Hi, Timothy. This isn't really the right list for your question, but let me suggest some resources nonetheless. :-)
* http://search.cpan.org/~shay/perl-5.22.1/pod/perlnewmod.pod * http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=431702 * http://blogs.perl.org/users/phillip_smith/2011/03/writing-perl-modules-for-cpan.html And the 2nd edition of Intermediate Perl has a very good chapter on the subject. Regards, David On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 7:28 PM, Timothy Fletcher via modules < modules@perl.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Trying to write my first pm file for cpan. > > And well, reading the example suggest to look at; > > > http://search.cpan.org/~muir/Text-Tabs%2BWrap-2013.0523/lib.old/Text/Tabs.pm > > SYNOPSIS [image: ^] > > use Text::Tabs; > > $tabstop = 4; # default = 8 > @lines_without_tabs = expand(@lines_with_tabs); > @lines_with_tabs = unexpand(@lines_without_tabs); > > > > <http://search.cpan.org/~muir/Text-Tabs%2BWrap-2013.0523/lib.old/Text/Tabs.pm> > > they don't match the source. > > =head1 SYNOPSIS > > use File::Copy; > > copy("sourcefile","destinationfile") or die "Copy failed: $!"; > copy("Copy.pm",\*STDOUT); > move("/dev1/sourcefile","/dev2/destinationfile"); > > use File::Copy "cp"; > > $n = FileHandle->new("/a/file","r"); > cp($n,"x"); > > Other than your example pages, Oreilly book of swimming of perl( flipping > pages for ever ) is there step by step process example, for why and what? > > -Tim > > -- David Golden <x...@xdg.me> Twitter/IRC/Github: @xdg