4 perltoc - perl documentation table of contents
8 This page provides a brief table of contents for the rest of the Perl
9 documentation set. It is meant to be scanned quickly or grepped
10 through to locate the proper section you're looking for.
12 =head1 BASIC DOCUMENTATION
14 =head2 perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language
26 =item Reference Manual
28 =item Internals and C Language Interface
32 =item Platform-Specific
56 =head2 perlintro -- a brief introduction and overview of Perl
66 =item Running Perl programs
68 =item Basic syntax overview
70 =item Perl variable types
72 Scalars, Arrays, Hashes
74 =item Variable scoping
76 =item Conditional and looping constructs
78 if, while, for, foreach
80 =item Builtin operators and functions
82 Arithmetic, Numeric comparison, String comparison, Boolean logic,
87 =item Regular expressions
89 Simple matching, Simple substitution, More complex regular expressions,
90 Parentheses for capturing, Other regexp features
92 =item Writing subroutines
96 =item Using Perl modules
104 =head2 perlfaq - frequently asked questions about Perl ($Date: 2002/03/11
113 =item perlfaq: Structural overview of the FAQ.
115 =item L<perlfaq1>: General Questions About Perl
117 =item L<perlfaq2>: Obtaining and Learning about Perl
119 =item L<perlfaq3>: Programming Tools
121 =item L<perlfaq4>: Data Manipulation
123 =item L<perlfaq5>: Files and Formats
125 =item L<perlfaq6>: Regular Expressions
127 =item L<perlfaq7>: General Perl Language Issues
129 =item L<perlfaq8>: System Interaction
131 =item L<perlfaq9>: Networking
135 =item About the perlfaq documents
139 =item Where to get the perlfaq
141 =item How to contribute to the perlfaq
143 =item What will happen if you mail your Perl programming problems to the
150 =item Author and Copyright Information
154 =item Bundled Distributions
162 1/November/2000, 23/May/99, 13/April/99, 7/January/99, 22/June/98,
163 24/April/97, 23/April/97, 25/March/97, 18/March/97, 17/March/97 Version,
164 Initial Release: 11/March/97
168 =head2 perlbook - Perl book information
176 =head2 perlsyn - Perl syntax
186 =item Simple statements
188 =item Compound statements
196 =item Basic BLOCKs and Switch Statements
200 =item PODs: Embedded Documentation
202 =item Plain Old Comments (Not!)
208 =head2 perldata - Perl data types
222 =item Scalar value constructors
224 =item List value constructors
228 =item Typeglobs and Filehandles
236 =head2 perlop - Perl operators and precedence
246 =item Terms and List Operators (Leftward)
248 =item The Arrow Operator
250 =item Auto-increment and Auto-decrement
254 =item Symbolic Unary Operators
256 =item Binding Operators
258 =item Multiplicative Operators
260 =item Additive Operators
262 =item Shift Operators
264 =item Named Unary Operators
266 =item Relational Operators
268 =item Equality Operators
272 =item Bitwise Or and Exclusive Or
274 =item C-style Logical And
276 =item C-style Logical Or
278 =item Range Operators
280 =item Conditional Operator
282 =item Assignment Operators
286 =item List Operators (Rightward)
292 =item Logical or and Exclusive Or
294 =item C Operators Missing From Perl
296 unary &, unary *, (TYPE)
298 =item Quote and Quote-like Operators
300 =item Regexp Quote-Like Operators
302 ?PATTERN?, m/PATTERN/cgimosx, /PATTERN/cgimosx, q/STRING/, C<'STRING'>,
303 qq/STRING/, "STRING", qr/STRING/imosx, qx/STRING/, `STRING`, qw/STRING/,
304 s/PATTERN/REPLACEMENT/egimosx, tr/SEARCHLIST/REPLACEMENTLIST/cds,
305 y/SEARCHLIST/REPLACEMENTLIST/cds, <<EOF
307 =item Gory details of parsing quoted constructs
309 Finding the end, Removal of backslashes before delimiters, Interpolation,
310 C<<<'EOF'>, C<m''>, C<s'''>, C<tr///>, C<y///>, C<''>, C<q//>, C<"">,
311 C<``>, C<qq//>, C<qx//>, C<< <file*glob> >>, C<?RE?>, C</RE/>, C<m/RE/>,
312 C<s/RE/foo/>,, Interpolation of regular expressions, Optimization of
317 =item Constant Folding
319 =item Bitwise String Operators
321 =item Integer Arithmetic
323 =item Floating-point Arithmetic
331 =head2 perlsub - Perl subroutines
341 =item Private Variables via my()
343 =item Persistent Private Variables
345 =item Temporary Values via local()
347 =item Lvalue subroutines
349 =item Passing Symbol Table Entries (typeglobs)
351 =item When to Still Use local()
353 =item Pass by Reference
357 =item Constant Functions
359 =item Overriding Built-in Functions
363 =item Subroutine Attributes
371 =head2 perlfunc - Perl builtin functions
379 =item Perl Functions by Category
381 Functions for SCALARs or strings, Regular expressions and pattern matching,
382 Numeric functions, Functions for real @ARRAYs, Functions for list data,
383 Functions for real %HASHes, Input and output functions, Functions for fixed
384 length data or records, Functions for filehandles, files, or directories,
385 Keywords related to the control flow of your perl program, Keywords related
386 to scoping, Miscellaneous functions, Functions for processes and process
387 groups, Keywords related to perl modules, Keywords related to classes and
388 object-orientedness, Low-level socket functions, System V interprocess
389 communication functions, Fetching user and group info, Fetching network
390 info, Time-related functions, Functions new in perl5, Functions obsoleted
395 =item Alphabetical Listing of Perl Functions
397 I<-X> FILEHANDLE, I<-X> EXPR, I<-X>, abs VALUE, abs, accept
398 NEWSOCKET,GENERICSOCKET, alarm SECONDS, alarm, atan2 Y,X, bind SOCKET,NAME,
399 binmode FILEHANDLE, DISCIPLINE, binmode FILEHANDLE, bless REF,CLASSNAME,
400 bless REF, caller EXPR, caller, chdir EXPR, chmod LIST, chomp VARIABLE,
401 chomp( LIST ), chomp, chop VARIABLE, chop( LIST ), chop, chown LIST, chr
402 NUMBER, chr, chroot FILENAME, chroot, close FILEHANDLE, close, closedir
403 DIRHANDLE, connect SOCKET,NAME, continue BLOCK, cos EXPR, cos, crypt
404 PLAINTEXT,SALT, dbmclose HASH, dbmopen HASH,DBNAME,MASK, defined EXPR,
405 defined, delete EXPR, die LIST, do BLOCK, do SUBROUTINE(LIST), do EXPR,
406 dump LABEL, dump, each HASH, eof FILEHANDLE, eof (), eof, eval EXPR, eval
407 BLOCK, exec LIST, exec PROGRAM LIST, exists EXPR, exit EXPR, exp EXPR, exp,
408 fcntl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, fileno FILEHANDLE, flock
409 FILEHANDLE,OPERATION, fork, format, formline PICTURE,LIST, getc FILEHANDLE,
410 getc, getlogin, getpeername SOCKET, getpgrp PID, getppid, getpriority
411 WHICH,WHO, getpwnam NAME, getgrnam NAME, gethostbyname NAME, getnetbyname
412 NAME, getprotobyname NAME, getpwuid UID, getgrgid GID, getservbyname
413 NAME,PROTO, gethostbyaddr ADDR,ADDRTYPE, getnetbyaddr ADDR,ADDRTYPE,
414 getprotobynumber NUMBER, getservbyport PORT,PROTO, getpwent, getgrent,
415 gethostent, getnetent, getprotoent, getservent, setpwent, setgrent,
416 sethostent STAYOPEN, setnetent STAYOPEN, setprotoent STAYOPEN, setservent
417 STAYOPEN, endpwent, endgrent, endhostent, endnetent, endprotoent,
418 endservent, getsockname SOCKET, getsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME, glob EXPR,
419 glob, gmtime EXPR, goto LABEL, goto EXPR, goto &NAME, grep BLOCK LIST, grep
420 EXPR,LIST, hex EXPR, hex, import, index STR,SUBSTR,POSITION, index
421 STR,SUBSTR, int EXPR, int, ioctl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, join
422 EXPR,LIST, keys HASH, kill SIGNAL, LIST, last LABEL, last, lc EXPR, lc,
423 lcfirst EXPR, lcfirst, length EXPR, length, link OLDFILE,NEWFILE, listen
424 SOCKET,QUEUESIZE, local EXPR, localtime EXPR, lock THING, log EXPR, log,
425 lstat EXPR, lstat, m//, map BLOCK LIST, map EXPR,LIST, mkdir FILENAME,MASK,
426 mkdir FILENAME, msgctl ID,CMD,ARG, msgget KEY,FLAGS, msgrcv
427 ID,VAR,SIZE,TYPE,FLAGS, msgsnd ID,MSG,FLAGS, my EXPR, my EXPR : ATTRIBUTES,
428 next LABEL, next, no Module LIST, oct EXPR, oct, open FILEHANDLE,EXPR, open
429 FILEHANDLE,MODE,EXPR, open FILEHANDLE,MODE,EXPR,LIST, open
430 FILEHANDLE,MODE,REFERENCE, open FILEHANDLE, opendir DIRHANDLE,EXPR, ord
431 EXPR, ord, our EXPR, our EXPR : ATTRIBUTES, pack TEMPLATE,LIST, package
432 NAMESPACE, package, pipe READHANDLE,WRITEHANDLE, pop ARRAY, pop, pos
433 SCALAR, pos, print FILEHANDLE LIST, print LIST, print, printf FILEHANDLE
434 FORMAT, LIST, printf FORMAT, LIST, prototype FUNCTION, push ARRAY,LIST,
435 q/STRING/, qq/STRING/, qr/STRING/, qx/STRING/, qw/STRING/, quotemeta EXPR,
436 quotemeta, rand EXPR, rand, read FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET, read
437 FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH, readdir DIRHANDLE, readline EXPR, readlink EXPR,
438 readlink, readpipe EXPR, recv SOCKET,SCALAR,LENGTH,FLAGS, redo LABEL, redo,
439 ref EXPR, ref, rename OLDNAME,NEWNAME, require VERSION, require EXPR,
440 require, reset EXPR, reset, return EXPR, return, reverse LIST, rewinddir
441 DIRHANDLE, rindex STR,SUBSTR,POSITION, rindex STR,SUBSTR, rmdir FILENAME,
442 rmdir, s///, scalar EXPR, seek FILEHANDLE,POSITION,WHENCE, seekdir
443 DIRHANDLE,POS, select FILEHANDLE, select, select RBITS,WBITS,EBITS,TIMEOUT,
444 semctl ID,SEMNUM,CMD,ARG, semget KEY,NSEMS,FLAGS, semop KEY,OPSTRING, send
445 SOCKET,MSG,FLAGS,TO, send SOCKET,MSG,FLAGS, setpgrp PID,PGRP, setpriority
446 WHICH,WHO,PRIORITY, setsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME,OPTVAL, shift ARRAY,
447 shift, shmctl ID,CMD,ARG, shmget KEY,SIZE,FLAGS, shmread ID,VAR,POS,SIZE,
448 shmwrite ID,STRING,POS,SIZE, shutdown SOCKET,HOW, sin EXPR, sin, sleep
449 EXPR, sleep, sockatmark SOCKET, socket SOCKET,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL,
450 socketpair SOCKET1,SOCKET2,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL, sort SUBNAME LIST, sort
451 BLOCK LIST, sort LIST, splice ARRAY,OFFSET,LENGTH,LIST, splice
452 ARRAY,OFFSET,LENGTH, splice ARRAY,OFFSET, splice ARRAY, split
453 /PATTERN/,EXPR,LIMIT, split /PATTERN/,EXPR, split /PATTERN/, split, sprintf
454 FORMAT, LIST, sqrt EXPR, sqrt, srand EXPR, srand, stat FILEHANDLE, stat
455 EXPR, stat, study SCALAR, study, sub BLOCK, sub NAME, sub NAME BLOCK,
456 substr EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH,REPLACEMENT, substr EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH, substr
457 EXPR,OFFSET, symlink OLDFILE,NEWFILE, syscall LIST, sysopen
458 FILEHANDLE,FILENAME,MODE, sysopen FILEHANDLE,FILENAME,MODE,PERMS, sysread
459 FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET, sysread FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH, sysseek
460 FILEHANDLE,POSITION,WHENCE, system LIST, system PROGRAM LIST, syswrite
461 FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET, syswrite FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,
462 syswrite FILEHANDLE,SCALAR, tell FILEHANDLE, tell, telldir DIRHANDLE, tie
463 VARIABLE,CLASSNAME,LIST, tied VARIABLE, time, times, tr///, truncate
464 FILEHANDLE,LENGTH, truncate EXPR,LENGTH, uc EXPR, uc, ucfirst EXPR,
465 ucfirst, umask EXPR, umask, undef EXPR, undef, unlink LIST, unlink, unpack
466 TEMPLATE,EXPR, untie VARIABLE, unshift ARRAY,LIST, use Module VERSION LIST,
467 use Module VERSION, use Module LIST, use Module, use VERSION, utime LIST,
468 values HASH, vec EXPR,OFFSET,BITS, wait, waitpid PID,FLAGS, wantarray, warn
469 LIST, write FILEHANDLE, write EXPR, write, y///
475 =head2 perlreftut - Mark's very short tutorial about references
481 =item Who Needs Complicated Data Structures?
489 =item Making References
491 =item Using References
509 =item Distribution Conditions
515 =head2 perldsc - Perl Data Structures Cookbook
521 arrays of arrays, hashes of arrays, arrays of hashes, hashes of hashes,
522 more elaborate constructs
526 =item COMMON MISTAKES
528 =item CAVEAT ON PRECEDENCE
530 =item WHY YOU SHOULD ALWAYS C<use strict>
536 =item ARRAYS OF ARRAYS
540 =item Declaration of an ARRAY OF ARRAYS
542 =item Generation of an ARRAY OF ARRAYS
544 =item Access and Printing of an ARRAY OF ARRAYS
548 =item HASHES OF ARRAYS
552 =item Declaration of a HASH OF ARRAYS
554 =item Generation of a HASH OF ARRAYS
556 =item Access and Printing of a HASH OF ARRAYS
560 =item ARRAYS OF HASHES
564 =item Declaration of an ARRAY OF HASHES
566 =item Generation of an ARRAY OF HASHES
568 =item Access and Printing of an ARRAY OF HASHES
572 =item HASHES OF HASHES
576 =item Declaration of a HASH OF HASHES
578 =item Generation of a HASH OF HASHES
580 =item Access and Printing of a HASH OF HASHES
584 =item MORE ELABORATE RECORDS
588 =item Declaration of MORE ELABORATE RECORDS
590 =item Declaration of a HASH OF COMPLEX RECORDS
592 =item Generation of a HASH OF COMPLEX RECORDS
604 =head2 perlrequick - Perl regular expressions quick start
614 =item Simple word matching
616 =item Using character classes
618 =item Matching this or that
620 =item Grouping things and hierarchical matching
622 =item Extracting matches
624 =item Matching repetitions
628 =item Search and replace
630 =item The split operator
638 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
642 =item Acknowledgments
648 =head2 perlpod - the Plain Old Documentation format
656 =item Ordinary Paragraph
658 =item Verbatim Paragraph
660 =item Command Paragraph
662 C<=head1 I<Heading Text>>, C<=head2 I<Heading Text>>, C<=head3 I<Heading
663 Text>>, C<=head4 I<Heading Text>>, C<=over I<indentlevel>>, C<=item
664 I<stuff...>>, C<=back>, C<=cut>, C<=pod>, C<=begin I<formatname>>, C<=end
665 I<formatname>>, C<=for I<formatname> I<text...>>
667 =item Formatting Codes
669 C<IE<lt>textE<gt>> -- italic text, C<BE<lt>textE<gt>> -- bold text,
670 C<CE<lt>codeE<gt>> -- code text, C<LE<lt>nameE<gt>> -- a hyperlink,
671 C<EE<lt>escapeE<gt>> -- a character escape, C<FE<lt>filenameE<gt>> -- used
672 for filenames, C<SE<lt>textE<gt>> -- text contains non-breaking spaces,
673 C<XE<lt>topic nameE<gt>> -- an index entry, C<ZE<lt>E<gt>> -- a null
674 (zero-effect) formatting code
678 =item Embedding Pods in Perl Modules
680 =item Hints for Writing Pod
690 =head2 perlpodspec - Plain Old Documentation: format specification and
697 =item Pod Definitions
701 "=head1", "=head2", "=head3", "=head4", "=pod", "=cut", "=over", "=item",
702 "=back", "=begin formatname", "=end formatname", "=for formatname text..."
704 =item Pod Formatting Codes
706 C<IE<lt>textE<gt>> -- italic text, C<BE<lt>textE<gt>> -- bold text,
707 C<CE<lt>codeE<gt>> -- code text, C<FE<lt>filenameE<gt>> -- style for
708 filenames, C<XE<lt>topic nameE<gt>> -- an index entry, C<ZE<lt>E<gt>> -- a
709 null (zero-effect) formatting code, C<LE<lt>nameE<gt>> -- a hyperlink,
710 C<EE<lt>escapeE<gt>> -- a character escape, C<SE<lt>textE<gt>> -- text
711 contains non-breaking spaces
713 =item Notes on Implementing Pod Processors
715 =item About LE<lt>...E<gt> Codes
717 First:, Second:, Third:, Fourth:, Fifth:, Sixth:
719 =item About =over...=back Regions
721 =item About Data Paragraphs and "=begin/=end" Regions
729 =head2 perlstyle - Perl style guide
737 =head2 perltrap - Perl traps for the unwary
755 =item Perl4 to Perl5 Traps
757 Discontinuance, Deprecation, and BugFix traps, Parsing Traps, Numerical
758 Traps, General data type traps, Context Traps - scalar, list contexts,
759 Precedence Traps, General Regular Expression Traps using s///, etc,
760 Subroutine, Signal, Sorting Traps, OS Traps, DBM Traps, Unclassified Traps
762 =item Discontinuance, Deprecation, and BugFix traps
764 Discontinuance, Deprecation, BugFix, Discontinuance, Discontinuance,
765 Discontinuance, BugFix, Discontinuance, Discontinuance, BugFix,
766 Discontinuance, Deprecation, Discontinuance, Discontinuance
770 Parsing, Parsing, Parsing, Parsing, Parsing
772 =item Numerical Traps
774 Numerical, Numerical, Numerical, Bitwise string ops
776 =item General data type traps
778 (Arrays), (Arrays), (Hashes), (Globs), (Globs), (Scalar String),
779 (Constants), (Scalars), (Variable Suicide)
781 =item Context Traps - scalar, list contexts
783 (list context), (scalar context), (scalar context), (list, builtin)
785 =item Precedence Traps
787 Precedence, Precedence, Precedence, Precedence, Precedence, Precedence,
790 =item General Regular Expression Traps using s///, etc.
792 Regular Expression, Regular Expression, Regular Expression, Regular
793 Expression, Regular Expression, Regular Expression, Regular Expression,
796 =item Subroutine, Signal, Sorting Traps
798 (Signals), (Sort Subroutine), warn() won't let you specify a filehandle
804 =item Interpolation Traps
806 Interpolation, Interpolation, Interpolation, Interpolation, Interpolation,
807 Interpolation, Interpolation, Interpolation, Interpolation
813 =item Unclassified Traps
815 C<require>/C<do> trap using returned value, C<split> on empty string with
822 =head2 perlrun - how to execute the Perl interpreter
832 =item #! and quoting on non-Unix systems
834 OS/2, MS-DOS, Win95/NT, Macintosh, VMS
836 =item Location of Perl
838 =item Command Switches
840 B<-0>[I<digits>], B<-a>, B<-C>, B<-c>, B<-d>, B<-d:>I<foo[=bar,baz]>,
841 B<-D>I<letters>, B<-D>I<number>, B<-e> I<commandline>, B<-F>I<pattern>,
842 B<-h>, B<-i>[I<extension>], B<-I>I<directory>, B<-l>[I<octnum>],
843 B<-m>[B<->]I<module>, B<-M>[B<->]I<module>, B<-M>[B<->]I<'module ...'>,
844 B<-[mM]>[B<->]I<module=arg[,arg]...>, B<-n>, B<-p>, B<-P>, B<-s>, B<-S>,
845 B<-t>, B<-T>, B<-u>, B<-U>, B<-v>, B<-V>, B<-V:>I<name>, B<-w>, B<-W>,
846 B<-X>, B<-x> I<directory>
852 HOME, LOGDIR, PATH, PERL5LIB, PERL5OPT, PERLLIB, PERL5DB, PERL5SHELL
853 (specific to the Win32 port), PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS, PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL,
854 PERL_ENCODING, PERL_ROOT (specific to the VMS port), SYS$LOGIN (specific to
859 accept() on closed socket %s, Allocation too large: %lx, '!' allowed only
860 after types %s, Ambiguous call resolved as CORE::%s(), qualify as such or
861 use &, Ambiguous range in transliteration operator, Ambiguous use of %s
862 resolved as %s, '|' and '<' may not both be specified on command line, '|'
863 and '>' may not both be specified on command line, Applying %s to %s will
864 act on scalar(%s), Args must match #! line, Arg too short for msgsnd, %s
865 argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element, %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY
866 element or slice, %s argument is not a subroutine name, Argument "%s" isn't
867 numeric%s, Array @%s missing the @ in argument %d of %s(), assertion
868 botched: %s, Assertion failed: file "%s", Assignment to both a list and a
869 scalar, Attempt to access disallowed key '%s' in a fixed hash, Attempt to
870 clear a fixed hash, Attempt to delete readonly key '%s' from a fixed hash,
871 Attempt to delete disallowed key '%s' from a fixed hash, Attempt to bless
872 into a reference, Attempt to free non-arena SV: 0x%lx, Attempt to free
873 nonexistent shared string, Attempt to free temp prematurely, Attempt to
874 free unreferenced glob pointers, Attempt to free unreferenced scalar,
875 Attempt to join self, Attempt to pack pointer to temporary value, Attempt
876 to use reference as lvalue in substr, Bad arg length for %s, is %d, should
877 be %s, Bad evalled substitution pattern, Bad filehandle: %s, Bad free()
878 ignored, Bad hash, Bad index while coercing array into hash, Badly placed
879 ()'s, Bad name after %s::, Bad realloc() ignored, Bad symbol for array, Bad
880 symbol for filehandle, Bad symbol for hash, Bareword found in conditional,
881 Bareword "%s" not allowed while "strict subs" in use, Bareword "%s" refers
882 to nonexistent package, BEGIN failed--compilation aborted, BEGIN not safe
883 after errors--compilation aborted, \1 better written as $1, Binary number >
884 0b11111111111111111111111111111111 non-portable, bind() on closed socket
885 %s, binmode() on closed filehandle %s, Bit vector size > 32 non-portable,
886 Bizarre copy of %s in %s, B<-P> not allowed for setuid/setgid script,
887 Buffer overflow in prime_env_iter: %s, Callback called exit, %s() called
888 too early to check prototype, / cannot take a count, Can't bless
889 non-reference value, Can't call method "%s" in empty package "%s", Can't
890 call method "%s" on an undefined value, Can't call method "%s" on unblessed
891 reference, Can't call method "%s" without a package or object reference,
892 Can't chdir to %s, Can't check filesystem of script "%s" for nosuid, Can't
893 coerce array into hash, Can't coerce %s to integer in %s, Can't coerce %s
894 to number in %s, Can't coerce %s to string in %s, Can't create pipe
895 mailbox, Can't declare class for non-scalar %s in "%s", Can't declare %s in
896 "%s", Can't do inplace edit: %s is not a regular file, Can't do inplace
897 edit on %s: %s, Can't do inplace edit without backup, Can't do inplace
898 edit: %s would not be unique, Can't do {n,m} with n > m in regex; marked by
899 <-- HERE in m/%s/, Can't do setegid!, Can't do seteuid!, Can't do setuid,
900 Can't do waitpid with flags, Can't emulate -%s on #! line, Can't exec "%s":
901 %s, Can't exec %s, Can't execute %s, Can't find an opnumber for "%s", Can't
902 find %s character property "%s", Can't find label %s, Can't find %s on
903 PATH, Can't find %s on PATH, '.' not in PATH, Can't find string terminator
904 %s anywhere before EOF, Can't find %s property definition %s, Can't fork,
905 Can't get filespec - stale stat buffer?, Can't get pipe mailbox device
906 name, Can't get SYSGEN parameter value for MAXBUF, Can't "goto" into the
907 middle of a foreach loop, Can't "goto" out of a pseudo block, Can't goto
908 subroutine from an eval-string, Can't goto subroutine outside a subroutine,
909 Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default, Can't "last" outside a loop
910 block, Can't localize lexical variable %s, Can't localize pseudo-hash
911 element, Can't localize through a reference, Can't locate %s, Can't locate
912 auto/%s.al in @INC, Can't locate object method "%s" via package "%s",
913 (perhaps you forgot to load "%s"?), Can't locate package %s for @%s::ISA,
914 Can't make list assignment to \%ENV on this system, Can't modify %s in %s,
915 Can't modify nonexistent substring, Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine
916 call, Can't msgrcv to read-only var, Can't "next" outside a loop block,
917 Can't open %s: %s, Can't open bidirectional pipe, Can't open error file %s
918 as stderr, Can't open input file %s as stdin, Can't open output file %s as
919 stdout, Can't open output pipe (name: %s), Can't open perl script%s: %s,
920 Can't read CRTL environ, Can't redefine active sort subroutine %s, Can't
921 "redo" outside a loop block, Can't remove %s: %s, skipping file, Can't
922 rename %s to %s: %s, skipping file, Can't reopen input pipe (name: %s) in
923 binary mode, Can't resolve method `%s' overloading `%s' in package `%s',
924 Can't reswap uid and euid, Can't return %s from lvalue subroutine, Can't
925 return %s to lvalue scalar context, Can't return outside a subroutine,
926 Can't stat script "%s", Can't swap uid and euid, Can't take log of %g,
927 Can't take sqrt of %g, Can't undef active subroutine, Can't unshift, Can't
928 upgrade that kind of scalar, Can't upgrade to undef, Can't use an undefined
929 value as %s reference, Can't use anonymous symbol table for method lookup,
930 Can't use bareword ("%s") as %s ref while "strict refs" in use, Can't use
931 %! because Errno.pm is not available, Can't use %s for loop variable, Can't
932 use global %s in "my", Can't use "my %s" in sort comparison, Can't use %s
933 ref as %s ref, Can't use string ("%s") as %s ref while "strict refs" in
934 use, Can't use subscript on %s, Can't use \%c to mean $%c in expression,
935 Can't weaken a nonreference, Can't x= to read-only value, Character in "C"
936 format wrapped, Character in "c" format wrapped, close() on unopened
937 filehandle %s, %s: Command not found, Compilation failed in require,
938 Complex regular subexpression recursion limit (%d) exceeded, connect() on
939 closed socket %s, Constant(%s)%s: %s, Constant is not %s reference,
940 Constant subroutine %s redefined, Constant subroutine %s undefined, Copy
941 method did not return a reference, CORE::%s is not a keyword, corrupted
942 regexp pointers, corrupted regexp program, Corrupt malloc ptr 0x%lx at
943 0x%lx, C<-p> destination: %s, C<-T> and C<-B> not implemented on
944 filehandles, Deep recursion on subroutine "%s", defined(@array) is
945 deprecated, defined(%hash) is deprecated, %s defines neither package nor
946 VERSION--version check failed, Delimiter for here document is too long, Did
947 not produce a valid header, %s did not return a true value, (Did you mean
948 &%s instead?), (Did you mean "local" instead of "our"?), (Did you mean $ or
949 @ instead of %?), Died, Document contains no data, %s does not define
950 %s::VERSION--version check failed, Don't know how to handle magic of type
951 '%s', do_study: out of memory, (Do you need to predeclare %s?), dump()
952 better written as CORE::dump(), Duplicate free() ignored, elseif should be
953 elsif, Empty %s, entering effective %s failed, Error converting file
954 specification %s, %s: Eval-group in insecure regular expression, %s:
955 Eval-group not allowed at run time, %s: Eval-group not allowed, use re
956 'eval', Excessively long <> operator, exec? I'm not *that* kind of
957 operating system, Execution of %s aborted due to compilation errors,
958 Exiting eval via %s, Exiting format via %s, Exiting pseudo-block via %s,
959 Exiting subroutine via %s, Exiting substitution via %s, Explicit blessing
960 to '' (assuming package main), %s: Expression syntax, %s failed--call queue
961 aborted, False [] range "%s" in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/, Fatal
962 VMS error at %s, line %d, fcntl is not implemented, Filehandle %s opened
963 only for input, Filehandle %s opened only for output, Final $ should be \$
964 or $name, Final @ should be \@ or @name, flock() on closed filehandle %s,
965 Quantifier follows nothing in regex;, Format not terminated, Format %s
966 redefined, Found = in conditional, should be ==, %s found where operator
967 expected, gdbm store returned %d, errno %d, key "%s", gethostent not
968 implemented, get%sname() on closed socket %s, getpwnam returned invalid UIC
969 %#o for user "%s", getsockopt() on closed socket %s, Global symbol "%s"
970 requires explicit package name, glob failed (%s), Glob not terminated, Got
971 an error from DosAllocMem, goto must have label, %s-group starts with a
972 count, %s had compilation errors, Had to create %s unexpectedly, Hash %%s
973 missing the % in argument %d of %s(), %s has too many errors, Hexadecimal
974 number > 0xffffffff non-portable, Identifier too long, Illegal binary digit
975 %s, Illegal binary digit %s ignored, Illegal character %s (carriage
976 return), Illegal character in prototype for %s : %s, Illegal division by
977 zero, Illegal hexadecimal digit %s ignored, Illegal modulus zero, Illegal
978 number of bits in vec, Illegal octal digit %s, Illegal octal digit %s
979 ignored, Illegal switch in PERL5OPT: %s, Ill-formed CRTL environ value
980 "%s", Ill-formed message in prime_env_iter: |%s|, (in cleanup) %s, In
981 EBCDIC the v-string components cannot exceed 2147483647, Insecure
982 dependency in %s, Insecure directory in %s, Insecure $ENV{%s} while running
983 %s, Integer overflow in %s number, Internal disaster in regex; marked by
984 <-- HERE in m/%s/, Internal inconsistency in tracking vforks, Internal urp
985 in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/, %s (...) interpreted as function,
986 Invalid %s attribute: %s, Invalid %s attributes: %s, Invalid conversion in
987 %s: "%s", Invalid [] range "%s" in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/,
988 Invalid [] range "%s" in transliteration operator, Invalid separator
989 character %s in attribute list, Invalid type in pack: '%s', Invalid type in
990 unpack: '%s', ioctl is not implemented, ioctl() on unopened %s,
991 IO::Socket::atmark not implemented on this architecture, `%s' is not a code
992 reference, `%s' is not an overloadable type, junk on end of regexp, Label
993 not found for "last %s", Label not found for "next %s", Label not found for
994 "redo %s", leaving effective %s failed, listen() on closed socket %s,
995 lstat() on filehandle %s, Lvalue subs returning %s not implemented yet,
996 Lookbehind longer than %d not implemented in regex;, Malformed
997 PERLLIB_PREFIX, Malformed prototype for %s: %s, Malformed UTF-8 character
998 (%s), Malformed UTF-16 surrogate, %s matches null string many times in
999 regex;, "%s" may clash with future reserved word, % may only be used in
1000 unpack, Method for operation %s not found in package %s during blessing,
1001 Method %s not permitted, Might be a runaway multi-line %s string starting
1002 on line %d, Misplaced _ in number, Missing %sbrace%s on \N{}, Missing comma
1003 after first argument to %s function, Missing command in piped open, Missing
1004 name in "my sub", Missing $ on loop variable, (Missing operator before
1005 %s?), Missing right brace on %s, Missing right curly or square bracket,
1006 (Missing semicolon on previous line?), Modification of a read-only value
1007 attempted, Modification of non-creatable array value attempted, %s,
1008 Modification of non-creatable hash value attempted, %s, Module name must be
1009 constant, Module name required with -%c option, More than one argument to
1010 open, msg%s not implemented, Multidimensional syntax %s not supported, /
1011 must be followed by a*, A* or Z*, / must be followed by a, A or Z, / must
1012 follow a numeric type, "my sub" not yet implemented, "my" variable %s can't
1013 be in a package, Name "%s::%s" used only once: possible typo, Negative
1014 length, Negative offset to vec in lvalue context, Nested quantifiers in
1015 regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/, %s never introduced, No %s allowed
1016 while running setuid, No B<-e> allowed in setuid scripts, No comma allowed
1017 after %s, No command into which to pipe on command line, No DB::DB routine
1018 defined, No dbm on this machine, No DBsub routine, No error file after 2>
1019 or 2>> on command line, No input file after < on command line, No #! line,
1020 "no" not allowed in expression, No output file after > on command line, No
1021 output file after > or >> on command line, No package name allowed for
1022 variable %s in "our", No Perl script found in input, No setregid available,
1023 No setreuid available, No space allowed after -%c, No %s specified for -%c,
1024 No such class %s, No such pipe open, No such pseudo-hash field "%s", No
1025 such pseudo-hash field "%s" in variable %s of type %s, No such signal:
1026 SIG%s, Not a CODE reference, Not a format reference, Not a GLOB reference,
1027 Not a HASH reference, Not an ARRAY reference, Not a perl script, Not a
1028 SCALAR reference, Not a subroutine reference, Not a subroutine reference in
1029 overload table, Not enough arguments for %s, Not enough format arguments,
1030 %s: not found, %s not allowed in length fields, no UTC offset information;
1031 assuming local time is UTC, Null filename used, NULL OP IN RUN, Null
1032 picture in formline, Null realloc, NULL regexp argument, NULL regexp
1033 parameter, Number too long, Octal number in vector unsupported, Octal
1034 number > 037777777777 non-portable, Odd number of arguments for
1035 overload::constant, Odd number of elements in anonymous hash, Odd number of
1036 elements in hash assignment, Offset outside string, -%s on unopened
1037 filehandle %s, %s() on unopened %s, oops: oopsAV, oops: oopsHV, Operation
1038 `%s': no method found, %s, Operator or semicolon missing before %s, "our"
1039 variable %s redeclared, Out of memory!, Out of memory during "large"
1040 request for %s, Out of memory during request for %s, Out of memory during
1041 ridiculously large request, Out of memory for yacc stack, @ outside of
1042 string, %s package attribute may clash with future reserved word: %s, page
1043 overflow, panic: %s, panic: ck_grep, panic: ck_split, panic: corrupt saved
1044 stack index, panic: del_backref, panic: die %s, panic: pp_match%s, panic:
1045 do_subst, panic: do_trans_%s, panic: frexp, panic: goto, panic:
1046 INTERPCASEMOD, panic: INTERPCONCAT, panic: kid popen errno read, panic:
1047 last, panic: leave_scope clearsv, panic: leave_scope inconsistency, panic:
1048 magic_killbackrefs, panic: malloc, panic: mapstart, panic: null array,
1049 panic: pad_alloc, panic: pad_free curpad, panic: pad_free po, panic:
1050 pad_reset curpad, panic: pad_sv po, panic: pad_swipe curpad, panic:
1051 pad_swipe po, panic: pp_iter, panic: pp_split, panic: realloc, panic:
1052 restartop, panic: return, panic: scan_num, panic: sv_insert, panic:
1053 top_env, panic: yylex, panic: utf16_to_utf8: odd bytelen, Parentheses
1054 missing around "%s" list, Perl %s required--this is only version %s,
1055 stopped, PERL_SH_DIR too long, perl: warning: Setting locale failed,
1056 perlio: argument list not closed for layer "%s", perlio: invalid separator
1057 character %s in attribute list, perlio: unknown layer "%s", Permission
1058 denied, pid %x not a child, P must have an explicit size, POSIX syntax [%s]
1059 belongs inside character classes in regex;, POSIX syntax [. .] is reserved
1060 for future extensions in regex;, POSIX syntax [= =] is reserved for future
1061 extensions in regex;, POSIX class [:%s:] unknown in regex;, POSIX getpgrp
1062 can't take an argument, Possible attempt to put comments in qw() list,
1063 Possible attempt to separate words with commas, Possible memory corruption:
1064 %s overflowed 3rd argument, Possible unintended interpolation of %s in
1065 string, Possible Y2K bug: %s, pragma "attrs" is deprecated, use "sub NAME :
1066 ATTRS" instead, Precedence problem: open %s should be open(%s), Premature
1067 end of script headers, printf() on closed filehandle %s, print() on closed
1068 filehandle %s, Process terminated by SIG%s, Prototype mismatch: %s vs %s,
1069 Prototype not terminated, Quantifier in {,} bigger than %d in regex;,
1070 Quantifier unexpected on zero-length expression;, Range iterator outside
1071 integer range, readline() on closed filehandle %s, Reallocation too large:
1072 %lx, realloc() of freed memory ignored, Recompile perl with B<-D>DEBUGGING
1073 to use B<-D> switch, Recursive inheritance detected in package '%s',
1074 Recursive inheritance detected while looking for method %s, Reference found
1075 where even-sized list expected, Reference is already weak, Reference
1076 miscount in sv_replace(), Reference to nonexistent group in regex;, regexp
1077 memory corruption, Regexp out of space, Repeat count in pack overflows,
1078 Repeat count in unpack overflows, Reversed %s= operator, Runaway format,
1079 Scalar value @%s[%s] better written as $%s[%s], Scalar value @%s{%s} better
1080 written as $%s{%s}, Scalars leaked: %d, Script is not setuid/setgid in
1081 suidperl, Search pattern not terminated, %sseek() on unopened filehandle,
1082 select not implemented, Self-ties of arrays and hashes are not supported,
1083 Semicolon seems to be missing, semi-panic: attempt to dup freed string,
1084 sem%s not implemented, send() on closed socket %s, Sequence (? incomplete
1085 in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/, Sequence (?{...}) not terminated or
1086 not {}-balanced in regex;, Sequence (?%s...) not implemented in regex;,
1087 Sequence (?%s...) not recognized in regex;, Sequence (?#... not terminated
1088 in regex;, 500 Server error, Server error, setegid() not implemented,
1089 seteuid() not implemented, setpgrp can't take arguments, setrgid() not
1090 implemented, setruid() not implemented, setsockopt() on closed socket %s,
1091 Setuid/gid script is writable by world, shm%s not implemented, <> should be
1092 quotes, /%s/ should probably be written as "%s", shutdown() on closed
1093 socket %s, SIG%s handler "%s" not defined, sort is now a reserved word,
1094 Sort subroutine didn't return a numeric value, Sort subroutine didn't
1095 return single value, splice() offset past end of array, Split loop,
1096 Statement unlikely to be reached, stat() on unopened filehandle %s, Stub
1097 found while resolving method `%s' overloading %s, Subroutine %s redefined,
1098 Substitution loop, Substitution pattern not terminated, Substitution
1099 replacement not terminated, substr outside of string, suidperl is no longer
1100 needed since %s, Switch (?(condition)... contains too many branches in
1101 regex;, Switch condition not recognized in regex;, switching effective %s
1102 is not implemented, syntax error, syntax error at line %d: `%s' unexpected,
1103 syntax error in file %s at line %d, next 2 tokens "%s", %s syntax OK,
1104 System V %s is not implemented on this machine, syswrite() on closed
1105 filehandle %s, Target of goto is too deeply nested, tell() on unopened
1106 filehandle, That use of $[ is unsupported, The crypt() function is
1107 unimplemented due to excessive paranoia, The %s function is unimplemented,
1108 The stat preceding %s wasn't an lstat, This Perl can't reset CRTL environ
1109 elements (%s), This Perl can't set CRTL environ elements (%s=%s), times not
1110 implemented, Too few args to syscall, Too late for "B<-T>" option, Too late
1111 for "-%s" option, Too late to run %s block, Too many args to syscall, Too
1112 many arguments for %s, Too many )'s, Too many ('s, Trailing \ in regex
1113 m/%s/, Transliteration pattern not terminated, Transliteration replacement
1114 not terminated, truncate not implemented, Type of arg %d to %s must be %s
1115 (not %s), umask not implemented, Unable to create sub named "%s",
1116 Unbalanced context: %d more PUSHes than POPs, Unbalanced saves: %d more
1117 saves than restores, Unbalanced scopes: %d more ENTERs than LEAVEs,
1118 Unbalanced tmps: %d more allocs than frees, Undefined format "%s" called,
1119 Undefined sort subroutine "%s" called, Undefined subroutine &%s called,
1120 Undefined subroutine called, Undefined subroutine in sort, Undefined top
1121 format "%s" called, Undefined value assigned to typeglob, %s: Undefined
1122 variable, unexec of %s into %s failed!, Unicode character %s is illegal,
1123 Unknown BYTEORDER, Unknown "re" subpragma '%s' (known ones are: %s),
1124 Unknown switch condition (?(%.2s in regex;, Unknown open() mode '%s',
1125 Unknown process %x sent message to prime_env_iter: %s, Unknown warnings
1126 category '%s', unmatched [ in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/, unmatched
1127 ( in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/, Unmatched right %s bracket,
1128 Unquoted string "%s" may clash with future reserved word, Unrecognized
1129 character %s, /%s/: Unrecognized escape \\%c in character class passed
1130 through, Unrecognized escape \\%c passed through in regex;, Unrecognized
1131 escape \\%c passed through, Unrecognized signal name "%s", Unrecognized
1132 switch: -%s (-h will show valid options), Unsuccessful %s on filename
1133 containing newline, Unsupported directory function "%s" called, Unsupported
1134 function %s, Unsupported function fork, Unsupported script encoding,
1135 Unsupported socket function "%s" called, Unterminated attribute list,
1136 Unterminated attribute parameter in attribute list, Unterminated compressed
1137 integer, Unterminated <> operator, untie attempted while %d inner
1138 references still exist, Useless (?%s) - use /%s modifier in regex;, Useless
1139 (?-%s) - don't use /%s modifier in regex;, Useless use of %s in void
1140 context, Useless use of "re" pragma, Useless use of sort in scalar context,
1141 Useless use of %s with no values, "use" not allowed in expression, Use of
1142 bare << to mean <<"" is deprecated, Use of *glob{FILEHANDLE} is deprecated,
1143 Use of chdir('') or chdir(undef) as chdir() deprecated, Use of implicit
1144 split to @_ is deprecated, Use of inherited AUTOLOAD for non-method %s() is
1145 deprecated, Use of -l on filehandle %s, Use of "package" with no arguments
1146 is deprecated, Use of %s in printf format not supported, Use of $* is
1147 deprecated, Use of %s is deprecated, Use of $# is deprecated, Use of
1148 reference "%s" as array index, Use of reserved word "%s" is deprecated, Use
1149 of tainted arguments in %s is deprecated, Use of uninitialized value%s,
1150 Using a hash as a reference is deprecated, Using an array as a reference is
1151 deprecated, UTF-16 surrogate %s, Value of %s can be "0"; test with
1152 defined(), Value of CLI symbol "%s" too long, Variable "%s" is not
1153 imported%s, "%s" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same %s, Variable
1154 "%s" may be unavailable, Variable syntax, Variable "%s" will not stay
1155 shared, Variable length lookbehind not implemented in regex;, Version
1156 number must be a constant number, v-string in use/require is non-portable,
1157 Warning: something's wrong, Warning: unable to close filehandle %s
1158 properly, Warning: Use of "%s" without parentheses is ambiguous, Wide
1159 character in %s, write() on closed filehandle %s, X outside of string, x
1160 outside of string, Xsub "%s" called in sort, Xsub called in sort, YOU
1161 HAVEN'T DISABLED SET-ID SCRIPTS IN THE KERNEL YET!, You need to quote "%s"
1165 =head2 perllexwarn - Perl Lexical Warnings
1173 =item Default Warnings and Optional Warnings
1175 =item What's wrong with B<-w> and C<$^W>
1177 =item Controlling Warnings from the Command Line
1181 =item Backward Compatibility
1183 =item Category Hierarchy
1185 =item Fatal Warnings
1187 =item Reporting Warnings from a Module
1199 =head2 perldebtut - Perl debugging tutorial
1207 =item Looking at data and -w and v
1211 =item Stepping through code
1213 =item Placeholder for a, w, t, T
1215 =item REGULAR EXPRESSIONS
1233 =head2 perldebug - Perl debugging
1239 =item The Perl Debugger
1243 =item Debugger Commands
1245 h, h [command], h h, p expr, x [maxdepth] expr, V [pkg [vars]], X [vars], y
1246 [level [vars]], T, s [expr], n [expr], r, <CR>, c [line|sub], l, l
1247 min+incr, l min-max, l line, l subname, -, v [line], f filename, /pattern/,
1248 ?pattern?, L [abw], S [[!]regex], t, t expr, b, b [line] [condition], b
1249 subname [condition], b postpone subname [condition], b load filename, b
1250 compile subname, B line, B *, a [line] command, A line, A *, w expr, W
1251 expr, W *, o, o booloption .., o anyoption? .., o option=value .., < ?, < [
1252 command ], << command, > ?, > command, >> command, { ?, { [ command ], {{
1253 command, ! number, ! -number, ! pattern, !! cmd, @ file, H -number, q or
1254 ^D, R, |dbcmd, ||dbcmd, command, m expr, M, man [manpage]
1256 =item Configurable Options
1258 C<recallCommand>, C<ShellBang>, C<pager>, C<tkRunning>, C<signalLevel>,
1259 C<warnLevel>, C<dieLevel>, C<AutoTrace>, C<LineInfo>, C<inhibit_exit>,
1260 C<PrintRet>, C<ornaments>, C<frame>, C<maxTraceLen>, C<windowSize>,
1261 C<arrayDepth>, C<hashDepth>, C<dumpDepth>, C<compactDump>, C<veryCompact>,
1262 C<globPrint>, C<DumpDBFiles>, C<DumpPackages>, C<DumpReused>, C<quote>,
1263 C<HighBit>, C<undefPrint>, C<UsageOnly>, C<TTY>, C<noTTY>, C<ReadLine>,
1266 =item Debugger input/output
1268 Prompt, Multiline commands, Stack backtrace, Line Listing Format, Frame
1271 =item Debugging compile-time statements
1273 =item Debugger Customization
1275 =item Readline Support
1277 =item Editor Support for Debugging
1279 =item The Perl Profiler
1283 =item Debugging regular expressions
1285 =item Debugging memory usage
1293 =head2 perlvar - Perl predefined variables
1301 =item Predefined Names
1303 $ARG, $_, $a, $b, $<I<digits>>, $MATCH, $&, $PREMATCH, $`, $POSTMATCH, $',
1304 $LAST_PAREN_MATCH, $+, $^N, @LAST_MATCH_END, @+, $MULTILINE_MATCHING, $*,
1305 HANDLE->input_line_number(EXPR), $INPUT_LINE_NUMBER, $NR, $,
1306 IO::Handle->input_record_separator(EXPR), $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR, $RS, $/,
1307 HANDLE->autoflush(EXPR), $OUTPUT_AUTOFLUSH, $|,
1308 IO::Handle->output_field_separator EXPR, $OUTPUT_FIELD_SEPARATOR, $OFS, $,,
1309 IO::Handle->output_record_separator EXPR, $OUTPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR, $ORS,
1310 $\, $LIST_SEPARATOR, $", $SUBSCRIPT_SEPARATOR, $SUBSEP, $;, $OFMT, $#,
1311 HANDLE->format_page_number(EXPR), $FORMAT_PAGE_NUMBER, $%,
1312 HANDLE->format_lines_per_page(EXPR), $FORMAT_LINES_PER_PAGE, $=,
1313 HANDLE->format_lines_left(EXPR), $FORMAT_LINES_LEFT, $-, @LAST_MATCH_START,
1314 @-, C<$`> is the same as C<substr($var, 0, $-[0])>, C<$&> is the same as
1315 C<substr($var, $-[0], $+[0] - $-[0])>, C<$'> is the same as C<substr($var,
1316 $+[0])>, C<$1> is the same as C<substr($var, $-[1], $+[1] - $-[1])>, C<$2>
1317 is the same as C<substr($var, $-[2], $+[2] - $-[2])>, C<$3> is the same as
1318 C<substr $var, $-[3], $+[3] - $-[3])>, HANDLE->format_name(EXPR),
1319 $FORMAT_NAME, $~, HANDLE->format_top_name(EXPR), $FORMAT_TOP_NAME, $^,
1320 IO::Handle->format_line_break_characters EXPR,
1321 $FORMAT_LINE_BREAK_CHARACTERS, $:, IO::Handle->format_formfeed EXPR,
1322 $FORMAT_FORMFEED, $^L, $ACCUMULATOR, $^A, $CHILD_ERROR, $?, ${^ENCODING},
1323 $OS_ERROR, $ERRNO, $!, %!, $EXTENDED_OS_ERROR, $^E, $EVAL_ERROR, $@,
1324 $PROCESS_ID, $PID, $$, $REAL_USER_ID, $UID, $<, $EFFECTIVE_USER_ID, $EUID,
1325 $>, $REAL_GROUP_ID, $GID, $(, $EFFECTIVE_GROUP_ID, $EGID, $),
1326 $PROGRAM_NAME, $0, $[, $], $COMPILING, $^C, $DEBUGGING, $^D,
1327 $SYSTEM_FD_MAX, $^F, $^H, %^H, $INPLACE_EDIT, $^I, $^M, $OSNAME, $^O,
1328 ${^OPEN}, $PERLDB, $^P, 0x01, 0x02, 0x04, 0x08, 0x10, 0x20, 0x40, 0x80,
1329 0x100, 0x200, $LAST_REGEXP_CODE_RESULT, $^R, $EXCEPTIONS_BEING_CAUGHT, $^S,
1330 $BASETIME, $^T, ${^TAINT}, $PERL_VERSION, $^V, $WARNING, $^W,
1331 ${^WARNING_BITS}, ${^WIDE_SYSTEM_CALLS}, $EXECUTABLE_NAME, $^X, ARGV,
1332 $ARGV, @ARGV, @F, @INC, @_, %INC, %ENV, $ENV{expr}, %SIG, $SIG{expr}
1334 =item Error Indicators
1336 =item Technical Note on the Syntax of Variable Names
1344 =head2 perllol - Manipulating Arrays of Arrays in Perl
1352 =item Declaration and Access of Arrays of Arrays
1354 =item Growing Your Own
1356 =item Access and Printing
1368 =head2 perlopentut - tutorial on opening things in Perl
1374 =item Open E<agrave> la shell
1382 =item The Minus File
1384 =item Mixing Reads and Writes
1390 =item Open E<agrave> la C
1394 =item Permissions E<agrave> la mode
1398 =item Obscure Open Tricks
1402 =item Re-Opening Files (dups)
1404 =item Dispelling the Dweomer
1406 =item Paths as Opens
1408 =item Single Argument Open
1410 =item Playing with STDIN and STDOUT
1414 =item Other I/O Issues
1418 =item Opening Non-File Files
1428 =item AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT
1434 =head2 perlpacktut - tutorial on C<pack> and C<unpack>
1440 =item The Basic Principle
1444 =item Packing Numbers
1450 =item Unpacking a Stack Frame
1452 =item How to Eat an Egg on a Net
1454 =item Floating point Numbers
1458 =item Exotic Templates
1470 =item Another Portable Binary Encoding
1474 =item Lengths and Widths
1478 =item String Lengths
1480 =item Dynamic Templates
1484 =item Packing and Unpacking C Structures
1488 =item The Alignment Pit
1490 =item Alignment, Take 2
1492 =item Alignment, Take 3
1494 =item Pointers for How to Use Them
1500 =item Funnies Section
1506 =head2 perlretut - Perl regular expressions tutorial
1512 =item Part 1: The basics
1516 =item Simple word matching
1518 =item Using character classes
1520 =item Matching this or that
1522 =item Grouping things and hierarchical matching
1524 =item Extracting matches
1526 =item Matching repetitions
1528 =item Building a regexp
1530 =item Using regular expressions in Perl
1534 =item Part 2: Power tools
1538 =item More on characters, strings, and character classes
1540 =item Compiling and saving regular expressions
1542 =item Embedding comments and modifiers in a regular expression
1544 =item Non-capturing groupings
1546 =item Looking ahead and looking behind
1548 =item Using independent subexpressions to prevent backtracking
1550 =item Conditional expressions
1552 =item A bit of magic: executing Perl code in a regular expression
1554 =item Pragmas and debugging
1562 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
1566 =item Acknowledgments
1572 =head2 perlre - Perl regular expressions
1582 =item Regular Expressions
1584 [1], [2], [3], cntrl, graph, print, punct, xdigit
1586 =item Extended Patterns
1588 C<(?#text)>, C<(?imsx-imsx)>, C<(?:pattern)>, C<(?imsx-imsx:pattern)>,
1589 C<(?=pattern)>, C<(?!pattern)>, C<(?<=pattern)>, C<(?<!pattern)>, C<(?{
1590 code })>, C<(??{ code })>, C<< (?>pattern) >>,
1591 C<(?(condition)yes-pattern|no-pattern)>, C<(?(condition)yes-pattern)>
1595 =item Version 8 Regular Expressions
1597 =item Warning on \1 vs $1
1599 =item Repeated patterns matching zero-length substring
1601 =item Combining pieces together
1603 C<ST>, C<S|T>, C<S{REPEAT_COUNT}>, C<S{min,max}>, C<S{min,max}?>, C<S?>,
1604 C<S*>, C<S+>, C<S??>, C<S*?>, C<S+?>, C<< (?>S) >>, C<(?=S)>, C<(?<=S)>,
1605 C<(?!S)>, C<(?<!S)>, C<(??{ EXPR })>,
1606 C<(?(condition)yes-pattern|no-pattern)>
1608 =item Creating custom RE engines
1618 =head2 perlref - Perl references and nested data structures
1628 =item Making References
1630 =item Using References
1632 =item Symbolic references
1634 =item Not-so-symbolic references
1636 =item Pseudo-hashes: Using an array as a hash
1638 =item Function Templates
1648 =head2 perlform - Perl formats
1656 =item Format Variables
1666 =item Accessing Formatting Internals
1674 =head2 perlboot - Beginner's Object-Oriented Tutorial
1682 =item If we could talk to the animals...
1684 =item Introducing the method invocation arrow
1686 =item Invoking a barnyard
1688 =item The extra parameter of method invocation
1690 =item Calling a second method to simplify things
1692 =item Inheriting the windpipes
1694 =item A few notes about @ISA
1696 =item Overriding the methods
1698 =item Starting the search from a different place
1700 =item The SUPER way of doing things
1702 =item Where we're at so far...
1704 =item A horse is a horse, of course of course -- or is it?
1706 =item Invoking an instance method
1708 =item Accessing the instance data
1710 =item How to build a horse
1712 =item Inheriting the constructor
1714 =item Making a method work with either classes or instances
1716 =item Adding parameters to a method
1718 =item More interesting instances
1720 =item A horse of a different color
1732 =head2 perltoot - Tom's object-oriented tutorial for perl
1738 =item Creating a Class
1742 =item Object Representation
1744 =item Class Interface
1746 =item Constructors and Instance Methods
1748 =item Planning for the Future: Better Constructors
1752 =item Other Object Methods
1760 =item Accessing Class Data
1762 =item Debugging Methods
1764 =item Class Destructors
1766 =item Documenting the Interface
1776 =item Overridden Methods
1778 =item Multiple Inheritance
1780 =item UNIVERSAL: The Root of All Objects
1784 =item Alternate Object Representations
1788 =item Arrays as Objects
1790 =item Closures as Objects
1794 =item AUTOLOAD: Proxy Methods
1798 =item Autoloaded Data Methods
1800 =item Inherited Autoloaded Data Methods
1804 =item Metaclassical Tools
1810 =item Data Members as Variables
1818 =item Object Terminology
1824 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
1830 =item Acknowledgments
1836 =head2 perltooc - Tom's OO Tutorial for Class Data in Perl
1842 =item Class Data in a Can
1844 =item Class Data as Package Variables
1848 =item Putting All Your Eggs in One Basket
1850 =item Inheritance Concerns
1852 =item The Eponymous Meta-Object
1854 =item Indirect References to Class Data
1856 =item Monadic Classes
1858 =item Translucent Attributes
1862 =item Class Data as Lexical Variables
1866 =item Privacy and Responsibility
1868 =item File-Scoped Lexicals
1870 =item More Inheritance Concerns
1872 =item Locking the Door and Throwing Away the Key
1874 =item Translucency Revisited
1882 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
1884 =item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
1890 =head2 perlobj - Perl objects
1898 =item An Object is Simply a Reference
1900 =item A Class is Simply a Package
1902 =item A Method is Simply a Subroutine
1904 =item Method Invocation
1906 =item Indirect Object Syntax
1908 =item Default UNIVERSAL methods
1910 isa(CLASS), can(METHOD), VERSION( [NEED] )
1916 =item Two-Phased Garbage Collection
1924 =head2 perlbot - Bag'o Object Tricks (the BOT)
1930 =item OO SCALING TIPS
1932 =item INSTANCE VARIABLES
1934 =item SCALAR INSTANCE VARIABLES
1936 =item INSTANCE VARIABLE INHERITANCE
1938 =item OBJECT RELATIONSHIPS
1940 =item OVERRIDING SUPERCLASS METHODS
1942 =item USING RELATIONSHIP WITH SDBM
1944 =item THINKING OF CODE REUSE
1946 =item CLASS CONTEXT AND THE OBJECT
1948 =item INHERITING A CONSTRUCTOR
1954 =head2 perltie - how to hide an object class in a simple variable
1966 TIESCALAR classname, LIST, FETCH this, STORE this, value, UNTIE this,
1971 TIEARRAY classname, LIST, FETCH this, index, STORE this, index, value,
1972 FETCHSIZE this, STORESIZE this, count, EXTEND this, count, EXISTS this,
1973 key, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this, PUSH this, LIST, POP this, SHIFT this,
1974 UNSHIFT this, LIST, SPLICE this, offset, length, LIST, UNTIE this, DESTROY
1979 USER, HOME, CLOBBER, LIST, TIEHASH classname, LIST, FETCH this, key, STORE
1980 this, key, value, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this, EXISTS this, key, FIRSTKEY
1981 this, NEXTKEY this, lastkey, UNTIE this, DESTROY this
1983 =item Tying FileHandles
1985 TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, WRITE this, LIST, PRINT this, LIST, PRINTF this,
1986 LIST, READ this, LIST, READLINE this, GETC this, CLOSE this, UNTIE this,
1991 =item The C<untie> Gotcha
2003 =head2 perlipc - Perl interprocess communication (signals, fifos, pipes,
2004 safe subprocesses, sockets, and semaphores)
2020 =item Using open() for IPC
2026 =item Background Processes
2028 =item Complete Dissociation of Child from Parent
2030 =item Safe Pipe Opens
2032 =item Bidirectional Communication with Another Process
2034 =item Bidirectional Communication with Yourself
2038 =item Sockets: Client/Server Communication
2042 =item Internet Line Terminators
2044 =item Internet TCP Clients and Servers
2046 =item Unix-Domain TCP Clients and Servers
2050 =item TCP Clients with IO::Socket
2054 =item A Simple Client
2056 C<Proto>, C<PeerAddr>, C<PeerPort>
2058 =item A Webget Client
2060 =item Interactive Client with IO::Socket
2064 =item TCP Servers with IO::Socket
2066 Proto, LocalPort, Listen, Reuse
2068 =item UDP: Message Passing
2082 =head2 perlfork - Perl's fork() emulation (EXPERIMENTAL, subject to change)
2092 =item Behavior of other Perl features in forked pseudo-processes
2094 $$ or $PROCESS_ID, %ENV, chdir() and all other builtins that accept
2095 filenames, wait() and waitpid(), kill(), exec(), exit(), Open handles to
2096 files, directories and network sockets
2098 =item Resource limits
2100 =item Killing the parent process
2102 =item Lifetime of the parent process and pseudo-processes
2104 =item CAVEATS AND LIMITATIONS
2106 BEGIN blocks, Open filehandles, Forking pipe open() not yet implemented,
2107 Global state maintained by XSUBs, Interpreter embedded in larger
2108 application, Thread-safety of extensions
2120 =head2 perlnumber - semantics of numbers and numeric operations in Perl
2128 =item Storing numbers
2130 =item Numeric operators and numeric conversions
2132 =item Flavors of Perl numeric operations
2134 Arithmetic operators except, C<no integer>, Arithmetic operators except,
2135 C<use integer>, Bitwise operators, C<no integer>, Bitwise operators, C<use
2136 integer>, Operators which expect an integer, Operators which expect a
2145 =head2 perlthrtut - tutorial on threads in Perl
2153 =head2 perlothrtut - old tutorial on threads in Perl
2159 =item What Is A Thread Anyway?
2161 =item Threaded Program Models
2173 =item Native threads
2175 =item What kind of threads are perl threads?
2177 =item Threadsafe Modules
2183 =item Basic Thread Support
2185 =item Creating Threads
2187 =item Giving up control
2189 =item Waiting For A Thread To Exit
2191 =item Errors In Threads
2193 =item Ignoring A Thread
2197 =item Threads And Data
2201 =item Shared And Unshared Data
2203 =item Thread Pitfall: Races
2205 =item Controlling access: lock()
2207 =item Thread Pitfall: Deadlocks
2209 =item Queues: Passing Data Around
2213 =item Threads And Code
2217 =item Semaphores: Synchronizing Data Access
2219 Basic semaphores, Advanced Semaphores
2221 =item Attributes: Restricting Access To Subroutines
2223 =item Subroutine Locks
2227 =item Locking A Subroutine
2231 =item General Thread Utility Routines
2235 =item What Thread Am I In?
2239 =item Are These Threads The Same?
2241 =item What Threads Are Running?
2245 =item A Complete Example
2253 =item Introductory Texts
2255 =item OS-Related References
2257 =item Other References
2261 =item Acknowledgements
2269 =head2 perlport - Writing portable Perl
2275 Not all Perl programs have to be portable, Nearly all of Perl already I<is>
2284 =item Numbers endianness and Width
2286 =item Files and Filesystems
2288 =item System Interaction
2290 =item Interprocess Communication (IPC)
2292 =item External Subroutines (XS)
2294 =item Standard Modules
2298 =item Character sets and character encoding
2300 =item Internationalisation
2302 =item System Resources
2312 Mailing list: cpan-testers@perl.org, Testing results:
2313 http://testers.cpan.org/
2321 =item DOS and Derivatives
2329 =item EBCDIC Platforms
2337 =item FUNCTION IMPLEMENTATIONS
2341 =item Alphabetical Listing of Perl Functions
2343 -I<X> FILEHANDLE, -I<X> EXPR, -I<X>, alarm SECONDS, alarm, binmode
2344 FILEHANDLE, chmod LIST, chown LIST, chroot FILENAME, chroot, crypt
2345 PLAINTEXT,SALT, dbmclose HASH, dbmopen HASH,DBNAME,MODE, dump LABEL, exec
2346 LIST, exit EXPR, exit, fcntl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, flock
2347 FILEHANDLE,OPERATION, fork, getlogin, getpgrp PID, getppid, getpriority
2348 WHICH,WHO, getpwnam NAME, getgrnam NAME, getnetbyname NAME, getpwuid UID,
2349 getgrgid GID, getnetbyaddr ADDR,ADDRTYPE, getprotobynumber NUMBER,
2350 getservbyport PORT,PROTO, getpwent, getgrent, gethostent, getnetent,
2351 getprotoent, getservent, setpwent, setgrent, sethostent STAYOPEN, setnetent
2352 STAYOPEN, setprotoent STAYOPEN, setservent STAYOPEN, endpwent, endgrent,
2353 endhostent, endnetent, endprotoent, endservent, getsockopt
2354 SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME, glob EXPR, glob, ioctl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR,
2355 kill SIGNAL, LIST, link OLDFILE,NEWFILE, lstat FILEHANDLE, lstat EXPR,
2356 lstat, msgctl ID,CMD,ARG, msgget KEY,FLAGS, msgsnd ID,MSG,FLAGS, msgrcv
2357 ID,VAR,SIZE,TYPE,FLAGS, open FILEHANDLE,EXPR, open FILEHANDLE, pipe
2358 READHANDLE,WRITEHANDLE, readlink EXPR, readlink, select
2359 RBITS,WBITS,EBITS,TIMEOUT, semctl ID,SEMNUM,CMD,ARG, semget
2360 KEY,NSEMS,FLAGS, semop KEY,OPSTRING, setgrent, setpgrp PID,PGRP,
2361 setpriority WHICH,WHO,PRIORITY, setpwent, setsockopt
2362 SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME,OPTVAL, shmctl ID,CMD,ARG, shmget KEY,SIZE,FLAGS,
2363 shmread ID,VAR,POS,SIZE, shmwrite ID,STRING,POS,SIZE, sockatmark SOCKET,
2364 socketpair SOCKET1,SOCKET2,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL, stat FILEHANDLE, stat
2365 EXPR, stat, symlink OLDFILE,NEWFILE, syscall LIST, sysopen
2366 FILEHANDLE,FILENAME,MODE,PERMS, system LIST, times, truncate
2367 FILEHANDLE,LENGTH, truncate EXPR,LENGTH, umask EXPR, umask, utime LIST,
2368 wait, waitpid PID,FLAGS
2374 v1.48, 02 February 2001, v1.47, 22 March 2000, v1.46, 12 February 2000,
2375 v1.45, 20 December 1999, v1.44, 19 July 1999, v1.43, 24 May 1999, v1.42, 22
2376 May 1999, v1.41, 19 May 1999, v1.40, 11 April 1999, v1.39, 11 February
2377 1999, v1.38, 31 December 1998, v1.37, 19 December 1998, v1.36, 9 September
2378 1998, v1.35, 13 August 1998, v1.33, 06 August 1998, v1.32, 05 August 1998,
2379 v1.30, 03 August 1998, v1.23, 10 July 1998
2381 =item Supported Platforms
2385 =item AUTHORS / CONTRIBUTORS
2389 =head2 perllocale - Perl locale handling (internationalization and
2396 =item PREPARING TO USE LOCALES
2402 =item The use locale pragma
2404 =item The setlocale function
2406 =item Finding locales
2408 =item LOCALE PROBLEMS
2410 =item Temporarily fixing locale problems
2412 =item Permanently fixing locale problems
2414 =item Permanently fixing your system's locale configuration
2416 =item Fixing system locale configuration
2418 =item The localeconv function
2420 =item I18N::Langinfo
2424 =item LOCALE CATEGORIES
2428 =item Category LC_COLLATE: Collation
2430 =item Category LC_CTYPE: Character Types
2432 =item Category LC_NUMERIC: Numeric Formatting
2434 =item Category LC_MONETARY: Formatting of monetary amounts
2438 =item Other categories
2446 PERL_BADLANG, LC_ALL, LANGUAGE, LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE, LC_MONETARY,
2447 LC_NUMERIC, LC_TIME, LANG
2453 =item Backward compatibility
2455 =item I18N:Collate obsolete
2457 =item Sort speed and memory use impacts
2459 =item write() and LC_NUMERIC
2461 =item Freely available locale definitions
2465 =item An imperfect standard
2469 =item Unicode and UTF-8
2475 =item Broken systems
2485 =head2 perluniintro - Perl Unicode introduction
2495 =item Perl's Unicode Support
2497 =item Perl's Unicode Model
2499 =item Unicode and EBCDIC
2501 =item Creating Unicode
2503 =item Handling Unicode
2505 =item Legacy Encodings
2509 =item Displaying Unicode As Text
2513 =item Advanced Topics
2517 =item Questions With Answers
2521 =item Hexadecimal Notation
2523 =item Further Resources
2527 =item UNICODE IN OLDER PERLS
2531 =item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
2533 =item AUTHOR, COPYRIGHT, AND LICENSE
2537 =head2 perlunicode - Unicode support in Perl
2545 =item Important Caveats
2547 Input and Output Disciplines, Regular Expressions, C<use utf8> still needed
2548 to enable UTF-8/UTF-EBCDIC in scripts
2550 =item Byte and Character semantics
2552 =item Effects of character semantics
2558 =item Character encodings for input and output
2560 =item Unicode Regular Expression Support Level
2562 =item Unicode Encodings
2564 =item Security Implications of Malformed UTF-8
2566 =item Unicode in Perl on EBCDIC
2570 =item Using Unicode in XS
2580 =head2 perlebcdic - Considerations for running Perl on EBCDIC platforms
2586 =item COMMON CHARACTER CODE SETS
2594 =item Latin 1 (ISO 8859-1)
2598 =item 13 variant characters
2606 =item Unicode code points versus EBCDIC code points
2608 =item Remaining Perl Unicode problems in EBCDIC
2610 =item Unicode and UTF
2616 =item SINGLE OCTET TABLES
2618 recipe 0, recipe 1, recipe 2, recipe 3, recipe 4, recipe 5, recipe 6
2620 =item IDENTIFYING CHARACTER CODE SETS
2634 =item OPERATOR DIFFERENCES
2636 =item FUNCTION DIFFERENCES
2638 chr(), ord(), pack(), print(), printf(), sort(), sprintf(), unpack()
2640 =item REGULAR EXPRESSION DIFFERENCES
2648 =item Ignore ASCII vs. EBCDIC sort differences.
2650 =item MONO CASE then sort data.
2652 =item Convert, sort data, then re convert.
2654 =item Perform sorting on one type of machine only.
2658 =item TRANSFORMATION FORMATS
2662 =item URL decoding and encoding
2664 =item uu encoding and decoding
2666 =item Quoted-Printable encoding and decoding
2668 =item Caesarian ciphers
2672 =item Hashing order and checksums
2676 =item MULTI OCTET CHARACTER SETS
2688 chcp, dataset access, OS/390, z/OS iconv, locales
2708 =head2 perlsec - Perl security
2716 =item Laundering and Detecting Tainted Data
2718 =item Switches On the "#!" Line
2720 =item Cleaning Up Your Path
2724 =item Protecting Your Programs
2732 =head2 perlmod - Perl modules (packages and symbol tables)
2744 =item Package Constructors and Destructors
2750 =item Making your module threadsafe
2758 =head2 perlmodinstall - Installing CPAN Modules
2768 B<DECOMPRESS> the file, B<UNPACK> the file into a directory, B<BUILD> the
2769 module (sometimes unnecessary), B<INSTALL> the module
2783 =head2 perlmodlib - constructing new Perl modules and finding existing ones
2789 =item THE PERL MODULE LIBRARY
2793 =item Pragmatic Modules
2795 attributes, autouse, base, bigint, bignum, bigrat, blib, bytes, charnames,
2796 constant, diagnostics, encoding, fields, filetest, if, integer, less,
2797 locale, open, overload, re, sigtrap, sort, strict, subs, utf8, vars,
2798 vmsish, warnings, warnings::register
2800 =item Standard Modules
2802 AnyDBM_File, Attribute::Handlers, AutoLoader, AutoSplit, Benchmark, CGI,
2803 CGI::Apache, CGI::Carp, CGI::Cookie, CGI::Fast, CGI::Pretty, CGI::Push,
2804 CGI::Switch, CGI::Util, CPAN, CPAN::FirstTime, CPAN::Nox, Carp,
2805 Carp::Heavy, Class::ISA, Class::Struct, Cwd, DB, Devel::SelfStubber,
2806 Digest, DirHandle, Dumpvalue, English, Env, Exporter, Exporter::Heavy,
2807 ExtUtils::Command, ExtUtils::Constant, ExtUtils::Embed, ExtUtils::Install,
2808 ExtUtils::Installed, ExtUtils::Liblist, ExtUtils::MM_BeOS,
2809 ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin, ExtUtils::MM_NW5, ExtUtils::MM_OS2, ExtUtils::MM_Unix,
2810 ExtUtils::MM_VMS, ExtUtils::MM_Win32, ExtUtils::MakeMaker,
2811 ExtUtils::Manifest, ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap, ExtUtils::Mksymlists,
2812 ExtUtils::Packlist, ExtUtils::testlib, Fatal, File::Basename,
2813 File::CheckTree, File::Compare, File::Copy, File::DosGlob, File::Find,
2814 File::Path, File::Spec, File::Spec::Cygwin, File::Spec::Epoc,
2815 File::Spec::Functions, File::Spec::Mac, File::Spec::OS2, File::Spec::Unix,
2816 File::Spec::VMS, File::Spec::Win32, File::Temp, File::stat, FileCache,
2817 FileHandle, Filter::Simple, FindBin, Getopt::Long, Getopt::Std, Hash::Util,
2818 I18N::Collate, I18N::LangTags, I18N::LangTags::List, IPC::Open2,
2819 IPC::Open3, Locale::Constants, Locale::Country, Locale::Currency,
2820 Locale::Language, Locale::Maketext, Locale::Maketext::TPJ13,
2821 Locale::Script, Math::BigFloat, Math::BigInt, Math::BigInt::Calc,
2822 Math::BigRat, Math::Complex, Math::Trig, Memoize, Memoize::AnyDBM_File,
2823 Memoize::Expire, Memoize::ExpireFile, Memoize::ExpireTest,
2824 Memoize::NDBM_File, Memoize::SDBM_File, Memoize::Storable, NEXT, Net::Cmd,
2825 Net::Config, Net::Domain, Net::FTP, Net::NNTP, Net::Netrc, Net::POP3,
2826 Net::Ping, Net::SMTP, Net::Time, Net::hostent, Net::libnetFAQ, Net::netent,
2827 Net::protoent, Net::servent, PerlIO, Pod::Checker, Pod::Find,
2828 Pod::Functions, Pod::Html, Pod::InputObjects, Pod::LaTeX, Pod::Man,
2829 Pod::ParseLink, Pod::ParseUtils, Pod::Parser, Pod::Plainer, Pod::Select,
2830 Pod::Text, Pod::Text::Color, Pod::Text::Overstrike, Pod::Text::Termcap,
2831 Pod::Usage, Pod::t::basic, Search::Dict, SelectSaver, SelfLoader, Shell,
2832 Switch, Symbol, Term::ANSIColor, Term::Cap, Term::Complete, Term::ReadLine,
2833 Test, Test::Builder, Test::Harness, Test::Harness::Assert,
2834 Test::Harness::Iterator, Test::Harness::Straps, Test::More, Test::Simple,
2835 Test::Tutorial, Text::Abbrev, Text::Balanced, Text::ParseWords,
2836 Text::Soundex, Text::Tabs, Text::Wrap, Thread, Tie::Array, Tie::File,
2837 Tie::Handle, Tie::Hash, Tie::Memoize, Tie::RefHash, Tie::Scalar,
2838 Tie::SubstrHash, Time::Local, Time::gmtime, Time::localtime, Time::tm,
2839 UNIVERSAL, Unicode::Collate, Unicode::UCD, User::grent, User::pwent, Win32
2841 =item Extension Modules
2853 =item Central America
2865 =item Modules: Creation, Use, and Abuse
2869 =item Guidelines for Module Creation
2871 =item Guidelines for Converting Perl 4 Library Scripts into Modules
2873 =item Guidelines for Reusing Application Code
2881 =head2 perlmodstyle - Perl module style guide
2887 =item QUICK CHECKLIST
2891 =item Before you start
2899 =item Release considerations
2903 =item BEFORE YOU START WRITING A MODULE
2907 =item Has it been done before?
2909 =item Do one thing and do it well
2911 =item What's in a name?
2915 =item DESIGNING AND WRITING YOUR MODULE
2919 =item To OO or not to OO?
2921 =item Designing your API
2923 Write simple routines to do simple things, Separate functionality from
2924 output, Provide sensible shortcuts and defaults, Naming conventions,
2927 =item Strictness and warnings
2929 =item Backwards compatibility
2931 =item Error handling and messages
2935 =item DOCUMENTING YOUR MODULE
2941 =item README, INSTALL, release notes, changelogs
2945 =item RELEASE CONSIDERATIONS
2949 =item Version numbering
2951 =item Pre-requisites
2961 =item COMMON PITFALLS
2965 =item Reinventing the wheel
2967 =item Trying to do too much
2969 =item Inappropriate documentation
2975 L<perlstyle>, L<perlnewmod>, L<perlpod>, L<podchecker>, Testing tools,
2976 http://pause.perl.org/, Any good book on software engineering
2982 =head2 perlnewmod - preparing a new module for distribution
2992 =item What should I make into a module?
2994 =item Step-by-step: Preparing the ground
2996 Look around, Check it's new, Discuss the need, Choose a name, Check again
2998 =item Step-by-step: Making the module
3000 Start with F<h2xs>, Use L<strict|strict> and L<warnings|warnings>, Use
3001 L<Carp|Carp>, Use L<Exporter|Exporter> - wisely!, Use L<plain old
3002 documentation|perlpod>, Write tests, Write the README
3004 =item Step-by-step: Distributing your module
3006 Get a CPAN user ID, C<perl Makefile.PL; make test; make dist>, Upload the
3007 tarball, Announce to the modules list, Announce to clpa, Fix bugs!
3017 =head2 perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.7 $, $Date:
3018 2002/02/21 14:49:15 $)
3028 =item Who supports Perl? Who develops it? Why is it free?
3030 =item Which version of Perl should I use?
3032 =item What are perl4 and perl5?
3034 =item What is perl6?
3036 =item How stable is Perl?
3038 =item Is Perl difficult to learn?
3040 =item How does Perl compare with other languages like Java, Python, REXX,
3043 =item Can I do [task] in Perl?
3045 =item When shouldn't I program in Perl?
3047 =item What's the difference between "perl" and "Perl"?
3049 =item Is it a Perl program or a Perl script?
3051 =item What is a JAPH?
3053 =item Where can I get a list of Larry Wall witticisms?
3055 =item How can I convince my sysadmin/supervisor/employees to use version
3056 5/5.6.1/Perl instead of some other language?
3060 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3064 =head2 perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.9 $,
3065 $Date: 2002/03/09 21:01:13 $)
3073 =item What machines support Perl? Where do I get it?
3075 =item How can I get a binary version of Perl?
3077 =item I don't have a C compiler on my system. How can I compile perl?
3079 =item I copied the Perl binary from one machine to another, but scripts
3082 =item I grabbed the sources and tried to compile but gdbm/dynamic
3083 loading/malloc/linking/... failed. How do I make it work?
3085 =item What modules and extensions are available for Perl? What is CPAN?
3086 What does CPAN/src/... mean?
3088 =item Is there an ISO or ANSI certified version of Perl?
3090 =item Where can I get information on Perl?
3092 =item What are the Perl newsgroups on Usenet? Where do I post questions?
3094 =item Where should I post source code?
3098 References, Tutorials, Task-Oriented, Special Topics
3100 =item Perl in Magazines
3102 =item Perl on the Net: FTP and WWW Access
3104 =item What mailing lists are there for Perl?
3106 =item Archives of comp.lang.perl.misc
3108 =item Where can I buy a commercial version of Perl?
3110 =item Where do I send bug reports?
3112 =item What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org? cpan.org?
3116 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3120 =head2 perlfaq3 - Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.15 $, $Date: 2002/02/11
3129 =item How do I do (anything)?
3131 =item How can I use Perl interactively?
3133 =item Is there a Perl shell?
3135 =item How do I debug my Perl programs?
3137 =item How do I profile my Perl programs?
3139 =item How do I cross-reference my Perl programs?
3141 =item Is there a pretty-printer (formatter) for Perl?
3143 =item Is there a ctags for Perl?
3145 =item Is there an IDE or Windows Perl Editor?
3147 Komodo, The Object System, Open Perl IDE, PerlBuilder, visiPerl+,
3148 CodeMagicCD, GNU Emacs, MicroEMACS, XEmacs, Elvis, Vile, Vim, Codewright,
3149 MultiEdit, SlickEdit, Bash, Ksh, Tcsh, Zsh, BBEdit and BBEdit Lite, Alpha
3151 =item Where can I get Perl macros for vi?
3153 =item Where can I get perl-mode for emacs?
3155 =item How can I use curses with Perl?
3157 =item How can I use X or Tk with Perl?
3159 =item How can I generate simple menus without using CGI or Tk?
3161 =item How can I make my Perl program run faster?
3163 =item How can I make my Perl program take less memory?
3165 Don't slurp!, Use map and grep selectively, Avoid unnecessary quotes and
3166 stringification, Pass by reference, Tie large variables to disk
3168 =item Is it unsafe to return a pointer to local data?
3170 =item How can I free an array or hash so my program shrinks?
3172 =item How can I make my CGI script more efficient?
3174 =item How can I hide the source for my Perl program?
3176 =item How can I compile my Perl program into byte code or C?
3178 =item How can I compile Perl into Java?
3180 =item How can I get C<#!perl> to work on [MS-DOS,NT,...]?
3182 =item Can I write useful Perl programs on the command line?
3184 =item Why don't Perl one-liners work on my DOS/Mac/VMS system?
3186 =item Where can I learn about CGI or Web programming in Perl?
3188 =item Where can I learn about object-oriented Perl programming?
3190 =item Where can I learn about linking C with Perl? [h2xs, xsubpp]
3192 =item I've read perlembed, perlguts, etc., but I can't embed perl in
3193 my C program; what am I doing wrong?
3195 =item When I tried to run my script, I got this message. What does it mean?
3197 =item What's MakeMaker?
3201 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3205 =head2 perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation ($Revision: 1.19 $, $Date: 2002/03/11
3216 =item Why am I getting long decimals (eg, 19.9499999999999) instead of the
3217 numbers I should be getting (eg, 19.95)?
3219 =item Why isn't my octal data interpreted correctly?
3221 =item Does Perl have a round() function? What about ceil() and floor()?
3224 =item How do I convert between numeric representations?
3226 B<How do I convert Hexadecimal into decimal:>, B<How do I convert from
3227 decimal to hexadecimal:>, B<How do I convert from octal to decimal:>, B<How
3228 do I convert from decimal to octal:>, B<How do I convert from binary to
3229 decimal:>, B<How do I convert from decimal to binary:>
3231 =item Why doesn't & work the way I want it to?
3233 =item How do I multiply matrices?
3235 =item How do I perform an operation on a series of integers?
3237 =item How can I output Roman numerals?
3239 =item Why aren't my random numbers random?
3241 =item How do I get a random number between X and Y?
3249 =item How do I find the week-of-the-year/day-of-the-year?
3251 =item How do I find the current century or millennium?
3253 =item How can I compare two dates and find the difference?
3255 =item How can I take a string and turn it into epoch seconds?
3257 =item How can I find the Julian Day?
3259 =item How do I find yesterday's date?
3261 =item Does Perl have a Year 2000 problem? Is Perl Y2K compliant?
3269 =item How do I validate input?
3271 =item How do I unescape a string?
3273 =item How do I remove consecutive pairs of characters?
3275 =item How do I expand function calls in a string?
3277 =item How do I find matching/nesting anything?
3279 =item How do I reverse a string?
3281 =item How do I expand tabs in a string?
3283 =item How do I reformat a paragraph?
3285 =item How can I access/change the first N letters of a string?
3287 =item How do I change the Nth occurrence of something?
3289 =item How can I count the number of occurrences of a substring within a
3292 =item How do I capitalize all the words on one line?
3294 =item How can I split a [character] delimited string except when inside
3295 [character]? (Comma-separated files)
3297 =item How do I strip blank space from the beginning/end of a string?
3299 =item How do I pad a string with blanks or pad a number with zeroes?
3301 =item How do I extract selected columns from a string?
3303 =item How do I find the soundex value of a string?
3305 =item How can I expand variables in text strings?
3307 =item What's wrong with always quoting "$vars"?
3309 =item Why don't my <<HERE documents work?
3311 1. There must be no space after the << part, 2. There (probably) should be
3312 a semicolon at the end, 3. You can't (easily) have any space in front of
3321 =item What is the difference between a list and an array?
3323 =item What is the difference between $array[1] and @array[1]?
3325 =item How can I remove duplicate elements from a list or array?
3329 =item How can I tell whether a certain element is contained in a list or
3332 =item How do I compute the difference of two arrays? How do I compute the
3333 intersection of two arrays?
3335 =item How do I test whether two arrays or hashes are equal?
3337 =item How do I find the first array element for which a condition is true?
3339 =item How do I handle linked lists?
3341 =item How do I handle circular lists?
3343 =item How do I shuffle an array randomly?
3345 =item How do I process/modify each element of an array?
3347 =item How do I select a random element from an array?
3349 =item How do I permute N elements of a list?
3351 =item How do I sort an array by (anything)?
3353 =item How do I manipulate arrays of bits?
3355 =item Why does defined() return true on empty arrays and hashes?
3359 =item Data: Hashes (Associative Arrays)
3363 =item How do I process an entire hash?
3365 =item What happens if I add or remove keys from a hash while iterating over
3368 =item How do I look up a hash element by value?
3370 =item How can I know how many entries are in a hash?
3372 =item How do I sort a hash (optionally by value instead of key)?
3374 =item How can I always keep my hash sorted?
3376 =item What's the difference between "delete" and "undef" with hashes?
3378 =item Why don't my tied hashes make the defined/exists distinction?
3380 =item How do I reset an each() operation part-way through?
3382 =item How can I get the unique keys from two hashes?
3384 =item How can I store a multidimensional array in a DBM file?
3386 =item How can I make my hash remember the order I put elements into it?
3388 =item Why does passing a subroutine an undefined element in a hash create
3391 =item How can I make the Perl equivalent of a C structure/C++ class/hash or
3392 array of hashes or arrays?
3394 =item How can I use a reference as a hash key?
3402 =item How do I handle binary data correctly?
3404 =item How do I determine whether a scalar is a number/whole/integer/float?
3406 =item How do I keep persistent data across program calls?
3408 =item How do I print out or copy a recursive data structure?
3410 =item How do I define methods for every class/object?
3412 =item How do I verify a credit card checksum?
3414 =item How do I pack arrays of doubles or floats for XS code?
3418 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3422 =head2 perlfaq5 - Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.12 $, $Date: 2002/03/11
3431 =item How do I flush/unbuffer an output filehandle? Why must I do this?
3433 =item How do I change one line in a file/delete a line in a file/insert a
3434 line in the middle of a file/append to the beginning of a file?
3436 =item How do I count the number of lines in a file?
3438 =item How do I make a temporary file name?
3440 =item How can I manipulate fixed-record-length files?
3442 =item How can I make a filehandle local to a subroutine? How do I pass
3443 filehandles between subroutines? How do I make an array of filehandles?
3445 =item How can I use a filehandle indirectly?
3447 =item How can I set up a footer format to be used with write()?
3449 =item How can I write() into a string?
3451 =item How can I output my numbers with commas added?
3453 =item How can I translate tildes (~) in a filename?
3455 =item How come when I open a file read-write it wipes it out?
3457 =item Why do I sometimes get an "Argument list too long" when I use <*>?
3459 =item Is there a leak/bug in glob()?
3461 =item How can I open a file with a leading ">" or trailing blanks?
3463 =item How can I reliably rename a file?
3465 =item How can I lock a file?
3467 =item Why can't I just open(FH, ">file.lock")?
3469 =item I still don't get locking. I just want to increment the number in
3470 the file. How can I do this?
3472 =item All I want to do is append a small amount of text to the end of a
3473 file. Do I still have to use locking?
3475 =item How do I randomly update a binary file?
3477 =item How do I get a file's timestamp in perl?
3479 =item How do I set a file's timestamp in perl?
3481 =item How do I print to more than one file at once?
3483 =item How can I read in an entire file all at once?
3485 =item How can I read in a file by paragraphs?
3487 =item How can I read a single character from a file? From the keyboard?
3489 =item How can I tell whether there's a character waiting on a filehandle?
3491 =item How do I do a C<tail -f> in perl?
3493 =item How do I dup() a filehandle in Perl?
3495 =item How do I close a file descriptor by number?
3497 =item Why can't I use "C:\temp\foo" in DOS paths? Why doesn't
3498 `C:\temp\foo.exe` work?
3500 =item Why doesn't glob("*.*") get all the files?
3502 =item Why does Perl let me delete read-only files? Why does C<-i> clobber
3503 protected files? Isn't this a bug in Perl?
3505 =item How do I select a random line from a file?
3507 =item Why do I get weird spaces when I print an array of lines?
3511 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3515 =head2 perlfaq6 - Regular Expressions ($Revision: 1.8 $, $Date: 2002/01/31
3524 =item How can I hope to use regular expressions without creating illegible
3525 and unmaintainable code?
3527 Comments Outside the Regex, Comments Inside the Regex, Different Delimiters
3529 =item I'm having trouble matching over more than one line. What's wrong?
3531 =item How can I pull out lines between two patterns that are themselves on
3534 =item I put a regular expression into $/ but it didn't work. What's wrong?
3536 =item How do I substitute case insensitively on the LHS while preserving
3539 =item How can I make C<\w> match national character sets?
3541 =item How can I match a locale-smart version of C</[a-zA-Z]/>?
3543 =item How can I quote a variable to use in a regex?
3545 =item What is C</o> really for?
3547 =item How do I use a regular expression to strip C style comments from a
3550 =item Can I use Perl regular expressions to match balanced text?
3552 =item What does it mean that regexes are greedy? How can I get around it?
3554 =item How do I process each word on each line?
3556 =item How can I print out a word-frequency or line-frequency summary?
3558 =item How can I do approximate matching?
3560 =item How do I efficiently match many regular expressions at once?
3562 =item Why don't word-boundary searches with C<\b> work for me?
3564 =item Why does using $&, $`, or $' slow my program down?
3566 =item What good is C<\G> in a regular expression?
3568 =item Are Perl regexes DFAs or NFAs? Are they POSIX compliant?
3570 =item What's wrong with using grep or map in a void context?
3572 =item How can I match strings with multibyte characters?
3574 =item How do I match a pattern that is supplied by the user?
3578 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3582 =head2 perlfaq7 - General Perl Language Issues ($Revision: 1.7 $, $Date:
3583 2002/01/31 04:27:55 $)
3591 =item Can I get a BNF/yacc/RE for the Perl language?
3593 =item What are all these $@%&* punctuation signs, and how do I know when to
3596 =item Do I always/never have to quote my strings or use semicolons and
3599 =item How do I skip some return values?
3601 =item How do I temporarily block warnings?
3603 =item What's an extension?
3605 =item Why do Perl operators have different precedence than C operators?
3607 =item How do I declare/create a structure?
3609 =item How do I create a module?
3611 =item How do I create a class?
3613 =item How can I tell if a variable is tainted?
3615 =item What's a closure?
3617 =item What is variable suicide and how can I prevent it?
3619 =item How can I pass/return a {Function, FileHandle, Array, Hash, Method,
3622 Passing Variables and Functions, Passing Filehandles, Passing Regexes,
3625 =item How do I create a static variable?
3627 =item What's the difference between dynamic and lexical (static) scoping?
3628 Between local() and my()?
3630 =item How can I access a dynamic variable while a similarly named lexical
3633 =item What's the difference between deep and shallow binding?
3635 =item Why doesn't "my($foo) = <FILE>;" work right?
3637 =item How do I redefine a builtin function, operator, or method?
3639 =item What's the difference between calling a function as &foo and foo()?
3641 =item How do I create a switch or case statement?
3643 =item How can I catch accesses to undefined variables/functions/methods?
3645 =item Why can't a method included in this same file be found?
3647 =item How can I find out my current package?
3649 =item How can I comment out a large block of perl code?
3651 =item How do I clear a package?
3653 =item How can I use a variable as a variable name?
3657 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3661 =head2 perlfaq8 - System Interaction ($Revision: 1.6 $, $Date: 2002/01/28
3670 =item How do I find out which operating system I'm running under?
3672 =item How come exec() doesn't return?
3674 =item How do I do fancy stuff with the keyboard/screen/mouse?
3676 Keyboard, Screen, Mouse
3678 =item How do I print something out in color?
3680 =item How do I read just one key without waiting for a return key?
3682 =item How do I check whether input is ready on the keyboard?
3684 =item How do I clear the screen?
3686 =item How do I get the screen size?
3688 =item How do I ask the user for a password?
3690 =item How do I read and write the serial port?
3692 lockfiles, open mode, end of line, flushing output, non-blocking input
3694 =item How do I decode encrypted password files?
3696 =item How do I start a process in the background?
3698 STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR are shared, Signals, Zombies
3700 =item How do I trap control characters/signals?
3702 =item How do I modify the shadow password file on a Unix system?
3704 =item How do I set the time and date?
3706 =item How can I sleep() or alarm() for under a second?
3708 =item How can I measure time under a second?
3710 =item How can I do an atexit() or setjmp()/longjmp()? (Exception handling)
3712 =item Why doesn't my sockets program work under System V (Solaris)? What
3713 does the error message "Protocol not supported" mean?
3715 =item How can I call my system's unique C functions from Perl?
3717 =item Where do I get the include files to do ioctl() or syscall()?
3719 =item Why do setuid perl scripts complain about kernel problems?
3721 =item How can I open a pipe both to and from a command?
3723 =item Why can't I get the output of a command with system()?
3725 =item How can I capture STDERR from an external command?
3727 =item Why doesn't open() return an error when a pipe open fails?
3729 =item What's wrong with using backticks in a void context?
3731 =item How can I call backticks without shell processing?
3733 =item Why can't my script read from STDIN after I gave it EOF (^D on Unix,
3736 =item How can I convert my shell script to perl?
3738 =item Can I use perl to run a telnet or ftp session?
3740 =item How can I write expect in Perl?
3742 =item Is there a way to hide perl's command line from programs such as
3745 =item I {changed directory, modified my environment} in a perl script. How
3746 come the change disappeared when I exited the script? How do I get my
3747 changes to be visible?
3751 =item How do I close a process's filehandle without waiting for it to
3754 =item How do I fork a daemon process?
3756 =item How do I find out if I'm running interactively or not?
3758 =item How do I timeout a slow event?
3760 =item How do I set CPU limits?
3762 =item How do I avoid zombies on a Unix system?
3764 =item How do I use an SQL database?
3766 =item How do I make a system() exit on control-C?
3768 =item How do I open a file without blocking?
3770 =item How do I install a module from CPAN?
3772 =item What's the difference between require and use?
3774 =item How do I keep my own module/library directory?
3776 =item How do I add the directory my program lives in to the module/library
3779 =item How do I add a directory to my include path at runtime?
3781 =item What is socket.ph and where do I get it?
3785 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3789 =head2 perlfaq9 - Networking ($Revision: 1.7 $, $Date: 2002/01/28 04:17:27
3798 =item What is the correct form of response from a CGI script?
3800 =item My CGI script runs from the command line but not the browser. (500
3803 =item How can I get better error messages from a CGI program?
3805 =item How do I remove HTML from a string?
3807 =item How do I extract URLs?
3809 =item How do I download a file from the user's machine? How do I open a
3810 file on another machine?
3812 =item How do I make a pop-up menu in HTML?
3814 =item How do I fetch an HTML file?
3816 =item How do I automate an HTML form submission?
3818 =item How do I decode or create those %-encodings on the web?
3820 =item How do I redirect to another page?
3822 =item How do I put a password on my web pages?
3824 =item How do I edit my .htpasswd and .htgroup files with Perl?
3826 =item How do I make sure users can't enter values into a form that cause my
3827 CGI script to do bad things?
3829 =item How do I parse a mail header?
3831 =item How do I decode a CGI form?
3833 =item How do I check a valid mail address?
3835 =item How do I decode a MIME/BASE64 string?
3837 =item How do I return the user's mail address?
3839 =item How do I send mail?
3841 =item How do I use MIME to make an attachment to a mail message?
3843 =item How do I read mail?
3845 =item How do I find out my hostname/domainname/IP address?
3847 =item How do I fetch a news article or the active newsgroups?
3849 =item How do I fetch/put an FTP file?
3851 =item How can I do RPC in Perl?
3855 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3859 =head2 perlcompile - Introduction to the Perl Compiler-Translator
3869 B::Bytecode, B::C, B::CC, B::Lint, B::Deparse, B::Xref
3873 =item Using The Back Ends
3877 =item The Cross Referencing Back End
3881 =item The Decompiling Back End
3883 =item The Lint Back End
3885 =item The Simple C Back End
3887 =item The Bytecode Back End
3889 =item The Optimized C Back End
3891 B, O, B::Asmdata, B::Assembler, B::Bblock, B::Bytecode, B::C, B::CC,
3892 B::Debug, B::Deparse, B::Disassembler, B::Lint, B::Showlex, B::Stackobj,
3893 B::Stash, B::Terse, B::Xref
3897 =item KNOWN PROBLEMS
3903 =head2 perlembed - how to embed perl in your C program
3913 B<Use C from Perl?>, B<Use a Unix program from Perl?>, B<Use Perl from
3914 Perl?>, B<Use C from C?>, B<Use Perl from C?>
3918 =item Compiling your C program
3920 =item Adding a Perl interpreter to your C program
3922 =item Calling a Perl subroutine from your C program
3924 =item Evaluating a Perl statement from your C program
3926 =item Performing Perl pattern matches and substitutions from your C program
3928 =item Fiddling with the Perl stack from your C program
3930 =item Maintaining a persistent interpreter
3932 =item Execution of END blocks
3934 =item Maintaining multiple interpreter instances
3936 =item Using Perl modules, which themselves use C libraries, from your C
3941 =item Embedding Perl under Win32
3951 =head2 perldebguts - Guts of Perl debugging
3957 =item Debugger Internals
3961 =item Writing Your Own Debugger
3965 =item Frame Listing Output Examples
3967 =item Debugging regular expressions
3971 =item Compile-time output
3973 C<anchored> I<STRING> C<at> I<POS>, C<floating> I<STRING> C<at>
3974 I<POS1..POS2>, C<matching floating/anchored>, C<minlen>, C<stclass>
3975 I<TYPE>, C<noscan>, C<isall>, C<GPOS>, C<plus>, C<implicit>, C<with eval>,
3978 =item Types of nodes
3980 =item Run-time output
3984 =item Debugging Perl memory usage
3988 =item Using C<$ENV{PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS}>
3990 C<buckets SMALLEST(APPROX)..GREATEST(APPROX)>, Free/Used, C<Total sbrk():
3991 SBRKed/SBRKs:CONTINUOUS>, C<pad: 0>, C<heads: 2192>, C<chain: 0>, C<tail:
3994 =item Example of using B<-DL> switch
3996 C<717>, C<002>, C<054>, C<602>, C<702>, C<704>
3998 =item B<-DL> details
4002 =item Limitations of B<-DL> statistics
4010 =head2 perlxstut, perlXStut - Tutorial for writing XSUBs
4022 =item Version caveat
4024 =item Dynamic Loading versus Static Loading
4036 =item What has gone on?
4038 =item Writing good test scripts
4042 =item What's new here?
4044 =item Input and Output Parameters
4046 =item The XSUBPP Program
4048 =item The TYPEMAP file
4050 =item Warning about Output Arguments
4054 =item What has happened here?
4056 =item Anatomy of .xs file
4058 =item Getting the fat out of XSUBs
4060 =item More about XSUB arguments
4062 =item The Argument Stack
4064 =item Extending your Extension
4066 =item Documenting your Extension
4068 =item Installing your Extension
4072 =item New Things in this Example
4076 =item New Things in this Example
4078 =item EXAMPLE 7 (Coming Soon)
4080 =item EXAMPLE 8 (Coming Soon)
4082 =item EXAMPLE 9 (Coming Soon)
4084 =item Troubleshooting these Examples
4100 =head2 perlxs - XS language reference manual
4112 =item The Anatomy of an XSUB
4114 =item The Argument Stack
4116 =item The RETVAL Variable
4118 =item The MODULE Keyword
4120 =item The PACKAGE Keyword
4122 =item The PREFIX Keyword
4124 =item The OUTPUT: Keyword
4126 =item The NO_OUTPUT Keyword
4128 =item The CODE: Keyword
4130 =item The INIT: Keyword
4132 =item The NO_INIT Keyword
4134 =item Initializing Function Parameters
4136 =item Default Parameter Values
4138 =item The PREINIT: Keyword
4140 =item The SCOPE: Keyword
4142 =item The INPUT: Keyword
4144 =item The IN/OUTLIST/IN_OUTLIST/OUT/IN_OUT Keywords
4146 =item The C<length(NAME)> Keyword
4148 =item Variable-length Parameter Lists
4150 =item The C_ARGS: Keyword
4152 =item The PPCODE: Keyword
4154 =item Returning Undef And Empty Lists
4156 =item The REQUIRE: Keyword
4158 =item The CLEANUP: Keyword
4160 =item The POSTCALL: Keyword
4162 =item The BOOT: Keyword
4164 =item The VERSIONCHECK: Keyword
4166 =item The PROTOTYPES: Keyword
4168 =item The PROTOTYPE: Keyword
4170 =item The ALIAS: Keyword
4172 =item The OVERLOAD: Keyword
4174 =item The INTERFACE: Keyword
4176 =item The INTERFACE_MACRO: Keyword
4178 =item The INCLUDE: Keyword
4180 =item The CASE: Keyword
4182 =item The & Unary Operator
4184 =item Inserting POD, Comments and C Preprocessor Directives
4186 =item Using XS With C++
4188 =item Interface Strategy
4190 =item Perl Objects And C Structures
4194 =item Safely Storing Static Data in XS
4196 MY_CXT_KEY, typedef my_cxt_t, START_MY_CXT, MY_CXT_INIT, dMY_CXT, MY_CXT
4208 =head2 perlclib - Internal replacements for standard C library functions
4218 C<t>, C<p>, C<n>, C<s>
4220 =item File Operations
4222 =item File Input and Output
4224 =item File Positioning
4226 =item Memory Management and String Handling
4228 =item Character Class Tests
4230 =item F<stdlib.h> functions
4232 =item Miscellaneous functions
4240 =head2 perlguts - Introduction to the Perl API
4252 =item What is an "IV"?
4254 =item Working with SVs
4258 =item What's Really Stored in an SV?
4260 =item Working with AVs
4262 =item Working with HVs
4264 =item Hash API Extensions
4268 =item Blessed References and Class Objects
4270 =item Creating New Variables
4272 =item Reference Counts and Mortality
4274 =item Stashes and Globs
4276 =item Double-Typed SVs
4278 =item Magic Variables
4280 =item Assigning Magic
4282 =item Magic Virtual Tables
4286 =item Understanding the Magic of Tied Hashes and Arrays
4288 =item Localizing changes
4290 C<SAVEINT(int i)>, C<SAVEIV(IV i)>, C<SAVEI32(I32 i)>, C<SAVELONG(long i)>,
4291 C<SAVESPTR(s)>, C<SAVEPPTR(p)>, C<SAVEFREESV(SV *sv)>, C<SAVEMORTALIZESV(SV
4292 *sv)>, C<SAVEFREEOP(OP *op)>, C<SAVEFREEPV(p)>, C<SAVECLEARSV(SV *sv)>,
4293 C<SAVEDELETE(HV *hv, char *key, I32 length)>,
4294 C<SAVEDESTRUCTOR(DESTRUCTORFUNC_NOCONTEXT_t f, void *p)>,
4295 C<SAVEDESTRUCTOR_X(DESTRUCTORFUNC_t f, void *p)>, C<SAVESTACK_POS()>, C<SV*
4296 save_scalar(GV *gv)>, C<AV* save_ary(GV *gv)>, C<HV* save_hash(GV *gv)>,
4297 C<void save_item(SV *item)>, C<void save_list(SV **sarg, I32 maxsarg)>,
4298 C<SV* save_svref(SV **sptr)>, C<void save_aptr(AV **aptr)>, C<void
4299 save_hptr(HV **hptr)>
4307 =item XSUBs and the Argument Stack
4309 =item Calling Perl Routines from within C Programs
4311 =item Memory Allocation
4315 =item Putting a C value on Perl stack
4319 =item Scratchpads and recursion
4329 =item Examining the tree
4331 =item Compile pass 1: check routines
4333 =item Compile pass 1a: constant folding
4335 =item Compile pass 2: context propagation
4337 =item Compile pass 3: peephole optimization
4339 =item Pluggable runops
4343 =item Examining internal data structures with the C<dump> functions
4345 =item How multiple interpreters and concurrency are supported
4349 =item Background and PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
4351 =item So what happened to dTHR?
4353 =item How do I use all this in extensions?
4355 =item Should I do anything special if I call perl from multiple threads?
4357 =item Future Plans and PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
4361 =item Internal Functions
4363 A, p, d, s, n, r, f, M, o, j, x
4367 =item Formatted Printing of IVs, UVs, and NVs
4369 =item Pointer-To-Integer and Integer-To-Pointer
4371 =item Source Documentation
4375 =item Unicode Support
4379 =item What B<is> Unicode, anyway?
4381 =item How can I recognise a UTF8 string?
4383 =item How does UTF8 represent Unicode characters?
4385 =item How does Perl store UTF8 strings?
4387 =item How do I convert a string to UTF8?
4389 =item Is there anything else I need to know?
4393 =item Custom Operators
4401 =head2 perlcall - Perl calling conventions from C
4407 An Error Handler, An Event Driven Program
4409 =item THE CALL_ FUNCTIONS
4411 call_sv, call_pv, call_method, call_argv
4431 =item Determining the Context
4435 =item KNOWN PROBLEMS
4441 =item No Parameters, Nothing returned
4443 =item Passing Parameters
4445 =item Returning a Scalar
4447 =item Returning a list of values
4449 =item Returning a list in a scalar context
4451 =item Returning Data from Perl via the parameter list
4455 =item Using G_KEEPERR
4459 =item Using call_argv
4461 =item Using call_method
4465 =item Using Perl to dispose of temporaries
4467 =item Strategies for storing Callback Context Information
4469 1. Ignore the problem - Allow only 1 callback, 2. Create a sequence of
4470 callbacks - hard wired limit, 3. Use a parameter to map to the Perl
4473 =item Alternate Stack Manipulation
4475 =item Creating and calling an anonymous subroutine in C
4487 =head2 perlutil - utilities packaged with the Perl distribution
4497 L<perldoc|perldoc>, L<pod2man|pod2man> and L<pod2text|pod2text>,
4498 L<pod2html|pod2html> and L<pod2latex|pod2latex>, L<pod2usage|pod2usage>,
4499 L<podselect|podselect>, L<podchecker|podchecker>, L<splain|splain>,
4500 L<roffitall|roffitall>
4504 L<a2p|a2p>, L<s2p|s2p>, L<find2perl|find2perl>
4506 =item Administration
4508 L<libnetcfg|libnetcfg>
4512 L<perlbug|perlbug>, L<h2ph|h2ph>, L<c2ph|c2ph> and L<pstruct|pstruct>,
4513 L<h2xs|h2xs>, L<dprofpp|dprofpp>, L<perlcc|perlcc>
4521 =head2 perlfilter - Source Filters
4531 =item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER
4533 =item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER IN C
4535 B<Decryption Filters>
4537 =item CREATING A SOURCE FILTER AS A SEPARATE EXECUTABLE
4539 =item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER IN PERL
4541 =item USING CONTEXT: THE DEBUG FILTER
4553 =head2 perldbmfilter - Perl DBM Filters
4561 B<filter_store_key>, B<filter_store_value>, B<filter_fetch_key>,
4562 B<filter_fetch_value>
4568 =item An Example -- the NULL termination problem.
4570 =item Another Example -- Key is a C int.
4580 =head2 perlapi - autogenerated documentation for the perl public API
4586 =item "Gimme" Values
4588 GIMME, GIMME_V, G_ARRAY, G_DISCARD, G_EVAL, G_NOARGS, G_SCALAR, G_VOID
4590 =item Array Manipulation Functions
4592 AvFILL, av_clear, av_delete, av_exists, av_extend, av_fetch, av_fill,
4593 av_len, av_make, av_pop, av_push, av_shift, av_store, av_undef, av_unshift,
4594 get_av, newAV, Nullav, sortsv
4596 =item Callback Functions
4598 call_argv, call_method, call_pv, call_sv, ENTER, eval_pv, eval_sv,
4599 FREETMPS, LEAVE, SAVETMPS
4601 =item Character classes
4603 isALNUM, isALPHA, isDIGIT, isLOWER, isSPACE, isUPPER, toLOWER, toUPPER
4605 =item Cloning an interpreter
4609 =item CV Manipulation Functions
4611 CvSTASH, get_cv, Nullcv
4613 =item Embedding Functions
4615 load_module, perl_alloc, perl_construct, perl_destruct, perl_free,
4616 perl_parse, perl_run, require_pv
4618 =item Functions in file pp_pack.c
4620 pack_cat, unpack_str
4622 =item Global Variables
4624 PL_modglobal, PL_na, PL_sv_no, PL_sv_undef, PL_sv_yes
4628 GvSV, gv_fetchmeth, gv_fetchmethod, gv_fetchmethod_autoload,
4629 gv_fetchmeth_autoload, gv_stashpv, gv_stashsv
4633 HEf_SVKEY, Nullch, Nullsv
4635 =item Hash Manipulation Functions
4637 get_hv, HeHASH, HeKEY, HeKLEN, HePV, HeSVKEY, HeSVKEY_force, HeSVKEY_set,
4638 HeVAL, HvNAME, hv_clear, hv_delete, hv_delete_ent, hv_exists,
4639 hv_exists_ent, hv_fetch, hv_fetch_ent, hv_iterinit, hv_iterkey,
4640 hv_iterkeysv, hv_iternext, hv_iternextsv, hv_iterval, hv_magic, hv_store,
4641 hv_store_ent, hv_undef, newHV, Nullhv
4643 =item Magical Functions
4645 mg_clear, mg_copy, mg_find, mg_free, mg_get, mg_length, mg_magical, mg_set,
4646 SvGETMAGIC, SvLOCK, SvSETMAGIC, SvSetMagicSV, SvSetMagicSV_nosteal,
4647 SvSetSV, SvSetSV_nosteal, SvSHARE
4649 =item Memory Management
4651 Copy, Move, New, Newc, NEWSV, Newz, Renew, Renewc, Safefree, savepv,
4652 savepvn, savesharedpv, StructCopy, Zero
4654 =item Miscellaneous Functions
4656 fbm_compile, fbm_instr, form, getcwd_sv, strEQ, strGE, strGT, strLE, strLT,
4657 strNE, strnEQ, strnNE
4659 =item Numeric functions
4661 grok_bin, grok_hex, grok_number, grok_numeric_radix, grok_oct, scan_bin,
4664 =item Optree Manipulation Functions
4666 cv_const_sv, newCONSTSUB, newXS
4668 =item Stack Manipulation Macros
4670 dMARK, dORIGMARK, dSP, EXTEND, MARK, ORIGMARK, POPi, POPl, POPn, POPp,
4671 POPpbytex, POPpx, POPs, PUSHi, PUSHMARK, PUSHn, PUSHp, PUSHs, PUSHu,
4672 PUTBACK, SP, SPAGAIN, XPUSHi, XPUSHn, XPUSHp, XPUSHs, XPUSHu, XSRETURN,
4673 XSRETURN_IV, XSRETURN_NO, XSRETURN_NV, XSRETURN_PV, XSRETURN_UNDEF,
4674 XSRETURN_YES, XST_mIV, XST_mNO, XST_mNV, XST_mPV, XST_mUNDEF, XST_mYES
4678 svtype, SVt_IV, SVt_NV, SVt_PV, SVt_PVAV, SVt_PVCV, SVt_PVHV, SVt_PVMG
4680 =item SV Manipulation Functions
4682 get_sv, looks_like_number, newRV_inc, newRV_noinc, newSV, newSViv, newSVnv,
4683 newSVpv, newSVpvf, newSVpvn, newSVpvn_share, newSVrv, newSVsv, newSVuv,
4684 new_vstring, SvCUR, SvCUR_set, SvEND, SvGROW, SvIOK, SvIOKp, SvIOK_notUV,
4685 SvIOK_off, SvIOK_on, SvIOK_only, SvIOK_only_UV, SvIOK_UV, SvIV, SvIVx,
4686 SvIVX, SvLEN, SvNIOK, SvNIOKp, SvNIOK_off, SvNOK, SvNOKp, SvNOK_off,
4687 SvNOK_on, SvNOK_only, SvNV, SvNVX, SvNVx, SvOK, SvOOK, SvPOK, SvPOKp,
4688 SvPOK_off, SvPOK_on, SvPOK_only, SvPOK_only_UTF8, SvPV, SvPVbyte,
4689 SvPVbytex, SvPVbytex_force, SvPVbyte_force, SvPVbyte_nolen, SvPVutf8,
4690 SvPVutf8x, SvPVutf8x_force, SvPVutf8_force, SvPVutf8_nolen, SvPVx, SvPVX,
4691 SvPV_force, SvPV_force_nomg, SvPV_nolen, SvREFCNT, SvREFCNT_dec,
4692 SvREFCNT_inc, SvROK, SvROK_off, SvROK_on, SvRV, SvSTASH, SvTAINT,
4693 SvTAINTED, SvTAINTED_off, SvTAINTED_on, SvTRUE, SvTYPE, SvUNLOCK, SvUOK,
4694 SvUPGRADE, SvUTF8, SvUTF8_off, SvUTF8_on, SvUV, SvUVX, SvUVx, sv_2bool,
4695 sv_2cv, sv_2io, sv_2iv, sv_2mortal, sv_2nv, sv_2pvbyte, sv_2pvbyte_nolen,
4696 sv_2pvutf8, sv_2pvutf8_nolen, sv_2pv_flags, sv_2pv_nolen, sv_2uv,
4697 sv_backoff, sv_bless, sv_catpv, sv_catpvf, sv_catpvf_mg, sv_catpvn,
4698 sv_catpvn_flags, sv_catpvn_mg, sv_catpv_mg, sv_catsv, sv_catsv_flags,
4699 sv_catsv_mg, sv_chop, sv_clear, sv_cmp, sv_cmp_locale, sv_collxfrm,
4700 sv_copypv, sv_dec, sv_derived_from, sv_eq, sv_force_normal,
4701 sv_force_normal_flags, sv_free, sv_gets, sv_grow, sv_inc, sv_insert,
4702 sv_isa, sv_isobject, sv_iv, sv_len, sv_len_utf8, sv_magic, sv_magicext,
4703 sv_mortalcopy, sv_newmortal, sv_newref, sv_nolocking, sv_nosharing,
4704 sv_nounlocking, sv_nv, sv_pos_b2u, sv_pos_u2b, sv_pv, sv_pvbyte,
4705 sv_pvbyten, sv_pvbyten_force, sv_pvn, sv_pvn_force, sv_pvn_force_flags,
4706 sv_pvutf8, sv_pvutf8n, sv_pvutf8n_force, sv_reftype, sv_replace,
4707 sv_report_used, sv_reset, sv_rvweaken, sv_setiv, sv_setiv_mg, sv_setnv,
4708 sv_setnv_mg, sv_setpv, sv_setpvf, sv_setpvf_mg, sv_setpviv, sv_setpviv_mg,
4709 sv_setpvn, sv_setpvn_mg, sv_setpv_mg, sv_setref_iv, sv_setref_nv,
4710 sv_setref_pv, sv_setref_pvn, sv_setref_uv, sv_setsv, sv_setsv_flags,
4711 sv_setsv_mg, sv_setuv, sv_setuv_mg, sv_taint, sv_tainted, sv_true,
4712 sv_unmagic, sv_unref, sv_unref_flags, sv_untaint, sv_upgrade, sv_usepvn,
4713 sv_usepvn_mg, sv_utf8_decode, sv_utf8_downgrade, sv_utf8_encode,
4714 sv_utf8_upgrade, sv_utf8_upgrade_flags, sv_uv, sv_vcatpvfn, sv_vsetpvfn
4716 =item Unicode Support
4718 bytes_from_utf8, bytes_to_utf8, ibcmp_utf8, is_utf8_char, is_utf8_string,
4719 pv_uni_display, sv_recode_to_utf8, sv_uni_display, to_utf8_case,
4720 to_utf8_fold, to_utf8_lower, to_utf8_title, to_utf8_upper, utf8n_to_uvchr,
4721 utf8n_to_uvuni, utf8_distance, utf8_hop, utf8_length, utf8_to_bytes,
4722 utf8_to_uvchr, utf8_to_uvuni, uvchr_to_utf8, uvuni_to_utf8_flags
4724 =item Variables created by C<xsubpp> and C<xsubpp> internal functions
4726 ax, CLASS, dAX, dITEMS, dXSARGS, dXSI32, items, ix, newXSproto, RETVAL, ST,
4727 THIS, XS, XSRETURN_EMPTY, XS_VERSION, XS_VERSION_BOOTCHECK
4729 =item Warning and Dieing
4739 =head2 perlintern - autogenerated documentation of purely B<internal>
4746 =item Global Variables
4748 PL_DBsingle, PL_DBsub, PL_DBtrace, PL_dowarn, PL_last_in_gv, PL_ofs_sv,
4759 =item Pad Data Structures
4763 =item Stack Manipulation Macros
4767 =item SV Manipulation Functions
4769 report_uninit, sv_add_arena, sv_clean_all, sv_clean_objs, sv_free_arenas
4777 =head2 perliol - C API for Perl's implementation of IO in Layers.
4787 =item History and Background
4789 =item Layers vs Disciplines
4791 =item Data Structures
4793 =item Functions and Attributes
4795 =item Per-instance Data
4797 =item Layers in action.
4799 =item Per-instance flag bits
4801 PERLIO_F_EOF, PERLIO_F_CANWRITE, PERLIO_F_CANREAD, PERLIO_F_ERROR,
4802 PERLIO_F_TRUNCATE, PERLIO_F_APPEND, PERLIO_F_CRLF, PERLIO_F_UTF8,
4803 PERLIO_F_UNBUF, PERLIO_F_WRBUF, PERLIO_F_RDBUF, PERLIO_F_LINEBUF,
4804 PERLIO_F_TEMP, PERLIO_F_OPEN, PERLIO_F_FASTGETS
4806 =item Methods in Detail
4808 name, size, kind, PERLIO_K_BUFFERED, PERLIO_K_CANCRLF, PERLIO_K_FASTGETS,
4809 PERLIO_K_MULTIARG, PERLIO_K_RAW, Pushed, Popped, Open, Getarg, Fileno, Dup,
4810 Read, Write, Seek, Tell, Close, Flush, Fill, Eof, Error, Clearerr,
4811 Setlinebuf, Get_base, Get_bufsiz, Get_ptr, Get_cnt, Set_ptrcnt
4815 "unix", "perlio", "stdio", "crlf", "mmap", "pending", "raw", "utf8"
4817 =item Extension Layers
4819 ":encoding", ":Scalar", ":Object" or ":Perl"
4827 =head2 perlapio - perl's IO abstraction interface.
4835 1. USE_STDIO, 2. USE_SFIO, 3. USE_PERLIO, B<PerlIO_stdin()>,
4836 B<PerlIO_stdout()>, B<PerlIO_stderr()>, B<PerlIO_open(path, mode)>,
4837 B<PerlIO_fdopen(fd,mode)>, B<PerlIO_reopen(path,mode,f)>,
4838 B<PerlIO_printf(f,fmt,...)>, B<PerlIO_vprintf(f,fmt,a)>,
4839 B<PerlIO_stdoutf(fmt,...)>, B<PerlIO_read(f,buf,count)>,
4840 B<PerlIO_write(f,buf,count)>, B<PerlIO_close(f)>, B<PerlIO_puts(f,s)>,
4841 B<PerlIO_putc(f,c)>, B<PerlIO_ungetc(f,c)>, B<PerlIO_getc(f)>,
4842 B<PerlIO_eof(f)>, B<PerlIO_error(f)>, B<PerlIO_fileno(f)>,
4843 B<PerlIO_clearerr(f)>, B<PerlIO_flush(f)>, B<PerlIO_seek(f,offset,whence)>,
4844 B<PerlIO_tell(f)>, B<PerlIO_getpos(f,p)>, B<PerlIO_setpos(f,p)>,
4845 B<PerlIO_rewind(f)>, B<PerlIO_tmpfile()>, B<PerlIO_setlinebuf(f)>
4849 =item Co-existence with stdio
4851 B<PerlIO_importFILE(f,flags)>, B<PerlIO_exportFILE(f,flags)>,
4852 B<PerlIO_findFILE(f)>, B<PerlIO_releaseFILE(p,f)>
4854 =item "Fast gets" Functions
4856 B<PerlIO_fast_gets(f)>, B<PerlIO_has_cntptr(f)>, B<PerlIO_get_cnt(f)>,
4857 B<PerlIO_get_ptr(f)>, B<PerlIO_set_ptrcnt(f,p,c)>, B<PerlIO_canset_cnt(f)>,
4858 B<PerlIO_set_cnt(f,c)>, B<PerlIO_has_base(f)>, B<PerlIO_get_base(f)>,
4859 B<PerlIO_get_bufsiz(f)>
4861 =item Other Functions
4863 PerlIO_apply_layers(f,mode,layers), PerlIO_binmode(f,ptype,imode,layers),
4864 'E<lt>' read, 'E<gt>' write, '+' read/write, PerlIO_debug(fmt,...)
4870 =head2 perltodo - Perl TO-DO List
4876 =item To do during 5.6.x
4880 =item Support for I/O disciplines
4882 =item Autoload bytes.pm
4884 =item Make "\u{XXXX}" et al work
4886 =item Create a char *sv_pvprintify(sv, STRLEN *lenp, UV flags)
4888 =item Overloadable regex assertions
4892 =item use Thread for iThreads
4894 =item make perl_clone optionally clone ops
4896 =item Work out exit/die semantics for threads
4898 =item Typed lexicals for compiler
4900 =item Compiler workarounds for Win32
4902 =item AUTOLOADing in the compiler
4904 =item Fixing comppadlist when compiling
4906 =item Cleaning up exported namespace
4908 =item Complete signal handling
4910 =item Out-of-source builds
4912 =item POSIX realtime support
4914 =item UNIX98 support
4918 =item Long double conversion
4922 =item Thread-safe regexes
4924 =item Arithmetic on non-Arabic numerals
4926 =item POSIX Unicode character classes
4928 =item Factoring out common suffices/prefices in regexps (trie optimization)
4930 =item Security audit shipped utilities
4932 =item Sort out the uid-setting mess
4934 =item Custom opcodes
4936 =item DLL Versioning
4938 =item Introduce @( and @)
4940 =item Floating point handling
4942 =item IV/UV preservation
4944 =item Replace pod2html with something using Pod::Parser
4946 =item Automate module testing on CPAN
4948 =item sendmsg and recvmsg
4950 =item Rewrite perlre documentation
4952 =item Convert example code to IO::Handle filehandles
4954 =item Document Win32 choices
4956 =item Check new modules
4958 =item Make roffitall find pods and libs itself
4962 =item To do at some point
4966 =item Remove regular expression recursion
4968 =item Memory leaks after failed eval
4970 =item bitfields in pack
4972 =item Cross compilation
4974 =item Perl preprocessor / macros
4976 =item Perl lexer in Perl
4978 =item Using POSIX calls internally
4980 =item -i rename file when changed
4982 =item All ARGV input should act like E<lt>E<gt>
4984 =item Support for rerunning debugger
4986 =item Test Suite for the Debugger
4988 =item my sub foo { }
4990 =item One-pass global destruction
4992 =item Rewrite regexp parser
4994 =item Cache recently used regexps
4996 =item Re-entrant functions
4998 =item Cross-compilation support
5000 =item Bit-shifting bitvectors
5002 =item debugger pragma
5004 =item use less pragma
5006 =item switch structures
5008 =item Cache eval tree
5012 =item Shrink opcode tables
5014 =item Optimize away @_
5016 =item Prototypes versus indirect objects
5020 =item Prototype method calls
5022 =item Return context prototype declarations
5026 =item Garbage collection
5030 =item Rewrite perldoc
5032 =item Install .3p manpages
5034 =item Unicode tutorial
5036 =item Update POSIX.pm for 1003.1-2
5038 =item Retargetable installation
5040 =item POSIX emulation on non-POSIX systems
5042 =item Rename Win32 headers
5044 =item Finish off lvalue functions
5046 =item Update sprintf documentation
5048 =item Use fchown/fchmod internally
5050 =item Make v-strings overloaded objects
5052 =item Allow restricted hash assignment
5060 =item ref() in list context
5062 =item Make tr/// return histogram of characters in list context
5064 =item Compile to real threaded code
5066 =item Structured types
5068 =item Modifiable $1 et al.
5070 =item Procedural interfaces for IO::*, etc.
5074 =item Attach/detach debugger from running program
5078 =item foreach(reverse ...)
5080 =item Constant function cache
5082 =item Approximate regular expression matching
5090 =item Update guts documentation
5092 =item Add more tests
5094 =item Update auxiliary tools
5098 =item Recently done things
5102 =item Alternative RE syntax module
5104 =item Safe signal handling
5110 =item setitimer and getimiter
5112 =item Testing __DIE__ hook
5114 =item CPP equivalent in Perl
5116 =item Explicit switch statements
5124 =item perlcc to produce executable
5126 =item END blocks saved in compiled output
5128 =item Secure temporary file module
5130 =item Integrate Time::HiRes
5132 =item Turn Cwd into XS
5134 =item Mmap for input
5136 =item Byte to/from UTF8 and UTF8 to/from local conversion
5138 =item Add sockatmark support
5140 =item Mailing list archives
5144 =item Integrate MacPerl
5146 =item Web "nerve center" for Perl
5148 =item Regular expression tutorial
5150 =item Debugging Tutorial
5152 =item Integrate new modules
5154 =item Integrate profiler
5156 =item Y2K error detection
5158 =item Regular expression debugger
5162 =item "Dynamic" lexicals
5164 =item Cache precompiled modules
5168 =item Deprecated Wishes
5172 =item Loop control on do{}
5174 =item Lexically scoped typeglobs
5180 =item Generalised want()/caller())
5182 =item Named prototypes
5184 =item Built-in globbing
5186 =item Regression tests for suidperl
5188 =item Cached hash values
5190 =item Add compression modules
5192 =item Reorganise documentation into tutorials/references
5194 =item Remove distinction between functions and operators
5196 =item Make XS easier to use
5198 =item Make embedding easier to use
5202 =item my $Package::variable
5204 =item "or" tests defined, not truth
5206 =item "class"-based lexicals
5210 =item Lazy evaluation / tail recursion removal
5212 =item Make "use utf8" the default
5214 =item Unicode collation and normalization
5216 =item Create debugging macros
5218 =item truncate to the people
5220 =item pack/unpack tutorial
5226 =head2 perlhack - How to hack at the Perl internals
5232 Does concept match the general goals of Perl?, Where is the
5233 implementation?, Backwards compatibility, Could it be a module instead?, Is
5234 the feature generic enough?, Does it potentially introduce new bugs?, Does
5235 it preclude other desirable features?, Is the implementation robust?, Is
5236 the implementation generic enough to be portable?, Is the implementation
5237 tested?, Is there enough documentation?, Is there another way to do it?,
5238 Does it create too much work?, Patches speak louder than words
5242 =item Keeping in sync
5244 rsync'ing the source tree, Using rsync over the LAN, Using pushing over the
5245 NFS, rsync'ing the patches
5247 =item Why rsync the source tree
5249 It's easier to rsync the source tree, It's more recent, It's more reliable
5251 =item Why rsync the patches
5253 It's easier to rsync the patches, It's a good reference, Finding a start
5254 point, Finding how to fix a bug, Finding the source of misbehaviour
5256 =item Perlbug remote interface
5258 1 http://bugs.perl.org, 2 bugdb@perl.org, 3
5259 commands_and_bugdids@bugs.perl.org, notes, patches, tests
5261 =item Submitting patches
5263 L<perlguts>, L<perlxstut> and L<perlxs>, L<perlapi>,
5264 F<Porting/pumpkin.pod>, The perl5-porters FAQ
5266 =item Finding Your Way Around
5268 Core modules, Tests, Documentation, Configure, Interpreter
5270 =item Elements of the interpreter
5272 Startup, Parsing, Optimization, Running
5274 =item Internal Variable Types
5280 Argument stack, Mark stack, Save stack
5282 =item Millions of Macros
5284 =item Poking at Perl
5286 =item Using a source-level debugger
5288 run [args], break function_name, break source.c:xxx, step, next, continue,
5289 finish, 'enter', print
5291 =item Dumping Perl Data Structures
5295 =item Patching a core module
5297 =item Adding a new function to the core
5299 =item Writing a test
5301 F<t/base/>, F<t/cmd/>, F<t/comp/>, F<t/io/>, F<t/lib/>, F<t/op/>,
5302 F<t/pod/>, F<t/run/>, t/base t/comp, t/cmd t/run t/io t/op, t/lib ext lib
5306 =item EXTERNAL TOOLS FOR DEBUGGING PERL
5310 =item Rational Software's Purify
5312 =item Purify on Unix
5314 -Accflags=-DPURIFY, -Doptimize='-g', -Uusemymalloc, -Dusemultiplicity
5318 DEFINES, USE_MULTI = define, #PERL_MALLOC = define, CFG = Debug
5320 =item Compaq's/Digital's Third Degree
5322 =item PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL
5326 =item Gprof Profiling
5328 -a, -b, -e routine, -f routine, -s, -z
5330 =item GCC gcov Profiling
5332 =item Pixie Profiling
5334 -h, -l, -p[rocedures], -h[eavy], -i[nvocations], -l[ines], -testcoverage,
5337 =item Miscellaneous tricks
5341 I<The Road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began.>
5349 =head2 perlhist - the Perl history records
5357 =item THE KEEPERS OF THE PUMPKIN
5369 =item SELECTED RELEASE SIZES
5371 =item SELECTED PATCH SIZES
5375 =item THE KEEPERS OF THE RECORDS
5379 =head2 perldelta - what is new for perl v5.8.0
5385 =item Highlights In 5.8.0
5387 =item Incompatible Changes
5391 =item 64-bit platforms and malloc
5393 =item AIX Dynaloading
5395 =item Attributes for C<my> variables now handled at run-time.
5397 =item Socket Extension Dynamic in VMS
5399 =item IEEE-format Floating Point Default on OpenVMS Alpha
5401 =item New Unicode Properties
5403 =item REF(...) Instead Of SCALAR(...)
5405 =item pack/unpack D/F recycled
5411 =item Core Enhancements
5415 =item PerlIO is Now The Default
5419 =item Unicode Overhaul
5421 =item Understanding of Numbers
5423 =item Miscellaneous Changes
5427 =item Modules and Pragmata
5431 =item New Modules and Pragmata
5433 =item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
5437 =item Utility Changes
5439 =item New Documentation
5441 =item Performance Enhancements
5443 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
5447 =item Generic Improvements
5449 =item New Or Improved Platforms
5453 =item Selected Bug Fixes
5457 =item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
5461 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
5463 =item Changed Internals
5465 =item Security Vulnerability Closed
5469 =item Known Problems
5475 =item Amiga Perl Invoking Mystery
5477 =item mod_perl 1.26 Doesn't Build With Threaded Perl
5479 =item lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
5481 =item HP-UX lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails When LP64-Configured
5483 =item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
5487 =item op/sprintf tests 91, 129, and 130
5489 =item Failure of Thread (5.005-style) tests
5493 =item UNICOS and UNICOS/mk
5503 =item Localising a Tied Variable Leaks Memory
5507 =item Localising Tied Arrays and Hashes Is Broken
5509 =item Self-tying of Arrays and Hashes Is Forbidden
5511 =item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
5513 =item Unicode Support on EBCDIC Still Spotty
5515 =item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
5517 =item The Long Double Support Is Still Experimental
5519 =item Seen In Perl 5.7 But Gone Now
5523 =item Reporting Bugs
5531 =head2 perl572delta - what's new for perl v5.7.2
5537 =item Security Vulnerability Closed
5539 =item Incompatible Changes
5543 =item 64-bit platforms and malloc
5545 =item AIX Dynaloading
5547 =item Socket Extension Dynamic in VMS
5549 =item Different Definition of the Unicode Character Classes \p{In...}
5555 =item Core Enhancements
5557 =item Modules and Pragmata
5561 =item New Modules and Distributions
5563 =item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
5567 =item Utility Changes
5569 =item New Documentation
5571 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
5575 =item New Or Improved Platforms
5577 =item Generic Improvements
5581 =item Selected Bug Fixes
5585 =item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
5589 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
5591 =item Source Code Enhancements
5595 =item MAGIC constants
5597 =item Better commented code
5599 =item Regex pre-/post-compilation items matched up
5607 =item Known Problems
5613 =item Amiga Perl Invoking Mystery
5615 =item lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
5617 =item Cygwin intermittent failures of lib/Memoize/t/expire_file 11 and 12
5619 =item HP-UX lib/io_multihomed Fails When LP64-Configured
5621 =item HP-UX lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails When LP64-Configured
5623 =item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
5627 =item op/sprintf tests 129 and 130
5629 =item Failure of Thread tests
5639 =item Localising a Tied Variable Leaks Memory
5641 =item Self-tying of Arrays and Hashes Is Forbidden
5643 =item Variable Attributes are not Currently Usable for Tieing
5645 =item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
5647 =item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
5649 =item The Long Double Support is Still Experimental
5653 =item Reporting Bugs
5661 =head2 perl571delta - what's new for perl v5.7.1
5667 =item Security Vulnerability Closed
5669 =item Incompatible Changes
5671 =item Core Enhancements
5675 =item AUTOLOAD Is Now Lvaluable
5677 =item PerlIO is Now The Default
5679 =item Signals Are Now Safe
5683 =item Modules and Pragmata
5689 =item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
5693 =item Performance Enhancements
5695 =item Utility Changes
5697 =item New Documentation
5713 =item README.solaris
5717 =item Porting/repository.pod
5721 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
5725 =item New Or Improved Platforms
5727 =item Generic Improvements
5729 d_cmsghdr, d_fcntl_can_lock, d_fsync, d_getitimer, d_getpagsz, d_msghdr_s,
5730 need_va_copy, d_readv, d_recvmsg, d_sendmsg, sig_size, d_sockatmark,
5731 d_strtoq, d_u32align, d_ualarm, d_usleep
5735 =item Selected Bug Fixes
5739 =item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
5743 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
5745 =item Changed Internals
5749 =item Known Problems
5753 =item AIX vac 5.0.0.0 May Produce Buggy Code For Perl
5755 =item lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
5757 =item lib/io_multihomed Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX
5759 =item Test lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX
5763 =item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
5765 =item sigaction test 13 in VMS
5767 =item sprintf tests 129 and 130
5769 =item Failure of Thread tests
5771 =item Localising a Tied Variable Leaks Memory
5773 =item Self-tying of Arrays and Hashes Is Forbidden
5775 =item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
5777 =item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
5781 =item Reporting Bugs
5789 =head2 perl570delta - what's new for perl v5.7.0
5795 =item Security Vulnerability Closed
5797 =item Incompatible Changes
5799 =item Core Enhancements
5801 =item Modules and Pragmata
5807 =item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
5811 =item Utility Changes
5813 =item New Documentation
5815 =item Performance Enhancements
5817 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
5821 =item Generic Improvements
5825 =item Selected Bug Fixes
5829 =item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
5833 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
5835 =item Changed Internals
5837 =item Known Problems
5841 =item Unicode Support Still Far From Perfect
5843 =item EBCDIC Still A Lost Platform
5845 =item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
5847 =item ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
5849 =item Test lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX
5851 =item Long Doubles Still Don't Work In Solaris
5853 =item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
5855 =item Storable tests fail in some platforms
5857 =item Threads Are Still Experimental
5859 =item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
5863 =item Reporting Bugs
5871 =head2 perl561delta - what's new for perl v5.6.x
5877 =item Summary of changes between 5.6.0 and 5.6.1
5881 =item Security Issues
5883 =item Core bug fixes
5885 C<UNIVERSAL::isa()>, Memory leaks, Numeric conversions, qw(a\\b), caller(),
5886 Bugs in regular expressions, "slurp" mode, Autovivification of symbolic
5887 references to special variables, Lexical warnings, Spurious warnings and
5888 errors, glob(), Tainting, sort(), #line directives, Subroutine prototypes,
5889 map(), Debugger, PERL5OPT, chop(), Unicode support, 64-bit support,
5890 Compiler, Lvalue subroutines, IO::Socket, File::Find, xsubpp, C<no
5895 =item Configuration issues
5899 =item Bundled modules
5901 B::Concise, File::Temp, Pod::LaTeX, Pod::Text::Overstrike, CGI, CPAN,
5902 Class::Struct, DB_File, Devel::Peek, File::Find, Getopt::Long, IO::Poll,
5903 IPC::Open3, Math::BigFloat, Math::Complex, Net::Ping, Opcode, Pod::Parser,
5904 Pod::Text, SDBM_File, Sys::Syslog, Tie::RefHash, Tie::SubstrHash
5906 =item Platform-specific improvements
5908 NCR MP-RAS, NonStop-UX
5912 =item Core Enhancements
5916 =item Interpreter cloning, threads, and concurrency
5918 =item Lexically scoped warning categories
5920 =item Unicode and UTF-8 support
5922 =item Support for interpolating named characters
5924 =item "our" declarations
5926 =item Support for strings represented as a vector of ordinals
5928 =item Improved Perl version numbering system
5930 =item New syntax for declaring subroutine attributes
5932 =item File and directory handles can be autovivified
5934 =item open() with more than two arguments
5936 =item 64-bit support
5938 =item Large file support
5944 =item Enhanced support for sort() subroutines
5946 =item C<sort $coderef @foo> allowed
5948 =item File globbing implemented internally
5950 =item Support for CHECK blocks
5952 =item POSIX character class syntax [: :] supported
5954 =item Better pseudo-random number generator
5956 =item Improved C<qw//> operator
5958 =item Better worst-case behavior of hashes
5960 =item pack() format 'Z' supported
5962 =item pack() format modifier '!' supported
5964 =item pack() and unpack() support counted strings
5966 =item Comments in pack() templates
5968 =item Weak references
5970 =item Binary numbers supported
5972 =item Lvalue subroutines
5974 =item Some arrows may be omitted in calls through references
5976 =item Boolean assignment operators are legal lvalues
5978 =item exists() is supported on subroutine names
5980 =item exists() and delete() are supported on array elements
5982 =item Pseudo-hashes work better
5984 =item Automatic flushing of output buffers
5986 =item Better diagnostics on meaningless filehandle operations
5988 =item Where possible, buffered data discarded from duped input filehandle
5990 =item eof() has the same old magic as <>
5992 =item binmode() can be used to set :crlf and :raw modes
5994 =item C<-T> filetest recognizes UTF-8 encoded files as "text"
5996 =item system(), backticks and pipe open now reflect exec() failure
5998 =item Improved diagnostics
6000 =item Diagnostics follow STDERR
6002 =item More consistent close-on-exec behavior
6004 =item syswrite() ease-of-use
6006 =item Better syntax checks on parenthesized unary operators
6008 =item Bit operators support full native integer width
6010 =item Improved security features
6012 =item More functional bareword prototype (*)
6014 =item C<require> and C<do> may be overridden
6016 =item $^X variables may now have names longer than one character
6018 =item New variable $^C reflects C<-c> switch
6020 =item New variable $^V contains Perl version as a string
6022 =item Optional Y2K warnings
6024 =item Arrays now always interpolate into double-quoted strings
6028 =item Modules and Pragmata
6034 attributes, B, Benchmark, ByteLoader, constant, charnames, Data::Dumper,
6035 DB, DB_File, Devel::DProf, Devel::Peek, Dumpvalue, DynaLoader, English,
6036 Env, Fcntl, File::Compare, File::Find, File::Glob, File::Spec,
6037 File::Spec::Functions, Getopt::Long, IO, JPL, lib, Math::BigInt,
6038 Math::Complex, Math::Trig, Pod::Parser, Pod::InputObjects, Pod::Checker,
6039 podchecker, Pod::ParseUtils, Pod::Find, Pod::Select, podselect, Pod::Usage,
6040 pod2usage, Pod::Text and Pod::Man, SDBM_File, Sys::Syslog, Sys::Hostname,
6041 Term::ANSIColor, Time::Local, Win32, XSLoader, DBM Filters
6047 =item Utility Changes
6061 =item The Perl Debugger
6065 =item Improved Documentation
6067 perlapi.pod, perlboot.pod, perlcompile.pod, perldbmfilter.pod,
6068 perldebug.pod, perldebguts.pod, perlfork.pod, perlfilter.pod, perlhack.pod,
6069 perlintern.pod, perllexwarn.pod, perlnumber.pod, perlopentut.pod,
6070 perlreftut.pod, perltootc.pod, perltodo.pod, perlunicode.pod
6072 =item Performance enhancements
6076 =item Simple sort() using { $a <=> $b } and the like are optimized
6078 =item Optimized assignments to lexical variables
6080 =item Faster subroutine calls
6082 =item delete(), each(), values() and hash iteration are faster
6086 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
6090 =item -Dusethreads means something different
6092 =item New Configure flags
6094 =item Threadedness and 64-bitness now more daring
6100 =item -Duselargefiles
6102 =item installusrbinperl
6108 =item Enhanced Installation Directories
6110 =item gcc automatically tried if 'cc' does not seem to be working
6114 =item Platform specific changes
6118 =item Supported platforms
6122 =item OS390 (OpenEdition MVS)
6130 =item Significant bug fixes
6134 =item <HANDLE> on empty files
6136 =item C<eval '...'> improvements
6138 =item All compilation errors are true errors
6140 =item Implicitly closed filehandles are safer
6142 =item Behavior of list slices is more consistent
6144 =item C<(\$)> prototype and C<$foo{a}>
6146 =item C<goto &sub> and AUTOLOAD
6148 =item C<-bareword> allowed under C<use integer>
6150 =item Failures in DESTROY()
6152 =item Locale bugs fixed
6156 =item Spurious subroutine stubs after failed subroutine calls
6158 =item Taint failures under C<-U>
6160 =item END blocks and the C<-c> switch
6162 =item Potential to leak DATA filehandles
6166 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
6168 "%s" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same %s, "my sub" not yet
6169 implemented, "our" variable %s redeclared, '!' allowed only after types %s,
6170 / cannot take a count, / must be followed by a, A or Z, / must be followed
6171 by a*, A* or Z*, / must follow a numeric type, /%s/: Unrecognized escape
6172 \\%c passed through, /%s/: Unrecognized escape \\%c in character class
6173 passed through, /%s/ should probably be written as "%s", %s() called too
6174 early to check prototype, %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element, %s
6175 argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element or slice, %s argument is not a
6176 subroutine name, %s package attribute may clash with future reserved word:
6177 %s, (in cleanup) %s, <> should be quotes, Attempt to join self, Bad evalled
6178 substitution pattern, Bad realloc() ignored, Bareword found in conditional,
6179 Binary number > 0b11111111111111111111111111111111 non-portable, Bit vector
6180 size > 32 non-portable, Buffer overflow in prime_env_iter: %s, Can't check
6181 filesystem of script "%s", Can't declare class for non-scalar %s in "%s",
6182 Can't declare %s in "%s", Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default,
6183 Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine call, Can't read CRTL environ, Can't
6184 remove %s: %s, skipping file, Can't return %s from lvalue subroutine, Can't
6185 weaken a nonreference, Character class [:%s:] unknown, Character class
6186 syntax [%s] belongs inside character classes, Constant is not %s reference,
6187 constant(%s): %s, CORE::%s is not a keyword, defined(@array) is deprecated,
6188 defined(%hash) is deprecated, Did not produce a valid header, (Did you mean
6189 "local" instead of "our"?), Document contains no data, entering effective
6190 %s failed, false [] range "%s" in regexp, Filehandle %s opened only for
6191 output, flock() on closed filehandle %s, Global symbol "%s" requires
6192 explicit package name, Hexadecimal number > 0xffffffff non-portable,
6193 Ill-formed CRTL environ value "%s", Ill-formed message in prime_env_iter:
6194 |%s|, Illegal binary digit %s, Illegal binary digit %s ignored, Illegal
6195 number of bits in vec, Integer overflow in %s number, Invalid %s attribute:
6196 %s, Invalid %s attributes: %s, invalid [] range "%s" in regexp, Invalid
6197 separator character %s in attribute list, Invalid separator character %s in
6198 subroutine attribute list, leaving effective %s failed, Lvalue subs
6199 returning %s not implemented yet, Method %s not permitted, Missing
6200 %sbrace%s on \N{}, Missing command in piped open, Missing name in "my sub",
6201 No %s specified for -%c, No package name allowed for variable %s in "our",
6202 No space allowed after -%c, no UTC offset information; assuming local time
6203 is UTC, Octal number > 037777777777 non-portable, panic: del_backref,
6204 panic: kid popen errno read, panic: magic_killbackrefs, Parentheses missing
6205 around "%s" list, Possible unintended interpolation of %s in string,
6206 Possible Y2K bug: %s, pragma "attrs" is deprecated, use "sub NAME : ATTRS"
6207 instead, Premature end of script headers, Repeat count in pack overflows,
6208 Repeat count in unpack overflows, realloc() of freed memory ignored,
6209 Reference is already weak, setpgrp can't take arguments, Strange *+?{} on
6210 zero-length expression, switching effective %s is not implemented, This
6211 Perl can't reset CRTL environ elements (%s), This Perl can't set CRTL
6212 environ elements (%s=%s), Too late to run %s block, Unknown open() mode
6213 '%s', Unknown process %x sent message to prime_env_iter: %s, Unrecognized
6214 escape \\%c passed through, Unterminated attribute parameter in attribute
6215 list, Unterminated attribute list, Unterminated attribute parameter in
6216 subroutine attribute list, Unterminated subroutine attribute list, Value of
6217 CLI symbol "%s" too long, Version number must be a constant number
6221 =item Incompatible Changes
6225 =item Perl Source Incompatibilities
6227 CHECK is a new keyword, Treatment of list slices of undef has changed,
6228 Format of $English::PERL_VERSION is different, Literals of the form
6229 C<1.2.3> parse differently, Possibly changed pseudo-random number
6230 generator, Hashing function for hash keys has changed, C<undef> fails on
6231 read only values, Close-on-exec bit may be set on pipe and socket handles,
6232 Writing C<"$$1"> to mean C<"${$}1"> is unsupported, delete(), each(),
6233 values() and C<\(%h)>, vec(EXPR,OFFSET,BITS) enforces powers-of-two BITS,
6234 Text of some diagnostic output has changed, C<%@> has been removed,
6235 Parenthesized not() behaves like a list operator, Semantics of bareword
6236 prototype C<(*)> have changed, Semantics of bit operators may have changed
6237 on 64-bit platforms, More builtins taint their results
6239 =item C Source Incompatibilities
6241 C<PERL_POLLUTE>, C<PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT>, C<PERL_POLLUTE_MALLOC>
6243 =item Compatible C Source API Changes
6245 C<PATCHLEVEL> is now C<PERL_VERSION>
6247 =item Binary Incompatibilities
6251 =item Known Problems
6255 =item Localizing a tied hash element may leak memory
6257 =item Known test failures
6261 =item EBCDIC platforms not fully supported
6263 =item UNICOS/mk CC failures during Configure run
6265 =item Arrow operator and arrays
6267 =item Experimental features
6269 Threads, Unicode, 64-bit support, Lvalue subroutines, Weak references, The
6270 pseudo-hash data type, The Compiler suite, Internal implementation of file
6271 globbing, The DB module, The regular expression code constructs:
6275 =item Obsolete Diagnostics
6277 Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions, Ill-formed
6278 logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter, In string, @%s now must be written as
6279 \@%s, Probable precedence problem on %s, regexp too big, Use of "$$<digit>"
6280 to mean "${$}<digit>" is deprecated
6282 =item Reporting Bugs
6290 =head2 perl56delta - what's new for perl v5.6.0
6296 =item Core Enhancements
6300 =item Interpreter cloning, threads, and concurrency
6302 =item Lexically scoped warning categories
6304 =item Unicode and UTF-8 support
6306 =item Support for interpolating named characters
6308 =item "our" declarations
6310 =item Support for strings represented as a vector of ordinals
6312 =item Improved Perl version numbering system
6314 =item New syntax for declaring subroutine attributes
6316 =item File and directory handles can be autovivified
6318 =item open() with more than two arguments
6320 =item 64-bit support
6322 =item Large file support
6328 =item Enhanced support for sort() subroutines
6330 =item C<sort $coderef @foo> allowed
6332 =item File globbing implemented internally
6334 =item Support for CHECK blocks
6336 =item POSIX character class syntax [: :] supported
6338 =item Better pseudo-random number generator
6340 =item Improved C<qw//> operator
6342 =item Better worst-case behavior of hashes
6344 =item pack() format 'Z' supported
6346 =item pack() format modifier '!' supported
6348 =item pack() and unpack() support counted strings
6350 =item Comments in pack() templates
6352 =item Weak references
6354 =item Binary numbers supported
6356 =item Lvalue subroutines
6358 =item Some arrows may be omitted in calls through references
6360 =item Boolean assignment operators are legal lvalues
6362 =item exists() is supported on subroutine names
6364 =item exists() and delete() are supported on array elements
6366 =item Pseudo-hashes work better
6368 =item Automatic flushing of output buffers
6370 =item Better diagnostics on meaningless filehandle operations
6372 =item Where possible, buffered data discarded from duped input filehandle
6374 =item eof() has the same old magic as <>
6376 =item binmode() can be used to set :crlf and :raw modes
6378 =item C<-T> filetest recognizes UTF-8 encoded files as "text"
6380 =item system(), backticks and pipe open now reflect exec() failure
6382 =item Improved diagnostics
6384 =item Diagnostics follow STDERR
6386 =item More consistent close-on-exec behavior
6388 =item syswrite() ease-of-use
6390 =item Better syntax checks on parenthesized unary operators
6392 =item Bit operators support full native integer width
6394 =item Improved security features
6396 =item More functional bareword prototype (*)
6398 =item C<require> and C<do> may be overridden
6400 =item $^X variables may now have names longer than one character
6402 =item New variable $^C reflects C<-c> switch
6404 =item New variable $^V contains Perl version as a string
6406 =item Optional Y2K warnings
6408 =item Arrays now always interpolate into double-quoted strings
6412 =item Modules and Pragmata
6418 attributes, B, Benchmark, ByteLoader, constant, charnames, Data::Dumper,
6419 DB, DB_File, Devel::DProf, Devel::Peek, Dumpvalue, DynaLoader, English,
6420 Env, Fcntl, File::Compare, File::Find, File::Glob, File::Spec,
6421 File::Spec::Functions, Getopt::Long, IO, JPL, lib, Math::BigInt,
6422 Math::Complex, Math::Trig, Pod::Parser, Pod::InputObjects, Pod::Checker,
6423 podchecker, Pod::ParseUtils, Pod::Find, Pod::Select, podselect, Pod::Usage,
6424 pod2usage, Pod::Text and Pod::Man, SDBM_File, Sys::Syslog, Sys::Hostname,
6425 Term::ANSIColor, Time::Local, Win32, XSLoader, DBM Filters
6431 =item Utility Changes
6445 =item The Perl Debugger
6449 =item Improved Documentation
6451 perlapi.pod, perlboot.pod, perlcompile.pod, perldbmfilter.pod,
6452 perldebug.pod, perldebguts.pod, perlfork.pod, perlfilter.pod, perlhack.pod,
6453 perlintern.pod, perllexwarn.pod, perlnumber.pod, perlopentut.pod,
6454 perlreftut.pod, perltootc.pod, perltodo.pod, perlunicode.pod
6456 =item Performance enhancements
6460 =item Simple sort() using { $a <=> $b } and the like are optimized
6462 =item Optimized assignments to lexical variables
6464 =item Faster subroutine calls
6466 =item delete(), each(), values() and hash iteration are faster
6470 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
6474 =item -Dusethreads means something different
6476 =item New Configure flags
6478 =item Threadedness and 64-bitness now more daring
6484 =item -Duselargefiles
6486 =item installusrbinperl
6492 =item Enhanced Installation Directories
6496 =item Platform specific changes
6500 =item Supported platforms
6504 =item OS390 (OpenEdition MVS)
6512 =item Significant bug fixes
6516 =item <HANDLE> on empty files
6518 =item C<eval '...'> improvements
6520 =item All compilation errors are true errors
6522 =item Implicitly closed filehandles are safer
6524 =item Behavior of list slices is more consistent
6526 =item C<(\$)> prototype and C<$foo{a}>
6528 =item C<goto &sub> and AUTOLOAD
6530 =item C<-bareword> allowed under C<use integer>
6532 =item Failures in DESTROY()
6534 =item Locale bugs fixed
6538 =item Spurious subroutine stubs after failed subroutine calls
6540 =item Taint failures under C<-U>
6542 =item END blocks and the C<-c> switch
6544 =item Potential to leak DATA filehandles
6548 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
6550 "%s" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same %s, "my sub" not yet
6551 implemented, "our" variable %s redeclared, '!' allowed only after types %s,
6552 / cannot take a count, / must be followed by a, A or Z, / must be followed
6553 by a*, A* or Z*, / must follow a numeric type, /%s/: Unrecognized escape
6554 \\%c passed through, /%s/: Unrecognized escape \\%c in character class
6555 passed through, /%s/ should probably be written as "%s", %s() called too
6556 early to check prototype, %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element, %s
6557 argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element or slice, %s argument is not a
6558 subroutine name, %s package attribute may clash with future reserved word:
6559 %s, (in cleanup) %s, <> should be quotes, Attempt to join self, Bad evalled
6560 substitution pattern, Bad realloc() ignored, Bareword found in conditional,
6561 Binary number > 0b11111111111111111111111111111111 non-portable, Bit vector
6562 size > 32 non-portable, Buffer overflow in prime_env_iter: %s, Can't check
6563 filesystem of script "%s", Can't declare class for non-scalar %s in "%s",
6564 Can't declare %s in "%s", Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default,
6565 Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine call, Can't read CRTL environ, Can't
6566 remove %s: %s, skipping file, Can't return %s from lvalue subroutine, Can't
6567 weaken a nonreference, Character class [:%s:] unknown, Character class
6568 syntax [%s] belongs inside character classes, Constant is not %s reference,
6569 constant(%s): %s, CORE::%s is not a keyword, defined(@array) is deprecated,
6570 defined(%hash) is deprecated, Did not produce a valid header, (Did you mean
6571 "local" instead of "our"?), Document contains no data, entering effective
6572 %s failed, false [] range "%s" in regexp, Filehandle %s opened only for
6573 output, flock() on closed filehandle %s, Global symbol "%s" requires
6574 explicit package name, Hexadecimal number > 0xffffffff non-portable,
6575 Ill-formed CRTL environ value "%s", Ill-formed message in prime_env_iter:
6576 |%s|, Illegal binary digit %s, Illegal binary digit %s ignored, Illegal
6577 number of bits in vec, Integer overflow in %s number, Invalid %s attribute:
6578 %s, Invalid %s attributes: %s, invalid [] range "%s" in regexp, Invalid
6579 separator character %s in attribute list, Invalid separator character %s in
6580 subroutine attribute list, leaving effective %s failed, Lvalue subs
6581 returning %s not implemented yet, Method %s not permitted, Missing
6582 %sbrace%s on \N{}, Missing command in piped open, Missing name in "my sub",
6583 No %s specified for -%c, No package name allowed for variable %s in "our",
6584 No space allowed after -%c, no UTC offset information; assuming local time
6585 is UTC, Octal number > 037777777777 non-portable, panic: del_backref,
6586 panic: kid popen errno read, panic: magic_killbackrefs, Parentheses missing
6587 around "%s" list, Possible unintended interpolation of %s in string,
6588 Possible Y2K bug: %s, pragma "attrs" is deprecated, use "sub NAME : ATTRS"
6589 instead, Premature end of script headers, Repeat count in pack overflows,
6590 Repeat count in unpack overflows, realloc() of freed memory ignored,
6591 Reference is already weak, setpgrp can't take arguments, Strange *+?{} on
6592 zero-length expression, switching effective %s is not implemented, This
6593 Perl can't reset CRTL environ elements (%s), This Perl can't set CRTL
6594 environ elements (%s=%s), Too late to run %s block, Unknown open() mode
6595 '%s', Unknown process %x sent message to prime_env_iter: %s, Unrecognized
6596 escape \\%c passed through, Unterminated attribute parameter in attribute
6597 list, Unterminated attribute list, Unterminated attribute parameter in
6598 subroutine attribute list, Unterminated subroutine attribute list, Value of
6599 CLI symbol "%s" too long, Version number must be a constant number
6603 =item Incompatible Changes
6607 =item Perl Source Incompatibilities
6609 CHECK is a new keyword, Treatment of list slices of undef has changed,
6610 Format of $English::PERL_VERSION is different, Literals of the form
6611 C<1.2.3> parse differently, Possibly changed pseudo-random number
6612 generator, Hashing function for hash keys has changed, C<undef> fails on
6613 read only values, Close-on-exec bit may be set on pipe and socket handles,
6614 Writing C<"$$1"> to mean C<"${$}1"> is unsupported, delete(), each(),
6615 values() and C<\(%h)>, vec(EXPR,OFFSET,BITS) enforces powers-of-two BITS,
6616 Text of some diagnostic output has changed, C<%@> has been removed,
6617 Parenthesized not() behaves like a list operator, Semantics of bareword
6618 prototype C<(*)> have changed, Semantics of bit operators may have changed
6619 on 64-bit platforms, More builtins taint their results
6621 =item C Source Incompatibilities
6623 C<PERL_POLLUTE>, C<PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT>, C<PERL_POLLUTE_MALLOC>
6625 =item Compatible C Source API Changes
6627 C<PATCHLEVEL> is now C<PERL_VERSION>
6629 =item Binary Incompatibilities
6633 =item Known Problems
6637 =item Thread test failures
6639 =item EBCDIC platforms not supported
6641 =item In 64-bit HP-UX the lib/io_multihomed test may hang
6643 =item NEXTSTEP 3.3 POSIX test failure
6645 =item Tru64 (aka Digital UNIX, aka DEC OSF/1) lib/sdbm test failure with
6648 =item UNICOS/mk CC failures during Configure run
6650 =item Arrow operator and arrays
6652 =item Experimental features
6654 Threads, Unicode, 64-bit support, Lvalue subroutines, Weak references, The
6655 pseudo-hash data type, The Compiler suite, Internal implementation of file
6656 globbing, The DB module, The regular expression code constructs:
6660 =item Obsolete Diagnostics
6662 Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions, Ill-formed
6663 logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter, In string, @%s now must be written as
6664 \@%s, Probable precedence problem on %s, regexp too big, Use of "$$<digit>"
6665 to mean "${$}<digit>" is deprecated
6667 =item Reporting Bugs
6675 =head2 perl5005delta - what's new for perl5.005
6681 =item About the new versioning system
6683 =item Incompatible Changes
6687 =item WARNING: This version is not binary compatible with Perl 5.004.
6689 =item Default installation structure has changed
6691 =item Perl Source Compatibility
6693 =item C Source Compatibility
6695 =item Binary Compatibility
6697 =item Security fixes may affect compatibility
6699 =item Relaxed new mandatory warnings introduced in 5.004
6713 =item Regular Expressions
6715 Many new and improved optimizations, Many bug fixes, New regular expression
6716 constructs, New operator for precompiled regular expressions, Other
6717 improvements, Incompatible changes
6719 =item Improved malloc()
6721 =item Quicksort is internally implemented
6723 =item Reliable signals
6725 =item Reliable stack pointers
6727 =item More generous treatment of carriage returns
6731 =item Better support for multiple interpreters
6733 =item Behavior of local() on array and hash elements is now well-defined
6735 =item C<%!> is transparently tied to the L<Errno> module
6737 =item Pseudo-hashes are supported
6739 =item C<EXPR foreach EXPR> is supported
6741 =item Keywords can be globally overridden
6743 =item C<$^E> is meaningful on Win32
6745 =item C<foreach (1..1000000)> optimized
6747 =item C<Foo::> can be used as implicitly quoted package name
6749 =item C<exists $Foo::{Bar::}> tests existence of a package
6751 =item Better locale support
6753 =item Experimental support for 64-bit platforms
6755 =item prototype() returns useful results on builtins
6757 =item Extended support for exception handling
6759 =item Re-blessing in DESTROY() supported for chaining DESTROY() methods
6761 =item All C<printf> format conversions are handled internally
6763 =item New C<INIT> keyword
6765 =item New C<lock> keyword
6767 =item New C<qr//> operator
6769 =item C<our> is now a reserved word
6771 =item Tied arrays are now fully supported
6773 =item Tied handles support is better
6775 =item 4th argument to substr
6777 =item Negative LENGTH argument to splice
6779 =item Magic lvalues are now more magical
6781 =item <> now reads in records
6785 =item Supported Platforms
6791 =item Changes in existing support
6795 =item Modules and Pragmata
6801 B, Data::Dumper, Dumpvalue, Errno, File::Spec, ExtUtils::Installed,
6802 ExtUtils::Packlist, Fatal, IPC::SysV, Test, Tie::Array, Tie::Handle,
6803 Thread, attrs, fields, re
6805 =item Changes in existing modules
6807 Benchmark, Carp, CGI, Fcntl, Math::Complex, Math::Trig, POSIX, DB_File,
6808 MakeMaker, CPAN, Cwd
6812 =item Utility Changes
6814 =item Documentation Changes
6816 =item New Diagnostics
6818 Ambiguous call resolved as CORE::%s(), qualify as such or use &, Bad index
6819 while coercing array into hash, Bareword "%s" refers to nonexistent
6820 package, Can't call method "%s" on an undefined value, Can't check
6821 filesystem of script "%s" for nosuid, Can't coerce array into hash, Can't
6822 goto subroutine from an eval-string, Can't localize pseudo-hash element,
6823 Can't use %%! because Errno.pm is not available, Cannot find an opnumber
6824 for "%s", Character class syntax [. .] is reserved for future extensions,
6825 Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions, Character
6826 class syntax [= =] is reserved for future extensions, %s: Eval-group in
6827 insecure regular expression, %s: Eval-group not allowed, use re 'eval', %s:
6828 Eval-group not allowed at run time, Explicit blessing to '' (assuming
6829 package main), Illegal hex digit ignored, No such array field, No such
6830 field "%s" in variable %s of type %s, Out of memory during ridiculously
6831 large request, Range iterator outside integer range, Recursive inheritance
6832 detected while looking for method '%s' %s, Reference found where even-sized
6833 list expected, Undefined value assigned to typeglob, Use of reserved word
6834 "%s" is deprecated, perl: warning: Setting locale failed
6836 =item Obsolete Diagnostics
6838 Can't mktemp(), Can't write to temp file for B<-e>: %s, Cannot open
6839 temporary file, regexp too big
6841 =item Configuration Changes
6851 =head2 perl5004delta - what's new for perl5.004
6857 =item Supported Environments
6863 =item List assignment to %ENV works
6865 =item Change to "Can't locate Foo.pm in @INC" error
6867 =item Compilation option: Binary compatibility with 5.003
6869 =item $PERL5OPT environment variable
6871 =item Limitations on B<-M>, B<-m>, and B<-T> options
6873 =item More precise warnings
6875 =item Deprecated: Inherited C<AUTOLOAD> for non-methods
6877 =item Previously deprecated %OVERLOAD is no longer usable
6879 =item Subroutine arguments created only when they're modified
6881 =item Group vector changeable with C<$)>
6883 =item Fixed parsing of $$<digit>, &$<digit>, etc.
6885 =item Fixed localization of $<digit>, $&, etc.
6887 =item No resetting of $. on implicit close
6889 =item C<wantarray> may return undef
6891 =item C<eval EXPR> determines value of EXPR in scalar context
6893 =item Changes to tainting checks
6895 No glob() or <*>, No spawning if tainted $CDPATH, $ENV, $BASH_ENV, No
6896 spawning if tainted $TERM doesn't look like a terminal name
6898 =item New Opcode module and revised Safe module
6900 =item Embedding improvements
6902 =item Internal change: FileHandle class based on IO::* classes
6904 =item Internal change: PerlIO abstraction interface
6906 =item New and changed syntax
6910 =item New and changed builtin constants
6914 =item New and changed builtin variables
6918 =item New and changed builtin functions
6920 delete on slices, flock, printf and sprintf, keys as an lvalue, my() in
6921 Control Structures, pack() and unpack(), sysseek(), use VERSION, use Module
6922 VERSION LIST, prototype(FUNCTION), srand, $_ as Default, C<m//gc> does not
6923 reset search position on failure, C<m//x> ignores whitespace before ?*+{},
6924 nested C<sub{}> closures work now, formats work right on changing lexicals
6926 =item New builtin methods
6928 isa(CLASS), can(METHOD), VERSION( [NEED] )
6930 =item TIEHANDLE now supported
6932 TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, PRINT this, LIST, PRINTF this, LIST, READ this
6933 LIST, READLINE this, GETC this, DESTROY this
6935 =item Malloc enhancements
6937 -DPERL_EMERGENCY_SBRK, -DPACK_MALLOC, -DTWO_POT_OPTIMIZE
6939 =item Miscellaneous efficiency enhancements
6943 =item Support for More Operating Systems
6959 use autouse MODULE => qw(sub1 sub2 sub3), use blib, use blib 'dir', use
6960 constant NAME => VALUE, use locale, use ops, use vmsish
6966 =item Required Updates
6968 =item Installation directories
6970 =item Module information summary
6984 =item Object-oriented overrides for builtin operators
6988 =item Utility Changes
6994 Sends converted HTML to standard output
6998 C<void> XSUBs now default to returning nothing
7002 =item C Language API Changes
7004 C<gv_fetchmethod> and C<perl_call_sv>, C<perl_eval_pv>, Extended API for
7007 =item Documentation Changes
7009 L<perldelta>, L<perlfaq>, L<perllocale>, L<perltoot>, L<perlapio>,
7010 L<perlmodlib>, L<perldebug>, L<perlsec>
7012 =item New Diagnostics
7014 "my" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same scope, %s argument is
7015 not a HASH element or slice, Allocation too large: %lx, Allocation too
7016 large, Applying %s to %s will act on scalar(%s), Attempt to free
7017 nonexistent shared string, Attempt to use reference as lvalue in substr,
7018 Bareword "%s" refers to nonexistent package, Can't redefine active sort
7019 subroutine %s, Can't use bareword ("%s") as %s ref while "strict refs" in
7020 use, Cannot resolve method `%s' overloading `%s' in package `%s', Constant
7021 subroutine %s redefined, Constant subroutine %s undefined, Copy method did
7022 not return a reference, Died, Exiting pseudo-block via %s, Identifier too
7023 long, Illegal character %s (carriage return), Illegal switch in PERL5OPT:
7024 %s, Integer overflow in hex number, Integer overflow in octal number,
7025 internal error: glob failed, Invalid conversion in %s: "%s", Invalid type
7026 in pack: '%s', Invalid type in unpack: '%s', Name "%s::%s" used only once:
7027 possible typo, Null picture in formline, Offset outside string, Out of
7028 memory!, Out of memory during request for %s, panic: frexp, Possible
7029 attempt to put comments in qw() list, Possible attempt to separate words
7030 with commas, Scalar value @%s{%s} better written as $%s{%s}, Stub found
7031 while resolving method `%s' overloading `%s' in %s, Too late for "B<-T>"
7032 option, untie attempted while %d inner references still exist, Unrecognized
7033 character %s, Unsupported function fork, Use of "$$<digit>" to mean
7034 "${$}<digit>" is deprecated, Value of %s can be "0"; test with defined(),
7035 Variable "%s" may be unavailable, Variable "%s" will not stay shared,
7036 Warning: something's wrong, Ill-formed logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter,
7037 Got an error from DosAllocMem, Malformed PERLLIB_PREFIX, PERL_SH_DIR too
7038 long, Process terminated by SIG%s
7048 =head2 perlaix, README.aix - Perl version 5 on IBM Unix (AIX) systems
7056 =item Compiling Perl 5 on AIX
7060 =item Building Dynamic Extensions on AIX
7062 =item The IBM ANSI C Compiler
7064 =item Using GNU's gcc for building perl
7066 =item Using Large Files with Perl
7072 =item AIX 4.2 and extensions using C++ with statics
7082 =head2 perlapollo, README.apollo - Perl version 5 on Apollo DomainOS
7092 =head2 perlamiga - Perl under Amiga OS
7106 =item Prerequisites for Compiling Perl on AmigaOS
7108 B<Unix emulation for AmigaOS: ixemul.library>, B<Version of Amiga OS>
7110 =item Starting Perl programs under AmigaOS
7112 =item Shortcomings of Perl under AmigaOS
7118 =item Accessing documentation
7122 =item Manpages for Perl on AmigaOS
7124 =item Perl HTML Documentation on AmigaOS
7126 =item Perl GNU Info Files on AmigaOS
7128 =item Perl LaTeX Documentation on AmigaOS
7132 =item BUILDING PERL ON AMIGAOS
7136 =item Build Prerequisites for Perl on AmigaOS
7138 =item Getting the Perl Source for AmigaOS
7140 =item Making Perl on AmigaOS
7142 =item Testing Perl on AmigaOS
7144 =item Installing the built Perl on AmigaOS
7154 =head2 perlbeos, README.beos - Perl version 5 on BeOS
7162 =item General Issues with Perl on BeOS
7164 =item BeOS Release-specific Notes
7168 =item Contact Information
7170 =item Update 2002-03-02
7176 =head2 perlbs2000, README.BS2000 - building and installing Perl for BS2000.
7186 =item gzip on BS2000
7188 =item bison on BS2000
7190 =item Unpacking Perl Distribution on BS2000
7192 =item Compiling Perl on BS2000
7194 =item Testing Perl on BS2000
7196 =item Installing Perl on BS2000
7198 =item Using Perl in the Posix-Shell of BS2000
7200 =item Using Perl in "native" BS2000
7202 =item Floating point anomalies on BS2000
7236 =item Acknowledgements
7242 =head2 perlcygwin, README.cygwin - Perl for Cygwin
7248 =item PREREQUISITES FOR COMPILING PERL ON CYGWIN
7252 =item Cygwin = GNU+Cygnus+Windows (Don't leave UNIX without it)
7254 =item Cygwin Configuration
7256 C<PATH>, I<nroff>, Permissions
7260 =item CONFIGURE PERL ON CYGWIN
7264 =item Stripping Perl Binaries on Cygwin
7266 =item Optional Libraries for Perl on Cygwin
7268 C<-lcrypt>, C<-lgdbm> (C<use GDBM_File>), C<-ldb> (C<use DB_File>),
7269 C<-lcygipc> (C<use IPC::SysV>)
7271 =item Configure-time Options for Perl on Cygwin
7273 C<-Uusedl>, C<-Uusemymalloc>, C<-Uuseperlio>, C<-Dusemultiplicity>,
7274 C<-Duse64bitint>, C<-Duselongdouble>, C<-Dusethreads>, C<-Duselargefiles>,
7277 =item Suspicious Warnings on Cygwin
7279 I<dlsym()>, Win9x and C<d_eofnblk>, Compiler/Preprocessor defines
7283 =item MAKE ON CYGWIN
7287 =item Warnings on Cygwin
7293 =item TEST ON CYGWIN
7297 =item File Permissions on Cygwin
7299 =item Script Portability on Cygwin
7301 Pathnames, Text/Binary, F<.exe>, chown(), Miscellaneous
7305 =item INSTALL PERL ON CYGWIN
7307 =item MANIFEST ON CYGWIN
7309 Documentation, Build, Configure, Make, Install, Tests, Compiled Perl
7310 Source, Compiled Module Source, Perl Modules/Scripts
7312 =item BUGS ON CYGWIN
7320 =head2 perldgux - Perl under DG/UX.
7332 =item BUILDING PERL ON DG/UX
7336 =item Non-threaded Perl on DG/UX
7338 =item Threaded Perl on DG/UX
7340 =item Testing Perl on DG/UX
7342 =item Installing the built perl on DG/UX
7352 =head2 perldos - Perl under DOS, W31, W95.
7362 =item Prerequisites for Compiling Perl on DOS
7366 =item Shortcomings of Perl under DOS
7368 =item Building Perl on DOS
7370 =item Testing Perl on DOS
7372 =item Installation of Perl on DOS
7376 =item BUILDING AND INSTALLING MODULES ON DOS
7380 =item Building Prerequisites for Perl on DOS
7382 =item Unpacking CPAN Modules on DOS
7384 =item Building Non-XS Modules on DOS
7386 =item Building XS Modules on DOS
7396 =head2 perlepoc, README.epoc - Perl for EPOC
7404 =item INSTALLING PERL ON EPOC
7406 =item STARTING PERL ON EPOC
7410 =item Editors on Epoc
7412 =item Features of Perl on Epoc
7414 =item Restrictions of Perl on Epoc
7416 =item Compiling Perl 5 on the EPOC cross compiling environment
7420 =item SUPPORT STATUS OF PERL ON EPOC
7428 =head2 perlhpux, README.hpux - Perl version 5 on Hewlett-Packard Unix
7437 =item Using perl as shipped with HP-UX
7439 =item Compiling Perl 5 on HP-UX
7451 =item Portability Between PA-RISC Versions
7453 =item Itanium Processor Family and HP-UX
7455 =item Building Dynamic Extensions on HP-UX
7457 =item The HP ANSI C Compiler
7459 =item Using Large Files with Perl on HP-UX
7461 =item Threaded Perl on HP-UX
7463 =item 64-bit Perl on HP-UX
7465 =item GDBM and Threads on HP-UX
7467 =item NFS filesystems and utime(2) on HP-UX
7469 =item perl -P and // and HP-UX
7471 =item HP-UX Kernel Parameters (maxdsiz) for Compiling Perl
7475 =item nss_delete core dump from op/pwent or op/grent
7483 =head2 perlhurd, README.hurd - Perl version 5 on Hurd
7491 =item Known Problems with Perl on Hurd
7499 =head2 perlmachten, README.machten - Perl version 5 on Power MachTen
7508 =item Compiling Perl 5 on MachTen
7510 =item Failures during C<make test> on MachTen
7512 op/lexassign.t, pragma/warnings.t
7514 =item Building external modules on MachTen
7524 =head2 perlmacos, README.macos - Perl under Mac OS (Classic)
7538 =head2 perlmint, README.mint - Perl version 5 on Atari MiNT
7544 =item Known problems with Perl on MiNT
7550 =head2 perlmpeix, README.mpeix - Perl/iX for HP e3000 MPE
7558 =item Binary distribution from HP
7560 =item What's New in Perl for MPE/iX
7562 =item Welcome to Perl/iX
7564 =item System Requirements for Perl/iX
7566 =item How to Obtain Perl/iX
7568 =item Perl/iX Distribution Contents Highlights
7570 README, INSTALL, LIBSHP3K, PERL, .cpan/, lib/, man/,
7571 public_html/feedback.cgi, src/perl-5.6.0-mpe
7573 =item How to Compile Perl/iX
7577 =item Getting Started with Perl/iX
7579 =item MPE/iX Implementation Considerations
7581 =item Known Perl/iX Bugs Under Investigation
7583 =item Perl/iX To-Do List
7585 =item Perl/iX Change History
7601 Buildtype.bat, SetNWBld.bat, MPKBuild.bat
7613 =item Build new extensions
7617 =item Acknowledgements
7625 =head2 perlos2 - Perl under OS/2, DOS, Win0.3*, Win0.95 and WinNT.
7645 EMX, RSX, HPFS, pdksh
7647 =item Starting Perl programs under OS/2 (and DOS and...)
7649 =item Starting OS/2 (and DOS) programs under Perl
7653 =item Frequently asked questions
7657 =item "It does not work"
7659 =item I cannot run external programs
7661 =item I cannot embed perl into my program, or use F<perl.dll> from my
7664 Is your program EMX-compiled with C<-Zmt -Zcrtdll>?, Did you use
7667 =item C<``> and pipe-C<open> do not work under DOS.
7669 =item Cannot start C<find.exe "pattern" file>
7677 =item Automatic binary installation
7679 C<PERL_BADLANG>, C<PERL_BADFREE>, F<Config.pm>
7681 =item Manual binary installation
7683 Perl VIO and PM executables (dynamically linked), Perl_ VIO executable
7684 (statically linked), Executables for Perl utilities, Main Perl library,
7685 Additional Perl modules, Tools to compile Perl modules, Manpages for Perl
7686 and utilities, Manpages for Perl modules, Source for Perl documentation,
7687 Perl manual in F<.INF> format, Pdksh
7693 =item Accessing documentation
7697 =item OS/2 F<.INF> file
7705 =item GNU C<info> files
7717 =item The short story
7721 =item Getting perl source
7723 =item Application of the patches
7731 A lot of C<bad free>, Process terminated by SIGTERM/SIGINT, F<op/fs.t>,
7734 =item Installing the built perl
7736 =item C<a.out>-style build
7744 =item Some C</> became C<\> in pdksh.
7746 =item C<'errno'> - unresolved external
7748 =item Problems with tr or sed
7750 =item Some problem (forget which ;-)
7752 =item Library ... not found
7754 =item Segfault in make
7756 =item op/sprintf test failure
7760 =item Specific (mis)features of OS/2 port
7764 =item C<setpriority>, C<getpriority>
7768 =item C<extproc> on the first line
7770 =item Additional modules:
7772 =item Prebuilt methods:
7774 C<File::Copy::syscopy>, C<DynaLoader::mod2fname>, C<Cwd::current_drive()>,
7775 C<Cwd::sys_chdir(name)>, C<Cwd::change_drive(name)>,
7776 C<Cwd::sys_is_absolute(name)>, C<Cwd::sys_is_rooted(name)>,
7777 C<Cwd::sys_is_relative(name)>, C<Cwd::sys_cwd(name)>,
7778 C<Cwd::sys_abspath(name, dir)>, C<Cwd::extLibpath([type])>,
7779 C<Cwd::extLibpath_set( path [, type ] )>,
7780 C<OS2::Error(do_harderror,do_exception)>, C<OS2::Errors2Drive(drive)>,
7781 OS2::SysInfo(), OS2::BootDrive(), C<OS2::MorphPM(serve)>,
7782 C<OS2::UnMorphPM(serve)>, C<OS2::Serve_Messages(force)>,
7783 C<OS2::Process_Messages(force [, cnt])>, C<OS2::_control87(new,mask)>,
7784 OS2::get_control87(), C<OS2::set_control87_em(new=MCW_EM,mask=MCW_EM)>
7786 =item Prebuilt variables:
7788 $OS2::emx_rev, $OS2::emx_env, $OS2::os_ver
7794 C<popen>, C<tmpnam>, C<tmpfile>, C<ctermid>, C<stat>, C<mkdir>, C<rmdir>,
7797 =item Identifying DLLs
7799 =item Centralized management of resources
7815 =item F<perl___.exe>
7817 =item Why strange names?
7819 =item Why dynamic linking?
7821 =item Why chimera build?
7829 =item C<PERLLIB_PREFIX>
7831 =item C<PERL_BADLANG>
7833 =item C<PERL_BADFREE>
7835 =item C<PERL_SH_DIR>
7837 =item C<USE_PERL_FLOCK>
7839 =item C<TMP> or C<TEMP>
7849 =item DLL name mangling: pre 5.6.2
7851 =item DLL name mangling: 5.6.2 and beyond
7853 Global DLLs, specific DLLs, C<BEGINLIBPATH> and C<ENDLIBPATH>, F<.> from
7856 =item DLL forwarder generation
7860 =item Calls to external programs
7862 =item Memory allocation
7866 C<COND_WAIT>, F<os2.c>
7882 =head2 perlos390, README.os390 - building and installing Perl for OS/390
7895 =item Unpacking Perl distribution on OS/390
7897 =item Setup and utilities for Perl on OS/390
7899 =item Configure Perl on OS/390
7901 =item Build, Test, Install Perl on OS/390
7903 =item Build Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
7905 =item Testing Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
7907 =item Installation Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
7909 =item Usage Hints for Perl on OS/390
7911 =item Floating Point Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
7913 =item Modules and Extensions for Perl on OS/390
7923 =item Mailing list for Perl on OS/390
7931 =head2 perlqnx, README.qnx - Perl version 5 on QNX
7939 =item Required Software for Compiling Perl on QNX4
7941 /bin/sh, ar, nm, cpp, make
7943 =item Outstanding Issues with Perl on QNX4
7945 =item QNX auxiliary files
7949 =item Outstanding issues with perl under QNX6
7957 =head2 perlplan9 - Plan 9-specific documentation for Perl
7967 =item What's in Plan 9 Perl
7969 =item What's not in Plan 9 Perl
7971 =item Perl5 Functions not currently supported in Plan 9 Perl
7973 =item Signals in Plan 9 Perl
7977 =item COMPILING AND INSTALLING PERL ON PLAN 9
7981 =item Installing Perl Documentation on Plan 9
7993 =head2 perlsolaris, README.solaris - Perl version 5 on Solaris systems
8001 =item Solaris Version Numbers.
8007 Solaris FAQ, Precompiled Binaries, Solaris Documentation
8013 =item File Extraction Problems on Solaris.
8015 =item Compiler and Related Tools on Solaris.
8017 =item Environment for Compiling Perl on Solaris
8021 =item RUN CONFIGURE.
8025 =item 64-bit Issues with Perl on Solaris.
8027 =item Threads in Perl on Solaris.
8029 =item Malloc Issues with Perl on Solaris.
8033 =item MAKE PROBLEMS.
8035 Dynamic Loading Problems With GNU as and GNU ld, ld.so.1: ./perl: fatal:
8036 relocation error:, dlopen: stub interception failed, #error "No
8037 DATAMODEL_NATIVE specified", sh: ar: not found
8043 =item op/stat.t test 4 in Solaris
8045 =item nss_delete core dump from op/pwent or op/grent
8049 =item PREBUILT BINARIES OF PERL FOR SOLARIS.
8051 =item RUNTIME ISSUES FOR PERL ON SOLARIS.
8055 =item Limits on Numbers of Open Files on Solaris.
8059 =item SOLARIS-SPECIFIC MODULES.
8061 =item SOLARIS-SPECIFIC PROBLEMS WITH MODULES.
8065 =item Proc::ProcessTable on Solaris
8067 =item BSD::Resource on Solaris
8069 =item Net::SSLeay on Solaris
8079 =head2 perltru64, README.tru64 - Perl version 5 on Tru64 (formerly known as
8080 Digital UNIX formerly known as DEC OSF/1) systems
8088 =item Compiling Perl 5 on Tru64
8090 =item Using Large Files with Perl on Tru64
8092 =item Threaded Perl on Tru64
8094 =item Long Doubles on Tru64
8096 =item 64-bit Perl on Tru64
8098 =item Warnings about floating-point overflow when compiling Perl on Tru64
8102 =item Testing Perl on Tru64
8104 =item ext/ODBM_File/odbm Test Failing With Static Builds
8110 =head2 perluts - Perl under UTS
8118 =item BUILDING PERL ON UTS
8120 =item Installing the built perl on UTS
8126 =head2 perlvmesa, README.vmesa - building and installing Perl for VM/ESA.
8136 =item Unpacking Perl Distribution on VM/ESA
8138 =item Setup Perl and utilities on VM/ESA
8140 =item Configure Perl on VM/ESA
8142 =item Testing Anomalies of Perl on VM/ESA
8144 =item Usage Hints for Perl on VM/ESA
8154 =item Mailing list for Perl on VM/ESA
8160 =head2 perlvms - VMS-specific documentation for Perl
8168 =item Organization of Perl Images
8174 =item Perl Extensions
8176 =item Installing static extensions
8178 =item Installing dynamic extensions
8182 =item File specifications
8188 =item Wildcard expansion
8194 =item PERL5LIB and PERLLIB
8200 =item I/O redirection and backgrounding
8202 =item Command line switches
8208 =item Perl functions
8210 File tests, backticks, binmode FILEHANDLE, crypt PLAINTEXT, USER, dump,
8211 exec LIST, fork, getpwent, getpwnam, getpwuid, gmtime, kill, qx//, select
8212 (system call), stat EXPR, system LIST, time, times, unlink LIST, utime
8213 LIST, waitpid PID,FLAGS
8215 =item Perl variables
8217 %ENV, CRTL_ENV, CLISYM_[LOCAL], Any other string, $!, $^E, $?, $|
8219 =item Standard modules with VMS-specific differences
8233 =head2 perlvos, README.vos - Perl for Stratus VOS
8241 =item Multiple methods to build perl for VOS
8243 =item Stratus POSIX Support
8247 =item INSTALLING PERL IN VOS
8251 =item Compiling Perl 5 on VOS
8253 =item Installing Perl 5 on VOS
8257 =item USING PERL IN VOS
8261 =item Unimplemented Features of Perl on VOS
8263 =item Restrictions of Perl on VOS
8267 =item SUPPORT STATUS
8275 =head2 perlwin32 - Perl under Win32
8285 =item Setting Up Perl on Win32
8287 Make, Command Shell, Borland C++, Microsoft Visual C++, Mingw32 with GCC
8291 =item Testing Perl on Win32
8293 =item Installation of Perl on Win32
8295 =item Usage Hints for Perl on Win32
8297 Environment Variables, File Globbing, Using perl from the command line,
8298 Building Extensions, Command-line Wildcard Expansion, Win32 Specific
8299 Extensions, Running Perl Scripts, Miscellaneous Things
8303 =item BUGS AND CAVEATS
8307 Gary Ng E<lt>71564.1743@CompuServe.COME<gt>, Gurusamy Sarathy
8308 E<lt>gsar@activestate.comE<gt>, Nick Ing-Simmons
8309 E<lt>nick@ing-simmons.netE<gt>
8317 =head1 PRAGMA DOCUMENTATION
8319 =head2 attrs - set/get attributes of a subroutine (deprecated)
8331 =head2 re - Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour
8341 =head2 threadshared::shared, threads::shared - Perl extension for sharing
8342 data structures between threads
8354 share VARIABLE, lock VARIABLE, unlock VARIABLE, cond_wait VARIABLE,
8355 cond_signal VARIABLE, cond_broadcast VARIABLE
8367 =head2 threads - Perl extension allowing use of interpreter based threads
8376 $thread = threads->create(function, LIST), $thread->join, $thread->detach,
8377 threads->self, $thread->tid
8381 Fix so the return value is returned when you join, Add join_all, Fix memory
8384 =item AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT
8388 creating a thread from within a thread is unsafe under win32,
8389 PERL_OLD_SIGNALS are not threadsafe, will not be
8395 =head2 attributes - get/set subroutine or variable attributes
8405 =item Built-in Attributes
8407 locked, method, lvalue
8409 =item Available Subroutines
8413 =item Package-specific Attribute Handling
8415 FETCH_I<type>_ATTRIBUTES, MODIFY_I<type>_ATTRIBUTES
8417 =item Syntax of Attribute Lists
8425 =item Default exports
8427 =item Available exports
8429 =item Export tags defined
8439 =head2 autouse - postpone load of modules until a function is used
8455 =head2 base - Establish IS-A relationship with base class at compile time
8469 =head2 bigint - Transparent big integer support for Perl
8481 a or accuracy, p or precision, t or trace, l or lib, v or version
8485 =item INTERNAL FORMAT
8505 =head2 bignum - Transparent BigNumber support for Perl
8517 a or accuracy, p or precision, t or trace, l or lib, v or version
8521 =item INTERNAL FORMAT
8541 =head2 bigrat - Transparent BigNumber/BigRational support for Perl
8563 perl -Mbigrat -le 'print sqrt(33)'
8564 perl -Mbigrat -le 'print 2*255'
8565 perl -Mbigrat -le 'print 4.5+2*255'
8566 perl -Mbigrat -le 'print 3/7 + 5/7 + 8/3'
8567 perl -Mbigrat -le 'print 12->is_odd()';
8577 =head2 blib - Use MakeMaker's uninstalled version of a package
8591 =head2 bytes - Perl pragma to force byte semantics rather than character
8604 =head2 charnames - define character names for C<\N{named}> string literal
8613 =item CUSTOM TRANSLATORS
8615 =item charnames::viacode(code)
8617 =item charnames::vianame(code)
8619 =item ILLEGAL CHARACTERS
8625 =head2 constant - Perl pragma to declare constants
8637 =item List constants
8639 =item Defining multiple constants at once
8641 =item Magic constants
8645 =item TECHNICAL NOTES
8655 =head2 diagnostics - Perl compiler pragma to force verbose warning
8666 =item The C<diagnostics> Pragma
8668 =item The I<splain> Program
8682 =head2 encoding - pragma to control the conversion of legacy data into
8691 =item KNOWN PROBLEMS
8697 =head2 fields - compile-time class fields
8711 =head2 filetest - Perl pragma to control the filetest permission operators
8721 =item subpragma access
8727 =head2 if - C<use> a Perl module if a condition holds
8741 =head2 integer - Perl pragma to use integer arithmetic instead of floating
8752 =head2 less - perl pragma to request less of something from the compiler
8762 =head2 lib - manipulate @INC at compile time
8772 =item Adding directories to @INC
8774 =item Deleting directories from @INC
8776 =item Restoring original @INC
8788 =head2 locale - Perl pragma to use and avoid POSIX locales for built-in
8799 =head2 open - perl pragma to set default disciplines for input and output
8807 =item NONPERLIO FUNCTIONALITY
8809 =item IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS
8815 =head2 overload - Package for overloading perl operations
8825 =item Declaration of overloaded functions
8827 =item Calling Conventions for Binary Operations
8829 FALSE, TRUE, C<undef>
8831 =item Calling Conventions for Unary Operations
8833 =item Calling Conventions for Mutators
8835 C<++> and C<-->, C<x=> and other assignment versions
8837 =item Overloadable Operations
8839 I<Arithmetic operations>, I<Comparison operations>, I<Bit operations>,
8840 I<Increment and decrement>, I<Transcendental functions>, I<Boolean, string
8841 and numeric conversion>, I<Iteration>, I<Dereferencing>, I<Special>
8843 =item Inheritance and overloading
8845 Strings as values of C<use overload> directive, Overloading of an operation
8846 is inherited by derived classes
8850 =item SPECIAL SYMBOLS FOR C<use overload>
8858 C<undef>, TRUE, defined, but FALSE
8860 =item Copy Constructor
8866 =item MAGIC AUTOGENERATION
8868 I<Assignment forms of arithmetic operations>, I<Conversion operations>,
8869 I<Increment and decrement>, C<abs($a)>, I<Unary minus>, I<Negation>,
8870 I<Concatenation>, I<Comparison operations>, I<Iterator>, I<Dereferencing>,
8873 =item Losing overloading
8875 =item Run-time Overloading
8877 =item Public functions
8879 overload::StrVal(arg), overload::Overloaded(arg), overload::Method(obj,op)
8881 =item Overloading constants
8883 integer, float, binary, q, qr
8885 =item IMPLEMENTATION
8887 =item Metaphor clash
8893 =item Two-face scalars
8895 =item Two-face references
8897 =item Symbolic calculator
8899 =item I<Really> symbolic calculator
8907 Odd number of arguments for overload::constant, `%s' is not an overloadable
8908 type, `%s' is not a code reference
8914 =head2 re - Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour
8924 =head2 sigtrap - Perl pragma to enable simple signal handling
8936 =item SIGNAL HANDLERS
8938 B<stack-trace>, B<die>, B<handler> I<your-handler>
8942 B<normal-signals>, B<error-signals>, B<old-interface-signals>
8946 B<untrapped>, B<any>, I<signal>, I<number>
8954 =head2 sort - perl pragma to control sort() behaviour
8964 =head2 strict - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe constructs
8972 C<strict refs>, C<strict vars>, C<strict subs>
8976 =head2 subs - Perl pragma to predeclare sub names
8986 =head2 utf8 - Perl pragma to enable/disable UTF-8 (or UTF-EBCDIC) in source
8997 =item Utility functions
8999 $num_octets = utf8::upgrade($string);, utf8::downgrade($string[, CHECK]),
9000 utf8::encode($string), $flag = utf8::decode($string), $flag =
9009 =head2 vars - Perl pragma to predeclare global variable names (obsolete)
9019 =head2 vmsish - Perl pragma to control VMS-specific language features
9027 C<vmsish status>, C<vmsish exit>, C<vmsish time>, C<vmsish hushed>
9031 =head2 warnings - Perl pragma to control optional warnings
9039 use warnings::register, warnings::enabled(), warnings::enabled($category),
9040 warnings::enabled($object), warnings::warn($message),
9041 warnings::warn($category, $message), warnings::warn($object, $message),
9042 warnings::warnif($message), warnings::warnif($category, $message),
9043 warnings::warnif($object, $message)
9047 =head2 warnings::register - warnings import function
9057 =head1 MODULE DOCUMENTATION
9059 =head2 AnyDBM_File - provide framework for multiple DBMs
9069 =item DBM Comparisons
9079 =head2 Attribute::Handlers - Simpler definition of attribute handlers
9089 [0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]
9093 =item Typed lexicals
9095 =item Type-specific attribute handlers
9097 =item Non-interpretive attribute handlers
9099 =item Phase-specific attribute handlers
9101 =item Attributes as C<tie> interfaces
9109 C<Bad attribute type: ATTR(%s)>, C<Attribute handler %s doesn't handle %s
9110 attributes>, C<Declaration of %s attribute in package %s may clash with
9111 future reserved word>, C<Can't have two ATTR specifiers on one subroutine>,
9112 C<Can't autotie a %s>, C<Internal error: %s symbol went missing>, C<Won't
9113 be able to apply END handler>
9123 =head2 AutoLoader - load subroutines only on demand
9133 =item Subroutine Stubs
9135 =item Using B<AutoLoader>'s AUTOLOAD Subroutine
9137 =item Overriding B<AutoLoader>'s AUTOLOAD Subroutine
9139 =item Package Lexicals
9141 =item Not Using AutoLoader
9143 =item B<AutoLoader> vs. B<SelfLoader>
9153 =head2 AutoSplit - split a package for autoloading
9161 $keep, $check, $modtime
9165 =item Multiple packages
9173 =head2 B - The Perl Compiler
9181 =item OVERVIEW OF CLASSES
9185 =item SV-RELATED CLASSES
9193 IV, IVX, UVX, int_value, needs64bits, packiv
9207 =item B::PVMG METHODS
9211 =item B::MAGIC METHODS
9213 MOREMAGIC, precomp, PRIVATE, TYPE, FLAGS, OBJ, PTR, REGEX
9215 =item B::PVLV METHODS
9217 TARGOFF, TARGLEN, TYPE, TARG
9221 USEFUL, PREVIOUS, RARE, TABLE
9225 is_empty, NAME, SAFENAME, STASH, SV, IO, FORM, AV, HV, EGV, CV, CVGEN,
9226 LINE, FILE, FILEGV, GvREFCNT, FLAGS
9230 LINES, PAGE, PAGE_LEN, LINES_LEFT, TOP_NAME, TOP_GV, FMT_NAME, FMT_GV,
9231 BOTTOM_NAME, BOTTOM_GV, SUBPROCESS, IoTYPE, IoFLAGS, IsSTD
9235 FILL, MAX, OFF, ARRAY, AvFLAGS
9239 STASH, START, ROOT, GV, FILE, DEPTH, PADLIST, OUTSIDE, XSUB, XSUBANY,
9244 FILL, MAX, KEYS, RITER, NAME, PMROOT, ARRAY
9246 =item OP-RELATED CLASSES
9250 next, sibling, name, ppaddr, desc, targ, type, seq, flags, private
9252 =item B::UNOP METHOD
9256 =item B::BINOP METHOD
9260 =item B::LOGOP METHOD
9264 =item B::LISTOP METHOD
9268 =item B::PMOP METHODS
9270 pmreplroot, pmreplstart, pmnext, pmregexp, pmflags, pmdynflags,
9271 pmpermflags, precomp, pmoffet
9273 =item B::SVOP METHOD
9277 =item B::PADOP METHOD
9281 =item B::PVOP METHOD
9285 =item B::LOOP METHODS
9287 redoop, nextop, lastop
9289 =item B::COP METHODS
9291 label, stash, file, cop_seq, arybase, line
9295 =item FUNCTIONS EXPORTED BY C<B>
9297 main_cv, init_av, begin_av, end_av, main_root, main_start, comppadlist,
9298 regex_padav, sv_undef, sv_yes, sv_no, amagic_generation, walkoptree(OP,
9299 METHOD), walkoptree_debug(DEBUG), walksymtable(SYMREF, METHOD, RECURSE,
9300 PREFIX), svref_2object(SV), ppname(OPNUM), hash(STR), cast_I32(I), minus_c,
9301 cstring(STR), perlstring(STR), class(OBJ), threadsv_names
9307 =head2 B::Asmdata - Autogenerated data about Perl ops, used to generate
9316 %insn_data, @insn_name, @optype, @specialsv_name
9322 =head2 B::Assembler - Assemble Perl bytecode
9334 =head2 B::Bblock - Walk basic blocks
9354 =head2 B::Bytecode - Perl compiler's bytecode backend
9364 B<-ofilename>, B<-afilename>, B<-->, B<-f>, B<-fcompress-nullops>,
9365 B<-fomit-sequence-numbers>, B<-fbypass-nullops>, B<-On>, B<-D>, B<-Do>,
9366 B<-Db>, B<-Da>, B<-DC>, B<-S>, B<-upackage>
9376 =head2 B::C - Perl compiler's C backend
9386 B<-ofilename>, B<-v>, B<-->, B<-uPackname>, B<-D>, B<-Do>, B<-Dc>, B<-DA>,
9387 B<-DC>, B<-DM>, B<-f>, B<-fcog>, B<-fsave-data>, B<-fppaddr>, B<-fwarn-sv>,
9388 B<-fuse-script-name>, B<-fsave-sig-hash>, B<-On>, B<-O0>, B<-O1>, B<-O2>,
9399 =head2 B::CC - Perl compiler's optimized C translation backend
9409 B<-ofilename>, B<-v>, B<-->, B<-uPackname>, B<-mModulename>, B<-D>, B<-Dr>,
9410 B<-DO>, B<-Ds>, B<-Dp>, B<-Dq>, B<-Dl>, B<-Dt>, B<-f>,
9411 B<-ffreetmps-each-bblock>, B<-ffreetmps-each-loop>, B<-fomit-taint>, B<-On>
9423 =item Context of ".."
9427 =item Deprecated features
9435 =head2 B::Concise - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing concise info about ops
9447 B<-basic>, B<-exec>, B<-tree>, B<-compact>, B<-loose>, B<-vt>, B<-ascii>,
9448 B<-main>, B<-base>I<n>, B<-bigendian>, B<-littleendian>, B<-concise>,
9449 B<-terse>, B<-linenoise>, B<-debug>, B<-env>
9451 =item FORMATTING SPECIFICATIONS
9453 B<(x(>I<exec_text>B<;>I<basic_text>B<)x)>, B<(*(>I<text>B<)*)>,
9454 B<(*(>I<text1>B<;>I<text2>B<)*)>, B<(?(>I<text1>B<#>I<var>I<Text2>B<)?)>,
9455 B<#>I<var>, B<#>I<var>I<N>, B<~>, B<#addr>, B<#arg>, B<#class>,
9456 B<#classsym>, B<#coplabel>, B<#exname>, B<#extarg>, B<#firstaddr>,
9457 B<#flags>, B<#flagval>, B<#hyphseq>, B<#label>, B<#lastaddr>, B<#name>,
9458 B<#NAME>, B<#next>, B<#nextaddr>, B<#noise>, B<#private>, B<#privval>,
9459 B<#seq>, B<#seqnum>, B<#sibaddr>, B<#svaddr>, B<#svclass>, B<#svval>,
9460 B<#targ>, B<#targarg>, B<#targarglife>, B<#typenum>
9466 =item OP flags abbreviations
9468 =item OP class abbreviations
9472 =item Using B::Concise outside of the O framework
9478 =head2 B::Debug - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing debug info about ops
9490 =head2 B::Deparse - Perl compiler backend to produce perl code
9500 B<-l>, B<-p>, B<-P>, B<-q>, B<-f>I<FILE>, B<-s>I<LETTERS>, B<C>,
9501 B<i>I<NUMBER>, B<T>, B<v>I<STRING>B<.>, B<-x>I<LEVEL>
9503 =item USING B::Deparse AS A MODULE
9513 =item ambient_pragmas
9515 strict, $[, bytes, utf8, integer, re, warnings, hint_bits, warning_bits
9527 =head2 B::Disassembler - Disassemble Perl bytecode
9539 =head2 B::Lint - Perl lint
9547 =item OPTIONS AND LINT CHECKS
9549 B<context>, B<implicit-read> and B<implicit-write>, B<dollar-underscore>,
9550 B<private-names>, B<undefined-subs>, B<regexp-variables>, B<all>, B<none>
9552 =item NON LINT-CHECK OPTIONS
9562 =head2 B::O, O - Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends
9572 =item IMPLEMENTATION
9578 =head2 B::Showlex - Show lexical variables used in functions or files
9590 =head2 B::Stackobj - Helper module for CC backend
9602 =head2 B::Stash - show what stashes are loaded
9604 =head2 B::Terse - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing terse info about ops
9616 =head2 B::Xref - Generates cross reference reports for Perl programs
9626 C<-oFILENAME>, C<-r>, C<-d>, C<-D[tO]>
9634 =head2 Benchmark - benchmark running times of Perl code
9648 =item Standard Exports
9650 timeit(COUNT, CODE), timethis ( COUNT, CODE, [ TITLE, [ STYLE ]] ),
9651 timethese ( COUNT, CODEHASHREF, [ STYLE ] ), timediff ( T1, T2 ), timestr (
9652 TIMEDIFF, [ STYLE, [ FORMAT ] ] )
9654 =item Optional Exports
9656 clearcache ( COUNT ), clearallcache ( ), cmpthese ( COUT, CODEHASHREF, [
9657 STYLE ] ), cmpthese ( RESULTSHASHREF, [ STYLE ] ), countit(TIME, CODE),
9658 disablecache ( ), enablecache ( ), timesum ( T1, T2 )
9674 =item MODIFICATION HISTORY
9678 =head2 ByteLoader - load byte compiled perl code
9692 =head2 CGI - Simple Common Gateway Interface Class
9704 =item PROGRAMMING STYLE
9706 =item CALLING CGI.PM ROUTINES
9708 =item CREATING A NEW QUERY OBJECT (OBJECT-ORIENTED STYLE):
9710 =item CREATING A NEW QUERY OBJECT FROM AN INPUT FILE
9712 =item FETCHING A LIST OF KEYWORDS FROM THE QUERY:
9714 =item FETCHING THE NAMES OF ALL THE PARAMETERS PASSED TO YOUR SCRIPT:
9716 =item FETCHING THE VALUE OR VALUES OF A SINGLE NAMED PARAMETER:
9718 =item SETTING THE VALUE(S) OF A NAMED PARAMETER:
9720 =item APPENDING ADDITIONAL VALUES TO A NAMED PARAMETER:
9722 =item IMPORTING ALL PARAMETERS INTO A NAMESPACE:
9724 =item DELETING A PARAMETER COMPLETELY:
9726 =item DELETING ALL PARAMETERS:
9728 =item DIRECT ACCESS TO THE PARAMETER LIST:
9730 =item FETCHING THE PARAMETER LIST AS A HASH:
9732 =item SAVING THE STATE OF THE SCRIPT TO A FILE:
9734 =item RETRIEVING CGI ERRORS
9736 =item USING THE FUNCTION-ORIENTED INTERFACE
9738 B<:cgi>, B<:form>, B<:html2>, B<:html3>, B<:html4>, B<:netscape>, B<:html>,
9739 B<:standard>, B<:all>
9743 -any, -compile, -nosticky, -no_undef_params, -no_xhtml, -nph,
9744 -newstyle_urls, -oldstyle_urls, -autoload, -no_debug, -debug,
9747 =item SPECIAL FORMS FOR IMPORTING HTML-TAG FUNCTIONS
9749 1. start_table() (generates a <table> tag), 2. end_table() (generates a
9750 </table> tag), 3. start_ul() (generates a <ul> tag), 4. end_ul() (generates
9755 =item GENERATING DYNAMIC DOCUMENTS
9759 =item CREATING A STANDARD HTTP HEADER:
9761 =item GENERATING A REDIRECTION HEADER
9763 =item CREATING THE HTML DOCUMENT HEADER
9765 B<Parameters:>, 4, 5, 6..
9767 =item ENDING THE HTML DOCUMENT:
9769 =item CREATING A SELF-REFERENCING URL THAT PRESERVES STATE INFORMATION:
9771 =item OBTAINING THE SCRIPT'S URL
9773 B<-absolute>, B<-relative>, B<-full>, B<-path> (B<-path_info>), B<-query>
9774 (B<-query_string>), B<-base>
9776 =item MIXING POST AND URL PARAMETERS
9780 =item CREATING STANDARD HTML ELEMENTS:
9784 =item PROVIDING ARGUMENTS TO HTML SHORTCUTS
9786 =item THE DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY OF HTML SHORTCUTS
9788 =item HTML SHORTCUTS AND LIST INTERPOLATION
9790 =item NON-STANDARD HTML SHORTCUTS
9792 =item AUTOESCAPING HTML
9794 $escaped_string = escapeHTML("unescaped string");, $charset =
9795 charset([$charset]);, $flag = autoEscape([$flag]);
9797 =item PRETTY-PRINTING HTML
9801 =item CREATING FILL-OUT FORMS:
9805 =item CREATING AN ISINDEX TAG
9807 =item STARTING AND ENDING A FORM
9809 B<application/x-www-form-urlencoded>, B<multipart/form-data>
9811 =item CREATING A TEXT FIELD
9815 =item CREATING A BIG TEXT FIELD
9817 =item CREATING A PASSWORD FIELD
9819 =item CREATING A FILE UPLOAD FIELD
9823 =item CREATING A POPUP MENU
9825 =item CREATING A SCROLLING LIST
9829 =item CREATING A GROUP OF RELATED CHECKBOXES
9833 =item CREATING A STANDALONE CHECKBOX
9837 =item CREATING A RADIO BUTTON GROUP
9841 =item CREATING A SUBMIT BUTTON
9845 =item CREATING A RESET BUTTON
9847 =item CREATING A DEFAULT BUTTON
9849 =item CREATING A HIDDEN FIELD
9853 =item CREATING A CLICKABLE IMAGE BUTTON
9857 =item CREATING A JAVASCRIPT ACTION BUTTON
9863 1. an expiration time, 2. a domain, 3. a path, 4. a "secure" flag,
9864 B<-name>, B<-value>, B<-path>, B<-domain>, B<-expires>, B<-secure>
9866 =item WORKING WITH FRAMES
9868 1. Create a <Frameset> document, 2. Specify the destination for the
9869 document in the HTTP header, 3. Specify the destination for the document in
9872 =item LIMITED SUPPORT FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS
9878 =item DUMPING OUT ALL THE NAME/VALUE PAIRS
9882 =item FETCHING ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
9884 B<Accept()>, B<raw_cookie()>, B<user_agent()>, B<path_info()>,
9885 B<path_translated()>, B<remote_host()>, B<script_name()>, B<referer()>,
9886 B<auth_type ()>, B<server_name ()>, B<virtual_host ()>, B<server_port ()>,
9887 B<server_software ()>, B<remote_user ()>, B<user_name ()>,
9888 B<request_method()>, B<content_type()>, B<http()>, B<https()>
9890 =item USING NPH SCRIPTS
9892 In the B<use> statement, By calling the B<nph()> method:, By using B<-nph>
9897 multipart_init(), multipart_start(), multipart_end(), multipart_final()
9899 =item Avoiding Denial of Service Attacks
9901 B<$CGI::POST_MAX>, B<$CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS>, B<1. On a script-by-script
9902 basis>, B<2. Globally for all scripts>
9904 =item COMPATIBILITY WITH CGI-LIB.PL
9906 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
9910 Matt Heffron (heffron@falstaff.css.beckman.com), James Taylor
9911 (james.taylor@srs.gov), Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com>, Mike Jewell
9912 (mlj3u@virginia.edu), Timothy Shimmin (tes@kbs.citri.edu.au), Joergen Haegg
9913 (jh@axis.se), Laurent Delfosse (delfosse@delfosse.com), Richard Resnick
9914 (applepi1@aol.com), Craig Bishop (csb@barwonwater.vic.gov.au), Tony Curtis
9915 (tc@vcpc.univie.ac.at), Tim Bunce (Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk), Tom Christiansen
9916 (tchrist@convex.com), Andreas Koenig (k@franz.ww.TU-Berlin.DE), Tim
9917 MacKenzie (Tim.MacKenzie@fulcrum.com.au), Kevin B. Hendricks
9918 (kbhend@dogwood.tyler.wm.edu), Stephen Dahmen (joyfire@inxpress.net), Ed
9919 Jordan (ed@fidalgo.net), David Alan Pisoni (david@cnation.com), Doug
9920 MacEachern (dougm@opengroup.org), Robin Houston (robin@oneworld.org),
9921 ...and many many more..
9923 =item A COMPLETE EXAMPLE OF A SIMPLE FORM-BASED SCRIPT
9931 =head2 CGI::Apache - Backward compatibility module for CGI.pm
9941 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
9949 =head2 CGI::Carp, B<CGI::Carp> - CGI routines for writing to the HTTPD (or
9958 =item REDIRECTING ERROR MESSAGES
9960 =item MAKING PERL ERRORS APPEAR IN THE BROWSER WINDOW
9964 =item Changing the default message
9968 =item MAKING WARNINGS APPEAR AS HTML COMMENTS
9978 =head2 CGI::Cookie - Interface to Netscape Cookies
9986 =item USING CGI::Cookie
9988 B<1. expiration date>, B<2. domain>, B<3. path>, B<4. secure flag>
9992 =item Creating New Cookies
9994 =item Sending the Cookie to the Browser
9996 =item Recovering Previous Cookies
9998 =item Manipulating Cookies
10000 B<name()>, B<value()>, B<domain()>, B<path()>, B<expires()>
10004 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
10012 =head2 CGI::Fast - CGI Interface for Fast CGI
10020 =item OTHER PIECES OF THE PUZZLE
10022 =item WRITING FASTCGI PERL SCRIPTS
10024 =item INSTALLING FASTCGI SCRIPTS
10026 =item USING FASTCGI SCRIPTS AS CGI SCRIPTS
10028 =item EXTERNAL FASTCGI SERVER INVOCATION
10030 FCGI_SOCKET_PATH, FCGI_LISTEN_QUEUE
10034 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
10042 =head2 CGI::Pretty - module to produce nicely formatted HTML code
10052 =item Tags that won't be formatted
10054 =item Customizing the Indenting
10066 =head2 CGI::Push - Simple Interface to Server Push
10074 =item USING CGI::Push
10076 -next_page, -last_page, -type, -delay, -cookie, -target, -expires, -nph
10080 =item Heterogeneous Pages
10082 =item Changing the Page Delay on the Fly
10086 =item INSTALLING CGI::Push SCRIPTS
10088 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
10096 =head2 CGI::Switch - Backward compatibility module for defunct CGI::Switch
10106 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
10114 =head2 CGI::Util - Internal utilities used by CGI module
10122 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
10128 =head2 CPAN - query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites
10138 =item Interactive Mode
10140 Searching for authors, bundles, distribution files and modules, make, test,
10141 install, clean modules or distributions, get, readme, look module or
10142 distribution, ls author, Signals
10150 =item The four C<CPAN::*> Classes: Author, Bundle, Module, Distribution
10152 =item Programmer's interface
10154 expand($type,@things), expandany(@things), Programming Examples
10156 =item Methods in the other Classes
10158 CPAN::Author::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Author::as_string(),
10159 CPAN::Author::email(), CPAN::Author::fullname(), CPAN::Author::name(),
10160 CPAN::Bundle::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Bundle::as_string(),
10161 CPAN::Bundle::clean(), CPAN::Bundle::contains(),
10162 CPAN::Bundle::force($method,@args), CPAN::Bundle::get(),
10163 CPAN::Bundle::inst_file(), CPAN::Bundle::inst_version(),
10164 CPAN::Bundle::uptodate(), CPAN::Bundle::install(), CPAN::Bundle::make(),
10165 CPAN::Bundle::readme(), CPAN::Bundle::test(),
10166 CPAN::Distribution::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Distribution::as_string(),
10167 CPAN::Distribution::clean(), CPAN::Distribution::containsmods(),
10168 CPAN::Distribution::cvs_import(), CPAN::Distribution::dir(),
10169 CPAN::Distribution::force($method,@args), CPAN::Distribution::get(),
10170 CPAN::Distribution::install(), CPAN::Distribution::isa_perl(),
10171 CPAN::Distribution::look(), CPAN::Distribution::make(),
10172 CPAN::Distribution::prereq_pm(), CPAN::Distribution::readme(),
10173 CPAN::Distribution::test(), CPAN::Distribution::uptodate(),
10174 CPAN::Index::force_reload(), CPAN::Index::reload(), CPAN::InfoObj::dump(),
10175 CPAN::Module::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Module::as_string(),
10176 CPAN::Module::clean(), CPAN::Module::cpan_file(),
10177 CPAN::Module::cpan_version(), CPAN::Module::cvs_import(),
10178 CPAN::Module::description(), CPAN::Module::force($method,@args),
10179 CPAN::Module::get(), CPAN::Module::inst_file(),
10180 CPAN::Module::inst_version(), CPAN::Module::install(),
10181 CPAN::Module::look(), CPAN::Module::make(),
10182 CPAN::Module::manpage_headline(), CPAN::Module::readme(),
10183 CPAN::Module::test(), CPAN::Module::uptodate(), CPAN::Module::userid()
10185 =item Cache Manager
10189 =item Prerequisites
10191 =item Finding packages and VERSION
10195 =item Floppy, Zip, Offline Mode
10199 =item CONFIGURATION
10201 C<o conf E<lt>scalar optionE<gt>>, C<o conf E<lt>scalar optionE<gt>
10202 E<lt>valueE<gt>>, C<o conf E<lt>list optionE<gt>>, C<o conf E<lt>list
10203 optionE<gt> [shift|pop]>, C<o conf E<lt>list optionE<gt>
10204 [unshift|push|splice] E<lt>listE<gt>>
10208 =item Note on urllist parameter's format
10210 =item urllist parameter has CD-ROM support
10218 =item POPULATE AN INSTALLATION WITH LOTS OF MODULES
10220 =item WORKING WITH CPAN.pm BEHIND FIREWALLS
10224 =item Three basic types of firewalls
10226 http firewall, ftp firewall, One way visibility, SOCKS, IP Masquerade
10228 =item Configuring lynx or ncftp for going through a firewall
10234 1), 2), 3), 4), 5), 6), 7), 8), 9), 10)
10246 =head2 CPAN::FirstTime - Utility for CPAN::Config file Initialization
10256 =head2 CPANox, CPAN::Nox - Wrapper around CPAN.pm without using any XS
10269 =head2 Carp, carp - warn of errors (from perspective of caller)
10279 =item Forcing a Stack Trace
10287 =head2 Carp::Heavy, Carp heavy machinery - no user serviceable parts inside
10289 =head2 Class::ISA -- report the search path for a class's ISA tree
10299 the function Class::ISA::super_path($CLASS), the function
10300 Class::ISA::self_and_super_path($CLASS), the function
10301 Class::ISA::self_and_super_versions($CLASS)
10303 =item CAUTIONARY NOTES
10311 =head2 Class::Struct - declare struct-like datatypes as Perl classes
10321 =item The C<struct()> function
10323 =item Class Creation at Compile Time
10325 =item Element Types and Accessor Methods
10327 Scalar (C<'$'> or C<'*$'>), Array (C<'@'> or C<'*@'>), Hash (C<'%'> or
10328 C<'*%'>), Class (C<'Class_Name'> or C<'*Class_Name'>)
10330 =item Initializing with C<new>
10336 Example 1, Example 2, Example 3
10338 =item Author and Modification History
10342 =head2 Config - access Perl configuration information
10350 myconfig(), config_sh(), config_vars(@names)
10362 C<_a>, C<_exe>, C<_o>
10366 C<afs>, C<afsroot>, C<alignbytes>, C<ansi2knr>, C<aphostname>,
10367 C<api_revision>, C<api_subversion>, C<api_version>, C<api_versionstring>,
10368 C<ar>, C<archlib>, C<archlibexp>, C<archname64>, C<archname>, C<archobjs>,
10369 C<asctime_r_proto>, C<awk>
10373 C<baserev>, C<bash>, C<bin>, C<bincompat5005>, C<binexp>, C<bison>,
10374 C<byacc>, C<byteorder>
10378 C<c>, C<castflags>, C<cat>, C<cc>, C<cccdlflags>, C<ccdlflags>, C<ccflags>,
10379 C<ccflags_uselargefiles>, C<ccname>, C<ccsymbols>, C<ccversion>, C<cf_by>,
10380 C<cf_email>, C<cf_time>, C<charsize>, C<chgrp>, C<chmod>, C<chown>,
10381 C<clocktype>, C<comm>, C<compress>, C<contains>, C<cp>, C<cpio>, C<cpp>,
10382 C<cpp_stuff>, C<cppccsymbols>, C<cppflags>, C<cpplast>, C<cppminus>,
10383 C<cpprun>, C<cppstdin>, C<cppsymbols>, C<crypt_r_proto>, C<cryptlib>,
10384 C<csh>, C<ctermid_r_proto>, C<ctime_r_proto>
10388 C<d__fwalk>, C<d_access>, C<d_accessx>, C<d_alarm>, C<d_archlib>,
10389 C<d_asctime_r>, C<d_atolf>, C<d_atoll>, C<d_attribut>, C<d_bcmp>,
10390 C<d_bcopy>, C<d_bincompat5005>, C<d_bsd>, C<d_bsdgetpgrp>, C<d_bsdsetpgrp>,
10391 C<d_bzero>, C<d_casti32>, C<d_castneg>, C<d_charvspr>, C<d_chown>,
10392 C<d_chroot>, C<d_chsize>, C<d_class>, C<d_closedir>, C<d_cmsghdr_s>,
10393 C<d_const>, C<d_crypt>, C<d_crypt_r>, C<d_csh>, C<d_ctermid_r>,
10394 C<d_ctime_r>, C<d_cuserid>, C<d_dbl_dig>, C<d_dbminitproto>, C<d_difftime>,
10395 C<d_dirfd>, C<d_dirnamlen>, C<d_dlerror>, C<d_dlopen>, C<d_dlsymun>,
10396 C<d_dosuid>, C<d_drand48_r>, C<d_drand48proto>, C<d_dup2>, C<d_eaccess>,
10397 C<d_endgrent>, C<d_endgrent_r>, C<d_endhent>, C<d_endhostent_r>,
10398 C<d_endnent>, C<d_endnetent_r>, C<d_endpent>, C<d_endprotoent_r>,
10399 C<d_endpwent>, C<d_endpwent_r>, C<d_endsent>, C<d_endservent_r>,
10400 C<d_eofnblk>, C<d_eunice>, C<d_fchdir>, C<d_fchmod>, C<d_fchown>,
10401 C<d_fcntl>, C<d_fcntl_can_lock>, C<d_fd_macros>, C<d_fd_set>,
10402 C<d_fds_bits>, C<d_fgetpos>, C<d_finite>, C<d_finitel>, C<d_flexfnam>,
10403 C<d_flock>, C<d_flockproto>, C<d_fork>, C<d_fp_class>, C<d_fpathconf>,
10404 C<d_fpclass>, C<d_fpclassify>, C<d_fpclassl>, C<d_fpos64_t>, C<d_frexpl>,
10405 C<d_fs_data_s>, C<d_fseeko>, C<d_fsetpos>, C<d_fstatfs>, C<d_fstatvfs>,
10406 C<d_fsync>, C<d_ftello>, C<d_ftime>, C<d_Gconvert>, C<d_getcwd>,
10407 C<d_getespwnam>, C<d_getfsstat>, C<d_getgrent>, C<d_getgrent_r>,
10408 C<d_getgrgid_r>, C<d_getgrnam_r>, C<d_getgrps>, C<d_gethbyaddr>,
10409 C<d_gethbyname>, C<d_gethent>, C<d_gethname>, C<d_gethostbyaddr_r>,
10410 C<d_gethostbyname_r>, C<d_gethostent_r>, C<d_gethostprotos>,
10411 C<d_getitimer>, C<d_getlogin>, C<d_getlogin_r>, C<d_getmnt>,
10412 C<d_getmntent>, C<d_getnbyaddr>, C<d_getnbyname>, C<d_getnent>,
10413 C<d_getnetbyaddr_r>, C<d_getnetbyname_r>, C<d_getnetent_r>,
10414 C<d_getnetprotos>, C<d_getpagsz>, C<d_getpbyname>, C<d_getpbynumber>,
10415 C<d_getpent>, C<d_getpgid>, C<d_getpgrp2>, C<d_getpgrp>, C<d_getppid>,
10416 C<d_getprior>, C<d_getprotobyname_r>, C<d_getprotobynumber_r>,
10417 C<d_getprotoent_r>, C<d_getprotoprotos>, C<d_getprpwnam>, C<d_getpwent>,
10418 C<d_getpwent_r>, C<d_getpwnam_r>, C<d_getpwuid_r>, C<d_getsbyname>,
10419 C<d_getsbyport>, C<d_getsent>, C<d_getservbyname_r>, C<d_getservbyport_r>,
10420 C<d_getservent_r>, C<d_getservprotos>, C<d_getspnam>, C<d_getspnam_r>,
10421 C<d_gettimeod>, C<d_gmtime_r>, C<d_gnulibc>, C<d_grpasswd>, C<d_hasmntopt>,
10422 C<d_htonl>, C<d_index>, C<d_inetaton>, C<d_int64_t>, C<d_isascii>,
10423 C<d_isfinite>, C<d_isinf>, C<d_isnan>, C<d_isnanl>, C<d_killpg>,
10424 C<d_lchown>, C<d_ldbl_dig>, C<d_link>, C<d_localtime_r>, C<d_locconv>,
10425 C<d_lockf>, C<d_longdbl>, C<d_longlong>, C<d_lseekproto>, C<d_lstat>,
10426 C<d_madvise>, C<d_mblen>, C<d_mbstowcs>, C<d_mbtowc>, C<d_memchr>,
10427 C<d_memcmp>, C<d_memcpy>, C<d_memmove>, C<d_memset>, C<d_mkdir>,
10428 C<d_mkdtemp>, C<d_mkfifo>, C<d_mkstemp>, C<d_mkstemps>, C<d_mktime>,
10429 C<d_mmap>, C<d_modfl>, C<d_modfl_pow32_bug>, C<d_mprotect>, C<d_msg>,
10430 C<d_msg_ctrunc>, C<d_msg_dontroute>, C<d_msg_oob>, C<d_msg_peek>,
10431 C<d_msg_proxy>, C<d_msgctl>, C<d_msgget>, C<d_msghdr_s>, C<d_msgrcv>,
10432 C<d_msgsnd>, C<d_msync>, C<d_munmap>, C<d_mymalloc>, C<d_nice>,
10433 C<d_nl_langinfo>, C<d_nv_preserves_uv>
10437 C<nv_preserves_uv_bits>, C<d_off64_t>, C<d_old_pthread_create_joinable>,
10438 C<d_oldpthreads>, C<d_oldsock>, C<d_open3>, C<d_pathconf>, C<d_pause>,
10439 C<d_perl_otherlibdirs>, C<d_phostname>, C<d_pipe>, C<d_poll>,
10440 C<d_portable>, C<d_PRId64>, C<d_PRIeldbl>, C<d_PRIEUldbl>, C<d_PRIfldbl>,
10441 C<d_PRIFUldbl>, C<d_PRIgldbl>, C<d_PRIGUldbl>, C<d_PRIi64>, C<d_PRIo64>,
10442 C<d_PRIu64>, C<d_PRIx64>, C<d_PRIXU64>, C<d_procselfexe>,
10443 C<d_pthread_atfork>, C<d_pthread_yield>, C<d_pwage>, C<d_pwchange>,
10444 C<d_pwclass>, C<d_pwcomment>, C<d_pwexpire>, C<d_pwgecos>, C<d_pwpasswd>,
10445 C<d_pwquota>, C<d_qgcvt>, C<d_quad>, C<d_random_r>, C<d_readdir64_r>,
10446 C<d_readdir>, C<d_readdir_r>, C<d_readlink>, C<d_readv>, C<d_recvmsg>,
10447 C<d_rename>, C<d_rewinddir>, C<d_rmdir>, C<d_safebcpy>, C<d_safemcpy>,
10448 C<d_sanemcmp>, C<d_sbrkproto>, C<d_sched_yield>, C<d_scm_rights>,
10449 C<d_SCNfldbl>, C<d_seekdir>, C<d_select>, C<d_sem>, C<d_semctl>,
10450 C<d_semctl_semid_ds>, C<d_semctl_semun>, C<d_semget>, C<d_semop>,
10451 C<d_sendmsg>, C<d_setegid>, C<d_seteuid>, C<d_setgrent>, C<d_setgrent_r>,
10452 C<d_setgrps>, C<d_sethent>, C<d_sethostent_r>, C<d_setitimer>,
10453 C<d_setlinebuf>, C<d_setlocale>, C<d_setlocale_r>, C<d_setnent>,
10454 C<d_setnetent_r>, C<d_setpent>, C<d_setpgid>, C<d_setpgrp2>, C<d_setpgrp>,
10455 C<d_setprior>, C<d_setproctitle>, C<d_setprotoent_r>, C<d_setpwent>,
10456 C<d_setpwent_r>, C<d_setregid>, C<d_setresgid>, C<d_setresuid>,
10457 C<d_setreuid>, C<d_setrgid>, C<d_setruid>, C<d_setsent>, C<d_setservent_r>,
10458 C<d_setsid>, C<d_setvbuf>, C<d_sfio>, C<d_shm>, C<d_shmat>,
10459 C<d_shmatprototype>, C<d_shmctl>, C<d_shmdt>, C<d_shmget>, C<d_sigaction>,
10460 C<d_sigprocmask>, C<d_sigsetjmp>, C<d_sockatmark>, C<d_sockatmarkproto>,
10461 C<d_socket>, C<d_socklen_t>, C<d_sockpair>, C<d_socks5_init>, C<d_sqrtl>,
10462 C<d_srand48_r>, C<d_srandom_r>, C<d_sresgproto>, C<d_sresuproto>,
10463 C<d_statblks>, C<d_statfs_f_flags>, C<d_statfs_s>, C<d_statvfs>,
10464 C<d_stdio_cnt_lval>, C<d_stdio_ptr_lval>, C<d_stdio_ptr_lval_nochange_cnt>,
10465 C<d_stdio_ptr_lval_sets_cnt>, C<d_stdio_stream_array>, C<d_stdiobase>,
10466 C<d_stdstdio>, C<d_strchr>, C<d_strcoll>, C<d_strctcpy>, C<d_strerrm>,
10467 C<d_strerror>, C<d_strerror_r>, C<d_strftime>, C<d_strtod>, C<d_strtol>,
10468 C<d_strtold>, C<d_strtoll>, C<d_strtoq>, C<d_strtoul>, C<d_strtoull>,
10469 C<d_strtouq>, C<d_strxfrm>, C<d_suidsafe>, C<d_symlink>, C<d_syscall>,
10470 C<d_syscallproto>, C<d_sysconf>, C<d_sysernlst>, C<d_syserrlst>,
10471 C<d_system>, C<d_tcgetpgrp>, C<d_tcsetpgrp>, C<d_telldir>,
10472 C<d_telldirproto>, C<d_time>, C<d_times>, C<d_tm_tm_gmtoff>,
10473 C<d_tm_tm_zone>, C<d_tmpnam_r>, C<d_truncate>, C<d_ttyname_r>, C<d_tzname>,
10474 C<d_u32align>, C<d_ualarm>, C<d_umask>, C<d_uname>, C<d_union_semun>,
10475 C<d_unordered>, C<d_usleep>, C<d_usleepproto>, C<d_ustat>, C<d_vendorarch>,
10476 C<d_vendorbin>, C<d_vendorlib>, C<d_vfork>, C<d_void_closedir>,
10477 C<d_voidsig>, C<d_voidtty>, C<d_volatile>, C<d_vprintf>, C<d_wait4>,
10478 C<d_waitpid>, C<d_wcstombs>, C<d_wctomb>, C<d_writev>, C<d_xenix>, C<date>,
10479 C<db_hashtype>, C<db_prefixtype>, C<db_version_major>, C<db_version_minor>,
10480 C<db_version_patch>, C<defvoidused>, C<direntrytype>, C<dlext>, C<dlsrc>,
10481 C<doublesize>, C<drand01>, C<drand48_r_proto>, C<dynamic_ext>
10485 C<eagain>, C<ebcdic>, C<echo>, C<egrep>, C<emacs>, C<endgrent_r_proto>,
10486 C<endhostent_r_proto>, C<endnetent_r_proto>, C<endprotoent_r_proto>,
10487 C<endpwent_r_proto>, C<endservent_r_proto>, C<eunicefix>, C<exe_ext>,
10488 C<expr>, C<extensions>, C<extras>
10492 C<fflushall>, C<fflushNULL>, C<find>, C<firstmakefile>, C<flex>,
10493 C<fpossize>, C<fpostype>, C<freetype>, C<from>, C<full_ar>, C<full_csh>,
10498 C<gccosandvers>, C<gccversion>, C<getgrent_r_proto>, C<getgrgid_r_proto>,
10499 C<getgrnam_r_proto>, C<gethostbyaddr_r_proto>, C<gethostbyname_r_proto>,
10500 C<gethostent_r_proto>, C<getlogin_r_proto>, C<getnetbyaddr_r_proto>,
10501 C<getnetbyname_r_proto>, C<getnetent_r_proto>, C<getprotobyname_r_proto>,
10502 C<getprotobynumber_r_proto>, C<getprotoent_r_proto>, C<getpwent_r_proto>,
10503 C<getpwnam_r_proto>, C<getpwuid_r_proto>, C<getservbyname_r_proto>,
10504 C<getservbyport_r_proto>, C<getservent_r_proto>, C<getspnam_r_proto>,
10505 C<gidformat>, C<gidsign>, C<gidsize>, C<gidtype>, C<glibpth>, C<gmake>,
10506 C<gmtime_r_proto>, C<grep>, C<groupcat>, C<groupstype>, C<gzip>
10510 C<h_fcntl>, C<h_sysfile>, C<hint>, C<hostcat>
10514 C<i16size>, C<i16type>, C<i32size>, C<i32type>, C<i64size>, C<i64type>,
10515 C<i8size>, C<i8type>, C<i_arpainet>, C<i_bsdioctl>, C<i_crypt>, C<i_db>,
10516 C<i_dbm>, C<i_dirent>, C<i_dld>, C<i_dlfcn>, C<i_fcntl>, C<i_float>,
10517 C<i_fp>, C<i_fp_class>, C<i_gdbm>, C<i_grp>, C<i_ieeefp>, C<i_inttypes>,
10518 C<i_langinfo>, C<i_libutil>, C<i_limits>, C<i_locale>, C<i_machcthr>,
10519 C<i_malloc>, C<i_math>, C<i_memory>, C<i_mntent>, C<i_ndbm>, C<i_netdb>,
10520 C<i_neterrno>, C<i_netinettcp>, C<i_niin>, C<i_poll>, C<i_prot>,
10521 C<i_pthread>, C<i_pwd>, C<i_rpcsvcdbm>, C<i_sfio>, C<i_sgtty>, C<i_shadow>,
10522 C<i_socks>, C<i_stdarg>, C<i_stddef>, C<i_stdlib>, C<i_string>,
10523 C<i_sunmath>, C<i_sysaccess>, C<i_sysdir>, C<i_sysfile>, C<i_sysfilio>,
10524 C<i_sysin>, C<i_sysioctl>, C<i_syslog>, C<i_sysmman>, C<i_sysmode>,
10525 C<i_sysmount>, C<i_sysndir>, C<i_sysparam>, C<i_sysresrc>, C<i_syssecrt>,
10526 C<i_sysselct>, C<i_syssockio>, C<i_sysstat>, C<i_sysstatfs>,
10527 C<i_sysstatvfs>, C<i_systime>, C<i_systimek>, C<i_systimes>, C<i_systypes>,
10528 C<i_sysuio>, C<i_sysun>, C<i_sysutsname>, C<i_sysvfs>, C<i_syswait>,
10529 C<i_termio>, C<i_termios>, C<i_time>, C<i_unistd>, C<i_ustat>, C<i_utime>,
10530 C<i_values>, C<i_varargs>, C<i_varhdr>, C<i_vfork>,
10531 C<ignore_versioned_solibs>, C<inc_version_list>, C<inc_version_list_init>,
10532 C<incpath>, C<inews>, C<installarchlib>, C<installbin>, C<installman1dir>,
10533 C<installman3dir>, C<installprefix>, C<installprefixexp>,
10534 C<installprivlib>, C<installscript>, C<installsitearch>, C<installsitebin>,
10535 C<installsitelib>, C<installstyle>, C<installusrbinperl>,
10536 C<installvendorarch>, C<installvendorbin>, C<installvendorlib>, C<intsize>,
10537 C<issymlink>, C<ivdformat>, C<ivsize>, C<ivtype>
10541 C<known_extensions>, C<ksh>
10545 C<ld>, C<lddlflags>, C<ldflags>, C<ldflags_uselargefiles>, C<ldlibpthname>,
10546 C<less>, C<lib_ext>, C<libc>, C<libperl>, C<libpth>, C<libs>, C<libsdirs>,
10547 C<libsfiles>, C<libsfound>, C<libspath>, C<libswanted>,
10548 C<libswanted_uselargefiles>, C<line>, C<lint>, C<lkflags>, C<ln>, C<lns>,
10549 C<localtime_r_proto>, C<locincpth>, C<loclibpth>, C<longdblsize>,
10550 C<longlongsize>, C<longsize>, C<lp>, C<lpr>, C<ls>, C<lseeksize>,
10555 C<mail>, C<mailx>, C<make>, C<make_set_make>, C<mallocobj>, C<mallocsrc>,
10556 C<malloctype>, C<man1dir>, C<man1direxp>, C<man1ext>, C<man3dir>,
10557 C<man3direxp>, C<man3ext>
10561 C<Mcc>, C<mips_type>, C<mkdir>, C<mmaptype>, C<modetype>, C<more>,
10562 C<multiarch>, C<mv>, C<myarchname>, C<mydomain>, C<myhostname>, C<myuname>,
10563 C<n>, C<need_va_copy>, C<netdb_hlen_type>, C<netdb_host_type>,
10564 C<netdb_name_type>, C<netdb_net_type>, C<nm>, C<nm_opt>, C<nm_so_opt>,
10565 C<nonxs_ext>, C<nroff>, C<nveformat>, C<nvEUformat>, C<nvfformat>,
10566 C<nvFUformat>, C<nvgformat>, C<nvGUformat>, C<nvsize>, C<nvtype>
10570 C<o_nonblock>, C<obj_ext>, C<old_pthread_create_joinable>, C<optimize>,
10571 C<orderlib>, C<osname>, C<osvers>, C<otherlibdirs>
10575 C<package>, C<pager>, C<passcat>, C<patchlevel>, C<path_sep>, C<perl5>,
10576 C<perl>, C<perl_patchlevel>
10580 C<PERL_REVISION>, C<PERL_SUBVERSION>, C<PERL_VERSION>, C<perladmin>,
10581 C<perllibs>, C<perlpath>, C<pg>, C<phostname>, C<pidtype>, C<plibpth>,
10582 C<pm_apiversion>, C<pmake>, C<pr>, C<prefix>, C<prefixexp>, C<privlib>,
10583 C<privlibexp>, C<procselfexe>, C<prototype>, C<ptrsize>
10587 C<quadkind>, C<quadtype>
10591 C<randbits>, C<randfunc>, C<random_r_proto>, C<randseedtype>, C<ranlib>,
10592 C<rd_nodata>, C<readdir64_r_proto>, C<readdir_r_proto>, C<revision>, C<rm>,
10593 C<rmail>, C<run>, C<runnm>
10597 C<sched_yield>, C<scriptdir>, C<scriptdirexp>, C<sed>, C<seedfunc>,
10598 C<selectminbits>, C<selecttype>, C<sendmail>, C<setgrent_r_proto>,
10599 C<sethostent_r_proto>, C<setlocale_r_proto>, C<setnetent_r_proto>,
10600 C<setprotoent_r_proto>, C<setpwent_r_proto>, C<setservent_r_proto>, C<sh>,
10601 C<shar>, C<sharpbang>, C<shmattype>, C<shortsize>, C<shrpenv>, C<shsharp>,
10602 C<sig_count>, C<sig_name>, C<sig_name_init>, C<sig_num>, C<sig_num_init>,
10603 C<sig_size>, C<signal_t>, C<sitearch>, C<sitearchexp>, C<sitebin>,
10604 C<sitebinexp>, C<sitelib>, C<sitelib_stem>, C<sitelibexp>, C<siteprefix>,
10605 C<siteprefixexp>, C<sizesize>, C<sizetype>, C<sleep>, C<smail>, C<so>,
10606 C<sockethdr>, C<socketlib>, C<socksizetype>, C<sort>, C<spackage>,
10607 C<spitshell>, C<sPRId64>, C<sPRIeldbl>, C<sPRIEUldbl>, C<sPRIfldbl>,
10608 C<sPRIFUldbl>, C<sPRIgldbl>, C<sPRIGUldbl>, C<sPRIi64>, C<sPRIo64>,
10609 C<sPRIu64>, C<sPRIx64>, C<sPRIXU64>, C<srand48_r_proto>,
10610 C<srandom_r_proto>, C<src>, C<sSCNfldbl>, C<ssizetype>, C<startperl>,
10611 C<startsh>, C<static_ext>, C<stdchar>, C<stdio_base>, C<stdio_bufsiz>,
10612 C<stdio_cnt>, C<stdio_filbuf>, C<stdio_ptr>, C<stdio_stream_array>,
10613 C<strerror_r_proto>, C<strings>, C<submit>, C<subversion>, C<sysman>
10617 C<tail>, C<tar>, C<targetarch>, C<tbl>, C<tee>, C<test>, C<timeincl>,
10618 C<timetype>, C<tmpnam_r_proto>, C<to>, C<touch>, C<tr>, C<trnl>, C<troff>,
10623 C<u16size>, C<u16type>, C<u32size>, C<u32type>, C<u64size>, C<u64type>,
10624 C<u8size>, C<u8type>, C<uidformat>, C<uidsign>, C<uidsize>, C<uidtype>,
10625 C<uname>, C<uniq>, C<uquadtype>, C<use5005threads>, C<use64bitall>,
10626 C<use64bitint>, C<usecrosscompile>, C<usedl>, C<useithreads>,
10627 C<uselargefiles>, C<uselongdouble>, C<usemorebits>, C<usemultiplicity>,
10628 C<usemymalloc>, C<usenm>, C<useopcode>, C<useperlio>, C<useposix>,
10629 C<usereentrant>, C<usesfio>, C<useshrplib>, C<usesocks>, C<usethreads>,
10630 C<usevendorprefix>, C<usevfork>, C<usrinc>, C<uuname>, C<uvoformat>,
10631 C<uvsize>, C<uvtype>, C<uvuformat>, C<uvxformat>, C<uvXUformat>
10635 C<vendorarch>, C<vendorarchexp>, C<vendorbin>, C<vendorbinexp>,
10636 C<vendorlib>, C<vendorlib_stem>, C<vendorlibexp>, C<vendorprefix>,
10637 C<vendorprefixexp>, C<version>, C<version_patchlevel_string>,
10638 C<versiononly>, C<vi>, C<voidflags>
10642 C<xlibpth>, C<xs_apiversion>
10646 C<yacc>, C<yaccflags>
10658 =head2 Cwd - get pathname of current working directory
10668 =item getcwd and friends
10670 getcwd, cwd, fastcwd, fastgetcwd
10672 =item abs_path and friends
10674 abs_path, realpath, fast_abs_path
10686 =head2 DB - programmatic interface to the Perl debugging API (draft,
10698 =item Global Variables
10700 $DB::sub, %DB::sub, $DB::single, $DB::signal, $DB::trace, @DB::args,
10701 @DB::dbline, %DB::dbline, $DB::package, $DB::filename, $DB::subname,
10706 CLIENT->register(), CLIENT->evalcode(STRING), CLIENT->skippkg('D::hide'),
10707 CLIENT->run(), CLIENT->step(), CLIENT->next(), CLIENT->done()
10709 =item Client Callback Methods
10711 CLIENT->init(), CLIENT->prestop([STRING]), CLIENT->stop(), CLIENT->idle(),
10712 CLIENT->poststop([STRING]), CLIENT->evalcode(STRING), CLIENT->cleanup(),
10713 CLIENT->output(LIST)
10723 =head2 DB_File - Perl5 access to Berkeley DB version 1.x
10731 B<DB_HASH>, B<DB_BTREE>, B<DB_RECNO>
10735 =item Using DB_File with Berkeley DB version 2 or greater
10737 =item Interface to Berkeley DB
10739 =item Opening a Berkeley DB Database File
10741 =item Default Parameters
10743 =item In Memory Databases
10751 =item A Simple Example
10759 =item Changing the BTREE sort order
10761 =item Handling Duplicate Keys
10763 =item The get_dup() Method
10765 =item The find_dup() Method
10767 =item The del_dup() Method
10769 =item Matching Partial Keys
10777 =item The 'bval' Option
10779 =item A Simple Example
10781 =item Extra RECNO Methods
10783 B<$X-E<gt>push(list) ;>, B<$value = $X-E<gt>pop ;>, B<$X-E<gt>shift>,
10784 B<$X-E<gt>unshift(list) ;>, B<$X-E<gt>length>, B<$X-E<gt>splice(offset,
10785 length, elements);>
10787 =item Another Example
10791 =item THE API INTERFACE
10793 B<$status = $X-E<gt>get($key, $value [, $flags]) ;>, B<$status =
10794 $X-E<gt>put($key, $value [, $flags]) ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>del($key [,
10795 $flags]) ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>fd ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>seq($key,
10796 $value, $flags) ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>sync([$flags]) ;>
10800 B<filter_store_key>, B<filter_store_value>, B<filter_fetch_key>,
10801 B<filter_fetch_value>
10807 =item An Example -- the NULL termination problem.
10809 =item Another Example -- Key is a C int.
10813 =item HINTS AND TIPS
10817 =item Locking: The Trouble with fd
10819 =item Safe ways to lock a database
10821 B<Tie::DB_Lock>, B<Tie::DB_LockFile>, B<DB_File::Lock>
10823 =item Sharing Databases With C Applications
10825 =item The untie() Gotcha
10829 =item COMMON QUESTIONS
10833 =item Why is there Perl source in my database?
10835 =item How do I store complex data structures with DB_File?
10837 =item What does "Invalid Argument" mean?
10839 =item What does "Bareword 'DB_File' not allowed" mean?
10859 =head2 Data::Dumper - stringified perl data structures, suitable for both
10860 printing and C<eval>
10872 I<PACKAGE>->new(I<ARRAYREF [>, I<ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Dump I<or>
10873 I<PACKAGE>->Dump(I<ARRAYREF [>, I<ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Seen(I<[HASHREF]>),
10874 I<$OBJ>->Values(I<[ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Names(I<[ARRAYREF]>),
10881 =item Configuration Variables or Methods
10883 $Data::Dumper::Indent I<or> I<$OBJ>->Indent(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10884 $Data::Dumper::Purity I<or> I<$OBJ>->Purity(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10885 $Data::Dumper::Pad I<or> I<$OBJ>->Pad(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10886 $Data::Dumper::Varname I<or> I<$OBJ>->Varname(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10887 $Data::Dumper::Useqq I<or> I<$OBJ>->Useqq(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10888 $Data::Dumper::Terse I<or> I<$OBJ>->Terse(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10889 $Data::Dumper::Freezer I<or> $I<OBJ>->Freezer(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10890 $Data::Dumper::Toaster I<or> $I<OBJ>->Toaster(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10891 $Data::Dumper::Deepcopy I<or> $I<OBJ>->Deepcopy(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10892 $Data::Dumper::Quotekeys I<or> $I<OBJ>->Quotekeys(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10893 $Data::Dumper::Bless I<or> $I<OBJ>->Bless(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10894 $Data::Dumper::Maxdepth I<or> $I<OBJ>->Maxdepth(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10895 $Data::Dumper::Useperl I<or> $I<OBJ>->Useperl(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10896 $Data::Dumper::Sortkeys I<or> $I<OBJ>->Sortkeys(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10897 $Data::Dumper::Deparse I<or> $I<OBJ>->Deparse(I<[NEWVAL]>)
10917 =head2 Devel::DProf - a Perl code profiler
10925 =item PROFILE FORMAT
10937 =head2 Devel::PPPort, Perl/Pollution/Portability
10959 =head2 Devel::Peek - A data debugging tool for the XS programmer
10969 =item Runtime debugging
10971 =item Memory footprint debugging
10979 =item A simple scalar string
10981 =item A simple scalar number
10983 =item A simple scalar with an extra reference
10985 =item A reference to a simple scalar
10987 =item A reference to an array
10989 =item A reference to a hash
10991 =item Dumping a large array or hash
10993 =item A reference to an SV which holds a C pointer
10995 =item A reference to a subroutine
11009 =head2 Devel::SelfStubber - generate stubs for a SelfLoading module
11019 =head2 Digest:: - Modules that calculate message digests
11027 I<binary>, I<hex>, I<base64>
11031 $ctx = Digest->XXX($arg,...), $ctx = Digest->new(XXX => $arg,...), $ctx =
11032 Digest::XXX->new($arg,...), $ctx->reset, $ctx->add($data,...),
11033 $ctx->addfile($io_handle), $ctx->digest, $ctx->hexdigest, $ctx->b64digest
11041 =head2 Digest::MD5 - Perl interface to the MD5 Algorithm
11051 md5($data,...), md5_hex($data,...), md5_base64($data,...)
11055 $md5 = Digest::MD5->new, $md5->reset, $md5->add($data,...),
11056 $md5->addfile($io_handle), $md5->digest, $md5->hexdigest, $md5->b64digest
11068 =head2 DirHandle - supply object methods for directory handles
11080 =head2 Dumpvalue - provides screen dump of Perl data.
11092 C<arrayDepth>, C<hashDepth>, C<compactDump>, C<veryCompact>, C<globPrint>,
11093 C<dumpDBFiles>, C<dumpPackages>, C<dumpReused>, C<tick>, C<quoteHighBit>,
11094 C<printUndef>, C<usageOnly>, unctrl, subdump, bareStringify, quoteHighBit,
11099 dumpValue, dumpValues, dumpvars, set_quote, set_unctrl, compactDump,
11100 veryCompact, set, get
11106 =head2 DynaLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code
11114 @dl_library_path, @dl_resolve_using, @dl_require_symbols, @dl_librefs,
11115 @dl_modules, dl_error(), $dl_debug, dl_findfile(), dl_expandspec(),
11116 dl_load_file(), dl_unload_file(), dl_loadflags(), dl_find_symbol(),
11117 dl_find_symbol_anywhere(), dl_undef_symbols(), dl_install_xsub(),
11124 =head2 DynaLoader::XSLoader, XSLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into
11137 =head2 Encode - character encodings
11145 =item PERL ENCODING API
11149 =item Generic Encoding Interface
11151 $bytes = encode(ENCODING, $string[, CHECK]), $string = decode(ENCODING,
11152 $bytes[, CHECK]), from_to($string, FROM_ENCODING, TO_ENCODING[, CHECK])
11154 =item Handling Malformed Data
11156 Scheme 1, Scheme 2, Other Schemes
11160 $bytes = encode_utf8($string);, $string = decode_utf8($bytes [, CHECK]);
11162 =item Listing available encodings
11164 =item Defining Aliases
11168 =item Defining Encodings
11170 =item Encoding and IO
11172 =item Messing with Perl's Internals
11174 is_utf8(STRING [, CHECK]), _utf8_on(STRING), _utf8_off(STRING)
11180 =head2 Encode::lib::Encode::Alias, Encode::Alias - alias defintions to
11189 As a simple string, As a qr// compiled regular expression, e.g.:, As a code
11194 =item Alias overloading
11202 =head2 Encode::lib::Encode::Details, Encode::Details - implementation
11203 details of Encode.pm
11219 =item Characteristics of an Encoding
11221 =item Types of Encodings
11223 Fixed length 8-bit (or less) encodings, Fixed length 16-bit encodings,
11224 Fixed length 32-bit encodings, Multi-byte encodings, "Escape" encodings
11226 =item Specifying Encodings
11228 1. By name, 2. As an object
11230 =item Encoding Names
11232 The MIME name as defined in IETF RFCs, The name in the IANA registry, The
11233 name used by the organization that defined it
11235 =item Encoding Classification
11239 =item PERL ENCODING API
11243 =item Generic Encoding Interface
11245 =item Handling Malformed Data
11247 Scheme 1, Scheme 2, Other Schemes
11251 $bytes = encode_utf8($string);, $string = decode_utf8($bytes [,CHECK]);
11253 =item Other Encodings of Unicode
11255 =item Listing available encodings
11257 =item Defining Aliases
11259 As a simple string, As a qr// compiled regular expression, e.g.:, As a code
11262 =item Defining Encodings
11266 =item Encoding and IO
11268 =item Encoding How to ...
11270 IO with mixed content (faking iso-2022-*), MIME's Content-Length:, UTF-8
11271 strings in binary data, Perl/Encode wrappers on non-Unicode XS modules
11273 =item Messing with Perl's Internals
11275 is_utf8(STRING [, CHECK]), _utf8_on(STRING), _utf8_off(STRING)
11277 =item IMPLEMENTATION CLASSES
11279 -E<gt>name, -E<gt>new_sequence, -E<gt>encode($string,$check),
11280 -E<gt>decode($octets,$check)
11284 =item Compiled Encodings
11286 .enc, .ucm, .ucm, .c, .xs, ascii and iso-8859-*, IBM-1047 and two other
11287 variants of EBCDIC, symbol and dingbats as used by Tk on X11
11295 =head2 Encode::lib::Encode::Encoding, Encode::Encoding - Encode
11296 Implementation Base Class
11304 -E<gt>name, -E<gt>new_sequence, -E<gt>encode($string,$check),
11305 -E<gt>decode($octets,$check)
11309 =item Compiled Encodings
11311 .enc, .ucm, .ucm, .c, .xs, ascii and iso-8859-*, IBM-1047 and two other
11312 variants of EBCDIC, symbol and dingbats as used by Tk on X11
11318 =head2 Encode::lib::Encode::Supported, Encode::Supports -- Supported
11319 encodings by Encode
11327 =item Encoding Names
11331 =item Supported Encodings
11335 =item Built-in Encodings
11339 =item The CJK: Chinese, Japanese, Korean (Multibyte)
11341 Encode::CN -- Continental China, Encode::JP -- Japan, Encode::KR -- Korea,
11342 Encode::TW -- Taiwan, Encode::HanExtra -- More Chinese via CPAN
11344 =item Miscellaneous encodings
11346 Encode::EBCDIC, Encode::Symbols
11350 =item Encoding vs. Charset
11352 =item Encoding Classification (by Anton Tagunov and Dan Kogai)
11358 =head2 English - use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation
11371 =head2 Env - perl module that imports environment variables as scalars or
11386 =head2 Exporter - Implements default import method for modules
11396 =item How to Export
11398 =item Selecting What To Export
11400 =item How to Import
11402 C<use ModuleName;>, C<use ModuleName ();>, C<use ModuleName qw(...);>
11406 =item Advanced features
11410 =item Specialised Import Lists
11412 =item Exporting without using Exporter's import method
11414 =item Module Version Checking
11416 =item Managing Unknown Symbols
11418 =item Tag Handling Utility Functions
11420 =item Generating combined tags
11422 =item C<AUTOLOAD>ed Constants
11428 =head2 Exporter::Heavy - Exporter guts
11438 =head2 ExtUtils::Command - utilities to replace common UNIX commands in
11459 mv source... destination
11461 cp source... destination
11479 =head2 ExtUtils::Constant - generate XS code to import C header constants
11489 IV, UV, NV, PV, PVN, SV, YES, NO, UNDEF
11497 perl_stringify NAME
11501 memEQ_clause NAME, CHECKED_AT, INDENT
11503 assign INDENT, TYPE, PRE, POST, VALUE..
11507 switch_clause INDENT, NAMELEN, ITEMHASH, ITEM..
11515 C_constant, name, type, value, macro, default, pre, post, def_pre =item
11518 XS_constant PACKAGE, TYPES, SUBNAME, C_SUBNAME
11520 autoload PACKAGE, VERSION, AUTOLOADER
11522 WriteMakefileSnippet
11524 WriteConstants ATTRIBUTE =E<gt> VALUE [, ...], NAME, DEFAULT_TYPE,
11525 BREAKOUT_AT, NAMES, C_FILE, XS_FILE, SUBNAME, C_SUBNAME
11533 =head2 ExtUtils::Embed - Utilities for embedding Perl in C/C++ applications
11545 xsinit(), Examples, ldopts(), Examples, perl_inc(), ccflags(), ccdlflags(),
11546 ccopts(), xsi_header(), xsi_protos(@modules), xsi_body(@modules)
11556 =head2 ExtUtils::Install - install files from here to there
11566 =head2 ExtUtils::Installed - Inventory management of installed modules
11578 new(), modules(), files(), directories(), directory_tree(), validate(),
11579 packlist(), version()
11587 =head2 ExtUtils::Liblist - determine libraries to use and how to use them
11595 For static extensions, For dynamic extensions, For dynamic extensions
11601 =item LDLOADLIBS and LD_RUN_PATH
11611 =item VMS implementation
11613 =item Win32 implementation
11621 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_BeOS - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
11622 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
11634 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
11635 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
11643 canonpath, cflags, manifypods, perl_archive
11647 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_NW5 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
11648 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
11674 test_via_harness (o)
11676 tool_autosplit (override)
11694 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_OS2 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
11695 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
11709 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_Unix - methods used by ExtUtils::MakeMaker
11721 =item Preloaded methods
11741 =item SelfLoaded methods
11787 file_name_is_absolute
11793 =item Methods to actually produce chunks of text for the Makefile
11833 maybe_command_in_dirs
11861 post_initialize (o)
11873 replace_manpage_separator
11887 test_via_harness (o)
11889 test_via_script (o)
11919 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_VMS - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
11920 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
11930 =item Methods always loaded
11942 =item SelfLoaded methods
11944 guess_name (override)
11948 find_perl (override)
11952 maybe_command (override)
11954 maybe_command_in_dirs (override)
11956 perl_script (override)
11958 file_name_is_absolute (override)
11960 replace_manpage_separator
11962 init_others (override)
11964 constants (override)
11968 const_cccmd (override)
11970 pm_to_blib (override)
11972 tool_autosplit (override)
11974 tool_sxubpp (override)
11976 xsubpp_version (override)
11978 tools_other (override)
11988 top_targets (override)
11992 dynamic_lib (override)
11994 dynamic_bs (override)
11996 static_lib (override)
11998 manifypods (override)
12000 processPL (override)
12002 installbin (override)
12004 subdir_x (override)
12008 realclean (override)
12010 dist_basics (override)
12012 dist_core (override)
12014 dist_dir (override)
12016 dist_test (override)
12020 perldepend (override)
12022 makefile (override)
12026 test_via_harness (override)
12028 test_via_script (override)
12030 makeaperl (override)
12032 nicetext (override)
12034 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_Win32 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
12035 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
12061 test_via_harness (o)
12063 tool_autosplit (override)
12081 =head2 ExtUtils::MakeMaker - create an extension Makefile
12091 =item How To Write A Makefile.PL
12093 =item Default Makefile Behaviour
12101 =item PREFIX and LIB attribute
12105 =item Static Linking of a new Perl Binary
12107 =item Determination of Perl Library and Installation Locations
12109 =item Which architecture dependent directory?
12111 =item Using Attributes and Parameters
12113 ABSTRACT, ABSTRACT_FROM, AUTHOR, BINARY_LOCATION, C, CCFLAGS, CONFIG,
12114 CONFIGURE, DEFINE, DIR, DISTNAME, DL_FUNCS, DL_VARS, EXCLUDE_EXT,
12115 EXE_FILES, FIRST_MAKEFILE, FULLPERL, FUNCLIST, H, HTMLLIBPODS,
12116 HTMLSCRIPTPODS, IMPORTS, INC, INCLUDE_EXT, INSTALLARCHLIB, INSTALLBIN,
12117 INSTALLDIRS, INSTALLHTMLPRIVLIBDIR, INSTALLHTMLSCRIPTDIR,
12118 INSTALLHTMLSITELIBDIR, INSTALLMAN1DIR, INSTALLMAN3DIR, INSTALLPRIVLIB,
12119 INSTALLSCRIPT, INSTALLSITEARCH, INSTALLSITELIB, INST_ARCHLIB, INST_BIN,
12120 INST_EXE, INST_HTMLLIBDIR, INST_HTMLSCRIPTDIR, INST_LIB, INST_MAN1DIR,
12121 INST_MAN3DIR, INST_SCRIPT, LDFROM, LIB, LIBPERL_A, LIBS, LINKTYPE,
12122 MAKEAPERL, MAKEFILE, MAN1PODS, MAN3PODS, MAP_TARGET, MYEXTLIB, NAME,
12123 NEEDS_LINKING, NOECHO, NORECURS, NO_VC, OBJECT, OPTIMIZE, PERL, PERL_CORE,
12124 PERLMAINCC, PERL_ARCHLIB, PERL_LIB, PERL_MALLOC_OK, PERLRUN, PERM_RW,
12125 PERM_RWX, PL_FILES, PM, PMLIBDIRS, PM_FILTER, POLLUTE, PPM_INSTALL_EXEC,
12126 PPM_INSTALL_SCRIPT, PREFIX, PREREQ_PM, PREREQ_FATAL, PREREQ_PRINT,
12127 PRINT_PREREQ, SKIP, TEST_LIBS, VERSION, VERSION_FROM, XS, XSOPT,
12128 XSPROTOARG, XS_VERSION
12130 =item Additional lowercase attributes
12132 clean, depend, dist, dynamic_lib, linkext, macro, realclean, test,
12135 =item Overriding MakeMaker Methods
12137 =item Hintsfile support
12139 =item Distribution Support
12141 make distcheck, make skipcheck, make distclean, make manifest,
12142 make distdir, make tardist, make dist, make uutardist, make
12143 shdist, make zipdist, make ci
12145 =item Disabling an extension
12151 PERL_MM_OPT, PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT
12159 =head2 ExtUtils::Manifest - utilities to write and check a MANIFEST file
12167 =item MANIFEST.SKIP
12171 =item GLOBAL VARIABLES
12175 C<Not in MANIFEST:> I<file>, C<No such file:> I<file>, C<MANIFEST:> I<$!>,
12176 C<Added to MANIFEST:> I<file>
12180 B<PERL_MM_MANIFEST_DEBUG>
12188 =head2 ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap - make a bootstrap file for use by DynaLoader
12198 =head2 ExtUtils::Mksymlists - write linker options files for dynamic
12207 DLBASE, DL_FUNCS, DL_VARS, FILE, FUNCLIST, IMPORTS, NAME
12215 =head2 ExtUtils::Packlist - manage .packlist files
12227 new(), read(), write(), validate(), packlist_file()
12235 =head2 ExtUtils::testlib - add blib/* directories to @INC
12245 =head2 Fatal - replace functions with equivalents which succeed or die
12257 =head2 Fcntl - load the C Fcntl.h defines
12267 =item EXPORTED SYMBOLS
12271 =head2 File::Basename, fileparse - split a pathname into pieces
12279 fileparse_set_fstype, fileparse
12283 C<basename>, C<dirname>
12287 =head2 File::CheckTree, validate - run many filetest checks on a tree
12297 =head2 File::Compare - Compare files or filehandles
12311 =head2 File::Copy - Copy files or filehandles
12321 =item Special behaviour if C<syscopy> is defined (OS/2, VMS and Win32)
12323 rmscopy($from,$to[,$date_flag])
12335 =head2 File::DosGlob - DOS like globbing and then some
12345 =item EXPORTS (by request only)
12357 =head2 File::Find - Traverse a directory tree.
12365 B<find>, B<finddepth>
12371 C<wanted>, C<bydepth>, C<preprocess>, C<postprocess>, C<follow>,
12372 C<follow_fast>, C<follow_skip>, C<dangling_symlinks>, C<no_chdir>,
12373 C<untaint>, C<untaint_pattern>, C<untaint_skip>
12375 =item The wanted function
12377 C<$File::Find::dir> is the current directory name,, C<$_> is the current
12378 filename within that directory, C<$File::Find::name> is the complete
12379 pathname to the file
12387 $dont_use_nlink, symlinks
12395 =head2 File::Glob - Perl extension for BSD glob routine
12403 C<GLOB_ERR>, C<GLOB_LIMIT>, C<GLOB_MARK>, C<GLOB_NOCASE>, C<GLOB_NOCHECK>,
12404 C<GLOB_NOSORT>, C<GLOB_BRACE>, C<GLOB_NOMAGIC>, C<GLOB_QUOTE>,
12405 C<GLOB_TILDE>, C<GLOB_CSH>, C<GLOB_ALPHASORT>
12409 C<GLOB_NOSPACE>, C<GLOB_ABEND>
12417 =head2 File::Path - create or remove directory trees
12429 =head2 File::Spec - portably perform operations on file names
12439 canonpath, catdir, catfile, curdir, devnull, rootdir, tmpdir, updir,
12440 no_upwards, case_tolerant, file_name_is_absolute, path, join, splitpath,
12441 splitdir, catpath(), abs2rel, rel2abs()
12449 =head2 File::Spec::Cygwin - methods for Cygwin file specs
12459 =head2 File::Spec::Epoc - methods for Epoc file specs
12477 =head2 File::Spec::Functions - portably perform operations on file names
12495 =head2 File::Spec::Mac - File::Spec for Mac OS (Classic)
12523 file_name_is_absolute
12553 =head2 File::Spec::OS2 - methods for OS/2 file specs
12563 =head2 File::Spec::Unix - File::Spec for Unix, base for other File::Spec
12596 file_name_is_absolute
12618 =head2 File::Spec::VMS - methods for VMS file specs
12634 =item Methods always loaded
12636 canonpath (override)
12654 case_tolerant (override)
12658 file_name_is_absolute (override)
12660 splitpath (override)
12662 splitdir (override)
12676 =head2 File::Spec::Win32 - methods for Win32 file specs
12706 =head2 File::Temp - return name and handle of a temporary file safely
12730 =item MKTEMP FUNCTIONS
12744 =item POSIX FUNCTIONS
12754 =item ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS
12762 =item UTILITY FUNCTIONS
12770 =item PACKAGE VARIABLES
12772 B<safe_level>, STANDARD, MEDIUM, HIGH
12784 =item Temporary files and NFS
12796 =head2 File::stat - by-name interface to Perl's built-in stat() functions
12810 =head2 FileCache - keep more files open than the system permits
12822 =head2 FileHandle - supply object methods for filehandles
12830 $fh->print, $fh->printf, $fh->getline, $fh->getlines
12836 =head2 Filter::Simple - Simplified source filtering
12850 =item Disabling or changing <no> behaviour
12852 =item All-in-one interface
12854 =item Filtering only specific components of source code
12856 C<"code">, C<"executable">, C<"quotelike">, C<"string">, C<"regex">,
12859 =item Filtering only the code parts of source code
12861 Most source code ceases to be grammatically correct when it is broken up
12862 into the pieces between string literals and regexes. So the C<'code'>
12863 component filter behaves slightly differently from the other partial
12865 described in the previous section.
12867 =item Using Filter::Simple with an explicit C<import> subroutine
12869 =item Using Filter::Simple and Exporter together
12881 =head2 Filter::Util::Call - Perl Source Filter Utility Module
12891 =item B<use Filter::Util::Call>
12895 =item B<filter() and anonymous sub>
12897 B<$_>, B<$status>, B<filter_read> and B<filter_read_exact>, B<filter_del>
12905 =item Example 1: A simple filter.
12907 =item Example 2: Using the context
12909 =item Example 3: Using the context within the filter
12911 =item Example 4: Using filter_del
12915 =item Filter::Simple
12923 =head2 FindBin - Locate directory of original perl script
12931 =item EXPORTABLE VARIABLES
12943 =head2 GDBM_File - Perl5 access to the gdbm library.
12959 =head2 Getopt::Long - Extended processing of command line options
12967 =item Command Line Options, an Introduction
12969 =item Getting Started with Getopt::Long
12973 =item Simple options
12975 =item A little bit less simple options
12977 =item Mixing command line option with other arguments
12979 =item Options with values
12981 =item Options with multiple values
12983 =item Options with hash values
12985 =item User-defined subroutines to handle options
12987 =item Options with multiple names
12989 =item Case and abbreviations
12991 =item Summary of Option Specifications
12993 !, +, s, i, o, f, : I<type> [ I<desttype> ], : I<number> [ I<desttype> ], :
12998 =item Advanced Possibilities
13002 =item Object oriented interface
13004 =item Documentation and help texts
13006 =item Storing options in a hash
13010 =item The lonesome dash
13012 =item Argument callback
13016 =item Configuring Getopt::Long
13018 default, posix_default, auto_abbrev, getopt_compat, gnu_compat, gnu_getopt,
13019 require_order, permute, bundling (default: disabled), bundling_override
13020 (default: disabled), ignore_case (default: enabled), ignore_case_always
13021 (default: disabled), pass_through (default: disabled), prefix,
13022 prefix_pattern, debug (default: disabled)
13024 =item Return values and Errors
13030 =item Default destinations
13032 =item Alternative option starters
13034 =item Configuration variables
13038 =item Trouble Shooting
13042 =item Warning: Ignoring '!' modifier for short option
13044 =item GetOptions does not return a false result when an option is not
13047 =item GetOptions does not split the command line correctly
13049 =item How do I put a "-?" option into a Getopt::Long?
13055 =item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
13059 =head2 Getopt::Std, getopt - Process single-character switches with switch
13070 =head2 Hash::Util - A selection of general-utility hash subroutines
13080 =item Restricted hashes
13082 lock_keys, unlock_keys
13088 lock_value, unlock_value
13090 B<lock_hash>, B<unlock_hash>
13100 =head2 I18N::Collate - compare 8-bit scalar data according to the current
13111 =head2 I18N::LangTags - functions for dealing with RFC3066-style language
13122 the function is_language_tag($lang1)
13124 the function extract_language_tags($whatever)
13126 the function same_language_tag($lang1, $lang2)
13128 the function similarity_language_tag($lang1, $lang2)
13130 the function is_dialect_of($lang1, $lang2)
13132 the function super_languages($lang1)
13134 the function locale2language_tag($locale_identifier)
13136 the function encode_language_tag($lang1)
13138 the function alternate_language_tags($lang1)
13140 the function @langs = panic_languages(@accept_languages)
13144 =item ABOUT LOWERCASING
13146 =item ABOUT UNICODE PLAINTEXT LANGUAGE TAGS
13156 =head2 I18N::LangTags::List -- tags and names for human languages
13164 =item ABOUT LANGUAGE TAGS
13166 =item LIST OF LANGUAGES
13168 {ab} : Abkhazian, {ace} : Achinese, {ach} : Acoli, {ada} : Adangme, {aa} :
13169 Afar, {afh} : Afrihili, {af} : Afrikaans, [{afa} : Afro-Asiatic (Other)],
13170 {aka} : Akan, {akk} : Akkadian, {sq} : Albanian, {ale} : Aleut, [{alg} :
13171 Algonquian languages], [{tut} : Altaic (Other)], {am} : Amharic, {i-ami} :
13172 Ami, [{apa} : Apache languages], {ar} : Arabic, {arc} : Aramaic, {arp} :
13173 Arapaho, {arn} : Araucanian, {arw} : Arawak, {hy} : Armenian, [{art} :
13174 Artificial (Other)], {as} : Assamese, [{ath} : Athapascan languages],
13175 [{aus} : Australian languages], [{map} : Austronesian (Other)], {ava} :
13176 Avaric, {ae} : Avestan, {awa} : Awadhi, {ay} : Aymara, {az} : Azerbaijani,
13177 {ban} : Balinese, [{bat} : Baltic (Other)], {bal} : Baluchi, {bam} :
13178 Bambara, [{bai} : Bamileke languages], {bad} : Banda, [{bnt} : Bantu
13179 (Other)], {bas} : Basa, {ba} : Bashkir, {eu} : Basque, {btk} : Batak
13180 (Indonesia), {bej} : Beja, {be} : Belarusian, {bem} : Bemba, {bn} :
13181 Bengali, [{ber} : Berber (Other)], {bho} : Bhojpuri, {bh} : Bihari, {bik} :
13182 Bikol, {bin} : Bini, {bi} : Bislama, {bs} : Bosnian, {bra} : Braj, {br} :
13183 Breton, {bug} : Buginese, {bg} : Bulgarian, {i-bnn} : Bunun, {bua} :
13184 Buriat, {my} : Burmese, {cad} : Caddo, {car} : Carib, {ca} : Catalan,
13185 [{cau} : Caucasian (Other)], {ceb} : Cebuano, [{cel} : Celtic (Other)],
13186 [{cai} : Central American Indian (Other)], {chg} : Chagatai, [{cmc} :
13187 Chamic languages], {ch} : Chamorro, {ce} : Chechen, {chr} : Cherokee, {chy}
13188 : Cheyenne, {chb} : Chibcha, {ny} : Chichewa, {zh} : Chinese, {chn} :
13189 Chinook Jargon, {chp} : Chipewyan, {cho} : Choctaw, {cu} : Church Slavic,
13190 {chk} : Chuukese, {cv} : Chuvash, {cop} : Coptic, {kw} : Cornish, {co} :
13191 Corsican, {cre} : Cree, {mus} : Creek, [{cpe} : English-based Creoles and
13192 pidgins (Other)], [{cpf} : French-based Creoles and pidgins (Other)],
13193 [{cpp} : Portuguese-based Creoles and pidgins (Other)], [{crp} : Creoles
13194 and pidgins (Other)], {hr} : Croatian, [{cus} : Cushitic (Other)], {cs} :
13195 Czech, {dak} : Dakota, {da} : Danish, {day} : Dayak, {i-default} : Default
13196 (Fallthru) Language, {del} : Delaware, {din} : Dinka, {div} : Divehi, {doi}
13197 : Dogri, {dgr} : Dogrib, [{dra} : Dravidian (Other)], {dua} : Duala, {nl} :
13198 Dutch, {dum} : Middle Dutch (ca.1050-1350), {dyu} : Dyula, {dz} : Dzongkha,
13199 {efi} : Efik, {egy} : Ancient Egyptian, {eka} : Ekajuk, {elx} : Elamite,
13200 {en} : English, {enm} : Old English (1100-1500), {ang} : Old English
13201 (ca.450-1100), {eo} : Esperanto, {et} : Estonian, {ewe} : Ewe, {ewo} :
13202 Ewondo, {fan} : Fang, {fat} : Fanti, {fo} : Faroese, {fj} : Fijian, {fi} :
13203 Finnish, [{fiu} : Finno-Ugrian (Other)], {fon} : Fon, {fr} : French, {frm}
13204 : Middle French (ca.1400-1600), {fro} : Old French (842-ca.1400), {fy} :
13205 Frisian, {fur} : Friulian, {ful} : Fulah, {gaa} : Ga, {gd} : Scots Gaelic,
13206 {gl} : Gallegan, {lug} : Ganda, {gay} : Gayo, {gba} : Gbaya, {gez} : Geez,
13207 {ka} : Georgian, {de} : German, {gmh} : Middle High German (ca.1050-1500),
13208 {goh} : Old High German (ca.750-1050), [{gem} : Germanic (Other)], {gil} :
13209 Gilbertese, {gon} : Gondi, {gor} : Gorontalo, {got} : Gothic, {grb} :
13210 Grebo, {grc} : Ancient Greek, {el} : Modern Greek, {gn} : Guarani, {gu} :
13211 Gujarati, {gwi} : Gwich'in, {hai} : Haida, {ha} : Hausa, {haw} : Hawaiian,
13212 {he} : Hebrew, {hz} : Herero, {hil} : Hiligaynon, {him} : Himachali, {hi} :
13213 Hindi, {ho} : Hiri Motu, {hit} : Hittite, {hmn} : Hmong, {hu} : Hungarian,
13214 {hup} : Hupa, {iba} : Iban, {is} : Icelandic, {ibo} : Igbo, {ijo} : Ijo,
13215 {ilo} : Iloko, [{inc} : Indic (Other)], [{ine} : Indo-European (Other)],
13216 {id} : Indonesian, {ia} : Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language
13217 Association), {ie} : Interlingue, {iu} : Inuktitut, {ik} : Inupiaq, [{ira}
13218 : Iranian (Other)], {ga} : Irish, {mga} : Middle Irish (900-1200), {sga} :
13219 Old Irish (to 900), [{iro} : Iroquoian languages], {it} : Italian, {ja} :
13220 Japanese, {jw} : Javanese, {jrb} : Judeo-Arabic, {jpr} : Judeo-Persian,
13221 {kab} : Kabyle, {kac} : Kachin, {kl} : Kalaallisut, {kam} : Kamba, {kn} :
13222 Kannada, {kau} : Kanuri, {kaa} : Kara-Kalpak, {kar} : Karen, {ks} :
13223 Kashmiri, {kaw} : Kawi, {kk} : Kazakh, {kha} : Khasi, {km} : Khmer, [{khi}
13224 : Khoisan (Other)], {kho} : Khotanese, {ki} : Kikuyu, {kmb} : Kimbundu,
13225 {rw} : Kinyarwanda, {ky} : Kirghiz, {i-klingon} : Klingon, {kv} : Komi,
13226 {kon} : Kongo, {kok} : Konkani, {ko} : Korean, {kos} : Kosraean, {kpe} :
13227 Kpelle, {kro} : Kru, {kj} : Kuanyama, {kum} : Kumyk, {ku} : Kurdish, {kru}
13228 : Kurukh, {kut} : Kutenai, {lad} : Ladino, {lah} : Lahnda, {lam} : Lamba,
13229 {lo} : Lao, {la} : Latin, {lv} : Latvian, {lb} : Letzeburgesch, {lez} :
13230 Lezghian, {ln} : Lingala, {lt} : Lithuanian, {nds} : Low German, {loz} :
13231 Lozi, {lub} : Luba-Katanga, {lua} : Luba-Lulua, {lui} : Luiseno, {lun} :
13232 Lunda, {luo} : Luo (Kenya and Tanzania), {lus} : Lushai, {mk} : Macedonian,
13233 {mad} : Madurese, {mag} : Magahi, {mai} : Maithili, {mak} : Makasar, {mg} :
13234 Malagasy, {ms} : Malay, {ml} : Malayalam, {mt} : Maltese, {mnc} : Manchu,
13235 {mdr} : Mandar, {man} : Mandingo, {mni} : Manipuri, [{mno} : Manobo
13236 languages], {gv} : Manx, {mi} : Maori, {mr} : Marathi, {chm} : Mari, {mh} :
13237 Marshall, {mwr} : Marwari, {mas} : Masai, [{myn} : Mayan languages], {men}
13238 : Mende, {mic} : Micmac, {min} : Minangkabau, {i-mingo} : Mingo, [{mis} :
13239 Miscellaneous languages], {moh} : Mohawk, {mo} : Moldavian, [{mkh} :
13240 Mon-Khmer (Other)], {lol} : Mongo, {mn} : Mongolian, {mos} : Mossi, [{mul}
13241 : Multiple languages], [{mun} : Munda languages], {nah} : Nahuatl, {na} :
13242 Nauru, {nv} : Navajo, {nd} : North Ndebele, {nr} : South Ndebele, {ng} :
13243 Ndonga, {ne} : Nepali, {new} : Newari, {nia} : Nias, [{nic} :
13244 Niger-Kordofanian (Other)], [{ssa} : Nilo-Saharan (Other)], {niu} : Niuean,
13245 {non} : Old Norse, [{nai} : North American Indian], {se} : Northern Sami,
13246 {no} : Norwegian, {nb} : Norwegian Bokmal, {nn} : Norwegian Nynorsk, [{nub}
13247 : Nubian languages], {nym} : Nyamwezi, {nyn} : Nyankole, {nyo} : Nyoro,
13248 {nzi} : Nzima, {oc} : Occitan (post 1500), {oji} : Ojibwa, {or} : Oriya,
13249 {om} : Oromo, {osa} : Osage, {os} : Ossetian; Ossetic, [{oto} : Otomian
13250 languages], {pal} : Pahlavi, {i-pwn} : Paiwan, {pau} : Palauan, {pi} :
13251 Pali, {pam} : Pampanga, {pag} : Pangasinan, {pa} : Panjabi, {pap} :
13252 Papiamento, [{paa} : Papuan (Other)], {fa} : Persian, {peo} : Old Persian
13253 (ca.600-400 B.C.), [{phi} : Philippine (Other)], {phn} : Phoenician, {pon}
13254 : Pohnpeian, {pl} : Polish, {pt} : Portuguese, [{pra} : Prakrit languages],
13255 {pro} : Old Provencal (to 1500), {ps} : Pushto, {qu} : Quechua, {rm} :
13256 Raeto-Romance, {raj} : Rajasthani, {rap} : Rapanui, {rar} : Rarotongan,
13257 [{qaa - qtz} : Reserved for local use.], [{roa} : Romance (Other)], {ro} :
13258 Romanian, {rom} : Romany, {rn} : Rundi, {ru} : Russian, [{sal} : Salishan
13259 languages], {sam} : Samaritan Aramaic, [{smi} : Sami languages (Other)],
13260 {sm} : Samoan, {sad} : Sandawe, {sg} : Sango, {sa} : Sanskrit, {sat} :
13261 Santali, {sc} : Sardinian, {sas} : Sasak, {sco} : Scots, {sel} : Selkup,
13262 [{sem} : Semitic (Other)], {sr} : Serbian, {srr} : Serer, {shn} : Shan,
13263 {sn} : Shona, {sid} : Sidamo, {sgn-...} : Sign Languages, {bla} : Siksika,
13264 {sd} : Sindhi, {si} : Sinhalese, [{sit} : Sino-Tibetan (Other)], [{sio} :
13265 Siouan languages], {den} : Slave (Athapascan), [{sla} : Slavic (Other)],
13266 {sk} : Slovak, {sl} : Slovenian, {sog} : Sogdian, {so} : Somali, {son} :
13267 Songhai, {snk} : Soninke, {wen} : Sorbian languages, {nso} : Northern
13268 Sotho, {st} : Southern Sotho, [{sai} : South American Indian (Other)], {es}
13269 : Spanish, {suk} : Sukuma, {sux} : Sumerian, {su} : Sundanese, {sus} :
13270 Susu, {sw} : Swahili, {ss} : Swati, {sv} : Swedish, {syr} : Syriac, {tl} :
13271 Tagalog, {ty} : Tahitian, [{tai} : Tai (Other)], {tg} : Tajik, {tmh} :
13272 Tamashek, {ta} : Tamil, {i-tao} : Tao, {tt} : Tatar, {i-tay} : Tayal, {te}
13273 : Telugu, {ter} : Tereno, {tet} : Tetum, {th} : Thai, {bo} : Tibetan, {tig}
13274 : Tigre, {ti} : Tigrinya, {tem} : Timne, {tiv} : Tiv, {tli} : Tlingit,
13275 {tpi} : Tok Pisin, {tkl} : Tokelau, {tog} : Tonga (Nyasa), {to} : Tonga
13276 (Tonga Islands), {tsi} : Tsimshian, {ts} : Tsonga, {i-tsu} : Tsou, {tn} :
13277 Tswana, {tum} : Tumbuka, {tr} : Turkish, {ota} : Ottoman Turkish
13278 (1500-1928), {tk} : Turkmen, {tvl} : Tuvalu, {tyv} : Tuvinian, {tw} : Twi,
13279 {uga} : Ugaritic, {ug} : Uighur, {uk} : Ukrainian, {umb} : Umbundu, {und} :
13280 Undetermined, {ur} : Urdu, {uz} : Uzbek, {vai} : Vai, {ven} : Venda, {vi} :
13281 Vietnamese, {vo} : Volapuk, {vot} : Votic, [{wak} : Wakashan languages],
13282 {wal} : Walamo, {war} : Waray, {was} : Washo, {cy} : Welsh, {wo} : Wolof,
13283 {x-...} : Unregistered (Semi-Private Use), {xh} : Xhosa, {sah} : Yakut,
13284 {yao} : Yao, {yap} : Yapese, {yi} : Yiddish, {yo} : Yoruba, [{ypk} : Yupik
13285 languages], {znd} : Zande, [{zap} : Zapotec], {zen} : Zenaga, {za} :
13286 Zhuang, {zu} : Zulu, {zun} : Zuni
13290 =item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
13296 =head2 I18N::Langinfo - query locale information
13314 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
13318 =head2 IO - load various IO modules
13328 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Dir, IO::Dir - supply object methods for directory
13337 new ( [ DIRNAME ] ), open ( DIRNAME ), read (), seek ( POS ), tell (),
13338 rewind (), close (), tie %hash, IO::Dir, DIRNAME [, OPTIONS ]
13348 =head2 IO::lib::IO::File, IO::File - supply object methods for filehandles
13358 new ( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ), new_tmpfile
13362 open( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] )
13370 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Handle, IO::Handle - supply object methods for I/O
13381 new (), new_from_fd ( FD, MODE )
13385 $io->fdopen ( FD, MODE ), $io->opened, $io->getline, $io->getlines,
13386 $io->ungetc ( ORD ), $io->write ( BUF, LEN [, OFFSET ] ), $io->error,
13387 $io->clearerr, $io->sync, $io->flush, $io->printflush ( ARGS ),
13388 $io->blocking ( [ BOOL ] ), $io->untaint
13400 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Pipe, IO::Pipe - supply object methods for pipes
13410 new ( [READER, WRITER] )
13414 reader ([ARGS]), writer ([ARGS]), handles ()
13424 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Poll, IO::Poll - Object interface to system poll call
13434 mask ( IO [, EVENT_MASK ] ), poll ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), events ( IO ), remove (
13435 IO ), handles( [ EVENT_MASK ] )
13445 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Seekable, IO::Seekable - supply seek based methods for
13454 $io->getpos, $io->setpos, $io->seek ( POS, WHENCE ), WHENCE=0 (SEEK_SET),
13455 WHENCE=1 (SEEK_CUR), WHENCE=2 (SEEK_END), $io->sysseek( POS, WHENCE ),
13464 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Select, IO::Select - OO interface to the select system
13475 new ( [ HANDLES ] )
13479 add ( HANDLES ), remove ( HANDLES ), exists ( HANDLE ), handles, can_read (
13480 [ TIMEOUT ] ), can_write ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), has_exception ( [ TIMEOUT ] ),
13481 count (), bits(), select ( READ, WRITE, ERROR [, TIMEOUT ] )
13491 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Socket, IO::Socket - Object interface to socket
13506 accept([PKG]), socketpair(DOMAIN, TYPE, PROTOCOL), atmark, connected,
13507 protocol, sockdomain, sockopt(OPT [, VAL]), socktype, timeout([VAL])
13517 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Socket::INET, IO::Socket::INET - Object interface for
13518 AF_INET domain sockets
13534 sockaddr (), sockport (), sockhost (), peeraddr (), peerport (), peerhost
13547 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Socket::UNIX, IO::Socket::UNIX - Object interface for
13548 AF_UNIX domain sockets
13562 hostpath(), peerpath()
13572 =head2 IPC::Open2, open2 - open a process for both reading and writing
13586 =head2 IPC::Open3, open3 - open a process for reading, writing, and error
13599 =head2 IPC::SysV - SysV IPC constants
13617 =head2 IPC::SysV::Msg, IPC::Msg - SysV Msg IPC object class
13627 new ( KEY , FLAGS ), id, rcv ( BUF, LEN [, TYPE [, FLAGS ]] ), remove, set
13628 ( STAT ), set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), snd ( TYPE, MSG [,
13639 =head2 IPC::SysV::Semaphore, IPC::Semaphore - SysV Semaphore IPC object
13650 new ( KEY , NSEMS , FLAGS ), getall, getncnt ( SEM ), getpid ( SEM ),
13651 getval ( SEM ), getzcnt ( SEM ), id, op ( OPLIST ), remove, set ( STAT ),
13652 set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), setall ( VALUES ), setval ( N
13663 =head2 List::Utilib::List::Util, List::Util - A selection of
13664 general-utility list subroutines
13672 first BLOCK LIST, max LIST, maxstr LIST, min LIST, minstr LIST, reduce
13673 BLOCK LIST, shuffle LIST, sum LIST
13677 =item SUGGESTED ADDITIONS
13683 =head2 List::Utilib::Scalar::Util, Scalar::Util - A selection of
13684 general-utility scalar subroutines
13692 blessed EXPR, dualvar NUM, STRING, isweak EXPR, openhandle FH, reftype
13693 EXPR, tainted EXPR, weaken REF
13703 =head2 Locale::Constants - constants for Locale codes
13711 =item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
13715 Locale::Language, Locale::Country, Locale::Script, Locale::Currency
13723 =head2 Locale::Country - ISO codes for country identification (ISO 3166)
13731 B<alpha-2>, B<alpha-3>, B<numeric>
13733 =item CONVERSION ROUTINES
13735 code2country( CODE, [ CODESET ] ), country2code( STRING, [ CODESET ] ),
13736 country_code2code( CODE, CODESET, CODESET )
13738 =item QUERY ROUTINES
13740 C<all_country_codes( [ CODESET ] )>, C<all_country_names( [ CODESET ] )>
13742 =item SEMI-PRIVATE ROUTINES
13748 =item rename_country
13756 =item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
13760 Locale::Language, Locale::Script, Locale::Currency, Locale::SubCountry, ISO
13761 3166-1, http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/index.html,
13762 http://www.egt.ie/standards/iso3166/iso3166-1-en.html,
13763 http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/docs/app-f.html
13771 =head2 Locale::Currency - ISO three letter codes for currency
13772 identification (ISO 4217)
13782 =item CONVERSION ROUTINES
13784 code2currency(), currency2code()
13786 =item QUERY ROUTINES
13788 C<all_currency_codes()>, C<all_currency_names()>
13792 =item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
13796 Locale::Country, Locale::Script, ISO 4217:1995,
13797 http://www.bsi-global.com/iso4217currency
13805 =head2 Locale::Language - ISO two letter codes for language identification
13814 =item CONVERSION ROUTINES
13816 code2language(), language2code()
13818 =item QUERY ROUTINES
13820 C<all_language_codes()>, C<all_language_names()>
13824 =item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
13828 Locale::Country, Locale::Script, Locale::Currency, ISO 639:1988 (E/F),
13829 http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/langhome.html
13837 =head2 Locale::Maketext -- framework for localization
13845 =item QUICK OVERVIEW
13851 =item Construction Methods
13853 =item The "maketext" Method
13855 $lh->fail_with I<or> $lh->fail_with(I<PARAM>), $lh->failure_handler_auto
13857 =item Utility Methods
13859 $language->quant($number, $singular), $language->quant($number, $singular,
13860 $plural), $language->quant($number, $singular, $plural, $negative),
13861 $language->numf($number), $language->sprintf($format, @items),
13862 $language->language_tag(), $language->encoding()
13864 =item Language Handle Attributes and Internals
13868 =item LANGUAGE CLASS HIERARCHIES
13870 =item ENTRIES IN EACH LEXICON
13872 =item BRACKET NOTATION
13874 =item AUTO LEXICONS
13876 =item CONTROLLING LOOKUP FAILURE
13878 =item HOW TO USE MAKETEXT
13882 =item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
13888 =head2 Locale::Maketext::TPJ13 -- article about software localization
13896 =item Localization and Perl: gettext breaks, Maketext fixes
13900 =item A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen To You
13902 =item The Linguistic View
13904 =item Breaking gettext
13906 =item Replacing gettext
13908 =item Buzzwords: Abstraction and Encapsulation
13910 =item Buzzword: Isomorphism
13912 =item Buzzword: Inheritance
13914 =item Buzzword: Concision
13916 =item The Devil in the Details
13918 =item The Proof in the Pudding: Localizing Web Sites
13926 =head2 Locale::Script - ISO codes for script identification (ISO 15924)
13934 B<alpha-2>, B<alpha-3>, B<numeric>
13938 =item SPECIAL CODES
13942 =item CONVERSION ROUTINES
13944 code2script( CODE, [ CODESET ] ), script2code( STRING, [ CODESET ] ),
13945 script_code2code( CODE, CODESET, CODESET )
13947 =item QUERY ROUTINES
13949 C<all_script_codes ( [ CODESET ] )>, C<all_script_names ( [ CODESET ] )>
13953 =item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
13957 Locale::Language, Locale::Currency, Locale::Country, ISO 15924,
13958 http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso15924/
13966 =head2 MIME::Base64 - Encoding and decoding of base64 strings
13974 encode_base64($str, [$eol]), decode_base64($str)
13978 Premature end of base64 data, Premature padding of base64 data
13986 =head2 MIME::Base64::QuotedPrint, MIME::QuotedPrint - Encoding and decoding
13987 of quoted-printable strings
13995 encode_qp($str), decode_qp($str);
14001 =head2 Math::BigFloat - Arbitrary size floating point math package
14011 =item Canonical notation
14015 =item C<mantissa()>, C<exponent()> and C<parts()>
14017 =item Accuracy vs. Precision
14021 ffround ( +$scale ), ffround ( -$scale ), ffround ( 0 ), fround ( +$scale
14022 ), fround ( -$scale ) and fround ( 0 )
14030 =item Autocreating constants
14036 =item Using Math::BigInt::Lite
14044 stringify, bstr(), bdiv, Modifying and =, bpow
14052 =head2 Math::BigInt - Arbitrary size integer math package
14060 Canonical notation, Input, Output
14082 =item is_one()/is_zero()/is_nan()/is_inf()
14084 =item is_positive()/is_negative()
14086 $x->is_positive(); # true if >= 0
14087 $x->is_negative(); # true if < 0
14089 =item is_odd()/is_even()/is_int()
14171 =item ACCURACY and PRECISION
14181 =item Rounding mode R
14183 'trunc', 'even', 'odd', '+inf', '-inf', 'zero', Precision, Accuracy
14184 (significant digits), Setting/Accessing, Creating numbers, Usage,
14185 Precedence, Overriding globals, Local settings, Rounding, Default values,
14198 =item mantissa(), exponent() and parts()
14206 =item Autocreating constants
14212 =item Alternative math libraries
14218 =item Subclassing Math::BigInt
14226 bsqrt(), div(), blog()
14232 Out of Memory!, Fails to load Calc on Perl prior 5.6.0
14236 stringify, bstr(), bsstr() and 'cmp', int(), length, bdiv, infinity
14237 handling, Modifying and =, bpow, Overloading -$x, Mixing different object
14238 types, bsqrt(), brsft()
14248 =head2 Math::BigInt::Calc - Pure Perl module to support Math::BigInt
14258 =item WRAP YOUR OWN
14262 This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
14264 the same terms as Perl itself.
14272 =head2 Math::BigRat - arbitrarily big rationals
14296 $d = $x->denominator();
14312 =head2 Math::Complex - complex numbers and associated mathematical
14325 =item STRINGIFICATION
14329 =item CHANGED IN PERL 5.6
14335 =item ERRORS DUE TO DIVISION BY ZERO OR LOGARITHM OF ZERO
14337 =item ERRORS DUE TO INDIGESTIBLE ARGUMENTS
14345 =head2 Math::Trig - trigonometric functions
14353 =item TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS
14359 =item ERRORS DUE TO DIVISION BY ZERO
14361 =item SIMPLE (REAL) ARGUMENTS, COMPLEX RESULTS
14365 =item PLANE ANGLE CONVERSIONS
14367 =item RADIAL COORDINATE CONVERSIONS
14371 =item COORDINATE SYSTEMS
14373 =item 3-D ANGLE CONVERSIONS
14375 cartesian_to_cylindrical, cartesian_to_spherical, cylindrical_to_cartesian,
14376 cylindrical_to_spherical, spherical_to_cartesian, spherical_to_cylindrical
14380 =item GREAT CIRCLE DISTANCES AND DIRECTIONS
14386 =item CAVEAT FOR GREAT CIRCLE FORMULAS
14396 =head2 Memoize - Make your functions faster by trading space for time
14414 =item C<SCALAR_CACHE>, C<LIST_CACHE>
14416 C<MEMORY>, C<HASH>, C<TIE>, C<FAULT>, C<MERGE>
14420 =item OTHER FACILITIES
14426 =item C<flush_cache>
14432 =item PERSISTENT CACHE SUPPORT
14434 =item EXPIRATION SUPPORT
14442 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
14448 =head2 Memoize::AnyDBM_File - glue to provide EXISTS for AnyDBM_File for
14457 =head2 Memoize::Expire - Plug-in module for automatic expiration of
14468 TIEHASH, EXISTS, STORE
14480 =head2 Memoize::ExpireFile - test for Memoize expiration semantics
14488 =head2 Memoize::ExpireTest - test for Memoize expiration semantics
14496 =head2 Memoize::NDBM_File - glue to provide EXISTS for NDBM_File for
14505 =head2 Memoize::SDBM_File - glue to provide EXISTS for SDBM_File for
14514 =head2 Memoize::Storable - store Memoized data in Storable database
14522 =head2 NDBM_File - Tied access to ndbm files
14530 C<O_RDONLY>, C<O_WRONLY>, C<O_RDWR>
14536 =item C<ndbm store returned -1, errno 22, key "..." at ...>
14540 =item BUGS AND WARNINGS
14544 =head2 NEXT - Provide a pseudo-class NEXT that allows method redispatch
14554 =item Enforcing redispatch
14556 =item Avoiding repetitions
14562 =item BUGS AND IRRITATIONS
14568 =head2 Net::Cmd - Network Command class (as used by FTP, SMTP etc)
14578 debug ( VALUE ), message (), code (), ok (), status (), datasend ( DATA ),
14581 =item CLASS METHODS
14583 debug_print ( DIR, TEXT ), debug_text ( TEXT ), command ( CMD [, ARGS, ...
14584 ]), unsupported (), response (), parse_response ( TEXT ), getline (),
14585 ungetline ( TEXT ), read_until_dot (), tied_fh ()
14595 =head2 Net::Config - Local configuration data for libnet
14605 requires_firewall HOST
14607 =item NetConfig VALUES
14609 nntp_hosts, snpp_hosts, pop3_hosts, smtp_hosts, ph_hosts, daytime_hosts,
14610 time_hosts, inet_domain, ftp_firewall, ftp_firewall_type, ftp_ext_passive,
14611 ftp_int_pasive, local_netmask, test_hosts, test_exists
14615 =head2 Net::Domain - Attempt to evaluate the current host's internet name
14624 hostfqdn (), hostname (), hostdomain ()
14632 =head2 Net::FTP - FTP Client class
14644 new (HOST [,OPTIONS])
14648 login ([LOGIN [,PASSWORD [, ACCOUNT] ] ]), authorize ( [AUTH [, RESP]]),
14649 site (ARGS), type (TYPE [, ARGS]), ascii ([ARGS]) binary([ARGS])
14650 ebcdic([ARGS]) byte([ARGS]), rename ( OLDNAME, NEWNAME ), delete ( FILENAME
14651 ), cwd ( [ DIR ] ), cdup (), pwd (), restart ( WHERE ), rmdir ( DIR ),
14652 mkdir ( DIR [, RECURSE ]), ls ( [ DIR ] ), dir ( [ DIR ] ), get (
14653 REMOTE_FILE [, LOCAL_FILE [, WHERE]] ), put ( LOCAL_FILE [, REMOTE_FILE ]
14654 ), put_unique ( LOCAL_FILE [, REMOTE_FILE ] ), append ( LOCAL_FILE [,
14655 REMOTE_FILE ] ), unique_name (), mdtm ( FILE ), size ( FILE ), supported (
14656 CMD ), hash ( [FILEHANDLE_GLOB_REF],[ BYTES_PER_HASH_MARK] ), nlst ( [ DIR
14657 ] ), list ( [ DIR ] ), retr ( FILE ), stor ( FILE ), stou ( FILE ), appe (
14658 FILE ), port ( [ PORT ] ), pasv (), pasv_xfer ( SRC_FILE, DEST_SERVER [,
14659 DEST_FILE ] ), pasv_xfer_unique ( SRC_FILE, DEST_SERVER [, DEST_FILE ] ),
14660 pasv_wait ( NON_PASV_SERVER ), abort (), quit ()
14664 =item Methods for the adventurous
14670 =item THE dataconn CLASS
14672 read ( BUFFER, SIZE [, TIMEOUT ] ), write ( BUFFER, SIZE [, TIMEOUT ] ),
14673 bytes_read (), abort (), close ()
14675 =item UNIMPLEMENTED
14677 B<ALLO>, B<SMNT>, B<HELP>, B<MODE>, B<SYST>, B<STAT>, B<STRU>, B<REIN>
14679 =item REPORTING BUGS
14687 http://www.csh.rit.edu/~adam/Progs/autoftp-2.0.tar.gz
14695 =head2 Net::NNTP - NNTP Client class
14705 new ( [ HOST ] [, OPTIONS ])
14709 article ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ], [FH] ), body ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ], [FH] ), head (
14710 [ MSGID|MSGNUM ], [FH] ), articlefh ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ] ), bodyfh ( [
14711 MSGID|MSGNUM ] ), headfh ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ] ), nntpstat ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ]
14712 ), group ( [ GROUP ] ), ihave ( MSGID [, MESSAGE ]), last (), date (),
14713 postok (), authinfo ( USER, PASS ), list (), newgroups ( SINCE [,
14714 DISTRIBUTIONS ]), newnews ( SINCE [, GROUPS [, DISTRIBUTIONS ]]), next (),
14715 post ( [ MESSAGE ] ), postfh (), slave (), quit ()
14719 =item Extension methods
14721 newsgroups ( [ PATTERN ] ), distributions (), subscriptions (),
14722 overview_fmt (), active_times (), active ( [ PATTERN ] ), xgtitle ( PATTERN
14723 ), xhdr ( HEADER, MESSAGE-SPEC ), xover ( MESSAGE-SPEC ), xpath (
14724 MESSAGE-ID ), xpat ( HEADER, PATTERN, MESSAGE-SPEC), xrover, listgroup ( [
14733 MESSAGE-SPEC, PATTERN, Examples, C<[^]-]>, C<*bdc>, C<[0-9a-zA-Z]>, C<a??d>
14743 =head2 Net::POP3 - Post Office Protocol 3 Client class (RFC1939)
14755 new ( [ HOST, ] [ OPTIONS ] )
14759 user ( USER ), pass ( PASS ), login ( [ USER [, PASS ]] ), apop ( [ USER [,
14760 PASS ]] ), top ( MSGNUM [, NUMLINES ] ), list ( [ MSGNUM ] ), get ( MSGNUM
14761 [, FH ] ), getfh ( MSGNUM ), last (), popstat (), ping ( USER ), uidl ( [
14762 MSGNUM ] ), delete ( MSGNUM ), reset (), quit ()
14774 =head2 Net::Ping - check a remote host for reachability
14786 Net::Ping->new([$proto [, $def_timeout [, $bytes]]]);,
14787 $p->bind($local_addr);, $p->ping($host [, $timeout]);, $p->open($host);,
14788 $p->open($host);, $p->close();, pingecho($host [, $timeout]);
14802 =head2 Net::SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Client
14814 new Net::SMTP [ HOST, ] [ OPTIONS ]
14818 banner (), domain (), hello ( DOMAIN ), etrn ( DOMAIN ), auth ( USERNAME,
14819 PASSWORD ), mail ( ADDRESS [, OPTIONS] ), send ( ADDRESS ), send_or_mail (
14820 ADDRESS ), send_and_mail ( ADDRESS ), reset (), recipient ( ADDRESS [,
14821 ADDRESS [ ...]] [, OPTIONS ] ), to ( ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] ), cc (
14822 ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] ), bcc ( ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] ), data ( [
14823 DATA ] ), expand ( ADDRESS ), verify ( ADDRESS ), help ( [ $subject ] ),
14834 =head2 Net::Time - time and daytime network client interface
14842 inet_time ( [HOST [, PROTOCOL [, TIMEOUT]]]), inet_daytime ( [HOST [,
14843 PROTOCOL [, TIMEOUT]]])
14851 =head2 Net::hostent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in gethost*()
14868 =head2 Net::libnetFAQ, libnetFAQ - libnet Frequently Asked Questions
14876 =item Where to get this document
14878 =item How to contribute to this document
14882 =item Author and Copyright Information
14890 =item Obtaining and installing libnet
14894 =item What is libnet ?
14896 =item Which version of perl do I need ?
14898 =item What other modules do I need ?
14900 =item What machines support libnet ?
14902 =item Where can I get the latest libnet release
14906 =item Using Net::FTP
14910 =item How do I download files from an FTP server ?
14912 =item How do I transfer files in binary mode ?
14914 =item How can I get the size of a file on a remote FTP server ?
14916 =item How can I get the modification time of a file on a remote FTP server
14919 =item How can I change the permissions of a file on a remote server ?
14921 =item Can I do a reget operation like the ftp command ?
14923 =item How do I get a directory listing from an FTP server ?
14925 =item Changing directory to "" does not fail ?
14927 =item I am behind a SOCKS firewall, but the Firewall option does not work ?
14929 =item I am behind an FTP proxy firewall, but cannot access machines outside
14932 =item My ftp proxy firewall does not listen on port 21
14934 =item Is it possible to change the file permissions of a file on an FTP
14937 =item I have seen scripts call a method message, but cannot find it
14940 =item Why does Net::FTP not implement mput and mget methods
14944 =item Using Net::SMTP
14948 =item Why can't the part of an Email address after the @ be used as the
14951 =item Why does Net::SMTP not do DNS MX lookups ?
14953 =item The verify method always returns true ?
14957 =item Debugging scripts
14961 =item How can I debug my scripts that use Net::* modules ?
14965 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
14969 =head2 Net::netent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getnet*()
14986 =head2 Net::protoent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getproto*()
15001 =head2 Net::servent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getserv*()
15018 =head2 Netrc, Net::Netrc - OO interface to users netrc file
15026 =item THE .netrc FILE
15028 machine name, default, login name, password string, account string, macdef
15033 lookup ( MACHINE [, LOGIN ])
15037 login (), password (), account (), lpa ()
15047 =head2 ODBM_File - Tied access to odbm files
15055 C<O_RDONLY>, C<O_WRONLY>, C<O_RDWR>
15061 =item C<odbm store returned -1, errno 22, key "..." at ...>
15065 =item BUGS AND WARNINGS
15069 =head2 Opcode - Disable named opcodes when compiling perl code
15081 =item Operator Names and Operator Lists
15083 an operator name (opname), an operator tag name (optag), a negated opname
15084 or optag, an operator set (opset)
15086 =item Opcode Functions
15088 opcodes, opset (OP, ...), opset_to_ops (OPSET), opset_to_hex (OPSET),
15089 full_opset, empty_opset, invert_opset (OPSET), verify_opset (OPSET, ...),
15090 define_optag (OPTAG, OPSET), opmask_add (OPSET), opmask, opdesc (OP, ...),
15093 =item Manipulating Opsets
15095 =item TO DO (maybe)
15101 =item Predefined Opcode Tags
15103 :base_core, :base_mem, :base_loop, :base_io, :base_orig, :base_math,
15104 :base_thread, :default, :filesys_read, :sys_db, :browse, :filesys_open,
15105 :filesys_write, :subprocess, :ownprocess, :others, :still_to_be_decided,
15114 =head2 Opcode::Safe, Safe - Compile and execute code in restricted
15123 a new namespace, an operator mask
15129 =item RECENT CHANGES
15131 =item Methods in class Safe
15133 permit (OP, ...), permit_only (OP, ...), deny (OP, ...), deny_only (OP,
15134 ...), trap (OP, ...), untrap (OP, ...), share (NAME, ...), share_from
15135 (PACKAGE, ARRAYREF), varglob (VARNAME), reval (STRING), rdo (FILENAME),
15136 root (NAMESPACE), mask (MASK)
15138 =item Some Safety Issues
15140 Memory, CPU, Snooping, Signals, State Changes
15148 =head2 Opcode::ops, ops - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when
15161 =head2 POSIX - Perl interface to IEEE Std 1003.1
15175 _exit, abort, abs, access, acos, alarm, asctime, asin, assert, atan, atan2,
15176 atexit, atof, atoi, atol, bsearch, calloc, ceil, chdir, chmod, chown,
15177 clearerr, clock, close, closedir, cos, cosh, creat, ctermid, ctime,
15178 cuserid, difftime, div, dup, dup2, errno, execl, execle, execlp, execv,
15179 execve, execvp, exit, exp, fabs, fclose, fcntl, fdopen, feof, ferror,
15180 fflush, fgetc, fgetpos, fgets, fileno, floor, fmod, fopen, fork, fpathconf,
15181 fprintf, fputc, fputs, fread, free, freopen, frexp, fscanf, fseek, fsetpos,
15182 fstat, ftell, fwrite, getc, getchar, getcwd, getegid, getenv, geteuid,
15183 getgid, getgrgid, getgrnam, getgroups, getlogin, getpgrp, getpid, getppid,
15184 getpwnam, getpwuid, gets, getuid, gmtime, isalnum, isalpha, isatty,
15185 iscntrl, isdigit, isgraph, islower, isprint, ispunct, isspace, isupper,
15186 isxdigit, kill, labs, ldexp, ldiv, link, localeconv, localtime, log, log10,
15187 longjmp, lseek, malloc, mblen, mbstowcs, mbtowc, memchr, memcmp, memcpy,
15188 memmove, memset, mkdir, mkfifo, mktime, modf, nice, offsetof, open,
15189 opendir, pathconf, pause, perror, pipe, pow, printf, putc, putchar, puts,
15190 qsort, raise, rand, read, readdir, realloc, remove, rename, rewind,
15191 rewinddir, rmdir, scanf, setgid, setjmp, setlocale, setpgid, setsid,
15192 setuid, sigaction, siglongjmp, sigpending, sigprocmask, sigsetjmp,
15193 sigsuspend, sin, sinh, sleep, sprintf, sqrt, srand, sscanf, stat, strcat,
15194 strchr, strcmp, strcoll, strcpy, strcspn, strerror, strftime, strlen,
15195 strncat, strncmp, strncpy, strpbrk, strrchr, strspn, strstr, strtod,
15196 strtok, strtol, strtoul, strxfrm, sysconf, system, tan, tanh, tcdrain,
15197 tcflow, tcflush, tcgetpgrp, tcsendbreak, tcsetpgrp, time, times, tmpfile,
15198 tmpnam, tolower, toupper, ttyname, tzname, tzset, umask, uname, ungetc,
15199 unlink, utime, vfprintf, vprintf, vsprintf, wait, waitpid, wcstombs,
15206 =item POSIX::SigAction
15210 =item POSIX::SigSet
15212 new, addset, delset, emptyset, fillset, ismember
15214 =item POSIX::Termios
15216 new, getattr, getcc, getcflag, getiflag, getispeed, getlflag, getoflag,
15217 getospeed, setattr, setcc, setcflag, setiflag, setispeed, setlflag,
15218 setoflag, setospeed, Baud rate values, Terminal interface values, c_cc
15219 field values, c_cflag field values, c_iflag field values, c_lflag field
15220 values, c_oflag field values
15224 =item PATHNAME CONSTANTS
15228 =item POSIX CONSTANTS
15232 =item SYSTEM CONFIGURATION
15286 Constants, WNOHANG, WUNTRACED, Macros, WIFEXITED, WEXITSTATUS, WIFSIGNALED,
15287 WTERMSIG, WIFSTOPPED, WSTOPSIG
15291 =head2 PerlIO - On demand loader for PerlIO layers and root of PerlIO::*
15300 unix, stdio, perlio, crlf, utf8, raw
15304 =item Defaults and how to override them
15314 =head2 PerlIO::Scalar - support module for in-memory IO.
15324 =head2 PerlIO::Via - Helper class for PerlIO layers implemented in perl
15332 $class->PUSHED([$mode[,$fh]]), $obj->POPPED([$fh]),
15333 $class->OPEN($path,$mode[,$fh]), $class->FDOPEN($fd),
15334 $class->SYSOPEN($path,$imode,$perm,$fh), $obj->FILENO($fh),
15335 $obj->READ($buffer,$len,$fh), $obj->WRITE($buffer,$fh), $obj->FILL($fh),
15336 $obj->CLOSE($fh), $obj->SEEK($posn,$whence,$fh), $obj->TELL($fh),
15337 $obj->UNREAD($buffer,$fh), $obj->FLUSH($fh), $obj->SETLINEBUF($fh),
15338 $obj->CLEARERR($fh), $obj->ERROR($fh), $obj->EOF($fh)
15342 =item Example - a Hexadecimal Handle
15348 =head2 Pod::Checker, podchecker() - check pod documents for syntax errors
15354 =item OPTIONS/ARGUMENTS
15360 B<-warnings> =E<gt> I<val>
15372 empty =headn, =over on line I<N> without closing =back, =item without
15373 previous =over, =back without previous =over, No argument for =begin, =end
15374 without =begin, Nested =begin's, =for without formatter specification,
15375 unresolved internal link I<NAME>, Unknown command "I<CMD>", Unknown
15376 interior-sequence "I<SEQ>", nested commands
15377 I<CMD>E<lt>...I<CMD>E<lt>...E<gt>...E<gt>, garbled entity I<STRING>, Entity
15378 number out of range, malformed link LE<lt>E<gt>, nonempty ZE<lt>E<gt>,
15379 empty XE<lt>E<gt>, Spurious text after =pod / =cut, Spurious character(s)
15384 multiple occurence of link target I<name>, line containing nothing but
15385 whitespace in paragraph, file does not start with =head, previous =item has
15386 no contents, preceding non-item paragraph(s), =item type mismatch (I<one>
15387 vs. I<two>), I<N> unescaped C<E<lt>E<gt>> in paragraph, Unknown entity, No
15388 items in =over, No argument for =item, empty section in previous paragraph,
15389 Verbatim paragraph in NAME section
15393 ignoring leading/trailing whitespace in link, (section) in '$page'
15394 deprecated, alternative text/node '%s' contains non-escaped | or /
15406 C<Pod::Checker-E<gt>new( %options )>
15408 C<$checker-E<gt>poderror( @args )>, C<$checker-E<gt>poderror( {%opts},
15411 C<$checker-E<gt>num_errors()>
15413 C<$checker-E<gt>name()>
15415 C<$checker-E<gt>node()>
15417 C<$checker-E<gt>idx()>
15419 C<$checker-E<gt>hyperlink()>
15427 =head2 Pod::Find - find POD documents in directory trees
15439 =item C<pod_find( { %opts } , @directories )>
15441 C<-verbose =E<gt> 1>, C<-perl =E<gt> 1>, C<-script =E<gt> 1>, C<-inc =E<gt>
15448 =item C<simplify_name( $str )>
15454 =item C<pod_where( { %opts }, $pod )>
15456 C<-inc =E<gt> 1>, C<-dirs =E<gt> [ $dir1, $dir2, ... ]>, C<-verbose =E<gt>
15463 =item C<contains_pod( $file , $verbose )>
15475 =head2 Pod::Html - module to convert pod files to HTML
15485 backlink, cachedir, css, flush, header, help, htmldir, htmlroot, index,
15486 infile, libpods, netscape, outfile, podpath, podroot, quiet, recurse,
15501 =head2 Pod::InputObjects - objects representing POD input paragraphs,
15514 package B<Pod::InputSource>, package B<Pod::Paragraph>, package
15515 B<Pod::InteriorSequence>, package B<Pod::ParseTree>
15521 =item B<Pod::InputSource>
15545 =item B<was_cutting()>
15551 =item B<Pod::Paragraph>
15557 =item Pod::Paragraph-E<gt>B<new()>
15563 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<cmd_name()>
15569 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<text()>
15575 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<raw_text()>
15581 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<cmd_prefix()>
15587 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<cmd_separator()>
15593 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<parse_tree()>
15599 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<file_line()>
15605 =item B<Pod::InteriorSequence>
15611 =item Pod::InteriorSequence-E<gt>B<new()>
15617 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<cmd_name()>
15623 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<prepend()>
15629 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<append()>
15635 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<nested()>
15641 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<raw_text()>
15647 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<left_delimiter()>
15653 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<right_delimiter()>
15659 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<parse_tree()>
15665 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<file_line()>
15671 =item Pod::InteriorSequence::B<DESTROY()>
15677 =item B<Pod::ParseTree>
15683 =item Pod::ParseTree-E<gt>B<new()>
15689 =item $ptree-E<gt>B<top()>
15695 =item $ptree-E<gt>B<children()>
15701 =item $ptree-E<gt>B<prepend()>
15707 =item $ptree-E<gt>B<append()>
15713 =item $ptree-E<gt>B<raw_text()>
15719 =item Pod::ParseTree::B<DESTROY()>
15731 =head2 Pod::LaTeX - Convert Pod data to formatted Latex
15743 =item OBJECT METHODS
15751 =item Data Accessors
15767 B<ReplaceNAMEwithSection>
15769 B<StartWithNewPage>
15783 =item Subclassed methods
15797 B<interior_sequence>
15813 =item Methods for headings
15821 =item Internal methods
15827 B<_replace_special_chars>
15829 B<_replace_special_chars_late>
15835 B<_clean_latex_commands>
15837 B<_split_delimited>
15853 =head2 Pod::Man - Convert POD data to formatted *roff input
15861 center, date, fixed, fixedbold, fixeditalic, fixedbolditalic, name, quotes,
15866 roff font should be 1 or 2 chars, not "%s", Invalid link %s, Invalid quote
15867 specification "%s", %s:%d: Unknown command paragraph "%s", %s:%d: Unknown
15868 escape EE<lt>%sE<gt>, %s:%d: Unknown formatting code %s, %s:%d: Unmatched
15879 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
15883 =head2 Pod::ParseLink -- Parse an LE<lt>E<gt> formatting code in POD text
15893 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
15897 =head2 Pod::ParseUtils - helpers for POD parsing and conversion
15911 Pod::List-E<gt>new()
15919 $list-E<gt>indent()
15927 $list-E<gt>parent()
15933 =item Pod::Hyperlink
15935 Pod::Hyperlink-E<gt>new()
15939 $link-E<gt>parse($string)
15941 $link-E<gt>markup($string)
15945 $link-E<gt>warning()
15947 $link-E<gt>file(), $link-E<gt>line()
15953 $link-E<gt>alttext()
15963 Pod::Cache-E<gt>new()
15969 $cache-E<gt>find_page($name)
15973 =item Pod::Cache::Item
15975 Pod::Cache::Item-E<gt>new()
15979 $cacheitem-E<gt>page()
15981 $cacheitem-E<gt>description()
15983 $cacheitem-E<gt>path()
15985 $cacheitem-E<gt>file()
15987 $cacheitem-E<gt>nodes()
15989 $cacheitem-E<gt>find_node($name)
15991 $cacheitem-E<gt>idx()
16001 =head2 Pod::Parser - base class for creating POD filters and translators
16013 =item QUICK OVERVIEW
16015 =item PARSING OPTIONS
16017 B<-want_nonPODs> (default: unset), B<-process_cut_cmd> (default: unset),
16018 B<-warnings> (default: unset)
16024 =item RECOMMENDED SUBROUTINE/METHOD OVERRIDES
16032 C<$cmd>, C<$text>, C<$line_num>, C<$pod_para>
16038 =item B<verbatim()>
16040 C<$text>, C<$line_num>, C<$pod_para>
16046 =item B<textblock()>
16048 C<$text>, C<$line_num>, C<$pod_para>
16054 =item B<interior_sequence()>
16060 =item OPTIONAL SUBROUTINE/METHOD OVERRIDES
16072 =item B<initialize()>
16078 =item B<begin_pod()>
16084 =item B<begin_input()>
16090 =item B<end_input()>
16102 =item B<preprocess_line()>
16108 =item B<preprocess_paragraph()>
16114 =item METHODS FOR PARSING AND PROCESSING
16120 =item B<parse_text()>
16122 B<-expand_seq> =E<gt> I<code-ref>|I<method-name>, B<-expand_text> =E<gt>
16123 I<code-ref>|I<method-name>, B<-expand_ptree> =E<gt>
16124 I<code-ref>|I<method-name>
16130 =item B<interpolate()>
16136 =item B<parse_paragraph()>
16142 =item B<parse_from_filehandle()>
16148 =item B<parse_from_file()>
16154 =item ACCESSOR METHODS
16160 =item B<errorsub()>
16172 =item B<parseopts()>
16178 =item B<output_file()>
16184 =item B<output_handle()>
16190 =item B<input_file()>
16196 =item B<input_handle()>
16202 =item B<input_streams()>
16208 =item B<top_stream()>
16214 =item PRIVATE METHODS AND DATA
16220 =item B<_push_input_stream()>
16226 =item B<_pop_input_stream()>
16232 =item TREE-BASED PARSING
16240 =head2 Pod::Plainer - Perl extension for converting Pod to old style Pod.
16260 =head2 Pod::Select, podselect() - extract selected sections of POD from
16273 =item SECTION SPECIFICATIONS
16275 =item RANGE SPECIFICATIONS
16281 =item OBJECT METHODS
16287 =item B<curr_headings()>
16299 =item B<add_selection()>
16305 =item B<clear_selections()>
16311 =item B<match_section()>
16317 =item B<is_selected()>
16323 =item EXPORTED FUNCTIONS
16329 =item B<podselect()>
16331 B<-output>, B<-sections>, B<-ranges>
16337 =item PRIVATE METHODS AND DATA
16343 =item B<_compile_section_spec()>
16349 =item $self->{_SECTION_HEADINGS}
16355 =item $self->{_SELECTED_SECTIONS}
16367 =head2 Pod::Text - Convert POD data to formatted ASCII text
16375 alt, code, indent, loose, quotes, sentence, width
16379 Bizarre space in item, Item called without tag, Can't open %s for reading:
16380 %s, Invalid quote specification "%s", %s:%d: Unknown command paragraph: %s,
16381 %s:%d: Unknown escape: %s, %s:%d: Unknown formatting code: %s, %s:%d:
16392 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
16396 =head2 Pod::Text::Color - Convert POD data to formatted color ASCII text
16410 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
16414 =head2 Pod::Text::Overstrike - Convert POD data to formatted overstrike
16429 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
16433 =head2 Pod::Text::Termcap, Pod::Text::Color - Convert POD data to ASCII
16434 text with format escapes
16448 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
16452 =head2 Pod::Usage, pod2usage() - print a usage message from embedded pod
16461 C<-message>, C<-msg>, C<-exitval>, C<-verbose>, C<-output>, C<-input>,
16470 =item Recommended Use
16478 =item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
16482 =head2 Pod::t::basic, basic.pod - Test of various basic POD features in
16489 =item This C<is> a "level 1" heading
16493 =item ``Level'' "2 I<heading>
16497 =item This C<is> a "level 1" heading
16501 =item ``Level'' 2 I<heading>
16507 =item OVER AND ITEMS
16509 This is a test, a, b, a, b, c, d, "foo", B<bar>, C<baz>, Some longer item
16512 =item FORMATTING CODES
16514 E<amp>, E<apos>, E<lt>, E<gt>, E<quot>, E<sol>
16522 =head2 Pod::t::htmlescp, Escape Sequences Test
16530 =head2 Pod::t::htmlview, Test HTML Rendering
16538 =item METHODS =E<gt> OTHER STUFF
16544 foo, bar, baz, C<Black> Cat, Sat S<I<on> the>, MatE<lt>!E<gt>, 1 Cat, 2
16551 =item TESTING FOR AND BEGIN
16553 =item TESTING URLs hyperlinking
16559 =head2 SDBM_File - Tied access to sdbm files
16567 C<O_RDONLY>, C<O_WRONLY>, C<O_RDWR>
16573 =item C<sdbm store returned -1, errno 22, key "..." at ...>
16577 =item BUGS AND WARNINGS
16581 =head2 Search::Dict, look - search for key in dictionary file
16591 =head2 SelectSaver - save and restore selected file handle
16601 =head2 SelfLoader - load functions only on demand
16611 =item The __DATA__ token
16613 =item SelfLoader autoloading
16615 =item Autoloading and package lexicals
16617 =item SelfLoader and AutoLoader
16619 =item __DATA__, __END__, and the FOOBAR::DATA filehandle.
16621 =item Classes and inherited methods.
16625 =item Multiple packages and fully qualified subroutine names
16629 =head2 Shell - run shell commands transparently within perl
16639 =item OBJECT ORIENTED SYNTAX
16647 =head2 Socket, sockaddr_in, sockaddr_un, inet_aton, inet_ntoa - load the C
16648 socket.h defines and structure manipulators
16656 inet_aton HOSTNAME, inet_ntoa IP_ADDRESS, INADDR_ANY, INADDR_BROADCAST,
16657 INADDR_LOOPBACK, INADDR_NONE, sockaddr_family SOCKADDR, sockaddr_in PORT,
16658 ADDRESS, sockaddr_in SOCKADDR_IN, pack_sockaddr_in PORT, IP_ADDRESS,
16659 unpack_sockaddr_in SOCKADDR_IN, sockaddr_un PATHNAME, sockaddr_un
16660 SOCKADDR_UN, pack_sockaddr_un PATH, unpack_sockaddr_un SOCKADDR_UN
16664 =head2 Storable - persistency for perl data structures
16674 =item ADVISORY LOCKING
16678 =item CANONICAL REPRESENTATION
16680 =item ERROR REPORTING
16688 C<STORABLE_freeze> I<obj>, I<cloning>, C<STORABLE_thaw> I<obj>, I<cloning>,
16693 C<Storable::last_op_in_netorder>, C<Storable::is_storing>,
16694 C<Storable::is_retrieving>
16702 =item Storable magic
16720 =head2 Switch - A switch statement for Perl
16734 =item Allowing fall-through
16736 =item Automating fall-through
16738 =item Alternative syntax
16740 =item Higher-order Operations
16756 =head2 Symbol - manipulate Perl symbols and their names
16766 =head2 Sys::Hostname - Try every conceivable way to get hostname
16778 =head2 Syslog::Syslog, Sys::Syslog, openlog, closelog, setlogmask, syslog -
16779 Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls
16787 openlog $ident, $logopt, $facility, syslog $priority, $format, @args,
16788 setlogmask $mask_priority, setlogsock $sock_type [$stream_location] (added
16789 in 5.004_02), closelog
16799 =head2 Term::ANSIColor - Color screen output using ANSI escape sequences
16809 Bad escape sequence %s, Bareword "%s" not allowed while "strict subs" in
16810 use, Invalid attribute name %s, Name "%s" used only once: possible typo, No
16811 comma allowed after filehandle, No name for escape sequence %s
16815 ANSI_COLORS_DISABLED
16829 =head2 Term::Cap - Perl termcap interface
16845 B<Tgetent>, OSPEED, TERM
16847 B<Tpad>, B<$string>, B<$cnt>, B<$FH>
16849 B<Tputs>, B<$cap>, B<$cnt>, B<$FH>
16851 B<Tgoto>, B<$cap>, B<$col>, B<$row>, B<$FH>
16859 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
16867 =head2 Term::Complete - Perl word completion module
16875 E<lt>tabE<gt>, ^D, ^U, E<lt>delE<gt>, E<lt>bsE<gt>
16885 =head2 Term::ReadLine - Perl interface to various C<readline> packages. If
16886 no real package is found, substitutes stubs instead of basic functions.
16894 =item Minimal set of supported functions
16896 C<ReadLine>, C<new>, C<readline>, C<addhistory>, C<IN>, $C<OUT>,
16897 C<MinLine>, C<findConsole>, Attribs, C<Features>
16899 =item Additional supported functions
16901 C<tkRunning>, C<ornaments>, C<newTTY>
16911 =head2 Test - provides a simple framework for writing test scripts
16937 NORMAL TESTS, SKIPPED TESTS, TODO TESTS
16941 =item BUGS and CAVEATS
16951 =head2 Test::Builder - Backend for building test libraries
16971 =item Setting up tests
16987 =item Running tests
16993 B<is_eq>, B<is_num>
16995 B<isnt_eq>, B<isnt_num>
17019 B<no_header>, B<no_ending>
17031 B<output>, B<failure_output>, B<todo_output>
17035 =item Test Status and Info
17043 B<details> I<UNIMPLEMENTED>, B<todo>
17065 =head2 Test::Harness - run perl standard test scripts with statistics
17075 =item The test script output
17077 B<'1..M'>, B<'ok', 'not ok'. Ok?>, B<test numbers>, B<test names>,
17078 B<Skipping tests>, B<Todo tests>, B<Bail out!>, B<Comments>, B<Anything
17083 =item Configuration variables.
17085 B<$Test::Harness::verbose>, B<$Test::Harness::switches>
17089 B<Failed Test>, B<Stat>, B<Wstat>, B<Total>, B<Fail>, B<Failed>, B<List of
17116 C<All tests successful.\nFiles=%d, Tests=%d, %s>, C<FAILED tests
17117 %s\n\tFailed %d/%d tests, %.2f%% okay.>, C<Test returned status %d (wstat
17118 %d)>, C<Failed 1 test, %.2f%% okay. %s>, C<Failed %d/%d tests, %.2f%% okay.
17119 %s>, C<FAILED--Further testing stopped%s>
17123 C<HARNESS_IGNORE_EXITCODE>, C<HARNESS_NOTTY>, C<HARNESS_COMPILE_TEST>,
17124 C<HARNESS_FILELEAK_IN_DIR>, C<HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES>, C<HARNESS_COLUMNS>,
17139 =head2 Test::Harness::Assert - simple assert
17165 =head2 Test::Harness::Iterator - Internal Test::Harness Iterator
17175 =head2 Test::Harness::Straps - detailed analysis of test results
17213 B<_restore_PERL5LIB>
17229 B<_reset_file_state>
17249 =head2 Test::More - yet another framework for writing test scripts
17259 =item I love it when a plan comes together
17269 =item I'm ok, you're not ok.
17309 =item Conditional tests
17315 B<TODO: BLOCK>, B<todo_skip>
17319 =item Comparison functions
17333 =item Extending and Embedding Test::More
17343 =item BUGS and CAVEATS
17345 Making your own ok(), The eq_* family has some caveats, Test::Harness
17358 =head2 Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
17382 L<Test::More>, L<Test>, L<Test::Unit>, L<Test::Inline>, L<SelfTest>,
17391 =head2 Test::Tutorial - A tutorial about writing really basic tests
17399 =item Nuts and bolts of testing.
17401 =item Where to start?
17405 =item Test the manual
17407 =item Sometimes the tests are wrong
17409 =item Testing lots of values
17411 =item Informative names
17413 =item Skipping tests
17417 =item Testing with taint mode.
17429 =head2 Text::Abbrev, abbrev - create an abbreviation table from a list
17441 =head2 Text::Balanced - Extract delimited text sequences from strings.
17451 =item General behaviour in list contexts
17455 =item General behaviour in scalar and void contexts
17457 =item A note about prefixes
17459 =item C<extract_delimited>
17461 =item C<extract_bracketed>
17463 =item C<extract_tagged>
17465 C<reject =E<gt> $listref>, C<ignore =E<gt> $listref>, C<fail =E<gt> $str>,
17466 [0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]
17468 =item C<gen_extract_tagged>
17470 =item C<extract_quotelike>
17472 [0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10]
17474 =item C<extract_quotelike> and "here documents"
17476 [0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7..10]
17478 =item C<extract_codeblock>
17480 =item C<extract_multiple>
17482 =item C<gen_delimited_pat>
17488 C<Did not find a suitable bracket: "%s">, C<Did not find prefix: /%s/>,
17489 C<Did not find opening bracket after prefix: "%s">, C<No quotelike
17490 operator found after prefix: "%s">, C<Unmatched closing bracket: "%c">,
17491 C<Unmatched opening bracket(s): "%s">, C<Unmatched embedded quote (%s)>,
17492 C<Did not find closing delimiter to match '%s'>, C<Mismatched closing
17493 bracket: expected "%c" but found "%s">, C<No block delimiter found after
17494 quotelike "%s">, C<Did not find leading dereferencer>, C<Bad identifier
17495 after dereferencer>, C<Did not find expected opening bracket at %s>,
17496 C<Improperly nested codeblock at %s>, C<Missing second block for quotelike
17497 "%s">, C<No match found for opening bracket>, C<Did not find opening tag:
17498 /%s/>, C<Unable to construct closing tag to match: /%s/>, C<Found invalid
17499 nested tag: %s>, C<Found unbalanced nested tag: %s>, C<Did not find closing
17504 =item BUGS AND IRRITATIONS
17510 =head2 Text::ParseWords - parse text into an array of tokens or array of
17525 =head2 Text::Soundex - Implementation of the Soundex Algorithm as Described
17542 =head2 Text::Tabs -- expand and unexpand tabs per the unix expand(1) and
17557 =head2 Text::Wrap - line wrapping to form simple paragraphs
17573 =head2 Thread - manipulate threads in Perl
17585 $thread = Thread->new(\&start_sub), $thread = Thread->new(\&start_sub,
17586 LIST), lock VARIABLE, async BLOCK;, Thread->self, cond_wait VARIABLE,
17587 cond_signal VARIABLE, cond_broadcast VARIABLE, yield
17591 join, eval, detach, equal, tid, flags, done
17599 =head2 Thread::Queue - thread-safe queues
17607 =item FUNCTIONS AND METHODS
17609 new, enqueue LIST, dequeue, dequeue_nb, pending
17615 =head2 Thread::Semaphore - thread-safe semaphores
17623 =item FUNCTIONS AND METHODS
17625 new, new NUMBER, down, down NUMBER, up, up NUMBER
17629 =head2 Thread::Signal - Start a thread which runs signal handlers reliably
17641 =head2 Thread::Specific - thread-specific keys
17651 =head2 Tie::Array - base class for tied arrays
17659 TIEARRAY classname, LIST, STORE this, index, value, FETCH this, index,
17660 FETCHSIZE this, STORESIZE this, count, EXTEND this, count, EXISTS this,
17661 key, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this, DESTROY this, PUSH this, LIST, POP this,
17662 SHIFT this, UNSHIFT this, LIST, SPLICE this, offset, length, LIST
17670 =head2 Tie::File - Access the lines of a disk file via a Perl array
17690 =item Option Format
17694 =item Public Methods
17702 =item C<defer>, C<flush>, and C<discard>
17706 =item Tying to an already-opened filehandle
17708 =item Deferred Writing
17712 You might be tempted to think that deferred writing is like transactions,
17713 with C<flush> as C<commit> and C<discard> as C<rollback>, but it isn't, so
17718 =item WHAT ABOUT C<DB_File>?
17732 =head2 Tie::Handle, Tie::StdHandle - base class definitions for tied
17741 TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, WRITE this, scalar, length, offset, PRINT this,
17742 LIST, PRINTF this, format, LIST, READ this, scalar, length, offset,
17743 READLINE this, GETC this, CLOSE this, OPEN this, filename, BINMODE this,
17744 EOF this, TELL this, SEEK this, offset, whence, DESTROY this
17746 =item MORE INFORMATION
17748 =item COMPATIBILITY
17752 =head2 Tie::Hash, Tie::StdHash, Tie::ExtraHash - base class definitions for
17761 TIEHASH classname, LIST, STORE this, key, value, FETCH this, key, FIRSTKEY
17762 this, NEXTKEY this, lastkey, EXISTS this, key, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this
17764 =item Inheriting from B<Tie::StdHash>
17766 =item Inheriting from B<Tie::ExtraHash>
17768 =item C<UNTIE> and C<DESTROY>
17770 =item MORE INFORMATION
17774 =head2 Tie::Memoize - add data to hash when needed
17782 =item Inheriting from B<Tie::Memoize>
17792 =head2 Tie::RefHash - use references as hash keys
17810 =head2 Tie::Scalar, Tie::StdScalar - base class definitions for tied
17819 TIESCALAR classname, LIST, FETCH this, STORE this, value, DESTROY this
17821 =item MORE INFORMATION
17825 =head2 Tie::SubstrHash - Fixed-table-size, fixed-key-length hashing
17837 =head2 Time::HiRes - High resolution alarm, sleep, gettimeofday, interval
17846 gettimeofday (), usleep ( $useconds ), ualarm ( $useconds [,
17847 $interval_useconds ] ), tv_interval, time (), sleep ( $floating_seconds ),
17848 alarm ( $floating_seconds [, $interval_floating_seconds ] ), setitimer,
17849 getitimer ( $which )
17865 =head2 Time::Local - efficiently compute time from local and GMT time
17873 =item IMPLEMENTATION
17879 =head2 Time::gmtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in gmtime()
17894 =head2 Time::localtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in localtime()
17909 =head2 Time::tm - internal object used by Time::gmtime and Time::localtime
17921 =head2 UNIVERSAL - base class for ALL classes (blessed references)
17929 $obj->isa( TYPE ), CLASS->isa( TYPE ), isa( VAL, TYPE ), $obj->can( METHOD
17930 ), CLASS->can( METHOD ), can( VAL, METHOD ), VERSION ( [ REQUIRE ] )
17934 =head2 Unicode::Collate - use UCA (Unicode Collation Algorithm)
17944 =item Constructor and Tailoring
17946 alternate, backwards, entry, ignoreName, ignoreChar, level, normalization,
17947 overrideCJK, overrideHangul, preprocess, rearrange, table, undefName,
17948 undefChar, katakana_before_hiragana, upper_before_lower
17950 =item Other methods
17952 C<@sorted = $Collator-E<gt>sort(@not_sorted)>, C<$result =
17953 $Collator-E<gt>cmp($a, $b)>, C<$result = $Collator-E<gt>eq($a, $b)>,
17954 C<$result = $Collator-E<gt>ne($a, $b)>, C<$result = $Collator-E<gt>lt($a,
17955 $b)>, C<$result = $Collator-E<gt>le($a, $b)>, C<$result =
17956 $Collator-E<gt>gt($a, $b)>, C<$result = $Collator-E<gt>ge($a, $b)>,
17957 C<$sortKey = $Collator-E<gt>getSortKey($string)>, C<$position =
17958 $Collator-E<gt>index($string, $substring)>, C<($position, $length) =
17959 $Collator-E<gt>index($string, $substring)>
17973 Unicode Collation Algorithm - Unicode TR #10, L<Unicode::Normalize>
17977 =head2 Unicode::Normalize - normalized forms of Unicode text
17987 =item Normalization Forms
17989 C<$NFD_string = NFD($string)>, C<$NFC_string = NFC($string)>,
17990 C<$NFKD_string = NFKD($string)>, C<$NFKC_string = NFKC($string)>,
17991 C<$normalized_string = normalize($form_name, $string)>
17993 =item Decomposition and Composition
17995 C<$decomposed_string = decompose($string)>, C<$decomposed_string =
17996 decompose($string, $useCompatMapping)>, C<$reordered_string =
17997 reorder($string)>, C<$composed_string = compose($string)>
18001 C<$result = checkNFD($string)>, C<$result = checkNFC($string)>, C<$result =
18002 checkNFKD($string)>, C<$result = checkNFKC($string)>, C<$result =
18003 check($form_name, $string)>
18005 =item Character Data
18007 C<$canonical_decomposed = getCanon($codepoint)>,
18008 C<$compatibility_decomposed = getCompat($codepoint)>,
18009 C<$codepoint_composite = getComposite($codepoint_here, $codepoint_next)>,
18010 C<$combining_class = getCombinClass($codepoint)>, C<$is_exclusion =
18011 isExclusion($codepoint)>, C<$is_singleton = isSingleton($codepoint)>,
18012 C<$is_non_startar_decomposition = isNonStDecomp($codepoint)>,
18013 C<$may_be_composed_with_prev_char = isComp2nd($codepoint)>
18023 http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr15/,
18024 http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/DerivedNormalizationProperties.txt
18028 =head2 Unicode::UCD - Unicode character database
18070 =item Blocks versus Scripts
18072 =item Matching Scripts and Blocks
18074 =item Code Point Arguments
18100 =item Unicode::UCD::UnicodeVersion
18106 =item Implementation Note
18118 =head2 User::grent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getgr*()
18133 =head2 User::pwent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getpw*()
18144 =item System Specifics
18158 =head2 Win32 - Interfaces to some Win32 API Functions
18166 =item Alphabetical Listing of Win32 Functions
18168 Win32::AbortSystemShutdown(MACHINE), Win32::BuildNumber(),
18169 Win32::CopyFile(FROM, TO, OVERWRITE), Win32::DomainName(),
18170 Win32::ExpandEnvironmentStrings(STRING), Win32::FormatMessage(ERRORCODE),
18171 Win32::FsType(), Win32::FreeLibrary(HANDLE), Win32::GetArchName(),
18172 Win32::GetChipName(), Win32::GetCwd(), Win32::GetFullPathName(FILENAME),
18173 Win32::GetLastError(), Win32::GetLongPathName(PATHNAME),
18174 Win32::GetNextAvailDrive(), Win32::GetOSVersion(),
18175 Win32::GetShortPathName(PATHNAME), Win32::GetProcAddress(INSTANCE,
18176 PROCNAME), Win32::GetTickCount(), Win32::InitiateSystemShutdown,
18177 Win32::IsWinNT(), Win32::IsWin95(), Win32::LoadLibrary(LIBNAME),
18178 Win32::LoginName(), Win32::LookupAccountName(SYSTEM, ACCOUNT, DOMAIN, SID,
18179 SIDTYPE), Win32::LookupAccountSID(SYSTEM, SID, ACCOUNT, DOMAIN, SIDTYPE),
18180 Win32::MsgBox(MESSAGE [, FLAGS [, TITLE]]), Win32::NodeName(),
18181 Win32::RegisterServer(LIBRARYNAME), Win32::SetChildShowWindow(SHOWWINDOW),
18182 Win32::SetCwd(NEWDIRECTORY), Win32::SetLastError(ERROR),
18183 Win32::Sleep(TIME), Win32::Spawn(COMMAND, ARGS, PID),
18184 Win32::UnregisterServer(LIBRARYNAME)
18190 =head2 XS::Typemap - module to test the XS typemaps distributed with perl
18208 =head2 XSLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code
18220 =head1 AUXILIARY DOCUMENTATION
18222 Here should be listed all the extra programs' documentation, but they
18223 don't all have manual pages yet:
18249 Larry Wall <F<larry@wall.org>>, with the help of oodles
projects / p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git / blob