to do this.

    -Mark

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      Yup, and as an initialization file for perltidy, you could use the perltidyrc from Perl Best Practices. You can download the examples here. The following text is what's in that perltidyrc:

      -l=78   # Max line width is 78 cols
-i=4    # Indent level is 4 cols
-ci=4   # Continuation indent is 4 cols
-st     # Output to STDOUT
-se     # Errors to STDERR
-vt=2   # Maximal vertical tightness
-cti=0  # No extra indentation for closing brackets
-pt=1   # Medium parenthesis tightness
-bt=1   # Medium brace tightness
-sbt=1  # Medium square bracket tightness
-bbt=1  # Medium block brace tightness
-nsfs   # No space before semicolons
-nolq   # Don't outdent long quoted strings
-wbb="% + - * / x != == >= <= =~ !~ < > | & >= < = **= += *= &= <<= &&
+= -= /= |=
 >>= ||= .= %= ^= x="    
        # Break before all operators

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      -- Burvil

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Re: Perl formating
by adrianh (Chancellor) on Apr 27, 2006 at 08:35 UTC
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