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
26 =item Internals and C Language Interface
30 =item Platform-Specific
54 =head2 perlintro -- a brief introduction and overview of Perl
64 =item Running Perl programs
66 =item Basic syntax overview
68 =item Perl variable types
70 Scalars, Arrays, Hashes
72 =item Variable scoping
74 =item Conditional and looping constructs
76 if, while, for, foreach
78 =item Builtin operators and functions
80 Arithmetic, Numeric comparison, String comparison, Boolean logic,
85 =item Regular expressions
87 Simple matching, Simple substitution, More complex regular expressions,
88 Parentheses for capturing, Other regexp features
90 =item Writing subroutines
94 =item Using Perl modules
102 =head2 perlfaq - frequently asked questions about Perl ($Date: 2001/10/16
111 =item perlfaq: Structural overview of the FAQ.
113 =item L<perlfaq1>: General Questions About Perl
115 =item L<perlfaq2>: Obtaining and Learning about Perl
117 =item L<perlfaq3>: Programming Tools
119 =item L<perlfaq4>: Data Manipulation
121 =item L<perlfaq5>: Files and Formats
123 =item L<perlfaq6>: Regexps
125 =item L<perlfaq7>: General Perl Language Issues
127 =item L<perlfaq8>: System Interaction
129 =item L<perlfaq9>: Networking
133 =item About the perlfaq documents
137 =item Where to get the perlfaq
139 =item How to contribute to the perlfaq
141 =item What will happen if you mail your Perl programming problems to the
148 =item Author and Copyright Information
152 =item Bundled Distributions
160 1/November/2000, 23/May/99, 13/April/99, 7/January/99, 22/June/98,
161 24/April/97, 23/April/97, 25/March/97, 18/March/97, 17/March/97 Version,
162 Initial Release: 11/March/97
166 =head2 perlbook - Perl book information
174 =head2 perlsyn - Perl syntax
184 =item Simple statements
186 =item Compound statements
194 =item Basic BLOCKs and Switch Statements
198 =item PODs: Embedded Documentation
200 =item Plain Old Comments (Not!)
206 =head2 perldata - Perl data types
220 =item Scalar value constructors
222 =item List value constructors
226 =item Typeglobs and Filehandles
234 =head2 perlop - Perl operators and precedence
244 =item Terms and List Operators (Leftward)
246 =item The Arrow Operator
248 =item Auto-increment and Auto-decrement
252 =item Symbolic Unary Operators
254 =item Binding Operators
256 =item Multiplicative Operators
258 =item Additive Operators
260 =item Shift Operators
262 =item Named Unary Operators
264 =item Relational Operators
266 =item Equality Operators
270 =item Bitwise Or and Exclusive Or
272 =item C-style Logical And
274 =item C-style Logical Or
276 =item Range Operators
278 =item Conditional Operator
280 =item Assignment Operators
284 =item List Operators (Rightward)
290 =item Logical or and Exclusive Or
292 =item C Operators Missing From Perl
294 unary &, unary *, (TYPE)
296 =item Quote and Quote-like Operators
298 =item Regexp Quote-Like Operators
300 ?PATTERN?, m/PATTERN/cgimosx, /PATTERN/cgimosx, q/STRING/, C<'STRING'>,
301 qq/STRING/, "STRING", qr/STRING/imosx, qx/STRING/, `STRING`, qw/STRING/,
302 s/PATTERN/REPLACEMENT/egimosx, tr/SEARCHLIST/REPLACEMENTLIST/cds,
303 y/SEARCHLIST/REPLACEMENTLIST/cds, <<EOF
305 =item Gory details of parsing quoted constructs
307 Finding the end, Removal of backslashes before delimiters, Interpolation,
308 C<<<'EOF'>, C<m''>, C<s'''>, C<tr///>, C<y///>, C<''>, C<q//>, C<"">,
309 C<``>, C<qq//>, C<qx//>, C<< <file*glob> >>, C<?RE?>, C</RE/>, C<m/RE/>,
310 C<s/RE/foo/>,, Interpolation of regular expressions, Optimization of
315 =item Constant Folding
317 =item Bitwise String Operators
319 =item Integer Arithmetic
321 =item Floating-point Arithmetic
329 =head2 perlsub - Perl subroutines
339 =item Private Variables via my()
341 =item Persistent Private Variables
343 =item Temporary Values via local()
345 =item Lvalue subroutines
347 =item Passing Symbol Table Entries (typeglobs)
349 =item When to Still Use local()
351 =item Pass by Reference
355 =item Constant Functions
357 =item Overriding Built-in Functions
361 =item Subroutine Attributes
369 =head2 perlfunc - Perl builtin functions
377 =item Perl Functions by Category
379 Functions for SCALARs or strings, Regular expressions and pattern matching,
380 Numeric functions, Functions for real @ARRAYs, Functions for list data,
381 Functions for real %HASHes, Input and output functions, Functions for fixed
382 length data or records, Functions for filehandles, files, or directories,
383 Keywords related to the control flow of your perl program, Keywords related
384 to scoping, Miscellaneous functions, Functions for processes and process
385 groups, Keywords related to perl modules, Keywords related to classes and
386 object-orientedness, Low-level socket functions, System V interprocess
387 communication functions, Fetching user and group info, Fetching network
388 info, Time-related functions, Functions new in perl5, Functions obsoleted
393 =item Alphabetical Listing of Perl Functions
395 I<-X> FILEHANDLE, I<-X> EXPR, I<-X>, abs VALUE, abs, accept
396 NEWSOCKET,GENERICSOCKET, alarm SECONDS, alarm, atan2 Y,X, bind SOCKET,NAME,
397 binmode FILEHANDLE, DISCIPLINE, binmode FILEHANDLE, bless REF,CLASSNAME,
398 bless REF, caller EXPR, caller, chdir EXPR, chmod LIST, chomp VARIABLE,
399 chomp LIST, chomp, chop VARIABLE, chop LIST, chop, chown LIST, chr NUMBER,
400 chr, chroot FILENAME, chroot, close FILEHANDLE, close, closedir DIRHANDLE,
401 connect SOCKET,NAME, continue BLOCK, cos EXPR, cos, crypt PLAINTEXT,SALT,
402 dbmclose HASH, dbmopen HASH,DBNAME,MASK, defined EXPR, defined, delete
403 EXPR, die LIST, do BLOCK, do SUBROUTINE(LIST), do EXPR, dump LABEL, dump,
404 each HASH, eof FILEHANDLE, eof (), eof, eval EXPR, eval BLOCK, exec LIST,
405 exec PROGRAM LIST, exists EXPR, exit EXPR, exp EXPR, exp, fcntl
406 FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, fileno FILEHANDLE, flock FILEHANDLE,OPERATION,
407 fork, format, formline PICTURE,LIST, getc FILEHANDLE, getc, getlogin,
408 getpeername SOCKET, getpgrp PID, getppid, getpriority WHICH,WHO, getpwnam
409 NAME, getgrnam NAME, gethostbyname NAME, getnetbyname NAME, getprotobyname
410 NAME, getpwuid UID, getgrgid GID, getservbyname NAME,PROTO, gethostbyaddr
411 ADDR,ADDRTYPE, getnetbyaddr ADDR,ADDRTYPE, getprotobynumber NUMBER,
412 getservbyport PORT,PROTO, getpwent, getgrent, gethostent, getnetent,
413 getprotoent, getservent, setpwent, setgrent, sethostent STAYOPEN, setnetent
414 STAYOPEN, setprotoent STAYOPEN, setservent STAYOPEN, endpwent, endgrent,
415 endhostent, endnetent, endprotoent, endservent, getsockname SOCKET,
416 getsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME, glob EXPR, glob, gmtime EXPR, goto LABEL,
417 goto EXPR, goto &NAME, grep BLOCK LIST, grep EXPR,LIST, hex EXPR, hex,
418 import, index STR,SUBSTR,POSITION, index STR,SUBSTR, int EXPR, int, ioctl
419 FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, join EXPR,LIST, keys HASH, kill SIGNAL, LIST,
420 last LABEL, last, lc EXPR, lc, lcfirst EXPR, lcfirst, length EXPR, length,
421 link OLDFILE,NEWFILE, listen SOCKET,QUEUESIZE, local EXPR, localtime EXPR,
422 lock, log EXPR, log, lstat EXPR, lstat, m//, map BLOCK LIST, map EXPR,LIST,
423 mkdir FILENAME,MASK, mkdir FILENAME, msgctl ID,CMD,ARG, msgget KEY,FLAGS,
424 msgrcv ID,VAR,SIZE,TYPE,FLAGS, msgsnd ID,MSG,FLAGS, my EXPR, my EXPR :
425 ATTRIBUTES, next LABEL, next, no Module LIST, oct EXPR, oct, open
426 FILEHANDLE,EXPR, open FILEHANDLE,MODE,EXPR, open FILEHANDLE,MODE,EXPR,LIST,
427 open FILEHANDLE, opendir DIRHANDLE,EXPR, ord EXPR, ord, our EXPR, our EXPR
428 : ATTRIBUTES, pack TEMPLATE,LIST, package NAMESPACE, package, pipe
429 READHANDLE,WRITEHANDLE, pop ARRAY, pop, pos SCALAR, pos, print FILEHANDLE
430 LIST, print LIST, print, printf FILEHANDLE FORMAT, LIST, printf FORMAT,
431 LIST, prototype FUNCTION, push ARRAY,LIST, q/STRING/, qq/STRING/,
432 qr/STRING/, qx/STRING/, qw/STRING/, quotemeta EXPR, quotemeta, rand EXPR,
433 rand, read FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET, read FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,
434 readdir DIRHANDLE, readline EXPR, readlink EXPR, readlink, readpipe EXPR,
435 recv SOCKET,SCALAR,LENGTH,FLAGS, redo LABEL, redo, ref EXPR, ref, rename
436 OLDNAME,NEWNAME, require VERSION, require EXPR, require, reset EXPR, reset,
437 return EXPR, return, reverse LIST, rewinddir DIRHANDLE, rindex
438 STR,SUBSTR,POSITION, rindex STR,SUBSTR, rmdir FILENAME, rmdir, s///, scalar
439 EXPR, seek FILEHANDLE,POSITION,WHENCE, seekdir DIRHANDLE,POS, select
440 FILEHANDLE, select, select RBITS,WBITS,EBITS,TIMEOUT, semctl
441 ID,SEMNUM,CMD,ARG, semget KEY,NSEMS,FLAGS, semop KEY,OPSTRING, send
442 SOCKET,MSG,FLAGS,TO, send SOCKET,MSG,FLAGS, setpgrp PID,PGRP, setpriority
443 WHICH,WHO,PRIORITY, setsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME,OPTVAL, shift ARRAY,
444 shift, shmctl ID,CMD,ARG, shmget KEY,SIZE,FLAGS, shmread ID,VAR,POS,SIZE,
445 shmwrite ID,STRING,POS,SIZE, shutdown SOCKET,HOW, sin EXPR, sin, sleep
446 EXPR, sleep, sockatmark SOCKET, socket SOCKET,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL,
447 socketpair SOCKET1,SOCKET2,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL, sort SUBNAME LIST, sort
448 BLOCK LIST, sort LIST, splice ARRAY,OFFSET,LENGTH,LIST, splice
449 ARRAY,OFFSET,LENGTH, splice ARRAY,OFFSET, splice ARRAY, split
450 /PATTERN/,EXPR,LIMIT, split /PATTERN/,EXPR, split /PATTERN/, split, sprintf
451 FORMAT, LIST, sqrt EXPR, sqrt, srand EXPR, srand, stat FILEHANDLE, stat
452 EXPR, stat, study SCALAR, study, sub BLOCK, sub NAME, sub NAME BLOCK,
453 substr EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH,REPLACEMENT, substr EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH, substr
454 EXPR,OFFSET, symlink OLDFILE,NEWFILE, syscall LIST, sysopen
455 FILEHANDLE,FILENAME,MODE, sysopen FILEHANDLE,FILENAME,MODE,PERMS, sysread
456 FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET, sysread FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH, sysseek
457 FILEHANDLE,POSITION,WHENCE, system LIST, system PROGRAM LIST, syswrite
458 FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET, syswrite FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,
459 syswrite FILEHANDLE,SCALAR, tell FILEHANDLE, tell, telldir DIRHANDLE, tie
460 VARIABLE,CLASSNAME,LIST, tied VARIABLE, time, times, tr///, truncate
461 FILEHANDLE,LENGTH, truncate EXPR,LENGTH, uc EXPR, uc, ucfirst EXPR,
462 ucfirst, umask EXPR, umask, undef EXPR, undef, unlink LIST, unlink, unpack
463 TEMPLATE,EXPR, untie VARIABLE, unshift ARRAY,LIST, use Module VERSION LIST,
464 use Module VERSION, use Module LIST, use Module, use VERSION, utime LIST,
465 values HASH, vec EXPR,OFFSET,BITS, wait, waitpid PID,FLAGS, wantarray, warn
466 LIST, write FILEHANDLE, write EXPR, write, y///
472 =head2 perlreftut - Mark's very short tutorial about references
478 =item Who Needs Complicated Data Structures?
486 =item Making References
488 =item Using References
506 =item Distribution Conditions
512 =head2 perldsc - Perl Data Structures Cookbook
518 arrays of arrays, hashes of arrays, arrays of hashes, hashes of hashes,
519 more elaborate constructs
523 =item COMMON MISTAKES
525 =item CAVEAT ON PRECEDENCE
527 =item WHY YOU SHOULD ALWAYS C<use strict>
533 =item ARRAYS OF ARRAYS
537 =item Declaration of a ARRAY OF ARRAYS
539 =item Generation of a ARRAY OF ARRAYS
541 =item Access and Printing of a ARRAY OF ARRAYS
545 =item HASHES OF ARRAYS
549 =item Declaration of a HASH OF ARRAYS
551 =item Generation of a HASH OF ARRAYS
553 =item Access and Printing of a HASH OF ARRAYS
557 =item ARRAYS OF HASHES
561 =item Declaration of a ARRAY OF HASHES
563 =item Generation of a ARRAY OF HASHES
565 =item Access and Printing of a ARRAY OF HASHES
569 =item HASHES OF HASHES
573 =item Declaration of a HASH OF HASHES
575 =item Generation of a HASH OF HASHES
577 =item Access and Printing of a HASH OF HASHES
581 =item MORE ELABORATE RECORDS
585 =item Declaration of MORE ELABORATE RECORDS
587 =item Declaration of a HASH OF COMPLEX RECORDS
589 =item Generation of a HASH OF COMPLEX RECORDS
601 =head2 perlrequick - Perl regular expressions quick start
611 =item Simple word matching
613 =item Using character classes
615 =item Matching this or that
617 =item Grouping things and hierarchical matching
619 =item Extracting matches
621 =item Matching repetitions
625 =item Search and replace
627 =item The split operator
635 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
639 =item Acknowledgments
645 =head2 perlpod - the Plain Old Documentation format
653 =item Ordinary Paragraph
655 =item Verbatim Paragraph
657 =item Command Paragraph
659 C<=head1 I<Heading Text>>, C<=head2 I<Heading Text>>, C<=head3 I<Heading
660 Text>>, C<=head4 I<Heading Text>>, C<=over I<indentlevel>>, C<=item
661 I<stuff...>>, C<=back>, C<=cut>, C<=pod>, C<=begin I<formatname>>, C<=end
662 I<formatname>>, C<=for I<formatname> I<text...>>
664 =item Formatting Codes
666 C<IE<lt>textE<gt>> -- italic text, C<BE<lt>textE<gt>> -- bold text,
667 C<CE<lt>codeE<gt>> -- code text, C<LE<lt>nameE<gt>> -- a hyperlink,
668 C<EE<lt>escapeE<gt>> -- a character escape, C<FE<lt>filenameE<gt>> -- used
669 for filenames, C<SE<lt>textE<gt>> -- text contains non-breaking spaces,
670 C<XE<lt>topic nameE<gt>> -- an index entry, C<ZE<lt>E<gt>> -- a null
671 (zero-effect) formatting code
675 =item Embedding Pods in Perl Modules
677 =item Hints for Writing Pod
687 =head2 perlpodspec - Plain Old Documentation: format specification and
694 =item Pod Definitions
698 "=head1", "=head2", "=head3", "=head4", "=pod", "=cut", "=over", "=item",
699 "=back", "=begin formatname", "=end formatname", "=for formatname text..."
701 =item Pod Formatting Codes
703 C<IE<lt>textE<gt>> -- italic text, C<BE<lt>textE<gt>> -- bold text,
704 C<CE<lt>codeE<gt>> -- code text, C<FE<lt>filenameE<gt>> -- style for
705 filenames, C<XE<lt>topic nameE<gt>> -- an index entry, C<ZE<lt>E<gt>> -- a
706 null (zero-effect) formatting code, C<LE<lt>nameE<gt>> -- a hyperlink,
707 C<EE<lt>escapeE<gt>> -- a character escape, C<SE<lt>textE<gt>> -- text
708 contains non-breaking spaces
710 =item Notes on Implementing Pod Processors
712 =item About LE<lt>...E<gt> Codes
714 First:, Second:, Third:, Fourth:, Fifth:, Sixth:
716 =item About =over...=back Regions
718 =item About Data Paragraphs and "=begin/=end" Regions
726 =head2 perlstyle - Perl style guide
734 =head2 perltrap - Perl traps for the unwary
752 =item Perl4 to Perl5 Traps
754 Discontinuance, Deprecation, and BugFix traps, Parsing Traps, Numerical
755 Traps, General data type traps, Context Traps - scalar, list contexts,
756 Precedence Traps, General Regular Expression Traps using s///, etc,
757 Subroutine, Signal, Sorting Traps, OS Traps, DBM Traps, Unclassified Traps
759 =item Discontinuance, Deprecation, and BugFix traps
761 Discontinuance, Deprecation, BugFix, Discontinuance, Discontinuance,
762 Discontinuance, BugFix, Discontinuance, Discontinuance, BugFix,
763 Discontinuance, Deprecation, Discontinuance, Discontinuance
767 Parsing, Parsing, Parsing, Parsing
769 =item Numerical Traps
771 Numerical, Numerical, Numerical, Bitwise string ops
773 =item General data type traps
775 (Arrays), (Arrays), (Hashes), (Globs), (Globs), (Scalar String),
776 (Constants), (Scalars), (Variable Suicide)
778 =item Context Traps - scalar, list contexts
780 (list context), (scalar context), (scalar context), (list, builtin)
782 =item Precedence Traps
784 Precedence, Precedence, Precedence, Precedence, Precedence, Precedence,
787 =item General Regular Expression Traps using s///, etc.
789 Regular Expression, Regular Expression, Regular Expression, Regular
790 Expression, Regular Expression, Regular Expression, Regular Expression,
793 =item Subroutine, Signal, Sorting Traps
795 (Signals), (Sort Subroutine), warn() won't let you specify a filehandle
801 =item Interpolation Traps
803 Interpolation, Interpolation, Interpolation, Interpolation, Interpolation,
804 Interpolation, Interpolation, Interpolation, Interpolation
810 =item Unclassified Traps
812 C<require>/C<do> trap using returned value, C<split> on empty string with
819 =head2 perlrun - how to execute the Perl interpreter
829 =item #! and quoting on non-Unix systems
831 OS/2, MS-DOS, Win95/NT, Macintosh, VMS
833 =item Location of Perl
835 =item Command Switches
837 B<-0>[I<digits>], B<-a>, B<-C>, B<-c>, B<-d>, B<-d:>I<foo[=bar,baz]>,
838 B<-D>I<letters>, B<-D>I<number>, B<-e> I<commandline>, B<-F>I<pattern>,
839 B<-h>, B<-i>[I<extension>], B<-I>I<directory>, B<-l>[I<octnum>],
840 B<-m>[B<->]I<module>, B<-M>[B<->]I<module>, B<-M>[B<->]I<'module ...'>,
841 B<-[mM]>[B<->]I<module=arg[,arg]...>, B<-n>, B<-p>, B<-P>, B<-s>, B<-S>,
842 B<-T>, B<-u>, B<-U>, B<-v>, B<-V>, B<-V:>I<name>, B<-w>, B<-W>, B<-X>,
849 HOME, LOGDIR, PATH, PERL5LIB, PERL5OPT, PERLLIB, PERL5DB, PERL5SHELL
850 (specific to the Win32 port), PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS, PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL,
851 PERL_ROOT (specific to the VMS port), SYS$LOGIN (specific to the VMS port)
855 =head2 perldiag - various Perl diagnostics
863 =head2 perllexwarn - Perl Lexical Warnings
871 =item Default Warnings and Optional Warnings
873 =item What's wrong with B<-w> and C<$^W>
875 =item Controlling Warnings from the Command Line
879 =item Backward Compatibility
881 =item Category Hierarchy
885 =item Reporting Warnings from a Module
897 =head2 perldebtut - Perl debugging tutorial
905 =item Looking at data and -w and w
909 =item Stepping through code
911 =item Placeholder for a, w, t, T
913 =item REGULAR EXPRESSIONS
931 =head2 perldebug - Perl debugging
937 =item The Perl Debugger
941 =item Debugger Commands
943 h [command], p expr, x expr, V [pkg [vars]], X [vars], T, s [expr], n
944 [expr], r, <CR>, c [line|sub], l, l min+incr, l min-max, l line, l subname,
945 -, w [line], f filename, /pattern/, ?pattern?, L, S [[!]regex], t, t expr,
946 b [line] [condition], b subname [condition], b postpone subname
947 [condition], b load filename, b compile subname, d [line], D, a [line]
948 command, a [line], A, W expr, W, O booloption .., O anyoption? .., O
949 option=value .., < ?, < [ command ], << command, > ?, > command, >>
950 command, { ?, { [ command ], {{ command, ! number, ! -number, ! pattern, !!
951 cmd, @ file, H -number, q or ^D, R, |dbcmd, ||dbcmd, command, m expr, man
954 =item Configurable Options
956 C<recallCommand>, C<ShellBang>, C<pager>, C<tkRunning>, C<signalLevel>,
957 C<warnLevel>, C<dieLevel>, C<AutoTrace>, C<LineInfo>, C<inhibit_exit>,
958 C<PrintRet>, C<ornaments>, C<frame>, C<maxTraceLen>, C<windowSize>,
959 C<arrayDepth>, C<hashDepth>, C<compactDump>, C<veryCompact>, C<globPrint>,
960 C<DumpDBFiles>, C<DumpPackages>, C<DumpReused>, C<quote>, C<HighBit>,
961 C<undefPrint>, C<UsageOnly>, C<TTY>, C<noTTY>, C<ReadLine>, C<NonStop>
963 =item Debugger input/output
965 Prompt, Multiline commands, Stack backtrace, Line Listing Format, Frame
968 =item Debugging compile-time statements
970 =item Debugger Customization
972 =item Readline Support
974 =item Editor Support for Debugging
976 =item The Perl Profiler
980 =item Debugging regular expressions
982 =item Debugging memory usage
990 =head2 perlvar - Perl predefined variables
998 =item Predefined Names
1000 $ARG, $_, $a, $b, $<I<digits>>, $MATCH, $&, $PREMATCH, $`, $POSTMATCH, $',
1001 $LAST_PAREN_MATCH, $+, $^N, @LAST_MATCH_END, @+, $MULTILINE_MATCHING, $*,
1002 HANDLE->input_line_number(EXPR), $INPUT_LINE_NUMBER, $NR, $,
1003 IO::Handle->input_record_separator(EXPR), $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR, $RS, $/,
1004 HANDLE->autoflush(EXPR), $OUTPUT_AUTOFLUSH, $|,
1005 IO::Handle->output_field_separator EXPR, $OUTPUT_FIELD_SEPARATOR, $OFS, $,,
1006 IO::Handle->output_record_separator EXPR, $OUTPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR, $ORS,
1007 $\, $LIST_SEPARATOR, $", $SUBSCRIPT_SEPARATOR, $SUBSEP, $;, $OFMT, $#,
1008 HANDLE->format_page_number(EXPR), $FORMAT_PAGE_NUMBER, $%,
1009 HANDLE->format_lines_per_page(EXPR), $FORMAT_LINES_PER_PAGE, $=,
1010 HANDLE->format_lines_left(EXPR), $FORMAT_LINES_LEFT, $-, @LAST_MATCH_START,
1011 @-, C<$`> is the same as C<substr($var, 0, $-[0])>, C<$&> is the same as
1012 C<substr($var, $-[0], $+[0] - $-[0])>, C<$'> is the same as C<substr($var,
1013 $+[0])>, C<$1> is the same as C<substr($var, $-[1], $+[1] - $-[1])>, C<$2>
1014 is the same as C<substr($var, $-[2], $+[2] - $-[2])>, C<$3> is the same as
1015 C<substr $var, $-[3], $+[3] - $-[3])>, HANDLE->format_name(EXPR),
1016 $FORMAT_NAME, $~, HANDLE->format_top_name(EXPR), $FORMAT_TOP_NAME, $^,
1017 IO::Handle->format_line_break_characters EXPR,
1018 $FORMAT_LINE_BREAK_CHARACTERS, $:, IO::Handle->format_formfeed EXPR,
1019 $FORMAT_FORMFEED, $^L, $ACCUMULATOR, $^A, $CHILD_ERROR, $?, $OS_ERROR,
1020 $ERRNO, $!, $EXTENDED_OS_ERROR, $^E, $EVAL_ERROR, $@, $PROCESS_ID, $PID,
1021 $$, $REAL_USER_ID, $UID, $<, $EFFECTIVE_USER_ID, $EUID, $>, $REAL_GROUP_ID,
1022 $GID, $(, $EFFECTIVE_GROUP_ID, $EGID, $), $PROGRAM_NAME, $0, $[, $],
1023 $COMPILING, $^C, $DEBUGGING, $^D, $SYSTEM_FD_MAX, $^F, $^H, %^H,
1024 $INPLACE_EDIT, $^I, $^M, $OSNAME, $^O, $PERLDB, $^P, 0x01, 0x02, 0x04,
1025 0x08, 0x10, 0x20, 0x40, 0x80, 0x100, 0x200, $LAST_REGEXP_CODE_RESULT, $^R,
1026 $EXCEPTIONS_BEING_CAUGHT, $^S, $BASETIME, $^T, ${^TAINT}, $PERL_VERSION,
1027 $^V, $WARNING, $^W, ${^WARNING_BITS}, ${^WIDE_SYSTEM_CALLS},
1028 $EXECUTABLE_NAME, $^X, ARGV, $ARGV, @ARGV, @F, @INC, @_, %INC, %ENV,
1029 $ENV{expr}, %SIG, $SIG{expr}
1031 =item Error Indicators
1033 =item Technical Note on the Syntax of Variable Names
1041 =head2 perllol - Manipulating Arrays of Arrays in Perl
1049 =item Declaration and Access of Arrays of Arrays
1051 =item Growing Your Own
1053 =item Access and Printing
1065 =head2 perlopentut - tutorial on opening things in Perl
1071 =item Open E<agrave> la shell
1079 =item The Minus File
1081 =item Mixing Reads and Writes
1087 =item Open E<agrave> la C
1091 =item Permissions E<agrave> la mode
1095 =item Obscure Open Tricks
1099 =item Re-Opening Files (dups)
1101 =item Dispelling the Dweomer
1103 =item Paths as Opens
1105 =item Single Argument Open
1107 =item Playing with STDIN and STDOUT
1111 =item Other I/O Issues
1115 =item Opening Non-File Files
1125 =item AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT
1131 =head2 perlretut - Perl regular expressions tutorial
1137 =item Part 1: The basics
1141 =item Simple word matching
1143 =item Using character classes
1145 =item Matching this or that
1147 =item Grouping things and hierarchical matching
1149 =item Extracting matches
1151 =item Matching repetitions
1153 =item Building a regexp
1155 =item Using regular expressions in Perl
1159 =item Part 2: Power tools
1163 =item More on characters, strings, and character classes
1165 =item Compiling and saving regular expressions
1167 =item Embedding comments and modifiers in a regular expression
1169 =item Non-capturing groupings
1171 =item Looking ahead and looking behind
1173 =item Using independent subexpressions to prevent backtracking
1175 =item Conditional expressions
1177 =item A bit of magic: executing Perl code in a regular expression
1179 =item Pragmas and debugging
1187 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
1191 =item Acknowledgments
1197 =head2 perlre - Perl regular expressions
1207 =item Regular Expressions
1209 cntrl, graph, print, punct, xdigit
1211 =item Extended Patterns
1213 C<(?#text)>, C<(?imsx-imsx)>, C<(?:pattern)>, C<(?imsx-imsx:pattern)>,
1214 C<(?=pattern)>, C<(?!pattern)>, C<(?<=pattern)>, C<(?<!pattern)>, C<(?{
1215 code })>, C<(??{ code })>, C<< (?>pattern) >>,
1216 C<(?(condition)yes-pattern|no-pattern)>, C<(?(condition)yes-pattern)>
1220 =item Version 8 Regular Expressions
1222 =item Warning on \1 vs $1
1224 =item Repeated patterns matching zero-length substring
1226 =item Combining pieces together
1228 C<ST>, C<S|T>, C<S{REPEAT_COUNT}>, C<S{min,max}>, C<S{min,max}?>, C<S?>,
1229 C<S*>, C<S+>, C<S??>, C<S*?>, C<S+?>, C<< (?>S) >>, C<(?=S)>, C<(?<=S)>,
1230 C<(?!S)>, C<(?<!S)>, C<(??{ EXPR })>,
1231 C<(?(condition)yes-pattern|no-pattern)>
1233 =item Creating custom RE engines
1243 =head2 perlref - Perl references and nested data structures
1253 =item Making References
1255 =item Using References
1257 =item Symbolic references
1259 =item Not-so-symbolic references
1261 =item Pseudo-hashes: Using an array as a hash
1263 =item Function Templates
1273 =head2 perlform - Perl formats
1281 =item Format Variables
1291 =item Accessing Formatting Internals
1299 =head2 perlboot - Beginner's Object-Oriented Tutorial
1307 =item If we could talk to the animals...
1309 =item Introducing the method invocation arrow
1311 =item Invoking a barnyard
1313 =item The extra parameter of method invocation
1315 =item Calling a second method to simplify things
1317 =item Inheriting the windpipes
1319 =item A few notes about @ISA
1321 =item Overriding the methods
1323 =item Starting the search from a different place
1325 =item The SUPER way of doing things
1327 =item Where we're at so far...
1329 =item A horse is a horse, of course of course -- or is it?
1331 =item Invoking an instance method
1333 =item Accessing the instance data
1335 =item How to build a horse
1337 =item Inheriting the constructor
1339 =item Making a method work with either classes or instances
1341 =item Adding parameters to a method
1343 =item More interesting instances
1345 =item A horse of a different color
1357 =head2 perltoot - Tom's object-oriented tutorial for perl
1363 =item Creating a Class
1367 =item Object Representation
1369 =item Class Interface
1371 =item Constructors and Instance Methods
1373 =item Planning for the Future: Better Constructors
1377 =item Other Object Methods
1385 =item Accessing Class Data
1387 =item Debugging Methods
1389 =item Class Destructors
1391 =item Documenting the Interface
1401 =item Overridden Methods
1403 =item Multiple Inheritance
1405 =item UNIVERSAL: The Root of All Objects
1409 =item Alternate Object Representations
1413 =item Arrays as Objects
1415 =item Closures as Objects
1419 =item AUTOLOAD: Proxy Methods
1423 =item Autoloaded Data Methods
1425 =item Inherited Autoloaded Data Methods
1429 =item Metaclassical Tools
1435 =item Data Members as Variables
1443 =item Object Terminology
1449 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
1455 =item Acknowledgments
1461 =head2 perltooc - Tom's OO Tutorial for Class Data in Perl
1467 =item Class Data in a Can
1469 =item Class Data as Package Variables
1473 =item Putting All Your Eggs in One Basket
1475 =item Inheritance Concerns
1477 =item The Eponymous Meta-Object
1479 =item Indirect References to Class Data
1481 =item Monadic Classes
1483 =item Translucent Attributes
1487 =item Class Data as Lexical Variables
1491 =item Privacy and Responsibility
1493 =item File-Scoped Lexicals
1495 =item More Inheritance Concerns
1497 =item Locking the Door and Throwing Away the Key
1499 =item Translucency Revisited
1507 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
1509 =item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
1515 =head2 perlobj - Perl objects
1523 =item An Object is Simply a Reference
1525 =item A Class is Simply a Package
1527 =item A Method is Simply a Subroutine
1529 =item Method Invocation
1531 =item Indirect Object Syntax
1533 =item Default UNIVERSAL methods
1535 isa(CLASS), can(METHOD), VERSION( [NEED] )
1541 =item Two-Phased Garbage Collection
1549 =head2 perlbot - Bag'o Object Tricks (the BOT)
1555 =item OO SCALING TIPS
1557 =item INSTANCE VARIABLES
1559 =item SCALAR INSTANCE VARIABLES
1561 =item INSTANCE VARIABLE INHERITANCE
1563 =item OBJECT RELATIONSHIPS
1565 =item OVERRIDING SUPERCLASS METHODS
1567 =item USING RELATIONSHIP WITH SDBM
1569 =item THINKING OF CODE REUSE
1571 =item CLASS CONTEXT AND THE OBJECT
1573 =item INHERITING A CONSTRUCTOR
1579 =head2 perltie - how to hide an object class in a simple variable
1591 TIESCALAR classname, LIST, FETCH this, STORE this, value, UNTIE this,
1596 TIEARRAY classname, LIST, FETCH this, index, STORE this, index, value,
1597 FETCHSIZE this, STORESIZE this, count, EXTEND this, count, EXISTS this,
1598 key, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this, PUSH this, LIST, POP this, SHIFT this,
1599 UNSHIFT this, LIST, SPLICE this, offset, length, LIST, UNTIE this, DESTROY
1604 USER, HOME, CLOBBER, LIST, TIEHASH classname, LIST, FETCH this, key, STORE
1605 this, key, value, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this, EXISTS this, key, FIRSTKEY
1606 this, NEXTKEY this, lastkey, UNTIE this, DESTROY this
1608 =item Tying FileHandles
1610 TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, WRITE this, LIST, PRINT this, LIST, PRINTF this,
1611 LIST, READ this, LIST, READLINE this, GETC this, CLOSE this, UNTIE this,
1616 =item The C<untie> Gotcha
1628 =head2 perlipc - Perl interprocess communication (signals, fifos, pipes,
1629 safe subprocesses, sockets, and semaphores)
1645 =item Using open() for IPC
1651 =item Background Processes
1653 =item Complete Dissociation of Child from Parent
1655 =item Safe Pipe Opens
1657 =item Bidirectional Communication with Another Process
1659 =item Bidirectional Communication with Yourself
1663 =item Sockets: Client/Server Communication
1667 =item Internet Line Terminators
1669 =item Internet TCP Clients and Servers
1671 =item Unix-Domain TCP Clients and Servers
1675 =item TCP Clients with IO::Socket
1679 =item A Simple Client
1681 C<Proto>, C<PeerAddr>, C<PeerPort>
1683 =item A Webget Client
1685 =item Interactive Client with IO::Socket
1689 =item TCP Servers with IO::Socket
1691 Proto, LocalPort, Listen, Reuse
1693 =item UDP: Message Passing
1707 =head2 perlfork - Perl's fork() emulation (EXPERIMENTAL, subject to change)
1717 =item Behavior of other Perl features in forked pseudo-processes
1719 $$ or $PROCESS_ID, %ENV, chdir() and all other builtins that accept
1720 filenames, wait() and waitpid(), kill(), exec(), exit(), Open handles to
1721 files, directories and network sockets
1723 =item Resource limits
1725 =item Killing the parent process
1727 =item Lifetime of the parent process and pseudo-processes
1729 =item CAVEATS AND LIMITATIONS
1731 BEGIN blocks, Open filehandles, Forking pipe open() not yet implemented,
1732 Global state maintained by XSUBs, Interpreter embedded in larger
1733 application, Thread-safety of extensions
1745 =head2 perlnumber - semantics of numbers and numeric operations in Perl
1753 =item Storing numbers
1755 =item Numeric operators and numeric conversions
1757 =item Flavors of Perl numeric operations
1759 Arithmetic operators except, C<no integer>, Arithmetic operators except,
1760 C<use integer>, Bitwise operators, C<no integer>, Bitwise operators, C<use
1761 integer>, Operators which expect an integer, Operators which expect a
1770 =head2 perlthrtut - tutorial on threads in Perl
1778 =head2 perlothrtut - old tutorial on threads in Perl
1784 =item What Is A Thread Anyway?
1786 =item Threaded Program Models
1798 =item Native threads
1800 =item What kind of threads are perl threads?
1802 =item Threadsafe Modules
1808 =item Basic Thread Support
1810 =item Creating Threads
1812 =item Giving up control
1814 =item Waiting For A Thread To Exit
1816 =item Errors In Threads
1818 =item Ignoring A Thread
1822 =item Threads And Data
1826 =item Shared And Unshared Data
1828 =item Thread Pitfall: Races
1830 =item Controlling access: lock()
1832 =item Thread Pitfall: Deadlocks
1834 =item Queues: Passing Data Around
1838 =item Threads And Code
1842 =item Semaphores: Synchronizing Data Access
1844 Basic semaphores, Advanced Semaphores
1846 =item Attributes: Restricting Access To Subroutines
1848 =item Subroutine Locks
1852 =item Locking A Subroutine
1856 =item General Thread Utility Routines
1860 =item What Thread Am I In?
1864 =item Are These Threads The Same?
1866 =item What Threads Are Running?
1870 =item A Complete Example
1878 =item Introductory Texts
1880 =item OS-Related References
1882 =item Other References
1886 =item Acknowledgements
1894 =head2 perlport - Writing portable Perl
1900 Not all Perl programs have to be portable, Nearly all of Perl already I<is>
1909 =item Numbers endianness and Width
1911 =item Files and Filesystems
1913 =item System Interaction
1915 =item Interprocess Communication (IPC)
1917 =item External Subroutines (XS)
1919 =item Standard Modules
1923 =item Character sets and character encoding
1925 =item Internationalisation
1927 =item System Resources
1937 Mailing list: cpan-testers@perl.org, Testing results:
1938 http://testers.cpan.org/
1946 =item DOS and Derivatives
1954 =item EBCDIC Platforms
1962 =item FUNCTION IMPLEMENTATIONS
1966 =item Alphabetical Listing of Perl Functions
1968 -I<X> FILEHANDLE, -I<X> EXPR, -I<X>, alarm SECONDS, alarm, binmode
1969 FILEHANDLE, chmod LIST, chown LIST, chroot FILENAME, chroot, crypt
1970 PLAINTEXT,SALT, dbmclose HASH, dbmopen HASH,DBNAME,MODE, dump LABEL, exec
1971 LIST, fcntl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, flock FILEHANDLE,OPERATION, fork,
1972 getlogin, getpgrp PID, getppid, getpriority WHICH,WHO, getpwnam NAME,
1973 getgrnam NAME, getnetbyname NAME, getpwuid UID, getgrgid GID, getnetbyaddr
1974 ADDR,ADDRTYPE, getprotobynumber NUMBER, getservbyport PORT,PROTO, getpwent,
1975 getgrent, gethostent, getnetent, getprotoent, getservent, setpwent,
1976 setgrent, sethostent STAYOPEN, setnetent STAYOPEN, setprotoent STAYOPEN,
1977 setservent STAYOPEN, endpwent, endgrent, endhostent, endnetent,
1978 endprotoent, endservent, exit EXPR, exit, getsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME,
1979 glob EXPR, glob, ioctl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, kill SIGNAL, LIST, link
1980 OLDFILE,NEWFILE, lstat FILEHANDLE, lstat EXPR, lstat, msgctl ID,CMD,ARG,
1981 msgget KEY,FLAGS, msgsnd ID,MSG,FLAGS, msgrcv ID,VAR,SIZE,TYPE,FLAGS, open
1982 FILEHANDLE,EXPR, open FILEHANDLE, pipe READHANDLE,WRITEHANDLE, readlink
1983 EXPR, readlink, select RBITS,WBITS,EBITS,TIMEOUT, semctl ID,SEMNUM,CMD,ARG,
1984 semget KEY,NSEMS,FLAGS, semop KEY,OPSTRING, setgrent, setpgrp PID,PGRP,
1985 setpriority WHICH,WHO,PRIORITY, setpwent, setsockopt
1986 SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME,OPTVAL, shmctl ID,CMD,ARG, shmget KEY,SIZE,FLAGS,
1987 shmread ID,VAR,POS,SIZE, shmwrite ID,STRING,POS,SIZE, sockatmark SOCKET,
1988 socketpair SOCKET1,SOCKET2,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL, stat FILEHANDLE, stat
1989 EXPR, stat, symlink OLDFILE,NEWFILE, syscall LIST, sysopen
1990 FILEHANDLE,FILENAME,MODE,PERMS, system LIST, times, truncate
1991 FILEHANDLE,LENGTH, truncate EXPR,LENGTH, umask EXPR, umask, utime LIST,
1992 wait, waitpid PID,FLAGS
1998 v1.48, 02 February 2001, v1.47, 22 March 2000, v1.46, 12 February 2000,
1999 v1.45, 20 December 1999, v1.44, 19 July 1999, v1.43, 24 May 1999, v1.42, 22
2000 May 1999, v1.41, 19 May 1999, v1.40, 11 April 1999, v1.39, 11 February
2001 1999, v1.38, 31 December 1998, v1.37, 19 December 1998, v1.36, 9 September
2002 1998, v1.35, 13 August 1998, v1.33, 06 August 1998, v1.32, 05 August 1998,
2003 v1.30, 03 August 1998, v1.23, 10 July 1998
2005 =item Supported Platforms
2009 =item AUTHORS / CONTRIBUTORS
2015 =head2 perllocale - Perl locale handling (internationalization and
2022 =item PREPARING TO USE LOCALES
2028 =item The use locale pragma
2030 =item The setlocale function
2032 =item Finding locales
2034 =item LOCALE PROBLEMS
2036 =item Temporarily fixing locale problems
2038 =item Permanently fixing locale problems
2040 =item Permanently fixing your system's locale configuration
2042 =item Fixing system locale configuration
2044 =item The localeconv function
2046 =item I18N::Langinfo
2050 =item LOCALE CATEGORIES
2054 =item Category LC_COLLATE: Collation
2056 =item Category LC_CTYPE: Character Types
2058 =item Category LC_NUMERIC: Numeric Formatting
2060 =item Category LC_MONETARY: Formatting of monetary amounts
2064 =item Other categories
2072 PERL_BADLANG, LC_ALL, LANGUAGE, LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE, LC_MONETARY,
2073 LC_NUMERIC, LC_TIME, LANG
2079 =item Backward compatibility
2081 =item I18N:Collate obsolete
2083 =item Sort speed and memory use impacts
2085 =item write() and LC_NUMERIC
2087 =item Freely available locale definitions
2091 =item An imperfect standard
2099 =item Broken systems
2109 =head2 perlunicode - Unicode support in Perl
2117 =item Important Caveats
2119 Input and Output Disciplines, Regular Expressions, C<use utf8> still needed
2120 to enable UTF-8/UTF-EBCDIC in scripts
2122 =item Byte and Character semantics
2124 =item Effects of character semantics
2130 =item Character encodings for input and output
2136 =item UNICODE REGULAR EXPRESSION SUPPORT LEVEL
2142 =head2 perlebcdic - Considerations for running Perl on EBCDIC platforms
2148 =item COMMON CHARACTER CODE SETS
2156 =item Latin 1 (ISO 8859-1)
2160 =item 13 variant characters
2168 =item Unicode and UTF
2172 =item SINGLE OCTET TABLES
2174 recipe 0, recipe 1, recipe 2, recipe 3, recipe 4, recipe 5, recipe 6
2176 =item IDENTIFYING CHARACTER CODE SETS
2190 =item OPERATOR DIFFERENCES
2192 =item FUNCTION DIFFERENCES
2194 chr(), ord(), pack(), print(), printf(), sort(), sprintf(), unpack()
2196 =item REGULAR EXPRESSION DIFFERENCES
2204 =item Ignore ASCII vs. EBCDIC sort differences.
2206 =item MONO CASE then sort data.
2208 =item Convert, sort data, then re convert.
2210 =item Perform sorting on one type of machine only.
2214 =item TRANSFORMATION FORMATS
2218 =item URL decoding and encoding
2220 =item uu encoding and decoding
2222 =item Quoted-Printable encoding and decoding
2224 =item Caesarian ciphers
2228 =item Hashing order and checksums
2232 =item MULTI OCTET CHARACTER SETS
2244 chcp, dataset access, OS/390, z/OS iconv, locales
2264 =head2 perlsec - Perl security
2272 =item Laundering and Detecting Tainted Data
2274 =item Switches On the "#!" Line
2276 =item Cleaning Up Your Path
2280 =item Protecting Your Programs
2288 =head2 perlmod - Perl modules (packages and symbol tables)
2300 =item Package Constructors and Destructors
2306 =item Making your module threadsafe
2314 =head2 perlmodinstall - Installing CPAN Modules
2324 B<DECOMPRESS> the file, B<UNPACK> the file into a directory, B<BUILD> the
2325 module (sometimes unnecessary), B<INSTALL> the module
2339 =head2 perlmodlib - constructing new Perl modules and finding existing ones
2345 =item THE PERL MODULE LIBRARY
2349 =item Pragmatic Modules
2351 attributes, attrs, autouse, base, blib, bytes, charnames, constant,
2352 diagnostics, fields, filetest, integer, less, locale, open, ops, overload,
2353 re, sigtrap, strict, subs, threads, utf8, vars, warnings,
2356 =item Standard Modules
2358 AnyDBM_File, Attribute::Handlers, AutoLoader, AutoSplit, B, B::Asmdata,
2359 B::Assembler, B::Bblock, B::Bytecode, B::C, B::CC, B::Concise, B::Debug,
2360 B::Deparse, B::Disassembler, B::Lint, B::Showlex, B::Stackobj, B::Stash,
2361 B::Terse, B::Xref, Benchmark, ByteLoader, CGI, CGI::Apache, CGI::Carp,
2362 CGI::Cookie, CGI::Fast, CGI::Pretty, CGI::Push, CGI::Switch, CGI::Util,
2363 CPAN, CPAN::FirstTime, CPAN::Nox, Carp, Carp::Heavy, Class::ISA,
2364 Class::Struct, Cwd, DB, DB_File, Devel::SelfStubber, Digest, DirHandle,
2365 Dumpvalue, Encode, Encode::EncodeFormat, Encode::Tcl, English, Env,
2366 Exporter, Exporter::Heavy, ExtUtils::Command, ExtUtils::Constant,
2367 ExtUtils::Embed, ExtUtils::Install, ExtUtils::Installed, ExtUtils::Liblist,
2368 ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin, ExtUtils::MM_NW5, ExtUtils::MM_OS2, ExtUtils::MM_Unix,
2369 ExtUtils::MM_VMS, ExtUtils::MM_Win32, ExtUtils::MakeMaker,
2370 ExtUtils::Manifest, ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap, ExtUtils::Mksymlists,
2371 ExtUtils::Packlist, ExtUtils::testlib, Fatal, Fcntl, File::Basename,
2372 File::CheckTree, File::Compare, File::Copy, File::DosGlob, File::Find,
2373 File::Path, File::Spec, File::Spec::Epoc, File::Spec::Functions,
2374 File::Spec::Mac, File::Spec::OS2, File::Spec::Unix, File::Spec::VMS,
2375 File::Spec::Win32, File::Temp, File::stat, FileCache, FileHandle,
2376 Filter::Simple, FindBin, Getopt::Long, Getopt::Std, I18N::Collate,
2377 I18N::LangTags, I18N::LangTags::List, IO, IPC::Open2, IPC::Open3,
2378 Lingua::KO::Hangul::Util, Locale::Constants, Locale::Country,
2379 Locale::Currency, Locale::Language, Locale::Maketext,
2380 Locale::Maketext::TPJ13, Math::BigFloat, Math::BigInt, Math::BigInt::Calc,
2381 Math::Complex, Math::Trig, Memoize, Memoize::AnyDBM_File, Memoize::Expire,
2382 Memoize::ExpireFile, Memoize::ExpireTest, Memoize::NDBM_File,
2383 Memoize::SDBM_File, Memoize::Saves, Memoize::Storable, NDBM_File, NEXT,
2384 Net::Cmd, Net::Config, Net::Domain, Net::FTP, Net::NNTP, Net::Netrc,
2385 Net::POP3, Net::Ping, Net::SMTP, Net::Time, Net::hostent, Net::libnetFAQ,
2386 Net::netent, Net::protoent, Net::servent, O, ODBM_File, Opcode, POSIX,
2387 PerlIO, Pod::Checker, Pod::Find, Pod::Html, Pod::InputObjects, Pod::LaTeX,
2388 Pod::Man, Pod::ParseUtils, Pod::Parser, Pod::Plainer, Pod::Select,
2389 Pod::Text, Pod::Text::Color, Pod::Text::Overstrike, Pod::Text::Termcap,
2390 Pod::Usage, SDBM_File, Safe, Search::Dict, SelectSaver, SelfLoader, Shell,
2391 Socket, Storable, Switch, Symbol, Term::ANSIColor, Term::Cap,
2392 Term::Complete, Term::ReadLine, Test, Test::Harness, Test::More,
2393 Test::Simple, Test::Tutorial, Text::Abbrev, Text::Balanced,
2394 Text::ParseWords, Text::Soundex, Text::Tabs, Text::Wrap, Tie::Array,
2395 Tie::Handle, Tie::Hash, Tie::RefHash, Tie::Scalar, Tie::SubstrHash,
2396 Time::Local, Time::gmtime, Time::localtime, Time::tm, UNIVERSAL,
2397 Unicode::Collate, Unicode::Normalize, Unicode::UCD, User::grent,
2400 =item Extension Modules
2412 =item Central America
2424 =item Modules: Creation, Use, and Abuse
2428 =item Guidelines for Module Creation
2430 Adding a Copyright Notice
2432 =item Guidelines for Converting Perl 4 Library Scripts into Modules
2434 =item Guidelines for Reusing Application Code
2442 =head2 perlmodstyle - Perl module style guide
2448 =item QUICK CHECKLIST
2452 =item Before you start
2460 =item Release considerations
2464 =item BEFORE YOU START WRITING A MODULE
2468 =item Has it been done before?
2470 =item Do one thing and do it well
2472 =item What's in a name?
2476 =item DESIGNING AND WRITING YOUR MODULE
2480 =item To OO or not to OO?
2482 =item Designing your API
2484 Write simple routines to do simple things, Separate functionality from
2485 output, Provide sensible shortcuts and defaults, Naming conventions,
2488 =item Strictness and warnings
2490 =item Backwards compatibility
2492 =item Error handling and messages
2496 =item DOCUMENTING YOUR MODULE
2502 =item README, INSTALL, release notes, changelogs
2506 =item RELEASE CONSIDERATIONS
2510 =item Version numbering
2512 =item Pre-requisites
2522 =item COMMON PITFALLS
2526 =item Reinventing the wheel
2528 =item Trying to do too much
2530 =item Inappropriate documentation
2536 L<perlstyle>, L<perlnewmod>, L<perlpod>, L<podchecker>, Testing tools,
2537 http://pause.perl.org/, Any good book on software engineering
2543 =head2 perlnewmod - preparing a new module for distribution
2553 =item What should I make into a module?
2555 =item Step-by-step: Preparing the ground
2557 Look around, Check it's new, Discuss the need, Choose a name, Check again
2559 =item Step-by-step: Making the module
2561 Start with F<h2xs>, Use L<strict|strict> and L<warnings|warnings>, Use
2562 L<Carp|Carp>, Use L<Exporter|Exporter> - wisely!, Use L<plain old
2563 documentation|perlpod>, Write tests, Write the README
2565 =item Step-by-step: Distributing your module
2567 Get a CPAN user ID, C<perl Makefile.PL; make test; make dist>, Upload the
2568 tarball, Announce to the modules list, Announce to clpa, Fix bugs!
2578 =head2 perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.1 $, $Date:
2579 2001/09/20 03:03:00 $)
2589 =item Who supports Perl? Who develops it? Why is it free?
2591 =item Which version of Perl should I use?
2593 =item What are perl4 and perl5?
2595 =item What is perl6?
2597 =item How stable is Perl?
2599 =item Is Perl difficult to learn?
2601 =item How does Perl compare with other languages like Java, Python, REXX,
2604 =item Can I do [task] in Perl?
2606 =item When shouldn't I program in Perl?
2608 =item What's the difference between "perl" and "Perl"?
2610 =item Is it a Perl program or a Perl script?
2612 =item What is a JAPH?
2614 =item Where can I get a list of Larry Wall witticisms?
2616 =item How can I convince my sysadmin/supervisor/employees to use version
2617 5/5.005/Perl instead of some other language?
2621 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
2625 =head2 perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.2 $,
2626 $Date: 2001/10/16 13:27:22 $)
2634 =item What machines support Perl? Where do I get it?
2636 =item How can I get a binary version of Perl?
2638 =item I don't have a C compiler on my system. How can I compile perl?
2640 =item I copied the Perl binary from one machine to another, but scripts
2643 =item I grabbed the sources and tried to compile but gdbm/dynamic
2644 loading/malloc/linking/... failed. How do I make it work?
2646 =item What modules and extensions are available for Perl? What is CPAN?
2647 What does CPAN/src/... mean?
2649 =item Is there an ISO or ANSI certified version of Perl?
2651 =item Where can I get information on Perl?
2653 =item What are the Perl newsgroups on Usenet? Where do I post questions?
2655 =item Where should I post source code?
2659 References, Tutorials, Task-Oriented, Special Topics
2661 =item Perl in Magazines
2663 =item Perl on the Net: FTP and WWW Access
2665 =item What mailing lists are there for Perl?
2667 =item Archives of comp.lang.perl.misc
2669 =item Where can I buy a commercial version of Perl?
2671 =item Where do I send bug reports?
2673 =item What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org?
2677 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
2681 =head2 perlfaq3 - Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.8 $, $Date: 2001/10/17
2690 =item How do I do (anything)?
2692 =item How can I use Perl interactively?
2694 =item Is there a Perl shell?
2696 =item How do I debug my Perl programs?
2698 =item How do I profile my Perl programs?
2700 =item How do I cross-reference my Perl programs?
2702 =item Is there a pretty-printer (formatter) for Perl?
2704 =item Is there a ctags for Perl?
2706 =item Is there an IDE or Windows Perl Editor?
2708 Komodo, The Object System, Open Perl IDE, PerlBuilder, visiPerl+,
2709 CodeMagicCD, GNU Emacs, MicroEMACS, XEmacs, Elvis, Vile, Vim, Codewright,
2710 MultiEdit, SlickEdit, Bash, Ksh, Tcsh, Zsh, BBEdit and BBEdit Lite, Alpha
2712 =item Where can I get Perl macros for vi?
2714 =item Where can I get perl-mode for emacs?
2716 =item How can I use curses with Perl?
2718 =item How can I use X or Tk with Perl?
2720 =item How can I generate simple menus without using CGI or Tk?
2722 =item What is undump?
2724 =item How can I make my Perl program run faster?
2726 =item How can I make my Perl program take less memory?
2728 Don't slurp!, Use map and grep selectively, Avoid unnecessary quotes and
2729 stringification, Pass by reference, Tie large variables to disk
2731 =item Is it unsafe to return a pointer to local data?
2733 =item How can I free an array or hash so my program shrinks?
2735 =item How can I make my CGI script more efficient?
2737 =item How can I hide the source for my Perl program?
2739 =item How can I compile my Perl program into byte code or C?
2741 =item How can I compile Perl into Java?
2743 =item How can I get C<#!perl> to work on [MS-DOS,NT,...]?
2745 =item Can I write useful Perl programs on the command line?
2747 =item Why don't Perl one-liners work on my DOS/Mac/VMS system?
2749 =item Where can I learn about CGI or Web programming in Perl?
2751 =item Where can I learn about linking C with Perl? [h2xs, xsubpp]
2753 =item I've read perlembed, perlguts, etc., but I can't embed perl in
2754 my C program; what am I doing wrong?
2756 =item When I tried to run my script, I got this message. What does it
2759 =item What's MakeMaker?
2763 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
2767 =head2 perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation ($Revision: 1.5 $, $Date: 2001/10/12
2778 =item Why am I getting long decimals (eg, 19.9499999999999) instead of the
2779 numbers I should be getting (eg, 19.95)?
2781 =item Why isn't my octal data interpreted correctly?
2783 =item Does Perl have a round() function? What about ceil() and floor()?
2786 =item How do I convert bits into ints?
2788 =item Why doesn't & work the way I want it to?
2790 =item How do I multiply matrices?
2792 =item How do I perform an operation on a series of integers?
2794 =item How can I output Roman numerals?
2796 =item Why aren't my random numbers random?
2804 =item How do I find the week-of-the-year/day-of-the-year?
2806 =item How do I find the current century or millennium?
2808 =item How can I compare two dates and find the difference?
2810 =item How can I take a string and turn it into epoch seconds?
2812 =item How can I find the Julian Day?
2814 =item How do I find yesterday's date?
2816 =item Does Perl have a Year 2000 problem? Is Perl Y2K compliant?
2824 =item How do I validate input?
2826 =item How do I unescape a string?
2828 =item How do I remove consecutive pairs of characters?
2830 =item How do I expand function calls in a string?
2832 =item How do I find matching/nesting anything?
2834 =item How do I reverse a string?
2836 =item How do I expand tabs in a string?
2838 =item How do I reformat a paragraph?
2840 =item How can I access/change the first N letters of a string?
2842 =item How do I change the Nth occurrence of something?
2844 =item How can I count the number of occurrences of a substring within a
2847 =item How do I capitalize all the words on one line?
2849 =item How can I split a [character] delimited string except when inside
2850 [character]? (Comma-separated files)
2852 =item How do I strip blank space from the beginning/end of a string?
2854 =item How do I pad a string with blanks or pad a number with zeroes?
2856 =item How do I extract selected columns from a string?
2858 =item How do I find the soundex value of a string?
2860 =item How can I expand variables in text strings?
2862 =item What's wrong with always quoting "$vars"?
2864 =item Why don't my <<HERE documents work?
2866 1. There must be no space after the << part, 2. There (probably) should be
2867 a semicolon at the end, 3. You can't (easily) have any space in front of
2876 =item What is the difference between a list and an array?
2878 =item What is the difference between $array[1] and @array[1]?
2880 =item How can I remove duplicate elements from a list or array?
2884 =item How can I tell whether a certain element is contained in a list or
2887 =item How do I compute the difference of two arrays? How do I compute the
2888 intersection of two arrays?
2890 =item How do I test whether two arrays or hashes are equal?
2892 =item How do I find the first array element for which a condition is true?
2894 =item How do I handle linked lists?
2896 =item How do I handle circular lists?
2898 =item How do I shuffle an array randomly?
2900 =item How do I process/modify each element of an array?
2902 =item How do I select a random element from an array?
2904 =item How do I permute N elements of a list?
2906 =item How do I sort an array by (anything)?
2908 =item How do I manipulate arrays of bits?
2910 =item Why does defined() return true on empty arrays and hashes?
2914 =item Data: Hashes (Associative Arrays)
2918 =item How do I process an entire hash?
2920 =item What happens if I add or remove keys from a hash while iterating over
2923 =item How do I look up a hash element by value?
2925 =item How can I know how many entries are in a hash?
2927 =item How do I sort a hash (optionally by value instead of key)?
2929 =item How can I always keep my hash sorted?
2931 =item What's the difference between "delete" and "undef" with hashes?
2933 =item Why don't my tied hashes make the defined/exists distinction?
2935 =item How do I reset an each() operation part-way through?
2937 =item How can I get the unique keys from two hashes?
2939 =item How can I store a multidimensional array in a DBM file?
2941 =item How can I make my hash remember the order I put elements into it?
2943 =item Why does passing a subroutine an undefined element in a hash create
2946 =item How can I make the Perl equivalent of a C structure/C++ class/hash or
2947 array of hashes or arrays?
2949 =item How can I use a reference as a hash key?
2957 =item How do I handle binary data correctly?
2959 =item How do I determine whether a scalar is a number/whole/integer/float?
2961 =item How do I keep persistent data across program calls?
2963 =item How do I print out or copy a recursive data structure?
2965 =item How do I define methods for every class/object?
2967 =item How do I verify a credit card checksum?
2969 =item How do I pack arrays of doubles or floats for XS code?
2973 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
2977 =head2 perlfaq5 - Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.3 $, $Date: 2001/10/16
2986 =item How do I flush/unbuffer an output filehandle? Why must I do this?
2988 =item How do I change one line in a file/delete a line in a file/insert a
2989 line in the middle of a file/append to the beginning of a file?
2991 =item How do I count the number of lines in a file?
2993 =item How do I make a temporary file name?
2995 =item How can I manipulate fixed-record-length files?
2997 =item How can I make a filehandle local to a subroutine? How do I pass
2998 filehandles between subroutines? How do I make an array of filehandles?
3000 =item How can I use a filehandle indirectly?
3002 =item How can I set up a footer format to be used with write()?
3004 =item How can I write() into a string?
3006 =item How can I output my numbers with commas added?
3008 =item How can I translate tildes (~) in a filename?
3010 =item How come when I open a file read-write it wipes it out?
3012 =item Why do I sometimes get an "Argument list too long" when I use <*>?
3014 =item Is there a leak/bug in glob()?
3016 =item How can I open a file with a leading ">" or trailing blanks?
3018 =item How can I reliably rename a file?
3020 =item How can I lock a file?
3022 =item Why can't I just open(FH, ">file.lock")?
3024 =item I still don't get locking. I just want to increment the number in
3025 the file. How can I do this?
3027 =item All I want to do is append a small amount of text to the end of a
3028 file. Do I still have to use locking?
3030 =item How do I randomly update a binary file?
3032 =item How do I get a file's timestamp in perl?
3034 =item How do I set a file's timestamp in perl?
3036 =item How do I print to more than one file at once?
3038 =item How can I read in an entire file all at once?
3040 =item How can I read in a file by paragraphs?
3042 =item How can I read a single character from a file? From the keyboard?
3044 =item How can I tell whether there's a character waiting on a filehandle?
3046 =item How do I do a C<tail -f> in perl?
3048 =item How do I dup() a filehandle in Perl?
3050 =item How do I close a file descriptor by number?
3052 =item Why can't I use "C:\temp\foo" in DOS paths? What doesn't
3053 `C:\temp\foo.exe` work?
3055 =item Why doesn't glob("*.*") get all the files?
3057 =item Why does Perl let me delete read-only files? Why does C<-i> clobber
3058 protected files? Isn't this a bug in Perl?
3060 =item How do I select a random line from a file?
3062 =item Why do I get weird spaces when I print an array of lines?
3066 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3070 =head2 perlfaq6 - Regexes ($Revision: 1.3 $, $Date: 2001/10/16 13:27:22 $)
3078 =item How can I hope to use regular expressions without creating illegible
3079 and unmaintainable code?
3081 Comments Outside the Regex, Comments Inside the Regex, Different Delimiters
3083 =item I'm having trouble matching over more than one line. What's wrong?
3085 =item How can I pull out lines between two patterns that are themselves on
3088 =item I put a regular expression into $/ but it didn't work. What's wrong?
3090 =item How do I substitute case insensitively on the LHS while preserving
3093 =item How can I make C<\w> match national character sets?
3095 =item How can I match a locale-smart version of C</[a-zA-Z]/>?
3097 =item How can I quote a variable to use in a regex?
3099 =item What is C</o> really for?
3101 =item How do I use a regular expression to strip C style comments from a
3104 =item Can I use Perl regular expressions to match balanced text?
3106 =item What does it mean that regexes are greedy? How can I get around it?
3108 =item How do I process each word on each line?
3110 =item How can I print out a word-frequency or line-frequency summary?
3112 =item How can I do approximate matching?
3114 =item How do I efficiently match many regular expressions at once?
3116 =item Why don't word-boundary searches with C<\b> work for me?
3118 =item Why does using $&, $`, or $' slow my program down?
3120 =item What good is C<\G> in a regular expression?
3122 =item Are Perl regexes DFAs or NFAs? Are they POSIX compliant?
3124 =item What's wrong with using grep or map in a void context?
3126 =item How can I match strings with multibyte characters?
3128 =item How do I match a pattern that is supplied by the user?
3132 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3136 =head2 perlfaq7 - Perl Language Issues ($Revision: 1.2 $, $Date: 2001/10/16
3145 =item Can I get a BNF/yacc/RE for the Perl language?
3147 =item What are all these $@%&* punctuation signs, and how do I know when to
3150 =item Do I always/never have to quote my strings or use semicolons and
3153 =item How do I skip some return values?
3155 =item How do I temporarily block warnings?
3157 =item What's an extension?
3159 =item Why do Perl operators have different precedence than C operators?
3161 =item How do I declare/create a structure?
3163 =item How do I create a module?
3165 =item How do I create a class?
3167 =item How can I tell if a variable is tainted?
3169 =item What's a closure?
3171 =item What is variable suicide and how can I prevent it?
3173 =item How can I pass/return a {Function, FileHandle, Array, Hash, Method,
3176 Passing Variables and Functions, Passing Filehandles, Passing Regexes,
3179 =item How do I create a static variable?
3181 =item What's the difference between dynamic and lexical (static) scoping?
3182 Between local() and my()?
3184 =item How can I access a dynamic variable while a similarly named lexical
3187 =item What's the difference between deep and shallow binding?
3189 =item Why doesn't "my($foo) = <FILE>;" work right?
3191 =item How do I redefine a builtin function, operator, or method?
3193 =item What's the difference between calling a function as &foo and foo()?
3195 =item How do I create a switch or case statement?
3197 =item How can I catch accesses to undefined variables/functions/methods?
3199 =item Why can't a method included in this same file be found?
3201 =item How can I find out my current package?
3203 =item How can I comment out a large block of perl code?
3205 =item How do I clear a package?
3207 =item How can I use a variable as a variable name?
3211 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3215 =head2 perlfaq8 - System Interaction ($Revision: 1.2 $, $Date: 2001/10/16
3224 =item How do I find out which operating system I'm running under?
3226 =item How come exec() doesn't return?
3228 =item How do I do fancy stuff with the keyboard/screen/mouse?
3230 Keyboard, Screen, Mouse
3232 =item How do I print something out in color?
3234 =item How do I read just one key without waiting for a return key?
3236 =item How do I check whether input is ready on the keyboard?
3238 =item How do I clear the screen?
3240 =item How do I get the screen size?
3242 =item How do I ask the user for a password?
3244 =item How do I read and write the serial port?
3246 lockfiles, open mode, end of line, flushing output, non-blocking input
3248 =item How do I decode encrypted password files?
3250 =item How do I start a process in the background?
3252 STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR are shared, Signals, Zombies
3254 =item How do I trap control characters/signals?
3256 =item How do I modify the shadow password file on a Unix system?
3258 =item How do I set the time and date?
3260 =item How can I sleep() or alarm() for under a second?
3262 =item How can I measure time under a second?
3264 =item How can I do an atexit() or setjmp()/longjmp()? (Exception handling)
3266 =item Why doesn't my sockets program work under System V (Solaris)? What
3267 does the error message "Protocol not supported" mean?
3269 =item How can I call my system's unique C functions from Perl?
3271 =item Where do I get the include files to do ioctl() or syscall()?
3273 =item Why do setuid perl scripts complain about kernel problems?
3275 =item How can I open a pipe both to and from a command?
3277 =item Why can't I get the output of a command with system()?
3279 =item How can I capture STDERR from an external command?
3281 =item Why doesn't open() return an error when a pipe open fails?
3283 =item What's wrong with using backticks in a void context?
3285 =item How can I call backticks without shell processing?
3287 =item Why can't my script read from STDIN after I gave it EOF (^D on Unix,
3290 =item How can I convert my shell script to perl?
3292 =item Can I use perl to run a telnet or ftp session?
3294 =item How can I write expect in Perl?
3296 =item Is there a way to hide perl's command line from programs such as
3299 =item I {changed directory, modified my environment} in a perl script. How
3300 come the change disappeared when I exited the script? How do I get my
3301 changes to be visible?
3305 =item How do I close a process's filehandle without waiting for it to
3308 =item How do I fork a daemon process?
3310 =item How do I find out if I'm running interactively or not?
3312 =item How do I timeout a slow event?
3314 =item How do I set CPU limits?
3316 =item How do I avoid zombies on a Unix system?
3318 =item How do I use an SQL database?
3320 =item How do I make a system() exit on control-C?
3322 =item How do I open a file without blocking?
3324 =item How do I install a module from CPAN?
3326 =item What's the difference between require and use?
3328 =item How do I keep my own module/library directory?
3330 =item How do I add the directory my program lives in to the module/library
3333 =item How do I add a directory to my include path at runtime?
3335 =item What is socket.ph and where do I get it?
3339 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3343 =head2 perlfaq9 - Networking ($Revision: 1.3 $, $Date: 2001/10/16 13:27:22
3352 =item What is the correct form of response from a CGI script?
3354 =item My CGI script runs from the command line but not the browser. (500
3357 =item How can I get better error messages from a CGI program?
3359 =item How do I remove HTML from a string?
3361 =item How do I extract URLs?
3363 =item How do I download a file from the user's machine? How do I open a
3364 file on another machine?
3366 =item How do I make a pop-up menu in HTML?
3368 =item How do I fetch an HTML file?
3370 =item How do I automate an HTML form submission?
3372 =item How do I decode or create those %-encodings on the web?
3374 =item How do I redirect to another page?
3376 =item How do I put a password on my web pages?
3378 =item How do I edit my .htpasswd and .htgroup files with Perl?
3380 =item How do I make sure users can't enter values into a form that cause my
3381 CGI script to do bad things?
3383 =item How do I parse a mail header?
3385 =item How do I decode a CGI form?
3387 =item How do I check a valid mail address?
3389 =item How do I decode a MIME/BASE64 string?
3391 =item How do I return the user's mail address?
3393 =item How do I send mail?
3395 =item How do I use MIME to make an attachment to a mail message?
3397 =item How do I read mail?
3399 =item How do I find out my hostname/domainname/IP address?
3401 =item How do I fetch a news article or the active newsgroups?
3403 =item How do I fetch/put an FTP file?
3405 =item How can I do RPC in Perl?
3409 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3413 =head2 perlcompile - Introduction to the Perl Compiler-Translator
3423 B::Bytecode, B::C, B::CC, B::Lint, B::Deparse, B::Xref
3427 =item Using The Back Ends
3431 =item The Cross Referencing Back End
3435 =item The Decompiling Back End
3437 =item The Lint Back End
3439 =item The Simple C Back End
3441 =item The Bytecode Back End
3443 =item The Optimized C Back End
3445 B, O, B::Asmdata, B::Assembler, B::Bblock, B::Bytecode, B::C, B::CC,
3446 B::Debug, B::Deparse, B::Disassembler, B::Lint, B::Showlex, B::Stackobj,
3447 B::Stash, B::Terse, B::Xref
3451 =item KNOWN PROBLEMS
3457 =head2 perlembed - how to embed perl in your C program
3467 B<Use C from Perl?>, B<Use a Unix program from Perl?>, B<Use Perl from
3468 Perl?>, B<Use C from C?>, B<Use Perl from C?>
3472 =item Compiling your C program
3474 =item Adding a Perl interpreter to your C program
3476 =item Calling a Perl subroutine from your C program
3478 =item Evaluating a Perl statement from your C program
3480 =item Performing Perl pattern matches and substitutions from your C program
3482 =item Fiddling with the Perl stack from your C program
3484 =item Maintaining a persistent interpreter
3486 =item Execution of END blocks
3488 =item Maintaining multiple interpreter instances
3490 =item Using Perl modules, which themselves use C libraries, from your C
3495 =item Embedding Perl under Win32
3505 =head2 perldebguts - Guts of Perl debugging
3511 =item Debugger Internals
3515 =item Writing Your Own Debugger
3519 =item Frame Listing Output Examples
3521 =item Debugging regular expressions
3525 =item Compile-time output
3527 C<anchored> I<STRING> C<at> I<POS>, C<floating> I<STRING> C<at>
3528 I<POS1..POS2>, C<matching floating/anchored>, C<minlen>, C<stclass>
3529 I<TYPE>, C<noscan>, C<isall>, C<GPOS>, C<plus>, C<implicit>, C<with eval>,
3532 =item Types of nodes
3534 =item Run-time output
3538 =item Debugging Perl memory usage
3542 =item Using C<$ENV{PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS}>
3544 C<buckets SMALLEST(APPROX)..GREATEST(APPROX)>, Free/Used, C<Total sbrk():
3545 SBRKed/SBRKs:CONTINUOUS>, C<pad: 0>, C<heads: 2192>, C<chain: 0>, C<tail:
3548 =item Example of using B<-DL> switch
3550 C<717>, C<002>, C<054>, C<602>, C<702>, C<704>
3552 =item B<-DL> details
3556 =item Limitations of B<-DL> statistics
3564 =head2 perlxstut, perlXStut - Tutorial for writing XSUBs
3576 =item Version caveat
3578 =item Dynamic Loading versus Static Loading
3590 =item What has gone on?
3592 =item Writing good test scripts
3596 =item What's new here?
3598 =item Input and Output Parameters
3600 =item The XSUBPP Program
3602 =item The TYPEMAP file
3604 =item Warning about Output Arguments
3608 =item What has happened here?
3610 =item Anatomy of .xs file
3612 =item Getting the fat out of XSUBs
3614 =item More about XSUB arguments
3616 =item The Argument Stack
3618 =item Extending your Extension
3620 =item Documenting your Extension
3622 =item Installing your Extension
3626 =item New Things in this Example
3630 =item New Things in this Example
3632 =item EXAMPLE 7 (Coming Soon)
3634 =item EXAMPLE 8 (Coming Soon)
3636 =item EXAMPLE 9 (Coming Soon)
3638 =item Troubleshooting these Examples
3654 =head2 perlxs - XS language reference manual
3666 =item The Anatomy of an XSUB
3668 =item The Argument Stack
3670 =item The RETVAL Variable
3672 =item The MODULE Keyword
3674 =item The PACKAGE Keyword
3676 =item The PREFIX Keyword
3678 =item The OUTPUT: Keyword
3680 =item The NO_OUTPUT Keyword
3682 =item The CODE: Keyword
3684 =item The INIT: Keyword
3686 =item The NO_INIT Keyword
3688 =item Initializing Function Parameters
3690 =item Default Parameter Values
3692 =item The PREINIT: Keyword
3694 =item The SCOPE: Keyword
3696 =item The INPUT: Keyword
3698 =item The IN/OUTLIST/IN_OUTLIST/OUT/IN_OUT Keywords
3700 =item Variable-length Parameter Lists
3702 =item The C_ARGS: Keyword
3704 =item The PPCODE: Keyword
3706 =item Returning Undef And Empty Lists
3708 =item The REQUIRE: Keyword
3710 =item The CLEANUP: Keyword
3712 =item The POSTCALL: Keyword
3714 =item The BOOT: Keyword
3716 =item The VERSIONCHECK: Keyword
3718 =item The PROTOTYPES: Keyword
3720 =item The PROTOTYPE: Keyword
3722 =item The ALIAS: Keyword
3724 =item The INTERFACE: Keyword
3726 =item The INTERFACE_MACRO: Keyword
3728 =item The INCLUDE: Keyword
3730 =item The CASE: Keyword
3732 =item The & Unary Operator
3734 =item Inserting POD, Comments and C Preprocessor Directives
3736 =item Using XS With C++
3738 =item Interface Strategy
3740 =item Perl Objects And C Structures
3754 =head2 perlclib - Internal replacements for standard C library functions
3764 C<t>, C<p>, C<n>, C<s>
3766 =item File Operations
3768 =item File Input and Output
3770 =item File Positioning
3772 =item Memory Management and String Handling
3774 =item Character Class Tests
3776 =item F<stdlib.h> functions
3778 =item Miscellaneous functions
3786 =head2 perlguts - Introduction to the Perl API
3798 =item What is an "IV"?
3800 =item Working with SVs
3804 =item What's Really Stored in an SV?
3806 =item Working with AVs
3808 =item Working with HVs
3810 =item Hash API Extensions
3814 =item Blessed References and Class Objects
3816 =item Creating New Variables
3818 =item Reference Counts and Mortality
3820 =item Stashes and Globs
3822 =item Double-Typed SVs
3824 =item Magic Variables
3826 =item Assigning Magic
3828 =item Magic Virtual Tables
3832 =item Understanding the Magic of Tied Hashes and Arrays
3834 =item Localizing changes
3836 C<SAVEINT(int i)>, C<SAVEIV(IV i)>, C<SAVEI32(I32 i)>, C<SAVELONG(long i)>,
3837 C<SAVESPTR(s)>, C<SAVEPPTR(p)>, C<SAVEFREESV(SV *sv)>, C<SAVEMORTALIZESV(SV
3838 *sv)>, C<SAVEFREEOP(OP *op)>, C<SAVEFREEPV(p)>, C<SAVECLEARSV(SV *sv)>,
3839 C<SAVEDELETE(HV *hv, char *key, I32 length)>,
3840 C<SAVEDESTRUCTOR(DESTRUCTORFUNC_NOCONTEXT_t f, void *p)>,
3841 C<SAVEDESTRUCTOR_X(DESTRUCTORFUNC_t f, void *p)>, C<SAVESTACK_POS()>, C<SV*
3842 save_scalar(GV *gv)>, C<AV* save_ary(GV *gv)>, C<HV* save_hash(GV *gv)>,
3843 C<void save_item(SV *item)>, C<void save_list(SV **sarg, I32 maxsarg)>,
3844 C<SV* save_svref(SV **sptr)>, C<void save_aptr(AV **aptr)>, C<void
3845 save_hptr(HV **hptr)>
3853 =item XSUBs and the Argument Stack
3855 =item Calling Perl Routines from within C Programs
3857 =item Memory Allocation
3861 =item Putting a C value on Perl stack
3865 =item Scratchpads and recursion
3875 =item Examining the tree
3877 =item Compile pass 1: check routines
3879 =item Compile pass 1a: constant folding
3881 =item Compile pass 2: context propagation
3883 =item Compile pass 3: peephole optimization
3885 =item Pluggable runops
3889 =item Examining internal data structures with the C<dump> functions
3891 =item How multiple interpreters and concurrency are supported
3895 =item Background and PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
3897 =item So what happened to dTHR?
3899 =item How do I use all this in extensions?
3901 =item Should I do anything special if I call perl from multiple threads?
3903 =item Future Plans and PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
3907 =item Internal Functions
3909 A, p, d, s, n, r, f, M, o, j, x
3913 =item Formatted Printing of IVs, UVs, and NVs
3915 =item Pointer-To-Integer and Integer-To-Pointer
3917 =item Source Documentation
3921 =item Unicode Support
3925 =item What B<is> Unicode, anyway?
3927 =item How can I recognise a UTF8 string?
3929 =item How does UTF8 represent Unicode characters?
3931 =item How does Perl store UTF8 strings?
3933 =item How do I convert a string to UTF8?
3935 =item Is there anything else I need to know?
3939 =item Custom Operators
3947 =head2 perlcall - Perl calling conventions from C
3953 An Error Handler, An Event Driven Program
3955 =item THE CALL_ FUNCTIONS
3957 call_sv, call_pv, call_method, call_argv
3977 =item Determining the Context
3981 =item KNOWN PROBLEMS
3987 =item No Parameters, Nothing returned
3989 =item Passing Parameters
3991 =item Returning a Scalar
3993 =item Returning a list of values
3995 =item Returning a list in a scalar context
3997 =item Returning Data from Perl via the parameter list
4001 =item Using G_KEEPERR
4005 =item Using call_argv
4007 =item Using call_method
4011 =item Using Perl to dispose of temporaries
4013 =item Strategies for storing Callback Context Information
4015 1. Ignore the problem - Allow only 1 callback, 2. Create a sequence of
4016 callbacks - hard wired limit, 3. Use a parameter to map to the Perl
4019 =item Alternate Stack Manipulation
4021 =item Creating and calling an anonymous subroutine in C
4033 =head2 perlutil - utilities packaged with the Perl distribution
4043 L<perldoc|perldoc>, L<pod2man|pod2man> and L<pod2text|pod2text>,
4044 L<pod2html|pod2html> and L<pod2latex|pod2latex>, L<pod2usage|pod2usage>,
4045 L<podselect|podselect>, L<podchecker|podchecker>, L<splain|splain>,
4046 L<roffitall|roffitall>
4050 L<a2p|a2p>, L<s2p|s2p>, L<find2perl|find2perl>
4052 =item Administration
4054 L<libnetcfg|libnetcfg>
4058 L<perlbug|perlbug>, L<h2ph|h2ph>, L<c2ph|c2ph> and L<pstruct|pstruct>,
4059 L<h2xs|h2xs>, L<dprofpp|dprofpp>, L<perlcc|perlcc>
4067 =head2 perlfilter - Source Filters
4077 =item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER
4079 =item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER IN C
4081 B<Decryption Filters>
4083 =item CREATING A SOURCE FILTER AS A SEPARATE EXECUTABLE
4085 =item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER IN PERL
4087 =item USING CONTEXT: THE DEBUG FILTER
4099 =head2 perldbmfilter - Perl DBM Filters
4107 B<filter_store_key>, B<filter_store_value>, B<filter_fetch_key>,
4108 B<filter_fetch_value>
4114 =item An Example -- the NULL termination problem.
4116 =item Another Example -- Key is a C int.
4126 =head2 perlapi - autogenerated documentation for the perl public API
4132 AvFILL, av_clear, av_delete, av_exists, av_extend, av_fetch, av_fill,
4133 av_len, av_make, av_pop, av_push, av_shift, av_store, av_undef, av_unshift,
4134 ax, bytes_from_utf8, bytes_to_utf8, call_argv, call_method, call_pv,
4135 call_sv, CLASS, Copy, croak, CvSTASH, cv_const_sv, dAX, dITEMS, dMARK,
4136 dORIGMARK, dSP, dXSARGS, dXSI32, ENTER, eval_pv, eval_sv, EXTEND,
4137 fbm_compile, fbm_instr, FREETMPS, getcwd_sv, get_av, get_cv, get_hv,
4138 get_sv, GIMME, GIMME_V, grok_bin, grok_hex, grok_number,
4139 grok_numeric_radix, grok_oct, GvSV, gv_fetchmeth, gv_fetchmethod,
4140 gv_fetchmethod_autoload, gv_stashpv, gv_stashsv, G_ARRAY, G_DISCARD,
4141 G_EVAL, G_NOARGS, G_SCALAR, G_VOID, HEf_SVKEY, HeHASH, HeKEY, HeKLEN, HePV,
4142 HeSVKEY, HeSVKEY_force, HeSVKEY_set, HeVAL, HvNAME, hv_clear, hv_delete,
4143 hv_delete_ent, hv_exists, hv_exists_ent, hv_fetch, hv_fetch_ent,
4144 hv_iterinit, hv_iterkey, hv_iterkeysv, hv_iternext, hv_iternextsv,
4145 hv_iterval, hv_magic, hv_store, hv_store_ent, hv_undef, isALNUM, isALPHA,
4146 isDIGIT, isLOWER, isSPACE, isUPPER, is_utf8_char, is_utf8_string, items,
4147 ix, LEAVE, load_module, looks_like_number, MARK, mg_clear, mg_copy,
4148 mg_find, mg_free, mg_get, mg_length, mg_magical, mg_set, Move, New, newAV,
4149 Newc, newCONSTSUB, newHV, newRV_inc, newRV_noinc, newSV, NEWSV, newSViv,
4150 newSVnv, newSVpv, newSVpvf, newSVpvn, newSVpvn_share, newSVrv, newSVsv,
4151 newSVuv, newXS, newXSproto, Newz, Nullav, Nullch, Nullcv, Nullhv, Nullsv,
4152 ORIGMARK, perl_alloc, perl_clone, perl_construct, perl_destruct, perl_free,
4153 perl_parse, perl_run, PL_modglobal, PL_na, PL_sv_no, PL_sv_undef,
4154 PL_sv_yes, POPi, POPl, POPn, POPp, POPpbytex, POPpx, POPs, PUSHi, PUSHMARK,
4155 PUSHn, PUSHp, PUSHs, PUSHu, PUTBACK, Renew, Renewc, require_pv, RETVAL,
4156 Safefree, savepv, savepvn, SAVETMPS, scan_bin, scan_hex, scan_oct,
4157 sharedsv_find, sharedsv_init, sharedsv_lock, sharedsv_new,
4158 sharedsv_thrcnt_dec, sharedsv_thrcnt_inc, sharedsv_unlock, sortsv, SP,
4159 SPAGAIN, ST, strEQ, strGE, strGT, strLE, strLT, strNE, strnEQ, strnNE,
4160 StructCopy, SvCUR, SvCUR_set, SvEND, SvGETMAGIC, SvGROW, SvIOK, SvIOKp,
4161 SvIOK_notUV, SvIOK_off, SvIOK_on, SvIOK_only, SvIOK_only_UV, SvIOK_UV,
4162 SvIV, SvIVX, SvIVx, SvLEN, SvNIOK, SvNIOKp, SvNIOK_off, SvNOK, SvNOKp,
4163 SvNOK_off, SvNOK_on, SvNOK_only, SvNV, SvNVX, SvNVx, SvOK, SvOOK, SvPOK,
4164 SvPOKp, SvPOK_off, SvPOK_on, SvPOK_only, SvPOK_only_UTF8, SvPV, SvPVbyte,
4165 SvPVbytex, SvPVbytex_force, SvPVbyte_force, SvPVbyte_nolen, SvPVutf8,
4166 SvPVutf8x, SvPVutf8x_force, SvPVutf8_force, SvPVutf8_nolen, SvPVx, SvPVX,
4167 SvPV_force, SvPV_force_nomg, SvPV_nolen, SvREFCNT, SvREFCNT_dec,
4168 SvREFCNT_inc, SvROK, SvROK_off, SvROK_on, SvRV, SvSETMAGIC, SvSetMagicSV,
4169 SvSetMagicSV_nosteal, SvSetSV, SvSetSV_nosteal, SvSTASH, SvTAINT,
4170 SvTAINTED, SvTAINTED_off, SvTAINTED_on, SvTRUE, SvTYPE, svtype, SVt_IV,
4171 SVt_NV, SVt_PV, SVt_PVAV, SVt_PVCV, SVt_PVHV, SVt_PVMG, SvUOK, SvUPGRADE,
4172 SvUTF8, SvUTF8_off, SvUTF8_on, SvUV, SvUVX, SvUVx, sv_2bool, sv_2cv,
4173 sv_2io, sv_2iv, sv_2mortal, sv_2nv, sv_2pvbyte, sv_2pvbyte_nolen,
4174 sv_2pvutf8, sv_2pvutf8_nolen, sv_2pv_flags, sv_2pv_nolen, sv_2uv,
4175 sv_backoff, sv_bless, sv_catpv, sv_catpvf, sv_catpvf_mg, sv_catpvn,
4176 sv_catpvn_flags, sv_catpvn_mg, sv_catpv_mg, sv_catsv, sv_catsv_flags,
4177 sv_catsv_mg, sv_chop, sv_clear, sv_cmp, sv_cmp_locale, sv_collxfrm, sv_dec,
4178 sv_derived_from, sv_eq, sv_force_normal, sv_force_normal_flags, sv_free,
4179 sv_gets, sv_grow, sv_inc, sv_insert, sv_isa, sv_isobject, sv_iv, sv_len,
4180 sv_len_utf8, sv_magic, sv_mortalcopy, sv_newmortal, sv_newref, sv_nv,
4181 sv_pos_b2u, sv_pos_u2b, sv_pv, sv_pvbyte, sv_pvbyten, sv_pvbyten_force,
4182 sv_pvn, sv_pvn_force, sv_pvn_force_flags, sv_pvutf8, sv_pvutf8n,
4183 sv_pvutf8n_force, sv_reftype, sv_replace, sv_report_used, sv_reset,
4184 sv_rvweaken, sv_setiv, sv_setiv_mg, sv_setnv, sv_setnv_mg, sv_setpv,
4185 sv_setpvf, sv_setpvf_mg, sv_setpviv, sv_setpviv_mg, sv_setpvn,
4186 sv_setpvn_mg, sv_setpv_mg, sv_setref_iv, sv_setref_nv, sv_setref_pv,
4187 sv_setref_pvn, sv_setref_uv, sv_setsv, sv_setsv_flags, sv_setsv_mg,
4188 sv_setuv, sv_setuv_mg, sv_taint, sv_tainted, sv_true, sv_unmagic, sv_unref,
4189 sv_unref_flags, sv_untaint, sv_upgrade, sv_usepvn, sv_usepvn_mg,
4190 sv_utf8_decode, sv_utf8_downgrade, sv_utf8_encode, sv_utf8_upgrade,
4191 sv_utf8_upgrade_flags, sv_uv, sv_vcatpvfn, sv_vsetpvfn, THIS, toLOWER,
4192 toUPPER, utf8n_to_uvchr, utf8n_to_uvuni, utf8_distance, utf8_hop,
4193 utf8_length, utf8_to_bytes, utf8_to_uvchr, utf8_to_uvuni, uvchr_to_utf8,
4194 uvuni_to_utf8, warn, XPUSHi, XPUSHn, XPUSHp, XPUSHs, XPUSHu, XS, XSRETURN,
4195 XSRETURN_EMPTY, XSRETURN_IV, XSRETURN_NO, XSRETURN_NV, XSRETURN_PV,
4196 XSRETURN_UNDEF, XSRETURN_YES, XST_mIV, XST_mNO, XST_mNV, XST_mPV,
4197 XST_mUNDEF, XST_mYES, XS_VERSION, XS_VERSION_BOOTCHECK, Zero
4205 =head2 perlintern - autogenerated documentation of purely B<internal>
4212 djSP, is_gv_magical, LVRET, PL_DBsingle, PL_DBsub, PL_DBtrace, PL_dowarn,
4213 PL_last_in_gv, PL_ofs_sv, PL_rs, report_uninit, start_glob, sv_add_arena,
4214 sv_clean_all, sv_clean_objs, sv_free_arenas
4222 =head2 perliol - C API for Perl's implementation of IO in Layers.
4232 =item History and Background
4234 =item Layers vs Disciplines
4236 =item Data Structures
4238 1. The functions and attributes of the "layer class", 2. The per-instance
4239 data for a particular handle
4241 =item Functions and Attributes
4243 =item Per-instance Data
4245 =item Layers in action.
4247 =item Per-instance flag bits
4249 PERLIO_F_EOF, PERLIO_F_CANWRITE, PERLIO_F_CANREAD, PERLIO_F_ERROR,
4250 PERLIO_F_TRUNCATE, PERLIO_F_APPEND, PERLIO_F_CRLF, PERLIO_F_UTF8,
4251 PERLIO_F_UNBUF, PERLIO_F_WRBUF, PERLIO_F_RDBUF, PERLIO_F_LINEBUF,
4252 PERLIO_F_TEMP, PERLIO_F_OPEN, PERLIO_F_FASTGETS
4254 =item Methods in Detail
4256 IV (*Pushed)(PerlIO *f,const char *mode, SV *arg);, IV
4257 (*Popped)(PerlIO *f);, PerlIO * (*Open)(...);, SV *
4258 (*Getarg)(PerlIO *f);, IV (*Fileno)(PerlIO *f);, SSize_t
4259 (*Read)(PerlIO *f, void *vbuf, Size_t count);, SSize_t (*Unread)(PerlIO
4260 *f, const void *vbuf, Size_t count);, SSize_t (*Write)(PerlIO *f, const
4261 void *vbuf, Size_t count);, IV (*Seek)(PerlIO *f, Off_t
4262 offset, int whence);, Off_t (*Tell)(PerlIO *f);, IV
4263 (*Close)(PerlIO *f);, IV (*Flush)(PerlIO *f);, IV
4264 (*Fill)(PerlIO *f);, IV (*Eof)(PerlIO *f);, IV
4265 (*Error)(PerlIO *f);, void (*Clearerr)(PerlIO *f);, void
4266 (*Setlinebuf)(PerlIO *f);, STDCHAR * (*Get_base)(PerlIO *f);,
4267 Size_t (*Get_bufsiz)(PerlIO *f);, STDCHAR *
4268 (*Get_ptr)(PerlIO *f);, SSize_t (*Get_cnt)(PerlIO *f);, void
4269 (*Set_ptrcnt)(PerlIO *f,STDCHAR *ptr,SSize_t cnt);
4273 "unix", "perlio", "stdio", "crlf", "mmap", "pending", "raw", "utf8"
4275 =item Extension Layers
4277 ":encoding", ":Scalar", ":Object" or ":Perl"
4283 =head2 perlapio - perl's IO abstraction interface.
4291 1. USE_STDIO, 2. USE_SFIO, 3. USE_PERLIO, B<PerlIO_stdin()>,
4292 B<PerlIO_stdout()>, B<PerlIO_stderr()>, B<PerlIO_open(path, mode)>,
4293 B<PerlIO_fdopen(fd,mode)>, B<PerlIO_reopen(path,mode,f)>,
4294 B<PerlIO_printf(f,fmt,...)>, B<PerlIO_vprintf(f,fmt,a)>,
4295 B<PerlIO_stdoutf(fmt,...)>, B<PerlIO_read(f,buf,count)>,
4296 B<PerlIO_write(f,buf,count)>, B<PerlIO_close(f)>, B<PerlIO_puts(f,s)>,
4297 B<PerlIO_putc(f,c)>, B<PerlIO_ungetc(f,c)>, B<PerlIO_getc(f)>,
4298 B<PerlIO_eof(f)>, B<PerlIO_error(f)>, B<PerlIO_fileno(f)>,
4299 B<PerlIO_clearerr(f)>, B<PerlIO_flush(f)>, B<PerlIO_seek(f,offset,whence)>,
4300 B<PerlIO_tell(f)>, B<PerlIO_getpos(f,p)>, B<PerlIO_setpos(f,p)>,
4301 B<PerlIO_rewind(f)>, B<PerlIO_tmpfile()>, B<PerlIO_setlinebuf(f)>
4305 =item Co-existence with stdio
4307 B<PerlIO_importFILE(f,flags)>, B<PerlIO_exportFILE(f,flags)>,
4308 B<PerlIO_findFILE(f)>, B<PerlIO_releaseFILE(p,f)>
4310 =item "Fast gets" Functions
4312 B<PerlIO_fast_gets(f)>, B<PerlIO_has_cntptr(f)>, B<PerlIO_get_cnt(f)>,
4313 B<PerlIO_get_ptr(f)>, B<PerlIO_set_ptrcnt(f,p,c)>, B<PerlIO_canset_cnt(f)>,
4314 B<PerlIO_set_cnt(f,c)>, B<PerlIO_has_base(f)>, B<PerlIO_get_base(f)>,
4315 B<PerlIO_get_bufsiz(f)>
4317 =item Other Functions
4319 PerlIO_apply_layers(f,mode,layers), PerlIO_binmode(f,ptype,imode,layers),
4320 'E<lt>' read, 'E<gt>' write, '+' read/write, PerlIO_debug(fmt,...)
4326 =head2 perltodo - Perl TO-DO List
4332 =item To do during 5.6.x
4336 =item Support for I/O disciplines
4338 =item Autoload bytes.pm
4340 =item Make "\u{XXXX}" et al work
4342 =item Create a char *sv_pvprintify(sv, STRLEN *lenp, UV flags)
4344 =item Overloadable regex assertions
4348 =item use Thread for iThreads
4350 =item make perl_clone optionally clone ops
4352 =item Work out exit/die semantics for threads
4354 =item Typed lexicals for compiler
4356 =item Compiler workarounds for Win32
4358 =item AUTOLOADing in the compiler
4360 =item Fixing comppadlist when compiling
4362 =item Cleaning up exported namespace
4364 =item Complete signal handling
4366 =item Out-of-source builds
4368 =item POSIX realtime support
4370 =item UNIX98 support
4374 =item Long double conversion
4378 =item Thread-safe regexes
4380 =item Arithmetic on non-Arabic numerals
4382 =item POSIX Unicode character classes
4384 =item Factoring out common suffices/prefices in regexps (trie optimization)
4386 =item Security audit shipped utilities
4388 =item Custom opcodes
4390 =item spawnvp() on Win32
4392 =item DLL Versioning
4394 =item Introduce @( and @)
4396 =item Floating point handling
4398 =item IV/UV preservation
4400 =item Replace pod2html with something using Pod::Parser
4402 =item Automate module testing on CPAN
4404 =item sendmsg and recvmsg
4406 =item Rewrite perlre documentation
4408 =item Convert example code to IO::Handle filehandles
4410 =item Document Win32 choices
4412 =item Check new modules
4414 =item Make roffitall find pods and libs itself
4418 =item To do at some point
4422 =item Remove regular expression recursion
4424 =item Memory leaks after failed eval
4426 =item pack "(stuff)*"
4428 =item bitfields in pack
4430 =item Cross compilation
4432 =item Perl preprocessor / macros
4434 =item Perl lexer in Perl
4436 =item Using POSIX calls internally
4438 =item -i rename file when changed
4440 =item All ARGV input should act like E<lt>E<gt>
4442 =item Support for rerunning debugger
4444 =item Test Suite for the Debugger
4446 =item my sub foo { }
4448 =item One-pass global destruction
4450 =item Rewrite regexp parser
4452 =item Cache recently used regexps
4454 =item Re-entrant functions
4456 =item Cross-compilation support
4458 =item Bit-shifting bitvectors
4460 =item debugger pragma
4462 =item use less pragma
4464 =item switch structures
4466 =item Cache eval tree
4470 =item Shrink opcode tables
4472 =item Optimize away @_
4474 =item Prototypes versus indirect objects
4478 =item Prototype method calls
4480 =item Return context prototype declarations
4484 =item Garbage collection
4488 =item pack/unpack tutorial
4490 =item Rewrite perldoc
4492 =item Install .3p manpages
4494 =item Unicode tutorial
4496 =item Update POSIX.pm for 1003.1-2
4498 =item Retargetable installation
4500 =item POSIX emulation on non-POSIX systems
4502 =item Rename Win32 headers
4504 =item Finish off lvalue functions
4506 =item Update sprintf documentation
4508 =item Use fchown/fchmod internally
4516 =item ref() in list context
4518 =item Make tr/// return histogram of characters in list context
4520 =item Compile to real threaded code
4522 =item Structured types
4524 =item Modifiable $1 et al.
4526 =item Procedural interfaces for IO::*, etc.
4530 =item Attach/detach debugger from running program
4532 =item Alternative RE syntax module
4536 =item foreach(reverse ...)
4538 =item Constant function cache
4540 =item Approximate regular expression matching
4548 =item Update guts documentation
4550 =item Add more tests
4552 =item Update auxiliary tools
4556 =item Recently done things
4560 =item Safe signal handling
4566 =item setitimer and getimiter
4568 =item Testing __DIE__ hook
4570 =item CPP equivalent in Perl
4572 =item Explicit switch statements
4580 =item perlcc to produce executable
4582 =item END blocks saved in compiled output
4584 =item Secure temporary file module
4586 =item Integrate Time::HiRes
4588 =item Turn Cwd into XS
4590 =item Mmap for input
4592 =item Byte to/from UTF8 and UTF8 to/from local conversion
4594 =item Add sockatmark support
4596 =item Mailing list archives
4600 =item Integrate MacPerl
4602 =item Web "nerve center" for Perl
4604 =item Regular expression tutorial
4606 =item Debugging Tutorial
4608 =item Integrate new modules
4610 =item Integrate profiler
4612 =item Y2K error detection
4614 =item Regular expression debugger
4618 =item "Dynamic" lexicals
4620 =item Cache precompiled modules
4624 =item Deprecated Wishes
4628 =item Loop control on do{}
4630 =item Lexically scoped typeglobs
4636 =item Generalised want()/caller())
4638 =item Named prototypes
4640 =item Built-in globbing
4642 =item Regression tests for suidperl
4644 =item Cached hash values
4646 =item Add compression modules
4648 =item Reorganise documentation into tutorials/references
4650 =item Remove distinction between functions and operators
4652 =item Make XS easier to use
4654 =item Make embedding easier to use
4658 =item my $Package::variable
4660 =item "or" tests defined, not truth
4662 =item "class"-based lexicals
4666 =item Lazy evaluation / tail recursion removal
4668 =item Make "use utf8" the default
4670 =item Unicode collation and normalization
4672 =item Create debugging macros
4678 =head2 perlhack - How to hack at the Perl internals
4684 Does concept match the general goals of Perl?, Where is the
4685 implementation?, Backwards compatibility, Could it be a module instead?, Is
4686 the feature generic enough?, Does it potentially introduce new bugs?, Does
4687 it preclude other desirable features?, Is the implementation robust?, Is
4688 the implementation generic enough to be portable?, Is there enough
4689 documentation?, Is there another way to do it?, Does it create too much
4690 work?, Patches speak louder than words
4694 =item Keeping in sync
4696 rsync'ing the source tree, Using rsync over the LAN, Using pushing over the
4697 NFS, rsync'ing the patches
4699 =item Why rsync the source tree
4701 It's easier to rsync the source tree, It's more recent, It's more reliable
4703 =item Why rsync the patches
4705 It's easier to rsync the patches, It's a good reference, Finding a start
4706 point, Finding how to fix a bug, Finding the source of misbehaviour
4708 =item Submitting patches
4710 L<perlguts>, L<perlxstut> and L<perlxs>, L<perlapi>,
4711 F<Porting/pumpkin.pod>, The perl5-porters FAQ
4713 =item Finding Your Way Around
4715 Core modules, Tests, Documentation, Configure, Interpreter
4717 =item Elements of the interpreter
4719 Startup, Parsing, Optimization, Running
4721 =item Internal Variable Types
4727 Argument stack, Mark stack, Save stack
4729 =item Millions of Macros
4731 =item Poking at Perl
4733 =item Using a source-level debugger
4735 run [args], break function_name, break source.c:xxx, step, next, continue,
4736 finish, 'enter', print
4738 =item Dumping Perl Data Structures
4742 =item Patching a core module
4744 =item Adding a new function to the core
4746 =item Writing a test
4748 F<t/base/>, F<t/cmd/>, F<t/comp/>, F<t/io/>, F<t/lib/>, F<t/op/>,
4749 F<t/pod/>, F<t/run/>
4753 =item EXTERNAL TOOLS FOR DEBUGGING PERL
4757 =item Rational Software's Purify
4759 =item Purify on Unix
4761 -Accflags=-DPURIFY, -Doptimize='-g', -Uusemymalloc, -Dusemultiplicity
4765 DEFINES, USE_MULTI = define, #PERL_MALLOC = define, CFG = Debug
4767 =item Compaq's/Digital's Third Degree
4769 =item PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL
4773 =item Gprof Profiling
4775 -a, -b, -e routine, -f routine, -s, -z
4777 =item GCC gcov Profiling
4779 =item Pixie Profiling
4781 -h, -l, -p[rocedures], -h[eavy], -i[nvocations], -l[ines], -testcoverage,
4786 I<The Road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began.>
4794 =head2 perlhist - the Perl history records
4802 =item THE KEEPERS OF THE PUMPKIN
4814 =item SELECTED RELEASE SIZES
4816 =item SELECTED PATCH SIZES
4820 =item THE KEEPERS OF THE RECORDS
4824 =head2 perldelta - what will be new for perl v5.8.0
4830 =item Reporting Bugs
4838 =head2 perl572delta - what's new for perl v5.7.2
4844 =item Security Vulnerability Closed
4846 =item Incompatible Changes
4850 =item 64-bit platforms and malloc
4852 =item AIX Dynaloading
4854 =item Socket Extension Dynamic in VMS
4856 =item Different Definition of the Unicode Character Classes \p{In...}
4862 =item Core Enhancements
4864 =item Modules and Pragmata
4868 =item New Modules and Distributions
4870 =item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
4874 =item Utility Changes
4876 =item New Documentation
4878 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
4882 =item New Or Improved Platforms
4884 =item Generic Improvements
4888 =item Selected Bug Fixes
4892 =item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
4896 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
4898 =item Source Code Enhancements
4902 =item MAGIC constants
4904 =item Better commented code
4906 =item Regex pre-/post-compilation items matched up
4914 =item Known Problems
4920 =item Amiga Perl Invoking Mystery
4922 =item lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
4924 =item Cygwin intermittent failures of lib/Memoize/t/expire_file 11 and 12
4926 =item HP-UX lib/io_multihomed Fails When LP64-Configur
4928 =item HP-UX lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails When LP64-Configured
4930 =item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
4934 =item op/sprintf tests 129 and 130
4936 =item Failure of Thread tests
4946 =item Localising a Tied Variable Leaks Memory
4948 =item Self-tying of Arrays and Hashes Is Forbidden
4950 =item Variable Attributes are not Currently Usable for Tieing
4952 =item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
4954 =item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
4956 =item The Long Double Support is Still Experimental
4960 =item Reporting Bugs
4968 =head2 perl571delta - what's new for perl v5.7.1
4974 =item Security Vulnerability Closed
4976 =item Incompatible Changes
4978 =item Core Enhancements
4982 =item AUTOLOAD Is Now Lvaluable
4984 =item PerlIO is Now The Default
4986 =item Signals Are Now Safe
4990 =item Modules and Pragmata
4996 =item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
5000 =item Performance Enhancements
5002 =item Utility Changes
5004 =item New Documentation
5020 =item README.solaris
5024 =item Porting/repository.pod
5028 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
5032 =item New Or Improved Platforms
5034 =item Generic Improvements
5036 d_cmsghdr, d_fcntl_can_lock, d_fsync, d_getitimer, d_getpagsz, d_msghdr_s,
5037 need_va_copy, d_readv, d_recvmsg, d_sendmsg, sig_size, d_sockatmark,
5038 d_strtoq, d_u32align, d_ualarm, d_usleep
5042 =item Selected Bug Fixes
5046 =item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
5050 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
5052 =item Changed Internals
5056 =item Known Problems
5060 =item AIX vac 5.0.0.0 May Produce Buggy Code For Perl
5062 =item lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
5064 =item lib/io_multihomed Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX
5066 =item Test lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX
5070 =item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
5072 =item sigaction test 13 in VMS
5074 =item sprintf tests 129 and 130
5076 =item Failure of Thread tests
5078 =item Localising a Tied Variable Leaks Memory
5080 =item Self-tying of Arrays and Hashes Is Forbidden
5082 =item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
5084 =item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
5088 =item Reporting Bugs
5096 =head2 perl570delta - what's new for perl v5.7.0
5102 =item Security Vulnerability Closed
5104 =item Incompatible Changes
5106 =item Core Enhancements
5108 =item Modules and Pragmata
5114 =item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
5118 =item Utility Changes
5120 =item New Documentation
5122 =item Performance Enhancements
5124 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
5128 =item Generic Improvements
5132 =item Selected Bug Fixes
5136 =item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
5140 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
5142 =item Changed Internals
5144 =item Known Problems
5148 =item Unicode Support Still Far From Perfect
5150 =item EBCDIC Still A Lost Platform
5152 =item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
5154 =item ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
5156 =item Test lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX
5158 =item Long Doubles Still Don't Work In Solaris
5160 =item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
5162 =item Storable tests fail in some platforms
5164 =item Threads Are Still Experimental
5166 =item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
5170 =item Reporting Bugs
5178 =head2 perl56delta, perldelta - what's new for perl v5.6.0
5184 =item Core Enhancements
5188 =item Interpreter cloning, threads, and concurrency
5190 =item Lexically scoped warning categories
5192 =item Unicode and UTF-8 support
5194 =item Support for interpolating named characters
5196 =item "our" declarations
5198 =item Support for strings represented as a vector of ordinals
5200 =item Improved Perl version numbering system
5202 =item New syntax for declaring subroutine attributes
5204 =item File and directory handles can be autovivified
5206 =item open() with more than two arguments
5208 =item 64-bit support
5210 =item Large file support
5216 =item Enhanced support for sort() subroutines
5218 =item C<sort $coderef @foo> allowed
5220 =item File globbing implemented internally
5222 =item Support for CHECK blocks
5224 =item POSIX character class syntax [: :] supported
5226 =item Better pseudo-random number generator
5228 =item Improved C<qw//> operator
5230 =item Better worst-case behavior of hashes
5232 =item pack() format 'Z' supported
5234 =item pack() format modifier '!' supported
5236 =item pack() and unpack() support counted strings
5238 =item Comments in pack() templates
5240 =item Weak references
5242 =item Binary numbers supported
5244 =item Lvalue subroutines
5246 =item Some arrows may be omitted in calls through references
5248 =item Boolean assignment operators are legal lvalues
5250 =item exists() is supported on subroutine names
5252 =item exists() and delete() are supported on array elements
5254 =item Pseudo-hashes work better
5256 =item Automatic flushing of output buffers
5258 =item Better diagnostics on meaningless filehandle operations
5260 =item Where possible, buffered data discarded from duped input filehandle
5262 =item eof() has the same old magic as <>
5264 =item binmode() can be used to set :crlf and :raw modes
5266 =item C<-T> filetest recognizes UTF-8 encoded files as "text"
5268 =item system(), backticks and pipe open now reflect exec() failure
5270 =item Improved diagnostics
5272 =item Diagnostics follow STDERR
5274 =item More consistent close-on-exec behavior
5276 =item syswrite() ease-of-use
5278 =item Better syntax checks on parenthesized unary operators
5280 =item Bit operators support full native integer width
5282 =item Improved security features
5284 =item More functional bareword prototype (*)
5286 =item C<require> and C<do> may be overridden
5288 =item $^X variables may now have names longer than one character
5290 =item New variable $^C reflects C<-c> switch
5292 =item New variable $^V contains Perl version as a string
5294 =item Optional Y2K warnings
5296 =item Arrays now always interpolate into double-quoted strings
5300 =item Modules and Pragmata
5306 attributes, B, Benchmark, ByteLoader, constant, charnames, Data::Dumper,
5307 DB, DB_File, Devel::DProf, Devel::Peek, Dumpvalue, DynaLoader, English,
5308 Env, Fcntl, File::Compare, File::Find, File::Glob, File::Spec,
5309 File::Spec::Functions, Getopt::Long, IO, JPL, lib, Math::BigInt,
5310 Math::Complex, Math::Trig, Pod::Parser, Pod::InputObjects, Pod::Checker,
5311 podchecker, Pod::ParseUtils, Pod::Find, Pod::Select, podselect, Pod::Usage,
5312 pod2usage, Pod::Text and Pod::Man, SDBM_File, Sys::Syslog, Sys::Hostname,
5313 Term::ANSIColor, Time::Local, Win32, XSLoader, DBM Filters
5319 =item Utility Changes
5333 =item The Perl Debugger
5337 =item Improved Documentation
5339 perlapi.pod, perlboot.pod, perlcompile.pod, perldbmfilter.pod,
5340 perldebug.pod, perldebguts.pod, perlfork.pod, perlfilter.pod, perlhack.pod,
5341 perlintern.pod, perllexwarn.pod, perlnumber.pod, perlopentut.pod,
5342 perlreftut.pod, perltootc.pod, perltodo.pod, perlunicode.pod
5344 =item Performance enhancements
5348 =item Simple sort() using { $a <=> $b } and the like are optimized
5350 =item Optimized assignments to lexical variables
5352 =item Faster subroutine calls
5354 =item delete(), each(), values() and hash iteration are faster
5358 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
5362 =item -Dusethreads means something different
5364 =item New Configure flags
5366 =item Threadedness and 64-bitness now more daring
5372 =item -Duselargefiles
5374 =item installusrbinperl
5380 =item Enhanced Installation Directories
5384 =item Platform specific changes
5388 =item Supported platforms
5392 =item OS390 (OpenEdition MVS)
5400 =item Significant bug fixes
5404 =item <HANDLE> on empty files
5406 =item C<eval '...'> improvements
5408 =item All compilation errors are true errors
5410 =item Implicitly closed filehandles are safer
5412 =item Behavior of list slices is more consistent
5414 =item C<(\$)> prototype and C<$foo{a}>
5416 =item C<goto &sub> and AUTOLOAD
5418 =item C<-bareword> allowed under C<use integer>
5420 =item Failures in DESTROY()
5422 =item Locale bugs fixed
5426 =item Spurious subroutine stubs after failed subroutine calls
5428 =item Taint failures under C<-U>
5430 =item END blocks and the C<-c> switch
5432 =item Potential to leak DATA filehandles
5436 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
5438 "%s" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same %s, "my sub" not yet
5439 implemented, "our" variable %s redeclared, '!' allowed only after types %s,
5440 / cannot take a count, / must be followed by a, A or Z, / must be followed
5441 by a*, A* or Z*, / must follow a numeric type, /%s/: Unrecognized escape
5442 \\%c passed through, /%s/: Unrecognized escape \\%c in character class
5443 passed through, /%s/ should probably be written as "%s", %s() called too
5444 early to check prototype, %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element, %s
5445 argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element or slice, %s argument is not a
5446 subroutine name, %s package attribute may clash with future reserved word:
5447 %s, (in cleanup) %s, <> should be quotes, Attempt to join self, Bad evalled
5448 substitution pattern, Bad realloc() ignored, Bareword found in conditional,
5449 Binary number > 0b11111111111111111111111111111111 non-portable, Bit vector
5450 size > 32 non-portable, Buffer overflow in prime_env_iter: %s, Can't check
5451 filesystem of script "%s", Can't declare class for non-scalar %s in "%s",
5452 Can't declare %s in "%s", Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default,
5453 Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine call, Can't read CRTL environ, Can't
5454 remove %s: %s, skipping file, Can't return %s from lvalue subroutine, Can't
5455 weaken a nonreference, Character class [:%s:] unknown, Character class
5456 syntax [%s] belongs inside character classes, Constant is not %s reference,
5457 constant(%s): %s, CORE::%s is not a keyword, defined(@array) is deprecated,
5458 defined(%hash) is deprecated, Did not produce a valid header, (Did you mean
5459 "local" instead of "our"?), Document contains no data, entering effective
5460 %s failed, false [] range "%s" in regexp, Filehandle %s opened only for
5461 output, flock() on closed filehandle %s, Global symbol "%s" requires
5462 explicit package name, Hexadecimal number > 0xffffffff non-portable,
5463 Ill-formed CRTL environ value "%s", Ill-formed message in prime_env_iter:
5464 |%s|, Illegal binary digit %s, Illegal binary digit %s ignored, Illegal
5465 number of bits in vec, Integer overflow in %s number, Invalid %s attribute:
5466 %s, Invalid %s attributes: %s, invalid [] range "%s" in regexp, Invalid
5467 separator character %s in attribute list, Invalid separator character %s in
5468 subroutine attribute list, leaving effective %s failed, Lvalue subs
5469 returning %s not implemented yet, Method %s not permitted, Missing
5470 %sbrace%s on \N{}, Missing command in piped open, Missing name in "my sub",
5471 No %s specified for -%c, No package name allowed for variable %s in "our",
5472 No space allowed after -%c, no UTC offset information; assuming local time
5473 is UTC, Octal number > 037777777777 non-portable, panic: del_backref,
5474 panic: kid popen errno read, panic: magic_killbackrefs, Parentheses missing
5475 around "%s" list, Possible unintended interpolation of %s in string,
5476 Possible Y2K bug: %s, pragma "attrs" is deprecated, use "sub NAME : ATTRS"
5477 instead, Premature end of script headers, Repeat count in pack overflows,
5478 Repeat count in unpack overflows, realloc() of freed memory ignored,
5479 Reference is already weak, setpgrp can't take arguments, Strange *+?{} on
5480 zero-length expression, switching effective %s is not implemented, This
5481 Perl can't reset CRTL environ elements (%s), This Perl can't set CRTL
5482 environ elements (%s=%s), Too late to run %s block, Unknown open() mode
5483 '%s', Unknown process %x sent message to prime_env_iter: %s, Unrecognized
5484 escape \\%c passed through, Unterminated attribute parameter in attribute
5485 list, Unterminated attribute list, Unterminated attribute parameter in
5486 subroutine attribute list, Unterminated subroutine attribute list, Value of
5487 CLI symbol "%s" too long, Version number must be a constant number
5491 =item Incompatible Changes
5495 =item Perl Source Incompatibilities
5497 CHECK is a new keyword, Treatment of list slices of undef has changed,
5498 Format of $English::PERL_VERSION is different, Literals of the form
5499 C<1.2.3> parse differently, Possibly changed pseudo-random number
5500 generator, Hashing function for hash keys has changed, C<undef> fails on
5501 read only values, Close-on-exec bit may be set on pipe and socket handles,
5502 Writing C<"$$1"> to mean C<"${$}1"> is unsupported, delete(), each(),
5503 values() and C<\(%h)>, vec(EXPR,OFFSET,BITS) enforces powers-of-two BITS,
5504 Text of some diagnostic output has changed, C<%@> has been removed,
5505 Parenthesized not() behaves like a list operator, Semantics of bareword
5506 prototype C<(*)> have changed, Semantics of bit operators may have changed
5507 on 64-bit platforms, More builtins taint their results
5509 =item C Source Incompatibilities
5511 C<PERL_POLLUTE>, C<PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT>, C<PERL_POLLUTE_MALLOC>
5513 =item Compatible C Source API Changes
5515 C<PATCHLEVEL> is now C<PERL_VERSION>
5517 =item Binary Incompatibilities
5521 =item Known Problems
5525 =item Thread test failures
5527 =item EBCDIC platforms not supported
5529 =item In 64-bit HP-UX the lib/io_multihomed test may hang
5531 =item NEXTSTEP 3.3 POSIX test failure
5533 =item Tru64 (aka Digital UNIX, aka DEC OSF/1) lib/sdbm test failure with
5536 =item UNICOS/mk CC failures during Configure run
5538 =item Arrow operator and arrays
5540 =item Experimental features
5542 Threads, Unicode, 64-bit support, Lvalue subroutines, Weak references, The
5543 pseudo-hash data type, The Compiler suite, Internal implementation of file
5544 globbing, The DB module, The regular expression code constructs:
5548 =item Obsolete Diagnostics
5550 Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions, Ill-formed
5551 logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter, In string, @%s now must be written as
5552 \@%s, Probable precedence problem on %s, regexp too big, Use of "$$<digit>"
5553 to mean "${$}<digit>" is deprecated
5555 =item Reporting Bugs
5563 =head2 perl5005delta, perldelta - what's new for perl5.005
5569 =item About the new versioning system
5571 =item Incompatible Changes
5575 =item WARNING: This version is not binary compatible with Perl 5.004.
5577 =item Default installation structure has changed
5579 =item Perl Source Compatibility
5581 =item C Source Compatibility
5583 =item Binary Compatibility
5585 =item Security fixes may affect compatibility
5587 =item Relaxed new mandatory warnings introduced in 5.004
5601 =item Regular Expressions
5603 Many new and improved optimizations, Many bug fixes, New regular expression
5604 constructs, New operator for precompiled regular expressions, Other
5605 improvements, Incompatible changes
5607 =item Improved malloc()
5609 =item Quicksort is internally implemented
5611 =item Reliable signals
5613 =item Reliable stack pointers
5615 =item More generous treatment of carriage returns
5619 =item Better support for multiple interpreters
5621 =item Behavior of local() on array and hash elements is now well-defined
5623 =item C<%!> is transparently tied to the L<Errno> module
5625 =item Pseudo-hashes are supported
5627 =item C<EXPR foreach EXPR> is supported
5629 =item Keywords can be globally overridden
5631 =item C<$^E> is meaningful on Win32
5633 =item C<foreach (1..1000000)> optimized
5635 =item C<Foo::> can be used as implicitly quoted package name
5637 =item C<exists $Foo::{Bar::}> tests existence of a package
5639 =item Better locale support
5641 =item Experimental support for 64-bit platforms
5643 =item prototype() returns useful results on builtins
5645 =item Extended support for exception handling
5647 =item Re-blessing in DESTROY() supported for chaining DESTROY() methods
5649 =item All C<printf> format conversions are handled internally
5651 =item New C<INIT> keyword
5653 =item New C<lock> keyword
5655 =item New C<qr//> operator
5657 =item C<our> is now a reserved word
5659 =item Tied arrays are now fully supported
5661 =item Tied handles support is better
5663 =item 4th argument to substr
5665 =item Negative LENGTH argument to splice
5667 =item Magic lvalues are now more magical
5669 =item <> now reads in records
5673 =item Supported Platforms
5679 =item Changes in existing support
5683 =item Modules and Pragmata
5689 B, Data::Dumper, Dumpvalue, Errno, File::Spec, ExtUtils::Installed,
5690 ExtUtils::Packlist, Fatal, IPC::SysV, Test, Tie::Array, Tie::Handle,
5691 Thread, attrs, fields, re
5693 =item Changes in existing modules
5695 Benchmark, Carp, CGI, Fcntl, Math::Complex, Math::Trig, POSIX, DB_File,
5696 MakeMaker, CPAN, Cwd
5700 =item Utility Changes
5702 =item Documentation Changes
5704 =item New Diagnostics
5706 Ambiguous call resolved as CORE::%s(), qualify as such or use &, Bad index
5707 while coercing array into hash, Bareword "%s" refers to nonexistent
5708 package, Can't call method "%s" on an undefined value, Can't check
5709 filesystem of script "%s" for nosuid, Can't coerce array into hash, Can't
5710 goto subroutine from an eval-string, Can't localize pseudo-hash element,
5711 Can't use %%! because Errno.pm is not available, Cannot find an opnumber
5712 for "%s", Character class syntax [. .] is reserved for future extensions,
5713 Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions, Character
5714 class syntax [= =] is reserved for future extensions, %s: Eval-group in
5715 insecure regular expression, %s: Eval-group not allowed, use re 'eval', %s:
5716 Eval-group not allowed at run time, Explicit blessing to '' (assuming
5717 package main), Illegal hex digit ignored, No such array field, No such
5718 field "%s" in variable %s of type %s, Out of memory during ridiculously
5719 large request, Range iterator outside integer range, Recursive inheritance
5720 detected while looking for method '%s' %s, Reference found where even-sized
5721 list expected, Undefined value assigned to typeglob, Use of reserved word
5722 "%s" is deprecated, perl: warning: Setting locale failed
5724 =item Obsolete Diagnostics
5726 Can't mktemp(), Can't write to temp file for B<-e>: %s, Cannot open
5727 temporary file, regexp too big
5729 =item Configuration Changes
5739 =head2 perl5004delta, perldelta - what's new for perl5.004
5745 =item Supported Environments
5751 =item List assignment to %ENV works
5753 =item Change to "Can't locate Foo.pm in @INC" error
5755 =item Compilation option: Binary compatibility with 5.003
5757 =item $PERL5OPT environment variable
5759 =item Limitations on B<-M>, B<-m>, and B<-T> options
5761 =item More precise warnings
5763 =item Deprecated: Inherited C<AUTOLOAD> for non-methods
5765 =item Previously deprecated %OVERLOAD is no longer usable
5767 =item Subroutine arguments created only when they're modified
5769 =item Group vector changeable with C<$)>
5771 =item Fixed parsing of $$<digit>, &$<digit>, etc.
5773 =item Fixed localization of $<digit>, $&, etc.
5775 =item No resetting of $. on implicit close
5777 =item C<wantarray> may return undef
5779 =item C<eval EXPR> determines value of EXPR in scalar context
5781 =item Changes to tainting checks
5783 No glob() or <*>, No spawning if tainted $CDPATH, $ENV, $BASH_ENV, No
5784 spawning if tainted $TERM doesn't look like a terminal name
5786 =item New Opcode module and revised Safe module
5788 =item Embedding improvements
5790 =item Internal change: FileHandle class based on IO::* classes
5792 =item Internal change: PerlIO abstraction interface
5794 =item New and changed syntax
5798 =item New and changed builtin constants
5802 =item New and changed builtin variables
5806 =item New and changed builtin functions
5808 delete on slices, flock, printf and sprintf, keys as an lvalue, my() in
5809 Control Structures, pack() and unpack(), sysseek(), use VERSION, use Module
5810 VERSION LIST, prototype(FUNCTION), srand, $_ as Default, C<m//gc> does not
5811 reset search position on failure, C<m//x> ignores whitespace before ?*+{},
5812 nested C<sub{}> closures work now, formats work right on changing lexicals
5814 =item New builtin methods
5816 isa(CLASS), can(METHOD), VERSION( [NEED] )
5818 =item TIEHANDLE now supported
5820 TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, PRINT this, LIST, PRINTF this, LIST, READ this
5821 LIST, READLINE this, GETC this, DESTROY this
5823 =item Malloc enhancements
5825 -DPERL_EMERGENCY_SBRK, -DPACK_MALLOC, -DTWO_POT_OPTIMIZE
5827 =item Miscellaneous efficiency enhancements
5831 =item Support for More Operating Systems
5847 use autouse MODULE => qw(sub1 sub2 sub3), use blib, use blib 'dir', use
5848 constant NAME => VALUE, use locale, use ops, use vmsish
5854 =item Required Updates
5856 =item Installation directories
5858 =item Module information summary
5872 =item Object-oriented overrides for builtin operators
5876 =item Utility Changes
5882 Sends converted HTML to standard output
5886 C<void> XSUBs now default to returning nothing
5890 =item C Language API Changes
5892 C<gv_fetchmethod> and C<perl_call_sv>, C<perl_eval_pv>, Extended API for
5895 =item Documentation Changes
5897 L<perldelta>, L<perlfaq>, L<perllocale>, L<perltoot>, L<perlapio>,
5898 L<perlmodlib>, L<perldebug>, L<perlsec>
5900 =item New Diagnostics
5902 "my" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same scope, %s argument is
5903 not a HASH element or slice, Allocation too large: %lx, Allocation too
5904 large, Applying %s to %s will act on scalar(%s), Attempt to free
5905 nonexistent shared string, Attempt to use reference as lvalue in substr,
5906 Bareword "%s" refers to nonexistent package, Can't redefine active sort
5907 subroutine %s, Can't use bareword ("%s") as %s ref while "strict refs" in
5908 use, Cannot resolve method `%s' overloading `%s' in package `%s', Constant
5909 subroutine %s redefined, Constant subroutine %s undefined, Copy method did
5910 not return a reference, Died, Exiting pseudo-block via %s, Identifier too
5911 long, Illegal character %s (carriage return), Illegal switch in PERL5OPT:
5912 %s, Integer overflow in hex number, Integer overflow in octal number,
5913 internal error: glob failed, Invalid conversion in %s: "%s", Invalid type
5914 in pack: '%s', Invalid type in unpack: '%s', Name "%s::%s" used only once:
5915 possible typo, Null picture in formline, Offset outside string, Out of
5916 memory!, Out of memory during request for %s, panic: frexp, Possible
5917 attempt to put comments in qw() list, Possible attempt to separate words
5918 with commas, Scalar value @%s{%s} better written as $%s{%s}, Stub found
5919 while resolving method `%s' overloading `%s' in %s, Too late for "B<-T>"
5920 option, untie attempted while %d inner references still exist, Unrecognized
5921 character %s, Unsupported function fork, Use of "$$<digit>" to mean
5922 "${$}<digit>" is deprecated, Value of %s can be "0"; test with defined(),
5923 Variable "%s" may be unavailable, Variable "%s" will not stay shared,
5924 Warning: something's wrong, Ill-formed logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter,
5925 Got an error from DosAllocMem, Malformed PERLLIB_PREFIX, PERL_SH_DIR too
5926 long, Process terminated by SIG%s
5936 =head2 perlaix, README.aix - Perl version 5 on IBM Unix (AIX) systems
5944 =item Compiling Perl 5 on AIX
5948 =item Building Dynamic Extensions on AIX
5950 =item The IBM ANSI C Compiler
5952 =item Using GNU's gcc for building perl
5954 =item Using Large Files with Perl
5960 =item AIX 4.2 and extensions using C++ with statics
5970 =head2 perlapollo, README.apollo - Perl version 5 on Apollo DomainOS
5980 =head2 perlamiga - Perl under Amiga OS
5994 =item Prerequisites for Compiling Perl on AmigaOS
5996 B<Unix emulation for AmigaOS: ixemul.library>, B<Version of Amiga OS>
5998 =item Starting Perl programs under AmigaOS
6000 =item Shortcomings of Perl under AmigaOS
6006 =item Accessing documentation
6010 =item Manpages for Perl on AmigaOS
6012 =item Perl HTML Documentation on AmigaOS
6014 =item Perl GNU Info Files on AmigaOS
6016 =item Perl LaTeX Documentation on AmigaOS
6020 =item BUILDING PERL ON AMIGAOS
6024 =item Build Prerequisites for Perl on AmigaOS
6026 =item Getting the Perl Source for AmigaOS
6028 =item Making Perl on AmigaOS
6030 =item Testing Perl on AmigaOS
6032 =item Installing the built Perl on AmigaOS
6042 =head2 perlbeos, README.beos - Perl version 5 on BeOS
6050 =item General Issues with Perl on BeOS
6052 =item BeOS Release-specific Notes
6056 =item Contact Information
6062 =head2 perlbs2000, README.BS2000 - building and installing Perl for BS2000.
6072 =item gzip on BS2000
6074 =item bison on BS2000
6076 =item Unpacking Perl Distribution on BS2000
6078 =item Compiling Perl on BS2000
6080 =item Testing Perl on BS2000
6082 =item Installing Perl on BS2000
6084 =item Using Perl in the Posix-Shell of BS2000
6086 =item Using Perl in "native" BS2000
6088 =item Floating point anomalies on BS2000
6122 =item Acknowledgements
6128 =head2 perlcygwin, README.cygwin - Perl for Cygwin
6134 =item PREREQUISITES FOR COMPILING PERL ON CYGWIN
6138 =item Cygwin = GNU+Cygnus+Windows (Don't leave UNIX without it)
6140 =item Cygwin Configuration
6142 C<PATH>, I<nroff>, Permissions
6146 =item CONFIGURE PERL ON CYGWIN
6150 =item Stripping Perl Binaries on Cygwin
6152 =item Optional Libraries for Perl on Cygwin
6154 C<-lcrypt>, C<-lgdbm> (C<use GDBM_File>), C<-ldb> (C<use DB_File>),
6155 C<-lcygipc> (C<use IPC::SysV>)
6157 =item Configure-time Options for Perl on Cygwin
6159 C<-Uusedl>, C<-Uusemymalloc>, C<-Dusemultiplicity>, C<-Duseperlio>,
6160 C<-Duse64bitint>, C<-Duselongdouble>, C<-Dusethreads>, C<-Duselargefiles>
6162 =item Suspicious Warnings on Cygwin
6164 I<dlsym()>, Win9x and C<d_eofnblk>, Compiler/Preprocessor defines
6168 =item MAKE ON CYGWIN
6172 =item Warnings on Cygwin
6178 =item TEST ON CYGWIN
6182 =item File Permissions on Cygwin
6184 =item Hard Links on Cygwin
6186 =item Filetime Granularity on Cygwin
6188 =item Tainting Checks on Cygwin
6190 =item /etc/group on Cygwin
6192 =item Script Portability on Cygwin
6194 Pathnames, Text/Binary, F<.exe>, chown(), Miscellaneous
6198 =item INSTALL PERL ON CYGWIN
6200 =item MANIFEST ON CYGWIN
6202 Documentation, Build, Configure, Make, Install, Tests, Compiled Perl
6203 Source, Compiled Module Source, Perl Modules/Scripts
6205 =item BUGS ON CYGWIN
6213 =head2 perldgux - Perl under DG/UX.
6225 =item BUILDING PERL ON DG/UX
6229 =item Non-threaded Perl on DG/UX
6231 =item Threaded Perl on DG/UX
6233 =item Testing Perl on DG/UX
6235 =item Installing the built perl on DG/UX
6245 =head2 perlepoc, README.epoc - Perl for EPOC
6253 =item INSTALLING PERL ON EPOC
6255 =item STARTING PERL ON EPOC
6257 =item STOPPING PERL ON EPOC
6259 =item USING PERL ON EPOC
6263 =item I/O Redirection on Epoc
6265 =item PATH Names on Epoc
6267 =item Editors on Epoc
6269 =item Features of Perl on Epoc
6271 =item Restrictions of Perl on Epoc
6273 =item Compiling Perl 5 on the EPOC cross compiling environment
6277 =item SUPPORT STATUS OF PERL ON EPOC
6285 =head2 perlhpux, README.hpux - Perl version 5 on Hewlett-Packard Unix
6294 =item Using perl as shipped with HP-UX
6296 =item Compiling Perl 5 on HP-UX
6308 =item Portability Between PA-RISC Versions
6310 =item Itanium Processor Family and HP-UX
6312 =item Building Dynamic Extensions on HP-UX
6314 =item The HP ANSI C Compiler
6316 =item Using Large Files with Perl on HP-UX
6318 =item Threaded Perl on HP-UX
6320 =item 64-bit Perl on HP-UX
6322 =item GDBM and Threads on HP-UX
6324 =item NFS filesystems and utime(2) on HP-UX
6326 =item perl -P and // and HP-UX
6328 =item HP-UX Kernel Parameters (maxdsiz) for Compiling Perl
6332 =item nss_delete core dump from op/pwent or op/grent
6340 =head2 perlhurd, README.hurd - Perl version 5 on Hurd
6348 =item Known Problems with Perl on Hurd
6356 =head2 perlmachten, README.machten - Perl version 5 on Power MachTen
6365 =item Compiling Perl 5 on MachTen
6367 =item Failures during C<make test> on MachTen
6369 op/lexassign.t, pragma/warnings.t
6371 =item Building external modules on MachTen
6381 =head2 perlmacos, README.macos - Perl under Mac OS (Classic)
6395 =head2 perlmint, README.mint - Perl version 5 on Atari MiNT
6401 =item Known problems with Perl on MiNT
6407 =head2 perlmpeix, README.mpeix - Perl/iX for HP e3000 MPE
6415 =item What's New in Perl ffor MPE/iX
6417 =item Welcome to Perl/iX
6419 =item System Requirements for Perl/iX
6421 =item How to Obtain Perl/iX
6423 =item Perl/iX Distribution Contents Highlights
6425 README, INSTALL, LIBSHP3K, PERL, .cpan/, lib/, man/,
6426 public_html/feedback.cgi, src/perl-5.6.0-mpe
6428 =item How to Compile Perl/iX
6432 =item Getting Started with Perl/iX
6434 =item MPE/iX Implementation Considerations
6436 =item Known Perl/iX Bugs Under Investigation
6438 =item Perl/iX To-Do List
6440 =item Perl/iX Change History
6456 Buildtype.bat, SetNWBld.bat, MPKBuild.bat
6468 =item Build new extensions
6472 =item Acknowledgements
6480 =head2 perlos2 - Perl under OS/2, DOS, Win0.3*, Win0.95 and WinNT.
6500 EMX, RSX, HPFS, pdksh
6502 =item Starting Perl programs under OS/2 (and DOS and...)
6504 =item Starting OS/2 (and DOS) programs under Perl
6508 =item Frequently asked questions
6512 =item "It does not work"
6514 =item I cannot run external programs
6516 =item I cannot embed perl into my program, or use F<perl.dll> from my
6519 Is your program EMX-compiled with C<-Zmt -Zcrtdll>?, Did you use
6522 =item C<``> and pipe-C<open> do not work under DOS.
6524 =item Cannot start C<find.exe "pattern" file>
6532 =item Automatic binary installation
6534 C<PERL_BADLANG>, C<PERL_BADFREE>, F<Config.pm>
6536 =item Manual binary installation
6538 Perl VIO and PM executables (dynamically linked), Perl_ VIO executable
6539 (statically linked), Executables for Perl utilities, Main Perl library,
6540 Additional Perl modules, Tools to compile Perl modules, Manpages for Perl
6541 and utilities, Manpages for Perl modules, Source for Perl documentation,
6542 Perl manual in F<.INF> format, Pdksh
6548 =item Accessing documentation
6552 =item OS/2 F<.INF> file
6560 =item GNU C<info> files
6572 =item The short story
6576 =item Getting perl source
6578 =item Application of the patches
6586 A lot of C<bad free>, Process terminated by SIGTERM/SIGINT, F<op/fs.t>,
6589 =item Installing the built perl
6591 =item C<a.out>-style build
6599 =item Some C</> became C<\> in pdksh.
6601 =item C<'errno'> - unresolved external
6603 =item Problems with tr or sed
6605 =item Some problem (forget which ;-)
6607 =item Library ... not found
6609 =item Segfault in make
6611 =item op/sprintf test failure
6615 =item Specific (mis)features of OS/2 port
6619 =item C<setpriority>, C<getpriority>
6623 =item C<extproc> on the first line
6625 =item Additional modules:
6627 =item Prebuilt methods:
6629 C<File::Copy::syscopy>, C<DynaLoader::mod2fname>, C<Cwd::current_drive()>,
6630 C<Cwd::sys_chdir(name)>, C<Cwd::change_drive(name)>,
6631 C<Cwd::sys_is_absolute(name)>, C<Cwd::sys_is_rooted(name)>,
6632 C<Cwd::sys_is_relative(name)>, C<Cwd::sys_cwd(name)>,
6633 C<Cwd::sys_abspath(name, dir)>, C<Cwd::extLibpath([type])>,
6634 C<Cwd::extLibpath_set( path [, type ] )>,
6635 C<OS2::Error(do_harderror,do_exception)>, C<OS2::Errors2Drive(drive)>,
6636 OS2::SysInfo(), OS2::BootDrive(), C<OS2::MorphPM(serve)>,
6637 C<OS2::UnMorphPM(serve)>, C<OS2::Serve_Messages(force)>,
6638 C<OS2::Process_Messages(force [, cnt])>, C<OS2::_control87(new,mask)>,
6639 OS2::get_control87(), C<OS2::set_control87_em(new=MCW_EM,mask=MCW_EM)>
6641 =item Prebuilt variables:
6643 $OS2::emx_rev, $OS2::emx_env, $OS2::os_ver
6649 C<popen>, C<tmpnam>, C<tmpfile>, C<ctermid>, C<stat>, C<mkdir>, C<rmdir>,
6652 =item Identifying DLLs
6654 =item Centralized management of resources
6670 =item F<perl___.exe>
6672 =item Why strange names?
6674 =item Why dynamic linking?
6676 =item Why chimera build?
6684 =item C<PERLLIB_PREFIX>
6686 =item C<PERL_BADLANG>
6688 =item C<PERL_BADFREE>
6690 =item C<PERL_SH_DIR>
6692 =item C<USE_PERL_FLOCK>
6694 =item C<TMP> or C<TEMP>
6704 =item DLL name mangling: pre 5.6.2
6706 =item DLL name mangling: 5.6.2 and beyond
6708 Global DLLs, specific DLLs, C<BEGINLIBPATH> and C<ENDLIBPATH>, F<.> from
6711 =item DLL forwarder generation
6715 =item Calls to external programs
6717 =item Memory allocation
6721 C<COND_WAIT>, F<os2.c>
6737 =head2 perlos390, README.os390 - building and installing Perl for OS/390.
6747 =item Unpacking Perl distribution on OS/390
6749 =item Setup and utilities for Perl on OS/390
6751 =item Configure Perl on OS/390
6753 =item Build, Test, Install Perl on OS/390
6755 =item Build Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
6757 =item Testing Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
6759 =item Installation Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
6761 =item Usage Hints for Perl on OS/390
6763 =item Floating Point Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
6765 =item Modules and Extensions for Perl on OS/390
6775 =item Mailing list for Perl on OS/390
6783 =head2 perlqnx, README.qnx - Perl version 5 on QNX
6791 =item Required Software for Compiling Perl on QNX4
6793 /bin/sh, ar, nm, cpp, make
6795 =item Outstanding Issues with Perl on QNX4
6797 =item QNX auxiliary files
6801 =item Outstanding issues with perl under QNX6
6809 =head2 perlplan9 - Plan 9-specific documentation for Perl
6819 =item What's in Plan 9 Perl
6821 =item What's not in Plan 9 Perl
6823 =item Perl5 Functions not currently supported in Plan 9 Perl
6825 =item Signals in Plan 9 Perl
6829 =item COMPILING AND INSTALLING PERL ON PLAN 9
6833 =item Installing Perl Documentation on Plan 9
6845 =head2 perlsolaris, README.solaris - Perl version 5 on Solaris systems
6853 =item Solaris Version Numbers.
6859 Solaris FAQ, Precompiled Binaries, Solaris Documentation
6865 =item File Extraction Problems on Solaris.
6867 =item Compiler and Related Tools on Solaris.
6869 =item Environment for Compiling Perl on Solaris
6873 =item RUN CONFIGURE.
6877 =item 64-bit Issues with Perl on Solaris.
6879 =item Threads in Perl on Solaris.
6881 =item Malloc Issues with Perl on Solaris.
6885 =item MAKE PROBLEMS.
6887 Dynamic Loading Problems With GNU as and GNU ld, ld.so.1: ./perl: fatal:
6888 relocation error:, dlopen: stub interception failed, #error "No
6889 DATAMODEL_NATIVE specified", sh: ar: not found
6895 =item op/stat.t test 4 in Solaris
6897 =item nss_delete core dump from op/pwent or op/grent
6901 =item PREBUILT BINARIES OF PERL FOR SOLARIS.
6903 =item RUNTIME ISSUES FOR PERL ON SOLARIS.
6907 =item Limits on Numbers of Open Files on Solaris.
6911 =item SOLARIS-SPECIFIC MODULES.
6913 =item SOLARIS-SPECIFIC PROBLEMS WITH MODULES.
6917 =item Proc::ProcessTable on Solaris
6919 =item BSD::Resource on Solaris
6921 =item Net::SSLeay on Solaris
6931 =head2 perltru64, README.tru64 - Perl version 5 on Tru64 (formerly known as
6932 Digital UNIX formerly known as DEC OSF/1) systems
6940 =item Compiling Perl 5 on Tru64
6942 =item Using Large Files with Perl on Tru64
6944 =item Threaded Perl on Tru64
6946 =item Long Doubles on Tru64
6948 =item 64-bit Perl on Tru64
6950 =item Warnings about floating-point overflow when compiling Perl on Tru64
6954 =item Testing Perl on Tru64
6960 =head2 perluts - Perl under UTS
6968 =item BUILDING PERL ON UTS
6970 =item Installing the built perl on UTS
6976 =head2 perlvmesa, README.vmesa - building and installing Perl for VM/ESA.
6986 =item Unpacking Perl Distribution on VM/ESA
6988 =item Setup Perl and utilities on VM/ESA
6990 =item Configure Perl on VM/ESA
6992 =item Testing Anomalies of Perl on VM/ESA
6994 =item Usage Hints for Perl on VM/ESA
7004 =item Mailing list for Perl on VM/ESA
7010 =head2 perlvms - VMS-specific documentation for Perl
7018 =item Organization of Perl Images
7024 =item Perl Extensions
7026 =item Installing static extensions
7028 =item Installing dynamic extensions
7032 =item File specifications
7038 =item Wildcard expansion
7044 =item PERL5LIB and PERLLIB
7050 =item I/O redirection and backgrounding
7052 =item Command line switches
7058 =item Perl functions
7060 File tests, backticks, binmode FILEHANDLE, crypt PLAINTEXT, USER, dump,
7061 exec LIST, fork, getpwent, getpwnam, getpwuid, gmtime, kill, qx//, select
7062 (system call), stat EXPR, system LIST, time, times, unlink LIST, utime
7063 LIST, waitpid PID,FLAGS
7065 =item Perl variables
7067 %ENV, CRTL_ENV, CLISYM_[LOCAL], Any other string, $!, $^E, $?, $|
7069 =item Standard modules with VMS-specific differences
7083 =head2 perlvos, README.vos - Perl for Stratus VOS
7091 =item Stratus POSIX Support
7095 =item INSTALLING PERL IN VOS
7099 =item Compiling Perl 5 on VOS
7101 =item Installing Perl 5 on VOS
7105 =item USING PERL IN VOS
7109 =item Unimplemented Features of Perl on VOS
7111 =item Restrictions of Perl on VOS
7115 =item SUPPORT STATUS
7123 =head1 PRAGMA DOCUMENTATION
7125 =head2 attrs - set/get attributes of a subroutine (deprecated)
7137 =head2 re - Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour
7147 =head2 threads - Perl extension allowing use of interpreter based threads
7156 new, function, LIST, $threads->join, $threads->detach, threads->self,
7161 Fix so the return value is returned when you join, Add join_all, Fix memory
7164 =item AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT
7168 creating a thread from within a thread is unsafe under win32,
7169 PERL_OLD_SIGNALS are not threadsafe, will not be
7175 =head2 attributes - get/set subroutine or variable attributes
7185 =item Built-in Attributes
7187 locked, method, lvalue
7189 =item Available Subroutines
7193 =item Package-specific Attribute Handling
7195 FETCH_I<type>_ATTRIBUTES, MODIFY_I<type>_ATTRIBUTES
7197 =item Syntax of Attribute Lists
7205 =item Default exports
7207 =item Available exports
7209 =item Export tags defined
7219 =head2 attrs - set/get attributes of a subroutine (deprecated)
7231 =head2 autouse - postpone load of modules until a function is used
7247 =head2 base - Establish IS-A relationship with base class at compile time
7261 =head2 blib - Use MakeMaker's uninstalled version of a package
7275 =head2 bytes - Perl pragma to force byte semantics rather than character
7288 =head2 charnames - define character names for C<\N{named}> string literal
7297 =item CUSTOM TRANSLATORS
7303 =head2 constant - Perl pragma to declare constants
7315 =item List constants
7317 =item Defining multiple constants at once
7319 =item Magic constants
7323 =item TECHNICAL NOTES
7333 =head2 diagnostics - Perl compiler pragma to force verbose warning
7344 =item The C<diagnostics> Pragma
7346 =item The I<splain> Program
7360 =head2 fields - compile-time class fields
7374 =head2 filetest - Perl pragma to control the filetest permission operators
7384 =item subpragma access
7390 =head2 integer - Perl pragma to use integer arithmetic instead of floating
7401 =head2 less - perl pragma to request less of something from the compiler
7411 =head2 lib - manipulate @INC at compile time
7421 =item Adding directories to @INC
7423 =item Deleting directories from @INC
7425 =item Restoring original @INC
7435 =head2 locale - Perl pragma to use and avoid POSIX locales for built-in
7446 =head2 open - perl pragma to set default disciplines for input and output
7454 =item NONPERLIO FUNCTIONALITY
7456 =item IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS
7462 =head2 ops - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when compiling
7474 =head2 overload - Package for overloading perl operations
7484 =item Declaration of overloaded functions
7486 =item Calling Conventions for Binary Operations
7488 FALSE, TRUE, C<undef>
7490 =item Calling Conventions for Unary Operations
7492 =item Calling Conventions for Mutators
7494 C<++> and C<-->, C<x=> and other assignment versions
7496 =item Overloadable Operations
7498 I<Arithmetic operations>, I<Comparison operations>, I<Bit operations>,
7499 I<Increment and decrement>, I<Transcendental functions>, I<Boolean, string
7500 and numeric conversion>, I<Iteration>, I<Dereferencing>, I<Special>
7502 =item Inheritance and overloading
7504 Strings as values of C<use overload> directive, Overloading of an operation
7505 is inherited by derived classes
7509 =item SPECIAL SYMBOLS FOR C<use overload>
7517 C<undef>, TRUE, defined, but FALSE
7519 =item Copy Constructor
7525 =item MAGIC AUTOGENERATION
7527 I<Assignment forms of arithmetic operations>, I<Conversion operations>,
7528 I<Increment and decrement>, C<abs($a)>, I<Unary minus>, I<Negation>,
7529 I<Concatenation>, I<Comparison operations>, I<Iterator>, I<Dereferencing>,
7532 =item Losing overloading
7534 =item Run-time Overloading
7536 =item Public functions
7538 overload::StrVal(arg), overload::Overloaded(arg), overload::Method(obj,op)
7540 =item Overloading constants
7542 integer, float, binary, q, qr
7544 =item IMPLEMENTATION
7546 =item Metaphor clash
7552 =item Two-face scalars
7554 =item Two-face references
7556 =item Symbolic calculator
7558 =item I<Really> symbolic calculator
7566 Odd number of arguments for overload::constant, `%s' is not an overloadable
7567 type, `%s' is not a code reference
7573 =head2 re - Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour
7583 =head2 sigtrap - Perl pragma to enable simple signal handling
7595 =item SIGNAL HANDLERS
7597 B<stack-trace>, B<die>, B<handler> I<your-handler>
7601 B<normal-signals>, B<error-signals>, B<old-interface-signals>
7605 B<untrapped>, B<any>, I<signal>, I<number>
7613 =head2 strict - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe constructs
7621 C<strict refs>, C<strict vars>, C<strict subs>
7625 =head2 subs - Perl pragma to predeclare sub names
7635 =head2 threads - Perl extension allowing use of interpreter based threads
7644 new, function, LIST, $threads->join, $threads->detach, threads->self,
7649 Fix so the return value is returned when you join, Add join_all, Fix memory
7652 =item AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT
7656 creating a thread from within a thread is unsafe under win32,
7657 PERL_OLD_SIGNALS are not threadsafe, will not be
7663 =head2 utf8 - Perl pragma to enable/disable UTF-8 (or UTF-EBCDIC) in source
7674 =item Utility functions
7676 $num_octets = utf8::upgrade($string);, utf8::downgrade($string[, CHECK]),
7677 utf8::encode($string), $flag = utf8::decode($string)
7685 =head2 vars - Perl pragma to predeclare global variable names (obsolete)
7695 =head2 warnings - Perl pragma to control optional warnings
7703 use warnings::register, warnings::enabled(), warnings::enabled($category),
7704 warnings::enabled($object), warnings::warn($message),
7705 warnings::warn($category, $message), warnings::warn($object, $message),
7706 warnings::warnif($message), warnings::warnif($category, $message),
7707 warnings::warnif($object, $message)
7711 =head2 warnings::register - warnings import function
7721 =head1 MODULE DOCUMENTATION
7723 =head2 AnyDBM_File - provide framework for multiple DBMs
7733 =item DBM Comparisons
7743 =head2 Attribute::Handlers - Simpler definition of attribute handlers
7753 [0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]
7757 =item Typed lexicals
7759 =item Type-specific attribute handlers
7761 =item Non-interpretive attribute handlers
7763 =item Phase-specific attribute handlers
7765 =item Attributes as C<tie> interfaces
7773 C<Bad attribute type: ATTR(%s)>, C<Attribute handler %s doesn't handle %s
7774 attributes>, C<Declaration of %s attribute in package %s may clash with
7775 future reserved word>, C<Can't have two ATTR specifiers on one subroutine>,
7776 C<Can't autotie a %s>, C<Internal error: %s symbol went missing>
7786 =head2 AutoLoader - load subroutines only on demand
7796 =item Subroutine Stubs
7798 =item Using B<AutoLoader>'s AUTOLOAD Subroutine
7800 =item Overriding B<AutoLoader>'s AUTOLOAD Subroutine
7802 =item Package Lexicals
7804 =item Not Using AutoLoader
7806 =item B<AutoLoader> vs. B<SelfLoader>
7816 =head2 AutoSplit - split a package for autoloading
7824 $keep, $check, $modtime
7828 =item Multiple packages
7836 =head2 B - The Perl Compiler
7844 =item OVERVIEW OF CLASSES
7848 =item SV-RELATED CLASSES
7856 IV, IVX, UVX, int_value, needs64bits, packiv
7870 =item B::PVMG METHODS
7874 =item B::MAGIC METHODS
7876 MOREMAGIC, PRIVATE, TYPE, FLAGS, OBJ, PTR
7878 =item B::PVLV METHODS
7880 TARGOFF, TARGLEN, TYPE, TARG
7884 USEFUL, PREVIOUS, RARE, TABLE
7888 is_empty, NAME, SAFENAME, STASH, SV, IO, FORM, AV, HV, EGV, CV, CVGEN,
7889 LINE, FILE, FILEGV, GvREFCNT, FLAGS
7893 LINES, PAGE, PAGE_LEN, LINES_LEFT, TOP_NAME, TOP_GV, FMT_NAME, FMT_GV,
7894 BOTTOM_NAME, BOTTOM_GV, SUBPROCESS, IoTYPE, IoFLAGS
7898 FILL, MAX, OFF, ARRAY, AvFLAGS
7902 STASH, START, ROOT, GV, FILE, DEPTH, PADLIST, OUTSIDE, XSUB, XSUBANY,
7907 FILL, MAX, KEYS, RITER, NAME, PMROOT, ARRAY
7909 =item OP-RELATED CLASSES
7913 next, sibling, name, ppaddr, desc, targ, type, seq, flags, private
7915 =item B::UNOP METHOD
7919 =item B::BINOP METHOD
7923 =item B::LOGOP METHOD
7927 =item B::LISTOP METHOD
7931 =item B::PMOP METHODS
7933 pmreplroot, pmreplstart, pmnext, pmregexp, pmflags, pmpermflags, precomp
7935 =item B::SVOP METHOD
7939 =item B::PADOP METHOD
7943 =item B::PVOP METHOD
7947 =item B::LOOP METHODS
7949 redoop, nextop, lastop
7951 =item B::COP METHODS
7953 label, stash, file, cop_seq, arybase, line
7957 =item FUNCTIONS EXPORTED BY C<B>
7959 main_cv, init_av, main_root, main_start, comppadlist, sv_undef, sv_yes,
7960 sv_no, amagic_generation, walkoptree(OP, METHOD), walkoptree_debug(DEBUG),
7961 walksymtable(SYMREF, METHOD, RECURSE, PREFIX), svref_2object(SV),
7962 ppname(OPNUM), hash(STR), cast_I32(I), minus_c, cstring(STR), class(OBJ),
7969 =head2 B::Asmdata - Autogenerated data about Perl ops, used to generate
7982 =head2 B::Assembler - Assemble Perl bytecode
7994 =head2 B::Bblock - Walk basic blocks
8006 =head2 B::Bytecode - Perl compiler's bytecode backend
8016 B<-ofilename>, B<-afilename>, B<-->, B<-f>, B<-fcompress-nullops>,
8017 B<-fomit-sequence-numbers>, B<-fbypass-nullops>, B<-On>, B<-D>, B<-Do>,
8018 B<-Db>, B<-Da>, B<-DC>, B<-S>, B<-upackage>
8028 =head2 B::C - Perl compiler's C backend
8038 B<-ofilename>, B<-v>, B<-->, B<-uPackname>, B<-D>, B<-Do>, B<-Dc>, B<-DA>,
8039 B<-DC>, B<-DM>, B<-f>, B<-fcog>, B<-fno-cog>, B<-On>, B<-llimit>
8049 =head2 B::CC - Perl compiler's optimized C translation backend
8059 B<-ofilename>, B<-v>, B<-->, B<-uPackname>, B<-mModulename>, B<-D>, B<-Dr>,
8060 B<-DO>, B<-Ds>, B<-Dp>, B<-Dq>, B<-Dl>, B<-Dt>, B<-f>,
8061 B<-ffreetmps-each-bblock>, B<-ffreetmps-each-loop>, B<-fomit-taint>, B<-On>
8073 =item Context of ".."
8077 =item Deprecated features
8085 =head2 B::Concise - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing concise info about ops
8095 B<-basic>, B<-exec>, B<-tree>, B<-compact>, B<-loose>, B<-vt>, B<-ascii>,
8096 B<-main>, B<-base>I<n>, B<-bigendian>, B<-littleendian>, B<-concise>,
8097 B<-terse>, B<-linenoise>, B<-debug>, B<-env>
8099 =item FORMATTING SPECIFICATIONS
8101 B<(x(>I<exec_text>B<;>I<basic_text>B<)x)>, B<(*(>I<text>B<)*)>,
8102 B<(*(>I<text1>B<;>I<text2>B<)*)>, B<(?(>I<text1>B<#>I<var>I<Text2>B<)?)>,
8103 B<#>I<var>, B<#>I<var>I<N>, B<~>, B<#addr>, B<#arg>, B<#class>,
8104 B<#classym>, B<#coplabel>, B<#exname>, B<#extarg>, B<#firstaddr>,
8105 B<#flags>, B<#flagval>, B<#hyphenseq>, B<#label>, B<#lastaddr>, B<#name>,
8106 B<#NAME>, B<#next>, B<#nextaddr>, B<#noise>, B<#private>, B<#privval>,
8107 B<#seq>, B<#seqnum>, B<#sibaddr>, B<#svaddr>, B<#svclass>, B<#svval>,
8108 B<#targ>, B<#targarg>, B<#targarglife>, B<#typenum>
8114 =item OP flags abbreviations
8116 =item OP class abbreviations
8120 =item Using B::Concise outside of the O framework
8126 =head2 B::Debug - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing debug info about ops
8138 =head2 B::Deparse - Perl compiler backend to produce perl code
8148 B<-l>, B<-p>, B<-q>, B<-f>I<FILE>, B<-s>I<LETTERS>, B<C>, B<i>I<NUMBER>,
8149 B<T>, B<v>I<STRING>B<.>, B<-x>I<LEVEL>
8151 =item USING B::Deparse AS A MODULE
8161 =item ambient_pragmas
8163 strict, $[, bytes, utf8, integer, re, warnings, hint_bits, warning_bits
8175 =head2 B::Disassembler - Disassemble Perl bytecode
8187 =head2 B::Lint - Perl lint
8195 =item OPTIONS AND LINT CHECKS
8197 B<context>, B<implicit-read> and B<implicit-write>, B<dollar-underscore>,
8198 B<private-names>, B<undefined-subs>, B<regexp-variables>, B<all>, B<none>
8200 =item NON LINT-CHECK OPTIONS
8210 =head2 B::O, O - Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends
8220 =item IMPLEMENTATION
8226 =head2 B::Showlex - Show lexical variables used in functions or files
8238 =head2 B::Stackobj - Helper module for CC backend
8250 =head2 B::Stash - show what stashes are loaded
8252 =head2 B::Terse - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing terse info about ops
8264 =head2 B::Xref - Generates cross reference reports for Perl programs
8274 C<-oFILENAME>, C<-r>, C<-D[tO]>
8282 =head2 Bblock, B::Bblock - Walk basic blocks
8294 =head2 Benchmark - benchmark running times of Perl code
8308 =item Standard Exports
8310 timeit(COUNT, CODE), timethis ( COUNT, CODE, [ TITLE, [ STYLE ]] ),
8311 timethese ( COUNT, CODEHASHREF, [ STYLE ] ), timediff ( T1, T2 ), timestr (
8312 TIMEDIFF, [ STYLE, [ FORMAT ] ] )
8314 =item Optional Exports
8316 clearcache ( COUNT ), clearallcache ( ), cmpthese ( COUT, CODEHASHREF, [
8317 STYLE ] ), cmpthese ( RESULTSHASHREF ), countit(TIME, CODE), disablecache (
8318 ), enablecache ( ), timesum ( T1, T2 )
8334 =item MODIFICATION HISTORY
8338 =head2 ByteLoader - load byte compiled perl code
8352 =head2 Bytecode, B::Bytecode - Perl compiler's bytecode backend
8362 B<-ofilename>, B<-afilename>, B<-->, B<-f>, B<-fcompress-nullops>,
8363 B<-fomit-sequence-numbers>, B<-fbypass-nullops>, B<-On>, B<-D>, B<-Do>,
8364 B<-Db>, B<-Da>, B<-DC>, B<-S>, B<-upackage>
8374 =head2 CGI - Simple Common Gateway Interface Class
8386 =item PROGRAMMING STYLE
8388 =item CALLING CGI.PM ROUTINES
8390 =item CREATING A NEW QUERY OBJECT (OBJECT-ORIENTED STYLE):
8392 =item CREATING A NEW QUERY OBJECT FROM AN INPUT FILE
8394 =item FETCHING A LIST OF KEYWORDS FROM THE QUERY:
8396 =item FETCHING THE NAMES OF ALL THE PARAMETERS PASSED TO YOUR SCRIPT:
8398 =item FETCHING THE VALUE OR VALUES OF A SINGLE NAMED PARAMETER:
8400 =item SETTING THE VALUE(S) OF A NAMED PARAMETER:
8402 =item APPENDING ADDITIONAL VALUES TO A NAMED PARAMETER:
8404 =item IMPORTING ALL PARAMETERS INTO A NAMESPACE:
8406 =item DELETING A PARAMETER COMPLETELY:
8408 =item DELETING ALL PARAMETERS:
8410 =item DIRECT ACCESS TO THE PARAMETER LIST:
8412 =item FETCHING THE PARAMETER LIST AS A HASH:
8414 =item SAVING THE STATE OF THE SCRIPT TO A FILE:
8416 =item RETRIEVING CGI ERRORS
8418 =item USING THE FUNCTION-ORIENTED INTERFACE
8420 B<:cgi>, B<:form>, B<:html2>, B<:html3>, B<:netscape>, B<:html>,
8421 B<:standard>, B<:all>
8425 -any, -compile, -nosticky, -no_undef_params, -no_xhtml, -nph,
8426 -newstyle_urls, -oldstyle_urls, -autoload, -no_debug, -debug,
8429 =item SPECIAL FORMS FOR IMPORTING HTML-TAG FUNCTIONS
8431 1. start_table() (generates a <TABLE> tag), 2. end_table() (generates a
8432 </TABLE> tag), 3. start_ul() (generates a <UL> tag), 4. end_ul() (generates
8437 =item GENERATING DYNAMIC DOCUMENTS
8441 =item CREATING A STANDARD HTTP HEADER:
8443 =item GENERATING A REDIRECTION HEADER
8445 =item CREATING THE HTML DOCUMENT HEADER
8447 B<Parameters:>, 4, 5, 6..
8449 =item ENDING THE HTML DOCUMENT:
8451 =item CREATING A SELF-REFERENCING URL THAT PRESERVES STATE INFORMATION:
8453 =item OBTAINING THE SCRIPT'S URL
8455 B<-absolute>, B<-relative>, B<-full>, B<-path> (B<-path_info>), B<-query>
8456 (B<-query_string>), B<-base>
8458 =item MIXING POST AND URL PARAMETERS
8462 =item CREATING STANDARD HTML ELEMENTS:
8466 =item PROVIDING ARGUMENTS TO HTML SHORTCUTS
8468 =item THE DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY OF HTML SHORTCUTS
8470 =item HTML SHORTCUTS AND LIST INTERPOLATION
8472 =item NON-STANDARD HTML SHORTCUTS
8474 =item AUTOESCAPING HTML
8476 $escaped_string = escapeHTML("unescaped string");, $charset =
8477 charset([$charset]);, $flag = autoEscape([$flag]);
8479 =item PRETTY-PRINTING HTML
8483 =item CREATING FILL-OUT FORMS:
8487 =item CREATING AN ISINDEX TAG
8489 =item STARTING AND ENDING A FORM
8491 B<application/x-www-form-urlencoded>, B<multipart/form-data>
8493 =item CREATING A TEXT FIELD
8497 =item CREATING A BIG TEXT FIELD
8499 =item CREATING A PASSWORD FIELD
8501 =item CREATING A FILE UPLOAD FIELD
8505 =item CREATING A POPUP MENU
8507 =item CREATING A SCROLLING LIST
8511 =item CREATING A GROUP OF RELATED CHECKBOXES
8515 =item CREATING A STANDALONE CHECKBOX
8519 =item CREATING A RADIO BUTTON GROUP
8523 =item CREATING A SUBMIT BUTTON
8527 =item CREATING A RESET BUTTON
8529 =item CREATING A DEFAULT BUTTON
8531 =item CREATING A HIDDEN FIELD
8535 =item CREATING A CLICKABLE IMAGE BUTTON
8539 =item CREATING A JAVASCRIPT ACTION BUTTON
8545 1. an expiration time, 2. a domain, 3. a path, 4. a "secure" flag,
8546 B<-name>, B<-value>, B<-path>, B<-domain>, B<-expires>, B<-secure>
8548 =item WORKING WITH FRAMES
8550 1. Create a <Frameset> document, 2. Specify the destination for the
8551 document in the HTTP header, 3. Specify the destination for the document in
8554 =item LIMITED SUPPORT FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS
8560 =item DUMPING OUT ALL THE NAME/VALUE PAIRS
8564 =item FETCHING ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
8566 B<Accept()>, B<raw_cookie()>, B<user_agent()>, B<path_info()>,
8567 B<path_translated()>, B<remote_host()>, B<script_name()>, B<referer()>,
8568 B<auth_type ()>, B<server_name ()>, B<virtual_host ()>, B<server_port ()>,
8569 B<server_software ()>, B<remote_user ()>, B<user_name ()>,
8570 B<request_method()>, B<content_type()>, B<http()>, B<https()>
8572 =item USING NPH SCRIPTS
8574 In the B<use> statement, By calling the B<nph()> method:, By using B<-nph>
8579 multipart_init(), multipart_start(), multipart_end(), multipart_final()
8581 =item Avoiding Denial of Service Attacks
8583 B<$CGI::POST_MAX>, B<$CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS>, B<1. On a script-by-script
8584 basis>, B<2. Globally for all scripts>
8586 =item COMPATIBILITY WITH CGI-LIB.PL
8588 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
8592 Matt Heffron (heffron@falstaff.css.beckman.com), James Taylor
8593 (james.taylor@srs.gov), Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com>, Mike Jewell
8594 (mlj3u@virginia.edu), Timothy Shimmin (tes@kbs.citri.edu.au), Joergen Haegg
8595 (jh@axis.se), Laurent Delfosse (delfosse@delfosse.com), Richard Resnick
8596 (applepi1@aol.com), Craig Bishop (csb@barwonwater.vic.gov.au), Tony Curtis
8597 (tc@vcpc.univie.ac.at), Tim Bunce (Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk), Tom Christiansen
8598 (tchrist@convex.com), Andreas Koenig (k@franz.ww.TU-Berlin.DE), Tim
8599 MacKenzie (Tim.MacKenzie@fulcrum.com.au), Kevin B. Hendricks
8600 (kbhend@dogwood.tyler.wm.edu), Stephen Dahmen (joyfire@inxpress.net), Ed
8601 Jordan (ed@fidalgo.net), David Alan Pisoni (david@cnation.com), Doug
8602 MacEachern (dougm@opengroup.org), Robin Houston (robin@oneworld.org),
8603 ...and many many more..
8605 =item A COMPLETE EXAMPLE OF A SIMPLE FORM-BASED SCRIPT
8613 =head2 CGI::Apache - Backward compatibility module for CGI.pm
8623 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
8631 =head2 CGI::Carp, B<CGI::Carp> - CGI routines for writing to the HTTPD (or
8640 =item REDIRECTING ERROR MESSAGES
8642 =item MAKING PERL ERRORS APPEAR IN THE BROWSER WINDOW
8646 =item Changing the default message
8650 =item MAKING WARNINGS APPEAR AS HTML COMMENTS
8660 =head2 CGI::Cookie - Interface to Netscape Cookies
8668 =item USING CGI::Cookie
8670 B<1. expiration date>, B<2. domain>, B<3. path>, B<4. secure flag>
8674 =item Creating New Cookies
8676 =item Sending the Cookie to the Browser
8678 =item Recovering Previous Cookies
8680 =item Manipulating Cookies
8682 B<name()>, B<value()>, B<domain()>, B<path()>, B<expires()>
8686 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
8694 =head2 CGI::Fast - CGI Interface for Fast CGI
8702 =item OTHER PIECES OF THE PUZZLE
8704 =item WRITING FASTCGI PERL SCRIPTS
8706 =item INSTALLING FASTCGI SCRIPTS
8708 =item USING FASTCGI SCRIPTS AS CGI SCRIPTS
8710 =item EXTERNAL FASTCGI SERVER INVOCATION
8712 FCGI_SOCKET_PATH, FCGI_LISTEN_QUEUE
8716 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
8724 =head2 CGI::Pretty - module to produce nicely formatted HTML code
8734 =item Tags that won't be formatted
8736 =item Customizing the Indenting
8748 =head2 CGI::Push - Simple Interface to Server Push
8756 =item USING CGI::Push
8758 -next_page, -last_page, -type, -delay, -cookie, -target, -expires, -nph
8762 =item Heterogeneous Pages
8764 =item Changing the Page Delay on the Fly
8768 =item INSTALLING CGI::Push SCRIPTS
8770 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
8778 =head2 CGI::Switch - Backward compatibility module for defunct CGI::Switch
8788 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
8796 =head2 CGI::Util - Internal utilities used by CGI module
8804 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
8810 =head2 CPAN - query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites
8820 =item Interactive Mode
8822 Searching for authors, bundles, distribution files and modules, make, test,
8823 install, clean modules or distributions, get, readme, look module or
8824 distribution, ls author, Signals
8832 =item The four C<CPAN::*> Classes: Author, Bundle, Module, Distribution
8834 =item Programmer's interface
8836 expand($type,@things), expandany(@things), Programming Examples
8838 =item Methods in the other Classes
8840 CPAN::Author::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Author::as_string(),
8841 CPAN::Author::email(), CPAN::Author::fullname(), CPAN::Author::name(),
8842 CPAN::Bundle::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Bundle::as_string(),
8843 CPAN::Bundle::clean(), CPAN::Bundle::contains(),
8844 CPAN::Bundle::force($method,@args), CPAN::Bundle::get(),
8845 CPAN::Bundle::inst_file(), CPAN::Bundle::inst_version(),
8846 CPAN::Bundle::uptodate(), CPAN::Bundle::install(), CPAN::Bundle::make(),
8847 CPAN::Bundle::readme(), CPAN::Bundle::test(),
8848 CPAN::Distribution::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Distribution::as_string(),
8849 CPAN::Distribution::clean(), CPAN::Distribution::containsmods(),
8850 CPAN::Distribution::cvs_import(), CPAN::Distribution::dir(),
8851 CPAN::Distribution::force($method,@args), CPAN::Distribution::get(),
8852 CPAN::Distribution::install(), CPAN::Distribution::isa_perl(),
8853 CPAN::Distribution::look(), CPAN::Distribution::make(),
8854 CPAN::Distribution::prereq_pm(), CPAN::Distribution::readme(),
8855 CPAN::Distribution::test(), CPAN::Distribution::uptodate(),
8856 CPAN::Index::force_reload(), CPAN::Index::reload(), CPAN::InfoObj::dump(),
8857 CPAN::Module::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Module::as_string(),
8858 CPAN::Module::clean(), CPAN::Module::cpan_file(),
8859 CPAN::Module::cpan_version(), CPAN::Module::cvs_import(),
8860 CPAN::Module::description(), CPAN::Module::force($method,@args),
8861 CPAN::Module::get(), CPAN::Module::inst_file(),
8862 CPAN::Module::inst_version(), CPAN::Module::install(),
8863 CPAN::Module::look(), CPAN::Module::make(),
8864 CPAN::Module::manpage_headline(), CPAN::Module::readme(),
8865 CPAN::Module::test(), CPAN::Module::uptodate(), CPAN::Module::userid()
8873 =item Finding packages and VERSION
8877 =item Floppy, Zip, Offline Mode
8883 C<o conf E<lt>scalar optionE<gt>>, C<o conf E<lt>scalar optionE<gt>
8884 E<lt>valueE<gt>>, C<o conf E<lt>list optionE<gt>>, C<o conf E<lt>list
8885 optionE<gt> [shift|pop]>, C<o conf E<lt>list optionE<gt>
8886 [unshift|push|splice] E<lt>listE<gt>>
8890 =item Note on urllist parameter's format
8892 =item urllist parameter has CD-ROM support
8900 =item POPULATE AN INSTALLATION WITH LOTS OF MODULES
8902 =item WORKING WITH CPAN.pm BEHIND FIREWALLS
8906 =item Three basic types of firewalls
8908 http firewall, ftp firewall, One way visibility, SOCKS, IP Masquerade
8910 =item Configuring lynx or ncftp for going through a firewall
8916 1), 2), 3), 4), 5), 6), 7), 8), 9), 10)
8928 =head2 CPAN::FirstTime - Utility for CPAN::Config file Initialization
8938 =head2 CPANox, CPAN::Nox - Wrapper around CPAN.pm without using any XS
8951 =head2 Carp, carp - warn of errors (from perspective of caller)
8961 =item Forcing a Stack Trace
8969 =head2 Carp::Heavy, Carp heavy machinery - no user serviceable parts inside
8971 =head2 Class::ISA -- report the search path for a class's ISA tree
8981 the function Class::ISA::super_path($CLASS), the function
8982 Class::ISA::self_and_super_path($CLASS), the function
8983 Class::ISA::self_and_super_versions($CLASS)
8985 =item CAUTIONARY NOTES
8993 =head2 Class::Struct - declare struct-like datatypes as Perl classes
9003 =item The C<struct()> function
9005 =item Class Creation at Compile Time
9007 =item Element Types and Accessor Methods
9009 Scalar (C<'$'> or C<'*$'>), Array (C<'@'> or C<'*@'>), Hash (C<'%'> or
9010 C<'*%'>), Class (C<'Class_Name'> or C<'*Class_Name'>)
9012 =item Initializing with C<new>
9018 Example 1, Example 2, Example 3
9020 =item Author and Modification History
9024 =head2 Config - access Perl configuration information
9032 myconfig(), config_sh(), config_vars(@names)
9044 C<_a>, C<_exe>, C<_o>
9048 C<afs>, C<afsroot>, C<alignbytes>, C<ansi2knr>, C<aphostname>,
9049 C<api_revision>, C<api_subversion>, C<api_version>, C<api_versionstring>,
9050 C<ar>, C<archlib>, C<archlibexp>, C<archname64>, C<archname>, C<archobjs>,
9055 C<baserev>, C<bash>, C<bin>, C<bincompat5005>, C<binexp>, C<bison>,
9056 C<byacc>, C<byteorder>
9060 C<c>, C<castflags>, C<cat>, C<cc>, C<cccdlflags>, C<ccdlflags>, C<ccflags>,
9061 C<ccflags_uselargefiles>, C<ccname>, C<ccsymbols>, C<ccversion>, C<cf_by>,
9062 C<cf_email>, C<cf_time>, C<charsize>, C<chgrp>, C<chmod>, C<chown>,
9063 C<clocktype>, C<comm>, C<compress>, C<contains>, C<cp>, C<cpio>, C<cpp>,
9064 C<cpp_stuff>, C<cppccsymbols>, C<cppflags>, C<cpplast>, C<cppminus>,
9065 C<cpprun>, C<cppstdin>, C<cppsymbols>, C<cryptlib>, C<csh>
9069 C<d__fwalk>, C<d_access>, C<d_accessx>, C<d_alarm>, C<d_archlib>,
9070 C<d_atolf>, C<d_atoll>, C<d_attribut>, C<d_bcmp>, C<d_bcopy>,
9071 C<d_bincompat5005>, C<d_bsd>, C<d_bsdgetpgrp>, C<d_bsdsetpgrp>, C<d_bzero>,
9072 C<d_casti32>, C<d_castneg>, C<d_charvspr>, C<d_chown>, C<d_chroot>,
9073 C<d_chsize>, C<d_class>, C<d_closedir>, C<d_cmsghdr_s>, C<d_const>,
9074 C<d_crypt>, C<d_csh>, C<d_cuserid>, C<d_dbl_dig>, C<d_dbminitproto>,
9075 C<d_difftime>, C<d_dirnamlen>, C<d_dlerror>, C<d_dlopen>, C<d_dlsymun>,
9076 C<d_dosuid>, C<d_drand48proto>, C<d_dup2>, C<d_eaccess>, C<d_endgrent>,
9077 C<d_endhent>, C<d_endnent>, C<d_endpent>, C<d_endpwent>, C<d_endsent>,
9078 C<d_eofnblk>, C<d_eunice>, C<d_fchdir>, C<d_fchmod>, C<d_fchown>,
9079 C<d_fcntl>, C<d_fcntl_can_lock>, C<d_fd_macros>, C<d_fd_set>,
9080 C<d_fds_bits>, C<d_fgetpos>, C<d_finite>, C<d_finitel>, C<d_flexfnam>,
9081 C<d_flock>, C<d_flockproto>, C<d_fork>, C<d_fp_class>, C<d_fpathconf>,
9082 C<d_fpclass>, C<d_fpclassify>, C<d_fpclassl>, C<d_fpos64_t>, C<d_frexpl>,
9083 C<d_fs_data_s>, C<d_fseeko>, C<d_fsetpos>, C<d_fstatfs>, C<d_fstatvfs>,
9084 C<d_fsync>, C<d_ftello>, C<d_ftime>, C<d_Gconvert>, C<d_getcwd>,
9085 C<d_getespwnam>, C<d_getfsstat>, C<d_getgrent>, C<d_getgrps>,
9086 C<d_gethbyaddr>, C<d_gethbyname>, C<d_gethent>, C<d_gethname>,
9087 C<d_gethostprotos>, C<d_getitimer>, C<d_getlogin>, C<d_getmnt>,
9088 C<d_getmntent>, C<d_getnbyaddr>, C<d_getnbyname>, C<d_getnent>,
9089 C<d_getnetprotos>, C<d_getpagsz>, C<d_getpbyname>, C<d_getpbynumber>,
9090 C<d_getpent>, C<d_getpgid>, C<d_getpgrp2>, C<d_getpgrp>, C<d_getppid>,
9091 C<d_getprior>, C<d_getprotoprotos>, C<d_getprpwnam>, C<d_getpwent>,
9092 C<d_getsbyname>, C<d_getsbyport>, C<d_getsent>, C<d_getservprotos>,
9093 C<d_getspnam>, C<d_gettimeod>, C<d_gnulibc>, C<d_grpasswd>, C<d_hasmntopt>,
9094 C<d_htonl>, C<d_index>, C<d_inetaton>, C<d_int64_t>, C<d_isascii>,
9095 C<d_isfinite>, C<d_isinf>, C<d_isnan>, C<d_isnanl>, C<d_killpg>,
9096 C<d_lchown>, C<d_ldbl_dig>, C<d_link>, C<d_locconv>, C<d_lockf>,
9097 C<d_longdbl>, C<d_longlong>, C<d_lseekproto>, C<d_lstat>, C<d_madvise>,
9098 C<d_mblen>, C<d_mbstowcs>, C<d_mbtowc>, C<d_memchr>, C<d_memcmp>,
9099 C<d_memcpy>, C<d_memmove>, C<d_memset>, C<d_mkdir>, C<d_mkdtemp>,
9100 C<d_mkfifo>, C<d_mkstemp>, C<d_mkstemps>, C<d_mktime>, C<d_mmap>,
9101 C<d_modfl>, C<d_modfl_pow32_bug>, C<d_mprotect>, C<d_msg>, C<d_msg_ctrunc>,
9102 C<d_msg_dontroute>, C<d_msg_oob>, C<d_msg_peek>, C<d_msg_proxy>,
9103 C<d_msgctl>, C<d_msgget>, C<d_msghdr_s>, C<d_msgrcv>, C<d_msgsnd>,
9104 C<d_msync>, C<d_munmap>, C<d_mymalloc>, C<d_nice>, C<d_nl_langinfo>,
9105 C<d_nv_preserves_uv>, C<d_nv_preserves_uv_bits>, C<d_off64_t>,
9106 C<d_old_pthread_create_joinable>, C<d_oldpthreads>, C<d_oldsock>,
9107 C<d_open3>, C<d_pathconf>, C<d_pause>, C<d_perl_otherlibdirs>,
9108 C<d_phostname>, C<d_pipe>, C<d_poll>, C<d_portable>, C<d_PRId64>,
9109 C<d_PRIeldbl>, C<d_PRIEUldbl>, C<d_PRIfldbl>, C<d_PRIFUldbl>,
9110 C<d_PRIgldbl>, C<d_PRIGUldbl>, C<d_PRIi64>, C<d_PRIo64>, C<d_PRIu64>,
9111 C<d_PRIx64>, C<d_PRIXU64>, C<d_pthread_atfork>, C<d_pthread_yield>,
9112 C<d_pwage>, C<d_pwchange>, C<d_pwclass>, C<d_pwcomment>, C<d_pwexpire>,
9113 C<d_pwgecos>, C<d_pwpasswd>, C<d_pwquota>, C<d_qgcvt>, C<d_quad>,
9114 C<d_readdir>, C<d_readlink>, C<d_readv>, C<d_recvmsg>, C<d_rename>,
9115 C<d_rewinddir>, C<d_rmdir>, C<d_safebcpy>, C<d_safemcpy>, C<d_sanemcmp>,
9116 C<d_sbrkproto>, C<d_sched_yield>, C<d_scm_rights>, C<d_SCNfldbl>,
9117 C<d_seekdir>, C<d_select>, C<d_sem>, C<d_semctl>, C<d_semctl_semid_ds>,
9118 C<d_semctl_semun>, C<d_semget>, C<d_semop>, C<d_sendmsg>, C<d_setegid>,
9119 C<d_seteuid>, C<d_setgrent>, C<d_setgrps>, C<d_sethent>, C<d_setitimer>,
9120 C<d_setlinebuf>, C<d_setlocale>, C<d_setnent>, C<d_setpent>, C<d_setpgid>,
9121 C<d_setpgrp2>, C<d_setpgrp>, C<d_setprior>, C<d_setproctitle>,
9122 C<d_setpwent>, C<d_setregid>, C<d_setresgid>, C<d_setresuid>,
9123 C<d_setreuid>, C<d_setrgid>, C<d_setruid>, C<d_setsent>, C<d_setsid>,
9124 C<d_setvbuf>, C<d_sfio>, C<d_shm>, C<d_shmat>, C<d_shmatprototype>,
9125 C<d_shmctl>, C<d_shmdt>, C<d_shmget>, C<d_sigaction>, C<d_sigprocmask>,
9126 C<d_sigsetjmp>, C<d_sockatmark>, C<d_sockatmarkproto>, C<d_socket>,
9127 C<d_socklen_t>, C<d_sockpair>, C<d_socks5_init>, C<d_sqrtl>,
9128 C<d_sresgproto>, C<d_sresuproto>, C<d_statblks>, C<d_statfs_f_flags>,
9129 C<d_statfs_s>, C<d_statvfs>, C<d_stdio_cnt_lval>, C<d_stdio_ptr_lval>,
9130 C<d_stdio_ptr_lval_nochange_cnt>, C<d_stdio_ptr_lval_sets_cnt>,
9131 C<d_stdio_stream_array>, C<d_stdiobase>, C<d_stdstdio>, C<d_strchr>,
9132 C<d_strcoll>, C<d_strctcpy>, C<d_strerrm>, C<d_strerror>, C<d_strftime>,
9133 C<d_strtod>, C<d_strtol>, C<d_strtold>, C<d_strtoll>, C<d_strtoq>,
9134 C<d_strtoul>, C<d_strtoull>, C<d_strtouq>, C<d_strxfrm>, C<d_suidsafe>,
9135 C<d_symlink>, C<d_syscall>, C<d_syscallproto>, C<d_sysconf>,
9136 C<d_sysernlst>, C<d_syserrlst>, C<d_system>, C<d_tcgetpgrp>,
9137 C<d_tcsetpgrp>, C<d_telldir>, C<d_telldirproto>, C<d_time>, C<d_times>,
9138 C<d_truncate>, C<d_tzname>, C<d_u32align>, C<d_ualarm>, C<d_umask>,
9139 C<d_uname>, C<d_union_semun>, C<d_unordered>, C<d_usleep>,
9140 C<d_usleepproto>, C<d_ustat>, C<d_vendorarch>, C<d_vendorbin>,
9141 C<d_vendorlib>, C<d_vfork>, C<d_void_closedir>, C<d_voidsig>, C<d_voidtty>,
9142 C<d_volatile>, C<d_vprintf>, C<d_wait4>, C<d_waitpid>, C<d_wcstombs>,
9143 C<d_wctomb>, C<d_writev>, C<d_xenix>, C<date>, C<db_hashtype>,
9144 C<db_prefixtype>, C<db_version_major>, C<db_version_minor>,
9145 C<db_version_patch>, C<defvoidused>, C<direntrytype>, C<dlext>, C<dlsrc>,
9146 C<doublesize>, C<drand01>, C<dynamic_ext>
9150 C<eagain>, C<ebcdic>, C<echo>, C<egrep>, C<emacs>, C<eunicefix>,
9151 C<exe_ext>, C<expr>, C<extensions>, C<extras>
9155 C<fflushall>, C<fflushNULL>, C<find>, C<firstmakefile>, C<flex>,
9156 C<fpossize>, C<fpostype>, C<freetype>, C<from>, C<full_ar>, C<full_csh>,
9161 C<gccosandvers>, C<gccversion>, C<gidformat>, C<gidsign>, C<gidsize>,
9162 C<gidtype>, C<glibpth>, C<grep>, C<groupcat>, C<groupstype>, C<gzip>
9166 C<h_fcntl>, C<h_sysfile>, C<hint>, C<hostcat>
9170 C<i16size>, C<i16type>, C<i32size>, C<i32type>, C<i64size>, C<i64type>,
9171 C<i8size>, C<i8type>, C<i_arpainet>, C<i_bsdioctl>, C<i_db>, C<i_dbm>,
9172 C<i_dirent>, C<i_dld>, C<i_dlfcn>, C<i_fcntl>, C<i_float>, C<i_fp>,
9173 C<i_fp_class>, C<i_gdbm>, C<i_grp>, C<i_ieeefp>, C<i_inttypes>,
9174 C<i_langinfo>, C<i_libutil>, C<i_limits>, C<i_locale>, C<i_machcthr>,
9175 C<i_malloc>, C<i_math>, C<i_memory>, C<i_mntent>, C<i_ndbm>, C<i_netdb>,
9176 C<i_neterrno>, C<i_netinettcp>, C<i_niin>, C<i_poll>, C<i_prot>,
9177 C<i_pthread>, C<i_pwd>, C<i_rpcsvcdbm>, C<i_sfio>, C<i_sgtty>, C<i_shadow>,
9178 C<i_socks>, C<i_stdarg>, C<i_stddef>, C<i_stdlib>, C<i_string>,
9179 C<i_sunmath>, C<i_sysaccess>, C<i_sysdir>, C<i_sysfile>, C<i_sysfilio>,
9180 C<i_sysin>, C<i_sysioctl>, C<i_syslog>, C<i_sysmman>, C<i_sysmode>,
9181 C<i_sysmount>, C<i_sysndir>, C<i_sysparam>, C<i_sysresrc>, C<i_syssecrt>,
9182 C<i_sysselct>, C<i_syssockio>, C<i_sysstat>, C<i_sysstatfs>,
9183 C<i_sysstatvfs>, C<i_systime>, C<i_systimek>, C<i_systimes>, C<i_systypes>,
9184 C<i_sysuio>, C<i_sysun>, C<i_sysutsname>, C<i_sysvfs>, C<i_syswait>,
9185 C<i_termio>, C<i_termios>, C<i_time>, C<i_unistd>, C<i_ustat>, C<i_utime>,
9186 C<i_values>, C<i_varargs>, C<i_varhdr>, C<i_vfork>,
9187 C<ignore_versioned_solibs>, C<inc_version_list>, C<inc_version_list_init>,
9188 C<incpath>, C<inews>, C<installarchlib>, C<installbin>, C<installman1dir>,
9189 C<installman3dir>, C<installprefix>, C<installprefixexp>,
9190 C<installprivlib>, C<installscript>, C<installsitearch>, C<installsitebin>,
9191 C<installsitelib>, C<installstyle>, C<installusrbinperl>,
9192 C<installvendorarch>, C<installvendorbin>, C<installvendorlib>, C<intsize>,
9193 C<issymlink>, C<ivdformat>, C<ivsize>, C<ivtype>
9197 C<known_extensions>, C<ksh>
9201 C<ld>, C<lddlflags>, C<ldflags>, C<ldflags_uselargefiles>, C<ldlibpthname>,
9202 C<less>, C<lib_ext>, C<libc>, C<libperl>, C<libpth>, C<libs>, C<libsdirs>,
9203 C<libsfiles>, C<libsfound>, C<libspath>, C<libswanted>,
9204 C<libswanted_uselargefiles>, C<line>, C<lint>, C<lkflags>, C<ln>, C<lns>,
9205 C<locincpth>, C<loclibpth>, C<longdblsize>, C<longlongsize>, C<longsize>,
9206 C<lp>, C<lpr>, C<ls>, C<lseeksize>, C<lseektype>
9210 C<mail>, C<mailx>, C<make>, C<make_set_make>, C<mallocobj>, C<mallocsrc>,
9211 C<malloctype>, C<man1dir>, C<man1direxp>, C<man1ext>, C<man3dir>,
9212 C<man3direxp>, C<man3ext>
9216 C<Mcc>, C<mips_type>, C<mkdir>, C<mmaptype>, C<modetype>, C<more>,
9217 C<multiarch>, C<mv>, C<myarchname>, C<mydomain>, C<myhostname>, C<myuname>
9221 C<n>, C<need_va_copy>, C<netdb_hlen_type>, C<netdb_host_type>,
9222 C<netdb_name_type>, C<netdb_net_type>, C<nm>, C<nm_opt>, C<nm_so_opt>,
9223 C<nonxs_ext>, C<nroff>, C<nveformat>, C<nvEUformat>, C<nvfformat>,
9224 C<nvFUformat>, C<nvgformat>, C<nvGUformat>, C<nvsize>, C<nvtype>
9228 C<o_nonblock>, C<obj_ext>, C<old_pthread_create_joinable>, C<optimize>,
9229 C<orderlib>, C<osname>, C<osvers>, C<otherlibdirs>
9233 C<package>, C<pager>, C<passcat>, C<patchlevel>, C<path_sep>, C<perl5>,
9234 C<perl>, C<perl_patchlevel>
9238 C<PERL_REVISION>, C<PERL_SUBVERSION>, C<PERL_VERSION>, C<perladmin>,
9239 C<perllibs>, C<perlpath>, C<pg>, C<phostname>, C<pidtype>, C<plibpth>,
9240 C<pm_apiversion>, C<pmake>, C<pr>, C<prefix>, C<prefixexp>, C<privlib>,
9241 C<privlibexp>, C<prototype>, C<ptrsize>
9245 C<quadkind>, C<quadtype>
9249 C<randbits>, C<randfunc>, C<randseedtype>, C<ranlib>, C<rd_nodata>,
9250 C<revision>, C<rm>, C<rmail>, C<run>, C<runnm>
9254 C<sched_yield>, C<scriptdir>, C<scriptdirexp>, C<sed>, C<seedfunc>,
9255 C<selectminbits>, C<selecttype>, C<sendmail>, C<sh>, C<shar>, C<sharpbang>,
9256 C<shmattype>, C<shortsize>, C<shrpenv>, C<shsharp>, C<sig_count>,
9257 C<sig_name>, C<sig_name_init>, C<sig_num>, C<sig_num_init>, C<sig_size>,
9258 C<signal_t>, C<sitearch>, C<sitearchexp>, C<sitebin>, C<sitebinexp>,
9259 C<sitelib>, C<sitelib_stem>, C<sitelibexp>, C<siteprefix>,
9260 C<siteprefixexp>, C<sizesize>, C<sizetype>, C<sleep>, C<smail>, C<so>,
9261 C<sockethdr>, C<socketlib>, C<socksizetype>, C<sort>, C<spackage>,
9262 C<spitshell>, C<sPRId64>, C<sPRIeldbl>, C<sPRIEUldbl>, C<sPRIfldbl>,
9263 C<sPRIFUldbl>, C<sPRIgldbl>, C<sPRIGUldbl>, C<sPRIi64>, C<sPRIo64>,
9264 C<sPRIu64>, C<sPRIx64>, C<sPRIXU64>, C<src>, C<sSCNfldbl>, C<ssizetype>,
9265 C<startperl>, C<startsh>, C<static_ext>, C<stdchar>, C<stdio_base>,
9266 C<stdio_bufsiz>, C<stdio_cnt>, C<stdio_filbuf>, C<stdio_ptr>,
9267 C<stdio_stream_array>, C<strings>, C<submit>, C<subversion>, C<sysman>
9271 C<tail>, C<tar>, C<targetarch>, C<tbl>, C<tee>, C<test>, C<timeincl>,
9272 C<timetype>, C<to>, C<touch>, C<tr>, C<trnl>, C<troff>
9276 C<u16size>, C<u16type>, C<u32size>, C<u32type>, C<u64size>, C<u64type>,
9277 C<u8size>, C<u8type>, C<uidformat>, C<uidsign>, C<uidsize>, C<uidtype>,
9278 C<uname>, C<uniq>, C<uquadtype>, C<use5005threads>, C<use64bitall>,
9279 C<use64bitint>, C<usecrosscompile>, C<usedl>, C<useithreads>,
9280 C<uselargefiles>, C<uselongdouble>, C<usemorebits>, C<usemultiplicity>,
9281 C<usemymalloc>, C<usenm>, C<useopcode>, C<useperlio>, C<useposix>,
9282 C<usereentrant>, C<usesfio>, C<useshrplib>, C<usesocks>, C<usethreads>,
9283 C<usevendorprefix>, C<usevfork>, C<usrinc>, C<uuname>, C<uvoformat>,
9284 C<uvsize>, C<uvtype>, C<uvuformat>, C<uvxformat>, C<uvXUformat>
9288 C<vendorarch>, C<vendorarchexp>, C<vendorbin>, C<vendorbinexp>,
9289 C<vendorlib>, C<vendorlib_stem>, C<vendorlibexp>, C<vendorprefix>,
9290 C<vendorprefixexp>, C<version>, C<version_patchlevel_string>,
9291 C<versiononly>, C<vi>, C<voidflags>
9295 C<xlibpth>, C<xs_apiversion>
9299 C<yacc>, C<yaccflags>
9311 =head2 Cwd - get pathname of current working directory
9321 =item getcwd and friends
9323 getcwd, cwd, fastcwd, fastgetcwd
9325 =item abs_path and friends
9327 abs_path, realpath, fast_abs_path
9339 =head2 DB - programmatic interface to the Perl debugging API (draft,
9351 =item Global Variables
9353 $DB::sub, %DB::sub, $DB::single, $DB::signal, $DB::trace, @DB::args,
9354 @DB::dbline, %DB::dbline, $DB::package, $DB::filename, $DB::subname,
9359 CLIENT->register(), CLIENT->evalcode(STRING), CLIENT->skippkg('D::hide'),
9360 CLIENT->run(), CLIENT->step(), CLIENT->next(), CLIENT->done()
9362 =item Client Callback Methods
9364 CLIENT->init(), CLIENT->prestop([STRING]), CLIENT->stop(), CLIENT->idle(),
9365 CLIENT->poststop([STRING]), CLIENT->evalcode(STRING), CLIENT->cleanup(),
9366 CLIENT->output(LIST)
9376 =head2 DB_File - Perl5 access to Berkeley DB version 1.x
9384 B<DB_HASH>, B<DB_BTREE>, B<DB_RECNO>
9388 =item Using DB_File with Berkeley DB version 2 or 3
9390 =item Interface to Berkeley DB
9392 =item Opening a Berkeley DB Database File
9394 =item Default Parameters
9396 =item In Memory Databases
9404 =item A Simple Example
9412 =item Changing the BTREE sort order
9414 =item Handling Duplicate Keys
9416 =item The get_dup() Method
9418 =item The find_dup() Method
9420 =item The del_dup() Method
9422 =item Matching Partial Keys
9430 =item The 'bval' Option
9432 =item A Simple Example
9434 =item Extra RECNO Methods
9436 B<$X-E<gt>push(list) ;>, B<$value = $X-E<gt>pop ;>, B<$X-E<gt>shift>,
9437 B<$X-E<gt>unshift(list) ;>, B<$X-E<gt>length>, B<$X-E<gt>splice(offset,
9440 =item Another Example
9444 =item THE API INTERFACE
9446 B<$status = $X-E<gt>get($key, $value [, $flags]) ;>, B<$status =
9447 $X-E<gt>put($key, $value [, $flags]) ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>del($key [,
9448 $flags]) ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>fd ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>seq($key,
9449 $value, $flags) ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>sync([$flags]) ;>
9453 B<filter_store_key>, B<filter_store_value>, B<filter_fetch_key>,
9454 B<filter_fetch_value>
9460 =item An Example -- the NULL termination problem.
9462 =item Another Example -- Key is a C int.
9466 =item HINTS AND TIPS
9470 =item Locking: The Trouble with fd
9472 =item Safe ways to lock a database
9474 B<Tie::DB_Lock>, B<Tie::DB_LockFile>, B<DB_File::Lock>
9476 =item Sharing Databases With C Applications
9478 =item The untie() Gotcha
9482 =item COMMON QUESTIONS
9486 =item Why is there Perl source in my database?
9488 =item How do I store complex data structures with DB_File?
9490 =item What does "Invalid Argument" mean?
9492 =item What does "Bareword 'DB_File' not allowed" mean?
9512 =head2 Data::Dumper - stringified perl data structures, suitable for both
9513 printing and C<eval>
9525 I<PACKAGE>->new(I<ARRAYREF [>, I<ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Dump I<or>
9526 I<PACKAGE>->Dump(I<ARRAYREF [>, I<ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Seen(I<[HASHREF]>),
9527 I<$OBJ>->Values(I<[ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Names(I<[ARRAYREF]>),
9534 =item Configuration Variables or Methods
9536 $Data::Dumper::Indent I<or> I<$OBJ>->Indent(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9537 $Data::Dumper::Purity I<or> I<$OBJ>->Purity(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9538 $Data::Dumper::Pad I<or> I<$OBJ>->Pad(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9539 $Data::Dumper::Varname I<or> I<$OBJ>->Varname(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9540 $Data::Dumper::Useqq I<or> I<$OBJ>->Useqq(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9541 $Data::Dumper::Terse I<or> I<$OBJ>->Terse(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9542 $Data::Dumper::Freezer I<or> $I<OBJ>->Freezer(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9543 $Data::Dumper::Toaster I<or> $I<OBJ>->Toaster(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9544 $Data::Dumper::Deepcopy I<or> $I<OBJ>->Deepcopy(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9545 $Data::Dumper::Quotekeys I<or> $I<OBJ>->Quotekeys(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9546 $Data::Dumper::Bless I<or> $I<OBJ>->Bless(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9547 $Data::Dumper::Maxdepth I<or> $I<OBJ>->Maxdepth(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9548 $Data::Dumper::Useperl I<or> $I<OBJ>->Useperl(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9549 $Data::Dumper::Sortkeys I<or> $I<OBJ>->Sortkeys(I<[NEWVAL]>)
9569 =head2 Devel::DProf - a Perl code profiler
9577 =item PROFILE FORMAT
9589 =head2 Devel::Peek - A data debugging tool for the XS programmer
9599 =item Memory footprint debugging
9607 =item A simple scalar string
9609 =item A simple scalar number
9611 =item A simple scalar with an extra reference
9613 =item A reference to a simple scalar
9615 =item A reference to an array
9617 =item A reference to a hash
9619 =item Dumping a large array or hash
9621 =item A reference to an SV which holds a C pointer
9623 =item A reference to a subroutine
9637 =head2 Devel::SelfStubber - generate stubs for a SelfLoading module
9647 =head2 Digest:: - Modules that calculate message digests
9655 I<binary>, I<hex>, I<base64>
9659 $ctx = Digest->XXX($arg,...), $ctx = Digest->new(XXX => $arg,...), $ctx =
9660 Digest::XXX->new($arg,...), $ctx->reset, $ctx->add($data,...),
9661 $ctx->addfile($io_handle), $ctx->digest, $ctx->hexdigest, $ctx->b64digest
9669 =head2 Digest::MD5 - Perl interface to the MD5 Algorithm
9679 md5($data,...), md5_hex($data,...), md5_base64($data,...)
9683 $md5 = Digest::MD5->new, $md5->reset, $md5->add($data,...),
9684 $md5->addfile($io_handle), $md5->digest, $md5->hexdigest, $md5->b64digest
9696 =head2 DirHandle - supply object methods for directory handles
9708 =head2 Dumpvalue - provides screen dump of Perl data.
9720 C<arrayDepth>, C<hashDepth>, C<compactDump>, C<veryCompact>, C<globPrint>,
9721 C<dumpDBFiles>, C<dumpPackages>, C<dumpReused>, C<tick>, C<quoteHighBit>,
9722 C<printUndef>, C<usageOnly>, unctrl, subdump, bareStringify, quoteHighBit,
9727 dumpValue, dumpValues, dumpvars, set_quote, set_unctrl, compactDump,
9728 veryCompact, set, get
9734 =head2 DynaLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code
9742 @dl_library_path, @dl_resolve_using, @dl_require_symbols, @dl_librefs,
9743 @dl_modules, dl_error(), $dl_debug, dl_findfile(), dl_expandspec(),
9744 dl_load_file(), dl_unload_file(), dl_loadflags(), dl_find_symbol(),
9745 dl_find_symbol_anywhere(), dl_undef_symbols(), dl_install_xsub(),
9752 =head2 DynaLoader::XSLoader, XSLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into
9765 =head2 Encode - character encodings
9783 =item Characteristics of an Encoding
9785 =item Types of Encodings
9787 Fixed length 8-bit (or less) encodings, Fixed length 16-bit encodings,
9788 Fixed length 32-bit encodings, Multi-byte encodings, "Escape" encodings
9790 =item Specifying Encodings
9792 1. By name, 2. As an object
9794 =item Encoding Names
9796 The MIME name as defined in IETF RFC-XXXX, The name in the IANA registry,
9797 The name used by the the organization that defined it
9801 =item PERL ENCODING API
9805 =item Generic Encoding Interface
9807 =item Handling Malformed Data
9809 Scheme 1, Scheme 2, Other Schemes
9813 =item Other Encodings of Unicode
9815 =item Listing available encodings
9817 =item Defining Aliases
9819 As a simple string, As a qr// compiled regular expression, e.g.:, As a code
9822 =item Defining Encodings
9826 =item Encoding and IO
9828 =item Encoding How to ...
9830 IO with mixed content (faking iso-2020-*), MIME's Content-Length:, UTF-8
9831 strings in binary data, Perl/Encode wrappers on non-Unicode XS modules
9833 =item Messing with Perl's Internals
9835 is_utf8(STRING [, CHECK]), valid_utf8(STRING)
9837 =item IMPLEMENTATION CLASSES
9839 -E<gt>name, -E<gt>new_sequence, -E<gt>encode($string,$check),
9840 -E<gt>decode($octets,$check)
9844 =item Compiled Encodings
9846 .enc, .ucm, .ucm, .c, .xs, ascii and iso-8859-*, IBM-1047 and two other
9847 variants of EBCDIC, symbol and dingbats as used by Tk on X11
9855 =head2 Encode::EncodeFormat, EncodeFormat - the format of encoding tables
9856 of the Encode extension
9862 [1] B<S>, [2] B<D>, [3] B<M>, [4] B<E>
9870 =head2 Encode::Tcl - Tcl encodings
9872 =head2 EncodeFormat - the format of encoding tables of the Encode extension
9878 [1] B<S>, [2] B<D>, [3] B<M>, [4] B<E>
9886 =head2 English - use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation
9899 =head2 Env - perl module that imports environment variables as scalars or
9914 =head2 Errno - System errno constants
9930 =head2 Exporter - Implements default import method for modules
9942 =item Selecting What To Export
9944 =item Specialised Import Lists
9946 =item Exporting without using Export's import method
9948 =item Module Version Checking
9950 =item Managing Unknown Symbols
9952 =item Tag Handling Utility Functions
9958 =head2 Exporter::Heavy - Exporter guts
9968 =head2 ExtUtils::Command - utilities to replace common UNIX commands in
9989 mv source... destination
9991 cp source... destination
10009 =head2 ExtUtils::Constant - generate XS code to import C header constants
10019 IV, UV, NV, PV, PVN, SV, YES, NO, UNDEF
10029 memEQ_clause NAME, CHECKED_AT, INDENT
10031 assign INDENT, TYPE, PRE, POST, VALUE..
10035 switch_clause INDENT, NAMELEN, ITEMHASH, ITEM..
10043 C_constant, name, type, value, macro, default, pre, post, def_pre =item
10046 XS_constant PACKAGE, TYPES, SUBNAME, C_SUBNAME
10048 autoload PACKAGE, VERSION, AUTOLOADER
10050 WriteMakefileSnippet
10052 WriteConstants ATTRIBUTE =E<gt> VALUE [, ...], NAME, DEFAULT_TYPE,
10053 BREAKOUT_AT, NAMES, C_FILE, XS_FILE, SUBNAME, C_SUBNAME
10061 =head2 ExtUtils::Embed - Utilities for embedding Perl in C/C++ applications
10073 xsinit(), Examples, ldopts(), Examples, perl_inc(), ccflags(), ccdlflags(),
10074 ccopts(), xsi_header(), xsi_protos(@modules), xsi_body(@modules)
10084 =head2 ExtUtils::Install - install files from here to there
10094 =head2 ExtUtils::Installed - Inventory management of installed modules
10106 new(), modules(), files(), directories(), directory_tree(), validate(),
10107 packlist(), version()
10115 =head2 ExtUtils::Liblist - determine libraries to use and how to use them
10123 For static extensions, For dynamic extensions, For dynamic extensions
10129 =item LDLOADLIBS and LD_RUN_PATH
10139 =item VMS implementation
10141 =item Win32 implementation
10149 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
10150 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
10158 canonpath, cflags, manifypods, perl_archive
10162 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_NW5 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
10163 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
10189 test_via_harness (o)
10191 tool_autosplit (override)
10209 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_OS2 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
10210 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
10224 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_Unix - methods used by ExtUtils::MakeMaker
10236 =item Preloaded methods
10256 =item SelfLoaded methods
10302 file_name_is_absolute
10308 =item Methods to actually produce chunks of text for the Makefile
10348 maybe_command_in_dirs
10376 post_initialize (o)
10386 replace_manpage_separator
10400 test_via_harness (o)
10402 test_via_script (o)
10432 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_VMS - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
10433 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
10443 =item Methods always loaded
10455 =item SelfLoaded methods
10457 guess_name (override)
10461 find_perl (override)
10465 maybe_command (override)
10467 maybe_command_in_dirs (override)
10469 perl_script (override)
10471 file_name_is_absolute (override)
10473 replace_manpage_separator
10475 init_others (override)
10477 constants (override)
10481 const_cccmd (override)
10483 pm_to_blib (override)
10485 tool_autosplit (override)
10487 tool_sxubpp (override)
10489 xsubpp_version (override)
10491 tools_other (override)
10501 top_targets (override)
10505 dynamic_lib (override)
10507 dynamic_bs (override)
10509 static_lib (override)
10511 manifypods (override)
10513 processPL (override)
10515 installbin (override)
10517 subdir_x (override)
10521 realclean (override)
10523 dist_basics (override)
10525 dist_core (override)
10527 dist_dir (override)
10529 dist_test (override)
10533 perldepend (override)
10535 makefile (override)
10539 test_via_harness (override)
10541 test_via_script (override)
10543 makeaperl (override)
10545 nicetext (override)
10547 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_Win32 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
10548 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
10574 test_via_harness (o)
10576 tool_autosplit (override)
10594 =head2 ExtUtils::MakeMaker - create an extension Makefile
10604 =item How To Write A Makefile.PL
10606 =item Default Makefile Behaviour
10614 =item PREFIX and LIB attribute
10618 =item Static Linking of a new Perl Binary
10620 =item Determination of Perl Library and Installation Locations
10622 =item Which architecture dependent directory?
10624 =item Using Attributes and Parameters
10626 ABSTRACT, ABSTRACT_FROM, AUTHOR, BINARY_LOCATION, C, CCFLAGS, CONFIG,
10627 CONFIGURE, DEFINE, DIR, DISTNAME, DL_FUNCS, DL_VARS, EXCLUDE_EXT,
10628 EXE_FILES, FIRST_MAKEFILE, FULLPERL, FUNCLIST, H, HTMLLIBPODS,
10629 HTMLSCRIPTPODS, IMPORTS, INC, INCLUDE_EXT, INSTALLARCHLIB, INSTALLBIN,
10630 INSTALLDIRS, INSTALLHTMLPRIVLIBDIR, INSTALLHTMLSCRIPTDIR,
10631 INSTALLHTMLSITELIBDIR, INSTALLMAN1DIR, INSTALLMAN3DIR, INSTALLPRIVLIB,
10632 INSTALLSCRIPT, INSTALLSITEARCH, INSTALLSITELIB, INST_ARCHLIB, INST_BIN,
10633 INST_EXE, INST_HTMLLIBDIR, INST_HTMLSCRIPTDIR, INST_LIB, INST_MAN1DIR,
10634 INST_MAN3DIR, INST_SCRIPT, LDFROM, LIB, LIBPERL_A, LIBS, LINKTYPE,
10635 MAKEAPERL, MAKEFILE, MAN1PODS, MAN3PODS, MAP_TARGET, MYEXTLIB, NAME,
10636 NEEDS_LINKING, NOECHO, NORECURS, NO_VC, OBJECT, OPTIMIZE, PERL, PERL_CORE,
10637 PERLMAINCC, PERL_ARCHLIB, PERL_LIB, PERL_MALLOC_OK, PERLRUN, PERM_RW,
10638 PERM_RWX, PL_FILES, PM, PMLIBDIRS, PM_FILTER, POLLUTE, PPM_INSTALL_EXEC,
10639 PPM_INSTALL_SCRIPT, PREFIX, PREREQ_PM, PREREQ_FATAL, SKIP, TEST_LIBS,
10640 VERSION, VERSION_FROM, XS, XSOPT, XSPROTOARG, XS_VERSION
10642 =item Additional lowercase attributes
10644 clean, depend, dist, dynamic_lib, linkext, macro, realclean, test,
10647 =item Overriding MakeMaker Methods
10649 =item Hintsfile support
10651 =item Distribution Support
10653 make distcheck, make skipcheck, make distclean, make manifest,
10654 make distdir, make tardist, make dist, make uutardist, make
10655 shdist, make zipdist, make ci
10657 =item Disabling an extension
10671 =head2 ExtUtils::Manifest - utilities to write and check a MANIFEST file
10679 =item MANIFEST.SKIP
10683 =item GLOBAL VARIABLES
10687 C<Not in MANIFEST:> I<file>, C<No such file:> I<file>, C<MANIFEST:> I<$!>,
10688 C<Added to MANIFEST:> I<file>
10692 B<PERL_MM_MANIFEST_DEBUG>
10700 =head2 ExtUtils::Miniperl, writemain - write the C code for perlmain.c
10712 =head2 ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap - make a bootstrap file for use by DynaLoader
10722 =head2 ExtUtils::Mksymlists - write linker options files for dynamic
10731 DLBASE, DL_FUNCS, DL_VARS, FILE, FUNCLIST, IMPORTS, NAME
10739 =head2 ExtUtils::Packlist - manage .packlist files
10751 new(), read(), write(), validate(), packlist_file()
10759 =head2 ExtUtils::testlib - add blib/* directories to @INC
10769 =head2 Fatal - replace functions with equivalents which succeed or die
10781 =head2 Fcntl - load the C Fcntl.h defines
10791 =item EXPORTED SYMBOLS
10795 =head2 File::Basename, fileparse - split a pathname into pieces
10803 fileparse_set_fstype, fileparse
10807 C<basename>, C<dirname>
10811 =head2 File::CheckTree, validate - run many filetest checks on a tree
10821 =head2 File::Compare - Compare files or filehandles
10835 =head2 File::Copy - Copy files or filehandles
10845 =item Special behaviour if C<syscopy> is defined (OS/2, VMS and Win32)
10847 rmscopy($from,$to[,$date_flag])
10859 =head2 File::DosGlob - DOS like globbing and then some
10869 =item EXPORTS (by request only)
10881 =head2 File::Find, find - traverse a file tree
10889 C<wanted>, C<bydepth>, C<preprocess>, C<postprocess>, C<follow>,
10890 C<follow_fast>, C<follow_skip>, C<dangling_symlinks>, C<no_chdir>,
10891 C<untaint>, C<untaint_pattern>, C<untaint_skip>
10901 =head2 File::Glob - Perl extension for BSD glob routine
10909 C<GLOB_ERR>, C<GLOB_LIMIT>, C<GLOB_MARK>, C<GLOB_NOCASE>, C<GLOB_NOCHECK>,
10910 C<GLOB_NOSORT>, C<GLOB_BRACE>, C<GLOB_NOMAGIC>, C<GLOB_QUOTE>,
10911 C<GLOB_TILDE>, C<GLOB_CSH>, C<GLOB_ALPHASORT>
10915 C<GLOB_NOSPACE>, C<GLOB_ABEND>
10923 =head2 File::Path - create or remove directory trees
10935 =head2 File::Spec - portably perform operations on file names
10945 canonpath, catdir, catfile, curdir, devnull, rootdir, tmpdir, updir,
10946 no_upwards, case_tolerant, file_name_is_absolute, path, join, splitpath,
10947 splitdir, catpath(), abs2rel, rel2abs()
10955 =head2 File::Spec::Epoc - methods for Epoc file specs
10989 =head2 File::Spec::Functions - portably perform operations on file names
11007 =head2 File::Spec::Mac - File::Spec for Mac OS (Classic)
11035 file_name_is_absolute
11057 =head2 File::Spec::OS2 - methods for OS/2 file specs
11067 =head2 File::Spec::Unix - File::Spec for Unix, base for other File::Spec
11100 file_name_is_absolute
11122 =head2 File::Spec::VMS - methods for VMS file specs
11138 =item Methods always loaded
11140 canonpath (override)
11158 case_tolerant (override)
11162 file_name_is_absolute (override)
11164 splitpath (override)
11166 splitdir (override)
11180 =head2 File::Spec::Win32 - methods for Win32 file specs
11210 =head2 File::Temp - return name and handle of a temporary file safely
11234 =item MKTEMP FUNCTIONS
11248 =item POSIX FUNCTIONS
11258 =item ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS
11266 =item UTILITY FUNCTIONS
11274 =item PACKAGE VARIABLES
11276 B<safe_level>, STANDARD, MEDIUM, HIGH
11288 =item Temporary files and NFS
11300 =head2 File::stat - by-name interface to Perl's built-in stat() functions
11314 =head2 FileCache - keep more files open than the system permits
11326 =head2 FileHandle - supply object methods for filehandles
11334 $fh->print, $fh->printf, $fh->getline, $fh->getlines
11340 =head2 Filter::Simple - Simplified source filtering
11354 =item Disabling or changing <no> behaviour
11356 =item All-in-one interface
11358 =item Using Filter::Simple and Exporter together
11370 =head2 Filter::Util::Call - Perl Source Filter Utility Module
11380 =item B<use Filter::Util::Call>
11384 =item B<filter() and anonymous sub>
11386 B<$_>, B<$status>, B<filter_read> and B<filter_read_exact>, B<filter_del>
11394 =item Example 1: A simple filter.
11396 =item Example 2: Using the context
11398 =item Example 3: Using the context within the filter
11400 =item Example 4: Using filter_del
11404 =item Filter::Simple
11412 =head2 FindBin - Locate directory of original perl script
11420 =item EXPORTABLE VARIABLES
11432 =head2 GDBM_File - Perl5 access to the gdbm library.
11448 =head2 Getopt::Long - Extended processing of command line options
11456 =item Command Line Options, an Introduction
11458 =item Getting Started with Getopt::Long
11462 =item Simple options
11464 =item A little bit less simple options
11466 =item Mixing command line option with other arguments
11468 =item Options with values
11470 =item Options with multiple values
11472 =item Options with hash values
11474 =item User-defined subroutines to handle options
11476 =item Options with multiple names
11478 =item Case and abbreviations
11480 =item Summary of Option Specifications
11482 !, +, s, i, o, f, : I<type> [ I<desttype> ]
11486 =item Advanced Possibilities
11490 =item Object oriented interface
11492 =item Documentation and help texts
11494 =item Storing options in a hash
11498 =item The lonesome dash
11500 =item Argument call-back
11504 =item Configuring Getopt::Long
11506 default, posix_default, auto_abbrev, getopt_compat, gnu_compat, gnu_getopt,
11507 require_order, permute, bundling (default: disabled), bundling_override
11508 (default: disabled), ignore_case (default: enabled), ignore_case_always
11509 (default: disabled), pass_through (default: disabled), prefix,
11510 prefix_pattern, debug (default: disabled)
11512 =item Return values and Errors
11518 =item Default destinations
11520 =item Alternative option starters
11522 =item Configuration variables
11526 =item Trouble Shooting
11530 =item Warning: Ignoring '!' modifier for short option
11532 =item GetOptions does not return a false result when an option is not
11539 =item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
11543 =head2 Getopt::Std, getopt - Process single-character switches with switch
11554 =head2 I18N::Collate - compare 8-bit scalar data according to the current
11565 =head2 I18N::LangTags - functions for dealing with RFC3066-style language
11576 the function is_language_tag($lang1)
11578 the function extract_language_tags($whatever)
11580 the function same_language_tag($lang1, $lang2)
11582 the function similarity_language_tag($lang1, $lang2)
11584 the function is_dialect_of($lang1, $lang2)
11586 the function super_languages($lang1)
11588 the function locale2language_tag($locale_identifier)
11590 the function encode_language_tag($lang1)
11592 the function alternate_language_tags($lang1)
11594 the function @langs = panic_languages(@accept_languages)
11598 =item ABOUT LOWERCASING
11600 =item ABOUT UNICODE PLAINTEXT LANGUAGE TAGS
11610 =head2 I18N::LangTags::List -- tags and names for human languages
11618 =item ABOUT LANGUAGE TAGS
11620 =item LIST OF LANGUAGES
11622 {ab} : Abkhazian, {ace} : Achinese, {ach} : Acoli, {ada} : Adangme, {aa} :
11623 Afar, {afh} : Afrihili, {af} : Afrikaans, [{afa} : Afro-Asiatic (Other)],
11624 {aka} : Akan, {akk} : Akkadian, {sq} : Albanian, {ale} : Aleut, [{alg} :
11625 Algonquian languages], [{tut} : Altaic (Other)], {am} : Amharic, {i-ami} :
11626 Ami, [{apa} : Apache languages], {ar} : Arabic, {arc} : Aramaic, {arp} :
11627 Arapaho, {arn} : Araucanian, {arw} : Arawak, {hy} : Armenian, [{art} :
11628 Artificial (Other)], {as} : Assamese, [{ath} : Athapascan languages],
11629 [{aus} : Australian languages], [{map} : Austronesian (Other)], {ava} :
11630 Avaric, {ae} : Avestan, {awa} : Awadhi, {ay} : Aymara, {az} : Azerbaijani,
11631 {ban} : Balinese, [{bat} : Baltic (Other)], {bal} : Baluchi, {bam} :
11632 Bambara, [{bai} : Bamileke languages], {bad} : Banda, [{bnt} : Bantu
11633 (Other)], {bas} : Basa, {ba} : Bashkir, {eu} : Basque, {btk} : Batak
11634 (Indonesia), {bej} : Beja, {be} : Belarusian, {bem} : Bemba, {bn} :
11635 Bengali, [{ber} : Berber (Other)], {bho} : Bhojpuri, {bh} : Bihari, {bik} :
11636 Bikol, {bin} : Bini, {bi} : Bislama, {bs} : Bosnian, {bra} : Braj, {br} :
11637 Breton, {bug} : Buginese, {bg} : Bulgarian, {i-bnn} : Bunun, {bua} :
11638 Buriat, {my} : Burmese, {cad} : Caddo, {car} : Carib, {ca} : Catalan,
11639 [{cau} : Caucasian (Other)], {ceb} : Cebuano, [{cel} : Celtic (Other)],
11640 [{cai} : Central American Indian (Other)], {chg} : Chagatai, [{cmc} :
11641 Chamic languages], {ch} : Chamorro, {ce} : Chechen, {chr} : Cherokee, {chy}
11642 : Cheyenne, {chb} : Chibcha, {ny} : Chichewa, {zh} : Chinese, {chn} :
11643 Chinook Jargon, {chp} : Chipewyan, {cho} : Choctaw, {cu} : Church Slavic,
11644 {chk} : Chuukese, {cv} : Chuvash, {cop} : Coptic, {kw} : Cornish, {co} :
11645 Corsican, {cre} : Cree, {mus} : Creek, [{cpe} : English-based Creoles and
11646 pidgins (Other)], [{cpf} : French-based Creoles and pidgins (Other)],
11647 [{cpp} : Portuguese-based Creoles and pidgins (Other)], [{crp} : Creoles
11648 and pidgins (Other)], {hr} : Croatian, [{cus} : Cushitic (Other)], {cs} :
11649 Czech, {dak} : Dakota, {da} : Danish, {day} : Dayak, {i-default} : Default
11650 (Fallthru) Language, {del} : Delaware, {din} : Dinka, {div} : Divehi, {doi}
11651 : Dogri, {dgr} : Dogrib, [{dra} : Dravidian (Other)], {dua} : Duala, {nl} :
11652 Dutch, {dum} : Middle Dutch (ca.1050-1350), {dyu} : Dyula, {dz} : Dzongkha,
11653 {efi} : Efik, {egy} : Ancient Egyptian, {eka} : Ekajuk, {elx} : Elamite,
11654 {en} : English, {enm} : Old English (1100-1500), {ang} : Old English
11655 (ca.450-1100), {eo} : Esperanto, {et} : Estonian, {ewe} : Ewe, {ewo} :
11656 Ewondo, {fan} : Fang, {fat} : Fanti, {fo} : Faroese, {fj} : Fijian, {fi} :
11657 Finnish, [{fiu} : Finno-Ugrian (Other)], {fon} : Fon, {fr} : French, {frm}
11658 : Middle French (ca.1400-1600), {fro} : Old French (842-ca.1400), {fy} :
11659 Frisian, {fur} : Friulian, {ful} : Fulah, {gaa} : Ga, {gd} : Scots Gaelic,
11660 {gl} : Gallegan, {lug} : Ganda, {gay} : Gayo, {gba} : Gbaya, {gez} : Geez,
11661 {ka} : Georgian, {de} : German, {gmh} : Middle High German (ca.1050-1500),
11662 {goh} : Old High German (ca.750-1050), [{gem} : Germanic (Other)], {gil} :
11663 Gilbertese, {gon} : Gondi, {gor} : Gorontalo, {got} : Gothic, {grb} :
11664 Grebo, {grc} : Ancient Greek, {el} : Modern Greek, {gn} : Guarani, {gu} :
11665 Gujarati, {gwi} : Gwich'in, {hai} : Haida, {ha} : Hausa, {haw} : Hawaiian,
11666 {he} : Hebrew, {hz} : Herero, {hil} : Hiligaynon, {him} : Himachali, {hi} :
11667 Hindi, {ho} : Hiri Motu, {hit} : Hittite, {hmn} : Hmong, {hu} : Hungarian,
11668 {hup} : Hupa, {iba} : Iban, {is} : Icelandic, {ibo} : Igbo, {ijo} : Ijo,
11669 {ilo} : Iloko, [{inc} : Indic (Other)], [{ine} : Indo-European (Other)],
11670 {id} : Indonesian, {ia} : Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language
11671 Association), {ie} : Interlingue, {iu} : Inuktitut, {ik} : Inupiaq, [{ira}
11672 : Iranian (Other)], {ga} : Irish, {mga} : Middle Irish (900-1200), {sga} :
11673 Old Irish (to 900), [{iro} : Iroquoian languages], {it} : Italian, {ja} :
11674 Japanese, {jw} : Javanese, {jrb} : Judeo-Arabic, {jpr} : Judeo-Persian,
11675 {kab} : Kabyle, {kac} : Kachin, {kl} : Kalaallisut, {kam} : Kamba, {kn} :
11676 Kannada, {kau} : Kanuri, {kaa} : Kara-Kalpak, {kar} : Karen, {ks} :
11677 Kashmiri, {kaw} : Kawi, {kk} : Kazakh, {kha} : Khasi, {km} : Khmer, [{khi}
11678 : Khoisan (Other)], {kho} : Khotanese, {ki} : Kikuyu, {kmb} : Kimbundu,
11679 {rw} : Kinyarwanda, {ky} : Kirghiz, {i-klingon} : Klingon, {kv} : Komi,
11680 {kon} : Kongo, {kok} : Konkani, {ko} : Korean, {kos} : Kosraean, {kpe} :
11681 Kpelle, {kro} : Kru, {kj} : Kuanyama, {kum} : Kumyk, {ku} : Kurdish, {kru}
11682 : Kurukh, {kut} : Kutenai, {lad} : Ladino, {lah} : Lahnda, {lam} : Lamba,
11683 {lo} : Lao, {la} : Latin, {lv} : Latvian, {lb} : Letzeburgesch, {lez} :
11684 Lezghian, {ln} : Lingala, {lt} : Lithuanian, {nds} : Low German, {loz} :
11685 Lozi, {lub} : Luba-Katanga, {lua} : Luba-Lulua, {lui} : Luiseno, {lun} :
11686 Lunda, {luo} : Luo (Kenya and Tanzania), {lus} : Lushai, {mk} : Macedonian,
11687 {mad} : Madurese, {mag} : Magahi, {mai} : Maithili, {mak} : Makasar, {mg} :
11688 Malagasy, {ms} : Malay, {ml} : Malayalam, {mt} : Maltese, {mnc} : Manchu,
11689 {mdr} : Mandar, {man} : Mandingo, {mni} : Manipuri, [{mno} : Manobo
11690 languages], {gv} : Manx, {mi} : Maori, {mr} : Marathi, {chm} : Mari, {mh} :
11691 Marshall, {mwr} : Marwari, {mas} : Masai, [{myn} : Mayan languages], {men}
11692 : Mende, {mic} : Micmac, {min} : Minangkabau, {i-mingo} : Mingo, [{mis} :
11693 Miscellaneous languages], {moh} : Mohawk, {mo} : Moldavian, [{mkh} :
11694 Mon-Khmer (Other)], {lol} : Mongo, {mn} : Mongolian, {mos} : Mossi, [{mul}
11695 : Multiple languages], [{mun} : Munda languages], {nah} : Nahuatl, {na} :
11696 Nauru, {nv} : Navajo, {nd} : North Ndebele, {nr} : South Ndebele, {ng} :
11697 Ndonga, {ne} : Nepali, {new} : Newari, {nia} : Nias, [{nic} :
11698 Niger-Kordofanian (Other)], [{ssa} : Nilo-Saharan (Other)], {niu} : Niuean,
11699 {non} : Old Norse, [{nai} : North American Indian], {se} : Northern Sami,
11700 {no} : Norwegian, {nb} : Norwegian Bokmal, {nn} : Norwegian Nynorsk, [{nub}
11701 : Nubian languages], {nym} : Nyamwezi, {nyn} : Nyankole, {nyo} : Nyoro,
11702 {nzi} : Nzima, {oc} : Occitan (post 1500), {oji} : Ojibwa, {or} : Oriya,
11703 {om} : Oromo, {osa} : Osage, {os} : Ossetian; Ossetic, [{oto} : Otomian
11704 languages], {pal} : Pahlavi, {i-pwn} : Paiwan, {pau} : Palauan, {pi} :
11705 Pali, {pam} : Pampanga, {pag} : Pangasinan, {pa} : Panjabi, {pap} :
11706 Papiamento, [{paa} : Papuan (Other)], {fa} : Persian, {peo} : Old Persian
11707 (ca.600-400 B.C.), [{phi} : Philippine (Other)], {phn} : Phoenician, {pon}
11708 : Pohnpeian, {pl} : Polish, {pt} : Portuguese, [{pra} : Prakrit languages],
11709 {pro} : Old Provencal (to 1500), {ps} : Pushto, {qu} : Quechua, {rm} :
11710 Raeto-Romance, {raj} : Rajasthani, {rap} : Rapanui, {rar} : Rarotongan,
11711 [{qaa - qtz} : Reserved for local use.], [{roa} : Romance (Other)], {ro} :
11712 Romanian, {rom} : Romany, {rn} : Rundi, {ru} : Russian, [{sal} : Salishan
11713 languages], {sam} : Samaritan Aramaic, [{smi} : Sami languages (Other)],
11714 {sm} : Samoan, {sad} : Sandawe, {sg} : Sango, {sa} : Sanskrit, {sat} :
11715 Santali, {sc} : Sardinian, {sas} : Sasak, {sco} : Scots, {sel} : Selkup,
11716 [{sem} : Semitic (Other)], {sr} : Serbian, {srr} : Serer, {shn} : Shan,
11717 {sn} : Shona, {sid} : Sidamo, {sgn-...} : Sign Languages, {bla} : Siksika,
11718 {sd} : Sindhi, {si} : Sinhalese, [{sit} : Sino-Tibetan (Other)], [{sio} :
11719 Siouan languages], {den} : Slave (Athapascan), [{sla} : Slavic (Other)],
11720 {sk} : Slovak, {sl} : Slovenian, {sog} : Sogdian, {so} : Somali, {son} :
11721 Songhai, {snk} : Soninke, {wen} : Sorbian languages, {nso} : Northern
11722 Sotho, {st} : Southern Sotho, [{sai} : South American Indian (Other)], {es}
11723 : Spanish, {suk} : Sukuma, {sux} : Sumerian, {su} : Sundanese, {sus} :
11724 Susu, {sw} : Swahili, {ss} : Swati, {sv} : Swedish, {syr} : Syriac, {tl} :
11725 Tagalog, {ty} : Tahitian, [{tai} : Tai (Other)], {tg} : Tajik, {tmh} :
11726 Tamashek, {ta} : Tamil, {i-tao} : Tao, {tt} : Tatar, {i-tay} : Tayal, {te}
11727 : Telugu, {ter} : Tereno, {tet} : Tetum, {th} : Thai, {bo} : Tibetan, {tig}
11728 : Tigre, {ti} : Tigrinya, {tem} : Timne, {tiv} : Tiv, {tli} : Tlingit,
11729 {tpi} : Tok Pisin, {tkl} : Tokelau, {tog} : Tonga (Nyasa), {to} : Tonga
11730 (Tonga Islands), {tsi} : Tsimshian, {ts} : Tsonga, {i-tsu} : Tsou, {tn} :
11731 Tswana, {tum} : Tumbuka, {tr} : Turkish, {ota} : Ottoman Turkish
11732 (1500-1928), {tk} : Turkmen, {tvl} : Tuvalu, {tyv} : Tuvinian, {tw} : Twi,
11733 {uga} : Ugaritic, {ug} : Uighur, {uk} : Ukrainian, {umb} : Umbundu, {und} :
11734 Undetermined, {ur} : Urdu, {uz} : Uzbek, {vai} : Vai, {ven} : Venda, {vi} :
11735 Vietnamese, {vo} : Volapuk, {vot} : Votic, [{wak} : Wakashan languages],
11736 {wal} : Walamo, {war} : Waray, {was} : Washo, {cy} : Welsh, {wo} : Wolof,
11737 {x-...} : Unregistered (Semi-Private Use), {xh} : Xhosa, {sah} : Yakut,
11738 {yao} : Yao, {yap} : Yapese, {yi} : Yiddish, {yo} : Yoruba, [{ypk} : Yupik
11739 languages], {znd} : Zande, [{zap} : Zapotec], {zen} : Zenaga, {za} :
11740 Zhuang, {zu} : Zulu, {zun} : Zuni
11744 =item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
11750 =head2 I18N::Langinfo - query locale information
11768 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
11772 =head2 IO - load various IO modules
11782 =head2 IO::Dir - supply object methods for directory handles
11790 new ( [ DIRNAME ] ), open ( DIRNAME ), read (), seek ( POS ), tell (),
11791 rewind (), close (), tie %hash, IO::Dir, DIRNAME [, OPTIONS ]
11801 =head2 IO::File - supply object methods for filehandles
11811 new ( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ), new_tmpfile
11815 open( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] )
11823 =head2 IO::Handle - supply object methods for I/O handles
11833 new (), new_from_fd ( FD, MODE )
11837 $io->fdopen ( FD, MODE ), $io->opened, $io->getline, $io->getlines,
11838 $io->ungetc ( ORD ), $io->write ( BUF, LEN [, OFFSET ] ), $io->error,
11839 $io->clearerr, $io->sync, $io->flush, $io->printflush ( ARGS ),
11840 $io->blocking ( [ BOOL ] ), $io->untaint
11852 =head2 IO::Pipe - supply object methods for pipes
11862 new ( [READER, WRITER] )
11866 reader ([ARGS]), writer ([ARGS]), handles ()
11876 =head2 IO::Poll - Object interface to system poll call
11886 mask ( IO [, EVENT_MASK ] ), poll ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), events ( IO ), remove (
11887 IO ), handles( [ EVENT_MASK ] )
11897 =head2 IO::Seekable - supply seek based methods for I/O objects
11905 $io->getpos, $io->setpos, $io->seek ( POS, WHENCE ), WHENCE=0 (SEEK_SET),
11906 WHENCE=1 (SEEK_CUR), WHENCE=2 (SEEK_END), $io->sysseek( POS, WHENCE ),
11915 =head2 IO::Select - OO interface to the select system call
11925 new ( [ HANDLES ] )
11929 add ( HANDLES ), remove ( HANDLES ), exists ( HANDLE ), handles, can_read (
11930 [ TIMEOUT ] ), can_write ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), has_exception ( [ TIMEOUT ] ),
11931 count (), bits(), select ( READ, WRITE, ERROR [, TIMEOUT ] )
11941 =head2 IO::Socket - Object interface to socket communications
11955 accept([PKG]), socketpair(DOMAIN, TYPE, PROTOCOL), atmark, connected,
11956 protocol, sockdomain, sockopt(OPT [, VAL]), socktype, timeout([VAL])
11966 =head2 IO::Socket::INET - Object interface for AF_INET domain sockets
11982 sockaddr (), sockport (), sockhost (), peeraddr (), peerport (), peerhost
11995 =head2 IO::Socket::UNIX - Object interface for AF_UNIX domain sockets
12009 hostpath(), peerpath()
12019 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Dir, IO::Dir - supply object methods for directory
12028 new ( [ DIRNAME ] ), open ( DIRNAME ), read (), seek ( POS ), tell (),
12029 rewind (), close (), tie %hash, IO::Dir, DIRNAME [, OPTIONS ]
12039 =head2 IO::lib::IO::File, IO::File - supply object methods for filehandles
12049 new ( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ), new_tmpfile
12053 open( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] )
12061 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Handle, IO::Handle - supply object methods for I/O
12072 new (), new_from_fd ( FD, MODE )
12076 $io->fdopen ( FD, MODE ), $io->opened, $io->getline, $io->getlines,
12077 $io->ungetc ( ORD ), $io->write ( BUF, LEN [, OFFSET ] ), $io->error,
12078 $io->clearerr, $io->sync, $io->flush, $io->printflush ( ARGS ),
12079 $io->blocking ( [ BOOL ] ), $io->untaint
12091 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Pipe, IO::Pipe - supply object methods for pipes
12101 new ( [READER, WRITER] )
12105 reader ([ARGS]), writer ([ARGS]), handles ()
12115 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Poll, IO::Poll - Object interface to system poll call
12125 mask ( IO [, EVENT_MASK ] ), poll ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), events ( IO ), remove (
12126 IO ), handles( [ EVENT_MASK ] )
12136 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Seekable, IO::Seekable - supply seek based methods for
12145 $io->getpos, $io->setpos, $io->seek ( POS, WHENCE ), WHENCE=0 (SEEK_SET),
12146 WHENCE=1 (SEEK_CUR), WHENCE=2 (SEEK_END), $io->sysseek( POS, WHENCE ),
12155 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Select, IO::Select - OO interface to the select system
12166 new ( [ HANDLES ] )
12170 add ( HANDLES ), remove ( HANDLES ), exists ( HANDLE ), handles, can_read (
12171 [ TIMEOUT ] ), can_write ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), has_exception ( [ TIMEOUT ] ),
12172 count (), bits(), select ( READ, WRITE, ERROR [, TIMEOUT ] )
12182 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Socket, IO::Socket - Object interface to socket
12197 accept([PKG]), socketpair(DOMAIN, TYPE, PROTOCOL), atmark, connected,
12198 protocol, sockdomain, sockopt(OPT [, VAL]), socktype, timeout([VAL])
12208 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Socket::INET, IO::Socket::INET - Object interface for
12209 AF_INET domain sockets
12225 sockaddr (), sockport (), sockhost (), peeraddr (), peerport (), peerhost
12238 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Socket::UNIX, IO::Socket::UNIX - Object interface for
12239 AF_UNIX domain sockets
12253 hostpath(), peerpath()
12263 =head2 IPC::Msg - SysV Msg IPC object class
12273 new ( KEY , FLAGS ), id, rcv ( BUF, LEN [, TYPE [, FLAGS ]] ), remove, set
12274 ( STAT ), set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), snd ( TYPE, MSG [,
12285 =head2 IPC::Open2, open2 - open a process for both reading and writing
12299 =head2 IPC::Open3, open3 - open a process for reading, writing, and error
12312 =head2 IPC::Semaphore - SysV Semaphore IPC object class
12322 new ( KEY , NSEMS , FLAGS ), getall, getncnt ( SEM ), getpid ( SEM ),
12323 getval ( SEM ), getzcnt ( SEM ), id, op ( OPLIST ), remove, set ( STAT ),
12324 set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), setall ( VALUES ), setval ( N
12335 =head2 IPC::SysV - SysV IPC constants
12353 =head2 IPC::SysV::Msg, IPC::Msg - SysV Msg IPC object class
12363 new ( KEY , FLAGS ), id, rcv ( BUF, LEN [, TYPE [, FLAGS ]] ), remove, set
12364 ( STAT ), set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), snd ( TYPE, MSG [,
12375 =head2 IPC::SysV::Semaphore, IPC::Semaphore - SysV Semaphore IPC object
12386 new ( KEY , NSEMS , FLAGS ), getall, getncnt ( SEM ), getpid ( SEM ),
12387 getval ( SEM ), getzcnt ( SEM ), id, op ( OPLIST ), remove, set ( STAT ),
12388 set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), setall ( VALUES ), setval ( N
12399 =head2 Lingua::KO::Hangul::Util - utility functions for Hangul Syllables
12409 =item Composition and Decomposition
12411 C<$string_decomposed = decomposeHangul($codepoint)>, C<@codepoints =
12412 decomposeHangul($codepoint)>, C<$string_composed =
12413 composeHangul($src_string)>, C<@codepoints_composed =
12414 composeHangul($src_string)>
12416 =item Hangul Syllable Name
12418 C<$name = getHangulName($codepoint)>, C<$codepoint =
12419 parseHangulName($name)>
12429 http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr15
12433 =head2 List::Util - A selection of general-utility list subroutines
12441 first BLOCK LIST, max LIST, maxstr LIST, min LIST, minstr LIST, reduce
12442 BLOCK LIST, shuffle LIST, sum LIST
12444 =item SUGGESTED ADDITIONS
12450 =head2 List::Utilib::List::Util, List::Util - A selection of
12451 general-utility list subroutines
12459 first BLOCK LIST, max LIST, maxstr LIST, min LIST, minstr LIST, reduce
12460 BLOCK LIST, shuffle LIST, sum LIST
12462 =item SUGGESTED ADDITIONS
12468 =head2 List::Utilib::Scalar::Util, Scalar::Util - A selection of
12469 general-utility scalar subroutines
12477 blessed EXPR, dualvar NUM, STRING, isweak EXPR, readonly SCALAR, reftype
12478 EXPR, tainted EXPR, weaken REF
12486 =head2 Locale::Constants - constants for Locale codes
12494 =item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
12498 Locale::Language, Locale::Country, Locale::Currency
12506 =head2 Locale::Country - ISO codes for country identification (ISO 3166)
12518 B<alpha-2>, B<alpha-3>, B<numeric>
12524 =item CONVERSION ROUTINES
12526 code2country( CODE, [ CODESET ] ), country2code( STRING, [ CODESET ] ),
12527 country_code2code( CODE, CODESET, CODESET )
12533 =item QUERY ROUTINES
12535 C<all_country_codes( [ CODESET ] )>, C<all_country_names( [ CODESET ] )>
12541 =item CODE ALIASING
12551 =item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
12555 Locale::Language, Locale::Currency, ISO 3166,
12556 http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nabd/iso3166ma/,
12557 http://www.egt.ie/standards/iso3166/iso3166-1-en.html,
12558 http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/docs/app-f.html
12566 =head2 Locale::Currency - ISO three letter codes for currency
12567 identification (ISO 4217)
12585 =item CONVERSION ROUTINES
12587 code2currency(), currency2code()
12593 =item QUERY ROUTINES
12595 C<all_currency_codes()>, C<all_currency_names()>
12603 =item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
12607 Locale::Country, ISO 4217:1995, http://www.bsi-global.com/iso4217currency
12615 =head2 Locale::Language - ISO two letter codes for language identification
12632 =item CONVERSION ROUTINES
12634 code2language(), language2code()
12640 =item QUERY ROUTINES
12642 C<all_language_codes()>, C<all_language_names()>
12650 =item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
12654 Locale::Country, Locale::Currency, ISO 639:1988 (E/F),
12655 http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/langhome.html
12663 =head2 Locale::Maketext -- framework for localization
12671 =item QUICK OVERVIEW
12677 =item Construction Methods
12679 =item The "maketext" Method
12681 $lh->fail_with I<or> $lh->fail_with(I<PARAM>), $lh->failure_handler_auto
12683 =item Utility Methods
12685 $language->quant($number, $singular), $language->quant($number, $singular,
12686 $plural), $language->quant($number, $singular, $plural, $negative),
12687 $language->numf($number), $language->sprintf($format, @items),
12688 $language->language_tag(), $language->encoding()
12690 =item Language Handle Attributes and Internals
12694 =item LANGUAGE CLASS HIERARCHIES
12696 =item ENTRIES IN EACH LEXICON
12698 =item BRACKET NOTATION
12700 =item AUTO LEXICONS
12702 =item CONTROLLING LOOKUP FAILURE
12704 =item HOW TO USE MAKETEXT
12708 =item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
12714 =head2 Locale::Maketext::TPJ13 -- article about software localization
12722 =item Localization and Perl: gettext breaks, Maketext fixes
12726 =item A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen To You
12728 =item The Linguistic View
12730 =item Breaking gettext
12732 =item Replacing gettext
12734 =item Buzzwords: Abstraction and Encapsulation
12736 =item Buzzword: Isomorphism
12738 =item Buzzword: Inheritance
12740 =item Buzzword: Concision
12742 =item The Devil in the Details
12744 =item The Proof in the Pudding: Localizing Web Sites
12752 =head2 MIME::Base64 - Encoding and decoding of base64 strings
12760 encode_base64($str, [$eol]), decode_base64($str)
12764 Premature end of base64 data, Premature padding of base64 data
12772 =head2 MIME::Base64::QuotedPrint, MIME::QuotedPrint - Encoding and decoding
12773 of quoted-printable strings
12781 encode_qp($str), decode_qp($str);
12787 =head2 MIME::QuotedPrint - Encoding and decoding of quoted-printable
12796 encode_qp($str), decode_qp($str);
12802 =head2 Math::BigFloat - Arbitrary size floating point math package
12812 =item Canonical notation
12816 =item C<mantissa()>, C<exponent()> and C<parts()>
12818 =item Accuracy vs. Precision
12822 ffround ( +$scale ), ffround ( -$scale ), ffround ( 0 ), fround ( +$scale
12823 ), fround ( -$scale ) and fround ( 0 )
12831 =item Autocreating constants
12837 stringify, bstr(), bdiv, Modifying and =, bpow
12845 =head2 Math::BigInt - Arbitrary size integer math package
12853 Canonical notation, Input, Output
12855 =item ACCURACY and PRECISION
12865 =item Rounding mode R
12867 'trunc', 'even', 'odd', '+inf', '-inf', 'zero', Precision, Accuracy
12868 (significant digits), Setting/Accessing, Creating numbers, Usage,
12869 Precedence, Overriding globals, Local settings, Rounding, Default values,
12882 =item mantissa(), exponent() and parts()
12888 use Math::BigInt qw(bstr);
12890 =item Autocreating constants
12896 =item Alternative math libraries
12902 Out of Memory!, Fails to load Calc on Perl prior 5.6.0
12906 stringify, bstr(), bsstr() and 'cmp', int(), bdiv, bdiv, Modifying and =,
12907 bpow, Overloading -$x, Mixing different object types, bsqrt()
12917 =head2 Math::BigInt::Calc - Pure Perl module to support Math::BigInt
12927 =item WRAP YOUR OWN
12931 This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
12933 the same terms as Perl itself.
12941 =head2 Math::Complex - complex numbers and associated mathematical
12954 =item STRINGIFICATION
12958 =item CHANGED IN PERL 5.6
12964 =item ERRORS DUE TO DIVISION BY ZERO OR LOGARITHM OF ZERO
12966 =item ERRORS DUE TO INDIGESTIBLE ARGUMENTS
12974 =head2 Math::Trig - trigonometric functions
12982 =item TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS
12988 =item ERRORS DUE TO DIVISION BY ZERO
12990 =item SIMPLE (REAL) ARGUMENTS, COMPLEX RESULTS
12994 =item PLANE ANGLE CONVERSIONS
12996 =item RADIAL COORDINATE CONVERSIONS
13000 =item COORDINATE SYSTEMS
13002 =item 3-D ANGLE CONVERSIONS
13004 cartesian_to_cylindrical, cartesian_to_spherical, cylindrical_to_cartesian,
13005 cylindrical_to_spherical, spherical_to_cartesian, spherical_to_cylindrical
13009 =item GREAT CIRCLE DISTANCES AND DIRECTIONS
13015 =item CAVEAT FOR GREAT CIRCLE FORMULAS
13025 =head2 Memoize - Make your functions faster by trading space for time
13043 =item C<SCALAR_CACHE>, C<LIST_CACHE>
13045 C<MEMORY>, C<HASH>, C<TIE>, C<FAULT>, C<MERGE>
13049 =item OTHER FACILITIES
13055 =item C<flush_cache>
13061 =item PERSISTENT CACHE SUPPORT
13063 =item EXPIRATION SUPPORT
13071 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
13077 =head2 Memoize::AnyDBM_File - glue to provide EXISTS for AnyDBM_File for
13086 =head2 Memoize::Expire - Plug-in module for automatic expiration of
13097 TIEHASH, EXISTS, STORE
13109 =head2 Memoize::ExpireFile - test for Memoize expiration semantics
13117 =head2 Memoize::ExpireTest - test for Memoize expiration semantics
13125 =head2 Memoize::NDBM_File - glue to provide EXISTS for NDBM_File for
13134 =head2 Memoize::SDBM_File - glue to provide EXISTS for SDBM_File for
13143 =head2 Memoize::Saves - Plug-in module to specify which return values
13160 =head2 Memoize::Storable - store Memoized data in Storable database
13168 =head2 NDBM_File - Tied access to ndbm files
13176 C<O_RDONLY>, C<O_WRONLY>, C<O_RDWR>
13182 =item C<ndbm store returned -1, errno 22, key "..." at ...>
13186 =item BUGS AND WARNINGS
13190 =head2 NEXT - Provide a pseudo-class NEXT that allows method redispatch
13200 =item BUGS AND IRRITATIONS
13206 =head2 Net::Cmd - Network Command class (as used by FTP, SMTP etc)
13216 debug ( VALUE ), message (), code (), ok (), status (), datasend ( DATA ),
13219 =item CLASS METHODS
13221 debug_print ( DIR, TEXT ), debug_text ( TEXT ), command ( CMD [, ARGS, ...
13222 ]), unsupported (), response (), parse_response ( TEXT ), getline (),
13223 ungetline ( TEXT ), read_until_dot ()
13233 =head2 Net::Config - Local configuration data for libnet
13243 requires_firewall HOST
13245 =item NetConfig VALUES
13247 nntp_hosts, snpp_hosts, pop3_hosts, smtp_hosts, ph_hosts, daytime_hosts,
13248 time_hosts, inet_domain, ftp_firewall, ftp_firewall_type, ftp_ext_passive,
13249 ftp_int_pasive, local_netmask, test_hosts, test_exists
13253 =head2 Net::Domain - Attempt to evaluate the current host's internet name
13262 hostfqdn (), hostname (), hostdomain ()
13270 =head2 Net::FTP - FTP Client class
13282 new (HOST [,OPTIONS])
13286 login ([LOGIN [,PASSWORD [, ACCOUNT] ] ]), authorize ( [AUTH [, RESP]]),
13287 site (ARGS), type (TYPE [, ARGS]), ascii ([ARGS]) binary([ARGS])
13288 ebcdic([ARGS]) byte([ARGS]), rename ( OLDNAME, NEWNAME ), delete ( FILENAME
13289 ), cwd ( [ DIR ] ), cdup (), pwd (), restart ( WHERE ), rmdir ( DIR ),
13290 mkdir ( DIR [, RECURSE ]), ls ( [ DIR ] ), dir ( [ DIR ] ), get (
13291 REMOTE_FILE [, LOCAL_FILE [, WHERE]] ), put ( LOCAL_FILE [, REMOTE_FILE ]
13292 ), put_unique ( LOCAL_FILE [, REMOTE_FILE ] ), append ( LOCAL_FILE [,
13293 REMOTE_FILE ] ), unique_name (), mdtm ( FILE ), size ( FILE ), supported (
13294 CMD ), hash ( [FILEHANDLE_GLOB_REF],[ BYTES_PER_HASH_MARK] ), nlst ( [ DIR
13295 ] ), list ( [ DIR ] ), retr ( FILE ), stor ( FILE ), stou ( FILE ), appe (
13296 FILE ), port ( [ PORT ] ), pasv (), pasv_xfer ( SRC_FILE, DEST_SERVER [,
13297 DEST_FILE ] ), pasv_xfer_unique ( SRC_FILE, DEST_SERVER [, DEST_FILE ] ),
13298 pasv_wait ( NON_PASV_SERVER ), abort (), quit ()
13302 =item Methods for the adventurous
13308 =item THE dataconn CLASS
13310 read ( BUFFER, SIZE [, TIMEOUT ] ), write ( BUFFER, SIZE [, TIMEOUT ] ),
13311 bytes_read (), abort (), close ()
13313 =item UNIMPLEMENTED
13315 B<ALLO>, B<SMNT>, B<HELP>, B<MODE>, B<SYST>, B<STAT>, B<STRU>, B<REIN>
13317 =item REPORTING BUGS
13325 http://www.csh.rit.edu/~adam/Progs/autoftp-2.0.tar.gz
13333 =head2 Net::NNTP - NNTP Client class
13343 new ( [ HOST ] [, OPTIONS ])
13347 article ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ], [FH] ), body ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ], [FH] ), head (
13348 [ MSGID|MSGNUM ], [FH] ), nntpstat ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ] ), group ( [ GROUP ]
13349 ), ihave ( MSGID [, MESSAGE ]), last (), date (), postok (), authinfo (
13350 USER, PASS ), list (), newgroups ( SINCE [, DISTRIBUTIONS ]), newnews (
13351 SINCE [, GROUPS [, DISTRIBUTIONS ]]), next (), post ( [ MESSAGE ] ), slave
13356 =item Extension methods
13358 newsgroups ( [ PATTERN ] ), distributions (), subscriptions (),
13359 overview_fmt (), active_times (), active ( [ PATTERN ] ), xgtitle ( PATTERN
13360 ), xhdr ( HEADER, MESSAGE-SPEC ), xover ( MESSAGE-SPEC ), xpath (
13361 MESSAGE-ID ), xpat ( HEADER, PATTERN, MESSAGE-SPEC), xrover, listgroup ( [
13370 MESSAGE-SPEC, PATTERN, Examples, C<[^]-]>, C<*bdc>, C<[0-9a-zA-Z]>, C<a??d>
13380 =head2 Net::POP3 - Post Office Protocol 3 Client class (RFC1081)
13392 new ( [ HOST, ] [ OPTIONS ] )
13396 user ( USER ), pass ( PASS ), login ( [ USER [, PASS ]] ), apop ( USER,
13397 PASS ), top ( MSGNUM [, NUMLINES ] ), list ( [ MSGNUM ] ), get ( MSGNUM [,
13398 FH ] ), last (), popstat (), ping ( USER ), uidl ( [ MSGNUM ] ), delete (
13399 MSGNUM ), reset (), quit ()
13411 =head2 Net::Ping - check a remote host for reachability
13419 icmp, udp, tcp, stream, external
13425 Net::Ping->new([$proto [, $def_timeout [, $bytes]]]);, $p->ping($host [,
13426 $timeout]);, $p->open($host);, $p->close();, pingecho($host [, $timeout]);
13434 =head2 Net::SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Client
13446 new Net::SMTP [ HOST, ] [ OPTIONS ]
13450 banner (), domain (), hello ( DOMAIN ), etrn ( DOMAIN ), mail ( ADDRESS [,
13451 OPTIONS] ), send ( ADDRESS ), send_or_mail ( ADDRESS ), send_and_mail (
13452 ADDRESS ), reset (), recipient ( ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [ ...]] [, OPTIONS ] ),
13453 to ( ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] ), cc ( ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] ), bcc (
13454 ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] ), data ( [ DATA ] ), expand ( ADDRESS ), verify
13455 ( ADDRESS ), help ( [ $subject ] ), quit ()
13465 =head2 Net::Time - time and daytime network client interface
13473 inet_time ( [HOST [, PROTOCOL [, TIMEOUT]]]), inet_daytime ( [HOST [,
13474 PROTOCOL [, TIMEOUT]]])
13482 =head2 Net::hostent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in gethost*()
13499 =head2 Net::libnetFAQ, libnetFAQ - libnet Frequently Asked Questions
13507 =item Where to get this document
13509 =item How to contribute to this document
13513 =item Author and Copyright Information
13521 =item Obtaining and installing libnet
13525 =item What is libnet ?
13527 =item Which version of perl do I need ?
13529 =item What other modules do I need ?
13531 =item What machines support libnet ?
13533 =item Where can I get the latest libnet release
13537 =item Using Net::FTP
13541 =item How do I download files from a FTP server ?
13543 =item How do I transfer files in binary mode ?
13545 =item How can I get the size of a file on a remote FTP server ?
13547 =item How can I get the modification time of a file on a remote FTP server
13550 =item How can I change the permissions of a file on a remote server ?
13552 =item Can I do a reget operation like the ftp command ?
13554 =item How do I get a directory listing from a FTP server ?
13556 =item Changeing directory to "" does not fail ?
13558 =item I am behind a SOCKS firewall, but the Firewall option does not work ?
13560 =item I am behind a FTP proxy firewall, but cannot access machines outside
13563 =item My ftp proxy firewall does not listen on port 21
13565 =item Is it possible to change the file permissions of a file on an FTP
13568 =item I have seen scripts call a method message, but cannot find it
13571 =item Why does Net::FTP not implement mput and mget methods
13575 =item Using Net::SMTP
13579 =item Why can't the part of an Email address after the @ be used as the
13582 =item Why does Net::SMTP not do DNS MX lookups ?
13584 =item The verify method always returns true ?
13588 =item Debugging scripts
13592 =item How can I debug my scripts that use Net::* modules ?
13596 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
13600 =head2 Net::netent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getnet*()
13617 =head2 Net::protoent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getproto*()
13632 =head2 Net::servent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getserv*()
13649 =head2 Netrc, Net::Netrc - OO interface to users netrc file
13657 =item THE .netrc FILE
13659 machine name, default, login name, password string, account string, macdef
13664 lookup ( MACHINE [, LOGIN ])
13668 login (), password (), account (), lpa ()
13678 =head2 O - Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends
13688 =item IMPLEMENTATION
13694 =head2 ODBM_File - Tied access to odbm files
13702 C<O_RDONLY>, C<O_WRONLY>, C<O_RDWR>
13708 =item C<odbm store returned -1, errno 22, key "..." at ...>
13712 =item BUGS AND WARNINGS
13716 =head2 Opcode - Disable named opcodes when compiling perl code
13728 =item Operator Names and Operator Lists
13730 an operator name (opname), an operator tag name (optag), a negated opname
13731 or optag, an operator set (opset)
13733 =item Opcode Functions
13735 opcodes, opset (OP, ...), opset_to_ops (OPSET), opset_to_hex (OPSET),
13736 full_opset, empty_opset, invert_opset (OPSET), verify_opset (OPSET, ...),
13737 define_optag (OPTAG, OPSET), opmask_add (OPSET), opmask, opdesc (OP, ...),
13740 =item Manipulating Opsets
13742 =item TO DO (maybe)
13748 =item Predefined Opcode Tags
13750 :base_core, :base_mem, :base_loop, :base_io, :base_orig, :base_math,
13751 :base_thread, :default, :filesys_read, :sys_db, :browse, :filesys_open,
13752 :filesys_write, :subprocess, :ownprocess, :others, :still_to_be_decided,
13761 =head2 Opcode::Safe, Safe - Compile and execute code in restricted
13770 a new namespace, an operator mask
13776 =item RECENT CHANGES
13778 =item Methods in class Safe
13780 permit (OP, ...), permit_only (OP, ...), deny (OP, ...), deny_only (OP,
13781 ...), trap (OP, ...), untrap (OP, ...), share (NAME, ...), share_from
13782 (PACKAGE, ARRAYREF), varglob (VARNAME), reval (STRING), rdo (FILENAME),
13783 root (NAMESPACE), mask (MASK)
13785 =item Some Safety Issues
13787 Memory, CPU, Snooping, Signals, State Changes
13795 =head2 Opcode::ops, ops - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when
13808 =head2 POSIX - Perl interface to IEEE Std 1003.1
13822 _exit, abort, abs, access, acos, alarm, asctime, asin, assert, atan, atan2,
13823 atexit, atof, atoi, atol, bsearch, calloc, ceil, chdir, chmod, chown,
13824 clearerr, clock, close, closedir, cos, cosh, creat, ctermid, ctime,
13825 cuserid, difftime, div, dup, dup2, errno, execl, execle, execlp, execv,
13826 execve, execvp, exit, exp, fabs, fclose, fcntl, fdopen, feof, ferror,
13827 fflush, fgetc, fgetpos, fgets, fileno, floor, fmod, fopen, fork, fpathconf,
13828 fprintf, fputc, fputs, fread, free, freopen, frexp, fscanf, fseek, fsetpos,
13829 fstat, ftell, fwrite, getc, getchar, getcwd, getegid, getenv, geteuid,
13830 getgid, getgrgid, getgrnam, getgroups, getlogin, getpgrp, getpid, getppid,
13831 getpwnam, getpwuid, gets, getuid, gmtime, isalnum, isalpha, isatty,
13832 iscntrl, isdigit, isgraph, islower, isprint, ispunct, isspace, isupper,
13833 isxdigit, kill, labs, ldexp, ldiv, link, localeconv, localtime, log, log10,
13834 longjmp, lseek, malloc, mblen, mbstowcs, mbtowc, memchr, memcmp, memcpy,
13835 memmove, memset, mkdir, mkfifo, mktime, modf, nice, offsetof, open,
13836 opendir, pathconf, pause, perror, pipe, pow, printf, putc, putchar, puts,
13837 qsort, raise, rand, read, readdir, realloc, remove, rename, rewind,
13838 rewinddir, rmdir, scanf, setgid, setjmp, setlocale, setpgid, setsid,
13839 setuid, sigaction, siglongjmp, sigpending, sigprocmask, sigsetjmp,
13840 sigsuspend, sin, sinh, sleep, sprintf, sqrt, srand, sscanf, stat, strcat,
13841 strchr, strcmp, strcoll, strcpy, strcspn, strerror, strftime, strlen,
13842 strncat, strncmp, strncpy, strpbrk, strrchr, strspn, strstr, strtod,
13843 strtok, strtol, strtoul, strxfrm, sysconf, system, tan, tanh, tcdrain,
13844 tcflow, tcflush, tcgetpgrp, tcsendbreak, tcsetpgrp, time, times, tmpfile,
13845 tmpnam, tolower, toupper, ttyname, tzname, tzset, umask, uname, ungetc,
13846 unlink, utime, vfprintf, vprintf, vsprintf, wait, waitpid, wcstombs,
13853 =item POSIX::SigAction
13857 =item POSIX::SigSet
13859 new, addset, delset, emptyset, fillset, ismember
13861 =item POSIX::Termios
13863 new, getattr, getcc, getcflag, getiflag, getispeed, getlflag, getoflag,
13864 getospeed, setattr, setcc, setcflag, setiflag, setispeed, setlflag,
13865 setoflag, setospeed, Baud rate values, Terminal interface values, c_cc
13866 field values, c_cflag field values, c_iflag field values, c_lflag field
13867 values, c_oflag field values
13871 =item PATHNAME CONSTANTS
13875 =item POSIX CONSTANTS
13879 =item SYSTEM CONFIGURATION
13937 =head2 PerlIO - On demand loader for PerlIO layers and root of PerlIO::*
13946 unix, stdio, perlio, crlf, utf8, raw
13950 =item Defaults and how to override them
13960 =head2 PerlIO::Scalar - support module for in-memory IO.
13970 =head2 PerlIO::Via - Helper class for PerlIO layers implemented in perl
13978 $class->PUSHED([$mode][,$fh]), $obj->POPPED([$fh]),
13979 $class->OPEN($path,$mode[,$fh]), $class->FDOPEN($fd),
13980 $class->SYSOPEN($path,$imode,$perm,$fh), $obj->FILENO($fh),
13981 $obj->READ($buffer,$len,$fh), $obj->WRITE($buffer,$fh), $obj->FILL($fh),
13982 $obj->CLOSE($fh), $obj->SEEK($posn,$whence,$fh), $obj->TELL($fh),
13983 $obj->UNREAD($buffer,$fh), $obj->FLUSH($fh), $obj->SETLINEBUF($fh),
13984 $obj->CLEARERR($fh), $obj->ERROR($fh), $obj->EOF($fh)
13988 =head2 Pod::Checker, podchecker() - check pod documents for syntax errors
13994 =item OPTIONS/ARGUMENTS
14000 B<-warnings> =E<gt> I<val>
14012 empty =headn, =over on line I<N> without closing =back, =item without
14013 previous =over, =back without previous =over, No argument for =begin, =end
14014 without =begin, Nested =begin's, =for without formatter specification,
14015 unresolved internal link I<NAME>, Unknown command "I<CMD>", Unknown
14016 interior-sequence "I<SEQ>", nested commands
14017 I<CMD>E<lt>...I<CMD>E<lt>...E<gt>...E<gt>, garbled entity I<STRING>, Entity
14018 number out of range, malformed link LE<lt>E<gt>, nonempty ZE<lt>E<gt>,
14019 empty XE<lt>E<gt>, Spurious text after =pod / =cut, Spurious character(s)
14024 multiple occurence of link target I<name>, line containing nothing but
14025 whitespace in paragraph, file does not start with =head, previous =item has
14026 no contents, preceding non-item paragraph(s), =item type mismatch (I<one>
14027 vs. I<two>), I<N> unescaped C<E<lt>E<gt>> in paragraph, Unknown entity, No
14028 items in =over, No argument for =item, empty section in previous paragraph,
14029 Verbatim paragraph in NAME section
14033 ignoring leading/trailing whitespace in link, (section) in '$page'
14034 deprecated, alternative text/node '%s' contains non-escaped | or /
14046 C<Pod::Checker-E<gt>new( %options )>
14048 C<$checker-E<gt>poderror( @args )>, C<$checker-E<gt>poderror( {%opts},
14051 C<$checker-E<gt>num_errors()>
14053 C<$checker-E<gt>name()>
14055 C<$checker-E<gt>node()>
14057 C<$checker-E<gt>idx()>
14059 C<$checker-E<gt>hyperlink()>
14067 =head2 Pod::Find - find POD documents in directory trees
14079 =item C<pod_find( { %opts } , @directories )>
14081 C<-verbose =E<gt> 1>, C<-perl =E<gt> 1>, C<-script =E<gt> 1>, C<-inc =E<gt>
14088 =item C<simplify_name( $str )>
14094 =item C<pod_where( { %opts }, $pod )>
14096 C<-inc =E<gt> 1>, C<-dirs =E<gt> [ $dir1, $dir2, ... ]>, C<-verbose =E<gt>
14103 =item C<contains_pod( $file , $verbose )>
14115 =head2 Pod::Html - module to convert pod files to HTML
14125 backlink, cachedir, css, flush, header, help, htmldir, htmlroot, index,
14126 infile, libpods, netscape, outfile, podpath, podroot, quiet, recurse,
14141 =head2 Pod::InputObjects - objects representing POD input paragraphs,
14154 package B<Pod::InputSource>, package B<Pod::Paragraph>, package
14155 B<Pod::InteriorSequence>, package B<Pod::ParseTree>
14161 =item B<Pod::InputSource>
14185 =item B<was_cutting()>
14191 =item B<Pod::Paragraph>
14197 =item Pod::Paragraph-E<gt>B<new()>
14203 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<cmd_name()>
14209 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<text()>
14215 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<raw_text()>
14221 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<cmd_prefix()>
14227 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<cmd_separator()>
14233 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<parse_tree()>
14239 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<file_line()>
14245 =item B<Pod::InteriorSequence>
14251 =item Pod::InteriorSequence-E<gt>B<new()>
14257 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<cmd_name()>
14263 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<prepend()>
14269 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<append()>
14275 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<nested()>
14281 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<raw_text()>
14287 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<left_delimiter()>
14293 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<right_delimiter()>
14299 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<parse_tree()>
14305 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<file_line()>
14311 =item Pod::InteriorSequence::B<DESTROY()>
14317 =item B<Pod::ParseTree>
14323 =item Pod::ParseTree-E<gt>B<new()>
14329 =item $ptree-E<gt>B<top()>
14335 =item $ptree-E<gt>B<children()>
14341 =item $ptree-E<gt>B<prepend()>
14347 =item $ptree-E<gt>B<append()>
14353 =item $ptree-E<gt>B<raw_text()>
14359 =item Pod::ParseTree::B<DESTROY()>
14371 =head2 Pod::LaTeX - Convert Pod data to formatted Latex
14383 =item OBJECT METHODS
14391 =item Data Accessors
14407 B<ReplaceNAMEwithSection>
14409 B<StartWithNewPage>
14423 =item Subclassed methods
14437 B<interior_sequence>
14453 =item Methods for headings
14461 =item Internal methods
14467 B<_replace_special_chars>
14473 B<_clean_latex_commands>
14489 =head2 Pod::Man - Convert POD data to formatted *roff input
14497 center, date, fixed, fixedbold, fixeditalic, fixedbolditalic, quotes,
14502 roff font should be 1 or 2 chars, not "%s", Invalid link %s, Invalid quote
14503 specification "%s", %s:%d: Unknown command paragraph "%s", %s:%d: Unknown
14504 escape EE<lt>%sE<gt>, %s:%d: Unknown sequence %s, %s:%d: Unmatched =back
14512 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
14516 =head2 Pod::ParseUtils - helpers for POD parsing and conversion
14530 Pod::List-E<gt>new()
14538 $list-E<gt>indent()
14546 $list-E<gt>parent()
14552 =item Pod::Hyperlink
14554 Pod::Hyperlink-E<gt>new()
14558 $link-E<gt>parse($string)
14560 $link-E<gt>markup($string)
14564 $link-E<gt>warning()
14566 $link-E<gt>file(), $link-E<gt>line()
14572 $link-E<gt>alttext()
14582 Pod::Cache-E<gt>new()
14588 $cache-E<gt>find_page($name)
14592 =item Pod::Cache::Item
14594 Pod::Cache::Item-E<gt>new()
14598 $cacheitem-E<gt>page()
14600 $cacheitem-E<gt>description()
14602 $cacheitem-E<gt>path()
14604 $cacheitem-E<gt>file()
14606 $cacheitem-E<gt>nodes()
14608 $cacheitem-E<gt>find_node($name)
14610 $cacheitem-E<gt>idx()
14620 =head2 Pod::Parser - base class for creating POD filters and translators
14632 =item QUICK OVERVIEW
14634 =item PARSING OPTIONS
14636 B<-want_nonPODs> (default: unset), B<-process_cut_cmd> (default: unset),
14637 B<-warnings> (default: unset)
14643 =item RECOMMENDED SUBROUTINE/METHOD OVERRIDES
14651 C<$cmd>, C<$text>, C<$line_num>, C<$pod_para>
14657 =item B<verbatim()>
14659 C<$text>, C<$line_num>, C<$pod_para>
14665 =item B<textblock()>
14667 C<$text>, C<$line_num>, C<$pod_para>
14673 =item B<interior_sequence()>
14679 =item OPTIONAL SUBROUTINE/METHOD OVERRIDES
14691 =item B<initialize()>
14697 =item B<begin_pod()>
14703 =item B<begin_input()>
14709 =item B<end_input()>
14721 =item B<preprocess_line()>
14727 =item B<preprocess_paragraph()>
14733 =item METHODS FOR PARSING AND PROCESSING
14739 =item B<parse_text()>
14741 B<-expand_seq> =E<gt> I<code-ref>|I<method-name>, B<-expand_text> =E<gt>
14742 I<code-ref>|I<method-name>, B<-expand_ptree> =E<gt>
14743 I<code-ref>|I<method-name>
14749 =item B<interpolate()>
14755 =item B<parse_paragraph()>
14761 =item B<parse_from_filehandle()>
14767 =item B<parse_from_file()>
14773 =item ACCESSOR METHODS
14779 =item B<errorsub()>
14791 =item B<parseopts()>
14797 =item B<output_file()>
14803 =item B<output_handle()>
14809 =item B<input_file()>
14815 =item B<input_handle()>
14821 =item B<input_streams()>
14827 =item B<top_stream()>
14833 =item PRIVATE METHODS AND DATA
14839 =item B<_push_input_stream()>
14845 =item B<_pop_input_stream()>
14851 =item TREE-BASED PARSING
14859 =head2 Pod::Plainer - Perl extension for converting Pod to old style Pod.
14879 =head2 Pod::Select, podselect() - extract selected sections of POD from
14892 =item SECTION SPECIFICATIONS
14894 =item RANGE SPECIFICATIONS
14900 =item OBJECT METHODS
14906 =item B<curr_headings()>
14918 =item B<add_selection()>
14924 =item B<clear_selections()>
14930 =item B<match_section()>
14936 =item B<is_selected()>
14942 =item EXPORTED FUNCTIONS
14948 =item B<podselect()>
14950 B<-output>, B<-sections>, B<-ranges>
14956 =item PRIVATE METHODS AND DATA
14962 =item B<_compile_section_spec()>
14968 =item $self->{_SECTION_HEADINGS}
14974 =item $self->{_SELECTED_SECTIONS}
14986 =head2 Pod::Text - Convert POD data to formatted ASCII text
14994 alt, indent, loose, quotes, sentence, width
14998 Bizarre space in item, Can't open %s for reading: %s, Invalid quote
14999 specification "%s", %s:%d: Unknown command paragraph "%s", Unknown escape:
15000 %s, Unknown sequence: %s, Unmatched =back
15010 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
15014 =head2 Pod::Text::Color - Convert POD data to formatted color ASCII text
15028 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
15032 =head2 Pod::Text::Overstrike - Convert POD data to formatted overstrike
15047 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
15051 =head2 Pod::Text::Termcap, Pod::Text::Color - Convert POD data to ASCII
15052 text with format escapes
15064 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
15068 =head2 Pod::Usage, pod2usage() - print a usage message from embedded pod
15077 C<-message>, C<-msg>, C<-exitval>, C<-verbose>, C<-output>, C<-input>,
15086 =item Recommended Use
15094 =item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
15098 =head2 SDBM_File - Tied access to sdbm files
15106 C<O_RDONLY>, C<O_WRONLY>, C<O_RDWR>
15112 =item C<sdbm store returned -1, errno 22, key "..." at ...>
15116 =item BUGS AND WARNINGS
15120 =head2 Safe - Compile and execute code in restricted compartments
15128 a new namespace, an operator mask
15134 =item RECENT CHANGES
15136 =item Methods in class Safe
15138 permit (OP, ...), permit_only (OP, ...), deny (OP, ...), deny_only (OP,
15139 ...), trap (OP, ...), untrap (OP, ...), share (NAME, ...), share_from
15140 (PACKAGE, ARRAYREF), varglob (VARNAME), reval (STRING), rdo (FILENAME),
15141 root (NAMESPACE), mask (MASK)
15143 =item Some Safety Issues
15145 Memory, CPU, Snooping, Signals, State Changes
15153 =head2 Scalar::Util - A selection of general-utility scalar subroutines
15161 blessed EXPR, dualvar NUM, STRING, isweak EXPR, readonly SCALAR, reftype
15162 EXPR, tainted EXPR, weaken REF
15170 =head2 Search::Dict, look - search for key in dictionary file
15180 =head2 SelectSaver - save and restore selected file handle
15190 =head2 SelfLoader - load functions only on demand
15200 =item The __DATA__ token
15202 =item SelfLoader autoloading
15204 =item Autoloading and package lexicals
15206 =item SelfLoader and AutoLoader
15208 =item __DATA__, __END__, and the FOOBAR::DATA filehandle.
15210 =item Classes and inherited methods.
15214 =item Multiple packages and fully qualified subroutine names
15218 =head2 Shell - run shell commands transparently within perl
15228 =item OBJECT ORIENTED SYNTAX
15236 =head2 Socket, sockaddr_in, sockaddr_un, inet_aton, inet_ntoa - load the C
15237 socket.h defines and structure manipulators
15245 inet_aton HOSTNAME, inet_ntoa IP_ADDRESS, INADDR_ANY, INADDR_BROADCAST,
15246 INADDR_LOOPBACK, INADDR_NONE, sockaddr_in PORT, ADDRESS, sockaddr_in
15247 SOCKADDR_IN, pack_sockaddr_in PORT, IP_ADDRESS, unpack_sockaddr_in
15248 SOCKADDR_IN, sockaddr_un PATHNAME, sockaddr_un SOCKADDR_UN,
15249 pack_sockaddr_un PATH, unpack_sockaddr_un SOCKADDR_UN
15253 =head2 Storable - persistency for perl data structures
15263 =item ADVISORY LOCKING
15267 =item CANONICAL REPRESENTATION
15269 =item ERROR REPORTING
15277 C<STORABLE_freeze> I<obj>, I<cloning>, C<STORABLE_thaw> I<obj>, I<cloning>,
15282 C<Storable::last_op_in_netorder>, C<Storable::is_storing>,
15283 C<Storable::is_retrieving>
15307 =head2 Switch - A switch statement for Perl
15321 =item Allowing fall-through
15323 =item Automating fall-through
15325 =item Alternative syntax
15327 =item Higher-order Operations
15341 =head2 Symbol - manipulate Perl symbols and their names
15351 =head2 Sys::Hostname - Try every conceivable way to get hostname
15363 =head2 Syslog, Sys::Syslog, openlog, closelog, setlogmask, syslog - Perl
15364 interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls
15372 openlog $ident, $logopt, $facility, syslog $priority, $format, @args,
15373 setlogmask $mask_priority, setlogsock $sock_type (added in 5.004_02),
15384 =head2 Syslog::Syslog, Sys::Syslog, openlog, closelog, setlogmask, syslog -
15385 Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls
15393 openlog $ident, $logopt, $facility, syslog $priority, $format, @args,
15394 setlogmask $mask_priority, setlogsock $sock_type (added in 5.004_02),
15405 =head2 Term::ANSIColor - Color screen output using ANSI escape sequences
15415 Bad escape sequence %s, Bareword "%s" not allowed while "strict subs" in
15416 use, Invalid attribute name %s, Name "%s" used only once: possible typo, No
15417 comma allowed after filehandle, No name for escape sequence %s
15421 ANSI_COLORS_DISABLED
15435 =head2 Term::Cap - Perl termcap interface
15447 =head2 Term::Complete - Perl word completion module
15455 E<lt>tabE<gt>, ^D, ^U, E<lt>delE<gt>, E<lt>bsE<gt>
15465 =head2 Term::ReadLine - Perl interface to various C<readline> packages. If
15466 no real package is found, substitutes stubs instead of basic functions.
15474 =item Minimal set of supported functions
15476 C<ReadLine>, C<new>, C<readline>, C<addhistory>, C<IN>, $C<OUT>,
15477 C<MinLine>, C<findConsole>, Attribs, C<Features>
15479 =item Additional supported functions
15481 C<tkRunning>, C<ornaments>, C<newTTY>
15491 =head2 Test - provides a simple framework for writing test scripts
15517 NORMAL TESTS, SKIPPED TESTS, TODO TESTS
15521 =item BUGS and CAVEATS
15531 =head2 Test::Builder - Backend for building test libraries
15551 =item Setting up tests
15567 =item Running tests
15573 B<is_eq>, B<is_num>
15591 B<no_header>, B<no_ending>
15603 B<output>, B<failure_output>, B<todo_output>
15607 =item Test Status and Info
15615 B<details> I<UNIMPLEMENTED>, B<todo>
15635 =head2 Test::Harness - run perl standard test scripts with statistics
15645 =item The test script output
15647 B<'1..M'>, B<'ok', 'not ok'. Ok?>, B<test numbers>,
15648 B<$Test::Harness::verbose>, B<$Test::Harness::switches>, B<Skipping tests>,
15649 B<Todo tests>, B<Bail out!>, B<Comments>, B<Anything else>
15653 B<Failed Test>, B<Stat>, B<Wstat>, B<Total>, B<Fail>, B<Failed>, B<List of
15678 C<All tests successful.\nFiles=%d, Tests=%d, %s>, C<FAILED tests
15679 %s\n\tFailed %d/%d tests, %.2f%% okay.>, C<Test returned status %d (wstat
15680 %d)>, C<Failed 1 test, %.2f%% okay. %s>, C<Failed %d/%d tests, %.2f%% okay.
15681 %s>, C<FAILED--Further testing stopped%s>
15685 C<HARNESS_IGNORE_EXITCODE>, C<HARNESS_NOTTY>, C<HARNESS_COMPILE_TEST>,
15686 C<HARNESS_FILELEAK_IN_DIR>, C<HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES>, C<HARNESS_COLUMNS>,
15701 =head2 Test::More - yet another framework for writing test scripts
15711 =item I love it when a plan comes together
15721 =item I'm ok, you're not ok.
15749 =item Conditional tests
15759 =item Comparision functions
15775 =item BUGS and CAVEATS
15777 Making your own ok(), The eq_* family have some caveats, Test::Harness
15788 =head2 Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
15814 L<Test::More>, L<Test>, L<Test::Unit>, L<Pod::Tests>, L<SelfTest>,
15819 =head2 Test::Tutorial - A tutorial about writing really basic tests
15827 =item Nuts and bolts of testing.
15829 =item Where to start?
15833 =item Test the manual
15835 =item Sometimes the tests are wrong
15837 =item Testing lots of values
15839 =item Informative names
15841 =item Skipping tests
15845 =item Testing with taint mode.
15853 =head2 Text::Abbrev, abbrev - create an abbreviation table from a list
15865 =head2 Text::Balanced - Extract delimited text sequences from strings.
15875 =item General behaviour in list contexts
15879 =item General behaviour in scalar and void contexts
15881 =item A note about prefixes
15883 =item C<extract_delimited>
15885 =item C<extract_bracketed>
15887 =item C<extract_tagged>
15889 C<reject =E<gt> $listref>, C<ignore =E<gt> $listref>, C<fail =E<gt> $str>,
15890 [0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]
15892 =item C<gen_extract_tagged>
15894 =item C<extract_quotelike>
15896 [0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10]
15898 =item C<extract_quotelike> and "here documents"
15900 [0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7..10]
15902 =item C<extract_codeblock>
15904 =item C<extract_multiple>
15906 =item C<gen_delimited_pat>
15912 C<Did not find a suitable bracket: "%s">, C<Did not find prefix: /%s/>,
15913 C<Did not find opening bracket after prefix: "%s">, C<No quotelike
15914 operator found after prefix: "%s">, C<Unmatched closing bracket: "%c">,
15915 C<Unmatched opening bracket(s): "%s">, C<Unmatched embedded quote (%s)>,
15916 C<Did not find closing delimiter to match '%s'>, C<Mismatched closing
15917 bracket: expected "%c" but found "%s">, C<No block delimiter found after
15918 quotelike "%s">, C<Did not find leading dereferencer>, C<Bad identifier
15919 after dereferencer>, C<Did not find expected opening bracket at %s>,
15920 C<Improperly nested codeblock at %s>, C<Missing second block for quotelike
15921 "%s">, C<No match found for opening bracket>, C<Did not find opening tag:
15922 /%s/>, C<Unable to construct closing tag to match: /%s/>, C<Found invalid
15923 nested tag: %s>, C<Found unbalanced nested tag: %s>, C<Did not find closing
15928 =item BUGS AND IRRITATIONS
15934 =head2 Text::ParseWords - parse text into an array of tokens or array of
15949 =head2 Text::Soundex - Implementation of the Soundex Algorithm as Described
15966 =head2 Text::Tabs -- expand and unexpand tabs per the unix expand(1) and
15981 =head2 Text::Wrap - line wrapping to form simple paragraphs
15997 =head2 Thread - manipulate threads in Perl (EXPERIMENTAL, subject to
16010 new \&start_sub, new \&start_sub, LIST, lock VARIABLE, async BLOCK;,
16011 Thread->self, Thread->list, cond_wait VARIABLE, cond_signal VARIABLE,
16012 cond_broadcast VARIABLE, yield
16016 join, eval, detach, equal, tid, flags, done
16024 =head2 Thread::Queue - thread-safe queues
16032 =item FUNCTIONS AND METHODS
16034 new, enqueue LIST, dequeue, dequeue_nb, pending
16040 =head2 Thread::Semaphore - thread-safe semaphores
16048 =item FUNCTIONS AND METHODS
16050 new, new NUMBER, down, down NUMBER, up, up NUMBER
16054 =head2 Thread::Signal - Start a thread which runs signal handlers reliably
16066 =head2 Thread::Specific - thread-specific keys
16076 =head2 Tie::Array - base class for tied arrays
16084 TIEARRAY classname, LIST, STORE this, index, value, FETCH this, index,
16085 FETCHSIZE this, STORESIZE this, count, EXTEND this, count, EXISTS this,
16086 key, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this, DESTROY this, PUSH this, LIST, POP this,
16087 SHIFT this, UNSHIFT this, LIST, SPLICE this, offset, length, LIST
16095 =head2 Tie::Handle, Tie::StdHandle - base class definitions for tied
16104 TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, WRITE this, scalar, length, offset, PRINT this,
16105 LIST, PRINTF this, format, LIST, READ this, scalar, length, offset,
16106 READLINE this, GETC this, CLOSE this, OPEN this, filename, BINMODE this,
16107 EOF this, TELL this, SEEK this, offset, whence, DESTROY this
16109 =item MORE INFORMATION
16111 =item COMPATIBILITY
16115 =head2 Tie::Hash, Tie::StdHash - base class definitions for tied hashes
16123 TIEHASH classname, LIST, STORE this, key, value, FETCH this, key, FIRSTKEY
16124 this, NEXTKEY this, lastkey, EXISTS this, key, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this
16128 =item MORE INFORMATION
16132 =head2 Tie::RefHash - use references as hash keys
16150 =head2 Tie::Scalar, Tie::StdScalar - base class definitions for tied
16159 TIESCALAR classname, LIST, FETCH this, STORE this, value, DESTROY this
16161 =item MORE INFORMATION
16165 =head2 Tie::SubstrHash - Fixed-table-size, fixed-key-length hashing
16177 =head2 Time::HiRes - High resolution ualarm, usleep, and gettimeofday
16185 gettimeofday (), usleep ( $useconds ), ualarm ( $useconds [,
16186 $interval_useconds ] ), tv_interval, time (), sleep ( $floating_seconds ),
16187 alarm ( $floating_seconds [, $interval_floating_seconds ] ), setitimer,
16188 getitimer ( $which )
16204 =head2 Time::Local - efficiently compute time from local and GMT time
16212 =item IMPLEMENTATION
16218 =head2 Time::gmtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in gmtime()
16233 =head2 Time::localtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in localtime()
16248 =head2 Time::tm - internal object used by Time::gmtime and Time::localtime
16260 =head2 UNIVERSAL - base class for ALL classes (blessed references)
16268 isa ( TYPE ), can ( METHOD ), VERSION ( [ REQUIRE ] ), UNIVERSAL::isa (
16269 VAL, TYPE ), UNIVERSAL::can ( VAL, METHOD )
16273 =head2 Unicode::Collate - use UCA (Unicode Collation Algorithm)
16283 =item Constructor and Tailoring
16285 alternate, backwards, entry, ignoreName, ignoreChar, level, normalization,
16286 overrideCJK, overrideHangul, preprocess, rearrange, table, undefName,
16287 undefChar, katakana_before_hiragana, upper_before_lower
16289 =item Other methods
16291 C<@sorted = $UCA-E<gt>sort(@not_sorted)>, C<$result = $UCA-E<gt>cmp($a,
16292 $b)>, C<$sortKey = $UCA-E<gt>getSortKey($string)>, C<$position =
16293 $UCA-E<gt>index($string, $substring)>, C<($position, $length) =
16294 $UCA-E<gt>index($string, $substring)>
16306 L<Lingua::KO::Hangul::Util>, L<Unicode::Normalize>, Unicode Collation
16307 Algorithm - Unicode TR #10
16311 =head2 Unicode::Normalize - normalized forms of Unicode text
16319 C<$string_NFD = NFD($raw_string)>, C<$string_NFC = NFC($raw_string)>,
16320 C<$string_NFKD = NFKD($raw_string)>, C<$string_NFKC = NFKC($raw_string)>,
16321 C<$normalized_string = normalize($form_name, $raw_string)>
16333 L<Lingua::KO::Hangul::Util>, http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr15/
16337 =head2 Unicode::UCD - Unicode character database
16379 =item Blocks versus Scripts
16381 =item Matching Scripts and Blocks
16383 =item Code Point Arguments
16409 =item Unicode::UCD::UnicodeVersion
16415 =item Implementation Note
16425 =head2 User::grent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getgr*()
16440 =head2 User::pwent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getpw*()
16451 =item System Specifics
16465 =head2 Win32 - Interfaces to some Win32 API Functions
16473 =item Alphabetical Listing of Win32 Functions
16475 Win32::AbortSystemShutdown(MACHINE), Win32::BuildNumber(),
16476 Win32::CopyFile(FROM, TO, OVERWRITE), Win32::DomainName(),
16477 Win32::ExpandEnvironmentStrings(STRING), Win32::FormatMessage(ERRORCODE),
16478 Win32::FsType(), Win32::FreeLibrary(HANDLE), Win32::GetArchName(),
16479 Win32::GetChipName(), Win32::GetCwd(), Win32::GetFullPathName(FILENAME),
16480 Win32::GetLastError(), Win32::GetLongPathName(PATHNAME),
16481 Win32::GetNextAvailDrive(), Win32::GetOSVersion(),
16482 Win32::GetShortPathName(PATHNAME), Win32::GetProcAddress(INSTANCE,
16483 PROCNAME), Win32::GetTickCount(), Win32::InitiateSystemShutdown,
16484 Win32::IsWinNT(), Win32::IsWin95(), Win32::LoadLibrary(LIBNAME),
16485 Win32::LoginName(), Win32::LookupAccountName(SYSTEM, ACCOUNT, DOMAIN, SID,
16486 SIDTYPE), Win32::LookupAccountSID(SYSTEM, SID, ACCOUNT, DOMAIN, SIDTYPE),
16487 Win32::MsgBox(MESSAGE [, FLAGS [, TITLE]]), Win32::NodeName(),
16488 Win32::RegisterServer(LIBRARYNAME), Win32::SetCwd(NEWDIRECTORY),
16489 Win32::SetLastError(ERROR), Win32::Sleep(TIME), Win32::Spawn(COMMAND, ARGS,
16490 PID), Win32::UnregisterServer(LIBRARYNAME)
16496 =head2 XS::Typemap - module to test the XS typemaps distributed with perl
16514 =head2 XSLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code
16526 =head1 AUXILIARY DOCUMENTATION
16528 Here should be listed all the extra programs' documentation, but they
16529 don't all have manual pages yet:
16555 Larry Wall <F<larry@wall.org>>, with the help of oodles