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# Pod::Simple::JustPod

just the Pod, the whole Pod, and nothing but the Pod

## SYNOPSIS

```perl
my $infile  = "mixed_code_and_pod.pm";
my $outfile = "just_the_pod.pod";
open my $fh, ">$outfile" or die "Can't write to $outfile: $!";

my $parser = Pod::Simple::JustPod->new();
$parser->output_fh($fh);
$parser->parse_file($infile);
close $fh or die "Can't close $outfile: $!";
```

## DESCRIPTION

This class returns a copy of its input, translated into Perl's internal
encoding (UTF-8), and with all the non-Pod lines removed.

This is a subclass of [Pod::Simple::Methody](Methody.md) and inherits all its methods.
And since, that in turn is a subclass of [Pod::Simple](../Simple.md), you can use any of
its methods.  This means you can output to a string instead of a file, or
you can parse from an array.

This class strives to return the Pod lines of the input completely unchanged,
except for any necessary translation into Perl's internal encoding, and it makes
no effort to return trailing spaces on lines; these likely will be stripped.
If the input pod is well-formed with no warnings nor errors generated, the
extracted pod should generate the same documentation when formatted by a Pod
formatter as the original file does.

By default, warnings are output to STDERR

## SEE ALSO

[Pod::Simple](../Simple.md), [Pod::Simple::Methody](Methody.md)

## SUPPORT

Questions or discussion about POD and Pod::Simple should be sent to the
[mailto:pod-people@perl.org](mailto:pod-people@perl.org) mail list. Send an empty email to
[mailto:pod-people-subscribe@perl.org](mailto:pod-people-subscribe@perl.org) to subscribe.

This module is managed in an open GitHub repository,
[https://github.com/theory/pod-simple/](https://github.com/theory/pod-simple/). Feel free to fork and contribute, or
to clone [https://github.com/theory/pod-simple.git](https://github.com/theory/pod-simple.git) and send patches!

Patches against Pod::Simple are welcome. Please send bug reports to
[mailto:&lt;bug-pod-simple@rt.cpan.org](mailto:<bug-pod-simple@rt.cpan.org).

## COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS

Copyright (c) 2002 Sean M. Burke.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of
merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

## AUTHOR

Pod::Simple was created by Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>.
But don't bother him, he's retired.

Pod::Simple is maintained by:

- Allison Randal `allison@perl.org`
- Hans Dieter Pearcey `hdp@cpan.org`
- David E. Wheeler `dwheeler@cpan.org`

Pod::Simple::JustPod was developed by John SJ Anderson
`genehack@genehack.org`, with contributions from Karl Williamson
`khw@cpan.org`.