e to an array. If it is a string or reference to a string, it will be parsed into an array of items just as if it were a command line string.</p>

</dd>
<dt id="dump_options"><b>dump_options</b></dt>
<dd>

<p>If the <b>dump_options</b> parameter is given, it must be the reference to a hash. In this case, the parameters contained in any perltidyrc configuration file will be placed in this hash and perltidy will return immediately. This is equivalent to running perltidy with --dump-options, except that the pa