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Re: POD: getting usage snippets from perldoc

by VinsWorldcom (Prior)
on Mar 23, 2018 at 18:08 UTC ( [id://1211629]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to POD: getting usage snippets from perldoc

Not really an answer, but along that same thought - I just submitted a feature request (rt://124867) to pmtools yesterday.

I was looking to do something like:

> perldoc --section SYNOPSIS Google::ProtocolBuffers > file.pl
> perl file.pl

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Essentially taking the helpful example from the SYNOPSIS section of a given module and putting it right into a file to run.

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Re^2: POD: getting usage snippets from perldoc
by beech (Parson) on Mar 27, 2018 at 23:21 UTC

    Hi,

    See podselect / Pod::Select

    Speaking of rt://pmtools, some really old bugs 

    $ pmdesc CGI
no description found

$ pman CGI
pod2text: unable to format D:/citrusperl/site/lib/CGI.pm


$ podpath CGI
D:/citrusperl/site/lib/CGI.pm

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    perldoc has no issues with it 

    $ perldoc -l CGI
D:\citrusperl\site\lib\CGI.pod

$ perldoc -l -m CGI
D:\citrusperl\site\lib\CGI.pm

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    No quotemeta in Loaded.pm        if ($path =~ m/$devel_loaded$/) {

    plxload still hardcodes /dev/null instead of using File::Spec->devnull

    Naturally all the test files pretend they're on unix (new bug)

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