Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module P306. This topic is presented on public course
Perl for Larger Projects
A file that contains a Perl program or a Perl module should also contain comments to help the maintainer in the future. It can also contain POD directives, which provide documentation for the user, either a user manual (for a program), or a description of the API provided (for a module).
Related technical and longer articles
POD (Plain Ole Documentation) - how to check it
Articles and tips on this subject | updated |
760 | Self help in Perl Perl's POD (Plain Old Documentation) system provides the programmer with the ability to add user documentation into his programs - allowing a single source file to include:
* The program itself
* Comments for future programmers who read the source
* Documentation for the user
Convertors such as pod2html ... | 2006-06-15 |
242 | Satisfaction of training I'm writing this during a final-day practical on a Perl course - 10 trainees, coding quietly as mice, as they write a web page to calculate the length of ladder that Romeo needs to reach Juliet and present the results. The program is being written to "best practise" standards - the HTML is being kept ... | 2006-06-05 |
Examples from our training material
d4 | Sample code - alternatives to if and while |
pod1 | Example of POD |
pod1.html | Example of HTML generated from POD |
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Topics covered in this module
Own-line directives.
Special formatting directives.
Embedded Directives.
Including POD within programs and modules.
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