ion of your custom prefilter and postfilter code is to use the --notidy option, first with just the prefilter and then with both the prefilter and postfilter. See also the file <b>filter_example.pl</b> in the perltidy distribution.</p>

</dd>
</dl>

<h1 id="ERROR-HANDLING">ERROR HANDLING</h1>

<p>An exit value of 0, 1, or 2 is returned by perltidy to indicate the status of the result.</p>

<p>A exit value of 0 indicates that perltidy ran to completion with no error messages.</p>

<p>An exit value of 1 indic