NAME

String::PodQuote - Escape/quote special characters that might be interpreted by a POD parser

VERSION

This document describes version 0.003 of String::PodQuote (from Perl distribution String-PodQuote), released on 2019-12-17.

SYNOPSIS

use String::PodQuote qw(pod_escape);

Putting a text as-is in an ordinary paragraph:

print "=pod\n\n", pod_escape("First paragraph containing C<=>.\n\n   Second indented paragraph.\n\n"), "=cut\n\n";

will output:

=pod

First paragraph containing CE<lt>=E<gt>.

E<32>  Second indented paragraph.

Putting text inside a POD link:

print "L<", pod_escape("Some description containing <, >, |, /"), "|Some::Module>";

will output:

L<Some description containing <, E<gt>, E<verbar>, E<sol>|Some::Module>

DESCRIPTION

FUNCTIONS

pod_escape

Usage:

$escaped = pod_escape($text);

Quote special characters that might be interpreted by a POD parser.

The following characters are escaped:

Character                                    Escaped into
---------                                    ------------
< (only when preceded by a capital letter)   E<lt>
>                                            E<gt>
|                                            E<verbar>
/                                            E<sol>
(Space) (only at beginning of string/line)   E<32>
(Tab) (only at beginning of string/line)     E<9>
= (only at beginning of string/line)         E<61>

pod_quote

Alias for pod_escape.

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/String-PodQuote.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-String-PodQuote.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=String-PodQuote

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

SEE ALSO

perlpod

Tangentially related modules: HTML::Entities, URI::Escape, String::ShellQuote, String::Escape, String::PerlQuote.

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2019 by perlancar@cpan.org.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

cpanm String::PodQuote

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install String::PodQuote