POD2SDF(1p)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, meet pod2sdf — the little icon that converts POD to SDF markup. no cap, that's literally its whole job. ✨

(and for the record, we're in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section here, section 1p, so you know exactly where you are 🫶)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pod2sdf [-m] infile > outfile

so you hand it an infile, it does its little thing, and you redirect that straight into your outfile. the -m is right there in the brackets, sitting pretty 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the actual tea ☕ — you reach for pod2sdf when you want SDF to be your base documentation format instead of POD. like, that's the whole plot twist.

but wait, because here's the part that makes me feral: sdf already does this conversion on the fly for you for *.pod, *.pl, and *.pm files. literally on the fly. it's giving main character energy, it's giving "I got this" 😌💅

so if sdf is already doing all that, why does pod2sdf even exist?? good question bestie, I was wondering too. the answer is: you only actually need pod2sdf when you wanna go absolutely feral with the powerful features of SDF 🔥 — because at that point you'd have to mark every single one of them with =begin sdf and =end sdf, and that gets inconvenient. like, so inconvenient. the way that would ruin your whole day. so pod2sdf exists to save you from that fate 🙈✨

not me romanticising a text-formatting converter, but honestly? it ate. 💀

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and that's the whole page, bestie, we did it 🎀 this one's from perl v5.36.0, dated 2023-08-02, and yeah — it's POD2SDF(1p) forever and always, periodt. 💜🦋