Have you looked at CPAN (see L<perlfaq2>)? The chances are that
someone has already written a module that can solve your problem.
-Have you read the appropriate man pages? Here's a brief index:
+Have you read the appropriate manpages? Here's a brief index:
Basics perldata, perlvar, perlsyn, perlop, perlsub
Execution perlrun, perldebug
Various http://www.perl.com/CPAN/doc/FMTEYEWTK/index.html
(not a man-page but still useful)
-A crude table of contents for the Perl man page set is found in L<perltoc>.
+A crude table of contents for the Perl manpage set is found in L<perltoc>.
=head2 How can I use Perl interactively?
The typical approach uses the Perl debugger, described in the
-perldebug(1) man page, on an ``empty'' program, like this:
+perldebug(1) manpage, on an ``empty'' program, like this:
perl -de 42