is there a man equivalent for perl that's searchable?

CamelDung has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Or more accurately;
I've recently made the decision to dump/replace PHP for/with Perl. Mind you I began life with perl shortly after it's incarnation. Managed all our servers with perl, all the web services, and pages were manages/written by/with perl. Over the years I became tempted to try PHP, and finally succumed(sp). Rewrote nearly all my projects, with the exception of 2 large ones, which I simply wrapped in PHP. Well, INMHO PHP is going everywhere but where it should, and I never had any issues with perl. So the prodigal son returns home. :)

To the point!
In staging for this return to perl, I've chosen a couple of templating engines, and all told; have ~1032 modules. Now, I'd like to become familiar with them, so I'll need to RTFM. Which in perl-speak == peardoc. Perldoc is nice, but it would be even nicer if I could search the perl man pages - something like FreeBSD's web based searchable man pages:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi
Is there already an equivalent for perl and it's modules? Or will I be required to cobble it up myself? I searched perldoc.perl.org, and everywhere else I could think (including here). But no joy.

Thank you for all your time and consideration.

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Re: is there a man equivalent for perl that's searchable? by marto (Cardinal) on Jan 02, 2010 at 13:20 UTC
You could use http://search.cpan.org/ for modules, also read http://perldoc.perl.org, checking out perldoc which explains how to search module documentation. Martin	[reply]
Re^2: is there a man equivalent for perl that's searchable? by CamelDung (Novice) on Jan 02, 2010 at 13:46 UTC
Greetings marto, and thank you for your reply. Yes, I'm aware of all of them, and searched them. But it doesn't provide the results I was looking/hoping for. I had hoped to discover a searchable www based index like the FreeBSD MAN pages. What's nice about this, it that I created an xml file for firefox. So I am able to search the man pages as though it was a search engine like yahoo!, or google. Thanks again.	[reply]
Re^3: is there a man equivalent for perl that's searchable? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 02, 2010 at 16:32 UTC
http://perldoc.perl.org/search.html	[reply]
Re: is there a man equivalent for perl that's searchable? by Gangabass (Vicar) on Jan 02, 2010 at 14:39 UTC
You can use Google for this. Just enter this query: splice site:perldoc.perl.org	[reply]
Re^2: is there a man equivalent for perl that's searchable? by CamelDung (Novice) on Jan 02, 2010 at 21:50 UTC
Greetings Gangabass, and thank you for your reply. Out of frustration, I opted to get a copy of the FreeBSD MAN pages script and adapt it to work on my locally installed commands, installed applications, and perl. It works perfectly for all *roff formatted pages. But not as well for the perl module man pages. :( Do you, or anyone else know how I might achieve the same results as the CPAN search - eg; perl::monks? Thank you for all your time and consideration.	[reply]
Re^3: is there a man equivalent for perl that's searchable? by Anonymous Monk on Jan 03, 2010 at 04:09 UTC
CPAN::Search::Lite setup and maintain a searchable CPAN database Perldoc::Server Local Perl documentation server Perldoc::Search Index and Search local Perl Documentation App::Perldoc::Search - implementation for perldoc-search Pod::Index Index and search PODs using X<> entries. Pod::Simple::HTMLBatch convert several Pod files to several HTML files SWISH - Perl interface to the SWISH-E search engine. KinoSearch Search engine library.	[reply]
Re^4: is there a man equivalent for perl that's searchable? by CamelDung (Novice) on Jan 03, 2010 at 12:27 UTC