Bug #128265 for Perl-Tidy: Mention how to make one line block candidates become one line

Although there is currently no flag to form one-line blocks from multiple-line blocks, a simple workaround is to execute perltidy twice, once with the flag B<-noadd-newlines> and then once again with normal parameters, like this: cat infile | perltidy -nanl | perltidy >outfile When executed on this snippet if ( $? == -1 ) { die "failed to execute: $!\n"; } if ( $? == -1 ) { print "Had enough.\n"; die "failed to execute: $!\n"; } the result is if ( $? == -1 ) { die "failed to execute: $!\n"; } if ( $? == -1 ) { print "Had enough.\n"; die "failed to execute: $!\n"; } This shows that blocks with a single statement become one-line blocks.