# phpman > man > Pod::Simple::JustPod

## NAME
    [Pod::Simple::JustPod](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Pod%3A%3ASimple%3A%3AJustPod/markdown) -- just the Pod, the whole Pod, and nothing but the Pod

## SYNOPSIS
     my $infile  = "mixed_code_and_pod.pm";
     my $outfile = "just_the_pod.pod";
     open my $fh, ">$outfile" or die "Can't write to $outfile: $!";

     my $parser = [Pod::Simple::JustPod](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Pod%3A%3ASimple%3A%3AJustPod/markdown)->new();
     $parser->output_fh($fh);
     $parser->parse_file($infile);
     close $fh or die "Can't close $outfile: $!";

## DESCRIPTION
    This class returns a copy of its input, translated into Perl's internal encoding (UTF-8), and
    with all the non-Pod lines removed.

    This is a subclass of [Pod::Simple::Methody](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Pod%3A%3ASimple%3A%3AMethody/markdown) and inherits all its methods. And since, that in turn
    is a subclass of [Pod::Simple](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Pod%3A%3ASimple/markdown), you can use any of its methods. This means you can output to a
    string instead of a file, or you can parse from an array.

    This class strives to return the Pod lines of the input completely unchanged, except for any
    necessary translation into Perl's internal encoding, and it makes no effort to return trailing
    spaces on lines; these likely will be stripped. If the input pod is well-formed with no warnings
    nor errors generated, the extracted pod should generate the same documentation when formatted by
    a Pod formatter as the original file does.

    By default, warnings are output to STDERR

## SEE ALSO
    [Pod::Simple](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Pod%3A%3ASimple/markdown), [Pod::Simple::Methody](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Pod%3A%3ASimple%3A%3AMethody/markdown)

## SUPPORT
    Questions or discussion about POD and [Pod::Simple](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Pod%3A%3ASimple/markdown) should be sent to the
    <mailto:<pod-people@perl.org>> mail list. Send an empty email to
    <mailto:<pod-people-subscribe@perl.org>> to subscribe.

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

    Patches against [Pod::Simple](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Pod%3A%3ASimple/markdown) are welcome. Please send bug reports to
    <mailto:<<bug-pod-simple@rt.cpan.org>>.

## 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
    [Pod::Simple](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Pod%3A%3ASimple/markdown) was created by Sean M. Burke <<sburke@cpan.org>>. But don't bother him, he's retired.

    [Pod::Simple](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Pod%3A%3ASimple/markdown) is maintained by:

    *   Allison Randal "<allison@perl.org>"

    *   Hans Dieter Pearcey "<hdp@cpan.org>"

    *   David E. Wheeler "<dwheeler@cpan.org>"

    [Pod::Simple::JustPod](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Pod%3A%3ASimple%3A%3AJustPod/markdown) was developed by John SJ Anderson "<genehack@genehack.org>", with
    contributions from Karl Williamson "<khw@cpan.org>".