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authorSteve Peters <steve@fisharerojo.org>2005-12-07 12:36:59 +0000
committerSteve Peters <steve@fisharerojo.org>2005-12-07 12:36:59 +0000
commitb7ae008f237ac1d94314836a23dc578e678c9243 (patch)
treebb6578229c3930782c8ca18f93dced6f82326504 /pod/pod2text.PL
parent351625bd207602dfd0011de5eb4628c180eff839 (diff)
downloadperl-b7ae008f237ac1d94314836a23dc578e678c9243.tar.gz
Upgrade to podlators-2.00
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@26292
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/pod2text.PL')
-rw-r--r--pod/pod2text.PL27
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/pod/pod2text.PL b/pod/pod2text.PL
index 0486e2da0a..785a3f393f 100644
--- a/pod/pod2text.PL
+++ b/pod/pod2text.PL
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ for (my $i = 0; $i < @ARGV; $i++) {
}
# Insert -- into @ARGV before any single dash argument to hide it from
-# Getopt::Long; we want to interpret it as meaning stdin (which Pod::Parser
+# Getopt::Long; we want to interpret it as meaning stdin (which Pod::Simple
# does correctly).
my $stdin;
@ARGV = map { $_ eq '-' && !$stdin++ ? ('--', $_) : $_ } @ARGV;
@@ -99,8 +99,12 @@ if ($options{color}) {
delete @options{'color', 'termcap', 'overstrike'};
# Initialize and run the formatter.
-my $parser = $formatter->new (%options);
-$parser->parse_from_file (@ARGV);
+do {
+ my $parser = $formatter->new (%options);
+ my ($input, $output) = splice (@ARGV, 0, 2);
+ $parser->parse_file ($input, $output);
+ undef $parser;
+} while (@ARGV);
__END__
@@ -111,7 +115,7 @@ pod2text - Convert POD data to formatted ASCII text
=head1 SYNOPSIS
pod2text [B<-aclost>] [B<--code>] [B<-i> I<indent>] S<[B<-q> I<quotes>]>
-S<[B<-w> I<width>]> [I<input> [I<output>]]
+S<[B<-w> I<width>]> [I<input> [I<output> ...]]
pod2text B<-h>
@@ -124,7 +128,10 @@ either termcap sequences or ANSI color escape sequences to format the text.
I<input> is the file to read for POD source (the POD can be embedded in
code). If I<input> isn't given, it defaults to STDIN. I<output>, if given,
is the file to which to write the formatted output. If I<output> isn't
-given, the formatted output is written to STDOUT.
+given, the formatted output is written to STDOUT. Several POD files can be
+processed in the same B<pod2text> invocation (saving module load and compile
+times) by providing multiple pairs of I<input> and I<output> files on the
+command line.
=head1 OPTIONS
@@ -213,7 +220,7 @@ your terminal device.
=head1 DIAGNOSTICS
-If B<pod2text> fails with errors, see L<Pod::Text> and L<Pod::Parser> for
+If B<pod2text> fails with errors, see L<Pod::Text> and L<Pod::Simple> for
information about what those errors might mean. Internally, it can also
produce the following diagnostics:
@@ -230,8 +237,8 @@ loaded.
=back
-In addition, other L<Getopt::Long|Getopt::Long> error messages may result
-from invalid command-line options.
+In addition, other L<Getopt::Long> error messages may result from invalid
+command-line options.
=head1 ENVIRONMENT
@@ -254,7 +261,7 @@ current terminal device.
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<Pod::Text>, L<Pod::Text::Color>, L<Pod::Text::Overstrike>,
-L<Pod::Text::Termcap>, L<Pod::Parser>
+L<Pod::Text::Termcap>, L<Pod::Simple>
The current version of this script is always available from its web site at
L<http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/podlators/>. It is also part of the
@@ -266,7 +273,7 @@ Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>.
=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
-Copyright 1999, 2000, 2001 by Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>.
+Copyright 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004 by Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.