[win32] maintpatch

	    #70:  "Fix random whitespace errors in docs"
	 Msg-ID:  <12726.877706444@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
	  Files:  pod/checkpods.PL pod/perlfunc.pod

p4raw-id: //depot/win32/perl@724

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/pod/checkpods.PL b/pod/checkpods.PL
index ccd78ec9cf..0cac62325e 100644
--- a/pod/checkpods.PL
+++ b/pod/checkpods.PL
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ print OUT <<'!NO!SUBS!';
 # From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
 # To: perl5-porters@africa.nicoh.com
 # Subject: POD lines with only spaces
-# 
+#
 # There are some places in the documentation where a POD directive is
 # ignored because the line before it contains whitespace (and so the
 # directive doesn't start a paragraph).  This patch adds a way to check
@@ -53,18 +53,25 @@ print OUT <<'!NO!SUBS!';
 #	to grow.  Someone will probably want to rewrite in terms of
 #	some sort of Pod::Checker module.  Or something.  Consider this
 #	a placeholder for the future.
-$exit = $last_blank = 0;
+#  Version 1.02  Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
+#	Check for pod directives following any kind of unempty line, not
+#	just lines of whitespace.
+
+@directive = qw(head1 head2 item over back cut pod for begin end);
+@directive{@directive} = (1) x @directive;
+
+$exit = $last_unempty = 0;
 while (<>) {
-    chop;
-    if (/^(=\S+)/ && $last_blank) {
-	printf "%s: line %5d, Non-empty line preceeding directive %s\n",
+    chomp;
+    if (/^=(\S+)/ && $directive{$1} && $last_unempty) {
+	printf "%s: line %5d, no blank line preceeding directive =%s\n",
 		$ARGV, $., $1;
 	$exit = 1;
     }
-    $last_blank = /^\s+$/;
+    $last_unempty = ($_ ne '');
     if (eof) {
 	close(ARGV);
-	$last_blank = 0;
+	$last_unempty = 0;
     }
 }
 exit $exit