PODLINT(1)

💅 podlint(1) — the pod checker bestie

okay so real talk: this page lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, and it's about podlint — the little script that reads your POD and tells you if it's a mess. no cap, it's giving "your friend who proofreads your texts before you send them." 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

podlint — check POD for correctness using Pod::POM 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

podlint MyFile.pm

that's it. that's the whole vibe. point it at a file and let it cook. 🍓

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea ☕ — this script uses Pod::POM to parse a Pod document with full warnings enabled, which basically means it's acting as a syntax and structure checker. think of it as a vibe check for your documentation, except the vibe check is extremely thorough and will absolutely tell you what's wrong. 😭

you can also pass the -f option, and then the parsed Pod Object Model gets printed to STDOUT with any markup errors fixed. slay. ✨

⚠️ but bestie, listen — there are some critical parse errors that the parser genuinely can't handle or fix. when that happens, the script will terminate and report the error. so like… sometimes it's not a glow-up, it's just an error message. 💀

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🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

Andy Wardley <abw@kfs.org> — an icon, an absolute legend 👑

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🦋 VERSION 🦋

this is version 0.2 of podlint. short and sweet, she's still young 💜

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🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

Copyright (C) 2000, 2001 Andy Wardley. All Rights Reserved.

this module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. periodt. 💅

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

for further information please see Pod::POM — that's where all the actual lore lives 🫶

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mwah 💖 that's the page! signed off from the perl v5.42.0 era, dated 2015-11-20, still serving looks. go lint your pods bestie, iykyk 🌸✨