NAME

pdladoc - shell interface to PDLA documentation

SYNOPSIS

pdladoc <text>

DESCRIPTION

The aim of pdladoc is to provide the same functionality as the apropos, help, sig, badinfo, and usage commands available in the perldl and pdla2 shells.

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

OPTIONS

-h help

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

-a apropos

Regex search PDLA documentation database.

-b badinfo

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

-s sig

prints signature of PDLA function.

-u usage

Prints usage information for a PDLA function.

$PDLA::Config{PDLADOC_IGNORE_AUTOLOADER}

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

VERSION

This is pdladoc version 0.3.

AUTHOR

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