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Hi,

I'm new to POD documentation, and am using GetOpt::Long and "HelpMessage" to give usage info to a user. My problem is that HelpMessage exits my script. I want to be able to print my POD info to the terminal window, and not exit my script. I looked into Pod2Usage as well but it also exits.

For example, if the user enters --help, the script shows help/usage info but then continues running.

Many thanks in advance.

EDIT: Answered my own question. It turns out that Pod2Usage won't exit if you call it with

pod2usage(-exitval => 'NOEXIT');

And HelpMessage works with the same invocation:

HelpMessage(-exitval => 'NOEXIT');

My reading of the docs ("pod2usage($exitstatus))" was that the following should work as well, but it doesn't, which caused my confusion:

pod2usage('NOEXIT')

In reply to Printing POD info to terminal window without exiting by cr8josh

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