Re: Help trying to find a Perltidy option

I remember having seen it before, but reading through the man page fails to come up with anything.

perldoc perltidy |grep -i qw
  Trimming whitespace around "qw" quotes
      -tqw or --trim-qw provide the default behavior of trimming space
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      around multi-line "qw" quotes and indenting them appropriately.
      -ntqw or --notrim-qw cause leading and trailing whitespace aroun
+d
      multi-line "qw" quotes to be left unchanged. This option will no
+t
      in some versions of perl, trimming "qw" quotes changes the synta
+x
   ssc  st  sts  syn  t    tac tbc toc  tp   tqw  tsc w    x    bar  k
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      Perltidy indents but does not reformat comments and "qw" quotes.
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The documentation says it only indents for multi-line qw, so there is no perltidy option for what you want

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Re^2: Help trying to find a Perltidy option by Anonymous Monk on Jun 11, 2010 at 11:34 UTC
Here is a workaround, first use this one-liner to indent your use lines `perl -pe " s/^use\s+(\S+)\s+(.+)$/sprintf q!use %-20s %s!, $1, $2/e; " + < input > output` [download] then tell perltidy ignore that section by surrounding it with `#<<<` and `#>>>` and you get `#<<< do not let perltidy touch this use Carp qw(confess); use Cwd qw(abs_path); use File::Basename qw(fileparse); use Data::Dumper qw(); use Digest::SHA1 qw(); #>>>` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Help trying to find a Perltidy option by Yary (Pilgrim) on Jun 11, 2010 at 19:23 UTC
Do either "-wls=q" or "-wls=Q" work? They should insert white space before any qw block (first form) or any quote/pattern (second form). The only side effect is that it would be everwhere, not just after USE statements. edit: they don't work for this :-(	[reply]