Perl::Tidy parses and beautifies Perl source code.
perltidy : a perl script indenter and reformatter
Questions tagged [perl-tidy]
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Perl::Critic: Life after Moose?
I've started a conversion of a project to Moose and the first thing I noticed was that my critic/tidy tests go to hell. Moose, Tidy and Critic don't seem to like each other as much as they used to.
Are there docs anywhere on how to make critic/tidy…
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How can I automatically tidy up Perl source code?
A cat at my company walked over a keyboard and has left a valid 1000+ line of executable Perl code for me to maintain.
Thanks to Perl's TMTOWTDI philosophy I find myself searching Google to make sense of every line of code she has produced.
To add…
Ankur Gupta
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How can I make perltidy work with Method::Signatures?
I'm using Eclipse combined with EPIC to write my Perl code. I configured EPIC to use Perltidy with "-pbp" (perl best practices style) to format my code.
This doesn't work well when using Method::Signatures' named parameters. E.g., func (:$arg1, :…
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Configuring Perl::Tidy to handle custom keywords
Is there a straightforward way to configure Perl::Tidy so that it handles correctly custom keywords created with Devel::Declare?
Specifically, I am using Sub::Curried, which creates a keyword curry that works more or less like sub with method…
scozy
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Perltidy autoformat hashref as parameter
I have the following code snippet:
my $obj = $class->new({
schema => $schema,
reminder => $reminder,
action => $action,
dt => $dt,
});
My problem is, that perltidy tries to format it into something, like this:
my…
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How can I prevent PerlTidy from aligning assignments but keep adding single spaces?
How can I prevent PerlTidy from aligning assignments but keep adding single spaces?
This question is similar to How can I prevent PerlTidy from aligning my assignments? but I would like single spaces to be added where directed. Due to this -naws…
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How to apply/use Perl::Tidy with an existing Perl project?
This question is not so much technical than looking for advise to find the proper approach that will not hurt.
Assuming the following:
We have a big application developed in Perl.
We want to start using perltidy on the commandline to impose…
Беров
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How can I prevent PerlTidy from aligning my assignments?
By default, PerlTidy will line up assignments in my code. E.g.
PerlTidy changes this...
my $red = 1;
my $green = 2;
my $yellow = 3;
my $cyan = 4;
...into this...
my $red = 1;
my $green = 2;
my $yellow = 3;
my $cyan = 4;
How do I prevent this…
nick
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perltidy formatting complex if
How can I configure perltidy to format long if statements like this:
if (
('this is an example' =~ /an.*example/ and 1 * 2 * 3 == 6) or
('hello world' =~ /world/ and 6 = 3 * 2 * 1)
) {
print "hello\n";
}
or like this
if (
('this is…
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How can I format boolean operators with perltidy?
To my knowledge, perltidy is extremely handy and helpful when it comes to code formatting. However, I haven't found a way to fine-tune perltidy. For example, I need the && and || formatted so that there are two spaces before and after them. Like…
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How can we catch side comments using Perl::Tidy or Perl::Critic?
My department is currently settling on some general code best practices, which we would like to somewhat enforce, providing developers with Perl::Tidy and Perl::Critic configurations.
Now we are having problems with side comments. The side comment…
Nikolai Prokoschenko
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Convincing Perltidy to leave whitespace alone
I am using Perltidy to reformat a few of my old Perl files to a style that is closer to my current preferences. I encountered an issue with this snippet:
Fcntl::S_IRUSR & $mode
Perltidy insists on removing the space after the & token, resulting…
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Why is perltidy going to stdout?
I have a bash command, get-modified-perl-files, that returns all the Perl files I have modified in my repository. I would like to use perltidy on all of these files.
I created a bash function to do the job:
tidy() {
for f in…
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Perlcritic not recognising code that has been tidied
I'm using perlcritic with perltidy and while the other rules are applied, I'm, getting the following error message:
Code is not tidy at line 1, near 'package MyPackage;'.
I've run perltidy to tidy the code but I am still getting the problem. In the…
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perltidy indentation on method calls with or operator
I am attempting to get perltidy to indent correctly. It works almost perfectly, but there are issues with some lines of code.
For example:
$foo = something()
or Foo->throw(
'a string which is longer than -l line length. Gets wrapped to next…
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