In every class I teach I always get into trouble when asked how to locate the documentation of a keyword, or if a keyword exists at all?

For functions its easy using perldoc -f XYZ but how can one find the syntax of while, basename or echo?
Is there a max function in Perl ?

Pointing to the specific docs for the specific keywords does not help as I need to tell them how can they find the docs.

So I created Perl index that should provide an index to all the keywords mentioned (or not) in the Perl documentation.

The source of it is a hand made yaml file from which I create a pod file that is then goes through Pod:Html.

If this is useful then let this be my present to the Perl community for Shavuot

ps. A lot of work is still needed, but it is already usable.

In reply to Perl index by szabgab

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