Is there a way to run Perl on a text file by using a PSPad menu item?

I'd like to run short perl programs on a text file, basically converting
some characters to other characters, so this would require about 10 replacements done on a file. After that I want to search for possible errors in a text file that was created from OCR. We sometimes have a word, a space, then the period/punctuation mark. These need to be correct.

Is there a way to set up a menu item in PSPad to run an external perl program to do this?

This can also be useful to sort my variables in a Perl declaration by selecting one line. So this:

my($c,$b,$z,$test,$t1);

becomes this;

my($b,$c,$t1,$test,$z); # Variables are sorted.

Thanks.

Install Active Perl for Windows Scripting Host
You will be able to use PSPad scripting to extend PSPad functionality - menu Script.
If there is no menu script in your PSPad, go to PSPad settings / System integration and allow scripting

Thank you!