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# Pod/Select.pm -- function to select portions of POD docs
#
-# Copyright (C) 1996-1999 by Bradford Appleton. All rights reserved.
+# Copyright (C) 1996-2000 by Bradford Appleton. All rights reserved.
# This file is part of "PodParser". PodParser is free software;
# you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms
# as Perl itself.
package Pod::Select;
use vars qw($VERSION);
-$VERSION = 1.085; ## Current version of this package
-require 5.004; ## requires this Perl version or later
+$VERSION = 1.13; ## Current version of this package
+require 5.005; ## requires this Perl version or later
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=head1 REQUIRES
-perl5.004, Pod::Parser, Exporter, FileHandle, Carp
+perl5.005, Pod::Parser, Exporter, Carp
=head1 EXPORTS
=over 4
-=item
+=item *
I<head1-title-regex>/I<head2-title-regex>/...
=over 4
-=item
+=item *
+
Match the C<NAME> and C<SYNOPSIS> sections and all of their subsections:
C<NAME|SYNOPSIS>
-=item
+=item *
+
Match only the C<Question> and C<Answer> subsections of the C<DESCRIPTION>
section:
C<DESCRIPTION/Question|Answer>
-=item
+=item *
+
Match the C<Comments> subsection of I<all> sections:
C</Comments>
-=item
+=item *
+
Match all subsections of C<DESCRIPTION> I<except> for C<Comments>:
C<DESCRIPTION/!Comments>
-=item
+=item *
+
Match the C<DESCRIPTION> section but do I<not> match any of its subsections:
C<DESCRIPTION/!.+>
-=item
+=item *
+
Match all top level sections but none of their subsections:
C</!.+>
=over 4
-=item
+=item *
/I<start-range-regex>/[../I<end-range-regex>/]
commands, and I<text-expr> is intended to match the paragraph text for
the command. If a range-regex is supposed to match a POD command, then
the first character of the regex (the one after the initial '/')
-absolutely I<must> be an single '=' character; it may not be anything
+absolutely I<must> be a single '=' character; it may not be anything
else (not even a regex meta-character) if it is supposed to match
against the name of a POD command.
=head1 AUTHOR
+Please report bugs using L<http://rt.cpan.org>.
+
Brad Appleton E<lt>bradapp@enteract.comE<gt>
Based on code for B<pod2text> written by