#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $output = "neostats.pm.h"; open my $header, ">", $output or die "Couldn't open '$output': $!"; print $header header( "NeoStats.pm" ); close $header; sub header { my $file = shift; open my $input, "<", $file or die "Couldn't open '$file':$!"; my @file = <$input>; close $file; return toc(@file); } sub toc { my @lines = @_; for( @lines ) { if( /^\s*$/s ) { $_ = qq{"\\n"\n}; next; } if( /^\s*#/ ) { $_ = qq{"\\n"\n}; next; } s/\\/\\\\/g; # double the number of \'s s/"/\\"/g; s/^\s*/"/; s/\n/\\n"\n/; } return @lines; }