NAME Module::Abstract - Extract the abstract of a locally installed Perl module VERSION This document describes version 0.002 of Module::Abstract (from Perl distribution Module-Abstract), released on 2021-08-27. SYNOPSIS use Module::Abstract qw(module_abstract); say module_abstract("strict"); # => prints something like: Perl pragma to restrict unsafe constructs DESCRIPTION FUNCTIONS module_abstract Usage: my $abstract = module_abstract($mod_name); Extract abstract from module source. Will first load module source using Module::Installed::Tiny's "module_source()" function (which dies on failure e.g. when it can't find the module). Then will search using simple regex this pattern: =head1 NAME Some::Module::Name - some abstract or (usually present in Dist::Zilla-managed distribution): #ABSTRACT: some abstract Will return undef if abstract cannot be found. HOMEPAGE Please visit the project's homepage at . SOURCE Source repository is at . SEE ALSO App::lcpan also contains routine to extract abstract from module. It might use Module::Abstract in the future. pmabstract from App::PMUtils, a CLI front-end for Module::Abstract. AUTHOR perlancar CONTRIBUTING To contribute, you can send patches by email/via RT, or send pull requests on GitHub. Most of the time, you don't need to build the distribution yourself. You can simply modify the code, then test via: % prove -l If you want to build the distribution (e.g. to try to install it locally on your system), you can install Dist::Zilla, Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Author::PERLANCAR, and sometimes one or two other Dist::Zilla plugin and/or Pod::Weaver::Plugin. Any additional steps required beyond that are considered a bug and can be reported to me. COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2021 by perlancar . This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. BUGS Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.