> Stylistically, would a separate .pl file for the emitter be preferable to something inline like > >> perl -e 'print "a\tb\tcc\t4\n"; print "b\tc\tdd\t5\n"'
I'd be fine with that and a suitable comment. Just be careful with different platforms' shell escaping rules.
Do perl command switches on windows/VMS use /e instead of -e? If so, that'd be a great argument doing just "perl filename".
