Re: Interpolate Perl variables in POD

As JavaFan and GrandFather have already mentioned, no, you can't directly. However, there's nothing to stop you from generating a POD document from a perl script:

open (my $pod, '>', 'filename.pod') or die "Can't write pod file: $!";
my $my_perl_variable = 'something';
print $pod <<EOF;

=head1 Imaginary Interpolation

This was defined previously: C<$my_perl_variable>

=cut

EOF
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Of course, this would mean that you'd have to trigger the re-writing process somehow ... if you were to give an interface for updating whatever your variables were, you could regenerate the pod afterwards. I personally couldn't see the advantage of doing this, but I don't know what your full intentions are.

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Re^2: Interpolate Perl variables in POD by repellent (Priest) on Oct 01, 2008 at 01:12 UTC
Upon writing a USAGE for a script, I would like for `pod2usage` to be updated dynamically as I maintain & update my code in the long term. A static USAGE means I would have to do manually update the POD when my code changes.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Interpolate Perl variables in POD by GrandFather (Saint) on Oct 01, 2008 at 01:29 UTC
I run a script from within my editor to generate 'man pages' from the POD in the current buffer. Perl reduces RSI - it saves typing	[reply]
Re^2: Interpolate Perl variables in POD by snoopy (Curate) on Oct 01, 2008 at 06:30 UTC
Just as an aside. Embedded pod-like text in here-docs can accidentally be extracted from the source file as POD. This happens for me with the above code sample: `714680(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation 7 +14680(1) Imaginary Interpolation This was defined previously: $my_perl_variable perl v5.8.8 2008‐10‐01 + 714680(1)` [download]	[reply] [d/l]