SYNOPSYS

podindex [options] <pod(s)>...

Reads pod(s) and prints an index to stdout. Options:

    --package=PACKAGE   precede the index by a perl package declaration
    --help              this help
    --version           print version number

DESCRIPTION

This is a simple wrapper script around Pod::Index::Builder. It parses the \s-1POD\s0 files given as arguments, finds all X<> entries, generates an index and prints it to standard output.

OPTIONS

package

If given, it will place the index in the _\|_DATA_\|_ section of a perl package. For example, podindex --package=perlindex perlop.pod outputs something like this: package perlindex; 1; _\|_DATA_\|_ ! perlsyn 116 DESCRIPTION ! perlop 207 Symbolic Unary Operators != perlop 436 Equality Operators !~ perlop 242 DESCRIPTION This is used so that an index can be placed in @INC and found easily (See Pod::Index::Search).

RELATED TO podindex…

Pod::Index, Pod::Index::Builder, perlpod

AUTHOR

Ivan Tubert-Brohman <[email protected]>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2005 Ivan Tubert-Brohman. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.