When I have something like so: 
my $sth = $dbh->prepare(
                " 
                    select t.id,t.emp_name,t.emp_email,t.req_status,t.
+date_requested,t.mngr_email,t.date_submitted, 
                    ( SELECT 
                    GROUP_CONCAT( (case when req_status = 'Approved' t
+hen emp_name end) separator ', ') 
                    FROM requests s WHERE s.date_requested = t.date_re
+quested) 
                    AS approved 
                    FROM requests t 
                    WHERE req_status = 'Pending'
                    AND mngr_email = '$filter'
                    AND date_requested >= '$date'
                    ORDER BY emp_name,date_requested
                "
            );

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I am wondering what the Perl Best Practices are with regards to long fields applied to an object, and if there is any way for Perl Tidy to automatically clean those up. As it is now, I am doing 'perltidy -pbp input.pl' and it is tidying up everything else, but leaving those areas alone. I want those areas to be tidied up as well :) Another example, perltidy didn't touch anything in the parentheses: 
my $sth = $dbh->prepare(
                    " 
        INSERT requests ( emp_name, emp_email, emp_title, mngr_name, m
+ngr_email, date_requested, req_status, date_submitted, approved_by ) 
    VALUES ( '$login_name', '$login_email', '$login_title', '$login_mn
+gr_name', '$login_mngr_email', '$date', 'Pending', '$req_date', '' )
                    "
                        );

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In reply to Best practices and any way to have Perl Tidy clean it up by walkingthecow

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