Using markdown from within perl script

[John Gruber]

Dhruba Bandopadhyay <dhrubab at gmail.com> wrote on 08/20/04 at 1:36pm:

> My question is can markdown be used from within a perl/cgi script?
> 
> I'm trying to avoid using backticks and command line if I can and do
> the conversion within a script.

As it stands now, you'd need to copy and paste it into your own
script, or turn it into a Markdown.pm module by hand.

I *would* like to turn Markdown into a proper CPAN module, but that
hasn't happened yet.

-J.G.