# Jldoctest blocks in julia docstrings is not evaluated

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/jldoctest-blocks-in-julia-docstrings-is-not-evaluated/32315
**Category:** New to Julia
**Tags:** question
**Created:** [December 16, 2019, 1:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/jldoctest-blocks-in-julia-docstrings-is-not-evaluated/32315 "2019-12-16T01:01:56Z")
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### Author: ![Sijun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@Sijun](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Sijun)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2019, 1:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/jldoctest-blocks-in-julia-docstrings-is-not-evaluated/32315/1 "2019-12-16T01:01:56Z")

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Would someone please have a look at the following issue?

[https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57461225/jldoctest-blocks-in-julia-docstrings-included-in-documentation-but-tests-not-run](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57461225/jldoctest-blocks-in-julia-docstrings-included-in-documentation-but-tests-not-run)

I also have the exactly same problem but could not find any similar issue reporting in the Julia Discourse.

Simply put, as I understand it, the jldoctest block in the doc string must be evaluated during the course of makedocs() run. but which seems not (seems the jldoctest block is silently ignored).

if I place the jldoctest block in index.md file, then I observed that jldoctest block mentioned in the index.md was evaluated.

For me, the configurations are (in Julia 1.3.0):  
(sorry, I don’t know how to escape ```)

The index.md:

````nohighlight
# MyPkg.jl

```@meta
CurrentModule = MyPkg

```@contents

## Functions

```@docs
func_sum

## Index

```@index

````

and in MyPkg.jl:

````julia
module MyPkg

"""

```jldoctest
julia> MyPkg.func_sum(1,2)
4

"""
function func_sum(x, y)
    x + y
end

end # module

````

How could I fix it?