Welcome to Perltidy! 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. PREREQUISITES "perltidy" should work with most standard Perl installations. 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. DOWNLOAD There are two source distribution files: * A .tgz "tarball", with Unix-style line endings, and * A zip file, .zip, with Windows-style line endings. In addition, the web site has links to debian and RPM packages. INSTALLATION 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. WHAT NEXT 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. FEEDBACK / BUG REPORTS A list of current bugs and issues can be found at the CPAN site https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Perl-Tidy To report a new bug or problem, use the link on this page .