Pod::Simple::DumpAsText(3pm) Perl Programmers Reference Guide Pod::Simple::DumpAsText(3pm)

# [NAME](#NAME)

Pod::Simple::DumpAsText -- dump Pod-parsing events as text

# [SYNOPSIS](#SYNOPSIS)

```
  perl -MPod::Simple::DumpAsText -e \
   "exit Pod::Simple::DumpAsText->filter(shift)->any_errata_seen" \
   thingy.pod
```

# [DESCRIPTION](#DESCRIPTION)

This class is for dumping, as text, the events gotten from parsing a Pod document. This class is of interest to people writing Pod formatters based on Pod::Simple. It is useful for seeing exactly what events you get out of some Pod that you feed in.

This is a subclass of Pod::Simple and inherits all its methods.

# [SEE ALSO](#SEE_ALSO)

Pod::Simple::DumpAsXML

Pod::Simple

# [SUPPORT](#SUPPORT)

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

This module is managed in an open GitHub repository, <https://github.com/perl-pod/pod-simple/>. Feel free to fork and contribute, or to clone <https://github.com/perl-pod/pod-simple.git> and send patches!

Patches against Pod::Simple are welcome. Please send bug reports to <bug-pod-simple@rt.cpan.org>.

# [COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS](#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](#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"

2026-08-31 perl v5.44.0

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