Perltidy is a tool to indent and reformat perl scripts. It can also write scripts in html format.
Perltidy is free software released under the GNU General Public License -- please see the included file ``COPYING'' for details.
An effort has been made to keep perltidy compatable with versions of Perl as
old as 5.004, and this release was tested on Perl version 5.004_04 under linux.
(You can find your version with perl -v). However, some systems this old may
have problems, particularly Windows versions.
The following modules are not required, but perltidy may use them if detected:
HTML::Entities will be used to encode HTML entities if detected Pod::Html will be used to format pod text
The total disk space needed after removing the installation directory will about 2 Mb.
There are two source distribution files:
A .tgz ``tarball'', with Unix-style <lf> line endings, and
A zip file, .zip, with Windows-style <cr><lf> line endings.
In addition, the web site has links to debian and RPM packages.
For most standard installations, the standard Makefile.PL method should work:
perl Makefile.PL make make test make install
The INSTALL file has additional installation notes, and tells how to use perltidy without doing an installation.
Please see the CHANGES file for notices of any recent updates.
Please see the BUGS file for a list of all known open bugs.
Documentation can be found in the docs directory, and it can also be found at http://perltidy.sourceforge.net
Reading the brief tutorial should help you use perltidy effectively.
Perltidy is still being developed, so please check sourceforge occasionally for updates. New releases are announced on freshmeat.net.
Bug reports, comments and suggestions are welcome. Attach the smallest piece of code which demonstrates the bug or issue. Your efforts are greatly appreciated!
Thank You
Steve Hancock perltidy at users.sourceforge.net http://perltidy.sourceforge.net