I've written a standalone script (not a module) which contains embedded POD suitable for display by Pod::Usage.

Inside the script I have the standardish prolog which I've condensed to this sample:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

=head1 NAME

foo - Do something.

=cut

=head1 AUTHOR

 me!

=cut

=head1 LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2005-2006 by Steve Kemp.  All rights reserved.

...
=cut

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This works nicely; pod2man creates a nice manpage for me and Pod::Usage also allows me to show the documentation to people who invoke the script with a "--manual" flag, however I have a big problem - both pod2man + Pod::Usage display the internal documentation.

Assuming I have this:

=head2 parseCommandLineArguments

  Parse the command line arguments this script was given.

=cut

sub parseCommandLineArguments
{
..
}

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Is there a way of making sure this internal documentation is not appended to my fine manpage, or displayed by Pod::Usage?

Steve
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In reply to pod2man and Pod::Usage Weirdness by skx

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