being sought. If so, the above write_line prints the token and its line number.</p>

<p>The <b>examples</b> section of the source distribution has some examples of programs which use the <b>formatter</b> option.</p>

<p>For help with perltidy&#39;s peculiar way of breaking lines into tokens, you might run, from the command line,</p>

<pre><code> perltidy -D filename</code></pre>

<p>where <i>filename</i> is a short script of interest. This will produce <i>filename.DEBUG</i> with interleaved lines of text an