NAME

Pod::Simple::Data -- retrieve the data inlined in Pod

SYNOPSIS

perl -MPod::Simple::Data -e \
 "exit Pod::Simple::Data->new('stuff', 'xstuff')->parse_file(shift)->any_errata_seen" \
 thingy.pod

DESCRIPTION

This class is that for retrieving data from =begin/=for/=end sections. The constructor accepts a list of identifier, the default is '*' which allows to retrieve all data.

This is a subclass of Pod::Simple and inherits all its methods.

CALLING FROM THE COMMAND LINE

perl -MPod::Simple::Data -e \
 "exit Pod::Simple::Data->new()->parse_file(shift)->any_errata_seen" \
 thingy.pod

CALLING FROM PERL

Minimal code

use Pod::Simple::Data;
my $p = Pod::Simple::Data->new();
$p->output_string(\my $data);
$p->parse_file('path/to/Module/Name.pm');
open my $out, '>', 'out.dat' or die "Cannot open 'out.dat': $!\n";
print $out $data;

SEE ALSO

Pod::Simple, "About Data Paragraphs" in perlpodspec, Travis CI, Coveralls

AUTHOR

Francois Perrad <francois.perrad@gadz.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2014 Francois Perrad

LICENSE

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.