kurilatoc - kurila documentation table of contents


NAME

kurilatoc - kurila documentation table of contents


DESCRIPTION

This page provides a brief table of contents for the rest of the Perl Kurila documentation set. It is meant to be scanned quickly or grepped through to locate the proper section you're looking for.


BASIC DOCUMENTATION

perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language

SYNOPSIS
Overview
Tutorials
Reference Manual
Internals and C Language Interface
Miscellaneous
Language-Specific
Platform-Specific
DESCRIPTION
AVAILABILITY
ENVIRONMENT
AUTHOR
FILES
SEE ALSO
DIAGNOSTICS
BUGS
NOTES

kurilaintro -- description of Perl Kurila

DESCRIPTION
What is Perl Kurila?
Why?
Is Perl Kurila a replacement for Perl 5?
Major changes compared to Perl 5
Audience
Goals

Experimenting with the Perl language, Removing ugly things, Adding ugly things, Changing old design decisions, Readable, modifiable perl source

Compatibility
Development
SEE ALSO

the kurila121delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.21, the kurila120delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.20, the kurila119delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.19, the kurila118delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.18, the kurila117delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.17, the kurila116delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.16, the kurila115delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.15, the kurila114delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.14, the kurila113delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.13, the kurila112delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.12, the kurila111delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.11, the kurila110delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.10, the kurila19delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.9, the kurila18delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.8, the kurila17delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.7, the kurila16delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.6, the kurila15delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.5, the kurila14delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.4, the kurila13delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 1.3, the kurila02delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 0.2, the kurila01delta manpage What is new for Perl Kurila 0.1

AUTHOR

perlintro -- a brief introduction and overview of Perl

DESCRIPTION
What is Perl?
Running Perl programs
Safety net
Basic syntax overview
Perl variable types

Scalars, Arrays, Hashes

Variable scoping
Conditional and looping constructs

if, while, for, foreach

Builtin operators and functions

Arithmetic, Numeric comparison, String comparison, Boolean logic, Miscellaneous

Files and I/O
Regular expressions

Simple matching, Simple substitution, More complex regular expressions, Parentheses for capturing, Other regexp features

Writing subroutines
OO Perl
Using Perl modules
AUTHOR

perlreftut - Mark's very short tutorial about references

DESCRIPTION
Who Needs Complicated Data Structures?
The Solution
Syntax
Making References
Using References
An Example
Arrow Rule
Solution
The Rest
Summary
Credits
Distribution Conditions

perldsc - Perl Data Structures Cookbook

DESCRIPTION

arrays of arrays, hashes of arrays, arrays of hashes, hashes of hashes, more elaborate constructs

REFERENCES
COMMON MISTAKES
CAVEAT ON PRECEDENCE
WHY YOU SHOULD ALWAYS use strict
DEBUGGING
CODE EXAMPLES
ARRAYS OF ARRAYS
Declaration of an ARRAY OF ARRAYS
Generation of an ARRAY OF ARRAYS
Access and Printing of an ARRAY OF ARRAYS
HASHES OF ARRAYS
Declaration of a HASH OF ARRAYS
Generation of a HASH OF ARRAYS
Access and Printing of a HASH OF ARRAYS
ARRAYS OF HASHES
Declaration of an ARRAY OF HASHES
Generation of an ARRAY OF HASHES
Access and Printing of an ARRAY OF HASHES
HASHES OF HASHES
Declaration of a HASH OF HASHES
Generation of a HASH OF HASHES
Access and Printing of a HASH OF HASHES
MORE ELABORATE RECORDS
Declaration of MORE ELABORATE RECORDS
Declaration of a HASH OF COMPLEX RECORDS
Generation of a HASH OF COMPLEX RECORDS
Database Ties
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR

perllol - Manipulating Arrays of Arrays in Perl

DESCRIPTION
Declaration and Access of Arrays of Arrays
Growing Your Own
Access and Printing
Slices
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR

perlrequick - Perl regular expressions quick start

DESCRIPTION
The Guide
Simple word matching
Using character classes
Matching this or that
Grouping things and hierarchical matching
Extracting matches
Matching repetitions
More matching
Search and replace
The split operator
BUGS
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
Acknowledgments

perlretut - Perl regular expressions tutorial

DESCRIPTION
Part 1: The basics
Simple word matching
Using character classes
Matching this or that
Grouping things and hierarchical matching
Extracting matches
Backreferences
Relative backreferences
Named backreferences
Alternative capture group numbering
Position information
Non-capturing groupings
Matching repetitions
Possessive quantifiers
Building a regexp
Using regular expressions in Perl
Part 2: Power tools
More on characters, strings, and character classes
Compiling and saving regular expressions
Composing regular expressions at runtime
Embedding comments and modifiers in a regular expression
Looking ahead and looking behind
Using independent subexpressions to prevent backtracking
Conditional expressions
Defining named patterns
Recursive patterns
A bit of magic: executing Perl code in a regular expression
Backtracking control verbs
Pragmas and debugging
BUGS
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
Acknowledgments

perlboot - Beginner's Object-Oriented Tutorial

DESCRIPTION
If we could talk to the animals...
Introducing the method invocation arrow
Invoking a barnyard
The extra parameter of method invocation
Calling a second method to simplify things
Inheriting the windpipes
A few notes about @ISA
Overriding the methods
Starting the search from a different place
The SUPER way of doing things
Where we're at so far...
A horse is a horse, of course of course -- or is it?
Invoking an instance method
Accessing the instance data
How to build a horse
Inheriting the constructor
Making a method work with either classes or instances
Adding parameters to a method
More interesting instances
A horse of a different color
Summary
SEE ALSO
COPYRIGHT

perltoot - Tom's object-oriented tutorial for perl

DESCRIPTION
Creating a Class
Object Representation
Class Interface
Constructors and Instance Methods
Planning for the Future: Better Constructors
Destructors
Other Object Methods
Class Data
Accessing Class Data
Debugging Methods
Class Destructors
Documenting the Interface
Aggregation
Inheritance
Overridden Methods
Multiple Inheritance
UNIVERSAL: The Root of All Objects
Deeper UNIVERSAL details
Alternate Object Representations
Arrays as Objects
Closures as Objects
AUTOLOAD: Proxy Methods
Autoloaded Data Methods
Inherited Autoloaded Data Methods
Metaclassical Tools
Class::Struct
Data Members as Variables
NOTES
Object Terminology
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
COPYRIGHT
Acknowledgments

perltooc - Tom's OO Tutorial for Class Data in Perl

DESCRIPTION
Class Data in a Can
Class Data as Package Variables
Putting All Your Eggs in One Basket
Inheritance Concerns
The Eponymous Meta-Object
Indirect References to Class Data
Monadic Classes
Translucent Attributes
Class Data as Lexical Variables
Privacy and Responsibility
File-Scoped Lexicals
More Inheritance Concerns
Locking the Door and Throwing Away the Key
Translucency Revisited
NOTES
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
HISTORY

perlbot - Bag'o Object Tricks (the BOT)

DESCRIPTION
OO SCALING TIPS
INSTANCE VARIABLES
SCALAR INSTANCE VARIABLES
INSTANCE VARIABLE INHERITANCE
OBJECT RELATIONSHIPS
OVERRIDING SUPERCLASS METHODS
USING RELATIONSHIP WITH SDBM
THINKING OF CODE REUSE
CLASS CONTEXT AND THE OBJECT
INHERITING A CONSTRUCTOR
DELEGATION
SEE ALSO

perlstyle - Perl style guide

DESCRIPTION

perlcheat - Perl 5 Cheat Sheet

DESCRIPTION
The sheet
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
AUTHOR
SEE ALSO

perltrap - Perl traps for the unwary

DESCRIPTION
Awk Traps
C/C++ Traps
Sed Traps
Shell Traps
Perl Traps
Perl4 to Perl5 Traps

Discontinuance, Deprecation, and BugFix traps, Parsing Traps, Numerical Traps, General data type traps, Context Traps - scalar, list contexts, Precedence Traps, General Regular Expression Traps using s///, etc, Subroutine, Signal, Sorting Traps, OS Traps, DBM Traps, Unclassified Traps

Discontinuance, Deprecation, and BugFix traps

Symbols starting with "_" no longer forced into main, Double-colon valid package separator in variable name, 2nd and 3rd args to splice() are now in scalar context, Can't do goto into a block that is optimized away, Can't use whitespace as variable name or quote delimiter, while/if BLOCK BLOCK gone, ** binds tighter than unary minus, foreach changed when iterating over a list, split with no args behavior changed, -e behavior fixed, push returns number of elements in resulting list, Some error messages differ, split() honors subroutine args, Bugs removed

Parsing Traps

Space between . and = triggers syntax error, Better parsing in perl 5, Function parsing, String interpolation of $#array differs, Perl guesses on map, grep followed by { if it starts BLOCK or hash ref

Numerical Traps

Formatted output and significant digits, Auto-increment operator over signed int limit deleted, Assignment of return values from numeric equality tests doesn't work, Bitwise string ops

General data type traps

Negative array subscripts now count from the end of array, Setting $#array lower now discards array elements, Hashes get defined before use, Glob assignment from localized variable to variable, Assigning undef to glob, Changes in unary negation (of strings), Modifying of constants prohibited, defined $var behavior changed, Variable Suicide

Context Traps - scalar, list contexts

Elements of argument lists for formats evaluated in list context, caller() returns false value in scalar context if no caller present, Comma operator in scalar context gives scalar context to args, sprintf() prototyped as ($;@)

Precedence Traps

LHS vs. RHS of any assignment operator, Semantic errors introduced due to precedence, Precedence of assignment operators same as the precedence of assignment, open requires parentheses around filehandle, $: precedence over $:: gone, Precedence of file test operators documented, keys, each, values are regular named unary operators

General Regular Expression Traps using s///, etc.

s'$lhs'$rhs' interpolates on either side, m//g attaches its state to the searched string, m//o used within an anonymous sub, $+ isn't set to whole match, Substitution now returns null string if it fails, s`lhs`rhs` is now a normal substitution, Stricter parsing of variables in regular expressions, m?x? matches only once, Failed matches don't reset the match variables

Subroutine, Signal, Sorting Traps

Barewords that used to look like strings look like subroutine calls, Reverse is no longer allowed as the name of a sort subroutine, warn() won't let you specify a filehandle

OS Traps

SysV resets signal handler correctly, SysV seek() appends correctly

Interpolation Traps

@ always interpolates an array in double-quotish strings, Double-quoted strings may no longer end with an unescaped $, Arbitrary expressions are evaluated inside braces within double quotes, $$x now tries to dereference $x, Creation of hashes on the fly with eval "EXPR" requires protection, Bugs in earlier perl versions, Array and hash brackets during interpolation, Interpolation of \$$foo{bar}, qq() string passed to eval will not find string terminator

DBM Traps

Perl5 must have been linked with same dbm/ndbm as the default for dbmopen(), DBM exceeding limit on the key/value size will cause perl5 to exit immediately

Unclassified Traps

require/do trap using returned value, split on empty string with LIMIT specified

perldebtut - Perl debugging tutorial

DESCRIPTION
use strict
Looking at data and -w and v
help
Stepping through code
Placeholder for a, w, t, T
REGULAR EXPRESSIONS
OUTPUT TIPS
CGI
GUIs
SUMMARY
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
CONTRIBUTORS

perlfaq - frequently asked questions about Perl

DESCRIPTION
Where to get the perlfaq
How to contribute to the perlfaq
What will happen if you mail your Perl programming problems to the authors?
CREDITS
AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
Table of Contents

perlfaq - this document, perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl, perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl, perlfaq3 - Programming Tools, perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation, perlfaq5 - Files and Formats, perlfaq6 - Regular Expressions, perlfaq7 - General Perl Language Issues, perlfaq8 - System Interaction, perlfaq9 - Networking

The Questions
the perlfaq1 manpage: General Questions About Perl
the perlfaq2 manpage: Obtaining and Learning about Perl
the perlfaq3 manpage: Programming Tools
the perlfaq4 manpage: Data Manipulation
the perlfaq5 manpage: Files and Formats
the perlfaq6 manpage: Regular Expressions
the perlfaq7 manpage: General Perl Language Issues
the perlfaq8 manpage: System Interaction
the perlfaq9 manpage: Networking

perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl

DESCRIPTION
What is Perl?
Who supports Perl? Who develops it? Why is it free?
Which version of Perl should I use?
What are Perl 4, Perl 5, or Perl 6?
What was Ponie?
What is Perl 6?
How stable is Perl?
Is Perl difficult to learn?
How does Perl compare with other languages like Java, Python, REXX, Scheme, or Tcl?
Can I do [task] in Perl?
When shouldn't I program in Perl?
What's the difference between "perl" and "Perl"?
Is it a Perl program or a Perl script?
What is a JAPH?
Where can I get a list of Larry Wall witticisms?
How can I convince others to use Perl?

http://perltraining.com.au/whyperl.html, http://www.perl.org/advocacy/whyperl.html

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perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl

DESCRIPTION
What machines support perl? Where do I get it?
How can I get a binary version of perl?
I don't have a C compiler. How can I build my own Perl interpreter?
I copied the perl binary from one machine to another, but scripts don't work.
I grabbed the sources and tried to compile but gdbm/dynamic loading/malloc/linking/... failed. How do I make it work?
What modules and extensions are available for Perl? What is CPAN? What does CPAN/src/... mean?
Is there an ISO or ANSI certified version of Perl?
Where can I get information on Perl?
What are the Perl newsgroups on Usenet? Where do I post questions?
Where should I post source code?
Perl Books

References, Tutorials, Task-Oriented, Special Topics

Which magazines have Perl content?
What mailing lists are there for Perl?
Where are the archives for comp.lang.perl.misc?
Where can I buy a commercial version of perl?
Where do I send bug reports?
What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org? cpan.org?
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perlfaq3 - Programming Tools

DESCRIPTION
How do I do (anything)?
How can I use Perl interactively?
Is there a Perl shell?
How do I find which modules are installed on my system?
How do I debug my Perl programs?
How do I profile my Perl programs?
How do I cross-reference my Perl programs?
Is there a pretty-printer (formatter) for Perl?
Is there a ctags for Perl?
Is there an IDE or Windows Perl Editor?

Eclipse, Enginsite, Komodo, Open Perl IDE, OptiPerl, PerlBuilder, visiPerl+, Visual Perl, Zeus, GNU Emacs, MicroEMACS, XEmacs, Jed, Elvis, Vile, Vim, Codewright, MultiEdit, SlickEdit, Bash, Ksh, Tcsh, Zsh, Affrus, Alpha, BBEdit and BBEdit Lite

Where can I get Perl macros for vi?
Where can I get perl-mode for emacs?
How can I use curses with Perl?
How can I write a GUI (X, Tk, Gtk, etc.) in Perl?

Tk, Wx, Gtk and Gtk2, Win32::GUI, CamelBones, Qt, Athena

How can I make my Perl program run faster?
How can I make my Perl program take less memory?

Don't slurp!, Use map and grep selectively, Avoid unnecessary quotes and stringification, Pass by reference, Tie large variables to disk

Is it safe to return a reference to local or lexical data?
How can I free an array or hash so my program shrinks?
How can I make my CGI script more efficient?
How can I hide the source for my Perl program?
How can I compile my Perl program into byte code or C?
How can I get #!perl to work on [MS-DOS,NT,...]?
Can I write useful Perl programs on the command line?
Why don't Perl one-liners work on my DOS/Mac/VMS system?
Where can I learn about CGI or Web programming in Perl?
Where can I learn about object-oriented Perl programming?
Where can I learn about linking C with Perl?
I've read perlembed, perlguts, etc., but I can't embed perl in my C program; what am I doing wrong?
When I tried to run my script, I got this message. What does it mean?
What's MakeMaker?
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perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation

DESCRIPTION
Data: Numbers
Why am I getting long decimals (eg, 19.9499999999999) instead of the numbers I should be getting (eg, 19.95)?
Why is int() broken?
Why isn't my octal data interpreted correctly?
Does Perl have a round() function? What about ceil() and floor()? Trig functions?
How do I convert between numeric representations/bases/radixes?

How do I convert hexadecimal into decimal, How do I convert from decimal to hexadecimal, How do I convert from octal to decimal, How do I convert from decimal to octal, How do I convert from binary to decimal, How do I convert from decimal to binary

Why doesn't & work the way I want it to?
How do I multiply matrices?
How do I perform an operation on a series of integers?
How can I output Roman numerals?
Why aren't my random numbers random?
How do I get a random number between X and Y?
Data: Dates
How do I find the day or week of the year?
How do I find the current century or millennium?
How can I compare two dates and find the difference?
How can I take a string and turn it into epoch seconds?
How can I find the Julian Day?
How do I find yesterday's date?
Does Perl have a Year 2000 problem? Is Perl Y2K compliant?
Data: Strings
How do I validate input?
How do I unescape a string?
How do I remove consecutive pairs of characters?
How do I expand function calls in a string?
How do I find matching/nesting anything?
How do I reverse a string?
How do I expand tabs in a string?
How do I reformat a paragraph?
How can I access or change N characters of a string?
How do I change the Nth occurrence of something?
How can I count the number of occurrences of a substring within a string?
How do I capitalize all the words on one line?
How can I split a [character] delimited string except when inside [character]?
How do I strip blank space from the beginning/end of a string?
How do I pad a string with blanks or pad a number with zeroes?
How do I extract selected columns from a string?
How do I find the soundex value of a string?
How can I expand variables in text strings?
What's wrong with always quoting "$vars"?
Why don't my <<HERE documents work?

There must be no space after the << part, There (probably) should be a semicolon at the end, You can't (easily) have any space in front of the tag

Data: Arrays
What is the difference between a list and an array?
What is the difference between $array[1] and @array[1]?
How can I remove duplicate elements from a list or array?
How can I tell whether a certain element is contained in a list or array?
How do I compute the difference of two arrays? How do I compute the intersection of two arrays?
How do I test whether two arrays or hashes are equal?
How do I find the first array element for which a condition is true?
How do I handle linked lists?
How do I handle circular lists?
How do I shuffle an array randomly?
How do I process/modify each element of an array?
How do I select a random element from an array?
How do I permute N elements of a list?
How do I sort an array by (anything)?
How do I manipulate arrays of bits?
Why does defined() return true on empty arrays and hashes?
Data: Hashes (Associative Arrays)
How do I process an entire hash?
What happens if I add or remove keys from a hash while iterating over it?
How do I look up a hash element by value?
How can I know how many entries are in a hash?
How do I sort a hash (optionally by value instead of key)?
How can I always keep my hash sorted?
What's the difference between "delete" and "undef" with hashes?
Why don't my tied hashes make the defined/exists distinction?
How do I reset an each() operation part-way through?
How can I get the unique keys from two hashes?
How can I store a multidimensional array in a DBM file?
How can I make my hash remember the order I put elements into it?
Why does passing a subroutine an undefined element in a hash create it?
How can I make the Perl equivalent of a C structure/C++ class/hash or array of hashes or arrays?
How can I use a reference as a hash key?
Data: Misc
How do I handle binary data correctly?
How do I determine whether a scalar is a number/whole/integer/float?
How do I keep persistent data across program calls?
How do I print out or copy a recursive data structure?
How do I define methods for every class/object?
How do I verify a credit card checksum?
How do I pack arrays of doubles or floats for XS code?
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perlfaq5 - Files and Formats

DESCRIPTION
How do I flush/unbuffer an output filehandle? Why must I do this?
How do I change, delete, or insert a line in a file, or append to the beginning of a file?
How do I count the number of lines in a file?
How can I use Perl's -i option from within a program?
How can I copy a file?
How do I make a temporary file name?
How can I manipulate fixed-record-length files?
How can I make a filehandle local to a subroutine? How do I pass filehandles between subroutines? How do I make an array of filehandles?
How can I use a filehandle indirectly?
How can I set up a footer format to be used with write()?
How can I write() into a string?
How can I open a filehandle to a string? , , ,
How can I output my numbers with commas added?
How can I translate tildes (~) in a filename?
How come when I open a file read-write it wipes it out?
Why do I sometimes get an "Argument list too long" when I use <*>?
Is there a leak/bug in glob()?
How can I open a file with a leading ">" or trailing blanks?
How can I reliably rename a file?
How can I lock a file?
Why can't I just open(FH, ">file.lock")?
I still don't get locking. I just want to increment the number in the file. How can I do this?
All I want to do is append a small amount of text to the end of a file. Do I still have to use locking?
How do I randomly update a binary file?
How do I get a file's timestamp in perl?
How do I set a file's timestamp in perl?
How do I print to more than one file at once?
How can I read in an entire file all at once?
How can I read in a file by paragraphs?
How can I read a single character from a file? From the keyboard?
How can I tell whether there's a character waiting on a filehandle?
How do I do a tail -f in perl?
How do I dup() a filehandle in Perl?
How do I close a file descriptor by number?
Why can't I use "C:\temp\foo" in DOS paths? Why doesn't `C:\temp\foo.exe` work?
Why doesn't glob("*.*") get all the files?
Why does Perl let me delete read-only files? Why does -i clobber protected files? Isn't this a bug in Perl?
How do I select a random line from a file?
Why do I get weird spaces when I print an array of lines?
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perlfaq6 - Regular Expressions

DESCRIPTION
How can I hope to use regular expressions without creating illegible and unmaintainable code?

Comments Outside the Regex, Comments Inside the Regex, Different Delimiters

I'm having trouble matching over more than one line. What's wrong?
How can I pull out lines between two patterns that are themselves on different lines?
I put a regular expression into $/ but it didn't work. What's wrong?
How do I substitute case insensitively on the LHS while preserving case on the RHS?
How can I make \w match national character sets?
How can I match a locale-smart version of /[a-zA-Z]/?
How can I quote a variable to use in a regex?
What is /o really for?
How do I use a regular expression to strip C style comments from a file?
Can I use Perl regular expressions to match balanced text?
What does it mean that regexes are greedy? How can I get around it?
How do I process each word on each line?
How can I print out a word-frequency or line-frequency summary?
How can I do approximate matching?
How do I efficiently match many regular expressions at once?
Why don't word-boundary searches with \b work for me?
Why does using $&, $`, or $' slow my program down?
What good is \G in a regular expression?
Are Perl regexes DFAs or NFAs? Are they POSIX compliant?
What's wrong with using grep in a void context?
How can I match strings with multibyte characters?
How do I match a regular expression that's in a variable? ,
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perlfaq7 - General Perl Language Issues

DESCRIPTION
Can I get a BNF/yacc/RE for the Perl language?
What are all these $@%&* punctuation signs, and how do I know when to use them?
Do I always/never have to quote my strings or use semicolons and commas?
How do I skip some return values?
How do I temporarily block warnings?
What's an extension?
Why do Perl operators have different precedence than C operators?
How do I declare/create a structure?
How do I create a module?
How do I adopt or take over a module already on CPAN?
How do I create a class?
How can I tell if a variable is tainted?
What's a closure?
What is variable suicide and how can I prevent it?
How can I pass/return a {Function, FileHandle, Array, Hash, Method, Regex}?

Passing Variables and Functions, Passing Filehandles, Passing Regexes, Passing Methods

How do I create a static variable?
What's the difference between dynamic and lexical (static) scoping? Between local() and my()?
How can I access a dynamic variable while a similarly named lexical is in scope?
What's the difference between deep and shallow binding?
Why doesn't "my($foo) = <FILE>;" work right?
How do I redefine a builtin function, operator, or method?
What's the difference between calling a function as &foo and foo()?
How do I create a switch or case statement?
How can I catch accesses to undefined variables, functions, or methods?
Why can't a method included in this same file be found?
How can I find out my current package?
How can I comment out a large block of perl code?
How do I clear a package?
How can I use a variable as a variable name?
What does "bad interpreter" mean?
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perlfaq8 - System Interaction

DESCRIPTION
How do I find out which operating system I'm running under?
How come exec() doesn't return?
How do I do fancy stuff with the keyboard/screen/mouse?

Keyboard, Screen, Mouse

How do I print something out in color?
How do I read just one key without waiting for a return key?
How do I check whether input is ready on the keyboard?
How do I clear the screen?
How do I get the screen size?
How do I ask the user for a password?
How do I read and write the serial port?

lockfiles, open mode, end of line, flushing output, non-blocking input

How do I decode encrypted password files?
How do I start a process in the background?

STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR are shared, Signals, Zombies

How do I trap control characters/signals?
How do I modify the shadow password file on a Unix system?
How do I set the time and date?
How can I sleep() or alarm() for under a second?
How can I measure time under a second?
How can I do an atexit() or setjmp()/longjmp()? (Exception handling)
Why doesn't my sockets program work under System V (Solaris)? What does the error message "Protocol not supported" mean?
How can I call my system's unique C functions from Perl?
Where do I get the include files to do ioctl() or syscall()?
Why do setuid perl scripts complain about kernel problems?
How can I open a pipe both to and from a command?
Why can't I get the output of a command with system()?
How can I capture STDERR from an external command?
Why doesn't open() return an error when a pipe open fails?
What's wrong with using backticks in a void context?
How can I call backticks without shell processing?
Why can't my script read from STDIN after I gave it EOF (^D on Unix, ^Z on MS-DOS)?
How can I convert my shell script to perl?
Can I use perl to run a telnet or ftp session?
How can I write expect in Perl?
Is there a way to hide perl's command line from programs such as "ps"?
I {changed directory, modified my environment} in a perl script. How come the change disappeared when I exited the script? How do I get my changes to be visible?

Unix

How do I close a process's filehandle without waiting for it to complete?
How do I fork a daemon process?
How do I find out if I'm running interactively or not?
How do I timeout a slow event?
How do I set CPU limits?
How do I avoid zombies on a Unix system?
How do I use an SQL database?
How do I make a system() exit on control-C?
How do I open a file without blocking?
How do I tell the difference between errors from the shell and perl?
How do I install a module from CPAN?
What's the difference between require and use?
How do I keep my own module/library directory?
How do I add the directory my program lives in to the module/library search path?
How do I add a directory to my include path (@INC) at runtime?

the PERLLIB environment variable, the PERL5LIB environment variable, the perl -Idir command line flag, the use lib pragma:

What is socket.ph and where do I get it?
REVISION
AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT

perlfaq9 - Networking

DESCRIPTION
What is the correct form of response from a CGI script?
My CGI script runs from the command line but not the browser. (500 Server Error)
How can I get better error messages from a CGI program?
How do I remove HTML from a string?
How do I extract URLs?
How do I download a file from the user's machine? How do I open a file on another machine?
How do I make an HTML pop-up menu with Perl?
How do I fetch an HTML file?
How do I automate an HTML form submission?
How do I decode or create those %-encodings on the web?
How do I redirect to another page?
How do I put a password on my web pages?
How do I edit my .htpasswd and .htgroup files with Perl?
How do I make sure users can't enter values into a form that cause my CGI script to do bad things?
How do I parse a mail header?
How do I decode a CGI form?
How do I check a valid mail address?
How do I decode a MIME/BASE64 string?
How do I return the user's mail address?
How do I send mail?
How do I use MIME to make an attachment to a mail message?
How do I read mail?
How do I find out my hostname, domainname, or IP address?
How do I fetch a news article or the active newsgroups?
How do I fetch/put an FTP file?
How can I do RPC in Perl?
REVISION
AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT

kurilasyn - Perl Kurila syntax

DESCRIPTION
Comments
Layout
Simple Statements
Truth and Falsehood
Statement Modifiers
Compound Statements
Loop Control
For Loops
PODs: Embedded Documentation
Plain Old Comments (Not!)

perldata - Perl data types

DESCRIPTION
Variable names
Context
Scalar values
Scalar value constructors
List value constructors
Subscripts
Slices
Typeglobs and Filehandles
SEE ALSO

perlop - Perl operators and precedence

DESCRIPTION
Operator Precedence and Associativity
Terms and List Operators (Leftward)
The Arrow Operator >>
Auto-increment and Auto-decrement
Exponentiation
Symbolic Unary Operators
Binding Operators
Multiplicative Operators
Additive Operators
Shift Operators >> > >>>
Named Unary Operators
Relational Operators
Equality Operators
Bitwise And
Bitwise Or and Exclusive Or
C-style Logical And
C-style Logical Or
C-style Logical Defined-Or
Range Operators
Conditional Operator
Assignment Operators >> >= >>>
Comma Operator
List Operators (Rightward)
Logical Not
Logical And
Logical or, Defined or, and Exclusive Or
C Operators Missing From Perl

unary &, unary *, (TYPE)

Quote and Quote-like Operators >>
Regexp Quote-Like Operators

qr/STRING/msixpo , m/PATTERN/msixpogc , s/PATTERN/REPLACEMENT/msixpogc

Quote-Like Operators

q/STRING/ , 'STRING', qq/STRING/ , "STRING", qx/STRING/ , `STRING`, qw/STRING/ , <<EOF >>, Double Quotes, Single Quotes, Backticks

Gory details of parsing quoted constructs

Finding the end, Interpolation , <<'EOF', '', q//, "", ``, qq//, qx//, <<"EOF", the replacement of s///, RE in ?RE?, /RE/, m/RE/, s/RE/foo/,, parsing regular expressions , Optimization of regular expressions

I/O Operators >
Constant Folding
No-ops
Bitwise String Operators
Integer Arithmetic
Floating-point Arithmetic
Bigger Numbers

perlsub - Perl subroutines

SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Private Variables via my()
Persistent Private Variables
Temporary Values via local()
Lvalue subroutines

Lvalue subroutines are EXPERIMENTAL

Passing Symbol Table Entries (typeglobs)
When to Still Use local()
Pass by Reference
Prototypes
Constant Functions
Overriding Built-in Functions
Autoloading
Subroutine Attributes
SEE ALSO

perlfunc - Perl builtin functions

DESCRIPTION
Perl Functions by Category

Functions for SCALARs or strings , Regular expressions and pattern matching , Numeric functions , Functions for real @ARRAYs , Functions for list data , Functions for real %HASHes , Input and output functions , Functions for fixed length data or records, Functions for filehandles, files, or directories , Keywords related to the control flow of your Perl program , Keywords related to switch, Keywords related to scoping, Miscellaneous functions, Functions for processes and process groups , Keywords related to perl modules , Keywords related to classes and object-orientation , Low-level socket functions , System V interprocess communication functions , Fetching user and group info , Fetching network info , Time-related functions , Functions new in perl5

Portability
Alphabetical Listing of Perl Functions

-X FILEHANDLE , -X EXPR, -X DIRHANDLE, -X, abs VALUE , abs, accept NEWSOCKET,GENERICSOCKET , alarm SECONDS , alarm, atan2 Y,X , bind SOCKET,NAME , binmode FILEHANDLE, LAYER , binmode FILEHANDLE, bless REF,CLASSNAME , bless REF, break, caller EXPR , caller, chdir EXPR , chdir FILEHANDLE, chdir DIRHANDLE, chdir, chmod LIST , chomp VARIABLE , chomp( LIST ), chomp, chop VARIABLE , chop( LIST ), chop, chown LIST , chr NUMBER , chr, chroot FILENAME , chroot, close FILEHANDLE , close, closedir DIRHANDLE , connect SOCKET,NAME , continue BLOCK , continue, cos EXPR , cos, crypt PLAINTEXT,SALT , defined EXPR , defined, delete EXPR , die LIST , do BLOCK , do SUBROUTINE(LIST) , do EXPR , dump LABEL , dump, each HASH , eof FILEHANDLE , eof (), eof, eval EXPR , eval BLOCK, eval, exec LIST , exec PROGRAM LIST, exists EXPR , exit EXPR , exit, exp EXPR , exp, fcntl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR , fileno FILEHANDLE , flock FILEHANDLE,OPERATION , fork , getc FILEHANDLE , getc, getlogin , getpeername SOCKET , getpgrp PID , getppid , getpriority WHICH,WHO , getpwnam NAME , getgrnam NAME, gethostbyname NAME, getnetbyname NAME, getprotobyname NAME, getpwuid UID, getgrgid GID, getservbyname NAME,PROTO, gethostbyaddr ADDR,ADDRTYPE, getnetbyaddr ADDR,ADDRTYPE, getprotobynumber NUMBER, getservbyport PORT,PROTO, getpwent, getgrent, gethostent, getnetent, getprotoent, getservent, setpwent, setgrent, sethostent STAYOPEN, setnetent STAYOPEN, setprotoent STAYOPEN, setservent STAYOPEN, endpwent, endgrent, endhostent, endnetent, endprotoent, endservent, getsockname SOCKET , getsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME , glob EXPR , glob, gmtime EXPR , gmtime, goto LABEL , goto EXPR, goto &NAME, grep BLOCK LIST , grep EXPR,LIST, hex EXPR , hex, import LIST , index STR,SUBSTR,POSITION , index STR,SUBSTR, int EXPR , int, ioctl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR , join EXPR,LIST , keys HASH , kill SIGNAL, LIST , last LABEL , last, lc EXPR , lc, lcfirst EXPR , lcfirst, length EXPR , length, link OLDFILE,NEWFILE , listen SOCKET,QUEUESIZE , local EXPR , localtime EXPR , localtime, lock THING , log EXPR , log, lstat EXPR , lstat, m//, map BLOCK LIST , map EXPR,LIST, mkdir FILENAME,MASK , mkdir FILENAME, mkdir, msgctl ID,CMD,ARG , msgget KEY,FLAGS , msgrcv ID,VAR,SIZE,TYPE,FLAGS , msgsnd ID,MSG,FLAGS , my EXPR , my TYPE EXPR, my EXPR : ATTRS, my TYPE EXPR : ATTRS, next LABEL , next, no Module VERSION LIST , no Module VERSION, no Module LIST, no Module, no VERSION, oct EXPR , oct, open FILEHANDLE,MODE , open FILEHANDLE,MODE,EXPR, open FILEHANDLE,MODE,EXPR,LIST, open FILEHANDLE,MODE,REFERENCE, open FILEHANDLE, opendir DIRHANDLE,EXPR , ord EXPR , ord, our EXPR , our TYPE EXPR, our EXPR : ATTRS, our TYPE EXPR : ATTRS, pack TEMPLATE,LIST , package NAMESPACE , package, pipe READHANDLE,WRITEHANDLE , pop ARRAY , pop, pos SCALAR , pos, print FILEHANDLE LIST , print LIST, print, printf FILEHANDLE FORMAT, LIST , printf FORMAT, LIST, prototype FUNCTION , push ARRAY,LIST , q/STRING/, qq/STRING/, qr/STRING/, qx/STRING/, qw/STRING/, quotemeta EXPR , quotemeta, rand EXPR , rand, read FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET , read FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH, readdir DIRHANDLE , readline EXPR, readline , readlink EXPR , readlink, readpipe EXPR, readpipe , recv SOCKET,SCALAR,LENGTH,FLAGS , redo LABEL , redo, ref EXPR , ref, rename OLDNAME,NEWNAME , require EXPR, require, return EXPR , return, reverse LIST , rewinddir DIRHANDLE , rindex STR,SUBSTR,POSITION , rindex STR,SUBSTR, rmdir FILENAME , rmdir, s///, scalar EXPR , seek FILEHANDLE,POSITION,WHENCE , seekdir DIRHANDLE,POS , select FILEHANDLE , select, select RBITS,WBITS,EBITS,TIMEOUT , semctl ID,SEMNUM,CMD,ARG , semget KEY,NSEMS,FLAGS , semop KEY,OPSTRING , send SOCKET,MSG,FLAGS,TO , send SOCKET,MSG,FLAGS, setpgrp PID,PGRP , setpriority WHICH,WHO,PRIORITY , setsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME,OPTVAL , shift ARRAY , shift, shmctl ID,CMD,ARG , shmget KEY,SIZE,FLAGS , shmread ID,VAR,POS,SIZE , shmwrite ID,STRING,POS,SIZE, shutdown SOCKET,HOW , sin EXPR , sin, sleep EXPR , sleep, socket SOCKET,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL , socketpair SOCKET1,SOCKET2,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL , sort SUBNAME LIST , sort BLOCK LIST, sort LIST, splice ARRAY,OFFSET,LENGTH,LIST , splice ARRAY,OFFSET,LENGTH, splice ARRAY,OFFSET, splice ARRAY, split /PATTERN/,EXPR,LIMIT , split /PATTERN/,EXPR, split /PATTERN/, split, sprintf FORMAT, LIST , format parameter index, flags, vector flag, (minimum) width, precision, or maximum width , size, order of arguments, sqrt EXPR , sqrt, srand EXPR , srand, stat FILEHANDLE , stat EXPR, stat DIRHANDLE, stat, state EXPR , state TYPE EXPR, state EXPR : ATTRS, state TYPE EXPR : ATTRS, study SCALAR , study, sub NAME BLOCK , sub NAME (PROTO) BLOCK, sub NAME : ATTRS BLOCK, sub NAME (PROTO) : ATTRS BLOCK, substr EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH,REPLACEMENT , substr EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH, substr EXPR,OFFSET, symlink OLDFILE,NEWFILE , syscall NUMBER, LIST , sysopen FILEHANDLE,FILENAME,MODE , sysopen FILEHANDLE,FILENAME,MODE,PERMS, sysread FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET , sysread FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH, sysseek FILEHANDLE,POSITION,WHENCE , system LIST , system PROGRAM LIST, syswrite FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET , syswrite FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH, syswrite FILEHANDLE,SCALAR, tell FILEHANDLE , tell, telldir DIRHANDLE , tie VARIABLE,CLASSNAME,LIST , tied VARIABLE , time , times , truncate FILEHANDLE,LENGTH , truncate EXPR,LENGTH, uc EXPR , uc, ucfirst EXPR , ucfirst, umask EXPR , umask, undef EXPR , undef, unlink LIST , unlink, unpack TEMPLATE,EXPR , unpack TEMPLATE, unshift ARRAY,LIST , use Module VERSION LIST , use Module VERSION, use Module LIST, use Module, utime LIST , values HASH , vec EXPR,OFFSET,BITS , wait , waitpid PID,FLAGS , wantarray , warn LIST , write FILEHANDLE , write EXPR, write

perlopentut - tutorial on opening things in Perl

DESCRIPTION
Open à la shell
Simple Opens
Indirect Filehandles
Pipe Opens
The Minus File
Mixing Reads and Writes
Filters
Open à la C
Permissions à la mode
Obscure Open Tricks
Re-Opening Files (dups)
Dispelling the Dweomer
Paths as Opens
Single Argument Open
Playing with STDIN and STDOUT
Other I/O Issues
Opening Non-File Files
Opening Named Pipes
Opening Sockets
Binary Files
File Locking
IO Layers
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT
HISTORY

perlpacktut - tutorial on pack and unpack

DESCRIPTION
The Basic Principle
Packing Text
Packing Numbers
Integers
Unpacking a Stack Frame
How to Eat an Egg on a Net
Byte-order modifiers
Floating point Numbers
Exotic Templates
Bit Strings
Uuencoding
Doing Sums
Unicode
Another Portable Binary Encoding
Template Grouping
Lengths and Widths
String Lengths
Dynamic Templates
Counting Repetitions
Packing and Unpacking C Structures
The Alignment Pit
Dealing with Endian-ness
Alignment, Take 2
Alignment, Take 3
Pointers for How to Use Them
Pack Recipes
Funnies Section
Authors

perlpod - the Plain Old Documentation format

DESCRIPTION
Ordinary Paragraph
Verbatim Paragraph
Command Paragraph

=head1 Heading Text , =head2 Heading Text, =head3 Heading Text, =head4 Heading Text, =over indentlevel , =item stuff..., =back, =cut , =pod , =begin formatname , =end formatname, =for formatname text..., =encoding encodingname

Formatting Codes

I<text> -- italic text <> >> , B<text> -- bold text <> >> , C<code> -- code text <> >> , L<name> -- a hyperlink <> >> , E<escape> -- a character escape <> >> , F<filename> -- used for filenames <> >> , S<text> -- text contains non-breaking spaces <> >> , X<topic name> -- an index entry <> >> , Z<> -- a null (zero-effect) formatting code <> >>

The Intent
Embedding Pods in Perl Modules
Hints for Writing Pod

SEE ALSO
AUTHOR

perlpodspec - Plain Old Documentation: format specification and notes

DESCRIPTION
Pod Definitions
Pod Commands

"=head1", "=head2", "=head3", "=head4", "=pod", "=cut", "=over", "=item", "=back", "=begin formatname", "=end formatname", "=for formatname text...", "=encoding encodingname"

Pod Formatting Codes

I<text> -- italic text, B<text> -- bold text, C<code> -- code text, F<filename> -- style for filenames, X<topic name> -- an index entry, Z<> -- a null (zero-effect) formatting code, L<name> -- a hyperlink, E<escape> -- a character escape, S<text> -- text contains non-breaking spaces

Notes on Implementing Pod Processors
About L<...> Codes

First:, Second:, Third:, Fourth:, Fifth:, Sixth:

About =over...=back Regions
About Data Paragraphs and "=begin/=end" Regions
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR

perlrun - how to execute the Perl interpreter

SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
#! and quoting on non-Unix systems

OS/2, MS-DOS, Win95/NT, Macintosh, VMS

Location of Perl
Command Switches

-0[octal/hexadecimal] , -C [number/list] , -c , -d , -dt, -d:foo[=bar,baz] , -dt:foo[=bar,baz], -Dletters , -Dnumber, -e commandline , -E commandline , -f , -h , -Idirectory , -m[-]module , -M[-]module, -M[-]'module ...', -[mM][-]module=arg[,arg]..., -S , -t , -T , -u , -U , -v , -V , -V:configvar, -w , -W , -X , -x , -xdirectory

ENVIRONMENT

HOME , LOGDIR , PATH , PERL5LIB , PERL5OPT , PERLIO , :bytes , :crlf , :mmap , :perlio , :pop , :raw , :stdio , :unix , :utf8 , :win32 , PERLIO_DEBUG , PERLLIB , PERL5DB , PERL5DB_THREADED , PERL5SHELL (specific to the Win32 port) , PERL_ALLOW_NON_IFS_LSP (specific to the Win32 port) , PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS , PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL , PERL_DL_NONLAZY , PERL_ENCODING , PERL_HASH_SEED , PERL_HASH_SEED_DEBUG , PERL_ROOT (specific to the VMS port) , PERL_SIGNALS , PERL_UNICODE , SYS$LOGIN (specific to the VMS port)

perldiag - various Perl diagnostics

DESCRIPTION
SEE ALSO

perllexwarn - Perl Lexical Warnings

DESCRIPTION
Default Warnings and Optional Warnings
What's wrong with -w and $^W
Controlling Warnings from the Command Line

-w , -W , -X

Backward Compatibility
Category Hierarchy
Fatal Warnings
Reporting Warnings from a Module
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR

perldebug - Perl debugging

DESCRIPTION
The Perl Debugger
Calling the debugger

perl -d program_name, perl -d -e 0, perl -d:Ptkdb program_name, perl -dt threaded_program_name

Debugger Commands

h , h [command], h h, p expr , x [maxdepth] expr , V [pkg [vars]] , X [vars] , y [level [vars]] , T , s [expr] , n [expr] , r , <CR>, c [line|sub] , l , l min+incr, l min-max, l line, l subname, - , v [line] , . , f filename , /pattern/, ?pattern?, L [abw] , S [[!]regex] , t , t expr , b , b [line] [condition] , b subname [condition] , b postpone subname [condition] , b load filename , b compile subname , B line , B * , a [line] command , A line , A * , w expr , W expr , W * , o , o booloption ... , o anyoption? ... , o option=value ... , < ? >, < [ command ] >, < * >, << command >, > ? >>, > command >>, > * >>, >> command > >>>, { ? , { [ command ], { * , {{ command , ! number , ! -number , ! pattern , !! cmd , source file , H -number , q or ^D , R , |dbcmd , ||dbcmd , command, m expr , M , man [manpage]

Configurable Options

recallCommand, ShellBang , pager , tkRunning , signalLevel, warnLevel, dieLevel , AutoTrace , LineInfo , inhibit_exit , PrintRet , ornaments , frame , maxTraceLen , windowSize , arrayDepth, hashDepth , dumpDepth , compactDump, veryCompact , globPrint , DumpDBFiles , DumpPackages , DumpReused , quote, HighBit, undefPrint , UsageOnly , TTY , noTTY , ReadLine , NonStop

Debugger input/output

Prompt, Multiline commands, Stack backtrace , Line Listing Format, Frame listing

Debugging compile-time statements
Debugger Customization
Readline Support
Editor Support for Debugging
The Perl Profiler
Debugging regular expressions
Debugging memory usage
SEE ALSO
BUGS

perlvar - Perl predefined variables

DESCRIPTION
Predefined Names

$ARG, $_ , $a, $b , $<digits> , $^MATCH , $^PREMATCH , $^POSTMATCH , $LAST_SUBMATCH_RESULT, $^N , IO::Handle->input_record_separator(EXPR), $^INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR , HANDLE->autoflush(EXPR), $^OUTPUT_AUTOFLUSH , IO::Handle->output_field_separator EXPR, $^OUTPUT_FIELD_SEPARATOR , $CHILD_ERROR , $^CHILD_ERROR_NATIVE , $^ENCODING , $OS_ERROR, $^OS_ERROR , $EXTENDED_OS_ERROR, $^E , $^EVAL_ERROR , $PROCESS_ID, $^PID , $REAL_USER_ID, $^UID , $EFFECTIVE_USER_ID, $^EUID , $REAL_GROUP_ID, $^GID, $EFFECTIVE_GROUP_ID, $^EGID, $PROGRAM_NAME, $0 , $COMPILING, $^C , $DEBUGGING, $^D , $^RE_DEBUG_FLAGS, $^RE_TRIE_MAXBUF, $SYSTEM_FD_MAX, $^F , $^H, %^H, $^M , $OSNAME, $^O , $^OPEN, $PERLDB, $^P , 0x01, 0x02, 0x04, 0x08, 0x10, 0x20, 0x40, 0x80, 0x100, 0x200, 0x400, $EXCEPTIONS_BEING_CAUGHT, $^S , $BASETIME, $^T , $^UNICODE, $^UTF8CACHE, $^UTF8LOCALE, $PERL_VERSION, $^V , $^WARN_HOOK , $^DIE_HOOK, $WARNING, $^W , $^WARNING_BITS, $^WIN32_SLOPPY_STAT, $EXECUTABLE_NAME, $^X , ARGV , $ARGV , @ARGV , ARGVOUT , @F , $^INCLUDE_PATH , @ARG, @_ , $^INCLUDED , %ENV, %ENV{expr} , %SIG, %SIG{expr}

Error Indicators
Technical Note on the Syntax of Variable Names
BUGS

perlre - Perl regular expressions

DESCRIPTION
Modifiers

m , s , i , x , p , g and c

Regular Expressions

[1], [2], [3], cntrl , graph , print , punct , xdigit

Extended Patterns

(?#text) , (?pimsx-imsx) , (?:pattern) , (?imsx-imsx:pattern), (?|pattern) , Look-Around Assertions , (?=pattern) , (?!pattern) , (?<=pattern) \K , (?<!pattern) , (?'NAME'pattern), (?<NAME>pattern) ) >> , \k<NAME>, \k'NAME', (?{ code }) , (??{ code }) , (?PARNO) (?-PARNO) (?+PARNO) (?R) (?0) , (?&NAME) , (?(condition)yes-pattern|no-pattern) , (?(condition)yes-pattern), (1) (2) .., (<NAME>) ('NAME'), (?{ CODE }), (R), (R1) (R2) .., (R&NAME), (DEFINE), (?>pattern)

Special Backtracking Control Verbs

Verbs that take an argument, (*PRUNE) (*PRUNE:NAME) , (*SKIP) (*SKIP:NAME) , (*MARK:NAME) (*:NAME) (*MARK:NAME) (*:NAME), (*THEN) (*THEN:NAME), (*COMMIT) , Verbs without an argument, (*FAIL) (*F) , (*ACCEPT)

Backtracking
Version 8 Regular Expressions
Warning on \1 Instead of $1
Repeated Patterns Matching a Zero-length Substring
Combining RE Pieces

ST, S|T, S{REPEAT_COUNT}, S{min,max}, S{min,max}?, S?, S*, S+, S??, S*?, S+?, (?>S), (?=S), (?<=S), (?!S), (?<!S), (??{ EXPR }), (?PARNO), (?(condition)yes-pattern|no-pattern)

Creating Custom RE Engines
PCRE/Python Support

(?P<NAME>pattern), (?P=NAME), (?P>NAME)

BUGS
SEE ALSO

perlrebackslash - Perl Regular Expression Backslash Sequences and Escapes

DESCRIPTION
The backslash

[1]

All the sequences and escapes
Character Escapes

[1], [2]

Modifiers
Character classes
Referencing
Assertions

\A, \z, \Z, \G, \b, \B

Misc

\C, \K, \R, \X

perlrecharclass - Perl Regular Expression Character Classes

DESCRIPTION
The dot
Backslashed sequences

[1]

Bracketed Character Classes

cntrl, graph, print, punct

Locale, Unicode and UTF-8

perlreref - Perl Regular Expressions Reference

DESCRIPTION
OPERATORS
SYNTAX
ESCAPE SEQUENCES
CHARACTER CLASSES
ANCHORS
QUANTIFIERS
EXTENDED CONSTRUCTS
VARIABLES
FUNCTIONS
TERMINOLOGY
AUTHOR
SEE ALSO
THANKS

perlref - Perl references and nested data structures

NOTE
DESCRIPTION
Making References

1. , 2. , 3. , 4. , 5.

Using References
Symbolic references
Pseudo-hashes: Using an array as a hash
Function Templates
WARNING
SEE ALSO

perlobj - Perl objects

DESCRIPTION
An Object is Simply a Reference
A Class is Simply a Package
A Method is Simply a Subroutine
Method Invocation >>
Indirect Object Syntax
Default UNIVERSAL methods

isa(CLASS) , can(METHOD) , VERSION( [NEED] )

Destructors
Summary
Two-Phased Garbage Collection
SEE ALSO

perlipc - Perl interprocess communication (signals, fifos, pipes, safe subprocesses, sockets, and semaphores)

DESCRIPTION
Signals
Handling the SIGHUP Signal in Daemons
Named Pipes
Deferred Signals (Safe Signals)

Long-running opcodes, Interrupting IO, Restartable system calls, Signals as "faults", Signals triggered by operating system state

Using open() for IPC
Filehandles
Background Processes
Complete Dissociation of Child from Parent
Safe Pipe Opens
Bidirectional Communication with Another Process
Bidirectional Communication with Yourself
Sockets: Client/Server Communication
Internet Line Terminators
Internet TCP Clients and Servers
Unix-Domain TCP Clients and Servers
TCP Clients with IO::Socket
A Simple Client

Proto, PeerAddr, PeerPort

A Webget Client
Interactive Client with IO::Socket
TCP Servers with IO::Socket

Proto, LocalPort, Listen, Reuse

UDP: Message Passing
SysV IPC
NOTES
BUGS
AUTHOR
SEE ALSO

perlfork - Perl's fork() emulation

SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Behavior of other Perl features in forked pseudo-processes

$$ or $PROCESS_ID, %ENV, chdir() and all other builtins that accept filenames, wait() and waitpid(), kill(), exec(), exit(), Open handles to files, directories and network sockets

Resource limits
Killing the parent process
Lifetime of the parent process and pseudo-processes
CAVEATS AND LIMITATIONS

BEGIN blocks, Open filehandles, Forking pipe open() not yet implemented, Global state maintained by XSUBs, Interpreter embedded in larger application, Thread-safety of extensions

BUGS
AUTHOR
SEE ALSO

perlnumber - semantics of numbers and numeric operations in Perl

SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Storing numbers
Numeric operators and numeric conversions
Flavors of Perl numeric operations

Arithmetic operators, ++, Arithmetic operators during use integer, Other mathematical operators, Bitwise operators, Bitwise operators during use integer, Operators which expect an integer, Operators which expect a string

AUTHOR
SEE ALSO

perlthrtut - Tutorial on threads in Perl

DESCRIPTION
What Is A Thread Anyway?
Threaded Program Models
Boss/Worker
Work Crew
Pipeline
What kind of threads are Perl threads?
Thread-Safe Modules
Thread Basics
Basic Thread Support
A Note about the Examples
Creating Threads
Waiting For A Thread To Exit
Ignoring A Thread
Process and Thread Termination
Threads And Data
Shared And Unshared Data
Thread Pitfalls: Races
Synchronization and control
Controlling access: lock()
A Thread Pitfall: Deadlocks
Queues: Passing Data Around
Semaphores: Synchronizing Data Access
Basic semaphores
Advanced Semaphores
Waiting for a Condition
Giving up control
General Thread Utility Routines
What Thread Am I In?
Thread IDs
Are These Threads The Same?
What Threads Are Running?
A Complete Example
Different implementations of threads
Performance considerations
Process-scope Changes
Thread-Safety of System Libraries
Conclusion
SEE ALSO
Bibliography
Introductory Texts
OS-Related References
Other References
Acknowledgements
AUTHOR
Copyrights

perlothrtut - old tutorial on threads in Perl

DESCRIPTION
What Is A Thread Anyway?
Threaded Program Models
Boss/Worker
Work Crew
Pipeline
Native threads
What kind of threads are perl threads?
Threadsafe Modules
Thread Basics
Basic Thread Support
Creating Threads
Giving up control
Waiting For A Thread To Exit
Errors In Threads
Ignoring A Thread
Threads And Data
Shared And Unshared Data
Thread Pitfall: Races
Controlling access: lock()
Thread Pitfall: Deadlocks
Queues: Passing Data Around
Threads And Code
Semaphores: Synchronizing Data Access

Basic semaphores, Advanced Semaphores

Attributes: Restricting Access To Subroutines
Subroutine Locks
Methods
Locking A Subroutine
General Thread Utility Routines
What Thread Am I In?
Thread IDs
Are These Threads The Same?
What Threads Are Running?
A Complete Example
Conclusion
Bibliography
Introductory Texts
OS-Related References
Other References
Acknowledgements
AUTHOR
Copyrights

perlport - Writing portable Perl

DESCRIPTION

Not all Perl programs have to be portable, Nearly all of Perl already is portable

ISSUES
Newlines
Numbers endianness and Width
Files and Filesystems
System Interaction
Command names versus file pathnames
Networking
Interprocess Communication (IPC)
External Subroutines (XS)
Standard Modules
Time and Date
Character sets and character encoding
Internationalisation
System Resources
Security
Style
CPAN Testers
PLATFORMS
Unix
DOS and Derivatives
Mac OS
VMS
VOS
EBCDIC Platforms
Acorn RISC OS
Other perls
FUNCTION IMPLEMENTATIONS
Alphabetical Listing of Perl Functions

-X, atan2, binmode, chmod, chown, chroot, crypt, dbmclose, dbmopen, dump, exec, exit, fcntl, flock, fork, getlogin, getpgrp, getppid, getpriority, getpwnam, getgrnam, getnetbyname, getpwuid, getgrgid, getnetbyaddr, getprotobynumber, getservbyport, getpwent, getgrent, gethostbyname, gethostent, getnetent, getprotoent, getservent, sethostent, setnetent, setprotoent, setservent, endpwent, endgrent, endhostent, endnetent, endprotoent, endservent, getsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME, glob, gmtime, ioctl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, kill, link, localtime, lstat, msgctl, msgget, msgsnd, msgrcv, open, pipe, readlink, rename, select, semctl, semget, semop, setgrent, setpgrp, setpriority, setpwent, setsockopt, shmctl, shmget, shmread, shmwrite, sockatmark, socketpair, stat, symlink, syscall, sysopen, system, times, truncate, umask, utime, wait, waitpid

Supported Platforms
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS / CONTRIBUTORS

perllocale - Perl locale handling (internationalization and localization)

DESCRIPTION
PREPARING TO USE LOCALES
USING LOCALES
The use locale pragma
The setlocale function
Finding locales
LOCALE PROBLEMS
Temporarily fixing locale problems
Permanently fixing locale problems
Permanently fixing your system's locale configuration
Fixing system locale configuration
The localeconv function
I18N::Langinfo
LOCALE CATEGORIES
Category LC_COLLATE: Collation
Category LC_CTYPE: Character Types
Category LC_NUMERIC: Numeric Formatting
Category LC_MONETARY: Formatting of monetary amounts
LC_TIME
Other categories
SECURITY
ENVIRONMENT

PERL_BADLANG, LC_ALL, LANGUAGE, LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE, LC_MONETARY, LC_NUMERIC, LC_TIME, LANG

Examples
NOTES
Backward compatibility
I18N:Collate obsolete
Sort speed and memory use impacts
write() and LC_NUMERIC
Freely available locale definitions
I18n and l10n
An imperfect standard
Unicode and UTF-8
BUGS
Broken systems
SEE ALSO
HISTORY

perluniintro - Perl Unicode introduction

DESCRIPTION
Unicode
Characters represented by Code points represented by Bytes
Byte and Code points Semantics
Unicode and EBCDIC
Perl's Unicode Support History
Creating Unicode
Handling Unicode
Legacy Encodings
Unicode I/O
Displaying Unicode As Text
Special Cases
Advanced Topics
Miscellaneous
Questions With Answers
Hexadecimal Notation
Further Resources
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
AUTHOR, COPYRIGHT, AND LICENSE

perlunicode - Unicode support in Perl

DESCRIPTION
Important Caveats

Input and Output Layers, Regular Expressions, use utf8 still needed to enable UTF-8/UTF-EBCDIC in scripts, BOM-marked scripts and UTF-16 scripts autodetected, use encoding needed to upgrade non-Latin-1 byte strings

Effects of Character Semantics
Unicode Character Properties

General Category, Bidirectional Character Types, Scripts, Extended property classes, Use of "Is" Prefix, Blocks

User-Defined Character Properties
User-Defined Case Mappings
Character Encodings for Input and Output
Unicode Regular Expression Support Level
Unicode Encodings
Security Implications of Unicode
Unicode in Perl on EBCDIC
Locales
When Unicode Does Not Happen
Forcing Unicode in Perl (Or Unforcing Unicode in Perl)
Using Unicode in XS
BUGS
Interaction with Locales
Interaction with Extensions
Speed
Porting code from perl-5.8.x
SEE ALSO

perlunifaq - Perl Unicode FAQ

Q and A
perlunitut isn't really a Unicode tutorial, is it?
What character encodings does Perl support?
Which version of perl should I use?
What about binary data, like images?
When should I decode or encode?
What if I don't decode?
What if I don't encode?
Is there a way to automatically decode or encode?
What if I don't know which encoding was used?
Can I use Unicode in my Perl sources?
Data::Dumper doesn't restore the UTF8 flag; is it broken?
Why do regex character classes sometimes match only in the ASCII range?
Why do some characters not uppercase or lowercase correctly?
How can I determine if a string is a text string or a binary string?
How do I convert from encoding FOO to encoding BAR?
What are decode_utf8 and encode_utf8?
What is a "wide character"?
INTERNALS
What is "the UTF8 flag"?
What about the use bytes pragma?
What about the use encoding pragma?
What is the difference between :encoding and :utf8?
What's the difference between UTF-8 and utf8?
I lost track; what encoding is the internal format really?
AUTHOR
SEE ALSO

perlunitut - Perl Unicode Tutorial

DESCRIPTION
Definitions
Your new toolkit
I/O flow (the actual 5 minute tutorial)
SUMMARY
Q and A (or FAQ)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
AUTHOR
SEE ALSO

perlebcdic - Considerations for running Perl on EBCDIC platforms

DESCRIPTION
COMMON CHARACTER CODE SETS
ASCII
ISO 8859
Latin 1 (ISO 8859-1)
EBCDIC
  • variant characters
  • POSIX-BC
    Unicode code points versus EBCDIC code points
    Remaining Perl Unicode problems in EBCDIC
    Unicode and UTF
    Using Encode
    SINGLE OCTET TABLES

    recipe 0, recipe 1, recipe 2, recipe 3, recipe 4, recipe 5, recipe 6

    IDENTIFYING CHARACTER CODE SETS
    CONVERSIONS
    tr///
    iconv
    C RTL
    OPERATOR DIFFERENCES
    FUNCTION DIFFERENCES

    chr(), ord(), pack(), print(), printf(), sort(), sprintf(), unpack()

    REGULAR EXPRESSION DIFFERENCES
    SOCKETS
    SORTING
    Ignore ASCII vs. EBCDIC sort differences.
    MONO CASE then sort data.
    Convert, sort data, then re convert.
    Perform sorting on one type of machine only.
    TRANSFORMATION FORMATS
    URL decoding and encoding
    uu encoding and decoding
    Quoted-Printable encoding and decoding
    Caesarian ciphers
    Hashing order and checksums
    I18N AND L10N
    MULTI OCTET CHARACTER SETS
    OS ISSUES
    OS/400

    PASE, IFS access

    OS/390, z/OS

    chcp, dataset access, OS/390, z/OS iconv, locales

    VM/ESA?
    POSIX-BC?
    BUGS
    SEE ALSO
    REFERENCES
    HISTORY
    AUTHOR

    perlsec - Perl security

    DESCRIPTION
    Laundering and Detecting Tainted Data
    Switches On the "#!" Line
    Cleaning Up Your Path
    Security Bugs
    Protecting Your Programs
    Unicode
    Algorithmic Complexity Attacks
    SEE ALSO

    perlmod - Perl modules (packages and symbol tables)

    DESCRIPTION
    Packages
    Symbol Tables
    BEGIN, UNITCHECK, CHECK, INIT and END
    Perl Classes
    Perl Modules
    Making your module threadsafe
    SEE ALSO

    perlmodlib - constructing new Perl modules and finding existing ones

    THE PERL MODULE LIBRARY
    Pragmatic Modules

    base, blib, bytes, charnames, compsub, constant, error, feature, fields, filetest, integer, kurila, less, lib, mro, open, ops, re, sigtrap, sort, utf8, version, vmsish, warnings, warnings::register

    Standard Modules

    B, B::Concise, B::Debug, B::Deparse, B::OP, B::Showlex, B::Terse, Benchmark, CORE, Carp, Carp::Heavy, Class::ISA, Class::Struct, Config, Cwd, DB, DB_File, Data::Dumper, Digest, Digest::base, Digest::file, DynaLoader, English, Errno, Exporter, Exporter::Heavy, ExtUtils::CBuilder, ExtUtils::CBuilder::Platform::Windows, ExtUtils::Command, ExtUtils::Command::MM, ExtUtils::Constant, ExtUtils::Constant::Base, ExtUtils::Constant::Utils, ExtUtils::Constant::XS, ExtUtils::Embed, ExtUtils::Install, ExtUtils::Installed, ExtUtils::Liblist, ExtUtils::MM, ExtUtils::MM_AIX, ExtUtils::MM_Any, ExtUtils::MM_BeOS, ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin, ExtUtils::MM_DOS, ExtUtils::MM_Darwin, ExtUtils::MM_MacOS, ExtUtils::MM_NW5, ExtUtils::MM_OS2, ExtUtils::MM_QNX, ExtUtils::MM_UWIN, ExtUtils::MM_Unix, ExtUtils::MM_VMS, ExtUtils::MM_VOS, ExtUtils::MM_Win32, ExtUtils::MM_Win95, ExtUtils::MY, ExtUtils::MakeMaker, ExtUtils::MakeMaker::Config, ExtUtils::MakeMaker::FAQ, ExtUtils::MakeMaker::Tutorial, ExtUtils::MakeMaker::bytes, ExtUtils::MakeMaker::vmsish, ExtUtils::Manifest, ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap, ExtUtils::Mksymlists, ExtUtils::Packlist, ExtUtils::ParseXS, ExtUtils::testlib, Fatal, Fcntl, File::Basename, File::CheckTree, File::Compare, File::Copy, File::DosGlob, File::Fetch, File::Find, File::Glob, File::Path, File::Spec, File::Spec::Cygwin, File::Spec::Epoc, File::Spec::Functions, File::Spec::Mac, File::Spec::OS2, File::Spec::Unix, File::Spec::VMS, File::Spec::Win32, File::Temp, File::stat, FindBin, Getopt::Long, Getopt::Std, Hash::Util, I18N::LangTags, I18N::LangTags::Detect, I18N::LangTags::List, I18N::Langinfo, IO, IO::Dir, IO::File, IO::Handle, IO::Poll, IO::Seekable, IO::Select, IO::Socket, IO::Socket::INET, IO::Socket::UNIX, IPC::Cmd, IPC::Open2, IPC::Open3, IPC::SysV, IPC::SysV::Msg, IPC::SysV::Semaphore, List::Util, Locale::Constants, Locale::Country, Locale::Currency, Locale::Language, Locale::Maketext, Locale::Maketext::Simple, Locale::Maketext::TPJ13, Locale::Script, MIME::Base64, MIME::Base64::QuotedPrint, Math::Trig, Module::Load, Module::Load::Conditional, Module::Loaded, Net::hostent, Net::netent, Net::protoent, Net::servent, O, Opcode, POSIX, Params::Check, Perl6::Form, PerlIO, PerlIO::scalar, PerlIO::via, PerlIO::via::QuotedPrint, Pod::Checker, Pod::Escapes, Pod::Find, Pod::Functions, Pod::Html, Pod::InputObjects, Pod::LaTeX, Pod::Man, Pod::ParseLink, Pod::ParseUtils, Pod::Parser, Pod::Perldoc::ToChecker, Pod::Perldoc::ToMan, Pod::Perldoc::ToNroff, Pod::Perldoc::ToPod, Pod::Perldoc::ToRtf, Pod::Perldoc::ToText, Pod::Perldoc::ToTk, Pod::Perldoc::ToXml, Pod::PlainText, Pod::Plainer, Pod::Select, Pod::Simple, Pod::Simple::Checker, Pod::Simple::Debug, Pod::Simple::DumpAsText, Pod::Simple::DumpAsXML, Pod::Simple::HTML, Pod::Simple::HTMLBatch, Pod::Simple::LinkSection, Pod::Simple::Methody, Pod::Simple::PullParser, Pod::Simple::PullParserEndToken, Pod::Simple::PullParserStartToken, Pod::Simple::PullParserTextToken, Pod::Simple::PullParserToken, Pod::Simple::RTF, Pod::Simple::Search, Pod::Simple::SimpleTree, Pod::Simple::Subclassing, Pod::Simple::Text, Pod::Simple::TextContent, Pod::Simple::XMLOutStream, Pod::Text, Pod::Text::Color, Pod::Text::Overstrike, Pod::Text::Termcap, Pod::Usage, Safe, Scalar::Util, Search::Dict, Socket, Storable, Symbol, Sys::Hostname, Sys::Syslog, Sys::Syslog::win32::Win32, Term::ANSIColor, Term::Cap, Term::ReadLine, Test::Builder, Test::Builder::Module, Test::Builder::Tester, Test::Builder::Tester::Color, Test::More, Test::Simple, Test::Tutorial, Text::Abbrev, Text::ParseWords, Text::Tabs, Text::Wrap, Tie::Hash, Time::HiRes, Time::Local, Time::gmtime, Time::localtime, Time::tm, UNIVERSAL, Unicode::Collate, Unicode::Normalize, Unicode::UCD, User::grent, User::pwent, Win32, Win32CORE, XS::APItest, XS::Typemap, XSLoader

    Extension Modules
    CPAN
    Africa

    South Africa

    Asia

    China, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand

    Central America

    Costa Rica

    Europe

    Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom

    North America

    Canada, Alberta, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Mexico, United States, Alabama, California, Colorado, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin

    Oceania

    Australia, New Zealand, United States

    South America

    Argentina, Brazil, Chile

    RSYNC Mirrors
    Modules: Creation, Use, and Abuse
    Guidelines for Module Creation
    Guidelines for Converting Perl 4 Library Scripts into Modules
    Guidelines for Reusing Application Code
    NOTE

    perlmodstyle - Perl module style guide

    INTRODUCTION
    QUICK CHECKLIST
    Before you start
    The API
    Stability
    Documentation
    Release considerations
    BEFORE YOU START WRITING A MODULE
    Has it been done before?
    Do one thing and do it well
    What's in a name?
    DESIGNING AND WRITING YOUR MODULE
    To OO or not to OO?
    Designing your API

    Write simple routines to do simple things, Separate functionality from output, Provide sensible shortcuts and defaults, Naming conventions, Parameter passing

    Strictness and warnings
    Backwards compatibility
    Error handling and messages
    DOCUMENTING YOUR MODULE
    POD
    README, INSTALL, release notes, changelogs

    perl Makefile.PL, make, make test, make install, perl Build.PL, perl Build, perl Build test, perl Build install

    RELEASE CONSIDERATIONS
    Version numbering
    Pre-requisites
    Testing
    Packaging
    Licensing
    COMMON PITFALLS
    Reinventing the wheel
    Trying to do too much
    Inappropriate documentation
    SEE ALSO

    the perlstyle manpage, the perlnewmod manpage, the perlpod manpage, the podchecker manpage, Packaging Tools, Testing tools, http://pause.perl.org/, Any good book on software engineering

    AUTHOR

    perlmodinstall - Installing CPAN Modules

    DESCRIPTION
    PREAMBLE

    DECOMPRESS the file, UNPACK the file into a directory, BUILD the module (sometimes unnecessary), INSTALL the module

    PORTABILITY
    HEY
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT

    perlnewmod - preparing a new module for distribution

    DESCRIPTION
    Warning
    What should I make into a module?
    Step-by-step: Preparing the ground

    Look around, Check it's new, Discuss the need, Choose a name, Check again

    Step-by-step: Making the module

    Start with module-starter or h2xs, Use strict and warnings, Use Carp, Use Exporter - wisely!, Use plain old documentation, Write tests, Write the README

    Step-by-step: Distributing your module

    Get a CPAN user ID, perl Makefile.PL; make test; make dist, Upload the tarball, Announce to the modules list, Announce to clpa, Fix bugs!

    AUTHOR
    SEE ALSO

    perlpragma - how to write a user pragma

    DESCRIPTION
    A basic example
    Implementation details

    perlutil - utilities packaged with the Perl distribution

    DESCRIPTION
    LIST OF UTILITIES
    Documentation

    perldoc, pod2man and pod2text, pod2html and pod2latex, pod2usage, podselect, podchecker, roffitall

    Convertors

    a2p, s2p and psed, find2perl

    Administration

    config_data, libnetcfg, the perlivp manpage

    Development

    perlbug, perlthanks, h2ph, h2xs, enc2xs, the xsubpp manpage, dprofpp, prove

    General tools

    piconv, shasum

    Installation

    cpan, the instmodsh manpage

    SEE ALSO

    perlcompile - Introduction to the Perl Compiler-Translator

    DESCRIPTION
    Layout

    B::Lint, B::Deparse, B::Xref

    Using The Back Ends
    The Cross Referencing Back End

    i, &, s, r

    The Decompiling Back End
    The Lint Back End
    Module List for the Compiler Suite

    B, O, B::Concise, B::Debug, B::Deparse, B::Lint, B::Showlex, B::Terse, B::Xref

    KNOWN PROBLEMS
    AUTHOR

    perlfilter - Source Filters

    DESCRIPTION
    CONCEPTS
    USING FILTERS
    WRITING A SOURCE FILTER
    WRITING A SOURCE FILTER IN C

    Decryption Filters

    CREATING A SOURCE FILTER AS A SEPARATE EXECUTABLE
    WRITING A SOURCE FILTER IN PERL
    USING CONTEXT: THE DEBUG FILTER
    CONCLUSION
    THINGS TO LOOK OUT FOR

    Some Filters Clobber the DATA Handle

    REQUIREMENTS
    AUTHOR
    Copyrights

    perlglossary - Perl Glossary

    DESCRIPTION
    A

    accessor methods, actual arguments, address operator, algorithm, alias, alternatives, anonymous, architecture, argument, ARGV, arithmetical operator, array, array context, ASCII, assertion, assignment, assignment operator, associative array, associativity, asynchronous, atom, atomic operation, attribute, autogeneration, autoincrement, autoload, autosplit, autovivification, AV, awk

    B

    backreference, backtracking, backward compatibility, bareword, base class, big-endian, binary, binary operator, bind, bit, bit shift, bit string, bless, block, BLOCK, block buffering, Boolean, Boolean context, breakpoint, broadcast, BSD, bucket, buffer, built-in, bundle, byte, bytecode

    C

    C, C preprocessor, call by reference, call by value, callback, canonical, capturing, character, character class, character property, circumfix operator, class, class method, client, cloister, closure, cluster, CODE, code generator, code subpattern, collating sequence, command, command buffering, command name, command-line arguments, comment, compilation unit, compile phase, compile time, compiler, composer, concatenation, conditional, connection, construct, constructor, context, continuation, core dump, CPAN, cracker, current package, current working directory, currently selected output channel, CV

    D

    dangling statement, data structure, data type, datagram, DBM, declaration, decrement, default, defined, delimiter, deprecated modules and features, dereference, derived class, descriptor, destroy, destructor, device, directive, directory, directory handle, dispatch, distribution, (to be) dropped modules, dweomer, dwimmer, dynamic scoping

    E

    eclectic, element, embedding, empty subclass test, en passant, encapsulation, endian, environment, environment variable, EOF, errno, error, escape sequence, exception, exception handling, exec, executable file, execute, execute bit, exit status, export, expression, extension

    F

    false, FAQ, fatal error, field, FIFO, file, file descriptor, file test operator, fileglob, filehandle, filename, filesystem, filter, flag, floating point, flush, FMTEYEWTK, fork, formal arguments, format, freely available, freely redistributable, freeware, function, funny character, garbage collection

    G

    GID, glob, global, global destruction, glue language, granularity, greedy, grep, group, GV

    H

    hacker, handler, hard reference, hash, hash table, header file, here document, hexadecimal, home directory, host, hubris, HV

    I

    identifier, impatience, implementation, import, increment, indexing, indirect filehandle, indirect object, indirect object slot, indirection, infix, inheritance, instance, instance variable, integer, interface, interpolation, interpreter, invocant, invocation, I/O, IO, IP, IPC, is-a, iteration, iterator, IV

    J

    JAPH

    K

    key, keyword

    L

    label, laziness, left shift, leftmost longest, lexeme, lexer, lexical analysis, lexical scoping, lexical variable, library, LIFO, line, line buffering, line number, link, LIST, list, list context, list operator, list value, literal, little-endian, local, logical operator, lookahead, lookbehind, loop, loop control statement, loop label, lvaluable, lvalue, lvalue modifier

    M

    magic, magical increment, magical variables, Makefile, man, manpage, matching, member data, memory, metacharacter, metasymbol, method, minimalism, mode, modifier, module, modulus, monger, mortal, multidimensional array, multiple inheritance

    N

    named pipe, namespace, network address, newline, NFS, null character, null list, null string, numeric context, NV, nybble

    O

    object, octal, offset, one-liner, open source software, operand, operating system, operator, operator overloading, options, overloading, overriding, owner

    P

    package, pad, parameter, parent class, parse tree, parsing, patch, PATH, pathname, pattern, pattern matching, permission bits, Pern, pipe, pipeline, platform, pod, pointer, polymorphism, port, portable, porter, POSIX, postfix, pp, pragma, precedence, prefix, preprocessing, procedure, process, program generator, progressive matching, property, protocol, prototype, pseudofunction, pseudohash, pseudoliteral, public domain, pumpkin, pumpking, PV

    Q

    qualified, quantifier

    R

    readable, reaping, record, recursion, reference, referent, regex, regular expression, regular expression modifier, regular file, relational operator, reserved words, return value, RFC, right shift, root, RTFM, run phase, run time, run-time pattern, RV, rvalue

    S

    scalar, scalar context, scalar literal, scalar value, scalar variable, scope, scratchpad, script, script kiddie, sed, semaphore, separator, serialization, server, service, setgid, setuid, shared memory, shebang, shell, side effects, signal, signal handler, single inheritance, slice, slurp, socket, soft reference, source filter, stack, standard, standard error, standard I/O, standard input, standard output, stat structure, statement, statement modifier, static, static method, static scoping, static variable, status, STDERR, STDIN, STDIO, STDOUT, stream, string, string context, stringification, struct, structure, subclass, subpattern, subroutine, subscript, substitution, substring, superclass, superuser, SV, switch, switch cluster, switch statement, symbol, symbol table, symbolic debugger, symbolic link, symbolic reference, synchronous, syntactic sugar, syntax, syntax tree, syscall

    T

    tainted, TCP, term, terminator, ternary, text, thread, tie, TMTOWTDI, token, tokener, tokenizing, toolbox approach, transliterate, trigger, trinary, troff, true, truncating, type, type casting, typed lexical, typedef, typeglob, typemap

    U

    UDP, UID, umask, unary operator, Unicode, Unix

    V

    value, variable, variable interpolation, variadic, vector, virtual, void context, v-string

    W

    warning, watch expression, whitespace, word, working directory, wrapper, WYSIWYG

    X

    XS, XSUB

    Y

    yacc

    Z

    zero width, zombie

    AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT

    perlembed - how to embed perl in your C program

    DESCRIPTION
    PREAMBLE

    Use C from Perl?, Use a Unix program from Perl?, Use Perl from Perl?, Use C from C?, Use Perl from C?

    ROADMAP
    Compiling your C program
    Adding a Perl interpreter to your C program
    Calling a Perl subroutine from your C program
    Evaluating a Perl statement from your C program
    Performing Perl pattern matches and substitutions from your C program
    Fiddling with the Perl stack from your C program
    Maintaining a persistent interpreter
    Execution of END blocks
    $0 assignments
    Maintaining multiple interpreter instances
    Using Perl modules, which themselves use C libraries, from your C program
    Embedding Perl under Win32
    Hiding Perl_
    MORAL
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT

    perldebguts - Guts of Perl debugging

    DESCRIPTION
    Debugger Internals
    Writing Your Own Debugger
    Frame Listing Output Examples
    Debugging regular expressions
    Compile-time output

    anchored STRING at POS, floating STRING at POS1..POS2, matching floating/anchored, minlen, stclass TYPE, noscan, isall, GPOS, plus, implicit, with eval, anchored(TYPE)

    Types of nodes
    Run-time output
    Debugging Perl memory usage
    Using $ENV{PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS}

    buckets SMALLEST(APPROX)..GREATEST(APPROX), Free/Used, Total sbrk(): SBRKed/SBRKs:CONTINUOUS, pad: 0, heads: 2192, chain: 0, tail: 6144

    SEE ALSO

    perlxstut, perlXStut - Tutorial for writing XSUBs

    DESCRIPTION
    SPECIAL NOTES
    make
    Version caveat
    Dynamic Loading versus Static Loading
    TUTORIAL
    EXAMPLE 1
    EXAMPLE 2
    What has gone on?
    Writing good test scripts
    EXAMPLE 3
    What's new here?
    Input and Output Parameters
    The XSUBPP Program
    The TYPEMAP file
    Warning about Output Arguments
    EXAMPLE 4
    What has happened here?
    Anatomy of .xs file
    Getting the fat out of XSUBs
    More about XSUB arguments
    The Argument Stack
    Extending your Extension
    Documenting your Extension
    Installing your Extension
    EXAMPLE 5
    New Things in this Example
    EXAMPLE 6
    New Things in this Example
    EXAMPLE 7 (Coming Soon)
    EXAMPLE 8 (Coming Soon)
    EXAMPLE 9 Passing open files to XSes
    Troubleshooting these Examples
    See also
    Author
    Last Changed

    perlxs - XS language reference manual

    DESCRIPTION
    Introduction
    On The Road
    The Anatomy of an XSUB
    The Argument Stack
    The RETVAL Variable
    Returning SVs, AVs and HVs through RETVAL
    The MODULE Keyword
    The PACKAGE Keyword
    The PREFIX Keyword
    The OUTPUT: Keyword
    The NO_OUTPUT Keyword
    The CODE: Keyword
    The INIT: Keyword
    The NO_INIT Keyword
    Initializing Function Parameters
    Default Parameter Values
    The PREINIT: Keyword
    The SCOPE: Keyword
    The INPUT: Keyword
    The IN/OUTLIST/IN_OUTLIST/OUT/IN_OUT Keywords
    The length(NAME) Keyword
    Variable-length Parameter Lists
    The C_ARGS: Keyword
    The PPCODE: Keyword
    Returning Undef And Empty Lists
    The REQUIRE: Keyword
    The CLEANUP: Keyword
    The POSTCALL: Keyword
    The BOOT: Keyword
    The VERSIONCHECK: Keyword
    The PROTOTYPES: Keyword
    The PROTOTYPE: Keyword
    The ALIAS: Keyword
    The OVERLOAD: Keyword
    The FALLBACK: Keyword
    The INTERFACE: Keyword
    The INTERFACE_MACRO: Keyword
    The INCLUDE: Keyword
    The CASE: Keyword
    The & Unary Operator
    Inserting POD, Comments and C Preprocessor Directives
    Using XS With C++
    Interface Strategy
    Perl Objects And C Structures
    The Typemap
    Safely Storing Static Data in XS

    MY_CXT_KEY, typedef my_cxt_t, START_MY_CXT, MY_CXT_INIT, dMY_CXT, MY_CXT, aMY_CXT/pMY_CXT, MY_CXT_CLONE, MY_CXT_INIT_INTERP(my_perl), dMY_CXT_INTERP(my_perl)

    Thread-aware system interfaces
    EXAMPLES
    XS VERSION
    AUTHOR

    perlclib - Internal replacements for standard C library functions

    DESCRIPTION
    Conventions

    t, p, n, s

    File Operations
    File Input and Output
    File Positioning
    Memory Management and String Handling
    Character Class Tests
    stdlib.h functions
    Miscellaneous functions
    SEE ALSO

    perlguts - Introduction to the Perl API

    DESCRIPTION
    Variables
    Datatypes
    What is an "IV"?
    Working with SVs
    Offsets
    What's Really Stored in an SV?
    Working with AVs
    Working with HVs
    Hash API Extensions
    AVs, HVs and undefined values
    References
    Blessed References and Class Objects
    Creating New Variables

    GV_ADDMULTI, GV_ADDWARN

    Reference Counts and Mortality
    Stashes and Globs
    Double-Typed SVs
    Magic Variables
    Assigning Magic
    Magic Virtual Tables
    Finding Magic
    Understanding the Magic of Tied Hashes and Arrays
    Localizing changes

    SAVEINT(int i), SAVEIV(IV i), SAVEI32(I32 i), SAVELONG(long i), SAVESPTR(s), SAVEPPTR(p), SAVEFREESV(SV *sv), SAVEMORTALIZESV(SV *sv), SAVEFREEOP(OP *op), SAVEFREEPV(p), SAVECLEARSV(SV *sv), SAVEDELETE(HV *hv, char *key, I32 length), SAVEDESTRUCTOR(DESTRUCTORFUNC_NOCONTEXT_t f, void *p), SAVEDESTRUCTOR_X(DESTRUCTORFUNC_t f, void *p), SAVESTACK_POS(), SV* save_scalar(GV *gv), AV* save_ary(GV *gv), HV* save_hash(GV *gv), void save_item(SV *item), void save_list(SV **sarg, I32 maxsarg), SV* save_svref(SV **sptr), void save_aptr(AV **aptr), void save_hptr(HV **hptr)

    Subroutines
    XSUBs and the Argument Stack
    Calling Perl Routines from within C Programs
    Memory Allocation
    PerlIO
    Putting a C value on Perl stack
    Scratchpads
    Scratchpads and recursion
    Compiled code
    Code tree
    Examining the tree
    Compile pass 1: check routines
    Compile pass 1a: constant folding
    Compile pass 2: context propagation
    Compile pass 3: peephole optimization
    Pluggable runops
    Examining internal data structures with the dump functions
    How multiple interpreters and concurrency are supported
    Background and PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
    So what happened to dTHR?
    How do I use all this in extensions?
    Should I do anything special if I call perl from multiple threads?
    Future Plans and PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
    Internal Functions

    A, p, d, s, n, r, f, M, o, x, m, X, E, b, others

    Formatted Printing of IVs, UVs, and NVs
    Pointer-To-Integer and Integer-To-Pointer
    Exception Handling
    Source Documentation
    Backwards compatibility
    Unicode Support
    What is Unicode, anyway?
    How can I recognise a UTF-8 string?
    How does UTF-8 represent Unicode characters?
    How does Perl store UTF-8 strings?
    Is there anything else I need to know?
    Custom Operators
    AUTHORS
    SEE ALSO

    perlcall - Perl calling conventions from C

    DESCRIPTION

    An Error Handler, An Event Driven Program

    THE CALL_ FUNCTIONS

    call_sv, call_pv, call_method, call_argv

    FLAG VALUES
    G_VOID
    G_SCALAR
    G_ARRAY
    G_DISCARD
    G_EVAL
    G_KEEPERR
    Determining the Context
    EXAMPLES
    No Parameters, Nothing returned
    Passing Parameters
    Returning a Scalar
    Returning a list of values
    Returning a list in a scalar context
    Returning Data from Perl via the parameter list
    Using G_EVAL
    Using G_KEEPERR
    Using call_sv
    Using call_argv
    Using call_method
    Using GIMME_V
    Using Perl to dispose of temporaries
    Strategies for storing Callback Context Information

    1. Ignore the problem - Allow only 1 callback, 2. Create a sequence of callbacks - hard wired limit, 3. Use a parameter to map to the Perl callback

    Alternate Stack Manipulation
    Creating and calling an anonymous subroutine in C
    LIGHTWEIGHT CALLBACKS
    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR
    DATE

    perlreapi - perl regular expression plugin interface

    DESCRIPTION
    Callbacks
    comp

    /m - RXf_PMf_MULTILINE, /s - RXf_PMf_SINGLELINE, /i - RXf_PMf_FOLD, /x - RXf_PMf_EXTENDED, /p - RXf_PMf_KEEPCOPY, RXf_SKIPWHITE, RXf_PMf_LOCALE, RXf_UTF8, RXf_START_ONLY, RXf_WHITE

    exec
    intuit
    checkstr
    free
    Numbered capture callbacks
    Named capture callbacks
    qr_package
    dupe
    The REGEXP structure
    engine
    mother_re
    extflags
    minlen minlenret
    gofs
    substrs
    nparens, lasparen, and lastcloseparen
    intflags
    pprivate
    swap
    offs
    precomp prelen
    paren_names
    substrs
    subbeg sublen saved_copy
    wrapped wraplen
    seen_evals
    refcnt
    HISTORY
    AUTHORS
    LICENSE

    perlreguts - Description of the Perl regular expression engine.

    DESCRIPTION
    OVERVIEW
    A quick note on terms
    What is a regular expression engine?
    Structure of a Regexp Program

    regnode_1, regnode_2, regnode_string, regnode_charclass, regnode_charclass_class

    Process Overview

    A. Compilation, 1. Parsing for size, 2. Parsing for construction, 3. Peep-hole optimisation and analysis, B. Execution, 4. Start position and no-match optimisations, 5. Program execution

    Compilation

    anchored fixed strings, floating fixed strings, minimum and maximum length requirements, start class, Beginning/End of line positions

    Execution
    MISCELLANEOUS
    Unicode and Localisation Support
    Base Structures

    swap, offsets, regstclass, data, program

    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR
    LICENCE
    REFERENCES

    perlapi - autogenerated documentation for the perl public API

    DESCRIPTION
    "Gimme" Values

    GIMME , GIMME_V , G_ARRAY , G_DISCARD , G_EVAL , G_SCALAR , G_VOID

    Array Manipulation Functions

    AvFILL , av_clear , av_create_and_push , av_create_and_unshift_one , av_delete , av_exists , av_extend , av_fetch , av_fill , av_len , av_make , av_pop , av_push , av_shift , av_store , av_undef , av_unshift , get_av , newAV , sortsv , sortsv_flags

    Callback Functions

    call_argv , call_method , call_pv , call_sv , ENTER , eval_pv , eval_sv , FREETMPS , LEAVE , SAVETMPS

    Character classes

    isALNUM , isALPHA , isDIGIT , isLOWER , isSPACE , isUPPER , toLOWER , toUPPER

    CV Manipulation Functions

    get_cv , get_cvn_flags

    Embedding Functions

    cv_undef , load_module , nothreadhook , perl_alloc , perl_construct , perl_destruct , perl_free , perl_parse , perl_run , require_pv

    Functions in file dump.c

    pv_display , pv_escape , pv_pretty

    Functions in file mathoms.c

    pack_cat , sv_2pv_nolen , sv_catpvn_mg , sv_catsv_mg , sv_force_normal , sv_iv , sv_nolocking , sv_nounlocking , sv_nv , sv_pv , sv_pvn , sv_unref , sv_usepvn , sv_usepvn_mg , sv_uv , unpack_str

    Functions in file pp_ctl.c

    find_runcv

    Functions in file pp_pack.c

    packlist , unpackstring

    GV Functions

    GvSV , gv_fetchmeth , gv_fetchmethod , gv_stashpv , gv_stashpvn , gv_stashpvs , gv_stashsv

    Handy Values

    Nullav , Nullch , Nullcv , Nullhv , Nullsv

    Hash Manipulation Functions

    get_hv , HEf_SVKEY , HeHASH , HeKEY , HeKLEN , HePV , HeSVKEY , HeSVKEY_force , HeSVKEY_set , HeVAL , HvNAME , hv_assert , hv_clear , hv_clear_placeholders , hv_delete , hv_delete_ent , hv_exists , hv_exists_ent , hv_fetch , hv_fetchs , hv_fetch_ent , hv_iterinit , hv_iterkey , hv_iterkeysv , hv_iternext , hv_iternextsv , hv_iternext_flags , hv_iterval , hv_magic , hv_scalar , hv_stores , hv_undef , newHV

    Magical Functions

    mg_clear , mg_copy , mg_find , mg_free , mg_magical , mg_set , SvLOCK , SvSETMAGIC , SvSetMagicSV , SvSetMagicSV_nosteal , SvSetSV , SvSetSV_nosteal , SvSHARE , SvUNLOCK

    Memory Management

    Copy , CopyD , Move , MoveD , Newx , Newxc , Newxz , Poison , PoisonFree , PoisonNew , PoisonWith , Renew , Renewc , Safefree , savepv , savepvn , savepvs , savesharedpv , savesharedpvn , savesvpv , StructCopy , Zero , ZeroD

    Miscellaneous Functions

    fbm_compile , fbm_instr , form , getcwd_sv , my_snprintf , my_sprintf , my_vsnprintf , new_version , scan_version , strEQ , strGE , strGT , strLE , strLT , strNE , strnEQ , strnNE , sv_nosharing , upg_version , vcmp , vnormal , vnumify , vstringify , vverify

    MRO Functions

    mro_get_linear_isa , mro_method_changed_in

    Numeric functions

    grok_bin , grok_hex , grok_number , grok_numeric_radix , grok_oct , Perl_signbit , scan_bin , scan_hex , scan_oct

    Optree Manipulation Functions

    cv_const_sv , newCONSTSUB , newXS

    Pad Data Structures

    pad_sv

    Per-Interpreter Variables

    PL_modglobal , PL_na , PL_sv_no , PL_sv_undef , PL_sv_yes

    REGEXP Functions

    SvRX , SvRXOK

    Simple Exception Handling Macros

    dXCPT , XCPT_CATCH , XCPT_RETHROW , XCPT_TRY_END , XCPT_TRY_START

    Stack Manipulation Macros

    dMARK , dORIGMARK , dSP , EXTEND , MARK , mPUSHi , mPUSHn , mPUSHp , mPUSHs , mPUSHu , mXPUSHi , mXPUSHn , mXPUSHp , mXPUSHs , mXPUSHu , ORIGMARK , POPi , POPl , POPn , POPpbytex , POPpx , POPs , PUSHi , PUSHMARK , PUSHmortal , PUSHn , PUSHp , PUSHs , PUSHu , PUTBACK , SP , SPAGAIN , XPUSHi , XPUSHmortal , XPUSHn , XPUSHp , XPUSHs , XPUSHu , XSRETURN , XSRETURN_EMPTY , XSRETURN_IV , XSRETURN_NO , XSRETURN_NV , XSRETURN_PV , XSRETURN_UNDEF , XSRETURN_UV , XSRETURN_YES , XST_mIV , XST_mNO , XST_mNV , XST_mPV , XST_mUNDEF , XST_mYES

    SV Flags

    svtype , SVt_IV , SVt_NV , SVt_PV , SVt_PVAV , SVt_PVCV , SVt_PVHV , SVt_PVMG

    SV Manipulation Functions

    get_sv , newRV_inc , SvCUR , SvCUR_set , SvEND , SvGROW , SvIOK , SvIOKp , SvIOK_notUV , SvIOK_off , SvIOK_on , SvIOK_only , SvIOK_only_UV , SvIOK_UV , SvIsCOW , SvIsCOW_shared_hash , SvIV , SvIVX , SvIV_nomg , SvIV_set , SvLEN , SvLEN_set , SvMAGIC_set , SvNIOK , SvNIOKp , SvNIOK_off , SvNOK , SvNOKp , SvNOK_off , SvNOK_on , SvNOK_only , SvNV , SvNVX , SvNV_set , SvOK , SvOOK , SvOOK_offset , SvPOK , SvPOKp , SvPOK_off , SvPOK_on , SvPOK_only , SvPV , SvPVX , SvPVx , SvPV_force , SvPV_force_nomg , SvPV_nolen , SvPV_set , SvREFCNT , SvREFCNT_dec , SvREFCNT_inc , SvREFCNT_inc_NN , SvREFCNT_inc_void , SvREFCNT_inc_void_NN , SvROK , SvROK_off , SvROK_on , SvRV , SvRV_set , SvSTASH , SvSTASH_set , SvTRUE , SvTYPE , SvUOK , SvUPGRADE , SvUV , SvUVX , SvUV_nomg , SvUV_set , sv_catpvn_nomg , sv_catsv_nomg , sv_derived_from , sv_does , sv_report_used , sv_setsv_nomg

    SV-Body Allocation

    looks_like_number , newRV_noinc , newSV , newSVhek , newSViv , newSVnv , newSVpv , newSVpvf , newSVpvn , newSVpvn_flags , newSVpvn_share , newSVpvs , newSVpvs_flags , newSVpvs_share , newSVrv , newSVsv , newSVuv , newSV_type , sv_2bool , sv_2cv , sv_2io , sv_2iv , sv_2mortal , sv_2nv , sv_2pv_flags , sv_2uv , sv_backoff , sv_bless , sv_catpv , sv_catpvf , sv_catpvf_mg , sv_catpvn , sv_catpvn_flags , sv_catpvs , sv_catpv_mg , sv_catsv , sv_catsv_flags , sv_chop , sv_clear , sv_cmp , sv_copypv , sv_dec , sv_eq , sv_force_normal_flags , sv_free , sv_gets , sv_grow , sv_inc , sv_insert , sv_isa , sv_isobject , sv_len , sv_len_utf8 , sv_magic , sv_magicext , sv_mortalcopy , sv_newmortal , sv_newref , sv_pos_b2u , sv_pos_u2b , sv_pvn_force , sv_pvn_force_flags , sv_reftype , sv_replace , sv_rvweaken , sv_setiv , sv_setiv_mg , sv_setnv , sv_setnv_mg , sv_setpv , sv_setpvf , sv_setpvf_mg , sv_setpviv , sv_setpviv_mg , sv_setpvn , sv_setpvn_mg , sv_setpvs , sv_setpv_mg , sv_setref_iv , sv_setref_nv , sv_setref_pv , sv_setref_pvn , sv_setref_uv , sv_setsv , sv_setsv_flags , sv_setsv_mg , sv_setuv , sv_setuv_mg , sv_true , sv_unmagic , sv_unref_flags , sv_upgrade , sv_usepvn_flags , sv_vcatpvf , sv_vcatpvfn , sv_vcatpvf_mg , sv_vsetpvf , sv_vsetpvfn , sv_vsetpvf_mg

    Unicode Support

    bytes_from_utf8 , bytes_to_utf8 , ibcmp_utf8 , is_utf8_char , is_utf8_string , is_utf8_string_loc , is_utf8_string_loclen , pv_uni_display , sv_recode_to_utf8 , sv_uni_display , to_utf8_case , to_utf8_fold , to_utf8_lower , to_utf8_title , to_utf8_upper , utf8n_to_uvchr , utf8n_to_uvuni , utf8_distance , utf8_hop , utf8_length , utf8_to_bytes , utf8_to_uvchr , utf8_to_uvuni , uvchr_to_utf8 , uvuni_to_utf8_flags

    Variables created by xsubpp and xsubpp internal functions

    ax , CLASS , dAX , dAXMARK , dITEMS , dUNDERBAR , dXSARGS , dXSI32 , items , ix , newXSproto , RETVAL , ST , THIS , UNDERBAR , XS , XS_VERSION , XS_VERSION_BOOTCHECK

    Warning and Dieing

    croak , warn

    AUTHORS
    SEE ALSO

    perlintern - autogenerated documentation of purely internal Perl functions

    DESCRIPTION
    Functions in file pad.h

    CX_CURPAD_SAVE , CX_CURPAD_SV , PAD_BASE_SV , PAD_CLONE_VARS , PAD_COMPNAME_FLAGS , PAD_COMPNAME_GEN , PAD_COMPNAME_GEN_set , PAD_COMPNAME_OURGV , PAD_COMPNAME_PV , PAD_COMPNAME_TYPE , PAD_DUP , PAD_RESTORE_LOCAL , PAD_SAVE_LOCAL , PAD_SAVE_SETNULLPAD , PAD_SETSV , PAD_SET_CUR , PAD_SET_CUR_NOSAVE , PAD_SV , PAD_SVl , SAVECLEARSV , SAVECOMPPAD , SAVEPADSV

    Magical Functions

    mg_localize

    MRO Functions

    mro_get_linear_isa_c3 , mro_isa_changed_in

    Pad Data Structures

    CvPADLIST , cv_dump , do_dump_pad , intro_my , pad_add_anon , pad_add_name , pad_alloc , pad_block_start , pad_check_dup , pad_findlex , pad_findmy , pad_free , pad_leavemy , pad_new , pad_push , pad_reset , pad_setsv , pad_swipe , pad_tidy , pad_undef

    Per-Interpreter Variables

    PL_DBsingle , PL_DBsub , PL_DBtrace , PL_dowarn , PL_ofs_sv , PL_rs

    Stack Manipulation Macros

    djSP

    SV Manipulation Functions

    sv_add_arena , sv_free_arenas

    SV-Body Allocation

    sv_2num

    Unicode Support

    find_uninit_var , report_uninit

    AUTHORS
    SEE ALSO

    perliol - C API for Perl's implementation of IO in Layers.

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    History and Background
    Basic Structure
    Layers vs Disciplines
    Data Structures
    Functions and Attributes
    Per-instance Data
    Layers in action.
    Per-instance flag bits

    PERLIO_F_EOF, PERLIO_F_CANWRITE, PERLIO_F_CANREAD, PERLIO_F_ERROR, PERLIO_F_TRUNCATE, PERLIO_F_APPEND, PERLIO_F_CRLF, PERLIO_F_UTF8, PERLIO_F_UNBUF, PERLIO_F_WRBUF, PERLIO_F_RDBUF, PERLIO_F_LINEBUF, PERLIO_F_TEMP, PERLIO_F_OPEN, PERLIO_F_FASTGETS

    Methods in Detail

    fsize, name, size, kind, PERLIO_K_BUFFERED, PERLIO_K_RAW, PERLIO_K_CANCRLF, PERLIO_K_FASTGETS, PERLIO_K_MULTIARG, Pushed, Popped, Open, Binmode, Getarg, Fileno, Dup, Read, Write, Seek, Tell, Close, Flush, Fill, Eof, Error, Clearerr, Setlinebuf, Get_base, Get_bufsiz, Get_ptr, Get_cnt, Set_ptrcnt

    Utilities
    Implementing PerlIO Layers

    C implementations, Perl implementations

    Core Layers

    "unix", "perlio", "stdio", "crlf", "mmap", "pending", "raw", "utf8"

    Extension Layers

    ":encoding", ":scalar", ":via"

    TODO

    perlapio - perl's IO abstraction interface.

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    1. USE_STDIO, 2. USE_SFIO, 3. USE_PERLIO, PerlIO_stdin(), PerlIO_stdout(), PerlIO_stderr(), PerlIO_open(path, mode), PerlIO_fdopen(fd,mode), PerlIO_reopen(path,mode,f), PerlIO_printf(f,fmt,...), PerlIO_vprintf(f,fmt,a), PerlIO_stdoutf(fmt,...), PerlIO_read(f,buf,count), PerlIO_write(f,buf,count), PerlIO_close(f), PerlIO_puts(f,s), PerlIO_putc(f,c), PerlIO_ungetc(f,c), PerlIO_getc(f), PerlIO_eof(f), PerlIO_error(f), PerlIO_fileno(f), PerlIO_clearerr(f), PerlIO_flush(f), PerlIO_seek(f,offset,whence), PerlIO_tell(f), PerlIO_getpos(f,p), PerlIO_setpos(f,p), PerlIO_rewind(f), PerlIO_tmpfile(), PerlIO_setlinebuf(f)

    Co-existence with stdio

    PerlIO_importFILE(f,mode), PerlIO_exportFILE(f,mode), PerlIO_releaseFILE(p,f), PerlIO_findFILE(f)

    "Fast gets" Functions

    PerlIO_fast_gets(f), PerlIO_has_cntptr(f), PerlIO_get_cnt(f), PerlIO_get_ptr(f), PerlIO_set_ptrcnt(f,p,c), PerlIO_canset_cnt(f), PerlIO_set_cnt(f,c), PerlIO_has_base(f), PerlIO_get_base(f), PerlIO_get_bufsiz(f)

    Other Functions

    PerlIO_apply_layers(f,mode,layers), PerlIO_binmode(f,ptype,imode,layers), '<' read, '>' write, '+' read/write, PerlIO_debug(fmt,...)

    perlhack - How to hack at the Perl internals

    DESCRIPTION

    Does concept match the general goals of Perl?, Where is the implementation?, Backwards compatibility, Could it be a module instead?, Is the feature generic enough?, Does it potentially introduce new bugs?, Does it preclude other desirable features?, Is the implementation robust?, Is the implementation generic enough to be portable?, Is the implementation tested?, Is there enough documentation?, Is there another way to do it?, Does it create too much work?, Patches speak louder than words

    Keeping in sync

    rsync'ing the source tree, Using rsync over the LAN, Using pushing over the NFS, rsync'ing the patches

    Why rsync the source tree

    It's easier to rsync the source tree, It's more reliable

    Why rsync the patches

    It's easier to rsync the patches, It's a good reference, Finding a start point, Finding how to fix a bug, Finding the source of misbehaviour

    Working with the source
    Perlbug administration
    Submitting patches

    the perlguts manpage, the perlxstut manpage and the perlxs manpage, the perlapi manpage, Porting/pumpkin.pod, The perl5-porters FAQ

    Finding Your Way Around

    Core modules, Tests, Documentation, Configure, Interpreter

    Elements of the interpreter

    Startup, Parsing, Optimization, Running, Exception handing

    Internal Variable Types
    Op Trees
    Stacks

    Argument stack, Mark stack, Save stack

    Millions of Macros
    The .i Targets
    SOURCE CODE STATIC ANALYSIS
    lint, splint
    Coverity
    cpd (cut-and-paste detector)
    gcc warnings
    Warnings of other C compilers
    DEBUGGING
    Poking at Perl
    Using a source-level debugger

    run [args], break function_name, break source.c:xxx, step, next, continue, finish, 'enter', print

    gdb macro support
    Dumping Perl Data Structures
    Patching
    Patching a core module
    Adding a new function to the core
    Writing a test

    t/base/, t/cmd/, t/comp/, t/io/, t/lib/, t/mro/, t/op/, t/pod/, t/run/, t/uni/, t/win32/, t/base t/comp, t/cmd t/run t/io t/op, t/lib ext lib

    Special Make Test Targets

    coretest, test.deparse, test.taintwarn, minitest, test.valgrind check.valgrind utest.valgrind ucheck.valgrind, test.third check.third utest.third ucheck.third, test.torture torturetest, utest ucheck test.utf8 check.utf8, minitest.utf16 test.utf16, test_harness, test-notty test_notty

    Running tests by hand

    -v, -torture, -re=PATTERN, -re LIST OF PATTERNS, PERL_CORE=1, PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL=2, PERL, PERL_SKIP_TTY_TEST, PERL_TEST_Net_Ping, PERL_TEST_NOVREXX, PERL_TEST_NUMCONVERTS

    Common problems when patching Perl source code
    Perl environment problems
    Portability problems
    Problematic System Interfaces
    Security problems
    EXTERNAL TOOLS FOR DEBUGGING PERL
    Rational Software's Purify
    Purify on Unix

    -Accflags=-DPURIFY, -Doptimize='-g', -Uusemymalloc, -Dusemultiplicity

    Purify on NT

    DEFINES, USE_MULTI = define, #PERL_MALLOC = define, CFG = Debug

    valgrind
    Compaq's/Digital's/HP's Third Degree
    PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL
    PERL_MEM_LOG
    Profiling
    Gprof Profiling

    -a, -b, -e routine, -f routine, -s, -z

    GCC gcov Profiling
    Pixie Profiling

    -h, -l, -p[rocedures], -h[eavy], -i[nvocations], -l[ines], -testcoverage, -z[ero]

    Miscellaneous tricks
    CONCLUSION

    The Road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began.

    AUTHOR

    perlbook - Perl book information

    DESCRIPTION

    perlcommunity - a brief overview of the Perl community

    DESCRIPTION
    Where to find the community
    Mailing lists and Newsgroups
    IRC
    Websites

    http://perl.com/, http://use.perl.org/, http://www.perlmonks.org/

    User Groups
    Workshops
    Hackathons
    Conventions
    Calendar of Perl Events
    AUTHOR

    kurilatodo - Perl Kurila TO-DO List

    DESCRIPTION
    Items
    Rename execute to kurila
    Check all sub references at the end
    Use $method for sub calls without arguments
    Use : with layout syntax for sub calls.
    Make formal sub arguments obligatory
    Remove prototypes from XS
    Lexical scoped subroutines imports
    Lexical scoped $^EVAL_ERROR
    Replace hash iteration with something like for (pairs $h)
    Remove duplication of test setup.
    merge common code in installperl and installman
    common test code for timed bail out
    POD -> HTML conversion in the core still sucks
    merge checkpods and podchecker
    A decent benchmark
    make HTML install work
    compressed man pages
    Add a code coverage target to the Makefile
    Make Config.pm cope with differences between built and installed perl
    linker specification files
    Cross-compile support
    roffitall
    Weed out needless PERL_UNUSED_ARG
    Modernize the order of directories in @INC
    -Duse32bit*
    Make it clear from -v if this is the exact official release
    Profile Perl - am I hot or not?
    Allocate OPs from arenas
    Improve win32/wince.c
    Use secure CRT functions when building with VC8 on Win32
    strcat(), strcpy(), strncat(), strncpy(), sprintf(), vsprintf()
    -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2, -fstack-protector
    Arenas for GPs? For MAGIC?
    readpipe(LIST)
    Audit the code for destruction ordering assumptions
    Extend PerlIO and PerlIO::Scalar
    Propagate const outwards from Perl_moreswitches()
    Organize error messages
    lexicals used only once
    UTF-8 revamp
    Properly Unicode safe tokeniser and pads.
    A does() built-in
    Attach/detach debugger from running program
    regexp optimiser optional
    delete &function
    /w regex modifier
    optional optimizer
    You WANT *how* many
    lexical aliases
    entersub XS vs Perl
    Self-ties
    Optimize away @_
    The yada yada yada operators
    Virtualize operating system access
    Investigate PADTMP hash pessimisation
    Big projects
    make ithreads more robust
    iCOW
    (?{...}) closures in regexps
    A re-entrant regexp engine
    Add class set operations to regexp engine

    perldoc - Look up Perl documentation in Pod format.

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    OPTIONS

    -h, -v, -t, -u, -m module, -l, -F, -f perlfunc, -q perlfaq-search-regexp, -T, -d destination-filename, -o output-formatname, -M module-name, -w option:value or -w option, -X, -L language_code, PageName|ModuleName|ProgramName, -n some-formatter, -r, -i, -V

    SECURITY
    ENVIRONMENT
    AUTHOR

    kurila121delta - what is new for Perl Kurila 1.21

    DESCRIPTION
    Highlights In Perl Kurila 1.21
    Core Enhancements
    Layout based syntax for arrays and hashes using the @: and %: operators
    &foo returns a CODE
    Defined on a subroutine dereference reference must exist
    Subroutine references saved at compile time
    Operator to call subs <:
    KNOWN BUGS
    Documentation
    Limited platform support
    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY

    kurila120delta - what is new for Perl Kurila 1.20

    DESCRIPTION
    Highlights In Perl Kurila 1.20
    Core Enhancements
    Layout
    New syntax for loops which are executed at least once
    Derefence can only be done using postfix dereference
    KNOWN BUGS
    Documentation
    Self referential assignment problems
    Limited platform support
    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY

    kurila119delta - what is new for Perl Kurila 1.19

    DESCRIPTION
    Highlights In Perl Kurila 1.19
    Core Enhancements
    Subs can be used as l-values
    Formal parameters
    local does not set the operand to undef
    STDOUT, STDERR, STDIN renamed to $^STDOUT, $^STDERR, $^STDIN
    KNOWN BUGS
    Documentation
    Self referential assignment problems
    Limited platform support
    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY

    kurila118delta - what is new for Perl Kurila 1.18

    DESCRIPTION
    Highlights In Perl Kurila 1.18
    Core Enhancements
    New operators +@+, +%+, @+: and %+:
    { ... } generated a coderef
    Removed goto
    Comma after first argument
    No default filehandle
    KNOWN BUGS
    Documentation
    Self referential assignment problems
    Limited platform support
    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY

    kurila117delta - what is new for Perl Kurila 1.17

    DESCRIPTION
    Highlights In Perl Kurila 1.17
    Core Enhancements
    Renaming special variables
    Special variables are evaluated where declared.
    Removed 'tie'
    Dynamic scope
    KNOWN BUGS
    Documentation
    Self referential assignment problems
    Limited platform support
    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY

    kurila116delta - what is new for Perl Kurila 1.16

    DESCRIPTION
    Highlights In Perl Kurila 1.16
    Core Enhancements
    Structured assignments
    Controlled hash and array element access and creation
    Removed list assigments
    KNOWN BUGS
    Documentation
    Self referential assignment problems
    Tied hashes with complex data
    Limited platform support
    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY

    kurila115delta - what is new for Perl Kurila 1.15

    DESCRIPTION
    Highlights In Perl Kurila 1.15
    Core Enhancements
    blocks must be executed with do
    Lexical scoped $_ in for and while(~<$fh) blocks
    pos and vec use have an additional argument instead of use of lvalue.
    Minor changes

    for loops can only be used with arrays, not as a C-style for loop, No calling implicit passing of @_ when calling a sub with &, do can only be used to execute a block or a file, not to call a sub, Code execution inside a string using {} has been removed, goto can only be used to goto subroutines, not to go to a label, The subroutine argument variable @_, is now a lexical variable

    Lots of bugfixes
    KNOWN BUGS
    Documentation
    Self referential assignment problems
    Tied hashes with complex data
    Limited platform support
    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY

    kurila114delta - what is new for Perl Kurila 1.14

    DESCRIPTION
    Highlights In Perl Kurila 1.14
    Core Enhancements
    Built-in function using arrays
    Circular dependencies are not allowed
    Error reporting reports error to the exact position, including character offset
    Removal overloading
    KNOWN BUGS
    Documentation
    Memory leaks
    Self referential assignment problems
    Tied hashes with complex data
    Limited platform support
    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY

    kurila113delta - what is new for Perl Kurila 1.13

    DESCRIPTION
    Highlights In Perl Kurila 1.13
    Core Enhancements
    Values can be any type
    expand operator <
    Subroutines always return a scalar; wantarray keyword removed
    New operators nelems and nkeys
    Only Hashes can be tied
    KNOWN BUGS
    Documentation
    Extensive use of lists
    Self referential assignment problems
    Tied hashes with complex data
    Limited platform support
    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY

    kurila112delta - what is new for Perl Kurila 1.12

    DESCRIPTION
    Highlights In Perl Kurila 1.12
    Core Enhancements
    Using a list in scalar context will raise an error
    All variables must be declared or fully qualifyed as with use strict vars
    eval BOCK has been renamed to try BLOCK
    Removal of the transliteration operator
    The magic variables $&, $` and $' are removed.
    KNOWN BUGS
    Documentation
    Limited platform support
    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY

    kurila111delta - what is new for Perl Kurila 1.11

    DESCRIPTION
    Highlights In Perl Kurila 1.11
    Core Enhancements
    New anonymous array and hash constructors: @(...) and %(...)
    Removal [...] and {...}
    KNOWN BUGS
    Documentation
    Limited platform support
    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY

    kurila110delta - what is new for Perl Kurila 1.10

    DESCRIPTION
    Highlights In Perl Kurila 1.10
    Core Enhancements
    Sigil refering to the variable type.
    Changed slice syntax
    No curly braces allowed around variables
    Error on $#array
    KNOWN BUGS
    Documentation
    Limited platform support
    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY

    kurila19delta - what is new for Perl Kurila 1.9

    DESCRIPTION
    Highlights In Perl Kurila 1.9
    Core Enhancements
    Conversion of a reference to a string raises an error
    New reference comparison operators \== and \!=
    Integrate bleadperl changes upto Change 33541
    KNOWN BUGS
    Documentation
    Limited platform support
    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY

    kurila18delta - what is new for Perl Kurila 1.8

    DESCRIPTION
    Highlights In Perl Kurila 1.8
    Core Enhancements
    die and warn create error objects
    $SIG{__DIE__} and $SIG{__WARN__} renamed to ${^DIE_HOOK} and ${^WARN_HOOK}
    Minor language changes
    KNOWN BUGS
    Documentation
    Limited platform support
    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY

    kurila17delta - what is new for Perl Kurila 1.7

    DESCRIPTION
    Highlights In Perl Kurila 1.7
    Core Enhancements
    Block interpolation using {...} inside double quoted strings
    Numeric comparison operators renamed.
    Interpolation independent of the delimiter
    No-escaping within single quotes
    Substitute modifier s///e is removed
    Obligatory m in front of matches.
    Renamed readline <> operator to ~<
    open must have a separate mode and filename
    Removal of $]
    KNOWN BUGS
    Documentation
    Limited platform support
    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY

    kurila16delta - what is new for Perl Kurila 1.6

    DESCRIPTION
    Highlights In Perl Kurila 1.6
    Core Enhancements
    An error is raised if an undefined subroutine is called.
    v-strings create 'version' objects.
    v-syntax must be used to do version checks
    Globs throw an error when stringified or numified.
    Modules and Pragmas
    Removal of the modules AutoLoader, AutoSplit, SelfLoader, Encode::Encoder, FileCache, Object::Accessor, NEXT, Shell
    Adjustment for removal of AUTOLOAD
    KNOWN BUGS
    Documentation
    Limited platform support
    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY

    kurila15delta - what is new for Perl Kurila 1.5

    DESCRIPTION
    Highlights In Perl Kurila 1.5
    Core Enhancements
    New dereference syntax: $ref->$, $ref->@, $ref->%, $ref->&, $ref->*
    Method calls using $obj->?$name instead of $obj->$name
    Improved Perl 5 to Kurila conversion script.
    The bit operators &, |, ^, ~ are renamed to ^&^, ^|^, ^^^, ^~^.
    use kurila 1.5 should be used to indicate kurila is required.
    In m/$term[...]/ the [...] always indicates a subscript and never a character class
    Removal of the match once ?PATTERN? operator
    The .. operator in scalar context (the flip-flop operator) will give an error.
    The dbmopen, dbmclose and reset keywords have been removed.
    Integrate bleadperl changes
    KNOWN BUGS
    Documentation
    Limited platform support
    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY

    kurila14delta - what is new for Perl Kurila 1.4

    DESCRIPTION
    Highlights In Perl Kurila 1.4
    CONSIDERATIONS

    Place of recognizing the token, Ignoring of parentheses, Difficulty generating correct optrees, The name

    KNOWN BUGS
    Documentation
    Limited platform support
    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY

    kurila13delta - what is new for Perl Kurila 1.3

    DESCRIPTION
    Highlights In Perl Kurila 1.3
    Core Enhancements
    Dereference of a string will always give an error
    The <> operator no longer supports glob patterns.
    Default method resolution changed to C3
    "use strict 'subs'" is default on
    Typed declarations are no longer possible
    Internal bleadperl changes
    KNOWN BUGS
    Documentation
    Limited platform support
    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY

    kurila01delta - what is new for Perl Kurila 0.1

    DESCRIPTION
    Highlights In Kurila 0.1
    Core Enhancements
    Lexical scoped byte vs codepoint semantics
    Internal encoding using UTF-8
    \x...
    /u pattern option
    Indirect object syntax removed
    formats removed
    Modules and Pragmata
    New Modules and Pragmata

    Perl6::Form, by Damian Conway, is a replacement for the removed format and formline keywords. Slightly modified as not to depend on Perl6::Export

    Updated Modules And Pragmata
    Deleted Modules and Pragmata

    locale, the locale pramga has been removed

    KNOWN BUGS
    Documentation
    Limited platform support
    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY

    kurila02delta - what is new for Perl Kurila 0.2

    DESCRIPTION
    Highlights In Kurila 0.2
    Core Enhancements
    Claim to be kurila on more places
    Internal bleadperl changes
    KNOWN BUGS
    Documentation
    Limited platform support
    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY

    perlhist - the Perl history records

    DESCRIPTION
    INTRODUCTION
    THE KEEPERS OF THE PUMPKIN
    PUMPKIN?
    THE RECORDS
    SELECTED RELEASE SIZES
    SELECTED PATCH SIZES
    THE KEEPERS OF THE RECORDS

    perldelta - what is new for perl v5.11.0

    DESCRIPTION
    Incompatible Changes
    Core Enhancements
    Modules and Pragmata
    Utility Changes
    Documentation
    Performance Enhancements
    Installation and Configuration Improvements
    Selected Bug Fixes
    New or Changed Diagnostics
    Changed Internals
    Known Problems
    Platform Specific Problems
    Reporting Bugs
    SEE ALSO

    perl5110delta, perldelta - what is new for perl v5.11.0

    DESCRIPTION
    Incompatible Changes
    Core Enhancements
    Modules and Pragmata
    Utility Changes
    Documentation
    Performance Enhancements
    Installation and Configuration Improvements
    Selected Bug Fixes
    New or Changed Diagnostics
    Changed Internals
    Known Problems
    Platform Specific Problems
    Reporting Bugs
    SEE ALSO

    perl5100delta - what is new for perl 5.10.0

    DESCRIPTION
    Core Enhancements
    The feature pragma
    New -E command-line switch
    Defined-or operator
    Switch and Smart Match operator
    Regular expressions

    Recursive Patterns, Named Capture Buffers, Possessive Quantifiers, Backtracking control verbs, Relative backreferences, \K escape, Vertical and horizontal whitespace, and linebreak

    say()
    Lexical $_
    The _ prototype
    UNITCHECK blocks
    New Pragma, mro
    readdir() may return a "short filename" on Windows
    readpipe() is now overridable
    Default argument for readline()
    state() variables
    Stacked filetest operators
    UNIVERSAL::DOES()
    Formats
    Byte-order modifiers for pack() and unpack()
    no VERSION
    chdir, chmod and chown on filehandles
    OS groups
    Recursive sort subs
    Exceptions in constant folding
    Source filters in @INC
    New internal variables

    ${^RE_DEBUG_FLAGS}, ${^CHILD_ERROR_NATIVE}, ${^RE_TRIE_MAXBUF}, ${^WIN32_SLOPPY_STAT}

    Miscellaneous
    UCD 5.0.0
    MAD
    kill() on Windows
    Incompatible Changes
    Packing and UTF-8 strings
    Byte/character count feature in unpack()
    The $* and $# variables have been removed
    substr() lvalues are no longer fixed-length
    Parsing of -f _
    :unique
    Effect of pragmas in eval
    chdir FOO
    Handling of .pmc files
    $^V is now a version object instead of a v-string
    @- and @+ in patterns
    $AUTOLOAD can now be tainted
    Tainting and printf
    undef and signal handlers
    strictures and dereferencing in defined()
    (?p{}) has been removed
    Pseudo-hashes have been removed
    Removal of the bytecode compiler and of perlcc
    Removal of the JPL
    Recursive inheritance detected earlier
    Modules and Pragmata
    Upgrading individual core modules
    Pragmata Changes

    feature, mro, Scoping of the sort pragma, Scoping of bignum, bigint, bigrat, base, strict and warnings, version, warnings, less

    New modules
    Selected Changes to Core Modules

    Attribute::Handlers, B::Lint, B, Thread

    Utility Changes

    perl -d, ptar, ptardiff, shasum, corelist, h2ph and h2xs, perlivp, find2perl, config_data, cpanp, cpan2dist, pod2html

    New Documentation
    Performance Enhancements
    In-place sorting
    Lexical array access
    XS-assisted SWASHGET
    Constant subroutines
    PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
    Weak references are cheaper
    sort() enhancements
    Memory optimisations
    UTF-8 cache optimisation
    Sloppy stat on Windows
    Regular expressions optimisations

    Engine de-recursivised, Single char char-classes treated as literals, Trie optimisation of literal string alternations, Aho-Corasick start-point optimisation

    Installation and Configuration Improvements
    Configuration improvements

    -Dusesitecustomize, Relocatable installations, strlcat() and strlcpy(), d_pseudofork and d_printf_format_null, Configure help

    Compilation improvements

    Parallel build, Borland's compilers support, Static build on Windows, pport.h files, C++ compatibility, Support for Microsoft 64-bit compiler, Visual C++, Win32 builds

    Installation improvements

    Module auxiliary files

    New Or Improved Platforms
    Selected Bug Fixes

    strictures in regexp-eval blocks, Calling CORE::require(), Subscripts of slices, no warnings 'category' works correctly with -w, threads improvements, chr() and negative values, PERL5SHELL and tainting, Using *FILE{IO}, Overloading and reblessing, Overloading and UTF-8, eval memory leaks fixed, Random device on Windows, PERLIO_DEBUG, PerlIO::scalar and read-only scalars, study() and UTF-8, Critical signals, @INC-hook fix, -t switch fix, Duping UTF-8 filehandles, Localisation of hash elements

    New or Changed Diagnostics

    Use of uninitialized value, Deprecated use of my() in false conditional, !=~ should be !~, Newline in left-justified string, Too late for "-T" option, "%s" variable %s masks earlier declaration, readdir()/closedir()/etc. attempted on invalid dirhandle, Opening dirhandle/filehandle %s also as a file/directory, Use of -P is deprecated, v-string in use/require is non-portable, perl -V

    Changed Internals
    Reordering of SVt_* constants
    Elimination of SVt_PVBM
    New type SVt_BIND
    Removal of CPP symbols
    Less space is used by ops
    New parser
    Use of const
    Mathoms
    AvFLAGS has been removed
    av_* changes
    $^H and %^H
    B:: modules inheritance changed
    Anonymous hash and array constructors
    Known Problems
    UTF-8 problems
    Platform Specific Problems
    Reporting Bugs
    SEE ALSO

    perl595delta - what is new for perl v5.9.5

    DESCRIPTION
    Incompatible Changes
    Tainting and printf
    undef and signal handlers
    strictures and array/hash dereferencing in defined()
    (?p{}) has been removed
    Pseudo-hashes have been removed
    Removal of the bytecode compiler and of perlcc
    Removal of the JPL
    Recursive inheritance detected earlier
    Core Enhancements
    Regular expressions

    Recursive Patterns, Named Capture Buffers, Possessive Quantifiers, Backtracking control verbs, Relative backreferences, \K escape, Vertical and horizontal whitespace, and linebreak

    The _ prototype
    UNITCHECK blocks
    readpipe() is now overridable
    default argument for readline()
    UCD 5.0.0
    Smart match
    Implicit loading of feature
    Modules and Pragmas
    New Pragma, mro
    bignum, bigint, bigrat
    Math::BigInt/Math::BigFloat

    config(), import(), roundmode common, bpi(), bcos(), bsin(), batan(), batan2(), bmuladd(), bexp(), bnok(), from_hex(), from_oct(), and from_bin(), as_oct()

    New Core Modules
    Module changes

    assertions, base, strict and warnings, warnings, less, Attribute::Handlers, B::Lint, B, Thread

    Utility Changes
    cpanp
    pod2html
    Documentation
    New manpage, perlunifaq
    Performance Enhancements
    Installation and Configuration Improvements
    C++ compatibility
    Visual C++
    Static build on Win32
    win32 builds
    d_pseudofork and d_printf_format_null
    Help
  • bit systems
  • Ports
    Selected Bug Fixes
    New or Changed Diagnostics
    Deprecations
    Changed Internals
    Known Problems
    Platform Specific Problems
    Reporting Bugs
    SEE ALSO

    perl594delta - what is new for perl v5.9.4

    DESCRIPTION
    Incompatible Changes
    chdir FOO
    Handling of pmc files
    @- and @+ in patterns
    $AUTOLOAD can now be tainted
    Core Enhancements
    state() variables
    UNIVERSAL::DOES()
    Exceptions in constant folding
    Source filters in @INC
    MAD
    Modules and Pragmas
    New Core Modules
    Utility Changes
    config_data
    Documentation
    New manpage, perlpragma
    New manpage, perlreguts
    New manpage, perlunitut
    Performance Enhancements
    Memory optimisations
    UTF-8 cache optimisation
    Regular expressions

    Engine de-recursivised, Single char char-classes treated as literals, Trie optimisation of literal string alternations, Aho-Corasick start-point optimisation

    Sloppy stat on Windows
    Installation and Configuration Improvements
    Relocatable installations
    Ports
    Compilation improvements
    New probes
    Windows build improvements

    Building XS extensions, Support for 64-bit compiler

    Selected Bug Fixes
    PERL5SHELL and tainting
    Using *FILE{IO}
    Overloading and reblessing
    Overloading and UTF-8
    eval memory leaks fixed
    Random device on Windows
    New or Changed Diagnostics

    State variable %s will be reinitialized

    Changed Internals
    Known Problems
    Reporting Bugs
    SEE ALSO

    perl593delta - what is new for perl v5.9.3

    DESCRIPTION
    Incompatible Changes
    Parsing of -f _
    mkdir()
    Magic goto and eval
    $# has been removed
    :unique
    Scoping of the sort pragma
    Core Enhancements
    The feature pragma
    Switch and Smart Match operator
    say()
    CLONE_SKIP()
    ${^CHILD_ERROR_NATIVE}
    Assertions
    Unicode Character Database 4.1.0
    no VERSION
    Recursive sort subs
    Effect of pragmas in eval
    New -E command-line switch
    chdir, chmod and chown on filehandles
    OS groups
    Modules and Pragmata
    New Core Modules
    Utility Changes
    ptar
    ptardiff
    shasum
    h2xs enhancements
    perlivp enhancements
    Documentation
    Perl Glossary
    Performance Enhancements
    XS-assisted SWASHGET
    Constant subroutines
    PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
    Weak references are cheaper
    sort() enhancements
    Installation and Configuration Improvements
    Compilation improvements
    New Or Improved Platforms
    New probes
    Module auxiliary files
    Selected Bug Fixes
    defined $$x
    Calling CORE::require()
    Subscripts of slices
    Remove over-optimisation
    sprintf() fixes
    no warnings 'category' works correctly with -w
    Smaller fixes
    More Unicode Fixes
    New or Changed Diagnostics
    Attempt to set length of freed array
    Non-string passed as bitmask
    Search pattern not terminated or ternary operator parsed as search pattern
    "%s" variable %s masks earlier declaration
    readdir()/closedir()/etc. attempted on invalid dirhandle
    Changed Internals
    B:: modules inheritance changed
    Reporting Bugs
    SEE ALSO

    perl592delta - what is new for perl v5.9.2

    DESCRIPTION
    Incompatible Changes
    Packing and UTF-8 strings
    Miscellaneous
    Core Enhancements
    Malloc wrapping
    Unicode Character Database 4.0.1
    suidperl less insecure
    PERLIO_DEBUG
    Formats
    Unicode Character Classes
    Byte-order modifiers for pack() and unpack()
    Byte count feature in pack()
    New variables
    Modules and Pragmata
    New modules
    Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata

    B::Concise, Socket, Sys::Syslog, threads

    Utility Changes
    Performance Enhancements
    Installation and Configuration Improvements
    Selected Bug Fixes
    New or Changed Diagnostics
    Changed Internals
    Known Problems
    Plans for the next release
    Reporting Bugs
    SEE ALSO

    perl591delta - what is new for perl v5.9.1

    DESCRIPTION
    Incompatible Changes
    substr() lvalues are no longer fixed-length
    The :unique attribute is only meaningful for globals
    Core Enhancements
    Lexical $_
    Tied hashes in scalar context
    Formats
    Stacked filetest operators
    Modules and Pragmata

    Benchmark, Carp, Exporter, FindBin, List::Util, threads::shared

    Utility Changes
    Documentation
    Performance Enhancements
    Selected Bug Fixes
    UTF-8 bugs
    Threading bugs
    More bugs
    New or Changed Diagnostics
    Changed Internals
    Reordering of SVt_* constants
    Removal of CPP symbols
    Less space is used by ops
    New parser
    Configuration and Building
    Known Problems
    Platform Specific Problems
    To-do for perl 5.10.0
    Reporting Bugs
    SEE ALSO

    perl590delta - what is new for perl v5.9.0

    DESCRIPTION
    Incompatible Changes
    Hash Randomisation
    UTF-8 On Filehandles No Longer Activated By Locale
    Single-number v-strings are no longer v-strings before "=>"
    (Win32) The -C Switch Has Been Repurposed
    (Win32) The /d Switch Of cmd.exe
    The $* variable has been removed
    Core Enhancements
    Assertions
    Defined-or operators
    UTF-8 no longer default under UTF-8 locales
    Unsafe signals again available
    Tied Arrays with Negative Array Indices
    local ${$x}
    Unicode Character Database 4.0.0
    Miscellaneous Enhancements
    Modules and Pragmata
    Updated Modules And Pragmata

    base, B::Bytecode, B::Concise, B::Deparse, Benchmark, ByteLoader, bytes, CGI, charnames, CPAN, Data::Dumper, DB_File, Devel::PPPort, Digest::MD5, Encode, fields, libnet, Math::BigInt, MIME::Base64, NEXT, Net::Ping, PerlIO::scalar, podlators, Pod::LaTeX, PodParsers, Pod::Perldoc, Scalar::Util, Storable, strict, Term::ANSIcolor, Test::Harness, Test::More, Test::Simple, Text::Balanced, Time::HiRes, threads, threads::shared, Unicode::Collate, Unicode::Normalize, Win32::GetFolderPath, Win32::GetOSVersion

    Utility Changes
    New Documentation
    Performance Enhancements
    Installation and Configuration Improvements
    Platform-specific enhancements
    Selected Bug Fixes
    Closures, eval and lexicals
    Generic fixes
    Platform-specific fixes
    New or Changed Diagnostics
    Changed "A thread exited while %d threads were running"
    Removed "Attempt to clear a restricted hash"
    New "Illegal declaration of anonymous subroutine"
    Changed "Invalid range "%s" in transliteration operator"
    New "Missing control char name in \c"
    New "Newline in left-justified string for %s"
    New "Possible precedence problem on bitwise %c operator"
    New "read() on %s filehandle %s"
    New "Tied variable freed while still in use"
    New "To%s: illegal mapping '%s'"
    New "Use of freed value in iteration"
    Changed Internals
    New Tests
    Known Problems
    Tied hashes in scalar context
    Net::Ping 450_service and 510_ping_udp failures
    B::C
    Platform Specific Problems
    EBCDIC Platforms
    Cygwin 1.5 problems
    HP-UX: HP cc warnings about sendfile and sendpath
    IRIX: t/uni/tr_7jis.t falsely failing
    Mac OS X: no usemymalloc
    Tru64: No threaded builds with GNU cc (gcc)
    Win32: sysopen, sysread, syswrite
    TODO
    Reporting Bugs
    SEE ALSO

    perl588delta - what is new for perl v5.8.8

    DESCRIPTION
    Incompatible Changes
    Core Enhancements
    Modules and Pragmata
    Utility Changes
    h2xs enhancements
    perlivp enhancements
    New Documentation
    Performance Enhancements
    Installation and Configuration Improvements
    Selected Bug Fixes
    no warnings 'category' works correctly with -w
    Remove over-optimisation
    sprintf() fixes
    Debugger and Unicode slowdown
    Smaller fixes
    New or Changed Diagnostics
    Attempt to set length of freed array
    Non-string passed as bitmask
    Search pattern not terminated or ternary operator parsed as search pattern
    Changed Internals
    Platform Specific Problems
    Reporting Bugs
    SEE ALSO

    perl587delta - what is new for perl v5.8.7

    DESCRIPTION
    Incompatible Changes
    Core Enhancements
    Unicode Character Database 4.1.0
    suidperl less insecure
    Optional site customization script
    Config.pm is now much smaller.
    Modules and Pragmata
    Utility Changes
    find2perl enhancements
    Performance Enhancements
    Installation and Configuration Improvements
    Selected Bug Fixes
    New or Changed Diagnostics
    Changed Internals
    Known Problems
    Platform Specific Problems
    Reporting Bugs
    SEE ALSO

    perl586delta - what is new for perl v5.8.6

    DESCRIPTION
    Incompatible Changes
    Core Enhancements
    Modules and Pragmata
    Utility Changes
    Performance Enhancements
    Selected Bug Fixes
    New or Changed Diagnostics
    Changed Internals
    New Tests
    Reporting Bugs
    SEE ALSO

    perl585delta - what is new for perl v5.8.5

    DESCRIPTION
    Incompatible Changes
    Core Enhancements
    Modules and Pragmata
    Utility Changes
    Perl's debugger
    h2ph
    Installation and Configuration Improvements
    Selected Bug Fixes
    New or Changed Diagnostics
    Changed Internals
    Known Problems
    Platform Specific Problems
    Reporting Bugs
    SEE ALSO

    perl584delta - what is new for perl v5.8.4

    DESCRIPTION
    Incompatible Changes
    Core Enhancements
    Malloc wrapping
    Unicode Character Database 4.0.1
    suidperl less insecure
    format
    Modules and Pragmata
    Updated modules

    Attribute::Handlers, B, Benchmark, CGI, Carp, Cwd, Exporter, File::Find, IO, IPC::Open3, Local::Maketext, Math::BigFloat, Math::BigInt, Math::BigRat, MIME::Base64, ODBM_File, POSIX, Shell, Socket, Storable, Switch, Sys::Syslog, Term::ANSIColor, Time::HiRes, Unicode::UCD, Win32, base, open, threads, utf8

    Performance Enhancements
    Utility Changes
    Installation and Configuration Improvements
    Selected Bug Fixes
    New or Changed Diagnostics
    Changed Internals
    Future Directions
    Platform Specific Problems
    Reporting Bugs
    SEE ALSO

    perl583delta - what is new for perl v5.8.3

    DESCRIPTION
    Incompatible Changes
    Core Enhancements
    Modules and Pragmata

    CGI, Cwd, Digest, Digest::MD5, Encode, File::Spec, FindBin, List::Util, Math::BigInt, PodParser, Pod::Perldoc, POSIX, Unicode::Collate, Unicode::Normalize, Test::Harness, threads::shared

    Utility Changes
    New Documentation
    Installation and Configuration Improvements
    Selected Bug Fixes
    New or Changed Diagnostics
    Changed Internals
    Configuration and Building
    Platform Specific Problems
    Known Problems
    Future Directions
    Obituary
    Reporting Bugs
    SEE ALSO

    perl582delta - what is new for perl v5.8.2

    DESCRIPTION
    Incompatible Changes
    Core Enhancements
    Hash Randomisation
    Threading
    Modules and Pragmata
    Updated Modules And Pragmata

    Devel::PPPort, Digest::MD5, I18N::LangTags, libnet, MIME::Base64, Pod::Perldoc, strict, Tie::Hash, Time::HiRes, Unicode::Collate, Unicode::Normalize, UNIVERSAL

    Selected Bug Fixes
    Changed Internals
    Platform Specific Problems
    Future Directions
    Reporting Bugs
    SEE ALSO

    perl581delta - what is new for perl v5.8.1

    DESCRIPTION
    Incompatible Changes
    Hash Randomisation
    UTF-8 On Filehandles No Longer Activated By Locale
    Single-number v-strings are no longer v-strings before "=>"
    (Win32) The -C Switch Has Been Repurposed
    (Win32) The /d Switch Of cmd.exe
    Core Enhancements
    UTF-8 no longer default under UTF-8 locales
    Unsafe signals again available
    Tied Arrays with Negative Array Indices
    local ${$x}
    Unicode Character Database 4.0.0
    Deprecation Warnings
    Miscellaneous Enhancements
    Modules and Pragmata
    Updated Modules And Pragmata

    base, B::Bytecode, B::Concise, B::Deparse, Benchmark, ByteLoader, bytes, CGI, charnames, CPAN, Data::Dumper, DB_File, Devel::PPPort, Digest::MD5, Encode, fields, libnet, Math::BigInt, MIME::Base64, NEXT, Net::Ping, PerlIO::scalar, podlators, Pod::LaTeX, PodParsers, Pod::Perldoc, Scalar::Util, Storable, strict, Term::ANSIcolor, Test::Harness, Test::More, Test::Simple, Text::Balanced, Time::HiRes, threads, threads::shared, Unicode::Collate, Unicode::Normalize, Win32::GetFolderPath, Win32::GetOSVersion

    Utility Changes
    New Documentation
    Installation and Configuration Improvements
    Platform-specific enhancements
    Selected Bug Fixes
    Closures, eval and lexicals
    Generic fixes
    Platform-specific fixes
    New or Changed Diagnostics
    Changed "A thread exited while %d threads were running"
    Removed "Attempt to clear a restricted hash"
    New "Illegal declaration of anonymous subroutine"
    Changed "Invalid range "%s" in transliteration operator"
    New "Missing control char name in \c"
    New "Newline in left-justified string for %s"
    New "Possible precedence problem on bitwise %c operator"
    New "Pseudo-hashes are deprecated"
    New "read() on %s filehandle %s"
    New "5.005 threads are deprecated"
    New "Tied variable freed while still in use"
    New "To%s: illegal mapping '%s'"
    New "Use of freed value in iteration"
    Changed Internals
    New Tests
    Known Problems
    Tied hashes in scalar context
    Net::Ping 450_service and 510_ping_udp failures
    B::C
    Platform Specific Problems
    EBCDIC Platforms
    Cygwin 1.5 problems
    HP-UX: HP cc warnings about sendfile and sendpath
    IRIX: t/uni/tr_7jis.t falsely failing
    Mac OS X: no usemymalloc
    Tru64: No threaded builds with GNU cc (gcc)
    Win32: sysopen, sysread, syswrite
    Future Directions
    Reporting Bugs
    SEE ALSO

    perl58delta - what is new for perl v5.8.0

    DESCRIPTION
    Highlights In 5.8.0
    Incompatible Changes
    Binary Incompatibility
  • -bit platforms and malloc
  • AIX Dynaloading
    Attributes for my variables now handled at run-time
    Socket Extension Dynamic in VMS
    IEEE-format Floating Point Default on OpenVMS Alpha
    New Unicode Semantics (no more use utf8, almost)
    New Unicode Properties
    REF(...) Instead Of SCALAR(...)
    pack/unpack D/F recycled
    glob() now returns filenames in alphabetical order
    Deprecations
    Core Enhancements
    Unicode Overhaul
    PerlIO is Now The Default
    ithreads
    Restricted Hashes
    Safe Signals
    Understanding of Numbers
    Arrays now always interpolate into double-quoted strings [561]
    Miscellaneous Changes
    Modules and Pragmata
    New Modules and Pragmata
    Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
    Utility Changes
    New Documentation
    Performance Enhancements
    Installation and Configuration Improvements
    Generic Improvements
    New Or Improved Platforms
    Selected Bug Fixes
    Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
    New or Changed Diagnostics
    Changed Internals
    Security Vulnerability Closed [561]
    New Tests
    Known Problems
    The Compiler Suite Is Still Very Experimental
    Localising Tied Arrays and Hashes Is Broken
    Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
    Modifying $_ Inside for(..)
    mod_perl 1.26 Doesn't Build With Threaded Perl
    lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
    libwww-perl (LWP) fails base/date #51
    PDL failing some tests
    Perl_get_sv
    Self-tying Problems
    ext/threads/t/libc
    Failure of Thread (5.005-style) tests
    Timing problems
    Tied/Magical Array/Hash Elements Do Not Autovivify
    Unicode in package/class and subroutine names does not work
    Platform Specific Problems
    AIX
    Alpha systems with old gccs fail several tests
    AmigaOS
    BeOS
    Cygwin "unable to remap"
    Cygwin ndbm tests fail on FAT
    DJGPP Failures
    FreeBSD built with ithreads coredumps reading large directories
    FreeBSD Failing locale Test 117 For ISO 8859-15 Locales
    IRIX fails ext/List/Util/t/shuffle.t or Digest::MD5
    HP-UX lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails When LP64-Configured
    Linux with glibc 2.2.5 fails t/op/int subtest #6 with -Duse64bitint
    Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
    Mac OS X
    Mac OS X dyld undefined symbols
    OS/2 Test Failures
    op/sprintf tests 91, 129, and 130
    SCO
    Solaris 2.5
    Solaris x86 Fails Tests With -Duse64bitint
    SUPER-UX (NEC SX)
    Term::ReadKey not working on Win32
    UNICOS/mk
    UTS
    VOS (Stratus)
    VMS
    Win32
    XML::Parser not working
    z/OS (OS/390)
    Unicode Support on EBCDIC Still Spotty
    Seen In Perl 5.7 But Gone Now
    Reporting Bugs
    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY

    perl573delta - what's new for perl v5.7.3

    DESCRIPTION
    Changes
    Reporting Bugs
    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY

    perl572delta - what's new for perl v5.7.2

    DESCRIPTION
    Security Vulnerability Closed
    Incompatible Changes
    1. -bit platforms and malloc
    AIX Dynaloading
    Socket Extension Dynamic in VMS
    Different Definition of the Unicode Character Classes \p{In...}
    Deprecations
    Core Enhancements
    Modules and Pragmata
    New Modules and Distributions
    Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
    Utility Changes
    New Documentation
    Installation and Configuration Improvements
    New Or Improved Platforms
    Generic Improvements
    Selected Bug Fixes
    Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
    New or Changed Diagnostics
    Source Code Enhancements
    MAGIC constants
    Better commented code
    Regex pre-/post-compilation items matched up
    gcc -Wall
    New Tests
    Known Problems
    AIX
    Amiga Perl Invoking Mystery
    lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
    Cygwin intermittent failures of lib/Memoize/t/expire_file 11 and 12
    HP-UX lib/io_multihomed Fails When LP64-Configured
    HP-UX lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails When LP64-Configured
    Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
    OS/390
    op/sprintf tests 129 and 130
    Failure of Thread tests
    UNICOS
    UTS
    VMS
    Win32
    Localising a Tied Variable Leaks Memory
    Self-tying of Arrays and Hashes Is Forbidden
    Variable Attributes are not Currently Usable for Tieing
    Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
    The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
    The Long Double Support is Still Experimental
    Reporting Bugs
    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY

    perl571delta - what's new for perl v5.7.1

    DESCRIPTION
    Security Vulnerability Closed
    Incompatible Changes
    Core Enhancements
    AUTOLOAD Is Now Lvaluable
    PerlIO is Now The Default
    Signals Are Now Safe
    Modules and Pragmata
    New Modules
    Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
    Performance Enhancements
    Utility Changes
    New Documentation
    perlclib
    perliol
    README.aix
    README.bs2000
    README.macos
    README.mpeix
    README.solaris
    README.vos
    Porting/repository.pod
    Installation and Configuration Improvements
    New Or Improved Platforms
    Generic Improvements

    d_cmsghdr, d_fcntl_can_lock, d_fsync, d_getitimer, d_getpagsz, d_msghdr_s, need_va_copy, d_readv, d_recvmsg, d_sendmsg, sig_size, d_sockatmark, d_strtoq, d_u32align, d_ualarm, d_usleep

    Selected Bug Fixes
    Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
    New or Changed Diagnostics
    Changed Internals
    New Tests
    Known Problems
    AIX vac 5.0.0.0 May Produce Buggy Code For Perl
    lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
    lib/io_multihomed Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX
    Test lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX
    lib/b test 19
    Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
    sigaction test 13 in VMS
    sprintf tests 129 and 130
    Failure of Thread tests
    Localising a Tied Variable Leaks Memory
    Self-tying of Arrays and Hashes Is Forbidden
    Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
    The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
    Reporting Bugs
    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY

    perl570delta - what's new for perl v5.7.0

    DESCRIPTION
    Security Vulnerability Closed
    Incompatible Changes
    Core Enhancements
    Modules and Pragmata
    New Modules
    Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
    Utility Changes
    New Documentation
    Performance Enhancements
    Installation and Configuration Improvements
    Generic Improvements
    Selected Bug Fixes
    Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
    New or Changed Diagnostics
    Changed Internals
    Known Problems
    Unicode Support Still Far From Perfect
    EBCDIC Still A Lost Platform
    Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
    ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
    Test lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX
    Long Doubles Still Don't Work In Solaris
    Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
    Storable tests fail in some platforms
    Threads Are Still Experimental
    The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
    Reporting Bugs
    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY

    perl561delta - what's new for perl v5.6.x

    DESCRIPTION
    Summary of changes between 5.6.0 and 5.6.1
    Security Issues
    Core bug fixes

    UNIVERSAL::isa(), Memory leaks, Numeric conversions, qw(a\\b), caller(), Bugs in regular expressions, "slurp" mode, Autovivification of symbolic references to special variables, Lexical warnings, Spurious warnings and errors, glob(), Tainting, sort(), #line directives, Subroutine prototypes, map(), Debugger, PERL5OPT, chop(), Unicode support, 64-bit support, Compiler, Lvalue subroutines, IO::Socket, File::Find, xsubpp, no Module;, Tests

    Core features
    Configuration issues
    Documentation
    Bundled modules

    B::Concise, File::Temp, Pod::LaTeX, Pod::Text::Overstrike, CGI, CPAN, Class::Struct, DB_File, Devel::Peek, File::Find, Getopt::Long, IO::Poll, IPC::Open3, Math::BigFloat, Math::Complex, Net::Ping, Opcode, Pod::Parser, Pod::Text, SDBM_File, Sys::Syslog, Tie::RefHash, Tie::SubstrHash

    Platform-specific improvements

    NCR MP-RAS, NonStop-UX

    Core Enhancements
    Interpreter cloning, threads, and concurrency
    Lexically scoped warning categories
    Unicode and UTF-8 support
    Support for interpolating named characters
    "our" declarations
    Support for strings represented as a vector of ordinals
    Improved Perl version numbering system
    New syntax for declaring subroutine attributes
    File and directory handles can be autovivified
    open() with more than two arguments
  • -bit support
  • Large file support
    Long doubles
    "more bits"
    Enhanced support for sort() subroutines
    sort $coderef @foo allowed
    File globbing implemented internally
    Support for CHECK blocks
    POSIX character class syntax [: :] supported
    Better pseudo-random number generator
    Improved qw// operator
    Better worst-case behavior of hashes
    pack() format 'Z' supported
    pack() format modifier '!' supported
    pack() and unpack() support counted strings
    Comments in pack() templates
    Weak references
    Binary numbers supported
    Lvalue subroutines
    Some arrows may be omitted in calls through references
    Boolean assignment operators are legal lvalues
    exists() is supported on subroutine names
    exists() and delete() are supported on array elements
    Pseudo-hashes work better
    Automatic flushing of output buffers
    Better diagnostics on meaningless filehandle operations
    Where possible, buffered data discarded from duped input filehandle
    eof() has the same old magic as <>
    binmode() can be used to set :crlf and :raw modes
    -T filetest recognizes UTF-8 encoded files as "text"
    system(), backticks and pipe open now reflect exec() failure
    Improved diagnostics
    Diagnostics follow STDERR
    More consistent close-on-exec behavior
    syswrite() ease-of-use
    Better syntax checks on parenthesized unary operators
    Bit operators support full native integer width
    Improved security features
    More functional bareword prototype (*)
    require and do may be overridden
    $^X variables may now have names longer than one character
    New variable $^C reflects -c switch
    New variable $^V contains Perl version as a string
    Optional Y2K warnings
    Arrays now always interpolate into double-quoted strings
    @- and @+ provide starting/ending offsets of regex submatches
    Modules and Pragmata
    Modules

    attributes, B, Benchmark, ByteLoader, constant, charnames, Data::Dumper, DB, DB_File, Devel::DProf, Devel::Peek, Dumpvalue, DynaLoader, English, Env, Fcntl, File::Compare, File::Find, File::Glob, File::Spec, File::Spec::Functions, Getopt::Long, IO, JPL, lib, Math::BigInt, Math::Complex, Math::Trig, Pod::Parser, Pod::InputObjects, Pod::Checker, podchecker, Pod::ParseUtils, Pod::Find, Pod::Select, podselect, Pod::Usage, pod2usage, Pod::Text and Pod::Man, SDBM_File, Sys::Syslog, Sys::Hostname, Term::ANSIColor, Time::Local, Win32, XSLoader, DBM Filters

    Pragmata
    Utility Changes
    dprofpp
    find2perl
    h2xs
    perlcc
    perldoc
    The Perl Debugger
    Improved Documentation

    perlapi.pod, perlboot.pod, perlcompile.pod, perldbmfilter.pod, perldebug.pod, perldebguts.pod, perlfork.pod, perlfilter.pod, perlhack.pod, perlintern.pod, perllexwarn.pod, perlnumber.pod, perlopentut.pod, perlreftut.pod, perltootc.pod, perltodo.pod, perlunicode.pod

    Performance enhancements
    Simple sort() using { $a <=> $b } and the like are optimized
    Optimized assignments to lexical variables
    Faster subroutine calls
    delete(), each(), values() and hash iteration are faster
    Installation and Configuration Improvements
    -Dusethreads means something different
    New Configure flags
    Threadedness and 64-bitness now more daring
    Long Doubles
    -Dusemorebits
    -Duselargefiles
    installusrbinperl
    SOCKS support
    -A flag
    Enhanced Installation Directories
    gcc automatically tried if 'cc' does not seem to be working
    Platform specific changes
    Supported platforms
    DOS
    OS390 (OpenEdition MVS)
    VMS
    Win32
    Significant bug fixes
    <HANDLE> on empty files
    eval '...' improvements
    All compilation errors are true errors
    Implicitly closed filehandles are safer
    Behavior of list slices is more consistent
    (\$) prototype and $foo{a}
    goto &sub and AUTOLOAD
    -bareword allowed under use integer
    Failures in DESTROY()
    Locale bugs fixed
    Memory leaks
    Spurious subroutine stubs after failed subroutine calls
    Taint failures under -U
    END blocks and the -c switch
    Potential to leak DATA filehandles
    New or Changed Diagnostics

    "%s" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same %s, "my sub" not yet implemented, "our" variable %s redeclared, '!' allowed only after types %s, / cannot take a count, / must be followed by a, A or Z, / must be followed by a*, A* or Z*, / must follow a numeric type, /%s/: Unrecognized escape \\%c passed through, /%s/: Unrecognized escape \\%c in character class passed through, /%s/ should probably be written as "%s", %s() called too early to check prototype, %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element, %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element or slice, %s argument is not a subroutine name, %s package attribute may clash with future reserved word: %s, (in cleanup) %s, <> should be quotes, Attempt to join self, Bad evalled substitution pattern, Bad realloc() ignored, Bareword found in conditional, Binary number > 0b11111111111111111111111111111111 non-portable, Bit vector size > 32 non-portable, Buffer overflow in prime_env_iter: %s, Can't check filesystem of script "%s", Can't declare class for non-scalar %s in "%s", Can't declare %s in "%s", Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default, Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine call, Can't read CRTL environ, Can't remove %s: %s, skipping file, Can't return %s from lvalue subroutine, Can't weaken a nonreference, Character class [:%s:] unknown, Character class syntax [%s] belongs inside character classes, Constant is not %s reference, constant(%s): %s, CORE::%s is not a keyword, defined(@array) is deprecated, defined(%hash) is deprecated, Did not produce a valid header, (Did you mean "local" instead of "our"?), Document contains no data, entering effective %s failed, false [] range "%s" in regexp, Filehandle %s opened only for output, flock() on closed filehandle %s, Global symbol "%s" requires explicit package name, Hexadecimal number > 0xffffffff non-portable, Ill-formed CRTL environ value "%s", Ill-formed message in prime_env_iter: |%s|, Illegal binary digit %s, Illegal binary digit %s ignored, Illegal number of bits in vec, Integer overflow in %s number, Invalid %s attribute: %s, Invalid %s attributes: %s, invalid [] range "%s" in regexp, Invalid separator character %s in attribute list, Invalid separator character %s in subroutine attribute list, leaving effective %s failed, Lvalue subs returning %s not implemented yet, Method %s not permitted, Missing %sbrace%s on \N{}, Missing command in piped open, Missing name in "my sub", No %s specified for -%c, No package name allowed for variable %s in "our", No space allowed after -%c, no UTC offset information; assuming local time is UTC, Octal number > 037777777777 non-portable, panic: del_backref, panic: kid popen errno read, panic: magic_killbackrefs, Parentheses missing around "%s" list, Possible unintended interpolation of %s in string, Possible Y2K bug: %s, pragma "attrs" is deprecated, use "sub NAME : ATTRS" instead, Premature end of script headers, Repeat count in pack overflows, Repeat count in unpack overflows, realloc() of freed memory ignored, Reference is already weak, setpgrp can't take arguments, Strange *+?{} on zero-length expression, switching effective %s is not implemented, This Perl can't reset CRTL environ elements (%s), This Perl can't set CRTL environ elements (%s=%s), Too late to run %s block, Unknown open() mode '%s', Unknown process %x sent message to prime_env_iter: %s, Unrecognized escape \\%c passed through, Unterminated attribute parameter in attribute list, Unterminated attribute list, Unterminated attribute parameter in subroutine attribute list, Unterminated subroutine attribute list, Value of CLI symbol "%s" too long, Version number must be a constant number

    New tests
    Incompatible Changes
    Perl Source Incompatibilities

    CHECK is a new keyword, Treatment of list slices of undef has changed, Format of $English::PERL_VERSION is different, Literals of the form 1.2.3 parse differently, Possibly changed pseudo-random number generator, Hashing function for hash keys has changed, undef fails on read only values, Close-on-exec bit may be set on pipe and socket handles, Writing "$$1" to mean "${$}1" is unsupported, delete(), each(), values() and \(%h), vec(EXPR,OFFSET,BITS) enforces powers-of-two BITS, Text of some diagnostic output has changed, %@ has been removed, Parenthesized not() behaves like a list operator, Semantics of bareword prototype (*) have changed, Semantics of bit operators may have changed on 64-bit platforms, More builtins taint their results

    C Source Incompatibilities

    PERL_POLLUTE, PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT, PERL_POLLUTE_MALLOC

    Compatible C Source API Changes

    PATCHLEVEL is now PERL_VERSION

    Binary Incompatibilities
    Known Problems
    Localizing a tied hash element may leak memory
    Known test failures
    EBCDIC platforms not fully supported
    UNICOS/mk CC failures during Configure run
    Arrow operator and arrays
    Experimental features

    Threads, Unicode, 64-bit support, Lvalue subroutines, Weak references, The pseudo-hash data type, The Compiler suite, Internal implementation of file globbing, The DB module, The regular expression code constructs:

    Obsolete Diagnostics

    Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions, Ill-formed logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter, In string, @%s now must be written as \@%s, Probable precedence problem on %s, regexp too big, Use of "$$<digit>" to mean "${$}<digit>" is deprecated

    Reporting Bugs
    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY

    perl56delta - what's new for perl v5.6.0

    DESCRIPTION
    Core Enhancements
    Interpreter cloning, threads, and concurrency
    Lexically scoped warning categories
    Unicode and UTF-8 support
    Support for interpolating named characters
    "our" declarations
    Support for strings represented as a vector of ordinals
    Improved Perl version numbering system
    New syntax for declaring subroutine attributes
    File and directory handles can be autovivified
    open() with more than two arguments
  • -bit support
  • Large file support
    Long doubles
    "more bits"
    Enhanced support for sort() subroutines
    sort $coderef @foo allowed
    File globbing implemented internally
    Support for CHECK blocks
    POSIX character class syntax [: :] supported
    Better pseudo-random number generator
    Improved qw// operator
    Better worst-case behavior of hashes
    pack() format 'Z' supported
    pack() format modifier '!' supported
    pack() and unpack() support counted strings
    Comments in pack() templates
    Weak references
    Binary numbers supported
    Lvalue subroutines
    Some arrows may be omitted in calls through references
    Boolean assignment operators are legal lvalues
    exists() is supported on subroutine names
    exists() and delete() are supported on array elements
    Pseudo-hashes work better
    Automatic flushing of output buffers
    Better diagnostics on meaningless filehandle operations
    Where possible, buffered data discarded from duped input filehandle
    eof() has the same old magic as <>
    binmode() can be used to set :crlf and :raw modes
    -T filetest recognizes UTF-8 encoded files as "text"
    system(), backticks and pipe open now reflect exec() failure
    Improved diagnostics
    Diagnostics follow STDERR
    More consistent close-on-exec behavior
    syswrite() ease-of-use
    Better syntax checks on parenthesized unary operators
    Bit operators support full native integer width
    Improved security features
    More functional bareword prototype (*)
    require and do may be overridden
    $^X variables may now have names longer than one character
    New variable $^C reflects -c switch
    New variable $^V contains Perl version as a string
    Optional Y2K warnings
    Arrays now always interpolate into double-quoted strings
    @- and @+ provide starting/ending offsets of regex matches
    Modules and Pragmata
    Modules

    attributes, B, Benchmark, ByteLoader, constant, charnames, Data::Dumper, DB, DB_File, Devel::DProf, Devel::Peek, Dumpvalue, DynaLoader, English, Env, Fcntl, File::Compare, File::Find, File::Glob, File::Spec, File::Spec::Functions, Getopt::Long, IO, JPL, lib, Math::BigInt, Math::Complex, Math::Trig, Pod::Parser, Pod::InputObjects, Pod::Checker, podchecker, Pod::ParseUtils, Pod::Find, Pod::Select, podselect, Pod::Usage, pod2usage, Pod::Text and Pod::Man, SDBM_File, Sys::Syslog, Sys::Hostname, Term::ANSIColor, Time::Local, Win32, XSLoader, DBM Filters

    Pragmata
    Utility Changes
    dprofpp
    find2perl
    h2xs
    perlcc
    perldoc
    The Perl Debugger
    Improved Documentation

    perlapi.pod, perlboot.pod, perlcompile.pod, perldbmfilter.pod, perldebug.pod, perldebguts.pod, perlfork.pod, perlfilter.pod, perlhack.pod, perlintern.pod, perllexwarn.pod, perlnumber.pod, perlopentut.pod, perlreftut.pod, perltootc.pod, perltodo.pod, perlunicode.pod

    Performance enhancements
    Simple sort() using { $a <=> $b } and the like are optimized
    Optimized assignments to lexical variables
    Faster subroutine calls
    delete(), each(), values() and hash iteration are faster
    Installation and Configuration Improvements
    -Dusethreads means something different
    New Configure flags
    Threadedness and 64-bitness now more daring
    Long Doubles
    -Dusemorebits
    -Duselargefiles
    installusrbinperl
    SOCKS support
    -A flag
    Enhanced Installation Directories
    Platform specific changes
    Supported platforms
    DOS
    OS390 (OpenEdition MVS)
    VMS
    Win32
    Significant bug fixes
    <HANDLE> on empty files
    eval '...' improvements
    All compilation errors are true errors
    Implicitly closed filehandles are safer
    Behavior of list slices is more consistent
    (\$) prototype and $foo{a}
    goto &sub and AUTOLOAD
    -bareword allowed under use integer
    Failures in DESTROY()
    Locale bugs fixed
    Memory leaks
    Spurious subroutine stubs after failed subroutine calls
    Taint failures under -U
    END blocks and the -c switch
    Potential to leak DATA filehandles
    New or Changed Diagnostics

    "%s" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same %s, "my sub" not yet implemented, "our" variable %s redeclared, '!' allowed only after types %s, / cannot take a count, / must be followed by a, A or Z, / must be followed by a*, A* or Z*, / must follow a numeric type, /%s/: Unrecognized escape \\%c passed through, /%s/: Unrecognized escape \\%c in character class passed through, /%s/ should probably be written as "%s", %s() called too early to check prototype, %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element, %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element or slice, %s argument is not a subroutine name, %s package attribute may clash with future reserved word: %s, (in cleanup) %s, <> should be quotes, Attempt to join self, Bad evalled substitution pattern, Bad realloc() ignored, Bareword found in conditional, Binary number > 0b11111111111111111111111111111111 non-portable, Bit vector size > 32 non-portable, Buffer overflow in prime_env_iter: %s, Can't check filesystem of script "%s", Can't declare class for non-scalar %s in "%s", Can't declare %s in "%s", Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default, Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine call, Can't read CRTL environ, Can't remove %s: %s, skipping file, Can't return %s from lvalue subroutine, Can't weaken a nonreference, Character class [:%s:] unknown, Character class syntax [%s] belongs inside character classes, Constant is not %s reference, constant(%s): %s, CORE::%s is not a keyword, defined(@array) is deprecated, defined(%hash) is deprecated, Did not produce a valid header, (Did you mean "local" instead of "our"?), Document contains no data, entering effective %s failed, false [] range "%s" in regexp, Filehandle %s opened only for output, flock() on closed filehandle %s, Global symbol "%s" requires explicit package name, Hexadecimal number > 0xffffffff non-portable, Ill-formed CRTL environ value "%s", Ill-formed message in prime_env_iter: |%s|, Illegal binary digit %s, Illegal binary digit %s ignored, Illegal number of bits in vec, Integer overflow in %s number, Invalid %s attribute: %s, Invalid %s attributes: %s, invalid [] range "%s" in regexp, Invalid separator character %s in attribute list, Invalid separator character %s in subroutine attribute list, leaving effective %s failed, Lvalue subs returning %s not implemented yet, Method %s not permitted, Missing %sbrace%s on \N{}, Missing command in piped open, Missing name in "my sub", No %s specified for -%c, No package name allowed for variable %s in "our", No space allowed after -%c, no UTC offset information; assuming local time is UTC, Octal number > 037777777777 non-portable, panic: del_backref, panic: kid popen errno read, panic: magic_killbackrefs, Parentheses missing around "%s" list, Possible unintended interpolation of %s in string, Possible Y2K bug: %s, pragma "attrs" is deprecated, use "sub NAME : ATTRS" instead, Premature end of script headers, Repeat count in pack overflows, Repeat count in unpack overflows, realloc() of freed memory ignored, Reference is already weak, setpgrp can't take arguments, Strange *+?{} on zero-length expression, switching effective %s is not implemented, This Perl can't reset CRTL environ elements (%s), This Perl can't set CRTL environ elements (%s=%s), Too late to run %s block, Unknown open() mode '%s', Unknown process %x sent message to prime_env_iter: %s, Unrecognized escape \\%c passed through, Unterminated attribute parameter in attribute list, Unterminated attribute list, Unterminated attribute parameter in subroutine attribute list, Unterminated subroutine attribute list, Value of CLI symbol "%s" too long, Version number must be a constant number

    New tests
    Incompatible Changes
    Perl Source Incompatibilities

    CHECK is a new keyword, Treatment of list slices of undef has changed, Format of $English::PERL_VERSION is different, Literals of the form 1.2.3 parse differently, Possibly changed pseudo-random number generator, Hashing function for hash keys has changed, undef fails on read only values, Close-on-exec bit may be set on pipe and socket handles, Writing "$$1" to mean "${$}1" is unsupported, delete(), each(), values() and \(%h), vec(EXPR,OFFSET,BITS) enforces powers-of-two BITS, Text of some diagnostic output has changed, %@ has been removed, Parenthesized not() behaves like a list operator, Semantics of bareword prototype (*) have changed, Semantics of bit operators may have changed on 64-bit platforms, More builtins taint their results

    C Source Incompatibilities

    PERL_POLLUTE, PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT, PERL_POLLUTE_MALLOC

    Compatible C Source API Changes

    PATCHLEVEL is now PERL_VERSION

    Binary Incompatibilities
    Known Problems
    Thread test failures
    EBCDIC platforms not supported
    In 64-bit HP-UX the lib/io_multihomed test may hang
    NEXTSTEP 3.3 POSIX test failure
    Tru64 (aka Digital UNIX, aka DEC OSF/1) lib/sdbm test failure with gcc
    UNICOS/mk CC failures during Configure run
    Arrow operator and arrays
    Experimental features

    Threads, Unicode, 64-bit support, Lvalue subroutines, Weak references, The pseudo-hash data type, The Compiler suite, Internal implementation of file globbing, The DB module, The regular expression code constructs:

    Obsolete Diagnostics

    Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions, Ill-formed logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter, In string, @%s now must be written as \@%s, Probable precedence problem on %s, regexp too big, Use of "$$<digit>" to mean "${$}<digit>" is deprecated

    Reporting Bugs
    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY

    perl5005delta - what's new for perl5.005

    DESCRIPTION
    About the new versioning system
    Incompatible Changes
    WARNING: This version is not binary compatible with Perl 5.004.
    Default installation structure has changed
    Perl Source Compatibility
    C Source Compatibility
    Binary Compatibility
    Security fixes may affect compatibility
    Relaxed new mandatory warnings introduced in 5.004
    Licensing
    Core Changes
    Threads
    Compiler
    Regular Expressions

    Many new and improved optimizations, Many bug fixes, New regular expression constructs, New operator for precompiled regular expressions, Other improvements, Incompatible changes

    Improved malloc()
    Quicksort is internally implemented
    Reliable signals
    Reliable stack pointers
    More generous treatment of carriage returns
    Memory leaks
    Better support for multiple interpreters
    Behavior of local() on array and hash elements is now well-defined
    %! is transparently tied to the the Errno manpage module
    Pseudo-hashes are supported
    EXPR foreach EXPR is supported
    Keywords can be globally overridden
    $^E is meaningful on Win32
    foreach (1..1000000) optimized
    Foo:: can be used as implicitly quoted package name
    exists $Foo::{Bar::} tests existence of a package
    Better locale support
    Experimental support for 64-bit platforms
    prototype() returns useful results on builtins
    Extended support for exception handling
    Re-blessing in DESTROY() supported for chaining DESTROY() methods
    All printf format conversions are handled internally
    New INIT keyword
    New lock keyword
    New qr// operator
    our is now a reserved word
    Tied arrays are now fully supported
    Tied handles support is better
  • th argument to substr
  • Negative LENGTH argument to splice
    Magic lvalues are now more magical
    <> now reads in records
    Supported Platforms
    New Platforms
    Changes in existing support
    Modules and Pragmata
    New Modules

    B, Data::Dumper, Dumpvalue, Errno, File::Spec, ExtUtils::Installed, ExtUtils::Packlist, Fatal, IPC::SysV, Test, Tie::Array, Tie::Handle, Thread, attrs, fields, re

    Changes in existing modules

    Benchmark, Carp, CGI, Fcntl, Math::Complex, Math::Trig, POSIX, DB_File, MakeMaker, CPAN, Cwd

    Utility Changes
    Documentation Changes
    New Diagnostics

    Ambiguous call resolved as CORE::%s(), qualify as such or use &, Bad index while coercing array into hash, Bareword "%s" refers to nonexistent package, Can't call method "%s" on an undefined value, Can't check filesystem of script "%s" for nosuid, Can't coerce array into hash, Can't goto subroutine from an eval-string, Can't localize pseudo-hash element, Can't use %%! because Errno.pm is not available, Cannot find an opnumber for "%s", Character class syntax [. .] is reserved for future extensions, Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions, Character class syntax [= =] is reserved for future extensions, %s: Eval-group in insecure regular expression, %s: Eval-group not allowed, use re 'eval', %s: Eval-group not allowed at run time, Explicit blessing to '' (assuming package main), Illegal hex digit ignored, No such array field, No such field "%s" in variable %s of type %s, Out of memory during ridiculously large request, Range iterator outside integer range, Recursive inheritance detected while looking for method '%s' %s, Reference found where even-sized list expected, Undefined value assigned to typeglob, Use of reserved word "%s" is deprecated, perl: warning: Setting locale failed

    Obsolete Diagnostics

    Can't mktemp(), Can't write to temp file for -e: %s, Cannot open temporary file, regexp too big

    Configuration Changes
    BUGS
    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY

    perl5004delta - what's new for perl5.004

    DESCRIPTION
    Supported Environments
    Core Changes
    List assignment to %ENV works
    Change to "Can't locate Foo.pm in @INC" error
    Compilation option: Binary compatibility with 5.003
    $PERL5OPT environment variable
    Limitations on -M, -m, and -T options
    More precise warnings
    Deprecated: Inherited AUTOLOAD for non-methods
    Previously deprecated %OVERLOAD is no longer usable
    Subroutine arguments created only when they're modified
    Group vector changeable with $)
    Fixed parsing of $$<digit>, &$<digit>, etc.
    Fixed localization of $<digit>, $&, etc.
    No resetting of $. on implicit close
    wantarray may return undef
    eval EXPR determines value of EXPR in scalar context
    Changes to tainting checks

    No glob() or <*>, No spawning if tainted $CDPATH, $ENV, $BASH_ENV, No spawning if tainted $TERM doesn't look like a terminal name

    New Opcode module and revised Safe module
    Embedding improvements
    Internal change: FileHandle class based on IO::* classes
    Internal change: PerlIO abstraction interface
    New and changed syntax

    $coderef->(PARAMS)

    New and changed builtin constants

    __PACKAGE__

    New and changed builtin variables

    $^E, $^H, $^M

    New and changed builtin functions

    delete on slices, flock, printf and sprintf, keys as an lvalue, my() in Control Structures, pack() and unpack(), sysseek(), use VERSION, use Module VERSION LIST, prototype(FUNCTION), srand, $_ as Default, m//gc does not reset search position on failure, m//x ignores whitespace before ?*+{}, nested sub{} closures work now, formats work right on changing lexicals

    New builtin methods

    isa(CLASS), can(METHOD), VERSION( [NEED] )

    TIEHANDLE now supported

    TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, PRINT this, LIST, PRINTF this, LIST, READ this LIST, READLINE this, GETC this, DESTROY this

    Malloc enhancements

    -DPERL_EMERGENCY_SBRK, -DPACK_MALLOC, -DTWO_POT_OPTIMIZE

    Miscellaneous efficiency enhancements
    Support for More Operating Systems
    Win32
    Plan 9
    QNX
    AmigaOS
    Pragmata

    use autouse MODULE => qw(sub1 sub2 sub3), use blib, use blib 'dir', use constant NAME => VALUE, use locale, use ops, use vmsish

    Modules
    Required Updates
    Installation directories
    Module information summary
    Fcntl
    IO
    Math::Complex
    Math::Trig
    DB_File
    Net::Ping
    Object-oriented overrides for builtin operators
    Utility Changes
    pod2html

    Sends converted HTML to standard output

    xsubpp

    void XSUBs now default to returning nothing

    C Language API Changes

    gv_fetchmethod and perl_call_sv, perl_eval_pv, Extended API for manipulating hashes

    Documentation Changes

    the perldelta manpage, the perlfaq manpage, the perllocale manpage, the perltoot manpage, the perlapio manpage, the perlmodlib manpage, the perldebug manpage, the perlsec manpage

    New Diagnostics

    "my" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same scope, %s argument is not a HASH element or slice, Allocation too large: %lx, Allocation too large, Applying %s to %s will act on scalar(%s), Attempt to free nonexistent shared string, Attempt to use reference as lvalue in substr, Bareword "%s" refers to nonexistent package, Can't redefine active sort subroutine %s, Can't use bareword ("%s") as %s ref while "strict refs" in use, Cannot resolve method `%s' overloading `%s' in package `%s', Constant subroutine %s redefined, Constant subroutine %s undefined, Copy method did not return a reference, Died, Exiting pseudo-block via %s, Identifier too long, Illegal character %s (carriage return), Illegal switch in PERL5OPT: %s, Integer overflow in hex number, Integer overflow in octal number, internal error: glob failed, Invalid conversion in %s: "%s", Invalid type in pack: '%s', Invalid type in unpack: '%s', Name "%s::%s" used only once: possible typo, Null picture in formline, Offset outside string, Out of memory!, Out of memory during request for %s, panic: frexp, Possible attempt to put comments in qw() list, Possible attempt to separate words with commas, Scalar value @%s{%s} better written as $%s{%s}, Stub found while resolving method `%s' overloading `%s' in %s, Too late for "-T" option, untie attempted while %d inner references still exist, Unrecognized character %s, Unsupported function fork, Use of "$$<digit>" to mean "${$}<digit>" is deprecated, Value of %s can be "0"; test with defined(), Variable "%s" may be unavailable, Variable "%s" will not stay shared, Warning: something's wrong, Ill-formed logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter, Got an error from DosAllocMem, Malformed PERLLIB_PREFIX, PERL_SH_DIR too long, Process terminated by SIG%s

    BUGS
    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY

    perlartistic - the Perl Artistic License

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    The "Artistic License"
    Preamble
    Definitions

    "Package", "Standard Version", "Copyright Holder", "You", "Reasonable copying fee", "Freely Available"

    Conditions

    a), b), c), d), a), b), c), d)

    perlgpl - the GNU General Public License, version 2

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

    perlaix, README.aix - Perl version 5 on IBM Unix (AIX) systems

    DESCRIPTION
    Compiling Perl 5 on AIX
    OS level
    Building Dynamic Extensions on AIX
    The IBM ANSI C Compiler
    The usenm option
    Using GNU's gcc for building perl
    Using Large Files with Perl
    Threaded Perl
  • -bit Perl
  • AIX 4.2 and extensions using C++ with statics
    AUTHOR
    DATE

    perlamiga - Perl under Amiga OS

    NOTE
    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Prerequisites for Compiling Perl on AmigaOS

    Unix emulation for AmigaOS: ixemul.library, Version of Amiga OS

    Starting Perl programs under AmigaOS
    Shortcomings of Perl under AmigaOS
    INSTALLATION
    Accessing documentation
    Manpages for Perl on AmigaOS
    Perl HTML Documentation on AmigaOS
    Perl GNU Info Files on AmigaOS
    Perl LaTeX Documentation on AmigaOS
    BUILDING PERL ON AMIGAOS
    Build Prerequisites for Perl on AmigaOS
    Getting the Perl Source for AmigaOS
    Making Perl on AmigaOS
    Testing Perl on AmigaOS
    Installing the built Perl on AmigaOS
    PERL 5.8.0 BROKEN IN AMIGAOS
    AUTHORS
    SEE ALSO

    perlapollo, README.apollo - Perl version 5 on Apollo DomainOS

    DESCRIPTION
    AUTHOR

    perlbeos, README.beos - Perl version 5.8+ on BeOS

    DESCRIPTION
    BUILD AND INSTALL
    Requirements
    Configure
    Build
    Install
    KNOWN PROBLEMS
    CONTACT

    perlbs2000, README.BS2000 - building and installing Perl for BS2000.

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    gzip on BS2000
    bison on BS2000
    Unpacking Perl Distribution on BS2000
    Compiling Perl on BS2000
    Testing Perl on BS2000
    Installing Perl on BS2000
    Using Perl in the Posix-Shell of BS2000
    Using Perl in "native" BS2000
    Floating point anomalies on BS2000
    Using PerlIO and different encodings on ASCII and EBCDIC partitions
    AUTHORS
    SEE ALSO
    Mailing list
    HISTORY

    perlce - Perl for WinCE

    Building Perl for WinCE
    DESCRIPTION
    General explanations on cross-compiling WinCE
    BUILD

    Microsoft Embedded Visual Tools, Microsoft Visual C++, Rainer Keuchel's celib-sources, Rainer Keuchel's console-sources, go to ./win32 subdirectory, edit file ./win32/ce-helpers/compile.bat, run compile.bat, run compile.bat dist

    Using Perl on WinCE
    DESCRIPTION
    LIMITATIONS
    ENVIRONMENT

    PERL5LIB, PATH, TMP, UNIXROOTPATH, ROWS/COLS, HOME, CONSOLEFONTSIZE

    REGISTRY
    XS
    BUGS
    INSTALLATION
    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    History of WinCE port
    AUTHORS

    Rainer Keuchel <coyxc@rainer-keuchel.de>, Vadim Konovalov

    perlcygwin, README.cygwin - Perl for Cygwin

    SYNOPSIS
    PREREQUISITES FOR COMPILING PERL ON CYGWIN
    Cygwin = GNU+Cygnus+Windows (Don't leave UNIX without it)
    Cygwin Configuration

    PATH, nroff, Permissions

    CONFIGURE PERL ON CYGWIN
    Stripping Perl Binaries on Cygwin
    Optional Libraries for Perl on Cygwin

    -lcrypt, -lgdbm_compat (use GDBM_File), -ldb (use DB_File), cygserver (use IPC::SysV), -lutil

    Configure-time Options for Perl on Cygwin

    -Uusedl, -Uusemymalloc, -Uuseperlio, -Dusemultiplicity, -Duse64bitint, -Duselongdouble, -Dusethreads, -Duselargefiles, -Dmksymlinks

    Suspicious Warnings on Cygwin

    Win9x and d_eofnblk, Compiler/Preprocessor defines

    MAKE ON CYGWIN
    TEST ON CYGWIN
    File Permissions on Cygwin
    NDBM_File and ODBM_File do not work on FAT filesystems
    fork() failures in io_* tests
    Specific features of the Cygwin port
    Script Portability on Cygwin

    Pathnames, Text/Binary, PerlIO, .exe, Cygwin vs. Windows process ids, Cygwin vs. Windows errors, chown(), Miscellaneous

    Prebuilt methods:

    Cwd::cwd, Cygwin::pid_to_winpid, Cygwin::winpid_to_pid, Cygwin::win_to_posix_path, Cygwin::posix_to_win_path, Cygwin::mount_table(), Cygwin::mount_flags, Cygwin::is_binmount

    INSTALL PERL ON CYGWIN
    MANIFEST ON CYGWIN

    Documentation, Build, Configure, Make, Install, Tests, Compiled Perl Source, Compiled Module Source, Perl Modules/Scripts, Perl Module Tests

    BUGS ON CYGWIN
    AUTHORS
    HISTORY

    perldgux - Perl under DG/UX.

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    BUILDING PERL ON DG/UX
    Non-threaded Perl on DG/UX
    Threaded Perl on DG/UX
    Testing Perl on DG/UX
    Installing the built perl on DG/UX
    AUTHOR
    SEE ALSO

    perldos - Perl under DOS, W31, W95.

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Prerequisites for Compiling Perl on DOS

    DJGPP, Pthreads

    Shortcomings of Perl under DOS
    Building Perl on DOS
    Testing Perl on DOS
    Installation of Perl on DOS
    BUILDING AND INSTALLING MODULES ON DOS
    Building Prerequisites for Perl on DOS
    Unpacking CPAN Modules on DOS
    Building Non-XS Modules on DOS
    Building XS Modules on DOS
    AUTHOR
    SEE ALSO

    perlepoc, README.epoc - Perl for EPOC

    SYNOPSIS
    INTRODUCTION
    INSTALLING PERL ON EPOC
    STARTING PERL ON EPOC
    Editors on Epoc
    Features of Perl on Epoc
    Restrictions of Perl on Epoc
    Compiling Perl 5 on the EPOC cross compiling environment
    SUPPORT STATUS OF PERL ON EPOC
    AUTHOR
    LAST UPDATE

    perlfreebsd, README.freebsd - Perl version 5 on FreeBSD systems

    DESCRIPTION
    FreeBSD core dumps from readdir_r with ithreads
    $^X doesn't always contain a full path in FreeBSD
    Perl will no longer be part of "base FreeBSD"
    AUTHOR

    perlhpux, README.hpux - Perl version 5 on Hewlett-Packard Unix (HP-UX) systems

    DESCRIPTION
    Using perl as shipped with HP-UX
    Using perl from HP's porting centre
    Compiling Perl 5 on HP-UX
    PA-RISC
    Portability Between PA-RISC Versions
    PA-RISC 1.0
    PA-RISC 1.1
    PA-RISC 2.0
    Itanium Processor Family (IPF) and HP-UX
    Itanium, Itanium 2 & Madison 6
    Building Dynamic Extensions on HP-UX
    The HP ANSI C Compiler
    The GNU C Compiler
    Using Large Files with Perl on HP-UX
    Threaded Perl on HP-UX
  • -bit Perl on HP-UX
  • Oracle on HP-UX
    GDBM and Threads on HP-UX
    NFS filesystems and utime(2) on HP-UX
    HP-UX Kernel Parameters (maxdsiz) for Compiling Perl
    nss_delete core dump from op/pwent or op/grent
    Miscellaneous
    AUTHOR
    DATE

    perlhurd, README.hurd - Perl version 5 on Hurd

    DESCRIPTION
    Known Problems with Perl on Hurd
    AUTHOR

    perlirix, README.irix - Perl version 5 on Irix systems

    DESCRIPTION
    Building 32-bit Perl in Irix
    Building 64-bit Perl in Irix
    About Compiler Versions of Irix
    Linker Problems in Irix
    Malloc in Irix
    Building with threads in Irix
    Irix 5.3
    AUTHOR

    perllinux, README.linux - Perl version 5 on Linux systems

    DESCRIPTION
    Experimental Support for Sun Studio Compilers for Linux OS
    AUTHOR

    perlmachten, README.machten - Perl version 5 on Power MachTen systems

    DESCRIPTION
    Perl version 5.8.x and greater not supported
    Compiling Perl 5.6.x on MachTen
    Failures during make test on MachTen

    op/lexassign.t, pragma/warnings.t

    Building external modules on MachTen
    AUTHOR
    DATE

    perlmacos, README.macos - Perl under Mac OS (Classic)

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    AUTHOR
    DATE

    perlmacosx, README.macosx - Perl under Mac OS X

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Installation Prefix
    SDK support
    Universal Binary support
  • -bit PPC support
  • libperl and Prebinding
    Updating Apple's Perl
    Known problems
    MacPerl
    Carbon
    Cocoa
    Starting From Scratch
    AUTHOR
    DATE

    perlmint, README.mint - Perl version 5 on Atari MiNT

    DESCRIPTION
    Known problems with Perl on MiNT
    AUTHOR

    perlmpeix, README.mpeix - Perl/iX for HP e3000 MPE

    SYNOPSIS
    NOTE
    Binary distribution from HP
    What's New in Perl for MPE/iX
    Welcome to Perl/iX
    System Requirements for Perl/iX
    How to Obtain Perl/iX
    Perl/iX Distribution Contents Highlights

    README, INSTALL, LIBSHP3K, PERL, .cpan/, lib/, man/, public_html/feedback.cgi, src/perl-5.6.0-mpe

    How to Compile Perl/iX
     4,  6
    Getting Started with Perl/iX
    MPE/iX Implementation Considerations
    Known Perl/iX Bugs Under Investigation
    Perl/iX To-Do List
    Perl/iX Change History
    AUTHOR

    perlnetware - Perl for NetWare

    DESCRIPTION
    BUILD
    Tools & SDK
    Setup

    SetNWBld.bat, Buildtype.bat

    Make
    Interpreter
    Extensions
    INSTALL
    BUILD NEW EXTENSIONS
    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    AUTHORS
    DATE

    perlopenbsd, README.openbsd - Perl version 5 on OpenBSD systems

    DESCRIPTION
    OpenBSD core dumps from getprotobyname_r and getservbyname_r with ithreads
    AUTHOR

    perlos2 - Perl under OS/2, DOS, Win0.3*, Win0.95 and WinNT.

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Target
    Other OSes
    Prerequisites

    EMX, RSX, HPFS, pdksh

    Starting Perl programs under OS/2 (and DOS and...)
    Starting OS/2 (and DOS) programs under Perl
    Frequently asked questions
    "It does not work"
    I cannot run external programs
    I cannot embed perl into my program, or use perl.dll from my program.

    Is your program EMX-compiled with -Zmt -Zcrtdll?, Did you use the ExtUtils::Embed manpage?

    `` and pipe-open do not work under DOS.
    Cannot start find.exe "pattern" file
    INSTALLATION
    Automatic binary installation

    PERL_BADLANG, PERL_BADFREE, Config.pm

    Manual binary installation

    Perl VIO and PM executables (dynamically linked), Perl_ VIO executable (statically linked), Executables for Perl utilities, Main Perl library, Additional Perl modules, Tools to compile Perl modules, Manpages for Perl and utilities, Manpages for Perl modules, Source for Perl documentation, Perl manual in .INF format, Pdksh

    Warning
    Accessing documentation
    OS/2 .INF file
    Plain text
    Manpages
    HTML
    GNU info files
    PDF files
    LaTeX docs
    BUILD
    The short story
    Prerequisites
    Getting perl source
    Application of the patches
    Hand-editing
    Making
    Testing

    A lot of bad free, Process terminated by SIGTERM/SIGINT, op/fs.t, op/stat.t

    Installing the built perl
    a.out-style build
    Building a binary distribution
    Building custom .EXE files
    Making executables with a custom collection of statically loaded extensions
    Making executables with a custom search-paths
    Build FAQ
    Some / became \ in pdksh.
    'errno' - unresolved external
    Problems with tr or sed
    Some problem (forget which ;-)
    Library ... not found
    Segfault in make
    op/sprintf test failure
    Specific (mis)features of OS/2 port
    setpriority, getpriority
    system()
    extproc on the first line
    Additional modules:
    Prebuilt methods:

    File::Copy::syscopy, DynaLoader::mod2fname, Cwd::current_drive(), Cwd::sys_chdir(name), Cwd::change_drive(name), Cwd::sys_is_absolute(name), Cwd::sys_is_rooted(name), Cwd::sys_is_relative(name), Cwd::sys_cwd(name), Cwd::sys_abspath(name, dir), Cwd::extLibpath([type]), Cwd::extLibpath_set( path [, type ] ), OS2::Error(do_harderror,do_exception), OS2::Errors2Drive(drive), OS2::SysInfo(), OS2::BootDrive(), OS2::MorphPM(serve), OS2::UnMorphPM(serve), OS2::Serve_Messages(force), OS2::Process_Messages(force [, cnt]), OS2::_control87(new,mask), OS2::get_control87(), OS2::set_control87_em(new=MCW_EM,mask=MCW_EM), OS2::DLLname([how [, \&xsub]])

    Prebuilt variables:

    $OS2::emx_rev, $OS2::emx_env, $OS2::os_ver, $OS2::is_aout, $OS2::can_fork, $OS2::nsyserror

    Misfeatures
    Modifications

    popen, tmpnam, tmpfile, ctermid, stat, mkdir, rmdir, flock

    Identifying DLLs
    Centralized management of resources

    HAB, HMQ, Treating errors reported by OS/2 API, CheckOSError(expr), CheckWinError(expr), SaveWinError(expr), SaveCroakWinError(expr,die,name1,name2), WinError_2_Perl_rc, FillWinError, FillOSError(rc), Loading DLLs and ordinals in DLLs

    Perl flavors
    perl.exe
    perl_.exe
    perl__.exe
    perl___.exe
    Why strange names?
    Why dynamic linking?
    Why chimera build?
    ENVIRONMENT
    PERLLIB_PREFIX
    PERL_BADLANG
    PERL_BADFREE
    PERL_SH_DIR
    USE_PERL_FLOCK
    TMP or TEMP
    Evolution
    Text-mode filehandles
    Priorities
    DLL name mangling: pre 5.6.2
    DLL name mangling: 5.6.2 and beyond

    Global DLLs, specific DLLs, BEGINLIBPATH and ENDLIBPATH, . from LIBPATH

    DLL forwarder generation
    Threading
    Calls to external programs
    Memory allocation
    Threads

    COND_WAIT, os2.c

    BUGS
    AUTHOR
    SEE ALSO

    perlos390, README.os390 - building and installing Perl for OS/390 and z/OS

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Tools
    Unpacking Perl distribution on OS/390
    Setup and utilities for Perl on OS/390
    Configure Perl on OS/390
    Build, Test, Install Perl on OS/390
    Build Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
    Testing Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
    Installation Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
    Usage Hints for Perl on OS/390
    Floating Point Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
    Modules and Extensions for Perl on OS/390
    AUTHORS
    SEE ALSO
    Mailing list for Perl on OS/390
    HISTORY

    perlos400, README.os400 - Perl version 5 on OS/400

    DESCRIPTION
    Compiling Perl for OS/400 PASE
    Installing Perl in OS/400 PASE
    Using Perl in OS/400 PASE
    Known Problems
    Perl on ILE
    AUTHORS

    perlplan9 - Plan 9-specific documentation for Perl

    DESCRIPTION
    Invoking Perl
    What's in Plan 9 Perl
    What's not in Plan 9 Perl
    Perl5 Functions not currently supported in Plan 9 Perl
    Signals in Plan 9 Perl
    COMPILING AND INSTALLING PERL ON PLAN 9
    Installing Perl Documentation on Plan 9
    BUGS
    Revision date
    AUTHOR

    perlqnx, README.qnx - Perl version 5 on QNX

    DESCRIPTION
    Required Software for Compiling Perl on QNX4

    /bin/sh, ar, nm, cpp, make

    Outstanding Issues with Perl on QNX4
    QNX auxiliary files

    qnx/ar, qnx/cpp

    Outstanding issues with perl under QNX6
    AUTHOR

    perlriscos, README.riscos - Perl version 5 for RISC OS

    DESCRIPTION
    BUILD
    AUTHOR

    perlsolaris, README.solaris - Perl version 5 on Solaris systems

    DESCRIPTION
    Solaris Version Numbers.
    RESOURCES

    Solaris FAQ, Precompiled Binaries, Solaris Documentation

    SETTING UP
    File Extraction Problems on Solaris.
    Compiler and Related Tools on Solaris.
    Environment for Compiling perl on Solaris
    RUN CONFIGURE.
    1. -bit perl on Solaris.
    Threads in perl on Solaris.
    Malloc Issues with perl on Solaris.
    MAKE PROBLEMS.

    Dynamic Loading Problems With GNU as and GNU ld, ld.so.1: ./perl: fatal: relocation error:, dlopen: stub interception failed, #error "No DATAMODEL_NATIVE specified", sh: ar: not found

    MAKE TEST
    op/stat.t test 4 in Solaris
    nss_delete core dump from op/pwent or op/grent
    PREBUILT BINARIES OF PERL FOR SOLARIS.
    RUNTIME ISSUES FOR PERL ON SOLARIS.
    Limits on Numbers of Open Files on Solaris.
    SOLARIS-SPECIFIC MODULES.
    SOLARIS-SPECIFIC PROBLEMS WITH MODULES.
    Proc::ProcessTable on Solaris
    BSD::Resource on Solaris
    Net::SSLeay on Solaris
    SunOS 4.x
    AUTHOR

    perlsymbian, README.symbian - Perl version 5 on Symbian OS

    DESCRIPTION
    Compiling Perl on Symbian
    Compilation problems
    PerlApp
    sisify.pl
    Using Perl in Symbian
    TO DO
    WARNING
    NOTE
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT
    LICENSE
    HISTORY

    perltru64, README.tru64 - Perl version 5 on Tru64 (formerly known as Digital UNIX formerly known as DEC OSF/1) systems

    DESCRIPTION
    Compiling Perl 5 on Tru64
    Using Large Files with Perl on Tru64
    Threaded Perl on Tru64
    Long Doubles on Tru64
    DB_File tests failing on Tru64
  • -bit Perl on Tru64
  • Warnings about floating-point overflow when compiling Perl on Tru64
    Testing Perl on Tru64
    ext/ODBM_File/odbm Test Failing With Static Builds
    Perl Fails Because Of Unresolved Symbol sockatmark
    AUTHOR

    perluts - Perl under UTS

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    BUILDING PERL ON UTS
    Installing the built perl on UTS
    AUTHOR

    perlvmesa, README.vmesa - building and installing Perl for VM/ESA.

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Unpacking Perl Distribution on VM/ESA
    Setup Perl and utilities on VM/ESA
    Configure Perl on VM/ESA
    Testing Anomalies of Perl on VM/ESA
    Usage Hints for Perl on VM/ESA
    AUTHORS
    SEE ALSO
    Mailing list for Perl on VM/ESA

    perlvms - VMS-specific documentation for Perl

    DESCRIPTION
    Installation
    Organization of Perl Images
    Core Images
    Perl Extensions
    Installing static extensions
    Installing dynamic extensions
    File specifications
    Syntax
    Filename Case
    Symbolic Links
    Wildcard expansion
    Pipes
    PERL5LIB and PERLLIB
    The Perl Forked Debugger
    PERL_VMS_EXCEPTION_DEBUG
    Command line
    I/O redirection and backgrounding
    Command line switches

    -i, -S, -u

    Perl functions

    File tests, backticks, binmode FILEHANDLE, crypt PLAINTEXT, USER, die, dump, exec LIST, fork, getpwent, getpwnam, getpwuid, gmtime, kill, qx//, select (system call), stat EXPR, system LIST, time, times, unlink LIST, utime LIST, waitpid PID,FLAGS

    Perl variables

    %ENV, CRTL_ENV, CLISYM_[LOCAL], Any other string, $!, $^E, $?, $|

    Standard modules with VMS-specific differences
    SDBM_File
    Revision date
    AUTHOR

    perlvos, README.vos - Perl for Stratus VOS

    SYNOPSIS
    BUILDING PERL FOR VOS
    INSTALLING PERL IN VOS
    USING PERL IN VOS
    Restrictions of Perl on VOS
    Handling of underflow and overflow
    TEST STATUS
    SUPPORT STATUS
    AUTHOR
    LAST UPDATE

    perlwin32 - Perl under Windows

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Setting Up Perl on Win32

    Make, Command Shell, Borland C++, Microsoft Visual C++, Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition, Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition, Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003, Microsoft Platform SDK 64-bit Compiler, MinGW release 3 with gcc, MinGW release 1 with gcc

    Building
    Testing Perl on Win32
    Installation of Perl on Win32
    Usage Hints for Perl on Win32

    Environment Variables, File Globbing, Using perl from the command line, Building Extensions, Command-line Wildcard Expansion, Win32 Specific Extensions, Notes on 64-bit Windows

    Running Perl Scripts
    Miscellaneous Things
    BUGS AND CAVEATS
    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    AUTHORS

    Gary Ng <71564.1743@CompuServe.COM>, Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@activestate.com>, Nick Ing-Simmons <nick@ing-simmons.net>, Jan Dubois <jand@activestate.com>, Steve Hay <steve.hay@uk.radan.com>

    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY


    PRAGMA DOCUMENTATION

    re - Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    'eval' mode
    'debug' mode
    'Debug' mode

    Compile related options, COMPILE, PARSE, OPTIMISE, TRIEC, DUMP, Execute related options, EXECUTE, MATCH, TRIEE, INTUIT, Extra debugging options, EXTRA, BUFFERS, TRIEM, STATE, STACK, OPTIMISEM, OFFSETS, OFFSETSDBG, Other useful flags, ALL, All, MORE, More

    Exportable Functions

    is_regexp($ref), regexp_pattern($ref), regmust($ref), regname($name,$all), regnames($all), regnames_count()

    SEE ALSO

    base - Establish an ISA relationship with base classes at compile time

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    DIAGNOSTICS

    Base class package "%s" is empty, Class 'Foo' tried to inherit from itself

    HISTORY
    CAVEATS
    SEE ALSO

    blib - Use MakeMaker's uninstalled version of a package

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    BUGS
    AUTHOR

    bytes - Perl pragma to force byte semantics rather than character semantics

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    LIMITATIONS
    SEE ALSO

    charnames - define character names for \N{named} string literal escapes

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    ALIASES
    CUSTOM ALIASES
    Anonymous hashes
    Alias file
    Alias shortcut
    charnames::viacode(code)
    charnames::vianame(name)
    CUSTOM TRANSLATORS
    ILLEGAL CHARACTERS
    BUGS

    compsub - Package for defining compilation subroutines

    SYNOPSIS
    WARNING
    DESCRIPTION
    Compilation subroutines
    Using compilation subs
    Writing compilation subs

    Freeing opcodes, Examples, Calling a subroutine or not depending on some global environment, parsing arguments and declaring lexical variables

    IMPLEMENTATION
    AUTHOR
    BUGS

    constant - Perl pragma to declare constants

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    NOTES
    List constants
    Defining multiple constants at once
    Magic constants
    TECHNICAL NOTES
    CAVEATS
    BUGS
    AUTHORS
    COPYRIGHT

    error - Error Objects

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Object Methods

    message

    AUTHOR

    feature - Perl pragma to enable new syntactic features

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Lexical effect
    no feature
    The 'switch' feature
    FEATURE BUNDLES
    IMPLICIT LOADING

    fields - compile-time class fields

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    new, phash

    SEE ALSO

    filetest - Perl pragma to control the filetest permission operators

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Consider this carefully
    The "access" sub-pragma
    Limitation with regard to _

    integer - Perl pragma to use integer arithmetic instead of floating point

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    kurila - Perl Kurila

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    SEE ALSO

    less - perl pragma to request less of something

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    FOR MODULE AUTHORS
    BOOLEAN = less->of( FEATURE )
    FEATURES = less->of()
    CAVEATS

    This probably does nothing, This works only on 5.10+

    lib - manipulate $^INCLUDE_PATH at compile time

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Adding directories to $^INCLUDE_PATH
    Deleting directories from $^INCLUDE_PATH
    Restoring original $^INCLUDE_PATH
    CAVEATS
    NOTES
    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR

    mro - Method Resolution Order

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    OVERVIEW
    The C3 MRO
    What is C3?
    How does C3 work
    Functions
    mro::get_linear_isa($classname[, $type])
    mro::set_mro($classname, $type)
    mro::get_mro($classname)
    mro::get_isarev($classname)
    mro::is_universal($classname)
    mro::invalidate_all_method_caches()
    mro::method_changed_in($classname)
    mro::get_pkg_gen($classname)
    next::can
    maybe::next::method
    SEE ALSO
    The original Dylan paper

    http://www.webcom.com/haahr/dylan/linearization-oopsla96.html

    The prototype Perl 6 Object Model uses C3

    http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/perl5/Perl6-MetaModel/

    Parrot now uses C3

    http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/perl6-internals/2746631, http://use.perl.org/~autrijus/journal/25768

    Python 2.3 MRO related links

    http://www.python.org/2.3/mro.html, http://www.python.org/2.2.2/descrintro.html#mro

    C3 for TinyCLOS

    http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/eggs/c3.html

    Class::C3

    the Class::C3 manpage

    AUTHOR

    open - perl pragma to set default PerlIO layers for input and output

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    NONPERLIO FUNCTIONALITY
    IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS
    SEE ALSO

    ops - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when compiling

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    SEE ALSO

    sigtrap - Perl pragma to enable simple signal handling

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    OPTIONS
    SIGNAL HANDLERS

    stack-trace, die, handler your-handler

    SIGNAL LISTS

    normal-signals, error-signals, old-interface-signals

    OTHER

    untrapped, any, signal, number

    EXAMPLES

    sort - perl pragma to control sort() behaviour

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    CAVEATS

    utf8 - Perl pragma to enable/disable UTF-8 (or UTF-EBCDIC) in source code

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Utility functions

    $num_octets = utf8::upgrade($string), $success = utf8::downgrade($string[, FAIL_OK]), utf8::encode($string), $success = utf8::decode($string), $flag = utf8::valid(STRING)

    BUGS
    SEE ALSO

    version - Perl extension for Version Objects

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    BEST PRACTICES

    Be consistent, Be careful

    Using modules that use version.pm

    Numeric versions always work, Extended version work sometimes

    What IS a version

    Numeric Versions, Extended Versions

    Numeric Versions
    Extended Versions
    Numeric Alpha Versions
    Object Methods

    New Operator, qv(), Normal Form, Numification, Stringification, Comparison operators, Logical Operators

    Quoting
    What about v-strings?
    Types of Versions Objects

    Ordinary versions, Alpha Versions

    Replacement UNIVERSAL::VERSION
    SUBCLASSING
    EXPORT
    AUTHOR
    SEE ALSO

    vmsish - Perl pragma to control VMS-specific language features

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    vmsish status, vmsish exit, vmsish time, vmsish hushed

    warnings - Perl pragma to control optional warnings

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    use warnings::register, warnings::enabled(), warnings::enabled($category), warnings::enabled($object), warnings::warn($message), warnings::warn($category, $message), warnings::warn($object, $message), warnings::warnif($message), warnings::warnif($category, $message), warnings::warnif($object, $message)

    warnings::register - warnings import function

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION


    MODULE DOCUMENTATION

    B - The Perl Compiler

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    OVERVIEW
    Utility Functions
    Functions Returning B::SV, B::AV, B::HV, and B::CV objects

    sv_undef, sv_yes, sv_no, svref_2object(SVREF), amagic_generation, init_av, check_av, unitcheck_av, begin_av, end_av, comppadlist, regex_padav, main_cv

    Functions for Examining the Symbol Table

    walksymtable(SYMREF, METHOD, RECURSE, PREFIX)

    Functions Returning B::OP objects or for walking op trees

    main_root, main_start, walkoptree(OP, METHOD), walkoptree_debug(DEBUG)

    Miscellaneous Utility Functions

    ppname(OPNUM), hash(STR), cast_I32(I), minus_c, cstring(STR), perlstring(STR), class(OBJ), threadsv_names

    Exported utility variabiles

    @optype, @specialsv_name

    OVERVIEW OF CLASSES
    SV-RELATED CLASSES
    B::SV Methods

    REFCNT, FLAGS, object_2svref

    B::IV Methods

    IV, IVX, UVX, int_value, needs64bits, packiv

    B::NV Methods

    NV, NVX

    B::RV Methods

    RV

    B::PV Methods

    PV, RV, PVX

    B::PVMG Methods

    MAGIC, SvSTASH

    B::MAGIC Methods

    MOREMAGIC, precomp, PRIVATE, TYPE, FLAGS, OBJ, PTR, REGEX

    B::PVLV Methods

    TARGOFF, TARGLEN, TYPE, TARG

    B::BM Methods

    USEFUL, PREVIOUS, RARE, TABLE

    B::GV Methods

    is_empty, NAME, SAFENAME, STASH, SV, IO, AV, HV, EGV, CV, CVGEN, LINE, FILE, FILEGV, GvREFCNT, FLAGS

    B::IO Methods

    LINES, PAGE, PAGE_LEN, LINES_LEFT, TOP_NAME, TOP_GV, FMT_NAME, FMT_GV, BOTTOM_NAME, BOTTOM_GV, SUBPROCESS, IoTYPE, IoFLAGS, IsSTD

    B::AV Methods

    FILL, MAX, ARRAY, ARRAYelt, AvFLAGS

    B::CV Methods

    STASH, START, ROOT, GV, FILE, DEPTH, PADLIST, OUTSIDE, OUTSIDE_SEQ, XSUB, XSUBANY, CvFLAGS, const_sv

    B::HV Methods

    FILL, MAX, KEYS, RITER, NAME, ARRAY, PMROOT

    AUTHOR

    B::Concise - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing concise info about ops

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    EXAMPLE
    OPTIONS
    Options for Opcode Ordering

    -basic, -exec, -tree

    Options for Line-Style

    -concise, -terse, -linenoise, -debug, -env

    Options for tree-specific formatting

    -compact, -loose, -vt, -ascii

    Options controlling sequence numbering

    -basen, -bigendian, -littleendian

    Other options

    -src, -stash="somepackage", -main, -nomain, -nobanner, -banner, -banneris => subref

    Option Stickiness
    ABBREVIATIONS
    OP class abbreviations
    OP flags abbreviations
    FORMATTING SPECIFICATIONS
    Special Patterns

    (x(exec_text;basic_text)x), (*(text)*), (*(text1;text2)*), (?(text1#varText2)?), ~

    # Variables

    #var, #varN, #Var, #addr, #arg, #class, #classsym, #coplabel, #exname, #extarg, #firstaddr, #flags, #flagval, #hints, #hintsval, #hyphseq, #label, #lastaddr, #name, #NAME, #next, #nextaddr, #noise, #private, #privval, #seq, #seqnum, #opt, #sibaddr, #svaddr, #svclass, #svval, #targ, #targarg, #targarglife, #typenum

    One-Liner Command tips

    perl -MO=Concise,bar foo.pl, perl -MDigest::MD5=md5 -MO=Concise,md5 -e1, perl -MPOSIX -MO=Concise,_POSIX_ARG_MAX -e1, perl -MPOSIX -MO=Concise,a -e 'print _POSIX_SAVED_IDS', perl -MPOSIX -MO=Concise,a -e 'sub a{_POSIX_SAVED_IDS}', perl -MB::Concise -e 'B::Concise::compile("-exec","-src", \%B::Concise::)->()'

    Using B::Concise outside of the O framework
    Example: Altering Concise Renderings
    set_style()
    set_style_standard($name)
    add_style()
    add_callback()
    Running B::Concise::compile()
    B::Concise::reset_sequence()
    Errors
    AUTHOR

    B::Debug - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing debug info about ops

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    OPTIONS
    AUTHOR

    B::Deparse - Perl compiler backend to produce perl code

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    OPTIONS

    -d, -fFILE, -l, -p, -P, -q, -sLETTERS, C, iNUMBER, T, vSTRING., -xLEVEL

    USING B::Deparse AS A MODULE
    Synopsis
    Description
    new
    ambient_pragmas

    strict, $[, bytes, utf8, integer, re, warnings, hint_bits, warning_bits, %^H

    coderef2text
    BUGS
    AUTHOR

    B::O, O - Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    CONVENTIONS
    IMPLEMENTATION
    BUGS
    AUTHOR

    B::OP - Inspect and manipulate op trees.

    DESCRIPTION
    OP-RELATED CLASSES
    B::OP Methods

    next, sibling, name, ppaddr, desc, targ, type, opt, flags, private, spare, free

    B::UNOP METHOD

    first

    B::BINOP METHOD

    last

    B::LOGOP METHOD

    other

    B::LISTOP METHOD

    children

    B::PMOP Methods

    pmreplroot, pmreplstart, precomp, pmflags, reflags, pmoffset, pmstashpv, pmstash

    B::SVOP METHOD

    sv, gv

    B::PADOP METHOD

    padix

    B::PVOP METHOD

    pv

    B::LOOP Methods

    redoop, nextop, lastop

    B::COP Methods

    label, stash, stashpv, file, cop_seq, line, warnings, io, hints

    CREATING OPTREES
    SYNOPSIS
    WARNING
    DESCRIPTION
    OTHER METHODS
     $b_sv->sv, $op->dump, $b_sv->dump, $b_op->linklist
    EXPORT
    AUTHOR
    MAINTAINERS
    LICENSE
    SEE ALSO

    B::Showlex - Show lexical variables used in functions or files

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    EXAMPLES
    OPTIONS
    SEE ALSO
    TODO
    AUTHOR

    B::Terse - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing terse info about ops

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    AUTHOR

    Benchmark - benchmark running times of Perl code

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Methods

    new, debug, iters

    Standard Exports

    timeit(COUNT, CODE), timethis ( COUNT, CODE, [ TITLE, [ STYLE ]] ), timethese ( COUNT, CODEHASHREF, [ STYLE ] ), timediff ( T1, T2 ), timestr ( TIMEDIFF, [ STYLE, [ FORMAT ] ] )

    Optional Exports

    clearcache ( COUNT ), clearallcache ( ), cmpthese ( COUNT, CODEHASHREF, [ STYLE ] ), cmpthese ( RESULTSHASHREF, [ STYLE ] ), countit(TIME, CODE), disablecache ( ), enablecache ( ), timesum ( T1, T2 )

    :hireswallclock
    NOTES
    EXAMPLES
    INHERITANCE
    CAVEATS
    SEE ALSO
    AUTHORS
    MODIFICATION HISTORY

    CORE - Pseudo-namespace for Perl's core routines

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    OVERRIDING CORE FUNCTIONS
    AUTHOR
    SEE ALSO

    Carp, carp - warn of errors (from perspective of caller)

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Forcing a Stack Trace
    GLOBAL VARIABLES
    $Carp::MaxEvalLen
    $Carp::MaxArgLen
    $Carp::MaxArgNums
    $Carp::Verbose
    %Carp::Internal
    %Carp::CarpInternal
    $Carp::CarpLevel
    BUGS

    Carp::Heavy - heavy machinery, no user serviceable parts inside

    Class::ISA -- report the search path for a class's ISA tree

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    FUNCTIONS

    the function Class::ISA::super_path($CLASS), the function Class::ISA::self_and_super_path($CLASS), the function Class::ISA::self_and_super_versions($CLASS)

    CAUTIONARY NOTES
    COPYRIGHT
    AUTHOR

    Class::Struct - declare struct-like datatypes as Perl classes

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    The struct() function
    Class Creation at Compile Time
    Element Types and Accessor Methods

    Scalar ('$' or '*$'), Array ('@' or '*@'), Hash ('%' or '*%'), Class ('Class_Name' or '*Class_Name')

    Initializing with new
    EXAMPLES

    Example 1, Example 2, Example 3

    Author and Modification History

    Config - access Perl configuration information

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    myconfig(), config_sh(), config_re($regex), config_vars(@names)

    EXAMPLE
    WARNING
    GLOSSARY
    _
    a
    b
    c
    d
    e
    f
    g
    h
    i
    k
    l
    m
    n
    o
    p
    P
    q
    r
    s
    t
    u
    v
    x
    y
    z
    NOTE
    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    dynamic, nonxs, static

    AUTHOR

    Cwd - get pathname of current working directory

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    getcwd and friends

    getcwd, cwd, fastcwd, fastgetcwd, getdcwd

    abs_path and friends

    abs_path, realpath, fast_abs_path

    $ENV{PWD}
    NOTES
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT
    SEE ALSO

    DB - programmatic interface to the Perl debugging API

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Global Variables
     $DB::sub,  %DB::sub,  $DB::single,  $DB::signal,  $DB::trace,  @DB::args, 
    @DB::dbline,  %DB::dbline,  $DB::package,  $DB::filename,  $DB::subname, 
    $DB::lineno
    API Methods

    CLIENT->register(), CLIENT->evalcode(STRING), CLIENT->skippkg('D::hide'), CLIENT->run(), CLIENT->step(), CLIENT->next(), CLIENT->done()

    Client Callback Methods

    CLIENT->init(), CLIENT->prestop([STRING]), CLIENT->stop(), CLIENT->idle(), CLIENT->poststop([STRING]), CLIENT->evalcode(STRING), CLIENT->cleanup(), CLIENT->output(LIST)

    BUGS
    AUTHOR

    DB_File - Perl5 access to Berkeley DB version 1.x

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    DB_HASH, DB_BTREE, DB_RECNO

    Using DB_File with Berkeley DB version 2 or greater
    Interface to Berkeley DB
    Opening a Berkeley DB Database File
    Default Parameters
    In Memory Databases
    DB_HASH
    A Simple Example
    DB_BTREE
    Changing the BTREE sort order
    Handling Duplicate Keys
    The get_dup() Method
    The find_dup() Method
    The del_dup() Method
    Matching Partial Keys
    DB_RECNO
    The 'bval' Option
    A Simple Example
    Extra RECNO Methods

    $X->push(list) ;, $value = $X->pop ;, $X->shift, $X->unshift(list) ;, $X->length, $X->splice(offset, length, elements);

    Another Example
    THE API INTERFACE

    $status = $X->get($key, $value [, $flags]) ;, $status = $X->put($key, $value [, $flags]) ;, $status = $X->del($key [, $flags]) ;, $status = $X->fd ;, $status = $X->seq($key, $value, $flags) ;, $status = $X->sync([$flags]) ;

    HINTS AND TIPS
    Locking: The Trouble with fd
    Safe ways to lock a database

    Tie::DB_Lock, Tie::DB_LockFile, DB_File::Lock

    Sharing Databases With C Applications
    The untie() Gotcha
    COMMON QUESTIONS
    Why is there Perl source in my database?
    How do I store complex data structures with DB_File?
    What does "Invalid Argument" mean?
    What does "Bareword 'DB_File' not allowed" mean?
    REFERENCES
    HISTORY
    BUGS
    AVAILABILITY
    COPYRIGHT
    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR

    Data::Dumper - stringified perl data structures, suitable for both printing and eval

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Methods

    PACKAGE->new(ARRAYREF [, ARRAYREF]), $OBJ->Dump or PACKAGE->Dump(ARRAYREF [, ARRAYREF]), $OBJ->Seen([HASHREF]), $OBJ->Values([ARRAYREF]), $OBJ->Names([ARRAYREF]), $OBJ->Reset

    Functions

    Dumper(LIST)

    Configuration Variables or Methods
    Exports

    Dumper

    EXAMPLES
    BUGS
    NOTE
    AUTHOR
    VERSION
    SEE ALSO

    Digest - Modules that calculate message digests

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    binary, hex, base64

    OO INTERFACE

    $ctx = Digest->XXX($arg,...), $ctx = Digest->new(XXX => $arg,...), $ctx = Digest::XXX->new($arg,...), $other_ctx = $ctx->clone, $ctx->reset, $ctx->add( $data ), $ctx->add( $chunk1, $chunk2, ... ), $ctx->addfile( $io_handle ), $ctx->add_bits( $data, $nbits ), $ctx->add_bits( $bitstring ), $ctx->digest, $ctx->hexdigest, $ctx->b64digest

    Digest speed
    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR

    Digest::base - Digest base class

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    SEE ALSO

    Digest::file - Calculate digests of files

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    digest_file( $file, $algorithm, [$arg,...] ), digest_file_hex( $file, $algorithm, [$arg,...] ), digest_file_base64( $file, $algorithm, [$arg,...] )

    SEE ALSO
    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    NOTES

    DynaLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    @dl_library_path, @dl_resolve_using, @dl_require_symbols, @dl_librefs, @dl_modules, @dl_shared_objects, dl_error(), $dl_debug, dl_findfile(), dl_expandspec(), dl_load_file(), dl_unload_file(), dl_load_flags(), dl_find_symbol(), dl_find_symbol_anywhere(), dl_undef_symbols(), dl_install_xsub(), bootstrap()

    AUTHOR

    DynaLoader::XSLoader, XSLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code

    VERSION
    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Migration from DynaLoader
    Backward compatible boilerplate
    Order of initialization: early load()
    The most hairy case
    DIAGNOSTICS

    Can't find '%s' symbol in %s, Can't load '%s' for module %s: %s, Undefined symbols present after loading %s: %s, XSLoader::load('Your::Module', $Your::Module::VERSION)

    LIMITATIONS
    BUGS
    SEE ALSO
    AUTHORS
    COPYRIGHT

    English - use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation variables

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    Errno - System errno constants

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    CAVEATS
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT

    Exporter - Implements default import method for modules

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    How to Export
    Selecting What To Export
    How to Import

    use ModuleName;, use ModuleName ();, use ModuleName qw(...);

    Advanced features
    Specialised Import Lists
    Exporting without using Exporter's import method
    Exporting without inheriting from Exporter
    Module Version Checking
    Managing Unknown Symbols
    Tag Handling Utility Functions
    Generating combined tags
    Good Practices
    Declaring @EXPORT_OK and Friends
    Playing Safe
    What not to Export
    SEE ALSO
    LICENSE

    Exporter::Heavy - Exporter guts

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    ExtUtils::CBuilder - Compile and link C code for Perl modules

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    METHODS

    new, have_compiler, compile, object_file, include_dirs, extra_compiler_flags, link, lib_file, module_name, extra_linker_flags, link_executable, exe_file, object_file, lib_file, exe_file, prelink, need_prelink, extra_link_args_after_prelink

    TO DO
    HISTORY
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT
    SEE ALSO

    ExtUtils::CBuilder::Platform::Windows - Builder class for Windows platforms

    DESCRIPTION
    AUTHOR
    SEE ALSO

    ExtUtils::Command - utilities to replace common UNIX commands in Makefiles etc.

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    FUNCTIONS

    cat

    eqtime

    rm_rf

    rm_f

    touch

    mv

    cp

    chmod

    mkpath

    test_f

    test_d

    dos2unix

    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR

    ExtUtils::Command::MM - Commands for the MM's to use in Makefiles

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    test_harness

    pod2man

    warn_if_old_packlist

    perllocal_install

    uninstall

    ExtUtils::Constant - generate XS code to import C header constants

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    USAGE

    IV, UV, NV, PV, PVN, SV, YES, NO, UNDEF

    FUNCTIONS

    constant_types

    XS_constant PACKAGE, TYPES, SUBNAME, C_SUBNAME

    WriteMakefileSnippet

    WriteConstants ATTRIBUTE => VALUE [, ...], NAME, DEFAULT_TYPE, BREAKOUT_AT, NAMES, C_FH, C_FILE, XS_FH, XS_FILE, SUBNAME, C_SUBNAME

    AUTHOR

    ExtUtils::Constant::Base - base class for ExtUtils::Constant objects

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    USAGE

    header

    memEQ_clause args_hashref

    dump_names arg_hashref, ITEM..

    assign arg_hashref, VALUE..

    return_clause arg_hashref, ITEM

    switch_clause arg_hashref, NAMELEN, ITEMHASH, ITEM..

    params WHAT

    dogfood arg_hashref, ITEM..

    normalise_items args, default_type, seen_types, seen_items, ITEM..

    C_constant arg_hashref, ITEM.., name, type, value, macro, default, pre, post, def_pre, def_post, weight

    BUGS
    AUTHOR

    ExtUtils::Constant::Utils - helper functions for ExtUtils::Constant

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    USAGE

    C_stringify NAME

    perl_stringify NAME

    AUTHOR

    ExtUtils::Constant::XS, ExtUtils::Constant::Base - base class for ExtUtils::Constant objects

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    BUGS
    AUTHOR

    ExtUtils::Embed - Utilities for embedding Perl in C/C++ applications

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    @EXPORT
    FUNCTIONS

    xsinit(), Examples, ldopts(), Examples, perl_inc(), ccflags(), ccdlflags(), ccopts(), xsi_header(), xsi_protos(@modules), xsi_body(@modules)

    EXAMPLES
    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR

    ExtUtils::Install - install files from here to there

    SYNOPSIS
    VERSION
    DESCRIPTION

    _chmod($$;$), _warnonce(@), _choke(@)

    _move_file_at_boot( $file, $target, $moan )

    _unlink_or_rename( $file, $tryhard, $installing )

    Functions

    _get_install_skip

    _have_write_access

    _can_write_dir($dir)

    _mkpath($dir,$show,$mode,$verbose,$dry_run)

    _copy($from,$to,$verbose,$dry_run)

    _symlink($old,$new,$verbose,$fake)

    _chdir($from)

    install

    _do_cleanup

    install_rooted_file( $file ), install_rooted_dir( $dir )

    forceunlink( $file, $tryhard )

    directory_not_empty( $dir )

    install_default DISCOURAGED

    uninstall

    inc_uninstall($filepath,$libdir,$verbose,$dry_run,$ignore,$results)

    run_filter($cmd,$src,$dest)

    pm_to_blib

    _invokant

    ENVIRONMENT

    PERL_INSTALL_ROOT, EU_INSTALL_IGNORE_SKIP, EU_INSTALL_SITE_SKIPFILE, EU_INSTALL_ALWAYS_COPY

    AUTHOR
    LICENSE

    ExtUtils::Installed - Inventory management of installed modules

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    USAGE
    FUNCTIONS

    new(), modules(), files(), directories(), directory_tree(), validate(), packlist(), version()

    EXAMPLE
    AUTHOR

    ExtUtils::Liblist - determine libraries to use and how to use them

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    For static extensions, For dynamic extensions at build/link time, For dynamic extensions at load time

    EXTRALIBS
    LDLOADLIBS and LD_RUN_PATH
    BSLOADLIBS
    PORTABILITY
    VMS implementation
    Win32 implementation
    SEE ALSO

    ExtUtils::MM - OS adjusted ExtUtils::MakeMaker subclass

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    ExtUtils::MM_AIX - AIX specific subclass of ExtUtils::MM_Unix

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Overridden methods
    AUTHOR
    SEE ALSO

    ExtUtils::MM_Any - Platform-agnostic MM methods

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    METHODS
    Cross-platform helper methods
    Targets
    Init methods
    Tools
    File::Spec wrappers
    Misc
    AUTHOR

    ExtUtils::MM_BeOS - methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    os_flavor

    init_linker

    ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin - methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    os_flavor

    cflags

    replace_manpage_separator

    init_linker

    ExtUtils::MM_DOS - DOS specific subclass of ExtUtils::MM_Unix

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Overridden methods

    os_flavor

    replace_manpage_separator

    AUTHOR
    SEE ALSO

    ExtUtils::MM_Darwin - special behaviors for OS X

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Overriden Methods

    ExtUtils::MM_MacOS - once produced Makefiles for MacOS Classic

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    ExtUtils::MM_NW5 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    os_flavor

    init_platform, platform_constants

    const_cccmd

    static_lib

    dynamic_lib

    ExtUtils::MM_OS2 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    METHODS

    init_dist

    init_linker

    os_flavor

    ExtUtils::MM_QNX - QNX specific subclass of ExtUtils::MM_Unix

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Overridden methods
    AUTHOR
    SEE ALSO

    ExtUtils::MM_UWIN - U/WIN specific subclass of ExtUtils::MM_Unix

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Overridden methods

    os_flavor

    replace_manpage_separator

    AUTHOR
    SEE ALSO

    ExtUtils::MM_Unix - methods used by ExtUtils::MakeMaker

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    METHODS
    Methods

    os_flavor

    c_o (o)

    cflags (o)

    const_cccmd (o)

    const_config (o)

    const_loadlibs (o)

    constants (o)

    depend (o)

    init_DEST

    init_dist

    dist (o)

    dist_basics (o)

    dist_ci (o)

    dist_core (o)

    dist_target

    tardist_target

    zipdist_target

    tarfile_target

    zipfile_target

    uutardist_target

    shdist_target

    dlsyms (o)

    dynamic_bs (o)

    dynamic_lib (o)

    exescan

    extliblist

    find_perl

    fixin

    force (o)

    guess_name

    has_link_code

    init_dirscan

    init_MANPODS

    init_MAN1PODS

    init_MAN3PODS

    init_PM

    init_DIRFILESEP

    init_main

    init_others

    init_linker

    init_lib2arch

    init_PERL

    init_platform, platform_constants

    init_PERM

    init_xs

    install (o)

    installbin (o)

    linkext (o)

    lsdir

    macro (o)

    makeaperl (o)

    makefile (o)

    maybe_command

    needs_linking (o)

    parse_abstract

    parse_version

    pasthru (o)

    perl_script

    perldepend (o)

    perm_rw (o)

    perm_rwx (o)

    pm_to_blib

    post_constants (o)

    post_initialize (o)

    postamble (o)

    ppd

    prefixify

    processPL (o)

    quote_paren

    replace_manpage_separator

    cd

    oneliner

    quote_literal

    escape_newlines

    max_exec_len

    static (o)

    static_lib (o)

    staticmake (o)

    subdir_x (o)

    subdirs (o)

    test (o)

    test_via_harness (override)

    test_via_script (override)

    tools_other (o)

    tool_xsubpp (o)

    all_target

    top_targets (o)

    writedoc

    xs_c (o)

    xs_cpp (o)

    xs_o (o)

    SEE ALSO

    ExtUtils::MM_VMS - methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Methods always loaded

    wraplist

    Methods

    guess_name (override)

    find_perl (override)

    maybe_command (override)

    pasthru (override)

    pm_to_blib (override)

    perl_script (override)

    replace_manpage_separator

    init_DEST

    init_DIRFILESEP

    init_main (override)

    init_others (override)

    init_platform (override)

    platform_constants

    init_VERSION (override)

    constants (override)

    special_targets

    cflags (override)

    const_cccmd (override)

    tools_other (override)

    init_dist (override)

    c_o (override)

    xs_c (override)

    xs_o (override)

    dlsyms (override)

    dynamic_lib (override)

    static_lib (override)

    extra_clean_files

    zipfile_target, tarfile_target, shdist_target

    install (override)

    perldepend (override)

    makeaperl (override)

    maketext_filter (override)

    prefixify (override)

    cd

    oneliner

    echo

    quote_literal

    escape_newlines

    max_exec_len

    init_linker

    eliminate_macros

    fixpath

    os_flavor

    AUTHOR

    ExtUtils::MM_VOS - VOS specific subclass of ExtUtils::MM_Unix

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Overridden methods
    AUTHOR
    SEE ALSO

    ExtUtils::MM_Win32 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Overridden methods

    dlsyms

    replace_manpage_separator

    maybe_command

    init_DIRFILESEP

    init_others

    init_platform, platform_constants

    special_targets

    static_lib

    dynamic_lib

    extra_clean_files

    init_linker

    perl_script

    xs_o

    pasthru

    oneliner

    cd

    max_exec_len

    os_flavor

    cflags

    ExtUtils::MM_Win95 - method to customize MakeMaker for Win9X

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Overridden methods

    xs_c

    xs_cpp

    xs_o

    max_exec_len

    os_flavor

    AUTHOR

    ExtUtils::MY - ExtUtils::MakeMaker subclass for customization

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    ExtUtils::MakeMaker - Create a module Makefile

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    How To Write A Makefile.PL
    Default Makefile Behaviour
    make test
    make testdb
    make install
    INSTALL_BASE
    PREFIX and LIB attribute
    AFS users
    Static Linking of a new Perl Binary
    Determination of Perl Library and Installation Locations
    Which architecture dependent directory?
    Using Attributes and Parameters

    ABSTRACT, ABSTRACT_FROM, AUTHOR, BINARY_LOCATION, C, CCFLAGS, CONFIG, CONFIGURE, DEFINE, DESTDIR, DIR, DISTNAME, DISTVNAME, DL_FUNCS, DL_VARS, EXCLUDE_EXT, EXE_FILES, FIRST_MAKEFILE, FULLPERL, FULLPERLRUN, FULLPERLRUNINST, FUNCLIST, H, IMPORTS, INC, INCLUDE_EXT, INSTALLARCHLIB, INSTALLBIN, INSTALLDIRS, INSTALLMAN1DIR, INSTALLMAN3DIR, INSTALLPRIVLIB, INSTALLSCRIPT, INSTALLSITEARCH, INSTALLSITEBIN, INSTALLSITELIB, INSTALLSITEMAN1DIR, INSTALLSITEMAN3DIR, INSTALLSITESCRIPT, INSTALLVENDORARCH, INSTALLVENDORBIN, INSTALLVENDORLIB, INSTALLVENDORMAN1DIR, INSTALLVENDORMAN3DIR, INSTALLVENDORSCRIPT, INST_ARCHLIB, INST_BIN, INST_LIB, INST_MAN1DIR, INST_MAN3DIR, INST_SCRIPT, LD, LDDLFLAGS, LDFROM, LIB, LIBPERL_A, LIBS, LICENSE, LINKTYPE, MAKE, MAKEAPERL, MAKEFILE_OLD, MAN1PODS, MAN3PODS, MAP_TARGET, MYEXTLIB, NAME, NEEDS_LINKING, NOECHO, NORECURS, NO_META, NO_VC, OBJECT, OPTIMIZE, PERL, PERL_CORE, PERLMAINCC, PERL_ARCHLIB, PERL_LIB, PERL_MALLOC_OK, PERLPREFIX, PERLRUN, PERLRUNINST, PERL_SRC, PERM_RW, PERM_RWX, PL_FILES, PM, PMLIBDIRS, PM_FILTER, POLLUTE, PPM_INSTALL_EXEC, PPM_INSTALL_SCRIPT, PREFIX, PREREQ_FATAL, PREREQ_PM, PREREQ_PRINT, PRINT_PREREQ, SITEPREFIX, SIGN, SKIP, TYPEMAPS, VENDORPREFIX, VERBINST, VERSION, VERSION_FROM, VERSION_SYM, XS, XSOPT, XSPROTOARG, XS_VERSION

    Additional lowercase attributes

    clean, depend, dist, dynamic_lib, linkext, macro, postamble, realclean, test

    Overriding MakeMaker Methods
    The End Of Cargo Cult Programming

    MAN3PODS => ' '

    Hintsfile support
    Distribution Support
       make distcheck,    make skipcheck,    make distclean,    make manifest, 
      make distdir,   make disttest,    make tardist,    make dist,    make
    uutardist,    make shdist,    make zipdist,    make ci
    Module Meta-Data
    Disabling an extension
    Other Handy Functions

    prompt

    ENVIRONMENT

    PERL_MM_OPT, PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT, PERL_CORE

    SEE ALSO
    AUTHORS
    LICENSE

    ExtUtils::MakeMaker::Config - Wrapper around Config.pm

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    ExtUtils::MakeMaker::FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions About MakeMaker

    DESCRIPTION
    Module Installation

    How do I install a module into my home directory?, How do I get MakeMaker and Module::Build to install to the same place?, How do I keep from installing man pages?, How do I use a module without installing it?, PREFIX vs INSTALL_BASE from Module::Build::Cookbook

    Philosophy and History

    Why not just use <insert other build config tool here>?, What is Module::Build and how does it relate to MakeMaker?, pure perl. no make, no shell commands, easier to customize, cleaner internals, less cruft

    Module Writing

    How do I keep my $VERSION up to date without resetting it manually?, What's this META.yml thing and how did it get in my MANIFEST?!, How do I delete everything not in my MANIFEST?

    XS

    How to I prevent "object version X.XX does not match bootstrap parameter Y.YY" errors?, How do I make two or more XS files coexist in the same directory?

    PATCHING
    AUTHOR
    SEE ALSO

    ExtUtils::MakeMaker::Tutorial - Writing a module with MakeMaker

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    The Mantra
    The Layout

    Makefile.PL, MANIFEST, lib/, t/, Changes, README, INSTALL, MANIFEST.SKIP, bin/

    SEE ALSO

    ExtUtils::MakeMaker::bytes - Version-agnostic bytes.pm

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    ExtUtils::MakeMaker::vmsish - Platform-agnostic vmsish.pm

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    ExtUtils::Manifest - utilities to write and check a MANIFEST file

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Functions

    mkmanifest

    manifind

    manicheck

    filecheck

    fullcheck

    skipcheck

    maniread

    manicopy

    maniadd

    MANIFEST
    MANIFEST.SKIP

    #!include_default, #!include /Path/to/another/manifest.skip

    EXPORT_OK
    GLOBAL VARIABLES
    DIAGNOSTICS

    Not in MANIFEST: file, Skipping file, No such file: file, MANIFEST: $!, Added to MANIFEST: file

    ENVIRONMENT

    PERL_MM_MANIFEST_DEBUG

    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR

    ExtUtils::Miniperl, writemain - write the C code for perlmain.c

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    SEE ALSO

    ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap - make a bootstrap file for use by DynaLoader

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    ExtUtils::Mksymlists - write linker options files for dynamic extension

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    DLBASE, DL_FUNCS, DL_VARS, FILE, FUNCLIST, IMPORTS, NAME

    AUTHOR
    REVISION

    mkfh()

    __find_relocations

    ExtUtils::Packlist - manage .packlist files

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    USAGE
    FUNCTIONS

    new(), read(), write(), validate(), packlist_file()

    EXAMPLE
    AUTHOR

    ExtUtils::ParseXS - converts Perl XS code into C code

    SYNOPSIS
    EXPORT
    FUNCTIONS

    process_xs(), C++, hiertype, except, typemap, prototypes, versioncheck, linenumbers, optimize, inout, argtypes, s, errors()

    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT
    SEE ALSO

    ExtUtils::testlib - add blib/* directories to $^INCLUDE_PATH

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    Fatal - replace functions with equivalents which succeed or die

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    BUGS
    AUTHOR

    Fcntl - load the C Fcntl.h defines

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    NOTE
    EXPORTED SYMBOLS

    File::Basename - Parse file paths into directory, filename and suffix.

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    fileparse

    basename

    dirname

    fileparse_set_fstype

    SEE ALSO

    File::CheckTree - run many filetest checks on a tree

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    AUTHOR
    HISTORY

    File::Compare - Compare files or filehandles

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    RETURN
    AUTHOR

    File::Copy - Copy files or filehandles

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    copy , move , syscopy , rmscopy($from,$to[,$date_flag])

    RETURN
    NOTES
    AUTHOR

    File::DosGlob - DOS like globbing and then some

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    NOTES
    EXPORTS (by request only)
    BUGS
    AUTHOR
    HISTORY
    SEE ALSO

    File::Fetch - A generic file fetching mechanism

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    ACCESSORS

    $ff->uri, $ff->scheme, $ff->host, $ff->vol, $ff->share, $ff->path, $ff->file

    $ff->output_file

    METHODS
    $ff = File::Fetch->new( uri => 'http://some.where.com/dir/file.txt' );
    $ff->fetch( [to => /my/output/dir/] )
    $ff->error([BOOL])
    HOW IT WORKS
    GLOBAL VARIABLES
    $File::Fetch::FROM_EMAIL
    $File::Fetch::USER_AGENT
    $File::Fetch::FTP_PASSIVE
    $File::Fetch::TIMEOUT
    $File::Fetch::WARN
    $File::Fetch::DEBUG
    $File::Fetch::BLACKLIST
    $File::Fetch::METHOD_FAIL
    MAPPING
    FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
    So how do I use a proxy with File::Fetch?
    I used 'lynx' to fetch a file, but its contents is all wrong!
    Files I'm trying to fetch have reserved characters or non-ASCII characters in them. What do I do?
    TODO

    Implement $PREFER_BIN

    BUG REPORTS
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT

    File::Find - Traverse a directory tree.

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    find, finddepth

    %options

    wanted, bydepth, preprocess, postprocess, follow, follow_fast, follow_skip, dangling_symlinks, no_chdir, untaint, untaint_pattern, untaint_skip

    The wanted function

    $File::Find::dir is the current directory name,, $_ is the current filename within that directory, $File::Find::name is the complete pathname to the file

    WARNINGS
    CAVEAT

    $dont_use_nlink, symlinks

    NOTES
    BUGS AND CAVEATS
    HISTORY

    File::Glob - Perl extension for BSD glob routine

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    META CHARACTERS
    POSIX FLAGS

    GLOB_ERR, GLOB_LIMIT, GLOB_MARK, GLOB_NOCASE, GLOB_NOCHECK, GLOB_NOSORT, GLOB_BRACE, GLOB_NOMAGIC, GLOB_QUOTE, GLOB_TILDE, GLOB_CSH, GLOB_ALPHASORT

    DIAGNOSTICS

    GLOB_NOSPACE, GLOB_ABEND

    NOTES
    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR

    File::Path - Create or remove directory trees

    VERSION
    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    FUNCTIONS

    mode, verbose, error, verbose, safe, keep_root, result, error

    TRADITIONAL INTERFACE
    ERROR HANDLING
    NOTES
    DIAGNOSTICS

    mkdir [path]: [errmsg] (SEVERE), No root path(s) specified, No such file or directory, cannot fetch initial working directory: [errmsg], cannot stat initial working directory: [errmsg], cannot chdir to [dir]: [errmsg], directory [dir] changed before chdir, expected dev=[n] inode=[n], actual dev=[n] ino=[n], aborting. (FATAL), cannot make directory [dir] read+writeable: [errmsg], cannot read [dir]: [errmsg], cannot reset chmod [dir]: [errmsg], cannot chdir to [parent-dir] from [child-dir]: [errmsg], aborting. (FATAL), cannot stat prior working directory [dir]: [errmsg], aborting. (FATAL), previous directory [parent-dir] changed before entering [child-dir], expected dev=[n] inode=[n], actual dev=[n] ino=[n], aborting. (FATAL), cannot make directory [dir] writeable: [errmsg], cannot remove directory [dir]: [errmsg], cannot restore permissions of [dir] to [0nnn]: [errmsg], cannot make file [file] writeable: [errmsg], cannot unlink file [file]: [errmsg], cannot restore permissions of [file] to [0nnn]: [errmsg]

    SEE ALSO
    BUGS
    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    AUTHORS
    COPYRIGHT
    LICENSE

    File::Spec - portably perform operations on file names

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    METHODS

    canonpath , catdir , catfile , curdir , devnull , rootdir , tmpdir , updir , no_upwards, case_tolerant, file_name_is_absolute, path , join , splitpath , splitdir , catpath(), abs2rel , rel2abs()

    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT

    File::Spec::Cygwin - methods for Cygwin file specs

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    canonpath

    file_name_is_absolute

    tmpdir (override)

    case_tolerant

    COPYRIGHT

    File::Spec::Epoc - methods for Epoc file specs

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    canonpath()

    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT
    SEE ALSO

    File::Spec::Functions - portably perform operations on file names

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Exports
    COPYRIGHT
    SEE ALSO

    File::Spec::Mac - File::Spec for Mac OS (Classic)

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    METHODS

    canonpath

    catdir()

    catfile

    curdir

    devnull

    rootdir

    tmpdir

    updir

    file_name_is_absolute

    path

    splitpath

    splitdir

    catpath

    abs2rel

    rel2abs

    AUTHORS
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    File::Spec::OS2 - methods for OS/2 file specs

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    tmpdir, splitpath

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    File::Spec::Unix - File::Spec for Unix, base for other File::Spec modules

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    METHODS

    canonpath()

    catdir()

    catfile

    curdir

    devnull

    rootdir

    tmpdir

    updir

    no_upwards

    case_tolerant

    file_name_is_absolute

    path

    join

    splitpath

    splitdir

    catpath()

    abs2rel

    rel2abs()

    COPYRIGHT
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    File::Spec::VMS - methods for VMS file specs

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    canonpath (override)

    catdir (override)

    catfile (override)

    curdir (override)

    devnull (override)

    rootdir (override)

    tmpdir (override)

    updir (override)

    case_tolerant (override)

    path (override)

    file_name_is_absolute (override)

    splitpath (override)

    splitdir (override)

    catpath (override)

    abs2rel (override)

    rel2abs (override)

    COPYRIGHT
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    File::Spec::Win32 - methods for Win32 file specs

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    devnull

    tmpdir

    case_tolerant

    file_name_is_absolute

    catfile

    canonpath

    splitpath

    splitdir

    catpath

    Note For File::Spec::Win32 Maintainers
    COPYRIGHT
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    File::Temp - return name and handle of a temporary file safely

    PORTABILITY
    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    OBJECT-ORIENTED INTERFACE

    new

    newdir

    filename

    dirname, unlink_on_destroy

    DESTROY

    FUNCTIONS

    tempfile

    tempdir

    MKTEMP FUNCTIONS

    mkstemp

    mkstemps

    mkdtemp

    mktemp

    POSIX FUNCTIONS

    tmpnam

    tmpfile

    ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS

    tempnam

    UTILITY FUNCTIONS

    unlink0

    cmpstat

    unlink1

    cleanup

    PACKAGE VARIABLES

    safe_level, STANDARD, MEDIUM, HIGH

    TopSystemUID

    $KEEP_ALL, $DEBUG

    WARNING
    Temporary files and NFS
    Forking
    BINMODE
    HISTORY
    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR

    File::stat - by-name interface to Perl's built-in stat() functions

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    BUGS
    NOTE
    AUTHOR

    FindBin - Locate directory of original perl script

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    EXPORTABLE VARIABLES
    KNOWN ISSUES
    KNOWN BUGS
    AUTHORS
    COPYRIGHT

    Getopt::Long - Extended processing of command line options

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Command Line Options, an Introduction
    Getting Started with Getopt::Long
    Simple options
    A little bit less simple options
    Mixing command line option with other arguments
    Options with values
    Options with multiple values
    Options with hash values
    User-defined subroutines to handle options
    Options with multiple names
    Case and abbreviations
    Summary of Option Specifications

    !, +, s, i, o, f, : type [ desttype ], : number [ desttype ], : + [ desttype ]

    Advanced Possibilities
    Object oriented interface
    Thread Safety
    Documentation and help texts
    Parsing options from an arbitrary array
    Parsing options from an arbitrary string
    Storing options values in a hash
    Bundling
    The lonesome dash
    Argument callback
    Configuring Getopt::Long

    default, posix_default, auto_abbrev, getopt_compat, gnu_compat, gnu_getopt, require_order, permute, bundling (default: disabled), bundling_override (default: disabled), ignore_case (default: enabled), ignore_case_always (default: disabled), auto_version (default:disabled), auto_help (default:disabled), pass_through (default: disabled), prefix, prefix_pattern, long_prefix_pattern, debug (default: disabled)

    Exportable Methods

    VersionMessage, -message, -msg, -exitval, -output, HelpMessage

    Return values and Errors
    Legacy
    Default destinations
    Alternative option starters
    Configuration variables
    Tips and Techniques
    Pushing multiple values in a hash option
    Trouble Shooting
    GetOptions does not return a false result when an option is not supplied
    GetOptions does not split the command line correctly
    Undefined subroutine &main::GetOptions called
    How do I put a "-?" option into a Getopt::Long?
    AUTHOR
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    Getopt::Std, getopt, getopts - Process single-character switches with switch clustering

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    --help and --version

    Hash::Util - A selection of general-utility hash subroutines

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Restricted hashes

    lock_keys, unlock_keys

    lock_keys_plus

    lock_value, unlock_value

    lock_hash, unlock_hash

    lock_hash_recurse, unlock_hash_recurse

    hash_unlocked

    legal_keys, hidden_keys, all_keys, hash_seed

    hv_store

    Operating on references to hashes.

    lock_ref_keys, unlock_ref_keys, lock_ref_keys_plus, lock_ref_value, unlock_ref_value, lock_hashref, unlock_hashref, lock_hashref_recurse, unlock_hashref_recurse, hash_ref_unlocked, legal_ref_keys, hidden_ref_keys

    CAVEATS
    BUGS
    AUTHOR
    SEE ALSO

    Hash::Utilib::Hash::Util, Hash::Util - A selection of general-utility hash subroutines

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Restricted hashes

    lock_keys, unlock_keys

    lock_keys_plus

    lock_value, unlock_value

    lock_hash, unlock_hash

    lock_hash_recurse, unlock_hash_recurse

    hash_unlocked

    legal_keys, hidden_keys, all_keys, hash_seed

    hv_store

    Operating on references to hashes.

    lock_ref_keys, unlock_ref_keys, lock_ref_keys_plus, lock_ref_value, unlock_ref_value, lock_hashref, unlock_hashref, lock_hashref_recurse, unlock_hashref_recurse, hash_ref_unlocked, legal_ref_keys, hidden_ref_keys

    CAVEATS
    BUGS
    AUTHOR
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    I18N::LangTags - functions for dealing with RFC3066-style language tags

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    the function is_language_tag($lang1)

    the function extract_language_tags($whatever)

    the function same_language_tag($lang1, $lang2)

    the function similarity_language_tag($lang1, $lang2)

    the function is_dialect_of($lang1, $lang2)

    the function super_languages($lang1)

    the function locale2language_tag($locale_identifier)

    the function encode_language_tag($lang1)

    the function alternate_language_tags($lang1)

    the function @langs = panic_languages(@accept_languages)

    the function implicate_supers( ...languages... ), the function implicate_supers_strictly( ...languages... )

    ABOUT LOWERCASING
    ABOUT UNICODE PLAINTEXT LANGUAGE TAGS
    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT
    AUTHOR

    I18N::LangTags::Detect - detect the user's language preferences

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    FUNCTIONS
    ENVIRONMENT
    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT
    AUTHOR

    I18N::LangTags::List -- tags and names for human languages

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    ABOUT LANGUAGE TAGS
    LIST OF LANGUAGES

    {ab} : Abkhazian, {ace} : Achinese, {ach} : Acoli, {ada} : Adangme, {ady} : Adyghe, {aa} : Afar, {afh} : Afrihili, {af} : Afrikaans, [{afa} : Afro-Asiatic (Other)], {ak} : Akan, {akk} : Akkadian, {sq} : Albanian, {ale} : Aleut, [{alg} : Algonquian languages], [{tut} : Altaic (Other)], {am} : Amharic, {i-ami} : Ami, [{apa} : Apache languages], {ar} : Arabic, {arc} : Aramaic, {arp} : Arapaho, {arn} : Araucanian, {arw} : Arawak, {hy} : Armenian, {an} : Aragonese, [{art} : Artificial (Other)], {ast} : Asturian, {as} : Assamese, [{ath} : Athapascan languages], [{aus} : Australian languages], [{map} : Austronesian (Other)], {av} : Avaric, {ae} : Avestan, {awa} : Awadhi, {ay} : Aymara, {az} : Azerbaijani, {ban} : Balinese, [{bat} : Baltic (Other)], {bal} : Baluchi, {bm} : Bambara, [{bai} : Bamileke languages], {bad} : Banda, [{bnt} : Bantu (Other)], {bas} : Basa, {ba} : Bashkir, {eu} : Basque, {btk} : Batak (Indonesia), {bej} : Beja, {be} : Belarusian, {bem} : Bemba, {bn} : Bengali, [{ber} : Berber (Other)], {bho} : Bhojpuri, {bh} : Bihari, {bik} : Bikol, {bin} : Bini, {bi} : Bislama, {bs} : Bosnian, {bra} : Braj, {br} : Breton, {bug} : Buginese, {bg} : Bulgarian, {i-bnn} : Bunun, {bua} : Buriat, {my} : Burmese, {cad} : Caddo, {car} : Carib, {ca} : Catalan, [{cau} : Caucasian (Other)], {ceb} : Cebuano, [{cel} : Celtic (Other)], [{cai} : Central American Indian (Other)], {chg} : Chagatai, [{cmc} : Chamic languages], {ch} : Chamorro, {ce} : Chechen, {chr} : Cherokee, {chy} : Cheyenne, {chb} : Chibcha, {ny} : Chichewa, {zh} : Chinese, {chn} : Chinook Jargon, {chp} : Chipewyan, {cho} : Choctaw, {cu} : Church Slavic, {chk} : Chuukese, {cv} : Chuvash, {cop} : Coptic, {kw} : Cornish, {co} : Corsican, {cr} : Cree, {mus} : Creek, [{cpe} : English-based Creoles and pidgins (Other)], [{cpf} : French-based Creoles and pidgins (Other)], [{cpp} : Portuguese-based Creoles and pidgins (Other)], [{crp} : Creoles and pidgins (Other)], {hr} : Croatian, [{cus} : Cushitic (Other)], {cs} : Czech, {dak} : Dakota, {da} : Danish, {dar} : Dargwa, {day} : Dayak, {i-default} : Default (Fallthru) Language, {del} : Delaware, {din} : Dinka, {dv} : Divehi, {doi} : Dogri, {dgr} : Dogrib, [{dra} : Dravidian (Other)], {dua} : Duala, {nl} : Dutch, {dum} : Middle Dutch (ca.1050-1350), {dyu} : Dyula, {dz} : Dzongkha, {efi} : Efik, {egy} : Ancient Egyptian, {eka} : Ekajuk, {elx} : Elamite, {en} : English, {enm} : Old English (1100-1500), {ang} : Old English (ca.450-1100), {i-enochian} : Enochian (Artificial), {myv} : Erzya, {eo} : Esperanto, {et} : Estonian, {ee} : Ewe, {ewo} : Ewondo, {fan} : Fang, {fat} : Fanti, {fo} : Faroese, {fj} : Fijian, {fi} : Finnish, [{fiu} : Finno-Ugrian (Other)], {fon} : Fon, {fr} : French, {frm} : Middle French (ca.1400-1600), {fro} : Old French (842-ca.1400), {fy} : Frisian, {fur} : Friulian, {ff} : Fulah, {gaa} : Ga, {gd} : Scots Gaelic, {gl} : Gallegan, {lg} : Ganda, {gay} : Gayo, {gba} : Gbaya, {gez} : Geez, {ka} : Georgian, {de} : German, {gmh} : Middle High German (ca.1050-1500), {goh} : Old High German (ca.750-1050), [{gem} : Germanic (Other)], {gil} : Gilbertese, {gon} : Gondi, {gor} : Gorontalo, {got} : Gothic, {grb} : Grebo, {grc} : Ancient Greek, {el} : Modern Greek, {gn} : Guarani, {gu} : Gujarati, {gwi} : Gwich'in, {hai} : Haida, {ht} : Haitian, {ha} : Hausa, {haw} : Hawaiian, {he} : Hebrew, {hz} : Herero, {hil} : Hiligaynon, {him} : Himachali, {hi} : Hindi, {ho} : Hiri Motu, {hit} : Hittite, {hmn} : Hmong, {hu} : Hungarian, {hup} : Hupa, {iba} : Iban, {is} : Icelandic, {io} : Ido, {ig} : Igbo, {ijo} : Ijo, {ilo} : Iloko, [{inc} : Indic (Other)], [{ine} : Indo-European (Other)], {id} : Indonesian, {inh} : Ingush, {ia} : Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association), {ie} : Interlingue, {iu} : Inuktitut, {ik} : Inupiaq, [{ira} : Iranian (Other)], {ga} : Irish, {mga} : Middle Irish (900-1200), {sga} : Old Irish (to 900), [{iro} : Iroquoian languages], {it} : Italian, {ja} : Japanese, {jv} : Javanese, {jrb} : Judeo-Arabic, {jpr} : Judeo-Persian, {kbd} : Kabardian, {kab} : Kabyle, {kac} : Kachin, {kl} : Kalaallisut, {xal} : Kalmyk, {kam} : Kamba, {kn} : Kannada, {kr} : Kanuri, {krc} : Karachay-Balkar, {kaa} : Kara-Kalpak, {kar} : Karen, {ks} : Kashmiri, {csb} : Kashubian, {kaw} : Kawi, {kk} : Kazakh, {kha} : Khasi, {km} : Khmer, [{khi} : Khoisan (Other)], {kho} : Khotanese, {ki} : Kikuyu, {kmb} : Kimbundu, {rw} : Kinyarwanda, {ky} : Kirghiz, {i-klingon} : Klingon, {kv} : Komi, {kg} : Kongo, {kok} : Konkani, {ko} : Korean, {kos} : Kosraean, {kpe} : Kpelle, {kro} : Kru, {kj} : Kuanyama, {kum} : Kumyk, {ku} : Kurdish, {kru} : Kurukh, {kut} : Kutenai, {lad} : Ladino, {lah} : Lahnda, {lam} : Lamba, {lo} : Lao, {la} : Latin, {lv} : Latvian, {lb} : Letzeburgesch, {lez} : Lezghian, {li} : Limburgish, {ln} : Lingala, {lt} : Lithuanian, {nds} : Low German, {art-lojban} : Lojban (Artificial), {loz} : Lozi, {lu} : Luba-Katanga, {lua} : Luba-Lulua, {lui} : Luiseno, {lun} : Lunda, {luo} : Luo (Kenya and Tanzania), {lus} : Lushai, {mk} : Macedonian, {mad} : Madurese, {mag} : Magahi, {mai} : Maithili, {mak} : Makasar, {mg} : Malagasy, {ms} : Malay, {ml} : Malayalam, {mt} : Maltese, {mnc} : Manchu, {mdr} : Mandar, {man} : Mandingo, {mni} : Manipuri, [{mno} : Manobo languages], {gv} : Manx, {mi} : Maori, {mr} : Marathi, {chm} : Mari, {mh} : Marshall, {mwr} : Marwari, {mas} : Masai, [{myn} : Mayan languages], {men} : Mende, {mic} : Micmac, {min} : Minangkabau, {i-mingo} : Mingo, [{mis} : Miscellaneous languages], {moh} : Mohawk, {mdf} : Moksha, {mo} : Moldavian, [{mkh} : Mon-Khmer (Other)], {lol} : Mongo, {mn} : Mongolian, {mos} : Mossi, [{mul} : Multiple languages], [{mun} : Munda languages], {nah} : Nahuatl, {nap} : Neapolitan, {na} : Nauru, {nv} : Navajo, {nd} : North Ndebele, {nr} : South Ndebele, {ng} : Ndonga, {ne} : Nepali, {new} : Newari, {nia} : Nias, [{nic} : Niger-Kordofanian (Other)], [{ssa} : Nilo-Saharan (Other)], {niu} : Niuean, {nog} : Nogai, {non} : Old Norse, [{nai} : North American Indian], {no} : Norwegian, {nb} : Norwegian Bokmal, {nn} : Norwegian Nynorsk, [{nub} : Nubian languages], {nym} : Nyamwezi, {nyn} : Nyankole, {nyo} : Nyoro, {nzi} : Nzima, {oc} : Occitan (post 1500), {oj} : Ojibwa, {or} : Oriya, {om} : Oromo, {osa} : Osage, {os} : Ossetian; Ossetic, [{oto} : Otomian languages], {pal} : Pahlavi, {i-pwn} : Paiwan, {pau} : Palauan, {pi} : Pali, {pam} : Pampanga, {pag} : Pangasinan, {pa} : Panjabi, {pap} : Papiamento, [{paa} : Papuan (Other)], {fa} : Persian, {peo} : Old Persian (ca.600-400 B.C.), [{phi} : Philippine (Other)], {phn} : Phoenician, {pon} : Pohnpeian, {pl} : Polish, {pt} : Portuguese, [{pra} : Prakrit languages], {pro} : Old Provencal (to 1500), {ps} : Pushto, {qu} : Quechua, {rm} : Raeto-Romance, {raj} : Rajasthani, {rap} : Rapanui, {rar} : Rarotongan, [{qaa - qtz} : Reserved for local use.], [{roa} : Romance (Other)], {ro} : Romanian, {rom} : Romany, {rn} : Rundi, {ru} : Russian, [{sal} : Salishan languages], {sam} : Samaritan Aramaic, {se} : Northern Sami, {sma} : Southern Sami, {smn} : Inari Sami, {smj} : Lule Sami, {sms} : Skolt Sami, [{smi} : Sami languages (Other)], {sm} : Samoan, {sad} : Sandawe, {sg} : Sango, {sa} : Sanskrit, {sat} : Santali, {sc} : Sardinian, {sas} : Sasak, {sco} : Scots, {sel} : Selkup, [{sem} : Semitic (Other)], {sr} : Serbian, {srr} : Serer, {shn} : Shan, {sn} : Shona, {sid} : Sidamo, {sgn-...} : Sign Languages, {bla} : Siksika, {sd} : Sindhi, {si} : Sinhalese, [{sit} : Sino-Tibetan (Other)], [{sio} : Siouan languages], {den} : Slave (Athapascan), [{sla} : Slavic (Other)], {sk} : Slovak, {sl} : Slovenian, {sog} : Sogdian, {so} : Somali, {son} : Songhai, {snk} : Soninke, {wen} : Sorbian languages, {nso} : Northern Sotho, {st} : Southern Sotho, [{sai} : South American Indian (Other)], {es} : Spanish, {suk} : Sukuma, {sux} : Sumerian, {su} : Sundanese, {sus} : Susu, {sw} : Swahili, {ss} : Swati, {sv} : Swedish, {syr} : Syriac, {tl} : Tagalog, {ty} : Tahitian, [{tai} : Tai (Other)], {tg} : Tajik, {tmh} : Tamashek, {ta} : Tamil, {i-tao} : Tao, {tt} : Tatar, {i-tay} : Tayal, {te} : Telugu, {ter} : Tereno, {tet} : Tetum, {th} : Thai, {bo} : Tibetan, {tig} : Tigre, {ti} : Tigrinya, {tem} : Timne, {tiv} : Tiv, {tli} : Tlingit, {tpi} : Tok Pisin, {tkl} : Tokelau, {tog} : Tonga (Nyasa), {to} : Tonga (Tonga Islands), {tsi} : Tsimshian, {ts} : Tsonga, {i-tsu} : Tsou, {tn} : Tswana, {tum} : Tumbuka, [{tup} : Tupi languages], {tr} : Turkish, {ota} : Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928), {crh} : Crimean Turkish, {tk} : Turkmen, {tvl} : Tuvalu, {tyv} : Tuvinian, {tw} : Twi, {udm} : Udmurt, {uga} : Ugaritic, {ug} : Uighur, {uk} : Ukrainian, {umb} : Umbundu, {und} : Undetermined, {ur} : Urdu, {uz} : Uzbek, {vai} : Vai, {ve} : Venda, {vi} : Vietnamese, {vo} : Volapuk, {vot} : Votic, [{wak} : Wakashan languages], {wa} : Walloon, {wal} : Walamo, {war} : Waray, {was} : Washo, {cy} : Welsh, {wo} : Wolof, {x-...} : Unregistered (Semi-Private Use), {xh} : Xhosa, {sah} : Yakut, {yao} : Yao, {yap} : Yapese, {ii} : Sichuan Yi, {yi} : Yiddish, {yo} : Yoruba, [{ypk} : Yupik languages], {znd} : Zande, [{zap} : Zapotec], {zen} : Zenaga, {za} : Zhuang, {zu} : Zulu, {zun} : Zuni

    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
    AUTHOR

    I18N::Langinfo - query locale information

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    EXPORT
    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

    IO - load various IO modules

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    DEPRECATED

    IO::Dir - supply object methods for directory handles

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    new ( [ DIRNAME ] ), open ( DIRNAME ), read (), seek ( POS ), tell (), rewind (), close ()

    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT

    IO::File - supply object methods for filehandles

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    CONSTRUCTOR

    new ( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ), new_tmpfile

    METHODS

    open( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ), open( FILENAME, IOLAYERS ), binmode( [LAYER] )

    NOTE
    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY

    IO::Handle - supply object methods for I/O handles

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    CONSTRUCTOR

    new (), new_from_fd ( FD, MODE )

    METHODS

    $io->fdopen ( FD, MODE ), $io->opened, $io->getline, $io->getlines, $io->ungetc ( ORD ), $io->write ( BUF, LEN [, OFFSET ] ), $io->error, $io->clearerr, $io->sync, $io->flush, $io->printflush ( ARGS ), $io->blocking ( [ BOOL ] ), $io->untaint

    NOTE
    SEE ALSO
    BUGS
    HISTORY

    IO::Poll - Object interface to system poll call

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    METHODS

    mask ( IO [, EVENT_MASK ] ), poll ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), events ( IO ), remove ( IO ), handles( [ EVENT_MASK ] )

    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT

    IO::Seekable - supply seek based methods for I/O objects

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    $io->getpos, $io->setpos, $io->seek ( POS, WHENCE ), WHENCE=0 (SEEK_SET), WHENCE=1 (SEEK_CUR), WHENCE=2 (SEEK_END), $io->sysseek( POS, WHENCE ), $io->tell

    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY

    IO::Select - OO interface to the select system call

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    CONSTRUCTOR

    new ( [ HANDLES ] )

    METHODS

    add ( HANDLES ), remove ( HANDLES ), exists ( HANDLE ), handles, can_read ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), can_write ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), has_exception ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), count (), bits(), select ( READ, WRITE, EXCEPTION [, TIMEOUT ] )

    EXAMPLE
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT

    IO::Socket - Object interface to socket communications

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    CONSTRUCTOR

    new ( [ARGS] )

    METHODS

    accept([PKG]), socketpair(DOMAIN, TYPE, PROTOCOL), atmark, connected, protocol, sockdomain, sockopt(OPT [, VAL]), socktype, timeout([VAL])

    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT

    IO::Socket::INET - Object interface for AF_INET domain sockets

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    CONSTRUCTOR

    new ( [ARGS] )

    METHODS

    sockaddr (), sockport (), sockhost (), peeraddr (), peerport (), peerhost ()

    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT

    IO::Socket::UNIX - Object interface for AF_UNIX domain sockets

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    CONSTRUCTOR

    new ( [ARGS] )

    METHODS

    hostpath(), peerpath()

    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT

    IO::lib::IO::Dir, IO::Dir - supply object methods for directory handles

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    new ( [ DIRNAME ] ), open ( DIRNAME ), read (), seek ( POS ), tell (), rewind (), close ()

    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT

    IO::lib::IO::File, IO::File - supply object methods for filehandles

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    CONSTRUCTOR

    new ( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ), new_tmpfile

    METHODS

    open( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ), open( FILENAME, IOLAYERS ), binmode( [LAYER] )

    NOTE
    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY

    IO::lib::IO::Handle, IO::Handle - supply object methods for I/O handles

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    CONSTRUCTOR

    new (), new_from_fd ( FD, MODE )

    METHODS

    $io->fdopen ( FD, MODE ), $io->opened, $io->getline, $io->getlines, $io->ungetc ( ORD ), $io->write ( BUF, LEN [, OFFSET ] ), $io->error, $io->clearerr, $io->sync, $io->flush, $io->printflush ( ARGS ), $io->blocking ( [ BOOL ] ), $io->untaint

    NOTE
    SEE ALSO
    BUGS
    HISTORY

    IO::lib::IO::Poll, IO::Poll - Object interface to system poll call

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    METHODS

    mask ( IO [, EVENT_MASK ] ), poll ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), events ( IO ), remove ( IO ), handles( [ EVENT_MASK ] )

    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT

    IO::lib::IO::Seekable, IO::Seekable - supply seek based methods for I/O objects

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    $io->getpos, $io->setpos, $io->seek ( POS, WHENCE ), WHENCE=0 (SEEK_SET), WHENCE=1 (SEEK_CUR), WHENCE=2 (SEEK_END), $io->sysseek( POS, WHENCE ), $io->tell

    SEE ALSO
    HISTORY

    IO::lib::IO::Select, IO::Select - OO interface to the select system call

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    CONSTRUCTOR

    new ( [ HANDLES ] )

    METHODS

    add ( HANDLES ), remove ( HANDLES ), exists ( HANDLE ), handles, can_read ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), can_write ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), has_exception ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), count (), bits(), select ( READ, WRITE, EXCEPTION [, TIMEOUT ] )

    EXAMPLE
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT

    IO::lib::IO::Socket, IO::Socket - Object interface to socket communications

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    CONSTRUCTOR

    new ( [ARGS] )

    METHODS

    accept([PKG]), socketpair(DOMAIN, TYPE, PROTOCOL), atmark, connected, protocol, sockdomain, sockopt(OPT [, VAL]), socktype, timeout([VAL])

    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT

    IO::lib::IO::Socket::INET, IO::Socket::INET - Object interface for AF_INET domain sockets

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    CONSTRUCTOR

    new ( [ARGS] )

    METHODS

    sockaddr (), sockport (), sockhost (), peeraddr (), peerport (), peerhost ()

    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT

    IO::lib::IO::Socket::UNIX, IO::Socket::UNIX - Object interface for AF_UNIX domain sockets

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    CONSTRUCTOR

    new ( [ARGS] )

    METHODS

    hostpath(), peerpath()

    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT

    IPC::Msg - SysV Msg IPC object class

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    METHODS

    new ( KEY , FLAGS ), id, rcv ( BUF, LEN [, TYPE [, FLAGS ]] ), remove, set ( STAT ), set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), snd ( TYPE, MSG [, FLAGS ] ), stat

    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT

    IPC::Open2, open2 - open a process for both reading and writing

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    WARNING
    SEE ALSO

    IPC::Open3, open3 - open a process for reading, writing, and error handling

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    See Also

    the IPC::Open2 manpage, the IPC::Run manpage

    WARNING

    IPC::Semaphore - SysV Semaphore IPC object class

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    METHODS

    new ( KEY , NSEMS , FLAGS ), getall, getncnt ( SEM ), getpid ( SEM ), getval ( SEM ), getzcnt ( SEM ), id, op ( OPLIST ), remove, set ( STAT ), set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), setall ( VALUES ), setval ( N , VALUE ), stat

    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT

    IPC::SysV - SysV IPC constants

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    ftok( PATH, ID )

    SEE ALSO
    AUTHORS
    COPYRIGHT

    IPC::SysV::Msg, IPC::Msg - SysV Msg IPC object class

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    METHODS

    new ( KEY , FLAGS ), id, rcv ( BUF, LEN [, TYPE [, FLAGS ]] ), remove, set ( STAT ), set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), snd ( TYPE, MSG [, FLAGS ] ), stat

    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT

    IPC::SysV::Semaphore, IPC::Semaphore - SysV Semaphore IPC object class

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    METHODS

    new ( KEY , NSEMS , FLAGS ), getall, getncnt ( SEM ), getpid ( SEM ), getval ( SEM ), getzcnt ( SEM ), id, op ( OPLIST ), remove, set ( STAT ), set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), setall ( VALUES ), setval ( N , VALUE ), stat

    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT

    IPCmd, IPC::Cmd - finding and running system commands made easy

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    CLASS METHODS
    $bool = IPC::Cmd->can_use_ipc_run( [VERBOSE] )
    $bool = IPC::Cmd->can_use_ipc_open3( [VERBOSE] )
    $bool = IPC::Cmd->can_capture_buffer
    FUNCTIONS
    $path = can_run( PROGRAM );
    $ok | ($ok, $err, $full_buf, $stdout_buff, $stderr_buff) = run( command => COMMAND, [verbose => BOOL, buffer => \$SCALAR] );

    command, verbose, buffer, success, errorcode, full_buffer, out_buffer, error_buffer

    HOW IT WORKS
    Global Variables
    $IPC::Cmd::VERBOSE
    $IPC::Cmd::USE_IPC_RUN
    $IPC::Cmd::USE_IPC_OPEN3
    $IPC::Cmd::WARN
    Caveats

    Whitespace, IO Redirect

    See Also
    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    BUG REPORTS
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT

    List::Util - A selection of general-utility list subroutines

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    first BLOCK LIST, max LIST, maxstr LIST, min LIST, minstr LIST, reduce BLOCK LIST, shuffle LIST, sum LIST

    KNOWN BUGS
    SUGGESTED ADDITIONS
    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT

    List::Utilib::List::Util, List::Util - A selection of general-utility list subroutines

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    first BLOCK LIST, max LIST, maxstr LIST, min LIST, minstr LIST, reduce BLOCK LIST, shuffle LIST, sum LIST

    KNOWN BUGS
    SUGGESTED ADDITIONS
    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT

    List::Utilib::Scalar::Util, Scalar::Util - A selection of general-utility scalar subroutines

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    blessed EXPR, dualvar NUM, STRING, isvstring EXPR, isweak EXPR, looks_like_number EXPR, openhandle FH, refaddr EXPR, reftype EXPR, tainted EXPR, weaken REF

    KNOWN BUGS
    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT

    Locale::Constants - constants for Locale codes

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
    SEE ALSO

    Locale::Language, Locale::Country, Locale::Script, Locale::Currency

    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT

    Locale::Country - ISO codes for country identification (ISO 3166)

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    alpha-2, alpha-3, numeric

    CONVERSION ROUTINES

    code2country( CODE, [ CODESET ] ), country2code( STRING, [ CODESET ] ), country_code2code( CODE, CODESET, CODESET )

    QUERY ROUTINES

    all_country_codes( [ CODESET ] ), all_country_names( [ CODESET ] )

    SEMI-PRIVATE ROUTINES
    alias_code
    rename_country
    EXAMPLES
    DOMAIN NAMES
    KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
    SEE ALSO

    Locale::Language, Locale::Script, Locale::Currency, Locale::SubCountry, ISO 3166-1, http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/index.html, http://www.egt.ie/standards/iso3166/iso3166-1-en.html, http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/docs/app-d-1.html

    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT

    Locale::Currency - ISO three letter codes for currency identification (ISO 4217)

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    XTS, XXX

    CONVERSION ROUTINES

    code2currency(), currency2code()

    QUERY ROUTINES

    all_currency_codes(), all_currency_names()

    EXAMPLES
    KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
    SEE ALSO

    Locale::Country, Locale::Script, ISO 4217:1995, http://www.bsi-global.com/iso4217currency

    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT

    Locale::Language - ISO two letter codes for language identification (ISO 639)

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    CONVERSION ROUTINES

    code2language(), language2code()

    QUERY ROUTINES

    all_language_codes(), all_language_names()

    EXAMPLES
    KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
    SEE ALSO

    Locale::Country, Locale::Script, Locale::Currency, ISO 639:1988 (E/F), http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/langhome.html

    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT

    Locale::Maketext - framework for localization

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    QUICK OVERVIEW
    METHODS
    Construction Methods
    The "maketext" Method

    $lh->fail_with or $lh->fail_with(PARAM), $lh->failure_handler_auto

    Utility Methods

    $language->quant($number, $singular), $language->quant($number, $singular, $plural), $language->quant($number, $singular, $plural, $negative), $language->numf($number), $language->sprintf($format, @items), $language->language_tag(), $language->encoding()

    Language Handle Attributes and Internals
    LANGUAGE CLASS HIERARCHIES
    ENTRIES IN EACH LEXICON
    BRACKET NOTATION
    AUTO LEXICONS
    CONTROLLING LOOKUP FAILURE
    HOW TO USE MAKETEXT
    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
    AUTHOR

    Locale::Maketext::Simple - Simple interface to Locale::Maketext::Lexicon

    VERSION
    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    OPTIONS
    Class
    Path
    Style
    Export
    Subclass
    Decode
    Encoding
    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    SEE ALSO
    AUTHORS
    COPYRIGHT
    The "MIT" License

    Locale::Maketext::TPJ13 -- article about software localization

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Localization and Perl: gettext breaks, Maketext fixes
    A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen To You
    The Linguistic View
    Breaking gettext
    Replacing gettext
    Buzzwords: Abstraction and Encapsulation
    Buzzword: Isomorphism
    Buzzword: Inheritance
    Buzzword: Concision
    The Devil in the Details
    The Proof in the Pudding: Localizing Web Sites
    References

    Locale::Script - ISO codes for script identification (ISO 15924)

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    alpha-2, alpha-3, numeric

    SPECIAL CODES
    CONVERSION ROUTINES

    code2script( CODE, [ CODESET ] ), script2code( STRING, [ CODESET ] ), script_code2code( CODE, CODESET, CODESET )

    QUERY ROUTINES

    all_script_codes ( [ CODESET ] ), all_script_names ( [ CODESET ] )

    EXAMPLES
    KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
    SEE ALSO

    Locale::Language, Locale::Currency, Locale::Country, ISO 15924, http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso15924/

    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT

    MIME::Base64 - Encoding and decoding of base64 strings

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    encode_base64($str), encode_base64($str, $eol);, decode_base64($str)

    DIAGNOSTICS

    Premature end of base64 data, Premature padding of base64 data, Wide character in subroutine entry

    EXAMPLES
    COPYRIGHT
    SEE ALSO

    MIME::Base64::QuotedPrint, MIME::QuotedPrint - Encoding and decoding of quoted-printable strings

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    encode_qp($str), encode_qp($str, $eol), encode_qp($str, $eol, $binmode), decode_qp($str);

    COPYRIGHT
    SEE ALSO

    MIME::QuotedPrint - Encoding and decoding of quoted-printable strings

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    encode_qp($str), encode_qp($str, $eol), encode_qp($str, $eol, $binmode), decode_qp($str);

    COPYRIGHT
    SEE ALSO

    Math::Trig - trigonometric functions

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS

    tan

    ERRORS DUE TO DIVISION BY ZERO
    SIMPLE (REAL) ARGUMENTS, COMPLEX RESULTS
    PLANE ANGLE CONVERSIONS

    deg2rad, grad2rad, rad2deg, grad2deg, deg2grad, rad2grad, rad2rad, deg2deg, grad2grad

    RADIAL COORDINATE CONVERSIONS
    COORDINATE SYSTEMS
  • -D ANGLE CONVERSIONS

    cartesian_to_cylindrical, cartesian_to_spherical, cylindrical_to_cartesian, cylindrical_to_spherical, spherical_to_cartesian, spherical_to_cylindrical

  • GREAT CIRCLE DISTANCES AND DIRECTIONS
    great_circle_distance
    great_circle_direction
    great_circle_bearing
    great_circle_destination
    great_circle_midpoint
    great_circle_waypoint
    EXAMPLES
    CAVEAT FOR GREAT CIRCLE FORMULAS
    Real-valued asin and acos

    asin_real, acos_real

    BUGS
    AUTHORS
    LICENSE

    Module::Load - runtime require of both modules and files

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Rules
    Caveats
    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    BUG REPORTS
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT

    Module::Load::Conditional - Looking up module information / loading at runtime

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Methods
    $href = check_install( module => NAME [, version => VERSION, verbose => BOOL ] );

    module, version, verbose, file, version, uptodate

    $bool = can_load( modules => { NAME => VERSION [,NAME => VERSION] }, [verbose => BOOL, nocache => BOOL] )

    modules, verbose, nocache

    @list = requires( MODULE );
    Global Variables
    $Module::Load::Conditional::VERBOSE
    $Module::Load::Conditional::FIND_VERSION
    $Module::Load::Conditional::CHECK_INC_HASH
    $Module::Load::Conditional::CACHE
    $Module::Load::Conditional::ERROR
    See Also
    BUG REPORTS
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT

    Module::Load::Conditionalib::Module::Load::Conditional, Module::Load::Conditional - Looking up module information / loading at runtime

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Methods
    $href = check_install( module => NAME [, version => VERSION, verbose => BOOL ] );

    module, version, verbose, file, version, uptodate

    $bool = can_load( modules => { NAME => VERSION [,NAME => VERSION] }, [verbose => BOOL, nocache => BOOL] )

    modules, verbose, nocache

    @list = requires( MODULE );
    Global Variables
    $Module::Load::Conditional::VERBOSE
    $Module::Load::Conditional::FIND_VERSION
    $Module::Load::Conditional::CHECK_INC_HASH
    $Module::Load::Conditional::CACHE
    $Module::Load::Conditional::ERROR
    See Also
    BUG REPORTS
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT

    Module::Loaded - mark modules as loaded or unloaded

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    FUNCTIONS
    $bool = mark_as_loaded( PACKAGE );
    $bool = mark_as_unloaded( PACKAGE );
    $loc = is_loaded( PACKAGE );
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT

    Net::hostent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in gethost*() functions

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    EXAMPLES
    NOTE
    AUTHOR

    Net::netent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getnet*() functions

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    EXAMPLES
    NOTE
    AUTHOR

    Net::protoent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getproto*() functions

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    NOTE
    AUTHOR

    Net::servent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getserv*() functions

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    EXAMPLES
    NOTE
    AUTHOR

    O - Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    CONVENTIONS
    IMPLEMENTATION
    BUGS
    AUTHOR

    Opcode - Disable named opcodes when compiling perl code

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    NOTE
    WARNING
    Operator Names and Operator Lists

    an operator name (opname), an operator tag name (optag), a negated opname or optag, an operator set (opset)

    Opcode Functions

    opcodes, opset (OP, ...), opset_to_ops (OPSET), opset_to_hex (OPSET), full_opset, empty_opset, invert_opset (OPSET), verify_opset (OPSET, ...), define_optag (OPTAG, OPSET), opmask_add (OPSET), opmask, opdesc (OP, ...), opdump (PAT)

    Manipulating Opsets
    TO DO (maybe)
    Predefined Opcode Tags

    :base_core, :base_mem, :base_loop, :base_io, :base_orig, :base_math, :base_thread, :default, :filesys_read, :sys_db, :browse, :filesys_open, :filesys_write, :subprocess, :ownprocess, :others, :load, :still_to_be_decided, :dangerous

    SEE ALSO
    AUTHORS

    Opcode::Safe, Safe - Compile and execute code in restricted compartments

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    a new namespace, an operator mask

    WARNING
    RECENT CHANGES
    Methods in class Safe

    permit (OP, ...), permit_only (OP, ...), deny (OP, ...), deny_only (OP, ...), trap (OP, ...), untrap (OP, ...), share (NAME, ...), share_from (PACKAGE, ARRAYREF), varglob (VARNAME), reval (STRING), rdo (FILENAME), root (NAMESPACE), mask (MASK)

    Some Safety Issues

    Memory, CPU, Snooping, Signals, State Changes

    AUTHOR

    Opcode::ops, ops - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when compiling

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    SEE ALSO

    POSIX - Perl interface to IEEE Std 1003.1

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    NOTE
    CAVEATS
    FUNCTIONS

    _exit, abort, abs, access, acos, alarm, asctime, asin, assert, atan, atan2, atexit, atof, atoi, atol, bsearch, calloc, ceil, chdir, chmod, chown, clearerr, clock, close, closedir, cos, cosh, creat, ctermid, ctime, cuserid, difftime, div, dup, dup2, errno, execl, execle, execlp, execv, execve, execvp, exit, exp, fabs, fclose, fcntl, fdopen, feof, ferror, fflush, fgetc, fgetpos, fgets, fileno, floor, fmod, fopen, fork, fpathconf, fprintf, fputc, fputs, fread, free, freopen, frexp, fscanf, fseek, fsetpos, fstat, fsync, ftell, fwrite, getc, getchar, getcwd, getegid, getenv, geteuid, getgid, getgrgid, getgrnam, getgroups, getlogin, getpgrp, getpid, getppid, getpwnam, getpwuid, gets, getuid, gmtime, isalnum, isalpha, isatty, iscntrl, isdigit, isgraph, islower, isprint, ispunct, isspace, isupper, isxdigit, kill, labs, ldexp, ldiv, link, localeconv, localtime, log, log10, longjmp, lseek, malloc, mblen, mbstowcs, mbtowc, memchr, memcmp, memcpy, memmove, memset, mkdir, mkfifo, mktime, modf, nice, offsetof, open, opendir, pathconf, pause, perror, pipe, pow, printf, putc, putchar, puts, qsort, raise, rand, read, readdir, realloc, remove, rename, rewind, rewinddir, rmdir, scanf, setgid, setjmp, setlocale, setpgid, setsid, setuid, sigaction, siglongjmp, sigpending, sigprocmask, sigsetjmp, sigsuspend, sin, sinh, sleep, sprintf, sqrt, srand, sscanf, stat, strcat, strchr, strcmp, strcoll, strcpy, strcspn, strerror, strftime, strlen, strncat, strncmp, strncpy, strpbrk, strrchr, strspn, strstr, strtod, strtok, strtol, strtoul, strxfrm, sysconf, system, tan, tanh, tcdrain, tcflow, tcflush, tcgetpgrp, tcsendbreak, tcsetpgrp, time, times, tmpfile, tmpnam, tolower, toupper, ttyname, tzname, tzset, umask, uname, ungetc, unlink, utime, vfprintf, vprintf, vsprintf, wait, waitpid, wcstombs, wctomb, write

    CLASSES
    POSIX::SigAction

    new, handler, mask, flags, safe

    POSIX::SigRt

    %SIGRT, SIGRTMIN, SIGRTMAX

    POSIX::SigSet

    new, addset, delset, emptyset, fillset, ismember

    POSIX::Termios

    new, getattr, getcc, getcflag, getiflag, getispeed, getlflag, getoflag, getospeed, setattr, setcc, setcflag, setiflag, setispeed, setlflag, setoflag, setospeed, Baud rate values, Terminal interface values, c_cc field values, c_cflag field values, c_iflag field values, c_lflag field values, c_oflag field values

    PATHNAME CONSTANTS

    Constants

    POSIX CONSTANTS

    Constants

    SYSTEM CONFIGURATION

    Constants

    ERRNO

    Constants

    FCNTL

    Constants

    FLOAT

    Constants

    LIMITS

    Constants

    LOCALE

    Constants

    MATH

    Constants

    SIGNAL

    Constants

    STAT

    Constants, Macros

    STDLIB

    Constants

    STDIO

    Constants

    TIME

    Constants

    UNISTD

    Constants

    WAIT

    Constants, WNOHANG, WUNTRACED, Macros, WIFEXITED, WEXITSTATUS, WIFSIGNALED, WTERMSIG, WIFSTOPPED, WSTOPSIG

    Params::Check - A generic input parsing/checking mechanism.

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Template

    default, required, strict_type, defined, no_override, store, allow

    Functions
    check( \%tmpl, \%args, [$verbose] );

    Template, Arguments, Verbose

    allow( $test_me, \@criteria );

    string, regexp, subroutine, array ref

    last_error()
    Global Variables
    $Params::Check::VERBOSE
    $Params::Check::STRICT_TYPE
    $Params::Check::ALLOW_UNKNOWN
    $Params::Check::STRIP_LEADING_DASHES
    $Params::Check::NO_DUPLICATES
    $Params::Check::PRESERVE_CASE
    $Params::Check::ONLY_ALLOW_DEFINED
    $Params::Check::SANITY_CHECK_TEMPLATE
    $Params::Check::WARNINGS_FATAL
    $Params::Check::CALLER_DEPTH
    AUTHOR
    Acknowledgements
    COPYRIGHT

    Perl6::Form - Implements the Perl 6 'form' built-in

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Formatting jargon

    Format, Text, Field, Data, Single-line field, Block field, Text block, Column

    Return values
    Field types
    How fields are filled
    Keeping track of what's been formatted
    Array data sources
    Justifying fields
    Short fields
    Numerical fields
    Non-numeric data
    Decimal markers
    Negative numbers
    Thousands separators
    Locale-specific numeric formatting
    Currency fields
    Verbatim fields
    Overflow fields
    Line-breaking
    Interleaving data
    Multi-line formats
    Layout control
    Tabular layout
    Give him line and scope...
    Declarative field widths
    Imperative field widths
    Distributive field widths
    Extensible fields
    Whitespace squeezing
    Field filling
    Zero-filled numeric fields
    Up and down, up and down, I will lead them up and down...
    Height control
    Minimal height fields
    Underlining
    Output trimming
    Page control
    Measure his woe the length and breadth of mine...
    Headers and footers
    Page body postprocessing
    User-defined fields
    Single-column fields
    Bulleted lists
    WARNING
    DEPENDENCIES
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT

    PerlIO - On demand loader for PerlIO layers and root of PerlIO::* name space

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    :unix, :stdio, :perlio, :crlf, :mmap, :utf8, :bytes, :raw, :pop, :win32

    Custom Layers

    :encoding, :via

    Alternatives to raw
    Defaults and how to override them
    Querying the layers of filehandles
    AUTHOR
    SEE ALSO

    PerlIO::scalar - in-memory IO, scalar IO

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    IMPLEMENTATION NOTE

    PerlIO::via - Helper class for PerlIO layers implemented in perl

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    EXPECTED METHODS

    $class->PUSHED([$mode,[$fh]]), $obj->POPPED([$fh]), $obj->UTF8($bellowFlag,[$fh]), $obj->OPEN($path,$mode,[$fh]), $obj->BINMODE([$fh]), $obj->FDOPEN($fd,[$fh]), $obj->SYSOPEN($path,$imode,$perm,[$fh]), $obj->FILENO($fh), $obj->READ($buffer,$len,$fh), $obj->WRITE($buffer,$fh), $obj->FILL($fh), $obj->CLOSE($fh), $obj->SEEK($posn,$whence,$fh), $obj->TELL($fh), $obj->UNREAD($buffer,$fh), $obj->FLUSH($fh), $obj->SETLINEBUF($fh), $obj->CLEARERR($fh), $obj->ERROR($fh), $obj->EOF($fh)

    EXAMPLES
    Example - a Hexadecimal Handle

    PerlIO::via::QuotedPrint - PerlIO layer for quoted-printable strings

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    REQUIRED MODULES
    SEE ALSO
    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    COPYRIGHT

    Pod::Checker, podchecker() - check pod documents for syntax errors

    SYNOPSIS
    OPTIONS/ARGUMENTS
    podchecker()

    -warnings => val

    DESCRIPTION
    DIAGNOSTICS
    Errors

    empty =headn, =over on line N without closing =back, =item without previous =over, =back without previous =over, No argument for =begin, =end without =begin, Nested =begin's, =for without formatter specification, unresolved internal link NAME, Unknown command "CMD", Unknown interior-sequence "SEQ", nested commands CMD<...CMD<...>...>, garbled entity STRING, Entity number out of range, malformed link L<>, nonempty Z<>, empty X<>, Spurious text after =pod / =cut, Spurious character(s) after =back

    Warnings

    multiple occurrence of link target name, line containing nothing but whitespace in paragraph, file does not start with =head, previous =item has no contents, preceding non-item paragraph(s), =item type mismatch (one vs. two), N unescaped <> in paragraph, Unknown entity, No items in =over, No argument for =item, empty section in previous paragraph, Verbatim paragraph in NAME section, =headn without preceding higher level

    Hyperlinks

    ignoring leading/trailing whitespace in link, (section) in '$page' deprecated, alternative text/node '%s' contains non-escaped | or /

    RETURN VALUE
    EXAMPLES
    INTERFACE

    Pod::Checker->new( %options )

    $checker->poderror( @args ), $checker->poderror( {%opts}, @args )

    $checker->num_errors()

    $checker->num_warnings()

    $checker->name()

    $checker->node()

    $checker->idx()

    $checker->hyperlink()

    AUTHOR

    Pod::Escapes -- for resolving Pod E<...> sequences

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    GOODIES

    e2char($e_content), e2charnum($e_content), $Name2character{name}, $Name2character_number{name}, $Latin1Code_to_fallback{integer}, $Latin1Char_to_fallback{character}, $Code2USASCII{integer}

    CAVEATS
    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
    AUTHOR

    Pod::Find - find POD documents in directory trees

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    pod_find( { %opts } , @directories )

    -verbose => 1, perl => 1, script => 1, inc => 1

    simplify_name( $str )
    pod_where( { %opts }, $pod )

    inc => 1, dirs => [ $dir1, $dir2, ... ], verbose => 1

    contains_pod( $file , $verbose )
    AUTHOR
    SEE ALSO

    Pod::Html - module to convert pod files to HTML

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    FUNCTIONS
    pod2html

    backlink, cachedir, css, flush, header, help, hiddendirs, htmldir, htmlroot, index, infile, libpods, netscape, outfile, podpath, podroot, quiet, recurse, title, verbose

    htmlify
    anchorify
    ENVIRONMENT
    AUTHOR
    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT

    Pod::InputObjects - objects representing POD input paragraphs, commands, etc.

    SYNOPSIS
    REQUIRES
    EXPORTS
    DESCRIPTION

    package Pod::InputSource, package Pod::Paragraph, package Pod::InteriorSequence, package Pod::ParseTree

    Pod::InputSource
    new()
    name()
    handle()
    was_cutting()
    Pod::Paragraph
    Pod::Paragraph->new()
    $pod_para->cmd_name()
    $pod_para->text()
    $pod_para->raw_text()
    $pod_para->cmd_prefix()
    $pod_para->cmd_separator()
    $pod_para->parse_tree()
    $pod_para->file_line()
    Pod::InteriorSequence
    Pod::InteriorSequence->new()
    $pod_seq->cmd_name()
    $pod_seq->prepend()
    $pod_seq->append()
    $pod_seq->nested()
    $pod_seq->raw_text()
    $pod_seq->left_delimiter()
    $pod_seq->right_delimiter()
    $pod_seq->parse_tree()
    $pod_seq->file_line()
    Pod::InteriorSequence::DESTROY()
    Pod::ParseTree
    Pod::ParseTree->new()
    $ptree->top()
    $ptree->children()
    $ptree->prepend()
    $ptree->append()
    $ptree->raw_text()
    Pod::ParseTree::DESTROY()
    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR

    Pod::LaTeX - Convert Pod data to formatted Latex

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    OBJECT METHODS

    initialize

    Data Accessors

    AddPreamble

    AddPostamble

    Head1Level

    Label

    LevelNoNum

    MakeIndex

    ReplaceNAMEwithSection

    StartWithNewPage

    TableOfContents

    UniqueLabels

    UserPreamble

    UserPostamble

    Lists

    Subclassed methods

    begin_pod

    end_pod

    command

    verbatim

    textblock

    interior_sequence

    List Methods

    begin_list

    end_list

    add_item

    Methods for headings

    head

    Internal methods

    _output

    _replace_special_chars

    _replace_special_chars_late

    _create_label

    _create_index

    _clean_latex_commands

    _split_delimited

    NOTES
    SEE ALSO
    AUTHORS
    COPYRIGHT
    REVISION

    Pod::Man - Convert POD data to formatted *roff input

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    center, date, fixed, fixedbold, fixeditalic, fixedbolditalic, name, quotes, release, section

    DIAGNOSTICS

    roff font should be 1 or 2 chars, not "%s", Invalid quote specification "%s"

    BUGS
    CAVEATS
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
    SEE ALSO

    Pod::ParseLink - Parse an L<> formatting code in POD text

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

    Pod::ParseUtils - helpers for POD parsing and conversion

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Pod::List

    Pod::List->new()

    $list->file()

    $list->start()

    $list->indent()

    $list->type()

    $list->rx()

    $list->item()

    $list->parent()

    $list->tag()

    Pod::Hyperlink

    Pod::Hyperlink->new()

    $link->parse($string)

    $link->markup($string)

    $link->text()

    $link->warning()

    $link->file(), $link->line()

    $link->page()

    $link->node()

    $link->alttext()

    $link->type()

    $link->link()

    Pod::Cache

    Pod::Cache->new()

    $cache->item()

    $cache->find_page($name)

    Pod::Cache::Item

    Pod::Cache::Item->new()

    $cacheitem->page()

    $cacheitem->description()

    $cacheitem->path()

    $cacheitem->file()

    $cacheitem->nodes()

    $cacheitem->find_node($name)

    $cacheitem->idx()

    AUTHOR
    SEE ALSO

    Pod::Parser - base class for creating POD filters and translators

    SYNOPSIS
    REQUIRES
    EXPORTS
    DESCRIPTION
    QUICK OVERVIEW
    PARSING OPTIONS

    want_nonPODs (default: unset), process_cut_cmd (default: unset), warnings (default: unset)

    RECOMMENDED SUBROUTINE/METHOD OVERRIDES
    command()

    $cmd, $text, $line_num, $pod_para

    verbatim()

    $text, $line_num, $pod_para

    textblock()

    $text, $line_num, $pod_para

    interior_sequence()
    OPTIONAL SUBROUTINE/METHOD OVERRIDES
    new()
    initialize()
    begin_pod()
    begin_input()
    end_input()
    end_pod()
    preprocess_line()
    preprocess_paragraph()
    METHODS FOR PARSING AND PROCESSING
    parse_text()

    expand_seq => code-ref|method-name, expand_text => code-ref|method-name, expand_ptree => code-ref|method-name

    interpolate()
    parse_paragraph()
    parse_from_filehandle()
    parse_from_file()
    ACCESSOR METHODS
    errorsub()
    cutting()
    parseopts()
    output_file()
    output_handle()
    input_file()
    input_handle()
    input_streams()
    top_stream()
    PRIVATE METHODS AND DATA
    _push_input_stream()
    _pop_input_stream()
    TREE-BASED PARSING
    CAVEATS
    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR

    Pod::Perldoc::ToChecker - let Perldoc check Pod for errors

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
    AUTHOR

    Pod::Perldoc::ToMan - let Perldoc render Pod as man pages

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    CAVEAT
    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
    AUTHOR

    Pod::Perldoc::ToNroff - let Perldoc convert Pod to nroff

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    CAVEAT
    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
    AUTHOR

    Pod::Perldoc::ToPod - let Perldoc render Pod as ... Pod!

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
    AUTHOR

    Pod::Perldoc::ToRtf - let Perldoc render Pod as RTF

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
    AUTHOR

    Pod::Perldoc::ToText - let Perldoc render Pod as plaintext

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    CAVEAT
    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
    AUTHOR

    Pod::Perldoc::ToTk - let Perldoc use Tk::Pod to render Pod

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR

    Pod::Perldoc::ToXml - let Perldoc render Pod as XML

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
    AUTHOR

    Pod::PlainText - Convert POD data to formatted ASCII text

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    alt, indent, loose, sentence, width

    DIAGNOSTICS

    Bizarre space in item, Can't open %s for reading: %s, Unknown escape: %s, Unknown sequence: %s, Unmatched =back

    RESTRICTIONS
    NOTES
    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR

    Pod::Plainer - Perl extension for converting Pod to old style Pod.

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    EXPORT
    AUTHOR
    SEE ALSO

    Pod::Select, podselect() - extract selected sections of POD from input

    SYNOPSIS
    REQUIRES
    EXPORTS
    DESCRIPTION
    SECTION SPECIFICATIONS
    RANGE SPECIFICATIONS
    OBJECT METHODS
    curr_headings()
    select()
    add_selection()
    clear_selections()
    match_section()
    is_selected()
    EXPORTED FUNCTIONS
    podselect()

    -output, -sections, -ranges

    PRIVATE METHODS AND DATA
    _compile_section_spec()
    $self->{_SECTION_HEADINGS}
    $self->{_SELECTED_SECTIONS}
    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR

    Pod::Simple - framework for parsing Pod

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    MAIN METHODS

    $parser = SomeClass->new();, $parser->output_fh( *OUT );, $parser->output_string( \$somestring );, $parser->parse_file( $some_filename );, $parser->parse_file( *INPUT_FH );, < $parser-parse_string_document( $all_content ); >>, < $parser-parse_lines( ...@lines..., undef ); >>, < $parser-content_seen >>, SomeClass->filter( $filename );, < SomeClass-filter( *INPUT_FH ); >>, SomeClass->filter( \$document_content );

    SECONDARY METHODS

    $parser->no_whining( SOMEVALUE ), $parser->no_errata_section( SOMEVALUE ), $parser->complain_stderr( SOMEVALUE ), < $parser-source_filename >>, $parser->doc_has_started, < $parser-source_dead >>

    CAVEATS
    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
    AUTHOR

    Pod::Simple::Checker -- check the Pod syntax of a document

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
    AUTHOR

    Pod::Simple::Debug -- put Pod::Simple into trace/debug mode

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    CAVEATS
    GUTS
    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
    AUTHOR

    Pod::Simple::DumpAsText -- dump Pod-parsing events as text

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
    AUTHOR

    Pod::Simple::DumpAsXML -- turn Pod into XML

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
    AUTHOR

    Pod::Simple::HTML - convert Pod to HTML

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    CALLING FROM THE COMMAND LINE
    CALLING FROM PERL
    METHODS
    SUBCLASSING
    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
    AUTHOR

    Pod::Simple::HTMLBatch - convert several Pod files to several HTML files

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    FROM THE COMMAND LINE
    MAIN METHODS

    $batchconv = Pod::Simple::HTMLBatch->new;, $batchconv->batch_convert( indirs, outdir );, $batchconv->batch_convert( undef , ...);, $batchconv->batch_convert( q{$^INCLUDE_PATH}, ...);, $batchconv->batch_convert( \@dirs , ...);, $batchconv->batch_convert( "somedir" , ...);, $batchconv->batch_convert( 'somedir:someother:also' , ...);, $batchconv->batch_convert( ... , undef );, $batchconv->batch_convert( ... , 'somedir' );

    ACCESSOR METHODS

    $batchconv->verbose( nonnegative_integer );, $batchconv->index( true-or-false );, $batchconv->contents_file( filename );, $batchconv->contents_page_start( HTML_string );, $batchconv->contents_page_end( HTML_string );, $batchconv->add_css( $url );, $batchconv->add_javascript( $url );, $batchconv->css_flurry( true-or-false );, $batchconv->javascript_flurry( true-or-false );, $batchconv->no_contents_links( true-or-false );, $batchconv->html_render_class( classname );

    NOTES ON CUSTOMIZATION
    ASK ME!
    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
    AUTHOR

    Pod::Simple::LinkSection -- represent "section" attributes of L codes

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
    AUTHOR

    Pod::Simple::Methody -- turn Pod::Simple events into method calls

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    METHOD CALLING
    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
    AUTHOR

    Pod::Simple::PullParser -- a pull-parser interface to parsing Pod

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    METHODS

    my $token = $parser->get_token, $parser->unget_token( $token ), $parser->unget_token( $token1, $token2, ... ), $parser->set_source( $filename ), $parser->set_source( $filehandle_object ), $parser->set_source( \$document_source ), $parser->set_source( \@document_lines ), $parser->parse_file(...), $parser->parse_string_document(...), $parser->filter(...), $parser->parse_from_file(...), my $title_string = $parser->get_title, my $title_string = $parser->get_short_title, $author_name = $parser->get_author, $description_name = $parser->get_description, $version_block = $parser->get_version

    NOTE
    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
    AUTHOR

    Pod::Simple::PullParserEndToken -- end-tokens from Pod::Simple::PullParser

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    $token->tagname, $token->tagname(somestring), $token->tag(...), $token->is_tag(somestring) or $token->is_tagname(somestring)

    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
    AUTHOR

    Pod::Simple::PullParserStartToken -- start-tokens from Pod::Simple::PullParser

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    $token->tagname, $token->tagname(somestring), $token->tag(...), $token->is_tag(somestring) or $token->is_tagname(somestring), $token->attr(attrname), $token->attr(attrname, newvalue), $token->attr_hash

    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
    AUTHOR

    Pod::Simple::PullParserTextToken -- text-tokens from Pod::Simple::PullParser

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    $token->text, $token->text(somestring), $token->text_r()

    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
    AUTHOR

    Pod::Simple::PullParserToken -- tokens from Pod::Simple::PullParser

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    $token->type, $token->is_start, $token->is_text, $token->is_end, $token->dump

    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
    AUTHOR

    Pod::Simple::RTF -- format Pod as RTF

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    FORMAT CONTROL ATTRIBUTES

    $parser->head1_halfpoint_size( halfpoint_integer );, $parser->head2_halfpoint_size( halfpoint_integer );, $parser->head3_halfpoint_size( halfpoint_integer );, $parser->head4_halfpoint_size( halfpoint_integer );, $parser->codeblock_halfpoint_size( halfpoint_integer );, $parser->header_halfpoint_size( halfpoint_integer );, $parser->normal_halfpoint_size( halfpoint_integer );, $parser->no_proofing_exemptions( true_or_false );, $parser->doc_lang( microsoft_decimal_language_code )

    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
    AUTHOR

    Pod::Simple::Search - find POD documents in directory trees

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    CONSTRUCTOR
    ACCESSORS

    $search->inc( true-or-false );, $search->verbose( nonnegative-number );, $search->limit_glob( some-glob-string );, $search->callback( \&some_routine );, $search->laborious( true-or-false );, $search->shadows( true-or-false );, $search->limit_re( some-regxp );, $search->dir_prefix( some-string-value );, $search->progress( some-progress-object );, $name2path = $self->name2path;, $path2name = $self->path2name;

    MAIN SEARCH METHODS
    $search->survey( @directories )

    name2path, path2name

    $search->simplify_name( $str )
    $search->find( $pod )
    $search->find( $pod, @search_dirs )
    $self->contains_pod( $file )
    AUTHOR
    SEE ALSO

    Pod::Simple::Subclassing -- write a formatter as a Pod::Simple subclass

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Events

    $parser->_handle_element_start( element_name, attr_hashref ), $parser->_handle_element_end( element_name ), < $parser-_handle_text( text_string ) >>, events with an element_name of Document, events with an element_name of Para, events with an element_name of B, C, F, or I, events with an element_name of S, events with an element_name of X, events with an element_name of L, events with an element_name of E or Z, events with an element_name of Verbatim, events with an element_name of head1 .. head4, events with an element_name of over-bullet, events with an element_name of over-number, events with an element_name of over-text, events with an element_name of over-block, events with an element_name of item-bullet, events with an element_name of item-number, events with an element_name of item-text, events with an element_name of for, events with an element_name of Data

    More Pod::Simple Methods

    $parser->accept_targets( SOMEVALUE ), < $parser-accept_targets_as_text( SOMEVALUE ) >>, < $parser-accept_codes( Codename, Codename... ) >>, < $parser-accept_directive_as_data( directive_name ) >>, < $parser-accept_directive_as_verbatim( directive_name ) >>, < $parser-accept_directive_as_processed( directive_name ) >>, < $parser-nbsp_for_S( BOOLEAN ); >>, $parser->version_report(), $parser->pod_para_count(), $parser->line_count(), < $parser-nix_X_codes( SOMEVALUE ) >>, $parser->merge_text( SOMEVALUE ), $parser->code_handler( CODE_REF ), < $parser-cut_handler( CODE_REF ) >>, $parser->whine( linenumber, complaint string ), $parser->scream( linenumber, complaint string ), $parser->source_dead(1), $parser->hide_line_numbers( SOMEVALUE ), $parser->no_whining( SOMEVALUE ), $parser->no_errata_section( SOMEVALUE ), < $parser-complain_stderr( SOMEVALUE ) >>, $parser->bare_output( SOMEVALUE ), $parser->preserve_whitespace( SOMEVALUE )

    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
    AUTHOR

    Pod::Simple::Text -- format Pod as plaintext

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
    AUTHOR

    Pod::Simple::TextContent -- get the text content of Pod

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
    AUTHOR

    Pod::Simple::XMLOutStream -- turn Pod into XML

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    SEE ALSO
    ABOUT EXTENDING POD
    ASK ME!
    COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
    AUTHOR

    Pod::SimpleTree, Pod::Simple::SimpleTree -- parse Pod into a simple parse tree

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    METHODS
    Tree Contents
    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
    AUTHOR

    Pod::Text - Convert POD data to formatted ASCII text

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    alt, code, indent, loose, margin, quotes, sentence, width

    DIAGNOSTICS

    Bizarre space in item, Item called without tag, Can't open %s for reading: %s, Invalid quote specification "%s"

    NOTES
    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

    Pod::Text::Color - Convert POD data to formatted color ASCII text

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    BUGS
    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

    Pod::Text::Overstrike - Convert POD data to formatted overstrike text

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    BUGS
    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

    Pod::Text::Termcap - Convert POD data to ASCII text with format escapes

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    NOTES
    SEE ALSO
    AUTHOR
    COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

    Pod::Usage, pod2usage() - print a usage message from embedded pod documentation

    SYNOPSIS
    ARGUMENTS

    message, msg, exitval, verbose, sections, output, input, pathlist, noperldoc

    DESCRIPTION
    EXAMPLES
    Recommended Use
    CAVEATS
    AUTHOR
    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

    Safe - Compile and execute code in restricted compartments

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    a new namespace, an operator mask

    WARNING
    RECENT CHANGES
    Methods in class Safe

    permit (OP, ...), permit_only (OP, ...), deny (OP, ...), deny_only (OP, ...), trap (OP, ...), untrap (OP, ...), share (NAME, ...), share_from (PACKAGE, ARRAYREF), varglob (VARNAME), reval (STRING), rdo (FILENAME), root (NAMESPACE), mask (MASK)

    Some Safety Issues

    Memory, CPU, Snooping, Signals, State Changes

    AUTHOR

    Scalar::Util - A selection of general-utility scalar subroutines

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    blessed EXPR, dualvar NUM, STRING, isvstring EXPR, isweak EXPR, looks_like_number EXPR, openhandle FH, refaddr EXPR, reftype EXPR, tainted EXPR, weaken REF

    KNOWN BUGS
    SEE ALSO
    COPYRIGHT

    Search::Dict, look - search for key in dictionary file

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    Socket, sockaddr_in, inet_aton, inet_ntoa - load the C socket.h defines and structure manipulators

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    inet_aton HOSTNAME, inet_ntoa IP_ADDRESS, INADDR_ANY, INADDR_BROADCAST, INADDR_LOOPBACK, INADDR_NONE, sockaddr_family SOCKADDR, sockaddr_in PORT, ADDRESS, sockaddr_in SOCKADDR_IN, pack_sockaddr_in PORT, IP_ADDRESS, unpack_sockaddr_in SOCKADDR_IN, pack_sockaddr_un PATH, unpack_sockaddr_un SOCKADDR_UN

    Storable - persistence for Perl data structures

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    MEMORY STORE
    ADVISORY LOCKING
    SPEED
    CANONICAL REPRESENTATION
    CODE REFERENCES
    FORWARD COMPATIBILITY

    utf8 data, restricted hashes, files from future versions of Storable

    ERROR REPORTING
    WIZARDS ONLY
    Hooks

    STORABLE_freeze obj, cloning, STORABLE_thaw obj, cloning, serialized, .., STORABLE_attach class, cloning, serialized

    Predicates

    Storable::last_op_in_netorder, Storable::is_storing, Storable::is_retrieving

    Recursion
    Deep Cloning
    Storable magic

    $info = Storable::file_magic( $filename ), version, version_nv, major, minor, hdrsize, netorder, byteorder, intsize, longsize, ptrsize, nvsize, file, $info = Storable::read_magic( $buffer ), $info = Storable::read_magic( $buffer, $must_be_file )

    EXAMPLES
    WARNING
    BUGS
    1. bit data in perl 5.6.0 and 5.6.1
    CREDITS
    AUTHOR
    SEE ALSO

    Symbol - manipulate Perl symbols and their names

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    BUGS

    Sys::Hostname - Try every conceivable way to get hostname

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    AUTHOR

    Syslog, Sys::Syslog - Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls

    VERSION
    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    EXPORTS
    FUNCTIONS

    openlog($ident, $logopt, $facility), syslog($priority, $message), syslog($priority, $format, @args), Note, setlogmask($mask_priority), setlogsock($sock_type), setlogsock($sock_type, $stream_location) (added in Perl 5.004_02), Note, closelog()

    THE RULES OF SYS::SYSLOG
    EXAMPLES
    CONSTANTS
    Facilities
    Levels
    DIAGNOSTICS

    Invalid argument passed to setlogsock, eventlog passed to setlogsock, but operating system isn't Win32-compatible, no connection to syslog available, stream passed to setlogsock, but %s is not writable, stream passed to setlogsock, but could not find any device, tcp passed to setlogsock, but tcp service unavailable, syslog: expecting argument %s, syslog: invalid level/facility: %s, syslog: too many levels given: %s, syslog: too many facilities given: %s, syslog: level must be given, udp passed to setlogsock, but udp service unavailable, unix passed to setlogsock, but path not available

    SEE ALSO
    Manual Pages
    RFCs
    Articles
    Event Log
    AUTHORS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    BUGS
    SUPPORT

    AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation, CPAN Ratings, RT: CPAN's request tracker, Search CPAN, Kobes' CPAN Search, Perl Documentation

    LICENSE

    Syslog::Syslog, Sys::Syslog - Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls

    VERSION
    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    EXPORTS
    FUNCTIONS

    openlog($ident, $logopt, $facility), syslog($priority, $message), syslog($priority, $format, @args), Note, setlogmask($mask_priority), setlogsock($sock_type), setlogsock($sock_type, $stream_location) (added in Perl 5.004_02), Note, closelog()

    THE RULES OF SYS::SYSLOG
    EXAMPLES
    CONSTANTS
    Facilities
    Levels
    DIAGNOSTICS

    Invalid argument passed to setlogsock, eventlog passed to setlogsock, but operating system isn't Win32-compatible, no connection to syslog available, stream passed to setlogsock, but %s is not writable, stream passed to setlogsock, but could not find any device, tcp passed to setlogsock, but tcp service unavailable, syslog: expecting argument %s, syslog: invalid level/facility: %s, syslog: too many levels given: %s, syslog: too many facilities given: %s, syslog: level must be given, udp passed to setlogsock, but udp service unavailable, unix passed to setlogsock, but path not available

    SEE ALSO
    Manual Pages
    RFCs
    Articles
    Event Log
    AUTHORS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
    BUGS
    SUPPORT

    AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation, CPAN Ratings, RT: CPAN's request tracker, Search CPAN, Kobes' CPAN Search, Perl Documentation

    LICENSE

    Syslog::win32::Win32, Sys::Syslog::Win32 - Win32 support for Sys::Syslog

    DESCRIPTION
    SEE ALSO
    AUTHORS
    LICENSE

    Term::ANSIColor - Color screen output using ANSI escape sequences

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    DIAGNOSTICS

    Bad escape sequence %s, Bareword "%s" not allowed while "strict subs" in use, Invalid attribute name %s, Name "%s" used only once: possible typo, No comma allowed after filehandle, No name for escape sequence %s

    ENVIRONMENT

    ANSI_COLORS_DISABLED

    RESTRICTIONS
    NOTES
    SEE ALSO
    AUTHORS
    COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

    Term::Cap - Perl termcap interface

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    METHODS

    Tgetent, OSPEED, TERM

    Tpad, $string, $cnt, $FH

    Tputs, $cap, $cnt, $FH

    Tgoto, $cap, $col, $row, $FH

    Trequire

    EXAMPLES
    COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
    AUTHOR
    SEE ALSO

    Term::ReadLine - Perl interface to various readline packages. If no real package is found, substitutes stubs instead of basic functions.

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Minimal set of supported functions

    ReadLine, new, readline, addhistory, IN, OUT, MinLine, findConsole, Attribs, Features

    Additional supported functions

    tkRunning, ornaments, newTTY

    EXPORTS
    ENVIRONMENT
    CAVEATS

    Test::Builder - Backend for building test libraries

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Construction

    new

    create

    reset

    Setting up tests

    plan

    expected_tests

    no_plan

    has_plan

    skip_all

    exported_to

    Running tests

    ok

    is_eq, is_num

    isnt_eq, isnt_num

    like, unlike

    cmp_ok

    Other Testing Methods

    BAIL_OUT

    skip

    todo_skip

    skip_rest

    Test building utility methods

    maybe_regex

    _try

    is_fh

    Test style

    level

    use_numbers

    no_diag, no_ending, no_header

    Output

    diag

    info

    _print

    _print_diag

    output, failure_output, todo_output

    Test Status and Info

    current_test

    summary

    details

    todo

    caller

    _sanity_check

    _whoa

    _my_exit

    EXIT CODES
    THREADS
    EXAMPLES
    SEE ALSO
    AUTHORS
    COPYRIGHT

    Test::Builder::Module - Base class for test modules

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Importing
    Builder

    Test::Builder::Tester - test testsuites that have been built with Test::Builder

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Functions

    test_out, test_err

    test_fail

    test_diag

    test_test, title (synonym 'name', 'label'), skip_out, skip_err

    line_num

    color

    BUGS
    AUTHOR
    NOTES
    SEE ALSO

    Test::Builder::Tester::Color - turn on colour in Test::Builder::Tester

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    AUTHOR
    BUGS
    SEE ALSO

    Test::More - yet another framework for writing test scripts

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    I love it when a plan comes together
    Test names
    I'm ok, you're not ok.

    ok

    is, isnt

    like

    unlike

    cmp_ok

    can_ok

    isa_ok

    pass, fail

    Module tests

    use_ok

    dies_like

    require_ok

    Complex data structures

    is_deeply

    Diagnostics

    diag

    diag

    Conditional tests

    SKIP: BLOCK

    TODO: BLOCK, todo_skip

    When do I use SKIP vs. TODO?

    Test control

    BAIL_OUT

    Discouraged comparison functions

    eq_array

    eq_hash

    eq_set

    Extending and Embedding Test::More

    builder

    EXIT CODES
    CAVEATS and NOTES

    Backwards compatibility, Overloaded objects, Threads, Test::Harness upgrade

    HISTORY
    SEE ALSO
    AUTHORS
    BUGS
    COPYRIGHT

    Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    ok

    EXAMPLE
    CAVEATS
    NOTES
    HISTORY
    SEE ALSO

    the Test::More manpage, Test, the Test::Unit manpage, the Test::Inline manpage, SelfTest, the Test::Harness manpage

    AUTHORS
    COPYRIGHT

    Test::Tutorial - A tutorial about writing really basic tests

    DESCRIPTION
    Nuts and bolts of testing.
    Where to start?
    Names
    Test the manual
    Sometimes the tests are wrong
    Testing lots of values
    Informative names
    Skipping tests
    Todo tests
    Testing with taint mode.
    FOOTNOTES
    AUTHORS
    COPYRIGHT

    Text::Abbrev, abbrev - create an abbreviation table from a list

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    EXAMPLE

    Text::ParseWords - parse text into an array of tokens or array of arrays

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    EXAMPLES
    AUTHORS

    Text::Tabs -- expand and unexpand tabs per the unix expand(1) and unexpand(1)

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    EXAMPLE
    LICENSE

    Text::Wrap - line wrapping to form simple paragraphs

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    OVERRIDES
    EXAMPLES
    LICENSE

    Tie::Hash, Tie::StdHash, Tie::ExtraHash - base class definitions for tied hashes

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    TIEHASH classname, LIST, STORE this, key, value, FETCH this, key, FIRSTKEY this, NEXTKEY this, lastkey, EXISTS this, key, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this, SCALAR this

    Inheriting from Tie::StdHash
    Inheriting from Tie::ExtraHash
    SCALAR, UNTIE and DESTROY
    MORE INFORMATION

    Time::HiRes - High resolution alarm, sleep, gettimeofday, interval timers

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    gettimeofday (), usleep ( $useconds ), nanosleep ( $nanoseconds ), ualarm ( $useconds [, $interval_useconds ] ), tv_interval, time (), sleep ( $floating_seconds ), alarm ( $floating_seconds [, $interval_floating_seconds ] ), setitimer ( $which, $floating_seconds [, $interval_floating_seconds ] ), getitimer ( $which ), clock_gettime ( $which ), clock_getres ( $which ), clock_nanosleep ( $which, $nanoseconds, $flags = 0), clock(), stat, stat FH, stat EXPR

    EXAMPLES
    C API
    DIAGNOSTICS
    useconds or interval more than ...
    negative time not invented yet
    internal error: useconds < 0 (unsigned ... signed ...)
    CAVEATS
    SEE ALSO
    AUTHORS
    COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

    Time::Local - efficiently compute time from local and GMT time

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    FUNCTIONS
    Year Value Interpretation
    Limits of time_t
    Ambiguous Local Times (DST)
    Non-Existent Local Times (DST)
    Negative Epoch Values
    IMPLEMENTATION
    BUGS
    SUPPORT
    AUTHOR

    Time::gmtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in gmtime() function

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    NOTE
    AUTHOR

    Time::localtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in localtime() function

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    NOTE
    AUTHOR

    Time::tm - internal object used by Time::gmtime and Time::localtime

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    AUTHOR

    UNIVERSAL - base class for ALL classes (blessed references)

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION

    $obj->isa( TYPE ), CLASS->isa( TYPE ), try { VAL->isa( TYPE ) }, TYPE, $obj, CLASS, VAL, $obj->DOES( ROLE ), CLASS->DOES( ROLE ), $obj->can( METHOD ), CLASS->can( METHOD ), try { VAL->can( METHOD ) }, VERSION ( [ REQUIRE ] )

    EXPORTS

    Unicode::Collate - Unicode Collation Algorithm

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Constructor and Tailoring

    UCA_Version, alternate, backwards, entry, hangul_terminator, ignoreChar, ignoreName, katakana_before_hiragana, level, normalization, overrideCJK, overrideHangul, preprocess, rearrange, table, undefChar, undefName, upper_before_lower, variable

    Methods for Collation

    @sorted = $Collator->sort(@not_sorted), $result = $Collator->cmp($a, $b), $result = $Collator->eq($a, $b), $result = $Collator->ne($a, $b), $result = $Collator->lt($a, $b), $result = $Collator->le($a, $b), $result = $Collator->gt($a, $b), $result = $Collator->ge($a, $b), $sortKey = $Collator->getSortKey($string), $sortKeyForm = $Collator->viewSortKey($string)

    Methods for Searching

    $position = $Collator->index($string, $substring[, $position]), ($position, $length) = $Collator->index($string, $substring[, $position]), $match_ref = $Collator->match($string, $substring), ($match) = $Collator->match($string, $substring), @match = $Collator->gmatch($string, $substring), $count = $Collator->subst($string, $substring, $replacement), $count = $Collator->gsubst($string, $substring, $replacement)

    Other Methods

    %old_tailoring = $Collator->change(%new_tailoring), $version = $Collator->version(), UCA_Version(), Base_Unicode_Version()

    EXPORT
    INSTALL
    CAVEATS

    Normalization, Conformance Test

    AUTHOR, COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
    SEE ALSO

    Unicode Collation Algorithm - UTS #10, The Default Unicode Collation Element Table (DUCET), The conformance test for the UCA, Hangul Syllable Type, Unicode Normalization Forms - UAX #15

    Unicode::Normalize - Unicode Normalization Forms

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Normalization Forms

    $NFD_string = NFD($string), $NFC_string = NFC($string), $NFKD_string = NFKD($string), $NFKC_string = NFKC($string), $FCD_string = FCD($string), $FCC_string = FCC($string), $normalized_string = normalize($form_name, $string)

    Decomposition and Composition

    $decomposed_string = decompose($string [, $useCompatMapping]), $reordered_string = reorder($string), $composed_string = compose($string)

    Quick Check

    $result = checkNFD($string), $result = checkNFC($string), $result = checkNFKD($string), $result = checkNFKC($string), $result = checkFCD($string), $result = checkFCC($string), $result = check($form_name, $string)

    Character Data

    $canonical_decomposition = getCanon($code_point), $compatibility_decomposition = getCompat($code_point), $code_point_composite = getComposite($code_point_here, $code_point_next), $combining_class = getCombinClass($code_point), $may_be_composed_with_prev_char = isComp2nd($code_point), $is_exclusion = isExclusion($code_point), $is_singleton = isSingleton($code_point), $is_non_starter_decomposition = isNonStDecomp($code_point), $is_Full_Composition_Exclusion = isComp_Ex($code_point), $NFD_is_NO = isNFD_NO($code_point), $NFC_is_NO = isNFC_NO($code_point), $NFC_is_MAYBE = isNFC_MAYBE($code_point), $NFKD_is_NO = isNFKD_NO($code_point), $NFKC_is_NO = isNFKC_NO($code_point), $NFKC_is_MAYBE = isNFKC_MAYBE($code_point)

    EXPORT
    CAVEATS

    Perl's version vs. Unicode version, Correction of decomposition mapping, Revised definition of canonical composition

    AUTHOR
    SEE ALSO

    http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr15/, http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/CompositionExclusions.txt, http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/DerivedNormalizationProps.txt, http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/NormalizationCorrections.txt, http://www.unicode.org/review/pr-29.html, http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn5/

    Unicode::UCD - Unicode character database

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    charinfo
    charblock
    charscript
    charblocks
    charscripts
    Blocks versus Scripts
    Matching Scripts and Blocks
    Code Point Arguments
    charinrange
    general_categories
    bidi_types
    compexcl
    casefold
    casespec
    namedseq()
    Unicode::UCD::UnicodeVersion
    Implementation Note
    BUGS
    AUTHOR

    User::grent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getgr*() functions

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    NOTE
    AUTHOR

    User::pwent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getpw*() functions

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    System Specifics
    NOTE
    AUTHOR
    HISTORY

    March 18th, 2000

    Win32 - Interfaces to some Win32 API Functions

    DESCRIPTION
    Alphabetical Listing of Win32 Functions

    Win32::AbortSystemShutdown(MACHINE), Win32::BuildNumber(), Win32::CopyFile(FROM, TO, OVERWRITE), Win32::CreateDirectory(DIRECTORY), Win32::CreateFile(FILE), Win32::DomainName(), Win32::ExpandEnvironmentStrings(STRING), Win32::FormatMessage(ERRORCODE), Win32::FsType(), Win32::FreeLibrary(HANDLE), Win32::GetANSIPathName(FILENAME), Win32::GetArchName(), Win32::GetChipName(), Win32::GetCwd(), Win32::GetCurrentThreadId(), Win32::GetFileVersion(FILENAME), Win32::GetFolderPath(FOLDER [, CREATE]), Win32::GetFullPathName(FILENAME), Win32::GetLastError(), Win32::GetLongPathName(PATHNAME), Win32::GetNextAvailDrive(), Win32::GetOSVersion(), Win32::GetOSName(), Win32::GetShortPathName(PATHNAME), Win32::GetProcAddress(INSTANCE, PROCNAME), Win32::GetTickCount(), Win32::GuidGen(), Win32::IsAdminUser(), Win32::IsWinNT(), Win32::IsWin95(), Win32::LoadLibrary(LIBNAME), Win32::LoginName(), Win32::LookupAccountName(SYSTEM, ACCOUNT, DOMAIN, SID, SIDTYPE), Win32::LookupAccountSID(SYSTEM, SID, ACCOUNT, DOMAIN, SIDTYPE), Win32::MsgBox(MESSAGE [, FLAGS [, TITLE]]), Win32::NodeName(), Win32::OutputDebugString(STRING), Win32::RegisterServer(LIBRARYNAME), Win32::SetChildShowWindow(SHOWWINDOW), Win32::SetCwd(NEWDIRECTORY), Win32::SetLastError(ERROR), Win32::Sleep(TIME), Win32::Spawn(COMMAND, ARGS, PID), Win32::UnregisterServer(LIBRARYNAME)

    Win32CORE - Win32 CORE function stubs

    DESCRIPTION
    HISTORY

    XS::APItest - Test the perl C API

    SYNOPSIS
    ABSTRACT
    DESCRIPTION
    EXPORT

    print_double, print_long_double, have_long_double, print_nv, print_iv, print_uv, print_int, print_long, print_float, call_sv, call_pv, call_method, eval_sv, eval_pv, require_pv

    SEE ALSO
    AUTHORS
    COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

    XS::Typemap - module to test the XS typemaps distributed with perl

    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    NOTES
    AUTHOR

    XSLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code

    VERSION
    SYNOPSIS
    DESCRIPTION
    Migration from DynaLoader
    Backward compatible boilerplate
    Order of initialization: early load()
    The most hairy case
    DIAGNOSTICS

    Can't find '%s' symbol in %s, Can't load '%s' for module %s: %s, Undefined symbols present after loading %s: %s, XSLoader::load('Your::Module', $Your::Module::VERSION)

    LIMITATIONS
    BUGS
    SEE ALSO
    AUTHORS
    COPYRIGHT


    AUXILIARY DOCUMENTATION

    Here should be listed all the extra programs' documentation, but they don't all have manual pages yet:

    a2p
    dprofpp
    h2xs
    perlbug
    perldoc
    pl2pm
    pod2html
    pod2man
    s2p
    xsubpp


    AUTHOR

    Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>, with the help of oodles of other folks.

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