L</About Data Paragraphs and "=beginE<sol>=end" Regions>.
It is advised that formatnames match the regexp
-C<m/\A:?[−a−zA−Z0−9_]+\z/>. Everything following whitespace after the
+C<m/\A:?[-a-zA-Z0-9_]+\z/>. Everything following whitespace after the
formatname is a parameter that may be used by the formatter when dealing
with this region. This parameter must not be repeated in the "=end"
paragraph. Implementors should anticipate future expansion in the
version numbers of any modules it might be using to process the Pod.
Minimal examples:
- %% POD::Pod2PS v3.14159, using POD::Parser v1.92
+ %% POD::Pod2PS v3.14159, using POD::Parser v1.92
- <!-- Pod::HTML v3.14159, using POD::Parser v1.92 -->
+ <!-- Pod::HTML v3.14159, using POD::Parser v1.92 -->
- {\doccomm generated by Pod::Tree::RTF 3.14159 using Pod::Tree 1.08}
+ {\doccomm generated by Pod::Tree::RTF 3.14159 using Pod::Tree 1.08}
- .\" Pod::Man version 3.14159, using POD::Parser version 1.92
+ .\" Pod::Man version 3.14159, using POD::Parser version 1.92
Formatters may also insert additional comments, including: the
release date of the Pod formatter program, the contact address for
For example:
L<Foo::Bar>
- => undef, # link text
- "Foo::Bar", # possibly inferred link text
- "Foo::Bar", # name
- undef, # section
- 'pod', # what sort of link
- "Foo::Bar" # original content
+ => undef, # link text
+ "Foo::Bar", # possibly inferred link text
+ "Foo::Bar", # name
+ undef, # section
+ 'pod', # what sort of link
+ "Foo::Bar" # original content
L<Perlport's section on NL's|perlport/Newlines>
- => "Perlport's section on NL's", # link text
- "Perlport's section on NL's", # possibly inferred link text
- "perlport", # name
- "Newlines", # section
- 'pod', # what sort of link
- "Perlport's section on NL's|perlport/Newlines" # orig. content
+ => "Perlport's section on NL's", # link text
+ "Perlport's section on NL's", # possibly inferred link text
+ "perlport", # name
+ "Newlines", # section
+ 'pod', # what sort of link
+ "Perlport's section on NL's|perlport/Newlines"
+ # original content
L<perlport/Newlines>
- => undef, # link text
- '"Newlines" in perlport', # possibly inferred link text
- "perlport", # name
- "Newlines", # section
- 'pod', # what sort of link
- "perlport/Newlines" # original content
+ => undef, # link text
+ '"Newlines" in perlport', # possibly inferred link text
+ "perlport", # name
+ "Newlines", # section
+ 'pod', # what sort of link
+ "perlport/Newlines" # original content
L<crontab(5)/"DESCRIPTION">
- => undef, # link text
- '"DESCRIPTION" in crontab(5)', # possibly inferred link text
- "crontab(5)", # name
- "DESCRIPTION", # section
- 'man', # what sort of link
- 'crontab(5)/"DESCRIPTION"' # original content
+ => undef, # link text
+ '"DESCRIPTION" in crontab(5)', # possibly inferred link text
+ "crontab(5)", # name
+ "DESCRIPTION", # section
+ 'man', # what sort of link
+ 'crontab(5)/"DESCRIPTION"' # original content
L</Object Attributes>
- => undef, # link text
- '"Object Attributes"', # possibly inferred link text
- undef, # name
- "Object Attributes", # section
- 'pod', # what sort of link
- "/Object Attributes" # original content
+ => undef, # link text
+ '"Object Attributes"', # possibly inferred link text
+ undef, # name
+ "Object Attributes", # section
+ 'pod', # what sort of link
+ "/Object Attributes" # original content
L<http://www.perl.org/>
- => undef, # link text
- "http://www.perl.org/", # possibly inferred link text
- "http://www.perl.org/", # name
- undef, # section
- 'url', # what sort of link
- "http://www.perl.org/" # original content
+ => undef, # link text
+ "http://www.perl.org/", # possibly inferred link text
+ "http://www.perl.org/", # name
+ undef, # section
+ 'url', # what sort of link
+ "http://www.perl.org/" # original content
L<Perl.org|http://www.perl.org/>
- => "Perl.org", # link text
- "http://www.perl.org/", # possibly inferred link text
- "http://www.perl.org/", # name
- undef, # section
- 'url', # what sort of link
+ => "Perl.org", # link text
+ "http://www.perl.org/", # possibly inferred link text
+ "http://www.perl.org/", # name
+ undef, # section
+ 'url', # what sort of link
"Perl.org|http://www.perl.org/" # original content
Note that you can distinguish URL-links from anything else by the