experimental -f support for methods if index.data exists

Author: stmuk

bin/p6doc

@@ -82,8 +82,18 @@ multi sub MAIN($docee) {
 multi sub MAIN($docee, Bool :$f!) {
     my ($package, $method) = $docee.split('.');
     unless $method {
-        say 'unqualified sub and method names are not yet implemented';
-        say 'For example use "p6doc -f Str.split" instead of "p6doc -f split" for now';
+      if 'index.data'.IO ~~ :e {
+        my %data = EVAL slurp 'index.data';
+        my $ndocee = "method "~$docee;
+        if %data{$ndocee} {
+          my $newdoc = %data{$ndocee}[0][0] ~ "." ~ $docee;
+          return MAIN($newdoc, :f);
+        }
+        show-docs(locate-module($docee));
+      }
+        say 'Unqualified sub and method names like "p6doc -f say" are experimental';
+        say 'in order to use them you will need to run index.p6 to build index.data';
+        say 'otherwise use "p6doc -f Str.split" instead of "p6doc -f split" for now';
         exit 2;
     }
     my $m = locate-module($package);

index.p6

@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ multi sub MAIN('index') {
 			#if $row ~~ /^\=(item|head\d) \s+ X\<(.*)\> \s*$/ {
 			if $row ~~ /^\=(item|head\d) \s+ (.*?) \s*$/ {
 				$section = $1.Str;
-				$section.=subst(/\|/,"",:g);
 				%words{$section}.push([$pod, $section]);
 			}
 			if $row ~~ /X\<(.*?)\>/ and $section {