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NAME
    Pod::Cpandoc - perldoc that works for modules you don't have installed

SYNOPSIS
        cpandoc File::Find
            -- shows the documentation of your installed File::Find

        cpandoc Acme::BadExample
            -- works even if you don't have Acme::BadExample installed!

        cpandoc -v '$?'
            -- passes everything through to regular perldoc

        cpandoc -m Acme::BadExample | grep system
            -- options are respected even if the module was scraped

        vim `cpandoc -l Web::Scraper`
            -- getting the idea yet?

        cpandoc http://darkpan.org/Eval::WithLexicals::AndGlobals
            -- URLs work too!

DESCRIPTION
    "cpandoc" is a perl script that acts like "perldoc" except that if it
    would have bailed out with "No documentation found for
    "Uninstalled::Module"", it will instead scrape a CPAN index for the
    module's documentation.

    One important feature of "cpandoc" is that it *only* scrapes the live
    index if you do not have the module installed. So if you use "cpandoc"
    on a module you already have installed, then it will just read the
    already-installed documentation. This means that the version of the
    documentation matches up with the version of the code you have. As a
    fringe benefit, "cpandoc" will be fast for modules you've installed. :)

    All this means that you should be able to drop in "cpandoc" in place of
    "perldoc" and have everything keep working. See "SNEAKY INSTALL" for how
    to do this.

    If you set the environment variable "CPANDOC_FETCH" to a true value,
    then we will print a message to STDERR telling you that "cpandoc" is
    going to make a request against the live CPAN index.

TRANSLATIONS
    Japanese
            Japanese documentation can be found at
            L<http://perldoc.jp/docs/modules/Pod-Cpandoc-0.09/Cpandoc.pod>,
            contributed by @bayashi.

SNEAKY INSTALL
        cpanm Pod::Cpandoc

        then: alias perldoc=cpandoc
        or:   function perldoc () { cpandoc "$@" }

        Now `perldoc Acme::BadExample` works!

    "perldoc" should continue to work for everything that you're used to,
    since "cpandoc" passes all options through to it. "cpandoc" is merely a
    subclass that falls back to scraping a CPAN index when it fails to find
    your queried file in @INC.

SEE ALSO
    The sneaky install was inspired by <https://github.com/defunkt/hub>.

    <http://tech.bayashi.jp/archives/entry/perl-module/2011/003305.html>

    <http://sartak.org/talks/yapc-na-2011/cpandoc/>

AUTHOR
    Shawn M Moore "sartak@gmail.com"

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright 2011 Shawn M Moore.

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