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Search your perl documentation w/ perldoc-search

Journal written by jjore (6662) and posted by brian_d_foy on 2009.06.26 16:18   

With the perldoc-search program, you can easily search all your perl documentation to find where that elusive "add_build_element" method is documented.

When I say this:

perldoc-search add_build_element

I get this:

perltoc - perl documentation table of contents
Module::Build::API - API Reference for Module Authors
Module::Build::Cookbook - Examples of Module::Build Usage

• Yay (Score:1)

  by kwilliams (1467)

  I'm glad you chose M::B as an example of usage - it is indeed annoying sometimes to figure out which POD file to look in for what you need.
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by jjore (6662)

    Well... for truth, I wrote this program just to make it easy to find that one method. I could have grepped too, I know. This time I didn't.
• fulltext index through Pod::POM::Web::Indexer (Score:1)

  by dami (6728)

  For info, Pod::POM::Web is a documentation viewer with an optional fulltext indexing module. You get a result like this :

  Fulltext search for 'add_build_element'
  Results 1 to 3 from 3

  source [perl.org] Module/Build/Cookbook [perl.org] (2215) Module::Build::Cookbook - Examples of Module::Build Usage
  ...her stuff here... ); $build->add_build_element('dat'); $build->create_build_scr.../...her stuff here... ); $build->add_build_element('dat'); $build->create_build_scr.../...her stuff here... ); $build->add_build_element('dat'); $build->create_build_scr...

  source [perl.org] Module/Build/Base [perl.org] (738) Module::Build::Base - Default methods for Module::Build
  ...nfigData->feature(@_); } } sub add_build_element { my ($self, $elem) = @_; ...

  source [perl.org] Module/Build/API [perl.org] (738) Module::Build::API - API Reference for Module Authors
  ...k =head2 METHODS =over 4 =item add_build_element($type) [version 0.26] Adds a new...

  Results 1 to 3 from 3
• perlindex (Score:1)

  by srezic (8057)

  perlindex (part of the Text-English distribution) is also capable of doing fulltext searches:

  $ perlindex add_build_element
  1 0.239 lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Module/Build/Cookbook.pm
  2 0.057 lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Module/Build/API.pod

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  • Re: (Score:1)

    by educated_foo (3106)

    That's super-useful, and at least 13 years old. I can't believe I haven't found it yet. Thanks for the pointer.