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skx has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I've written a program which is distributed as a single script, but implemented as a series of modules. Distributing the script as one file avoids the need to "install", or mess with include-paths.

Unfortunately this means that my script looks like this:

# ... pod for module1 # ... code for module1 # ... POD for module2 # .... code for module2 # package main # pod # code

This screws up my preferred usage of POd::Usage, as it shows the pod for all the script. I've read the documentation for Pod::Usage, where it suggets using Pod::Find and the current package (__PACKAGE__) but I cannot make it work, as the following demonstrates.

Is there a simple solution, or am I out of luck?

Test program follows:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use warnings; use Getopt::Long; use Pod::Find qw(pod_where); use Pod::Usage; =head1 NAME Foo - Do something. =cut =head1 SYNOPSIS use strict; use Foo; my $f = Foo->new(); $f->doStuff(); =cut =head1 DESCRIPTION This class encapsulates stuff. =cut package Foo; =head2 new Constructor =cut sub new() { my ( $proto, %supplied ) = (@_); my $class = ref($proto) || $proto; my $self = {}; bless( $self, $class ); return $self; } =begin doc Do stuff =end doc =cut sub do_stuff() { } =head1 NAME My Script - Do something =cut =head1 SYNOPSIS Usage: $0 [options] options --help Show the help --man Show the manual. =cut =head1 DESCRIPTION This is the utility to do stuff .. It uses the Foo module internally. =cut package main; # # Configuration variables # my %CONFIG; # # Parse the command line. # exit if ( !Getopt::Long::GetOptions( # Help options "help", \$CONFIG{ 'help' }, "manual", \$CONFIG{ 'manual' }, ) ); Pod::Usage::pod2usage() if ( $CONFIG{ 'help' } ); Pod::Usage::pod2usage(-verbose => 2 ) if ( $CONFIG{ 'manual' } ); print "I am alive\n"; exit( 0 );
Steve
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