Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I'll ask it anyway...

If you put pod at the end of a file, it's customary to preceed the first =head1 My title with a __END__

I have been storing stuff at the end of my scripts in a __DATA__ area for some time. I added pod to one file recently and noticed that it tried to use the pod section as my data. This is not what I want it to do...!

I assume there is more than one way to fix this, but which is best?

• When I read the DATA file handle skip until I find a magic marker - I tried this and it works, but I feel silly doing it.
• Use =cut and keep the pod in the code and out of the way, but keep it at the end in one place
• Stop storing values in my files, and read them from somewhere else
• Stop using EOF pod and use inline, see Inline POD vs. EOF POD

Naturally I want to include pod in as many of my scripts as possible, and it is convient to have values in the script it's self...

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