Pod::Perldoc Update

Ovid on 2008-04-23T13:21:43

Adriano Ferreira has released Pod::Perldoc 3.14_05. Amongst other things, it includes my '-A' (search perlvar) patch. If you've struggled to remember what a special variable is, you can now type perldoc -A '$.' to find out.

He's also asking for a better switch name (I didn't like -A, but it was all I could find).

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switch name

dagolden on 2008-04-23T14:09:49

"-s" for "special"

-- dagolden

No switch?

kraai on 2008-04-23T15:14:32

How about omitting the switch altogether and using searching for variables if the argument begins with a '$': "perldoc '$.'". I assume that there aren't many (or any?) page, module, or program names that begin with a '$'.

Re:No switch?

kraai on 2008-04-23T15:20:48

Oops. I didn't see before that perlvar also documents some variables that begin with @ and %, but perldoc would need to handle those too.