POD::SIMPLE::DUMPASTEXT(3perl)

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version 5.44.0 · 14 versions
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💖 Pod::Simple::DumpAsText — the vibe 💖

okay so bestie, you're reading the Perl Programmers Reference Guide, and today's main character is Pod::Simple::DumpAsText ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

Pod::Simple::DumpAsText — dump Pod-parsing events as text 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

perl -MPod::Simple::DumpAsText -e \
  "exit Pod::Simple::DumpAsText->filter(shift)->any_errata_seen" \
  thingy.pod

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this class? It's for dumping, as text, the events you get from parsing a Pod document. It's giving "spill the tea about every single event." 🔥

This class is of interest to people writing Pod formatters based on Pod::Simple. Real ones know it's useful for seeing exactly what events you get out of some Pod that you feed in. No guessing, no cap 🫶

It's a subclass of Pod::Simple and inherits all its methods. All of them. Every single one. Periodt 💅

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • Pod::Simple::DumpAsXML
  • Pod::Simple

🫶 SUPPORT 🫶

Got questions or want to discuss POD and Pod::Simple? Send them to the pod-people@perl.org mail list, bestie. To subscribe, just send an empty email to pod-people-subscribe@perl.org 💌

This module is managed in an open GitHub repository, <https://github.com/perl-pod/pod-simple/>. Feel free to fork and contribute, or to clone <https://github.com/perl-pod/pod-simple.git> and send patches! Iconic behaviour, honestly 👑

Patches against Pod::Simple are welcome. Please send bug reports to <bug-pod-simple@rt.cpan.org>. We love a bug report that comes with receipts 🙈

Copyright (c) 2002 Sean M. Burke.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Yeah, that's the whole disclaimer, we're keeping it 💀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Pod::Simple was created by Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>. But don't bother him, he's retired 🌴 (respect the retirement era, fr fr)

Pod::Simple is maintained by:

  • Allison Randal "allison@perl.org"
  • Hans Dieter Pearcey "hdp@cpan.org"
  • David E. Wheeler "dwheeler@cpan.org"

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