---
name: "DhMakePerl::PodParser"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "dh-make-perl"
version: "0.128"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/DhMakePerl::PodParser"
---

# DhMakePerl::PodParser(3pm)

internal helper module for DhMakePerl

## NAME

DhMakePerl::PodParser - internal helper module for DhMakePerl

## SYNOPSIS

DhMakePerl::PodParser is used by DhMakePerl to extract some information from the module-to-be-packaged. It sub-classes from Pod::Parser - Please refer to it for further documentation.

## METHODS

- set\_names

  Defines the names of the sections that should be fetched from the POD

- get

  Gets the contents for the specified POD section. The single argument should be one of the values given to "set\_names".

- cleanup

  Empties the information held by the parser object

- command

  Overrides base class' Pod::Parser command method.

  Gets each of the POD's commands (sections), and defines how it should react to each of them. In this particular implementation, it basically filters out anything except for the `"=head"` sections defined in "set\_names".

- add\_text

  Hands back the text it received as it occurred in the input stream (see the Pod::Parser's documentation for verbatim, textblock and interior\_sequence).

  Content is ignored if more than 15 lines away from the section start.

- verbatim

  Called by Pod::Parser for verbatim paragraphs. Redirected to "add\_text".

- textblock

  Called by Pod::Parser for ordinary text paragraphs. Redirected to "add\_text".

- interior\_sequence

  **interior\_sequence()** is called by Pod::Parser when, eh, an interior sequence occurs in the text. Interior sequences are things like I\<...\>.

  This implementation decodes `"gt"`, `"lt"`, `"sol"`, `"verbar"` and numeric character codes, all used by `"E"` escape.

## SEE ALSO

Pod::Parser

## AUTHOR

- Paolo Molaro

  - Documentation added by Gunnar Wolf and Damyan Ivanov

  ## COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

- Copyright (C) 2001, Paolo Molaro \<lupus@debian.org\>

  - Copyright (C) 2008, Gunnar Wolf \<gwolf@debian.org\>

  - Copyright (C) 2008, Damyan Ivanov \<dmn@debian.org\>

  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.