=head1 NAME
-perlfaq - frequently asked questions about Perl ($Date: 2005/03/27 07:21:21 $)
+perlfaq - frequently asked questions about Perl ($Date: 2005/11/10 00:36:18 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
=head1 Author and Copyright Information
-Copyright (c) 1997-2003 Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington, and
+Copyright (c) 1997-2005 Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington, and
other contributors noted in the answers.
All rights reserved.
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-What machines support Perl? Where do I get it?
+What machines support perl? Where do I get it?
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-How can I get a binary version of Perl?
+How can I get a binary version of perl?
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-I don't have a C compiler on my system. How can I compile perl?
+I don't have a C compiler. How can I build my own Perl interpreter?
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-I copied the Perl binary from one machine to another, but scripts don't work.
+I copied the perl binary from one machine to another, but scripts don't work.
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-Where can I buy a commercial version of Perl?
+Where can I buy a commercial version of perl?
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-Where can I learn about linking C with Perl? [h2xs, xsubpp]
+Where can I learn about linking C with Perl?
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=head2 L<perlfaq6>: Regular Expressions
-This section is surprisingly small because the rest of the FAQ is littered with answers involving regular expressions. For example, decoding a URL and checking whether something is a number are handled with regular expressions, but those answers are found elsewhere in this document (in L<perlfaq9>: ``How do I decode or create those %-encodings on the web'' and L<perlfaq4>: ``How do I determine whether a scalar is a number/whole/integer/float'', to be precise).
+This section is surprisingly small because the rest of the FAQ is littered with answers involving regular expressions. For example, decoding a URL and checking whether something is a number are handled with regular expressions, but those answers are found elsewhere in this document (in L<perlfaq9>: "How do I decode or create those %-encodings on the web" and L<perlfaq4>: "How do I determine whether a scalar is a number/whole/integer/float", to be precise).
=over 4
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-How do I find out my hostname/domainname/IP address?
+How do I find out my hostname, domainname, or IP address?
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