[MacPerl-AnyPerl] pod question

[Carsten Milling <milling@zedat.fu-berlin.de>]

One simple question, not really about Perl:

I'm trying a little hack of Pod::HTML to make its processing of pod links
(L<name/section>) a bit more sophisticated.  (At the moment for instance it
doesn't display module names like "File::Spec::Mac" accurately.)
Looking at real world examples in the pod files coming with MacPerl I
noticed that sometimes there is a number in parentheses added to the name
of the referenced manpage or module (e.g.  "perl(1)" or "DBI(3)").  What do
these parentheses actually mean?
I guess it's Unixish, but I wonder whether I should simply ignore it while
looking for linked pages or whether I could do something else with it?

Carsten.



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