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 key '%_' in fixed hash, Attempt to bless into a
870 reference, Attempt to free non-arena SV: 0x%lx, Attempt to free nonexistent
871 shared string, Attempt to free temp prematurely, Attempt to free
872 unreferenced glob pointers, Attempt to free unreferenced scalar, Attempt to
873 join self, Attempt to pack pointer to temporary value, Attempt to use
874 reference as lvalue in substr, Bad arg length for %s, is %d, should be %s,
875 Bad evalled substitution pattern, Bad filehandle: %s, Bad free() ignored,
876 Bad hash, Bad index while coercing array into hash, Badly placed ()'s, Bad
877 name after %s::, Bad realloc() ignored, Bad symbol for array, Bad symbol
878 for filehandle, Bad symbol for hash, Bareword found in conditional,
879 Bareword "%s" not allowed while "strict subs" in use, Bareword "%s" refers
880 to nonexistent package, BEGIN failed--compilation aborted, BEGIN not safe
881 after errors--compilation aborted, \1 better written as $1, Binary number >
882 0b11111111111111111111111111111111 non-portable, bind() on closed socket
883 %s, binmode() on closed filehandle %s, Bit vector size > 32 non-portable,
884 Bizarre copy of %s in %s, B<-P> not allowed for setuid/setgid script,
885 Buffer overflow in prime_env_iter: %s, Callback called exit, %s() called
886 too early to check prototype, / cannot take a count, Can't bless
887 non-reference value, Can't call method "%s" in empty package "%s", Can't
888 call method "%s" on an undefined value, Can't call method "%s" on unblessed
889 reference, Can't call method "%s" without a package or object reference,
890 Can't chdir to %s, Can't check filesystem of script "%s" for nosuid, Can't
891 coerce array into hash, Can't coerce %s to integer in %s, Can't coerce %s
892 to number in %s, Can't coerce %s to string in %s, Can't create pipe
893 mailbox, Can't declare class for non-scalar %s in "%s", Can't declare %s in
894 "%s", Can't do inplace edit: %s is not a regular file, Can't do inplace
895 edit on %s: %s, Can't do inplace edit without backup, Can't do inplace
896 edit: %s would not be unique, Can't do {n,m} with n > m in regex; marked by
897 <-- HERE in m/%s/, Can't do setegid!, Can't do seteuid!, Can't do setuid,
898 Can't do waitpid with flags, Can't emulate -%s on #! line, Can't exec "%s":
899 %s, Can't exec %s, Can't execute %s, Can't find an opnumber for "%s", Can't
900 find %s character property "%s", Can't find label %s, Can't find %s on
901 PATH, Can't find %s on PATH, '.' not in PATH, Can't find string terminator
902 %s anywhere before EOF, Can't find %s property definition %s, Can't fork,
903 Can't get filespec - stale stat buffer?, Can't get pipe mailbox device
904 name, Can't get SYSGEN parameter value for MAXBUF, Can't "goto" into the
905 middle of a foreach loop, Can't "goto" out of a pseudo block, Can't goto
906 subroutine from an eval-string, Can't goto subroutine outside a subroutine,
907 Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default, Can't "last" outside a loop
908 block, Can't localize lexical variable %s, Can't localize pseudo-hash
909 element, Can't localize through a reference, Can't locate %s, Can't locate
910 auto/%s.al in @INC, Can't locate object method "%s" via package "%s",
911 (perhaps you forgot to load "%s"?), Can't locate package %s for @%s::ISA,
912 Can't make list assignment to \%ENV on this system, Can't modify %s in %s,
913 Can't modify nonexistent substring, Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine
914 call, Can't msgrcv to read-only var, Can't "next" outside a loop block,
915 Can't open %s: %s, Can't open bidirectional pipe, Can't open error file %s
916 as stderr, Can't open input file %s as stdin, Can't open output file %s as
917 stdout, Can't open output pipe (name: %s), Can't open perl script%s: %s,
918 Can't read CRTL environ, Can't redefine active sort subroutine %s, Can't
919 "redo" outside a loop block, Can't remove %s: %s, skipping file, Can't
920 rename %s to %s: %s, skipping file, Can't reopen input pipe (name: %s) in
921 binary mode, Can't resolve method `%s' overloading `%s' in package `%s',
922 Can't reswap uid and euid, Can't return %s from lvalue subroutine, Can't
923 return %s to lvalue scalar context, Can't return outside a subroutine,
924 Can't stat script "%s", Can't swap uid and euid, Can't take log of %g,
925 Can't take sqrt of %g, Can't undef active subroutine, Can't unshift, Can't
926 upgrade that kind of scalar, Can't upgrade to undef, Can't use an undefined
927 value as %s reference, Can't use anonymous symbol table for method lookup,
928 Can't use bareword ("%s") as %s ref while "strict refs" in use, Can't use
929 %! because Errno.pm is not available, Can't use %s for loop variable, Can't
930 use global %s in "my", Can't use "my %s" in sort comparison, Can't use %s
931 ref as %s ref, Can't use string ("%s") as %s ref while "strict refs" in
932 use, Can't use subscript on %s, Can't use \%c to mean $%c in expression,
933 Can't weaken a nonreference, Can't x= to read-only value, Character in "C"
934 format wrapped, Character in "c" format wrapped, close() on unopened
935 filehandle %s, %s: Command not found, Compilation failed in require,
936 Complex regular subexpression recursion limit (%d) exceeded, connect() on
937 closed socket %s, Constant(%s)%s: %s, Constant is not %s reference,
938 Constant subroutine %s redefined, Constant subroutine %s undefined, Copy
939 method did not return a reference, CORE::%s is not a keyword, corrupted
940 regexp pointers, corrupted regexp program, Corrupt malloc ptr 0x%lx at
941 0x%lx, C<-p> destination: %s, C<-T> and C<-B> not implemented on
942 filehandles, Deep recursion on subroutine "%s", defined(@array) is
943 deprecated, defined(%hash) is deprecated, %s defines neither package nor
944 VERSION--version check failed, Delimiter for here document is too long, Did
945 not produce a valid header, %s did not return a true value, (Did you mean
946 &%s instead?), (Did you mean "local" instead of "our"?), (Did you mean $ or
947 @ instead of %?), Died, Document contains no data, %s does not define
948 %s::VERSION--version check failed, Don't know how to handle magic of type
949 '%s', do_study: out of memory, (Do you need to predeclare %s?), dump()
950 better written as CORE::dump(), Duplicate free() ignored, elseif should be
951 elsif, Empty %s, entering effective %s failed, Error converting file
952 specification %s, %s: Eval-group in insecure regular expression, %s:
953 Eval-group not allowed at run time, %s: Eval-group not allowed, use re
954 'eval', Excessively long <> operator, exec? I'm not *that* kind of
955 operating system, Execution of %s aborted due to compilation errors,
956 Exiting eval via %s, Exiting format via %s, Exiting pseudo-block via %s,
957 Exiting subroutine via %s, Exiting substitution via %s, Explicit blessing
958 to '' (assuming package main), %s: Expression syntax, %s failed--call queue
959 aborted, False [] range "%s" in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/, Fatal
960 VMS error at %s, line %d, fcntl is not implemented, Filehandle %s opened
961 only for input, Filehandle %s opened only for output, Final $ should be \$
962 or $name, Final @ should be \@ or @name, flock() on closed filehandle %s,
963 Quantifier follows nothing in regex;, Format not terminated, Format %s
964 redefined, Found = in conditional, should be ==, %s found where operator
965 expected, gdbm store returned %d, errno %d, key "%s", gethostent not
966 implemented, get%sname() on closed socket %s, getpwnam returned invalid UIC
967 %#o for user "%s", getsockopt() on closed socket %s, Global symbol "%s"
968 requires explicit package name, glob failed (%s), Glob not terminated, Got
969 an error from DosAllocMem, goto must have label, %s-group starts with a
970 count, %s had compilation errors, Had to create %s unexpectedly, Hash %%s
971 missing the % in argument %d of %s(), %s has too many errors, Hexadecimal
972 number > 0xffffffff non-portable, Identifier too long, Illegal binary digit
973 %s, Illegal binary digit %s ignored, Illegal character %s (carriage
974 return), Illegal character in prototype for %s : %s, Illegal division by
975 zero, Illegal hexadecimal digit %s ignored, Illegal modulus zero, Illegal
976 number of bits in vec, Illegal octal digit %s, Illegal octal digit %s
977 ignored, Illegal switch in PERL5OPT: %s, Ill-formed CRTL environ value
978 "%s", Ill-formed message in prime_env_iter: |%s|, (in cleanup) %s, In
979 EBCDIC the v-string components cannot exceed 2147483647, Insecure
980 dependency in %s, Insecure directory in %s, Insecure $ENV{%s} while running
981 %s, Integer overflow in %s number, Internal disaster in regex; marked by
982 <-- HERE in m/%s/, Internal inconsistency in tracking vforks, Internal urp
983 in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/, %s (...) interpreted as function,
984 Invalid %s attribute: %s, Invalid %s attributes: %s, Invalid conversion in
985 %s: "%s", Invalid [] range "%s" in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/,
986 Invalid [] range "%s" in transliteration operator, Invalid separator
987 character %s in attribute list, Invalid type in pack: '%s', Invalid type in
988 unpack: '%s', ioctl is not implemented, ioctl() on unopened %s,
989 IO::Socket::atmark not implemented on this architecture, `%s' is not a code
990 reference, `%s' is not an overloadable type, junk on end of regexp, Label
991 not found for "last %s", Label not found for "next %s", Label not found for
992 "redo %s", leaving effective %s failed, listen() on closed socket %s,
993 lstat() on filehandle %s, Lvalue subs returning %s not implemented yet,
994 Lookbehind longer than %d not implemented in regex;, Malformed
995 PERLLIB_PREFIX, Malformed prototype for %s: %s, Malformed UTF-8 character
996 (%s), Malformed UTF-16 surrogate, %s matches null string many times in
997 regex;, "%s" may clash with future reserved word, % may only be used in
998 unpack, Method for operation %s not found in package %s during blessing,
999 Method %s not permitted, Might be a runaway multi-line %s string starting
1000 on line %d, Misplaced _ in number, Missing %sbrace%s on \N{}, Missing comma
1001 after first argument to %s function, Missing command in piped open, Missing
1002 name in "my sub", Missing $ on loop variable, (Missing operator before
1003 %s?), Missing right brace on %s, Missing right curly or square bracket,
1004 (Missing semicolon on previous line?), Modification of a read-only value
1005 attempted, Modification of non-creatable array value attempted, %s,
1006 Modification of non-creatable hash value attempted, %s, Module name must be
1007 constant, Module name required with -%c option, More than one argument to
1008 open, msg%s not implemented, Multidimensional syntax %s not supported, /
1009 must be followed by a*, A* or Z*, / must be followed by a, A or Z, / must
1010 follow a numeric type, "my sub" not yet implemented, "my" variable %s can't
1011 be in a package, Name "%s::%s" used only once: possible typo, Negative
1012 length, Negative offset to vec in lvalue context, Nested quantifiers in
1013 regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/, %s never introduced, No %s allowed
1014 while running setuid, No B<-e> allowed in setuid scripts, No comma allowed
1015 after %s, No command into which to pipe on command line, No DB::DB routine
1016 defined, No dbm on this machine, No DBsub routine, No error file after 2>
1017 or 2>> on command line, No input file after < on command line, No #! line,
1018 "no" not allowed in expression, No output file after > on command line, No
1019 output file after > or >> on command line, No package name allowed for
1020 variable %s in "our", No Perl script found in input, No setregid available,
1021 No setreuid available, No space allowed after -%c, No %s specified for -%c,
1022 No such class %s, No such pipe open, No such pseudo-hash field "%s", No
1023 such pseudo-hash field "%s" in variable %s of type %s, No such signal:
1024 SIG%s, Not a CODE reference, Not a format reference, Not a GLOB reference,
1025 Not a HASH reference, Not an ARRAY reference, Not a perl script, Not a
1026 SCALAR reference, Not a subroutine reference, Not a subroutine reference in
1027 overload table, Not enough arguments for %s, Not enough format arguments,
1028 %s: not found, %s not allowed in length fields, no UTC offset information;
1029 assuming local time is UTC, Null filename used, NULL OP IN RUN, Null
1030 picture in formline, Null realloc, NULL regexp argument, NULL regexp
1031 parameter, Number too long, Octal number in vector unsupported, Octal
1032 number > 037777777777 non-portable, Odd number of arguments for
1033 overload::constant, Odd number of elements in anonymous hash, Odd number of
1034 elements in hash assignment, Offset outside string, -%s on unopened
1035 filehandle %s, %s() on unopened %s, oops: oopsAV, oops: oopsHV, Operation
1036 `%s': no method found, %s, Operator or semicolon missing before %s, "our"
1037 variable %s redeclared, Out of memory!, Out of memory during "large"
1038 request for %s, Out of memory during request for %s, Out of memory during
1039 ridiculously large request, Out of memory for yacc stack, @ outside of
1040 string, %s package attribute may clash with future reserved word: %s, page
1041 overflow, panic: %s, panic: ck_grep, panic: ck_split, panic: corrupt saved
1042 stack index, panic: del_backref, panic: die %s, panic: pp_match%s, panic:
1043 do_subst, panic: do_trans_%s, panic: frexp, panic: goto, panic:
1044 INTERPCASEMOD, panic: INTERPCONCAT, panic: kid popen errno read, panic:
1045 last, panic: leave_scope clearsv, panic: leave_scope inconsistency, panic:
1046 magic_killbackrefs, panic: malloc, panic: mapstart, panic: null array,
1047 panic: pad_alloc, panic: pad_free curpad, panic: pad_free po, panic:
1048 pad_reset curpad, panic: pad_sv po, panic: pad_swipe curpad, panic:
1049 pad_swipe po, panic: pp_iter, panic: pp_split, panic: realloc, panic:
1050 restartop, panic: return, panic: scan_num, panic: sv_insert, panic:
1051 top_env, panic: yylex, panic: utf16_to_utf8: odd bytelen, Parentheses
1052 missing around "%s" list, Perl %s required--this is only version %s,
1053 stopped, PERL_SH_DIR too long, perl: warning: Setting locale failed,
1054 perlio: argument list not closed for layer "%s", perlio: invalid separator
1055 character %s in attribute list, perlio: unknown layer "%s", Permission
1056 denied, pid %x not a child, P must have an explicit size, POSIX syntax [%s]
1057 belongs inside character classes in regex;, POSIX syntax [. .] is reserved
1058 for future extensions in regex;, POSIX syntax [= =] is reserved for future
1059 extensions in regex;, POSIX class [:%s:] unknown in regex;, POSIX getpgrp
1060 can't take an argument, Possible attempt to put comments in qw() list,
1061 Possible attempt to separate words with commas, Possible memory corruption:
1062 %s overflowed 3rd argument, Possible unintended interpolation of %s in
1063 string, Possible Y2K bug: %s, pragma "attrs" is deprecated, use "sub NAME :
1064 ATTRS" instead, Precedence problem: open %s should be open(%s), Premature
1065 end of script headers, printf() on closed filehandle %s, print() on closed
1066 filehandle %s, Process terminated by SIG%s, Prototype mismatch: %s vs %s,
1067 Prototype not terminated, Quantifier in {,} bigger than %d in regex;,
1068 Quantifier unexpected on zero-length expression;, Range iterator outside
1069 integer range, readline() on closed filehandle %s, Reallocation too large:
1070 %lx, realloc() of freed memory ignored, Recompile perl with B<-D>DEBUGGING
1071 to use B<-D> switch, Recursive inheritance detected in package '%s',
1072 Recursive inheritance detected while looking for method %s, Reference found
1073 where even-sized list expected, Reference is already weak, Reference
1074 miscount in sv_replace(), Reference to nonexistent group in regex;, regexp
1075 memory corruption, Regexp out of space, Repeat count in pack overflows,
1076 Repeat count in unpack overflows, Reversed %s= operator, Runaway format,
1077 Scalar value @%s[%s] better written as $%s[%s], Scalar value @%s{%s} better
1078 written as $%s{%s}, Scalars leaked: %d, Script is not setuid/setgid in
1079 suidperl, Search pattern not terminated, %sseek() on unopened filehandle,
1080 select not implemented, Self-ties of arrays and hashes are not supported,
1081 Semicolon seems to be missing, semi-panic: attempt to dup freed string,
1082 sem%s not implemented, send() on closed socket %s, Sequence (? incomplete
1083 in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/, Sequence (?{...}) not terminated or
1084 not {}-balanced in regex;, Sequence (?%s...) not implemented in regex;,
1085 Sequence (?%s...) not recognized in regex;, Sequence (?#... not terminated
1086 in regex;, 500 Server error, Server error, setegid() not implemented,
1087 seteuid() not implemented, setpgrp can't take arguments, setrgid() not
1088 implemented, setruid() not implemented, setsockopt() on closed socket %s,
1089 Setuid/gid script is writable by world, shm%s not implemented, <> should be
1090 quotes, /%s/ should probably be written as "%s", shutdown() on closed
1091 socket %s, SIG%s handler "%s" not defined, sort is now a reserved word,
1092 Sort subroutine didn't return a numeric value, Sort subroutine didn't
1093 return single value, splice() offset past end of array, Split loop,
1094 Statement unlikely to be reached, stat() on unopened filehandle %s, Stub
1095 found while resolving method `%s' overloading %s, Subroutine %s redefined,
1096 Substitution loop, Substitution pattern not terminated, Substitution
1097 replacement not terminated, substr outside of string, suidperl is no longer
1098 needed since %s, Switch (?(condition)... contains too many branches in
1099 regex;, Switch condition not recognized in regex;, switching effective %s
1100 is not implemented, syntax error, syntax error at line %d: `%s' unexpected,
1101 syntax error in file %s at line %d, next 2 tokens "%s", %s syntax OK,
1102 System V %s is not implemented on this machine, syswrite() on closed
1103 filehandle %s, Target of goto is too deeply nested, tell() on unopened
1104 filehandle, That use of $[ is unsupported, The crypt() function is
1105 unimplemented due to excessive paranoia, The %s function is unimplemented,
1106 The stat preceding %s wasn't an lstat, This Perl can't reset CRTL environ
1107 elements (%s), This Perl can't set CRTL environ elements (%s=%s), times not
1108 implemented, Too few args to syscall, Too late for "B<-T>" option, Too late
1109 for "-%s" option, Too late to run %s block, Too many args to syscall, Too
1110 many arguments for %s, Too many )'s, Too many ('s, Trailing \ in regex
1111 m/%s/, Transliteration pattern not terminated, Transliteration replacement
1112 not terminated, truncate not implemented, Type of arg %d to %s must be %s
1113 (not %s), umask not implemented, Unable to create sub named "%s",
1114 Unbalanced context: %d more PUSHes than POPs, Unbalanced saves: %d more
1115 saves than restores, Unbalanced scopes: %d more ENTERs than LEAVEs,
1116 Unbalanced tmps: %d more allocs than frees, Undefined format "%s" called,
1117 Undefined sort subroutine "%s" called, Undefined subroutine &%s called,
1118 Undefined subroutine called, Undefined subroutine in sort, Undefined top
1119 format "%s" called, Undefined value assigned to typeglob, %s: Undefined
1120 variable, unexec of %s into %s failed!, Unicode character %s is illegal,
1121 Unknown BYTEORDER, Unknown "re" subpragma '%s' (known ones are: %s),
1122 Unknown switch condition (?(%.2s in regex;, Unknown open() mode '%s',
1123 Unknown process %x sent message to prime_env_iter: %s, Unknown warnings
1124 category '%s', unmatched [ in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/, unmatched
1125 ( in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/, Unmatched right %s bracket,
1126 Unquoted string "%s" may clash with future reserved word, Unrecognized
1127 character %s, /%s/: Unrecognized escape \\%c in character class passed
1128 through, Unrecognized escape \\%c passed through in regex;, Unrecognized
1129 escape \\%c passed through, Unrecognized signal name "%s", Unrecognized
1130 switch: -%s (-h will show valid options), Unsuccessful %s on filename
1131 containing newline, Unsupported directory function "%s" called, Unsupported
1132 function %s, Unsupported function fork, Unsupported script encoding,
1133 Unsupported socket function "%s" called, Unterminated attribute list,
1134 Unterminated attribute parameter in attribute list, Unterminated compressed
1135 integer, Unterminated <> operator, untie attempted while %d inner
1136 references still exist, Useless (?%s) - use /%s modifier in regex;, Useless
1137 (?-%s) - don't use /%s modifier in regex;, Useless use of %s in void
1138 context, Useless use of "re" pragma, Useless use of sort in scalar context,
1139 Useless use of %s with no values, "use" not allowed in expression, Use of
1140 bare << to mean <<"" is deprecated, Use of *glob{FILEHANDLE} is deprecated,
1141 Use of chdir('') or chdir(undef) as chdir() deprecated, Use of implicit
1142 split to @_ is deprecated, Use of inherited AUTOLOAD for non-method %s() is
1143 deprecated, Use of -l on filehandle %s, Use of "package" with no arguments
1144 is deprecated, Use of %s in printf format not supported, Use of $* is
1145 deprecated, Use of %s is deprecated, Use of $# is deprecated, Use of
1146 reference "%s" as array index, Use of reserved word "%s" is deprecated, Use
1147 of tainted arguments in %s is deprecated, Use of uninitialized value%s,
1148 Using a hash as a reference is deprecated, Using an array as a reference is
1149 deprecated, UTF-16 surrogate %s, Value of %s can be "0"; test with
1150 defined(), Value of CLI symbol "%s" too long, Variable "%s" is not
1151 imported%s, "%s" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same %s, Variable
1152 "%s" may be unavailable, Variable syntax, Variable "%s" will not stay
1153 shared, Variable length lookbehind not implemented in regex;, Version
1154 number must be a constant number, v-string in use/require is non-portable,
1155 Warning: something's wrong, Warning: unable to close filehandle %s
1156 properly, Warning: Use of "%s" without parentheses is ambiguous, Wide
1157 character in %s, write() on closed filehandle %s, X outside of string, x
1158 outside of string, Xsub "%s" called in sort, Xsub called in sort, YOU
1159 HAVEN'T DISABLED SET-ID SCRIPTS IN THE KERNEL YET!, You need to quote "%s"
1163 =head2 perllexwarn - Perl Lexical Warnings
1171 =item Default Warnings and Optional Warnings
1173 =item What's wrong with B<-w> and C<$^W>
1175 =item Controlling Warnings from the Command Line
1179 =item Backward Compatibility
1181 =item Category Hierarchy
1183 =item Fatal Warnings
1185 =item Reporting Warnings from a Module
1197 =head2 perldebtut - Perl debugging tutorial
1205 =item Looking at data and -w and v
1209 =item Stepping through code
1211 =item Placeholder for a, w, t, T
1213 =item REGULAR EXPRESSIONS
1231 =head2 perldebug - Perl debugging
1237 =item The Perl Debugger
1241 =item Debugger Commands
1243 h, h [command], h h, p expr, x [maxdepth] expr, V [pkg [vars]], X [vars],
1244 T, s [expr], n [expr], r, <CR>, c [line|sub], l, l min+incr, l min-max, l
1245 line, l subname, -, v [line], f filename, /pattern/, ?pattern?, L [abw], S
1246 [[!]regex], t, t expr, b, b [line] [condition], b subname [condition], b
1247 postpone subname [condition], b load filename, b compile subname, B line, B
1248 *, a [line] command, A line, A *, w expr, W expr, W *, o, o booloption ..,
1249 o anyoption? .., o option=value .., < ?, < [ command ], << command, > ?, >
1250 command, >> command, { ?, { [ command ], {{ command, ! number, ! -number, !
1251 pattern, !! cmd, @ file, H -number, q or ^D, R, |dbcmd, ||dbcmd, command, m
1252 expr, M, man [manpage]
1254 =item Configurable Options
1256 C<recallCommand>, C<ShellBang>, C<pager>, C<tkRunning>, C<signalLevel>,
1257 C<warnLevel>, C<dieLevel>, C<AutoTrace>, C<LineInfo>, C<inhibit_exit>,
1258 C<PrintRet>, C<ornaments>, C<frame>, C<maxTraceLen>, C<windowSize>,
1259 C<arrayDepth>, C<hashDepth>, C<dumpDepth>, C<compactDump>, C<veryCompact>,
1260 C<globPrint>, C<DumpDBFiles>, C<DumpPackages>, C<DumpReused>, C<quote>,
1261 C<HighBit>, C<undefPrint>, C<UsageOnly>, C<TTY>, C<noTTY>, C<ReadLine>,
1264 =item Debugger input/output
1266 Prompt, Multiline commands, Stack backtrace, Line Listing Format, Frame
1269 =item Debugging compile-time statements
1271 =item Debugger Customization
1273 =item Readline Support
1275 =item Editor Support for Debugging
1277 =item The Perl Profiler
1281 =item Debugging regular expressions
1283 =item Debugging memory usage
1291 =head2 perlvar - Perl predefined variables
1299 =item Predefined Names
1301 $ARG, $_, $a, $b, $<I<digits>>, $MATCH, $&, $PREMATCH, $`, $POSTMATCH, $',
1302 $LAST_PAREN_MATCH, $+, $^N, @LAST_MATCH_END, @+, $MULTILINE_MATCHING, $*,
1303 HANDLE->input_line_number(EXPR), $INPUT_LINE_NUMBER, $NR, $,
1304 IO::Handle->input_record_separator(EXPR), $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR, $RS, $/,
1305 HANDLE->autoflush(EXPR), $OUTPUT_AUTOFLUSH, $|,
1306 IO::Handle->output_field_separator EXPR, $OUTPUT_FIELD_SEPARATOR, $OFS, $,,
1307 IO::Handle->output_record_separator EXPR, $OUTPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR, $ORS,
1308 $\, $LIST_SEPARATOR, $", $SUBSCRIPT_SEPARATOR, $SUBSEP, $;, $OFMT, $#,
1309 HANDLE->format_page_number(EXPR), $FORMAT_PAGE_NUMBER, $%,
1310 HANDLE->format_lines_per_page(EXPR), $FORMAT_LINES_PER_PAGE, $=,
1311 HANDLE->format_lines_left(EXPR), $FORMAT_LINES_LEFT, $-, @LAST_MATCH_START,
1312 @-, C<$`> is the same as C<substr($var, 0, $-[0])>, C<$&> is the same as
1313 C<substr($var, $-[0], $+[0] - $-[0])>, C<$'> is the same as C<substr($var,
1314 $+[0])>, C<$1> is the same as C<substr($var, $-[1], $+[1] - $-[1])>, C<$2>
1315 is the same as C<substr($var, $-[2], $+[2] - $-[2])>, C<$3> is the same as
1316 C<substr $var, $-[3], $+[3] - $-[3])>, HANDLE->format_name(EXPR),
1317 $FORMAT_NAME, $~, HANDLE->format_top_name(EXPR), $FORMAT_TOP_NAME, $^,
1318 IO::Handle->format_line_break_characters EXPR,
1319 $FORMAT_LINE_BREAK_CHARACTERS, $:, IO::Handle->format_formfeed EXPR,
1320 $FORMAT_FORMFEED, $^L, $ACCUMULATOR, $^A, $CHILD_ERROR, $?, ${^ENCODING},
1321 $OS_ERROR, $ERRNO, $!, $EXTENDED_OS_ERROR, $^E, $EVAL_ERROR, $@,
1322 $PROCESS_ID, $PID, $$, $REAL_USER_ID, $UID, $<, $EFFECTIVE_USER_ID, $EUID,
1323 $>, $REAL_GROUP_ID, $GID, $(, $EFFECTIVE_GROUP_ID, $EGID, $),
1324 $PROGRAM_NAME, $0, $[, $], $COMPILING, $^C, $DEBUGGING, $^D,
1325 $SYSTEM_FD_MAX, $^F, $^H, %^H, $INPLACE_EDIT, $^I, $^M, $OSNAME, $^O,
1326 ${^OPEN}, $PERLDB, $^P, 0x01, 0x02, 0x04, 0x08, 0x10, 0x20, 0x40, 0x80,
1327 0x100, 0x200, $LAST_REGEXP_CODE_RESULT, $^R, $EXCEPTIONS_BEING_CAUGHT, $^S,
1328 $BASETIME, $^T, ${^TAINT}, $PERL_VERSION, $^V, $WARNING, $^W,
1329 ${^WARNING_BITS}, ${^WIDE_SYSTEM_CALLS}, $EXECUTABLE_NAME, $^X, ARGV,
1330 $ARGV, @ARGV, @F, @INC, @_, %INC, %ENV, $ENV{expr}, %SIG, $SIG{expr}
1332 =item Error Indicators
1334 =item Technical Note on the Syntax of Variable Names
1342 =head2 perllol - Manipulating Arrays of Arrays in Perl
1350 =item Declaration and Access of Arrays of Arrays
1352 =item Growing Your Own
1354 =item Access and Printing
1366 =head2 perlopentut - tutorial on opening things in Perl
1372 =item Open E<agrave> la shell
1380 =item The Minus File
1382 =item Mixing Reads and Writes
1388 =item Open E<agrave> la C
1392 =item Permissions E<agrave> la mode
1396 =item Obscure Open Tricks
1400 =item Re-Opening Files (dups)
1402 =item Dispelling the Dweomer
1404 =item Paths as Opens
1406 =item Single Argument Open
1408 =item Playing with STDIN and STDOUT
1412 =item Other I/O Issues
1416 =item Opening Non-File Files
1426 =item AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT
1432 =head2 perlpacktut - tutorial on C<pack> and C<unpack>
1438 =item The Basic Principle
1442 =item Packing Numbers
1448 =item Unpacking a Stack Frame
1450 =item How to Eat an Egg on a Net
1452 =item Floating point Numbers
1456 =item Exotic Templates
1468 =item Another Portable Binary Encoding
1472 =item Lengths and Widths
1476 =item String Lengths
1478 =item Dynamic Templates
1482 =item Packing and Unpacking C Structures
1486 =item The Alignment Pit
1488 =item Alignment, Take 2
1490 =item Alignment, Take 3
1492 =item Pointers for How to Use Them
1498 =item Funnies Section
1504 =head2 perlretut - Perl regular expressions tutorial
1510 =item Part 1: The basics
1514 =item Simple word matching
1516 =item Using character classes
1518 =item Matching this or that
1520 =item Grouping things and hierarchical matching
1522 =item Extracting matches
1524 =item Matching repetitions
1526 =item Building a regexp
1528 =item Using regular expressions in Perl
1532 =item Part 2: Power tools
1536 =item More on characters, strings, and character classes
1538 =item Compiling and saving regular expressions
1540 =item Embedding comments and modifiers in a regular expression
1542 =item Non-capturing groupings
1544 =item Looking ahead and looking behind
1546 =item Using independent subexpressions to prevent backtracking
1548 =item Conditional expressions
1550 =item A bit of magic: executing Perl code in a regular expression
1552 =item Pragmas and debugging
1560 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
1564 =item Acknowledgments
1570 =head2 perlre - Perl regular expressions
1580 =item Regular Expressions
1582 [1], [2], [3], cntrl, graph, print, punct, xdigit
1584 =item Extended Patterns
1586 C<(?#text)>, C<(?imsx-imsx)>, C<(?:pattern)>, C<(?imsx-imsx:pattern)>,
1587 C<(?=pattern)>, C<(?!pattern)>, C<(?<=pattern)>, C<(?<!pattern)>, C<(?{
1588 code })>, C<(??{ code })>, C<< (?>pattern) >>,
1589 C<(?(condition)yes-pattern|no-pattern)>, C<(?(condition)yes-pattern)>
1593 =item Version 8 Regular Expressions
1595 =item Warning on \1 vs $1
1597 =item Repeated patterns matching zero-length substring
1599 =item Combining pieces together
1601 C<ST>, C<S|T>, C<S{REPEAT_COUNT}>, C<S{min,max}>, C<S{min,max}?>, C<S?>,
1602 C<S*>, C<S+>, C<S??>, C<S*?>, C<S+?>, C<< (?>S) >>, C<(?=S)>, C<(?<=S)>,
1603 C<(?!S)>, C<(?<!S)>, C<(??{ EXPR })>,
1604 C<(?(condition)yes-pattern|no-pattern)>
1606 =item Creating custom RE engines
1616 =head2 perlref - Perl references and nested data structures
1626 =item Making References
1628 =item Using References
1630 =item Symbolic references
1632 =item Not-so-symbolic references
1634 =item Pseudo-hashes: Using an array as a hash
1636 =item Function Templates
1646 =head2 perlform - Perl formats
1654 =item Format Variables
1664 =item Accessing Formatting Internals
1672 =head2 perlboot - Beginner's Object-Oriented Tutorial
1680 =item If we could talk to the animals...
1682 =item Introducing the method invocation arrow
1684 =item Invoking a barnyard
1686 =item The extra parameter of method invocation
1688 =item Calling a second method to simplify things
1690 =item Inheriting the windpipes
1692 =item A few notes about @ISA
1694 =item Overriding the methods
1696 =item Starting the search from a different place
1698 =item The SUPER way of doing things
1700 =item Where we're at so far...
1702 =item A horse is a horse, of course of course -- or is it?
1704 =item Invoking an instance method
1706 =item Accessing the instance data
1708 =item How to build a horse
1710 =item Inheriting the constructor
1712 =item Making a method work with either classes or instances
1714 =item Adding parameters to a method
1716 =item More interesting instances
1718 =item A horse of a different color
1730 =head2 perltoot - Tom's object-oriented tutorial for perl
1736 =item Creating a Class
1740 =item Object Representation
1742 =item Class Interface
1744 =item Constructors and Instance Methods
1746 =item Planning for the Future: Better Constructors
1750 =item Other Object Methods
1758 =item Accessing Class Data
1760 =item Debugging Methods
1762 =item Class Destructors
1764 =item Documenting the Interface
1774 =item Overridden Methods
1776 =item Multiple Inheritance
1778 =item UNIVERSAL: The Root of All Objects
1782 =item Alternate Object Representations
1786 =item Arrays as Objects
1788 =item Closures as Objects
1792 =item AUTOLOAD: Proxy Methods
1796 =item Autoloaded Data Methods
1798 =item Inherited Autoloaded Data Methods
1802 =item Metaclassical Tools
1808 =item Data Members as Variables
1816 =item Object Terminology
1822 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
1828 =item Acknowledgments
1834 =head2 perltooc - Tom's OO Tutorial for Class Data in Perl
1840 =item Class Data in a Can
1842 =item Class Data as Package Variables
1846 =item Putting All Your Eggs in One Basket
1848 =item Inheritance Concerns
1850 =item The Eponymous Meta-Object
1852 =item Indirect References to Class Data
1854 =item Monadic Classes
1856 =item Translucent Attributes
1860 =item Class Data as Lexical Variables
1864 =item Privacy and Responsibility
1866 =item File-Scoped Lexicals
1868 =item More Inheritance Concerns
1870 =item Locking the Door and Throwing Away the Key
1872 =item Translucency Revisited
1880 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
1882 =item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
1888 =head2 perlobj - Perl objects
1896 =item An Object is Simply a Reference
1898 =item A Class is Simply a Package
1900 =item A Method is Simply a Subroutine
1902 =item Method Invocation
1904 =item Indirect Object Syntax
1906 =item Default UNIVERSAL methods
1908 isa(CLASS), can(METHOD), VERSION( [NEED] )
1914 =item Two-Phased Garbage Collection
1922 =head2 perlbot - Bag'o Object Tricks (the BOT)
1928 =item OO SCALING TIPS
1930 =item INSTANCE VARIABLES
1932 =item SCALAR INSTANCE VARIABLES
1934 =item INSTANCE VARIABLE INHERITANCE
1936 =item OBJECT RELATIONSHIPS
1938 =item OVERRIDING SUPERCLASS METHODS
1940 =item USING RELATIONSHIP WITH SDBM
1942 =item THINKING OF CODE REUSE
1944 =item CLASS CONTEXT AND THE OBJECT
1946 =item INHERITING A CONSTRUCTOR
1952 =head2 perltie - how to hide an object class in a simple variable
1964 TIESCALAR classname, LIST, FETCH this, STORE this, value, UNTIE this,
1969 TIEARRAY classname, LIST, FETCH this, index, STORE this, index, value,
1970 FETCHSIZE this, STORESIZE this, count, EXTEND this, count, EXISTS this,
1971 key, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this, PUSH this, LIST, POP this, SHIFT this,
1972 UNSHIFT this, LIST, SPLICE this, offset, length, LIST, UNTIE this, DESTROY
1977 USER, HOME, CLOBBER, LIST, TIEHASH classname, LIST, FETCH this, key, STORE
1978 this, key, value, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this, EXISTS this, key, FIRSTKEY
1979 this, NEXTKEY this, lastkey, UNTIE this, DESTROY this
1981 =item Tying FileHandles
1983 TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, WRITE this, LIST, PRINT this, LIST, PRINTF this,
1984 LIST, READ this, LIST, READLINE this, GETC this, CLOSE this, UNTIE this,
1989 =item The C<untie> Gotcha
2001 =head2 perlipc - Perl interprocess communication (signals, fifos, pipes,
2002 safe subprocesses, sockets, and semaphores)
2018 =item Using open() for IPC
2024 =item Background Processes
2026 =item Complete Dissociation of Child from Parent
2028 =item Safe Pipe Opens
2030 =item Bidirectional Communication with Another Process
2032 =item Bidirectional Communication with Yourself
2036 =item Sockets: Client/Server Communication
2040 =item Internet Line Terminators
2042 =item Internet TCP Clients and Servers
2044 =item Unix-Domain TCP Clients and Servers
2048 =item TCP Clients with IO::Socket
2052 =item A Simple Client
2054 C<Proto>, C<PeerAddr>, C<PeerPort>
2056 =item A Webget Client
2058 =item Interactive Client with IO::Socket
2062 =item TCP Servers with IO::Socket
2064 Proto, LocalPort, Listen, Reuse
2066 =item UDP: Message Passing
2080 =head2 perlfork - Perl's fork() emulation (EXPERIMENTAL, subject to change)
2090 =item Behavior of other Perl features in forked pseudo-processes
2092 $$ or $PROCESS_ID, %ENV, chdir() and all other builtins that accept
2093 filenames, wait() and waitpid(), kill(), exec(), exit(), Open handles to
2094 files, directories and network sockets
2096 =item Resource limits
2098 =item Killing the parent process
2100 =item Lifetime of the parent process and pseudo-processes
2102 =item CAVEATS AND LIMITATIONS
2104 BEGIN blocks, Open filehandles, Forking pipe open() not yet implemented,
2105 Global state maintained by XSUBs, Interpreter embedded in larger
2106 application, Thread-safety of extensions
2118 =head2 perlnumber - semantics of numbers and numeric operations in Perl
2126 =item Storing numbers
2128 =item Numeric operators and numeric conversions
2130 =item Flavors of Perl numeric operations
2132 Arithmetic operators except, C<no integer>, Arithmetic operators except,
2133 C<use integer>, Bitwise operators, C<no integer>, Bitwise operators, C<use
2134 integer>, Operators which expect an integer, Operators which expect a
2143 =head2 perlthrtut - tutorial on threads in Perl
2151 =head2 perlothrtut - old tutorial on threads in Perl
2157 =item What Is A Thread Anyway?
2159 =item Threaded Program Models
2171 =item Native threads
2173 =item What kind of threads are perl threads?
2175 =item Threadsafe Modules
2181 =item Basic Thread Support
2183 =item Creating Threads
2185 =item Giving up control
2187 =item Waiting For A Thread To Exit
2189 =item Errors In Threads
2191 =item Ignoring A Thread
2195 =item Threads And Data
2199 =item Shared And Unshared Data
2201 =item Thread Pitfall: Races
2203 =item Controlling access: lock()
2205 =item Thread Pitfall: Deadlocks
2207 =item Queues: Passing Data Around
2211 =item Threads And Code
2215 =item Semaphores: Synchronizing Data Access
2217 Basic semaphores, Advanced Semaphores
2219 =item Attributes: Restricting Access To Subroutines
2221 =item Subroutine Locks
2225 =item Locking A Subroutine
2229 =item General Thread Utility Routines
2233 =item What Thread Am I In?
2237 =item Are These Threads The Same?
2239 =item What Threads Are Running?
2243 =item A Complete Example
2251 =item Introductory Texts
2253 =item OS-Related References
2255 =item Other References
2259 =item Acknowledgements
2267 =head2 perlport - Writing portable Perl
2273 Not all Perl programs have to be portable, Nearly all of Perl already I<is>
2282 =item Numbers endianness and Width
2284 =item Files and Filesystems
2286 =item System Interaction
2288 =item Interprocess Communication (IPC)
2290 =item External Subroutines (XS)
2292 =item Standard Modules
2296 =item Character sets and character encoding
2298 =item Internationalisation
2300 =item System Resources
2310 Mailing list: cpan-testers@perl.org, Testing results:
2311 http://testers.cpan.org/
2319 =item DOS and Derivatives
2327 =item EBCDIC Platforms
2335 =item FUNCTION IMPLEMENTATIONS
2339 =item Alphabetical Listing of Perl Functions
2341 -I<X> FILEHANDLE, -I<X> EXPR, -I<X>, alarm SECONDS, alarm, binmode
2342 FILEHANDLE, chmod LIST, chown LIST, chroot FILENAME, chroot, crypt
2343 PLAINTEXT,SALT, dbmclose HASH, dbmopen HASH,DBNAME,MODE, dump LABEL, exec
2344 LIST, exit EXPR, exit, fcntl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, flock
2345 FILEHANDLE,OPERATION, fork, getlogin, getpgrp PID, getppid, getpriority
2346 WHICH,WHO, getpwnam NAME, getgrnam NAME, getnetbyname NAME, getpwuid UID,
2347 getgrgid GID, getnetbyaddr ADDR,ADDRTYPE, getprotobynumber NUMBER,
2348 getservbyport PORT,PROTO, getpwent, getgrent, gethostent, getnetent,
2349 getprotoent, getservent, setpwent, setgrent, sethostent STAYOPEN, setnetent
2350 STAYOPEN, setprotoent STAYOPEN, setservent STAYOPEN, endpwent, endgrent,
2351 endhostent, endnetent, endprotoent, endservent, getsockopt
2352 SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME, glob EXPR, glob, ioctl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR,
2353 kill SIGNAL, LIST, link OLDFILE,NEWFILE, lstat FILEHANDLE, lstat EXPR,
2354 lstat, msgctl ID,CMD,ARG, msgget KEY,FLAGS, msgsnd ID,MSG,FLAGS, msgrcv
2355 ID,VAR,SIZE,TYPE,FLAGS, open FILEHANDLE,EXPR, open FILEHANDLE, pipe
2356 READHANDLE,WRITEHANDLE, readlink EXPR, readlink, select
2357 RBITS,WBITS,EBITS,TIMEOUT, semctl ID,SEMNUM,CMD,ARG, semget
2358 KEY,NSEMS,FLAGS, semop KEY,OPSTRING, setgrent, setpgrp PID,PGRP,
2359 setpriority WHICH,WHO,PRIORITY, setpwent, setsockopt
2360 SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME,OPTVAL, shmctl ID,CMD,ARG, shmget KEY,SIZE,FLAGS,
2361 shmread ID,VAR,POS,SIZE, shmwrite ID,STRING,POS,SIZE, sockatmark SOCKET,
2362 socketpair SOCKET1,SOCKET2,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL, stat FILEHANDLE, stat
2363 EXPR, stat, symlink OLDFILE,NEWFILE, syscall LIST, sysopen
2364 FILEHANDLE,FILENAME,MODE,PERMS, system LIST, times, truncate
2365 FILEHANDLE,LENGTH, truncate EXPR,LENGTH, umask EXPR, umask, utime LIST,
2366 wait, waitpid PID,FLAGS
2372 v1.48, 02 February 2001, v1.47, 22 March 2000, v1.46, 12 February 2000,
2373 v1.45, 20 December 1999, v1.44, 19 July 1999, v1.43, 24 May 1999, v1.42, 22
2374 May 1999, v1.41, 19 May 1999, v1.40, 11 April 1999, v1.39, 11 February
2375 1999, v1.38, 31 December 1998, v1.37, 19 December 1998, v1.36, 9 September
2376 1998, v1.35, 13 August 1998, v1.33, 06 August 1998, v1.32, 05 August 1998,
2377 v1.30, 03 August 1998, v1.23, 10 July 1998
2379 =item Supported Platforms
2383 =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
2560 =item UNICODE REGULAR EXPRESSION SUPPORT LEVEL
2564 =item Unicode Encodings
2566 =item Security Implications of Malformed UTF-8
2568 =item Unicode in Perl on EBCDIC
2570 =item Using Unicode in XS
2578 =head2 perlebcdic - Considerations for running Perl on EBCDIC platforms
2584 =item COMMON CHARACTER CODE SETS
2592 =item Latin 1 (ISO 8859-1)
2596 =item 13 variant characters
2604 =item Unicode and UTF
2610 =item SINGLE OCTET TABLES
2612 recipe 0, recipe 1, recipe 2, recipe 3, recipe 4, recipe 5, recipe 6
2614 =item IDENTIFYING CHARACTER CODE SETS
2628 =item OPERATOR DIFFERENCES
2630 =item FUNCTION DIFFERENCES
2632 chr(), ord(), pack(), print(), printf(), sort(), sprintf(), unpack()
2634 =item REGULAR EXPRESSION DIFFERENCES
2642 =item Ignore ASCII vs. EBCDIC sort differences.
2644 =item MONO CASE then sort data.
2646 =item Convert, sort data, then re convert.
2648 =item Perform sorting on one type of machine only.
2652 =item TRANSFORMATION FORMATS
2656 =item URL decoding and encoding
2658 =item uu encoding and decoding
2660 =item Quoted-Printable encoding and decoding
2662 =item Caesarian ciphers
2666 =item Hashing order and checksums
2670 =item MULTI OCTET CHARACTER SETS
2682 chcp, dataset access, OS/390, z/OS iconv, locales
2702 =head2 perlsec - Perl security
2710 =item Laundering and Detecting Tainted Data
2712 =item Switches On the "#!" Line
2714 =item Cleaning Up Your Path
2718 =item Protecting Your Programs
2726 =head2 perlmod - Perl modules (packages and symbol tables)
2738 =item Package Constructors and Destructors
2744 =item Making your module threadsafe
2752 =head2 perlmodinstall - Installing CPAN Modules
2762 B<DECOMPRESS> the file, B<UNPACK> the file into a directory, B<BUILD> the
2763 module (sometimes unnecessary), B<INSTALL> the module
2777 =head2 perlmodlib - constructing new Perl modules and finding existing ones
2783 =item THE PERL MODULE LIBRARY
2787 =item Pragmatic Modules
2789 attributes, autouse, base, blib, bytes, charnames, constant, diagnostics,
2790 encoding, fields, filetest, integer, less, locale, open, overload, sigtrap,
2791 sort, strict, subs, utf8, vars, vmsish, warnings, warnings::register
2793 =item Standard Modules
2795 AnyDBM_File, Attribute::Handlers, AutoLoader, AutoSplit, Benchmark, CGI,
2796 CGI::Apache, CGI::Carp, CGI::Cookie, CGI::Fast, CGI::Pretty, CGI::Push,
2797 CGI::Switch, CGI::Util, CPAN, CPAN::FirstTime, CPAN::Nox, Carp,
2798 Carp::Heavy, Class::ISA, Class::Struct, Cwd, DB, Devel::SelfStubber,
2799 Digest, DirHandle, Dumpvalue, English, Env, Exporter, Exporter::Heavy,
2800 ExtUtils::Command, ExtUtils::Constant, ExtUtils::Embed, ExtUtils::Install,
2801 ExtUtils::Installed, ExtUtils::Liblist, ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin,
2802 ExtUtils::MM_NW5, ExtUtils::MM_OS2, ExtUtils::MM_Unix, ExtUtils::MM_VMS,
2803 ExtUtils::MM_Win32, ExtUtils::MakeMaker, ExtUtils::Manifest,
2804 ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap, ExtUtils::Mksymlists, ExtUtils::Packlist,
2805 ExtUtils::testlib, Fatal, File::Basename, File::CheckTree, File::Compare,
2806 File::Copy, File::DosGlob, File::Find, File::Path, File::Spec,
2807 File::Spec::Cygwin, File::Spec::Epoc, File::Spec::Functions,
2808 File::Spec::Mac, File::Spec::OS2, File::Spec::Unix, File::Spec::VMS,
2809 File::Spec::Win32, File::Temp, File::stat, FileCache, FileHandle,
2810 Filter::Simple, FindBin, Getopt::Long, Getopt::Std, I18N::Collate,
2811 I18N::LangTags, I18N::LangTags::List, IPC::Open2, IPC::Open3,
2812 Locale::Constants, Locale::Country, Locale::Currency, Locale::Language,
2813 Locale::Maketext, Locale::Maketext::TPJ13, Math::BigFloat, Math::BigInt,
2814 Math::BigInt::Calc, Math::Complex, Math::Trig, Memoize,
2815 Memoize::AnyDBM_File, Memoize::Expire, Memoize::ExpireFile,
2816 Memoize::ExpireTest, Memoize::NDBM_File, Memoize::SDBM_File,
2817 Memoize::Storable, NEXT, Net::Cmd, Net::Config, Net::Domain, Net::FTP,
2818 Net::NNTP, Net::Netrc, Net::POP3, Net::Ping, Net::SMTP, Net::Time,
2819 Net::hostent, Net::libnetFAQ, Net::netent, Net::protoent, Net::servent,
2820 PerlIO, Pod::Checker, Pod::Find, Pod::Functions, Pod::Html,
2821 Pod::InputObjects, Pod::LaTeX, Pod::Man, Pod::ParseLink, Pod::ParseUtils,
2822 Pod::Parser, Pod::Plainer, Pod::Select, Pod::Text, Pod::Text::Color,
2823 Pod::Text::Overstrike, Pod::Text::Termcap, Pod::Usage, Pod::t::basic,
2824 Search::Dict, SelectSaver, SelfLoader, Shell, Switch, Symbol,
2825 Term::ANSIColor, Term::Cap, Term::Complete, Term::ReadLine, Test,
2826 Test::Builder, Test::Harness, Test::More, Test::Simple, Test::Tutorial,
2827 Text::Abbrev, Text::Balanced, Text::ParseWords, Text::Soundex, Text::Tabs,
2828 Text::Wrap, Thread, Tie::Array, Tie::Handle, Tie::Hash, Tie::RefHash,
2829 Tie::Scalar, Tie::SubstrHash, Time::Local, Time::gmtime, Time::localtime,
2830 Time::tm, UNIVERSAL, Unicode::Collate, Unicode::UCD, User::grent,
2833 =item Extension Modules
2845 =item Central America
2857 =item Modules: Creation, Use, and Abuse
2861 =item Guidelines for Module Creation
2863 =item Guidelines for Converting Perl 4 Library Scripts into Modules
2865 =item Guidelines for Reusing Application Code
2873 =head2 perlmodstyle - Perl module style guide
2879 =item QUICK CHECKLIST
2883 =item Before you start
2891 =item Release considerations
2895 =item BEFORE YOU START WRITING A MODULE
2899 =item Has it been done before?
2901 =item Do one thing and do it well
2903 =item What's in a name?
2907 =item DESIGNING AND WRITING YOUR MODULE
2911 =item To OO or not to OO?
2913 =item Designing your API
2915 Write simple routines to do simple things, Separate functionality from
2916 output, Provide sensible shortcuts and defaults, Naming conventions,
2919 =item Strictness and warnings
2921 =item Backwards compatibility
2923 =item Error handling and messages
2927 =item DOCUMENTING YOUR MODULE
2933 =item README, INSTALL, release notes, changelogs
2937 =item RELEASE CONSIDERATIONS
2941 =item Version numbering
2943 =item Pre-requisites
2953 =item COMMON PITFALLS
2957 =item Reinventing the wheel
2959 =item Trying to do too much
2961 =item Inappropriate documentation
2967 L<perlstyle>, L<perlnewmod>, L<perlpod>, L<podchecker>, Testing tools,
2968 http://pause.perl.org/, Any good book on software engineering
2974 =head2 perlnewmod - preparing a new module for distribution
2984 =item What should I make into a module?
2986 =item Step-by-step: Preparing the ground
2988 Look around, Check it's new, Discuss the need, Choose a name, Check again
2990 =item Step-by-step: Making the module
2992 Start with F<h2xs>, Use L<strict|strict> and L<warnings|warnings>, Use
2993 L<Carp|Carp>, Use L<Exporter|Exporter> - wisely!, Use L<plain old
2994 documentation|perlpod>, Write tests, Write the README
2996 =item Step-by-step: Distributing your module
2998 Get a CPAN user ID, C<perl Makefile.PL; make test; make dist>, Upload the
2999 tarball, Announce to the modules list, Announce to clpa, Fix bugs!
3009 =head2 perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.6 $, $Date:
3010 2002/01/31 01:46:23 $)
3020 =item Who supports Perl? Who develops it? Why is it free?
3022 =item Which version of Perl should I use?
3024 =item What are perl4 and perl5?
3026 =item What is perl6?
3028 =item How stable is Perl?
3030 =item Is Perl difficult to learn?
3032 =item How does Perl compare with other languages like Java, Python, REXX,
3035 =item Can I do [task] in Perl?
3037 =item When shouldn't I program in Perl?
3039 =item What's the difference between "perl" and "Perl"?
3041 =item Is it a Perl program or a Perl script?
3043 =item What is a JAPH?
3045 =item Where can I get a list of Larry Wall witticisms?
3047 =item How can I convince my sysadmin/supervisor/employees to use version
3048 5/5.6.1/Perl instead of some other language?
3052 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3056 =head2 perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.8 $,
3057 $Date: 2002/02/08 22:31:57 $)
3065 =item What machines support Perl? Where do I get it?
3067 =item How can I get a binary version of Perl?
3069 =item I don't have a C compiler on my system. How can I compile perl?
3071 =item I copied the Perl binary from one machine to another, but scripts
3074 =item I grabbed the sources and tried to compile but gdbm/dynamic
3075 loading/malloc/linking/... failed. How do I make it work?
3077 =item What modules and extensions are available for Perl? What is CPAN?
3078 What does CPAN/src/... mean?
3080 =item Is there an ISO or ANSI certified version of Perl?
3082 =item Where can I get information on Perl?
3084 =item What are the Perl newsgroups on Usenet? Where do I post questions?
3086 =item Where should I post source code?
3090 References, Tutorials, Task-Oriented, Special Topics
3092 =item Perl in Magazines
3094 =item Perl on the Net: FTP and WWW Access
3096 =item What mailing lists are there for Perl?
3098 =item Archives of comp.lang.perl.misc
3100 =item Where can I buy a commercial version of Perl?
3102 =item Where do I send bug reports?
3104 =item What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org? cpan.org?
3108 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3112 =head2 perlfaq3 - Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.15 $, $Date: 2002/02/11
3121 =item How do I do (anything)?
3123 =item How can I use Perl interactively?
3125 =item Is there a Perl shell?
3127 =item How do I debug my Perl programs?
3129 =item How do I profile my Perl programs?
3131 =item How do I cross-reference my Perl programs?
3133 =item Is there a pretty-printer (formatter) for Perl?
3135 =item Is there a ctags for Perl?
3137 =item Is there an IDE or Windows Perl Editor?
3139 Komodo, The Object System, Open Perl IDE, PerlBuilder, visiPerl+,
3140 CodeMagicCD, GNU Emacs, MicroEMACS, XEmacs, Elvis, Vile, Vim, Codewright,
3141 MultiEdit, SlickEdit, Bash, Ksh, Tcsh, Zsh, BBEdit and BBEdit Lite, Alpha
3143 =item Where can I get Perl macros for vi?
3145 =item Where can I get perl-mode for emacs?
3147 =item How can I use curses with Perl?
3149 =item How can I use X or Tk with Perl?
3151 =item How can I generate simple menus without using CGI or Tk?
3153 =item How can I make my Perl program run faster?
3155 =item How can I make my Perl program take less memory?
3157 Don't slurp!, Use map and grep selectively, Avoid unnecessary quotes and
3158 stringification, Pass by reference, Tie large variables to disk
3160 =item Is it unsafe to return a pointer to local data?
3162 =item How can I free an array or hash so my program shrinks?
3164 =item How can I make my CGI script more efficient?
3166 =item How can I hide the source for my Perl program?
3168 =item How can I compile my Perl program into byte code or C?
3170 =item How can I compile Perl into Java?
3172 =item How can I get C<#!perl> to work on [MS-DOS,NT,...]?
3174 =item Can I write useful Perl programs on the command line?
3176 =item Why don't Perl one-liners work on my DOS/Mac/VMS system?
3178 =item Where can I learn about CGI or Web programming in Perl?
3180 =item Where can I learn about object-oriented Perl programming?
3182 =item Where can I learn about linking C with Perl? [h2xs, xsubpp]
3184 =item I've read perlembed, perlguts, etc., but I can't embed perl in
3185 my C program; what am I doing wrong?
3187 =item When I tried to run my script, I got this message. What does it mean?
3189 =item What's MakeMaker?
3193 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3197 =head2 perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation ($Revision: 1.14 $, $Date: 2002/02/08
3208 =item Why am I getting long decimals (eg, 19.9499999999999) instead of the
3209 numbers I should be getting (eg, 19.95)?
3211 =item Why isn't my octal data interpreted correctly?
3213 =item Does Perl have a round() function? What about ceil() and floor()?
3216 =item How do I convert between numeric representations?
3218 B<How do I convert Hexadecimal into decimal:>, B<How do I convert from
3219 decimal to hexadecimal:>, B<How do I convert from octal to decimal:>, B<How
3220 do I convert from decimal to octal:>, B<How do I convert from binary to
3221 decimal:>, B<How do I convert from decimal to binary:>
3223 =item Why doesn't & work the way I want it to?
3225 =item How do I multiply matrices?
3227 =item How do I perform an operation on a series of integers?
3229 =item How can I output Roman numerals?
3231 =item Why aren't my random numbers random?
3239 =item How do I find the week-of-the-year/day-of-the-year?
3241 =item How do I find the current century or millennium?
3243 =item How can I compare two dates and find the difference?
3245 =item How can I take a string and turn it into epoch seconds?
3247 =item How can I find the Julian Day?
3249 =item How do I find yesterday's date?
3251 =item Does Perl have a Year 2000 problem? Is Perl Y2K compliant?
3259 =item How do I validate input?
3261 =item How do I unescape a string?
3263 =item How do I remove consecutive pairs of characters?
3265 =item How do I expand function calls in a string?
3267 =item How do I find matching/nesting anything?
3269 =item How do I reverse a string?
3271 =item How do I expand tabs in a string?
3273 =item How do I reformat a paragraph?
3275 =item How can I access/change the first N letters of a string?
3277 =item How do I change the Nth occurrence of something?
3279 =item How can I count the number of occurrences of a substring within a
3282 =item How do I capitalize all the words on one line?
3284 =item How can I split a [character] delimited string except when inside
3285 [character]? (Comma-separated files)
3287 =item How do I strip blank space from the beginning/end of a string?
3289 =item How do I pad a string with blanks or pad a number with zeroes?
3291 =item How do I extract selected columns from a string?
3293 =item How do I find the soundex value of a string?
3295 =item How can I expand variables in text strings?
3297 =item What's wrong with always quoting "$vars"?
3299 =item Why don't my <<HERE documents work?
3301 1. There must be no space after the << part, 2. There (probably) should be
3302 a semicolon at the end, 3. You can't (easily) have any space in front of
3311 =item What is the difference between a list and an array?
3313 =item What is the difference between $array[1] and @array[1]?
3315 =item How can I remove duplicate elements from a list or array?
3319 =item How can I tell whether a certain element is contained in a list or
3322 =item How do I compute the difference of two arrays? How do I compute the
3323 intersection of two arrays?
3325 =item How do I test whether two arrays or hashes are equal?
3327 =item How do I find the first array element for which a condition is true?
3329 =item How do I handle linked lists?
3331 =item How do I handle circular lists?
3333 =item How do I shuffle an array randomly?
3335 =item How do I process/modify each element of an array?
3337 =item How do I select a random element from an array?
3339 =item How do I permute N elements of a list?
3341 =item How do I sort an array by (anything)?
3343 =item How do I manipulate arrays of bits?
3345 =item Why does defined() return true on empty arrays and hashes?
3349 =item Data: Hashes (Associative Arrays)
3353 =item How do I process an entire hash?
3355 =item What happens if I add or remove keys from a hash while iterating over
3358 =item How do I look up a hash element by value?
3360 =item How can I know how many entries are in a hash?
3362 =item How do I sort a hash (optionally by value instead of key)?
3364 =item How can I always keep my hash sorted?
3366 =item What's the difference between "delete" and "undef" with hashes?
3368 =item Why don't my tied hashes make the defined/exists distinction?
3370 =item How do I reset an each() operation part-way through?
3372 =item How can I get the unique keys from two hashes?
3374 =item How can I store a multidimensional array in a DBM file?
3376 =item How can I make my hash remember the order I put elements into it?
3378 =item Why does passing a subroutine an undefined element in a hash create
3381 =item How can I make the Perl equivalent of a C structure/C++ class/hash or
3382 array of hashes or arrays?
3384 =item How can I use a reference as a hash key?
3392 =item How do I handle binary data correctly?
3394 =item How do I determine whether a scalar is a number/whole/integer/float?
3396 =item How do I keep persistent data across program calls?
3398 =item How do I print out or copy a recursive data structure?
3400 =item How do I define methods for every class/object?
3402 =item How do I verify a credit card checksum?
3404 =item How do I pack arrays of doubles or floats for XS code?
3408 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3412 =head2 perlfaq5 - Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.9 $, $Date: 2002/02/11
3421 =item How do I flush/unbuffer an output filehandle? Why must I do this?
3423 =item How do I change one line in a file/delete a line in a file/insert a
3424 line in the middle of a file/append to the beginning of a file?
3426 =item How do I count the number of lines in a file?
3428 =item How do I make a temporary file name?
3430 =item How can I manipulate fixed-record-length files?
3432 =item How can I make a filehandle local to a subroutine? How do I pass
3433 filehandles between subroutines? How do I make an array of filehandles?
3435 =item How can I use a filehandle indirectly?
3437 =item How can I set up a footer format to be used with write()?
3439 =item How can I write() into a string?
3441 =item How can I output my numbers with commas added?
3443 =item How can I translate tildes (~) in a filename?
3445 =item How come when I open a file read-write it wipes it out?
3447 =item Why do I sometimes get an "Argument list too long" when I use <*>?
3449 =item Is there a leak/bug in glob()?
3451 =item How can I open a file with a leading ">" or trailing blanks?
3453 =item How can I reliably rename a file?
3455 =item How can I lock a file?
3457 =item Why can't I just open(FH, ">file.lock")?
3459 =item I still don't get locking. I just want to increment the number in
3460 the file. How can I do this?
3462 =item All I want to do is append a small amount of text to the end of a
3463 file. Do I still have to use locking?
3465 =item How do I randomly update a binary file?
3467 =item How do I get a file's timestamp in perl?
3469 =item How do I set a file's timestamp in perl?
3471 =item How do I print to more than one file at once?
3473 =item How can I read in an entire file all at once?
3475 =item How can I read in a file by paragraphs?
3477 =item How can I read a single character from a file? From the keyboard?
3479 =item How can I tell whether there's a character waiting on a filehandle?
3481 =item How do I do a C<tail -f> in perl?
3483 =item How do I dup() a filehandle in Perl?
3485 =item How do I close a file descriptor by number?
3487 =item Why can't I use "C:\temp\foo" in DOS paths? What doesn't
3488 `C:\temp\foo.exe` work?
3490 =item Why doesn't glob("*.*") get all the files?
3492 =item Why does Perl let me delete read-only files? Why does C<-i> clobber
3493 protected files? Isn't this a bug in Perl?
3495 =item How do I select a random line from a file?
3497 =item Why do I get weird spaces when I print an array of lines?
3501 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3505 =head2 perlfaq6 - Regular Expressions ($Revision: 1.8 $, $Date: 2002/01/31
3514 =item How can I hope to use regular expressions without creating illegible
3515 and unmaintainable code?
3517 Comments Outside the Regex, Comments Inside the Regex, Different Delimiters
3519 =item I'm having trouble matching over more than one line. What's wrong?
3521 =item How can I pull out lines between two patterns that are themselves on
3524 =item I put a regular expression into $/ but it didn't work. What's wrong?
3526 =item How do I substitute case insensitively on the LHS while preserving
3529 =item How can I make C<\w> match national character sets?
3531 =item How can I match a locale-smart version of C</[a-zA-Z]/>?
3533 =item How can I quote a variable to use in a regex?
3535 =item What is C</o> really for?
3537 =item How do I use a regular expression to strip C style comments from a
3540 =item Can I use Perl regular expressions to match balanced text?
3542 =item What does it mean that regexes are greedy? How can I get around it?
3544 =item How do I process each word on each line?
3546 =item How can I print out a word-frequency or line-frequency summary?
3548 =item How can I do approximate matching?
3550 =item How do I efficiently match many regular expressions at once?
3552 =item Why don't word-boundary searches with C<\b> work for me?
3554 =item Why does using $&, $`, or $' slow my program down?
3556 =item What good is C<\G> in a regular expression?
3558 =item Are Perl regexes DFAs or NFAs? Are they POSIX compliant?
3560 =item What's wrong with using grep or map in a void context?
3562 =item How can I match strings with multibyte characters?
3564 =item How do I match a pattern that is supplied by the user?
3568 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3572 =head2 perlfaq7 - General Perl Language Issues ($Revision: 1.7 $, $Date:
3573 2002/01/31 04:27:55 $)
3581 =item Can I get a BNF/yacc/RE for the Perl language?
3583 =item What are all these $@%&* punctuation signs, and how do I know when to
3586 =item Do I always/never have to quote my strings or use semicolons and
3589 =item How do I skip some return values?
3591 =item How do I temporarily block warnings?
3593 =item What's an extension?
3595 =item Why do Perl operators have different precedence than C operators?
3597 =item How do I declare/create a structure?
3599 =item How do I create a module?
3601 =item How do I create a class?
3603 =item How can I tell if a variable is tainted?
3605 =item What's a closure?
3607 =item What is variable suicide and how can I prevent it?
3609 =item How can I pass/return a {Function, FileHandle, Array, Hash, Method,
3612 Passing Variables and Functions, Passing Filehandles, Passing Regexes,
3615 =item How do I create a static variable?
3617 =item What's the difference between dynamic and lexical (static) scoping?
3618 Between local() and my()?
3620 =item How can I access a dynamic variable while a similarly named lexical
3623 =item What's the difference between deep and shallow binding?
3625 =item Why doesn't "my($foo) = <FILE>;" work right?
3627 =item How do I redefine a builtin function, operator, or method?
3629 =item What's the difference between calling a function as &foo and foo()?
3631 =item How do I create a switch or case statement?
3633 =item How can I catch accesses to undefined variables/functions/methods?
3635 =item Why can't a method included in this same file be found?
3637 =item How can I find out my current package?
3639 =item How can I comment out a large block of perl code?
3641 =item How do I clear a package?
3643 =item How can I use a variable as a variable name?
3647 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3651 =head2 perlfaq8 - System Interaction ($Revision: 1.6 $, $Date: 2002/01/28
3660 =item How do I find out which operating system I'm running under?
3662 =item How come exec() doesn't return?
3664 =item How do I do fancy stuff with the keyboard/screen/mouse?
3666 Keyboard, Screen, Mouse
3668 =item How do I print something out in color?
3670 =item How do I read just one key without waiting for a return key?
3672 =item How do I check whether input is ready on the keyboard?
3674 =item How do I clear the screen?
3676 =item How do I get the screen size?
3678 =item How do I ask the user for a password?
3680 =item How do I read and write the serial port?
3682 lockfiles, open mode, end of line, flushing output, non-blocking input
3684 =item How do I decode encrypted password files?
3686 =item How do I start a process in the background?
3688 STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR are shared, Signals, Zombies
3690 =item How do I trap control characters/signals?
3692 =item How do I modify the shadow password file on a Unix system?
3694 =item How do I set the time and date?
3696 =item How can I sleep() or alarm() for under a second?
3698 =item How can I measure time under a second?
3700 =item How can I do an atexit() or setjmp()/longjmp()? (Exception handling)
3702 =item Why doesn't my sockets program work under System V (Solaris)? What
3703 does the error message "Protocol not supported" mean?
3705 =item How can I call my system's unique C functions from Perl?
3707 =item Where do I get the include files to do ioctl() or syscall()?
3709 =item Why do setuid perl scripts complain about kernel problems?
3711 =item How can I open a pipe both to and from a command?
3713 =item Why can't I get the output of a command with system()?
3715 =item How can I capture STDERR from an external command?
3717 =item Why doesn't open() return an error when a pipe open fails?
3719 =item What's wrong with using backticks in a void context?
3721 =item How can I call backticks without shell processing?
3723 =item Why can't my script read from STDIN after I gave it EOF (^D on Unix,
3726 =item How can I convert my shell script to perl?
3728 =item Can I use perl to run a telnet or ftp session?
3730 =item How can I write expect in Perl?
3732 =item Is there a way to hide perl's command line from programs such as
3735 =item I {changed directory, modified my environment} in a perl script. How
3736 come the change disappeared when I exited the script? How do I get my
3737 changes to be visible?
3741 =item How do I close a process's filehandle without waiting for it to
3744 =item How do I fork a daemon process?
3746 =item How do I find out if I'm running interactively or not?
3748 =item How do I timeout a slow event?
3750 =item How do I set CPU limits?
3752 =item How do I avoid zombies on a Unix system?
3754 =item How do I use an SQL database?
3756 =item How do I make a system() exit on control-C?
3758 =item How do I open a file without blocking?
3760 =item How do I install a module from CPAN?
3762 =item What's the difference between require and use?
3764 =item How do I keep my own module/library directory?
3766 =item How do I add the directory my program lives in to the module/library
3769 =item How do I add a directory to my include path at runtime?
3771 =item What is socket.ph and where do I get it?
3775 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3779 =head2 perlfaq9 - Networking ($Revision: 1.7 $, $Date: 2002/01/28 04:17:27
3788 =item What is the correct form of response from a CGI script?
3790 =item My CGI script runs from the command line but not the browser. (500
3793 =item How can I get better error messages from a CGI program?
3795 =item How do I remove HTML from a string?
3797 =item How do I extract URLs?
3799 =item How do I download a file from the user's machine? How do I open a
3800 file on another machine?
3802 =item How do I make a pop-up menu in HTML?
3804 =item How do I fetch an HTML file?
3806 =item How do I automate an HTML form submission?
3808 =item How do I decode or create those %-encodings on the web?
3810 =item How do I redirect to another page?
3812 =item How do I put a password on my web pages?
3814 =item How do I edit my .htpasswd and .htgroup files with Perl?
3816 =item How do I make sure users can't enter values into a form that cause my
3817 CGI script to do bad things?
3819 =item How do I parse a mail header?
3821 =item How do I decode a CGI form?
3823 =item How do I check a valid mail address?
3825 =item How do I decode a MIME/BASE64 string?
3827 =item How do I return the user's mail address?
3829 =item How do I send mail?
3831 =item How do I use MIME to make an attachment to a mail message?
3833 =item How do I read mail?
3835 =item How do I find out my hostname/domainname/IP address?
3837 =item How do I fetch a news article or the active newsgroups?
3839 =item How do I fetch/put an FTP file?
3841 =item How can I do RPC in Perl?
3845 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
3849 =head2 perlcompile - Introduction to the Perl Compiler-Translator
3859 B::Bytecode, B::C, B::CC, B::Lint, B::Deparse, B::Xref
3863 =item Using The Back Ends
3867 =item The Cross Referencing Back End
3871 =item The Decompiling Back End
3873 =item The Lint Back End
3875 =item The Simple C Back End
3877 =item The Bytecode Back End
3879 =item The Optimized C Back End
3881 B, O, B::Asmdata, B::Assembler, B::Bblock, B::Bytecode, B::C, B::CC,
3882 B::Debug, B::Deparse, B::Disassembler, B::Lint, B::Showlex, B::Stackobj,
3883 B::Stash, B::Terse, B::Xref
3887 =item KNOWN PROBLEMS
3893 =head2 perlembed - how to embed perl in your C program
3903 B<Use C from Perl?>, B<Use a Unix program from Perl?>, B<Use Perl from
3904 Perl?>, B<Use C from C?>, B<Use Perl from C?>
3908 =item Compiling your C program
3910 =item Adding a Perl interpreter to your C program
3912 =item Calling a Perl subroutine from your C program
3914 =item Evaluating a Perl statement from your C program
3916 =item Performing Perl pattern matches and substitutions from your C program
3918 =item Fiddling with the Perl stack from your C program
3920 =item Maintaining a persistent interpreter
3922 =item Execution of END blocks
3924 =item Maintaining multiple interpreter instances
3926 =item Using Perl modules, which themselves use C libraries, from your C
3931 =item Embedding Perl under Win32
3941 =head2 perldebguts - Guts of Perl debugging
3947 =item Debugger Internals
3951 =item Writing Your Own Debugger
3955 =item Frame Listing Output Examples
3957 =item Debugging regular expressions
3961 =item Compile-time output
3963 C<anchored> I<STRING> C<at> I<POS>, C<floating> I<STRING> C<at>
3964 I<POS1..POS2>, C<matching floating/anchored>, C<minlen>, C<stclass>
3965 I<TYPE>, C<noscan>, C<isall>, C<GPOS>, C<plus>, C<implicit>, C<with eval>,
3968 =item Types of nodes
3970 =item Run-time output
3974 =item Debugging Perl memory usage
3978 =item Using C<$ENV{PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS}>
3980 C<buckets SMALLEST(APPROX)..GREATEST(APPROX)>, Free/Used, C<Total sbrk():
3981 SBRKed/SBRKs:CONTINUOUS>, C<pad: 0>, C<heads: 2192>, C<chain: 0>, C<tail:
3984 =item Example of using B<-DL> switch
3986 C<717>, C<002>, C<054>, C<602>, C<702>, C<704>
3988 =item B<-DL> details
3992 =item Limitations of B<-DL> statistics
4000 =head2 perlxstut, perlXStut - Tutorial for writing XSUBs
4012 =item Version caveat
4014 =item Dynamic Loading versus Static Loading
4026 =item What has gone on?
4028 =item Writing good test scripts
4032 =item What's new here?
4034 =item Input and Output Parameters
4036 =item The XSUBPP Program
4038 =item The TYPEMAP file
4040 =item Warning about Output Arguments
4044 =item What has happened here?
4046 =item Anatomy of .xs file
4048 =item Getting the fat out of XSUBs
4050 =item More about XSUB arguments
4052 =item The Argument Stack
4054 =item Extending your Extension
4056 =item Documenting your Extension
4058 =item Installing your Extension
4062 =item New Things in this Example
4066 =item New Things in this Example
4068 =item EXAMPLE 7 (Coming Soon)
4070 =item EXAMPLE 8 (Coming Soon)
4072 =item EXAMPLE 9 (Coming Soon)
4074 =item Troubleshooting these Examples
4090 =head2 perlxs - XS language reference manual
4102 =item The Anatomy of an XSUB
4104 =item The Argument Stack
4106 =item The RETVAL Variable
4108 =item The MODULE Keyword
4110 =item The PACKAGE Keyword
4112 =item The PREFIX Keyword
4114 =item The OUTPUT: Keyword
4116 =item The NO_OUTPUT Keyword
4118 =item The CODE: Keyword
4120 =item The INIT: Keyword
4122 =item The NO_INIT Keyword
4124 =item Initializing Function Parameters
4126 =item Default Parameter Values
4128 =item The PREINIT: Keyword
4130 =item The SCOPE: Keyword
4132 =item The INPUT: Keyword
4134 =item The IN/OUTLIST/IN_OUTLIST/OUT/IN_OUT Keywords
4136 =item The C<length(NAME)> Keyword
4138 =item Variable-length Parameter Lists
4140 =item The C_ARGS: Keyword
4142 =item The PPCODE: Keyword
4144 =item Returning Undef And Empty Lists
4146 =item The REQUIRE: Keyword
4148 =item The CLEANUP: Keyword
4150 =item The POSTCALL: Keyword
4152 =item The BOOT: Keyword
4154 =item The VERSIONCHECK: Keyword
4156 =item The PROTOTYPES: Keyword
4158 =item The PROTOTYPE: Keyword
4160 =item The ALIAS: Keyword
4162 =item The INTERFACE: Keyword
4164 =item The INTERFACE_MACRO: Keyword
4166 =item The INCLUDE: Keyword
4168 =item The CASE: Keyword
4170 =item The & Unary Operator
4172 =item Inserting POD, Comments and C Preprocessor Directives
4174 =item Using XS With C++
4176 =item Interface Strategy
4178 =item Perl Objects And C Structures
4182 =item Safely Storing Static Data in XS
4184 MY_CXT_KEY, typedef my_cxt_t, START_MY_CXT, MY_CXT_INIT, dMY_CXT, MY_CXT
4196 =head2 perlclib - Internal replacements for standard C library functions
4206 C<t>, C<p>, C<n>, C<s>
4208 =item File Operations
4210 =item File Input and Output
4212 =item File Positioning
4214 =item Memory Management and String Handling
4216 =item Character Class Tests
4218 =item F<stdlib.h> functions
4220 =item Miscellaneous functions
4228 =head2 perlguts - Introduction to the Perl API
4240 =item What is an "IV"?
4242 =item Working with SVs
4246 =item What's Really Stored in an SV?
4248 =item Working with AVs
4250 =item Working with HVs
4252 =item Hash API Extensions
4256 =item Blessed References and Class Objects
4258 =item Creating New Variables
4260 =item Reference Counts and Mortality
4262 =item Stashes and Globs
4264 =item Double-Typed SVs
4266 =item Magic Variables
4268 =item Assigning Magic
4270 =item Magic Virtual Tables
4274 =item Understanding the Magic of Tied Hashes and Arrays
4276 =item Localizing changes
4278 C<SAVEINT(int i)>, C<SAVEIV(IV i)>, C<SAVEI32(I32 i)>, C<SAVELONG(long i)>,
4279 C<SAVESPTR(s)>, C<SAVEPPTR(p)>, C<SAVEFREESV(SV *sv)>, C<SAVEMORTALIZESV(SV
4280 *sv)>, C<SAVEFREEOP(OP *op)>, C<SAVEFREEPV(p)>, C<SAVECLEARSV(SV *sv)>,
4281 C<SAVEDELETE(HV *hv, char *key, I32 length)>,
4282 C<SAVEDESTRUCTOR(DESTRUCTORFUNC_NOCONTEXT_t f, void *p)>,
4283 C<SAVEDESTRUCTOR_X(DESTRUCTORFUNC_t f, void *p)>, C<SAVESTACK_POS()>, C<SV*
4284 save_scalar(GV *gv)>, C<AV* save_ary(GV *gv)>, C<HV* save_hash(GV *gv)>,
4285 C<void save_item(SV *item)>, C<void save_list(SV **sarg, I32 maxsarg)>,
4286 C<SV* save_svref(SV **sptr)>, C<void save_aptr(AV **aptr)>, C<void
4287 save_hptr(HV **hptr)>
4295 =item XSUBs and the Argument Stack
4297 =item Calling Perl Routines from within C Programs
4299 =item Memory Allocation
4303 =item Putting a C value on Perl stack
4307 =item Scratchpads and recursion
4317 =item Examining the tree
4319 =item Compile pass 1: check routines
4321 =item Compile pass 1a: constant folding
4323 =item Compile pass 2: context propagation
4325 =item Compile pass 3: peephole optimization
4327 =item Pluggable runops
4331 =item Examining internal data structures with the C<dump> functions
4333 =item How multiple interpreters and concurrency are supported
4337 =item Background and PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
4339 =item So what happened to dTHR?
4341 =item How do I use all this in extensions?
4343 =item Should I do anything special if I call perl from multiple threads?
4345 =item Future Plans and PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
4349 =item Internal Functions
4351 A, p, d, s, n, r, f, M, o, j, x
4355 =item Formatted Printing of IVs, UVs, and NVs
4357 =item Pointer-To-Integer and Integer-To-Pointer
4359 =item Source Documentation
4363 =item Unicode Support
4367 =item What B<is> Unicode, anyway?
4369 =item How can I recognise a UTF8 string?
4371 =item How does UTF8 represent Unicode characters?
4373 =item How does Perl store UTF8 strings?
4375 =item How do I convert a string to UTF8?
4377 =item Is there anything else I need to know?
4381 =item Custom Operators
4389 =head2 perlcall - Perl calling conventions from C
4395 An Error Handler, An Event Driven Program
4397 =item THE CALL_ FUNCTIONS
4399 call_sv, call_pv, call_method, call_argv
4419 =item Determining the Context
4423 =item KNOWN PROBLEMS
4429 =item No Parameters, Nothing returned
4431 =item Passing Parameters
4433 =item Returning a Scalar
4435 =item Returning a list of values
4437 =item Returning a list in a scalar context
4439 =item Returning Data from Perl via the parameter list
4443 =item Using G_KEEPERR
4447 =item Using call_argv
4449 =item Using call_method
4453 =item Using Perl to dispose of temporaries
4455 =item Strategies for storing Callback Context Information
4457 1. Ignore the problem - Allow only 1 callback, 2. Create a sequence of
4458 callbacks - hard wired limit, 3. Use a parameter to map to the Perl
4461 =item Alternate Stack Manipulation
4463 =item Creating and calling an anonymous subroutine in C
4475 =head2 perlutil - utilities packaged with the Perl distribution
4485 L<perldoc|perldoc>, L<pod2man|pod2man> and L<pod2text|pod2text>,
4486 L<pod2html|pod2html> and L<pod2latex|pod2latex>, L<pod2usage|pod2usage>,
4487 L<podselect|podselect>, L<podchecker|podchecker>, L<splain|splain>,
4488 L<roffitall|roffitall>
4492 L<a2p|a2p>, L<s2p|s2p>, L<find2perl|find2perl>
4494 =item Administration
4496 L<libnetcfg|libnetcfg>
4500 L<perlbug|perlbug>, L<h2ph|h2ph>, L<c2ph|c2ph> and L<pstruct|pstruct>,
4501 L<h2xs|h2xs>, L<dprofpp|dprofpp>, L<perlcc|perlcc>
4509 =head2 perlfilter - Source Filters
4519 =item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER
4521 =item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER IN C
4523 B<Decryption Filters>
4525 =item CREATING A SOURCE FILTER AS A SEPARATE EXECUTABLE
4527 =item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER IN PERL
4529 =item USING CONTEXT: THE DEBUG FILTER
4541 =head2 perldbmfilter - Perl DBM Filters
4549 B<filter_store_key>, B<filter_store_value>, B<filter_fetch_key>,
4550 B<filter_fetch_value>
4556 =item An Example -- the NULL termination problem.
4558 =item Another Example -- Key is a C int.
4568 =head2 perlapi - autogenerated documentation for the perl public API
4574 =item "Gimme" Values
4576 GIMME, GIMME_V, G_ARRAY, G_DISCARD, G_EVAL, G_NOARGS, G_SCALAR, G_VOID
4578 =item Array Manipulation Functions
4580 AvFILL, av_clear, av_delete, av_exists, av_extend, av_fetch, av_fill,
4581 av_len, av_make, av_pop, av_push, av_shift, av_store, av_undef, av_unshift,
4582 get_av, newAV, Nullav, sortsv
4584 =item Callback Functions
4586 call_argv, call_method, call_pv, call_sv, ENTER, eval_pv, eval_sv,
4587 FREETMPS, LEAVE, SAVETMPS
4589 =item Character classes
4591 isALNUM, isALPHA, isDIGIT, isLOWER, isSPACE, isUPPER, toLOWER, toUPPER
4593 =item Cloning an interpreter
4597 =item CV Manipulation Functions
4599 CvSTASH, get_cv, Nullcv
4601 =item Embedding Functions
4603 load_module, perl_alloc, perl_construct, perl_destruct, perl_free,
4604 perl_parse, perl_run, require_pv
4606 =item Functions in file pp_pack.c
4608 pack_cat, unpack_str
4610 =item Global Variables
4612 PL_modglobal, PL_na, PL_sv_no, PL_sv_undef, PL_sv_yes
4616 GvSV, gv_fetchmeth, gv_fetchmethod, gv_fetchmethod_autoload, gv_stashpv,
4621 HEf_SVKEY, Nullch, Nullsv
4623 =item Hash Manipulation Functions
4625 get_hv, HeHASH, HeKEY, HeKLEN, HePV, HeSVKEY, HeSVKEY_force, HeSVKEY_set,
4626 HeVAL, HvNAME, hv_clear, hv_delete, hv_delete_ent, hv_exists,
4627 hv_exists_ent, hv_fetch, hv_fetch_ent, hv_iterinit, hv_iterkey,
4628 hv_iterkeysv, hv_iternext, hv_iternextsv, hv_iterval, hv_magic, hv_store,
4629 hv_store_ent, hv_undef, newHV, Nullhv
4631 =item Magical Functions
4633 mg_clear, mg_copy, mg_find, mg_free, mg_get, mg_length, mg_magical, mg_set,
4634 SvGETMAGIC, SvLOCK, SvSETMAGIC, SvSetMagicSV, SvSetMagicSV_nosteal,
4635 SvSetSV, SvSetSV_nosteal, SvSHARE
4637 =item Memory Management
4639 Copy, Move, New, Newc, NEWSV, Newz, Renew, Renewc, Safefree, savepv,
4640 savepvn, savesharedpv, StructCopy, Zero
4642 =item Miscellaneous Functions
4644 fbm_compile, fbm_instr, form, getcwd_sv, strEQ, strGE, strGT, strLE, strLT,
4645 strNE, strnEQ, strnNE
4647 =item Numeric functions
4649 grok_bin, grok_hex, grok_number, grok_numeric_radix, grok_oct, scan_bin,
4652 =item Optree Manipulation Functions
4654 cv_const_sv, newCONSTSUB, newXS
4656 =item Stack Manipulation Macros
4658 dMARK, dORIGMARK, dSP, EXTEND, MARK, ORIGMARK, POPi, POPl, POPn, POPp,
4659 POPpbytex, POPpx, POPs, PUSHi, PUSHMARK, PUSHn, PUSHp, PUSHs, PUSHu,
4660 PUTBACK, SP, SPAGAIN, XPUSHi, XPUSHn, XPUSHp, XPUSHs, XPUSHu, XSRETURN,
4661 XSRETURN_IV, XSRETURN_NO, XSRETURN_NV, XSRETURN_PV, XSRETURN_UNDEF,
4662 XSRETURN_YES, XST_mIV, XST_mNO, XST_mNV, XST_mPV, XST_mUNDEF, XST_mYES
4666 svtype, SVt_IV, SVt_NV, SVt_PV, SVt_PVAV, SVt_PVCV, SVt_PVHV, SVt_PVMG
4668 =item SV Manipulation Functions
4670 get_sv, looks_like_number, newRV_inc, newRV_noinc, newSV, newSViv, newSVnv,
4671 newSVpv, newSVpvf, newSVpvn, newSVpvn_share, newSVrv, newSVsv, newSVuv,
4672 new_vstring, SvCUR, SvCUR_set, SvEND, SvGROW, SvIOK, SvIOKp, SvIOK_notUV,
4673 SvIOK_off, SvIOK_on, SvIOK_only, SvIOK_only_UV, SvIOK_UV, SvIV, SvIVX,
4674 SvIVx, SvLEN, SvNIOK, SvNIOKp, SvNIOK_off, SvNOK, SvNOKp, SvNOK_off,
4675 SvNOK_on, SvNOK_only, SvNV, SvNVx, SvNVX, SvOK, SvOOK, SvPOK, SvPOKp,
4676 SvPOK_off, SvPOK_on, SvPOK_only, SvPOK_only_UTF8, SvPV, SvPVbyte,
4677 SvPVbytex, SvPVbytex_force, SvPVbyte_force, SvPVbyte_nolen, SvPVutf8,
4678 SvPVutf8x, SvPVutf8x_force, SvPVutf8_force, SvPVutf8_nolen, SvPVx, SvPVX,
4679 SvPV_force, SvPV_force_nomg, SvPV_nolen, SvREFCNT, SvREFCNT_dec,
4680 SvREFCNT_inc, SvROK, SvROK_off, SvROK_on, SvRV, SvSTASH, SvTAINT,
4681 SvTAINTED, SvTAINTED_off, SvTAINTED_on, SvTRUE, SvTYPE, SvUNLOCK, SvUOK,
4682 SvUPGRADE, SvUTF8, SvUTF8_off, SvUTF8_on, SvUV, SvUVX, SvUVx, sv_2bool,
4683 sv_2cv, sv_2io, sv_2iv, sv_2mortal, sv_2nv, sv_2pvbyte, sv_2pvbyte_nolen,
4684 sv_2pvutf8, sv_2pvutf8_nolen, sv_2pv_flags, sv_2pv_nolen, sv_2uv,
4685 sv_backoff, sv_bless, sv_catpv, sv_catpvf, sv_catpvf_mg, sv_catpvn,
4686 sv_catpvn_flags, sv_catpvn_mg, sv_catpv_mg, sv_catsv, sv_catsv_flags,
4687 sv_catsv_mg, sv_chop, sv_clear, sv_cmp, sv_cmp_locale, sv_collxfrm,
4688 sv_copypv, sv_dec, sv_derived_from, sv_eq, sv_force_normal,
4689 sv_force_normal_flags, sv_free, sv_gets, sv_grow, sv_inc, sv_insert,
4690 sv_isa, sv_isobject, sv_iv, sv_len, sv_len_utf8, sv_magic, sv_magicext,
4691 sv_mortalcopy, sv_newmortal, sv_newref, sv_nolocking, sv_nosharing,
4692 sv_nounlocking, sv_nv, sv_pos_b2u, sv_pos_u2b, sv_pv, sv_pvbyte,
4693 sv_pvbyten, sv_pvbyten_force, sv_pvn, sv_pvn_force, sv_pvn_force_flags,
4694 sv_pvutf8, sv_pvutf8n, sv_pvutf8n_force, sv_reftype, sv_replace,
4695 sv_report_used, sv_reset, sv_rvweaken, sv_setiv, sv_setiv_mg, sv_setnv,
4696 sv_setnv_mg, sv_setpv, sv_setpvf, sv_setpvf_mg, sv_setpviv, sv_setpviv_mg,
4697 sv_setpvn, sv_setpvn_mg, sv_setpv_mg, sv_setref_iv, sv_setref_nv,
4698 sv_setref_pv, sv_setref_pvn, sv_setref_uv, sv_setsv, sv_setsv_flags,
4699 sv_setsv_mg, sv_setuv, sv_setuv_mg, sv_taint, sv_tainted, sv_true,
4700 sv_unmagic, sv_unref, sv_unref_flags, sv_untaint, sv_upgrade, sv_usepvn,
4701 sv_usepvn_mg, sv_utf8_decode, sv_utf8_downgrade, sv_utf8_encode,
4702 sv_utf8_upgrade, sv_utf8_upgrade_flags, sv_uv, sv_vcatpvfn, sv_vsetpvfn
4704 =item Unicode Support
4706 bytes_from_utf8, bytes_to_utf8, ibcmp_utf8, is_utf8_char, is_utf8_string,
4707 pv_uni_display, sv_recode_to_utf8, sv_uni_display, to_utf8_case,
4708 to_utf8_fold, to_utf8_lower, to_utf8_title, to_utf8_upper, utf8n_to_uvchr,
4709 utf8n_to_uvuni, utf8_distance, utf8_hop, utf8_length, utf8_to_bytes,
4710 utf8_to_uvchr, utf8_to_uvuni, uvchr_to_utf8, uvuni_to_utf8_flags
4712 =item Variables created by C<xsubpp> and C<xsubpp> internal functions
4714 ax, CLASS, dAX, dITEMS, dXSARGS, dXSI32, items, ix, newXSproto, RETVAL, ST,
4715 THIS, XS, XSRETURN_EMPTY, XS_VERSION, XS_VERSION_BOOTCHECK
4717 =item Warning and Dieing
4727 =head2 perlintern - autogenerated documentation of purely B<internal>
4734 =item Global Variables
4736 PL_DBsingle, PL_DBsub, PL_DBtrace, PL_dowarn, PL_last_in_gv, PL_ofs_sv,
4747 =item Pad Data Structures
4751 =item Stack Manipulation Macros
4755 =item SV Manipulation Functions
4757 report_uninit, sv_add_arena, sv_clean_all, sv_clean_objs, sv_free_arenas
4765 =head2 perliol - C API for Perl's implementation of IO in Layers.
4775 =item History and Background
4777 =item Layers vs Disciplines
4779 =item Data Structures
4781 =item Functions and Attributes
4783 =item Per-instance Data
4785 =item Layers in action.
4787 =item Per-instance flag bits
4789 PERLIO_F_EOF, PERLIO_F_CANWRITE, PERLIO_F_CANREAD, PERLIO_F_ERROR,
4790 PERLIO_F_TRUNCATE, PERLIO_F_APPEND, PERLIO_F_CRLF, PERLIO_F_UTF8,
4791 PERLIO_F_UNBUF, PERLIO_F_WRBUF, PERLIO_F_RDBUF, PERLIO_F_LINEBUF,
4792 PERLIO_F_TEMP, PERLIO_F_OPEN, PERLIO_F_FASTGETS
4794 =item Methods in Detail
4796 name, size, kind, PERLIO_K_BUFFERED, PERLIO_K_CANCRLF, PERLIO_K_FASTGETS,
4797 PERLIO_K_MULTIARG, PERLIO_K_RAW, Pushed, Popped, Open, Getarg, Fileno, Dup,
4798 Read, Write, Seek, Tell, Close, Flush, Fill, Eof, Error, Clearerr,
4799 Setlinebuf, Get_base, Get_bufsiz, Get_ptr, Get_cnt, Set_ptrcnt
4803 "unix", "perlio", "stdio", "crlf", "mmap", "pending", "raw", "utf8"
4805 =item Extension Layers
4807 ":encoding", ":Scalar", ":Object" or ":Perl"
4815 =head2 perlapio - perl's IO abstraction interface.
4823 1. USE_STDIO, 2. USE_SFIO, 3. USE_PERLIO, B<PerlIO_stdin()>,
4824 B<PerlIO_stdout()>, B<PerlIO_stderr()>, B<PerlIO_open(path, mode)>,
4825 B<PerlIO_fdopen(fd,mode)>, B<PerlIO_reopen(path,mode,f)>,
4826 B<PerlIO_printf(f,fmt,...)>, B<PerlIO_vprintf(f,fmt,a)>,
4827 B<PerlIO_stdoutf(fmt,...)>, B<PerlIO_read(f,buf,count)>,
4828 B<PerlIO_write(f,buf,count)>, B<PerlIO_close(f)>, B<PerlIO_puts(f,s)>,
4829 B<PerlIO_putc(f,c)>, B<PerlIO_ungetc(f,c)>, B<PerlIO_getc(f)>,
4830 B<PerlIO_eof(f)>, B<PerlIO_error(f)>, B<PerlIO_fileno(f)>,
4831 B<PerlIO_clearerr(f)>, B<PerlIO_flush(f)>, B<PerlIO_seek(f,offset,whence)>,
4832 B<PerlIO_tell(f)>, B<PerlIO_getpos(f,p)>, B<PerlIO_setpos(f,p)>,
4833 B<PerlIO_rewind(f)>, B<PerlIO_tmpfile()>, B<PerlIO_setlinebuf(f)>
4837 =item Co-existence with stdio
4839 B<PerlIO_importFILE(f,flags)>, B<PerlIO_exportFILE(f,flags)>,
4840 B<PerlIO_findFILE(f)>, B<PerlIO_releaseFILE(p,f)>
4842 =item "Fast gets" Functions
4844 B<PerlIO_fast_gets(f)>, B<PerlIO_has_cntptr(f)>, B<PerlIO_get_cnt(f)>,
4845 B<PerlIO_get_ptr(f)>, B<PerlIO_set_ptrcnt(f,p,c)>, B<PerlIO_canset_cnt(f)>,
4846 B<PerlIO_set_cnt(f,c)>, B<PerlIO_has_base(f)>, B<PerlIO_get_base(f)>,
4847 B<PerlIO_get_bufsiz(f)>
4849 =item Other Functions
4851 PerlIO_apply_layers(f,mode,layers), PerlIO_binmode(f,ptype,imode,layers),
4852 'E<lt>' read, 'E<gt>' write, '+' read/write, PerlIO_debug(fmt,...)
4858 =head2 perltodo - Perl TO-DO List
4864 =item To do during 5.6.x
4868 =item Support for I/O disciplines
4870 =item Autoload bytes.pm
4872 =item Make "\u{XXXX}" et al work
4874 =item Create a char *sv_pvprintify(sv, STRLEN *lenp, UV flags)
4876 =item Overloadable regex assertions
4880 =item use Thread for iThreads
4882 =item make perl_clone optionally clone ops
4884 =item Work out exit/die semantics for threads
4886 =item Typed lexicals for compiler
4888 =item Compiler workarounds for Win32
4890 =item AUTOLOADing in the compiler
4892 =item Fixing comppadlist when compiling
4894 =item Cleaning up exported namespace
4896 =item Complete signal handling
4898 =item Out-of-source builds
4900 =item POSIX realtime support
4902 =item UNIX98 support
4906 =item Long double conversion
4910 =item Thread-safe regexes
4912 =item Arithmetic on non-Arabic numerals
4914 =item POSIX Unicode character classes
4916 =item Factoring out common suffices/prefices in regexps (trie optimization)
4918 =item Security audit shipped utilities
4920 =item Sort out the uid-setting mess
4922 =item DLL Versioning
4924 =item Introduce @( and @)
4926 =item Floating point handling
4928 =item IV/UV preservation
4930 =item Replace pod2html with something using Pod::Parser
4932 =item Automate module testing on CPAN
4934 =item sendmsg and recvmsg
4936 =item Rewrite perlre documentation
4938 =item Convert example code to IO::Handle filehandles
4940 =item Document Win32 choices
4942 =item Check new modules
4944 =item Make roffitall find pods and libs itself
4948 =item To do at some point
4952 =item Remove regular expression recursion
4954 =item Memory leaks after failed eval
4956 =item bitfields in pack
4958 =item Cross compilation
4960 =item Perl preprocessor / macros
4962 =item Perl lexer in Perl
4964 =item Using POSIX calls internally
4966 =item -i rename file when changed
4968 =item All ARGV input should act like E<lt>E<gt>
4970 =item Support for rerunning debugger
4972 =item Test Suite for the Debugger
4974 =item my sub foo { }
4976 =item One-pass global destruction
4978 =item Rewrite regexp parser
4980 =item Cache recently used regexps
4982 =item Re-entrant functions
4984 =item Cross-compilation support
4986 =item Bit-shifting bitvectors
4988 =item debugger pragma
4990 =item use less pragma
4992 =item switch structures
4994 =item Cache eval tree
4998 =item Shrink opcode tables
5000 =item Optimize away @_
5002 =item Prototypes versus indirect objects
5006 =item Prototype method calls
5008 =item Return context prototype declarations
5012 =item Garbage collection
5016 =item Rewrite perldoc
5018 =item Install .3p manpages
5020 =item Unicode tutorial
5022 =item Update POSIX.pm for 1003.1-2
5024 =item Retargetable installation
5026 =item POSIX emulation on non-POSIX systems
5028 =item Rename Win32 headers
5030 =item Finish off lvalue functions
5032 =item Update sprintf documentation
5034 =item Use fchown/fchmod internally
5036 =item Make v-strings overloaded objects
5044 =item ref() in list context
5046 =item Make tr/// return histogram of characters in list context
5048 =item Compile to real threaded code
5050 =item Structured types
5052 =item Modifiable $1 et al.
5054 =item Procedural interfaces for IO::*, etc.
5058 =item Attach/detach debugger from running program
5062 =item foreach(reverse ...)
5064 =item Constant function cache
5066 =item Approximate regular expression matching
5074 =item Update guts documentation
5076 =item Add more tests
5078 =item Update auxiliary tools
5082 =item Recently done things
5086 =item Alternative RE syntax module
5088 =item Safe signal handling
5094 =item setitimer and getimiter
5096 =item Testing __DIE__ hook
5098 =item CPP equivalent in Perl
5100 =item Explicit switch statements
5108 =item perlcc to produce executable
5110 =item END blocks saved in compiled output
5112 =item Secure temporary file module
5114 =item Integrate Time::HiRes
5116 =item Turn Cwd into XS
5118 =item Mmap for input
5120 =item Byte to/from UTF8 and UTF8 to/from local conversion
5122 =item Add sockatmark support
5124 =item Mailing list archives
5128 =item Integrate MacPerl
5130 =item Web "nerve center" for Perl
5132 =item Regular expression tutorial
5134 =item Debugging Tutorial
5136 =item Integrate new modules
5138 =item Integrate profiler
5140 =item Y2K error detection
5142 =item Regular expression debugger
5146 =item "Dynamic" lexicals
5148 =item Cache precompiled modules
5152 =item Deprecated Wishes
5156 =item Loop control on do{}
5158 =item Lexically scoped typeglobs
5164 =item Generalised want()/caller())
5166 =item Named prototypes
5168 =item Built-in globbing
5170 =item Regression tests for suidperl
5172 =item Cached hash values
5174 =item Add compression modules
5176 =item Reorganise documentation into tutorials/references
5178 =item Remove distinction between functions and operators
5180 =item Make XS easier to use
5182 =item Make embedding easier to use
5186 =item my $Package::variable
5188 =item "or" tests defined, not truth
5190 =item "class"-based lexicals
5194 =item Lazy evaluation / tail recursion removal
5196 =item Make "use utf8" the default
5198 =item Unicode collation and normalization
5200 =item Create debugging macros
5202 =item truncate to the people
5204 =item pack/unpack tutorial
5210 =head2 perlhack - How to hack at the Perl internals
5216 Does concept match the general goals of Perl?, Where is the
5217 implementation?, Backwards compatibility, Could it be a module instead?, Is
5218 the feature generic enough?, Does it potentially introduce new bugs?, Does
5219 it preclude other desirable features?, Is the implementation robust?, Is
5220 the implementation generic enough to be portable?, Is the implementation
5221 tested?, Is there enough documentation?, Is there another way to do it?,
5222 Does it create too much work?, Patches speak louder than words
5226 =item Keeping in sync
5228 rsync'ing the source tree, Using rsync over the LAN, Using pushing over the
5229 NFS, rsync'ing the patches
5231 =item Why rsync the source tree
5233 It's easier to rsync the source tree, It's more recent, It's more reliable
5235 =item Why rsync the patches
5237 It's easier to rsync the patches, It's a good reference, Finding a start
5238 point, Finding how to fix a bug, Finding the source of misbehaviour
5240 =item Perlbug remote interface
5242 1 http://bugs.perl.org, 2 bugdb@perl.org, 3
5243 commands_and_bugdids@bugs.perl.org, notes, patches, tests
5245 =item Submitting patches
5247 L<perlguts>, L<perlxstut> and L<perlxs>, L<perlapi>,
5248 F<Porting/pumpkin.pod>, The perl5-porters FAQ
5250 =item Finding Your Way Around
5252 Core modules, Tests, Documentation, Configure, Interpreter
5254 =item Elements of the interpreter
5256 Startup, Parsing, Optimization, Running
5258 =item Internal Variable Types
5264 Argument stack, Mark stack, Save stack
5266 =item Millions of Macros
5268 =item Poking at Perl
5270 =item Using a source-level debugger
5272 run [args], break function_name, break source.c:xxx, step, next, continue,
5273 finish, 'enter', print
5275 =item Dumping Perl Data Structures
5279 =item Patching a core module
5281 =item Adding a new function to the core
5283 =item Writing a test
5285 F<t/base/>, F<t/cmd/>, F<t/comp/>, F<t/io/>, F<t/lib/>, F<t/op/>,
5286 F<t/pod/>, F<t/run/>, t/base t/comp, t/cmd t/run t/io t/op, t/lib ext lib
5290 =item EXTERNAL TOOLS FOR DEBUGGING PERL
5294 =item Rational Software's Purify
5296 =item Purify on Unix
5298 -Accflags=-DPURIFY, -Doptimize='-g', -Uusemymalloc, -Dusemultiplicity
5302 DEFINES, USE_MULTI = define, #PERL_MALLOC = define, CFG = Debug
5304 =item Compaq's/Digital's Third Degree
5306 =item PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL
5310 =item Gprof Profiling
5312 -a, -b, -e routine, -f routine, -s, -z
5314 =item GCC gcov Profiling
5316 =item Pixie Profiling
5318 -h, -l, -p[rocedures], -h[eavy], -i[nvocations], -l[ines], -testcoverage,
5323 I<The Road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began.>
5331 =head2 perlhist - the Perl history records
5339 =item THE KEEPERS OF THE PUMPKIN
5351 =item SELECTED RELEASE SIZES
5353 =item SELECTED PATCH SIZES
5357 =item THE KEEPERS OF THE RECORDS
5361 =head2 perldelta - what is new for perl v5.8.0
5367 =item Highlights In 5.8.0
5369 =item Incompatible Changes
5373 =item 64-bit platforms and malloc
5375 =item AIX Dynaloading
5377 =item Attributes for C<my> variables now handled at run-time.
5379 =item Socket Extension Dynamic in VMS
5381 =item IEEE-format Floating Point Default on OpenVMS Alpha
5383 =item New Unicode Properties
5385 =item Perl Parser Stress Tested
5387 =item REF(...) Instead Of SCALAR(...)
5389 =item pack/unpack D/F recycled
5395 =item Core Enhancements
5399 =item PerlIO is Now The Default
5403 =item Unicode Overhaul
5405 =item Understanding of Numbers
5407 =item Miscellaneous Changes
5411 =item Modules and Pragmata
5415 =item New Modules and Pragmata
5417 =item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
5421 =item Utility Changes
5423 =item New Documentation
5425 =item Performance Enhancements
5427 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
5431 =item Generic Improvements
5433 =item New Or Improved Platforms
5437 =item Selected Bug Fixes
5441 =item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
5445 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
5447 =item Changed Internals
5449 =item Security Vulnerability Closed
5453 =item Known Problems
5459 =item Amiga Perl Invoking Mystery
5461 =item lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
5463 =item Cygwin intermittent failures of lib/Memoize/t/expire_file 11 and 12
5465 =item HP-UX lib/io_multihomed Fails When LP64-Configured
5467 =item HP-UX lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails When LP64-Configured
5469 =item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
5475 =item op/sprintf tests 129 and 130
5477 =item Failure of Thread tests
5481 =item UNICOS and UNICOS/mk
5489 =item Localising a Tied Variable Leaks Memory
5491 =item Localising Tied Arrays and Hashes Is Broken
5493 =item Self-tying of Arrays and Hashes Is Forbidden
5495 =item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
5497 =item Unicode Support on EBCDIC Still Spotty
5499 =item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
5501 =item The Long Double Support Is Still Experimental
5503 =item Seen In Perl 5.7 But Gone Now
5507 =item Reporting Bugs
5515 =head2 perl572delta - what's new for perl v5.7.2
5521 =item Security Vulnerability Closed
5523 =item Incompatible Changes
5527 =item 64-bit platforms and malloc
5529 =item AIX Dynaloading
5531 =item Socket Extension Dynamic in VMS
5533 =item Different Definition of the Unicode Character Classes \p{In...}
5539 =item Core Enhancements
5541 =item Modules and Pragmata
5545 =item New Modules and Distributions
5547 =item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
5551 =item Utility Changes
5553 =item New Documentation
5555 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
5559 =item New Or Improved Platforms
5561 =item Generic Improvements
5565 =item Selected Bug Fixes
5569 =item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
5573 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
5575 =item Source Code Enhancements
5579 =item MAGIC constants
5581 =item Better commented code
5583 =item Regex pre-/post-compilation items matched up
5591 =item Known Problems
5597 =item Amiga Perl Invoking Mystery
5599 =item lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
5601 =item Cygwin intermittent failures of lib/Memoize/t/expire_file 11 and 12
5603 =item HP-UX lib/io_multihomed Fails When LP64-Configured
5605 =item HP-UX lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails When LP64-Configured
5607 =item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
5611 =item op/sprintf tests 129 and 130
5613 =item Failure of Thread tests
5623 =item Localising a Tied Variable Leaks Memory
5625 =item Self-tying of Arrays and Hashes Is Forbidden
5627 =item Variable Attributes are not Currently Usable for Tieing
5629 =item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
5631 =item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
5633 =item The Long Double Support is Still Experimental
5637 =item Reporting Bugs
5645 =head2 perl571delta - what's new for perl v5.7.1
5651 =item Security Vulnerability Closed
5653 =item Incompatible Changes
5655 =item Core Enhancements
5659 =item AUTOLOAD Is Now Lvaluable
5661 =item PerlIO is Now The Default
5663 =item Signals Are Now Safe
5667 =item Modules and Pragmata
5673 =item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
5677 =item Performance Enhancements
5679 =item Utility Changes
5681 =item New Documentation
5697 =item README.solaris
5701 =item Porting/repository.pod
5705 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
5709 =item New Or Improved Platforms
5711 =item Generic Improvements
5713 d_cmsghdr, d_fcntl_can_lock, d_fsync, d_getitimer, d_getpagsz, d_msghdr_s,
5714 need_va_copy, d_readv, d_recvmsg, d_sendmsg, sig_size, d_sockatmark,
5715 d_strtoq, d_u32align, d_ualarm, d_usleep
5719 =item Selected Bug Fixes
5723 =item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
5727 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
5729 =item Changed Internals
5733 =item Known Problems
5737 =item AIX vac 5.0.0.0 May Produce Buggy Code For Perl
5739 =item lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
5741 =item lib/io_multihomed Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX
5743 =item Test lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX
5747 =item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
5749 =item sigaction test 13 in VMS
5751 =item sprintf tests 129 and 130
5753 =item Failure of Thread tests
5755 =item Localising a Tied Variable Leaks Memory
5757 =item Self-tying of Arrays and Hashes Is Forbidden
5759 =item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
5761 =item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
5765 =item Reporting Bugs
5773 =head2 perl570delta - what's new for perl v5.7.0
5779 =item Security Vulnerability Closed
5781 =item Incompatible Changes
5783 =item Core Enhancements
5785 =item Modules and Pragmata
5791 =item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
5795 =item Utility Changes
5797 =item New Documentation
5799 =item Performance Enhancements
5801 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
5805 =item Generic Improvements
5809 =item Selected Bug Fixes
5813 =item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
5817 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
5819 =item Changed Internals
5821 =item Known Problems
5825 =item Unicode Support Still Far From Perfect
5827 =item EBCDIC Still A Lost Platform
5829 =item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
5831 =item ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
5833 =item Test lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX
5835 =item Long Doubles Still Don't Work In Solaris
5837 =item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
5839 =item Storable tests fail in some platforms
5841 =item Threads Are Still Experimental
5843 =item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
5847 =item Reporting Bugs
5855 =head2 perl561delta - what's new for perl v5.6.x
5861 =item Summary of changes between 5.6.0 and 5.6.1
5865 =item Security Issues
5867 =item Core bug fixes
5869 C<UNIVERSAL::isa()>, Memory leaks, Numeric conversions, qw(a\\b), caller(),
5870 Bugs in regular expressions, "slurp" mode, Autovivification of symbolic
5871 references to special variables, Lexical warnings, Spurious warnings and
5872 errors, glob(), Tainting, sort(), #line directives, Subroutine prototypes,
5873 map(), Debugger, PERL5OPT, chop(), Unicode support, 64-bit support,
5874 Compiler, Lvalue subroutines, IO::Socket, File::Find, xsubpp, C<no
5879 =item Configuration issues
5883 =item Bundled modules
5885 B::Concise, File::Temp, Pod::LaTeX, Pod::Text::Overstrike, CGI, CPAN,
5886 Class::Struct, DB_File, Devel::Peek, File::Find, Getopt::Long, IO::Poll,
5887 IPC::Open3, Math::BigFloat, Math::Complex, Net::Ping, Opcode, Pod::Parser,
5888 Pod::Text, SDBM_File, Sys::Syslog, Tie::RefHash, Tie::SubstrHash
5890 =item Platform-specific improvements
5892 NCR MP-RAS, NonStop-UX
5896 =item Core Enhancements
5900 =item Interpreter cloning, threads, and concurrency
5902 =item Lexically scoped warning categories
5904 =item Unicode and UTF-8 support
5906 =item Support for interpolating named characters
5908 =item "our" declarations
5910 =item Support for strings represented as a vector of ordinals
5912 =item Improved Perl version numbering system
5914 =item New syntax for declaring subroutine attributes
5916 =item File and directory handles can be autovivified
5918 =item open() with more than two arguments
5920 =item 64-bit support
5922 =item Large file support
5928 =item Enhanced support for sort() subroutines
5930 =item C<sort $coderef @foo> allowed
5932 =item File globbing implemented internally
5934 =item Support for CHECK blocks
5936 =item POSIX character class syntax [: :] supported
5938 =item Better pseudo-random number generator
5940 =item Improved C<qw//> operator
5942 =item Better worst-case behavior of hashes
5944 =item pack() format 'Z' supported
5946 =item pack() format modifier '!' supported
5948 =item pack() and unpack() support counted strings
5950 =item Comments in pack() templates
5952 =item Weak references
5954 =item Binary numbers supported
5956 =item Lvalue subroutines
5958 =item Some arrows may be omitted in calls through references
5960 =item Boolean assignment operators are legal lvalues
5962 =item exists() is supported on subroutine names
5964 =item exists() and delete() are supported on array elements
5966 =item Pseudo-hashes work better
5968 =item Automatic flushing of output buffers
5970 =item Better diagnostics on meaningless filehandle operations
5972 =item Where possible, buffered data discarded from duped input filehandle
5974 =item eof() has the same old magic as <>
5976 =item binmode() can be used to set :crlf and :raw modes
5978 =item C<-T> filetest recognizes UTF-8 encoded files as "text"
5980 =item system(), backticks and pipe open now reflect exec() failure
5982 =item Improved diagnostics
5984 =item Diagnostics follow STDERR
5986 =item More consistent close-on-exec behavior
5988 =item syswrite() ease-of-use
5990 =item Better syntax checks on parenthesized unary operators
5992 =item Bit operators support full native integer width
5994 =item Improved security features
5996 =item More functional bareword prototype (*)
5998 =item C<require> and C<do> may be overridden
6000 =item $^X variables may now have names longer than one character
6002 =item New variable $^C reflects C<-c> switch
6004 =item New variable $^V contains Perl version as a string
6006 =item Optional Y2K warnings
6008 =item Arrays now always interpolate into double-quoted strings
6012 =item Modules and Pragmata
6018 attributes, B, Benchmark, ByteLoader, constant, charnames, Data::Dumper,
6019 DB, DB_File, Devel::DProf, Devel::Peek, Dumpvalue, DynaLoader, English,
6020 Env, Fcntl, File::Compare, File::Find, File::Glob, File::Spec,
6021 File::Spec::Functions, Getopt::Long, IO, JPL, lib, Math::BigInt,
6022 Math::Complex, Math::Trig, Pod::Parser, Pod::InputObjects, Pod::Checker,
6023 podchecker, Pod::ParseUtils, Pod::Find, Pod::Select, podselect, Pod::Usage,
6024 pod2usage, Pod::Text and Pod::Man, SDBM_File, Sys::Syslog, Sys::Hostname,
6025 Term::ANSIColor, Time::Local, Win32, XSLoader, DBM Filters
6031 =item Utility Changes
6045 =item The Perl Debugger
6049 =item Improved Documentation
6051 perlapi.pod, perlboot.pod, perlcompile.pod, perldbmfilter.pod,
6052 perldebug.pod, perldebguts.pod, perlfork.pod, perlfilter.pod, perlhack.pod,
6053 perlintern.pod, perllexwarn.pod, perlnumber.pod, perlopentut.pod,
6054 perlreftut.pod, perltootc.pod, perltodo.pod, perlunicode.pod
6056 =item Performance enhancements
6060 =item Simple sort() using { $a <=> $b } and the like are optimized
6062 =item Optimized assignments to lexical variables
6064 =item Faster subroutine calls
6066 =item delete(), each(), values() and hash iteration are faster
6070 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
6074 =item -Dusethreads means something different
6076 =item New Configure flags
6078 =item Threadedness and 64-bitness now more daring
6084 =item -Duselargefiles
6086 =item installusrbinperl
6092 =item Enhanced Installation Directories
6094 =item gcc automatically tried if 'cc' does not seem to be working
6098 =item Platform specific changes
6102 =item Supported platforms
6106 =item OS390 (OpenEdition MVS)
6114 =item Significant bug fixes
6118 =item <HANDLE> on empty files
6120 =item C<eval '...'> improvements
6122 =item All compilation errors are true errors
6124 =item Implicitly closed filehandles are safer
6126 =item Behavior of list slices is more consistent
6128 =item C<(\$)> prototype and C<$foo{a}>
6130 =item C<goto &sub> and AUTOLOAD
6132 =item C<-bareword> allowed under C<use integer>
6134 =item Failures in DESTROY()
6136 =item Locale bugs fixed
6140 =item Spurious subroutine stubs after failed subroutine calls
6142 =item Taint failures under C<-U>
6144 =item END blocks and the C<-c> switch
6146 =item Potential to leak DATA filehandles
6150 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
6152 "%s" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same %s, "my sub" not yet
6153 implemented, "our" variable %s redeclared, '!' allowed only after types %s,
6154 / cannot take a count, / must be followed by a, A or Z, / must be followed
6155 by a*, A* or Z*, / must follow a numeric type, /%s/: Unrecognized escape
6156 \\%c passed through, /%s/: Unrecognized escape \\%c in character class
6157 passed through, /%s/ should probably be written as "%s", %s() called too
6158 early to check prototype, %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element, %s
6159 argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element or slice, %s argument is not a
6160 subroutine name, %s package attribute may clash with future reserved word:
6161 %s, (in cleanup) %s, <> should be quotes, Attempt to join self, Bad evalled
6162 substitution pattern, Bad realloc() ignored, Bareword found in conditional,
6163 Binary number > 0b11111111111111111111111111111111 non-portable, Bit vector
6164 size > 32 non-portable, Buffer overflow in prime_env_iter: %s, Can't check
6165 filesystem of script "%s", Can't declare class for non-scalar %s in "%s",
6166 Can't declare %s in "%s", Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default,
6167 Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine call, Can't read CRTL environ, Can't
6168 remove %s: %s, skipping file, Can't return %s from lvalue subroutine, Can't
6169 weaken a nonreference, Character class [:%s:] unknown, Character class
6170 syntax [%s] belongs inside character classes, Constant is not %s reference,
6171 constant(%s): %s, CORE::%s is not a keyword, defined(@array) is deprecated,
6172 defined(%hash) is deprecated, Did not produce a valid header, (Did you mean
6173 "local" instead of "our"?), Document contains no data, entering effective
6174 %s failed, false [] range "%s" in regexp, Filehandle %s opened only for
6175 output, flock() on closed filehandle %s, Global symbol "%s" requires
6176 explicit package name, Hexadecimal number > 0xffffffff non-portable,
6177 Ill-formed CRTL environ value "%s", Ill-formed message in prime_env_iter:
6178 |%s|, Illegal binary digit %s, Illegal binary digit %s ignored, Illegal
6179 number of bits in vec, Integer overflow in %s number, Invalid %s attribute:
6180 %s, Invalid %s attributes: %s, invalid [] range "%s" in regexp, Invalid
6181 separator character %s in attribute list, Invalid separator character %s in
6182 subroutine attribute list, leaving effective %s failed, Lvalue subs
6183 returning %s not implemented yet, Method %s not permitted, Missing
6184 %sbrace%s on \N{}, Missing command in piped open, Missing name in "my sub",
6185 No %s specified for -%c, No package name allowed for variable %s in "our",
6186 No space allowed after -%c, no UTC offset information; assuming local time
6187 is UTC, Octal number > 037777777777 non-portable, panic: del_backref,
6188 panic: kid popen errno read, panic: magic_killbackrefs, Parentheses missing
6189 around "%s" list, Possible unintended interpolation of %s in string,
6190 Possible Y2K bug: %s, pragma "attrs" is deprecated, use "sub NAME : ATTRS"
6191 instead, Premature end of script headers, Repeat count in pack overflows,
6192 Repeat count in unpack overflows, realloc() of freed memory ignored,
6193 Reference is already weak, setpgrp can't take arguments, Strange *+?{} on
6194 zero-length expression, switching effective %s is not implemented, This
6195 Perl can't reset CRTL environ elements (%s), This Perl can't set CRTL
6196 environ elements (%s=%s), Too late to run %s block, Unknown open() mode
6197 '%s', Unknown process %x sent message to prime_env_iter: %s, Unrecognized
6198 escape \\%c passed through, Unterminated attribute parameter in attribute
6199 list, Unterminated attribute list, Unterminated attribute parameter in
6200 subroutine attribute list, Unterminated subroutine attribute list, Value of
6201 CLI symbol "%s" too long, Version number must be a constant number
6205 =item Incompatible Changes
6209 =item Perl Source Incompatibilities
6211 CHECK is a new keyword, Treatment of list slices of undef has changed,
6212 Format of $English::PERL_VERSION is different, Literals of the form
6213 C<1.2.3> parse differently, Possibly changed pseudo-random number
6214 generator, Hashing function for hash keys has changed, C<undef> fails on
6215 read only values, Close-on-exec bit may be set on pipe and socket handles,
6216 Writing C<"$$1"> to mean C<"${$}1"> is unsupported, delete(), each(),
6217 values() and C<\(%h)>, vec(EXPR,OFFSET,BITS) enforces powers-of-two BITS,
6218 Text of some diagnostic output has changed, C<%@> has been removed,
6219 Parenthesized not() behaves like a list operator, Semantics of bareword
6220 prototype C<(*)> have changed, Semantics of bit operators may have changed
6221 on 64-bit platforms, More builtins taint their results
6223 =item C Source Incompatibilities
6225 C<PERL_POLLUTE>, C<PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT>, C<PERL_POLLUTE_MALLOC>
6227 =item Compatible C Source API Changes
6229 C<PATCHLEVEL> is now C<PERL_VERSION>
6231 =item Binary Incompatibilities
6235 =item Known Problems
6239 =item Localizing a tied hash element may leak memory
6241 =item Known test failures
6245 =item EBCDIC platforms not fully supported
6247 =item UNICOS/mk CC failures during Configure run
6249 =item Arrow operator and arrays
6251 =item Experimental features
6253 Threads, Unicode, 64-bit support, Lvalue subroutines, Weak references, The
6254 pseudo-hash data type, The Compiler suite, Internal implementation of file
6255 globbing, The DB module, The regular expression code constructs:
6259 =item Obsolete Diagnostics
6261 Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions, Ill-formed
6262 logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter, In string, @%s now must be written as
6263 \@%s, Probable precedence problem on %s, regexp too big, Use of "$$<digit>"
6264 to mean "${$}<digit>" is deprecated
6266 =item Reporting Bugs
6274 =head2 perl56delta - what's new for perl v5.6.0
6280 =item Core Enhancements
6284 =item Interpreter cloning, threads, and concurrency
6286 =item Lexically scoped warning categories
6288 =item Unicode and UTF-8 support
6290 =item Support for interpolating named characters
6292 =item "our" declarations
6294 =item Support for strings represented as a vector of ordinals
6296 =item Improved Perl version numbering system
6298 =item New syntax for declaring subroutine attributes
6300 =item File and directory handles can be autovivified
6302 =item open() with more than two arguments
6304 =item 64-bit support
6306 =item Large file support
6312 =item Enhanced support for sort() subroutines
6314 =item C<sort $coderef @foo> allowed
6316 =item File globbing implemented internally
6318 =item Support for CHECK blocks
6320 =item POSIX character class syntax [: :] supported
6322 =item Better pseudo-random number generator
6324 =item Improved C<qw//> operator
6326 =item Better worst-case behavior of hashes
6328 =item pack() format 'Z' supported
6330 =item pack() format modifier '!' supported
6332 =item pack() and unpack() support counted strings
6334 =item Comments in pack() templates
6336 =item Weak references
6338 =item Binary numbers supported
6340 =item Lvalue subroutines
6342 =item Some arrows may be omitted in calls through references
6344 =item Boolean assignment operators are legal lvalues
6346 =item exists() is supported on subroutine names
6348 =item exists() and delete() are supported on array elements
6350 =item Pseudo-hashes work better
6352 =item Automatic flushing of output buffers
6354 =item Better diagnostics on meaningless filehandle operations
6356 =item Where possible, buffered data discarded from duped input filehandle
6358 =item eof() has the same old magic as <>
6360 =item binmode() can be used to set :crlf and :raw modes
6362 =item C<-T> filetest recognizes UTF-8 encoded files as "text"
6364 =item system(), backticks and pipe open now reflect exec() failure
6366 =item Improved diagnostics
6368 =item Diagnostics follow STDERR
6370 =item More consistent close-on-exec behavior
6372 =item syswrite() ease-of-use
6374 =item Better syntax checks on parenthesized unary operators
6376 =item Bit operators support full native integer width
6378 =item Improved security features
6380 =item More functional bareword prototype (*)
6382 =item C<require> and C<do> may be overridden
6384 =item $^X variables may now have names longer than one character
6386 =item New variable $^C reflects C<-c> switch
6388 =item New variable $^V contains Perl version as a string
6390 =item Optional Y2K warnings
6392 =item Arrays now always interpolate into double-quoted strings
6396 =item Modules and Pragmata
6402 attributes, B, Benchmark, ByteLoader, constant, charnames, Data::Dumper,
6403 DB, DB_File, Devel::DProf, Devel::Peek, Dumpvalue, DynaLoader, English,
6404 Env, Fcntl, File::Compare, File::Find, File::Glob, File::Spec,
6405 File::Spec::Functions, Getopt::Long, IO, JPL, lib, Math::BigInt,
6406 Math::Complex, Math::Trig, Pod::Parser, Pod::InputObjects, Pod::Checker,
6407 podchecker, Pod::ParseUtils, Pod::Find, Pod::Select, podselect, Pod::Usage,
6408 pod2usage, Pod::Text and Pod::Man, SDBM_File, Sys::Syslog, Sys::Hostname,
6409 Term::ANSIColor, Time::Local, Win32, XSLoader, DBM Filters
6415 =item Utility Changes
6429 =item The Perl Debugger
6433 =item Improved Documentation
6435 perlapi.pod, perlboot.pod, perlcompile.pod, perldbmfilter.pod,
6436 perldebug.pod, perldebguts.pod, perlfork.pod, perlfilter.pod, perlhack.pod,
6437 perlintern.pod, perllexwarn.pod, perlnumber.pod, perlopentut.pod,
6438 perlreftut.pod, perltootc.pod, perltodo.pod, perlunicode.pod
6440 =item Performance enhancements
6444 =item Simple sort() using { $a <=> $b } and the like are optimized
6446 =item Optimized assignments to lexical variables
6448 =item Faster subroutine calls
6450 =item delete(), each(), values() and hash iteration are faster
6454 =item Installation and Configuration Improvements
6458 =item -Dusethreads means something different
6460 =item New Configure flags
6462 =item Threadedness and 64-bitness now more daring
6468 =item -Duselargefiles
6470 =item installusrbinperl
6476 =item Enhanced Installation Directories
6480 =item Platform specific changes
6484 =item Supported platforms
6488 =item OS390 (OpenEdition MVS)
6496 =item Significant bug fixes
6500 =item <HANDLE> on empty files
6502 =item C<eval '...'> improvements
6504 =item All compilation errors are true errors
6506 =item Implicitly closed filehandles are safer
6508 =item Behavior of list slices is more consistent
6510 =item C<(\$)> prototype and C<$foo{a}>
6512 =item C<goto &sub> and AUTOLOAD
6514 =item C<-bareword> allowed under C<use integer>
6516 =item Failures in DESTROY()
6518 =item Locale bugs fixed
6522 =item Spurious subroutine stubs after failed subroutine calls
6524 =item Taint failures under C<-U>
6526 =item END blocks and the C<-c> switch
6528 =item Potential to leak DATA filehandles
6532 =item New or Changed Diagnostics
6534 "%s" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same %s, "my sub" not yet
6535 implemented, "our" variable %s redeclared, '!' allowed only after types %s,
6536 / cannot take a count, / must be followed by a, A or Z, / must be followed
6537 by a*, A* or Z*, / must follow a numeric type, /%s/: Unrecognized escape
6538 \\%c passed through, /%s/: Unrecognized escape \\%c in character class
6539 passed through, /%s/ should probably be written as "%s", %s() called too
6540 early to check prototype, %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element, %s
6541 argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element or slice, %s argument is not a
6542 subroutine name, %s package attribute may clash with future reserved word:
6543 %s, (in cleanup) %s, <> should be quotes, Attempt to join self, Bad evalled
6544 substitution pattern, Bad realloc() ignored, Bareword found in conditional,
6545 Binary number > 0b11111111111111111111111111111111 non-portable, Bit vector
6546 size > 32 non-portable, Buffer overflow in prime_env_iter: %s, Can't check
6547 filesystem of script "%s", Can't declare class for non-scalar %s in "%s",
6548 Can't declare %s in "%s", Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default,
6549 Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine call, Can't read CRTL environ, Can't
6550 remove %s: %s, skipping file, Can't return %s from lvalue subroutine, Can't
6551 weaken a nonreference, Character class [:%s:] unknown, Character class
6552 syntax [%s] belongs inside character classes, Constant is not %s reference,
6553 constant(%s): %s, CORE::%s is not a keyword, defined(@array) is deprecated,
6554 defined(%hash) is deprecated, Did not produce a valid header, (Did you mean
6555 "local" instead of "our"?), Document contains no data, entering effective
6556 %s failed, false [] range "%s" in regexp, Filehandle %s opened only for
6557 output, flock() on closed filehandle %s, Global symbol "%s" requires
6558 explicit package name, Hexadecimal number > 0xffffffff non-portable,
6559 Ill-formed CRTL environ value "%s", Ill-formed message in prime_env_iter:
6560 |%s|, Illegal binary digit %s, Illegal binary digit %s ignored, Illegal
6561 number of bits in vec, Integer overflow in %s number, Invalid %s attribute:
6562 %s, Invalid %s attributes: %s, invalid [] range "%s" in regexp, Invalid
6563 separator character %s in attribute list, Invalid separator character %s in
6564 subroutine attribute list, leaving effective %s failed, Lvalue subs
6565 returning %s not implemented yet, Method %s not permitted, Missing
6566 %sbrace%s on \N{}, Missing command in piped open, Missing name in "my sub",
6567 No %s specified for -%c, No package name allowed for variable %s in "our",
6568 No space allowed after -%c, no UTC offset information; assuming local time
6569 is UTC, Octal number > 037777777777 non-portable, panic: del_backref,
6570 panic: kid popen errno read, panic: magic_killbackrefs, Parentheses missing
6571 around "%s" list, Possible unintended interpolation of %s in string,
6572 Possible Y2K bug: %s, pragma "attrs" is deprecated, use "sub NAME : ATTRS"
6573 instead, Premature end of script headers, Repeat count in pack overflows,
6574 Repeat count in unpack overflows, realloc() of freed memory ignored,
6575 Reference is already weak, setpgrp can't take arguments, Strange *+?{} on
6576 zero-length expression, switching effective %s is not implemented, This
6577 Perl can't reset CRTL environ elements (%s), This Perl can't set CRTL
6578 environ elements (%s=%s), Too late to run %s block, Unknown open() mode
6579 '%s', Unknown process %x sent message to prime_env_iter: %s, Unrecognized
6580 escape \\%c passed through, Unterminated attribute parameter in attribute
6581 list, Unterminated attribute list, Unterminated attribute parameter in
6582 subroutine attribute list, Unterminated subroutine attribute list, Value of
6583 CLI symbol "%s" too long, Version number must be a constant number
6587 =item Incompatible Changes
6591 =item Perl Source Incompatibilities
6593 CHECK is a new keyword, Treatment of list slices of undef has changed,
6594 Format of $English::PERL_VERSION is different, Literals of the form
6595 C<1.2.3> parse differently, Possibly changed pseudo-random number
6596 generator, Hashing function for hash keys has changed, C<undef> fails on
6597 read only values, Close-on-exec bit may be set on pipe and socket handles,
6598 Writing C<"$$1"> to mean C<"${$}1"> is unsupported, delete(), each(),
6599 values() and C<\(%h)>, vec(EXPR,OFFSET,BITS) enforces powers-of-two BITS,
6600 Text of some diagnostic output has changed, C<%@> has been removed,
6601 Parenthesized not() behaves like a list operator, Semantics of bareword
6602 prototype C<(*)> have changed, Semantics of bit operators may have changed
6603 on 64-bit platforms, More builtins taint their results
6605 =item C Source Incompatibilities
6607 C<PERL_POLLUTE>, C<PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT>, C<PERL_POLLUTE_MALLOC>
6609 =item Compatible C Source API Changes
6611 C<PATCHLEVEL> is now C<PERL_VERSION>
6613 =item Binary Incompatibilities
6617 =item Known Problems
6621 =item Thread test failures
6623 =item EBCDIC platforms not supported
6625 =item In 64-bit HP-UX the lib/io_multihomed test may hang
6627 =item NEXTSTEP 3.3 POSIX test failure
6629 =item Tru64 (aka Digital UNIX, aka DEC OSF/1) lib/sdbm test failure with
6632 =item UNICOS/mk CC failures during Configure run
6634 =item Arrow operator and arrays
6636 =item Experimental features
6638 Threads, Unicode, 64-bit support, Lvalue subroutines, Weak references, The
6639 pseudo-hash data type, The Compiler suite, Internal implementation of file
6640 globbing, The DB module, The regular expression code constructs:
6644 =item Obsolete Diagnostics
6646 Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions, Ill-formed
6647 logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter, In string, @%s now must be written as
6648 \@%s, Probable precedence problem on %s, regexp too big, Use of "$$<digit>"
6649 to mean "${$}<digit>" is deprecated
6651 =item Reporting Bugs
6659 =head2 perl5005delta - what's new for perl5.005
6665 =item About the new versioning system
6667 =item Incompatible Changes
6671 =item WARNING: This version is not binary compatible with Perl 5.004.
6673 =item Default installation structure has changed
6675 =item Perl Source Compatibility
6677 =item C Source Compatibility
6679 =item Binary Compatibility
6681 =item Security fixes may affect compatibility
6683 =item Relaxed new mandatory warnings introduced in 5.004
6697 =item Regular Expressions
6699 Many new and improved optimizations, Many bug fixes, New regular expression
6700 constructs, New operator for precompiled regular expressions, Other
6701 improvements, Incompatible changes
6703 =item Improved malloc()
6705 =item Quicksort is internally implemented
6707 =item Reliable signals
6709 =item Reliable stack pointers
6711 =item More generous treatment of carriage returns
6715 =item Better support for multiple interpreters
6717 =item Behavior of local() on array and hash elements is now well-defined
6719 =item C<%!> is transparently tied to the L<Errno> module
6721 =item Pseudo-hashes are supported
6723 =item C<EXPR foreach EXPR> is supported
6725 =item Keywords can be globally overridden
6727 =item C<$^E> is meaningful on Win32
6729 =item C<foreach (1..1000000)> optimized
6731 =item C<Foo::> can be used as implicitly quoted package name
6733 =item C<exists $Foo::{Bar::}> tests existence of a package
6735 =item Better locale support
6737 =item Experimental support for 64-bit platforms
6739 =item prototype() returns useful results on builtins
6741 =item Extended support for exception handling
6743 =item Re-blessing in DESTROY() supported for chaining DESTROY() methods
6745 =item All C<printf> format conversions are handled internally
6747 =item New C<INIT> keyword
6749 =item New C<lock> keyword
6751 =item New C<qr//> operator
6753 =item C<our> is now a reserved word
6755 =item Tied arrays are now fully supported
6757 =item Tied handles support is better
6759 =item 4th argument to substr
6761 =item Negative LENGTH argument to splice
6763 =item Magic lvalues are now more magical
6765 =item <> now reads in records
6769 =item Supported Platforms
6775 =item Changes in existing support
6779 =item Modules and Pragmata
6785 B, Data::Dumper, Dumpvalue, Errno, File::Spec, ExtUtils::Installed,
6786 ExtUtils::Packlist, Fatal, IPC::SysV, Test, Tie::Array, Tie::Handle,
6787 Thread, attrs, fields, re
6789 =item Changes in existing modules
6791 Benchmark, Carp, CGI, Fcntl, Math::Complex, Math::Trig, POSIX, DB_File,
6792 MakeMaker, CPAN, Cwd
6796 =item Utility Changes
6798 =item Documentation Changes
6800 =item New Diagnostics
6802 Ambiguous call resolved as CORE::%s(), qualify as such or use &, Bad index
6803 while coercing array into hash, Bareword "%s" refers to nonexistent
6804 package, Can't call method "%s" on an undefined value, Can't check
6805 filesystem of script "%s" for nosuid, Can't coerce array into hash, Can't
6806 goto subroutine from an eval-string, Can't localize pseudo-hash element,
6807 Can't use %%! because Errno.pm is not available, Cannot find an opnumber
6808 for "%s", Character class syntax [. .] is reserved for future extensions,
6809 Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions, Character
6810 class syntax [= =] is reserved for future extensions, %s: Eval-group in
6811 insecure regular expression, %s: Eval-group not allowed, use re 'eval', %s:
6812 Eval-group not allowed at run time, Explicit blessing to '' (assuming
6813 package main), Illegal hex digit ignored, No such array field, No such
6814 field "%s" in variable %s of type %s, Out of memory during ridiculously
6815 large request, Range iterator outside integer range, Recursive inheritance
6816 detected while looking for method '%s' %s, Reference found where even-sized
6817 list expected, Undefined value assigned to typeglob, Use of reserved word
6818 "%s" is deprecated, perl: warning: Setting locale failed
6820 =item Obsolete Diagnostics
6822 Can't mktemp(), Can't write to temp file for B<-e>: %s, Cannot open
6823 temporary file, regexp too big
6825 =item Configuration Changes
6835 =head2 perl5004delta - what's new for perl5.004
6841 =item Supported Environments
6847 =item List assignment to %ENV works
6849 =item Change to "Can't locate Foo.pm in @INC" error
6851 =item Compilation option: Binary compatibility with 5.003
6853 =item $PERL5OPT environment variable
6855 =item Limitations on B<-M>, B<-m>, and B<-T> options
6857 =item More precise warnings
6859 =item Deprecated: Inherited C<AUTOLOAD> for non-methods
6861 =item Previously deprecated %OVERLOAD is no longer usable
6863 =item Subroutine arguments created only when they're modified
6865 =item Group vector changeable with C<$)>
6867 =item Fixed parsing of $$<digit>, &$<digit>, etc.
6869 =item Fixed localization of $<digit>, $&, etc.
6871 =item No resetting of $. on implicit close
6873 =item C<wantarray> may return undef
6875 =item C<eval EXPR> determines value of EXPR in scalar context
6877 =item Changes to tainting checks
6879 No glob() or <*>, No spawning if tainted $CDPATH, $ENV, $BASH_ENV, No
6880 spawning if tainted $TERM doesn't look like a terminal name
6882 =item New Opcode module and revised Safe module
6884 =item Embedding improvements
6886 =item Internal change: FileHandle class based on IO::* classes
6888 =item Internal change: PerlIO abstraction interface
6890 =item New and changed syntax
6894 =item New and changed builtin constants
6898 =item New and changed builtin variables
6902 =item New and changed builtin functions
6904 delete on slices, flock, printf and sprintf, keys as an lvalue, my() in
6905 Control Structures, pack() and unpack(), sysseek(), use VERSION, use Module
6906 VERSION LIST, prototype(FUNCTION), srand, $_ as Default, C<m//gc> does not
6907 reset search position on failure, C<m//x> ignores whitespace before ?*+{},
6908 nested C<sub{}> closures work now, formats work right on changing lexicals
6910 =item New builtin methods
6912 isa(CLASS), can(METHOD), VERSION( [NEED] )
6914 =item TIEHANDLE now supported
6916 TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, PRINT this, LIST, PRINTF this, LIST, READ this
6917 LIST, READLINE this, GETC this, DESTROY this
6919 =item Malloc enhancements
6921 -DPERL_EMERGENCY_SBRK, -DPACK_MALLOC, -DTWO_POT_OPTIMIZE
6923 =item Miscellaneous efficiency enhancements
6927 =item Support for More Operating Systems
6943 use autouse MODULE => qw(sub1 sub2 sub3), use blib, use blib 'dir', use
6944 constant NAME => VALUE, use locale, use ops, use vmsish
6950 =item Required Updates
6952 =item Installation directories
6954 =item Module information summary
6968 =item Object-oriented overrides for builtin operators
6972 =item Utility Changes
6978 Sends converted HTML to standard output
6982 C<void> XSUBs now default to returning nothing
6986 =item C Language API Changes
6988 C<gv_fetchmethod> and C<perl_call_sv>, C<perl_eval_pv>, Extended API for
6991 =item Documentation Changes
6993 L<perldelta>, L<perlfaq>, L<perllocale>, L<perltoot>, L<perlapio>,
6994 L<perlmodlib>, L<perldebug>, L<perlsec>
6996 =item New Diagnostics
6998 "my" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same scope, %s argument is
6999 not a HASH element or slice, Allocation too large: %lx, Allocation too
7000 large, Applying %s to %s will act on scalar(%s), Attempt to free
7001 nonexistent shared string, Attempt to use reference as lvalue in substr,
7002 Bareword "%s" refers to nonexistent package, Can't redefine active sort
7003 subroutine %s, Can't use bareword ("%s") as %s ref while "strict refs" in
7004 use, Cannot resolve method `%s' overloading `%s' in package `%s', Constant
7005 subroutine %s redefined, Constant subroutine %s undefined, Copy method did
7006 not return a reference, Died, Exiting pseudo-block via %s, Identifier too
7007 long, Illegal character %s (carriage return), Illegal switch in PERL5OPT:
7008 %s, Integer overflow in hex number, Integer overflow in octal number,
7009 internal error: glob failed, Invalid conversion in %s: "%s", Invalid type
7010 in pack: '%s', Invalid type in unpack: '%s', Name "%s::%s" used only once:
7011 possible typo, Null picture in formline, Offset outside string, Out of
7012 memory!, Out of memory during request for %s, panic: frexp, Possible
7013 attempt to put comments in qw() list, Possible attempt to separate words
7014 with commas, Scalar value @%s{%s} better written as $%s{%s}, Stub found
7015 while resolving method `%s' overloading `%s' in %s, Too late for "B<-T>"
7016 option, untie attempted while %d inner references still exist, Unrecognized
7017 character %s, Unsupported function fork, Use of "$$<digit>" to mean
7018 "${$}<digit>" is deprecated, Value of %s can be "0"; test with defined(),
7019 Variable "%s" may be unavailable, Variable "%s" will not stay shared,
7020 Warning: something's wrong, Ill-formed logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter,
7021 Got an error from DosAllocMem, Malformed PERLLIB_PREFIX, PERL_SH_DIR too
7022 long, Process terminated by SIG%s
7032 =head2 perlaix, README.aix - Perl version 5 on IBM Unix (AIX) systems
7040 =item Compiling Perl 5 on AIX
7044 =item Building Dynamic Extensions on AIX
7046 =item The IBM ANSI C Compiler
7048 =item Using GNU's gcc for building perl
7050 =item Using Large Files with Perl
7056 =item AIX 4.2 and extensions using C++ with statics
7066 =head2 perlapollo, README.apollo - Perl version 5 on Apollo DomainOS
7076 =head2 perlamiga - Perl under Amiga OS
7090 =item Prerequisites for Compiling Perl on AmigaOS
7092 B<Unix emulation for AmigaOS: ixemul.library>, B<Version of Amiga OS>
7094 =item Starting Perl programs under AmigaOS
7096 =item Shortcomings of Perl under AmigaOS
7102 =item Accessing documentation
7106 =item Manpages for Perl on AmigaOS
7108 =item Perl HTML Documentation on AmigaOS
7110 =item Perl GNU Info Files on AmigaOS
7112 =item Perl LaTeX Documentation on AmigaOS
7116 =item BUILDING PERL ON AMIGAOS
7120 =item Build Prerequisites for Perl on AmigaOS
7122 =item Getting the Perl Source for AmigaOS
7124 =item Making Perl on AmigaOS
7126 =item Testing Perl on AmigaOS
7128 =item Installing the built Perl on AmigaOS
7138 =head2 perlbeos, README.beos - Perl version 5 on BeOS
7146 =item General Issues with Perl on BeOS
7148 =item BeOS Release-specific Notes
7152 =item Contact Information
7154 =item Update 2002-03-02
7160 =head2 perlbs2000, README.BS2000 - building and installing Perl for BS2000.
7170 =item gzip on BS2000
7172 =item bison on BS2000
7174 =item Unpacking Perl Distribution on BS2000
7176 =item Compiling Perl on BS2000
7178 =item Testing Perl on BS2000
7180 =item Installing Perl on BS2000
7182 =item Using Perl in the Posix-Shell of BS2000
7184 =item Using Perl in "native" BS2000
7186 =item Floating point anomalies on BS2000
7220 =item Acknowledgements
7226 =head2 perlcygwin, README.cygwin - Perl for Cygwin
7232 =item PREREQUISITES FOR COMPILING PERL ON CYGWIN
7236 =item Cygwin = GNU+Cygnus+Windows (Don't leave UNIX without it)
7238 =item Cygwin Configuration
7240 C<PATH>, I<nroff>, Permissions
7244 =item CONFIGURE PERL ON CYGWIN
7248 =item Stripping Perl Binaries on Cygwin
7250 =item Optional Libraries for Perl on Cygwin
7252 C<-lcrypt>, C<-lgdbm> (C<use GDBM_File>), C<-ldb> (C<use DB_File>),
7253 C<-lcygipc> (C<use IPC::SysV>)
7255 =item Configure-time Options for Perl on Cygwin
7257 C<-Uusedl>, C<-Uusemymalloc>, C<-Uuseperlio>, C<-Dusemultiplicity>,
7258 C<-Duse64bitint>, C<-Duselongdouble>, C<-Dusethreads>, C<-Duselargefiles>,
7261 =item Suspicious Warnings on Cygwin
7263 I<dlsym()>, Win9x and C<d_eofnblk>, Compiler/Preprocessor defines
7267 =item MAKE ON CYGWIN
7271 =item Warnings on Cygwin
7277 =item TEST ON CYGWIN
7281 =item File Permissions on Cygwin
7283 =item Script Portability on Cygwin
7285 Pathnames, Text/Binary, F<.exe>, chown(), Miscellaneous
7289 =item INSTALL PERL ON CYGWIN
7291 =item MANIFEST ON CYGWIN
7293 Documentation, Build, Configure, Make, Install, Tests, Compiled Perl
7294 Source, Compiled Module Source, Perl Modules/Scripts
7296 =item BUGS ON CYGWIN
7304 =head2 perldgux - Perl under DG/UX.
7316 =item BUILDING PERL ON DG/UX
7320 =item Non-threaded Perl on DG/UX
7322 =item Threaded Perl on DG/UX
7324 =item Testing Perl on DG/UX
7326 =item Installing the built perl on DG/UX
7336 =head2 perldos - Perl under DOS, W31, W95.
7346 =item Prerequisites for Compiling Perl on DOS
7350 =item Shortcomings of Perl under DOS
7352 =item Building Perl on DOS
7354 =item Testing Perl on DOS
7356 =item Installation of Perl on DOS
7360 =item BUILDING AND INSTALLING MODULES ON DOS
7364 =item Building Prerequisites for Perl on DOS
7366 =item Unpacking CPAN Modules on DOS
7368 =item Building Non-XS Modules on DOS
7370 =item Building XS Modules on DOS
7380 =head2 perlepoc, README.epoc - Perl for EPOC
7388 =item INSTALLING PERL ON EPOC
7390 =item STARTING PERL ON EPOC
7392 =item STOPPING PERL ON EPOC
7394 =item USING PERL ON EPOC
7398 =item I/O Redirection on Epoc
7400 =item PATH Names on Epoc
7402 =item Editors on Epoc
7404 =item Features of Perl on Epoc
7406 =item Restrictions of Perl on Epoc
7408 =item Compiling Perl 5 on the EPOC cross compiling environment
7412 =item SUPPORT STATUS OF PERL ON EPOC
7420 =head2 perlhpux, README.hpux - Perl version 5 on Hewlett-Packard Unix
7429 =item Using perl as shipped with HP-UX
7431 =item Compiling Perl 5 on HP-UX
7443 =item Portability Between PA-RISC Versions
7445 =item Itanium Processor Family and HP-UX
7447 =item Building Dynamic Extensions on HP-UX
7449 =item The HP ANSI C Compiler
7451 =item Using Large Files with Perl on HP-UX
7453 =item Threaded Perl on HP-UX
7455 =item 64-bit Perl on HP-UX
7457 =item GDBM and Threads on HP-UX
7459 =item NFS filesystems and utime(2) on HP-UX
7461 =item perl -P and // and HP-UX
7463 =item HP-UX Kernel Parameters (maxdsiz) for Compiling Perl
7467 =item nss_delete core dump from op/pwent or op/grent
7475 =head2 perlhurd, README.hurd - Perl version 5 on Hurd
7483 =item Known Problems with Perl on Hurd
7491 =head2 perlmachten, README.machten - Perl version 5 on Power MachTen
7500 =item Compiling Perl 5 on MachTen
7502 =item Failures during C<make test> on MachTen
7504 op/lexassign.t, pragma/warnings.t
7506 =item Building external modules on MachTen
7516 =head2 perlmacos, README.macos - Perl under Mac OS (Classic)
7530 =head2 perlmint, README.mint - Perl version 5 on Atari MiNT
7536 =item Known problems with Perl on MiNT
7542 =head2 perlmpeix, README.mpeix - Perl/iX for HP e3000 MPE
7550 =item Binary distribution from HP
7552 =item What's New in Perl for MPE/iX
7554 =item Welcome to Perl/iX
7556 =item System Requirements for Perl/iX
7558 =item How to Obtain Perl/iX
7560 =item Perl/iX Distribution Contents Highlights
7562 README, INSTALL, LIBSHP3K, PERL, .cpan/, lib/, man/,
7563 public_html/feedback.cgi, src/perl-5.6.0-mpe
7565 =item How to Compile Perl/iX
7569 =item Getting Started with Perl/iX
7571 =item MPE/iX Implementation Considerations
7573 =item Known Perl/iX Bugs Under Investigation
7575 =item Perl/iX To-Do List
7577 =item Perl/iX Change History
7593 Buildtype.bat, SetNWBld.bat, MPKBuild.bat
7605 =item Build new extensions
7609 =item Acknowledgements
7617 =head2 perlos2 - Perl under OS/2, DOS, Win0.3*, Win0.95 and WinNT.
7637 EMX, RSX, HPFS, pdksh
7639 =item Starting Perl programs under OS/2 (and DOS and...)
7641 =item Starting OS/2 (and DOS) programs under Perl
7645 =item Frequently asked questions
7649 =item "It does not work"
7651 =item I cannot run external programs
7653 =item I cannot embed perl into my program, or use F<perl.dll> from my
7656 Is your program EMX-compiled with C<-Zmt -Zcrtdll>?, Did you use
7659 =item C<``> and pipe-C<open> do not work under DOS.
7661 =item Cannot start C<find.exe "pattern" file>
7669 =item Automatic binary installation
7671 C<PERL_BADLANG>, C<PERL_BADFREE>, F<Config.pm>
7673 =item Manual binary installation
7675 Perl VIO and PM executables (dynamically linked), Perl_ VIO executable
7676 (statically linked), Executables for Perl utilities, Main Perl library,
7677 Additional Perl modules, Tools to compile Perl modules, Manpages for Perl
7678 and utilities, Manpages for Perl modules, Source for Perl documentation,
7679 Perl manual in F<.INF> format, Pdksh
7685 =item Accessing documentation
7689 =item OS/2 F<.INF> file
7697 =item GNU C<info> files
7709 =item The short story
7713 =item Getting perl source
7715 =item Application of the patches
7723 A lot of C<bad free>, Process terminated by SIGTERM/SIGINT, F<op/fs.t>,
7726 =item Installing the built perl
7728 =item C<a.out>-style build
7736 =item Some C</> became C<\> in pdksh.
7738 =item C<'errno'> - unresolved external
7740 =item Problems with tr or sed
7742 =item Some problem (forget which ;-)
7744 =item Library ... not found
7746 =item Segfault in make
7748 =item op/sprintf test failure
7752 =item Specific (mis)features of OS/2 port
7756 =item C<setpriority>, C<getpriority>
7760 =item C<extproc> on the first line
7762 =item Additional modules:
7764 =item Prebuilt methods:
7766 C<File::Copy::syscopy>, C<DynaLoader::mod2fname>, C<Cwd::current_drive()>,
7767 C<Cwd::sys_chdir(name)>, C<Cwd::change_drive(name)>,
7768 C<Cwd::sys_is_absolute(name)>, C<Cwd::sys_is_rooted(name)>,
7769 C<Cwd::sys_is_relative(name)>, C<Cwd::sys_cwd(name)>,
7770 C<Cwd::sys_abspath(name, dir)>, C<Cwd::extLibpath([type])>,
7771 C<Cwd::extLibpath_set( path [, type ] )>,
7772 C<OS2::Error(do_harderror,do_exception)>, C<OS2::Errors2Drive(drive)>,
7773 OS2::SysInfo(), OS2::BootDrive(), C<OS2::MorphPM(serve)>,
7774 C<OS2::UnMorphPM(serve)>, C<OS2::Serve_Messages(force)>,
7775 C<OS2::Process_Messages(force [, cnt])>, C<OS2::_control87(new,mask)>,
7776 OS2::get_control87(), C<OS2::set_control87_em(new=MCW_EM,mask=MCW_EM)>
7778 =item Prebuilt variables:
7780 $OS2::emx_rev, $OS2::emx_env, $OS2::os_ver
7786 C<popen>, C<tmpnam>, C<tmpfile>, C<ctermid>, C<stat>, C<mkdir>, C<rmdir>,
7789 =item Identifying DLLs
7791 =item Centralized management of resources
7807 =item F<perl___.exe>
7809 =item Why strange names?
7811 =item Why dynamic linking?
7813 =item Why chimera build?
7821 =item C<PERLLIB_PREFIX>
7823 =item C<PERL_BADLANG>
7825 =item C<PERL_BADFREE>
7827 =item C<PERL_SH_DIR>
7829 =item C<USE_PERL_FLOCK>
7831 =item C<TMP> or C<TEMP>
7841 =item DLL name mangling: pre 5.6.2
7843 =item DLL name mangling: 5.6.2 and beyond
7845 Global DLLs, specific DLLs, C<BEGINLIBPATH> and C<ENDLIBPATH>, F<.> from
7848 =item DLL forwarder generation
7852 =item Calls to external programs
7854 =item Memory allocation
7858 C<COND_WAIT>, F<os2.c>
7874 =head2 perlos390, README.os390 - building and installing Perl for OS/390
7887 =item Unpacking Perl distribution on OS/390
7889 =item Setup and utilities for Perl on OS/390
7891 =item Configure Perl on OS/390
7893 =item Build, Test, Install Perl on OS/390
7895 =item Build Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
7897 =item Testing Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
7899 =item Installation Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
7901 =item Usage Hints for Perl on OS/390
7903 =item Floating Point Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
7905 =item Modules and Extensions for Perl on OS/390
7915 =item Mailing list for Perl on OS/390
7923 =head2 perlqnx, README.qnx - Perl version 5 on QNX
7931 =item Required Software for Compiling Perl on QNX4
7933 /bin/sh, ar, nm, cpp, make
7935 =item Outstanding Issues with Perl on QNX4
7937 =item QNX auxiliary files
7941 =item Outstanding issues with perl under QNX6
7949 =head2 perlplan9 - Plan 9-specific documentation for Perl
7959 =item What's in Plan 9 Perl
7961 =item What's not in Plan 9 Perl
7963 =item Perl5 Functions not currently supported in Plan 9 Perl
7965 =item Signals in Plan 9 Perl
7969 =item COMPILING AND INSTALLING PERL ON PLAN 9
7973 =item Installing Perl Documentation on Plan 9
7985 =head2 perlsolaris, README.solaris - Perl version 5 on Solaris systems
7993 =item Solaris Version Numbers.
7999 Solaris FAQ, Precompiled Binaries, Solaris Documentation
8005 =item File Extraction Problems on Solaris.
8007 =item Compiler and Related Tools on Solaris.
8009 =item Environment for Compiling Perl on Solaris
8013 =item RUN CONFIGURE.
8017 =item 64-bit Issues with Perl on Solaris.
8019 =item Threads in Perl on Solaris.
8021 =item Malloc Issues with Perl on Solaris.
8025 =item MAKE PROBLEMS.
8027 Dynamic Loading Problems With GNU as and GNU ld, ld.so.1: ./perl: fatal:
8028 relocation error:, dlopen: stub interception failed, #error "No
8029 DATAMODEL_NATIVE specified", sh: ar: not found
8035 =item op/stat.t test 4 in Solaris
8037 =item nss_delete core dump from op/pwent or op/grent
8041 =item PREBUILT BINARIES OF PERL FOR SOLARIS.
8043 =item RUNTIME ISSUES FOR PERL ON SOLARIS.
8047 =item Limits on Numbers of Open Files on Solaris.
8051 =item SOLARIS-SPECIFIC MODULES.
8053 =item SOLARIS-SPECIFIC PROBLEMS WITH MODULES.
8057 =item Proc::ProcessTable on Solaris
8059 =item BSD::Resource on Solaris
8061 =item Net::SSLeay on Solaris
8071 =head2 perltru64, README.tru64 - Perl version 5 on Tru64 (formerly known as
8072 Digital UNIX formerly known as DEC OSF/1) systems
8080 =item Compiling Perl 5 on Tru64
8082 =item Using Large Files with Perl on Tru64
8084 =item Threaded Perl on Tru64
8086 =item Long Doubles on Tru64
8088 =item 64-bit Perl on Tru64
8090 =item Warnings about floating-point overflow when compiling Perl on Tru64
8094 =item Testing Perl on Tru64
8100 =head2 perluts - Perl under UTS
8108 =item BUILDING PERL ON UTS
8110 =item Installing the built perl on UTS
8116 =head2 perlvmesa, README.vmesa - building and installing Perl for VM/ESA.
8126 =item Unpacking Perl Distribution on VM/ESA
8128 =item Setup Perl and utilities on VM/ESA
8130 =item Configure Perl on VM/ESA
8132 =item Testing Anomalies of Perl on VM/ESA
8134 =item Usage Hints for Perl on VM/ESA
8144 =item Mailing list for Perl on VM/ESA
8150 =head2 perlvms - VMS-specific documentation for Perl
8158 =item Organization of Perl Images
8164 =item Perl Extensions
8166 =item Installing static extensions
8168 =item Installing dynamic extensions
8172 =item File specifications
8178 =item Wildcard expansion
8184 =item PERL5LIB and PERLLIB
8190 =item I/O redirection and backgrounding
8192 =item Command line switches
8198 =item Perl functions
8200 File tests, backticks, binmode FILEHANDLE, crypt PLAINTEXT, USER, dump,
8201 exec LIST, fork, getpwent, getpwnam, getpwuid, gmtime, kill, qx//, select
8202 (system call), stat EXPR, system LIST, time, times, unlink LIST, utime
8203 LIST, waitpid PID,FLAGS
8205 =item Perl variables
8207 %ENV, CRTL_ENV, CLISYM_[LOCAL], Any other string, $!, $^E, $?, $|
8209 =item Standard modules with VMS-specific differences
8223 =head2 perlvos, README.vos - Perl for Stratus VOS
8231 =item Multiple methods to build perl for VOS
8233 =item Stratus POSIX Support
8237 =item INSTALLING PERL IN VOS
8241 =item Compiling Perl 5 on VOS
8243 =item Installing Perl 5 on VOS
8247 =item USING PERL IN VOS
8251 =item Unimplemented Features of Perl on VOS
8253 =item Restrictions of Perl on VOS
8257 =item SUPPORT STATUS
8265 =head2 perlwin32 - Perl under Win32
8275 =item Setting Up Perl on Win32
8277 Make, Command Shell, Borland C++, Microsoft Visual C++, Mingw32 with GCC
8281 =item Testing Perl on Win32
8283 =item Installation of Perl on Win32
8285 =item Usage Hints for Perl on Win32
8287 Environment Variables, File Globbing, Using perl from the command line,
8288 Building Extensions, Command-line Wildcard Expansion, Win32 Specific
8289 Extensions, Running Perl Scripts, Miscellaneous Things
8293 =item BUGS AND CAVEATS
8297 Gary Ng E<lt>71564.1743@CompuServe.COME<gt>, Gurusamy Sarathy
8298 E<lt>gsar@activestate.comE<gt>, Nick Ing-Simmons
8299 E<lt>nick@ing-simmons.netE<gt>
8307 =head1 PRAGMA DOCUMENTATION
8309 =head2 attrs - set/get attributes of a subroutine (deprecated)
8321 =head2 re - Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour
8331 =head2 threadshared::shared, threads::shared - Perl extension for sharing
8332 data structures between threads
8344 share VARIABLE, lock VARIABLE, unlock VARIABLE, cond_wait VARIABLE,
8345 cond_signal VARIABLE, cond_broadcast VARIABLE
8357 =head2 threads - Perl extension allowing use of interpreter based threads
8366 $thread = threads->create(function, LIST), $thread->join, $thread->detach,
8367 threads->self, $thread->tid
8371 Fix so the return value is returned when you join, Add join_all, Fix memory
8374 =item AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT
8378 creating a thread from within a thread is unsafe under win32,
8379 PERL_OLD_SIGNALS are not threadsafe, will not be
8385 =head2 attributes - get/set subroutine or variable attributes
8395 =item Built-in Attributes
8397 locked, method, lvalue
8399 =item Available Subroutines
8403 =item Package-specific Attribute Handling
8405 FETCH_I<type>_ATTRIBUTES, MODIFY_I<type>_ATTRIBUTES
8407 =item Syntax of Attribute Lists
8415 =item Default exports
8417 =item Available exports
8419 =item Export tags defined
8429 =head2 attrs - set/get attributes of a subroutine (deprecated)
8441 =head2 autouse - postpone load of modules until a function is used
8457 =head2 base - Establish IS-A relationship with base class at compile time
8471 =head2 blib - Use MakeMaker's uninstalled version of a package
8485 =head2 bytes - Perl pragma to force byte semantics rather than character
8498 =head2 charnames - define character names for C<\N{named}> string literal
8507 =item CUSTOM TRANSLATORS
8509 =item charnames::viacode(code)
8511 =item charnames::vianame(code)
8513 =item ILLEGAL CHARACTERS
8519 =head2 constant - Perl pragma to declare constants
8531 =item List constants
8533 =item Defining multiple constants at once
8535 =item Magic constants
8539 =item TECHNICAL NOTES
8549 =head2 diagnostics - Perl compiler pragma to force verbose warning
8560 =item The C<diagnostics> Pragma
8562 =item The I<splain> Program
8576 =head2 encoding - pragma to control the conversion of legacy data into
8585 =item KNOWN PROBLEMS
8591 =head2 fields - compile-time class fields
8605 =head2 filetest - Perl pragma to control the filetest permission operators
8615 =item subpragma access
8621 =head2 if - C<use> a Perl module if a condition holds
8635 =head2 integer - Perl pragma to use integer arithmetic instead of floating
8646 =head2 less - perl pragma to request less of something from the compiler
8656 =head2 lib - manipulate @INC at compile time
8666 =item Adding directories to @INC
8668 =item Deleting directories from @INC
8670 =item Restoring original @INC
8682 =head2 locale - Perl pragma to use and avoid POSIX locales for built-in
8693 =head2 open - perl pragma to set default disciplines for input and output
8701 =item NONPERLIO FUNCTIONALITY
8703 =item IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS
8709 =head2 ops - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when compiling
8721 =head2 overload - Package for overloading perl operations
8731 =item Declaration of overloaded functions
8733 =item Calling Conventions for Binary Operations
8735 FALSE, TRUE, C<undef>
8737 =item Calling Conventions for Unary Operations
8739 =item Calling Conventions for Mutators
8741 C<++> and C<-->, C<x=> and other assignment versions
8743 =item Overloadable Operations
8745 I<Arithmetic operations>, I<Comparison operations>, I<Bit operations>,
8746 I<Increment and decrement>, I<Transcendental functions>, I<Boolean, string
8747 and numeric conversion>, I<Iteration>, I<Dereferencing>, I<Special>
8749 =item Inheritance and overloading
8751 Strings as values of C<use overload> directive, Overloading of an operation
8752 is inherited by derived classes
8756 =item SPECIAL SYMBOLS FOR C<use overload>
8764 C<undef>, TRUE, defined, but FALSE
8766 =item Copy Constructor
8772 =item MAGIC AUTOGENERATION
8774 I<Assignment forms of arithmetic operations>, I<Conversion operations>,
8775 I<Increment and decrement>, C<abs($a)>, I<Unary minus>, I<Negation>,
8776 I<Concatenation>, I<Comparison operations>, I<Iterator>, I<Dereferencing>,
8779 =item Losing overloading
8781 =item Run-time Overloading
8783 =item Public functions
8785 overload::StrVal(arg), overload::Overloaded(arg), overload::Method(obj,op)
8787 =item Overloading constants
8789 integer, float, binary, q, qr
8791 =item IMPLEMENTATION
8793 =item Metaphor clash
8799 =item Two-face scalars
8801 =item Two-face references
8803 =item Symbolic calculator
8805 =item I<Really> symbolic calculator
8813 Odd number of arguments for overload::constant, `%s' is not an overloadable
8814 type, `%s' is not a code reference
8820 =head2 re - Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour
8830 =head2 sigtrap - Perl pragma to enable simple signal handling
8842 =item SIGNAL HANDLERS
8844 B<stack-trace>, B<die>, B<handler> I<your-handler>
8848 B<normal-signals>, B<error-signals>, B<old-interface-signals>
8852 B<untrapped>, B<any>, I<signal>, I<number>
8860 =head2 sort - perl pragma to control sort() behaviour
8870 =head2 strict - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe constructs
8878 C<strict refs>, C<strict vars>, C<strict subs>
8882 =head2 subs - Perl pragma to predeclare sub names
8892 =head2 threads - Perl extension allowing use of interpreter based threads
8901 $thread = threads->create(function, LIST), $thread->join, $thread->detach,
8902 threads->self, $thread->tid
8906 Fix so the return value is returned when you join, Add join_all, Fix memory
8909 =item AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT
8913 creating a thread from within a thread is unsafe under win32,
8914 PERL_OLD_SIGNALS are not threadsafe, will not be
8920 =head2 threadshared, threads::shared - Perl extension for sharing data
8921 structures between threads
8933 share VARIABLE, lock VARIABLE, unlock VARIABLE, cond_wait VARIABLE,
8934 cond_signal VARIABLE, cond_broadcast VARIABLE
8946 =head2 utf8 - Perl pragma to enable/disable UTF-8 (or UTF-EBCDIC) in source
8957 =item Utility functions
8959 $num_octets = utf8::upgrade($string);, utf8::downgrade($string[, CHECK]),
8960 utf8::encode($string), $flag = utf8::decode($string)
8968 =head2 vars - Perl pragma to predeclare global variable names (obsolete)
8978 =head2 vmsish - Perl pragma to control VMS-specific language features
8986 C<vmsish status>, C<vmsish exit>, C<vmsish time>, C<vmsish hushed>
8990 =head2 warnings - Perl pragma to control optional warnings
8998 use warnings::register, warnings::enabled(), warnings::enabled($category),
8999 warnings::enabled($object), warnings::warn($message),
9000 warnings::warn($category, $message), warnings::warn($object, $message),
9001 warnings::warnif($message), warnings::warnif($category, $message),
9002 warnings::warnif($object, $message)
9006 =head2 warnings::register - warnings import function
9016 =head1 MODULE DOCUMENTATION
9018 =head2 AnyDBM_File - provide framework for multiple DBMs
9028 =item DBM Comparisons
9038 =head2 Attribute::Handlers - Simpler definition of attribute handlers
9048 [0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]
9052 =item Typed lexicals
9054 =item Type-specific attribute handlers
9056 =item Non-interpretive attribute handlers
9058 =item Phase-specific attribute handlers
9060 =item Attributes as C<tie> interfaces
9068 C<Bad attribute type: ATTR(%s)>, C<Attribute handler %s doesn't handle %s
9069 attributes>, C<Declaration of %s attribute in package %s may clash with
9070 future reserved word>, C<Can't have two ATTR specifiers on one subroutine>,
9071 C<Can't autotie a %s>, C<Internal error: %s symbol went missing>, C<Won't
9072 be able to apply END handler>
9082 =head2 AutoLoader - load subroutines only on demand
9092 =item Subroutine Stubs
9094 =item Using B<AutoLoader>'s AUTOLOAD Subroutine
9096 =item Overriding B<AutoLoader>'s AUTOLOAD Subroutine
9098 =item Package Lexicals
9100 =item Not Using AutoLoader
9102 =item B<AutoLoader> vs. B<SelfLoader>
9112 =head2 AutoSplit - split a package for autoloading
9120 $keep, $check, $modtime
9124 =item Multiple packages
9132 =head2 B - The Perl Compiler
9140 =item OVERVIEW OF CLASSES
9144 =item SV-RELATED CLASSES
9152 IV, IVX, UVX, int_value, needs64bits, packiv
9166 =item B::PVMG METHODS
9170 =item B::MAGIC METHODS
9172 MOREMAGIC, precomp, PRIVATE, TYPE, FLAGS, OBJ, PTR, REGEX
9174 =item B::PVLV METHODS
9176 TARGOFF, TARGLEN, TYPE, TARG
9180 USEFUL, PREVIOUS, RARE, TABLE
9184 is_empty, NAME, SAFENAME, STASH, SV, IO, FORM, AV, HV, EGV, CV, CVGEN,
9185 LINE, FILE, FILEGV, GvREFCNT, FLAGS
9189 LINES, PAGE, PAGE_LEN, LINES_LEFT, TOP_NAME, TOP_GV, FMT_NAME, FMT_GV,
9190 BOTTOM_NAME, BOTTOM_GV, SUBPROCESS, IoTYPE, IoFLAGS, IsSTD
9194 FILL, MAX, OFF, ARRAY, AvFLAGS
9198 STASH, START, ROOT, GV, FILE, DEPTH, PADLIST, OUTSIDE, XSUB, XSUBANY,
9203 FILL, MAX, KEYS, RITER, NAME, PMROOT, ARRAY
9205 =item OP-RELATED CLASSES
9209 next, sibling, name, ppaddr, desc, targ, type, seq, flags, private
9211 =item B::UNOP METHOD
9215 =item B::BINOP METHOD
9219 =item B::LOGOP METHOD
9223 =item B::LISTOP METHOD
9227 =item B::PMOP METHODS
9229 pmreplroot, pmreplstart, pmnext, pmregexp, pmflags, pmdynflags,
9230 pmpermflags, precomp, pmoffet
9232 =item B::SVOP METHOD
9236 =item B::PADOP METHOD
9240 =item B::PVOP METHOD
9244 =item B::LOOP METHODS
9246 redoop, nextop, lastop
9248 =item B::COP METHODS
9250 label, stash, file, cop_seq, arybase, line
9254 =item FUNCTIONS EXPORTED BY C<B>
9256 main_cv, init_av, begin_av, end_av, main_root, main_start, comppadlist,
9257 regex_padav, sv_undef, sv_yes, sv_no, amagic_generation, walkoptree(OP,
9258 METHOD), walkoptree_debug(DEBUG), walksymtable(SYMREF, METHOD, RECURSE,
9259 PREFIX), svref_2object(SV), ppname(OPNUM), hash(STR), cast_I32(I), minus_c,
9260 cstring(STR), class(OBJ), threadsv_names
9266 =head2 B::Asmdata - Autogenerated data about Perl ops, used to generate
9275 %insn_data, @insn_name, @optype, @specialsv_name
9281 =head2 B::Assembler - Assemble Perl bytecode
9293 =head2 B::Bblock - Walk basic blocks
9313 =head2 B::Bytecode - Perl compiler's bytecode backend
9323 B<-ofilename>, B<-afilename>, B<-->, B<-f>, B<-fcompress-nullops>,
9324 B<-fomit-sequence-numbers>, B<-fbypass-nullops>, B<-On>, B<-D>, B<-Do>,
9325 B<-Db>, B<-Da>, B<-DC>, B<-S>, B<-upackage>
9335 =head2 B::C - Perl compiler's C backend
9345 B<-ofilename>, B<-v>, B<-->, B<-uPackname>, B<-D>, B<-Do>, B<-Dc>, B<-DA>,
9346 B<-DC>, B<-DM>, B<-f>, B<-fcog>, B<-fsave-data>, B<-fppaddr>, B<-fwarn-sv>,
9347 B<-fuse-script-name>, B<-fsave-sig-hash>, B<-On>, B<-O0>, B<-O1>, B<-O2>,
9358 =head2 B::CC - Perl compiler's optimized C translation backend
9368 B<-ofilename>, B<-v>, B<-->, B<-uPackname>, B<-mModulename>, B<-D>, B<-Dr>,
9369 B<-DO>, B<-Ds>, B<-Dp>, B<-Dq>, B<-Dl>, B<-Dt>, B<-f>,
9370 B<-ffreetmps-each-bblock>, B<-ffreetmps-each-loop>, B<-fomit-taint>, B<-On>
9382 =item Context of ".."
9386 =item Deprecated features
9394 =head2 B::Concise - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing concise info about ops
9406 B<-basic>, B<-exec>, B<-tree>, B<-compact>, B<-loose>, B<-vt>, B<-ascii>,
9407 B<-main>, B<-base>I<n>, B<-bigendian>, B<-littleendian>, B<-concise>,
9408 B<-terse>, B<-linenoise>, B<-debug>, B<-env>
9410 =item FORMATTING SPECIFICATIONS
9412 B<(x(>I<exec_text>B<;>I<basic_text>B<)x)>, B<(*(>I<text>B<)*)>,
9413 B<(*(>I<text1>B<;>I<text2>B<)*)>, B<(?(>I<text1>B<#>I<var>I<Text2>B<)?)>,
9414 B<#>I<var>, B<#>I<var>I<N>, B<~>, B<#addr>, B<#arg>, B<#class>,
9415 B<#classsym>, B<#coplabel>, B<#exname>, B<#extarg>, B<#firstaddr>,
9416 B<#flags>, B<#flagval>, B<#hyphseq>, B<#label>, B<#lastaddr>, B<#name>,
9417 B<#NAME>, B<#next>, B<#nextaddr>, B<#noise>, B<#private>, B<#privval>,
9418 B<#seq>, B<#seqnum>, B<#sibaddr>, B<#svaddr>, B<#svclass>, B<#svval>,
9419 B<#targ>, B<#targarg>, B<#targarglife>, B<#typenum>
9425 =item OP flags abbreviations
9427 =item OP class abbreviations
9431 =item Using B::Concise outside of the O framework
9437 =head2 B::Debug - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing debug info about ops
9449 =head2 B::Deparse - Perl compiler backend to produce perl code
9459 B<-l>, B<-p>, B<-P>, B<-q>, B<-f>I<FILE>, B<-s>I<LETTERS>, B<C>,
9460 B<i>I<NUMBER>, B<T>, B<v>I<STRING>B<.>, B<-x>I<LEVEL>
9462 =item USING B::Deparse AS A MODULE
9472 =item ambient_pragmas
9474 strict, $[, bytes, utf8, integer, re, warnings, hint_bits, warning_bits
9486 =head2 B::Disassembler - Disassemble Perl bytecode
9498 =head2 B::Lint - Perl lint
9506 =item OPTIONS AND LINT CHECKS
9508 B<context>, B<implicit-read> and B<implicit-write>, B<dollar-underscore>,
9509 B<private-names>, B<undefined-subs>, B<regexp-variables>, B<all>, B<none>
9511 =item NON LINT-CHECK OPTIONS
9521 =head2 B::O, O - Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends
9531 =item IMPLEMENTATION
9537 =head2 B::Showlex - Show lexical variables used in functions or files
9549 =head2 B::Stackobj - Helper module for CC backend
9561 =head2 B::Stash - show what stashes are loaded
9563 =head2 B::Terse - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing terse info about ops
9575 =head2 B::Xref - Generates cross reference reports for Perl programs
9585 C<-oFILENAME>, C<-r>, C<-D[tO]>
9593 =head2 Bblock, B::Bblock - Walk basic blocks
9613 =head2 Benchmark - benchmark running times of Perl code
9627 =item Standard Exports
9629 timeit(COUNT, CODE), timethis ( COUNT, CODE, [ TITLE, [ STYLE ]] ),
9630 timethese ( COUNT, CODEHASHREF, [ STYLE ] ), timediff ( T1, T2 ), timestr (
9631 TIMEDIFF, [ STYLE, [ FORMAT ] ] )
9633 =item Optional Exports
9635 clearcache ( COUNT ), clearallcache ( ), cmpthese ( COUT, CODEHASHREF, [
9636 STYLE ] ), cmpthese ( RESULTSHASHREF, [ STYLE ] ), countit(TIME, CODE),
9637 disablecache ( ), enablecache ( ), timesum ( T1, T2 )
9653 =item MODIFICATION HISTORY
9657 =head2 ByteLoader - load byte compiled perl code
9671 =head2 Bytecode, B::Bytecode - Perl compiler's bytecode backend
9681 B<-ofilename>, B<-afilename>, B<-->, B<-f>, B<-fcompress-nullops>,
9682 B<-fomit-sequence-numbers>, B<-fbypass-nullops>, B<-On>, B<-D>, B<-Do>,
9683 B<-Db>, B<-Da>, B<-DC>, B<-S>, B<-upackage>
9693 =head2 CGI - Simple Common Gateway Interface Class
9705 =item PROGRAMMING STYLE
9707 =item CALLING CGI.PM ROUTINES
9709 =item CREATING A NEW QUERY OBJECT (OBJECT-ORIENTED STYLE):
9711 =item CREATING A NEW QUERY OBJECT FROM AN INPUT FILE
9713 =item FETCHING A LIST OF KEYWORDS FROM THE QUERY:
9715 =item FETCHING THE NAMES OF ALL THE PARAMETERS PASSED TO YOUR SCRIPT:
9717 =item FETCHING THE VALUE OR VALUES OF A SINGLE NAMED PARAMETER:
9719 =item SETTING THE VALUE(S) OF A NAMED PARAMETER:
9721 =item APPENDING ADDITIONAL VALUES TO A NAMED PARAMETER:
9723 =item IMPORTING ALL PARAMETERS INTO A NAMESPACE:
9725 =item DELETING A PARAMETER COMPLETELY:
9727 =item DELETING ALL PARAMETERS:
9729 =item DIRECT ACCESS TO THE PARAMETER LIST:
9731 =item FETCHING THE PARAMETER LIST AS A HASH:
9733 =item SAVING THE STATE OF THE SCRIPT TO A FILE:
9735 =item RETRIEVING CGI ERRORS
9737 =item USING THE FUNCTION-ORIENTED INTERFACE
9739 B<:cgi>, B<:form>, B<:html2>, B<:html3>, B<:html4>, B<:netscape>, B<:html>,
9740 B<:standard>, B<:all>
9744 -any, -compile, -nosticky, -no_undef_params, -no_xhtml, -nph,
9745 -newstyle_urls, -oldstyle_urls, -autoload, -no_debug, -debug,
9748 =item SPECIAL FORMS FOR IMPORTING HTML-TAG FUNCTIONS
9750 1. start_table() (generates a <table> tag), 2. end_table() (generates a
9751 </table> tag), 3. start_ul() (generates a <ul> tag), 4. end_ul() (generates
9756 =item GENERATING DYNAMIC DOCUMENTS
9760 =item CREATING A STANDARD HTTP HEADER:
9762 =item GENERATING A REDIRECTION HEADER
9764 =item CREATING THE HTML DOCUMENT HEADER
9766 B<Parameters:>, 4, 5, 6..
9768 =item ENDING THE HTML DOCUMENT:
9770 =item CREATING A SELF-REFERENCING URL THAT PRESERVES STATE INFORMATION:
9772 =item OBTAINING THE SCRIPT'S URL
9774 B<-absolute>, B<-relative>, B<-full>, B<-path> (B<-path_info>), B<-query>
9775 (B<-query_string>), B<-base>
9777 =item MIXING POST AND URL PARAMETERS
9781 =item CREATING STANDARD HTML ELEMENTS:
9785 =item PROVIDING ARGUMENTS TO HTML SHORTCUTS
9787 =item THE DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY OF HTML SHORTCUTS
9789 =item HTML SHORTCUTS AND LIST INTERPOLATION
9791 =item NON-STANDARD HTML SHORTCUTS
9793 =item AUTOESCAPING HTML
9795 $escaped_string = escapeHTML("unescaped string");, $charset =
9796 charset([$charset]);, $flag = autoEscape([$flag]);
9798 =item PRETTY-PRINTING HTML
9802 =item CREATING FILL-OUT FORMS:
9806 =item CREATING AN ISINDEX TAG
9808 =item STARTING AND ENDING A FORM
9810 B<application/x-www-form-urlencoded>, B<multipart/form-data>
9812 =item CREATING A TEXT FIELD
9816 =item CREATING A BIG TEXT FIELD
9818 =item CREATING A PASSWORD FIELD
9820 =item CREATING A FILE UPLOAD FIELD
9824 =item CREATING A POPUP MENU
9826 =item CREATING A SCROLLING LIST
9830 =item CREATING A GROUP OF RELATED CHECKBOXES
9834 =item CREATING A STANDALONE CHECKBOX
9838 =item CREATING A RADIO BUTTON GROUP
9842 =item CREATING A SUBMIT BUTTON
9846 =item CREATING A RESET BUTTON
9848 =item CREATING A DEFAULT BUTTON
9850 =item CREATING A HIDDEN FIELD
9854 =item CREATING A CLICKABLE IMAGE BUTTON
9858 =item CREATING A JAVASCRIPT ACTION BUTTON
9864 1. an expiration time, 2. a domain, 3. a path, 4. a "secure" flag,
9865 B<-name>, B<-value>, B<-path>, B<-domain>, B<-expires>, B<-secure>
9867 =item WORKING WITH FRAMES
9869 1. Create a <Frameset> document, 2. Specify the destination for the
9870 document in the HTTP header, 3. Specify the destination for the document in
9873 =item LIMITED SUPPORT FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS
9879 =item DUMPING OUT ALL THE NAME/VALUE PAIRS
9883 =item FETCHING ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
9885 B<Accept()>, B<raw_cookie()>, B<user_agent()>, B<path_info()>,
9886 B<path_translated()>, B<remote_host()>, B<script_name()>, B<referer()>,
9887 B<auth_type ()>, B<server_name ()>, B<virtual_host ()>, B<server_port ()>,
9888 B<server_software ()>, B<remote_user ()>, B<user_name ()>,
9889 B<request_method()>, B<content_type()>, B<http()>, B<https()>
9891 =item USING NPH SCRIPTS
9893 In the B<use> statement, By calling the B<nph()> method:, By using B<-nph>
9898 multipart_init(), multipart_start(), multipart_end(), multipart_final()
9900 =item Avoiding Denial of Service Attacks
9902 B<$CGI::POST_MAX>, B<$CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS>, B<1. On a script-by-script
9903 basis>, B<2. Globally for all scripts>
9905 =item COMPATIBILITY WITH CGI-LIB.PL
9907 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
9911 Matt Heffron (heffron@falstaff.css.beckman.com), James Taylor
9912 (james.taylor@srs.gov), Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com>, Mike Jewell
9913 (mlj3u@virginia.edu), Timothy Shimmin (tes@kbs.citri.edu.au), Joergen Haegg
9914 (jh@axis.se), Laurent Delfosse (delfosse@delfosse.com), Richard Resnick
9915 (applepi1@aol.com), Craig Bishop (csb@barwonwater.vic.gov.au), Tony Curtis
9916 (tc@vcpc.univie.ac.at), Tim Bunce (Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk), Tom Christiansen
9917 (tchrist@convex.com), Andreas Koenig (k@franz.ww.TU-Berlin.DE), Tim
9918 MacKenzie (Tim.MacKenzie@fulcrum.com.au), Kevin B. Hendricks
9919 (kbhend@dogwood.tyler.wm.edu), Stephen Dahmen (joyfire@inxpress.net), Ed
9920 Jordan (ed@fidalgo.net), David Alan Pisoni (david@cnation.com), Doug
9921 MacEachern (dougm@opengroup.org), Robin Houston (robin@oneworld.org),
9922 ...and many many more..
9924 =item A COMPLETE EXAMPLE OF A SIMPLE FORM-BASED SCRIPT
9932 =head2 CGI::Apache - Backward compatibility module for CGI.pm
9942 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
9950 =head2 CGI::Carp, B<CGI::Carp> - CGI routines for writing to the HTTPD (or
9959 =item REDIRECTING ERROR MESSAGES
9961 =item MAKING PERL ERRORS APPEAR IN THE BROWSER WINDOW
9965 =item Changing the default message
9969 =item MAKING WARNINGS APPEAR AS HTML COMMENTS
9979 =head2 CGI::Cookie - Interface to Netscape Cookies
9987 =item USING CGI::Cookie
9989 B<1. expiration date>, B<2. domain>, B<3. path>, B<4. secure flag>
9993 =item Creating New Cookies
9995 =item Sending the Cookie to the Browser
9997 =item Recovering Previous Cookies
9999 =item Manipulating Cookies
10001 B<name()>, B<value()>, B<domain()>, B<path()>, B<expires()>
10005 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
10013 =head2 CGI::Fast - CGI Interface for Fast CGI
10021 =item OTHER PIECES OF THE PUZZLE
10023 =item WRITING FASTCGI PERL SCRIPTS
10025 =item INSTALLING FASTCGI SCRIPTS
10027 =item USING FASTCGI SCRIPTS AS CGI SCRIPTS
10029 =item EXTERNAL FASTCGI SERVER INVOCATION
10031 FCGI_SOCKET_PATH, FCGI_LISTEN_QUEUE
10035 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
10043 =head2 CGI::Pretty - module to produce nicely formatted HTML code
10053 =item Tags that won't be formatted
10055 =item Customizing the Indenting
10067 =head2 CGI::Push - Simple Interface to Server Push
10075 =item USING CGI::Push
10077 -next_page, -last_page, -type, -delay, -cookie, -target, -expires, -nph
10081 =item Heterogeneous Pages
10083 =item Changing the Page Delay on the Fly
10087 =item INSTALLING CGI::Push SCRIPTS
10089 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
10097 =head2 CGI::Switch - Backward compatibility module for defunct CGI::Switch
10107 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
10115 =head2 CGI::Util - Internal utilities used by CGI module
10123 =item AUTHOR INFORMATION
10129 =head2 CPAN - query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites
10139 =item Interactive Mode
10141 Searching for authors, bundles, distribution files and modules, make, test,
10142 install, clean modules or distributions, get, readme, look module or
10143 distribution, ls author, Signals
10151 =item The four C<CPAN::*> Classes: Author, Bundle, Module, Distribution
10153 =item Programmer's interface
10155 expand($type,@things), expandany(@things), Programming Examples
10157 =item Methods in the other Classes
10159 CPAN::Author::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Author::as_string(),
10160 CPAN::Author::email(), CPAN::Author::fullname(), CPAN::Author::name(),
10161 CPAN::Bundle::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Bundle::as_string(),
10162 CPAN::Bundle::clean(), CPAN::Bundle::contains(),
10163 CPAN::Bundle::force($method,@args), CPAN::Bundle::get(),
10164 CPAN::Bundle::inst_file(), CPAN::Bundle::inst_version(),
10165 CPAN::Bundle::uptodate(), CPAN::Bundle::install(), CPAN::Bundle::make(),
10166 CPAN::Bundle::readme(), CPAN::Bundle::test(),
10167 CPAN::Distribution::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Distribution::as_string(),
10168 CPAN::Distribution::clean(), CPAN::Distribution::containsmods(),
10169 CPAN::Distribution::cvs_import(), CPAN::Distribution::dir(),
10170 CPAN::Distribution::force($method,@args), CPAN::Distribution::get(),
10171 CPAN::Distribution::install(), CPAN::Distribution::isa_perl(),
10172 CPAN::Distribution::look(), CPAN::Distribution::make(),
10173 CPAN::Distribution::prereq_pm(), CPAN::Distribution::readme(),
10174 CPAN::Distribution::test(), CPAN::Distribution::uptodate(),
10175 CPAN::Index::force_reload(), CPAN::Index::reload(), CPAN::InfoObj::dump(),
10176 CPAN::Module::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Module::as_string(),
10177 CPAN::Module::clean(), CPAN::Module::cpan_file(),
10178 CPAN::Module::cpan_version(), CPAN::Module::cvs_import(),
10179 CPAN::Module::description(), CPAN::Module::force($method,@args),
10180 CPAN::Module::get(), CPAN::Module::inst_file(),
10181 CPAN::Module::inst_version(), CPAN::Module::install(),
10182 CPAN::Module::look(), CPAN::Module::make(),
10183 CPAN::Module::manpage_headline(), CPAN::Module::readme(),
10184 CPAN::Module::test(), CPAN::Module::uptodate(), CPAN::Module::userid()
10186 =item Cache Manager
10190 =item Prerequisites
10192 =item Finding packages and VERSION
10196 =item Floppy, Zip, Offline Mode
10200 =item CONFIGURATION
10202 C<o conf E<lt>scalar optionE<gt>>, C<o conf E<lt>scalar optionE<gt>
10203 E<lt>valueE<gt>>, C<o conf E<lt>list optionE<gt>>, C<o conf E<lt>list
10204 optionE<gt> [shift|pop]>, C<o conf E<lt>list optionE<gt>
10205 [unshift|push|splice] E<lt>listE<gt>>
10209 =item Note on urllist parameter's format
10211 =item urllist parameter has CD-ROM support
10219 =item POPULATE AN INSTALLATION WITH LOTS OF MODULES
10221 =item WORKING WITH CPAN.pm BEHIND FIREWALLS
10225 =item Three basic types of firewalls
10227 http firewall, ftp firewall, One way visibility, SOCKS, IP Masquerade
10229 =item Configuring lynx or ncftp for going through a firewall
10235 1), 2), 3), 4), 5), 6), 7), 8), 9), 10)
10247 =head2 CPAN::FirstTime - Utility for CPAN::Config file Initialization
10257 =head2 CPANox, CPAN::Nox - Wrapper around CPAN.pm without using any XS
10270 =head2 Carp, carp - warn of errors (from perspective of caller)
10280 =item Forcing a Stack Trace
10288 =head2 Carp::Heavy, Carp heavy machinery - no user serviceable parts inside
10290 =head2 Class::ISA -- report the search path for a class's ISA tree
10300 the function Class::ISA::super_path($CLASS), the function
10301 Class::ISA::self_and_super_path($CLASS), the function
10302 Class::ISA::self_and_super_versions($CLASS)
10304 =item CAUTIONARY NOTES
10312 =head2 Class::Struct - declare struct-like datatypes as Perl classes
10322 =item The C<struct()> function
10324 =item Class Creation at Compile Time
10326 =item Element Types and Accessor Methods
10328 Scalar (C<'$'> or C<'*$'>), Array (C<'@'> or C<'*@'>), Hash (C<'%'> or
10329 C<'*%'>), Class (C<'Class_Name'> or C<'*Class_Name'>)
10331 =item Initializing with C<new>
10337 Example 1, Example 2, Example 3
10339 =item Author and Modification History
10343 =head2 Config - access Perl configuration information
10351 myconfig(), config_sh(), config_vars(@names)
10363 C<_a>, C<_exe>, C<_o>
10367 C<afs>, C<afsroot>, C<alignbytes>, C<ansi2knr>, C<aphostname>,
10368 C<api_revision>, C<api_subversion>, C<api_version>, C<api_versionstring>,
10369 C<ar>, C<archlib>, C<archlibexp>, C<archname64>, C<archname>, C<archobjs>,
10374 C<baserev>, C<bash>, C<bin>, C<bincompat5005>, C<binexp>, C<bison>,
10375 C<byacc>, C<byteorder>
10379 C<c>, C<castflags>, C<cat>, C<cc>, C<cccdlflags>, C<ccdlflags>, C<ccflags>,
10380 C<ccflags_uselargefiles>, C<ccname>, C<ccsymbols>, C<ccversion>, C<cf_by>,
10381 C<cf_email>, C<cf_time>, C<charsize>, C<chgrp>, C<chmod>, C<chown>,
10382 C<clocktype>, C<comm>, C<compress>, C<contains>, C<cp>, C<cpio>, C<cpp>,
10383 C<cpp_stuff>, C<cppccsymbols>, C<cppflags>, C<cpplast>, C<cppminus>,
10384 C<cpprun>, C<cppstdin>, C<cppsymbols>, C<cryptlib>, C<csh>
10388 C<d__fwalk>, C<d_access>, C<d_accessx>, C<d_alarm>, C<d_archlib>,
10389 C<d_atolf>, C<d_atoll>, C<d_attribut>, C<d_bcmp>, C<d_bcopy>,
10390 C<d_bincompat5005>, C<d_bsd>, C<d_bsdgetpgrp>, C<d_bsdsetpgrp>, C<d_bzero>,
10391 C<d_casti32>, C<d_castneg>, C<d_charvspr>, C<d_chown>, C<d_chroot>,
10392 C<d_chsize>, C<d_class>, C<d_closedir>, C<d_cmsghdr_s>, C<d_const>,
10393 C<d_crypt>, C<d_csh>, C<d_cuserid>, C<d_dbl_dig>, C<d_dbminitproto>,
10394 C<d_difftime>, C<d_dirfd>, C<d_dirnamlen>, C<d_dlerror>, C<d_dlopen>,
10395 C<d_dlsymun>, C<d_dosuid>, C<d_drand48proto>, C<d_dup2>, C<d_eaccess>,
10396 C<d_endgrent>, C<d_endhent>, C<d_endnent>, C<d_endpent>, C<d_endpwent>,
10397 C<d_endsent>, C<d_eofnblk>, C<d_eunice>, C<d_fchdir>, C<d_fchmod>,
10398 C<d_fchown>, C<d_fcntl>, C<d_fcntl_can_lock>, C<d_fd_macros>, C<d_fd_set>,
10399 C<d_fds_bits>, C<d_fgetpos>, C<d_finite>, C<d_finitel>, C<d_flexfnam>,
10400 C<d_flock>, C<d_flockproto>, C<d_fork>, C<d_fp_class>, C<d_fpathconf>,
10401 C<d_fpclass>, C<d_fpclassify>, C<d_fpclassl>, C<d_fpos64_t>, C<d_frexpl>,
10402 C<d_fs_data_s>, C<d_fseeko>, C<d_fsetpos>, C<d_fstatfs>, C<d_fstatvfs>,
10403 C<d_fsync>, C<d_ftello>, C<d_ftime>, C<d_Gconvert>, C<d_getcwd>,
10404 C<d_getespwnam>, C<d_getfsstat>, C<d_getgrent>, C<d_getgrps>,
10405 C<d_gethbyaddr>, C<d_gethbyname>, C<d_gethent>, C<d_gethname>,
10406 C<d_gethostprotos>, C<d_getitimer>, C<d_getlogin>, C<d_getmnt>,
10407 C<d_getmntent>, C<d_getnbyaddr>, C<d_getnbyname>, C<d_getnent>,
10408 C<d_getnetprotos>, C<d_getpagsz>, C<d_getpbyname>, C<d_getpbynumber>,
10409 C<d_getpent>, C<d_getpgid>, C<d_getpgrp2>, C<d_getpgrp>, C<d_getppid>,
10410 C<d_getprior>, C<d_getprotoprotos>, C<d_getprpwnam>, C<d_getpwent>,
10411 C<d_getsbyname>, C<d_getsbyport>, C<d_getsent>, C<d_getservprotos>,
10412 C<d_getspnam>, C<d_gettimeod>, C<d_gnulibc>, C<d_grpasswd>, C<d_hasmntopt>,
10413 C<d_htonl>, C<d_index>, C<d_inetaton>, C<d_int64_t>, C<d_isascii>,
10414 C<d_isfinite>, C<d_isinf>, C<d_isnan>, C<d_isnanl>, C<d_killpg>,
10415 C<d_lchown>, C<d_ldbl_dig>, C<d_link>, C<d_locconv>, C<d_lockf>,
10416 C<d_longdbl>, C<d_longlong>, C<d_lseekproto>, C<d_lstat>, C<d_madvise>,
10417 C<d_mblen>, C<d_mbstowcs>, C<d_mbtowc>, C<d_memchr>, C<d_memcmp>,
10418 C<d_memcpy>, C<d_memmove>, C<d_memset>, C<d_mkdir>, C<d_mkdtemp>,
10419 C<d_mkfifo>, C<d_mkstemp>, C<d_mkstemps>, C<d_mktime>, C<d_mmap>,
10420 C<d_modfl>, C<d_modfl_pow32_bug>, C<d_mprotect>, C<d_msg>, C<d_msg_ctrunc>,
10421 C<d_msg_dontroute>, C<d_msg_oob>, C<d_msg_peek>, C<d_msg_proxy>,
10422 C<d_msgctl>, C<d_msgget>, C<d_msghdr_s>, C<d_msgrcv>, C<d_msgsnd>,
10423 C<d_msync>, C<d_munmap>, C<d_mymalloc>, C<d_nice>, C<d_nl_langinfo>,
10424 C<d_nv_preserves_uv>, C<d_nv_preserves_uv_bits>, C<d_off64_t>,
10425 C<d_old_pthread_create_joinable>, C<d_oldpthreads>, C<d_oldsock>,
10426 C<d_open3>, C<d_pathconf>, C<d_pause>, C<d_perl_otherlibdirs>,
10427 C<d_phostname>, C<d_pipe>, C<d_poll>, C<d_portable>, C<d_PRId64>,
10428 C<d_PRIeldbl>, C<d_PRIEUldbl>, C<d_PRIfldbl>, C<d_PRIFUldbl>,
10429 C<d_PRIgldbl>, C<d_PRIGUldbl>, C<d_PRIi64>, C<d_PRIo64>, C<d_PRIu64>,
10430 C<d_PRIx64>, C<d_PRIXU64>, C<d_procselfexe>, C<d_pthread_atfork>,
10431 C<d_pthread_yield>, C<d_pwage>, C<d_pwchange>, C<d_pwclass>,
10432 C<d_pwcomment>, C<d_pwexpire>, C<d_pwgecos>, C<d_pwpasswd>, C<d_pwquota>,
10433 C<d_qgcvt>, C<d_quad>, C<d_readdir>, C<d_readlink>, C<d_readv>,
10434 C<d_recvmsg>, C<d_rename>, C<d_rewinddir>, C<d_rmdir>, C<d_safebcpy>,
10435 C<d_safemcpy>, C<d_sanemcmp>, C<d_sbrkproto>, C<d_sched_yield>,
10436 C<d_scm_rights>, C<d_SCNfldbl>, C<d_seekdir>, C<d_select>, C<d_sem>,
10437 C<d_semctl>, C<d_semctl_semid_ds>, C<d_semctl_semun>, C<d_semget>,
10438 C<d_semop>, C<d_sendmsg>, C<d_setegid>, C<d_seteuid>, C<d_setgrent>,
10439 C<d_setgrps>, C<d_sethent>, C<d_setitimer>, C<d_setlinebuf>,
10440 C<d_setlocale>, C<d_setnent>, C<d_setpent>, C<d_setpgid>, C<d_setpgrp2>,
10441 C<d_setpgrp>, C<d_setprior>, C<d_setproctitle>, C<d_setpwent>,
10442 C<d_setregid>, C<d_setresgid>, C<d_setresuid>, C<d_setreuid>, C<d_setrgid>,
10443 C<d_setruid>, C<d_setsent>, C<d_setsid>, C<d_setvbuf>, C<d_sfio>, C<d_shm>,
10444 C<d_shmat>, C<d_shmatprototype>, C<d_shmctl>, C<d_shmdt>, C<d_shmget>,
10445 C<d_sigaction>, C<d_sigprocmask>, C<d_sigsetjmp>, C<d_sockatmark>,
10446 C<d_sockatmarkproto>, C<d_socket>, C<d_socklen_t>, C<d_sockpair>,
10447 C<d_socks5_init>, C<d_sqrtl>, C<d_sresgproto>, C<d_sresuproto>,
10448 C<d_statblks>, C<d_statfs_f_flags>, C<d_statfs_s>, C<d_statvfs>,
10449 C<d_stdio_cnt_lval>, C<d_stdio_ptr_lval>, C<d_stdio_ptr_lval_nochange_cnt>,
10450 C<d_stdio_ptr_lval_sets_cnt>, C<d_stdio_stream_array>, C<d_stdiobase>,
10451 C<d_stdstdio>, C<d_strchr>, C<d_strcoll>, C<d_strctcpy>, C<d_strerrm>,
10452 C<d_strerror>, C<d_strftime>, C<d_strtod>, C<d_strtol>, C<d_strtold>,
10453 C<d_strtoll>, C<d_strtoq>, C<d_strtoul>, C<d_strtoull>, C<d_strtouq>,
10454 C<d_strxfrm>, C<d_suidsafe>, C<d_symlink>, C<d_syscall>, C<d_syscallproto>,
10455 C<d_sysconf>, C<d_sysernlst>, C<d_syserrlst>, C<d_system>, C<d_tcgetpgrp>,
10456 C<d_tcsetpgrp>, C<d_telldir>, C<d_telldirproto>, C<d_time>, C<d_times>,
10457 C<d_truncate>, C<d_tzname>, C<d_u32align>, C<d_ualarm>, C<d_umask>,
10458 C<d_uname>, C<d_union_semun>, C<d_unordered>, C<d_usleep>,
10459 C<d_usleepproto>, C<d_ustat>, C<d_vendorarch>, C<d_vendorbin>,
10460 C<d_vendorlib>, C<d_vfork>, C<d_void_closedir>, C<d_voidsig>, C<d_voidtty>,
10461 C<d_volatile>, C<d_vprintf>, C<d_wait4>, C<d_waitpid>, C<d_wcstombs>,
10462 C<d_wctomb>, C<d_writev>, C<d_xenix>, C<date>, C<db_hashtype>,
10463 C<db_prefixtype>, C<db_version_major>, C<db_version_minor>,
10464 C<db_version_patch>, C<defvoidused>, C<direntrytype>, C<dlext>, C<dlsrc>,
10465 C<doublesize>, C<drand01>, C<dynamic_ext>
10469 C<eagain>, C<ebcdic>, C<echo>, C<egrep>, C<emacs>, C<eunicefix>,
10470 C<exe_ext>, C<expr>, C<extensions>, C<extras>
10474 C<fflushall>, C<fflushNULL>, C<find>, C<firstmakefile>, C<flex>,
10475 C<fpossize>, C<fpostype>, C<freetype>, C<from>, C<full_ar>, C<full_csh>,
10480 C<gccosandvers>, C<gccversion>, C<gidformat>, C<gidsign>, C<gidsize>,
10481 C<gidtype>, C<glibpth>, C<gmake>, C<grep>, C<groupcat>, C<groupstype>,
10486 C<h_fcntl>, C<h_sysfile>, C<hint>, C<hostcat>
10490 C<i16size>, C<i16type>, C<i32size>, C<i32type>, C<i64size>, C<i64type>,
10491 C<i8size>, C<i8type>, C<i_arpainet>, C<i_bsdioctl>, C<i_db>, C<i_dbm>,
10492 C<i_dirent>, C<i_dld>, C<i_dlfcn>, C<i_fcntl>, C<i_float>, C<i_fp>,
10493 C<i_fp_class>, C<i_gdbm>, C<i_grp>, C<i_ieeefp>, C<i_inttypes>,
10494 C<i_langinfo>, C<i_libutil>, C<i_limits>, C<i_locale>, C<i_machcthr>,
10495 C<i_malloc>, C<i_math>, C<i_memory>, C<i_mntent>, C<i_ndbm>, C<i_netdb>,
10496 C<i_neterrno>, C<i_netinettcp>, C<i_niin>, C<i_poll>, C<i_prot>,
10497 C<i_pthread>, C<i_pwd>, C<i_rpcsvcdbm>, C<i_sfio>, C<i_sgtty>, C<i_shadow>,
10498 C<i_socks>, C<i_stdarg>, C<i_stddef>, C<i_stdlib>, C<i_string>,
10499 C<i_sunmath>, C<i_sysaccess>, C<i_sysdir>, C<i_sysfile>, C<i_sysfilio>,
10500 C<i_sysin>, C<i_sysioctl>, C<i_syslog>, C<i_sysmman>, C<i_sysmode>,
10501 C<i_sysmount>, C<i_sysndir>, C<i_sysparam>, C<i_sysresrc>, C<i_syssecrt>,
10502 C<i_sysselct>, C<i_syssockio>, C<i_sysstat>, C<i_sysstatfs>,
10503 C<i_sysstatvfs>, C<i_systime>, C<i_systimek>, C<i_systimes>, C<i_systypes>,
10504 C<i_sysuio>, C<i_sysun>, C<i_sysutsname>, C<i_sysvfs>, C<i_syswait>,
10505 C<i_termio>, C<i_termios>, C<i_time>, C<i_unistd>, C<i_ustat>, C<i_utime>,
10506 C<i_values>, C<i_varargs>, C<i_varhdr>, C<i_vfork>,
10507 C<ignore_versioned_solibs>, C<inc_version_list>, C<inc_version_list_init>,
10508 C<incpath>, C<inews>, C<installarchlib>, C<installbin>, C<installman1dir>,
10509 C<installman3dir>, C<installprefix>, C<installprefixexp>,
10510 C<installprivlib>, C<installscript>, C<installsitearch>, C<installsitebin>,
10511 C<installsitelib>, C<installstyle>, C<installusrbinperl>,
10512 C<installvendorarch>, C<installvendorbin>, C<installvendorlib>, C<intsize>,
10513 C<issymlink>, C<ivdformat>, C<ivsize>, C<ivtype>
10517 C<known_extensions>, C<ksh>
10521 C<ld>, C<lddlflags>, C<ldflags>, C<ldflags_uselargefiles>, C<ldlibpthname>,
10522 C<less>, C<lib_ext>, C<libc>, C<libperl>, C<libpth>, C<libs>, C<libsdirs>,
10523 C<libsfiles>, C<libsfound>, C<libspath>, C<libswanted>,
10524 C<libswanted_uselargefiles>, C<line>, C<lint>, C<lkflags>, C<ln>, C<lns>,
10525 C<locincpth>, C<loclibpth>, C<longdblsize>, C<longlongsize>, C<longsize>,
10526 C<lp>, C<lpr>, C<ls>, C<lseeksize>, C<lseektype>
10530 C<mail>, C<mailx>, C<make>, C<make_set_make>, C<mallocobj>, C<mallocsrc>,
10531 C<malloctype>, C<man1dir>, C<man1direxp>, C<man1ext>, C<man3dir>,
10532 C<man3direxp>, C<man3ext>
10536 C<Mcc>, C<mips_type>, C<mkdir>, C<mmaptype>, C<modetype>, C<more>,
10537 C<multiarch>, C<mv>, C<myarchname>, C<mydomain>, C<myhostname>, C<myuname>
10541 C<n>, C<need_va_copy>, C<netdb_hlen_type>, C<netdb_host_type>,
10542 C<netdb_name_type>, C<netdb_net_type>, C<nm>, C<nm_opt>, C<nm_so_opt>,
10543 C<nonxs_ext>, C<nroff>, C<nveformat>, C<nvEUformat>, C<nvfformat>,
10544 C<nvFUformat>, C<nvgformat>, C<nvGUformat>, C<nvsize>, C<nvtype>
10548 C<o_nonblock>, C<obj_ext>, C<old_pthread_create_joinable>, C<optimize>,
10549 C<orderlib>, C<osname>, C<osvers>, C<otherlibdirs>
10553 C<package>, C<pager>, C<passcat>, C<patchlevel>, C<path_sep>, C<perl5>,
10554 C<perl>, C<perl_patchlevel>
10558 C<PERL_REVISION>, C<PERL_SUBVERSION>, C<PERL_VERSION>, C<perladmin>,
10559 C<perllibs>, C<perlpath>, C<pg>, C<phostname>, C<pidtype>, C<plibpth>,
10560 C<pm_apiversion>, C<pmake>, C<pr>, C<prefix>, C<prefixexp>, C<privlib>,
10561 C<privlibexp>, C<procselfexe>, C<prototype>, C<ptrsize>
10565 C<quadkind>, C<quadtype>
10569 C<randbits>, C<randfunc>, C<randseedtype>, C<ranlib>, C<rd_nodata>,
10570 C<revision>, C<rm>, C<rmail>, C<run>, C<runnm>
10574 C<sched_yield>, C<scriptdir>, C<scriptdirexp>, C<sed>, C<seedfunc>,
10575 C<selectminbits>, C<selecttype>, C<sendmail>, C<sh>, C<shar>, C<sharpbang>,
10576 C<shmattype>, C<shortsize>, C<shrpenv>, C<shsharp>, C<sig_count>,
10577 C<sig_name>, C<sig_name_init>, C<sig_num>, C<sig_num_init>, C<sig_size>,
10578 C<signal_t>, C<sitearch>, C<sitearchexp>, C<sitebin>, C<sitebinexp>,
10579 C<sitelib>, C<sitelib_stem>, C<sitelibexp>, C<siteprefix>,
10580 C<siteprefixexp>, C<sizesize>, C<sizetype>, C<sleep>, C<smail>, C<so>,
10581 C<sockethdr>, C<socketlib>, C<socksizetype>, C<sort>, C<spackage>,
10582 C<spitshell>, C<sPRId64>, C<sPRIeldbl>, C<sPRIEUldbl>, C<sPRIfldbl>,
10583 C<sPRIFUldbl>, C<sPRIgldbl>, C<sPRIGUldbl>, C<sPRIi64>, C<sPRIo64>,
10584 C<sPRIu64>, C<sPRIx64>, C<sPRIXU64>, C<src>, C<sSCNfldbl>, C<ssizetype>,
10585 C<startperl>, C<startsh>, C<static_ext>, C<stdchar>, C<stdio_base>,
10586 C<stdio_bufsiz>, C<stdio_cnt>, C<stdio_filbuf>, C<stdio_ptr>,
10587 C<stdio_stream_array>, C<strings>, C<submit>, C<subversion>, C<sysman>
10591 C<tail>, C<tar>, C<targetarch>, C<tbl>, C<tee>, C<test>, C<timeincl>,
10592 C<timetype>, C<to>, C<touch>, C<tr>, C<trnl>, C<troff>
10596 C<u16size>, C<u16type>, C<u32size>, C<u32type>, C<u64size>, C<u64type>,
10597 C<u8size>, C<u8type>, C<uidformat>, C<uidsign>, C<uidsize>, C<uidtype>,
10598 C<uname>, C<uniq>, C<uquadtype>, C<use5005threads>, C<use64bitall>,
10599 C<use64bitint>, C<usecrosscompile>, C<usedl>, C<useithreads>,
10600 C<uselargefiles>, C<uselongdouble>, C<usemorebits>, C<usemultiplicity>,
10601 C<usemymalloc>, C<usenm>, C<useopcode>, C<useperlio>, C<useposix>,
10602 C<usereentrant>, C<usesfio>, C<useshrplib>, C<usesocks>, C<usethreads>,
10603 C<usevendorprefix>, C<usevfork>, C<usrinc>, C<uuname>, C<uvoformat>,
10604 C<uvsize>, C<uvtype>, C<uvuformat>, C<uvxformat>, C<uvXUformat>
10608 C<vendorarch>, C<vendorarchexp>, C<vendorbin>, C<vendorbinexp>,
10609 C<vendorlib>, C<vendorlib_stem>, C<vendorlibexp>, C<vendorprefix>,
10610 C<vendorprefixexp>, C<version>, C<version_patchlevel_string>,
10611 C<versiononly>, C<vi>, C<voidflags>
10615 C<xlibpth>, C<xs_apiversion>
10619 C<yacc>, C<yaccflags>
10631 =head2 Cwd - get pathname of current working directory
10641 =item getcwd and friends
10643 getcwd, cwd, fastcwd, fastgetcwd
10645 =item abs_path and friends
10647 abs_path, realpath, fast_abs_path
10659 =head2 DB - programmatic interface to the Perl debugging API (draft,
10671 =item Global Variables
10673 $DB::sub, %DB::sub, $DB::single, $DB::signal, $DB::trace, @DB::args,
10674 @DB::dbline, %DB::dbline, $DB::package, $DB::filename, $DB::subname,
10679 CLIENT->register(), CLIENT->evalcode(STRING), CLIENT->skippkg('D::hide'),
10680 CLIENT->run(), CLIENT->step(), CLIENT->next(), CLIENT->done()
10682 =item Client Callback Methods
10684 CLIENT->init(), CLIENT->prestop([STRING]), CLIENT->stop(), CLIENT->idle(),
10685 CLIENT->poststop([STRING]), CLIENT->evalcode(STRING), CLIENT->cleanup(),
10686 CLIENT->output(LIST)
10696 =head2 DB_File - Perl5 access to Berkeley DB version 1.x
10704 B<DB_HASH>, B<DB_BTREE>, B<DB_RECNO>
10708 =item Using DB_File with Berkeley DB version 2 or greater
10710 =item Interface to Berkeley DB
10712 =item Opening a Berkeley DB Database File
10714 =item Default Parameters
10716 =item In Memory Databases
10724 =item A Simple Example
10732 =item Changing the BTREE sort order
10734 =item Handling Duplicate Keys
10736 =item The get_dup() Method
10738 =item The find_dup() Method
10740 =item The del_dup() Method
10742 =item Matching Partial Keys
10750 =item The 'bval' Option
10752 =item A Simple Example
10754 =item Extra RECNO Methods
10756 B<$X-E<gt>push(list) ;>, B<$value = $X-E<gt>pop ;>, B<$X-E<gt>shift>,
10757 B<$X-E<gt>unshift(list) ;>, B<$X-E<gt>length>, B<$X-E<gt>splice(offset,
10758 length, elements);>
10760 =item Another Example
10764 =item THE API INTERFACE
10766 B<$status = $X-E<gt>get($key, $value [, $flags]) ;>, B<$status =
10767 $X-E<gt>put($key, $value [, $flags]) ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>del($key [,
10768 $flags]) ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>fd ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>seq($key,
10769 $value, $flags) ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>sync([$flags]) ;>
10773 B<filter_store_key>, B<filter_store_value>, B<filter_fetch_key>,
10774 B<filter_fetch_value>
10780 =item An Example -- the NULL termination problem.
10782 =item Another Example -- Key is a C int.
10786 =item HINTS AND TIPS
10790 =item Locking: The Trouble with fd
10792 =item Safe ways to lock a database
10794 B<Tie::DB_Lock>, B<Tie::DB_LockFile>, B<DB_File::Lock>
10796 =item Sharing Databases With C Applications
10798 =item The untie() Gotcha
10802 =item COMMON QUESTIONS
10806 =item Why is there Perl source in my database?
10808 =item How do I store complex data structures with DB_File?
10810 =item What does "Invalid Argument" mean?
10812 =item What does "Bareword 'DB_File' not allowed" mean?
10832 =head2 Data::Dumper - stringified perl data structures, suitable for both
10833 printing and C<eval>
10845 I<PACKAGE>->new(I<ARRAYREF [>, I<ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Dump I<or>
10846 I<PACKAGE>->Dump(I<ARRAYREF [>, I<ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Seen(I<[HASHREF]>),
10847 I<$OBJ>->Values(I<[ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Names(I<[ARRAYREF]>),
10854 =item Configuration Variables or Methods
10856 $Data::Dumper::Indent I<or> I<$OBJ>->Indent(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10857 $Data::Dumper::Purity I<or> I<$OBJ>->Purity(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10858 $Data::Dumper::Pad I<or> I<$OBJ>->Pad(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10859 $Data::Dumper::Varname I<or> I<$OBJ>->Varname(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10860 $Data::Dumper::Useqq I<or> I<$OBJ>->Useqq(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10861 $Data::Dumper::Terse I<or> I<$OBJ>->Terse(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10862 $Data::Dumper::Freezer I<or> $I<OBJ>->Freezer(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10863 $Data::Dumper::Toaster I<or> $I<OBJ>->Toaster(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10864 $Data::Dumper::Deepcopy I<or> $I<OBJ>->Deepcopy(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10865 $Data::Dumper::Quotekeys I<or> $I<OBJ>->Quotekeys(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10866 $Data::Dumper::Bless I<or> $I<OBJ>->Bless(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10867 $Data::Dumper::Maxdepth I<or> $I<OBJ>->Maxdepth(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10868 $Data::Dumper::Useperl I<or> $I<OBJ>->Useperl(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10869 $Data::Dumper::Sortkeys I<or> $I<OBJ>->Sortkeys(I<[NEWVAL]>),
10870 $Data::Dumper::Deparse I<or> $I<OBJ>->Deparse(I<[NEWVAL]>)
10890 =head2 Devel::DProf - a Perl code profiler
10898 =item PROFILE FORMAT
10910 =head2 Devel::PPPort, Perl/Pollution/Portability
10932 =head2 Devel::Peek - A data debugging tool for the XS programmer
10942 =item Runtime debugging
10944 =item Memory footprint debugging
10952 =item A simple scalar string
10954 =item A simple scalar number
10956 =item A simple scalar with an extra reference
10958 =item A reference to a simple scalar
10960 =item A reference to an array
10962 =item A reference to a hash
10964 =item Dumping a large array or hash
10966 =item A reference to an SV which holds a C pointer
10968 =item A reference to a subroutine
10982 =head2 Devel::SelfStubber - generate stubs for a SelfLoading module
10992 =head2 Digest:: - Modules that calculate message digests
11000 I<binary>, I<hex>, I<base64>
11004 $ctx = Digest->XXX($arg,...), $ctx = Digest->new(XXX => $arg,...), $ctx =
11005 Digest::XXX->new($arg,...), $ctx->reset, $ctx->add($data,...),
11006 $ctx->addfile($io_handle), $ctx->digest, $ctx->hexdigest, $ctx->b64digest
11014 =head2 Digest::MD5 - Perl interface to the MD5 Algorithm
11024 md5($data,...), md5_hex($data,...), md5_base64($data,...)
11028 $md5 = Digest::MD5->new, $md5->reset, $md5->add($data,...),
11029 $md5->addfile($io_handle), $md5->digest, $md5->hexdigest, $md5->b64digest
11041 =head2 DirHandle - supply object methods for directory handles
11053 =head2 Dumpvalue - provides screen dump of Perl data.
11065 C<arrayDepth>, C<hashDepth>, C<compactDump>, C<veryCompact>, C<globPrint>,
11066 C<dumpDBFiles>, C<dumpPackages>, C<dumpReused>, C<tick>, C<quoteHighBit>,
11067 C<printUndef>, C<usageOnly>, unctrl, subdump, bareStringify, quoteHighBit,
11072 dumpValue, dumpValues, dumpvars, set_quote, set_unctrl, compactDump,
11073 veryCompact, set, get
11079 =head2 DynaLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code
11087 @dl_library_path, @dl_resolve_using, @dl_require_symbols, @dl_librefs,
11088 @dl_modules, dl_error(), $dl_debug, dl_findfile(), dl_expandspec(),
11089 dl_load_file(), dl_unload_file(), dl_loadflags(), dl_find_symbol(),
11090 dl_find_symbol_anywhere(), dl_undef_symbols(), dl_install_xsub(),
11097 =head2 DynaLoader::XSLoader, XSLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into
11110 =head2 Encode - character encodings
11128 =item Characteristics of an Encoding
11130 =item Types of Encodings
11132 Fixed length 8-bit (or less) encodings, Fixed length 16-bit encodings,
11133 Fixed length 32-bit encodings, Multi-byte encodings, "Escape" encodings
11135 =item Specifying Encodings
11137 1. By name, 2. As an object
11139 =item Encoding Names
11141 The MIME name as defined in IETF RFCs, The name in the IANA registry, The
11142 name used by the organization that defined it
11146 =item PERL ENCODING API
11150 =item Generic Encoding Interface
11152 =item Handling Malformed Data
11154 Scheme 1, Scheme 2, Other Schemes
11158 =item Other Encodings of Unicode
11160 =item Listing available encodings
11162 =item Defining Aliases
11164 As a simple string, As a qr// compiled regular expression, e.g.:, As a code
11167 =item Defining Encodings
11171 =item Encoding and IO
11173 =item Encoding How to ...
11175 IO with mixed content (faking iso-2020-*), MIME's Content-Length:, UTF-8
11176 strings in binary data, Perl/Encode wrappers on non-Unicode XS modules
11178 =item Messing with Perl's Internals
11180 is_utf8(STRING [, CHECK]), valid_utf8(STRING)
11182 =item IMPLEMENTATION CLASSES
11184 -E<gt>name, -E<gt>new_sequence, -E<gt>encode($string,$check),
11185 -E<gt>decode($octets,$check)
11189 =item Compiled Encodings
11191 .enc, .ucm, .ucm, .c, .xs, ascii and iso-8859-*, IBM-1047 and two other
11192 variants of EBCDIC, symbol and dingbats as used by Tk on X11
11200 =head2 Encode::Tcl - Tcl encodings
11202 =head2 Encode::lib::Encode::Tcl, Encode::Tcl - Tcl encodings
11204 =head2 Encode::lib::EncodeFormat, EncodeFormat - the format of encoding
11205 tables of the Encode extension
11211 [1] B<S>, [2] B<D>, [3] B<M>, [4] B<E>
11219 =head2 EncodeFormat - the format of encoding tables of the Encode extension
11225 [1] B<S>, [2] B<D>, [3] B<M>, [4] B<E>
11233 =head2 English - use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation
11246 =head2 Env - perl module that imports environment variables as scalars or
11261 =head2 Errno - System errno constants
11277 =head2 Exporter - Implements default import method for modules
11287 =item How to Export
11289 =item Selecting What To Export
11291 =item How to Import
11293 C<use ModuleName;>, C<use ModuleName ();>, C<use ModuleName qw(...);>
11297 =item Advanced features
11301 =item Specialised Import Lists
11303 =item Exporting without using Exporter's import method
11305 =item Module Version Checking
11307 =item Managing Unknown Symbols
11309 =item Tag Handling Utility Functions
11311 =item Generating combined tags
11313 =item C<AUTOLOAD>ed Constants
11319 =head2 Exporter::Heavy - Exporter guts
11329 =head2 ExtUtils::Command - utilities to replace common UNIX commands in
11350 mv source... destination
11352 cp source... destination
11370 =head2 ExtUtils::Constant - generate XS code to import C header constants
11380 IV, UV, NV, PV, PVN, SV, YES, NO, UNDEF
11390 memEQ_clause NAME, CHECKED_AT, INDENT
11392 assign INDENT, TYPE, PRE, POST, VALUE..
11396 switch_clause INDENT, NAMELEN, ITEMHASH, ITEM..
11404 C_constant, name, type, value, macro, default, pre, post, def_pre =item
11407 XS_constant PACKAGE, TYPES, SUBNAME, C_SUBNAME
11409 autoload PACKAGE, VERSION, AUTOLOADER
11411 WriteMakefileSnippet
11413 WriteConstants ATTRIBUTE =E<gt> VALUE [, ...], NAME, DEFAULT_TYPE,
11414 BREAKOUT_AT, NAMES, C_FILE, XS_FILE, SUBNAME, C_SUBNAME
11422 =head2 ExtUtils::Embed - Utilities for embedding Perl in C/C++ applications
11434 xsinit(), Examples, ldopts(), Examples, perl_inc(), ccflags(), ccdlflags(),
11435 ccopts(), xsi_header(), xsi_protos(@modules), xsi_body(@modules)
11445 =head2 ExtUtils::Install - install files from here to there
11455 =head2 ExtUtils::Installed - Inventory management of installed modules
11467 new(), modules(), files(), directories(), directory_tree(), validate(),
11468 packlist(), version()
11476 =head2 ExtUtils::Liblist - determine libraries to use and how to use them
11484 For static extensions, For dynamic extensions, For dynamic extensions
11490 =item LDLOADLIBS and LD_RUN_PATH
11500 =item VMS implementation
11502 =item Win32 implementation
11510 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_BeOS - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
11511 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
11523 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
11524 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
11532 canonpath, cflags, manifypods, perl_archive
11536 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_NW5 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
11537 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
11563 test_via_harness (o)
11565 tool_autosplit (override)
11583 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_OS2 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
11584 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
11598 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_Unix - methods used by ExtUtils::MakeMaker
11610 =item Preloaded methods
11630 =item SelfLoaded methods
11676 file_name_is_absolute
11682 =item Methods to actually produce chunks of text for the Makefile
11722 maybe_command_in_dirs
11750 post_initialize (o)
11762 replace_manpage_separator
11776 test_via_harness (o)
11778 test_via_script (o)
11808 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_VMS - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
11809 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
11819 =item Methods always loaded
11831 =item SelfLoaded methods
11833 guess_name (override)
11837 find_perl (override)
11841 maybe_command (override)
11843 maybe_command_in_dirs (override)
11845 perl_script (override)
11847 file_name_is_absolute (override)
11849 replace_manpage_separator
11851 init_others (override)
11853 constants (override)
11857 const_cccmd (override)
11859 pm_to_blib (override)
11861 tool_autosplit (override)
11863 tool_sxubpp (override)
11865 xsubpp_version (override)
11867 tools_other (override)
11877 top_targets (override)
11881 dynamic_lib (override)
11883 dynamic_bs (override)
11885 static_lib (override)
11887 manifypods (override)
11889 processPL (override)
11891 installbin (override)
11893 subdir_x (override)
11897 realclean (override)
11899 dist_basics (override)
11901 dist_core (override)
11903 dist_dir (override)
11905 dist_test (override)
11909 perldepend (override)
11911 makefile (override)
11915 test_via_harness (override)
11917 test_via_script (override)
11919 makeaperl (override)
11921 nicetext (override)
11923 =head2 ExtUtils::MM_Win32 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
11924 ExtUtils::MakeMaker
11950 test_via_harness (o)
11952 tool_autosplit (override)
11970 =head2 ExtUtils::MakeMaker - create an extension Makefile
11980 =item How To Write A Makefile.PL
11982 =item Default Makefile Behaviour
11990 =item PREFIX and LIB attribute
11994 =item Static Linking of a new Perl Binary
11996 =item Determination of Perl Library and Installation Locations
11998 =item Which architecture dependent directory?
12000 =item Using Attributes and Parameters
12002 ABSTRACT, ABSTRACT_FROM, AUTHOR, BINARY_LOCATION, C, CCFLAGS, CONFIG,
12003 CONFIGURE, DEFINE, DIR, DISTNAME, DL_FUNCS, DL_VARS, EXCLUDE_EXT,
12004 EXE_FILES, FIRST_MAKEFILE, FULLPERL, FUNCLIST, H, HTMLLIBPODS,
12005 HTMLSCRIPTPODS, IMPORTS, INC, INCLUDE_EXT, INSTALLARCHLIB, INSTALLBIN,
12006 INSTALLDIRS, INSTALLHTMLPRIVLIBDIR, INSTALLHTMLSCRIPTDIR,
12007 INSTALLHTMLSITELIBDIR, INSTALLMAN1DIR, INSTALLMAN3DIR, INSTALLPRIVLIB,
12008 INSTALLSCRIPT, INSTALLSITEARCH, INSTALLSITELIB, INST_ARCHLIB, INST_BIN,
12009 INST_EXE, INST_HTMLLIBDIR, INST_HTMLSCRIPTDIR, INST_LIB, INST_MAN1DIR,
12010 INST_MAN3DIR, INST_SCRIPT, LDFROM, LIB, LIBPERL_A, LIBS, LINKTYPE,
12011 MAKEAPERL, MAKEFILE, MAN1PODS, MAN3PODS, MAP_TARGET, MYEXTLIB, NAME,
12012 NEEDS_LINKING, NOECHO, NORECURS, NO_VC, OBJECT, OPTIMIZE, PERL, PERL_CORE,
12013 PERLMAINCC, PERL_ARCHLIB, PERL_LIB, PERL_MALLOC_OK, PERLRUN, PERM_RW,
12014 PERM_RWX, PL_FILES, PM, PMLIBDIRS, PM_FILTER, POLLUTE, PPM_INSTALL_EXEC,
12015 PPM_INSTALL_SCRIPT, PREFIX, PREREQ_PM, PREREQ_FATAL, PREREQ_PRINT,
12016 PRINT_PREREQ, SKIP, TEST_LIBS, VERSION, VERSION_FROM, XS, XSOPT,
12017 XSPROTOARG, XS_VERSION
12019 =item Additional lowercase attributes
12021 clean, depend, dist, dynamic_lib, linkext, macro, realclean, test,
12024 =item Overriding MakeMaker Methods
12026 =item Hintsfile support
12028 =item Distribution Support
12030 make distcheck, make skipcheck, make distclean, make manifest,
12031 make distdir, make tardist, make dist, make uutardist, make
12032 shdist, make zipdist, make ci
12034 =item Disabling an extension
12040 PERL_MM_OPT, PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT
12048 =head2 ExtUtils::Manifest - utilities to write and check a MANIFEST file
12056 =item MANIFEST.SKIP
12060 =item GLOBAL VARIABLES
12064 C<Not in MANIFEST:> I<file>, C<No such file:> I<file>, C<MANIFEST:> I<$!>,
12065 C<Added to MANIFEST:> I<file>
12069 B<PERL_MM_MANIFEST_DEBUG>
12077 =head2 ExtUtils::Miniperl, writemain - write the C code for perlmain.c
12089 =head2 ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap - make a bootstrap file for use by DynaLoader
12099 =head2 ExtUtils::Mksymlists - write linker options files for dynamic
12108 DLBASE, DL_FUNCS, DL_VARS, FILE, FUNCLIST, IMPORTS, NAME
12116 =head2 ExtUtils::Packlist - manage .packlist files
12128 new(), read(), write(), validate(), packlist_file()
12136 =head2 ExtUtils::testlib - add blib/* directories to @INC
12146 =head2 Fatal - replace functions with equivalents which succeed or die
12158 =head2 Fcntl - load the C Fcntl.h defines
12168 =item EXPORTED SYMBOLS
12172 =head2 File::Basename, fileparse - split a pathname into pieces
12180 fileparse_set_fstype, fileparse
12184 C<basename>, C<dirname>
12188 =head2 File::CheckTree, validate - run many filetest checks on a tree
12198 =head2 File::Compare - Compare files or filehandles
12212 =head2 File::Copy - Copy files or filehandles
12222 =item Special behaviour if C<syscopy> is defined (OS/2, VMS and Win32)
12224 rmscopy($from,$to[,$date_flag])
12236 =head2 File::DosGlob - DOS like globbing and then some
12246 =item EXPORTS (by request only)
12258 =head2 File::Find - Traverse a directory tree.
12266 B<find>, B<finddepth>
12272 C<wanted>, C<bydepth>, C<preprocess>, C<postprocess>, C<follow>,
12273 C<follow_fast>, C<follow_skip>, C<dangling_symlinks>, C<no_chdir>,
12274 C<untaint>, C<untaint_pattern>, C<untaint_skip>
12276 =item The wanted function
12278 C<$File::Find::dir> is the current directory name,, C<$_> is the current
12279 filename within that directory, C<$File::Find::name> is the complete
12280 pathname to the file
12288 $dont_use_nlink, symlinks
12296 =head2 File::Glob - Perl extension for BSD glob routine
12304 C<GLOB_ERR>, C<GLOB_LIMIT>, C<GLOB_MARK>, C<GLOB_NOCASE>, C<GLOB_NOCHECK>,
12305 C<GLOB_NOSORT>, C<GLOB_BRACE>, C<GLOB_NOMAGIC>, C<GLOB_QUOTE>,
12306 C<GLOB_TILDE>, C<GLOB_CSH>, C<GLOB_ALPHASORT>
12310 C<GLOB_NOSPACE>, C<GLOB_ABEND>
12318 =head2 File::Path - create or remove directory trees
12330 =head2 File::Spec - portably perform operations on file names
12340 canonpath, catdir, catfile, curdir, devnull, rootdir, tmpdir, updir,
12341 no_upwards, case_tolerant, file_name_is_absolute, path, join, splitpath,
12342 splitdir, catpath(), abs2rel, rel2abs()
12350 =head2 File::Spec::Cygwin - methods for Cygwin file specs
12360 =head2 File::Spec::Epoc - methods for Epoc file specs
12394 =head2 File::Spec::Functions - portably perform operations on file names
12412 =head2 File::Spec::Mac - File::Spec for Mac OS (Classic)
12440 file_name_is_absolute
12470 =head2 File::Spec::OS2 - methods for OS/2 file specs
12480 =head2 File::Spec::Unix - File::Spec for Unix, base for other File::Spec
12513 file_name_is_absolute
12535 =head2 File::Spec::VMS - methods for VMS file specs
12551 =item Methods always loaded
12553 canonpath (override)
12571 case_tolerant (override)
12575 file_name_is_absolute (override)
12577 splitpath (override)
12579 splitdir (override)
12593 =head2 File::Spec::Win32 - methods for Win32 file specs
12623 =head2 File::Temp - return name and handle of a temporary file safely
12647 =item MKTEMP FUNCTIONS
12661 =item POSIX FUNCTIONS
12671 =item ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS
12679 =item UTILITY FUNCTIONS
12687 =item PACKAGE VARIABLES
12689 B<safe_level>, STANDARD, MEDIUM, HIGH
12701 =item Temporary files and NFS
12713 =head2 File::stat - by-name interface to Perl's built-in stat() functions
12727 =head2 FileCache - keep more files open than the system permits
12739 =head2 FileHandle - supply object methods for filehandles
12747 $fh->print, $fh->printf, $fh->getline, $fh->getlines
12753 =head2 Filter::Simple - Simplified source filtering
12767 =item Disabling or changing <no> behaviour
12769 =item All-in-one interface
12771 =item Filtering only specific components of source code
12773 C<"code">, C<"executable">, C<"quotelike">, C<"string">, C<"regex">,
12776 =item Filtering only the code parts of source code
12778 Most source code ceases to be grammatically correct when it is broken up
12779 into the pieces between string literals and regexes. So the C<'code'>
12780 component filter behaves slightly differently from the other partial
12782 described in the previous section.
12784 =item Using Filter::Simple with an explicit C<import> subroutine
12786 =item Using Filter::Simple and Exporter together
12798 =head2 Filter::Util::Call - Perl Source Filter Utility Module
12808 =item B<use Filter::Util::Call>
12812 =item B<filter() and anonymous sub>
12814 B<$_>, B<$status>, B<filter_read> and B<filter_read_exact>, B<filter_del>
12822 =item Example 1: A simple filter.
12824 =item Example 2: Using the context
12826 =item Example 3: Using the context within the filter
12828 =item Example 4: Using filter_del
12832 =item Filter::Simple
12840 =head2 FindBin - Locate directory of original perl script
12848 =item EXPORTABLE VARIABLES
12860 =head2 GDBM_File - Perl5 access to the gdbm library.
12876 =head2 Getopt::Long - Extended processing of command line options
12884 =item Command Line Options, an Introduction
12886 =item Getting Started with Getopt::Long
12890 =item Simple options
12892 =item A little bit less simple options
12894 =item Mixing command line option with other arguments
12896 =item Options with values
12898 =item Options with multiple values
12900 =item Options with hash values
12902 =item User-defined subroutines to handle options
12904 =item Options with multiple names
12906 =item Case and abbreviations
12908 =item Summary of Option Specifications
12910 !, +, s, i, o, f, : I<type> [ I<desttype> ], : I<number> [ I<desttype> ], :
12915 =item Advanced Possibilities
12919 =item Object oriented interface
12921 =item Documentation and help texts
12923 =item Storing options in a hash
12927 =item The lonesome dash
12929 =item Argument callback
12933 =item Configuring Getopt::Long
12935 default, posix_default, auto_abbrev, getopt_compat, gnu_compat, gnu_getopt,
12936 require_order, permute, bundling (default: disabled), bundling_override
12937 (default: disabled), ignore_case (default: enabled), ignore_case_always
12938 (default: disabled), pass_through (default: disabled), prefix,
12939 prefix_pattern, debug (default: disabled)
12941 =item Return values and Errors
12947 =item Default destinations
12949 =item Alternative option starters
12951 =item Configuration variables
12955 =item Trouble Shooting
12959 =item Warning: Ignoring '!' modifier for short option
12961 =item GetOptions does not return a false result when an option is not
12964 =item GetOptions does not split the command line correctly
12966 =item How do I put a "-?" option into a Getopt::Long?
12972 =item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
12976 =head2 Getopt::Std, getopt - Process single-character switches with switch
12987 =head2 I18N::Collate - compare 8-bit scalar data according to the current
12998 =head2 I18N::LangTags - functions for dealing with RFC3066-style language
13009 the function is_language_tag($lang1)
13011 the function extract_language_tags($whatever)
13013 the function same_language_tag($lang1, $lang2)
13015 the function similarity_language_tag($lang1, $lang2)
13017 the function is_dialect_of($lang1, $lang2)
13019 the function super_languages($lang1)
13021 the function locale2language_tag($locale_identifier)
13023 the function encode_language_tag($lang1)
13025 the function alternate_language_tags($lang1)
13027 the function @langs = panic_languages(@accept_languages)
13031 =item ABOUT LOWERCASING
13033 =item ABOUT UNICODE PLAINTEXT LANGUAGE TAGS
13043 =head2 I18N::LangTags::List -- tags and names for human languages
13051 =item ABOUT LANGUAGE TAGS
13053 =item LIST OF LANGUAGES
13055 {ab} : Abkhazian, {ace} : Achinese, {ach} : Acoli, {ada} : Adangme, {aa} :
13056 Afar, {afh} : Afrihili, {af} : Afrikaans, [{afa} : Afro-Asiatic (Other)],
13057 {aka} : Akan, {akk} : Akkadian, {sq} : Albanian, {ale} : Aleut, [{alg} :
13058 Algonquian languages], [{tut} : Altaic (Other)], {am} : Amharic, {i-ami} :
13059 Ami, [{apa} : Apache languages], {ar} : Arabic, {arc} : Aramaic, {arp} :
13060 Arapaho, {arn} : Araucanian, {arw} : Arawak, {hy} : Armenian, [{art} :
13061 Artificial (Other)], {as} : Assamese, [{ath} : Athapascan languages],
13062 [{aus} : Australian languages], [{map} : Austronesian (Other)], {ava} :
13063 Avaric, {ae} : Avestan, {awa} : Awadhi, {ay} : Aymara, {az} : Azerbaijani,
13064 {ban} : Balinese, [{bat} : Baltic (Other)], {bal} : Baluchi, {bam} :
13065 Bambara, [{bai} : Bamileke languages], {bad} : Banda, [{bnt} : Bantu
13066 (Other)], {bas} : Basa, {ba} : Bashkir, {eu} : Basque, {btk} : Batak
13067 (Indonesia), {bej} : Beja, {be} : Belarusian, {bem} : Bemba, {bn} :
13068 Bengali, [{ber} : Berber (Other)], {bho} : Bhojpuri, {bh} : Bihari, {bik} :
13069 Bikol, {bin} : Bini, {bi} : Bislama, {bs} : Bosnian, {bra} : Braj, {br} :
13070 Breton, {bug} : Buginese, {bg} : Bulgarian, {i-bnn} : Bunun, {bua} :
13071 Buriat, {my} : Burmese, {cad} : Caddo, {car} : Carib, {ca} : Catalan,
13072 [{cau} : Caucasian (Other)], {ceb} : Cebuano, [{cel} : Celtic (Other)],
13073 [{cai} : Central American Indian (Other)], {chg} : Chagatai, [{cmc} :
13074 Chamic languages], {ch} : Chamorro, {ce} : Chechen, {chr} : Cherokee, {chy}
13075 : Cheyenne, {chb} : Chibcha, {ny} : Chichewa, {zh} : Chinese, {chn} :
13076 Chinook Jargon, {chp} : Chipewyan, {cho} : Choctaw, {cu} : Church Slavic,
13077 {chk} : Chuukese, {cv} : Chuvash, {cop} : Coptic, {kw} : Cornish, {co} :
13078 Corsican, {cre} : Cree, {mus} : Creek, [{cpe} : English-based Creoles and
13079 pidgins (Other)], [{cpf} : French-based Creoles and pidgins (Other)],
13080 [{cpp} : Portuguese-based Creoles and pidgins (Other)], [{crp} : Creoles
13081 and pidgins (Other)], {hr} : Croatian, [{cus} : Cushitic (Other)], {cs} :
13082 Czech, {dak} : Dakota, {da} : Danish, {day} : Dayak, {i-default} : Default
13083 (Fallthru) Language, {del} : Delaware, {din} : Dinka, {div} : Divehi, {doi}
13084 : Dogri, {dgr} : Dogrib, [{dra} : Dravidian (Other)], {dua} : Duala, {nl} :
13085 Dutch, {dum} : Middle Dutch (ca.1050-1350), {dyu} : Dyula, {dz} : Dzongkha,
13086 {efi} : Efik, {egy} : Ancient Egyptian, {eka} : Ekajuk, {elx} : Elamite,
13087 {en} : English, {enm} : Old English (1100-1500), {ang} : Old English
13088 (ca.450-1100), {eo} : Esperanto, {et} : Estonian, {ewe} : Ewe, {ewo} :
13089 Ewondo, {fan} : Fang, {fat} : Fanti, {fo} : Faroese, {fj} : Fijian, {fi} :
13090 Finnish, [{fiu} : Finno-Ugrian (Other)], {fon} : Fon, {fr} : French, {frm}
13091 : Middle French (ca.1400-1600), {fro} : Old French (842-ca.1400), {fy} :
13092 Frisian, {fur} : Friulian, {ful} : Fulah, {gaa} : Ga, {gd} : Scots Gaelic,
13093 {gl} : Gallegan, {lug} : Ganda, {gay} : Gayo, {gba} : Gbaya, {gez} : Geez,
13094 {ka} : Georgian, {de} : German, {gmh} : Middle High German (ca.1050-1500),
13095 {goh} : Old High German (ca.750-1050), [{gem} : Germanic (Other)], {gil} :
13096 Gilbertese, {gon} : Gondi, {gor} : Gorontalo, {got} : Gothic, {grb} :
13097 Grebo, {grc} : Ancient Greek, {el} : Modern Greek, {gn} : Guarani, {gu} :
13098 Gujarati, {gwi} : Gwich'in, {hai} : Haida, {ha} : Hausa, {haw} : Hawaiian,
13099 {he} : Hebrew, {hz} : Herero, {hil} : Hiligaynon, {him} : Himachali, {hi} :
13100 Hindi, {ho} : Hiri Motu, {hit} : Hittite, {hmn} : Hmong, {hu} : Hungarian,
13101 {hup} : Hupa, {iba} : Iban, {is} : Icelandic, {ibo} : Igbo, {ijo} : Ijo,
13102 {ilo} : Iloko, [{inc} : Indic (Other)], [{ine} : Indo-European (Other)],
13103 {id} : Indonesian, {ia} : Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language
13104 Association), {ie} : Interlingue, {iu} : Inuktitut, {ik} : Inupiaq, [{ira}
13105 : Iranian (Other)], {ga} : Irish, {mga} : Middle Irish (900-1200), {sga} :
13106 Old Irish (to 900), [{iro} : Iroquoian languages], {it} : Italian, {ja} :
13107 Japanese, {jw} : Javanese, {jrb} : Judeo-Arabic, {jpr} : Judeo-Persian,
13108 {kab} : Kabyle, {kac} : Kachin, {kl} : Kalaallisut, {kam} : Kamba, {kn} :
13109 Kannada, {kau} : Kanuri, {kaa} : Kara-Kalpak, {kar} : Karen, {ks} :
13110 Kashmiri, {kaw} : Kawi, {kk} : Kazakh, {kha} : Khasi, {km} : Khmer, [{khi}
13111 : Khoisan (Other)], {kho} : Khotanese, {ki} : Kikuyu, {kmb} : Kimbundu,
13112 {rw} : Kinyarwanda, {ky} : Kirghiz, {i-klingon} : Klingon, {kv} : Komi,
13113 {kon} : Kongo, {kok} : Konkani, {ko} : Korean, {kos} : Kosraean, {kpe} :
13114 Kpelle, {kro} : Kru, {kj} : Kuanyama, {kum} : Kumyk, {ku} : Kurdish, {kru}
13115 : Kurukh, {kut} : Kutenai, {lad} : Ladino, {lah} : Lahnda, {lam} : Lamba,
13116 {lo} : Lao, {la} : Latin, {lv} : Latvian, {lb} : Letzeburgesch, {lez} :
13117 Lezghian, {ln} : Lingala, {lt} : Lithuanian, {nds} : Low German, {loz} :
13118 Lozi, {lub} : Luba-Katanga, {lua} : Luba-Lulua, {lui} : Luiseno, {lun} :
13119 Lunda, {luo} : Luo (Kenya and Tanzania), {lus} : Lushai, {mk} : Macedonian,
13120 {mad} : Madurese, {mag} : Magahi, {mai} : Maithili, {mak} : Makasar, {mg} :
13121 Malagasy, {ms} : Malay, {ml} : Malayalam, {mt} : Maltese, {mnc} : Manchu,
13122 {mdr} : Mandar, {man} : Mandingo, {mni} : Manipuri, [{mno} : Manobo
13123 languages], {gv} : Manx, {mi} : Maori, {mr} : Marathi, {chm} : Mari, {mh} :
13124 Marshall, {mwr} : Marwari, {mas} : Masai, [{myn} : Mayan languages], {men}
13125 : Mende, {mic} : Micmac, {min} : Minangkabau, {i-mingo} : Mingo, [{mis} :
13126 Miscellaneous languages], {moh} : Mohawk, {mo} : Moldavian, [{mkh} :
13127 Mon-Khmer (Other)], {lol} : Mongo, {mn} : Mongolian, {mos} : Mossi, [{mul}
13128 : Multiple languages], [{mun} : Munda languages], {nah} : Nahuatl, {na} :
13129 Nauru, {nv} : Navajo, {nd} : North Ndebele, {nr} : South Ndebele, {ng} :
13130 Ndonga, {ne} : Nepali, {new} : Newari, {nia} : Nias, [{nic} :
13131 Niger-Kordofanian (Other)], [{ssa} : Nilo-Saharan (Other)], {niu} : Niuean,
13132 {non} : Old Norse, [{nai} : North American Indian], {se} : Northern Sami,
13133 {no} : Norwegian, {nb} : Norwegian Bokmal, {nn} : Norwegian Nynorsk, [{nub}
13134 : Nubian languages], {nym} : Nyamwezi, {nyn} : Nyankole, {nyo} : Nyoro,
13135 {nzi} : Nzima, {oc} : Occitan (post 1500), {oji} : Ojibwa, {or} : Oriya,
13136 {om} : Oromo, {osa} : Osage, {os} : Ossetian; Ossetic, [{oto} : Otomian
13137 languages], {pal} : Pahlavi, {i-pwn} : Paiwan, {pau} : Palauan, {pi} :
13138 Pali, {pam} : Pampanga, {pag} : Pangasinan, {pa} : Panjabi, {pap} :
13139 Papiamento, [{paa} : Papuan (Other)], {fa} : Persian, {peo} : Old Persian
13140 (ca.600-400 B.C.), [{phi} : Philippine (Other)], {phn} : Phoenician, {pon}
13141 : Pohnpeian, {pl} : Polish, {pt} : Portuguese, [{pra} : Prakrit languages],
13142 {pro} : Old Provencal (to 1500), {ps} : Pushto, {qu} : Quechua, {rm} :
13143 Raeto-Romance, {raj} : Rajasthani, {rap} : Rapanui, {rar} : Rarotongan,
13144 [{qaa - qtz} : Reserved for local use.], [{roa} : Romance (Other)], {ro} :
13145 Romanian, {rom} : Romany, {rn} : Rundi, {ru} : Russian, [{sal} : Salishan
13146 languages], {sam} : Samaritan Aramaic, [{smi} : Sami languages (Other)],
13147 {sm} : Samoan, {sad} : Sandawe, {sg} : Sango, {sa} : Sanskrit, {sat} :
13148 Santali, {sc} : Sardinian, {sas} : Sasak, {sco} : Scots, {sel} : Selkup,
13149 [{sem} : Semitic (Other)], {sr} : Serbian, {srr} : Serer, {shn} : Shan,
13150 {sn} : Shona, {sid} : Sidamo, {sgn-...} : Sign Languages, {bla} : Siksika,
13151 {sd} : Sindhi, {si} : Sinhalese, [{sit} : Sino-Tibetan (Other)], [{sio} :
13152 Siouan languages], {den} : Slave (Athapascan), [{sla} : Slavic (Other)],
13153 {sk} : Slovak, {sl} : Slovenian, {sog} : Sogdian, {so} : Somali, {son} :
13154 Songhai, {snk} : Soninke, {wen} : Sorbian languages, {nso} : Northern
13155 Sotho, {st} : Southern Sotho, [{sai} : South American Indian (Other)], {es}
13156 : Spanish, {suk} : Sukuma, {sux} : Sumerian, {su} : Sundanese, {sus} :
13157 Susu, {sw} : Swahili, {ss} : Swati, {sv} : Swedish, {syr} : Syriac, {tl} :
13158 Tagalog, {ty} : Tahitian, [{tai} : Tai (Other)], {tg} : Tajik, {tmh} :
13159 Tamashek, {ta} : Tamil, {i-tao} : Tao, {tt} : Tatar, {i-tay} : Tayal, {te}
13160 : Telugu, {ter} : Tereno, {tet} : Tetum, {th} : Thai, {bo} : Tibetan, {tig}
13161 : Tigre, {ti} : Tigrinya, {tem} : Timne, {tiv} : Tiv, {tli} : Tlingit,
13162 {tpi} : Tok Pisin, {tkl} : Tokelau, {tog} : Tonga (Nyasa), {to} : Tonga
13163 (Tonga Islands), {tsi} : Tsimshian, {ts} : Tsonga, {i-tsu} : Tsou, {tn} :
13164 Tswana, {tum} : Tumbuka, {tr} : Turkish, {ota} : Ottoman Turkish
13165 (1500-1928), {tk} : Turkmen, {tvl} : Tuvalu, {tyv} : Tuvinian, {tw} : Twi,
13166 {uga} : Ugaritic, {ug} : Uighur, {uk} : Ukrainian, {umb} : Umbundu, {und} :
13167 Undetermined, {ur} : Urdu, {uz} : Uzbek, {vai} : Vai, {ven} : Venda, {vi} :
13168 Vietnamese, {vo} : Volapuk, {vot} : Votic, [{wak} : Wakashan languages],
13169 {wal} : Walamo, {war} : Waray, {was} : Washo, {cy} : Welsh, {wo} : Wolof,
13170 {x-...} : Unregistered (Semi-Private Use), {xh} : Xhosa, {sah} : Yakut,
13171 {yao} : Yao, {yap} : Yapese, {yi} : Yiddish, {yo} : Yoruba, [{ypk} : Yupik
13172 languages], {znd} : Zande, [{zap} : Zapotec], {zen} : Zenaga, {za} :
13173 Zhuang, {zu} : Zulu, {zun} : Zuni
13177 =item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
13183 =head2 I18N::Langinfo - query locale information
13201 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
13205 =head2 IO - load various IO modules
13215 =head2 IO::Dir - supply object methods for directory handles
13223 new ( [ DIRNAME ] ), open ( DIRNAME ), read (), seek ( POS ), tell (),
13224 rewind (), close (), tie %hash, IO::Dir, DIRNAME [, OPTIONS ]
13234 =head2 IO::File - supply object methods for filehandles
13244 new ( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ), new_tmpfile
13248 open( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] )
13256 =head2 IO::Handle - supply object methods for I/O handles
13266 new (), new_from_fd ( FD, MODE )
13270 $io->fdopen ( FD, MODE ), $io->opened, $io->getline, $io->getlines,
13271 $io->ungetc ( ORD ), $io->write ( BUF, LEN [, OFFSET ] ), $io->error,
13272 $io->clearerr, $io->sync, $io->flush, $io->printflush ( ARGS ),
13273 $io->blocking ( [ BOOL ] ), $io->untaint
13285 =head2 IO::Pipe - supply object methods for pipes
13295 new ( [READER, WRITER] )
13299 reader ([ARGS]), writer ([ARGS]), handles ()
13309 =head2 IO::Poll - Object interface to system poll call
13319 mask ( IO [, EVENT_MASK ] ), poll ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), events ( IO ), remove (
13320 IO ), handles( [ EVENT_MASK ] )
13330 =head2 IO::Seekable - supply seek based methods for I/O objects
13338 $io->getpos, $io->setpos, $io->seek ( POS, WHENCE ), WHENCE=0 (SEEK_SET),
13339 WHENCE=1 (SEEK_CUR), WHENCE=2 (SEEK_END), $io->sysseek( POS, WHENCE ),
13348 =head2 IO::Select - OO interface to the select system call
13358 new ( [ HANDLES ] )
13362 add ( HANDLES ), remove ( HANDLES ), exists ( HANDLE ), handles, can_read (
13363 [ TIMEOUT ] ), can_write ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), has_exception ( [ TIMEOUT ] ),
13364 count (), bits(), select ( READ, WRITE, ERROR [, TIMEOUT ] )
13374 =head2 IO::Socket - Object interface to socket communications
13388 accept([PKG]), socketpair(DOMAIN, TYPE, PROTOCOL), atmark, connected,
13389 protocol, sockdomain, sockopt(OPT [, VAL]), socktype, timeout([VAL])
13399 =head2 IO::Socket::INET - Object interface for AF_INET domain sockets
13415 sockaddr (), sockport (), sockhost (), peeraddr (), peerport (), peerhost
13428 =head2 IO::Socket::UNIX - Object interface for AF_UNIX domain sockets
13442 hostpath(), peerpath()
13452 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Dir, IO::Dir - supply object methods for directory
13461 new ( [ DIRNAME ] ), open ( DIRNAME ), read (), seek ( POS ), tell (),
13462 rewind (), close (), tie %hash, IO::Dir, DIRNAME [, OPTIONS ]
13472 =head2 IO::lib::IO::File, IO::File - supply object methods for filehandles
13482 new ( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ), new_tmpfile
13486 open( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] )
13494 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Handle, IO::Handle - supply object methods for I/O
13505 new (), new_from_fd ( FD, MODE )
13509 $io->fdopen ( FD, MODE ), $io->opened, $io->getline, $io->getlines,
13510 $io->ungetc ( ORD ), $io->write ( BUF, LEN [, OFFSET ] ), $io->error,
13511 $io->clearerr, $io->sync, $io->flush, $io->printflush ( ARGS ),
13512 $io->blocking ( [ BOOL ] ), $io->untaint
13524 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Pipe, IO::Pipe - supply object methods for pipes
13534 new ( [READER, WRITER] )
13538 reader ([ARGS]), writer ([ARGS]), handles ()
13548 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Poll, IO::Poll - Object interface to system poll call
13558 mask ( IO [, EVENT_MASK ] ), poll ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), events ( IO ), remove (
13559 IO ), handles( [ EVENT_MASK ] )
13569 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Seekable, IO::Seekable - supply seek based methods for
13578 $io->getpos, $io->setpos, $io->seek ( POS, WHENCE ), WHENCE=0 (SEEK_SET),
13579 WHENCE=1 (SEEK_CUR), WHENCE=2 (SEEK_END), $io->sysseek( POS, WHENCE ),
13588 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Select, IO::Select - OO interface to the select system
13599 new ( [ HANDLES ] )
13603 add ( HANDLES ), remove ( HANDLES ), exists ( HANDLE ), handles, can_read (
13604 [ TIMEOUT ] ), can_write ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), has_exception ( [ TIMEOUT ] ),
13605 count (), bits(), select ( READ, WRITE, ERROR [, TIMEOUT ] )
13615 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Socket, IO::Socket - Object interface to socket
13630 accept([PKG]), socketpair(DOMAIN, TYPE, PROTOCOL), atmark, connected,
13631 protocol, sockdomain, sockopt(OPT [, VAL]), socktype, timeout([VAL])
13641 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Socket::INET, IO::Socket::INET - Object interface for
13642 AF_INET domain sockets
13658 sockaddr (), sockport (), sockhost (), peeraddr (), peerport (), peerhost
13671 =head2 IO::lib::IO::Socket::UNIX, IO::Socket::UNIX - Object interface for
13672 AF_UNIX domain sockets
13686 hostpath(), peerpath()
13696 =head2 IPC::Msg - SysV Msg IPC object class
13706 new ( KEY , FLAGS ), id, rcv ( BUF, LEN [, TYPE [, FLAGS ]] ), remove, set
13707 ( STAT ), set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), snd ( TYPE, MSG [,
13718 =head2 IPC::Open2, open2 - open a process for both reading and writing
13732 =head2 IPC::Open3, open3 - open a process for reading, writing, and error
13745 =head2 IPC::Semaphore - SysV Semaphore IPC object class
13755 new ( KEY , NSEMS , FLAGS ), getall, getncnt ( SEM ), getpid ( SEM ),
13756 getval ( SEM ), getzcnt ( SEM ), id, op ( OPLIST ), remove, set ( STAT ),
13757 set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), setall ( VALUES ), setval ( N
13768 =head2 IPC::SysV - SysV IPC constants
13786 =head2 IPC::SysV::Msg, IPC::Msg - SysV Msg IPC object class
13796 new ( KEY , FLAGS ), id, rcv ( BUF, LEN [, TYPE [, FLAGS ]] ), remove, set
13797 ( STAT ), set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), snd ( TYPE, MSG [,
13808 =head2 IPC::SysV::Semaphore, IPC::Semaphore - SysV Semaphore IPC object
13819 new ( KEY , NSEMS , FLAGS ), getall, getncnt ( SEM ), getpid ( SEM ),
13820 getval ( SEM ), getzcnt ( SEM ), id, op ( OPLIST ), remove, set ( STAT ),
13821 set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), setall ( VALUES ), setval ( N
13832 =head2 List::Util - A selection of general-utility list subroutines
13840 first BLOCK LIST, max LIST, maxstr LIST, min LIST, minstr LIST, reduce
13841 BLOCK LIST, shuffle LIST, sum LIST
13845 =item SUGGESTED ADDITIONS
13851 =head2 List::Utilib::List::Util, List::Util - A selection of
13852 general-utility list subroutines
13860 first BLOCK LIST, max LIST, maxstr LIST, min LIST, minstr LIST, reduce
13861 BLOCK LIST, shuffle LIST, sum LIST
13865 =item SUGGESTED ADDITIONS
13871 =head2 List::Utilib::Scalar::Util, Scalar::Util - A selection of
13872 general-utility scalar subroutines
13880 blessed EXPR, dualvar NUM, STRING, isweak EXPR, readonly SCALAR, reftype
13881 EXPR, tainted EXPR, weaken REF
13891 =head2 Locale::Constants - constants for Locale codes
13899 =item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
13903 Locale::Language, Locale::Country, Locale::Script, Locale::Currency
13911 =head2 Locale::Country - ISO codes for country identification (ISO 3166)
13919 B<alpha-2>, B<alpha-3>, B<numeric>
13921 =item CONVERSION ROUTINES
13923 code2country( CODE, [ CODESET ] ), country2code( STRING, [ CODESET ] ),
13924 country_code2code( CODE, CODESET, CODESET )
13926 =item QUERY ROUTINES
13928 C<all_country_codes( [ CODESET ] )>, C<all_country_names( [ CODESET ] )>
13930 =item CODE ALIASING
13936 =item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
13940 Locale::Language, Locale::Script, Locale::Currency, ISO 3166,
13941 http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nabd/iso3166ma/,
13942 http://www.egt.ie/standards/iso3166/iso3166-1-en.html,
13943 http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/docs/app-f.html
13951 =head2 Locale::Currency - ISO three letter codes for currency
13952 identification (ISO 4217)
13962 =item CONVERSION ROUTINES
13964 code2currency(), currency2code()
13966 =item QUERY ROUTINES
13968 C<all_currency_codes()>, C<all_currency_names()>
13972 =item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
13976 Locale::Country, Locale::Script, ISO 4217:1995,
13977 http://www.bsi-global.com/iso4217currency
13985 =head2 Locale::Language - ISO two letter codes for language identification
13994 =item CONVERSION ROUTINES
13996 code2language(), language2code()
13998 =item QUERY ROUTINES
14000 C<all_language_codes()>, C<all_language_names()>
14004 =item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
14008 Locale::Country, Locale::Script, Locale::Currency, ISO 639:1988 (E/F),
14009 http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/langhome.html
14017 =head2 Locale::Maketext -- framework for localization
14025 =item QUICK OVERVIEW
14031 =item Construction Methods
14033 =item The "maketext" Method
14035 $lh->fail_with I<or> $lh->fail_with(I<PARAM>), $lh->failure_handler_auto
14037 =item Utility Methods
14039 $language->quant($number, $singular), $language->quant($number, $singular,
14040 $plural), $language->quant($number, $singular, $plural, $negative),
14041 $language->numf($number), $language->sprintf($format, @items),
14042 $language->language_tag(), $language->encoding()
14044 =item Language Handle Attributes and Internals
14048 =item LANGUAGE CLASS HIERARCHIES
14050 =item ENTRIES IN EACH LEXICON
14052 =item BRACKET NOTATION
14054 =item AUTO LEXICONS
14056 =item CONTROLLING LOOKUP FAILURE
14058 =item HOW TO USE MAKETEXT
14062 =item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
14068 =head2 Locale::Maketext::TPJ13 -- article about software localization
14076 =item Localization and Perl: gettext breaks, Maketext fixes
14080 =item A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen To You
14082 =item The Linguistic View
14084 =item Breaking gettext
14086 =item Replacing gettext
14088 =item Buzzwords: Abstraction and Encapsulation
14090 =item Buzzword: Isomorphism
14092 =item Buzzword: Inheritance
14094 =item Buzzword: Concision
14096 =item The Devil in the Details
14098 =item The Proof in the Pudding: Localizing Web Sites
14106 =head2 Locale::Script - ISO codes for script identification (ISO 15924)
14114 B<alpha-2>, B<alpha-3>, B<numeric>
14118 =item SPECIAL CODES
14122 =item CONVERSION ROUTINES
14124 code2script( CODE, [ CODESET ] ), script2code( STRING, [ CODESET ] ),
14125 script_code2code( CODE, CODESET, CODESET )
14127 =item QUERY ROUTINES
14129 C<all_script_codes ( [ CODESET ] )>, C<all_script_names ( [ CODESET ] )>
14133 =item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
14137 Locale::Language, Locale::Currency, Locale::Country, ISO 15924,
14138 http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso15924/
14146 =head2 MIME::Base64 - Encoding and decoding of base64 strings
14154 encode_base64($str, [$eol]), decode_base64($str)
14158 Premature end of base64 data, Premature padding of base64 data
14166 =head2 MIME::Base64::QuotedPrint, MIME::QuotedPrint - Encoding and decoding
14167 of quoted-printable strings
14175 encode_qp($str), decode_qp($str);
14181 =head2 MIME::QuotedPrint - Encoding and decoding of quoted-printable
14190 encode_qp($str), decode_qp($str);
14196 =head2 Math::BigFloat - Arbitrary size floating point math package
14206 =item Canonical notation
14210 =item C<mantissa()>, C<exponent()> and C<parts()>
14212 =item Accuracy vs. Precision
14216 ffround ( +$scale ), ffround ( -$scale ), ffround ( 0 ), fround ( +$scale
14217 ), fround ( -$scale ) and fround ( 0 )
14225 =item Autocreating constants
14231 stringify, bstr(), bdiv, Modifying and =, bpow
14239 =head2 Math::BigInt - Arbitrary size integer math package
14247 Canonical notation, Input, Output
14267 =item is_one() / is_zero() / is_nan() / is_positive() / is_negative() /
14268 is_inf() / is_odd() / is_even() / is_int()
14270 $x->is_zero(); # true if arg is +0
14271 $x->is_nan(); # true if arg is NaN
14272 $x->is_one(); # true if arg is +1
14273 $x->is_one('-'); # true if arg is -1
14274 $x->is_odd(); # true if odd, false for even
14275 $x->is_even(); # true if even, false for odd
14276 $x->is_positive(); # true if >= 0
14277 $x->is_negative(); # true if < 0
14278 $x->is_inf(); # true if +inf
14279 $x->is_inf('-'); # true if -inf (sign is default
14281 $x->is_int(); # true if $x is an integer
14363 =item ACCURACY and PRECISION
14373 =item Rounding mode R
14375 'trunc', 'even', 'odd', '+inf', '-inf', 'zero', Precision, Accuracy
14376 (significant digits), Setting/Accessing, Creating numbers, Usage,
14377 Precedence, Overriding globals, Local settings, Rounding, Default values,
14390 =item mantissa(), exponent() and parts()
14398 =item Autocreating constants
14404 =item Alternative math libraries
14410 =item Subclassing Math::BigInt
14418 bsqrt(), div(), blog()
14424 Out of Memory!, Fails to load Calc on Perl prior 5.6.0
14428 stringify, bstr(), bsstr() and 'cmp', int(), length, bdiv, infinity
14429 handling, Modifying and =, bpow, Overloading -$x, Mixing different object
14430 types, bsqrt(), brsft()
14440 =head2 Math::BigInt::Calc - Pure Perl module to support Math::BigInt
14450 =item WRAP YOUR OWN
14454 This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
14456 the same terms as Perl itself.
14464 =head2 Math::Complex - complex numbers and associated mathematical
14477 =item STRINGIFICATION
14481 =item CHANGED IN PERL 5.6
14487 =item ERRORS DUE TO DIVISION BY ZERO OR LOGARITHM OF ZERO
14489 =item ERRORS DUE TO INDIGESTIBLE ARGUMENTS
14497 =head2 Math::Trig - trigonometric functions
14505 =item TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS
14511 =item ERRORS DUE TO DIVISION BY ZERO
14513 =item SIMPLE (REAL) ARGUMENTS, COMPLEX RESULTS
14517 =item PLANE ANGLE CONVERSIONS
14519 =item RADIAL COORDINATE CONVERSIONS
14523 =item COORDINATE SYSTEMS
14525 =item 3-D ANGLE CONVERSIONS
14527 cartesian_to_cylindrical, cartesian_to_spherical, cylindrical_to_cartesian,
14528 cylindrical_to_spherical, spherical_to_cartesian, spherical_to_cylindrical
14532 =item GREAT CIRCLE DISTANCES AND DIRECTIONS
14538 =item CAVEAT FOR GREAT CIRCLE FORMULAS
14548 =head2 Memoize - Make your functions faster by trading space for time
14566 =item C<SCALAR_CACHE>, C<LIST_CACHE>
14568 C<MEMORY>, C<HASH>, C<TIE>, C<FAULT>, C<MERGE>
14572 =item OTHER FACILITIES
14578 =item C<flush_cache>
14584 =item PERSISTENT CACHE SUPPORT
14586 =item EXPIRATION SUPPORT
14594 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
14600 =head2 Memoize::AnyDBM_File - glue to provide EXISTS for AnyDBM_File for
14609 =head2 Memoize::Expire - Plug-in module for automatic expiration of
14620 TIEHASH, EXISTS, STORE
14632 =head2 Memoize::ExpireFile - test for Memoize expiration semantics
14640 =head2 Memoize::ExpireTest - test for Memoize expiration semantics
14648 =head2 Memoize::NDBM_File - glue to provide EXISTS for NDBM_File for
14657 =head2 Memoize::SDBM_File - glue to provide EXISTS for SDBM_File for
14666 =head2 Memoize::Storable - store Memoized data in Storable database
14674 =head2 NDBM_File - Tied access to ndbm files
14682 C<O_RDONLY>, C<O_WRONLY>, C<O_RDWR>
14688 =item C<ndbm store returned -1, errno 22, key "..." at ...>
14692 =item BUGS AND WARNINGS
14696 =head2 NEXT - Provide a pseudo-class NEXT that allows method redispatch
14706 =item Enforcing redispatch
14708 =item Avoiding repetitions
14714 =item BUGS AND IRRITATIONS
14720 =head2 Net::Cmd - Network Command class (as used by FTP, SMTP etc)
14730 debug ( VALUE ), message (), code (), ok (), status (), datasend ( DATA ),
14733 =item CLASS METHODS
14735 debug_print ( DIR, TEXT ), debug_text ( TEXT ), command ( CMD [, ARGS, ...
14736 ]), unsupported (), response (), parse_response ( TEXT ), getline (),
14737 ungetline ( TEXT ), read_until_dot (), tied_fh ()
14747 =head2 Net::Config - Local configuration data for libnet
14757 requires_firewall HOST
14759 =item NetConfig VALUES
14761 nntp_hosts, snpp_hosts, pop3_hosts, smtp_hosts, ph_hosts, daytime_hosts,
14762 time_hosts, inet_domain, ftp_firewall, ftp_firewall_type, ftp_ext_passive,
14763 ftp_int_pasive, local_netmask, test_hosts, test_exists
14767 =head2 Net::Domain - Attempt to evaluate the current host's internet name
14776 hostfqdn (), hostname (), hostdomain ()
14784 =head2 Net::FTP - FTP Client class
14796 new (HOST [,OPTIONS])
14800 login ([LOGIN [,PASSWORD [, ACCOUNT] ] ]), authorize ( [AUTH [, RESP]]),
14801 site (ARGS), type (TYPE [, ARGS]), ascii ([ARGS]) binary([ARGS])
14802 ebcdic([ARGS]) byte([ARGS]), rename ( OLDNAME, NEWNAME ), delete ( FILENAME
14803 ), cwd ( [ DIR ] ), cdup (), pwd (), restart ( WHERE ), rmdir ( DIR ),
14804 mkdir ( DIR [, RECURSE ]), ls ( [ DIR ] ), dir ( [ DIR ] ), get (
14805 REMOTE_FILE [, LOCAL_FILE [, WHERE]] ), put ( LOCAL_FILE [, REMOTE_FILE ]
14806 ), put_unique ( LOCAL_FILE [, REMOTE_FILE ] ), append ( LOCAL_FILE [,
14807 REMOTE_FILE ] ), unique_name (), mdtm ( FILE ), size ( FILE ), supported (
14808 CMD ), hash ( [FILEHANDLE_GLOB_REF],[ BYTES_PER_HASH_MARK] ), nlst ( [ DIR
14809 ] ), list ( [ DIR ] ), retr ( FILE ), stor ( FILE ), stou ( FILE ), appe (
14810 FILE ), port ( [ PORT ] ), pasv (), pasv_xfer ( SRC_FILE, DEST_SERVER [,
14811 DEST_FILE ] ), pasv_xfer_unique ( SRC_FILE, DEST_SERVER [, DEST_FILE ] ),
14812 pasv_wait ( NON_PASV_SERVER ), abort (), quit ()
14816 =item Methods for the adventurous
14822 =item THE dataconn CLASS
14824 read ( BUFFER, SIZE [, TIMEOUT ] ), write ( BUFFER, SIZE [, TIMEOUT ] ),
14825 bytes_read (), abort (), close ()
14827 =item UNIMPLEMENTED
14829 B<ALLO>, B<SMNT>, B<HELP>, B<MODE>, B<SYST>, B<STAT>, B<STRU>, B<REIN>
14831 =item REPORTING BUGS
14839 http://www.csh.rit.edu/~adam/Progs/autoftp-2.0.tar.gz
14847 =head2 Net::NNTP - NNTP Client class
14857 new ( [ HOST ] [, OPTIONS ])
14861 article ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ], [FH] ), body ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ], [FH] ), head (
14862 [ MSGID|MSGNUM ], [FH] ), articlefh ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ] ), bodyfh ( [
14863 MSGID|MSGNUM ] ), headfh ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ] ), nntpstat ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ]
14864 ), group ( [ GROUP ] ), ihave ( MSGID [, MESSAGE ]), last (), date (),
14865 postok (), authinfo ( USER, PASS ), list (), newgroups ( SINCE [,
14866 DISTRIBUTIONS ]), newnews ( SINCE [, GROUPS [, DISTRIBUTIONS ]]), next (),
14867 post ( [ MESSAGE ] ), postfh (), slave (), quit ()
14871 =item Extension methods
14873 newsgroups ( [ PATTERN ] ), distributions (), subscriptions (),
14874 overview_fmt (), active_times (), active ( [ PATTERN ] ), xgtitle ( PATTERN
14875 ), xhdr ( HEADER, MESSAGE-SPEC ), xover ( MESSAGE-SPEC ), xpath (
14876 MESSAGE-ID ), xpat ( HEADER, PATTERN, MESSAGE-SPEC), xrover, listgroup ( [
14885 MESSAGE-SPEC, PATTERN, Examples, C<[^]-]>, C<*bdc>, C<[0-9a-zA-Z]>, C<a??d>
14895 =head2 Net::POP3 - Post Office Protocol 3 Client class (RFC1939)
14907 new ( [ HOST, ] [ OPTIONS ] )
14911 user ( USER ), pass ( PASS ), login ( [ USER [, PASS ]] ), apop ( [ USER [,
14912 PASS ]] ), top ( MSGNUM [, NUMLINES ] ), list ( [ MSGNUM ] ), get ( MSGNUM
14913 [, FH ] ), getfh ( MSGNUM ), last (), popstat (), ping ( USER ), uidl ( [
14914 MSGNUM ] ), delete ( MSGNUM ), reset (), quit ()
14926 =head2 Net::Ping - check a remote host for reachability
14938 Net::Ping->new([$proto [, $def_timeout [, $bytes]]]);,
14939 $p->bind($local_addr);, $p->ping($host [, $timeout]);, $p->open($host);,
14940 $p->open($host);, $p->close();, pingecho($host [, $timeout]);
14954 =head2 Net::SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Client
14966 new Net::SMTP [ HOST, ] [ OPTIONS ]
14970 banner (), domain (), hello ( DOMAIN ), etrn ( DOMAIN ), auth ( USERNAME,
14971 PASSWORD ), mail ( ADDRESS [, OPTIONS] ), send ( ADDRESS ), send_or_mail (
14972 ADDRESS ), send_and_mail ( ADDRESS ), reset (), recipient ( ADDRESS [,
14973 ADDRESS [ ...]] [, OPTIONS ] ), to ( ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] ), cc (
14974 ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] ), bcc ( ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] ), data ( [
14975 DATA ] ), expand ( ADDRESS ), verify ( ADDRESS ), help ( [ $subject ] ),
14986 =head2 Net::Time - time and daytime network client interface
14994 inet_time ( [HOST [, PROTOCOL [, TIMEOUT]]]), inet_daytime ( [HOST [,
14995 PROTOCOL [, TIMEOUT]]])
15003 =head2 Net::hostent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in gethost*()
15020 =head2 Net::libnetFAQ, libnetFAQ - libnet Frequently Asked Questions
15028 =item Where to get this document
15030 =item How to contribute to this document
15034 =item Author and Copyright Information
15042 =item Obtaining and installing libnet
15046 =item What is libnet ?
15048 =item Which version of perl do I need ?
15050 =item What other modules do I need ?
15052 =item What machines support libnet ?
15054 =item Where can I get the latest libnet release
15058 =item Using Net::FTP
15062 =item How do I download files from an FTP server ?
15064 =item How do I transfer files in binary mode ?
15066 =item How can I get the size of a file on a remote FTP server ?
15068 =item How can I get the modification time of a file on a remote FTP server
15071 =item How can I change the permissions of a file on a remote server ?
15073 =item Can I do a reget operation like the ftp command ?
15075 =item How do I get a directory listing from an FTP server ?
15077 =item Changing directory to "" does not fail ?
15079 =item I am behind a SOCKS firewall, but the Firewall option does not work ?
15081 =item I am behind an FTP proxy firewall, but cannot access machines outside
15084 =item My ftp proxy firewall does not listen on port 21
15086 =item Is it possible to change the file permissions of a file on an FTP
15089 =item I have seen scripts call a method message, but cannot find it
15092 =item Why does Net::FTP not implement mput and mget methods
15096 =item Using Net::SMTP
15100 =item Why can't the part of an Email address after the @ be used as the
15103 =item Why does Net::SMTP not do DNS MX lookups ?
15105 =item The verify method always returns true ?
15109 =item Debugging scripts
15113 =item How can I debug my scripts that use Net::* modules ?
15117 =item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
15121 =head2 Net::netent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getnet*()
15138 =head2 Net::protoent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getproto*()
15153 =head2 Net::servent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getserv*()
15170 =head2 Netrc, Net::Netrc - OO interface to users netrc file
15178 =item THE .netrc FILE
15180 machine name, default, login name, password string, account string, macdef
15185 lookup ( MACHINE [, LOGIN ])
15189 login (), password (), account (), lpa ()
15199 =head2 O - Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends
15209 =item IMPLEMENTATION
15215 =head2 ODBM_File - Tied access to odbm files
15223 C<O_RDONLY>, C<O_WRONLY>, C<O_RDWR>
15229 =item C<odbm store returned -1, errno 22, key "..." at ...>
15233 =item BUGS AND WARNINGS
15237 =head2 Opcode - Disable named opcodes when compiling perl code
15249 =item Operator Names and Operator Lists
15251 an operator name (opname), an operator tag name (optag), a negated opname
15252 or optag, an operator set (opset)
15254 =item Opcode Functions
15256 opcodes, opset (OP, ...), opset_to_ops (OPSET), opset_to_hex (OPSET),
15257 full_opset, empty_opset, invert_opset (OPSET), verify_opset (OPSET, ...),
15258 define_optag (OPTAG, OPSET), opmask_add (OPSET), opmask, opdesc (OP, ...),
15261 =item Manipulating Opsets
15263 =item TO DO (maybe)
15269 =item Predefined Opcode Tags
15271 :base_core, :base_mem, :base_loop, :base_io, :base_orig, :base_math,
15272 :base_thread, :default, :filesys_read, :sys_db, :browse, :filesys_open,
15273 :filesys_write, :subprocess, :ownprocess, :others, :still_to_be_decided,
15282 =head2 Opcode::Safe, Safe - Compile and execute code in restricted
15291 a new namespace, an operator mask
15297 =item RECENT CHANGES
15299 =item Methods in class Safe
15301 permit (OP, ...), permit_only (OP, ...), deny (OP, ...), deny_only (OP,
15302 ...), trap (OP, ...), untrap (OP, ...), share (NAME, ...), share_from
15303 (PACKAGE, ARRAYREF), varglob (VARNAME), reval (STRING), rdo (FILENAME),
15304 root (NAMESPACE), mask (MASK)
15306 =item Some Safety Issues
15308 Memory, CPU, Snooping, Signals, State Changes
15316 =head2 Opcode::ops, ops - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when
15329 =head2 POSIX - Perl interface to IEEE Std 1003.1
15343 _exit, abort, abs, access, acos, alarm, asctime, asin, assert, atan, atan2,
15344 atexit, atof, atoi, atol, bsearch, calloc, ceil, chdir, chmod, chown,
15345 clearerr, clock, close, closedir, cos, cosh, creat, ctermid, ctime,
15346 cuserid, difftime, div, dup, dup2, errno, execl, execle, execlp, execv,
15347 execve, execvp, exit, exp, fabs, fclose, fcntl, fdopen, feof, ferror,
15348 fflush, fgetc, fgetpos, fgets, fileno, floor, fmod, fopen, fork, fpathconf,
15349 fprintf, fputc, fputs, fread, free, freopen, frexp, fscanf, fseek, fsetpos,
15350 fstat, ftell, fwrite, getc, getchar, getcwd, getegid, getenv, geteuid,
15351 getgid, getgrgid, getgrnam, getgroups, getlogin, getpgrp, getpid, getppid,
15352 getpwnam, getpwuid, gets, getuid, gmtime, isalnum, isalpha, isatty,
15353 iscntrl, isdigit, isgraph, islower, isprint, ispunct, isspace, isupper,
15354 isxdigit, kill, labs, ldexp, ldiv, link, localeconv, localtime, log, log10,
15355 longjmp, lseek, malloc, mblen, mbstowcs, mbtowc, memchr, memcmp, memcpy,
15356 memmove, memset, mkdir, mkfifo, mktime, modf, nice, offsetof, open,
15357 opendir, pathconf, pause, perror, pipe, pow, printf, putc, putchar, puts,
15358 qsort, raise, rand, read, readdir, realloc, remove, rename, rewind,
15359 rewinddir, rmdir, scanf, setgid, setjmp, setlocale, setpgid, setsid,
15360 setuid, sigaction, siglongjmp, sigpending, sigprocmask, sigsetjmp,
15361 sigsuspend, sin, sinh, sleep, sprintf, sqrt, srand, sscanf, stat, strcat,
15362 strchr, strcmp, strcoll, strcpy, strcspn, strerror, strftime, strlen,
15363 strncat, strncmp, strncpy, strpbrk, strrchr, strspn, strstr, strtod,
15364 strtok, strtol, strtoul, strxfrm, sysconf, system, tan, tanh, tcdrain,
15365 tcflow, tcflush, tcgetpgrp, tcsendbreak, tcsetpgrp, time, times, tmpfile,
15366 tmpnam, tolower, toupper, ttyname, tzname, tzset, umask, uname, ungetc,
15367 unlink, utime, vfprintf, vprintf, vsprintf, wait, waitpid, wcstombs,
15374 =item POSIX::SigAction
15378 =item POSIX::SigSet
15380 new, addset, delset, emptyset, fillset, ismember
15382 =item POSIX::Termios
15384 new, getattr, getcc, getcflag, getiflag, getispeed, getlflag, getoflag,
15385 getospeed, setattr, setcc, setcflag, setiflag, setispeed, setlflag,
15386 setoflag, setospeed, Baud rate values, Terminal interface values, c_cc
15387 field values, c_cflag field values, c_iflag field values, c_lflag field
15388 values, c_oflag field values
15392 =item PATHNAME CONSTANTS
15396 =item POSIX CONSTANTS
15400 =item SYSTEM CONFIGURATION
15454 Constants, WNOHANG, WUNTRACED, Macros, WIFEXITED, WEXITSTATUS, WIFSIGNALED,
15455 WTERMSIG, WIFSTOPPED, WSTOPSIG
15459 =head2 PerlIO - On demand loader for PerlIO layers and root of PerlIO::*
15468 unix, stdio, perlio, crlf, utf8, raw
15472 =item Defaults and how to override them
15482 =head2 PerlIO::Scalar - support module for in-memory IO.
15492 =head2 PerlIO::Via - Helper class for PerlIO layers implemented in perl
15500 $class->PUSHED([$mode[,$fh]]), $obj->POPPED([$fh]),
15501 $class->OPEN($path,$mode[,$fh]), $class->FDOPEN($fd),
15502 $class->SYSOPEN($path,$imode,$perm,$fh), $obj->FILENO($fh),
15503 $obj->READ($buffer,$len,$fh), $obj->WRITE($buffer,$fh), $obj->FILL($fh),
15504 $obj->CLOSE($fh), $obj->SEEK($posn,$whence,$fh), $obj->TELL($fh),
15505 $obj->UNREAD($buffer,$fh), $obj->FLUSH($fh), $obj->SETLINEBUF($fh),
15506 $obj->CLEARERR($fh), $obj->ERROR($fh), $obj->EOF($fh)
15510 =item Example - a Hexadecimal Handle
15516 =head2 Pod::Checker, podchecker() - check pod documents for syntax errors
15522 =item OPTIONS/ARGUMENTS
15528 B<-warnings> =E<gt> I<val>
15540 empty =headn, =over on line I<N> without closing =back, =item without
15541 previous =over, =back without previous =over, No argument for =begin, =end
15542 without =begin, Nested =begin's, =for without formatter specification,
15543 unresolved internal link I<NAME>, Unknown command "I<CMD>", Unknown
15544 interior-sequence "I<SEQ>", nested commands
15545 I<CMD>E<lt>...I<CMD>E<lt>...E<gt>...E<gt>, garbled entity I<STRING>, Entity
15546 number out of range, malformed link LE<lt>E<gt>, nonempty ZE<lt>E<gt>,
15547 empty XE<lt>E<gt>, Spurious text after =pod / =cut, Spurious character(s)
15552 multiple occurence of link target I<name>, line containing nothing but
15553 whitespace in paragraph, file does not start with =head, previous =item has
15554 no contents, preceding non-item paragraph(s), =item type mismatch (I<one>
15555 vs. I<two>), I<N> unescaped C<E<lt>E<gt>> in paragraph, Unknown entity, No
15556 items in =over, No argument for =item, empty section in previous paragraph,
15557 Verbatim paragraph in NAME section
15561 ignoring leading/trailing whitespace in link, (section) in '$page'
15562 deprecated, alternative text/node '%s' contains non-escaped | or /
15574 C<Pod::Checker-E<gt>new( %options )>
15576 C<$checker-E<gt>poderror( @args )>, C<$checker-E<gt>poderror( {%opts},
15579 C<$checker-E<gt>num_errors()>
15581 C<$checker-E<gt>name()>
15583 C<$checker-E<gt>node()>
15585 C<$checker-E<gt>idx()>
15587 C<$checker-E<gt>hyperlink()>
15595 =head2 Pod::Find - find POD documents in directory trees
15607 =item C<pod_find( { %opts } , @directories )>
15609 C<-verbose =E<gt> 1>, C<-perl =E<gt> 1>, C<-script =E<gt> 1>, C<-inc =E<gt>
15616 =item C<simplify_name( $str )>
15622 =item C<pod_where( { %opts }, $pod )>
15624 C<-inc =E<gt> 1>, C<-dirs =E<gt> [ $dir1, $dir2, ... ]>, C<-verbose =E<gt>
15631 =item C<contains_pod( $file , $verbose )>
15643 =head2 Pod::Html - module to convert pod files to HTML
15653 backlink, cachedir, css, flush, header, help, htmldir, htmlroot, index,
15654 infile, libpods, netscape, outfile, podpath, podroot, quiet, recurse,
15669 =head2 Pod::InputObjects - objects representing POD input paragraphs,
15682 package B<Pod::InputSource>, package B<Pod::Paragraph>, package
15683 B<Pod::InteriorSequence>, package B<Pod::ParseTree>
15689 =item B<Pod::InputSource>
15713 =item B<was_cutting()>
15719 =item B<Pod::Paragraph>
15725 =item Pod::Paragraph-E<gt>B<new()>
15731 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<cmd_name()>
15737 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<text()>
15743 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<raw_text()>
15749 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<cmd_prefix()>
15755 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<cmd_separator()>
15761 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<parse_tree()>
15767 =item $pod_para-E<gt>B<file_line()>
15773 =item B<Pod::InteriorSequence>
15779 =item Pod::InteriorSequence-E<gt>B<new()>
15785 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<cmd_name()>
15791 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<prepend()>
15797 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<append()>
15803 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<nested()>
15809 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<raw_text()>
15815 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<left_delimiter()>
15821 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<right_delimiter()>
15827 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<parse_tree()>
15833 =item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<file_line()>
15839 =item Pod::InteriorSequence::B<DESTROY()>
15845 =item B<Pod::ParseTree>
15851 =item Pod::ParseTree-E<gt>B<new()>
15857 =item $ptree-E<gt>B<top()>
15863 =item $ptree-E<gt>B<children()>
15869 =item $ptree-E<gt>B<prepend()>
15875 =item $ptree-E<gt>B<append()>
15881 =item $ptree-E<gt>B<raw_text()>
15887 =item Pod::ParseTree::B<DESTROY()>
15899 =head2 Pod::LaTeX - Convert Pod data to formatted Latex
15911 =item OBJECT METHODS
15919 =item Data Accessors
15935 B<ReplaceNAMEwithSection>
15937 B<StartWithNewPage>
15951 =item Subclassed methods
15965 B<interior_sequence>
15981 =item Methods for headings
15989 =item Internal methods
15995 B<_replace_special_chars>
15997 B<_replace_special_chars_late>
16003 B<_clean_latex_commands>
16005 B<_split_delimited>
16021 =head2 Pod::Man - Convert POD data to formatted *roff input
16029 center, date, fixed, fixedbold, fixeditalic, fixedbolditalic, name, quotes,
16034 roff font should be 1 or 2 chars, not "%s", Invalid link %s, Invalid quote
16035 specification "%s", %s:%d: Unknown command paragraph "%s", %s:%d: Unknown
16036 escape EE<lt>%sE<gt>, %s:%d: Unknown formatting code %s, %s:%d: Unmatched
16047 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
16051 =head2 Pod::ParseLink -- Parse an LE<lt>E<gt> formatting code in POD text
16061 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
16065 =head2 Pod::ParseUtils - helpers for POD parsing and conversion
16079 Pod::List-E<gt>new()
16087 $list-E<gt>indent()
16095 $list-E<gt>parent()
16101 =item Pod::Hyperlink
16103 Pod::Hyperlink-E<gt>new()
16107 $link-E<gt>parse($string)
16109 $link-E<gt>markup($string)
16113 $link-E<gt>warning()
16115 $link-E<gt>file(), $link-E<gt>line()
16121 $link-E<gt>alttext()
16131 Pod::Cache-E<gt>new()
16137 $cache-E<gt>find_page($name)
16141 =item Pod::Cache::Item
16143 Pod::Cache::Item-E<gt>new()
16147 $cacheitem-E<gt>page()
16149 $cacheitem-E<gt>description()
16151 $cacheitem-E<gt>path()
16153 $cacheitem-E<gt>file()
16155 $cacheitem-E<gt>nodes()
16157 $cacheitem-E<gt>find_node($name)
16159 $cacheitem-E<gt>idx()
16169 =head2 Pod::Parser - base class for creating POD filters and translators
16181 =item QUICK OVERVIEW
16183 =item PARSING OPTIONS
16185 B<-want_nonPODs> (default: unset), B<-process_cut_cmd> (default: unset),
16186 B<-warnings> (default: unset)
16192 =item RECOMMENDED SUBROUTINE/METHOD OVERRIDES
16200 C<$cmd>, C<$text>, C<$line_num>, C<$pod_para>
16206 =item B<verbatim()>
16208 C<$text>, C<$line_num>, C<$pod_para>
16214 =item B<textblock()>
16216 C<$text>, C<$line_num>, C<$pod_para>
16222 =item B<interior_sequence()>
16228 =item OPTIONAL SUBROUTINE/METHOD OVERRIDES
16240 =item B<initialize()>
16246 =item B<begin_pod()>
16252 =item B<begin_input()>
16258 =item B<end_input()>
16270 =item B<preprocess_line()>
16276 =item B<preprocess_paragraph()>
16282 =item METHODS FOR PARSING AND PROCESSING
16288 =item B<parse_text()>
16290 B<-expand_seq> =E<gt> I<code-ref>|I<method-name>, B<-expand_text> =E<gt>
16291 I<code-ref>|I<method-name>, B<-expand_ptree> =E<gt>
16292 I<code-ref>|I<method-name>
16298 =item B<interpolate()>
16304 =item B<parse_paragraph()>
16310 =item B<parse_from_filehandle()>
16316 =item B<parse_from_file()>
16322 =item ACCESSOR METHODS
16328 =item B<errorsub()>
16340 =item B<parseopts()>
16346 =item B<output_file()>
16352 =item B<output_handle()>
16358 =item B<input_file()>
16364 =item B<input_handle()>
16370 =item B<input_streams()>
16376 =item B<top_stream()>
16382 =item PRIVATE METHODS AND DATA
16388 =item B<_push_input_stream()>
16394 =item B<_pop_input_stream()>
16400 =item TREE-BASED PARSING
16408 =head2 Pod::Plainer - Perl extension for converting Pod to old style Pod.
16428 =head2 Pod::Select, podselect() - extract selected sections of POD from
16441 =item SECTION SPECIFICATIONS
16443 =item RANGE SPECIFICATIONS
16449 =item OBJECT METHODS
16455 =item B<curr_headings()>
16467 =item B<add_selection()>
16473 =item B<clear_selections()>
16479 =item B<match_section()>
16485 =item B<is_selected()>
16491 =item EXPORTED FUNCTIONS
16497 =item B<podselect()>
16499 B<-output>, B<-sections>, B<-ranges>
16505 =item PRIVATE METHODS AND DATA
16511 =item B<_compile_section_spec()>
16517 =item $self->{_SECTION_HEADINGS}
16523 =item $self->{_SELECTED_SECTIONS}
16535 =head2 Pod::Text - Convert POD data to formatted ASCII text
16543 alt, code, indent, loose, quotes, sentence, width
16547 Bizarre space in item, Item called without tag, Can't open %s for reading:
16548 %s, Invalid quote specification "%s", %s:%d: Unknown command paragraph: %s,
16549 %s:%d: Unknown escape: %s, %s:%d: Unknown formatting code: %s, %s:%d:
16560 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
16564 =head2 Pod::Text::Color - Convert POD data to formatted color ASCII text
16578 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
16582 =head2 Pod::Text::Overstrike - Convert POD data to formatted overstrike
16597 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
16601 =head2 Pod::Text::Termcap, Pod::Text::Color - Convert POD data to ASCII
16602 text with format escapes
16616 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
16620 =head2 Pod::Usage, pod2usage() - print a usage message from embedded pod
16629 C<-message>, C<-msg>, C<-exitval>, C<-verbose>, C<-output>, C<-input>,
16638 =item Recommended Use
16646 =item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
16650 =head2 Pod::t::basic, basic.pod - Test of various basic POD features in
16657 =item This C<is> a "level 1" heading
16661 =item ``Level'' "2 I<heading>
16665 =item This C<is> a "level 1" heading
16669 =item ``Level'' 2 I<heading>
16675 =item OVER AND ITEMS
16677 This is a test, a, b, a, b, c, d, "foo", B<bar>, C<baz>, Some longer item
16680 =item FORMATTING CODES
16682 E<amp>, E<apos>, E<lt>, E<gt>, E<quot>, E<sol>
16690 =head2 SDBM_File - Tied access to sdbm files
16698 C<O_RDONLY>, C<O_WRONLY>, C<O_RDWR>
16704 =item C<sdbm store returned -1, errno 22, key "..." at ...>
16708 =item BUGS AND WARNINGS
16712 =head2 Safe - Compile and execute code in restricted compartments
16720 a new namespace, an operator mask
16726 =item RECENT CHANGES
16728 =item Methods in class Safe
16730 permit (OP, ...), permit_only (OP, ...), deny (OP, ...), deny_only (OP,
16731 ...), trap (OP, ...), untrap (OP, ...), share (NAME, ...), share_from
16732 (PACKAGE, ARRAYREF), varglob (VARNAME), reval (STRING), rdo (FILENAME),
16733 root (NAMESPACE), mask (MASK)
16735 =item Some Safety Issues
16737 Memory, CPU, Snooping, Signals, State Changes
16745 =head2 Scalar::Util - A selection of general-utility scalar subroutines
16753 blessed EXPR, dualvar NUM, STRING, isweak EXPR, readonly SCALAR, reftype
16754 EXPR, tainted EXPR, weaken REF
16764 =head2 Search::Dict, look - search for key in dictionary file
16774 =head2 SelectSaver - save and restore selected file handle
16784 =head2 SelfLoader - load functions only on demand
16794 =item The __DATA__ token
16796 =item SelfLoader autoloading
16798 =item Autoloading and package lexicals
16800 =item SelfLoader and AutoLoader
16802 =item __DATA__, __END__, and the FOOBAR::DATA filehandle.
16804 =item Classes and inherited methods.
16808 =item Multiple packages and fully qualified subroutine names
16812 =head2 Shell - run shell commands transparently within perl
16822 =item OBJECT ORIENTED SYNTAX
16830 =head2 Socket, sockaddr_in, sockaddr_un, inet_aton, inet_ntoa - load the C
16831 socket.h defines and structure manipulators
16839 inet_aton HOSTNAME, inet_ntoa IP_ADDRESS, INADDR_ANY, INADDR_BROADCAST,
16840 INADDR_LOOPBACK, INADDR_NONE, sockaddr_family SOCKADDR, sockaddr_in PORT,
16841 ADDRESS, sockaddr_in SOCKADDR_IN, pack_sockaddr_in PORT, IP_ADDRESS,
16842 unpack_sockaddr_in SOCKADDR_IN, sockaddr_un PATHNAME, sockaddr_un
16843 SOCKADDR_UN, pack_sockaddr_un PATH, unpack_sockaddr_un SOCKADDR_UN
16847 =head2 Storable - persistency for perl data structures
16857 =item ADVISORY LOCKING
16861 =item CANONICAL REPRESENTATION
16863 =item ERROR REPORTING
16871 C<STORABLE_freeze> I<obj>, I<cloning>, C<STORABLE_thaw> I<obj>, I<cloning>,
16876 C<Storable::last_op_in_netorder>, C<Storable::is_storing>,
16877 C<Storable::is_retrieving>
16885 =item Storable magic
16903 =head2 Switch - A switch statement for Perl
16917 =item Allowing fall-through
16919 =item Automating fall-through
16921 =item Alternative syntax
16923 =item Higher-order Operations
16939 =head2 Symbol - manipulate Perl symbols and their names
16949 =head2 Sys::Hostname - Try every conceivable way to get hostname
16961 =head2 Syslog, Sys::Syslog, openlog, closelog, setlogmask, syslog - Perl
16962 interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls
16970 openlog $ident, $logopt, $facility, syslog $priority, $format, @args,
16971 setlogmask $mask_priority, setlogsock $sock_type (added in 5.004_02),
16982 =head2 Syslog::Syslog, Sys::Syslog, openlog, closelog, setlogmask, syslog -
16983 Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls
16991 openlog $ident, $logopt, $facility, syslog $priority, $format, @args,
16992 setlogmask $mask_priority, setlogsock $sock_type (added in 5.004_02),
17003 =head2 Term::ANSIColor - Color screen output using ANSI escape sequences
17013 Bad escape sequence %s, Bareword "%s" not allowed while "strict subs" in
17014 use, Invalid attribute name %s, Name "%s" used only once: possible typo, No
17015 comma allowed after filehandle, No name for escape sequence %s
17019 ANSI_COLORS_DISABLED
17033 =head2 Term::Cap - Perl termcap interface
17049 B<Tgetent>, OSPEED, TERM
17051 B<Tpad>, B<$string>, B<$cnt>, B<$FH>
17053 B<Tputs>, B<$cap>, B<$cnt>, B<$FH>
17055 B<Tgoto>, B<$cap>, B<$col>, B<$row>, B<$FH>
17063 =item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
17071 =head2 Term::Complete - Perl word completion module
17079 E<lt>tabE<gt>, ^D, ^U, E<lt>delE<gt>, E<lt>bsE<gt>
17089 =head2 Term::ReadLine - Perl interface to various C<readline> packages. If
17090 no real package is found, substitutes stubs instead of basic functions.
17098 =item Minimal set of supported functions
17100 C<ReadLine>, C<new>, C<readline>, C<addhistory>, C<IN>, $C<OUT>,
17101 C<MinLine>, C<findConsole>, Attribs, C<Features>
17103 =item Additional supported functions
17105 C<tkRunning>, C<ornaments>, C<newTTY>
17115 =head2 Test - provides a simple framework for writing test scripts
17141 NORMAL TESTS, SKIPPED TESTS, TODO TESTS
17145 =item BUGS and CAVEATS
17155 =head2 Test::Builder - Backend for building test libraries
17175 =item Setting up tests
17191 =item Running tests
17197 B<is_eq>, B<is_num>
17199 B<isnt_eq>, B<isnt_num>
17223 B<no_header>, B<no_ending>
17235 B<output>, B<failure_output>, B<todo_output>
17239 =item Test Status and Info
17247 B<details> I<UNIMPLEMENTED>, B<todo>
17269 =head2 Test::Harness - run perl standard test scripts with statistics
17279 =item The test script output
17281 B<'1..M'>, B<'ok', 'not ok'. Ok?>, B<test numbers>, B<test names>,
17282 B<Skipping tests>, B<Todo tests>, B<Bail out!>, B<Comments>, B<Anything
17287 =item Configuration variables.
17289 B<$Test::Harness::verbose>, B<$Test::Harness::switches>
17293 B<Failed Test>, B<Stat>, B<Wstat>, B<Total>, B<Fail>, B<Failed>, B<List of
17320 C<All tests successful.\nFiles=%d, Tests=%d, %s>, C<FAILED tests
17321 %s\n\tFailed %d/%d tests, %.2f%% okay.>, C<Test returned status %d (wstat
17322 %d)>, C<Failed 1 test, %.2f%% okay. %s>, C<Failed %d/%d tests, %.2f%% okay.
17323 %s>, C<FAILED--Further testing stopped%s>
17327 C<HARNESS_IGNORE_EXITCODE>, C<HARNESS_NOTTY>, C<HARNESS_COMPILE_TEST>,
17328 C<HARNESS_FILELEAK_IN_DIR>, C<HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES>, C<HARNESS_COLUMNS>,
17343 =head2 Test::Harness::Assert - simple assert
17369 =head2 Test::Harness::Iterator - Internal Test::Harness Iterator
17379 =head2 Test::Harness::Straps - detailed analysis of test results
17417 B<_restore_PERL5LIB>
17433 B<_reset_file_state>
17453 =head2 Test::More - yet another framework for writing test scripts
17463 =item I love it when a plan comes together
17473 =item I'm ok, you're not ok.
17513 =item Conditional tests
17519 B<TODO: BLOCK>, B<todo_skip>
17523 =item Comparison functions
17537 =item Extending and Embedding Test::More
17547 =item BUGS and CAVEATS
17549 Making your own ok(), The eq_* family has some caveats, Test::Harness
17562 =head2 Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests.
17586 L<Test::More>, L<Test>, L<Test::Unit>, L<Test::Inline>, L<SelfTest>,
17595 =head2 Test::Tutorial - A tutorial about writing really basic tests
17603 =item Nuts and bolts of testing.
17605 =item Where to start?
17609 =item Test the manual
17611 =item Sometimes the tests are wrong
17613 =item Testing lots of values
17615 =item Informative names
17617 =item Skipping tests
17621 =item Testing with taint mode.
17633 =head2 Text::Abbrev, abbrev - create an abbreviation table from a list
17645 =head2 Text::Balanced - Extract delimited text sequences from strings.
17655 =item General behaviour in list contexts
17659 =item General behaviour in scalar and void contexts
17661 =item A note about prefixes
17663 =item C<extract_delimited>
17665 =item C<extract_bracketed>
17667 =item C<extract_tagged>
17669 C<reject =E<gt> $listref>, C<ignore =E<gt> $listref>, C<fail =E<gt> $str>,
17670 [0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]
17672 =item C<gen_extract_tagged>
17674 =item C<extract_quotelike>
17676 [0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10]
17678 =item C<extract_quotelike> and "here documents"
17680 [0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7..10]
17682 =item C<extract_codeblock>
17684 =item C<extract_multiple>
17686 =item C<gen_delimited_pat>
17692 C<Did not find a suitable bracket: "%s">, C<Did not find prefix: /%s/>,
17693 C<Did not find opening bracket after prefix: "%s">, C<No quotelike
17694 operator found after prefix: "%s">, C<Unmatched closing bracket: "%c">,
17695 C<Unmatched opening bracket(s): "%s">, C<Unmatched embedded quote (%s)>,
17696 C<Did not find closing delimiter to match '%s'>, C<Mismatched closing
17697 bracket: expected "%c" but found "%s">, C<No block delimiter found after
17698 quotelike "%s">, C<Did not find leading dereferencer>, C<Bad identifier
17699 after dereferencer>, C<Did not find expected opening bracket at %s>,
17700 C<Improperly nested codeblock at %s>, C<Missing second block for quotelike
17701 "%s">, C<No match found for opening bracket>, C<Did not find opening tag:
17702 /%s/>, C<Unable to construct closing tag to match: /%s/>, C<Found invalid
17703 nested tag: %s>, C<Found unbalanced nested tag: %s>, C<Did not find closing
17708 =item BUGS AND IRRITATIONS
17714 =head2 Text::ParseWords - parse text into an array of tokens or array of
17729 =head2 Text::Soundex - Implementation of the Soundex Algorithm as Described
17746 =head2 Text::Tabs -- expand and unexpand tabs per the unix expand(1) and
17761 =head2 Text::Wrap - line wrapping to form simple paragraphs
17777 =head2 Thread - manipulate threads in Perl
17789 $thread = Thread->new(\&start_sub), $thread = Thread->new(\&start_sub,
17790 LIST), lock VARIABLE, async BLOCK;, Thread->self, cond_wait VARIABLE,
17791 cond_signal VARIABLE, cond_broadcast VARIABLE, yield
17795 join, eval, detach, equal, tid, flags, done
17803 =head2 Thread::Queue - thread-safe queues
17811 =item FUNCTIONS AND METHODS
17813 new, enqueue LIST, dequeue, dequeue_nb, pending
17819 =head2 Thread::Semaphore - thread-safe semaphores
17827 =item FUNCTIONS AND METHODS
17829 new, new NUMBER, down, down NUMBER, up, up NUMBER
17833 =head2 Thread::Signal - Start a thread which runs signal handlers reliably
17845 =head2 Thread::Specific - thread-specific keys
17855 =head2 Tie::Array - base class for tied arrays
17863 TIEARRAY classname, LIST, STORE this, index, value, FETCH this, index,
17864 FETCHSIZE this, STORESIZE this, count, EXTEND this, count, EXISTS this,
17865 key, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this, DESTROY this, PUSH this, LIST, POP this,
17866 SHIFT this, UNSHIFT this, LIST, SPLICE this, offset, length, LIST
17874 =head2 Tie::File - Access the lines of a disk file via a Perl array
17890 =item Option Format
17894 =item Public Methods
17900 =item Tying to an already-opened filehandle
17908 =item Efficiency Note
17910 =item Efficiency Note 2
17912 =item Efficiency Note 3
17930 =head2 Tie::Handle, Tie::StdHandle - base class definitions for tied
17939 TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, WRITE this, scalar, length, offset, PRINT this,
17940 LIST, PRINTF this, format, LIST, READ this, scalar, length, offset,
17941 READLINE this, GETC this, CLOSE this, OPEN this, filename, BINMODE this,
17942 EOF this, TELL this, SEEK this, offset, whence, DESTROY this
17944 =item MORE INFORMATION
17946 =item COMPATIBILITY
17950 =head2 Tie::Hash, Tie::StdHash, Tie::ExtraHash - base class definitions for
17959 TIEHASH classname, LIST, STORE this, key, value, FETCH this, key, FIRSTKEY
17960 this, NEXTKEY this, lastkey, EXISTS this, key, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this
17962 =item Inheriting from B<Tie::StdHash>
17964 =item Inheriting from B<Tie::ExtraHash>
17966 =item C<UNTIE> and C<DESTROY>
17968 =item MORE INFORMATION
17972 =head2 Tie::Memoize - add data to hash when needed
17980 =item Inheriting from B<Tie::Memoize>
17990 =head2 Tie::RefHash - use references as hash keys
18008 =head2 Tie::Scalar, Tie::StdScalar - base class definitions for tied
18017 TIESCALAR classname, LIST, FETCH this, STORE this, value, DESTROY this
18019 =item MORE INFORMATION
18023 =head2 Tie::SubstrHash - Fixed-table-size, fixed-key-length hashing
18035 =head2 Time::HiRes - High resolution alarm, sleep, gettimeofday, interval
18044 gettimeofday (), usleep ( $useconds ), ualarm ( $useconds [,
18045 $interval_useconds ] ), tv_interval, time (), sleep ( $floating_seconds ),
18046 alarm ( $floating_seconds [, $interval_floating_seconds ] ), setitimer,
18047 getitimer ( $which )
18063 =head2 Time::Local - efficiently compute time from local and GMT time
18071 =item IMPLEMENTATION
18077 =head2 Time::gmtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in gmtime()
18092 =head2 Time::localtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in localtime()
18107 =head2 Time::tm - internal object used by Time::gmtime and Time::localtime
18119 =head2 UNIVERSAL - base class for ALL classes (blessed references)
18127 $obj->isa( TYPE ), CLASS->isa( TYPE ), isa( VAL, TYPE ), $obj->can( METHOD
18128 ), CLASS->can( METHOD ), can( VAL, METHOD ), VERSION ( [ REQUIRE ] )
18132 =head2 Unicode::Collate - use UCA (Unicode Collation Algorithm)
18142 =item Constructor and Tailoring
18144 alternate, backwards, entry, ignoreName, ignoreChar, level, normalization,
18145 overrideCJK, overrideHangul, preprocess, rearrange, table, undefName,
18146 undefChar, katakana_before_hiragana, upper_before_lower
18148 =item Other methods
18150 C<@sorted = $Collator-E<gt>sort(@not_sorted)>, C<$result =
18151 $Collator-E<gt>cmp($a, $b)>, C<$result = $Collator-E<gt>eq($a, $b)>,
18152 C<$result = $Collator-E<gt>ne($a, $b)>, C<$result = $Collator-E<gt>lt($a,
18153 $b)>, C<$result = $Collator-E<gt>le($a, $b)>, C<$result =
18154 $Collator-E<gt>gt($a, $b)>, C<$result = $Collator-E<gt>ge($a, $b)>,
18155 C<$sortKey = $Collator-E<gt>getSortKey($string)>, C<$position =
18156 $Collator-E<gt>index($string, $substring)>, C<($position, $length) =
18157 $Collator-E<gt>index($string, $substring)>
18171 Unicode Collation Algorithm - Unicode TR #10, L<Unicode::Normalize>
18175 =head2 Unicode::Normalize - normalized forms of Unicode text
18185 =item Normalization Forms
18187 C<$string_NFD = NFD($raw_string)>, C<$string_NFC = NFC($raw_string)>,
18188 C<$string_NFKD = NFKD($raw_string)>, C<$string_NFKC = NFKC($raw_string)>,
18189 C<$normalized_string = normalize($form_name, $raw_string)>
18191 =item Character Data
18193 C<$canonical_decomposed = getCanon($codepoint)>,
18194 C<$compatibility_decomposed = getCompat($codepoint)>, C<$uv_composite =
18195 getComposite($uv_here, $uv_next)>, C<$combining_class =
18196 getCombinClass($codepoint)>, C<$is_exclusion = isExclusion($codepoint)>
18208 http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr15/
18212 =head2 Unicode::UCD - Unicode character database
18254 =item Blocks versus Scripts
18256 =item Matching Scripts and Blocks
18258 =item Code Point Arguments
18284 =item Unicode::UCD::UnicodeVersion
18290 =item Implementation Note
18302 =head2 User::grent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getgr*()
18317 =head2 User::pwent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getpw*()
18328 =item System Specifics
18342 =head2 Win32 - Interfaces to some Win32 API Functions
18350 =item Alphabetical Listing of Win32 Functions
18352 Win32::AbortSystemShutdown(MACHINE), Win32::BuildNumber(),
18353 Win32::CopyFile(FROM, TO, OVERWRITE), Win32::DomainName(),
18354 Win32::ExpandEnvironmentStrings(STRING), Win32::FormatMessage(ERRORCODE),
18355 Win32::FsType(), Win32::FreeLibrary(HANDLE), Win32::GetArchName(),
18356 Win32::GetChipName(), Win32::GetCwd(), Win32::GetFullPathName(FILENAME),
18357 Win32::GetLastError(), Win32::GetLongPathName(PATHNAME),
18358 Win32::GetNextAvailDrive(), Win32::GetOSVersion(),
18359 Win32::GetShortPathName(PATHNAME), Win32::GetProcAddress(INSTANCE,
18360 PROCNAME), Win32::GetTickCount(), Win32::InitiateSystemShutdown,
18361 Win32::IsWinNT(), Win32::IsWin95(), Win32::LoadLibrary(LIBNAME),
18362 Win32::LoginName(), Win32::LookupAccountName(SYSTEM, ACCOUNT, DOMAIN, SID,
18363 SIDTYPE), Win32::LookupAccountSID(SYSTEM, SID, ACCOUNT, DOMAIN, SIDTYPE),
18364 Win32::MsgBox(MESSAGE [, FLAGS [, TITLE]]), Win32::NodeName(),
18365 Win32::RegisterServer(LIBRARYNAME), Win32::SetChildShowWindow(SHOWWINDOW),
18366 Win32::SetCwd(NEWDIRECTORY), Win32::SetLastError(ERROR),
18367 Win32::Sleep(TIME), Win32::Spawn(COMMAND, ARGS, PID),
18368 Win32::UnregisterServer(LIBRARYNAME)
18374 =head2 XS::Typemap - module to test the XS typemaps distributed with perl
18392 =head2 XSLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code
18404 =head1 AUXILIARY DOCUMENTATION
18406 Here should be listed all the extra programs' documentation, but they
18407 don't all have manual pages yet:
18433 Larry Wall <F<larry@wall.org>>, with the help of oodles