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perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION modularity and reusability using innumerable modules, embeddable and extensible, roll-your-own magic variables (including multiple simultaneous DBM implementations), subroutines can now be overridden, autoloaded, and prototyped, arbitrarily nested data structures and anonymous functions, object-oriented programming, compilability into C code or Perl bytecode, support for light-weight processes (threads), support for internationalization, localization, and Unicode, lexical scoping, regular expression enhancements, enhanced debugger and interactive Perl environment, with integrated editor support, POSIX 1003.1 compliant library AVAILABILITY ENVIRONMENT AUTHOR FILES SEE ALSO DIAGNOSTICS BUGS NOTES perlfaq - frequently asked questions about Perl ($Date: 1999/05/23 20:38:02 $)" 20:38:02 $)" DESCRIPTION perlfaq: Structural overview of the FAQ, the perlfaq1 manpage: General Questions About Perl, What is Perl?, Who supports Perl? Who develops it? Why is it free?, Which version of Perl should I use?, What are perl4 and perl5?, What is perl6?, 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 my sysadmin/supervisor/employees to use version (5/5.005/Perl instead of some other language)?, the perlfaq2 manpage: Obtaining and Learning about Perl, 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 on my system. How can I compile perl?, 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, Perl in Magazines, Perl on the Net: FTP and WWW Access, What mailing lists are there for perl?, Archives of comp.lang.perl.misc, Where can I buy a commercial version of Perl?, Where do I send bug reports?, What is perl.com?, the perlfaq3 manpage: Programming Tools, How do I do (anything)?, How can I use Perl interactively?, Is there a Perl shell?, 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?, 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 use X or Tk with Perl?, How can I generate simple menus without using CGI or Tk?, What is undump?, How can I make my Perl program run faster?, How can I make my Perl program take less memory?, Is it unsafe to return a pointer to local 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 compile Perl into Java?, 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? [h2xs, xsubpp], I've read perlembed, perlguts, etc., but I can't embed perl inmy C program, what am I doing wrong?, When I tried to run my script, I got this message. What does itmean?, What's MakeMaker?, the perlfaq4 manpage: Data Manipulation, Why am I getting long decimals (eg, 19.9499999999999) instead of the numbers I should be getting (eg, 19.95)?, 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 bits into ints?, 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 find the week-of-the-year/day-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?, 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/change the first N letters 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]? (Comma- separated files), 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?, 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 list or array contains a certain element?, 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?, 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?, 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?, the perlfaq5 manpage: Files and Formats, How do I flush/unbuffer an output filehandle? Why must I do this?, How do I change one line in a file/delete a line in a file/insert a line in the middle of a file/append to the beginning of a file?, How do I count the number of lines in 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 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?, 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? What 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?, the perlfaq6 manpage: Regexps, How can I hope to use regular expressions without creating illegible and unmaintainable code?, 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, but 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 or map in a void context?, How can I match strings with multibyte characters?, How do I match a pattern that is supplied by the user?, the perlfaq7 manpage: General Perl Language Issues, Can I get a BNF/yacc/RE for the Perl language?, What are all these $@%&* punctuation signs, and how do I know when to use them?, Do I always/never have to quote my strings or use semicolons and commas?, How do I skip some return values?, How do I temporarily block warnings?, What's an extension?, Why do Perl operators have different precedence than C operators?, How do I declare/create a structure?, How do I create a module?, How do I create a class?, How can I tell if a variable is tainted?, What's a closure?, What is variable suicide and how can I prevent it?, How can I pass/return a {Function, FileHandle, Array, Hash, Method, Regex}?, How do I create a static variable?, What's the difference between dynamic and lexical (static) scoping? Between local() and my()?, How can I access a dynamic variable while a similarly named lexical is in scope?, What's the difference between deep and shallow binding?, Why doesn't "my($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/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?, the perlfaq8 manpage: System Interaction, 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?, 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?, How do I decode encrypted password files?, How do I start a process in the background?, 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?, How do I close a process's filehandle without waiting for it to complete?, How do I fork a daemon process?, How do I make my program run with sh and csh?, 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 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 at runtime?, What is socket.ph and where do I get it?, the perlfaq9 manpage: Networking, 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 a pop-up menu in HTML?, 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 read mail?, How do I find out my hostname/domainname/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? Where to get this document How to contribute to this document to the authors What will happen if you mail your Perl programming problems Credits Author and Copyright Information Bundled Distributions Disclaimer Changes 23/May/99, 13/April/99, 7/January/99, 22/June/98, 24/April/97, 23/April/97, 25/March/97, 18/March/97, 17/March/97 Version, Initial Release: 11/March/97 perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.23 $, $Date: 1999/05/23 16:08:30 $)" 1999/05/23 16:08:30 $)" DESCRIPTION What is Perl? Who supports Perl? Who develops it? Why is it free? Which version of Perl should I use? What are perl4 and perl5? What is perl6? How stable is Perl? Is Perl difficult to learn? REXX, Scheme, or Tcl? How does Perl compare with other languages like Java, Python, Can I do [task] in Perl? When shouldn't I program in Perl? What's the difference between "perl" and "Perl"? Is it a Perl program or a Perl script? What is a JAPH? Where can I get a list of Larry Wall witticisms? version (5/5.005/Perl instead of some other language)? How can I convince my sysadmin/supervisor/employees to use AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.32 $, $Date: 1999/10/14 18:46:09 $)" $Date: 1999/10/14 18:46:09 $)" DESCRIPTION What machines support Perl? Where do I get it? How can I get a binary version of Perl? perl? I don't have a C compiler on my system. How can I compile scripts don't work. I copied the Perl binary from one machine to another, but loading/malloc/linking/... failed. How do I make it work? I grabbed the sources and tried to compile but gdbm/dynamic CPAN? What does CPAN/src/... mean? What modules and extensions are available for Perl? What is Is there an ISO or ANSI certified version of Perl? Where can I get information on Perl? questions? What are the Perl newsgroups on Usenet? Where do I post Where should I post source code? Perl Books References, Tutorials, Task-Oriented, Special Topics Perl in Magazines Perl on the Net: FTP and WWW Access What mailing lists are there for Perl? Archives of comp.lang.perl.misc Where can I buy a commercial version of Perl? Where do I send bug reports? What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org? AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT perlfaq3 - Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.38 $, $Date: 1999/05/23 16:08:30 $)" 16:08:30 $)" DESCRIPTION How do I do (anything)? How can I use Perl interactively? Is there a Perl shell? How do I debug my Perl programs? How do I profile my Perl programs? How do I cross-reference my Perl programs? Is there a pretty-printer (formatter) for Perl? Is there a ctags for Perl? Is there an IDE or Windows Perl Editor? Where can I get Perl macros for vi? Where can I get perl-mode for emacs? How can I use curses with Perl? How can I use X or Tk with Perl? How can I generate simple menus without using CGI or Tk? What is undump? How can I make my Perl program run faster? How can I make my Perl program take less memory? Is it unsafe to return a pointer to local data? How can I free an array or hash so my program shrinks? How can I make my CGI script more efficient? How can I hide the source for my Perl program? How can I compile my Perl program into byte code or C? How can I compile Perl into Java? How can I get `#!perl' to work on [MS-DOS,NT,...]? Can I write useful Perl programs on the command line? Why don't Perl one-liners work on my DOS/Mac/VMS system? Where can I learn about CGI or Web programming in Perl? Where can I learn about object- oriented Perl programming? Where can I learn about linking C with Perl? [h2xs, xsubpp] in my C program, what am I doing wrong? I've read perlembed, perlguts, etc., but I can't embed perl it mean? When I tried to run my script, I got this message. What does What's MakeMaker? AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation ($Revision: 1.49 $, $Date: 1999/05/23 20:37:49 $)" 20:37:49 $)" DESCRIPTION Data: Numbers of the numbers I should be getting (eg, 19.95)? Why am I getting long decimals (eg, 19.9499999999999) instead Why isn't my octal data interpreted correctly? floor()? Trig functions? Does Perl have a round() function? What about ceil() and How do I convert bits into ints? Why doesn't & work the way I want it to? How do I multiply matrices? How do I perform an operation on a series of integers? How can I output Roman numerals? Why aren't my random numbers random? Data: Dates How do I find the week-of-the-year/day-of-the-year? How do I find the current century or millennium? How can I compare two dates and find the difference? How can I take a string and turn it into epoch seconds? How can I find the Julian Day? How do I find yesterday's date? Does Perl have a Year 2000 problem? Is Perl Y2K compliant? Data: Strings How do I validate input? How do I unescape a string? How do I remove consecutive pairs of characters? How do I expand function calls in a string? How do I find matching/nesting anything? How do I reverse a string? How do I expand tabs in a string? How do I reformat a paragraph? How can I access/change the first N letters of a string? How do I change the Nth occurrence of something? within a string? How can I count the number of occurrences of a substring How do I capitalize all the words on one line? inside [character]? (Comma-separated files) How can I split a [character] delimited string except when string? How do I strip blank space from the beginning/end of a zeroes? How do I pad a string with blanks or pad a number with How do I extract selected columns from a string? How do I find the soundex value of a string? How can I expand variables in text strings? What's wrong with always quoting "$vars"? Why don't my <<HERE documents work? 1. There must be no space after the << part, 2. There (probably) should be a semicolon at the end, 3. 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? a) If @in is sorted, and you want @out to be sorted:(this assumes all true values in the array), b) If you don't know whether @in is sorted:, c) Like (b), but @in contains only small integers:, d) A way to do (b) without any loops or greps:, e) Like (d), but @in contains only small positive integers: element? How can I tell whether a list or array contains a certain compute the intersection of two arrays? How do I compute the difference of two arrays? How do I How do I test whether two arrays or hashes are equal? is true? How do I find the first array element for which a condition 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? iterating over it? What happens if I add or remove keys from a hash while 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? hashes? What's the difference between "delete" and "undef" with 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? it? How can I make my hash remember the order I put elements into create it? Why does passing a subroutine an undefined element in a hash class/hash or array of hashes or arrays? How can I make the Perl equivalent of a C structure/C++ How can I use a reference as a hash key? Data: Misc How do I handle binary data correctly? number/whole/integer/float? How do I determine whether a scalar is a 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? AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT perlfaq5 - Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.38 $, $Date: 1999/05/23 16:08:30 $)" 16:08:30 $)" DESCRIPTION this? How do I flush/unbuffer an output filehandle? Why must I do file/insert a line in the middle of a file/append to the beginning of a file? How do I change one line in a file/delete a line in a How do I count the number of lines in a file? How do I make a temporary file name? How can I manipulate fixed-record-length files? pass filehandles between subroutines? How do I make an array of filehandles? How can I make a filehandle local to a subroutine? How do I How can I use a filehandle indirectly? How can I set up a footer format to be used with write()? How can I write() into a string? How can I output my numbers with commas added? How can I translate tildes (~) in a filename? How come when I open a file read-write it wipes it out? <*>? Why do I sometimes get an "Argument list too long" when I use Is there a leak/bug in glob()? How can I open a file with a leading ">" or trailing blanks? How can I reliably rename a file? How can I lock a file? Why can't I just open(FH, ">file.lock")? number in the file. How can I do this? I still don't get locking. I just want to increment the How do I randomly update a binary file? How do I get a file's timestamp in perl? How do I set a file's timestamp in perl? How do I print to more than one file at once? How can I read in an entire file all at once? How can I read in a file by paragraphs? keyboard? How can I read a single character from a file? From the filehandle? How can I tell whether there's a character waiting on a How do I do a `tail -f' in perl? How do I dup() a filehandle in Perl? How do I close a file descriptor by number? `C:\temp\foo.exe` work? Why can't I use "C:\temp\foo" in DOS paths? What doesn't Why doesn't glob("*.*") get all the files? clobber protected files? Isn't this a bug in Perl? Why does Perl let me delete read- only files? Why does `-i' How do I select a random line from a file? Why do I get weird spaces when I print an array of lines? AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT perlfaq6 - Regexes ($Revision: 1.27 $, $Date: 1999/05/23 16:08:30 $) DESCRIPTION illegible and unmaintainable code? How can I hope to use regular expressions without creating Comments Outside the Regex, Comments Inside the Regex, Different Delimiters wrong? I'm having trouble matching over more than one line. What's themselves on different lines? How can I pull out lines between two patterns that are wrong? I put a regular expression into $/ but it didn't work. What's preserving case on the RHS? How do I substitute case insensitively on the LHS, but 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? from a file? How do I use a regular expression to strip C style comments Can I use Perl regular expressions to match balanced text? around it? What does it mean that regexes are greedy? How can I get How do I process each word on each line? summary? How can I print out a word-frequency or line-frequency 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 $' slow my program down? What good is `\G' in a regular expression? Are Perl regexes DFAs or NFAs? Are they POSIX compliant? What's wrong with using grep or map in a void context? How can I match strings with multibyte characters? How do I match a pattern that is supplied by the user? AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT perlfaq7 - Perl Language Issues ($Revision: 1.28 $, $Date: 1999/05/23 20:36:18 $)" 1999/05/23 20:36:18 $)" DESCRIPTION Can I get a BNF/yacc/RE for the Perl language? when to use them? What are all these $@%&* punctuation signs, and how do I know and commas? Do I always/never have to quote my strings or use semicolons How do I skip some return values? How do I temporarily block warnings? What's an extension? operators? Why do Perl operators have different precedence than C How do I declare/create a structure? How do I create a module? How do I create a class? How can I tell if a variable is tainted? What's a closure? What is variable suicide and how can I prevent it? Method, Regex}? How can I pass/return a {Function, FileHandle, Array, Hash, Passing Variables and Functions, Passing Filehandles, Passing Regexes, Passing Methods How do I create a static variable? scoping? Between local() and my()? What's the difference between dynamic and lexical (static) lexical is in scope? How can I access a dynamic variable while a similarly named What's the difference between deep and shallow binding? Why doesn't "my($foo) = <FILE>;" work right? How do I redefine a builtin function, operator, or method? foo()? What's the difference between calling a function as &foo and How do I create a switch or case statement? variables/functions/methods? How can I catch accesses to undefined 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? AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT perlfaq8 - System Interaction ($Revision: 1.39 $, $Date: 1999/05/23 18:37:57 $)" 18:37:57 $)" 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? handling) How can I do an atexit() or setjmp()/longjmp()? (Exception What does the error message "Protocol not supported" mean? Why doesn't my sockets program work under System V (Solaris)? 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? on Unix, ^Z on MS-DOS)? Why can't my script read from STDIN after I gave it EOF (^D 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? as "ps"? Is there a way to hide perl's command line from programs such script. How come the change disappeared when I exited the script? How do I get my changes to be visible? I {changed directory, modified my environment} in a perl Unix to complete? How do I close a process's filehandle without waiting for it How do I fork a daemon process? How do I make my program run with sh and csh? 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 install a module from CPAN? What's the difference between require and use? How do I keep my own module/library directory? module/library search path? How do I add the directory my program lives in to the How do I add a directory to my include path at runtime? What is socket.ph and where do I get it? AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT perlfaq9 - Networking ($Revision: 1.26 $, $Date: 1999/05/23 16:08:30 $)" $)" DESCRIPTION (500 Server Error) My CGI script runs from the command line but not the browser. How can I get better error messages from a CGI program? How do I remove HTML from a string? How do I extract URLs? open a file on another machine? How do I download a file from the user's machine? How do I How do I make a pop-up menu in HTML? 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? cause my CGI script to do bad things? How do I make sure users can't enter values into a form that 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 read mail? How do I find out my hostname/domainname/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? AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT perldelta - 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 64-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 filehandle Where possible, buffered data discarded from duped input 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 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 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(), values() and `\(%h)' operate on aliases to values, not copies, 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 platforms Semantics of bit operators may have changed on 64-bit 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 with gcc Tru64 (aka Digital UNIX, aka DEC OSF/1) lib/sdbm test failure UNICOS/mk CC failures during Configure run Arrow operator and arrays Windows 2000 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 constructs `(?{ code })' and `(??{ code })' Obsolete Diagnostics Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions, Ill-formed logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter, Probable precedence problem on %s, regexp too big, Use of "$$<digit>" to mean "${$}<digit>" is deprecated Reporting Bugs SEE ALSO HISTORY perldata - Perl data types DESCRIPTION Variable names Context Scalar values Scalar value constructors List value constructors Slices Typeglobs and Filehandles SEE ALSO perlsyn - Perl syntax DESCRIPTION Declarations Simple statements Compound statements Loop Control For Loops Foreach Loops Basic BLOCKs and Switch Statements Goto PODs: Embedded Documentation Plain Old Comments (Not!) perlop - Perl operators and precedence SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION 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 Range Operators Conditional Operator Assignment Operators Comma Operator List Operators (Rightward) Logical Not Logical And Logical or and Exclusive Or C Operators Missing From Perl unary &, unary *, (TYPE) Quote and Quote-like Operators Regexp Quote-Like Operators ?PATTERN?, m/PATTERN/cgimosx, /PATTERN/cgimosx, q/STRING/, `'STRING'', qq/STRING/, "STRING", qr/STRING/imosx, qx/STRING/, `STRING`, qw/STRING/, s/PATTERN/REPLACEMENT/egimosx, tr/SEARCHLIST/REPLACEMENTLIST/cdsUC, y/SEARCHLIST/REPLACEMENTLIST/cdsUC Gory details of parsing quoted constructs Finding the end, Removal of backslashes before delimiters, Interpolation, `<<'EOF'', `m''', `s'''', `tr///', `y///', `''', `q//', `""', ```', `qq//', `qx//', `<file*glob>', `?RE?', `/RE/', `m/RE/', `s/RE/foo/',, Interpolation of regular expressions, Optimization of regular expressions I/O Operators Constant Folding Bitwise String Operators Integer Arithmetic Floating-point Arithmetic Bigger Numbers perlre - Perl regular expressions DESCRIPTION i, m, s, x Regular Expressions cntrl, graph, print, punct, xdigit Extended Patterns `(?#text)', `(?imsx-imsx)', `(?:pattern)', `(?imsx-imsx:pattern)', `(?=pattern)', `(?!pattern)', `(?<=pattern)', `(?<!pattern)', `(?{ code })', `(??{ code })', `(?>pattern)', `(?(condition)yes-pattern|no-pattern)', `(?(condition)yes-pattern)' Backtracking Version 8 Regular Expressions Warning on \1 vs $1 Repeated patterns matching zero-length substring Combining pieces together `ST', `S|T', `S{REPEAT_COUNT}', `S{min,max}', `S{min,max}?', `S?', `S*', `S+', `S??', `S*?', `S+?', `(?>S)', `(?=S)', `(?<=S)', `(?!S)', `(?<!S)', `(??{ EXPR })', `(?(condition)yes-pattern|no-pattern)' Creating custom RE engines BUGS SEE ALSO 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[digits], -a, -C, -c, -d, -d:foo, -Dletters, -Dnumber, -e commandline, -Fpattern, -h, -i[extension], -Idirectory, -l[octnum], -m[-]module, -M[-]module, -M[-]'module ...', -[mM][- ]module=arg[,arg]..., -n, -p, -P, -s, -S, -T, -u, -U, -v, -V, -V:name, -w, -W, -X, -x directory ENVIRONMENT HOME, LOGDIR, PATH, PERL5LIB, PERL5OPT, PERLLIB, PERL5DB, PERL5SHELL (specific to the Win32 port), PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS, PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL 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 scoping, Miscellaneous functions, Functions for processes and process groups, Keywords related to perl modules, Keywords related to classes and object-orientedness, Low-level socket functions, System V interprocess communication functions, Fetching user and group info, Fetching network info, Time-related functions, Functions new in perl5, Functions obsoleted in perl5 Portability Alphabetical Listing of Perl Functions -X FILEHANDLE, -X EXPR, -X, abs VALUE, abs, accept NEWSOCKET,GENERICSOCKET, alarm SECONDS, alarm, atan2 Y,X, bind SOCKET,NAME, binmode FILEHANDLE, DISCIPLINE, binmode FILEHANDLE, bless REF,CLASSNAME, bless REF, caller EXPR, caller, chdir EXPR, 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, cos EXPR, crypt PLAINTEXT,SALT, dbmclose HASH, dbmopen HASH,DBNAME,MASK, 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, exec LIST, exec PROGRAM LIST, exists EXPR, exit EXPR, exp EXPR, exp, fcntl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, fileno FILEHANDLE, flock FILEHANDLE,OPERATION, fork, format, formline PICTURE,LIST, 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, goto LABEL, goto EXPR, goto &NAME, grep BLOCK LIST, grep EXPR,LIST, hex EXPR, hex, import, 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, lock, log EXPR, log, lstat FILEHANDLE, lstat EXPR, lstat, m//, map BLOCK LIST, map EXPR,LIST, mkdir FILENAME,MASK, mkdir FILENAME, msgctl ID,CMD,ARG, msgget KEY,FLAGS, msgrcv ID,VAR,SIZE,TYPE,FLAGS, msgsnd ID,MSG,FLAGS, my EXPR, my EXPR : ATTRIBUTES, next LABEL, next, no Module LIST, oct EXPR, oct, open FILEHANDLE,MODE,LIST, open FILEHANDLE,EXPR, open FILEHANDLE, opendir DIRHANDLE,EXPR, ord EXPR, ord, our EXPR, pack TEMPLATE,LIST, package, package NAMESPACE, 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, readlink EXPR, readlink, readpipe EXPR, recv SOCKET,SCALAR,LENGTH,FLAGS, redo LABEL, redo, ref EXPR, ref, rename OLDNAME,NEWNAME, require VERSION, require EXPR, require, reset EXPR, reset, 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, sqrt EXPR, sqrt, srand EXPR, srand, stat FILEHANDLE, stat EXPR, stat, study SCALAR, study, sub BLOCK, sub NAME, sub NAME BLOCK, substr EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH,REPLACEMENT, substr EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH, substr EXPR,OFFSET, symlink OLDFILE,NEWFILE, syscall 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, tr///, truncate FILEHANDLE,LENGTH, truncate EXPR,LENGTH, uc EXPR, uc, ucfirst EXPR, ucfirst, umask EXPR, umask, undef EXPR, undef, unlink LIST, unlink, unpack TEMPLATE,EXPR, untie VARIABLE, unshift ARRAY,LIST, use Module VERSION LIST, use Module VERSION, use Module LIST, use Module, use VERSION, utime LIST, values HASH, vec EXPR,OFFSET,BITS, wait, waitpid PID,FLAGS, wantarray, warn LIST, write FILEHANDLE, write EXPR, write, y/// perlvar - Perl predefined variables DESCRIPTION Predefined Names $ARG, $_, $<digits>, $MATCH, $&, $PREMATCH, $`, $POSTMATCH, $', $LAST_PAREN_MATCH, $+, @+, $MULTILINE_MATCHING, $*, input_line_number HANDLE EXPR, $INPUT_LINE_NUMBER, $NR, $, input_record_separator HANDLE EXPR, $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR, $RS, $/, autoflush HANDLE EXPR, $OUTPUT_AUTOFLUSH, $|, output_field_separator HANDLE EXPR, $OUTPUT_FIELD_SEPARATOR, $OFS, $,, output_record_separator HANDLE EXPR, $OUTPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR, $ORS, $\, $LIST_SEPARATOR, $", $SUBSCRIPT_SEPARATOR, $SUBSEP, $;, $OFMT, $#, format_page_number HANDLE EXPR, $FORMAT_PAGE_NUMBER, $%, format_lines_per_page HANDLE EXPR, $FORMAT_LINES_PER_PAGE, $=, format_lines_left HANDLE EXPR, $FORMAT_LINES_LEFT, $-, @-, `$`' is the same as `substr($var, 0, $-[0]'), `$&' is the same as `substr($var, $-[0], $+[0] - $-[0]'), `$'' is the same as `substr($var, $+[0]'), `$1' is the same as `substr($var, $-[1], $+[1] - $-[1])', `$2' is the same as `substr($var, $-[2], $+[2] - $-[2])', `$3' is the same as `substr $var, $-[3], $+[3] - $-[3]'), format_name HANDLE EXPR, $FORMAT_NAME, $~, format_top_name HANDLE EXPR, $FORMAT_TOP_NAME, $^, format_line_break_characters HANDLE EXPR, $FORMAT_LINE_BREAK_CHARACTERS, $:, format_formfeed HANDLE EXPR, $FORMAT_FORMFEED, $^L, $ACCUMULATOR, $^A, $CHILD_ERROR, $?, $OS_ERROR, $ERRNO, $!, $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, $SYSTEM_FD_MAX, $^F, $^H, %^H, $INPLACE_EDIT, $^I, $^M, $OSNAME, $^O, $PERLDB, $^P, 0x01, 0x02, 0x04, 0x08, 0x10, 0x20, 0x40, 0x80, 0x100, 0x200, $LAST_REGEXP_CODE_RESULT, $^R, $EXCEPTIONS_BEING_CAUGHT, $^S, $BASETIME, $^T, $PERL_VERSION, $^V, $WARNING, $^W, ${^WARNING_BITS}, ${^WIDE_SYSTEM_CALLS}, $EXECUTABLE_NAME, $^X, $ARGV, @ARGV, @INC, @_, %INC, %ENV, $ENV{expr}, %SIG, $SIG{expr} Error Indicators Technical Note on the Syntax of Variable Names BUGS perlsub - Perl subroutines SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION Private Variables via my() Persistent Private Variables Temporary Values via local() Lvalue subroutines Passing Symbol Table Entries (typeglobs) When to Still Use local() 1. You need to give a global variable a temporary value, especially $_, 2. You need to create a local file or directory handle or a local function, 3. You want to temporarily change just one element of an array or hash Pass by Reference Prototypes Constant Functions Overriding Built-in Functions Autoloading Subroutine Attributes SEE ALSO perlmod - Perl modules (packages and symbol tables) DESCRIPTION Packages Symbol Tables Package Constructors and Destructors Perl Classes Perl Modules SEE ALSO perlmodlib - constructing new Perl modules and finding existing ones DESCRIPTION THE PERL MODULE LIBRARY Pragmatic Modules attributes, attrs, autouse, base, blib, caller, charnames, constant, diagnostics, fields, filetest, integer, less, lib, locale, ops, overload, re, sigtrap, strict, subs, utf8, vars, warnings Standard Modules AnyDBM_File, AutoLoader, AutoSplit, B, B::Asmdata, B::Assembler, B::Bblock, B::Bytecode, B::C, B::CC, B::Debug, B::Deparse, B::Disassembler, B::Lint, B::Showlex, B::Stackobj, B::Terse, B::Xref, Benchmark, ByteLoader, CGI, CGI::Apache, CGI::Carp, CGI::Cookie, CGI::Fast, CGI::Pretty, CGI::Push, CGI::Switch, CPAN, CPAN::FirstTime, CPAN::Nox, Carp, Carp::Heavy, Class::Struct, Config, Cwd, DB, DB_File, Data::Dumper, Devel::DProf, Devel::Peek, Devel::SelfStubber, DirHandle, Dumpvalue, DynaLoader, English, Env, Errno, Exporter, Exporter::Heavy, ExtUtils::Command, ExtUtils::Embed, ExtUtils::Install, ExtUtils::Installed, ExtUtils::Liblist, ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin, ExtUtils::MM_OS2, ExtUtils::MM_Unix, ExtUtils::MM_VMS, ExtUtils::MM_Win32, ExtUtils::MakeMaker, ExtUtils::Manifest, ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap, ExtUtils::Mksymlists, ExtUtils::Packlist, ExtUtils::testlib, Fatal, Fcntl, File::Basename, File::CheckTree, File::Compare, File::Copy, File::DosGlob, File::Find, File::Glob, File::Path, File::Spec, File::Spec::Functions, File::Spec::Mac, File::Spec::OS2, File::Spec::Unix, File::Spec::VMS, File::Spec::Win32, File::stat, FileCache, FileHandle, FindBin, GDBM_File, Getopt::Long, Getopt::Std, I18N::Collate, IO, IO::Dir, IO::File, IO::Handle, IO::Pipe, IO::Poll, IO::Seekable, IO::Select, IO::Socket, IO::Socket::INET, IO::Socket::UNIX, IPC::Msg, IPC::Open2, IPC::Open3, IPC::Semaphore, IPC::SysV, Math::BigFloat, Math::BigInt, Math::Complex, Math::Trig, Net::Ping, Net::hostent, Net::netent, Net::protoent, Net::servent, O, Opcode, POSIX, Pod::Checker, Pod::Html, Pod::InputObjects, Pod::Man, Pod::Parser, Pod::Select, Pod::Text, Pod::Text::Color, Pod::Usage, SDBM_File, Safe, Search::Dict, SelectSaver, SelfLoader, Shell, Socket, Symbol, Sys::Hostname, Sys::Syslog, Term::Cap, Term::Complete, Term::ReadLine, Test, Test::Harness, Text::Abbrev, Text::ParseWords, Text::Soundex, Text::Wrap, Tie::Array, Tie::Handle, Tie::Hash, Tie::RefHash, Tie::Scalar, Tie::SubstrHash, Time::Local, Time::gmtime, Time::localtime, Time::tm, UNIVERSAL, User::grent, User::pwent Extension Modules CPAN Language Extensions and Documentation Tools, Development Support, Operating System Interfaces, Networking, Device Control (modems) and InterProcess Communication, Data Types and Data Type Utilities, Database Interfaces, User Interfaces, Interfaces to / Emulations of Other Programming Languages, File Names, File Systems and File Locking (see also File Handles), String Processing, Language Text Processing, Parsing, and Searching, Option, Argument, Parameter, and Configuration File Processing, Internationalization and Locale, Authentication, Security, and Encryption, World Wide Web, HTML, HTTP, CGI, MIME, Server and Daemon Utilities, Archiving and Compression, Images, Pixmap and Bitmap Manipulation, Drawing, and Graphing, Mail and Usenet News, Control Flow Utilities (callbacks and exceptions etc), File Handle and Input/Output Stream Utilities, Miscellaneous Modules, Africa, Asia, Australasia, Central America, Europe, North America, South America Modules: Creation, Use, and Abuse Guidelines for Module Creation Do similar modules already exist in some form?, Try to design the new module to be easy to extend and reuse, Some simple style guidelines, Select what to export, Select a name for the module, Have you got it right?, README and other Additional Files, A description of the module/package/extension etc, A copyright notice - see below, Prerequisites - what else you may need to have, How to build it - possible changes to Makefile.PL etc, How to install it, Recent changes in this release, especially incompatibilities, Changes / enhancements you plan to make in the future, Adding a Copyright Notice, Give the module a version/issue/release number, How to release and distribute a module, Take care when changing a released module Guidelines for Converting Perl 4 Library Scripts into Modules There is no requirement to convert anything, Consider the implications, Make the most of the opportunity, The pl2pm utility will get you started, Adds the standard Module prologue lines, Converts package specifiers from ' to ::, Converts die(...) to croak(...), Several other minor changes Guidelines for Reusing Application Code Complete applications rarely belong in the Perl Module Library, Many applications contain some Perl code that could be reused, Break-out the reusable code into one or more separate module files, Take the opportunity to reconsider and redesign the interfaces, In some cases the 'application' can then be reduced to a small NOTE perlmodinstall - Installing CPAN Modules DESCRIPTION PREAMBLE DECOMPRESS the file, UNPACK the file into a directory, BUILD the module (sometimes unnecessary), INSTALL the module HEY AUTHOR COPYRIGHT 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 perlform - Perl formats DESCRIPTION Format Variables NOTES Footers Accessing Formatting Internals WARNINGS perllocale - Perl locale handling (internationalization and localization)" 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 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 Comparison operators (`lt', `le', `ge', `gt' and `cmp'):, Case-mapping interpolation (with `\l', `\L', `\u' or `\U'), Matching operator (`m//'):, Substitution operator (`s///'):, Output formatting functions (printf() and write()):, Case-mapping functions (lc(), lcfirst(), uc(), ucfirst()):, POSIX locale-dependent functions (localeconv(), strcoll(),strftime(), strxfrm()):, POSIX character class tests (isalnum(), isalpha(), isdigit(),isgraph(), islower(), isprint(), ispunct(), isspace(), isupper(), isxdigit()): ENVIRONMENT PERL_BADLANG, LC_ALL, LANGUAGE, LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE, LC_MONETARY, LC_NUMERIC, LC_TIME, LANG 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 BUGS Broken systems SEE ALSO HISTORY perlref - Perl references and nested data structures NOTE DESCRIPTION Making References Using References Symbolic references Not-so-symbolic references Pseudo-hashes: Using an array as a hash Function Templates WARNING SEE ALSO 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 a ARRAY OF ARRAYS Generation of a ARRAY OF ARRAYS Access and Printing of a 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 a ARRAY OF HASHES Generation of a ARRAY OF HASHES Access and Printing of a 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 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 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 perltootc - Tom's OO Tutorial for Class Data in Perl DESCRIPTION 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 perlobj - Perl objects DESCRIPTION An Object is Simply a Reference A Class is Simply a Package A Method is Simply a Subroutine Method Invocation WARNING Default UNIVERSAL methods isa(CLASS), can(METHOD), VERSION( [NEED] ) Destructors Summary Two-Phased Garbage Collection SEE ALSO perltie - how to hide an object class in a simple variable SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION Tying Scalars TIESCALAR classname, LIST, FETCH this, STORE this, value, DESTROY this Tying Arrays TIEARRAY classname, LIST, FETCH this, index, STORE this, index, value, DESTROY this Tying Hashes USER, HOME, CLOBBER, LIST, TIEHASH classname, LIST, FETCH this, key, STORE this, key, value, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this, EXISTS this, key, FIRSTKEY this, NEXTKEY this, lastkey, DESTROY this Tying FileHandles TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, WRITE this, LIST, PRINT this, LIST, PRINTF this, LIST, READ this, LIST, READLINE this, GETC this, CLOSE this, DESTROY this The `untie' Gotcha SEE ALSO BUGS AUTHOR 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 perlipc - Perl interprocess communication (signals, fifos, pipes, safe subprocesses, sockets, and semaphores)" safe subprocesses, sockets, and semaphores)" DESCRIPTION Signals Named Pipes WARNING 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 perldbmfilter - Perl DBM Filters SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION filter_store_key, filter_store_value, filter_fetch_key, filter_fetch_value The Filter An Example -- the NULL termination problem. Another Example -- Key is a C int. SEE ALSO AUTHOR perldebug - Perl debugging DESCRIPTION The Perl Debugger Debugger Commands h [command], p expr, x expr, V [pkg [vars]], X [vars], T, s [expr], n [expr], r, <CR>, c [line|sub], l, l min+incr, l min-max, l line, l subname, -, w [line], f filename, /pattern/, ?pattern?, L, S [[!]regex], t, t expr, b [line] [condition], b subname [condition], b postpone subname [condition], b load filename, b compile subname, d [line], D, a [line] command, a [line], A, W expr, W, O booloption .., O anyoption? .., O option=value .., < ?, < [ command ], << command, > ?, > command, >> command, { ?, { [ command ], {{ command, ! number, ! -number, ! pattern, !! cmd, H -number, q or ^D, R, |dbcmd, ||dbcmd, command, m expr, man [manpage] Configurable Options `recallCommand', `ShellBang', `pager', `tkRunning', `signalLevel', `warnLevel', `dieLevel', `AutoTrace', `LineInfo', `inhibit_exit', `PrintRet', `ornaments', `frame', `maxTraceLen', `arrayDepth', `hashDepth', `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 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 except, `no integer', Arithmetic operators except, `use integer', Bitwise operators, `no integer', Bitwise operators, `use integer', Operators which expect an integer, Operators which expect a string AUTHOR SEE ALSO 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' Example of using -DL switch `717', `002', `054', `602', `702', `704' -DL details `!!!', `!!', `!' Limitations of -DL statistics SEE ALSO perldiag - various Perl diagnostics DESCRIPTION perlsec - Perl security DESCRIPTION Laundering and Detecting Tainted Data Switches On the "#!" Line Cleaning Up Your Path Security Bugs Protecting Your Programs SEE ALSO perltrap - Perl traps for the unwary DESCRIPTION Awk Traps 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 Discontinuance, Deprecation, BugFix, Discontinuance, Discontinuance, Discontinuance, BugFix, Discontinuance, Discontinuance, BugFix, Discontinuance, Deprecation, Discontinuance Parsing Traps Parsing, Parsing, Parsing, Parsing Numerical Traps Numerical, Numerical, Numerical, Bitwise string ops General data type traps (Arrays), (Arrays), (Hashes), (Globs), (Globs), (Scalar String), (Constants), (Scalars), (Variable Suicide) Context Traps - scalar, list contexts (list context), (scalar context), (scalar context), (list, builtin) Precedence Traps Precedence, Precedence, Precedence, Precedence, Precedence, Precedence, Precedence General Regular Expression Traps using s///, etc. Regular Expression, Regular Expression, Regular Expression, Regular Expression, Regular Expression, Regular Expression, Regular Expression, Regular Expression Subroutine, Signal, Sorting Traps (Signals), (Sort Subroutine), warn() won't let you specify a filehandle OS Traps (SysV), (SysV) Interpolation Traps Interpolation, Interpolation, Interpolation, Interpolation, Interpolation, Interpolation, Interpolation, Interpolation, Interpolation DBM Traps DBM, DBM Unclassified Traps `require'/`do' trap using returned value, `split' on empty string with LIMIT specified 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 Interprocess Communication (IPC) External Subroutines (XS) Standard Modules Time and Date Character sets and character encoding Internationalisation System Resources Security Style CPAN Testers Mailing list: cpan-testers@perl.org, Testing results: http://testers.cpan.org/ PLATFORMS Unix DOS and Derivatives Build instructions for OS/2, the perlos2 manpage Mac OS VMS VOS EBCDIC Platforms Acorn RISC OS Other perls FUNCTION IMPLEMENTATIONS Alphabetical Listing of Perl Functions -X FILEHANDLE, -X EXPR, -X, alarm SECONDS, alarm, binmode FILEHANDLE, chmod LIST, chown LIST, chroot FILENAME, chroot, crypt PLAINTEXT,SALT, dbmclose HASH, dbmopen HASH,DBNAME,MODE, dump LABEL, exec LIST, fcntl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, flock FILEHANDLE,OPERATION, fork, getlogin, getpgrp PID, getppid, getpriority WHICH,WHO, getpwnam NAME, getgrnam NAME, getnetbyname NAME, getpwuid UID, getgrgid GID, 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, getsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME, glob EXPR, glob, ioctl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, kill SIGNAL, LIST, link OLDFILE,NEWFILE, lstat FILEHANDLE, lstat EXPR, lstat, msgctl ID,CMD,ARG, msgget KEY,FLAGS, msgsnd ID,MSG,FLAGS, msgrcv ID,VAR,SIZE,TYPE,FLAGS, open FILEHANDLE,EXPR, open FILEHANDLE, pipe READHANDLE,WRITEHANDLE, readlink EXPR, readlink, select RBITS,WBITS,EBITS,TIMEOUT, semctl ID,SEMNUM,CMD,ARG, semget KEY,NSEMS,FLAGS, semop KEY,OPSTRING, setgrent, setpgrp PID,PGRP, setpriority WHICH,WHO,PRIORITY, setpwent, setsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME,OPTVAL, shmctl ID,CMD,ARG, shmget KEY,SIZE,FLAGS, shmread ID,VAR,POS,SIZE, shmwrite ID,STRING,POS,SIZE, socketpair SOCKET1,SOCKET2,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL, stat FILEHANDLE, stat EXPR, stat, symlink OLDFILE,NEWFILE, syscall LIST, sysopen FILEHANDLE,FILENAME,MODE,PERMS, system LIST, times, truncate FILEHANDLE,LENGTH, truncate EXPR,LENGTH, umask EXPR, umask, utime LIST, wait, waitpid PID,FLAGS CHANGES v1.47, 22 March 2000, v1.46, 12 February 2000, v1.45, 20 December 1999, v1.44, 19 July 1999, v1.43, 24 May 1999, v1.42, 22 May 1999, v1.41, 19 May 1999, v1.40, 11 April 1999, v1.39, 11 February 1999, v1.38, 31 December 1998, v1.37, 19 December 1998, v1.36, 9 September 1998, v1.35, 13 August 1998, v1.33, 06 August 1998, v1.32, 05 August 1998, v1.30, 03 August 1998, v1.23, 10 July 1998 Supported Platforms SEE ALSO AUTHORS / CONTRIBUTORS VERSION perlstyle - Perl style guide DESCRIPTION perlpod - plain old documentation DESCRIPTION Verbatim Paragraph Command Paragraph Ordinary Block of Text The Intent Embedding Pods in Perl Modules Common Pod Pitfalls SEE ALSO AUTHOR perlbook - Perl book information DESCRIPTION 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 program Performing Perl pattern matches and substitutions from your C Fiddling with the Perl stack from your C program Maintaining a persistent interpreter Maintaining multiple interpreter instances your C program Using Perl modules, which themselves use C libraries, from Embedding Perl under Win32 MORAL AUTHOR COPYRIGHT perlapio - perl's IO abstraction interface. SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION PerlIO *, PPeerrllIIOO_ssttddiinn(()), PPeerrllIIOO_ssttddoouutt(()), PPeerrllIIOO_ssttddeerrrr(()), PerlIO_open(path, mode), PerlIO_fdopen(fd,mode), PerlIO_printf(f,fmt,...), PerlIO_vprintf(f,fmt,a), PerlIO_stdoutf(fmt,...), PerlIO_read(f,buf,count), PerlIO_write(f,buf,count), PPeerrllIIOO_cclloossee(f), PerlIO_puts(f,s), PerlIO_putc(f,c), PerlIO_ungetc(f,c), PPeerrllIIOO_ggeettcc(f), PPeerrllIIOO_eeooff(f), PPeerrllIIOO_eerrrroorr(f), PPeerrllIIOO_ffiilleennoo(f), PPeerrllIIOO_cclleeaarreerrrr(f), PPeerrllIIOO_fflluusshh(f), PPeerrllIIOO_tteellll(f), PerlIO_seek(f,o,w), PerlIO_getpos(f,p), PerlIO_setpos(f,p), PPeerrllIIOO_rreewwiinndd(f), PPeerrllIIOO_ttmmppffiillee(()) Co-existence with stdio PerlIO_importFILE(f,flags), PerlIO_exportFILE(f,flags), PPeerrllIIOO_ffiinnddFFIILLEE(f), PerlIO_releaseFILE(p,f), PPeerrllIIOO_sseettlliinneebbuuff(f), PPeerrllIIOO_hhaass_ccnnttppttrr(f), PPeerrllIIOO_ggeett_ppttrr(f), PPeerrllIIOO_ggeett_ccnntt(f), PPeerrllIIOO_ccaannsseett_ccnntt(f), PPeerrllIIOO_ffaasstt_ggeettss(f), PerlIO_set_ptrcnt(f,p,c), PerlIO_set_cnt(f,c), PPeerrllIIOO_hhaass_bbaassee(f), PPeerrllIIOO_ggeett_bbaassee(f), PPeerrllIIOO_ggeett_bbuuffssiizz(f) perlxs - XS language reference manual DESCRIPTION Introduction On The Road The Anatomy of an XSUB The Argument Stack The RETVAL Variable The MODULE Keyword The PACKAGE Keyword The PREFIX Keyword The 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 Variable-length Parameter Lists The C_ARGS: Keyword The PPCODE: Keyword Returning Undef And Empty Lists The REQUIRE: Keyword The CLEANUP: Keyword The BOOT: Keyword The VERSIONCHECK: Keyword The PROTOTYPES: Keyword The PROTOTYPE: Keyword The ALIAS: Keyword The INTERFACE: Keyword The INTERFACE_MACRO: Keyword The INCLUDE: Keyword The CASE: Keyword The & Unary Operator Inserting Comments and C Preprocessor Directives Using XS With C++ Interface Strategy Perl Objects And C Structures The Typemap EXAMPLES XS VERSION AUTHOR 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 (Coming Soon) EXAMPLE 7 (Coming Soon) EXAMPLE 8 (Coming Soon) EXAMPLE 9 (Coming Soon) Troubleshooting these Examples See also Author Last Changed perlguts - Introduction to the Perl API DESCRIPTION Variables Datatypes What is an "IV"? Working with SVs What's Really Stored in an SV? Working with AVs Working with HVs Hash API Extensions References Blessed References and Class Objects Creating New Variables 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)', `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 How multiple interpreters and concurrency are supported Background and PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT How do I use all this in extensions? Future Plans and PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS 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_NOARGS G_EVAL G_KEEPERR Determining the Context KNOWN PROBLEMS 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 SEE ALSO AUTHOR DATE perlcompile - Introduction to the Perl Compiler-Translator DESCRIPTION Layout B::Bytecode, B::C, B::CC, 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 The Simple C Back End The Bytecode Back End The Optimized C Back End B, O, B::Asmdata, B::Assembler, B::Bblock, B::Bytecode, B::C, B::CC, B::Debug, B::Deparse, B::Disassembler, B::Lint, B::Showlex, B::Stackobj, B::Stash, B::Terse, B::Xref KNOWN PROBLEMS AUTHOR perlapi - autogenerated documentation for the perl public API DESCRIPTION AvFILL, av_clear, av_extend, av_fetch, av_len, av_make, av_pop, av_push, av_shift, av_store, av_undef, av_unshift, call_argv, call_method, call_pv, call_sv, CLASS, Copy, croak, CvSTASH, dMARK, dORIGMARK, dSP, dXSARGS, dXSI32, ENTER, eval_pv, eval_sv, EXTEND, fbm_compile, fbm_instr, FREETMPS, get_av, get_cv, get_hv, get_sv, GIMME, GIMME_V, GvSV, gv_fetchmeth, gv_fetchmethod, gv_fetchmethod_autoload, gv_stashpv, gv_stashsv, G_ARRAY, G_DISCARD, G_EVAL, G_NOARGS, G_SCALAR, G_VOID, HEf_SVKEY, HeHASH, HeKEY, HeKLEN, HePV, HeSVKEY, HeSVKEY_force, HeSVKEY_set, HeVAL, HvNAME, hv_clear, hv_delete, hv_delete_ent, hv_exists, hv_exists_ent, hv_fetch, hv_fetch_ent, hv_iterinit, hv_iterkey, hv_iterkeysv, hv_iternext, hv_iternextsv, hv_iterval, hv_magic, hv_store, hv_store_ent, hv_undef, isALNUM, isALPHA, isDIGIT, isLOWER, isSPACE, isUPPER, items, ix, LEAVE, looks_like_number, MARK, mg_clear, mg_copy, mg_find, mg_free, mg_get, mg_length, mg_magical, mg_set, Move, New, newAV, Newc, newCONSTSUB, newHV, newRV_inc, newRV_noinc, NEWSV, newSViv, newSVnv, newSVpv, newSVpvf, newSVpvn, newSVrv, newSVsv, newSVuv, newXS, newXSproto, Newz, Nullav, Nullch, Nullcv, Nullhv, Nullsv, ORIGMARK, perl_alloc, perl_construct, perl_destruct, perl_free, perl_parse, perl_run, PL_DBsingle, PL_DBsub, PL_DBtrace, PL_dowarn, PL_modglobal, PL_na, PL_sv_no, PL_sv_undef, PL_sv_yes, POPi, POPl, POPn, POPp, POPs, PUSHi, PUSHMARK, PUSHn, PUSHp, PUSHs, PUSHu, PUTBACK, Renew, Renewc, require_pv, RETVAL, Safefree, savepv, savepvn, SAVETMPS, SP, SPAGAIN, ST, strEQ, strGE, strGT, strLE, strLT, strNE, strnEQ, strnNE, StructCopy, SvCUR, SvCUR_set, SvEND, SvGETMAGIC, SvGROW, SvIOK, SvIOKp, SvIOK_off, SvIOK_on, SvIOK_only, SvIV, SvIVX, SvLEN, SvNIOK, SvNIOKp, SvNIOK_off, SvNOK, SvNOKp, SvNOK_off, SvNOK_on, SvNOK_only, SvNV, SvNVX, SvOK, SvOOK, SvPOK, SvPOKp, SvPOK_off, SvPOK_on, SvPOK_only, SvPV, SvPVX, SvPV_force, SvPV_nolen, SvREFCNT, SvREFCNT_dec, SvREFCNT_inc, SvROK, SvROK_off, SvROK_on, SvRV, SvSETMAGIC, SvSetSV, SvSetSV_nosteal, SvSTASH, SvTAINT, SvTAINTED, SvTAINTED_off, SvTAINTED_on, SvTRUE, SvTYPE, svtype, SVt_IV, SVt_NV, SVt_PV, SVt_PVAV, SVt_PVCV, SVt_PVHV, SVt_PVMG, SvUPGRADE, SvUV, SvUVX, sv_2mortal, sv_bless, sv_catpv, sv_catpvf, sv_catpvf_mg, sv_catpvn, sv_catpvn_mg, sv_catpv_mg, sv_catsv, sv_catsv_mg, sv_chop, sv_cmp, sv_dec, sv_derived_from, sv_eq, sv_grow, sv_inc, sv_insert, sv_isa, sv_isobject, sv_len, sv_magic, sv_mortalcopy, sv_newmortal, 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_setpv_mg, sv_setref_iv, sv_setref_nv, sv_setref_pv, sv_setref_pvn, sv_setsv, sv_setsv_mg, sv_setuv, sv_setuv_mg, sv_unref, sv_upgrade, sv_usepvn, sv_usepvn_mg, sv_vcatpvfn, sv_vsetpvfn, THIS, toLOWER, toUPPER, warn, XPUSHi, XPUSHn, XPUSHp, XPUSHs, XPUSHu, XS, XSRETURN, XSRETURN_EMPTY, XSRETURN_IV, XSRETURN_NO, XSRETURN_NV, XSRETURN_PV, XSRETURN_UNDEF, XSRETURN_YES, XST_mIV, XST_mNO, XST_mNV, XST_mPV, XST_mUNDEF, XST_mYES, XS_VERSION, XS_VERSION_BOOTCHECK, Zero AUTHORS SEE ALSO perlintern - autogenerated documentation of purely internal Perl functions" Perl functions" DESCRIPTION AUTHORS SEE ALSO 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 RECORDSPRAGMA DOCUMENTATION
attrs - set/get attributes of a subroutine (deprecated) SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION method, locked re - Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION attributes - get/set subroutine or variable attributes SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION Built-in Attributes locked, method, lvalue Available Subroutines get, reftype Package-specific Attribute Handling FETCH_type_ATTRIBUTES, MODIFY_type_ATTRIBUTES Syntax of Attribute Lists EXPORTS Default exports Available exports Export tags defined EXAMPLES SEE ALSO attrs - set/get attributes of a subroutine (deprecated) SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION method, locked autouse - postpone load of modules until a function is used SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION WARNING AUTHOR SEE ALSO base - Establish IS-A relationship with base class at compile time SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION HISTORY 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" semantics" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION SEE ALSO charnames - define character names for `\N{named}' string literal escape." escape." SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION CUSTOM TRANSLATORS BUGS constant - Perl pragma to declare constants SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION NOTES TECHNICAL NOTE BUGS AUTHOR COPYRIGHT diagnostics - Perl compiler pragma to force verbose warning diagnostics" diagnostics" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION The `diagnostics' Pragma The splain Program EXAMPLES INTERNALS BUGS AUTHOR fields - compile-time class fields SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION new, phash SEE ALSO filetest - Perl pragma to control the filetest permission operators SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION subpragma access integer - Perl pragma to compute arithmetic in integer instead of double" double" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION less - perl pragma to request less of something from the compiler SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION lib - manipulate @INC at compile time SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION Adding directories to @INC Deleting directories from @INC Restoring original @INC SEE ALSO AUTHOR locale - Perl pragma to use and avoid POSIX locales for built-in operations" operations" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION open - perl pragma to set default disciplines for input and output SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION UNIMPLEMENTED FUNCTIONALITY SEE ALSO ops - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when compiling SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION SEE ALSO overload - Package for overloading perl operations SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION Declaration of overloaded functions Calling Conventions for Binary Operations FALSE, TRUE, `undef' Calling Conventions for Unary Operations Calling Conventions for Mutators `++' and `--', `x=' and other assignment versions Overloadable Operations Arithmetic operations, Comparison operations, Bit operations, Increment and decrement, Transcendental functions, Boolean, string and numeric conversion, Iteration, Dereferencing, Special Inheritance and overloading Strings as values of `use overload' directive, Overloading of an operation is inherited by derived classes SPECIAL SYMBOLS FOR `use overload' Last Resort Fallback `undef', TRUE, defined, but FALSE Copy Constructor Example MAGIC AUTOGENERATION Assignment forms of arithmetic operations, Conversion operations, Increment and decrement, `abs($a)', Unary minus, Negation, Concatenation, Comparison operations, Iterator, Dereferencing, Copy operator Losing overloading Run-time Overloading Public functions overload::StrVal(arg), overload::Overloaded(arg), overload::Method(obj,op) Overloading constants integer, float, binary, q, qr IMPLEMENTATION Metaphor clash Cookbook Two-face scalars Two-face references Symbolic calculator Really symbolic calculator AUTHOR DIAGNOSTICS BUGS re - Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION sigtrap - Perl pragma to enable simple signal handling SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS SIGNAL HANDLERS stack-trace, die, handler your-handler SIGNAL LISTS normal-signals, error-signals, old-interface-signals OTHER untrapped, any, signal, number EXAMPLES strict - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe constructs SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION `strict refs', `strict vars', `strict subs' subs - Perl pragma to predeclare sub names SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION utf8 - Perl pragma to enable/disable UTF-8 in source code SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION SEE ALSO vars - Perl pragma to predeclare global variable names (obsolete) SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION warnings - Perl pragma to control optional warnings SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION use warnings::register, warnings::enabled([$category]), warnings::warn([$category,] $message)MODULE DOCUMENTATION
AnyDBM_File - provide framework for multiple DBMs SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION DBM Comparisons [0], [1], [2], [3] SEE ALSO AutoLoader - load subroutines only on demand SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION Subroutine Stubs Using AutoLoader's AUTOLOAD Subroutine Overriding AutoLoader's AUTOLOAD Subroutine Package Lexicals AutoLoader vs. SelfLoader CAVEATS SEE ALSO AutoSplit - split a package for autoloading SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION $keep, $check, $modtime Multiple packages DIAGNOSTICS B - The Perl Compiler SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OVERVIEW OF CLASSES SV-RELATED CLASSES B::SV METHODS REFCNT, FLAGS B::IV METHODS IV, IVX, needs64bits, packiv B::NV METHODS NV, NVX B::RV METHODS RV B::PV METHODS PV B::PVMG METHODS MAGIC, SvSTASH B::MAGIC METHODS MOREMAGIC, PRIVATE, TYPE, FLAGS, OBJ, PTR B::PVLV METHODS TARGOFF, TARGLEN, TYPE, TARG B::BM METHODS USEFUL, PREVIOUS, RARE, TABLE B::GV METHODS is_empty, NAME, STASH, SV, IO, FORM, 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 B::AV METHODS FILL, MAX, OFF, ARRAY, AvFLAGS B::CV METHODS STASH, START, ROOT, GV, FILE, DEPTH, PADLIST, OUTSIDE, XSUB, XSUBANY, CvFLAGS B::HV METHODS FILL, MAX, KEYS, RITER, NAME, PMROOT, ARRAY OP-RELATED CLASSES B::OP METHODS next, sibling, name, ppaddr, desc, targ, type, seq, flags, private B::UNOP METHOD first B::BINOP METHOD last B::LOGOP METHOD other B::LISTOP METHOD children B::PMOP METHODS pmreplroot, pmreplstart, pmnext, pmregexp, pmflags, pmpermflags, precomp B::SVOP METHOD sv, gv B::PADOP METHOD padix B::PVOP METHOD pv B::LOOP METHODS redoop, nextop, lastop B::COP METHODS label, stash, file, cop_seq, arybase, line FUNCTIONS EXPORTED BY `B' main_cv, init_av, main_root, main_start, comppadlist, sv_undef, sv_yes, sv_no, amagic_generation, walkoptree(OP, METHOD), walkoptree_debug(DEBUG), walksymtable(SYMREF, METHOD, RECURSE), svref_2object(SV), ppname(OPNUM), hash(STR), cast_I32(I), minus_c, cstring(STR), class(OBJ), threadsv_names AUTHOR B::Asmdata - Autogenerated data about Perl ops, used to generate bytecode" bytecode" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION AUTHOR B::Assembler - Assemble Perl bytecode SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION AUTHOR B::Bblock - Walk basic blocks SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION AUTHOR B::Bytecode - Perl compiler's bytecode backend SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS -ofilename, -afilename, --, -f, -fcompress-nullops, -fomit-sequence-numbers, -fbypass-nullops, -fstrip- syntax-tree, -On, -D, -Do, -Db, -Da, -DC, -S, -m EXAMPLES BUGS AUTHOR B::C - Perl compiler's C backend SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS -ofilename, -v, --, -uPackname, -D, -Do, -Dc, -DA, -DC, -DM, -f, -fcog, -fno-cog, -On, -llimit EXAMPLES BUGS AUTHOR B::CC - Perl compiler's optimized C translation backend SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS -ofilename, -v, --, -uPackname, -mModulename, -D, -Dr, -DO, -Ds, -Dp, -Dq, -Dl, -Dt, -f, -ffreetmps-each- bblock, -ffreetmps-each-loop, -fomit-taint, -On EXAMPLES BUGS DIFFERENCES Loops Context of ".." Arithmetic Deprecated features AUTHOR B::Debug - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing debug info about ops SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION AUTHOR B::Deparse - Perl compiler backend to produce perl code SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS -l, -p, -q, -uPACKAGE, -sLETTERS, C, iNUMBER, T, vSTRING. USING B::Deparse AS A MODULE Synopsis Description new coderef2text BUGS AUTHOR B::Disassembler - Disassemble Perl bytecode SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION AUTHOR B::Lint - Perl lint SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS AND LINT CHECKS context, implicit-read and implicit-write, dollar- underscore, private-names, undefined-subs, regexp- variables, all, none NON LINT-CHECK OPTIONS -u Package BUGS AUTHOR B::O, O - Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION CONVENTIONS IMPLEMENTATION AUTHOR B::Showlex - Show lexical variables used in functions or files SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION AUTHOR B::Stackobj - Helper module for CC backend SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION AUTHOR B::Terse - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing terse info about ops SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION AUTHOR B::Xref - Generates cross reference reports for Perl programs SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS `-oFILENAME', `-r', `-D[tO]' BUGS AUTHOR Bblock, B::Bblock - Walk basic blocks 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 ( COUT, CODEHASHREF, [ STYLE ] ), cmpthese ( RESULTSHASHREF ), countit(TIME, CODE), disablecache ( ), enablecache ( ), timesum ( T1, T2 ) NOTES EXAMPLES INHERITANCE CAVEATS SEE ALSO AUTHORS MODIFICATION HISTORY ByteLoader - load byte compiled perl code SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION AUTHOR SEE ALSO Bytecode, B::Bytecode - Perl compiler's bytecode backend SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS -ofilename, -afilename, --, -f, -fcompress-nullops, -fomit-sequence-numbers, -fbypass-nullops, -fstrip- syntax-tree, -On, -D, -Do, -Db, -Da, -DC, -S, -m EXAMPLES BUGS AUTHOR CGI - Simple Common Gateway Interface Class SYNOPSIS ABSTRACT DESCRIPTION PROGRAMMING STYLE CALLING CGI.PM ROUTINES 1. Use another name for the argument, if one is available. Forexample, -value is an alias for -values, 2. Change the capitalization, e.g. -Values, 3. Put quotes around the argument name, e.g. '-values' CREATING A NEW QUERY OBJECT (OBJECT-ORIENTED STYLE): CREATING A NEW QUERY OBJECT FROM AN INPUT FILE FETCHING A LIST OF KEYWORDS FROM THE QUERY: SCRIPT: FETCHING THE NAMES OF ALL THE PARAMETERS PASSED TO YOUR FETCHING THE VALUE OR VALUES OF A SINGLE NAMED PARAMETER: SETTING THE VALUE(S) OF A NAMED PARAMETER: APPENDING ADDITIONAL VALUES TO A NAMED PARAMETER: IMPORTING ALL PARAMETERS INTO A NAMESPACE: DELETING A PARAMETER COMPLETELY: DELETING ALL PARAMETERS: DIRECT ACCESS TO THE PARAMETER LIST: FETCHING THE PARAMETER LIST AS A HASH: SAVING THE STATE OF THE SCRIPT TO A FILE: RETRIEVING CGI ERRORS USING THE FUNCTION-ORIENTED INTERFACE :cgi, :form, :html2, :html3, :netscape, :html, :standard, :all PRAGMAS -any, -compile, -nph, -newstyle_urls, -autoload, -no_debug, -private_tempfiles SPECIAL FORMS FOR IMPORTING HTML-TAG FUNCTIONS 1. start_table() (generates a <TABLE> tag), 2. end_table() (generates a </TABLE> tag), 3. start_ul() (generates a <UL> tag), 4. end_ul() (generates a </UL> tag) GENERATING DYNAMIC DOCUMENTS CREATING A STANDARD HTTP HEADER: GENERATING A REDIRECTION HEADER CREATING THE HTML DOCUMENT HEADER Parameters:, 4, 5, 6.. ENDING THE HTML DOCUMENT: INFORMATION: CREATING A SELF-REFERENCING URL THAT PRESERVES STATE OBTAINING THE SCRIPT'S URL -absolute, -relative, -full, -path (-path_info), -query (-query_string) MIXING POST AND URL PARAMETERS CREATING STANDARD HTML ELEMENTS: PROVIDING ARGUMENTS TO HTML SHORTCUTS THE DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY OF HTML SHORTCUTS HTML SHORTCUTS AND LIST INTERPOLATION NON-STANDARD HTML SHORTCUTS PRETTY-PRINTING HTML CREATING FILL-OUT FORMS: CREATING AN ISINDEX TAG STARTING AND ENDING A FORM application/x-www-form-urlencoded, multipart/form- data CREATING A TEXT FIELD Parameters CREATING A BIG TEXT FIELD CREATING A PASSWORD FIELD CREATING A FILE UPLOAD FIELD Parameters CREATING A POPUP MENU CREATING A SCROLLING LIST Parameters: CREATING A GROUP OF RELATED CHECKBOXES Parameters: CREATING A STANDALONE CHECKBOX Parameters: CREATING A RADIO BUTTON GROUP Parameters: CREATING A SUBMIT BUTTON Parameters: CREATING A RESET BUTTON CREATING A DEFAULT BUTTON CREATING A HIDDEN FIELD Parameters: CREATING A CLICKABLE IMAGE BUTTON Parameters:, 3.The third option (-align, optional) is an alignment type, and may be TOP, BOTTOM or MIDDLE CREATING A JAVASCRIPT ACTION BUTTON HTTP COOKIES 1. an expiration time, 2. a domain, 3. a path, 4. a "secure" flag, -name, -value, -path, -domain, -expires, -secure WORKING WITH FRAMES 1. Create a <Frameset> document, 2. Specify the destination for the document in the HTTP header, 3. Specify the destination for the document in the <FORM> tag LIMITED SUPPORT FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS DEBUGGING DUMPING OUT ALL THE NAME/VALUE PAIRS FETCHING ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES AAcccceepptt(()), rraaww_ccooookkiiee(()), uusseerr_aaggeenntt(()), ppaatthh_iinnffoo(()), ppaatthh_ttrraannssllaatteedd(()), rreemmoottee_hhoosstt(()), ssccrriipptt_nnaammee(())Return the script name as a partial URL, for self-refering scripts, rreeffeerreerr(()), auth_type (), server_name (), virtual_host (), server_software (), remote_user (), user_name (), rreeqquueesstt_mmeetthhoodd(()), ccoonntteenntt_ttyyppee(()), hhttttpp(()), hhttttppss(()) USING NPH SCRIPTS In the use statement, By calling the nnpphh(()) method:, By using -nph parameters in the hheeaaddeerr(()) and rreeddiirreecctt(()) statements: Server Push multipart_init(), multipart_start(), multipart_end() Avoiding Denial of Service Attacks $CGI::POST_MAX, $CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS, 1. On a script- by-script basis, 2. Globally for all scripts COMPATIBILITY WITH CGI-LIB.PL AUTHOR INFORMATION CREDITS Matt Heffron (heffron@falstaff.css.beckman.com), James Taylor (james.taylor@srs.gov), Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com>, Mike Jewell (mlj3u@virginia.edu), Timothy Shimmin (tes@kbs.citri.edu.au), Joergen Haegg (jh@axis.se), Laurent Delfosse (delfosse@delfosse.com), Richard Resnick (applepi1@aol.com), Craig Bishop (csb@barwonwater.vic.gov.au), Tony Curtis (tc@vcpc.univie.ac.at), Tim Bunce (Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk), Tom Christiansen (tchrist@convex.com), Andreas Koenig (k@franz.ww.TU-Berlin.DE), Tim MacKenzie (Tim.MacKenzie@fulcrum.com.au), Kevin B. Hendricks (kbhend@dogwood.tyler.wm.edu), Stephen Dahmen (joyfire@inxpress.net), Ed Jordan (ed@fidalgo.net), David Alan Pisoni (david@cnation.com), Doug MacEachern (dougm@opengroup.org), Robin Houston (robin@oneworld.org), ...and many many more.. A COMPLETE EXAMPLE OF A SIMPLE FORM-BASED SCRIPT BUGS SEE ALSO CGI::Apache - Backward compatibility module for CGI.pm SYNOPSIS ABSTRACT DESCRIPTION AUTHOR INFORMATION BUGS SEE ALSO CGI::Carp, CGI::Carp - CGI routines for writing to the HTTPD (or other) error log" other) error log" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION REDIRECTING ERROR MESSAGES MAKING PERL ERRORS APPEAR IN THE BROWSER WINDOW Changing the default message CHANGE LOG AUTHORS SEE ALSO CGI::Cookie - Interface to Netscape Cookies SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION USING CGI::Cookie 1. expiration date, 2. domain, 3. path, 4. secure flag Creating New Cookies Sending the Cookie to the Browser Recovering Previous Cookies Manipulating Cookies nnaammee(()), vvaalluuee(()), ddoommaaiinn(()), ppaatthh(()), eexxppiirreess(()) AUTHOR INFORMATION BUGS SEE ALSO CGI::Fast - CGI Interface for Fast CGI SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OTHER PIECES OF THE PUZZLE WRITING FASTCGI PERL SCRIPTS INSTALLING FASTCGI SCRIPTS USING FASTCGI SCRIPTS AS CGI SCRIPTS CAVEATS AUTHOR INFORMATION BUGS SEE ALSO CGI::Pretty - module to produce nicely formatted HTML code SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION Tags that won't be formatted Customizing the Indenting BUGS AUTHOR SEE ALSO CGI::Push - Simple Interface to Server Push SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION USING CGI::Push -next_page, -last_page, -type, -delay, -cookie, -target, -expires Heterogeneous Pages Changing the Page Delay on the Fly INSTALLING CGI::Push SCRIPTS AUTHOR INFORMATION BUGS SEE ALSO CGI::Switch - Backward compatibility module for defunct CGI::Switch SYNOPSIS ABSTRACT DESCRIPTION AUTHOR INFORMATION BUGS SEE ALSO CPAN - query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION Interactive Mode Searching for authors, bundles, distribution files and modules, make, test, install, clean modules or distributions, get, readme, look module or distribution, Signals CPAN::Shell autobundle recompile Distribution The four `CPAN::*' Classes: Author, Bundle, Module, Programmer's interface expand($type,@things), Programming Examples Methods in the four Classes Cache Manager Bundles Prerequisites Finding packages and VERSION Debugging Floppy, Zip, Offline Mode CONFIGURATION `o conf <scalar option>', `o conf <scalar option> <value>', `o conf <list option>', `o conf <list option> [shift|pop]', `o conf <list option> [unshift|push|splice] <list>' Note on urllist parameter's format urllist parameter has CD-ROM support SECURITY EXPORT POPULATE AN INSTALLATION WITH LOTS OF MODULES WORKING WITH CPAN.pm BEHIND FIREWALLS http firewall, ftp firewall, One way visibility, SOCKS, IP Masquerade BUGS AUTHOR SEE ALSO CPAN::FirstTime - Utility for CPAN::Config file Initialization SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION CPANox, CPAN::Nox - Wrapper around CPAN.pm without using any XS module" module" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION SEE ALSO Carp, carp - warn of errors (from perspective of caller) SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION Forcing a Stack Trace BUGS Carp::Heavy - Carp guts SYNOPIS DESCRIPTION Class::Struct - declare struct-like datatypes as Perl classes SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION The `struct()' function 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_vars(@names) EXAMPLE WARNING GLOSSARY _ `_a', `_exe', `_o' a `afs', `alignbytes', `ansi2knr', `aphostname', `api_revision', `api_subversion', `api_version', `api_versionstring', `ar', `archlib', `archlibexp', `archname64', `archname', `archobjs', `awk' b `baserev', `bash', `bin', `bincompat5005', `binexp', `bison', `byacc', `byteorder' c `c', `castflags', `cat', `cc', `cccdlflags', `ccdlflags', `ccflags', `ccsymbols', `cf_by', `cf_email', `cf_time', `charsize', `chgrp', `chmod', `chown', `clocktype', `comm', `compress' C `CONFIGDOTSH', `contains', `cp', `cpio', `cpp', `cpp_stuff', `cppccsymbols', `cppflags', `cpplast', `cppminus', `cpprun', `cppstdin', `cppsymbols', `crosscompile', `cryptlib', `csh' d `d_access', `d_accessx', `d_alarm', `d_archlib', `d_atolf', `d_atoll', `d_attribut', `d_bcmp', `d_bcopy', `d_bincompat5005', `d_bsd', `d_bsdgetpgrp', `d_bsdsetpgrp', `d_bzero', `d_casti32', `d_castneg', `d_charvspr', `d_chown', `d_chroot', `d_chsize', `d_closedir', `d_const', `d_crypt', `d_csh', `d_cuserid', `d_dbl_dig', `d_difftime', `d_dirnamlen', `d_dlerror', `d_dlopen', `d_dlsymun', `d_dosuid', `d_drand48proto', `d_dup2', `d_eaccess', `d_endgrent', `d_endhent', `d_endnent', `d_endpent', `d_endpwent', `d_endsent', `d_endspent', `d_eofnblk', `d_eunice', `d_fchmod', `d_fchown', `d_fcntl', `d_fd_macros', `d_fd_set', `d_fds_bits', `d_fgetpos', `d_flexfnam', `d_flock', `d_fork', `d_fpathconf', `d_fpos64_t', `d_fs_data_s', `d_fseeko', `d_fsetpos', `d_fstatfs', `d_fstatvfs', `d_ftello', `d_ftime', `d_Gconvert', `d_getcwd', `d_getfsstat', `d_getgrent', `d_getgrps', `d_gethbyaddr', `d_gethbyname', `d_gethent', `d_gethname', `d_gethostprotos', `d_getlogin', `d_getmnt', `d_getmntent', `d_getnbyaddr', `d_getnbyname', `d_getnent', `d_getnetprotos', `d_getpbyname', `d_getpbynumber', `d_getpent', `d_getpgid', `d_getpgrp2', `d_getpgrp', `d_getppid', `d_getprior', `d_getprotoprotos', `d_getpwent', `d_getsbyname', `d_getsbyport', `d_getsent', `d_getservprotos', `d_getspent', `d_getspnam', `d_gettimeod', `d_gnulibc', `d_grpasswd', `d_hasmntopt', `d_htonl', `d_iconv', `d_index', `d_inetaton', `d_int64_t', `d_isascii', `d_killpg', `d_lchown', `d_ldbl_dig', `d_link', `d_locconv', `d_lockf', `d_longdbl', `d_longlong', `d_lseekproto', `d_lstat', `d_madvise', `d_mblen', `d_mbstowcs', `d_mbtowc', `d_memchr', `d_memcmp', `d_memcpy', `d_memmove', `d_memset', `d_mkdir', `d_mkdtemp', `d_mkfifo', `d_mkstemp', `d_mkstemps', `d_mktime', `d_mmap', `d_mprotect', `d_msg', `d_msg_ctrunc', `d_msg_dontroute', `d_msg_oob', `d_msg_peek', `d_msg_proxy', `d_msgctl', `d_msgget', `d_msgrcv', `d_msgsnd', `d_msync', `d_munmap', `d_mymalloc', `d_nice', `d_nv_preserves_uv', `d_off64_t', `d_old_pthread_create_joinable', `d_oldpthreads', `d_oldsock', `d_open3', `d_pathconf', `d_pause', `d_phostname', `d_pipe', `d_poll', `d_portable', `d_PRId64', `d_PRIeldbl', `d_PRIEldbl', `d_PRIfldbl', `d_PRIFldbl', `d_PRIgldbl', `d_PRIGldbl', `d_PRIi64', `d_PRIo64', `d_PRIu64', `d_PRIx64', `d_PRIX64', `d_pthread_yield', `d_pwage', `d_pwchange', `d_pwclass', `d_pwcomment', `d_pwexpire', `d_pwgecos', `d_pwpasswd', `d_pwquota', `d_qgcvt', `d_quad', `d_readdir', `d_readlink', `d_rename', `d_rewinddir', `d_rmdir', `d_safebcpy', `d_safemcpy', `d_sanemcmp', `d_sched_yield', `d_scm_rights', `d_seekdir', `d_select', `d_sem', `d_semctl', `d_semctl_semid_ds', `d_semctl_semun', `d_semget', `d_semop', `d_setegid', `d_seteuid', `d_setgrent', `d_setgrps', `d_sethent', `d_setlinebuf', `d_setlocale', `d_setnent', `d_setpent', `d_setpgid', `d_setpgrp2', `d_setpgrp', `d_setprior', `d_setpwent', `d_setregid', `d_setresgid', `d_setresuid', `d_setreuid', `d_setrgid', `d_setruid', `d_setsent', `d_setsid', `d_setspent', `d_setvbuf', `d_sfio', `d_shm', `d_shmat', `d_shmatprototype', `d_shmctl', `d_shmdt', `d_shmget', `d_sigaction', `d_sigsetjmp', `d_socket', `d_socklen_t', `d_sockpair', `d_sqrtl', `d_statblks', `d_statfs_f_flags', `d_statfs_s', `d_statvfs', `d_stdio_cnt_lval', `d_stdio_ptr_lval', `d_stdio_stream_array', `d_stdiobase', `d_stdstdio', `d_strchr', `d_strcoll', `d_strctcpy', `d_strerrm', `d_strerror', `d_strtod', `d_strtol', `d_strtold', `d_strtoll', `d_strtoul', `d_strtoull', `d_strtouq', `d_strxfrm', `d_suidsafe', `d_symlink', `d_syscall', `d_sysconf', `d_sysernlst', `d_syserrlst', `d_system', `d_tcgetpgrp', `d_tcsetpgrp', `d_telldir', `d_telldirproto', `d_time', `d_times', `d_truncate', `d_tzname', `d_umask', `d_uname', `d_union_semun', `d_ustat', `d_vendorarch', `d_vendorbin', `d_vendorlib', `d_vfork', `d_void_closedir', `d_voidsig', `d_voidtty', `d_volatile', `d_vprintf', `d_wait4', `d_waitpid', `d_wcstombs', `d_wctomb', `d_xenix', `date', `db_hashtype', `db_prefixtype', `defvoidused', `direntrytype', `dlext', `dlsrc', `doublesize', `drand01', `dynamic_ext' e `eagain', `ebcdic', `echo', `egrep', `emacs', `eunicefix', `exe_ext', `expr', `extensions' f `fflushall', `fflushNULL', `find', `firstmakefile', `flex', `fpossize', `fpostype', `freetype', `full_ar', `full_csh', `full_sed' g `gccversion', `gidformat', `gidsign', `gidsize', `gidtype', `glibpth', `grep', `groupcat', `groupstype', `gzip' h `h_fcntl', `h_sysfile', `hint', `hostcat', `huge' i `i16size', `i16type', `i32size', `i32type', `i64size', `i64type', `i8size', `i8type', `i_arpainet', `i_bsdioctl', `i_db', `i_dbm', `i_dirent', `i_dld', `i_dlfcn', `i_fcntl', `i_float', `i_gdbm', `i_grp', `i_iconv', `i_ieeefp', `i_inttypes', `i_limits', `i_locale', `i_machcthr', `i_malloc', `i_math', `i_memory', `i_mntent', `i_ndbm', `i_netdb', `i_neterrno', `i_netinettcp', `i_niin', `i_poll', `i_pthread', `i_pwd', `i_rpcsvcdbm', `i_sfio', `i_sgtty', `i_shadow', `i_socks', `i_stdarg', `i_stddef', `i_stdlib', `i_string', `i_sunmath', `i_sysaccess', `i_sysdir', `i_sysfile', `i_sysfilio', `i_sysin', `i_sysioctl', `i_syslog', `i_sysmman', `i_sysmode', `i_sysmount', `i_sysndir', `i_sysparam', `i_sysresrc', `i_syssecrt', `i_sysselct', `i_syssockio', `i_sysstat', `i_sysstatfs', `i_sysstatvfs', `i_systime', `i_systimek', `i_systimes', `i_systypes', `i_sysuio', `i_sysun', `i_sysutsname', `i_sysvfs', `i_syswait', `i_termio', `i_termios', `i_time', `i_unistd', `i_ustat', `i_utime', `i_values', `i_varargs', `i_varhdr', `i_vfork', `ignore_versioned_solibs', `inc_version_list', `inc_version_list_init', `incpath', `inews', `installarchlib', `installbin', `installman1dir', `installman3dir', `installprefix', `installprefixexp', `installprivlib', `installscript', `installsitearch', `installsitebin', `installsitelib', `installstyle', `installusrbinperl', `installvendorarch', `installvendorbin', `installvendorlib', `intsize', `ivdformat', `ivsize', `ivtype' k `known_extensions', `ksh' l `large', `ld', `lddlflags', `ldflags', `ldlibpthname', `less', `lib_ext', `libc', `libperl', `libpth', `libs', `libsdirs', `libsfiles', `libsfound', `libspath', `libswanted', `line', `lint', `lkflags', `ln', `lns', `locincpth', `loclibpth', `longdblsize', `longlongsize', `longsize', `lp', `lpr', `ls', `lseeksize', `lseektype' m `mail', `mailx', `make', `make_set_make', `mallocobj', `mallocsrc', `malloctype', `man1dir', `man1direxp', `man1ext', `man3dir', `man3direxp', `man3ext' M `Mcc', `medium', `mips_type', `mkdir', `mmaptype', `models', `modetype', `more', `multiarch', `mv', `myarchname', `mydomain', `myhostname', `myuname' n `n', `netdb_hlen_type', `netdb_host_type', `netdb_name_type', `netdb_net_type', `nm', `nm_opt', `nm_so_opt', `nonxs_ext', `nroff', `nvsize', `nvtype' o `o_nonblock', `obj_ext', `old_pthread_create_joinable', `optimize', `orderlib', `osname', `osvers' p `package', `pager', `passcat', `patchlevel', `path_sep', `perl5', `perl' P `PERL_REVISION', `PERL_SUBVERSION', `PERL_VERSION', `perladmin', `perlpath', `pg', `phostname', `pidtype', `plibpth', `pm_apiversion', `pmake', `pr', `prefix', `prefixexp', `privlib', `privlibexp', `prototype', `ptrsize' q `quadkind', `quadtype' r `randbits', `randfunc', `randseedtype', `ranlib', `rd_nodata', `revision', `rm', `rmail', `runnm' s `sched_yield', `scriptdir', `scriptdirexp', `sed', `seedfunc', `selectminbits', `selecttype', `sendmail', `sh', `shar', `sharpbang', `shmattype', `shortsize', `shrpenv', `shsharp', `sig_count', `sig_name', `sig_name_init', `sig_num', `sig_num_init', `signal_t', `sitearch', `sitearchexp', `sitebin', `sitebinexp', `sitelib', `sitelib_stem', `sitelibexp', `siteprefix', `siteprefixexp', `sizesize', `sizetype', `sleep', `smail', `small', `so', `sockethdr', `socketlib', `socksizetype', `sort', `spackage', `spitshell', `split', `sPRId64', `sPRIeldbl', `sPRIEldbl', `sPRIfldbl', `sPRIFldbl', `sPRIgldbl', `sPRIGldbl', `sPRIi64', `sPRIo64', `sPRIu64', `sPRIx64', `sPRIX64', `src', `ssizetype', `startperl', `startsh', `static_ext', `stdchar', `stdio_base', `stdio_bufsiz', `stdio_cnt', `stdio_filbuf', `stdio_ptr', `stdio_stream_array', `strings', `submit', `subversion', `sysman' t `tail', `tar', `tbl', `tee', `test', `timeincl', `timetype', `touch', `tr', `trnl', `troff' u `u16size', `u16type', `u32size', `u32type', `u64size', `u64type', `u8size', `u8type', `uidformat', `uidsign', `uidsize', `uidtype', `uname', `uniq', `uquadtype', `use5005threads', `use64bitall', `use64bitint', `usedl', `useithreads', `uselargefiles', `uselongdouble', `usemorebits', `usemultiplicity', `usemymalloc', `usenm', `useopcode', `useperlio', `useposix', `usesfio', `useshrplib', `usesocks', `usethreads', `usevendorprefix', `usevfork', `usrinc', `uuname', `uvoformat', `uvsize', `uvtype', `uvuformat', `uvxformat' v `vendorarch', `vendorarchexp', `vendorbin', `vendorbinexp', `vendorlib', `vendorlib_stem', `vendorlibexp', `vendorprefix', `vendorprefixexp', `version', `vi', `voidflags' x `xlibpth', `xs_apiversion' z `zcat', `zip' NOTE Cwd, getcwd - get pathname of current working directory SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION DB - programmatic interface to the Perl debugging API (draft, subject to change)" subject to change)" 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 3 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 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]) ; DBM FILTERS filter_store_key, filter_store_value, filter_fetch_key, filter_fetch_value The Filter An Example -- the NULL termination problem. Another Example -- Key is a C int. 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'" 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 $Data::Dumper::Indent or $OBJ->Indent([NEWVAL]), $Data::Dumper::Purity or $OBJ->Purity([NEWVAL]), $Data::Dumper::Pad or $OBJ->Pad([NEWVAL]), $Data::Dumper::Varname or $OBJ->Varname([NEWVAL]), $Data::Dumper::Useqq or $OBJ->Useqq([NEWVAL]), $Data::Dumper::Terse or $OBJ->Terse([NEWVAL]), $Data::Dumper::Freezer or $OBJ->Freezer([NEWVAL]), $Data::Dumper::Toaster or $OBJ->Toaster([NEWVAL]), $Data::Dumper::Deepcopy or $OBJ->Deepcopy([NEWVAL]), $Data::Dumper::Quotekeys or $OBJ->Quotekeys([NEWVAL]), $Data::Dumper::Bless or $OBJ->Bless([NEWVAL]), $Data::Dumper::Maxdepth or $OBJ->Maxdepth([NEWVAL]) Exports Dumper EXAMPLES BUGS AUTHOR VERSION SEE ALSO Devel::DProf - a Perl code profiler SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION PROFILE FORMAT AUTOLOAD ENVIRONMENT BUGS SEE ALSO Devel::Peek - A data debugging tool for the XS programmer SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION EXAMPLES A simple scalar string A simple scalar number A simple scalar with an extra reference A reference to a simple scalar A reference to an array A reference to a hash Dumping a large array or hash A reference to an SV which holds a C pointer A reference to a subroutine EXPORTS BUGS AUTHOR SEE ALSO Devel::SelfStubber - generate stubs for a SelfLoading module SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION DirHandle - supply object methods for directory handles SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION Dumpvalue - provides screen dump of Perl data. SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION Creation `arrayDepth', `hashDepth', `compactDump', `veryCompact', `globPrint', `DumpDBFiles', `DumpPackages', `DumpReused', `tick', `HighBit', `printUndef', `UsageOnly', unctrl, subdump, bareStringify, quoteHighBit, stopDbSignal Methods dumpValue, dumpValues, dumpvars, set_quote, set_unctrl, compactDump, veryCompact, set, get DynaLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION @dl_library_path, @dl_resolve_using, @dl_require_symbols, @dl_librefs, @dl_modules, dl_error(), $dl_debug, dl_findfile(), dl_expandspec(), dl_load_file(), dl_unload_file(), dl_loadflags(), 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" Perl code" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION AUTHOR English - use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation variables" variables" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION BUGS Env - perl module that imports environment variables as scalars or arrays" arrays" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION LIMITATIONS AUTHOR 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 Specialised Import Lists Exporting without using Export's import method Module Version Checking Managing Unknown Symbols Tag Handling Utility Functions Exporter::Heavy - Exporter guts SYNOPIS DESCRIPTION ExtUtils::Command - utilities to replace common UNIX commands in Makefiles etc." Makefiles etc." SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION cat eqtime src dst rm_f files... rm_f files... touch files .. mv source... destination cp source... destination chmod mode files.. mkpath directory.. test_f file BUGS SEE ALSO 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 DESCRIPTION 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, For dynamic extensions EXTRALIBS LDLOADLIBS and LD_RUN_PATH BSLOADLIBS PORTABILITY VMS implementation Win32 implementation SEE ALSO ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin - methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker" ExtUtils::MakeMaker" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION canonpath, cflags, manifypods, perl_archive ExtUtils::MM_OS2 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker" ExtUtils::MakeMaker" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ExtUtils::MM_Unix - methods used by ExtUtils::MakeMaker SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION METHODS Preloaded methods canonpath catdir catfile curdir rootdir updir SelfLoaded methods c_o (o) cflags (o) clean (o) const_cccmd (o) const_config (o) const_loadlibs (o) constants (o) depend (o) dir_target (o) dist (o) dist_basics (o) dist_ci (o) dist_core (o) dist_dir (o) dist_test (o) dlsyms (o) dynamic (o) dynamic_bs (o) dynamic_lib (o) exescan extliblist file_name_is_absolute find_perl Methods to actually produce chunks of text for the Makefile fixin force (o) guess_name has_link_code htmlifypods (o) init_dirscan init_main init_others install (o) installbin (o) libscan (o) linkext (o) lsdir macro (o) makeaperl (o) makefile (o) manifypods (o) maybe_command maybe_command_in_dirs needs_linking (o) nicetext parse_version parse_abstract pasthru (o) path perl_script perldepend (o) ppd perm_rw (o) perm_rwx (o) pm_to_blib post_constants (o) post_initialize (o) postamble (o) prefixify processPL (o) realclean (o) replace_manpage_separator static (o) static_lib (o) staticmake (o) subdir_x (o) subdirs (o) test (o) test_via_harness (o) test_via_script (o) tool_autosplit (o) tools_other (o) tool_xsubpp (o) top_targets (o) writedoc xs_c (o) xs_cpp (o) xs_o (o) perl_archive export_list SEE ALSO ExtUtils::MM_VMS - methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker" ExtUtils::MakeMaker" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION Methods always loaded wraplist rootdir (override) SelfLoaded methods guess_name (override) find_perl (override) path (override) maybe_command (override) maybe_command_in_dirs (override) perl_script (override) file_name_is_absolute (override) replace_manpage_separator init_others (override) constants (override) cflags (override) const_cccmd (override) pm_to_blib (override) tool_autosplit (override) tool_sxubpp (override) xsubpp_version (override) tools_other (override) dist (override) c_o (override) xs_c (override) xs_o (override) top_targets (override) dlsyms (override) dynamic_lib (override) dynamic_bs (override) static_lib (override) manifypods (override) processPL (override) installbin (override) subdir_x (override) clean (override) realclean (override) dist_basics (override) dist_core (override) dist_dir (override) dist_test (override) install (override) perldepend (override) makefile (override) test (override) test_via_harness (override) test_via_script (override) makeaperl (override) nicetext (override) ExtUtils::MM_Win32 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker" ExtUtils::MakeMaker" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION catfile constants (o) static_lib (o) dynamic_bs (o) dynamic_lib (o) canonpath perl_script pm_to_blib test_via_harness (o) tool_autosplit (override) tools_other (o) xs_o (o) top_targets (o) htmlifypods (o) manifypods (o) dist_ci (o) dist_core (o) pasthru (o) ExtUtils::MakeMaker - create an extension Makefile SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION How To Write A Makefile.PL Default Makefile Behaviour make test make testdb make install 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 AUTHOR, ABSTRACT, ABSTRACT_FROM, BINARY_LOCATION, C, CAPI, CCFLAGS, CONFIG, CONFIGURE, DEFINE, DIR, DISTNAME, DL_FUNCS, DL_VARS, EXCLUDE_EXT, EXE_FILES, FIRST_MAKEFILE, FULLPERL, FUNCLIST, H, HTMLLIBPODS, HTMLSCRIPTPODS, IMPORTS, INC, INCLUDE_EXT, INSTALLARCHLIB, INSTALLBIN, INSTALLDIRS, INSTALLHTMLPRIVLIBDIR, INSTALLHTMLSCRIPTDIR, INSTALLHTMLSITELIBDIR, INSTALLMAN1DIR, INSTALLMAN3DIR, INSTALLPRIVLIB, INSTALLSCRIPT, INSTALLSITEARCH, INSTALLSITELIB, INST_ARCHLIB, INST_BIN, INST_EXE, INST_LIB, INST_HTMLLIBDIR, INST_HTMLSCRIPTDIR, INST_MAN1DIR, INST_MAN3DIR, INST_SCRIPT, PERL_MALLOC_OK, LDFROM, LIB, LIBPERL_A, LIBS, LINKTYPE, MAKEAPERL, MAKEFILE, MAN1PODS, MAN3PODS, MAP_TARGET, MYEXTLIB, NAME, NEEDS_LINKING, NOECHO, NORECURS, NO_VC, OBJECT, OPTIMIZE, PERL, PERLMAINCC, PERL_ARCHLIB, PERL_LIB, PERL_SRC, PERM_RW, PERM_RWX, PL_FILES, PM, PMLIBDIRS, POLLUTE, PPM_INSTALL_EXEC, PPM_INSTALL_SCRIPT, PREFIX, PREREQ_PM, SKIP, TYPEMAPS, VERSION, VERSION_FROM, XS, XSOPT, XSPROTOARG, XS_VERSION Additional lowercase attributes clean, depend, dist, dynamic_lib, linkext, macro, realclean, test, tool_autosplit Overriding MakeMaker Methods Hintsfile support Distribution Support make distcheck, make skipcheck, make distclean, make manifest, make distdir, make tardist, make dist, make uutardist, make shdist, make zipdist, make ci Disabling an extension ENVIRONMENT PERL_MM_OPT SEE ALSO AUTHORS ExtUtils::Manifest - utilities to write and check a MANIFEST file SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION MANIFEST.SKIP EXPORT_OK GLOBAL VARIABLES DIAGNOSTICS `Not in MANIFEST:' file, `No such file:' file, `MANIFEST:' $!, `Added to MANIFEST:' file SEE ALSO AUTHOR ExtUtils::Miniperl, writemain - write the C code for perlmain.c SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION SEE ALSO ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap - make a bootstrap file for use by DynaLoader SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ExtUtils::Mksymlists - write linker options files for dynamic extension" extension" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION DLBASE, DL_FUNCS, DL_VARS, FILE, FUNCLIST, IMPORTS, NAME AUTHOR REVISION ExtUtils::Packlist - manage .packlist files SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION USAGE FUNCTIONS new(), read(), write(), validate(), packlist_file() EXAMPLE AUTHOR ExtUtils::testlib - add blib/* directories to @INC SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION Fatal - replace functions with equivalents which succeed or die SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION AUTHOR Fcntl - load the C Fcntl.h defines SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION NOTE EXPORTED SYMBOLS File::Basename, fileparse - split a pathname into pieces SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION fileparse_set_fstype, fileparse EXAMPLES `basename', `dirname' File::CheckTree, validate - run many filetest checks on a tree SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION File::Compare - Compare files or filehandles SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION RETURN AUTHOR File::Copy - Copy files or filehandles SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION Win32) Special behaviour if `syscopy' is defined (OS/2, VMS and rmscopy($from,$to[,$date_flag]) RETURN AUTHOR File::DosGlob - DOS like globbing and then some SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION EXPORTS (by request only) BUGS AUTHOR HISTORY SEE ALSO File::Find, find - traverse a file tree SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION `wanted', `bydepth', `follow', `follow_fast', `follow_skip', `no_chdir', `untaint', `untaint_pattern', `untaint_skip' CAVEAT File::Glob - Perl extension for BSD glob routine SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION `GLOB_ERR', `GLOB_MARK', `GLOB_NOCASE', `GLOB_NOCHECK', `GLOB_NOSORT', `GLOB_BRACE', `GLOB_NOMAGIC', `GLOB_QUOTE', `GLOB_TILDE', `GLOB_CSH' DIAGNOSTICS `GLOB_NOSPACE', `GLOB_ABEND' NOTES AUTHOR File::Path - create or remove directory trees SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION AUTHORS File::Spec - portably perform operations on file names SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION SEE ALSO AUTHORS File::Spec::Functions - portably perform operations on file names SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION Exports SEE ALSO File::Spec::Mac - File::Spec for MacOS SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION METHODS canonpath catdir catfile curdir devnull rootdir tmpdir updir file_name_is_absolute path splitpath splitdir catpath abs2rel rel2abs SEE ALSO File::Spec::OS2 - methods for OS/2 file specs SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION File::Spec::Unix - methods used by File::Spec 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 File::Spec::VMS - methods for VMS file specs SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION eliminate_macros fixpath Methods always loaded canonpath (override) catdir catfile 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) SEE ALSO File::Spec::Win32 - methods for Win32 file specs SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION devnull tmpdir catfile canonpath splitpath splitdir catpath abs2rel rel2abs SEE ALSO File::stat - by-name interface to Perl's built-in stat() functions SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION NOTE AUTHOR FileCache - keep more files open than the system permits SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION BUGS FileHandle - supply object methods for filehandles SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION $fh->print, $fh->printf, $fh->getline, $fh->getlines SEE ALSO FindBin - Locate directory of original perl script SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION EXPORTABLE VARIABLES KNOWN BUGS AUTHORS COPYRIGHT GDBM_File - Perl5 access to the gdbm library. SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION AVAILABILITY BUGS SEE ALSO 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, f, : type [ desttype ] Advanced Possibilities Documentation and help texts Storing options in a hash Bundling The lonesome dash Argument call-back Configuring Getopt::Long default, auto_abbrev, getopt_compat, require_order, permute, bundling (default: reset), bundling_override (default: reset), ignore_case (default: set), ignore_case_always (default: reset), pass_through (default: reset), prefix, prefix_pattern, debug (default: reset) Return values and Errors Legacy Default destinations Alternative option starters Configuration variables AUTHOR COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER Getopt::Std, getopt - Process single-character switches with switch clustering" clustering" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION I18N::Collate - compare 8-bit scalar data according to the current locale" locale" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION IO - load various IO modules SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION IO::Dir - supply object methods for directory handles SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION new ( [ DIRNAME ] ), open ( DIRNAME ), read (), seek ( POS ), tell (), rewind (), close (), tie %hash, IO::Dir, DIRNAME [, OPTIONS ] 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]] ) 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::Pipe - supply object methods for pipes SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION CONSTRUCTOR new ( [READER, WRITER] ) METHODS reader ([ARGS]), writer ([ARGS]), handles () SEE ALSO AUTHOR COPYRIGHT 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 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, ERROR [, TIMEOUT ] ) EXAMPLE AUTHOR COPYRIGHT IO::Socket - Object interface to socket communications SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION CONSTRUCTOR new ( [ARGS] ) METHODS accept([PKG]), socketpair(DOMAIN, TYPE, PROTOCOL), timeout([VAL]), sockopt(OPT [, VAL]), sockdomain, socktype, protocol, connected 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" handles" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION new ( [ DIRNAME ] ), open ( DIRNAME ), read (), seek ( POS ), tell (), rewind (), close (), tie %hash, IO::Dir, DIRNAME [, OPTIONS ] 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]] ) SEE ALSO HISTORY IO::lib::IO::Handle, IO::Handle - supply object methods for I/O handles" 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::Pipe, IO::Pipe - supply object methods for pipes SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION CONSTRUCTOR new ( [READER, WRITER] ) METHODS reader ([ARGS]), writer ([ARGS]), handles () SEE ALSO AUTHOR COPYRIGHT 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" I/O objects" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION SEE ALSO HISTORY IO::lib::IO::Select, IO::Select - OO interface to the select system call" 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, ERROR [, TIMEOUT ] ) EXAMPLE AUTHOR COPYRIGHT IO::lib::IO::Socket, IO::Socket - Object interface to socket communications" communications" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION CONSTRUCTOR new ( [ARGS] ) METHODS accept([PKG]), socketpair(DOMAIN, TYPE, PROTOCOL), timeout([VAL]), sockopt(OPT [, VAL]), sockdomain, socktype, protocol, connected SEE ALSO AUTHOR COPYRIGHT IO::lib::IO::Socket::INET, IO::Socket::INET - Object interface for AF_INET domain sockets" 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" 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" handling" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION 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" 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 Math::BigFloat - Arbitrary length float math package SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION number format, Error returns 'NaN', Division is computed to, Rounding is performed BUGS AUTHOR Math::BigInt - Arbitrary size integer math package SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION Canonical notation, Input, Output EXAMPLES Autocreating constants BUGS AUTHOR Math::Trig - trigonometric functions SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS tan ERRORS DUE TO DIVISION BY ZERO SIMPLE (REAL) ARGUMENTS, COMPLEX RESULTS PLANE ANGLE CONVERSIONS RADIAL COORDINATE CONVERSIONS COORDINATE SYSTEMS 3-D ANGLE CONVERSIONS cartesian_to_cylindrical, cartesian_to_spherical, cylindrical_to_cartesian, cylindrical_to_spherical, spherical_to_cartesian, spherical_to_cylindrical GREAT CIRCLE DISTANCES EXAMPLES BUGS AUTHORS NDBM_File - Tied access to ndbm files SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION Net::Ping - check a remote host for reachability SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION Functions Net::Ping->new([$proto [, $def_timeout [, $bytes]]]);, $p->ping($host [, $timeout]);, $p- >close();, pingecho($host [, $timeout]); WARNING NOTES Net::hostent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in gethost*() functions" functions" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION EXAMPLES NOTE AUTHOR Net::netent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getnet*() functions" functions" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION EXAMPLES NOTE AUTHOR Net::protoent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getproto*() functions" functions" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION NOTE AUTHOR Net::servent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getserv*() functions" functions" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION EXAMPLES NOTE AUTHOR O - Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION CONVENTIONS IMPLEMENTATION AUTHOR ODBM_File - Tied access to odbm files SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION 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, :still_to_be_decided, :dangerous SEE ALSO AUTHORS Opcode::Safe, Safe - Compile and execute code in restricted compartments" 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" 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, 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, stroul, 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 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, Macros CREATION 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 occurence of link target name, line containing nothing but whitespace in paragraph, file does not start with =head, No numeric argument for =over, 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, Hyperlinks RETURN VALUE EXAMPLES INTERFACE `$checker->poderror( @args )', `$checker->poderror( {%opts}, @args )' `$checker->num_errors()' `$checker->name()' `$checker->node()' `$checker->idx()' `$checker->hyperlink()' AUTHOR Pod::Find - find POD documents in directory trees SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS -verbose, -perl, -script, -inc AUTHOR SEE ALSO Pod::Html - module to convert pod files to HTML SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ARGUMENTS backlink, css, flush, header, help, htmldir, htmlroot, index, infile, libpods, netscape, outfile, podpath, podroot, quiet, recurse, title, verbose EXAMPLE ENVIRONMENT AUTHOR SEE ALSO COPYRIGHT Pod::InputObjects - objects representing POD input paragraphs, commands, etc." commands, etc." SYNOPSIS REQUIRES EXPORTS DESCRIPTION Pod::InputSource, Pod::Paragraph, Pod::InteriorSequence, Pod::ParseTree Pod::InputSource nneeww(()) nnaammee(()) hhaannddllee(()) wwaass_ccuuttttiinngg(()) Pod::Paragraph nneeww(()) ccmmdd_nnaammee(()) tteexxtt(()) rraaww_tteexxtt(()) ccmmdd_pprreeffiixx(()) ccmmdd_sseeppaarraattoorr(()) ppaarrssee_ttrreeee(()) ffiillee_lliinnee(()) Pod::InteriorSequence nneeww(()) ccmmdd_nnaammee(()) pprreeppeenndd(()) aappppeenndd(()) nneesstteedd(()) rraaww_tteexxtt(()) lleefftt_ddeelliimmiitteerr(()) rriigghhtt_ddeelliimmiitteerr(()) ppaarrssee_ttrreeee(()) ffiillee_lliinnee(()) DDEESSTTRROOYY(()) Pod::ParseTree nneeww(()) ttoopp(()) cchhiillddrreenn(()) pprreeppeenndd(()) aappppeenndd(()) rraaww_tteexxtt(()) DDEESSTTRROOYY(()) SEE ALSO AUTHOR Pod::Man - Convert POD data to formatted *roff input SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION center, date, fixed, fixedbold, fixeditalic, fixedbolditalic, release, section DIAGNOSTICS roff font should be 1 or 2 chars, not `%s', Invalid link %s, Unknown escape E<%s>, Unknown sequence %s, Unmatched =back BUGS SEE ALSO AUTHOR Pod::ParseUtils - helpers for POD parsing and conversion SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION Pod::List new() file() start() indent() type() rx() item() parent() tag() Pod::Hyperlink new() parse($string) markup($string) text() warning() line(), file() page() node() alttext() type() link() Pod::Cache new() item() find_page($name) Pod::Cache::Item new() page() description() path() file() nodes() find_node($name) 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 ccoommmmaanndd(()) `$cmd', `$text', `$line_num', `$pod_para' vveerrbbaattiimm(()) `$text', `$line_num', `$pod_para' tteexxttbblloocckk(()) `$text', `$line_num', `$pod_para' iinntteerriioorr_sseeqquueennccee(()) OPTIONAL SUBROUTINE/METHOD OVERRIDES nneeww(()) iinniittiiaalliizzee(()) bbeeggiinn_ppoodd(()) bbeeggiinn_iinnppuutt(()) eenndd_iinnppuutt(()) eenndd_ppoodd(()) pprreepprroocceessss_lliinnee(()) pprreepprroocceessss_ppaarraaggrraapphh(()) METHODS FOR PARSING AND PROCESSING ppaarrssee_tteexxtt(()) -expand_seq => code-ref|method-name, -expand_text => code-ref|method-name, -expand_ptree => code-ref|method- name iinntteerrppoollaattee(()) ppaarrssee_ppaarraaggrraapphh(()) ppaarrssee_ffrroomm_ffiilleehhaannddllee(()) ppaarrssee_ffrroomm_ffiillee(()) ACCESSOR METHODS eerrrroorrssuubb(()) ccuuttttiinngg(()) ppaarrsseeooppttss(()) oouuttppuutt_ffiillee(()) oouuttppuutt_hhaannddllee(()) iinnppuutt_ffiillee(()) iinnppuutt_hhaannddllee(()) iinnppuutt_ssttrreeaammss(()) ttoopp_ssttrreeaamm(()) PRIVATE METHODS AND DATA _ppuusshh_iinnppuutt_ssttrreeaamm(()) _ppoopp_iinnppuutt_ssttrreeaamm(()) TREE-BASED PARSING 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" input" SYNOPSIS REQUIRES EXPORTS DESCRIPTION SECTION SPECIFICATIONS RANGE SPECIFICATIONS OBJECT METHODS ccuurrrr_hheeaaddiinnggss(()) sseelleecctt(()) aadddd_sseelleeccttiioonn(()) cclleeaarr_sseelleeccttiioonnss(()) mmaattcchh_sseeccttiioonn(()) iiss_sseelleecctteedd(()) EXPORTED FUNCTIONS ppooddsseelleecctt(()) -output, -sections, -ranges PRIVATE METHODS AND DATA _ccoommppiillee_sseeccttiioonn_ssppeecc(()) $self->{_SECTION_HEADINGS} $self->{_SELECTED_SECTIONS} SEE ALSO AUTHOR Pod::Text - 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::Text::Color - Convert POD data to formatted color ASCII text SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION BUGS SEE ALSO AUTHOR Pod::Text::Termcap, Pod::Text::Color - Convert POD data to ASCII text with format escapes" text with format escapes" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION SEE ALSO AUTHOR Pod::Usage, pod2usage() - print a usage message from embedded pod documentation" documentation" SYNOPSIS ARGUMENTS `-message', `-msg', `-exitval', `-verbose', `-output', `-input', `-pathlist' DESCRIPTION EXAMPLES Recommended Use CAVEATS AUTHOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SDBM_File - Tied access to sdbm files SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION 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 Search::Dict, look - search for key in dictionary file SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION SelectSaver - save and restore selected file handle SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION SelfLoader - load functions only on demand SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION The __DATA__ token SelfLoader autoloading Autoloading and package lexicals SelfLoader and AutoLoader __DATA__, __END__, and the FOOBAR::DATA filehandle. Classes and inherited methods. Multiple packages and fully qualified subroutine names Shell - run shell commands transparently within perl SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION AUTHOR Socket, sockaddr_in, sockaddr_un, inet_aton, inet_ntoa - load the C socket.h defines and structure manipulators" socket.h defines and structure manipulators" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION inet_aton HOSTNAME, inet_ntoa IP_ADDRESS, INADDR_ANY, INADDR_BROADCAST, INADDR_LOOPBACK, INADDR_NONE, sockaddr_in PORT, ADDRESS, sockaddr_in SOCKADDR_IN, pack_sockaddr_in PORT, IP_ADDRESS, unpack_sockaddr_in SOCKADDR_IN, sockaddr_un PATHNAME, sockaddr_un SOCKADDR_UN, pack_sockaddr_un PATH, unpack_sockaddr_un SOCKADDR_UN Symbol - manipulate Perl symbols and their names SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION Sys::Hostname - Try every conceivable way to get hostname SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION AUTHOR Syslog, Sys::Syslog, openlog, closelog, setlogmask, syslog - Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls" interface to the UNIX syslog calls" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION openlog $ident, $logopt, $facility, syslog $priority, $format, @args, setlogmask $mask_priority, setlogsock $sock_type (added in 5.004_02), closelog EXAMPLES SEE ALSO AUTHOR Syslog::Syslog, Sys::Syslog, openlog, closelog, setlogmask, syslog - Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls" Perl interface to the UNIX syslog calls" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION openlog $ident, $logopt, $facility, syslog $priority, $format, @args, setlogmask $mask_priority, setlogsock $sock_type (added in 5.004_02), closelog EXAMPLES SEE ALSO AUTHOR Term::ANSIColor - Color screen output using ANSI escape sequences SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION DIAGNOSTICS Invalid attribute name %s, Identifier %s used only once: possible typo, No comma allowed after filehandle, Bareword %s not allowed while "strict subs" in use RESTRICTIONS AUTHORS Term::Cap - Perl termcap interface SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION EXAMPLES Term::Complete - Perl word completion module SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION <tab>, ^D, ^U, <del>, <bs> DIAGNOSTICS BUGS AUTHOR Term::ReadLine - Perl interface to various `readline' packages. If no real package is found, substitutes stubs instead of basic functions." 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 Test - provides a simple framework for writing test scripts SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION TEST TYPES NORMAL TESTS, SKIPPED TESTS, TODO TESTS RETURN VALUE ONFAIL SEE ALSO AUTHOR Test::Harness - run perl standard test scripts with statistics SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION The test script output EXPORT DIAGNOSTICS `All tests successful.\nFiles=%d, Tests=%d, %s', `FAILED tests %s\n\tFailed %d/%d tests, %.2f%% okay.', `Test returned status %d (wstat %d)', `Failed 1 test, %.2f%% okay. %s', `Failed %d/%d tests, %.2f%% okay. %s' ENVIRONMENT SEE ALSO AUTHORS BUGS 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" arrays" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION EXAMPLES 0a simple word, 1multiple spaces are skipped because of our $delim, 2use of quotes to include a space in a word, 3use of a backslash to include a space in a word, 4use of a backslash to remove the special meaning of a double-quote, 5another simple word (note the lack of effect of the backslashed double-quote) AUTHORS Text::Soundex - Implementation of the Soundex Algorithm as Described by Knuth" by Knuth" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION EXAMPLES LIMITATIONS AUTHOR Text::Tabs -- expand and unexpand tabs per the unix expand(1) and unexpand(1)" unexpand" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION BUGS AUTHOR Text::Wrap - line wrapping to form simple paragraphs SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE AUTHOR Thread - manipulate threads in Perl (EXPERIMENTAL, subject to change)" change)" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION FUNCTIONS new \&start_sub, new \&start_sub, LIST, lock VARIABLE, async BLOCK;, Thread->self, Thread->list, cond_wait VARIABLE, cond_signal VARIABLE, cond_broadcast VARIABLE, yield METHODS join, eval, detach, equal, tid LIMITATIONS SEE ALSO Thread::Queue - thread-safe queues SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION FUNCTIONS AND METHODS new, enqueue LIST, dequeue, dequeue_nb, pending SEE ALSO Thread::Semaphore - thread-safe semaphores SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION FUNCTIONS AND METHODS new, new NUMBER, down, down NUMBER, up, up NUMBER Thread::Signal - Start a thread which runs signal handlers reliably SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION BUGS Thread::Specific - thread-specific keys SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION Tie::Array - base class for tied arrays SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION TIEARRAY classname, LIST, STORE this, index, value, FETCH this, index, FETCHSIZE this, STORESIZE this, count, EXTEND this, count, EXISTS this, key, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this, DESTROY this, PUSH this, LIST, POP this, SHIFT this, UNSHIFT this, LIST, SPLICE this, offset, length, LIST CAVEATS AUTHOR Tie::Handle, Tie::StdHandle - base class definitions for tied handles" handles" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, WRITE this, scalar, length, offset, PRINT this, LIST, PRINTF this, format, LIST, READ this, scalar, length, offset, READLINE this, GETC this, CLOSE this, OPEN this, filename, BINMODE this, EOF this, TELL this, SEEK this, offset, whence, DESTROY this MORE INFORMATION Tie::Hash, Tie::StdHash - 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 CAVEATS MORE INFORMATION Tie::RefHash - use references as hash keys SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE AUTHOR VERSION SEE ALSO Tie::Scalar, Tie::StdScalar - base class definitions for tied scalars" scalars" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION TIESCALAR classname, LIST, FETCH this, STORE this, value, DESTROY this MORE INFORMATION Tie::SubstrHash - Fixed-table-size, fixed-key-length hashing SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION CAVEATS Time::Local - efficiently compute time from local and GMT time SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION IMPLEMENTATION BUGS Time::gmtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in gmtime() function" function" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION NOTE AUTHOR Time::localtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in localtime() function" 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 isa ( TYPE ), can ( METHOD ), VERSION ( [ REQUIRE ] ), UNIVERSAL::isa ( VAL, TYPE ), UNIVERSAL::can ( VAL, METHOD ) User::grent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getgr*() functions" functions" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION NOTE AUTHOR User::pwent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getpw*() functions" functions" SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION System Specifics NOTE AUTHOR HISTORY March 18th, 2000 XSLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION AUTHORAUXILIARY DOCUMENTATION
Here should be listed all the extra programs' documentation, but they don't all have manual pages yet: a2p s2p find2perl h2ph c2ph h2xs xsubpp pod2man wrapsuidAUTHOR
Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>, with the help of oodles of other folks.
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