Provided by: libpod-spell-perl_1.26-1_all 
NAME
Pod::Spell - a formatter for spellchecking Pod
VERSION
version 1.26
SYNOPSIS
use Pod::Spell;
Pod::Spell->new->parse_from_file( 'File.pm' );
Pod::Spell->new->parse_from_filehandle( $infile, $outfile );
Also look at podspell
% perl -MPod::Spell -e "Pod::Spell->new->parse_from_file(shift)" Thing.pm |spell |fmt
...or instead of piping to spell or "ispell", use ">temp.txt", and open temp.txt in your word processor
for spell-checking.
DESCRIPTION
Pod::Spell is a Pod formatter whose output is good for spellchecking. Pod::Spell is rather like
Pod::Text, except that it doesn't put much effort into actual formatting, and it suppresses things that
look like Perl symbols or Perl jargon (so that your spellchecking program won't complain about mystery
words like "$thing" or ""Foo::Bar"" or "hashref").
This class works by filtering out words that look like Perl or any form of computerese (like "$thing" or
""N>7"" or ""@{$foo}{'bar','baz'}"", anything in C<...> or F<...> codes, anything in verbatim paragraphs
(code blocks), and anything in the stopword list. The default stopword list for a document starts out
from the stopword list defined by Pod::Wordlist, and can be supplemented (on a per-document basis) by
having "=for stopwords" / "=for :stopwords" region(s) in a document.
METHODS
new
Pod::Spell->new(%options)
Creates a new Pod::Spell instance. Accepts several options:
debug
When set to a true value, will output debugging messages about how the Pod is being processed.
Defaults to false.
stopwords
Can be specified to use an alternate wordlist instance.
Defaults to a new Pod::Wordlist instance.
no_wide_chars
Will be passed to Pod::Wordlist when creating a new instance. Causes all words with characters
outside the Latin-1 range to be stripped from the output.
stopwords
$self->stopwords->isa('Pod::WordList'); # true
parse_from_filehandle($in_fh,$out_fh)
This method takes an input filehandle (which is assumed to already be opened for reading) and reads the
entire input stream looking for blocks (paragraphs) of POD documentation to be processed. If no first
argument is given the default input filehandle "STDIN" is used.
The $in_fh parameter may be any object that provides a getline() method to retrieve a single line of
input text (hence, an appropriate wrapper object could be used to parse PODs from a single string or an
array of strings).
parse_from_file($filename,$outfile)
This method takes a filename and does the following:
• opens the input and output files for reading (creating the appropriate filehandles)
• invokes the parse_from_filehandle() method passing it the corresponding input and output filehandles.
• closes the input and output files.
If the special input filename "", "-" or "<&STDIN" is given then the STDIN filehandle is used for input
(and no open or close is performed). If no input filename is specified then "-" is implied. Filehandle
references, or objects that support the regular IO operations (like "<$fh>" or "$fh-<Egt"getline>) are
also accepted; the handles must already be opened.
If a second argument is given then it should be the name of the desired output file. If the special
output filename "-" or ">&STDOUT" is given then the STDOUT filehandle is used for output (and no open or
close is performed). If the special output filename ">&STDERR" is given then the STDERR filehandle is
used for output (and no open or close is performed). If no output filehandle is currently in use and no
output filename is specified, then "-" is implied. Alternatively, filehandle references or objects that
support the regular IO operations (like "print", e.g. IO::String) are also accepted; the object must
already be opened.
ENCODINGS
If your Pod is encoded in something other than Latin-1, it should declare an encoding using the
""=encoding encodingname"" in perlpod directive.
ADDING STOPWORDS
You can add stopwords on a per-document basis with "=for stopwords" / "=for :stopwords" regions, like so:
=for stopwords plok Pringe zorch snik !qux
foo bar baz quux quuux
This adds every word in that paragraph after "stopwords" to the stopword list, effective for the rest of
the document. In such a list, words are whitespace-separated. (The amount of whitespace doesn't matter,
as long as there's no blank lines in the middle of the paragraph.) Plural forms are added automatically
using Lingua::EN::Inflect. Words beginning with "!" are deleted from the stopword list -- so "!qux"
deletes "qux" from the stopword list, if it was in there in the first place. Note that if a stopword is
all-lowercase, then it means that it's okay in any case; but if the word has any capital letters, then it
means that it's okay only with that case. So a Wordlist entry of "perl" would permit "perl", "Perl", and
(less interestingly) "PERL", "pERL", "PerL", et cetera. However, a Wordlist entry of "Perl" catches only
"Perl", not "perl". So if you wanted to make sure you said only "Perl", never "perl", you could add this
to the top of your document:
=for stopwords !perl Perl
Then all instances of the word "Perl" would be weeded out of the Pod::Spell-formatted version of your
document, but any instances of the word "perl" would be left in (unless they were in a C<...> or F<...>
style).
You can have several "=for stopwords" regions in your document. You can even express them like so:
=begin stopwords
plok Pringe zorch
snik !qux
foo bar
baz quux quuux
=end stopwords
If you want to use E<...> sequences in a "stopwords" region, you have to use ":stopwords", as here:
=for :stopwords
virtE<ugrave>
...meaning that you're adding a stopword of "virtù". If you left the ":" out, that would mean you were
adding a stopword of "virtE<ugrave>" (with a literal E, a literal <, etc), which will have no effect,
since any occurrences of virtE<ugrave> don't look like a normal human-language word anyway, and so would
be screened out before the stopword list is consulted anyway.
CAVEATS
finding stopwords defined with "=for"
Pod::Spell makes a single pass over the POD. Stopwords must be added before they show up in the POD.
HINT
If you feed output of Pod::Spell into your word processor and run a spell-check, make sure you're not
also running a grammar-check -- because Pod::Spell drops words that it thinks are Perl symbols, jargon,
or stopwords, this means you'll have ungrammatical sentences, what with words being missing and all. And
you don't need a grammar checker to tell you that.
SEE ALSO
• Pod::Wordlist
• Pod::Simple
• podchecker also known as Pod::Checker
• perlpod, perlpodspec
BUGS
Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website
<https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Pod-Spell> or by email to bug-Pod-Spell@rt.cpan.org
<mailto:bug-Pod-Spell@rt.cpan.org>.
When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that
illustrates the bug or desired feature.
CONTRIBUTORS
• David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org>
• Graham Knop <haarg@haarg.org>
• Kent Fredric <kentfredric@gmail.com>
• Mohammad S Anwar <mohammad.anwar@yahoo.com>
• Olivier Mengué <dolmen@cpan.org>
• Paulo Custodio <pauloscustodio@gmail.com>
AUTHORS
• Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>
• Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@gmail.com>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is Copyright (c) 2023 by Olivier Mengué.
This is free software, licensed under:
The Artistic License 2.0 (GPL Compatible)
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