I have a library which contains several subroutines. Each one has a POD header. Example... 
#!C:/Perl/bin/perl.exe -w
use strict;
use warnings;
use Pod::Text;

#------------------------------
=pod

=head2 HelpFOO

   ($status) = FOO($input);

Input

    $input = the first parameter

Output

    status (Success) - 0
           (Failure) - non zero

Description

    Description of what FOO does

    Usage: FOO(input)

=cut
#------------------------------

sub FOO {
    my $input = shift;
    if (!defined($input)){
        my $parser = Pod::Text-> new(sentance=>,width=>78);
        $parser->parse_from_file($0, "-"); 
    }
}

#------------------------------
=pod

=head2 HelpBAR

   ($status) = BAR($input);

Input

    $input = the first parameter

Output

    status (Success) - 0
           (Failure) - non zero

Description

    Description of what BAR does

    Usage: BAR(input)

=cut
#------------------------------

sub BAR {
    my $input = shift;
    if (!defined($input)){
        my $parser = Pod::Text-> new(sentance=>,width=>78);
        $parser->parse_from_file($0, "-"); 
    }
}

#execute
FOO();

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I'm trying to print the POD as a "usage statement" if the correct parameters aren't passed to the subroutine, but I only want to print the POD which relates to the specific subroutine (I only want to print HelpFOO, not HelpFOO and HelpBAR). Any ideas? Thanks!

In reply to Parsing Pod::Text by neo1491

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