Help with POD in Win98 (activeperl)

[Harris]

I'm trying to use the POD translators to convert my comments into
either a text file or a html page. I've used the commandline calls
"pod2text test.pl | more" "pod2text test.pl > test.txt" as well as the
pod2html translator. (all from Programming Perl 3rd Ed)
All I get is a printout to the screen, the test.txt or test.html is
created but with nothing inside. Even piping the output to more or /p
doesn't do anything.

 

[Paul Lalli]

I'm trying to use the POD translators to convert my comments into
either a text file or a html page. I've used the commandline calls
"pod2text test.pl | more" "pod2text test.pl > test.txt" as well as the
pod2html translator. (all from Programming Perl 3rd Ed)
All I get is a printout to the screen, the test.txt or test.html is
created but with nothing inside. Even piping the output to more or /p
doesn't do anything.

Did you try the syntax specified by both
perldoc pod2text
and
pod2text -h
?

They say that the output file should be specified on the command line,
right after the input file...

Let us know the results of that command, please.

Paul Lalli

 

[Harris]

Did you try the syntax specified by both
perldoc pod2text
and
pod2text -h
?

They say that the output file should be specified on the command
line, right after the input file...

Let us know the results of that command, please.

Paul Lalli

Thanks a lot for that, my mistake was to try and use '|' and '>' to
direct the output of Pod2text to the input file. The correct
commandline call was "pod2text input.pl output.txt" rather than
"pod2text input.pl > output.txt".