4 perltoc - perl documentation table of contents
8 This page provides a brief table of contents for the rest of the Perl
9 documentation set. It is meant to be scanned quickly or grepped
10 through to locate the proper section you're looking for.
12 =head1 BASIC DOCUMENTATION
14 =head2 perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language
26 =item Internals and C Language Interface
30 =item Platform-Specific
54 =head2 perlintro -- a brief introduction and overview of Perl
64 =item Running Perl programs
66 =item Basic syntax overview
68 =item Perl variable types
70 Scalars, Arrays, Hashes
72 =item Variable scoping
74 =item Conditional and looping constructs
76 if, while, for, foreach
78 =item Builtin operators and functions
80 Arithmetic, Numeric comparison, String comparison, Boolean logic,
85 =item Regular expressions
87 Simple matching, Simple substitution, More complex regular expressions,
88 Parentheses for capturing, Other regexp features
90 =item Writing subroutines
94 =item Using Perl modules
102 =head2 perlfaq - frequently asked questions about Perl ($Date: 2001/10/16
111 =item perlfaq: Structural overview of the FAQ.
113 =item L<perlfaq1>: General Questions About Perl
115 =item L<perlfaq2>: Obtaining and Learning about Perl
117 =item L<perlfaq3>: Programming Tools
119 =item L<perlfaq4>: Data Manipulation
121 =item L<perlfaq5>: Files and Formats
123 =item L<perlfaq6>: Regexps
125 =item L<perlfaq7>: General Perl Language Issues
127 =item L<perlfaq8>: System Interaction
129 =item L<perlfaq9>: Networking
133 =item About the perlfaq documents
137 =item Where to get the perlfaq
139 =item How to contribute to the perlfaq
141 =item What will happen if you mail your Perl programming problems to the
148 =item Author and Copyright Information
152 =item Bundled Distributions
160 1/November/2000, 23/May/99, 13/April/99, 7/January/99, 22/June/98,
161 24/April/97, 23/April/97, 25/March/97, 18/March/97, 17/March/97 Version,
162 Initial Release: 11/March/97
166 =head2 perlbook - Perl book information
174 =head2 perlsyn - Perl syntax
184 =item Simple statements
186 =item Compound statements
194 =item Basic BLOCKs and Switch Statements
198 =item PODs: Embedded Documentation
200 =item Plain Old Comments (Not!)
206 =head2 perldata - Perl data types
220 =item Scalar value constructors
222 =item List value constructors
226 =item Typeglobs and Filehandles
234 =head2 perlop - Perl operators and precedence
244 =item Terms and List Operators (Leftward)
246 =item The Arrow Operator
248 =item Auto-increment and Auto-decrement
252 =item Symbolic Unary Operators
254 =item Binding Operators
256 =item Multiplicative Operators
258 =item Additive Operators
260 =item Shift Operators
262 =item Named Unary Operators
264 =item Relational Operators
266 =item Equality Operators
270 =item Bitwise Or and Exclusive Or
272 =item C-style Logical And
274 =item C-style Logical Or
276 =item Range Operators
278 =item Conditional Operator
280 =item Assignment Operators
284 =item List Operators (Rightward)
290 =item Logical or and Exclusive Or
292 =item C Operators Missing From Perl
294 unary &, unary *, (TYPE)
296 =item Quote and Quote-like Operators
298 =item Regexp Quote-Like Operators
300 ?PATTERN?, m/PATTERN/cgimosx, /PATTERN/cgimosx, q/STRING/, C<'STRING'>,
301 qq/STRING/, "STRING", qr/STRING/imosx, qx/STRING/, `STRING`, qw/STRING/,
302 s/PATTERN/REPLACEMENT/egimosx, tr/SEARCHLIST/REPLACEMENTLIST/cds,
303 y/SEARCHLIST/REPLACEMENTLIST/cds, <<EOF
305 =item Gory details of parsing quoted constructs
307 Finding the end, Removal of backslashes before delimiters, Interpolation,
308 C<<<'EOF'>, C<m''>, C<s'''>, C<tr///>, C<y///>, C<''>, C<q//>, C<"">,
309 C<``>, C<qq//>, C<qx//>, C<< <file*glob> >>, C<?RE?>, C</RE/>, C<m/RE/>,
310 C<s/RE/foo/>,, Interpolation of regular expressions, Optimization of
315 =item Constant Folding
317 =item Bitwise String Operators
319 =item Integer Arithmetic
321 =item Floating-point Arithmetic
329 =head2 perlsub - Perl subroutines
339 =item Private Variables via my()
341 =item Persistent Private Variables
343 =item Temporary Values via local()
345 =item Lvalue subroutines
347 =item Passing Symbol Table Entries (typeglobs)
349 =item When to Still Use local()
351 =item Pass by Reference
355 =item Constant Functions
357 =item Overriding Built-in Functions
361 =item Subroutine Attributes
369 =head2 perlfunc - Perl builtin functions
377 =item Perl Functions by Category
379 Functions for SCALARs or strings, Regular expressions and pattern matching,
380 Numeric functions, Functions for real @ARRAYs, Functions for list data,
381 Functions for real %HASHes, Input and output functions, Functions for fixed
382 length data or records, Functions for filehandles, files, or directories,
383 Keywords related to the control flow of your perl program, Keywords related
384 to scoping, Miscellaneous functions, Functions for processes and process
385 groups, Keywords related to perl modules, Keywords related to classes and
386 object-orientedness, Low-level socket functions, System V interprocess
387 communication functions, Fetching user and group info, Fetching network
388 info, Time-related functions, Functions new in perl5, Functions obsoleted
393 =item Alphabetical Listing of Perl Functions
395 I<-X> FILEHANDLE, I<-X> EXPR, I<-X>, abs VALUE, abs, accept
396 NEWSOCKET,GENERICSOCKET, alarm SECONDS, alarm, atan2 Y,X, bind SOCKET,NAME,
397 binmode FILEHANDLE, DISCIPLINE, binmode FILEHANDLE, bless REF,CLASSNAME,
398 bless REF, caller EXPR, caller, chdir EXPR, chmod LIST, chomp VARIABLE,
399 chomp LIST, chomp, chop VARIABLE, chop LIST, chop, chown LIST, chr NUMBER,
400 chr, chroot FILENAME, chroot, close FILEHANDLE, close, closedir DIRHANDLE,
401 connect SOCKET,NAME, continue BLOCK, cos EXPR, cos, crypt PLAINTEXT,SALT,
402 dbmclose HASH, dbmopen HASH,DBNAME,MASK, defined EXPR, defined, delete
403 EXPR, die LIST, do BLOCK, do SUBROUTINE(LIST), do EXPR, dump LABEL, dump,
404 each HASH, eof FILEHANDLE, eof (), eof, eval EXPR, eval BLOCK, exec LIST,
405 exec PROGRAM LIST, exists EXPR, exit EXPR, exp EXPR, exp, fcntl
406 FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, fileno FILEHANDLE, flock FILEHANDLE,OPERATION,
407 fork, format, formline PICTURE,LIST, getc FILEHANDLE, getc, getlogin,
408 getpeername SOCKET, getpgrp PID, getppid, getpriority WHICH,WHO, getpwnam
409 NAME, getgrnam NAME, gethostbyname NAME, getnetbyname NAME, getprotobyname
410 NAME, getpwuid UID, getgrgid GID, getservbyname NAME,PROTO, gethostbyaddr
411 ADDR,ADDRTYPE, getnetbyaddr ADDR,ADDRTYPE, getprotobynumber NUMBER,
412 getservbyport PORT,PROTO, getpwent, getgrent, gethostent, getnetent,
413 getprotoent, getservent, setpwent, setgrent, sethostent STAYOPEN, setnetent
414 STAYOPEN, setprotoent STAYOPEN, setservent STAYOPEN, endpwent, endgrent,
415 endhostent, endnetent, endprotoent, endservent, getsockname SOCKET,
416 getsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME, glob EXPR, glob, gmtime EXPR, goto LABEL,
417 goto EXPR, goto &NAME, grep BLOCK LIST, grep EXPR,LIST, hex EXPR, hex,
418 import, index STR,SUBSTR,POSITION, index STR,SUBSTR, int EXPR, int, ioctl
419 FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, join EXPR,LIST, keys HASH, kill SIGNAL, LIST,
420 last LABEL, last, lc EXPR, lc, lcfirst EXPR, lcfirst, length EXPR, length,
421 link OLDFILE,NEWFILE, listen SOCKET,QUEUESIZE, local EXPR, localtime EXPR,
422 lock, log EXPR, log, lstat EXPR, lstat, m//, map BLOCK LIST, map EXPR,LIST,
423 mkdir FILENAME,MASK, mkdir FILENAME, msgctl ID,CMD,ARG, msgget KEY,FLAGS,
424 msgrcv ID,VAR,SIZE,TYPE,FLAGS, msgsnd ID,MSG,FLAGS, my EXPR, my EXPR :
425 ATTRIBUTES, next LABEL, next, no Module LIST, oct EXPR, oct, open
426 FILEHANDLE,EXPR, open FILEHANDLE,MODE,EXPR, open FILEHANDLE,MODE,EXPR,LIST,
427 open FILEHANDLE, opendir DIRHANDLE,EXPR, ord EXPR, ord, our EXPR, our EXPR
428 : ATTRIBUTES, pack TEMPLATE,LIST, package NAMESPACE, package, pipe
429 READHANDLE,WRITEHANDLE, pop ARRAY, pop, pos SCALAR, pos, print FILEHANDLE
430 LIST, print LIST, print, printf FILEHANDLE FORMAT, LIST, printf FORMAT,
431 LIST, prototype FUNCTION, push ARRAY,LIST, q/STRING/, qq/STRING/,
432 qr/STRING/, qx/STRING/, qw/STRING/, quotemeta EXPR, quotemeta, rand EXPR,
433 rand, read FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET, read FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,
434 readdir DIRHANDLE, readline EXPR, readlink EXPR, readlink, readpipe EXPR,
435 recv SOCKET,SCALAR,LENGTH,FLAGS, redo LABEL, redo, ref EXPR, ref, rename
436 OLDNAME,NEWNAME, require VERSION, require EXPR, require, reset EXPR, reset,
437 return EXPR, return, reverse LIST, rewinddir DIRHANDLE, rindex
438 STR,SUBSTR,POSITION, rindex STR,SUBSTR, rmdir FILENAME, rmdir, s///, scalar
439 EXPR, seek FILEHANDLE,POSITION,WHENCE, seekdir DIRHANDLE,POS, select
440 FILEHANDLE, select, select RBITS,WBITS,EBITS,TIMEOUT, semctl
441 ID,SEMNUM,CMD,ARG, semget KEY,NSEMS,FLAGS, semop KEY,OPSTRING, send
442 SOCKET,MSG,FLAGS,TO, send SOCKET,MSG,FLAGS, setpgrp PID,PGRP, setpriority
443 WHICH,WHO,PRIORITY, setsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME,OPTVAL, shift ARRAY,
444 shift, shmctl ID,CMD,ARG, shmget KEY,SIZE,FLAGS, shmread ID,VAR,POS,SIZE,
445 shmwrite ID,STRING,POS,SIZE, shutdown SOCKET,HOW, sin EXPR, sin, sleep
446 EXPR, sleep, sockatmark SOCKET, socket SOCKET,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL,
447 socketpair SOCKET1,SOCKET2,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL, sort SUBNAME LIST, sort
448 BLOCK LIST, sort LIST, splice ARRAY,OFFSET,LENGTH,LIST, splice
449 ARRAY,OFFSET,LENGTH, splice ARRAY,OFFSET, splice ARRAY, split
450 /PATTERN/,EXPR,LIMIT, split /PATTERN/,EXPR, split /PATTERN/, split, sprintf
451 FORMAT, LIST, sqrt EXPR, sqrt, srand EXPR, srand, stat FILEHANDLE, stat
452 EXPR, stat, study SCALAR, study, sub BLOCK, sub NAME, sub NAME BLOCK,
453 substr EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH,REPLACEMENT, substr EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH, substr
454 EXPR,OFFSET, symlink OLDFILE,NEWFILE, syscall LIST, sysopen
455 FILEHANDLE,FILENAME,MODE, sysopen FILEHANDLE,FILENAME,MODE,PERMS, sysread
456 FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET, sysread FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH, sysseek
457 FILEHANDLE,POSITION,WHENCE, system LIST, system PROGRAM LIST, syswrite
458 FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET, syswrite FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,
459 syswrite FILEHANDLE,SCALAR, tell FILEHANDLE, tell, telldir DIRHANDLE, tie
460 VARIABLE,CLASSNAME,LIST, tied VARIABLE, time, times, tr///, truncate
461 FILEHANDLE,LENGTH, truncate EXPR,LENGTH, uc EXPR, uc, ucfirst EXPR,
462 ucfirst, umask EXPR, umask, undef EXPR, undef, unlink LIST, unlink, unpack
463 TEMPLATE,EXPR, untie VARIABLE, unshift ARRAY,LIST, use Module VERSION LIST,
464 use Module VERSION, use Module LIST, use Module, use VERSION, utime LIST,
465 values HASH, vec EXPR,OFFSET,BITS, wait, waitpid PID,FLAGS, wantarray, warn
466 LIST, write FILEHANDLE, write EXPR, write, y///
472 =head2 perlreftut - Mark's very short tutorial about references
478 =item Who Needs Complicated Data Structures?
486 =item Making References
488 =item Using References
506 =item Distribution Conditions
512 =head2 perldsc - Perl Data Structures Cookbook
518 arrays of arrays, hashes of arrays, arrays of hashes, hashes of hashes,
519 more elaborate constructs
523 =item COMMON MISTAKES
525 =item CAVEAT ON PRECEDENCE
527 =item WHY YOU SHOULD ALWAYS C<use strict>
533 =item ARRAYS OF ARRAYS
537 =item Declaration of a ARRAY OF ARRAYS
539 =item Generation of a ARRAY OF ARRAYS
541 =item Access and Printing of a ARRAY OF ARRAYS
545 =item HASHES OF ARRAYS
549 =item Declaration of a HASH OF ARRAYS
551 =item Generation of a HASH OF ARRAYS
553 =item Access and Printing of a HASH OF ARRAYS
557 =item ARRAYS OF HASHES
561 =item Declaration of a ARRAY OF HASHES
563 =item Generation of a ARRAY OF HASHES
565 =item Access and Printing of a ARRAY OF HASHES
569 =item HASHES OF HASHES
573 =item Declaration of a HASH OF HASHES
575 =item Generation of a HASH OF HASHES
577 =item Access and Printing of a HASH OF HASHES
581 =item MORE ELABORATE RECORDS
585 =item Declaration of MORE ELABORATE RECORDS
587 =item Declaration of a HASH OF COMPLEX RECORDS
589 =item Generation of a HASH OF COMPLEX RECORDS
601 =head2 perlrequick - Perl regular expressions quick start
611 =item Simple word matching
613 =item Using character classes
615 =item Matching this or that
617 =item Grouping things and hierarchical matching
619 =item Extracting matches
621 =item Matching repetitions
625 =item Search and replace
627 =item The split operator
635 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
639 =item Acknowledgments
645 =head2 perlpod - the Plain Old Documentation format
653 =item Ordinary Paragraph
655 =item Verbatim Paragraph
657 =item Command Paragraph
659 C<=head1 I<Heading Text>>, C<=head2 I<Heading Text>>, C<=head3 I<Heading
660 Text>>, C<=head4 I<Heading Text>>, C<=over I<indentlevel>>, C<=item
661 I<stuff...>>, C<=back>, C<=cut>, C<=pod>, C<=begin I<formatname>>, C<=end
662 I<formatname>>, C<=for I<formatname> I<text...>>
664 =item Formatting Codes
666 C<IE<lt>textE<gt>> -- italic text, C<BE<lt>textE<gt>> -- bold text,
667 C<CE<lt>codeE<gt>> -- code text, C<LE<lt>nameE<gt>> -- a hyperlink,
668 C<EE<lt>escapeE<gt>> -- a character escape, C<FE<lt>filenameE<gt>> -- used
669 for filenames, C<SE<lt>textE<gt>> -- text contains non-breaking spaces,
670 C<XE<lt>topic nameE<gt>> -- an index entry, C<ZE<lt>E<gt>> -- a null
671 (zero-effect) formatting code
675 =item Embedding Pods in Perl Modules
677 =item Hints for Writing Pod
687 =head2 perlpodspec - Plain Old Documentation: format specification and
694 =item Pod Definitions
698 "=head1", "=head2", "=head3", "=head4", "=pod", "=cut", "=over", "=item",
699 "=back", "=begin formatname", "=end formatname", "=for formatname text..."
701 =item Pod Formatting Codes
703 C<IE<lt>textE<gt>> -- italic text, C<BE<lt>textE<gt>> -- bold text,
704 C<CE<lt>codeE<gt>> -- code text, C<FE<lt>filenameE<gt>> -- style for
705 filenames, C<XE<lt>topic nameE<gt>> -- an index entry, C<ZE<lt>E<gt>> -- a
706 null (zero-effect) formatting code, C<LE<lt>nameE<gt>> -- a hyperlink,
707 C<EE<lt>escapeE<gt>> -- a character escape, C<SE<lt>textE<gt>> -- text
708 contains non-breaking spaces
710 =item Notes on Implementing Pod Processors
712 =item About LE<lt>...E<gt> Codes
714 First:, Second:, Third:, Fourth:, Fifth:, Sixth:
716 =item About =over...=back Regions
718 =item About Data Paragraphs and "=begin/=end" Regions
726 =head2 perlstyle - Perl style guide
734 =head2 perltrap - Perl traps for the unwary
752 =item Perl4 to Perl5 Traps
754 Discontinuance, Deprecation, and BugFix traps, Parsing Traps, Numerical
755 Traps, General data type traps, Context Traps - scalar, list contexts,
756 Precedence Traps, General Regular Expression Traps using s///, etc,
757 Subroutine, Signal, Sorting Traps, OS Traps, DBM Traps, Unclassified Traps
759 =item Discontinuance, Deprecation, and BugFix traps
761 Discontinuance, Deprecation, BugFix, Discontinuance, Discontinuance,
762 Discontinuance, BugFix, Discontinuance, Discontinuance, BugFix,
763 Discontinuance, Deprecation, Discontinuance, Discontinuance
767 Parsing, Parsing, Parsing, Parsing
769 =item Numerical Traps
771 Numerical, Numerical, Numerical, Bitwise string ops
773 =item General data type traps
775 (Arrays), (Arrays), (Hashes), (Globs), (Globs), (Scalar String),
776 (Constants), (Scalars), (Variable Suicide)
778 =item Context Traps - scalar, list contexts
780 (list context), (scalar context), (scalar context), (list, builtin)
782 =item Precedence Traps
784 Precedence, Precedence, Precedence, Precedence, Precedence, Precedence,
787 =item General Regular Expression Traps using s///, etc.
789 Regular Expression, Regular Expression, Regular Expression, Regular
790 Expression, Regular Expression, Regular Expression, Regular Expression,
793 =item Subroutine, Signal, Sorting Traps
795 (Signals), (Sort Subroutine), warn() won't let you specify a filehandle
801 =item Interpolation Traps
803 Interpolation, Interpolation, Interpolation, Interpolation, Interpolation,
804 Interpolation, Interpolation, Interpolation, Interpolation
810 =item Unclassified Traps
812 C<require>/C<do> trap using returned value, C<split> on empty string with
819 =head2 perlrun - how to execute the Perl interpreter
829 =item #! and quoting on non-Unix systems
831 OS/2, MS-DOS, Win95/NT, Macintosh, VMS
833 =item Location of Perl
835 =item Command Switches
837 B<-0>[I<digits>], B<-a>, B<-C>, B<-c>, B<-d>, B<-d:>I<foo[=bar,baz]>,
838 B<-D>I<letters>, B<-D>I<number>, B<-e> I<commandline>, B<-F>I<pattern>,
839 B<-h>, B<-i>[I<extension>], B<-I>I<directory>, B<-l>[I<octnum>],
840 B<-m>[B<->]I<module>, B<-M>[B<->]I<module>, B<-M>[B<->]I<'module ...'>,
841 B<-[mM]>[B<->]I<module=arg[,arg]...>, B<-n>, B<-p>, B<-P>, B<-s>, B<-S>,
842 B<-T>, B<-u>, B<-U>, B<-v>, B<-V>, B<-V:>I<name>, B<-w>, B<-W>, B<-X>,
849 HOME, LOGDIR, PATH, PERL5LIB, PERL5OPT, PERLLIB, PERL5DB, PERL5SHELL
850 (specific to the Win32 port), PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS, PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL,
851 PERL_ROOT (specific to the VMS port), SYS$LOGIN (specific to the VMS port)
855 =head2 perldiag - various Perl diagnostics
863 =head2 perllexwarn - Perl Lexical Warnings
871 =item Default Warnings and Optional Warnings
873 =item What's wrong with B<-w> and C<$^W>
875 =item Controlling Warnings from the Command Line
879 =item Backward Compatibility
881 =item Category Hierarchy
885 =item Reporting Warnings from a Module
897 =head2 perldebtut - Perl debugging tutorial
905 =item Looking at data and -w and w
909 =item Stepping through code
911 =item Placeholder for a, w, t, T
913 =item REGULAR EXPRESSIONS
931 =head2 perldebug - Perl debugging
937 =item The Perl Debugger
941 =item Debugger Commands
943 h [command], p expr, x expr, V [pkg [vars]], X [vars], T, s [expr], n
944 [expr], r, <CR>, c [line|sub], l, l min+incr, l min-max, l line, l subname,
945 -, w [line], f filename, /pattern/, ?pattern?, L, S [[!]regex], t, t expr,
946 b [line] [condition], b subname [condition], b postpone subname
947 [condition], b load filename, b compile subname, d [line], D, a [line]
948 command, a [line], A, W expr, W, O booloption .., O anyoption? .., O
949 option=value .., < ?, < [ command ], << command, > ?, > command, >>
950 command, { ?, { [ command ], {{ command, ! number, ! -number, ! pattern, !!
951 cmd, @ file, H -number, q or ^D, R, |dbcmd, ||dbcmd, command, m expr, man
954 =item Configurable Options
956 C<recallCommand>, C<ShellBang>, C<pager>, C<tkRunning>, C<signalLevel>,
957 C<warnLevel>, C<dieLevel>, C<AutoTrace>, C<LineInfo>, C<inhibit_exit>,
958 C<PrintRet>, C<ornaments>, C<frame>, C<maxTraceLen>, C<windowSize>,
959 C<arrayDepth>, C<hashDepth>, C<compactDump>, C<veryCompact>, C<globPrint>,
960 C<DumpDBFiles>, C<DumpPackages>, C<DumpReused>, C<quote>, C<HighBit>,
961 C<undefPrint>, C<UsageOnly>, C<TTY>, C<noTTY>, C<ReadLine>, C<NonStop>
963 =item Debugger input/output
965 Prompt, Multiline commands, Stack backtrace, Line Listing Format, Frame
968 =item Debugging compile-time statements
970 =item Debugger Customization
972 =item Readline Support
974 =item Editor Support for Debugging
976 =item The Perl Profiler
980 =item Debugging regular expressions
982 =item Debugging memory usage
990 =head2 perlvar - Perl predefined variables
998 =item Predefined Names
1000 $ARG, $_, $a, $b, $<I<digits>>, $MATCH, $&, $PREMATCH, $`, $POSTMATCH, $',
1001 $LAST_PAREN_MATCH, $+, $^N, @LAST_MATCH_END, @+, $MULTILINE_MATCHING, $*,
1002 HANDLE->input_line_number(EXPR), $INPUT_LINE_NUMBER, $NR, $,
1003 IO::Handle->input_record_separator(EXPR), $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR, $RS, $/,
1004 HANDLE->autoflush(EXPR), $OUTPUT_AUTOFLUSH, $|,
1005 IO::Handle->output_field_separator EXPR, $OUTPUT_FIELD_SEPARATOR, $OFS, $,,
1006 IO::Handle->output_record_separator EXPR, $OUTPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR, $ORS,
1007 $\, $LIST_SEPARATOR, $", $SUBSCRIPT_SEPARATOR, $SUBSEP, $;, $OFMT, $#,
1008 HANDLE->format_page_number(EXPR), $FORMAT_PAGE_NUMBER, $%,
1009 HANDLE->format_lines_per_page(EXPR), $FORMAT_LINES_PER_PAGE, $=,
1010 HANDLE->format_lines_left(EXPR), $FORMAT_LINES_LEFT, $-, @LAST_MATCH_START,
1011 @-, C<$`> is the same as C<substr($var, 0, $-[0])>, C<$&> is the same as
1012 C<substr($var, $-[0], $+[0] - $-[0])>, C<$'> is the same as C<substr($var,
1013 $+[0])>, C<$1> is the same as C<substr($var, $-[1], $+[1] - $-[1])>, C<$2>
1014 is the same as C<substr($var, $-[2], $+[2] - $-[2])>, C<$3> is the same as
1015 C<substr $var, $-[3], $+[3] - $-[3])>, HANDLE->format_name(EXPR),
1016 $FORMAT_NAME, $~, HANDLE->format_top_name(EXPR), $FORMAT_TOP_NAME, $^,
1017 IO::Handle->format_line_break_characters EXPR,
1018 $FORMAT_LINE_BREAK_CHARACTERS, $:, IO::Handle->format_formfeed EXPR,
1019 $FORMAT_FORMFEED, $^L, $ACCUMULATOR, $^A, $CHILD_ERROR, $?, $OS_ERROR,
1020 $ERRNO, $!, $EXTENDED_OS_ERROR, $^E, $EVAL_ERROR, $@, $PROCESS_ID, $PID,
1021 $$, $REAL_USER_ID, $UID, $<, $EFFECTIVE_USER_ID, $EUID, $>, $REAL_GROUP_ID,
1022 $GID, $(, $EFFECTIVE_GROUP_ID, $EGID, $), $PROGRAM_NAME, $0, $[, $],
1023 $COMPILING, $^C, $DEBUGGING, $^D, $SYSTEM_FD_MAX, $^F, $^H, %^H,
1024 $INPLACE_EDIT, $^I, $^M, $OSNAME, $^O, $PERLDB, $^P, 0x01, 0x02, 0x04,
1025 0x08, 0x10, 0x20, 0x40, 0x80, 0x100, 0x200, $LAST_REGEXP_CODE_RESULT, $^R,
1026 $EXCEPTIONS_BEING_CAUGHT, $^S, $BASETIME, $^T, ${^TAINT}, $PERL_VERSION,
1027 $^V, $WARNING, $^W, ${^WARNING_BITS}, ${^WIDE_SYSTEM_CALLS},
1028 $EXECUTABLE_NAME, $^X, ARGV, $ARGV, @ARGV, @F, @INC, @_, %INC, %ENV,
1029 $ENV{expr}, %SIG, $SIG{expr}
1031 =item Error Indicators
1033 =item Technical Note on the Syntax of Variable Names
1041 =head2 perllol - Manipulating Arrays of Arrays in Perl
1049 =item Declaration and Access of Arrays of Arrays
1051 =item Growing Your Own
1053 =item Access and Printing
1065 =head2 perlopentut - tutorial on opening things in Perl
1071 =item Open E<agrave> la shell
1079 =item The Minus File
1081 =item Mixing Reads and Writes
1087 =item Open E<agrave> la C
1091 =item Permissions E<agrave> la mode
1095 =item Obscure Open Tricks
1099 =item Re-Opening Files (dups)
1101 =item Dispelling the Dweomer
1103 =item Paths as Opens
1105 =item Single Argument Open
1107 =item Playing with STDIN and STDOUT
1111 =item Other I/O Issues
1115 =item Opening Non-File Files
1125 =item AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT
1131 =head2 perlretut - Perl regular expressions tutorial
1137 =item Part 1: The basics
1141 =item Simple word matching
1143 =item Using character classes
1145 =item Matching this or that
1147 =item Grouping things and hierarchical matching
1149 =item Extracting matches
1151 =item Matching repetitions
1153 =item Building a regexp
1155 =item Using regular expressions in Perl
1159 =item Part 2: Power tools
1163 =item More on characters, strings, and character classes
1165 =item Compiling and saving regular expressions
1167 =item Embedding comments and modifiers in a regular expression
1169 =item Non-capturing groupings
1171 =item Looking ahead and looking behind
1173 =item Using independent subexpressions to prevent backtracking
1175 =item Conditional expressions
1177 =item A bit of magic: executing Perl code in a regular expression
1179 =item Pragmas and debugging
1187 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
1191 =item Acknowledgments
1197 =head2 perlre - Perl regular expressions
1207 =item Regular Expressions
1209 cntrl, graph, print, punct, xdigit
1211 =item Extended Patterns
1213 C<(?#text)>, C<(?imsx-imsx)>, C<(?:pattern)>, C<(?imsx-imsx:pattern)>,
1214 C<(?=pattern)>, C<(?!pattern)>, C<(?<=pattern)>, C<(?<!pattern)>, C<(?{
1215 code })>, C<(??{ code })>, C<< (?>pattern) >>,
1216 C<(?(condition)yes-pattern|no-pattern)>, C<(?(condition)yes-pattern)>
1220 =item Version 8 Regular Expressions
1222 =item Warning on \1 vs $1
1224 =item Repeated patterns matching zero-length substring
1226 =item Combining pieces together
1228 C<ST>, C<S|T>, C<S{REPEAT_COUNT}>, C<S{min,max}>, C<S{min,max}?>, C<S?>,
1229 C<S*>, C<S+>, C<S??>, C<S*?>, C<S+?>, C<< (?>S) >>, C<(?=S)>, C<(?<=S)>,
1230 C<(?!S)>, C<(?<!S)>, C<(??{ EXPR })>,
1231 C<(?(condition)yes-pattern|no-pattern)>
1233 =item Creating custom RE engines
1243 =head2 perlref - Perl references and nested data structures
1253 =item Making References
1255 =item Using References
1257 =item Symbolic references
1259 =item Not-so-symbolic references
1261 =item Pseudo-hashes: Using an array as a hash
1263 =item Function Templates
1273 =head2 perlform - Perl formats
1281 =item Format Variables
1291 =item Accessing Formatting Internals
1299 =head2 perlboot - Beginner's Object-Oriented Tutorial
1307 =item If we could talk to the animals...
1309 =item Introducing the method invocation arrow
1311 =item Invoking a barnyard
1313 =item The extra parameter of method invocation
1315 =item Calling a second method to simplify things
1317 =item Inheriting the windpipes
1319 =item A few notes about @ISA
1321 =item Overriding the methods
1323 =item Starting the search from a different place
1325 =item The SUPER way of doing things
1327 =item Where we're at so far...
1329 =item A horse is a horse, of course of course -- or is it?
1331 =item Invoking an instance method
1333 =item Accessing the instance data
1335 =item How to build a horse
1337 =item Inheriting the constructor
1339 =item Making a method work with either classes or instances
1341 =item Adding parameters to a method
1343 =item More interesting instances
1345 =item A horse of a different color
1357 =head2 perltoot - Tom's object-oriented tutorial for perl
1363 =item Creating a Class
1367 =item Object Representation
1369 =item Class Interface
1371 =item Constructors and Instance Methods
1373 =item Planning for the Future: Better Constructors
1377 =item Other Object Methods
1385 =item Accessing Class Data
1387 =item Debugging Methods
1389 =item Class Destructors
1391 =item Documenting the Interface
1401 =item Overridden Methods
1403 =item Multiple Inheritance
1405 =item UNIVERSAL: The Root of All Objects
1409 =item Alternate Object Representations
1413 =item Arrays as Objects
1415 =item Closures as Objects
1419 =item AUTOLOAD: Proxy Methods
1423 =item Autoloaded Data Methods
1425 =item Inherited Autoloaded Data Methods
1429 =item Metaclassical Tools
1435 =item Data Members as Variables
1443 =item Object Terminology
1449 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
1455 =item Acknowledgments
1461 =head2 perltooc - Tom's OO Tutorial for Class Data in Perl
1467 =item Class Data in a Can
1469 =item Class Data as Package Variables
1473 =item Putting All Your Eggs in One Basket
1475 =item Inheritance Concerns
1477 =item The Eponymous Meta-Object
1479 =item Indirect References to Class Data
1481 =item Monadic Classes
1483 =item Translucent Attributes
1487 =item Class Data as Lexical Variables
1491 =item Privacy and Responsibility
1493 =item File-Scoped Lexicals
1495 =item More Inheritance Concerns
1497 =item Locking the Door and Throwing Away the Key
1499 =item Translucency Revisited
1507 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
1509 =item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
1515 =head2 perlobj - Perl objects
1523 =item An Object is Simply a Reference
1525 =item A Class is Simply a Package
1527 =item A Method is Simply a Subroutine
1529 =item Method Invocation
1531 =item Indirect Object Syntax
1533 =item Default UNIVERSAL methods
1535 isa(CLASS), can(METHOD), VERSION( [NEED] )
1541 =item Two-Phased Garbage Collection
1549 =head2 perlbot - Bag'o Object Tricks (the BOT)
1555 =item OO SCALING TIPS
1557 =item INSTANCE VARIABLES
1559 =item SCALAR INSTANCE VARIABLES
1561 =item INSTANCE VARIABLE INHERITANCE
1563 =item OBJECT RELATIONSHIPS
1565 =item OVERRIDING SUPERCLASS METHODS
1567 =item USING RELATIONSHIP WITH SDBM
1569 =item THINKING OF CODE REUSE
1571 =item CLASS CONTEXT AND THE OBJECT
1573 =item INHERITING A CONSTRUCTOR
1579 =head2 perltie - how to hide an object class in a simple variable
1591 TIESCALAR classname, LIST, FETCH this, STORE this, value, UNTIE this,
1596 TIEARRAY classname, LIST, FETCH this, index, STORE this, index, value,
1597 FETCHSIZE this, STORESIZE this, count, EXTEND this, count, EXISTS this,
1598 key, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this, PUSH this, LIST, POP this, SHIFT this,
1599 UNSHIFT this, LIST, SPLICE this, offset, length, LIST, UNTIE this, DESTROY
1604 USER, HOME, CLOBBER, LIST, TIEHASH classname, LIST, FETCH this, key, STORE
1605 this, key, value, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this, EXISTS this, key, FIRSTKEY
1606 this, NEXTKEY this, lastkey, UNTIE this, DESTROY this
1608 =item Tying FileHandles
1610 TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, WRITE this, LIST, PRINT this, LIST, PRINTF this,
1611 LIST, READ this, LIST, READLINE this, GETC this, CLOSE this, UNTIE this,
1616 =item The C<untie> Gotcha
1628 =head2 perlipc - Perl interprocess communication (signals, fifos, pipes,
1629 safe subprocesses, sockets, and semaphores)
1645 =item Using open() for IPC
1651 =item Background Processes
1653 =item Complete Dissociation of Child from Parent
1655 =item Safe Pipe Opens
1657 =item Bidirectional Communication with Another Process
1659 =item Bidirectional Communication with Yourself
1663 =item Sockets: Client/Server Communication
1667 =item Internet Line Terminators
1669 =item Internet TCP Clients and Servers
1671 =item Unix-Domain TCP Clients and Servers
1675 =item TCP Clients with IO::Socket
1679 =item A Simple Client
1681 C<Proto>, C<PeerAddr>, C<PeerPort>
1683 =item A Webget Client
1685 =item Interactive Client with IO::Socket
1689 =item TCP Servers with IO::Socket
1691 Proto, LocalPort, Listen, Reuse
1693 =item UDP: Message Passing
1707 =head2 perlfork - Perl's fork() emulation (EXPERIMENTAL, subject to change)
1717 =item Behavior of other Perl features in forked pseudo-processes
1719 $$ or $PROCESS_ID, %ENV, chdir() and all other builtins that accept
1720 filenames, wait() and waitpid(), kill(), exec(), exit(), Open handles to
1721 files, directories and network sockets
1723 =item Resource limits
1725 =item Killing the parent process
1727 =item Lifetime of the parent process and pseudo-processes
1729 =item CAVEATS AND LIMITATIONS
1731 BEGIN blocks, Open filehandles, Forking pipe open() not yet implemented,
1732 Global state maintained by XSUBs, Interpreter embedded in larger
1733 application, Thread-safety of extensions
1745 =head2 perlnumber - semantics of numbers and numeric operations in Perl
1753 =item Storing numbers
1755 =item Numeric operators and numeric conversions
1757 =item Flavors of Perl numeric operations
1759 Arithmetic operators except, C<no integer>, Arithmetic operators except,
1760 C<use integer>, Bitwise operators, C<no integer>, Bitwise operators, C<use
1761 integer>, Operators which expect an integer, Operators which expect a
1770 =head2 perlthrtut - tutorial on threads in Perl
1778 =head2 perlothrtut - old tutorial on threads in Perl
1784 =item What Is A Thread Anyway?
1786 =item Threaded Program Models
1798 =item Native threads
1800 =item What kind of threads are perl threads?
1802 =item Threadsafe Modules
1808 =item Basic Thread Support
1810 =item Creating Threads
1812 =item Giving up control
1814 =item Waiting For A Thread To Exit
1816 =item Errors In Threads
1818 =item Ignoring A Thread
1822 =item Threads And Data
1826 =item Shared And Unshared Data
1828 =item Thread Pitfall: Races
1830 =item Controlling access: lock()
1832 =item Thread Pitfall: Deadlocks
1834 =item Queues: Passing Data Around
1838 =item Threads And Code
1842 =item Semaphores: Synchronizing Data Access
1844 Basic semaphores, Advanced Semaphores
1846 =item Attributes: Restricting Access To Subroutines
1848 =item Subroutine Locks
1852 =item Locking A Subroutine
1856 =item General Thread Utility Routines
1860 =item What Thread Am I In?
1864 =item Are These Threads The Same?
1866 =item What Threads Are Running?
1870 =item A Complete Example
1878 =item Introductory Texts
1880 =item OS-Related References
1882 =item Other References
1886 =item Acknowledgements
1894 =head2 perlport - Writing portable Perl
1900 Not all Perl programs have to be portable, Nearly all of Perl already I<is>
1909 =item Numbers endianness and Width
1911 =item Files and Filesystems
1913 =item System Interaction
1915 =item Interprocess Communication (IPC)
1917 =item External Subroutines (XS)
1919 =item Standard Modules
1923 =item Character sets and character encoding
1925 =item Internationalisation
1927 =item System Resources
1937 Mailing list: cpan-testers@perl.org, Testing results:
1938 http://testers.cpan.org/
1946 =item DOS and Derivatives
1954 =item EBCDIC Platforms
1962 =item FUNCTION IMPLEMENTATIONS
1966 =item Alphabetical Listing of Perl Functions
1968 -I<X> FILEHANDLE, -I<X> EXPR, -I<X>, alarm SECONDS, alarm, binmode
1969 FILEHANDLE, chmod LIST, chown LIST, chroot FILENAME, chroot, crypt
1970 PLAINTEXT,SALT, dbmclose HASH, dbmopen HASH,DBNAME,MODE, dump LABEL, exec
1971 LIST, fcntl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, flock FILEHANDLE,OPERATION, fork,
1972 getlogin, getpgrp PID, getppid, getpriority WHICH,WHO, getpwnam NAME,
1973 getgrnam NAME, getnetbyname NAME, getpwuid UID, getgrgid GID, getnetbyaddr
1974 ADDR,ADDRTYPE, getprotobynumber NUMBER, getservbyport PORT,PROTO, getpwent,
1975 getgrent, gethostent, getnetent, getprotoent, getservent, setpwent,
1976 setgrent, sethostent STAYOPEN, setnetent STAYOPEN, setprotoent STAYOPEN,
1977 setservent STAYOPEN, endpwent, endgrent, endhostent, endnetent,
1978 endprotoent, endservent, exit EXPR, exit, getsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME,
1979 glob EXPR, glob, ioctl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, kill SIGNAL, LIST, link
1980 OLDFILE,NEWFILE, lstat FILEHANDLE, lstat EXPR, lstat, msgctl ID,CMD,ARG,
1981 msgget KEY,FLAGS, msgsnd ID,MSG,FLAGS, msgrcv ID,VAR,SIZE,TYPE,FLAGS, open
1982 FILEHANDLE,EXPR, open FILEHANDLE, pipe READHANDLE,WRITEHANDLE, readlink
1983 EXPR, readlink, select RBITS,WBITS,EBITS,TIMEOUT, semctl ID,SEMNUM,CMD,ARG,
1984 semget KEY,NSEMS,FLAGS, semop KEY,OPSTRING, setgrent, setpgrp PID,PGRP,
1985 setpriority WHICH,WHO,PRIORITY, setpwent, setsockopt
1986 SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME,OPTVAL, shmctl ID,CMD,ARG, shmget KEY,SIZE,FLAGS,
1987 shmread ID,VAR,POS,SIZE, shmwrite ID,STRING,POS,SIZE, sockatmark SOCKET,
1988 socketpair SOCKET1,SOCKET2,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL, stat FILEHANDLE, stat
1989 EXPR, stat, symlink OLDFILE,NEWFILE, syscall LIST, sysopen
1990 FILEHANDLE,FILENAME,MODE,PERMS, system LIST, times, truncate
1991 FILEHANDLE,LENGTH, truncate EXPR,LENGTH, umask EXPR, umask, utime LIST,
1992 wait, waitpid PID,FLAGS
1998 v1.48, 02 February 2001, v1.47, 22 March 2000, v1.46, 12 February 2000,
1999 v1.45, 20 December 1999, v1.44, 19 July 1999, v1.43, 24 May 1999, v1.42, 22
2000 May 1999, v1.41, 19 May 1999, v1.40, 11 April 1999, v1.39, 11 February
2001 1999, v1.38, 31 December 1998, v1.37, 19 December 1998, v1.36, 9 September
2002 1998, v1.35, 13 August 1998, v1.33, 06 August 1998, v1.32, 05 August 1998,
2003 v1.30, 03 August 1998, v1.23, 10 July 1998
2005 =item Supported Platforms
2009 =item AUTHORS / CONTRIBUTORS
2015 =head2 perllocale - Perl locale handling (internationalization and
2022 =item PREPARING TO USE LOCALES
2028 =item The use locale pragma
2030 =item The setlocale function
2032 =item Finding locales
2034 =item LOCALE PROBLEMS
2036 =item Temporarily fixing locale problems
2038 =item Permanently fixing locale problems
2040 =item Permanently fixing your system's locale configuration
2042 =item Fixing system locale configuration
2044 =item The localeconv function
2046 =item I18N::Langinfo
2050 =item LOCALE CATEGORIES
2054 =item Category LC_COLLATE: Collation
2056 =item Category LC_CTYPE: Character Types
2058 =item Category LC_NUMERIC: Numeric Formatting
2060 =item Category LC_MONETARY: Formatting of monetary amounts
2064 =item Other categories
2072 PERL_BADLANG, LC_ALL, LANGUAGE, LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE, LC_MONETARY,
2073 LC_NUMERIC, LC_TIME, LANG
2079 =item Backward compatibility
2081 =item I18N:Collate obsolete
2083 =item Sort speed and memory use impacts
2085 =item write() and LC_NUMERIC
2087 =item Freely available locale definitions
2091 =item An imperfect standard
2099 =item Broken systems
2109 =head2 perlunicode - Unicode support in Perl
2117 =item Important Caveats
2119 Input and Output Disciplines, Regular Expressions, C<use utf8> still needed
2120 to enable UTF-8/UTF-EBCDIC in scripts
2122 =item Byte and Character semantics
2124 =item Effects of character semantics
2130 =item Character encodings for input and output
2136 =item UNICODE REGULAR EXPRESSION SUPPORT LEVEL
2142 =head2 perlebcdic - Considerations for running Perl on EBCDIC platforms
2148 =item COMMON CHARACTER CODE SETS
2156 =item Latin 1 (ISO 8859-1)
2160 =item 13 variant characters
2168 =item Unicode and UTF
2172 =item SINGLE OCTET TABLES
2174 recipe 0, recipe 1, recipe 2, recipe 3, recipe 4, recipe 5, recipe 6
2176 =item IDENTIFYING CHARACTER CODE SETS
2190 =item OPERATOR DIFFERENCES
2192 =item FUNCTION DIFFERENCES
2194 chr(), ord(), pack(), print(), printf(), sort(), sprintf(), unpack()
2196 =item REGULAR EXPRESSION DIFFERENCES
2204 =item Ignore ASCII vs. EBCDIC sort differences.
2206 =item MONO CASE then sort data.
2208 =item Convert, sort data, then re convert.
2210 =item Perform sorting on one type of machine only.
2214 =item TRANSFORMATION FORMATS
2218 =item URL decoding and encoding
2220 =item uu encoding and decoding
2222 =item Quoted-Printable encoding and decoding
2224 =item Caesarian ciphers
2228 =item Hashing order and checksums
2232 =item MULTI OCTET CHARACTER SETS
2244 chcp, dataset access, OS/390, z/OS iconv, locales
2264 =head2 perlsec - Perl security
2272 =item Laundering and Detecting Tainted Data
2274 =item Switches On the "#!" Line
2276 =item Cleaning Up Your Path
2280 =item Protecting Your Programs
2288 =head2 perlmod - Perl modules (packages and symbol tables)
2300 =item Package Constructors and Destructors
2306 =item Making your module threadsafe
2314 =head2 perlmodinstall - Installing CPAN Modules
2324 B<DECOMPRESS> the file, B<UNPACK> the file into a directory, B<BUILD> the
2325 module (sometimes unnecessary), B<INSTALL> the module
2339 =head2 perlmodlib - constructing new Perl modules and finding existing ones
2345 =item THE PERL MODULE LIBRARY
2349 =item Pragmatic Modules
2351 attributes, attrs, autouse, base, blib, bytes, charnames, constant,
2352 diagnostics, fields, filetest, integer, less, locale, open, ops, overload,
2353 re, sigtrap, strict, subs, threads, utf8, vars, warnings,
2356 =item Standard Modules
2358 AnyDBM_File, Attribute::Handlers, AutoLoader, AutoSplit, B, B::Asmdata,
2359 B::Assembler, B::Bblock, B::Bytecode, B::C, B::CC, B::Concise, B::Debug,
2360 B::Deparse, B::Disassembler, B::Lint, B::Showlex, B::Stackobj, B::Stash,
2361 B::Terse, B::Xref, Benchmark, ByteLoader, CGI, CGI::Apache, CGI::Carp,
2362 CGI::Cookie, CGI::Fast, CGI::Pretty, CGI::Push, CGI::Switch, CGI::Util,
2363 CPAN, CPAN::FirstTime, CPAN::Nox, Carp, Carp::Heavy, Class::ISA,
2364 Class::Struct, Cwd, DB, DB_File, Devel::SelfStubber, Digest, DirHandle,
2365 Dumpvalue, Encode, Encode::EncodeFormat, Encode::Tcl, English, Env,
2366 Exporter, Exporter::Heavy, ExtUtils::Command, ExtUtils::Constant,
2367 ExtUtils::Embed, ExtUtils::Install, ExtUtils::Installed, ExtUtils::Liblist,
2368 ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin, ExtUtils::MM_NW5, ExtUtils::MM_OS2, ExtUtils::MM_Unix,
2369 ExtUtils::MM_VMS, ExtUtils::MM_Win32, ExtUtils::MakeMaker,
2370 ExtUtils::Manifest, ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap, ExtUtils::Mksymlists,
2371 ExtUtils::Packlist, ExtUtils::testlib, Fatal, Fcntl, File::Basename,
2372 File::CheckTree, File::Compare, File::Copy, File::DosGlob, File::Find,
2373 File::Path, File::Spec, File::Spec::Epoc, File::Spec::Functions,
2374 File::Spec::Mac, File::Spec::OS2, File::Spec::Unix, File::Spec::VMS,
2375 File::Spec::Win32, File::Temp, File::stat, FileCache, FileHandle,
2376 Filter::Simple, FindBin, Getopt::Long, Getopt::Std, I18N::Collate,
2377 I18N::LangTags, I18N::LangTags::List, IO, IPC::Open2, IPC::Open3,
2378 Lingua::KO::Hangul::Util, Locale::Constants, Locale::Country,
2379 Locale::Currency, Locale::Language, Locale::Maketext,
2380 Locale::Maketext::TPJ13, Math::BigFloat, Math::BigInt, Math::BigInt::Calc,
2381 Math::Complex, Math::Trig, Memoize, Memoize::AnyDBM_File, Memoize::Expire,
2382 Memoize::ExpireFile, Memoize::ExpireTest, Memoize::NDBM_File,
2383 Memoize::SDBM_File, Memoize::Saves, Memoize::Storable, NDBM_File, NEXT,
2384 Net::Cmd, Net::Config, Net::Domain, Net::FTP, Net::NNTP, Net::Netrc,
2385 Net::POP3, Net::Ping, Net::SMTP, Net::Time, Net::hostent, Net::libnetFAQ,
2386 Net::netent, Net::protoent, Net::servent, O, ODBM_File, Opcode, POSIX,
2387 PerlIO, Pod::Checker, Pod::Find, Pod::Html, Pod::InputObjects, Pod::LaTeX,
2388 Pod::Man, Pod::ParseUtils, Pod::Parser, Pod::Plainer, Pod::Select,
2389 Pod::Text, Pod::Text::Color, Pod::Text::Overstrike, Pod::Text::Termcap,
2390 Pod::Usage, SDBM_File, Safe, Search::Dict, SelectSaver, SelfLoader, Shell,
2391 Socket, Storable, Switch, Symbol, Term::ANSIColor, Term::Cap,
2392 Term::Complete, Term::ReadLine, Test, Test::Harness, Test::More,
2393 Test::Simple, Test::Tutorial, Text::Abbrev, Text::Balanced,
2394 Text::ParseWords, Text::Soundex, Text::Tabs, Text::Wrap, Tie::Array,
2395 Tie::Handle, Tie::Hash, Tie::RefHash, Tie::Scalar, Tie::SubstrHash,
2396 Time::Local, Time::gmtime, Time::localtime, Time::tm, UNIVERSAL,
2397 Unicode::Collate, Unicode::Normalize, Unicode::UCD, User::grent,
2400 =item Extension Modules
2412 =item Central America
2424 =item Modules: Creation, Use, and Abuse
2428 =item Guidelines for Module Creation
2430 Adding a Copyright Notice
2432 =item Guidelines for Converting Perl 4 Library Scripts into Modules
2434 =item Guidelines for Reusing Application Code
2442 =head2 perlmodstyle - Perl module style guide
2448 =item QUICK CHECKLIST
2452 =item Before you start
2460 =item Release considerations
2464 =item BEFORE YOU START WRITING A MODULE
2468 =item Has it been done before?
2470 =item Do one thing and do it well
2472 =item What's in a name?
2476 =item DESIGNING AND WRITING YOUR MODULE
2480 =item To OO or not to OO?
2482 =item Designing your API
2484 Write simple routines to do simple things, Separate functionality from
2485 output, Provide sensible shortcuts and defaults, Naming conventions,
2488 =item Strictness and warnings
2490 =item Backwards compatibility
2492 =item Error handling and messages
2496 =item DOCUMENTING YOUR MODULE
2502 =item README, INSTALL, release notes, changelogs
2506 =item RELEASE CONSIDERATIONS
2510 =item Version numbering
2512 =item Pre-requisites
2522 =item COMMON PITFALLS
2526 =item Reinventing the wheel
2528 =item Trying to do too much
2530 =item Inappropriate documentation
2536 L<perlstyle>, L<perlnewmod>, L<perlpod>, L<podchecker>, Testing tools,
2537 http://pause.perl.org/, Any good book on software engineering
2543 =head2 perlnewmod - preparing a new module for distribution
2553 =item What should I make into a module?
2555 =item Step-by-step: Preparing the ground
2557 Look around, Check it's new, Discuss the need, Choose a name, Check again
2559 =item Step-by-step: Making the module
2561 Start with F<h2xs>, Use L<strict|strict> and L<warnings|warnings>, Use
2562 L<Carp|Carp>, Use L<Exporter|Exporter> - wisely!, Use L<plain old
2563 documentation|perlpod>, Write tests, Write the README
2565 =item Step-by-step: Distributing your module
2567 Get a CPAN user ID, C<perl Makefile.PL; make test; make dist>, Upload the
2568 tarball, Announce to the modules list, Announce to clpa, Fix bugs!
2578 =head2 perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.1 $, $Date:
2579 2001/09/20 03:03:00 $)
2589 =item Who supports Perl? Who develops it? Why is it free?
2591 =item Which version of Perl should I use?
2593 =item What are perl4 and perl5?
2595 =item What is perl6?
2597 =item How stable is Perl?
2599 =item Is Perl difficult to learn?
2601 =item How does Perl compare with other languages like Java, Python, REXX,
2604 =item Can I do [task] in Perl?
2606 =item When shouldn't I program in Perl?
2608 =item What's the difference between "perl" and "Perl"?
2610 =item Is it a Perl program or a Perl script?
2612 =item What is a JAPH?
2614 =item Where can I get a list of Larry Wall witticisms?
2616 =item How can I convince my sysadmin/supervisor/employees to use version
2617 5/5.005/Perl instead of some other language?
2621 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
2625 =head2 perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.2 $,
2626 $Date: 2001/10/16 13:27:22 $)
2634 =item What machines support Perl? Where do I get it?
2636 =item How can I get a binary version of Perl?
2638 =item I don't have a C compiler on my system. How can I compile perl?
2640 =item I copied the Perl binary from one machine to another, but scripts
2643 =item I grabbed the sources and tried to compile but gdbm/dynamic
2644 loading/malloc/linking/... failed. How do I make it work?
2646 =item What modules and extensions are available for Perl? What is CPAN?
2647 What does CPAN/src/... mean?
2649 =item Is there an ISO or ANSI certified version of Perl?
2651 =item Where can I get information on Perl?
2653 =item What are the Perl newsgroups on Usenet? Where do I post questions?
2655 =item Where should I post source code?
2659 References, Tutorials, Task-Oriented, Special Topics
2661 =item Perl in Magazines
2663 =item Perl on the Net: FTP and WWW Access
2665 =item What mailing lists are there for Perl?
2667 =item Archives of comp.lang.perl.misc
2669 =item Where can I buy a commercial version of Perl?
2671 =item Where do I send bug reports?
2673 =item What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org?
2677 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
2681 =head2 perlfaq3 - Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.8 $, $Date: 2001/10/17
2690 =item How do I do (anything)?
2692 =item How can I use Perl interactively?
2694 =item Is there a Perl shell?
2696 =item How do I debug my Perl programs?
2698 =item How do I profile my Perl programs?
2700 =item How do I cross-reference my Perl programs?
2702 =item Is there a pretty-printer (formatter) for Perl?
2704 =item Is there a ctags for Perl?
2706 =item Is there an IDE or Windows Perl Editor?
2708 Komodo, The Object System, Open Perl IDE, PerlBuilder, visiPerl+,
2709 CodeMagicCD, GNU Emacs, MicroEMACS, XEmacs, Elvis, Vile, Vim, Codewright,
2710 MultiEdit, SlickEdit, Bash, Ksh, Tcsh, Zsh, BBEdit and BBEdit Lite, Alpha
2712 =item Where can I get Perl macros for vi?
2714 =item Where can I get perl-mode for emacs?
2716 =item How can I use curses with Perl?
2718 =item How can I use X or Tk with Perl?
2720 =item How can I generate simple menus without using CGI or Tk?
2722 =item What is undump?
2724 =item How can I make my Perl program run faster?
2726 =item How can I make my Perl program take less memory?
2728 Don't slurp!, Use map and grep selectively, Avoid unnecessary quotes and
2729 stringification, Pass by reference, Tie large variables to disk
2731 =item Is it unsafe to return a pointer to local data?
2733 =item How can I free an array or hash so my program shrinks?
2735 =item How can I make my CGI script more efficient?
2737 =item How can I hide the source for my Perl program?
2739 =item How can I compile my Perl program into byte code or C?
2741 =item How can I compile Perl into Java?
2743 =item How can I get C<#!perl> to work on [MS-DOS,NT,...]?
2745 =item Can I write useful Perl programs on the command line?
2747 =item Why don't Perl one-liners work on my DOS/Mac/VMS system?
2749 =item Where can I learn about CGI or Web programming in Perl?
2751 =item Where can I learn about linking C with Perl? [h2xs, xsubpp]
2753 =item I've read perlembed, perlguts, etc., but I can't embed perl in
2754 my C program; what am I doing wrong?
2756 =item When I tried to run my script, I got this message. What does it
2759 =item What's MakeMaker?
2763 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
2767 =head2 perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation ($Revision: 1.7 $, $Date: 2001/10/26
2778 =item Why am I getting long decimals (eg, 19.9499999999999) instead of the
2779 numbers I should be getting (eg, 19.95)?
2781 =item Why isn't my octal data interpreted correctly?
2783 =item Does Perl have a round() function? What about ceil() and floor()?
2786 =item How do I convert between numeric representations:
2788 B<How do I convert Hexadecimal into decimal:>, B<How do I convert from
2789 decimal to hexadecimal:>, B<How do I convert from octal to decimal:>, B<How
2790 do I convert from decimal to octal:>, B<How do I convert from binary to
2791 decimal:>, B<How do I convert from decimal to binary:>
2793 =item Why doesn't & work the way I want it to?
2795 =item How do I multiply matrices?
2797 =item How do I perform an operation on a series of integers?
2799 =item How can I output Roman numerals?
2801 =item Why aren't my random numbers random?
2809 =item How do I find the week-of-the-year/day-of-the-year?
2811 =item How do I find the current century or millennium?
2813 =item How can I compare two dates and find the difference?
2815 =item How can I take a string and turn it into epoch seconds?
2817 =item How can I find the Julian Day?
2819 =item How do I find yesterday's date?
2821 =item Does Perl have a Year 2000 problem? Is Perl Y2K compliant?
2829 =item How do I validate input?
2831 =item How do I unescape a string?
2833 =item How do I remove consecutive pairs of characters?
2835 =item How do I expand function calls in a string?
2837 =item How do I find matching/nesting anything?
2839 =item How do I reverse a string?
2841 =item How do I expand tabs in a string?
2843 =item How do I reformat a paragraph?
2845 =item How can I access/change the first N letters of a string?
2847 =item How do I change the Nth occurrence of something?
2849 =item How can I count the number of occurrences of a substring within a
2852 =item How do I capitalize all the words on one line?
2854 =item How can I split a [character] delimited string except when inside
2855 [character]? (Comma-separated files)
2857 =item How do I strip blank space from the beginning/end of a string?
2859 =item How do I pad a string with blanks or pad a number with zeroes?
2861 =item How do I extract selected columns from a string?
2863 =item How do I find the soundex value of a string?
2865 =item How can I expand variables in text strings?
2867 =item What's wrong with always quoting "$vars"?
2869 =item Why don't my <<HERE documents work?
2871 1. There must be no space after the << part, 2. There (probably) should be
2872 a semicolon at the end, 3. You can't (easily) have any space in front of
2881 =item What is the difference between a list and an array?
2883 =item What is the difference between $array[1] and @array[1]?
2885 =item How can I remove duplicate elements from a list or array?
2889 =item How can I tell whether a certain element is contained in a list or
2892 =item How do I compute the difference of two arrays? How do I compute the
2893 intersection of two arrays?
2895 =item How do I test whether two arrays or hashes are equal?
2897 =item How do I find the first array element for which a condition is true?
2899 =item How do I handle linked lists?
2901 =item How do I handle circular lists?
2903 =item How do I shuffle an array randomly?
2905 =item How do I process/modify each element of an array?
2907 =item How do I select a random element from an array?
2909 =item How do I permute N elements of a list?
2911 =item How do I sort an array by (anything)?
2913 =item How do I manipulate arrays of bits?
2915 =item Why does defined() return true on empty arrays and hashes?
2919 =item Data: Hashes (Associative Arrays)
2923 =item How do I process an entire hash?
2925 =item What happens if I add or remove keys from a hash while iterating over
2928 =item How do I look up a hash element by value?
2930 =item How can I know how many entries are in a hash?
2932 =item How do I sort a hash (optionally by value instead of key)?
2934 =item How can I always keep my hash sorted?
2936 =item What's the difference between "delete" and "undef" with hashes?
2938 =item Why don't my tied hashes make the defined/exists distinction?
2940 =item How do I reset an each() operation part-way through?
2942 =item How can I get the unique keys from two hashes?
2944 =item How can I store a multidimensional array in a DBM file?
2946 =item How can I make my hash remember the order I put elements into it?
2948 =item Why does passing a subroutine an undefined element in a hash create
2951 =item How can I make the Perl equivalent of a C structure/C++ class/hash or
2952 array of hashes or arrays?
2954 =item How can I use a reference as a hash key?
2962 =item How do I handle binary data correctly?
2964 =item How do I determine whether a scalar is a number/whole/integer/float?
2966 =item How do I keep persistent data across program calls?
2968 =item How do I print out or copy a recursive data structure?
2970 =item How do I define methods for every class/object?
2972 =item How do I verify a credit card checksum?
2974 =item How do I pack arrays of doubles or floats for XS code?
2978 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
2982 =head2 perlfaq5 - Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.3 $, $Date: 2001/10/16
2991 =item How do I flush/unbuffer an output filehandle? Why must I do this?
2993 =item How do I change one line in a file/delete a line in a file/insert a
2994 line in the middle of a file/append to the beginning of a file?
2996 =item How do I count the number of lines in a file?
2998 =item How do I make a temporary file name?
3000 =item How can I manipulate fixed-record-length files?
3002 =item How can I make a filehandle local to a subroutine? How do I pass
3003 filehandles between subroutines? How do I make an array of filehandles?
3005 =item How can I use a filehandle indirectly?
3007 =item How can I set up a footer format to be used with write()?
3009 =item How can I write() into a string?
3011 =item How can I output my numbers with commas added?
3013 =item How can I translate tildes (~) in a filename?
3015 =item How come when I open a file read-write it wipes it out?
3017 =item Why do I sometimes get an "Argument list too long" when I use <*>?
3019 =item Is there a leak/bug in glob()?
3021 =item How can I open a file with a leading ">" or trailing blanks?
3023 =item How can I reliably rename a file?
3025 =item How can I lock a file?
3027 =item Why can't I just open(FH, ">file.lock")?
3029 =item I still don't get locking. I just want to increment the number in
3030 the file. How can I do this?
3032 =item All I want to do is append a small amount of text to the end of a
3033 file. Do I still have to use locking?
3035 =item How do I randomly update a binary file?
3037 =item How do I get a file's timestamp in perl?
3039 =item How do I set a file's timestamp in perl?
3041 =item How do I print to more than one file at once?
3043 =item How can I read in an entire file all at once?
3045 =item How can I read in a file by paragraphs?
3047 =item How can I read a single character from a file? From the keyboard?
3049 =item How can I tell whether there's a character waiting on a filehandle?
3051 =item How do I do a C<tail -f> in perl?
3053 =item How do I dup() a filehandle in Perl?
3055 =item How do I close a file descriptor by number?
3057 =item Why can't I use "C:\temp\foo" in DOS paths? What doesn't
3058 `C:\temp\foo.exe` work?
3060 =item Why doesn't glob("*.*") get all the files?
3062 =item Why does Perl let me delete read-only files? Why does C<-i> clobber
3063 protected files? Isn't this a bug in Perl?
3065 =item How do I select a random line from a file?
3067 =item Why do I get weird spaces when I print an array of lines?
3071 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3075 =head2 perlfaq6 - Regexes ($Revision: 1.3 $, $Date: 2001/10/16 13:27:22 $)
3083 =item How can I hope to use regular expressions without creating illegible
3084 and unmaintainable code?
3086 Comments Outside the Regex, Comments Inside the Regex, Different Delimiters
3088 =item I'm having trouble matching over more than one line. What's wrong?
3090 =item How can I pull out lines between two patterns that are themselves on
3093 =item I put a regular expression into $/ but it didn't work. What's wrong?
3095 =item How do I substitute case insensitively on the LHS while preserving
3098 =item How can I make C<\w> match national character sets?
3100 =item How can I match a locale-smart version of C</[a-zA-Z]/>?
3102 =item How can I quote a variable to use in a regex?
3104 =item What is C</o> really for?
3106 =item How do I use a regular expression to strip C style comments from a
3109 =item Can I use Perl regular expressions to match balanced text?
3111 =item What does it mean that regexes are greedy? How can I get around it?
3113 =item How do I process each word on each line?
3115 =item How can I print out a word-frequency or line-frequency summary?
3117 =item How can I do approximate matching?
3119 =item How do I efficiently match many regular expressions at once?
3121 =item Why don't word-boundary searches with C<\b> work for me?
3123 =item Why does using $&, $`, or $' slow my program down?
3125 =item What good is C<\G> in a regular expression?
3127 =item Are Perl regexes DFAs or NFAs? Are they POSIX compliant?
3129 =item What's wrong with using grep or map in a void context?
3131 =item How can I match strings with multibyte characters?
3133 =item How do I match a pattern that is supplied by the user?
3137 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3141 =head2 perlfaq7 - Perl Language Issues ($Revision: 1.3 $, $Date: 2001/10/19
3150 =item Can I get a BNF/yacc/RE for the Perl language?
3152 =item What are all these $@%&* punctuation signs, and how do I know when to
3155 =item Do I always/never have to quote my strings or use semicolons and
3158 =item How do I skip some return values?
3160 =item How do I temporarily block warnings?
3162 =item What's an extension?
3164 =item Why do Perl operators have different precedence than C operators?
3166 =item How do I declare/create a structure?
3168 =item How do I create a module?
3170 =item How do I create a class?
3172 =item How can I tell if a variable is tainted?
3174 =item What's a closure?
3176 =item What is variable suicide and how can I prevent it?
3178 =item How can I pass/return a {Function, FileHandle, Array, Hash, Method,
3181 Passing Variables and Functions, Passing Filehandles, Passing Regexes,
3184 =item How do I create a static variable?
3186 =item What's the difference between dynamic and lexical (static) scoping?
3187 Between local() and my()?
3189 =item How can I access a dynamic variable while a similarly named lexical
3192 =item What's the difference between deep and shallow binding?
3194 =item Why doesn't "my($foo) = <FILE>;" work right?
3196 =item How do I redefine a builtin function, operator, or method?
3198 =item What's the difference between calling a function as &foo and foo()?
3200 =item How do I create a switch or case statement?
3202 =item How can I catch accesses to undefined variables/functions/methods?
3204 =item Why can't a method included in this same file be found?
3206 =item How can I find out my current package?
3208 =item How can I comment out a large block of perl code?
3210 =item How do I clear a package?
3212 =item How can I use a variable as a variable name?
3216 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3220 =head2 perlfaq8 - System Interaction ($Revision: 1.2 $, $Date: 2001/10/16
3229 =item How do I find out which operating system I'm running under?
3231 =item How come exec() doesn't return?
3233 =item How do I do fancy stuff with the keyboard/screen/mouse?
3235 Keyboard, Screen, Mouse
3237 =item How do I print something out in color?
3239 =item How do I read just one key without waiting for a return key?
3241 =item How do I check whether input is ready on the keyboard?
3243 =item How do I clear the screen?
3245 =item How do I get the screen size?
3247 =item How do I ask the user for a password?
3249 =item How do I read and write the serial port?
3251 lockfiles, open mode, end of line, flushing output, non-blocking input
3253 =item How do I decode encrypted password files?
3255 =item How do I start a process in the background?
3257 STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR are shared, Signals, Zombies
3259 =item How do I trap control characters/signals?
3261 =item How do I modify the shadow password file on a Unix system?
3263 =item How do I set the time and date?
3265 =item How can I sleep() or alarm() for under a second?
3267 =item How can I measure time under a second?
3269 =item How can I do an atexit() or setjmp()/longjmp()? (Exception handling)
3271 =item Why doesn't my sockets program work under System V (Solaris)? What
3272 does the error message "Protocol not supported" mean?
3274 =item How can I call my system's unique C functions from Perl?
3276 =item Where do I get the include files to do ioctl() or syscall()?
3278 =item Why do setuid perl scripts complain about kernel problems?
3280 =item How can I open a pipe both to and from a command?
3282 =item Why can't I get the output of a command with system()?
3284 =item How can I capture STDERR from an external command?
3286 =item Why doesn't open() return an error when a pipe open fails?
3288 =item What's wrong with using backticks in a void context?
3290 =item How can I call backticks without shell processing?
3292 =item Why can't my script read from STDIN after I gave it EOF (^D on Unix,
3295 =item How can I convert my shell script to perl?
3297 =item Can I use perl to run a telnet or ftp session?
3299 =item How can I write expect in Perl?
3301 =item Is there a way to hide perl's command line from programs such as
3304 =item I {changed directory, modified my environment} in a perl script. How
3305 come the change disappeared when I exited the script? How do I get my
3306 changes to be visible?
3310 =item How do I close a process's filehandle without waiting for it to
3313 =item How do I fork a daemon process?
3315 =item How do I find out if I'm running interactively or not?
3317 =item How do I timeout a slow event?
3319 =item How do I set CPU limits?
3321 =item How do I avoid zombies on a Unix system?
3323 =item How do I use an SQL database?
3325 =item How do I make a system() exit on control-C?
3327 =item How do I open a file without blocking?
3329 =item How do I install a module from CPAN?
3331 =item What's the difference between require and use?
3333 =item How do I keep my own module/library directory?
3335 =item How do I add the directory my program lives in to the module/library
3338 =item How do I add a directory to my include path at runtime?
3340 =item What is socket.ph and where do I get it?
3344 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3348 =head2 perlfaq9 - Networking ($Revision: 1.3 $, $Date: 2001/10/16 13:27:22
3357 =item What is the correct form of response from a CGI script?
3359 =item My CGI script runs from the command line but not the browser. (500
3362 =item How can I get better error messages from a CGI program?
3364 =item How do I remove HTML from a string?
3366 =item How do I extract URLs?
3368 =item How do I download a file from the user's machine? How do I open a
3369 file on another machine?
3371 =item How do I make a pop-up menu in HTML?
3373 =item How do I fetch an HTML file?
3375 =item How do I automate an HTML form submission?
3377 =item How do I decode or create those %-encodings on the web?
3379 =item How do I redirect to another page?
3381 =item How do I put a password on my web pages?
3383 =item How do I edit my .htpasswd and .htgroup files with Perl?
3385 =item How do I make sure users can't enter values into a form that cause my
3386 CGI script to do bad things?
3388 =item How do I parse a mail header?
3390 =item How do I decode a CGI form?
3392 =item How do I check a valid mail address?
3394 =item How do I decode a MIME/BASE64 string?
3396 =item How do I return the user's mail address?
3398 =item How do I send mail?
3400 =item How do I use MIME to make an attachment to a mail message?
3402 =item How do I read mail?
3404 =item How do I find out my hostname/domainname/IP address?
3406 =item How do I fetch a news article or the active newsgroups?
3408 =item How do I fetch/put an FTP file?
3410 =item How can I do RPC in Perl?
3414 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3418 =head2 perlcompile - Introduction to the Perl Compiler-Translator
3428 B::Bytecode, B::C, B::CC, B::Lint, B::Deparse, B::Xref
3432 =item Using The Back Ends
3436 =item The Cross Referencing Back End
3440 =item The Decompiling Back End
3442 =item The Lint Back End
3444 =item The Simple C Back End
3446 =item The Bytecode Back End
3448 =item The Optimized C Back End
3450 B, O, B::Asmdata, B::Assembler, B::Bblock, B::Bytecode, B::C, B::CC,
3451 B::Debug, B::Deparse, B::Disassembler, B::Lint, B::Showlex, B::Stackobj,
3452 B::Stash, B::Terse, B::Xref
3456 =item KNOWN PROBLEMS
3462 =head2 perlembed - how to embed perl in your C program
3472 B<Use C from Perl?>, B<Use a Unix program from Perl?>, B<Use Perl from
3473 Perl?>, B<Use C from C?>, B<Use Perl from C?>
3477 =item Compiling your C program
3479 =item Adding a Perl interpreter to your C program
3481 =item Calling a Perl subroutine from your C program
3483 =item Evaluating a Perl statement from your C program
3485 =item Performing Perl pattern matches and substitutions from your C program
3487 =item Fiddling with the Perl stack from your C program
3489 =item Maintaining a persistent interpreter
3491 =item Execution of END blocks
3493 =item Maintaining multiple interpreter instances
3495 =item Using Perl modules, which themselves use C libraries, from your C
3500 =item Embedding Perl under Win32
3510 =head2 perldebguts - Guts of Perl debugging
3516 =item Debugger Internals
3520 =item Writing Your Own Debugger
3524 =item Frame Listing Output Examples
3526 =item Debugging regular expressions
3530 =item Compile-time output
3532 C<anchored> I<STRING> C<at> I<POS>, C<floating> I<STRING> C<at>
3533 I<POS1..POS2>, C<matching floating/anchored>, C<minlen>, C<stclass>
3534 I<TYPE>, C<noscan>, C<isall>, C<GPOS>, C<plus>, C<implicit>, C<with eval>,
3537 =item Types of nodes
3539 =item Run-time output
3543 =item Debugging Perl memory usage
3547 =item Using C<$ENV{PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS}>
3549 C<buckets SMALLEST(APPROX)..GREATEST(APPROX)>, Free/Used, C<Total sbrk():
3550 SBRKed/SBRKs:CONTINUOUS>, C<pad: 0>, C<heads: 2192>, C<chain: 0>, C<tail:
3553 =item Example of using B<-DL> switch
3555 C<717>, C<002>, C<054>, C<602>, C<702>, C<704>
3557 =item B<-DL> details
3561 =item Limitations of B<-DL> statistics
3569 =head2 perlxstut, perlXStut - Tutorial for writing XSUBs
3581 =item Version caveat
3583 =item Dynamic Loading versus Static Loading
3595 =item What has gone on?
3597 =item Writing good test scripts
3601 =item What's new here?
3603 =item Input and Output Parameters
3605 =item The XSUBPP Program
3607 =item The TYPEMAP file
3609 =item Warning about Output Arguments
3613 =item What has happened here?
3615 =item Anatomy of .xs file
3617 =item Getting the fat out of XSUBs
3619 =item More about XSUB arguments
3621 =item The Argument Stack
3623 =item Extending your Extension
3625 =item Documenting your Extension
3627 =item Installing your Extension
3631 =item New Things in this Example
3635 =item New Things in this Example
3637 =item EXAMPLE 7 (Coming Soon)
3639 =item EXAMPLE 8 (Coming Soon)
3641 =item EXAMPLE 9 (Coming Soon)
3643 =item Troubleshooting these Examples
3659 =head2 perlxs - XS language reference manual
3671 =item The Anatomy of an XSUB
3673 =item The Argument Stack
3675 =item The RETVAL Variable
3677 =item The MODULE Keyword
3679 =item The PACKAGE Keyword
3681 =item The PREFIX Keyword
3683 =item The OUTPUT: Keyword
3685 =item The NO_OUTPUT Keyword
3687 =item The CODE: Keyword
3689 =item The INIT: Keyword
3691 =item The NO_INIT Keyword
3693 =item Initializing Function Parameters
3695 =item Default Parameter Values
3697 =item The PREINIT: Keyword
3699 =item The SCOPE: Keyword
3701 =item The INPUT: Keyword
3703 =item The IN/OUTLIST/IN_OUTLIST/OUT/IN_OUT Keywords
3705 =item Variable-length Parameter Lists
3707 =item The C_ARGS: Keyword
3709 =item The PPCODE: Keyword
3711 =item Returning Undef And Empty Lists
3713 =item The REQUIRE: Keyword
3715 =item The CLEANUP: Keyword
3717 =item The POSTCALL: Keyword
3719 =item The BOOT: Keyword
3721 =item The VERSIONCHECK: Keyword
3723 =item The PROTOTYPES: Keyword
3725 =item The PROTOTYPE: Keyword
3727 =item The ALIAS: Keyword
3729 =item The INTERFACE: Keyword
3731 =item The INTERFACE_MACRO: Keyword
3733 =item The INCLUDE: Keyword
3735 =item The CASE: Keyword
3737 =item The & Unary Operator
3739 =item Inserting POD, Comments and C Preprocessor Directives
3741 =item Using XS With C++
3743 =item Interface Strategy
3745 =item Perl Objects And C Structures
3759 =head2 perlclib - Internal replacements for standard C library functions
3769 C<t>, C<p>, C<n>, C<s>
3771 =item File Operations
3773 =item File Input and Output
3775 =item File Positioning
3777 =item Memory Management and String Handling
3779 =item Character Class Tests
3781 =item F<stdlib.h> functions
3783 =item Miscellaneous functions
3791 =head2 perlguts - Introduction to the Perl API
3803 =item What is an "IV"?
3805 =item Working with SVs
3809 =item What's Really Stored in an SV?
3811 =item Working with AVs
3813 =item Working with HVs
3815 =item Hash API Extensions
3819 =item Blessed References and Class Objects
3821 =item Creating New Variables
3823 =item Reference Counts and Mortality
3825 =item Stashes and Globs
3827 =item Double-Typed SVs
3829 =item Magic Variables
3831 =item Assigning Magic
3833 =item Magic Virtual Tables
3837 =item Understanding the Magic of Tied Hashes and Arrays
3839 =item Localizing changes
3841 C<SAVEINT(int i)>, C<SAVEIV(IV i)>, C<SAVEI32(I32 i)>, C<SAVELONG(long i)>,
3842 C<SAVESPTR(s)>, C<SAVEPPTR(p)>, C<SAVEFREESV(SV *sv)>, C<SAVEMORTALIZESV(SV
3843 *sv)>, C<SAVEFREEOP(OP *op)>, C<SAVEFREEPV(p)>, C<SAVECLEARSV(SV *sv)>,
3844 C<SAVEDELETE(HV *hv, char *key, I32 length)>,
3845 C<SAVEDESTRUCTOR(DESTRUCTORFUNC_NOCONTEXT_t f, void *p)>,
3846 C<SAVEDESTRUCTOR_X(DESTRUCTORFUNC_t f, void *p)>, C<SAVESTACK_POS()>, C<SV*
3847 save_scalar(GV *gv)>, C<AV* save_ary(GV *gv)>, C<HV* save_hash(GV *gv)>,
3848 C<void save_item(SV *item)>, C<void save_list(SV **sarg, I32 maxsarg)>,
3849 C<SV* save_svref(SV **sptr)>, C<void save_aptr(AV **aptr)>, C<void
3850 save_hptr(HV **hptr)>
3858 =item XSUBs and the Argument Stack
3860 =item Calling Perl Routines from within C Programs
3862 =item Memory Allocation
3866 =item Putting a C value on Perl stack
3870 =item Scratchpads and recursion
3880 =item Examining the tree
3882 =item Compile pass 1: check routines
3884 =item Compile pass 1a: constant folding
3886 =item Compile pass 2: context propagation
3888 =item Compile pass 3: peephole optimization
3890 =item Pluggable runops
3894 =item Examining internal data structures with the C<dump> functions
3896 =item How multiple interpreters and concurrency are supported
3900 =item Background and PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
3902 =item So what happened to dTHR?
3904 =item How do I use all this in extensions?
3906 =item Should I do anything special if I call perl from multiple threads?
3908 =item Future Plans and PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
3912 =item Internal Functions
3914 A, p, d, s, n, r, f, M, o, j, x
3918 =item Formatted Printing of IVs, UVs, and NVs
3920 =item Pointer-To-Integer and Integer-To-Pointer
3922 =item Source Documentation
3926 =item Unicode Support
3930 =item What B<is> Unicode, anyway?
3932 =item How can I recognise a UTF8 string?
3934 =item How does UTF8 represent Unicode characters?
3936 =item How does Perl store UTF8 strings?
3938 =item How do I convert a string to UTF8?
3940 =item Is there anything else I need to know?
3944 =item Custom Operators
3952 =head2 perlcall - Perl calling conventions from C
3958 An Error Handler, An Event Driven Program
3960 =item THE CALL_ FUNCTIONS
3962 call_sv, call_pv, call_method, call_argv
3982 =item Determining the Context
3986 =item KNOWN PROBLEMS
3992 =item No Parameters, Nothing returned
3994 =item Passing Parameters
3996 =item Returning a Scalar
3998 =item Returning a list of values
4000 =item Returning a list in a scalar context
4002 =item Returning Data from Perl via the parameter list
4006 =item Using G_KEEPERR
4010 =item Using call_argv
4012 =item Using call_method
4016 =item Using Perl to dispose of temporaries
4018 =item Strategies for storing Callback Context Information
4020 1. Ignore the problem - Allow only 1 callback, 2. Create a sequence of
4021 callbacks - hard wired limit, 3. Use a parameter to map to the Perl
4024 =item Alternate Stack Manipulation
4026 =item Creating and calling an anonymous subroutine in C
4038 =head2 perlutil - utilities packaged with the Perl distribution
4048 L<perldoc|perldoc>, L<pod2man|pod2man> and L<pod2text|pod2text>,
4049 L<pod2html|pod2html> and L<pod2latex|pod2latex>, L<pod2usage|pod2usage>,
4050 L<podselect|podselect>, L<podchecker|podchecker>, L<splain|splain>,
4051 L<roffitall|roffitall>
4055 L<a2p|a2p>, L<s2p|s2p>, L<find2perl|find2perl>
4057 =item Administration
4059 L<libnetcfg|libnetcfg>
4063 L<perlbug|perlbug>, L<h2ph|h2ph>, L<c2ph|c2ph> and L<pstruct|pstruct>,
4064 L<h2xs|h2xs>, L<dprofpp|dprofpp>, L<perlcc|perlcc>
4072 =head2 perlfilter - Source Filters
4082 =item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER
4084 =item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER IN C
4086 B<Decryption Filters>
4088 =item CREATING A SOURCE FILTER AS A SEPARATE EXECUTABLE
4090 =item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER IN PERL
4092 =item USING CONTEXT: THE DEBUG FILTER
4104 =head2 perldbmfilter - Perl DBM Filters
4112 B<filter_store_key>, B<filter_store_value>, B<filter_fetch_key>,
4113 B<filter_fetch_value>
4119 =item An Example -- the NULL termination problem.
4121 =item Another Example -- Key is a C int.
4131 =head2 perlapi - autogenerated documentation for the perl public API
4137 AvFILL, av_clear, av_delete, av_exists, av_extend, av_fetch, av_fill,
4138 av_len, av_make, av_pop, av_push, av_shift, av_store, av_undef, av_unshift,
4139 ax, bytes_from_utf8, bytes_to_utf8, call_argv, call_method, call_pv,
4140 call_sv, CLASS, Copy, croak, CvSTASH, cv_const_sv, dAX, dITEMS, dMARK,
4141 dORIGMARK, dSP, dXSARGS, dXSI32, ENTER, eval_pv, eval_sv, EXTEND,
4142 fbm_compile, fbm_instr, FREETMPS, getcwd_sv, get_av, get_cv, get_hv,
4143 get_sv, GIMME, GIMME_V, grok_bin, grok_hex, grok_number,
4144 grok_numeric_radix, grok_oct, GvSV, gv_fetchmeth, gv_fetchmethod,
4145 gv_fetchmethod_autoload, gv_stashpv, gv_stashsv, G_ARRAY, G_DISCARD,
4146 G_EVAL, G_NOARGS, G_SCALAR, G_VOID, HEf_SVKEY, HeHASH, HeKEY, HeKLEN, HePV,
4147 HeSVKEY, HeSVKEY_force, HeSVKEY_set, HeVAL, HvNAME, hv_clear, hv_delete,
4148 hv_delete_ent, hv_exists, hv_exists_ent, hv_fetch, hv_fetch_ent,
4149 hv_iterinit, hv_iterkey, hv_iterkeysv, hv_iternext, hv_iternextsv,
4150 hv_iterval, hv_magic, hv_store, hv_store_ent, hv_undef, isALNUM, isALPHA,
4151 isDIGIT, isLOWER, isSPACE, isUPPER, is_utf8_char, is_utf8_string, items,
4152 ix, LEAVE, load_module, looks_like_number, MARK, mg_clear, mg_copy,
4153 mg_find, mg_free, mg_get, mg_length, mg_magical, mg_set, Move, New, newAV,
4154 Newc, newCONSTSUB, newHV, newRV_inc, newRV_noinc, newSV, NEWSV, newSViv,
4155 newSVnv, newSVpv, newSVpvf, newSVpvn, newSVpvn_share, newSVrv, newSVsv,
4156 newSVuv, newXS, newXSproto, Newz, Nullav, Nullch, Nullcv, Nullhv, Nullsv,
4157 ORIGMARK, perl_alloc, perl_clone, perl_construct, perl_destruct, perl_free,
4158 perl_parse, perl_run, PL_modglobal, PL_na, PL_sv_no, PL_sv_undef,
4159 PL_sv_yes, POPi, POPl, POPn, POPp, POPpbytex, POPpx, POPs, PUSHi, PUSHMARK,
4160 PUSHn, PUSHp, PUSHs, PUSHu, PUTBACK, Renew, Renewc, require_pv, RETVAL,
4161 Safefree, savepv, savepvn, SAVETMPS, scan_bin, scan_hex, scan_oct,
4162 sharedsv_find, sharedsv_init, sharedsv_lock, sharedsv_new,
4163 sharedsv_thrcnt_dec, sharedsv_thrcnt_inc, sharedsv_unlock, sortsv, SP,
4164 SPAGAIN, ST, strEQ, strGE, strGT, strLE, strLT, strNE, strnEQ, strnNE,
4165 StructCopy, SvCUR, SvCUR_set, SvEND, SvGETMAGIC, SvGROW, SvIOK, SvIOKp,
4166 SvIOK_notUV, SvIOK_off, SvIOK_on, SvIOK_only, SvIOK_only_UV, SvIOK_UV,
4167 SvIV, SvIVX, SvIVx, SvLEN, SvNIOK, SvNIOKp, SvNIOK_off, SvNOK, SvNOKp,
4168 SvNOK_off, SvNOK_on, SvNOK_only, SvNV, SvNVX, SvNVx, SvOK, SvOOK, SvPOK,
4169 SvPOKp, SvPOK_off, SvPOK_on, SvPOK_only, SvPOK_only_UTF8, SvPV, SvPVbyte,
4170 SvPVbytex, SvPVbytex_force, SvPVbyte_force, SvPVbyte_nolen, SvPVutf8,
4171 SvPVutf8x, SvPVutf8x_force, SvPVutf8_force, SvPVutf8_nolen, SvPVx, SvPVX,
4172 SvPV_force, SvPV_force_nomg, SvPV_nolen, SvREFCNT, SvREFCNT_dec,
4173 SvREFCNT_inc, SvROK, SvROK_off, SvROK_on, SvRV, SvSETMAGIC, SvSetMagicSV,
4174 SvSetMagicSV_nosteal, SvSetSV, SvSetSV_nosteal, SvSTASH, SvTAINT,
4175 SvTAINTED, SvTAINTED_off, SvTAINTED_on, SvTRUE, SvTYPE, svtype, SVt_IV,
4176 SVt_NV, SVt_PV, SVt_PVAV, SVt_PVCV, SVt_PVHV, SVt_PVMG, SvUOK, SvUPGRADE,
4177 SvUTF8, SvUTF8_off, SvUTF8_on, SvUV, SvUVX, SvUVx, sv_2bool, sv_2cv,
4178 sv_2io, sv_2iv, sv_2mortal, sv_2nv, sv_2pvbyte, sv_2pvbyte_nolen,
4179 sv_2pvutf8, sv_2pvutf8_nolen, sv_2pv_flags, sv_2pv_nolen, sv_2uv,
4180 sv_backoff, sv_bless, sv_catpv, sv_catpvf, sv_catpvf_mg, sv_catpvn,
4181 sv_catpvn_flags, sv_catpvn_mg, sv_catpv_mg, sv_catsv, sv_catsv_flags,
4182 sv_catsv_mg, sv_chop, sv_clear, sv_cmp, sv_cmp_locale, sv_collxfrm, sv_dec,
4183 sv_derived_from, sv_eq, sv_force_normal, sv_force_normal_flags, sv_free,
4184 sv_gets, sv_grow, sv_inc, sv_insert, sv_isa, sv_isobject, sv_iv, sv_len,
4185 sv_len_utf8, sv_magic, sv_mortalcopy, sv_newmortal, sv_newref, sv_nv,
4186 sv_pos_b2u, sv_pos_u2b, sv_pv, sv_pvbyte, sv_pvbyten, sv_pvbyten_force,
4187 sv_pvn, sv_pvn_force, sv_pvn_force_flags, sv_pvutf8, sv_pvutf8n,
4188 sv_pvutf8n_force, sv_reftype, sv_replace, sv_report_used, sv_reset,
4189 sv_rvweaken, sv_setiv, sv_setiv_mg, sv_setnv, sv_setnv_mg, sv_setpv,
4190 sv_setpvf, sv_setpvf_mg, sv_setpviv, sv_setpviv_mg, sv_setpvn,
4191 sv_setpvn_mg, sv_setpv_mg, sv_setref_iv, sv_setref_nv, sv_setref_pv,
4192 sv_setref_pvn, sv_setref_uv, sv_setsv, sv_setsv_flags, sv_setsv_mg,
4193 sv_setuv, sv_setuv_mg, sv_taint, sv_tainted, sv_true, sv_unmagic, sv_unref,
4194 sv_unref_flags, sv_untaint, sv_upgrade, sv_usepvn, sv_usepvn_mg,
4195 sv_utf8_decode, sv_utf8_downgrade, sv_utf8_encode, sv_utf8_upgrade,
4196 sv_utf8_upgrade_flags, sv_uv, sv_vcatpvfn, sv_vsetpvfn, THIS, toLOWER,
4197 toUPPER, utf8n_to_uvchr, utf8n_to_uvuni, utf8_distance, utf8_hop,
4198 utf8_length, utf8_to_bytes, utf8_to_uvchr, utf8_to_uvuni, uvchr_to_utf8,
4199 uvuni_to_utf8, warn, XPUSHi, XPUSHn, XPUSHp, XPUSHs, XPUSHu, XS, XSRETURN,
4200 XSRETURN_EMPTY, XSRETURN_IV, XSRETURN_NO, XSRETURN_NV, XSRETURN_PV,
4201 XSRETURN_UNDEF, XSRETURN_YES, XST_mIV, XST_mNO, XST_mNV, XST_mPV,
4202 XST_mUNDEF, XST_mYES, XS_VERSION, XS_VERSION_BOOTCHECK, Zero
4210 =head2 perlintern - autogenerated documentation of purely B<internal>
4217 djSP, is_gv_magical, LVRET, PL_DBsingle, PL_DBsub, PL_DBtrace, PL_dowarn,
4218 PL_last_in_gv, PL_ofs_sv, PL_rs, report_uninit, start_glob, sv_add_arena,
4219 sv_clean_all, sv_clean_objs, sv_free_arenas
4227 =head2 perliol - C API for Perl's implementation of IO in Layers.
4237 =item History and Background
4239 =item Layers vs Disciplines
4241 =item Data Structures
4243 1. The functions and attributes of the "layer class", 2. The per-instance
4244 data for a particular handle
4246 =item Functions and Attributes
4248 =item Per-instance Data
4250 =item Layers in action.
4252 =item Per-instance flag bits
4254 PERLIO_F_EOF, PERLIO_F_CANWRITE, PERLIO_F_CANREAD, PERLIO_F_ERROR,
4255 PERLIO_F_TRUNCATE, PERLIO_F_APPEND, PERLIO_F_CRLF, PERLIO_F_UTF8,
4256 PERLIO_F_UNBUF, PERLIO_F_WRBUF, PERLIO_F_RDBUF, PERLIO_F_LINEBUF,
4257 PERLIO_F_TEMP, PERLIO_F_OPEN, PERLIO_F_FASTGETS
4259 =item Methods in Detail
4261 IV (*Pushed)(PerlIO *f,const char *mode, SV *arg);, IV
4262 (*Popped)(PerlIO *f);, PerlIO * (*Open)(...);, SV *
4263 (*Getarg)(PerlIO *f);, IV (*Fileno)(PerlIO *f);, SSize_t
4264 (*Read)(PerlIO *f, void *vbuf, Size_t count);, SSize_t (*Unread)(PerlIO
4265 *f, const void *vbuf, Size_t count);, SSize_t (*Write)(PerlIO *f, const
4266 void *vbuf, Size_t count);, IV (*Seek)(PerlIO *f, Off_t
4267 offset, int whence);, Off_t (*Tell)(PerlIO *f);, IV
4268 (*Close)(PerlIO *f);, IV (*Flush)(PerlIO *f);, IV
4269 (*Fill)(PerlIO *f);, IV (*Eof)(PerlIO *f);, IV
4270 (*Error)(PerlIO *f);, void (*Clearerr)(PerlIO *f);, void
4271 (*Setlinebuf)(PerlIO *f);, STDCHAR * (*Get_base)(PerlIO *f);,
4272 Size_t (*Get_bufsiz)(PerlIO *f);, STDCHAR *
4273 (*Get_ptr)(PerlIO *f);, SSize_t (*Get_cnt)(PerlIO *f);, void
4274 (*Set_ptrcnt)(PerlIO *f,STDCHAR *ptr,SSize_t cnt);
4278 "unix", "perlio", "stdio", "crlf", "mmap", "pending", "raw", "utf8"
4280 =item Extension Layers
4282 ":encoding", ":Scalar", ":Object" or ":Perl"
4288 =head2 perlapio - perl's IO abstraction interface.
4296 1. USE_STDIO, 2. USE_SFIO, 3. USE_PERLIO, B<PerlIO_stdin()>,
4297 B<PerlIO_stdout()>, B<PerlIO_stderr()>, B<PerlIO_open(path, mode)>,
4298 B<PerlIO_fdopen(fd,mode)>, B<PerlIO_reopen(path,mode,f)>,
4299 B<PerlIO_printf(f,fmt,...)>, B<PerlIO_vprintf(f,fmt,a)>,
4300 B<PerlIO_stdoutf(fmt,...)>, B<PerlIO_read(f,buf,count)>,
4301 B<PerlIO_write(f,buf,count)>, B<PerlIO_close(f)>, B<PerlIO_puts(f,s)>,
4302 B<PerlIO_putc(f,c)>, B<PerlIO_ungetc(f,c)>, B<PerlIO_getc(f)>,
4303 B<PerlIO_eof(f)>, B<PerlIO_error(f)>, B<PerlIO_fileno(f)>,
4304 B<PerlIO_clearerr(f)>, B<PerlIO_flush(f)>, B<PerlIO_seek(f,offset,whence)>,
4305 B<PerlIO_tell(f)>, B<PerlIO_getpos(f,p)>, B<PerlIO_setpos(f,p)>,
4306 B<PerlIO_rewind(f)>, B<PerlIO_tmpfile()>, B<PerlIO_setlinebuf(f)>
4310 =item Co-existence with stdio
4312 B<PerlIO_importFILE(f,flags)>, B<PerlIO_exportFILE(f,flags)>,
4313 B<PerlIO_findFILE(f)>, B<PerlIO_releaseFILE(p,f)>
4315 =item "Fast gets" Functions
4317 B<PerlIO_fast_gets(f)>, B<PerlIO_has_cntptr(f)>, B<PerlIO_get_cnt(f)>,
4318 B<PerlIO_get_ptr(f)>, B<PerlIO_set_ptrcnt(f,p,c)>, B<PerlIO_canset_cnt(f)>,
4319 B<PerlIO_set_cnt(f,c)>, B<PerlIO_has_base(f)>, B<PerlIO_get_base(f)>,
4320 B<PerlIO_get_bufsiz(f)>
4322 =item Other Functions
4324 PerlIO_apply_layers(f,mode,layers), PerlIO_binmode(f,ptype,imode,layers),
4325 'E<lt>' read, 'E<gt>' write, '+' read/write, PerlIO_debug(fmt,...)
4331 =head2 perltodo - Perl TO-DO List
4337 =item To do during 5.6.x
4341 =item Support for I/O disciplines
4343 =item Autoload bytes.pm
4345 =item Make "\u{XXXX}" et al work
4347 =item Create a char *sv_pvprintify(sv, STRLEN *lenp, UV flags)
4349 =item Overloadable regex assertions
4353 =item use Thread for iThreads
4355 =item make perl_clone optionally clone ops
4357 =item Work out exit/die semantics for threads
4359 =item Typed lexicals for compiler
4361 =item Compiler workarounds for Win32
4363 =item AUTOLOADing in the compiler
4365 =item Fixing comppadlist when compiling
4367 =item Cleaning up exported namespace
4369 =item Complete signal handling
4371 =item Out-of-source builds
4373 =item POSIX realtime support
4375 =item UNIX98 support
4379 =item Long double conversion
4383 =item Thread-safe regexes
4385 =item Arithmetic on non-Arabic numerals
4387 =item POSIX Unicode character classes
4389 =item Factoring out common suffices/prefices in regexps (trie optimization)
4391 =item Security audit shipped utilities
4393 =item Custom opcodes
4395 =item spawnvp() on Win32
4397 =item DLL Versioning
4399 =item Introduce @( and @)
4401 =item Floating point handling
4403 =item IV/UV preservation
4405 =item Replace pod2html with something using Pod::Parser
4407 =item Automate module testing on CPAN
4409 =item sendmsg and recvmsg
4411 =item Rewrite perlre documentation
4413 =item Convert example code to IO::Handle filehandles
4415 =item Document Win32 choices
4417 =item Check new modules
4419 =item Make roffitall find pods and libs itself
4423 =item To do at some point
4427 =item Remove regular expression recursion
4429 =item Memory leaks after failed eval
4431 =item pack "(stuff)*"
4433 =item bitfields in pack
4435 =item Cross compilation
4437 =item Perl preprocessor / macros
4439 =item Perl lexer in Perl
4441 =item Using POSIX calls internally
4443 =item -i rename file when changed
4445 =item All ARGV input should act like E<lt>E<gt>
4447 =item Support for rerunning debugger
4449 =item Test Suite for the Debugger
4451 =item my sub foo { }
4453 =item One-pass global destruction
4455 =item Rewrite regexp parser
4457 =item Cache recently used regexps
4459 =item Re-entrant functions
4461 =item Cross-compilation support
4463 =item Bit-shifting bitvectors
4465 =item debugger pragma
4467 =item use less pragma
4469 =item switch structures
4471 =item Cache eval tree
4475 =item Shrink opcode tables
4477 =item Optimize away @_
4479 =item Prototypes versus indirect objects
4483 =item Prototype method calls
4485 =item Return context prototype declarations
4489 =item Garbage collection
4493 =item pack/unpack tutorial
4495 =item Rewrite perldoc
4497 =item Install .3p manpages
4499 =item Unicode tutorial
4501 =item Update POSIX.pm for 1003.1-2
4503 =item Retargetable installation
4505 =item POSIX emulation on non-POSIX systems
4507 =item Rename Win32 headers
4509 =item Finish off lvalue functions
4511 =item Update sprintf documentation
4513 =item Use fchown/fchmod internally
4521 =item ref() in list context
4523 =item Make tr/// return histogram of characters in list context
4525 =item Compile to real threaded code
4527 =item Structured types
4529 =item Modifiable $1 et al.
4531 =item Procedural interfaces for IO::*, etc.
4535 =item Attach/detach debugger from running program
4537 =item Alternative RE syntax module
4541 =item foreach(reverse ...)
4543 =item Constant function cache
4545 =item Approximate regular expression matching
4553 =item Update guts documentation
4555 =item Add more tests
4557 =item Update auxiliary tools
4561 =item Recently done things
4565 =item Safe signal handling
4571 =item setitimer and getimiter
4573 =item Testing __DIE__ hook
4575 =item CPP equivalent in Perl
4577 =item Explicit switch statements
4585 =item perlcc to produce executable
4587 =item END blocks saved in compiled output
4589 =item Secure temporary file module
4591 =item Integrate Time::HiRes
4593 =item Turn Cwd into XS
4595 =item Mmap for input
4597 =item Byte to/from UTF8 and UTF8 to/from local conversion
4599 =item Add sockatmark support
4601 =item Mailing list archives
4605 =item Integrate MacPerl
4607 =item Web "nerve center" for Perl
4609 =item Regular expression tutorial
4611 =item Debugging Tutorial
4613 =item Integrate new modules
4615 =item Integrate profiler
4617 =item Y2K error detection
4619 =item Regular expression debugger
4623 =item "Dynamic" lexicals
4625 =item Cache precompiled modules
4629 =item Deprecated Wishes
4633 =item Loop control on do{}
4635 =item Lexically scoped typeglobs
4641 =item Generalised want()/caller())
4643 =item Named prototypes
4645 =item Built-in globbing
4647 =item Regression tests for suidperl
4649 =item Cached hash values
4651 =item Add compression modules
4653 =item Reorganise documentation into tutorials/references
4655 =item Remove distinction between functions and operators
4657 =item Make XS easier to use
4659 =item Make embedding easier to use
4663 =item my $Package::variable
4665 =item "or" tests defined, not truth
4667 =item "class"-based lexicals
4671 =item Lazy evaluation / tail recursion removal
4673 =item Make "use utf8" the default
4675 =item Unicode collation and normalization
4677 =item Create debugging macros
4683 =head2 perlhack - How to hack at the Perl internals
4689 Does concept match the general goals of Perl?, Where is the
4690 implementation?, Backwards compatibility, Could it be a module instead?, Is
4691 the feature generic enough?, Does it potentially introduce new bugs?, Does
4692 it preclude other desirable features?, Is the implementation robust?, Is
4693 the implementation generic enough to be portable?, Is there enough
4694 documentation?, Is there another way to do it?, Does it create too much
4695 work?, Patches speak louder than words
4699 =item Keeping in sync
4701 rsync'ing the source tree, Using rsync over the LAN, Using pushing over the
4702 NFS, rsync'ing the patches
4704 =item Why rsync the source tree
4706 It's easier to rsync the source tree, It's more recent, It's more reliable
4708 =item Why rsync the patches
4710 It's easier to rsync the patches, It's a good reference, Finding a start
4711 point, Finding how to fix a bug, Finding the source of misbehaviour
4713 =item Perlbug remote interface
4715 1 http://bugs.perl.org, 2 bugdb@perl.org, 3
4716 commands_and_bugdids@bugs.perl.org, notes, patches, tests
4718 =item Submitting patches
4720 L<perlguts>, L<perlxstut> and L<perlxs>, L<perlapi>,
4721 F<Porting/pumpkin.pod>, The perl5-porters FAQ
4723 =item Finding Your Way Around
4725 Core modules, Tests, Documentation, Configure, Interpreter
4727 =item Elements of the interpreter
4729 Startup, Parsing, Optimization, Running
4731 =item Internal Variable Types
4737 Argument stack, Mark stack, Save stack
4739 =item Millions of Macros
4741 =item Poking at Perl
4743 =item Using a source-level debugger
4745 run [args], break function_name, break source.c:xxx, step, next, continue,
4746 finish, 'enter', print
4748 =item Dumping Perl Data Structures
4752 =item Patching a core module
4754 =item Adding a new function to the core
4756 =item Writing a test
4758 F<t/base/>, F<t/cmd/>, F<t/comp/>, F<t/io/>, F<t/lib/>, F<t/op/>,
4759 F<t/pod/>, F<t/run/>
4763 =item EXTERNAL TOOLS FOR DEBUGGING PERL
4767 =item Rational Software's Purify
4769 =item Purify on Unix
4771 -Accflags=-DPURIFY, -Doptimize='-g', -Uusemymalloc, -Dusemultiplicity
4775 DEFINES, USE_MULTI = define, #PERL_MALLOC = define, CFG = Debug
4777 =item Compaq's/Digital's Third Degree
4779 =item PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL
4783 =item Gprof Profiling
4785 -a, -b, -e routine, -f routine, -s, -z
4787 =item GCC gcov Profiling
4789 =item Pixie Profiling
4791 -h, -l, -p[rocedures], -h[eavy], -i[nvocations], -l[ines], -testcoverage,
4796 I<The Road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began.>
4804 =head2 perlhist - the Perl history records
4812 =item THE KEEPERS OF THE PUMPKIN
4824 =item SELECTED RELEASE SIZES
4826 =item SELECTED PATCH SIZES
4830 =item THE KEEPERS OF THE RECORDS
4834 =head2 perldelta - what will be new for perl v5.8.0
4840 =item Reporting Bugs
4848 =head2 perl572delta - what's new for perl v5.7.2
4854 =item Security Vulnerability Closed
4856 =item Incompatible Changes
4860 =item 64-bit platforms and malloc
4862 =item AIX Dynaloading
4864 =item Socket Extension Dynamic in VMS
4866 =item Different Definition of the Unicode Character Classes \p{In...}
4872 =item Core Enhancements
4874 =item Modules and Pragmata
4878 =item New Modules and Distributions
4880 =item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
4884 =item Utility Changes
4886 =item New Documentation
4888 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
4892 =item New Or Improved Platforms
4894 =item Generic Improvements
4898 =item Selected Bug Fixes
4902 =item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
4906 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
4908 =item Source Code Enhancements
4912 =item MAGIC constants
4914 =item Better commented code
4916 =item Regex pre-/post-compilation items matched up
4924 =item Known Problems
4930 =item Amiga Perl Invoking Mystery
4932 =item lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
4934 =item Cygwin intermittent failures of lib/Memoize/t/expire_file 11 and 12
4936 =item HP-UX lib/io_multihomed Fails When LP64-Configur
4938 =item HP-UX lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails When LP64-Configured
4940 =item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
4944 =item op/sprintf tests 129 and 130
4946 =item Failure of Thread tests
4956 =item Localising a Tied Variable Leaks Memory
4958 =item Self-tying of Arrays and Hashes Is Forbidden
4960 =item Variable Attributes are not Currently Usable for Tieing
4962 =item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
4964 =item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
4966 =item The Long Double Support is Still Experimental
4970 =item Reporting Bugs
4978 =head2 perl571delta - what's new for perl v5.7.1
4984 =item Security Vulnerability Closed
4986 =item Incompatible Changes
4988 =item Core Enhancements
4992 =item AUTOLOAD Is Now Lvaluable
4994 =item PerlIO is Now The Default
4996 =item Signals Are Now Safe
5000 =item Modules and Pragmata
5006 =item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
5010 =item Performance Enhancements
5012 =item Utility Changes
5014 =item New Documentation
5030 =item README.solaris
5034 =item Porting/repository.pod
5038 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
5042 =item New Or Improved Platforms
5044 =item Generic Improvements
5046 d_cmsghdr, d_fcntl_can_lock, d_fsync, d_getitimer, d_getpagsz, d_msghdr_s,
5047 need_va_copy, d_readv, d_recvmsg, d_sendmsg, sig_size, d_sockatmark,
5048 d_strtoq, d_u32align, d_ualarm, d_usleep
5052 =item Selected Bug Fixes
5056 =item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
5060 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
5062 =item Changed Internals
5066 =item Known Problems
5070 =item AIX vac 5.0.0.0 May Produce Buggy Code For Perl
5072 =item lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
5074 =item lib/io_multihomed Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX
5076 =item Test lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX
5080 =item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
5082 =item sigaction test 13 in VMS
5084 =item sprintf tests 129 and 130
5086 =item Failure of Thread tests
5088 =item Localising a Tied Variable Leaks Memory
5090 =item Self-tying of Arrays and Hashes Is Forbidden
5092 =item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
5094 =item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
5098 =item Reporting Bugs
5106 =head2 perl570delta - what's new for perl v5.7.0
5112 =item Security Vulnerability Closed
5114 =item Incompatible Changes
5116 =item Core Enhancements
5118 =item Modules and Pragmata
5124 =item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
5128 =item Utility Changes
5130 =item New Documentation
5132 =item Performance Enhancements
5134 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
5138 =item Generic Improvements
5142 =item Selected Bug Fixes
5146 =item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
5150 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
5152 =item Changed Internals
5154 =item Known Problems
5158 =item Unicode Support Still Far From Perfect
5160 =item EBCDIC Still A Lost Platform
5162 =item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
5164 =item ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
5166 =item Test lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX
5168 =item Long Doubles Still Don't Work In Solaris
5170 =item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
5172 =item Storable tests fail in some platforms
5174 =item Threads Are Still Experimental
5176 =item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
5180 =item Reporting Bugs
5188 =head2 perl56delta, perldelta - what's new for perl v5.6.0
5194 =item Core Enhancements
5198 =item Interpreter cloning, threads, and concurrency
5200 =item Lexically scoped warning categories
5202 =item Unicode and UTF-8 support
5204 =item Support for interpolating named characters
5206 =item "our" declarations
5208 =item Support for strings represented as a vector of ordinals
5210 =item Improved Perl version numbering system
5212 =item New syntax for declaring subroutine attributes
5214 =item File and directory handles can be autovivified
5216 =item open() with more than two arguments
5218 =item 64-bit support
5220 =item Large file support
5226 =item Enhanced support for sort() subroutines
5228 =item C<sort $coderef @foo> allowed
5230 =item File globbing implemented internally
5232 =item Support for CHECK blocks
5234 =item POSIX character class syntax [: :] supported
5236 =item Better pseudo-random number generator
5238 =item Improved C<qw//> operator
5240 =item Better worst-case behavior of hashes
5242 =item pack() format 'Z' supported
5244 =item pack() format modifier '!' supported
5246 =item pack() and unpack() support counted strings
5248 =item Comments in pack() templates
5250 =item Weak references
5252 =item Binary numbers supported
5254 =item Lvalue subroutines
5256 =item Some arrows may be omitted in calls through references
5258 =item Boolean assignment operators are legal lvalues
5260 =item exists() is supported on subroutine names
5262 =item exists() and delete() are supported on array elements
5264 =item Pseudo-hashes work better
5266 =item Automatic flushing of output buffers
5268 =item Better diagnostics on meaningless filehandle operations
5270 =item Where possible, buffered data discarded from duped input filehandle
5272 =item eof() has the same old magic as <>
5274 =item binmode() can be used to set :crlf and :raw modes
5276 =item C<-T> filetest recognizes UTF-8 encoded files as "text"
5278 =item system(), backticks and pipe open now reflect exec() failure
5280 =item Improved diagnostics
5282 =item Diagnostics follow STDERR
5284 =item More consistent close-on-exec behavior
5286 =item syswrite() ease-of-use
5288 =item Better syntax checks on parenthesized unary operators
5290 =item Bit operators support full native integer width
5292 =item Improved security features
5294 =item More functional bareword prototype (*)
5296 =item C<require> and C<do> may be overridden
5298 =item $^X variables may now have names longer than one character
5300 =item New variable $^C reflects C<-c> switch
5302 =item New variable $^V contains Perl version as a string
5304 =item Optional Y2K warnings
5306 =item Arrays now always interpolate into double-quoted strings
5310 =item Modules and Pragmata
5316 attributes, B, Benchmark, ByteLoader, constant, charnames, Data::Dumper,
5317 DB, DB_File, Devel::DProf, Devel::Peek, Dumpvalue, DynaLoader, English,
5318 Env, Fcntl, File::Compare, File::Find, File::Glob, File::Spec,
5319 File::Spec::Functions, Getopt::Long, IO, JPL, lib, Math::BigInt,
5320 Math::Complex, Math::Trig, Pod::Parser, Pod::InputObjects, Pod::Checker,
5321 podchecker, Pod::ParseUtils, Pod::Find, Pod::Select, podselect, Pod::Usage,
5322 pod2usage, Pod::Text and Pod::Man, SDBM_File, Sys::Syslog, Sys::Hostname,
5323 Term::ANSIColor, Time::Local, Win32, XSLoader, DBM Filters
5329 =item Utility Changes
5343 =item The Perl Debugger
5347 =item Improved Documentation
5349 perlapi.pod, perlboot.pod, perlcompile.pod, perldbmfilter.pod,
5350 perldebug.pod, perldebguts.pod, perlfork.pod, perlfilter.pod, perlhack.pod,
5351 perlintern.pod, perllexwarn.pod, perlnumber.pod, perlopentut.pod,
5352 perlreftut.pod, perltootc.pod, perltodo.pod, perlunicode.pod
5354 =item Performance enhancements
5358 =item Simple sort() using { $a <=> $b } and the like are optimized
5360 =item Optimized assignments to lexical variables
5362 =item Faster subroutine calls
5364 =item delete(), each(), values() and hash iteration are faster
5368 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
5372 =item -Dusethreads means something different
5374 =item New Configure flags
5376 =item Threadedness and 64-bitness now more daring
5382 =item -Duselargefiles
5384 =item installusrbinperl
5390 =item Enhanced Installation Directories
5394 =item Platform specific changes
5398 =item Supported platforms
5402 =item OS390 (OpenEdition MVS)
5410 =item Significant bug fixes
5414 =item <HANDLE> on empty files
5416 =item C<eval '...'> improvements
5418 =item All compilation errors are true errors
5420 =item Implicitly closed filehandles are safer
5422 =item Behavior of list slices is more consistent
5424 =item C<(\$)> prototype and C<$foo{a}>
5426 =item C<goto &sub> and AUTOLOAD
5428 =item C<-bareword> allowed under C<use integer>
5430 =item Failures in DESTROY()
5432 =item Locale bugs fixed
5436 =item Spurious subroutine stubs after failed subroutine calls
5438 =item Taint failures under C<-U>
5440 =item END blocks and the C<-c> switch
5442 =item Potential to leak DATA filehandles
5446 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
5448 "%s" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same %s, "my sub" not yet
5449 implemented, "our" variable %s redeclared, '!' allowed only after types %s,
5450 / cannot take a count, / must be followed by a, A or Z, / must be followed
5451 by a*, A* or Z*, / must follow a numeric type, /%s/: Unrecognized escape
5452 \\%c passed through, /%s/: Unrecognized escape \\%c in character class
5453 passed through, /%s/ should probably be written as "%s", %s() called too
5454 early to check prototype, %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element, %s
5455 argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element or slice, %s argument is not a
5456 subroutine name, %s package attribute may clash with future reserved word:
5457 %s, (in cleanup) %s, <> should be quotes, Attempt to join self, Bad evalled
5458 substitution pattern, Bad realloc() ignored, Bareword found in conditional,
5459 Binary number > 0b11111111111111111111111111111111 non-portable, Bit vector
5460 size > 32 non-portable, Buffer overflow in prime_env_iter: %s, Can't check
5461 filesystem of script "%s", Can't declare class for non-scalar %s in "%s",
5462 Can't declare %s in "%s", Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default,
5463 Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine call, Can't read CRTL environ, Can't
5464 remove %s: %s, skipping file, Can't return %s from lvalue subroutine, Can't
5465 weaken a nonreference, Character class [:%s:] unknown, Character class
5466 syntax [%s] belongs inside character classes, Constant is not %s reference,
5467 constant(%s): %s, CORE::%s is not a keyword, defined(@array) is deprecated,
5468 defined(%hash) is deprecated, Did not produce a valid header, (Did you mean
5469 "local" instead of "our"?), Document contains no data, entering effective
5470 %s failed, false [] range "%s" in regexp, Filehandle %s opened only for
5471 output, flock() on closed filehandle %s, Global symbol "%s" requires
5472 explicit package name, Hexadecimal number > 0xffffffff non-portable,
5473 Ill-formed CRTL environ value "%s", Ill-formed message in prime_env_iter:
5474 |%s|, Illegal binary digit %s, Illegal binary digit %s ignored, Illegal
5475 number of bits in vec, Integer overflow in %s number, Invalid %s attribute:
5476 %s, Invalid %s attributes: %s, invalid [] range "%s" in regexp, Invalid
5477 separator character %s in attribute list, Invalid separator character %s in
5478 subroutine attribute list, leaving effective %s failed, Lvalue subs
5479 returning %s not implemented yet, Method %s not permitted, Missing
5480 %sbrace%s on \N{}, Missing command in piped open, Missing name in "my sub",
5481 No %s specified for -%c, No package name allowed for variable %s in "our",
5482 No space allowed after -%c, no UTC offset information; assuming local time
5483 is UTC, Octal number > 037777777777 non-portable, panic: del_backref,
5484 panic: kid popen errno read, panic: magic_killbackrefs, Parentheses missing
5485 around "%s" list, Possible unintended interpolation of %s in string,
5486 Possible Y2K bug: %s, pragma "attrs" is deprecated, use "sub NAME : ATTRS"
5487 instead, Premature end of script headers, Repeat count in pack overflows,
5488 Repeat count in unpack overflows, realloc() of freed memory ignored,
5489 Reference is already weak, setpgrp can't take arguments, Strange *+?{} on
5490 zero-length expression, switching effective %s is not implemented, This
5491 Perl can't reset CRTL environ elements (%s), This Perl can't set CRTL
5492 environ elements (%s=%s), Too late to run %s block, Unknown open() mode
5493 '%s', Unknown process %x sent message to prime_env_iter: %s, Unrecognized
5494 escape \\%c passed through, Unterminated attribute parameter in attribute
5495 list, Unterminated attribute list, Unterminated attribute parameter in
5496 subroutine attribute list, Unterminated subroutine attribute list, Value of
5497 CLI symbol "%s" too long, Version number must be a constant number
5501 =item Incompatible Changes
5505 =item Perl Source Incompatibilities
5507 CHECK is a new keyword, Treatment of list slices of undef has changed,
5508 Format of $English::PERL_VERSION is different, Literals of the form
5509 C<1.2.3> parse differently, Possibly changed pseudo-random number
5510 generator, Hashing function for hash keys has changed, C<undef> fails on
5511 read only values, Close-on-exec bit may be set on pipe and socket handles,
5512 Writing C<"$$1"> to mean C<"${$}1"> is unsupported, delete(), each(),
5513 values() and C<\(%h)>, vec(EXPR,OFFSET,BITS) enforces powers-of-two BITS,
5514 Text of some diagnostic output has changed, C<%@> has been removed,
5515 Parenthesized not() behaves like a list operator, Semantics of bareword
5516 prototype C<(*)> have changed, Semantics of bit operators may have changed
5517 on 64-bit platforms, More builtins taint their results
5519 =item C Source Incompatibilities
5521 C<PERL_POLLUTE>, C<PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT>, C<PERL_POLLUTE_MALLOC>
5523 =item Compatible C Source API Changes
5525 C<PATCHLEVEL> is now C<PERL_VERSION>
5527 =item Binary Incompatibilities
5531 =item Known Problems
5535 =item Thread test failures
5537 =item EBCDIC platforms not supported
5539 =item In 64-bit HP-UX the lib/io_multihomed test may hang
5541 =item NEXTSTEP 3.3 POSIX test failure
5543 =item Tru64 (aka Digital UNIX, aka DEC OSF/1) lib/sdbm test failure with
5546 =item UNICOS/mk CC failures during Configure run
5548 =item Arrow operator and arrays
5550 =item Experimental features
5552 Threads, Unicode, 64-bit support, Lvalue subroutines, Weak references, The
5553 pseudo-hash data type, The Compiler suite, Internal implementation of file
5554 globbing, The DB module, The regular expression code constructs:
5558 =item Obsolete Diagnostics
5560 Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions, Ill-formed
5561 logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter, In string, @%s now must be written as
5562 \@%s, Probable precedence problem on %s, regexp too big, Use of "$$<digit>"
5563 to mean "${$}<digit>" is deprecated
5565 =item Reporting Bugs
5573 =head2 perl5005delta, perldelta - what's new for perl5.005
5579 =item About the new versioning system
5581 =item Incompatible Changes
5585 =item WARNING: This version is not binary compatible with Perl 5.004.
5587 =item Default installation structure has changed
5589 =item Perl Source Compatibility
5591 =item C Source Compatibility
5593 =item Binary Compatibility
5595 =item Security fixes may affect compatibility
5597 =item Relaxed new mandatory warnings introduced in 5.004
5611 =item Regular Expressions
5613 Many new and improved optimizations, Many bug fixes, New regular expression
5614 constructs, New operator for precompiled regular expressions, Other
5615 improvements, Incompatible changes
5617 =item Improved malloc()
5619 =item Quicksort is internally implemented
5621 =item Reliable signals
5623 =item Reliable stack pointers
5625 =item More generous treatment of carriage returns
5629 =item Better support for multiple interpreters
5631 =item Behavior of local() on array and hash elements is now well-defined
5633 =item C<%!> is transparently tied to the L<Errno> module
5635 =item Pseudo-hashes are supported
5637 =item C<EXPR foreach EXPR> is supported
5639 =item Keywords can be globally overridden
5641 =item C<$^E> is meaningful on Win32
5643 =item C<foreach (1..1000000)> optimized
5645 =item C<Foo::> can be used as implicitly quoted package name
5647 =item C<exists $Foo::{Bar::}> tests existence of a package
5649 =item Better locale support
5651 =item Experimental support for 64-bit platforms
5653 =item prototype() returns useful results on builtins
5655 =item Extended support for exception handling
5657 =item Re-blessing in DESTROY() supported for chaining DESTROY() methods
5659 =item All C<printf> format conversions are handled internally
5661 =item New C<INIT> keyword
5663 =item New C<lock> keyword
5665 =item New C<qr//> operator
5667 =item C<our> is now a reserved word
5669 =item Tied arrays are now fully supported
5671 =item Tied handles support is better
5673 =item 4th argument to substr
5675 =item Negative LENGTH argument to splice
5677 =item Magic lvalues are now more magical
5679 =item <> now reads in records
5683 =item Supported Platforms
5689 =item Changes in existing support
5693 =item Modules and Pragmata
5699 B, Data::Dumper, Dumpvalue, Errno, File::Spec, ExtUtils::Installed,
5700 ExtUtils::Packlist, Fatal, IPC::SysV, Test, Tie::Array, Tie::Handle,
5701 Thread, attrs, fields, re
5703 =item Changes in existing modules
5705 Benchmark, Carp, CGI, Fcntl, Math::Complex, Math::Trig, POSIX, DB_File,
5706 MakeMaker, CPAN, Cwd
5710 =item Utility Changes
5712 =item Documentation Changes
5714 =item New Diagnostics
5716 Ambiguous call resolved as CORE::%s(), qualify as such or use &, Bad index
5717 while coercing array into hash, Bareword "%s" refers to nonexistent
5718 package, Can't call method "%s" on an undefined value, Can't check
5719 filesystem of script "%s" for nosuid, Can't coerce array into hash, Can't
5720 goto subroutine from an eval-string, Can't localize pseudo-hash element,
5721 Can't use %%! because Errno.pm is not available, Cannot find an opnumber
5722 for "%s", Character class syntax [. .] is reserved for future extensions,
5723 Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions, Character
5724 class syntax [= =] is reserved for future extensions, %s: Eval-group in
5725 insecure regular expression, %s: Eval-group not allowed, use re 'eval', %s:
5726 Eval-group not allowed at run time, Explicit blessing to '' (assuming
5727 package main), Illegal hex digit ignored, No such array field, No such
5728 field "%s" in variable %s of type %s, Out of memory during ridiculously
5729 large request, Range iterator outside integer range, Recursive inheritance
5730 detected while looking for method '%s' %s, Reference found where even-sized
5731 list expected, Undefined value assigned to typeglob, Use of reserved word
5732 "%s" is deprecated, perl: warning: Setting locale failed
5734 =item Obsolete Diagnostics
5736 Can't mktemp(), Can't write to temp file for B<-e>: %s, Cannot open
5737 temporary file, regexp too big
5739 =item Configuration Changes
5749 =head2 perl5004delta, perldelta - what's new for perl5.004
5755 =item Supported Environments
5761 =item List assignment to %ENV works
5763 =item Change to "Can't locate Foo.pm in @INC" error
5765 =item Compilation option: Binary compatibility with 5.003
5767 =item $PERL5OPT environment variable
5769 =item Limitations on B<-M>, B<-m>, and B<-T> options
5771 =item More precise warnings
5773 =item Deprecated: Inherited C<AUTOLOAD> for non-methods
5775 =item Previously deprecated %OVERLOAD is no longer usable
5777 =item Subroutine arguments created only when they're modified
5779 =item Group vector changeable with C<$)>
5781 =item Fixed parsing of $$<digit>, &$<digit>, etc.
5783 =item Fixed localization of $<digit>, $&, etc.
5785 =item No resetting of $. on implicit close
5787 =item C<wantarray> may return undef
5789 =item C<eval EXPR> determines value of EXPR in scalar context
5791 =item Changes to tainting checks
5793 No glob() or <*>, No spawning if tainted $CDPATH, $ENV, $BASH_ENV, No
5794 spawning if tainted $TERM doesn't look like a terminal name
5796 =item New Opcode module and revised Safe module
5798 =item Embedding improvements
5800 =item Internal change: FileHandle class based on IO::* classes
5802 =item Internal change: PerlIO abstraction interface
5804 =item New and changed syntax
5808 =item New and changed builtin constants
5812 =item New and changed builtin variables
5816 =item New and changed builtin functions
5818 delete on slices, flock, printf and sprintf, keys as an lvalue, my() in
5819 Control Structures, pack() and unpack(), sysseek(), use VERSION, use Module
5820 VERSION LIST, prototype(FUNCTION), srand, $_ as Default, C<m//gc> does not
5821 reset search position on failure, C<m//x> ignores whitespace before ?*+{},
5822 nested C<sub{}> closures work now, formats work right on changing lexicals
5824 =item New builtin methods
5826 isa(CLASS), can(METHOD), VERSION( [NEED] )
5828 =item TIEHANDLE now supported
5830 TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, PRINT this, LIST, PRINTF this, LIST, READ this
5831 LIST, READLINE this, GETC this, DESTROY this
5833 =item Malloc enhancements
5835 -DPERL_EMERGENCY_SBRK, -DPACK_MALLOC, -DTWO_POT_OPTIMIZE
5837 =item Miscellaneous efficiency enhancements
5841 =item Support for More Operating Systems
5857 use autouse MODULE => qw(sub1 sub2 sub3), use blib, use blib 'dir', use
5858 constant NAME => VALUE, use locale, use ops, use vmsish
5864 =item Required Updates
5866 =item Installation directories
5868 =item Module information summary
5882 =item Object-oriented overrides for builtin operators
5886 =item Utility Changes
5892 Sends converted HTML to standard output
5896 C<void> XSUBs now default to returning nothing
5900 =item C Language API Changes
5902 C<gv_fetchmethod> and C<perl_call_sv>, C<perl_eval_pv>, Extended API for
5905 =item Documentation Changes
5907 L<perldelta>, L<perlfaq>, L<perllocale>, L<perltoot>, L<perlapio>,
5908 L<perlmodlib>, L<perldebug>, L<perlsec>
5910 =item New Diagnostics
5912 "my" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same scope, %s argument is
5913 not a HASH element or slice, Allocation too large: %lx, Allocation too
5914 large, Applying %s to %s will act on scalar(%s), Attempt to free
5915 nonexistent shared string, Attempt to use reference as lvalue in substr,
5916 Bareword "%s" refers to nonexistent package, Can't redefine active sort
5917 subroutine %s, Can't use bareword ("%s") as %s ref while "strict refs" in
5918 use, Cannot resolve method `%s' overloading `%s' in package `%s', Constant
5919 subroutine %s redefined, Constant subroutine %s undefined, Copy method did
5920 not return a reference, Died, Exiting pseudo-block via %s, Identifier too
5921 long, Illegal character %s (carriage return), Illegal switch in PERL5OPT:
5922 %s, Integer overflow in hex number, Integer overflow in octal number,
5923 internal error: glob failed, Invalid conversion in %s: "%s", Invalid type
5924 in pack: '%s', Invalid type in unpack: '%s', Name "%s::%s" used only once:
5925 possible typo, Null picture in formline, Offset outside string, Out of
5926 memory!, Out of memory during request for %s, panic: frexp, Possible
5927 attempt to put comments in qw() list, Possible attempt to separate words
5928 with commas, Scalar value @%s{%s} better written as $%s{%s}, Stub found
5929 while resolving method `%s' overloading `%s' in %s, Too late for "B<-T>"
5930 option, untie attempted while %d inner references still exist, Unrecognized
5931 character %s, Unsupported function fork, Use of "$$<digit>" to mean
5932 "${$}<digit>" is deprecated, Value of %s can be "0"; test with defined(),
5933 Variable "%s" may be unavailable, Variable "%s" will not stay shared,
5934 Warning: something's wrong, Ill-formed logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter,
5935 Got an error from DosAllocMem, Malformed PERLLIB_PREFIX, PERL_SH_DIR too
5936 long, Process terminated by SIG%s
5946 =head2 perlaix, README.aix - Perl version 5 on IBM Unix (AIX) systems
5954 =item Compiling Perl 5 on AIX
5958 =item Building Dynamic Extensions on AIX
5960 =item The IBM ANSI C Compiler
5962 =item Using GNU's gcc for building perl
5964 =item Using Large Files with Perl
5970 =item AIX 4.2 and extensions using C++ with statics
5980 =head2 perlapollo, README.apollo - Perl version 5 on Apollo DomainOS
5990 =head2 perlamiga - Perl under Amiga OS
6004 =item Prerequisites for Compiling Perl on AmigaOS
6006 B<Unix emulation for AmigaOS: ixemul.library>, B<Version of Amiga OS>
6008 =item Starting Perl programs under AmigaOS
6010 =item Shortcomings of Perl under AmigaOS
6016 =item Accessing documentation
6020 =item Manpages for Perl on AmigaOS
6022 =item Perl HTML Documentation on AmigaOS
6024 =item Perl GNU Info Files on AmigaOS
6026 =item Perl LaTeX Documentation on AmigaOS
6030 =item BUILDING PERL ON AMIGAOS
6034 =item Build Prerequisites for Perl on AmigaOS
6036 =item Getting the Perl Source for AmigaOS
6038 =item Making Perl on AmigaOS
6040 =item Testing Perl on AmigaOS
6042 =item Installing the built Perl on AmigaOS
6052 =head2 perlbeos, README.beos - Perl version 5 on BeOS
6060 =item General Issues with Perl on BeOS
6062 =item BeOS Release-specific Notes
6066 =item Contact Information
6072 =head2 perlbs2000, README.BS2000 - building and installing Perl for BS2000.
6082 =item gzip on BS2000
6084 =item bison on BS2000
6086 =item Unpacking Perl Distribution on BS2000
6088 =item Compiling Perl on BS2000
6090 =item Testing Perl on BS2000
6092 =item Installing Perl on BS2000
6094 =item Using Perl in the Posix-Shell of BS2000
6096 =item Using Perl in "native" BS2000
6098 =item Floating point anomalies on BS2000
6132 =item Acknowledgements
6138 =head2 perlcygwin, README.cygwin - Perl for Cygwin
6144 =item PREREQUISITES FOR COMPILING PERL ON CYGWIN
6148 =item Cygwin = GNU+Cygnus+Windows (Don't leave UNIX without it)
6150 =item Cygwin Configuration
6152 C<PATH>, I<nroff>, Permissions
6156 =item CONFIGURE PERL ON CYGWIN
6160 =item Stripping Perl Binaries on Cygwin
6162 =item Optional Libraries for Perl on Cygwin
6164 C<-lcrypt>, C<-lgdbm> (C<use GDBM_File>), C<-ldb> (C<use DB_File>),
6165 C<-lcygipc> (C<use IPC::SysV>)
6167 =item Configure-time Options for Perl on Cygwin
6169 C<-Uusedl>, C<-Uusemymalloc>, C<-Dusemultiplicity>, C<-Duseperlio>,
6170 C<-Duse64bitint>, C<-Duselongdouble>, C<-Dusethreads>, C<-Duselargefiles>
6172 =item Suspicious Warnings on Cygwin
6174 I<dlsym()>, Win9x and C<d_eofnblk>, Compiler/Preprocessor defines
6178 =item MAKE ON CYGWIN
6182 =item Warnings on Cygwin
6188 =item TEST ON CYGWIN
6192 =item File Permissions on Cygwin
6194 =item Hard Links on Cygwin
6196 =item Filetime Granularity on Cygwin
6198 =item Tainting Checks on Cygwin
6200 =item /etc/group on Cygwin
6202 =item Script Portability on Cygwin
6204 Pathnames, Text/Binary, F<.exe>, chown(), Miscellaneous
6208 =item INSTALL PERL ON CYGWIN
6210 =item MANIFEST ON CYGWIN
6212 Documentation, Build, Configure, Make, Install, Tests, Compiled Perl
6213 Source, Compiled Module Source, Perl Modules/Scripts
6215 =item BUGS ON CYGWIN
6223 =head2 perldgux - Perl under DG/UX.
6235 =item BUILDING PERL ON DG/UX
6239 =item Non-threaded Perl on DG/UX
6241 =item Threaded Perl on DG/UX
6243 =item Testing Perl on DG/UX
6245 =item Installing the built perl on DG/UX
6255 =head2 perlepoc, README.epoc - Perl for EPOC
6263 =item INSTALLING PERL ON EPOC
6265 =item STARTING PERL ON EPOC
6267 =item STOPPING PERL ON EPOC
6269 =item USING PERL ON EPOC
6273 =item I/O Redirection on Epoc
6275 =item PATH Names on Epoc
6277 =item Editors on Epoc
6279 =item Features of Perl on Epoc
6281 =item Restrictions of Perl on Epoc
6283 =item Compiling Perl 5 on the EPOC cross compiling environment
6287 =item SUPPORT STATUS OF PERL ON EPOC
6295 =head2 perlhpux, README.hpux - Perl version 5 on Hewlett-Packard Unix
6304 =item Using perl as shipped with HP-UX
6306 =item Compiling Perl 5 on HP-UX
6318 =item Portability Between PA-RISC Versions
6320 =item Itanium Processor Family and HP-UX
6322 =item Building Dynamic Extensions on HP-UX
6324 =item The HP ANSI C Compiler
6326 =item Using Large Files with Perl on HP-UX
6328 =item Threaded Perl on HP-UX
6330 =item 64-bit Perl on HP-UX
6332 =item GDBM and Threads on HP-UX
6334 =item NFS filesystems and utime(2) on HP-UX
6336 =item perl -P and // and HP-UX
6338 =item HP-UX Kernel Parameters (maxdsiz) for Compiling Perl
6342 =item nss_delete core dump from op/pwent or op/grent
6350 =head2 perlhurd, README.hurd - Perl version 5 on Hurd
6358 =item Known Problems with Perl on Hurd
6366 =head2 perlmachten, README.machten - Perl version 5 on Power MachTen
6375 =item Compiling Perl 5 on MachTen
6377 =item Failures during C<make test> on MachTen
6379 op/lexassign.t, pragma/warnings.t
6381 =item Building external modules on MachTen
6391 =head2 perlmacos, README.macos - Perl under Mac OS (Classic)
6405 =head2 perlmint, README.mint - Perl version 5 on Atari MiNT
6411 =item Known problems with Perl on MiNT
6417 =head2 perlmpeix, README.mpeix - Perl/iX for HP e3000 MPE
6425 =item What's New in Perl ffor MPE/iX
6427 =item Welcome to Perl/iX
6429 =item System Requirements for Perl/iX
6431 =item How to Obtain Perl/iX
6433 =item Perl/iX Distribution Contents Highlights
6435 README, INSTALL, LIBSHP3K, PERL, .cpan/, lib/, man/,
6436 public_html/feedback.cgi, src/perl-5.6.0-mpe
6438 =item How to Compile Perl/iX
6442 =item Getting Started with Perl/iX
6444 =item MPE/iX Implementation Considerations
6446 =item Known Perl/iX Bugs Under Investigation
6448 =item Perl/iX To-Do List
6450 =item Perl/iX Change History
6466 Buildtype.bat, SetNWBld.bat, MPKBuild.bat
6478 =item Build new extensions
6482 =item Acknowledgements
6490 =head2 perlos2 - Perl under OS/2, DOS, Win0.3*, Win0.95 and WinNT.
6510 EMX, RSX, HPFS, pdksh
6512 =item Starting Perl programs under OS/2 (and DOS and...)
6514 =item Starting OS/2 (and DOS) programs under Perl
6518 =item Frequently asked questions
6522 =item "It does not work"
6524 =item I cannot run external programs
6526 =item I cannot embed perl into my program, or use F<perl.dll> from my
6529 Is your program EMX-compiled with C<-Zmt -Zcrtdll>?, Did you use
6532 =item C<``> and pipe-C<open> do not work under DOS.
6534 =item Cannot start C<find.exe "pattern" file>
6542 =item Automatic binary installation
6544 C<PERL_BADLANG>, C<PERL_BADFREE>, F<Config.pm>
6546 =item Manual binary installation
6548 Perl VIO and PM executables (dynamically linked), Perl_ VIO executable
6549 (statically linked), Executables for Perl utilities, Main Perl library,
6550 Additional Perl modules, Tools to compile Perl modules, Manpages for Perl
6551 and utilities, Manpages for Perl modules, Source for Perl documentation,
6552 Perl manual in F<.INF> format, Pdksh
6558 =item Accessing documentation
6562 =item OS/2 F<.INF> file
6570 =item GNU C<info> files
6582 =item The short story
6586 =item Getting perl source
6588 =item Application of the patches
6596 A lot of C<bad free>, Process terminated by SIGTERM/SIGINT, F<op/fs.t>,
6599 =item Installing the built perl
6601 =item C<a.out>-style build
6609 =item Some C</> became C<\> in pdksh.
6611 =item C<'errno'> - unresolved external
6613 =item Problems with tr or sed
6615 =item Some problem (forget which ;-)
6617 =item Library ... not found
6619 =item Segfault in make
6621 =item op/sprintf test failure
6625 =item Specific (mis)features of OS/2 port
6629 =item C<setpriority>, C<getpriority>
6633 =item C<extproc> on the first line
6635 =item Additional modules:
6637 =item Prebuilt methods:
6639 C<File::Copy::syscopy>, C<DynaLoader::mod2fname>, C<Cwd::current_drive()>,
6640 C<Cwd::sys_chdir(name)>, C<Cwd::change_drive(name)>,
6641 C<Cwd::sys_is_absolute(name)>, C<Cwd::sys_is_rooted(name)>,
6642 C<Cwd::sys_is_relative(name)>, C<Cwd::sys_cwd(name)>,
6643 C<Cwd::sys_abspath(name, dir)>, C<Cwd::extLibpath([type])>,
6644 C<Cwd::extLibpath_set( path [, type ] )>,
6645 C<OS2::Error(do_harderror,do_exception)>, C<OS2::Errors2Drive(drive)>,
6646 OS2::SysInfo(), OS2::BootDrive(), C<OS2::MorphPM(serve)>,
6647 C<OS2::UnMorphPM(serve)>, C<OS2::Serve_Messages(force)>,
6648 C<OS2::Process_Messages(force [, cnt])>, C<OS2::_control87(new,mask)>,
6649 OS2::get_control87(), C<OS2::set_control87_em(new=MCW_EM,mask=MCW_EM)>
6651 =item Prebuilt variables:
6653 $OS2::emx_rev, $OS2::emx_env, $OS2::os_ver
6659 C<popen>, C<tmpnam>, C<tmpfile>, C<ctermid>, C<stat>, C<mkdir>, C<rmdir>,
6662 =item Identifying DLLs
6664 =item Centralized management of resources
6680 =item F<perl___.exe>
6682 =item Why strange names?
6684 =item Why dynamic linking?
6686 =item Why chimera build?
6694 =item C<PERLLIB_PREFIX>
6696 =item C<PERL_BADLANG>
6698 =item C<PERL_BADFREE>
6700 =item C<PERL_SH_DIR>
6702 =item C<USE_PERL_FLOCK>
6704 =item C<TMP> or C<TEMP>
6714 =item DLL name mangling: pre 5.6.2
6716 =item DLL name mangling: 5.6.2 and beyond
6718 Global DLLs, specific DLLs, C<BEGINLIBPATH> and C<ENDLIBPATH>, F<.> from
6721 =item DLL forwarder generation
6725 =item Calls to external programs
6727 =item Memory allocation
6731 C<COND_WAIT>, F<os2.c>
6747 =head2 perlos390, README.os390 - building and installing Perl for OS/390.
6757 =item Unpacking Perl distribution on OS/390
6759 =item Setup and utilities for Perl on OS/390
6761 =item Configure Perl on OS/390
6763 =item Build, Test, Install Perl on OS/390
6765 =item Build Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
6767 =item Testing Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
6769 =item Installation Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
6771 =item Usage Hints for Perl on OS/390
6773 =item Floating Point Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
6775 =item Modules and Extensions for Perl on OS/390
6785 =item Mailing list for Perl on OS/390
6793 =head2 perlqnx, README.qnx - Perl version 5 on QNX
6801 =item Required Software for Compiling Perl on QNX4
6803 /bin/sh, ar, nm, cpp, make
6805 =item Outstanding Issues with Perl on QNX4
6807 =item QNX auxiliary files
6811 =item Outstanding issues with perl under QNX6
6819 =head2 perlplan9 - Plan 9-specific documentation for Perl
6829 =item What's in Plan 9 Perl
6831 =item What's not in Plan 9 Perl
6833 =item Perl5 Functions not currently supported in Plan 9 Perl
6835 =item Signals in Plan 9 Perl
6839 =item COMPILING AND INSTALLING PERL ON PLAN 9
6843 =item Installing Perl Documentation on Plan 9
6855 =head2 perlsolaris, README.solaris - Perl version 5 on Solaris systems
6863 =item Solaris Version Numbers.
6869 Solaris FAQ, Precompiled Binaries, Solaris Documentation
6875 =item File Extraction Problems on Solaris.
6877 =item Compiler and Related Tools on Solaris.
6879 =item Environment for Compiling Perl on Solaris
6883 =item RUN CONFIGURE.
6887 =item 64-bit Issues with Perl on Solaris.
6889 =item Threads in Perl on Solaris.
6891 =item Malloc Issues with Perl on Solaris.
6895 =item MAKE PROBLEMS.
6897 Dynamic Loading Problems With GNU as and GNU ld, ld.so.1: ./perl: fatal:
6898 relocation error:, dlopen: stub interception failed, #error "No
6899 DATAMODEL_NATIVE specified", sh: ar: not found
6905 =item op/stat.t test 4 in Solaris
6907 =item nss_delete core dump from op/pwent or op/grent
6911 =item PREBUILT BINARIES OF PERL FOR SOLARIS.
6913 =item RUNTIME ISSUES FOR PERL ON SOLARIS.
6917 =item Limits on Numbers of Open Files on Solaris.
6921 =item SOLARIS-SPECIFIC MODULES.
6923 =item SOLARIS-SPECIFIC PROBLEMS WITH MODULES.
6927 =item Proc::ProcessTable on Solaris
6929 =item BSD::Resource on Solaris
6931 =item Net::SSLeay on Solaris
6941 =head2 perltru64, README.tru64 - Perl version 5 on Tru64 (formerly known as
6942 Digital UNIX formerly known as DEC OSF/1) systems
6950 =item Compiling Perl 5 on Tru64
6952 =item Using Large Files with Perl on Tru64
6954 =item Threaded Perl on Tru64
6956 =item Long Doubles on Tru64
6958 =item 64-bit Perl on Tru64
6960 =item Warnings about floating-point overflow when compiling Perl on Tru64
6964 =item Testing Perl on Tru64
6970 =head2 perluts - Perl under UTS
6978 =item BUILDING PERL ON UTS
6980 =item Installing the built perl on UTS
6986 =head2 perlvmesa, README.vmesa - building and installing Perl for VM/ESA.
6996 =item Unpacking Perl Distribution on VM/ESA
6998 =item Setup Perl and utilities on VM/ESA
7000 =item Configure Perl on VM/ESA
7002 =item Testing Anomalies of Perl on VM/ESA
7004 =item Usage Hints for Perl on VM/ESA
7014 =item Mailing list for Perl on VM/ESA
7020 =head2 perlvms - VMS-specific documentation for Perl
7028 =item Organization of Perl Images
7034 =item Perl Extensions
7036 =item Installing static extensions
7038 =item Installing dynamic extensions
7042 =item File specifications
7048 =item Wildcard expansion
7054 =item PERL5LIB and PERLLIB
7060 =item I/O redirection and backgrounding
7062 =item Command line switches
7068 =item Perl functions
7070 File tests, backticks, binmode FILEHANDLE, crypt PLAINTEXT, USER, dump,
7071 exec LIST, fork, getpwent, getpwnam, getpwuid, gmtime, kill, qx//, select
7072 (system call), stat EXPR, system LIST, time, times, unlink LIST, utime
7073 LIST, waitpid PID,FLAGS
7075 =item Perl variables
7077 %ENV, CRTL_ENV, CLISYM_[LOCAL], Any other string, $!, $^E, $?, $|
7079 =item Standard modules with VMS-specific differences
7093 =head2 perlvos, README.vos - Perl for Stratus VOS
7101 =item Stratus POSIX Support
7105 =item INSTALLING PERL IN VOS
7109 =item Compiling Perl 5 on VOS
7111 =item Installing Perl 5 on VOS
7115 =item USING PERL IN VOS
7119 =item Unimplemented Features of Perl on VOS
7121 =item Restrictions of Perl on VOS
7125 =item SUPPORT STATUS
7133 =head1 PRAGMA DOCUMENTATION
7135 =head2 attrs - set/get attributes of a subroutine (deprecated)
7147 =head2 re - Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour
7157 =head2 threadshared::shared, threads::shared - Perl extension for sharing
7158 data structures between threads
7180 =head2 threads - Perl extension allowing use of interpreter based threads
7189 new, function, LIST, $threads->join, $threads->detach, threads->self,
7194 Fix so the return value is returned when you join, Add join_all, Fix memory
7197 =item AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT
7201 creating a thread from within a thread is unsafe under win32,
7202 PERL_OLD_SIGNALS are not threadsafe, will not be
7208 =head2 attributes - get/set subroutine or variable attributes
7218 =item Built-in Attributes
7220 locked, method, lvalue
7222 =item Available Subroutines
7226 =item Package-specific Attribute Handling
7228 FETCH_I<type>_ATTRIBUTES, MODIFY_I<type>_ATTRIBUTES
7230 =item Syntax of Attribute Lists
7238 =item Default exports
7240 =item Available exports
7242 =item Export tags defined
7252 =head2 autouse - postpone load of modules until a function is used
7268 =head2 base - Establish IS-A relationship with base class at compile time
7282 =head2 blib - Use MakeMaker's uninstalled version of a package
7296 =head2 bytes - Perl pragma to force byte semantics rather than character
7309 =head2 charnames - define character names for C<\N{named}> string literal
7318 =item CUSTOM TRANSLATORS
7324 =head2 constant - Perl pragma to declare constants
7336 =item List constants
7338 =item Defining multiple constants at once
7340 =item Magic constants
7344 =item TECHNICAL NOTES
7354 =head2 diagnostics - Perl compiler pragma to force verbose warning
7365 =item The C<diagnostics> Pragma
7367 =item The I<splain> Program
7381 =head2 fields - compile-time class fields
7395 =head2 filetest - Perl pragma to control the filetest permission operators
7405 =item subpragma access
7411 =head2 integer - Perl pragma to use integer arithmetic instead of floating
7422 =head2 less - perl pragma to request less of something from the compiler
7432 =head2 lib - manipulate @INC at compile time
7442 =item Adding directories to @INC
7444 =item Deleting directories from @INC
7446 =item Restoring original @INC
7456 =head2 locale - Perl pragma to use and avoid POSIX locales for built-in
7467 =head2 open - perl pragma to set default disciplines for input and output
7475 =item NONPERLIO FUNCTIONALITY
7477 =item IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS
7483 =head2 ops - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when compiling
7495 =head2 overload - Package for overloading perl operations
7505 =item Declaration of overloaded functions
7507 =item Calling Conventions for Binary Operations
7509 FALSE, TRUE, C<undef>
7511 =item Calling Conventions for Unary Operations
7513 =item Calling Conventions for Mutators
7515 C<++> and C<-->, C<x=> and other assignment versions
7517 =item Overloadable Operations
7519 I<Arithmetic operations>, I<Comparison operations>, I<Bit operations>,
7520 I<Increment and decrement>, I<Transcendental functions>, I<Boolean, string
7521 and numeric conversion>, I<Iteration>, I<Dereferencing>, I<Special>
7523 =item Inheritance and overloading
7525 Strings as values of C<use overload> directive, Overloading of an operation
7526 is inherited by derived classes
7530 =item SPECIAL SYMBOLS FOR C<use overload>
7538 C<undef>, TRUE, defined, but FALSE
7540 =item Copy Constructor
7546 =item MAGIC AUTOGENERATION
7548 I<Assignment forms of arithmetic operations>, I<Conversion operations>,
7549 I<Increment and decrement>, C<abs($a)>, I<Unary minus>, I<Negation>,
7550 I<Concatenation>, I<Comparison operations>, I<Iterator>, I<Dereferencing>,
7553 =item Losing overloading
7555 =item Run-time Overloading
7557 =item Public functions
7559 overload::StrVal(arg), overload::Overloaded(arg), overload::Method(obj,op)
7561 =item Overloading constants
7563 integer, float, binary, q, qr
7565 =item IMPLEMENTATION
7567 =item Metaphor clash
7573 =item Two-face scalars
7575 =item Two-face references
7577 =item Symbolic calculator
7579 =item I<Really> symbolic calculator
7587 Odd number of arguments for overload::constant, `%s' is not an overloadable
7588 type, `%s' is not a code reference
7594 =head2 re - Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour
7604 =head2 sigtrap - Perl pragma to enable simple signal handling
7616 =item SIGNAL HANDLERS
7618 B<stack-trace>, B<die>, B<handler> I<your-handler>
7622 B<normal-signals>, B<error-signals>, B<old-interface-signals>
7626 B<untrapped>, B<any>, I<signal>, I<number>
7634 =head2 strict - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe constructs
7642 C<strict refs>, C<strict vars>, C<strict subs>
7646 =head2 subs - Perl pragma to predeclare sub names
7656 =head2 utf8 - Perl pragma to enable/disable UTF-8 (or UTF-EBCDIC) in source
7667 =item Utility functions
7669 $num_octets = utf8::upgrade($string);, utf8::downgrade($string[, CHECK]),
7670 utf8::encode($string), $flag = utf8::decode($string)
7678 =head2 vars - Perl pragma to predeclare global variable names (obsolete)
7688 =head2 warnings - Perl pragma to control optional warnings
7696 use warnings::register, warnings::enabled(), warnings::enabled($category),
7697 warnings::enabled($object), warnings::warn($message),
7698 warnings::warn($category, $message), warnings::warn($object, $message),
7699 warnings::warnif($message), warnings::warnif($category, $message),
7700 warnings::warnif($object, $message)
7704 =head2 warnings::register - warnings import function
7714 =head1 MODULE DOCUMENTATION
7716 =head2 AnyDBM_File - provide framework for multiple DBMs
7726 =item DBM Comparisons
7736 =head2 Attribute::Handlers - Simpler definition of attribute handlers
7746 [0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]
7750 =item Typed lexicals
7752 =item Type-specific attribute handlers
7754 =item Non-interpretive attribute handlers
7756 =item Phase-specific attribute handlers
7758 =item Attributes as C<tie> interfaces
7766 C<Bad attribute type: ATTR(%s)>, C<Attribute handler %s doesn't handle %s
7767 attributes>, C<Declaration of %s attribute in package %s may clash with
7768 future reserved word>, C<Can't have two ATTR specifiers on one subroutine>,
7769 C<Can't autotie a %s>, C<Internal error: %s symbol went missing>
7779 =head2 AutoLoader - load subroutines only on demand
7789 =item Subroutine Stubs
7791 =item Using B<AutoLoader>'s AUTOLOAD Subroutine
7793 =item Overriding B<AutoLoader>'s AUTOLOAD Subroutine
7795 =item Package Lexicals
7797 =item Not Using AutoLoader
7799 =item B<AutoLoader> vs. B<SelfLoader>
7809 =head2 AutoSplit - split a package for autoloading
7817 $keep, $check, $modtime
7821 =item Multiple packages
7829 =head2 B - The Perl Compiler
7837 =item OVERVIEW OF CLASSES
7841 =item SV-RELATED CLASSES
7849 IV, IVX, UVX, int_value, needs64bits, packiv
7863 =item B::PVMG METHODS
7867 =item B::MAGIC METHODS
7869 MOREMAGIC, PRIVATE, TYPE, FLAGS, OBJ, PTR
7871 =item B::PVLV METHODS
7873 TARGOFF, TARGLEN, TYPE, TARG
7877 USEFUL, PREVIOUS, RARE, TABLE
7881 is_empty, NAME, SAFENAME, STASH, SV, IO, FORM, AV, HV, EGV, CV, CVGEN,
7882 LINE, FILE, FILEGV, GvREFCNT, FLAGS
7886 LINES, PAGE, PAGE_LEN, LINES_LEFT, TOP_NAME, TOP_GV, FMT_NAME, FMT_GV,
7887 BOTTOM_NAME, BOTTOM_GV, SUBPROCESS, IoTYPE, IoFLAGS
7891 FILL, MAX, OFF, ARRAY, AvFLAGS
7895 STASH, START, ROOT, GV, FILE, DEPTH, PADLIST, OUTSIDE, XSUB, XSUBANY,
7900 FILL, MAX, KEYS, RITER, NAME, PMROOT, ARRAY
7902 =item OP-RELATED CLASSES
7906 next, sibling, name, ppaddr, desc, targ, type, seq, flags, private
7908 =item B::UNOP METHOD
7912 =item B::BINOP METHOD
7916 =item B::LOGOP METHOD
7920 =item B::LISTOP METHOD
7924 =item B::PMOP METHODS
7926 pmreplroot, pmreplstart, pmnext, pmregexp, pmflags, pmpermflags, precomp
7928 =item B::SVOP METHOD
7932 =item B::PADOP METHOD
7936 =item B::PVOP METHOD
7940 =item B::LOOP METHODS
7942 redoop, nextop, lastop
7944 =item B::COP METHODS
7946 label, stash, file, cop_seq, arybase, line
7950 =item FUNCTIONS EXPORTED BY C<B>
7952 main_cv, init_av, main_root, main_start, comppadlist, sv_undef, sv_yes,
7953 sv_no, amagic_generation, walkoptree(OP, METHOD), walkoptree_debug(DEBUG),
7954 walksymtable(SYMREF, METHOD, RECURSE, PREFIX), svref_2object(SV),
7955 ppname(OPNUM), hash(STR), cast_I32(I), minus_c, cstring(STR), class(OBJ),
7962 =head2 B::Asmdata - Autogenerated data about Perl ops, used to generate
7975 =head2 B::Assembler - Assemble Perl bytecode
7987 =head2 B::Bblock - Walk basic blocks
7999 =head2 B::Bytecode - Perl compiler's bytecode backend
8009 B<-ofilename>, B<-afilename>, B<-->, B<-f>, B<-fcompress-nullops>,
8010 B<-fomit-sequence-numbers>, B<-fbypass-nullops>, B<-On>, B<-D>, B<-Do>,
8011 B<-Db>, B<-Da>, B<-DC>, B<-S>, B<-upackage>
8021 =head2 B::C - Perl compiler's C backend
8031 B<-ofilename>, B<-v>, B<-->, B<-uPackname>, B<-D>, B<-Do>, B<-Dc>, B<-DA>,
8032 B<-DC>, B<-DM>, B<-f>, B<-fcog>, B<-fno-cog>, B<-On>, B<-llimit>
8042 =head2 B::CC - Perl compiler's optimized C translation backend
8052 B<-ofilename>, B<-v>, B<-->, B<-uPackname>, B<-mModulename>, B<-D>, B<-Dr>,
8053 B<-DO>, B<-Ds>, B<-Dp>, B<-Dq>, B<-Dl>, B<-Dt>, B<-f>,
8054 B<-ffreetmps-each-bblock>, B<-ffreetmps-each-loop>, B<-fomit-taint>, B<-On>
8066 =item Context of ".."
8070 =item Deprecated features
8078 =head2 B::Concise - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing concise info about ops
8088 B<-basic>, B<-exec>, B<-tree>, B<-compact>, B<-loose>, B<-vt>, B<-ascii>,
8089 B<-main>, B<-base>I<n>, B<-bigendian>, B<-littleendian>, B<-concise>,
8090 B<-terse>, B<-linenoise>, B<-debug>, B<-env>
8092 =item FORMATTING SPECIFICATIONS
8094 B<(x(>I<exec_text>B<;>I<basic_text>B<)x)>, B<(*(>I<text>B<)*)>,
8095 B<(*(>I<text1>B<;>I<text2>B<)*)>, B<(?(>I<text1>B<#>I<var>I<Text2>B<)?)>,
8096 B<#>I<var>, B<#>I<var>I<N>, B<~>, B<#addr>, B<#arg>, B<#class>,
8097 B<#classym>, B<#coplabel>, B<#exname>, B<#extarg>, B<#firstaddr>,
8098 B<#flags>, B<#flagval>, B<#hyphenseq>, B<#label>, B<#lastaddr>, B<#name>,
8099 B<#NAME>, B<#next>, B<#nextaddr>, B<#noise>, B<#private>, B<#privval>,
8100 B<#seq>, B<#seqnum>, B<#sibaddr>, B<#svaddr>, B<#svclass>, B<#svval>,
8101 B<#targ>, B<#targarg>, B<#targarglife>, B<#typenum>
8107 =item OP flags abbreviations
8109 =item OP class abbreviations
8113 =item Using B::Concise outside of the O framework
8119 =head2 B::Debug - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing debug info about ops
8131 =head2 B::Deparse - Perl compiler backend to produce perl code
8141 B<-l>, B<-p>, B<-q>, B<-f>I<FILE>, B<-s>I<LETTERS>, B<C>, B<i>I<NUMBER>,
8142 B<T>, B<v>I<STRING>B<.>, B<-x>I<LEVEL>
8144 =item USING B::Deparse AS A MODULE
8154 =item ambient_pragmas
8156 strict, $[, bytes, utf8, integer, re, warnings, hint_bits, warning_bits
8168 =head2 B::Disassembler - Disassemble Perl bytecode
8180 =head2 B::Lint - Perl lint
8188 =item OPTIONS AND LINT CHECKS
8190 B<context>, B<implicit-read> and B<implicit-write>, B<dollar-underscore>,
8191 B<private-names>, B<undefined-subs>, B<regexp-variables>, B<all>, B<none>
8193 =item NON LINT-CHECK OPTIONS
8203 =head2 B::O, O - Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends
8213 =item IMPLEMENTATION
8219 =head2 B::Showlex - Show lexical variables used in functions or files
8231 =head2 B::Stackobj - Helper module for CC backend
8243 =head2 B::Stash - show what stashes are loaded
8245 =head2 B::Terse - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing terse info about ops
8257 =head2 B::Xref - Generates cross reference reports for Perl programs
8267 C<-oFILENAME>, C<-r>, C<-D[tO]>
8275 =head2 Bblock, B::Bblock - Walk basic blocks
8287 =head2 Benchmark - benchmark running times of Perl code
8301 =item Standard Exports
8303 timeit(COUNT, CODE), timethis ( COUNT, CODE, [ TITLE, [ STYLE ]] ),
8304 timethese ( COUNT, CODEHASHREF, [ STYLE ] ), timediff ( T1, T2 ), timestr (
8305 TIMEDIFF, [ STYLE, [ FORMAT ] ] )
8307 =item Optional Exports
8309 clearcache ( COUNT ), clearallcache ( ), cmpthese ( COUT, CODEHASHREF, [
8310 STYLE ] ), cmpthese ( RESULTSHASHREF ), countit(TIME, CODE), disablecache (
8311 ), enablecache ( ), timesum ( T1, T2 )
8327 =item MODIFICATION HISTORY
8331 =head2 ByteLoader - load byte compiled perl code
8345 =head2 Bytecode, B::Bytecode - Perl compiler's bytecode backend
8355 B<-ofilename>, B<-afilename>, B<-->, B<-f>, B<-fcompress-nullops>,
8356 B<-fomit-sequence-numbers>, B<-fbypass-nullops>, B<-On>, B<-D>, B<-Do>,
8357 B<-Db>, B<-Da>, B<-DC>, B<-S>, B<-upackage>
8367 =head2 CGI - Simple Common Gateway Interface Class
8379 =item PROGRAMMING STYLE
8381 =item CALLING CGI.PM ROUTINES
8383 =item CREATING A NEW QUERY OBJECT (OBJECT-ORIENTED STYLE):
8385 =item CREATING A NEW QUERY OBJECT FROM AN INPUT FILE
8387 =item FETCHING A LIST OF KEYWORDS FROM THE QUERY:
8389 =item FETCHING THE NAMES OF ALL THE PARAMETERS PASSED TO YOUR SCRIPT:
8391 =item FETCHING THE VALUE OR VALUES OF A SINGLE NAMED PARAMETER:
8393 =item SETTING THE VALUE(S) OF A NAMED PARAMETER:
8395 =item APPENDING ADDITIONAL VALUES TO A NAMED PARAMETER:
8397 =item IMPORTING ALL PARAMETERS INTO A NAMESPACE:
8399 =item DELETING A PARAMETER COMPLETELY:
8401 =item DELETING ALL PARAMETERS:
8403 =item DIRECT ACCESS TO THE PARAMETER LIST:
8405 =item FETCHING THE PARAMETER LIST AS A HASH:
8407 =item SAVING THE STATE OF THE SCRIPT TO A FILE:
8409 =item RETRIEVING CGI ERRORS
8411 =item USING THE FUNCTION-ORIENTED INTERFACE
8413 B<:cgi>, B<:form>, B<:html2>, B<:html3>, B<:netscape>, B<:html>,
8414 B<:standard>, B<:all>
8418 -any, -compile, -nosticky, -no_undef_params, -no_xhtml, -nph,
8419 -newstyle_urls, -oldstyle_urls, -autoload, -no_debug, -debug,
8422 =item SPECIAL FORMS FOR IMPORTING HTML-TAG FUNCTIONS
8424 1. start_table() (generates a <TABLE> tag), 2. end_table() (generates a
8425 </TABLE> tag), 3. start_ul() (generates a <UL> tag), 4. end_ul() (generates
8430 =item GENERATING DYNAMIC DOCUMENTS
8434 =item CREATING A STANDARD HTTP HEADER:
8436 =item GENERATING A REDIRECTION HEADER
8438 =item CREATING THE HTML DOCUMENT HEADER
8440 B<Parameters:>, 4, 5, 6..
8442 =item ENDING THE HTML DOCUMENT:
8444 =item CREATING A SELF-REFERENCING URL THAT PRESERVES STATE INFORMATION:
8446 =item OBTAINING THE SCRIPT'S URL
8448 B<-absolute>, B<-relative>, B<-full>, B<-path> (B<-path_info>), B<-query>
8449 (B<-query_string>), B<-base>
8451 =item MIXING POST AND URL PARAMETERS
8455 =item CREATING STANDARD HTML ELEMENTS:
8459 =item PROVIDING ARGUMENTS TO HTML SHORTCUTS
8461 =item THE DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY OF HTML SHORTCUTS
8463 =item HTML SHORTCUTS AND LIST INTERPOLATION
8465 =item NON-STANDARD HTML SHORTCUTS
8467 =item AUTOESCAPING HTML
8469 $escaped_string = escapeHTML("unescaped string");, $charset =
8470 charset([$charset]);, $flag = autoEscape([$flag]);
8472 =item PRETTY-PRINTING HTML
8476 =item CREATING FILL-OUT FORMS:
8480 =item CREATING AN ISINDEX TAG
8482 =item STARTING AND ENDING A FORM
8484 B<application/x-www-form-urlencoded>, B<multipart/form-data>
8486 =item CREATING A TEXT FIELD
8490 =item CREATING A BIG TEXT FIELD
8492 =item CREATING A PASSWORD FIELD
8494 =item CREATING A FILE UPLOAD FIELD
8498 =item CREATING A POPUP MENU
8500 =item CREATING A SCROLLING LIST
8504 =item CREATING A GROUP OF RELATED CHECKBOXES
8508 =item CREATING A STANDALONE CHECKBOX
8512 =item CREATING A RADIO BUTTON GROUP
8516 =item CREATING A SUBMIT BUTTON
8520 =item CREATING A RESET BUTTON
8522 =item CREATING A DEFAULT BUTTON
8524 =item CREATING A HIDDEN FIELD
8528 =item CREATING A CLICKABLE IMAGE BUTTON
8532 =item CREATING A JAVASCRIPT ACTION BUTTON
8538 1. an expiration time, 2. a domain, 3. a path, 4. a "secure" flag,
8539 B<-name>, B<-value>, B<-path>, B<-domain>, B<-expires>, B<-secure>
8541 =item WORKING WITH FRAMES
8543 1. Create a <Frameset> document, 2. Specify the destination for the
8544 document in the HTTP header, 3. Specify the destination for the document in
8547 =item LIMITED SUPPORT FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS
8553 =item DUMPING OUT ALL THE NAME/VALUE PAIRS
8557 =item FETCHING ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
8559 B<Accept()>, B<raw_cookie()>, B<user_agent()>, B<path_info()>,
8560 B<path_translated()>, B<remote_host()>, B<script_name()>, B<referer()>,
8561 B<auth_type ()>, B<server_name ()>, B<virtual_host ()>, B<server_port ()>,
8562 B<server_software ()>, B<remote_user ()>, B<user_name ()>,
8563 B<request_method()>, B<content_type()>, B<http()>, B<https()>
8565 =item USING NPH SCRIPTS
8567 In the B<use> statement, By calling the B<nph()> method:, By using B<-nph>
8572 multipart_init(), multipart_start(), multipart_end(), multipart_final()
8574 =item Avoiding Denial of Service Attacks
8576 B<$CGI::POST_MAX>, B<$CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS>, B<1. On a script-by-script
8577 basis>, B<2. Globally for all scripts>
8579 =item COMPATIBILITY WITH CGI-LIB.PL
8581 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
8585 Matt Heffron (heffron@falstaff.css.beckman.com), James Taylor
8586 (james.taylor@srs.gov), Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com>, Mike Jewell
8587 (mlj3u@virginia.edu), Timothy Shimmin (tes@kbs.citri.edu.au), Joergen Haegg
8588 (jh@axis.se), Laurent Delfosse (delfosse@delfosse.com), Richard Resnick
8589 (applepi1@aol.com), Craig Bishop (csb@barwonwater.vic.gov.au), Tony Curtis
8590 (tc@vcpc.univie.ac.at), Tim Bunce (Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk), Tom Christiansen
8591 (tchrist@convex.com), Andreas Koenig (k@franz.ww.TU-Berlin.DE), Tim
8592 MacKenzie (Tim.MacKenzie@fulcrum.com.au), Kevin B. Hendricks
8593 (kbhend@dogwood.tyler.wm.edu), Stephen Dahmen (joyfire@inxpress.net), Ed
8594 Jordan (ed@fidalgo.net), David Alan Pisoni (david@cnation.com), Doug
8595 MacEachern (dougm@opengroup.org), Robin Houston (robin@oneworld.org),
8596 ...and many many more..
8598 =item A COMPLETE EXAMPLE OF A SIMPLE FORM-BASED SCRIPT
8606 =head2 CGI::Apache - Backward compatibility module for CGI.pm
8616 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
8624 =head2 CGI::Carp, B<CGI::Carp> - CGI routines for writing to the HTTPD (or
8633 =item REDIRECTING ERROR MESSAGES
8635 =item MAKING PERL ERRORS APPEAR IN THE BROWSER WINDOW
8639 =item Changing the default message
8643 =item MAKING WARNINGS APPEAR AS HTML COMMENTS
8653 =head2 CGI::Cookie - Interface to Netscape Cookies
8661 =item USING CGI::Cookie
8663 B<1. expiration date>, B<2. domain>, B<3. path>, B<4. secure flag>
8667 =item Creating New Cookies
8669 =item Sending the Cookie to the Browser
8671 =item Recovering Previous Cookies
8673 =item Manipulating Cookies
8675 B<name()>, B<value()>, B<domain()>, B<path()>, B<expires()>
8679 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
8687 =head2 CGI::Fast - CGI Interface for Fast CGI
8695 =item OTHER PIECES OF THE PUZZLE
8697 =item WRITING FASTCGI PERL SCRIPTS
8699 =item INSTALLING FASTCGI SCRIPTS
8701 =item USING FASTCGI SCRIPTS AS CGI SCRIPTS
8703 =item EXTERNAL FASTCGI SERVER INVOCATION
8705 FCGI_SOCKET_PATH, FCGI_LISTEN_QUEUE
8709 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
8717 =head2 CGI::Pretty - module to produce nicely formatted HTML code
8727 =item Tags that won't be formatted
8729 =item Customizing the Indenting
8741 =head2 CGI::Push - Simple Interface to Server Push
8749 =item USING CGI::Push
8751 -next_page, -last_page, -type, -delay, -cookie, -target, -expires, -nph
8755 =item Heterogeneous Pages
8757 =item Changing the Page Delay on the Fly
8761 =item INSTALLING CGI::Push SCRIPTS
8763 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
8771 =head2 CGI::Switch - Backward compatibility module for defunct CGI::Switch
8781 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
8789 =head2 CGI::Util - Internal utilities used by CGI module
8797 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
8803 =head2 CPAN - query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites
8813 =item Interactive Mode
8815 Searching for authors, bundles, distribution files and modules, make, test,
8816 install, clean modules or distributions, get, readme, look module or
8817 distribution, ls author, Signals
8825 =item The four C<CPAN::*> Classes: Author, Bundle, Module, Distribution
8827 =item Programmer's interface
8829 expand($type,@things), expandany(@things), Programming Examples
8831 =item Methods in the other Classes
8833 CPAN::Author::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Author::as_string(),
8834 CPAN::Author::email(), CPAN::Author::fullname(), CPAN::Author::name(),
8835 CPAN::Bundle::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Bundle::as_string(),
8836 CPAN::Bundle::clean(), CPAN::Bundle::contains(),
8837 CPAN::Bundle::force($method,@args), CPAN::Bundle::get(),
8838 CPAN::Bundle::inst_file(), CPAN::Bundle::inst_version(),
8839 CPAN::Bundle::uptodate(), CPAN::Bundle::install(), CPAN::Bundle::make(),
8840 CPAN::Bundle::readme(), CPAN::Bundle::test(),
8841 CPAN::Distribution::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Distribution::as_string(),
8842 CPAN::Distribution::clean(), CPAN::Distribution::containsmods(),
8843 CPAN::Distribution::cvs_import(), CPAN::Distribution::dir(),
8844 CPAN::Distribution::force($method,@args), CPAN::Distribution::get(),
8845 CPAN::Distribution::install(), CPAN::Distribution::isa_perl(),
8846 CPAN::Distribution::look(), CPAN::Distribution::make(),
8847 CPAN::Distribution::prereq_pm(), CPAN::Distribution::readme(),
8848 CPAN::Distribution::test(), CPAN::Distribution::uptodate(),
8849 CPAN::Index::force_reload(), CPAN::Index::reload(), CPAN::InfoObj::dump(),
8850 CPAN::Module::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Module::as_string(),
8851 CPAN::Module::clean(), CPAN::Module::cpan_file(),
8852 CPAN::Module::cpan_version(), CPAN::Module::cvs_import(),
8853 CPAN::Module::description(), CPAN::Module::force($method,@args),
8854 CPAN::Module::get(), CPAN::Module::inst_file(),
8855 CPAN::Module::inst_version(), CPAN::Module::install(),
8856 CPAN::Module::look(), CPAN::Module::make(),
8857 CPAN::Module::manpage_headline(), CPAN::Module::readme(),
8858 CPAN::Module::test(), CPAN::Module::uptodate(), CPAN::Module::userid()
8866 =item Finding packages and VERSION
8870 =item Floppy, Zip, Offline Mode
8876 C<o conf E<lt>scalar optionE<gt>>, C<o conf E<lt>scalar optionE<gt>
8877 E<lt>valueE<gt>>, C<o conf E<lt>list optionE<gt>>, C<o conf E<lt>list
8878 optionE<gt> [shift|pop]>, C<o conf E<lt>list optionE<gt>
8879 [unshift|push|splice] E<lt>listE<gt>>
8883 =item Note on urllist parameter's format
8885 =item urllist parameter has CD-ROM support
8893 =item POPULATE AN INSTALLATION WITH LOTS OF MODULES
8895 =item WORKING WITH CPAN.pm BEHIND FIREWALLS
8899 =item Three basic types of firewalls
8901 http firewall, ftp firewall, One way visibility, SOCKS, IP Masquerade
8903 =item Configuring lynx or ncftp for going through a firewall
8909 1), 2), 3), 4), 5), 6), 7), 8), 9), 10)
8921 =head2 CPAN::FirstTime - Utility for CPAN::Config file Initialization
8931 =head2 CPANox, CPAN::Nox - Wrapper around CPAN.pm without using any XS
8944 =head2 Carp, carp - warn of errors (from perspective of caller)
8954 =item Forcing a Stack Trace
8962 =head2 Carp::Heavy, Carp heavy machinery - no user serviceable parts inside
8964 =head2 Class::ISA -- report the search path for a class's ISA tree
8974 the function Class::ISA::super_path($CLASS), the function
8975 Class::ISA::self_and_super_path($CLASS), the function
8976 Class::ISA::self_and_super_versions($CLASS)
8978 =item CAUTIONARY NOTES
8986 =head2 Class::Struct - declare struct-like datatypes as Perl classes
8996 =item The C<struct()> function
8998 =item Class Creation at Compile Time
9000 =item Element Types and Accessor Methods
9002 Scalar (C<'$'> or C<'*$'>), Array (C<'@'> or C<'*@'>), Hash (C<'%'> or
9003 C<'*%'>), Class (C<'Class_Name'> or C<'*Class_Name'>)
9005 =item Initializing with C<new>
9011 Example 1, Example 2, Example 3
9013 =item Author and Modification History
9017 =head2 Config - access Perl configuration information
9025 myconfig(), config_sh(), config_vars(@names)
9037 C<_a>, C<_exe>, C<_o>
9041 C<afs>, C<afsroot>, C<alignbytes>, C<ansi2knr>, C<aphostname>,
9042 C<api_revision>, C<api_subversion>, C<api_version>, C<api_versionstring>,
9043 C<ar>, C<archlib>, C<archlibexp>, C<archname64>, C<archname>, C<archobjs>,
9048 C<baserev>, C<bash>, C<bin>, C<bincompat5005>, C<binexp>, C<bison>,
9049 C<byacc>, C<byteorder>
9053 C<c>, C<castflags>, C<cat>, C<cc>, C<cccdlflags>, C<ccdlflags>, C<ccflags>,
9054 C<ccflags_uselargefiles>, C<ccname>, C<ccsymbols>, C<ccversion>, C<cf_by>,
9055 C<cf_email>, C<cf_time>, C<charsize>, C<chgrp>, C<chmod>, C<chown>,
9056 C<clocktype>, C<comm>, C<compress>, C<contains>, C<cp>, C<cpio>, C<cpp>,
9057 C<cpp_stuff>, C<cppccsymbols>, C<cppflags>, C<cpplast>, C<cppminus>,
9058 C<cpprun>, C<cppstdin>, C<cppsymbols>, C<cryptlib>, C<csh>
9062 C<d__fwalk>, C<d_access>, C<d_accessx>, C<d_alarm>, C<d_archlib>,
9063 C<d_atolf>, C<d_atoll>, C<d_attribut>, C<d_bcmp>, C<d_bcopy>,
9064 C<d_bincompat5005>, C<d_bsd>, C<d_bsdgetpgrp>, C<d_bsdsetpgrp>, C<d_bzero>,
9065 C<d_casti32>, C<d_castneg>, C<d_charvspr>, C<d_chown>, C<d_chroot>,
9066 C<d_chsize>, C<d_class>, C<d_closedir>, C<d_cmsghdr_s>, C<d_const>,
9067 C<d_crypt>, C<d_csh>, C<d_cuserid>, C<d_dbl_dig>, C<d_dbminitproto>,
9068 C<d_difftime>, C<d_dirnamlen>, C<d_dlerror>, C<d_dlopen>, C<d_dlsymun>,
9069 C<d_dosuid>, C<d_drand48proto>, C<d_dup2>, C<d_eaccess>, C<d_endgrent>,
9070 C<d_endhent>, C<d_endnent>, C<d_endpent>, C<d_endpwent>, C<d_endsent>,
9071 C<d_eofnblk>, C<d_eunice>, C<d_fchdir>, C<d_fchmod>, C<d_fchown>,
9072 C<d_fcntl>, C<d_fcntl_can_lock>, C<d_fd_macros>, C<d_fd_set>,
9073 C<d_fds_bits>, C<d_fgetpos>, C<d_finite>, C<d_finitel>, C<d_flexfnam>,
9074 C<d_flock>, C<d_flockproto>, C<d_fork>, C<d_fp_class>, C<d_fpathconf>,
9075 C<d_fpclass>, C<d_fpclassify>, C<d_fpclassl>, C<d_fpos64_t>, C<d_frexpl>,
9076 C<d_fs_data_s>, C<d_fseeko>, C<d_fsetpos>, C<d_fstatfs>, C<d_fstatvfs>,
9077 C<d_fsync>, C<d_ftello>, C<d_ftime>, C<d_Gconvert>, C<d_getcwd>,
9078 C<d_getespwnam>, C<d_getfsstat>, C<d_getgrent>, C<d_getgrps>,
9079 C<d_gethbyaddr>, C<d_gethbyname>, C<d_gethent>, C<d_gethname>,
9080 C<d_gethostprotos>, C<d_getitimer>, C<d_getlogin>, C<d_getmnt>,
9081 C<d_getmntent>, C<d_getnbyaddr>, C<d_getnbyname>, C<d_getnent>,
9082 C<d_getnetprotos>, C<d_getpagsz>, C<d_getpbyname>, C<d_getpbynumber>,
9083 C<d_getpent>, C<d_getpgid>, C<d_getpgrp2>, C<d_getpgrp>, C<d_getppid>,
9084 C<d_getprior>, C<d_getprotoprotos>, C<d_getprpwnam>, C<d_getpwent>,
9085 C<d_getsbyname>, C<d_getsbyport>, C<d_getsent>, C<d_getservprotos>,
9086 C<d_getspnam>, C<d_gettimeod>, C<d_gnulibc>, C<d_grpasswd>, C<d_hasmntopt>,
9087 C<d_htonl>, C<d_index>, C<d_inetaton>, C<d_int64_t>, C<d_isascii>,
9088 C<d_isfinite>, C<d_isinf>, C<d_isnan>, C<d_isnanl>, C<d_killpg>,
9089 C<d_lchown>, C<d_ldbl_dig>, C<d_link>, C<d_locconv>, C<d_lockf>,
9090 C<d_longdbl>, C<d_longlong>, C<d_lseekproto>, C<d_lstat>, C<d_madvise>,
9091 C<d_mblen>, C<d_mbstowcs>, C<d_mbtowc>, C<d_memchr>, C<d_memcmp>,
9092 C<d_memcpy>, C<d_memmove>, C<d_memset>, C<d_mkdir>, C<d_mkdtemp>,
9093 C<d_mkfifo>, C<d_mkstemp>, C<d_mkstemps>, C<d_mktime>, C<d_mmap>,
9094 C<d_modfl>, C<d_modfl_pow32_bug>, C<d_mprotect>, C<d_msg>, C<d_msg_ctrunc>,
9095 C<d_msg_dontroute>, C<d_msg_oob>, C<d_msg_peek>, C<d_msg_proxy>,
9096 C<d_msgctl>, C<d_msgget>, C<d_msghdr_s>, C<d_msgrcv>, C<d_msgsnd>,
9097 C<d_msync>, C<d_munmap>, C<d_mymalloc>, C<d_nice>, C<d_nl_langinfo>,
9098 C<d_nv_preserves_uv>, C<d_nv_preserves_uv_bits>, C<d_off64_t>,
9099 C<d_old_pthread_create_joinable>, C<d_oldpthreads>, C<d_oldsock>,
9100 C<d_open3>, C<d_pathconf>, C<d_pause>, C<d_perl_otherlibdirs>,
9101 C<d_phostname>, C<d_pipe>, C<d_poll>, C<d_portable>, C<d_PRId64>,
9102 C<d_PRIeldbl>, C<d_PRIEUldbl>, C<d_PRIfldbl>, C<d_PRIFUldbl>,
9103 C<d_PRIgldbl>, C<d_PRIGUldbl>, C<d_PRIi64>, C<d_PRIo64>, C<d_PRIu64>,
9104 C<d_PRIx64>, C<d_PRIXU64>, C<d_pthread_atfork>, C<d_pthread_yield>,
9105 C<d_pwage>, C<d_pwchange>, C<d_pwclass>, C<d_pwcomment>, C<d_pwexpire>,
9106 C<d_pwgecos>, C<d_pwpasswd>, C<d_pwquota>, C<d_qgcvt>, C<d_quad>,
9107 C<d_readdir>, C<d_readlink>, C<d_readv>, C<d_recvmsg>, C<d_rename>,
9108 C<d_rewinddir>, C<d_rmdir>, C<d_safebcpy>, C<d_safemcpy>, C<d_sanemcmp>,
9109 C<d_sbrkproto>, C<d_sched_yield>, C<d_scm_rights>, C<d_SCNfldbl>,
9110 C<d_seekdir>, C<d_select>, C<d_sem>, C<d_semctl>, C<d_semctl_semid_ds>,
9111 C<d_semctl_semun>, C<d_semget>, C<d_semop>, C<d_sendmsg>, C<d_setegid>,
9112 C<d_seteuid>, C<d_setgrent>, C<d_setgrps>, C<d_sethent>, C<d_setitimer>,
9113 C<d_setlinebuf>, C<d_setlocale>, C<d_setnent>, C<d_setpent>, C<d_setpgid>,
9114 C<d_setpgrp2>, C<d_setpgrp>, C<d_setprior>, C<d_setproctitle>,
9115 C<d_setpwent>, C<d_setregid>, C<d_setresgid>, C<d_setresuid>,
9116 C<d_setreuid>, C<d_setrgid>, C<d_setruid>, C<d_setsent>, C<d_setsid>,
9117 C<d_setvbuf>, C<d_sfio>, C<d_shm>, C<d_shmat>, C<d_shmatprototype>,
9118 C<d_shmctl>, C<d_shmdt>, C<d_shmget>, C<d_sigaction>, C<d_sigprocmask>,
9119 C<d_sigsetjmp>, C<d_sockatmark>, C<d_sockatmarkproto>, C<d_socket>,
9120 C<d_socklen_t>, C<d_sockpair>, C<d_socks5_init>, C<d_sqrtl>,
9121 C<d_sresgproto>, C<d_sresuproto>, C<d_statblks>, C<d_statfs_f_flags>,
9122 C<d_statfs_s>, C<d_statvfs>, C<d_stdio_cnt_lval>, C<d_stdio_ptr_lval>,
9123 C<d_stdio_ptr_lval_nochange_cnt>, C<d_stdio_ptr_lval_sets_cnt>,
9124 C<d_stdio_stream_array>, C<d_stdiobase>, C<d_stdstdio>, C<d_strchr>,
9125 C<d_strcoll>, C<d_strctcpy>, C<d_strerrm>, C<d_strerror>, C<d_strftime>,
9126 C<d_strtod>, C<d_strtol>, C<d_strtold>, C<d_strtoll>, C<d_strtoq>,
9127 C<d_strtoul>, C<d_strtoull>, C<d_strtouq>, C<d_strxfrm>, C<d_suidsafe>,
9128 C<d_symlink>, C<d_syscall>, C<d_syscallproto>, C<d_sysconf>,
9129 C<d_sysernlst>, C<d_syserrlst>, C<d_system>, C<d_tcgetpgrp>,
9130 C<d_tcsetpgrp>, C<d_telldir>, C<d_telldirproto>, C<d_time>, C<d_times>,
9131 C<d_truncate>, C<d_tzname>, C<d_u32align>, C<d_ualarm>, C<d_umask>,
9132 C<d_uname>, C<d_union_semun>, C<d_unordered>, C<d_usleep>,
9133 C<d_usleepproto>, C<d_ustat>, C<d_vendorarch>, C<d_vendorbin>,
9134 C<d_vendorlib>, C<d_vfork>, C<d_void_closedir>, C<d_voidsig>, C<d_voidtty>,
9135 C<d_volatile>, C<d_vprintf>, C<d_wait4>, C<d_waitpid>, C<d_wcstombs>,
9136 C<d_wctomb>, C<d_writev>, C<d_xenix>, C<date>, C<db_hashtype>,
9137 C<db_prefixtype>, C<db_version_major>, C<db_version_minor>,
9138 C<db_version_patch>, C<defvoidused>, C<direntrytype>, C<dlext>, C<dlsrc>,
9139 C<doublesize>, C<drand01>, C<dynamic_ext>
9143 C<eagain>, C<ebcdic>, C<echo>, C<egrep>, C<emacs>, C<eunicefix>,
9144 C<exe_ext>, C<expr>, C<extensions>, C<extras>
9148 C<fflushall>, C<fflushNULL>, C<find>, C<firstmakefile>, C<flex>,
9149 C<fpossize>, C<fpostype>, C<freetype>, C<from>, C<full_ar>, C<full_csh>,
9154 C<gccosandvers>, C<gccversion>, C<gidformat>, C<gidsign>, C<gidsize>,
9155 C<gidtype>, C<glibpth>, C<grep>, C<groupcat>, C<groupstype>, C<gzip>
9159 C<h_fcntl>, C<h_sysfile>, C<hint>, C<hostcat>
9163 C<i16size>, C<i16type>, C<i32size>, C<i32type>, C<i64size>, C<i64type>,
9164 C<i8size>, C<i8type>, C<i_arpainet>, C<i_bsdioctl>, C<i_db>, C<i_dbm>,
9165 C<i_dirent>, C<i_dld>, C<i_dlfcn>, C<i_fcntl>, C<i_float>, C<i_fp>,
9166 C<i_fp_class>, C<i_gdbm>, C<i_grp>, C<i_ieeefp>, C<i_inttypes>,
9167 C<i_langinfo>, C<i_libutil>, C<i_limits>, C<i_locale>, C<i_machcthr>,
9168 C<i_malloc>, C<i_math>, C<i_memory>, C<i_mntent>, C<i_ndbm>, C<i_netdb>,
9169 C<i_neterrno>, C<i_netinettcp>, C<i_niin>, C<i_poll>, C<i_prot>,
9170 C<i_pthread>, C<i_pwd>, C<i_rpcsvcdbm>, C<i_sfio>, C<i_sgtty>, C<i_shadow>,
9171 C<i_socks>, C<i_stdarg>, C<i_stddef>, C<i_stdlib>, C<i_string>,
9172 C<i_sunmath>, C<i_sysaccess>, C<i_sysdir>, C<i_sysfile>, C<i_sysfilio>,
9173 C<i_sysin>, C<i_sysioctl>, C<i_syslog>, C<i_sysmman>, C<i_sysmode>,
9174 C<i_sysmount>, C<i_sysndir>, C<i_sysparam>, C<i_sysresrc>, C<i_syssecrt>,
9175 C<i_sysselct>, C<i_syssockio>, C<i_sysstat>, C<i_sysstatfs>,
9176 C<i_sysstatvfs>, C<i_systime>, C<i_systimek>, C<i_systimes>, C<i_systypes>,
9177 C<i_sysuio>, C<i_sysun>, C<i_sysutsname>, C<i_sysvfs>, C<i_syswait>,
9178 C<i_termio>, C<i_termios>, C<i_time>, C<i_unistd>, C<i_ustat>, C<i_utime>,
9179 C<i_values>, C<i_varargs>, C<i_varhdr>, C<i_vfork>,
9180 C<ignore_versioned_solibs>, C<inc_version_list>, C<inc_version_list_init>,
9181 C<incpath>, C<inews>, C<installarchlib>, C<installbin>, C<installman1dir>,
9182 C<installman3dir>, C<installprefix>, C<installprefixexp>,
9183 C<installprivlib>, C<installscript>, C<installsitearch>, C<installsitebin>,
9184 C<installsitelib>, C<installstyle>, C<installusrbinperl>,
9185 C<installvendorarch>, C<installvendorbin>, C<installvendorlib>, C<intsize>,
9186 C<issymlink>, C<ivdformat>, C<ivsize>, C<ivtype>
9190 C<known_extensions>, C<ksh>
9194 C<ld>, C<lddlflags>, C<ldflags>, C<ldflags_uselargefiles>, C<ldlibpthname>,
9195 C<less>, C<lib_ext>, C<libc>, C<libperl>, C<libpth>, C<libs>, C<libsdirs>,
9196 C<libsfiles>, C<libsfound>, C<libspath>, C<libswanted>,
9197 C<libswanted_uselargefiles>, C<line>, C<lint>, C<lkflags>, C<ln>, C<lns>,
9198 C<locincpth>, C<loclibpth>, C<longdblsize>, C<longlongsize>, C<longsize>,
9199 C<lp>, C<lpr>, C<ls>, C<lseeksize>, C<lseektype>
9203 C<mail>, C<mailx>, C<make>, C<make_set_make>, C<mallocobj>, C<mallocsrc>,
9204 C<malloctype>, C<man1dir>, C<man1direxp>, C<man1ext>, C<man3dir>,
9205 C<man3direxp>, C<man3ext>
9209 C<Mcc>, C<mips_type>, C<mkdir>, C<mmaptype>, C<modetype>, C<more>,
9210 C<multiarch>, C<mv>, C<myarchname>, C<mydomain>, C<myhostname>, C<myuname>
9214 C<n>, C<need_va_copy>, C<netdb_hlen_type>, C<netdb_host_type>,
9215 C<netdb_name_type>, C<netdb_net_type>, C<nm>, C<nm_opt>, C<nm_so_opt>,
9216 C<nonxs_ext>, C<nroff>, C<nveformat>, C<nvEUformat>, C<nvfformat>,
9217 C<nvFUformat>, C<nvgformat>, C<nvGUformat>, C<nvsize>, C<nvtype>
9221 C<o_nonblock>, C<obj_ext>, C<old_pthread_create_joinable>, C<optimize>,
9222 C<orderlib>, C<osname>, C<osvers>, C<otherlibdirs>
9226 C<package>, C<pager>, C<passcat>, C<patchlevel>, C<path_sep>, C<perl5>,
9227 C<perl>, C<perl_patchlevel>
9231 C<PERL_REVISION>, C<PERL_SUBVERSION>, C<PERL_VERSION>, C<perladmin>,
9232 C<perllibs>, C<perlpath>, C<pg>, C<phostname>, C<pidtype>, C<plibpth>,
9233 C<pm_apiversion>, C<pmake>, C<pr>, C<prefix>, C<prefixexp>, C<privlib>,
9234 C<privlibexp>, C<prototype>, C<ptrsize>
9238 C<quadkind>, C<quadtype>
9242 C<randbits>, C<randfunc>, C<randseedtype>, C<ranlib>, C<rd_nodata>,
9243 C<revision>, C<rm>, C<rmail>, C<run>, C<runnm>
9247 C<sched_yield>, C<scriptdir>, C<scriptdirexp>, C<sed>, C<seedfunc>,
9248 C<selectminbits>, C<selecttype>, C<sendmail>, C<sh>, C<shar>, C<sharpbang>,
9249 C<shmattype>, C<shortsize>, C<shrpenv>, C<shsharp>, C<sig_count>,
9250 C<sig_name>, C<sig_name_init>, C<sig_num>, C<sig_num_init>, C<sig_size>,
9251 C<signal_t>, C<sitearch>, C<sitearchexp>, C<sitebin>, C<sitebinexp>,
9252 C<sitelib>, C<sitelib_stem>, C<sitelibexp>, C<siteprefix>,
9253 C<siteprefixexp>, C<sizesize>, C<sizetype>, C<sleep>, C<smail>, C<so>,
9254 C<sockethdr>, C<socketlib>, C<socksizetype>, C<sort>, C<spackage>,
9255 C<spitshell>, C<sPRId64>, C<sPRIeldbl>, C<sPRIEUldbl>, C<sPRIfldbl>,
9256 C<sPRIFUldbl>, C<sPRIgldbl>, C<sPRIGUldbl>, C<sPRIi64>, C<sPRIo64>,
9257 C<sPRIu64>, C<sPRIx64>, C<sPRIXU64>, C<src>, C<sSCNfldbl>, C<ssizetype>,
9258 C<startperl>, C<startsh>, C<static_ext>, C<stdchar>, C<stdio_base>,
9259 C<stdio_bufsiz>, C<stdio_cnt>, C<stdio_filbuf>, C<stdio_ptr>,
9260 C<stdio_stream_array>, C<strings>, C<submit>, C<subversion>, C<sysman>
9264 C<tail>, C<tar>, C<targetarch>, C<tbl>, C<tee>, C<test>, C<timeincl>,
9265 C<timetype>, C<to>, C<touch>, C<tr>, C<trnl>, C<troff>
9269 C<u16size>, C<u16type>, C<u32size>, C<u32type>, C<u64size>, C<u64type>,
9270 C<u8size>, C<u8type>, C<uidformat>, C<uidsign>, C<uidsize>, C<uidtype>,
9271 C<uname>, C<uniq>, C<uquadtype>, C<use5005threads>, C<use64bitall>,
9272 C<use64bitint>, C<usecrosscompile>, C<usedl>, C<useithreads>,
9273 C<uselargefiles>, C<uselongdouble>, C<usemorebits>, C<usemultiplicity>,
9274 C<usemymalloc>, C<usenm>, C<useopcode>, C<useperlio>, C<useposix>,
9275 C<usereentrant>, C<usesfio>, C<useshrplib>, C<usesocks>, C<usethreads>,
9276 C<usevendorprefix>, C<usevfork>, C<usrinc>, C<uuname>, C<uvoformat>,
9277 C<uvsize>, C<uvtype>, C<uvuformat>, C<uvxformat>, C<uvXUformat>
9281 C<vendorarch>, C<vendorarchexp>, C<vendorbin>, C<vendorbinexp>,
9282 C<vendorlib>, C<vendorlib_stem>, C<vendorlibexp>, C<vendorprefix>,
9283 C<vendorprefixexp>, C<version>, C<version_patchlevel_string>,
9284 C<versiononly>, C<vi>, C<voidflags>
9288 C<xlibpth>, C<xs_apiversion>
9292 C<yacc>, C<yaccflags>
9304 =head2 Cwd - get pathname of current working directory
9314 =item getcwd and friends
9316 getcwd, cwd, fastcwd, fastgetcwd
9318 =item abs_path and friends
9320 abs_path, realpath, fast_abs_path
9332 =head2 DB - programmatic interface to the Perl debugging API (draft,
9344 =item Global Variables
9346 $DB::sub, %DB::sub, $DB::single, $DB::signal, $DB::trace, @DB::args,
9347 @DB::dbline, %DB::dbline, $DB::package, $DB::filename, $DB::subname,
9352 CLIENT->register(), CLIENT->evalcode(STRING), CLIENT->skippkg('D::hide'),
9353 CLIENT->run(), CLIENT->step(), CLIENT->next(), CLIENT->done()
9355 =item Client Callback Methods
9357 CLIENT->init(), CLIENT->prestop([STRING]), CLIENT->stop(), CLIENT->idle(),
9358 CLIENT->poststop([STRING]), CLIENT->evalcode(STRING), CLIENT->cleanup(),
9359 CLIENT->output(LIST)
9369 =head2 DB_File - Perl5 access to Berkeley DB version 1.x
9377 B<DB_HASH>, B<DB_BTREE>, B<DB_RECNO>
9381 =item Using DB_File with Berkeley DB version 2 or greater
9383 =item Interface to Berkeley DB
9385 =item Opening a Berkeley DB Database File
9387 =item Default Parameters
9389 =item In Memory Databases
9397 =item A Simple Example
9405 =item Changing the BTREE sort order
9407 =item Handling Duplicate Keys
9409 =item The get_dup() Method
9411 =item The find_dup() Method
9413 =item The del_dup() Method
9415 =item Matching Partial Keys
9423 =item The 'bval' Option
9425 =item A Simple Example
9427 =item Extra RECNO Methods
9429 B<$X-E<gt>push(list) ;>, B<$value = $X-E<gt>pop ;>, B<$X-E<gt>shift>,
9430 B<$X-E<gt>unshift(list) ;>, B<$X-E<gt>length>, B<$X-E<gt>splice(offset,
9433 =item Another Example
9437 =item THE API INTERFACE
9439 B<$status = $X-E<gt>get($key, $value [, $flags]) ;>, B<$status =
9440 $X-E<gt>put($key, $value [, $flags]) ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>del($key [,
9441 $flags]) ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>fd ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>seq($key,
9442 $value, $flags) ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>sync([$flags]) ;>
9446 B<filter_store_key>, B<filter_store_value>, B<filter_fetch_key>,
9447 B<filter_fetch_value>
9453 =item An Example -- the NULL termination problem.
9455 =item Another Example -- Key is a C int.
9459 =item HINTS AND TIPS
9463 =item Locking: The Trouble with fd
9465 =item Safe ways to lock a database
9467 B<Tie::DB_Lock>, B<Tie::DB_LockFile>, B<DB_File::Lock>
9469 =item Sharing Databases With C Applications
9471 =item The untie() Gotcha
9475 =item COMMON QUESTIONS
9479 =item Why is there Perl source in my database?
9481 =item How do I store complex data structures with DB_File?
9483 =item What does "Invalid Argument" mean?
9485 =item What does "Bareword 'DB_File' not allowed" mean?
9505 =head2 Data::Dumper - stringified perl data structures, suitable for both
9506 printing and C<eval>
9518 I<PACKAGE>->new(I<ARRAYREF [>, I<ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Dump I<or>
9519 I<PACKAGE>->Dump(I<ARRAYREF [>, I<ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Seen(I<[HASHREF]>),
9520 I<$OBJ>->Values(I<[ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Names(I<[ARRAYREF]>),
9527 =item Configuration Variables or Methods
9529 $Data::Dumper::Indent I<or> I<$OBJ>->Indent(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9530 $Data::Dumper::Purity I<or> I<$OBJ>->Purity(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9531 $Data::Dumper::Pad I<or> I<$OBJ>->Pad(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9532 $Data::Dumper::Varname I<or> I<$OBJ>->Varname(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9533 $Data::Dumper::Useqq I<or> I<$OBJ>->Useqq(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9534 $Data::Dumper::Terse I<or> I<$OBJ>->Terse(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9535 $Data::Dumper::Freezer I<or> $I<OBJ>->Freezer(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9536 $Data::Dumper::Toaster I<or> $I<OBJ>->Toaster(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9537 $Data::Dumper::Deepcopy I<or> $I<OBJ>->Deepcopy(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9538 $Data::Dumper::Quotekeys I<or> $I<OBJ>->Quotekeys(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9539 $Data::Dumper::Bless I<or> $I<OBJ>->Bless(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9540 $Data::Dumper::Maxdepth I<or> $I<OBJ>->Maxdepth(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9541 $Data::Dumper::Useperl I<or> $I<OBJ>->Useperl(I<[NEWVAL]>),
9542 $Data::Dumper::Sortkeys I<or> $I<OBJ>->Sortkeys(I<[NEWVAL]>)
9562 =head2 Devel::DProf - a Perl code profiler
9570 =item PROFILE FORMAT
9582 =head2 Devel::Peek - A data debugging tool for the XS programmer
9592 =item Memory footprint debugging
9600 =item A simple scalar string
9602 =item A simple scalar number
9604 =item A simple scalar with an extra reference
9606 =item A reference to a simple scalar
9608 =item A reference to an array
9610 =item A reference to a hash
9612 =item Dumping a large array or hash
9614 =item A reference to an SV which holds a C pointer
9616 =item A reference to a subroutine
9630 =head2 Devel::SelfStubber - generate stubs for a SelfLoading module
9640 =head2 Digest:: - Modules that calculate message digests
9648 I<binary>, I<hex>, I<base64>
9652 $ctx = Digest->XXX($arg,...), $ctx = Digest->new(XXX => $arg,...), $ctx =
9653 Digest::XXX->new($arg,...), $ctx->reset, $ctx->add($data,...),
9654 $ctx->addfile($io_handle), $ctx->digest, $ctx->hexdigest, $ctx->b64digest
9662 =head2 Digest::MD5 - Perl interface to the MD5 Algorithm
9672 md5($data,...), md5_hex($data,...), md5_base64($data,...)
9676 $md5 = Digest::MD5->new, $md5->reset, $md5->add($data,...),
9677 $md5->addfile($io_handle), $md5->digest, $md5->hexdigest, $md5->b64digest
9689 =head2 DirHandle - supply object methods for directory handles
9701 =head2 Dumpvalue - provides screen dump of Perl data.
9713 C<arrayDepth>, C<hashDepth>, C<compactDump>, C<veryCompact>, C<globPrint>,
9714 C<dumpDBFiles>, C<dumpPackages>, C<dumpReused>, C<tick>, C<quoteHighBit>,
9715 C<printUndef>, C<usageOnly>, unctrl, subdump, bareStringify, quoteHighBit,
9720 dumpValue, dumpValues, dumpvars, set_quote, set_unctrl, compactDump,
9721 veryCompact, set, get
9727 =head2 DynaLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code
9735 @dl_library_path, @dl_resolve_using, @dl_require_symbols, @dl_librefs,
9736 @dl_modules, dl_error(), $dl_debug, dl_findfile(), dl_expandspec(),
9737 dl_load_file(), dl_unload_file(), dl_loadflags(), dl_find_symbol(),
9738 dl_find_symbol_anywhere(), dl_undef_symbols(), dl_install_xsub(),
9745 =head2 DynaLoader::XSLoader, XSLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into
9758 =head2 Encode - character encodings
9776 =item Characteristics of an Encoding
9778 =item Types of Encodings
9780 Fixed length 8-bit (or less) encodings, Fixed length 16-bit encodings,
9781 Fixed length 32-bit encodings, Multi-byte encodings, "Escape" encodings
9783 =item Specifying Encodings
9785 1. By name, 2. As an object
9787 =item Encoding Names
9789 The MIME name as defined in IETF RFC-XXXX, The name in the IANA registry,
9790 The name used by the the organization that defined it
9794 =item PERL ENCODING API
9798 =item Generic Encoding Interface
9800 =item Handling Malformed Data
9802 Scheme 1, Scheme 2, Other Schemes
9806 =item Other Encodings of Unicode
9808 =item Listing available encodings
9810 =item Defining Aliases
9812 As a simple string, As a qr// compiled regular expression, e.g.:, As a code
9815 =item Defining Encodings
9819 =item Encoding and IO
9821 =item Encoding How to ...
9823 IO with mixed content (faking iso-2020-*), MIME's Content-Length:, UTF-8
9824 strings in binary data, Perl/Encode wrappers on non-Unicode XS modules
9826 =item Messing with Perl's Internals
9828 is_utf8(STRING [, CHECK]), valid_utf8(STRING)
9830 =item IMPLEMENTATION CLASSES
9832 -E<gt>name, -E<gt>new_sequence, -E<gt>encode($string,$check),
9833 -E<gt>decode($octets,$check)
9837 =item Compiled Encodings
9839 .enc, .ucm, .ucm, .c, .xs, ascii and iso-8859-*, IBM-1047 and two other
9840 variants of EBCDIC, symbol and dingbats as used by Tk on X11
9848 =head2 Encode::EncodeFormat, EncodeFormat - the format of encoding tables
9849 of the Encode extension
9855 [1] B<S>, [2] B<D>, [3] B<M>, [4] B<E>
9863 =head2 Encode::Tcl - Tcl encodings
9865 =head2 EncodeFormat - the format of encoding tables of the Encode extension
9871 [1] B<S>, [2] B<D>, [3] B<M>, [4] B<E>
9879 =head2 English - use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation
9892 =head2 Env - perl module that imports environment variables as scalars or
9907 =head2 Exporter - Implements default import method for modules
9919 =item Selecting What To Export
9921 =item Specialised Import Lists
9923 =item Exporting without using Export's import method
9925 =item Module Version Checking
9927 =item Managing Unknown Symbols
9929 =item Tag Handling Utility Functions
9935 =head2 Exporter::Heavy - Exporter guts
9945 =head2 ExtUtils::Command - utilities to replace common UNIX commands in
9966 mv source... destination
9968 cp source... destination
9986 =head2 ExtUtils::Constant - generate XS code to import C header constants
9996 IV, UV, NV, PV, PVN, SV, YES, NO, UNDEF
10006 memEQ_clause NAME, CHECKED_AT, INDENT
10008 assign INDENT, TYPE, PRE, POST, VALUE..
10012 switch_clause INDENT, NAMELEN, ITEMHASH, ITEM..
10020 C_constant, name, type, value, macro, default, pre, post, def_pre =item
10023 XS_constant PACKAGE, TYPES, SUBNAME, C_SUBNAME
10025 autoload PACKAGE, VERSION, AUTOLOADER
10027 WriteMakefileSnippet
10029 WriteConstants ATTRIBUTE =E<gt> VALUE [, ...], NAME, DEFAULT_TYPE,
10030 BREAKOUT_AT, NAMES, C_FILE, XS_FILE, SUBNAME, C_SUBNAME
10038 =head2 ExtUtils::Embed - Utilities for embedding Perl in C/C++ applications
10050 xsinit(), Examples, ldopts(), Examples, perl_inc(), ccflags(), ccdlflags(),
10051 ccopts(), xsi_header(), xsi_protos(@modules), xsi_body(@modules)
10061 =head2 ExtUtils::Install - install files from here to there
10071 =head2 ExtUtils::Installed - Inventory management of installed modules
10083 new(), modules(), files(), directories(), directory_tree(), validate(),
10084 packlist(), version()
10092 =head2 ExtUtils::Liblist - determine libraries to use and how to use them
10100 For static extensions, For dynamic extensions, For dynamic extensions
10106 =item LDLOADLIBS and LD_RUN_PATH
10116 =item VMS implementation
10118 =item Win32 implementation
10126 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
10127 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
10135 canonpath, cflags, manifypods, perl_archive
10139 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_NW5 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
10140 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
10166 test_via_harness (o)
10168 tool_autosplit (override)
10186 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_OS2 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
10187 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
10201 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_Unix - methods used by ExtUtils::MakeMaker
10213 =item Preloaded methods
10233 =item SelfLoaded methods
10279 file_name_is_absolute
10285 =item Methods to actually produce chunks of text for the Makefile
10325 maybe_command_in_dirs
10353 post_initialize (o)
10363 replace_manpage_separator
10377 test_via_harness (o)
10379 test_via_script (o)
10409 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_VMS - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
10410 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
10420 =item Methods always loaded
10432 =item SelfLoaded methods
10434 guess_name (override)
10438 find_perl (override)
10442 maybe_command (override)
10444 maybe_command_in_dirs (override)
10446 perl_script (override)
10448 file_name_is_absolute (override)
10450 replace_manpage_separator
10452 init_others (override)
10454 constants (override)
10458 const_cccmd (override)
10460 pm_to_blib (override)
10462 tool_autosplit (override)
10464 tool_sxubpp (override)
10466 xsubpp_version (override)
10468 tools_other (override)
10478 top_targets (override)
10482 dynamic_lib (override)
10484 dynamic_bs (override)
10486 static_lib (override)
10488 manifypods (override)
10490 processPL (override)
10492 installbin (override)
10494 subdir_x (override)
10498 realclean (override)
10500 dist_basics (override)
10502 dist_core (override)
10504 dist_dir (override)
10506 dist_test (override)
10510 perldepend (override)
10512 makefile (override)
10516 test_via_harness (override)
10518 test_via_script (override)
10520 makeaperl (override)
10522 nicetext (override)
10524 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_Win32 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
10525 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
10551 test_via_harness (o)
10553 tool_autosplit (override)
10571 =head2 ExtUtils::MakeMaker - create an extension Makefile
10581 =item How To Write A Makefile.PL
10583 =item Default Makefile Behaviour
10591 =item PREFIX and LIB attribute
10595 =item Static Linking of a new Perl Binary
10597 =item Determination of Perl Library and Installation Locations
10599 =item Which architecture dependent directory?
10601 =item Using Attributes and Parameters
10603 ABSTRACT, ABSTRACT_FROM, AUTHOR, BINARY_LOCATION, C, CCFLAGS, CONFIG,
10604 CONFIGURE, DEFINE, DIR, DISTNAME, DL_FUNCS, DL_VARS, EXCLUDE_EXT,
10605 EXE_FILES, FIRST_MAKEFILE, FULLPERL, FUNCLIST, H, HTMLLIBPODS,
10606 HTMLSCRIPTPODS, IMPORTS, INC, INCLUDE_EXT, INSTALLARCHLIB, INSTALLBIN,
10607 INSTALLDIRS, INSTALLHTMLPRIVLIBDIR, INSTALLHTMLSCRIPTDIR,
10608 INSTALLHTMLSITELIBDIR, INSTALLMAN1DIR, INSTALLMAN3DIR, INSTALLPRIVLIB,
10609 INSTALLSCRIPT, INSTALLSITEARCH, INSTALLSITELIB, INST_ARCHLIB, INST_BIN,
10610 INST_EXE, INST_HTMLLIBDIR, INST_HTMLSCRIPTDIR, INST_LIB, INST_MAN1DIR,
10611 INST_MAN3DIR, INST_SCRIPT, LDFROM, LIB, LIBPERL_A, LIBS, LINKTYPE,
10612 MAKEAPERL, MAKEFILE, MAN1PODS, MAN3PODS, MAP_TARGET, MYEXTLIB, NAME,
10613 NEEDS_LINKING, NOECHO, NORECURS, NO_VC, OBJECT, OPTIMIZE, PERL, PERL_CORE,
10614 PERLMAINCC, PERL_ARCHLIB, PERL_LIB, PERL_MALLOC_OK, PERLRUN, PERM_RW,
10615 PERM_RWX, PL_FILES, PM, PMLIBDIRS, PM_FILTER, POLLUTE, PPM_INSTALL_EXEC,
10616 PPM_INSTALL_SCRIPT, PREFIX, PREREQ_PM, PREREQ_FATAL, SKIP, TEST_LIBS,
10617 VERSION, VERSION_FROM, XS, XSOPT, XSPROTOARG, XS_VERSION
10619 =item Additional lowercase attributes
10621 clean, depend, dist, dynamic_lib, linkext, macro, realclean, test,
10624 =item Overriding MakeMaker Methods
10626 =item Hintsfile support
10628 =item Distribution Support
10630 make distcheck, make skipcheck, make distclean, make manifest,
10631 make distdir, make tardist, make dist, make uutardist, make
10632 shdist, make zipdist, make ci
10634 =item Disabling an extension
10640 PERL_MM_OPT, PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT
10648 =head2 ExtUtils::Manifest - utilities to write and check a MANIFEST file
10656 =item MANIFEST.SKIP
10660 =item GLOBAL VARIABLES
10664 C<Not in MANIFEST:> I<file>, C<No such file:> I<file>, C<MANIFEST:> I<$!>,
10665 C<Added to MANIFEST:> I<file>
10669 B<PERL_MM_MANIFEST_DEBUG>
10677 =head2 ExtUtils::Miniperl, writemain - write the C code for perlmain.c
10689 =head2 ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap - make a bootstrap file for use by DynaLoader
10699 =head2 ExtUtils::Mksymlists - write linker options files for dynamic
10708 DLBASE, DL_FUNCS, DL_VARS, FILE, FUNCLIST, IMPORTS, NAME
10716 =head2 ExtUtils::Packlist - manage .packlist files
10728 new(), read(), write(), validate(), packlist_file()
10736 =head2 ExtUtils::testlib - add blib/* directories to @INC
10746 =head2 Fatal - replace functions with equivalents which succeed or die
10758 =head2 Fcntl - load the C Fcntl.h defines
10768 =item EXPORTED SYMBOLS
10772 =head2 File::Basename, fileparse - split a pathname into pieces
10780 fileparse_set_fstype, fileparse
10784 C<basename>, C<dirname>
10788 =head2 File::CheckTree, validate - run many filetest checks on a tree
10798 =head2 File::Compare - Compare files or filehandles
10812 =head2 File::Copy - Copy files or filehandles
10822 =item Special behaviour if C<syscopy> is defined (OS/2, VMS and Win32)
10824 rmscopy($from,$to[,$date_flag])
10836 =head2 File::DosGlob - DOS like globbing and then some
10846 =item EXPORTS (by request only)
10858 =head2 File::Find, find - traverse a file tree
10866 C<wanted>, C<bydepth>, C<preprocess>, C<postprocess>, C<follow>,
10867 C<follow_fast>, C<follow_skip>, C<dangling_symlinks>, C<no_chdir>,
10868 C<untaint>, C<untaint_pattern>, C<untaint_skip>
10872 $dont_use_nlink, symlinks
10880 =head2 File::Glob - Perl extension for BSD glob routine
10888 C<GLOB_ERR>, C<GLOB_LIMIT>, C<GLOB_MARK>, C<GLOB_NOCASE>, C<GLOB_NOCHECK>,
10889 C<GLOB_NOSORT>, C<GLOB_BRACE>, C<GLOB_NOMAGIC>, C<GLOB_QUOTE>,
10890 C<GLOB_TILDE>, C<GLOB_CSH>, C<GLOB_ALPHASORT>
10894 C<GLOB_NOSPACE>, C<GLOB_ABEND>
10902 =head2 File::Path - create or remove directory trees
10914 =head2 File::Spec - portably perform operations on file names
10924 canonpath, catdir, catfile, curdir, devnull, rootdir, tmpdir, updir,
10925 no_upwards, case_tolerant, file_name_is_absolute, path, join, splitpath,
10926 splitdir, catpath(), abs2rel, rel2abs()
10934 =head2 File::Spec::Epoc - methods for Epoc file specs
10968 =head2 File::Spec::Functions - portably perform operations on file names
10986 =head2 File::Spec::Mac - File::Spec for Mac OS (Classic)
11014 file_name_is_absolute
11036 =head2 File::Spec::OS2 - methods for OS/2 file specs
11046 =head2 File::Spec::Unix - File::Spec for Unix, base for other File::Spec
11079 file_name_is_absolute
11101 =head2 File::Spec::VMS - methods for VMS file specs
11117 =item Methods always loaded
11119 canonpath (override)
11137 case_tolerant (override)
11141 file_name_is_absolute (override)
11143 splitpath (override)
11145 splitdir (override)
11159 =head2 File::Spec::Win32 - methods for Win32 file specs
11189 =head2 File::Temp - return name and handle of a temporary file safely
11213 =item MKTEMP FUNCTIONS
11227 =item POSIX FUNCTIONS
11237 =item ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS
11245 =item UTILITY FUNCTIONS
11253 =item PACKAGE VARIABLES
11255 B<safe_level>, STANDARD, MEDIUM, HIGH
11267 =item Temporary files and NFS
11279 =head2 File::stat - by-name interface to Perl's built-in stat() functions
11293 =head2 FileCache - keep more files open than the system permits
11305 =head2 FileHandle - supply object methods for filehandles
11313 $fh->print, $fh->printf, $fh->getline, $fh->getlines
11319 =head2 Filter::Simple - Simplified source filtering
11333 =item Disabling or changing <no> behaviour
11335 =item All-in-one interface
11337 =item Using Filter::Simple and Exporter together
11349 =head2 Filter::Util::Call - Perl Source Filter Utility Module
11359 =item B<use Filter::Util::Call>
11363 =item B<filter() and anonymous sub>
11365 B<$_>, B<$status>, B<filter_read> and B<filter_read_exact>, B<filter_del>
11373 =item Example 1: A simple filter.
11375 =item Example 2: Using the context
11377 =item Example 3: Using the context within the filter
11379 =item Example 4: Using filter_del
11383 =item Filter::Simple
11391 =head2 FindBin - Locate directory of original perl script
11399 =item EXPORTABLE VARIABLES
11411 =head2 GDBM_File - Perl5 access to the gdbm library.
11427 =head2 Getopt::Long - Extended processing of command line options
11435 =item Command Line Options, an Introduction
11437 =item Getting Started with Getopt::Long
11441 =item Simple options
11443 =item A little bit less simple options
11445 =item Mixing command line option with other arguments
11447 =item Options with values
11449 =item Options with multiple values
11451 =item Options with hash values
11453 =item User-defined subroutines to handle options
11455 =item Options with multiple names
11457 =item Case and abbreviations
11459 =item Summary of Option Specifications
11461 !, +, s, i, o, f, : I<type> [ I<desttype> ]
11465 =item Advanced Possibilities
11469 =item Object oriented interface
11471 =item Documentation and help texts
11473 =item Storing options in a hash
11477 =item The lonesome dash
11479 =item Argument callback
11483 =item Configuring Getopt::Long
11485 default, posix_default, auto_abbrev, getopt_compat, gnu_compat, gnu_getopt,
11486 require_order, permute, bundling (default: disabled), bundling_override
11487 (default: disabled), ignore_case (default: enabled), ignore_case_always
11488 (default: disabled), pass_through (default: disabled), prefix,
11489 prefix_pattern, debug (default: disabled)
11491 =item Return values and Errors
11497 =item Default destinations
11499 =item Alternative option starters
11501 =item Configuration variables
11505 =item Trouble Shooting
11509 =item Warning: Ignoring '!' modifier for short option
11511 =item GetOptions does not return a false result when an option is not
11514 =item GetOptions does not split the command line correctly
11516 =item How do I put a "-?" option into a Getopt::Long?
11522 =item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
11526 =head2 Getopt::Std, getopt - Process single-character switches with switch
11537 =head2 I18N::Collate - compare 8-bit scalar data according to the current
11548 =head2 I18N::LangTags - functions for dealing with RFC3066-style language
11559 the function is_language_tag($lang1)
11561 the function extract_language_tags($whatever)
11563 the function same_language_tag($lang1, $lang2)
11565 the function similarity_language_tag($lang1, $lang2)
11567 the function is_dialect_of($lang1, $lang2)
11569 the function super_languages($lang1)
11571 the function locale2language_tag($locale_identifier)
11573 the function encode_language_tag($lang1)
11575 the function alternate_language_tags($lang1)
11577 the function @langs = panic_languages(@accept_languages)
11581 =item ABOUT LOWERCASING
11583 =item ABOUT UNICODE PLAINTEXT LANGUAGE TAGS
11593 =head2 I18N::LangTags::List -- tags and names for human languages
11601 =item ABOUT LANGUAGE TAGS
11603 =item LIST OF LANGUAGES
11605 {ab} : Abkhazian, {ace} : Achinese, {ach} : Acoli, {ada} : Adangme, {aa} :
11606 Afar, {afh} : Afrihili, {af} : Afrikaans, [{afa} : Afro-Asiatic (Other)],
11607 {aka} : Akan, {akk} : Akkadian, {sq} : Albanian, {ale} : Aleut, [{alg} :
11608 Algonquian languages], [{tut} : Altaic (Other)], {am} : Amharic, {i-ami} :
11609 Ami, [{apa} : Apache languages], {ar} : Arabic, {arc} : Aramaic, {arp} :
11610 Arapaho, {arn} : Araucanian, {arw} : Arawak, {hy} : Armenian, [{art} :
11611 Artificial (Other)], {as} : Assamese, [{ath} : Athapascan languages],
11612 [{aus} : Australian languages], [{map} : Austronesian (Other)], {ava} :
11613 Avaric, {ae} : Avestan, {awa} : Awadhi, {ay} : Aymara, {az} : Azerbaijani,
11614 {ban} : Balinese, [{bat} : Baltic (Other)], {bal} : Baluchi, {bam} :
11615 Bambara, [{bai} : Bamileke languages], {bad} : Banda, [{bnt} : Bantu
11616 (Other)], {bas} : Basa, {ba} : Bashkir, {eu} : Basque, {btk} : Batak
11617 (Indonesia), {bej} : Beja, {be} : Belarusian, {bem} : Bemba, {bn} :
11618 Bengali, [{ber} : Berber (Other)], {bho} : Bhojpuri, {bh} : Bihari, {bik} :
11619 Bikol, {bin} : Bini, {bi} : Bislama, {bs} : Bosnian, {bra} : Braj, {br} :
11620 Breton, {bug} : Buginese, {bg} : Bulgarian, {i-bnn} : Bunun, {bua} :
11621 Buriat, {my} : Burmese, {cad} : Caddo, {car} : Carib, {ca} : Catalan,
11622 [{cau} : Caucasian (Other)], {ceb} : Cebuano, [{cel} : Celtic (Other)],
11623 [{cai} : Central American Indian (Other)], {chg} : Chagatai, [{cmc} :
11624 Chamic languages], {ch} : Chamorro, {ce} : Chechen, {chr} : Cherokee, {chy}
11625 : Cheyenne, {chb} : Chibcha, {ny} : Chichewa, {zh} : Chinese, {chn} :
11626 Chinook Jargon, {chp} : Chipewyan, {cho} : Choctaw, {cu} : Church Slavic,
11627 {chk} : Chuukese, {cv} : Chuvash, {cop} : Coptic, {kw} : Cornish, {co} :
11628 Corsican, {cre} : Cree, {mus} : Creek, [{cpe} : English-based Creoles and
11629 pidgins (Other)], [{cpf} : French-based Creoles and pidgins (Other)],
11630 [{cpp} : Portuguese-based Creoles and pidgins (Other)], [{crp} : Creoles
11631 and pidgins (Other)], {hr} : Croatian, [{cus} : Cushitic (Other)], {cs} :
11632 Czech, {dak} : Dakota, {da} : Danish, {day} : Dayak, {i-default} : Default
11633 (Fallthru) Language, {del} : Delaware, {din} : Dinka, {div} : Divehi, {doi}
11634 : Dogri, {dgr} : Dogrib, [{dra} : Dravidian (Other)], {dua} : Duala, {nl} :
11635 Dutch, {dum} : Middle Dutch (ca.1050-1350), {dyu} : Dyula, {dz} : Dzongkha,
11636 {efi} : Efik, {egy} : Ancient Egyptian, {eka} : Ekajuk, {elx} : Elamite,
11637 {en} : English, {enm} : Old English (1100-1500), {ang} : Old English
11638 (ca.450-1100), {eo} : Esperanto, {et} : Estonian, {ewe} : Ewe, {ewo} :
11639 Ewondo, {fan} : Fang, {fat} : Fanti, {fo} : Faroese, {fj} : Fijian, {fi} :
11640 Finnish, [{fiu} : Finno-Ugrian (Other)], {fon} : Fon, {fr} : French, {frm}
11641 : Middle French (ca.1400-1600), {fro} : Old French (842-ca.1400), {fy} :
11642 Frisian, {fur} : Friulian, {ful} : Fulah, {gaa} : Ga, {gd} : Scots Gaelic,
11643 {gl} : Gallegan, {lug} : Ganda, {gay} : Gayo, {gba} : Gbaya, {gez} : Geez,
11644 {ka} : Georgian, {de} : German, {gmh} : Middle High German (ca.1050-1500),
11645 {goh} : Old High German (ca.750-1050), [{gem} : Germanic (Other)], {gil} :
11646 Gilbertese, {gon} : Gondi, {gor} : Gorontalo, {got} : Gothic, {grb} :
11647 Grebo, {grc} : Ancient Greek, {el} : Modern Greek, {gn} : Guarani, {gu} :
11648 Gujarati, {gwi} : Gwich'in, {hai} : Haida, {ha} : Hausa, {haw} : Hawaiian,
11649 {he} : Hebrew, {hz} : Herero, {hil} : Hiligaynon, {him} : Himachali, {hi} :
11650 Hindi, {ho} : Hiri Motu, {hit} : Hittite, {hmn} : Hmong, {hu} : Hungarian,
11651 {hup} : Hupa, {iba} : Iban, {is} : Icelandic, {ibo} : Igbo, {ijo} : Ijo,
11652 {ilo} : Iloko, [{inc} : Indic (Other)], [{ine} : Indo-European (Other)],
11653 {id} : Indonesian, {ia} : Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language
11654 Association), {ie} : Interlingue, {iu} : Inuktitut, {ik} : Inupiaq, [{ira}
11655 : Iranian (Other)], {ga} : Irish, {mga} : Middle Irish (900-1200), {sga} :
11656 Old Irish (to 900), [{iro} : Iroquoian languages], {it} : Italian, {ja} :
11657 Japanese, {jw} : Javanese, {jrb} : Judeo-Arabic, {jpr} : Judeo-Persian,
11658 {kab} : Kabyle, {kac} : Kachin, {kl} : Kalaallisut, {kam} : Kamba, {kn} :
11659 Kannada, {kau} : Kanuri, {kaa} : Kara-Kalpak, {kar} : Karen, {ks} :
11660 Kashmiri, {kaw} : Kawi, {kk} : Kazakh, {kha} : Khasi, {km} : Khmer, [{khi}
11661 : Khoisan (Other)], {kho} : Khotanese, {ki} : Kikuyu, {kmb} : Kimbundu,
11662 {rw} : Kinyarwanda, {ky} : Kirghiz, {i-klingon} : Klingon, {kv} : Komi,
11663 {kon} : Kongo, {kok} : Konkani, {ko} : Korean, {kos} : Kosraean, {kpe} :
11664 Kpelle, {kro} : Kru, {kj} : Kuanyama, {kum} : Kumyk, {ku} : Kurdish, {kru}
11665 : Kurukh, {kut} : Kutenai, {lad} : Ladino, {lah} : Lahnda, {lam} : Lamba,
11666 {lo} : Lao, {la} : Latin, {lv} : Latvian, {lb} : Letzeburgesch, {lez} :
11667 Lezghian, {ln} : Lingala, {lt} : Lithuanian, {nds} : Low German, {loz} :
11668 Lozi, {lub} : Luba-Katanga, {lua} : Luba-Lulua, {lui} : Luiseno, {lun} :
11669 Lunda, {luo} : Luo (Kenya and Tanzania), {lus} : Lushai, {mk} : Macedonian,
11670 {mad} : Madurese, {mag} : Magahi, {mai} : Maithili, {mak} : Makasar, {mg} :
11671 Malagasy, {ms} : Malay, {ml} : Malayalam, {mt} : Maltese, {mnc} : Manchu,
11672 {mdr} : Mandar, {man} : Mandingo, {mni} : Manipuri, [{mno} : Manobo
11673 languages], {gv} : Manx, {mi} : Maori, {mr} : Marathi, {chm} : Mari, {mh} :
11674 Marshall, {mwr} : Marwari, {mas} : Masai, [{myn} : Mayan languages], {men}
11675 : Mende, {mic} : Micmac, {min} : Minangkabau, {i-mingo} : Mingo, [{mis} :
11676 Miscellaneous languages], {moh} : Mohawk, {mo} : Moldavian, [{mkh} :
11677 Mon-Khmer (Other)], {lol} : Mongo, {mn} : Mongolian, {mos} : Mossi, [{mul}
11678 : Multiple languages], [{mun} : Munda languages], {nah} : Nahuatl, {na} :
11679 Nauru, {nv} : Navajo, {nd} : North Ndebele, {nr} : South Ndebele, {ng} :
11680 Ndonga, {ne} : Nepali, {new} : Newari, {nia} : Nias, [{nic} :
11681 Niger-Kordofanian (Other)], [{ssa} : Nilo-Saharan (Other)], {niu} : Niuean,
11682 {non} : Old Norse, [{nai} : North American Indian], {se} : Northern Sami,
11683 {no} : Norwegian, {nb} : Norwegian Bokmal, {nn} : Norwegian Nynorsk, [{nub}
11684 : Nubian languages], {nym} : Nyamwezi, {nyn} : Nyankole, {nyo} : Nyoro,
11685 {nzi} : Nzima, {oc} : Occitan (post 1500), {oji} : Ojibwa, {or} : Oriya,
11686 {om} : Oromo, {osa} : Osage, {os} : Ossetian; Ossetic, [{oto} : Otomian
11687 languages], {pal} : Pahlavi, {i-pwn} : Paiwan, {pau} : Palauan, {pi} :
11688 Pali, {pam} : Pampanga, {pag} : Pangasinan, {pa} : Panjabi, {pap} :
11689 Papiamento, [{paa} : Papuan (Other)], {fa} : Persian, {peo} : Old Persian
11690 (ca.600-400 B.C.), [{phi} : Philippine (Other)], {phn} : Phoenician, {pon}
11691 : Pohnpeian, {pl} : Polish, {pt} : Portuguese, [{pra} : Prakrit languages],
11692 {pro} : Old Provencal (to 1500), {ps} : Pushto, {qu} : Quechua, {rm} :
11693 Raeto-Romance, {raj} : Rajasthani, {rap} : Rapanui, {rar} : Rarotongan,
11694 [{qaa - qtz} : Reserved for local use.], [{roa} : Romance (Other)], {ro} :
11695 Romanian, {rom} : Romany, {rn} : Rundi, {ru} : Russian, [{sal} : Salishan
11696 languages], {sam} : Samaritan Aramaic, [{smi} : Sami languages (Other)],
11697 {sm} : Samoan, {sad} : Sandawe, {sg} : Sango, {sa} : Sanskrit, {sat} :
11698 Santali, {sc} : Sardinian, {sas} : Sasak, {sco} : Scots, {sel} : Selkup,
11699 [{sem} : Semitic (Other)], {sr} : Serbian, {srr} : Serer, {shn} : Shan,
11700 {sn} : Shona, {sid} : Sidamo, {sgn-...} : Sign Languages, {bla} : Siksika,
11701 {sd} : Sindhi, {si} : Sinhalese, [{sit} : Sino-Tibetan (Other)], [{sio} :
11702 Siouan languages], {den} : Slave (Athapascan), [{sla} : Slavic (Other)],
11703 {sk} : Slovak, {sl} : Slovenian, {sog} : Sogdian, {so} : Somali, {son} :
11704 Songhai, {snk} : Soninke, {wen} : Sorbian languages, {nso} : Northern
11705 Sotho, {st} : Southern Sotho, [{sai} : South American Indian (Other)], {es}
11706 : Spanish, {suk} : Sukuma, {sux} : Sumerian, {su} : Sundanese, {sus} :
11707 Susu, {sw} : Swahili, {ss} : Swati, {sv} : Swedish, {syr} : Syriac, {tl} :
11708 Tagalog, {ty} : Tahitian, [{tai} : Tai (Other)], {tg} : Tajik, {tmh} :
11709 Tamashek, {ta} : Tamil, {i-tao} : Tao, {tt} : Tatar, {i-tay} : Tayal, {te}
11710 : Telugu, {ter} : Tereno, {tet} : Tetum, {th} : Thai, {bo} : Tibetan, {tig}
11711 : Tigre, {ti} : Tigrinya, {tem} : Timne, {tiv} : Tiv, {tli} : Tlingit,
11712 {tpi} : Tok Pisin, {tkl} : Tokelau, {tog} : Tonga (Nyasa), {to} : Tonga
11713 (Tonga Islands), {tsi} : Tsimshian, {ts} : Tsonga, {i-tsu} : Tsou, {tn} :
11714 Tswana, {tum} : Tumbuka, {tr} : Turkish, {ota} : Ottoman Turkish
11715 (1500-1928), {tk} : Turkmen, {tvl} : Tuvalu, {tyv} : Tuvinian, {tw} : Twi,
11716 {uga} : Ugaritic, {ug} : Uighur, {uk} : Ukrainian, {umb} : Umbundu, {und} :
11717 Undetermined, {ur} : Urdu, {uz} : Uzbek, {vai} : Vai, {ven} : Venda, {vi} :
11718 Vietnamese, {vo} : Volapuk, {vot} : Votic, [{wak} : Wakashan languages],
11719 {wal} : Walamo, {war} : Waray, {was} : Washo, {cy} : Welsh, {wo} : Wolof,
11720 {x-...} : Unregistered (Semi-Private Use), {xh} : Xhosa, {sah} : Yakut,
11721 {yao} : Yao, {yap} : Yapese, {yi} : Yiddish, {yo} : Yoruba, [{ypk} : Yupik
11722 languages], {znd} : Zande, [{zap} : Zapotec], {zen} : Zenaga, {za} :
11723 Zhuang, {zu} : Zulu, {zun} : Zuni
11727 =item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
11733 =head2 I18N::Langinfo - query locale information
11751 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
11755 =head2 IO - load various IO modules
11765 =head2 IO::Dir - supply object methods for directory handles
11773 new ( [ DIRNAME ] ), open ( DIRNAME ), read (), seek ( POS ), tell (),
11774 rewind (), close (), tie %hash, IO::Dir, DIRNAME [, OPTIONS ]
11784 =head2 IO::File - supply object methods for filehandles
11794 new ( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ), new_tmpfile
11798 open( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] )
11806 =head2 IO::Handle - supply object methods for I/O handles
11816 new (), new_from_fd ( FD, MODE )
11820 $io->fdopen ( FD, MODE ), $io->opened, $io->getline, $io->getlines,
11821 $io->ungetc ( ORD ), $io->write ( BUF, LEN [, OFFSET ] ), $io->error,
11822 $io->clearerr, $io->sync, $io->flush, $io->printflush ( ARGS ),
11823 $io->blocking ( [ BOOL ] ), $io->untaint
11835 =head2 IO::Pipe - supply object methods for pipes
11845 new ( [READER, WRITER] )
11849 reader ([ARGS]), writer ([ARGS]), handles ()
11859 =head2 IO::Poll - Object interface to system poll call
11869 mask ( IO [, EVENT_MASK ] ), poll ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), events ( IO ), remove (
11870 IO ), handles( [ EVENT_MASK ] )
11880 =head2 IO::Seekable - supply seek based methods for I/O objects
11888 $io->getpos, $io->setpos, $io->seek ( POS, WHENCE ), WHENCE=0 (SEEK_SET),
11889 WHENCE=1 (SEEK_CUR), WHENCE=2 (SEEK_END), $io->sysseek( POS, WHENCE ),
11898 =head2 IO::Select - OO interface to the select system call
11908 new ( [ HANDLES ] )
11912 add ( HANDLES ), remove ( HANDLES ), exists ( HANDLE ), handles, can_read (
11913 [ TIMEOUT ] ), can_write ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), has_exception ( [ TIMEOUT ] ),
11914 count (), bits(), select ( READ, WRITE, ERROR [, TIMEOUT ] )
11924 =head2 IO::Socket - Object interface to socket communications
11938 accept([PKG]), socketpair(DOMAIN, TYPE, PROTOCOL), atmark, connected,
11939 protocol, sockdomain, sockopt(OPT [, VAL]), socktype, timeout([VAL])
11949 =head2 IO::Socket::INET - Object interface for AF_INET domain sockets
11965 sockaddr (), sockport (), sockhost (), peeraddr (), peerport (), peerhost
11978 =head2 IO::Socket::UNIX - Object interface for AF_UNIX domain sockets
11992 hostpath(), peerpath()
12002 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Dir, IO::Dir - supply object methods for directory
12011 new ( [ DIRNAME ] ), open ( DIRNAME ), read (), seek ( POS ), tell (),
12012 rewind (), close (), tie %hash, IO::Dir, DIRNAME [, OPTIONS ]
12022 =head2 IO::lib::IO::File, IO::File - supply object methods for filehandles
12032 new ( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ), new_tmpfile
12036 open( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] )
12044 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Handle, IO::Handle - supply object methods for I/O
12055 new (), new_from_fd ( FD, MODE )
12059 $io->fdopen ( FD, MODE ), $io->opened, $io->getline, $io->getlines,
12060 $io->ungetc ( ORD ), $io->write ( BUF, LEN [, OFFSET ] ), $io->error,
12061 $io->clearerr, $io->sync, $io->flush, $io->printflush ( ARGS ),
12062 $io->blocking ( [ BOOL ] ), $io->untaint
12074 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Pipe, IO::Pipe - supply object methods for pipes
12084 new ( [READER, WRITER] )
12088 reader ([ARGS]), writer ([ARGS]), handles ()
12098 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Poll, IO::Poll - Object interface to system poll call
12108 mask ( IO [, EVENT_MASK ] ), poll ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), events ( IO ), remove (
12109 IO ), handles( [ EVENT_MASK ] )
12119 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Seekable, IO::Seekable - supply seek based methods for
12128 $io->getpos, $io->setpos, $io->seek ( POS, WHENCE ), WHENCE=0 (SEEK_SET),
12129 WHENCE=1 (SEEK_CUR), WHENCE=2 (SEEK_END), $io->sysseek( POS, WHENCE ),
12138 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Select, IO::Select - OO interface to the select system
12149 new ( [ HANDLES ] )
12153 add ( HANDLES ), remove ( HANDLES ), exists ( HANDLE ), handles, can_read (
12154 [ TIMEOUT ] ), can_write ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), has_exception ( [ TIMEOUT ] ),
12155 count (), bits(), select ( READ, WRITE, ERROR [, TIMEOUT ] )
12165 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Socket, IO::Socket - Object interface to socket
12180 accept([PKG]), socketpair(DOMAIN, TYPE, PROTOCOL), atmark, connected,
12181 protocol, sockdomain, sockopt(OPT [, VAL]), socktype, timeout([VAL])
12191 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Socket::INET, IO::Socket::INET - Object interface for
12192 AF_INET domain sockets
12208 sockaddr (), sockport (), sockhost (), peeraddr (), peerport (), peerhost
12221 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Socket::UNIX, IO::Socket::UNIX - Object interface for
12222 AF_UNIX domain sockets
12236 hostpath(), peerpath()
12246 =head2 IPC::Msg - SysV Msg IPC object class
12256 new ( KEY , FLAGS ), id, rcv ( BUF, LEN [, TYPE [, FLAGS ]] ), remove, set
12257 ( STAT ), set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), snd ( TYPE, MSG [,
12268 =head2 IPC::Open2, open2 - open a process for both reading and writing
12282 =head2 IPC::Open3, open3 - open a process for reading, writing, and error
12295 =head2 IPC::Semaphore - SysV Semaphore IPC object class
12305 new ( KEY , NSEMS , FLAGS ), getall, getncnt ( SEM ), getpid ( SEM ),
12306 getval ( SEM ), getzcnt ( SEM ), id, op ( OPLIST ), remove, set ( STAT ),
12307 set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), setall ( VALUES ), setval ( N
12318 =head2 IPC::SysV - SysV IPC constants
12336 =head2 IPC::SysV::Msg, IPC::Msg - SysV Msg IPC object class
12346 new ( KEY , FLAGS ), id, rcv ( BUF, LEN [, TYPE [, FLAGS ]] ), remove, set
12347 ( STAT ), set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), snd ( TYPE, MSG [,
12358 =head2 IPC::SysV::Semaphore, IPC::Semaphore - SysV Semaphore IPC object
12369 new ( KEY , NSEMS , FLAGS ), getall, getncnt ( SEM ), getpid ( SEM ),
12370 getval ( SEM ), getzcnt ( SEM ), id, op ( OPLIST ), remove, set ( STAT ),
12371 set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), setall ( VALUES ), setval ( N
12382 =head2 Lingua::KO::Hangul::Util - utility functions for Hangul Syllables
12392 =item Composition and Decomposition
12394 C<$string_decomposed = decomposeHangul($codepoint)>, C<@codepoints =
12395 decomposeHangul($codepoint)>, C<$string_composed =
12396 composeHangul($src_string)>, C<@codepoints_composed =
12397 composeHangul($src_string)>
12399 =item Hangul Syllable Name
12401 C<$name = getHangulName($codepoint)>, C<$codepoint =
12402 parseHangulName($name)>
12412 http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr15
12416 =head2 List::Util - A selection of general-utility list subroutines
12424 first BLOCK LIST, max LIST, maxstr LIST, min LIST, minstr LIST, reduce
12425 BLOCK LIST, shuffle LIST, sum LIST
12427 =item SUGGESTED ADDITIONS
12433 =head2 List::Utilib::List::Util, List::Util - A selection of
12434 general-utility list subroutines
12442 first BLOCK LIST, max LIST, maxstr LIST, min LIST, minstr LIST, reduce
12443 BLOCK LIST, shuffle LIST, sum LIST
12445 =item SUGGESTED ADDITIONS
12451 =head2 List::Utilib::Scalar::Util, Scalar::Util - A selection of
12452 general-utility scalar subroutines
12460 blessed EXPR, dualvar NUM, STRING, isweak EXPR, readonly SCALAR, reftype
12461 EXPR, tainted EXPR, weaken REF
12469 =head2 Locale::Constants - constants for Locale codes
12477 =item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
12481 Locale::Language, Locale::Country, Locale::Currency
12489 =head2 Locale::Country - ISO codes for country identification (ISO 3166)
12501 B<alpha-2>, B<alpha-3>, B<numeric>
12507 =item CONVERSION ROUTINES
12509 code2country( CODE, [ CODESET ] ), country2code( STRING, [ CODESET ] ),
12510 country_code2code( CODE, CODESET, CODESET )
12516 =item QUERY ROUTINES
12518 C<all_country_codes( [ CODESET ] )>, C<all_country_names( [ CODESET ] )>
12524 =item CODE ALIASING
12534 =item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
12538 Locale::Language, Locale::Currency, ISO 3166,
12539 http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nabd/iso3166ma/,
12540 http://www.egt.ie/standards/iso3166/iso3166-1-en.html,
12541 http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/docs/app-f.html
12549 =head2 Locale::Currency - ISO three letter codes for currency
12550 identification (ISO 4217)
12568 =item CONVERSION ROUTINES
12570 code2currency(), currency2code()
12576 =item QUERY ROUTINES
12578 C<all_currency_codes()>, C<all_currency_names()>
12586 =item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
12590 Locale::Country, ISO 4217:1995, http://www.bsi-global.com/iso4217currency
12598 =head2 Locale::Language - ISO two letter codes for language identification
12615 =item CONVERSION ROUTINES
12617 code2language(), language2code()
12623 =item QUERY ROUTINES
12625 C<all_language_codes()>, C<all_language_names()>
12633 =item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
12637 Locale::Country, Locale::Currency, ISO 639:1988 (E/F),
12638 http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/langhome.html
12646 =head2 Locale::Maketext -- framework for localization
12654 =item QUICK OVERVIEW
12660 =item Construction Methods
12662 =item The "maketext" Method
12664 $lh->fail_with I<or> $lh->fail_with(I<PARAM>), $lh->failure_handler_auto
12666 =item Utility Methods
12668 $language->quant($number, $singular), $language->quant($number, $singular,
12669 $plural), $language->quant($number, $singular, $plural, $negative),
12670 $language->numf($number), $language->sprintf($format, @items),
12671 $language->language_tag(), $language->encoding()
12673 =item Language Handle Attributes and Internals
12677 =item LANGUAGE CLASS HIERARCHIES
12679 =item ENTRIES IN EACH LEXICON
12681 =item BRACKET NOTATION
12683 =item AUTO LEXICONS
12685 =item CONTROLLING LOOKUP FAILURE
12687 =item HOW TO USE MAKETEXT
12691 =item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
12697 =head2 Locale::Maketext::TPJ13 -- article about software localization
12705 =item Localization and Perl: gettext breaks, Maketext fixes
12709 =item A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen To You
12711 =item The Linguistic View
12713 =item Breaking gettext
12715 =item Replacing gettext
12717 =item Buzzwords: Abstraction and Encapsulation
12719 =item Buzzword: Isomorphism
12721 =item Buzzword: Inheritance
12723 =item Buzzword: Concision
12725 =item The Devil in the Details
12727 =item The Proof in the Pudding: Localizing Web Sites
12735 =head2 MIME::Base64 - Encoding and decoding of base64 strings
12743 encode_base64($str, [$eol]), decode_base64($str)
12747 Premature end of base64 data, Premature padding of base64 data
12755 =head2 MIME::Base64::QuotedPrint, MIME::QuotedPrint - Encoding and decoding
12756 of quoted-printable strings
12764 encode_qp($str), decode_qp($str);
12770 =head2 MIME::QuotedPrint - Encoding and decoding of quoted-printable
12779 encode_qp($str), decode_qp($str);
12785 =head2 Math::BigFloat - Arbitrary size floating point math package
12795 =item Canonical notation
12799 =item C<mantissa()>, C<exponent()> and C<parts()>
12801 =item Accuracy vs. Precision
12805 ffround ( +$scale ), ffround ( -$scale ), ffround ( 0 ), fround ( +$scale
12806 ), fround ( -$scale ) and fround ( 0 )
12814 =item Autocreating constants
12820 stringify, bstr(), bdiv, Modifying and =, bpow
12828 =head2 Math::BigInt - Arbitrary size integer math package
12836 Canonical notation, Input, Output
12838 =item ACCURACY and PRECISION
12848 =item Rounding mode R
12850 'trunc', 'even', 'odd', '+inf', '-inf', 'zero', Precision, Accuracy
12851 (significant digits), Setting/Accessing, Creating numbers, Usage,
12852 Precedence, Overriding globals, Local settings, Rounding, Default values,
12865 =item mantissa(), exponent() and parts()
12871 use Math::BigInt qw(bstr);
12873 =item Autocreating constants
12879 =item Alternative math libraries
12885 Out of Memory!, Fails to load Calc on Perl prior 5.6.0
12889 stringify, bstr(), bsstr() and 'cmp', int(), bdiv, bdiv, Modifying and =,
12890 bpow, Overloading -$x, Mixing different object types, bsqrt()
12900 =head2 Math::BigInt::Calc - Pure Perl module to support Math::BigInt
12910 =item WRAP YOUR OWN
12914 This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
12916 the same terms as Perl itself.
12924 =head2 Math::Complex - complex numbers and associated mathematical
12937 =item STRINGIFICATION
12941 =item CHANGED IN PERL 5.6
12947 =item ERRORS DUE TO DIVISION BY ZERO OR LOGARITHM OF ZERO
12949 =item ERRORS DUE TO INDIGESTIBLE ARGUMENTS
12957 =head2 Math::Trig - trigonometric functions
12965 =item TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS
12971 =item ERRORS DUE TO DIVISION BY ZERO
12973 =item SIMPLE (REAL) ARGUMENTS, COMPLEX RESULTS
12977 =item PLANE ANGLE CONVERSIONS
12979 =item RADIAL COORDINATE CONVERSIONS
12983 =item COORDINATE SYSTEMS
12985 =item 3-D ANGLE CONVERSIONS
12987 cartesian_to_cylindrical, cartesian_to_spherical, cylindrical_to_cartesian,
12988 cylindrical_to_spherical, spherical_to_cartesian, spherical_to_cylindrical
12992 =item GREAT CIRCLE DISTANCES AND DIRECTIONS
12998 =item CAVEAT FOR GREAT CIRCLE FORMULAS
13008 =head2 Memoize - Make your functions faster by trading space for time
13026 =item C<SCALAR_CACHE>, C<LIST_CACHE>
13028 C<MEMORY>, C<HASH>, C<TIE>, C<FAULT>, C<MERGE>
13032 =item OTHER FACILITIES
13038 =item C<flush_cache>
13044 =item PERSISTENT CACHE SUPPORT
13046 =item EXPIRATION SUPPORT
13054 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
13060 =head2 Memoize::AnyDBM_File - glue to provide EXISTS for AnyDBM_File for
13069 =head2 Memoize::Expire - Plug-in module for automatic expiration of
13080 TIEHASH, EXISTS, STORE
13092 =head2 Memoize::ExpireFile - test for Memoize expiration semantics
13100 =head2 Memoize::ExpireTest - test for Memoize expiration semantics
13108 =head2 Memoize::NDBM_File - glue to provide EXISTS for NDBM_File for
13117 =head2 Memoize::SDBM_File - glue to provide EXISTS for SDBM_File for
13126 =head2 Memoize::Saves - Plug-in module to specify which return values
13143 =head2 Memoize::Storable - store Memoized data in Storable database
13151 =head2 NDBM_File - Tied access to ndbm files
13159 C<O_RDONLY>, C<O_WRONLY>, C<O_RDWR>
13165 =item C<ndbm store returned -1, errno 22, key "..." at ...>
13169 =item BUGS AND WARNINGS
13173 =head2 NEXT - Provide a pseudo-class NEXT that allows method redispatch
13183 =item BUGS AND IRRITATIONS
13189 =head2 Net::Cmd - Network Command class (as used by FTP, SMTP etc)
13199 debug ( VALUE ), message (), code (), ok (), status (), datasend ( DATA ),
13202 =item CLASS METHODS
13204 debug_print ( DIR, TEXT ), debug_text ( TEXT ), command ( CMD [, ARGS, ...
13205 ]), unsupported (), response (), parse_response ( TEXT ), getline (),
13206 ungetline ( TEXT ), read_until_dot ()
13216 =head2 Net::Config - Local configuration data for libnet
13226 requires_firewall HOST
13228 =item NetConfig VALUES
13230 nntp_hosts, snpp_hosts, pop3_hosts, smtp_hosts, ph_hosts, daytime_hosts,
13231 time_hosts, inet_domain, ftp_firewall, ftp_firewall_type, ftp_ext_passive,
13232 ftp_int_pasive, local_netmask, test_hosts, test_exists
13236 =head2 Net::Domain - Attempt to evaluate the current host's internet name
13245 hostfqdn (), hostname (), hostdomain ()
13253 =head2 Net::FTP - FTP Client class
13265 new (HOST [,OPTIONS])
13269 login ([LOGIN [,PASSWORD [, ACCOUNT] ] ]), authorize ( [AUTH [, RESP]]),
13270 site (ARGS), type (TYPE [, ARGS]), ascii ([ARGS]) binary([ARGS])
13271 ebcdic([ARGS]) byte([ARGS]), rename ( OLDNAME, NEWNAME ), delete ( FILENAME
13272 ), cwd ( [ DIR ] ), cdup (), pwd (), restart ( WHERE ), rmdir ( DIR ),
13273 mkdir ( DIR [, RECURSE ]), ls ( [ DIR ] ), dir ( [ DIR ] ), get (
13274 REMOTE_FILE [, LOCAL_FILE [, WHERE]] ), put ( LOCAL_FILE [, REMOTE_FILE ]
13275 ), put_unique ( LOCAL_FILE [, REMOTE_FILE ] ), append ( LOCAL_FILE [,
13276 REMOTE_FILE ] ), unique_name (), mdtm ( FILE ), size ( FILE ), supported (
13277 CMD ), hash ( [FILEHANDLE_GLOB_REF],[ BYTES_PER_HASH_MARK] ), nlst ( [ DIR
13278 ] ), list ( [ DIR ] ), retr ( FILE ), stor ( FILE ), stou ( FILE ), appe (
13279 FILE ), port ( [ PORT ] ), pasv (), pasv_xfer ( SRC_FILE, DEST_SERVER [,
13280 DEST_FILE ] ), pasv_xfer_unique ( SRC_FILE, DEST_SERVER [, DEST_FILE ] ),
13281 pasv_wait ( NON_PASV_SERVER ), abort (), quit ()
13285 =item Methods for the adventurous
13291 =item THE dataconn CLASS
13293 read ( BUFFER, SIZE [, TIMEOUT ] ), write ( BUFFER, SIZE [, TIMEOUT ] ),
13294 bytes_read (), abort (), close ()
13296 =item UNIMPLEMENTED
13298 B<ALLO>, B<SMNT>, B<HELP>, B<MODE>, B<SYST>, B<STAT>, B<STRU>, B<REIN>
13300 =item REPORTING BUGS
13308 http://www.csh.rit.edu/~adam/Progs/autoftp-2.0.tar.gz
13316 =head2 Net::NNTP - NNTP Client class
13326 new ( [ HOST ] [, OPTIONS ])
13330 article ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ], [FH] ), body ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ], [FH] ), head (
13331 [ MSGID|MSGNUM ], [FH] ), nntpstat ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ] ), group ( [ GROUP ]
13332 ), ihave ( MSGID [, MESSAGE ]), last (), date (), postok (), authinfo (
13333 USER, PASS ), list (), newgroups ( SINCE [, DISTRIBUTIONS ]), newnews (
13334 SINCE [, GROUPS [, DISTRIBUTIONS ]]), next (), post ( [ MESSAGE ] ), slave
13339 =item Extension methods
13341 newsgroups ( [ PATTERN ] ), distributions (), subscriptions (),
13342 overview_fmt (), active_times (), active ( [ PATTERN ] ), xgtitle ( PATTERN
13343 ), xhdr ( HEADER, MESSAGE-SPEC ), xover ( MESSAGE-SPEC ), xpath (
13344 MESSAGE-ID ), xpat ( HEADER, PATTERN, MESSAGE-SPEC), xrover, listgroup ( [
13353 MESSAGE-SPEC, PATTERN, Examples, C<[^]-]>, C<*bdc>, C<[0-9a-zA-Z]>, C<a??d>
13363 =head2 Net::POP3 - Post Office Protocol 3 Client class (RFC1081)
13375 new ( [ HOST, ] [ OPTIONS ] )
13379 user ( USER ), pass ( PASS ), login ( [ USER [, PASS ]] ), apop ( USER,
13380 PASS ), top ( MSGNUM [, NUMLINES ] ), list ( [ MSGNUM ] ), get ( MSGNUM [,
13381 FH ] ), last (), popstat (), ping ( USER ), uidl ( [ MSGNUM ] ), delete (
13382 MSGNUM ), reset (), quit ()
13394 =head2 Net::Ping - check a remote host for reachability
13402 icmp, udp, tcp, stream, external
13408 Net::Ping->new([$proto [, $def_timeout [, $bytes]]]);, $p->ping($host [,
13409 $timeout]);, $p->open($host);, $p->close();, pingecho($host [, $timeout]);
13417 =head2 Net::SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Client
13429 new Net::SMTP [ HOST, ] [ OPTIONS ]
13433 banner (), domain (), hello ( DOMAIN ), etrn ( DOMAIN ), mail ( ADDRESS [,
13434 OPTIONS] ), send ( ADDRESS ), send_or_mail ( ADDRESS ), send_and_mail (
13435 ADDRESS ), reset (), recipient ( ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [ ...]] [, OPTIONS ] ),
13436 to ( ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] ), cc ( ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] ), bcc (
13437 ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] ), data ( [ DATA ] ), expand ( ADDRESS ), verify
13438 ( ADDRESS ), help ( [ $subject ] ), quit ()
13448 =head2 Net::Time - time and daytime network client interface
13456 inet_time ( [HOST [, PROTOCOL [, TIMEOUT]]]), inet_daytime ( [HOST [,
13457 PROTOCOL [, TIMEOUT]]])
13465 =head2 Net::hostent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in gethost*()
13482 =head2 Net::libnetFAQ, libnetFAQ - libnet Frequently Asked Questions
13490 =item Where to get this document
13492 =item How to contribute to this document
13496 =item Author and Copyright Information
13504 =item Obtaining and installing libnet
13508 =item What is libnet ?
13510 =item Which version of perl do I need ?
13512 =item What other modules do I need ?
13514 =item What machines support libnet ?
13516 =item Where can I get the latest libnet release
13520 =item Using Net::FTP
13524 =item How do I download files from a FTP server ?
13526 =item How do I transfer files in binary mode ?
13528 =item How can I get the size of a file on a remote FTP server ?
13530 =item How can I get the modification time of a file on a remote FTP server
13533 =item How can I change the permissions of a file on a remote server ?
13535 =item Can I do a reget operation like the ftp command ?
13537 =item How do I get a directory listing from a FTP server ?
13539 =item Changeing directory to "" does not fail ?
13541 =item I am behind a SOCKS firewall, but the Firewall option does not work ?
13543 =item I am behind a FTP proxy firewall, but cannot access machines outside
13546 =item My ftp proxy firewall does not listen on port 21
13548 =item Is it possible to change the file permissions of a file on an FTP
13551 =item I have seen scripts call a method message, but cannot find it
13554 =item Why does Net::FTP not implement mput and mget methods
13558 =item Using Net::SMTP
13562 =item Why can't the part of an Email address after the @ be used as the
13565 =item Why does Net::SMTP not do DNS MX lookups ?
13567 =item The verify method always returns true ?
13571 =item Debugging scripts
13575 =item How can I debug my scripts that use Net::* modules ?
13579 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
13583 =head2 Net::netent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getnet*()
13600 =head2 Net::protoent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getproto*()
13615 =head2 Net::servent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getserv*()
13632 =head2 Netrc, Net::Netrc - OO interface to users netrc file
13640 =item THE .netrc FILE
13642 machine name, default, login name, password string, account string, macdef
13647 lookup ( MACHINE [, LOGIN ])
13651 login (), password (), account (), lpa ()
13661 =head2 O - Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends
13671 =item IMPLEMENTATION
13677 =head2 ODBM_File - Tied access to odbm files
13685 C<O_RDONLY>, C<O_WRONLY>, C<O_RDWR>
13691 =item C<odbm store returned -1, errno 22, key "..." at ...>
13695 =item BUGS AND WARNINGS
13699 =head2 Opcode - Disable named opcodes when compiling perl code
13711 =item Operator Names and Operator Lists
13713 an operator name (opname), an operator tag name (optag), a negated opname
13714 or optag, an operator set (opset)
13716 =item Opcode Functions
13718 opcodes, opset (OP, ...), opset_to_ops (OPSET), opset_to_hex (OPSET),
13719 full_opset, empty_opset, invert_opset (OPSET), verify_opset (OPSET, ...),
13720 define_optag (OPTAG, OPSET), opmask_add (OPSET), opmask, opdesc (OP, ...),
13723 =item Manipulating Opsets
13725 =item TO DO (maybe)
13731 =item Predefined Opcode Tags
13733 :base_core, :base_mem, :base_loop, :base_io, :base_orig, :base_math,
13734 :base_thread, :default, :filesys_read, :sys_db, :browse, :filesys_open,
13735 :filesys_write, :subprocess, :ownprocess, :others, :still_to_be_decided,
13744 =head2 Opcode::Safe, Safe - Compile and execute code in restricted
13753 a new namespace, an operator mask
13759 =item RECENT CHANGES
13761 =item Methods in class Safe
13763 permit (OP, ...), permit_only (OP, ...), deny (OP, ...), deny_only (OP,
13764 ...), trap (OP, ...), untrap (OP, ...), share (NAME, ...), share_from
13765 (PACKAGE, ARRAYREF), varglob (VARNAME), reval (STRING), rdo (FILENAME),
13766 root (NAMESPACE), mask (MASK)
13768 =item Some Safety Issues
13770 Memory, CPU, Snooping, Signals, State Changes
13778 =head2 Opcode::ops, ops - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when
13791 =head2 POSIX - Perl interface to IEEE Std 1003.1
13805 _exit, abort, abs, access, acos, alarm, asctime, asin, assert, atan, atan2,
13806 atexit, atof, atoi, atol, bsearch, calloc, ceil, chdir, chmod, chown,
13807 clearerr, clock, close, closedir, cos, cosh, creat, ctermid, ctime,
13808 cuserid, difftime, div, dup, dup2, errno, execl, execle, execlp, execv,
13809 execve, execvp, exit, exp, fabs, fclose, fcntl, fdopen, feof, ferror,
13810 fflush, fgetc, fgetpos, fgets, fileno, floor, fmod, fopen, fork, fpathconf,
13811 fprintf, fputc, fputs, fread, free, freopen, frexp, fscanf, fseek, fsetpos,
13812 fstat, ftell, fwrite, getc, getchar, getcwd, getegid, getenv, geteuid,
13813 getgid, getgrgid, getgrnam, getgroups, getlogin, getpgrp, getpid, getppid,
13814 getpwnam, getpwuid, gets, getuid, gmtime, isalnum, isalpha, isatty,
13815 iscntrl, isdigit, isgraph, islower, isprint, ispunct, isspace, isupper,
13816 isxdigit, kill, labs, ldexp, ldiv, link, localeconv, localtime, log, log10,
13817 longjmp, lseek, malloc, mblen, mbstowcs, mbtowc, memchr, memcmp, memcpy,
13818 memmove, memset, mkdir, mkfifo, mktime, modf, nice, offsetof, open,
13819 opendir, pathconf, pause, perror, pipe, pow, printf, putc, putchar, puts,
13820 qsort, raise, rand, read, readdir, realloc, remove, rename, rewind,
13821 rewinddir, rmdir, scanf, setgid, setjmp, setlocale, setpgid, setsid,
13822 setuid, sigaction, siglongjmp, sigpending, sigprocmask, sigsetjmp,
13823 sigsuspend, sin, sinh, sleep, sprintf, sqrt, srand, sscanf, stat, strcat,
13824 strchr, strcmp, strcoll, strcpy, strcspn, strerror, strftime, strlen,
13825 strncat, strncmp, strncpy, strpbrk, strrchr, strspn, strstr, strtod,
13826 strtok, strtol, strtoul, strxfrm, sysconf, system, tan, tanh, tcdrain,
13827 tcflow, tcflush, tcgetpgrp, tcsendbreak, tcsetpgrp, time, times, tmpfile,
13828 tmpnam, tolower, toupper, ttyname, tzname, tzset, umask, uname, ungetc,
13829 unlink, utime, vfprintf, vprintf, vsprintf, wait, waitpid, wcstombs,
13836 =item POSIX::SigAction
13840 =item POSIX::SigSet
13842 new, addset, delset, emptyset, fillset, ismember
13844 =item POSIX::Termios
13846 new, getattr, getcc, getcflag, getiflag, getispeed, getlflag, getoflag,
13847 getospeed, setattr, setcc, setcflag, setiflag, setispeed, setlflag,
13848 setoflag, setospeed, Baud rate values, Terminal interface values, c_cc
13849 field values, c_cflag field values, c_iflag field values, c_lflag field
13850 values, c_oflag field values
13854 =item PATHNAME CONSTANTS
13858 =item POSIX CONSTANTS
13862 =item SYSTEM CONFIGURATION
13920 =head2 PerlIO - On demand loader for PerlIO layers and root of PerlIO::*
13929 unix, stdio, perlio, crlf, utf8, raw
13933 =item Defaults and how to override them
13943 =head2 PerlIO::Scalar - support module for in-memory IO.
13953 =head2 PerlIO::Via - Helper class for PerlIO layers implemented in perl
13961 $class->PUSHED([$mode][,$fh]), $obj->POPPED([$fh]),
13962 $class->OPEN($path,$mode[,$fh]), $class->FDOPEN($fd),
13963 $class->SYSOPEN($path,$imode,$perm,$fh), $obj->FILENO($fh),
13964 $obj->READ($buffer,$len,$fh), $obj->WRITE($buffer,$fh), $obj->FILL($fh),
13965 $obj->CLOSE($fh), $obj->SEEK($posn,$whence,$fh), $obj->TELL($fh),
13966 $obj->UNREAD($buffer,$fh), $obj->FLUSH($fh), $obj->SETLINEBUF($fh),
13967 $obj->CLEARERR($fh), $obj->ERROR($fh), $obj->EOF($fh)
13971 =head2 Pod::Checker, podchecker() - check pod documents for syntax errors
13977 =item OPTIONS/ARGUMENTS
13983 B<-warnings> =E<gt> I<val>
13995 empty =headn, =over on line I<N> without closing =back, =item without
13996 previous =over, =back without previous =over, No argument for =begin, =end
13997 without =begin, Nested =begin's, =for without formatter specification,
13998 unresolved internal link I<NAME>, Unknown command "I<CMD>", Unknown
13999 interior-sequence "I<SEQ>", nested commands
14000 I<CMD>E<lt>...I<CMD>E<lt>...E<gt>...E<gt>, garbled entity I<STRING>, Entity
14001 number out of range, malformed link LE<lt>E<gt>, nonempty ZE<lt>E<gt>,
14002 empty XE<lt>E<gt>, Spurious text after =pod / =cut, Spurious character(s)
14007 multiple occurence of link target I<name>, line containing nothing but
14008 whitespace in paragraph, file does not start with =head, previous =item has
14009 no contents, preceding non-item paragraph(s), =item type mismatch (I<one>
14010 vs. I<two>), I<N> unescaped C<E<lt>E<gt>> in paragraph, Unknown entity, No
14011 items in =over, No argument for =item, empty section in previous paragraph,
14012 Verbatim paragraph in NAME section
14016 ignoring leading/trailing whitespace in link, (section) in '$page'
14017 deprecated, alternative text/node '%s' contains non-escaped | or /
14029 C<Pod::Checker-E<gt>new( %options )>
14031 C<$checker-E<gt>poderror( @args )>, C<$checker-E<gt>poderror( {%opts},
14034 C<$checker-E<gt>num_errors()>
14036 C<$checker-E<gt>name()>
14038 C<$checker-E<gt>node()>
14040 C<$checker-E<gt>idx()>
14042 C<$checker-E<gt>hyperlink()>
14050 =head2 Pod::Find - find POD documents in directory trees
14062 =item C<pod_find( { %opts } , @directories )>
14064 C<-verbose =E<gt> 1>, C<-perl =E<gt> 1>, C<-script =E<gt> 1>, C<-inc =E<gt>
14071 =item C<simplify_name( $str )>
14077 =item C<pod_where( { %opts }, $pod )>
14079 C<-inc =E<gt> 1>, C<-dirs =E<gt> [ $dir1, $dir2, ... ]>, C<-verbose =E<gt>
14086 =item C<contains_pod( $file , $verbose )>
14098 =head2 Pod::Html - module to convert pod files to HTML
14108 backlink, cachedir, css, flush, header, help, htmldir, htmlroot, index,
14109 infile, libpods, netscape, outfile, podpath, podroot, quiet, recurse,
14124 =head2 Pod::InputObjects - objects representing POD input paragraphs,
14137 package B<Pod::InputSource>, package B<Pod::Paragraph>, package
14138 B<Pod::InteriorSequence>, package B<Pod::ParseTree>
14144 =item B<Pod::InputSource>
14168 =item B<was_cutting()>
14174 =item B<Pod::Paragraph>
14180 =item Pod::Paragraph-E<gt>B<new()>
14186 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<cmd_name()>
14192 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<text()>
14198 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<raw_text()>
14204 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<cmd_prefix()>
14210 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<cmd_separator()>
14216 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<parse_tree()>
14222 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<file_line()>
14228 =item B<Pod::InteriorSequence>
14234 =item Pod::InteriorSequence-E<gt>B<new()>
14240 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<cmd_name()>
14246 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<prepend()>
14252 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<append()>
14258 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<nested()>
14264 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<raw_text()>
14270 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<left_delimiter()>
14276 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<right_delimiter()>
14282 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<parse_tree()>
14288 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<file_line()>
14294 =item Pod::InteriorSequence::B<DESTROY()>
14300 =item B<Pod::ParseTree>
14306 =item Pod::ParseTree-E<gt>B<new()>
14312 =item $ptree-E<gt>B<top()>
14318 =item $ptree-E<gt>B<children()>
14324 =item $ptree-E<gt>B<prepend()>
14330 =item $ptree-E<gt>B<append()>
14336 =item $ptree-E<gt>B<raw_text()>
14342 =item Pod::ParseTree::B<DESTROY()>
14354 =head2 Pod::LaTeX - Convert Pod data to formatted Latex
14366 =item OBJECT METHODS
14374 =item Data Accessors
14390 B<ReplaceNAMEwithSection>
14392 B<StartWithNewPage>
14406 =item Subclassed methods
14420 B<interior_sequence>
14436 =item Methods for headings
14444 =item Internal methods
14450 B<_replace_special_chars>
14456 B<_clean_latex_commands>
14472 =head2 Pod::Man - Convert POD data to formatted *roff input
14480 center, date, fixed, fixedbold, fixeditalic, fixedbolditalic, quotes,
14485 roff font should be 1 or 2 chars, not "%s", Invalid link %s, Invalid quote
14486 specification "%s", %s:%d: Unknown command paragraph "%s", %s:%d: Unknown
14487 escape EE<lt>%sE<gt>, %s:%d: Unknown sequence %s, %s:%d: Unmatched =back
14495 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
14499 =head2 Pod::ParseUtils - helpers for POD parsing and conversion
14513 Pod::List-E<gt>new()
14521 $list-E<gt>indent()
14529 $list-E<gt>parent()
14535 =item Pod::Hyperlink
14537 Pod::Hyperlink-E<gt>new()
14541 $link-E<gt>parse($string)
14543 $link-E<gt>markup($string)
14547 $link-E<gt>warning()
14549 $link-E<gt>file(), $link-E<gt>line()
14555 $link-E<gt>alttext()
14565 Pod::Cache-E<gt>new()
14571 $cache-E<gt>find_page($name)
14575 =item Pod::Cache::Item
14577 Pod::Cache::Item-E<gt>new()
14581 $cacheitem-E<gt>page()
14583 $cacheitem-E<gt>description()
14585 $cacheitem-E<gt>path()
14587 $cacheitem-E<gt>file()
14589 $cacheitem-E<gt>nodes()
14591 $cacheitem-E<gt>find_node($name)
14593 $cacheitem-E<gt>idx()
14603 =head2 Pod::Parser - base class for creating POD filters and translators
14615 =item QUICK OVERVIEW
14617 =item PARSING OPTIONS
14619 B<-want_nonPODs> (default: unset), B<-process_cut_cmd> (default: unset),
14620 B<-warnings> (default: unset)
14626 =item RECOMMENDED SUBROUTINE/METHOD OVERRIDES
14634 C<$cmd>, C<$text>, C<$line_num>, C<$pod_para>
14640 =item B<verbatim()>
14642 C<$text>, C<$line_num>, C<$pod_para>
14648 =item B<textblock()>
14650 C<$text>, C<$line_num>, C<$pod_para>
14656 =item B<interior_sequence()>
14662 =item OPTIONAL SUBROUTINE/METHOD OVERRIDES
14674 =item B<initialize()>
14680 =item B<begin_pod()>
14686 =item B<begin_input()>
14692 =item B<end_input()>
14704 =item B<preprocess_line()>
14710 =item B<preprocess_paragraph()>
14716 =item METHODS FOR PARSING AND PROCESSING
14722 =item B<parse_text()>
14724 B<-expand_seq> =E<gt> I<code-ref>|I<method-name>, B<-expand_text> =E<gt>
14725 I<code-ref>|I<method-name>, B<-expand_ptree> =E<gt>
14726 I<code-ref>|I<method-name>
14732 =item B<interpolate()>
14738 =item B<parse_paragraph()>
14744 =item B<parse_from_filehandle()>
14750 =item B<parse_from_file()>
14756 =item ACCESSOR METHODS
14762 =item B<errorsub()>
14774 =item B<parseopts()>
14780 =item B<output_file()>
14786 =item B<output_handle()>
14792 =item B<input_file()>
14798 =item B<input_handle()>
14804 =item B<input_streams()>
14810 =item B<top_stream()>
14816 =item PRIVATE METHODS AND DATA
14822 =item B<_push_input_stream()>
14828 =item B<_pop_input_stream()>
14834 =item TREE-BASED PARSING
14842 =head2 Pod::Plainer - Perl extension for converting Pod to old style Pod.
14862 =head2 Pod::Select, podselect() - extract selected sections of POD from
14875 =item SECTION SPECIFICATIONS
14877 =item RANGE SPECIFICATIONS
14883 =item OBJECT METHODS
14889 =item B<curr_headings()>
14901 =item B<add_selection()>
14907 =item B<clear_selections()>
14913 =item B<match_section()>
14919 =item B<is_selected()>
14925 =item EXPORTED FUNCTIONS
14931 =item B<podselect()>
14933 B<-output>, B<-sections>, B<-ranges>
14939 =item PRIVATE METHODS AND DATA
14945 =item B<_compile_section_spec()>
14951 =item $self->{_SECTION_HEADINGS}
14957 =item $self->{_SELECTED_SECTIONS}
14969 =head2 Pod::Text - Convert POD data to formatted ASCII text
14977 alt, code, indent, loose, quotes, sentence, width
14981 Bizarre space in item, Item called without tag, Can't open %s for reading:
14982 %s, Invalid quote specification "%s", %s:%d: Unknown command paragraph
14983 "%s", %s:%d: Unknown escape: %s, %s:%d: Unknown sequence: %s, %s:%d:
14994 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
14998 =head2 Pod::Text::Color - Convert POD data to formatted color ASCII text
15012 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
15016 =head2 Pod::Text::Overstrike - Convert POD data to formatted overstrike
15031 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
15035 =head2 Pod::Text::Termcap, Pod::Text::Color - Convert POD data to ASCII
15036 text with format escapes
15048 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
15052 =head2 Pod::Usage, pod2usage() - print a usage message from embedded pod
15061 C<-message>, C<-msg>, C<-exitval>, C<-verbose>, C<-output>, C<-input>,
15070 =item Recommended Use
15078 =item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
15082 =head2 SDBM_File - Tied access to sdbm files
15090 C<O_RDONLY>, C<O_WRONLY>, C<O_RDWR>
15096 =item C<sdbm store returned -1, errno 22, key "..." at ...>
15100 =item BUGS AND WARNINGS
15104 =head2 Safe - Compile and execute code in restricted compartments
15112 a new namespace, an operator mask
15118 =item RECENT CHANGES
15120 =item Methods in class Safe
15122 permit (OP, ...), permit_only (OP, ...), deny (OP, ...), deny_only (OP,
15123 ...), trap (OP, ...), untrap (OP, ...), share (NAME, ...), share_from
15124 (PACKAGE, ARRAYREF), varglob (VARNAME), reval (STRING), rdo (FILENAME),
15125 root (NAMESPACE), mask (MASK)
15127 =item Some Safety Issues
15129 Memory, CPU, Snooping, Signals, State Changes
15137 =head2 Scalar::Util - A selection of general-utility scalar subroutines
15145 blessed EXPR, dualvar NUM, STRING, isweak EXPR, readonly SCALAR, reftype
15146 EXPR, tainted EXPR, weaken REF
15154 =head2 Search::Dict, look - search for key in dictionary file
15164 =head2 SelectSaver - save and restore selected file handle
15174 =head2 SelfLoader - load functions only on demand
15184 =item The __DATA__ token
15186 =item SelfLoader autoloading
15188 =item Autoloading and package lexicals
15190 =item SelfLoader and AutoLoader
15192 =item __DATA__, __END__, and the FOOBAR::DATA filehandle.
15194 =item Classes and inherited methods.
15198 =item Multiple packages and fully qualified subroutine names
15202 =head2 Shell - run shell commands transparently within perl
15212 =item OBJECT ORIENTED SYNTAX
15220 =head2 Socket, sockaddr_in, sockaddr_un, inet_aton, inet_ntoa - load the C
15221 socket.h defines and structure manipulators
15229 inet_aton HOSTNAME, inet_ntoa IP_ADDRESS, INADDR_ANY, INADDR_BROADCAST,
15230 INADDR_LOOPBACK, INADDR_NONE, sockaddr_in PORT, ADDRESS, sockaddr_in
15231 SOCKADDR_IN, pack_sockaddr_in PORT, IP_ADDRESS, unpack_sockaddr_in
15232 SOCKADDR_IN, sockaddr_un PATHNAME, sockaddr_un SOCKADDR_UN,
15233 pack_sockaddr_un PATH, unpack_sockaddr_un SOCKADDR_UN
15237 =head2 Storable - persistency for perl data structures
15247 =item ADVISORY LOCKING
15251 =item CANONICAL REPRESENTATION
15253 =item ERROR REPORTING
15261 C<STORABLE_freeze> I<obj>, I<cloning>, C<STORABLE_thaw> I<obj>, I<cloning>,
15266 C<Storable::last_op_in_netorder>, C<Storable::is_storing>,
15267 C<Storable::is_retrieving>
15291 =head2 Switch - A switch statement for Perl
15305 =item Allowing fall-through
15307 =item Automating fall-through
15309 =item Alternative syntax
15311 =item Higher-order Operations
15325 =head2 Symbol - manipulate Perl symbols and their names
15335 =head2 Sys::Hostname - Try every conceivable way to get hostname
15347 =head2 Syslog, Sys::Syslog, openlog, closelog, setlogmask, syslog - Perl
15348 interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls
15356 openlog $ident, $logopt, $facility, syslog $priority, $format, @args,
15357 setlogmask $mask_priority, setlogsock $sock_type (added in 5.004_02),
15368 =head2 Syslog::Syslog, Sys::Syslog, openlog, closelog, setlogmask, syslog -
15369 Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls
15377 openlog $ident, $logopt, $facility, syslog $priority, $format, @args,
15378 setlogmask $mask_priority, setlogsock $sock_type (added in 5.004_02),
15389 =head2 Term::ANSIColor - Color screen output using ANSI escape sequences
15399 Bad escape sequence %s, Bareword "%s" not allowed while "strict subs" in
15400 use, Invalid attribute name %s, Name "%s" used only once: possible typo, No
15401 comma allowed after filehandle, No name for escape sequence %s
15405 ANSI_COLORS_DISABLED
15419 =head2 Term::Cap - Perl termcap interface
15431 =head2 Term::Complete - Perl word completion module
15439 E<lt>tabE<gt>, ^D, ^U, E<lt>delE<gt>, E<lt>bsE<gt>
15449 =head2 Term::ReadLine - Perl interface to various C<readline> packages. If
15450 no real package is found, substitutes stubs instead of basic functions.
15458 =item Minimal set of supported functions
15460 C<ReadLine>, C<new>, C<readline>, C<addhistory>, C<IN>, $C<OUT>,
15461 C<MinLine>, C<findConsole>, Attribs, C<Features>
15463 =item Additional supported functions
15465 C<tkRunning>, C<ornaments>, C<newTTY>
15475 =head2 Test - provides a simple framework for writing test scripts
15501 NORMAL TESTS, SKIPPED TESTS, TODO TESTS
15505 =item BUGS and CAVEATS
15515 =head2 Test::Builder - Backend for building test libraries
15535 =item Setting up tests
15551 =item Running tests
15557 B<is_eq>, B<is_num>
15575 B<no_header>, B<no_ending>
15587 B<output>, B<failure_output>, B<todo_output>
15591 =item Test Status and Info
15599 B<details> I<UNIMPLEMENTED>, B<todo>
15619 =head2 Test::Harness - run perl standard test scripts with statistics
15629 =item The test script output
15631 B<'1..M'>, B<'ok', 'not ok'. Ok?>, B<test numbers>,
15632 B<$Test::Harness::verbose>, B<$Test::Harness::switches>, B<Skipping tests>,
15633 B<Todo tests>, B<Bail out!>, B<Comments>, B<Anything else>
15637 B<Failed Test>, B<Stat>, B<Wstat>, B<Total>, B<Fail>, B<Failed>, B<List of
15662 C<All tests successful.\nFiles=%d, Tests=%d, %s>, C<FAILED tests
15663 %s\n\tFailed %d/%d tests, %.2f%% okay.>, C<Test returned status %d (wstat
15664 %d)>, C<Failed 1 test, %.2f%% okay. %s>, C<Failed %d/%d tests, %.2f%% okay.
15665 %s>, C<FAILED--Further testing stopped%s>
15669 C<HARNESS_IGNORE_EXITCODE>, C<HARNESS_NOTTY>, C<HARNESS_COMPILE_TEST>,
15670 C<HARNESS_FILELEAK_IN_DIR>, C<HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES>, C<HARNESS_COLUMNS>,
15685 =head2 Test::More - yet another framework for writing test scripts
15695 =item I love it when a plan comes together
15705 =item I'm ok, you're not ok.
15733 =item Conditional tests
15743 =item Comparision functions
15759 =item BUGS and CAVEATS
15761 Making your own ok(), The eq_* family have some caveats, Test::Harness
15772 =head2 Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
15798 L<Test::More>, L<Test>, L<Test::Unit>, L<Pod::Tests>, L<SelfTest>,
15803 =head2 Test::Tutorial - A tutorial about writing really basic tests
15811 =item Nuts and bolts of testing.
15813 =item Where to start?
15817 =item Test the manual
15819 =item Sometimes the tests are wrong
15821 =item Testing lots of values
15823 =item Informative names
15825 =item Skipping tests
15829 =item Testing with taint mode.
15837 =head2 Text::Abbrev, abbrev - create an abbreviation table from a list
15849 =head2 Text::Balanced - Extract delimited text sequences from strings.
15859 =item General behaviour in list contexts
15863 =item General behaviour in scalar and void contexts
15865 =item A note about prefixes
15867 =item C<extract_delimited>
15869 =item C<extract_bracketed>
15871 =item C<extract_tagged>
15873 C<reject =E<gt> $listref>, C<ignore =E<gt> $listref>, C<fail =E<gt> $str>,
15874 [0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]
15876 =item C<gen_extract_tagged>
15878 =item C<extract_quotelike>
15880 [0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10]
15882 =item C<extract_quotelike> and "here documents"
15884 [0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7..10]
15886 =item C<extract_codeblock>
15888 =item C<extract_multiple>
15890 =item C<gen_delimited_pat>
15896 C<Did not find a suitable bracket: "%s">, C<Did not find prefix: /%s/>,
15897 C<Did not find opening bracket after prefix: "%s">, C<No quotelike
15898 operator found after prefix: "%s">, C<Unmatched closing bracket: "%c">,
15899 C<Unmatched opening bracket(s): "%s">, C<Unmatched embedded quote (%s)>,
15900 C<Did not find closing delimiter to match '%s'>, C<Mismatched closing
15901 bracket: expected "%c" but found "%s">, C<No block delimiter found after
15902 quotelike "%s">, C<Did not find leading dereferencer>, C<Bad identifier
15903 after dereferencer>, C<Did not find expected opening bracket at %s>,
15904 C<Improperly nested codeblock at %s>, C<Missing second block for quotelike
15905 "%s">, C<No match found for opening bracket>, C<Did not find opening tag:
15906 /%s/>, C<Unable to construct closing tag to match: /%s/>, C<Found invalid
15907 nested tag: %s>, C<Found unbalanced nested tag: %s>, C<Did not find closing
15912 =item BUGS AND IRRITATIONS
15918 =head2 Text::ParseWords - parse text into an array of tokens or array of
15933 =head2 Text::Soundex - Implementation of the Soundex Algorithm as Described
15950 =head2 Text::Tabs -- expand and unexpand tabs per the unix expand(1) and
15965 =head2 Text::Wrap - line wrapping to form simple paragraphs
15981 =head2 Thread - manipulate threads in Perl (EXPERIMENTAL, subject to
15994 new \&start_sub, new \&start_sub, LIST, lock VARIABLE, async BLOCK;,
15995 Thread->self, Thread->list, cond_wait VARIABLE, cond_signal VARIABLE,
15996 cond_broadcast VARIABLE, yield
16000 join, eval, detach, equal, tid, flags, done
16008 =head2 Thread::Queue - thread-safe queues
16016 =item FUNCTIONS AND METHODS
16018 new, enqueue LIST, dequeue, dequeue_nb, pending
16024 =head2 Thread::Semaphore - thread-safe semaphores
16032 =item FUNCTIONS AND METHODS
16034 new, new NUMBER, down, down NUMBER, up, up NUMBER
16038 =head2 Thread::Signal - Start a thread which runs signal handlers reliably
16050 =head2 Thread::Specific - thread-specific keys
16060 =head2 Tie::Array - base class for tied arrays
16068 TIEARRAY classname, LIST, STORE this, index, value, FETCH this, index,
16069 FETCHSIZE this, STORESIZE this, count, EXTEND this, count, EXISTS this,
16070 key, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this, DESTROY this, PUSH this, LIST, POP this,
16071 SHIFT this, UNSHIFT this, LIST, SPLICE this, offset, length, LIST
16079 =head2 Tie::Handle, Tie::StdHandle - base class definitions for tied
16088 TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, WRITE this, scalar, length, offset, PRINT this,
16089 LIST, PRINTF this, format, LIST, READ this, scalar, length, offset,
16090 READLINE this, GETC this, CLOSE this, OPEN this, filename, BINMODE this,
16091 EOF this, TELL this, SEEK this, offset, whence, DESTROY this
16093 =item MORE INFORMATION
16095 =item COMPATIBILITY
16099 =head2 Tie::Hash, Tie::StdHash - base class definitions for tied hashes
16107 TIEHASH classname, LIST, STORE this, key, value, FETCH this, key, FIRSTKEY
16108 this, NEXTKEY this, lastkey, EXISTS this, key, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this
16112 =item MORE INFORMATION
16116 =head2 Tie::RefHash - use references as hash keys
16134 =head2 Tie::Scalar, Tie::StdScalar - base class definitions for tied
16143 TIESCALAR classname, LIST, FETCH this, STORE this, value, DESTROY this
16145 =item MORE INFORMATION
16149 =head2 Tie::SubstrHash - Fixed-table-size, fixed-key-length hashing
16161 =head2 Time::HiRes - High resolution alarm, sleep, gettimeofday, interval
16170 gettimeofday (), usleep ( $useconds ), ualarm ( $useconds [,
16171 $interval_useconds ] ), tv_interval, time (), sleep ( $floating_seconds ),
16172 alarm ( $floating_seconds [, $interval_floating_seconds ] ), setitimer,
16173 getitimer ( $which )
16189 =head2 Time::Local - efficiently compute time from local and GMT time
16197 =item IMPLEMENTATION
16203 =head2 Time::gmtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in gmtime()
16218 =head2 Time::localtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in localtime()
16233 =head2 Time::tm - internal object used by Time::gmtime and Time::localtime
16245 =head2 UNIVERSAL - base class for ALL classes (blessed references)
16253 isa ( TYPE ), can ( METHOD ), VERSION ( [ REQUIRE ] ), UNIVERSAL::isa (
16254 VAL, TYPE ), UNIVERSAL::can ( VAL, METHOD )
16258 =head2 Unicode::Collate - use UCA (Unicode Collation Algorithm)
16268 =item Constructor and Tailoring
16270 alternate, backwards, entry, ignoreName, ignoreChar, level, normalization,
16271 overrideCJK, overrideHangul, preprocess, rearrange, table, undefName,
16272 undefChar, katakana_before_hiragana, upper_before_lower
16274 =item Other methods
16276 C<@sorted = $UCA-E<gt>sort(@not_sorted)>, C<$result = $UCA-E<gt>cmp($a,
16277 $b)>, C<$sortKey = $UCA-E<gt>getSortKey($string)>, C<$position =
16278 $UCA-E<gt>index($string, $substring)>, C<($position, $length) =
16279 $UCA-E<gt>index($string, $substring)>
16291 L<Lingua::KO::Hangul::Util>, L<Unicode::Normalize>, Unicode Collation
16292 Algorithm - Unicode TR #10
16296 =head2 Unicode::Normalize - normalized forms of Unicode text
16304 C<$string_NFD = NFD($raw_string)>, C<$string_NFC = NFC($raw_string)>,
16305 C<$string_NFKD = NFKD($raw_string)>, C<$string_NFKC = NFKC($raw_string)>,
16306 C<$normalized_string = normalize($form_name, $raw_string)>
16318 L<Lingua::KO::Hangul::Util>, http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr15/
16322 =head2 Unicode::UCD - Unicode character database
16364 =item Blocks versus Scripts
16366 =item Matching Scripts and Blocks
16368 =item Code Point Arguments
16394 =item Unicode::UCD::UnicodeVersion
16400 =item Implementation Note
16410 =head2 User::grent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getgr*()
16425 =head2 User::pwent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getpw*()
16436 =item System Specifics
16450 =head2 Win32 - Interfaces to some Win32 API Functions
16458 =item Alphabetical Listing of Win32 Functions
16460 Win32::AbortSystemShutdown(MACHINE), Win32::BuildNumber(),
16461 Win32::CopyFile(FROM, TO, OVERWRITE), Win32::DomainName(),
16462 Win32::ExpandEnvironmentStrings(STRING), Win32::FormatMessage(ERRORCODE),
16463 Win32::FsType(), Win32::FreeLibrary(HANDLE), Win32::GetArchName(),
16464 Win32::GetChipName(), Win32::GetCwd(), Win32::GetFullPathName(FILENAME),
16465 Win32::GetLastError(), Win32::GetLongPathName(PATHNAME),
16466 Win32::GetNextAvailDrive(), Win32::GetOSVersion(),
16467 Win32::GetShortPathName(PATHNAME), Win32::GetProcAddress(INSTANCE,
16468 PROCNAME), Win32::GetTickCount(), Win32::InitiateSystemShutdown,
16469 Win32::IsWinNT(), Win32::IsWin95(), Win32::LoadLibrary(LIBNAME),
16470 Win32::LoginName(), Win32::LookupAccountName(SYSTEM, ACCOUNT, DOMAIN, SID,
16471 SIDTYPE), Win32::LookupAccountSID(SYSTEM, SID, ACCOUNT, DOMAIN, SIDTYPE),
16472 Win32::MsgBox(MESSAGE [, FLAGS [, TITLE]]), Win32::NodeName(),
16473 Win32::RegisterServer(LIBRARYNAME), Win32::SetCwd(NEWDIRECTORY),
16474 Win32::SetLastError(ERROR), Win32::Sleep(TIME), Win32::Spawn(COMMAND, ARGS,
16475 PID), Win32::UnregisterServer(LIBRARYNAME)
16481 =head2 XS::Typemap - module to test the XS typemaps distributed with perl
16499 =head2 XSLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code
16511 =head1 AUXILIARY DOCUMENTATION
16513 Here should be listed all the extra programs' documentation, but they
16514 don't all have manual pages yet:
16540 Larry Wall <F<larry@wall.org>>, with the help of oodles