Converting Getopt::Long into POD

[IvorW]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Black [mailto:andrew-li at black1.org.uk]
> Sent: 29 January 2007 10:47
> To: London.pm Perl M[ou]ngers
> Subject: Converting Getopt::Long into POD 
> 
> 
> Hi
> Does anyone know of a way of converting Getopt::Long parameters into 
> half way decent POD.
> I am thinking along the lines of taking
>   "wiggle=s"  # filename of wiggle
> and producing
>   -wiggle=filename     filename of wiggle
> I almost started writing my own but then thought someome MUST 
> have done 
> it before.
> 
> I dont mind having to cut an paste into the POD section of my PM, but 
> trying to keep a POD and option in sync is a pain.
> 
> I realise there are going to be various other Getopt::xxx 
> methods, but 
> follwing Aaron's talk at YAPC I am sticking with 
> Getopt::Long, unless a 
> very convincing argument persuades me otherwise.  

I never use anything else but Getopt::Long these days.
Getopt::Long plays well with POD::Usage, which requires: =head1 OPTIONS

I guess if you intersperse your POD with code, you could place OPTIONS alongside the call to GetOptions