For your enjoyment podgrep 0.01. Stick it in your path. Defaults to cwd. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Pod::Find;
use Pod::PlainText;
use IO::String;

die "Usage $0 <sub name> <dirs>\n" unless @ARGV;

my $sub = shift @ARGV;
my @dirs = @ARGV ? @ARGV : ('.');
print "Searching for $sub in @dirs\n";
my %pods = Pod::Find::pod_find( {-verbose => 0}, @dirs );

for my $file ( keys %pods ) {
    open my $fh, $file or die "Can't read $file $!\n";
    local $/ = "\n=";  # split into pod paragraph chunks
    while (<$fh>) {
        next unless m/^(\w+).*\b$sub\b/i;
        chop;
        s/^(\w+)/=head1/;  # kludge to fix parser issue with isolated 
+tokens
        print "\n-----$file\n";
        my $io = IO::String->new($_);
        Pod::PlainText::pod2text($io); 
    }
}

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In reply to Re^2: (podgrep) Easily catalog subroutines with a synopsis comment by tachyon-II
in thread Easily catalog subroutines with a synopsis comment by blogical

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