Text-PerlPP - a Perl preprocessor Translates text files with embedded Perl code to plain text files. See README.md for details. A simple example: will output Hello, World! 42 is a Perl code chunk, runs an external command, and prints a Perl expression. There are more commands, listed in README.md. REQUIRES Perl 5.10+ and Getopt::Long 2.50. There is a fatpacked version that already includes Getopt::Long in the GitHub releases archive: https://github.com/interpreters/perlpp/releases INSTALLATION Easy installation, using App::cpanminus: cpanm Text::PerlPP Easy installation, using the release from GitHub: - Copy the release file to a directory in your PATH Slightly less easy installation, using ExtUtils::MakeMaker: - Unpack the tarball - In the resulting directory, run the following commands: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install Yet another alternative way of installing - Copy lib/Text/PerlPP.pm to a directory in your @INC - Copy bin/perlpp to a directory in your PATH. SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc Text::PerlPP You can also look for information at: GitHub (report bugs here) https://github.com/interpreters/perlpp AnnoCPAN, Annotated CPAN documentation http://annocpan.org/dist/Text-PerlPP CPAN Ratings http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Text-PerlPP Search CPAN http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-PerlPP/ LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT Copyright 2013-2018 Andrey Shubin and Christopher White. This program is distributed under the MIT (X11) License: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php See LICENSE for full details.