Since I don't consider this question strictly Perl related, I've marked as [OT]. Yet at the same time, I'm not sure where else to ask it since no one other than Perl users would conceiveably use PerlTidy. That said, I want to provide an option or options to PerlTidy that format parenthesis in this fashion: for (1..10) { do_something( $_, "Dude" ); } -or- if ($a < 10) { do_something( $a, "Dude" ); } In other words, parens after keywords like "while," "for," and "if" etc. stay tight (eg. no whitespace), whilst parameters passed to subroutines are formated with one space as with "do_somthing()" above. The PerlTidy man page provides no options that I can see other than tight parens EVERYWHERE. Also the PerlTidy home page offers nothing revealing either and there is no list associated with this product that I can see. I was hoping I might trip across someone here that is experienced enough with PerlTidy to offer a solution to the above. Right now, I'm living with tight parens globally. But I'd rather have white space around my parameters to subroutines. Thanks! -ceo