| CC: | jkeenan [...] cpan.org |
| Subject: | perldoc -v doesn't support full-text search [perl:132684] |
[This ticket was originally filed in the Perl 5 bug queue, but has been transferred here because maintenance of Pod-Perldoc -- where the feature requested would have to be implemented -- is upstream CPAN. -- jkeenan]
This is a bug report for perl from cas@taz.net.au,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.40 running under perl 5.26.1.
"perldoc -v" is only useful if you already know the name of the perl variable
that controls the thing you want to control.
e.g.
Both "perldoc -v '$/'" and "perldoc -v '$RS'" work and provide lots
of information about the input record separator. It even contains
the string "input record separator" as well as the alternative name
"$INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR".
"perldoc -i -v 'input.*record'" says only:
'input.*record' does not look like a Perl variable
The ability to search would be useful. There are lots of perlvars that I can
vaguely remember what they do but can never remember what they're called.
thanks,
craig