in reply to suggested module/tools to automatically "tighten" my perl

I don't actually recommend this, but the following produces runnable, tight(er) code:
perl -MO=Deparse foo.pl| perl -nae 's/\n//g;s/\s+/ /g; print' > foo2. +pl
At least it did on my test script... YMMV. But seriously, I don't recommend this. I just did it for shytes and grins.

mr.nick ...