4 perltoc - perl documentation table of contents
8 This page provides a brief table of contents for the rest of the Perl
9 documentation set. It is meant to be scanned quickly or grepped
10 through to locate the proper section you're looking for.
12 =head1 BASIC DOCUMENTATION
14 =head2 perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language
40 =head2 perlfaq - frequently asked questions about Perl ($Date: 1999/05/23
49 =item perlfaq: Structural overview of the FAQ.
51 =item L<perlfaq1>: General Questions About Perl
53 =item L<perlfaq2>: Obtaining and Learning about Perl
55 =item L<perlfaq3>: Programming Tools
57 =item L<perlfaq4>: Data Manipulation
59 =item L<perlfaq5>: Files and Formats
61 =item L<perlfaq6>: Regexps
63 =item L<perlfaq7>: General Perl Language Issues
65 =item L<perlfaq8>: System Interaction
67 =item L<perlfaq9>: Networking
71 =item About the perlfaq documents
75 =item Where to get the perlfaq
77 =item How to contribute to the perlfaq
79 =item What will happen if you mail your Perl programming problems to the
86 =item Author and Copyright Information
90 =item Bundled Distributions
98 1/November/2000, 23/May/99, 13/April/99, 7/January/99, 22/June/98,
99 24/April/97, 23/April/97, 25/March/97, 18/March/97, 17/March/97 Version,
100 Initial Release: 11/March/97
104 =head2 perlbook - Perl book information
112 =head2 perlsyn - Perl syntax
122 =item Simple statements
124 =item Compound statements
132 =item Basic BLOCKs and Switch Statements
136 =item PODs: Embedded Documentation
138 =item Plain Old Comments (Not!)
144 =head2 perldata - Perl data types
158 =item Scalar value constructors
160 =item List value constructors
164 =item Typeglobs and Filehandles
172 =head2 perlop - Perl operators and precedence
182 =item Terms and List Operators (Leftward)
184 =item The Arrow Operator
186 =item Auto-increment and Auto-decrement
190 =item Symbolic Unary Operators
192 =item Binding Operators
194 =item Multiplicative Operators
196 =item Additive Operators
198 =item Shift Operators
200 =item Named Unary Operators
202 =item Relational Operators
204 =item Equality Operators
208 =item Bitwise Or and Exclusive Or
210 =item C-style Logical And
212 =item C-style Logical Or
214 =item Range Operators
216 =item Conditional Operator
218 =item Assignment Operators
222 =item List Operators (Rightward)
228 =item Logical or and Exclusive Or
230 =item C Operators Missing From Perl
232 unary &, unary *, (TYPE)
234 =item Quote and Quote-like Operators
236 =item Regexp Quote-Like Operators
238 ?PATTERN?, m/PATTERN/cgimosx, /PATTERN/cgimosx, q/STRING/, C<'STRING'>,
239 qq/STRING/, "STRING", qr/STRING/imosx, qx/STRING/, `STRING`, qw/STRING/,
240 s/PATTERN/REPLACEMENT/egimosx, tr/SEARCHLIST/REPLACEMENTLIST/cds,
241 y/SEARCHLIST/REPLACEMENTLIST/cds
243 =item Gory details of parsing quoted constructs
245 Finding the end, Removal of backslashes before delimiters, Interpolation,
246 C<<<'EOF'>, C<m''>, C<s'''>, C<tr///>, C<y///>, C<''>, C<q//>, C<"">,
247 C<``>, C<qq//>, C<qx//>, C<< <file*glob> >>, C<?RE?>, C</RE/>, C<m/RE/>,
248 C<s/RE/foo/>,, Interpolation of regular expressions, Optimization of
253 =item Constant Folding
255 =item Bitwise String Operators
257 =item Integer Arithmetic
259 =item Floating-point Arithmetic
267 =head2 perlsub - Perl subroutines
277 =item Private Variables via my()
279 =item Persistent Private Variables
281 =item Temporary Values via local()
283 =item Lvalue subroutines
285 =item Passing Symbol Table Entries (typeglobs)
287 =item When to Still Use local()
289 =item Pass by Reference
293 =item Constant Functions
295 =item Overriding Built-in Functions
299 =item Subroutine Attributes
307 =head2 perlfunc - Perl builtin functions
315 =item Perl Functions by Category
317 Functions for SCALARs or strings, Regular expressions and pattern matching,
318 Numeric functions, Functions for real @ARRAYs, Functions for list data,
319 Functions for real %HASHes, Input and output functions, Functions for fixed
320 length data or records, Functions for filehandles, files, or directories,
321 Keywords related to the control flow of your perl program, Keywords related
322 to scoping, Miscellaneous functions, Functions for processes and process
323 groups, Keywords related to perl modules, Keywords related to classes and
324 object-orientedness, Low-level socket functions, System V interprocess
325 communication functions, Fetching user and group info, Fetching network
326 info, Time-related functions, Functions new in perl5, Functions obsoleted
331 =item Alphabetical Listing of Perl Functions
333 I<-X> FILEHANDLE, I<-X> EXPR, I<-X>, abs VALUE, abs, accept
334 NEWSOCKET,GENERICSOCKET, alarm SECONDS, alarm, atan2 Y,X, bind SOCKET,NAME,
335 binmode FILEHANDLE, DISCIPLINE, binmode FILEHANDLE, bless REF,CLASSNAME,
336 bless REF, caller EXPR, caller, chdir EXPR, chmod LIST, chomp VARIABLE,
337 chomp LIST, chomp, chop VARIABLE, chop LIST, chop, chown LIST, chr NUMBER,
338 chr, chroot FILENAME, chroot, close FILEHANDLE, close, closedir DIRHANDLE,
339 connect SOCKET,NAME, continue BLOCK, cos EXPR, cos, crypt PLAINTEXT,SALT,
340 dbmclose HASH, dbmopen HASH,DBNAME,MASK, defined EXPR, defined, delete
341 EXPR, die LIST, do BLOCK, do SUBROUTINE(LIST), do EXPR, dump LABEL, dump,
342 each HASH, eof FILEHANDLE, eof (), eof, eval EXPR, eval BLOCK, exec LIST,
343 exec PROGRAM LIST, exists EXPR, exit EXPR, exp EXPR, exp, fcntl
344 FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, fileno FILEHANDLE, flock FILEHANDLE,OPERATION,
345 fork, format, formline PICTURE,LIST, getc FILEHANDLE, getc, getlogin,
346 getpeername SOCKET, getpgrp PID, getppid, getpriority WHICH,WHO, getpwnam
347 NAME, getgrnam NAME, gethostbyname NAME, getnetbyname NAME, getprotobyname
348 NAME, getpwuid UID, getgrgid GID, getservbyname NAME,PROTO, gethostbyaddr
349 ADDR,ADDRTYPE, getnetbyaddr ADDR,ADDRTYPE, getprotobynumber NUMBER,
350 getservbyport PORT,PROTO, getpwent, getgrent, gethostent, getnetent,
351 getprotoent, getservent, setpwent, setgrent, sethostent STAYOPEN, setnetent
352 STAYOPEN, setprotoent STAYOPEN, setservent STAYOPEN, endpwent, endgrent,
353 endhostent, endnetent, endprotoent, endservent, getsockname SOCKET,
354 getsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME, glob EXPR, glob, gmtime EXPR, goto LABEL,
355 goto EXPR, goto &NAME, grep BLOCK LIST, grep EXPR,LIST, hex EXPR, hex,
356 import, index STR,SUBSTR,POSITION, index STR,SUBSTR, int EXPR, int, ioctl
357 FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, join EXPR,LIST, keys HASH, kill SIGNAL, LIST,
358 last LABEL, last, lc EXPR, lc, lcfirst EXPR, lcfirst, length EXPR, length,
359 link OLDFILE,NEWFILE, listen SOCKET,QUEUESIZE, local EXPR, localtime EXPR,
360 lock, log EXPR, log, lstat EXPR, lstat, m//, map BLOCK LIST, map EXPR,LIST,
361 mkdir FILENAME,MASK, mkdir FILENAME, msgctl ID,CMD,ARG, msgget KEY,FLAGS,
362 msgrcv ID,VAR,SIZE,TYPE,FLAGS, msgsnd ID,MSG,FLAGS, my EXPR, my EXPR :
363 ATTRIBUTES, next LABEL, next, no Module LIST, oct EXPR, oct, open
364 FILEHANDLE,EXPR, open FILEHANDLE,MODE,EXPR, open FILEHANDLE,MODE,EXPR,LIST,
365 open FILEHANDLE, opendir DIRHANDLE,EXPR, ord EXPR, ord, our EXPR, our EXPR
366 : ATTRIBUTES, pack TEMPLATE,LIST, package NAMESPACE, package, pipe
367 READHANDLE,WRITEHANDLE, pop ARRAY, pop, pos SCALAR, pos, print FILEHANDLE
368 LIST, print LIST, print, printf FILEHANDLE FORMAT, LIST, printf FORMAT,
369 LIST, prototype FUNCTION, push ARRAY,LIST, q/STRING/, qq/STRING/,
370 qr/STRING/, qx/STRING/, qw/STRING/, quotemeta EXPR, quotemeta, rand EXPR,
371 rand, read FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET, read FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,
372 readdir DIRHANDLE, readline EXPR, readlink EXPR, readlink, readpipe EXPR,
373 recv SOCKET,SCALAR,LENGTH,FLAGS, redo LABEL, redo, ref EXPR, ref, rename
374 OLDNAME,NEWNAME, require VERSION, require EXPR, require, reset EXPR, reset,
375 return EXPR, return, reverse LIST, rewinddir DIRHANDLE, rindex
376 STR,SUBSTR,POSITION, rindex STR,SUBSTR, rmdir FILENAME, rmdir, s///, scalar
377 EXPR, seek FILEHANDLE,POSITION,WHENCE, seekdir DIRHANDLE,POS, select
378 FILEHANDLE, select, select RBITS,WBITS,EBITS,TIMEOUT, semctl
379 ID,SEMNUM,CMD,ARG, semget KEY,NSEMS,FLAGS, semop KEY,OPSTRING, send
380 SOCKET,MSG,FLAGS,TO, send SOCKET,MSG,FLAGS, setpgrp PID,PGRP, setpriority
381 WHICH,WHO,PRIORITY, setsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME,OPTVAL, shift ARRAY,
382 shift, shmctl ID,CMD,ARG, shmget KEY,SIZE,FLAGS, shmread ID,VAR,POS,SIZE,
383 shmwrite ID,STRING,POS,SIZE, shutdown SOCKET,HOW, sin EXPR, sin, sleep
384 EXPR, sleep, sockatmark SOCKET, socket SOCKET,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL,
385 socketpair SOCKET1,SOCKET2,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL, sort SUBNAME LIST, sort
386 BLOCK LIST, sort LIST, splice ARRAY,OFFSET,LENGTH,LIST, splice
387 ARRAY,OFFSET,LENGTH, splice ARRAY,OFFSET, splice ARRAY, split
388 /PATTERN/,EXPR,LIMIT, split /PATTERN/,EXPR, split /PATTERN/, split, sprintf
389 FORMAT, LIST, sqrt EXPR, sqrt, srand EXPR, srand, stat FILEHANDLE, stat
390 EXPR, stat, study SCALAR, study, sub BLOCK, sub NAME, sub NAME BLOCK,
391 substr EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH,REPLACEMENT, substr EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH, substr
392 EXPR,OFFSET, symlink OLDFILE,NEWFILE, syscall LIST, sysopen
393 FILEHANDLE,FILENAME,MODE, sysopen FILEHANDLE,FILENAME,MODE,PERMS, sysread
394 FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET, sysread FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH, sysseek
395 FILEHANDLE,POSITION,WHENCE, system LIST, system PROGRAM LIST, syswrite
396 FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET, syswrite FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,
397 syswrite FILEHANDLE,SCALAR, tell FILEHANDLE, tell, telldir DIRHANDLE, tie
398 VARIABLE,CLASSNAME,LIST, tied VARIABLE, time, times, tr///, truncate
399 FILEHANDLE,LENGTH, truncate EXPR,LENGTH, uc EXPR, uc, ucfirst EXPR,
400 ucfirst, umask EXPR, umask, undef EXPR, undef, unlink LIST, unlink, unpack
401 TEMPLATE,EXPR, untie VARIABLE, unshift ARRAY,LIST, use Module VERSION LIST,
402 use Module VERSION, use Module LIST, use Module, use VERSION, utime LIST,
403 values HASH, vec EXPR,OFFSET,BITS, wait, waitpid PID,FLAGS, wantarray, warn
404 LIST, write FILEHANDLE, write EXPR, write, y///
410 =head2 perlreftut - Mark's very short tutorial about references
416 =item Who Needs Complicated Data Structures?
424 =item Making References
426 =item Using References
444 =item Distribution Conditions
450 =head2 perldsc - Perl Data Structures Cookbook
456 arrays of arrays, hashes of arrays, arrays of hashes, hashes of hashes,
457 more elaborate constructs
461 =item COMMON MISTAKES
463 =item CAVEAT ON PRECEDENCE
465 =item WHY YOU SHOULD ALWAYS C<use strict>
471 =item ARRAYS OF ARRAYS
475 =item Declaration of a ARRAY OF ARRAYS
477 =item Generation of a ARRAY OF ARRAYS
479 =item Access and Printing of a ARRAY OF ARRAYS
483 =item HASHES OF ARRAYS
487 =item Declaration of a HASH OF ARRAYS
489 =item Generation of a HASH OF ARRAYS
491 =item Access and Printing of a HASH OF ARRAYS
495 =item ARRAYS OF HASHES
499 =item Declaration of a ARRAY OF HASHES
501 =item Generation of a ARRAY OF HASHES
503 =item Access and Printing of a ARRAY OF HASHES
507 =item HASHES OF HASHES
511 =item Declaration of a HASH OF HASHES
513 =item Generation of a HASH OF HASHES
515 =item Access and Printing of a HASH OF HASHES
519 =item MORE ELABORATE RECORDS
523 =item Declaration of MORE ELABORATE RECORDS
525 =item Declaration of a HASH OF COMPLEX RECORDS
527 =item Generation of a HASH OF COMPLEX RECORDS
539 =head2 perlrequick - Perl regular expressions quick start
549 =item Simple word matching
551 =item Using character classes
553 =item Matching this or that
555 =item Grouping things and hierarchical matching
557 =item Extracting matches
559 =item Matching repetitions
563 =item Search and replace
565 =item The split operator
573 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
577 =item Acknowledgments
583 =head2 perlpod - plain old documentation
591 =item Verbatim Paragraph
593 =item Command Paragraph
595 =item Ordinary Block of Text
599 =item Embedding Pods in Perl Modules
601 =item Common Pod Pitfalls
611 =head2 perlstyle - Perl style guide
619 =head2 perltrap - Perl traps for the unwary
637 =item Perl4 to Perl5 Traps
639 Discontinuance, Deprecation, and BugFix traps, Parsing Traps, Numerical
640 Traps, General data type traps, Context Traps - scalar, list contexts,
641 Precedence Traps, General Regular Expression Traps using s///, etc,
642 Subroutine, Signal, Sorting Traps, OS Traps, DBM Traps, Unclassified Traps
644 =item Discontinuance, Deprecation, and BugFix traps
646 Discontinuance, Deprecation, BugFix, Discontinuance, Discontinuance,
647 Discontinuance, BugFix, Discontinuance, Discontinuance, BugFix,
648 Discontinuance, Deprecation, Discontinuance, Discontinuance
652 Parsing, Parsing, Parsing, Parsing
654 =item Numerical Traps
656 Numerical, Numerical, Numerical, Bitwise string ops
658 =item General data type traps
660 (Arrays), (Arrays), (Hashes), (Globs), (Globs), (Scalar String),
661 (Constants), (Scalars), (Variable Suicide)
663 =item Context Traps - scalar, list contexts
665 (list context), (scalar context), (scalar context), (list, builtin)
667 =item Precedence Traps
669 Precedence, Precedence, Precedence, Precedence, Precedence, Precedence,
672 =item General Regular Expression Traps using s///, etc.
674 Regular Expression, Regular Expression, Regular Expression, Regular
675 Expression, Regular Expression, Regular Expression, Regular Expression,
678 =item Subroutine, Signal, Sorting Traps
680 (Signals), (Sort Subroutine), warn() won't let you specify a filehandle
686 =item Interpolation Traps
688 Interpolation, Interpolation, Interpolation, Interpolation, Interpolation,
689 Interpolation, Interpolation, Interpolation, Interpolation
695 =item Unclassified Traps
697 C<require>/C<do> trap using returned value, C<split> on empty string with
704 =head2 perlrun - how to execute the Perl interpreter
714 =item #! and quoting on non-Unix systems
716 OS/2, MS-DOS, Win95/NT, Macintosh, VMS
718 =item Location of Perl
720 =item Command Switches
722 B<-0>[I<digits>], B<-a>, B<-C>, B<-c>, B<-d>, B<-d:>I<foo[=bar,baz]>,
723 B<-D>I<letters>, B<-D>I<number>, B<-e> I<commandline>, B<-F>I<pattern>,
724 B<-h>, B<-i>[I<extension>], B<-I>I<directory>, B<-l>[I<octnum>],
725 B<-m>[B<->]I<module>, B<-M>[B<->]I<module>, B<-M>[B<->]I<'module ...'>,
726 B<-[mM]>[B<->]I<module=arg[,arg]...>, B<-n>, B<-p>, B<-P>, B<-s>, B<-S>,
727 B<-T>, B<-u>, B<-U>, B<-v>, B<-V>, B<-V:>I<name>, B<-w>, B<-W>, B<-X>,
734 HOME, LOGDIR, PATH, PERL5LIB, PERL5OPT, PERLLIB, PERL5DB, PERL5SHELL
735 (specific to the Win32 port), PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS, PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL,
736 PERL_ROOT (specific to the VMS port), SYS$LOGIN (specific to the VMS port)
740 =head2 perldiag - various Perl diagnostics
748 =head2 perllexwarn - Perl Lexical Warnings
756 =item Default Warnings and Optional Warnings
758 =item What's wrong with B<-w> and C<$^W>
760 =item Controlling Warnings from the Command Line
764 =item Backward Compatibility
766 =item Category Hierarchy
770 =item Reporting Warnings from a Module
782 =head2 perldebtut - Perl debugging tutorial
790 =item Looking at data and -w and w
794 =item Stepping through code
796 =item Placeholder for a, w, t, T
798 =item REGULAR EXPRESSIONS
816 =head2 perldebug - Perl debugging
822 =item The Perl Debugger
826 =item Debugger Commands
828 h [command], p expr, x expr, V [pkg [vars]], X [vars], T, s [expr], n
829 [expr], r, <CR>, c [line|sub], l, l min+incr, l min-max, l line, l subname,
830 -, w [line], f filename, /pattern/, ?pattern?, L, S [[!]regex], t, t expr,
831 b [line] [condition], b subname [condition], b postpone subname
832 [condition], b load filename, b compile subname, d [line], D, a [line]
833 command, a [line], A, W expr, W, O booloption .., O anyoption? .., O
834 option=value .., < ?, < [ command ], << command, > ?, > command, >>
835 command, { ?, { [ command ], {{ command, ! number, ! -number, ! pattern, !!
836 cmd, H -number, q or ^D, R, |dbcmd, ||dbcmd, command, m expr, man [manpage]
838 =item Configurable Options
840 C<recallCommand>, C<ShellBang>, C<pager>, C<tkRunning>, C<signalLevel>,
841 C<warnLevel>, C<dieLevel>, C<AutoTrace>, C<LineInfo>, C<inhibit_exit>,
842 C<PrintRet>, C<ornaments>, C<frame>, C<maxTraceLen>, C<windowSize>,
843 C<arrayDepth>, C<hashDepth>, C<compactDump>, C<veryCompact>, C<globPrint>,
844 C<DumpDBFiles>, C<DumpPackages>, C<DumpReused>, C<quote>, C<HighBit>,
845 C<undefPrint>, C<UsageOnly>, C<TTY>, C<noTTY>, C<ReadLine>, C<NonStop>
847 =item Debugger input/output
849 Prompt, Multiline commands, Stack backtrace, Line Listing Format, Frame
852 =item Debugging compile-time statements
854 =item Debugger Customization
856 =item Readline Support
858 =item Editor Support for Debugging
860 =item The Perl Profiler
864 =item Debugging regular expressions
866 =item Debugging memory usage
874 =head2 perlvar - Perl predefined variables
882 =item Predefined Names
884 $ARG, $_, $a, $b, $<I<digits>>, $MATCH, $&, $PREMATCH, $`, $POSTMATCH, $',
885 $LAST_PAREN_MATCH, $+, $^N, @LAST_MATCH_END, @+, $MULTILINE_MATCHING, $*,
886 input_line_number HANDLE EXPR, $INPUT_LINE_NUMBER, $NR, $,
887 input_record_separator HANDLE EXPR, $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR, $RS, $/,
888 autoflush HANDLE EXPR, $OUTPUT_AUTOFLUSH, $|, output_field_separator HANDLE
889 EXPR, $OUTPUT_FIELD_SEPARATOR, $OFS, $,, output_record_separator HANDLE
890 EXPR, $OUTPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR, $ORS, $\, $LIST_SEPARATOR, $",
891 $SUBSCRIPT_SEPARATOR, $SUBSEP, $;, $OFMT, $#, format_page_number HANDLE
892 EXPR, $FORMAT_PAGE_NUMBER, $%, format_lines_per_page HANDLE EXPR,
893 $FORMAT_LINES_PER_PAGE, $=, format_lines_left HANDLE EXPR,
894 $FORMAT_LINES_LEFT, $-, @LAST_MATCH_START, @-, C<$`> is the same as
895 C<substr($var, 0, $-[0])>, C<$&> is the same as C<substr($var, $-[0], $+[0]
896 - $-[0])>, C<$'> is the same as C<substr($var, $+[0])>, C<$1> is the same
897 as C<substr($var, $-[1], $+[1] - $-[1])>, C<$2> is the same as
898 C<substr($var, $-[2], $+[2] - $-[2])>, C<$3> is the same as C<substr $var,
899 $-[3], $+[3] - $-[3])>, format_name HANDLE EXPR, $FORMAT_NAME, $~,
900 format_top_name HANDLE EXPR, $FORMAT_TOP_NAME, $^,
901 format_line_break_characters HANDLE EXPR, $FORMAT_LINE_BREAK_CHARACTERS,
902 $:, format_formfeed HANDLE EXPR, $FORMAT_FORMFEED, $^L, $ACCUMULATOR, $^A,
903 $CHILD_ERROR, $?, $OS_ERROR, $ERRNO, $!, $EXTENDED_OS_ERROR, $^E,
904 $EVAL_ERROR, $@, $PROCESS_ID, $PID, $$, $REAL_USER_ID, $UID, $<,
905 $EFFECTIVE_USER_ID, $EUID, $>, $REAL_GROUP_ID, $GID, $(,
906 $EFFECTIVE_GROUP_ID, $EGID, $), $PROGRAM_NAME, $0, $[, $], $COMPILING, $^C,
907 $DEBUGGING, $^D, $SYSTEM_FD_MAX, $^F, $^H, %^H, $INPLACE_EDIT, $^I, $^M,
908 $OSNAME, $^O, $PERLDB, $^P, 0x01, 0x02, 0x04, 0x08, 0x10, 0x20, 0x40, 0x80,
909 0x100, 0x200, $LAST_REGEXP_CODE_RESULT, $^R, $EXCEPTIONS_BEING_CAUGHT, $^S,
910 $BASETIME, $^T, $PERL_VERSION, $^V, $WARNING, $^W, ${^WARNING_BITS},
911 ${^WIDE_SYSTEM_CALLS}, $EXECUTABLE_NAME, $^X, $ARGV, @ARGV, @F, @INC, @_,
912 %INC, %ENV, $ENV{expr}, %SIG, $SIG{expr}
914 =item Error Indicators
916 =item Technical Note on the Syntax of Variable Names
924 =head2 perllol - Manipulating Arrays of Arrays in Perl
932 =item Declaration and Access of Arrays of Arrays
934 =item Growing Your Own
936 =item Access and Printing
948 =head2 perlopentut - tutorial on opening things in Perl
954 =item Open E<agrave> la shell
964 =item Mixing Reads and Writes
970 =item Open E<agrave> la C
974 =item Permissions E<agrave> la mode
978 =item Obscure Open Tricks
982 =item Re-Opening Files (dups)
984 =item Dispelling the Dweomer
988 =item Single Argument Open
990 =item Playing with STDIN and STDOUT
994 =item Other I/O Issues
998 =item Opening Non-File Files
1008 =item AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT
1014 =head2 perlretut - Perl regular expressions tutorial
1020 =item Part 1: The basics
1024 =item Simple word matching
1026 =item Using character classes
1028 =item Matching this or that
1030 =item Grouping things and hierarchical matching
1032 =item Extracting matches
1034 =item Matching repetitions
1036 =item Building a regexp
1038 =item Using regular expressions in Perl
1042 =item Part 2: Power tools
1046 =item More on characters, strings, and character classes
1048 =item Compiling and saving regular expressions
1050 =item Embedding comments and modifiers in a regular expression
1052 =item Non-capturing groupings
1054 =item Looking ahead and looking behind
1056 =item Using independent subexpressions to prevent backtracking
1058 =item Conditional expressions
1060 =item A bit of magic: executing Perl code in a regular expression
1062 =item Pragmas and debugging
1070 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
1074 =item Acknowledgments
1080 =head2 perlre - Perl regular expressions
1090 =item Regular Expressions
1092 cntrl, graph, print, punct, xdigit
1094 =item Extended Patterns
1096 C<(?#text)>, C<(?imsx-imsx)>, C<(?:pattern)>, C<(?imsx-imsx:pattern)>,
1097 C<(?=pattern)>, C<(?!pattern)>, C<(?<=pattern)>, C<(?<!pattern)>, C<(?{
1098 code })>, C<(??{ code })>, C<< (?>pattern) >>,
1099 C<(?(condition)yes-pattern|no-pattern)>, C<(?(condition)yes-pattern)>
1103 =item Version 8 Regular Expressions
1105 =item Warning on \1 vs $1
1107 =item Repeated patterns matching zero-length substring
1109 =item Combining pieces together
1111 C<ST>, C<S|T>, C<S{REPEAT_COUNT}>, C<S{min,max}>, C<S{min,max}?>, C<S?>,
1112 C<S*>, C<S+>, C<S??>, C<S*?>, C<S+?>, C<< (?>S) >>, C<(?=S)>, C<(?<=S)>,
1113 C<(?!S)>, C<(?<!S)>, C<(??{ EXPR })>,
1114 C<(?(condition)yes-pattern|no-pattern)>
1116 =item Creating custom RE engines
1126 =head2 perlref - Perl references and nested data structures
1136 =item Making References
1138 =item Using References
1140 =item Symbolic references
1142 =item Not-so-symbolic references
1144 =item Pseudo-hashes: Using an array as a hash
1146 =item Function Templates
1156 =head2 perlform - Perl formats
1164 =item Format Variables
1174 =item Accessing Formatting Internals
1182 =head2 perlboot - Beginner's Object-Oriented Tutorial
1190 =item If we could talk to the animals...
1192 =item Introducing the method invocation arrow
1194 =item Invoking a barnyard
1196 =item The extra parameter of method invocation
1198 =item Calling a second method to simplify things
1200 =item Inheriting the windpipes
1202 =item A few notes about @ISA
1204 =item Overriding the methods
1206 =item Starting the search from a different place
1208 =item The SUPER way of doing things
1210 =item Where we're at so far...
1212 =item A horse is a horse, of course of course -- or is it?
1214 =item Invoking an instance method
1216 =item Accessing the instance data
1218 =item How to build a horse
1220 =item Inheriting the constructor
1222 =item Making a method work with either classes or instances
1224 =item Adding parameters to a method
1226 =item More interesting instances
1228 =item A horse of a different color
1240 =head2 perltoot - Tom's object-oriented tutorial for perl
1246 =item Creating a Class
1250 =item Object Representation
1252 =item Class Interface
1254 =item Constructors and Instance Methods
1256 =item Planning for the Future: Better Constructors
1260 =item Other Object Methods
1268 =item Accessing Class Data
1270 =item Debugging Methods
1272 =item Class Destructors
1274 =item Documenting the Interface
1284 =item Overridden Methods
1286 =item Multiple Inheritance
1288 =item UNIVERSAL: The Root of All Objects
1292 =item Alternate Object Representations
1296 =item Arrays as Objects
1298 =item Closures as Objects
1302 =item AUTOLOAD: Proxy Methods
1306 =item Autoloaded Data Methods
1308 =item Inherited Autoloaded Data Methods
1312 =item Metaclassical Tools
1318 =item Data Members as Variables
1326 =item Object Terminology
1332 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
1338 =item Acknowledgments
1344 =head2 perltootc - Tom's OO Tutorial for Class Data in Perl
1350 =item Class Data in a Can
1352 =item Class Data as Package Variables
1356 =item Putting All Your Eggs in One Basket
1358 =item Inheritance Concerns
1360 =item The Eponymous Meta-Object
1362 =item Indirect References to Class Data
1364 =item Monadic Classes
1366 =item Translucent Attributes
1370 =item Class Data as Lexical Variables
1374 =item Privacy and Responsibility
1376 =item File-Scoped Lexicals
1378 =item More Inheritance Concerns
1380 =item Locking the Door and Throwing Away the Key
1382 =item Translucency Revisited
1390 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
1392 =item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
1398 =head2 perlobj - Perl objects
1406 =item An Object is Simply a Reference
1408 =item A Class is Simply a Package
1410 =item A Method is Simply a Subroutine
1412 =item Method Invocation
1414 =item Indirect Object Syntax
1416 =item Default UNIVERSAL methods
1418 isa(CLASS), can(METHOD), VERSION( [NEED] )
1424 =item Two-Phased Garbage Collection
1432 =head2 perlbot - Bag'o Object Tricks (the BOT)
1438 =item OO SCALING TIPS
1440 =item INSTANCE VARIABLES
1442 =item SCALAR INSTANCE VARIABLES
1444 =item INSTANCE VARIABLE INHERITANCE
1446 =item OBJECT RELATIONSHIPS
1448 =item OVERRIDING SUPERCLASS METHODS
1450 =item USING RELATIONSHIP WITH SDBM
1452 =item THINKING OF CODE REUSE
1454 =item CLASS CONTEXT AND THE OBJECT
1456 =item INHERITING A CONSTRUCTOR
1462 =head2 perltie - how to hide an object class in a simple variable
1474 TIESCALAR classname, LIST, FETCH this, STORE this, value, UNTIE this,
1479 TIEARRAY classname, LIST, FETCH this, index, STORE this, index, value,
1480 FETCHSIZE this, STORESIZE this, count, EXTEND this, count, EXISTS this,
1481 key, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this, PUSH this, LIST, POP this, SHIFT this,
1482 UNSHIFT this, LIST, SPLICE this, offset, length, LIST, UNTIE this, DESTROY
1487 USER, HOME, CLOBBER, LIST, TIEHASH classname, LIST, FETCH this, key, STORE
1488 this, key, value, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this, EXISTS this, key, FIRSTKEY
1489 this, NEXTKEY this, lastkey, UNTIE this, DESTROY this
1491 =item Tying FileHandles
1493 TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, WRITE this, LIST, PRINT this, LIST, PRINTF this,
1494 LIST, READ this, LIST, READLINE this, GETC this, CLOSE this, UNTIE this,
1499 =item The C<untie> Gotcha
1511 =head2 perlipc - Perl interprocess communication (signals, fifos, pipes,
1512 safe subprocesses, sockets, and semaphores)
1528 =item Using open() for IPC
1534 =item Background Processes
1536 =item Complete Dissociation of Child from Parent
1538 =item Safe Pipe Opens
1540 =item Bidirectional Communication with Another Process
1542 =item Bidirectional Communication with Yourself
1546 =item Sockets: Client/Server Communication
1550 =item Internet Line Terminators
1552 =item Internet TCP Clients and Servers
1554 =item Unix-Domain TCP Clients and Servers
1558 =item TCP Clients with IO::Socket
1562 =item A Simple Client
1564 C<Proto>, C<PeerAddr>, C<PeerPort>
1566 =item A Webget Client
1568 =item Interactive Client with IO::Socket
1572 =item TCP Servers with IO::Socket
1574 Proto, LocalPort, Listen, Reuse
1576 =item UDP: Message Passing
1590 =head2 perlfork - Perl's fork() emulation (EXPERIMENTAL, subject to change)
1600 =item Behavior of other Perl features in forked pseudo-processes
1602 $$ or $PROCESS_ID, %ENV, chdir() and all other builtins that accept
1603 filenames, wait() and waitpid(), kill(), exec(), exit(), Open handles to
1604 files, directories and network sockets
1606 =item Resource limits
1608 =item Killing the parent process
1610 =item Lifetime of the parent process and pseudo-processes
1612 =item CAVEATS AND LIMITATIONS
1614 BEGIN blocks, Open filehandles, Forking pipe open() not yet implemented,
1615 Global state maintained by XSUBs, Interpreter embedded in larger
1616 application, Thread-safety of extensions
1628 =head2 perlnumber - semantics of numbers and numeric operations in Perl
1636 =item Storing numbers
1638 =item Numeric operators and numeric conversions
1640 =item Flavors of Perl numeric operations
1642 Arithmetic operators except, C<no integer>, Arithmetic operators except,
1643 C<use integer>, Bitwise operators, C<no integer>, Bitwise operators, C<use
1644 integer>, Operators which expect an integer, Operators which expect a
1653 =head2 perlthrtut - tutorial on threads in Perl
1659 =item What Is A Thread Anyway?
1661 =item Threaded Program Models
1673 =item Native threads
1675 =item What kind of threads are perl threads?
1677 =item Threadsafe Modules
1683 =item Basic Thread Support
1685 =item Creating Threads
1687 =item Giving up control
1689 =item Waiting For A Thread To Exit
1691 =item Errors In Threads
1693 =item Ignoring A Thread
1697 =item Threads And Data
1701 =item Shared And Unshared Data
1703 =item Thread Pitfall: Races
1705 =item Controlling access: lock()
1707 =item Thread Pitfall: Deadlocks
1709 =item Queues: Passing Data Around
1713 =item Threads And Code
1717 =item Semaphores: Synchronizing Data Access
1719 Basic semaphores, Advanced Semaphores
1721 =item Attributes: Restricting Access To Subroutines
1723 =item Subroutine Locks
1727 =item Locking A Subroutine
1731 =item General Thread Utility Routines
1735 =item What Thread Am I In?
1739 =item Are These Threads The Same?
1741 =item What Threads Are Running?
1745 =item A Complete Example
1753 =item Introductory Texts
1755 =item OS-Related References
1757 =item Other References
1761 =item Acknowledgements
1769 =head2 perlport - Writing portable Perl
1775 Not all Perl programs have to be portable, Nearly all of Perl already I<is>
1784 =item Numbers endianness and Width
1786 =item Files and Filesystems
1788 =item System Interaction
1790 =item Interprocess Communication (IPC)
1792 =item External Subroutines (XS)
1794 =item Standard Modules
1798 =item Character sets and character encoding
1800 =item Internationalisation
1802 =item System Resources
1812 Mailing list: cpan-testers@perl.org, Testing results:
1813 http://testers.cpan.org/
1821 =item DOS and Derivatives
1829 =item EBCDIC Platforms
1837 =item FUNCTION IMPLEMENTATIONS
1841 =item Alphabetical Listing of Perl Functions
1843 -I<X> FILEHANDLE, -I<X> EXPR, -I<X>, alarm SECONDS, alarm, binmode
1844 FILEHANDLE, chmod LIST, chown LIST, chroot FILENAME, chroot, crypt
1845 PLAINTEXT,SALT, dbmclose HASH, dbmopen HASH,DBNAME,MODE, dump LABEL, exec
1846 LIST, fcntl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, flock FILEHANDLE,OPERATION, fork,
1847 getlogin, getpgrp PID, getppid, getpriority WHICH,WHO, getpwnam NAME,
1848 getgrnam NAME, getnetbyname NAME, getpwuid UID, getgrgid GID, getnetbyaddr
1849 ADDR,ADDRTYPE, getprotobynumber NUMBER, getservbyport PORT,PROTO, getpwent,
1850 getgrent, gethostent, getnetent, getprotoent, getservent, setpwent,
1851 setgrent, sethostent STAYOPEN, setnetent STAYOPEN, setprotoent STAYOPEN,
1852 setservent STAYOPEN, endpwent, endgrent, endhostent, endnetent,
1853 endprotoent, endservent, getsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME, glob EXPR, glob,
1854 ioctl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, kill SIGNAL, LIST, link OLDFILE,NEWFILE,
1855 lstat FILEHANDLE, lstat EXPR, lstat, msgctl ID,CMD,ARG, msgget KEY,FLAGS,
1856 msgsnd ID,MSG,FLAGS, msgrcv ID,VAR,SIZE,TYPE,FLAGS, open FILEHANDLE,EXPR,
1857 open FILEHANDLE, pipe READHANDLE,WRITEHANDLE, readlink EXPR, readlink,
1858 select RBITS,WBITS,EBITS,TIMEOUT, semctl ID,SEMNUM,CMD,ARG, semget
1859 KEY,NSEMS,FLAGS, semop KEY,OPSTRING, setgrent, setpgrp PID,PGRP,
1860 setpriority WHICH,WHO,PRIORITY, setpwent, setsockopt
1861 SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME,OPTVAL, shmctl ID,CMD,ARG, shmget KEY,SIZE,FLAGS,
1862 shmread ID,VAR,POS,SIZE, shmwrite ID,STRING,POS,SIZE, sockatmark SOCKET,
1863 socketpair SOCKET1,SOCKET2,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL, stat FILEHANDLE, stat
1864 EXPR, stat, symlink OLDFILE,NEWFILE, syscall LIST, sysopen
1865 FILEHANDLE,FILENAME,MODE,PERMS, system LIST, times, truncate
1866 FILEHANDLE,LENGTH, truncate EXPR,LENGTH, umask EXPR, umask, utime LIST,
1867 wait, waitpid PID,FLAGS
1873 v1.48, 02 February 2001, v1.47, 22 March 2000, v1.46, 12 February 2000,
1874 v1.45, 20 December 1999, v1.44, 19 July 1999, v1.43, 24 May 1999, v1.42, 22
1875 May 1999, v1.41, 19 May 1999, v1.40, 11 April 1999, v1.39, 11 February
1876 1999, v1.38, 31 December 1998, v1.37, 19 December 1998, v1.36, 9 September
1877 1998, v1.35, 13 August 1998, v1.33, 06 August 1998, v1.32, 05 August 1998,
1878 v1.30, 03 August 1998, v1.23, 10 July 1998
1880 =item Supported Platforms
1884 =item AUTHORS / CONTRIBUTORS
1890 =head2 perllocale - Perl locale handling (internationalization and
1897 =item PREPARING TO USE LOCALES
1903 =item The use locale pragma
1905 =item The setlocale function
1907 =item Finding locales
1909 =item LOCALE PROBLEMS
1911 =item Temporarily fixing locale problems
1913 =item Permanently fixing locale problems
1915 =item Permanently fixing your system's locale configuration
1917 =item Fixing system locale configuration
1919 =item The localeconv function
1921 =item I18N::Langinfo
1925 =item LOCALE CATEGORIES
1929 =item Category LC_COLLATE: Collation
1931 =item Category LC_CTYPE: Character Types
1933 =item Category LC_NUMERIC: Numeric Formatting
1935 =item Category LC_MONETARY: Formatting of monetary amounts
1939 =item Other categories
1947 PERL_BADLANG, LC_ALL, LANGUAGE, LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE, LC_MONETARY,
1948 LC_NUMERIC, LC_TIME, LANG
1954 =item Backward compatibility
1956 =item I18N:Collate obsolete
1958 =item Sort speed and memory use impacts
1960 =item write() and LC_NUMERIC
1962 =item Freely available locale definitions
1966 =item An imperfect standard
1974 =item Broken systems
1984 =head2 perlunicode - Unicode support in Perl
1992 =item Important Caveats
1994 Input and Output Disciplines, Regular Expressions, C<use utf8> still needed
1995 to enable a few features
1997 =item Byte and Character semantics
1999 =item Effects of character semantics
2005 =item Character encodings for input and output
2015 =head2 perlebcdic - Considerations for running Perl on EBCDIC platforms
2021 =item COMMON CHARACTER CODE SETS
2029 =item Latin 1 (ISO 8859-1)
2033 =item 13 variant characters
2041 =item Unicode and UTF
2045 =item SINGLE OCTET TABLES
2047 recipe 0, recipe 1, recipe 2, recipe 3, recipe 4, recipe 5, recipe 6
2049 =item IDENTIFYING CHARACTER CODE SETS
2063 =item OPERATOR DIFFERENCES
2065 =item FUNCTION DIFFERENCES
2067 chr(), ord(), pack(), print(), printf(), sort(), sprintf(), unpack()
2069 =item REGULAR EXPRESSION DIFFERENCES
2077 =item Ignore ASCII vs. EBCDIC sort differences.
2079 =item MONO CASE then sort data.
2081 =item Convert, sort data, then re convert.
2083 =item Perform sorting on one type of machine only.
2087 =item TRANSFORMATION FORMATS
2091 =item URL decoding and encoding
2093 =item uu encoding and decoding
2095 =item Quoted-Printable encoding and decoding
2097 =item Caesarian ciphers
2101 =item Hashing order and checksums
2105 =item MULTI OCTET CHARACTER SETS
2117 chcp, dataset access, OS/390, z/OS iconv, locales
2137 =head2 perlsec - Perl security
2145 =item Laundering and Detecting Tainted Data
2147 =item Switches On the "#!" Line
2149 =item Cleaning Up Your Path
2153 =item Protecting Your Programs
2161 =head2 perlmod - Perl modules (packages and symbol tables)
2173 =item Package Constructors and Destructors
2179 =item Making your module threadsafe
2187 =head2 perlmodlib - constructing new Perl modules and finding existing ones
2193 =item THE PERL MODULE LIBRARY
2197 =item Pragmatic Modules
2199 attributes, attrs, autouse, base, blib, bytes, charnames, constant,
2200 diagnostics, fields, filetest, integer, less, locale, open, ops, overload,
2201 re, sigtrap, strict, subs, unicode::distinct, utf8, vars, warnings,
2204 =item Standard Modules
2206 AnyDBM_File, Attribute::Handlers, AutoLoader, AutoSplit, B, B::Asmdata,
2207 B::Assembler, B::Bblock, B::Bytecode, B::C, B::CC, B::Concise, B::Debug,
2208 B::Deparse, B::Disassembler, B::Lint, B::Showlex, B::Stackobj, B::Stash,
2209 B::Terse, B::Xref, Benchmark, ByteLoader, CGI, CGI::Apache, CGI::Carp,
2210 CGI::Cookie, CGI::Fast, CGI::Pretty, CGI::Push, CGI::Switch, CGI::Util,
2211 CPAN, CPAN::FirstTime, CPAN::Nox, Carp, Carp::Heavy, Class::ISA,
2212 Class::Struct, Cwd, DB, DB_File, Devel::SelfStubber, Digest, DirHandle,
2213 Dumpvalue, Encode, Encode::EncodeFormat, Encode::Tcl, English, Env,
2214 Exporter, Exporter::Heavy, ExtUtils::Command, ExtUtils::Constant,
2215 ExtUtils::Embed, ExtUtils::Install, ExtUtils::Installed, ExtUtils::Liblist,
2216 ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin, ExtUtils::MM_NW5, ExtUtils::MM_OS2, ExtUtils::MM_Unix,
2217 ExtUtils::MM_VMS, ExtUtils::MM_Win32, ExtUtils::MakeMaker,
2218 ExtUtils::Manifest, ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap, ExtUtils::Mksymlists,
2219 ExtUtils::Packlist, ExtUtils::testlib, Fatal, Fcntl, File::Basename,
2220 File::CheckTree, File::Compare, File::Copy, File::DosGlob, File::Find,
2221 File::Path, File::Spec, File::Spec::Epoc, File::Spec::Functions,
2222 File::Spec::Mac, File::Spec::OS2, File::Spec::Unix, File::Spec::VMS,
2223 File::Spec::Win32, File::Temp, File::stat, FileCache, FileHandle,
2224 Filter::Simple, FindBin, Getopt::Long, Getopt::Std, I18N::Collate,
2225 I18N::LangTags, I18N::LangTags::List, IO, IPC::Open2, IPC::Open3,
2226 Locale::Constants, Locale::Country, Locale::Currency, Locale::Language,
2227 Locale::Maketext, Locale::Maketext::TPJ13, Math::BigFloat, Math::BigInt,
2228 Math::BigInt::Calc, Math::Complex, Math::Trig, Memoize,
2229 Memoize::AnyDBM_File, Memoize::Expire, Memoize::ExpireFile,
2230 Memoize::ExpireTest, Memoize::NDBM_File, Memoize::SDBM_File,
2231 Memoize::Saves, Memoize::Storable, NDBM_File, NEXT, Net::Cmd, Net::Config,
2232 Net::Domain, Net::FTP, Net::NNTP, Net::Netrc, Net::POP3, Net::Ping,
2233 Net::SMTP, Net::Time, Net::hostent, Net::libnetFAQ, Net::netent,
2234 Net::protoent, Net::servent, O, ODBM_File, Opcode, POSIX, PerlIO,
2235 Pod::Checker, Pod::Find, Pod::Html, Pod::InputObjects, Pod::LaTeX,
2236 Pod::Man, Pod::ParseUtils, Pod::Parser, Pod::Plainer, Pod::Select,
2237 Pod::Text, Pod::Text::Color, Pod::Text::Overstrike, Pod::Text::Termcap,
2238 Pod::Usage, SDBM_File, Safe, Search::Dict, SelectSaver, SelfLoader, Shell,
2239 Socket, Storable, Switch, Symbol, Term::ANSIColor, Term::Cap,
2240 Term::Complete, Term::ReadLine, Test, Test::Harness, Test::More,
2241 Test::Simple, Text::Abbrev, Text::Balanced, Text::ParseWords,
2242 Text::Soundex, Text::Tabs, Text::Wrap, Tie::Array, Tie::Handle, Tie::Hash,
2243 Tie::RefHash, Tie::Scalar, Tie::SubstrHash, Time::Local, Time::gmtime,
2244 Time::localtime, Time::tm, UNIVERSAL, Unicode::UCD, User::grent,
2247 =item Extension Modules
2259 =item Central America
2271 =item Modules: Creation, Use, and Abuse
2275 =item Guidelines for Module Creation
2277 Adding a Copyright Notice
2279 =item Guidelines for Converting Perl 4 Library Scripts into Modules
2281 =item Guidelines for Reusing Application Code
2289 =head2 perlmodinstall - Installing CPAN Modules
2299 B<DECOMPRESS> the file, B<UNPACK> the file into a directory, B<BUILD> the
2300 module (sometimes unnecessary), B<INSTALL> the module
2314 =head2 perlnewmod - preparing a new module for distribution
2324 =item What should I make into a module?
2326 =item Step-by-step: Preparing the ground
2328 Look around, Check it's new, Discuss the need, Choose a name, Check again
2330 =item Step-by-step: Making the module
2332 Start with F<h2xs>, Use L<strict|strict> and L<warnings|warnings>, Use
2333 L<Carp|Carp>, Use L<Exporter|Exporter> - wisely!, Use L<plain old
2334 documentation|perlpod>, Write tests, Write the README
2336 =item Step-by-step: Distributing your module
2338 Get a CPAN user ID, C<perl Makefile.PL; make test; make dist>, Upload the
2339 tarball, Announce to the modules list, Announce to clpa, Fix bugs!
2349 =head2 perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.23 $, $Date:
2350 1999/05/23 16:08:30 $)
2360 =item Who supports Perl? Who develops it? Why is it free?
2362 =item Which version of Perl should I use?
2364 =item What are perl4 and perl5?
2366 =item What is perl6?
2368 =item How stable is Perl?
2370 =item Is Perl difficult to learn?
2372 =item How does Perl compare with other languages like Java, Python, REXX,
2375 =item Can I do [task] in Perl?
2377 =item When shouldn't I program in Perl?
2379 =item What's the difference between "perl" and "Perl"?
2381 =item Is it a Perl program or a Perl script?
2383 =item What is a JAPH?
2385 =item Where can I get a list of Larry Wall witticisms?
2387 =item How can I convince my sysadmin/supervisor/employees to use version
2388 5/5.005/Perl instead of some other language?
2392 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
2396 =head2 perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.32 $,
2397 $Date: 1999/10/14 18:46:09 $)
2405 =item What machines support Perl? Where do I get it?
2407 =item How can I get a binary version of Perl?
2409 =item I don't have a C compiler on my system. How can I compile perl?
2411 =item I copied the Perl binary from one machine to another, but scripts
2414 =item I grabbed the sources and tried to compile but gdbm/dynamic
2415 loading/malloc/linking/... failed. How do I make it work?
2417 =item What modules and extensions are available for Perl? What is CPAN?
2418 What does CPAN/src/... mean?
2420 =item Is there an ISO or ANSI certified version of Perl?
2422 =item Where can I get information on Perl?
2424 =item What are the Perl newsgroups on Usenet? Where do I post questions?
2426 =item Where should I post source code?
2430 References, Tutorials, Task-Oriented, Special Topics
2432 =item Perl in Magazines
2434 =item Perl on the Net: FTP and WWW Access
2436 =item What mailing lists are there for Perl?
2438 =item Archives of comp.lang.perl.misc
2440 =item Where can I buy a commercial version of Perl?
2442 =item Where do I send bug reports?
2444 =item What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org?
2448 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
2452 =head2 perlfaq3 - Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.38 $, $Date: 1999/05/23
2461 =item How do I do (anything)?
2463 =item How can I use Perl interactively?
2465 =item Is there a Perl shell?
2467 =item How do I debug my Perl programs?
2469 =item How do I profile my Perl programs?
2471 =item How do I cross-reference my Perl programs?
2473 =item Is there a pretty-printer (formatter) for Perl?
2475 =item Is there a ctags for Perl?
2477 =item Is there an IDE or Windows Perl Editor?
2479 Komodo, The Object System, Open Perl IDE, PerlBuilder, visiPerl+,
2480 CodeMagicCD, GNU Emacs, MicroEMACS, XEmacs, Elvis, Vile, Vim, Codewright,
2481 MultiEdit, SlickEdit, Bash, Ksh, Tcsh, Zsh, BBEdit and BBEdit Lite, Alpha
2483 =item Where can I get Perl macros for vi?
2485 =item Where can I get perl-mode for emacs?
2487 =item How can I use curses with Perl?
2489 =item How can I use X or Tk with Perl?
2491 =item How can I generate simple menus without using CGI or Tk?
2493 =item What is undump?
2495 =item How can I make my Perl program run faster?
2497 =item How can I make my Perl program take less memory?
2499 =item Is it unsafe to return a pointer to local data?
2501 =item How can I free an array or hash so my program shrinks?
2503 =item How can I make my CGI script more efficient?
2505 =item How can I hide the source for my Perl program?
2507 =item How can I compile my Perl program into byte code or C?
2509 =item How can I compile Perl into Java?
2511 =item How can I get C<#!perl> to work on [MS-DOS,NT,...]?
2513 =item Can I write useful Perl programs on the command line?
2515 =item Why don't Perl one-liners work on my DOS/Mac/VMS system?
2517 =item Where can I learn about CGI or Web programming in Perl?
2519 =item Where can I learn about object-oriented Perl programming?
2521 =item Where can I learn about linking C with Perl? [h2xs, xsubpp]
2523 =item I've read perlembed, perlguts, etc., but I can't embed perl in
2524 my C program; what am I doing wrong?
2526 =item When I tried to run my script, I got this message. What does it
2529 =item What's MakeMaker?
2533 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
2537 =head2 perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation ($Revision: 1.49 $, $Date: 1999/05/23
2548 =item Why am I getting long decimals (eg, 19.9499999999999) instead of the
2549 numbers I should be getting (eg, 19.95)?
2551 =item Why isn't my octal data interpreted correctly?
2553 =item Does Perl have a round() function? What about ceil() and floor()?
2556 =item How do I convert bits into ints?
2558 =item Why doesn't & work the way I want it to?
2560 =item How do I multiply matrices?
2562 =item How do I perform an operation on a series of integers?
2564 =item How can I output Roman numerals?
2566 =item Why aren't my random numbers random?
2574 =item How do I find the week-of-the-year/day-of-the-year?
2576 =item How do I find the current century or millennium?
2578 =item How can I compare two dates and find the difference?
2580 =item How can I take a string and turn it into epoch seconds?
2582 =item How can I find the Julian Day?
2584 =item How do I find yesterday's date?
2586 =item Does Perl have a Year 2000 problem? Is Perl Y2K compliant?
2594 =item How do I validate input?
2596 =item How do I unescape a string?
2598 =item How do I remove consecutive pairs of characters?
2600 =item How do I expand function calls in a string?
2602 =item How do I find matching/nesting anything?
2604 =item How do I reverse a string?
2606 =item How do I expand tabs in a string?
2608 =item How do I reformat a paragraph?
2610 =item How can I access/change the first N letters of a string?
2612 =item How do I change the Nth occurrence of something?
2614 =item How can I count the number of occurrences of a substring within a
2617 =item How do I capitalize all the words on one line?
2619 =item How can I split a [character] delimited string except when inside
2620 [character]? (Comma-separated files)
2622 =item How do I strip blank space from the beginning/end of a string?
2624 =item How do I pad a string with blanks or pad a number with zeroes?
2626 =item How do I extract selected columns from a string?
2628 =item How do I find the soundex value of a string?
2630 =item How can I expand variables in text strings?
2632 =item What's wrong with always quoting "$vars"?
2634 =item Why don't my <<HERE documents work?
2636 1. There must be no space after the << part, 2. There (probably) should be
2637 a semicolon at the end, 3. You can't (easily) have any space in front of
2646 =item What is the difference between a list and an array?
2648 =item What is the difference between $array[1] and @array[1]?
2650 =item How can I remove duplicate elements from a list or array?
2654 =item How can I tell whether a certain element is contained in a list or
2657 =item How do I compute the difference of two arrays? How do I compute the
2658 intersection of two arrays?
2660 =item How do I test whether two arrays or hashes are equal?
2662 =item How do I find the first array element for which a condition is true?
2664 =item How do I handle linked lists?
2666 =item How do I handle circular lists?
2668 =item How do I shuffle an array randomly?
2670 =item How do I process/modify each element of an array?
2672 =item How do I select a random element from an array?
2674 =item How do I permute N elements of a list?
2676 =item How do I sort an array by (anything)?
2678 =item How do I manipulate arrays of bits?
2680 =item Why does defined() return true on empty arrays and hashes?
2684 =item Data: Hashes (Associative Arrays)
2688 =item How do I process an entire hash?
2690 =item What happens if I add or remove keys from a hash while iterating over
2693 =item How do I look up a hash element by value?
2695 =item How can I know how many entries are in a hash?
2697 =item How do I sort a hash (optionally by value instead of key)?
2699 =item How can I always keep my hash sorted?
2701 =item What's the difference between "delete" and "undef" with hashes?
2703 =item Why don't my tied hashes make the defined/exists distinction?
2705 =item How do I reset an each() operation part-way through?
2707 =item How can I get the unique keys from two hashes?
2709 =item How can I store a multidimensional array in a DBM file?
2711 =item How can I make my hash remember the order I put elements into it?
2713 =item Why does passing a subroutine an undefined element in a hash create
2716 =item How can I make the Perl equivalent of a C structure/C++ class/hash or
2717 array of hashes or arrays?
2719 =item How can I use a reference as a hash key?
2727 =item How do I handle binary data correctly?
2729 =item How do I determine whether a scalar is a number/whole/integer/float?
2731 =item How do I keep persistent data across program calls?
2733 =item How do I print out or copy a recursive data structure?
2735 =item How do I define methods for every class/object?
2737 =item How do I verify a credit card checksum?
2739 =item How do I pack arrays of doubles or floats for XS code?
2743 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
2747 =head2 perlfaq5 - Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.38 $, $Date: 1999/05/23
2756 =item How do I flush/unbuffer an output filehandle? Why must I do this?
2758 =item How do I change one line in a file/delete a line in a file/insert a
2759 line in the middle of a file/append to the beginning of a file?
2761 =item How do I count the number of lines in a file?
2763 =item How do I make a temporary file name?
2765 =item How can I manipulate fixed-record-length files?
2767 =item How can I make a filehandle local to a subroutine? How do I pass
2768 filehandles between subroutines? How do I make an array of filehandles?
2770 =item How can I use a filehandle indirectly?
2772 =item How can I set up a footer format to be used with write()?
2774 =item How can I write() into a string?
2776 =item How can I output my numbers with commas added?
2778 =item How can I translate tildes (~) in a filename?
2780 =item How come when I open a file read-write it wipes it out?
2782 =item Why do I sometimes get an "Argument list too long" when I use <*>?
2784 =item Is there a leak/bug in glob()?
2786 =item How can I open a file with a leading ">" or trailing blanks?
2788 =item How can I reliably rename a file?
2790 =item How can I lock a file?
2792 =item Why can't I just open(FH, ">file.lock")?
2794 =item I still don't get locking. I just want to increment the number in
2795 the file. How can I do this?
2797 =item All I want to do is append a small amount of text to the end of a
2798 file. Do I still have to use locking?
2800 =item How do I randomly update a binary file?
2802 =item How do I get a file's timestamp in perl?
2804 =item How do I set a file's timestamp in perl?
2806 =item How do I print to more than one file at once?
2808 =item How can I read in an entire file all at once?
2810 =item How can I read in a file by paragraphs?
2812 =item How can I read a single character from a file? From the keyboard?
2814 =item How can I tell whether there's a character waiting on a filehandle?
2816 =item How do I do a C<tail -f> in perl?
2818 =item How do I dup() a filehandle in Perl?
2820 =item How do I close a file descriptor by number?
2822 =item Why can't I use "C:\temp\foo" in DOS paths? What doesn't
2823 `C:\temp\foo.exe` work?
2825 =item Why doesn't glob("*.*") get all the files?
2827 =item Why does Perl let me delete read-only files? Why does C<-i> clobber
2828 protected files? Isn't this a bug in Perl?
2830 =item How do I select a random line from a file?
2832 =item Why do I get weird spaces when I print an array of lines?
2836 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
2840 =head2 perlfaq6 - Regexes ($Revision: 1.27 $, $Date: 1999/05/23 16:08:30 $)
2848 =item How can I hope to use regular expressions without creating illegible
2849 and unmaintainable code?
2851 Comments Outside the Regex, Comments Inside the Regex, Different Delimiters
2853 =item I'm having trouble matching over more than one line. What's wrong?
2855 =item How can I pull out lines between two patterns that are themselves on
2858 =item I put a regular expression into $/ but it didn't work. What's wrong?
2860 =item How do I substitute case insensitively on the LHS while preserving
2863 =item How can I make C<\w> match national character sets?
2865 =item How can I match a locale-smart version of C</[a-zA-Z]/>?
2867 =item How can I quote a variable to use in a regex?
2869 =item What is C</o> really for?
2871 =item How do I use a regular expression to strip C style comments from a
2874 =item Can I use Perl regular expressions to match balanced text?
2876 =item What does it mean that regexes are greedy? How can I get around it?
2878 =item How do I process each word on each line?
2880 =item How can I print out a word-frequency or line-frequency summary?
2882 =item How can I do approximate matching?
2884 =item How do I efficiently match many regular expressions at once?
2886 =item Why don't word-boundary searches with C<\b> work for me?
2888 =item Why does using $&, $`, or $' slow my program down?
2890 =item What good is C<\G> in a regular expression?
2892 =item Are Perl regexes DFAs or NFAs? Are they POSIX compliant?
2894 =item What's wrong with using grep or map in a void context?
2896 =item How can I match strings with multibyte characters?
2898 =item How do I match a pattern that is supplied by the user?
2902 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
2906 =head2 perlfaq7 - Perl Language Issues ($Revision: 1.28 $, $Date:
2907 1999/05/23 20:36:18 $)
2915 =item Can I get a BNF/yacc/RE for the Perl language?
2917 =item What are all these $@%&* punctuation signs, and how do I know when to
2920 =item Do I always/never have to quote my strings or use semicolons and
2923 =item How do I skip some return values?
2925 =item How do I temporarily block warnings?
2927 =item What's an extension?
2929 =item Why do Perl operators have different precedence than C operators?
2931 =item How do I declare/create a structure?
2933 =item How do I create a module?
2935 =item How do I create a class?
2937 =item How can I tell if a variable is tainted?
2939 =item What's a closure?
2941 =item What is variable suicide and how can I prevent it?
2943 =item How can I pass/return a {Function, FileHandle, Array, Hash, Method,
2946 Passing Variables and Functions, Passing Filehandles, Passing Regexes,
2949 =item How do I create a static variable?
2951 =item What's the difference between dynamic and lexical (static) scoping?
2952 Between local() and my()?
2954 =item How can I access a dynamic variable while a similarly named lexical
2957 =item What's the difference between deep and shallow binding?
2959 =item Why doesn't "my($foo) = <FILE>;" work right?
2961 =item How do I redefine a builtin function, operator, or method?
2963 =item What's the difference between calling a function as &foo and foo()?
2965 =item How do I create a switch or case statement?
2967 =item How can I catch accesses to undefined variables/functions/methods?
2969 =item Why can't a method included in this same file be found?
2971 =item How can I find out my current package?
2973 =item How can I comment out a large block of perl code?
2975 =item How do I clear a package?
2977 =item How can I use a variable as a variable name?
2981 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
2985 =head2 perlfaq8 - System Interaction ($Revision: 1.39 $, $Date: 1999/05/23
2994 =item How do I find out which operating system I'm running under?
2996 =item How come exec() doesn't return?
2998 =item How do I do fancy stuff with the keyboard/screen/mouse?
3000 Keyboard, Screen, Mouse
3002 =item How do I print something out in color?
3004 =item How do I read just one key without waiting for a return key?
3006 =item How do I check whether input is ready on the keyboard?
3008 =item How do I clear the screen?
3010 =item How do I get the screen size?
3012 =item How do I ask the user for a password?
3014 =item How do I read and write the serial port?
3016 lockfiles, open mode, end of line, flushing output, non-blocking input
3018 =item How do I decode encrypted password files?
3020 =item How do I start a process in the background?
3022 STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR are shared, Signals, Zombies
3024 =item How do I trap control characters/signals?
3026 =item How do I modify the shadow password file on a Unix system?
3028 =item How do I set the time and date?
3030 =item How can I sleep() or alarm() for under a second?
3032 =item How can I measure time under a second?
3034 =item How can I do an atexit() or setjmp()/longjmp()? (Exception handling)
3036 =item Why doesn't my sockets program work under System V (Solaris)? What
3037 does the error message "Protocol not supported" mean?
3039 =item How can I call my system's unique C functions from Perl?
3041 =item Where do I get the include files to do ioctl() or syscall()?
3043 =item Why do setuid perl scripts complain about kernel problems?
3045 =item How can I open a pipe both to and from a command?
3047 =item Why can't I get the output of a command with system()?
3049 =item How can I capture STDERR from an external command?
3051 =item Why doesn't open() return an error when a pipe open fails?
3053 =item What's wrong with using backticks in a void context?
3055 =item How can I call backticks without shell processing?
3057 =item Why can't my script read from STDIN after I gave it EOF (^D on Unix,
3060 =item How can I convert my shell script to perl?
3062 =item Can I use perl to run a telnet or ftp session?
3064 =item How can I write expect in Perl?
3066 =item Is there a way to hide perl's command line from programs such as
3069 =item I {changed directory, modified my environment} in a perl script. How
3070 come the change disappeared when I exited the script? How do I get my
3071 changes to be visible?
3075 =item How do I close a process's filehandle without waiting for it to
3078 =item How do I fork a daemon process?
3080 =item How do I find out if I'm running interactively or not?
3082 =item How do I timeout a slow event?
3084 =item How do I set CPU limits?
3086 =item How do I avoid zombies on a Unix system?
3088 =item How do I use an SQL database?
3090 =item How do I make a system() exit on control-C?
3092 =item How do I open a file without blocking?
3094 =item How do I install a module from CPAN?
3096 =item What's the difference between require and use?
3098 =item How do I keep my own module/library directory?
3100 =item How do I add the directory my program lives in to the module/library
3103 =item How do I add a directory to my include path at runtime?
3105 =item What is socket.ph and where do I get it?
3109 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3113 =head2 perlfaq9 - Networking ($Revision: 1.26 $, $Date: 1999/05/23 16:08:30
3122 =item My CGI script runs from the command line but not the browser. (500
3125 =item How can I get better error messages from a CGI program?
3127 =item How do I remove HTML from a string?
3129 =item How do I extract URLs?
3131 =item How do I download a file from the user's machine? How do I open a
3132 file on another machine?
3134 =item How do I make a pop-up menu in HTML?
3136 =item How do I fetch an HTML file?
3138 =item How do I automate an HTML form submission?
3140 =item How do I decode or create those %-encodings on the web?
3142 =item How do I redirect to another page?
3144 =item How do I put a password on my web pages?
3146 =item How do I edit my .htpasswd and .htgroup files with Perl?
3148 =item How do I make sure users can't enter values into a form that cause my
3149 CGI script to do bad things?
3151 =item How do I parse a mail header?
3153 =item How do I decode a CGI form?
3155 =item How do I check a valid mail address?
3157 =item How do I decode a MIME/BASE64 string?
3159 =item How do I return the user's mail address?
3161 =item How do I send mail?
3163 =item How do I use MIME to make an attachment to a mail message?
3165 =item How do I read mail?
3167 =item How do I find out my hostname/domainname/IP address?
3169 =item How do I fetch a news article or the active newsgroups?
3171 =item How do I fetch/put an FTP file?
3173 =item How can I do RPC in Perl?
3177 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3181 =head2 perlcompile - Introduction to the Perl Compiler-Translator
3191 B::Bytecode, B::C, B::CC, B::Lint, B::Deparse, B::Xref
3195 =item Using The Back Ends
3199 =item The Cross Referencing Back End
3203 =item The Decompiling Back End
3205 =item The Lint Back End
3207 =item The Simple C Back End
3209 =item The Bytecode Back End
3211 =item The Optimized C Back End
3213 B, O, B::Asmdata, B::Assembler, B::Bblock, B::Bytecode, B::C, B::CC,
3214 B::Debug, B::Deparse, B::Disassembler, B::Lint, B::Showlex, B::Stackobj,
3215 B::Stash, B::Terse, B::Xref
3219 =item KNOWN PROBLEMS
3225 =head2 perlembed - how to embed perl in your C program
3235 B<Use C from Perl?>, B<Use a Unix program from Perl?>, B<Use Perl from
3236 Perl?>, B<Use C from C?>, B<Use Perl from C?>
3240 =item Compiling your C program
3242 =item Adding a Perl interpreter to your C program
3244 =item Calling a Perl subroutine from your C program
3246 =item Evaluating a Perl statement from your C program
3248 =item Performing Perl pattern matches and substitutions from your C program
3250 =item Fiddling with the Perl stack from your C program
3252 =item Maintaining a persistent interpreter
3254 =item Maintaining multiple interpreter instances
3256 =item Using Perl modules, which themselves use C libraries, from your C
3261 =item Embedding Perl under Win32
3271 =head2 perldebguts - Guts of Perl debugging
3277 =item Debugger Internals
3281 =item Writing Your Own Debugger
3285 =item Frame Listing Output Examples
3287 =item Debugging regular expressions
3291 =item Compile-time output
3293 C<anchored> I<STRING> C<at> I<POS>, C<floating> I<STRING> C<at>
3294 I<POS1..POS2>, C<matching floating/anchored>, C<minlen>, C<stclass>
3295 I<TYPE>, C<noscan>, C<isall>, C<GPOS>, C<plus>, C<implicit>, C<with eval>,
3298 =item Types of nodes
3300 =item Run-time output
3304 =item Debugging Perl memory usage
3308 =item Using C<$ENV{PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS}>
3310 C<buckets SMALLEST(APPROX)..GREATEST(APPROX)>, Free/Used, C<Total sbrk():
3311 SBRKed/SBRKs:CONTINUOUS>, C<pad: 0>, C<heads: 2192>, C<chain: 0>, C<tail:
3314 =item Example of using B<-DL> switch
3316 C<717>, C<002>, C<054>, C<602>, C<702>, C<704>
3318 =item B<-DL> details
3322 =item Limitations of B<-DL> statistics
3330 =head2 perlxstut, perlXStut - Tutorial for writing XSUBs
3342 =item Version caveat
3344 =item Dynamic Loading versus Static Loading
3356 =item What has gone on?
3358 =item Writing good test scripts
3362 =item What's new here?
3364 =item Input and Output Parameters
3366 =item The XSUBPP Program
3368 =item The TYPEMAP file
3370 =item Warning about Output Arguments
3374 =item What has happened here?
3376 =item Anatomy of .xs file
3378 =item Getting the fat out of XSUBs
3380 =item More about XSUB arguments
3382 =item The Argument Stack
3384 =item Extending your Extension
3386 =item Documenting your Extension
3388 =item Installing your Extension
3392 =item New Things in this Example
3396 =item New Things in this Example
3398 =item EXAMPLE 7 (Coming Soon)
3400 =item EXAMPLE 8 (Coming Soon)
3402 =item EXAMPLE 9 (Coming Soon)
3404 =item Troubleshooting these Examples
3420 =head2 perlxs - XS language reference manual
3432 =item The Anatomy of an XSUB
3434 =item The Argument Stack
3436 =item The RETVAL Variable
3438 =item The MODULE Keyword
3440 =item The PACKAGE Keyword
3442 =item The PREFIX Keyword
3444 =item The OUTPUT: Keyword
3446 =item The NO_OUTPUT Keyword
3448 =item The CODE: Keyword
3450 =item The INIT: Keyword
3452 =item The NO_INIT Keyword
3454 =item Initializing Function Parameters
3456 =item Default Parameter Values
3458 =item The PREINIT: Keyword
3460 =item The SCOPE: Keyword
3462 =item The INPUT: Keyword
3464 =item The IN/OUTLIST/IN_OUTLIST/OUT/IN_OUT Keywords
3466 =item Variable-length Parameter Lists
3468 =item The C_ARGS: Keyword
3470 =item The PPCODE: Keyword
3472 =item Returning Undef And Empty Lists
3474 =item The REQUIRE: Keyword
3476 =item The CLEANUP: Keyword
3478 =item The POSTCALL: Keyword
3480 =item The BOOT: Keyword
3482 =item The VERSIONCHECK: Keyword
3484 =item The PROTOTYPES: Keyword
3486 =item The PROTOTYPE: Keyword
3488 =item The ALIAS: Keyword
3490 =item The INTERFACE: Keyword
3492 =item The INTERFACE_MACRO: Keyword
3494 =item The INCLUDE: Keyword
3496 =item The CASE: Keyword
3498 =item The & Unary Operator
3500 =item Inserting POD, Comments and C Preprocessor Directives
3502 =item Using XS With C++
3504 =item Interface Strategy
3506 =item Perl Objects And C Structures
3520 =head2 perlclib - Internal replacements for standard C library functions
3530 C<t>, C<p>, C<n>, C<s>
3532 =item File Operations
3534 =item File Input and Output
3536 =item File Positioning
3538 =item Memory Management and String Handling
3540 =item Character Class Tests
3542 =item F<stdlib.h> functions
3544 =item Miscellaneous functions
3552 =head2 perlguts - Introduction to the Perl API
3564 =item What is an "IV"?
3566 =item Working with SVs
3570 =item What's Really Stored in an SV?
3572 =item Working with AVs
3574 =item Working with HVs
3576 =item Hash API Extensions
3580 =item Blessed References and Class Objects
3582 =item Creating New Variables
3584 =item Reference Counts and Mortality
3586 =item Stashes and Globs
3588 =item Double-Typed SVs
3590 =item Magic Variables
3592 =item Assigning Magic
3594 =item Magic Virtual Tables
3598 =item Understanding the Magic of Tied Hashes and Arrays
3600 =item Localizing changes
3602 C<SAVEINT(int i)>, C<SAVEIV(IV i)>, C<SAVEI32(I32 i)>, C<SAVELONG(long i)>,
3603 C<SAVESPTR(s)>, C<SAVEPPTR(p)>, C<SAVEFREESV(SV *sv)>, C<SAVEMORTALIZESV(SV
3604 *sv)>, C<SAVEFREEOP(OP *op)>, C<SAVEFREEPV(p)>, C<SAVECLEARSV(SV *sv)>,
3605 C<SAVEDELETE(HV *hv, char *key, I32 length)>,
3606 C<SAVEDESTRUCTOR(DESTRUCTORFUNC_NOCONTEXT_t f, void *p)>,
3607 C<SAVEDESTRUCTOR_X(DESTRUCTORFUNC_t f, void *p)>, C<SAVESTACK_POS()>, C<SV*
3608 save_scalar(GV *gv)>, C<AV* save_ary(GV *gv)>, C<HV* save_hash(GV *gv)>,
3609 C<void save_item(SV *item)>, C<void save_list(SV **sarg, I32 maxsarg)>,
3610 C<SV* save_svref(SV **sptr)>, C<void save_aptr(AV **aptr)>, C<void
3611 save_hptr(HV **hptr)>
3619 =item XSUBs and the Argument Stack
3621 =item Calling Perl Routines from within C Programs
3623 =item Memory Allocation
3627 =item Putting a C value on Perl stack
3631 =item Scratchpads and recursion
3641 =item Examining the tree
3643 =item Compile pass 1: check routines
3645 =item Compile pass 1a: constant folding
3647 =item Compile pass 2: context propagation
3649 =item Compile pass 3: peephole optimization
3651 =item Pluggable runops
3655 =item Examining internal data structures with the C<dump> functions
3657 =item How multiple interpreters and concurrency are supported
3661 =item Background and PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
3663 =item So what happened to dTHR?
3665 =item How do I use all this in extensions?
3667 =item Should I do anything special if I call perl from multiple threads?
3669 =item Future Plans and PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
3673 =item Internal Functions
3675 A, p, d, s, n, r, f, M, o, j, x
3679 =item Formatted Printing of IVs, UVs, and NVs
3681 =item Pointer-To-Integer and Integer-To-Pointer
3683 =item Source Documentation
3687 =item Unicode Support
3691 =item What B<is> Unicode, anyway?
3693 =item How can I recognise a UTF8 string?
3695 =item How does UTF8 represent Unicode characters?
3697 =item How does Perl store UTF8 strings?
3699 =item How do I convert a string to UTF8?
3701 =item Is there anything else I need to know?
3711 =head2 perlcall - Perl calling conventions from C
3717 An Error Handler, An Event Driven Program
3719 =item THE CALL_ FUNCTIONS
3721 call_sv, call_pv, call_method, call_argv
3741 =item Determining the Context
3745 =item KNOWN PROBLEMS
3751 =item No Parameters, Nothing returned
3753 =item Passing Parameters
3755 =item Returning a Scalar
3757 =item Returning a list of values
3759 =item Returning a list in a scalar context
3761 =item Returning Data from Perl via the parameter list
3765 =item Using G_KEEPERR
3769 =item Using call_argv
3771 =item Using call_method
3775 =item Using Perl to dispose of temporaries
3777 =item Strategies for storing Callback Context Information
3779 1. Ignore the problem - Allow only 1 callback, 2. Create a sequence of
3780 callbacks - hard wired limit, 3. Use a parameter to map to the Perl
3783 =item Alternate Stack Manipulation
3785 =item Creating and calling an anonymous subroutine in C
3797 =head2 perlutil - utilities packaged with the Perl distribution
3807 L<perldoc|perldoc>, L<pod2man|pod2man> and L<pod2text|pod2text>,
3808 L<pod2html|pod2html> and L<pod2latex|pod2latex>, L<pod2usage|pod2usage>,
3809 L<podselect|podselect>, L<podchecker|podchecker>, L<splain|splain>,
3810 L<roffitall|roffitall>
3814 L<a2p|a2p>, L<s2p|s2p>, L<find2perl|find2perl>
3816 =item Administration
3818 L<libnetcfg|libnetcfg>
3822 L<perlbug|perlbug>, L<h2ph|h2ph>, L<c2ph|c2ph> and L<pstruct|pstruct>,
3823 L<h2xs|h2xs>, L<dprofpp|dprofpp>, L<perlcc|perlcc>
3831 =head2 perlfilter - Source Filters
3841 =item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER
3843 =item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER IN C
3845 B<Decryption Filters>
3847 =item CREATING A SOURCE FILTER AS A SEPARATE EXECUTABLE
3849 =item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER IN PERL
3851 =item USING CONTEXT: THE DEBUG FILTER
3863 =head2 perldbmfilter - Perl DBM Filters
3871 B<filter_store_key>, B<filter_store_value>, B<filter_fetch_key>,
3872 B<filter_fetch_value>
3878 =item An Example -- the NULL termination problem.
3880 =item Another Example -- Key is a C int.
3890 =head2 perlapi - autogenerated documentation for the perl public API
3896 AvFILL, av_clear, av_delete, av_exists, av_extend, av_fetch, av_fill,
3897 av_len, av_make, av_pop, av_push, av_shift, av_store, av_undef, av_unshift,
3898 ax, bytes_from_utf8, bytes_to_utf8, call_argv, call_method, call_pv,
3899 call_sv, CLASS, Copy, croak, CvSTASH, cv_const_sv, dAX, dITEMS, dMARK,
3900 dORIGMARK, dSP, dXSARGS, dXSI32, ENTER, eval_pv, eval_sv, EXTEND,
3901 fbm_compile, fbm_instr, FREETMPS, getcwd_sv, get_av, get_cv, get_hv,
3902 get_sv, GIMME, GIMME_V, grok_number, grok_numeric_radix, GvSV,
3903 gv_fetchmeth, gv_fetchmethod, gv_fetchmethod_autoload, gv_stashpv,
3904 gv_stashsv, G_ARRAY, G_DISCARD, G_EVAL, G_NOARGS, G_SCALAR, G_VOID,
3905 HEf_SVKEY, HeHASH, HeKEY, HeKLEN, HePV, HeSVKEY, HeSVKEY_force,
3906 HeSVKEY_set, HeVAL, HvNAME, hv_clear, hv_delete, hv_delete_ent, hv_exists,
3907 hv_exists_ent, hv_fetch, hv_fetch_ent, hv_iterinit, hv_iterkey,
3908 hv_iterkeysv, hv_iternext, hv_iternextsv, hv_iterval, hv_magic, hv_store,
3909 hv_store_ent, hv_undef, isALNUM, isALPHA, isDIGIT, isLOWER, isSPACE,
3910 isUPPER, is_utf8_char, is_utf8_string, items, ix, LEAVE, load_module,
3911 looks_like_number, MARK, mg_clear, mg_copy, mg_find, mg_free, mg_get,
3912 mg_length, mg_magical, mg_set, Move, New, newAV, Newc, newCONSTSUB, newHV,
3913 newRV_inc, newRV_noinc, newSV, NEWSV, newSViv, newSVnv, newSVpv, newSVpvf,
3914 newSVpvn, newSVpvn_share, newSVrv, newSVsv, newSVuv, newXS, newXSproto,
3915 Newz, Nullav, Nullch, Nullcv, Nullhv, Nullsv, ORIGMARK, perl_alloc,
3916 perl_clone, perl_construct, perl_destruct, perl_free, perl_parse, perl_run,
3917 PL_modglobal, PL_na, PL_sv_no, PL_sv_undef, PL_sv_yes, POPi, POPl, POPn,
3918 POPp, POPpbytex, POPpx, POPs, PUSHi, PUSHMARK, PUSHn, PUSHp, PUSHs, PUSHu,
3919 PUTBACK, Renew, Renewc, require_pv, RETVAL, Safefree, savepv, savepvn,
3920 SAVETMPS, SP, SPAGAIN, ST, strEQ, strGE, strGT, strLE, strLT, strNE,
3921 strnEQ, strnNE, StructCopy, SvCUR, SvCUR_set, SvEND, SvGETMAGIC, SvGROW,
3922 SvIOK, SvIOKp, SvIOK_notUV, SvIOK_off, SvIOK_on, SvIOK_only, SvIOK_only_UV,
3923 SvIOK_UV, SvIV, SvIVX, SvIVx, SvLEN, SvNIOK, SvNIOKp, SvNIOK_off, SvNOK,
3924 SvNOKp, SvNOK_off, SvNOK_on, SvNOK_only, SvNV, SvNVx, SvNVX, SvOK, SvOOK,
3925 SvPOK, SvPOKp, SvPOK_off, SvPOK_on, SvPOK_only, SvPOK_only_UTF8, SvPV,
3926 SvPVbyte, SvPVbytex, SvPVbytex_force, SvPVbyte_force, SvPVbyte_nolen,
3927 SvPVutf8, SvPVutf8x, SvPVutf8x_force, SvPVutf8_force, SvPVutf8_nolen,
3928 SvPVX, SvPVx, SvPV_force, SvPV_force_nomg, SvPV_nolen, SvREFCNT,
3929 SvREFCNT_dec, SvREFCNT_inc, SvROK, SvROK_off, SvROK_on, SvRV, SvSETMAGIC,
3930 SvSetMagicSV, SvSetMagicSV_nosteal, SvSetSV, SvSetSV_nosteal, SvSTASH,
3931 SvTAINT, SvTAINTED, SvTAINTED_off, SvTAINTED_on, SvTRUE, svtype, SvTYPE,
3932 SVt_IV, SVt_NV, SVt_PV, SVt_PVAV, SVt_PVCV, SVt_PVHV, SVt_PVMG, SvUOK,
3933 SvUPGRADE, SvUTF8, SvUTF8_off, SvUTF8_on, SvUV, SvUVX, SvUVx, sv_2bool,
3934 sv_2cv, sv_2io, sv_2iv, sv_2mortal, sv_2nv, sv_2pvbyte, sv_2pvbyte_nolen,
3935 sv_2pvutf8, sv_2pvutf8_nolen, sv_2pv_flags, sv_2pv_nolen, sv_2uv,
3936 sv_backoff, sv_bless, sv_catpv, sv_catpvf, sv_catpvf_mg, sv_catpvn,
3937 sv_catpvn_flags, sv_catpvn_mg, sv_catpv_mg, sv_catsv, sv_catsv_flags,
3938 sv_catsv_mg, sv_chop, sv_clear, sv_cmp, sv_cmp_locale, sv_collxfrm, sv_dec,
3939 sv_derived_from, sv_eq, sv_force_normal, sv_force_normal_flags, sv_free,
3940 sv_gets, sv_grow, sv_inc, sv_insert, sv_isa, sv_isobject, sv_iv, sv_len,
3941 sv_len_utf8, sv_magic, sv_mortalcopy, sv_newmortal, sv_newref, sv_nv,
3942 sv_pos_b2u, sv_pos_u2b, sv_pv, sv_pvbyte, sv_pvbyten, sv_pvbyten_force,
3943 sv_pvn, sv_pvn_force, sv_pvn_force_flags, sv_pvutf8, sv_pvutf8n,
3944 sv_pvutf8n_force, sv_reftype, sv_replace, sv_report_used, sv_reset,
3945 sv_rvweaken, sv_setiv, sv_setiv_mg, sv_setnv, sv_setnv_mg, sv_setpv,
3946 sv_setpvf, sv_setpvf_mg, sv_setpviv, sv_setpviv_mg, sv_setpvn,
3947 sv_setpvn_mg, sv_setpv_mg, sv_setref_iv, sv_setref_nv, sv_setref_pv,
3948 sv_setref_pvn, sv_setref_uv, sv_setsv, sv_setsv_flags, sv_setsv_mg,
3949 sv_setuv, sv_setuv_mg, sv_taint, sv_tainted, sv_true, sv_unmagic, sv_unref,
3950 sv_unref_flags, sv_untaint, sv_upgrade, sv_usepvn, sv_usepvn_mg,
3951 sv_utf8_decode, sv_utf8_downgrade, sv_utf8_encode, sv_utf8_upgrade,
3952 sv_utf8_upgrade_flags, sv_uv, sv_vcatpvfn, sv_vsetpvfn, THIS, toLOWER,
3953 toUPPER, utf8n_to_uvchr, utf8n_to_uvuni, utf8_distance, utf8_hop,
3954 utf8_length, utf8_to_bytes, utf8_to_uvchr, utf8_to_uvuni, uvchr_to_utf8,
3955 uvuni_to_utf8, warn, XPUSHi, XPUSHn, XPUSHp, XPUSHs, XPUSHu, XS, XSRETURN,
3956 XSRETURN_EMPTY, XSRETURN_IV, XSRETURN_NO, XSRETURN_NV, XSRETURN_PV,
3957 XSRETURN_UNDEF, XSRETURN_YES, XST_mIV, XST_mNO, XST_mNV, XST_mPV,
3958 XST_mUNDEF, XST_mYES, XS_VERSION, XS_VERSION_BOOTCHECK, Zero
3966 =head2 perlintern - autogenerated documentation of purely B<internal>
3973 djSP, is_gv_magical, LVRET, PL_DBsingle, PL_DBsub, PL_DBtrace, PL_dowarn,
3974 PL_last_in_gv, PL_ofs_sv, PL_rs, report_uninit, start_glob, sv_add_arena,
3975 sv_clean_all, sv_clean_objs, sv_free_arenas
3983 =head2 perliol - C API for Perl's implementation of IO in Layers.
3993 =item History and Background
3995 =item Layers vs Disciplines
3997 =item Data Structures
3999 1. The functions and attributes of the "layer class", 2. The per-instance
4000 data for a particular handle
4002 =item Functions and Attributes
4004 =item Per-instance Data
4006 =item Layers in action.
4008 =item Per-instance flag bits
4010 PERLIO_F_EOF, PERLIO_F_CANWRITE, PERLIO_F_CANREAD, PERLIO_F_ERROR,
4011 PERLIO_F_TRUNCATE, PERLIO_F_APPEND, PERLIO_F_CRLF, PERLIO_F_UTF8,
4012 PERLIO_F_UNBUF, PERLIO_F_WRBUF, PERLIO_F_RDBUF, PERLIO_F_LINEBUF,
4013 PERLIO_F_TEMP, PERLIO_F_OPEN, PERLIO_F_FASTGETS
4015 =item Methods in Detail
4017 IV (*Pushed)(PerlIO *f,const char *mode, SV *arg);, IV
4018 (*Popped)(PerlIO *f);, PerlIO * (*Open)(...);, SV *
4019 (*Getarg)(PerlIO *f);, IV (*Fileno)(PerlIO *f);, SSize_t
4020 (*Read)(PerlIO *f, void *vbuf, Size_t count);, SSize_t (*Unread)(PerlIO
4021 *f, const void *vbuf, Size_t count);, SSize_t (*Write)(PerlIO *f, const
4022 void *vbuf, Size_t count);, IV (*Seek)(PerlIO *f, Off_t
4023 offset, int whence);, Off_t (*Tell)(PerlIO *f);, IV
4024 (*Close)(PerlIO *f);, IV (*Flush)(PerlIO *f);, IV
4025 (*Fill)(PerlIO *f);, IV (*Eof)(PerlIO *f);, IV
4026 (*Error)(PerlIO *f);, void (*Clearerr)(PerlIO *f);, void
4027 (*Setlinebuf)(PerlIO *f);, STDCHAR * (*Get_base)(PerlIO *f);,
4028 Size_t (*Get_bufsiz)(PerlIO *f);, STDCHAR *
4029 (*Get_ptr)(PerlIO *f);, SSize_t (*Get_cnt)(PerlIO *f);, void
4030 (*Set_ptrcnt)(PerlIO *f,STDCHAR *ptr,SSize_t cnt);
4034 "unix", "perlio", "stdio", "crlf", "mmap", "pending", "raw", "utf8"
4036 =item Extension Layers
4038 ":encoding", ":Scalar", ":Object" or ":Perl"
4044 =head2 perlapio - perl's IO abstraction interface.
4052 1. USE_STDIO, 2. USE_SFIO, 3. USE_PERLIO, B<PerlIO_stdin()>,
4053 B<PerlIO_stdout()>, B<PerlIO_stderr()>, B<PerlIO_open(path, mode)>,
4054 B<PerlIO_fdopen(fd,mode)>, B<PerlIO_reopen(path,mode,f)>,
4055 B<PerlIO_printf(f,fmt,...)>, B<PerlIO_vprintf(f,fmt,a)>,
4056 B<PerlIO_stdoutf(fmt,...)>, B<PerlIO_read(f,buf,count)>,
4057 B<PerlIO_write(f,buf,count)>, B<PerlIO_close(f)>, B<PerlIO_puts(f,s)>,
4058 B<PerlIO_putc(f,c)>, B<PerlIO_ungetc(f,c)>, B<PerlIO_getc(f)>,
4059 B<PerlIO_eof(f)>, B<PerlIO_error(f)>, B<PerlIO_fileno(f)>,
4060 B<PerlIO_clearerr(f)>, B<PerlIO_flush(f)>, B<PerlIO_seek(f,offset,whence)>,
4061 B<PerlIO_tell(f)>, B<PerlIO_getpos(f,p)>, B<PerlIO_setpos(f,p)>,
4062 B<PerlIO_rewind(f)>, B<PerlIO_tmpfile()>, B<PerlIO_setlinebuf(f)>
4066 =item Co-existence with stdio
4068 B<PerlIO_importFILE(f,flags)>, B<PerlIO_exportFILE(f,flags)>,
4069 B<PerlIO_findFILE(f)>, B<PerlIO_releaseFILE(p,f)>
4071 =item "Fast gets" Functions
4073 B<PerlIO_fast_gets(f)>, B<PerlIO_has_cntptr(f)>, B<PerlIO_get_cnt(f)>,
4074 B<PerlIO_get_ptr(f)>, B<PerlIO_set_ptrcnt(f,p,c)>, B<PerlIO_canset_cnt(f)>,
4075 B<PerlIO_set_cnt(f,c)>, B<PerlIO_has_base(f)>, B<PerlIO_get_base(f)>,
4076 B<PerlIO_get_bufsiz(f)>
4078 =item Other Functions
4080 PerlIO_apply_layers(f,mode,layers), PerlIO_binmode(f,ptype,imode,layers),
4081 'E<lt>' read, 'E<gt>' write, '+' read/write, PerlIO_debug(fmt,...)
4087 =head2 perltodo - Perl TO-DO List
4093 =item To do during 5.6.x
4097 =item Support for I/O disciplines
4099 =item Eliminate need for "use utf8";
4101 =item Create a char *sv_pvprintify(sv, STRLEN *lenp, UV flags)
4103 =item Autoload byte.pm
4105 =item Make "\u{XXXX}" et al work
4107 =item Overloadable regex assertions
4109 =item Unicode collation and normalization
4111 =item Unicode case mappings
4113 =item Unicode regular expression character classes
4115 =item use Thread for iThreads
4117 =item make perl_clone optionally clone ops
4119 =item Work out exit/die semantics for threads
4121 =item Typed lexicals for compiler
4123 =item Compiler workarounds for Win32
4125 =item AUTOLOADing in the compiler
4127 =item Fixing comppadlist when compiling
4129 =item Cleaning up exported namespace
4131 =item Complete signal handling
4133 =item Out-of-source builds
4135 =item POSIX realtime support
4137 =item UNIX98 support
4141 =item Long double conversion
4145 =item Thread-safe regexes
4147 =item Arithmetic on non-Arabic numerals
4149 =item POSIX Unicode character classes
4151 =item Factoring out common suffices/prefices in regexps (trie optimization)
4153 =item Security audit shipped utilities
4155 =item Custom opcodes
4157 =item spawnvp() on Win32
4159 =item DLL Versioning
4161 =item Introduce @( and @)
4163 =item Floating point handling
4165 =item IV/UV preservation
4167 =item Replace pod2html with something using Pod::Parser
4169 =item Automate module testing on CPAN
4171 =item sendmsg and recvmsg
4173 =item Rewrite perlre documentation
4175 =item Convert example code to IO::Handle filehandles
4177 =item Document Win32 choices
4179 =item Check new modules
4181 =item Make roffitall find pods and libs itself
4185 =item To do at some point
4189 =item Remove regular expression recursion
4191 =item Memory leaks after failed eval
4193 =item pack "(stuff)*"
4195 =item bitfields in pack
4197 =item Cross compilation
4199 =item Perl preprocessor / macros
4201 =item Perl lexer in Perl
4203 =item Using POSIX calls internally
4205 =item -i rename file when changed
4207 =item All ARGV input should act like E<lt>E<gt>
4209 =item Support for rerunning debugger
4211 =item Test Suite for the Debugger
4213 =item my sub foo { }
4215 =item One-pass global destruction
4217 =item Rewrite regexp parser
4219 =item Cache recently used regexps
4221 =item Re-entrant functions
4223 =item Cross-compilation support
4225 =item Bit-shifting bitvectors
4227 =item debugger pragma
4229 =item use less pragma
4231 =item switch structures
4233 =item Cache eval tree
4237 =item Shrink opcode tables
4239 =item Optimize away @_
4241 =item Prototypes versus indirect objects
4245 =item Prototype method calls
4247 =item Return context prototype declarations
4251 =item Garbage collection
4255 =item pack/unpack tutorial
4257 =item Rewrite perldoc
4259 =item Install .3p manpages
4261 =item Unicode tutorial
4263 =item Update POSIX.pm for 1003.1-2
4265 =item Retargetable installation
4267 =item POSIX emulation on non-POSIX systems
4269 =item Rename Win32 headers
4271 =item Finish off lvalue functions
4273 =item Update sprintf documentation
4275 =item Use fchown/fchmod internally
4283 =item ref() in list context
4285 =item Make tr/// return histogram
4287 =item Compile to real threaded code
4289 =item Structured types
4291 =item Modifiable $1 et al.
4293 =item Procedural interfaces for IO::*, etc.
4297 =item Attach/detach debugger from running program
4299 =item Alternative RE syntax module
4303 =item foreach(reverse ...)
4305 =item Constant function cache
4307 =item Approximate regular expression matching
4315 =item Update guts documentation
4317 =item Add more tests
4319 =item Update auxiliary tools
4323 =item Recently done things
4327 =item Safe signal handling
4333 =item setitimer and getimiter
4335 =item Testing __DIE__ hook
4337 =item CPP equivalent in Perl
4339 =item Explicit switch statements
4347 =item perlcc to produce executable
4349 =item END blocks saved in compiled output
4351 =item Secure temporary file module
4353 =item Integrate Time::HiRes
4355 =item Turn Cwd into XS
4357 =item Mmap for input
4359 =item Byte to/from UTF8 and UTF8 to/from local conversion
4361 =item Add sockatmark support
4363 =item Mailing list archives
4367 =item Integrate MacPerl
4369 =item Web "nerve center" for Perl
4371 =item Regular expression tutorial
4373 =item Debugging Tutorial
4375 =item Integrate new modules
4377 =item Integrate profiler
4379 =item Y2K error detection
4381 =item Regular expression debugger
4385 =item "Dynamic" lexicals
4387 =item Cache precompiled modules
4391 =item Deprecated Wishes
4395 =item Loop control on do{}
4397 =item Lexically scoped typeglobs
4403 =item Generalised want()/caller())
4405 =item Named prototypes
4407 =item Built-in globbing
4409 =item Regression tests for suidperl
4411 =item Cached hash values
4413 =item Add compression modules
4415 =item Reorganise documentation into tutorials/references
4417 =item Remove distinction between functions and operators
4419 =item Make XS easier to use
4421 =item Make embedding easier to use
4425 =item my $Package::variable
4427 =item "or" tests defined, not truth
4429 =item "class"-based lexicals
4433 =item Lazy evaluation / tail recursion removal
4435 =item Make "use utf8" the default
4441 =head2 perlhack - How to hack at the Perl internals
4447 Does concept match the general goals of Perl?, Where is the
4448 implementation?, Backwards compatibility, Could it be a module instead?, Is
4449 the feature generic enough?, Does it potentially introduce new bugs?, Does
4450 it preclude other desirable features?, Is the implementation robust?, Is
4451 the implementation generic enough to be portable?, Is there enough
4452 documentation?, Is there another way to do it?, Does it create too much
4453 work?, Patches speak louder than words
4457 =item Keeping in sync
4459 rsync'ing the source tree, Using rsync over the LAN, Using pushing over the
4460 NFS, rsync'ing the patches, It's easier, It's more recent, It's more
4461 reliable, It's easier, It's a good reference, Finding a start point,
4462 Finding how to fix a bug, Finding the source of misbehaviour
4464 =item Submitting patches
4466 L<perlguts>, L<perlxstut> and L<perlxs>, L<perlapi>,
4467 F<Porting/pumpkin.pod>, The perl5-porters FAQ
4469 =item Finding Your Way Around
4471 Core modules, Documentation, Configure, Interpreter
4473 =item Elements of the interpreter
4475 Startup, Parsing, Optimization, Running
4477 =item Internal Variable Types
4483 Argument stack, Mark stack, Save stack
4485 =item Millions of Macros
4487 =item Poking at Perl
4489 =item Using a source-level debugger
4491 run [args], break function_name, break source.c:xxx, step, next, continue,
4492 finish, 'enter', print
4494 =item Dumping Perl Data Structures
4500 =item EXTERNAL TOOLS FOR DEBUGGING PERL
4504 =item Rational Software's Purify
4506 =item Purify on Unix
4508 -Accflags=-DPURIFY, -Doptimize='-g', -Uusemymalloc, -Dusemultiplicity
4512 DEFINES, USE_MULTI = define, #PERL_MALLOC = define, CFG = Debug
4514 =item Compaq's/Digital's Third Degree
4516 =item PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL
4518 =item Gprof Profiling
4520 -a, -b, -e routine, -f routine, -s, -z
4522 =item Pixie Profiling
4524 -h, -l, -p[rocedures], -h[eavy], -i[nvocations], -l[ines], -testcoverage,
4529 I<The Road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began.>
4537 =head2 perlhist - the Perl history records
4545 =item THE KEEPERS OF THE PUMPKIN
4557 =item SELECTED RELEASE SIZES
4559 =item SELECTED PATCH SIZES
4563 =item THE KEEPERS OF THE RECORDS
4567 =head2 perldelta - what will be new for perl v5.8.0
4573 =item Reporting Bugs
4581 =head2 perl572delta, perl571delta - what's new for perl v5.7.2
4587 =item Security Vulnerability Closed
4589 =item Incompatible Changes
4593 =item 64-bit platforms and malloc
4595 =item AIX Dynaloading
4597 =item Socket Extension Dynamic in VMS
4599 =item Different Definition of the Unicode Character Classes \p{In...}
4605 =item Core Enhancements
4607 =item Modules and Pragmata
4611 =item New Modules and Distributions
4613 =item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
4617 =item Utility Changes
4619 =item New Documentation
4621 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
4625 =item New Or Improved Platforms
4627 =item Generic Improvements
4631 =item Selected Bug Fixes
4635 =item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
4639 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
4641 =item Source Code Enhancements
4645 =item MAGIC constants
4647 =item Better commented code
4649 =item Regex pre-/post-compilation items matched up
4657 =item Known Problems
4663 =item Amiga Perl Invoking Mystery
4665 =item lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
4667 =item Cygwin intermittent failures of lib/Memoize/t/expire_file 11 and 12
4669 =item HP-UX lib/io_multihomed Fails When LP64-Configur
4671 =item HP-UX lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails When LP64-Configured
4673 =item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
4677 =item op/sprintf tests 129 and 130
4679 =item Failure of Thread tests
4689 =item Localising a Tied Variable Leaks Memory
4691 =item Self-tying of Arrays and Hashes Is Forbidden
4693 =item Variable Attributes are not Currently Usable for Tieing
4695 =item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
4697 =item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
4699 =item The Long Double Support is Still Experimental
4703 =item Reporting Bugs
4711 =head2 perl571delta - what's new for perl v5.7.1
4717 =item Security Vulnerability Closed
4719 =item Incompatible Changes
4721 =item Core Enhancements
4725 =item AUTOLOAD Is Now Lvaluable
4727 =item PerlIO is Now The Default
4729 =item Signals Are Now Safe
4733 =item Modules and Pragmata
4739 =item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
4743 =item Performance Enhancements
4745 =item Utility Changes
4747 =item New Documentation
4763 =item README.solaris
4767 =item Porting/repository.pod
4771 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
4775 =item New Or Improved Platforms
4777 =item Generic Improvements
4779 d_cmsghdr, d_fcntl_can_lock, d_fsync, d_getitimer, d_getpagsz, d_msghdr_s,
4780 need_va_copy, d_readv, d_recvmsg, d_sendmsg, sig_size, d_sockatmark,
4781 d_strtoq, d_u32align, d_ualarm, d_usleep
4785 =item Selected Bug Fixes
4789 =item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
4793 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
4795 =item Changed Internals
4799 =item Known Problems
4803 =item AIX vac 5.0.0.0 May Produce Buggy Code For Perl
4805 =item lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
4807 =item lib/io_multihomed Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX
4809 =item Test lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX
4813 =item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
4815 =item sigaction test 13 in VMS
4817 =item sprintf tests 129 and 130
4819 =item Failure of Thread tests
4821 =item Localising a Tied Variable Leaks Memory
4823 =item Self-tying of Arrays and Hashes Is Forbidden
4825 =item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
4827 =item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
4831 =item Reporting Bugs
4839 =head2 perl570delta - what's new for perl v5.7.0
4845 =item Security Vulnerability Closed
4847 =item Incompatible Changes
4849 =item Core Enhancements
4851 =item Modules and Pragmata
4857 =item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
4861 =item Utility Changes
4863 =item New Documentation
4865 =item Performance Enhancements
4867 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
4871 =item Generic Improvements
4875 =item Selected Bug Fixes
4879 =item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
4883 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
4885 =item Changed Internals
4887 =item Known Problems
4891 =item Unicode Support Still Far From Perfect
4893 =item EBCDIC Still A Lost Platform
4895 =item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
4897 =item ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
4899 =item Test lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX
4901 =item Long Doubles Still Don't Work In Solaris
4903 =item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
4905 =item Storable tests fail in some platforms
4907 =item Threads Are Still Experimental
4909 =item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
4913 =item Reporting Bugs
4921 =head2 perl56delta, perldelta - what's new for perl v5.6.0
4927 =item Core Enhancements
4931 =item Interpreter cloning, threads, and concurrency
4933 =item Lexically scoped warning categories
4935 =item Unicode and UTF-8 support
4937 =item Support for interpolating named characters
4939 =item "our" declarations
4941 =item Support for strings represented as a vector of ordinals
4943 =item Improved Perl version numbering system
4945 =item New syntax for declaring subroutine attributes
4947 =item File and directory handles can be autovivified
4949 =item open() with more than two arguments
4951 =item 64-bit support
4953 =item Large file support
4959 =item Enhanced support for sort() subroutines
4961 =item C<sort $coderef @foo> allowed
4963 =item File globbing implemented internally
4965 =item Support for CHECK blocks
4967 =item POSIX character class syntax [: :] supported
4969 =item Better pseudo-random number generator
4971 =item Improved C<qw//> operator
4973 =item Better worst-case behavior of hashes
4975 =item pack() format 'Z' supported
4977 =item pack() format modifier '!' supported
4979 =item pack() and unpack() support counted strings
4981 =item Comments in pack() templates
4983 =item Weak references
4985 =item Binary numbers supported
4987 =item Lvalue subroutines
4989 =item Some arrows may be omitted in calls through references
4991 =item Boolean assignment operators are legal lvalues
4993 =item exists() is supported on subroutine names
4995 =item exists() and delete() are supported on array elements
4997 =item Pseudo-hashes work better
4999 =item Automatic flushing of output buffers
5001 =item Better diagnostics on meaningless filehandle operations
5003 =item Where possible, buffered data discarded from duped input filehandle
5005 =item eof() has the same old magic as <>
5007 =item binmode() can be used to set :crlf and :raw modes
5009 =item C<-T> filetest recognizes UTF-8 encoded files as "text"
5011 =item system(), backticks and pipe open now reflect exec() failure
5013 =item Improved diagnostics
5015 =item Diagnostics follow STDERR
5017 =item More consistent close-on-exec behavior
5019 =item syswrite() ease-of-use
5021 =item Better syntax checks on parenthesized unary operators
5023 =item Bit operators support full native integer width
5025 =item Improved security features
5027 =item More functional bareword prototype (*)
5029 =item C<require> and C<do> may be overridden
5031 =item $^X variables may now have names longer than one character
5033 =item New variable $^C reflects C<-c> switch
5035 =item New variable $^V contains Perl version as a string
5037 =item Optional Y2K warnings
5039 =item Arrays now always interpolate into double-quoted strings
5043 =item Modules and Pragmata
5049 attributes, B, Benchmark, ByteLoader, constant, charnames, Data::Dumper,
5050 DB, DB_File, Devel::DProf, Devel::Peek, Dumpvalue, DynaLoader, English,
5051 Env, Fcntl, File::Compare, File::Find, File::Glob, File::Spec,
5052 File::Spec::Functions, Getopt::Long, IO, JPL, lib, Math::BigInt,
5053 Math::Complex, Math::Trig, Pod::Parser, Pod::InputObjects, Pod::Checker,
5054 podchecker, Pod::ParseUtils, Pod::Find, Pod::Select, podselect, Pod::Usage,
5055 pod2usage, Pod::Text and Pod::Man, SDBM_File, Sys::Syslog, Sys::Hostname,
5056 Term::ANSIColor, Time::Local, Win32, XSLoader, DBM Filters
5062 =item Utility Changes
5076 =item The Perl Debugger
5080 =item Improved Documentation
5082 perlapi.pod, perlboot.pod, perlcompile.pod, perldbmfilter.pod,
5083 perldebug.pod, perldebguts.pod, perlfork.pod, perlfilter.pod, perlhack.pod,
5084 perlintern.pod, perllexwarn.pod, perlnumber.pod, perlopentut.pod,
5085 perlreftut.pod, perltootc.pod, perltodo.pod, perlunicode.pod
5087 =item Performance enhancements
5091 =item Simple sort() using { $a <=> $b } and the like are optimized
5093 =item Optimized assignments to lexical variables
5095 =item Faster subroutine calls
5097 =item delete(), each(), values() and hash iteration are faster
5101 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
5105 =item -Dusethreads means something different
5107 =item New Configure flags
5109 =item Threadedness and 64-bitness now more daring
5115 =item -Duselargefiles
5117 =item installusrbinperl
5123 =item Enhanced Installation Directories
5127 =item Platform specific changes
5131 =item Supported platforms
5135 =item OS390 (OpenEdition MVS)
5143 =item Significant bug fixes
5147 =item <HANDLE> on empty files
5149 =item C<eval '...'> improvements
5151 =item All compilation errors are true errors
5153 =item Implicitly closed filehandles are safer
5155 =item Behavior of list slices is more consistent
5157 =item C<(\$)> prototype and C<$foo{a}>
5159 =item C<goto &sub> and AUTOLOAD
5161 =item C<-bareword> allowed under C<use integer>
5163 =item Failures in DESTROY()
5165 =item Locale bugs fixed
5169 =item Spurious subroutine stubs after failed subroutine calls
5171 =item Taint failures under C<-U>
5173 =item END blocks and the C<-c> switch
5175 =item Potential to leak DATA filehandles
5179 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
5181 "%s" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same %s, "my sub" not yet
5182 implemented, "our" variable %s redeclared, '!' allowed only after types %s,
5183 / cannot take a count, / must be followed by a, A or Z, / must be followed
5184 by a*, A* or Z*, / must follow a numeric type, /%s/: Unrecognized escape
5185 \\%c passed through, /%s/: Unrecognized escape \\%c in character class
5186 passed through, /%s/ should probably be written as "%s", %s() called too
5187 early to check prototype, %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element, %s
5188 argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element or slice, %s argument is not a
5189 subroutine name, %s package attribute may clash with future reserved word:
5190 %s, (in cleanup) %s, <> should be quotes, Attempt to join self, Bad evalled
5191 substitution pattern, Bad realloc() ignored, Bareword found in conditional,
5192 Binary number > 0b11111111111111111111111111111111 non-portable, Bit vector
5193 size > 32 non-portable, Buffer overflow in prime_env_iter: %s, Can't check
5194 filesystem of script "%s", Can't declare class for non-scalar %s in "%s",
5195 Can't declare %s in "%s", Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default,
5196 Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine call, Can't read CRTL environ, Can't
5197 remove %s: %s, skipping file, Can't return %s from lvalue subroutine, Can't
5198 weaken a nonreference, Character class [:%s:] unknown, Character class
5199 syntax [%s] belongs inside character classes, Constant is not %s reference,
5200 constant(%s): %s, CORE::%s is not a keyword, defined(@array) is deprecated,
5201 defined(%hash) is deprecated, Did not produce a valid header, (Did you mean
5202 "local" instead of "our"?), Document contains no data, entering effective
5203 %s failed, false [] range "%s" in regexp, Filehandle %s opened only for
5204 output, flock() on closed filehandle %s, Global symbol "%s" requires
5205 explicit package name, Hexadecimal number > 0xffffffff non-portable,
5206 Ill-formed CRTL environ value "%s", Ill-formed message in prime_env_iter:
5207 |%s|, Illegal binary digit %s, Illegal binary digit %s ignored, Illegal
5208 number of bits in vec, Integer overflow in %s number, Invalid %s attribute:
5209 %s, Invalid %s attributes: %s, invalid [] range "%s" in regexp, Invalid
5210 separator character %s in attribute list, Invalid separator character %s in
5211 subroutine attribute list, leaving effective %s failed, Lvalue subs
5212 returning %s not implemented yet, Method %s not permitted, Missing
5213 %sbrace%s on \N{}, Missing command in piped open, Missing name in "my sub",
5214 No %s specified for -%c, No package name allowed for variable %s in "our",
5215 No space allowed after -%c, no UTC offset information; assuming local time
5216 is UTC, Octal number > 037777777777 non-portable, panic: del_backref,
5217 panic: kid popen errno read, panic: magic_killbackrefs, Parentheses missing
5218 around "%s" list, Possible unintended interpolation of %s in string,
5219 Possible Y2K bug: %s, pragma "attrs" is deprecated, use "sub NAME : ATTRS"
5220 instead, Premature end of script headers, Repeat count in pack overflows,
5221 Repeat count in unpack overflows, realloc() of freed memory ignored,
5222 Reference is already weak, setpgrp can't take arguments, Strange *+?{} on
5223 zero-length expression, switching effective %s is not implemented, This
5224 Perl can't reset CRTL environ elements (%s), This Perl can't set CRTL
5225 environ elements (%s=%s), Too late to run %s block, Unknown open() mode
5226 '%s', Unknown process %x sent message to prime_env_iter: %s, Unrecognized
5227 escape \\%c passed through, Unterminated attribute parameter in attribute
5228 list, Unterminated attribute list, Unterminated attribute parameter in
5229 subroutine attribute list, Unterminated subroutine attribute list, Value of
5230 CLI symbol "%s" too long, Version number must be a constant number
5234 =item Incompatible Changes
5238 =item Perl Source Incompatibilities
5240 CHECK is a new keyword, Treatment of list slices of undef has changed,
5241 Format of $English::PERL_VERSION is different, Literals of the form
5242 C<1.2.3> parse differently, Possibly changed pseudo-random number
5243 generator, Hashing function for hash keys has changed, C<undef> fails on
5244 read only values, Close-on-exec bit may be set on pipe and socket handles,
5245 Writing C<"$$1"> to mean C<"${$}1"> is unsupported, delete(), each(),
5246 values() and C<\(%h)>, vec(EXPR,OFFSET,BITS) enforces powers-of-two BITS,
5247 Text of some diagnostic output has changed, C<%@> has been removed,
5248 Parenthesized not() behaves like a list operator, Semantics of bareword
5249 prototype C<(*)> have changed, Semantics of bit operators may have changed
5250 on 64-bit platforms, More builtins taint their results
5252 =item C Source Incompatibilities
5254 C<PERL_POLLUTE>, C<PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT>, C<PERL_POLLUTE_MALLOC>
5256 =item Compatible C Source API Changes
5258 C<PATCHLEVEL> is now C<PERL_VERSION>
5260 =item Binary Incompatibilities
5264 =item Known Problems
5268 =item Thread test failures
5270 =item EBCDIC platforms not supported
5272 =item In 64-bit HP-UX the lib/io_multihomed test may hang
5274 =item NEXTSTEP 3.3 POSIX test failure
5276 =item Tru64 (aka Digital UNIX, aka DEC OSF/1) lib/sdbm test failure with
5279 =item UNICOS/mk CC failures during Configure run
5281 =item Arrow operator and arrays
5283 =item Experimental features
5285 Threads, Unicode, 64-bit support, Lvalue subroutines, Weak references, The
5286 pseudo-hash data type, The Compiler suite, Internal implementation of file
5287 globbing, The DB module, The regular expression code constructs:
5291 =item Obsolete Diagnostics
5293 Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions, Ill-formed
5294 logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter, In string, @%s now must be written as
5295 \@%s, Probable precedence problem on %s, regexp too big, Use of "$$<digit>"
5296 to mean "${$}<digit>" is deprecated
5298 =item Reporting Bugs
5306 =head2 perl5005delta, perldelta - what's new for perl5.005
5312 =item About the new versioning system
5314 =item Incompatible Changes
5318 =item WARNING: This version is not binary compatible with Perl 5.004.
5320 =item Default installation structure has changed
5322 =item Perl Source Compatibility
5324 =item C Source Compatibility
5326 =item Binary Compatibility
5328 =item Security fixes may affect compatibility
5330 =item Relaxed new mandatory warnings introduced in 5.004
5344 =item Regular Expressions
5346 Many new and improved optimizations, Many bug fixes, New regular expression
5347 constructs, New operator for precompiled regular expressions, Other
5348 improvements, Incompatible changes
5350 =item Improved malloc()
5352 =item Quicksort is internally implemented
5354 =item Reliable signals
5356 =item Reliable stack pointers
5358 =item More generous treatment of carriage returns
5362 =item Better support for multiple interpreters
5364 =item Behavior of local() on array and hash elements is now well-defined
5366 =item C<%!> is transparently tied to the L<Errno> module
5368 =item Pseudo-hashes are supported
5370 =item C<EXPR foreach EXPR> is supported
5372 =item Keywords can be globally overridden
5374 =item C<$^E> is meaningful on Win32
5376 =item C<foreach (1..1000000)> optimized
5378 =item C<Foo::> can be used as implicitly quoted package name
5380 =item C<exists $Foo::{Bar::}> tests existence of a package
5382 =item Better locale support
5384 =item Experimental support for 64-bit platforms
5386 =item prototype() returns useful results on builtins
5388 =item Extended support for exception handling
5390 =item Re-blessing in DESTROY() supported for chaining DESTROY() methods
5392 =item All C<printf> format conversions are handled internally
5394 =item New C<INIT> keyword
5396 =item New C<lock> keyword
5398 =item New C<qr//> operator
5400 =item C<our> is now a reserved word
5402 =item Tied arrays are now fully supported
5404 =item Tied handles support is better
5406 =item 4th argument to substr
5408 =item Negative LENGTH argument to splice
5410 =item Magic lvalues are now more magical
5412 =item <> now reads in records
5416 =item Supported Platforms
5422 =item Changes in existing support
5426 =item Modules and Pragmata
5432 B, Data::Dumper, Dumpvalue, Errno, File::Spec, ExtUtils::Installed,
5433 ExtUtils::Packlist, Fatal, IPC::SysV, Test, Tie::Array, Tie::Handle,
5434 Thread, attrs, fields, re
5436 =item Changes in existing modules
5438 Benchmark, Carp, CGI, Fcntl, Math::Complex, Math::Trig, POSIX, DB_File,
5439 MakeMaker, CPAN, Cwd
5443 =item Utility Changes
5445 =item Documentation Changes
5447 =item New Diagnostics
5449 Ambiguous call resolved as CORE::%s(), qualify as such or use &, Bad index
5450 while coercing array into hash, Bareword "%s" refers to nonexistent
5451 package, Can't call method "%s" on an undefined value, Can't check
5452 filesystem of script "%s" for nosuid, Can't coerce array into hash, Can't
5453 goto subroutine from an eval-string, Can't localize pseudo-hash element,
5454 Can't use %%! because Errno.pm is not available, Cannot find an opnumber
5455 for "%s", Character class syntax [. .] is reserved for future extensions,
5456 Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions, Character
5457 class syntax [= =] is reserved for future extensions, %s: Eval-group in
5458 insecure regular expression, %s: Eval-group not allowed, use re 'eval', %s:
5459 Eval-group not allowed at run time, Explicit blessing to '' (assuming
5460 package main), Illegal hex digit ignored, No such array field, No such
5461 field "%s" in variable %s of type %s, Out of memory during ridiculously
5462 large request, Range iterator outside integer range, Recursive inheritance
5463 detected while looking for method '%s' %s, Reference found where even-sized
5464 list expected, Undefined value assigned to typeglob, Use of reserved word
5465 "%s" is deprecated, perl: warning: Setting locale failed
5467 =item Obsolete Diagnostics
5469 Can't mktemp(), Can't write to temp file for B<-e>: %s, Cannot open
5470 temporary file, regexp too big
5472 =item Configuration Changes
5482 =head2 perl5004delta, perldelta - what's new for perl5.004
5488 =item Supported Environments
5494 =item List assignment to %ENV works
5496 =item Change to "Can't locate Foo.pm in @INC" error
5498 =item Compilation option: Binary compatibility with 5.003
5500 =item $PERL5OPT environment variable
5502 =item Limitations on B<-M>, B<-m>, and B<-T> options
5504 =item More precise warnings
5506 =item Deprecated: Inherited C<AUTOLOAD> for non-methods
5508 =item Previously deprecated %OVERLOAD is no longer usable
5510 =item Subroutine arguments created only when they're modified
5512 =item Group vector changeable with C<$)>
5514 =item Fixed parsing of $$<digit>, &$<digit>, etc.
5516 =item Fixed localization of $<digit>, $&, etc.
5518 =item No resetting of $. on implicit close
5520 =item C<wantarray> may return undef
5522 =item C<eval EXPR> determines value of EXPR in scalar context
5524 =item Changes to tainting checks
5526 No glob() or <*>, No spawning if tainted $CDPATH, $ENV, $BASH_ENV, No
5527 spawning if tainted $TERM doesn't look like a terminal name
5529 =item New Opcode module and revised Safe module
5531 =item Embedding improvements
5533 =item Internal change: FileHandle class based on IO::* classes
5535 =item Internal change: PerlIO abstraction interface
5537 =item New and changed syntax
5541 =item New and changed builtin constants
5545 =item New and changed builtin variables
5549 =item New and changed builtin functions
5551 delete on slices, flock, printf and sprintf, keys as an lvalue, my() in
5552 Control Structures, pack() and unpack(), sysseek(), use VERSION, use Module
5553 VERSION LIST, prototype(FUNCTION), srand, $_ as Default, C<m//gc> does not
5554 reset search position on failure, C<m//x> ignores whitespace before ?*+{},
5555 nested C<sub{}> closures work now, formats work right on changing lexicals
5557 =item New builtin methods
5559 isa(CLASS), can(METHOD), VERSION( [NEED] )
5561 =item TIEHANDLE now supported
5563 TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, PRINT this, LIST, PRINTF this, LIST, READ this
5564 LIST, READLINE this, GETC this, DESTROY this
5566 =item Malloc enhancements
5568 -DPERL_EMERGENCY_SBRK, -DPACK_MALLOC, -DTWO_POT_OPTIMIZE
5570 =item Miscellaneous efficiency enhancements
5574 =item Support for More Operating Systems
5590 use autouse MODULE => qw(sub1 sub2 sub3), use blib, use blib 'dir', use
5591 constant NAME => VALUE, use locale, use ops, use vmsish
5597 =item Required Updates
5599 =item Installation directories
5601 =item Module information summary
5615 =item Object-oriented overrides for builtin operators
5619 =item Utility Changes
5625 Sends converted HTML to standard output
5629 C<void> XSUBs now default to returning nothing
5633 =item C Language API Changes
5635 C<gv_fetchmethod> and C<perl_call_sv>, C<perl_eval_pv>, Extended API for
5638 =item Documentation Changes
5640 L<perldelta>, L<perlfaq>, L<perllocale>, L<perltoot>, L<perlapio>,
5641 L<perlmodlib>, L<perldebug>, L<perlsec>
5643 =item New Diagnostics
5645 "my" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same scope, %s argument is
5646 not a HASH element or slice, Allocation too large: %lx, Allocation too
5647 large, Applying %s to %s will act on scalar(%s), Attempt to free
5648 nonexistent shared string, Attempt to use reference as lvalue in substr,
5649 Bareword "%s" refers to nonexistent package, Can't redefine active sort
5650 subroutine %s, Can't use bareword ("%s") as %s ref while "strict refs" in
5651 use, Cannot resolve method `%s' overloading `%s' in package `%s', Constant
5652 subroutine %s redefined, Constant subroutine %s undefined, Copy method did
5653 not return a reference, Died, Exiting pseudo-block via %s, Identifier too
5654 long, Illegal character %s (carriage return), Illegal switch in PERL5OPT:
5655 %s, Integer overflow in hex number, Integer overflow in octal number,
5656 internal error: glob failed, Invalid conversion in %s: "%s", Invalid type
5657 in pack: '%s', Invalid type in unpack: '%s', Name "%s::%s" used only once:
5658 possible typo, Null picture in formline, Offset outside string, Out of
5659 memory!, Out of memory during request for %s, panic: frexp, Possible
5660 attempt to put comments in qw() list, Possible attempt to separate words
5661 with commas, Scalar value @%s{%s} better written as $%s{%s}, Stub found
5662 while resolving method `%s' overloading `%s' in %s, Too late for "B<-T>"
5663 option, untie attempted while %d inner references still exist, Unrecognized
5664 character %s, Unsupported function fork, Use of "$$<digit>" to mean
5665 "${$}<digit>" is deprecated, Value of %s can be "0"; test with defined(),
5666 Variable "%s" may be unavailable, Variable "%s" will not stay shared,
5667 Warning: something's wrong, Ill-formed logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter,
5668 Got an error from DosAllocMem, Malformed PERLLIB_PREFIX, PERL_SH_DIR too
5669 long, Process terminated by SIG%s
5679 =head2 perlaix, README.aix - Perl version 5 on IBM Unix (AIX) systems
5687 =item Compiling Perl 5 on AIX
5691 =item Building Dynamic Extensions on AIX
5693 =item The IBM ANSI C Compiler
5695 =item Using GNU's gcc for building perl
5697 =item Using Large Files with Perl
5703 =item AIX 4.2 and extensions using C++ with statics
5713 =head2 perlapollo, README.apollo - Perl version 5 on Apollo DomainOS
5723 =head2 perlamiga - Perl under Amiga OS
5737 =item Prerequisites for Compiling Perl on AmigaOS
5739 B<Unix emulation for AmigaOS: ixemul.library>, B<Version of Amiga OS>
5741 =item Starting Perl programs under AmigaOS
5743 =item Shortcomings of Perl under AmigaOS
5749 =item Accessing documentation
5753 =item Manpages for Perl on AmigaOS
5755 =item Perl HTML Documentation on AmigaOS
5757 =item Perl GNU Info Files on AmigaOS
5759 =item Perl LaTeX Documentation on AmigaOS
5763 =item BUILDING PERL ON AMIGAOS
5767 =item Build Prerequisites for Perl on AmigaOS
5769 =item Getting the Perl Source for AmigaOS
5771 =item Making Perl on AmigaOS
5773 =item Testing Perl on AmigaOS
5775 =item Installing the built Perl on AmigaOS
5785 =head2 perlbeos, README.beos - Perl version 5 on BeOS
5793 =item General Issues with Perl on BeOS
5795 =item BeOS Release-specific Notes
5799 =item Contact Information
5805 =head2 perlbs2000, README.BS2000 - building and installing Perl for BS2000.
5815 =item gzip on BS2000
5817 =item bison on BS2000
5819 =item Unpacking Perl Distribution on BS2000
5821 =item Compiling Perl on BS2000
5823 =item Testing Perl on BS2000
5825 =item Installing Perl on BS2000
5827 =item Using Perl in the Posix-Shell of BS2000
5829 =item Using Perl in "native" BS2000
5831 =item Floating point anomalies on BS2000
5849 =head2 perlcygwin, README.cygwin - Perl for Cygwin
5855 =item PREREQUISITES FOR COMPILING PERL ON CYGWIN
5859 =item Cygwin = GNU+Cygnus+Windows (Don't leave UNIX without it)
5861 =item Cygwin Configuration
5863 C<PATH>, I<nroff>, Permissions
5867 =item CONFIGURE PERL ON CYGWIN
5871 =item Stripping Perl Binaries on Cygwin
5873 =item Optional Libraries for Perl on Cygwin
5875 C<-lcrypt>, C<-lgdbm> (C<use GDBM_File>), C<-ldb> (C<use DB_File>),
5876 C<-lcygipc> (C<use IPC::SysV>)
5878 =item Configure-time Options for Perl on Cygwin
5880 C<-Uusedl>, C<-Uusemymalloc>, C<-Dusemultiplicity>, C<-Duseperlio>,
5881 C<-Duse64bitint>, C<-Duselongdouble>, C<-Dusethreads>, C<-Duselargefiles>
5883 =item Suspicious Warnings on Cygwin
5885 I<dlsym()>, Win9x and C<d_eofnblk>, Compiler/Preprocessor defines
5889 =item MAKE ON CYGWIN
5893 =item Warnings on Cygwin
5899 =item TEST ON CYGWIN
5903 =item File Permissions on Cygwin
5905 =item Hard Links on Cygwin
5907 =item Filetime Granularity on Cygwin
5909 =item Tainting Checks on Cygwin
5911 =item /etc/group on Cygwin
5913 =item Script Portability on Cygwin
5915 Pathnames, Text/Binary, F<.exe>, chown(), Miscellaneous
5919 =item INSTALL PERL ON CYGWIN
5921 =item MANIFEST ON CYGWIN
5923 Documentation, Build, Configure, Make, Install, Tests, Compiled Perl
5924 Source, Compiled Module Source, Perl Modules/Scripts
5926 =item BUGS ON CYGWIN
5934 =head2 perldgux - Perl under DG/UX.
5946 =item BUILDING PERL ON DG/UX
5950 =item Non-threaded Perl on DG/UX
5952 =item Threaded Perl on DG/UX
5954 =item Testing Perl on DG/UX
5956 =item Installing the built perl on DG/UX
5966 =head2 perlepoc, README.epoc - Perl for EPOC
5974 =item INSTALLING PERL ON EPOC
5976 =item STARTING PERL ON EPOC
5978 =item STOPPING PERL ON EPOC
5980 =item USING PERL ON EPOC
5984 =item I/O Redirection on Epoc
5986 =item PATH Names on Epoc
5988 =item Editors on Epoc
5990 =item Features of Perl on Epoc
5992 =item Restrictions of Perl on Epoc
5994 =item Compiling Perl 5 on the EPOC cross compiling environment
5998 =item SUPPORT STATUS OF PERL ON EPOC
6006 =head2 perlhpux, README.hpux - Perl version 5 on Hewlett-Packard Unix
6015 =item Compiling Perl 5 on HP-UX
6025 =item Portability Between PA-RISC Versions
6027 =item Itanium Processor Family and HP-UX
6029 =item Building Dynamic Extensions on HP-UX
6031 =item The HP ANSI C Compiler
6033 =item Using Large Files with Perl on HP-UX
6035 =item Threaded Perl on HP-UX
6037 =item 64-bit Perl on HP-UX
6039 =item GDBM and Threads on HP-UX
6041 =item NFS filesystems and utime(2) on HP-UX
6043 =item perl -P and // and HP-UX
6045 =item HP-UX Kernel Parameters (maxdsiz) for Compiling Perl
6055 =head2 perlhurd, README.hurd - Perl version 5 on Hurd
6063 =item Known Problems with Perl on Hurd
6071 =head2 perlmachten, README.machten - Perl version 5 on Power MachTen
6080 =item Compiling Perl 5 on MachTen
6082 =item Failures during C<make test> on MachTen
6084 op/lexassign.t, pragma/warnings.t
6086 =item Building external modules on MachTen
6096 =head2 perlmacos, README.macos - Perl under Mac OS (Classic)
6110 =head2 perlmint, README.mint - Perl version 5 on Atari MiNT
6116 =item Known problems with Perl on MiNT
6122 =head2 perlmpeix, README.mpeix - Perl/iX for HP e3000 MPE
6130 =item What's New in Perl ffor MPE/iX
6132 =item Welcome to Perl/iX
6134 =item System Requirements for Perl/iX
6136 =item How to Obtain Perl/iX
6138 =item Perl/iX Distribution Contents Highlights
6140 README, INSTALL, LIBSHP3K, PERL, .cpan/, lib/, man/,
6141 public_html/feedback.cgi, src/perl-5.6.0-mpe
6143 =item How to Compile Perl/iX
6147 =item Getting Started with Perl/iX
6149 =item MPE/iX Implementation Considerations
6151 =item Known Perl/iX Bugs Under Investigation
6153 =item Perl/iX To-Do List
6155 =item Perl/iX Change History
6171 Buildtype.bat, SetNWBld.bat, MPKBuild.bat
6183 =item Build new extensions
6187 =item Acknowledgements
6195 =head2 perlos2 - Perl under OS/2, DOS, Win0.3*, Win0.95 and WinNT.
6215 EMX, RSX, HPFS, pdksh
6217 =item Starting Perl programs under OS/2 (and DOS and...)
6219 =item Starting OS/2 (and DOS) programs under Perl
6223 =item Frequently asked questions
6227 =item "It does not work"
6229 =item I cannot run external programs
6231 =item I cannot embed perl into my program, or use F<perl.dll> from my
6234 Is your program EMX-compiled with C<-Zmt -Zcrtdll>?, Did you use
6237 =item C<``> and pipe-C<open> do not work under DOS.
6239 =item Cannot start C<find.exe "pattern" file>
6247 =item Automatic binary installation
6249 C<PERL_BADLANG>, C<PERL_BADFREE>, F<Config.pm>
6251 =item Manual binary installation
6253 Perl VIO and PM executables (dynamically linked), Perl_ VIO executable
6254 (statically linked), Executables for Perl utilities, Main Perl library,
6255 Additional Perl modules, Tools to compile Perl modules, Manpages for Perl
6256 and utilities, Manpages for Perl modules, Source for Perl documentation,
6257 Perl manual in F<.INF> format, Pdksh
6263 =item Accessing documentation
6267 =item OS/2 F<.INF> file
6275 =item GNU C<info> files
6287 =item The short story
6291 =item Getting perl source
6293 =item Application of the patches
6301 A lot of C<bad free>, Process terminated by SIGTERM/SIGINT, F<op/fs.t>,
6304 =item Installing the built perl
6306 =item C<a.out>-style build
6314 =item Some C</> became C<\> in pdksh.
6316 =item C<'errno'> - unresolved external
6318 =item Problems with tr or sed
6320 =item Some problem (forget which ;-)
6322 =item Library ... not found
6324 =item Segfault in make
6326 =item op/sprintf test failure
6330 =item Specific (mis)features of OS/2 port
6334 =item C<setpriority>, C<getpriority>
6338 =item C<extproc> on the first line
6340 =item Additional modules:
6342 =item Prebuilt methods:
6344 C<File::Copy::syscopy>, C<DynaLoader::mod2fname>, C<Cwd::current_drive()>,
6345 C<Cwd::sys_chdir(name)>, C<Cwd::change_drive(name)>,
6346 C<Cwd::sys_is_absolute(name)>, C<Cwd::sys_is_rooted(name)>,
6347 C<Cwd::sys_is_relative(name)>, C<Cwd::sys_cwd(name)>,
6348 C<Cwd::sys_abspath(name, dir)>, C<Cwd::extLibpath([type])>,
6349 C<Cwd::extLibpath_set( path [, type ] )>,
6350 C<OS2::Error(do_harderror,do_exception)>, C<OS2::Errors2Drive(drive)>,
6351 OS2::SysInfo(), OS2::BootDrive(), C<OS2::MorphPM(serve)>,
6352 C<OS2::UnMorphPM(serve)>, C<OS2::Serve_Messages(force)>,
6353 C<OS2::Process_Messages(force [, cnt])>, C<OS2::_control87(new,mask)>,
6354 OS2::get_control87(), C<OS2::set_control87_em(new=MCW_EM,mask=MCW_EM)>
6356 =item Prebuilt variables:
6358 $OS2::emx_rev, $OS2::emx_env, $OS2::os_ver
6364 C<popen>, C<tmpnam>, C<tmpfile>, C<ctermid>, C<stat>, C<mkdir>, C<rmdir>,
6367 =item Identifying DLLs
6369 =item Centralized management of resources
6385 =item F<perl___.exe>
6387 =item Why strange names?
6389 =item Why dynamic linking?
6391 =item Why chimera build?
6399 =item C<PERLLIB_PREFIX>
6401 =item C<PERL_BADLANG>
6403 =item C<PERL_BADFREE>
6405 =item C<PERL_SH_DIR>
6407 =item C<USE_PERL_FLOCK>
6409 =item C<TMP> or C<TEMP>
6419 =item DLL name mangling: pre 5.6.2
6421 =item DLL name mangling: 5.6.2 and beyond
6423 Global DLLs, specific DLLs, C<BEGINLIBPATH> and C<ENDLIBPATH>, F<.> from
6426 =item DLL forwarder generation
6430 =item Calls to external programs
6432 =item Memory allocation
6436 C<COND_WAIT>, F<os2.c>
6452 =head2 perlos390, README.os390 - building and installing Perl for OS/390.
6462 =item Unpacking Perl distribution on OS/390
6464 =item Setup and utilities for Perl on OS/390
6466 =item Configure Perl on OS/390
6468 =item Build, Test, Install Perl on OS/390
6470 =item Build Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
6472 =item Testing Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
6474 =item Installation Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
6476 =item Usage Hints for Perl on OS/390
6478 =item Floating Point Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
6480 =item Modules and Extensions for Perl on OS/390
6490 =item Mailing list for Perl on OS/390
6498 =head2 perlqnx, README.qnx - Perl version 5 on QNX
6506 =item Required Software for Compiling Perl on QNX4
6508 /bin/sh, ar, nm, cpp, make
6510 =item Outstanding Issues with Perl on QNX4
6512 =item QNX auxiliary files
6516 =item Outstanding issues with perl under QNX6
6524 =head2 perlplan9 - Plan 9-specific documentation for Perl
6534 =item What's in Plan 9 Perl
6536 =item What's not in Plan 9 Perl
6538 =item Perl5 Functions not currently supported in Plan 9 Perl
6540 =item Signals in Plan 9 Perl
6544 =item COMPILING AND INSTALLING PERL ON PLAN 9
6548 =item Installing Perl Documentation on Plan 9
6560 =head2 perlsolaris, README.solaris - Perl version 5 on Solaris systems
6568 =item Solaris Version Numbers.
6574 Solaris FAQ, Precompiled Binaries, Solaris Documentation
6580 =item File Extraction Problems on Solaris.
6582 =item Compiler and Related Tools on Solaris.
6584 =item Environment for Compiling Perl on Solaris
6588 =item RUN CONFIGURE.
6592 =item 64-bit Issues with Perl on Solaris.
6594 =item Threads in Perl on Solaris.
6596 =item Malloc Issues with Perl on Solaris.
6600 =item MAKE PROBLEMS.
6602 Dynamic Loading Problems With GNU as and GNU ld, ld.so.1: ./perl: fatal:
6603 relocation error:, dlopen: stub interception failed, #error "No
6604 DATAMODEL_NATIVE specified", sh: ar: not found
6610 =item op/stat.t test 4 in Solaris
6614 =item PREBUILT BINARIES OF PERL FOR SOLARIS.
6616 =item RUNTIME ISSUES FOR PERL ON SOLARIS.
6620 =item Limits on Numbers of Open Files on Solaris.
6624 =item SOLARIS-SPECIFIC MODULES.
6626 =item SOLARIS-SPECIFIC PROBLEMS WITH MODULES.
6630 =item Proc::ProcessTable on Solaris
6632 =item BSD::Resource on Solaris
6634 =item Net::SSLeay on Solaris
6644 =head2 perltru64, README.tru64 - Perl version 5 on Tru64 (formerly known as
6645 Digital UNIX formerly known as DEC OSF/1) systems
6653 =item Compiling Perl 5 on Tru64
6655 =item Using Large Files with Perl on Tru64
6657 =item Threaded Perl on Tru64
6659 =item Long Doubles on Tru64
6661 =item 64-bit Perl on Tru64
6663 =item Warnings about floating-point overflow when compiling Perl on Tru64
6667 =item Testing Perl on Tru64
6673 =head2 perlvmesa, README.vmesa - building and installing Perl for VM/ESA.
6683 =item Unpacking Perl Distribution on VM/ESA
6685 =item Setup Perl and utilities on VM/ESA
6687 =item Configure Perl on VM/ESA
6689 =item Testing Anomalies of Perl on VM/ESA
6691 =item Usage Hints for Perl on VM/ESA
6701 =item Mailing list for Perl on VM/ESA
6707 =head2 perlvms - VMS-specific documentation for Perl
6715 =item Organization of Perl Images
6721 =item Perl Extensions
6723 =item Installing static extensions
6725 =item Installing dynamic extensions
6729 =item File specifications
6735 =item Wildcard expansion
6741 =item PERL5LIB and PERLLIB
6747 =item I/O redirection and backgrounding
6749 =item Command line switches
6755 =item Perl functions
6757 File tests, backticks, binmode FILEHANDLE, crypt PLAINTEXT, USER, dump,
6758 exec LIST, fork, getpwent, getpwnam, getpwuid, gmtime, kill, qx//, select
6759 (system call), stat EXPR, system LIST, time, times, unlink LIST, utime
6760 LIST, waitpid PID,FLAGS
6762 =item Perl variables
6764 %ENV, CRTL_ENV, CLISYM_[LOCAL], Any other string, $!, $^E, $?, $|
6766 =item Standard modules with VMS-specific differences
6780 =head2 perlvos, README.vos - Perl for Stratus VOS
6788 =item Stratus POSIX Support
6792 =item INSTALLING PERL IN VOS
6796 =item Compiling Perl 5 on VOS
6798 =item Installing Perl 5 on VOS
6802 =item USING PERL IN VOS
6806 =item Unimplemented Features of Perl on VOS
6808 =item Restrictions of Perl on VOS
6812 =item SUPPORT STATUS
6820 =head1 PRAGMA DOCUMENTATION
6822 =head2 attrs - set/get attributes of a subroutine (deprecated)
6834 =head2 re - Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour
6844 =head2 attributes - get/set subroutine or variable attributes
6854 =item Built-in Attributes
6856 locked, method, lvalue
6858 =item Available Subroutines
6862 =item Package-specific Attribute Handling
6864 FETCH_I<type>_ATTRIBUTES, MODIFY_I<type>_ATTRIBUTES
6866 =item Syntax of Attribute Lists
6874 =item Default exports
6876 =item Available exports
6878 =item Export tags defined
6888 =head2 attrs - set/get attributes of a subroutine (deprecated)
6900 =head2 autouse - postpone load of modules until a function is used
6916 =head2 base - Establish IS-A relationship with base class at compile time
6930 =head2 blib - Use MakeMaker's uninstalled version of a package
6944 =head2 bytes - Perl pragma to force byte semantics rather than character
6957 =head2 charnames - define character names for C<\N{named}> string literal
6966 =item CUSTOM TRANSLATORS
6972 =head2 constant - Perl pragma to declare constants
6982 =item TECHNICAL NOTE
6992 =head2 diagnostics - Perl compiler pragma to force verbose warning
7003 =item The C<diagnostics> Pragma
7005 =item The I<splain> Program
7019 =head2 fields - compile-time class fields
7033 =head2 filetest - Perl pragma to control the filetest permission operators
7043 =item subpragma access
7049 =head2 integer - Perl pragma to use integer arithmetic instead of floating
7060 =head2 less - perl pragma to request less of something from the compiler
7070 =head2 lib - manipulate @INC at compile time
7080 =item Adding directories to @INC
7082 =item Deleting directories from @INC
7084 =item Restoring original @INC
7094 =head2 locale - Perl pragma to use and avoid POSIX locales for built-in
7105 =head2 open - perl pragma to set default disciplines for input and output
7113 =item NONPERLIO FUNCTIONALITY
7115 =item IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS
7121 =head2 ops - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when compiling
7133 =head2 overload - Package for overloading perl operations
7143 =item Declaration of overloaded functions
7145 =item Calling Conventions for Binary Operations
7147 FALSE, TRUE, C<undef>
7149 =item Calling Conventions for Unary Operations
7151 =item Calling Conventions for Mutators
7153 C<++> and C<-->, C<x=> and other assignment versions
7155 =item Overloadable Operations
7157 I<Arithmetic operations>, I<Comparison operations>, I<Bit operations>,
7158 I<Increment and decrement>, I<Transcendental functions>, I<Boolean, string
7159 and numeric conversion>, I<Iteration>, I<Dereferencing>, I<Special>
7161 =item Inheritance and overloading
7163 Strings as values of C<use overload> directive, Overloading of an operation
7164 is inherited by derived classes
7168 =item SPECIAL SYMBOLS FOR C<use overload>
7176 C<undef>, TRUE, defined, but FALSE
7178 =item Copy Constructor
7184 =item MAGIC AUTOGENERATION
7186 I<Assignment forms of arithmetic operations>, I<Conversion operations>,
7187 I<Increment and decrement>, C<abs($a)>, I<Unary minus>, I<Negation>,
7188 I<Concatenation>, I<Comparison operations>, I<Iterator>, I<Dereferencing>,
7191 =item Losing overloading
7193 =item Run-time Overloading
7195 =item Public functions
7197 overload::StrVal(arg), overload::Overloaded(arg), overload::Method(obj,op)
7199 =item Overloading constants
7201 integer, float, binary, q, qr
7203 =item IMPLEMENTATION
7205 =item Metaphor clash
7211 =item Two-face scalars
7213 =item Two-face references
7215 =item Symbolic calculator
7217 =item I<Really> symbolic calculator
7225 Odd number of arguments for overload::constant, `%s' is not an overloadable
7226 type, `%s' is not a code reference
7232 =head2 re - Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour
7242 =head2 sigtrap - Perl pragma to enable simple signal handling
7254 =item SIGNAL HANDLERS
7256 B<stack-trace>, B<die>, B<handler> I<your-handler>
7260 B<normal-signals>, B<error-signals>, B<old-interface-signals>
7264 B<untrapped>, B<any>, I<signal>, I<number>
7272 =head2 strict - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe constructs
7280 C<strict refs>, C<strict vars>, C<strict subs>
7284 =head2 subs - Perl pragma to predeclare sub names
7294 =head2 unicode::distinct - Perl pragma to strictly distinguish UTF8 data
7307 =head2 utf8 - Perl pragma to enable/disable UTF-8 (or UTF-EBCDIC) in source
7318 =item Utility functions
7320 $num_octets = utf8::upgrade($string);, utf8::downgrade($string[, CHECK]),
7321 utf8::encode($string), $flag = utf8::decode($string)
7329 =head2 vars - Perl pragma to predeclare global variable names (obsolete)
7339 =head2 warnings - Perl pragma to control optional warnings
7347 use warnings::register, warnings::enabled(), warnings::enabled($category),
7348 warnings::enabled($object), warnings::warn($message),
7349 warnings::warn($category, $message), warnings::warn($object, $message),
7350 warnings::warnif($message), warnings::warnif($category, $message),
7351 warnings::warnif($object, $message)
7355 =head2 warnings::register - warnings import function
7357 =head1 MODULE DOCUMENTATION
7359 =head2 AnyDBM_File - provide framework for multiple DBMs
7369 =item DBM Comparisons
7379 =head2 Attribute::Handlers - Simpler definition of attribute handlers
7389 [0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]
7393 =item Typed lexicals
7395 =item Type-specific attribute handlers
7397 =item Non-interpretive attribute handlers
7399 =item Phase-specific attribute handlers
7401 =item Attributes as C<tie> interfaces
7409 C<Bad attribute type: ATTR(%s)>, C<Attribute handler %s doesn't handle %s
7410 attributes>, C<Declaration of %s attribute in package %s may clash with
7411 future reserved word>, C<Can't have two ATTR specifiers on one subroutine>,
7412 C<Can't autotie a %s>, C<Internal error: %s symbol went missing>
7422 =head2 AutoLoader - load subroutines only on demand
7432 =item Subroutine Stubs
7434 =item Using B<AutoLoader>'s AUTOLOAD Subroutine
7436 =item Overriding B<AutoLoader>'s AUTOLOAD Subroutine
7438 =item Package Lexicals
7440 =item Not Using AutoLoader
7442 =item B<AutoLoader> vs. B<SelfLoader>
7452 =head2 AutoSplit - split a package for autoloading
7460 $keep, $check, $modtime
7464 =item Multiple packages
7472 =head2 B - The Perl Compiler
7480 =item OVERVIEW OF CLASSES
7484 =item SV-RELATED CLASSES
7492 IV, IVX, UVX, int_value, needs64bits, packiv
7506 =item B::PVMG METHODS
7510 =item B::MAGIC METHODS
7512 MOREMAGIC, PRIVATE, TYPE, FLAGS, OBJ, PTR
7514 =item B::PVLV METHODS
7516 TARGOFF, TARGLEN, TYPE, TARG
7520 USEFUL, PREVIOUS, RARE, TABLE
7524 is_empty, NAME, SAFENAME, STASH, SV, IO, FORM, AV, HV, EGV, CV, CVGEN,
7525 LINE, FILE, FILEGV, GvREFCNT, FLAGS
7529 LINES, PAGE, PAGE_LEN, LINES_LEFT, TOP_NAME, TOP_GV, FMT_NAME, FMT_GV,
7530 BOTTOM_NAME, BOTTOM_GV, SUBPROCESS, IoTYPE, IoFLAGS
7534 FILL, MAX, OFF, ARRAY, AvFLAGS
7538 STASH, START, ROOT, GV, FILE, DEPTH, PADLIST, OUTSIDE, XSUB, XSUBANY,
7543 FILL, MAX, KEYS, RITER, NAME, PMROOT, ARRAY
7545 =item OP-RELATED CLASSES
7549 next, sibling, name, ppaddr, desc, targ, type, seq, flags, private
7551 =item B::UNOP METHOD
7555 =item B::BINOP METHOD
7559 =item B::LOGOP METHOD
7563 =item B::LISTOP METHOD
7567 =item B::PMOP METHODS
7569 pmreplroot, pmreplstart, pmnext, pmregexp, pmflags, pmpermflags, precomp
7571 =item B::SVOP METHOD
7575 =item B::PADOP METHOD
7579 =item B::PVOP METHOD
7583 =item B::LOOP METHODS
7585 redoop, nextop, lastop
7587 =item B::COP METHODS
7589 label, stash, file, cop_seq, arybase, line
7593 =item FUNCTIONS EXPORTED BY C<B>
7595 main_cv, init_av, main_root, main_start, comppadlist, sv_undef, sv_yes,
7596 sv_no, amagic_generation, walkoptree(OP, METHOD), walkoptree_debug(DEBUG),
7597 walksymtable(SYMREF, METHOD, RECURSE, PREFIX), svref_2object(SV),
7598 ppname(OPNUM), hash(STR), cast_I32(I), minus_c, cstring(STR), class(OBJ),
7605 =head2 B::Asmdata - Autogenerated data about Perl ops, used to generate
7618 =head2 B::Assembler - Assemble Perl bytecode
7630 =head2 B::Bblock - Walk basic blocks
7642 =head2 B::Bytecode - Perl compiler's bytecode backend
7652 B<-ofilename>, B<-afilename>, B<-->, B<-f>, B<-fcompress-nullops>,
7653 B<-fomit-sequence-numbers>, B<-fbypass-nullops>, B<-On>, B<-D>, B<-Do>,
7654 B<-Db>, B<-Da>, B<-DC>, B<-S>, B<-upackage>
7664 =head2 B::C - Perl compiler's C backend
7674 B<-ofilename>, B<-v>, B<-->, B<-uPackname>, B<-D>, B<-Do>, B<-Dc>, B<-DA>,
7675 B<-DC>, B<-DM>, B<-f>, B<-fcog>, B<-fno-cog>, B<-On>, B<-llimit>
7685 =head2 B::CC - Perl compiler's optimized C translation backend
7695 B<-ofilename>, B<-v>, B<-->, B<-uPackname>, B<-mModulename>, B<-D>, B<-Dr>,
7696 B<-DO>, B<-Ds>, B<-Dp>, B<-Dq>, B<-Dl>, B<-Dt>, B<-f>,
7697 B<-ffreetmps-each-bblock>, B<-ffreetmps-each-loop>, B<-fomit-taint>, B<-On>
7709 =item Context of ".."
7713 =item Deprecated features
7721 =head2 B::Concise - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing concise info about ops
7731 B<-basic>, B<-exec>, B<-tree>, B<-compact>, B<-loose>, B<-vt>, B<-ascii>,
7732 B<-main>, B<-base>I<n>, B<-bigendian>, B<-littleendian>, B<-concise>,
7733 B<-terse>, B<-linenoise>, B<-debug>, B<-env>
7735 =item FORMATTING SPECIFICATIONS
7737 B<(x(>I<exec_text>B<;>I<basic_text>B<)x)>, B<(*(>I<text>B<)*)>,
7738 B<(*(>I<text1>B<;>I<text2>B<)*)>, B<(?(>I<text1>B<#>I<var>I<Text2>B<)?)>,
7739 B<#>I<var>, B<#>I<var>I<N>, B<~>, B<#addr>, B<#arg>, B<#class>,
7740 B<#classym>, B<#coplabel>, B<#exname>, B<#extarg>, B<#firstaddr>,
7741 B<#flags>, B<#flagval>, B<#hyphenseq>, B<#label>, B<#lastaddr>, B<#name>,
7742 B<#NAME>, B<#next>, B<#nextaddr>, B<#noise>, B<#private>, B<#privval>,
7743 B<#seq>, B<#seqnum>, B<#sibaddr>, B<#svaddr>, B<#svclass>, B<#svval>,
7744 B<#targ>, B<#targarg>, B<#targarglife>, B<#typenum>
7750 =item OP flags abbreviations
7752 =item OP class abbreviations
7756 =item Using B::Concise outside of the O framework
7762 =head2 B::Debug - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing debug info about ops
7774 =head2 B::Deparse - Perl compiler backend to produce perl code
7784 B<-l>, B<-p>, B<-q>, B<-f>I<FILE>, B<-s>I<LETTERS>, B<C>, B<i>I<NUMBER>,
7785 B<T>, B<v>I<STRING>B<.>, B<-x>I<LEVEL>
7787 =item USING B::Deparse AS A MODULE
7797 =item ambient_pragmas
7799 strict, $[, bytes, utf8, integer, re, warnings, hint_bits, warning_bits
7811 =head2 B::Disassembler - Disassemble Perl bytecode
7823 =head2 B::Lint - Perl lint
7831 =item OPTIONS AND LINT CHECKS
7833 B<context>, B<implicit-read> and B<implicit-write>, B<dollar-underscore>,
7834 B<private-names>, B<undefined-subs>, B<regexp-variables>, B<all>, B<none>
7836 =item NON LINT-CHECK OPTIONS
7846 =head2 B::O, O - Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends
7856 =item IMPLEMENTATION
7862 =head2 B::Showlex - Show lexical variables used in functions or files
7874 =head2 B::Stackobj - Helper module for CC backend
7886 =head2 B::Stash - show what stashes are loaded
7888 =head2 B::Terse - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing terse info about ops
7900 =head2 B::Xref - Generates cross reference reports for Perl programs
7910 C<-oFILENAME>, C<-r>, C<-D[tO]>
7918 =head2 Bblock, B::Bblock - Walk basic blocks
7930 =head2 Benchmark - benchmark running times of Perl code
7944 =item Standard Exports
7946 timeit(COUNT, CODE), timethis ( COUNT, CODE, [ TITLE, [ STYLE ]] ),
7947 timethese ( COUNT, CODEHASHREF, [ STYLE ] ), timediff ( T1, T2 ), timestr (
7948 TIMEDIFF, [ STYLE, [ FORMAT ] ] )
7950 =item Optional Exports
7952 clearcache ( COUNT ), clearallcache ( ), cmpthese ( COUT, CODEHASHREF, [
7953 STYLE ] ), cmpthese ( RESULTSHASHREF ), countit(TIME, CODE), disablecache (
7954 ), enablecache ( ), timesum ( T1, T2 )
7970 =item MODIFICATION HISTORY
7974 =head2 ByteLoader - load byte compiled perl code
7988 =head2 Bytecode, B::Bytecode - Perl compiler's bytecode backend
7998 B<-ofilename>, B<-afilename>, B<-->, B<-f>, B<-fcompress-nullops>,
7999 B<-fomit-sequence-numbers>, B<-fbypass-nullops>, B<-On>, B<-D>, B<-Do>,
8000 B<-Db>, B<-Da>, B<-DC>, B<-S>, B<-upackage>
8010 =head2 CGI - Simple Common Gateway Interface Class
8022 =item PROGRAMMING STYLE
8024 =item CALLING CGI.PM ROUTINES
8026 =item CREATING A NEW QUERY OBJECT (OBJECT-ORIENTED STYLE):
8028 =item CREATING A NEW QUERY OBJECT FROM AN INPUT FILE
8030 =item FETCHING A LIST OF KEYWORDS FROM THE QUERY:
8032 =item FETCHING THE NAMES OF ALL THE PARAMETERS PASSED TO YOUR SCRIPT:
8034 =item FETCHING THE VALUE OR VALUES OF A SINGLE NAMED PARAMETER:
8036 =item SETTING THE VALUE(S) OF A NAMED PARAMETER:
8038 =item APPENDING ADDITIONAL VALUES TO A NAMED PARAMETER:
8040 =item IMPORTING ALL PARAMETERS INTO A NAMESPACE:
8042 =item DELETING A PARAMETER COMPLETELY:
8044 =item DELETING ALL PARAMETERS:
8046 =item DIRECT ACCESS TO THE PARAMETER LIST:
8048 =item FETCHING THE PARAMETER LIST AS A HASH:
8050 =item SAVING THE STATE OF THE SCRIPT TO A FILE:
8052 =item RETRIEVING CGI ERRORS
8054 =item USING THE FUNCTION-ORIENTED INTERFACE
8056 B<:cgi>, B<:form>, B<:html2>, B<:html3>, B<:netscape>, B<:html>,
8057 B<:standard>, B<:all>
8061 -any, -compile, -nosticky, -no_undef_params, -no_xhtml, -nph,
8062 -newstyle_urls, -oldstyle_urls, -autoload, -no_debug, -debug,
8065 =item SPECIAL FORMS FOR IMPORTING HTML-TAG FUNCTIONS
8067 1. start_table() (generates a <TABLE> tag), 2. end_table() (generates a
8068 </TABLE> tag), 3. start_ul() (generates a <UL> tag), 4. end_ul() (generates
8073 =item GENERATING DYNAMIC DOCUMENTS
8077 =item CREATING A STANDARD HTTP HEADER:
8079 =item GENERATING A REDIRECTION HEADER
8081 =item CREATING THE HTML DOCUMENT HEADER
8083 B<Parameters:>, 4, 5, 6..
8085 =item ENDING THE HTML DOCUMENT:
8087 =item CREATING A SELF-REFERENCING URL THAT PRESERVES STATE INFORMATION:
8089 =item OBTAINING THE SCRIPT'S URL
8091 B<-absolute>, B<-relative>, B<-full>, B<-path> (B<-path_info>), B<-query>
8092 (B<-query_string>), B<-base>
8094 =item MIXING POST AND URL PARAMETERS
8098 =item CREATING STANDARD HTML ELEMENTS:
8102 =item PROVIDING ARGUMENTS TO HTML SHORTCUTS
8104 =item THE DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY OF HTML SHORTCUTS
8106 =item HTML SHORTCUTS AND LIST INTERPOLATION
8108 =item NON-STANDARD HTML SHORTCUTS
8110 =item AUTOESCAPING HTML
8112 $escaped_string = escapeHTML("unescaped string");, $charset =
8113 charset([$charset]);, $flag = autoEscape([$flag]);
8115 =item PRETTY-PRINTING HTML
8119 =item CREATING FILL-OUT FORMS:
8123 =item CREATING AN ISINDEX TAG
8125 =item STARTING AND ENDING A FORM
8127 B<application/x-www-form-urlencoded>, B<multipart/form-data>
8129 =item CREATING A TEXT FIELD
8133 =item CREATING A BIG TEXT FIELD
8135 =item CREATING A PASSWORD FIELD
8137 =item CREATING A FILE UPLOAD FIELD
8141 =item CREATING A POPUP MENU
8143 =item CREATING A SCROLLING LIST
8147 =item CREATING A GROUP OF RELATED CHECKBOXES
8151 =item CREATING A STANDALONE CHECKBOX
8155 =item CREATING A RADIO BUTTON GROUP
8159 =item CREATING A SUBMIT BUTTON
8163 =item CREATING A RESET BUTTON
8165 =item CREATING A DEFAULT BUTTON
8167 =item CREATING A HIDDEN FIELD
8171 =item CREATING A CLICKABLE IMAGE BUTTON
8175 =item CREATING A JAVASCRIPT ACTION BUTTON
8181 1. an expiration time, 2. a domain, 3. a path, 4. a "secure" flag,
8182 B<-name>, B<-value>, B<-path>, B<-domain>, B<-expires>, B<-secure>
8184 =item WORKING WITH FRAMES
8186 1. Create a <Frameset> document, 2. Specify the destination for the
8187 document in the HTTP header, 3. Specify the destination for the document in
8190 =item LIMITED SUPPORT FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS
8196 =item DUMPING OUT ALL THE NAME/VALUE PAIRS
8200 =item FETCHING ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
8202 B<Accept()>, B<raw_cookie()>, B<user_agent()>, B<path_info()>,
8203 B<path_translated()>, B<remote_host()>, B<script_name()>, B<referer()>,
8204 B<auth_type ()>, B<server_name ()>, B<virtual_host ()>, B<server_port ()>,
8205 B<server_software ()>, B<remote_user ()>, B<user_name ()>,
8206 B<request_method()>, B<content_type()>, B<http()>, B<https()>
8208 =item USING NPH SCRIPTS
8210 In the B<use> statement, By calling the B<nph()> method:, By using B<-nph>
8215 multipart_init(), multipart_start(), multipart_end(), multipart_final()
8217 =item Avoiding Denial of Service Attacks
8219 B<$CGI::POST_MAX>, B<$CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS>, B<1. On a script-by-script
8220 basis>, B<2. Globally for all scripts>
8222 =item COMPATIBILITY WITH CGI-LIB.PL
8224 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
8228 Matt Heffron (heffron@falstaff.css.beckman.com), James Taylor
8229 (james.taylor@srs.gov), Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com>, Mike Jewell
8230 (mlj3u@virginia.edu), Timothy Shimmin (tes@kbs.citri.edu.au), Joergen Haegg
8231 (jh@axis.se), Laurent Delfosse (delfosse@delfosse.com), Richard Resnick
8232 (applepi1@aol.com), Craig Bishop (csb@barwonwater.vic.gov.au), Tony Curtis
8233 (tc@vcpc.univie.ac.at), Tim Bunce (Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk), Tom Christiansen
8234 (tchrist@convex.com), Andreas Koenig (k@franz.ww.TU-Berlin.DE), Tim
8235 MacKenzie (Tim.MacKenzie@fulcrum.com.au), Kevin B. Hendricks
8236 (kbhend@dogwood.tyler.wm.edu), Stephen Dahmen (joyfire@inxpress.net), Ed
8237 Jordan (ed@fidalgo.net), David Alan Pisoni (david@cnation.com), Doug
8238 MacEachern (dougm@opengroup.org), Robin Houston (robin@oneworld.org),
8239 ...and many many more..
8241 =item A COMPLETE EXAMPLE OF A SIMPLE FORM-BASED SCRIPT
8249 =head2 CGI::Apache - Backward compatibility module for CGI.pm
8259 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
8267 =head2 CGI::Carp, B<CGI::Carp> - CGI routines for writing to the HTTPD (or
8276 =item REDIRECTING ERROR MESSAGES
8278 =item MAKING PERL ERRORS APPEAR IN THE BROWSER WINDOW
8282 =item Changing the default message
8286 =item MAKING WARNINGS APPEAR AS HTML COMMENTS
8296 =head2 CGI::Cookie - Interface to Netscape Cookies
8304 =item USING CGI::Cookie
8306 B<1. expiration date>, B<2. domain>, B<3. path>, B<4. secure flag>
8310 =item Creating New Cookies
8312 =item Sending the Cookie to the Browser
8314 =item Recovering Previous Cookies
8316 =item Manipulating Cookies
8318 B<name()>, B<value()>, B<domain()>, B<path()>, B<expires()>
8322 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
8330 =head2 CGI::Fast - CGI Interface for Fast CGI
8338 =item OTHER PIECES OF THE PUZZLE
8340 =item WRITING FASTCGI PERL SCRIPTS
8342 =item INSTALLING FASTCGI SCRIPTS
8344 =item USING FASTCGI SCRIPTS AS CGI SCRIPTS
8348 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
8356 =head2 CGI::Pretty - module to produce nicely formatted HTML code
8366 =item Tags that won't be formatted
8368 =item Customizing the Indenting
8380 =head2 CGI::Push - Simple Interface to Server Push
8388 =item USING CGI::Push
8390 -next_page, -last_page, -type, -delay, -cookie, -target, -expires, -nph
8394 =item Heterogeneous Pages
8396 =item Changing the Page Delay on the Fly
8400 =item INSTALLING CGI::Push SCRIPTS
8402 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
8410 =head2 CGI::Switch - Backward compatibility module for defunct CGI::Switch
8420 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
8428 =head2 CGI::Util - Internal utilities used by CGI module
8436 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
8442 =head2 CPAN - query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites
8452 =item Interactive Mode
8454 Searching for authors, bundles, distribution files and modules, make, test,
8455 install, clean modules or distributions, get, readme, look module or
8456 distribution, ls author, Signals
8464 =item The four C<CPAN::*> Classes: Author, Bundle, Module, Distribution
8466 =item Programmer's interface
8468 expand($type,@things), expandany(@things), Programming Examples
8470 =item Methods in the other Classes
8472 CPAN::Author::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Author::as_string(),
8473 CPAN::Author::email(), CPAN::Author::fullname(), CPAN::Author::name(),
8474 CPAN::Bundle::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Bundle::as_string(),
8475 CPAN::Bundle::clean(), CPAN::Bundle::contains(),
8476 CPAN::Bundle::force($method,@args), CPAN::Bundle::get(),
8477 CPAN::Bundle::inst_file(), CPAN::Bundle::inst_version(),
8478 CPAN::Bundle::uptodate(), CPAN::Bundle::install(), CPAN::Bundle::make(),
8479 CPAN::Bundle::readme(), CPAN::Bundle::test(),
8480 CPAN::Distribution::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Distribution::as_string(),
8481 CPAN::Distribution::clean(), CPAN::Distribution::containsmods(),
8482 CPAN::Distribution::cvs_import(), CPAN::Distribution::dir(),
8483 CPAN::Distribution::force($method,@args), CPAN::Distribution::get(),
8484 CPAN::Distribution::install(), CPAN::Distribution::isa_perl(),
8485 CPAN::Distribution::look(), CPAN::Distribution::make(),
8486 CPAN::Distribution::prereq_pm(), CPAN::Distribution::readme(),
8487 CPAN::Distribution::test(), CPAN::Distribution::uptodate(),
8488 CPAN::Index::force_reload(), CPAN::Index::reload(), CPAN::InfoObj::dump(),
8489 CPAN::Module::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Module::as_string(),
8490 CPAN::Module::clean(), CPAN::Module::cpan_file(),
8491 CPAN::Module::cpan_version(), CPAN::Module::cvs_import(),
8492 CPAN::Module::description(), CPAN::Module::force($method,@args),
8493 CPAN::Module::get(), CPAN::Module::inst_file(),
8494 CPAN::Module::inst_version(), CPAN::Module::install(),
8495 CPAN::Module::look(), CPAN::Module::make(),
8496 CPAN::Module::manpage_headline(), CPAN::Module::readme(),
8497 CPAN::Module::test(), CPAN::Module::uptodate(), CPAN::Module::userid()
8505 =item Finding packages and VERSION
8509 =item Floppy, Zip, Offline Mode
8515 C<o conf E<lt>scalar optionE<gt>>, C<o conf E<lt>scalar optionE<gt>
8516 E<lt>valueE<gt>>, C<o conf E<lt>list optionE<gt>>, C<o conf E<lt>list
8517 optionE<gt> [shift|pop]>, C<o conf E<lt>list optionE<gt>
8518 [unshift|push|splice] E<lt>listE<gt>>
8522 =item Note on urllist parameter's format
8524 =item urllist parameter has CD-ROM support
8532 =item POPULATE AN INSTALLATION WITH LOTS OF MODULES
8534 =item WORKING WITH CPAN.pm BEHIND FIREWALLS
8538 =item Three basic types of firewalls
8540 http firewall, ftp firewall, One way visibility, SOCKS, IP Masquerade
8542 =item Configuring lynx or ncftp for going through a firewall
8548 1), 2), 3), 4), 5), 6), 7), 8), 9), 10)
8560 =head2 CPAN::FirstTime - Utility for CPAN::Config file Initialization
8570 =head2 CPANox, CPAN::Nox - Wrapper around CPAN.pm without using any XS
8583 =head2 Carp, carp - warn of errors (from perspective of caller)
8593 =item Forcing a Stack Trace
8601 =head2 Carp::Heavy, Carp heavy machinery - no user serviceable parts inside
8603 =head2 Class::ISA -- report the search path for a class's ISA tree
8613 the function Class::ISA::super_path($CLASS), the function
8614 Class::ISA::self_and_super_path($CLASS), the function
8615 Class::ISA::self_and_super_versions($CLASS)
8617 =item CAUTIONARY NOTES
8625 =head2 Class::Struct - declare struct-like datatypes as Perl classes
8635 =item The C<struct()> function
8637 =item Class Creation at Compile Time
8639 =item Element Types and Accessor Methods
8641 Scalar (C<'$'> or C<'*$'>), Array (C<'@'> or C<'*@'>), Hash (C<'%'> or
8642 C<'*%'>), Class (C<'Class_Name'> or C<'*Class_Name'>)
8644 =item Initializing with C<new>
8650 Example 1, Example 2, Example 3
8652 =item Author and Modification History
8656 =head2 Config - access Perl configuration information
8664 myconfig(), config_sh(), config_vars(@names)
8676 C<_a>, C<_exe>, C<_o>
8680 C<afs>, C<afsroot>, C<alignbytes>, C<ansi2knr>, C<aphostname>,
8681 C<api_revision>, C<api_subversion>, C<api_version>, C<api_versionstring>,
8682 C<ar>, C<archlib>, C<archlibexp>, C<archname64>, C<archname>, C<archobjs>,
8687 C<baserev>, C<bash>, C<bin>, C<bincompat5005>, C<binexp>, C<bison>,
8688 C<byacc>, C<byteorder>
8692 C<c>, C<castflags>, C<cat>, C<cc>, C<cccdlflags>, C<ccdlflags>, C<ccflags>,
8693 C<ccflags_uselargefiles>, C<ccname>, C<ccsymbols>, C<ccversion>, C<cf_by>,
8694 C<cf_email>, C<cf_time>, C<charsize>, C<chgrp>, C<chmod>, C<chown>,
8695 C<clocktype>, C<comm>, C<compress>, C<contains>, C<cp>, C<cpio>, C<cpp>,
8696 C<cpp_stuff>, C<cppccsymbols>, C<cppflags>, C<cpplast>, C<cppminus>,
8697 C<cpprun>, C<cppstdin>, C<cppsymbols>, C<cryptlib>, C<csh>
8701 C<d__fwalk>, C<d_access>, C<d_accessx>, C<d_alarm>, C<d_archlib>,
8702 C<d_atolf>, C<d_atoll>, C<d_attribut>, C<d_bcmp>, C<d_bcopy>,
8703 C<d_bincompat5005>, C<d_bsd>, C<d_bsdgetpgrp>, C<d_bsdsetpgrp>, C<d_bzero>,
8704 C<d_casti32>, C<d_castneg>, C<d_charvspr>, C<d_chown>, C<d_chroot>,
8705 C<d_chsize>, C<d_closedir>, C<d_cmsghdr_s>, C<d_const>, C<d_crypt>,
8706 C<d_csh>, C<d_cuserid>, C<d_dbl_dig>, C<d_dbminitproto>, C<d_difftime>,
8707 C<d_dirnamlen>, C<d_dlerror>, C<d_dlopen>, C<d_dlsymun>, C<d_dosuid>,
8708 C<d_drand48proto>, C<d_dup2>, C<d_eaccess>, C<d_endgrent>, C<d_endhent>,
8709 C<d_endnent>, C<d_endpent>, C<d_endpwent>, C<d_endsent>, C<d_eofnblk>,
8710 C<d_eunice>, C<d_fchdir>, C<d_fchmod>, C<d_fchown>, C<d_fcntl>,
8711 C<d_fcntl_can_lock>, C<d_fd_macros>, C<d_fd_set>, C<d_fds_bits>,
8712 C<d_fgetpos>, C<d_flexfnam>, C<d_flock>, C<d_flockproto>, C<d_fork>,
8713 C<d_fpathconf>, C<d_fpos64_t>, C<d_frexpl>, C<d_fs_data_s>, C<d_fseeko>,
8714 C<d_fsetpos>, C<d_fstatfs>, C<d_fstatvfs>, C<d_fsync>, C<d_ftello>,
8715 C<d_ftime>, C<d_Gconvert>, C<d_getcwd>, C<d_getespwnam>, C<d_getfsstat>,
8716 C<d_getgrent>, C<d_getgrps>, C<d_gethbyaddr>, C<d_gethbyname>,
8717 C<d_gethent>, C<d_gethname>, C<d_gethostprotos>, C<d_getitimer>,
8718 C<d_getlogin>, C<d_getmnt>, C<d_getmntent>, C<d_getnbyaddr>,
8719 C<d_getnbyname>, C<d_getnent>, C<d_getnetprotos>, C<d_getpagsz>,
8720 C<d_getpbyname>, C<d_getpbynumber>, C<d_getpent>, C<d_getpgid>,
8721 C<d_getpgrp2>, C<d_getpgrp>, C<d_getppid>, C<d_getprior>,
8722 C<d_getprotoprotos>, C<d_getprpwnam>, C<d_getpwent>, C<d_getsbyname>,
8723 C<d_getsbyport>, C<d_getsent>, C<d_getservprotos>, C<d_getspnam>,
8724 C<d_gettimeod>, C<d_gnulibc>, C<d_grpasswd>, C<d_hasmntopt>, C<d_htonl>,
8725 C<d_iconv>, C<d_index>, C<d_inetaton>, C<d_int64_t>, C<d_isascii>,
8726 C<d_isnan>, C<d_isnanl>, C<d_killpg>, C<d_lchown>, C<d_ldbl_dig>,
8727 C<d_link>, C<d_locconv>, C<d_lockf>, C<d_longdbl>, C<d_longlong>,
8728 C<d_lseekproto>, C<d_lstat>, C<d_madvise>, C<d_mblen>, C<d_mbstowcs>,
8729 C<d_mbtowc>, C<d_memchr>, C<d_memcmp>, C<d_memcpy>, C<d_memmove>,
8730 C<d_memset>, C<d_mkdir>, C<d_mkdtemp>, C<d_mkfifo>, C<d_mkstemp>,
8731 C<d_mkstemps>, C<d_mktime>, C<d_mmap>, C<d_modfl>, C<d_modfl_pow32_bug>,
8732 C<d_mprotect>, C<d_msg>, C<d_msg_ctrunc>, C<d_msg_dontroute>, C<d_msg_oob>,
8733 C<d_msg_peek>, C<d_msg_proxy>, C<d_msgctl>, C<d_msgget>, C<d_msghdr_s>,
8734 C<d_msgrcv>, C<d_msgsnd>, C<d_msync>, C<d_munmap>, C<d_mymalloc>,
8735 C<d_nice>, C<d_nl_langinfo>, C<d_nv_preserves_uv>,
8736 C<d_nv_preserves_uv_bits>, C<d_off64_t>, C<d_old_pthread_create_joinable>,
8737 C<d_oldpthreads>, C<d_oldsock>, C<d_open3>, C<d_pathconf>, C<d_pause>,
8738 C<d_perl_otherlibdirs>, C<d_phostname>, C<d_pipe>, C<d_poll>,
8739 C<d_portable>, C<d_PRId64>, C<d_PRIeldbl>, C<d_PRIEUldbl>, C<d_PRIfldbl>,
8740 C<d_PRIFUldbl>, C<d_PRIgldbl>, C<d_PRIGUldbl>, C<d_PRIi64>, C<d_PRIo64>,
8741 C<d_PRIu64>, C<d_PRIx64>, C<d_PRIXU64>, C<d_pthread_yield>, C<d_pwage>,
8742 C<d_pwchange>, C<d_pwclass>, C<d_pwcomment>, C<d_pwexpire>, C<d_pwgecos>,
8743 C<d_pwpasswd>, C<d_pwquota>, C<d_qgcvt>, C<d_quad>, C<d_readdir>,
8744 C<d_readlink>, C<d_readv>, C<d_recvmsg>, C<d_rename>, C<d_rewinddir>,
8745 C<d_rmdir>, C<d_safebcpy>, C<d_safemcpy>, C<d_sanemcmp>, C<d_sbrkproto>,
8746 C<d_sched_yield>, C<d_scm_rights>, C<d_SCNfldbl>, C<d_seekdir>,
8747 C<d_select>, C<d_sem>, C<d_semctl>, C<d_semctl_semid_ds>,
8748 C<d_semctl_semun>, C<d_semget>, C<d_semop>, C<d_sendmsg>, C<d_setegid>,
8749 C<d_seteuid>, C<d_setgrent>, C<d_setgrps>, C<d_sethent>, C<d_setitimer>,
8750 C<d_setlinebuf>, C<d_setlocale>, C<d_setnent>, C<d_setpent>, C<d_setpgid>,
8751 C<d_setpgrp2>, C<d_setpgrp>, C<d_setprior>, C<d_setproctitle>,
8752 C<d_setpwent>, C<d_setregid>, C<d_setresgid>, C<d_setresuid>,
8753 C<d_setreuid>, C<d_setrgid>, C<d_setruid>, C<d_setsent>, C<d_setsid>,
8754 C<d_setvbuf>, C<d_sfio>, C<d_shm>, C<d_shmat>, C<d_shmatprototype>,
8755 C<d_shmctl>, C<d_shmdt>, C<d_shmget>, C<d_sigaction>, C<d_sigprocmask>,
8756 C<d_sigsetjmp>, C<d_sockatmark>, C<d_sockatmarkproto>, C<d_socket>,
8757 C<d_socklen_t>, C<d_sockpair>, C<d_socks5_init>, C<d_sqrtl>,
8758 C<d_sresgproto>, C<d_sresuproto>, C<d_statblks>, C<d_statfs_f_flags>,
8759 C<d_statfs_s>, C<d_statvfs>, C<d_stdio_cnt_lval>, C<d_stdio_ptr_lval>,
8760 C<d_stdio_ptr_lval_nochange_cnt>, C<d_stdio_ptr_lval_sets_cnt>,
8761 C<d_stdio_stream_array>, C<d_stdiobase>, C<d_stdstdio>, C<d_strchr>,
8762 C<d_strcoll>, C<d_strctcpy>, C<d_strerrm>, C<d_strerror>, C<d_strftime>,
8763 C<d_strtod>, C<d_strtol>, C<d_strtold>, C<d_strtoll>, C<d_strtoq>,
8764 C<d_strtoul>, C<d_strtoull>, C<d_strtouq>, C<d_strxfrm>, C<d_suidsafe>,
8765 C<d_symlink>, C<d_syscall>, C<d_syscallproto>, C<d_sysconf>,
8766 C<d_sysernlst>, C<d_syserrlst>, C<d_system>, C<d_tcgetpgrp>,
8767 C<d_tcsetpgrp>, C<d_telldir>, C<d_telldirproto>, C<d_time>, C<d_times>,
8768 C<d_truncate>, C<d_tzname>, C<d_u32align>, C<d_ualarm>, C<d_umask>,
8769 C<d_uname>, C<d_union_semun>, C<d_usleep>, C<d_usleepproto>, C<d_ustat>,
8770 C<d_vendorarch>, C<d_vendorbin>, C<d_vendorlib>, C<d_vfork>,
8771 C<d_void_closedir>, C<d_voidsig>, C<d_voidtty>, C<d_volatile>,
8772 C<d_vprintf>, C<d_wait4>, C<d_waitpid>, C<d_wcstombs>, C<d_wctomb>,
8773 C<d_writev>, C<d_xenix>, C<date>, C<db_hashtype>, C<db_prefixtype>,
8774 C<db_version_major>, C<db_version_minor>, C<db_version_patch>,
8775 C<defvoidused>, C<direntrytype>, C<dlext>, C<dlsrc>, C<doublesize>,
8776 C<drand01>, C<dynamic_ext>
8780 C<eagain>, C<ebcdic>, C<echo>, C<egrep>, C<emacs>, C<eunicefix>,
8781 C<exe_ext>, C<expr>, C<extensions>
8785 C<fflushall>, C<fflushNULL>, C<find>, C<firstmakefile>, C<flex>,
8786 C<fpossize>, C<fpostype>, C<freetype>, C<from>, C<full_ar>, C<full_csh>,
8791 C<gccosandvers>, C<gccversion>, C<gidformat>, C<gidsign>, C<gidsize>,
8792 C<gidtype>, C<glibpth>, C<grep>, C<groupcat>, C<groupstype>, C<gzip>
8796 C<h_fcntl>, C<h_sysfile>, C<hint>, C<hostcat>
8800 C<i16size>, C<i16type>, C<i32size>, C<i32type>, C<i64size>, C<i64type>,
8801 C<i8size>, C<i8type>, C<i_arpainet>, C<i_bsdioctl>, C<i_db>, C<i_dbm>,
8802 C<i_dirent>, C<i_dld>, C<i_dlfcn>, C<i_fcntl>, C<i_float>, C<i_gdbm>,
8803 C<i_grp>, C<i_iconv>, C<i_ieeefp>, C<i_inttypes>, C<i_langinfo>,
8804 C<i_libutil>, C<i_limits>, C<i_locale>, C<i_machcthr>, C<i_malloc>,
8805 C<i_math>, C<i_memory>, C<i_mntent>, C<i_ndbm>, C<i_netdb>, C<i_neterrno>,
8806 C<i_netinettcp>, C<i_niin>, C<i_poll>, C<i_prot>, C<i_pthread>, C<i_pwd>,
8807 C<i_rpcsvcdbm>, C<i_sfio>, C<i_sgtty>, C<i_shadow>, C<i_socks>,
8808 C<i_stdarg>, C<i_stddef>, C<i_stdlib>, C<i_string>, C<i_sunmath>,
8809 C<i_sysaccess>, C<i_sysdir>, C<i_sysfile>, C<i_sysfilio>, C<i_sysin>,
8810 C<i_sysioctl>, C<i_syslog>, C<i_sysmman>, C<i_sysmode>, C<i_sysmount>,
8811 C<i_sysndir>, C<i_sysparam>, C<i_sysresrc>, C<i_syssecrt>, C<i_sysselct>,
8812 C<i_syssockio>, C<i_sysstat>, C<i_sysstatfs>, C<i_sysstatvfs>,
8813 C<i_systime>, C<i_systimek>, C<i_systimes>, C<i_systypes>, C<i_sysuio>,
8814 C<i_sysun>, C<i_sysutsname>, C<i_sysvfs>, C<i_syswait>, C<i_termio>,
8815 C<i_termios>, C<i_time>, C<i_unistd>, C<i_ustat>, C<i_utime>, C<i_values>,
8816 C<i_varargs>, C<i_varhdr>, C<i_vfork>, C<ignore_versioned_solibs>,
8817 C<inc_version_list>, C<inc_version_list_init>, C<incpath>, C<inews>,
8818 C<installarchlib>, C<installbin>, C<installman1dir>, C<installman3dir>,
8819 C<installprefix>, C<installprefixexp>, C<installprivlib>, C<installscript>,
8820 C<installsitearch>, C<installsitebin>, C<installsitelib>, C<installstyle>,
8821 C<installusrbinperl>, C<installvendorarch>, C<installvendorbin>,
8822 C<installvendorlib>, C<intsize>, C<issymlink>, C<ivdformat>, C<ivsize>,
8827 C<known_extensions>, C<ksh>
8831 C<ld>, C<lddlflags>, C<ldflags>, C<ldflags_uselargefiles>, C<ldlibpthname>,
8832 C<less>, C<lib_ext>, C<libc>, C<libperl>, C<libpth>, C<libs>, C<libsdirs>,
8833 C<libsfiles>, C<libsfound>, C<libspath>, C<libswanted>,
8834 C<libswanted_uselargefiles>, C<line>, C<lint>, C<lkflags>, C<ln>, C<lns>,
8835 C<locincpth>, C<loclibpth>, C<longdblsize>, C<longlongsize>, C<longsize>,
8836 C<lp>, C<lpr>, C<ls>, C<lseeksize>, C<lseektype>
8840 C<mail>, C<mailx>, C<make>, C<make_set_make>, C<mallocobj>, C<mallocsrc>,
8841 C<malloctype>, C<man1dir>, C<man1direxp>, C<man1ext>, C<man3dir>,
8842 C<man3direxp>, C<man3ext>
8846 C<Mcc>, C<mips_type>, C<mkdir>, C<mmaptype>, C<modetype>, C<more>,
8847 C<multiarch>, C<mv>, C<myarchname>, C<mydomain>, C<myhostname>, C<myuname>
8851 C<n>, C<need_va_copy>, C<netdb_hlen_type>, C<netdb_host_type>,
8852 C<netdb_name_type>, C<netdb_net_type>, C<nm>, C<nm_opt>, C<nm_so_opt>,
8853 C<nonxs_ext>, C<nroff>, C<nveformat>, C<nvEUformat>, C<nvfformat>,
8854 C<nvFUformat>, C<nvgformat>, C<nvGUformat>, C<nvsize>, C<nvtype>
8858 C<o_nonblock>, C<obj_ext>, C<old_pthread_create_joinable>, C<optimize>,
8859 C<orderlib>, C<osname>, C<osvers>, C<otherlibdirs>
8863 C<package>, C<pager>, C<passcat>, C<patchlevel>, C<path_sep>, C<perl5>,
8864 C<perl>, C<perl_patchlevel>
8868 C<PERL_REVISION>, C<PERL_SUBVERSION>, C<PERL_VERSION>, C<perladmin>,
8869 C<perllibs>, C<perlpath>, C<pg>, C<phostname>, C<pidtype>, C<plibpth>,
8870 C<pm_apiversion>, C<pmake>, C<pr>, C<prefix>, C<prefixexp>, C<privlib>,
8871 C<privlibexp>, C<prototype>, C<ptrsize>
8875 C<quadkind>, C<quadtype>
8879 C<randbits>, C<randfunc>, C<randseedtype>, C<ranlib>, C<rd_nodata>,
8880 C<revision>, C<rm>, C<rmail>, C<run>, C<runnm>
8884 C<sched_yield>, C<scriptdir>, C<scriptdirexp>, C<sed>, C<seedfunc>,
8885 C<selectminbits>, C<selecttype>, C<sendmail>, C<sh>, C<shar>, C<sharpbang>,
8886 C<shmattype>, C<shortsize>, C<shrpenv>, C<shsharp>, C<sig_count>,
8887 C<sig_name>, C<sig_name_init>, C<sig_num>, C<sig_num_init>, C<sig_size>,
8888 C<signal_t>, C<sitearch>, C<sitearchexp>, C<sitebin>, C<sitebinexp>,
8889 C<sitelib>, C<sitelib_stem>, C<sitelibexp>, C<siteprefix>,
8890 C<siteprefixexp>, C<sizesize>, C<sizetype>, C<sleep>, C<smail>, C<so>,
8891 C<sockethdr>, C<socketlib>, C<socksizetype>, C<sort>, C<spackage>,
8892 C<spitshell>, C<sPRId64>, C<sPRIeldbl>, C<sPRIEUldbl>, C<sPRIfldbl>,
8893 C<sPRIFUldbl>, C<sPRIgldbl>, C<sPRIGUldbl>, C<sPRIi64>, C<sPRIo64>,
8894 C<sPRIu64>, C<sPRIx64>, C<sPRIXU64>, C<src>, C<sSCNfldbl>, C<ssizetype>,
8895 C<startperl>, C<startsh>, C<static_ext>, C<stdchar>, C<stdio_base>,
8896 C<stdio_bufsiz>, C<stdio_cnt>, C<stdio_filbuf>, C<stdio_ptr>,
8897 C<stdio_stream_array>, C<strings>, C<submit>, C<subversion>, C<sysman>
8901 C<tail>, C<tar>, C<targetarch>, C<tbl>, C<tee>, C<test>, C<timeincl>,
8902 C<timetype>, C<to>, C<touch>, C<tr>, C<trnl>, C<troff>
8906 C<u16size>, C<u16type>, C<u32size>, C<u32type>, C<u64size>, C<u64type>,
8907 C<u8size>, C<u8type>, C<uidformat>, C<uidsign>, C<uidsize>, C<uidtype>,
8908 C<uname>, C<uniq>, C<uquadtype>, C<use5005threads>, C<use64bitall>,
8909 C<use64bitint>, C<usecrosscompile>, C<usedl>, C<useithreads>,
8910 C<uselargefiles>, C<uselongdouble>, C<usemorebits>, C<usemultiplicity>,
8911 C<usemymalloc>, C<usenm>, C<useopcode>, C<useperlio>, C<useposix>,
8912 C<usereentrant>, C<usesfio>, C<useshrplib>, C<usesocks>, C<usethreads>,
8913 C<usevendorprefix>, C<usevfork>, C<usrinc>, C<uuname>, C<uvoformat>,
8914 C<uvsize>, C<uvtype>, C<uvuformat>, C<uvxformat>, C<uvXUformat>
8918 C<vendorarch>, C<vendorarchexp>, C<vendorbin>, C<vendorbinexp>,
8919 C<vendorlib>, C<vendorlib_stem>, C<vendorlibexp>, C<vendorprefix>,
8920 C<vendorprefixexp>, C<version>, C<versiononly>, C<vi>, C<voidflags>
8924 C<xlibpth>, C<xs_apiversion>
8928 C<yacc>, C<yaccflags>
8940 =head2 Cwd - get pathname of current working directory
8952 =head2 DB - programmatic interface to the Perl debugging API (draft,
8964 =item Global Variables
8966 $DB::sub, %DB::sub, $DB::single, $DB::signal, $DB::trace, @DB::args,
8967 @DB::dbline, %DB::dbline, $DB::package, $DB::filename, $DB::subname,
8972 CLIENT->register(), CLIENT->evalcode(STRING), CLIENT->skippkg('D::hide'),
8973 CLIENT->run(), CLIENT->step(), CLIENT->next(), CLIENT->done()
8975 =item Client Callback Methods
8977 CLIENT->init(), CLIENT->prestop([STRING]), CLIENT->stop(), CLIENT->idle(),
8978 CLIENT->poststop([STRING]), CLIENT->evalcode(STRING), CLIENT->cleanup(),
8979 CLIENT->output(LIST)
8989 =head2 DB_File - Perl5 access to Berkeley DB version 1.x
8997 B<DB_HASH>, B<DB_BTREE>, B<DB_RECNO>
9001 =item Using DB_File with Berkeley DB version 2 or 3
9003 =item Interface to Berkeley DB
9005 =item Opening a Berkeley DB Database File
9007 =item Default Parameters
9009 =item In Memory Databases
9017 =item A Simple Example
9025 =item Changing the BTREE sort order
9027 =item Handling Duplicate Keys
9029 =item The get_dup() Method
9031 =item The find_dup() Method
9033 =item The del_dup() Method
9035 =item Matching Partial Keys
9043 =item The 'bval' Option
9045 =item A Simple Example
9047 =item Extra RECNO Methods
9049 B<$X-E<gt>push(list) ;>, B<$value = $X-E<gt>pop ;>, B<$X-E<gt>shift>,
9050 B<$X-E<gt>unshift(list) ;>, B<$X-E<gt>length>, B<$X-E<gt>splice(offset,
9053 =item Another Example
9057 =item THE API INTERFACE
9059 B<$status = $X-E<gt>get($key, $value [, $flags]) ;>, B<$status =
9060 $X-E<gt>put($key, $value [, $flags]) ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>del($key [,
9061 $flags]) ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>fd ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>seq($key,
9062 $value, $flags) ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>sync([$flags]) ;>
9066 B<filter_store_key>, B<filter_store_value>, B<filter_fetch_key>,
9067 B<filter_fetch_value>
9073 =item An Example -- the NULL termination problem.
9075 =item Another Example -- Key is a C int.
9079 =item HINTS AND TIPS
9083 =item Locking: The Trouble with fd
9085 =item Safe ways to lock a database
9087 B<Tie::DB_Lock>, B<Tie::DB_LockFile>, B<DB_File::Lock>
9089 =item Sharing Databases With C Applications
9091 =item The untie() Gotcha
9095 =item COMMON QUESTIONS
9099 =item Why is there Perl source in my database?
9101 =item How do I store complex data structures with DB_File?
9103 =item What does "Invalid Argument" mean?
9105 =item What does "Bareword 'DB_File' not allowed" mean?
9125 =head2 Data::Dumper - stringified perl data structures, suitable for both
9126 printing and C<eval>
9138 I<PACKAGE>->new(I<ARRAYREF [>, I<ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Dump I<or>
9139 I<PACKAGE>->Dump(I<ARRAYREF [>, I<ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Seen(I<[HASHREF]>),
9140 I<$OBJ>->Values(I<[ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Names(I<[ARRAYREF]>),
9147 =item Configuration Variables or Methods
9149 $Data::Dumper::Indent I<or> I<$OBJ>->Indent(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9150 $Data::Dumper::Purity I<or> I<$OBJ>->Purity(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9151 $Data::Dumper::Pad I<or> I<$OBJ>->Pad(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9152 $Data::Dumper::Varname I<or> I<$OBJ>->Varname(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9153 $Data::Dumper::Useqq I<or> I<$OBJ>->Useqq(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9154 $Data::Dumper::Terse I<or> I<$OBJ>->Terse(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9155 $Data::Dumper::Freezer I<or> $I<OBJ>->Freezer(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9156 $Data::Dumper::Toaster I<or> $I<OBJ>->Toaster(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9157 $Data::Dumper::Deepcopy I<or> $I<OBJ>->Deepcopy(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9158 $Data::Dumper::Quotekeys I<or> $I<OBJ>->Quotekeys(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9159 $Data::Dumper::Bless I<or> $I<OBJ>->Bless(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9160 $Data::Dumper::Maxdepth I<or> $I<OBJ>->Maxdepth(I<[NEWVAL]>)
9180 =head2 Devel::DProf - a Perl code profiler
9188 =item PROFILE FORMAT
9200 =head2 Devel::Peek - A data debugging tool for the XS programmer
9210 =item Memory footprint debugging
9218 =item A simple scalar string
9220 =item A simple scalar number
9222 =item A simple scalar with an extra reference
9224 =item A reference to a simple scalar
9226 =item A reference to an array
9228 =item A reference to a hash
9230 =item Dumping a large array or hash
9232 =item A reference to an SV which holds a C pointer
9234 =item A reference to a subroutine
9248 =head2 Devel::SelfStubber - generate stubs for a SelfLoading module
9258 =head2 Digest:: - Modules that calculate message digests
9266 I<binary>, I<hex>, I<base64>
9270 $ctx = Digest->XXX($arg,...), $ctx = Digest->new(XXX => $arg,...), $ctx =
9271 Digest::XXX->new($arg,...), $ctx->reset, $ctx->add($data,...),
9272 $ctx->addfile($io_handle), $ctx->digest, $ctx->hexdigest, $ctx->b64digest
9280 =head2 Digest::MD5 - Perl interface to the MD5 Algorithm
9290 md5($data,...), md5_hex($data,...), md5_base64($data,...)
9294 $md5 = Digest::MD5->new, $md5->reset, $md5->add($data,...),
9295 $md5->addfile($io_handle), $md5->digest, $md5->hexdigest, $md5->b64digest
9307 =head2 DirHandle - supply object methods for directory handles
9319 =head2 Dumpvalue - provides screen dump of Perl data.
9331 C<arrayDepth>, C<hashDepth>, C<compactDump>, C<veryCompact>, C<globPrint>,
9332 C<DumpDBFiles>, C<DumpPackages>, C<DumpReused>, C<tick>, C<HighBit>,
9333 C<printUndef>, C<UsageOnly>, unctrl, subdump, bareStringify, quoteHighBit,
9338 dumpValue, dumpValues, dumpvars, set_quote, set_unctrl, compactDump,
9339 veryCompact, set, get
9345 =head2 DynaLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code
9353 @dl_library_path, @dl_resolve_using, @dl_require_symbols, @dl_librefs,
9354 @dl_modules, dl_error(), $dl_debug, dl_findfile(), dl_expandspec(),
9355 dl_load_file(), dl_unload_file(), dl_loadflags(), dl_find_symbol(),
9356 dl_find_symbol_anywhere(), dl_undef_symbols(), dl_install_xsub(),
9363 =head2 DynaLoader::XSLoader, XSLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into
9376 =head2 Encode - character encodings
9394 =item Characteristics of an Encoding
9396 =item Types of Encodings
9398 Fixed length 8-bit (or less) encodings, Fixed length 16-bit encodings,
9399 Fixed length 32-bit encodings, Multi-byte encodings, "Escape" encodings
9401 =item Specifying Encodings
9403 1. By name, 2. As an object
9405 =item Encoding Names
9407 The MIME name as defined in IETF RFC-XXXX, The name in the IANA registry,
9408 The name used by the the organization that defined it
9412 =item PERL ENCODING API
9416 =item Generic Encoding Interface
9418 =item Handling Malformed Data
9420 Scheme 1, Scheme 2, Other Schemes
9424 =item Other Encodings of Unicode
9426 =item Listing available encodings
9428 =item Defining Aliases
9430 As a simple string, As a qr// compiled regular expression, e.g.:, As a code
9433 =item Defining Encodings
9437 =item Encoding and IO
9439 =item Encoding How to ...
9441 IO with mixed content (faking iso-2020-*), MIME's Content-Length:, UTF-8
9442 strings in binary data, Perl/Encode wrappers on non-Unicode XS modules
9444 =item Messing with Perl's Internals
9446 is_utf8(STRING [, CHECK]), valid_utf8(STRING)
9448 =item IMPLEMENTATION CLASSES
9450 -E<gt>name, -E<gt>new_sequence, -E<gt>encode($string,$check),
9451 -E<gt>decode($octets,$check)
9455 =item Compiled Encodings
9457 .enc, .ucm, .ucm, .c, .xs, ascii and iso-8859-*, IBM-1047 and two other
9458 variants of EBCDIC, symbol and dingbats as used by Tk on X11
9466 =head2 Encode::EncodeFormat, EncodeFormat - the format of encoding tables
9467 of the Encode extension
9473 [1] B<S>, [2] B<D>, [3] B<M>, [4] B<E>
9481 =head2 Encode::Tcl - Tcl encodings
9483 =head2 EncodeFormat - the format of encoding tables of the Encode extension
9489 [1] B<S>, [2] B<D>, [3] B<M>, [4] B<E>
9497 =head2 English - use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation
9510 =head2 Env - perl module that imports environment variables as scalars or
9525 =head2 Errno - System errno constants
9541 =head2 Exporter - Implements default import method for modules
9553 =item Selecting What To Export
9555 =item Specialised Import Lists
9557 =item Exporting without using Export's import method
9559 =item Module Version Checking
9561 =item Managing Unknown Symbols
9563 =item Tag Handling Utility Functions
9569 =head2 Exporter::Heavy - Exporter guts
9579 =head2 ExtUtils::Command - utilities to replace common UNIX commands in
9600 mv source... destination
9602 cp source... destination
9620 =head2 ExtUtils::Constant - generate XS code to import C header constants
9630 IV, UV, NV, PV, PVN, PVN, YES, NO, UNDEF
9640 memEQ_clause NAME, CHECKED_AT, INDENT
9642 assign INDENT, TYPE, PRE, POST, VALUE..
9646 switch_clause INDENT, NAMELEN, ITEMHASH, ITEM..
9652 C_constant, name, type, value, macro, default, pre, post, def_pre =item
9655 XS_constant PACKAGE, TYPES, SUBNAME, C_SUBNAME
9657 autoload PACKAGE, VERSION, AUTOLOADER
9659 WriteConstants ATTRIBUTE =E<gt> VALUE [, ...], NAME, DEFAULT_TYPE,
9660 BREAKOUT_AT, NAMES, C_FILE, XS_FILE, SUBNAME, C_SUBNAME
9668 =head2 ExtUtils::Embed - Utilities for embedding Perl in C/C++ applications
9680 xsinit(), Examples, ldopts(), Examples, perl_inc(), ccflags(), ccdlflags(),
9681 ccopts(), xsi_header(), xsi_protos(@modules), xsi_body(@modules)
9691 =head2 ExtUtils::Install - install files from here to there
9701 =head2 ExtUtils::Installed - Inventory management of installed modules
9713 new(), modules(), files(), directories(), directory_tree(), validate(),
9714 packlist(), version()
9722 =head2 ExtUtils::Liblist - determine libraries to use and how to use them
9730 For static extensions, For dynamic extensions, For dynamic extensions
9736 =item LDLOADLIBS and LD_RUN_PATH
9746 =item VMS implementation
9748 =item Win32 implementation
9756 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
9765 canonpath, cflags, manifypods, perl_archive
9769 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_NW5 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
9796 test_via_harness (o)
9798 tool_autosplit (override)
9816 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_OS2 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
9831 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_Unix - methods used by ExtUtils::MakeMaker
9843 =item Preloaded methods
9863 =item SelfLoaded methods
9909 file_name_is_absolute
9915 =item Methods to actually produce chunks of text for the Makefile
9955 maybe_command_in_dirs
9993 replace_manpage_separator
10007 test_via_harness (o)
10009 test_via_script (o)
10039 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_VMS - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
10040 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
10050 =item Methods always loaded
10062 =item SelfLoaded methods
10064 guess_name (override)
10068 find_perl (override)
10072 maybe_command (override)
10074 maybe_command_in_dirs (override)
10076 perl_script (override)
10078 file_name_is_absolute (override)
10080 replace_manpage_separator
10082 init_others (override)
10084 constants (override)
10088 const_cccmd (override)
10090 pm_to_blib (override)
10092 tool_autosplit (override)
10094 tool_sxubpp (override)
10096 xsubpp_version (override)
10098 tools_other (override)
10108 top_targets (override)
10112 dynamic_lib (override)
10114 dynamic_bs (override)
10116 static_lib (override)
10118 manifypods (override)
10120 processPL (override)
10122 installbin (override)
10124 subdir_x (override)
10128 realclean (override)
10130 dist_basics (override)
10132 dist_core (override)
10134 dist_dir (override)
10136 dist_test (override)
10140 perldepend (override)
10142 makefile (override)
10146 test_via_harness (override)
10148 test_via_script (override)
10150 makeaperl (override)
10152 nicetext (override)
10154 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_Win32 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
10155 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
10181 test_via_harness (o)
10183 tool_autosplit (override)
10201 =head2 ExtUtils::MakeMaker - create an extension Makefile
10211 =item How To Write A Makefile.PL
10213 =item Default Makefile Behaviour
10221 =item PREFIX and LIB attribute
10225 =item Static Linking of a new Perl Binary
10227 =item Determination of Perl Library and Installation Locations
10229 =item Which architecture dependent directory?
10231 =item Using Attributes and Parameters
10233 ABSTRACT, ABSTRACT_FROM, AUTHOR, BINARY_LOCATION, C, CAPI, CCFLAGS, CONFIG,
10234 CONFIGURE, DEFINE, DIR, DISTNAME, DL_FUNCS, DL_VARS, EXCLUDE_EXT,
10235 EXE_FILES, FIRST_MAKEFILE, FULLPERL, FUNCLIST, H, HTMLLIBPODS,
10236 HTMLSCRIPTPODS, IMPORTS, INC, INCLUDE_EXT, INSTALLARCHLIB, INSTALLBIN,
10237 INSTALLDIRS, INSTALLHTMLPRIVLIBDIR, INSTALLHTMLSCRIPTDIR,
10238 INSTALLHTMLSITELIBDIR, INSTALLMAN1DIR, INSTALLMAN3DIR, INSTALLPRIVLIB,
10239 INSTALLSCRIPT, INSTALLSITEARCH, INSTALLSITELIB, INST_ARCHLIB, INST_BIN,
10240 INST_EXE, INST_HTMLLIBDIR, INST_HTMLSCRIPTDIR, INST_LIB, INST_MAN1DIR,
10241 INST_MAN3DIR, INST_SCRIPT, LDFROM, LIB, LIBPERL_A, LIBS, LINKTYPE,
10242 MAKEAPERL, MAKEFILE, MAN1PODS, MAN3PODS, MAP_TARGET, MYEXTLIB, NAME,
10243 NEEDS_LINKING, NOECHO, NORECURS, NO_VC, OBJECT, OPTIMIZE, PERL, PERL_CORE,
10244 PERLMAINCC, PERL_ARCHLIB, PERL_LIB, PERL_MALLOC_OK, PERLRUN, PERM_RW,
10245 PERM_RWX, PL_FILES, PM, PMLIBDIRS, PM_FILTER, POLLUTE, PPM_INSTALL_EXEC,
10246 PPM_INSTALL_SCRIPT, PREFIX, PREREQ_PM, SKIP, TEST_LIBS, VERSION,
10247 VERSION_FROM, XS, XSOPT, XSPROTOARG, XS_VERSION
10249 =item Additional lowercase attributes
10251 clean, depend, dist, dynamic_lib, linkext, macro, realclean, test,
10254 =item Overriding MakeMaker Methods
10256 =item Hintsfile support
10258 =item Distribution Support
10260 make distcheck, make skipcheck, make distclean, make manifest,
10261 make distdir, make tardist, make dist, make uutardist, make
10262 shdist, make zipdist, make ci
10264 =item Disabling an extension
10278 =head2 ExtUtils::Manifest - utilities to write and check a MANIFEST file
10286 =item MANIFEST.SKIP
10290 =item GLOBAL VARIABLES
10294 C<Not in MANIFEST:> I<file>, C<No such file:> I<file>, C<MANIFEST:> I<$!>,
10295 C<Added to MANIFEST:> I<file>
10299 B<PERL_MM_MANIFEST_DEBUG>
10307 =head2 ExtUtils::Miniperl, writemain - write the C code for perlmain.c
10319 =head2 ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap - make a bootstrap file for use by DynaLoader
10329 =head2 ExtUtils::Mksymlists - write linker options files for dynamic
10338 DLBASE, DL_FUNCS, DL_VARS, FILE, FUNCLIST, IMPORTS, NAME
10346 =head2 ExtUtils::Packlist - manage .packlist files
10358 new(), read(), write(), validate(), packlist_file()
10366 =head2 ExtUtils::testlib - add blib/* directories to @INC
10376 =head2 Fatal - replace functions with equivalents which succeed or die
10388 =head2 Fcntl - load the C Fcntl.h defines
10398 =item EXPORTED SYMBOLS
10402 =head2 File::Basename, fileparse - split a pathname into pieces
10410 fileparse_set_fstype, fileparse
10414 C<basename>, C<dirname>
10418 =head2 File::CheckTree, validate - run many filetest checks on a tree
10428 =head2 File::Compare - Compare files or filehandles
10442 =head2 File::Copy - Copy files or filehandles
10452 =item Special behaviour if C<syscopy> is defined (OS/2, VMS and Win32)
10454 rmscopy($from,$to[,$date_flag])
10466 =head2 File::DosGlob - DOS like globbing and then some
10474 =item EXPORTS (by request only)
10486 =head2 File::Find, find - traverse a file tree
10494 C<wanted>, C<bydepth>, C<preprocess>, C<postprocess>, C<follow>,
10495 C<follow_fast>, C<follow_skip>, C<dangling_symlinks>, C<no_chdir>,
10496 C<untaint>, C<untaint_pattern>, C<untaint_skip>
10506 =head2 File::Glob - Perl extension for BSD glob routine
10514 C<GLOB_ERR>, C<GLOB_LIMIT>, C<GLOB_MARK>, C<GLOB_NOCASE>, C<GLOB_NOCHECK>,
10515 C<GLOB_NOSORT>, C<GLOB_BRACE>, C<GLOB_NOMAGIC>, C<GLOB_QUOTE>,
10516 C<GLOB_TILDE>, C<GLOB_CSH>, C<GLOB_ALPHASORT>
10520 C<GLOB_NOSPACE>, C<GLOB_ABEND>
10528 =head2 File::Path - create or remove directory trees
10540 =head2 File::Spec - portably perform operations on file names
10554 =head2 File::Spec::Epoc - methods for Epoc file specs
10588 =head2 File::Spec::Functions - portably perform operations on file names
10606 =head2 File::Spec::Mac - File::Spec for MacOS
10634 file_name_is_absolute
10654 =head2 File::Spec::OS2 - methods for OS/2 file specs
10664 =head2 File::Spec::Unix - methods used by File::Spec
10696 file_name_is_absolute
10718 =head2 File::Spec::VMS - methods for VMS file specs
10734 =item Methods always loaded
10736 canonpath (override)
10754 case_tolerant (override)
10758 file_name_is_absolute (override)
10760 splitpath (override)
10762 splitdir (override)
10776 =head2 File::Spec::Win32 - methods for Win32 file specs
10806 =head2 File::Temp - return name and handle of a temporary file safely
10830 =item MKTEMP FUNCTIONS
10844 =item POSIX FUNCTIONS
10854 =item ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS
10862 =item UTILITY FUNCTIONS
10870 =item PACKAGE VARIABLES
10872 B<safe_level>, STANDARD, MEDIUM, HIGH
10884 =item Temporary files and NFS
10896 =head2 File::stat - by-name interface to Perl's built-in stat() functions
10910 =head2 FileCache - keep more files open than the system permits
10922 =head2 FileHandle - supply object methods for filehandles
10930 $fh->print, $fh->printf, $fh->getline, $fh->getlines
10936 =head2 Filter::Simple - Simplified source filtering
10950 =item Disabling or changing <no> behaviour
10952 =item All-in-one interface
10964 =head2 Filter::Util::Call - Perl Source Filter Utility Module
10974 =item B<use Filter::Util::Call>
10978 =item B<filter() and anonymous sub>
10980 B<$_>, B<$status>, B<filter_read> and B<filter_read_exact>, B<filter_del>
10988 =item Example 1: A simple filter.
10990 =item Example 2: Using the context
10992 =item Example 3: Using the context within the filter
10994 =item Example 4: Using filter_del
10998 =item Filter::Simple
11006 =head2 FindBin - Locate directory of original perl script
11014 =item EXPORTABLE VARIABLES
11024 =head2 GDBM_File - Perl5 access to the gdbm library.
11040 =head2 Getopt::Long - Extended processing of command line options
11048 =item Command Line Options, an Introduction
11050 =item Getting Started with Getopt::Long
11054 =item Simple options
11056 =item A little bit less simple options
11058 =item Mixing command line option with other arguments
11060 =item Options with values
11062 =item Options with multiple values
11064 =item Options with hash values
11066 =item User-defined subroutines to handle options
11068 =item Options with multiple names
11070 =item Case and abbreviations
11072 =item Summary of Option Specifications
11074 !, +, s, i, f, : I<type> [ I<desttype> ]
11078 =item Advanced Possibilities
11082 =item Object oriented interface
11084 =item Documentation and help texts
11086 =item Storing options in a hash
11090 =item The lonesome dash
11092 =item Argument call-back
11096 =item Configuring Getopt::Long
11098 default, posix_default, auto_abbrev, getopt_compat, gnu_compat, gnu_getopt,
11099 require_order, permute, bundling (default: disabled), bundling_override
11100 (default: disabled), ignore_case (default: enabled), ignore_case_always
11101 (default: disabled), pass_through (default: disabled), prefix,
11102 prefix_pattern, debug (default: disabled)
11104 =item Return values and Errors
11110 =item Default destinations
11112 =item Alternative option starters
11114 =item Configuration variables
11118 =item Trouble Shooting
11122 =item Warning: Ignoring '!' modifier for short option
11124 =item GetOptions does not return a false result when an option is not
11131 =item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
11135 =head2 Getopt::Std, getopt - Process single-character switches with switch
11146 =head2 I18N::Collate - compare 8-bit scalar data according to the current
11157 =head2 I18N::LangTags - functions for dealing with RFC3066-style language
11168 the function is_language_tag($lang1)
11170 the function extract_language_tags($whatever)
11172 the function same_language_tag($lang1, $lang2)
11174 the function similarity_language_tag($lang1, $lang2)
11176 the function is_dialect_of($lang1, $lang2)
11178 the function super_languages($lang1)
11180 the function locale2language_tag($locale_identifier)
11182 the function encode_language_tag($lang1)
11184 the function alternate_language_tags($lang1)
11186 the function @langs = panic_languages(@accept_languages)
11190 =item ABOUT LOWERCASING
11192 =item ABOUT UNICODE PLAINTEXT LANGUAGE TAGS
11202 =head2 I18N::LangTags::List -- tags and names for human languages
11210 =item ABOUT LANGUAGE TAGS
11212 =item LIST OF LANGUAGES
11214 {ab} : Abkhazian, {ace} : Achinese, {ach} : Acoli, {ada} : Adangme, {aa} :
11215 Afar, {afh} : Afrihili, {af} : Afrikaans, [{afa} : Afro-Asiatic (Other)],
11216 {aka} : Akan, {akk} : Akkadian, {sq} : Albanian, {ale} : Aleut, [{alg} :
11217 Algonquian languages], [{tut} : Altaic (Other)], {am} : Amharic, {i-ami} :
11218 Ami, [{apa} : Apache languages], {ar} : Arabic, {arc} : Aramaic, {arp} :
11219 Arapaho, {arn} : Araucanian, {arw} : Arawak, {hy} : Armenian, [{art} :
11220 Artificial (Other)], {as} : Assamese, [{ath} : Athapascan languages],
11221 [{aus} : Australian languages], [{map} : Austronesian (Other)], {ava} :
11222 Avaric, {ae} : Avestan, {awa} : Awadhi, {ay} : Aymara, {az} : Azerbaijani,
11223 {ban} : Balinese, [{bat} : Baltic (Other)], {bal} : Baluchi, {bam} :
11224 Bambara, [{bai} : Bamileke languages], {bad} : Banda, [{bnt} : Bantu
11225 (Other)], {bas} : Basa, {ba} : Bashkir, {eu} : Basque, {btk} : Batak
11226 (Indonesia), {bej} : Beja, {be} : Belarusian, {bem} : Bemba, {bn} :
11227 Bengali, [{ber} : Berber (Other)], {bho} : Bhojpuri, {bh} : Bihari, {bik} :
11228 Bikol, {bin} : Bini, {bi} : Bislama, {bs} : Bosnian, {bra} : Braj, {br} :
11229 Breton, {bug} : Buginese, {bg} : Bulgarian, {i-bnn} : Bunun, {bua} :
11230 Buriat, {my} : Burmese, {cad} : Caddo, {car} : Carib, {ca} : Catalan,
11231 [{cau} : Caucasian (Other)], {ceb} : Cebuano, [{cel} : Celtic (Other)],
11232 [{cai} : Central American Indian (Other)], {chg} : Chagatai, [{cmc} :
11233 Chamic languages], {ch} : Chamorro, {ce} : Chechen, {chr} : Cherokee, {chy}
11234 : Cheyenne, {chb} : Chibcha, {ny} : Chichewa, {zh} : Chinese, {chn} :
11235 Chinook Jargon, {chp} : Chipewyan, {cho} : Choctaw, {cu} : Church Slavic,
11236 {chk} : Chuukese, {cv} : Chuvash, {cop} : Coptic, {kw} : Cornish, {co} :
11237 Corsican, {cre} : Cree, {mus} : Creek, [{cpe} : English-based Creoles and
11238 pidgins (Other)], [{cpf} : French-based Creoles and pidgins (Other)],
11239 [{cpp} : Portuguese-based Creoles and pidgins (Other)], [{crp} : Creoles
11240 and pidgins (Other)], {hr} : Croatian, [{cus} : Cushitic (Other)], {cs} :
11241 Czech, {dak} : Dakota, {da} : Danish, {day} : Dayak, {i-default} : Default
11242 (Fallthru) Language, {del} : Delaware, {din} : Dinka, {div} : Divehi, {doi}
11243 : Dogri, {dgr} : Dogrib, [{dra} : Dravidian (Other)], {dua} : Duala, {nl} :
11244 Dutch, {dum} : Middle Dutch (ca.1050-1350), {dyu} : Dyula, {dz} : Dzongkha,
11245 {efi} : Efik, {egy} : Ancient Egyptian, {eka} : Ekajuk, {elx} : Elamite,
11246 {en} : English, {enm} : Old English (1100-1500), {ang} : Old English
11247 (ca.450-1100), {eo} : Esperanto, {et} : Estonian, {ewe} : Ewe, {ewo} :
11248 Ewondo, {fan} : Fang, {fat} : Fanti, {fo} : Faroese, {fj} : Fijian, {fi} :
11249 Finnish, [{fiu} : Finno-Ugrian (Other)], {fon} : Fon, {fr} : French, {frm}
11250 : Middle French (ca.1400-1600), {fro} : Old French (842-ca.1400), {fy} :
11251 Frisian, {fur} : Friulian, {ful} : Fulah, {gaa} : Ga, {gd} : Scots Gaelic,
11252 {gl} : Gallegan, {lug} : Ganda, {gay} : Gayo, {gba} : Gbaya, {gez} : Geez,
11253 {ka} : Georgian, {de} : German, {gmh} : Middle High German (ca.1050-1500),
11254 {goh} : Old High German (ca.750-1050), [{gem} : Germanic (Other)], {gil} :
11255 Gilbertese, {gon} : Gondi, {gor} : Gorontalo, {got} : Gothic, {grb} :
11256 Grebo, {grc} : Ancient Greek, {el} : Modern Greek, {gn} : Guarani, {gu} :
11257 Gujarati, {gwi} : Gwich'in, {hai} : Haida, {ha} : Hausa, {haw} : Hawaiian,
11258 {he} : Hebrew, {hz} : Herero, {hil} : Hiligaynon, {him} : Himachali, {hi} :
11259 Hindi, {ho} : Hiri Motu, {hit} : Hittite, {hmn} : Hmong, {hu} : Hungarian,
11260 {hup} : Hupa, {iba} : Iban, {is} : Icelandic, {ibo} : Igbo, {ijo} : Ijo,
11261 {ilo} : Iloko, [{inc} : Indic (Other)], [{ine} : Indo-European (Other)],
11262 {id} : Indonesian, {ia} : Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language
11263 Association), {ie} : Interlingue, {iu} : Inuktitut, {ik} : Inupiaq, [{ira}
11264 : Iranian (Other)], {ga} : Irish, {mga} : Middle Irish (900-1200), {sga} :
11265 Old Irish (to 900), [{iro} : Iroquoian languages], {it} : Italian, {ja} :
11266 Japanese, {jw} : Javanese, {jrb} : Judeo-Arabic, {jpr} : Judeo-Persian,
11267 {kab} : Kabyle, {kac} : Kachin, {kl} : Kalaallisut, {kam} : Kamba, {kn} :
11268 Kannada, {kau} : Kanuri, {kaa} : Kara-Kalpak, {kar} : Karen, {ks} :
11269 Kashmiri, {kaw} : Kawi, {kk} : Kazakh, {kha} : Khasi, {km} : Khmer, [{khi}
11270 : Khoisan (Other)], {kho} : Khotanese, {ki} : Kikuyu, {kmb} : Kimbundu,
11271 {rw} : Kinyarwanda, {ky} : Kirghiz, {i-klingon} : Klingon, {kv} : Komi,
11272 {kon} : Kongo, {kok} : Konkani, {ko} : Korean, {kos} : Kosraean, {kpe} :
11273 Kpelle, {kro} : Kru, {kj} : Kuanyama, {kum} : Kumyk, {ku} : Kurdish, {kru}
11274 : Kurukh, {kut} : Kutenai, {lad} : Ladino, {lah} : Lahnda, {lam} : Lamba,
11275 {lo} : Lao, {la} : Latin, {lv} : Latvian, {lb} : Letzeburgesch, {lez} :
11276 Lezghian, {ln} : Lingala, {lt} : Lithuanian, {nds} : Low German, {loz} :
11277 Lozi, {lub} : Luba-Katanga, {lua} : Luba-Lulua, {lui} : Luiseno, {lun} :
11278 Lunda, {luo} : Luo (Kenya and Tanzania), {lus} : Lushai, {mk} : Macedonian,
11279 {mad} : Madurese, {mag} : Magahi, {mai} : Maithili, {mak} : Makasar, {mg} :
11280 Malagasy, {ms} : Malay, {ml} : Malayalam, {mt} : Maltese, {mnc} : Manchu,
11281 {mdr} : Mandar, {man} : Mandingo, {mni} : Manipuri, [{mno} : Manobo
11282 languages], {gv} : Manx, {mi} : Maori, {mr} : Marathi, {chm} : Mari, {mh} :
11283 Marshall, {mwr} : Marwari, {mas} : Masai, [{myn} : Mayan languages], {men}
11284 : Mende, {mic} : Micmac, {min} : Minangkabau, {i-mingo} : Mingo, [{mis} :
11285 Miscellaneous languages], {moh} : Mohawk, {mo} : Moldavian, [{mkh} :
11286 Mon-Khmer (Other)], {lol} : Mongo, {mn} : Mongolian, {mos} : Mossi, [{mul}
11287 : Multiple languages], [{mun} : Munda languages], {nah} : Nahuatl, {na} :
11288 Nauru, {nv} : Navajo, {nd} : North Ndebele, {nr} : South Ndebele, {ng} :
11289 Ndonga, {ne} : Nepali, {new} : Newari, {nia} : Nias, [{nic} :
11290 Niger-Kordofanian (Other)], [{ssa} : Nilo-Saharan (Other)], {niu} : Niuean,
11291 {non} : Old Norse, [{nai} : North American Indian], {se} : Northern Sami,
11292 {no} : Norwegian, {nb} : Norwegian Bokmal, {nn} : Norwegian Nynorsk, [{nub}
11293 : Nubian languages], {nym} : Nyamwezi, {nyn} : Nyankole, {nyo} : Nyoro,
11294 {nzi} : Nzima, {oc} : Occitan (post 1500), {oji} : Ojibwa, {or} : Oriya,
11295 {om} : Oromo, {osa} : Osage, {os} : Ossetian; Ossetic, [{oto} : Otomian
11296 languages], {pal} : Pahlavi, {i-pwn} : Paiwan, {pau} : Palauan, {pi} :
11297 Pali, {pam} : Pampanga, {pag} : Pangasinan, {pa} : Panjabi, {pap} :
11298 Papiamento, [{paa} : Papuan (Other)], {fa} : Persian, {peo} : Old Persian
11299 (ca.600-400 B.C.), [{phi} : Philippine (Other)], {phn} : Phoenician, {pon}
11300 : Pohnpeian, {pl} : Polish, {pt} : Portuguese, [{pra} : Prakrit languages],
11301 {pro} : Old Provencal (to 1500), {ps} : Pushto, {qu} : Quechua, {rm} :
11302 Raeto-Romance, {raj} : Rajasthani, {rap} : Rapanui, {rar} : Rarotongan,
11303 [{qaa - qtz} : Reserved for local use.], [{roa} : Romance (Other)], {ro} :
11304 Romanian, {rom} : Romany, {rn} : Rundi, {ru} : Russian, [{sal} : Salishan
11305 languages], {sam} : Samaritan Aramaic, [{smi} : Sami languages (Other)],
11306 {sm} : Samoan, {sad} : Sandawe, {sg} : Sango, {sa} : Sanskrit, {sat} :
11307 Santali, {sc} : Sardinian, {sas} : Sasak, {sco} : Scots, {sel} : Selkup,
11308 [{sem} : Semitic (Other)], {sr} : Serbian, {srr} : Serer, {shn} : Shan,
11309 {sn} : Shona, {sid} : Sidamo, {sgn-...} : Sign Languages, {bla} : Siksika,
11310 {sd} : Sindhi, {si} : Sinhalese, [{sit} : Sino-Tibetan (Other)], [{sio} :
11311 Siouan languages], {den} : Slave (Athapascan), [{sla} : Slavic (Other)],
11312 {sk} : Slovak, {sl} : Slovenian, {sog} : Sogdian, {so} : Somali, {son} :
11313 Songhai, {snk} : Soninke, {wen} : Sorbian languages, {nso} : Northern
11314 Sotho, {st} : Southern Sotho, [{sai} : South American Indian (Other)], {es}
11315 : Spanish, {suk} : Sukuma, {sux} : Sumerian, {su} : Sundanese, {sus} :
11316 Susu, {sw} : Swahili, {ss} : Swati, {sv} : Swedish, {syr} : Syriac, {tl} :
11317 Tagalog, {ty} : Tahitian, [{tai} : Tai (Other)], {tg} : Tajik, {tmh} :
11318 Tamashek, {ta} : Tamil, {i-tao} : Tao, {tt} : Tatar, {i-tay} : Tayal, {te}
11319 : Telugu, {ter} : Tereno, {tet} : Tetum, {th} : Thai, {bo} : Tibetan, {tig}
11320 : Tigre, {ti} : Tigrinya, {tem} : Timne, {tiv} : Tiv, {tli} : Tlingit,
11321 {tpi} : Tok Pisin, {tkl} : Tokelau, {tog} : Tonga (Nyasa), {to} : Tonga
11322 (Tonga Islands), {tsi} : Tsimshian, {ts} : Tsonga, {i-tsu} : Tsou, {tn} :
11323 Tswana, {tum} : Tumbuka, {tr} : Turkish, {ota} : Ottoman Turkish
11324 (1500-1928), {tk} : Turkmen, {tvl} : Tuvalu, {tyv} : Tuvinian, {tw} : Twi,
11325 {uga} : Ugaritic, {ug} : Uighur, {uk} : Ukrainian, {umb} : Umbundu, {und} :
11326 Undetermined, {ur} : Urdu, {uz} : Uzbek, {vai} : Vai, {ven} : Venda, {vi} :
11327 Vietnamese, {vo} : Volapuk, {vot} : Votic, [{wak} : Wakashan languages],
11328 {wal} : Walamo, {war} : Waray, {was} : Washo, {cy} : Welsh, {wo} : Wolof,
11329 {x-...} : Unregistered (Semi-Private Use), {xh} : Xhosa, {sah} : Yakut,
11330 {yao} : Yao, {yap} : Yapese, {yi} : Yiddish, {yo} : Yoruba, [{ypk} : Yupik
11331 languages], {znd} : Zande, [{zap} : Zapotec], {zen} : Zenaga, {za} :
11332 Zhuang, {zu} : Zulu, {zun} : Zuni
11336 =item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
11342 =head2 I18N::Langinfo - query locale information
11360 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
11364 =head2 IO - load various IO modules
11374 =head2 IO::Dir - supply object methods for directory handles
11382 new ( [ DIRNAME ] ), open ( DIRNAME ), read (), seek ( POS ), tell (),
11383 rewind (), close (), tie %hash, IO::Dir, DIRNAME [, OPTIONS ]
11393 =head2 IO::File - supply object methods for filehandles
11403 new ( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ), new_tmpfile
11407 open( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] )
11415 =head2 IO::Handle - supply object methods for I/O handles
11425 new (), new_from_fd ( FD, MODE )
11429 $io->fdopen ( FD, MODE ), $io->opened, $io->getline, $io->getlines,
11430 $io->ungetc ( ORD ), $io->write ( BUF, LEN [, OFFSET ] ), $io->error,
11431 $io->clearerr, $io->sync, $io->flush, $io->printflush ( ARGS ),
11432 $io->blocking ( [ BOOL ] ), $io->untaint
11444 =head2 IO::Pipe - supply object methods for pipes
11454 new ( [READER, WRITER] )
11458 reader ([ARGS]), writer ([ARGS]), handles ()
11468 =head2 IO::Poll - Object interface to system poll call
11478 mask ( IO [, EVENT_MASK ] ), poll ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), events ( IO ), remove (
11479 IO ), handles( [ EVENT_MASK ] )
11489 =head2 IO::Seekable - supply seek based methods for I/O objects
11497 $io->getpos, $io->setpos, $io->seek ( POS, WHENCE ), WHENCE=0 (SEEK_SET),
11498 WHENCE=1 (SEEK_CUR), WHENCE=2 (SEEK_END), $io->sysseek( POS, WHENCE ),
11507 =head2 IO::Select - OO interface to the select system call
11517 new ( [ HANDLES ] )
11521 add ( HANDLES ), remove ( HANDLES ), exists ( HANDLE ), handles, can_read (
11522 [ TIMEOUT ] ), can_write ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), has_exception ( [ TIMEOUT ] ),
11523 count (), bits(), select ( READ, WRITE, ERROR [, TIMEOUT ] )
11533 =head2 IO::Socket - Object interface to socket communications
11547 accept([PKG]), socketpair(DOMAIN, TYPE, PROTOCOL), atmark, connected,
11548 protocol, sockdomain, sockopt(OPT [, VAL]), socktype, timeout([VAL])
11558 =head2 IO::Socket::INET - Object interface for AF_INET domain sockets
11574 sockaddr (), sockport (), sockhost (), peeraddr (), peerport (), peerhost
11587 =head2 IO::Socket::UNIX - Object interface for AF_UNIX domain sockets
11601 hostpath(), peerpath()
11611 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Dir, IO::Dir - supply object methods for directory
11620 new ( [ DIRNAME ] ), open ( DIRNAME ), read (), seek ( POS ), tell (),
11621 rewind (), close (), tie %hash, IO::Dir, DIRNAME [, OPTIONS ]
11631 =head2 IO::lib::IO::File, IO::File - supply object methods for filehandles
11641 new ( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ), new_tmpfile
11645 open( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] )
11653 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Handle, IO::Handle - supply object methods for I/O
11664 new (), new_from_fd ( FD, MODE )
11668 $io->fdopen ( FD, MODE ), $io->opened, $io->getline, $io->getlines,
11669 $io->ungetc ( ORD ), $io->write ( BUF, LEN [, OFFSET ] ), $io->error,
11670 $io->clearerr, $io->sync, $io->flush, $io->printflush ( ARGS ),
11671 $io->blocking ( [ BOOL ] ), $io->untaint
11683 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Pipe, IO::Pipe - supply object methods for pipes
11693 new ( [READER, WRITER] )
11697 reader ([ARGS]), writer ([ARGS]), handles ()
11707 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Poll, IO::Poll - Object interface to system poll call
11717 mask ( IO [, EVENT_MASK ] ), poll ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), events ( IO ), remove (
11718 IO ), handles( [ EVENT_MASK ] )
11728 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Seekable, IO::Seekable - supply seek based methods for
11737 $io->getpos, $io->setpos, $io->seek ( POS, WHENCE ), WHENCE=0 (SEEK_SET),
11738 WHENCE=1 (SEEK_CUR), WHENCE=2 (SEEK_END), $io->sysseek( POS, WHENCE ),
11747 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Select, IO::Select - OO interface to the select system
11758 new ( [ HANDLES ] )
11762 add ( HANDLES ), remove ( HANDLES ), exists ( HANDLE ), handles, can_read (
11763 [ TIMEOUT ] ), can_write ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), has_exception ( [ TIMEOUT ] ),
11764 count (), bits(), select ( READ, WRITE, ERROR [, TIMEOUT ] )
11774 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Socket, IO::Socket - Object interface to socket
11789 accept([PKG]), socketpair(DOMAIN, TYPE, PROTOCOL), atmark, connected,
11790 protocol, sockdomain, sockopt(OPT [, VAL]), socktype, timeout([VAL])
11800 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Socket::INET, IO::Socket::INET - Object interface for
11801 AF_INET domain sockets
11817 sockaddr (), sockport (), sockhost (), peeraddr (), peerport (), peerhost
11830 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Socket::UNIX, IO::Socket::UNIX - Object interface for
11831 AF_UNIX domain sockets
11845 hostpath(), peerpath()
11855 =head2 IPC::Msg - SysV Msg IPC object class
11865 new ( KEY , FLAGS ), id, rcv ( BUF, LEN [, TYPE [, FLAGS ]] ), remove, set
11866 ( STAT ), set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), snd ( TYPE, MSG [,
11877 =head2 IPC::Open2, open2 - open a process for both reading and writing
11891 =head2 IPC::Open3, open3 - open a process for reading, writing, and error
11904 =head2 IPC::Semaphore - SysV Semaphore IPC object class
11914 new ( KEY , NSEMS , FLAGS ), getall, getncnt ( SEM ), getpid ( SEM ),
11915 getval ( SEM ), getzcnt ( SEM ), id, op ( OPLIST ), remove, set ( STAT ),
11916 set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), setall ( VALUES ), setval ( N
11927 =head2 IPC::SysV - SysV IPC constants
11945 =head2 IPC::SysV::Msg, IPC::Msg - SysV Msg IPC object class
11955 new ( KEY , FLAGS ), id, rcv ( BUF, LEN [, TYPE [, FLAGS ]] ), remove, set
11956 ( STAT ), set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), snd ( TYPE, MSG [,
11967 =head2 IPC::SysV::Semaphore, IPC::Semaphore - SysV Semaphore IPC object
11978 new ( KEY , NSEMS , FLAGS ), getall, getncnt ( SEM ), getpid ( SEM ),
11979 getval ( SEM ), getzcnt ( SEM ), id, op ( OPLIST ), remove, set ( STAT ),
11980 set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), setall ( VALUES ), setval ( N
11991 =head2 Langinfo - Perl extension for blah blah blah
12003 =item Exportable constants
12013 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
12017 =head2 List::Util - A selection of general-utility list subroutines
12025 first BLOCK LIST, max LIST, maxstr LIST, min LIST, minstr LIST, reduce
12026 BLOCK LIST, sum LIST
12028 =item SUGGESTED ADDITIONS
12034 =head2 List::Utilib::List::Util, List::Util - A selection of
12035 general-utility list subroutines
12043 first BLOCK LIST, max LIST, maxstr LIST, min LIST, minstr LIST, reduce
12044 BLOCK LIST, sum LIST
12046 =item SUGGESTED ADDITIONS
12052 =head2 List::Utilib::Scalar::Util, Scalar::Util - A selection of
12053 general-utility scalar subroutines
12061 blessed EXPR, dualvar NUM, STRING, isweak EXPR, readonly SCALAR, reftype
12062 EXPR, tainted EXPR, weaken REF
12070 =head2 Locale::Constants - constants for Locale codes
12078 =item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
12082 Locale::Language, Locale::Country, Locale::Currency
12090 =head2 Locale::Country - ISO codes for country identification (ISO 3166)
12102 B<alpha-2>, B<alpha-3>, B<numeric>
12108 =item CONVERSION ROUTINES
12110 code2country( CODE, [ CODESET ] ), country2code( STRING, [ CODESET ] ),
12111 country_code2code( CODE, CODESET, CODESET )
12117 =item QUERY ROUTINES
12119 C<all_country_codes( [ CODESET ] )>, C<all_country_names( [ CODESET ] )>
12125 =item CODE ALIASING
12135 =item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
12139 Locale::Language, Locale::Currency, ISO 3166,
12140 http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nabd/iso3166ma/,
12141 http://www.egt.ie/standards/iso3166/iso3166-1-en.html,
12142 http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/docs/app-f.html
12150 =head2 Locale::Currency - ISO three letter codes for currency
12151 identification (ISO 4217)
12169 =item CONVERSION ROUTINES
12171 code2currency(), currency2code()
12177 =item QUERY ROUTINES
12179 C<all_currency_codes()>, C<all_currency_names()>
12187 =item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
12191 Locale::Country, ISO 4217:1995, http://www.bsi-global.com/iso4217currency
12199 =head2 Locale::Language - ISO two letter codes for language identification
12216 =item CONVERSION ROUTINES
12218 code2language(), language2code()
12224 =item QUERY ROUTINES
12226 C<all_language_codes()>, C<all_language_names()>
12234 =item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
12238 Locale::Country, Locale::Currency, ISO 639:1988 (E/F),
12239 http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/langhome.html
12247 =head2 Locale::Maketext -- framework for localization
12255 =item QUICK OVERVIEW
12261 =item Construction Methods
12263 =item The "maketext" Method
12265 $lh->fail_with I<or> $lh->fail_with(I<PARAM>), $lh->failure_handler_auto
12267 =item Utility Methods
12269 $language->quant($number, $singular), $language->quant($number, $singular,
12270 $plural), $language->quant($number, $singular, $plural, $negative),
12271 $language->numf($number), $language->sprintf($format, @items),
12272 $language->language_tag(), $language->encoding()
12274 =item Language Handle Attributes and Internals
12278 =item LANGUAGE CLASS HIERARCHIES
12280 =item ENTRIES IN EACH LEXICON
12282 =item BRACKET NOTATION
12284 =item AUTO LEXICONS
12286 =item CONTROLLING LOOKUP FAILURE
12288 =item HOW TO USE MAKETEXT
12292 =item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
12298 =head2 Locale::Maketext::TPJ13 -- article about software localization
12306 =item Localization and Perl: gettext breaks, Maketext fixes
12310 =item A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen To You
12312 =item The Linguistic View
12314 =item Breaking gettext
12316 =item Replacing gettext
12318 =item Buzzwords: Abstraction and Encapsulation
12320 =item Buzzword: Isomorphism
12322 =item Buzzword: Inheritance
12324 =item Buzzword: Concision
12326 =item The Devil in the Details
12328 =item The Proof in the Pudding: Localizing Web Sites
12336 =head2 MIME::Base64 - Encoding and decoding of base64 strings
12344 encode_base64($str, [$eol]), decode_base64($str)
12348 Premature end of base64 data, Premature padding of base64 data
12356 =head2 MIME::Base64::QuotedPrint, MIME::QuotedPrint - Encoding and decoding
12357 of quoted-printable strings
12365 encode_qp($str), decode_qp($str);
12371 =head2 MIME::QuotedPrint - Encoding and decoding of quoted-printable
12380 encode_qp($str), decode_qp($str);
12386 =head2 Math::BigFloat - Arbitrary size floating point math package
12396 =item Canonical notation
12400 =item C<mantissa()>, C<exponent()> and C<parts()>
12402 =item Accuracy vs. Precision
12406 ffround ( +$scale ), ffround ( -$scale ), ffround ( 0 ), fround ( +$scale
12407 ), fround ( -$scale ) and fround ( 0 )
12413 use Math::BigFloat qw(bstr bint);
12415 $x = bstr("1234") # string "1234"
12416 $x = "$x"; # same as bstr()
12417 $x = bneg("1234") # BigFloat "-1234"
12418 $x = Math::BigFloat->bneg("1234"); # BigFloat "1234"
12419 $x = Math::BigFloat->babs("-12345"); # BigFloat "12345"
12420 $x = Math::BigFloat->bnorm("-0 00"); # BigFloat "0"
12421 $x = bint(1) + bint(2); # BigFloat "3"
12422 $x = bint(1) + "2"; # ditto (auto-BigFloatify of "2")
12423 $x = bint(1); # BigFloat "1"
12424 $x = $x + 5 / 2; # BigFloat "3"
12425 $x = $x ** 3; # BigFloat "27"
12426 $x *= 2; # BigFloat "54"
12427 $x = new Math::BigFloat; # BigFloat "0"
12428 $x--; # BigFloat "-1"
12430 =item Autocreating constants
12438 stringify, bstr(), bdiv, Modifying and =, bpow
12446 =head2 Math::BigInt - Arbitrary size integer math package
12454 Canonical notation, Input, Output
12456 =item ACCURACY and PRECISION
12466 =item Rounding mode R
12468 'trunc', 'even', 'odd', '+inf', '-inf', 'zero', Precision, Accuracy
12469 (significant digits), Setting/Accessing, Creating numbers, Usage,
12470 Precedence, Overriding globals, Local settings, Rounding, Default values,
12479 =item mantissa(), exponent() and parts()
12485 use Math::BigInt qw(bstr bint);
12486 $x = bstr("1234") # string "1234"
12487 $x = "$x"; # same as bstr()
12488 $x = bneg("1234") # Bigint "-1234"
12489 $x = Math::BigInt->bneg("1234"); # Bigint "-1234"
12490 $x = Math::BigInt->babs("-12345"); # Bigint "12345"
12491 $x = Math::BigInt->bnorm("-0 00"); # BigInt "0"
12492 $x = bint(1) + bint(2); # BigInt "3"
12493 $x = bint(1) + "2"; # ditto (auto-BigIntify of "2")
12494 $x = bint(1); # BigInt "1"
12495 $x = $x + 5 / 2; # BigInt "3"
12496 $x = $x ** 3; # BigInt "27"
12497 $x *= 2; # BigInt "54"
12498 $x = new Math::BigInt; # BigInt "0"
12499 $x--; # BigInt "-1"
12500 $x = Math::BigInt->badd(4,5) # BigInt "9"
12501 $x = Math::BigInt::badd(4,5) # BigInt "9"
12502 print $x->bsstr(); # 9e+0
12504 =item Autocreating constants
12510 =item Replacing the math library
12516 :constant and eval()
12520 stringify, bstr(), bsstr() and 'cmp', int(), bdiv, Modifying and =, bpow,
12521 Overloading -$x, Mixing different object types, bsqrt()
12531 =head2 Math::BigInt::Calc - Pure Perl module to support Math::BigInt
12543 This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
12545 the same terms as Perl itself.
12553 =head2 Math::Complex - complex numbers and associated mathematical
12566 =item STRINGIFICATION
12570 =item CHANGED IN PERL 5.6
12576 =item ERRORS DUE TO DIVISION BY ZERO OR LOGARITHM OF ZERO
12578 =item ERRORS DUE TO INDIGESTIBLE ARGUMENTS
12586 =head2 Math::Trig - trigonometric functions
12594 =item TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS
12600 =item ERRORS DUE TO DIVISION BY ZERO
12602 =item SIMPLE (REAL) ARGUMENTS, COMPLEX RESULTS
12606 =item PLANE ANGLE CONVERSIONS
12608 =item RADIAL COORDINATE CONVERSIONS
12612 =item COORDINATE SYSTEMS
12614 =item 3-D ANGLE CONVERSIONS
12616 cartesian_to_cylindrical, cartesian_to_spherical, cylindrical_to_cartesian,
12617 cylindrical_to_spherical, spherical_to_cartesian, spherical_to_cylindrical
12621 =item GREAT CIRCLE DISTANCES AND DIRECTIONS
12627 =item CAVEAT FOR GREAT CIRCLE FORMULAS
12637 =head2 Memoize - Make your functions faster by trading space for time
12655 =item C<SCALAR_CACHE>, C<LIST_CACHE>
12657 C<MEMORY>, C<HASH>, C<TIE>, C<FAULT>, C<MERGE>
12661 =item OTHER FACILITIES
12667 =item C<flush_cache>
12673 =item PERSISTENT CACHE SUPPORT
12675 =item EXPIRATION SUPPORT
12683 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
12689 =head2 Memoize::AnyDBM_File - glue to provide EXISTS for AnyDBM_File for
12698 =head2 Memoize::Expire - Plug-in module for automatic expiration of
12709 TIEHASH, EXISTS, STORE
12721 =head2 Memoize::ExpireFile - test for Memoize expiration semantics
12729 =head2 Memoize::ExpireTest - test for Memoize expiration semantics
12737 =head2 Memoize::NDBM_File - glue to provide EXISTS for NDBM_File for
12746 =head2 Memoize::SDBM_File - glue to provide EXISTS for SDBM_File for
12755 =head2 Memoize::Saves - Plug-in module to specify which return values
12772 =head2 Memoize::Storable - store Memoized data in Storable database
12780 =head2 NDBM_File - Tied access to ndbm files
12788 C<O_RDONLY>, C<O_WRONLY>, C<O_RDWR>
12794 =item C<ndbm store returned -1, errno 22, key "..." at ...>
12798 =item BUGS AND WARNINGS
12802 =head2 NEXT - Provide a pseudo-class NEXT that allows method redispatch
12812 =item BUGS AND IRRITATIONS
12818 =head2 Net::Cmd - Network Command class (as used by FTP, SMTP etc)
12828 debug ( VALUE ), message (), code (), ok (), status (), datasend ( DATA ),
12831 =item CLASS METHODS
12833 debug_print ( DIR, TEXT ), debug_text ( TEXT ), command ( CMD [, ARGS, ...
12834 ]), unsupported (), response (), parse_response ( TEXT ), getline (),
12835 ungetline ( TEXT ), read_until_dot ()
12845 =head2 Net::Config - Local configuration data for libnet
12855 requires_firewall HOST
12857 =item NetConfig VALUES
12859 nntp_hosts, snpp_hosts, pop3_hosts, smtp_hosts, ph_hosts, daytime_hosts,
12860 time_hosts, inet_domain, ftp_firewall, ftp_ext_passive, ftp_int_pasive,
12861 local_netmask, test_hosts, test_exists
12865 =head2 Net::Domain - Attempt to evaluate the current host's internet name
12874 hostfqdn (), hostname (), hostdomain ()
12882 =head2 Net::FTP - FTP Client class
12894 new (HOST [,OPTIONS])
12898 login ([LOGIN [,PASSWORD [, ACCOUNT] ] ]), authorize ( [AUTH [, RESP]]),
12899 site (ARGS), type (TYPE [, ARGS]), ascii ([ARGS]) binary([ARGS])
12900 ebcdic([ARGS]) byte([ARGS]), rename ( OLDNAME, NEWNAME ), delete ( FILENAME
12901 ), cwd ( [ DIR ] ), cdup (), pwd (), rmdir ( DIR ), mkdir ( DIR [, RECURSE
12902 ]), ls ( [ DIR ] ), dir ( [ DIR ] ), get ( REMOTE_FILE [, LOCAL_FILE [,
12903 WHERE]] ), put ( LOCAL_FILE [, REMOTE_FILE ] ), put_unique ( LOCAL_FILE [,
12904 REMOTE_FILE ] ), append ( LOCAL_FILE [, REMOTE_FILE ] ), unique_name (),
12905 mdtm ( FILE ), size ( FILE ), supported ( CMD ), hash (
12906 [FILEHANDLE_GLOB_REF],[ BYTES_PER_HASH_MARK] ), nlst ( [ DIR ] ), list ( [
12907 DIR ] ), retr ( FILE ), stor ( FILE ), stou ( FILE ), appe ( FILE ), port (
12908 [ PORT ] ), pasv (), pasv_xfer ( SRC_FILE, DEST_SERVER [, DEST_FILE ] ),
12909 pasv_xfer_unique ( SRC_FILE, DEST_SERVER [, DEST_FILE ] ), pasv_wait (
12910 NON_PASV_SERVER ), abort (), quit ()
12914 =item Methods for the adventurous
12920 =item THE dataconn CLASS
12922 read ( BUFFER, SIZE [, TIMEOUT ] ), write ( BUFFER, SIZE [, TIMEOUT ] ),
12925 =item UNIMPLEMENTED
12927 B<ALLO>, B<SMNT>, B<HELP>, B<MODE>, B<SYST>, B<STAT>, B<STRU>, B<REIN>
12929 =item REPORTING BUGS
12941 =head2 Net::NNTP - NNTP Client class
12951 new ( [ HOST ] [, OPTIONS ])
12955 article ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ], [FH] ), body ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ], [FH] ), head (
12956 [ MSGID|MSGNUM ], [FH] ), nntpstat ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ] ), group ( [ GROUP ]
12957 ), ihave ( MSGID [, MESSAGE ]), last (), date (), postok (), authinfo (
12958 USER, PASS ), list (), newgroups ( SINCE [, DISTRIBUTIONS ]), newnews (
12959 SINCE [, GROUPS [, DISTRIBUTIONS ]]), next (), post ( [ MESSAGE ] ), slave
12964 =item Extension methods
12966 newsgroups ( [ PATTERN ] ), distributions (), subscriptions (),
12967 overview_fmt (), active_times (), active ( [ PATTERN ] ), xgtitle ( PATTERN
12968 ), xhdr ( HEADER, MESSAGE-SPEC ), xover ( MESSAGE-SPEC ), xpath (
12969 MESSAGE-ID ), xpat ( HEADER, PATTERN, MESSAGE-SPEC), xrover, listgroup ( [
12978 MESSAGE-SPEC, PATTERN, Examples, C<[^]-]>, C<*bdc>, C<[0-9a-zA-Z]>, C<a??d>
12988 =head2 Net::POP3 - Post Office Protocol 3 Client class (RFC1081)
13000 new ( [ HOST, ] [ OPTIONS ] )
13004 user ( USER ), pass ( PASS ), login ( [ USER [, PASS ]] ), apop ( USER,
13005 PASS ), top ( MSGNUM [, NUMLINES ] ), list ( [ MSGNUM ] ), get ( MSGNUM [,
13006 FH ] ), last (), popstat (), ping ( USER ), uidl ( [ MSGNUM ] ), delete (
13007 MSGNUM ), reset (), quit ()
13019 =head2 Net::Ping - check a remote host for reachability
13027 icmp, udp, tcp, stream, external
13033 Net::Ping->new([$proto [, $def_timeout [, $bytes]]]);, $p->ping($host [,
13034 $timeout]);, $p->open($host);, $p->close();, pingecho($host [, $timeout]);
13042 =head2 Net::SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Client
13054 new Net::SMTP [ HOST, ] [ OPTIONS ]
13058 banner (), domain (), hello ( DOMAIN ), etrn ( DOMAIN ), mail ( ADDRESS [,
13059 OPTIONS] ), send ( ADDRESS ), send_or_mail ( ADDRESS ), send_and_mail (
13060 ADDRESS ), reset (), recipient ( ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [ ...]] [, OPTIONS ] ),
13061 to ( ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] ), data ( [ DATA ] ), expand ( ADDRESS ),
13062 verify ( ADDRESS ), help ( [ $subject ] ), quit ()
13072 =head2 Net::Time - time and daytime network client interface
13080 inet_time ( [HOST [, PROTOCOL [, TIMEOUT]]]), inet_daytime ( [HOST [,
13081 PROTOCOL [, TIMEOUT]]])
13089 =head2 Net::hostent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in gethost*()
13106 =head2 Net::libnetFAQ, libnetFAQ - libnet Frequently Asked Questions
13114 =item Where to get this document
13116 =item How to contribute to this document
13120 =item Author and Copyright Information
13128 =item Obtaining and installing libnet
13132 =item What is libnet ?
13134 =item Which version of perl do I need ?
13136 =item What other modules do I need ?
13138 =item What machines support libnet ?
13140 =item Where can I get the latest libnet release
13144 =item Using Net::FTP
13148 =item How do I download files from a FTP server ?
13150 =item How do I transfer files in binary mode ?
13152 =item How can I get the size of a file on a remote FTP server ?
13154 =item How can I get the modification time of a file on a remote FTP server
13157 =item How can I change the permissions of a file on a remote server ?
13159 =item Can I do a reget operation like the ftp command ?
13161 =item How do I get a directory listing from a FTP server ?
13163 =item Changeing directory to "" does not fail ?
13165 =item I am behind a SOCKS firewall, but the Firewall option does not work ?
13167 =item I am behind a FTP proxy firewall, but cannot access machines outside
13170 =item My ftp proxy firewall does not listen on port 21
13172 =item Is it possible to change the file permissions of a file on an FTP
13175 =item I have seen scripts call a method message, but cannot find it
13178 =item Why does Net::FTP not implement mput and mget methods
13182 =item Using Net::SMTP
13186 =item Why can't the part of an Email address after the @ be used as the
13189 =item Why does Net::SMTP not do DNS MX lookups ?
13191 =item The verify method always returns true ?
13195 =item Debugging scripts
13199 =item How can I debug my scripts that use Net::* modules ?
13203 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
13207 =head2 Net::netent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getnet*()
13224 =head2 Net::protoent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getproto*()
13239 =head2 Net::servent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getserv*()
13256 =head2 Netrc, Net::Netrc - OO interface to users netrc file
13264 =item THE .netrc FILE
13266 machine name, default, login name, password string, account string, macdef
13271 lookup ( MACHINE [, LOGIN ])
13275 login (), password (), account (), lpa ()
13285 =head2 O - Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends
13295 =item IMPLEMENTATION
13301 =head2 ODBM_File - Tied access to odbm files
13309 C<O_RDONLY>, C<O_WRONLY>, C<O_RDWR>
13315 =item C<odbm store returned -1, errno 22, key "..." at ...>
13319 =item BUGS AND WARNINGS
13323 =head2 Opcode - Disable named opcodes when compiling perl code
13335 =item Operator Names and Operator Lists
13337 an operator name (opname), an operator tag name (optag), a negated opname
13338 or optag, an operator set (opset)
13340 =item Opcode Functions
13342 opcodes, opset (OP, ...), opset_to_ops (OPSET), opset_to_hex (OPSET),
13343 full_opset, empty_opset, invert_opset (OPSET), verify_opset (OPSET, ...),
13344 define_optag (OPTAG, OPSET), opmask_add (OPSET), opmask, opdesc (OP, ...),
13347 =item Manipulating Opsets
13349 =item TO DO (maybe)
13355 =item Predefined Opcode Tags
13357 :base_core, :base_mem, :base_loop, :base_io, :base_orig, :base_math,
13358 :base_thread, :default, :filesys_read, :sys_db, :browse, :filesys_open,
13359 :filesys_write, :subprocess, :ownprocess, :others, :still_to_be_decided,
13368 =head2 Opcode::Safe, Safe - Compile and execute code in restricted
13377 a new namespace, an operator mask
13383 =item RECENT CHANGES
13385 =item Methods in class Safe
13387 permit (OP, ...), permit_only (OP, ...), deny (OP, ...), deny_only (OP,
13388 ...), trap (OP, ...), untrap (OP, ...), share (NAME, ...), share_from
13389 (PACKAGE, ARRAYREF), varglob (VARNAME), reval (STRING), rdo (FILENAME),
13390 root (NAMESPACE), mask (MASK)
13392 =item Some Safety Issues
13394 Memory, CPU, Snooping, Signals, State Changes
13402 =head2 Opcode::ops, ops - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when
13415 =head2 POSIX - Perl interface to IEEE Std 1003.1
13429 _exit, abort, abs, access, acos, alarm, asctime, asin, assert, atan, atan2,
13430 atexit, atof, atoi, atol, bsearch, calloc, ceil, chdir, chmod, chown,
13431 clearerr, clock, close, closedir, cos, cosh, creat, ctermid, ctime,
13432 cuserid, difftime, div, dup, dup2, errno, execl, execle, execlp, execv,
13433 execve, execvp, exit, exp, fabs, fclose, fcntl, fdopen, feof, ferror,
13434 fflush, fgetc, fgetpos, fgets, fileno, floor, fmod, fopen, fork, fpathconf,
13435 fprintf, fputc, fputs, fread, free, freopen, frexp, fscanf, fseek, fsetpos,
13436 fstat, ftell, fwrite, getc, getchar, getcwd, getegid, getenv, geteuid,
13437 getgid, getgrgid, getgrnam, getgroups, getlogin, getpgrp, getpid, getppid,
13438 getpwnam, getpwuid, gets, getuid, gmtime, isalnum, isalpha, isatty,
13439 iscntrl, isdigit, isgraph, islower, isprint, ispunct, isspace, isupper,
13440 isxdigit, kill, labs, ldexp, ldiv, link, localeconv, localtime, log, log10,
13441 longjmp, lseek, malloc, mblen, mbstowcs, mbtowc, memchr, memcmp, memcpy,
13442 memmove, memset, mkdir, mkfifo, mktime, modf, nice, offsetof, open,
13443 opendir, pathconf, pause, perror, pipe, pow, printf, putc, putchar, puts,
13444 qsort, raise, rand, read, readdir, realloc, remove, rename, rewind,
13445 rewinddir, rmdir, scanf, setgid, setjmp, setlocale, setpgid, setsid,
13446 setuid, sigaction, siglongjmp, sigpending, sigprocmask, sigsetjmp,
13447 sigsuspend, sin, sinh, sleep, sprintf, sqrt, srand, sscanf, stat, strcat,
13448 strchr, strcmp, strcoll, strcpy, strcspn, strerror, strftime, strlen,
13449 strncat, strncmp, strncpy, strpbrk, strrchr, strspn, strstr, strtod,
13450 strtok, strtol, strtoul, strxfrm, sysconf, system, tan, tanh, tcdrain,
13451 tcflow, tcflush, tcgetpgrp, tcsendbreak, tcsetpgrp, time, times, tmpfile,
13452 tmpnam, tolower, toupper, ttyname, tzname, tzset, umask, uname, ungetc,
13453 unlink, utime, vfprintf, vprintf, vsprintf, wait, waitpid, wcstombs,
13460 =item POSIX::SigAction
13464 =item POSIX::SigSet
13466 new, addset, delset, emptyset, fillset, ismember
13468 =item POSIX::Termios
13470 new, getattr, getcc, getcflag, getiflag, getispeed, getlflag, getoflag,
13471 getospeed, setattr, setcc, setcflag, setiflag, setispeed, setlflag,
13472 setoflag, setospeed, Baud rate values, Terminal interface values, c_cc
13473 field values, c_cflag field values, c_iflag field values, c_lflag field
13474 values, c_oflag field values
13478 =item PATHNAME CONSTANTS
13482 =item POSIX CONSTANTS
13486 =item SYSTEM CONFIGURATION
13544 =head2 PerlIO - On demand loader for PerlIO layers and root of PerlIO::*
13553 unix, stdio, perlio, crlf, utf8, raw
13557 =item Defaults and how to override them
13567 =head2 PerlIO::Scalar - support module for in-memory IO.
13577 =head2 PerlIO::Via - Helper class for PerlIO layers implemented in perl
13585 $class->PUSHED([$mode][,$fh]), $obj->POPPED([$fh]),
13586 $class->OPEN($path,$mode[,$fh]), $class->FDOPEN($fd),
13587 $class->SYSOPEN($path,$imode,$perm,$fh), $obj->FILENO($fh),
13588 $obj->READ($buffer,$len,$fh), $obj->WRITE($buffer,$fh), $obj->FILL($fh),
13589 $obj->CLOSE($fh), $obj->SEEK($posn,$whence,$fh), $obj->TELL($fh),
13590 $obj->UNREAD($buffer,$fh), $obj->FLUSH($fh), $obj->SETLINEBUF($fh),
13591 $obj->CLEARERR($fh), $obj->ERROR($fh), $obj->EOF($fh)
13595 =head2 Pod::Checker, podchecker() - check pod documents for syntax errors
13601 =item OPTIONS/ARGUMENTS
13607 B<-warnings> =E<gt> I<val>
13619 empty =headn, =over on line I<N> without closing =back, =item without
13620 previous =over, =back without previous =over, No argument for =begin, =end
13621 without =begin, Nested =begin's, =for without formatter specification,
13622 unresolved internal link I<NAME>, Unknown command "I<CMD>", Unknown
13623 interior-sequence "I<SEQ>", nested commands
13624 I<CMD>E<lt>...I<CMD>E<lt>...E<gt>...E<gt>, garbled entity I<STRING>, Entity
13625 number out of range, malformed link LE<lt>E<gt>, nonempty ZE<lt>E<gt>,
13626 empty XE<lt>E<gt>, Spurious text after =pod / =cut, Spurious character(s)
13631 multiple occurence of link target I<name>, line containing nothing but
13632 whitespace in paragraph, file does not start with =head, previous =item has
13633 no contents, preceding non-item paragraph(s), =item type mismatch (I<one>
13634 vs. I<two>), I<N> unescaped C<E<lt>E<gt>> in paragraph, Unknown entity, No
13635 items in =over, No argument for =item, empty section in previous paragraph,
13636 Verbatim paragraph in NAME section
13640 ignoring leading/trailing whitespace in link, (section) in '$page'
13641 deprecated, alternative text/node '%s' contains non-escaped | or /
13653 C<Pod::Checker-E<gt>new( %options )>
13655 C<$checker-E<gt>poderror( @args )>, C<$checker-E<gt>poderror( {%opts},
13658 C<$checker-E<gt>num_errors()>
13660 C<$checker-E<gt>name()>
13662 C<$checker-E<gt>node()>
13664 C<$checker-E<gt>idx()>
13666 C<$checker-E<gt>hyperlink()>
13674 =head2 Pod::Find - find POD documents in directory trees
13686 =item C<pod_find( { %opts } , @directories )>
13688 C<-verbose =E<gt> 1>, C<-perl =E<gt> 1>, C<-script =E<gt> 1>, C<-inc =E<gt>
13695 =item C<simplify_name( $str )>
13701 =item C<pod_where( { %opts }, $pod )>
13703 C<-inc =E<gt> 1>, C<-dirs =E<gt> [ $dir1, $dir2, ... ]>, C<-verbose =E<gt>
13710 =item C<contains_pod( $file , $verbose )>
13722 =head2 Pod::Html - module to convert pod files to HTML
13732 backlink, cachedir, css, flush, header, help, htmldir, htmlroot, index,
13733 infile, libpods, netscape, outfile, podpath, podroot, quiet, recurse,
13748 =head2 Pod::InputObjects - objects representing POD input paragraphs,
13761 package B<Pod::InputSource>, package B<Pod::Paragraph>, package
13762 B<Pod::InteriorSequence>, package B<Pod::ParseTree>
13768 =item B<Pod::InputSource>
13792 =item B<was_cutting()>
13798 =item B<Pod::Paragraph>
13804 =item Pod::Paragraph-E<gt>B<new()>
13810 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<cmd_name()>
13816 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<text()>
13822 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<raw_text()>
13828 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<cmd_prefix()>
13834 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<cmd_separator()>
13840 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<parse_tree()>
13846 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<file_line()>
13852 =item B<Pod::InteriorSequence>
13858 =item Pod::InteriorSequence-E<gt>B<new()>
13864 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<cmd_name()>
13870 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<prepend()>
13876 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<append()>
13882 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<nested()>
13888 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<raw_text()>
13894 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<left_delimiter()>
13900 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<right_delimiter()>
13906 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<parse_tree()>
13912 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<file_line()>
13918 =item Pod::InteriorSequence::B<DESTROY()>
13924 =item B<Pod::ParseTree>
13930 =item Pod::ParseTree-E<gt>B<new()>
13936 =item $ptree-E<gt>B<top()>
13942 =item $ptree-E<gt>B<children()>
13948 =item $ptree-E<gt>B<prepend()>
13954 =item $ptree-E<gt>B<append()>
13960 =item $ptree-E<gt>B<raw_text()>
13966 =item Pod::ParseTree::B<DESTROY()>
13978 =head2 Pod::LaTeX - Convert Pod data to formatted Latex
13990 =item OBJECT METHODS
13998 =item Data Accessors
14014 B<ReplaceNAMEwithSection>
14016 B<StartWithNewPage>
14030 =item Subclassed methods
14044 B<interior_sequence>
14060 =item Methods for headings
14068 =item Internal methods
14074 B<_replace_special_chars>
14080 B<_clean_latex_commands>
14096 =head2 Pod::Man - Convert POD data to formatted *roff input
14104 center, date, fixed, fixedbold, fixeditalic, fixedbolditalic, quotes,
14109 roff font should be 1 or 2 chars, not "%s", Invalid link %s, Invalid quote
14110 specification "%s", %s:%d: Unknown command paragraph "%s", Unknown escape
14111 EE<lt>%sE<gt>, Unknown sequence %s, Unmatched =back
14119 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
14123 =head2 Pod::ParseUtils - helpers for POD parsing and conversion
14137 Pod::List-E<gt>new()
14145 $list-E<gt>indent()
14153 $list-E<gt>parent()
14159 =item Pod::Hyperlink
14161 Pod::Hyperlink-E<gt>new()
14165 $link-E<gt>parse($string)
14167 $link-E<gt>markup($string)
14171 $link-E<gt>warning()
14173 $link-E<gt>file(), $link-E<gt>line()
14179 $link-E<gt>alttext()
14189 Pod::Cache-E<gt>new()
14195 $cache-E<gt>find_page($name)
14199 =item Pod::Cache::Item
14201 Pod::Cache::Item-E<gt>new()
14205 $cacheitem-E<gt>page()
14207 $cacheitem-E<gt>description()
14209 $cacheitem-E<gt>path()
14211 $cacheitem-E<gt>file()
14213 $cacheitem-E<gt>nodes()
14215 $cacheitem-E<gt>find_node($name)
14217 $cacheitem-E<gt>idx()
14227 =head2 Pod::Parser - base class for creating POD filters and translators
14239 =item QUICK OVERVIEW
14241 =item PARSING OPTIONS
14243 B<-want_nonPODs> (default: unset), B<-process_cut_cmd> (default: unset),
14244 B<-warnings> (default: unset)
14250 =item RECOMMENDED SUBROUTINE/METHOD OVERRIDES
14258 C<$cmd>, C<$text>, C<$line_num>, C<$pod_para>
14264 =item B<verbatim()>
14266 C<$text>, C<$line_num>, C<$pod_para>
14272 =item B<textblock()>
14274 C<$text>, C<$line_num>, C<$pod_para>
14280 =item B<interior_sequence()>
14286 =item OPTIONAL SUBROUTINE/METHOD OVERRIDES
14298 =item B<initialize()>
14304 =item B<begin_pod()>
14310 =item B<begin_input()>
14316 =item B<end_input()>
14328 =item B<preprocess_line()>
14334 =item B<preprocess_paragraph()>
14340 =item METHODS FOR PARSING AND PROCESSING
14346 =item B<parse_text()>
14348 B<-expand_seq> =E<gt> I<code-ref>|I<method-name>, B<-expand_text> =E<gt>
14349 I<code-ref>|I<method-name>, B<-expand_ptree> =E<gt>
14350 I<code-ref>|I<method-name>
14356 =item B<interpolate()>
14362 =item B<parse_paragraph()>
14368 =item B<parse_from_filehandle()>
14374 =item B<parse_from_file()>
14380 =item ACCESSOR METHODS
14386 =item B<errorsub()>
14398 =item B<parseopts()>
14404 =item B<output_file()>
14410 =item B<output_handle()>
14416 =item B<input_file()>
14422 =item B<input_handle()>
14428 =item B<input_streams()>
14434 =item B<top_stream()>
14440 =item PRIVATE METHODS AND DATA
14446 =item B<_push_input_stream()>
14452 =item B<_pop_input_stream()>
14458 =item TREE-BASED PARSING
14466 =head2 Pod::Plainer - Perl extension for converting Pod to old style Pod.
14486 =head2 Pod::Select, podselect() - extract selected sections of POD from
14499 =item SECTION SPECIFICATIONS
14501 =item RANGE SPECIFICATIONS
14507 =item OBJECT METHODS
14513 =item B<curr_headings()>
14525 =item B<add_selection()>
14531 =item B<clear_selections()>
14537 =item B<match_section()>
14543 =item B<is_selected()>
14549 =item EXPORTED FUNCTIONS
14555 =item B<podselect()>
14557 B<-output>, B<-sections>, B<-ranges>
14563 =item PRIVATE METHODS AND DATA
14569 =item B<_compile_section_spec()>
14575 =item $self->{_SECTION_HEADINGS}
14581 =item $self->{_SELECTED_SECTIONS}
14593 =head2 Pod::Text - Convert POD data to formatted ASCII text
14601 alt, indent, loose, quotes, sentence, width
14605 Bizarre space in item, Can't open %s for reading: %s, Invalid quote
14606 specification "%s", %s:%d: Unknown command paragraph "%s", Unknown escape:
14607 %s, Unknown sequence: %s, Unmatched =back
14617 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
14621 =head2 Pod::Text::Color - Convert POD data to formatted color ASCII text
14635 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
14639 =head2 Pod::Text::Overstrike - Convert POD data to formatted overstrike
14654 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
14658 =head2 Pod::Text::Termcap, Pod::Text::Color - Convert POD data to ASCII
14659 text with format escapes
14671 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
14675 =head2 Pod::Usage, pod2usage() - print a usage message from embedded pod
14684 C<-message>, C<-msg>, C<-exitval>, C<-verbose>, C<-output>, C<-input>,
14693 =item Recommended Use
14701 =item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
14705 =head2 SDBM_File - Tied access to sdbm files
14713 C<O_RDONLY>, C<O_WRONLY>, C<O_RDWR>
14719 =item C<sdbm store returned -1, errno 22, key "..." at ...>
14723 =item BUGS AND WARNINGS
14727 =head2 Safe - Compile and execute code in restricted compartments
14735 a new namespace, an operator mask
14741 =item RECENT CHANGES
14743 =item Methods in class Safe
14745 permit (OP, ...), permit_only (OP, ...), deny (OP, ...), deny_only (OP,
14746 ...), trap (OP, ...), untrap (OP, ...), share (NAME, ...), share_from
14747 (PACKAGE, ARRAYREF), varglob (VARNAME), reval (STRING), rdo (FILENAME),
14748 root (NAMESPACE), mask (MASK)
14750 =item Some Safety Issues
14752 Memory, CPU, Snooping, Signals, State Changes
14760 =head2 Scalar::Util - A selection of general-utility scalar subroutines
14768 blessed EXPR, dualvar NUM, STRING, isweak EXPR, readonly SCALAR, reftype
14769 EXPR, tainted EXPR, weaken REF
14777 =head2 Search::Dict, look - search for key in dictionary file
14787 =head2 SelectSaver - save and restore selected file handle
14797 =head2 SelfLoader - load functions only on demand
14807 =item The __DATA__ token
14809 =item SelfLoader autoloading
14811 =item Autoloading and package lexicals
14813 =item SelfLoader and AutoLoader
14815 =item __DATA__, __END__, and the FOOBAR::DATA filehandle.
14817 =item Classes and inherited methods.
14821 =item Multiple packages and fully qualified subroutine names
14825 =head2 Shell - run shell commands transparently within perl
14835 =item OBJECT ORIENTED SYNTAX
14843 =head2 Socket, sockaddr_in, sockaddr_un, inet_aton, inet_ntoa - load the C
14844 socket.h defines and structure manipulators
14852 inet_aton HOSTNAME, inet_ntoa IP_ADDRESS, INADDR_ANY, INADDR_BROADCAST,
14853 INADDR_LOOPBACK, INADDR_NONE, sockaddr_in PORT, ADDRESS, sockaddr_in
14854 SOCKADDR_IN, pack_sockaddr_in PORT, IP_ADDRESS, unpack_sockaddr_in
14855 SOCKADDR_IN, sockaddr_un PATHNAME, sockaddr_un SOCKADDR_UN,
14856 pack_sockaddr_un PATH, unpack_sockaddr_un SOCKADDR_UN
14860 =head2 Storable - persistency for perl data structures
14870 =item ADVISORY LOCKING
14874 =item CANONICAL REPRESENTATION
14876 =item ERROR REPORTING
14884 C<STORABLE_freeze> I<obj>, I<cloning>, C<STORABLE_thaw> I<obj>, I<cloning>,
14889 C<Storable::last_op_in_netorder>, C<Storable::is_storing>,
14890 C<Storable::is_retrieving>
14914 =head2 Switch - A switch statement for Perl
14928 =item Allowing fall-through
14930 =item Automating fall-through
14932 =item Higher-order Operations
14946 =head2 Symbol - manipulate Perl symbols and their names
14956 =head2 Sys::Hostname - Try every conceivable way to get hostname
14968 =head2 Syslog, Sys::Syslog, openlog, closelog, setlogmask, syslog - Perl
14969 interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls
14977 openlog $ident, $logopt, $facility, syslog $priority, $format, @args,
14978 setlogmask $mask_priority, setlogsock $sock_type (added in 5.004_02),
14989 =head2 Syslog::Syslog, Sys::Syslog, openlog, closelog, setlogmask, syslog -
14990 Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls
14998 openlog $ident, $logopt, $facility, syslog $priority, $format, @args,
14999 setlogmask $mask_priority, setlogsock $sock_type (added in 5.004_02),
15010 =head2 Term::ANSIColor - Color screen output using ANSI escape sequences
15020 Bad escape sequence %s, Bareword "%s" not allowed while "strict subs" in
15021 use, Invalid attribute name %s, Name "%s" used only once: possible typo, No
15022 comma allowed after filehandle, No name for escape sequence %s
15026 ANSI_COLORS_DISABLED
15040 =head2 Term::Cap - Perl termcap interface
15052 =head2 Term::Complete - Perl word completion module
15060 E<lt>tabE<gt>, ^D, ^U, E<lt>delE<gt>, E<lt>bsE<gt>
15070 =head2 Term::ReadLine - Perl interface to various C<readline> packages. If
15071 no real package is found, substitutes stubs instead of basic functions.
15079 =item Minimal set of supported functions
15081 C<ReadLine>, C<new>, C<readline>, C<addhistory>, C<IN>, $C<OUT>,
15082 C<MinLine>, C<findConsole>, Attribs, C<Features>
15084 =item Additional supported functions
15086 C<tkRunning>, C<ornaments>, C<newTTY>
15096 =head2 Test - provides a simple framework for writing test scripts
15122 NORMAL TESTS, SKIPPED TESTS, TODO TESTS
15126 =item BUGS and CAVEATS
15136 =head2 Test::Harness - run perl standard test scripts with statistics
15146 =item The test script output
15148 B<'1..M'>, B<'ok', 'not ok'. Ok?>, B<test numbers>,
15149 B<$Test::Harness::verbose>, B<$Test::Harness::switches>, B<Skipping tests>,
15150 B<Todo tests>, B<Bail out!>, B<Comments>, B<Anything else>
15154 B<Failed Test>, B<Stat>, B<Wstat>, B<Total>, B<Fail>, B<Failed>, B<List of
15177 C<All tests successful.\nFiles=%d, Tests=%d, %s>, C<FAILED tests
15178 %s\n\tFailed %d/%d tests, %.2f%% okay.>, C<Test returned status %d (wstat
15179 %d)>, C<Failed 1 test, %.2f%% okay. %s>, C<Failed %d/%d tests, %.2f%% okay.
15180 %s>, C<FAILED--Further testing stopped%s>
15184 C<HARNESS_IGNORE_EXITCODE>, C<HARNESS_NOTTY>, C<HARNESS_COMPILE_TEST>,
15185 C<HARNESS_FILELEAK_IN_DIR>, C<HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES>, C<HARNESS_COLUMNS>,
15200 =head2 Test::More - yet another framework for writing test scripts
15210 =item I love it when a plan comes together
15214 =item I'm ok, you're not ok.
15232 B<use_ok>, B<require_ok>
15238 =item Conditional tests
15240 B<skip> * UNIMPLEMENTED *
15244 B<todo> * UNIMPLEMENTED *
15248 =item Comparision functions
15260 =item BUGS and CAVEATS
15270 =head2 Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
15300 L<Test::More>, L<Test>, L<Test::Unit>, L<Pod::Tests>, L<SelfTest>,
15305 =head2 Text::Abbrev, abbrev - create an abbreviation table from a list
15317 =head2 Text::Balanced - Extract delimited text sequences from strings.
15327 =item General behaviour in list contexts
15331 =item General behaviour in scalar and void contexts
15333 =item A note about prefixes
15335 =item C<extract_delimited>
15337 =item C<extract_bracketed>
15339 =item C<extract_tagged>
15341 C<reject =E<gt> $listref>, C<ignore =E<gt> $listref>, C<fail =E<gt> $str>,
15342 [0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]
15344 =item C<gen_extract_tagged>
15346 =item C<extract_quotelike>
15348 [0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10]
15350 =item C<extract_quotelike> and "here documents"
15352 [0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7..10]
15354 =item C<extract_codeblock>
15356 =item C<extract_multiple>
15358 =item C<gen_delimited_pat>
15364 C<Did not find a suitable bracket: "%s">, C<Did not find prefix: /%s/>,
15365 C<Did not find opening bracket after prefix: "%s">, C<No quotelike
15366 operator found after prefix: "%s">, C<Unmatched closing bracket: "%c">,
15367 C<Unmatched opening bracket(s): "%s">, C<Unmatched embedded quote (%s)>,
15368 C<Did not find closing delimiter to match '%s'>, C<Mismatched closing
15369 bracket: expected "%c" but found "%s">, C<No block delimiter found after
15370 quotelike "%s">, C<Did not find leading dereferencer>, C<Bad identifier
15371 after dereferencer>, C<Did not find expected opening bracket at %s>,
15372 C<Improperly nested codeblock at %s>, C<Missing second block for quotelike
15373 "%s">, C<No match found for opening bracket>, C<Did not find opening tag:
15374 /%s/>, C<Unable to construct closing tag to match: /%s/>, C<Found invalid
15375 nested tag: %s>, C<Found unbalanced nested tag: %s>, C<Did not find closing
15380 =item BUGS AND IRRITATIONS
15386 =head2 Text::ParseWords - parse text into an array of tokens or array of
15401 =head2 Text::Soundex - Implementation of the Soundex Algorithm as Described
15418 =head2 Text::Tabs -- expand and unexpand tabs per the unix expand(1) and
15433 =head2 Text::Wrap - line wrapping to form simple paragraphs
15447 =head2 Thread - manipulate threads in Perl (EXPERIMENTAL, subject to
15460 new \&start_sub, new \&start_sub, LIST, lock VARIABLE, async BLOCK;,
15461 Thread->self, Thread->list, cond_wait VARIABLE, cond_signal VARIABLE,
15462 cond_broadcast VARIABLE, yield
15466 join, eval, detach, equal, tid, flags, done
15474 =head2 Thread::Queue - thread-safe queues
15482 =item FUNCTIONS AND METHODS
15484 new, enqueue LIST, dequeue, dequeue_nb, pending
15490 =head2 Thread::Semaphore - thread-safe semaphores
15498 =item FUNCTIONS AND METHODS
15500 new, new NUMBER, down, down NUMBER, up, up NUMBER
15504 =head2 Thread::Signal - Start a thread which runs signal handlers reliably
15516 =head2 Thread::Specific - thread-specific keys
15526 =head2 Tie::Array - base class for tied arrays
15534 TIEARRAY classname, LIST, STORE this, index, value, FETCH this, index,
15535 FETCHSIZE this, STORESIZE this, count, EXTEND this, count, EXISTS this,
15536 key, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this, DESTROY this, PUSH this, LIST, POP this,
15537 SHIFT this, UNSHIFT this, LIST, SPLICE this, offset, length, LIST
15545 =head2 Tie::Handle, Tie::StdHandle - base class definitions for tied
15554 TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, WRITE this, scalar, length, offset, PRINT this,
15555 LIST, PRINTF this, format, LIST, READ this, scalar, length, offset,
15556 READLINE this, GETC this, CLOSE this, OPEN this, filename, BINMODE this,
15557 EOF this, TELL this, SEEK this, offset, whence, DESTROY this
15559 =item MORE INFORMATION
15561 =item COMPATIBILITY
15565 =head2 Tie::Hash, Tie::StdHash - base class definitions for tied hashes
15573 TIEHASH classname, LIST, STORE this, key, value, FETCH this, key, FIRSTKEY
15574 this, NEXTKEY this, lastkey, EXISTS this, key, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this
15578 =item MORE INFORMATION
15582 =head2 Tie::RefHash - use references as hash keys
15600 =head2 Tie::Scalar, Tie::StdScalar - base class definitions for tied
15609 TIESCALAR classname, LIST, FETCH this, STORE this, value, DESTROY this
15611 =item MORE INFORMATION
15615 =head2 Tie::SubstrHash - Fixed-table-size, fixed-key-length hashing
15627 =head2 Time::HiRes - High resolution ualarm, usleep, and gettimeofday
15635 gettimeofday (), usleep ( $useconds ), ualarm ( $useconds [,
15636 $interval_useconds ] ), tv_interval, time (), sleep ( $floating_seconds ),
15637 alarm ( $floating_seconds [, $interval_floating_seconds ] ), setitimer,
15638 getitimer ( $which )
15654 =head2 Time::Local - efficiently compute time from local and GMT time
15662 =item IMPLEMENTATION
15668 =head2 Time::Piece - Object Oriented time objects
15680 =item Local Locales
15682 =item Date Calculations
15684 =item Date Comparisons
15686 =item YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss
15690 =item strftime method
15692 %%, %a, %A, %b, %B, %c, %C, %d, %D, %e, %h, %H, %I, %j, %m, %M, %n, %p, %r,
15693 %R, %S, %t, %T, %u, %U, %V, %w, %W, %x, %y, %Y, %Z
15695 =item strptime function
15697 =item Global Overriding
15715 =head2 Time::Piece::Seconds, Time::Seconds - a simple API to convert
15716 seconds to other date values
15734 =head2 Time::Seconds - a simple API to convert seconds to other date values
15752 =head2 Time::gmtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in gmtime()
15767 =head2 Time::localtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in localtime()
15782 =head2 Time::tm - internal object used by Time::gmtime and Time::localtime
15794 =head2 UNIVERSAL - base class for ALL classes (blessed references)
15802 isa ( TYPE ), can ( METHOD ), VERSION ( [ REQUIRE ] ), UNIVERSAL::isa (
15803 VAL, TYPE ), UNIVERSAL::can ( VAL, METHOD )
15807 =head2 UnicodeCD - Unicode character database
15849 =item Blocks versus Scripts
15851 =item Matching Scripts and Blocks
15853 =item Code Point Arguments
15879 =item UnicodeCD::UnicodeVersion
15885 =item Implementation Note
15895 =head2 User::grent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getgr*()
15910 =head2 User::pwent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getpw*()
15921 =item System Specifics
15935 =head2 Win32 - Interfaces to some Win32 API Functions
15943 =item Alphabetical Listing of Win32 Functions
15945 Win32::AbortSystemShutdown(MACHINE), Win32::BuildNumber(),
15946 Win32::CopyFile(FROM, TO, OVERWRITE), Win32::DomainName(),
15947 Win32::ExpandEnvironmentStrings(STRING), Win32::FormatMessage(ERRORCODE),
15948 Win32::FsType(), Win32::FreeLibrary(HANDLE), Win32::GetArchName(),
15949 Win32::GetChipName(), Win32::GetCwd(), Win32::GetFullPathName(FILENAME),
15950 Win32::GetLastError(), Win32::GetLongPathName(PATHNAME),
15951 Win32::GetNextAvailDrive(), Win32::GetOSVersion(),
15952 Win32::GetShortPathName(PATHNAME), Win32::GetProcAddress(INSTANCE,
15953 PROCNAME), Win32::GetTickCount(), Win32::InitiateSystemShutdown,
15954 Win32::IsWinNT(), Win32::IsWin95(), Win32::LoadLibrary(LIBNAME),
15955 Win32::LoginName(), Win32::LookupAccountName(SYSTEM, ACCOUNT, DOMAIN, SID,
15956 SIDTYPE), Win32::LookupAccountSID(SYSTEM, SID, ACCOUNT, DOMAIN, SIDTYPE),
15957 Win32::MsgBox(MESSAGE [, FLAGS [, TITLE]]), Win32::NodeName(),
15958 Win32::RegisterServer(LIBRARYNAME), Win32::SetCwd(NEWDIRECTORY),
15959 Win32::SetLastError(ERROR), Win32::Sleep(TIME), Win32::Spawn(COMMAND, ARGS,
15960 PID), Win32::UnregisterServer(LIBRARYNAME)
15966 =head2 XS::Typemap - module to test the XS typemaps distributed with perl
15984 =head2 XSLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code
15996 =head1 AUXILIARY DOCUMENTATION
15998 Here should be listed all the extra programs' documentation, but they
15999 don't all have manual pages yet:
16025 Larry Wall <F<larry@wall.org>>, with the help of oodles