> perldoc perlpod |grep -2n " empty "|sed 's/ / /' 488- 489- You can embed Pod documentation in your Perl modules and scripts. 490: Start your documentation with an empty line, a "=head1" command at the 491: beginning, and end it with a "=cut" command and an empty line. Perl 492- will ignore the Pod text. See any of the supplied library modules for 493- examples. If you’re going to put your Pod at the end of the file, and -- 501- Time::Local - efficiently compute time from local and GMT time 502- 503: Without that empty line before the "=head1", many translators wouldn’t 504- have recognized the "=head1" as starting a Pod block. 505- -- 553- · Some older Pod translators require paragraphs (including command 554- paragraphs like "=head2 Functions") to be separated by completely 555: empty lines. If you have an apparently empty line with some spaces 556- on it, this might not count as a separator for those translators, 557- and that could cause odd formatting.