my script

# lots of code, intermingled with lots of pod
...

# Generate html documentation if --makedoc switch is used
my $makedoc  = '';
GetOptions('makedoc' => \$makedoc);

if ($makedoc) {
  makeDoc();
}

# Then, further down
sub makeDoc {
  my $in = "$full_path/myscript.pl";
  my $out = "$full_path/docs/myscript.html";

# Note: updated the above two lines with double-quotes
  
  qx(pod2html --title='$title' --infile=$in --outfile=$out);
}

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pod2html croaks with the message that it couldn't file the in file.

Finally, I have to pack the above script as an '.exe' using pp. Eventually, the user should be able to generate the documentation herself by running something like 

myscript.exe --makedoc

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Any advice welcome.

Update: changed single-quotes to double-quotes in the sub makeDoc above. The single-quotes were inadvertant... the real code in fact has the full path name typed in verbatim.

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In reply to introspection, or running pod2html on itself by punkish

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