NAME
pm_simple_filter.pl - Filter for Perl module
SYNOPSIS
pm_simple_filter.pl < LIB_PM > BLIB_PM
DESCRIPTION
To be autmatically called via PM_FILTER
during the uild process.
Reads from STDIN
and writes to STDOUT
. Input must be code of a Perl module. It reads the VERSION (must be present!) and in the POD section, it replaces #VERSION#
with that version and #AUTHOR#
with the name of the author (hard coded in this script). It does not replace in verbatim lines.
The script assumes that the POD is located at the bottom of the file, after an __END__
followed by optional empty lines followed by a =pod
.