2008 Perl Advent Calendar: Getting Started

# Perl Advent Calendar 2008-12-00

## Getting Started

### by David Westbrook

This is a basic POD example for using `Pod::Advent` to generate a `http://perladvent.pm.org` entry such as this. Once the POD is written or updated, simply execute the `pod2advent` script and save the output:

    $ pod2advent getting_started.pod > pod2advent getting_started.html

And we get the file that you're now reading. The POD source is included below (normally this would be your .pl script file):

## getting_started.pod

       1 =for advent_year 2008
       2
       3 =for advent_day 00
       4
       5 =for advent_title Getting Started
       6
       7 =for advent_author David Westbrook
       8
       9 This is a basic POD example
      10 for using M<Pod::Advent> to generate a
      11 A<Perl Advent Calendar|http://perladvent.pm.org> entry such as this.
      12 Once the POD is written or updated, simply execute
      13 the F<pod2advent> script and save the output:
      14
      15 =begin code
      16
      17 $ pod2advent getting_started.pod > pod2advent getting_started.html
      18
      19 =end code
      20
      21 And we get the file that you're now reading.
      22 The POD source is included below
      23 (normally this would be your I<.pl> script file):
      24
      25 =sourcedcode getting_started.pod

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