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: 2002/01/31
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],
1246 T, s [expr], n [expr], r, <CR>, c [line|sub], l, l min+incr, l min-max, l
1247 line, l subname, -, v [line], f filename, /pattern/, ?pattern?, L [abw], S
1248 [[!]regex], t, t expr, b, b [line] [condition], b subname [condition], b
1249 postpone subname [condition], b load filename, b compile subname, B line, B
1250 *, a [line] command, A line, A *, w expr, W expr, W *, o, o booloption ..,
1251 o anyoption? .., o option=value .., < ?, < [ command ], << command, > ?, >
1252 command, >> command, { ?, { [ command ], {{ command, ! number, ! -number, !
1253 pattern, !! cmd, @ file, H -number, q or ^D, R, |dbcmd, ||dbcmd, command, m
1254 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
2473 =item Broken systems
2483 =head2 perluniintro - Perl Unicode introduction
2493 =item Perl's Unicode Support
2495 =item Perl's Unicode Model
2497 =item Creating Unicode
2499 =item Handling Unicode
2501 =item Legacy Encodings
2505 =item Displaying Unicode As Text
2509 =item Advanced Topics
2513 =item Questions With Answers
2517 =item Hexadecimal Notation
2519 =item Further Resources
2523 =item UNICODE IN OLDER PERLS
2527 =item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
2529 =item AUTHOR, COPYRIGHT, AND LICENSE
2533 =head2 perlunicode - Unicode support in Perl
2541 =item Important Caveats
2543 Input and Output Disciplines, Regular Expressions, C<use utf8> still needed
2544 to enable UTF-8/UTF-EBCDIC in scripts
2546 =item Byte and Character semantics
2548 =item Effects of character semantics
2554 =item Character encodings for input and output
2556 =item Unicode Regular Expression Support Level
2558 =item Unicode Encodings
2560 =item Security Implications of Malformed UTF-8
2562 =item Unicode in Perl on EBCDIC
2564 =item Using Unicode in XS
2572 =head2 perlebcdic - Considerations for running Perl on EBCDIC platforms
2578 =item COMMON CHARACTER CODE SETS
2586 =item Latin 1 (ISO 8859-1)
2590 =item 13 variant characters
2598 =item Unicode and UTF
2604 =item SINGLE OCTET TABLES
2606 recipe 0, recipe 1, recipe 2, recipe 3, recipe 4, recipe 5, recipe 6
2608 =item IDENTIFYING CHARACTER CODE SETS
2622 =item OPERATOR DIFFERENCES
2624 =item FUNCTION DIFFERENCES
2626 chr(), ord(), pack(), print(), printf(), sort(), sprintf(), unpack()
2628 =item REGULAR EXPRESSION DIFFERENCES
2636 =item Ignore ASCII vs. EBCDIC sort differences.
2638 =item MONO CASE then sort data.
2640 =item Convert, sort data, then re convert.
2642 =item Perform sorting on one type of machine only.
2646 =item TRANSFORMATION FORMATS
2650 =item URL decoding and encoding
2652 =item uu encoding and decoding
2654 =item Quoted-Printable encoding and decoding
2656 =item Caesarian ciphers
2660 =item Hashing order and checksums
2664 =item MULTI OCTET CHARACTER SETS
2676 chcp, dataset access, OS/390, z/OS iconv, locales
2696 =head2 perlsec - Perl security
2704 =item Laundering and Detecting Tainted Data
2706 =item Switches On the "#!" Line
2708 =item Cleaning Up Your Path
2712 =item Protecting Your Programs
2720 =head2 perlmod - Perl modules (packages and symbol tables)
2732 =item Package Constructors and Destructors
2738 =item Making your module threadsafe
2746 =head2 perlmodinstall - Installing CPAN Modules
2756 B<DECOMPRESS> the file, B<UNPACK> the file into a directory, B<BUILD> the
2757 module (sometimes unnecessary), B<INSTALL> the module
2771 =head2 perlmodlib - constructing new Perl modules and finding existing ones
2777 =item THE PERL MODULE LIBRARY
2781 =item Pragmatic Modules
2783 attributes, autouse, base, blib, bytes, charnames, constant, diagnostics,
2784 encoding, fields, filetest, integer, less, locale, open, overload, sigtrap,
2785 sort, strict, subs, utf8, vars, vmsish, warnings, warnings::register
2787 =item Standard Modules
2789 AnyDBM_File, Attribute::Handlers, AutoLoader, AutoSplit, Benchmark, CGI,
2790 CGI::Apache, CGI::Carp, CGI::Cookie, CGI::Fast, CGI::Pretty, CGI::Push,
2791 CGI::Switch, CGI::Util, CPAN, CPAN::FirstTime, CPAN::Nox, Carp,
2792 Carp::Heavy, Class::ISA, Class::Struct, Cwd, DB, Devel::SelfStubber,
2793 Digest, DirHandle, Dumpvalue, English, Env, Exporter, Exporter::Heavy,
2794 ExtUtils::Command, ExtUtils::Constant, ExtUtils::Embed, ExtUtils::Install,
2795 ExtUtils::Installed, ExtUtils::Liblist, ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin,
2796 ExtUtils::MM_NW5, ExtUtils::MM_OS2, ExtUtils::MM_Unix, ExtUtils::MM_VMS,
2797 ExtUtils::MM_Win32, ExtUtils::MakeMaker, ExtUtils::Manifest,
2798 ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap, ExtUtils::Mksymlists, ExtUtils::Packlist,
2799 ExtUtils::testlib, Fatal, File::Basename, File::CheckTree, File::Compare,
2800 File::Copy, File::DosGlob, File::Find, File::Path, File::Spec,
2801 File::Spec::Cygwin, File::Spec::Epoc, File::Spec::Functions,
2802 File::Spec::Mac, File::Spec::OS2, File::Spec::Unix, File::Spec::VMS,
2803 File::Spec::Win32, File::Temp, File::stat, FileCache, FileHandle,
2804 Filter::Simple, FindBin, Getopt::Long, Getopt::Std, I18N::Collate,
2805 I18N::LangTags, I18N::LangTags::List, IPC::Open2, IPC::Open3,
2806 Locale::Constants, Locale::Country, Locale::Currency, Locale::Language,
2807 Locale::Maketext, Locale::Maketext::TPJ13, Math::BigFloat, Math::BigInt,
2808 Math::BigInt::Calc, Math::Complex, Math::Trig, Memoize,
2809 Memoize::AnyDBM_File, Memoize::Expire, Memoize::ExpireFile,
2810 Memoize::ExpireTest, Memoize::NDBM_File, Memoize::SDBM_File,
2811 Memoize::Storable, NEXT, Net::Cmd, Net::Config, Net::Domain, Net::FTP,
2812 Net::NNTP, Net::Netrc, Net::POP3, Net::Ping, Net::SMTP, Net::Time,
2813 Net::hostent, Net::libnetFAQ, Net::netent, Net::protoent, Net::servent,
2814 PerlIO, Pod::Checker, Pod::Find, Pod::Functions, Pod::Html,
2815 Pod::InputObjects, Pod::LaTeX, Pod::Man, Pod::ParseLink, Pod::ParseUtils,
2816 Pod::Parser, Pod::Plainer, Pod::Select, Pod::Text, Pod::Text::Color,
2817 Pod::Text::Overstrike, Pod::Text::Termcap, Pod::Usage, Pod::t::basic,
2818 Search::Dict, SelectSaver, SelfLoader, Shell, Switch, Symbol,
2819 Term::ANSIColor, Term::Cap, Term::Complete, Term::ReadLine, Test,
2820 Test::Builder, Test::Harness, Test::More, Test::Simple, Test::Tutorial,
2821 Text::Abbrev, Text::Balanced, Text::ParseWords, Text::Soundex, Text::Tabs,
2822 Text::Wrap, Thread, Tie::Array, Tie::Handle, Tie::Hash, Tie::RefHash,
2823 Tie::Scalar, Tie::SubstrHash, Time::Local, Time::gmtime, Time::localtime,
2824 Time::tm, UNIVERSAL, Unicode::Collate, Unicode::UCD, User::grent,
2827 =item Extension Modules
2839 =item Central America
2851 =item Modules: Creation, Use, and Abuse
2855 =item Guidelines for Module Creation
2857 =item Guidelines for Converting Perl 4 Library Scripts into Modules
2859 =item Guidelines for Reusing Application Code
2867 =head2 perlmodstyle - Perl module style guide
2873 =item QUICK CHECKLIST
2877 =item Before you start
2885 =item Release considerations
2889 =item BEFORE YOU START WRITING A MODULE
2893 =item Has it been done before?
2895 =item Do one thing and do it well
2897 =item What's in a name?
2901 =item DESIGNING AND WRITING YOUR MODULE
2905 =item To OO or not to OO?
2907 =item Designing your API
2909 Write simple routines to do simple things, Separate functionality from
2910 output, Provide sensible shortcuts and defaults, Naming conventions,
2913 =item Strictness and warnings
2915 =item Backwards compatibility
2917 =item Error handling and messages
2921 =item DOCUMENTING YOUR MODULE
2927 =item README, INSTALL, release notes, changelogs
2931 =item RELEASE CONSIDERATIONS
2935 =item Version numbering
2937 =item Pre-requisites
2947 =item COMMON PITFALLS
2951 =item Reinventing the wheel
2953 =item Trying to do too much
2955 =item Inappropriate documentation
2961 L<perlstyle>, L<perlnewmod>, L<perlpod>, L<podchecker>, Testing tools,
2962 http://pause.perl.org/, Any good book on software engineering
2968 =head2 perlnewmod - preparing a new module for distribution
2978 =item What should I make into a module?
2980 =item Step-by-step: Preparing the ground
2982 Look around, Check it's new, Discuss the need, Choose a name, Check again
2984 =item Step-by-step: Making the module
2986 Start with F<h2xs>, Use L<strict|strict> and L<warnings|warnings>, Use
2987 L<Carp|Carp>, Use L<Exporter|Exporter> - wisely!, Use L<plain old
2988 documentation|perlpod>, Write tests, Write the README
2990 =item Step-by-step: Distributing your module
2992 Get a CPAN user ID, C<perl Makefile.PL; make test; make dist>, Upload the
2993 tarball, Announce to the modules list, Announce to clpa, Fix bugs!
3003 =head2 perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.6 $, $Date:
3004 2002/01/31 01:46:23 $)
3014 =item Who supports Perl? Who develops it? Why is it free?
3016 =item Which version of Perl should I use?
3018 =item What are perl4 and perl5?
3020 =item What is perl6?
3022 =item How stable is Perl?
3024 =item Is Perl difficult to learn?
3026 =item How does Perl compare with other languages like Java, Python, REXX,
3029 =item Can I do [task] in Perl?
3031 =item When shouldn't I program in Perl?
3033 =item What's the difference between "perl" and "Perl"?
3035 =item Is it a Perl program or a Perl script?
3037 =item What is a JAPH?
3039 =item Where can I get a list of Larry Wall witticisms?
3041 =item How can I convince my sysadmin/supervisor/employees to use version
3042 5/5.6.1/Perl instead of some other language?
3046 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3050 =head2 perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.8 $,
3051 $Date: 2002/02/08 22:31:57 $)
3059 =item What machines support Perl? Where do I get it?
3061 =item How can I get a binary version of Perl?
3063 =item I don't have a C compiler on my system. How can I compile perl?
3065 =item I copied the Perl binary from one machine to another, but scripts
3068 =item I grabbed the sources and tried to compile but gdbm/dynamic
3069 loading/malloc/linking/... failed. How do I make it work?
3071 =item What modules and extensions are available for Perl? What is CPAN?
3072 What does CPAN/src/... mean?
3074 =item Is there an ISO or ANSI certified version of Perl?
3076 =item Where can I get information on Perl?
3078 =item What are the Perl newsgroups on Usenet? Where do I post questions?
3080 =item Where should I post source code?
3084 References, Tutorials, Task-Oriented, Special Topics
3086 =item Perl in Magazines
3088 =item Perl on the Net: FTP and WWW Access
3090 =item What mailing lists are there for Perl?
3092 =item Archives of comp.lang.perl.misc
3094 =item Where can I buy a commercial version of Perl?
3096 =item Where do I send bug reports?
3098 =item What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org? cpan.org?
3102 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3106 =head2 perlfaq3 - Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.15 $, $Date: 2002/02/11
3115 =item How do I do (anything)?
3117 =item How can I use Perl interactively?
3119 =item Is there a Perl shell?
3121 =item How do I debug my Perl programs?
3123 =item How do I profile my Perl programs?
3125 =item How do I cross-reference my Perl programs?
3127 =item Is there a pretty-printer (formatter) for Perl?
3129 =item Is there a ctags for Perl?
3131 =item Is there an IDE or Windows Perl Editor?
3133 Komodo, The Object System, Open Perl IDE, PerlBuilder, visiPerl+,
3134 CodeMagicCD, GNU Emacs, MicroEMACS, XEmacs, Elvis, Vile, Vim, Codewright,
3135 MultiEdit, SlickEdit, Bash, Ksh, Tcsh, Zsh, BBEdit and BBEdit Lite, Alpha
3137 =item Where can I get Perl macros for vi?
3139 =item Where can I get perl-mode for emacs?
3141 =item How can I use curses with Perl?
3143 =item How can I use X or Tk with Perl?
3145 =item How can I generate simple menus without using CGI or Tk?
3147 =item How can I make my Perl program run faster?
3149 =item How can I make my Perl program take less memory?
3151 Don't slurp!, Use map and grep selectively, Avoid unnecessary quotes and
3152 stringification, Pass by reference, Tie large variables to disk
3154 =item Is it unsafe to return a pointer to local data?
3156 =item How can I free an array or hash so my program shrinks?
3158 =item How can I make my CGI script more efficient?
3160 =item How can I hide the source for my Perl program?
3162 =item How can I compile my Perl program into byte code or C?
3164 =item How can I compile Perl into Java?
3166 =item How can I get C<#!perl> to work on [MS-DOS,NT,...]?
3168 =item Can I write useful Perl programs on the command line?
3170 =item Why don't Perl one-liners work on my DOS/Mac/VMS system?
3172 =item Where can I learn about CGI or Web programming in Perl?
3174 =item Where can I learn about object-oriented Perl programming?
3176 =item Where can I learn about linking C with Perl? [h2xs, xsubpp]
3178 =item I've read perlembed, perlguts, etc., but I can't embed perl in
3179 my C program; what am I doing wrong?
3181 =item When I tried to run my script, I got this message. What does it mean?
3183 =item What's MakeMaker?
3187 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3191 =head2 perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation ($Revision: 1.14 $, $Date: 2002/02/08
3202 =item Why am I getting long decimals (eg, 19.9499999999999) instead of the
3203 numbers I should be getting (eg, 19.95)?
3205 =item Why isn't my octal data interpreted correctly?
3207 =item Does Perl have a round() function? What about ceil() and floor()?
3210 =item How do I convert between numeric representations?
3212 B<How do I convert Hexadecimal into decimal:>, B<How do I convert from
3213 decimal to hexadecimal:>, B<How do I convert from octal to decimal:>, B<How
3214 do I convert from decimal to octal:>, B<How do I convert from binary to
3215 decimal:>, B<How do I convert from decimal to binary:>
3217 =item Why doesn't & work the way I want it to?
3219 =item How do I multiply matrices?
3221 =item How do I perform an operation on a series of integers?
3223 =item How can I output Roman numerals?
3225 =item Why aren't my random numbers random?
3233 =item How do I find the week-of-the-year/day-of-the-year?
3235 =item How do I find the current century or millennium?
3237 =item How can I compare two dates and find the difference?
3239 =item How can I take a string and turn it into epoch seconds?
3241 =item How can I find the Julian Day?
3243 =item How do I find yesterday's date?
3245 =item Does Perl have a Year 2000 problem? Is Perl Y2K compliant?
3253 =item How do I validate input?
3255 =item How do I unescape a string?
3257 =item How do I remove consecutive pairs of characters?
3259 =item How do I expand function calls in a string?
3261 =item How do I find matching/nesting anything?
3263 =item How do I reverse a string?
3265 =item How do I expand tabs in a string?
3267 =item How do I reformat a paragraph?
3269 =item How can I access/change the first N letters of a string?
3271 =item How do I change the Nth occurrence of something?
3273 =item How can I count the number of occurrences of a substring within a
3276 =item How do I capitalize all the words on one line?
3278 =item How can I split a [character] delimited string except when inside
3279 [character]? (Comma-separated files)
3281 =item How do I strip blank space from the beginning/end of a string?
3283 =item How do I pad a string with blanks or pad a number with zeroes?
3285 =item How do I extract selected columns from a string?
3287 =item How do I find the soundex value of a string?
3289 =item How can I expand variables in text strings?
3291 =item What's wrong with always quoting "$vars"?
3293 =item Why don't my <<HERE documents work?
3295 1. There must be no space after the << part, 2. There (probably) should be
3296 a semicolon at the end, 3. You can't (easily) have any space in front of
3305 =item What is the difference between a list and an array?
3307 =item What is the difference between $array[1] and @array[1]?
3309 =item How can I remove duplicate elements from a list or array?
3313 =item How can I tell whether a certain element is contained in a list or
3316 =item How do I compute the difference of two arrays? How do I compute the
3317 intersection of two arrays?
3319 =item How do I test whether two arrays or hashes are equal?
3321 =item How do I find the first array element for which a condition is true?
3323 =item How do I handle linked lists?
3325 =item How do I handle circular lists?
3327 =item How do I shuffle an array randomly?
3329 =item How do I process/modify each element of an array?
3331 =item How do I select a random element from an array?
3333 =item How do I permute N elements of a list?
3335 =item How do I sort an array by (anything)?
3337 =item How do I manipulate arrays of bits?
3339 =item Why does defined() return true on empty arrays and hashes?
3343 =item Data: Hashes (Associative Arrays)
3347 =item How do I process an entire hash?
3349 =item What happens if I add or remove keys from a hash while iterating over
3352 =item How do I look up a hash element by value?
3354 =item How can I know how many entries are in a hash?
3356 =item How do I sort a hash (optionally by value instead of key)?
3358 =item How can I always keep my hash sorted?
3360 =item What's the difference between "delete" and "undef" with hashes?
3362 =item Why don't my tied hashes make the defined/exists distinction?
3364 =item How do I reset an each() operation part-way through?
3366 =item How can I get the unique keys from two hashes?
3368 =item How can I store a multidimensional array in a DBM file?
3370 =item How can I make my hash remember the order I put elements into it?
3372 =item Why does passing a subroutine an undefined element in a hash create
3375 =item How can I make the Perl equivalent of a C structure/C++ class/hash or
3376 array of hashes or arrays?
3378 =item How can I use a reference as a hash key?
3386 =item How do I handle binary data correctly?
3388 =item How do I determine whether a scalar is a number/whole/integer/float?
3390 =item How do I keep persistent data across program calls?
3392 =item How do I print out or copy a recursive data structure?
3394 =item How do I define methods for every class/object?
3396 =item How do I verify a credit card checksum?
3398 =item How do I pack arrays of doubles or floats for XS code?
3402 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3406 =head2 perlfaq5 - Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.9 $, $Date: 2002/02/11
3415 =item How do I flush/unbuffer an output filehandle? Why must I do this?
3417 =item How do I change one line in a file/delete a line in a file/insert a
3418 line in the middle of a file/append to the beginning of a file?
3420 =item How do I count the number of lines in a file?
3422 =item How do I make a temporary file name?
3424 =item How can I manipulate fixed-record-length files?
3426 =item How can I make a filehandle local to a subroutine? How do I pass
3427 filehandles between subroutines? How do I make an array of filehandles?
3429 =item How can I use a filehandle indirectly?
3431 =item How can I set up a footer format to be used with write()?
3433 =item How can I write() into a string?
3435 =item How can I output my numbers with commas added?
3437 =item How can I translate tildes (~) in a filename?
3439 =item How come when I open a file read-write it wipes it out?
3441 =item Why do I sometimes get an "Argument list too long" when I use <*>?
3443 =item Is there a leak/bug in glob()?
3445 =item How can I open a file with a leading ">" or trailing blanks?
3447 =item How can I reliably rename a file?
3449 =item How can I lock a file?
3451 =item Why can't I just open(FH, ">file.lock")?
3453 =item I still don't get locking. I just want to increment the number in
3454 the file. How can I do this?
3456 =item All I want to do is append a small amount of text to the end of a
3457 file. Do I still have to use locking?
3459 =item How do I randomly update a binary file?
3461 =item How do I get a file's timestamp in perl?
3463 =item How do I set a file's timestamp in perl?
3465 =item How do I print to more than one file at once?
3467 =item How can I read in an entire file all at once?
3469 =item How can I read in a file by paragraphs?
3471 =item How can I read a single character from a file? From the keyboard?
3473 =item How can I tell whether there's a character waiting on a filehandle?
3475 =item How do I do a C<tail -f> in perl?
3477 =item How do I dup() a filehandle in Perl?
3479 =item How do I close a file descriptor by number?
3481 =item Why can't I use "C:\temp\foo" in DOS paths? What doesn't
3482 `C:\temp\foo.exe` work?
3484 =item Why doesn't glob("*.*") get all the files?
3486 =item Why does Perl let me delete read-only files? Why does C<-i> clobber
3487 protected files? Isn't this a bug in Perl?
3489 =item How do I select a random line from a file?
3491 =item Why do I get weird spaces when I print an array of lines?
3495 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3499 =head2 perlfaq6 - Regular Expressions ($Revision: 1.8 $, $Date: 2002/01/31
3508 =item How can I hope to use regular expressions without creating illegible
3509 and unmaintainable code?
3511 Comments Outside the Regex, Comments Inside the Regex, Different Delimiters
3513 =item I'm having trouble matching over more than one line. What's wrong?
3515 =item How can I pull out lines between two patterns that are themselves on
3518 =item I put a regular expression into $/ but it didn't work. What's wrong?
3520 =item How do I substitute case insensitively on the LHS while preserving
3523 =item How can I make C<\w> match national character sets?
3525 =item How can I match a locale-smart version of C</[a-zA-Z]/>?
3527 =item How can I quote a variable to use in a regex?
3529 =item What is C</o> really for?
3531 =item How do I use a regular expression to strip C style comments from a
3534 =item Can I use Perl regular expressions to match balanced text?
3536 =item What does it mean that regexes are greedy? How can I get around it?
3538 =item How do I process each word on each line?
3540 =item How can I print out a word-frequency or line-frequency summary?
3542 =item How can I do approximate matching?
3544 =item How do I efficiently match many regular expressions at once?
3546 =item Why don't word-boundary searches with C<\b> work for me?
3548 =item Why does using $&, $`, or $' slow my program down?
3550 =item What good is C<\G> in a regular expression?
3552 =item Are Perl regexes DFAs or NFAs? Are they POSIX compliant?
3554 =item What's wrong with using grep or map in a void context?
3556 =item How can I match strings with multibyte characters?
3558 =item How do I match a pattern that is supplied by the user?
3562 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3566 =head2 perlfaq7 - General Perl Language Issues ($Revision: 1.7 $, $Date:
3567 2002/01/31 04:27:55 $)
3575 =item Can I get a BNF/yacc/RE for the Perl language?
3577 =item What are all these $@%&* punctuation signs, and how do I know when to
3580 =item Do I always/never have to quote my strings or use semicolons and
3583 =item How do I skip some return values?
3585 =item How do I temporarily block warnings?
3587 =item What's an extension?
3589 =item Why do Perl operators have different precedence than C operators?
3591 =item How do I declare/create a structure?
3593 =item How do I create a module?
3595 =item How do I create a class?
3597 =item How can I tell if a variable is tainted?
3599 =item What's a closure?
3601 =item What is variable suicide and how can I prevent it?
3603 =item How can I pass/return a {Function, FileHandle, Array, Hash, Method,
3606 Passing Variables and Functions, Passing Filehandles, Passing Regexes,
3609 =item How do I create a static variable?
3611 =item What's the difference between dynamic and lexical (static) scoping?
3612 Between local() and my()?
3614 =item How can I access a dynamic variable while a similarly named lexical
3617 =item What's the difference between deep and shallow binding?
3619 =item Why doesn't "my($foo) = <FILE>;" work right?
3621 =item How do I redefine a builtin function, operator, or method?
3623 =item What's the difference between calling a function as &foo and foo()?
3625 =item How do I create a switch or case statement?
3627 =item How can I catch accesses to undefined variables/functions/methods?
3629 =item Why can't a method included in this same file be found?
3631 =item How can I find out my current package?
3633 =item How can I comment out a large block of perl code?
3635 =item How do I clear a package?
3637 =item How can I use a variable as a variable name?
3641 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3645 =head2 perlfaq8 - System Interaction ($Revision: 1.6 $, $Date: 2002/01/28
3654 =item How do I find out which operating system I'm running under?
3656 =item How come exec() doesn't return?
3658 =item How do I do fancy stuff with the keyboard/screen/mouse?
3660 Keyboard, Screen, Mouse
3662 =item How do I print something out in color?
3664 =item How do I read just one key without waiting for a return key?
3666 =item How do I check whether input is ready on the keyboard?
3668 =item How do I clear the screen?
3670 =item How do I get the screen size?
3672 =item How do I ask the user for a password?
3674 =item How do I read and write the serial port?
3676 lockfiles, open mode, end of line, flushing output, non-blocking input
3678 =item How do I decode encrypted password files?
3680 =item How do I start a process in the background?
3682 STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR are shared, Signals, Zombies
3684 =item How do I trap control characters/signals?
3686 =item How do I modify the shadow password file on a Unix system?
3688 =item How do I set the time and date?
3690 =item How can I sleep() or alarm() for under a second?
3692 =item How can I measure time under a second?
3694 =item How can I do an atexit() or setjmp()/longjmp()? (Exception handling)
3696 =item Why doesn't my sockets program work under System V (Solaris)? What
3697 does the error message "Protocol not supported" mean?
3699 =item How can I call my system's unique C functions from Perl?
3701 =item Where do I get the include files to do ioctl() or syscall()?
3703 =item Why do setuid perl scripts complain about kernel problems?
3705 =item How can I open a pipe both to and from a command?
3707 =item Why can't I get the output of a command with system()?
3709 =item How can I capture STDERR from an external command?
3711 =item Why doesn't open() return an error when a pipe open fails?
3713 =item What's wrong with using backticks in a void context?
3715 =item How can I call backticks without shell processing?
3717 =item Why can't my script read from STDIN after I gave it EOF (^D on Unix,
3720 =item How can I convert my shell script to perl?
3722 =item Can I use perl to run a telnet or ftp session?
3724 =item How can I write expect in Perl?
3726 =item Is there a way to hide perl's command line from programs such as
3729 =item I {changed directory, modified my environment} in a perl script. How
3730 come the change disappeared when I exited the script? How do I get my
3731 changes to be visible?
3735 =item How do I close a process's filehandle without waiting for it to
3738 =item How do I fork a daemon process?
3740 =item How do I find out if I'm running interactively or not?
3742 =item How do I timeout a slow event?
3744 =item How do I set CPU limits?
3746 =item How do I avoid zombies on a Unix system?
3748 =item How do I use an SQL database?
3750 =item How do I make a system() exit on control-C?
3752 =item How do I open a file without blocking?
3754 =item How do I install a module from CPAN?
3756 =item What's the difference between require and use?
3758 =item How do I keep my own module/library directory?
3760 =item How do I add the directory my program lives in to the module/library
3763 =item How do I add a directory to my include path at runtime?
3765 =item What is socket.ph and where do I get it?
3769 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3773 =head2 perlfaq9 - Networking ($Revision: 1.7 $, $Date: 2002/01/28 04:17:27
3782 =item What is the correct form of response from a CGI script?
3784 =item My CGI script runs from the command line but not the browser. (500
3787 =item How can I get better error messages from a CGI program?
3789 =item How do I remove HTML from a string?
3791 =item How do I extract URLs?
3793 =item How do I download a file from the user's machine? How do I open a
3794 file on another machine?
3796 =item How do I make a pop-up menu in HTML?
3798 =item How do I fetch an HTML file?
3800 =item How do I automate an HTML form submission?
3802 =item How do I decode or create those %-encodings on the web?
3804 =item How do I redirect to another page?
3806 =item How do I put a password on my web pages?
3808 =item How do I edit my .htpasswd and .htgroup files with Perl?
3810 =item How do I make sure users can't enter values into a form that cause my
3811 CGI script to do bad things?
3813 =item How do I parse a mail header?
3815 =item How do I decode a CGI form?
3817 =item How do I check a valid mail address?
3819 =item How do I decode a MIME/BASE64 string?
3821 =item How do I return the user's mail address?
3823 =item How do I send mail?
3825 =item How do I use MIME to make an attachment to a mail message?
3827 =item How do I read mail?
3829 =item How do I find out my hostname/domainname/IP address?
3831 =item How do I fetch a news article or the active newsgroups?
3833 =item How do I fetch/put an FTP file?
3835 =item How can I do RPC in Perl?
3839 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3843 =head2 perlcompile - Introduction to the Perl Compiler-Translator
3853 B::Bytecode, B::C, B::CC, B::Lint, B::Deparse, B::Xref
3857 =item Using The Back Ends
3861 =item The Cross Referencing Back End
3865 =item The Decompiling Back End
3867 =item The Lint Back End
3869 =item The Simple C Back End
3871 =item The Bytecode Back End
3873 =item The Optimized C Back End
3875 B, O, B::Asmdata, B::Assembler, B::Bblock, B::Bytecode, B::C, B::CC,
3876 B::Debug, B::Deparse, B::Disassembler, B::Lint, B::Showlex, B::Stackobj,
3877 B::Stash, B::Terse, B::Xref
3881 =item KNOWN PROBLEMS
3887 =head2 perlembed - how to embed perl in your C program
3897 B<Use C from Perl?>, B<Use a Unix program from Perl?>, B<Use Perl from
3898 Perl?>, B<Use C from C?>, B<Use Perl from C?>
3902 =item Compiling your C program
3904 =item Adding a Perl interpreter to your C program
3906 =item Calling a Perl subroutine from your C program
3908 =item Evaluating a Perl statement from your C program
3910 =item Performing Perl pattern matches and substitutions from your C program
3912 =item Fiddling with the Perl stack from your C program
3914 =item Maintaining a persistent interpreter
3916 =item Execution of END blocks
3918 =item Maintaining multiple interpreter instances
3920 =item Using Perl modules, which themselves use C libraries, from your C
3925 =item Embedding Perl under Win32
3935 =head2 perldebguts - Guts of Perl debugging
3941 =item Debugger Internals
3945 =item Writing Your Own Debugger
3949 =item Frame Listing Output Examples
3951 =item Debugging regular expressions
3955 =item Compile-time output
3957 C<anchored> I<STRING> C<at> I<POS>, C<floating> I<STRING> C<at>
3958 I<POS1..POS2>, C<matching floating/anchored>, C<minlen>, C<stclass>
3959 I<TYPE>, C<noscan>, C<isall>, C<GPOS>, C<plus>, C<implicit>, C<with eval>,
3962 =item Types of nodes
3964 =item Run-time output
3968 =item Debugging Perl memory usage
3972 =item Using C<$ENV{PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS}>
3974 C<buckets SMALLEST(APPROX)..GREATEST(APPROX)>, Free/Used, C<Total sbrk():
3975 SBRKed/SBRKs:CONTINUOUS>, C<pad: 0>, C<heads: 2192>, C<chain: 0>, C<tail:
3978 =item Example of using B<-DL> switch
3980 C<717>, C<002>, C<054>, C<602>, C<702>, C<704>
3982 =item B<-DL> details
3986 =item Limitations of B<-DL> statistics
3994 =head2 perlxstut, perlXStut - Tutorial for writing XSUBs
4006 =item Version caveat
4008 =item Dynamic Loading versus Static Loading
4020 =item What has gone on?
4022 =item Writing good test scripts
4026 =item What's new here?
4028 =item Input and Output Parameters
4030 =item The XSUBPP Program
4032 =item The TYPEMAP file
4034 =item Warning about Output Arguments
4038 =item What has happened here?
4040 =item Anatomy of .xs file
4042 =item Getting the fat out of XSUBs
4044 =item More about XSUB arguments
4046 =item The Argument Stack
4048 =item Extending your Extension
4050 =item Documenting your Extension
4052 =item Installing your Extension
4056 =item New Things in this Example
4060 =item New Things in this Example
4062 =item EXAMPLE 7 (Coming Soon)
4064 =item EXAMPLE 8 (Coming Soon)
4066 =item EXAMPLE 9 (Coming Soon)
4068 =item Troubleshooting these Examples
4084 =head2 perlxs - XS language reference manual
4096 =item The Anatomy of an XSUB
4098 =item The Argument Stack
4100 =item The RETVAL Variable
4102 =item The MODULE Keyword
4104 =item The PACKAGE Keyword
4106 =item The PREFIX Keyword
4108 =item The OUTPUT: Keyword
4110 =item The NO_OUTPUT Keyword
4112 =item The CODE: Keyword
4114 =item The INIT: Keyword
4116 =item The NO_INIT Keyword
4118 =item Initializing Function Parameters
4120 =item Default Parameter Values
4122 =item The PREINIT: Keyword
4124 =item The SCOPE: Keyword
4126 =item The INPUT: Keyword
4128 =item The IN/OUTLIST/IN_OUTLIST/OUT/IN_OUT Keywords
4130 =item The C<length(NAME)> Keyword
4132 =item Variable-length Parameter Lists
4134 =item The C_ARGS: Keyword
4136 =item The PPCODE: Keyword
4138 =item Returning Undef And Empty Lists
4140 =item The REQUIRE: Keyword
4142 =item The CLEANUP: Keyword
4144 =item The POSTCALL: Keyword
4146 =item The BOOT: Keyword
4148 =item The VERSIONCHECK: Keyword
4150 =item The PROTOTYPES: Keyword
4152 =item The PROTOTYPE: Keyword
4154 =item The ALIAS: Keyword
4156 =item The OVERLOAD: Keyword
4158 =item The INTERFACE: Keyword
4160 =item The INTERFACE_MACRO: Keyword
4162 =item The INCLUDE: Keyword
4164 =item The CASE: Keyword
4166 =item The & Unary Operator
4168 =item Inserting POD, Comments and C Preprocessor Directives
4170 =item Using XS With C++
4172 =item Interface Strategy
4174 =item Perl Objects And C Structures
4178 =item Safely Storing Static Data in XS
4180 MY_CXT_KEY, typedef my_cxt_t, START_MY_CXT, MY_CXT_INIT, dMY_CXT, MY_CXT
4192 =head2 perlclib - Internal replacements for standard C library functions
4202 C<t>, C<p>, C<n>, C<s>
4204 =item File Operations
4206 =item File Input and Output
4208 =item File Positioning
4210 =item Memory Management and String Handling
4212 =item Character Class Tests
4214 =item F<stdlib.h> functions
4216 =item Miscellaneous functions
4224 =head2 perlguts - Introduction to the Perl API
4236 =item What is an "IV"?
4238 =item Working with SVs
4242 =item What's Really Stored in an SV?
4244 =item Working with AVs
4246 =item Working with HVs
4248 =item Hash API Extensions
4252 =item Blessed References and Class Objects
4254 =item Creating New Variables
4256 =item Reference Counts and Mortality
4258 =item Stashes and Globs
4260 =item Double-Typed SVs
4262 =item Magic Variables
4264 =item Assigning Magic
4266 =item Magic Virtual Tables
4270 =item Understanding the Magic of Tied Hashes and Arrays
4272 =item Localizing changes
4274 C<SAVEINT(int i)>, C<SAVEIV(IV i)>, C<SAVEI32(I32 i)>, C<SAVELONG(long i)>,
4275 C<SAVESPTR(s)>, C<SAVEPPTR(p)>, C<SAVEFREESV(SV *sv)>, C<SAVEMORTALIZESV(SV
4276 *sv)>, C<SAVEFREEOP(OP *op)>, C<SAVEFREEPV(p)>, C<SAVECLEARSV(SV *sv)>,
4277 C<SAVEDELETE(HV *hv, char *key, I32 length)>,
4278 C<SAVEDESTRUCTOR(DESTRUCTORFUNC_NOCONTEXT_t f, void *p)>,
4279 C<SAVEDESTRUCTOR_X(DESTRUCTORFUNC_t f, void *p)>, C<SAVESTACK_POS()>, C<SV*
4280 save_scalar(GV *gv)>, C<AV* save_ary(GV *gv)>, C<HV* save_hash(GV *gv)>,
4281 C<void save_item(SV *item)>, C<void save_list(SV **sarg, I32 maxsarg)>,
4282 C<SV* save_svref(SV **sptr)>, C<void save_aptr(AV **aptr)>, C<void
4283 save_hptr(HV **hptr)>
4291 =item XSUBs and the Argument Stack
4293 =item Calling Perl Routines from within C Programs
4295 =item Memory Allocation
4299 =item Putting a C value on Perl stack
4303 =item Scratchpads and recursion
4313 =item Examining the tree
4315 =item Compile pass 1: check routines
4317 =item Compile pass 1a: constant folding
4319 =item Compile pass 2: context propagation
4321 =item Compile pass 3: peephole optimization
4323 =item Pluggable runops
4327 =item Examining internal data structures with the C<dump> functions
4329 =item How multiple interpreters and concurrency are supported
4333 =item Background and PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
4335 =item So what happened to dTHR?
4337 =item How do I use all this in extensions?
4339 =item Should I do anything special if I call perl from multiple threads?
4341 =item Future Plans and PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
4345 =item Internal Functions
4347 A, p, d, s, n, r, f, M, o, j, x
4351 =item Formatted Printing of IVs, UVs, and NVs
4353 =item Pointer-To-Integer and Integer-To-Pointer
4355 =item Source Documentation
4359 =item Unicode Support
4363 =item What B<is> Unicode, anyway?
4365 =item How can I recognise a UTF8 string?
4367 =item How does UTF8 represent Unicode characters?
4369 =item How does Perl store UTF8 strings?
4371 =item How do I convert a string to UTF8?
4373 =item Is there anything else I need to know?
4377 =item Custom Operators
4385 =head2 perlcall - Perl calling conventions from C
4391 An Error Handler, An Event Driven Program
4393 =item THE CALL_ FUNCTIONS
4395 call_sv, call_pv, call_method, call_argv
4415 =item Determining the Context
4419 =item KNOWN PROBLEMS
4425 =item No Parameters, Nothing returned
4427 =item Passing Parameters
4429 =item Returning a Scalar
4431 =item Returning a list of values
4433 =item Returning a list in a scalar context
4435 =item Returning Data from Perl via the parameter list
4439 =item Using G_KEEPERR
4443 =item Using call_argv
4445 =item Using call_method
4449 =item Using Perl to dispose of temporaries
4451 =item Strategies for storing Callback Context Information
4453 1. Ignore the problem - Allow only 1 callback, 2. Create a sequence of
4454 callbacks - hard wired limit, 3. Use a parameter to map to the Perl
4457 =item Alternate Stack Manipulation
4459 =item Creating and calling an anonymous subroutine in C
4471 =head2 perlutil - utilities packaged with the Perl distribution
4481 L<perldoc|perldoc>, L<pod2man|pod2man> and L<pod2text|pod2text>,
4482 L<pod2html|pod2html> and L<pod2latex|pod2latex>, L<pod2usage|pod2usage>,
4483 L<podselect|podselect>, L<podchecker|podchecker>, L<splain|splain>,
4484 L<roffitall|roffitall>
4488 L<a2p|a2p>, L<s2p|s2p>, L<find2perl|find2perl>
4490 =item Administration
4492 L<libnetcfg|libnetcfg>
4496 L<perlbug|perlbug>, L<h2ph|h2ph>, L<c2ph|c2ph> and L<pstruct|pstruct>,
4497 L<h2xs|h2xs>, L<dprofpp|dprofpp>, L<perlcc|perlcc>
4505 =head2 perlfilter - Source Filters
4515 =item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER
4517 =item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER IN C
4519 B<Decryption Filters>
4521 =item CREATING A SOURCE FILTER AS A SEPARATE EXECUTABLE
4523 =item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER IN PERL
4525 =item USING CONTEXT: THE DEBUG FILTER
4537 =head2 perldbmfilter - Perl DBM Filters
4545 B<filter_store_key>, B<filter_store_value>, B<filter_fetch_key>,
4546 B<filter_fetch_value>
4552 =item An Example -- the NULL termination problem.
4554 =item Another Example -- Key is a C int.
4564 =head2 perlapi - autogenerated documentation for the perl public API
4570 =item "Gimme" Values
4572 GIMME, GIMME_V, G_ARRAY, G_DISCARD, G_EVAL, G_NOARGS, G_SCALAR, G_VOID
4574 =item Array Manipulation Functions
4576 AvFILL, av_clear, av_delete, av_exists, av_extend, av_fetch, av_fill,
4577 av_len, av_make, av_pop, av_push, av_shift, av_store, av_undef, av_unshift,
4578 get_av, newAV, Nullav, sortsv
4580 =item Callback Functions
4582 call_argv, call_method, call_pv, call_sv, ENTER, eval_pv, eval_sv,
4583 FREETMPS, LEAVE, SAVETMPS
4585 =item Character classes
4587 isALNUM, isALPHA, isDIGIT, isLOWER, isSPACE, isUPPER, toLOWER, toUPPER
4589 =item Cloning an interpreter
4593 =item CV Manipulation Functions
4595 CvSTASH, get_cv, Nullcv
4597 =item Embedding Functions
4599 load_module, perl_alloc, perl_construct, perl_destruct, perl_free,
4600 perl_parse, perl_run, require_pv
4602 =item Functions in file pp_pack.c
4604 pack_cat, unpack_str
4606 =item Global Variables
4608 PL_modglobal, PL_na, PL_sv_no, PL_sv_undef, PL_sv_yes
4612 GvSV, gv_fetchmeth, gv_fetchmethod, gv_fetchmethod_autoload,
4613 gv_fetchmeth_autoload, gv_stashpv, gv_stashsv
4617 HEf_SVKEY, Nullch, Nullsv
4619 =item Hash Manipulation Functions
4621 get_hv, HeHASH, HeKEY, HeKLEN, HePV, HeSVKEY, HeSVKEY_force, HeSVKEY_set,
4622 HeVAL, HvNAME, hv_clear, hv_delete, hv_delete_ent, hv_exists,
4623 hv_exists_ent, hv_fetch, hv_fetch_ent, hv_iterinit, hv_iterkey,
4624 hv_iterkeysv, hv_iternext, hv_iternextsv, hv_iterval, hv_magic, hv_store,
4625 hv_store_ent, hv_undef, newHV, Nullhv
4627 =item Magical Functions
4629 mg_clear, mg_copy, mg_find, mg_free, mg_get, mg_length, mg_magical, mg_set,
4630 SvGETMAGIC, SvLOCK, SvSETMAGIC, SvSetMagicSV, SvSetMagicSV_nosteal,
4631 SvSetSV, SvSetSV_nosteal, SvSHARE
4633 =item Memory Management
4635 Copy, Move, New, Newc, NEWSV, Newz, Renew, Renewc, Safefree, savepv,
4636 savepvn, savesharedpv, StructCopy, Zero
4638 =item Miscellaneous Functions
4640 fbm_compile, fbm_instr, form, getcwd_sv, strEQ, strGE, strGT, strLE, strLT,
4641 strNE, strnEQ, strnNE
4643 =item Numeric functions
4645 grok_bin, grok_hex, grok_number, grok_numeric_radix, grok_oct, scan_bin,
4648 =item Optree Manipulation Functions
4650 cv_const_sv, newCONSTSUB, newXS
4652 =item Stack Manipulation Macros
4654 dMARK, dORIGMARK, dSP, EXTEND, MARK, ORIGMARK, POPi, POPl, POPn, POPp,
4655 POPpbytex, POPpx, POPs, PUSHi, PUSHMARK, PUSHn, PUSHp, PUSHs, PUSHu,
4656 PUTBACK, SP, SPAGAIN, XPUSHi, XPUSHn, XPUSHp, XPUSHs, XPUSHu, XSRETURN,
4657 XSRETURN_IV, XSRETURN_NO, XSRETURN_NV, XSRETURN_PV, XSRETURN_UNDEF,
4658 XSRETURN_YES, XST_mIV, XST_mNO, XST_mNV, XST_mPV, XST_mUNDEF, XST_mYES
4662 svtype, SVt_IV, SVt_NV, SVt_PV, SVt_PVAV, SVt_PVCV, SVt_PVHV, SVt_PVMG
4664 =item SV Manipulation Functions
4666 get_sv, looks_like_number, memcmp_byte_utf8, newRV_inc, newRV_noinc, newSV,
4667 newSViv, newSVnv, newSVpv, newSVpvf, newSVpvn, newSVpvn_share, newSVrv,
4668 newSVsv, newSVuv, new_vstring, SvCUR, SvCUR_set, SvEND, SvGROW, SvIOK,
4669 SvIOKp, SvIOK_notUV, SvIOK_off, SvIOK_on, SvIOK_only, SvIOK_only_UV,
4670 SvIOK_UV, SvIV, SvIVx, SvIVX, SvLEN, SvNIOK, SvNIOKp, SvNIOK_off, SvNOK,
4671 SvNOKp, SvNOK_off, SvNOK_on, SvNOK_only, SvNV, SvNVx, SvNVX, SvOK, SvOOK,
4672 SvPOK, SvPOKp, SvPOK_off, SvPOK_on, SvPOK_only, SvPOK_only_UTF8, SvPV,
4673 SvPVbyte, SvPVbytex, SvPVbytex_force, SvPVbyte_force, SvPVbyte_nolen,
4674 SvPVutf8, SvPVutf8x, SvPVutf8x_force, SvPVutf8_force, SvPVutf8_nolen,
4675 SvPVx, SvPVX, SvPV_force, SvPV_force_nomg, SvPV_nolen, SvREFCNT,
4676 SvREFCNT_dec, SvREFCNT_inc, SvROK, SvROK_off, SvROK_on, SvRV, SvSTASH,
4677 SvTAINT, SvTAINTED, SvTAINTED_off, SvTAINTED_on, SvTRUE, SvTYPE, SvUNLOCK,
4678 SvUOK, SvUPGRADE, SvUTF8, SvUTF8_off, SvUTF8_on, SvUV, SvUVx, SvUVX,
4679 sv_2bool, sv_2cv, sv_2io, sv_2iv, sv_2mortal, sv_2nv, sv_2pvbyte,
4680 sv_2pvbyte_nolen, sv_2pvutf8, sv_2pvutf8_nolen, sv_2pv_flags, sv_2pv_nolen,
4681 sv_2uv, sv_backoff, sv_bless, sv_catpv, sv_catpvf, sv_catpvf_mg, sv_catpvn,
4682 sv_catpvn_flags, sv_catpvn_mg, sv_catpv_mg, sv_catsv, sv_catsv_flags,
4683 sv_catsv_mg, sv_chop, sv_clear, sv_cmp, sv_cmp_locale, sv_collxfrm,
4684 sv_copypv, sv_dec, sv_derived_from, sv_eq, sv_force_normal,
4685 sv_force_normal_flags, sv_free, sv_gets, sv_grow, sv_inc, sv_insert,
4686 sv_isa, sv_isobject, sv_iv, sv_len, sv_len_utf8, sv_magic, sv_magicext,
4687 sv_mortalcopy, sv_newmortal, sv_newref, sv_nolocking, sv_nosharing,
4688 sv_nounlocking, sv_nv, sv_pos_b2u, sv_pos_u2b, sv_pv, sv_pvbyte,
4689 sv_pvbyten, sv_pvbyten_force, sv_pvn, sv_pvn_force, sv_pvn_force_flags,
4690 sv_pvutf8, sv_pvutf8n, sv_pvutf8n_force, sv_reftype, sv_replace,
4691 sv_report_used, sv_reset, sv_rvweaken, sv_setiv, sv_setiv_mg, sv_setnv,
4692 sv_setnv_mg, sv_setpv, sv_setpvf, sv_setpvf_mg, sv_setpviv, sv_setpviv_mg,
4693 sv_setpvn, sv_setpvn_mg, sv_setpv_mg, sv_setref_iv, sv_setref_nv,
4694 sv_setref_pv, sv_setref_pvn, sv_setref_uv, sv_setsv, sv_setsv_flags,
4695 sv_setsv_mg, sv_setuv, sv_setuv_mg, sv_taint, sv_tainted, sv_true,
4696 sv_unmagic, sv_unref, sv_unref_flags, sv_untaint, sv_upgrade, sv_usepvn,
4697 sv_usepvn_mg, sv_utf8_decode, sv_utf8_downgrade, sv_utf8_encode,
4698 sv_utf8_upgrade, sv_utf8_upgrade_flags, sv_uv, sv_vcatpvfn, sv_vsetpvfn
4700 =item Unicode Support
4702 bytes_from_utf8, bytes_to_utf8, ibcmp_utf8, is_utf8_char, is_utf8_string,
4703 pv_uni_display, sv_recode_to_utf8, sv_uni_display, to_utf8_case,
4704 to_utf8_fold, to_utf8_lower, to_utf8_title, to_utf8_upper, utf8n_to_uvchr,
4705 utf8n_to_uvuni, utf8_distance, utf8_hop, utf8_length, utf8_to_bytes,
4706 utf8_to_uvchr, utf8_to_uvuni, uvchr_to_utf8, uvuni_to_utf8_flags
4708 =item Variables created by C<xsubpp> and C<xsubpp> internal functions
4710 ax, CLASS, dAX, dITEMS, dXSARGS, dXSI32, items, ix, newXSproto, RETVAL, ST,
4711 THIS, XS, XSRETURN_EMPTY, XS_VERSION, XS_VERSION_BOOTCHECK
4713 =item Warning and Dieing
4723 =head2 perlintern - autogenerated documentation of purely B<internal>
4730 =item Global Variables
4732 PL_DBsingle, PL_DBsub, PL_DBtrace, PL_dowarn, PL_last_in_gv, PL_ofs_sv,
4743 =item Pad Data Structures
4747 =item Stack Manipulation Macros
4751 =item SV Manipulation Functions
4753 report_uninit, sv_add_arena, sv_clean_all, sv_clean_objs, sv_free_arenas
4761 =head2 perliol - C API for Perl's implementation of IO in Layers.
4771 =item History and Background
4773 =item Layers vs Disciplines
4775 =item Data Structures
4777 =item Functions and Attributes
4779 =item Per-instance Data
4781 =item Layers in action.
4783 =item Per-instance flag bits
4785 PERLIO_F_EOF, PERLIO_F_CANWRITE, PERLIO_F_CANREAD, PERLIO_F_ERROR,
4786 PERLIO_F_TRUNCATE, PERLIO_F_APPEND, PERLIO_F_CRLF, PERLIO_F_UTF8,
4787 PERLIO_F_UNBUF, PERLIO_F_WRBUF, PERLIO_F_RDBUF, PERLIO_F_LINEBUF,
4788 PERLIO_F_TEMP, PERLIO_F_OPEN, PERLIO_F_FASTGETS
4790 =item Methods in Detail
4792 name, size, kind, PERLIO_K_BUFFERED, PERLIO_K_CANCRLF, PERLIO_K_FASTGETS,
4793 PERLIO_K_MULTIARG, PERLIO_K_RAW, Pushed, Popped, Open, Getarg, Fileno, Dup,
4794 Read, Write, Seek, Tell, Close, Flush, Fill, Eof, Error, Clearerr,
4795 Setlinebuf, Get_base, Get_bufsiz, Get_ptr, Get_cnt, Set_ptrcnt
4799 "unix", "perlio", "stdio", "crlf", "mmap", "pending", "raw", "utf8"
4801 =item Extension Layers
4803 ":encoding", ":Scalar", ":Object" or ":Perl"
4811 =head2 perlapio - perl's IO abstraction interface.
4819 1. USE_STDIO, 2. USE_SFIO, 3. USE_PERLIO, B<PerlIO_stdin()>,
4820 B<PerlIO_stdout()>, B<PerlIO_stderr()>, B<PerlIO_open(path, mode)>,
4821 B<PerlIO_fdopen(fd,mode)>, B<PerlIO_reopen(path,mode,f)>,
4822 B<PerlIO_printf(f,fmt,...)>, B<PerlIO_vprintf(f,fmt,a)>,
4823 B<PerlIO_stdoutf(fmt,...)>, B<PerlIO_read(f,buf,count)>,
4824 B<PerlIO_write(f,buf,count)>, B<PerlIO_close(f)>, B<PerlIO_puts(f,s)>,
4825 B<PerlIO_putc(f,c)>, B<PerlIO_ungetc(f,c)>, B<PerlIO_getc(f)>,
4826 B<PerlIO_eof(f)>, B<PerlIO_error(f)>, B<PerlIO_fileno(f)>,
4827 B<PerlIO_clearerr(f)>, B<PerlIO_flush(f)>, B<PerlIO_seek(f,offset,whence)>,
4828 B<PerlIO_tell(f)>, B<PerlIO_getpos(f,p)>, B<PerlIO_setpos(f,p)>,
4829 B<PerlIO_rewind(f)>, B<PerlIO_tmpfile()>, B<PerlIO_setlinebuf(f)>
4833 =item Co-existence with stdio
4835 B<PerlIO_importFILE(f,flags)>, B<PerlIO_exportFILE(f,flags)>,
4836 B<PerlIO_findFILE(f)>, B<PerlIO_releaseFILE(p,f)>
4838 =item "Fast gets" Functions
4840 B<PerlIO_fast_gets(f)>, B<PerlIO_has_cntptr(f)>, B<PerlIO_get_cnt(f)>,
4841 B<PerlIO_get_ptr(f)>, B<PerlIO_set_ptrcnt(f,p,c)>, B<PerlIO_canset_cnt(f)>,
4842 B<PerlIO_set_cnt(f,c)>, B<PerlIO_has_base(f)>, B<PerlIO_get_base(f)>,
4843 B<PerlIO_get_bufsiz(f)>
4845 =item Other Functions
4847 PerlIO_apply_layers(f,mode,layers), PerlIO_binmode(f,ptype,imode,layers),
4848 'E<lt>' read, 'E<gt>' write, '+' read/write, PerlIO_debug(fmt,...)
4854 =head2 perltodo - Perl TO-DO List
4860 =item To do during 5.6.x
4864 =item Support for I/O disciplines
4866 =item Autoload bytes.pm
4868 =item Make "\u{XXXX}" et al work
4870 =item Create a char *sv_pvprintify(sv, STRLEN *lenp, UV flags)
4872 =item Overloadable regex assertions
4876 =item use Thread for iThreads
4878 =item make perl_clone optionally clone ops
4880 =item Work out exit/die semantics for threads
4882 =item Typed lexicals for compiler
4884 =item Compiler workarounds for Win32
4886 =item AUTOLOADing in the compiler
4888 =item Fixing comppadlist when compiling
4890 =item Cleaning up exported namespace
4892 =item Complete signal handling
4894 =item Out-of-source builds
4896 =item POSIX realtime support
4898 =item UNIX98 support
4902 =item Long double conversion
4906 =item Thread-safe regexes
4908 =item Arithmetic on non-Arabic numerals
4910 =item POSIX Unicode character classes
4912 =item Factoring out common suffices/prefices in regexps (trie optimization)
4914 =item Security audit shipped utilities
4916 =item Sort out the uid-setting mess
4918 =item DLL Versioning
4920 =item Introduce @( and @)
4922 =item Floating point handling
4924 =item IV/UV preservation
4926 =item Replace pod2html with something using Pod::Parser
4928 =item Automate module testing on CPAN
4930 =item sendmsg and recvmsg
4932 =item Rewrite perlre documentation
4934 =item Convert example code to IO::Handle filehandles
4936 =item Document Win32 choices
4938 =item Check new modules
4940 =item Make roffitall find pods and libs itself
4944 =item To do at some point
4948 =item Remove regular expression recursion
4950 =item Memory leaks after failed eval
4952 =item bitfields in pack
4954 =item Cross compilation
4956 =item Perl preprocessor / macros
4958 =item Perl lexer in Perl
4960 =item Using POSIX calls internally
4962 =item -i rename file when changed
4964 =item All ARGV input should act like E<lt>E<gt>
4966 =item Support for rerunning debugger
4968 =item Test Suite for the Debugger
4970 =item my sub foo { }
4972 =item One-pass global destruction
4974 =item Rewrite regexp parser
4976 =item Cache recently used regexps
4978 =item Re-entrant functions
4980 =item Cross-compilation support
4982 =item Bit-shifting bitvectors
4984 =item debugger pragma
4986 =item use less pragma
4988 =item switch structures
4990 =item Cache eval tree
4994 =item Shrink opcode tables
4996 =item Optimize away @_
4998 =item Prototypes versus indirect objects
5002 =item Prototype method calls
5004 =item Return context prototype declarations
5008 =item Garbage collection
5012 =item Rewrite perldoc
5014 =item Install .3p manpages
5016 =item Unicode tutorial
5018 =item Update POSIX.pm for 1003.1-2
5020 =item Retargetable installation
5022 =item POSIX emulation on non-POSIX systems
5024 =item Rename Win32 headers
5026 =item Finish off lvalue functions
5028 =item Update sprintf documentation
5030 =item Use fchown/fchmod internally
5032 =item Make v-strings overloaded objects
5034 =item Allow restricted hash assignment
5042 =item ref() in list context
5044 =item Make tr/// return histogram of characters in list context
5046 =item Compile to real threaded code
5048 =item Structured types
5050 =item Modifiable $1 et al.
5052 =item Procedural interfaces for IO::*, etc.
5056 =item Attach/detach debugger from running program
5060 =item foreach(reverse ...)
5062 =item Constant function cache
5064 =item Approximate regular expression matching
5072 =item Update guts documentation
5074 =item Add more tests
5076 =item Update auxiliary tools
5080 =item Recently done things
5084 =item Alternative RE syntax module
5086 =item Safe signal handling
5092 =item setitimer and getimiter
5094 =item Testing __DIE__ hook
5096 =item CPP equivalent in Perl
5098 =item Explicit switch statements
5106 =item perlcc to produce executable
5108 =item END blocks saved in compiled output
5110 =item Secure temporary file module
5112 =item Integrate Time::HiRes
5114 =item Turn Cwd into XS
5116 =item Mmap for input
5118 =item Byte to/from UTF8 and UTF8 to/from local conversion
5120 =item Add sockatmark support
5122 =item Mailing list archives
5126 =item Integrate MacPerl
5128 =item Web "nerve center" for Perl
5130 =item Regular expression tutorial
5132 =item Debugging Tutorial
5134 =item Integrate new modules
5136 =item Integrate profiler
5138 =item Y2K error detection
5140 =item Regular expression debugger
5144 =item "Dynamic" lexicals
5146 =item Cache precompiled modules
5150 =item Deprecated Wishes
5154 =item Loop control on do{}
5156 =item Lexically scoped typeglobs
5162 =item Generalised want()/caller())
5164 =item Named prototypes
5166 =item Built-in globbing
5168 =item Regression tests for suidperl
5170 =item Cached hash values
5172 =item Add compression modules
5174 =item Reorganise documentation into tutorials/references
5176 =item Remove distinction between functions and operators
5178 =item Make XS easier to use
5180 =item Make embedding easier to use
5184 =item my $Package::variable
5186 =item "or" tests defined, not truth
5188 =item "class"-based lexicals
5192 =item Lazy evaluation / tail recursion removal
5194 =item Make "use utf8" the default
5196 =item Unicode collation and normalization
5198 =item Create debugging macros
5200 =item truncate to the people
5202 =item pack/unpack tutorial
5208 =head2 perlhack - How to hack at the Perl internals
5214 Does concept match the general goals of Perl?, Where is the
5215 implementation?, Backwards compatibility, Could it be a module instead?, Is
5216 the feature generic enough?, Does it potentially introduce new bugs?, Does
5217 it preclude other desirable features?, Is the implementation robust?, Is
5218 the implementation generic enough to be portable?, Is the implementation
5219 tested?, Is there enough documentation?, Is there another way to do it?,
5220 Does it create too much work?, Patches speak louder than words
5224 =item Keeping in sync
5226 rsync'ing the source tree, Using rsync over the LAN, Using pushing over the
5227 NFS, rsync'ing the patches
5229 =item Why rsync the source tree
5231 It's easier to rsync the source tree, It's more recent, It's more reliable
5233 =item Why rsync the patches
5235 It's easier to rsync the patches, It's a good reference, Finding a start
5236 point, Finding how to fix a bug, Finding the source of misbehaviour
5238 =item Perlbug remote interface
5240 1 http://bugs.perl.org, 2 bugdb@perl.org, 3
5241 commands_and_bugdids@bugs.perl.org, notes, patches, tests
5243 =item Submitting patches
5245 L<perlguts>, L<perlxstut> and L<perlxs>, L<perlapi>,
5246 F<Porting/pumpkin.pod>, The perl5-porters FAQ
5248 =item Finding Your Way Around
5250 Core modules, Tests, Documentation, Configure, Interpreter
5252 =item Elements of the interpreter
5254 Startup, Parsing, Optimization, Running
5256 =item Internal Variable Types
5262 Argument stack, Mark stack, Save stack
5264 =item Millions of Macros
5266 =item Poking at Perl
5268 =item Using a source-level debugger
5270 run [args], break function_name, break source.c:xxx, step, next, continue,
5271 finish, 'enter', print
5273 =item Dumping Perl Data Structures
5277 =item Patching a core module
5279 =item Adding a new function to the core
5281 =item Writing a test
5283 F<t/base/>, F<t/cmd/>, F<t/comp/>, F<t/io/>, F<t/lib/>, F<t/op/>,
5284 F<t/pod/>, F<t/run/>, t/base t/comp, t/cmd t/run t/io t/op, t/lib ext lib
5288 =item EXTERNAL TOOLS FOR DEBUGGING PERL
5292 =item Rational Software's Purify
5294 =item Purify on Unix
5296 -Accflags=-DPURIFY, -Doptimize='-g', -Uusemymalloc, -Dusemultiplicity
5300 DEFINES, USE_MULTI = define, #PERL_MALLOC = define, CFG = Debug
5302 =item Compaq's/Digital's Third Degree
5304 =item PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL
5308 =item Gprof Profiling
5310 -a, -b, -e routine, -f routine, -s, -z
5312 =item GCC gcov Profiling
5314 =item Pixie Profiling
5316 -h, -l, -p[rocedures], -h[eavy], -i[nvocations], -l[ines], -testcoverage,
5321 I<The Road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began.>
5329 =head2 perlhist - the Perl history records
5337 =item THE KEEPERS OF THE PUMPKIN
5349 =item SELECTED RELEASE SIZES
5351 =item SELECTED PATCH SIZES
5355 =item THE KEEPERS OF THE RECORDS
5359 =head2 perldelta - what is new for perl v5.8.0
5365 =item Highlights In 5.8.0
5367 =item Incompatible Changes
5371 =item 64-bit platforms and malloc
5373 =item AIX Dynaloading
5375 =item Attributes for C<my> variables now handled at run-time.
5377 =item Socket Extension Dynamic in VMS
5379 =item IEEE-format Floating Point Default on OpenVMS Alpha
5381 =item New Unicode Properties
5383 =item REF(...) Instead Of SCALAR(...)
5385 =item pack/unpack D/F recycled
5391 =item Core Enhancements
5395 =item PerlIO is Now The Default
5399 =item Unicode Overhaul
5401 =item Understanding of Numbers
5403 =item Miscellaneous Changes
5407 =item Modules and Pragmata
5411 =item New Modules and Pragmata
5413 =item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
5417 =item Utility Changes
5419 =item New Documentation
5421 =item Performance Enhancements
5423 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
5427 =item Generic Improvements
5429 =item New Or Improved Platforms
5433 =item Selected Bug Fixes
5437 =item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
5441 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
5443 =item Changed Internals
5445 =item Security Vulnerability Closed
5449 =item Known Problems
5455 =item Amiga Perl Invoking Mystery
5457 =item lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
5459 =item HP-UX lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails When LP64-Configured
5461 =item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
5467 =item op/sprintf tests 129 and 130
5469 =item Failure of Thread tests
5473 =item UNICOS and UNICOS/mk
5481 =item Localising a Tied Variable Leaks Memory
5483 =item Localising Tied Arrays and Hashes Is Broken
5485 =item Self-tying of Arrays and Hashes Is Forbidden
5487 =item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
5489 =item Unicode Support on EBCDIC Still Spotty
5491 =item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
5493 =item The Long Double Support Is Still Experimental
5495 =item Seen In Perl 5.7 But Gone Now
5499 =item Reporting Bugs
5507 =head2 perl572delta - what's new for perl v5.7.2
5513 =item Security Vulnerability Closed
5515 =item Incompatible Changes
5519 =item 64-bit platforms and malloc
5521 =item AIX Dynaloading
5523 =item Socket Extension Dynamic in VMS
5525 =item Different Definition of the Unicode Character Classes \p{In...}
5531 =item Core Enhancements
5533 =item Modules and Pragmata
5537 =item New Modules and Distributions
5539 =item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
5543 =item Utility Changes
5545 =item New Documentation
5547 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
5551 =item New Or Improved Platforms
5553 =item Generic Improvements
5557 =item Selected Bug Fixes
5561 =item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
5565 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
5567 =item Source Code Enhancements
5571 =item MAGIC constants
5573 =item Better commented code
5575 =item Regex pre-/post-compilation items matched up
5583 =item Known Problems
5589 =item Amiga Perl Invoking Mystery
5591 =item lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
5593 =item Cygwin intermittent failures of lib/Memoize/t/expire_file 11 and 12
5595 =item HP-UX lib/io_multihomed Fails When LP64-Configured
5597 =item HP-UX lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails When LP64-Configured
5599 =item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
5603 =item op/sprintf tests 129 and 130
5605 =item Failure of Thread tests
5615 =item Localising a Tied Variable Leaks Memory
5617 =item Self-tying of Arrays and Hashes Is Forbidden
5619 =item Variable Attributes are not Currently Usable for Tieing
5621 =item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
5623 =item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
5625 =item The Long Double Support is Still Experimental
5629 =item Reporting Bugs
5637 =head2 perl571delta - what's new for perl v5.7.1
5643 =item Security Vulnerability Closed
5645 =item Incompatible Changes
5647 =item Core Enhancements
5651 =item AUTOLOAD Is Now Lvaluable
5653 =item PerlIO is Now The Default
5655 =item Signals Are Now Safe
5659 =item Modules and Pragmata
5665 =item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
5669 =item Performance Enhancements
5671 =item Utility Changes
5673 =item New Documentation
5689 =item README.solaris
5693 =item Porting/repository.pod
5697 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
5701 =item New Or Improved Platforms
5703 =item Generic Improvements
5705 d_cmsghdr, d_fcntl_can_lock, d_fsync, d_getitimer, d_getpagsz, d_msghdr_s,
5706 need_va_copy, d_readv, d_recvmsg, d_sendmsg, sig_size, d_sockatmark,
5707 d_strtoq, d_u32align, d_ualarm, d_usleep
5711 =item Selected Bug Fixes
5715 =item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
5719 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
5721 =item Changed Internals
5725 =item Known Problems
5729 =item AIX vac 5.0.0.0 May Produce Buggy Code For Perl
5731 =item lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
5733 =item lib/io_multihomed Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX
5735 =item Test lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX
5739 =item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
5741 =item sigaction test 13 in VMS
5743 =item sprintf tests 129 and 130
5745 =item Failure of Thread tests
5747 =item Localising a Tied Variable Leaks Memory
5749 =item Self-tying of Arrays and Hashes Is Forbidden
5751 =item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
5753 =item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
5757 =item Reporting Bugs
5765 =head2 perl570delta - what's new for perl v5.7.0
5771 =item Security Vulnerability Closed
5773 =item Incompatible Changes
5775 =item Core Enhancements
5777 =item Modules and Pragmata
5783 =item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
5787 =item Utility Changes
5789 =item New Documentation
5791 =item Performance Enhancements
5793 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
5797 =item Generic Improvements
5801 =item Selected Bug Fixes
5805 =item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
5809 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
5811 =item Changed Internals
5813 =item Known Problems
5817 =item Unicode Support Still Far From Perfect
5819 =item EBCDIC Still A Lost Platform
5821 =item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
5823 =item ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
5825 =item Test lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX
5827 =item Long Doubles Still Don't Work In Solaris
5829 =item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
5831 =item Storable tests fail in some platforms
5833 =item Threads Are Still Experimental
5835 =item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
5839 =item Reporting Bugs
5847 =head2 perl561delta - what's new for perl v5.6.x
5853 =item Summary of changes between 5.6.0 and 5.6.1
5857 =item Security Issues
5859 =item Core bug fixes
5861 C<UNIVERSAL::isa()>, Memory leaks, Numeric conversions, qw(a\\b), caller(),
5862 Bugs in regular expressions, "slurp" mode, Autovivification of symbolic
5863 references to special variables, Lexical warnings, Spurious warnings and
5864 errors, glob(), Tainting, sort(), #line directives, Subroutine prototypes,
5865 map(), Debugger, PERL5OPT, chop(), Unicode support, 64-bit support,
5866 Compiler, Lvalue subroutines, IO::Socket, File::Find, xsubpp, C<no
5871 =item Configuration issues
5875 =item Bundled modules
5877 B::Concise, File::Temp, Pod::LaTeX, Pod::Text::Overstrike, CGI, CPAN,
5878 Class::Struct, DB_File, Devel::Peek, File::Find, Getopt::Long, IO::Poll,
5879 IPC::Open3, Math::BigFloat, Math::Complex, Net::Ping, Opcode, Pod::Parser,
5880 Pod::Text, SDBM_File, Sys::Syslog, Tie::RefHash, Tie::SubstrHash
5882 =item Platform-specific improvements
5884 NCR MP-RAS, NonStop-UX
5888 =item Core Enhancements
5892 =item Interpreter cloning, threads, and concurrency
5894 =item Lexically scoped warning categories
5896 =item Unicode and UTF-8 support
5898 =item Support for interpolating named characters
5900 =item "our" declarations
5902 =item Support for strings represented as a vector of ordinals
5904 =item Improved Perl version numbering system
5906 =item New syntax for declaring subroutine attributes
5908 =item File and directory handles can be autovivified
5910 =item open() with more than two arguments
5912 =item 64-bit support
5914 =item Large file support
5920 =item Enhanced support for sort() subroutines
5922 =item C<sort $coderef @foo> allowed
5924 =item File globbing implemented internally
5926 =item Support for CHECK blocks
5928 =item POSIX character class syntax [: :] supported
5930 =item Better pseudo-random number generator
5932 =item Improved C<qw//> operator
5934 =item Better worst-case behavior of hashes
5936 =item pack() format 'Z' supported
5938 =item pack() format modifier '!' supported
5940 =item pack() and unpack() support counted strings
5942 =item Comments in pack() templates
5944 =item Weak references
5946 =item Binary numbers supported
5948 =item Lvalue subroutines
5950 =item Some arrows may be omitted in calls through references
5952 =item Boolean assignment operators are legal lvalues
5954 =item exists() is supported on subroutine names
5956 =item exists() and delete() are supported on array elements
5958 =item Pseudo-hashes work better
5960 =item Automatic flushing of output buffers
5962 =item Better diagnostics on meaningless filehandle operations
5964 =item Where possible, buffered data discarded from duped input filehandle
5966 =item eof() has the same old magic as <>
5968 =item binmode() can be used to set :crlf and :raw modes
5970 =item C<-T> filetest recognizes UTF-8 encoded files as "text"
5972 =item system(), backticks and pipe open now reflect exec() failure
5974 =item Improved diagnostics
5976 =item Diagnostics follow STDERR
5978 =item More consistent close-on-exec behavior
5980 =item syswrite() ease-of-use
5982 =item Better syntax checks on parenthesized unary operators
5984 =item Bit operators support full native integer width
5986 =item Improved security features
5988 =item More functional bareword prototype (*)
5990 =item C<require> and C<do> may be overridden
5992 =item $^X variables may now have names longer than one character
5994 =item New variable $^C reflects C<-c> switch
5996 =item New variable $^V contains Perl version as a string
5998 =item Optional Y2K warnings
6000 =item Arrays now always interpolate into double-quoted strings
6004 =item Modules and Pragmata
6010 attributes, B, Benchmark, ByteLoader, constant, charnames, Data::Dumper,
6011 DB, DB_File, Devel::DProf, Devel::Peek, Dumpvalue, DynaLoader, English,
6012 Env, Fcntl, File::Compare, File::Find, File::Glob, File::Spec,
6013 File::Spec::Functions, Getopt::Long, IO, JPL, lib, Math::BigInt,
6014 Math::Complex, Math::Trig, Pod::Parser, Pod::InputObjects, Pod::Checker,
6015 podchecker, Pod::ParseUtils, Pod::Find, Pod::Select, podselect, Pod::Usage,
6016 pod2usage, Pod::Text and Pod::Man, SDBM_File, Sys::Syslog, Sys::Hostname,
6017 Term::ANSIColor, Time::Local, Win32, XSLoader, DBM Filters
6023 =item Utility Changes
6037 =item The Perl Debugger
6041 =item Improved Documentation
6043 perlapi.pod, perlboot.pod, perlcompile.pod, perldbmfilter.pod,
6044 perldebug.pod, perldebguts.pod, perlfork.pod, perlfilter.pod, perlhack.pod,
6045 perlintern.pod, perllexwarn.pod, perlnumber.pod, perlopentut.pod,
6046 perlreftut.pod, perltootc.pod, perltodo.pod, perlunicode.pod
6048 =item Performance enhancements
6052 =item Simple sort() using { $a <=> $b } and the like are optimized
6054 =item Optimized assignments to lexical variables
6056 =item Faster subroutine calls
6058 =item delete(), each(), values() and hash iteration are faster
6062 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
6066 =item -Dusethreads means something different
6068 =item New Configure flags
6070 =item Threadedness and 64-bitness now more daring
6076 =item -Duselargefiles
6078 =item installusrbinperl
6084 =item Enhanced Installation Directories
6086 =item gcc automatically tried if 'cc' does not seem to be working
6090 =item Platform specific changes
6094 =item Supported platforms
6098 =item OS390 (OpenEdition MVS)
6106 =item Significant bug fixes
6110 =item <HANDLE> on empty files
6112 =item C<eval '...'> improvements
6114 =item All compilation errors are true errors
6116 =item Implicitly closed filehandles are safer
6118 =item Behavior of list slices is more consistent
6120 =item C<(\$)> prototype and C<$foo{a}>
6122 =item C<goto &sub> and AUTOLOAD
6124 =item C<-bareword> allowed under C<use integer>
6126 =item Failures in DESTROY()
6128 =item Locale bugs fixed
6132 =item Spurious subroutine stubs after failed subroutine calls
6134 =item Taint failures under C<-U>
6136 =item END blocks and the C<-c> switch
6138 =item Potential to leak DATA filehandles
6142 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
6144 "%s" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same %s, "my sub" not yet
6145 implemented, "our" variable %s redeclared, '!' allowed only after types %s,
6146 / cannot take a count, / must be followed by a, A or Z, / must be followed
6147 by a*, A* or Z*, / must follow a numeric type, /%s/: Unrecognized escape
6148 \\%c passed through, /%s/: Unrecognized escape \\%c in character class
6149 passed through, /%s/ should probably be written as "%s", %s() called too
6150 early to check prototype, %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element, %s
6151 argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element or slice, %s argument is not a
6152 subroutine name, %s package attribute may clash with future reserved word:
6153 %s, (in cleanup) %s, <> should be quotes, Attempt to join self, Bad evalled
6154 substitution pattern, Bad realloc() ignored, Bareword found in conditional,
6155 Binary number > 0b11111111111111111111111111111111 non-portable, Bit vector
6156 size > 32 non-portable, Buffer overflow in prime_env_iter: %s, Can't check
6157 filesystem of script "%s", Can't declare class for non-scalar %s in "%s",
6158 Can't declare %s in "%s", Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default,
6159 Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine call, Can't read CRTL environ, Can't
6160 remove %s: %s, skipping file, Can't return %s from lvalue subroutine, Can't
6161 weaken a nonreference, Character class [:%s:] unknown, Character class
6162 syntax [%s] belongs inside character classes, Constant is not %s reference,
6163 constant(%s): %s, CORE::%s is not a keyword, defined(@array) is deprecated,
6164 defined(%hash) is deprecated, Did not produce a valid header, (Did you mean
6165 "local" instead of "our"?), Document contains no data, entering effective
6166 %s failed, false [] range "%s" in regexp, Filehandle %s opened only for
6167 output, flock() on closed filehandle %s, Global symbol "%s" requires
6168 explicit package name, Hexadecimal number > 0xffffffff non-portable,
6169 Ill-formed CRTL environ value "%s", Ill-formed message in prime_env_iter:
6170 |%s|, Illegal binary digit %s, Illegal binary digit %s ignored, Illegal
6171 number of bits in vec, Integer overflow in %s number, Invalid %s attribute:
6172 %s, Invalid %s attributes: %s, invalid [] range "%s" in regexp, Invalid
6173 separator character %s in attribute list, Invalid separator character %s in
6174 subroutine attribute list, leaving effective %s failed, Lvalue subs
6175 returning %s not implemented yet, Method %s not permitted, Missing
6176 %sbrace%s on \N{}, Missing command in piped open, Missing name in "my sub",
6177 No %s specified for -%c, No package name allowed for variable %s in "our",
6178 No space allowed after -%c, no UTC offset information; assuming local time
6179 is UTC, Octal number > 037777777777 non-portable, panic: del_backref,
6180 panic: kid popen errno read, panic: magic_killbackrefs, Parentheses missing
6181 around "%s" list, Possible unintended interpolation of %s in string,
6182 Possible Y2K bug: %s, pragma "attrs" is deprecated, use "sub NAME : ATTRS"
6183 instead, Premature end of script headers, Repeat count in pack overflows,
6184 Repeat count in unpack overflows, realloc() of freed memory ignored,
6185 Reference is already weak, setpgrp can't take arguments, Strange *+?{} on
6186 zero-length expression, switching effective %s is not implemented, This
6187 Perl can't reset CRTL environ elements (%s), This Perl can't set CRTL
6188 environ elements (%s=%s), Too late to run %s block, Unknown open() mode
6189 '%s', Unknown process %x sent message to prime_env_iter: %s, Unrecognized
6190 escape \\%c passed through, Unterminated attribute parameter in attribute
6191 list, Unterminated attribute list, Unterminated attribute parameter in
6192 subroutine attribute list, Unterminated subroutine attribute list, Value of
6193 CLI symbol "%s" too long, Version number must be a constant number
6197 =item Incompatible Changes
6201 =item Perl Source Incompatibilities
6203 CHECK is a new keyword, Treatment of list slices of undef has changed,
6204 Format of $English::PERL_VERSION is different, Literals of the form
6205 C<1.2.3> parse differently, Possibly changed pseudo-random number
6206 generator, Hashing function for hash keys has changed, C<undef> fails on
6207 read only values, Close-on-exec bit may be set on pipe and socket handles,
6208 Writing C<"$$1"> to mean C<"${$}1"> is unsupported, delete(), each(),
6209 values() and C<\(%h)>, vec(EXPR,OFFSET,BITS) enforces powers-of-two BITS,
6210 Text of some diagnostic output has changed, C<%@> has been removed,
6211 Parenthesized not() behaves like a list operator, Semantics of bareword
6212 prototype C<(*)> have changed, Semantics of bit operators may have changed
6213 on 64-bit platforms, More builtins taint their results
6215 =item C Source Incompatibilities
6217 C<PERL_POLLUTE>, C<PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT>, C<PERL_POLLUTE_MALLOC>
6219 =item Compatible C Source API Changes
6221 C<PATCHLEVEL> is now C<PERL_VERSION>
6223 =item Binary Incompatibilities
6227 =item Known Problems
6231 =item Localizing a tied hash element may leak memory
6233 =item Known test failures
6237 =item EBCDIC platforms not fully supported
6239 =item UNICOS/mk CC failures during Configure run
6241 =item Arrow operator and arrays
6243 =item Experimental features
6245 Threads, Unicode, 64-bit support, Lvalue subroutines, Weak references, The
6246 pseudo-hash data type, The Compiler suite, Internal implementation of file
6247 globbing, The DB module, The regular expression code constructs:
6251 =item Obsolete Diagnostics
6253 Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions, Ill-formed
6254 logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter, In string, @%s now must be written as
6255 \@%s, Probable precedence problem on %s, regexp too big, Use of "$$<digit>"
6256 to mean "${$}<digit>" is deprecated
6258 =item Reporting Bugs
6266 =head2 perl56delta - what's new for perl v5.6.0
6272 =item Core Enhancements
6276 =item Interpreter cloning, threads, and concurrency
6278 =item Lexically scoped warning categories
6280 =item Unicode and UTF-8 support
6282 =item Support for interpolating named characters
6284 =item "our" declarations
6286 =item Support for strings represented as a vector of ordinals
6288 =item Improved Perl version numbering system
6290 =item New syntax for declaring subroutine attributes
6292 =item File and directory handles can be autovivified
6294 =item open() with more than two arguments
6296 =item 64-bit support
6298 =item Large file support
6304 =item Enhanced support for sort() subroutines
6306 =item C<sort $coderef @foo> allowed
6308 =item File globbing implemented internally
6310 =item Support for CHECK blocks
6312 =item POSIX character class syntax [: :] supported
6314 =item Better pseudo-random number generator
6316 =item Improved C<qw//> operator
6318 =item Better worst-case behavior of hashes
6320 =item pack() format 'Z' supported
6322 =item pack() format modifier '!' supported
6324 =item pack() and unpack() support counted strings
6326 =item Comments in pack() templates
6328 =item Weak references
6330 =item Binary numbers supported
6332 =item Lvalue subroutines
6334 =item Some arrows may be omitted in calls through references
6336 =item Boolean assignment operators are legal lvalues
6338 =item exists() is supported on subroutine names
6340 =item exists() and delete() are supported on array elements
6342 =item Pseudo-hashes work better
6344 =item Automatic flushing of output buffers
6346 =item Better diagnostics on meaningless filehandle operations
6348 =item Where possible, buffered data discarded from duped input filehandle
6350 =item eof() has the same old magic as <>
6352 =item binmode() can be used to set :crlf and :raw modes
6354 =item C<-T> filetest recognizes UTF-8 encoded files as "text"
6356 =item system(), backticks and pipe open now reflect exec() failure
6358 =item Improved diagnostics
6360 =item Diagnostics follow STDERR
6362 =item More consistent close-on-exec behavior
6364 =item syswrite() ease-of-use
6366 =item Better syntax checks on parenthesized unary operators
6368 =item Bit operators support full native integer width
6370 =item Improved security features
6372 =item More functional bareword prototype (*)
6374 =item C<require> and C<do> may be overridden
6376 =item $^X variables may now have names longer than one character
6378 =item New variable $^C reflects C<-c> switch
6380 =item New variable $^V contains Perl version as a string
6382 =item Optional Y2K warnings
6384 =item Arrays now always interpolate into double-quoted strings
6388 =item Modules and Pragmata
6394 attributes, B, Benchmark, ByteLoader, constant, charnames, Data::Dumper,
6395 DB, DB_File, Devel::DProf, Devel::Peek, Dumpvalue, DynaLoader, English,
6396 Env, Fcntl, File::Compare, File::Find, File::Glob, File::Spec,
6397 File::Spec::Functions, Getopt::Long, IO, JPL, lib, Math::BigInt,
6398 Math::Complex, Math::Trig, Pod::Parser, Pod::InputObjects, Pod::Checker,
6399 podchecker, Pod::ParseUtils, Pod::Find, Pod::Select, podselect, Pod::Usage,
6400 pod2usage, Pod::Text and Pod::Man, SDBM_File, Sys::Syslog, Sys::Hostname,
6401 Term::ANSIColor, Time::Local, Win32, XSLoader, DBM Filters
6407 =item Utility Changes
6421 =item The Perl Debugger
6425 =item Improved Documentation
6427 perlapi.pod, perlboot.pod, perlcompile.pod, perldbmfilter.pod,
6428 perldebug.pod, perldebguts.pod, perlfork.pod, perlfilter.pod, perlhack.pod,
6429 perlintern.pod, perllexwarn.pod, perlnumber.pod, perlopentut.pod,
6430 perlreftut.pod, perltootc.pod, perltodo.pod, perlunicode.pod
6432 =item Performance enhancements
6436 =item Simple sort() using { $a <=> $b } and the like are optimized
6438 =item Optimized assignments to lexical variables
6440 =item Faster subroutine calls
6442 =item delete(), each(), values() and hash iteration are faster
6446 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
6450 =item -Dusethreads means something different
6452 =item New Configure flags
6454 =item Threadedness and 64-bitness now more daring
6460 =item -Duselargefiles
6462 =item installusrbinperl
6468 =item Enhanced Installation Directories
6472 =item Platform specific changes
6476 =item Supported platforms
6480 =item OS390 (OpenEdition MVS)
6488 =item Significant bug fixes
6492 =item <HANDLE> on empty files
6494 =item C<eval '...'> improvements
6496 =item All compilation errors are true errors
6498 =item Implicitly closed filehandles are safer
6500 =item Behavior of list slices is more consistent
6502 =item C<(\$)> prototype and C<$foo{a}>
6504 =item C<goto &sub> and AUTOLOAD
6506 =item C<-bareword> allowed under C<use integer>
6508 =item Failures in DESTROY()
6510 =item Locale bugs fixed
6514 =item Spurious subroutine stubs after failed subroutine calls
6516 =item Taint failures under C<-U>
6518 =item END blocks and the C<-c> switch
6520 =item Potential to leak DATA filehandles
6524 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
6526 "%s" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same %s, "my sub" not yet
6527 implemented, "our" variable %s redeclared, '!' allowed only after types %s,
6528 / cannot take a count, / must be followed by a, A or Z, / must be followed
6529 by a*, A* or Z*, / must follow a numeric type, /%s/: Unrecognized escape
6530 \\%c passed through, /%s/: Unrecognized escape \\%c in character class
6531 passed through, /%s/ should probably be written as "%s", %s() called too
6532 early to check prototype, %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element, %s
6533 argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element or slice, %s argument is not a
6534 subroutine name, %s package attribute may clash with future reserved word:
6535 %s, (in cleanup) %s, <> should be quotes, Attempt to join self, Bad evalled
6536 substitution pattern, Bad realloc() ignored, Bareword found in conditional,
6537 Binary number > 0b11111111111111111111111111111111 non-portable, Bit vector
6538 size > 32 non-portable, Buffer overflow in prime_env_iter: %s, Can't check
6539 filesystem of script "%s", Can't declare class for non-scalar %s in "%s",
6540 Can't declare %s in "%s", Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default,
6541 Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine call, Can't read CRTL environ, Can't
6542 remove %s: %s, skipping file, Can't return %s from lvalue subroutine, Can't
6543 weaken a nonreference, Character class [:%s:] unknown, Character class
6544 syntax [%s] belongs inside character classes, Constant is not %s reference,
6545 constant(%s): %s, CORE::%s is not a keyword, defined(@array) is deprecated,
6546 defined(%hash) is deprecated, Did not produce a valid header, (Did you mean
6547 "local" instead of "our"?), Document contains no data, entering effective
6548 %s failed, false [] range "%s" in regexp, Filehandle %s opened only for
6549 output, flock() on closed filehandle %s, Global symbol "%s" requires
6550 explicit package name, Hexadecimal number > 0xffffffff non-portable,
6551 Ill-formed CRTL environ value "%s", Ill-formed message in prime_env_iter:
6552 |%s|, Illegal binary digit %s, Illegal binary digit %s ignored, Illegal
6553 number of bits in vec, Integer overflow in %s number, Invalid %s attribute:
6554 %s, Invalid %s attributes: %s, invalid [] range "%s" in regexp, Invalid
6555 separator character %s in attribute list, Invalid separator character %s in
6556 subroutine attribute list, leaving effective %s failed, Lvalue subs
6557 returning %s not implemented yet, Method %s not permitted, Missing
6558 %sbrace%s on \N{}, Missing command in piped open, Missing name in "my sub",
6559 No %s specified for -%c, No package name allowed for variable %s in "our",
6560 No space allowed after -%c, no UTC offset information; assuming local time
6561 is UTC, Octal number > 037777777777 non-portable, panic: del_backref,
6562 panic: kid popen errno read, panic: magic_killbackrefs, Parentheses missing
6563 around "%s" list, Possible unintended interpolation of %s in string,
6564 Possible Y2K bug: %s, pragma "attrs" is deprecated, use "sub NAME : ATTRS"
6565 instead, Premature end of script headers, Repeat count in pack overflows,
6566 Repeat count in unpack overflows, realloc() of freed memory ignored,
6567 Reference is already weak, setpgrp can't take arguments, Strange *+?{} on
6568 zero-length expression, switching effective %s is not implemented, This
6569 Perl can't reset CRTL environ elements (%s), This Perl can't set CRTL
6570 environ elements (%s=%s), Too late to run %s block, Unknown open() mode
6571 '%s', Unknown process %x sent message to prime_env_iter: %s, Unrecognized
6572 escape \\%c passed through, Unterminated attribute parameter in attribute
6573 list, Unterminated attribute list, Unterminated attribute parameter in
6574 subroutine attribute list, Unterminated subroutine attribute list, Value of
6575 CLI symbol "%s" too long, Version number must be a constant number
6579 =item Incompatible Changes
6583 =item Perl Source Incompatibilities
6585 CHECK is a new keyword, Treatment of list slices of undef has changed,
6586 Format of $English::PERL_VERSION is different, Literals of the form
6587 C<1.2.3> parse differently, Possibly changed pseudo-random number
6588 generator, Hashing function for hash keys has changed, C<undef> fails on
6589 read only values, Close-on-exec bit may be set on pipe and socket handles,
6590 Writing C<"$$1"> to mean C<"${$}1"> is unsupported, delete(), each(),
6591 values() and C<\(%h)>, vec(EXPR,OFFSET,BITS) enforces powers-of-two BITS,
6592 Text of some diagnostic output has changed, C<%@> has been removed,
6593 Parenthesized not() behaves like a list operator, Semantics of bareword
6594 prototype C<(*)> have changed, Semantics of bit operators may have changed
6595 on 64-bit platforms, More builtins taint their results
6597 =item C Source Incompatibilities
6599 C<PERL_POLLUTE>, C<PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT>, C<PERL_POLLUTE_MALLOC>
6601 =item Compatible C Source API Changes
6603 C<PATCHLEVEL> is now C<PERL_VERSION>
6605 =item Binary Incompatibilities
6609 =item Known Problems
6613 =item Thread test failures
6615 =item EBCDIC platforms not supported
6617 =item In 64-bit HP-UX the lib/io_multihomed test may hang
6619 =item NEXTSTEP 3.3 POSIX test failure
6621 =item Tru64 (aka Digital UNIX, aka DEC OSF/1) lib/sdbm test failure with
6624 =item UNICOS/mk CC failures during Configure run
6626 =item Arrow operator and arrays
6628 =item Experimental features
6630 Threads, Unicode, 64-bit support, Lvalue subroutines, Weak references, The
6631 pseudo-hash data type, The Compiler suite, Internal implementation of file
6632 globbing, The DB module, The regular expression code constructs:
6636 =item Obsolete Diagnostics
6638 Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions, Ill-formed
6639 logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter, In string, @%s now must be written as
6640 \@%s, Probable precedence problem on %s, regexp too big, Use of "$$<digit>"
6641 to mean "${$}<digit>" is deprecated
6643 =item Reporting Bugs
6651 =head2 perl5005delta - what's new for perl5.005
6657 =item About the new versioning system
6659 =item Incompatible Changes
6663 =item WARNING: This version is not binary compatible with Perl 5.004.
6665 =item Default installation structure has changed
6667 =item Perl Source Compatibility
6669 =item C Source Compatibility
6671 =item Binary Compatibility
6673 =item Security fixes may affect compatibility
6675 =item Relaxed new mandatory warnings introduced in 5.004
6689 =item Regular Expressions
6691 Many new and improved optimizations, Many bug fixes, New regular expression
6692 constructs, New operator for precompiled regular expressions, Other
6693 improvements, Incompatible changes
6695 =item Improved malloc()
6697 =item Quicksort is internally implemented
6699 =item Reliable signals
6701 =item Reliable stack pointers
6703 =item More generous treatment of carriage returns
6707 =item Better support for multiple interpreters
6709 =item Behavior of local() on array and hash elements is now well-defined
6711 =item C<%!> is transparently tied to the L<Errno> module
6713 =item Pseudo-hashes are supported
6715 =item C<EXPR foreach EXPR> is supported
6717 =item Keywords can be globally overridden
6719 =item C<$^E> is meaningful on Win32
6721 =item C<foreach (1..1000000)> optimized
6723 =item C<Foo::> can be used as implicitly quoted package name
6725 =item C<exists $Foo::{Bar::}> tests existence of a package
6727 =item Better locale support
6729 =item Experimental support for 64-bit platforms
6731 =item prototype() returns useful results on builtins
6733 =item Extended support for exception handling
6735 =item Re-blessing in DESTROY() supported for chaining DESTROY() methods
6737 =item All C<printf> format conversions are handled internally
6739 =item New C<INIT> keyword
6741 =item New C<lock> keyword
6743 =item New C<qr//> operator
6745 =item C<our> is now a reserved word
6747 =item Tied arrays are now fully supported
6749 =item Tied handles support is better
6751 =item 4th argument to substr
6753 =item Negative LENGTH argument to splice
6755 =item Magic lvalues are now more magical
6757 =item <> now reads in records
6761 =item Supported Platforms
6767 =item Changes in existing support
6771 =item Modules and Pragmata
6777 B, Data::Dumper, Dumpvalue, Errno, File::Spec, ExtUtils::Installed,
6778 ExtUtils::Packlist, Fatal, IPC::SysV, Test, Tie::Array, Tie::Handle,
6779 Thread, attrs, fields, re
6781 =item Changes in existing modules
6783 Benchmark, Carp, CGI, Fcntl, Math::Complex, Math::Trig, POSIX, DB_File,
6784 MakeMaker, CPAN, Cwd
6788 =item Utility Changes
6790 =item Documentation Changes
6792 =item New Diagnostics
6794 Ambiguous call resolved as CORE::%s(), qualify as such or use &, Bad index
6795 while coercing array into hash, Bareword "%s" refers to nonexistent
6796 package, Can't call method "%s" on an undefined value, Can't check
6797 filesystem of script "%s" for nosuid, Can't coerce array into hash, Can't
6798 goto subroutine from an eval-string, Can't localize pseudo-hash element,
6799 Can't use %%! because Errno.pm is not available, Cannot find an opnumber
6800 for "%s", Character class syntax [. .] is reserved for future extensions,
6801 Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions, Character
6802 class syntax [= =] is reserved for future extensions, %s: Eval-group in
6803 insecure regular expression, %s: Eval-group not allowed, use re 'eval', %s:
6804 Eval-group not allowed at run time, Explicit blessing to '' (assuming
6805 package main), Illegal hex digit ignored, No such array field, No such
6806 field "%s" in variable %s of type %s, Out of memory during ridiculously
6807 large request, Range iterator outside integer range, Recursive inheritance
6808 detected while looking for method '%s' %s, Reference found where even-sized
6809 list expected, Undefined value assigned to typeglob, Use of reserved word
6810 "%s" is deprecated, perl: warning: Setting locale failed
6812 =item Obsolete Diagnostics
6814 Can't mktemp(), Can't write to temp file for B<-e>: %s, Cannot open
6815 temporary file, regexp too big
6817 =item Configuration Changes
6827 =head2 perl5004delta - what's new for perl5.004
6833 =item Supported Environments
6839 =item List assignment to %ENV works
6841 =item Change to "Can't locate Foo.pm in @INC" error
6843 =item Compilation option: Binary compatibility with 5.003
6845 =item $PERL5OPT environment variable
6847 =item Limitations on B<-M>, B<-m>, and B<-T> options
6849 =item More precise warnings
6851 =item Deprecated: Inherited C<AUTOLOAD> for non-methods
6853 =item Previously deprecated %OVERLOAD is no longer usable
6855 =item Subroutine arguments created only when they're modified
6857 =item Group vector changeable with C<$)>
6859 =item Fixed parsing of $$<digit>, &$<digit>, etc.
6861 =item Fixed localization of $<digit>, $&, etc.
6863 =item No resetting of $. on implicit close
6865 =item C<wantarray> may return undef
6867 =item C<eval EXPR> determines value of EXPR in scalar context
6869 =item Changes to tainting checks
6871 No glob() or <*>, No spawning if tainted $CDPATH, $ENV, $BASH_ENV, No
6872 spawning if tainted $TERM doesn't look like a terminal name
6874 =item New Opcode module and revised Safe module
6876 =item Embedding improvements
6878 =item Internal change: FileHandle class based on IO::* classes
6880 =item Internal change: PerlIO abstraction interface
6882 =item New and changed syntax
6886 =item New and changed builtin constants
6890 =item New and changed builtin variables
6894 =item New and changed builtin functions
6896 delete on slices, flock, printf and sprintf, keys as an lvalue, my() in
6897 Control Structures, pack() and unpack(), sysseek(), use VERSION, use Module
6898 VERSION LIST, prototype(FUNCTION), srand, $_ as Default, C<m//gc> does not
6899 reset search position on failure, C<m//x> ignores whitespace before ?*+{},
6900 nested C<sub{}> closures work now, formats work right on changing lexicals
6902 =item New builtin methods
6904 isa(CLASS), can(METHOD), VERSION( [NEED] )
6906 =item TIEHANDLE now supported
6908 TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, PRINT this, LIST, PRINTF this, LIST, READ this
6909 LIST, READLINE this, GETC this, DESTROY this
6911 =item Malloc enhancements
6913 -DPERL_EMERGENCY_SBRK, -DPACK_MALLOC, -DTWO_POT_OPTIMIZE
6915 =item Miscellaneous efficiency enhancements
6919 =item Support for More Operating Systems
6935 use autouse MODULE => qw(sub1 sub2 sub3), use blib, use blib 'dir', use
6936 constant NAME => VALUE, use locale, use ops, use vmsish
6942 =item Required Updates
6944 =item Installation directories
6946 =item Module information summary
6960 =item Object-oriented overrides for builtin operators
6964 =item Utility Changes
6970 Sends converted HTML to standard output
6974 C<void> XSUBs now default to returning nothing
6978 =item C Language API Changes
6980 C<gv_fetchmethod> and C<perl_call_sv>, C<perl_eval_pv>, Extended API for
6983 =item Documentation Changes
6985 L<perldelta>, L<perlfaq>, L<perllocale>, L<perltoot>, L<perlapio>,
6986 L<perlmodlib>, L<perldebug>, L<perlsec>
6988 =item New Diagnostics
6990 "my" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same scope, %s argument is
6991 not a HASH element or slice, Allocation too large: %lx, Allocation too
6992 large, Applying %s to %s will act on scalar(%s), Attempt to free
6993 nonexistent shared string, Attempt to use reference as lvalue in substr,
6994 Bareword "%s" refers to nonexistent package, Can't redefine active sort
6995 subroutine %s, Can't use bareword ("%s") as %s ref while "strict refs" in
6996 use, Cannot resolve method `%s' overloading `%s' in package `%s', Constant
6997 subroutine %s redefined, Constant subroutine %s undefined, Copy method did
6998 not return a reference, Died, Exiting pseudo-block via %s, Identifier too
6999 long, Illegal character %s (carriage return), Illegal switch in PERL5OPT:
7000 %s, Integer overflow in hex number, Integer overflow in octal number,
7001 internal error: glob failed, Invalid conversion in %s: "%s", Invalid type
7002 in pack: '%s', Invalid type in unpack: '%s', Name "%s::%s" used only once:
7003 possible typo, Null picture in formline, Offset outside string, Out of
7004 memory!, Out of memory during request for %s, panic: frexp, Possible
7005 attempt to put comments in qw() list, Possible attempt to separate words
7006 with commas, Scalar value @%s{%s} better written as $%s{%s}, Stub found
7007 while resolving method `%s' overloading `%s' in %s, Too late for "B<-T>"
7008 option, untie attempted while %d inner references still exist, Unrecognized
7009 character %s, Unsupported function fork, Use of "$$<digit>" to mean
7010 "${$}<digit>" is deprecated, Value of %s can be "0"; test with defined(),
7011 Variable "%s" may be unavailable, Variable "%s" will not stay shared,
7012 Warning: something's wrong, Ill-formed logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter,
7013 Got an error from DosAllocMem, Malformed PERLLIB_PREFIX, PERL_SH_DIR too
7014 long, Process terminated by SIG%s
7024 =head2 perlaix, README.aix - Perl version 5 on IBM Unix (AIX) systems
7032 =item Compiling Perl 5 on AIX
7036 =item Building Dynamic Extensions on AIX
7038 =item The IBM ANSI C Compiler
7040 =item Using GNU's gcc for building perl
7042 =item Using Large Files with Perl
7048 =item AIX 4.2 and extensions using C++ with statics
7058 =head2 perlapollo, README.apollo - Perl version 5 on Apollo DomainOS
7068 =head2 perlamiga - Perl under Amiga OS
7082 =item Prerequisites for Compiling Perl on AmigaOS
7084 B<Unix emulation for AmigaOS: ixemul.library>, B<Version of Amiga OS>
7086 =item Starting Perl programs under AmigaOS
7088 =item Shortcomings of Perl under AmigaOS
7094 =item Accessing documentation
7098 =item Manpages for Perl on AmigaOS
7100 =item Perl HTML Documentation on AmigaOS
7102 =item Perl GNU Info Files on AmigaOS
7104 =item Perl LaTeX Documentation on AmigaOS
7108 =item BUILDING PERL ON AMIGAOS
7112 =item Build Prerequisites for Perl on AmigaOS
7114 =item Getting the Perl Source for AmigaOS
7116 =item Making Perl on AmigaOS
7118 =item Testing Perl on AmigaOS
7120 =item Installing the built Perl on AmigaOS
7130 =head2 perlbeos, README.beos - Perl version 5 on BeOS
7138 =item General Issues with Perl on BeOS
7140 =item BeOS Release-specific Notes
7144 =item Contact Information
7146 =item Update 2002-03-02
7152 =head2 perlbs2000, README.BS2000 - building and installing Perl for BS2000.
7162 =item gzip on BS2000
7164 =item bison on BS2000
7166 =item Unpacking Perl Distribution on BS2000
7168 =item Compiling Perl on BS2000
7170 =item Testing Perl on BS2000
7172 =item Installing Perl on BS2000
7174 =item Using Perl in the Posix-Shell of BS2000
7176 =item Using Perl in "native" BS2000
7178 =item Floating point anomalies on BS2000
7212 =item Acknowledgements
7218 =head2 perlcygwin, README.cygwin - Perl for Cygwin
7224 =item PREREQUISITES FOR COMPILING PERL ON CYGWIN
7228 =item Cygwin = GNU+Cygnus+Windows (Don't leave UNIX without it)
7230 =item Cygwin Configuration
7232 C<PATH>, I<nroff>, Permissions
7236 =item CONFIGURE PERL ON CYGWIN
7240 =item Stripping Perl Binaries on Cygwin
7242 =item Optional Libraries for Perl on Cygwin
7244 C<-lcrypt>, C<-lgdbm> (C<use GDBM_File>), C<-ldb> (C<use DB_File>),
7245 C<-lcygipc> (C<use IPC::SysV>)
7247 =item Configure-time Options for Perl on Cygwin
7249 C<-Uusedl>, C<-Uusemymalloc>, C<-Uuseperlio>, C<-Dusemultiplicity>,
7250 C<-Duse64bitint>, C<-Duselongdouble>, C<-Dusethreads>, C<-Duselargefiles>,
7253 =item Suspicious Warnings on Cygwin
7255 I<dlsym()>, Win9x and C<d_eofnblk>, Compiler/Preprocessor defines
7259 =item MAKE ON CYGWIN
7263 =item Warnings on Cygwin
7269 =item TEST ON CYGWIN
7273 =item File Permissions on Cygwin
7275 =item Script Portability on Cygwin
7277 Pathnames, Text/Binary, F<.exe>, chown(), Miscellaneous
7281 =item INSTALL PERL ON CYGWIN
7283 =item MANIFEST ON CYGWIN
7285 Documentation, Build, Configure, Make, Install, Tests, Compiled Perl
7286 Source, Compiled Module Source, Perl Modules/Scripts
7288 =item BUGS ON CYGWIN
7296 =head2 perldgux - Perl under DG/UX.
7308 =item BUILDING PERL ON DG/UX
7312 =item Non-threaded Perl on DG/UX
7314 =item Threaded Perl on DG/UX
7316 =item Testing Perl on DG/UX
7318 =item Installing the built perl on DG/UX
7328 =head2 perlepoc, README.epoc - Perl for EPOC
7336 =item INSTALLING PERL ON EPOC
7338 =item STARTING PERL ON EPOC
7340 =item STOPPING PERL ON EPOC
7342 =item USING PERL ON EPOC
7346 =item I/O Redirection on Epoc
7348 =item PATH Names on Epoc
7350 =item Editors on Epoc
7352 =item Features of Perl on Epoc
7354 =item Restrictions of Perl on Epoc
7356 =item Compiling Perl 5 on the EPOC cross compiling environment
7360 =item SUPPORT STATUS OF PERL ON EPOC
7368 =head2 perlhpux, README.hpux - Perl version 5 on Hewlett-Packard Unix
7377 =item Using perl as shipped with HP-UX
7379 =item Compiling Perl 5 on HP-UX
7391 =item Portability Between PA-RISC Versions
7393 =item Itanium Processor Family and HP-UX
7395 =item Building Dynamic Extensions on HP-UX
7397 =item The HP ANSI C Compiler
7399 =item Using Large Files with Perl on HP-UX
7401 =item Threaded Perl on HP-UX
7403 =item 64-bit Perl on HP-UX
7405 =item GDBM and Threads on HP-UX
7407 =item NFS filesystems and utime(2) on HP-UX
7409 =item perl -P and // and HP-UX
7411 =item HP-UX Kernel Parameters (maxdsiz) for Compiling Perl
7415 =item nss_delete core dump from op/pwent or op/grent
7423 =head2 perlhurd, README.hurd - Perl version 5 on Hurd
7431 =item Known Problems with Perl on Hurd
7439 =head2 perlmachten, README.machten - Perl version 5 on Power MachTen
7448 =item Compiling Perl 5 on MachTen
7450 =item Failures during C<make test> on MachTen
7452 op/lexassign.t, pragma/warnings.t
7454 =item Building external modules on MachTen
7464 =head2 perlmacos, README.macos - Perl under Mac OS (Classic)
7478 =head2 perlmint, README.mint - Perl version 5 on Atari MiNT
7484 =item Known problems with Perl on MiNT
7490 =head2 perlmpeix, README.mpeix - Perl/iX for HP e3000 MPE
7498 =item Binary distribution from HP
7500 =item What's New in Perl for MPE/iX
7502 =item Welcome to Perl/iX
7504 =item System Requirements for Perl/iX
7506 =item How to Obtain Perl/iX
7508 =item Perl/iX Distribution Contents Highlights
7510 README, INSTALL, LIBSHP3K, PERL, .cpan/, lib/, man/,
7511 public_html/feedback.cgi, src/perl-5.6.0-mpe
7513 =item How to Compile Perl/iX
7517 =item Getting Started with Perl/iX
7519 =item MPE/iX Implementation Considerations
7521 =item Known Perl/iX Bugs Under Investigation
7523 =item Perl/iX To-Do List
7525 =item Perl/iX Change History
7541 Buildtype.bat, SetNWBld.bat, MPKBuild.bat
7553 =item Build new extensions
7557 =item Acknowledgements
7565 =head2 perlos2 - Perl under OS/2, DOS, Win0.3*, Win0.95 and WinNT.
7585 EMX, RSX, HPFS, pdksh
7587 =item Starting Perl programs under OS/2 (and DOS and...)
7589 =item Starting OS/2 (and DOS) programs under Perl
7593 =item Frequently asked questions
7597 =item "It does not work"
7599 =item I cannot run external programs
7601 =item I cannot embed perl into my program, or use F<perl.dll> from my
7604 Is your program EMX-compiled with C<-Zmt -Zcrtdll>?, Did you use
7607 =item C<``> and pipe-C<open> do not work under DOS.
7609 =item Cannot start C<find.exe "pattern" file>
7617 =item Automatic binary installation
7619 C<PERL_BADLANG>, C<PERL_BADFREE>, F<Config.pm>
7621 =item Manual binary installation
7623 Perl VIO and PM executables (dynamically linked), Perl_ VIO executable
7624 (statically linked), Executables for Perl utilities, Main Perl library,
7625 Additional Perl modules, Tools to compile Perl modules, Manpages for Perl
7626 and utilities, Manpages for Perl modules, Source for Perl documentation,
7627 Perl manual in F<.INF> format, Pdksh
7633 =item Accessing documentation
7637 =item OS/2 F<.INF> file
7645 =item GNU C<info> files
7657 =item The short story
7661 =item Getting perl source
7663 =item Application of the patches
7671 A lot of C<bad free>, Process terminated by SIGTERM/SIGINT, F<op/fs.t>,
7674 =item Installing the built perl
7676 =item C<a.out>-style build
7684 =item Some C</> became C<\> in pdksh.
7686 =item C<'errno'> - unresolved external
7688 =item Problems with tr or sed
7690 =item Some problem (forget which ;-)
7692 =item Library ... not found
7694 =item Segfault in make
7696 =item op/sprintf test failure
7700 =item Specific (mis)features of OS/2 port
7704 =item C<setpriority>, C<getpriority>
7708 =item C<extproc> on the first line
7710 =item Additional modules:
7712 =item Prebuilt methods:
7714 C<File::Copy::syscopy>, C<DynaLoader::mod2fname>, C<Cwd::current_drive()>,
7715 C<Cwd::sys_chdir(name)>, C<Cwd::change_drive(name)>,
7716 C<Cwd::sys_is_absolute(name)>, C<Cwd::sys_is_rooted(name)>,
7717 C<Cwd::sys_is_relative(name)>, C<Cwd::sys_cwd(name)>,
7718 C<Cwd::sys_abspath(name, dir)>, C<Cwd::extLibpath([type])>,
7719 C<Cwd::extLibpath_set( path [, type ] )>,
7720 C<OS2::Error(do_harderror,do_exception)>, C<OS2::Errors2Drive(drive)>,
7721 OS2::SysInfo(), OS2::BootDrive(), C<OS2::MorphPM(serve)>,
7722 C<OS2::UnMorphPM(serve)>, C<OS2::Serve_Messages(force)>,
7723 C<OS2::Process_Messages(force [, cnt])>, C<OS2::_control87(new,mask)>,
7724 OS2::get_control87(), C<OS2::set_control87_em(new=MCW_EM,mask=MCW_EM)>
7726 =item Prebuilt variables:
7728 $OS2::emx_rev, $OS2::emx_env, $OS2::os_ver
7734 C<popen>, C<tmpnam>, C<tmpfile>, C<ctermid>, C<stat>, C<mkdir>, C<rmdir>,
7737 =item Identifying DLLs
7739 =item Centralized management of resources
7755 =item F<perl___.exe>
7757 =item Why strange names?
7759 =item Why dynamic linking?
7761 =item Why chimera build?
7769 =item C<PERLLIB_PREFIX>
7771 =item C<PERL_BADLANG>
7773 =item C<PERL_BADFREE>
7775 =item C<PERL_SH_DIR>
7777 =item C<USE_PERL_FLOCK>
7779 =item C<TMP> or C<TEMP>
7789 =item DLL name mangling: pre 5.6.2
7791 =item DLL name mangling: 5.6.2 and beyond
7793 Global DLLs, specific DLLs, C<BEGINLIBPATH> and C<ENDLIBPATH>, F<.> from
7796 =item DLL forwarder generation
7800 =item Calls to external programs
7802 =item Memory allocation
7806 C<COND_WAIT>, F<os2.c>
7822 =head2 perlos390, README.os390 - building and installing Perl for OS/390
7835 =item Unpacking Perl distribution on OS/390
7837 =item Setup and utilities for Perl on OS/390
7839 =item Configure Perl on OS/390
7841 =item Build, Test, Install Perl on OS/390
7843 =item Build Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
7845 =item Testing Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
7847 =item Installation Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
7849 =item Usage Hints for Perl on OS/390
7851 =item Floating Point Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
7853 =item Modules and Extensions for Perl on OS/390
7863 =item Mailing list for Perl on OS/390
7871 =head2 perlqnx, README.qnx - Perl version 5 on QNX
7879 =item Required Software for Compiling Perl on QNX4
7881 /bin/sh, ar, nm, cpp, make
7883 =item Outstanding Issues with Perl on QNX4
7885 =item QNX auxiliary files
7889 =item Outstanding issues with perl under QNX6
7897 =head2 perlplan9 - Plan 9-specific documentation for Perl
7907 =item What's in Plan 9 Perl
7909 =item What's not in Plan 9 Perl
7911 =item Perl5 Functions not currently supported in Plan 9 Perl
7913 =item Signals in Plan 9 Perl
7917 =item COMPILING AND INSTALLING PERL ON PLAN 9
7921 =item Installing Perl Documentation on Plan 9
7933 =head2 perlsolaris, README.solaris - Perl version 5 on Solaris systems
7941 =item Solaris Version Numbers.
7947 Solaris FAQ, Precompiled Binaries, Solaris Documentation
7953 =item File Extraction Problems on Solaris.
7955 =item Compiler and Related Tools on Solaris.
7957 =item Environment for Compiling Perl on Solaris
7961 =item RUN CONFIGURE.
7965 =item 64-bit Issues with Perl on Solaris.
7967 =item Threads in Perl on Solaris.
7969 =item Malloc Issues with Perl on Solaris.
7973 =item MAKE PROBLEMS.
7975 Dynamic Loading Problems With GNU as and GNU ld, ld.so.1: ./perl: fatal:
7976 relocation error:, dlopen: stub interception failed, #error "No
7977 DATAMODEL_NATIVE specified", sh: ar: not found
7983 =item op/stat.t test 4 in Solaris
7985 =item nss_delete core dump from op/pwent or op/grent
7989 =item PREBUILT BINARIES OF PERL FOR SOLARIS.
7991 =item RUNTIME ISSUES FOR PERL ON SOLARIS.
7995 =item Limits on Numbers of Open Files on Solaris.
7999 =item SOLARIS-SPECIFIC MODULES.
8001 =item SOLARIS-SPECIFIC PROBLEMS WITH MODULES.
8005 =item Proc::ProcessTable on Solaris
8007 =item BSD::Resource on Solaris
8009 =item Net::SSLeay on Solaris
8019 =head2 perltru64, README.tru64 - Perl version 5 on Tru64 (formerly known as
8020 Digital UNIX formerly known as DEC OSF/1) systems
8028 =item Compiling Perl 5 on Tru64
8030 =item Using Large Files with Perl on Tru64
8032 =item Threaded Perl on Tru64
8034 =item Long Doubles on Tru64
8036 =item 64-bit Perl on Tru64
8038 =item Warnings about floating-point overflow when compiling Perl on Tru64
8042 =item Testing Perl on Tru64
8048 =head2 perluts - Perl under UTS
8056 =item BUILDING PERL ON UTS
8058 =item Installing the built perl on UTS
8064 =head2 perlvmesa, README.vmesa - building and installing Perl for VM/ESA.
8074 =item Unpacking Perl Distribution on VM/ESA
8076 =item Setup Perl and utilities on VM/ESA
8078 =item Configure Perl on VM/ESA
8080 =item Testing Anomalies of Perl on VM/ESA
8082 =item Usage Hints for Perl on VM/ESA
8092 =item Mailing list for Perl on VM/ESA
8098 =head2 perlvms - VMS-specific documentation for Perl
8106 =item Organization of Perl Images
8112 =item Perl Extensions
8114 =item Installing static extensions
8116 =item Installing dynamic extensions
8120 =item File specifications
8126 =item Wildcard expansion
8132 =item PERL5LIB and PERLLIB
8138 =item I/O redirection and backgrounding
8140 =item Command line switches
8146 =item Perl functions
8148 File tests, backticks, binmode FILEHANDLE, crypt PLAINTEXT, USER, dump,
8149 exec LIST, fork, getpwent, getpwnam, getpwuid, gmtime, kill, qx//, select
8150 (system call), stat EXPR, system LIST, time, times, unlink LIST, utime
8151 LIST, waitpid PID,FLAGS
8153 =item Perl variables
8155 %ENV, CRTL_ENV, CLISYM_[LOCAL], Any other string, $!, $^E, $?, $|
8157 =item Standard modules with VMS-specific differences
8171 =head2 perlvos, README.vos - Perl for Stratus VOS
8179 =item Multiple methods to build perl for VOS
8181 =item Stratus POSIX Support
8185 =item INSTALLING PERL IN VOS
8189 =item Compiling Perl 5 on VOS
8191 =item Installing Perl 5 on VOS
8195 =item USING PERL IN VOS
8199 =item Unimplemented Features of Perl on VOS
8201 =item Restrictions of Perl on VOS
8205 =item SUPPORT STATUS
8213 =head2 perlwin32 - Perl under Win32
8223 =item Setting Up Perl on Win32
8225 Make, Command Shell, Borland C++, Microsoft Visual C++, Mingw32 with GCC
8229 =item Testing Perl on Win32
8231 =item Installation of Perl on Win32
8233 =item Usage Hints for Perl on Win32
8235 Environment Variables, File Globbing, Using perl from the command line,
8236 Building Extensions, Command-line Wildcard Expansion, Win32 Specific
8237 Extensions, Running Perl Scripts, Miscellaneous Things
8241 =item BUGS AND CAVEATS
8245 Gary Ng E<lt>71564.1743@CompuServe.COME<gt>, Gurusamy Sarathy
8246 E<lt>gsar@activestate.comE<gt>, Nick Ing-Simmons
8247 E<lt>nick@ing-simmons.netE<gt>
8255 =head1 PRAGMA DOCUMENTATION
8257 =head2 attrs - set/get attributes of a subroutine (deprecated)
8269 =head2 re - Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour
8279 =head2 threadshared::shared, threads::shared - Perl extension for sharing
8280 data structures between threads
8292 share VARIABLE, lock VARIABLE, unlock VARIABLE, cond_wait VARIABLE,
8293 cond_signal VARIABLE, cond_broadcast VARIABLE
8305 =head2 threads - Perl extension allowing use of interpreter based threads
8314 $thread = threads->create(function, LIST), $thread->join, $thread->detach,
8315 threads->self, $thread->tid
8319 Fix so the return value is returned when you join, Add join_all, Fix memory
8322 =item AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT
8326 creating a thread from within a thread is unsafe under win32,
8327 PERL_OLD_SIGNALS are not threadsafe, will not be
8333 =head2 attributes - get/set subroutine or variable attributes
8343 =item Built-in Attributes
8345 locked, method, lvalue
8347 =item Available Subroutines
8351 =item Package-specific Attribute Handling
8353 FETCH_I<type>_ATTRIBUTES, MODIFY_I<type>_ATTRIBUTES
8355 =item Syntax of Attribute Lists
8363 =item Default exports
8365 =item Available exports
8367 =item Export tags defined
8377 =head2 attrs - set/get attributes of a subroutine (deprecated)
8389 =head2 autouse - postpone load of modules until a function is used
8405 =head2 base - Establish IS-A relationship with base class at compile time
8419 =head2 blib - Use MakeMaker's uninstalled version of a package
8433 =head2 bytes - Perl pragma to force byte semantics rather than character
8446 =head2 charnames - define character names for C<\N{named}> string literal
8455 =item CUSTOM TRANSLATORS
8457 =item charnames::viacode(code)
8459 =item charnames::vianame(code)
8461 =item ILLEGAL CHARACTERS
8467 =head2 constant - Perl pragma to declare constants
8479 =item List constants
8481 =item Defining multiple constants at once
8483 =item Magic constants
8487 =item TECHNICAL NOTES
8497 =head2 diagnostics - Perl compiler pragma to force verbose warning
8508 =item The C<diagnostics> Pragma
8510 =item The I<splain> Program
8524 =head2 encoding - pragma to control the conversion of legacy data into
8533 =item KNOWN PROBLEMS
8539 =head2 fields - compile-time class fields
8553 =head2 filetest - Perl pragma to control the filetest permission operators
8563 =item subpragma access
8569 =head2 if - C<use> a Perl module if a condition holds
8583 =head2 integer - Perl pragma to use integer arithmetic instead of floating
8594 =head2 less - perl pragma to request less of something from the compiler
8604 =head2 lib - manipulate @INC at compile time
8614 =item Adding directories to @INC
8616 =item Deleting directories from @INC
8618 =item Restoring original @INC
8630 =head2 locale - Perl pragma to use and avoid POSIX locales for built-in
8641 =head2 open - perl pragma to set default disciplines for input and output
8649 =item NONPERLIO FUNCTIONALITY
8651 =item IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS
8657 =head2 ops - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when compiling
8669 =head2 overload - Package for overloading perl operations
8679 =item Declaration of overloaded functions
8681 =item Calling Conventions for Binary Operations
8683 FALSE, TRUE, C<undef>
8685 =item Calling Conventions for Unary Operations
8687 =item Calling Conventions for Mutators
8689 C<++> and C<-->, C<x=> and other assignment versions
8691 =item Overloadable Operations
8693 I<Arithmetic operations>, I<Comparison operations>, I<Bit operations>,
8694 I<Increment and decrement>, I<Transcendental functions>, I<Boolean, string
8695 and numeric conversion>, I<Iteration>, I<Dereferencing>, I<Special>
8697 =item Inheritance and overloading
8699 Strings as values of C<use overload> directive, Overloading of an operation
8700 is inherited by derived classes
8704 =item SPECIAL SYMBOLS FOR C<use overload>
8712 C<undef>, TRUE, defined, but FALSE
8714 =item Copy Constructor
8720 =item MAGIC AUTOGENERATION
8722 I<Assignment forms of arithmetic operations>, I<Conversion operations>,
8723 I<Increment and decrement>, C<abs($a)>, I<Unary minus>, I<Negation>,
8724 I<Concatenation>, I<Comparison operations>, I<Iterator>, I<Dereferencing>,
8727 =item Losing overloading
8729 =item Run-time Overloading
8731 =item Public functions
8733 overload::StrVal(arg), overload::Overloaded(arg), overload::Method(obj,op)
8735 =item Overloading constants
8737 integer, float, binary, q, qr
8739 =item IMPLEMENTATION
8741 =item Metaphor clash
8747 =item Two-face scalars
8749 =item Two-face references
8751 =item Symbolic calculator
8753 =item I<Really> symbolic calculator
8761 Odd number of arguments for overload::constant, `%s' is not an overloadable
8762 type, `%s' is not a code reference
8768 =head2 re - Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour
8778 =head2 sigtrap - Perl pragma to enable simple signal handling
8790 =item SIGNAL HANDLERS
8792 B<stack-trace>, B<die>, B<handler> I<your-handler>
8796 B<normal-signals>, B<error-signals>, B<old-interface-signals>
8800 B<untrapped>, B<any>, I<signal>, I<number>
8808 =head2 sort - perl pragma to control sort() behaviour
8818 =head2 strict - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe constructs
8826 C<strict refs>, C<strict vars>, C<strict subs>
8830 =head2 subs - Perl pragma to predeclare sub names
8840 =head2 threads - Perl extension allowing use of interpreter based threads
8849 $thread = threads->create(function, LIST), $thread->join, $thread->detach,
8850 threads->self, $thread->tid
8854 Fix so the return value is returned when you join, Add join_all, Fix memory
8857 =item AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT
8861 creating a thread from within a thread is unsafe under win32,
8862 PERL_OLD_SIGNALS are not threadsafe, will not be
8868 =head2 threadshared, threads::shared - Perl extension for sharing data
8869 structures between threads
8881 share VARIABLE, lock VARIABLE, unlock VARIABLE, cond_wait VARIABLE,
8882 cond_signal VARIABLE, cond_broadcast VARIABLE
8894 =head2 utf8 - Perl pragma to enable/disable UTF-8 (or UTF-EBCDIC) in source
8905 =item Utility functions
8907 $num_octets = utf8::upgrade($string);, utf8::downgrade($string[, CHECK]),
8908 utf8::encode($string)
8916 =head2 vars - Perl pragma to predeclare global variable names (obsolete)
8926 =head2 vmsish - Perl pragma to control VMS-specific language features
8934 C<vmsish status>, C<vmsish exit>, C<vmsish time>, C<vmsish hushed>
8938 =head2 warnings - Perl pragma to control optional warnings
8946 use warnings::register, warnings::enabled(), warnings::enabled($category),
8947 warnings::enabled($object), warnings::warn($message),
8948 warnings::warn($category, $message), warnings::warn($object, $message),
8949 warnings::warnif($message), warnings::warnif($category, $message),
8950 warnings::warnif($object, $message)
8954 =head2 warnings::register - warnings import function
8964 =head1 MODULE DOCUMENTATION
8966 =head2 AnyDBM_File - provide framework for multiple DBMs
8976 =item DBM Comparisons
8986 =head2 Attribute::Handlers - Simpler definition of attribute handlers
8996 [0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]
9000 =item Typed lexicals
9002 =item Type-specific attribute handlers
9004 =item Non-interpretive attribute handlers
9006 =item Phase-specific attribute handlers
9008 =item Attributes as C<tie> interfaces
9016 C<Bad attribute type: ATTR(%s)>, C<Attribute handler %s doesn't handle %s
9017 attributes>, C<Declaration of %s attribute in package %s may clash with
9018 future reserved word>, C<Can't have two ATTR specifiers on one subroutine>,
9019 C<Can't autotie a %s>, C<Internal error: %s symbol went missing>, C<Won't
9020 be able to apply END handler>
9030 =head2 AutoLoader - load subroutines only on demand
9040 =item Subroutine Stubs
9042 =item Using B<AutoLoader>'s AUTOLOAD Subroutine
9044 =item Overriding B<AutoLoader>'s AUTOLOAD Subroutine
9046 =item Package Lexicals
9048 =item Not Using AutoLoader
9050 =item B<AutoLoader> vs. B<SelfLoader>
9060 =head2 AutoSplit - split a package for autoloading
9068 $keep, $check, $modtime
9072 =item Multiple packages
9080 =head2 B - The Perl Compiler
9088 =item OVERVIEW OF CLASSES
9092 =item SV-RELATED CLASSES
9100 IV, IVX, UVX, int_value, needs64bits, packiv
9114 =item B::PVMG METHODS
9118 =item B::MAGIC METHODS
9120 MOREMAGIC, precomp, PRIVATE, TYPE, FLAGS, OBJ, PTR, REGEX
9122 =item B::PVLV METHODS
9124 TARGOFF, TARGLEN, TYPE, TARG
9128 USEFUL, PREVIOUS, RARE, TABLE
9132 is_empty, NAME, SAFENAME, STASH, SV, IO, FORM, AV, HV, EGV, CV, CVGEN,
9133 LINE, FILE, FILEGV, GvREFCNT, FLAGS
9137 LINES, PAGE, PAGE_LEN, LINES_LEFT, TOP_NAME, TOP_GV, FMT_NAME, FMT_GV,
9138 BOTTOM_NAME, BOTTOM_GV, SUBPROCESS, IoTYPE, IoFLAGS, IsSTD
9142 FILL, MAX, OFF, ARRAY, AvFLAGS
9146 STASH, START, ROOT, GV, FILE, DEPTH, PADLIST, OUTSIDE, XSUB, XSUBANY,
9151 FILL, MAX, KEYS, RITER, NAME, PMROOT, ARRAY
9153 =item OP-RELATED CLASSES
9157 next, sibling, name, ppaddr, desc, targ, type, seq, flags, private
9159 =item B::UNOP METHOD
9163 =item B::BINOP METHOD
9167 =item B::LOGOP METHOD
9171 =item B::LISTOP METHOD
9175 =item B::PMOP METHODS
9177 pmreplroot, pmreplstart, pmnext, pmregexp, pmflags, pmdynflags,
9178 pmpermflags, precomp, pmoffet
9180 =item B::SVOP METHOD
9184 =item B::PADOP METHOD
9188 =item B::PVOP METHOD
9192 =item B::LOOP METHODS
9194 redoop, nextop, lastop
9196 =item B::COP METHODS
9198 label, stash, file, cop_seq, arybase, line
9202 =item FUNCTIONS EXPORTED BY C<B>
9204 main_cv, init_av, begin_av, end_av, main_root, main_start, comppadlist,
9205 regex_padav, sv_undef, sv_yes, sv_no, amagic_generation, walkoptree(OP,
9206 METHOD), walkoptree_debug(DEBUG), walksymtable(SYMREF, METHOD, RECURSE,
9207 PREFIX), svref_2object(SV), ppname(OPNUM), hash(STR), cast_I32(I), minus_c,
9208 cstring(STR), class(OBJ), threadsv_names
9214 =head2 B::Asmdata - Autogenerated data about Perl ops, used to generate
9223 %insn_data, @insn_name, @optype, @specialsv_name
9229 =head2 B::Assembler - Assemble Perl bytecode
9241 =head2 B::Bblock - Walk basic blocks
9261 =head2 B::Bytecode - Perl compiler's bytecode backend
9271 B<-ofilename>, B<-afilename>, B<-->, B<-f>, B<-fcompress-nullops>,
9272 B<-fomit-sequence-numbers>, B<-fbypass-nullops>, B<-On>, B<-D>, B<-Do>,
9273 B<-Db>, B<-Da>, B<-DC>, B<-S>, B<-upackage>
9283 =head2 B::C - Perl compiler's C backend
9293 B<-ofilename>, B<-v>, B<-->, B<-uPackname>, B<-D>, B<-Do>, B<-Dc>, B<-DA>,
9294 B<-DC>, B<-DM>, B<-f>, B<-fcog>, B<-fsave-data>, B<-fppaddr>, B<-fwarn-sv>,
9295 B<-fuse-script-name>, B<-fsave-sig-hash>, B<-On>, B<-O0>, B<-O1>, B<-O2>,
9306 =head2 B::CC - Perl compiler's optimized C translation backend
9316 B<-ofilename>, B<-v>, B<-->, B<-uPackname>, B<-mModulename>, B<-D>, B<-Dr>,
9317 B<-DO>, B<-Ds>, B<-Dp>, B<-Dq>, B<-Dl>, B<-Dt>, B<-f>,
9318 B<-ffreetmps-each-bblock>, B<-ffreetmps-each-loop>, B<-fomit-taint>, B<-On>
9330 =item Context of ".."
9334 =item Deprecated features
9342 =head2 B::Concise - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing concise info about ops
9354 B<-basic>, B<-exec>, B<-tree>, B<-compact>, B<-loose>, B<-vt>, B<-ascii>,
9355 B<-main>, B<-base>I<n>, B<-bigendian>, B<-littleendian>, B<-concise>,
9356 B<-terse>, B<-linenoise>, B<-debug>, B<-env>
9358 =item FORMATTING SPECIFICATIONS
9360 B<(x(>I<exec_text>B<;>I<basic_text>B<)x)>, B<(*(>I<text>B<)*)>,
9361 B<(*(>I<text1>B<;>I<text2>B<)*)>, B<(?(>I<text1>B<#>I<var>I<Text2>B<)?)>,
9362 B<#>I<var>, B<#>I<var>I<N>, B<~>, B<#addr>, B<#arg>, B<#class>,
9363 B<#classsym>, B<#coplabel>, B<#exname>, B<#extarg>, B<#firstaddr>,
9364 B<#flags>, B<#flagval>, B<#hyphseq>, B<#label>, B<#lastaddr>, B<#name>,
9365 B<#NAME>, B<#next>, B<#nextaddr>, B<#noise>, B<#private>, B<#privval>,
9366 B<#seq>, B<#seqnum>, B<#sibaddr>, B<#svaddr>, B<#svclass>, B<#svval>,
9367 B<#targ>, B<#targarg>, B<#targarglife>, B<#typenum>
9373 =item OP flags abbreviations
9375 =item OP class abbreviations
9379 =item Using B::Concise outside of the O framework
9385 =head2 B::Debug - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing debug info about ops
9397 =head2 B::Deparse - Perl compiler backend to produce perl code
9407 B<-l>, B<-p>, B<-P>, B<-q>, B<-f>I<FILE>, B<-s>I<LETTERS>, B<C>,
9408 B<i>I<NUMBER>, B<T>, B<v>I<STRING>B<.>, B<-x>I<LEVEL>
9410 =item USING B::Deparse AS A MODULE
9420 =item ambient_pragmas
9422 strict, $[, bytes, utf8, integer, re, warnings, hint_bits, warning_bits
9434 =head2 B::Disassembler - Disassemble Perl bytecode
9446 =head2 B::Lint - Perl lint
9454 =item OPTIONS AND LINT CHECKS
9456 B<context>, B<implicit-read> and B<implicit-write>, B<dollar-underscore>,
9457 B<private-names>, B<undefined-subs>, B<regexp-variables>, B<all>, B<none>
9459 =item NON LINT-CHECK OPTIONS
9469 =head2 B::O, O - Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends
9479 =item IMPLEMENTATION
9485 =head2 B::Showlex - Show lexical variables used in functions or files
9497 =head2 B::Stackobj - Helper module for CC backend
9509 =head2 B::Stash - show what stashes are loaded
9511 =head2 B::Terse - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing terse info about ops
9523 =head2 B::Xref - Generates cross reference reports for Perl programs
9533 C<-oFILENAME>, C<-r>, C<-D[tO]>
9541 =head2 Bblock, B::Bblock - Walk basic blocks
9561 =head2 Benchmark - benchmark running times of Perl code
9575 =item Standard Exports
9577 timeit(COUNT, CODE), timethis ( COUNT, CODE, [ TITLE, [ STYLE ]] ),
9578 timethese ( COUNT, CODEHASHREF, [ STYLE ] ), timediff ( T1, T2 ), timestr (
9579 TIMEDIFF, [ STYLE, [ FORMAT ] ] )
9581 =item Optional Exports
9583 clearcache ( COUNT ), clearallcache ( ), cmpthese ( COUT, CODEHASHREF, [
9584 STYLE ] ), cmpthese ( RESULTSHASHREF, [ STYLE ] ), countit(TIME, CODE),
9585 disablecache ( ), enablecache ( ), timesum ( T1, T2 )
9601 =item MODIFICATION HISTORY
9605 =head2 ByteLoader - load byte compiled perl code
9619 =head2 Bytecode, B::Bytecode - Perl compiler's bytecode backend
9629 B<-ofilename>, B<-afilename>, B<-->, B<-f>, B<-fcompress-nullops>,
9630 B<-fomit-sequence-numbers>, B<-fbypass-nullops>, B<-On>, B<-D>, B<-Do>,
9631 B<-Db>, B<-Da>, B<-DC>, B<-S>, B<-upackage>
9641 =head2 CGI - Simple Common Gateway Interface Class
9653 =item PROGRAMMING STYLE
9655 =item CALLING CGI.PM ROUTINES
9657 =item CREATING A NEW QUERY OBJECT (OBJECT-ORIENTED STYLE):
9659 =item CREATING A NEW QUERY OBJECT FROM AN INPUT FILE
9661 =item FETCHING A LIST OF KEYWORDS FROM THE QUERY:
9663 =item FETCHING THE NAMES OF ALL THE PARAMETERS PASSED TO YOUR SCRIPT:
9665 =item FETCHING THE VALUE OR VALUES OF A SINGLE NAMED PARAMETER:
9667 =item SETTING THE VALUE(S) OF A NAMED PARAMETER:
9669 =item APPENDING ADDITIONAL VALUES TO A NAMED PARAMETER:
9671 =item IMPORTING ALL PARAMETERS INTO A NAMESPACE:
9673 =item DELETING A PARAMETER COMPLETELY:
9675 =item DELETING ALL PARAMETERS:
9677 =item DIRECT ACCESS TO THE PARAMETER LIST:
9679 =item FETCHING THE PARAMETER LIST AS A HASH:
9681 =item SAVING THE STATE OF THE SCRIPT TO A FILE:
9683 =item RETRIEVING CGI ERRORS
9685 =item USING THE FUNCTION-ORIENTED INTERFACE
9687 B<:cgi>, B<:form>, B<:html2>, B<:html3>, B<:html4>, B<:netscape>, B<:html>,
9688 B<:standard>, B<:all>
9692 -any, -compile, -nosticky, -no_undef_params, -no_xhtml, -nph,
9693 -newstyle_urls, -oldstyle_urls, -autoload, -no_debug, -debug,
9696 =item SPECIAL FORMS FOR IMPORTING HTML-TAG FUNCTIONS
9698 1. start_table() (generates a <table> tag), 2. end_table() (generates a
9699 </table> tag), 3. start_ul() (generates a <ul> tag), 4. end_ul() (generates
9704 =item GENERATING DYNAMIC DOCUMENTS
9708 =item CREATING A STANDARD HTTP HEADER:
9710 =item GENERATING A REDIRECTION HEADER
9712 =item CREATING THE HTML DOCUMENT HEADER
9714 B<Parameters:>, 4, 5, 6..
9716 =item ENDING THE HTML DOCUMENT:
9718 =item CREATING A SELF-REFERENCING URL THAT PRESERVES STATE INFORMATION:
9720 =item OBTAINING THE SCRIPT'S URL
9722 B<-absolute>, B<-relative>, B<-full>, B<-path> (B<-path_info>), B<-query>
9723 (B<-query_string>), B<-base>
9725 =item MIXING POST AND URL PARAMETERS
9729 =item CREATING STANDARD HTML ELEMENTS:
9733 =item PROVIDING ARGUMENTS TO HTML SHORTCUTS
9735 =item THE DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY OF HTML SHORTCUTS
9737 =item HTML SHORTCUTS AND LIST INTERPOLATION
9739 =item NON-STANDARD HTML SHORTCUTS
9741 =item AUTOESCAPING HTML
9743 $escaped_string = escapeHTML("unescaped string");, $charset =
9744 charset([$charset]);, $flag = autoEscape([$flag]);
9746 =item PRETTY-PRINTING HTML
9750 =item CREATING FILL-OUT FORMS:
9754 =item CREATING AN ISINDEX TAG
9756 =item STARTING AND ENDING A FORM
9758 B<application/x-www-form-urlencoded>, B<multipart/form-data>
9760 =item CREATING A TEXT FIELD
9764 =item CREATING A BIG TEXT FIELD
9766 =item CREATING A PASSWORD FIELD
9768 =item CREATING A FILE UPLOAD FIELD
9772 =item CREATING A POPUP MENU
9774 =item CREATING A SCROLLING LIST
9778 =item CREATING A GROUP OF RELATED CHECKBOXES
9782 =item CREATING A STANDALONE CHECKBOX
9786 =item CREATING A RADIO BUTTON GROUP
9790 =item CREATING A SUBMIT BUTTON
9794 =item CREATING A RESET BUTTON
9796 =item CREATING A DEFAULT BUTTON
9798 =item CREATING A HIDDEN FIELD
9802 =item CREATING A CLICKABLE IMAGE BUTTON
9806 =item CREATING A JAVASCRIPT ACTION BUTTON
9812 1. an expiration time, 2. a domain, 3. a path, 4. a "secure" flag,
9813 B<-name>, B<-value>, B<-path>, B<-domain>, B<-expires>, B<-secure>
9815 =item WORKING WITH FRAMES
9817 1. Create a <Frameset> document, 2. Specify the destination for the
9818 document in the HTTP header, 3. Specify the destination for the document in
9821 =item LIMITED SUPPORT FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS
9827 =item DUMPING OUT ALL THE NAME/VALUE PAIRS
9831 =item FETCHING ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
9833 B<Accept()>, B<raw_cookie()>, B<user_agent()>, B<path_info()>,
9834 B<path_translated()>, B<remote_host()>, B<script_name()>, B<referer()>,
9835 B<auth_type ()>, B<server_name ()>, B<virtual_host ()>, B<server_port ()>,
9836 B<server_software ()>, B<remote_user ()>, B<user_name ()>,
9837 B<request_method()>, B<content_type()>, B<http()>, B<https()>
9839 =item USING NPH SCRIPTS
9841 In the B<use> statement, By calling the B<nph()> method:, By using B<-nph>
9846 multipart_init(), multipart_start(), multipart_end(), multipart_final()
9848 =item Avoiding Denial of Service Attacks
9850 B<$CGI::POST_MAX>, B<$CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS>, B<1. On a script-by-script
9851 basis>, B<2. Globally for all scripts>
9853 =item COMPATIBILITY WITH CGI-LIB.PL
9855 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
9859 Matt Heffron (heffron@falstaff.css.beckman.com), James Taylor
9860 (james.taylor@srs.gov), Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com>, Mike Jewell
9861 (mlj3u@virginia.edu), Timothy Shimmin (tes@kbs.citri.edu.au), Joergen Haegg
9862 (jh@axis.se), Laurent Delfosse (delfosse@delfosse.com), Richard Resnick
9863 (applepi1@aol.com), Craig Bishop (csb@barwonwater.vic.gov.au), Tony Curtis
9864 (tc@vcpc.univie.ac.at), Tim Bunce (Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk), Tom Christiansen
9865 (tchrist@convex.com), Andreas Koenig (k@franz.ww.TU-Berlin.DE), Tim
9866 MacKenzie (Tim.MacKenzie@fulcrum.com.au), Kevin B. Hendricks
9867 (kbhend@dogwood.tyler.wm.edu), Stephen Dahmen (joyfire@inxpress.net), Ed
9868 Jordan (ed@fidalgo.net), David Alan Pisoni (david@cnation.com), Doug
9869 MacEachern (dougm@opengroup.org), Robin Houston (robin@oneworld.org),
9870 ...and many many more..
9872 =item A COMPLETE EXAMPLE OF A SIMPLE FORM-BASED SCRIPT
9880 =head2 CGI::Apache - Backward compatibility module for CGI.pm
9890 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
9898 =head2 CGI::Carp, B<CGI::Carp> - CGI routines for writing to the HTTPD (or
9907 =item REDIRECTING ERROR MESSAGES
9909 =item MAKING PERL ERRORS APPEAR IN THE BROWSER WINDOW
9913 =item Changing the default message
9917 =item MAKING WARNINGS APPEAR AS HTML COMMENTS
9927 =head2 CGI::Cookie - Interface to Netscape Cookies
9935 =item USING CGI::Cookie
9937 B<1. expiration date>, B<2. domain>, B<3. path>, B<4. secure flag>
9941 =item Creating New Cookies
9943 =item Sending the Cookie to the Browser
9945 =item Recovering Previous Cookies
9947 =item Manipulating Cookies
9949 B<name()>, B<value()>, B<domain()>, B<path()>, B<expires()>
9953 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
9961 =head2 CGI::Fast - CGI Interface for Fast CGI
9969 =item OTHER PIECES OF THE PUZZLE
9971 =item WRITING FASTCGI PERL SCRIPTS
9973 =item INSTALLING FASTCGI SCRIPTS
9975 =item USING FASTCGI SCRIPTS AS CGI SCRIPTS
9977 =item EXTERNAL FASTCGI SERVER INVOCATION
9979 FCGI_SOCKET_PATH, FCGI_LISTEN_QUEUE
9983 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
9991 =head2 CGI::Pretty - module to produce nicely formatted HTML code
10001 =item Tags that won't be formatted
10003 =item Customizing the Indenting
10015 =head2 CGI::Push - Simple Interface to Server Push
10023 =item USING CGI::Push
10025 -next_page, -last_page, -type, -delay, -cookie, -target, -expires, -nph
10029 =item Heterogeneous Pages
10031 =item Changing the Page Delay on the Fly
10035 =item INSTALLING CGI::Push SCRIPTS
10037 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
10045 =head2 CGI::Switch - Backward compatibility module for defunct CGI::Switch
10055 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
10063 =head2 CGI::Util - Internal utilities used by CGI module
10071 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
10077 =head2 CPAN - query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites
10087 =item Interactive Mode
10089 Searching for authors, bundles, distribution files and modules, make, test,
10090 install, clean modules or distributions, get, readme, look module or
10091 distribution, ls author, Signals
10099 =item The four C<CPAN::*> Classes: Author, Bundle, Module, Distribution
10101 =item Programmer's interface
10103 expand($type,@things), expandany(@things), Programming Examples
10105 =item Methods in the other Classes
10107 CPAN::Author::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Author::as_string(),
10108 CPAN::Author::email(), CPAN::Author::fullname(), CPAN::Author::name(),
10109 CPAN::Bundle::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Bundle::as_string(),
10110 CPAN::Bundle::clean(), CPAN::Bundle::contains(),
10111 CPAN::Bundle::force($method,@args), CPAN::Bundle::get(),
10112 CPAN::Bundle::inst_file(), CPAN::Bundle::inst_version(),
10113 CPAN::Bundle::uptodate(), CPAN::Bundle::install(), CPAN::Bundle::make(),
10114 CPAN::Bundle::readme(), CPAN::Bundle::test(),
10115 CPAN::Distribution::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Distribution::as_string(),
10116 CPAN::Distribution::clean(), CPAN::Distribution::containsmods(),
10117 CPAN::Distribution::cvs_import(), CPAN::Distribution::dir(),
10118 CPAN::Distribution::force($method,@args), CPAN::Distribution::get(),
10119 CPAN::Distribution::install(), CPAN::Distribution::isa_perl(),
10120 CPAN::Distribution::look(), CPAN::Distribution::make(),
10121 CPAN::Distribution::prereq_pm(), CPAN::Distribution::readme(),
10122 CPAN::Distribution::test(), CPAN::Distribution::uptodate(),
10123 CPAN::Index::force_reload(), CPAN::Index::reload(), CPAN::InfoObj::dump(),
10124 CPAN::Module::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Module::as_string(),
10125 CPAN::Module::clean(), CPAN::Module::cpan_file(),
10126 CPAN::Module::cpan_version(), CPAN::Module::cvs_import(),
10127 CPAN::Module::description(), CPAN::Module::force($method,@args),
10128 CPAN::Module::get(), CPAN::Module::inst_file(),
10129 CPAN::Module::inst_version(), CPAN::Module::install(),
10130 CPAN::Module::look(), CPAN::Module::make(),
10131 CPAN::Module::manpage_headline(), CPAN::Module::readme(),
10132 CPAN::Module::test(), CPAN::Module::uptodate(), CPAN::Module::userid()
10134 =item Cache Manager
10138 =item Prerequisites
10140 =item Finding packages and VERSION
10144 =item Floppy, Zip, Offline Mode
10148 =item CONFIGURATION
10150 C<o conf E<lt>scalar optionE<gt>>, C<o conf E<lt>scalar optionE<gt>
10151 E<lt>valueE<gt>>, C<o conf E<lt>list optionE<gt>>, C<o conf E<lt>list
10152 optionE<gt> [shift|pop]>, C<o conf E<lt>list optionE<gt>
10153 [unshift|push|splice] E<lt>listE<gt>>
10157 =item Note on urllist parameter's format
10159 =item urllist parameter has CD-ROM support
10167 =item POPULATE AN INSTALLATION WITH LOTS OF MODULES
10169 =item WORKING WITH CPAN.pm BEHIND FIREWALLS
10173 =item Three basic types of firewalls
10175 http firewall, ftp firewall, One way visibility, SOCKS, IP Masquerade
10177 =item Configuring lynx or ncftp for going through a firewall
10183 1), 2), 3), 4), 5), 6), 7), 8), 9), 10)
10195 =head2 CPAN::FirstTime - Utility for CPAN::Config file Initialization
10205 =head2 CPANox, CPAN::Nox - Wrapper around CPAN.pm without using any XS
10218 =head2 Carp, carp - warn of errors (from perspective of caller)
10228 =item Forcing a Stack Trace
10236 =head2 Carp::Heavy, Carp heavy machinery - no user serviceable parts inside
10238 =head2 Class::ISA -- report the search path for a class's ISA tree
10248 the function Class::ISA::super_path($CLASS), the function
10249 Class::ISA::self_and_super_path($CLASS), the function
10250 Class::ISA::self_and_super_versions($CLASS)
10252 =item CAUTIONARY NOTES
10260 =head2 Class::Struct - declare struct-like datatypes as Perl classes
10270 =item The C<struct()> function
10272 =item Class Creation at Compile Time
10274 =item Element Types and Accessor Methods
10276 Scalar (C<'$'> or C<'*$'>), Array (C<'@'> or C<'*@'>), Hash (C<'%'> or
10277 C<'*%'>), Class (C<'Class_Name'> or C<'*Class_Name'>)
10279 =item Initializing with C<new>
10285 Example 1, Example 2, Example 3
10287 =item Author and Modification History
10291 =head2 Config - access Perl configuration information
10299 myconfig(), config_sh(), config_vars(@names)
10311 C<_a>, C<_exe>, C<_o>
10315 C<afs>, C<afsroot>, C<alignbytes>, C<ansi2knr>, C<aphostname>,
10316 C<api_revision>, C<api_subversion>, C<api_version>, C<api_versionstring>,
10317 C<ar>, C<archlib>, C<archlibexp>, C<archname64>, C<archname>, C<archobjs>,
10322 C<baserev>, C<bash>, C<bin>, C<bincompat5005>, C<binexp>, C<bison>,
10323 C<byacc>, C<byteorder>
10327 C<c>, C<castflags>, C<cat>, C<cc>, C<cccdlflags>, C<ccdlflags>, C<ccflags>,
10328 C<ccflags_uselargefiles>, C<ccname>, C<ccsymbols>, C<ccversion>, C<cf_by>,
10329 C<cf_email>, C<cf_time>, C<charsize>, C<chgrp>, C<chmod>, C<chown>,
10330 C<clocktype>, C<comm>, C<compress>, C<contains>, C<cp>, C<cpio>, C<cpp>,
10331 C<cpp_stuff>, C<cppccsymbols>, C<cppflags>, C<cpplast>, C<cppminus>,
10332 C<cpprun>, C<cppstdin>, C<cppsymbols>, C<cryptlib>, C<csh>
10336 C<d__fwalk>, C<d_access>, C<d_accessx>, C<d_alarm>, C<d_archlib>,
10337 C<d_atolf>, C<d_atoll>, C<d_attribut>, C<d_bcmp>, C<d_bcopy>,
10338 C<d_bincompat5005>, C<d_bsd>, C<d_bsdgetpgrp>, C<d_bsdsetpgrp>, C<d_bzero>,
10339 C<d_casti32>, C<d_castneg>, C<d_charvspr>, C<d_chown>, C<d_chroot>,
10340 C<d_chsize>, C<d_class>, C<d_closedir>, C<d_cmsghdr_s>, C<d_const>,
10341 C<d_crypt>, C<d_csh>, C<d_cuserid>, C<d_dbl_dig>, C<d_dbminitproto>,
10342 C<d_difftime>, C<d_dirfd>, C<d_dirnamlen>, C<d_dlerror>, C<d_dlopen>,
10343 C<d_dlsymun>, C<d_dosuid>, C<d_drand48proto>, C<d_dup2>, C<d_eaccess>,
10344 C<d_endgrent>, C<d_endhent>, C<d_endnent>, C<d_endpent>, C<d_endpwent>,
10345 C<d_endsent>, C<d_eofnblk>, C<d_eunice>, C<d_fchdir>, C<d_fchmod>,
10346 C<d_fchown>, C<d_fcntl>, C<d_fcntl_can_lock>, C<d_fd_macros>, C<d_fd_set>,
10347 C<d_fds_bits>, C<d_fgetpos>, C<d_finite>, C<d_finitel>, C<d_flexfnam>,
10348 C<d_flock>, C<d_flockproto>, C<d_fork>, C<d_fp_class>, C<d_fpathconf>,
10349 C<d_fpclass>, C<d_fpclassify>, C<d_fpclassl>, C<d_fpos64_t>, C<d_frexpl>,
10350 C<d_fs_data_s>, C<d_fseeko>, C<d_fsetpos>, C<d_fstatfs>, C<d_fstatvfs>,
10351 C<d_fsync>, C<d_ftello>, C<d_ftime>, C<d_Gconvert>, C<d_getcwd>,
10352 C<d_getespwnam>, C<d_getfsstat>, C<d_getgrent>, C<d_getgrps>,
10353 C<d_gethbyaddr>, C<d_gethbyname>, C<d_gethent>, C<d_gethname>,
10354 C<d_gethostprotos>, C<d_getitimer>, C<d_getlogin>, C<d_getmnt>,
10355 C<d_getmntent>, C<d_getnbyaddr>, C<d_getnbyname>, C<d_getnent>,
10356 C<d_getnetprotos>, C<d_getpagsz>, C<d_getpbyname>, C<d_getpbynumber>,
10357 C<d_getpent>, C<d_getpgid>, C<d_getpgrp2>, C<d_getpgrp>, C<d_getppid>,
10358 C<d_getprior>, C<d_getprotoprotos>, C<d_getprpwnam>, C<d_getpwent>,
10359 C<d_getsbyname>, C<d_getsbyport>, C<d_getsent>, C<d_getservprotos>,
10360 C<d_getspnam>, C<d_gettimeod>, C<d_gnulibc>, C<d_grpasswd>, C<d_hasmntopt>,
10361 C<d_htonl>, C<d_index>, C<d_inetaton>, C<d_int64_t>, C<d_isascii>,
10362 C<d_isfinite>, C<d_isinf>, C<d_isnan>, C<d_isnanl>, C<d_killpg>,
10363 C<d_lchown>, C<d_ldbl_dig>, C<d_link>, C<d_locconv>, C<d_lockf>,
10364 C<d_longdbl>, C<d_longlong>, C<d_lseekproto>, C<d_lstat>, C<d_madvise>,
10365 C<d_mblen>, C<d_mbstowcs>, C<d_mbtowc>, C<d_memchr>, C<d_memcmp>,
10366 C<d_memcpy>, C<d_memmove>, C<d_memset>, C<d_mkdir>, C<d_mkdtemp>,
10367 C<d_mkfifo>, C<d_mkstemp>, C<d_mkstemps>, C<d_mktime>, C<d_mmap>,
10368 C<d_modfl>, C<d_modfl_pow32_bug>, C<d_mprotect>, C<d_msg>, C<d_msg_ctrunc>,
10369 C<d_msg_dontroute>, C<d_msg_oob>, C<d_msg_peek>, C<d_msg_proxy>,
10370 C<d_msgctl>, C<d_msgget>, C<d_msghdr_s>, C<d_msgrcv>, C<d_msgsnd>,
10371 C<d_msync>, C<d_munmap>, C<d_mymalloc>, C<d_nice>, C<d_nl_langinfo>,
10372 C<d_nv_preserves_uv>, C<d_nv_preserves_uv_bits>, C<d_off64_t>,
10373 C<d_old_pthread_create_joinable>, C<d_oldpthreads>, C<d_oldsock>,
10374 C<d_open3>, C<d_pathconf>, C<d_pause>, C<d_perl_otherlibdirs>,
10375 C<d_phostname>, C<d_pipe>, C<d_poll>, C<d_portable>, C<d_PRId64>,
10376 C<d_PRIeldbl>, C<d_PRIEUldbl>, C<d_PRIfldbl>, C<d_PRIFUldbl>,
10377 C<d_PRIgldbl>, C<d_PRIGUldbl>, C<d_PRIi64>, C<d_PRIo64>, C<d_PRIu64>,
10378 C<d_PRIx64>, C<d_PRIXU64>, C<d_procselfexe>, C<d_pthread_atfork>,
10379 C<d_pthread_yield>, C<d_pwage>, C<d_pwchange>, C<d_pwclass>,
10380 C<d_pwcomment>, C<d_pwexpire>, C<d_pwgecos>, C<d_pwpasswd>, C<d_pwquota>,
10381 C<d_qgcvt>, C<d_quad>, C<d_readdir>, C<d_readlink>, C<d_readv>,
10382 C<d_recvmsg>, C<d_rename>, C<d_rewinddir>, C<d_rmdir>, C<d_safebcpy>,
10383 C<d_safemcpy>, C<d_sanemcmp>, C<d_sbrkproto>, C<d_sched_yield>,
10384 C<d_scm_rights>, C<d_SCNfldbl>, C<d_seekdir>, C<d_select>, C<d_sem>,
10385 C<d_semctl>, C<d_semctl_semid_ds>, C<d_semctl_semun>, C<d_semget>,
10386 C<d_semop>, C<d_sendmsg>, C<d_setegid>, C<d_seteuid>, C<d_setgrent>,
10387 C<d_setgrps>, C<d_sethent>, C<d_setitimer>, C<d_setlinebuf>,
10388 C<d_setlocale>, C<d_setnent>, C<d_setpent>, C<d_setpgid>, C<d_setpgrp2>,
10389 C<d_setpgrp>, C<d_setprior>, C<d_setproctitle>, C<d_setpwent>,
10390 C<d_setregid>, C<d_setresgid>, C<d_setresuid>, C<d_setreuid>, C<d_setrgid>,
10391 C<d_setruid>, C<d_setsent>, C<d_setsid>, C<d_setvbuf>, C<d_sfio>, C<d_shm>,
10392 C<d_shmat>, C<d_shmatprototype>, C<d_shmctl>, C<d_shmdt>, C<d_shmget>,
10393 C<d_sigaction>, C<d_sigprocmask>, C<d_sigsetjmp>, C<d_sockatmark>,
10394 C<d_sockatmarkproto>, C<d_socket>, C<d_socklen_t>, C<d_sockpair>,
10395 C<d_socks5_init>, C<d_sqrtl>, C<d_sresgproto>, C<d_sresuproto>,
10396 C<d_statblks>, C<d_statfs_f_flags>, C<d_statfs_s>, C<d_statvfs>,
10397 C<d_stdio_cnt_lval>, C<d_stdio_ptr_lval>, C<d_stdio_ptr_lval_nochange_cnt>,
10398 C<d_stdio_ptr_lval_sets_cnt>, C<d_stdio_stream_array>, C<d_stdiobase>,
10399 C<d_stdstdio>, C<d_strchr>, C<d_strcoll>, C<d_strctcpy>, C<d_strerrm>,
10400 C<d_strerror>, C<d_strftime>, C<d_strtod>, C<d_strtol>, C<d_strtold>,
10401 C<d_strtoll>, C<d_strtoq>, C<d_strtoul>, C<d_strtoull>, C<d_strtouq>,
10402 C<d_strxfrm>, C<d_suidsafe>, C<d_symlink>, C<d_syscall>, C<d_syscallproto>,
10403 C<d_sysconf>, C<d_sysernlst>, C<d_syserrlst>, C<d_system>, C<d_tcgetpgrp>,
10404 C<d_tcsetpgrp>, C<d_telldir>, C<d_telldirproto>, C<d_time>, C<d_times>,
10405 C<d_tm_tm_gmtoff>, C<d_tm_tm_zone>, C<d_truncate>, C<d_tzname>,
10406 C<d_u32align>, C<d_ualarm>, C<d_umask>, C<d_uname>, C<d_union_semun>,
10407 C<d_unordered>, C<d_usleep>, C<d_usleepproto>, C<d_ustat>, C<d_vendorarch>,
10408 C<d_vendorbin>, C<d_vendorlib>, C<d_vfork>, C<d_void_closedir>,
10409 C<d_voidsig>, C<d_voidtty>, C<d_volatile>, C<d_vprintf>, C<d_wait4>,
10410 C<d_waitpid>, C<d_wcstombs>, C<d_wctomb>, C<d_writev>, C<d_xenix>, C<date>,
10411 C<db_hashtype>, C<db_prefixtype>, C<db_version_major>, C<db_version_minor>,
10412 C<db_version_patch>, C<defvoidused>, C<direntrytype>, C<dlext>, C<dlsrc>,
10413 C<doublesize>, C<drand01>, C<dynamic_ext>
10417 C<eagain>, C<ebcdic>, C<echo>, C<egrep>, C<emacs>, C<eunicefix>,
10418 C<exe_ext>, C<expr>, C<extensions>, C<extras>
10422 C<fflushall>, C<fflushNULL>, C<find>, C<firstmakefile>, C<flex>,
10423 C<fpossize>, C<fpostype>, C<freetype>, C<from>, C<full_ar>, C<full_csh>,
10428 C<gccosandvers>, C<gccversion>, C<gidformat>, C<gidsign>, C<gidsize>,
10429 C<gidtype>, C<glibpth>, C<gmake>, C<grep>, C<groupcat>, C<groupstype>,
10434 C<h_fcntl>, C<h_sysfile>, C<hint>, C<hostcat>
10438 C<i16size>, C<i16type>, C<i32size>, C<i32type>, C<i64size>, C<i64type>,
10439 C<i8size>, C<i8type>, C<i_arpainet>, C<i_bsdioctl>, C<i_db>, C<i_dbm>,
10440 C<i_dirent>, C<i_dld>, C<i_dlfcn>, C<i_fcntl>, C<i_float>, C<i_fp>,
10441 C<i_fp_class>, C<i_gdbm>, C<i_grp>, C<i_ieeefp>, C<i_inttypes>,
10442 C<i_langinfo>, C<i_libutil>, C<i_limits>, C<i_locale>, C<i_machcthr>,
10443 C<i_malloc>, C<i_math>, C<i_memory>, C<i_mntent>, C<i_ndbm>, C<i_netdb>,
10444 C<i_neterrno>, C<i_netinettcp>, C<i_niin>, C<i_poll>, C<i_prot>,
10445 C<i_pthread>, C<i_pwd>, C<i_rpcsvcdbm>, C<i_sfio>, C<i_sgtty>, C<i_shadow>,
10446 C<i_socks>, C<i_stdarg>, C<i_stddef>, C<i_stdlib>, C<i_string>,
10447 C<i_sunmath>, C<i_sysaccess>, C<i_sysdir>, C<i_sysfile>, C<i_sysfilio>,
10448 C<i_sysin>, C<i_sysioctl>, C<i_syslog>, C<i_sysmman>, C<i_sysmode>,
10449 C<i_sysmount>, C<i_sysndir>, C<i_sysparam>, C<i_sysresrc>, C<i_syssecrt>,
10450 C<i_sysselct>, C<i_syssockio>, C<i_sysstat>, C<i_sysstatfs>,
10451 C<i_sysstatvfs>, C<i_systime>, C<i_systimek>, C<i_systimes>, C<i_systypes>,
10452 C<i_sysuio>, C<i_sysun>, C<i_sysutsname>, C<i_sysvfs>, C<i_syswait>,
10453 C<i_termio>, C<i_termios>, C<i_time>, C<i_unistd>, C<i_ustat>, C<i_utime>,
10454 C<i_values>, C<i_varargs>, C<i_varhdr>, C<i_vfork>,
10455 C<ignore_versioned_solibs>, C<inc_version_list>, C<inc_version_list_init>,
10456 C<incpath>, C<inews>, C<installarchlib>, C<installbin>, C<installman1dir>,
10457 C<installman3dir>, C<installprefix>, C<installprefixexp>,
10458 C<installprivlib>, C<installscript>, C<installsitearch>, C<installsitebin>,
10459 C<installsitelib>, C<installstyle>, C<installusrbinperl>,
10460 C<installvendorarch>, C<installvendorbin>, C<installvendorlib>, C<intsize>,
10461 C<issymlink>, C<ivdformat>, C<ivsize>, C<ivtype>
10465 C<known_extensions>, C<ksh>
10469 C<ld>, C<lddlflags>, C<ldflags>, C<ldflags_uselargefiles>, C<ldlibpthname>,
10470 C<less>, C<lib_ext>, C<libc>, C<libperl>, C<libpth>, C<libs>, C<libsdirs>,
10471 C<libsfiles>, C<libsfound>, C<libspath>, C<libswanted>,
10472 C<libswanted_uselargefiles>, C<line>, C<lint>, C<lkflags>, C<ln>, C<lns>,
10473 C<locincpth>, C<loclibpth>, C<longdblsize>, C<longlongsize>, C<longsize>,
10474 C<lp>, C<lpr>, C<ls>, C<lseeksize>, C<lseektype>
10478 C<mail>, C<mailx>, C<make>, C<make_set_make>, C<mallocobj>, C<mallocsrc>,
10479 C<malloctype>, C<man1dir>, C<man1direxp>, C<man1ext>, C<man3dir>,
10480 C<man3direxp>, C<man3ext>
10484 C<Mcc>, C<mips_type>, C<mkdir>, C<mmaptype>, C<modetype>, C<more>,
10485 C<multiarch>, C<mv>, C<myarchname>, C<mydomain>, C<myhostname>, C<myuname>
10489 C<n>, C<need_va_copy>, C<netdb_hlen_type>, C<netdb_host_type>,
10490 C<netdb_name_type>, C<netdb_net_type>, C<nm>, C<nm_opt>, C<nm_so_opt>,
10491 C<nonxs_ext>, C<nroff>, C<nveformat>, C<nvEUformat>, C<nvfformat>,
10492 C<nvFUformat>, C<nvgformat>, C<nvGUformat>, C<nvsize>, C<nvtype>
10496 C<o_nonblock>, C<obj_ext>, C<old_pthread_create_joinable>, C<optimize>,
10497 C<orderlib>, C<osname>, C<osvers>, C<otherlibdirs>
10501 C<package>, C<pager>, C<passcat>, C<patchlevel>, C<path_sep>, C<perl5>,
10502 C<perl>, C<perl_patchlevel>
10506 C<PERL_REVISION>, C<PERL_SUBVERSION>, C<PERL_VERSION>, C<perladmin>,
10507 C<perllibs>, C<perlpath>, C<pg>, C<phostname>, C<pidtype>, C<plibpth>,
10508 C<pm_apiversion>, C<pmake>, C<pr>, C<prefix>, C<prefixexp>, C<privlib>,
10509 C<privlibexp>, C<procselfexe>, C<prototype>, C<ptrsize>
10513 C<quadkind>, C<quadtype>
10517 C<randbits>, C<randfunc>, C<randseedtype>, C<ranlib>, C<rd_nodata>,
10518 C<revision>, C<rm>, C<rmail>, C<run>, C<runnm>
10522 C<sched_yield>, C<scriptdir>, C<scriptdirexp>, C<sed>, C<seedfunc>,
10523 C<selectminbits>, C<selecttype>, C<sendmail>, C<sh>, C<shar>, C<sharpbang>,
10524 C<shmattype>, C<shortsize>, C<shrpenv>, C<shsharp>, C<sig_count>,
10525 C<sig_name>, C<sig_name_init>, C<sig_num>, C<sig_num_init>, C<sig_size>,
10526 C<signal_t>, C<sitearch>, C<sitearchexp>, C<sitebin>, C<sitebinexp>,
10527 C<sitelib>, C<sitelib_stem>, C<sitelibexp>, C<siteprefix>,
10528 C<siteprefixexp>, C<sizesize>, C<sizetype>, C<sleep>, C<smail>, C<so>,
10529 C<sockethdr>, C<socketlib>, C<socksizetype>, C<sort>, C<spackage>,
10530 C<spitshell>, C<sPRId64>, C<sPRIeldbl>, C<sPRIEUldbl>, C<sPRIfldbl>,
10531 C<sPRIFUldbl>, C<sPRIgldbl>, C<sPRIGUldbl>, C<sPRIi64>, C<sPRIo64>,
10532 C<sPRIu64>, C<sPRIx64>, C<sPRIXU64>, C<src>, C<sSCNfldbl>, C<ssizetype>,
10533 C<startperl>, C<startsh>, C<static_ext>, C<stdchar>, C<stdio_base>,
10534 C<stdio_bufsiz>, C<stdio_cnt>, C<stdio_filbuf>, C<stdio_ptr>,
10535 C<stdio_stream_array>, C<strings>, C<submit>, C<subversion>, C<sysman>
10539 C<tail>, C<tar>, C<targetarch>, C<tbl>, C<tee>, C<test>, C<timeincl>,
10540 C<timetype>, C<to>, C<touch>, C<tr>, C<trnl>, C<troff>
10544 C<u16size>, C<u16type>, C<u32size>, C<u32type>, C<u64size>, C<u64type>,
10545 C<u8size>, C<u8type>, C<uidformat>, C<uidsign>, C<uidsize>, C<uidtype>,
10546 C<uname>, C<uniq>, C<uquadtype>, C<use5005threads>, C<use64bitall>,
10547 C<use64bitint>, C<usecrosscompile>, C<usedl>, C<useithreads>,
10548 C<uselargefiles>, C<uselongdouble>, C<usemorebits>, C<usemultiplicity>,
10549 C<usemymalloc>, C<usenm>, C<useopcode>, C<useperlio>, C<useposix>,
10550 C<usereentrant>, C<usesfio>, C<useshrplib>, C<usesocks>, C<usethreads>,
10551 C<usevendorprefix>, C<usevfork>, C<usrinc>, C<uuname>, C<uvoformat>,
10552 C<uvsize>, C<uvtype>, C<uvuformat>, C<uvxformat>, C<uvXUformat>
10556 C<vendorarch>, C<vendorarchexp>, C<vendorbin>, C<vendorbinexp>,
10557 C<vendorlib>, C<vendorlib_stem>, C<vendorlibexp>, C<vendorprefix>,
10558 C<vendorprefixexp>, C<version>, C<version_patchlevel_string>,
10559 C<versiononly>, C<vi>, C<voidflags>
10563 C<xlibpth>, C<xs_apiversion>
10567 C<yacc>, C<yaccflags>
10579 =head2 Cwd - get pathname of current working directory
10589 =item getcwd and friends
10591 getcwd, cwd, fastcwd, fastgetcwd
10593 =item abs_path and friends
10595 abs_path, realpath, fast_abs_path
10607 =head2 DB - programmatic interface to the Perl debugging API (draft,
10619 =item Global Variables
10621 $DB::sub, %DB::sub, $DB::single, $DB::signal, $DB::trace, @DB::args,
10622 @DB::dbline, %DB::dbline, $DB::package, $DB::filename, $DB::subname,
10627 CLIENT->register(), CLIENT->evalcode(STRING), CLIENT->skippkg('D::hide'),
10628 CLIENT->run(), CLIENT->step(), CLIENT->next(), CLIENT->done()
10630 =item Client Callback Methods
10632 CLIENT->init(), CLIENT->prestop([STRING]), CLIENT->stop(), CLIENT->idle(),
10633 CLIENT->poststop([STRING]), CLIENT->evalcode(STRING), CLIENT->cleanup(),
10634 CLIENT->output(LIST)
10644 =head2 DB_File - Perl5 access to Berkeley DB version 1.x
10652 B<DB_HASH>, B<DB_BTREE>, B<DB_RECNO>
10656 =item Using DB_File with Berkeley DB version 2 or greater
10658 =item Interface to Berkeley DB
10660 =item Opening a Berkeley DB Database File
10662 =item Default Parameters
10664 =item In Memory Databases
10672 =item A Simple Example
10680 =item Changing the BTREE sort order
10682 =item Handling Duplicate Keys
10684 =item The get_dup() Method
10686 =item The find_dup() Method
10688 =item The del_dup() Method
10690 =item Matching Partial Keys
10698 =item The 'bval' Option
10700 =item A Simple Example
10702 =item Extra RECNO Methods
10704 B<$X-E<gt>push(list) ;>, B<$value = $X-E<gt>pop ;>, B<$X-E<gt>shift>,
10705 B<$X-E<gt>unshift(list) ;>, B<$X-E<gt>length>, B<$X-E<gt>splice(offset,
10706 length, elements);>
10708 =item Another Example
10712 =item THE API INTERFACE
10714 B<$status = $X-E<gt>get($key, $value [, $flags]) ;>, B<$status =
10715 $X-E<gt>put($key, $value [, $flags]) ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>del($key [,
10716 $flags]) ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>fd ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>seq($key,
10717 $value, $flags) ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>sync([$flags]) ;>
10721 B<filter_store_key>, B<filter_store_value>, B<filter_fetch_key>,
10722 B<filter_fetch_value>
10728 =item An Example -- the NULL termination problem.
10730 =item Another Example -- Key is a C int.
10734 =item HINTS AND TIPS
10738 =item Locking: The Trouble with fd
10740 =item Safe ways to lock a database
10742 B<Tie::DB_Lock>, B<Tie::DB_LockFile>, B<DB_File::Lock>
10744 =item Sharing Databases With C Applications
10746 =item The untie() Gotcha
10750 =item COMMON QUESTIONS
10754 =item Why is there Perl source in my database?
10756 =item How do I store complex data structures with DB_File?
10758 =item What does "Invalid Argument" mean?
10760 =item What does "Bareword 'DB_File' not allowed" mean?
10780 =head2 Data::Dumper - stringified perl data structures, suitable for both
10781 printing and C<eval>
10793 I<PACKAGE>->new(I<ARRAYREF [>, I<ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Dump I<or>
10794 I<PACKAGE>->Dump(I<ARRAYREF [>, I<ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Seen(I<[HASHREF]>),
10795 I<$OBJ>->Values(I<[ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Names(I<[ARRAYREF]>),
10802 =item Configuration Variables or Methods
10804 $Data::Dumper::Indent I<or> I<$OBJ>->Indent(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10805 $Data::Dumper::Purity I<or> I<$OBJ>->Purity(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10806 $Data::Dumper::Pad I<or> I<$OBJ>->Pad(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10807 $Data::Dumper::Varname I<or> I<$OBJ>->Varname(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10808 $Data::Dumper::Useqq I<or> I<$OBJ>->Useqq(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10809 $Data::Dumper::Terse I<or> I<$OBJ>->Terse(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10810 $Data::Dumper::Freezer I<or> $I<OBJ>->Freezer(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10811 $Data::Dumper::Toaster I<or> $I<OBJ>->Toaster(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10812 $Data::Dumper::Deepcopy I<or> $I<OBJ>->Deepcopy(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10813 $Data::Dumper::Quotekeys I<or> $I<OBJ>->Quotekeys(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10814 $Data::Dumper::Bless I<or> $I<OBJ>->Bless(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10815 $Data::Dumper::Maxdepth I<or> $I<OBJ>->Maxdepth(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10816 $Data::Dumper::Useperl I<or> $I<OBJ>->Useperl(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10817 $Data::Dumper::Sortkeys I<or> $I<OBJ>->Sortkeys(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10818 $Data::Dumper::Deparse I<or> $I<OBJ>->Deparse(I<[NEWVAL]>)
10838 =head2 Data::Util - A selection of general-utility data subroutines
10854 =head2 Data::Utilib::Data::Util, Data::Util - A selection of
10855 general-utility data subroutines
10871 =head2 Data::Utilib::Hash::Util, Hash::Util - A selection of
10872 general-utility hash subroutines
10882 =item Restricted hashes
10884 lock_keys, unlock_keys
10890 lock_value, unlock_value
10892 B<lock_hash>, B<unlock_hash>
10902 =head2 Devel::DProf - a Perl code profiler
10910 =item PROFILE FORMAT
10922 =head2 Devel::PPPort, Perl/Pollution/Portability
10944 =head2 Devel::Peek - A data debugging tool for the XS programmer
10954 =item Runtime debugging
10956 =item Memory footprint debugging
10964 =item A simple scalar string
10966 =item A simple scalar number
10968 =item A simple scalar with an extra reference
10970 =item A reference to a simple scalar
10972 =item A reference to an array
10974 =item A reference to a hash
10976 =item Dumping a large array or hash
10978 =item A reference to an SV which holds a C pointer
10980 =item A reference to a subroutine
10994 =head2 Devel::SelfStubber - generate stubs for a SelfLoading module
11004 =head2 Digest:: - Modules that calculate message digests
11012 I<binary>, I<hex>, I<base64>
11016 $ctx = Digest->XXX($arg,...), $ctx = Digest->new(XXX => $arg,...), $ctx =
11017 Digest::XXX->new($arg,...), $ctx->reset, $ctx->add($data,...),
11018 $ctx->addfile($io_handle), $ctx->digest, $ctx->hexdigest, $ctx->b64digest
11026 =head2 Digest::MD5 - Perl interface to the MD5 Algorithm
11036 md5($data,...), md5_hex($data,...), md5_base64($data,...)
11040 $md5 = Digest::MD5->new, $md5->reset, $md5->add($data,...),
11041 $md5->addfile($io_handle), $md5->digest, $md5->hexdigest, $md5->b64digest
11053 =head2 DirHandle - supply object methods for directory handles
11065 =head2 Dumpvalue - provides screen dump of Perl data.
11077 C<arrayDepth>, C<hashDepth>, C<compactDump>, C<veryCompact>, C<globPrint>,
11078 C<dumpDBFiles>, C<dumpPackages>, C<dumpReused>, C<tick>, C<quoteHighBit>,
11079 C<printUndef>, C<usageOnly>, unctrl, subdump, bareStringify, quoteHighBit,
11084 dumpValue, dumpValues, dumpvars, set_quote, set_unctrl, compactDump,
11085 veryCompact, set, get
11091 =head2 DynaLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code
11099 @dl_library_path, @dl_resolve_using, @dl_require_symbols, @dl_librefs,
11100 @dl_modules, dl_error(), $dl_debug, dl_findfile(), dl_expandspec(),
11101 dl_load_file(), dl_unload_file(), dl_loadflags(), dl_find_symbol(),
11102 dl_find_symbol_anywhere(), dl_undef_symbols(), dl_install_xsub(),
11109 =head2 DynaLoader::XSLoader, XSLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into
11122 =head2 Encode - character encodings
11140 =item Characteristics of an Encoding
11142 =item Types of Encodings
11144 Fixed length 8-bit (or less) encodings, Fixed length 16-bit encodings,
11145 Fixed length 32-bit encodings, Multi-byte encodings, "Escape" encodings
11147 =item Specifying Encodings
11149 1. By name, 2. As an object
11151 =item Encoding Names
11153 The MIME name as defined in IETF RFCs, The name in the IANA registry, The
11154 name used by the organization that defined it
11158 =item PERL ENCODING API
11162 =item Generic Encoding Interface
11164 =item Handling Malformed Data
11166 Scheme 1, Scheme 2, Other Schemes
11170 =item Other Encodings of Unicode
11172 =item Listing available encodings
11174 =item Defining Aliases
11176 As a simple string, As a qr// compiled regular expression, e.g.:, As a code
11179 =item Defining Encodings
11183 =item Encoding and IO
11185 =item Encoding How to ...
11187 IO with mixed content (faking iso-2020-*), MIME's Content-Length:, UTF-8
11188 strings in binary data, Perl/Encode wrappers on non-Unicode XS modules
11190 =item Messing with Perl's Internals
11192 is_utf8(STRING [, CHECK]), valid_utf8(STRING)
11194 =item IMPLEMENTATION CLASSES
11196 -E<gt>name, -E<gt>new_sequence, -E<gt>encode($string,$check),
11197 -E<gt>decode($octets,$check)
11201 =item Compiled Encodings
11203 .enc, .ucm, .ucm, .c, .xs, ascii and iso-8859-*, IBM-1047 and two other
11204 variants of EBCDIC, symbol and dingbats as used by Tk on X11
11212 =head2 Encode::Tcl - Tcl encodings
11224 =head2 Encode::Tcl::Escape - Tcl Escape encodings
11236 =head2 Encode::Tcl::Extended - Tcl EUC encodings
11248 =head2 Encode::Tcl::Table - Tcl Table encodings
11260 =head2 Encode::lib::Encode::Tcl, Encode::Tcl - Tcl encodings
11272 =head2 Encode::lib::Encode::Tcl::Escape, Encode::Tcl::Escape - Tcl Escape
11285 =head2 Encode::lib::Encode::Tcl::Extended, Encode::Tcl::Extended - Tcl EUC
11298 =head2 Encode::lib::Encode::Tcl::Table, Encode::Tcl::Table - Tcl Table
11311 =head2 Encode::lib::EncodeFormat, EncodeFormat - the format of encoding
11312 tables of the Encode extension
11318 [1] B<S>, [2] B<D>, [3] B<M>, [4] B<E>
11326 =head2 EncodeFormat - the format of encoding tables of the Encode extension
11332 [1] B<S>, [2] B<D>, [3] B<M>, [4] B<E>
11340 =head2 English - use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation
11353 =head2 Env - perl module that imports environment variables as scalars or
11368 =head2 Errno - System errno constants
11384 =head2 Exporter - Implements default import method for modules
11394 =item How to Export
11396 =item Selecting What To Export
11398 =item How to Import
11400 C<use ModuleName;>, C<use ModuleName ();>, C<use ModuleName qw(...);>
11404 =item Advanced features
11408 =item Specialised Import Lists
11410 =item Exporting without using Exporter's import method
11412 =item Module Version Checking
11414 =item Managing Unknown Symbols
11416 =item Tag Handling Utility Functions
11418 =item Generating combined tags
11420 =item C<AUTOLOAD>ed Constants
11426 =head2 Exporter::Heavy - Exporter guts
11436 =head2 ExtUtils::Command - utilities to replace common UNIX commands in
11457 mv source... destination
11459 cp source... destination
11477 =head2 ExtUtils::Constant - generate XS code to import C header constants
11487 IV, UV, NV, PV, PVN, SV, YES, NO, UNDEF
11497 memEQ_clause NAME, CHECKED_AT, INDENT
11499 assign INDENT, TYPE, PRE, POST, VALUE..
11503 switch_clause INDENT, NAMELEN, ITEMHASH, ITEM..
11511 C_constant, name, type, value, macro, default, pre, post, def_pre =item
11514 XS_constant PACKAGE, TYPES, SUBNAME, C_SUBNAME
11516 autoload PACKAGE, VERSION, AUTOLOADER
11518 WriteMakefileSnippet
11520 WriteConstants ATTRIBUTE =E<gt> VALUE [, ...], NAME, DEFAULT_TYPE,
11521 BREAKOUT_AT, NAMES, C_FILE, XS_FILE, SUBNAME, C_SUBNAME
11529 =head2 ExtUtils::Embed - Utilities for embedding Perl in C/C++ applications
11541 xsinit(), Examples, ldopts(), Examples, perl_inc(), ccflags(), ccdlflags(),
11542 ccopts(), xsi_header(), xsi_protos(@modules), xsi_body(@modules)
11552 =head2 ExtUtils::Install - install files from here to there
11562 =head2 ExtUtils::Installed - Inventory management of installed modules
11574 new(), modules(), files(), directories(), directory_tree(), validate(),
11575 packlist(), version()
11583 =head2 ExtUtils::Liblist - determine libraries to use and how to use them
11591 For static extensions, For dynamic extensions, For dynamic extensions
11597 =item LDLOADLIBS and LD_RUN_PATH
11607 =item VMS implementation
11609 =item Win32 implementation
11617 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_BeOS - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
11618 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
11630 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
11631 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
11639 canonpath, cflags, manifypods, perl_archive
11643 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_NW5 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
11644 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
11670 test_via_harness (o)
11672 tool_autosplit (override)
11690 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_OS2 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
11691 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
11705 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_Unix - methods used by ExtUtils::MakeMaker
11717 =item Preloaded methods
11737 =item SelfLoaded methods
11783 file_name_is_absolute
11789 =item Methods to actually produce chunks of text for the Makefile
11829 maybe_command_in_dirs
11857 post_initialize (o)
11869 replace_manpage_separator
11883 test_via_harness (o)
11885 test_via_script (o)
11915 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_VMS - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
11916 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
11926 =item Methods always loaded
11938 =item SelfLoaded methods
11940 guess_name (override)
11944 find_perl (override)
11948 maybe_command (override)
11950 maybe_command_in_dirs (override)
11952 perl_script (override)
11954 file_name_is_absolute (override)
11956 replace_manpage_separator
11958 init_others (override)
11960 constants (override)
11964 const_cccmd (override)
11966 pm_to_blib (override)
11968 tool_autosplit (override)
11970 tool_sxubpp (override)
11972 xsubpp_version (override)
11974 tools_other (override)
11984 top_targets (override)
11988 dynamic_lib (override)
11990 dynamic_bs (override)
11992 static_lib (override)
11994 manifypods (override)
11996 processPL (override)
11998 installbin (override)
12000 subdir_x (override)
12004 realclean (override)
12006 dist_basics (override)
12008 dist_core (override)
12010 dist_dir (override)
12012 dist_test (override)
12016 perldepend (override)
12018 makefile (override)
12022 test_via_harness (override)
12024 test_via_script (override)
12026 makeaperl (override)
12028 nicetext (override)
12030 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_Win32 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
12031 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
12057 test_via_harness (o)
12059 tool_autosplit (override)
12077 =head2 ExtUtils::MakeMaker - create an extension Makefile
12087 =item How To Write A Makefile.PL
12089 =item Default Makefile Behaviour
12097 =item PREFIX and LIB attribute
12101 =item Static Linking of a new Perl Binary
12103 =item Determination of Perl Library and Installation Locations
12105 =item Which architecture dependent directory?
12107 =item Using Attributes and Parameters
12109 ABSTRACT, ABSTRACT_FROM, AUTHOR, BINARY_LOCATION, C, CCFLAGS, CONFIG,
12110 CONFIGURE, DEFINE, DIR, DISTNAME, DL_FUNCS, DL_VARS, EXCLUDE_EXT,
12111 EXE_FILES, FIRST_MAKEFILE, FULLPERL, FUNCLIST, H, HTMLLIBPODS,
12112 HTMLSCRIPTPODS, IMPORTS, INC, INCLUDE_EXT, INSTALLARCHLIB, INSTALLBIN,
12113 INSTALLDIRS, INSTALLHTMLPRIVLIBDIR, INSTALLHTMLSCRIPTDIR,
12114 INSTALLHTMLSITELIBDIR, INSTALLMAN1DIR, INSTALLMAN3DIR, INSTALLPRIVLIB,
12115 INSTALLSCRIPT, INSTALLSITEARCH, INSTALLSITELIB, INST_ARCHLIB, INST_BIN,
12116 INST_EXE, INST_HTMLLIBDIR, INST_HTMLSCRIPTDIR, INST_LIB, INST_MAN1DIR,
12117 INST_MAN3DIR, INST_SCRIPT, LDFROM, LIB, LIBPERL_A, LIBS, LINKTYPE,
12118 MAKEAPERL, MAKEFILE, MAN1PODS, MAN3PODS, MAP_TARGET, MYEXTLIB, NAME,
12119 NEEDS_LINKING, NOECHO, NORECURS, NO_VC, OBJECT, OPTIMIZE, PERL, PERL_CORE,
12120 PERLMAINCC, PERL_ARCHLIB, PERL_LIB, PERL_MALLOC_OK, PERLRUN, PERM_RW,
12121 PERM_RWX, PL_FILES, PM, PMLIBDIRS, PM_FILTER, POLLUTE, PPM_INSTALL_EXEC,
12122 PPM_INSTALL_SCRIPT, PREFIX, PREREQ_PM, PREREQ_FATAL, PREREQ_PRINT,
12123 PRINT_PREREQ, SKIP, TEST_LIBS, VERSION, VERSION_FROM, XS, XSOPT,
12124 XSPROTOARG, XS_VERSION
12126 =item Additional lowercase attributes
12128 clean, depend, dist, dynamic_lib, linkext, macro, realclean, test,
12131 =item Overriding MakeMaker Methods
12133 =item Hintsfile support
12135 =item Distribution Support
12137 make distcheck, make skipcheck, make distclean, make manifest,
12138 make distdir, make tardist, make dist, make uutardist, make
12139 shdist, make zipdist, make ci
12141 =item Disabling an extension
12147 PERL_MM_OPT, PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT
12155 =head2 ExtUtils::Manifest - utilities to write and check a MANIFEST file
12163 =item MANIFEST.SKIP
12167 =item GLOBAL VARIABLES
12171 C<Not in MANIFEST:> I<file>, C<No such file:> I<file>, C<MANIFEST:> I<$!>,
12172 C<Added to MANIFEST:> I<file>
12176 B<PERL_MM_MANIFEST_DEBUG>
12184 =head2 ExtUtils::Miniperl, writemain - write the C code for perlmain.c
12196 =head2 ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap - make a bootstrap file for use by DynaLoader
12206 =head2 ExtUtils::Mksymlists - write linker options files for dynamic
12215 DLBASE, DL_FUNCS, DL_VARS, FILE, FUNCLIST, IMPORTS, NAME
12223 =head2 ExtUtils::Packlist - manage .packlist files
12235 new(), read(), write(), validate(), packlist_file()
12243 =head2 ExtUtils::testlib - add blib/* directories to @INC
12253 =head2 Fatal - replace functions with equivalents which succeed or die
12265 =head2 Fcntl - load the C Fcntl.h defines
12275 =item EXPORTED SYMBOLS
12279 =head2 File::Basename, fileparse - split a pathname into pieces
12287 fileparse_set_fstype, fileparse
12291 C<basename>, C<dirname>
12295 =head2 File::CheckTree, validate - run many filetest checks on a tree
12305 =head2 File::Compare - Compare files or filehandles
12319 =head2 File::Copy - Copy files or filehandles
12329 =item Special behaviour if C<syscopy> is defined (OS/2, VMS and Win32)
12331 rmscopy($from,$to[,$date_flag])
12343 =head2 File::DosGlob - DOS like globbing and then some
12353 =item EXPORTS (by request only)
12365 =head2 File::Find - Traverse a directory tree.
12373 B<find>, B<finddepth>
12379 C<wanted>, C<bydepth>, C<preprocess>, C<postprocess>, C<follow>,
12380 C<follow_fast>, C<follow_skip>, C<dangling_symlinks>, C<no_chdir>,
12381 C<untaint>, C<untaint_pattern>, C<untaint_skip>
12383 =item The wanted function
12385 C<$File::Find::dir> is the current directory name,, C<$_> is the current
12386 filename within that directory, C<$File::Find::name> is the complete
12387 pathname to the file
12395 $dont_use_nlink, symlinks
12403 =head2 File::Glob - Perl extension for BSD glob routine
12411 C<GLOB_ERR>, C<GLOB_LIMIT>, C<GLOB_MARK>, C<GLOB_NOCASE>, C<GLOB_NOCHECK>,
12412 C<GLOB_NOSORT>, C<GLOB_BRACE>, C<GLOB_NOMAGIC>, C<GLOB_QUOTE>,
12413 C<GLOB_TILDE>, C<GLOB_CSH>, C<GLOB_ALPHASORT>
12417 C<GLOB_NOSPACE>, C<GLOB_ABEND>
12425 =head2 File::Path - create or remove directory trees
12437 =head2 File::Spec - portably perform operations on file names
12447 canonpath, catdir, catfile, curdir, devnull, rootdir, tmpdir, updir,
12448 no_upwards, case_tolerant, file_name_is_absolute, path, join, splitpath,
12449 splitdir, catpath(), abs2rel, rel2abs()
12457 =head2 File::Spec::Cygwin - methods for Cygwin file specs
12467 =head2 File::Spec::Epoc - methods for Epoc file specs
12501 =head2 File::Spec::Functions - portably perform operations on file names
12519 =head2 File::Spec::Mac - File::Spec for Mac OS (Classic)
12547 file_name_is_absolute
12577 =head2 File::Spec::OS2 - methods for OS/2 file specs
12587 =head2 File::Spec::Unix - File::Spec for Unix, base for other File::Spec
12620 file_name_is_absolute
12642 =head2 File::Spec::VMS - methods for VMS file specs
12658 =item Methods always loaded
12660 canonpath (override)
12678 case_tolerant (override)
12682 file_name_is_absolute (override)
12684 splitpath (override)
12686 splitdir (override)
12700 =head2 File::Spec::Win32 - methods for Win32 file specs
12730 =head2 File::Temp - return name and handle of a temporary file safely
12754 =item MKTEMP FUNCTIONS
12768 =item POSIX FUNCTIONS
12778 =item ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS
12786 =item UTILITY FUNCTIONS
12794 =item PACKAGE VARIABLES
12796 B<safe_level>, STANDARD, MEDIUM, HIGH
12808 =item Temporary files and NFS
12820 =head2 File::stat - by-name interface to Perl's built-in stat() functions
12834 =head2 FileCache - keep more files open than the system permits
12846 =head2 FileHandle - supply object methods for filehandles
12854 $fh->print, $fh->printf, $fh->getline, $fh->getlines
12860 =head2 Filter::Simple - Simplified source filtering
12874 =item Disabling or changing <no> behaviour
12876 =item All-in-one interface
12878 =item Filtering only specific components of source code
12880 C<"code">, C<"executable">, C<"quotelike">, C<"string">, C<"regex">,
12883 =item Filtering only the code parts of source code
12885 Most source code ceases to be grammatically correct when it is broken up
12886 into the pieces between string literals and regexes. So the C<'code'>
12887 component filter behaves slightly differently from the other partial
12889 described in the previous section.
12891 =item Using Filter::Simple with an explicit C<import> subroutine
12893 =item Using Filter::Simple and Exporter together
12905 =head2 Filter::Util::Call - Perl Source Filter Utility Module
12915 =item B<use Filter::Util::Call>
12919 =item B<filter() and anonymous sub>
12921 B<$_>, B<$status>, B<filter_read> and B<filter_read_exact>, B<filter_del>
12929 =item Example 1: A simple filter.
12931 =item Example 2: Using the context
12933 =item Example 3: Using the context within the filter
12935 =item Example 4: Using filter_del
12939 =item Filter::Simple
12947 =head2 FindBin - Locate directory of original perl script
12955 =item EXPORTABLE VARIABLES
12967 =head2 GDBM_File - Perl5 access to the gdbm library.
12983 =head2 Getopt::Long - Extended processing of command line options
12991 =item Command Line Options, an Introduction
12993 =item Getting Started with Getopt::Long
12997 =item Simple options
12999 =item A little bit less simple options
13001 =item Mixing command line option with other arguments
13003 =item Options with values
13005 =item Options with multiple values
13007 =item Options with hash values
13009 =item User-defined subroutines to handle options
13011 =item Options with multiple names
13013 =item Case and abbreviations
13015 =item Summary of Option Specifications
13017 !, +, s, i, o, f, : I<type> [ I<desttype> ], : I<number> [ I<desttype> ], :
13022 =item Advanced Possibilities
13026 =item Object oriented interface
13028 =item Documentation and help texts
13030 =item Storing options in a hash
13034 =item The lonesome dash
13036 =item Argument callback
13040 =item Configuring Getopt::Long
13042 default, posix_default, auto_abbrev, getopt_compat, gnu_compat, gnu_getopt,
13043 require_order, permute, bundling (default: disabled), bundling_override
13044 (default: disabled), ignore_case (default: enabled), ignore_case_always
13045 (default: disabled), pass_through (default: disabled), prefix,
13046 prefix_pattern, debug (default: disabled)
13048 =item Return values and Errors
13054 =item Default destinations
13056 =item Alternative option starters
13058 =item Configuration variables
13062 =item Trouble Shooting
13066 =item Warning: Ignoring '!' modifier for short option
13068 =item GetOptions does not return a false result when an option is not
13071 =item GetOptions does not split the command line correctly
13073 =item How do I put a "-?" option into a Getopt::Long?
13079 =item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
13083 =head2 Getopt::Std, getopt - Process single-character switches with switch
13094 =head2 Hash::Util - A selection of general-utility hash subroutines
13104 =item Restricted hashes
13106 lock_keys, unlock_keys
13112 lock_value, unlock_value
13114 B<lock_hash>, B<unlock_hash>
13124 =head2 I18N::Collate - compare 8-bit scalar data according to the current
13135 =head2 I18N::LangTags - functions for dealing with RFC3066-style language
13146 the function is_language_tag($lang1)
13148 the function extract_language_tags($whatever)
13150 the function same_language_tag($lang1, $lang2)
13152 the function similarity_language_tag($lang1, $lang2)
13154 the function is_dialect_of($lang1, $lang2)
13156 the function super_languages($lang1)
13158 the function locale2language_tag($locale_identifier)
13160 the function encode_language_tag($lang1)
13162 the function alternate_language_tags($lang1)
13164 the function @langs = panic_languages(@accept_languages)
13168 =item ABOUT LOWERCASING
13170 =item ABOUT UNICODE PLAINTEXT LANGUAGE TAGS
13180 =head2 I18N::LangTags::List -- tags and names for human languages
13188 =item ABOUT LANGUAGE TAGS
13190 =item LIST OF LANGUAGES
13192 {ab} : Abkhazian, {ace} : Achinese, {ach} : Acoli, {ada} : Adangme, {aa} :
13193 Afar, {afh} : Afrihili, {af} : Afrikaans, [{afa} : Afro-Asiatic (Other)],
13194 {aka} : Akan, {akk} : Akkadian, {sq} : Albanian, {ale} : Aleut, [{alg} :
13195 Algonquian languages], [{tut} : Altaic (Other)], {am} : Amharic, {i-ami} :
13196 Ami, [{apa} : Apache languages], {ar} : Arabic, {arc} : Aramaic, {arp} :
13197 Arapaho, {arn} : Araucanian, {arw} : Arawak, {hy} : Armenian, [{art} :
13198 Artificial (Other)], {as} : Assamese, [{ath} : Athapascan languages],
13199 [{aus} : Australian languages], [{map} : Austronesian (Other)], {ava} :
13200 Avaric, {ae} : Avestan, {awa} : Awadhi, {ay} : Aymara, {az} : Azerbaijani,
13201 {ban} : Balinese, [{bat} : Baltic (Other)], {bal} : Baluchi, {bam} :
13202 Bambara, [{bai} : Bamileke languages], {bad} : Banda, [{bnt} : Bantu
13203 (Other)], {bas} : Basa, {ba} : Bashkir, {eu} : Basque, {btk} : Batak
13204 (Indonesia), {bej} : Beja, {be} : Belarusian, {bem} : Bemba, {bn} :
13205 Bengali, [{ber} : Berber (Other)], {bho} : Bhojpuri, {bh} : Bihari, {bik} :
13206 Bikol, {bin} : Bini, {bi} : Bislama, {bs} : Bosnian, {bra} : Braj, {br} :
13207 Breton, {bug} : Buginese, {bg} : Bulgarian, {i-bnn} : Bunun, {bua} :
13208 Buriat, {my} : Burmese, {cad} : Caddo, {car} : Carib, {ca} : Catalan,
13209 [{cau} : Caucasian (Other)], {ceb} : Cebuano, [{cel} : Celtic (Other)],
13210 [{cai} : Central American Indian (Other)], {chg} : Chagatai, [{cmc} :
13211 Chamic languages], {ch} : Chamorro, {ce} : Chechen, {chr} : Cherokee, {chy}
13212 : Cheyenne, {chb} : Chibcha, {ny} : Chichewa, {zh} : Chinese, {chn} :
13213 Chinook Jargon, {chp} : Chipewyan, {cho} : Choctaw, {cu} : Church Slavic,
13214 {chk} : Chuukese, {cv} : Chuvash, {cop} : Coptic, {kw} : Cornish, {co} :
13215 Corsican, {cre} : Cree, {mus} : Creek, [{cpe} : English-based Creoles and
13216 pidgins (Other)], [{cpf} : French-based Creoles and pidgins (Other)],
13217 [{cpp} : Portuguese-based Creoles and pidgins (Other)], [{crp} : Creoles
13218 and pidgins (Other)], {hr} : Croatian, [{cus} : Cushitic (Other)], {cs} :
13219 Czech, {dak} : Dakota, {da} : Danish, {day} : Dayak, {i-default} : Default
13220 (Fallthru) Language, {del} : Delaware, {din} : Dinka, {div} : Divehi, {doi}
13221 : Dogri, {dgr} : Dogrib, [{dra} : Dravidian (Other)], {dua} : Duala, {nl} :
13222 Dutch, {dum} : Middle Dutch (ca.1050-1350), {dyu} : Dyula, {dz} : Dzongkha,
13223 {efi} : Efik, {egy} : Ancient Egyptian, {eka} : Ekajuk, {elx} : Elamite,
13224 {en} : English, {enm} : Old English (1100-1500), {ang} : Old English
13225 (ca.450-1100), {eo} : Esperanto, {et} : Estonian, {ewe} : Ewe, {ewo} :
13226 Ewondo, {fan} : Fang, {fat} : Fanti, {fo} : Faroese, {fj} : Fijian, {fi} :
13227 Finnish, [{fiu} : Finno-Ugrian (Other)], {fon} : Fon, {fr} : French, {frm}
13228 : Middle French (ca.1400-1600), {fro} : Old French (842-ca.1400), {fy} :
13229 Frisian, {fur} : Friulian, {ful} : Fulah, {gaa} : Ga, {gd} : Scots Gaelic,
13230 {gl} : Gallegan, {lug} : Ganda, {gay} : Gayo, {gba} : Gbaya, {gez} : Geez,
13231 {ka} : Georgian, {de} : German, {gmh} : Middle High German (ca.1050-1500),
13232 {goh} : Old High German (ca.750-1050), [{gem} : Germanic (Other)], {gil} :
13233 Gilbertese, {gon} : Gondi, {gor} : Gorontalo, {got} : Gothic, {grb} :
13234 Grebo, {grc} : Ancient Greek, {el} : Modern Greek, {gn} : Guarani, {gu} :
13235 Gujarati, {gwi} : Gwich'in, {hai} : Haida, {ha} : Hausa, {haw} : Hawaiian,
13236 {he} : Hebrew, {hz} : Herero, {hil} : Hiligaynon, {him} : Himachali, {hi} :
13237 Hindi, {ho} : Hiri Motu, {hit} : Hittite, {hmn} : Hmong, {hu} : Hungarian,
13238 {hup} : Hupa, {iba} : Iban, {is} : Icelandic, {ibo} : Igbo, {ijo} : Ijo,
13239 {ilo} : Iloko, [{inc} : Indic (Other)], [{ine} : Indo-European (Other)],
13240 {id} : Indonesian, {ia} : Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language
13241 Association), {ie} : Interlingue, {iu} : Inuktitut, {ik} : Inupiaq, [{ira}
13242 : Iranian (Other)], {ga} : Irish, {mga} : Middle Irish (900-1200), {sga} :
13243 Old Irish (to 900), [{iro} : Iroquoian languages], {it} : Italian, {ja} :
13244 Japanese, {jw} : Javanese, {jrb} : Judeo-Arabic, {jpr} : Judeo-Persian,
13245 {kab} : Kabyle, {kac} : Kachin, {kl} : Kalaallisut, {kam} : Kamba, {kn} :
13246 Kannada, {kau} : Kanuri, {kaa} : Kara-Kalpak, {kar} : Karen, {ks} :
13247 Kashmiri, {kaw} : Kawi, {kk} : Kazakh, {kha} : Khasi, {km} : Khmer, [{khi}
13248 : Khoisan (Other)], {kho} : Khotanese, {ki} : Kikuyu, {kmb} : Kimbundu,
13249 {rw} : Kinyarwanda, {ky} : Kirghiz, {i-klingon} : Klingon, {kv} : Komi,
13250 {kon} : Kongo, {kok} : Konkani, {ko} : Korean, {kos} : Kosraean, {kpe} :
13251 Kpelle, {kro} : Kru, {kj} : Kuanyama, {kum} : Kumyk, {ku} : Kurdish, {kru}
13252 : Kurukh, {kut} : Kutenai, {lad} : Ladino, {lah} : Lahnda, {lam} : Lamba,
13253 {lo} : Lao, {la} : Latin, {lv} : Latvian, {lb} : Letzeburgesch, {lez} :
13254 Lezghian, {ln} : Lingala, {lt} : Lithuanian, {nds} : Low German, {loz} :
13255 Lozi, {lub} : Luba-Katanga, {lua} : Luba-Lulua, {lui} : Luiseno, {lun} :
13256 Lunda, {luo} : Luo (Kenya and Tanzania), {lus} : Lushai, {mk} : Macedonian,
13257 {mad} : Madurese, {mag} : Magahi, {mai} : Maithili, {mak} : Makasar, {mg} :
13258 Malagasy, {ms} : Malay, {ml} : Malayalam, {mt} : Maltese, {mnc} : Manchu,
13259 {mdr} : Mandar, {man} : Mandingo, {mni} : Manipuri, [{mno} : Manobo
13260 languages], {gv} : Manx, {mi} : Maori, {mr} : Marathi, {chm} : Mari, {mh} :
13261 Marshall, {mwr} : Marwari, {mas} : Masai, [{myn} : Mayan languages], {men}
13262 : Mende, {mic} : Micmac, {min} : Minangkabau, {i-mingo} : Mingo, [{mis} :
13263 Miscellaneous languages], {moh} : Mohawk, {mo} : Moldavian, [{mkh} :
13264 Mon-Khmer (Other)], {lol} : Mongo, {mn} : Mongolian, {mos} : Mossi, [{mul}
13265 : Multiple languages], [{mun} : Munda languages], {nah} : Nahuatl, {na} :
13266 Nauru, {nv} : Navajo, {nd} : North Ndebele, {nr} : South Ndebele, {ng} :
13267 Ndonga, {ne} : Nepali, {new} : Newari, {nia} : Nias, [{nic} :
13268 Niger-Kordofanian (Other)], [{ssa} : Nilo-Saharan (Other)], {niu} : Niuean,
13269 {non} : Old Norse, [{nai} : North American Indian], {se} : Northern Sami,
13270 {no} : Norwegian, {nb} : Norwegian Bokmal, {nn} : Norwegian Nynorsk, [{nub}
13271 : Nubian languages], {nym} : Nyamwezi, {nyn} : Nyankole, {nyo} : Nyoro,
13272 {nzi} : Nzima, {oc} : Occitan (post 1500), {oji} : Ojibwa, {or} : Oriya,
13273 {om} : Oromo, {osa} : Osage, {os} : Ossetian; Ossetic, [{oto} : Otomian
13274 languages], {pal} : Pahlavi, {i-pwn} : Paiwan, {pau} : Palauan, {pi} :
13275 Pali, {pam} : Pampanga, {pag} : Pangasinan, {pa} : Panjabi, {pap} :
13276 Papiamento, [{paa} : Papuan (Other)], {fa} : Persian, {peo} : Old Persian
13277 (ca.600-400 B.C.), [{phi} : Philippine (Other)], {phn} : Phoenician, {pon}
13278 : Pohnpeian, {pl} : Polish, {pt} : Portuguese, [{pra} : Prakrit languages],
13279 {pro} : Old Provencal (to 1500), {ps} : Pushto, {qu} : Quechua, {rm} :
13280 Raeto-Romance, {raj} : Rajasthani, {rap} : Rapanui, {rar} : Rarotongan,
13281 [{qaa - qtz} : Reserved for local use.], [{roa} : Romance (Other)], {ro} :
13282 Romanian, {rom} : Romany, {rn} : Rundi, {ru} : Russian, [{sal} : Salishan
13283 languages], {sam} : Samaritan Aramaic, [{smi} : Sami languages (Other)],
13284 {sm} : Samoan, {sad} : Sandawe, {sg} : Sango, {sa} : Sanskrit, {sat} :
13285 Santali, {sc} : Sardinian, {sas} : Sasak, {sco} : Scots, {sel} : Selkup,
13286 [{sem} : Semitic (Other)], {sr} : Serbian, {srr} : Serer, {shn} : Shan,
13287 {sn} : Shona, {sid} : Sidamo, {sgn-...} : Sign Languages, {bla} : Siksika,
13288 {sd} : Sindhi, {si} : Sinhalese, [{sit} : Sino-Tibetan (Other)], [{sio} :
13289 Siouan languages], {den} : Slave (Athapascan), [{sla} : Slavic (Other)],
13290 {sk} : Slovak, {sl} : Slovenian, {sog} : Sogdian, {so} : Somali, {son} :
13291 Songhai, {snk} : Soninke, {wen} : Sorbian languages, {nso} : Northern
13292 Sotho, {st} : Southern Sotho, [{sai} : South American Indian (Other)], {es}
13293 : Spanish, {suk} : Sukuma, {sux} : Sumerian, {su} : Sundanese, {sus} :
13294 Susu, {sw} : Swahili, {ss} : Swati, {sv} : Swedish, {syr} : Syriac, {tl} :
13295 Tagalog, {ty} : Tahitian, [{tai} : Tai (Other)], {tg} : Tajik, {tmh} :
13296 Tamashek, {ta} : Tamil, {i-tao} : Tao, {tt} : Tatar, {i-tay} : Tayal, {te}
13297 : Telugu, {ter} : Tereno, {tet} : Tetum, {th} : Thai, {bo} : Tibetan, {tig}
13298 : Tigre, {ti} : Tigrinya, {tem} : Timne, {tiv} : Tiv, {tli} : Tlingit,
13299 {tpi} : Tok Pisin, {tkl} : Tokelau, {tog} : Tonga (Nyasa), {to} : Tonga
13300 (Tonga Islands), {tsi} : Tsimshian, {ts} : Tsonga, {i-tsu} : Tsou, {tn} :
13301 Tswana, {tum} : Tumbuka, {tr} : Turkish, {ota} : Ottoman Turkish
13302 (1500-1928), {tk} : Turkmen, {tvl} : Tuvalu, {tyv} : Tuvinian, {tw} : Twi,
13303 {uga} : Ugaritic, {ug} : Uighur, {uk} : Ukrainian, {umb} : Umbundu, {und} :
13304 Undetermined, {ur} : Urdu, {uz} : Uzbek, {vai} : Vai, {ven} : Venda, {vi} :
13305 Vietnamese, {vo} : Volapuk, {vot} : Votic, [{wak} : Wakashan languages],
13306 {wal} : Walamo, {war} : Waray, {was} : Washo, {cy} : Welsh, {wo} : Wolof,
13307 {x-...} : Unregistered (Semi-Private Use), {xh} : Xhosa, {sah} : Yakut,
13308 {yao} : Yao, {yap} : Yapese, {yi} : Yiddish, {yo} : Yoruba, [{ypk} : Yupik
13309 languages], {znd} : Zande, [{zap} : Zapotec], {zen} : Zenaga, {za} :
13310 Zhuang, {zu} : Zulu, {zun} : Zuni
13314 =item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
13320 =head2 I18N::Langinfo - query locale information
13338 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
13342 =head2 IO - load various IO modules
13352 =head2 IO::Dir - supply object methods for directory handles
13360 new ( [ DIRNAME ] ), open ( DIRNAME ), read (), seek ( POS ), tell (),
13361 rewind (), close (), tie %hash, IO::Dir, DIRNAME [, OPTIONS ]
13371 =head2 IO::File - supply object methods for filehandles
13381 new ( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ), new_tmpfile
13385 open( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] )
13393 =head2 IO::Handle - supply object methods for I/O handles
13403 new (), new_from_fd ( FD, MODE )
13407 $io->fdopen ( FD, MODE ), $io->opened, $io->getline, $io->getlines,
13408 $io->ungetc ( ORD ), $io->write ( BUF, LEN [, OFFSET ] ), $io->error,
13409 $io->clearerr, $io->sync, $io->flush, $io->printflush ( ARGS ),
13410 $io->blocking ( [ BOOL ] ), $io->untaint
13422 =head2 IO::Pipe - supply object methods for pipes
13432 new ( [READER, WRITER] )
13436 reader ([ARGS]), writer ([ARGS]), handles ()
13446 =head2 IO::Poll - Object interface to system poll call
13456 mask ( IO [, EVENT_MASK ] ), poll ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), events ( IO ), remove (
13457 IO ), handles( [ EVENT_MASK ] )
13467 =head2 IO::Seekable - supply seek based methods for I/O objects
13475 $io->getpos, $io->setpos, $io->seek ( POS, WHENCE ), WHENCE=0 (SEEK_SET),
13476 WHENCE=1 (SEEK_CUR), WHENCE=2 (SEEK_END), $io->sysseek( POS, WHENCE ),
13485 =head2 IO::Select - OO interface to the select system call
13495 new ( [ HANDLES ] )
13499 add ( HANDLES ), remove ( HANDLES ), exists ( HANDLE ), handles, can_read (
13500 [ TIMEOUT ] ), can_write ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), has_exception ( [ TIMEOUT ] ),
13501 count (), bits(), select ( READ, WRITE, ERROR [, TIMEOUT ] )
13511 =head2 IO::Socket - Object interface to socket communications
13525 accept([PKG]), socketpair(DOMAIN, TYPE, PROTOCOL), atmark, connected,
13526 protocol, sockdomain, sockopt(OPT [, VAL]), socktype, timeout([VAL])
13536 =head2 IO::Socket::INET - Object interface for AF_INET domain sockets
13552 sockaddr (), sockport (), sockhost (), peeraddr (), peerport (), peerhost
13565 =head2 IO::Socket::UNIX - Object interface for AF_UNIX domain sockets
13579 hostpath(), peerpath()
13589 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Dir, IO::Dir - supply object methods for directory
13598 new ( [ DIRNAME ] ), open ( DIRNAME ), read (), seek ( POS ), tell (),
13599 rewind (), close (), tie %hash, IO::Dir, DIRNAME [, OPTIONS ]
13609 =head2 IO::lib::IO::File, IO::File - supply object methods for filehandles
13619 new ( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ), new_tmpfile
13623 open( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] )
13631 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Handle, IO::Handle - supply object methods for I/O
13642 new (), new_from_fd ( FD, MODE )
13646 $io->fdopen ( FD, MODE ), $io->opened, $io->getline, $io->getlines,
13647 $io->ungetc ( ORD ), $io->write ( BUF, LEN [, OFFSET ] ), $io->error,
13648 $io->clearerr, $io->sync, $io->flush, $io->printflush ( ARGS ),
13649 $io->blocking ( [ BOOL ] ), $io->untaint
13661 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Pipe, IO::Pipe - supply object methods for pipes
13671 new ( [READER, WRITER] )
13675 reader ([ARGS]), writer ([ARGS]), handles ()
13685 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Poll, IO::Poll - Object interface to system poll call
13695 mask ( IO [, EVENT_MASK ] ), poll ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), events ( IO ), remove (
13696 IO ), handles( [ EVENT_MASK ] )
13706 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Seekable, IO::Seekable - supply seek based methods for
13715 $io->getpos, $io->setpos, $io->seek ( POS, WHENCE ), WHENCE=0 (SEEK_SET),
13716 WHENCE=1 (SEEK_CUR), WHENCE=2 (SEEK_END), $io->sysseek( POS, WHENCE ),
13725 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Select, IO::Select - OO interface to the select system
13736 new ( [ HANDLES ] )
13740 add ( HANDLES ), remove ( HANDLES ), exists ( HANDLE ), handles, can_read (
13741 [ TIMEOUT ] ), can_write ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), has_exception ( [ TIMEOUT ] ),
13742 count (), bits(), select ( READ, WRITE, ERROR [, TIMEOUT ] )
13752 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Socket, IO::Socket - Object interface to socket
13767 accept([PKG]), socketpair(DOMAIN, TYPE, PROTOCOL), atmark, connected,
13768 protocol, sockdomain, sockopt(OPT [, VAL]), socktype, timeout([VAL])
13778 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Socket::INET, IO::Socket::INET - Object interface for
13779 AF_INET domain sockets
13795 sockaddr (), sockport (), sockhost (), peeraddr (), peerport (), peerhost
13808 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Socket::UNIX, IO::Socket::UNIX - Object interface for
13809 AF_UNIX domain sockets
13823 hostpath(), peerpath()
13833 =head2 IPC::Msg - SysV Msg IPC object class
13843 new ( KEY , FLAGS ), id, rcv ( BUF, LEN [, TYPE [, FLAGS ]] ), remove, set
13844 ( STAT ), set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), snd ( TYPE, MSG [,
13855 =head2 IPC::Open2, open2 - open a process for both reading and writing
13869 =head2 IPC::Open3, open3 - open a process for reading, writing, and error
13882 =head2 IPC::Semaphore - SysV Semaphore IPC object class
13892 new ( KEY , NSEMS , FLAGS ), getall, getncnt ( SEM ), getpid ( SEM ),
13893 getval ( SEM ), getzcnt ( SEM ), id, op ( OPLIST ), remove, set ( STAT ),
13894 set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), setall ( VALUES ), setval ( N
13905 =head2 IPC::SysV - SysV IPC constants
13923 =head2 IPC::SysV::Msg, IPC::Msg - SysV Msg IPC object class
13933 new ( KEY , FLAGS ), id, rcv ( BUF, LEN [, TYPE [, FLAGS ]] ), remove, set
13934 ( STAT ), set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), snd ( TYPE, MSG [,
13945 =head2 IPC::SysV::Semaphore, IPC::Semaphore - SysV Semaphore IPC object
13956 new ( KEY , NSEMS , FLAGS ), getall, getncnt ( SEM ), getpid ( SEM ),
13957 getval ( SEM ), getzcnt ( SEM ), id, op ( OPLIST ), remove, set ( STAT ),
13958 set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), setall ( VALUES ), setval ( N
13969 =head2 List::Util - A selection of general-utility list subroutines
13977 first BLOCK LIST, max LIST, maxstr LIST, min LIST, minstr LIST, reduce
13978 BLOCK LIST, shuffle LIST, sum LIST
13982 =item SUGGESTED ADDITIONS
13988 =head2 List::Utilib::List::Util, List::Util - A selection of
13989 general-utility list subroutines
13997 first BLOCK LIST, max LIST, maxstr LIST, min LIST, minstr LIST, reduce
13998 BLOCK LIST, shuffle LIST, sum LIST
14002 =item SUGGESTED ADDITIONS
14008 =head2 List::Utilib::Scalar::Util, Scalar::Util - A selection of
14009 general-utility scalar subroutines
14017 blessed EXPR, dualvar NUM, STRING, isweak EXPR, readonly SCALAR, reftype
14018 EXPR, tainted EXPR, weaken REF
14028 =head2 Locale::Constants - constants for Locale codes
14036 =item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
14040 Locale::Language, Locale::Country, Locale::Script, Locale::Currency
14048 =head2 Locale::Country - ISO codes for country identification (ISO 3166)
14056 B<alpha-2>, B<alpha-3>, B<numeric>
14058 =item CONVERSION ROUTINES
14060 code2country( CODE, [ CODESET ] ), country2code( STRING, [ CODESET ] ),
14061 country_code2code( CODE, CODESET, CODESET )
14063 =item QUERY ROUTINES
14065 C<all_country_codes( [ CODESET ] )>, C<all_country_names( [ CODESET ] )>
14067 =item SEMI-PRIVATE ROUTINES
14073 =item rename_country
14081 =item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
14085 Locale::Language, Locale::Script, Locale::Currency, Locale::SubCountry, ISO
14086 3166-1, http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/index.html,
14087 http://www.egt.ie/standards/iso3166/iso3166-1-en.html,
14088 http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/docs/app-f.html
14096 =head2 Locale::Currency - ISO three letter codes for currency
14097 identification (ISO 4217)
14107 =item CONVERSION ROUTINES
14109 code2currency(), currency2code()
14111 =item QUERY ROUTINES
14113 C<all_currency_codes()>, C<all_currency_names()>
14117 =item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
14121 Locale::Country, Locale::Script, ISO 4217:1995,
14122 http://www.bsi-global.com/iso4217currency
14130 =head2 Locale::Language - ISO two letter codes for language identification
14139 =item CONVERSION ROUTINES
14141 code2language(), language2code()
14143 =item QUERY ROUTINES
14145 C<all_language_codes()>, C<all_language_names()>
14149 =item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
14153 Locale::Country, Locale::Script, Locale::Currency, ISO 639:1988 (E/F),
14154 http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/langhome.html
14162 =head2 Locale::Maketext -- framework for localization
14170 =item QUICK OVERVIEW
14176 =item Construction Methods
14178 =item The "maketext" Method
14180 $lh->fail_with I<or> $lh->fail_with(I<PARAM>), $lh->failure_handler_auto
14182 =item Utility Methods
14184 $language->quant($number, $singular), $language->quant($number, $singular,
14185 $plural), $language->quant($number, $singular, $plural, $negative),
14186 $language->numf($number), $language->sprintf($format, @items),
14187 $language->language_tag(), $language->encoding()
14189 =item Language Handle Attributes and Internals
14193 =item LANGUAGE CLASS HIERARCHIES
14195 =item ENTRIES IN EACH LEXICON
14197 =item BRACKET NOTATION
14199 =item AUTO LEXICONS
14201 =item CONTROLLING LOOKUP FAILURE
14203 =item HOW TO USE MAKETEXT
14207 =item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
14213 =head2 Locale::Maketext::TPJ13 -- article about software localization
14221 =item Localization and Perl: gettext breaks, Maketext fixes
14225 =item A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen To You
14227 =item The Linguistic View
14229 =item Breaking gettext
14231 =item Replacing gettext
14233 =item Buzzwords: Abstraction and Encapsulation
14235 =item Buzzword: Isomorphism
14237 =item Buzzword: Inheritance
14239 =item Buzzword: Concision
14241 =item The Devil in the Details
14243 =item The Proof in the Pudding: Localizing Web Sites
14251 =head2 Locale::Script - ISO codes for script identification (ISO 15924)
14259 B<alpha-2>, B<alpha-3>, B<numeric>
14263 =item SPECIAL CODES
14267 =item CONVERSION ROUTINES
14269 code2script( CODE, [ CODESET ] ), script2code( STRING, [ CODESET ] ),
14270 script_code2code( CODE, CODESET, CODESET )
14272 =item QUERY ROUTINES
14274 C<all_script_codes ( [ CODESET ] )>, C<all_script_names ( [ CODESET ] )>
14278 =item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
14282 Locale::Language, Locale::Currency, Locale::Country, ISO 15924,
14283 http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso15924/
14291 =head2 MIME::Base64 - Encoding and decoding of base64 strings
14299 encode_base64($str, [$eol]), decode_base64($str)
14303 Premature end of base64 data, Premature padding of base64 data
14311 =head2 MIME::Base64::QuotedPrint, MIME::QuotedPrint - Encoding and decoding
14312 of quoted-printable strings
14320 encode_qp($str), decode_qp($str);
14326 =head2 MIME::QuotedPrint - Encoding and decoding of quoted-printable
14335 encode_qp($str), decode_qp($str);
14341 =head2 Math::BigFloat - Arbitrary size floating point math package
14351 =item Canonical notation
14355 =item C<mantissa()>, C<exponent()> and C<parts()>
14357 =item Accuracy vs. Precision
14361 ffround ( +$scale ), ffround ( -$scale ), ffround ( 0 ), fround ( +$scale
14362 ), fround ( -$scale ) and fround ( 0 )
14370 =item Autocreating constants
14376 stringify, bstr(), bdiv, Modifying and =, bpow
14384 =head2 Math::BigInt - Arbitrary size integer math package
14392 Canonical notation, Input, Output
14412 =item is_one() / is_zero() / is_nan() / is_positive() / is_negative() /
14413 is_inf() / is_odd() / is_even() / is_int()
14415 $x->is_zero(); # true if arg is +0
14416 $x->is_nan(); # true if arg is NaN
14417 $x->is_one(); # true if arg is +1
14418 $x->is_one('-'); # true if arg is -1
14419 $x->is_odd(); # true if odd, false for even
14420 $x->is_even(); # true if even, false for odd
14421 $x->is_positive(); # true if >= 0
14422 $x->is_negative(); # true if < 0
14423 $x->is_inf(); # true if +inf
14424 $x->is_inf('-'); # true if -inf (sign is default
14426 $x->is_int(); # true if $x is an integer
14508 =item ACCURACY and PRECISION
14518 =item Rounding mode R
14520 'trunc', 'even', 'odd', '+inf', '-inf', 'zero', Precision, Accuracy
14521 (significant digits), Setting/Accessing, Creating numbers, Usage,
14522 Precedence, Overriding globals, Local settings, Rounding, Default values,
14535 =item mantissa(), exponent() and parts()
14543 =item Autocreating constants
14549 =item Alternative math libraries
14555 =item Subclassing Math::BigInt
14563 bsqrt(), div(), blog()
14569 Out of Memory!, Fails to load Calc on Perl prior 5.6.0
14573 stringify, bstr(), bsstr() and 'cmp', int(), length, bdiv, infinity
14574 handling, Modifying and =, bpow, Overloading -$x, Mixing different object
14575 types, bsqrt(), brsft()
14585 =head2 Math::BigInt::Calc - Pure Perl module to support Math::BigInt
14595 =item WRAP YOUR OWN
14599 This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
14601 the same terms as Perl itself.
14609 =head2 Math::Complex - complex numbers and associated mathematical
14622 =item STRINGIFICATION
14626 =item CHANGED IN PERL 5.6
14632 =item ERRORS DUE TO DIVISION BY ZERO OR LOGARITHM OF ZERO
14634 =item ERRORS DUE TO INDIGESTIBLE ARGUMENTS
14642 =head2 Math::Trig - trigonometric functions
14650 =item TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS
14656 =item ERRORS DUE TO DIVISION BY ZERO
14658 =item SIMPLE (REAL) ARGUMENTS, COMPLEX RESULTS
14662 =item PLANE ANGLE CONVERSIONS
14664 =item RADIAL COORDINATE CONVERSIONS
14668 =item COORDINATE SYSTEMS
14670 =item 3-D ANGLE CONVERSIONS
14672 cartesian_to_cylindrical, cartesian_to_spherical, cylindrical_to_cartesian,
14673 cylindrical_to_spherical, spherical_to_cartesian, spherical_to_cylindrical
14677 =item GREAT CIRCLE DISTANCES AND DIRECTIONS
14683 =item CAVEAT FOR GREAT CIRCLE FORMULAS
14693 =head2 Memoize - Make your functions faster by trading space for time
14711 =item C<SCALAR_CACHE>, C<LIST_CACHE>
14713 C<MEMORY>, C<HASH>, C<TIE>, C<FAULT>, C<MERGE>
14717 =item OTHER FACILITIES
14723 =item C<flush_cache>
14729 =item PERSISTENT CACHE SUPPORT
14731 =item EXPIRATION SUPPORT
14739 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
14745 =head2 Memoize::AnyDBM_File - glue to provide EXISTS for AnyDBM_File for
14754 =head2 Memoize::Expire - Plug-in module for automatic expiration of
14765 TIEHASH, EXISTS, STORE
14777 =head2 Memoize::ExpireFile - test for Memoize expiration semantics
14785 =head2 Memoize::ExpireTest - test for Memoize expiration semantics
14793 =head2 Memoize::NDBM_File - glue to provide EXISTS for NDBM_File for
14802 =head2 Memoize::SDBM_File - glue to provide EXISTS for SDBM_File for
14811 =head2 Memoize::Storable - store Memoized data in Storable database
14819 =head2 NDBM_File - Tied access to ndbm files
14827 C<O_RDONLY>, C<O_WRONLY>, C<O_RDWR>
14833 =item C<ndbm store returned -1, errno 22, key "..." at ...>
14837 =item BUGS AND WARNINGS
14841 =head2 NEXT - Provide a pseudo-class NEXT that allows method redispatch
14851 =item Enforcing redispatch
14853 =item Avoiding repetitions
14859 =item BUGS AND IRRITATIONS
14865 =head2 Net::Cmd - Network Command class (as used by FTP, SMTP etc)
14875 debug ( VALUE ), message (), code (), ok (), status (), datasend ( DATA ),
14878 =item CLASS METHODS
14880 debug_print ( DIR, TEXT ), debug_text ( TEXT ), command ( CMD [, ARGS, ...
14881 ]), unsupported (), response (), parse_response ( TEXT ), getline (),
14882 ungetline ( TEXT ), read_until_dot (), tied_fh ()
14892 =head2 Net::Config - Local configuration data for libnet
14902 requires_firewall HOST
14904 =item NetConfig VALUES
14906 nntp_hosts, snpp_hosts, pop3_hosts, smtp_hosts, ph_hosts, daytime_hosts,
14907 time_hosts, inet_domain, ftp_firewall, ftp_firewall_type, ftp_ext_passive,
14908 ftp_int_pasive, local_netmask, test_hosts, test_exists
14912 =head2 Net::Domain - Attempt to evaluate the current host's internet name
14921 hostfqdn (), hostname (), hostdomain ()
14929 =head2 Net::FTP - FTP Client class
14941 new (HOST [,OPTIONS])
14945 login ([LOGIN [,PASSWORD [, ACCOUNT] ] ]), authorize ( [AUTH [, RESP]]),
14946 site (ARGS), type (TYPE [, ARGS]), ascii ([ARGS]) binary([ARGS])
14947 ebcdic([ARGS]) byte([ARGS]), rename ( OLDNAME, NEWNAME ), delete ( FILENAME
14948 ), cwd ( [ DIR ] ), cdup (), pwd (), restart ( WHERE ), rmdir ( DIR ),
14949 mkdir ( DIR [, RECURSE ]), ls ( [ DIR ] ), dir ( [ DIR ] ), get (
14950 REMOTE_FILE [, LOCAL_FILE [, WHERE]] ), put ( LOCAL_FILE [, REMOTE_FILE ]
14951 ), put_unique ( LOCAL_FILE [, REMOTE_FILE ] ), append ( LOCAL_FILE [,
14952 REMOTE_FILE ] ), unique_name (), mdtm ( FILE ), size ( FILE ), supported (
14953 CMD ), hash ( [FILEHANDLE_GLOB_REF],[ BYTES_PER_HASH_MARK] ), nlst ( [ DIR
14954 ] ), list ( [ DIR ] ), retr ( FILE ), stor ( FILE ), stou ( FILE ), appe (
14955 FILE ), port ( [ PORT ] ), pasv (), pasv_xfer ( SRC_FILE, DEST_SERVER [,
14956 DEST_FILE ] ), pasv_xfer_unique ( SRC_FILE, DEST_SERVER [, DEST_FILE ] ),
14957 pasv_wait ( NON_PASV_SERVER ), abort (), quit ()
14961 =item Methods for the adventurous
14967 =item THE dataconn CLASS
14969 read ( BUFFER, SIZE [, TIMEOUT ] ), write ( BUFFER, SIZE [, TIMEOUT ] ),
14970 bytes_read (), abort (), close ()
14972 =item UNIMPLEMENTED
14974 B<ALLO>, B<SMNT>, B<HELP>, B<MODE>, B<SYST>, B<STAT>, B<STRU>, B<REIN>
14976 =item REPORTING BUGS
14984 http://www.csh.rit.edu/~adam/Progs/autoftp-2.0.tar.gz
14992 =head2 Net::NNTP - NNTP Client class
15002 new ( [ HOST ] [, OPTIONS ])
15006 article ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ], [FH] ), body ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ], [FH] ), head (
15007 [ MSGID|MSGNUM ], [FH] ), articlefh ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ] ), bodyfh ( [
15008 MSGID|MSGNUM ] ), headfh ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ] ), nntpstat ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ]
15009 ), group ( [ GROUP ] ), ihave ( MSGID [, MESSAGE ]), last (), date (),
15010 postok (), authinfo ( USER, PASS ), list (), newgroups ( SINCE [,
15011 DISTRIBUTIONS ]), newnews ( SINCE [, GROUPS [, DISTRIBUTIONS ]]), next (),
15012 post ( [ MESSAGE ] ), postfh (), slave (), quit ()
15016 =item Extension methods
15018 newsgroups ( [ PATTERN ] ), distributions (), subscriptions (),
15019 overview_fmt (), active_times (), active ( [ PATTERN ] ), xgtitle ( PATTERN
15020 ), xhdr ( HEADER, MESSAGE-SPEC ), xover ( MESSAGE-SPEC ), xpath (
15021 MESSAGE-ID ), xpat ( HEADER, PATTERN, MESSAGE-SPEC), xrover, listgroup ( [
15030 MESSAGE-SPEC, PATTERN, Examples, C<[^]-]>, C<*bdc>, C<[0-9a-zA-Z]>, C<a??d>
15040 =head2 Net::POP3 - Post Office Protocol 3 Client class (RFC1939)
15052 new ( [ HOST, ] [ OPTIONS ] )
15056 user ( USER ), pass ( PASS ), login ( [ USER [, PASS ]] ), apop ( [ USER [,
15057 PASS ]] ), top ( MSGNUM [, NUMLINES ] ), list ( [ MSGNUM ] ), get ( MSGNUM
15058 [, FH ] ), getfh ( MSGNUM ), last (), popstat (), ping ( USER ), uidl ( [
15059 MSGNUM ] ), delete ( MSGNUM ), reset (), quit ()
15071 =head2 Net::Ping - check a remote host for reachability
15083 Net::Ping->new([$proto [, $def_timeout [, $bytes]]]);,
15084 $p->bind($local_addr);, $p->ping($host [, $timeout]);, $p->open($host);,
15085 $p->open($host);, $p->close();, pingecho($host [, $timeout]);
15099 =head2 Net::SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Client
15111 new Net::SMTP [ HOST, ] [ OPTIONS ]
15115 banner (), domain (), hello ( DOMAIN ), etrn ( DOMAIN ), auth ( USERNAME,
15116 PASSWORD ), mail ( ADDRESS [, OPTIONS] ), send ( ADDRESS ), send_or_mail (
15117 ADDRESS ), send_and_mail ( ADDRESS ), reset (), recipient ( ADDRESS [,
15118 ADDRESS [ ...]] [, OPTIONS ] ), to ( ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] ), cc (
15119 ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] ), bcc ( ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] ), data ( [
15120 DATA ] ), expand ( ADDRESS ), verify ( ADDRESS ), help ( [ $subject ] ),
15131 =head2 Net::Time - time and daytime network client interface
15139 inet_time ( [HOST [, PROTOCOL [, TIMEOUT]]]), inet_daytime ( [HOST [,
15140 PROTOCOL [, TIMEOUT]]])
15148 =head2 Net::hostent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in gethost*()
15165 =head2 Net::libnetFAQ, libnetFAQ - libnet Frequently Asked Questions
15173 =item Where to get this document
15175 =item How to contribute to this document
15179 =item Author and Copyright Information
15187 =item Obtaining and installing libnet
15191 =item What is libnet ?
15193 =item Which version of perl do I need ?
15195 =item What other modules do I need ?
15197 =item What machines support libnet ?
15199 =item Where can I get the latest libnet release
15203 =item Using Net::FTP
15207 =item How do I download files from an FTP server ?
15209 =item How do I transfer files in binary mode ?
15211 =item How can I get the size of a file on a remote FTP server ?
15213 =item How can I get the modification time of a file on a remote FTP server
15216 =item How can I change the permissions of a file on a remote server ?
15218 =item Can I do a reget operation like the ftp command ?
15220 =item How do I get a directory listing from an FTP server ?
15222 =item Changing directory to "" does not fail ?
15224 =item I am behind a SOCKS firewall, but the Firewall option does not work ?
15226 =item I am behind an FTP proxy firewall, but cannot access machines outside
15229 =item My ftp proxy firewall does not listen on port 21
15231 =item Is it possible to change the file permissions of a file on an FTP
15234 =item I have seen scripts call a method message, but cannot find it
15237 =item Why does Net::FTP not implement mput and mget methods
15241 =item Using Net::SMTP
15245 =item Why can't the part of an Email address after the @ be used as the
15248 =item Why does Net::SMTP not do DNS MX lookups ?
15250 =item The verify method always returns true ?
15254 =item Debugging scripts
15258 =item How can I debug my scripts that use Net::* modules ?
15262 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
15266 =head2 Net::netent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getnet*()
15283 =head2 Net::protoent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getproto*()
15298 =head2 Net::servent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getserv*()
15315 =head2 Netrc, Net::Netrc - OO interface to users netrc file
15323 =item THE .netrc FILE
15325 machine name, default, login name, password string, account string, macdef
15330 lookup ( MACHINE [, LOGIN ])
15334 login (), password (), account (), lpa ()
15344 =head2 O - Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends
15354 =item IMPLEMENTATION
15360 =head2 ODBM_File - Tied access to odbm files
15368 C<O_RDONLY>, C<O_WRONLY>, C<O_RDWR>
15374 =item C<odbm store returned -1, errno 22, key "..." at ...>
15378 =item BUGS AND WARNINGS
15382 =head2 Opcode - Disable named opcodes when compiling perl code
15394 =item Operator Names and Operator Lists
15396 an operator name (opname), an operator tag name (optag), a negated opname
15397 or optag, an operator set (opset)
15399 =item Opcode Functions
15401 opcodes, opset (OP, ...), opset_to_ops (OPSET), opset_to_hex (OPSET),
15402 full_opset, empty_opset, invert_opset (OPSET), verify_opset (OPSET, ...),
15403 define_optag (OPTAG, OPSET), opmask_add (OPSET), opmask, opdesc (OP, ...),
15406 =item Manipulating Opsets
15408 =item TO DO (maybe)
15414 =item Predefined Opcode Tags
15416 :base_core, :base_mem, :base_loop, :base_io, :base_orig, :base_math,
15417 :base_thread, :default, :filesys_read, :sys_db, :browse, :filesys_open,
15418 :filesys_write, :subprocess, :ownprocess, :others, :still_to_be_decided,
15427 =head2 Opcode::Safe, Safe - Compile and execute code in restricted
15436 a new namespace, an operator mask
15442 =item RECENT CHANGES
15444 =item Methods in class Safe
15446 permit (OP, ...), permit_only (OP, ...), deny (OP, ...), deny_only (OP,
15447 ...), trap (OP, ...), untrap (OP, ...), share (NAME, ...), share_from
15448 (PACKAGE, ARRAYREF), varglob (VARNAME), reval (STRING), rdo (FILENAME),
15449 root (NAMESPACE), mask (MASK)
15451 =item Some Safety Issues
15453 Memory, CPU, Snooping, Signals, State Changes
15461 =head2 Opcode::ops, ops - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when
15474 =head2 POSIX - Perl interface to IEEE Std 1003.1
15488 _exit, abort, abs, access, acos, alarm, asctime, asin, assert, atan, atan2,
15489 atexit, atof, atoi, atol, bsearch, calloc, ceil, chdir, chmod, chown,
15490 clearerr, clock, close, closedir, cos, cosh, creat, ctermid, ctime,
15491 cuserid, difftime, div, dup, dup2, errno, execl, execle, execlp, execv,
15492 execve, execvp, exit, exp, fabs, fclose, fcntl, fdopen, feof, ferror,
15493 fflush, fgetc, fgetpos, fgets, fileno, floor, fmod, fopen, fork, fpathconf,
15494 fprintf, fputc, fputs, fread, free, freopen, frexp, fscanf, fseek, fsetpos,
15495 fstat, ftell, fwrite, getc, getchar, getcwd, getegid, getenv, geteuid,
15496 getgid, getgrgid, getgrnam, getgroups, getlogin, getpgrp, getpid, getppid,
15497 getpwnam, getpwuid, gets, getuid, gmtime, isalnum, isalpha, isatty,
15498 iscntrl, isdigit, isgraph, islower, isprint, ispunct, isspace, isupper,
15499 isxdigit, kill, labs, ldexp, ldiv, link, localeconv, localtime, log, log10,
15500 longjmp, lseek, malloc, mblen, mbstowcs, mbtowc, memchr, memcmp, memcpy,
15501 memmove, memset, mkdir, mkfifo, mktime, modf, nice, offsetof, open,
15502 opendir, pathconf, pause, perror, pipe, pow, printf, putc, putchar, puts,
15503 qsort, raise, rand, read, readdir, realloc, remove, rename, rewind,
15504 rewinddir, rmdir, scanf, setgid, setjmp, setlocale, setpgid, setsid,
15505 setuid, sigaction, siglongjmp, sigpending, sigprocmask, sigsetjmp,
15506 sigsuspend, sin, sinh, sleep, sprintf, sqrt, srand, sscanf, stat, strcat,
15507 strchr, strcmp, strcoll, strcpy, strcspn, strerror, strftime, strlen,
15508 strncat, strncmp, strncpy, strpbrk, strrchr, strspn, strstr, strtod,
15509 strtok, strtol, strtoul, strxfrm, sysconf, system, tan, tanh, tcdrain,
15510 tcflow, tcflush, tcgetpgrp, tcsendbreak, tcsetpgrp, time, times, tmpfile,
15511 tmpnam, tolower, toupper, ttyname, tzname, tzset, umask, uname, ungetc,
15512 unlink, utime, vfprintf, vprintf, vsprintf, wait, waitpid, wcstombs,
15519 =item POSIX::SigAction
15523 =item POSIX::SigSet
15525 new, addset, delset, emptyset, fillset, ismember
15527 =item POSIX::Termios
15529 new, getattr, getcc, getcflag, getiflag, getispeed, getlflag, getoflag,
15530 getospeed, setattr, setcc, setcflag, setiflag, setispeed, setlflag,
15531 setoflag, setospeed, Baud rate values, Terminal interface values, c_cc
15532 field values, c_cflag field values, c_iflag field values, c_lflag field
15533 values, c_oflag field values
15537 =item PATHNAME CONSTANTS
15541 =item POSIX CONSTANTS
15545 =item SYSTEM CONFIGURATION
15599 Constants, WNOHANG, WUNTRACED, Macros, WIFEXITED, WEXITSTATUS, WIFSIGNALED,
15600 WTERMSIG, WIFSTOPPED, WSTOPSIG
15604 =head2 PerlIO - On demand loader for PerlIO layers and root of PerlIO::*
15613 unix, stdio, perlio, crlf, utf8, raw
15617 =item Defaults and how to override them
15627 =head2 PerlIO::Scalar - support module for in-memory IO.
15637 =head2 PerlIO::Via - Helper class for PerlIO layers implemented in perl
15645 $class->PUSHED([$mode[,$fh]]), $obj->POPPED([$fh]),
15646 $class->OPEN($path,$mode[,$fh]), $class->FDOPEN($fd),
15647 $class->SYSOPEN($path,$imode,$perm,$fh), $obj->FILENO($fh),
15648 $obj->READ($buffer,$len,$fh), $obj->WRITE($buffer,$fh), $obj->FILL($fh),
15649 $obj->CLOSE($fh), $obj->SEEK($posn,$whence,$fh), $obj->TELL($fh),
15650 $obj->UNREAD($buffer,$fh), $obj->FLUSH($fh), $obj->SETLINEBUF($fh),
15651 $obj->CLEARERR($fh), $obj->ERROR($fh), $obj->EOF($fh)
15655 =item Example - a Hexadecimal Handle
15661 =head2 Pod::Checker, podchecker() - check pod documents for syntax errors
15667 =item OPTIONS/ARGUMENTS
15673 B<-warnings> =E<gt> I<val>
15685 empty =headn, =over on line I<N> without closing =back, =item without
15686 previous =over, =back without previous =over, No argument for =begin, =end
15687 without =begin, Nested =begin's, =for without formatter specification,
15688 unresolved internal link I<NAME>, Unknown command "I<CMD>", Unknown
15689 interior-sequence "I<SEQ>", nested commands
15690 I<CMD>E<lt>...I<CMD>E<lt>...E<gt>...E<gt>, garbled entity I<STRING>, Entity
15691 number out of range, malformed link LE<lt>E<gt>, nonempty ZE<lt>E<gt>,
15692 empty XE<lt>E<gt>, Spurious text after =pod / =cut, Spurious character(s)
15697 multiple occurence of link target I<name>, line containing nothing but
15698 whitespace in paragraph, file does not start with =head, previous =item has
15699 no contents, preceding non-item paragraph(s), =item type mismatch (I<one>
15700 vs. I<two>), I<N> unescaped C<E<lt>E<gt>> in paragraph, Unknown entity, No
15701 items in =over, No argument for =item, empty section in previous paragraph,
15702 Verbatim paragraph in NAME section
15706 ignoring leading/trailing whitespace in link, (section) in '$page'
15707 deprecated, alternative text/node '%s' contains non-escaped | or /
15719 C<Pod::Checker-E<gt>new( %options )>
15721 C<$checker-E<gt>poderror( @args )>, C<$checker-E<gt>poderror( {%opts},
15724 C<$checker-E<gt>num_errors()>
15726 C<$checker-E<gt>name()>
15728 C<$checker-E<gt>node()>
15730 C<$checker-E<gt>idx()>
15732 C<$checker-E<gt>hyperlink()>
15740 =head2 Pod::Find - find POD documents in directory trees
15752 =item C<pod_find( { %opts } , @directories )>
15754 C<-verbose =E<gt> 1>, C<-perl =E<gt> 1>, C<-script =E<gt> 1>, C<-inc =E<gt>
15761 =item C<simplify_name( $str )>
15767 =item C<pod_where( { %opts }, $pod )>
15769 C<-inc =E<gt> 1>, C<-dirs =E<gt> [ $dir1, $dir2, ... ]>, C<-verbose =E<gt>
15776 =item C<contains_pod( $file , $verbose )>
15788 =head2 Pod::Html - module to convert pod files to HTML
15798 backlink, cachedir, css, flush, header, help, htmldir, htmlroot, index,
15799 infile, libpods, netscape, outfile, podpath, podroot, quiet, recurse,
15814 =head2 Pod::InputObjects - objects representing POD input paragraphs,
15827 package B<Pod::InputSource>, package B<Pod::Paragraph>, package
15828 B<Pod::InteriorSequence>, package B<Pod::ParseTree>
15834 =item B<Pod::InputSource>
15858 =item B<was_cutting()>
15864 =item B<Pod::Paragraph>
15870 =item Pod::Paragraph-E<gt>B<new()>
15876 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<cmd_name()>
15882 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<text()>
15888 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<raw_text()>
15894 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<cmd_prefix()>
15900 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<cmd_separator()>
15906 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<parse_tree()>
15912 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<file_line()>
15918 =item B<Pod::InteriorSequence>
15924 =item Pod::InteriorSequence-E<gt>B<new()>
15930 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<cmd_name()>
15936 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<prepend()>
15942 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<append()>
15948 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<nested()>
15954 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<raw_text()>
15960 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<left_delimiter()>
15966 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<right_delimiter()>
15972 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<parse_tree()>
15978 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<file_line()>
15984 =item Pod::InteriorSequence::B<DESTROY()>
15990 =item B<Pod::ParseTree>
15996 =item Pod::ParseTree-E<gt>B<new()>
16002 =item $ptree-E<gt>B<top()>
16008 =item $ptree-E<gt>B<children()>
16014 =item $ptree-E<gt>B<prepend()>
16020 =item $ptree-E<gt>B<append()>
16026 =item $ptree-E<gt>B<raw_text()>
16032 =item Pod::ParseTree::B<DESTROY()>
16044 =head2 Pod::LaTeX - Convert Pod data to formatted Latex
16056 =item OBJECT METHODS
16064 =item Data Accessors
16080 B<ReplaceNAMEwithSection>
16082 B<StartWithNewPage>
16096 =item Subclassed methods
16110 B<interior_sequence>
16126 =item Methods for headings
16134 =item Internal methods
16140 B<_replace_special_chars>
16142 B<_replace_special_chars_late>
16148 B<_clean_latex_commands>
16150 B<_split_delimited>
16166 =head2 Pod::Man - Convert POD data to formatted *roff input
16174 center, date, fixed, fixedbold, fixeditalic, fixedbolditalic, name, quotes,
16179 roff font should be 1 or 2 chars, not "%s", Invalid link %s, Invalid quote
16180 specification "%s", %s:%d: Unknown command paragraph "%s", %s:%d: Unknown
16181 escape EE<lt>%sE<gt>, %s:%d: Unknown formatting code %s, %s:%d: Unmatched
16192 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
16196 =head2 Pod::ParseLink -- Parse an LE<lt>E<gt> formatting code in POD text
16206 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
16210 =head2 Pod::ParseUtils - helpers for POD parsing and conversion
16224 Pod::List-E<gt>new()
16232 $list-E<gt>indent()
16240 $list-E<gt>parent()
16246 =item Pod::Hyperlink
16248 Pod::Hyperlink-E<gt>new()
16252 $link-E<gt>parse($string)
16254 $link-E<gt>markup($string)
16258 $link-E<gt>warning()
16260 $link-E<gt>file(), $link-E<gt>line()
16266 $link-E<gt>alttext()
16276 Pod::Cache-E<gt>new()
16282 $cache-E<gt>find_page($name)
16286 =item Pod::Cache::Item
16288 Pod::Cache::Item-E<gt>new()
16292 $cacheitem-E<gt>page()
16294 $cacheitem-E<gt>description()
16296 $cacheitem-E<gt>path()
16298 $cacheitem-E<gt>file()
16300 $cacheitem-E<gt>nodes()
16302 $cacheitem-E<gt>find_node($name)
16304 $cacheitem-E<gt>idx()
16314 =head2 Pod::Parser - base class for creating POD filters and translators
16326 =item QUICK OVERVIEW
16328 =item PARSING OPTIONS
16330 B<-want_nonPODs> (default: unset), B<-process_cut_cmd> (default: unset),
16331 B<-warnings> (default: unset)
16337 =item RECOMMENDED SUBROUTINE/METHOD OVERRIDES
16345 C<$cmd>, C<$text>, C<$line_num>, C<$pod_para>
16351 =item B<verbatim()>
16353 C<$text>, C<$line_num>, C<$pod_para>
16359 =item B<textblock()>
16361 C<$text>, C<$line_num>, C<$pod_para>
16367 =item B<interior_sequence()>
16373 =item OPTIONAL SUBROUTINE/METHOD OVERRIDES
16385 =item B<initialize()>
16391 =item B<begin_pod()>
16397 =item B<begin_input()>
16403 =item B<end_input()>
16415 =item B<preprocess_line()>
16421 =item B<preprocess_paragraph()>
16427 =item METHODS FOR PARSING AND PROCESSING
16433 =item B<parse_text()>
16435 B<-expand_seq> =E<gt> I<code-ref>|I<method-name>, B<-expand_text> =E<gt>
16436 I<code-ref>|I<method-name>, B<-expand_ptree> =E<gt>
16437 I<code-ref>|I<method-name>
16443 =item B<interpolate()>
16449 =item B<parse_paragraph()>
16455 =item B<parse_from_filehandle()>
16461 =item B<parse_from_file()>
16467 =item ACCESSOR METHODS
16473 =item B<errorsub()>
16485 =item B<parseopts()>
16491 =item B<output_file()>
16497 =item B<output_handle()>
16503 =item B<input_file()>
16509 =item B<input_handle()>
16515 =item B<input_streams()>
16521 =item B<top_stream()>
16527 =item PRIVATE METHODS AND DATA
16533 =item B<_push_input_stream()>
16539 =item B<_pop_input_stream()>
16545 =item TREE-BASED PARSING
16553 =head2 Pod::Plainer - Perl extension for converting Pod to old style Pod.
16573 =head2 Pod::Select, podselect() - extract selected sections of POD from
16586 =item SECTION SPECIFICATIONS
16588 =item RANGE SPECIFICATIONS
16594 =item OBJECT METHODS
16600 =item B<curr_headings()>
16612 =item B<add_selection()>
16618 =item B<clear_selections()>
16624 =item B<match_section()>
16630 =item B<is_selected()>
16636 =item EXPORTED FUNCTIONS
16642 =item B<podselect()>
16644 B<-output>, B<-sections>, B<-ranges>
16650 =item PRIVATE METHODS AND DATA
16656 =item B<_compile_section_spec()>
16662 =item $self->{_SECTION_HEADINGS}
16668 =item $self->{_SELECTED_SECTIONS}
16680 =head2 Pod::Text - Convert POD data to formatted ASCII text
16688 alt, code, indent, loose, quotes, sentence, width
16692 Bizarre space in item, Item called without tag, Can't open %s for reading:
16693 %s, Invalid quote specification "%s", %s:%d: Unknown command paragraph: %s,
16694 %s:%d: Unknown escape: %s, %s:%d: Unknown formatting code: %s, %s:%d:
16705 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
16709 =head2 Pod::Text::Color - Convert POD data to formatted color ASCII text
16723 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
16727 =head2 Pod::Text::Overstrike - Convert POD data to formatted overstrike
16742 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
16746 =head2 Pod::Text::Termcap, Pod::Text::Color - Convert POD data to ASCII
16747 text with format escapes
16761 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
16765 =head2 Pod::Usage, pod2usage() - print a usage message from embedded pod
16774 C<-message>, C<-msg>, C<-exitval>, C<-verbose>, C<-output>, C<-input>,
16783 =item Recommended Use
16791 =item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
16795 =head2 Pod::t::basic, basic.pod - Test of various basic POD features in
16802 =item This C<is> a "level 1" heading
16806 =item ``Level'' "2 I<heading>
16810 =item This C<is> a "level 1" heading
16814 =item ``Level'' 2 I<heading>
16820 =item OVER AND ITEMS
16822 This is a test, a, b, a, b, c, d, "foo", B<bar>, C<baz>, Some longer item
16825 =item FORMATTING CODES
16827 E<amp>, E<apos>, E<lt>, E<gt>, E<quot>, E<sol>
16835 =head2 SDBM_File - Tied access to sdbm files
16843 C<O_RDONLY>, C<O_WRONLY>, C<O_RDWR>
16849 =item C<sdbm store returned -1, errno 22, key "..." at ...>
16853 =item BUGS AND WARNINGS
16857 =head2 Safe - Compile and execute code in restricted compartments
16865 a new namespace, an operator mask
16871 =item RECENT CHANGES
16873 =item Methods in class Safe
16875 permit (OP, ...), permit_only (OP, ...), deny (OP, ...), deny_only (OP,
16876 ...), trap (OP, ...), untrap (OP, ...), share (NAME, ...), share_from
16877 (PACKAGE, ARRAYREF), varglob (VARNAME), reval (STRING), rdo (FILENAME),
16878 root (NAMESPACE), mask (MASK)
16880 =item Some Safety Issues
16882 Memory, CPU, Snooping, Signals, State Changes
16890 =head2 Scalar::Util - A selection of general-utility scalar subroutines
16898 blessed EXPR, dualvar NUM, STRING, isweak EXPR, readonly SCALAR, reftype
16899 EXPR, tainted EXPR, weaken REF
16909 =head2 Search::Dict, look - search for key in dictionary file
16919 =head2 SelectSaver - save and restore selected file handle
16929 =head2 SelfLoader - load functions only on demand
16939 =item The __DATA__ token
16941 =item SelfLoader autoloading
16943 =item Autoloading and package lexicals
16945 =item SelfLoader and AutoLoader
16947 =item __DATA__, __END__, and the FOOBAR::DATA filehandle.
16949 =item Classes and inherited methods.
16953 =item Multiple packages and fully qualified subroutine names
16957 =head2 Shell - run shell commands transparently within perl
16967 =item OBJECT ORIENTED SYNTAX
16975 =head2 Socket, sockaddr_in, sockaddr_un, inet_aton, inet_ntoa - load the C
16976 socket.h defines and structure manipulators
16984 inet_aton HOSTNAME, inet_ntoa IP_ADDRESS, INADDR_ANY, INADDR_BROADCAST,
16985 INADDR_LOOPBACK, INADDR_NONE, sockaddr_family SOCKADDR, sockaddr_in PORT,
16986 ADDRESS, sockaddr_in SOCKADDR_IN, pack_sockaddr_in PORT, IP_ADDRESS,
16987 unpack_sockaddr_in SOCKADDR_IN, sockaddr_un PATHNAME, sockaddr_un
16988 SOCKADDR_UN, pack_sockaddr_un PATH, unpack_sockaddr_un SOCKADDR_UN
16992 =head2 Storable - persistency for perl data structures
17002 =item ADVISORY LOCKING
17006 =item CANONICAL REPRESENTATION
17008 =item ERROR REPORTING
17016 C<STORABLE_freeze> I<obj>, I<cloning>, C<STORABLE_thaw> I<obj>, I<cloning>,
17021 C<Storable::last_op_in_netorder>, C<Storable::is_storing>,
17022 C<Storable::is_retrieving>
17030 =item Storable magic
17048 =head2 Switch - A switch statement for Perl
17062 =item Allowing fall-through
17064 =item Automating fall-through
17066 =item Alternative syntax
17068 =item Higher-order Operations
17084 =head2 Symbol - manipulate Perl symbols and their names
17094 =head2 Sys::Hostname - Try every conceivable way to get hostname
17106 =head2 Syslog, Sys::Syslog, openlog, closelog, setlogmask, syslog - Perl
17107 interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls
17115 openlog $ident, $logopt, $facility, syslog $priority, $format, @args,
17116 setlogmask $mask_priority, setlogsock $sock_type (added in 5.004_02),
17127 =head2 Syslog::Syslog, Sys::Syslog, openlog, closelog, setlogmask, syslog -
17128 Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls
17136 openlog $ident, $logopt, $facility, syslog $priority, $format, @args,
17137 setlogmask $mask_priority, setlogsock $sock_type (added in 5.004_02),
17148 =head2 Term::ANSIColor - Color screen output using ANSI escape sequences
17158 Bad escape sequence %s, Bareword "%s" not allowed while "strict subs" in
17159 use, Invalid attribute name %s, Name "%s" used only once: possible typo, No
17160 comma allowed after filehandle, No name for escape sequence %s
17164 ANSI_COLORS_DISABLED
17178 =head2 Term::Cap - Perl termcap interface
17194 B<Tgetent>, OSPEED, TERM
17196 B<Tpad>, B<$string>, B<$cnt>, B<$FH>
17198 B<Tputs>, B<$cap>, B<$cnt>, B<$FH>
17200 B<Tgoto>, B<$cap>, B<$col>, B<$row>, B<$FH>
17208 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
17216 =head2 Term::Complete - Perl word completion module
17224 E<lt>tabE<gt>, ^D, ^U, E<lt>delE<gt>, E<lt>bsE<gt>
17234 =head2 Term::ReadLine - Perl interface to various C<readline> packages. If
17235 no real package is found, substitutes stubs instead of basic functions.
17243 =item Minimal set of supported functions
17245 C<ReadLine>, C<new>, C<readline>, C<addhistory>, C<IN>, $C<OUT>,
17246 C<MinLine>, C<findConsole>, Attribs, C<Features>
17248 =item Additional supported functions
17250 C<tkRunning>, C<ornaments>, C<newTTY>
17260 =head2 Test - provides a simple framework for writing test scripts
17286 NORMAL TESTS, SKIPPED TESTS, TODO TESTS
17290 =item BUGS and CAVEATS
17300 =head2 Test::Builder - Backend for building test libraries
17320 =item Setting up tests
17336 =item Running tests
17342 B<is_eq>, B<is_num>
17344 B<isnt_eq>, B<isnt_num>
17368 B<no_header>, B<no_ending>
17380 B<output>, B<failure_output>, B<todo_output>
17384 =item Test Status and Info
17392 B<details> I<UNIMPLEMENTED>, B<todo>
17414 =head2 Test::Harness - run perl standard test scripts with statistics
17424 =item The test script output
17426 B<'1..M'>, B<'ok', 'not ok'. Ok?>, B<test numbers>, B<test names>,
17427 B<Skipping tests>, B<Todo tests>, B<Bail out!>, B<Comments>, B<Anything
17432 =item Configuration variables.
17434 B<$Test::Harness::verbose>, B<$Test::Harness::switches>
17438 B<Failed Test>, B<Stat>, B<Wstat>, B<Total>, B<Fail>, B<Failed>, B<List of
17465 C<All tests successful.\nFiles=%d, Tests=%d, %s>, C<FAILED tests
17466 %s\n\tFailed %d/%d tests, %.2f%% okay.>, C<Test returned status %d (wstat
17467 %d)>, C<Failed 1 test, %.2f%% okay. %s>, C<Failed %d/%d tests, %.2f%% okay.
17468 %s>, C<FAILED--Further testing stopped%s>
17472 C<HARNESS_IGNORE_EXITCODE>, C<HARNESS_NOTTY>, C<HARNESS_COMPILE_TEST>,
17473 C<HARNESS_FILELEAK_IN_DIR>, C<HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES>, C<HARNESS_COLUMNS>,
17488 =head2 Test::Harness::Assert - simple assert
17514 =head2 Test::Harness::Iterator - Internal Test::Harness Iterator
17524 =head2 Test::Harness::Straps - detailed analysis of test results
17562 B<_restore_PERL5LIB>
17578 B<_reset_file_state>
17598 =head2 Test::More - yet another framework for writing test scripts
17608 =item I love it when a plan comes together
17618 =item I'm ok, you're not ok.
17658 =item Conditional tests
17664 B<TODO: BLOCK>, B<todo_skip>
17668 =item Comparison functions
17682 =item Extending and Embedding Test::More
17692 =item BUGS and CAVEATS
17694 Making your own ok(), The eq_* family has some caveats, Test::Harness
17707 =head2 Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
17731 L<Test::More>, L<Test>, L<Test::Unit>, L<Test::Inline>, L<SelfTest>,
17740 =head2 Test::Tutorial - A tutorial about writing really basic tests
17748 =item Nuts and bolts of testing.
17750 =item Where to start?
17754 =item Test the manual
17756 =item Sometimes the tests are wrong
17758 =item Testing lots of values
17760 =item Informative names
17762 =item Skipping tests
17766 =item Testing with taint mode.
17778 =head2 Text::Abbrev, abbrev - create an abbreviation table from a list
17790 =head2 Text::Balanced - Extract delimited text sequences from strings.
17800 =item General behaviour in list contexts
17804 =item General behaviour in scalar and void contexts
17806 =item A note about prefixes
17808 =item C<extract_delimited>
17810 =item C<extract_bracketed>
17812 =item C<extract_tagged>
17814 C<reject =E<gt> $listref>, C<ignore =E<gt> $listref>, C<fail =E<gt> $str>,
17815 [0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]
17817 =item C<gen_extract_tagged>
17819 =item C<extract_quotelike>
17821 [0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10]
17823 =item C<extract_quotelike> and "here documents"
17825 [0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7..10]
17827 =item C<extract_codeblock>
17829 =item C<extract_multiple>
17831 =item C<gen_delimited_pat>
17837 C<Did not find a suitable bracket: "%s">, C<Did not find prefix: /%s/>,
17838 C<Did not find opening bracket after prefix: "%s">, C<No quotelike
17839 operator found after prefix: "%s">, C<Unmatched closing bracket: "%c">,
17840 C<Unmatched opening bracket(s): "%s">, C<Unmatched embedded quote (%s)>,
17841 C<Did not find closing delimiter to match '%s'>, C<Mismatched closing
17842 bracket: expected "%c" but found "%s">, C<No block delimiter found after
17843 quotelike "%s">, C<Did not find leading dereferencer>, C<Bad identifier
17844 after dereferencer>, C<Did not find expected opening bracket at %s>,
17845 C<Improperly nested codeblock at %s>, C<Missing second block for quotelike
17846 "%s">, C<No match found for opening bracket>, C<Did not find opening tag:
17847 /%s/>, C<Unable to construct closing tag to match: /%s/>, C<Found invalid
17848 nested tag: %s>, C<Found unbalanced nested tag: %s>, C<Did not find closing
17853 =item BUGS AND IRRITATIONS
17859 =head2 Text::ParseWords - parse text into an array of tokens or array of
17874 =head2 Text::Soundex - Implementation of the Soundex Algorithm as Described
17891 =head2 Text::Tabs -- expand and unexpand tabs per the unix expand(1) and
17906 =head2 Text::Wrap - line wrapping to form simple paragraphs
17922 =head2 Thread - manipulate threads in Perl
17934 $thread = Thread->new(\&start_sub), $thread = Thread->new(\&start_sub,
17935 LIST), lock VARIABLE, async BLOCK;, Thread->self, cond_wait VARIABLE,
17936 cond_signal VARIABLE, cond_broadcast VARIABLE, yield
17940 join, eval, detach, equal, tid, flags, done
17948 =head2 Thread::Queue - thread-safe queues
17956 =item FUNCTIONS AND METHODS
17958 new, enqueue LIST, dequeue, dequeue_nb, pending
17964 =head2 Thread::Semaphore - thread-safe semaphores
17972 =item FUNCTIONS AND METHODS
17974 new, new NUMBER, down, down NUMBER, up, up NUMBER
17978 =head2 Thread::Signal - Start a thread which runs signal handlers reliably
17990 =head2 Thread::Specific - thread-specific keys
18000 =head2 Tie::Array - base class for tied arrays
18008 TIEARRAY classname, LIST, STORE this, index, value, FETCH this, index,
18009 FETCHSIZE this, STORESIZE this, count, EXTEND this, count, EXISTS this,
18010 key, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this, DESTROY this, PUSH this, LIST, POP this,
18011 SHIFT this, UNSHIFT this, LIST, SPLICE this, offset, length, LIST
18019 =head2 Tie::File - Access the lines of a disk file via a Perl array
18035 =item Option Format
18039 =item Public Methods
18045 =item Tying to an already-opened filehandle
18053 =item Efficiency Note
18055 =item Efficiency Note 2
18057 =item Efficiency Note 3
18075 =head2 Tie::Handle, Tie::StdHandle - base class definitions for tied
18084 TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, WRITE this, scalar, length, offset, PRINT this,
18085 LIST, PRINTF this, format, LIST, READ this, scalar, length, offset,
18086 READLINE this, GETC this, CLOSE this, OPEN this, filename, BINMODE this,
18087 EOF this, TELL this, SEEK this, offset, whence, DESTROY this
18089 =item MORE INFORMATION
18091 =item COMPATIBILITY
18095 =head2 Tie::Hash, Tie::StdHash, Tie::ExtraHash - base class definitions for
18104 TIEHASH classname, LIST, STORE this, key, value, FETCH this, key, FIRSTKEY
18105 this, NEXTKEY this, lastkey, EXISTS this, key, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this
18107 =item Inheriting from B<Tie::StdHash>
18109 =item Inheriting from B<Tie::ExtraHash>
18111 =item C<UNTIE> and C<DESTROY>
18113 =item MORE INFORMATION
18117 =head2 Tie::Memoize - add data to hash when needed
18125 =item Inheriting from B<Tie::Memoize>
18135 =head2 Tie::RefHash - use references as hash keys
18153 =head2 Tie::Scalar, Tie::StdScalar - base class definitions for tied
18162 TIESCALAR classname, LIST, FETCH this, STORE this, value, DESTROY this
18164 =item MORE INFORMATION
18168 =head2 Tie::SubstrHash - Fixed-table-size, fixed-key-length hashing
18180 =head2 Time::HiRes - High resolution alarm, sleep, gettimeofday, interval
18189 gettimeofday (), usleep ( $useconds ), ualarm ( $useconds [,
18190 $interval_useconds ] ), tv_interval, time (), sleep ( $floating_seconds ),
18191 alarm ( $floating_seconds [, $interval_floating_seconds ] ), setitimer,
18192 getitimer ( $which )
18208 =head2 Time::Local - efficiently compute time from local and GMT time
18216 =item IMPLEMENTATION
18222 =head2 Time::gmtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in gmtime()
18237 =head2 Time::localtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in localtime()
18252 =head2 Time::tm - internal object used by Time::gmtime and Time::localtime
18264 =head2 UNIVERSAL - base class for ALL classes (blessed references)
18272 $obj->isa( TYPE ), CLASS->isa( TYPE ), isa( VAL, TYPE ), $obj->can( METHOD
18273 ), CLASS->can( METHOD ), can( VAL, METHOD ), VERSION ( [ REQUIRE ] )
18277 =head2 Unicode::Collate - use UCA (Unicode Collation Algorithm)
18287 =item Constructor and Tailoring
18289 alternate, backwards, entry, ignoreName, ignoreChar, level, normalization,
18290 overrideCJK, overrideHangul, preprocess, rearrange, table, undefName,
18291 undefChar, katakana_before_hiragana, upper_before_lower
18293 =item Other methods
18295 C<@sorted = $Collator-E<gt>sort(@not_sorted)>, C<$result =
18296 $Collator-E<gt>cmp($a, $b)>, C<$result = $Collator-E<gt>eq($a, $b)>,
18297 C<$result = $Collator-E<gt>ne($a, $b)>, C<$result = $Collator-E<gt>lt($a,
18298 $b)>, C<$result = $Collator-E<gt>le($a, $b)>, C<$result =
18299 $Collator-E<gt>gt($a, $b)>, C<$result = $Collator-E<gt>ge($a, $b)>,
18300 C<$sortKey = $Collator-E<gt>getSortKey($string)>, C<$position =
18301 $Collator-E<gt>index($string, $substring)>, C<($position, $length) =
18302 $Collator-E<gt>index($string, $substring)>
18316 Unicode Collation Algorithm - Unicode TR #10, L<Unicode::Normalize>
18320 =head2 Unicode::Normalize - normalized forms of Unicode text
18330 =item Normalization Forms
18332 C<$string_NFD = NFD($raw_string)>, C<$string_NFC = NFC($raw_string)>,
18333 C<$string_NFKD = NFKD($raw_string)>, C<$string_NFKC = NFKC($raw_string)>,
18334 C<$normalized_string = normalize($form_name, $raw_string)>
18336 =item Character Data
18338 C<$canonical_decomposed = getCanon($codepoint)>,
18339 C<$compatibility_decomposed = getCompat($codepoint)>, C<$uv_composite =
18340 getComposite($uv_here, $uv_next)>, C<$combining_class =
18341 getCombinClass($codepoint)>, C<$is_exclusion = isExclusion($codepoint)>
18353 http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr15/
18357 =head2 Unicode::UCD - Unicode character database
18399 =item Blocks versus Scripts
18401 =item Matching Scripts and Blocks
18403 =item Code Point Arguments
18429 =item Unicode::UCD::UnicodeVersion
18435 =item Implementation Note
18447 =head2 User::grent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getgr*()
18462 =head2 User::pwent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getpw*()
18473 =item System Specifics
18487 =head2 Win32 - Interfaces to some Win32 API Functions
18495 =item Alphabetical Listing of Win32 Functions
18497 Win32::AbortSystemShutdown(MACHINE), Win32::BuildNumber(),
18498 Win32::CopyFile(FROM, TO, OVERWRITE), Win32::DomainName(),
18499 Win32::ExpandEnvironmentStrings(STRING), Win32::FormatMessage(ERRORCODE),
18500 Win32::FsType(), Win32::FreeLibrary(HANDLE), Win32::GetArchName(),
18501 Win32::GetChipName(), Win32::GetCwd(), Win32::GetFullPathName(FILENAME),
18502 Win32::GetLastError(), Win32::GetLongPathName(PATHNAME),
18503 Win32::GetNextAvailDrive(), Win32::GetOSVersion(),
18504 Win32::GetShortPathName(PATHNAME), Win32::GetProcAddress(INSTANCE,
18505 PROCNAME), Win32::GetTickCount(), Win32::InitiateSystemShutdown,
18506 Win32::IsWinNT(), Win32::IsWin95(), Win32::LoadLibrary(LIBNAME),
18507 Win32::LoginName(), Win32::LookupAccountName(SYSTEM, ACCOUNT, DOMAIN, SID,
18508 SIDTYPE), Win32::LookupAccountSID(SYSTEM, SID, ACCOUNT, DOMAIN, SIDTYPE),
18509 Win32::MsgBox(MESSAGE [, FLAGS [, TITLE]]), Win32::NodeName(),
18510 Win32::RegisterServer(LIBRARYNAME), Win32::SetChildShowWindow(SHOWWINDOW),
18511 Win32::SetCwd(NEWDIRECTORY), Win32::SetLastError(ERROR),
18512 Win32::Sleep(TIME), Win32::Spawn(COMMAND, ARGS, PID),
18513 Win32::UnregisterServer(LIBRARYNAME)
18519 =head2 XS::Typemap - module to test the XS typemaps distributed with perl
18537 =head2 XSLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code
18549 =head1 AUXILIARY DOCUMENTATION
18551 Here should be listed all the extra programs' documentation, but they
18552 don't all have manual pages yet:
18578 Larry Wall <F<larry@wall.org>>, with the help of oodles