NAME Pandoc - interface to the Pandoc document converter SYNOPSIS use Pandoc; # check at first use use Pandoc 1.12; # check at compile time Pandoc->require(1.12); # check at run time # execute pandoc pandoc 'input.md', -o => 'output.html'; pandoc -f => 'html', -t => 'markdown', { in => \$html, out => \$md }; # alternative syntaxes pandoc->run('input.md', -o => 'output.html'); pandoc [ -f => 'html', -t => 'markdown' ], in => \$html, out => \$md; pandoc [ -f => 'html', -t => 'markdown' ], { in => \$html, out => \$md }; # check executable pandoc or die "pandoc executable not found"; # check minimum version pandoc->version(1.12) or die "pandoc >= 1.12 required"; # access properties say pandoc->bin." ".pandoc->version; say "Default user data directory: ".pandoc->data_dir; # create a new instance with default arguments my $md2latex = Pandoc->new(qw(-f markdown -t latex --smart)); $md2latex->run({ in => \$markdown, out => \$latex }); # set default arguments on compile time use Pandoc qw(-t latex); use Pandoc qw(/usr/bin/pandoc --smart); use Pandoc qw(1.16 --smart); # utility method to convert from string $latex = pandoc->convert( 'markdown' => 'latex', '*hello*' ); # utility method to parse abstract syntax tree $doc = pandoc->parse( markdown => '*hello* **world!**' ); DESCRIPTION This module provides a Perl interface to John MacFarlane's Pandoc document converter. The utility function pandoc is exported, unless the module is imported with an empty list (use Pandoc ();). Another utility method converts strings between different markup formats supported by pandoc (pandoc->convert(...)). Importing this module with a version number (e.g. use Pandoc 1.13;) will check version number of pandoc executable instead of version number of this module ($Pandoc::VERSION). Additional import arguments can be passed to set the executable location and default arguments of the global Pandoc instance used by function pandoc. FUNCTIONS pandoc If called without parameters, this function returns a global instance of class Pandoc to execute methods, or undef if no pandoc executable was found. pandoc( ... ) If called with parameters, this functions runs the pandoc executable configured at the global instance of class Pandoc (pandoc->bin). Arguments are passed as command line arguments and options control input, output, and error stream as described below. Returns 0 on success. Otherwise returns the the exit code of pandoc executable or -1 if execution failed. Arguments and options can be passed as plain array/hash or as (possibly empty) reference in the following ways: pandoc @arguments, \%options; # ok pandoc \@arguments, %options; # ok pandoc \@arguments, \%options; # ok pandoc @arguments; # ok, if first of @arguments starts with '-' pandoc %options; # ok, if %options is not empty pandoc @arguments, %options; # not ok! Options in / out / err These options correspond to arguments $stdin, $stdout, and $stderr of IPC::Run3, see there for details. binmode_stdin / binmode_stdout / binmode_stderr These options correspond to the like-named options to IPC::Run3, see there for details. binmode If defined any binmode_stdin/binmode_stdout/binmode_stderr option which is undefined will be set to this value. return_if_system_error Set to true by default to return the exit code of pandoc executable. For convenience the pandoc function (after checking the binmode option) checks the contents of any scalar references passed to the in/out/err options with utf8::is_utf8() and sets the binmode_stdin/binmode_stdout/binmode_stderr options to :encoding(UTF-8) if the corresponding scalar is marked as UTF-8 and the respective option is undefined. Since all pandoc executable input/output must be UTF-8 encoded this is convenient if you run with use utf8, as you then don't need to set the binmode options at all (encode nor decode) when passing input/output scalar references. METHODS new( [ $executable ] [, @arguments ] ) Create a new instance of class Pandoc or throw an exception if no pandoc executable was found. The first argument, if given and not starting with -, can be used to set the pandoc executable (pandoc by default). Additional arguments are passed to the executable on each run. Repeated use of this constructor with same arguments is not recommended because pandoc --version is called for every new instance. run( ... ) Execute the pandoc executable with default arguments and optional additional arguments and options. See for usage. convert( $from => $to, $input [, @arguments ] ) Convert a string in format $from to format $to. Additional pandoc options such as --smart and --standalone can be passed. The result is returned in same utf8 mode (utf8::is_unicode) as the input. parse( $from => $input [, @arguments ] ) Parse a string in format $from to a Pandoc::Document object. Additional pandoc options such as --smart and --normalize can be passed. This method requires at least pandoc version 1.12.1 and the Perl module Pandoc::Elements. require( $minimum_version ) Return the Pandoc instance if its version number is at least as high as the given minimum version. Throw an error otherwise. This method can also be called as constructor: Pandoc->require(...) is equivalent to pandoc->require but throws a more meaningful error message if no pandoc executable was found. version( [ $minimum_version ] ) Return the pandoc version as version object. The version number is normalized to always start with a small letter "v", for instance "v1.16.0.2" or "v1.17". If a minimum version is passed, the method returns undef if the pandoc version is lower. To check whether pandoc is available with a given minimal version use one of: Pandoc->require( $minimum_version) # true or die pandoc and pandoc->version( $minimum_version ) # true or false bin( [ $executable ] ) Return or set the pandoc executable. Setting an new executable also updates version and data_dir by calling pandoc --version. arguments( [ @arguments | \@arguments ) Return or set a list of default arguments. data_dir Return the default data directory (only available since Pandoc 1.11). input_formats Return a list of supported input formats. output_formats Return a list of supported output formats. SEE ALSO Use Pandoc::Elements for more elaborate document processing based on Pandoc. Other Pandoc related but outdated modules at CPAN include Orze::Sources::Pandoc and App::PDoc. AUTHOR Jakob Voß CONTRIBUTORS Benct Philip Jonsson LICENSE GNU General Public License, Version 2