1Pod::ParseLink(3pm)    Perl Programmers Reference Guide    Pod::ParseLink(3pm)
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NAME

6       Pod::ParseLink - Parse an L<> formatting code in POD text
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SYNOPSIS

9           use Pod::ParseLink;
10           my ($text, $inferred, $name, $section, $type) = parselink ($link);
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DESCRIPTION

13       This module only provides a single function, parselink(), which takes
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15       anchor text for the link (if any was given), the anchor text possibly
16       inferred from the name and section, the name or URL, the section if
17       any, and the type of link.  The type will be one of 'url', 'pod', or
18       'man', indicating a URL, a link to a POD page, or a link to a Unix man‐
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21       Parsing is implemented per perlpodspec.  For backward compatibility,
22       links where there is no section and name contains spaces, or links
23       where the entirety of the link (except for the anchor text if given) is
24       enclosed in double-quotes are interpreted as links to a section
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27       The inferred anchor text is implemented per perlpodspec:
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29           L<name>         =>  L<name⎪name>
30           L</section>     =>  L<"section"⎪/section>
31           L<name/section> =>  L<"section" in name⎪name/section>
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33       The name may contain embedded E<> and Z<> formatting codes, and the
34       section, anchor text, and inferred anchor text may contain any format‐
35       ting codes.  Any double quotes around the section are removed as part
36       of the parsing, as is any leading or trailing whitespace.
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38       If the text of the L<> escape is entirely enclosed in double quotes,
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41       No attempt is made to resolve formatting codes.  This must be done
42       after calling parselink (since E<> formatting codes can be used to
43       escape characters that would otherwise be significant to the parser and
44       resolving them before parsing would result in an incorrect parse of a
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49       which should be interpreted as a link to the "vertical⎪bar/slash" POD
50       page and not as a link to the "slash" section of the "bar" POD page
51       with an anchor text of "vertical".  Note that not only the anchor text
52       will need to have formatting codes expanded, but so will the target of
53       the link (to deal with E<> and Z<> formatting codes), and special han‐
54       dling of the section may be necessary depending on whether the transla‐
55       tor wants to consider markup in sections to be significant when resolv‐
56       ing links.  See perlpodspec for more information.
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SEE ALSO

59       Pod::Parser
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61       The current version of this module is always available from its web
62       site at <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/podlators/>.
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AUTHOR

65       Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>.
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68       Copyright 2001 by Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>.
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70       This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
71       under the same terms as Perl itself.
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