Re: Can a module's POD access the module's variables?

i tried to do the same for HTML::Template::Compiled, and it worked:

my $version_pod = <<'=cut';
=pod

=head1 NAME

HTML::Template::Compiled - Template System [...]

=head1 VERSION

our $VERSION = "0.57";

=cut
# doesn't work with make tardist
our $VERSION = ($version_pod =~ m/^our \$VERSION = "(\d+(?:\.\d+)+)"/m
+) ? $1 : "0.01";
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but as you can see from the comment, if i package the thing up with make tardist, it fails. so i commented it out.

my reason for this was to always have the version visible in the pod and up-to-date with the $VERSION variable (and not using the cvs revision). to address this, i wrote a test-script that compares the two strings, so i'm always safe when the testsuite succeeds.

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Re^2: Can a module's POD access the module's variables? by Koolstylez (Scribe) on Dec 13, 2005 at 15:39 UTC
That's exactly what I was looking for! All of the solutions provided are interesting, but this one in particular is perfect for what we are trying to do. Thanks for the input everyone!	[reply]