Hi

Thanks, it's on CPAN as perldoc::search.

The article link is broken, those interested might read it directly from Michael Schilli's - the author of Log4perl - website: http://perlmeister.com/snapshots/200310/index.html

Anyway it's fulltext search, I tried to install the debian package but after a full-page warning about dependencies to install (including Log4perl ?!?) I gave up...shouldn't be such an alternative to googling.

I was more interested in a keyword search and actually I found out that actual perldocs are already full of X<tags> to facilitate this search, but aren't evaluated yet. 8(

just look at this snippet from perlop: 

=head2= Quote and Quote-like Operators
X<operator, quote> X<operator, quote-like> X<q> X<qq> X<qx> X<qw> X<m>
X<qr> X<s> X<tr> X<'> X<''> X<"> X<""> X<//> X<`> X<``> X<<< << >>>
X<escape sequence> X<escape><P>


While we usually think of quotes as literal values, in Perl they...

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Cheers Rolf

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