+# !!!!!!! DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE !!!!!!!
+# This file is autogenerated by buildtoc from all the other pods.
+# Edit those files and run buildtoc --build-toc to effect changes.
+
=head1 NAME
perltoc - perl documentation table of contents
=back
-=head2 perlfaq - frequently asked questions about Perl ($Date: 2003/01/31
-17:37:17 $)
+=head2 perlreftut - Mark's very short tutorial about references
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Who Needs Complicated Data Structures?
+
+=item The Solution
+
+=item Syntax
+
=over 4
-=item Where to get the perlfaq
+=item Making References
-=item How to contribute to the perlfaq
+=item Using References
-=item What will happen if you mail your Perl programming problems to the
-authors
+=item An Example
+
+=item Arrow Rule
=back
-=item Credits
+=item Solution
-=item Author and Copyright Information
+=item The Rest
+
+=item Summary
+
+=item Credits
=over 4
-=item Bundled Distributions
+=item Distribution Conditions
-=item Disclaimer
+=back
=back
-=item Table of Contents
+=head2 perldsc - Perl Data Structures Cookbook
-perlfaq - this document, perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl, perlfaq2
-- Obtaining and Learning about Perl, perlfaq3 - Programming Tools, perlfaq4
-- Data Manipulation, perlfaq5 - Files and Formats, perlfaq6 - Regular
-Expressions, perlfaq7 - General Perl Language Issues, perlfaq8 - System
-Interaction, perlfaq9 - Networking
+=over 4
-=item The Questions
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=over 4
+arrays of arrays, hashes of arrays, arrays of hashes, hashes of hashes,
+more elaborate constructs
-=item L<perlfaq1>: General Questions About Perl
+=item REFERENCES
-=item L<perlfaq2>: Obtaining and Learning about Perl
+=item COMMON MISTAKES
-=item L<perlfaq3>: Programming Tools
+=item CAVEAT ON PRECEDENCE
-=item L<perlfaq4>: Data Manipulation
+=item WHY YOU SHOULD ALWAYS C<use strict>
-=item L<perlfaq5>: Files and Formats
+=item DEBUGGING
-=item L<perlfaq6>: Regular Expressions
+=item CODE EXAMPLES
-=item L<perlfaq7>: General Perl Language Issues
+=item ARRAYS OF ARRAYS
-=item L<perlfaq8>: System Interaction
+=over 4
-=item L<perlfaq9>: Networking
+=item Declaration of an ARRAY OF ARRAYS
-=back
+=item Generation of an ARRAY OF ARRAYS
+
+=item Access and Printing of an ARRAY OF ARRAYS
=back
-=head2 perlbook - Perl book information
+=item HASHES OF ARRAYS
=over 4
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Declaration of a HASH OF ARRAYS
+
+=item Generation of a HASH OF ARRAYS
+
+=item Access and Printing of a HASH OF ARRAYS
=back
-=head2 perlsyn - Perl syntax
+=item ARRAYS OF HASHES
=over 4
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Declaration of an ARRAY OF HASHES
-=over 4
+=item Generation of an ARRAY OF HASHES
-=item Declarations
+=item Access and Printing of an ARRAY OF HASHES
-=item Comments
+=back
-=item Simple Statements
+=item HASHES OF HASHES
-=item Compound Statements
+=over 4
-=item Loop Control
+=item Declaration of a HASH OF HASHES
-=item For Loops
+=item Generation of a HASH OF HASHES
-=item Foreach Loops
+=item Access and Printing of a HASH OF HASHES
-=item Basic BLOCKs and Switch Statements
+=back
-=item Goto
+=item MORE ELABORATE RECORDS
-=item PODs: Embedded Documentation
+=over 4
-=item Plain Old Comments (Not!)
+=item Declaration of MORE ELABORATE RECORDS
+
+=item Declaration of a HASH OF COMPLEX RECORDS
+
+=item Generation of a HASH OF COMPLEX RECORDS
=back
+=item Database Ties
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
=back
-=head2 perldata - Perl data types
+=head2 perllol - Manipulating Arrays of Arrays in Perl
=over 4
=over 4
-=item Variable names
-
-=item Context
-
-=item Scalar values
-
-=item Scalar value constructors
+=item Declaration and Access of Arrays of Arrays
-=item List value constructors
+=item Growing Your Own
-=item Subscripts
+=item Access and Printing
=item Slices
-=item Typeglobs and Filehandles
-
=back
=item SEE ALSO
+=item AUTHOR
+
=back
-=head2 perlop - Perl operators and precedence
+=head2 perlrequick - Perl regular expressions quick start
=over 4
-=item SYNOPSIS
-
=item DESCRIPTION
+=item The Guide
+
=over 4
-=item Terms and List Operators (Leftward)
+=item Simple word matching
-=item The Arrow Operator
+=item Using character classes
-=item Auto-increment and Auto-decrement
+=item Matching this or that
-=item Exponentiation
+=item Grouping things and hierarchical matching
-=item Symbolic Unary Operators
+=item Extracting matches
-=item Binding Operators
+=item Matching repetitions
-=item Multiplicative Operators
+=item More matching
-=item Additive Operators
+=item Search and replace
-=item Shift Operators
+=item The split operator
-=item Named Unary Operators
+=back
-=item Relational Operators
+=item BUGS
-=item Equality Operators
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item Bitwise And
+=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
-=item Bitwise Or and Exclusive Or
+=over 4
-=item C-style Logical And
+=item Acknowledgments
-=item C-style Logical Or
+=back
-=item C-style Logical Defined-Or
+=back
-=item Range Operators
+=head2 perlretut - Perl regular expressions tutorial
-=item Conditional Operator
+=over 4
-=item Assignment Operators
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Comma Operator
+=item Part 1: The basics
-=item List Operators (Rightward)
+=over 4
-=item Logical Not
+=item Simple word matching
-=item Logical And
+=item Using character classes
-=item Logical or, Defined or, and Exclusive Or
+=item Matching this or that
-=item C Operators Missing From Perl
+=item Grouping things and hierarchical matching
-unary &, unary *, (TYPE)
+=item Extracting matches
-=item Quote and Quote-like Operators
+=item Matching repetitions
-=item Regexp Quote-Like Operators
+=item Building a regexp
-?PATTERN?, m/PATTERN/cgimosx, /PATTERN/cgimosx, q/STRING/, C<'STRING'>,
-qq/STRING/, "STRING", qr/STRING/imosx, qx/STRING/, `STRING`, qw/STRING/,
-s/PATTERN/REPLACEMENT/egimosx, tr/SEARCHLIST/REPLACEMENTLIST/cds,
-y/SEARCHLIST/REPLACEMENTLIST/cds, <<EOF
+=item Using regular expressions in Perl
-=item Gory details of parsing quoted constructs
+=back
-Finding the end, Removal of backslashes before delimiters, Interpolation,
-C<<<'EOF'>, C<m''>, C<s'''>, C<tr///>, C<y///>, C<''>, C<q//>, C<"">,
-C<``>, C<qq//>, C<qx//>, C<< <file*glob> >>, C<?RE?>, C</RE/>, C<m/RE/>,
-C<s/RE/foo/>,, Interpolation of regular expressions, Optimization of
-regular expressions
+=item Part 2: Power tools
-=item I/O Operators
+=over 4
-=item Constant Folding
+=item More on characters, strings, and character classes
-=item Bitwise String Operators
+=item Compiling and saving regular expressions
-=item Integer Arithmetic
+=item Embedding comments and modifiers in a regular expression
-=item Floating-point Arithmetic
+=item Non-capturing groupings
-=item Bigger Numbers
+=item Looking ahead and looking behind
-=back
+=item Using independent subexpressions to prevent backtracking
-=back
+=item Conditional expressions
-=head2 perlsub - Perl subroutines
+=item A bit of magic: executing Perl code in a regular expression
-=over 4
+=item Pragmas and debugging
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=back
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item BUGS
-=over 4
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item Private Variables via my()
+=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
-=item Persistent Private Variables
+=over 4
-=item Temporary Values via local()
+=item Acknowledgments
-=item Lvalue subroutines
+=back
-Lvalue subroutines are EXPERIMENTAL
+=back
-=item Passing Symbol Table Entries (typeglobs)
+=head2 perlboot - Beginner's Object-Oriented Tutorial
-=item When to Still Use local()
+=over 4
-=item Pass by Reference
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Prototypes
+=over 4
-=item Constant Functions
+=item If we could talk to the animals...
-=item Overriding Built-in Functions
+=item Introducing the method invocation arrow
-=item Autoloading
+=item Invoking a barnyard
-=item Subroutine Attributes
-
-=back
+=item The extra parameter of method invocation
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item Calling a second method to simplify things
-=back
+=item Inheriting the windpipes
-=head2 perlfunc - Perl builtin functions
+=item A few notes about @ISA
-=over 4
+=item Overriding the methods
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Starting the search from a different place
-=over 4
+=item The SUPER way of doing things
-=item Perl Functions by Category
+=item Where we're at so far...
-Functions for SCALARs or strings, Regular expressions and pattern matching,
-Numeric functions, Functions for real @ARRAYs, Functions for list data,
-Functions for real %HASHes, Input and output functions, Functions for fixed
-length data or records, Functions for filehandles, files, or directories,
-Keywords related to the control flow of your perl program, Keywords related
-to scoping, Miscellaneous functions, Functions for processes and process
-groups, Keywords related to perl modules, Keywords related to classes and
-object-orientedness, Low-level socket functions, System V interprocess
-communication functions, Fetching user and group info, Fetching network
-info, Time-related functions, Functions new in perl5, Functions obsoleted
-in perl5
+=item A horse is a horse, of course of course -- or is it?
-=item Portability
+=item Invoking an instance method
-=item Alphabetical Listing of Perl Functions
+=item Accessing the instance data
--I<X> FILEHANDLE, -I<X> EXPR, -I<X>, abs VALUE, abs, accept
-NEWSOCKET,GENERICSOCKET, alarm SECONDS, alarm, atan2 Y,X, bind SOCKET,NAME,
-binmode FILEHANDLE, LAYER, binmode FILEHANDLE, bless REF,CLASSNAME, bless
-REF, caller EXPR, caller, chdir EXPR, chmod LIST, chomp VARIABLE, chomp(
-LIST ), chomp, chop VARIABLE, chop( LIST ), chop, chown LIST, chr NUMBER,
-chr, chroot FILENAME, chroot, close FILEHANDLE, close, closedir DIRHANDLE,
-connect SOCKET,NAME, continue BLOCK, cos EXPR, cos, crypt PLAINTEXT,SALT,
-dbmclose HASH, dbmopen HASH,DBNAME,MASK, defined EXPR, defined, delete
-EXPR, die LIST, do BLOCK, do SUBROUTINE(LIST), do EXPR, dump LABEL, dump,
-each HASH, eof FILEHANDLE, eof (), eof, eval EXPR, eval BLOCK, exec LIST,
-exec PROGRAM LIST, exists EXPR, exit EXPR, exp EXPR, exp, fcntl
-FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, fileno FILEHANDLE, flock FILEHANDLE,OPERATION,
-fork, format, formline PICTURE,LIST, getc FILEHANDLE, getc, getlogin,
-getpeername SOCKET, getpgrp PID, getppid, getpriority WHICH,WHO, getpwnam
-NAME, getgrnam NAME, gethostbyname NAME, getnetbyname NAME, getprotobyname
-NAME, getpwuid UID, getgrgid GID, getservbyname NAME,PROTO, gethostbyaddr
-ADDR,ADDRTYPE, getnetbyaddr ADDR,ADDRTYPE, getprotobynumber NUMBER,
-getservbyport PORT,PROTO, getpwent, getgrent, gethostent, getnetent,
-getprotoent, getservent, setpwent, setgrent, sethostent STAYOPEN, setnetent
-STAYOPEN, setprotoent STAYOPEN, setservent STAYOPEN, endpwent, endgrent,
-endhostent, endnetent, endprotoent, endservent, getsockname SOCKET,
-getsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME, glob EXPR, glob, gmtime EXPR, goto LABEL,
-goto EXPR, goto &NAME, grep BLOCK LIST, grep EXPR,LIST, hex EXPR, hex,
-import, index STR,SUBSTR,POSITION, index STR,SUBSTR, int EXPR, int, ioctl
-FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, join EXPR,LIST, keys HASH, kill SIGNAL, LIST,
-last LABEL, last, lc EXPR, lc, lcfirst EXPR, lcfirst, length EXPR, length,
-link OLDFILE,NEWFILE, listen SOCKET,QUEUESIZE, local EXPR, localtime EXPR,
-lock THING, log EXPR, log, lstat EXPR, lstat, m//, map BLOCK LIST, map
-EXPR,LIST, mkdir FILENAME,MASK, mkdir FILENAME, msgctl ID,CMD,ARG, msgget
-KEY,FLAGS, msgrcv ID,VAR,SIZE,TYPE,FLAGS, msgsnd ID,MSG,FLAGS, my EXPR, my
-TYPE EXPR, my EXPR : ATTRS, my TYPE EXPR : ATTRS, next LABEL, next, no
-Module VERSION LIST, no Module VERSION, no Module LIST, no Module, oct
-EXPR, oct, open FILEHANDLE,EXPR, open FILEHANDLE,MODE,EXPR, open
-FILEHANDLE,MODE,EXPR,LIST, open FILEHANDLE,MODE,REFERENCE, open FILEHANDLE,
-opendir DIRHANDLE,EXPR, ord EXPR, ord, our EXPR, our EXPR TYPE, our EXPR :
-ATTRS, our TYPE EXPR : ATTRS, pack TEMPLATE,LIST, package NAMESPACE,
-package, pipe READHANDLE,WRITEHANDLE, pop ARRAY, pop, pos SCALAR, pos,
-print FILEHANDLE LIST, print LIST, print, printf FILEHANDLE FORMAT, LIST,
-printf FORMAT, LIST, prototype FUNCTION, push ARRAY,LIST, q/STRING/,
-qq/STRING/, qr/STRING/, qx/STRING/, qw/STRING/, quotemeta EXPR, quotemeta,
-rand EXPR, rand, read FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET, read
-FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH, readdir DIRHANDLE, readline EXPR, readlink EXPR,
-readlink, readpipe EXPR, recv SOCKET,SCALAR,LENGTH,FLAGS, redo LABEL, redo,
-ref EXPR, ref, rename OLDNAME,NEWNAME, require VERSION, require EXPR,
-require, reset EXPR, reset, return EXPR, return, reverse LIST, rewinddir
-DIRHANDLE, rindex STR,SUBSTR,POSITION, rindex STR,SUBSTR, rmdir FILENAME,
-rmdir, s///, scalar EXPR, seek FILEHANDLE,POSITION,WHENCE, seekdir
-DIRHANDLE,POS, select FILEHANDLE, select, select RBITS,WBITS,EBITS,TIMEOUT,
-semctl ID,SEMNUM,CMD,ARG, semget KEY,NSEMS,FLAGS, semop KEY,OPSTRING, send
-SOCKET,MSG,FLAGS,TO, send SOCKET,MSG,FLAGS, setpgrp PID,PGRP, setpriority
-WHICH,WHO,PRIORITY, setsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME,OPTVAL, shift ARRAY,
-shift, shmctl ID,CMD,ARG, shmget KEY,SIZE,FLAGS, shmread ID,VAR,POS,SIZE,
-shmwrite ID,STRING,POS,SIZE, shutdown SOCKET,HOW, sin EXPR, sin, sleep
-EXPR, sleep, socket SOCKET,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL, socketpair
-SOCKET1,SOCKET2,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL, sort SUBNAME LIST, sort BLOCK LIST,
-sort LIST, splice ARRAY,OFFSET,LENGTH,LIST, splice ARRAY,OFFSET,LENGTH,
-splice ARRAY,OFFSET, splice ARRAY, split /PATTERN/,EXPR,LIMIT, split
-/PATTERN/,EXPR, split /PATTERN/, split, sprintf FORMAT, LIST, format
-parameter index, flags, vector flag, (minimum) width, precision, or maximum
-width, size, order of arguments, sqrt EXPR, sqrt, srand EXPR, srand, stat
-FILEHANDLE, stat EXPR, stat, study SCALAR, study, sub NAME BLOCK, sub NAME
-(PROTO) BLOCK, sub NAME : ATTRS BLOCK, sub NAME (PROTO) : ATTRS BLOCK,
-substr EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH,REPLACEMENT, substr EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH, substr
-EXPR,OFFSET, symlink OLDFILE,NEWFILE, syscall LIST, sysopen
-FILEHANDLE,FILENAME,MODE, sysopen FILEHANDLE,FILENAME,MODE,PERMS, sysread
-FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET, sysread FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH, sysseek
-FILEHANDLE,POSITION,WHENCE, system LIST, system PROGRAM LIST, syswrite
-FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET, syswrite FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,
-syswrite FILEHANDLE,SCALAR, tell FILEHANDLE, tell, telldir DIRHANDLE, tie
-VARIABLE,CLASSNAME,LIST, tied VARIABLE, time, times, tr///, truncate
-FILEHANDLE,LENGTH, truncate EXPR,LENGTH, uc EXPR, uc, ucfirst EXPR,
-ucfirst, umask EXPR, umask, undef EXPR, undef, unlink LIST, unlink, unpack
-TEMPLATE,EXPR, unpack TEMPLATE, untie VARIABLE, unshift ARRAY,LIST, use
-Module VERSION LIST, use Module VERSION, use Module LIST, use Module, use
-VERSION, utime LIST, values HASH, vec EXPR,OFFSET,BITS, wait, waitpid
-PID,FLAGS, wantarray, warn LIST, write FILEHANDLE, write EXPR, write, y///
+=item How to build a horse
-=back
+=item Inheriting the constructor
-=back
+=item Making a method work with either classes or instances
-=head2 perlreftut - Mark's very short tutorial about references
+=item Adding parameters to a method
-=over 4
+=item More interesting instances
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item A horse of a different color
-=item Who Needs Complicated Data Structures?
+=item Summary
-=item The Solution
+=back
-=item Syntax
+=item SEE ALSO
-=over 4
+=item COPYRIGHT
-=item Making References
+=back
-=item Using References
+=head2 perltoot - Tom's object-oriented tutorial for perl
-=item An Example
+=over 4
-=item Arrow Rule
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=back
+=item Creating a Class
-=item Solution
+=over 4
-=item The Rest
+=item Object Representation
-=item Summary
+=item Class Interface
-=item Credits
+=item Constructors and Instance Methods
-=over 4
+=item Planning for the Future: Better Constructors
-=item Distribution Conditions
+=item Destructors
-=back
+=item Other Object Methods
=back
-=head2 perldsc - Perl Data Structures Cookbook
+=item Class Data
=over 4
-=item DESCRIPTION
-
-arrays of arrays, hashes of arrays, arrays of hashes, hashes of hashes,
-more elaborate constructs
-
-=item REFERENCES
+=item Accessing Class Data
-=item COMMON MISTAKES
+=item Debugging Methods
-=item CAVEAT ON PRECEDENCE
+=item Class Destructors
-=item WHY YOU SHOULD ALWAYS C<use strict>
+=item Documenting the Interface
-=item DEBUGGING
+=back
-=item CODE EXAMPLES
+=item Aggregation
-=item ARRAYS OF ARRAYS
+=item Inheritance
=over 4
-=item Declaration of an ARRAY OF ARRAYS
+=item Overridden Methods
-=item Generation of an ARRAY OF ARRAYS
+=item Multiple Inheritance
-=item Access and Printing of an ARRAY OF ARRAYS
+=item UNIVERSAL: The Root of All Objects
=back
-=item HASHES OF ARRAYS
+=item Alternate Object Representations
=over 4
-=item Declaration of a HASH OF ARRAYS
-
-=item Generation of a HASH OF ARRAYS
+=item Arrays as Objects
-=item Access and Printing of a HASH OF ARRAYS
+=item Closures as Objects
=back
-=item ARRAYS OF HASHES
+=item AUTOLOAD: Proxy Methods
=over 4
-=item Declaration of an ARRAY OF HASHES
-
-=item Generation of an ARRAY OF HASHES
+=item Autoloaded Data Methods
-=item Access and Printing of an ARRAY OF HASHES
+=item Inherited Autoloaded Data Methods
=back
-=item HASHES OF HASHES
+=item Metaclassical Tools
=over 4
-=item Declaration of a HASH OF HASHES
-
-=item Generation of a HASH OF HASHES
+=item Class::Struct
-=item Access and Printing of a HASH OF HASHES
+=item Data Members as Variables
=back
-=item MORE ELABORATE RECORDS
+=item NOTES
=over 4
-=item Declaration of MORE ELABORATE RECORDS
+=item Object Terminology
-=item Declaration of a HASH OF COMPLEX RECORDS
+=back
-=item Generation of a HASH OF COMPLEX RECORDS
+=item SEE ALSO
-=back
+=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
-=item Database Ties
+=item COPYRIGHT
-=item SEE ALSO
+=over 4
-=item AUTHOR
+=item Acknowledgments
=back
-=head2 perlrequick - Perl regular expressions quick start
+=back
+
+=head2 perltooc - Tom's OO Tutorial for Class Data in Perl
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item The Guide
+=item Class Data in a Can
-=over 4
+=item Class Data as Package Variables
-=item Simple word matching
+=over 4
-=item Using character classes
+=item Putting All Your Eggs in One Basket
-=item Matching this or that
+=item Inheritance Concerns
-=item Grouping things and hierarchical matching
+=item The Eponymous Meta-Object
-=item Extracting matches
+=item Indirect References to Class Data
-=item Matching repetitions
+=item Monadic Classes
-=item More matching
+=item Translucent Attributes
-=item Search and replace
+=back
-=item The split operator
+=item Class Data as Lexical Variables
-=back
+=over 4
-=item BUGS
+=item Privacy and Responsibility
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item File-Scoped Lexicals
-=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
+=item More Inheritance Concerns
-=over 4
+=item Locking the Door and Throwing Away the Key
-=item Acknowledgments
+=item Translucency Revisited
=back
+=item NOTES
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
+
+=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
+
+=item HISTORY
+
=back
-=head2 perlpod - the Plain Old Documentation format
+=head2 perlbot - Bag'o Object Tricks (the BOT)
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=over 4
+=item OO SCALING TIPS
-=item Ordinary Paragraph
+=item INSTANCE VARIABLES
-=item Verbatim Paragraph
+=item SCALAR INSTANCE VARIABLES
-=item Command Paragraph
+=item INSTANCE VARIABLE INHERITANCE
-C<=head1 I<Heading Text>>, C<=head2 I<Heading Text>>, C<=head3 I<Heading
-Text>>, C<=head4 I<Heading Text>>, C<=over I<indentlevel>>, C<=item
-I<stuff...>>, C<=back>, C<=cut>, C<=pod>, C<=begin I<formatname>>, C<=end
-I<formatname>>, C<=for I<formatname> I<text...>>
+=item OBJECT RELATIONSHIPS
-=item Formatting Codes
+=item OVERRIDING SUPERCLASS METHODS
-C<IE<lt>textE<gt>> -- italic text, C<BE<lt>textE<gt>> -- bold text,
-C<CE<lt>codeE<gt>> -- code text, C<LE<lt>nameE<gt>> -- a hyperlink,
-C<EE<lt>escapeE<gt>> -- a character escape, C<FE<lt>filenameE<gt>> -- used
-for filenames, C<SE<lt>textE<gt>> -- text contains non-breaking spaces,
-C<XE<lt>topic nameE<gt>> -- an index entry, C<ZE<lt>E<gt>> -- a null
-(zero-effect) formatting code
+=item USING RELATIONSHIP WITH SDBM
-=item The Intent
+=item THINKING OF CODE REUSE
-=item Embedding Pods in Perl Modules
+=item CLASS CONTEXT AND THE OBJECT
-=item Hints for Writing Pod
+=item INHERITING A CONSTRUCTOR
-=back
+=item DELEGATION
=item SEE ALSO
-=item AUTHOR
-
=back
-=head2 perlpodspec - Plain Old Documentation: format specification and
-notes
+=head2 perlstyle - Perl style guide
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Pod Definitions
-
-=item Pod Commands
-
-"=head1", "=head2", "=head3", "=head4", "=pod", "=cut", "=over", "=item",
-"=back", "=begin formatname", "=end formatname", "=for formatname text..."
-
-=item Pod Formatting Codes
-
-C<IE<lt>textE<gt>> -- italic text, C<BE<lt>textE<gt>> -- bold text,
-C<CE<lt>codeE<gt>> -- code text, C<FE<lt>filenameE<gt>> -- style for
-filenames, C<XE<lt>topic nameE<gt>> -- an index entry, C<ZE<lt>E<gt>> -- a
-null (zero-effect) formatting code, C<LE<lt>nameE<gt>> -- a hyperlink,
-C<EE<lt>escapeE<gt>> -- a character escape, C<SE<lt>textE<gt>> -- text
-contains non-breaking spaces
-
-=item Notes on Implementing Pod Processors
-
-=item About LE<lt>...E<gt> Codes
+=back
-First:, Second:, Third:, Fourth:, Fifth:, Sixth:
+=head2 perlcheat - Perl 5 Cheat Sheet
-=item About =over...=back Regions
+=over 4
-=item About Data Paragraphs and "=begin/=end" Regions
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item SEE ALSO
+=over 4
-=item AUTHOR
+=item The sheet
=back
-=head2 perlstyle - Perl style guide
+=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
-=over 4
+=item AUTHOR
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
=back
-=head2 perlrun - how to execute the Perl interpreter
+=head2 perldebtut - Perl debugging tutorial
=over 4
-=item SYNOPSIS
-
=item DESCRIPTION
-=over 4
+=item use strict
-=item #! and quoting on non-Unix systems
+=item Looking at data and -w and v
-OS/2, MS-DOS, Win95/NT, Macintosh, VMS
+=item help
-=item Location of Perl
+=item Stepping through code
-=item Command Switches
+=item Placeholder for a, w, t, T
-B<-0>[I<octal/hexadecimal>], B<-A [I<assertions>]>, B<-a>, B<-C
-[I<number/list>]>, B<-c>, B<-d>, B<-d:>I<foo[=bar,baz]>, B<-D>I<letters>,
-B<-D>I<number>, B<-e> I<commandline>, B<-F>I<pattern>, B<-h>,
-B<-i>[I<extension>], B<-I>I<directory>, B<-l>[I<octnum>],
-B<-m>[B<->]I<module>, B<-M>[B<->]I<module>, B<-M>[B<->]I<'module ...'>,
-B<-[mM]>[B<->]I<module=arg[,arg]...>, B<-n>, B<-p>, B<-P>, B<-s>, B<-S>,
-B<-t>, B<-T>, B<-u>, B<-U>, B<-v>, B<-V>, B<-V:>I<name>, B<-w>, B<-W>,
-B<-X>, B<-x> I<directory>
+=item REGULAR EXPRESSIONS
-=back
+=item OUTPUT TIPS
-=item ENVIRONMENT
+=item CGI
-HOME, LOGDIR, PATH, PERL5LIB, PERL5OPT, PERLIO, :bytes, :crlf, :mmap,
-:perlio, :pop, :raw, :stdio, :unix, :utf8, :win32, PERLIO_DEBUG, PERLLIB,
-PERL5DB, PERL5SHELL (specific to the Win32 port), PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS,
-PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL, PERL_ENCODING, PERL_HASH_SEED, PERL_HASH_SEED_DEBUG,
-PERL_ROOT (specific to the VMS port), PERL_SIGNALS, PERL_UNICODE, SYS$LOGIN
-(specific to the VMS port)
+=item GUIs
-=back
+=item SUMMARY
-=head2 perldiag - various Perl diagnostics
+=item SEE ALSO
-=over 4
+=item AUTHOR
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item CONTRIBUTORS
=back
-=head2 perllexwarn - Perl Lexical Warnings
+=head2 perlfaq - frequently asked questions about Perl ($Date: 2004/10/05
+22:15:44 $)
=over 4
=over 4
-=item Default Warnings and Optional Warnings
-
-=item What's wrong with B<-w> and C<$^W>
-
-=item Controlling Warnings from the Command Line
-
-B<-w>, B<-W>, B<-X>
-
-=item Backward Compatibility
-
-=item Category Hierarchy
+=item Where to get the perlfaq
-=item Fatal Warnings
+=item How to contribute to the perlfaq
-=item Reporting Warnings from a Module
+=item What will happen if you mail your Perl programming problems to the
+authors
=back
-=item TODO
+=item Credits
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item Author and Copyright Information
-=item AUTHOR
+=over 4
-=back
+=item Bundled Distributions
-=head2 perldebtut - Perl debugging tutorial
+=item Disclaimer
-=over 4
+=back
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Table of Contents
-=item use strict
+perlfaq - this document, perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl, perlfaq2
+- Obtaining and Learning about Perl, perlfaq3 - Programming Tools, perlfaq4
+- Data Manipulation, perlfaq5 - Files and Formats, perlfaq6 - Regular
+Expressions, perlfaq7 - General Perl Language Issues, perlfaq8 - System
+Interaction, perlfaq9 - Networking
-=item Looking at data and -w and v
+=item The Questions
-=item help
+=over 4
-=item Stepping through code
+=item L<perlfaq1>: General Questions About Perl
-=item Placeholder for a, w, t, T
+=item L<perlfaq2>: Obtaining and Learning about Perl
-=item REGULAR EXPRESSIONS
+=item L<perlfaq3>: Programming Tools
-=item OUTPUT TIPS
+=item L<perlfaq4>: Data Manipulation
-=item CGI
+=item L<perlfaq5>: Files and Formats
-=item GUIs
+=item L<perlfaq6>: Regular Expressions
-=item SUMMARY
+=item L<perlfaq7>: General Perl Language Issues
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item L<perlfaq8>: System Interaction
-=item AUTHOR
+=item L<perlfaq9>: Networking
-=item CONTRIBUTORS
+=back
=back
-=head2 perldebug - Perl debugging
+=head2 perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.15 $, $Date:
+2004/10/11 05:06:29 $)
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item The Perl Debugger
-
=over 4
-=item Debugger Commands
+=item What is Perl?
-h, h [command], h h, p expr, x [maxdepth] expr, V [pkg [vars]], X [vars], y
-[level [vars]], T, s [expr], n [expr], r, <CR>, c [line|sub], l, l
-min+incr, l min-max, l line, l subname, -, v [line], f filename, /pattern/,
-?pattern?, L [abw], S [[!]regex], t, t expr, b, b [line] [condition], b
-subname [condition], b postpone subname [condition], b load filename, b
-compile subname, B line, B *, a [line] command, A line, A *, w expr, W
-expr, W *, o, o booloption .., o anyoption? .., o option=value .., < ?, < [
-command ], < *, << command, > ?, > command, > *, >> command, { ?, { [
-command ], { *, {{ command, ! number, ! -number, ! pattern, !! cmd, source
-file, H -number, q or ^D, R, |dbcmd, ||dbcmd, command, m expr, M, man
-[manpage]
+=item Who supports Perl? Who develops it? Why is it free?
-=item Configurable Options
+=item Which version of Perl should I use?
-C<recallCommand>, C<ShellBang>, C<pager>, C<tkRunning>, C<signalLevel>,
-C<warnLevel>, C<dieLevel>, C<AutoTrace>, C<LineInfo>, C<inhibit_exit>,
-C<PrintRet>, C<ornaments>, C<frame>, C<maxTraceLen>, C<windowSize>,
-C<arrayDepth>, C<hashDepth>, C<dumpDepth>, C<compactDump>, C<veryCompact>,
-C<globPrint>, C<DumpDBFiles>, C<DumpPackages>, C<DumpReused>, C<quote>,
-C<HighBit>, C<undefPrint>, C<UsageOnly>, C<TTY>, C<noTTY>, C<ReadLine>,
-C<NonStop>
+=item What are perl4 and perl5?
-=item Debugger input/output
+=item What is Ponie?
-Prompt, Multiline commands, Stack backtrace, Line Listing Format, Frame
-listing
+=item What is perl6?
-=item Debugging compile-time statements
+=item How stable is Perl?
-=item Debugger Customization
+=item Is Perl difficult to learn?
-=item Readline Support
+=item How does Perl compare with other languages like Java, Python, REXX,
+Scheme, or Tcl?
-=item Editor Support for Debugging
+=item Can I do [task] in Perl?
-=item The Perl Profiler
+=item When shouldn't I program in Perl?
-=back
+=item What's the difference between "perl" and "Perl"?
-=item Debugging regular expressions
+=item Is it a Perl program or a Perl script?
-=item Debugging memory usage
+=item What is a JAPH?
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item Where can I get a list of Larry Wall witticisms?
-=item BUGS
+=item How can I convince my sysadmin/supervisor/employees to use version
+5/5.6.1/Perl instead of some other language?
=back
-=head2 perlvar - Perl predefined variables
+=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.29 $,
+$Date: 2004/10/25 18:37:23 $)
=over 4
=over 4
-=item Predefined Names
+=item What machines support Perl? Where do I get it?
-$ARG, $_, $a, $b, $<I<digits>>, $MATCH, $&, $PREMATCH, $`, $POSTMATCH, $',
-$LAST_PAREN_MATCH, $+, $^N, @LAST_MATCH_END, @+,
-HANDLE->input_line_number(EXPR), $INPUT_LINE_NUMBER, $NR, $,
-IO::Handle->input_record_separator(EXPR), $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR, $RS, $/,
-HANDLE->autoflush(EXPR), $OUTPUT_AUTOFLUSH, $|,
-IO::Handle->output_field_separator EXPR, $OUTPUT_FIELD_SEPARATOR, $OFS, $,,
-IO::Handle->output_record_separator EXPR, $OUTPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR, $ORS,
-$\, $LIST_SEPARATOR, $", $SUBSCRIPT_SEPARATOR, $SUBSEP, $;, $OFMT, $#,
-HANDLE->format_page_number(EXPR), $FORMAT_PAGE_NUMBER, $%,
-HANDLE->format_lines_per_page(EXPR), $FORMAT_LINES_PER_PAGE, $=,
-HANDLE->format_lines_left(EXPR), $FORMAT_LINES_LEFT, $-, @LAST_MATCH_START,
-@-, C<$`> is the same as C<substr($var, 0, $-[0])>, C<$&> is the same as
-C<substr($var, $-[0], $+[0] - $-[0])>, C<$'> is the same as C<substr($var,
-$+[0])>, C<$1> is the same as C<substr($var, $-[1], $+[1] - $-[1])>, C<$2>
-is the same as C<substr($var, $-[2], $+[2] - $-[2])>, C<$3> is the same as
-C<substr $var, $-[3], $+[3] - $-[3])>, HANDLE->format_name(EXPR),
-$FORMAT_NAME, $~, HANDLE->format_top_name(EXPR), $FORMAT_TOP_NAME, $^,
-IO::Handle->format_line_break_characters EXPR,
-$FORMAT_LINE_BREAK_CHARACTERS, $:, IO::Handle->format_formfeed EXPR,
-$FORMAT_FORMFEED, $^L, $ACCUMULATOR, $^A, $CHILD_ERROR, $?, ${^ENCODING},
-$OS_ERROR, $ERRNO, $!, %!, $EXTENDED_OS_ERROR, $^E, $EVAL_ERROR, $@,
-$PROCESS_ID, $PID, $$, $REAL_USER_ID, $UID, $<, $EFFECTIVE_USER_ID, $EUID,
-$>, $REAL_GROUP_ID, $GID, $(, $EFFECTIVE_GROUP_ID, $EGID, $),
-$PROGRAM_NAME, $0, $[, $], $COMPILING, $^C, $DEBUGGING, $^D,
-$SYSTEM_FD_MAX, $^F, $^H, %^H, $INPLACE_EDIT, $^I, $^M, $OSNAME, $^O,
-${^OPEN}, $PERLDB, $^P, 0x01, 0x02, 0x04, 0x08, 0x10, 0x20, 0x40, 0x80,
-0x100, 0x200, 0x400, $LAST_REGEXP_CODE_RESULT, $^R,
-$EXCEPTIONS_BEING_CAUGHT, $^S, $BASETIME, $^T, ${^TAINT}, ${^UNICODE},
-$PERL_VERSION, $^V, $WARNING, $^W, ${^WARNING_BITS}, $EXECUTABLE_NAME, $^X,
-ARGV, $ARGV, @ARGV, ARGVOUT, @F, @INC, @_, %INC, %ENV, $ENV{expr}, %SIG,
-$SIG{expr}
+=item How can I get a binary version of Perl?
-=item Error Indicators
+=item I don't have a C compiler on my system. How can I compile perl?
-=item Technical Note on the Syntax of Variable Names
+=item I copied the Perl binary from one machine to another, but scripts
+don't work.
-=back
+=item I grabbed the sources and tried to compile but gdbm/dynamic
+loading/malloc/linking/... failed. How do I make it work?
-=item BUGS
+=item What modules and extensions are available for Perl? What is CPAN?
+What does CPAN/src/... mean?
-=back
+=item Is there an ISO or ANSI certified version of Perl?
-=head2 perllol - Manipulating Arrays of Arrays in Perl
+=item Where can I get information on Perl?
-=over 4
+=item What are the Perl newsgroups on Usenet? Where do I post questions?
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Where should I post source code?
-=over 4
+=item Perl Books
-=item Declaration and Access of Arrays of Arrays
+References, Tutorials, Task-Oriented, Special Topics
-=item Growing Your Own
+=item Perl in Magazines
-=item Access and Printing
+=item Perl on the Net: FTP and WWW Access
-=item Slices
+=item What mailing lists are there for Perl?
-=back
+=item Archives of comp.lang.perl.misc
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item Where can I buy a commercial version of Perl?
-=item AUTHOR
+=item Where do I send bug reports?
+
+=item What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org? cpan.org?
=back
-=head2 perlopentut - tutorial on opening things in Perl
+=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlfaq3 - Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.41 $, $Date: 2004/11/03
+22:45:32 $)
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Open E<agrave> la shell
-
=over 4
-=item Simple Opens
+=item How do I do (anything)?
-=item Indirect Filehandles
+=item How can I use Perl interactively?
-=item Pipe Opens
+=item Is there a Perl shell?
-=item The Minus File
+=item How do I find which modules are installed on my system?
-=item Mixing Reads and Writes
+=item How do I debug my Perl programs?
-=item Filters
+=item How do I profile my Perl programs?
-=back
+=item How do I cross-reference my Perl programs?
-=item Open E<agrave> la C
+=item Is there a pretty-printer (formatter) for Perl?
-=over 4
+=item Is there a ctags for Perl?
-=item Permissions E<agrave> la mode
+=item Is there an IDE or Windows Perl Editor?
-=back
+Eclipse, Komodo, Open Perl IDE, OptiPerl, PerlBuilder, visiPerl+, Visual
+Perl, GNU Emacs, MicroEMACS, XEmacs, Jed, Elvis, Vile, Vim, Codewright,
+MultiEdit, SlickEdit, Bash, Ksh, Tcsh, Zsh, Affrus, Alpha, BBEdit and
+BBEdit Lite
-=item Obscure Open Tricks
+=item Where can I get Perl macros for vi?
-=over 4
+=item Where can I get perl-mode for emacs?
-=item Re-Opening Files (dups)
+=item How can I use curses with Perl?
-=item Dispelling the Dweomer
+=item How can I use X or Tk with Perl?
-=item Paths as Opens
+=item How can I generate simple menus without using CGI or Tk?
-=item Single Argument Open
+=item How can I make my Perl program run faster?
-=item Playing with STDIN and STDOUT
+=item How can I make my Perl program take less memory?
-=back
+Don't slurp!, Use map and grep selectively, Avoid unnecessary quotes and
+stringification, Pass by reference, Tie large variables to disk
-=item Other I/O Issues
+=item Is it safe to return a reference to local or lexical data?
-=over 4
+=item How can I free an array or hash so my program shrinks?
-=item Opening Non-File Files
+=item How can I make my CGI script more efficient?
-=item Opening Named Pipes
+=item How can I hide the source for my Perl program?
-=item Opening Sockets
+=item How can I compile my Perl program into byte code or C?
-=item Binary Files
+=item How can I compile Perl into Java?
-=item File Locking
+=item How can I get C<#!perl> to work on [MS-DOS,NT,...]?
-=item IO Layers
+=item Can I write useful Perl programs on the command line?
-=back
+=item Why don't Perl one-liners work on my DOS/Mac/VMS system?
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item Where can I learn about CGI or Web programming in Perl?
-=item AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT
+=item Where can I learn about object-oriented Perl programming?
-=item HISTORY
+=item Where can I learn about linking C with Perl? [h2xs, xsubpp]
-=back
+=item I've read perlembed, perlguts, etc., but I can't embed perl in
+my C program; what am I doing wrong?
-=head2 perlpacktut - tutorial on C<pack> and C<unpack>
+=item When I tried to run my script, I got this message. What does it mean?
-=over 4
+=item What's MakeMaker?
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=back
-=item The Basic Principle
+=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
-=item Packing Text
+=back
-=item Packing Numbers
+=head2 perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation ($Revision: 1.56 $, $Date: 2004/11/03
+22:47:56 $)
=over 4
-=item Integers
-
-=item Unpacking a Stack Frame
-
-=item How to Eat an Egg on a Net
-
-=item Floating point Numbers
-
-=back
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Exotic Templates
+=item Data: Numbers
=over 4
-=item Bit Strings
+=item Why am I getting long decimals (eg, 19.9499999999999) instead of the
+numbers I should be getting (eg, 19.95)?
-=item Uuencoding
+=item Why is int() broken?
-=item Doing Sums
+=item Why isn't my octal data interpreted correctly?
-=item Unicode
+=item Does Perl have a round() function? What about ceil() and floor()?
+Trig functions?
-=item Another Portable Binary Encoding
+=item How do I convert between numeric representations/bases/radixes?
-=back
+How do I convert hexadecimal into decimal, How do I convert from decimal to
+hexadecimal, How do I convert from octal to decimal, How do I convert from
+decimal to octal, How do I convert from binary to decimal, How do I convert
+from decimal to binary
-=item Template Grouping
+=item Why doesn't & work the way I want it to?
-=item Lengths and Widths
+=item How do I multiply matrices?
-=over 4
+=item How do I perform an operation on a series of integers?
-=item String Lengths
+=item How can I output Roman numerals?
-=item Dynamic Templates
+=item Why aren't my random numbers random?
-=item Counting Repetitions
+=item How do I get a random number between X and Y?
=back
-=item Packing and Unpacking C Structures
+=item Data: Dates
=over 4
-=item The Alignment Pit
-
-=item Alignment, Take 2
+=item How do I find the day or week of the year?
-=item Alignment, Take 3
+=item How do I find the current century or millennium?
-=item Pointers for How to Use Them
+=item How can I compare two dates and find the difference?
-=back
+=item How can I take a string and turn it into epoch seconds?
-=item Pack Recipes
+=item How can I find the Julian Day?
-=item Funnies Section
+=item How do I find yesterday's date?
-=item Authors
+=item Does Perl have a Year 2000 problem? Is Perl Y2K compliant?
=back
-=head2 perlretut - Perl regular expressions tutorial
+=item Data: Strings
=over 4
-=item DESCRIPTION
-
-=item Part 1: The basics
-
-=over 4
+=item How do I validate input?
-=item Simple word matching
+=item How do I unescape a string?
-=item Using character classes
+=item How do I remove consecutive pairs of characters?
-=item Matching this or that
+=item How do I expand function calls in a string?
-=item Grouping things and hierarchical matching
+=item How do I find matching/nesting anything?
-=item Extracting matches
+=item How do I reverse a string?
-=item Matching repetitions
+=item How do I expand tabs in a string?
-=item Building a regexp
+=item How do I reformat a paragraph?
-=item Using regular expressions in Perl
+=item How can I access or change N characters of a string?
-=back
+=item How do I change the Nth occurrence of something?
-=item Part 2: Power tools
+=item How can I count the number of occurrences of a substring within a
+string?
-=over 4
+=item How do I capitalize all the words on one line?
-=item More on characters, strings, and character classes
+=item How can I split a [character] delimited string except when inside
+[character]?
-=item Compiling and saving regular expressions
+=item How do I strip blank space from the beginning/end of a string?
-=item Embedding comments and modifiers in a regular expression
+=item How do I pad a string with blanks or pad a number with zeroes?
-=item Non-capturing groupings
+=item How do I extract selected columns from a string?
-=item Looking ahead and looking behind
+=item How do I find the soundex value of a string?
-=item Using independent subexpressions to prevent backtracking
+=item How can I expand variables in text strings?
-=item Conditional expressions
+=item What's wrong with always quoting "$vars"?
-=item A bit of magic: executing Perl code in a regular expression
+=item Why don't my E<lt>E<lt>HERE documents work?
-=item Pragmas and debugging
+There must be no space after the E<lt>E<lt> part, There (probably) should
+be a semicolon at the end, You can't (easily) have any space in front of
+the tag
=back
-=item BUGS
-
-=item SEE ALSO
-
-=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
+=item Data: Arrays
=over 4
-=item Acknowledgments
-
-=back
+=item What is the difference between a list and an array?
-=back
+=item What is the difference between $array[1] and @array[1]?
-=head2 perlre - Perl regular expressions
+=item How can I remove duplicate elements from a list or array?
-=over 4
+a), b), c), d), e)
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item How can I tell whether a certain element is contained in a list or
+array?
-i, m, s, x
-
-=over 4
-
-=item Regular Expressions
-
-[1], [2], [3], cntrl, graph, print, punct, xdigit
-
-=item Extended Patterns
+=item How do I compute the difference of two arrays? How do I compute the
+intersection of two arrays?
-C<(?#text)>, C<(?imsx-imsx)>, C<(?:pattern)>, C<(?imsx-imsx:pattern)>,
-C<(?=pattern)>, C<(?!pattern)>, C<(?<=pattern)>, C<(?<!pattern)>, C<(?{
-code })>, C<(??{ code })>, C<< (?>pattern) >>,
-C<(?(condition)yes-pattern|no-pattern)>, C<(?(condition)yes-pattern)>
+=item How do I test whether two arrays or hashes are equal?
-=item Backtracking
+=item How do I find the first array element for which a condition is true?
-=item Version 8 Regular Expressions
+=item How do I handle linked lists?
-=item Warning on \1 vs $1
+=item How do I handle circular lists?
-=item Repeated patterns matching zero-length substring
+=item How do I shuffle an array randomly?
-=item Combining pieces together
+=item How do I process/modify each element of an array?
-C<ST>, C<S|T>, C<S{REPEAT_COUNT}>, C<S{min,max}>, C<S{min,max}?>, C<S?>,
-C<S*>, C<S+>, C<S??>, C<S*?>, C<S+?>, C<< (?>S) >>, C<(?=S)>, C<(?<=S)>,
-C<(?!S)>, C<(?<!S)>, C<(??{ EXPR })>,
-C<(?(condition)yes-pattern|no-pattern)>
+=item How do I select a random element from an array?
-=item Creating custom RE engines
+=item How do I permute N elements of a list?
-=back
+=item How do I sort an array by (anything)?
-=item BUGS
+=item How do I manipulate arrays of bits?
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item Why does defined() return true on empty arrays and hashes?
=back
-=head2 perlreref - Perl Regular Expressions Reference
+=item Data: Hashes (Associative Arrays)
=over 4
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item How do I process an entire hash?
-=item OPERATORS
+=item What happens if I add or remove keys from a hash while iterating over
+it?
-=item SYNTAX
+=item How do I look up a hash element by value?
-=over 4
+=item How can I know how many entries are in a hash?
-=item ESCAPE SEQUENCES
+=item How do I sort a hash (optionally by value instead of key)?
-=item CHARACTER CLASSES
+=item How can I always keep my hash sorted?
-=item ANCHORS
+=item What's the difference between "delete" and "undef" with hashes?
-=item QUANTIFIERS
+=item Why don't my tied hashes make the defined/exists distinction?
-=item EXTENDED CONSTRUCTS
+=item How do I reset an each() operation part-way through?
-=back
+=item How can I get the unique keys from two hashes?
-=item VARIABLES
+=item How can I store a multidimensional array in a DBM file?
-=item FUNCTIONS
+=item How can I make my hash remember the order I put elements into it?
-=item AUTHOR
+=item Why does passing a subroutine an undefined element in a hash create
+it?
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item How can I make the Perl equivalent of a C structure/C++ class/hash or
+array of hashes or arrays?
-=item THANKS
+=item How can I use a reference as a hash key?
=back
-=head2 perlref - Perl references and nested data structures
+=item Data: Misc
=over 4
-=item NOTE
-
-=item DESCRIPTION
-
-=over 4
+=item How do I handle binary data correctly?
-=item Making References
+=item How do I determine whether a scalar is a number/whole/integer/float?
-=item Using References
+=item How do I keep persistent data across program calls?
-=item Symbolic references
+=item How do I print out or copy a recursive data structure?
-=item Not-so-symbolic references
+=item How do I define methods for every class/object?
-=item Pseudo-hashes: Using an array as a hash
+=item How do I verify a credit card checksum?
-=item Function Templates
+=item How do I pack arrays of doubles or floats for XS code?
=back
-=item WARNING
-
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
=back
-=head2 perlform - Perl formats
+=head2 perlfaq5 - Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.31 $, $Date: 2004/02/07
+04:29:50 $)
=over 4
=over 4
-=item Format Variables
+=item How do I flush/unbuffer an output filehandle? Why must I do this?
-=back
+=item How do I change one line in a file/delete a line in a file/insert a
+line in the middle of a file/append to the beginning of a file?
-=item NOTES
+=item How do I count the number of lines in a file?
-=over 4
+=item How can I use Perl's C<-i> option from within a program?
-=item Footers
+=item How do I make a temporary file name?
-=item Accessing Formatting Internals
+=item How can I manipulate fixed-record-length files?
-=back
+=item How can I make a filehandle local to a subroutine? How do I pass
+filehandles between subroutines? How do I make an array of filehandles?
-=item WARNINGS
+=item How can I use a filehandle indirectly?
-=back
+=item How can I set up a footer format to be used with write()?
-=head2 perlboot - Beginner's Object-Oriented Tutorial
+=item How can I write() into a string?
-=over 4
+=item How can I output my numbers with commas added?
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item How can I translate tildes (~) in a filename?
-=over 4
+=item How come when I open a file read-write it wipes it out?
-=item If we could talk to the animals...
+=item Why do I sometimes get an "Argument list too long" when I use
+E<lt>*E<gt>?
-=item Introducing the method invocation arrow
+=item Is there a leak/bug in glob()?
-=item Invoking a barnyard
+=item How can I open a file with a leading ">" or trailing blanks?
-=item The extra parameter of method invocation
+=item How can I reliably rename a file?
-=item Calling a second method to simplify things
+=item How can I lock a file?
-=item Inheriting the windpipes
+=item Why can't I just open(FH, "E<gt>file.lock")?
-=item A few notes about @ISA
+=item I still don't get locking. I just want to increment the number in
+the file. How can I do this?
-=item Overriding the methods
+=item All I want to do is append a small amount of text to the end of a
+file. Do I still have to use locking?
-=item Starting the search from a different place
+=item How do I randomly update a binary file?
-=item The SUPER way of doing things
+=item How do I get a file's timestamp in perl?
-=item Where we're at so far...
+=item How do I set a file's timestamp in perl?
-=item A horse is a horse, of course of course -- or is it?
+=item How do I print to more than one file at once?
-=item Invoking an instance method
+=item How can I read in an entire file all at once?
-=item Accessing the instance data
+=item How can I read in a file by paragraphs?
-=item How to build a horse
+=item How can I read a single character from a file? From the keyboard?
-=item Inheriting the constructor
+=item How can I tell whether there's a character waiting on a filehandle?
-=item Making a method work with either classes or instances
+=item How do I do a C<tail -f> in perl?
-=item Adding parameters to a method
+=item How do I dup() a filehandle in Perl?
-=item More interesting instances
+=item How do I close a file descriptor by number?
-=item A horse of a different color
+=item Why can't I use "C:\temp\foo" in DOS paths? Why doesn't
+`C:\temp\foo.exe` work?
-=item Summary
+=item Why doesn't glob("*.*") get all the files?
-=back
+=item Why does Perl let me delete read-only files? Why does C<-i> clobber
+protected files? Isn't this a bug in Perl?
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item How do I select a random line from a file?
-=item COPYRIGHT
+=item Why do I get weird spaces when I print an array of lines?
=back
-=head2 perltoot - Tom's object-oriented tutorial for perl
+=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlfaq6 - Regular Expressions ($Revision: 1.27 $, $Date: 2004/11/03
+22:52:16 $)
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Creating a Class
-
=over 4
-=item Object Representation
-
-=item Class Interface
+=item How can I hope to use regular expressions without creating illegible
+and unmaintainable code?
-=item Constructors and Instance Methods
+Comments Outside the Regex, Comments Inside the Regex, Different Delimiters
-=item Planning for the Future: Better Constructors
+=item I'm having trouble matching over more than one line. What's wrong?
-=item Destructors
+=item How can I pull out lines between two patterns that are themselves on
+different lines?
-=item Other Object Methods
+=item I put a regular expression into $/ but it didn't work. What's wrong?
-=back
+=item How do I substitute case insensitively on the LHS while preserving
+case on the RHS?
-=item Class Data
+=item How can I make C<\w> match national character sets?
-=over 4
+=item How can I match a locale-smart version of C</[a-zA-Z]/>?
-=item Accessing Class Data
+=item How can I quote a variable to use in a regex?
-=item Debugging Methods
+=item What is C</o> really for?
-=item Class Destructors
+=item How do I use a regular expression to strip C style comments from a
+file?
-=item Documenting the Interface
+=item Can I use Perl regular expressions to match balanced text?
-=back
+=item What does it mean that regexes are greedy? How can I get around it?
-=item Aggregation
+=item How do I process each word on each line?
-=item Inheritance
+=item How can I print out a word-frequency or line-frequency summary?
-=over 4
+=item How can I do approximate matching?
-=item Overridden Methods
+=item How do I efficiently match many regular expressions at once?
-=item Multiple Inheritance
+=item Why don't word-boundary searches with C<\b> work for me?
-=item UNIVERSAL: The Root of All Objects
+=item Why does using $&, $`, or $' slow my program down?
-=back
+=item What good is C<\G> in a regular expression?
-=item Alternate Object Representations
+=item Are Perl regexes DFAs or NFAs? Are they POSIX compliant?
-=over 4
+=item What's wrong with using grep in a void context?
-=item Arrays as Objects
+=item How can I match strings with multibyte characters?
-=item Closures as Objects
+=item How do I match a pattern that is supplied by the user?
=back
-=item AUTOLOAD: Proxy Methods
-
-=over 4
-
-=item Autoloaded Data Methods
-
-=item Inherited Autoloaded Data Methods
+=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
=back
-=item Metaclassical Tools
+=head2 perlfaq7 - General Perl Language Issues ($Revision: 1.18 $, $Date:
+2004/11/03 22:54:08 $)
=over 4
-=item Class::Struct
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Data Members as Variables
+=over 4
-=back
+=item Can I get a BNF/yacc/RE for the Perl language?
-=item NOTES
-
-=over 4
-
-=item Object Terminology
+=item What are all these $@%&* punctuation signs, and how do I know when to
+use them?
-=back
+=item Do I always/never have to quote my strings or use semicolons and
+commas?
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item How do I skip some return values?
-=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
+=item How do I temporarily block warnings?
-=item COPYRIGHT
+=item What's an extension?
-=over 4
+=item Why do Perl operators have different precedence than C operators?
-=item Acknowledgments
+=item How do I declare/create a structure?
-=back
+=item How do I create a module?
-=back
+=item How do I create a class?
-=head2 perltooc - Tom's OO Tutorial for Class Data in Perl
+=item How can I tell if a variable is tainted?
-=over 4
+=item What's a closure?
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item What is variable suicide and how can I prevent it?
-=item Class Data in a Can
+=item How can I pass/return a {Function, FileHandle, Array, Hash, Method,
+Regex}?
-=item Class Data as Package Variables
+Passing Variables and Functions, Passing Filehandles, Passing Regexes,
+Passing Methods
-=over 4
+=item How do I create a static variable?
-=item Putting All Your Eggs in One Basket
+=item What's the difference between dynamic and lexical (static) scoping?
+Between local() and my()?
-=item Inheritance Concerns
+=item How can I access a dynamic variable while a similarly named lexical
+is in scope?
-=item The Eponymous Meta-Object
+=item What's the difference between deep and shallow binding?
-=item Indirect References to Class Data
+=item Why doesn't "my($foo) = E<lt>FILEE<gt>;" work right?
-=item Monadic Classes
+=item How do I redefine a builtin function, operator, or method?
-=item Translucent Attributes
+=item What's the difference between calling a function as &foo and foo()?
-=back
+=item How do I create a switch or case statement?
-=item Class Data as Lexical Variables
+=item How can I catch accesses to undefined variables, functions, or
+methods?
-=over 4
+=item Why can't a method included in this same file be found?
-=item Privacy and Responsibility
+=item How can I find out my current package?
-=item File-Scoped Lexicals
+=item How can I comment out a large block of perl code?
-=item More Inheritance Concerns
+=item How do I clear a package?
-=item Locking the Door and Throwing Away the Key
+=item How can I use a variable as a variable name?
-=item Translucency Revisited
+=item What does "bad interpreter" mean?
=back
-=item NOTES
-
-=item SEE ALSO
-
=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
-=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
-
-=item HISTORY
-
=back
-=head2 perlobj - Perl objects
+=head2 perlfaq8 - System Interaction ($Revision: 1.22 $, $Date: 2004/10/05
+22:13:49 $)
=over 4
=over 4
-=item An Object is Simply a Reference
+=item How do I find out which operating system I'm running under?
-=item A Class is Simply a Package
+=item How come exec() doesn't return?
-=item A Method is Simply a Subroutine
+=item How do I do fancy stuff with the keyboard/screen/mouse?
-=item Method Invocation
+Keyboard, Screen, Mouse
-=item Indirect Object Syntax
+=item How do I print something out in color?
-=item Default UNIVERSAL methods
+=item How do I read just one key without waiting for a return key?
-isa(CLASS), can(METHOD), VERSION( [NEED] )
+=item How do I check whether input is ready on the keyboard?
-=item Destructors
+=item How do I clear the screen?
-=item Summary
+=item How do I get the screen size?
-=item Two-Phased Garbage Collection
+=item How do I ask the user for a password?
-=back
+=item How do I read and write the serial port?
-=item SEE ALSO
+lockfiles, open mode, end of line, flushing output, non-blocking input
-=back
+=item How do I decode encrypted password files?
-=head2 perlbot - Bag'o Object Tricks (the BOT)
+=item How do I start a process in the background?
-=over 4
+STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR are shared, Signals, Zombies
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item How do I trap control characters/signals?
-=item OO SCALING TIPS
+=item How do I modify the shadow password file on a Unix system?
-=item INSTANCE VARIABLES
+=item How do I set the time and date?
-=item SCALAR INSTANCE VARIABLES
+=item How can I sleep() or alarm() for under a second?
-=item INSTANCE VARIABLE INHERITANCE
+=item How can I measure time under a second?
-=item OBJECT RELATIONSHIPS
+=item How can I do an atexit() or setjmp()/longjmp()? (Exception handling)
-=item OVERRIDING SUPERCLASS METHODS
+=item Why doesn't my sockets program work under System V (Solaris)? What
+does the error message "Protocol not supported" mean?
-=item USING RELATIONSHIP WITH SDBM
+=item How can I call my system's unique C functions from Perl?
-=item THINKING OF CODE REUSE
+=item Where do I get the include files to do ioctl() or syscall()?
-=item CLASS CONTEXT AND THE OBJECT
+=item Why do setuid perl scripts complain about kernel problems?
-=item INHERITING A CONSTRUCTOR
+=item How can I open a pipe both to and from a command?
-=item DELEGATION
+=item Why can't I get the output of a command with system()?
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item How can I capture STDERR from an external command?
-=back
+=item Why doesn't open() return an error when a pipe open fails?
-=head2 perltie - how to hide an object class in a simple variable
+=item What's wrong with using backticks in a void context?
-=over 4
+=item How can I call backticks without shell processing?
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item Why can't my script read from STDIN after I gave it EOF (^D on Unix,
+^Z on MS-DOS)?
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item How can I convert my shell script to perl?
-=over 4
+=item Can I use perl to run a telnet or ftp session?
-=item Tying Scalars
+=item How can I write expect in Perl?
-TIESCALAR classname, LIST, FETCH this, STORE this, value, UNTIE this,
-DESTROY this
+=item Is there a way to hide perl's command line from programs such as
+"ps"?
-=item Tying Arrays
+=item I {changed directory, modified my environment} in a perl script. How
+come the change disappeared when I exited the script? How do I get my
+changes to be visible?
-TIEARRAY classname, LIST, FETCH this, index, STORE this, index, value,
-FETCHSIZE this, STORESIZE this, count, EXTEND this, count, EXISTS this,
-key, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this, PUSH this, LIST, POP this, SHIFT this,
-UNSHIFT this, LIST, SPLICE this, offset, length, LIST, UNTIE this, DESTROY
-this
+Unix
-=item Tying Hashes
+=item How do I close a process's filehandle without waiting for it to
+complete?
-USER, HOME, CLOBBER, LIST, TIEHASH classname, LIST, FETCH this, key, STORE
-this, key, value, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this, EXISTS this, key, FIRSTKEY
-this, NEXTKEY this, lastkey, UNTIE this, DESTROY this
+=item How do I fork a daemon process?
-=item Tying FileHandles
+=item How do I find out if I'm running interactively or not?
-TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, WRITE this, LIST, PRINT this, LIST, PRINTF this,
-LIST, READ this, LIST, READLINE this, GETC this, CLOSE this, UNTIE this,
-DESTROY this
+=item How do I timeout a slow event?
-=item UNTIE this
+=item How do I set CPU limits?
-=item The C<untie> Gotcha
+=item How do I avoid zombies on a Unix system?
-=back
+=item How do I use an SQL database?
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item How do I make a system() exit on control-C?
-=item BUGS
+=item How do I open a file without blocking?
-=item AUTHOR
+=item How do I tell the difference between errors from the shell and perl?
-=back
+=item How do I install a module from CPAN?
-=head2 perlipc - Perl interprocess communication (signals, fifos, pipes,
-safe subprocesses, sockets, and semaphores)
+=item What's the difference between require and use?
-=over 4
+=item How do I keep my own module/library directory?
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item How do I add the directory my program lives in to the module/library
+search path?
-=item Signals
+=item How do I add a directory to my include path (@INC) at runtime?
-=over 4
+=item What is socket.ph and where do I get it?
-=item Handling the SIGHUP Signal in Daemons
+=back
+
+=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
=back
-=item Named Pipes
+=head2 perlfaq9 - Networking ($Revision: 1.16 $, $Date: 2004/10/30 12:20:59
+$)
=over 4
-=item Deferred Signals (Safe signals)
+=item DESCRIPTION
-Long running opcodes, Interrupting IO, Restartable system calls, Signals as
-"faults", Signals triggered by operating system state
+=over 4
-=back
+=item What is the correct form of response from a CGI script?
-=item Using open() for IPC
+=item My CGI script runs from the command line but not the browser. (500
+Server Error)
-=over 4
+=item How can I get better error messages from a CGI program?
-=item Filehandles
+=item How do I remove HTML from a string?
-=item Background Processes
+=item How do I extract URLs?
-=item Complete Dissociation of Child from Parent
+=item How do I download a file from the user's machine? How do I open a
+file on another machine?
-=item Safe Pipe Opens
+=item How do I make a pop-up menu in HTML?
-=item Bidirectional Communication with Another Process
+=item How do I fetch an HTML file?
-=item Bidirectional Communication with Yourself
+=item How do I automate an HTML form submission?
-=back
+=item How do I decode or create those %-encodings on the web?
-=item Sockets: Client/Server Communication
+=item How do I redirect to another page?
-=over 4
+=item How do I put a password on my web pages?
-=item Internet Line Terminators
+=item How do I edit my .htpasswd and .htgroup files with Perl?
-=item Internet TCP Clients and Servers
+=item How do I make sure users can't enter values into a form that cause my
+CGI script to do bad things?
-=item Unix-Domain TCP Clients and Servers
+=item How do I parse a mail header?
-=back
+=item How do I decode a CGI form?
-=item TCP Clients with IO::Socket
+=item How do I check a valid mail address?
-=over 4
+=item How do I decode a MIME/BASE64 string?
-=item A Simple Client
+=item How do I return the user's mail address?
-C<Proto>, C<PeerAddr>, C<PeerPort>
+=item How do I send mail?
-=item A Webget Client
+=item How do I use MIME to make an attachment to a mail message?
-=item Interactive Client with IO::Socket
+=item How do I read mail?
-=back
-
-=item TCP Servers with IO::Socket
-
-Proto, LocalPort, Listen, Reuse
-
-=item UDP: Message Passing
+=item How do I find out my hostname/domainname/IP address?
-=item SysV IPC
+=item How do I fetch a news article or the active newsgroups?
-=item NOTES
+=item How do I fetch/put an FTP file?
-=item BUGS
+=item How can I do RPC in Perl?
-=item AUTHOR
+=back
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
=back
-=head2 perlfork - Perl's fork() emulation
+=head2 perlsyn - Perl syntax
=over 4
-=item SYNOPSIS
-
=item DESCRIPTION
=over 4
-=item Behavior of other Perl features in forked pseudo-processes
-
-$$ or $PROCESS_ID, %ENV, chdir() and all other builtins that accept
-filenames, wait() and waitpid(), kill(), exec(), exit(), Open handles to
-files, directories and network sockets
-
-=item Resource limits
-
-=item Killing the parent process
-
-=item Lifetime of the parent process and pseudo-processes
-
-=item CAVEATS AND LIMITATIONS
-
-BEGIN blocks, Open filehandles, Forking pipe open() not yet implemented,
-Global state maintained by XSUBs, Interpreter embedded in larger
-application, Thread-safety of extensions
-
-=back
-
-=item BUGS
+=item Declarations
-=item AUTHOR
+=item Comments
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item Simple Statements
-=back
+=item Truth and Falsehood
-=head2 perlnumber - semantics of numbers and numeric operations in Perl
+=item Statement Modifiers
-=over 4
+=item Compound Statements
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item Loop Control
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item For Loops
-=item Storing numbers
+=item Foreach Loops
-=item Numeric operators and numeric conversions
+=item Basic BLOCKs and Switch Statements
-=item Flavors of Perl numeric operations
+=item Goto
-Arithmetic operators, ++, Arithmetic operators during C<use integer>, Other
-mathematical operators, Bitwise operators, Bitwise operators during C<use
-integer>, Operators which expect an integer, Operators which expect a
-string
+=item PODs: Embedded Documentation
-=item AUTHOR
+=item Plain Old Comments (Not!)
-=item SEE ALSO
+=back
=back
-=head2 perlthrtut - tutorial on threads in Perl
+=head2 perldata - Perl data types
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Status
+=over 4
-=item What Is A Thread Anyway?
+=item Variable names
-=item Threaded Program Models
+=item Context
-=over 4
+=item Scalar values
-=item Boss/Worker
+=item Scalar value constructors
-=item Work Crew
+=item List value constructors
-=item Pipeline
+=item Subscripts
+
+=item Slices
+
+=item Typeglobs and Filehandles
=back
-=item What kind of threads are Perl threads?
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item Thread-Safe Modules
+=back
-=item Thread Basics
+=head2 perlop - Perl operators and precedence
=over 4
-=item Basic Thread Support
-
-=item A Note about the Examples
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Creating Threads
+=over 4
-=item Waiting For A Thread To Exit
+=item Operator Precedence and Associativity
-=item Ignoring A Thread
+=item Terms and List Operators (Leftward)
-=back
+=item The Arrow Operator
-=item Threads And Data
+=item Auto-increment and Auto-decrement
-=over 4
+=item Exponentiation
-=item Shared And Unshared Data
+=item Symbolic Unary Operators
-=item Thread Pitfalls: Races
+=item Binding Operators
-=back
+=item Multiplicative Operators
-=item Synchronization and control
+=item Additive Operators
-=over 4
+=item Shift Operators
-=item Controlling access: lock()
+=item Named Unary Operators
-=item A Thread Pitfall: Deadlocks
+=item Relational Operators
-=item Queues: Passing Data Around
+=item Equality Operators
-=item Semaphores: Synchronizing Data Access
+=item Bitwise And
-=item Basic semaphores
+=item Bitwise Or and Exclusive Or
-=item Advanced Semaphores
+=item C-style Logical And
-=item cond_wait() and cond_signal()
+=item C-style Logical Or
-=item Giving up control
+=item C-style Logical Defined-Or
-=back
+=item Range Operators
-=item General Thread Utility Routines
+=item Conditional Operator
-=over 4
+=item Assignment Operators
-=item What Thread Am I In?
+=item Comma Operator
-=item Thread IDs
+=item List Operators (Rightward)
-=item Are These Threads The Same?
+=item Logical Not
-=item What Threads Are Running?
+=item Logical And
-=back
+=item Logical or, Defined or, and Exclusive Or
-=item A Complete Example
+=item C Operators Missing From Perl
-=item Different implementations of threads
+unary &, unary *, (TYPE)
-=item Performance considerations
+=item Quote and Quote-like Operators
-=item Process-scope Changes
+=item Regexp Quote-Like Operators
-=item Thread-Safety of System Libraries
+?PATTERN?, m/PATTERN/cgimosx, /PATTERN/cgimosx, q/STRING/, C<'STRING'>,
+qq/STRING/, "STRING", qr/STRING/imosx, qx/STRING/, `STRING`, qw/STRING/,
+s/PATTERN/REPLACEMENT/egimosx, tr/SEARCHLIST/REPLACEMENTLIST/cds,
+y/SEARCHLIST/REPLACEMENTLIST/cds, <<EOF
-=item Conclusion
+=item Gory details of parsing quoted constructs
-=item Bibliography
+Finding the end, Removal of backslashes before delimiters, Interpolation,
+C<<<'EOF'>, C<m''>, C<s'''>, C<tr///>, C<y///>, C<''>, C<q//>, C<"">,
+C<``>, C<qq//>, C<qx//>, C<< <file*glob> >>, C<?RE?>, C</RE/>, C<m/RE/>,
+C<s/RE/foo/>,, Interpolation of regular expressions, Optimization of
+regular expressions
-=over 4
+=item I/O Operators
-=item Introductory Texts
+=item Constant Folding
-=item OS-Related References
+=item No-ops
-=item Other References
+=item Bitwise String Operators
-=back
+=item Integer Arithmetic
-=item Acknowledgements
+=item Floating-point Arithmetic
-=item AUTHOR
+=item Bigger Numbers
-=item Copyrights
+=back
=back
-=head2 perlothrtut - old tutorial on threads in Perl
+=head2 perlsub - Perl subroutines
=over 4
-=item DESCRIPTION
-
-=item What Is A Thread Anyway?
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item Threaded Program Models
+=item DESCRIPTION
=over 4
-=item Boss/Worker
+=item Private Variables via my()
-=item Work Crew
+=item Persistent Private Variables
-=item Pipeline
+=item Temporary Values via local()
-=back
+=item Lvalue subroutines
-=item Native threads
+Lvalue subroutines are EXPERIMENTAL
-=item What kind of threads are perl threads?
+=item Passing Symbol Table Entries (typeglobs)
-=item Threadsafe Modules
+=item When to Still Use local()
-=item Thread Basics
+=item Pass by Reference
-=over 4
+=item Prototypes
-=item Basic Thread Support
+=item Constant Functions
-=item Creating Threads
+=item Overriding Built-in Functions
-=item Giving up control
+=item Autoloading
-=item Waiting For A Thread To Exit
+=item Subroutine Attributes
-=item Errors In Threads
+=back
-=item Ignoring A Thread
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=item Threads And Data
+=head2 perlfunc - Perl builtin functions
=over 4
-=item Shared And Unshared Data
-
-=item Thread Pitfall: Races
-
-=item Controlling access: lock()
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Thread Pitfall: Deadlocks
+=over 4
-=item Queues: Passing Data Around
+=item Perl Functions by Category
-=back
+Functions for SCALARs or strings, Regular expressions and pattern matching,
+Numeric functions, Functions for real @ARRAYs, Functions for list data,
+Functions for real %HASHes, Input and output functions, Functions for fixed
+length data or records, Functions for filehandles, files, or directories,
+Keywords related to the control flow of your perl program, Keywords related
+to scoping, Miscellaneous functions, Functions for processes and process
+groups, Keywords related to perl modules, Keywords related to classes and
+object-orientedness, Low-level socket functions, System V interprocess
+communication functions, Fetching user and group info, Fetching network
+info, Time-related functions, Functions new in perl5, Functions obsoleted
+in perl5
-=item Threads And Code
+=item Portability
-=over 4
+=item Alphabetical Listing of Perl Functions
-=item Semaphores: Synchronizing Data Access
+-I<X> FILEHANDLE, -I<X> EXPR, -I<X>, abs VALUE, abs, accept
+NEWSOCKET,GENERICSOCKET, alarm SECONDS, alarm, atan2 Y,X, bind SOCKET,NAME,
+binmode FILEHANDLE, LAYER, binmode FILEHANDLE, bless REF,CLASSNAME, bless
+REF, caller EXPR, caller, chdir EXPR, chmod LIST, chomp VARIABLE, chomp(
+LIST ), chomp, chop VARIABLE, chop( LIST ), chop, chown LIST, chr NUMBER,
+chr, chroot FILENAME, chroot, close FILEHANDLE, close, closedir DIRHANDLE,
+connect SOCKET,NAME, continue BLOCK, cos EXPR, cos, crypt PLAINTEXT,SALT,
+dbmclose HASH, dbmopen HASH,DBNAME,MASK, defined EXPR, defined, delete
+EXPR, die LIST, do BLOCK, do SUBROUTINE(LIST), do EXPR, dump LABEL, dump,
+each HASH, eof FILEHANDLE, eof (), eof, eval EXPR, eval BLOCK, exec LIST,
+exec PROGRAM LIST, exists EXPR, exit EXPR, exp EXPR, exp, fcntl
+FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, fileno FILEHANDLE, flock FILEHANDLE,OPERATION,
+fork, format, formline PICTURE,LIST, getc FILEHANDLE, getc, getlogin,
+getpeername SOCKET, getpgrp PID, getppid, getpriority WHICH,WHO, getpwnam
+NAME, getgrnam NAME, gethostbyname NAME, getnetbyname NAME, getprotobyname
+NAME, getpwuid UID, getgrgid GID, getservbyname NAME,PROTO, gethostbyaddr
+ADDR,ADDRTYPE, getnetbyaddr ADDR,ADDRTYPE, getprotobynumber NUMBER,
+getservbyport PORT,PROTO, getpwent, getgrent, gethostent, getnetent,
+getprotoent, getservent, setpwent, setgrent, sethostent STAYOPEN, setnetent
+STAYOPEN, setprotoent STAYOPEN, setservent STAYOPEN, endpwent, endgrent,
+endhostent, endnetent, endprotoent, endservent, getsockname SOCKET,
+getsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME, glob EXPR, glob, gmtime EXPR, goto LABEL,
+goto EXPR, goto &NAME, grep BLOCK LIST, grep EXPR,LIST, hex EXPR, hex,
+import, index STR,SUBSTR,POSITION, index STR,SUBSTR, int EXPR, int, ioctl
+FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, join EXPR,LIST, keys HASH, kill SIGNAL, LIST,
+last LABEL, last, lc EXPR, lc, lcfirst EXPR, lcfirst, length EXPR, length,
+link OLDFILE,NEWFILE, listen SOCKET,QUEUESIZE, local EXPR, localtime EXPR,
+lock THING, log EXPR, log, lstat EXPR, lstat, m//, map BLOCK LIST, map
+EXPR,LIST, mkdir FILENAME,MASK, mkdir FILENAME, msgctl ID,CMD,ARG, msgget
+KEY,FLAGS, msgrcv ID,VAR,SIZE,TYPE,FLAGS, msgsnd ID,MSG,FLAGS, my EXPR, my
+TYPE EXPR, my EXPR : ATTRS, my TYPE EXPR : ATTRS, next LABEL, next, no
+Module VERSION LIST, no Module VERSION, no Module LIST, no Module, oct
+EXPR, oct, open FILEHANDLE,EXPR, open FILEHANDLE,MODE,EXPR, open
+FILEHANDLE,MODE,EXPR,LIST, open FILEHANDLE,MODE,REFERENCE, open FILEHANDLE,
+opendir DIRHANDLE,EXPR, ord EXPR, ord, our EXPR, our EXPR TYPE, our EXPR :
+ATTRS, our TYPE EXPR : ATTRS, pack TEMPLATE,LIST, package NAMESPACE,
+package, pipe READHANDLE,WRITEHANDLE, pop ARRAY, pop, pos SCALAR, pos,
+print FILEHANDLE LIST, print LIST, print, printf FILEHANDLE FORMAT, LIST,
+printf FORMAT, LIST, prototype FUNCTION, push ARRAY,LIST, q/STRING/,
+qq/STRING/, qr/STRING/, qx/STRING/, qw/STRING/, quotemeta EXPR, quotemeta,
+rand EXPR, rand, read FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET, read
+FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH, readdir DIRHANDLE, readline EXPR, readlink EXPR,
+readlink, readpipe EXPR, recv SOCKET,SCALAR,LENGTH,FLAGS, redo LABEL, redo,
+ref EXPR, ref, rename OLDNAME,NEWNAME, require VERSION, require EXPR,
+require, reset EXPR, reset, return EXPR, return, reverse LIST, rewinddir
+DIRHANDLE, rindex STR,SUBSTR,POSITION, rindex STR,SUBSTR, rmdir FILENAME,
+rmdir, s///, scalar EXPR, seek FILEHANDLE,POSITION,WHENCE, seekdir
+DIRHANDLE,POS, select FILEHANDLE, select, select RBITS,WBITS,EBITS,TIMEOUT,
+semctl ID,SEMNUM,CMD,ARG, semget KEY,NSEMS,FLAGS, semop KEY,OPSTRING, send
+SOCKET,MSG,FLAGS,TO, send SOCKET,MSG,FLAGS, setpgrp PID,PGRP, setpriority
+WHICH,WHO,PRIORITY, setsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME,OPTVAL, shift ARRAY,
+shift, shmctl ID,CMD,ARG, shmget KEY,SIZE,FLAGS, shmread ID,VAR,POS,SIZE,
+shmwrite ID,STRING,POS,SIZE, shutdown SOCKET,HOW, sin EXPR, sin, sleep
+EXPR, sleep, socket SOCKET,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL, socketpair
+SOCKET1,SOCKET2,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL, sort SUBNAME LIST, sort BLOCK LIST,
+sort LIST, splice ARRAY,OFFSET,LENGTH,LIST, splice ARRAY,OFFSET,LENGTH,
+splice ARRAY,OFFSET, splice ARRAY, split /PATTERN/,EXPR,LIMIT, split
+/PATTERN/,EXPR, split /PATTERN/, split, sprintf FORMAT, LIST, format
+parameter index, flags, vector flag, (minimum) width, precision, or maximum
+width, size, order of arguments, sqrt EXPR, sqrt, srand EXPR, srand, stat
+FILEHANDLE, stat EXPR, stat, study SCALAR, study, sub NAME BLOCK, sub NAME
+(PROTO) BLOCK, sub NAME : ATTRS BLOCK, sub NAME (PROTO) : ATTRS BLOCK,
+substr EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH,REPLACEMENT, substr EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH, substr
+EXPR,OFFSET, symlink OLDFILE,NEWFILE, syscall NUMBER, LIST, sysopen
+FILEHANDLE,FILENAME,MODE, sysopen FILEHANDLE,FILENAME,MODE,PERMS, sysread
+FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET, sysread FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH, sysseek
+FILEHANDLE,POSITION,WHENCE, system LIST, system PROGRAM LIST, syswrite
+FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET, syswrite FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,
+syswrite FILEHANDLE,SCALAR, tell FILEHANDLE, tell, telldir DIRHANDLE, tie
+VARIABLE,CLASSNAME,LIST, tied VARIABLE, time, times, tr///, truncate
+FILEHANDLE,LENGTH, truncate EXPR,LENGTH, uc EXPR, uc, ucfirst EXPR,
+ucfirst, umask EXPR, umask, undef EXPR, undef, unlink LIST, unlink, unpack
+TEMPLATE,EXPR, unpack TEMPLATE, untie VARIABLE, unshift ARRAY,LIST, use
+Module VERSION LIST, use Module VERSION, use Module LIST, use Module, use
+VERSION, utime LIST, values HASH, vec EXPR,OFFSET,BITS, wait, waitpid
+PID,FLAGS, wantarray, warn LIST, write FILEHANDLE, write EXPR, write, y///
+
+=back
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlopentut - tutorial on opening things in Perl
+
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item Open E<agrave> la shell
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Simple Opens
+
+=item Indirect Filehandles
+
+=item Pipe Opens
+
+=item The Minus File
+
+=item Mixing Reads and Writes
+
+=item Filters
+
+=back
+
+=item Open E<agrave> la C
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Permissions E<agrave> la mode
+
+=back
+
+=item Obscure Open Tricks
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Re-Opening Files (dups)
+
+=item Dispelling the Dweomer
+
+=item Paths as Opens
+
+=item Single Argument Open
+
+=item Playing with STDIN and STDOUT
+
+=back
+
+=item Other I/O Issues
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Opening Non-File Files
+
+=item Opening Named Pipes
+
+=item Opening Sockets
+
+=item Binary Files
+
+=item File Locking
+
+=item IO Layers
+
+=back
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT
+
+=item HISTORY
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlpacktut - tutorial on C<pack> and C<unpack>
+
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item The Basic Principle
+
+=item Packing Text
+
+=item Packing Numbers
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Integers
+
+=item Unpacking a Stack Frame
+
+=item How to Eat an Egg on a Net
+
+=item Byte-order modifiers
+
+=item Floating point Numbers
+
+=back
+
+=item Exotic Templates
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Bit Strings
+
+=item Uuencoding
+
+=item Doing Sums
+
+=item Unicode
+
+=item Another Portable Binary Encoding
+
+=back
+
+=item Template Grouping
+
+=item Lengths and Widths
+
+=over 4
+
+=item String Lengths
+
+=item Dynamic Templates
+
+=item Counting Repetitions
+
+=back
+
+=item Packing and Unpacking C Structures
+
+=over 4
+
+=item The Alignment Pit
+
+=item Dealing with Endian-ness
+
+=item Alignment, Take 2
+
+=item Alignment, Take 3
+
+=item Pointers for How to Use Them
+
+=back
+
+=item Pack Recipes
+
+=item Funnies Section
+
+=item Authors
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlpod - the Plain Old Documentation format
+
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Ordinary Paragraph
+
+=item Verbatim Paragraph
+
+=item Command Paragraph
+
+C<=head1 I<Heading Text>>, C<=head2 I<Heading Text>>, C<=head3 I<Heading
+Text>>, C<=head4 I<Heading Text>>, C<=over I<indentlevel>>, C<=item
+I<stuff...>>, C<=back>, C<=cut>, C<=pod>, C<=begin I<formatname>>, C<=end
+I<formatname>>, C<=for I<formatname> I<text...>>, C<=encoding
+I<encodingname>>
+
+=item Formatting Codes
+
+C<IE<lt>textE<gt>> -- italic text, C<BE<lt>textE<gt>> -- bold text,
+C<CE<lt>codeE<gt>> -- code text, C<LE<lt>nameE<gt>> -- a hyperlink,
+C<EE<lt>escapeE<gt>> -- a character escape, C<FE<lt>filenameE<gt>> -- used
+for filenames, C<SE<lt>textE<gt>> -- text contains non-breaking spaces,
+C<XE<lt>topic nameE<gt>> -- an index entry, C<ZE<lt>E<gt>> -- a null
+(zero-effect) formatting code
+
+=item The Intent
+
+=item Embedding Pods in Perl Modules
+
+=item Hints for Writing Pod
+
+=back
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlpodspec - Plain Old Documentation: format specification and
+notes
+
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item Pod Definitions
+
+=item Pod Commands
+
+"=head1", "=head2", "=head3", "=head4", "=pod", "=cut", "=over", "=item",
+"=back", "=begin formatname", "=end formatname", "=for formatname text...",
+"=encoding encodingname"
+
+=item Pod Formatting Codes
+
+C<IE<lt>textE<gt>> -- italic text, C<BE<lt>textE<gt>> -- bold text,
+C<CE<lt>codeE<gt>> -- code text, C<FE<lt>filenameE<gt>> -- style for
+filenames, C<XE<lt>topic nameE<gt>> -- an index entry, C<ZE<lt>E<gt>> -- a
+null (zero-effect) formatting code, C<LE<lt>nameE<gt>> -- a hyperlink,
+C<EE<lt>escapeE<gt>> -- a character escape, C<SE<lt>textE<gt>> -- text
+contains non-breaking spaces
+
+=item Notes on Implementing Pod Processors
+
+=item About LE<lt>...E<gt> Codes
+
+First:, Second:, Third:, Fourth:, Fifth:, Sixth:
+
+=item About =over...=back Regions
+
+=item About Data Paragraphs and "=begin/=end" Regions
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlrun - how to execute the Perl interpreter
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item #! and quoting on non-Unix systems
+
+OS/2, MS-DOS, Win95/NT, Macintosh, VMS
+
+=item Location of Perl
+
+=item Command Switches
+
+B<-0>[I<octal/hexadecimal>], B<-A [I<assertions>]>, B<-a>, B<-C
+[I<number/list>]>, B<-c>, B<-d>, B<-dt>, B<-d:>I<foo[=bar,baz]>,
+B<-dt:>I<foo[=bar,baz]>, B<-D>I<letters>, B<-D>I<number>, B<-e>
+I<commandline>, B<-F>I<pattern>, B<-h>, B<-i>[I<extension>],
+B<-I>I<directory>, B<-l>[I<octnum>], B<-m>[B<->]I<module>,
+B<-M>[B<->]I<module>, B<-M>[B<->]I<'module ...'>,
+B<-[mM]>[B<->]I<module=arg[,arg]...>, B<-n>, B<-p>, B<-P>, B<-s>, B<-S>,
+B<-t>, B<-T>, B<-u>, B<-U>, B<-v>, B<-V>, B<-V:>I<configvar>, B<-w>, B<-W>,
+B<-X>, B<-x>, B<-x> I<directory>
+
+=back
+
+=item ENVIRONMENT
+
+HOME, LOGDIR, PATH, PERL5LIB, PERL5OPT, PERLIO, :bytes, :crlf, :mmap,
+:perlio, :pop, :raw, :stdio, :unix, :utf8, :win32, PERLIO_DEBUG, PERLLIB,
+PERL5DB, PERL5DB_THREADED, PERL5SHELL (specific to the Win32 port),
+PERL_ALLOW_NON_IFS_LSP (specific to the Win32 port), PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS,
+PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL, PERL_DL_NONLAZY, PERL_ENCODING, PERL_HASH_SEED,
+PERL_HASH_SEED_DEBUG, PERL_ROOT (specific to the VMS port), PERL_SIGNALS,
+PERL_UNICODE, SYS$LOGIN (specific to the VMS port)
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perldiag - various Perl diagnostics
+
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perllexwarn - Perl Lexical Warnings
+
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Default Warnings and Optional Warnings
+
+=item What's wrong with B<-w> and C<$^W>
+
+=item Controlling Warnings from the Command Line
+
+B<-w>, B<-W>, B<-X>
+
+=item Backward Compatibility
+
+=item Category Hierarchy
+
+=item Fatal Warnings
+
+=item Reporting Warnings from a Module
+
+=back
+
+=item TODO
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perldebug - Perl debugging
+
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item The Perl Debugger
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Debugger Commands
+
+h, h [command], h h, p expr, x [maxdepth] expr, V [pkg [vars]], X [vars], y
+[level [vars]], T, s [expr], n [expr], r, <CR>, c [line|sub], l, l
+min+incr, l min-max, l line, l subname, -, v [line], f filename, /pattern/,
+?pattern?, L [abw], S [[!]regex], t, t expr, b, b [line] [condition], b
+subname [condition], b postpone subname [condition], b load filename, b
+compile subname, B line, B *, a [line] command, A line, A *, w expr, W
+expr, W *, o, o booloption .., o anyoption? .., o option=value .., < ?, < [
+command ], < *, << command, > ?, > command, > *, >> command, { ?, { [
+command ], { *, {{ command, ! number, ! -number, ! pattern, !! cmd, source
+file, H -number, q or ^D, R, |dbcmd, ||dbcmd, command, m expr, M, man
+[manpage]
+
+=item Configurable Options
+
+C<recallCommand>, C<ShellBang>, C<pager>, C<tkRunning>, C<signalLevel>,
+C<warnLevel>, C<dieLevel>, C<AutoTrace>, C<LineInfo>, C<inhibit_exit>,
+C<PrintRet>, C<ornaments>, C<frame>, C<maxTraceLen>, C<windowSize>,
+C<arrayDepth>, C<hashDepth>, C<dumpDepth>, C<compactDump>, C<veryCompact>,
+C<globPrint>, C<DumpDBFiles>, C<DumpPackages>, C<DumpReused>, C<quote>,
+C<HighBit>, C<undefPrint>, C<UsageOnly>, C<TTY>, C<noTTY>, C<ReadLine>,
+C<NonStop>
-Basic semaphores, Advanced Semaphores
+=item Debugger input/output
-=item Attributes: Restricting Access To Subroutines
+Prompt, Multiline commands, Stack backtrace, Line Listing Format, Frame
+listing
-=item Subroutine Locks
+=item Debugging compile-time statements
-=item Methods
+=item Debugger Customization
-=item Locking A Subroutine
+=item Readline Support
+
+=item Editor Support for Debugging
+
+=item The Perl Profiler
=back
-=item General Thread Utility Routines
+=item Debugging regular expressions
+
+=item Debugging memory usage
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item BUGS
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlvar - Perl predefined variables
=over 4
-=item What Thread Am I In?
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Thread IDs
+=over 4
-=item Are These Threads The Same?
+=item Predefined Names
-=item What Threads Are Running?
+$ARG, $_, $a, $b, $<I<digits>>, $MATCH, $&, $PREMATCH, $`, $POSTMATCH, $',
+$LAST_PAREN_MATCH, $+, $^N, @LAST_MATCH_END, @+,
+HANDLE->input_line_number(EXPR), $INPUT_LINE_NUMBER, $NR, $,
+IO::Handle->input_record_separator(EXPR), $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR, $RS, $/,
+HANDLE->autoflush(EXPR), $OUTPUT_AUTOFLUSH, $|,
+IO::Handle->output_field_separator EXPR, $OUTPUT_FIELD_SEPARATOR, $OFS, $,,
+IO::Handle->output_record_separator EXPR, $OUTPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR, $ORS,
+$\, $LIST_SEPARATOR, $", $SUBSCRIPT_SEPARATOR, $SUBSEP, $;, $#,
+HANDLE->format_page_number(EXPR), $FORMAT_PAGE_NUMBER, $%,
+HANDLE->format_lines_per_page(EXPR), $FORMAT_LINES_PER_PAGE, $=,
+HANDLE->format_lines_left(EXPR), $FORMAT_LINES_LEFT, $-, @LAST_MATCH_START,
+@-, C<$`> is the same as C<substr($var, 0, $-[0])>, C<$&> is the same as
+C<substr($var, $-[0], $+[0] - $-[0])>, C<$'> is the same as C<substr($var,
+$+[0])>, C<$1> is the same as C<substr($var, $-[1], $+[1] - $-[1])>, C<$2>
+is the same as C<substr($var, $-[2], $+[2] - $-[2])>, C<$3> is the same as
+C<substr $var, $-[3], $+[3] - $-[3])>, HANDLE->format_name(EXPR),
+$FORMAT_NAME, $~, HANDLE->format_top_name(EXPR), $FORMAT_TOP_NAME, $^,
+IO::Handle->format_line_break_characters EXPR,
+$FORMAT_LINE_BREAK_CHARACTERS, $:, IO::Handle->format_formfeed EXPR,
+$FORMAT_FORMFEED, $^L, $ACCUMULATOR, $^A, $CHILD_ERROR, $?, ${^ENCODING},
+$OS_ERROR, $ERRNO, $!, %!, $EXTENDED_OS_ERROR, $^E, $EVAL_ERROR, $@,
+$PROCESS_ID, $PID, $$, $REAL_USER_ID, $UID, $<, $EFFECTIVE_USER_ID, $EUID,
+$>, $REAL_GROUP_ID, $GID, $(, $EFFECTIVE_GROUP_ID, $EGID, $),
+$PROGRAM_NAME, $0, $[, $], $COMPILING, $^C, $DEBUGGING, $^D,
+$SYSTEM_FD_MAX, $^F, $^H, %^H, $INPLACE_EDIT, $^I, $^M, $OSNAME, $^O,
+${^OPEN}, $PERLDB, $^P, 0x01, 0x02, 0x04, 0x08, 0x10, 0x20, 0x40, 0x80,
+0x100, 0x200, 0x400, $LAST_REGEXP_CODE_RESULT, $^R,
+$EXCEPTIONS_BEING_CAUGHT, $^S, $BASETIME, $^T, ${^TAINT}, ${^UNICODE},
+$PERL_VERSION, $^V, $WARNING, $^W, ${^WARNING_BITS}, $EXECUTABLE_NAME, $^X,
+ARGV, $ARGV, @ARGV, ARGVOUT, @F, @INC, @_, %INC, %ENV, $ENV{expr}, %SIG,
+$SIG{expr}
+
+=item Error Indicators
+
+=item Technical Note on the Syntax of Variable Names
=back
-=item A Complete Example
+=item BUGS
-=item Conclusion
+=back
-=item Bibliography
+=head2 perlre - Perl regular expressions
=over 4
-=item Introductory Texts
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item OS-Related References
+i, m, s, x
-=item Other References
+=over 4
+
+=item Regular Expressions
+
+[1], [2], [3], cntrl, graph, print, punct, xdigit
+
+=item Extended Patterns
+
+C<(?#text)>, C<(?imsx-imsx)>, C<(?:pattern)>, C<(?imsx-imsx:pattern)>,
+C<(?=pattern)>, C<(?!pattern)>, C<(?<=pattern)>, C<(?<!pattern)>, C<(?{
+code })>, C<(??{ code })>, C<< (?>pattern) >>,
+C<(?(condition)yes-pattern|no-pattern)>, C<(?(condition)yes-pattern)>
+
+=item Backtracking
+
+=item Version 8 Regular Expressions
+
+=item Warning on \1 vs $1
+
+=item Repeated patterns matching zero-length substring
+
+=item Combining pieces together
+
+C<ST>, C<S|T>, C<S{REPEAT_COUNT}>, C<S{min,max}>, C<S{min,max}?>, C<S?>,
+C<S*>, C<S+>, C<S??>, C<S*?>, C<S+?>, C<< (?>S) >>, C<(?=S)>, C<(?<=S)>,
+C<(?!S)>, C<(?<!S)>, C<(??{ EXPR })>,
+C<(?(condition)yes-pattern|no-pattern)>
+
+=item Creating custom RE engines
=back
-=item Acknowledgements
+=item BUGS
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlreref - Perl Regular Expressions Reference
+
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item OPERATORS
+
+=item SYNTAX
+
+=item ESCAPE SEQUENCES
+
+=item CHARACTER CLASSES
+
+=item ANCHORS
+
+=item QUANTIFIERS
+
+=item EXTENDED CONSTRUCTS
+
+=item VARIABLES
+
+=item FUNCTIONS
+
+=item TERMINOLOGY
+
+=back
=item AUTHOR
-=item Copyrights
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item THANKS
=back
-=head2 perlport - Writing portable Perl
+=head2 perlref - Perl references and nested data structures
=over 4
+=item NOTE
+
=item DESCRIPTION
-Not all Perl programs have to be portable, Nearly all of Perl already I<is>
-portable
+=over 4
-=item ISSUES
+=item Making References
+
+=item Using References
+
+=item Symbolic references
+
+=item Not-so-symbolic references
+
+=item Pseudo-hashes: Using an array as a hash
+
+=item Function Templates
+
+=back
+
+=item WARNING
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlform - Perl formats
=over 4
-=item Newlines
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Numbers endianness and Width
+=over 4
-=item Files and Filesystems
+=item Text Fields
-=item System Interaction
+=item Numeric Fields
-=item Command names versus file pathnames
+=item The Field @* for Variable Width Multi-Line Text
-=item Networking
+=item The Field ^* for Variable Width One-line-at-a-time Text
-=item Interprocess Communication (IPC)
+=item Specifying Values
-=item External Subroutines (XS)
+=item Using Fill Mode
-=item Standard Modules
+=item Suppressing Lines Where All Fields Are Void
-=item Time and Date
+=item Repeating Format Lines
-=item Character sets and character encoding
+=item Top of Form Processing
-=item Internationalisation
+=item Format Variables
-=item System Resources
+=back
-=item Security
+=item NOTES
-=item Style
+=over 4
+
+=item Footers
+
+=item Accessing Formatting Internals
=back
-=item CPAN Testers
+=item WARNINGS
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlobj - Perl objects
+
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item An Object is Simply a Reference
+
+=item A Class is Simply a Package
+
+=item A Method is Simply a Subroutine
+
+=item Method Invocation
+
+=item Indirect Object Syntax
+
+=item Default UNIVERSAL methods
+
+isa(CLASS), can(METHOD), VERSION( [NEED] )
+
+=item Destructors
+
+=item Summary
+
+=item Two-Phased Garbage Collection
+
+=back
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perltie - how to hide an object class in a simple variable
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Tying Scalars
+
+TIESCALAR classname, LIST, FETCH this, STORE this, value, UNTIE this,
+DESTROY this
+
+=item Tying Arrays
-Mailing list: cpan-testers@perl.org, Testing results:
-http://testers.cpan.org/
+TIEARRAY classname, LIST, FETCH this, index, STORE this, index, value,
+FETCHSIZE this, STORESIZE this, count, EXTEND this, count, EXISTS this,
+key, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this, PUSH this, LIST, POP this, SHIFT this,
+UNSHIFT this, LIST, SPLICE this, offset, length, LIST, UNTIE this, DESTROY
+this
-=item PLATFORMS
+=item Tying Hashes
-=over 4
+USER, HOME, CLOBBER, LIST, TIEHASH classname, LIST, FETCH this, key, STORE
+this, key, value, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this, EXISTS this, key, FIRSTKEY
+this, NEXTKEY this, lastkey, SCALAR this, UNTIE this, DESTROY this
-=item Unix
+=item Tying FileHandles
-=item DOS and Derivatives
+TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, WRITE this, LIST, PRINT this, LIST, PRINTF this,
+LIST, READ this, LIST, READLINE this, GETC this, CLOSE this, UNTIE this,
+DESTROY this
-=item S<Mac OS>
+=item UNTIE this
-=item VMS
+=item The C<untie> Gotcha
-=item VOS
+=back
-=item EBCDIC Platforms
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item Acorn RISC OS
+=item BUGS
-=item Other perls
+=item AUTHOR
=back
-=item FUNCTION IMPLEMENTATIONS
+=head2 perldbmfilter - Perl DBM Filters
=over 4
-=item Alphabetical Listing of Perl Functions
+=item SYNOPSIS
--I<X> FILEHANDLE, -I<X> EXPR, -I<X>, alarm SECONDS, alarm, binmode
-FILEHANDLE, chmod LIST, chown LIST, chroot FILENAME, chroot, crypt
-PLAINTEXT,SALT, dbmclose HASH, dbmopen HASH,DBNAME,MODE, dump LABEL, exec
-LIST, exit EXPR, exit, fcntl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, flock
-FILEHANDLE,OPERATION, fork, getlogin, getpgrp PID, getppid, getpriority
-WHICH,WHO, getpwnam NAME, getgrnam NAME, getnetbyname NAME, getpwuid UID,
-getgrgid GID, getnetbyaddr ADDR,ADDRTYPE, getprotobynumber NUMBER,
-getservbyport PORT,PROTO, getpwent, getgrent, gethostbyname, gethostent,
-getnetent, getprotoent, getservent, sethostent STAYOPEN, setnetent
-STAYOPEN, setprotoent STAYOPEN, setservent STAYOPEN, endpwent, endgrent,
-endhostent, endnetent, endprotoent, endservent, getsockopt
-SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME, glob EXPR, glob, ioctl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR,
-kill SIGNAL, LIST, link OLDFILE,NEWFILE, lstat FILEHANDLE, lstat EXPR,
-lstat, msgctl ID,CMD,ARG, msgget KEY,FLAGS, msgsnd ID,MSG,FLAGS, msgrcv
-ID,VAR,SIZE,TYPE,FLAGS, open FILEHANDLE,EXPR, open FILEHANDLE, pipe
-READHANDLE,WRITEHANDLE, readlink EXPR, readlink, select
-RBITS,WBITS,EBITS,TIMEOUT, semctl ID,SEMNUM,CMD,ARG, semget
-KEY,NSEMS,FLAGS, semop KEY,OPSTRING, setgrent, setpgrp PID,PGRP,
-setpriority WHICH,WHO,PRIORITY, setpwent, setsockopt
-SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME,OPTVAL, shmctl ID,CMD,ARG, shmget KEY,SIZE,FLAGS,
-shmread ID,VAR,POS,SIZE, shmwrite ID,STRING,POS,SIZE, sockatmark SOCKET,
-socketpair SOCKET1,SOCKET2,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL, stat FILEHANDLE, stat
-EXPR, stat, symlink OLDFILE,NEWFILE, syscall LIST, sysopen
-FILEHANDLE,FILENAME,MODE,PERMS, system LIST, times, truncate
-FILEHANDLE,LENGTH, truncate EXPR,LENGTH, umask EXPR, umask, utime LIST,
-wait, waitpid PID,FLAGS
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=back
+B<filter_store_key>, B<filter_store_value>, B<filter_fetch_key>,
+B<filter_fetch_value>
-=item CHANGES
+=over 4
-v1.49, 12 August 2002, v1.48, 02 February 2001, v1.47, 22 March 2000,
-v1.46, 12 February 2000, v1.45, 20 December 1999, v1.44, 19 July 1999,
-v1.43, 24 May 1999, v1.42, 22 May 1999, v1.41, 19 May 1999, v1.40, 11 April
-1999, v1.39, 11 February 1999, v1.38, 31 December 1998, v1.37, 19 December
-1998, v1.36, 9 September 1998, v1.35, 13 August 1998, v1.33, 06 August
-1998, v1.32, 05 August 1998, v1.30, 03 August 1998, v1.23, 10 July 1998
+=item The Filter
-=item Supported Platforms
+=item An Example -- the NULL termination problem.
+
+=item Another Example -- Key is a C int.
+
+=back
=item SEE ALSO
-=item AUTHORS / CONTRIBUTORS
+=item AUTHOR
=back
-=head2 perllocale - Perl locale handling (internationalization and
-localization)
+=head2 perlipc - Perl interprocess communication (signals, fifos, pipes,
+safe subprocesses, sockets, and semaphores)
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item PREPARING TO USE LOCALES
-
-=item USING LOCALES
+=item Signals
=over 4
-=item The use locale pragma
-
-=item The setlocale function
-
-=item Finding locales
-
-=item LOCALE PROBLEMS
-
-=item Temporarily fixing locale problems
+=item Handling the SIGHUP Signal in Daemons
-=item Permanently fixing locale problems
+=back
-=item Permanently fixing your system's locale configuration
+=item Named Pipes
-=item Fixing system locale configuration
+=over 4
-=item The localeconv function
+=item Deferred Signals (Safe Signals)
-=item I18N::Langinfo
+Long running opcodes, Interrupting IO, Restartable system calls, Signals as
+"faults", Signals triggered by operating system state
=back
-=item LOCALE CATEGORIES
+=item Using open() for IPC
=over 4
-=item Category LC_COLLATE: Collation
+=item Filehandles
-=item Category LC_CTYPE: Character Types
+=item Background Processes
-=item Category LC_NUMERIC: Numeric Formatting
+=item Complete Dissociation of Child from Parent
-=item Category LC_MONETARY: Formatting of monetary amounts
+=item Safe Pipe Opens
-=item LC_TIME
+=item Bidirectional Communication with Another Process
-=item Other categories
+=item Bidirectional Communication with Yourself
=back
-=item SECURITY
+=item Sockets: Client/Server Communication
-=item ENVIRONMENT
+=over 4
-PERL_BADLANG, LC_ALL, LANGUAGE, LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE, LC_MONETARY,
-LC_NUMERIC, LC_TIME, LANG
+=item Internet Line Terminators
-=item NOTES
+=item Internet TCP Clients and Servers
-=over 4
+=item Unix-Domain TCP Clients and Servers
-=item Backward compatibility
+=back
-=item I18N:Collate obsolete
+=item TCP Clients with IO::Socket
-=item Sort speed and memory use impacts
+=over 4
-=item write() and LC_NUMERIC
+=item A Simple Client
-=item Freely available locale definitions
+C<Proto>, C<PeerAddr>, C<PeerPort>
-=item I18n and l10n
+=item A Webget Client
-=item An imperfect standard
+=item Interactive Client with IO::Socket
=back
-=item Unicode and UTF-8
+=item TCP Servers with IO::Socket
-=item BUGS
+Proto, LocalPort, Listen, Reuse
-=over 4
+=item UDP: Message Passing
-=item Broken systems
+=item SysV IPC
-=back
+=item NOTES
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item BUGS
-=item HISTORY
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=head2 perluniintro - Perl Unicode introduction
+=head2 perlfork - Perl's fork() emulation
=over 4
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
=item DESCRIPTION
=over 4
-=item Unicode
+=item Behavior of other Perl features in forked pseudo-processes
-=item Perl's Unicode Support
+$$ or $PROCESS_ID, %ENV, chdir() and all other builtins that accept
+filenames, wait() and waitpid(), kill(), exec(), exit(), Open handles to
+files, directories and network sockets
-=item Perl's Unicode Model
+=item Resource limits
-=item Unicode and EBCDIC
+=item Killing the parent process
-=item Creating Unicode
+=item Lifetime of the parent process and pseudo-processes
-=item Handling Unicode
+=item CAVEATS AND LIMITATIONS
-=item Legacy Encodings
+BEGIN blocks, Open filehandles, Forking pipe open() not yet implemented,
+Global state maintained by XSUBs, Interpreter embedded in larger
+application, Thread-safety of extensions
-=item Unicode I/O
+=back
-=item Displaying Unicode As Text
+=item BUGS
-=item Special Cases
+=item AUTHOR
-=item Advanced Topics
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item Miscellaneous
+=back
-=item Questions With Answers
+=head2 perlnumber - semantics of numbers and numeric operations in Perl
-=item Hexadecimal Notation
+=over 4
-=item Further Resources
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=back
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item UNICODE IN OLDER PERLS
+=item Storing numbers
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item Numeric operators and numeric conversions
-=item ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
+=item Flavors of Perl numeric operations
-=item AUTHOR, COPYRIGHT, AND LICENSE
+Arithmetic operators, ++, Arithmetic operators during C<use integer>, Other
+mathematical operators, Bitwise operators, Bitwise operators during C<use
+integer>, Operators which expect an integer, Operators which expect a
+string
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=head2 perlunicode - Unicode support in Perl
+=head2 perlthrtut - tutorial on threads in Perl
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=over 4
+=item Status
-=item Important Caveats
+=item What Is A Thread Anyway?
-Input and Output Layers, Regular Expressions, C<use utf8> still needed to
-enable UTF-8/UTF-EBCDIC in scripts
+=item Threaded Program Models
-=item Byte and Character Semantics
+=over 4
-=item Effects of Character Semantics
+=item Boss/Worker
-=item Scripts
+=item Work Crew
-=item Blocks
+=item Pipeline
-=item User-Defined Character Properties
+=back
-=item Character Encodings for Input and Output
+=item What kind of threads are Perl threads?
-=item Unicode Regular Expression Support Level
+=item Thread-Safe Modules
-=item Unicode Encodings
+=item Thread Basics
-=item Security Implications of Unicode
+=over 4
-=item Unicode in Perl on EBCDIC
+=item Basic Thread Support
-=item Locales
+=item A Note about the Examples
-=item When Unicode Does Not Happen
+=item Creating Threads
-=item Forcing Unicode in Perl (Or Unforcing Unicode in Perl)
+=item Waiting For A Thread To Exit
-=item Using Unicode in XS
+=item Ignoring A Thread
=back
-=item BUGS
+=item Threads And Data
=over 4
-=item Interaction with Locales
-
-=item Interaction with Extensions
-
-=item Speed
-
-=item Porting code from perl-5.6.X
-
-=back
+=item Shared And Unshared Data
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item Thread Pitfalls: Races
=back
-=head2 perlebcdic - Considerations for running Perl on EBCDIC platforms
+=item Synchronization and control
=over 4
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Controlling access: lock()
-=item COMMON CHARACTER CODE SETS
+=item A Thread Pitfall: Deadlocks
-=over 4
+=item Queues: Passing Data Around
-=item ASCII
+=item Semaphores: Synchronizing Data Access
-=item ISO 8859
+=item Basic semaphores
-=item Latin 1 (ISO 8859-1)
+=item Advanced Semaphores
-=item EBCDIC
+=item cond_wait() and cond_signal()
-=item 13 variant characters
+=item Giving up control
-=item 0037
+=back
-=item 1047
+=item General Thread Utility Routines
-=item POSIX-BC
+=over 4
-=item Unicode code points versus EBCDIC code points
+=item What Thread Am I In?
-=item Remaining Perl Unicode problems in EBCDIC
+=item Thread IDs
-=item Unicode and UTF
+=item Are These Threads The Same?
-=item Using Encode
+=item What Threads Are Running?
=back
-=item SINGLE OCTET TABLES
-
-recipe 0, recipe 1, recipe 2, recipe 3, recipe 4, recipe 5, recipe 6
+=item A Complete Example
-=item IDENTIFYING CHARACTER CODE SETS
+=item Different implementations of threads
-=item CONVERSIONS
+=item Performance considerations
-=over 4
+=item Process-scope Changes
-=item tr///
+=item Thread-Safety of System Libraries
-=item iconv
+=item Conclusion
-=item C RTL
+=item Bibliography
-=back
+=over 4
-=item OPERATOR DIFFERENCES
+=item Introductory Texts
-=item FUNCTION DIFFERENCES
+=item OS-Related References
-chr(), ord(), pack(), print(), printf(), sort(), sprintf(), unpack()
+=item Other References
-=item REGULAR EXPRESSION DIFFERENCES
+=back
-=item SOCKETS
+=item Acknowledgements
-=item SORTING
+=item AUTHOR
-=over 4
+=item Copyrights
-=item Ignore ASCII vs. EBCDIC sort differences.
+=back
-=item MONO CASE then sort data.
+=head2 perlothrtut - old tutorial on threads in Perl
-=item Convert, sort data, then re convert.
+=over 4
-=item Perform sorting on one type of machine only.
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=back
+=item What Is A Thread Anyway?
-=item TRANSFORMATION FORMATS
+=item Threaded Program Models
=over 4
-=item URL decoding and encoding
-
-=item uu encoding and decoding
+=item Boss/Worker
-=item Quoted-Printable encoding and decoding
+=item Work Crew
-=item Caesarian ciphers
+=item Pipeline
=back
-=item Hashing order and checksums
+=item Native threads
-=item I18N AND L10N
+=item What kind of threads are perl threads?
-=item MULTI OCTET CHARACTER SETS
+=item Threadsafe Modules
-=item OS ISSUES
+=item Thread Basics
=over 4
-=item OS/400
+=item Basic Thread Support
-PASE, IFS access
+=item Creating Threads
-=item OS/390, z/OS
+=item Giving up control
-chcp, dataset access, OS/390, z/OS iconv, locales
+=item Waiting For A Thread To Exit
-=item VM/ESA?
+=item Errors In Threads
-=item POSIX-BC?
+=item Ignoring A Thread
=back
-=item BUGS
+=item Threads And Data
-=item SEE ALSO
+=over 4
-=item REFERENCES
+=item Shared And Unshared Data
-=item HISTORY
+=item Thread Pitfall: Races
-=item AUTHOR
+=item Controlling access: lock()
-=back
+=item Thread Pitfall: Deadlocks
-=head2 perlsec - Perl security
+=item Queues: Passing Data Around
-=over 4
+=back
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Threads And Code
=over 4
-=item Laundering and Detecting Tainted Data
-
-=item Switches On the "#!" Line
+=item Semaphores: Synchronizing Data Access
-=item Cleaning Up Your Path
+Basic semaphores, Advanced Semaphores
-=item Security Bugs
+=item Attributes: Restricting Access To Subroutines
-=item Protecting Your Programs
+=item Subroutine Locks
-=item Unicode
+=item Methods
-=item Algorithmic Complexity Attacks
+=item Locking A Subroutine
=back
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item General Thread Utility Routines
-=back
+=over 4
-=head2 perlmod - Perl modules (packages and symbol tables)
+=item What Thread Am I In?
-=over 4
+=item Thread IDs
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Are These Threads The Same?
-=over 4
+=item What Threads Are Running?
-=item Packages
+=back
-=item Symbol Tables
+=item A Complete Example
-=item Package Constructors and Destructors
+=item Conclusion
-=item Perl Classes
+=item Bibliography
-=item Perl Modules
+=over 4
-=item Making your module threadsafe
+=item Introductory Texts
-=back
+=item OS-Related References
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item Other References
=back
-=head2 perlmodinstall - Installing CPAN Modules
+=item Acknowledgements
-=over 4
+=item AUTHOR
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Copyrights
-=over 4
+=back
-=item PREAMBLE
+=head2 perlport - Writing portable Perl
-B<DECOMPRESS> the file, B<UNPACK> the file into a directory, B<BUILD> the
-module (sometimes unnecessary), B<INSTALL> the module
+=over 4
-=back
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item PORTABILITY
+Not all Perl programs have to be portable, Nearly all of Perl already I<is>
+portable
-=item HEY
+=item ISSUES
-=item AUTHOR
+=over 4
-=item COPYRIGHT
+=item Newlines
-=back
+=item Numbers endianness and Width
-=head2 perlmodlib - constructing new Perl modules and finding existing ones
+=item Files and Filesystems
-=over 4
+=item System Interaction
-=item THE PERL MODULE LIBRARY
+=item Command names versus file pathnames
-=over 4
+=item Networking
-=item Pragmatic Modules
+=item Interprocess Communication (IPC)
-assertions, assertions::activate, attributes, attrs, autouse, base, bigint,
-bignum, bigrat, blib, bytes, charnames, constant, diagnostics, encoding,
-fields, filetest, if, integer, less, lib, locale, open, ops, overload, re,
-sigtrap, sort, strict, subs, threads, threads::shared, utf8, vars, version,
-vmsish, warnings, warnings::register
+=item External Subroutines (XS)
=item Standard Modules
-AnyDBM_File, Attribute::Handlers, AutoLoader, AutoSplit, B, B::Asmdata,
-B::Assembler, B::Bblock, B::Bytecode, B::C, B::CC, B::Concise, B::Debug,
-B::Deparse, B::Disassembler, B::Lint, B::Showlex, B::Stackobj, B::Stash,
-B::Terse, B::Xref, Benchmark, ByteLoader, CGI, CGI::Apache, CGI::Carp,
-CGI::Cookie, CGI::Fast, CGI::Pretty, CGI::Push, CGI::Switch, CGI::Util,
-CPAN, CPAN::FirstTime, CPAN::Nox, Carp, Carp::Heavy, Class::ISA,
-Class::Struct, Config, Cwd, DB, DB_File, Data::Dumper, Devel::DProf,
-Devel::PPPort, Devel::Peek, Devel::SelfStubber, Digest, Digest::MD5,
-DirHandle, Dumpvalue, DynaLoader, Encode, Encode::Alias, Encode::Byte,
-Encode::CJKConstants, Encode::CN, Encode::CN::HZ, Encode::Config,
-Encode::EBCDIC, Encode::Encoder, Encode::Encoding, Encode::Guess,
-Encode::JP, Encode::JP::H2Z, Encode::JP::JIS7, Encode::KR,
-Encode::KR::2022_KR, Encode::MIME::Header, Encode::PerlIO,
-Encode::Supported, Encode::Symbol, Encode::TW, Encode::Unicode,
-Encode::Unicode::UTF7, English, Env, Errno, Exporter, Exporter::Heavy,
-ExtUtils::Command, ExtUtils::Command::MM, ExtUtils::Constant,
-ExtUtils::Embed, ExtUtils::Install, ExtUtils::Installed, ExtUtils::Liblist,
-ExtUtils::MM, ExtUtils::MM_Any, ExtUtils::MM_BeOS, ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin,
-ExtUtils::MM_DOS, ExtUtils::MM_MacOS, ExtUtils::MM_NW5, ExtUtils::MM_OS2,
-ExtUtils::MM_UWIN, ExtUtils::MM_Unix, ExtUtils::MM_VMS, ExtUtils::MM_Win32,
-ExtUtils::MM_Win95, ExtUtils::MY, ExtUtils::MakeMaker,
-ExtUtils::MakeMaker::FAQ, ExtUtils::MakeMaker::Tutorial,
-ExtUtils::MakeMaker::bytes, ExtUtils::MakeMaker::vmsish,
-ExtUtils::Manifest, ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap, ExtUtils::Mksymlists,
-ExtUtils::Packlist, ExtUtils::testlib, Fatal, Fcntl, File::Basename,
-File::CheckTree, File::Compare, File::Copy, File::DosGlob, File::Find,
-File::Glob, File::Path, File::Spec, File::Spec::Cygwin, File::Spec::Epoc,
-File::Spec::Functions, File::Spec::Mac, File::Spec::OS2, File::Spec::Unix,
-File::Spec::VMS, File::Spec::Win32, File::Temp, File::stat, FileCache,
-FileHandle, Filter::Simple, Filter::Util::Call, FindBin, GDBM_File,
-Getopt::Long, Getopt::Std, Hash::Util, I18N::Collate, I18N::LangTags,
-I18N::LangTags::List, I18N::Langinfo, IO, IO::Dir, IO::File, IO::Handle,
-IO::Pipe, IO::Poll, IO::Seekable, IO::Select, IO::Socket, IO::Socket::INET,
-IO::Socket::UNIX, IPC::Open2, IPC::Open3, IPC::SysV, IPC::SysV::Msg,
-IPC::SysV::Semaphore, List::Util, Locale::Constants, Locale::Country,
-Locale::Currency, Locale::Language, Locale::Maketext,
-Locale::Maketext::TPJ13, Locale::Script, MIME::Base64,
-MIME::Base64::QuotedPrint, Math::BigFloat, Math::BigInt,
-Math::BigInt::Calc, Math::BigInt::Scalar, Math::BigRat, Math::Complex,
-Math::Trig, Memoize, Memoize::AnyDBM_File, Memoize::Expire,
-Memoize::ExpireFile, Memoize::ExpireTest, Memoize::NDBM_File,
-Memoize::SDBM_File, Memoize::Storable, NDBM_File, NEXT, Net::Cmd,
-Net::Config, Net::Domain, Net::FTP, Net::NNTP, Net::Netrc, Net::POP3,
-Net::Ping, Net::SMTP, Net::Time, Net::hostent, Net::libnetFAQ, Net::netent,
-Net::protoent, Net::servent, O, ODBM_File, Opcode, POSIX, PerlIO,
-PerlIO::encoding, PerlIO::scalar, PerlIO::via, PerlIO::via::QuotedPrint,
-Pod::Checker, Pod::Find, Pod::Functions, Pod::Html, Pod::InputObjects,
-Pod::LaTeX, Pod::Man, Pod::ParseLink, Pod::ParseUtils, Pod::Parser,
-Pod::Perldoc::ToChecker, Pod::Perldoc::ToMan, Pod::Perldoc::ToNroff,
-Pod::Perldoc::ToPod, Pod::Perldoc::ToRtf, Pod::Perldoc::ToText,
-Pod::Perldoc::ToTk, Pod::Perldoc::ToXml, Pod::PlainText, Pod::Plainer,
-Pod::Select, Pod::Text, Pod::Text::Color, Pod::Text::Overstrike,
-Pod::Text::Termcap, Pod::Usage, SDBM_File, Safe, Scalar::Util,
-Search::Dict, SelectSaver, SelfLoader, Shell, Socket, Storable, Switch,
-Symbol, Sys::Hostname, Sys::Syslog, Term::ANSIColor, Term::Cap,
-Term::Complete, Term::ReadLine, Test, Test::Builder, Test::Harness,
-Test::Harness::Assert, Test::Harness::Iterator, Test::Harness::Straps,
-Test::More, Test::Simple, Test::Tutorial, Text::Abbrev, Text::Balanced,
-Text::ParseWords, Text::Soundex, Text::Tabs, Text::Wrap, Thread,
-Thread::Queue, Thread::Semaphore, Thread::Signal, Thread::Specific,
-Tie::Array, Tie::File, Tie::Handle, Tie::Hash, Tie::Memoize, Tie::RefHash,
-Tie::Scalar, Tie::SubstrHash, Time::HiRes, Time::Local, Time::gmtime,
-Time::localtime, Time::tm, UNIVERSAL, Unicode::Collate, Unicode::Normalize,
-Unicode::UCD, User::grent, User::pwent, Win32, XS::APItest, XS::Typemap,
-XSLoader
-
-=item Extension Modules
+=item Time and Date
-=back
+=item Character sets and character encoding
-=item CPAN
+=item Internationalisation
-=over 4
+=item System Resources
-=item Africa
+=item Security
-South Africa
+=item Style
-=item Asia
+=back
-China, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Russian Federation, Saudi
-Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan
+=item CPAN Testers
-=item Central America
+Mailing list: cpan-testers@perl.org, Testing results:
+http://testers.cpan.org/
-Costa Rica
+=item PLATFORMS
-=item Europe
+=over 4
-Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,
-Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia,
-Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia,
-Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United
-Kingdom
+=item Unix
-=item North America
+=item DOS and Derivatives
-Canada, Alberta, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Mexico, United States,
-Alabama, California, Colorado, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida,
-Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey,
-New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas,
-Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin
+=item S<Mac OS>
-=item Oceania
+=item VMS
-Australia, New Zealand, United States
+=item VOS
-=item South America
+=item EBCDIC Platforms
-Argentina, Brazil, Chile
+=item Acorn RISC OS
-=item RSYNC Mirrors
+=item Other perls
=back
-=item Modules: Creation, Use, and Abuse
+=item FUNCTION IMPLEMENTATIONS
=over 4
-=item Guidelines for Module Creation
-
-=item Guidelines for Converting Perl 4 Library Scripts into Modules
+=item Alphabetical Listing of Perl Functions
-=item Guidelines for Reusing Application Code
+-I<X> FILEHANDLE, -I<X> EXPR, -I<X>, binmode FILEHANDLE, chmod LIST, chown
+LIST, chroot FILENAME, chroot, crypt PLAINTEXT,SALT, dbmclose HASH, dbmopen
+HASH,DBNAME,MODE, dump LABEL, exec LIST, exit EXPR, exit, fcntl
+FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, flock FILEHANDLE,OPERATION, fork, getlogin,
+getpgrp PID, getppid, getpriority WHICH,WHO, getpwnam NAME, getgrnam NAME,
+getnetbyname NAME, getpwuid UID, getgrgid GID, getnetbyaddr ADDR,ADDRTYPE,
+getprotobynumber NUMBER, getservbyport PORT,PROTO, getpwent, getgrent,
+gethostbyname, gethostent, getnetent, getprotoent, getservent, sethostent
+STAYOPEN, setnetent STAYOPEN, setprotoent STAYOPEN, setservent STAYOPEN,
+endpwent, endgrent, endhostent, endnetent, endprotoent, endservent,
+getsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME, glob EXPR, glob, ioctl
+FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, kill SIGNAL, LIST, link OLDFILE,NEWFILE, lstat
+FILEHANDLE, lstat EXPR, lstat, msgctl ID,CMD,ARG, msgget KEY,FLAGS, msgsnd
+ID,MSG,FLAGS, msgrcv ID,VAR,SIZE,TYPE,FLAGS, open FILEHANDLE,EXPR, open
+FILEHANDLE, pipe READHANDLE,WRITEHANDLE, readlink EXPR, readlink, select
+RBITS,WBITS,EBITS,TIMEOUT, semctl ID,SEMNUM,CMD,ARG, semget
+KEY,NSEMS,FLAGS, semop KEY,OPSTRING, setgrent, setpgrp PID,PGRP,
+setpriority WHICH,WHO,PRIORITY, setpwent, setsockopt
+SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME,OPTVAL, shmctl ID,CMD,ARG, shmget KEY,SIZE,FLAGS,
+shmread ID,VAR,POS,SIZE, shmwrite ID,STRING,POS,SIZE, sockatmark SOCKET,
+socketpair SOCKET1,SOCKET2,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL, stat FILEHANDLE, stat
+EXPR, stat, symlink OLDFILE,NEWFILE, syscall LIST, sysopen
+FILEHANDLE,FILENAME,MODE,PERMS, system LIST, times, truncate
+FILEHANDLE,LENGTH, truncate EXPR,LENGTH, umask EXPR, umask, utime LIST,
+wait, waitpid PID,FLAGS
=back
-=item NOTE
+=item CHANGES
+
+v1.49, 12 August 2002, v1.48, 02 February 2001, v1.47, 22 March 2000,
+v1.46, 12 February 2000, v1.45, 20 December 1999, v1.44, 19 July 1999,
+v1.43, 24 May 1999, v1.42, 22 May 1999, v1.41, 19 May 1999, v1.40, 11 April
+1999, v1.39, 11 February 1999, v1.38, 31 December 1998, v1.37, 19 December
+1998, v1.36, 9 September 1998, v1.35, 13 August 1998, v1.33, 06 August
+1998, v1.32, 05 August 1998, v1.30, 03 August 1998, v1.23, 10 July 1998
+
+=item Supported Platforms
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHORS / CONTRIBUTORS
=back
-=head2 perlmodstyle - Perl module style guide
+=head2 perllocale - Perl locale handling (internationalization and
+localization)
=over 4
-=item INTRODUCTION
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item QUICK CHECKLIST
+=item PREPARING TO USE LOCALES
+
+=item USING LOCALES
=over 4
-=item Before you start
+=item The use locale pragma
-=item The API
+=item The setlocale function
-=item Stability
+=item Finding locales
-=item Documentation
+=item LOCALE PROBLEMS
-=item Release considerations
+=item Temporarily fixing locale problems
+
+=item Permanently fixing locale problems
+
+=item Permanently fixing your system's locale configuration
+
+=item Fixing system locale configuration
+
+=item The localeconv function
+
+=item I18N::Langinfo
=back
-=item BEFORE YOU START WRITING A MODULE
+=item LOCALE CATEGORIES
=over 4
-=item Has it been done before?
+=item Category LC_COLLATE: Collation
-=item Do one thing and do it well
+=item Category LC_CTYPE: Character Types
-=item What's in a name?
+=item Category LC_NUMERIC: Numeric Formatting
+
+=item Category LC_MONETARY: Formatting of monetary amounts
+
+=item LC_TIME
+
+=item Other categories
=back
-=item DESIGNING AND WRITING YOUR MODULE
+=item SECURITY
+
+=item ENVIRONMENT
+
+PERL_BADLANG, LC_ALL, LANGUAGE, LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE, LC_MONETARY,
+LC_NUMERIC, LC_TIME, LANG
+
+=item NOTES
=over 4
-=item To OO or not to OO?
+=item Backward compatibility
-=item Designing your API
+=item I18N:Collate obsolete
-Write simple routines to do simple things, Separate functionality from
-output, Provide sensible shortcuts and defaults, Naming conventions,
-Parameter passing
+=item Sort speed and memory use impacts
-=item Strictness and warnings
+=item write() and LC_NUMERIC
-=item Backwards compatibility
+=item Freely available locale definitions
-=item Error handling and messages
+=item I18n and l10n
+
+=item An imperfect standard
=back
-=item DOCUMENTING YOUR MODULE
+=item Unicode and UTF-8
+
+=item BUGS
=over 4
-=item POD
+=item Broken systems
-=item README, INSTALL, release notes, changelogs
+=back
-perl Makefile.PL, make, make test, make install, perl Build.PL, perl Build,
-perl Build test, perl Build install
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item HISTORY
=back
-=item RELEASE CONSIDERATIONS
+=head2 perluniintro - Perl Unicode introduction
=over 4
-=item Version numbering
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Pre-requisites
+=over 4
-=item Testing
+=item Unicode
-=item Packaging
+=item Perl's Unicode Support
-=item Licensing
+=item Perl's Unicode Model
-=back
+=item Unicode and EBCDIC
-=item COMMON PITFALLS
+=item Creating Unicode
-=over 4
+=item Handling Unicode
-=item Reinventing the wheel
+=item Legacy Encodings
-=item Trying to do too much
+=item Unicode I/O
-=item Inappropriate documentation
+=item Displaying Unicode As Text
+
+=item Special Cases
+
+=item Advanced Topics
+
+=item Miscellaneous
+
+=item Questions With Answers
+
+=item Hexadecimal Notation
+
+=item Further Resources
=back
+=item UNICODE IN OLDER PERLS
+
=item SEE ALSO
-L<perlstyle>, L<perlnewmod>, L<perlpod>, L<podchecker>, Packaging Tools,
-Testing tools, http://pause.perl.org/, Any good book on software
-engineering
+=item ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
-=item AUTHOR
+=item AUTHOR, COPYRIGHT, AND LICENSE
=back
-=head2 perlnewmod - preparing a new module for distribution
+=head2 perlunicode - Unicode support in Perl
=over 4
=over 4
-=item Warning
+=item Important Caveats
-=item What should I make into a module?
+Input and Output Layers, Regular Expressions, C<use utf8> still needed to
+enable UTF-8/UTF-EBCDIC in scripts, BOM-marked scripts and UTF-16 scripts
+autodetected, C<use encoding> needed to upgrade non-Latin-1 byte strings
-=item Step-by-step: Preparing the ground
+=item Byte and Character Semantics
-Look around, Check it's new, Discuss the need, Choose a name, Check again
+=item Effects of Character Semantics
-=item Step-by-step: Making the module
+=item Scripts
+
+=item Blocks
-Start with F<h2xs>, Use L<strict|strict> and L<warnings|warnings>, Use
-L<Carp|Carp>, Use L<Exporter|Exporter> - wisely!, Use L<plain old
-documentation|perlpod>, Write tests, Write the README
+=item User-Defined Character Properties
-=item Step-by-step: Distributing your module
+=item Character Encodings for Input and Output
-Get a CPAN user ID, C<perl Makefile.PL; make test; make dist>, Upload the
-tarball, Announce to the modules list, Announce to clpa, Fix bugs!
+=item Unicode Regular Expression Support Level
-=back
+=item Unicode Encodings
-=item AUTHOR
+=item Security Implications of Unicode
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item Unicode in Perl on EBCDIC
+
+=item Locales
+
+=item When Unicode Does Not Happen
+
+=item Forcing Unicode in Perl (Or Unforcing Unicode in Perl)
+
+=item Using Unicode in XS
=back
-=head2 perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.12 $, $Date:
-2003/07/09 15:47:28 $)
+=item BUGS
=over 4
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Interaction with Locales
-=over 4
+=item Interaction with Extensions
-=item What is Perl?
+=item Speed
-=item Who supports Perl? Who develops it? Why is it free?
+=item Porting code from perl-5.6.X
-=item Which version of Perl should I use?
+=back
-=item What are perl4 and perl5?
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item What is Ponie?
+=back
+
+=head2 perlebcdic - Considerations for running Perl on EBCDIC platforms
+
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item COMMON CHARACTER CODE SETS
+
+=over 4
+
+=item ASCII
-=item What is perl6?
+=item ISO 8859
-=item How stable is Perl?
+=item Latin 1 (ISO 8859-1)
-=item Is Perl difficult to learn?
+=item EBCDIC
-=item How does Perl compare with other languages like Java, Python, REXX,
-Scheme, or Tcl?
+=item 13 variant characters
-=item Can I do [task] in Perl?
+=item 0037
-=item When shouldn't I program in Perl?
+=item 1047
-=item What's the difference between "perl" and "Perl"?
+=item POSIX-BC
-=item Is it a Perl program or a Perl script?
+=item Unicode code points versus EBCDIC code points
-=item What is a JAPH?
+=item Remaining Perl Unicode problems in EBCDIC
-=item Where can I get a list of Larry Wall witticisms?
+=item Unicode and UTF
-=item How can I convince my sysadmin/supervisor/employees to use version
-5/5.6.1/Perl instead of some other language?
+=item Using Encode
=back
-=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
+=item SINGLE OCTET TABLES
-=back
+recipe 0, recipe 1, recipe 2, recipe 3, recipe 4, recipe 5, recipe 6
-=head2 perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.21 $,
-$Date: 2003/07/30 05:48:24 $)
+=item IDENTIFYING CHARACTER CODE SETS
+
+=item CONVERSIONS
=over 4
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item tr///
-=over 4
+=item iconv
-=item What machines support Perl? Where do I get it?
+=item C RTL
-=item How can I get a binary version of Perl?
+=back
-=item I don't have a C compiler on my system. How can I compile perl?
+=item OPERATOR DIFFERENCES
-=item I copied the Perl binary from one machine to another, but scripts
-don't work.
+=item FUNCTION DIFFERENCES
-=item I grabbed the sources and tried to compile but gdbm/dynamic
-loading/malloc/linking/... failed. How do I make it work?
+chr(), ord(), pack(), print(), printf(), sort(), sprintf(), unpack()
-=item What modules and extensions are available for Perl? What is CPAN?
-What does CPAN/src/... mean?
+=item REGULAR EXPRESSION DIFFERENCES
-=item Is there an ISO or ANSI certified version of Perl?
+=item SOCKETS
-=item Where can I get information on Perl?
+=item SORTING
-=item What are the Perl newsgroups on Usenet? Where do I post questions?
+=over 4
-=item Where should I post source code?
+=item Ignore ASCII vs. EBCDIC sort differences.
-=item Perl Books
+=item MONO CASE then sort data.
-References, Tutorials, Task-Oriented, Special Topics
+=item Convert, sort data, then re convert.
-=item Perl in Magazines
+=item Perform sorting on one type of machine only.
-=item Perl on the Net: FTP and WWW Access
+=back
-=item What mailing lists are there for Perl?
+=item TRANSFORMATION FORMATS
-=item Archives of comp.lang.perl.misc
+=over 4
-=item Where can I buy a commercial version of Perl?
+=item URL decoding and encoding
-=item Where do I send bug reports?
+=item uu encoding and decoding
-=item What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org? cpan.org?
+=item Quoted-Printable encoding and decoding
+
+=item Caesarian ciphers
=back
-=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
+=item Hashing order and checksums
-=back
+=item I18N AND L10N
+
+=item MULTI OCTET CHARACTER SETS
-=head2 perlfaq3 - Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.33 $, $Date: 2003/01/31
-17:34:56 $)
+=item OS ISSUES
=over 4
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item OS/400
-=over 4
+PASE, IFS access
-=item How do I do (anything)?
+=item OS/390, z/OS
-=item How can I use Perl interactively?
+chcp, dataset access, OS/390, z/OS iconv, locales
-=item Is there a Perl shell?
+=item VM/ESA?
-=item How do I find which modules are installed on my system?
+=item POSIX-BC?
-=item How do I debug my Perl programs?
+=back
-=item How do I profile my Perl programs?
+=item BUGS
-=item How do I cross-reference my Perl programs?
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item Is there a pretty-printer (formatter) for Perl?
+=item REFERENCES
-=item Is there a ctags for Perl?
+=item HISTORY
-=item Is there an IDE or Windows Perl Editor?
+=item AUTHOR
-Komodo, The Object System, Open Perl IDE, PerlBuilder, visiPerl+, OptiPerl,
-GNU Emacs, MicroEMACS, XEmacs, Jed, Elvis, Vile, Vim, Codewright,
-MultiEdit, SlickEdit, Bash, Ksh, Tcsh, Zsh, BBEdit and BBEdit Lite, Alpha
+=back
-=item Where can I get Perl macros for vi?
+=head2 perlsec - Perl security
-=item Where can I get perl-mode for emacs?
+=over 4
-=item How can I use curses with Perl?
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item How can I use X or Tk with Perl?
+=over 4
-=item How can I generate simple menus without using CGI or Tk?
+=item Laundering and Detecting Tainted Data
-=item How can I make my Perl program run faster?
+=item Switches On the "#!" Line
-=item How can I make my Perl program take less memory?
+=item Taint mode and @INC
-Don't slurp!, Use map and grep selectively, Avoid unnecessary quotes and
-stringification, Pass by reference, Tie large variables to disk
+=item Cleaning Up Your Path
-=item Is it safe to return a reference to local or lexical data?
+=item Security Bugs
-=item How can I free an array or hash so my program shrinks?
+=item Protecting Your Programs
-=item How can I make my CGI script more efficient?
+=item Unicode
-=item How can I hide the source for my Perl program?
+=item Algorithmic Complexity Attacks
-=item How can I compile my Perl program into byte code or C?
+=back
-=item How can I compile Perl into Java?
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item How can I get C<#!perl> to work on [MS-DOS,NT,...]?
+=back
-=item Can I write useful Perl programs on the command line?
+=head2 perlmod - Perl modules (packages and symbol tables)
-=item Why don't Perl one-liners work on my DOS/Mac/VMS system?
+=over 4
-=item Where can I learn about CGI or Web programming in Perl?
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Where can I learn about object-oriented Perl programming?
+=over 4
-=item Where can I learn about linking C with Perl? [h2xs, xsubpp]
+=item Packages
-=item I've read perlembed, perlguts, etc., but I can't embed perl in
-my C program; what am I doing wrong?
+=item Symbol Tables
-=item When I tried to run my script, I got this message. What does it mean?
+=item BEGIN, CHECK, INIT and END
-=item What's MakeMaker?
+=item Perl Classes
-=back
+=item Perl Modules
-=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
+=item Making your module threadsafe
=back
-=head2 perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation ($Revision: 1.44 $, $Date: 2003/07/28
-17:35:21 $)
-
-=over 4
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=back
-=item Data: Numbers
+=head2 perlmodlib - constructing new Perl modules and finding existing ones
=over 4
-=item Why am I getting long decimals (eg, 19.9499999999999) instead of the
-numbers I should be getting (eg, 19.95)?
+=item THE PERL MODULE LIBRARY
-=item Why isn't my octal data interpreted correctly?
+=over 4
-=item Does Perl have a round() function? What about ceil() and floor()?
-Trig functions?
+=item Pragmatic Modules
-=item How do I convert between numeric representations?
+assertions, assertions::activate, attributes, attrs, autouse, base, bigint,
+bignum, bigrat, blib, bytes, charnames, constant, diagnostics, encoding,
+fields, filetest, if, integer, less, lib, locale, open, ops, overload, re,
+sigtrap, sort, strict, subs, threads, threads::shared, utf8, vars, version,
+vmsish, warnings, warnings::register
-How do I convert hexadecimal into decimal, How do I convert from decimal to
-hexadecimal, How do I convert from octal to decimal, How do I convert from
-decimal to octal, How do I convert from binary to decimal, How do I convert
-from decimal to binary
+=item Standard Modules
-=item Why doesn't & work the way I want it to?
+AnyDBM_File, Attribute::Handlers, AutoLoader, AutoSplit, B, B::Asmdata,
+B::Assembler, B::Bblock, B::Bytecode, B::C, B::CC, B::Concise, B::Debug,
+B::Deparse, B::Disassembler, B::Lint, B::Showlex, B::Stackobj, B::Stash,
+B::Terse, B::Xref, Benchmark, ByteLoader, CGI, CGI::Apache, CGI::Carp,
+CGI::Cookie, CGI::Fast, CGI::Pretty, CGI::Push, CGI::Switch, CGI::Util,
+CPAN, CPAN::FirstTime, CPAN::Nox, Carp, Carp::Heavy, Class::ISA,
+Class::Struct, Config, Cwd, DB, DBM_Filter, DB_File, Data::Dumper,
+Devel::DProf, Devel::PPPort, Devel::Peek, Devel::SelfStubber, Digest,
+Digest::MD5, Digest::base, DirHandle, Dumpvalue, DynaLoader, Encode,
+Encode::Alias, Encode::Byte, Encode::CJKConstants, Encode::CN,
+Encode::CN::HZ, Encode::Config, Encode::EBCDIC, Encode::Encoder,
+Encode::Encoding, Encode::Guess, Encode::JP, Encode::JP::H2Z,
+Encode::JP::JIS7, Encode::KR, Encode::KR::2022_KR, Encode::MIME::Header,
+Encode::PerlIO, Encode::Supported, Encode::Symbol, Encode::TW,
+Encode::Unicode, Encode::Unicode::UTF7, English, Env, Errno, Exporter,
+Exporter::Heavy, ExtUtils::Command, ExtUtils::Command::MM,
+ExtUtils::Constant, ExtUtils::Embed, ExtUtils::Install,
+ExtUtils::Installed, ExtUtils::Liblist, ExtUtils::MM, ExtUtils::MM_Any,
+ExtUtils::MM_BeOS, ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin, ExtUtils::MM_DOS,
+ExtUtils::MM_MacOS, ExtUtils::MM_NW5, ExtUtils::MM_OS2, ExtUtils::MM_UWIN,
+ExtUtils::MM_Unix, ExtUtils::MM_VMS, ExtUtils::MM_Win32,
+ExtUtils::MM_Win95, ExtUtils::MY, ExtUtils::MakeMaker,
+ExtUtils::MakeMaker::FAQ, ExtUtils::MakeMaker::Tutorial,
+ExtUtils::MakeMaker::bytes, ExtUtils::MakeMaker::vmsish,
+ExtUtils::Manifest, ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap, ExtUtils::Mksymlists,
+ExtUtils::Packlist, ExtUtils::testlib, Fatal, Fcntl, File::Basename,
+File::CheckTree, File::Compare, File::Copy, File::DosGlob, File::Find,
+File::Glob, File::Path, File::Spec, File::Spec::Cygwin, File::Spec::Epoc,
+File::Spec::Functions, File::Spec::Mac, File::Spec::OS2, File::Spec::Unix,
+File::Spec::VMS, File::Spec::Win32, File::Temp, File::stat, FileCache,
+FileHandle, Filter::Simple, Filter::Util::Call, FindBin, GDBM_File,
+Getopt::Long, Getopt::Std, Hash::Util, I18N::Collate, I18N::LangTags,
+I18N::LangTags::List, I18N::Langinfo, IO, IO::Dir, IO::File, IO::Handle,
+IO::Pipe, IO::Poll, IO::Seekable, IO::Select, IO::Socket, IO::Socket::INET,
+IO::Socket::UNIX, IPC::Open2, IPC::Open3, IPC::SysV, IPC::SysV::Msg,
+IPC::SysV::Semaphore, List::Util, Locale::Constants, Locale::Country,
+Locale::Currency, Locale::Language, Locale::Maketext,
+Locale::Maketext::TPJ13, Locale::Script, MIME::Base64,
+MIME::Base64::QuotedPrint, Math::BigFloat, Math::BigInt,
+Math::BigInt::Calc, Math::BigInt::CalcEmu, Math::BigRat, Math::Complex,
+Math::Trig, Memoize, Memoize::AnyDBM_File, Memoize::Expire,
+Memoize::ExpireFile, Memoize::ExpireTest, Memoize::NDBM_File,
+Memoize::SDBM_File, Memoize::Storable, NDBM_File, NEXT, Net::Cmd,
+Net::Config, Net::Domain, Net::FTP, Net::NNTP, Net::Netrc, Net::POP3,
+Net::Ping, Net::SMTP, Net::Time, Net::hostent, Net::libnetFAQ, Net::netent,
+Net::protoent, Net::servent, O, ODBM_File, Opcode, POSIX, PerlIO,
+PerlIO::encoding, PerlIO::scalar, PerlIO::via, PerlIO::via::QuotedPrint,
+Pod::Checker, Pod::Find, Pod::Functions, Pod::Html, Pod::InputObjects,
+Pod::LaTeX, Pod::Man, Pod::ParseLink, Pod::ParseUtils, Pod::Parser,
+Pod::Perldoc::ToChecker, Pod::Perldoc::ToMan, Pod::Perldoc::ToNroff,
+Pod::Perldoc::ToPod, Pod::Perldoc::ToRtf, Pod::Perldoc::ToText,
+Pod::Perldoc::ToTk, Pod::Perldoc::ToXml, Pod::PlainText, Pod::Plainer,
+Pod::Select, Pod::Text, Pod::Text::Color, Pod::Text::Overstrike,
+Pod::Text::Termcap, Pod::Usage, SDBM_File, Safe, Scalar::Util,
+Search::Dict, SelectSaver, SelfLoader, Shell, Socket, Storable, Switch,
+Symbol, Sys::Hostname, Sys::Syslog, Term::ANSIColor, Term::Cap,
+Term::Complete, Term::ReadLine, Test, Test::Builder, Test::Harness,
+Test::Harness::Assert, Test::Harness::Iterator, Test::Harness::Straps,
+Test::More, Test::Simple, Test::Tutorial, Text::Abbrev, Text::Balanced,
+Text::ParseWords, Text::Soundex, Text::Tabs, Text::Wrap, Thread,
+Thread::Queue, Thread::Semaphore, Thread::Signal, Thread::Specific,
+Tie::Array, Tie::File, Tie::Handle, Tie::Hash, Tie::Memoize, Tie::RefHash,
+Tie::Scalar, Tie::SubstrHash, Time::HiRes, Time::Local, Time::gmtime,
+Time::localtime, Time::tm, UNIVERSAL, Unicode::Collate, Unicode::Normalize,
+Unicode::UCD, User::grent, User::pwent, Win32, XS::APItest, XS::Typemap,
+XSLoader
-=item How do I multiply matrices?
+=item Extension Modules
-=item How do I perform an operation on a series of integers?
+=back
-=item How can I output Roman numerals?
+=item CPAN
-=item Why aren't my random numbers random?
+=over 4
-=item How do I get a random number between X and Y?
+=item Africa
-=back
+South Africa
-=item Data: Dates
+=item Asia
-=over 4
+China, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Russian Federation, Saudi
+Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand
-=item How do I find the day or week of the year?
+=item Central America
-=item How can I compare two dates and find the difference?
+Costa Rica
-=item How can I take a string and turn it into epoch seconds?
+=item Europe
-=item How can I find the Julian Day?
+Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech
+Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary,
+Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland,
+Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
+Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom
-=item How do I find yesterday's date?
+=item North America
-=item Does Perl have a Year 2000 problem? Is Perl Y2K compliant?
+Canada, Alberta, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Mexico, United States,
+Alabama, California, Colorado, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida,
+Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New York,
+North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah,
+Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin
-=back
+=item Oceania
-=item Data: Strings
+Australia, New Zealand, United States
-=over 4
+=item South America
-=item How do I validate input?
+Argentina, Brazil, Chile
-=item How do I unescape a string?
+=item RSYNC Mirrors
-=item How do I remove consecutive pairs of characters?
+=back
-=item How do I expand function calls in a string?
+=item Modules: Creation, Use, and Abuse
-=item How do I find matching/nesting anything?
+=over 4
-=item How do I reverse a string?
+=item Guidelines for Module Creation
-=item How do I expand tabs in a string?
+=item Guidelines for Converting Perl 4 Library Scripts into Modules
-=item How do I reformat a paragraph?
+=item Guidelines for Reusing Application Code
-=item How can I access or change N characters of a string?
+=back
-=item How do I change the Nth occurrence of something?
+=item NOTE
-=item How can I count the number of occurrences of a substring within a
-string?
+=back
-=item How do I capitalize all the words on one line?
+=head2 perlmodstyle - Perl module style guide
-=item How can I split a [character] delimited string except when inside
-[character]?
+=over 4
-=item How do I strip blank space from the beginning/end of a string?
+=item INTRODUCTION
-=item How do I pad a string with blanks or pad a number with zeroes?
+=item QUICK CHECKLIST
-=item How do I extract selected columns from a string?
+=over 4
-=item How do I find the soundex value of a string?
+=item Before you start
-=item How can I expand variables in text strings?
+=item The API
-=item What's wrong with always quoting "$vars"?
+=item Stability
-=item Why don't my E<lt>E<lt>HERE documents work?
+=item Documentation
-There must be no space after the E<lt>E<lt> part, There (probably) should
-be a semicolon at the end, You can't (easily) have any space in front of
-the tag
+=item Release considerations
=back
-=item Data: Arrays
+=item BEFORE YOU START WRITING A MODULE
=over 4
-=item What is the difference between a list and an array?
+=item Has it been done before?
-=item What is the difference between $array[1] and @array[1]?
+=item Do one thing and do it well
-=item How can I remove duplicate elements from a list or array?
+=item What's in a name?
-a), b), c), d), e)
+=back
-=item How can I tell whether a certain element is contained in a list or
-array?
+=item DESIGNING AND WRITING YOUR MODULE
-=item How do I compute the difference of two arrays? How do I compute the
-intersection of two arrays?
+=over 4
-=item How do I test whether two arrays or hashes are equal?
+=item To OO or not to OO?
-=item How do I find the first array element for which a condition is true?
+=item Designing your API
-=item How do I handle linked lists?
+Write simple routines to do simple things, Separate functionality from
+output, Provide sensible shortcuts and defaults, Naming conventions,
+Parameter passing
-=item How do I handle circular lists?
+=item Strictness and warnings
-=item How do I shuffle an array randomly?
+=item Backwards compatibility
-=item How do I process/modify each element of an array?
+=item Error handling and messages
-=item How do I select a random element from an array?
+=back
-=item How do I permute N elements of a list?
+=item DOCUMENTING YOUR MODULE
-=item How do I sort an array by (anything)?
+=over 4
-=item How do I manipulate arrays of bits?
+=item POD
-=item Why does defined() return true on empty arrays and hashes?
+=item README, INSTALL, release notes, changelogs
+
+perl Makefile.PL, make, make test, make install, perl Build.PL, perl Build,
+perl Build test, perl Build install
=back
-=item Data: Hashes (Associative Arrays)
+=item RELEASE CONSIDERATIONS
=over 4
-=item How do I process an entire hash?
+=item Version numbering
-=item What happens if I add or remove keys from a hash while iterating over
-it?
+=item Pre-requisites
-=item How do I look up a hash element by value?
+=item Testing
-=item How can I know how many entries are in a hash?
+=item Packaging
-=item How do I sort a hash (optionally by value instead of key)?
+=item Licensing
-=item How can I always keep my hash sorted?
+=back
-=item What's the difference between "delete" and "undef" with hashes?
+=item COMMON PITFALLS
-=item Why don't my tied hashes make the defined/exists distinction?
+=over 4
-=item How do I reset an each() operation part-way through?
+=item Reinventing the wheel
-=item How can I get the unique keys from two hashes?
+=item Trying to do too much
-=item How can I store a multidimensional array in a DBM file?
+=item Inappropriate documentation
-=item How can I make my hash remember the order I put elements into it?
+=back
-=item Why does passing a subroutine an undefined element in a hash create
-it?
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item How can I make the Perl equivalent of a C structure/C++ class/hash or
-array of hashes or arrays?
+L<perlstyle>, L<perlnewmod>, L<perlpod>, L<podchecker>, Packaging Tools,
+Testing tools, http://pause.perl.org/, Any good book on software
+engineering
-=item How can I use a reference as a hash key?
+=item AUTHOR
=back
-=item Data: Misc
+=head2 perlmodinstall - Installing CPAN Modules
=over 4
-=item How do I handle binary data correctly?
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item How do I determine whether a scalar is a number/whole/integer/float?
+=over 4
-=item How do I keep persistent data across program calls?
+=item PREAMBLE
-=item How do I print out or copy a recursive data structure?
+B<DECOMPRESS> the file, B<UNPACK> the file into a directory, B<BUILD> the
+module (sometimes unnecessary), B<INSTALL> the module
-=item How do I define methods for every class/object?
+=back
-=item How do I verify a credit card checksum?
+=item PORTABILITY
-=item How do I pack arrays of doubles or floats for XS code?
+=item HEY
-=back
+=item AUTHOR
-=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
+=item COPYRIGHT
=back
-=head2 perlfaq5 - Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.28 $, $Date: 2003/01/26
-17:45:46 $)
+=head2 perlnewmod - preparing a new module for distribution
=over 4
=over 4
-=item How do I flush/unbuffer an output filehandle? Why must I do this?
-
-=item How do I change one line in a file/delete a line in a file/insert a
-line in the middle of a file/append to the beginning of a file?
-
-=item How do I count the number of lines in a file?
-
-=item How can I use Perl's C<-i> option from within a program?
-
-=item How do I make a temporary file name?
+=item Warning
-=item How can I manipulate fixed-record-length files?
+=item What should I make into a module?
-=item How can I make a filehandle local to a subroutine? How do I pass
-filehandles between subroutines? How do I make an array of filehandles?
+=item Step-by-step: Preparing the ground
-=item How can I use a filehandle indirectly?
+Look around, Check it's new, Discuss the need, Choose a name, Check again
-=item How can I set up a footer format to be used with write()?
+=item Step-by-step: Making the module
-=item How can I write() into a string?
+Start with F<module-starter> or F<h2xs>, Use L<strict|strict> and
+L<warnings|warnings>, Use L<Carp|Carp>, Use L<Exporter|Exporter> - wisely!,
+Use L<plain old documentation|perlpod>, Write tests, Write the README
-=item How can I output my numbers with commas added?
+=item Step-by-step: Distributing your module
-=item How can I translate tildes (~) in a filename?
+Get a CPAN user ID, C<perl Makefile.PL; make test; make dist>, Upload the
+tarball, Announce to the modules list, Announce to clpa, Fix bugs!
-=item How come when I open a file read-write it wipes it out?
+=back
-=item Why do I sometimes get an "Argument list too long" when I use
-E<lt>*E<gt>?
+=item AUTHOR
-=item Is there a leak/bug in glob()?
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item How can I open a file with a leading ">" or trailing blanks?
+=back
-=item How can I reliably rename a file?
+=head2 perlutil - utilities packaged with the Perl distribution
-=item How can I lock a file?
+=over 4
-=item Why can't I just open(FH, "E<gt>file.lock")?
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item I still don't get locking. I just want to increment the number in
-the file. How can I do this?
+=over 4
-=item All I want to do is append a small amount of text to the end of a
-file. Do I still have to use locking?
+=item DOCUMENTATION
-=item How do I randomly update a binary file?
+L<perldoc|perldoc>, L<pod2man|pod2man> and L<pod2text|pod2text>,
+L<pod2html|pod2html> and L<pod2latex|pod2latex>, L<pod2usage|pod2usage>,
+L<podselect|podselect>, L<podchecker|podchecker>, L<splain|splain>,
+L<roffitall|roffitall>
-=item How do I get a file's timestamp in perl?
+=item CONVERTORS
-=item How do I set a file's timestamp in perl?
+L<a2p|a2p>, L<s2p|s2p>, L<find2perl|find2perl>
-=item How do I print to more than one file at once?
+=item Administration
-=item How can I read in an entire file all at once?
+L<libnetcfg|libnetcfg>
-=item How can I read in a file by paragraphs?
+=item Development
-=item How can I read a single character from a file? From the keyboard?
+L<perlbug|perlbug>, L<h2ph|h2ph>, L<c2ph|c2ph> and L<pstruct|pstruct>,
+L<h2xs|h2xs>, L<dprofpp|dprofpp>, L<perlcc|perlcc>
-=item How can I tell whether there's a character waiting on a filehandle?
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item How do I do a C<tail -f> in perl?
+=back
-=item How do I dup() a filehandle in Perl?
+=back
-=item How do I close a file descriptor by number?
+=head2 perlcompile - Introduction to the Perl Compiler-Translator
-=item Why can't I use "C:\temp\foo" in DOS paths? Why doesn't
-`C:\temp\foo.exe` work?
+=over 4
-=item Why doesn't glob("*.*") get all the files?
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Why does Perl let me delete read-only files? Why does C<-i> clobber
-protected files? Isn't this a bug in Perl?
+=over 4
-=item How do I select a random line from a file?
+=item Layout
-=item Why do I get weird spaces when I print an array of lines?
+B::Bytecode, B::C, B::CC, B::Lint, B::Deparse, B::Xref
=back
-=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
+=item Using The Back Ends
-=back
+=over 4
-=head2 perlfaq6 - Regular Expressions ($Revision: 1.20 $, $Date: 2003/01/03
-20:05:28 $)
+=item The Cross Referencing Back End
-=over 4
+i, &, s, r
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item The Decompiling Back End
-=over 4
+=item The Lint Back End
-=item How can I hope to use regular expressions without creating illegible
-and unmaintainable code?
+=item The Simple C Back End
-Comments Outside the Regex, Comments Inside the Regex, Different Delimiters
+=item The Bytecode Back End
-=item I'm having trouble matching over more than one line. What's wrong?
+=item The Optimized C Back End
-=item How can I pull out lines between two patterns that are themselves on
-different lines?
+=back
-=item I put a regular expression into $/ but it didn't work. What's wrong?
+=item Module List for the Compiler Suite
-=item How do I substitute case insensitively on the LHS while preserving
-case on the RHS?
+B, O, B::Asmdata, B::Assembler, B::Bblock, B::Bytecode, B::C, B::CC,
+B::Concise, B::Debug, B::Deparse, B::Disassembler, B::Lint, B::Showlex,
+B::Stackobj, B::Stash, B::Terse, B::Xref
-=item How can I make C<\w> match national character sets?
+=item KNOWN PROBLEMS
-=item How can I match a locale-smart version of C</[a-zA-Z]/>?
+=item AUTHOR
-=item How can I quote a variable to use in a regex?
+=back
-=item What is C</o> really for?
+=head2 perlfilter - Source Filters
-=item How do I use a regular expression to strip C style comments from a
-file?
+=over 4
-=item Can I use Perl regular expressions to match balanced text?
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item What does it mean that regexes are greedy? How can I get around it?
+=item CONCEPTS
-=item How do I process each word on each line?
+=item USING FILTERS
-=item How can I print out a word-frequency or line-frequency summary?
+=item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER
-=item How can I do approximate matching?
+=item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER IN C
-=item How do I efficiently match many regular expressions at once?
+B<Decryption Filters>
-=item Why don't word-boundary searches with C<\b> work for me?
+=item CREATING A SOURCE FILTER AS A SEPARATE EXECUTABLE
-=item Why does using $&, $`, or $' slow my program down?
+=item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER IN PERL
-=item What good is C<\G> in a regular expression?
+=item USING CONTEXT: THE DEBUG FILTER
-=item Are Perl regexes DFAs or NFAs? Are they POSIX compliant?
+=item CONCLUSION
-=item What's wrong with using grep or map in a void context?
+=item THINGS TO LOOK OUT FOR
-=item How can I match strings with multibyte characters?
+Some Filters Clobber the C<DATA> Handle
-=item How do I match a pattern that is supplied by the user?
+=item REQUIREMENTS
-=back
+=item AUTHOR
-=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
+=item Copyrights
=back
-=head2 perlfaq7 - General Perl Language Issues ($Revision: 1.15 $, $Date:
-2003/07/24 02:17:21 $)
+=head2 perlembed - how to embed perl in your C program
=over 4
=over 4
-=item Can I get a BNF/yacc/RE for the Perl language?
+=item PREAMBLE
-=item What are all these $@%&* punctuation signs, and how do I know when to
-use them?
+B<Use C from Perl?>, B<Use a Unix program from Perl?>, B<Use Perl from
+Perl?>, B<Use C from C?>, B<Use Perl from C?>
-=item Do I always/never have to quote my strings or use semicolons and
-commas?
+=item ROADMAP
-=item How do I skip some return values?
+=item Compiling your C program
-=item How do I temporarily block warnings?
+=item Adding a Perl interpreter to your C program
-=item What's an extension?
+=item Calling a Perl subroutine from your C program
-=item Why do Perl operators have different precedence than C operators?
+=item Evaluating a Perl statement from your C program
-=item How do I declare/create a structure?
+=item Performing Perl pattern matches and substitutions from your C program
-=item How do I create a module?
+=item Fiddling with the Perl stack from your C program
-=item How do I create a class?
+=item Maintaining a persistent interpreter
-=item How can I tell if a variable is tainted?
+=item Execution of END blocks
-=item What's a closure?
+=item Maintaining multiple interpreter instances
-=item What is variable suicide and how can I prevent it?
+=item Using Perl modules, which themselves use C libraries, from your C
+program
-=item How can I pass/return a {Function, FileHandle, Array, Hash, Method,
-Regex}?
+=back
-Passing Variables and Functions, Passing Filehandles, Passing Regexes,
-Passing Methods
+=item Embedding Perl under Win32
-=item How do I create a static variable?
+=item Hiding Perl_
-=item What's the difference between dynamic and lexical (static) scoping?
-Between local() and my()?
+=item MORAL
-=item How can I access a dynamic variable while a similarly named lexical
-is in scope?
+=item AUTHOR
-=item What's the difference between deep and shallow binding?
+=item COPYRIGHT
-=item Why doesn't "my($foo) = E<lt>FILEE<gt>;" work right?
+=back
-=item How do I redefine a builtin function, operator, or method?
+=head2 perldebguts - Guts of Perl debugging
-=item What's the difference between calling a function as &foo and foo()?
+=over 4
-=item How do I create a switch or case statement?
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item How can I catch accesses to undefined variables, functions, or
-methods?
+=item Debugger Internals
-=item Why can't a method included in this same file be found?
+=over 4
-=item How can I find out my current package?
+=item Writing Your Own Debugger
-=item How can I comment out a large block of perl code?
+=back
-=item How do I clear a package?
+=item Frame Listing Output Examples
-=item How can I use a variable as a variable name?
+=item Debugging regular expressions
-=item What does "bad interpreter" mean?
+=over 4
-=back
+=item Compile-time output
-=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
+C<anchored> I<STRING> C<at> I<POS>, C<floating> I<STRING> C<at>
+I<POS1..POS2>, C<matching floating/anchored>, C<minlen>, C<stclass>
+I<TYPE>, C<noscan>, C<isall>, C<GPOS>, C<plus>, C<implicit>, C<with eval>,
+C<anchored(TYPE)>
-=back
+=item Types of nodes
-=head2 perlfaq8 - System Interaction ($Revision: 1.17 $, $Date: 2003/01/26
-17:44:04 $)
+=item Run-time output
-=over 4
+=back
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Debugging Perl memory usage
=over 4
-=item How do I find out which operating system I'm running under?
+=item Using C<$ENV{PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS}>
-=item How come exec() doesn't return?
+C<buckets SMALLEST(APPROX)..GREATEST(APPROX)>, Free/Used, C<Total sbrk():
+SBRKed/SBRKs:CONTINUOUS>, C<pad: 0>, C<heads: 2192>, C<chain: 0>, C<tail:
+6144>
-=item How do I do fancy stuff with the keyboard/screen/mouse?
+=item Example of using B<-DL> switch
-Keyboard, Screen, Mouse
+C<717>, C<002>, C<054>, C<602>, C<702>, C<704>
-=item How do I print something out in color?
+=item B<-DL> details
-=item How do I read just one key without waiting for a return key?
+C<!!!>, C<!!>, C<!>
-=item How do I check whether input is ready on the keyboard?
+=item Limitations of B<-DL> statistics
-=item How do I clear the screen?
+=back
-=item How do I get the screen size?
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item How do I ask the user for a password?
+=back
-=item How do I read and write the serial port?
+=head2 perlxstut, perlXStut - Tutorial for writing XSUBs
-lockfiles, open mode, end of line, flushing output, non-blocking input
+=over 4
-=item How do I decode encrypted password files?
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item How do I start a process in the background?
+=item SPECIAL NOTES
-STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR are shared, Signals, Zombies
+=over 4
-=item How do I trap control characters/signals?
+=item make
-=item How do I modify the shadow password file on a Unix system?
+=item Version caveat
-=item How do I set the time and date?
+=item Dynamic Loading versus Static Loading
-=item How can I sleep() or alarm() for under a second?
+=back
-=item How can I measure time under a second?
+=item TUTORIAL
-=item How can I do an atexit() or setjmp()/longjmp()? (Exception handling)
+=over 4
-=item Why doesn't my sockets program work under System V (Solaris)? What
-does the error message "Protocol not supported" mean?
+=item EXAMPLE 1
-=item How can I call my system's unique C functions from Perl?
+=item EXAMPLE 2
-=item Where do I get the include files to do ioctl() or syscall()?
+=item What has gone on?
-=item Why do setuid perl scripts complain about kernel problems?
+=item Writing good test scripts
-=item How can I open a pipe both to and from a command?
+=item EXAMPLE 3
-=item Why can't I get the output of a command with system()?
+=item What's new here?
-=item How can I capture STDERR from an external command?
+=item Input and Output Parameters
-=item Why doesn't open() return an error when a pipe open fails?
+=item The XSUBPP Program
-=item What's wrong with using backticks in a void context?
+=item The TYPEMAP file
-=item How can I call backticks without shell processing?
+=item Warning about Output Arguments
-=item Why can't my script read from STDIN after I gave it EOF (^D on Unix,
-^Z on MS-DOS)?
+=item EXAMPLE 4
-=item How can I convert my shell script to perl?
+=item What has happened here?
-=item Can I use perl to run a telnet or ftp session?
+=item Anatomy of .xs file
-=item How can I write expect in Perl?
+=item Getting the fat out of XSUBs
-=item Is there a way to hide perl's command line from programs such as
-"ps"?
+=item More about XSUB arguments
-=item I {changed directory, modified my environment} in a perl script. How
-come the change disappeared when I exited the script? How do I get my
-changes to be visible?
+=item The Argument Stack
-Unix
+=item Extending your Extension
-=item How do I close a process's filehandle without waiting for it to
-complete?
+=item Documenting your Extension
-=item How do I fork a daemon process?
+=item Installing your Extension
-=item How do I find out if I'm running interactively or not?
+=item EXAMPLE 5
-=item How do I timeout a slow event?
+=item New Things in this Example
-=item How do I set CPU limits?
+=item EXAMPLE 6
-=item How do I avoid zombies on a Unix system?
+=item New Things in this Example
-=item How do I use an SQL database?
+=item EXAMPLE 7 (Coming Soon)
-=item How do I make a system() exit on control-C?
+=item EXAMPLE 8 (Coming Soon)
-=item How do I open a file without blocking?
+=item EXAMPLE 9 Passing open files to XSes
-=item How do I install a module from CPAN?
+=item Troubleshooting these Examples
-=item What's the difference between require and use?
+=back
-=item How do I keep my own module/library directory?
+=item See also
-=item How do I add the directory my program lives in to the module/library
-search path?
+=item Author
-=item How do I add a directory to my include path at runtime?
+=over 4
-=item What is socket.ph and where do I get it?
+=item Last Changed
=back
-=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
-
=back
-=head2 perlfaq9 - Networking ($Revision: 1.15 $, $Date: 2003/01/31 17:36:57
-$)
+=head2 perlxs - XS language reference manual
=over 4
=over 4
-=item What is the correct form of response from a CGI script?
+=item Introduction
-=item My CGI script runs from the command line but not the browser. (500
-Server Error)
+=item On The Road
-=item How can I get better error messages from a CGI program?
+=item The Anatomy of an XSUB
-=item How do I remove HTML from a string?
+=item The Argument Stack
-=item How do I extract URLs?
+=item The RETVAL Variable
-=item How do I download a file from the user's machine? How do I open a
-file on another machine?
+=item Returning SVs, AVs and HVs through RETVAL
-=item How do I make a pop-up menu in HTML?
+=item The MODULE Keyword
-=item How do I fetch an HTML file?
+=item The PACKAGE Keyword
-=item How do I automate an HTML form submission?
+=item The PREFIX Keyword
-=item How do I decode or create those %-encodings on the web?
+=item The OUTPUT: Keyword
-=item How do I redirect to another page?
+=item The NO_OUTPUT Keyword
-=item How do I put a password on my web pages?
+=item The CODE: Keyword
-=item How do I edit my .htpasswd and .htgroup files with Perl?
+=item The INIT: Keyword
-=item How do I make sure users can't enter values into a form that cause my
-CGI script to do bad things?
+=item The NO_INIT Keyword
-=item How do I parse a mail header?
+=item Initializing Function Parameters
-=item How do I decode a CGI form?
+=item Default Parameter Values
-=item How do I check a valid mail address?
+=item The PREINIT: Keyword
-=item How do I decode a MIME/BASE64 string?
+=item The SCOPE: Keyword
-=item How do I return the user's mail address?
+=item The INPUT: Keyword
-=item How do I send mail?
+=item The IN/OUTLIST/IN_OUTLIST/OUT/IN_OUT Keywords
-=item How do I use MIME to make an attachment to a mail message?
+=item The C<length(NAME)> Keyword
-=item How do I read mail?
+=item Variable-length Parameter Lists
-=item How do I find out my hostname/domainname/IP address?
+=item The C_ARGS: Keyword
-=item How do I fetch a news article or the active newsgroups?
+=item The PPCODE: Keyword
-=item How do I fetch/put an FTP file?
+=item Returning Undef And Empty Lists
-=item How can I do RPC in Perl?
+=item The REQUIRE: Keyword
-=back
+=item The CLEANUP: Keyword
-=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
+=item The POSTCALL: Keyword
-=back
+=item The BOOT: Keyword
-=head2 perlcompile - Introduction to the Perl Compiler-Translator
+=item The VERSIONCHECK: Keyword
-=over 4
+=item The PROTOTYPES: Keyword
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item The PROTOTYPE: Keyword
-=over 4
+=item The ALIAS: Keyword
-=item Layout
+=item The OVERLOAD: Keyword
-B::Bytecode, B::C, B::CC, B::Lint, B::Deparse, B::Xref
+=item The FALLBACK: Keyword
-=back
+=item The INTERFACE: Keyword
-=item Using The Back Ends
+=item The INTERFACE_MACRO: Keyword
-=over 4
+=item The INCLUDE: Keyword
-=item The Cross Referencing Back End
+=item The CASE: Keyword
-i, &, s, r
+=item The & Unary Operator
-=item The Decompiling Back End
+=item Inserting POD, Comments and C Preprocessor Directives
-=item The Lint Back End
+=item Using XS With C++
-=item The Simple C Back End
+=item Interface Strategy
-=item The Bytecode Back End
+=item Perl Objects And C Structures
-=item The Optimized C Back End
+=item The Typemap
-=back
+=item Safely Storing Static Data in XS
-=item Module List for the Compiler Suite
+MY_CXT_KEY, typedef my_cxt_t, START_MY_CXT, MY_CXT_INIT, dMY_CXT, MY_CXT
-B, O, B::Asmdata, B::Assembler, B::Bblock, B::Bytecode, B::C, B::CC,
-B::Concise, B::Debug, B::Deparse, B::Disassembler, B::Lint, B::Showlex,
-B::Stackobj, B::Stash, B::Terse, B::Xref
+=back
-=item KNOWN PROBLEMS
+=item EXAMPLES
+
+=item XS VERSION
=item AUTHOR
=back
-=head2 perlembed - how to embed perl in your C program
+=head2 perlclib - Internal replacements for standard C library functions
=over 4
=over 4
-=item PREAMBLE
+=item Conventions
-B<Use C from Perl?>, B<Use a Unix program from Perl?>, B<Use Perl from
-Perl?>, B<Use C from C?>, B<Use Perl from C?>
+C<t>, C<p>, C<n>, C<s>
-=item ROADMAP
+=item File Operations
-=item Compiling your C program
+=item File Input and Output
-=item Adding a Perl interpreter to your C program
+=item File Positioning
-=item Calling a Perl subroutine from your C program
+=item Memory Management and String Handling
-=item Evaluating a Perl statement from your C program
+=item Character Class Tests
-=item Performing Perl pattern matches and substitutions from your C program
+=item F<stdlib.h> functions
-=item Fiddling with the Perl stack from your C program
+=item Miscellaneous functions
-=item Maintaining a persistent interpreter
+=back
-=item Execution of END blocks
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item Maintaining multiple interpreter instances
+=back
-=item Using Perl modules, which themselves use C libraries, from your C
-program
+=head2 perlguts - Introduction to the Perl API
-=back
+=over 4
-=item Embedding Perl under Win32
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Hiding Perl_
+=item Variables
-=item MORAL
+=over 4
-=item AUTHOR
+=item Datatypes
-=item COPYRIGHT
+=item What is an "IV"?
-=back
+=item Working with SVs
-=head2 perldebguts - Guts of Perl debugging
+=item Offsets
-=over 4
+=item What's Really Stored in an SV?
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Working with AVs
-=item Debugger Internals
+=item Working with HVs
-=over 4
+=item Hash API Extensions
-=item Writing Your Own Debugger
+=item AVs, HVs and undefined values
-=back
+=item References
-=item Frame Listing Output Examples
+=item Blessed References and Class Objects
-=item Debugging regular expressions
+=item Creating New Variables
-=over 4
+GV_ADDMULTI, GV_ADDWARN
-=item Compile-time output
+=item Reference Counts and Mortality
-C<anchored> I<STRING> C<at> I<POS>, C<floating> I<STRING> C<at>
-I<POS1..POS2>, C<matching floating/anchored>, C<minlen>, C<stclass>
-I<TYPE>, C<noscan>, C<isall>, C<GPOS>, C<plus>, C<implicit>, C<with eval>,
-C<anchored(TYPE)>
+=item Stashes and Globs
-=item Types of nodes
+=item Double-Typed SVs
-=item Run-time output
+=item Magic Variables
-=back
+=item Assigning Magic
-=item Debugging Perl memory usage
+=item Magic Virtual Tables
-=over 4
+=item Finding Magic
-=item Using C<$ENV{PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS}>
+=item Understanding the Magic of Tied Hashes and Arrays
-C<buckets SMALLEST(APPROX)..GREATEST(APPROX)>, Free/Used, C<Total sbrk():
-SBRKed/SBRKs:CONTINUOUS>, C<pad: 0>, C<heads: 2192>, C<chain: 0>, C<tail:
-6144>
+=item Localizing changes
-=item Example of using B<-DL> switch
+C<SAVEINT(int i)>, C<SAVEIV(IV i)>, C<SAVEI32(I32 i)>, C<SAVELONG(long i)>,
+C<SAVESPTR(s)>, C<SAVEPPTR(p)>, C<SAVEFREESV(SV *sv)>, C<SAVEMORTALIZESV(SV
+*sv)>, C<SAVEFREEOP(OP *op)>, C<SAVEFREEPV(p)>, C<SAVECLEARSV(SV *sv)>,
+C<SAVEDELETE(HV *hv, char *key, I32 length)>,
+C<SAVEDESTRUCTOR(DESTRUCTORFUNC_NOCONTEXT_t f, void *p)>,
+C<SAVEDESTRUCTOR_X(DESTRUCTORFUNC_t f, void *p)>, C<SAVESTACK_POS()>, C<SV*
+save_scalar(GV *gv)>, C<AV* save_ary(GV *gv)>, C<HV* save_hash(GV *gv)>,
+C<void save_item(SV *item)>, C<void save_list(SV **sarg, I32 maxsarg)>,
+C<SV* save_svref(SV **sptr)>, C<void save_aptr(AV **aptr)>, C<void
+save_hptr(HV **hptr)>
-C<717>, C<002>, C<054>, C<602>, C<702>, C<704>
+=back
-=item B<-DL> details
+=item Subroutines
-C<!!!>, C<!!>, C<!>
+=over 4
-=item Limitations of B<-DL> statistics
+=item XSUBs and the Argument Stack
-=back
+=item Calling Perl Routines from within C Programs
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item Memory Allocation
+
+=item PerlIO
+
+=item Putting a C value on Perl stack
+
+=item Scratchpads
+
+=item Scratchpads and recursion
=back
-=head2 perlxstut, perlXStut - Tutorial for writing XSUBs
+=item Compiled code
=over 4
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Code tree
-=item SPECIAL NOTES
+=item Examining the tree
-=over 4
+=item Compile pass 1: check routines
-=item make
+=item Compile pass 1a: constant folding
-=item Version caveat
+=item Compile pass 2: context propagation
-=item Dynamic Loading versus Static Loading
+=item Compile pass 3: peephole optimization
+
+=item Pluggable runops
=back
-=item TUTORIAL
+=item Examining internal data structures with the C<dump> functions
+
+=item How multiple interpreters and concurrency are supported
=over 4
-=item EXAMPLE 1
+=item Background and PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
+
+=item So what happened to dTHR?
+
+=item How do I use all this in extensions?
+
+=item Should I do anything special if I call perl from multiple threads?
+
+=item Future Plans and PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
-=item EXAMPLE 2
+=back
-=item What has gone on?
+=item Internal Functions
-=item Writing good test scripts
+A, p, d, s, n, r, f, M, o, x, m, X, E, b
-=item EXAMPLE 3
+=over 4
-=item What's new here?
+=item Formatted Printing of IVs, UVs, and NVs
-=item Input and Output Parameters
+=item Pointer-To-Integer and Integer-To-Pointer
-=item The XSUBPP Program
+=item Source Documentation
-=item The TYPEMAP file
+=item Backwards compatibility
-=item Warning about Output Arguments
+=back
-=item EXAMPLE 4
+=item Unicode Support
-=item What has happened here?
+=over 4
-=item Anatomy of .xs file
+=item What B<is> Unicode, anyway?
-=item Getting the fat out of XSUBs
+=item How can I recognise a UTF-8 string?
-=item More about XSUB arguments
+=item How does UTF-8 represent Unicode characters?
-=item The Argument Stack
+=item How does Perl store UTF-8 strings?
-=item Extending your Extension
+=item How do I convert a string to UTF-8?
-=item Documenting your Extension
+=item Is there anything else I need to know?
-=item Installing your Extension
+=back
-=item EXAMPLE 5
+=item Custom Operators
-=item New Things in this Example
+=item AUTHORS
-=item EXAMPLE 6
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item New Things in this Example
+=back
-=item EXAMPLE 7 (Coming Soon)
+=head2 perlcall - Perl calling conventions from C
-=item EXAMPLE 8 (Coming Soon)
+=over 4
-=item EXAMPLE 9 Passing open files to XSes
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Troubleshooting these Examples
+An Error Handler, An Event Driven Program
-=back
+=item THE CALL_ FUNCTIONS
-=item See also
+call_sv, call_pv, call_method, call_argv
-=item Author
+=item FLAG VALUES
=over 4
-=item Last Changed
-
-=back
+=item G_VOID
-=back
+=item G_SCALAR
-=head2 perlxs - XS language reference manual
+=item G_ARRAY
-=over 4
+=item G_DISCARD
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item G_NOARGS
-=over 4
+=item G_EVAL
-=item Introduction
+=item G_KEEPERR
-=item On The Road
+=item Determining the Context
-=item The Anatomy of an XSUB
+=back
-=item The Argument Stack
+=item KNOWN PROBLEMS
-=item The RETVAL Variable
+=item EXAMPLES
-=item The MODULE Keyword
+=over 4
-=item The PACKAGE Keyword
+=item No Parameters, Nothing returned
-=item The PREFIX Keyword
+=item Passing Parameters
-=item The OUTPUT: Keyword
+=item Returning a Scalar
-=item The NO_OUTPUT Keyword
+=item Returning a list of values
-=item The CODE: Keyword
+=item Returning a list in a scalar context
-=item The INIT: Keyword
+=item Returning Data from Perl via the parameter list
-=item The NO_INIT Keyword
+=item Using G_EVAL
-=item Initializing Function Parameters
+=item Using G_KEEPERR
-=item Default Parameter Values
+=item Using call_sv
-=item The PREINIT: Keyword
+=item Using call_argv
-=item The SCOPE: Keyword
+=item Using call_method
-=item The INPUT: Keyword
+=item Using GIMME_V
-=item The IN/OUTLIST/IN_OUTLIST/OUT/IN_OUT Keywords
+=item Using Perl to dispose of temporaries
-=item The C<length(NAME)> Keyword
+=item Strategies for storing Callback Context Information
-=item Variable-length Parameter Lists
+1. Ignore the problem - Allow only 1 callback, 2. Create a sequence of
+callbacks - hard wired limit, 3. Use a parameter to map to the Perl
+callback
-=item The C_ARGS: Keyword
+=item Alternate Stack Manipulation
-=item The PPCODE: Keyword
+=item Creating and calling an anonymous subroutine in C
-=item Returning Undef And Empty Lists
+=back
-=item The REQUIRE: Keyword
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item The CLEANUP: Keyword
+=item AUTHOR
-=item The POSTCALL: Keyword
+=item DATE
-=item The BOOT: Keyword
+=back
-=item The VERSIONCHECK: Keyword
+=head2 perlapi - autogenerated documentation for the perl public API
-=item The PROTOTYPES: Keyword
+=over 4
-=item The PROTOTYPE: Keyword
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item The ALIAS: Keyword
+=item "Gimme" Values
-=item The OVERLOAD: Keyword
+GIMME, GIMME_V, G_ARRAY, G_DISCARD, G_EVAL, G_NOARGS, G_SCALAR, G_VOID
-=item The FALLBACK: Keyword
+=item Array Manipulation Functions
-=item The INTERFACE: Keyword
+AvFILL, av_clear, av_delete, av_exists, av_extend, av_fetch, av_fill,
+av_len, av_make, av_pop, av_push, av_shift, av_store, av_undef, av_unshift,
+get_av, newAV, sortsv
-=item The INTERFACE_MACRO: Keyword
+=item Callback Functions
-=item The INCLUDE: Keyword
+call_argv, call_method, call_pv, call_sv, ENTER, eval_pv, eval_sv,
+FREETMPS, LEAVE, SAVETMPS
-=item The CASE: Keyword
+=item Character classes
-=item The & Unary Operator
+isALNUM, isALPHA, isDIGIT, isLOWER, isSPACE, isUPPER, toLOWER, toUPPER
-=item Inserting POD, Comments and C Preprocessor Directives
+=item Cloning an interpreter
-=item Using XS With C++
+perl_clone
-=item Interface Strategy
+=item CV Manipulation Functions
-=item Perl Objects And C Structures
+CvSTASH, get_cv
-=item The Typemap
+=item Embedding Functions
-=item Safely Storing Static Data in XS
+cv_undef, load_module, nothreadhook, perl_alloc, perl_construct,
+perl_destruct, perl_free, perl_parse, perl_run, require_pv
-MY_CXT_KEY, typedef my_cxt_t, START_MY_CXT, MY_CXT_INIT, dMY_CXT, MY_CXT
+=item Functions in file pp_pack.c
-=back
+packlist, pack_cat, unpackstring, unpack_str
-=item EXAMPLES
+=item Global Variables
-=item XS VERSION
+PL_modglobal, PL_na, PL_sv_no, PL_sv_undef, PL_sv_yes
-=item AUTHOR
+=item GV Functions
-=back
+GvSV, gv_fetchmeth, gv_fetchmethod, gv_fetchmethod_autoload,
+gv_fetchmeth_autoload, gv_stashpv, gv_stashpvn, gv_stashsv
-=head2 perlclib - Internal replacements for standard C library functions
+=item Handy Values
-=over 4
+Nullav, Nullch, Nullcv, Nullhv, Nullsv
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Hash Manipulation Functions
-=over 4
+get_hv, HEf_SVKEY, HeHASH, HeKEY, HeKLEN, HePV, HeSVKEY, HeSVKEY_force,
+HeSVKEY_set, HeVAL, HvNAME, hv_assert, hv_clear, hv_clear_placeholders,
+hv_delete, hv_delete_ent, hv_exists, hv_exists_ent, hv_fetch, hv_fetch_ent,
+hv_iterinit, hv_iterkey, hv_iterkeysv, hv_iternext, hv_iternextsv,
+hv_iternext_flags, hv_iterval, hv_magic, hv_scalar, hv_store, hv_store_ent,
+hv_undef, newHV
-=item Conventions
+=item Magical Functions
-C<t>, C<p>, C<n>, C<s>
+mg_clear, mg_copy, mg_find, mg_free, mg_get, mg_length, mg_magical, mg_set,
+SvGETMAGIC, SvLOCK, SvSETMAGIC, SvSetMagicSV, SvSetMagicSV_nosteal,
+SvSetSV, SvSetSV_nosteal, SvSHARE, SvUNLOCK
-=item File Operations
+=item Memory Management
-=item File Input and Output
+Copy, CopyD, Move, MoveD, New, Newc, Newz, Poison, Renew, Renewc, Safefree,
+savepv, savepvn, savesharedpv, savesvpv, StructCopy, Zero, ZeroD
-=item File Positioning
+=item Miscellaneous Functions
-=item Memory Management and String Handling
+fbm_compile, fbm_instr, form, getcwd_sv, new_version, scan_version, strEQ,
+strGE, strGT, strLE, strLT, strNE, strnEQ, strnNE, sv_nolocking,
+sv_nosharing, sv_nounlocking, upg_version, vcmp, vnormal, vnumify,
+vstringify
-=item Character Class Tests
+=item Numeric functions
-=item F<stdlib.h> functions
+grok_bin, grok_hex, grok_number, grok_numeric_radix, grok_oct, scan_bin,
+scan_hex, scan_oct
-=item Miscellaneous functions
+=item Optree Manipulation Functions
-=back
+cv_const_sv, newCONSTSUB, newXS
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item Pad Data Structures
-=back
+pad_sv
-=head2 perlguts - Introduction to the Perl API
+=item Stack Manipulation Macros
-=over 4
+dMARK, dORIGMARK, dSP, EXTEND, MARK, mPUSHi, mPUSHn, mPUSHp, mPUSHu,
+mXPUSHi, mXPUSHn, mXPUSHp, mXPUSHu, ORIGMARK, POPi, POPl, POPn, POPp,
+POPpbytex, POPpx, POPs, PUSHi, PUSHMARK, PUSHmortal, PUSHn, PUSHp, PUSHs,
+PUSHu, PUTBACK, SP, SPAGAIN, XPUSHi, XPUSHmortal, XPUSHn, XPUSHp, XPUSHs,
+XPUSHu, XSRETURN, XSRETURN_EMPTY, XSRETURN_IV, XSRETURN_NO, XSRETURN_NV,
+XSRETURN_PV, XSRETURN_UNDEF, XSRETURN_UV, XSRETURN_YES, XST_mIV, XST_mNO,
+XST_mNV, XST_mPV, XST_mUNDEF, XST_mYES
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item SV Flags
-=item Variables
+svtype, SVt_IV, SVt_NV, SVt_PV, SVt_PVAV, SVt_PVCV, SVt_PVHV, SVt_PVMG
-=over 4
+=item SV Manipulation Functions
-=item Datatypes
+get_sv, looks_like_number, newRV_inc, newRV_noinc, newSV, NEWSV, newSViv,
+newSVnv, newSVpv, newSVpvf, newSVpvn, newSVpvn_share, newSVrv, newSVsv,
+newSVuv, SvCUR, SvCUR_set, SvEND, SvGROW, SvIOK, SvIOKp, SvIOK_notUV,
+SvIOK_off, SvIOK_on, SvIOK_only, SvIOK_only_UV, SvIOK_UV, SvIsCOW,
+SvIsCOW_shared_hash, SvIV, SvIVX, SvIVx, SvIV_nomg, SvLEN, SvNIOK, SvNIOKp,
+SvNIOK_off, SvNOK, SvNOKp, SvNOK_off, SvNOK_on, SvNOK_only, SvNV, SvNVx,
+SvNVX, SvOK, SvOOK, SvPOK, SvPOKp, SvPOK_off, SvPOK_on, SvPOK_only,
+SvPOK_only_UTF8, SvPV, SvPVbyte, SvPVbytex, SvPVbytex_force,
+SvPVbyte_force, SvPVbyte_nolen, SvPVutf8, SvPVutf8x, SvPVutf8x_force,
+SvPVutf8_force, SvPVutf8_nolen, SvPVX, SvPVx, SvPV_force, SvPV_force_nomg,
+SvPV_nolen, SvPV_nomg, SvREFCNT, SvREFCNT_dec, SvREFCNT_inc, SvROK,
+SvROK_off, SvROK_on, SvRV, SvSTASH, SvTAINT, SvTAINTED, SvTAINTED_off,
+SvTAINTED_on, SvTRUE, SvTYPE, SvUOK, SvUPGRADE, SvUTF8, SvUTF8_off,
+SvUTF8_on, SvUV, SvUVx, SvUVX, SvUV_nomg, SvVOK, sv_2bool, sv_2cv, sv_2io,
+sv_2iv_flags, sv_2mortal, sv_2nv, sv_2pvbyte, sv_2pvbyte_nolen, sv_2pvutf8,
+sv_2pvutf8_nolen, sv_2pv_flags, sv_2pv_nolen, sv_2uv_flags, sv_backoff,
+sv_bless, sv_catpv, sv_catpvf, sv_catpvf_mg, sv_catpvn, sv_catpvn_flags,
+sv_catpvn_mg, sv_catpvn_nomg, sv_catpv_mg, sv_catsv, sv_catsv_flags,
+sv_catsv_mg, sv_catsv_nomg, sv_chop, sv_clear, sv_cmp, sv_cmp_locale,
+sv_collxfrm, sv_copypv, sv_dec, sv_derived_from, sv_eq, sv_force_normal,
+sv_force_normal_flags, sv_free, sv_gets, sv_grow, sv_inc, sv_insert,
+sv_isa, sv_isobject, sv_iv, sv_len, sv_len_utf8, sv_magic, sv_magicext,
+sv_mortalcopy, sv_newmortal, sv_newref, sv_nv, sv_pos_b2u, sv_pos_u2b,
+sv_pv, sv_pvbyte, sv_pvbyten, sv_pvbyten_force, sv_pvn, sv_pvn_force,
+sv_pvn_force_flags, sv_pvutf8, sv_pvutf8n, sv_pvutf8n_force, sv_reftype,
+sv_replace, sv_report_used, sv_reset, sv_rvweaken, sv_setiv, sv_setiv_mg,
+sv_setnv, sv_setnv_mg, sv_setpv, sv_setpvf, sv_setpvf_mg, sv_setpviv,
+sv_setpviv_mg, sv_setpvn, sv_setpvn_mg, sv_setpv_mg, sv_setref_iv,
+sv_setref_nv, sv_setref_pv, sv_setref_pvn, sv_setref_uv, sv_setsv,
+sv_setsv_flags, sv_setsv_mg, sv_setsv_nomg, sv_setuv, sv_setuv_mg,
+sv_taint, sv_tainted, sv_true, sv_unmagic, sv_unref, sv_unref_flags,
+sv_untaint, sv_upgrade, sv_usepvn, sv_usepvn_mg, sv_utf8_decode,
+sv_utf8_downgrade, sv_utf8_encode, sv_utf8_upgrade, sv_utf8_upgrade_flags,
+sv_uv, sv_vcatpvf, sv_vcatpvfn, sv_vcatpvf_mg, sv_vsetpvf, sv_vsetpvfn,
+sv_vsetpvf_mg
-=item What is an "IV"?
+=item Unicode Support
-=item Working with SVs
+bytes_from_utf8, bytes_to_utf8, ibcmp_utf8, is_utf8_char, is_utf8_string,
+is_utf8_string_loc, pv_uni_display, sv_cat_decode, sv_recode_to_utf8,
+sv_uni_display, to_utf8_case, to_utf8_fold, to_utf8_lower, to_utf8_title,
+to_utf8_upper, utf8n_to_uvchr, utf8n_to_uvuni, utf8_distance, utf8_hop,
+utf8_length, utf8_to_bytes, utf8_to_uvchr, utf8_to_uvuni, uvchr_to_utf8,
+uvuni_to_utf8_flags
-=item Offsets
+=item Variables created by C<xsubpp> and C<xsubpp> internal functions
-=item What's Really Stored in an SV?
+ax, CLASS, dAX, dITEMS, dUNDERBAR, dXSARGS, dXSI32, items, ix, newXSproto,
+RETVAL, ST, THIS, UNDERBAR, XS, XS_VERSION, XS_VERSION_BOOTCHECK
-=item Working with AVs
+=item Warning and Dieing
-=item Working with HVs
+croak, warn
-=item Hash API Extensions
+=item AUTHORS
-=item AVs, HVs and undefined values
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item References
+=back
-=item Blessed References and Class Objects
+=head2 perlintern - autogenerated documentation of purely B<internal>
+ Perl functions
-=item Creating New Variables
+=over 4
-GV_ADDMULTI, GV_ADDWARN
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Reference Counts and Mortality
+=item CV reference counts and CvOUTSIDE
-=item Stashes and Globs
+CvWEAKOUTSIDE
-=item Double-Typed SVs
+=item Functions in file pad.h
-=item Magic Variables
+CX_CURPAD_SAVE, CX_CURPAD_SV, PAD_BASE_SV, PAD_CLONE_VARS,
+PAD_COMPNAME_FLAGS, PAD_COMPNAME_GEN, PAD_COMPNAME_OURSTASH,
+PAD_COMPNAME_PV, PAD_COMPNAME_TYPE, PAD_DUP, PAD_RESTORE_LOCAL,
+PAD_SAVE_LOCAL, PAD_SAVE_SETNULLPAD, PAD_SETSV, PAD_SET_CUR,
+PAD_SET_CUR_NOSAVE, PAD_SV, PAD_SVl, SAVECLEARSV, SAVECOMPPAD, SAVEPADSV
-=item Assigning Magic
+=item Functions in file pp_ctl.c
-=item Magic Virtual Tables
+find_runcv
-=item Finding Magic
+=item Global Variables
-=item Understanding the Magic of Tied Hashes and Arrays
+PL_DBsingle, PL_DBsub, PL_DBtrace, PL_dowarn, PL_last_in_gv, PL_ofs_sv,
+PL_rs
-=item Localizing changes
+=item GV Functions
-C<SAVEINT(int i)>, C<SAVEIV(IV i)>, C<SAVEI32(I32 i)>, C<SAVELONG(long i)>,
-C<SAVESPTR(s)>, C<SAVEPPTR(p)>, C<SAVEFREESV(SV *sv)>, C<SAVEMORTALIZESV(SV
-*sv)>, C<SAVEFREEOP(OP *op)>, C<SAVEFREEPV(p)>, C<SAVECLEARSV(SV *sv)>,
-C<SAVEDELETE(HV *hv, char *key, I32 length)>,
-C<SAVEDESTRUCTOR(DESTRUCTORFUNC_NOCONTEXT_t f, void *p)>,
-C<SAVEDESTRUCTOR_X(DESTRUCTORFUNC_t f, void *p)>, C<SAVESTACK_POS()>, C<SV*
-save_scalar(GV *gv)>, C<AV* save_ary(GV *gv)>, C<HV* save_hash(GV *gv)>,
-C<void save_item(SV *item)>, C<void save_list(SV **sarg, I32 maxsarg)>,
-C<SV* save_svref(SV **sptr)>, C<void save_aptr(AV **aptr)>, C<void
-save_hptr(HV **hptr)>
+is_gv_magical
-=back
+=item IO Functions
-=item Subroutines
+start_glob
-=over 4
+=item Pad Data Structures
-=item XSUBs and the Argument Stack
+CvPADLIST, cv_clone, cv_dump, do_dump_pad, intro_my, pad_add_anon,
+pad_add_name, pad_alloc, pad_block_start, pad_check_dup, pad_findlex,
+pad_findmy, pad_fixup_inner_anons, pad_free, pad_leavemy, pad_new,
+pad_push, pad_reset, pad_setsv, pad_swipe, pad_tidy, pad_undef
-=item Calling Perl Routines from within C Programs
+=item Stack Manipulation Macros
-=item Memory Allocation
+djSP, LVRET
-=item PerlIO
+=item SV Manipulation Functions
-=item Putting a C value on Perl stack
+find_uninit_var, report_uninit, sv_add_arena, sv_clean_all, sv_clean_objs,
+sv_free_arenas
-=item Scratchpads
+=item AUTHORS
-=item Scratchpads and recursion
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=item Compiled code
+=head2 perliol - C API for Perl's implementation of IO in Layers.
=over 4
-=item Code tree
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item Examining the tree
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Compile pass 1: check routines
+=over 4
-=item Compile pass 1a: constant folding
+=item History and Background
-=item Compile pass 2: context propagation
+=item Basic Structure
-=item Compile pass 3: peephole optimization
+=item Layers vs Disciplines
-=item Pluggable runops
+=item Data Structures
-=back
+=item Functions and Attributes
-=item Examining internal data structures with the C<dump> functions
+=item Per-instance Data
-=item How multiple interpreters and concurrency are supported
+=item Layers in action.
-=over 4
+=item Per-instance flag bits
-=item Background and PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
+PERLIO_F_EOF, PERLIO_F_CANWRITE, PERLIO_F_CANREAD, PERLIO_F_ERROR,
+PERLIO_F_TRUNCATE, PERLIO_F_APPEND, PERLIO_F_CRLF, PERLIO_F_UTF8,
+PERLIO_F_UNBUF, PERLIO_F_WRBUF, PERLIO_F_RDBUF, PERLIO_F_LINEBUF,
+PERLIO_F_TEMP, PERLIO_F_OPEN, PERLIO_F_FASTGETS
-=item So what happened to dTHR?
+=item Methods in Detail
-=item How do I use all this in extensions?
+fsize, name, size, kind, PERLIO_K_BUFFERED, PERLIO_K_RAW, PERLIO_K_CANCRLF,
+PERLIO_K_FASTGETS, PERLIO_K_MULTIARG, Pushed, Popped, Open, Binmode,
+Getarg, Fileno, Dup, Read, Write, Seek, Tell, Close, Flush, Fill, Eof,
+Error, Clearerr, Setlinebuf, Get_base, Get_bufsiz, Get_ptr, Get_cnt,
+Set_ptrcnt
-=item Should I do anything special if I call perl from multiple threads?
+=item Utilities
-=item Future Plans and PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
+=item Implementing PerlIO Layers
-=back
+C implementations, Perl implementations
-=item Internal Functions
+=item Core Layers
-A, p, d, s, n, r, f, M, o, j, x
+"unix", "perlio", "stdio", "crlf", "mmap", "pending", "raw", "utf8"
-=over 4
+=item Extension Layers
-=item Formatted Printing of IVs, UVs, and NVs
+":encoding", ":scalar", ":via"
-=item Pointer-To-Integer and Integer-To-Pointer
+=back
-=item Source Documentation
+=item TODO
=back
-=item Unicode Support
+=head2 perlapio - perl's IO abstraction interface.
=over 4
-=item What B<is> Unicode, anyway?
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item How can I recognise a UTF8 string?
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item How does UTF8 represent Unicode characters?
+1. USE_STDIO, 2. USE_SFIO, 3. USE_PERLIO, B<PerlIO_stdin()>,
+B<PerlIO_stdout()>, B<PerlIO_stderr()>, B<PerlIO_open(path, mode)>,
+B<PerlIO_fdopen(fd,mode)>, B<PerlIO_reopen(path,mode,f)>,
+B<PerlIO_printf(f,fmt,...)>, B<PerlIO_vprintf(f,fmt,a)>,
+B<PerlIO_stdoutf(fmt,...)>, B<PerlIO_read(f,buf,count)>,
+B<PerlIO_write(f,buf,count)>, B<PerlIO_close(f)>, B<PerlIO_puts(f,s)>,
+B<PerlIO_putc(f,c)>, B<PerlIO_ungetc(f,c)>, B<PerlIO_getc(f)>,
+B<PerlIO_eof(f)>, B<PerlIO_error(f)>, B<PerlIO_fileno(f)>,
+B<PerlIO_clearerr(f)>, B<PerlIO_flush(f)>, B<PerlIO_seek(f,offset,whence)>,
+B<PerlIO_tell(f)>, B<PerlIO_getpos(f,p)>, B<PerlIO_setpos(f,p)>,
+B<PerlIO_rewind(f)>, B<PerlIO_tmpfile()>, B<PerlIO_setlinebuf(f)>
-=item How does Perl store UTF8 strings?
+=over 4
-=item How do I convert a string to UTF8?
+=item Co-existence with stdio
-=item Is there anything else I need to know?
+B<PerlIO_importFILE(f,mode)>, B<PerlIO_exportFILE(f,mode)>,
+B<PerlIO_releaseFILE(p,f)>, B<PerlIO_findFILE(f)>
-=back
+=item "Fast gets" Functions
-=item Custom Operators
+B<PerlIO_fast_gets(f)>, B<PerlIO_has_cntptr(f)>, B<PerlIO_get_cnt(f)>,
+B<PerlIO_get_ptr(f)>, B<PerlIO_set_ptrcnt(f,p,c)>, B<PerlIO_canset_cnt(f)>,
+B<PerlIO_set_cnt(f,c)>, B<PerlIO_has_base(f)>, B<PerlIO_get_base(f)>,
+B<PerlIO_get_bufsiz(f)>
-=item AUTHORS
+=item Other Functions
-=item SEE ALSO
+PerlIO_apply_layers(f,mode,layers), PerlIO_binmode(f,ptype,imode,layers),
+'E<lt>' read, 'E<gt>' write, '+' read/write, PerlIO_debug(fmt,...)
=back
-=head2 perlcall - Perl calling conventions from C
+=back
+
+=head2 perlhack - How to hack at the Perl internals
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-An Error Handler, An Event Driven Program
+Does concept match the general goals of Perl?, Where is the
+implementation?, Backwards compatibility, Could it be a module instead?, Is
+the feature generic enough?, Does it potentially introduce new bugs?, Does
+it preclude other desirable features?, Is the implementation robust?, Is
+the implementation generic enough to be portable?, Is the implementation
+tested?, Is there enough documentation?, Is there another way to do it?,
+Does it create too much work?, Patches speak louder than words
-=item THE CALL_ FUNCTIONS
+=over 4
-call_sv, call_pv, call_method, call_argv
+=item Keeping in sync
-=item FLAG VALUES
+rsync'ing the source tree, Using rsync over the LAN, Using pushing over the
+NFS, rsync'ing the patches
-=over 4
+=item Why rsync the source tree
-=item G_VOID
+It's easier to rsync the source tree, It's more reliable
-=item G_SCALAR
+=item Why rsync the patches
-=item G_ARRAY
+It's easier to rsync the patches, It's a good reference, Finding a start
+point, Finding how to fix a bug, Finding the source of misbehaviour
-=item G_DISCARD
+=item Working with the source
-=item G_NOARGS
+=item Perlbug administration
-=item G_EVAL
+=item Submitting patches
-=item G_KEEPERR
+L<perlguts>, L<perlxstut> and L<perlxs>, L<perlapi>,
+F<Porting/pumpkin.pod>, The perl5-porters FAQ
-=item Determining the Context
+=item Finding Your Way Around
-=back
+Core modules, Tests, Documentation, Configure, Interpreter
-=item KNOWN PROBLEMS
+=item Elements of the interpreter
-=item EXAMPLES
+Startup, Parsing, Optimization, Running
-=over 4
+=item Internal Variable Types
-=item No Parameters, Nothing returned
+=item Op Trees
-=item Passing Parameters
+=item Stacks
-=item Returning a Scalar
+Argument stack, Mark stack, Save stack
-=item Returning a list of values
+=item Millions of Macros
-=item Returning a list in a scalar context
+=item The .i Targets
-=item Returning Data from Perl via the parameter list
+=item Poking at Perl
-=item Using G_EVAL
+=item Using a source-level debugger
-=item Using G_KEEPERR
+run [args], break function_name, break source.c:xxx, step, next, continue,
+finish, 'enter', print
-=item Using call_sv
+=item gdb macro support
-=item Using call_argv
+=item Dumping Perl Data Structures
-=item Using call_method
+=item Patching
-=item Using GIMME_V
+=item Patching a core module
-=item Using Perl to dispose of temporaries
+=item Adding a new function to the core
-=item Strategies for storing Callback Context Information
+=item Writing a test
-1. Ignore the problem - Allow only 1 callback, 2. Create a sequence of
-callbacks - hard wired limit, 3. Use a parameter to map to the Perl
-callback
+F<t/base/>, F<t/cmd/>, F<t/comp/>, F<t/io/>, F<t/lib/>, F<t/op/>,
+F<t/pod/>, F<t/run/>, F<t/uni/>, F<t/win32/>, F<t/x2p>, t/base t/comp,
+t/cmd t/run t/io t/op, t/lib ext lib
-=item Alternate Stack Manipulation
+=item Special Make Test Targets
-=item Creating and calling an anonymous subroutine in C
+coretest, test.deparse, test.taintwarn, minitest, test.valgrind
+check.valgrind utest.valgrind ucheck.valgrind, test.third check.third
+utest.third ucheck.third, test.torture torturetest, utest ucheck test.utf8
+check.utf8, minitest.utf16 test.utf16, test_harness
+
+=item Running tests by hand
+
+PERL_CORE=1, PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL=2, PERL, PERL_SKIP_TTY_TEST
=back
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item EXTERNAL TOOLS FOR DEBUGGING PERL
-=item AUTHOR
+=over 4
-=item DATE
+=item Rational Software's Purify
-=back
+=item Purify on Unix
-=head2 perlutil - utilities packaged with the Perl distribution
+-Accflags=-DPURIFY, -Doptimize='-g', -Uusemymalloc, -Dusemultiplicity
-=over 4
+=item Purify on NT
-=item DESCRIPTION
+DEFINES, USE_MULTI = define, #PERL_MALLOC = define, CFG = Debug
-=over 4
+=item valgrind
-=item DOCUMENTATION
+=item Compaq's/Digital's/HP's Third Degree
-L<perldoc|perldoc>, L<pod2man|pod2man> and L<pod2text|pod2text>,
-L<pod2html|pod2html> and L<pod2latex|pod2latex>, L<pod2usage|pod2usage>,
-L<podselect|podselect>, L<podchecker|podchecker>, L<splain|splain>,
-L<roffitall|roffitall>
+=item PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL
-=item CONVERTORS
+=item Profiling
-L<a2p|a2p>, L<s2p|s2p>, L<find2perl|find2perl>
+=item Gprof Profiling
-=item Administration
+-a, -b, -e routine, -f routine, -s, -z
-L<libnetcfg|libnetcfg>
+=item GCC gcov Profiling
-=item Development
+=item Pixie Profiling
-L<perlbug|perlbug>, L<h2ph|h2ph>, L<c2ph|c2ph> and L<pstruct|pstruct>,
-L<h2xs|h2xs>, L<dprofpp|dprofpp>, L<perlcc|perlcc>
+-h, -l, -p[rocedures], -h[eavy], -i[nvocations], -l[ines], -testcoverage,
+-z[ero]
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item Miscellaneous tricks
+
+=item CONCLUSION
+
+I<The Road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began.>
=back
+=item AUTHOR
+
=back
-=head2 perlfilter - Source Filters
+=head2 perlbook - Perl book information
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item CONCEPTS
-
-=item USING FILTERS
-
-=item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER
+=back
-=item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER IN C
+=head2 perltodo - Perl TO-DO List
-B<Decryption Filters>
+=over 4
-=item CREATING A SOURCE FILTER AS A SEPARATE EXECUTABLE
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER IN PERL
+=item assertions
-=item USING CONTEXT: THE DEBUG FILTER
+=item iCOW
-=item CONCLUSION
+=item (?{...}) closures in regexps
-=item THINGS TO LOOK OUT FOR
+=item A re-entrant regexp engine
-Some Filters Clobber the C<DATA> Handle
+=item pragmata
-=item REQUIREMENTS
+=over 4
-=item AUTHOR
+=item lexical pragmas
-=item Copyrights
+=item use less 'memory'
=back
-=head2 perldbmfilter - Perl DBM Filters
+=item prototypes and functions
=over 4
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item _ prototype character
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item inlining autoloaded constants
-B<filter_store_key>, B<filter_store_value>, B<filter_fetch_key>,
-B<filter_fetch_value>
+=item Finish off lvalue functions
-=over 4
+=back
-=item The Filter
+=item Unicode and UTF8
-=item An Example -- the NULL termination problem.
+=over 4
-=item Another Example -- Key is a C int.
+=item Implicit Latin 1 => Unicode translation
-=back
+=item UTF8 caching code
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item Unicode in Filenames
-=item AUTHOR
+=item Unicode in %ENV
=back
-=head2 perlapi - autogenerated documentation for the perl public API
+=item Regexps
=over 4
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item regexp optimiser optional
-=item "Gimme" Values
+=item common suffices/prefices in regexps (trie optimization)
-GIMME, GIMME_V, G_ARRAY, G_DISCARD, G_EVAL, G_NOARGS, G_SCALAR, G_VOID
+=back
-=item Array Manipulation Functions
+=item POD
-AvFILL, av_clear, av_delete, av_exists, av_extend, av_fetch, av_fill,
-av_len, av_make, av_pop, av_push, av_shift, av_store, av_undef, av_unshift,
-get_av, newAV, Nullav, sortsv
+=over 4
-=item Callback Functions
+=item POD -> HTML conversion still sucks
-call_argv, call_method, call_pv, call_sv, ENTER, eval_pv, eval_sv,
-FREETMPS, LEAVE, SAVETMPS
+=back
-=item Character classes
+=item Misc medium sized projects
-isALNUM, isALPHA, isDIGIT, isLOWER, isSPACE, isUPPER, toLOWER, toUPPER
+=over 4
-=item Cloning an interpreter
+=item UNITCHECK
-perl_clone
+=item optional optimizer
-=item CV Manipulation Functions
+=item You WANT *how* many
-CvSTASH, get_cv, Nullcv
+=item lexical aliases
-=item Embedding Functions
+=item no 6
-cv_undef, load_module, nothreadhook, perl_alloc, perl_construct,
-perl_destruct, perl_free, perl_parse, perl_run, require_pv
+=item IPv6
-=item Functions in file pp_pack.c
+=item entersub XS vs Perl
-packlist, pack_cat, unpackstring, unpack_str
+=item @INC source filter to Filter::Simple
-=item Global Variables
+=item bincompat functions
-PL_modglobal, PL_na, PL_sv_no, PL_sv_undef, PL_sv_yes
+=item Use fchown/fchmod internally
-=item GV Functions
+=item Constant folding
-GvSV, gv_fetchmeth, gv_fetchmethod, gv_fetchmethod_autoload,
-gv_fetchmeth_autoload, gv_stashpv, gv_stashsv
+=back
-=item Handy Values
+=item Tests
-HEf_SVKEY, Nullch, Nullsv
+=over 4
-=item Hash Manipulation Functions
+=item Make Schwern poorer
-get_hv, HeHASH, HeKEY, HeKLEN, HePV, HeSVKEY, HeSVKEY_force, HeSVKEY_set,
-HeVAL, HvNAME, hv_clear, hv_delete, hv_delete_ent, hv_exists,
-hv_exists_ent, hv_fetch, hv_fetch_ent, hv_iterinit, hv_iterkey,
-hv_iterkeysv, hv_iternext, hv_iternextsv, hv_iternext_flags, hv_iterval,
-hv_magic, hv_store, hv_store_ent, hv_undef, newHV, Nullhv
+=item test B
-=item Magical Functions
+=item common test code for timed bailout
-mg_clear, mg_copy, mg_find, mg_free, mg_get, mg_length, mg_magical, mg_set,
-SvGETMAGIC, SvLOCK, SvSETMAGIC, SvSetMagicSV, SvSetMagicSV_nosteal,
-SvSetSV, SvSetSV_nosteal, SvSHARE
+=back
-=item Memory Management
+=item Installation
-Copy, Move, New, Newc, NEWSV, Newz, Poison, Renew, Renewc, Safefree,
-savepv, savepvn, savesharedpv, StructCopy, Zero
+=over 4
-=item Miscellaneous Functions
+=item compressed man pages
-fbm_compile, fbm_instr, form, getcwd_sv, new_version, scan_version, strEQ,
-strGE, strGT, strLE, strLT, strNE, strnEQ, strnNE, sv_nolocking,
-sv_nosharing, sv_nounlocking, upg_version, vcmp, vnumify, vstringify
+=item Make Config.pm cope with differences between build and installed perl
-=item Numeric functions
+=item Relocatable perl
-grok_bin, grok_hex, grok_number, grok_numeric_radix, grok_oct, scan_bin,
-scan_hex, scan_oct
+=item make HTML install work
-=item Optree Manipulation Functions
+=item put patchlevel in -v
-cv_const_sv, newCONSTSUB, newXS
+=back
-=item Pad Data Structures
+=item Incremental things
-pad_sv
+=over 4
-=item Stack Manipulation Macros
+=item autovivification
-dMARK, dORIGMARK, dSP, EXTEND, MARK, ORIGMARK, POPi, POPl, POPn, POPp,
-POPpbytex, POPpx, POPs, PUSHi, PUSHMARK, PUSHn, PUSHp, PUSHs, PUSHu,
-PUTBACK, SP, SPAGAIN, XPUSHi, XPUSHn, XPUSHp, XPUSHs, XPUSHu, XSRETURN,
-XSRETURN_IV, XSRETURN_NO, XSRETURN_NV, XSRETURN_PV, XSRETURN_UNDEF,
-XSRETURN_YES, XST_mIV, XST_mNO, XST_mNV, XST_mPV, XST_mUNDEF, XST_mYES
+=item fix tainting bugs
-=item SV Flags
+=item Make tainting consistent
-svtype, SVt_IV, SVt_NV, SVt_PV, SVt_PVAV, SVt_PVCV, SVt_PVHV, SVt_PVMG
+=item Dual life everything
-=item SV Manipulation Functions
+=back
-get_sv, looks_like_number, newRV_inc, newRV_noinc, newSV, newSViv, newSVnv,
-newSVpv, newSVpvf, newSVpvn, newSVpvn_share, newSVrv, newSVsv, newSVuv,
-SvCUR, SvCUR_set, SvEND, SvGROW, SvIOK, SvIOKp, SvIOK_notUV, SvIOK_off,
-SvIOK_on, SvIOK_only, SvIOK_only_UV, SvIOK_UV, SvIsCOW,
-SvIsCOW_shared_hash, SvIV, SvIVx, SvIVX, SvLEN, SvNIOK, SvNIOKp,
-SvNIOK_off, SvNOK, SvNOKp, SvNOK_off, SvNOK_on, SvNOK_only, SvNV, SvNVX,
-SvNVx, SvOK, SvOOK, SvPOK, SvPOKp, SvPOK_off, SvPOK_on, SvPOK_only,
-SvPOK_only_UTF8, SvPV, SvPVbyte, SvPVbytex, SvPVbytex_force,
-SvPVbyte_force, SvPVbyte_nolen, SvPVutf8, SvPVutf8x, SvPVutf8x_force,
-SvPVutf8_force, SvPVutf8_nolen, SvPVx, SvPVX, SvPV_force, SvPV_force_nomg,
-SvPV_nolen, SvREFCNT, SvREFCNT_dec, SvREFCNT_inc, SvROK, SvROK_off,
-SvROK_on, SvRV, SvSTASH, SvTAINT, SvTAINTED, SvTAINTED_off, SvTAINTED_on,
-SvTRUE, SvTYPE, SvUNLOCK, SvUOK, SvUPGRADE, SvUTF8, SvUTF8_off, SvUTF8_on,
-SvUV, SvUVX, SvUVx, SvVOK, sv_2bool, sv_2cv, sv_2io, sv_2iv, sv_2mortal,
-sv_2nv, sv_2pvbyte, sv_2pvbyte_nolen, sv_2pvutf8, sv_2pvutf8_nolen,
-sv_2pv_flags, sv_2pv_nolen, sv_2uv, sv_backoff, sv_bless, sv_catpv,
-sv_catpvf, sv_catpvf_mg, sv_catpvn, sv_catpvn_flags, sv_catpvn_mg,
-sv_catpv_mg, sv_catsv, sv_catsv_flags, sv_catsv_mg, sv_chop, sv_clear,
-sv_cmp, sv_cmp_locale, sv_collxfrm, sv_copypv, sv_dec, sv_derived_from,
-sv_eq, sv_force_normal, sv_force_normal_flags, sv_free, sv_gets, sv_grow,
-sv_inc, sv_insert, sv_isa, sv_isobject, sv_iv, sv_len, sv_len_utf8,
-sv_magic, sv_magicext, sv_mortalcopy, sv_newmortal, sv_newref, sv_nv,
-sv_pos_b2u, sv_pos_u2b, sv_pv, sv_pvbyte, sv_pvbyten, sv_pvbyten_force,
-sv_pvn, sv_pvn_force, sv_pvn_force_flags, sv_pvutf8, sv_pvutf8n,
-sv_pvutf8n_force, sv_reftype, sv_replace, sv_report_used, sv_reset,
-sv_rvweaken, sv_setiv, sv_setiv_mg, sv_setnv, sv_setnv_mg, sv_setpv,
-sv_setpvf, sv_setpvf_mg, sv_setpviv, sv_setpviv_mg, sv_setpvn,
-sv_setpvn_mg, sv_setpv_mg, sv_setref_iv, sv_setref_nv, sv_setref_pv,
-sv_setref_pvn, sv_setref_uv, sv_setsv, sv_setsv_flags, sv_setsv_mg,
-sv_setuv, sv_setuv_mg, sv_taint, sv_tainted, sv_true, sv_unmagic, sv_unref,
-sv_unref_flags, sv_untaint, sv_upgrade, sv_usepvn, sv_usepvn_mg,
-sv_utf8_decode, sv_utf8_downgrade, sv_utf8_encode, sv_utf8_upgrade,
-sv_utf8_upgrade_flags, sv_uv, sv_vcatpvfn, sv_vsetpvfn
+=item Vague things
-=item Unicode Support
+=over 4
-bytes_from_utf8, bytes_to_utf8, ibcmp_utf8, is_utf8_char, is_utf8_string,
-pv_uni_display, sv_cat_decode, sv_recode_to_utf8, sv_uni_display,
-to_utf8_case, to_utf8_fold, to_utf8_lower, to_utf8_title, to_utf8_upper,
-utf8n_to_uvchr, utf8n_to_uvuni, utf8_distance, utf8_hop, utf8_length,
-utf8_to_bytes, utf8_to_uvchr, utf8_to_uvuni, uvchr_to_utf8,
-uvuni_to_utf8_flags
+=item threads
-=item Variables created by C<xsubpp> and C<xsubpp> internal functions
+=item POSIX memory footprint
-ax, CLASS, dAX, dITEMS, dXSARGS, dXSI32, items, ix, newXSproto, RETVAL, ST,
-THIS, XS, XSRETURN_EMPTY, XS_VERSION, XS_VERSION_BOOTCHECK
+=item Optimize away @_
-=item Warning and Dieing
+=item switch ops
-croak, warn
+=item Attach/detach debugger from running program
-=item AUTHORS
+=item A decent benchmark
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item readpipe(LIST)
+
+=item Self ties
=back
-=head2 perlintern - autogenerated documentation of purely B<internal>
- Perl functions
+=back
+
+=head2 perldoc - Look up Perl documentation in Pod format.
=over 4
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item CV reference counts and CvOUTSIDE
+=item OPTIONS
-CvWEAKOUTSIDE
+B<-h>, B<-v>, B<-t>, B<-u>, B<-m> I<module>, B<-l>, B<-F>, B<-f>
+I<perlfunc>, B<-q> I<perlfaq-search-regexp>, B<-T>, B<-d>
+I<destination-filename>, B<-o> I<output-formatname>, B<-M> I<module-name>,
+B<-w> I<option:value> or B<-w> I<option>, B<-X>,
+B<PageName|ModuleName|ProgramName>, B<-n> I<some-formatter>, B<-r>, B<-i>,
+B<-V>
-=item Functions in file pad.h
+=item SECURITY
-CX_CURPAD_SAVE, CX_CURPAD_SV, PAD_BASE_SV, PAD_CLONE_VARS,
-PAD_COMPNAME_FLAGS, PAD_COMPNAME_GEN, PAD_COMPNAME_OURSTASH,
-PAD_COMPNAME_PV, PAD_COMPNAME_TYPE, PAD_DUP, PAD_RESTORE_LOCAL,
-PAD_SAVE_LOCAL, PAD_SAVE_SETNULLPAD, PAD_SETSV, PAD_SET_CUR, PAD_SV,
-PAD_SVl, SAVECLEARSV, SAVECOMPPAD, SAVEPADSV
+=item ENVIRONMENT
-=item Functions in file pp_ctl.c
+=item AUTHOR
-find_runcv
+=back
-=item Global Variables
+=head2 perlhist - the Perl history records
-PL_DBsingle, PL_DBsub, PL_DBtrace, PL_dowarn, PL_last_in_gv, PL_ofs_sv,
-PL_rs
+=over 4
-=item GV Functions
+=item DESCRIPTION
-is_gv_magical
+=item INTRODUCTION
-=item IO Functions
+=item THE KEEPERS OF THE PUMPKIN
-start_glob
+=over 4
-=item Pad Data Structures
+=item PUMPKIN?
-CvPADLIST, cv_clone, cv_dump, do_dump_pad, intro_my, pad_add_anon,
-pad_add_name, pad_alloc, pad_block_start, pad_check_dup, pad_findlex,
-pad_findmy, pad_fixup_inner_anons, pad_free, pad_leavemy, pad_new,
-pad_push, pad_reset, pad_setsv, pad_swipe, pad_tidy, pad_undef
+=back
-=item Stack Manipulation Macros
+=item THE RECORDS
-djSP, LVRET
+=over 4
-=item SV Manipulation Functions
+=item SELECTED RELEASE SIZES
-report_uninit, sv_add_arena, sv_clean_all, sv_clean_objs, sv_free_arenas
+=item SELECTED PATCH SIZES
-=item AUTHORS
+=back
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item THE KEEPERS OF THE RECORDS
=back
-=head2 perliol - C API for Perl's implementation of IO in Layers.
+=head2 perldelta - what is new for perl v5.9.2
=over 4
-=item SYNOPSIS
-
=item DESCRIPTION
-=over 4
-
-=item History and Background
+=item Incompatible Changes
-=item Layers vs Disciplines
+=item Core Enhancements
-=item Data Structures
+=item Modules and Pragmata
-=item Functions and Attributes
+=item Utility Changes
-=item Per-instance Data
+=item Documentation
-=item Layers in action.
+=item Performance Enhancements
-=item Per-instance flag bits
+=item Installation and Configuration Improvements
-PERLIO_F_EOF, PERLIO_F_CANWRITE, PERLIO_F_CANREAD, PERLIO_F_ERROR,
-PERLIO_F_TRUNCATE, PERLIO_F_APPEND, PERLIO_F_CRLF, PERLIO_F_UTF8,
-PERLIO_F_UNBUF, PERLIO_F_WRBUF, PERLIO_F_RDBUF, PERLIO_F_LINEBUF,
-PERLIO_F_TEMP, PERLIO_F_OPEN, PERLIO_F_FASTGETS
+=item Selected Bug Fixes
-=item Methods in Detail
+=item New or Changed Diagnostics
-fsize, name, size, kind, PERLIO_K_BUFFERED, PERLIO_K_RAW, PERLIO_K_CANCRLF,
-PERLIO_K_FASTGETS, PERLIO_K_MULTIARG, Pushed, Popped, Open, Binmode,
-Getarg, Fileno, Dup, Read, Write, Seek, Tell, Close, Flush, Fill, Eof,
-Error, Clearerr, Setlinebuf, Get_base, Get_bufsiz, Get_ptr, Get_cnt,
-Set_ptrcnt
+=item Changed Internals
-=item Implementing PerlIO Layers
+=item Known Problems
-C implementations, Perl implementations
+=over 4
-=item Core Layers
+=item Platform Specific Problems
-"unix", "perlio", "stdio", "crlf", "mmap", "pending", "raw", "utf8"
+=back
-=item Extension Layers
+=item Reporting Bugs
-":encoding", ":scalar", ":via"
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=item TODO
+=head2 perl592delta, perldelta - what is new for perl v5.9.2
-=back
+=over 4
-=head2 perlapio - perl's IO abstraction interface.
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=over 4
+=item Incompatible Changes
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item Core Enhancements
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Modules and Pragmata
-1. USE_STDIO, 2. USE_SFIO, 3. USE_PERLIO, B<PerlIO_stdin()>,
-B<PerlIO_stdout()>, B<PerlIO_stderr()>, B<PerlIO_open(path, mode)>,
-B<PerlIO_fdopen(fd,mode)>, B<PerlIO_reopen(path,mode,f)>,
-B<PerlIO_printf(f,fmt,...)>, B<PerlIO_vprintf(f,fmt,a)>,
-B<PerlIO_stdoutf(fmt,...)>, B<PerlIO_read(f,buf,count)>,
-B<PerlIO_write(f,buf,count)>, B<PerlIO_close(f)>, B<PerlIO_puts(f,s)>,
-B<PerlIO_putc(f,c)>, B<PerlIO_ungetc(f,c)>, B<PerlIO_getc(f)>,
-B<PerlIO_eof(f)>, B<PerlIO_error(f)>, B<PerlIO_fileno(f)>,
-B<PerlIO_clearerr(f)>, B<PerlIO_flush(f)>, B<PerlIO_seek(f,offset,whence)>,
-B<PerlIO_tell(f)>, B<PerlIO_getpos(f,p)>, B<PerlIO_setpos(f,p)>,
-B<PerlIO_rewind(f)>, B<PerlIO_tmpfile()>, B<PerlIO_setlinebuf(f)>
+=item Utility Changes
-=over 4
+=item Documentation
-=item Co-existence with stdio
+=item Performance Enhancements
-B<PerlIO_importFILE(f,mode)>, B<PerlIO_exportFILE(f,mode)>,
-B<PerlIO_releaseFILE(p,f)>, B<PerlIO_findFILE(f)>
+=item Installation and Configuration Improvements
-=item "Fast gets" Functions
+=item Selected Bug Fixes
-B<PerlIO_fast_gets(f)>, B<PerlIO_has_cntptr(f)>, B<PerlIO_get_cnt(f)>,
-B<PerlIO_get_ptr(f)>, B<PerlIO_set_ptrcnt(f,p,c)>, B<PerlIO_canset_cnt(f)>,
-B<PerlIO_set_cnt(f,c)>, B<PerlIO_has_base(f)>, B<PerlIO_get_base(f)>,
-B<PerlIO_get_bufsiz(f)>
+=item New or Changed Diagnostics
+
+=item Changed Internals
+
+=item Known Problems
-=item Other Functions
+=over 4
-PerlIO_apply_layers(f,mode,layers), PerlIO_binmode(f,ptype,imode,layers),
-'E<lt>' read, 'E<gt>' write, '+' read/write, PerlIO_debug(fmt,...)
+=item Platform Specific Problems
=back
+=item Reporting Bugs
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
=back
-=head2 perltodo - Perl TO-DO List
+=head2 perl591delta, perldelta - what is new for perl v5.9.1
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item To do during 5.6.x
+=item Incompatible Changes
=over 4
-=item Support for I/O disciplines
-
-=item Autoload bytes.pm
+=item substr() lvalues are no longer fixed-length
-=item Make "\u{XXXX}" et al work
+=item The C<:unique> attribute is only meaningful for globals
-=item Create a char *sv_pvprintify(sv, STRLEN *lenp, UV flags)
+=back
-=item Overloadable regex assertions
+=item Core Enhancements
-=item Unicode
+=over 4
-=item Work out exit/die semantics for threads
+=item Lexical C<$_>
-=item Better support for nonpreemptive threading systems like GNU pth
+=item Tied hashes in scalar context
-=item Typed lexicals for compiler
+=item Formats
-=item Compiler workarounds for Win32
+=item Stacked filetest operators
-=item AUTOLOADing in the compiler
+=back
-=item Fixing comppadlist when compiling
+=item Modules and Pragmata
-=item Cleaning up exported namespace
+Benchmark, Carp, Exporter, FindBin, List::Util, threads::shared
-=item Complete signal handling
+=item Utility Changes
-=item Out-of-source builds
+=item Documentation
-=item POSIX realtime support
+=item Performance Enhancements
-=item UNIX98 support
+=item Selected Bug Fixes
-=item IPv6 Support
+=over 4
-=item Long double conversion
+=item UTF-8 bugs
-=item Locales
+=item Threading bugs
-=item Arithmetic on non-Arabic numerals
+=item More bugs
-=item POSIX Unicode character classes
+=back
-=item Factoring out common suffices/prefices in regexps (trie optimization)
+=item New or Changed Diagnostics
-=item Security audit shipped utilities
+=item Changed Internals
-=item Sort out the uid-setting mess
+=over 4
-=item Custom opcodes
+=item Reordering of SVt_* constants
-=item DLL Versioning
+=item Removal of CPP symbols
-=item Introduce @( and @)
+=item Less space is used by ops
-=item Floating point handling
+=item New parser
-=item IV/UV preservation
+=back
-=item Replace pod2html with something using Pod::Parser
+=item Configuration and Building
-=item Automate module testing on CPAN
+=item Known Problems
-=item sendmsg and recvmsg
+=over 4
-=item Rewrite perlre documentation
+=item Platform Specific Problems
-=item Convert example code to IO::Handle filehandles
+=back
-=item Document Win32 choices
+=item To-do for perl 5.10.0
-=item Check new modules
+=item Reporting Bugs
-=item Make roffitall find pods and libs itself
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=item To do at some point
+=head2 perl590delta, perldelta - what is new for perl v5.9.0
=over 4
-=item Remove regular expression recursion
-
-=item Memory leaks after failed eval
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item bitfields in pack
+=item Incompatible Changes
-=item Cross compilation
+=over 4
-=item Perl preprocessor / macros
+=item Hash Randomisation
-=item Perl lexer in Perl
+=item UTF-8 On Filehandles No Longer Activated By Locale
-=item Using POSIX calls internally
+=item Single-number v-strings are no longer v-strings before "=>"
-=item -i rename file when changed
+=item (Win32) The -C Switch Has Been Repurposed
-=item All ARGV input should act like E<lt>E<gt>
+=item (Win32) The /d Switch Of cmd.exe
-=item Support for rerunning debugger
+=item The C<$*> variable has been removed
-=item Test Suite for the Debugger
+=back
-=item my sub foo { }
+=item Core Enhancements
-=item One-pass global destruction
+=over 4
-=item Rewrite regexp parser
+=item Assertions
-=item Cache recently used regexps
+=item Defined-or operators
-=item Cross-compilation support
+=item UTF-8 no longer default under UTF-8 locales
-=item Bit-shifting bitvectors
+=item Unsafe signals again available
-=item debugger pragma
+=item Tied Arrays with Negative Array Indices
-=item use less pragma
+=item local ${$x}
-=item switch structures
+=item Unicode Character Database 4.0.0
-=item Cache eval tree
+=item Miscellaneous Enhancements
-=item rcatmaybe
+=back
-=item Shrink opcode tables
+=item Modules and Pragmata
-=item Optimize away @_
+=over 4
-=item Prototypes versus indirect objects
+=item Updated Modules And Pragmata
-=item Install HTML
+base, B::Bytecode, B::Concise, B::Deparse, Benchmark, ByteLoader, bytes,
+CGI, charnames, CPAN, Data::Dumper, DB_File, Devel::PPPort, Digest::MD5,
+Encode, fields, libnet, Math::BigInt, MIME::Base64, NEXT, Net::Ping,
+PerlIO::scalar, podlators, Pod::LaTeX, PodParsers, Pod::Perldoc,
+Scalar::Util, Storable, strict, Term::ANSIcolor, Test::Harness, Test::More,
+Test::Simple, Text::Balanced, Time::HiRes, threads, threads::shared,
+Unicode::Collate, Unicode::Normalize, Win32::GetFolderPath,
+Win32::GetOSVersion
-=item Prototype method calls
+=back
-=item Return context prototype declarations
+=item Utility Changes
-=item magic_setisa
+=item New Documentation
-=item Garbage collection
+=item Performance Enhancements
-=item IO tutorial
+=item Installation and Configuration Improvements
-=item Rewrite perldoc
+=over 4
-=item Install .3p manpages
+=item Platform-specific enhancements
-=item Unicode tutorial
+=back
-=item Update POSIX.pm for 1003.1-2
+=item Selected Bug Fixes
-=item Retargetable installation
+=over 4
-=item POSIX emulation on non-POSIX systems
+=item Closures, eval and lexicals
-=item Rename Win32 headers
+=item Generic fixes
-=item Finish off lvalue functions
+=item Platform-specific fixes
-=item Update sprintf documentation
+=back
-=item Use fchown/fchmod internally
+=item New or Changed Diagnostics
-=item Make v-strings overloaded objects
+=over 4
-=item Allow restricted hash assignment
+=item Changed "A thread exited while %d threads were running"
-=item Should overload be inheritable?
+=item Removed "Attempt to clear a restricted hash"
-=item Taint rethink
+=item New "Illegal declaration of anonymous subroutine"
-=item Perform correctly when XSUBs call subroutines that exit via
-goto(LABEL) and friends
+=item Changed "Invalid range "%s" in transliteration operator"
-=back
+=item New "Missing control char name in \c"
-=item Vague ideas
+=item New "Newline in left-justified string for %s"
-=over 4
+=item New "Possible precedence problem on bitwise %c operator"
-=item ref() in list context
+=item New "read() on %s filehandle %s"
-=item Make tr/// return histogram of characters in list context
+=item New "Tied variable freed while still in use"
-=item Compile to real threaded code
+=item New "To%s: illegal mapping '%s'"
-=item Structured types
+=item New "Use of freed value in iteration"
-=item Modifiable $1 et al.
+=back
-=item Procedural interfaces for IO::*, etc.
+=item Changed Internals
-=item RPC modules
+=item New Tests
-=item Attach/detach debugger from running program
+=item Known Problems
-=item GUI::Native
+=over 4
-=item foreach(reverse ...)
+=item Tied hashes in scalar context
-=item Constant function cache
+=item Net::Ping 450_service and 510_ping_udp failures
-=item Approximate regular expression matching
+=item B::C
=back
-=item Ongoing
+=item Platform Specific Problems
=over 4
-=item Update guts documentation
+=item EBCDIC Platforms
+
+=item Cygwin 1.5 problems
-=item Add more tests
+=item HP-UX: HP cc warnings about sendfile and sendpath
-=item Update auxiliary tools
+=item IRIX: t/uni/tr_7jis.t falsely failing
-=item Create debugging macros
+=item Mac OS X: no usemymalloc
-=item truncate to the people
+=item Tru64: No threaded builds with GNU cc (gcc)
-=item Unicode in Filenames
+=item Win32: sysopen, sysread, syswrite
=back
-=item Unicode in %ENV
+=item TODO
+
+=item Reporting Bugs
+
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item Recently done things
+=back
+
+=head2 perl586delta - what is new for perl v5.8.6
=over 4
-=item Alternative RE syntax module
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Safe signal handling
+=item Incompatible Changes
-=item Tie Modules
+=item Core Enhancements
-=item gettimeofday
+=item Modules and Pragmata
-=item setitimer and getimiter
+=item Utility Changes
-=item Testing __DIE__ hook
+=item Performance Enhancements
-=item CPP equivalent in Perl
+=item Selected Bug Fixes
-=item Explicit switch statements
+=item New or Changed Diagnostics
-=item autocroak
+=item Changed Internals
-=item UTF/EBCDIC
+=item New Tests
-=item UTF Regexes
+=item Reporting Bugs
-=item perlcc to produce executable
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item END blocks saved in compiled output
+=back
-=item Secure temporary file module
+=head2 perl585delta - what is new for perl v5.8.5
-=item Integrate Time::HiRes
+=over 4
-=item Turn Cwd into XS
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Mmap for input
+=item Incompatible Changes
-=item Byte to/from UTF8 and UTF8 to/from local conversion
+=item Core Enhancements
-=item Add sockatmark support
+=item Modules and Pragmata
-=item Mailing list archives
+=item Utility Changes
-=item Bug tracking
+=over 4
-=item Integrate MacPerl
+=item Perl's debugger
-=item Web "nerve center" for Perl
+=item h2ph
-=item Regular expression tutorial
+=back
-=item Debugging Tutorial
+=item Installation and Configuration Improvements
-=item Integrate new modules
+=item Selected Bug Fixes
-=item Integrate profiler
+=item New or Changed Diagnostics
-=item Y2K error detection
+=item Changed Internals
-=item Regular expression debugger
+=item Known Problems
-=item POD checker
+=item Platform Specific Problems
-=item "Dynamic" lexicals
+=item Reporting Bugs
-=item Cache precompiled modules
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=item Deprecated Wishes
+=head2 perl584delta - what is new for perl v5.8.4
=over 4
-=item Loop control on do{}
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Lexically scoped typeglobs
+=item Incompatible Changes
-=item format BOTTOM
+=item Core Enhancements
-=item report HANDLE
+=over 4
-=item Generalised want()/caller())
+=item Malloc wrapping
-=item Named prototypes
+=item Unicode Character Database 4.0.1
-=item Built-in globbing
+=item suidperl less insecure
-=item Regression tests for suidperl
+=item format
-=item Cached hash values
+=back
-=item Add compression modules
+=item Modules and Pragmata
-=item Reorganise documentation into tutorials/references
+=over 4
-=item Remove distinction between functions and operators
+=item Updated modules
-=item Make XS easier to use
+Attribute::Handlers, B, Benchmark, CGI, Carp, Cwd, Exporter, File::Find,
+IO, IPC::Open3, Local::Maketext, Math::BigFloat, Math::BigInt,
+Math::BigRat, MIME::Base64, ODBM_File, POSIX, Shell, Socket, Storable,
+Switch, Sys::Syslog, Term::ANSIColor, Time::HiRes, Unicode::UCD, Win32,
+base, open, threads, utf8
-=item Make embedding easier to use
+=back
-=item man for perl
+=item Performance Enhancements
-=item my $Package::variable
+=item Utility Changes
-=item "or" tests defined, not truth
+=item Installation and Configuration Improvements
-=item "class"-based lexicals
+=item Selected Bug Fixes
-=item byteperl
+=item New or Changed Diagnostics
-=item Lazy evaluation / tail recursion removal
+=item Changed Internals
-=item Make "use utf8" the default
+=item Future Directions
-=item Unicode collation and normalization
+=item Platform Specific Problems
-=item pack/unpack tutorial
+=item Reporting Bugs
-=back
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=head2 perlhack - How to hack at the Perl internals
+=head2 perl583delta - what is new for perl v5.8.3
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-Does concept match the general goals of Perl?, Where is the
-implementation?, Backwards compatibility, Could it be a module instead?, Is
-the feature generic enough?, Does it potentially introduce new bugs?, Does
-it preclude other desirable features?, Is the implementation robust?, Is
-the implementation generic enough to be portable?, Is the implementation
-tested?, Is there enough documentation?, Is there another way to do it?,
-Does it create too much work?, Patches speak louder than words
+=item Incompatible Changes
-=over 4
+=item Core Enhancements
-=item Keeping in sync
+=item Modules and Pragmata
-rsync'ing the source tree, Using rsync over the LAN, Using pushing over the
-NFS, rsync'ing the patches
+CGI, Cwd, Digest, Digest::MD5, Encode, File::Spec, FindBin, List::Util,
+Math::BigInt, PodParser, Pod::Perldoc, POSIX, Unicode::Collate,
+Unicode::Normalize, Test::Harness, threads::shared
-=item Why rsync the source tree
+=item Utility Changes
-It's easier to rsync the source tree, It's more reliable
+=item New Documentation
-=item Why rsync the patches
+=item Installation and Configuration Improvements
-It's easier to rsync the patches, It's a good reference, Finding a start
-point, Finding how to fix a bug, Finding the source of misbehaviour
+=item Selected Bug Fixes
-=item Perlbug administration
+=item New or Changed Diagnostics
-=item Submitting patches
+=item Changed Internals
-L<perlguts>, L<perlxstut> and L<perlxs>, L<perlapi>,
-F<Porting/pumpkin.pod>, The perl5-porters FAQ
+=item Configuration and Building
-=item Finding Your Way Around
+=item Platform Specific Problems
-Core modules, Tests, Documentation, Configure, Interpreter
+=item Known Problems
-=item Elements of the interpreter
+=item Future Directions
-Startup, Parsing, Optimization, Running
+=item Obituary
-=item Internal Variable Types
+=item Reporting Bugs
-=item Op Trees
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item Stacks
+=back
-Argument stack, Mark stack, Save stack
+=head2 perl582delta - what is new for perl v5.8.2
-=item Millions of Macros
+=over 4
-=item The .i Targets
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Poking at Perl
+=item Incompatible Changes
-=item Using a source-level debugger
+=item Core Enhancements
-run [args], break function_name, break source.c:xxx, step, next, continue,
-finish, 'enter', print
+=over 4
-=item gdb macro support
+=item Hash Randomisation
-=item Dumping Perl Data Structures
+=item Threading
-=item Patching
+=back
-=item Patching a core module
+=item Modules and Pragmata
-=item Adding a new function to the core
+=over 4
-=item Writing a test
+=item Updated Modules And Pragmata
-F<t/base/>, F<t/cmd/>, F<t/comp/>, F<t/io/>, F<t/lib/>, F<t/op/>,
-F<t/pod/>, F<t/run/>, F<t/uni/>, F<t/win32/>, F<t/x2p>, t/base t/comp,
-t/cmd t/run t/io t/op, t/lib ext lib
+Devel::PPPort, Digest::MD5, I18N::LangTags, libnet, MIME::Base64,
+Pod::Perldoc, strict, Tie::Hash, Time::HiRes, Unicode::Collate,
+Unicode::Normalize, UNIVERSAL
-=item Special Make Test Targets
+=back
+
+=item Selected Bug Fixes
-coretest, test.deparse, minitest, test.third check.third utest.third
-ucheck.third, test.torture torturetest, utest ucheck test.utf8 check.utf8,
-test_harness
+=item Changed Internals
-=item Running tests by hand
+=item Platform Specific Problems
-PERL_CORE=1, PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL=2, PERL, PERL_SKIP_TTY_TEST
+=item Future Directions
+
+=item Reporting Bugs
+
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=item EXTERNAL TOOLS FOR DEBUGGING PERL
+=head2 perl581delta - what is new for perl v5.8.1
=over 4
-=item Rational Software's Purify
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Purify on Unix
+=item Incompatible Changes
--Accflags=-DPURIFY, -Doptimize='-g', -Uusemymalloc, -Dusemultiplicity
+=over 4
-=item Purify on NT
+=item Hash Randomisation
-DEFINES, USE_MULTI = define, #PERL_MALLOC = define, CFG = Debug
+=item UTF-8 On Filehandles No Longer Activated By Locale
-=item Compaq's/Digital's/HP's Third Degree
+=item Single-number v-strings are no longer v-strings before "=>"
-=item PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL
+=item (Win32) The -C Switch Has Been Repurposed
-=item Profiling
+=item (Win32) The /d Switch Of cmd.exe
-=item Gprof Profiling
+=back
--a, -b, -e routine, -f routine, -s, -z
+=item Core Enhancements
-=item GCC gcov Profiling
+=over 4
-=item Pixie Profiling
+=item UTF-8 no longer default under UTF-8 locales
--h, -l, -p[rocedures], -h[eavy], -i[nvocations], -l[ines], -testcoverage,
--z[ero]
+=item Unsafe signals again available
-=item Miscellaneous tricks
+=item Tied Arrays with Negative Array Indices
-=item CONCLUSION
+=item local ${$x}
-I<The Road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began.>
+=item Unicode Character Database 4.0.0
-=back
+=item Deprecation Warnings
-=item AUTHOR
+=item Miscellaneous Enhancements
=back
-=head2 perldoc - Look up Perl documentation in Pod format.
+=item Modules and Pragmata
=over 4
-=item SYNOPSIS
-
-=item DESCRIPTION
-
-=item OPTIONS
-
-B<-h>, B<-v>, B<-t>, B<-u>, B<-m> I<module>, B<-l>, B<-F>, B<-f>
-I<perlfunc>, B<-q> I<perlfaq-search-regexp>, B<-T>, B<-d>
-I<destination-filename>, B<-o> I<output-formatname>, B<-M> I<module-name>,
-B<-w> I<option:value> or B<-w> I<option>, B<-X>,
-B<PageName|ModuleName|ProgramName>, B<-n> I<some-formatter>, B<-r>, B<-i>,
-B<-V>
+=item Updated Modules And Pragmata
-=item SECURITY
+base, B::Bytecode, B::Concise, B::Deparse, Benchmark, ByteLoader, bytes,
+CGI, charnames, CPAN, Data::Dumper, DB_File, Devel::PPPort, Digest::MD5,
+Encode, fields, libnet, Math::BigInt, MIME::Base64, NEXT, Net::Ping,
+PerlIO::scalar, podlators, Pod::LaTeX, PodParsers, Pod::Perldoc,
+Scalar::Util, Storable, strict, Term::ANSIcolor, Test::Harness, Test::More,
+Test::Simple, Text::Balanced, Time::HiRes, threads, threads::shared,
+Unicode::Collate, Unicode::Normalize, Win32::GetFolderPath,
+Win32::GetOSVersion
-=item ENVIRONMENT
+=back
-=item AUTHOR
+=item Utility Changes
-=back
+=item New Documentation
-=head2 perlhist - the Perl history records
+=item Installation and Configuration Improvements
=over 4
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Platform-specific enhancements
-=item INTRODUCTION
+=back
-=item THE KEEPERS OF THE PUMPKIN
+=item Selected Bug Fixes
=over 4
-=item PUMPKIN?
+=item Closures, eval and lexicals
+
+=item Generic fixes
+
+=item Platform-specific fixes
=back
-=item THE RECORDS
+=item New or Changed Diagnostics
=over 4
-=item SELECTED RELEASE SIZES
+=item Changed "A thread exited while %d threads were running"
-=item SELECTED PATCH SIZES
+=item Removed "Attempt to clear a restricted hash"
-=back
+=item New "Illegal declaration of anonymous subroutine"
-=item THE KEEPERS OF THE RECORDS
+=item Changed "Invalid range "%s" in transliteration operator"
-=back
+=item New "Missing control char name in \c"
-=head2 perldelta - what is new for perl v5.9.0
+=item New "Newline in left-justified string for %s"
-=over 4
+=item New "Possible precedence problem on bitwise %c operator"
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item New "Pseudo-hashes are deprecated"
-=item Incompatible Changes
+=item New "read() on %s filehandle %s"
-=over 4
+=item New "5.005 threads are deprecated"
-=item The C<$*> variable has been removed
+=item New "Tied variable freed while still in use"
+
+=item New "To%s: illegal mapping '%s'"
+
+=item New "Use of freed value in iteration"
=back
-=item Core Enhancements
+=item Changed Internals
+
+=item New Tests
+
+=item Known Problems
=over 4
-=item Tied Arrays with Negative Array Indices
+=item Tied hashes in scalar context
+
+=item Net::Ping 450_service and 510_ping_udp failures
+
+=item B::C
=back
-=item Modules and Pragmata
+=item Platform Specific Problems
-=item Utility Changes
+=over 4
-=item New Documentation
+=item EBCDIC Platforms
-=item Performance Enhancements
+=item Cygwin 1.5 problems
-=item Installation and Configuration Improvements
+=item HP-UX: HP cc warnings about sendfile and sendpath
-=item Selected Bug Fixes
+=item IRIX: t/uni/tr_7jis.t falsely failing
-=item New or Changed Diagnostics
+=item Mac OS X: no usemymalloc
-=item Changed Internals
+=item Tru64: No threaded builds with GNU cc (gcc)
-=item New Tests
+=item Win32: sysopen, sysread, syswrite
-=item Known Problems
+=back
-=item Platform Specific Problems
+=item Future Directions
=item Reporting Bugs
=back
-=head2 perl58delta, perldelta - what is new for perl v5.8.0
+=head2 perl58delta - what is new for perl v5.8.0
=over 4
=back
-=head2 perlartistic -- the Perl Artistic License
+=head2 perlartistic - the Perl Artistic License
=over 4
=back
-=head2 perlgpl -- the GNU Public General Public License, version 2
+=head2 perlgpl - the GNU General Public License, version 2
=over 4
=item The IBM ANSI C Compiler
+=item The usenm option
+
=item Using GNU's gcc for building perl
=item Using Large Files with Perl
=back
-=head2 perlapollo, README.apollo - Perl version 5 on Apollo DomainOS
-
-=over 4
-
-=item DESCRIPTION
-
-=item AUTHOR
-
-=back
-
=head2 perlamiga - Perl under Amiga OS
=over 4
=back
-=head2 perlbeos, README.beos - Perl version 5 on BeOS
+=head2 perlapollo, README.apollo - Perl version 5 on Apollo DomainOS
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlbeos, README.beos - Perl version 5.8+ on BeOS
+
=over 4
-=item General Issues with Perl on BeOS
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item BUILD AND INSTALL
-=item BeOS Release-specific Notes
+=over 4
+
+=item Requirements
-R4 x86, R4 PPC
+=item Configure
-=item Contact Information
+=item Build
-=item Update 2002-05-30
+=item Install
=back
+=item KNOWN PROBLEMS
+
+=item CONTACT
+
=back
=head2 perlbs2000, README.BS2000 - building and installing Perl for BS2000.
=item Floating point anomalies on BS2000
+=item Using PerlIO and different encodings on ASCII and EBCDIC partitions
+
=back
=item AUTHORS
=back
-=over 4
+=head2 perlce - Perl for WinCE
-=item Name
+=over 4
-=item Description
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Build
+=item BUILD
=over 4
=back
-=item Acknowledgements
+=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
=item AUTHORS
=over 4
-=item Warnings on Cygwin
+=item Errors on Cygwin
=item ld2 on Cygwin
=item PA-RISC
+=item Portability Between PA-RISC Versions
+
=item PA-RISC 1.0
=item PA-RISC 1.1
=item PA-RISC 2.0
-=item Itanium
-
-=item Portability Between PA-RISC Versions
-
=item Itanium Processor Family and HP-UX
+=item Itanium & Itanium 2
+
=item Building Dynamic Extensions on HP-UX
=item The HP ANSI C Compiler
=over 4
-=item Compiling Perl 5 on MachTen
+=item Perl version 5.8.x and greater not supported
+
+=item Compiling Perl 5.6.x on MachTen
=item Failures during C<make test> on MachTen
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item INSTALLATION PREFIX
+=over 4
+
+=item Installation Prefix
+
+=item libperl and Prebinding
+
+=item Updating Panther
+
+=item Known problems
-=item LIBPERL AND PREBINDING
+=item MacPerl
-=item UPDATING PANTHER
+=item Carbon
-=item MACPERL
+=item Cocoa
-=item CARBON
+=back
-=item COCOA
+=item Starting From Scratch
=item AUTHOR
=item AUTHOR
-=item Name
+=back
-=item Description
+=head2 perlnetware - Perl for NetWare
-=item Build
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item BUILD
=over 4
=back
-=item Install
+=item INSTALL
-=item Build new extensions
+=item BUILD NEW EXTENSIONS
-=item Acknowledgements
+=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
-=item Authors
+=item AUTHORS
-=item Date
+=item DATE
=back
=back
+=item Building a binary distribution
+
+=item Building custom F<.EXE> files
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Making executables with a custom collection of statically loaded
+extensions
+
+=item Making executables with a custom search-paths
+
+=back
+
=item Build FAQ
=over 4
=back
-=head2 perlqnx, README.qnx - Perl version 5 on QNX
+=head2 perlplan9 - Plan 9-specific documentation for Perl
=over 4
=over 4
-=item Required Software for Compiling Perl on QNX4
+=item Invoking Perl
-/bin/sh, ar, nm, cpp, make
+=item What's in Plan 9 Perl
-=item Outstanding Issues with Perl on QNX4
+=item What's not in Plan 9 Perl
-=item QNX auxiliary files
+=item Perl5 Functions not currently supported in Plan 9 Perl
-qnx/ar, qnx/cpp
+=item Signals in Plan 9 Perl
-=item Outstanding issues with perl under QNX6
+=back
+
+=item COMPILING AND INSTALLING PERL ON PLAN 9
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Installing Perl Documentation on Plan 9
=back
+=item BUGS
+
+=item Revision date
+
=item AUTHOR
=back
-=head2 perlplan9 - Plan 9-specific documentation for Perl
+=head2 perlqnx, README.qnx - Perl version 5 on QNX
=over 4
=over 4
-=item Invoking Perl
-
-=item What's in Plan 9 Perl
-
-=item What's not in Plan 9 Perl
-
-=item Perl5 Functions not currently supported in Plan 9 Perl
+=item Required Software for Compiling Perl on QNX4
-=item Signals in Plan 9 Perl
+/bin/sh, ar, nm, cpp, make
-=back
+=item Outstanding Issues with Perl on QNX4
-=item COMPILING AND INSTALLING PERL ON PLAN 9
+=item QNX auxiliary files
-=over 4
+qnx/ar, qnx/cpp
-=item Installing Perl Documentation on Plan 9
+=item Outstanding issues with perl under QNX6
=back
-=item BUGS
-
-=item Revision date
-
=item AUTHOR
=back
=back
+=item SunOS 4.x
+
=item AUTHOR
=item LAST MODIFIED
=item Setting Up Perl on Win32
-Make, Command Shell, Borland C++, Microsoft Visual C++, Microsoft Platform
-SDK 64-bit Compiler, MinGW32 with gcc, MinGW release 1
+Make, Command Shell, Borland C++, Microsoft Visual C++, Microsoft Visual
+C++ Toolkit 2003, Microsoft Platform SDK 64-bit Compiler, MinGW release 3
+with gcc, MinGW release 1 with gcc
=item Building
=item Running Perl Scripts
-Miscellaneous Things
+=item Miscellaneous Things
=back
=item BUGS AND CAVEATS
+=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
+
=item AUTHORS
Gary Ng E<lt>71564.1743@CompuServe.COME<gt>, Gurusamy Sarathy
=item FUNCTIONS
-share VARIABLE, lock VARIABLE, cond_wait VARIABLE, cond_signal VARIABLE,
-cond_broadcast VARIABLE
+share VARIABLE, lock VARIABLE, cond_wait VARIABLE, cond_wait CONDVAR,
+LOCKVAR, cond_timedwait VARIABLE, ABS_TIMEOUT, cond_timedwait CONDVAR,
+ABS_TIMEOUT, LOCKVAR, cond_signal VARIABLE, cond_broadcast VARIABLE
=item NOTES
=back
-=head2 attrs - set/get attributes of a subroutine (deprecated)
-
-=over 4
-
-=item SYNOPSIS
-
-=item DESCRIPTION
-
-method, locked
-
-=back
-
=head2 autouse - postpone load of modules until a function is used
=over 4
=back
-=head2 base - Establish IS-A relationship with base class at compile time
+=head2 base - Establish IS-A relationship with base classes at compile time
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
+=item DIAGNOSTICS
+
+Base class package "%s" is empty
+
=item HISTORY
+=item CAVEATS
+
=item SEE ALSO
=back
=over 4
-=item OPTIONS
+=item Options
a or accuracy, p or precision, t or trace, l or lib, v or version
-=item MATH LIBRARY
+=item Math Library
-=item INTERNAL FORMAT
+=item Internal Format
-=item SIGN
+=item Sign
-=item METHODS
+=item Methods
-=item CAVEAT
+=item Caveat
=back
=over 4
-=item OPTIONS
+=item Options
a or accuracy, p or precision, t or trace, l or lib, v or version
-=item METHODS
+=item Methods
-=item CAVEAT
+=item Caveat
inf(), NaN(), upgrade()
=back
-=head2 bigrat - Transparent BigNumber/BigRationale support for Perl
+=head2 bigrat - Transparent BigNumber/BigRational support for Perl
=over 4
=over 4
-=item MODULES USED
+=item Modules Used
-=item MATH LIBRARY
+=item Math Library
-=item SIGN
+=item Sign
-=item METHODS
+=item Methods
-=item CAVEAT
+=item Cavaet
+
+=item Options
+
+a or accuracy, p or precision, t or trace, l or lib, v or version
=back
=item DESCRIPTION
+=item LIMITATIONS
+
=item SEE ALSO
=back
=back
-=head2 diagnostics - Perl compiler pragma to force verbose warning
-diagnostics
+=head2 diagnostics, splain - produce verbose warning diagnostics
=over 4
=item PerlIO layers for C<STD(IN|OUT)>
+=item Implicit upgrading for byte strings
+
=back
=item FEATURES THAT REQUIRE 5.8.1
literals in regex that are longer than 127 bytes, EBCDIC, format
+=over 4
+
+=item The Logic of :locale
+
+=back
+
=item HISTORY
=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=head2 re - Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour
-
-=over 4
-
-=item SYNOPSIS
-
-=item DESCRIPTION
-
-=back
-
=head2 sigtrap - Perl pragma to enable simple signal handling
=over 4
=item SYNOPSIS
-=item DESCRIPTION
-
-C<strict refs>, C<strict vars>, C<strict subs>
-
-=item HISTORY
-
-=back
-
-=head2 subs - Perl pragma to predeclare sub names
-
-=over 4
-
-=item SYNOPSIS
-
-=item DESCRIPTION
-
-=back
-
-=head2 threads - Perl extension allowing use of interpreter based threads
-from perl
-
-=over 4
-
-=item SYNOPSIS
-
-=item DESCRIPTION
-
-$thread = threads->create(function, LIST), $thread->join, $thread->detach,
-threads->self, $thread->tid, threads->object( tid ), threads->yield();,
-threads->list();, async BLOCK;
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item WARNINGS
+C<strict refs>, C<strict vars>, C<strict subs>
-A thread exited while %d other threads were still running
+=item HISTORY
-=item TODO
+=back
-=item BUGS
+=head2 subs - Perl pragma to predeclare sub names
-Parent-Child threads, Returning objects, Creating threads inside BEGIN
-blocks, PERL_OLD_SIGNALS are not threadsafe, will not be
+=over 4
-=item AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item DESCRIPTION
=back
=item FUNCTIONS
-share VARIABLE, lock VARIABLE, cond_wait VARIABLE, cond_signal VARIABLE,
-cond_broadcast VARIABLE
+share VARIABLE, lock VARIABLE, cond_wait VARIABLE, cond_wait CONDVAR,
+LOCKVAR, cond_timedwait VARIABLE, ABS_TIMEOUT, cond_timedwait CONDVAR,
+ABS_TIMEOUT, LOCKVAR, cond_signal VARIABLE, cond_broadcast VARIABLE
=item NOTES
=item Utility functions
-$num_octets = utf8::upgrade($string);, utf8::downgrade($string[, FAIL_OK]),
-utf8::encode($string), $flag = utf8::decode($string), $flag =
+$num_octets = utf8::upgrade($string), $success = utf8::downgrade($string[,
+FAIL_OK]), utf8::encode($string), utf8::decode($string), $flag =
utf8::is_utf8(STRING), $flag = utf8::valid(STRING)
=back
=item What IS a version
-Numeric Versions, V-String Versions
+Numeric Versions, Quoted Versions
+
+=item What about v-strings?
=item Numeric Versions
-=item V-String Versions
+=item Quoted Versions
=item Object Methods
-New Operator, Stringification, Numification, Comparison operators, Logical
-Operators
+New Operator, qv(), Normal Form, Numification, Stringification, Comparison
+operators, Logical Operators
=item Quoting
=item Types of Versions Objects
-Ordinary versions, alpha versions
+Ordinary versions, Alpha versions
=item Replacement UNIVERSAL::VERSION
=item B::OP Methods
-next, sibling, name, ppaddr, desc, targ, type, seq, flags, private
+next, sibling, name, ppaddr, desc, targ, type, opt, static, flags, private,
+spare
=item B::UNOP METHOD
=item OPTIONS
-B<-basic>, B<-exec>, B<-tree>, B<-compact>, B<-loose>, B<-vt>, B<-ascii>,
-B<-main>, B<-base>I<n>, B<-bigendian>, B<-littleendian>, B<-concise>,
-B<-terse>, B<-linenoise>, B<-debug>, B<-env>
+=over 4
+
+=item Options for Opcode Ordering
+
+B<-basic>, B<-exec>, B<-tree>
+
+=item Options for Line-Style
+
+B<-concise>, B<-terse>, B<-linenoise>, B<-debug>, B<-env>
+
+=item Options for tree-specific formatting
+
+B<-compact>, B<-loose>, B<-vt>, B<-ascii>
+
+=item Options controlling sequence numbering
+
+B<-base>I<n>, B<-bigendian>, B<-littleendian>
+
+=item Other options
+
+B<-main>, B<-nomain>, B<-nobanner>, B<-banner>, B<-banneris> => subref
+
+=item Option Stickiness
+
+=back
+
+=item ABBREVIATIONS
+
+=over 4
+
+=item OP class abbreviations
+
+=item OP flags abbreviations
+
+=back
=item FORMATTING SPECIFICATIONS
+=over 4
+
+=item Special Patterns
+
B<(x(>I<exec_text>B<;>I<basic_text>B<)x)>, B<(*(>I<text>B<)*)>,
B<(*(>I<text1>B<;>I<text2>B<)*)>, B<(?(>I<text1>B<#>I<var>I<Text2>B<)?)>,
-B<#>I<var>, B<#>I<var>I<N>, B<~>, B<#addr>, B<#arg>, B<#class>,
+B<~>
+
+=item # Variables
+
+B<#>I<var>, B<#>I<var>I<N>, B<#>I<Var>, B<#addr>, B<#arg>, B<#class>,
B<#classsym>, B<#coplabel>, B<#exname>, B<#extarg>, B<#firstaddr>,
B<#flags>, B<#flagval>, B<#hyphseq>, B<#label>, B<#lastaddr>, B<#name>,
B<#NAME>, B<#next>, B<#nextaddr>, B<#noise>, B<#private>, B<#privval>,
-B<#seq>, B<#seqnum>, B<#sibaddr>, B<#svaddr>, B<#svclass>, B<#svval>,
-B<#targ>, B<#targarg>, B<#targarglife>, B<#typenum>
+B<#seq>, B<#seqnum>, B<#opt>, B<#static>, B<#sibaddr>, B<#svaddr>,
+B<#svclass>, B<#svval>, B<#targ>, B<#targarg>, B<#targarglife>, B<#typenum>
-=item ABBREVIATIONS
+=back
+
+=item Using B::Concise outside of the O framework
=over 4
-=item OP flags abbreviations
+=item Example: Altering Concise Renderings
-=item OP class abbreviations
+=item set_style()
-=back
+=item set_style_standard($name)
-=item Using B::Concise outside of the O framework
+=item add_style()
+
+=item add_callback()
+
+=item Running B::Concise::compile()
+
+=item B::Concise::reset_sequence()
+
+=item Errors
+
+=back
=item AUTHOR
=item DESCRIPTION
+=item EXAMPLES
+
+=over 4
+
+=item OPTIONS
+
+=back
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item TODO
+
=item AUTHOR
=back
B<path_translated()>, B<remote_host()>, B<script_name()> Return the script
name as a partial URL, for self-refering scripts, B<referer()>, B<auth_type
()>, B<server_name ()>, B<virtual_host ()>, B<server_port ()>,
-B<server_software ()>, B<remote_user ()>, B<user_name ()>,
-B<request_method()>, B<content_type()>, B<http()>, B<https()>
+B<virtual_port ()>, B<server_software ()>, B<remote_user ()>, B<user_name
+()>, B<request_method()>, B<content_type()>, B<http()>, B<https()>
=item USING NPH SCRIPTS
=back
+=back
+
+=over 4
+
+=item GLOBAL VARIABLES
+
+=over 4
+
+=item $Carp::CarpLevel
+
+=item $Carp::MaxEvalLen
+
+=item $Carp::MaxArgLen
+
+=item $Carp::MaxArgNums
+
+=item $Carp::Verbose
+
+=back
+
+=back
+
+=over 4
+
=item BUGS
=back
-=head2 Carp::Heavy, Carp heavy machinery - no user serviceable parts inside
+=head2 Carp::Heavy - heavy machinery, no user serviceable parts inside
=head2 Class::ISA -- report the search path for a class's ISA tree
C<d_stdio_ptr_lval_nochange_cnt>, C<d_stdio_ptr_lval_sets_cnt>,
C<d_stdio_stream_array>, C<d_stdiobase>, C<d_stdstdio>, C<d_strchr>,
C<d_strcoll>, C<d_strctcpy>, C<d_strerrm>, C<d_strerror>, C<d_strerror_r>,
-C<d_strftime>, C<d_strtod>, C<d_strtol>, C<d_strtold>, C<d_strtoll>,
-C<d_strtoq>, C<d_strtoul>, C<d_strtoull>, C<d_strtouq>, C<d_strxfrm>,
-C<d_suidsafe>, C<d_symlink>, C<d_syscall>, C<d_syscallproto>, C<d_sysconf>,
-C<d_sysernlst>, C<d_syserrlst>, C<d_system>, C<d_tcgetpgrp>,
-C<d_tcsetpgrp>, C<d_telldir>, C<d_telldirproto>, C<d_time>, C<d_times>,
-C<d_tm_tm_gmtoff>, C<d_tm_tm_zone>, C<d_tmpnam_r>, C<d_truncate>,
-C<d_ttyname_r>, C<d_tzname>, C<d_u32align>, C<d_ualarm>, C<d_umask>,
-C<d_uname>, C<d_union_semun>, C<d_unordered>, C<d_usleep>,
-C<d_usleepproto>, C<d_ustat>, C<d_vendorarch>, C<d_vendorbin>,
-C<d_vendorlib>, C<d_vendorscript>, C<d_vfork>, C<d_void_closedir>,
-C<d_voidsig>, C<d_voidtty>, C<d_volatile>, C<d_vprintf>, C<d_wait4>,
-C<d_waitpid>, C<d_wcstombs>, C<d_wctomb>, C<d_writev>, C<d_xenix>, C<date>,
-C<db_hashtype>, C<db_prefixtype>, C<db_version_major>, C<db_version_minor>,
-C<db_version_patch>, C<defvoidused>, C<direntrytype>, C<dlext>, C<dlsrc>,
-C<doublesize>, C<drand01>, C<drand48_r_proto>, C<dynamic_ext>
+C<d_strftime>, C<d_strlcat>, C<d_strlcpy>, C<d_strtod>, C<d_strtol>,
+C<d_strtold>, C<d_strtoll>, C<d_strtoq>, C<d_strtoul>, C<d_strtoull>,
+C<d_strtouq>, C<d_strxfrm>, C<d_suidsafe>, C<d_symlink>, C<d_syscall>,
+C<d_syscallproto>, C<d_sysconf>, C<d_sysernlst>, C<d_syserrlst>,
+C<d_system>, C<d_tcgetpgrp>, C<d_tcsetpgrp>, C<d_telldir>,
+C<d_telldirproto>, C<d_time>, C<d_times>, C<d_tm_tm_gmtoff>,
+C<d_tm_tm_zone>, C<d_tmpnam_r>, C<d_truncate>, C<d_ttyname_r>, C<d_tzname>,
+C<d_u32align>, C<d_ualarm>, C<d_umask>, C<d_uname>, C<d_union_semun>,
+C<d_unordered>, C<d_usleep>, C<d_usleepproto>, C<d_ustat>, C<d_vendorarch>,
+C<d_vendorbin>, C<d_vendorlib>, C<d_vendorscript>, C<d_vfork>,
+C<d_void_closedir>, C<d_voidsig>, C<d_voidtty>, C<d_volatile>,
+C<d_vprintf>, C<d_wait4>, C<d_waitpid>, C<d_wcstombs>, C<d_wctomb>,
+C<d_writev>, C<d_xenix>, C<date>, C<db_hashtype>, C<db_prefixtype>,
+C<db_version_major>, C<db_version_minor>, C<db_version_patch>,
+C<defvoidused>, C<direntrytype>, C<dlext>, C<dlsrc>, C<doublesize>,
+C<drand01>, C<drand48_r_proto>, C<dynamic_ext>
=item e
C<PERL_REVISION>, C<PERL_SUBVERSION>, C<PERL_VERSION>, C<perladmin>,
C<perllibs>, C<perlpath>, C<pg>, C<phostname>, C<pidtype>, C<plibpth>,
-C<pm_apiversion>, C<pmake>, C<pr>, C<prefix>, C<prefixexp>, C<privlib>,
-C<privlibexp>, C<procselfexe>, C<prototype>, C<ptrsize>
+C<pmake>, C<pr>, C<prefix>, C<prefixexp>, C<privlib>, C<privlibexp>,
+C<procselfexe>, C<prototype>, C<ptrsize>
=item q
C<u8size>, C<u8type>, C<uidformat>, C<uidsign>, C<uidsize>, C<uidtype>,
C<uname>, C<uniq>, C<uquadtype>, C<use5005threads>, C<use64bitall>,
C<use64bitint>, C<usecrosscompile>, C<usedl>, C<usefaststdio>,
-C<useithreads>, C<uselargefiles>, C<uselongdouble>, C<usemorebits>,
-C<usemultiplicity>, C<usemymalloc>, C<usenm>, C<useopcode>, C<useperlio>,
-C<useposix>, C<usereentrant>, C<usesfio>, C<useshrplib>, C<usesocks>,
-C<usethreads>, C<usevendorprefix>, C<usevfork>, C<usrinc>, C<uuname>,
-C<uvoformat>, C<uvsize>, C<uvtype>, C<uvuformat>, C<uvxformat>,
-C<uvXUformat>
+C<useithreads>, C<uselargefiles>, C<uselongdouble>, C<usemallocwrap>,
+C<usemorebits>, C<usemultiplicity>, C<usemymalloc>, C<usenm>, C<useopcode>,
+C<useperlio>, C<useposix>, C<usereentrant>, C<userelocatableinc>,
+C<usesfio>, C<useshrplib>, C<usesocks>, C<usethreads>, C<usevendorprefix>,
+C<usevfork>, C<usrinc>, C<uuname>, C<uvoformat>, C<uvsize>, C<uvtype>,
+C<uvuformat>, C<uvxformat>, C<uvXUformat>
=item v
=item x
-C<xlibpth>, C<xs_apiversion>
+C<xlibpth>
=item y
=back
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+dynamic, nonxs, static
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
=head2 Cwd - get pathname of current working directory
=over 4
=item getcwd and friends
-getcwd, cwd, fastcwd, fastgetcwd
+getcwd, cwd, fastcwd, fastgetcwd, getdcwd
=item abs_path and friends
=item NOTES
+=item AUTHOR
+
=item SEE ALSO
=back
=back
+=head2 DBM_Filter -- Filter DBM keys/values
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item What is a DBM Filter?
+
+=over 4
+
+=item So what's new?
+
+=back
+
+=item METHODS
+
+=over 4
+
+=item $db->Filter_Push()
+
+=item $db->Filter_Key_Push()
+
+=item $db->Filter_Value_Push()
+
+Filter_Push, Filter_Key_Push, Filter_Value_Push
+
+=item $db->Filter_Pop()
+
+=item $db->Filtered()
+
+=back
+
+=item Writing a Filter
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Immediate Filters
+
+=item Canned Filters
+
+"name", params
+
+=back
+
+=item Filters Included
+
+utf8, encode, compress, int32, null
+
+=item NOTES
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Maintain Round Trip Integrity
+
+=item Don't mix filtered & non-filtered data in the same database file.
+
+=back
+
+=item EXAMPLE
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
=head2 DB_File - Perl5 access to Berkeley DB version 1.x
=over 4
=over 4
+=item Why use ppport.h?
+
+You should use F<ppport.h> in modern code so that your code will work
+with the widest range of Perl interpreters possible, without significant
+additional work.
+
+=item How to use ppport.h
+
+=item Running ppport.h
+
+=back
+
+=item FUNCTIONS
+
+=over 4
+
=item WriteFile
=back
-=item ppport.h
+=item COMPATIBILITY
-=item AUTHOR
+=over 4
+
+=item Provided Perl compatibility API
+
+=item Perl API not supported by ppport.h
+
+perl 5.9.2, perl 5.9.1, perl 5.9.0, perl 5.8.3, perl 5.8.1, perl 5.8.0,
+perl 5.7.3, perl 5.7.2, perl 5.7.1, perl 5.6.1, perl 5.6.0, perl 5.005_03,
+perl 5.005, perl 5.004_05, perl 5.004_04, perl 5.004
+
+=back
+
+=item BUGS
+
+=item AUTHORS
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=head2 Digest:: - Modules that calculate message digests
+=head2 Digest - Modules that calculate message digests
=over 4
$ctx = Digest->XXX($arg,...), $ctx = Digest->new(XXX => $arg,...), $ctx =
Digest::XXX->new($arg,...), $other_ctx = $ctx->clone, $ctx->reset,
-$ctx->add($data,...), $ctx->addfile($io_handle), $ctx->digest,
+$ctx->add( $data, ... ), $ctx->addfile( $io_handle ), $ctx->add_bits(
+$data, $nbits ), $ctx->add_bits( $bitstring ), $ctx->digest,
$ctx->hexdigest, $ctx->b64digest
+=item Digest speed
+
=item SEE ALSO
=item AUTHOR
=item METHODS
$md5 = Digest::MD5->new, $md5->reset, $md5->clone, $md5->add($data,...),
-$md5->addfile($io_handle), $md5->digest, $md5->hexdigest, $md5->b64digest
+$md5->addfile($io_handle), $md5->add_bits($data, $nbits),
+$md5->add_bits($bitstring), $md5->digest, $md5->hexdigest, $md5->b64digest
=item EXAMPLES
=back
+=head2 Digest::base - Digest base class
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNPOSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
=head2 DirHandle - supply object methods for directory handles
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
@dl_library_path, @dl_resolve_using, @dl_require_symbols, @dl_librefs,
-@dl_modules, dl_error(), $dl_debug, dl_findfile(), dl_expandspec(),
-dl_load_file(), dl_unload_file(), dl_load_flags(), dl_find_symbol(),
-dl_find_symbol_anywhere(), dl_undef_symbols(), dl_install_xsub(),
-bootstrap()
+@dl_modules, @dl_shared_objects, dl_error(), $dl_debug, dl_findfile(),
+dl_expandspec(), dl_load_file(), dl_unload_file(), dl_load_flags(),
+dl_find_symbol(), dl_find_symbol_anywhere(), dl_undef_symbols(),
+dl_install_xsub(), bootstrap()
=item AUTHOR
=item DESCRIPTION
+=over 4
+
+=item Migration from C<DynaLoader>
+
+=item Backward compatible boilerplate
+
+=back
+
+=item Order of initialization: early load()
+
+=over 4
+
+=item The most hairy case
+
+=back
+
+=item LIMITATIONS
+
=item AUTHOR
=back
=item Handling Malformed Data
-I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_DEFAULT ( == 0), I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_CROAK ( == 1),
-I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_QUIET, I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_WARN, perlqq mode
-(I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_PERLQQ), HTML charref mode (I<CHECK> =
-Encode::FB_HTMLCREF), XML charref mode (I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_XMLCREF), The
-bitmask
+B<NOTE:> Not all encoding suppport this feature, I<CHECK> =
+Encode::FB_DEFAULT ( == 0), I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_CROAK ( == 1), I<CHECK> =
+Encode::FB_QUIET, I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_WARN, perlqq mode (I<CHECK> =
+Encode::FB_PERLQQ), HTML charref mode (I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_HTMLCREF), XML
+charref mode (I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_XMLCREF), The bitmask
=over 4
=item Other methods defined in Encode::Encodings
--E<gt>name, -E<gt>renew, -E<gt>perlio_ok(), -E<gt>needs_lines()
+-E<gt>name, -E<gt>renew, -E<gt>renewed, -E<gt>perlio_ok(),
+-E<gt>needs_lines()
=item Example: Encode::ROT13
=item Surrogate Pairs
+=item Error Checking
+
=item SEE ALSO
=back
=item Other methods defined in Encode::Encodings
--E<gt>name, -E<gt>renew, -E<gt>perlio_ok(), -E<gt>needs_lines()
+-E<gt>name, -E<gt>renew, -E<gt>renewed, -E<gt>perlio_ok(),
+-E<gt>needs_lines()
=item Example: Encode::ROT13
=item PerlIO layers for C<STD(IN|OUT)>
+=item Implicit upgrading for byte strings
+
=back
=item FEATURES THAT REQUIRE 5.8.1
literals in regex that are longer than 127 bytes, EBCDIC, format
+=over 4
+
+=item The Logic of :locale
+
+=back
+
=item HISTORY
=item SEE ALSO
=item Exporting without using Exporter's import method
+=item Exporting without inheriting from Exporter
+
=item Module Version Checking
=item Managing Unknown Symbols
test_f file
+dos2unix
+
=over 4
=item BUGS
=back
-=head2 ExtUtils::MM_Any - Platform agnostic MM methods
+=head2 ExtUtils::MM_Any - Platform-agnostic MM methods
=over 4
os_flavor_is
+dir_target B<DEPRECATED>
+
+blibdirs_target (o)
+
=over 4
=item File::Spec wrappers
metafile_target
+signature_target
+
metafile_addtomanifest_target
+signature_addtomanifest_target
+
=over 4
=item Abstract methods
=over 4
-=item Overridden methods
-
-os_flavor
-
-=back
-
-=back
-
-B<replace_manpage_separator>
-
-=over 4
-
-=item AUTHOR
-
-=item SEE ALSO
-
-=back
-
-=head2 ExtUtils::MM_MacOS - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
-ExtUtils::MakeMaker
-
-=over 4
-
-=item SYNOPSIS
-
-=item DESCRIPTION
-
-=back
-
-maybe_command
-
-guess_name
-
-macify
-
-patternify
-
-init_main
-
-init_others
-
-init_platform, platform_constants
+=item Overridden methods
-init_dirscan
+os_flavor
-init_VERSION (o)
+=back
-special_targets (o)
+=back
-static (o)
+B<replace_manpage_separator>
-dlsyms (o)
+=over 4
-dynamic (o)
+=item AUTHOR
-clean (o)
+=item SEE ALSO
-clean_subdirs_target
+=back
-realclean (o)
+=head2 ExtUtils::MM_MacOS - once produced Makefiles for MacOS Classic
-realclean_subdirs_target
+=over 4
-rulez (o)
+=item SYNOPSIS
-processPL (o)
+=item DESCRIPTION
-os_flavor
+=back
=head2 ExtUtils::MM_NW5 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
ExtUtils::MakeMaker
depend (o)
-dir_target (o)
-
init_DEST
init_dist
PERL_MALLOC_OK, PERLPREFIX, PERLRUN, PERLRUNINST, PERL_SRC, PERM_RW,
PERM_RWX, PL_FILES, PM, PMLIBDIRS, PM_FILTER, POLLUTE, PPM_INSTALL_EXEC,
PPM_INSTALL_SCRIPT, PREFIX, PREREQ_FATAL, PREREQ_PM, PREREQ_PRINT,
-PRINT_PREREQ, SITEPREFIX, SKIP, TYPEMAPS, VENDORPREFIX, VERBINST, VERSION,
-VERSION_FROM, VERSION_SYM, XS, XSOPT, XSPROTOARG, XS_VERSION
+PRINT_PREREQ, SITEPREFIX, SIGN, SKIP, TYPEMAPS, VENDORPREFIX, VERBINST,
+VERSION, VERSION_FROM, VERSION_SYM, XS, XSOPT, XSPROTOARG, XS_VERSION
=item Additional lowercase attributes
=over 4
+=item Module Installation
+
+How do I keep from installing man pages?, How do I use a module without
+installing it?
+
=item Philosophy and History
-Why not just use <insert other build config tool here>?, What's
+Why not just use <insert other build config tool here>?, What is
Module::Build and how does it relate to MakeMaker?, pure perl. no make, no
shell commands, easier to customize, cleaner internals, less cruft
=back
-=head2 ExtUtils::MakeMaker::bytes - Version agnostic bytes.pm
+=head2 ExtUtils::MakeMaker::bytes - Version-agnostic bytes.pm
=over 4
=back
-=head2 ExtUtils::MakeMaker::vmsish - Platform agnostic vmsish.pm
+=head2 ExtUtils::MakeMaker::vmsish - Platform-agnostic vmsish.pm
=over 4
=item NOTES
+=item BUGS AND CAVEATS
+
=item HISTORY
=back
=item SEE ALSO
-=item AUTHORS
+=item AUTHOR
=back
=back
-tmpdir
-
-canonpath
-
-splitpath
-
-splitdir
-
-catpath
-
=head2 File::Spec::OS2 - methods for OS/2 file specs
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
+tmpdir, splitpath
+
=back
=head2 File::Spec::Unix - File::Spec for Unix, base for other File::Spec
=over 4
+=item OO INTERFACE
+
+B<new>
+
+=back
+
+B<filename>
+
+B<DESTROY>
+
+=over 4
+
=item FUNCTIONS
B<tempfile>
=back
+B<cmpstat>
+
+B<unlink1>
+
=over 4
=item PACKAGE VARIABLES
=item BUGS
-=item NOTES
-
=back
=head2 FileHandle - supply object methods for filehandles
=over 4
-=item Warning: Ignoring '!' modifier for short option
-
=item GetOptions does not return a false result when an option is not
supplied
=back
-=head2 Getopt::Std, getopt - Process single-character switches with switch
-clustering
+=head2 Getopt::Std, getopt, getopts - Process single-character switches
+with switch clustering
=over 4
B<lock_hash>, B<unlock_hash>
+B<hash_seed>
+
=over 4
=item CAVEATS
the function @langs = panic_languages(@accept_languages)
+the function implicate_supers( ...languages... ), the function
+implicate_supers_strictly( ...languages... )
+
=over 4
=item ABOUT LOWERCASING
=back
+=head2 I18N::LangTags::Detect - detect the user's language preferences
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item FUNCTIONS
+
+=item ENVIRONMENT
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
=head2 I18N::LangTags::List -- tags and names for human languages
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
new ( [ DIRNAME ] ), open ( DIRNAME ), read (), seek ( POS ), tell (),
-rewind (), close (), tie %hash, IO::Dir, DIRNAME [, OPTIONS ]
+rewind (), close (), tie %hash, 'IO::Dir', DIRNAME [, OPTIONS ]
=item SEE ALSO
=item METHODS
-open( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ), open( FILENAME, IOLAYERS )
+open( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ), open( FILENAME, IOLAYERS ), binmode(
+[LAYER] )
=item SEE ALSO
=item DESCRIPTION
new ( [ DIRNAME ] ), open ( DIRNAME ), read (), seek ( POS ), tell (),
-rewind (), close (), tie %hash, IO::Dir, DIRNAME [, OPTIONS ]
+rewind (), close (), tie %hash, 'IO::Dir', DIRNAME [, OPTIONS ]
=item SEE ALSO
=item METHODS
-open( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ), open( FILENAME, IOLAYERS )
+open( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ), open( FILENAME, IOLAYERS ), binmode(
+[LAYER] )
=item SEE ALSO
=item COPYRIGHT
+=item SEE ALSO
+
=back
=head2 MIME::Base64::QuotedPrint, MIME::QuotedPrint - Encoding and decoding
=item DESCRIPTION
-encode_qp($str), encode_qp($str, $eol), decode_qp($str);
+encode_qp($str), encode_qp($str, $eol), encode_qp($str, $eol, $binmode),
+decode_qp($str);
=item COPYRIGHT
+=item SEE ALSO
+
=back
=head2 MIME::QuotedPrint - Encoding and decoding of quoted-printable
=item DESCRIPTION
-encode_qp($str), encode_qp($str, $eol), decode_qp($str);
+encode_qp($str), encode_qp($str, $eol), encode_qp($str, $eol, $binmode),
+decode_qp($str);
=item COPYRIGHT
+=item SEE ALSO
+
=back
=head2 Math::BigFloat - Arbitrary size floating point math package
=item DESCRIPTION
-Canonical notation, Input, Output
+Input, Output
=item METHODS
=item is_one()/is_zero()/is_nan()/is_inf()
-=item is_positive()/is_negative()
+=item is_pos()/is_neg()
- $x->is_positive(); # true if >= 0
- $x->is_negative(); # true if < 0
+ $x->is_pos(); # true if > 0
+ $x->is_neg(); # true if < 0
=item is_odd()/is_even()/is_int()
=item sign
-=item bcmp
+=item digit
=item bneg
=item copy
-=item as_number
+=item as_int
=item bsstr
=back
+=item Infinity and Not a Number
+
+oct()/hex(), log(-inf), exp(), cos(), sin(), atan2()
+
=item INTERNALS
=over 4
=item CAVEATS
-stringify, bstr(), bsstr() and 'cmp', int(), length, bdiv, infinity
-handling, Modifying and =, bpow, Overloading -$x, Mixing different object
-types, bsqrt(), brsft()
+bstr(), bsstr() and 'cmp', int(), length, bdiv, infinity handling,
+Modifying and =, bpow, Overloading -$x, Mixing different object types,
+bsqrt(), brsft()
=item LICENSE
=back
-=head2 Math::BigInt::Scalar - Pure Perl module to test Math::BigInt with
-scalars
+=head2 Math::BigInt::CalcEmu - Emulate low-level math with BigInt code
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
+=item METHODS
+
+=over 4
+
+=item __emu_bxor
+
+=item __emu_band
+
+=item __emu_bior
+
+=back
+
=item LICENSE
This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
under
the same terms as Perl itself.
-=item AUTHOR
+=item AUTHORS
=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=head2 Math::BigRat - arbitrarily big rationales
+=head2 Math::BigRat - Arbitrary big rational numbers
=over 4
=item parts()
-=item as_number()
+=item as_int()
+
+=item as_hex()
+
+=item as_bin()
=item bfac()
=item is_zero()
-=item is_positive()
+=item is_pos()
-=item is_negative()
+=item is_neg()
=item is_int()
$x->bfloor();
+=item bsqrt()
+
+ $x->bsqrt();
+
=item config
=back
=item BUGS
inf handling (partial), NaN handling (partial), rounding (not implemented
-except for bceil/bfloor), $x ** $y where $y is not an integer
+except for bceil/bfloor), $x ** $y where $y is not an integer, bmod(),
+blog(), bmodinv() and bmodpow() (partial)
=item LICENSE
=back
-=head2 NEXT - Provide a pseudo-class NEXT that allows method redispatch
+=head2 NEXT - Provide a pseudo-class NEXT (et al) that allows method
+redispatch
=over 4
=item Avoiding repetitions
+=item Invoking all versions of a method with a single call
+
+=item Using C<EVERY> methods
+
=back
=item AUTHOR
=item CONSTRUCTOR
-new (HOST [,OPTIONS])
+new ([ HOST ] [, OPTIONS ])
=item METHODS
login ([LOGIN [,PASSWORD [, ACCOUNT] ] ]), authorize ( [AUTH [, RESP]]),
-site (ARGS), type (TYPE [, ARGS]), ascii ([ARGS]) binary([ARGS])
-ebcdic([ARGS]) byte([ARGS]), rename ( OLDNAME, NEWNAME ), delete ( FILENAME
-), cwd ( [ DIR ] ), cdup (), pwd (), restart ( WHERE ), rmdir ( DIR ),
-mkdir ( DIR [, RECURSE ]), ls ( [ DIR ] ), alloc ( SIZE [, RECORD_SIZE] ),
-dir ( [ DIR ] ), get ( REMOTE_FILE [, LOCAL_FILE [, WHERE]] ), put (
-LOCAL_FILE [, REMOTE_FILE ] ), put_unique ( LOCAL_FILE [, REMOTE_FILE ] ),
-append ( LOCAL_FILE [, REMOTE_FILE ] ), unique_name (), mdtm ( FILE ), size
-( FILE ), supported ( CMD ), hash ( [FILEHANDLE_GLOB_REF],[
+site (ARGS), ascii, binary, rename ( OLDNAME, NEWNAME ), delete ( FILENAME
+), cwd ( [ DIR ] ), cdup (), pwd (), restart ( WHERE ), rmdir ( DIR [,
+RECURSE ]), mkdir ( DIR [, RECURSE ]), alloc ( SIZE [, RECORD_SIZE] ), ls (
+[ DIR ] ), dir ( [ DIR ] ), get ( REMOTE_FILE [, LOCAL_FILE [, WHERE]] ),
+put ( LOCAL_FILE [, REMOTE_FILE ] ), put_unique ( LOCAL_FILE [, REMOTE_FILE
+] ), append ( LOCAL_FILE [, REMOTE_FILE ] ), unique_name (), mdtm ( FILE ),
+size ( FILE ), supported ( CMD ), hash ( [FILEHANDLE_GLOB_REF],[
BYTES_PER_HASH_MARK] ), nlst ( [ DIR ] ), list ( [ DIR ] ), retr ( FILE ),
stor ( FILE ), stou ( FILE ), appe ( FILE ), port ( [ PORT ] ), pasv (),
pasv_xfer ( SRC_FILE, DEST_SERVER [, DEST_FILE ] ), pasv_xfer_unique (
=item USE EXAMPLES
-http://www.csh.rit.edu/~adam/Progs/autoftp-2.0.tar.gz
+http://www.csh.rit.edu/~adam/Progs/
=item CREDITS
=item CONSTRUCTOR
-new ( [ HOST, ] [ OPTIONS ] )
+new ( [ HOST ] [, OPTIONS ] 0
=item METHODS
-user ( USER ), pass ( PASS ), login ( [ USER [, PASS ]] ), apop ( [ USER [,
-PASS ]] ), top ( MSGNUM [, NUMLINES ] ), list ( [ MSGNUM ] ), get ( MSGNUM
-[, FH ] ), getfh ( MSGNUM ), last (), popstat (), ping ( USER ), uidl ( [
-MSGNUM ] ), delete ( MSGNUM ), reset (), quit ()
+auth ( USERNAME, PASSWORD ), user ( USER ), pass ( PASS ), login ( [ USER
+[, PASS ]] ), apop ( [ USER [, PASS ]] ), banner (), capa (), capabilities
+(), top ( MSGNUM [, NUMLINES ] ), list ( [ MSGNUM ] ), get ( MSGNUM [, FH ]
+), getfh ( MSGNUM ), last (), popstat (), ping ( USER ), uidl ( [ MSGNUM ]
+), delete ( MSGNUM ), reset (), quit ()
=item NOTES
=item CONSTRUCTOR
-new Net::SMTP [ HOST, ] [ OPTIONS ]
+new ( [ HOST ] [, OPTIONS ] )
=item METHODS
-banner (), domain (), hello ( DOMAIN ), etrn ( DOMAIN ), auth ( USERNAME,
-PASSWORD ), mail ( ADDRESS [, OPTIONS] ), send ( ADDRESS ), send_or_mail (
-ADDRESS ), send_and_mail ( ADDRESS ), reset (), recipient ( ADDRESS [,
-ADDRESS [ ...]] [, OPTIONS ] ), to ( ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] ), cc (
-ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] ), bcc ( ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] ), data ( [
-DATA ] ), expand ( ADDRESS ), verify ( ADDRESS ), help ( [ $subject ] ),
-quit ()
+banner (), domain (), hello ( DOMAIN ), host (), etrn ( DOMAIN ), auth (
+USERNAME, PASSWORD ), mail ( ADDRESS [, OPTIONS] ), send ( ADDRESS ),
+send_or_mail ( ADDRESS ), send_and_mail ( ADDRESS ), reset (), recipient (
+ADDRESS [, ADDRESS, [...]] [, OPTIONS ] ), to ( ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]]
+), cc ( ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] ), bcc ( ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] ),
+data ( [ DATA ] ), expand ( ADDRESS ), verify ( ADDRESS ), help ( [
+$subject ] ), quit ()
=item ADDRESSES
=item DESCRIPTION
-unix, stdio, perlio, crlf, utf8, bytes, raw, pop
+:unix, :stdio, :perlio, :crlf, :mmap, :utf8, :bytes, :raw, :pop, :win32
=over 4
=item Defaults and how to override them
-=item Querying the layers of filehandle
+=item Querying the layers of filehandles
=back
=back
-=head2 PerlIO::scalar - support module for in-memory IO.
+=head2 PerlIO::scalar - in-memory IO, scalar IO
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
+=item IMPLEMENTATION NOTE
+
=back
=head2 PerlIO::via - Helper class for PerlIO layers implemented in perl
=item EXPECTED METHODS
$class->PUSHED([$mode[,$fh]]), $obj->POPPED([$fh]),
-$obj->OPEN($path,$mode[,$fh]), $obj->BINMODE([,$fh]),
-$obj->FDOPEN($fd[,$fh]), $obj->SYSOPEN($path,$imode,$perm,[,$fh]),
-$obj->FILENO($fh), $obj->READ($buffer,$len,$fh), $obj->WRITE($buffer,$fh),
-$obj->FILL($fh), $obj->CLOSE($fh), $obj->SEEK($posn,$whence,$fh),
-$obj->TELL($fh), $obj->UNREAD($buffer,$fh), $obj->FLUSH($fh),
-$obj->SETLINEBUF($fh), $obj->CLEARERR($fh), $obj->ERROR($fh),
-$obj->EOF($fh)
+$obj->UTF8($bellowFlag,[$fh]), $obj->OPEN($path,$mode[,$fh]),
+$obj->BINMODE([,$fh]), $obj->FDOPEN($fd[,$fh]),
+$obj->SYSOPEN($path,$imode,$perm,[,$fh]), $obj->FILENO($fh),
+$obj->READ($buffer,$len,$fh), $obj->WRITE($buffer,$fh), $obj->FILL($fh),
+$obj->CLOSE($fh), $obj->SEEK($posn,$whence,$fh), $obj->TELL($fh),
+$obj->UNREAD($buffer,$fh), $obj->FLUSH($fh), $obj->SETLINEBUF($fh),
+$obj->CLEARERR($fh), $obj->ERROR($fh), $obj->EOF($fh)
=item EXAMPLES
=item DESCRIPTION
+=item REQUIRED MODULES
+
=item SEE ALSO
+=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
+
=item COPYRIGHT
=back
=item ARGUMENTS
-backlink, cachedir, css, flush, header, help, htmldir, htmlroot, index,
-infile, libpods, netscape, outfile, podpath, podroot, quiet, recurse,
-title, verbose
+backlink, cachedir, css, flush, header, help, hiddendirs, htmldir,
+htmlroot, index, infile, libpods, netscape, outfile, podpath, podroot,
+quiet, recurse, title, verbose
=item EXAMPLE
=over 4
-=item OBJECT ORIENTED SYNTAX
+=item Caveats
+
+=item Escaping Magic Characters
+
+=item Configuration
=back
+=item BUGS
+
=item AUTHOR
=back
=item BUGS
-=item LIMITATION
+=item LIMITATIONS
=item COPYRIGHT
=item DESCRIPTION
+=item BUGS
+
=back
=head2 Sys::Hostname - Try every conceivable way to get hostname
=item BUGS and CAVEATS
+=item ENVIRONMENT
+
=item NOTE
=item SEE ALSO
=back
+B<reset>
+
=over 4
=item Setting up tests
B<_print>
+B<_print_diag>
+
B<output>, B<failure_output>, B<todo_output>
=over 4
=over 4
+=item EXIT CODES
+
=item THREADS
=item EXAMPLES
=back
-=head2 Test::Harness - run perl standard test scripts with statistics
+=head2 Test::Harness - Run Perl standard test scripts with statistics
+
+=over 4
+
+=item VERSION
+
+=back
=over 4
=item Configuration variables.
-B<$Test::Harness::verbose>, B<$Test::Harness::switches>
+B<$Test::Harness::Verbose>, B<$Test::Harness::switches>
=item Failure
=item ENVIRONMENT
C<HARNESS_ACTIVE>, C<HARNESS_COLUMNS>, C<HARNESS_COMPILE_TEST>,
-C<HARNESS_FILELEAK_IN_DIR>, C<HARNESS_IGNORE_EXITCODE>, C<HARNESS_NOTTY>,
-C<HARNESS_OK_SLOW>, C<HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES>, C<HARNESS_VERBOSE>
+C<HARNESS_DEBUG>, C<HARNESS_FILELEAK_IN_DIR>, C<HARNESS_IGNORE_EXITCODE>,
+C<HARNESS_NOTTY>, C<HARNESS_OK_SLOW>, C<HARNESS_PERL>,
+C<HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES>, C<HARNESS_VERBOSE>
=item EXAMPLE
=item BUGS
+=item AUTHORS
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
=back
=head2 Test::Harness::Assert - simple assert
=item DESCRIPTION
-=over 4
+=item FUNCTIONS
-=item Functions
+=over 4
-B<assert>
+=item C<assert()>
=back
=item DESCRIPTION
+=over 4
+
+=item new()
+
+=item next()
+
+=back
+
=back
=head2 Test::Harness::Straps - detailed analysis of test results
=item DESCRIPTION
-=over 4
-
=item Construction
-B<new>
+=over 4
+
+=item C<new>
=back
=back
-B<_init>
+=over 4
+
+=item C<_init>
+
+=back
=over 4
=item Analysis
-B<analyze>
+=over 4
+
+=item C<analyze>
+
+=back
+
+=back
+
+=over 4
+
+=item C<analyze_fh>
=back
-B<analyze_fh>
+=over 4
+
+=item C<analyze_file>
+
+=back
+
+=over 4
+
+=item C<_command_line( $file )>
+
+=back
+
+=over 4
+
+=item C<_command>
+
+=back
+
+=over 4
-B<analyze_file>
+=item C<_switches>
-B<_switches>
+=back
+
+=over 4
+
+=item C<_cleaned_switches>
+
+=back
+
+=over 4
+
+=item C<_INC2PERL5LIB>
+
+=back
+
+=over 4
+
+=item C<_filtered_INC>
+
+=back
-B<_INC2PERL5LIB>
+=over 4
-B<_filtered_INC>
+=item C<_restore_PERL5LIB>
-B<_restore_PERL5LIB>
+=back
=over 4
=item Parsing
-B<_is_comment>
+=over 4
+
+=item C<_is_comment>
+
+=back
+
+=back
+
+=over 4
+
+=item C<_is_header>
+
+=back
+
+=over 4
+
+=item C<_is_test>
=back
-B<_is_header>
+=over 4
+
+=item C<_is_bail_out>
+
+=back
-B<_is_test>
+=over 4
-B<_is_bail_out>
+=item C<_reset_file_state>
-B<_reset_file_state>
+=back
=over 4
=item Results
-B<_detailize>
+=over 4
+
+=item C<_detailize>
+
+=back
=back
=over 4
-=item NOTES
+=item EXIT CODES
-=item BUGS and CAVEATS
+=item CAVEATS and NOTES
-Making your own ok(), The eq_* family has some caveats, Test::Harness
-upgrades
+Backwards compatibility, Overloaded objects, Threads, Test::Harness upgrade
=item HISTORY
=item AUTHORS
+=item BUGS
+
=item COPYRIGHT
=back
=item DESCRIPTION
TIEHASH classname, LIST, STORE this, key, value, FETCH this, key, FIRSTKEY
-this, NEXTKEY this, lastkey, EXISTS this, key, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this
+this, NEXTKEY this, lastkey, EXISTS this, key, DELETE this, key, CLEAR
+this, SCALAR this
=item Inheriting from B<Tie::StdHash>
=item Inheriting from B<Tie::ExtraHash>
-=item C<UNTIE> and C<DESTROY>
+=item C<SCALAR>, C<UNTIE> and C<DESTROY>
=item MORE INFORMATION
=item DESCRIPTION
+=over 4
+
+=item Ambiguous Local Times (DST)
+
+=item Non-Existent Local Times (DST)
+
+=item Negative Epoch Values
+
+=back
+
=item IMPLEMENTATION
=item BUGS
=item Constructor and Tailoring
-UCA_Version, alternate, backwards, entry, ignoreName, ignoreChar, level,
-normalization, overrideCJK, overrideHangul, preprocess, rearrange, table,
-undefName, undefChar, katakana_before_hiragana, upper_before_lower
+UCA_Version, backwards, entry, hangul_terminator, ignoreName, ignoreChar,
+level, normalization, overrideCJK, overrideHangul, preprocess, rearrange,
+table, undefName, undefChar, katakana_before_hiragana, upper_before_lower,
+variable, alternate
=item Methods for Collation
=item Other Methods
-C<%old_tailoring = $Collator-E<gt>change(%new_tailoring)>, UCA_Version,
-Base_Unicode_Version
+C<%old_tailoring = $Collator-E<gt>change(%new_tailoring)>, C<$version =
+$Collator-E<gt>version()>, C<UCA_Version()>, C<Base_Unicode_Version()>
=item EXPORT
=item SEE ALSO
-http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/,
-http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/allkeys.txt,
-http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/CollationTest.html
-http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/CollationTest.zip,
-http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr15/, L<Unicode::Normalize>
+Unicode Collation Algorithm - UTS #10, The Default Unicode Collation
+Element Table (DUCET), The conformance test for the UCA, Hangul Syllable
+Type, Unicode Normalization Forms - UAX #15, L<Unicode::Normalize>
=back
C<$NFD_string = NFD($string)>, C<$NFC_string = NFC($string)>,
C<$NFKD_string = NFKD($string)>, C<$NFKC_string = NFKC($string)>,
+C<$FCD_string = FCD($string)>, C<$FCC_string = FCC($string)>,
C<$normalized_string = normalize($form_name, $string)>
=item Decomposition and Composition
C<$result = checkNFD($string)>, C<$result = checkNFC($string)>, C<$result =
checkNFKD($string)>, C<$result = checkNFKC($string)>, C<$result =
+checkFCD($string)>, C<$result = checkFCC($string)>, C<$result =
check($form_name, $string)>
=item Character Data
=item SEE ALSO
-http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr15/,
-http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/DerivedNormalizationProps.txt
+http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr15/,
+http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/DerivedNormalizationProps.txt,
+http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn5/
=back
=back
-=head2 Win32 - Interfaces to some Win32 API Functions
+=head2 XSLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code
=over 4
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
=item DESCRIPTION
=over 4
-=item Alphabetical Listing of Win32 Functions
+=item Migration from C<DynaLoader>
-Win32::AbortSystemShutdown(MACHINE), Win32::BuildNumber(),
-Win32::CopyFile(FROM, TO, OVERWRITE), Win32::DomainName(),
-Win32::ExpandEnvironmentStrings(STRING), Win32::FormatMessage(ERRORCODE),
-Win32::FsType(), Win32::FreeLibrary(HANDLE), Win32::GetArchName(),
-Win32::GetChipName(), Win32::GetCwd(), Win32::GetFolderPath(FOLDER [,
-CREATE]), Win32::GetFullPathName(FILENAME), Win32::GetLastError(),
-Win32::GetLongPathName(PATHNAME), Win32::GetNextAvailDrive(),
-Win32::GetOSVersion(), Win32::GetOSName(),
-Win32::GetShortPathName(PATHNAME), Win32::GetProcAddress(INSTANCE,
-PROCNAME), Win32::GetTickCount(), Win32::InitiateSystemShutdown,
-Win32::IsWinNT(), Win32::IsWin95(), Win32::LoadLibrary(LIBNAME),
-Win32::LoginName(), Win32::LookupAccountName(SYSTEM, ACCOUNT, DOMAIN, SID,
-SIDTYPE), Win32::LookupAccountSID(SYSTEM, SID, ACCOUNT, DOMAIN, SIDTYPE),
-Win32::MsgBox(MESSAGE [, FLAGS [, TITLE]]), Win32::NodeName(),
-Win32::RegisterServer(LIBRARYNAME), Win32::SetChildShowWindow(SHOWWINDOW),
-Win32::SetCwd(NEWDIRECTORY), Win32::SetLastError(ERROR),
-Win32::Sleep(TIME), Win32::Spawn(COMMAND, ARGS, PID),
-Win32::UnregisterServer(LIBRARYNAME)
+=item Backward compatible boilerplate
=back
-=back
-
-=head2 XSLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code
+=item Order of initialization: early load()
=over 4
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item The most hairy case
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=back
+
+=item LIMITATIONS
=item AUTHOR
=item a2p
-=item s2p
+=item c2ph
-=item find2perl
+=item dprofpp
=item h2ph
-=item c2ph
-
=item h2xs
-=item xsubpp
+=item perlbug
+
+=item perldoc
+
+=item pl2pm
+
+=item pod2html
=item pod2man
-=item wrapsuid
+=item s2p
+
+=item splain
+
+=item xsubpp
=back
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