When I encounter another's Perl code, I run 2 things, (1) Perltidy to reformat the code, and (2) Perl::Critic to identify poor coding practices or insecure code

When I encounter another's Perl code, I run 2 things, (1) Perltidy to reformat the code, and (2) Perl::Critic to identify poor coding practices or insecure code. https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Perl-Tidy/bin/perltidy https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/Perl-Tidy/bin/perltidy http://search.cpan.org/~thaljef/Perl-Critic-1.125/lib/Perl/Critic.pm http://search.cpan.org/~thaljef/Perl-Critic-1.125/lib/Perl/C... If you have trouble reading Perl, run those 2 programs and you'll greatly improve its readability.