Felicitations of the season to all you venerable monks out there ,

Having had a bit of a Super Search round (initially, I tried googling myself silly ... but enjoyed it far too much), I don't seem to be able to find what I'm looking for .. but then again it could be that I'm not asking quite the right question ;-)

This time, the question to which I seek an answer is (takes deep breath and asks more in hope than expectation) ...

Does anybody know of a way to use perldoc (or an alternative) in a manner similar to the perldoc -f <func> command to list the doc for a built-in.

The difference being that I'd like to run it against any CPAN/bespoke module such that the given functions' doc is listed from said module e.g. perldoc -f sub Foo::Bar to list the doc for Foo::Bar::sub() ... c/w perldoc Foo::Bar and get the user to trawl thro' looking for the requisite information on sub.

TIA ,

Sits back to await xmas and enlightening answers - but not necessarily in that order :-)

Update:

.oO(Hmmm, maybe emulate perldoc itself - getting the wanted behaviour by overloading one/some of the Pod::Perldoc::* methods as appropriate i.e. iff called with -f & 2 args and then handing off to perldoc itself...)

A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))

In reply to POD, come let me see thee, I have thee not, but still I clutch thee by Bloodnok

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