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Perldoc Keyword Search (update3)

by LanX (Saint)
on Feb 16, 2012 at 05:44 UTC ( [id://954149]=CUFP: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

... or how to find X<>-refs in Pod and search them in pager

Problem

Did you ever try to find the documentation of the ".." (flip-flop) operator?

typing perldoc -f .. doesn't help ...

$ perldoc -f .. No documentation for perl function `..' found
But perldocs have tags like X<..> indicating the right documentation, only the formatters are missing.

Previous discussions

  • [perldoc] keyword search or
  • So whats new about pod and X<>-tag? How to check current development?

    Approach

  • Grep core-Pods for X<TAGS>.

  • Insert marker in front of every hit.

  • Call pager (here less) with default search pattern to find those markers.

    Usage

  • type pdoc qr to find all references for qr.

  • Typing n and N will jump from marker to marker.

  • After quitting a manpage qthe next is built and displayed

    Prove of concept

    Just a hack ("release often" dogma)

    Tested for linux.

    file "pdoc"
    #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; # use Data::Dump; my $poddir = `perldoc -l perltoc`; chomp $poddir; $poddir =~ s/perltoc/*/; my $pattern = $ARGV[0]; my @pods= grep {! /perltoc/} `grep -l -F 'X<$pattern>' $poddir`; chomp @pods; # dd @pods; for my $infile (@pods) { open my $in, "<", $infile; my $outfile = "/tmp/". (split "/",$infile)[-1]; open my $out,">", $outfile; local $/="\n\n"; my $marker = ">>> X<$pattern> <<<"; #"MARK"; while (my $para = <$in>){ print $out "\nC<<<< $marker >>>>\n\n" if $para =~ /X<\Q$pattern\E>/; print $out $para; } close $out; my $ret = `pod2man $outfile |nroff -man > /tmp/tmp.man`; print system("less -p \"$marker\" /tmp/tmp.man") }

    Cheers Rolf

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    Re: Perldoc Keyword Search (update4)
    by LanX (Saint) on Apr 21, 2013 at 11:15 UTC
      Update 4

      For usage see Re: perl docs -- I am so sick of...

      cat /home/lanx/perl/bin/pd

      >

      #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use Data::Dump; my $pattern = $ARGV[0]; my $poddir = `perldoc -l perltoc`; chomp $poddir; $poddir =~ s/perltoc/*/; #print `grep -l3 -F 'X<$pattern>' $poddir`; # find pods excep +t perltoc my @pods= grep {! /perltoc/} `grep -l -F 'X<$pattern>' $poddir`; # find pods except perlto +c # rank pods with default=500 @pods = map { $_->[0] } sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] } map { /faq/ ? [$_=> 700] : /delta/ ? [$_ => 900] : /var/ ? [$_ => 100 ] : /func/ ? [$_ => 200 ] : [$_ => 500] } @pods; if (not @pods) { print "No matches found\n"; } else { print "Matches for $pattern found in :\n @pods"; } chomp @pods; #dd @pods; for my $infile (@pods) { open my $in, "<", $infile; my $outfile = "/tmp/". (split "/",$infile)[-1]; open my $out,">", $outfile; my $marker = ">>> X<$pattern> <<<"; #"MARK"; my ($podname) = ( $infile =~ /\/(\w*)\.pod$/); local $/="\n\n"; # split paragraphs while (my $para = <$in>){ print $out "\nC<<<< $marker >>>> in $podname\n\n" # prepend + marker if $para =~ /X<\Q$pattern\E>/; print $out $para; } close $out; my $ret = `pod2man $outfile |nroff -man > /tmp/tmp.man`; my $system = system( 'less -p \'' . shellescape($marker) . '\' /tmp/ +tmp.man'); print $system if $system ne 0; } sub shellescape { my ($str) = @_; $str =~ s/\$/\\\$/; #print "$str\n"; return $str; }

      Cheers Rolf

      ( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

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