Dear Masters,

Thanks a lot for the useful link. Now I have this code. But as stated in my OP, I still can't make my code below return a default man/help page when no parameter is passed. Is there a way to do it with Pod. 
!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
use Getopt::Long;
use Pod::Usage;


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

GetOptions(
    "someparam|s=s" => \$some_param,
    "help"          => \$help,
    "man"           => \$man,
  )
  or pod2usage( -verbose => 1 ) && exit;



pod2usage(-verbose => 2) && exit if defined $help;
pod2usage(-verbose => 2) && exit if defined $man;

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

__END__
=head1 NAME

MYCODE - do something

=head1 SYNOPSIS

perl mycode.pl [options] [file ...]

 Options:
   -help            brief help message
   -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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neversaint and everlastingly indebted.......

In reply to Re^2: How to pass POD into a Subroutine by neversaint
in thread How to pass POD into a Subroutine by neversaint

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