in reply to perldoc code only

You're in luck. I was playing with Pod::Parser at the moment, so I whipped up Pod::Stripper to do exactly that.

 
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perl -e "$q=$_;map({chr unpack qq;H*;,$_}split(q;;,q*H*));print;$q/$q;"