Re: POD: getting usage snippets from perldoc

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` [download] 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` [download] 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)	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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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
[download]

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
[download]

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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[d/l]
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