Hi all: I've been bugged by a problem in perldl when PDL is compiled
under perl 5.10 which does not allow 'apropos' lookup of functions:
perldl> ?? dim
Can't locate object method "interpolate" via package "Pod::Text" at
/ops/tools/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/i686-linux-thread-multi/PDL/Doc/Perldl.pm
line 152.
I attach an updated version of Doc/Doc/Perldl.pm which solves this problem
by replacing calls to Pod::Text with Pod::PlainText. I've also cleaned
out some old nasty (the comments even said so!) code designed for use with
old Pod::Text versions.
I've tested this under Linux i386/perl 5.10.0, Linux x86_64/perl 5.10.0
and Linux x86_64/perl 5.8.8.
You can check whether this works by just copying the attached file into
(for example)
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/i686-linux-thread-multi/PDL/Doc/Perldl.pm
and typing:
$ perldl
perldl> ?? dim
Could people give this a try on some installations and let me know if it
looks good? If so, I'll check it into CVS.
Thanks,
Doug
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Software Engineer III
UCAR - COSMIC, Tel. (303) 497-2611
=head1 NAME
PDL::Doc::Perldl - commands for accessing PDL doc database from 'perldl' shell
=head1 DESCRIPTION
This module provides a simple set of functions to
access the PDL documentation of database, for use
from the I<perldl> shell and the I<pdldoc> command-line
program.
Autoload files are also matched, via a search of the PDLLIB autoloader
tree. That behavior can be switched off with the variable
C<$PERLDL::STRICT_DOCS> (true: don't search autoload tree; false: search
the autoload tree.)
Currently, multiple matches are not handled very well.
=head1 SYNOPSIS
use PDL::Doc::Perldl; # Load all documenation functions
=head1 BUGS
The description contains the misleading word "simple".
=head1 FUNCTIONS
=cut
package PDL::Doc::Perldl;
use Exporter;
use strict;
use vars qw(@ISA @EXPORT);
@ISA = qw(Exporter);
@EXPORT = qw( apropos aproposover usage help sig badinfo whatis );
use PDL::Doc;
use IO::File;
use Pod::PlainText;
$PDL::onlinedoc = undef;
$PDL::onlinedoc = new PDL::Doc (FindStdFile());
use PDL::Config;
my $bvalflag = $PDL::Config{WITH_BADVAL} || 0;
# Find std file
sub FindStdFile {
my ($d,$f);
for $d (@INC) {
$f = $d."/PDL/pdldoc.db";
if (-f $f) {
print "Found docs database $f\n" if $PDL::verbose;
print "Type 'help' for online help\n" if $PDL::verbose;
return $f;
}
}
warn "Unable to find PDL/pdldoc.db in ".join(":",@INC)."\n";
}
# used to find out how wide the screen should be
# for printmatch() - really should check for a
# sensible lower limit (for printmatch >~ 40
# would be my guess)
#
# taken from Pod::Text (v1.0203), then hacked to get it
# to work (at least on my solaris and linux
# machines)
#
sub screen_width() {
return $ENV{COLUMNS}
|| (($ENV{TERMCAP} =~ /co#(\d+)/) and $1)
|| ($^O ne 'MSWin32' and $^O ne 'dos' and
(`stty -a 2>/dev/null` =~ /columns\s*=?\s*(\d+)/) and $1)
|| 72;
}
sub printmatch {
my @match = @_;
if (@match) {
foreach my $t ( format_ref( @_ ) ) { print $t; }
} else {
print "no match\n\n";
}
} # sub: print_match()
# return a string containing a formated version of the Ref string
# for the given matches
#
sub format_ref {
my @match = @_;
my @text = ();
my $width = screen_width()-17;
my $parser = new Pod::PlainText( width => $width, indent => 0, sentence => 0
);
for my $m (@match) {
my $ref = $m->[1]{Ref} ||
( (defined $m->[1]{CustomFile})
? "[No ref avail. for `".$m->[1]{CustomFile}."']"
: "[No reference available]"
);
$ref = $parser->interpolate( $ref );
$ref = $parser->reformat( $ref );
# remove last new lines (so substitution doesn't append spaces at end of
text)
$ref =~ s/\n*$//;
$ref =~ s/\n/\n /g;
my $name = $m->[0];
if ( length($name) > 15 ) {
push @text, sprintf "%s ...\n %s\n", $name, $ref;
} else {
push @text, sprintf "%-15s %s\n", $name, $ref;
}
}
return wantarray ? @text : $text[0];
} # sub: format_ref()
=head2 apropos
=for ref
Regex search PDL documentation database
=for usage
apropos 'text'
=for example
perldl> apropos 'pic'
rpic Read images in many formats with automatic format detection.
rpiccan Test which image formats can be read/written
wmpeg Write an image sequence ((x,y,n) piddle) as an MPEG animation.
wpic Write images in many formats with automatic format selection.
wpiccan Test which image formats can be read/written
To find all the manuals that come with PDL, try
apropos 'manual:'
and to get quick info about PDL modules say
apropos 'module:'
You get more detailed info about a PDL function/module/manual
with the C<help> function
=cut
sub aproposover {
die "Usage: aproposover \$funcname\n" unless $#_>-1;
die "no online doc database" unless defined $PDL::onlinedoc;
my $func = shift;
$func =~ s:\/:\\\/:g;
search_docs("m/$func/",['Name','Ref','Module'],1);
}
sub apropos {
die "Usage: apropos \$funcname\n" unless $#_>-1;
die "no online doc database" unless defined $PDL::onlinedoc;
my $func = shift;
printmatch aproposover $func;
}
=head2 PDL::Doc::Perldl::search_docs
=for ref
Internal routine to search docs database and autoload files
=cut
sub search_docs {
my ($func,$types,$sortflag,$exact) = @_;
my @match;
@match = $PDL::onlinedoc->search($func,$types,$sortflag);
push(@match,find_autodoc( $func, $exact ) );
@match;
}
=head2 PDL::Doc::Perldl::finddoc
=for ref
Internal interface to the PDL documentation searcher
=cut
sub finddoc {
local $SIG{PIPE}= sub {}; # Prevent crashing if user exits the pager
die 'Usage: doc $topic' unless $#_>-1;
die "no online doc database" unless defined $PDL::onlinedoc;
my $topic = shift;
# See if it matches a PDL function name
my $subfield = $1
if( $topic =~ s/\[(\d*)\]$// );
(my $t2 = $topic) =~ s/([^a-zA-Z0-9_])/\\$1/g;
my @match = search_docs("m/^(PDL::)?".$t2."\$/",['Name'],0);
unless(@match) {
print "No PDL docs for '$topic'. Using 'whatis'. (Try 'apropos
$topic'?)\n\n";
whatis($topic);
return;
}
# print out the matches
my $out = IO::File->new( "| pod2text | $PDL::Doc::pager" );
if($subfield) {
if($subfield <= @match) {
@match = ($match[$subfield-1]);
$subfield = 0;
} else {
print $out "\n\n=head1 PDL HELP: Ignoring out-of-range selector
$subfield\n\n=head1\n\n=head1 --------------------------------\n\n";
$subfield = undef;
}
}
if ( @match > 1 and !$subfield ) {
print $out "\n\n=head1 MULTIPLE MATCHES FOR HELP TOPIC
'$topic':\n\n=head1\n\n=over 3\n\n";
my $i=0;
for my $m ( @match ) {
printf $out "\n=item [%d]\t%-30s %s%s\n\n", ++$i, $m->[0],
$m->[1]{Module} && "in ", $m->[1]{CustomFile} || $m->[1]{Module};
}
print $out "\n=back\n\n=head1\n\n To see item number \$n, use 'help
${topic}\[\$n\]'. \n\n=head1 Displaying item 1:\n\n=head1
--------------------------------------\n\n=cut\n\n";
}
my $m = shift @match;
my $Ref = $m->[1]{Ref};
if ( $Ref =~ /^(Module|Manual|Script): / ) {
my $in = IO::File->new("<$m->[1]{File}");
print $out join("",<$in>);
} else {
if(defined $m->[1]{CustomFile}) {
my $parser= new PDL::Pod::Parser;
print $out "=head1 Autoload file \"".$m->[1]{CustomFile}."\"\n\n";
$parser->parse_from_file($m->[1]{CustomFile},$out);
print $out "\n\n=head2 Docs from\n\n".$m->[1]{CustomFile}."\n\n";
} else {
print $out "=head1 Module ",$m->[1]{Module}, "\n\n";
$PDL::onlinedoc->funcdocs($m->[0],$out);
}
}
}
=head2 find_autodoc
=for ref
Internal helper routine that finds and returns documentation in the autoloader
path, if it exists. You feed in a topic and it searches for the file
"${topic}.pdl". If that exists, then the filename gets returned in a
match structure appropriate for the rest of finddoc.
=cut
# Yuck. Sorry. At least it works. -CED
sub find_autodoc {
my $topic = shift;
my $exact = shift;
my $matcher;
# Fix up regexps and exact matches for the special case of
# searching the autoload dirs...
if($exact) {
$topic =~ s/\(\)$//; # "func()" -> "func"
$topic .= ".pdl" unless $topic =~ m/\.pdl$/;
} else {
$topic =~ s:([^\$])(.)$:$1\.\*\$$2:; # Include explicit ".*$" at end of
# vague matches -- so that we can
# make it a ".*\.pdl$" below.
$topic =~ s:\$(.)$:\.pdl\$$1:; # Force ".pdl" at end of file match
$matcher = eval "sub { ${topic}i && \$\_ };"; # Avoid multiple compiles
}
my @out;
return unless(@main::PDLLIB);
@main::PDLLIB_EXPANDED = PDL::AutoLoader::expand_path(@main::PDLLIB)
unless(@main::PDLLIB_EXPANDED);
for my $dir(@main::PDLLIB_EXPANDED) {
if($exact) {
my $file = $dir . "/" . "$topic";
push(@out,
[$file, {CustomFile => "$file", Module => "file '$file'"}]
)
if(-e $file);
} else {
opendir(FOO,$dir) || next;
my @dir = readdir(FOO);
closedir(FOO);
for my $file( grep( &$matcher, @dir ) ) {
push(@out,
[$file, {CustomFile => "$dir/$file", Module => "file
'$dir/$file'"}]
);
}
}
}
@out;
}
=cut
=head2 usage
=for ref
Prints usage information for a PDL function
=for usage
Usage: usage 'func'
=for example
perldl> usage 'inner'
inner inner prodcuct over one dimension
(Module PDL::Primitive)
Signature: inner(a(n); b(n); [o]c(); )
=cut
sub usage {
die 'Usage: usage $funcname' unless $#_>-1;
die "no online doc database" unless defined $PDL::onlinedoc;
print usage_string(@_);
}
sub usage_string{
my $func = shift;
my $str = "";
my @match = search_docs("m/^(PDL::)?$func\$/",['Name']);
unless (@match) { print "\n no match\n" }
else {
$str .= "\n" . format_ref( $match[0] );
my ($name,$hash) = @{$match[0]};
$str .= sprintf ( (' 'x16)."(Module %s)\n\n", $hash->{Module} );
die "No usage info found for $func\n"
if !defined $hash->{Example} && !defined $hash->{Sig} &&
!defined $hash->{Usage};
$str .= " Signature: $name($hash->{Sig})\n\n" if defined $hash->{Sig};
for (['Usage','Usage'],['Opt','Options'],['Example','Example']) {
$str .= " $_->[1]:\n\n".&allindent($hash->{$_->[0]},10)."\n\n"
if defined $hash->{$_->[0]};
}
}
return $str;
}
=head2 sig
=for ref
prints signature of PDL function
=for usage
sig 'func'
The signature is the normal dimensionality of the
function's arguments. Calling with different dimensions
doesn't break -- it causes threading. See L<PDL::PP|PDL::PP> for details.
=for example
perldl> sig 'outer'
Signature: outer(a(n); b(m); [o]c(n,m); )
=cut
sub sig {
die "Usage: sig \$funcname\n" unless $#_>-1;
die "no online doc database" unless defined $PDL::onlinedoc;
my $func = shift;
my @match = search_docs("m/^(PDL::)?$func\$/",['Name']);
unless (@match) { print "\n no match\n" } else {
my ($name,$hash) = @{$match[0]};
die "No signature info found for $func\n"
if !defined $hash->{Sig};
print " Signature: $name($hash->{Sig})\n" if defined $hash->{Sig};
}
}
sub allindent {
my ($txt,$n) = @_;
my ($ntxt,$tspc) = ($txt,' 'x8);
$ntxt =~ s/^\s*$//mg;
$ntxt =~ s/\t/$tspc/g;
my $minspc = length $txt;
for (split '\n', $txt) { if (/^(\s*)/)
{ $minspc = length $1 if length $1 < $minspc } }
$n -= $minspc;
$tspc = ' 'x abs($n);
$ntxt =~ s/^/$tspc/mg if $n > 0;
return $ntxt;
}
=head2 whatis
=for ref
Describe a perl and/or PDL variable or expression. Useful for
determining the type of an expression, identifying the keys in a hash
or a data structure, or examining WTF an unknown object is.
=for usage
Usage: whatis $var
whatis <expression>
=cut
sub whatis {
my $topic;
if(@_ > 1) {
whatis_r('',0,[EMAIL PROTECTED]);
} else {
whatis_r('',0,shift);
}
}
$PDL::Doc::Perldl::max_strlen = 55;
$PDL::Doc::Perldl::max_arraylen = 1;
$PDL::Doc::Perldl::max_keylen = 8;
$PDL::Doc::Perldl::array_indent=5;
$PDL::Doc::Perldl::hash_indent=3;
sub whatis_r {
my $prefix = shift;
my $indent = shift;
my $a = shift;
unless(defined $a) {
print $prefix,"<undef>\n";
return;
}
unless(ref $a) {
print "${prefix}'".
substr($a,0,$PDL::Doc::Perldl::max_strlen).
"'".((length $a > $PDL::Doc::Perldl::max_strlen) && '...').
"\n";
return;
}
if(ref $a eq 'ARRAY') {
print "${prefix}Array (".scalar(@$a)." elements):\n";
my($el);
for $el(0..$#$a) {
my $pre = sprintf("%s %2d: "," "x$indent,$el);
whatis_r($pre,$indent + $PDL::Doc::Perldl::array_indent, $a->[$el]);
last if($el == $PDL::Doc::Perldl::max_arraylen);
}
printf "%s ... \n"," " x $indent
if($#$a > $PDL::Doc::Perldl::max_arraylen);
return;
}
if(ref $a eq 'HASH') {
print "${prefix}Hash (".scalar(keys %$a)." elements)\n";
my $key;
for $key(sort keys %$a) {
my $pre = " " x $indent .
" $key: " .
(" "x($PDL::Doc::Perldl::max_keylen - length($key))) ;
whatis_r($pre,$indent + $PDL::Doc::Perldl::hash_indent, $a->{$key});
}
return;
}
if(ref $a eq 'CODE') {
print "${prefix}Perl CODE ref\n";
return;
}
if(ref $a eq 'SCALAR' | ref $a eq 'REF') {
whatis_r($prefix." Ref -> ",$indent+8,$$a);
return;
}
if(UNIVERSAL::can($a,'px')) {
my $b;
local $PDL::debug = 1;
$b = ( (UNIVERSAL::isa($a,'PDL') && $a->nelem < 5 && $a->ndims < 2)
?
": $a" :
": *****"
);
$a->px($prefix.(ref $a)." %7T (%D) ".$b);
} else {
print "${prefix}Object: ".ref($a)."\n";
}
}
=head2 help
=for ref
print documentation about a PDL function or module or show a PDL manual
In the case of multiple matches, the first command found is printed out,
and the remaining commands listed, along with the names of their modules.
=for usage
Usage: help 'func'
=for example
perldl> help 'PDL::Slices' # show the docs in the PDL::Slices module
perldl> help 'PDL::Intro' # show the PDL::Intro manual
perldl> help 'slice' # show docs on the 'slice' function
=cut
sub help_url {
local $_;
foreach(@INC) {
my $a = "$_/PDL/HtmlDocs/PDL/Index.html";
if(-e $a) {
return "file://$a";
}
}
}
sub help {
if ($#_>-1) {
require PDL::Dbg;
my $topic = shift;
if (PDL::Core::blessed($topic) && $topic->can('px')) {
local $PDL::debug = 1;
$topic->px('This variable is');
} else {
$topic = 'PDL::Doc::Perldl' if $topic =~ /^\s*help\s*$/i;
if ($topic =~ /^\s*vars\s*$/i) {
PDL->px((caller)[0]);
} elsif($topic =~ /^\s*url\s*/i) {
my $a = help_url();
if($a) {
print $a;
} else {
print "Hmmm. Curious: I couldn't find the HTML docs anywhere
in [EMAIL PROTECTED]";
}
} elsif($topic =~ /^\s*www(:([^\s]+))?\s*/i) {
my $browser;
my $url = help_url();
if($2) {
$browser = $2;
} elsif($ENV{PERLDL_WWW}) {
$browser = $ENV{PERLDL_WWW};
} else {
$browser = 'mozilla';
}
chomp($browser = `which $browser`);
if(-e $browser && -x $browser) {
print "Spawning \"$browser $url\"...\n";
`$browser $url`;
}
} else {
finddoc($topic);
}
}
} else {
print <<'EOH';
The following commands support online help in the perldl shell:
help 'thing' -- print docs on 'thing' (func, module, manual, autoload-file)
help vars -- print information about all current piddles
help url -- locate the HTML version of the documentation
help www -- View docs with default web browser (set by env: PERLDL_WWW)
whatis <expr> -- Describe the type and structure of an expression or piddle.
apropos 'word' -- search for keywords/function names
usage -- print usage information for a given PDL function
sig -- print signature of PDL function
('?' is an alias for 'help'; '??' is an alias for 'apropos'.)
EOH
print " badinfo -- information on the support for bad values\n"
if $bvalflag;
print <<'EOH';
Quick start:
apropos 'manual:' -- Find all the manual documents
apropos 'module:' -- Quick summary of all PDL modules
help 'help' -- details about PDL help system
help 'perldl' -- help about this shell
EOH
}
}
=head2 badinfo
=for ref
provides information on the bad-value support of a function
And has a horrible name.
=for usage
badinfo 'func'
=cut
# need to get this to format the output - want a format_bad()
# subroutine that's like - but much simpler - than format_ref()
#
sub badinfo {
my $func = shift;
die "Usage: badinfo \$funcname\n" unless defined $func;
die "PDL has not been compiled with support for bad values.\n" .
"Recompile with WITH_BADVAL set to 1 in config file!.\n"
unless $bvalflag;
die "no online doc database" unless defined $PDL::onlinedoc;
my @match = search_docs("m/^(PDL::)?$func\$/",['Name']);
if ( @match ) {
my ($name,$hash) = @{$match[0]};
my $info = $hash->{Bad};
if ( defined $info ) {
my $out = new IO::File "| pod2text | $PDL::Doc::pager";
print $out "=head1 Bad value support for $name\n\n$info\n";
} else {
print "\n No information on bad-value support found for $func\n";
}
} else {
print "\n no match\n";
}
} # sub: badinfo()
1; # OK
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