Re: Pod::Simple can treat binary as pod due to liberal/inconsistent regexp patterns

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> > IIRC the first "liberal" rx is to detect start of POD just like the Perl
> (language) parser does, i.e. it pauses parsing for instructions until the
> next =cut
>
> Oh. Can someone dig into the Perl parser and confirm this?
>
> > I think POD parsers should do the same.
>
> My suspicion is that, even if that’s true, the Parser ignores everything
> in a __DATA__ or __END__ block.


Here is an example I worked up when writing test for metacpan:
Everything after __DATA__ is data, but the pod parser will also find pod if
it's there
https://gist.github.com/rwstauner/98f97e6cd64c972d9b71