Sample perl script to strip.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# testpod.pl
use strict;

=head1 test
to be stripped
=cut

print "everything fine\n";

=head1 another test
to be stripped

=cut

print "end\n";
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I made a stripper.pl script with

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Stripper;
my $Stripper = new Pod::Stripper();
$Stripper->parse_from_filehandle(\*STDIN) unless (@ARGV);
for my $ARGV (@ARGV) {
    $Stripper->parse_from_file($ARGV);
}
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The Stripper will output

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

print "end\n";
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(missing one line of code)
Then I made a poor man's stripper, as follows:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $inside_pod = 0;
while (<>){
    if ($inside_pod) { 
      $inside_pod = ! /^=cut/;
      next;
    }
    else {
      $inside_pod = /^=\w/;
    }
    print unless $inside_pod;
}
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and the output contains the print "everything fine\n"; line.
However, the poor man's stripper will be fooled by such a sequence:

my $var ='
=test
';
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I know that POD tags should be isolated (i.e separated by "\n" before and after) but what if they don't? (As I found in some modules)
These POD tags are correctly ignored by the compiler, but make perldoc fail.
Is there any way of dealing with such tags?

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