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## Code Style and Linting
If you are looking for good general advices regarding Perl coding,
Damian Conway's [Perl Best Practices][PBP] is a good reference.
To prettify your code, you can use the module
[Perl-Tidy][PerlTidy].
To install with [cpanminus][]:
cpanm Perl-Tidy
or via the regular `cpan` install utility:
cpan Perl-Tidy
And then, you can use the provided `perltidy` utility program
to reformat your code.
# modify file in-place and save old version as some_script.pl.bak
$ perltidy -b some_script.pl
`perltidy` has a *lot* of configuration options to cater to every taste. They
are documented [here][perltidyDocs].
There is also [tidyview], a visual interface that allows you to
tweak the different options and immediately see the result.
If you want to enforce coding practices, there is also
[Perl::Critic][perlcritic]. It comes with the rules described in
the book *Perl Best Practices* mentioned previously, but plenty of
plugins exist, and it can be customized to fit any in-house coding
rules.
To install:
# via cpanminus
cpanm Perl-Critic
# via the classic 'cpan' installation tool
cpan Perl-Critic
To use:
$ perlcritic some_script.pl
The tool has many, many configuration tweaks, see its
[documentation][perlcriticdocs] for the full scoop on them.
[PBP]: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596001735.do
[PerlTidy]: https://metacpan.org/release/Perl-Tidy
[cpanminus]: http://search.cpan.org/~miyagawa/App-cpanminus-1.7042
[perltidyDocs]: https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Perl-Tidy/docs/stylekey.pod
[tidyview]: https://sourceforge.net/projects/tidyview/
[perlcritic]: https://metacpan.org/release/Perl-Critic
[perlcriticdocs]: https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Perl-Critic/bin/perlcritic
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