OK, that's a good reason.

I was expecting you to say that you were unable to install any modules (for some reason), in which case I'd counter with the fact that Pod::Parser comes pre-installed with Perl.

:)

you can only show how to write either incomplete or redundant code.

UPDATE

to answer AnoMonk:

Duplicating the POD-grammar in a separate parser is practically the same sin like writing a source filter for Perl code.

So either incomplete or redundant code, like already said!

I have to say, a very stupid exercise! you can only show how to write incomplete or redundant code.

And how does that make it a stupid exercise?

Duplicating the POD-grammar in a separate parser is practically the same sin like writing a source filter for Perl code.

So either incomplete or redundant code, like already said!

What would you assign as an exercise to learn lexing/parsing? Would you invent a format, or would that be equally sinful?

An example which doesn't manipulate nested constructs in the input, then supposed to be processed by another parser.

Like extracting nested constructs from HTML ...¹

Telling a student to reinvent a complete POD-parser is hardly a good exercise.

Or did you show us an intelligent or at least working solution?

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

Update

¹) Or replacing simple constructs in POD.