=head1 NAME
-perlfaq3 - Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.7 $, $Date: 2001/10/09 22:17:53 $)
+perlfaq3 - Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.15 $, $Date: 2002/02/11 19:29:52 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
Regexes perlre, perlfunc, perlop, perllocale
Moving to perl5 perltrap, perl
Linking w/C perlxstut, perlxs, perlcall, perlguts, perlembed
- Various http://www.perl.com/CPAN/doc/FMTEYEWTK/index.html
- (not a man-page but still useful)
+ Various http://www.cpan.org/misc/olddoc/FMTEYEWTK.tgz
+ (not a man-page but still useful, a collection
+ of various essays on Perl techniques)
A crude table of contents for the Perl manpage set is found in L<perltoc>.
of a Unix shell with the power of Perl. The goal is to eventually
have a full featured shell that behaves as expected for normal
shell activity. But, the Perl Shell will use Perl syntax and
- functionality for for control-flow statements and other things.
+ functionality for control-flow statements and other things.
The Shell.pm module (distributed with Perl) makes Perl try commands
which aren't part of the Perl language as shell commands. perlsh
=head2 How do I cross-reference my Perl programs?
-The B::Xref module, shipped with the new, alpha-release Perl compiler
-(not the general distribution prior to the 5.005 release), can be used
-to generate cross-reference reports for Perl programs.
+The B::Xref module can be used to generate cross-reference reports
+for Perl programs.
perl -MO=Xref[,OPTIONS] scriptname.plx
with control characters) and away you go. In insert mode, ^T is
for indenting, ^D is for undenting, and ^O is for blockdenting--
as it were. A more complete example, with comments, can be found at
-http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/authors/id/TOMC/scripts/toms.exrc.gz
+http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/TOMC/scripts/toms.exrc.gz
-If you are used to using the I<vgrind> program for printing out nice code
-to a laser printer, you can take a stab at this using
-http://www.perl.com/CPAN/doc/misc/tips/working.vgrind.entry, but the
-results are not particularly satisfying for sophisticated code.
-
-The a2ps at http://www.infres.enst.fr/%7Edemaille/a2ps/ does lots of things
-related to generating nicely printed output of documents.
+The a2ps http://www-inf.enst.fr/%7Edemaille/a2ps/black+white.ps does
+lots of things related to generating nicely printed output of
+documents, as does enscript at http://people.ssh.fi/mtr/genscript/.
=head2 Is there a ctags for Perl?
and does a good job of making tags files for perl code.
There is also a simple one at
-http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/TOMC/scripts/ptags.gz which may do
+http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/TOMC/scripts/ptags.gz which may do
the trick. It can be easy to hack this into what you want.
=head2 Is there an IDE or Windows Perl Editor?
=head2 Where can I get Perl macros for vi?
For a complete version of Tom Christiansen's vi configuration file,
-see http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/Tom_Christiansen/scripts/toms.exrc.gz ,
+see http://www.cpan.org/authors/Tom_Christiansen/scripts/toms.exrc.gz ,
the standard benchmark file for vi emulators. The file runs best with nvi,
the current version of vi out of Berkeley, which incidentally can be built
-with an embedded Perl interpreter--see http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/misc.
+with an embedded Perl interpreter--see http://www.cpan.org/src/misc.
=head2 Where can I get perl-mode for emacs?
The Curses module from CPAN provides a dynamically loadable object
module interface to a curses library. A small demo can be found at the
-directory http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/Tom_Christiansen/scripts/rep;
+directory http://www.cpan.org/authors/Tom_Christiansen/scripts/rep;
this program repeats a command and updates the screen as needed, rendering
B<rep ps axu> similar to B<top>.
Tk is a completely Perl-based, object-oriented interface to the Tk toolkit
that doesn't force you to use Tcl just to get at Tk. Sx is an interface
to the Athena Widget set. Both are available from CPAN. See the
-directory http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-category/08_User_Interfaces/
+directory http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-category/08_User_Interfaces/
Invaluable for Perl/Tk programming are the Perl/Tk FAQ at
http://w4.lns.cornell.edu/%7Epvhp/ptk/ptkTOC.html , the Perl/Tk Reference
Guide available at
-http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/authors/Stephen_O_Lidie/ , and the
+http://www.cpan.org/authors/Stephen_O_Lidie/ , and the
online manpages at
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/%7Eamundson/perl/perltk/toc.html .
=head2 How can I generate simple menus without using CGI or Tk?
-The http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/SKUNZ/perlmenu.v4.0.tar.gz
+The http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/SKUNZ/perlmenu.v4.0.tar.gz
module, which is curses-based, can help with this.
-=head2 What is undump?
-
-See the next question on ``How can I make my Perl program run faster?''
-
=head2 How can I make my Perl program run faster?
The best way to do this is to come up with a better algorithm. This
and on the way you write your CGI programs, so investigate them with
care.
-See http://www.perl.com/CPAN/modules/by-category/15_World_Wide_Web_HTML_HTTP_CGI/ .
+See http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-category/15_World_Wide_Web_HTML_HTTP_CGI/ .
A non-free, commercial product, ``The Velocity Engine for Perl'',
(http://www.binevolve.com/ or http://www.binevolve.com/velocigen/ )
print "Hello world\n"
(then Run "Myscript" or Shift-Command-R)
+ # MPW
+ perl -e 'print "Hello world\n"'
+
# VMS
perl -e "print ""Hello world\n"""
Using qq(), q(), and qx(), instead of "double quotes", 'single
quotes', and `backticks`, may make one-liners easier to write.
-There is no general solution to all of this. It is a mess, pure and
-simple. Sucks to be away from Unix, huh? :-)
+There is no general solution to all of this. It is a mess.
[Some of this answer was contributed by Kenneth Albanowski.]
see the two especially dedicated to web stuff in the question on
books. For problems and questions related to the web, like ``Why
do I get 500 Errors'' or ``Why doesn't it run from the browser right
-when it runs fine on the command line'', see these sources:
-
- WWW Security FAQ
- http://www.w3.org/Security/Faq/
+when it runs fine on the command line'', see the troubleshooting
+guides and references in L<perlfaq9> or in the CGI MetaFAQ:
- Web FAQ
- http://www.boutell.com/faq/
-
- CGI FAQ
- http://www.webthing.com/tutorials/cgifaq.html
-
- HTTP Spec
- http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Protocols/HTTP/
-
- HTML Spec
- http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/
- http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/MarkUp/
-
- CGI Spec
- http://www.w3.org/CGI/
-
- CGI Security FAQ
- http://www.go2net.com/people/paulp/cgi-security/safe-cgi.txt
+ http://www.perl.org/CGI_MetaFAQ.html
=head2 Where can I learn about object-oriented Perl programming?
A good place to start is L<perltoot>, and you can use L<perlobj>,
-L<perlboot>, and L<perlbot> for reference. Perltoot didn't come out
-until the 5.004 release; you can get a copy (in pod, html, or
-postscript) from http://www.perl.com/CPAN/doc/FMTEYEWTK/ .
+L<perlboot>, L<perltoot>, L<perltooc>, and L<perlbot> for reference.
+(If you are using really old Perl, you may not have all of these,
+try http://www.perldoc.com/ , but consider upgrading your perl.)
+
+A good book on OO on Perl is the "Object-Oriented Perl"
+by Damian Conway from Manning Publications,
+http://www.manning.com/Conway/index.html
=head2 Where can I learn about linking C with Perl? [h2xs, xsubpp]
fail, see L<perlbug> and send a bug report with the output of
C<make test TEST_VERBOSE=1> along with C<perl -V>.
-=head2 When I tried to run my script, I got this message. What does it
-mean?
+=head2 When I tried to run my script, I got this message. What does it mean?
A complete list of Perl's error messages and warnings with explanatory
text can be found in L<perldiag>. You can also use the splain program
=head1 AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
-Copyright (c) 1997-1999 Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington.
+Copyright (c) 1997-2002 Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington.
All rights reserved.
This documentation is free; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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