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 Reference Manual
28 =item Internals and C Language Interface
32 =item Platform-Specific
56 =head2 perlintro -- a brief introduction and overview of Perl
66 =item Running Perl programs
68 =item Basic syntax overview
70 =item Perl variable types
72 Scalars, Arrays, Hashes
74 =item Variable scoping
76 =item Conditional and looping constructs
78 if, while, for, foreach
80 =item Builtin operators and functions
82 Arithmetic, Numeric comparison, String comparison, Boolean logic,
87 =item Regular expressions
89 Simple matching, Simple substitution, More complex regular expressions,
90 Parentheses for capturing, Other regexp features
92 =item Writing subroutines
96 =item Using Perl modules
104 =head2 perlfaq - frequently asked questions about Perl ($Date: 2002/03/11
113 =item perlfaq: Structural overview of the FAQ.
115 =item L<perlfaq1>: General Questions About Perl
117 =item L<perlfaq2>: Obtaining and Learning about Perl
119 =item L<perlfaq3>: Programming Tools
121 =item L<perlfaq4>: Data Manipulation
123 =item L<perlfaq5>: Files and Formats
125 =item L<perlfaq6>: Regular Expressions
127 =item L<perlfaq7>: General Perl Language Issues
129 =item L<perlfaq8>: System Interaction
131 =item L<perlfaq9>: Networking
135 =item About the perlfaq documents
139 =item Where to get the perlfaq
141 =item How to contribute to the perlfaq
143 =item What will happen if you mail your Perl programming problems to the
150 =item Author and Copyright Information
154 =item Bundled Distributions
162 1/November/2000, 23/May/99, 13/April/99, 7/January/99, 22/June/98,
163 24/April/97, 23/April/97, 25/March/97, 18/March/97, 17/March/97 Version,
164 Initial Release: 11/March/97
168 =head2 perlbook - Perl book information
176 =head2 perlsyn - Perl syntax
186 =item Simple statements
188 =item Compound statements
196 =item Basic BLOCKs and Switch Statements
200 =item PODs: Embedded Documentation
202 =item Plain Old Comments (Not!)
208 =head2 perldata - Perl data types
222 =item Scalar value constructors
224 =item List value constructors
228 =item Typeglobs and Filehandles
236 =head2 perlop - Perl operators and precedence
246 =item Terms and List Operators (Leftward)
248 =item The Arrow Operator
250 =item Auto-increment and Auto-decrement
254 =item Symbolic Unary Operators
256 =item Binding Operators
258 =item Multiplicative Operators
260 =item Additive Operators
262 =item Shift Operators
264 =item Named Unary Operators
266 =item Relational Operators
268 =item Equality Operators
272 =item Bitwise Or and Exclusive Or
274 =item C-style Logical And
276 =item C-style Logical Or
278 =item Range Operators
280 =item Conditional Operator
282 =item Assignment Operators
286 =item List Operators (Rightward)
292 =item Logical or and Exclusive Or
294 =item C Operators Missing From Perl
296 unary &, unary *, (TYPE)
298 =item Quote and Quote-like Operators
300 =item Regexp Quote-Like Operators
302 ?PATTERN?, m/PATTERN/cgimosx, /PATTERN/cgimosx, q/STRING/, C<'STRING'>,
303 qq/STRING/, "STRING", qr/STRING/imosx, qx/STRING/, `STRING`, qw/STRING/,
304 s/PATTERN/REPLACEMENT/egimosx, tr/SEARCHLIST/REPLACEMENTLIST/cds,
305 y/SEARCHLIST/REPLACEMENTLIST/cds, <<EOF
307 =item Gory details of parsing quoted constructs
309 Finding the end, Removal of backslashes before delimiters, Interpolation,
310 C<<<'EOF'>, C<m''>, C<s'''>, C<tr///>, C<y///>, C<''>, C<q//>, C<"">,
311 C<``>, C<qq//>, C<qx//>, C<< <file*glob> >>, C<?RE?>, C</RE/>, C<m/RE/>,
312 C<s/RE/foo/>,, Interpolation of regular expressions, Optimization of
317 =item Constant Folding
319 =item Bitwise String Operators
321 =item Integer Arithmetic
323 =item Floating-point Arithmetic
331 =head2 perlsub - Perl subroutines
341 =item Private Variables via my()
343 =item Persistent Private Variables
345 =item Temporary Values via local()
347 =item Lvalue subroutines
349 =item Passing Symbol Table Entries (typeglobs)
351 =item When to Still Use local()
353 =item Pass by Reference
357 =item Constant Functions
359 =item Overriding Built-in Functions
363 =item Subroutine Attributes
371 =head2 perlfunc - Perl builtin functions
379 =item Perl Functions by Category
381 Functions for SCALARs or strings, Regular expressions and pattern matching,
382 Numeric functions, Functions for real @ARRAYs, Functions for list data,
383 Functions for real %HASHes, Input and output functions, Functions for fixed
384 length data or records, Functions for filehandles, files, or directories,
385 Keywords related to the control flow of your perl program, Keywords related
386 to scoping, Miscellaneous functions, Functions for processes and process
387 groups, Keywords related to perl modules, Keywords related to classes and
388 object-orientedness, Low-level socket functions, System V interprocess
389 communication functions, Fetching user and group info, Fetching network
390 info, Time-related functions, Functions new in perl5, Functions obsoleted
395 =item Alphabetical Listing of Perl Functions
397 I<-X> FILEHANDLE, I<-X> EXPR, I<-X>, abs VALUE, abs, accept
398 NEWSOCKET,GENERICSOCKET, alarm SECONDS, alarm, atan2 Y,X, bind SOCKET,NAME,
399 binmode FILEHANDLE, DISCIPLINE, binmode FILEHANDLE, bless REF,CLASSNAME,
400 bless REF, caller EXPR, caller, chdir EXPR, chmod LIST, chomp VARIABLE,
401 chomp( LIST ), chomp, chop VARIABLE, chop( LIST ), chop, chown LIST, chr
402 NUMBER, chr, chroot FILENAME, chroot, close FILEHANDLE, close, closedir
403 DIRHANDLE, connect SOCKET,NAME, continue BLOCK, cos EXPR, cos, crypt
404 PLAINTEXT,SALT, dbmclose HASH, dbmopen HASH,DBNAME,MASK, defined EXPR,
405 defined, delete EXPR, die LIST, do BLOCK, do SUBROUTINE(LIST), do EXPR,
406 dump LABEL, dump, each HASH, eof FILEHANDLE, eof (), eof, eval EXPR, eval
407 BLOCK, exec LIST, exec PROGRAM LIST, exists EXPR, exit EXPR, exp EXPR, exp,
408 fcntl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, fileno FILEHANDLE, flock
409 FILEHANDLE,OPERATION, fork, format, formline PICTURE,LIST, getc FILEHANDLE,
410 getc, getlogin, getpeername SOCKET, getpgrp PID, getppid, getpriority
411 WHICH,WHO, getpwnam NAME, getgrnam NAME, gethostbyname NAME, getnetbyname
412 NAME, getprotobyname NAME, getpwuid UID, getgrgid GID, getservbyname
413 NAME,PROTO, gethostbyaddr ADDR,ADDRTYPE, getnetbyaddr ADDR,ADDRTYPE,
414 getprotobynumber NUMBER, getservbyport PORT,PROTO, getpwent, getgrent,
415 gethostent, getnetent, getprotoent, getservent, setpwent, setgrent,
416 sethostent STAYOPEN, setnetent STAYOPEN, setprotoent STAYOPEN, setservent
417 STAYOPEN, endpwent, endgrent, endhostent, endnetent, endprotoent,
418 endservent, getsockname SOCKET, getsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME, glob EXPR,
419 glob, gmtime EXPR, goto LABEL, goto EXPR, goto &NAME, grep BLOCK LIST, grep
420 EXPR,LIST, hex EXPR, hex, import, index STR,SUBSTR,POSITION, index
421 STR,SUBSTR, int EXPR, int, ioctl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, join
422 EXPR,LIST, keys HASH, kill SIGNAL, LIST, last LABEL, last, lc EXPR, lc,
423 lcfirst EXPR, lcfirst, length EXPR, length, link OLDFILE,NEWFILE, listen
424 SOCKET,QUEUESIZE, local EXPR, localtime EXPR, lock THING, log EXPR, log,
425 lstat EXPR, lstat, m//, map BLOCK LIST, map EXPR,LIST, mkdir FILENAME,MASK,
426 mkdir FILENAME, msgctl ID,CMD,ARG, msgget KEY,FLAGS, msgrcv
427 ID,VAR,SIZE,TYPE,FLAGS, msgsnd ID,MSG,FLAGS, my EXPR, my EXPR : ATTRIBUTES,
428 next LABEL, next, no Module LIST, oct EXPR, oct, open FILEHANDLE,EXPR, open
429 FILEHANDLE,MODE,EXPR, open FILEHANDLE,MODE,EXPR,LIST, open
430 FILEHANDLE,MODE,REFERENCE, open FILEHANDLE, opendir DIRHANDLE,EXPR, ord
431 EXPR, ord, our EXPR, our EXPR : ATTRIBUTES, pack TEMPLATE,LIST, package
432 NAMESPACE, package, pipe READHANDLE,WRITEHANDLE, pop ARRAY, pop, pos
433 SCALAR, pos, print FILEHANDLE LIST, print LIST, print, printf FILEHANDLE
434 FORMAT, LIST, printf FORMAT, LIST, prototype FUNCTION, push ARRAY,LIST,
435 q/STRING/, qq/STRING/, qr/STRING/, qx/STRING/, qw/STRING/, quotemeta EXPR,
436 quotemeta, rand EXPR, rand, read FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET, read
437 FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH, readdir DIRHANDLE, readline EXPR, readlink EXPR,
438 readlink, readpipe EXPR, recv SOCKET,SCALAR,LENGTH,FLAGS, redo LABEL, redo,
439 ref EXPR, ref, rename OLDNAME,NEWNAME, require VERSION, require EXPR,
440 require, reset EXPR, reset, return EXPR, return, reverse LIST, rewinddir
441 DIRHANDLE, rindex STR,SUBSTR,POSITION, rindex STR,SUBSTR, rmdir FILENAME,
442 rmdir, s///, scalar EXPR, seek FILEHANDLE,POSITION,WHENCE, seekdir
443 DIRHANDLE,POS, select FILEHANDLE, select, select RBITS,WBITS,EBITS,TIMEOUT,
444 semctl ID,SEMNUM,CMD,ARG, semget KEY,NSEMS,FLAGS, semop KEY,OPSTRING, send
445 SOCKET,MSG,FLAGS,TO, send SOCKET,MSG,FLAGS, setpgrp PID,PGRP, setpriority
446 WHICH,WHO,PRIORITY, setsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME,OPTVAL, shift ARRAY,
447 shift, shmctl ID,CMD,ARG, shmget KEY,SIZE,FLAGS, shmread ID,VAR,POS,SIZE,
448 shmwrite ID,STRING,POS,SIZE, shutdown SOCKET,HOW, sin EXPR, sin, sleep
449 EXPR, sleep, sockatmark SOCKET, socket SOCKET,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL,
450 socketpair SOCKET1,SOCKET2,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL, sort SUBNAME LIST, sort
451 BLOCK LIST, sort LIST, splice ARRAY,OFFSET,LENGTH,LIST, splice
452 ARRAY,OFFSET,LENGTH, splice ARRAY,OFFSET, splice ARRAY, split
453 /PATTERN/,EXPR,LIMIT, split /PATTERN/,EXPR, split /PATTERN/, split, sprintf
454 FORMAT, LIST, sqrt EXPR, sqrt, srand EXPR, srand, stat FILEHANDLE, stat
455 EXPR, stat, study SCALAR, study, sub BLOCK, sub NAME, sub NAME BLOCK,
456 substr EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH,REPLACEMENT, substr EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH, substr
457 EXPR,OFFSET, symlink OLDFILE,NEWFILE, syscall LIST, sysopen
458 FILEHANDLE,FILENAME,MODE, sysopen FILEHANDLE,FILENAME,MODE,PERMS, sysread
459 FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET, sysread FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH, sysseek
460 FILEHANDLE,POSITION,WHENCE, system LIST, system PROGRAM LIST, syswrite
461 FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET, syswrite FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,
462 syswrite FILEHANDLE,SCALAR, tell FILEHANDLE, tell, telldir DIRHANDLE, tie
463 VARIABLE,CLASSNAME,LIST, tied VARIABLE, time, times, tr///, truncate
464 FILEHANDLE,LENGTH, truncate EXPR,LENGTH, uc EXPR, uc, ucfirst EXPR,
465 ucfirst, umask EXPR, umask, undef EXPR, undef, unlink LIST, unlink, unpack
466 TEMPLATE,EXPR, untie VARIABLE, unshift ARRAY,LIST, use Module VERSION LIST,
467 use Module VERSION, use Module LIST, use Module, use VERSION, utime LIST,
468 values HASH, vec EXPR,OFFSET,BITS, wait, waitpid PID,FLAGS, wantarray, warn
469 LIST, write FILEHANDLE, write EXPR, write, y///
475 =head2 perlreftut - Mark's very short tutorial about references
481 =item Who Needs Complicated Data Structures?
489 =item Making References
491 =item Using References
509 =item Distribution Conditions
515 =head2 perldsc - Perl Data Structures Cookbook
521 arrays of arrays, hashes of arrays, arrays of hashes, hashes of hashes,
522 more elaborate constructs
526 =item COMMON MISTAKES
528 =item CAVEAT ON PRECEDENCE
530 =item WHY YOU SHOULD ALWAYS C<use strict>
536 =item ARRAYS OF ARRAYS
540 =item Declaration of an ARRAY OF ARRAYS
542 =item Generation of an ARRAY OF ARRAYS
544 =item Access and Printing of an ARRAY OF ARRAYS
548 =item HASHES OF ARRAYS
552 =item Declaration of a HASH OF ARRAYS
554 =item Generation of a HASH OF ARRAYS
556 =item Access and Printing of a HASH OF ARRAYS
560 =item ARRAYS OF HASHES
564 =item Declaration of an ARRAY OF HASHES
566 =item Generation of an ARRAY OF HASHES
568 =item Access and Printing of an ARRAY OF HASHES
572 =item HASHES OF HASHES
576 =item Declaration of a HASH OF HASHES
578 =item Generation of a HASH OF HASHES
580 =item Access and Printing of a HASH OF HASHES
584 =item MORE ELABORATE RECORDS
588 =item Declaration of MORE ELABORATE RECORDS
590 =item Declaration of a HASH OF COMPLEX RECORDS
592 =item Generation of a HASH OF COMPLEX RECORDS
604 =head2 perlrequick - Perl regular expressions quick start
614 =item Simple word matching
616 =item Using character classes
618 =item Matching this or that
620 =item Grouping things and hierarchical matching
622 =item Extracting matches
624 =item Matching repetitions
628 =item Search and replace
630 =item The split operator
638 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
642 =item Acknowledgments
648 =head2 perlpod - the Plain Old Documentation format
656 =item Ordinary Paragraph
658 =item Verbatim Paragraph
660 =item Command Paragraph
662 C<=head1 I<Heading Text>>, C<=head2 I<Heading Text>>, C<=head3 I<Heading
663 Text>>, C<=head4 I<Heading Text>>, C<=over I<indentlevel>>, C<=item
664 I<stuff...>>, C<=back>, C<=cut>, C<=pod>, C<=begin I<formatname>>, C<=end
665 I<formatname>>, C<=for I<formatname> I<text...>>
667 =item Formatting Codes
669 C<IE<lt>textE<gt>> -- italic text, C<BE<lt>textE<gt>> -- bold text,
670 C<CE<lt>codeE<gt>> -- code text, C<LE<lt>nameE<gt>> -- a hyperlink,
671 C<EE<lt>escapeE<gt>> -- a character escape, C<FE<lt>filenameE<gt>> -- used
672 for filenames, C<SE<lt>textE<gt>> -- text contains non-breaking spaces,
673 C<XE<lt>topic nameE<gt>> -- an index entry, C<ZE<lt>E<gt>> -- a null
674 (zero-effect) formatting code
678 =item Embedding Pods in Perl Modules
680 =item Hints for Writing Pod
690 =head2 perlpodspec - Plain Old Documentation: format specification and
697 =item Pod Definitions
701 "=head1", "=head2", "=head3", "=head4", "=pod", "=cut", "=over", "=item",
702 "=back", "=begin formatname", "=end formatname", "=for formatname text..."
704 =item Pod Formatting Codes
706 C<IE<lt>textE<gt>> -- italic text, C<BE<lt>textE<gt>> -- bold text,
707 C<CE<lt>codeE<gt>> -- code text, C<FE<lt>filenameE<gt>> -- style for
708 filenames, C<XE<lt>topic nameE<gt>> -- an index entry, C<ZE<lt>E<gt>> -- a
709 null (zero-effect) formatting code, C<LE<lt>nameE<gt>> -- a hyperlink,
710 C<EE<lt>escapeE<gt>> -- a character escape, C<SE<lt>textE<gt>> -- text
711 contains non-breaking spaces
713 =item Notes on Implementing Pod Processors
715 =item About LE<lt>...E<gt> Codes
717 First:, Second:, Third:, Fourth:, Fifth:, Sixth:
719 =item About =over...=back Regions
721 =item About Data Paragraphs and "=begin/=end" Regions
729 =head2 perlstyle - Perl style guide
737 =head2 perltrap - Perl traps for the unwary
755 =item Perl4 to Perl5 Traps
757 Discontinuance, Deprecation, and BugFix traps, Parsing Traps, Numerical
758 Traps, General data type traps, Context Traps - scalar, list contexts,
759 Precedence Traps, General Regular Expression Traps using s///, etc,
760 Subroutine, Signal, Sorting Traps, OS Traps, DBM Traps, Unclassified Traps
762 =item Discontinuance, Deprecation, and BugFix traps
764 Discontinuance, Deprecation, BugFix, Discontinuance, Discontinuance,
765 Discontinuance, BugFix, Discontinuance, Discontinuance, BugFix,
766 Discontinuance, Deprecation, Discontinuance, Discontinuance
770 Parsing, Parsing, Parsing, Parsing, Parsing
772 =item Numerical Traps
774 Numerical, Numerical, Numerical, Bitwise string ops
776 =item General data type traps
778 (Arrays), (Arrays), (Hashes), (Globs), (Globs), (Scalar String),
779 (Constants), (Scalars), (Variable Suicide)
781 =item Context Traps - scalar, list contexts
783 (list context), (scalar context), (scalar context), (list, builtin)
785 =item Precedence Traps
787 Precedence, Precedence, Precedence, Precedence, Precedence, Precedence,
790 =item General Regular Expression Traps using s///, etc.
792 Regular Expression, Regular Expression, Regular Expression, Regular
793 Expression, Regular Expression, Regular Expression, Regular Expression,
796 =item Subroutine, Signal, Sorting Traps
798 (Signals), (Sort Subroutine), warn() won't let you specify a filehandle
804 =item Interpolation Traps
806 Interpolation, Interpolation, Interpolation, Interpolation, Interpolation,
807 Interpolation, Interpolation, Interpolation, Interpolation
813 =item Unclassified Traps
815 C<require>/C<do> trap using returned value, C<split> on empty string with
822 =head2 perlrun - how to execute the Perl interpreter
832 =item #! and quoting on non-Unix systems
834 OS/2, MS-DOS, Win95/NT, Macintosh, VMS
836 =item Location of Perl
838 =item Command Switches
840 B<-0>[I<digits>], B<-a>, B<-C>, B<-c>, B<-d>, B<-d:>I<foo[=bar,baz]>,
841 B<-D>I<letters>, B<-D>I<number>, B<-e> I<commandline>, B<-F>I<pattern>,
842 B<-h>, B<-i>[I<extension>], B<-I>I<directory>, B<-l>[I<octnum>],
843 B<-m>[B<->]I<module>, B<-M>[B<->]I<module>, B<-M>[B<->]I<'module ...'>,
844 B<-[mM]>[B<->]I<module=arg[,arg]...>, B<-n>, B<-p>, B<-P>, B<-s>, B<-S>,
845 B<-t>, B<-T>, B<-u>, B<-U>, B<-v>, B<-V>, B<-V:>I<name>, B<-w>, B<-W>,
846 B<-X>, B<-x> I<directory>
852 HOME, LOGDIR, PATH, PERL5LIB, PERL5OPT, PERLLIB, PERL5DB, PERL5SHELL
853 (specific to the Win32 port), PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS, PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL,
854 PERL_ENCODING, PERL_ROOT (specific to the VMS port), SYS$LOGIN (specific to
859 accept() on closed socket %s, Allocation too large: %lx, '!' allowed only
860 after types %s, Ambiguous call resolved as CORE::%s(), qualify as such or
861 use &, Ambiguous range in transliteration operator, Ambiguous use of %s
862 resolved as %s, '|' and '<' may not both be specified on command line, '|'
863 and '>' may not both be specified on command line, Applying %s to %s will
864 act on scalar(%s), Args must match #! line, Arg too short for msgsnd, %s
865 argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element, %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY
866 element or slice, %s argument is not a subroutine name, Argument "%s" isn't
867 numeric%s, Array @%s missing the @ in argument %d of %s(), assertion
868 botched: %s, Assertion failed: file "%s", Assignment to both a list and a
869 scalar, Attempt to access disallowed key '%s' in a fixed hash, Attempt to
870 clear a fixed hash, Attempt to delete readonly key '%s' from a fixed hash,
871 Attempt to delete disallowed key '%s' from a fixed hash, Attempt to bless
872 into a reference, Attempt to free non-arena SV: 0x%lx, Attempt to free
873 nonexistent shared string, Attempt to free temp prematurely, Attempt to
874 free unreferenced glob pointers, Attempt to free unreferenced scalar,
875 Attempt to join self, Attempt to pack pointer to temporary value, Attempt
876 to use reference as lvalue in substr, Bad arg length for %s, is %d, should
877 be %s, Bad evalled substitution pattern, Bad filehandle: %s, Bad free()
878 ignored, Bad hash, Bad index while coercing array into hash, Badly placed
879 ()'s, Bad name after %s::, Bad realloc() ignored, Bad symbol for array, Bad
880 symbol for filehandle, Bad symbol for hash, Bareword found in conditional,
881 Bareword "%s" not allowed while "strict subs" in use, Bareword "%s" refers
882 to nonexistent package, BEGIN failed--compilation aborted, BEGIN not safe
883 after errors--compilation aborted, \1 better written as $1, Binary number >
884 0b11111111111111111111111111111111 non-portable, bind() on closed socket
885 %s, binmode() on closed filehandle %s, Bit vector size > 32 non-portable,
886 Bizarre copy of %s in %s, B<-P> not allowed for setuid/setgid script,
887 Buffer overflow in prime_env_iter: %s, Callback called exit, %s() called
888 too early to check prototype, / cannot take a count, Can't bless
889 non-reference value, Can't call method "%s" in empty package "%s", Can't
890 call method "%s" on an undefined value, Can't call method "%s" on unblessed
891 reference, Can't call method "%s" without a package or object reference,
892 Can't chdir to %s, Can't check filesystem of script "%s" for nosuid, Can't
893 coerce array into hash, Can't coerce %s to integer in %s, Can't coerce %s
894 to number in %s, Can't coerce %s to string in %s, Can't create pipe
895 mailbox, Can't declare class for non-scalar %s in "%s", Can't declare %s in
896 "%s", Can't do inplace edit: %s is not a regular file, Can't do inplace
897 edit on %s: %s, Can't do inplace edit without backup, Can't do inplace
898 edit: %s would not be unique, Can't do {n,m} with n > m in regex; marked by
899 <-- HERE in m/%s/, Can't do setegid!, Can't do seteuid!, Can't do setuid,
900 Can't do waitpid with flags, Can't emulate -%s on #! line, Can't exec "%s":
901 %s, Can't exec %s, Can't execute %s, Can't find an opnumber for "%s", Can't
902 find %s character property "%s", Can't find label %s, Can't find %s on
903 PATH, Can't find %s on PATH, '.' not in PATH, Can't find string terminator
904 %s anywhere before EOF, Can't find %s property definition %s, Can't fork,
905 Can't get filespec - stale stat buffer?, Can't get pipe mailbox device
906 name, Can't get SYSGEN parameter value for MAXBUF, Can't "goto" into the
907 middle of a foreach loop, Can't "goto" out of a pseudo block, Can't goto
908 subroutine from an eval-string, Can't goto subroutine outside a subroutine,
909 Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default, Can't "last" outside a loop
910 block, Can't localize lexical variable %s, Can't localize pseudo-hash
911 element, Can't localize through a reference, Can't locate file %s, Can't
912 locate auto/%s.al in @INC, Can't locate object method "%s" via package
913 "%s", (perhaps you forgot to load "%s"?), Can't locate package %s for
914 @%s::ISA, Can't make list assignment to \%ENV on this system, Can't modify
915 %s in %s, Can't modify nonexistent substring, Can't modify non-lvalue
916 subroutine call, Can't msgrcv to read-only var, Can't "next" outside a loop
917 block, Can't open %s: %s, Can't open bidirectional pipe, Can't open error
918 file %s as stderr, Can't open input file %s as stdin, Can't open output
919 file %s as stdout, Can't open output pipe (name: %s), Can't open perl
920 script%s: %s, Can't read CRTL environ, Can't redefine active sort
921 subroutine %s, Can't "redo" outside a loop block, Can't remove %s: %s,
922 skipping file, Can't rename %s to %s: %s, skipping file, Can't reopen input
923 pipe (name: %s) in binary mode, Can't resolve method `%s' overloading `%s'
924 in package `%s', Can't reswap uid and euid, Can't return %s from lvalue
925 subroutine, Can't return %s to lvalue scalar context, Can't return outside
926 a subroutine, Can't stat script "%s", Can't swap uid and euid, Can't take
927 log of %g, Can't take sqrt of %g, Can't undef active subroutine, Can't
928 unshift, Can't upgrade that kind of scalar, Can't upgrade to undef, Can't
929 use an undefined value as %s reference, Can't use anonymous symbol table
930 for method lookup, Can't use bareword ("%s") as %s ref while "strict refs"
931 in use, Can't use %! because Errno.pm is not available, Can't use %s for
932 loop variable, Can't use global %s in "my", Can't use "my %s" in sort
933 comparison, Can't use %s ref as %s ref, Can't use string ("%s") as %s ref
934 while "strict refs" in use, Can't use subscript on %s, Can't use \%c to
935 mean $%c in expression, Can't weaken a nonreference, Can't x= to read-only
936 value, Character in "C" format wrapped, Character in "c" format wrapped,
937 close() on unopened filehandle %s, %s: Command not found, Compilation
938 failed in require, Complex regular subexpression recursion limit (%d)
939 exceeded, connect() on closed socket %s, Constant(%s)%s: %s, Constant is
940 not %s reference, Constant subroutine %s redefined, Constant subroutine %s
941 undefined, Copy method did not return a reference, CORE::%s is not a
942 keyword, corrupted regexp pointers, corrupted regexp program, Corrupt
943 malloc ptr 0x%lx at 0x%lx, C<-p> destination: %s, C<-T> and C<-B> not
944 implemented on filehandles, Deep recursion on subroutine "%s",
945 defined(@array) is deprecated, defined(%hash) is deprecated, %s defines
946 neither package nor VERSION--version check failed, Delimiter for here
947 document is too long, Did not produce a valid header, %s did not return a
948 true value, (Did you mean &%s instead?), (Did you mean "local" instead of
949 "our"?), (Did you mean $ or @ instead of %?), Died, Document contains no
950 data, %s does not define %s::VERSION--version check failed, Don't know how
951 to handle magic of type '%s', do_study: out of memory, (Do you need to
952 predeclare %s?), dump() better written as CORE::dump(), Duplicate free()
953 ignored, elseif should be elsif, Empty %s, entering effective %s failed,
954 Error converting file specification %s, %s: Eval-group in insecure regular
955 expression, %s: Eval-group not allowed at run time, %s: Eval-group not
956 allowed, use re 'eval', Excessively long <> operator, exec? I'm not *that*
957 kind of operating system, Execution of %s aborted due to compilation
958 errors, Exiting eval via %s, Exiting format via %s, Exiting pseudo-block
959 via %s, Exiting subroutine via %s, Exiting substitution via %s, Explicit
960 blessing to '' (assuming package main), %s: Expression syntax, %s
961 failed--call queue aborted, False [] range "%s" in regex; marked by <--
962 HERE in m/%s/, Fatal VMS error at %s, line %d, fcntl is not implemented,
963 Filehandle %s opened only for input, Filehandle %s opened only for output,
964 Final $ should be \$ or $name, Final @ should be \@ or @name, flock() on
965 closed filehandle %s, Quantifier follows nothing in regex;, Format not
966 terminated, Format %s redefined, Found = in conditional, should be ==, %s
967 found where operator expected, gdbm store returned %d, errno %d, key "%s",
968 gethostent not implemented, get%sname() on closed socket %s, getpwnam
969 returned invalid UIC %#o for user "%s", getsockopt() on closed socket %s,
970 Global symbol "%s" requires explicit package name, glob failed (%s), Glob
971 not terminated, Got an error from DosAllocMem, goto must have label,
972 %s-group starts with a count, %s had compilation errors, Had to create %s
973 unexpectedly, Hash %%s missing the % in argument %d of %s(), %s has too
974 many errors, Hexadecimal number > 0xffffffff non-portable, Identifier too
975 long, Illegal binary digit %s, Illegal binary digit %s ignored, Illegal
976 character %s (carriage return), Illegal character in prototype for %s : %s,
977 Illegal division by zero, Illegal hexadecimal digit %s ignored, Illegal
978 modulus zero, Illegal number of bits in vec, Illegal octal digit %s,
979 Illegal octal digit %s ignored, Illegal switch in PERL5OPT: %s, Ill-formed
980 CRTL environ value "%s", Ill-formed message in prime_env_iter: |%s|, (in
981 cleanup) %s, In EBCDIC the v-string components cannot exceed 2147483647,
982 Insecure dependency in %s, Insecure directory in %s, Insecure $ENV{%s}
983 while running %s, Integer overflow in %s number, Internal disaster in
984 regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/, Internal inconsistency in tracking
985 vforks, Internal urp in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/, %s (...)
986 interpreted as function, Invalid %s attribute: %s, Invalid %s attributes:
987 %s, Invalid conversion in %s: "%s", Invalid [] range "%s" in regex; marked
988 by <-- HERE in m/%s/, Invalid [] range "%s" in transliteration operator,
989 Invalid separator character %s in attribute list, Invalid type in pack:
990 '%s', Invalid type in unpack: '%s', ioctl is not implemented, ioctl() on
991 unopened %s, IO::Socket::atmark not implemented on this architecture, `%s'
992 is not a code reference, `%s' is not an overloadable type, junk on end of
993 regexp, Label not found for "last %s", Label not found for "next %s", Label
994 not found for "redo %s", leaving effective %s failed, listen() on closed
995 socket %s, lstat() on filehandle %s, Lvalue subs returning %s not
996 implemented yet, Lookbehind longer than %d not implemented in regex;,
997 Malformed PERLLIB_PREFIX, Malformed prototype for %s: %s, Malformed UTF-8
998 character (%s), Malformed UTF-16 surrogate, %s matches null string many
999 times in regex;, "%s" may clash with future reserved word, % may only be
1000 used in unpack, Method for operation %s not found in package %s during
1001 blessing, Method %s not permitted, Might be a runaway multi-line %s string
1002 starting on line %d, Misplaced _ in number, Missing %sbrace%s on \N{},
1003 Missing comma after first argument to %s function, Missing command in piped
1004 open, Missing name in "my sub", Missing $ on loop variable, (Missing
1005 operator before %s?), Missing right brace on %s, Missing right curly or
1006 square bracket, (Missing semicolon on previous line?), Modification of a
1007 read-only value attempted, Modification of non-creatable array value
1008 attempted, %s, Modification of non-creatable hash value attempted, %s,
1009 Module name must be constant, Module name required with -%c option, More
1010 than one argument to open, msg%s not implemented, Multidimensional syntax
1011 %s not supported, / must be followed by a*, A* or Z*, / must be followed by
1012 a, A or Z, / must follow a numeric type, "my sub" not yet implemented, "my"
1013 variable %s can't be in a package, Name "%s::%s" used only once: possible
1014 typo, Negative length, Negative offset to vec in lvalue context, Nested
1015 quantifiers in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/, %s never introduced, No
1016 %s allowed while running setuid, No B<-e> allowed in setuid scripts, No
1017 comma allowed after %s, No command into which to pipe on command line, No
1018 DB::DB routine defined, No dbm on this machine, No DBsub routine, No error
1019 file after 2> or 2>> on command line, No input file after < on command
1020 line, No #! line, "no" not allowed in expression, No output file after > on
1021 command line, No output file after > or >> on command line, No package name
1022 allowed for variable %s in "our", No Perl script found in input, No
1023 setregid available, No setreuid available, No space allowed after -%c, No
1024 %s specified for -%c, No such class %s, No such pipe open, No such
1025 pseudo-hash field "%s", No such pseudo-hash field "%s" in variable %s of
1026 type %s, No such signal: SIG%s, Not a CODE reference, Not a format
1027 reference, Not a GLOB reference, Not a HASH reference, Not an ARRAY
1028 reference, Not a perl script, Not a SCALAR reference, Not a subroutine
1029 reference, Not a subroutine reference in overload table, Not enough
1030 arguments for %s, Not enough format arguments, %s: not found, %s not
1031 allowed in length fields, no UTC offset information; assuming local time is
1032 UTC, Null filename used, NULL OP IN RUN, Null picture in formline, Null
1033 realloc, NULL regexp argument, NULL regexp parameter, Number too long,
1034 Octal number in vector unsupported, Octal number > 037777777777
1035 non-portable, Odd number of arguments for overload::constant, Odd number of
1036 elements in anonymous hash, Odd number of elements in hash assignment,
1037 Offset outside string, -%s on unopened filehandle %s, %s() on unopened %s,
1038 oops: oopsAV, oops: oopsHV, Operation `%s': no method found, %s, Operator
1039 or semicolon missing before %s, "our" variable %s redeclared, Out of
1040 memory!, Out of memory during "large" request for %s, Out of memory during
1041 request for %s, Out of memory during ridiculously large request, Out of
1042 memory for yacc stack, @ outside of string, %s package attribute may clash
1043 with future reserved word: %s, page overflow, panic: %s, panic: ck_grep,
1044 panic: ck_split, panic: corrupt saved stack index, panic: del_backref,
1045 panic: die %s, panic: pp_match%s, panic: do_subst, panic: do_trans_%s,
1046 panic: frexp, panic: goto, panic: INTERPCASEMOD, panic: INTERPCONCAT,
1047 panic: kid popen errno read, panic: last, panic: leave_scope clearsv,
1048 panic: leave_scope inconsistency, panic: magic_killbackrefs, panic: malloc,
1049 panic: mapstart, panic: null array, panic: pad_alloc, panic: pad_free
1050 curpad, panic: pad_free po, panic: pad_reset curpad, panic: pad_sv po,
1051 panic: pad_swipe curpad, panic: pad_swipe po, panic: pp_iter, panic:
1052 pp_split, panic: realloc, panic: restartop, panic: return, panic: scan_num,
1053 panic: sv_insert, panic: top_env, panic: yylex, panic: utf16_to_utf8: odd
1054 bytelen, Parentheses missing around "%s" list, Perl %s required--this is
1055 only version %s, stopped, PERL_SH_DIR too long, perl: warning: Setting
1056 locale failed, perlio: argument list not closed for layer "%s", perlio:
1057 invalid separator character %s in attribute list, perlio: unknown layer
1058 "%s", Permission denied, pid %x not a child, P must have an explicit size,
1059 POSIX syntax [%s] belongs inside character classes in regex;, POSIX syntax
1060 [. .] is reserved for future extensions in regex;, POSIX syntax [= =] is
1061 reserved for future extensions in regex;, POSIX class [:%s:] unknown in
1062 regex;, POSIX getpgrp can't take an argument, Possible attempt to put
1063 comments in qw() list, Possible attempt to separate words with commas,
1064 Possible memory corruption: %s overflowed 3rd argument, Possible unintended
1065 interpolation of %s in string, Possible Y2K bug: %s, pragma "attrs" is
1066 deprecated, use "sub NAME : ATTRS" instead, Precedence problem: open %s
1067 should be open(%s), Premature end of script headers, printf() on closed
1068 filehandle %s, print() on closed filehandle %s, Process terminated by
1069 SIG%s, Prototype mismatch: %s vs %s, Prototype not terminated, Quantifier
1070 in {,} bigger than %d in regex;, Quantifier unexpected on zero-length
1071 expression;, Range iterator outside integer range, readline() on closed
1072 filehandle %s, Reallocation too large: %lx, realloc() of freed memory
1073 ignored, Recompile perl with B<-D>DEBUGGING to use B<-D> switch, Recursive
1074 inheritance detected in package '%s', Recursive inheritance detected while
1075 looking for method %s, Reference found where even-sized list expected,
1076 Reference is already weak, Reference miscount in sv_replace(), Reference to
1077 nonexistent group in regex;, regexp memory corruption, Regexp out of space,
1078 Repeat count in pack overflows, Repeat count in unpack overflows, Reversed
1079 %s= operator, Runaway format, Scalar value @%s[%s] better written as
1080 $%s[%s], Scalar value @%s{%s} better written as $%s{%s}, Scalars leaked:
1081 %d, Script is not setuid/setgid in suidperl, Search pattern not terminated,
1082 %sseek() on unopened filehandle, select not implemented, Self-ties of
1083 arrays and hashes are not supported, Semicolon seems to be missing,
1084 semi-panic: attempt to dup freed string, sem%s not implemented, send() on
1085 closed socket %s, Sequence (? incomplete in regex; marked by <-- HERE in
1086 m/%s/, Sequence (?{...}) not terminated or not {}-balanced in regex;,
1087 Sequence (?%s...) not implemented in regex;, Sequence (?%s...) not
1088 recognized in regex;, Sequence (?#... not terminated in regex;, 500 Server
1089 error, Server error, setegid() not implemented, seteuid() not implemented,
1090 setpgrp can't take arguments, setrgid() not implemented, setruid() not
1091 implemented, setsockopt() on closed socket %s, Setuid/gid script is
1092 writable by world, shm%s not implemented, <> should be quotes, /%s/ should
1093 probably be written as "%s", shutdown() on closed socket %s, SIG%s handler
1094 "%s" not defined, sort is now a reserved word, Sort subroutine didn't
1095 return a numeric value, Sort subroutine didn't return single value,
1096 splice() offset past end of array, Split loop, Statement unlikely to be
1097 reached, stat() on unopened filehandle %s, Stub found while resolving
1098 method `%s' overloading %s, Subroutine %s redefined, Substitution loop,
1099 Substitution pattern not terminated, Substitution replacement not
1100 terminated, substr outside of string, suidperl is no longer needed since
1101 %s, Switch (?(condition)... contains too many branches in regex;, Switch
1102 condition not recognized in regex;, switching effective %s is not
1103 implemented, syntax error, syntax error at line %d: `%s' unexpected, syntax
1104 error in file %s at line %d, next 2 tokens "%s", %s syntax OK, System V %s
1105 is not implemented on this machine, syswrite() on closed filehandle %s,
1106 Target of goto is too deeply nested, tell() on unopened filehandle, That
1107 use of $[ is unsupported, The crypt() function is unimplemented due to
1108 excessive paranoia, The %s function is unimplemented, The stat preceding %s
1109 wasn't an lstat, This Perl can't reset CRTL environ elements (%s), This
1110 Perl can't set CRTL environ elements (%s=%s), times not implemented, Too
1111 few args to syscall, Too late for "B<-T>" option, Too late for "-%s"
1112 option, Too late to run %s block, Too many args to syscall, Too many
1113 arguments for %s, Too many )'s, Too many ('s, Trailing \ in regex m/%s/,
1114 Transliteration pattern not terminated, Transliteration replacement not
1115 terminated, truncate not implemented, Type of arg %d to %s must be %s (not
1116 %s), umask not implemented, Unable to create sub named "%s", Unbalanced
1117 context: %d more PUSHes than POPs, Unbalanced saves: %d more saves than
1118 restores, Unbalanced scopes: %d more ENTERs than LEAVEs, Unbalanced tmps:
1119 %d more allocs than frees, Undefined format "%s" called, Undefined sort
1120 subroutine "%s" called, Undefined subroutine &%s called, Undefined
1121 subroutine called, Undefined subroutine in sort, Undefined top format "%s"
1122 called, Undefined value assigned to typeglob, %s: Undefined variable,
1123 unexec of %s into %s failed!, Unicode character %s is illegal, Unknown
1124 BYTEORDER, Unknown "re" subpragma '%s' (known ones are: %s), Unknown switch
1125 condition (?(%.2s in regex;, Unknown open() mode '%s', Unknown process %x
1126 sent message to prime_env_iter: %s, Unknown warnings category '%s',
1127 unmatched [ in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/, unmatched ( in regex;
1128 marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/, Unmatched right %s bracket, Unquoted string
1129 "%s" may clash with future reserved word, Unrecognized character %s, /%s/:
1130 Unrecognized escape \\%c in character class passed through, Unrecognized
1131 escape \\%c passed through in regex;, Unrecognized escape \\%c passed
1132 through, Unrecognized signal name "%s", Unrecognized switch: -%s (-h will
1133 show valid options), Unsuccessful %s on filename containing newline,
1134 Unsupported directory function "%s" called, Unsupported function %s,
1135 Unsupported function fork, Unsupported script encoding, Unsupported socket
1136 function "%s" called, Unterminated attribute list, Unterminated attribute
1137 parameter in attribute list, Unterminated compressed integer, Unterminated
1138 <> operator, untie attempted while %d inner references still exist, Useless
1139 (?%s) - use /%s modifier in regex;, Useless (?-%s) - don't use /%s modifier
1140 in regex;, Useless use of %s in void context, Useless use of "re" pragma,
1141 Useless use of sort in scalar context, Useless use of %s with no values,
1142 "use" not allowed in expression, Use of bare << to mean <<"" is deprecated,
1143 Use of *glob{FILEHANDLE} is deprecated, Use of chdir('') or chdir(undef) as
1144 chdir() deprecated, Use of implicit split to @_ is deprecated, Use of
1145 inherited AUTOLOAD for non-method %s() is deprecated, Use of -l on
1146 filehandle %s, Use of "package" with no arguments is deprecated, Use of %s
1147 in printf format not supported, Use of $* is deprecated, Use of %s is
1148 deprecated, Use of $# is deprecated, Use of reference "%s" as array index,
1149 Use of reserved word "%s" is deprecated, Use of tainted arguments in %s is
1150 deprecated, Use of uninitialized value%s, Using a hash as a reference is
1151 deprecated, Using an array as a reference is deprecated, UTF-16 surrogate
1152 %s, Value of %s can be "0"; test with defined(), Value of CLI symbol "%s"
1153 too long, Variable "%s" is not imported%s, "%s" variable %s masks earlier
1154 declaration in same %s, Variable "%s" may be unavailable, Variable syntax,
1155 Variable "%s" will not stay shared, Variable length lookbehind not
1156 implemented in regex;, Version number must be a constant number, v-string
1157 in use/require is non-portable, Warning: something's wrong, Warning: unable
1158 to close filehandle %s properly, Warning: Use of "%s" without parentheses
1159 is ambiguous, Wide character in %s, write() on closed filehandle %s, X
1160 outside of string, x outside of string, Xsub "%s" called in sort, Xsub
1161 called in sort, YOU HAVEN'T DISABLED SET-ID SCRIPTS IN THE KERNEL YET!, You
1166 =head2 perllexwarn - Perl Lexical Warnings
1174 =item Default Warnings and Optional Warnings
1176 =item What's wrong with B<-w> and C<$^W>
1178 =item Controlling Warnings from the Command Line
1182 =item Backward Compatibility
1184 =item Category Hierarchy
1186 =item Fatal Warnings
1188 =item Reporting Warnings from a Module
1200 =head2 perldebtut - Perl debugging tutorial
1208 =item Looking at data and -w and v
1212 =item Stepping through code
1214 =item Placeholder for a, w, t, T
1216 =item REGULAR EXPRESSIONS
1234 =head2 perldebug - Perl debugging
1240 =item The Perl Debugger
1244 =item Debugger Commands
1246 h, h [command], h h, p expr, x [maxdepth] expr, V [pkg [vars]], X [vars],
1247 T, s [expr], n [expr], r, <CR>, c [line|sub], l, l min+incr, l min-max, l
1248 line, l subname, -, v [line], f filename, /pattern/, ?pattern?, L [abw], S
1249 [[!]regex], t, t expr, b, b [line] [condition], b subname [condition], b
1250 postpone subname [condition], b load filename, b compile subname, B line, B
1251 *, a [line] command, A line, A *, w expr, W expr, W *, o, o booloption ..,
1252 o anyoption? .., o option=value .., < ?, < [ command ], << command, > ?, >
1253 command, >> command, { ?, { [ command ], {{ command, ! number, ! -number, !
1254 pattern, !! cmd, @ file, H -number, q or ^D, R, |dbcmd, ||dbcmd, command, m
1255 expr, M, man [manpage]
1257 =item Configurable Options
1259 C<recallCommand>, C<ShellBang>, C<pager>, C<tkRunning>, C<signalLevel>,
1260 C<warnLevel>, C<dieLevel>, C<AutoTrace>, C<LineInfo>, C<inhibit_exit>,
1261 C<PrintRet>, C<ornaments>, C<frame>, C<maxTraceLen>, C<windowSize>,
1262 C<arrayDepth>, C<hashDepth>, C<dumpDepth>, C<compactDump>, C<veryCompact>,
1263 C<globPrint>, C<DumpDBFiles>, C<DumpPackages>, C<DumpReused>, C<quote>,
1264 C<HighBit>, C<undefPrint>, C<UsageOnly>, C<TTY>, C<noTTY>, C<ReadLine>,
1267 =item Debugger input/output
1269 Prompt, Multiline commands, Stack backtrace, Line Listing Format, Frame
1272 =item Debugging compile-time statements
1274 =item Debugger Customization
1276 =item Readline Support
1278 =item Editor Support for Debugging
1280 =item The Perl Profiler
1284 =item Debugging regular expressions
1286 =item Debugging memory usage
1294 =head2 perlvar - Perl predefined variables
1302 =item Predefined Names
1304 $ARG, $_, $a, $b, $<I<digits>>, $MATCH, $&, $PREMATCH, $`, $POSTMATCH, $',
1305 $LAST_PAREN_MATCH, $+, $^N, @LAST_MATCH_END, @+, $MULTILINE_MATCHING, $*,
1306 HANDLE->input_line_number(EXPR), $INPUT_LINE_NUMBER, $NR, $,
1307 IO::Handle->input_record_separator(EXPR), $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR, $RS, $/,
1308 HANDLE->autoflush(EXPR), $OUTPUT_AUTOFLUSH, $|,
1309 IO::Handle->output_field_separator EXPR, $OUTPUT_FIELD_SEPARATOR, $OFS, $,,
1310 IO::Handle->output_record_separator EXPR, $OUTPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR, $ORS,
1311 $\, $LIST_SEPARATOR, $", $SUBSCRIPT_SEPARATOR, $SUBSEP, $;, $OFMT, $#,
1312 HANDLE->format_page_number(EXPR), $FORMAT_PAGE_NUMBER, $%,
1313 HANDLE->format_lines_per_page(EXPR), $FORMAT_LINES_PER_PAGE, $=,
1314 HANDLE->format_lines_left(EXPR), $FORMAT_LINES_LEFT, $-, @LAST_MATCH_START,
1315 @-, C<$`> is the same as C<substr($var, 0, $-[0])>, C<$&> is the same as
1316 C<substr($var, $-[0], $+[0] - $-[0])>, C<$'> is the same as C<substr($var,
1317 $+[0])>, C<$1> is the same as C<substr($var, $-[1], $+[1] - $-[1])>, C<$2>
1318 is the same as C<substr($var, $-[2], $+[2] - $-[2])>, C<$3> is the same as
1319 C<substr $var, $-[3], $+[3] - $-[3])>, HANDLE->format_name(EXPR),
1320 $FORMAT_NAME, $~, HANDLE->format_top_name(EXPR), $FORMAT_TOP_NAME, $^,
1321 IO::Handle->format_line_break_characters EXPR,
1322 $FORMAT_LINE_BREAK_CHARACTERS, $:, IO::Handle->format_formfeed EXPR,
1323 $FORMAT_FORMFEED, $^L, $ACCUMULATOR, $^A, $CHILD_ERROR, $?, ${^ENCODING},
1324 $OS_ERROR, $ERRNO, $!, $EXTENDED_OS_ERROR, $^E, $EVAL_ERROR, $@,
1325 $PROCESS_ID, $PID, $$, $REAL_USER_ID, $UID, $<, $EFFECTIVE_USER_ID, $EUID,
1326 $>, $REAL_GROUP_ID, $GID, $(, $EFFECTIVE_GROUP_ID, $EGID, $),
1327 $PROGRAM_NAME, $0, $[, $], $COMPILING, $^C, $DEBUGGING, $^D,
1328 $SYSTEM_FD_MAX, $^F, $^H, %^H, $INPLACE_EDIT, $^I, $^M, $OSNAME, $^O,
1329 ${^OPEN}, $PERLDB, $^P, 0x01, 0x02, 0x04, 0x08, 0x10, 0x20, 0x40, 0x80,
1330 0x100, 0x200, $LAST_REGEXP_CODE_RESULT, $^R, $EXCEPTIONS_BEING_CAUGHT, $^S,
1331 $BASETIME, $^T, ${^TAINT}, $PERL_VERSION, $^V, $WARNING, $^W,
1332 ${^WARNING_BITS}, ${^WIDE_SYSTEM_CALLS}, $EXECUTABLE_NAME, $^X, ARGV,
1333 $ARGV, @ARGV, @F, @INC, @_, %INC, %ENV, $ENV{expr}, %SIG, $SIG{expr}
1335 =item Error Indicators
1337 =item Technical Note on the Syntax of Variable Names
1345 =head2 perllol - Manipulating Arrays of Arrays in Perl
1353 =item Declaration and Access of Arrays of Arrays
1355 =item Growing Your Own
1357 =item Access and Printing
1369 =head2 perlopentut - tutorial on opening things in Perl
1375 =item Open E<agrave> la shell
1383 =item The Minus File
1385 =item Mixing Reads and Writes
1391 =item Open E<agrave> la C
1395 =item Permissions E<agrave> la mode
1399 =item Obscure Open Tricks
1403 =item Re-Opening Files (dups)
1405 =item Dispelling the Dweomer
1407 =item Paths as Opens
1409 =item Single Argument Open
1411 =item Playing with STDIN and STDOUT
1415 =item Other I/O Issues
1419 =item Opening Non-File Files
1429 =item AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT
1435 =head2 perlpacktut - tutorial on C<pack> and C<unpack>
1441 =item The Basic Principle
1445 =item Packing Numbers
1451 =item Unpacking a Stack Frame
1453 =item How to Eat an Egg on a Net
1455 =item Floating point Numbers
1459 =item Exotic Templates
1471 =item Another Portable Binary Encoding
1475 =item Lengths and Widths
1479 =item String Lengths
1481 =item Dynamic Templates
1485 =item Packing and Unpacking C Structures
1489 =item The Alignment Pit
1491 =item Alignment, Take 2
1493 =item Alignment, Take 3
1495 =item Pointers for How to Use Them
1501 =item Funnies Section
1507 =head2 perlretut - Perl regular expressions tutorial
1513 =item Part 1: The basics
1517 =item Simple word matching
1519 =item Using character classes
1521 =item Matching this or that
1523 =item Grouping things and hierarchical matching
1525 =item Extracting matches
1527 =item Matching repetitions
1529 =item Building a regexp
1531 =item Using regular expressions in Perl
1535 =item Part 2: Power tools
1539 =item More on characters, strings, and character classes
1541 =item Compiling and saving regular expressions
1543 =item Embedding comments and modifiers in a regular expression
1545 =item Non-capturing groupings
1547 =item Looking ahead and looking behind
1549 =item Using independent subexpressions to prevent backtracking
1551 =item Conditional expressions
1553 =item A bit of magic: executing Perl code in a regular expression
1555 =item Pragmas and debugging
1563 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
1567 =item Acknowledgments
1573 =head2 perlre - Perl regular expressions
1583 =item Regular Expressions
1585 [1], [2], [3], cntrl, graph, print, punct, xdigit
1587 =item Extended Patterns
1589 C<(?#text)>, C<(?imsx-imsx)>, C<(?:pattern)>, C<(?imsx-imsx:pattern)>,
1590 C<(?=pattern)>, C<(?!pattern)>, C<(?<=pattern)>, C<(?<!pattern)>, C<(?{
1591 code })>, C<(??{ code })>, C<< (?>pattern) >>,
1592 C<(?(condition)yes-pattern|no-pattern)>, C<(?(condition)yes-pattern)>
1596 =item Version 8 Regular Expressions
1598 =item Warning on \1 vs $1
1600 =item Repeated patterns matching zero-length substring
1602 =item Combining pieces together
1604 C<ST>, C<S|T>, C<S{REPEAT_COUNT}>, C<S{min,max}>, C<S{min,max}?>, C<S?>,
1605 C<S*>, C<S+>, C<S??>, C<S*?>, C<S+?>, C<< (?>S) >>, C<(?=S)>, C<(?<=S)>,
1606 C<(?!S)>, C<(?<!S)>, C<(??{ EXPR })>,
1607 C<(?(condition)yes-pattern|no-pattern)>
1609 =item Creating custom RE engines
1619 =head2 perlref - Perl references and nested data structures
1629 =item Making References
1631 =item Using References
1633 =item Symbolic references
1635 =item Not-so-symbolic references
1637 =item Pseudo-hashes: Using an array as a hash
1639 =item Function Templates
1649 =head2 perlform - Perl formats
1657 =item Format Variables
1667 =item Accessing Formatting Internals
1675 =head2 perlboot - Beginner's Object-Oriented Tutorial
1683 =item If we could talk to the animals...
1685 =item Introducing the method invocation arrow
1687 =item Invoking a barnyard
1689 =item The extra parameter of method invocation
1691 =item Calling a second method to simplify things
1693 =item Inheriting the windpipes
1695 =item A few notes about @ISA
1697 =item Overriding the methods
1699 =item Starting the search from a different place
1701 =item The SUPER way of doing things
1703 =item Where we're at so far...
1705 =item A horse is a horse, of course of course -- or is it?
1707 =item Invoking an instance method
1709 =item Accessing the instance data
1711 =item How to build a horse
1713 =item Inheriting the constructor
1715 =item Making a method work with either classes or instances
1717 =item Adding parameters to a method
1719 =item More interesting instances
1721 =item A horse of a different color
1733 =head2 perltoot - Tom's object-oriented tutorial for perl
1739 =item Creating a Class
1743 =item Object Representation
1745 =item Class Interface
1747 =item Constructors and Instance Methods
1749 =item Planning for the Future: Better Constructors
1753 =item Other Object Methods
1761 =item Accessing Class Data
1763 =item Debugging Methods
1765 =item Class Destructors
1767 =item Documenting the Interface
1777 =item Overridden Methods
1779 =item Multiple Inheritance
1781 =item UNIVERSAL: The Root of All Objects
1785 =item Alternate Object Representations
1789 =item Arrays as Objects
1791 =item Closures as Objects
1795 =item AUTOLOAD: Proxy Methods
1799 =item Autoloaded Data Methods
1801 =item Inherited Autoloaded Data Methods
1805 =item Metaclassical Tools
1811 =item Data Members as Variables
1819 =item Object Terminology
1825 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
1831 =item Acknowledgments
1837 =head2 perltooc - Tom's OO Tutorial for Class Data in Perl
1843 =item Class Data in a Can
1845 =item Class Data as Package Variables
1849 =item Putting All Your Eggs in One Basket
1851 =item Inheritance Concerns
1853 =item The Eponymous Meta-Object
1855 =item Indirect References to Class Data
1857 =item Monadic Classes
1859 =item Translucent Attributes
1863 =item Class Data as Lexical Variables
1867 =item Privacy and Responsibility
1869 =item File-Scoped Lexicals
1871 =item More Inheritance Concerns
1873 =item Locking the Door and Throwing Away the Key
1875 =item Translucency Revisited
1883 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
1885 =item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
1891 =head2 perlobj - Perl objects
1899 =item An Object is Simply a Reference
1901 =item A Class is Simply a Package
1903 =item A Method is Simply a Subroutine
1905 =item Method Invocation
1907 =item Indirect Object Syntax
1909 =item Default UNIVERSAL methods
1911 isa(CLASS), can(METHOD), VERSION( [NEED] )
1917 =item Two-Phased Garbage Collection
1925 =head2 perlbot - Bag'o Object Tricks (the BOT)
1931 =item OO SCALING TIPS
1933 =item INSTANCE VARIABLES
1935 =item SCALAR INSTANCE VARIABLES
1937 =item INSTANCE VARIABLE INHERITANCE
1939 =item OBJECT RELATIONSHIPS
1941 =item OVERRIDING SUPERCLASS METHODS
1943 =item USING RELATIONSHIP WITH SDBM
1945 =item THINKING OF CODE REUSE
1947 =item CLASS CONTEXT AND THE OBJECT
1949 =item INHERITING A CONSTRUCTOR
1955 =head2 perltie - how to hide an object class in a simple variable
1967 TIESCALAR classname, LIST, FETCH this, STORE this, value, UNTIE this,
1972 TIEARRAY classname, LIST, FETCH this, index, STORE this, index, value,
1973 FETCHSIZE this, STORESIZE this, count, EXTEND this, count, EXISTS this,
1974 key, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this, PUSH this, LIST, POP this, SHIFT this,
1975 UNSHIFT this, LIST, SPLICE this, offset, length, LIST, UNTIE this, DESTROY
1980 USER, HOME, CLOBBER, LIST, TIEHASH classname, LIST, FETCH this, key, STORE
1981 this, key, value, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this, EXISTS this, key, FIRSTKEY
1982 this, NEXTKEY this, lastkey, UNTIE this, DESTROY this
1984 =item Tying FileHandles
1986 TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, WRITE this, LIST, PRINT this, LIST, PRINTF this,
1987 LIST, READ this, LIST, READLINE this, GETC this, CLOSE this, UNTIE this,
1992 =item The C<untie> Gotcha
2004 =head2 perlipc - Perl interprocess communication (signals, fifos, pipes,
2005 safe subprocesses, sockets, and semaphores)
2021 =item Using open() for IPC
2027 =item Background Processes
2029 =item Complete Dissociation of Child from Parent
2031 =item Safe Pipe Opens
2033 =item Bidirectional Communication with Another Process
2035 =item Bidirectional Communication with Yourself
2039 =item Sockets: Client/Server Communication
2043 =item Internet Line Terminators
2045 =item Internet TCP Clients and Servers
2047 =item Unix-Domain TCP Clients and Servers
2051 =item TCP Clients with IO::Socket
2055 =item A Simple Client
2057 C<Proto>, C<PeerAddr>, C<PeerPort>
2059 =item A Webget Client
2061 =item Interactive Client with IO::Socket
2065 =item TCP Servers with IO::Socket
2067 Proto, LocalPort, Listen, Reuse
2069 =item UDP: Message Passing
2083 =head2 perlfork - Perl's fork() emulation (EXPERIMENTAL, subject to change)
2093 =item Behavior of other Perl features in forked pseudo-processes
2095 $$ or $PROCESS_ID, %ENV, chdir() and all other builtins that accept
2096 filenames, wait() and waitpid(), kill(), exec(), exit(), Open handles to
2097 files, directories and network sockets
2099 =item Resource limits
2101 =item Killing the parent process
2103 =item Lifetime of the parent process and pseudo-processes
2105 =item CAVEATS AND LIMITATIONS
2107 BEGIN blocks, Open filehandles, Forking pipe open() not yet implemented,
2108 Global state maintained by XSUBs, Interpreter embedded in larger
2109 application, Thread-safety of extensions
2121 =head2 perlnumber - semantics of numbers and numeric operations in Perl
2129 =item Storing numbers
2131 =item Numeric operators and numeric conversions
2133 =item Flavors of Perl numeric operations
2135 Arithmetic operators except, C<no integer>, Arithmetic operators except,
2136 C<use integer>, Bitwise operators, C<no integer>, Bitwise operators, C<use
2137 integer>, Operators which expect an integer, Operators which expect a
2146 =head2 perlthrtut - tutorial on threads in Perl
2154 =head2 perlothrtut - old tutorial on threads in Perl
2160 =item What Is A Thread Anyway?
2162 =item Threaded Program Models
2174 =item Native threads
2176 =item What kind of threads are perl threads?
2178 =item Threadsafe Modules
2184 =item Basic Thread Support
2186 =item Creating Threads
2188 =item Giving up control
2190 =item Waiting For A Thread To Exit
2192 =item Errors In Threads
2194 =item Ignoring A Thread
2198 =item Threads And Data
2202 =item Shared And Unshared Data
2204 =item Thread Pitfall: Races
2206 =item Controlling access: lock()
2208 =item Thread Pitfall: Deadlocks
2210 =item Queues: Passing Data Around
2214 =item Threads And Code
2218 =item Semaphores: Synchronizing Data Access
2220 Basic semaphores, Advanced Semaphores
2222 =item Attributes: Restricting Access To Subroutines
2224 =item Subroutine Locks
2228 =item Locking A Subroutine
2232 =item General Thread Utility Routines
2236 =item What Thread Am I In?
2240 =item Are These Threads The Same?
2242 =item What Threads Are Running?
2246 =item A Complete Example
2254 =item Introductory Texts
2256 =item OS-Related References
2258 =item Other References
2262 =item Acknowledgements
2270 =head2 perlport - Writing portable Perl
2276 Not all Perl programs have to be portable, Nearly all of Perl already I<is>
2285 =item Numbers endianness and Width
2287 =item Files and Filesystems
2289 =item System Interaction
2291 =item Interprocess Communication (IPC)
2293 =item External Subroutines (XS)
2295 =item Standard Modules
2299 =item Character sets and character encoding
2301 =item Internationalisation
2303 =item System Resources
2313 Mailing list: cpan-testers@perl.org, Testing results:
2314 http://testers.cpan.org/
2322 =item DOS and Derivatives
2330 =item EBCDIC Platforms
2338 =item FUNCTION IMPLEMENTATIONS
2342 =item Alphabetical Listing of Perl Functions
2344 -I<X> FILEHANDLE, -I<X> EXPR, -I<X>, alarm SECONDS, alarm, binmode
2345 FILEHANDLE, chmod LIST, chown LIST, chroot FILENAME, chroot, crypt
2346 PLAINTEXT,SALT, dbmclose HASH, dbmopen HASH,DBNAME,MODE, dump LABEL, exec
2347 LIST, exit EXPR, exit, fcntl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, flock
2348 FILEHANDLE,OPERATION, fork, getlogin, getpgrp PID, getppid, getpriority
2349 WHICH,WHO, getpwnam NAME, getgrnam NAME, getnetbyname NAME, getpwuid UID,
2350 getgrgid GID, getnetbyaddr ADDR,ADDRTYPE, getprotobynumber NUMBER,
2351 getservbyport PORT,PROTO, getpwent, getgrent, gethostent, getnetent,
2352 getprotoent, getservent, setpwent, setgrent, sethostent STAYOPEN, setnetent
2353 STAYOPEN, setprotoent STAYOPEN, setservent STAYOPEN, endpwent, endgrent,
2354 endhostent, endnetent, endprotoent, endservent, getsockopt
2355 SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME, glob EXPR, glob, ioctl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR,
2356 kill SIGNAL, LIST, link OLDFILE,NEWFILE, lstat FILEHANDLE, lstat EXPR,
2357 lstat, msgctl ID,CMD,ARG, msgget KEY,FLAGS, msgsnd ID,MSG,FLAGS, msgrcv
2358 ID,VAR,SIZE,TYPE,FLAGS, open FILEHANDLE,EXPR, open FILEHANDLE, pipe
2359 READHANDLE,WRITEHANDLE, readlink EXPR, readlink, select
2360 RBITS,WBITS,EBITS,TIMEOUT, semctl ID,SEMNUM,CMD,ARG, semget
2361 KEY,NSEMS,FLAGS, semop KEY,OPSTRING, setgrent, setpgrp PID,PGRP,
2362 setpriority WHICH,WHO,PRIORITY, setpwent, setsockopt
2363 SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME,OPTVAL, shmctl ID,CMD,ARG, shmget KEY,SIZE,FLAGS,
2364 shmread ID,VAR,POS,SIZE, shmwrite ID,STRING,POS,SIZE, sockatmark SOCKET,
2365 socketpair SOCKET1,SOCKET2,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL, stat FILEHANDLE, stat
2366 EXPR, stat, symlink OLDFILE,NEWFILE, syscall LIST, sysopen
2367 FILEHANDLE,FILENAME,MODE,PERMS, system LIST, times, truncate
2368 FILEHANDLE,LENGTH, truncate EXPR,LENGTH, umask EXPR, umask, utime LIST,
2369 wait, waitpid PID,FLAGS
2375 v1.48, 02 February 2001, v1.47, 22 March 2000, v1.46, 12 February 2000,
2376 v1.45, 20 December 1999, v1.44, 19 July 1999, v1.43, 24 May 1999, v1.42, 22
2377 May 1999, v1.41, 19 May 1999, v1.40, 11 April 1999, v1.39, 11 February
2378 1999, v1.38, 31 December 1998, v1.37, 19 December 1998, v1.36, 9 September
2379 1998, v1.35, 13 August 1998, v1.33, 06 August 1998, v1.32, 05 August 1998,
2380 v1.30, 03 August 1998, v1.23, 10 July 1998
2382 =item Supported Platforms
2386 =item AUTHORS / CONTRIBUTORS
2390 =head2 perllocale - Perl locale handling (internationalization and
2397 =item PREPARING TO USE LOCALES
2403 =item The use locale pragma
2405 =item The setlocale function
2407 =item Finding locales
2409 =item LOCALE PROBLEMS
2411 =item Temporarily fixing locale problems
2413 =item Permanently fixing locale problems
2415 =item Permanently fixing your system's locale configuration
2417 =item Fixing system locale configuration
2419 =item The localeconv function
2421 =item I18N::Langinfo
2425 =item LOCALE CATEGORIES
2429 =item Category LC_COLLATE: Collation
2431 =item Category LC_CTYPE: Character Types
2433 =item Category LC_NUMERIC: Numeric Formatting
2435 =item Category LC_MONETARY: Formatting of monetary amounts
2439 =item Other categories
2447 PERL_BADLANG, LC_ALL, LANGUAGE, LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE, LC_MONETARY,
2448 LC_NUMERIC, LC_TIME, LANG
2454 =item Backward compatibility
2456 =item I18N:Collate obsolete
2458 =item Sort speed and memory use impacts
2460 =item write() and LC_NUMERIC
2462 =item Freely available locale definitions
2466 =item An imperfect standard
2474 =item Broken systems
2484 =head2 perluniintro - Perl Unicode introduction
2494 =item Perl's Unicode Support
2496 =item Perl's Unicode Model
2498 =item Creating Unicode
2500 =item Handling Unicode
2502 =item Legacy Encodings
2506 =item Displaying Unicode As Text
2510 =item Advanced Topics
2514 =item Questions With Answers
2518 =item Hexadecimal Notation
2520 =item Further Resources
2524 =item UNICODE IN OLDER PERLS
2528 =item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
2530 =item AUTHOR, COPYRIGHT, AND LICENSE
2534 =head2 perlunicode - Unicode support in Perl
2542 =item Important Caveats
2544 Input and Output Disciplines, Regular Expressions, C<use utf8> still needed
2545 to enable UTF-8/UTF-EBCDIC in scripts
2547 =item Byte and Character semantics
2549 =item Effects of character semantics
2555 =item Character encodings for input and output
2557 =item Unicode Regular Expression Support Level
2559 =item Unicode Encodings
2561 =item Security Implications of Malformed UTF-8
2563 =item Unicode in Perl on EBCDIC
2565 =item Using Unicode in XS
2573 =head2 perlebcdic - Considerations for running Perl on EBCDIC platforms
2579 =item COMMON CHARACTER CODE SETS
2587 =item Latin 1 (ISO 8859-1)
2591 =item 13 variant characters
2599 =item Unicode and UTF
2605 =item SINGLE OCTET TABLES
2607 recipe 0, recipe 1, recipe 2, recipe 3, recipe 4, recipe 5, recipe 6
2609 =item IDENTIFYING CHARACTER CODE SETS
2623 =item OPERATOR DIFFERENCES
2625 =item FUNCTION DIFFERENCES
2627 chr(), ord(), pack(), print(), printf(), sort(), sprintf(), unpack()
2629 =item REGULAR EXPRESSION DIFFERENCES
2637 =item Ignore ASCII vs. EBCDIC sort differences.
2639 =item MONO CASE then sort data.
2641 =item Convert, sort data, then re convert.
2643 =item Perform sorting on one type of machine only.
2647 =item TRANSFORMATION FORMATS
2651 =item URL decoding and encoding
2653 =item uu encoding and decoding
2655 =item Quoted-Printable encoding and decoding
2657 =item Caesarian ciphers
2661 =item Hashing order and checksums
2665 =item MULTI OCTET CHARACTER SETS
2677 chcp, dataset access, OS/390, z/OS iconv, locales
2697 =head2 perlsec - Perl security
2705 =item Laundering and Detecting Tainted Data
2707 =item Switches On the "#!" Line
2709 =item Cleaning Up Your Path
2713 =item Protecting Your Programs
2721 =head2 perlmod - Perl modules (packages and symbol tables)
2733 =item Package Constructors and Destructors
2739 =item Making your module threadsafe
2747 =head2 perlmodinstall - Installing CPAN Modules
2757 B<DECOMPRESS> the file, B<UNPACK> the file into a directory, B<BUILD> the
2758 module (sometimes unnecessary), B<INSTALL> the module
2772 =head2 perlmodlib - constructing new Perl modules and finding existing ones
2778 =item THE PERL MODULE LIBRARY
2782 =item Pragmatic Modules
2784 attributes, autouse, base, blib, bytes, charnames, constant, diagnostics,
2785 encoding, fields, filetest, integer, less, locale, open, overload, sigtrap,
2786 sort, strict, subs, utf8, vars, vmsish, warnings, warnings::register
2788 =item Standard Modules
2790 AnyDBM_File, Attribute::Handlers, AutoLoader, AutoSplit, Benchmark, CGI,
2791 CGI::Apache, CGI::Carp, CGI::Cookie, CGI::Fast, CGI::Pretty, CGI::Push,
2792 CGI::Switch, CGI::Util, CPAN, CPAN::FirstTime, CPAN::Nox, Carp,
2793 Carp::Heavy, Class::ISA, Class::Struct, Cwd, DB, Devel::SelfStubber,
2794 Digest, DirHandle, Dumpvalue, English, Env, Exporter, Exporter::Heavy,
2795 ExtUtils::Command, ExtUtils::Constant, ExtUtils::Embed, ExtUtils::Install,
2796 ExtUtils::Installed, ExtUtils::Liblist, ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin,
2797 ExtUtils::MM_NW5, ExtUtils::MM_OS2, ExtUtils::MM_Unix, ExtUtils::MM_VMS,
2798 ExtUtils::MM_Win32, ExtUtils::MakeMaker, ExtUtils::Manifest,
2799 ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap, ExtUtils::Mksymlists, ExtUtils::Packlist,
2800 ExtUtils::testlib, Fatal, File::Basename, File::CheckTree, File::Compare,
2801 File::Copy, File::DosGlob, File::Find, File::Path, File::Spec,
2802 File::Spec::Cygwin, File::Spec::Epoc, File::Spec::Functions,
2803 File::Spec::Mac, File::Spec::OS2, File::Spec::Unix, File::Spec::VMS,
2804 File::Spec::Win32, File::Temp, File::stat, FileCache, FileHandle,
2805 Filter::Simple, FindBin, Getopt::Long, Getopt::Std, I18N::Collate,
2806 I18N::LangTags, I18N::LangTags::List, IPC::Open2, IPC::Open3,
2807 Locale::Constants, Locale::Country, Locale::Currency, Locale::Language,
2808 Locale::Maketext, Locale::Maketext::TPJ13, Math::BigFloat, Math::BigInt,
2809 Math::BigInt::Calc, Math::Complex, Math::Trig, Memoize,
2810 Memoize::AnyDBM_File, Memoize::Expire, Memoize::ExpireFile,
2811 Memoize::ExpireTest, Memoize::NDBM_File, Memoize::SDBM_File,
2812 Memoize::Storable, NEXT, Net::Cmd, Net::Config, Net::Domain, Net::FTP,
2813 Net::NNTP, Net::Netrc, Net::POP3, Net::Ping, Net::SMTP, Net::Time,
2814 Net::hostent, Net::libnetFAQ, Net::netent, Net::protoent, Net::servent,
2815 PerlIO, Pod::Checker, Pod::Find, Pod::Functions, Pod::Html,
2816 Pod::InputObjects, Pod::LaTeX, Pod::Man, Pod::ParseLink, Pod::ParseUtils,
2817 Pod::Parser, Pod::Plainer, Pod::Select, Pod::Text, Pod::Text::Color,
2818 Pod::Text::Overstrike, Pod::Text::Termcap, Pod::Usage, Pod::t::basic,
2819 Search::Dict, SelectSaver, SelfLoader, Shell, Switch, Symbol,
2820 Term::ANSIColor, Term::Cap, Term::Complete, Term::ReadLine, Test,
2821 Test::Builder, Test::Harness, Test::More, Test::Simple, Test::Tutorial,
2822 Text::Abbrev, Text::Balanced, Text::ParseWords, Text::Soundex, Text::Tabs,
2823 Text::Wrap, Thread, Tie::Array, Tie::Handle, Tie::Hash, Tie::RefHash,
2824 Tie::Scalar, Tie::SubstrHash, Time::Local, Time::gmtime, Time::localtime,
2825 Time::tm, UNIVERSAL, Unicode::Collate, Unicode::UCD, User::grent,
2828 =item Extension Modules
2840 =item Central America
2852 =item Modules: Creation, Use, and Abuse
2856 =item Guidelines for Module Creation
2858 =item Guidelines for Converting Perl 4 Library Scripts into Modules
2860 =item Guidelines for Reusing Application Code
2868 =head2 perlmodstyle - Perl module style guide
2874 =item QUICK CHECKLIST
2878 =item Before you start
2886 =item Release considerations
2890 =item BEFORE YOU START WRITING A MODULE
2894 =item Has it been done before?
2896 =item Do one thing and do it well
2898 =item What's in a name?
2902 =item DESIGNING AND WRITING YOUR MODULE
2906 =item To OO or not to OO?
2908 =item Designing your API
2910 Write simple routines to do simple things, Separate functionality from
2911 output, Provide sensible shortcuts and defaults, Naming conventions,
2914 =item Strictness and warnings
2916 =item Backwards compatibility
2918 =item Error handling and messages
2922 =item DOCUMENTING YOUR MODULE
2928 =item README, INSTALL, release notes, changelogs
2932 =item RELEASE CONSIDERATIONS
2936 =item Version numbering
2938 =item Pre-requisites
2948 =item COMMON PITFALLS
2952 =item Reinventing the wheel
2954 =item Trying to do too much
2956 =item Inappropriate documentation
2962 L<perlstyle>, L<perlnewmod>, L<perlpod>, L<podchecker>, Testing tools,
2963 http://pause.perl.org/, Any good book on software engineering
2969 =head2 perlnewmod - preparing a new module for distribution
2979 =item What should I make into a module?
2981 =item Step-by-step: Preparing the ground
2983 Look around, Check it's new, Discuss the need, Choose a name, Check again
2985 =item Step-by-step: Making the module
2987 Start with F<h2xs>, Use L<strict|strict> and L<warnings|warnings>, Use
2988 L<Carp|Carp>, Use L<Exporter|Exporter> - wisely!, Use L<plain old
2989 documentation|perlpod>, Write tests, Write the README
2991 =item Step-by-step: Distributing your module
2993 Get a CPAN user ID, C<perl Makefile.PL; make test; make dist>, Upload the
2994 tarball, Announce to the modules list, Announce to clpa, Fix bugs!
3004 =head2 perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.7 $, $Date:
3005 2002/02/21 14:49:15 $)
3015 =item Who supports Perl? Who develops it? Why is it free?
3017 =item Which version of Perl should I use?
3019 =item What are perl4 and perl5?
3021 =item What is perl6?
3023 =item How stable is Perl?
3025 =item Is Perl difficult to learn?
3027 =item How does Perl compare with other languages like Java, Python, REXX,
3030 =item Can I do [task] in Perl?
3032 =item When shouldn't I program in Perl?
3034 =item What's the difference between "perl" and "Perl"?
3036 =item Is it a Perl program or a Perl script?
3038 =item What is a JAPH?
3040 =item Where can I get a list of Larry Wall witticisms?
3042 =item How can I convince my sysadmin/supervisor/employees to use version
3043 5/5.6.1/Perl instead of some other language?
3047 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3051 =head2 perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.9 $,
3052 $Date: 2002/03/09 21:01:13 $)
3060 =item What machines support Perl? Where do I get it?
3062 =item How can I get a binary version of Perl?
3064 =item I don't have a C compiler on my system. How can I compile perl?
3066 =item I copied the Perl binary from one machine to another, but scripts
3069 =item I grabbed the sources and tried to compile but gdbm/dynamic
3070 loading/malloc/linking/... failed. How do I make it work?
3072 =item What modules and extensions are available for Perl? What is CPAN?
3073 What does CPAN/src/... mean?
3075 =item Is there an ISO or ANSI certified version of Perl?
3077 =item Where can I get information on Perl?
3079 =item What are the Perl newsgroups on Usenet? Where do I post questions?
3081 =item Where should I post source code?
3085 References, Tutorials, Task-Oriented, Special Topics
3087 =item Perl in Magazines
3089 =item Perl on the Net: FTP and WWW Access
3091 =item What mailing lists are there for Perl?
3093 =item Archives of comp.lang.perl.misc
3095 =item Where can I buy a commercial version of Perl?
3097 =item Where do I send bug reports?
3099 =item What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org? cpan.org?
3103 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3107 =head2 perlfaq3 - Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.15 $, $Date: 2002/02/11
3116 =item How do I do (anything)?
3118 =item How can I use Perl interactively?
3120 =item Is there a Perl shell?
3122 =item How do I debug my Perl programs?
3124 =item How do I profile my Perl programs?
3126 =item How do I cross-reference my Perl programs?
3128 =item Is there a pretty-printer (formatter) for Perl?
3130 =item Is there a ctags for Perl?
3132 =item Is there an IDE or Windows Perl Editor?
3134 Komodo, The Object System, Open Perl IDE, PerlBuilder, visiPerl+,
3135 CodeMagicCD, GNU Emacs, MicroEMACS, XEmacs, Elvis, Vile, Vim, Codewright,
3136 MultiEdit, SlickEdit, Bash, Ksh, Tcsh, Zsh, BBEdit and BBEdit Lite, Alpha
3138 =item Where can I get Perl macros for vi?
3140 =item Where can I get perl-mode for emacs?
3142 =item How can I use curses with Perl?
3144 =item How can I use X or Tk with Perl?
3146 =item How can I generate simple menus without using CGI or Tk?
3148 =item How can I make my Perl program run faster?
3150 =item How can I make my Perl program take less memory?
3152 Don't slurp!, Use map and grep selectively, Avoid unnecessary quotes and
3153 stringification, Pass by reference, Tie large variables to disk
3155 =item Is it unsafe to return a pointer to local data?
3157 =item How can I free an array or hash so my program shrinks?
3159 =item How can I make my CGI script more efficient?
3161 =item How can I hide the source for my Perl program?
3163 =item How can I compile my Perl program into byte code or C?
3165 =item How can I compile Perl into Java?
3167 =item How can I get C<#!perl> to work on [MS-DOS,NT,...]?
3169 =item Can I write useful Perl programs on the command line?
3171 =item Why don't Perl one-liners work on my DOS/Mac/VMS system?
3173 =item Where can I learn about CGI or Web programming in Perl?
3175 =item Where can I learn about object-oriented Perl programming?
3177 =item Where can I learn about linking C with Perl? [h2xs, xsubpp]
3179 =item I've read perlembed, perlguts, etc., but I can't embed perl in
3180 my C program; what am I doing wrong?
3182 =item When I tried to run my script, I got this message. What does it mean?
3184 =item What's MakeMaker?
3188 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3192 =head2 perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation ($Revision: 1.19 $, $Date: 2002/03/11
3203 =item Why am I getting long decimals (eg, 19.9499999999999) instead of the
3204 numbers I should be getting (eg, 19.95)?
3206 =item Why isn't my octal data interpreted correctly?
3208 =item Does Perl have a round() function? What about ceil() and floor()?
3211 =item How do I convert between numeric representations?
3213 B<How do I convert Hexadecimal into decimal:>, B<How do I convert from
3214 decimal to hexadecimal:>, B<How do I convert from octal to decimal:>, B<How
3215 do I convert from decimal to octal:>, B<How do I convert from binary to
3216 decimal:>, B<How do I convert from decimal to binary:>
3218 =item Why doesn't & work the way I want it to?
3220 =item How do I multiply matrices?
3222 =item How do I perform an operation on a series of integers?
3224 =item How can I output Roman numerals?
3226 =item Why aren't my random numbers random?
3228 =item How do I get a random number between X and Y?
3236 =item How do I find the week-of-the-year/day-of-the-year?
3238 =item How do I find the current century or millennium?
3240 =item How can I compare two dates and find the difference?
3242 =item How can I take a string and turn it into epoch seconds?
3244 =item How can I find the Julian Day?
3246 =item How do I find yesterday's date?
3248 =item Does Perl have a Year 2000 problem? Is Perl Y2K compliant?
3256 =item How do I validate input?
3258 =item How do I unescape a string?
3260 =item How do I remove consecutive pairs of characters?
3262 =item How do I expand function calls in a string?
3264 =item How do I find matching/nesting anything?
3266 =item How do I reverse a string?
3268 =item How do I expand tabs in a string?
3270 =item How do I reformat a paragraph?
3272 =item How can I access/change the first N letters of a string?
3274 =item How do I change the Nth occurrence of something?
3276 =item How can I count the number of occurrences of a substring within a
3279 =item How do I capitalize all the words on one line?
3281 =item How can I split a [character] delimited string except when inside
3282 [character]? (Comma-separated files)
3284 =item How do I strip blank space from the beginning/end of a string?
3286 =item How do I pad a string with blanks or pad a number with zeroes?
3288 =item How do I extract selected columns from a string?
3290 =item How do I find the soundex value of a string?
3292 =item How can I expand variables in text strings?
3294 =item What's wrong with always quoting "$vars"?
3296 =item Why don't my <<HERE documents work?
3298 1. There must be no space after the << part, 2. There (probably) should be
3299 a semicolon at the end, 3. You can't (easily) have any space in front of
3308 =item What is the difference between a list and an array?
3310 =item What is the difference between $array[1] and @array[1]?
3312 =item How can I remove duplicate elements from a list or array?
3316 =item How can I tell whether a certain element is contained in a list or
3319 =item How do I compute the difference of two arrays? How do I compute the
3320 intersection of two arrays?
3322 =item How do I test whether two arrays or hashes are equal?
3324 =item How do I find the first array element for which a condition is true?
3326 =item How do I handle linked lists?
3328 =item How do I handle circular lists?
3330 =item How do I shuffle an array randomly?
3332 =item How do I process/modify each element of an array?
3334 =item How do I select a random element from an array?
3336 =item How do I permute N elements of a list?
3338 =item How do I sort an array by (anything)?
3340 =item How do I manipulate arrays of bits?
3342 =item Why does defined() return true on empty arrays and hashes?
3346 =item Data: Hashes (Associative Arrays)
3350 =item How do I process an entire hash?
3352 =item What happens if I add or remove keys from a hash while iterating over
3355 =item How do I look up a hash element by value?
3357 =item How can I know how many entries are in a hash?
3359 =item How do I sort a hash (optionally by value instead of key)?
3361 =item How can I always keep my hash sorted?
3363 =item What's the difference between "delete" and "undef" with hashes?
3365 =item Why don't my tied hashes make the defined/exists distinction?
3367 =item How do I reset an each() operation part-way through?
3369 =item How can I get the unique keys from two hashes?
3371 =item How can I store a multidimensional array in a DBM file?
3373 =item How can I make my hash remember the order I put elements into it?
3375 =item Why does passing a subroutine an undefined element in a hash create
3378 =item How can I make the Perl equivalent of a C structure/C++ class/hash or
3379 array of hashes or arrays?
3381 =item How can I use a reference as a hash key?
3389 =item How do I handle binary data correctly?
3391 =item How do I determine whether a scalar is a number/whole/integer/float?
3393 =item How do I keep persistent data across program calls?
3395 =item How do I print out or copy a recursive data structure?
3397 =item How do I define methods for every class/object?
3399 =item How do I verify a credit card checksum?
3401 =item How do I pack arrays of doubles or floats for XS code?
3405 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3409 =head2 perlfaq5 - Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.12 $, $Date: 2002/03/11
3418 =item How do I flush/unbuffer an output filehandle? Why must I do this?
3420 =item How do I change one line in a file/delete a line in a file/insert a
3421 line in the middle of a file/append to the beginning of a file?
3423 =item How do I count the number of lines in a file?
3425 =item How do I make a temporary file name?
3427 =item How can I manipulate fixed-record-length files?
3429 =item How can I make a filehandle local to a subroutine? How do I pass
3430 filehandles between subroutines? How do I make an array of filehandles?
3432 =item How can I use a filehandle indirectly?
3434 =item How can I set up a footer format to be used with write()?
3436 =item How can I write() into a string?
3438 =item How can I output my numbers with commas added?
3440 =item How can I translate tildes (~) in a filename?
3442 =item How come when I open a file read-write it wipes it out?
3444 =item Why do I sometimes get an "Argument list too long" when I use <*>?
3446 =item Is there a leak/bug in glob()?
3448 =item How can I open a file with a leading ">" or trailing blanks?
3450 =item How can I reliably rename a file?
3452 =item How can I lock a file?
3454 =item Why can't I just open(FH, ">file.lock")?
3456 =item I still don't get locking. I just want to increment the number in
3457 the file. How can I do this?
3459 =item All I want to do is append a small amount of text to the end of a
3460 file. Do I still have to use locking?
3462 =item How do I randomly update a binary file?
3464 =item How do I get a file's timestamp in perl?
3466 =item How do I set a file's timestamp in perl?
3468 =item How do I print to more than one file at once?
3470 =item How can I read in an entire file all at once?
3472 =item How can I read in a file by paragraphs?
3474 =item How can I read a single character from a file? From the keyboard?
3476 =item How can I tell whether there's a character waiting on a filehandle?
3478 =item How do I do a C<tail -f> in perl?
3480 =item How do I dup() a filehandle in Perl?
3482 =item How do I close a file descriptor by number?
3484 =item Why can't I use "C:\temp\foo" in DOS paths? Why doesn't
3485 `C:\temp\foo.exe` work?
3487 =item Why doesn't glob("*.*") get all the files?
3489 =item Why does Perl let me delete read-only files? Why does C<-i> clobber
3490 protected files? Isn't this a bug in Perl?
3492 =item How do I select a random line from a file?
3494 =item Why do I get weird spaces when I print an array of lines?
3498 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3502 =head2 perlfaq6 - Regular Expressions ($Revision: 1.8 $, $Date: 2002/01/31
3511 =item How can I hope to use regular expressions without creating illegible
3512 and unmaintainable code?
3514 Comments Outside the Regex, Comments Inside the Regex, Different Delimiters
3516 =item I'm having trouble matching over more than one line. What's wrong?
3518 =item How can I pull out lines between two patterns that are themselves on
3521 =item I put a regular expression into $/ but it didn't work. What's wrong?
3523 =item How do I substitute case insensitively on the LHS while preserving
3526 =item How can I make C<\w> match national character sets?
3528 =item How can I match a locale-smart version of C</[a-zA-Z]/>?
3530 =item How can I quote a variable to use in a regex?
3532 =item What is C</o> really for?
3534 =item How do I use a regular expression to strip C style comments from a
3537 =item Can I use Perl regular expressions to match balanced text?
3539 =item What does it mean that regexes are greedy? How can I get around it?
3541 =item How do I process each word on each line?
3543 =item How can I print out a word-frequency or line-frequency summary?
3545 =item How can I do approximate matching?
3547 =item How do I efficiently match many regular expressions at once?
3549 =item Why don't word-boundary searches with C<\b> work for me?
3551 =item Why does using $&, $`, or $' slow my program down?
3553 =item What good is C<\G> in a regular expression?
3555 =item Are Perl regexes DFAs or NFAs? Are they POSIX compliant?
3557 =item What's wrong with using grep or map in a void context?
3559 =item How can I match strings with multibyte characters?
3561 =item How do I match a pattern that is supplied by the user?
3565 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3569 =head2 perlfaq7 - General Perl Language Issues ($Revision: 1.7 $, $Date:
3570 2002/01/31 04:27:55 $)
3578 =item Can I get a BNF/yacc/RE for the Perl language?
3580 =item What are all these $@%&* punctuation signs, and how do I know when to
3583 =item Do I always/never have to quote my strings or use semicolons and
3586 =item How do I skip some return values?
3588 =item How do I temporarily block warnings?
3590 =item What's an extension?
3592 =item Why do Perl operators have different precedence than C operators?
3594 =item How do I declare/create a structure?
3596 =item How do I create a module?
3598 =item How do I create a class?
3600 =item How can I tell if a variable is tainted?
3602 =item What's a closure?
3604 =item What is variable suicide and how can I prevent it?
3606 =item How can I pass/return a {Function, FileHandle, Array, Hash, Method,
3609 Passing Variables and Functions, Passing Filehandles, Passing Regexes,
3612 =item How do I create a static variable?
3614 =item What's the difference between dynamic and lexical (static) scoping?
3615 Between local() and my()?
3617 =item How can I access a dynamic variable while a similarly named lexical
3620 =item What's the difference between deep and shallow binding?
3622 =item Why doesn't "my($foo) = <FILE>;" work right?
3624 =item How do I redefine a builtin function, operator, or method?
3626 =item What's the difference between calling a function as &foo and foo()?
3628 =item How do I create a switch or case statement?
3630 =item How can I catch accesses to undefined variables/functions/methods?
3632 =item Why can't a method included in this same file be found?
3634 =item How can I find out my current package?
3636 =item How can I comment out a large block of perl code?
3638 =item How do I clear a package?
3640 =item How can I use a variable as a variable name?
3644 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3648 =head2 perlfaq8 - System Interaction ($Revision: 1.6 $, $Date: 2002/01/28
3657 =item How do I find out which operating system I'm running under?
3659 =item How come exec() doesn't return?
3661 =item How do I do fancy stuff with the keyboard/screen/mouse?
3663 Keyboard, Screen, Mouse
3665 =item How do I print something out in color?
3667 =item How do I read just one key without waiting for a return key?
3669 =item How do I check whether input is ready on the keyboard?
3671 =item How do I clear the screen?
3673 =item How do I get the screen size?
3675 =item How do I ask the user for a password?
3677 =item How do I read and write the serial port?
3679 lockfiles, open mode, end of line, flushing output, non-blocking input
3681 =item How do I decode encrypted password files?
3683 =item How do I start a process in the background?
3685 STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR are shared, Signals, Zombies
3687 =item How do I trap control characters/signals?
3689 =item How do I modify the shadow password file on a Unix system?
3691 =item How do I set the time and date?
3693 =item How can I sleep() or alarm() for under a second?
3695 =item How can I measure time under a second?
3697 =item How can I do an atexit() or setjmp()/longjmp()? (Exception handling)
3699 =item Why doesn't my sockets program work under System V (Solaris)? What
3700 does the error message "Protocol not supported" mean?
3702 =item How can I call my system's unique C functions from Perl?
3704 =item Where do I get the include files to do ioctl() or syscall()?
3706 =item Why do setuid perl scripts complain about kernel problems?
3708 =item How can I open a pipe both to and from a command?
3710 =item Why can't I get the output of a command with system()?
3712 =item How can I capture STDERR from an external command?
3714 =item Why doesn't open() return an error when a pipe open fails?
3716 =item What's wrong with using backticks in a void context?
3718 =item How can I call backticks without shell processing?
3720 =item Why can't my script read from STDIN after I gave it EOF (^D on Unix,
3723 =item How can I convert my shell script to perl?
3725 =item Can I use perl to run a telnet or ftp session?
3727 =item How can I write expect in Perl?
3729 =item Is there a way to hide perl's command line from programs such as
3732 =item I {changed directory, modified my environment} in a perl script. How
3733 come the change disappeared when I exited the script? How do I get my
3734 changes to be visible?
3738 =item How do I close a process's filehandle without waiting for it to
3741 =item How do I fork a daemon process?
3743 =item How do I find out if I'm running interactively or not?
3745 =item How do I timeout a slow event?
3747 =item How do I set CPU limits?
3749 =item How do I avoid zombies on a Unix system?
3751 =item How do I use an SQL database?
3753 =item How do I make a system() exit on control-C?
3755 =item How do I open a file without blocking?
3757 =item How do I install a module from CPAN?
3759 =item What's the difference between require and use?
3761 =item How do I keep my own module/library directory?
3763 =item How do I add the directory my program lives in to the module/library
3766 =item How do I add a directory to my include path at runtime?
3768 =item What is socket.ph and where do I get it?
3772 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3776 =head2 perlfaq9 - Networking ($Revision: 1.7 $, $Date: 2002/01/28 04:17:27
3785 =item What is the correct form of response from a CGI script?
3787 =item My CGI script runs from the command line but not the browser. (500
3790 =item How can I get better error messages from a CGI program?
3792 =item How do I remove HTML from a string?
3794 =item How do I extract URLs?
3796 =item How do I download a file from the user's machine? How do I open a
3797 file on another machine?
3799 =item How do I make a pop-up menu in HTML?
3801 =item How do I fetch an HTML file?
3803 =item How do I automate an HTML form submission?
3805 =item How do I decode or create those %-encodings on the web?
3807 =item How do I redirect to another page?
3809 =item How do I put a password on my web pages?
3811 =item How do I edit my .htpasswd and .htgroup files with Perl?
3813 =item How do I make sure users can't enter values into a form that cause my
3814 CGI script to do bad things?
3816 =item How do I parse a mail header?
3818 =item How do I decode a CGI form?
3820 =item How do I check a valid mail address?
3822 =item How do I decode a MIME/BASE64 string?
3824 =item How do I return the user's mail address?
3826 =item How do I send mail?
3828 =item How do I use MIME to make an attachment to a mail message?
3830 =item How do I read mail?
3832 =item How do I find out my hostname/domainname/IP address?
3834 =item How do I fetch a news article or the active newsgroups?
3836 =item How do I fetch/put an FTP file?
3838 =item How can I do RPC in Perl?
3842 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3846 =head2 perlcompile - Introduction to the Perl Compiler-Translator
3856 B::Bytecode, B::C, B::CC, B::Lint, B::Deparse, B::Xref
3860 =item Using The Back Ends
3864 =item The Cross Referencing Back End
3868 =item The Decompiling Back End
3870 =item The Lint Back End
3872 =item The Simple C Back End
3874 =item The Bytecode Back End
3876 =item The Optimized C Back End
3878 B, O, B::Asmdata, B::Assembler, B::Bblock, B::Bytecode, B::C, B::CC,
3879 B::Debug, B::Deparse, B::Disassembler, B::Lint, B::Showlex, B::Stackobj,
3880 B::Stash, B::Terse, B::Xref
3884 =item KNOWN PROBLEMS
3890 =head2 perlembed - how to embed perl in your C program
3900 B<Use C from Perl?>, B<Use a Unix program from Perl?>, B<Use Perl from
3901 Perl?>, B<Use C from C?>, B<Use Perl from C?>
3905 =item Compiling your C program
3907 =item Adding a Perl interpreter to your C program
3909 =item Calling a Perl subroutine from your C program
3911 =item Evaluating a Perl statement from your C program
3913 =item Performing Perl pattern matches and substitutions from your C program
3915 =item Fiddling with the Perl stack from your C program
3917 =item Maintaining a persistent interpreter
3919 =item Execution of END blocks
3921 =item Maintaining multiple interpreter instances
3923 =item Using Perl modules, which themselves use C libraries, from your C
3928 =item Embedding Perl under Win32
3938 =head2 perldebguts - Guts of Perl debugging
3944 =item Debugger Internals
3948 =item Writing Your Own Debugger
3952 =item Frame Listing Output Examples
3954 =item Debugging regular expressions
3958 =item Compile-time output
3960 C<anchored> I<STRING> C<at> I<POS>, C<floating> I<STRING> C<at>
3961 I<POS1..POS2>, C<matching floating/anchored>, C<minlen>, C<stclass>
3962 I<TYPE>, C<noscan>, C<isall>, C<GPOS>, C<plus>, C<implicit>, C<with eval>,
3965 =item Types of nodes
3967 =item Run-time output
3971 =item Debugging Perl memory usage
3975 =item Using C<$ENV{PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS}>
3977 C<buckets SMALLEST(APPROX)..GREATEST(APPROX)>, Free/Used, C<Total sbrk():
3978 SBRKed/SBRKs:CONTINUOUS>, C<pad: 0>, C<heads: 2192>, C<chain: 0>, C<tail:
3981 =item Example of using B<-DL> switch
3983 C<717>, C<002>, C<054>, C<602>, C<702>, C<704>
3985 =item B<-DL> details
3989 =item Limitations of B<-DL> statistics
3997 =head2 perlxstut, perlXStut - Tutorial for writing XSUBs
4009 =item Version caveat
4011 =item Dynamic Loading versus Static Loading
4023 =item What has gone on?
4025 =item Writing good test scripts
4029 =item What's new here?
4031 =item Input and Output Parameters
4033 =item The XSUBPP Program
4035 =item The TYPEMAP file
4037 =item Warning about Output Arguments
4041 =item What has happened here?
4043 =item Anatomy of .xs file
4045 =item Getting the fat out of XSUBs
4047 =item More about XSUB arguments
4049 =item The Argument Stack
4051 =item Extending your Extension
4053 =item Documenting your Extension
4055 =item Installing your Extension
4059 =item New Things in this Example
4063 =item New Things in this Example
4065 =item EXAMPLE 7 (Coming Soon)
4067 =item EXAMPLE 8 (Coming Soon)
4069 =item EXAMPLE 9 (Coming Soon)
4071 =item Troubleshooting these Examples
4087 =head2 perlxs - XS language reference manual
4099 =item The Anatomy of an XSUB
4101 =item The Argument Stack
4103 =item The RETVAL Variable
4105 =item The MODULE Keyword
4107 =item The PACKAGE Keyword
4109 =item The PREFIX Keyword
4111 =item The OUTPUT: Keyword
4113 =item The NO_OUTPUT Keyword
4115 =item The CODE: Keyword
4117 =item The INIT: Keyword
4119 =item The NO_INIT Keyword
4121 =item Initializing Function Parameters
4123 =item Default Parameter Values
4125 =item The PREINIT: Keyword
4127 =item The SCOPE: Keyword
4129 =item The INPUT: Keyword
4131 =item The IN/OUTLIST/IN_OUTLIST/OUT/IN_OUT Keywords
4133 =item The C<length(NAME)> Keyword
4135 =item Variable-length Parameter Lists
4137 =item The C_ARGS: Keyword
4139 =item The PPCODE: Keyword
4141 =item Returning Undef And Empty Lists
4143 =item The REQUIRE: Keyword
4145 =item The CLEANUP: Keyword
4147 =item The POSTCALL: Keyword
4149 =item The BOOT: Keyword
4151 =item The VERSIONCHECK: Keyword
4153 =item The PROTOTYPES: Keyword
4155 =item The PROTOTYPE: Keyword
4157 =item The ALIAS: Keyword
4159 =item The OVERLOAD: Keyword
4161 =item The INTERFACE: Keyword
4163 =item The INTERFACE_MACRO: Keyword
4165 =item The INCLUDE: Keyword
4167 =item The CASE: Keyword
4169 =item The & Unary Operator
4171 =item Inserting POD, Comments and C Preprocessor Directives
4173 =item Using XS With C++
4175 =item Interface Strategy
4177 =item Perl Objects And C Structures
4181 =item Safely Storing Static Data in XS
4183 MY_CXT_KEY, typedef my_cxt_t, START_MY_CXT, MY_CXT_INIT, dMY_CXT, MY_CXT
4195 =head2 perlclib - Internal replacements for standard C library functions
4205 C<t>, C<p>, C<n>, C<s>
4207 =item File Operations
4209 =item File Input and Output
4211 =item File Positioning
4213 =item Memory Management and String Handling
4215 =item Character Class Tests
4217 =item F<stdlib.h> functions
4219 =item Miscellaneous functions
4227 =head2 perlguts - Introduction to the Perl API
4239 =item What is an "IV"?
4241 =item Working with SVs
4245 =item What's Really Stored in an SV?
4247 =item Working with AVs
4249 =item Working with HVs
4251 =item Hash API Extensions
4255 =item Blessed References and Class Objects
4257 =item Creating New Variables
4259 =item Reference Counts and Mortality
4261 =item Stashes and Globs
4263 =item Double-Typed SVs
4265 =item Magic Variables
4267 =item Assigning Magic
4269 =item Magic Virtual Tables
4273 =item Understanding the Magic of Tied Hashes and Arrays
4275 =item Localizing changes
4277 C<SAVEINT(int i)>, C<SAVEIV(IV i)>, C<SAVEI32(I32 i)>, C<SAVELONG(long i)>,
4278 C<SAVESPTR(s)>, C<SAVEPPTR(p)>, C<SAVEFREESV(SV *sv)>, C<SAVEMORTALIZESV(SV
4279 *sv)>, C<SAVEFREEOP(OP *op)>, C<SAVEFREEPV(p)>, C<SAVECLEARSV(SV *sv)>,
4280 C<SAVEDELETE(HV *hv, char *key, I32 length)>,
4281 C<SAVEDESTRUCTOR(DESTRUCTORFUNC_NOCONTEXT_t f, void *p)>,
4282 C<SAVEDESTRUCTOR_X(DESTRUCTORFUNC_t f, void *p)>, C<SAVESTACK_POS()>, C<SV*
4283 save_scalar(GV *gv)>, C<AV* save_ary(GV *gv)>, C<HV* save_hash(GV *gv)>,
4284 C<void save_item(SV *item)>, C<void save_list(SV **sarg, I32 maxsarg)>,
4285 C<SV* save_svref(SV **sptr)>, C<void save_aptr(AV **aptr)>, C<void
4286 save_hptr(HV **hptr)>
4294 =item XSUBs and the Argument Stack
4296 =item Calling Perl Routines from within C Programs
4298 =item Memory Allocation
4302 =item Putting a C value on Perl stack
4306 =item Scratchpads and recursion
4316 =item Examining the tree
4318 =item Compile pass 1: check routines
4320 =item Compile pass 1a: constant folding
4322 =item Compile pass 2: context propagation
4324 =item Compile pass 3: peephole optimization
4326 =item Pluggable runops
4330 =item Examining internal data structures with the C<dump> functions
4332 =item How multiple interpreters and concurrency are supported
4336 =item Background and PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
4338 =item So what happened to dTHR?
4340 =item How do I use all this in extensions?
4342 =item Should I do anything special if I call perl from multiple threads?
4344 =item Future Plans and PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
4348 =item Internal Functions
4350 A, p, d, s, n, r, f, M, o, j, x
4354 =item Formatted Printing of IVs, UVs, and NVs
4356 =item Pointer-To-Integer and Integer-To-Pointer
4358 =item Source Documentation
4362 =item Unicode Support
4366 =item What B<is> Unicode, anyway?
4368 =item How can I recognise a UTF8 string?
4370 =item How does UTF8 represent Unicode characters?
4372 =item How does Perl store UTF8 strings?
4374 =item How do I convert a string to UTF8?
4376 =item Is there anything else I need to know?
4380 =item Custom Operators
4388 =head2 perlcall - Perl calling conventions from C
4394 An Error Handler, An Event Driven Program
4396 =item THE CALL_ FUNCTIONS
4398 call_sv, call_pv, call_method, call_argv
4418 =item Determining the Context
4422 =item KNOWN PROBLEMS
4428 =item No Parameters, Nothing returned
4430 =item Passing Parameters
4432 =item Returning a Scalar
4434 =item Returning a list of values
4436 =item Returning a list in a scalar context
4438 =item Returning Data from Perl via the parameter list
4442 =item Using G_KEEPERR
4446 =item Using call_argv
4448 =item Using call_method
4452 =item Using Perl to dispose of temporaries
4454 =item Strategies for storing Callback Context Information
4456 1. Ignore the problem - Allow only 1 callback, 2. Create a sequence of
4457 callbacks - hard wired limit, 3. Use a parameter to map to the Perl
4460 =item Alternate Stack Manipulation
4462 =item Creating and calling an anonymous subroutine in C
4474 =head2 perlutil - utilities packaged with the Perl distribution
4484 L<perldoc|perldoc>, L<pod2man|pod2man> and L<pod2text|pod2text>,
4485 L<pod2html|pod2html> and L<pod2latex|pod2latex>, L<pod2usage|pod2usage>,
4486 L<podselect|podselect>, L<podchecker|podchecker>, L<splain|splain>,
4487 L<roffitall|roffitall>
4491 L<a2p|a2p>, L<s2p|s2p>, L<find2perl|find2perl>
4493 =item Administration
4495 L<libnetcfg|libnetcfg>
4499 L<perlbug|perlbug>, L<h2ph|h2ph>, L<c2ph|c2ph> and L<pstruct|pstruct>,
4500 L<h2xs|h2xs>, L<dprofpp|dprofpp>, L<perlcc|perlcc>
4508 =head2 perlfilter - Source Filters
4518 =item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER
4520 =item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER IN C
4522 B<Decryption Filters>
4524 =item CREATING A SOURCE FILTER AS A SEPARATE EXECUTABLE
4526 =item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER IN PERL
4528 =item USING CONTEXT: THE DEBUG FILTER
4540 =head2 perldbmfilter - Perl DBM Filters
4548 B<filter_store_key>, B<filter_store_value>, B<filter_fetch_key>,
4549 B<filter_fetch_value>
4555 =item An Example -- the NULL termination problem.
4557 =item Another Example -- Key is a C int.
4567 =head2 perlapi - autogenerated documentation for the perl public API
4573 =item "Gimme" Values
4575 GIMME, GIMME_V, G_ARRAY, G_DISCARD, G_EVAL, G_NOARGS, G_SCALAR, G_VOID
4577 =item Array Manipulation Functions
4579 AvFILL, av_clear, av_delete, av_exists, av_extend, av_fetch, av_fill,
4580 av_len, av_make, av_pop, av_push, av_shift, av_store, av_undef, av_unshift,
4581 get_av, newAV, Nullav, sortsv
4583 =item Callback Functions
4585 call_argv, call_method, call_pv, call_sv, ENTER, eval_pv, eval_sv,
4586 FREETMPS, LEAVE, SAVETMPS
4588 =item Character classes
4590 isALNUM, isALPHA, isDIGIT, isLOWER, isSPACE, isUPPER, toLOWER, toUPPER
4592 =item Cloning an interpreter
4596 =item CV Manipulation Functions
4598 CvSTASH, get_cv, Nullcv
4600 =item Embedding Functions
4602 load_module, perl_alloc, perl_construct, perl_destruct, perl_free,
4603 perl_parse, perl_run, require_pv
4605 =item Functions in file pp_pack.c
4607 pack_cat, unpack_str
4609 =item Global Variables
4611 PL_modglobal, PL_na, PL_sv_no, PL_sv_undef, PL_sv_yes
4615 GvSV, gv_fetchmeth, gv_fetchmethod, gv_fetchmethod_autoload,
4616 gv_fetchmeth_autoload, gv_stashpv, gv_stashsv
4620 HEf_SVKEY, Nullch, Nullsv
4622 =item Hash Manipulation Functions
4624 get_hv, HeHASH, HeKEY, HeKLEN, HePV, HeSVKEY, HeSVKEY_force, HeSVKEY_set,
4625 HeVAL, HvNAME, hv_clear, hv_delete, hv_delete_ent, hv_exists,
4626 hv_exists_ent, hv_fetch, hv_fetch_ent, hv_iterinit, hv_iterkey,
4627 hv_iterkeysv, hv_iternext, hv_iternextsv, hv_iterval, hv_magic, hv_store,
4628 hv_store_ent, hv_undef, newHV, Nullhv
4630 =item Magical Functions
4632 mg_clear, mg_copy, mg_find, mg_free, mg_get, mg_length, mg_magical, mg_set,
4633 SvGETMAGIC, SvLOCK, SvSETMAGIC, SvSetMagicSV, SvSetMagicSV_nosteal,
4634 SvSetSV, SvSetSV_nosteal, SvSHARE
4636 =item Memory Management
4638 Copy, Move, New, Newc, NEWSV, Newz, Renew, Renewc, Safefree, savepv,
4639 savepvn, savesharedpv, StructCopy, Zero
4641 =item Miscellaneous Functions
4643 fbm_compile, fbm_instr, form, getcwd_sv, strEQ, strGE, strGT, strLE, strLT,
4644 strNE, strnEQ, strnNE
4646 =item Numeric functions
4648 grok_bin, grok_hex, grok_number, grok_numeric_radix, grok_oct, scan_bin,
4651 =item Optree Manipulation Functions
4653 cv_const_sv, newCONSTSUB, newXS
4655 =item Stack Manipulation Macros
4657 dMARK, dORIGMARK, dSP, EXTEND, MARK, ORIGMARK, POPi, POPl, POPn, POPp,
4658 POPpbytex, POPpx, POPs, PUSHi, PUSHMARK, PUSHn, PUSHp, PUSHs, PUSHu,
4659 PUTBACK, SP, SPAGAIN, XPUSHi, XPUSHn, XPUSHp, XPUSHs, XPUSHu, XSRETURN,
4660 XSRETURN_IV, XSRETURN_NO, XSRETURN_NV, XSRETURN_PV, XSRETURN_UNDEF,
4661 XSRETURN_YES, XST_mIV, XST_mNO, XST_mNV, XST_mPV, XST_mUNDEF, XST_mYES
4665 svtype, SVt_IV, SVt_NV, SVt_PV, SVt_PVAV, SVt_PVCV, SVt_PVHV, SVt_PVMG
4667 =item SV Manipulation Functions
4669 get_sv, looks_like_number, memcmp_byte_utf8, newRV_inc, newRV_noinc, newSV,
4670 newSViv, newSVnv, newSVpv, newSVpvf, newSVpvn, newSVpvn_share, newSVrv,
4671 newSVsv, newSVuv, new_vstring, SvCUR, SvCUR_set, SvEND, SvGROW, SvIOK,
4672 SvIOKp, SvIOK_notUV, SvIOK_off, SvIOK_on, SvIOK_only, SvIOK_only_UV,
4673 SvIOK_UV, SvIV, SvIVx, SvIVX, SvLEN, SvNIOK, SvNIOKp, SvNIOK_off, SvNOK,
4674 SvNOKp, SvNOK_off, SvNOK_on, SvNOK_only, SvNV, SvNVx, SvNVX, SvOK, SvOOK,
4675 SvPOK, SvPOKp, SvPOK_off, SvPOK_on, SvPOK_only, SvPOK_only_UTF8, SvPV,
4676 SvPVbyte, SvPVbytex, SvPVbytex_force, SvPVbyte_force, SvPVbyte_nolen,
4677 SvPVutf8, SvPVutf8x, SvPVutf8x_force, SvPVutf8_force, SvPVutf8_nolen,
4678 SvPVx, SvPVX, SvPV_force, SvPV_force_nomg, SvPV_nolen, SvREFCNT,
4679 SvREFCNT_dec, SvREFCNT_inc, SvROK, SvROK_off, SvROK_on, SvRV, SvSTASH,
4680 SvTAINT, SvTAINTED, SvTAINTED_off, SvTAINTED_on, SvTRUE, SvTYPE, SvUNLOCK,
4681 SvUOK, SvUPGRADE, SvUTF8, SvUTF8_off, SvUTF8_on, SvUV, SvUVx, SvUVX,
4682 sv_2bool, sv_2cv, sv_2io, sv_2iv, sv_2mortal, sv_2nv, sv_2pvbyte,
4683 sv_2pvbyte_nolen, sv_2pvutf8, sv_2pvutf8_nolen, sv_2pv_flags, sv_2pv_nolen,
4684 sv_2uv, sv_backoff, sv_bless, sv_catpv, sv_catpvf, sv_catpvf_mg, sv_catpvn,
4685 sv_catpvn_flags, sv_catpvn_mg, sv_catpv_mg, sv_catsv, sv_catsv_flags,
4686 sv_catsv_mg, sv_chop, sv_clear, sv_cmp, sv_cmp_locale, sv_collxfrm,
4687 sv_copypv, sv_dec, sv_derived_from, sv_eq, sv_force_normal,
4688 sv_force_normal_flags, sv_free, sv_gets, sv_grow, sv_inc, sv_insert,
4689 sv_isa, sv_isobject, sv_iv, sv_len, sv_len_utf8, sv_magic, sv_magicext,
4690 sv_mortalcopy, sv_newmortal, sv_newref, sv_nolocking, sv_nosharing,
4691 sv_nounlocking, sv_nv, sv_pos_b2u, sv_pos_u2b, sv_pv, sv_pvbyte,
4692 sv_pvbyten, sv_pvbyten_force, sv_pvn, sv_pvn_force, sv_pvn_force_flags,
4693 sv_pvutf8, sv_pvutf8n, sv_pvutf8n_force, sv_reftype, sv_replace,
4694 sv_report_used, sv_reset, sv_rvweaken, sv_setiv, sv_setiv_mg, sv_setnv,
4695 sv_setnv_mg, sv_setpv, sv_setpvf, sv_setpvf_mg, sv_setpviv, sv_setpviv_mg,
4696 sv_setpvn, sv_setpvn_mg, sv_setpv_mg, sv_setref_iv, sv_setref_nv,
4697 sv_setref_pv, sv_setref_pvn, sv_setref_uv, sv_setsv, sv_setsv_flags,
4698 sv_setsv_mg, sv_setuv, sv_setuv_mg, sv_taint, sv_tainted, sv_true,
4699 sv_unmagic, sv_unref, sv_unref_flags, sv_untaint, sv_upgrade, sv_usepvn,
4700 sv_usepvn_mg, sv_utf8_decode, sv_utf8_downgrade, sv_utf8_encode,
4701 sv_utf8_upgrade, sv_utf8_upgrade_flags, sv_uv, sv_vcatpvfn, sv_vsetpvfn
4703 =item Unicode Support
4705 bytes_from_utf8, bytes_to_utf8, ibcmp_utf8, is_utf8_char, is_utf8_string,
4706 pv_uni_display, sv_recode_to_utf8, sv_uni_display, to_utf8_case,
4707 to_utf8_fold, to_utf8_lower, to_utf8_title, to_utf8_upper, utf8n_to_uvchr,
4708 utf8n_to_uvuni, utf8_distance, utf8_hop, utf8_length, utf8_to_bytes,
4709 utf8_to_uvchr, utf8_to_uvuni, uvchr_to_utf8, uvuni_to_utf8_flags
4711 =item Variables created by C<xsubpp> and C<xsubpp> internal functions
4713 ax, CLASS, dAX, dITEMS, dXSARGS, dXSI32, items, ix, newXSproto, RETVAL, ST,
4714 THIS, XS, XSRETURN_EMPTY, XS_VERSION, XS_VERSION_BOOTCHECK
4716 =item Warning and Dieing
4726 =head2 perlintern - autogenerated documentation of purely B<internal>
4733 =item Global Variables
4735 PL_DBsingle, PL_DBsub, PL_DBtrace, PL_dowarn, PL_last_in_gv, PL_ofs_sv,
4746 =item Pad Data Structures
4750 =item Stack Manipulation Macros
4754 =item SV Manipulation Functions
4756 report_uninit, sv_add_arena, sv_clean_all, sv_clean_objs, sv_free_arenas
4764 =head2 perliol - C API for Perl's implementation of IO in Layers.
4774 =item History and Background
4776 =item Layers vs Disciplines
4778 =item Data Structures
4780 =item Functions and Attributes
4782 =item Per-instance Data
4784 =item Layers in action.
4786 =item Per-instance flag bits
4788 PERLIO_F_EOF, PERLIO_F_CANWRITE, PERLIO_F_CANREAD, PERLIO_F_ERROR,
4789 PERLIO_F_TRUNCATE, PERLIO_F_APPEND, PERLIO_F_CRLF, PERLIO_F_UTF8,
4790 PERLIO_F_UNBUF, PERLIO_F_WRBUF, PERLIO_F_RDBUF, PERLIO_F_LINEBUF,
4791 PERLIO_F_TEMP, PERLIO_F_OPEN, PERLIO_F_FASTGETS
4793 =item Methods in Detail
4795 name, size, kind, PERLIO_K_BUFFERED, PERLIO_K_CANCRLF, PERLIO_K_FASTGETS,
4796 PERLIO_K_MULTIARG, PERLIO_K_RAW, Pushed, Popped, Open, Getarg, Fileno, Dup,
4797 Read, Write, Seek, Tell, Close, Flush, Fill, Eof, Error, Clearerr,
4798 Setlinebuf, Get_base, Get_bufsiz, Get_ptr, Get_cnt, Set_ptrcnt
4802 "unix", "perlio", "stdio", "crlf", "mmap", "pending", "raw", "utf8"
4804 =item Extension Layers
4806 ":encoding", ":Scalar", ":Object" or ":Perl"
4814 =head2 perlapio - perl's IO abstraction interface.
4822 1. USE_STDIO, 2. USE_SFIO, 3. USE_PERLIO, B<PerlIO_stdin()>,
4823 B<PerlIO_stdout()>, B<PerlIO_stderr()>, B<PerlIO_open(path, mode)>,
4824 B<PerlIO_fdopen(fd,mode)>, B<PerlIO_reopen(path,mode,f)>,
4825 B<PerlIO_printf(f,fmt,...)>, B<PerlIO_vprintf(f,fmt,a)>,
4826 B<PerlIO_stdoutf(fmt,...)>, B<PerlIO_read(f,buf,count)>,
4827 B<PerlIO_write(f,buf,count)>, B<PerlIO_close(f)>, B<PerlIO_puts(f,s)>,
4828 B<PerlIO_putc(f,c)>, B<PerlIO_ungetc(f,c)>, B<PerlIO_getc(f)>,
4829 B<PerlIO_eof(f)>, B<PerlIO_error(f)>, B<PerlIO_fileno(f)>,
4830 B<PerlIO_clearerr(f)>, B<PerlIO_flush(f)>, B<PerlIO_seek(f,offset,whence)>,
4831 B<PerlIO_tell(f)>, B<PerlIO_getpos(f,p)>, B<PerlIO_setpos(f,p)>,
4832 B<PerlIO_rewind(f)>, B<PerlIO_tmpfile()>, B<PerlIO_setlinebuf(f)>
4836 =item Co-existence with stdio
4838 B<PerlIO_importFILE(f,flags)>, B<PerlIO_exportFILE(f,flags)>,
4839 B<PerlIO_findFILE(f)>, B<PerlIO_releaseFILE(p,f)>
4841 =item "Fast gets" Functions
4843 B<PerlIO_fast_gets(f)>, B<PerlIO_has_cntptr(f)>, B<PerlIO_get_cnt(f)>,
4844 B<PerlIO_get_ptr(f)>, B<PerlIO_set_ptrcnt(f,p,c)>, B<PerlIO_canset_cnt(f)>,
4845 B<PerlIO_set_cnt(f,c)>, B<PerlIO_has_base(f)>, B<PerlIO_get_base(f)>,
4846 B<PerlIO_get_bufsiz(f)>
4848 =item Other Functions
4850 PerlIO_apply_layers(f,mode,layers), PerlIO_binmode(f,ptype,imode,layers),
4851 'E<lt>' read, 'E<gt>' write, '+' read/write, PerlIO_debug(fmt,...)
4857 =head2 perltodo - Perl TO-DO List
4863 =item To do during 5.6.x
4867 =item Support for I/O disciplines
4869 =item Autoload bytes.pm
4871 =item Make "\u{XXXX}" et al work
4873 =item Create a char *sv_pvprintify(sv, STRLEN *lenp, UV flags)
4875 =item Overloadable regex assertions
4879 =item use Thread for iThreads
4881 =item make perl_clone optionally clone ops
4883 =item Work out exit/die semantics for threads
4885 =item Typed lexicals for compiler
4887 =item Compiler workarounds for Win32
4889 =item AUTOLOADing in the compiler
4891 =item Fixing comppadlist when compiling
4893 =item Cleaning up exported namespace
4895 =item Complete signal handling
4897 =item Out-of-source builds
4899 =item POSIX realtime support
4901 =item UNIX98 support
4905 =item Long double conversion
4909 =item Thread-safe regexes
4911 =item Arithmetic on non-Arabic numerals
4913 =item POSIX Unicode character classes
4915 =item Factoring out common suffices/prefices in regexps (trie optimization)
4917 =item Security audit shipped utilities
4919 =item Sort out the uid-setting mess
4921 =item DLL Versioning
4923 =item Introduce @( and @)
4925 =item Floating point handling
4927 =item IV/UV preservation
4929 =item Replace pod2html with something using Pod::Parser
4931 =item Automate module testing on CPAN
4933 =item sendmsg and recvmsg
4935 =item Rewrite perlre documentation
4937 =item Convert example code to IO::Handle filehandles
4939 =item Document Win32 choices
4941 =item Check new modules
4943 =item Make roffitall find pods and libs itself
4947 =item To do at some point
4951 =item Remove regular expression recursion
4953 =item Memory leaks after failed eval
4955 =item bitfields in pack
4957 =item Cross compilation
4959 =item Perl preprocessor / macros
4961 =item Perl lexer in Perl
4963 =item Using POSIX calls internally
4965 =item -i rename file when changed
4967 =item All ARGV input should act like E<lt>E<gt>
4969 =item Support for rerunning debugger
4971 =item Test Suite for the Debugger
4973 =item my sub foo { }
4975 =item One-pass global destruction
4977 =item Rewrite regexp parser
4979 =item Cache recently used regexps
4981 =item Re-entrant functions
4983 =item Cross-compilation support
4985 =item Bit-shifting bitvectors
4987 =item debugger pragma
4989 =item use less pragma
4991 =item switch structures
4993 =item Cache eval tree
4997 =item Shrink opcode tables
4999 =item Optimize away @_
5001 =item Prototypes versus indirect objects
5005 =item Prototype method calls
5007 =item Return context prototype declarations
5011 =item Garbage collection
5015 =item Rewrite perldoc
5017 =item Install .3p manpages
5019 =item Unicode tutorial
5021 =item Update POSIX.pm for 1003.1-2
5023 =item Retargetable installation
5025 =item POSIX emulation on non-POSIX systems
5027 =item Rename Win32 headers
5029 =item Finish off lvalue functions
5031 =item Update sprintf documentation
5033 =item Use fchown/fchmod internally
5035 =item Make v-strings overloaded objects
5037 =item Allow restricted hash assignment
5045 =item ref() in list context
5047 =item Make tr/// return histogram of characters in list context
5049 =item Compile to real threaded code
5051 =item Structured types
5053 =item Modifiable $1 et al.
5055 =item Procedural interfaces for IO::*, etc.
5059 =item Attach/detach debugger from running program
5063 =item foreach(reverse ...)
5065 =item Constant function cache
5067 =item Approximate regular expression matching
5075 =item Update guts documentation
5077 =item Add more tests
5079 =item Update auxiliary tools
5083 =item Recently done things
5087 =item Alternative RE syntax module
5089 =item Safe signal handling
5095 =item setitimer and getimiter
5097 =item Testing __DIE__ hook
5099 =item CPP equivalent in Perl
5101 =item Explicit switch statements
5109 =item perlcc to produce executable
5111 =item END blocks saved in compiled output
5113 =item Secure temporary file module
5115 =item Integrate Time::HiRes
5117 =item Turn Cwd into XS
5119 =item Mmap for input
5121 =item Byte to/from UTF8 and UTF8 to/from local conversion
5123 =item Add sockatmark support
5125 =item Mailing list archives
5129 =item Integrate MacPerl
5131 =item Web "nerve center" for Perl
5133 =item Regular expression tutorial
5135 =item Debugging Tutorial
5137 =item Integrate new modules
5139 =item Integrate profiler
5141 =item Y2K error detection
5143 =item Regular expression debugger
5147 =item "Dynamic" lexicals
5149 =item Cache precompiled modules
5153 =item Deprecated Wishes
5157 =item Loop control on do{}
5159 =item Lexically scoped typeglobs
5165 =item Generalised want()/caller())
5167 =item Named prototypes
5169 =item Built-in globbing
5171 =item Regression tests for suidperl
5173 =item Cached hash values
5175 =item Add compression modules
5177 =item Reorganise documentation into tutorials/references
5179 =item Remove distinction between functions and operators
5181 =item Make XS easier to use
5183 =item Make embedding easier to use
5187 =item my $Package::variable
5189 =item "or" tests defined, not truth
5191 =item "class"-based lexicals
5195 =item Lazy evaluation / tail recursion removal
5197 =item Make "use utf8" the default
5199 =item Unicode collation and normalization
5201 =item Create debugging macros
5203 =item truncate to the people
5205 =item pack/unpack tutorial
5211 =head2 perlhack - How to hack at the Perl internals
5217 Does concept match the general goals of Perl?, Where is the
5218 implementation?, Backwards compatibility, Could it be a module instead?, Is
5219 the feature generic enough?, Does it potentially introduce new bugs?, Does
5220 it preclude other desirable features?, Is the implementation robust?, Is
5221 the implementation generic enough to be portable?, Is the implementation
5222 tested?, Is there enough documentation?, Is there another way to do it?,
5223 Does it create too much work?, Patches speak louder than words
5227 =item Keeping in sync
5229 rsync'ing the source tree, Using rsync over the LAN, Using pushing over the
5230 NFS, rsync'ing the patches
5232 =item Why rsync the source tree
5234 It's easier to rsync the source tree, It's more recent, It's more reliable
5236 =item Why rsync the patches
5238 It's easier to rsync the patches, It's a good reference, Finding a start
5239 point, Finding how to fix a bug, Finding the source of misbehaviour
5241 =item Perlbug remote interface
5243 1 http://bugs.perl.org, 2 bugdb@perl.org, 3
5244 commands_and_bugdids@bugs.perl.org, notes, patches, tests
5246 =item Submitting patches
5248 L<perlguts>, L<perlxstut> and L<perlxs>, L<perlapi>,
5249 F<Porting/pumpkin.pod>, The perl5-porters FAQ
5251 =item Finding Your Way Around
5253 Core modules, Tests, Documentation, Configure, Interpreter
5255 =item Elements of the interpreter
5257 Startup, Parsing, Optimization, Running
5259 =item Internal Variable Types
5265 Argument stack, Mark stack, Save stack
5267 =item Millions of Macros
5269 =item Poking at Perl
5271 =item Using a source-level debugger
5273 run [args], break function_name, break source.c:xxx, step, next, continue,
5274 finish, 'enter', print
5276 =item Dumping Perl Data Structures
5280 =item Patching a core module
5282 =item Adding a new function to the core
5284 =item Writing a test
5286 F<t/base/>, F<t/cmd/>, F<t/comp/>, F<t/io/>, F<t/lib/>, F<t/op/>,
5287 F<t/pod/>, F<t/run/>, t/base t/comp, t/cmd t/run t/io t/op, t/lib ext lib
5291 =item EXTERNAL TOOLS FOR DEBUGGING PERL
5295 =item Rational Software's Purify
5297 =item Purify on Unix
5299 -Accflags=-DPURIFY, -Doptimize='-g', -Uusemymalloc, -Dusemultiplicity
5303 DEFINES, USE_MULTI = define, #PERL_MALLOC = define, CFG = Debug
5305 =item Compaq's/Digital's Third Degree
5307 =item PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL
5311 =item Gprof Profiling
5313 -a, -b, -e routine, -f routine, -s, -z
5315 =item GCC gcov Profiling
5317 =item Pixie Profiling
5319 -h, -l, -p[rocedures], -h[eavy], -i[nvocations], -l[ines], -testcoverage,
5324 I<The Road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began.>
5332 =head2 perlhist - the Perl history records
5340 =item THE KEEPERS OF THE PUMPKIN
5352 =item SELECTED RELEASE SIZES
5354 =item SELECTED PATCH SIZES
5358 =item THE KEEPERS OF THE RECORDS
5362 =head2 perldelta - what is new for perl v5.8.0
5368 =item Highlights In 5.8.0
5370 =item Incompatible Changes
5374 =item 64-bit platforms and malloc
5376 =item AIX Dynaloading
5378 =item Attributes for C<my> variables now handled at run-time.
5380 =item Socket Extension Dynamic in VMS
5382 =item IEEE-format Floating Point Default on OpenVMS Alpha
5384 =item New Unicode Properties
5386 =item REF(...) Instead Of SCALAR(...)
5388 =item pack/unpack D/F recycled
5394 =item Core Enhancements
5398 =item PerlIO is Now The Default
5402 =item Unicode Overhaul
5404 =item Understanding of Numbers
5406 =item Miscellaneous Changes
5410 =item Modules and Pragmata
5414 =item New Modules and Pragmata
5416 =item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
5420 =item Utility Changes
5422 =item New Documentation
5424 =item Performance Enhancements
5426 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
5430 =item Generic Improvements
5432 =item New Or Improved Platforms
5436 =item Selected Bug Fixes
5440 =item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
5444 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
5446 =item Changed Internals
5448 =item Security Vulnerability Closed
5452 =item Known Problems
5458 =item Amiga Perl Invoking Mystery
5460 =item lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
5462 =item HP-UX lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails When LP64-Configured
5464 =item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
5470 =item op/sprintf tests 129 and 130
5472 =item Failure of Thread tests
5476 =item UNICOS and UNICOS/mk
5484 =item Localising a Tied Variable Leaks Memory
5486 =item Localising Tied Arrays and Hashes Is Broken
5488 =item Self-tying of Arrays and Hashes Is Forbidden
5490 =item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
5492 =item Unicode Support on EBCDIC Still Spotty
5494 =item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
5496 =item The Long Double Support Is Still Experimental
5498 =item Seen In Perl 5.7 But Gone Now
5502 =item Reporting Bugs
5510 =head2 perl572delta - what's new for perl v5.7.2
5516 =item Security Vulnerability Closed
5518 =item Incompatible Changes
5522 =item 64-bit platforms and malloc
5524 =item AIX Dynaloading
5526 =item Socket Extension Dynamic in VMS
5528 =item Different Definition of the Unicode Character Classes \p{In...}
5534 =item Core Enhancements
5536 =item Modules and Pragmata
5540 =item New Modules and Distributions
5542 =item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
5546 =item Utility Changes
5548 =item New Documentation
5550 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
5554 =item New Or Improved Platforms
5556 =item Generic Improvements
5560 =item Selected Bug Fixes
5564 =item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
5568 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
5570 =item Source Code Enhancements
5574 =item MAGIC constants
5576 =item Better commented code
5578 =item Regex pre-/post-compilation items matched up
5586 =item Known Problems
5592 =item Amiga Perl Invoking Mystery
5594 =item lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
5596 =item Cygwin intermittent failures of lib/Memoize/t/expire_file 11 and 12
5598 =item HP-UX lib/io_multihomed Fails When LP64-Configured
5600 =item HP-UX lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails When LP64-Configured
5602 =item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
5606 =item op/sprintf tests 129 and 130
5608 =item Failure of Thread tests
5618 =item Localising a Tied Variable Leaks Memory
5620 =item Self-tying of Arrays and Hashes Is Forbidden
5622 =item Variable Attributes are not Currently Usable for Tieing
5624 =item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
5626 =item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
5628 =item The Long Double Support is Still Experimental
5632 =item Reporting Bugs
5640 =head2 perl571delta - what's new for perl v5.7.1
5646 =item Security Vulnerability Closed
5648 =item Incompatible Changes
5650 =item Core Enhancements
5654 =item AUTOLOAD Is Now Lvaluable
5656 =item PerlIO is Now The Default
5658 =item Signals Are Now Safe
5662 =item Modules and Pragmata
5668 =item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
5672 =item Performance Enhancements
5674 =item Utility Changes
5676 =item New Documentation
5692 =item README.solaris
5696 =item Porting/repository.pod
5700 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
5704 =item New Or Improved Platforms
5706 =item Generic Improvements
5708 d_cmsghdr, d_fcntl_can_lock, d_fsync, d_getitimer, d_getpagsz, d_msghdr_s,
5709 need_va_copy, d_readv, d_recvmsg, d_sendmsg, sig_size, d_sockatmark,
5710 d_strtoq, d_u32align, d_ualarm, d_usleep
5714 =item Selected Bug Fixes
5718 =item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
5722 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
5724 =item Changed Internals
5728 =item Known Problems
5732 =item AIX vac 5.0.0.0 May Produce Buggy Code For Perl
5734 =item lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
5736 =item lib/io_multihomed Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX
5738 =item Test lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX
5742 =item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
5744 =item sigaction test 13 in VMS
5746 =item sprintf tests 129 and 130
5748 =item Failure of Thread tests
5750 =item Localising a Tied Variable Leaks Memory
5752 =item Self-tying of Arrays and Hashes Is Forbidden
5754 =item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
5756 =item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
5760 =item Reporting Bugs
5768 =head2 perl570delta - what's new for perl v5.7.0
5774 =item Security Vulnerability Closed
5776 =item Incompatible Changes
5778 =item Core Enhancements
5780 =item Modules and Pragmata
5786 =item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
5790 =item Utility Changes
5792 =item New Documentation
5794 =item Performance Enhancements
5796 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
5800 =item Generic Improvements
5804 =item Selected Bug Fixes
5808 =item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
5812 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
5814 =item Changed Internals
5816 =item Known Problems
5820 =item Unicode Support Still Far From Perfect
5822 =item EBCDIC Still A Lost Platform
5824 =item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
5826 =item ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
5828 =item Test lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX
5830 =item Long Doubles Still Don't Work In Solaris
5832 =item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
5834 =item Storable tests fail in some platforms
5836 =item Threads Are Still Experimental
5838 =item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
5842 =item Reporting Bugs
5850 =head2 perl561delta - what's new for perl v5.6.x
5856 =item Summary of changes between 5.6.0 and 5.6.1
5860 =item Security Issues
5862 =item Core bug fixes
5864 C<UNIVERSAL::isa()>, Memory leaks, Numeric conversions, qw(a\\b), caller(),
5865 Bugs in regular expressions, "slurp" mode, Autovivification of symbolic
5866 references to special variables, Lexical warnings, Spurious warnings and
5867 errors, glob(), Tainting, sort(), #line directives, Subroutine prototypes,
5868 map(), Debugger, PERL5OPT, chop(), Unicode support, 64-bit support,
5869 Compiler, Lvalue subroutines, IO::Socket, File::Find, xsubpp, C<no
5874 =item Configuration issues
5878 =item Bundled modules
5880 B::Concise, File::Temp, Pod::LaTeX, Pod::Text::Overstrike, CGI, CPAN,
5881 Class::Struct, DB_File, Devel::Peek, File::Find, Getopt::Long, IO::Poll,
5882 IPC::Open3, Math::BigFloat, Math::Complex, Net::Ping, Opcode, Pod::Parser,
5883 Pod::Text, SDBM_File, Sys::Syslog, Tie::RefHash, Tie::SubstrHash
5885 =item Platform-specific improvements
5887 NCR MP-RAS, NonStop-UX
5891 =item Core Enhancements
5895 =item Interpreter cloning, threads, and concurrency
5897 =item Lexically scoped warning categories
5899 =item Unicode and UTF-8 support
5901 =item Support for interpolating named characters
5903 =item "our" declarations
5905 =item Support for strings represented as a vector of ordinals
5907 =item Improved Perl version numbering system
5909 =item New syntax for declaring subroutine attributes
5911 =item File and directory handles can be autovivified
5913 =item open() with more than two arguments
5915 =item 64-bit support
5917 =item Large file support
5923 =item Enhanced support for sort() subroutines
5925 =item C<sort $coderef @foo> allowed
5927 =item File globbing implemented internally
5929 =item Support for CHECK blocks
5931 =item POSIX character class syntax [: :] supported
5933 =item Better pseudo-random number generator
5935 =item Improved C<qw//> operator
5937 =item Better worst-case behavior of hashes
5939 =item pack() format 'Z' supported
5941 =item pack() format modifier '!' supported
5943 =item pack() and unpack() support counted strings
5945 =item Comments in pack() templates
5947 =item Weak references
5949 =item Binary numbers supported
5951 =item Lvalue subroutines
5953 =item Some arrows may be omitted in calls through references
5955 =item Boolean assignment operators are legal lvalues
5957 =item exists() is supported on subroutine names
5959 =item exists() and delete() are supported on array elements
5961 =item Pseudo-hashes work better
5963 =item Automatic flushing of output buffers
5965 =item Better diagnostics on meaningless filehandle operations
5967 =item Where possible, buffered data discarded from duped input filehandle
5969 =item eof() has the same old magic as <>
5971 =item binmode() can be used to set :crlf and :raw modes
5973 =item C<-T> filetest recognizes UTF-8 encoded files as "text"
5975 =item system(), backticks and pipe open now reflect exec() failure
5977 =item Improved diagnostics
5979 =item Diagnostics follow STDERR
5981 =item More consistent close-on-exec behavior
5983 =item syswrite() ease-of-use
5985 =item Better syntax checks on parenthesized unary operators
5987 =item Bit operators support full native integer width
5989 =item Improved security features
5991 =item More functional bareword prototype (*)
5993 =item C<require> and C<do> may be overridden
5995 =item $^X variables may now have names longer than one character
5997 =item New variable $^C reflects C<-c> switch
5999 =item New variable $^V contains Perl version as a string
6001 =item Optional Y2K warnings
6003 =item Arrays now always interpolate into double-quoted strings
6007 =item Modules and Pragmata
6013 attributes, B, Benchmark, ByteLoader, constant, charnames, Data::Dumper,
6014 DB, DB_File, Devel::DProf, Devel::Peek, Dumpvalue, DynaLoader, English,
6015 Env, Fcntl, File::Compare, File::Find, File::Glob, File::Spec,
6016 File::Spec::Functions, Getopt::Long, IO, JPL, lib, Math::BigInt,
6017 Math::Complex, Math::Trig, Pod::Parser, Pod::InputObjects, Pod::Checker,
6018 podchecker, Pod::ParseUtils, Pod::Find, Pod::Select, podselect, Pod::Usage,
6019 pod2usage, Pod::Text and Pod::Man, SDBM_File, Sys::Syslog, Sys::Hostname,
6020 Term::ANSIColor, Time::Local, Win32, XSLoader, DBM Filters
6026 =item Utility Changes
6040 =item The Perl Debugger
6044 =item Improved Documentation
6046 perlapi.pod, perlboot.pod, perlcompile.pod, perldbmfilter.pod,
6047 perldebug.pod, perldebguts.pod, perlfork.pod, perlfilter.pod, perlhack.pod,
6048 perlintern.pod, perllexwarn.pod, perlnumber.pod, perlopentut.pod,
6049 perlreftut.pod, perltootc.pod, perltodo.pod, perlunicode.pod
6051 =item Performance enhancements
6055 =item Simple sort() using { $a <=> $b } and the like are optimized
6057 =item Optimized assignments to lexical variables
6059 =item Faster subroutine calls
6061 =item delete(), each(), values() and hash iteration are faster
6065 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
6069 =item -Dusethreads means something different
6071 =item New Configure flags
6073 =item Threadedness and 64-bitness now more daring
6079 =item -Duselargefiles
6081 =item installusrbinperl
6087 =item Enhanced Installation Directories
6089 =item gcc automatically tried if 'cc' does not seem to be working
6093 =item Platform specific changes
6097 =item Supported platforms
6101 =item OS390 (OpenEdition MVS)
6109 =item Significant bug fixes
6113 =item <HANDLE> on empty files
6115 =item C<eval '...'> improvements
6117 =item All compilation errors are true errors
6119 =item Implicitly closed filehandles are safer
6121 =item Behavior of list slices is more consistent
6123 =item C<(\$)> prototype and C<$foo{a}>
6125 =item C<goto &sub> and AUTOLOAD
6127 =item C<-bareword> allowed under C<use integer>
6129 =item Failures in DESTROY()
6131 =item Locale bugs fixed
6135 =item Spurious subroutine stubs after failed subroutine calls
6137 =item Taint failures under C<-U>
6139 =item END blocks and the C<-c> switch
6141 =item Potential to leak DATA filehandles
6145 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
6147 "%s" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same %s, "my sub" not yet
6148 implemented, "our" variable %s redeclared, '!' allowed only after types %s,
6149 / cannot take a count, / must be followed by a, A or Z, / must be followed
6150 by a*, A* or Z*, / must follow a numeric type, /%s/: Unrecognized escape
6151 \\%c passed through, /%s/: Unrecognized escape \\%c in character class
6152 passed through, /%s/ should probably be written as "%s", %s() called too
6153 early to check prototype, %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element, %s
6154 argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element or slice, %s argument is not a
6155 subroutine name, %s package attribute may clash with future reserved word:
6156 %s, (in cleanup) %s, <> should be quotes, Attempt to join self, Bad evalled
6157 substitution pattern, Bad realloc() ignored, Bareword found in conditional,
6158 Binary number > 0b11111111111111111111111111111111 non-portable, Bit vector
6159 size > 32 non-portable, Buffer overflow in prime_env_iter: %s, Can't check
6160 filesystem of script "%s", Can't declare class for non-scalar %s in "%s",
6161 Can't declare %s in "%s", Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default,
6162 Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine call, Can't read CRTL environ, Can't
6163 remove %s: %s, skipping file, Can't return %s from lvalue subroutine, Can't
6164 weaken a nonreference, Character class [:%s:] unknown, Character class
6165 syntax [%s] belongs inside character classes, Constant is not %s reference,
6166 constant(%s): %s, CORE::%s is not a keyword, defined(@array) is deprecated,
6167 defined(%hash) is deprecated, Did not produce a valid header, (Did you mean
6168 "local" instead of "our"?), Document contains no data, entering effective
6169 %s failed, false [] range "%s" in regexp, Filehandle %s opened only for
6170 output, flock() on closed filehandle %s, Global symbol "%s" requires
6171 explicit package name, Hexadecimal number > 0xffffffff non-portable,
6172 Ill-formed CRTL environ value "%s", Ill-formed message in prime_env_iter:
6173 |%s|, Illegal binary digit %s, Illegal binary digit %s ignored, Illegal
6174 number of bits in vec, Integer overflow in %s number, Invalid %s attribute:
6175 %s, Invalid %s attributes: %s, invalid [] range "%s" in regexp, Invalid
6176 separator character %s in attribute list, Invalid separator character %s in
6177 subroutine attribute list, leaving effective %s failed, Lvalue subs
6178 returning %s not implemented yet, Method %s not permitted, Missing
6179 %sbrace%s on \N{}, Missing command in piped open, Missing name in "my sub",
6180 No %s specified for -%c, No package name allowed for variable %s in "our",
6181 No space allowed after -%c, no UTC offset information; assuming local time
6182 is UTC, Octal number > 037777777777 non-portable, panic: del_backref,
6183 panic: kid popen errno read, panic: magic_killbackrefs, Parentheses missing
6184 around "%s" list, Possible unintended interpolation of %s in string,
6185 Possible Y2K bug: %s, pragma "attrs" is deprecated, use "sub NAME : ATTRS"
6186 instead, Premature end of script headers, Repeat count in pack overflows,
6187 Repeat count in unpack overflows, realloc() of freed memory ignored,
6188 Reference is already weak, setpgrp can't take arguments, Strange *+?{} on
6189 zero-length expression, switching effective %s is not implemented, This
6190 Perl can't reset CRTL environ elements (%s), This Perl can't set CRTL
6191 environ elements (%s=%s), Too late to run %s block, Unknown open() mode
6192 '%s', Unknown process %x sent message to prime_env_iter: %s, Unrecognized
6193 escape \\%c passed through, Unterminated attribute parameter in attribute
6194 list, Unterminated attribute list, Unterminated attribute parameter in
6195 subroutine attribute list, Unterminated subroutine attribute list, Value of
6196 CLI symbol "%s" too long, Version number must be a constant number
6200 =item Incompatible Changes
6204 =item Perl Source Incompatibilities
6206 CHECK is a new keyword, Treatment of list slices of undef has changed,
6207 Format of $English::PERL_VERSION is different, Literals of the form
6208 C<1.2.3> parse differently, Possibly changed pseudo-random number
6209 generator, Hashing function for hash keys has changed, C<undef> fails on
6210 read only values, Close-on-exec bit may be set on pipe and socket handles,
6211 Writing C<"$$1"> to mean C<"${$}1"> is unsupported, delete(), each(),
6212 values() and C<\(%h)>, vec(EXPR,OFFSET,BITS) enforces powers-of-two BITS,
6213 Text of some diagnostic output has changed, C<%@> has been removed,
6214 Parenthesized not() behaves like a list operator, Semantics of bareword
6215 prototype C<(*)> have changed, Semantics of bit operators may have changed
6216 on 64-bit platforms, More builtins taint their results
6218 =item C Source Incompatibilities
6220 C<PERL_POLLUTE>, C<PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT>, C<PERL_POLLUTE_MALLOC>
6222 =item Compatible C Source API Changes
6224 C<PATCHLEVEL> is now C<PERL_VERSION>
6226 =item Binary Incompatibilities
6230 =item Known Problems
6234 =item Localizing a tied hash element may leak memory
6236 =item Known test failures
6240 =item EBCDIC platforms not fully supported
6242 =item UNICOS/mk CC failures during Configure run
6244 =item Arrow operator and arrays
6246 =item Experimental features
6248 Threads, Unicode, 64-bit support, Lvalue subroutines, Weak references, The
6249 pseudo-hash data type, The Compiler suite, Internal implementation of file
6250 globbing, The DB module, The regular expression code constructs:
6254 =item Obsolete Diagnostics
6256 Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions, Ill-formed
6257 logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter, In string, @%s now must be written as
6258 \@%s, Probable precedence problem on %s, regexp too big, Use of "$$<digit>"
6259 to mean "${$}<digit>" is deprecated
6261 =item Reporting Bugs
6269 =head2 perl56delta - what's new for perl v5.6.0
6275 =item Core Enhancements
6279 =item Interpreter cloning, threads, and concurrency
6281 =item Lexically scoped warning categories
6283 =item Unicode and UTF-8 support
6285 =item Support for interpolating named characters
6287 =item "our" declarations
6289 =item Support for strings represented as a vector of ordinals
6291 =item Improved Perl version numbering system
6293 =item New syntax for declaring subroutine attributes
6295 =item File and directory handles can be autovivified
6297 =item open() with more than two arguments
6299 =item 64-bit support
6301 =item Large file support
6307 =item Enhanced support for sort() subroutines
6309 =item C<sort $coderef @foo> allowed
6311 =item File globbing implemented internally
6313 =item Support for CHECK blocks
6315 =item POSIX character class syntax [: :] supported
6317 =item Better pseudo-random number generator
6319 =item Improved C<qw//> operator
6321 =item Better worst-case behavior of hashes
6323 =item pack() format 'Z' supported
6325 =item pack() format modifier '!' supported
6327 =item pack() and unpack() support counted strings
6329 =item Comments in pack() templates
6331 =item Weak references
6333 =item Binary numbers supported
6335 =item Lvalue subroutines
6337 =item Some arrows may be omitted in calls through references
6339 =item Boolean assignment operators are legal lvalues
6341 =item exists() is supported on subroutine names
6343 =item exists() and delete() are supported on array elements
6345 =item Pseudo-hashes work better
6347 =item Automatic flushing of output buffers
6349 =item Better diagnostics on meaningless filehandle operations
6351 =item Where possible, buffered data discarded from duped input filehandle
6353 =item eof() has the same old magic as <>
6355 =item binmode() can be used to set :crlf and :raw modes
6357 =item C<-T> filetest recognizes UTF-8 encoded files as "text"
6359 =item system(), backticks and pipe open now reflect exec() failure
6361 =item Improved diagnostics
6363 =item Diagnostics follow STDERR
6365 =item More consistent close-on-exec behavior
6367 =item syswrite() ease-of-use
6369 =item Better syntax checks on parenthesized unary operators
6371 =item Bit operators support full native integer width
6373 =item Improved security features
6375 =item More functional bareword prototype (*)
6377 =item C<require> and C<do> may be overridden
6379 =item $^X variables may now have names longer than one character
6381 =item New variable $^C reflects C<-c> switch
6383 =item New variable $^V contains Perl version as a string
6385 =item Optional Y2K warnings
6387 =item Arrays now always interpolate into double-quoted strings
6391 =item Modules and Pragmata
6397 attributes, B, Benchmark, ByteLoader, constant, charnames, Data::Dumper,
6398 DB, DB_File, Devel::DProf, Devel::Peek, Dumpvalue, DynaLoader, English,
6399 Env, Fcntl, File::Compare, File::Find, File::Glob, File::Spec,
6400 File::Spec::Functions, Getopt::Long, IO, JPL, lib, Math::BigInt,
6401 Math::Complex, Math::Trig, Pod::Parser, Pod::InputObjects, Pod::Checker,
6402 podchecker, Pod::ParseUtils, Pod::Find, Pod::Select, podselect, Pod::Usage,
6403 pod2usage, Pod::Text and Pod::Man, SDBM_File, Sys::Syslog, Sys::Hostname,
6404 Term::ANSIColor, Time::Local, Win32, XSLoader, DBM Filters
6410 =item Utility Changes
6424 =item The Perl Debugger
6428 =item Improved Documentation
6430 perlapi.pod, perlboot.pod, perlcompile.pod, perldbmfilter.pod,
6431 perldebug.pod, perldebguts.pod, perlfork.pod, perlfilter.pod, perlhack.pod,
6432 perlintern.pod, perllexwarn.pod, perlnumber.pod, perlopentut.pod,
6433 perlreftut.pod, perltootc.pod, perltodo.pod, perlunicode.pod
6435 =item Performance enhancements
6439 =item Simple sort() using { $a <=> $b } and the like are optimized
6441 =item Optimized assignments to lexical variables
6443 =item Faster subroutine calls
6445 =item delete(), each(), values() and hash iteration are faster
6449 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
6453 =item -Dusethreads means something different
6455 =item New Configure flags
6457 =item Threadedness and 64-bitness now more daring
6463 =item -Duselargefiles
6465 =item installusrbinperl
6471 =item Enhanced Installation Directories
6475 =item Platform specific changes
6479 =item Supported platforms
6483 =item OS390 (OpenEdition MVS)
6491 =item Significant bug fixes
6495 =item <HANDLE> on empty files
6497 =item C<eval '...'> improvements
6499 =item All compilation errors are true errors
6501 =item Implicitly closed filehandles are safer
6503 =item Behavior of list slices is more consistent
6505 =item C<(\$)> prototype and C<$foo{a}>
6507 =item C<goto &sub> and AUTOLOAD
6509 =item C<-bareword> allowed under C<use integer>
6511 =item Failures in DESTROY()
6513 =item Locale bugs fixed
6517 =item Spurious subroutine stubs after failed subroutine calls
6519 =item Taint failures under C<-U>
6521 =item END blocks and the C<-c> switch
6523 =item Potential to leak DATA filehandles
6527 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
6529 "%s" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same %s, "my sub" not yet
6530 implemented, "our" variable %s redeclared, '!' allowed only after types %s,
6531 / cannot take a count, / must be followed by a, A or Z, / must be followed
6532 by a*, A* or Z*, / must follow a numeric type, /%s/: Unrecognized escape
6533 \\%c passed through, /%s/: Unrecognized escape \\%c in character class
6534 passed through, /%s/ should probably be written as "%s", %s() called too
6535 early to check prototype, %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element, %s
6536 argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element or slice, %s argument is not a
6537 subroutine name, %s package attribute may clash with future reserved word:
6538 %s, (in cleanup) %s, <> should be quotes, Attempt to join self, Bad evalled
6539 substitution pattern, Bad realloc() ignored, Bareword found in conditional,
6540 Binary number > 0b11111111111111111111111111111111 non-portable, Bit vector
6541 size > 32 non-portable, Buffer overflow in prime_env_iter: %s, Can't check
6542 filesystem of script "%s", Can't declare class for non-scalar %s in "%s",
6543 Can't declare %s in "%s", Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default,
6544 Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine call, Can't read CRTL environ, Can't
6545 remove %s: %s, skipping file, Can't return %s from lvalue subroutine, Can't
6546 weaken a nonreference, Character class [:%s:] unknown, Character class
6547 syntax [%s] belongs inside character classes, Constant is not %s reference,
6548 constant(%s): %s, CORE::%s is not a keyword, defined(@array) is deprecated,
6549 defined(%hash) is deprecated, Did not produce a valid header, (Did you mean
6550 "local" instead of "our"?), Document contains no data, entering effective
6551 %s failed, false [] range "%s" in regexp, Filehandle %s opened only for
6552 output, flock() on closed filehandle %s, Global symbol "%s" requires
6553 explicit package name, Hexadecimal number > 0xffffffff non-portable,
6554 Ill-formed CRTL environ value "%s", Ill-formed message in prime_env_iter:
6555 |%s|, Illegal binary digit %s, Illegal binary digit %s ignored, Illegal
6556 number of bits in vec, Integer overflow in %s number, Invalid %s attribute:
6557 %s, Invalid %s attributes: %s, invalid [] range "%s" in regexp, Invalid
6558 separator character %s in attribute list, Invalid separator character %s in
6559 subroutine attribute list, leaving effective %s failed, Lvalue subs
6560 returning %s not implemented yet, Method %s not permitted, Missing
6561 %sbrace%s on \N{}, Missing command in piped open, Missing name in "my sub",
6562 No %s specified for -%c, No package name allowed for variable %s in "our",
6563 No space allowed after -%c, no UTC offset information; assuming local time
6564 is UTC, Octal number > 037777777777 non-portable, panic: del_backref,
6565 panic: kid popen errno read, panic: magic_killbackrefs, Parentheses missing
6566 around "%s" list, Possible unintended interpolation of %s in string,
6567 Possible Y2K bug: %s, pragma "attrs" is deprecated, use "sub NAME : ATTRS"
6568 instead, Premature end of script headers, Repeat count in pack overflows,
6569 Repeat count in unpack overflows, realloc() of freed memory ignored,
6570 Reference is already weak, setpgrp can't take arguments, Strange *+?{} on
6571 zero-length expression, switching effective %s is not implemented, This
6572 Perl can't reset CRTL environ elements (%s), This Perl can't set CRTL
6573 environ elements (%s=%s), Too late to run %s block, Unknown open() mode
6574 '%s', Unknown process %x sent message to prime_env_iter: %s, Unrecognized
6575 escape \\%c passed through, Unterminated attribute parameter in attribute
6576 list, Unterminated attribute list, Unterminated attribute parameter in
6577 subroutine attribute list, Unterminated subroutine attribute list, Value of
6578 CLI symbol "%s" too long, Version number must be a constant number
6582 =item Incompatible Changes
6586 =item Perl Source Incompatibilities
6588 CHECK is a new keyword, Treatment of list slices of undef has changed,
6589 Format of $English::PERL_VERSION is different, Literals of the form
6590 C<1.2.3> parse differently, Possibly changed pseudo-random number
6591 generator, Hashing function for hash keys has changed, C<undef> fails on
6592 read only values, Close-on-exec bit may be set on pipe and socket handles,
6593 Writing C<"$$1"> to mean C<"${$}1"> is unsupported, delete(), each(),
6594 values() and C<\(%h)>, vec(EXPR,OFFSET,BITS) enforces powers-of-two BITS,
6595 Text of some diagnostic output has changed, C<%@> has been removed,
6596 Parenthesized not() behaves like a list operator, Semantics of bareword
6597 prototype C<(*)> have changed, Semantics of bit operators may have changed
6598 on 64-bit platforms, More builtins taint their results
6600 =item C Source Incompatibilities
6602 C<PERL_POLLUTE>, C<PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT>, C<PERL_POLLUTE_MALLOC>
6604 =item Compatible C Source API Changes
6606 C<PATCHLEVEL> is now C<PERL_VERSION>
6608 =item Binary Incompatibilities
6612 =item Known Problems
6616 =item Thread test failures
6618 =item EBCDIC platforms not supported
6620 =item In 64-bit HP-UX the lib/io_multihomed test may hang
6622 =item NEXTSTEP 3.3 POSIX test failure
6624 =item Tru64 (aka Digital UNIX, aka DEC OSF/1) lib/sdbm test failure with
6627 =item UNICOS/mk CC failures during Configure run
6629 =item Arrow operator and arrays
6631 =item Experimental features
6633 Threads, Unicode, 64-bit support, Lvalue subroutines, Weak references, The
6634 pseudo-hash data type, The Compiler suite, Internal implementation of file
6635 globbing, The DB module, The regular expression code constructs:
6639 =item Obsolete Diagnostics
6641 Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions, Ill-formed
6642 logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter, In string, @%s now must be written as
6643 \@%s, Probable precedence problem on %s, regexp too big, Use of "$$<digit>"
6644 to mean "${$}<digit>" is deprecated
6646 =item Reporting Bugs
6654 =head2 perl5005delta - what's new for perl5.005
6660 =item About the new versioning system
6662 =item Incompatible Changes
6666 =item WARNING: This version is not binary compatible with Perl 5.004.
6668 =item Default installation structure has changed
6670 =item Perl Source Compatibility
6672 =item C Source Compatibility
6674 =item Binary Compatibility
6676 =item Security fixes may affect compatibility
6678 =item Relaxed new mandatory warnings introduced in 5.004
6692 =item Regular Expressions
6694 Many new and improved optimizations, Many bug fixes, New regular expression
6695 constructs, New operator for precompiled regular expressions, Other
6696 improvements, Incompatible changes
6698 =item Improved malloc()
6700 =item Quicksort is internally implemented
6702 =item Reliable signals
6704 =item Reliable stack pointers
6706 =item More generous treatment of carriage returns
6710 =item Better support for multiple interpreters
6712 =item Behavior of local() on array and hash elements is now well-defined
6714 =item C<%!> is transparently tied to the L<Errno> module
6716 =item Pseudo-hashes are supported
6718 =item C<EXPR foreach EXPR> is supported
6720 =item Keywords can be globally overridden
6722 =item C<$^E> is meaningful on Win32
6724 =item C<foreach (1..1000000)> optimized
6726 =item C<Foo::> can be used as implicitly quoted package name
6728 =item C<exists $Foo::{Bar::}> tests existence of a package
6730 =item Better locale support
6732 =item Experimental support for 64-bit platforms
6734 =item prototype() returns useful results on builtins
6736 =item Extended support for exception handling
6738 =item Re-blessing in DESTROY() supported for chaining DESTROY() methods
6740 =item All C<printf> format conversions are handled internally
6742 =item New C<INIT> keyword
6744 =item New C<lock> keyword
6746 =item New C<qr//> operator
6748 =item C<our> is now a reserved word
6750 =item Tied arrays are now fully supported
6752 =item Tied handles support is better
6754 =item 4th argument to substr
6756 =item Negative LENGTH argument to splice
6758 =item Magic lvalues are now more magical
6760 =item <> now reads in records
6764 =item Supported Platforms
6770 =item Changes in existing support
6774 =item Modules and Pragmata
6780 B, Data::Dumper, Dumpvalue, Errno, File::Spec, ExtUtils::Installed,
6781 ExtUtils::Packlist, Fatal, IPC::SysV, Test, Tie::Array, Tie::Handle,
6782 Thread, attrs, fields, re
6784 =item Changes in existing modules
6786 Benchmark, Carp, CGI, Fcntl, Math::Complex, Math::Trig, POSIX, DB_File,
6787 MakeMaker, CPAN, Cwd
6791 =item Utility Changes
6793 =item Documentation Changes
6795 =item New Diagnostics
6797 Ambiguous call resolved as CORE::%s(), qualify as such or use &, Bad index
6798 while coercing array into hash, Bareword "%s" refers to nonexistent
6799 package, Can't call method "%s" on an undefined value, Can't check
6800 filesystem of script "%s" for nosuid, Can't coerce array into hash, Can't
6801 goto subroutine from an eval-string, Can't localize pseudo-hash element,
6802 Can't use %%! because Errno.pm is not available, Cannot find an opnumber
6803 for "%s", Character class syntax [. .] is reserved for future extensions,
6804 Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions, Character
6805 class syntax [= =] is reserved for future extensions, %s: Eval-group in
6806 insecure regular expression, %s: Eval-group not allowed, use re 'eval', %s:
6807 Eval-group not allowed at run time, Explicit blessing to '' (assuming
6808 package main), Illegal hex digit ignored, No such array field, No such
6809 field "%s" in variable %s of type %s, Out of memory during ridiculously
6810 large request, Range iterator outside integer range, Recursive inheritance
6811 detected while looking for method '%s' %s, Reference found where even-sized
6812 list expected, Undefined value assigned to typeglob, Use of reserved word
6813 "%s" is deprecated, perl: warning: Setting locale failed
6815 =item Obsolete Diagnostics
6817 Can't mktemp(), Can't write to temp file for B<-e>: %s, Cannot open
6818 temporary file, regexp too big
6820 =item Configuration Changes
6830 =head2 perl5004delta - what's new for perl5.004
6836 =item Supported Environments
6842 =item List assignment to %ENV works
6844 =item Change to "Can't locate Foo.pm in @INC" error
6846 =item Compilation option: Binary compatibility with 5.003
6848 =item $PERL5OPT environment variable
6850 =item Limitations on B<-M>, B<-m>, and B<-T> options
6852 =item More precise warnings
6854 =item Deprecated: Inherited C<AUTOLOAD> for non-methods
6856 =item Previously deprecated %OVERLOAD is no longer usable
6858 =item Subroutine arguments created only when they're modified
6860 =item Group vector changeable with C<$)>
6862 =item Fixed parsing of $$<digit>, &$<digit>, etc.
6864 =item Fixed localization of $<digit>, $&, etc.
6866 =item No resetting of $. on implicit close
6868 =item C<wantarray> may return undef
6870 =item C<eval EXPR> determines value of EXPR in scalar context
6872 =item Changes to tainting checks
6874 No glob() or <*>, No spawning if tainted $CDPATH, $ENV, $BASH_ENV, No
6875 spawning if tainted $TERM doesn't look like a terminal name
6877 =item New Opcode module and revised Safe module
6879 =item Embedding improvements
6881 =item Internal change: FileHandle class based on IO::* classes
6883 =item Internal change: PerlIO abstraction interface
6885 =item New and changed syntax
6889 =item New and changed builtin constants
6893 =item New and changed builtin variables
6897 =item New and changed builtin functions
6899 delete on slices, flock, printf and sprintf, keys as an lvalue, my() in
6900 Control Structures, pack() and unpack(), sysseek(), use VERSION, use Module
6901 VERSION LIST, prototype(FUNCTION), srand, $_ as Default, C<m//gc> does not
6902 reset search position on failure, C<m//x> ignores whitespace before ?*+{},
6903 nested C<sub{}> closures work now, formats work right on changing lexicals
6905 =item New builtin methods
6907 isa(CLASS), can(METHOD), VERSION( [NEED] )
6909 =item TIEHANDLE now supported
6911 TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, PRINT this, LIST, PRINTF this, LIST, READ this
6912 LIST, READLINE this, GETC this, DESTROY this
6914 =item Malloc enhancements
6916 -DPERL_EMERGENCY_SBRK, -DPACK_MALLOC, -DTWO_POT_OPTIMIZE
6918 =item Miscellaneous efficiency enhancements
6922 =item Support for More Operating Systems
6938 use autouse MODULE => qw(sub1 sub2 sub3), use blib, use blib 'dir', use
6939 constant NAME => VALUE, use locale, use ops, use vmsish
6945 =item Required Updates
6947 =item Installation directories
6949 =item Module information summary
6963 =item Object-oriented overrides for builtin operators
6967 =item Utility Changes
6973 Sends converted HTML to standard output
6977 C<void> XSUBs now default to returning nothing
6981 =item C Language API Changes
6983 C<gv_fetchmethod> and C<perl_call_sv>, C<perl_eval_pv>, Extended API for
6986 =item Documentation Changes
6988 L<perldelta>, L<perlfaq>, L<perllocale>, L<perltoot>, L<perlapio>,
6989 L<perlmodlib>, L<perldebug>, L<perlsec>
6991 =item New Diagnostics
6993 "my" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same scope, %s argument is
6994 not a HASH element or slice, Allocation too large: %lx, Allocation too
6995 large, Applying %s to %s will act on scalar(%s), Attempt to free
6996 nonexistent shared string, Attempt to use reference as lvalue in substr,
6997 Bareword "%s" refers to nonexistent package, Can't redefine active sort
6998 subroutine %s, Can't use bareword ("%s") as %s ref while "strict refs" in
6999 use, Cannot resolve method `%s' overloading `%s' in package `%s', Constant
7000 subroutine %s redefined, Constant subroutine %s undefined, Copy method did
7001 not return a reference, Died, Exiting pseudo-block via %s, Identifier too
7002 long, Illegal character %s (carriage return), Illegal switch in PERL5OPT:
7003 %s, Integer overflow in hex number, Integer overflow in octal number,
7004 internal error: glob failed, Invalid conversion in %s: "%s", Invalid type
7005 in pack: '%s', Invalid type in unpack: '%s', Name "%s::%s" used only once:
7006 possible typo, Null picture in formline, Offset outside string, Out of
7007 memory!, Out of memory during request for %s, panic: frexp, Possible
7008 attempt to put comments in qw() list, Possible attempt to separate words
7009 with commas, Scalar value @%s{%s} better written as $%s{%s}, Stub found
7010 while resolving method `%s' overloading `%s' in %s, Too late for "B<-T>"
7011 option, untie attempted while %d inner references still exist, Unrecognized
7012 character %s, Unsupported function fork, Use of "$$<digit>" to mean
7013 "${$}<digit>" is deprecated, Value of %s can be "0"; test with defined(),
7014 Variable "%s" may be unavailable, Variable "%s" will not stay shared,
7015 Warning: something's wrong, Ill-formed logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter,
7016 Got an error from DosAllocMem, Malformed PERLLIB_PREFIX, PERL_SH_DIR too
7017 long, Process terminated by SIG%s
7027 =head2 perlaix, README.aix - Perl version 5 on IBM Unix (AIX) systems
7035 =item Compiling Perl 5 on AIX
7039 =item Building Dynamic Extensions on AIX
7041 =item The IBM ANSI C Compiler
7043 =item Using GNU's gcc for building perl
7045 =item Using Large Files with Perl
7051 =item AIX 4.2 and extensions using C++ with statics
7061 =head2 perlapollo, README.apollo - Perl version 5 on Apollo DomainOS
7071 =head2 perlamiga - Perl under Amiga OS
7085 =item Prerequisites for Compiling Perl on AmigaOS
7087 B<Unix emulation for AmigaOS: ixemul.library>, B<Version of Amiga OS>
7089 =item Starting Perl programs under AmigaOS
7091 =item Shortcomings of Perl under AmigaOS
7097 =item Accessing documentation
7101 =item Manpages for Perl on AmigaOS
7103 =item Perl HTML Documentation on AmigaOS
7105 =item Perl GNU Info Files on AmigaOS
7107 =item Perl LaTeX Documentation on AmigaOS
7111 =item BUILDING PERL ON AMIGAOS
7115 =item Build Prerequisites for Perl on AmigaOS
7117 =item Getting the Perl Source for AmigaOS
7119 =item Making Perl on AmigaOS
7121 =item Testing Perl on AmigaOS
7123 =item Installing the built Perl on AmigaOS
7133 =head2 perlbeos, README.beos - Perl version 5 on BeOS
7141 =item General Issues with Perl on BeOS
7143 =item BeOS Release-specific Notes
7147 =item Contact Information
7149 =item Update 2002-03-02
7155 =head2 perlbs2000, README.BS2000 - building and installing Perl for BS2000.
7165 =item gzip on BS2000
7167 =item bison on BS2000
7169 =item Unpacking Perl Distribution on BS2000
7171 =item Compiling Perl on BS2000
7173 =item Testing Perl on BS2000
7175 =item Installing Perl on BS2000
7177 =item Using Perl in the Posix-Shell of BS2000
7179 =item Using Perl in "native" BS2000
7181 =item Floating point anomalies on BS2000
7215 =item Acknowledgements
7221 =head2 perlcygwin, README.cygwin - Perl for Cygwin
7227 =item PREREQUISITES FOR COMPILING PERL ON CYGWIN
7231 =item Cygwin = GNU+Cygnus+Windows (Don't leave UNIX without it)
7233 =item Cygwin Configuration
7235 C<PATH>, I<nroff>, Permissions
7239 =item CONFIGURE PERL ON CYGWIN
7243 =item Stripping Perl Binaries on Cygwin
7245 =item Optional Libraries for Perl on Cygwin
7247 C<-lcrypt>, C<-lgdbm> (C<use GDBM_File>), C<-ldb> (C<use DB_File>),
7248 C<-lcygipc> (C<use IPC::SysV>)
7250 =item Configure-time Options for Perl on Cygwin
7252 C<-Uusedl>, C<-Uusemymalloc>, C<-Uuseperlio>, C<-Dusemultiplicity>,
7253 C<-Duse64bitint>, C<-Duselongdouble>, C<-Dusethreads>, C<-Duselargefiles>,
7256 =item Suspicious Warnings on Cygwin
7258 I<dlsym()>, Win9x and C<d_eofnblk>, Compiler/Preprocessor defines
7262 =item MAKE ON CYGWIN
7266 =item Warnings on Cygwin
7272 =item TEST ON CYGWIN
7276 =item File Permissions on Cygwin
7278 =item Script Portability on Cygwin
7280 Pathnames, Text/Binary, F<.exe>, chown(), Miscellaneous
7284 =item INSTALL PERL ON CYGWIN
7286 =item MANIFEST ON CYGWIN
7288 Documentation, Build, Configure, Make, Install, Tests, Compiled Perl
7289 Source, Compiled Module Source, Perl Modules/Scripts
7291 =item BUGS ON CYGWIN
7299 =head2 perldgux - Perl under DG/UX.
7311 =item BUILDING PERL ON DG/UX
7315 =item Non-threaded Perl on DG/UX
7317 =item Threaded Perl on DG/UX
7319 =item Testing Perl on DG/UX
7321 =item Installing the built perl on DG/UX
7331 =head2 perldos - Perl under DOS, W31, W95.
7341 =item Prerequisites for Compiling Perl on DOS
7345 =item Shortcomings of Perl under DOS
7347 =item Building Perl on DOS
7349 =item Testing Perl on DOS
7351 =item Installation of Perl on DOS
7355 =item BUILDING AND INSTALLING MODULES ON DOS
7359 =item Building Prerequisites for Perl on DOS
7361 =item Unpacking CPAN Modules on DOS
7363 =item Building Non-XS Modules on DOS
7365 =item Building XS Modules on DOS
7375 =head2 perlepoc, README.epoc - Perl for EPOC
7383 =item INSTALLING PERL ON EPOC
7385 =item STARTING PERL ON EPOC
7387 =item STOPPING PERL ON EPOC
7389 =item USING PERL ON EPOC
7393 =item I/O Redirection on Epoc
7395 =item PATH Names on Epoc
7397 =item Editors on Epoc
7399 =item Features of Perl on Epoc
7401 =item Restrictions of Perl on Epoc
7403 =item Compiling Perl 5 on the EPOC cross compiling environment
7407 =item SUPPORT STATUS OF PERL ON EPOC
7415 =head2 perlhpux, README.hpux - Perl version 5 on Hewlett-Packard Unix
7424 =item Using perl as shipped with HP-UX
7426 =item Compiling Perl 5 on HP-UX
7438 =item Portability Between PA-RISC Versions
7440 =item Itanium Processor Family and HP-UX
7442 =item Building Dynamic Extensions on HP-UX
7444 =item The HP ANSI C Compiler
7446 =item Using Large Files with Perl on HP-UX
7448 =item Threaded Perl on HP-UX
7450 =item 64-bit Perl on HP-UX
7452 =item GDBM and Threads on HP-UX
7454 =item NFS filesystems and utime(2) on HP-UX
7456 =item perl -P and // and HP-UX
7458 =item HP-UX Kernel Parameters (maxdsiz) for Compiling Perl
7462 =item nss_delete core dump from op/pwent or op/grent
7470 =head2 perlhurd, README.hurd - Perl version 5 on Hurd
7478 =item Known Problems with Perl on Hurd
7486 =head2 perlmachten, README.machten - Perl version 5 on Power MachTen
7495 =item Compiling Perl 5 on MachTen
7497 =item Failures during C<make test> on MachTen
7499 op/lexassign.t, pragma/warnings.t
7501 =item Building external modules on MachTen
7511 =head2 perlmacos, README.macos - Perl under Mac OS (Classic)
7525 =head2 perlmint, README.mint - Perl version 5 on Atari MiNT
7531 =item Known problems with Perl on MiNT
7537 =head2 perlmpeix, README.mpeix - Perl/iX for HP e3000 MPE
7545 =item Binary distribution from HP
7547 =item What's New in Perl for MPE/iX
7549 =item Welcome to Perl/iX
7551 =item System Requirements for Perl/iX
7553 =item How to Obtain Perl/iX
7555 =item Perl/iX Distribution Contents Highlights
7557 README, INSTALL, LIBSHP3K, PERL, .cpan/, lib/, man/,
7558 public_html/feedback.cgi, src/perl-5.6.0-mpe
7560 =item How to Compile Perl/iX
7564 =item Getting Started with Perl/iX
7566 =item MPE/iX Implementation Considerations
7568 =item Known Perl/iX Bugs Under Investigation
7570 =item Perl/iX To-Do List
7572 =item Perl/iX Change History
7588 Buildtype.bat, SetNWBld.bat, MPKBuild.bat
7600 =item Build new extensions
7604 =item Acknowledgements
7612 =head2 perlos2 - Perl under OS/2, DOS, Win0.3*, Win0.95 and WinNT.
7632 EMX, RSX, HPFS, pdksh
7634 =item Starting Perl programs under OS/2 (and DOS and...)
7636 =item Starting OS/2 (and DOS) programs under Perl
7640 =item Frequently asked questions
7644 =item "It does not work"
7646 =item I cannot run external programs
7648 =item I cannot embed perl into my program, or use F<perl.dll> from my
7651 Is your program EMX-compiled with C<-Zmt -Zcrtdll>?, Did you use
7654 =item C<``> and pipe-C<open> do not work under DOS.
7656 =item Cannot start C<find.exe "pattern" file>
7664 =item Automatic binary installation
7666 C<PERL_BADLANG>, C<PERL_BADFREE>, F<Config.pm>
7668 =item Manual binary installation
7670 Perl VIO and PM executables (dynamically linked), Perl_ VIO executable
7671 (statically linked), Executables for Perl utilities, Main Perl library,
7672 Additional Perl modules, Tools to compile Perl modules, Manpages for Perl
7673 and utilities, Manpages for Perl modules, Source for Perl documentation,
7674 Perl manual in F<.INF> format, Pdksh
7680 =item Accessing documentation
7684 =item OS/2 F<.INF> file
7692 =item GNU C<info> files
7704 =item The short story
7708 =item Getting perl source
7710 =item Application of the patches
7718 A lot of C<bad free>, Process terminated by SIGTERM/SIGINT, F<op/fs.t>,
7721 =item Installing the built perl
7723 =item C<a.out>-style build
7731 =item Some C</> became C<\> in pdksh.
7733 =item C<'errno'> - unresolved external
7735 =item Problems with tr or sed
7737 =item Some problem (forget which ;-)
7739 =item Library ... not found
7741 =item Segfault in make
7743 =item op/sprintf test failure
7747 =item Specific (mis)features of OS/2 port
7751 =item C<setpriority>, C<getpriority>
7755 =item C<extproc> on the first line
7757 =item Additional modules:
7759 =item Prebuilt methods:
7761 C<File::Copy::syscopy>, C<DynaLoader::mod2fname>, C<Cwd::current_drive()>,
7762 C<Cwd::sys_chdir(name)>, C<Cwd::change_drive(name)>,
7763 C<Cwd::sys_is_absolute(name)>, C<Cwd::sys_is_rooted(name)>,
7764 C<Cwd::sys_is_relative(name)>, C<Cwd::sys_cwd(name)>,
7765 C<Cwd::sys_abspath(name, dir)>, C<Cwd::extLibpath([type])>,
7766 C<Cwd::extLibpath_set( path [, type ] )>,
7767 C<OS2::Error(do_harderror,do_exception)>, C<OS2::Errors2Drive(drive)>,
7768 OS2::SysInfo(), OS2::BootDrive(), C<OS2::MorphPM(serve)>,
7769 C<OS2::UnMorphPM(serve)>, C<OS2::Serve_Messages(force)>,
7770 C<OS2::Process_Messages(force [, cnt])>, C<OS2::_control87(new,mask)>,
7771 OS2::get_control87(), C<OS2::set_control87_em(new=MCW_EM,mask=MCW_EM)>
7773 =item Prebuilt variables:
7775 $OS2::emx_rev, $OS2::emx_env, $OS2::os_ver
7781 C<popen>, C<tmpnam>, C<tmpfile>, C<ctermid>, C<stat>, C<mkdir>, C<rmdir>,
7784 =item Identifying DLLs
7786 =item Centralized management of resources
7802 =item F<perl___.exe>
7804 =item Why strange names?
7806 =item Why dynamic linking?
7808 =item Why chimera build?
7816 =item C<PERLLIB_PREFIX>
7818 =item C<PERL_BADLANG>
7820 =item C<PERL_BADFREE>
7822 =item C<PERL_SH_DIR>
7824 =item C<USE_PERL_FLOCK>
7826 =item C<TMP> or C<TEMP>
7836 =item DLL name mangling: pre 5.6.2
7838 =item DLL name mangling: 5.6.2 and beyond
7840 Global DLLs, specific DLLs, C<BEGINLIBPATH> and C<ENDLIBPATH>, F<.> from
7843 =item DLL forwarder generation
7847 =item Calls to external programs
7849 =item Memory allocation
7853 C<COND_WAIT>, F<os2.c>
7869 =head2 perlos390, README.os390 - building and installing Perl for OS/390
7882 =item Unpacking Perl distribution on OS/390
7884 =item Setup and utilities for Perl on OS/390
7886 =item Configure Perl on OS/390
7888 =item Build, Test, Install Perl on OS/390
7890 =item Build Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
7892 =item Testing Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
7894 =item Installation Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
7896 =item Usage Hints for Perl on OS/390
7898 =item Floating Point Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
7900 =item Modules and Extensions for Perl on OS/390
7910 =item Mailing list for Perl on OS/390
7918 =head2 perlqnx, README.qnx - Perl version 5 on QNX
7926 =item Required Software for Compiling Perl on QNX4
7928 /bin/sh, ar, nm, cpp, make
7930 =item Outstanding Issues with Perl on QNX4
7932 =item QNX auxiliary files
7936 =item Outstanding issues with perl under QNX6
7944 =head2 perlplan9 - Plan 9-specific documentation for Perl
7954 =item What's in Plan 9 Perl
7956 =item What's not in Plan 9 Perl
7958 =item Perl5 Functions not currently supported in Plan 9 Perl
7960 =item Signals in Plan 9 Perl
7964 =item COMPILING AND INSTALLING PERL ON PLAN 9
7968 =item Installing Perl Documentation on Plan 9
7980 =head2 perlsolaris, README.solaris - Perl version 5 on Solaris systems
7988 =item Solaris Version Numbers.
7994 Solaris FAQ, Precompiled Binaries, Solaris Documentation
8000 =item File Extraction Problems on Solaris.
8002 =item Compiler and Related Tools on Solaris.
8004 =item Environment for Compiling Perl on Solaris
8008 =item RUN CONFIGURE.
8012 =item 64-bit Issues with Perl on Solaris.
8014 =item Threads in Perl on Solaris.
8016 =item Malloc Issues with Perl on Solaris.
8020 =item MAKE PROBLEMS.
8022 Dynamic Loading Problems With GNU as and GNU ld, ld.so.1: ./perl: fatal:
8023 relocation error:, dlopen: stub interception failed, #error "No
8024 DATAMODEL_NATIVE specified", sh: ar: not found
8030 =item op/stat.t test 4 in Solaris
8032 =item nss_delete core dump from op/pwent or op/grent
8036 =item PREBUILT BINARIES OF PERL FOR SOLARIS.
8038 =item RUNTIME ISSUES FOR PERL ON SOLARIS.
8042 =item Limits on Numbers of Open Files on Solaris.
8046 =item SOLARIS-SPECIFIC MODULES.
8048 =item SOLARIS-SPECIFIC PROBLEMS WITH MODULES.
8052 =item Proc::ProcessTable on Solaris
8054 =item BSD::Resource on Solaris
8056 =item Net::SSLeay on Solaris
8066 =head2 perltru64, README.tru64 - Perl version 5 on Tru64 (formerly known as
8067 Digital UNIX formerly known as DEC OSF/1) systems
8075 =item Compiling Perl 5 on Tru64
8077 =item Using Large Files with Perl on Tru64
8079 =item Threaded Perl on Tru64
8081 =item Long Doubles on Tru64
8083 =item 64-bit Perl on Tru64
8085 =item Warnings about floating-point overflow when compiling Perl on Tru64
8089 =item Testing Perl on Tru64
8095 =head2 perluts - Perl under UTS
8103 =item BUILDING PERL ON UTS
8105 =item Installing the built perl on UTS
8111 =head2 perlvmesa, README.vmesa - building and installing Perl for VM/ESA.
8121 =item Unpacking Perl Distribution on VM/ESA
8123 =item Setup Perl and utilities on VM/ESA
8125 =item Configure Perl on VM/ESA
8127 =item Testing Anomalies of Perl on VM/ESA
8129 =item Usage Hints for Perl on VM/ESA
8139 =item Mailing list for Perl on VM/ESA
8145 =head2 perlvms - VMS-specific documentation for Perl
8153 =item Organization of Perl Images
8159 =item Perl Extensions
8161 =item Installing static extensions
8163 =item Installing dynamic extensions
8167 =item File specifications
8173 =item Wildcard expansion
8179 =item PERL5LIB and PERLLIB
8185 =item I/O redirection and backgrounding
8187 =item Command line switches
8193 =item Perl functions
8195 File tests, backticks, binmode FILEHANDLE, crypt PLAINTEXT, USER, dump,
8196 exec LIST, fork, getpwent, getpwnam, getpwuid, gmtime, kill, qx//, select
8197 (system call), stat EXPR, system LIST, time, times, unlink LIST, utime
8198 LIST, waitpid PID,FLAGS
8200 =item Perl variables
8202 %ENV, CRTL_ENV, CLISYM_[LOCAL], Any other string, $!, $^E, $?, $|
8204 =item Standard modules with VMS-specific differences
8218 =head2 perlvos, README.vos - Perl for Stratus VOS
8226 =item Multiple methods to build perl for VOS
8228 =item Stratus POSIX Support
8232 =item INSTALLING PERL IN VOS
8236 =item Compiling Perl 5 on VOS
8238 =item Installing Perl 5 on VOS
8242 =item USING PERL IN VOS
8246 =item Unimplemented Features of Perl on VOS
8248 =item Restrictions of Perl on VOS
8252 =item SUPPORT STATUS
8260 =head2 perlwin32 - Perl under Win32
8270 =item Setting Up Perl on Win32
8272 Make, Command Shell, Borland C++, Microsoft Visual C++, Mingw32 with GCC
8276 =item Testing Perl on Win32
8278 =item Installation of Perl on Win32
8280 =item Usage Hints for Perl on Win32
8282 Environment Variables, File Globbing, Using perl from the command line,
8283 Building Extensions, Command-line Wildcard Expansion, Win32 Specific
8284 Extensions, Running Perl Scripts, Miscellaneous Things
8288 =item BUGS AND CAVEATS
8292 Gary Ng E<lt>71564.1743@CompuServe.COME<gt>, Gurusamy Sarathy
8293 E<lt>gsar@activestate.comE<gt>, Nick Ing-Simmons
8294 E<lt>nick@ing-simmons.netE<gt>
8302 =head1 PRAGMA DOCUMENTATION
8304 =head2 attrs - set/get attributes of a subroutine (deprecated)
8316 =head2 re - Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour
8326 =head2 threadshared::shared, threads::shared - Perl extension for sharing
8327 data structures between threads
8339 share VARIABLE, lock VARIABLE, unlock VARIABLE, cond_wait VARIABLE,
8340 cond_signal VARIABLE, cond_broadcast VARIABLE
8352 =head2 threads - Perl extension allowing use of interpreter based threads
8361 $thread = threads->create(function, LIST), $thread->join, $thread->detach,
8362 threads->self, $thread->tid
8366 Fix so the return value is returned when you join, Add join_all, Fix memory
8369 =item AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT
8373 creating a thread from within a thread is unsafe under win32,
8374 PERL_OLD_SIGNALS are not threadsafe, will not be
8380 =head2 attributes - get/set subroutine or variable attributes
8390 =item Built-in Attributes
8392 locked, method, lvalue
8394 =item Available Subroutines
8398 =item Package-specific Attribute Handling
8400 FETCH_I<type>_ATTRIBUTES, MODIFY_I<type>_ATTRIBUTES
8402 =item Syntax of Attribute Lists
8410 =item Default exports
8412 =item Available exports
8414 =item Export tags defined
8424 =head2 attrs - set/get attributes of a subroutine (deprecated)
8436 =head2 autouse - postpone load of modules until a function is used
8452 =head2 base - Establish IS-A relationship with base class at compile time
8466 =head2 blib - Use MakeMaker's uninstalled version of a package
8480 =head2 bytes - Perl pragma to force byte semantics rather than character
8493 =head2 charnames - define character names for C<\N{named}> string literal
8502 =item CUSTOM TRANSLATORS
8504 =item charnames::viacode(code)
8506 =item charnames::vianame(code)
8508 =item ILLEGAL CHARACTERS
8514 =head2 constant - Perl pragma to declare constants
8526 =item List constants
8528 =item Defining multiple constants at once
8530 =item Magic constants
8534 =item TECHNICAL NOTES
8544 =head2 diagnostics - Perl compiler pragma to force verbose warning
8555 =item The C<diagnostics> Pragma
8557 =item The I<splain> Program
8571 =head2 encoding - pragma to control the conversion of legacy data into
8580 =item KNOWN PROBLEMS
8586 =head2 fields - compile-time class fields
8600 =head2 filetest - Perl pragma to control the filetest permission operators
8610 =item subpragma access
8616 =head2 if - C<use> a Perl module if a condition holds
8630 =head2 integer - Perl pragma to use integer arithmetic instead of floating
8641 =head2 less - perl pragma to request less of something from the compiler
8651 =head2 lib - manipulate @INC at compile time
8661 =item Adding directories to @INC
8663 =item Deleting directories from @INC
8665 =item Restoring original @INC
8677 =head2 locale - Perl pragma to use and avoid POSIX locales for built-in
8688 =head2 open - perl pragma to set default disciplines for input and output
8696 =item NONPERLIO FUNCTIONALITY
8698 =item IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS
8704 =head2 ops - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when compiling
8716 =head2 overload - Package for overloading perl operations
8726 =item Declaration of overloaded functions
8728 =item Calling Conventions for Binary Operations
8730 FALSE, TRUE, C<undef>
8732 =item Calling Conventions for Unary Operations
8734 =item Calling Conventions for Mutators
8736 C<++> and C<-->, C<x=> and other assignment versions
8738 =item Overloadable Operations
8740 I<Arithmetic operations>, I<Comparison operations>, I<Bit operations>,
8741 I<Increment and decrement>, I<Transcendental functions>, I<Boolean, string
8742 and numeric conversion>, I<Iteration>, I<Dereferencing>, I<Special>
8744 =item Inheritance and overloading
8746 Strings as values of C<use overload> directive, Overloading of an operation
8747 is inherited by derived classes
8751 =item SPECIAL SYMBOLS FOR C<use overload>
8759 C<undef>, TRUE, defined, but FALSE
8761 =item Copy Constructor
8767 =item MAGIC AUTOGENERATION
8769 I<Assignment forms of arithmetic operations>, I<Conversion operations>,
8770 I<Increment and decrement>, C<abs($a)>, I<Unary minus>, I<Negation>,
8771 I<Concatenation>, I<Comparison operations>, I<Iterator>, I<Dereferencing>,
8774 =item Losing overloading
8776 =item Run-time Overloading
8778 =item Public functions
8780 overload::StrVal(arg), overload::Overloaded(arg), overload::Method(obj,op)
8782 =item Overloading constants
8784 integer, float, binary, q, qr
8786 =item IMPLEMENTATION
8788 =item Metaphor clash
8794 =item Two-face scalars
8796 =item Two-face references
8798 =item Symbolic calculator
8800 =item I<Really> symbolic calculator
8808 Odd number of arguments for overload::constant, `%s' is not an overloadable
8809 type, `%s' is not a code reference
8815 =head2 re - Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour
8825 =head2 sigtrap - Perl pragma to enable simple signal handling
8837 =item SIGNAL HANDLERS
8839 B<stack-trace>, B<die>, B<handler> I<your-handler>
8843 B<normal-signals>, B<error-signals>, B<old-interface-signals>
8847 B<untrapped>, B<any>, I<signal>, I<number>
8855 =head2 sort - perl pragma to control sort() behaviour
8865 =head2 strict - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe constructs
8873 C<strict refs>, C<strict vars>, C<strict subs>
8877 =head2 subs - Perl pragma to predeclare sub names
8887 =head2 threads - Perl extension allowing use of interpreter based threads
8896 $thread = threads->create(function, LIST), $thread->join, $thread->detach,
8897 threads->self, $thread->tid
8901 Fix so the return value is returned when you join, Add join_all, Fix memory
8904 =item AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT
8908 creating a thread from within a thread is unsafe under win32,
8909 PERL_OLD_SIGNALS are not threadsafe, will not be
8915 =head2 threadshared, threads::shared - Perl extension for sharing data
8916 structures between threads
8928 share VARIABLE, lock VARIABLE, unlock VARIABLE, cond_wait VARIABLE,
8929 cond_signal VARIABLE, cond_broadcast VARIABLE
8941 =head2 utf8 - Perl pragma to enable/disable UTF-8 (or UTF-EBCDIC) in source
8952 =item Utility functions
8954 $num_octets = utf8::upgrade($string);, utf8::downgrade($string[, CHECK]),
8955 utf8::encode($string), $flag = utf8::decode($string)
8963 =head2 vars - Perl pragma to predeclare global variable names (obsolete)
8973 =head2 vmsish - Perl pragma to control VMS-specific language features
8981 C<vmsish status>, C<vmsish exit>, C<vmsish time>, C<vmsish hushed>
8985 =head2 warnings - Perl pragma to control optional warnings
8993 use warnings::register, warnings::enabled(), warnings::enabled($category),
8994 warnings::enabled($object), warnings::warn($message),
8995 warnings::warn($category, $message), warnings::warn($object, $message),
8996 warnings::warnif($message), warnings::warnif($category, $message),
8997 warnings::warnif($object, $message)
9001 =head2 warnings::register - warnings import function
9011 =head1 MODULE DOCUMENTATION
9013 =head2 AnyDBM_File - provide framework for multiple DBMs
9023 =item DBM Comparisons
9033 =head2 Attribute::Handlers - Simpler definition of attribute handlers
9043 [0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]
9047 =item Typed lexicals
9049 =item Type-specific attribute handlers
9051 =item Non-interpretive attribute handlers
9053 =item Phase-specific attribute handlers
9055 =item Attributes as C<tie> interfaces
9063 C<Bad attribute type: ATTR(%s)>, C<Attribute handler %s doesn't handle %s
9064 attributes>, C<Declaration of %s attribute in package %s may clash with
9065 future reserved word>, C<Can't have two ATTR specifiers on one subroutine>,
9066 C<Can't autotie a %s>, C<Internal error: %s symbol went missing>, C<Won't
9067 be able to apply END handler>
9077 =head2 AutoLoader - load subroutines only on demand
9087 =item Subroutine Stubs
9089 =item Using B<AutoLoader>'s AUTOLOAD Subroutine
9091 =item Overriding B<AutoLoader>'s AUTOLOAD Subroutine
9093 =item Package Lexicals
9095 =item Not Using AutoLoader
9097 =item B<AutoLoader> vs. B<SelfLoader>
9107 =head2 AutoSplit - split a package for autoloading
9115 $keep, $check, $modtime
9119 =item Multiple packages
9127 =head2 B - The Perl Compiler
9135 =item OVERVIEW OF CLASSES
9139 =item SV-RELATED CLASSES
9147 IV, IVX, UVX, int_value, needs64bits, packiv
9161 =item B::PVMG METHODS
9165 =item B::MAGIC METHODS
9167 MOREMAGIC, precomp, PRIVATE, TYPE, FLAGS, OBJ, PTR, REGEX
9169 =item B::PVLV METHODS
9171 TARGOFF, TARGLEN, TYPE, TARG
9175 USEFUL, PREVIOUS, RARE, TABLE
9179 is_empty, NAME, SAFENAME, STASH, SV, IO, FORM, AV, HV, EGV, CV, CVGEN,
9180 LINE, FILE, FILEGV, GvREFCNT, FLAGS
9184 LINES, PAGE, PAGE_LEN, LINES_LEFT, TOP_NAME, TOP_GV, FMT_NAME, FMT_GV,
9185 BOTTOM_NAME, BOTTOM_GV, SUBPROCESS, IoTYPE, IoFLAGS, IsSTD
9189 FILL, MAX, OFF, ARRAY, AvFLAGS
9193 STASH, START, ROOT, GV, FILE, DEPTH, PADLIST, OUTSIDE, XSUB, XSUBANY,
9198 FILL, MAX, KEYS, RITER, NAME, PMROOT, ARRAY
9200 =item OP-RELATED CLASSES
9204 next, sibling, name, ppaddr, desc, targ, type, seq, flags, private
9206 =item B::UNOP METHOD
9210 =item B::BINOP METHOD
9214 =item B::LOGOP METHOD
9218 =item B::LISTOP METHOD
9222 =item B::PMOP METHODS
9224 pmreplroot, pmreplstart, pmnext, pmregexp, pmflags, pmdynflags,
9225 pmpermflags, precomp, pmoffet
9227 =item B::SVOP METHOD
9231 =item B::PADOP METHOD
9235 =item B::PVOP METHOD
9239 =item B::LOOP METHODS
9241 redoop, nextop, lastop
9243 =item B::COP METHODS
9245 label, stash, file, cop_seq, arybase, line
9249 =item FUNCTIONS EXPORTED BY C<B>
9251 main_cv, init_av, begin_av, end_av, main_root, main_start, comppadlist,
9252 regex_padav, sv_undef, sv_yes, sv_no, amagic_generation, walkoptree(OP,
9253 METHOD), walkoptree_debug(DEBUG), walksymtable(SYMREF, METHOD, RECURSE,
9254 PREFIX), svref_2object(SV), ppname(OPNUM), hash(STR), cast_I32(I), minus_c,
9255 cstring(STR), class(OBJ), threadsv_names
9261 =head2 B::Asmdata - Autogenerated data about Perl ops, used to generate
9270 %insn_data, @insn_name, @optype, @specialsv_name
9276 =head2 B::Assembler - Assemble Perl bytecode
9288 =head2 B::Bblock - Walk basic blocks
9308 =head2 B::Bytecode - Perl compiler's bytecode backend
9318 B<-ofilename>, B<-afilename>, B<-->, B<-f>, B<-fcompress-nullops>,
9319 B<-fomit-sequence-numbers>, B<-fbypass-nullops>, B<-On>, B<-D>, B<-Do>,
9320 B<-Db>, B<-Da>, B<-DC>, B<-S>, B<-upackage>
9330 =head2 B::C - Perl compiler's C backend
9340 B<-ofilename>, B<-v>, B<-->, B<-uPackname>, B<-D>, B<-Do>, B<-Dc>, B<-DA>,
9341 B<-DC>, B<-DM>, B<-f>, B<-fcog>, B<-fsave-data>, B<-fppaddr>, B<-fwarn-sv>,
9342 B<-fuse-script-name>, B<-fsave-sig-hash>, B<-On>, B<-O0>, B<-O1>, B<-O2>,
9353 =head2 B::CC - Perl compiler's optimized C translation backend
9363 B<-ofilename>, B<-v>, B<-->, B<-uPackname>, B<-mModulename>, B<-D>, B<-Dr>,
9364 B<-DO>, B<-Ds>, B<-Dp>, B<-Dq>, B<-Dl>, B<-Dt>, B<-f>,
9365 B<-ffreetmps-each-bblock>, B<-ffreetmps-each-loop>, B<-fomit-taint>, B<-On>
9377 =item Context of ".."
9381 =item Deprecated features
9389 =head2 B::Concise - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing concise info about ops
9401 B<-basic>, B<-exec>, B<-tree>, B<-compact>, B<-loose>, B<-vt>, B<-ascii>,
9402 B<-main>, B<-base>I<n>, B<-bigendian>, B<-littleendian>, B<-concise>,
9403 B<-terse>, B<-linenoise>, B<-debug>, B<-env>
9405 =item FORMATTING SPECIFICATIONS
9407 B<(x(>I<exec_text>B<;>I<basic_text>B<)x)>, B<(*(>I<text>B<)*)>,
9408 B<(*(>I<text1>B<;>I<text2>B<)*)>, B<(?(>I<text1>B<#>I<var>I<Text2>B<)?)>,
9409 B<#>I<var>, B<#>I<var>I<N>, B<~>, B<#addr>, B<#arg>, B<#class>,
9410 B<#classsym>, B<#coplabel>, B<#exname>, B<#extarg>, B<#firstaddr>,
9411 B<#flags>, B<#flagval>, B<#hyphseq>, B<#label>, B<#lastaddr>, B<#name>,
9412 B<#NAME>, B<#next>, B<#nextaddr>, B<#noise>, B<#private>, B<#privval>,
9413 B<#seq>, B<#seqnum>, B<#sibaddr>, B<#svaddr>, B<#svclass>, B<#svval>,
9414 B<#targ>, B<#targarg>, B<#targarglife>, B<#typenum>
9420 =item OP flags abbreviations
9422 =item OP class abbreviations
9426 =item Using B::Concise outside of the O framework
9432 =head2 B::Debug - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing debug info about ops
9444 =head2 B::Deparse - Perl compiler backend to produce perl code
9454 B<-l>, B<-p>, B<-P>, B<-q>, B<-f>I<FILE>, B<-s>I<LETTERS>, B<C>,
9455 B<i>I<NUMBER>, B<T>, B<v>I<STRING>B<.>, B<-x>I<LEVEL>
9457 =item USING B::Deparse AS A MODULE
9467 =item ambient_pragmas
9469 strict, $[, bytes, utf8, integer, re, warnings, hint_bits, warning_bits
9481 =head2 B::Disassembler - Disassemble Perl bytecode
9493 =head2 B::Lint - Perl lint
9501 =item OPTIONS AND LINT CHECKS
9503 B<context>, B<implicit-read> and B<implicit-write>, B<dollar-underscore>,
9504 B<private-names>, B<undefined-subs>, B<regexp-variables>, B<all>, B<none>
9506 =item NON LINT-CHECK OPTIONS
9516 =head2 B::O, O - Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends
9526 =item IMPLEMENTATION
9532 =head2 B::Showlex - Show lexical variables used in functions or files
9544 =head2 B::Stackobj - Helper module for CC backend
9556 =head2 B::Stash - show what stashes are loaded
9558 =head2 B::Terse - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing terse info about ops
9570 =head2 B::Xref - Generates cross reference reports for Perl programs
9580 C<-oFILENAME>, C<-r>, C<-D[tO]>
9588 =head2 Bblock, B::Bblock - Walk basic blocks
9608 =head2 Benchmark - benchmark running times of Perl code
9622 =item Standard Exports
9624 timeit(COUNT, CODE), timethis ( COUNT, CODE, [ TITLE, [ STYLE ]] ),
9625 timethese ( COUNT, CODEHASHREF, [ STYLE ] ), timediff ( T1, T2 ), timestr (
9626 TIMEDIFF, [ STYLE, [ FORMAT ] ] )
9628 =item Optional Exports
9630 clearcache ( COUNT ), clearallcache ( ), cmpthese ( COUT, CODEHASHREF, [
9631 STYLE ] ), cmpthese ( RESULTSHASHREF, [ STYLE ] ), countit(TIME, CODE),
9632 disablecache ( ), enablecache ( ), timesum ( T1, T2 )
9648 =item MODIFICATION HISTORY
9652 =head2 ByteLoader - load byte compiled perl code
9666 =head2 Bytecode, B::Bytecode - Perl compiler's bytecode backend
9676 B<-ofilename>, B<-afilename>, B<-->, B<-f>, B<-fcompress-nullops>,
9677 B<-fomit-sequence-numbers>, B<-fbypass-nullops>, B<-On>, B<-D>, B<-Do>,
9678 B<-Db>, B<-Da>, B<-DC>, B<-S>, B<-upackage>
9688 =head2 CGI - Simple Common Gateway Interface Class
9700 =item PROGRAMMING STYLE
9702 =item CALLING CGI.PM ROUTINES
9704 =item CREATING A NEW QUERY OBJECT (OBJECT-ORIENTED STYLE):
9706 =item CREATING A NEW QUERY OBJECT FROM AN INPUT FILE
9708 =item FETCHING A LIST OF KEYWORDS FROM THE QUERY:
9710 =item FETCHING THE NAMES OF ALL THE PARAMETERS PASSED TO YOUR SCRIPT:
9712 =item FETCHING THE VALUE OR VALUES OF A SINGLE NAMED PARAMETER:
9714 =item SETTING THE VALUE(S) OF A NAMED PARAMETER:
9716 =item APPENDING ADDITIONAL VALUES TO A NAMED PARAMETER:
9718 =item IMPORTING ALL PARAMETERS INTO A NAMESPACE:
9720 =item DELETING A PARAMETER COMPLETELY:
9722 =item DELETING ALL PARAMETERS:
9724 =item DIRECT ACCESS TO THE PARAMETER LIST:
9726 =item FETCHING THE PARAMETER LIST AS A HASH:
9728 =item SAVING THE STATE OF THE SCRIPT TO A FILE:
9730 =item RETRIEVING CGI ERRORS
9732 =item USING THE FUNCTION-ORIENTED INTERFACE
9734 B<:cgi>, B<:form>, B<:html2>, B<:html3>, B<:html4>, B<:netscape>, B<:html>,
9735 B<:standard>, B<:all>
9739 -any, -compile, -nosticky, -no_undef_params, -no_xhtml, -nph,
9740 -newstyle_urls, -oldstyle_urls, -autoload, -no_debug, -debug,
9743 =item SPECIAL FORMS FOR IMPORTING HTML-TAG FUNCTIONS
9745 1. start_table() (generates a <table> tag), 2. end_table() (generates a
9746 </table> tag), 3. start_ul() (generates a <ul> tag), 4. end_ul() (generates
9751 =item GENERATING DYNAMIC DOCUMENTS
9755 =item CREATING A STANDARD HTTP HEADER:
9757 =item GENERATING A REDIRECTION HEADER
9759 =item CREATING THE HTML DOCUMENT HEADER
9761 B<Parameters:>, 4, 5, 6..
9763 =item ENDING THE HTML DOCUMENT:
9765 =item CREATING A SELF-REFERENCING URL THAT PRESERVES STATE INFORMATION:
9767 =item OBTAINING THE SCRIPT'S URL
9769 B<-absolute>, B<-relative>, B<-full>, B<-path> (B<-path_info>), B<-query>
9770 (B<-query_string>), B<-base>
9772 =item MIXING POST AND URL PARAMETERS
9776 =item CREATING STANDARD HTML ELEMENTS:
9780 =item PROVIDING ARGUMENTS TO HTML SHORTCUTS
9782 =item THE DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY OF HTML SHORTCUTS
9784 =item HTML SHORTCUTS AND LIST INTERPOLATION
9786 =item NON-STANDARD HTML SHORTCUTS
9788 =item AUTOESCAPING HTML
9790 $escaped_string = escapeHTML("unescaped string");, $charset =
9791 charset([$charset]);, $flag = autoEscape([$flag]);
9793 =item PRETTY-PRINTING HTML
9797 =item CREATING FILL-OUT FORMS:
9801 =item CREATING AN ISINDEX TAG
9803 =item STARTING AND ENDING A FORM
9805 B<application/x-www-form-urlencoded>, B<multipart/form-data>
9807 =item CREATING A TEXT FIELD
9811 =item CREATING A BIG TEXT FIELD
9813 =item CREATING A PASSWORD FIELD
9815 =item CREATING A FILE UPLOAD FIELD
9819 =item CREATING A POPUP MENU
9821 =item CREATING A SCROLLING LIST
9825 =item CREATING A GROUP OF RELATED CHECKBOXES
9829 =item CREATING A STANDALONE CHECKBOX
9833 =item CREATING A RADIO BUTTON GROUP
9837 =item CREATING A SUBMIT BUTTON
9841 =item CREATING A RESET BUTTON
9843 =item CREATING A DEFAULT BUTTON
9845 =item CREATING A HIDDEN FIELD
9849 =item CREATING A CLICKABLE IMAGE BUTTON
9853 =item CREATING A JAVASCRIPT ACTION BUTTON
9859 1. an expiration time, 2. a domain, 3. a path, 4. a "secure" flag,
9860 B<-name>, B<-value>, B<-path>, B<-domain>, B<-expires>, B<-secure>
9862 =item WORKING WITH FRAMES
9864 1. Create a <Frameset> document, 2. Specify the destination for the
9865 document in the HTTP header, 3. Specify the destination for the document in
9868 =item LIMITED SUPPORT FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS
9874 =item DUMPING OUT ALL THE NAME/VALUE PAIRS
9878 =item FETCHING ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
9880 B<Accept()>, B<raw_cookie()>, B<user_agent()>, B<path_info()>,
9881 B<path_translated()>, B<remote_host()>, B<script_name()>, B<referer()>,
9882 B<auth_type ()>, B<server_name ()>, B<virtual_host ()>, B<server_port ()>,
9883 B<server_software ()>, B<remote_user ()>, B<user_name ()>,
9884 B<request_method()>, B<content_type()>, B<http()>, B<https()>
9886 =item USING NPH SCRIPTS
9888 In the B<use> statement, By calling the B<nph()> method:, By using B<-nph>
9893 multipart_init(), multipart_start(), multipart_end(), multipart_final()
9895 =item Avoiding Denial of Service Attacks
9897 B<$CGI::POST_MAX>, B<$CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS>, B<1. On a script-by-script
9898 basis>, B<2. Globally for all scripts>
9900 =item COMPATIBILITY WITH CGI-LIB.PL
9902 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
9906 Matt Heffron (heffron@falstaff.css.beckman.com), James Taylor
9907 (james.taylor@srs.gov), Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com>, Mike Jewell
9908 (mlj3u@virginia.edu), Timothy Shimmin (tes@kbs.citri.edu.au), Joergen Haegg
9909 (jh@axis.se), Laurent Delfosse (delfosse@delfosse.com), Richard Resnick
9910 (applepi1@aol.com), Craig Bishop (csb@barwonwater.vic.gov.au), Tony Curtis
9911 (tc@vcpc.univie.ac.at), Tim Bunce (Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk), Tom Christiansen
9912 (tchrist@convex.com), Andreas Koenig (k@franz.ww.TU-Berlin.DE), Tim
9913 MacKenzie (Tim.MacKenzie@fulcrum.com.au), Kevin B. Hendricks
9914 (kbhend@dogwood.tyler.wm.edu), Stephen Dahmen (joyfire@inxpress.net), Ed
9915 Jordan (ed@fidalgo.net), David Alan Pisoni (david@cnation.com), Doug
9916 MacEachern (dougm@opengroup.org), Robin Houston (robin@oneworld.org),
9917 ...and many many more..
9919 =item A COMPLETE EXAMPLE OF A SIMPLE FORM-BASED SCRIPT
9927 =head2 CGI::Apache - Backward compatibility module for CGI.pm
9937 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
9945 =head2 CGI::Carp, B<CGI::Carp> - CGI routines for writing to the HTTPD (or
9954 =item REDIRECTING ERROR MESSAGES
9956 =item MAKING PERL ERRORS APPEAR IN THE BROWSER WINDOW
9960 =item Changing the default message
9964 =item MAKING WARNINGS APPEAR AS HTML COMMENTS
9974 =head2 CGI::Cookie - Interface to Netscape Cookies
9982 =item USING CGI::Cookie
9984 B<1. expiration date>, B<2. domain>, B<3. path>, B<4. secure flag>
9988 =item Creating New Cookies
9990 =item Sending the Cookie to the Browser
9992 =item Recovering Previous Cookies
9994 =item Manipulating Cookies
9996 B<name()>, B<value()>, B<domain()>, B<path()>, B<expires()>
10000 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
10008 =head2 CGI::Fast - CGI Interface for Fast CGI
10016 =item OTHER PIECES OF THE PUZZLE
10018 =item WRITING FASTCGI PERL SCRIPTS
10020 =item INSTALLING FASTCGI SCRIPTS
10022 =item USING FASTCGI SCRIPTS AS CGI SCRIPTS
10024 =item EXTERNAL FASTCGI SERVER INVOCATION
10026 FCGI_SOCKET_PATH, FCGI_LISTEN_QUEUE
10030 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
10038 =head2 CGI::Pretty - module to produce nicely formatted HTML code
10048 =item Tags that won't be formatted
10050 =item Customizing the Indenting
10062 =head2 CGI::Push - Simple Interface to Server Push
10070 =item USING CGI::Push
10072 -next_page, -last_page, -type, -delay, -cookie, -target, -expires, -nph
10076 =item Heterogeneous Pages
10078 =item Changing the Page Delay on the Fly
10082 =item INSTALLING CGI::Push SCRIPTS
10084 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
10092 =head2 CGI::Switch - Backward compatibility module for defunct CGI::Switch
10102 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
10110 =head2 CGI::Util - Internal utilities used by CGI module
10118 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
10124 =head2 CPAN - query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites
10134 =item Interactive Mode
10136 Searching for authors, bundles, distribution files and modules, make, test,
10137 install, clean modules or distributions, get, readme, look module or
10138 distribution, ls author, Signals
10146 =item The four C<CPAN::*> Classes: Author, Bundle, Module, Distribution
10148 =item Programmer's interface
10150 expand($type,@things), expandany(@things), Programming Examples
10152 =item Methods in the other Classes
10154 CPAN::Author::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Author::as_string(),
10155 CPAN::Author::email(), CPAN::Author::fullname(), CPAN::Author::name(),
10156 CPAN::Bundle::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Bundle::as_string(),
10157 CPAN::Bundle::clean(), CPAN::Bundle::contains(),
10158 CPAN::Bundle::force($method,@args), CPAN::Bundle::get(),
10159 CPAN::Bundle::inst_file(), CPAN::Bundle::inst_version(),
10160 CPAN::Bundle::uptodate(), CPAN::Bundle::install(), CPAN::Bundle::make(),
10161 CPAN::Bundle::readme(), CPAN::Bundle::test(),
10162 CPAN::Distribution::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Distribution::as_string(),
10163 CPAN::Distribution::clean(), CPAN::Distribution::containsmods(),
10164 CPAN::Distribution::cvs_import(), CPAN::Distribution::dir(),
10165 CPAN::Distribution::force($method,@args), CPAN::Distribution::get(),
10166 CPAN::Distribution::install(), CPAN::Distribution::isa_perl(),
10167 CPAN::Distribution::look(), CPAN::Distribution::make(),
10168 CPAN::Distribution::prereq_pm(), CPAN::Distribution::readme(),
10169 CPAN::Distribution::test(), CPAN::Distribution::uptodate(),
10170 CPAN::Index::force_reload(), CPAN::Index::reload(), CPAN::InfoObj::dump(),
10171 CPAN::Module::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Module::as_string(),
10172 CPAN::Module::clean(), CPAN::Module::cpan_file(),
10173 CPAN::Module::cpan_version(), CPAN::Module::cvs_import(),
10174 CPAN::Module::description(), CPAN::Module::force($method,@args),
10175 CPAN::Module::get(), CPAN::Module::inst_file(),
10176 CPAN::Module::inst_version(), CPAN::Module::install(),
10177 CPAN::Module::look(), CPAN::Module::make(),
10178 CPAN::Module::manpage_headline(), CPAN::Module::readme(),
10179 CPAN::Module::test(), CPAN::Module::uptodate(), CPAN::Module::userid()
10181 =item Cache Manager
10185 =item Prerequisites
10187 =item Finding packages and VERSION
10191 =item Floppy, Zip, Offline Mode
10195 =item CONFIGURATION
10197 C<o conf E<lt>scalar optionE<gt>>, C<o conf E<lt>scalar optionE<gt>
10198 E<lt>valueE<gt>>, C<o conf E<lt>list optionE<gt>>, C<o conf E<lt>list
10199 optionE<gt> [shift|pop]>, C<o conf E<lt>list optionE<gt>
10200 [unshift|push|splice] E<lt>listE<gt>>
10204 =item Note on urllist parameter's format
10206 =item urllist parameter has CD-ROM support
10214 =item POPULATE AN INSTALLATION WITH LOTS OF MODULES
10216 =item WORKING WITH CPAN.pm BEHIND FIREWALLS
10220 =item Three basic types of firewalls
10222 http firewall, ftp firewall, One way visibility, SOCKS, IP Masquerade
10224 =item Configuring lynx or ncftp for going through a firewall
10230 1), 2), 3), 4), 5), 6), 7), 8), 9), 10)
10242 =head2 CPAN::FirstTime - Utility for CPAN::Config file Initialization
10252 =head2 CPANox, CPAN::Nox - Wrapper around CPAN.pm without using any XS
10265 =head2 Carp, carp - warn of errors (from perspective of caller)
10275 =item Forcing a Stack Trace
10283 =head2 Carp::Heavy, Carp heavy machinery - no user serviceable parts inside
10285 =head2 Class::ISA -- report the search path for a class's ISA tree
10295 the function Class::ISA::super_path($CLASS), the function
10296 Class::ISA::self_and_super_path($CLASS), the function
10297 Class::ISA::self_and_super_versions($CLASS)
10299 =item CAUTIONARY NOTES
10307 =head2 Class::Struct - declare struct-like datatypes as Perl classes
10317 =item The C<struct()> function
10319 =item Class Creation at Compile Time
10321 =item Element Types and Accessor Methods
10323 Scalar (C<'$'> or C<'*$'>), Array (C<'@'> or C<'*@'>), Hash (C<'%'> or
10324 C<'*%'>), Class (C<'Class_Name'> or C<'*Class_Name'>)
10326 =item Initializing with C<new>
10332 Example 1, Example 2, Example 3
10334 =item Author and Modification History
10338 =head2 Config - access Perl configuration information
10346 myconfig(), config_sh(), config_vars(@names)
10358 C<_a>, C<_exe>, C<_o>
10362 C<afs>, C<afsroot>, C<alignbytes>, C<ansi2knr>, C<aphostname>,
10363 C<api_revision>, C<api_subversion>, C<api_version>, C<api_versionstring>,
10364 C<ar>, C<archlib>, C<archlibexp>, C<archname64>, C<archname>, C<archobjs>,
10369 C<baserev>, C<bash>, C<bin>, C<bincompat5005>, C<binexp>, C<bison>,
10370 C<byacc>, C<byteorder>
10374 C<c>, C<castflags>, C<cat>, C<cc>, C<cccdlflags>, C<ccdlflags>, C<ccflags>,
10375 C<ccflags_uselargefiles>, C<ccname>, C<ccsymbols>, C<ccversion>, C<cf_by>,
10376 C<cf_email>, C<cf_time>, C<charsize>, C<chgrp>, C<chmod>, C<chown>,
10377 C<clocktype>, C<comm>, C<compress>, C<contains>, C<cp>, C<cpio>, C<cpp>,
10378 C<cpp_stuff>, C<cppccsymbols>, C<cppflags>, C<cpplast>, C<cppminus>,
10379 C<cpprun>, C<cppstdin>, C<cppsymbols>, C<cryptlib>, C<csh>
10383 C<d__fwalk>, C<d_access>, C<d_accessx>, C<d_alarm>, C<d_archlib>,
10384 C<d_atolf>, C<d_atoll>, C<d_attribut>, C<d_bcmp>, C<d_bcopy>,
10385 C<d_bincompat5005>, C<d_bsd>, C<d_bsdgetpgrp>, C<d_bsdsetpgrp>, C<d_bzero>,
10386 C<d_casti32>, C<d_castneg>, C<d_charvspr>, C<d_chown>, C<d_chroot>,
10387 C<d_chsize>, C<d_class>, C<d_closedir>, C<d_cmsghdr_s>, C<d_const>,
10388 C<d_crypt>, C<d_csh>, C<d_cuserid>, C<d_dbl_dig>, C<d_dbminitproto>,
10389 C<d_difftime>, C<d_dirfd>, C<d_dirnamlen>, C<d_dlerror>, C<d_dlopen>,
10390 C<d_dlsymun>, C<d_dosuid>, C<d_drand48proto>, C<d_dup2>, C<d_eaccess>,
10391 C<d_endgrent>, C<d_endhent>, C<d_endnent>, C<d_endpent>, C<d_endpwent>,
10392 C<d_endsent>, C<d_eofnblk>, C<d_eunice>, C<d_fchdir>, C<d_fchmod>,
10393 C<d_fchown>, C<d_fcntl>, C<d_fcntl_can_lock>, C<d_fd_macros>, C<d_fd_set>,
10394 C<d_fds_bits>, C<d_fgetpos>, C<d_finite>, C<d_finitel>, C<d_flexfnam>,
10395 C<d_flock>, C<d_flockproto>, C<d_fork>, C<d_fp_class>, C<d_fpathconf>,
10396 C<d_fpclass>, C<d_fpclassify>, C<d_fpclassl>, C<d_fpos64_t>, C<d_frexpl>,
10397 C<d_fs_data_s>, C<d_fseeko>, C<d_fsetpos>, C<d_fstatfs>, C<d_fstatvfs>,
10398 C<d_fsync>, C<d_ftello>, C<d_ftime>, C<d_Gconvert>, C<d_getcwd>,
10399 C<d_getespwnam>, C<d_getfsstat>, C<d_getgrent>, C<d_getgrps>,
10400 C<d_gethbyaddr>, C<d_gethbyname>, C<d_gethent>, C<d_gethname>,
10401 C<d_gethostprotos>, C<d_getitimer>, C<d_getlogin>, C<d_getmnt>,
10402 C<d_getmntent>, C<d_getnbyaddr>, C<d_getnbyname>, C<d_getnent>,
10403 C<d_getnetprotos>, C<d_getpagsz>, C<d_getpbyname>, C<d_getpbynumber>,
10404 C<d_getpent>, C<d_getpgid>, C<d_getpgrp2>, C<d_getpgrp>, C<d_getppid>,
10405 C<d_getprior>, C<d_getprotoprotos>, C<d_getprpwnam>, C<d_getpwent>,
10406 C<d_getsbyname>, C<d_getsbyport>, C<d_getsent>, C<d_getservprotos>,
10407 C<d_getspnam>, C<d_gettimeod>, C<d_gnulibc>, C<d_grpasswd>, C<d_hasmntopt>,
10408 C<d_htonl>, C<d_index>, C<d_inetaton>, C<d_int64_t>, C<d_isascii>,
10409 C<d_isfinite>, C<d_isinf>, C<d_isnan>, C<d_isnanl>, C<d_killpg>,
10410 C<d_lchown>, C<d_ldbl_dig>, C<d_link>, C<d_locconv>, C<d_lockf>,
10411 C<d_longdbl>, C<d_longlong>, C<d_lseekproto>, C<d_lstat>, C<d_madvise>,
10412 C<d_mblen>, C<d_mbstowcs>, C<d_mbtowc>, C<d_memchr>, C<d_memcmp>,
10413 C<d_memcpy>, C<d_memmove>, C<d_memset>, C<d_mkdir>, C<d_mkdtemp>,
10414 C<d_mkfifo>, C<d_mkstemp>, C<d_mkstemps>, C<d_mktime>, C<d_mmap>,
10415 C<d_modfl>, C<d_modfl_pow32_bug>, C<d_mprotect>, C<d_msg>, C<d_msg_ctrunc>,
10416 C<d_msg_dontroute>, C<d_msg_oob>, C<d_msg_peek>, C<d_msg_proxy>,
10417 C<d_msgctl>, C<d_msgget>, C<d_msghdr_s>, C<d_msgrcv>, C<d_msgsnd>,
10418 C<d_msync>, C<d_munmap>, C<d_mymalloc>, C<d_nice>, C<d_nl_langinfo>,
10419 C<d_nv_preserves_uv>, C<d_nv_preserves_uv_bits>, C<d_off64_t>,
10420 C<d_old_pthread_create_joinable>, C<d_oldpthreads>, C<d_oldsock>,
10421 C<d_open3>, C<d_pathconf>, C<d_pause>, C<d_perl_otherlibdirs>,
10422 C<d_phostname>, C<d_pipe>, C<d_poll>, C<d_portable>, C<d_PRId64>,
10423 C<d_PRIeldbl>, C<d_PRIEUldbl>, C<d_PRIfldbl>, C<d_PRIFUldbl>,
10424 C<d_PRIgldbl>, C<d_PRIGUldbl>, C<d_PRIi64>, C<d_PRIo64>, C<d_PRIu64>,
10425 C<d_PRIx64>, C<d_PRIXU64>, C<d_procselfexe>, C<d_pthread_atfork>,
10426 C<d_pthread_yield>, C<d_pwage>, C<d_pwchange>, C<d_pwclass>,
10427 C<d_pwcomment>, C<d_pwexpire>, C<d_pwgecos>, C<d_pwpasswd>, C<d_pwquota>,
10428 C<d_qgcvt>, C<d_quad>, C<d_readdir>, C<d_readlink>, C<d_readv>,
10429 C<d_recvmsg>, C<d_rename>, C<d_rewinddir>, C<d_rmdir>, C<d_safebcpy>,
10430 C<d_safemcpy>, C<d_sanemcmp>, C<d_sbrkproto>, C<d_sched_yield>,
10431 C<d_scm_rights>, C<d_SCNfldbl>, C<d_seekdir>, C<d_select>, C<d_sem>,
10432 C<d_semctl>, C<d_semctl_semid_ds>, C<d_semctl_semun>, C<d_semget>,
10433 C<d_semop>, C<d_sendmsg>, C<d_setegid>, C<d_seteuid>, C<d_setgrent>,
10434 C<d_setgrps>, C<d_sethent>, C<d_setitimer>, C<d_setlinebuf>,
10435 C<d_setlocale>, C<d_setnent>, C<d_setpent>, C<d_setpgid>, C<d_setpgrp2>,
10436 C<d_setpgrp>, C<d_setprior>, C<d_setproctitle>, C<d_setpwent>,
10437 C<d_setregid>, C<d_setresgid>, C<d_setresuid>, C<d_setreuid>, C<d_setrgid>,
10438 C<d_setruid>, C<d_setsent>, C<d_setsid>, C<d_setvbuf>, C<d_sfio>, C<d_shm>,
10439 C<d_shmat>, C<d_shmatprototype>, C<d_shmctl>, C<d_shmdt>, C<d_shmget>,
10440 C<d_sigaction>, C<d_sigprocmask>, C<d_sigsetjmp>, C<d_sockatmark>,
10441 C<d_sockatmarkproto>, C<d_socket>, C<d_socklen_t>, C<d_sockpair>,
10442 C<d_socks5_init>, C<d_sqrtl>, C<d_sresgproto>, C<d_sresuproto>,
10443 C<d_statblks>, C<d_statfs_f_flags>, C<d_statfs_s>, C<d_statvfs>,
10444 C<d_stdio_cnt_lval>, C<d_stdio_ptr_lval>, C<d_stdio_ptr_lval_nochange_cnt>,
10445 C<d_stdio_ptr_lval_sets_cnt>, C<d_stdio_stream_array>, C<d_stdiobase>,
10446 C<d_stdstdio>, C<d_strchr>, C<d_strcoll>, C<d_strctcpy>, C<d_strerrm>,
10447 C<d_strerror>, C<d_strftime>, C<d_strtod>, C<d_strtol>, C<d_strtold>,
10448 C<d_strtoll>, C<d_strtoq>, C<d_strtoul>, C<d_strtoull>, C<d_strtouq>,
10449 C<d_strxfrm>, C<d_suidsafe>, C<d_symlink>, C<d_syscall>, C<d_syscallproto>,
10450 C<d_sysconf>, C<d_sysernlst>, C<d_syserrlst>, C<d_system>, C<d_tcgetpgrp>,
10451 C<d_tcsetpgrp>, C<d_telldir>, C<d_telldirproto>, C<d_time>, C<d_times>,
10452 C<d_tm_tm_gmtoff>, C<d_tm_tm_zone>, C<d_truncate>, C<d_tzname>,
10453 C<d_u32align>, C<d_ualarm>, C<d_umask>, C<d_uname>, C<d_union_semun>,
10454 C<d_unordered>, C<d_usleep>, C<d_usleepproto>, C<d_ustat>, C<d_vendorarch>,
10455 C<d_vendorbin>, C<d_vendorlib>, C<d_vfork>, C<d_void_closedir>,
10456 C<d_voidsig>, C<d_voidtty>, C<d_volatile>, C<d_vprintf>, C<d_wait4>,
10457 C<d_waitpid>, C<d_wcstombs>, C<d_wctomb>, C<d_writev>, C<d_xenix>, C<date>,
10458 C<db_hashtype>, C<db_prefixtype>, C<db_version_major>, C<db_version_minor>,
10459 C<db_version_patch>, C<defvoidused>, C<direntrytype>, C<dlext>, C<dlsrc>,
10460 C<doublesize>, C<drand01>, C<dynamic_ext>
10464 C<eagain>, C<ebcdic>, C<echo>, C<egrep>, C<emacs>, C<eunicefix>,
10465 C<exe_ext>, C<expr>, C<extensions>, C<extras>
10469 C<fflushall>, C<fflushNULL>, C<find>, C<firstmakefile>, C<flex>,
10470 C<fpossize>, C<fpostype>, C<freetype>, C<from>, C<full_ar>, C<full_csh>,
10475 C<gccosandvers>, C<gccversion>, C<gidformat>, C<gidsign>, C<gidsize>,
10476 C<gidtype>, C<glibpth>, C<gmake>, C<grep>, C<groupcat>, C<groupstype>,
10481 C<h_fcntl>, C<h_sysfile>, C<hint>, C<hostcat>
10485 C<i16size>, C<i16type>, C<i32size>, C<i32type>, C<i64size>, C<i64type>,
10486 C<i8size>, C<i8type>, C<i_arpainet>, C<i_bsdioctl>, C<i_db>, C<i_dbm>,
10487 C<i_dirent>, C<i_dld>, C<i_dlfcn>, C<i_fcntl>, C<i_float>, C<i_fp>,
10488 C<i_fp_class>, C<i_gdbm>, C<i_grp>, C<i_ieeefp>, C<i_inttypes>,
10489 C<i_langinfo>, C<i_libutil>, C<i_limits>, C<i_locale>, C<i_machcthr>,
10490 C<i_malloc>, C<i_math>, C<i_memory>, C<i_mntent>, C<i_ndbm>, C<i_netdb>,
10491 C<i_neterrno>, C<i_netinettcp>, C<i_niin>, C<i_poll>, C<i_prot>,
10492 C<i_pthread>, C<i_pwd>, C<i_rpcsvcdbm>, C<i_sfio>, C<i_sgtty>, C<i_shadow>,
10493 C<i_socks>, C<i_stdarg>, C<i_stddef>, C<i_stdlib>, C<i_string>,
10494 C<i_sunmath>, C<i_sysaccess>, C<i_sysdir>, C<i_sysfile>, C<i_sysfilio>,
10495 C<i_sysin>, C<i_sysioctl>, C<i_syslog>, C<i_sysmman>, C<i_sysmode>,
10496 C<i_sysmount>, C<i_sysndir>, C<i_sysparam>, C<i_sysresrc>, C<i_syssecrt>,
10497 C<i_sysselct>, C<i_syssockio>, C<i_sysstat>, C<i_sysstatfs>,
10498 C<i_sysstatvfs>, C<i_systime>, C<i_systimek>, C<i_systimes>, C<i_systypes>,
10499 C<i_sysuio>, C<i_sysun>, C<i_sysutsname>, C<i_sysvfs>, C<i_syswait>,
10500 C<i_termio>, C<i_termios>, C<i_time>, C<i_unistd>, C<i_ustat>, C<i_utime>,
10501 C<i_values>, C<i_varargs>, C<i_varhdr>, C<i_vfork>,
10502 C<ignore_versioned_solibs>, C<inc_version_list>, C<inc_version_list_init>,
10503 C<incpath>, C<inews>, C<installarchlib>, C<installbin>, C<installman1dir>,
10504 C<installman3dir>, C<installprefix>, C<installprefixexp>,
10505 C<installprivlib>, C<installscript>, C<installsitearch>, C<installsitebin>,
10506 C<installsitelib>, C<installstyle>, C<installusrbinperl>,
10507 C<installvendorarch>, C<installvendorbin>, C<installvendorlib>, C<intsize>,
10508 C<issymlink>, C<ivdformat>, C<ivsize>, C<ivtype>
10512 C<known_extensions>, C<ksh>
10516 C<ld>, C<lddlflags>, C<ldflags>, C<ldflags_uselargefiles>, C<ldlibpthname>,
10517 C<less>, C<lib_ext>, C<libc>, C<libperl>, C<libpth>, C<libs>, C<libsdirs>,
10518 C<libsfiles>, C<libsfound>, C<libspath>, C<libswanted>,
10519 C<libswanted_uselargefiles>, C<line>, C<lint>, C<lkflags>, C<ln>, C<lns>,
10520 C<locincpth>, C<loclibpth>, C<longdblsize>, C<longlongsize>, C<longsize>,
10521 C<lp>, C<lpr>, C<ls>, C<lseeksize>, C<lseektype>
10525 C<mail>, C<mailx>, C<make>, C<make_set_make>, C<mallocobj>, C<mallocsrc>,
10526 C<malloctype>, C<man1dir>, C<man1direxp>, C<man1ext>, C<man3dir>,
10527 C<man3direxp>, C<man3ext>
10531 C<Mcc>, C<mips_type>, C<mkdir>, C<mmaptype>, C<modetype>, C<more>,
10532 C<multiarch>, C<mv>, C<myarchname>, C<mydomain>, C<myhostname>, C<myuname>
10536 C<n>, C<need_va_copy>, C<netdb_hlen_type>, C<netdb_host_type>,
10537 C<netdb_name_type>, C<netdb_net_type>, C<nm>, C<nm_opt>, C<nm_so_opt>,
10538 C<nonxs_ext>, C<nroff>, C<nveformat>, C<nvEUformat>, C<nvfformat>,
10539 C<nvFUformat>, C<nvgformat>, C<nvGUformat>, C<nvsize>, C<nvtype>
10543 C<o_nonblock>, C<obj_ext>, C<old_pthread_create_joinable>, C<optimize>,
10544 C<orderlib>, C<osname>, C<osvers>, C<otherlibdirs>
10548 C<package>, C<pager>, C<passcat>, C<patchlevel>, C<path_sep>, C<perl5>,
10549 C<perl>, C<perl_patchlevel>
10553 C<PERL_REVISION>, C<PERL_SUBVERSION>, C<PERL_VERSION>, C<perladmin>,
10554 C<perllibs>, C<perlpath>, C<pg>, C<phostname>, C<pidtype>, C<plibpth>,
10555 C<pm_apiversion>, C<pmake>, C<pr>, C<prefix>, C<prefixexp>, C<privlib>,
10556 C<privlibexp>, C<procselfexe>, C<prototype>, C<ptrsize>
10560 C<quadkind>, C<quadtype>
10564 C<randbits>, C<randfunc>, C<randseedtype>, C<ranlib>, C<rd_nodata>,
10565 C<revision>, C<rm>, C<rmail>, C<run>, C<runnm>
10569 C<sched_yield>, C<scriptdir>, C<scriptdirexp>, C<sed>, C<seedfunc>,
10570 C<selectminbits>, C<selecttype>, C<sendmail>, C<sh>, C<shar>, C<sharpbang>,
10571 C<shmattype>, C<shortsize>, C<shrpenv>, C<shsharp>, C<sig_count>,
10572 C<sig_name>, C<sig_name_init>, C<sig_num>, C<sig_num_init>, C<sig_size>,
10573 C<signal_t>, C<sitearch>, C<sitearchexp>, C<sitebin>, C<sitebinexp>,
10574 C<sitelib>, C<sitelib_stem>, C<sitelibexp>, C<siteprefix>,
10575 C<siteprefixexp>, C<sizesize>, C<sizetype>, C<sleep>, C<smail>, C<so>,
10576 C<sockethdr>, C<socketlib>, C<socksizetype>, C<sort>, C<spackage>,
10577 C<spitshell>, C<sPRId64>, C<sPRIeldbl>, C<sPRIEUldbl>, C<sPRIfldbl>,
10578 C<sPRIFUldbl>, C<sPRIgldbl>, C<sPRIGUldbl>, C<sPRIi64>, C<sPRIo64>,
10579 C<sPRIu64>, C<sPRIx64>, C<sPRIXU64>, C<src>, C<sSCNfldbl>, C<ssizetype>,
10580 C<startperl>, C<startsh>, C<static_ext>, C<stdchar>, C<stdio_base>,
10581 C<stdio_bufsiz>, C<stdio_cnt>, C<stdio_filbuf>, C<stdio_ptr>,
10582 C<stdio_stream_array>, C<strings>, C<submit>, C<subversion>, C<sysman>
10586 C<tail>, C<tar>, C<targetarch>, C<tbl>, C<tee>, C<test>, C<timeincl>,
10587 C<timetype>, C<to>, C<touch>, C<tr>, C<trnl>, C<troff>
10591 C<u16size>, C<u16type>, C<u32size>, C<u32type>, C<u64size>, C<u64type>,
10592 C<u8size>, C<u8type>, C<uidformat>, C<uidsign>, C<uidsize>, C<uidtype>,
10593 C<uname>, C<uniq>, C<uquadtype>, C<use5005threads>, C<use64bitall>,
10594 C<use64bitint>, C<usecrosscompile>, C<usedl>, C<useithreads>,
10595 C<uselargefiles>, C<uselongdouble>, C<usemorebits>, C<usemultiplicity>,
10596 C<usemymalloc>, C<usenm>, C<useopcode>, C<useperlio>, C<useposix>,
10597 C<usereentrant>, C<usesfio>, C<useshrplib>, C<usesocks>, C<usethreads>,
10598 C<usevendorprefix>, C<usevfork>, C<usrinc>, C<uuname>, C<uvoformat>,
10599 C<uvsize>, C<uvtype>, C<uvuformat>, C<uvxformat>, C<uvXUformat>
10603 C<vendorarch>, C<vendorarchexp>, C<vendorbin>, C<vendorbinexp>,
10604 C<vendorlib>, C<vendorlib_stem>, C<vendorlibexp>, C<vendorprefix>,
10605 C<vendorprefixexp>, C<version>, C<version_patchlevel_string>,
10606 C<versiononly>, C<vi>, C<voidflags>
10610 C<xlibpth>, C<xs_apiversion>
10614 C<yacc>, C<yaccflags>
10626 =head2 Cwd - get pathname of current working directory
10636 =item getcwd and friends
10638 getcwd, cwd, fastcwd, fastgetcwd
10640 =item abs_path and friends
10642 abs_path, realpath, fast_abs_path
10654 =head2 DB - programmatic interface to the Perl debugging API (draft,
10666 =item Global Variables
10668 $DB::sub, %DB::sub, $DB::single, $DB::signal, $DB::trace, @DB::args,
10669 @DB::dbline, %DB::dbline, $DB::package, $DB::filename, $DB::subname,
10674 CLIENT->register(), CLIENT->evalcode(STRING), CLIENT->skippkg('D::hide'),
10675 CLIENT->run(), CLIENT->step(), CLIENT->next(), CLIENT->done()
10677 =item Client Callback Methods
10679 CLIENT->init(), CLIENT->prestop([STRING]), CLIENT->stop(), CLIENT->idle(),
10680 CLIENT->poststop([STRING]), CLIENT->evalcode(STRING), CLIENT->cleanup(),
10681 CLIENT->output(LIST)
10691 =head2 DB_File - Perl5 access to Berkeley DB version 1.x
10699 B<DB_HASH>, B<DB_BTREE>, B<DB_RECNO>
10703 =item Using DB_File with Berkeley DB version 2 or greater
10705 =item Interface to Berkeley DB
10707 =item Opening a Berkeley DB Database File
10709 =item Default Parameters
10711 =item In Memory Databases
10719 =item A Simple Example
10727 =item Changing the BTREE sort order
10729 =item Handling Duplicate Keys
10731 =item The get_dup() Method
10733 =item The find_dup() Method
10735 =item The del_dup() Method
10737 =item Matching Partial Keys
10745 =item The 'bval' Option
10747 =item A Simple Example
10749 =item Extra RECNO Methods
10751 B<$X-E<gt>push(list) ;>, B<$value = $X-E<gt>pop ;>, B<$X-E<gt>shift>,
10752 B<$X-E<gt>unshift(list) ;>, B<$X-E<gt>length>, B<$X-E<gt>splice(offset,
10753 length, elements);>
10755 =item Another Example
10759 =item THE API INTERFACE
10761 B<$status = $X-E<gt>get($key, $value [, $flags]) ;>, B<$status =
10762 $X-E<gt>put($key, $value [, $flags]) ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>del($key [,
10763 $flags]) ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>fd ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>seq($key,
10764 $value, $flags) ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>sync([$flags]) ;>
10768 B<filter_store_key>, B<filter_store_value>, B<filter_fetch_key>,
10769 B<filter_fetch_value>
10775 =item An Example -- the NULL termination problem.
10777 =item Another Example -- Key is a C int.
10781 =item HINTS AND TIPS
10785 =item Locking: The Trouble with fd
10787 =item Safe ways to lock a database
10789 B<Tie::DB_Lock>, B<Tie::DB_LockFile>, B<DB_File::Lock>
10791 =item Sharing Databases With C Applications
10793 =item The untie() Gotcha
10797 =item COMMON QUESTIONS
10801 =item Why is there Perl source in my database?
10803 =item How do I store complex data structures with DB_File?
10805 =item What does "Invalid Argument" mean?
10807 =item What does "Bareword 'DB_File' not allowed" mean?
10827 =head2 Data::Dumper - stringified perl data structures, suitable for both
10828 printing and C<eval>
10840 I<PACKAGE>->new(I<ARRAYREF [>, I<ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Dump I<or>
10841 I<PACKAGE>->Dump(I<ARRAYREF [>, I<ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Seen(I<[HASHREF]>),
10842 I<$OBJ>->Values(I<[ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Names(I<[ARRAYREF]>),
10849 =item Configuration Variables or Methods
10851 $Data::Dumper::Indent I<or> I<$OBJ>->Indent(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10852 $Data::Dumper::Purity I<or> I<$OBJ>->Purity(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10853 $Data::Dumper::Pad I<or> I<$OBJ>->Pad(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10854 $Data::Dumper::Varname I<or> I<$OBJ>->Varname(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10855 $Data::Dumper::Useqq I<or> I<$OBJ>->Useqq(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10856 $Data::Dumper::Terse I<or> I<$OBJ>->Terse(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10857 $Data::Dumper::Freezer I<or> $I<OBJ>->Freezer(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10858 $Data::Dumper::Toaster I<or> $I<OBJ>->Toaster(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10859 $Data::Dumper::Deepcopy I<or> $I<OBJ>->Deepcopy(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10860 $Data::Dumper::Quotekeys I<or> $I<OBJ>->Quotekeys(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10861 $Data::Dumper::Bless I<or> $I<OBJ>->Bless(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10862 $Data::Dumper::Maxdepth I<or> $I<OBJ>->Maxdepth(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10863 $Data::Dumper::Useperl I<or> $I<OBJ>->Useperl(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10864 $Data::Dumper::Sortkeys I<or> $I<OBJ>->Sortkeys(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10865 $Data::Dumper::Deparse I<or> $I<OBJ>->Deparse(I<[NEWVAL]>)
10885 =head2 Devel::DProf - a Perl code profiler
10893 =item PROFILE FORMAT
10905 =head2 Devel::PPPort, Perl/Pollution/Portability
10927 =head2 Devel::Peek - A data debugging tool for the XS programmer
10937 =item Runtime debugging
10939 =item Memory footprint debugging
10947 =item A simple scalar string
10949 =item A simple scalar number
10951 =item A simple scalar with an extra reference
10953 =item A reference to a simple scalar
10955 =item A reference to an array
10957 =item A reference to a hash
10959 =item Dumping a large array or hash
10961 =item A reference to an SV which holds a C pointer
10963 =item A reference to a subroutine
10977 =head2 Devel::SelfStubber - generate stubs for a SelfLoading module
10987 =head2 Digest:: - Modules that calculate message digests
10995 I<binary>, I<hex>, I<base64>
10999 $ctx = Digest->XXX($arg,...), $ctx = Digest->new(XXX => $arg,...), $ctx =
11000 Digest::XXX->new($arg,...), $ctx->reset, $ctx->add($data,...),
11001 $ctx->addfile($io_handle), $ctx->digest, $ctx->hexdigest, $ctx->b64digest
11009 =head2 Digest::MD5 - Perl interface to the MD5 Algorithm
11019 md5($data,...), md5_hex($data,...), md5_base64($data,...)
11023 $md5 = Digest::MD5->new, $md5->reset, $md5->add($data,...),
11024 $md5->addfile($io_handle), $md5->digest, $md5->hexdigest, $md5->b64digest
11036 =head2 DirHandle - supply object methods for directory handles
11048 =head2 Dumpvalue - provides screen dump of Perl data.
11060 C<arrayDepth>, C<hashDepth>, C<compactDump>, C<veryCompact>, C<globPrint>,
11061 C<dumpDBFiles>, C<dumpPackages>, C<dumpReused>, C<tick>, C<quoteHighBit>,
11062 C<printUndef>, C<usageOnly>, unctrl, subdump, bareStringify, quoteHighBit,
11067 dumpValue, dumpValues, dumpvars, set_quote, set_unctrl, compactDump,
11068 veryCompact, set, get
11074 =head2 DynaLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code
11082 @dl_library_path, @dl_resolve_using, @dl_require_symbols, @dl_librefs,
11083 @dl_modules, dl_error(), $dl_debug, dl_findfile(), dl_expandspec(),
11084 dl_load_file(), dl_unload_file(), dl_loadflags(), dl_find_symbol(),
11085 dl_find_symbol_anywhere(), dl_undef_symbols(), dl_install_xsub(),
11092 =head2 DynaLoader::XSLoader, XSLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into
11105 =head2 Encode - character encodings
11123 =item Characteristics of an Encoding
11125 =item Types of Encodings
11127 Fixed length 8-bit (or less) encodings, Fixed length 16-bit encodings,
11128 Fixed length 32-bit encodings, Multi-byte encodings, "Escape" encodings
11130 =item Specifying Encodings
11132 1. By name, 2. As an object
11134 =item Encoding Names
11136 The MIME name as defined in IETF RFCs, The name in the IANA registry, The
11137 name used by the organization that defined it
11141 =item PERL ENCODING API
11145 =item Generic Encoding Interface
11147 =item Handling Malformed Data
11149 Scheme 1, Scheme 2, Other Schemes
11153 =item Other Encodings of Unicode
11155 =item Listing available encodings
11157 =item Defining Aliases
11159 As a simple string, As a qr// compiled regular expression, e.g.:, As a code
11162 =item Defining Encodings
11166 =item Encoding and IO
11168 =item Encoding How to ...
11170 IO with mixed content (faking iso-2020-*), MIME's Content-Length:, UTF-8
11171 strings in binary data, Perl/Encode wrappers on non-Unicode XS modules
11173 =item Messing with Perl's Internals
11175 is_utf8(STRING [, CHECK]), valid_utf8(STRING)
11177 =item IMPLEMENTATION CLASSES
11179 -E<gt>name, -E<gt>new_sequence, -E<gt>encode($string,$check),
11180 -E<gt>decode($octets,$check)
11184 =item Compiled Encodings
11186 .enc, .ucm, .ucm, .c, .xs, ascii and iso-8859-*, IBM-1047 and two other
11187 variants of EBCDIC, symbol and dingbats as used by Tk on X11
11195 =head2 Encode::Tcl - Tcl encodings
11207 =head2 Encode::Tcl::Escape - Tcl Escape encodings
11219 =head2 Encode::Tcl::Extended - Tcl EUC encodings
11231 =head2 Encode::Tcl::Table - Tcl Table encodings
11243 =head2 Encode::lib::Encode::Tcl, Encode::Tcl - Tcl encodings
11255 =head2 Encode::lib::Encode::Tcl::Escape, Encode::Tcl::Escape - Tcl Escape
11268 =head2 Encode::lib::Encode::Tcl::Extended, Encode::Tcl::Extended - Tcl EUC
11281 =head2 Encode::lib::Encode::Tcl::Table, Encode::Tcl::Table - Tcl Table
11294 =head2 Encode::lib::EncodeFormat, EncodeFormat - the format of encoding
11295 tables of the Encode extension
11301 [1] B<S>, [2] B<D>, [3] B<M>, [4] B<E>
11309 =head2 EncodeFormat - the format of encoding tables of the Encode extension
11315 [1] B<S>, [2] B<D>, [3] B<M>, [4] B<E>
11323 =head2 English - use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation
11336 =head2 Env - perl module that imports environment variables as scalars or
11351 =head2 Errno - System errno constants
11367 =head2 Exporter - Implements default import method for modules
11377 =item How to Export
11379 =item Selecting What To Export
11381 =item How to Import
11383 C<use ModuleName;>, C<use ModuleName ();>, C<use ModuleName qw(...);>
11387 =item Advanced features
11391 =item Specialised Import Lists
11393 =item Exporting without using Exporter's import method
11395 =item Module Version Checking
11397 =item Managing Unknown Symbols
11399 =item Tag Handling Utility Functions
11401 =item Generating combined tags
11403 =item C<AUTOLOAD>ed Constants
11409 =head2 Exporter::Heavy - Exporter guts
11419 =head2 ExtUtils::Command - utilities to replace common UNIX commands in
11440 mv source... destination
11442 cp source... destination
11460 =head2 ExtUtils::Constant - generate XS code to import C header constants
11470 IV, UV, NV, PV, PVN, SV, YES, NO, UNDEF
11480 memEQ_clause NAME, CHECKED_AT, INDENT
11482 assign INDENT, TYPE, PRE, POST, VALUE..
11486 switch_clause INDENT, NAMELEN, ITEMHASH, ITEM..
11494 C_constant, name, type, value, macro, default, pre, post, def_pre =item
11497 XS_constant PACKAGE, TYPES, SUBNAME, C_SUBNAME
11499 autoload PACKAGE, VERSION, AUTOLOADER
11501 WriteMakefileSnippet
11503 WriteConstants ATTRIBUTE =E<gt> VALUE [, ...], NAME, DEFAULT_TYPE,
11504 BREAKOUT_AT, NAMES, C_FILE, XS_FILE, SUBNAME, C_SUBNAME
11512 =head2 ExtUtils::Embed - Utilities for embedding Perl in C/C++ applications
11524 xsinit(), Examples, ldopts(), Examples, perl_inc(), ccflags(), ccdlflags(),
11525 ccopts(), xsi_header(), xsi_protos(@modules), xsi_body(@modules)
11535 =head2 ExtUtils::Install - install files from here to there
11545 =head2 ExtUtils::Installed - Inventory management of installed modules
11557 new(), modules(), files(), directories(), directory_tree(), validate(),
11558 packlist(), version()
11566 =head2 ExtUtils::Liblist - determine libraries to use and how to use them
11574 For static extensions, For dynamic extensions, For dynamic extensions
11580 =item LDLOADLIBS and LD_RUN_PATH
11590 =item VMS implementation
11592 =item Win32 implementation
11600 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_BeOS - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
11601 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
11613 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
11614 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
11622 canonpath, cflags, manifypods, perl_archive
11626 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_NW5 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
11627 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
11653 test_via_harness (o)
11655 tool_autosplit (override)
11673 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_OS2 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
11674 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
11688 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_Unix - methods used by ExtUtils::MakeMaker
11700 =item Preloaded methods
11720 =item SelfLoaded methods
11766 file_name_is_absolute
11772 =item Methods to actually produce chunks of text for the Makefile
11812 maybe_command_in_dirs
11840 post_initialize (o)
11852 replace_manpage_separator
11866 test_via_harness (o)
11868 test_via_script (o)
11898 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_VMS - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
11899 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
11909 =item Methods always loaded
11921 =item SelfLoaded methods
11923 guess_name (override)
11927 find_perl (override)
11931 maybe_command (override)
11933 maybe_command_in_dirs (override)
11935 perl_script (override)
11937 file_name_is_absolute (override)
11939 replace_manpage_separator
11941 init_others (override)
11943 constants (override)
11947 const_cccmd (override)
11949 pm_to_blib (override)
11951 tool_autosplit (override)
11953 tool_sxubpp (override)
11955 xsubpp_version (override)
11957 tools_other (override)
11967 top_targets (override)
11971 dynamic_lib (override)
11973 dynamic_bs (override)
11975 static_lib (override)
11977 manifypods (override)
11979 processPL (override)
11981 installbin (override)
11983 subdir_x (override)
11987 realclean (override)
11989 dist_basics (override)
11991 dist_core (override)
11993 dist_dir (override)
11995 dist_test (override)
11999 perldepend (override)
12001 makefile (override)
12005 test_via_harness (override)
12007 test_via_script (override)
12009 makeaperl (override)
12011 nicetext (override)
12013 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_Win32 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
12014 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
12040 test_via_harness (o)
12042 tool_autosplit (override)
12060 =head2 ExtUtils::MakeMaker - create an extension Makefile
12070 =item How To Write A Makefile.PL
12072 =item Default Makefile Behaviour
12080 =item PREFIX and LIB attribute
12084 =item Static Linking of a new Perl Binary
12086 =item Determination of Perl Library and Installation Locations
12088 =item Which architecture dependent directory?
12090 =item Using Attributes and Parameters
12092 ABSTRACT, ABSTRACT_FROM, AUTHOR, BINARY_LOCATION, C, CCFLAGS, CONFIG,
12093 CONFIGURE, DEFINE, DIR, DISTNAME, DL_FUNCS, DL_VARS, EXCLUDE_EXT,
12094 EXE_FILES, FIRST_MAKEFILE, FULLPERL, FUNCLIST, H, HTMLLIBPODS,
12095 HTMLSCRIPTPODS, IMPORTS, INC, INCLUDE_EXT, INSTALLARCHLIB, INSTALLBIN,
12096 INSTALLDIRS, INSTALLHTMLPRIVLIBDIR, INSTALLHTMLSCRIPTDIR,
12097 INSTALLHTMLSITELIBDIR, INSTALLMAN1DIR, INSTALLMAN3DIR, INSTALLPRIVLIB,
12098 INSTALLSCRIPT, INSTALLSITEARCH, INSTALLSITELIB, INST_ARCHLIB, INST_BIN,
12099 INST_EXE, INST_HTMLLIBDIR, INST_HTMLSCRIPTDIR, INST_LIB, INST_MAN1DIR,
12100 INST_MAN3DIR, INST_SCRIPT, LDFROM, LIB, LIBPERL_A, LIBS, LINKTYPE,
12101 MAKEAPERL, MAKEFILE, MAN1PODS, MAN3PODS, MAP_TARGET, MYEXTLIB, NAME,
12102 NEEDS_LINKING, NOECHO, NORECURS, NO_VC, OBJECT, OPTIMIZE, PERL, PERL_CORE,
12103 PERLMAINCC, PERL_ARCHLIB, PERL_LIB, PERL_MALLOC_OK, PERLRUN, PERM_RW,
12104 PERM_RWX, PL_FILES, PM, PMLIBDIRS, PM_FILTER, POLLUTE, PPM_INSTALL_EXEC,
12105 PPM_INSTALL_SCRIPT, PREFIX, PREREQ_PM, PREREQ_FATAL, PREREQ_PRINT,
12106 PRINT_PREREQ, SKIP, TEST_LIBS, VERSION, VERSION_FROM, XS, XSOPT,
12107 XSPROTOARG, XS_VERSION
12109 =item Additional lowercase attributes
12111 clean, depend, dist, dynamic_lib, linkext, macro, realclean, test,
12114 =item Overriding MakeMaker Methods
12116 =item Hintsfile support
12118 =item Distribution Support
12120 make distcheck, make skipcheck, make distclean, make manifest,
12121 make distdir, make tardist, make dist, make uutardist, make
12122 shdist, make zipdist, make ci
12124 =item Disabling an extension
12130 PERL_MM_OPT, PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT
12138 =head2 ExtUtils::Manifest - utilities to write and check a MANIFEST file
12146 =item MANIFEST.SKIP
12150 =item GLOBAL VARIABLES
12154 C<Not in MANIFEST:> I<file>, C<No such file:> I<file>, C<MANIFEST:> I<$!>,
12155 C<Added to MANIFEST:> I<file>
12159 B<PERL_MM_MANIFEST_DEBUG>
12167 =head2 ExtUtils::Miniperl, writemain - write the C code for perlmain.c
12179 =head2 ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap - make a bootstrap file for use by DynaLoader
12189 =head2 ExtUtils::Mksymlists - write linker options files for dynamic
12198 DLBASE, DL_FUNCS, DL_VARS, FILE, FUNCLIST, IMPORTS, NAME
12206 =head2 ExtUtils::Packlist - manage .packlist files
12218 new(), read(), write(), validate(), packlist_file()
12226 =head2 ExtUtils::testlib - add blib/* directories to @INC
12236 =head2 Fatal - replace functions with equivalents which succeed or die
12248 =head2 Fcntl - load the C Fcntl.h defines
12258 =item EXPORTED SYMBOLS
12262 =head2 File::Basename, fileparse - split a pathname into pieces
12270 fileparse_set_fstype, fileparse
12274 C<basename>, C<dirname>
12278 =head2 File::CheckTree, validate - run many filetest checks on a tree
12288 =head2 File::Compare - Compare files or filehandles
12302 =head2 File::Copy - Copy files or filehandles
12312 =item Special behaviour if C<syscopy> is defined (OS/2, VMS and Win32)
12314 rmscopy($from,$to[,$date_flag])
12326 =head2 File::DosGlob - DOS like globbing and then some
12336 =item EXPORTS (by request only)
12348 =head2 File::Find - Traverse a directory tree.
12356 B<find>, B<finddepth>
12362 C<wanted>, C<bydepth>, C<preprocess>, C<postprocess>, C<follow>,
12363 C<follow_fast>, C<follow_skip>, C<dangling_symlinks>, C<no_chdir>,
12364 C<untaint>, C<untaint_pattern>, C<untaint_skip>
12366 =item The wanted function
12368 C<$File::Find::dir> is the current directory name,, C<$_> is the current
12369 filename within that directory, C<$File::Find::name> is the complete
12370 pathname to the file
12378 $dont_use_nlink, symlinks
12386 =head2 File::Glob - Perl extension for BSD glob routine
12394 C<GLOB_ERR>, C<GLOB_LIMIT>, C<GLOB_MARK>, C<GLOB_NOCASE>, C<GLOB_NOCHECK>,
12395 C<GLOB_NOSORT>, C<GLOB_BRACE>, C<GLOB_NOMAGIC>, C<GLOB_QUOTE>,
12396 C<GLOB_TILDE>, C<GLOB_CSH>, C<GLOB_ALPHASORT>
12400 C<GLOB_NOSPACE>, C<GLOB_ABEND>
12408 =head2 File::Path - create or remove directory trees
12420 =head2 File::Spec - portably perform operations on file names
12430 canonpath, catdir, catfile, curdir, devnull, rootdir, tmpdir, updir,
12431 no_upwards, case_tolerant, file_name_is_absolute, path, join, splitpath,
12432 splitdir, catpath(), abs2rel, rel2abs()
12440 =head2 File::Spec::Cygwin - methods for Cygwin file specs
12450 =head2 File::Spec::Epoc - methods for Epoc file specs
12484 =head2 File::Spec::Functions - portably perform operations on file names
12502 =head2 File::Spec::Mac - File::Spec for Mac OS (Classic)
12530 file_name_is_absolute
12560 =head2 File::Spec::OS2 - methods for OS/2 file specs
12570 =head2 File::Spec::Unix - File::Spec for Unix, base for other File::Spec
12603 file_name_is_absolute
12625 =head2 File::Spec::VMS - methods for VMS file specs
12641 =item Methods always loaded
12643 canonpath (override)
12661 case_tolerant (override)
12665 file_name_is_absolute (override)
12667 splitpath (override)
12669 splitdir (override)
12683 =head2 File::Spec::Win32 - methods for Win32 file specs
12713 =head2 File::Temp - return name and handle of a temporary file safely
12737 =item MKTEMP FUNCTIONS
12751 =item POSIX FUNCTIONS
12761 =item ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS
12769 =item UTILITY FUNCTIONS
12777 =item PACKAGE VARIABLES
12779 B<safe_level>, STANDARD, MEDIUM, HIGH
12791 =item Temporary files and NFS
12803 =head2 File::stat - by-name interface to Perl's built-in stat() functions
12817 =head2 FileCache - keep more files open than the system permits
12829 =head2 FileHandle - supply object methods for filehandles
12837 $fh->print, $fh->printf, $fh->getline, $fh->getlines
12843 =head2 Filter::Simple - Simplified source filtering
12857 =item Disabling or changing <no> behaviour
12859 =item All-in-one interface
12861 =item Filtering only specific components of source code
12863 C<"code">, C<"executable">, C<"quotelike">, C<"string">, C<"regex">,
12866 =item Filtering only the code parts of source code
12868 Most source code ceases to be grammatically correct when it is broken up
12869 into the pieces between string literals and regexes. So the C<'code'>
12870 component filter behaves slightly differently from the other partial
12872 described in the previous section.
12874 =item Using Filter::Simple with an explicit C<import> subroutine
12876 =item Using Filter::Simple and Exporter together
12888 =head2 Filter::Util::Call - Perl Source Filter Utility Module
12898 =item B<use Filter::Util::Call>
12902 =item B<filter() and anonymous sub>
12904 B<$_>, B<$status>, B<filter_read> and B<filter_read_exact>, B<filter_del>
12912 =item Example 1: A simple filter.
12914 =item Example 2: Using the context
12916 =item Example 3: Using the context within the filter
12918 =item Example 4: Using filter_del
12922 =item Filter::Simple
12930 =head2 FindBin - Locate directory of original perl script
12938 =item EXPORTABLE VARIABLES
12950 =head2 GDBM_File - Perl5 access to the gdbm library.
12966 =head2 Getopt::Long - Extended processing of command line options
12974 =item Command Line Options, an Introduction
12976 =item Getting Started with Getopt::Long
12980 =item Simple options
12982 =item A little bit less simple options
12984 =item Mixing command line option with other arguments
12986 =item Options with values
12988 =item Options with multiple values
12990 =item Options with hash values
12992 =item User-defined subroutines to handle options
12994 =item Options with multiple names
12996 =item Case and abbreviations
12998 =item Summary of Option Specifications
13000 !, +, s, i, o, f, : I<type> [ I<desttype> ], : I<number> [ I<desttype> ], :
13005 =item Advanced Possibilities
13009 =item Object oriented interface
13011 =item Documentation and help texts
13013 =item Storing options in a hash
13017 =item The lonesome dash
13019 =item Argument callback
13023 =item Configuring Getopt::Long
13025 default, posix_default, auto_abbrev, getopt_compat, gnu_compat, gnu_getopt,
13026 require_order, permute, bundling (default: disabled), bundling_override
13027 (default: disabled), ignore_case (default: enabled), ignore_case_always
13028 (default: disabled), pass_through (default: disabled), prefix,
13029 prefix_pattern, debug (default: disabled)
13031 =item Return values and Errors
13037 =item Default destinations
13039 =item Alternative option starters
13041 =item Configuration variables
13045 =item Trouble Shooting
13049 =item Warning: Ignoring '!' modifier for short option
13051 =item GetOptions does not return a false result when an option is not
13054 =item GetOptions does not split the command line correctly
13056 =item How do I put a "-?" option into a Getopt::Long?
13062 =item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
13066 =head2 Getopt::Std, getopt - Process single-character switches with switch
13077 =head2 Hash::Util - A selection of general-utility hash subroutines
13087 =item Restricted hashes
13089 lock_keys, unlock_keys
13095 lock_value, unlock_value
13097 B<lock_hash>, B<unlock_hash>
13107 =head2 I18N::Collate - compare 8-bit scalar data according to the current
13118 =head2 I18N::LangTags - functions for dealing with RFC3066-style language
13129 the function is_language_tag($lang1)
13131 the function extract_language_tags($whatever)
13133 the function same_language_tag($lang1, $lang2)
13135 the function similarity_language_tag($lang1, $lang2)
13137 the function is_dialect_of($lang1, $lang2)
13139 the function super_languages($lang1)
13141 the function locale2language_tag($locale_identifier)
13143 the function encode_language_tag($lang1)
13145 the function alternate_language_tags($lang1)
13147 the function @langs = panic_languages(@accept_languages)
13151 =item ABOUT LOWERCASING
13153 =item ABOUT UNICODE PLAINTEXT LANGUAGE TAGS
13163 =head2 I18N::LangTags::List -- tags and names for human languages
13171 =item ABOUT LANGUAGE TAGS
13173 =item LIST OF LANGUAGES
13175 {ab} : Abkhazian, {ace} : Achinese, {ach} : Acoli, {ada} : Adangme, {aa} :
13176 Afar, {afh} : Afrihili, {af} : Afrikaans, [{afa} : Afro-Asiatic (Other)],
13177 {aka} : Akan, {akk} : Akkadian, {sq} : Albanian, {ale} : Aleut, [{alg} :
13178 Algonquian languages], [{tut} : Altaic (Other)], {am} : Amharic, {i-ami} :
13179 Ami, [{apa} : Apache languages], {ar} : Arabic, {arc} : Aramaic, {arp} :
13180 Arapaho, {arn} : Araucanian, {arw} : Arawak, {hy} : Armenian, [{art} :
13181 Artificial (Other)], {as} : Assamese, [{ath} : Athapascan languages],
13182 [{aus} : Australian languages], [{map} : Austronesian (Other)], {ava} :
13183 Avaric, {ae} : Avestan, {awa} : Awadhi, {ay} : Aymara, {az} : Azerbaijani,
13184 {ban} : Balinese, [{bat} : Baltic (Other)], {bal} : Baluchi, {bam} :
13185 Bambara, [{bai} : Bamileke languages], {bad} : Banda, [{bnt} : Bantu
13186 (Other)], {bas} : Basa, {ba} : Bashkir, {eu} : Basque, {btk} : Batak
13187 (Indonesia), {bej} : Beja, {be} : Belarusian, {bem} : Bemba, {bn} :
13188 Bengali, [{ber} : Berber (Other)], {bho} : Bhojpuri, {bh} : Bihari, {bik} :
13189 Bikol, {bin} : Bini, {bi} : Bislama, {bs} : Bosnian, {bra} : Braj, {br} :
13190 Breton, {bug} : Buginese, {bg} : Bulgarian, {i-bnn} : Bunun, {bua} :
13191 Buriat, {my} : Burmese, {cad} : Caddo, {car} : Carib, {ca} : Catalan,
13192 [{cau} : Caucasian (Other)], {ceb} : Cebuano, [{cel} : Celtic (Other)],
13193 [{cai} : Central American Indian (Other)], {chg} : Chagatai, [{cmc} :
13194 Chamic languages], {ch} : Chamorro, {ce} : Chechen, {chr} : Cherokee, {chy}
13195 : Cheyenne, {chb} : Chibcha, {ny} : Chichewa, {zh} : Chinese, {chn} :
13196 Chinook Jargon, {chp} : Chipewyan, {cho} : Choctaw, {cu} : Church Slavic,
13197 {chk} : Chuukese, {cv} : Chuvash, {cop} : Coptic, {kw} : Cornish, {co} :
13198 Corsican, {cre} : Cree, {mus} : Creek, [{cpe} : English-based Creoles and
13199 pidgins (Other)], [{cpf} : French-based Creoles and pidgins (Other)],
13200 [{cpp} : Portuguese-based Creoles and pidgins (Other)], [{crp} : Creoles
13201 and pidgins (Other)], {hr} : Croatian, [{cus} : Cushitic (Other)], {cs} :
13202 Czech, {dak} : Dakota, {da} : Danish, {day} : Dayak, {i-default} : Default
13203 (Fallthru) Language, {del} : Delaware, {din} : Dinka, {div} : Divehi, {doi}
13204 : Dogri, {dgr} : Dogrib, [{dra} : Dravidian (Other)], {dua} : Duala, {nl} :
13205 Dutch, {dum} : Middle Dutch (ca.1050-1350), {dyu} : Dyula, {dz} : Dzongkha,
13206 {efi} : Efik, {egy} : Ancient Egyptian, {eka} : Ekajuk, {elx} : Elamite,
13207 {en} : English, {enm} : Old English (1100-1500), {ang} : Old English
13208 (ca.450-1100), {eo} : Esperanto, {et} : Estonian, {ewe} : Ewe, {ewo} :
13209 Ewondo, {fan} : Fang, {fat} : Fanti, {fo} : Faroese, {fj} : Fijian, {fi} :
13210 Finnish, [{fiu} : Finno-Ugrian (Other)], {fon} : Fon, {fr} : French, {frm}
13211 : Middle French (ca.1400-1600), {fro} : Old French (842-ca.1400), {fy} :
13212 Frisian, {fur} : Friulian, {ful} : Fulah, {gaa} : Ga, {gd} : Scots Gaelic,
13213 {gl} : Gallegan, {lug} : Ganda, {gay} : Gayo, {gba} : Gbaya, {gez} : Geez,
13214 {ka} : Georgian, {de} : German, {gmh} : Middle High German (ca.1050-1500),
13215 {goh} : Old High German (ca.750-1050), [{gem} : Germanic (Other)], {gil} :
13216 Gilbertese, {gon} : Gondi, {gor} : Gorontalo, {got} : Gothic, {grb} :
13217 Grebo, {grc} : Ancient Greek, {el} : Modern Greek, {gn} : Guarani, {gu} :
13218 Gujarati, {gwi} : Gwich'in, {hai} : Haida, {ha} : Hausa, {haw} : Hawaiian,
13219 {he} : Hebrew, {hz} : Herero, {hil} : Hiligaynon, {him} : Himachali, {hi} :
13220 Hindi, {ho} : Hiri Motu, {hit} : Hittite, {hmn} : Hmong, {hu} : Hungarian,
13221 {hup} : Hupa, {iba} : Iban, {is} : Icelandic, {ibo} : Igbo, {ijo} : Ijo,
13222 {ilo} : Iloko, [{inc} : Indic (Other)], [{ine} : Indo-European (Other)],
13223 {id} : Indonesian, {ia} : Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language
13224 Association), {ie} : Interlingue, {iu} : Inuktitut, {ik} : Inupiaq, [{ira}
13225 : Iranian (Other)], {ga} : Irish, {mga} : Middle Irish (900-1200), {sga} :
13226 Old Irish (to 900), [{iro} : Iroquoian languages], {it} : Italian, {ja} :
13227 Japanese, {jw} : Javanese, {jrb} : Judeo-Arabic, {jpr} : Judeo-Persian,
13228 {kab} : Kabyle, {kac} : Kachin, {kl} : Kalaallisut, {kam} : Kamba, {kn} :
13229 Kannada, {kau} : Kanuri, {kaa} : Kara-Kalpak, {kar} : Karen, {ks} :
13230 Kashmiri, {kaw} : Kawi, {kk} : Kazakh, {kha} : Khasi, {km} : Khmer, [{khi}
13231 : Khoisan (Other)], {kho} : Khotanese, {ki} : Kikuyu, {kmb} : Kimbundu,
13232 {rw} : Kinyarwanda, {ky} : Kirghiz, {i-klingon} : Klingon, {kv} : Komi,
13233 {kon} : Kongo, {kok} : Konkani, {ko} : Korean, {kos} : Kosraean, {kpe} :
13234 Kpelle, {kro} : Kru, {kj} : Kuanyama, {kum} : Kumyk, {ku} : Kurdish, {kru}
13235 : Kurukh, {kut} : Kutenai, {lad} : Ladino, {lah} : Lahnda, {lam} : Lamba,
13236 {lo} : Lao, {la} : Latin, {lv} : Latvian, {lb} : Letzeburgesch, {lez} :
13237 Lezghian, {ln} : Lingala, {lt} : Lithuanian, {nds} : Low German, {loz} :
13238 Lozi, {lub} : Luba-Katanga, {lua} : Luba-Lulua, {lui} : Luiseno, {lun} :
13239 Lunda, {luo} : Luo (Kenya and Tanzania), {lus} : Lushai, {mk} : Macedonian,
13240 {mad} : Madurese, {mag} : Magahi, {mai} : Maithili, {mak} : Makasar, {mg} :
13241 Malagasy, {ms} : Malay, {ml} : Malayalam, {mt} : Maltese, {mnc} : Manchu,
13242 {mdr} : Mandar, {man} : Mandingo, {mni} : Manipuri, [{mno} : Manobo
13243 languages], {gv} : Manx, {mi} : Maori, {mr} : Marathi, {chm} : Mari, {mh} :
13244 Marshall, {mwr} : Marwari, {mas} : Masai, [{myn} : Mayan languages], {men}
13245 : Mende, {mic} : Micmac, {min} : Minangkabau, {i-mingo} : Mingo, [{mis} :
13246 Miscellaneous languages], {moh} : Mohawk, {mo} : Moldavian, [{mkh} :
13247 Mon-Khmer (Other)], {lol} : Mongo, {mn} : Mongolian, {mos} : Mossi, [{mul}
13248 : Multiple languages], [{mun} : Munda languages], {nah} : Nahuatl, {na} :
13249 Nauru, {nv} : Navajo, {nd} : North Ndebele, {nr} : South Ndebele, {ng} :
13250 Ndonga, {ne} : Nepali, {new} : Newari, {nia} : Nias, [{nic} :
13251 Niger-Kordofanian (Other)], [{ssa} : Nilo-Saharan (Other)], {niu} : Niuean,
13252 {non} : Old Norse, [{nai} : North American Indian], {se} : Northern Sami,
13253 {no} : Norwegian, {nb} : Norwegian Bokmal, {nn} : Norwegian Nynorsk, [{nub}
13254 : Nubian languages], {nym} : Nyamwezi, {nyn} : Nyankole, {nyo} : Nyoro,
13255 {nzi} : Nzima, {oc} : Occitan (post 1500), {oji} : Ojibwa, {or} : Oriya,
13256 {om} : Oromo, {osa} : Osage, {os} : Ossetian; Ossetic, [{oto} : Otomian
13257 languages], {pal} : Pahlavi, {i-pwn} : Paiwan, {pau} : Palauan, {pi} :
13258 Pali, {pam} : Pampanga, {pag} : Pangasinan, {pa} : Panjabi, {pap} :
13259 Papiamento, [{paa} : Papuan (Other)], {fa} : Persian, {peo} : Old Persian
13260 (ca.600-400 B.C.), [{phi} : Philippine (Other)], {phn} : Phoenician, {pon}
13261 : Pohnpeian, {pl} : Polish, {pt} : Portuguese, [{pra} : Prakrit languages],
13262 {pro} : Old Provencal (to 1500), {ps} : Pushto, {qu} : Quechua, {rm} :
13263 Raeto-Romance, {raj} : Rajasthani, {rap} : Rapanui, {rar} : Rarotongan,
13264 [{qaa - qtz} : Reserved for local use.], [{roa} : Romance (Other)], {ro} :
13265 Romanian, {rom} : Romany, {rn} : Rundi, {ru} : Russian, [{sal} : Salishan
13266 languages], {sam} : Samaritan Aramaic, [{smi} : Sami languages (Other)],
13267 {sm} : Samoan, {sad} : Sandawe, {sg} : Sango, {sa} : Sanskrit, {sat} :
13268 Santali, {sc} : Sardinian, {sas} : Sasak, {sco} : Scots, {sel} : Selkup,
13269 [{sem} : Semitic (Other)], {sr} : Serbian, {srr} : Serer, {shn} : Shan,
13270 {sn} : Shona, {sid} : Sidamo, {sgn-...} : Sign Languages, {bla} : Siksika,
13271 {sd} : Sindhi, {si} : Sinhalese, [{sit} : Sino-Tibetan (Other)], [{sio} :
13272 Siouan languages], {den} : Slave (Athapascan), [{sla} : Slavic (Other)],
13273 {sk} : Slovak, {sl} : Slovenian, {sog} : Sogdian, {so} : Somali, {son} :
13274 Songhai, {snk} : Soninke, {wen} : Sorbian languages, {nso} : Northern
13275 Sotho, {st} : Southern Sotho, [{sai} : South American Indian (Other)], {es}
13276 : Spanish, {suk} : Sukuma, {sux} : Sumerian, {su} : Sundanese, {sus} :
13277 Susu, {sw} : Swahili, {ss} : Swati, {sv} : Swedish, {syr} : Syriac, {tl} :
13278 Tagalog, {ty} : Tahitian, [{tai} : Tai (Other)], {tg} : Tajik, {tmh} :
13279 Tamashek, {ta} : Tamil, {i-tao} : Tao, {tt} : Tatar, {i-tay} : Tayal, {te}
13280 : Telugu, {ter} : Tereno, {tet} : Tetum, {th} : Thai, {bo} : Tibetan, {tig}
13281 : Tigre, {ti} : Tigrinya, {tem} : Timne, {tiv} : Tiv, {tli} : Tlingit,
13282 {tpi} : Tok Pisin, {tkl} : Tokelau, {tog} : Tonga (Nyasa), {to} : Tonga
13283 (Tonga Islands), {tsi} : Tsimshian, {ts} : Tsonga, {i-tsu} : Tsou, {tn} :
13284 Tswana, {tum} : Tumbuka, {tr} : Turkish, {ota} : Ottoman Turkish
13285 (1500-1928), {tk} : Turkmen, {tvl} : Tuvalu, {tyv} : Tuvinian, {tw} : Twi,
13286 {uga} : Ugaritic, {ug} : Uighur, {uk} : Ukrainian, {umb} : Umbundu, {und} :
13287 Undetermined, {ur} : Urdu, {uz} : Uzbek, {vai} : Vai, {ven} : Venda, {vi} :
13288 Vietnamese, {vo} : Volapuk, {vot} : Votic, [{wak} : Wakashan languages],
13289 {wal} : Walamo, {war} : Waray, {was} : Washo, {cy} : Welsh, {wo} : Wolof,
13290 {x-...} : Unregistered (Semi-Private Use), {xh} : Xhosa, {sah} : Yakut,
13291 {yao} : Yao, {yap} : Yapese, {yi} : Yiddish, {yo} : Yoruba, [{ypk} : Yupik
13292 languages], {znd} : Zande, [{zap} : Zapotec], {zen} : Zenaga, {za} :
13293 Zhuang, {zu} : Zulu, {zun} : Zuni
13297 =item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
13303 =head2 I18N::Langinfo - query locale information
13321 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
13325 =head2 IO - load various IO modules
13335 =head2 IO::Dir - supply object methods for directory handles
13343 new ( [ DIRNAME ] ), open ( DIRNAME ), read (), seek ( POS ), tell (),
13344 rewind (), close (), tie %hash, IO::Dir, DIRNAME [, OPTIONS ]
13354 =head2 IO::File - supply object methods for filehandles
13364 new ( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ), new_tmpfile
13368 open( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] )
13376 =head2 IO::Handle - supply object methods for I/O handles
13386 new (), new_from_fd ( FD, MODE )
13390 $io->fdopen ( FD, MODE ), $io->opened, $io->getline, $io->getlines,
13391 $io->ungetc ( ORD ), $io->write ( BUF, LEN [, OFFSET ] ), $io->error,
13392 $io->clearerr, $io->sync, $io->flush, $io->printflush ( ARGS ),
13393 $io->blocking ( [ BOOL ] ), $io->untaint
13405 =head2 IO::Pipe - supply object methods for pipes
13415 new ( [READER, WRITER] )
13419 reader ([ARGS]), writer ([ARGS]), handles ()
13429 =head2 IO::Poll - Object interface to system poll call
13439 mask ( IO [, EVENT_MASK ] ), poll ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), events ( IO ), remove (
13440 IO ), handles( [ EVENT_MASK ] )
13450 =head2 IO::Seekable - supply seek based methods for I/O objects
13458 $io->getpos, $io->setpos, $io->seek ( POS, WHENCE ), WHENCE=0 (SEEK_SET),
13459 WHENCE=1 (SEEK_CUR), WHENCE=2 (SEEK_END), $io->sysseek( POS, WHENCE ),
13468 =head2 IO::Select - OO interface to the select system call
13478 new ( [ HANDLES ] )
13482 add ( HANDLES ), remove ( HANDLES ), exists ( HANDLE ), handles, can_read (
13483 [ TIMEOUT ] ), can_write ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), has_exception ( [ TIMEOUT ] ),
13484 count (), bits(), select ( READ, WRITE, ERROR [, TIMEOUT ] )
13494 =head2 IO::Socket - Object interface to socket communications
13508 accept([PKG]), socketpair(DOMAIN, TYPE, PROTOCOL), atmark, connected,
13509 protocol, sockdomain, sockopt(OPT [, VAL]), socktype, timeout([VAL])
13519 =head2 IO::Socket::INET - Object interface for AF_INET domain sockets
13535 sockaddr (), sockport (), sockhost (), peeraddr (), peerport (), peerhost
13548 =head2 IO::Socket::UNIX - Object interface for AF_UNIX domain sockets
13562 hostpath(), peerpath()
13572 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Dir, IO::Dir - supply object methods for directory
13581 new ( [ DIRNAME ] ), open ( DIRNAME ), read (), seek ( POS ), tell (),
13582 rewind (), close (), tie %hash, IO::Dir, DIRNAME [, OPTIONS ]
13592 =head2 IO::lib::IO::File, IO::File - supply object methods for filehandles
13602 new ( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ), new_tmpfile
13606 open( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] )
13614 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Handle, IO::Handle - supply object methods for I/O
13625 new (), new_from_fd ( FD, MODE )
13629 $io->fdopen ( FD, MODE ), $io->opened, $io->getline, $io->getlines,
13630 $io->ungetc ( ORD ), $io->write ( BUF, LEN [, OFFSET ] ), $io->error,
13631 $io->clearerr, $io->sync, $io->flush, $io->printflush ( ARGS ),
13632 $io->blocking ( [ BOOL ] ), $io->untaint
13644 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Pipe, IO::Pipe - supply object methods for pipes
13654 new ( [READER, WRITER] )
13658 reader ([ARGS]), writer ([ARGS]), handles ()
13668 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Poll, IO::Poll - Object interface to system poll call
13678 mask ( IO [, EVENT_MASK ] ), poll ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), events ( IO ), remove (
13679 IO ), handles( [ EVENT_MASK ] )
13689 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Seekable, IO::Seekable - supply seek based methods for
13698 $io->getpos, $io->setpos, $io->seek ( POS, WHENCE ), WHENCE=0 (SEEK_SET),
13699 WHENCE=1 (SEEK_CUR), WHENCE=2 (SEEK_END), $io->sysseek( POS, WHENCE ),
13708 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Select, IO::Select - OO interface to the select system
13719 new ( [ HANDLES ] )
13723 add ( HANDLES ), remove ( HANDLES ), exists ( HANDLE ), handles, can_read (
13724 [ TIMEOUT ] ), can_write ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), has_exception ( [ TIMEOUT ] ),
13725 count (), bits(), select ( READ, WRITE, ERROR [, TIMEOUT ] )
13735 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Socket, IO::Socket - Object interface to socket
13750 accept([PKG]), socketpair(DOMAIN, TYPE, PROTOCOL), atmark, connected,
13751 protocol, sockdomain, sockopt(OPT [, VAL]), socktype, timeout([VAL])
13761 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Socket::INET, IO::Socket::INET - Object interface for
13762 AF_INET domain sockets
13778 sockaddr (), sockport (), sockhost (), peeraddr (), peerport (), peerhost
13791 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Socket::UNIX, IO::Socket::UNIX - Object interface for
13792 AF_UNIX domain sockets
13806 hostpath(), peerpath()
13816 =head2 IPC::Msg - SysV Msg IPC object class
13826 new ( KEY , FLAGS ), id, rcv ( BUF, LEN [, TYPE [, FLAGS ]] ), remove, set
13827 ( STAT ), set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), snd ( TYPE, MSG [,
13838 =head2 IPC::Open2, open2 - open a process for both reading and writing
13852 =head2 IPC::Open3, open3 - open a process for reading, writing, and error
13865 =head2 IPC::Semaphore - SysV Semaphore IPC object class
13875 new ( KEY , NSEMS , FLAGS ), getall, getncnt ( SEM ), getpid ( SEM ),
13876 getval ( SEM ), getzcnt ( SEM ), id, op ( OPLIST ), remove, set ( STAT ),
13877 set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), setall ( VALUES ), setval ( N
13888 =head2 IPC::SysV - SysV IPC constants
13906 =head2 IPC::SysV::Msg, IPC::Msg - SysV Msg IPC object class
13916 new ( KEY , FLAGS ), id, rcv ( BUF, LEN [, TYPE [, FLAGS ]] ), remove, set
13917 ( STAT ), set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), snd ( TYPE, MSG [,
13928 =head2 IPC::SysV::Semaphore, IPC::Semaphore - SysV Semaphore IPC object
13939 new ( KEY , NSEMS , FLAGS ), getall, getncnt ( SEM ), getpid ( SEM ),
13940 getval ( SEM ), getzcnt ( SEM ), id, op ( OPLIST ), remove, set ( STAT ),
13941 set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), setall ( VALUES ), setval ( N
13952 =head2 List::Util - A selection of general-utility list subroutines
13960 first BLOCK LIST, max LIST, maxstr LIST, min LIST, minstr LIST, reduce
13961 BLOCK LIST, shuffle LIST, sum LIST
13965 =item SUGGESTED ADDITIONS
13971 =head2 List::Utilib::List::Util, List::Util - A selection of
13972 general-utility list subroutines
13980 first BLOCK LIST, max LIST, maxstr LIST, min LIST, minstr LIST, reduce
13981 BLOCK LIST, shuffle LIST, sum LIST
13985 =item SUGGESTED ADDITIONS
13991 =head2 List::Utilib::Scalar::Util, Scalar::Util - A selection of
13992 general-utility scalar subroutines
14000 blessed EXPR, dualvar NUM, STRING, isweak EXPR, readonly SCALAR, reftype
14001 EXPR, tainted EXPR, weaken REF
14011 =head2 Locale::Constants - constants for Locale codes
14019 =item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
14023 Locale::Language, Locale::Country, Locale::Script, Locale::Currency
14031 =head2 Locale::Country - ISO codes for country identification (ISO 3166)
14039 B<alpha-2>, B<alpha-3>, B<numeric>
14041 =item CONVERSION ROUTINES
14043 code2country( CODE, [ CODESET ] ), country2code( STRING, [ CODESET ] ),
14044 country_code2code( CODE, CODESET, CODESET )
14046 =item QUERY ROUTINES
14048 C<all_country_codes( [ CODESET ] )>, C<all_country_names( [ CODESET ] )>
14050 =item SEMI-PRIVATE ROUTINES
14056 =item rename_country
14064 =item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
14068 Locale::Language, Locale::Script, Locale::Currency, Locale::SubCountry, ISO
14069 3166-1, http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/index.html,
14070 http://www.egt.ie/standards/iso3166/iso3166-1-en.html,
14071 http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/docs/app-f.html
14079 =head2 Locale::Currency - ISO three letter codes for currency
14080 identification (ISO 4217)
14090 =item CONVERSION ROUTINES
14092 code2currency(), currency2code()
14094 =item QUERY ROUTINES
14096 C<all_currency_codes()>, C<all_currency_names()>
14100 =item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
14104 Locale::Country, Locale::Script, ISO 4217:1995,
14105 http://www.bsi-global.com/iso4217currency
14113 =head2 Locale::Language - ISO two letter codes for language identification
14122 =item CONVERSION ROUTINES
14124 code2language(), language2code()
14126 =item QUERY ROUTINES
14128 C<all_language_codes()>, C<all_language_names()>
14132 =item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
14136 Locale::Country, Locale::Script, Locale::Currency, ISO 639:1988 (E/F),
14137 http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/langhome.html
14145 =head2 Locale::Maketext -- framework for localization
14153 =item QUICK OVERVIEW
14159 =item Construction Methods
14161 =item The "maketext" Method
14163 $lh->fail_with I<or> $lh->fail_with(I<PARAM>), $lh->failure_handler_auto
14165 =item Utility Methods
14167 $language->quant($number, $singular), $language->quant($number, $singular,
14168 $plural), $language->quant($number, $singular, $plural, $negative),
14169 $language->numf($number), $language->sprintf($format, @items),
14170 $language->language_tag(), $language->encoding()
14172 =item Language Handle Attributes and Internals
14176 =item LANGUAGE CLASS HIERARCHIES
14178 =item ENTRIES IN EACH LEXICON
14180 =item BRACKET NOTATION
14182 =item AUTO LEXICONS
14184 =item CONTROLLING LOOKUP FAILURE
14186 =item HOW TO USE MAKETEXT
14190 =item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
14196 =head2 Locale::Maketext::TPJ13 -- article about software localization
14204 =item Localization and Perl: gettext breaks, Maketext fixes
14208 =item A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen To You
14210 =item The Linguistic View
14212 =item Breaking gettext
14214 =item Replacing gettext
14216 =item Buzzwords: Abstraction and Encapsulation
14218 =item Buzzword: Isomorphism
14220 =item Buzzword: Inheritance
14222 =item Buzzword: Concision
14224 =item The Devil in the Details
14226 =item The Proof in the Pudding: Localizing Web Sites
14234 =head2 Locale::Script - ISO codes for script identification (ISO 15924)
14242 B<alpha-2>, B<alpha-3>, B<numeric>
14246 =item SPECIAL CODES
14250 =item CONVERSION ROUTINES
14252 code2script( CODE, [ CODESET ] ), script2code( STRING, [ CODESET ] ),
14253 script_code2code( CODE, CODESET, CODESET )
14255 =item QUERY ROUTINES
14257 C<all_script_codes ( [ CODESET ] )>, C<all_script_names ( [ CODESET ] )>
14261 =item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
14265 Locale::Language, Locale::Currency, Locale::Country, ISO 15924,
14266 http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso15924/
14274 =head2 MIME::Base64 - Encoding and decoding of base64 strings
14282 encode_base64($str, [$eol]), decode_base64($str)
14286 Premature end of base64 data, Premature padding of base64 data
14294 =head2 MIME::Base64::QuotedPrint, MIME::QuotedPrint - Encoding and decoding
14295 of quoted-printable strings
14303 encode_qp($str), decode_qp($str);
14309 =head2 MIME::QuotedPrint - Encoding and decoding of quoted-printable
14318 encode_qp($str), decode_qp($str);
14324 =head2 Math::BigFloat - Arbitrary size floating point math package
14334 =item Canonical notation
14338 =item C<mantissa()>, C<exponent()> and C<parts()>
14340 =item Accuracy vs. Precision
14344 ffround ( +$scale ), ffround ( -$scale ), ffround ( 0 ), fround ( +$scale
14345 ), fround ( -$scale ) and fround ( 0 )
14353 =item Autocreating constants
14359 stringify, bstr(), bdiv, Modifying and =, bpow
14367 =head2 Math::BigInt - Arbitrary size integer math package
14375 Canonical notation, Input, Output
14395 =item is_one() / is_zero() / is_nan() / is_positive() / is_negative() /
14396 is_inf() / is_odd() / is_even() / is_int()
14398 $x->is_zero(); # true if arg is +0
14399 $x->is_nan(); # true if arg is NaN
14400 $x->is_one(); # true if arg is +1
14401 $x->is_one('-'); # true if arg is -1
14402 $x->is_odd(); # true if odd, false for even
14403 $x->is_even(); # true if even, false for odd
14404 $x->is_positive(); # true if >= 0
14405 $x->is_negative(); # true if < 0
14406 $x->is_inf(); # true if +inf
14407 $x->is_inf('-'); # true if -inf (sign is default
14409 $x->is_int(); # true if $x is an integer
14491 =item ACCURACY and PRECISION
14501 =item Rounding mode R
14503 'trunc', 'even', 'odd', '+inf', '-inf', 'zero', Precision, Accuracy
14504 (significant digits), Setting/Accessing, Creating numbers, Usage,
14505 Precedence, Overriding globals, Local settings, Rounding, Default values,
14518 =item mantissa(), exponent() and parts()
14526 =item Autocreating constants
14532 =item Alternative math libraries
14538 =item Subclassing Math::BigInt
14546 bsqrt(), div(), blog()
14552 Out of Memory!, Fails to load Calc on Perl prior 5.6.0
14556 stringify, bstr(), bsstr() and 'cmp', int(), length, bdiv, infinity
14557 handling, Modifying and =, bpow, Overloading -$x, Mixing different object
14558 types, bsqrt(), brsft()
14568 =head2 Math::BigInt::Calc - Pure Perl module to support Math::BigInt
14578 =item WRAP YOUR OWN
14582 This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
14584 the same terms as Perl itself.
14592 =head2 Math::Complex - complex numbers and associated mathematical
14605 =item STRINGIFICATION
14609 =item CHANGED IN PERL 5.6
14615 =item ERRORS DUE TO DIVISION BY ZERO OR LOGARITHM OF ZERO
14617 =item ERRORS DUE TO INDIGESTIBLE ARGUMENTS
14625 =head2 Math::Trig - trigonometric functions
14633 =item TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS
14639 =item ERRORS DUE TO DIVISION BY ZERO
14641 =item SIMPLE (REAL) ARGUMENTS, COMPLEX RESULTS
14645 =item PLANE ANGLE CONVERSIONS
14647 =item RADIAL COORDINATE CONVERSIONS
14651 =item COORDINATE SYSTEMS
14653 =item 3-D ANGLE CONVERSIONS
14655 cartesian_to_cylindrical, cartesian_to_spherical, cylindrical_to_cartesian,
14656 cylindrical_to_spherical, spherical_to_cartesian, spherical_to_cylindrical
14660 =item GREAT CIRCLE DISTANCES AND DIRECTIONS
14666 =item CAVEAT FOR GREAT CIRCLE FORMULAS
14676 =head2 Memoize - Make your functions faster by trading space for time
14694 =item C<SCALAR_CACHE>, C<LIST_CACHE>
14696 C<MEMORY>, C<HASH>, C<TIE>, C<FAULT>, C<MERGE>
14700 =item OTHER FACILITIES
14706 =item C<flush_cache>
14712 =item PERSISTENT CACHE SUPPORT
14714 =item EXPIRATION SUPPORT
14722 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
14728 =head2 Memoize::AnyDBM_File - glue to provide EXISTS for AnyDBM_File for
14737 =head2 Memoize::Expire - Plug-in module for automatic expiration of
14748 TIEHASH, EXISTS, STORE
14760 =head2 Memoize::ExpireFile - test for Memoize expiration semantics
14768 =head2 Memoize::ExpireTest - test for Memoize expiration semantics
14776 =head2 Memoize::NDBM_File - glue to provide EXISTS for NDBM_File for
14785 =head2 Memoize::SDBM_File - glue to provide EXISTS for SDBM_File for
14794 =head2 Memoize::Storable - store Memoized data in Storable database
14802 =head2 NDBM_File - Tied access to ndbm files
14810 C<O_RDONLY>, C<O_WRONLY>, C<O_RDWR>
14816 =item C<ndbm store returned -1, errno 22, key "..." at ...>
14820 =item BUGS AND WARNINGS
14824 =head2 NEXT - Provide a pseudo-class NEXT that allows method redispatch
14834 =item Enforcing redispatch
14836 =item Avoiding repetitions
14842 =item BUGS AND IRRITATIONS
14848 =head2 Net::Cmd - Network Command class (as used by FTP, SMTP etc)
14858 debug ( VALUE ), message (), code (), ok (), status (), datasend ( DATA ),
14861 =item CLASS METHODS
14863 debug_print ( DIR, TEXT ), debug_text ( TEXT ), command ( CMD [, ARGS, ...
14864 ]), unsupported (), response (), parse_response ( TEXT ), getline (),
14865 ungetline ( TEXT ), read_until_dot (), tied_fh ()
14875 =head2 Net::Config - Local configuration data for libnet
14885 requires_firewall HOST
14887 =item NetConfig VALUES
14889 nntp_hosts, snpp_hosts, pop3_hosts, smtp_hosts, ph_hosts, daytime_hosts,
14890 time_hosts, inet_domain, ftp_firewall, ftp_firewall_type, ftp_ext_passive,
14891 ftp_int_pasive, local_netmask, test_hosts, test_exists
14895 =head2 Net::Domain - Attempt to evaluate the current host's internet name
14904 hostfqdn (), hostname (), hostdomain ()
14912 =head2 Net::FTP - FTP Client class
14924 new (HOST [,OPTIONS])
14928 login ([LOGIN [,PASSWORD [, ACCOUNT] ] ]), authorize ( [AUTH [, RESP]]),
14929 site (ARGS), type (TYPE [, ARGS]), ascii ([ARGS]) binary([ARGS])
14930 ebcdic([ARGS]) byte([ARGS]), rename ( OLDNAME, NEWNAME ), delete ( FILENAME
14931 ), cwd ( [ DIR ] ), cdup (), pwd (), restart ( WHERE ), rmdir ( DIR ),
14932 mkdir ( DIR [, RECURSE ]), ls ( [ DIR ] ), dir ( [ DIR ] ), get (
14933 REMOTE_FILE [, LOCAL_FILE [, WHERE]] ), put ( LOCAL_FILE [, REMOTE_FILE ]
14934 ), put_unique ( LOCAL_FILE [, REMOTE_FILE ] ), append ( LOCAL_FILE [,
14935 REMOTE_FILE ] ), unique_name (), mdtm ( FILE ), size ( FILE ), supported (
14936 CMD ), hash ( [FILEHANDLE_GLOB_REF],[ BYTES_PER_HASH_MARK] ), nlst ( [ DIR
14937 ] ), list ( [ DIR ] ), retr ( FILE ), stor ( FILE ), stou ( FILE ), appe (
14938 FILE ), port ( [ PORT ] ), pasv (), pasv_xfer ( SRC_FILE, DEST_SERVER [,
14939 DEST_FILE ] ), pasv_xfer_unique ( SRC_FILE, DEST_SERVER [, DEST_FILE ] ),
14940 pasv_wait ( NON_PASV_SERVER ), abort (), quit ()
14944 =item Methods for the adventurous
14950 =item THE dataconn CLASS
14952 read ( BUFFER, SIZE [, TIMEOUT ] ), write ( BUFFER, SIZE [, TIMEOUT ] ),
14953 bytes_read (), abort (), close ()
14955 =item UNIMPLEMENTED
14957 B<ALLO>, B<SMNT>, B<HELP>, B<MODE>, B<SYST>, B<STAT>, B<STRU>, B<REIN>
14959 =item REPORTING BUGS
14967 http://www.csh.rit.edu/~adam/Progs/autoftp-2.0.tar.gz
14975 =head2 Net::NNTP - NNTP Client class
14985 new ( [ HOST ] [, OPTIONS ])
14989 article ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ], [FH] ), body ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ], [FH] ), head (
14990 [ MSGID|MSGNUM ], [FH] ), articlefh ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ] ), bodyfh ( [
14991 MSGID|MSGNUM ] ), headfh ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ] ), nntpstat ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ]
14992 ), group ( [ GROUP ] ), ihave ( MSGID [, MESSAGE ]), last (), date (),
14993 postok (), authinfo ( USER, PASS ), list (), newgroups ( SINCE [,
14994 DISTRIBUTIONS ]), newnews ( SINCE [, GROUPS [, DISTRIBUTIONS ]]), next (),
14995 post ( [ MESSAGE ] ), postfh (), slave (), quit ()
14999 =item Extension methods
15001 newsgroups ( [ PATTERN ] ), distributions (), subscriptions (),
15002 overview_fmt (), active_times (), active ( [ PATTERN ] ), xgtitle ( PATTERN
15003 ), xhdr ( HEADER, MESSAGE-SPEC ), xover ( MESSAGE-SPEC ), xpath (
15004 MESSAGE-ID ), xpat ( HEADER, PATTERN, MESSAGE-SPEC), xrover, listgroup ( [
15013 MESSAGE-SPEC, PATTERN, Examples, C<[^]-]>, C<*bdc>, C<[0-9a-zA-Z]>, C<a??d>
15023 =head2 Net::POP3 - Post Office Protocol 3 Client class (RFC1939)
15035 new ( [ HOST, ] [ OPTIONS ] )
15039 user ( USER ), pass ( PASS ), login ( [ USER [, PASS ]] ), apop ( [ USER [,
15040 PASS ]] ), top ( MSGNUM [, NUMLINES ] ), list ( [ MSGNUM ] ), get ( MSGNUM
15041 [, FH ] ), getfh ( MSGNUM ), last (), popstat (), ping ( USER ), uidl ( [
15042 MSGNUM ] ), delete ( MSGNUM ), reset (), quit ()
15054 =head2 Net::Ping - check a remote host for reachability
15066 Net::Ping->new([$proto [, $def_timeout [, $bytes]]]);,
15067 $p->bind($local_addr);, $p->ping($host [, $timeout]);, $p->open($host);,
15068 $p->open($host);, $p->close();, pingecho($host [, $timeout]);
15082 =head2 Net::SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Client
15094 new Net::SMTP [ HOST, ] [ OPTIONS ]
15098 banner (), domain (), hello ( DOMAIN ), etrn ( DOMAIN ), auth ( USERNAME,
15099 PASSWORD ), mail ( ADDRESS [, OPTIONS] ), send ( ADDRESS ), send_or_mail (
15100 ADDRESS ), send_and_mail ( ADDRESS ), reset (), recipient ( ADDRESS [,
15101 ADDRESS [ ...]] [, OPTIONS ] ), to ( ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] ), cc (
15102 ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] ), bcc ( ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] ), data ( [
15103 DATA ] ), expand ( ADDRESS ), verify ( ADDRESS ), help ( [ $subject ] ),
15114 =head2 Net::Time - time and daytime network client interface
15122 inet_time ( [HOST [, PROTOCOL [, TIMEOUT]]]), inet_daytime ( [HOST [,
15123 PROTOCOL [, TIMEOUT]]])
15131 =head2 Net::hostent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in gethost*()
15148 =head2 Net::libnetFAQ, libnetFAQ - libnet Frequently Asked Questions
15156 =item Where to get this document
15158 =item How to contribute to this document
15162 =item Author and Copyright Information
15170 =item Obtaining and installing libnet
15174 =item What is libnet ?
15176 =item Which version of perl do I need ?
15178 =item What other modules do I need ?
15180 =item What machines support libnet ?
15182 =item Where can I get the latest libnet release
15186 =item Using Net::FTP
15190 =item How do I download files from an FTP server ?
15192 =item How do I transfer files in binary mode ?
15194 =item How can I get the size of a file on a remote FTP server ?
15196 =item How can I get the modification time of a file on a remote FTP server
15199 =item How can I change the permissions of a file on a remote server ?
15201 =item Can I do a reget operation like the ftp command ?
15203 =item How do I get a directory listing from an FTP server ?
15205 =item Changing directory to "" does not fail ?
15207 =item I am behind a SOCKS firewall, but the Firewall option does not work ?
15209 =item I am behind an FTP proxy firewall, but cannot access machines outside
15212 =item My ftp proxy firewall does not listen on port 21
15214 =item Is it possible to change the file permissions of a file on an FTP
15217 =item I have seen scripts call a method message, but cannot find it
15220 =item Why does Net::FTP not implement mput and mget methods
15224 =item Using Net::SMTP
15228 =item Why can't the part of an Email address after the @ be used as the
15231 =item Why does Net::SMTP not do DNS MX lookups ?
15233 =item The verify method always returns true ?
15237 =item Debugging scripts
15241 =item How can I debug my scripts that use Net::* modules ?
15245 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
15249 =head2 Net::netent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getnet*()
15266 =head2 Net::protoent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getproto*()
15281 =head2 Net::servent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getserv*()
15298 =head2 Netrc, Net::Netrc - OO interface to users netrc file
15306 =item THE .netrc FILE
15308 machine name, default, login name, password string, account string, macdef
15313 lookup ( MACHINE [, LOGIN ])
15317 login (), password (), account (), lpa ()
15327 =head2 O - Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends
15337 =item IMPLEMENTATION
15343 =head2 ODBM_File - Tied access to odbm files
15351 C<O_RDONLY>, C<O_WRONLY>, C<O_RDWR>
15357 =item C<odbm store returned -1, errno 22, key "..." at ...>
15361 =item BUGS AND WARNINGS
15365 =head2 Opcode - Disable named opcodes when compiling perl code
15377 =item Operator Names and Operator Lists
15379 an operator name (opname), an operator tag name (optag), a negated opname
15380 or optag, an operator set (opset)
15382 =item Opcode Functions
15384 opcodes, opset (OP, ...), opset_to_ops (OPSET), opset_to_hex (OPSET),
15385 full_opset, empty_opset, invert_opset (OPSET), verify_opset (OPSET, ...),
15386 define_optag (OPTAG, OPSET), opmask_add (OPSET), opmask, opdesc (OP, ...),
15389 =item Manipulating Opsets
15391 =item TO DO (maybe)
15397 =item Predefined Opcode Tags
15399 :base_core, :base_mem, :base_loop, :base_io, :base_orig, :base_math,
15400 :base_thread, :default, :filesys_read, :sys_db, :browse, :filesys_open,
15401 :filesys_write, :subprocess, :ownprocess, :others, :still_to_be_decided,
15410 =head2 Opcode::Safe, Safe - Compile and execute code in restricted
15419 a new namespace, an operator mask
15425 =item RECENT CHANGES
15427 =item Methods in class Safe
15429 permit (OP, ...), permit_only (OP, ...), deny (OP, ...), deny_only (OP,
15430 ...), trap (OP, ...), untrap (OP, ...), share (NAME, ...), share_from
15431 (PACKAGE, ARRAYREF), varglob (VARNAME), reval (STRING), rdo (FILENAME),
15432 root (NAMESPACE), mask (MASK)
15434 =item Some Safety Issues
15436 Memory, CPU, Snooping, Signals, State Changes
15444 =head2 Opcode::ops, ops - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when
15457 =head2 POSIX - Perl interface to IEEE Std 1003.1
15471 _exit, abort, abs, access, acos, alarm, asctime, asin, assert, atan, atan2,
15472 atexit, atof, atoi, atol, bsearch, calloc, ceil, chdir, chmod, chown,
15473 clearerr, clock, close, closedir, cos, cosh, creat, ctermid, ctime,
15474 cuserid, difftime, div, dup, dup2, errno, execl, execle, execlp, execv,
15475 execve, execvp, exit, exp, fabs, fclose, fcntl, fdopen, feof, ferror,
15476 fflush, fgetc, fgetpos, fgets, fileno, floor, fmod, fopen, fork, fpathconf,
15477 fprintf, fputc, fputs, fread, free, freopen, frexp, fscanf, fseek, fsetpos,
15478 fstat, ftell, fwrite, getc, getchar, getcwd, getegid, getenv, geteuid,
15479 getgid, getgrgid, getgrnam, getgroups, getlogin, getpgrp, getpid, getppid,
15480 getpwnam, getpwuid, gets, getuid, gmtime, isalnum, isalpha, isatty,
15481 iscntrl, isdigit, isgraph, islower, isprint, ispunct, isspace, isupper,
15482 isxdigit, kill, labs, ldexp, ldiv, link, localeconv, localtime, log, log10,
15483 longjmp, lseek, malloc, mblen, mbstowcs, mbtowc, memchr, memcmp, memcpy,
15484 memmove, memset, mkdir, mkfifo, mktime, modf, nice, offsetof, open,
15485 opendir, pathconf, pause, perror, pipe, pow, printf, putc, putchar, puts,
15486 qsort, raise, rand, read, readdir, realloc, remove, rename, rewind,
15487 rewinddir, rmdir, scanf, setgid, setjmp, setlocale, setpgid, setsid,
15488 setuid, sigaction, siglongjmp, sigpending, sigprocmask, sigsetjmp,
15489 sigsuspend, sin, sinh, sleep, sprintf, sqrt, srand, sscanf, stat, strcat,
15490 strchr, strcmp, strcoll, strcpy, strcspn, strerror, strftime, strlen,
15491 strncat, strncmp, strncpy, strpbrk, strrchr, strspn, strstr, strtod,
15492 strtok, strtol, strtoul, strxfrm, sysconf, system, tan, tanh, tcdrain,
15493 tcflow, tcflush, tcgetpgrp, tcsendbreak, tcsetpgrp, time, times, tmpfile,
15494 tmpnam, tolower, toupper, ttyname, tzname, tzset, umask, uname, ungetc,
15495 unlink, utime, vfprintf, vprintf, vsprintf, wait, waitpid, wcstombs,
15502 =item POSIX::SigAction
15506 =item POSIX::SigSet
15508 new, addset, delset, emptyset, fillset, ismember
15510 =item POSIX::Termios
15512 new, getattr, getcc, getcflag, getiflag, getispeed, getlflag, getoflag,
15513 getospeed, setattr, setcc, setcflag, setiflag, setispeed, setlflag,
15514 setoflag, setospeed, Baud rate values, Terminal interface values, c_cc
15515 field values, c_cflag field values, c_iflag field values, c_lflag field
15516 values, c_oflag field values
15520 =item PATHNAME CONSTANTS
15524 =item POSIX CONSTANTS
15528 =item SYSTEM CONFIGURATION
15582 Constants, WNOHANG, WUNTRACED, Macros, WIFEXITED, WEXITSTATUS, WIFSIGNALED,
15583 WTERMSIG, WIFSTOPPED, WSTOPSIG
15587 =head2 PerlIO - On demand loader for PerlIO layers and root of PerlIO::*
15596 unix, stdio, perlio, crlf, utf8, raw
15600 =item Defaults and how to override them
15610 =head2 PerlIO::Scalar - support module for in-memory IO.
15620 =head2 PerlIO::Via - Helper class for PerlIO layers implemented in perl
15628 $class->PUSHED([$mode[,$fh]]), $obj->POPPED([$fh]),
15629 $class->OPEN($path,$mode[,$fh]), $class->FDOPEN($fd),
15630 $class->SYSOPEN($path,$imode,$perm,$fh), $obj->FILENO($fh),
15631 $obj->READ($buffer,$len,$fh), $obj->WRITE($buffer,$fh), $obj->FILL($fh),
15632 $obj->CLOSE($fh), $obj->SEEK($posn,$whence,$fh), $obj->TELL($fh),
15633 $obj->UNREAD($buffer,$fh), $obj->FLUSH($fh), $obj->SETLINEBUF($fh),
15634 $obj->CLEARERR($fh), $obj->ERROR($fh), $obj->EOF($fh)
15638 =item Example - a Hexadecimal Handle
15644 =head2 Pod::Checker, podchecker() - check pod documents for syntax errors
15650 =item OPTIONS/ARGUMENTS
15656 B<-warnings> =E<gt> I<val>
15668 empty =headn, =over on line I<N> without closing =back, =item without
15669 previous =over, =back without previous =over, No argument for =begin, =end
15670 without =begin, Nested =begin's, =for without formatter specification,
15671 unresolved internal link I<NAME>, Unknown command "I<CMD>", Unknown
15672 interior-sequence "I<SEQ>", nested commands
15673 I<CMD>E<lt>...I<CMD>E<lt>...E<gt>...E<gt>, garbled entity I<STRING>, Entity
15674 number out of range, malformed link LE<lt>E<gt>, nonempty ZE<lt>E<gt>,
15675 empty XE<lt>E<gt>, Spurious text after =pod / =cut, Spurious character(s)
15680 multiple occurence of link target I<name>, line containing nothing but
15681 whitespace in paragraph, file does not start with =head, previous =item has
15682 no contents, preceding non-item paragraph(s), =item type mismatch (I<one>
15683 vs. I<two>), I<N> unescaped C<E<lt>E<gt>> in paragraph, Unknown entity, No
15684 items in =over, No argument for =item, empty section in previous paragraph,
15685 Verbatim paragraph in NAME section
15689 ignoring leading/trailing whitespace in link, (section) in '$page'
15690 deprecated, alternative text/node '%s' contains non-escaped | or /
15702 C<Pod::Checker-E<gt>new( %options )>
15704 C<$checker-E<gt>poderror( @args )>, C<$checker-E<gt>poderror( {%opts},
15707 C<$checker-E<gt>num_errors()>
15709 C<$checker-E<gt>name()>
15711 C<$checker-E<gt>node()>
15713 C<$checker-E<gt>idx()>
15715 C<$checker-E<gt>hyperlink()>
15723 =head2 Pod::Find - find POD documents in directory trees
15735 =item C<pod_find( { %opts } , @directories )>
15737 C<-verbose =E<gt> 1>, C<-perl =E<gt> 1>, C<-script =E<gt> 1>, C<-inc =E<gt>
15744 =item C<simplify_name( $str )>
15750 =item C<pod_where( { %opts }, $pod )>
15752 C<-inc =E<gt> 1>, C<-dirs =E<gt> [ $dir1, $dir2, ... ]>, C<-verbose =E<gt>
15759 =item C<contains_pod( $file , $verbose )>
15771 =head2 Pod::Html - module to convert pod files to HTML
15781 backlink, cachedir, css, flush, header, help, htmldir, htmlroot, index,
15782 infile, libpods, netscape, outfile, podpath, podroot, quiet, recurse,
15797 =head2 Pod::InputObjects - objects representing POD input paragraphs,
15810 package B<Pod::InputSource>, package B<Pod::Paragraph>, package
15811 B<Pod::InteriorSequence>, package B<Pod::ParseTree>
15817 =item B<Pod::InputSource>
15841 =item B<was_cutting()>
15847 =item B<Pod::Paragraph>
15853 =item Pod::Paragraph-E<gt>B<new()>
15859 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<cmd_name()>
15865 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<text()>
15871 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<raw_text()>
15877 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<cmd_prefix()>
15883 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<cmd_separator()>
15889 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<parse_tree()>
15895 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<file_line()>
15901 =item B<Pod::InteriorSequence>
15907 =item Pod::InteriorSequence-E<gt>B<new()>
15913 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<cmd_name()>
15919 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<prepend()>
15925 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<append()>
15931 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<nested()>
15937 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<raw_text()>
15943 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<left_delimiter()>
15949 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<right_delimiter()>
15955 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<parse_tree()>
15961 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<file_line()>
15967 =item Pod::InteriorSequence::B<DESTROY()>
15973 =item B<Pod::ParseTree>
15979 =item Pod::ParseTree-E<gt>B<new()>
15985 =item $ptree-E<gt>B<top()>
15991 =item $ptree-E<gt>B<children()>
15997 =item $ptree-E<gt>B<prepend()>
16003 =item $ptree-E<gt>B<append()>
16009 =item $ptree-E<gt>B<raw_text()>
16015 =item Pod::ParseTree::B<DESTROY()>
16027 =head2 Pod::LaTeX - Convert Pod data to formatted Latex
16039 =item OBJECT METHODS
16047 =item Data Accessors
16063 B<ReplaceNAMEwithSection>
16065 B<StartWithNewPage>
16079 =item Subclassed methods
16093 B<interior_sequence>
16109 =item Methods for headings
16117 =item Internal methods
16123 B<_replace_special_chars>
16125 B<_replace_special_chars_late>
16131 B<_clean_latex_commands>
16133 B<_split_delimited>
16149 =head2 Pod::Man - Convert POD data to formatted *roff input
16157 center, date, fixed, fixedbold, fixeditalic, fixedbolditalic, name, quotes,
16162 roff font should be 1 or 2 chars, not "%s", Invalid link %s, Invalid quote
16163 specification "%s", %s:%d: Unknown command paragraph "%s", %s:%d: Unknown
16164 escape EE<lt>%sE<gt>, %s:%d: Unknown formatting code %s, %s:%d: Unmatched
16175 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
16179 =head2 Pod::ParseLink -- Parse an LE<lt>E<gt> formatting code in POD text
16189 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
16193 =head2 Pod::ParseUtils - helpers for POD parsing and conversion
16207 Pod::List-E<gt>new()
16215 $list-E<gt>indent()
16223 $list-E<gt>parent()
16229 =item Pod::Hyperlink
16231 Pod::Hyperlink-E<gt>new()
16235 $link-E<gt>parse($string)
16237 $link-E<gt>markup($string)
16241 $link-E<gt>warning()
16243 $link-E<gt>file(), $link-E<gt>line()
16249 $link-E<gt>alttext()
16259 Pod::Cache-E<gt>new()
16265 $cache-E<gt>find_page($name)
16269 =item Pod::Cache::Item
16271 Pod::Cache::Item-E<gt>new()
16275 $cacheitem-E<gt>page()
16277 $cacheitem-E<gt>description()
16279 $cacheitem-E<gt>path()
16281 $cacheitem-E<gt>file()
16283 $cacheitem-E<gt>nodes()
16285 $cacheitem-E<gt>find_node($name)
16287 $cacheitem-E<gt>idx()
16297 =head2 Pod::Parser - base class for creating POD filters and translators
16309 =item QUICK OVERVIEW
16311 =item PARSING OPTIONS
16313 B<-want_nonPODs> (default: unset), B<-process_cut_cmd> (default: unset),
16314 B<-warnings> (default: unset)
16320 =item RECOMMENDED SUBROUTINE/METHOD OVERRIDES
16328 C<$cmd>, C<$text>, C<$line_num>, C<$pod_para>
16334 =item B<verbatim()>
16336 C<$text>, C<$line_num>, C<$pod_para>
16342 =item B<textblock()>
16344 C<$text>, C<$line_num>, C<$pod_para>
16350 =item B<interior_sequence()>
16356 =item OPTIONAL SUBROUTINE/METHOD OVERRIDES
16368 =item B<initialize()>
16374 =item B<begin_pod()>
16380 =item B<begin_input()>
16386 =item B<end_input()>
16398 =item B<preprocess_line()>
16404 =item B<preprocess_paragraph()>
16410 =item METHODS FOR PARSING AND PROCESSING
16416 =item B<parse_text()>
16418 B<-expand_seq> =E<gt> I<code-ref>|I<method-name>, B<-expand_text> =E<gt>
16419 I<code-ref>|I<method-name>, B<-expand_ptree> =E<gt>
16420 I<code-ref>|I<method-name>
16426 =item B<interpolate()>
16432 =item B<parse_paragraph()>
16438 =item B<parse_from_filehandle()>
16444 =item B<parse_from_file()>
16450 =item ACCESSOR METHODS
16456 =item B<errorsub()>
16468 =item B<parseopts()>
16474 =item B<output_file()>
16480 =item B<output_handle()>
16486 =item B<input_file()>
16492 =item B<input_handle()>
16498 =item B<input_streams()>
16504 =item B<top_stream()>
16510 =item PRIVATE METHODS AND DATA
16516 =item B<_push_input_stream()>
16522 =item B<_pop_input_stream()>
16528 =item TREE-BASED PARSING
16536 =head2 Pod::Plainer - Perl extension for converting Pod to old style Pod.
16556 =head2 Pod::Select, podselect() - extract selected sections of POD from
16569 =item SECTION SPECIFICATIONS
16571 =item RANGE SPECIFICATIONS
16577 =item OBJECT METHODS
16583 =item B<curr_headings()>
16595 =item B<add_selection()>
16601 =item B<clear_selections()>
16607 =item B<match_section()>
16613 =item B<is_selected()>
16619 =item EXPORTED FUNCTIONS
16625 =item B<podselect()>
16627 B<-output>, B<-sections>, B<-ranges>
16633 =item PRIVATE METHODS AND DATA
16639 =item B<_compile_section_spec()>
16645 =item $self->{_SECTION_HEADINGS}
16651 =item $self->{_SELECTED_SECTIONS}
16663 =head2 Pod::Text - Convert POD data to formatted ASCII text
16671 alt, code, indent, loose, quotes, sentence, width
16675 Bizarre space in item, Item called without tag, Can't open %s for reading:
16676 %s, Invalid quote specification "%s", %s:%d: Unknown command paragraph: %s,
16677 %s:%d: Unknown escape: %s, %s:%d: Unknown formatting code: %s, %s:%d:
16688 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
16692 =head2 Pod::Text::Color - Convert POD data to formatted color ASCII text
16706 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
16710 =head2 Pod::Text::Overstrike - Convert POD data to formatted overstrike
16725 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
16729 =head2 Pod::Text::Termcap, Pod::Text::Color - Convert POD data to ASCII
16730 text with format escapes
16744 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
16748 =head2 Pod::Usage, pod2usage() - print a usage message from embedded pod
16757 C<-message>, C<-msg>, C<-exitval>, C<-verbose>, C<-output>, C<-input>,
16766 =item Recommended Use
16774 =item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
16778 =head2 Pod::t::basic, basic.pod - Test of various basic POD features in
16785 =item This C<is> a "level 1" heading
16789 =item ``Level'' "2 I<heading>
16793 =item This C<is> a "level 1" heading
16797 =item ``Level'' 2 I<heading>
16803 =item OVER AND ITEMS
16805 This is a test, a, b, a, b, c, d, "foo", B<bar>, C<baz>, Some longer item
16808 =item FORMATTING CODES
16810 E<amp>, E<apos>, E<lt>, E<gt>, E<quot>, E<sol>
16818 =head2 SDBM_File - Tied access to sdbm files
16826 C<O_RDONLY>, C<O_WRONLY>, C<O_RDWR>
16832 =item C<sdbm store returned -1, errno 22, key "..." at ...>
16836 =item BUGS AND WARNINGS
16840 =head2 Safe - Compile and execute code in restricted compartments
16848 a new namespace, an operator mask
16854 =item RECENT CHANGES
16856 =item Methods in class Safe
16858 permit (OP, ...), permit_only (OP, ...), deny (OP, ...), deny_only (OP,
16859 ...), trap (OP, ...), untrap (OP, ...), share (NAME, ...), share_from
16860 (PACKAGE, ARRAYREF), varglob (VARNAME), reval (STRING), rdo (FILENAME),
16861 root (NAMESPACE), mask (MASK)
16863 =item Some Safety Issues
16865 Memory, CPU, Snooping, Signals, State Changes
16873 =head2 Scalar::Util - A selection of general-utility scalar subroutines
16881 blessed EXPR, dualvar NUM, STRING, isweak EXPR, readonly SCALAR, reftype
16882 EXPR, tainted EXPR, weaken REF
16892 =head2 Search::Dict, look - search for key in dictionary file
16902 =head2 SelectSaver - save and restore selected file handle
16912 =head2 SelfLoader - load functions only on demand
16922 =item The __DATA__ token
16924 =item SelfLoader autoloading
16926 =item Autoloading and package lexicals
16928 =item SelfLoader and AutoLoader
16930 =item __DATA__, __END__, and the FOOBAR::DATA filehandle.
16932 =item Classes and inherited methods.
16936 =item Multiple packages and fully qualified subroutine names
16940 =head2 Shell - run shell commands transparently within perl
16950 =item OBJECT ORIENTED SYNTAX
16958 =head2 Socket, sockaddr_in, sockaddr_un, inet_aton, inet_ntoa - load the C
16959 socket.h defines and structure manipulators
16967 inet_aton HOSTNAME, inet_ntoa IP_ADDRESS, INADDR_ANY, INADDR_BROADCAST,
16968 INADDR_LOOPBACK, INADDR_NONE, sockaddr_family SOCKADDR, sockaddr_in PORT,
16969 ADDRESS, sockaddr_in SOCKADDR_IN, pack_sockaddr_in PORT, IP_ADDRESS,
16970 unpack_sockaddr_in SOCKADDR_IN, sockaddr_un PATHNAME, sockaddr_un
16971 SOCKADDR_UN, pack_sockaddr_un PATH, unpack_sockaddr_un SOCKADDR_UN
16975 =head2 Storable - persistency for perl data structures
16985 =item ADVISORY LOCKING
16989 =item CANONICAL REPRESENTATION
16991 =item ERROR REPORTING
16999 C<STORABLE_freeze> I<obj>, I<cloning>, C<STORABLE_thaw> I<obj>, I<cloning>,
17004 C<Storable::last_op_in_netorder>, C<Storable::is_storing>,
17005 C<Storable::is_retrieving>
17013 =item Storable magic
17031 =head2 Switch - A switch statement for Perl
17045 =item Allowing fall-through
17047 =item Automating fall-through
17049 =item Alternative syntax
17051 =item Higher-order Operations
17067 =head2 Symbol - manipulate Perl symbols and their names
17077 =head2 Sys::Hostname - Try every conceivable way to get hostname
17089 =head2 Syslog, Sys::Syslog, openlog, closelog, setlogmask, syslog - Perl
17090 interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls
17098 openlog $ident, $logopt, $facility, syslog $priority, $format, @args,
17099 setlogmask $mask_priority, setlogsock $sock_type (added in 5.004_02),
17110 =head2 Syslog::Syslog, Sys::Syslog, openlog, closelog, setlogmask, syslog -
17111 Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls
17119 openlog $ident, $logopt, $facility, syslog $priority, $format, @args,
17120 setlogmask $mask_priority, setlogsock $sock_type (added in 5.004_02),
17131 =head2 Term::ANSIColor - Color screen output using ANSI escape sequences
17141 Bad escape sequence %s, Bareword "%s" not allowed while "strict subs" in
17142 use, Invalid attribute name %s, Name "%s" used only once: possible typo, No
17143 comma allowed after filehandle, No name for escape sequence %s
17147 ANSI_COLORS_DISABLED
17161 =head2 Term::Cap - Perl termcap interface
17177 B<Tgetent>, OSPEED, TERM
17179 B<Tpad>, B<$string>, B<$cnt>, B<$FH>
17181 B<Tputs>, B<$cap>, B<$cnt>, B<$FH>
17183 B<Tgoto>, B<$cap>, B<$col>, B<$row>, B<$FH>
17191 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
17199 =head2 Term::Complete - Perl word completion module
17207 E<lt>tabE<gt>, ^D, ^U, E<lt>delE<gt>, E<lt>bsE<gt>
17217 =head2 Term::ReadLine - Perl interface to various C<readline> packages. If
17218 no real package is found, substitutes stubs instead of basic functions.
17226 =item Minimal set of supported functions
17228 C<ReadLine>, C<new>, C<readline>, C<addhistory>, C<IN>, $C<OUT>,
17229 C<MinLine>, C<findConsole>, Attribs, C<Features>
17231 =item Additional supported functions
17233 C<tkRunning>, C<ornaments>, C<newTTY>
17243 =head2 Test - provides a simple framework for writing test scripts
17269 NORMAL TESTS, SKIPPED TESTS, TODO TESTS
17273 =item BUGS and CAVEATS
17283 =head2 Test::Builder - Backend for building test libraries
17303 =item Setting up tests
17319 =item Running tests
17325 B<is_eq>, B<is_num>
17327 B<isnt_eq>, B<isnt_num>
17351 B<no_header>, B<no_ending>
17363 B<output>, B<failure_output>, B<todo_output>
17367 =item Test Status and Info
17375 B<details> I<UNIMPLEMENTED>, B<todo>
17397 =head2 Test::Harness - run perl standard test scripts with statistics
17407 =item The test script output
17409 B<'1..M'>, B<'ok', 'not ok'. Ok?>, B<test numbers>, B<test names>,
17410 B<Skipping tests>, B<Todo tests>, B<Bail out!>, B<Comments>, B<Anything
17415 =item Configuration variables.
17417 B<$Test::Harness::verbose>, B<$Test::Harness::switches>
17421 B<Failed Test>, B<Stat>, B<Wstat>, B<Total>, B<Fail>, B<Failed>, B<List of
17448 C<All tests successful.\nFiles=%d, Tests=%d, %s>, C<FAILED tests
17449 %s\n\tFailed %d/%d tests, %.2f%% okay.>, C<Test returned status %d (wstat
17450 %d)>, C<Failed 1 test, %.2f%% okay. %s>, C<Failed %d/%d tests, %.2f%% okay.
17451 %s>, C<FAILED--Further testing stopped%s>
17455 C<HARNESS_IGNORE_EXITCODE>, C<HARNESS_NOTTY>, C<HARNESS_COMPILE_TEST>,
17456 C<HARNESS_FILELEAK_IN_DIR>, C<HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES>, C<HARNESS_COLUMNS>,
17471 =head2 Test::Harness::Assert - simple assert
17497 =head2 Test::Harness::Iterator - Internal Test::Harness Iterator
17507 =head2 Test::Harness::Straps - detailed analysis of test results
17545 B<_restore_PERL5LIB>
17561 B<_reset_file_state>
17581 =head2 Test::More - yet another framework for writing test scripts
17591 =item I love it when a plan comes together
17601 =item I'm ok, you're not ok.
17641 =item Conditional tests
17647 B<TODO: BLOCK>, B<todo_skip>
17651 =item Comparison functions
17665 =item Extending and Embedding Test::More
17675 =item BUGS and CAVEATS
17677 Making your own ok(), The eq_* family has some caveats, Test::Harness
17690 =head2 Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
17714 L<Test::More>, L<Test>, L<Test::Unit>, L<Test::Inline>, L<SelfTest>,
17723 =head2 Test::Tutorial - A tutorial about writing really basic tests
17731 =item Nuts and bolts of testing.
17733 =item Where to start?
17737 =item Test the manual
17739 =item Sometimes the tests are wrong
17741 =item Testing lots of values
17743 =item Informative names
17745 =item Skipping tests
17749 =item Testing with taint mode.
17761 =head2 Text::Abbrev, abbrev - create an abbreviation table from a list
17773 =head2 Text::Balanced - Extract delimited text sequences from strings.
17783 =item General behaviour in list contexts
17787 =item General behaviour in scalar and void contexts
17789 =item A note about prefixes
17791 =item C<extract_delimited>
17793 =item C<extract_bracketed>
17795 =item C<extract_tagged>
17797 C<reject =E<gt> $listref>, C<ignore =E<gt> $listref>, C<fail =E<gt> $str>,
17798 [0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]
17800 =item C<gen_extract_tagged>
17802 =item C<extract_quotelike>
17804 [0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10]
17806 =item C<extract_quotelike> and "here documents"
17808 [0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7..10]
17810 =item C<extract_codeblock>
17812 =item C<extract_multiple>
17814 =item C<gen_delimited_pat>
17820 C<Did not find a suitable bracket: "%s">, C<Did not find prefix: /%s/>,
17821 C<Did not find opening bracket after prefix: "%s">, C<No quotelike
17822 operator found after prefix: "%s">, C<Unmatched closing bracket: "%c">,
17823 C<Unmatched opening bracket(s): "%s">, C<Unmatched embedded quote (%s)>,
17824 C<Did not find closing delimiter to match '%s'>, C<Mismatched closing
17825 bracket: expected "%c" but found "%s">, C<No block delimiter found after
17826 quotelike "%s">, C<Did not find leading dereferencer>, C<Bad identifier
17827 after dereferencer>, C<Did not find expected opening bracket at %s>,
17828 C<Improperly nested codeblock at %s>, C<Missing second block for quotelike
17829 "%s">, C<No match found for opening bracket>, C<Did not find opening tag:
17830 /%s/>, C<Unable to construct closing tag to match: /%s/>, C<Found invalid
17831 nested tag: %s>, C<Found unbalanced nested tag: %s>, C<Did not find closing
17836 =item BUGS AND IRRITATIONS
17842 =head2 Text::ParseWords - parse text into an array of tokens or array of
17857 =head2 Text::Soundex - Implementation of the Soundex Algorithm as Described
17874 =head2 Text::Tabs -- expand and unexpand tabs per the unix expand(1) and
17889 =head2 Text::Wrap - line wrapping to form simple paragraphs
17905 =head2 Thread - manipulate threads in Perl
17917 $thread = Thread->new(\&start_sub), $thread = Thread->new(\&start_sub,
17918 LIST), lock VARIABLE, async BLOCK;, Thread->self, cond_wait VARIABLE,
17919 cond_signal VARIABLE, cond_broadcast VARIABLE, yield
17923 join, eval, detach, equal, tid, flags, done
17931 =head2 Thread::Queue - thread-safe queues
17939 =item FUNCTIONS AND METHODS
17941 new, enqueue LIST, dequeue, dequeue_nb, pending
17947 =head2 Thread::Semaphore - thread-safe semaphores
17955 =item FUNCTIONS AND METHODS
17957 new, new NUMBER, down, down NUMBER, up, up NUMBER
17961 =head2 Thread::Signal - Start a thread which runs signal handlers reliably
17973 =head2 Thread::Specific - thread-specific keys
17983 =head2 Tie::Array - base class for tied arrays
17991 TIEARRAY classname, LIST, STORE this, index, value, FETCH this, index,
17992 FETCHSIZE this, STORESIZE this, count, EXTEND this, count, EXISTS this,
17993 key, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this, DESTROY this, PUSH this, LIST, POP this,
17994 SHIFT this, UNSHIFT this, LIST, SPLICE this, offset, length, LIST
18002 =head2 Tie::File - Access the lines of a disk file via a Perl array
18018 =item Option Format
18022 =item Public Methods
18028 =item Tying to an already-opened filehandle
18036 =item Efficiency Note
18038 =item Efficiency Note 2
18040 =item Efficiency Note 3
18058 =head2 Tie::Handle, Tie::StdHandle - base class definitions for tied
18067 TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, WRITE this, scalar, length, offset, PRINT this,
18068 LIST, PRINTF this, format, LIST, READ this, scalar, length, offset,
18069 READLINE this, GETC this, CLOSE this, OPEN this, filename, BINMODE this,
18070 EOF this, TELL this, SEEK this, offset, whence, DESTROY this
18072 =item MORE INFORMATION
18074 =item COMPATIBILITY
18078 =head2 Tie::Hash, Tie::StdHash, Tie::ExtraHash - base class definitions for
18087 TIEHASH classname, LIST, STORE this, key, value, FETCH this, key, FIRSTKEY
18088 this, NEXTKEY this, lastkey, EXISTS this, key, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this
18090 =item Inheriting from B<Tie::StdHash>
18092 =item Inheriting from B<Tie::ExtraHash>
18094 =item C<UNTIE> and C<DESTROY>
18096 =item MORE INFORMATION
18100 =head2 Tie::Memoize - add data to hash when needed
18108 =item Inheriting from B<Tie::Memoize>
18118 =head2 Tie::RefHash - use references as hash keys
18136 =head2 Tie::Scalar, Tie::StdScalar - base class definitions for tied
18145 TIESCALAR classname, LIST, FETCH this, STORE this, value, DESTROY this
18147 =item MORE INFORMATION
18151 =head2 Tie::SubstrHash - Fixed-table-size, fixed-key-length hashing
18163 =head2 Time::HiRes - High resolution alarm, sleep, gettimeofday, interval
18172 gettimeofday (), usleep ( $useconds ), ualarm ( $useconds [,
18173 $interval_useconds ] ), tv_interval, time (), sleep ( $floating_seconds ),
18174 alarm ( $floating_seconds [, $interval_floating_seconds ] ), setitimer,
18175 getitimer ( $which )
18191 =head2 Time::Local - efficiently compute time from local and GMT time
18199 =item IMPLEMENTATION
18205 =head2 Time::gmtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in gmtime()
18220 =head2 Time::localtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in localtime()
18235 =head2 Time::tm - internal object used by Time::gmtime and Time::localtime
18247 =head2 UNIVERSAL - base class for ALL classes (blessed references)
18255 $obj->isa( TYPE ), CLASS->isa( TYPE ), isa( VAL, TYPE ), $obj->can( METHOD
18256 ), CLASS->can( METHOD ), can( VAL, METHOD ), VERSION ( [ REQUIRE ] )
18260 =head2 Unicode::Collate - use UCA (Unicode Collation Algorithm)
18270 =item Constructor and Tailoring
18272 alternate, backwards, entry, ignoreName, ignoreChar, level, normalization,
18273 overrideCJK, overrideHangul, preprocess, rearrange, table, undefName,
18274 undefChar, katakana_before_hiragana, upper_before_lower
18276 =item Other methods
18278 C<@sorted = $Collator-E<gt>sort(@not_sorted)>, C<$result =
18279 $Collator-E<gt>cmp($a, $b)>, C<$result = $Collator-E<gt>eq($a, $b)>,
18280 C<$result = $Collator-E<gt>ne($a, $b)>, C<$result = $Collator-E<gt>lt($a,
18281 $b)>, C<$result = $Collator-E<gt>le($a, $b)>, C<$result =
18282 $Collator-E<gt>gt($a, $b)>, C<$result = $Collator-E<gt>ge($a, $b)>,
18283 C<$sortKey = $Collator-E<gt>getSortKey($string)>, C<$position =
18284 $Collator-E<gt>index($string, $substring)>, C<($position, $length) =
18285 $Collator-E<gt>index($string, $substring)>
18299 Unicode Collation Algorithm - Unicode TR #10, L<Unicode::Normalize>
18303 =head2 Unicode::Normalize - normalized forms of Unicode text
18313 =item Normalization Forms
18315 C<$string_NFD = NFD($raw_string)>, C<$string_NFC = NFC($raw_string)>,
18316 C<$string_NFKD = NFKD($raw_string)>, C<$string_NFKC = NFKC($raw_string)>,
18317 C<$normalized_string = normalize($form_name, $raw_string)>
18319 =item Character Data
18321 C<$canonical_decomposed = getCanon($codepoint)>,
18322 C<$compatibility_decomposed = getCompat($codepoint)>, C<$uv_composite =
18323 getComposite($uv_here, $uv_next)>, C<$combining_class =
18324 getCombinClass($codepoint)>, C<$is_exclusion = isExclusion($codepoint)>
18336 http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr15/
18340 =head2 Unicode::UCD - Unicode character database
18382 =item Blocks versus Scripts
18384 =item Matching Scripts and Blocks
18386 =item Code Point Arguments
18412 =item Unicode::UCD::UnicodeVersion
18418 =item Implementation Note
18430 =head2 User::grent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getgr*()
18445 =head2 User::pwent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getpw*()
18456 =item System Specifics
18470 =head2 Win32 - Interfaces to some Win32 API Functions
18478 =item Alphabetical Listing of Win32 Functions
18480 Win32::AbortSystemShutdown(MACHINE), Win32::BuildNumber(),
18481 Win32::CopyFile(FROM, TO, OVERWRITE), Win32::DomainName(),
18482 Win32::ExpandEnvironmentStrings(STRING), Win32::FormatMessage(ERRORCODE),
18483 Win32::FsType(), Win32::FreeLibrary(HANDLE), Win32::GetArchName(),
18484 Win32::GetChipName(), Win32::GetCwd(), Win32::GetFullPathName(FILENAME),
18485 Win32::GetLastError(), Win32::GetLongPathName(PATHNAME),
18486 Win32::GetNextAvailDrive(), Win32::GetOSVersion(),
18487 Win32::GetShortPathName(PATHNAME), Win32::GetProcAddress(INSTANCE,
18488 PROCNAME), Win32::GetTickCount(), Win32::InitiateSystemShutdown,
18489 Win32::IsWinNT(), Win32::IsWin95(), Win32::LoadLibrary(LIBNAME),
18490 Win32::LoginName(), Win32::LookupAccountName(SYSTEM, ACCOUNT, DOMAIN, SID,
18491 SIDTYPE), Win32::LookupAccountSID(SYSTEM, SID, ACCOUNT, DOMAIN, SIDTYPE),
18492 Win32::MsgBox(MESSAGE [, FLAGS [, TITLE]]), Win32::NodeName(),
18493 Win32::RegisterServer(LIBRARYNAME), Win32::SetChildShowWindow(SHOWWINDOW),
18494 Win32::SetCwd(NEWDIRECTORY), Win32::SetLastError(ERROR),
18495 Win32::Sleep(TIME), Win32::Spawn(COMMAND, ARGS, PID),
18496 Win32::UnregisterServer(LIBRARYNAME)
18502 =head2 XS::Typemap - module to test the XS typemaps distributed with perl
18520 =head2 XSLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code
18532 =head1 AUXILIARY DOCUMENTATION
18534 Here should be listed all the extra programs' documentation, but they
18535 don't all have manual pages yet:
18561 Larry Wall <F<larry@wall.org>>, with the help of oodles