NAME

pdldoc - shell interface to PDL documentation

SYNOPSIS

pdldoc <text>

!NO!SUBS!

    if ( $bvalflag ) {
	print $fh <<'!NO!SUBS!';
B<pdldoc> [B<-a>] [B<-b>] [B<-h>] [B<-s>] [B<-u>] <text>
!NO!SUBS!
} else {
	print $fh <<'!NO!SUBS!';
B<pdldoc> [B<-a>] [B<-h>] [B<-s>] [B<-u>] <text>
!NO!SUBS!
}

print $fh <<'!NO!SUBS!';

DESCRIPTION

The aim of pdldoc is to provide the same functionality as the apropos, help, sig, !NO!SUBS!

print $fh "C<badinfo>, \n" if $bvalflag;

print $fh <<'!NO!SUBS!'; and usage commands available in the perldl and pdl2 shells.

Think of it as the PDL equivalent of perldoc -f.

OPTIONS

-h help

print documentation about a PDL function or module or show a PDL manual. This is the default option.

-a apropos

Regex search PDL documentation database.

!NO!SUBS!

print $fh <<'!NO!SUBS!' if $bvalflag; =item -b badinfo

Information on the support for bad values provided by the function.

!NO!SUBS!

print $fh <<'!NO!SUBS!'; =item -s sig

prints signature of PDL function.

-u usage

Prints usage information for a PDL function.

$PDL::Config{PDLDOC_IGNORE_AUTOLOADER}

This PDL configuration variable may be set in the perldl.conf file to disable runtime search for documentation in PDL::AutoLoader files.

VERSION

This is pdldoc version 0.3.

AUTHOR

Doug Burke <burke at ifa dot hawaii dot edu>. Chris Marshall <chm at cpan dot org>.