I want to document my program inside the source file using Pod::Text.

This works fine using perl program.pl, but fails if I generate an executable file using pp.

Her is a a small script that show what happens.

#! /usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

use Pod::Text;
use File::Basename;

userManual();

sub userManual {        # show user manual
    my $pod = basename $0;            # the pod text is in the perl fi
+lew
    my $tmp = getTMP();                # look for a temp file
    
    my $parser = Pod::Text->new ();        # convert pod to text

    $parser->parse_from_file ($pod, $tmp);    # do the convertion
    die "Can't open $tmp ($!)\n" unless (open (TXT, $tmp));    # OOPS
    while (<TXT>) {                # display the text file
        print;
    }
    close TXT;                    # close the text file
    unlink $tmp;                # and delete it
}
sub getTMP {
    use POSIX qw(tmpnam);
    my $name;
    
    do { $name = tmpnam() } until (! -e $name);    # try until we get 
+one that didn't already exist
    return $name;
}

=pod

=head1 PROGRAM NAME

B<program> - This is the program

=head1 DESCRIPTION

The program B<program> bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
+ bla bla bla
bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla.

=head1 AUTHOR

    memo garcia <mgarcia@cistrans.cl>.
    March, 2010

=cut
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What Pod::Text is using as input file is the executable and not the perl code.

One solution is to separate the pod source in program.pod and use this as the input for Pod::Text, but I want to distribute one single file to the end user.

Any idea??

memo

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