in reply to .pm Files

G'day carlriz,

If you'd actually named the Perl module, I could provide a more specific answer.

A Perl module is written in Perl. This is not what you're looking at. As an example, look at the source code for Data::Dumper (which I just picked at random).

What you've posted is the source code used to generate a manpage. The equivalent code for Data::Dumper starts like this:

.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 2.27 (Pod::Simple 3.28) .\" .\" Standard preamble: .\" ================================================================== +====== .de Sp \" Vertical space (when we can't use .PP) .if t .sp .5v .if n .sp .. .de Vb \" Begin verbatim text .ft CW .nf .ne \\$1 ..

As you can see on the first line, this is "generated by Pod::Man". See the Pod::Man documentation for more information (if you're still interested).

-- Ken

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Re^2: .pm Files
by carlriz (Beadle) on Mar 27, 2014 at 20:58 UTC

    'Perl library for parsing text in the Pod ("plain old documentation") markup language that is typically used for writing documentation for Perl and for Perl modules'

    I see.