detecting pod in files?

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Re: detecting pod in files? by xdg (Monsignor) on Aug 17, 2005 at 14:46 UTC
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Re: detecting pod in files? by davidrw (Prior) on Aug 17, 2005 at 15:18 UTC
You can use the program `podchecker` (see its man page) and check the status code returned on the the shell (2 means no pod found). Looking at its source, it uses the `podchecker()` function from Pod::Checker which returns -1 if no valid pod found. `use Pod::Checker; my $rc = podchecker($filepath, $outputpath, %options); if( $rc > 0 ){ # errors }elsif( $rc < 0 ){ # no pod found }else{ # ok! }` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: detecting pod in files? by edwyr (Sexton) on Aug 27, 2005 at 15:08 UTC
The suggestion to use podchecker really helped. Thanks a lot.	[reply]
Re: detecting pod in files? by Ven'Tatsu (Deacon) on Aug 17, 2005 at 14:30 UTC
I wouldn't call it easyer but at the first detection of a pod directive I would set the flag an bail out of the loop instead of searching the rest of the file. It is also posible that a file will not contain '=pod' but still have pod in it. I would use something like this: `my $file = '/tmp/file'; open(IN, "<$file") or die "$0: cannot read file '$file': $!"; my $pod = 0; while (<IN>) { $pod = 1, last if /^=\w/ } #/^=(pod\|head\d\|over\|item\|back\|cut)/ might be more accurate #=begin, =end, and =for are ommited because they would #usualy be ignored by pod2* close(IN); pod2html($file) if $pod;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: detecting pod in files? by brian_d_foy (Abbot) on Aug 17, 2005 at 17:17 UTC
You can't do it this simply. Although a pod directive starts at the beginning of a line with an =, that has to happen when Perl isn't expecting something else. (Curiously, BBEdit gets this wrong too). `# this isn't pod $time =time ;` [download] Or `$string =<<"HERE"; =value =item HERE` [download] You can can't just look for a particular pod directive (such as =pod, in the original post, because it might not show up. Indeed, I have rarely used =pod. There are plenty of Pod modules, so use those instead of rolling your own. :) -- brian d foy <brian@stonehenge.com>	[reply] [d/l] [select]