# ...
}
+If VARIABLE is a hash, it chomps the hash's values, but not its keys.
+
You can actually chomp anything that's an lvalue, including an assignment:
chomp($cwd = `pwd`);
#...
}
+If VARIABLE is a hash, it chops the hash's values, but not its keys.
+
You can actually chop anything that's an lvalue, including an assignment:
chop($cwd = `pwd`);
it, or else see L</select> above. The Time::HiRes module from CPAN
may also help.
-See also the POSIX module's C<sigpause> function.
+See also the POSIX module's C<pause> function.
=item socket SOCKET,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL
h interpret integer as C type "short" or "unsigned short"
If no flags, interpret integer as C type "int" or "unsigned"
+Perl supports parameter ordering, in other words, fetching the
+parameters in some explicitly specified "random" ordering as opposed
+to the default implicit sequential ordering. The syntax is, instead
+of the C<%> and C<*>, to use C<%>I<digits>C<$> and C<*>I<digits>C<$>,
+where the I<digits> is the wanted index, from one upwards. For example:
+
+ printf "%2\$d %1\$d\n", 12, 34; # will print "34 12\n"
+ printf "%*2\$d\n", 12, 3; # will print " 12\n"
+
+Note that using the reordering syntax does not interfere with the usual
+implicit sequential fetching of the parameters:
+
+ printf "%2\$d %d\n", 12, 34; # will print "34 12\n"
+ printf "%2\$d %d %d\n", 12, 34; # will print "34 12 34\n"
+ printf "%3\$d %d %d\n", 12, 34, 56; # will print "56 12 34\n"
+ printf "%2\$*3\$d %d\n", 12, 34, 3; # will print " 34 12\n"
+ printf "%*3\$2\$d %d\n", 12, 34, 3; # will print " 34 12\n"
+
There are also two Perl-specific flags:
- V interpret integer as Perl's standard integer type
- v interpret string as a vector of integers, output as
- numbers separated either by dots, or by an arbitrary
- string received from the argument list when the flag
- is preceded by C<*>
+ V interpret integer as Perl's standard integer type
+ v interpret string as a vector of integers, output as
+ numbers separated either by dots, or by an arbitrary
+ string received from the argument list when the flag
+ is preceded by C<*>
Where a number would appear in the flags, an asterisk (C<*>) may be
used instead, in which case Perl uses the next item in the parameter
FIRSTKEY this
NEXTKEY this, lastkey
DESTROY this
+ UNTIE this
A class implementing an ordinary array should have the following methods:
SPLICE this, offset, length, LIST
EXTEND this, count
DESTROY this
+ UNTIE this
A class implementing a file handle should have the following methods:
WRITE this, scalar, length, offset
PRINT this, LIST
PRINTF this, format, LIST
+ BINMODE this
+ EOF this
+ FILENO this
+ SEEK this, position, whence
+ TELL this
+ OPEN this, mode, LIST
CLOSE this
DESTROY this
+ UNTIE this
A class implementing a scalar should have the following methods:
FETCH this,
STORE this, value
DESTROY this
+ UNTIE this
Not all methods indicated above need be implemented. See L<perltie>,
L<Tie::Hash>, L<Tie::Array>, L<Tie::Scalar>, and L<Tie::Handle>.
extend the string with sufficiently many zero bytes. It is an error
to try to write off the beginning of the string (i.e. negative OFFSET).
+The string should not contain any character with the value > 255 (which
+can only happen if you're using UTF8 encoding). If it does, it will be
+treated as something which is not UTF8 encoded. When the C<vec> was
+assigned to, other parts of your program will also no longer consider the
+string to be UTF8 encoded. In other words, if you do have such characters
+in your string, vec() will operate on the actual byte string, and not the
+conceptual character string.
+
Strings created with C<vec> can also be manipulated with the logical
operators C<|>, C<&>, C<^>, and C<~>. These operators will assume a bit
vector operation is desired when both operands are strings.