in reply to Turning a script into a solid block of code

If you don't care if it runs, which it will not:
# perl -pi -e 's/[\s\n]//g' file.pl #makes test.pl solid block of p00
I don't know how to remove POD - maybe all lines that start with "=". If you want it to run, check out http://liraz.org/obfus.html.