Re: Mixing documentation and data

[tmharish]

in reply to Mixing documentation and data

Everything after __DATA__ is considered data.

Have you tried this:

package FOO::Messages;

sub foo{}

=head1 __DATA__

This is the data stuff here.

=cut

1;
__DATA__

data stuff here.

[Anonymous Monk]

So you want to duplicate the data?

[tmharish]

Well you cant Interpolate Perl variables in POD

[Anonymous Monk]

But you can have pod after __DATA__

[KurtZ]

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