$ podchecker junk junk pod syntax OK. $ perldoc junk ERROR MESSAGES %E2S = ( eof => 'Unexpected end of file', ); $ perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings junk { eof => "Unexpected end of file" } $ cat junk BEGIN { use vars qw' %E2S '; my $pod = <<'=head1 ERROR MESSAGES'; =head1 ERROR MESSAGES %E2S = ( eof => 'Unexpected end of file', ); =for no_pod_formatter =cut } use Data::Dump; dd\%E2S; $