Dear Masters,

Here is a code which use Getopt::Long to produce a help instruction. As can be seen below, I also want my code to print out the help message when no argument is passed. Thus, what I generally do is to use print command and pass them as subroutine usage().

I want to use POD instead of print method I have now. My question is how can I pass a POD construct into a subroutine? 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
use Getopt::Long;
use Pod::Usage;


my $some_param = 5; #Default value
my $help = 0;

if ( @ARGV == 0  ) {
    &usage();
    exit(1);
}

my $res = GetOptions (
                      "someparam|s=s"=>\$some_param,
                      "help"=> \$help,
                  );

&usage() if ($help);


if ($res) { 

    # Do sth with param  
    print "PARAM IS: $some_param\n";

}


sub usage {              
    print <<HELP;
        mycode.pl version 1.00    
        Copyright (C) 2006 by MONKFAN; all rights reserved

        Usage: perl $0 [-options] 

        Options are:

        -h   Print this help      
        -s   Some param

HELP
        exit;
}

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I'm at lost with this construct: 
sub_usage_pod {

=head1 NAME

MYCODE - do something

=head1 SYNOPSIS

sample [options] [file ...]

 Options:
   -help            brief help message
   -s               Some param 
   -man             full documentation

=head1 OPTIONS

=over 8

=item B<-help>

Print a brief help message and exits.

=item B<-man>

Prints the manual page and exits.

=back

=head1 DESCRIPTION

B<This program> will read the given input file(s) and do someting
useful with the contents thereof.

=cut

}

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