+# !!!!!!! 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
=item Miscellaneous
+=item Language-Specific
+
=item Platform-Specific
=back
=back
-=head2 perlfaq - frequently asked questions about Perl ($Date: 2001/11/19
-17:09:37 $)
+=head2 perlreftut - Mark's very short tutorial about references
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=over 4
+=item Who Needs Complicated Data Structures?
-=item perlfaq: Structural overview of the FAQ.
+=item The Solution
-=item L<perlfaq1>: General Questions About Perl
+=item Syntax
-=item L<perlfaq2>: Obtaining and Learning about Perl
+=over 4
-=item L<perlfaq3>: Programming Tools
+=item Making References
-=item L<perlfaq4>: Data Manipulation
+=item Using References
-=item L<perlfaq5>: Files and Formats
+=item An Example
-=item L<perlfaq6>: Regexps
+=item Arrow Rule
-=item L<perlfaq7>: General Perl Language Issues
+=back
-=item L<perlfaq8>: System Interaction
+=item Solution
-=item L<perlfaq9>: Networking
+=item The Rest
-=back
+=item Summary
-=item About the perlfaq documents
+=item Credits
=over 4
-=item Where to get the perlfaq
-
-=item How to contribute to the perlfaq
-
-=item What will happen if you mail your Perl programming problems to the
-authors
+=item Distribution Conditions
=back
-=item Credits
+=back
-=item Author and Copyright Information
+=head2 perldsc - Perl Data Structures Cookbook
=over 4
-=item Bundled Distributions
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Disclaimer
+arrays of arrays, hashes of arrays, arrays of hashes, hashes of hashes,
+more elaborate constructs
-=back
+=item REFERENCES
-=item Changes
+=item COMMON MISTAKES
-1/November/2000, 23/May/99, 13/April/99, 7/January/99, 22/June/98,
-24/April/97, 23/April/97, 25/March/97, 18/March/97, 17/March/97 Version,
-Initial Release: 11/March/97
+=item CAVEAT ON PRECEDENCE
-=back
+=item WHY YOU SHOULD ALWAYS C<use strict>
-=head2 perlbook - Perl book information
+=item DEBUGGING
-=over 4
+=item CODE EXAMPLES
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item ARRAYS OF ARRAYS
-=back
+=over 4
-=head2 perlsyn - Perl syntax
+=item Declaration of an ARRAY OF ARRAYS
-=over 4
+=item Generation of an ARRAY OF ARRAYS
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Access and Printing of an ARRAY OF ARRAYS
-=over 4
+=back
-=item Declarations
+=item HASHES OF ARRAYS
-=item Simple statements
+=over 4
-=item Compound statements
+=item Declaration of a HASH OF ARRAYS
-=item Loop Control
+=item Generation of a HASH OF ARRAYS
-=item For Loops
+=item Access and Printing of a HASH OF ARRAYS
-=item Foreach Loops
+=back
-=item Basic BLOCKs and Switch Statements
+=item ARRAYS OF HASHES
-=item Goto
+=over 4
-=item PODs: Embedded Documentation
+=item Declaration of an ARRAY OF HASHES
-=item Plain Old Comments (Not!)
+=item Generation of an ARRAY OF HASHES
-=back
+=item Access and Printing of an ARRAY OF HASHES
=back
-=head2 perldata - Perl data types
+=item HASHES OF HASHES
=over 4
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Declaration of a HASH OF HASHES
-=over 4
+=item Generation of a HASH OF HASHES
-=item Variable names
+=item Access and Printing of a HASH OF HASHES
-=item Context
+=back
-=item Scalar values
+=item MORE ELABORATE RECORDS
-=item Scalar value constructors
+=over 4
-=item List value constructors
+=item Declaration of MORE ELABORATE RECORDS
-=item Slices
+=item Declaration of a HASH OF COMPLEX RECORDS
-=item Typeglobs and Filehandles
+=item Generation of a HASH OF COMPLEX RECORDS
=back
+=item Database Ties
+
=item SEE ALSO
+=item AUTHOR
+
=back
-=head2 perlop - Perl operators and precedence
+=head2 perllol - Manipulating Arrays of Arrays in Perl
=over 4
-=item SYNOPSIS
-
=item DESCRIPTION
=over 4
-=item Terms and List Operators (Leftward)
+=item Declaration and Access of Arrays of Arrays
-=item The Arrow Operator
+=item Growing Your Own
-=item Auto-increment and Auto-decrement
+=item Access and Printing
-=item Exponentiation
+=item Slices
-=item Symbolic Unary Operators
+=back
-=item Binding Operators
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item Multiplicative Operators
+=item AUTHOR
-=item Additive Operators
+=back
-=item Shift Operators
+=head2 perlrequick - Perl regular expressions quick start
-=item Named Unary Operators
+=over 4
-=item Relational Operators
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Equality Operators
+=item The Guide
-=item Bitwise And
+=over 4
-=item Bitwise Or and Exclusive Or
+=item Simple word matching
-=item C-style Logical And
+=item Using character classes
-=item C-style Logical Or
+=item Matching this or that
-=item Range Operators
+=item Grouping things and hierarchical matching
-=item Conditional Operator
+=item Extracting matches
-=item Assignment Operators
+=item Matching repetitions
-=item Comma Operator
+=item More matching
-=item List Operators (Rightward)
+=item Search and replace
-=item Logical Not
+=item The split operator
-=item Logical And
+=back
-=item Logical or and Exclusive Or
+=item BUGS
-=item C Operators Missing From Perl
+=item SEE ALSO
-unary &, unary *, (TYPE)
+=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
-=item Quote and Quote-like Operators
+=over 4
-=item Regexp Quote-Like Operators
+=item Acknowledgments
-?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
+=back
-=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
+=head2 perlretut - Perl regular expressions tutorial
-=item I/O Operators
+=over 4
-=item Constant Folding
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Bitwise String Operators
+=item Part 1: The basics
-=item Integer Arithmetic
+=over 4
-=item Floating-point Arithmetic
+=item Simple word matching
-=item Bigger Numbers
+=item Using character classes
-=back
+=item Matching this or that
+
+=item Grouping things and hierarchical matching
+
+=item Extracting matches
+
+=item Matching repetitions
+
+=item Building a regexp
+
+=item Using regular expressions in Perl
=back
-=head2 perlsub - Perl subroutines
+=item Part 2: Power tools
=over 4
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item More on characters, strings, and character classes
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Compiling and saving regular expressions
-=over 4
+=item Embedding comments and modifiers in a regular expression
-=item Private Variables via my()
+=item Non-capturing groupings
-=item Persistent Private Variables
+=item Looking ahead and looking behind
-=item Temporary Values via local()
+=item Using independent subexpressions to prevent backtracking
-=item Lvalue subroutines
+=item Conditional expressions
-=item Passing Symbol Table Entries (typeglobs)
+=item A bit of magic: executing Perl code in a regular expression
-=item When to Still Use local()
+=item Pragmas and debugging
-=item Pass by Reference
+=back
-=item Prototypes
+=item BUGS
-=item Constant Functions
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item Overriding Built-in Functions
+=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
-=item Autoloading
+=over 4
-=item Subroutine Attributes
+=item Acknowledgments
=back
-=item SEE ALSO
-
=back
-=head2 perlfunc - Perl builtin functions
+=head2 perlboot - Beginner's Object-Oriented Tutorial
=over 4
=over 4
-=item Perl Functions by Category
+=item If we could talk to the animals...
-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 Introducing the method invocation arrow
-=item Portability
-
-=item Alphabetical Listing of Perl Functions
+=item Invoking a barnyard
-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, DISCIPLINE, 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 EXPR : ATTRIBUTES,
-next LABEL, next, no Module LIST, oct EXPR, oct, open FILEHANDLE,EXPR, open
-FILEHANDLE,MODE,EXPR, open FILEHANDLE,MODE,EXPR,LIST, open FILEHANDLE,
-opendir DIRHANDLE,EXPR, ord EXPR, ord, our EXPR, our EXPR : ATTRIBUTES,
-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, sockatmark SOCKET, 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, sqrt EXPR, sqrt, srand EXPR, srand, stat FILEHANDLE, stat
-EXPR, stat, study SCALAR, study, sub BLOCK, sub NAME, sub NAME 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, 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 The extra parameter of method invocation
-=back
+=item Calling a second method to simplify things
-=back
+=item Inheriting the windpipes
-=head2 perlreftut - Mark's very short tutorial about references
+=item A few notes about @ISA
-=over 4
+=item Overriding the methods
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Starting the search from a different place
-=item Who Needs Complicated Data Structures?
+=item The SUPER way of doing things
-=item The Solution
+=item Where we're at so far...
-=item Syntax
+=item A horse is a horse, of course of course -- or is it?
-=over 4
+=item Invoking an instance method
-=item Making References
+=item Accessing the instance data
-=item Using References
+=item How to build a horse
-=back
+=item Inheriting the constructor
-=item An Example
+=item Making a method work with either classes or instances
-=item Arrow Rule
+=item Adding parameters to a method
-=item Solution
+=item More interesting instances
-=item The Rest
+=item A horse of a different color
=item Summary
-=item Credits
-
-=over 4
+=back
-=item Distribution Conditions
+=item SEE ALSO
-=back
+=item COPYRIGHT
=back
-=head2 perldsc - Perl Data Structures Cookbook
+=head2 perltoot - Tom's object-oriented tutorial for perl
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-arrays of arrays, hashes of arrays, arrays of hashes, hashes of hashes,
-more elaborate constructs
+=item Creating a Class
-=item REFERENCES
+=over 4
-=item COMMON MISTAKES
+=item Object Representation
-=item CAVEAT ON PRECEDENCE
+=item Class Interface
-=item WHY YOU SHOULD ALWAYS C<use strict>
+=item Constructors and Instance Methods
-=item DEBUGGING
+=item Planning for the Future: Better Constructors
-=item CODE EXAMPLES
+=item Destructors
-=item ARRAYS OF ARRAYS
+=item Other Object Methods
+
+=back
+
+=item Class Data
=over 4
-=item Declaration of an ARRAY OF ARRAYS
+=item Accessing Class Data
-=item Generation of an ARRAY OF ARRAYS
+=item Debugging Methods
-=item Access and Printing of an ARRAY OF ARRAYS
+=item Class Destructors
+
+=item Documenting the Interface
=back
-=item HASHES OF ARRAYS
+=item Aggregation
+
+=item Inheritance
=over 4
-=item Declaration of a HASH OF ARRAYS
+=item Overridden Methods
-=item Generation of a HASH OF ARRAYS
+=item Multiple Inheritance
-=item Access and Printing of a HASH OF ARRAYS
+=item UNIVERSAL: The Root of All Objects
=back
-=item ARRAYS OF HASHES
+=item Alternate Object Representations
=over 4
-=item Declaration of an ARRAY OF HASHES
-
-=item Generation of an ARRAY OF HASHES
+=item Arrays as Objects
-=item Access and Printing of an ARRAY OF HASHES
+=item Closures as Objects
=back
-=item HASHES OF HASHES
+=item AUTOLOAD: Proxy Methods
=over 4
-=item Declaration of a HASH OF HASHES
-
-=item Generation of a HASH OF HASHES
+=item Autoloaded Data Methods
-=item Access and Printing of a HASH OF HASHES
+=item Inherited Autoloaded Data Methods
=back
-=item MORE ELABORATE RECORDS
+=item Metaclassical Tools
=over 4
-=item Declaration of MORE ELABORATE RECORDS
-
-=item Declaration of a HASH OF COMPLEX RECORDS
+=item Class::Struct
-=item Generation of a HASH OF COMPLEX RECORDS
+=item Data Members as Variables
=back
-=item Database Ties
+=item NOTES
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Object Terminology
+
+=back
=item SEE ALSO
-=item AUTHOR
+=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
+=over 4
+
+=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
+
+=item Class Data as Package Variables
=over 4
-=item Simple word matching
+=item Putting All Your Eggs in One Basket
-=item Using character classes
+=item Inheritance Concerns
-=item Matching this or that
+=item The Eponymous Meta-Object
-=item Grouping things and hierarchical matching
+=item Indirect References to Class Data
-=item Extracting matches
+=item Monadic Classes
-=item Matching repetitions
+=item Translucent Attributes
-=item More matching
+=back
-=item Search and replace
+=item Class Data as Lexical Variables
-=item The split operator
+=over 4
+
+=item Privacy and Responsibility
+
+=item File-Scoped Lexicals
+
+=item More Inheritance Concerns
+
+=item Locking the Door and Throwing Away the Key
+
+=item Translucency Revisited
=back
-=item BUGS
+=item NOTES
=item SEE ALSO
=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
-=over 4
-
-=item Acknowledgments
+=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
-=back
+=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
=item Awk Traps
-=item C Traps
+=item C/C++ Traps
=item Sed Traps
Regular Expression, Regular Expression, Regular Expression, Regular
Expression, Regular Expression, Regular Expression, Regular Expression,
-Regular Expression
+Regular Expression, Regular Expression
=item Subroutine, Signal, Sorting Traps
=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<digits>], B<-a>, B<-C>, 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<-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, PERLLIB, PERL5DB, PERL5SHELL
-(specific to the Win32 port), PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS, PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL,
-PERL_ENCODING, PERL_ROOT (specific to the VMS port), 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: 2003/01/31
+17:37:17 $)
=over 4
=over 4
-=item Default Warnings and Optional Warnings
-
-=item What's wrong with B<-w> and C<$^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 w
+=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: 1.14 $, $Date:
+2003/11/23 08:02:29 $)
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item The Perl Debugger
-
=over 4
-=item Debugger Commands
+=item What is Perl?
-h [command], p expr, x expr, V [pkg [vars]], X [vars], T, s [expr], n
-[expr], r, <CR>, c [line|sub], l, l min+incr, l min-max, l line, l subname,
--, w [line], f filename, /pattern/, ?pattern?, L, S [[!]regex], t, t expr,
-b [line] [condition], b subname [condition], b postpone subname
-[condition], b load filename, b compile subname, d [line], D, a [line]
-command, a [line], A, W expr, W, O booloption .., O anyoption? .., O
-option=value .., < ?, < [ command ], << command, > ?, > command, >>
-command, { ?, { [ command ], {{ command, ! number, ! -number, ! pattern, !!
-cmd, @ file, H -number, q or ^D, R, |dbcmd, ||dbcmd, command, m expr, 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<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: 1.25 $,
+$Date: 2003/10/16 04:57:38 $)
=over 4
=over 4
-=item Predefined Names
+=item What machines support Perl? Where do I get it?
-$ARG, $_, $a, $b, $<I<digits>>, $MATCH, $&, $PREMATCH, $`, $POSTMATCH, $',
-$LAST_PAREN_MATCH, $+, $^N, @LAST_MATCH_END, @+, $MULTILINE_MATCHING, $*,
-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, $LAST_REGEXP_CODE_RESULT, $^R, $EXCEPTIONS_BEING_CAUGHT, $^S,
-$BASETIME, $^T, ${^TAINT}, $PERL_VERSION, $^V, $WARNING, $^W,
-${^WARNING_BITS}, ${^WIDE_SYSTEM_CALLS}, $EXECUTABLE_NAME, $^X, ARGV,
-$ARGV, @ARGV, @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: 1.37 $, $Date: 2003/11/24
+19:55:50 $)
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Open E<agrave> la shell
-
=over 4
-=item Simple Opens
+=item How do I do (anything)?
-=item Pipe Opens
+=item How can I use Perl interactively?
-=item The Minus File
+=item Is there a Perl shell?
-=item Mixing Reads and Writes
+=item How do I find which modules are installed on my system?
-=item Filters
+=item How do I debug my Perl programs?
-=back
+=item How do I profile my Perl programs?
-=item Open E<agrave> la C
+=item How do I cross-reference my Perl programs?
-=over 4
+=item Is there a pretty-printer (formatter) for Perl?
-=item Permissions E<agrave> la mode
+=item Is there a ctags for Perl?
-=back
+=item Is there an IDE or Windows Perl Editor?
-=item Obscure Open Tricks
+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
-=over 4
+=item Where can I get Perl macros for vi?
-=item Re-Opening Files (dups)
+=item Where can I get perl-mode for emacs?
-=item Dispelling the Dweomer
+=item How can I use curses with Perl?
-=item Paths as Opens
+=item How can I use X or Tk with Perl?
-=item Single Argument Open
+=item How can I generate simple menus without using CGI or Tk?
-=item Playing with STDIN and STDOUT
+=item How can I make my Perl program run faster?
-=back
+=item How can I make my Perl program take less memory?
-=item Other I/O Issues
+Don't slurp!, Use map and grep selectively, Avoid unnecessary quotes and
+stringification, Pass by reference, Tie large variables to disk
-=over 4
+=item Is it safe to return a reference to local or lexical data?
-=item Opening Non-File Files
+=item How can I free an array or hash so my program shrinks?
-=item Binary Files
+=item How can I make my CGI script more efficient?
-=item File Locking
+=item How can I hide the source for my Perl program?
-=back
+=item How can I compile my Perl program into byte code or C?
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item How can I compile Perl into Java?
-=item AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT
+=item How can I get C<#!perl> to work on [MS-DOS,NT,...]?
-=item HISTORY
+=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?
-=head2 perlretut - Perl regular expressions tutorial
+=item Where can I learn about CGI or Web programming in Perl?
-=over 4
+=item Where can I learn about object-oriented Perl programming?
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Where can I learn about linking C with Perl? [h2xs, xsubpp]
-=item Part 1: The basics
+=item I've read perlembed, perlguts, etc., but I can't embed perl in
+my C program; what am I doing wrong?
-=over 4
+=item When I tried to run my script, I got this message. What does it mean?
-=item Simple word matching
+=item What's MakeMaker?
-=item Using character classes
+=back
-=item Matching this or that
+=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
-=item Grouping things and hierarchical matching
+=back
-=item Extracting matches
+=head2 perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation ($Revision: 1.54 $, $Date: 2003/11/30
+00:50:08 $)
-=item Matching repetitions
+=over 4
-=item Building a regexp
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Using regular expressions in Perl
+=item Data: Numbers
-=back
+=over 4
-=item Part 2: Power tools
+=item Why am I getting long decimals (eg, 19.9499999999999) instead of the
+numbers I should be getting (eg, 19.95)?
-=over 4
+=item Why is int() broken?
-=item More on characters, strings, and character classes
+=item Why isn't my octal data interpreted correctly?
-=item Compiling and saving regular expressions
+=item Does Perl have a round() function? What about ceil() and floor()?
+Trig functions?
-=item Embedding comments and modifiers in a regular expression
+=item How do I convert between numeric representations/bases/radixes?
-=item Non-capturing groupings
+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 Looking ahead and looking behind
+=item Why doesn't & work the way I want it to?
-=item Using independent subexpressions to prevent backtracking
+=item How do I multiply matrices?
-=item Conditional expressions
+=item How do I perform an operation on a series of integers?
-=item A bit of magic: executing Perl code in a regular expression
+=item How can I output Roman numerals?
-=item Pragmas and debugging
+=item Why aren't my random numbers random?
+
+=item How do I get a random number between X and Y?
=back
-=item BUGS
+=item Data: Dates
-=item SEE ALSO
+=over 4
-=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
+=item How do I find the day or week of the year?
-=over 4
+=item How do I find the current century or millennium?
-=item Acknowledgments
+=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?
-=back
+=item How can I find the Julian Day?
-=head2 perlre - Perl regular expressions
+=item How do I find yesterday's date?
-=over 4
+=item Does Perl have a Year 2000 problem? Is Perl Y2K compliant?
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=back
-i, m, s, x
+=item Data: Strings
=over 4
-=item Regular Expressions
-
-[1], [2], [3], cntrl, graph, print, punct, xdigit
+=item How do I validate input?
-=item Extended Patterns
+=item How do I unescape a string?
-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 remove consecutive pairs of characters?
-=item Backtracking
+=item How do I expand function calls in a string?
-=item Version 8 Regular Expressions
+=item How do I find matching/nesting anything?
-=item Warning on \1 vs $1
+=item How do I reverse a string?
-=item Repeated patterns matching zero-length substring
+=item How do I expand tabs in a string?
-=item Combining pieces together
+=item How do I reformat a paragraph?
-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 can I access or change N characters of a string?
-=item Creating custom RE engines
+=item How do I change the Nth occurrence of something?
-=back
+=item How can I count the number of occurrences of a substring within a
+string?
-=item BUGS
+=item How do I capitalize all the words on one line?
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item How can I split a [character] delimited string except when inside
+[character]?
-=back
+=item How do I strip blank space from the beginning/end of a string?
-=head2 perlref - Perl references and nested data structures
+=item How do I pad a string with blanks or pad a number with zeroes?
-=over 4
+=item How do I extract selected columns from a string?
-=item NOTE
+=item How do I find the soundex value of a string?
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item How can I expand variables in text strings?
-=over 4
+=item What's wrong with always quoting "$vars"?
-=item Making References
+=item Why don't my E<lt>E<lt>HERE documents work?
-=item Using References
+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 Symbolic references
+=back
-=item Not-so-symbolic references
+=item Data: Arrays
-=item Pseudo-hashes: Using an array as a hash
+=over 4
-=item Function Templates
+=item What is the difference between a list and an array?
-=back
+=item What is the difference between $array[1] and @array[1]?
-=item WARNING
+=item How can I remove duplicate elements from a list or array?
-=item SEE ALSO
+a), b), c), d), e)
-=back
+=item How can I tell whether a certain element is contained in a list or
+array?
-=head2 perlform - Perl formats
+=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 DESCRIPTION
+=item How do I find the first array element for which a condition is true?
-=over 4
+=item How do I handle linked lists?
-=item Format Variables
+=item How do I handle circular lists?
-=back
+=item How do I shuffle an array randomly?
-=item NOTES
+=item How do I process/modify each element of an array?
-=over 4
+=item How do I select a random element from an array?
-=item Footers
+=item How do I permute N elements of a list?
-=item Accessing Formatting Internals
+=item How do I sort an array by (anything)?
-=back
+=item How do I manipulate arrays of bits?
-=item WARNINGS
+=item Why does defined() return true on empty arrays and hashes?
=back
-=head2 perlboot - Beginner's Object-Oriented Tutorial
+=item Data: Hashes (Associative Arrays)
=over 4
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item How do I process an entire hash?
-=over 4
+=item What happens if I add or remove keys from a hash while iterating over
+it?
-=item If we could talk to the animals...
+=item How do I look up a hash element by value?
-=item Introducing the method invocation arrow
+=item How can I know how many entries are in a hash?
-=item Invoking a barnyard
+=item How do I sort a hash (optionally by value instead of key)?
-=item The extra parameter of method invocation
+=item How can I always keep my hash sorted?
-=item Calling a second method to simplify things
+=item What's the difference between "delete" and "undef" with hashes?
-=item Inheriting the windpipes
+=item Why don't my tied hashes make the defined/exists distinction?
-=item A few notes about @ISA
+=item How do I reset an each() operation part-way through?
-=item Overriding the methods
+=item How can I get the unique keys from two hashes?
-=item Starting the search from a different place
+=item How can I store a multidimensional array in a DBM file?
-=item The SUPER way of doing things
+=item How can I make my hash remember the order I put elements into it?
-=item Where we're at so far...
+=item Why does passing a subroutine an undefined element in a hash create
+it?
-=item A horse is a horse, of course of course -- or is it?
+=item How can I make the Perl equivalent of a C structure/C++ class/hash or
+array of hashes or arrays?
-=item Invoking an instance method
+=item How can I use a reference as a hash key?
-=item Accessing the instance data
+=back
-=item How to build a horse
+=item Data: Misc
-=item Inheriting the constructor
+=over 4
-=item Making a method work with either classes or instances
+=item How do I handle binary data correctly?
-=item Adding parameters to a method
+=item How do I determine whether a scalar is a number/whole/integer/float?
-=item More interesting instances
+=item How do I keep persistent data across program calls?
-=item A horse of a different color
+=item How do I print out or copy a recursive data structure?
-=item Summary
+=item How do I define methods for every class/object?
-=back
+=item How do I verify a credit card checksum?
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item How do I pack arrays of doubles or floats for XS code?
-=item COPYRIGHT
+=back
+
+=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
=back
-=head2 perltoot - Tom's object-oriented tutorial for perl
+=head2 perlfaq5 - Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.30 $, $Date: 2003/11/23
+08:07:46 $)
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Creating a Class
-
=over 4
-=item Object Representation
-
-=item Class Interface
+=item How do I flush/unbuffer an output filehandle? Why must I do this?
-=item Constructors and Instance Methods
+=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 Planning for the Future: Better Constructors
+=item How do I count the number of lines in a file?
-=item Destructors
+=item How can I use Perl's C<-i> option from within a program?
-=item Other Object Methods
+=item How do I make a temporary file name?
-=back
+=item How can I manipulate fixed-record-length files?
-=item Class Data
+=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?
-=over 4
+=item How can I use a filehandle indirectly?
-=item Accessing Class Data
+=item How can I set up a footer format to be used with write()?
-=item Debugging Methods
+=item How can I write() into a string?
-=item Class Destructors
+=item How can I output my numbers with commas added?
-=item Documenting the Interface
+=item How can I translate tildes (~) in a filename?
-=back
+=item How come when I open a file read-write it wipes it out?
-=item Aggregation
+=item Why do I sometimes get an "Argument list too long" when I use
+E<lt>*E<gt>?
-=item Inheritance
+=item Is there a leak/bug in glob()?
-=over 4
+=item How can I open a file with a leading ">" or trailing blanks?
-=item Overridden Methods
+=item How can I reliably rename a file?
-=item Multiple Inheritance
+=item How can I lock a file?
-=item UNIVERSAL: The Root of All Objects
+=item Why can't I just open(FH, "E<gt>file.lock")?
-=back
+=item I still don't get locking. I just want to increment the number in
+the file. How can I do this?
-=item Alternate Object Representations
-
-=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 Arrays as Objects
+=item How do I randomly update a binary file?
-=item Closures as Objects
+=item How do I get a file's timestamp in perl?
-=back
+=item How do I set a file's timestamp in perl?
-=item AUTOLOAD: Proxy Methods
+=item How do I print to more than one file at once?
-=over 4
+=item How can I read in an entire file all at once?
-=item Autoloaded Data Methods
+=item How can I read in a file by paragraphs?
-=item Inherited Autoloaded Data Methods
+=item How can I read a single character from a file? From the keyboard?
-=back
+=item How can I tell whether there's a character waiting on a filehandle?
-=item Metaclassical Tools
+=item How do I do a C<tail -f> in perl?
-=over 4
+=item How do I dup() a filehandle in Perl?
-=item Class::Struct
+=item How do I close a file descriptor by number?
-=item Data Members as Variables
+=item Why can't I use "C:\temp\foo" in DOS paths? Why doesn't
+`C:\temp\foo.exe` work?
-=back
+=item Why doesn't glob("*.*") get all the files?
-=item NOTES
+=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 Object Terminology
+=item Why do I get weird spaces when I print an array of lines?
=back
-=item SEE ALSO
-
=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
-=item COPYRIGHT
+=back
-=over 4
+=head2 perlfaq6 - Regular Expressions ($Revision: 1.20 $, $Date: 2003/01/03
+20:05:28 $)
-=item Acknowledgments
+=over 4
-=back
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=back
+=over 4
-=head2 perltooc - Tom's OO Tutorial for Class Data in Perl
+=item How can I hope to use regular expressions without creating illegible
+and unmaintainable code?
-=over 4
+Comments Outside the Regex, Comments Inside the Regex, Different Delimiters
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item I'm having trouble matching over more than one line. What's wrong?
-=item Class Data in a Can
+=item How can I pull out lines between two patterns that are themselves on
+different lines?
-=item Class Data as Package Variables
+=item I put a regular expression into $/ but it didn't work. What's wrong?
-=over 4
+=item How do I substitute case insensitively on the LHS while preserving
+case on the RHS?
-=item Putting All Your Eggs in One Basket
+=item How can I make C<\w> match national character sets?
-=item Inheritance Concerns
+=item How can I match a locale-smart version of C</[a-zA-Z]/>?
-=item The Eponymous Meta-Object
+=item How can I quote a variable to use in a regex?
-=item Indirect References to Class Data
+=item What is C</o> really for?
-=item Monadic Classes
+=item How do I use a regular expression to strip C style comments from a
+file?
-=item Translucent Attributes
+=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 Class Data as Lexical Variables
+=item How do I process each word on each line?
-=over 4
+=item How can I print out a word-frequency or line-frequency summary?
-=item Privacy and Responsibility
+=item How can I do approximate matching?
-=item File-Scoped Lexicals
+=item How do I efficiently match many regular expressions at once?
-=item More Inheritance Concerns
+=item Why don't word-boundary searches with C<\b> work for me?
-=item Locking the Door and Throwing Away the Key
+=item Why does using $&, $`, or $' slow my program down?
-=item Translucency Revisited
+=item What good is C<\G> in a regular expression?
-=back
+=item Are Perl regexes DFAs or NFAs? Are they POSIX compliant?
-=item NOTES
+=item What's wrong with using grep in a void context?
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item How can I match strings with multibyte characters?
-=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
+=item How do I match a pattern that is supplied by the user?
-=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
+=back
-=item HISTORY
+=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
=back
-=head2 perlobj - Perl objects
+=head2 perlfaq7 - General Perl Language Issues ($Revision: 1.15 $, $Date:
+2003/07/24 02:17:21 $)
=over 4
=over 4
-=item An Object is Simply a Reference
+=item Can I get a BNF/yacc/RE for the Perl language?
-=item A Class is Simply a Package
+=item What are all these $@%&* punctuation signs, and how do I know when to
+use them?
-=item A Method is Simply a Subroutine
+=item Do I always/never have to quote my strings or use semicolons and
+commas?
-=item Method Invocation
+=item How do I skip some return values?
-=item Indirect Object Syntax
+=item How do I temporarily block warnings?
-=item Default UNIVERSAL methods
+=item What's an extension?
-isa(CLASS), can(METHOD), VERSION( [NEED] )
+=item Why do Perl operators have different precedence than C operators?
-=item Destructors
+=item How do I declare/create a structure?
-=item Summary
+=item How do I create a module?
-=item Two-Phased Garbage Collection
+=item How do I create a class?
-=back
+=item How can I tell if a variable is tainted?
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item What's a closure?
-=back
+=item What is variable suicide and how can I prevent it?
-=head2 perlbot - Bag'o Object Tricks (the BOT)
+=item How can I pass/return a {Function, FileHandle, Array, Hash, Method,
+Regex}?
-=over 4
+Passing Variables and Functions, Passing Filehandles, Passing Regexes,
+Passing Methods
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item How do I create a static variable?
-=item OO SCALING TIPS
+=item What's the difference between dynamic and lexical (static) scoping?
+Between local() and my()?
-=item INSTANCE VARIABLES
+=item How can I access a dynamic variable while a similarly named lexical
+is in scope?
-=item SCALAR INSTANCE VARIABLES
+=item What's the difference between deep and shallow binding?
-=item INSTANCE VARIABLE INHERITANCE
+=item Why doesn't "my($foo) = E<lt>FILEE<gt>;" work right?
-=item OBJECT RELATIONSHIPS
+=item How do I redefine a builtin function, operator, or method?
-=item OVERRIDING SUPERCLASS METHODS
+=item What's the difference between calling a function as &foo and foo()?
-=item USING RELATIONSHIP WITH SDBM
+=item How do I create a switch or case statement?
-=item THINKING OF CODE REUSE
+=item How can I catch accesses to undefined variables, functions, or
+methods?
-=item CLASS CONTEXT AND THE OBJECT
+=item Why can't a method included in this same file be found?
-=item INHERITING A CONSTRUCTOR
+=item How can I find out my current package?
-=item DELEGATION
+=item How can I comment out a large block of perl code?
+
+=item How do I clear a package?
+
+=item How can I use a variable as a variable name?
+
+=item What does "bad interpreter" mean?
=back
-=head2 perltie - how to hide an object class in a simple variable
+=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
-=over 4
+=back
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=head2 perlfaq8 - System Interaction ($Revision: 1.17 $, $Date: 2003/01/26
+17:44:04 $)
+
+=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
=over 4
-=item Tying Scalars
+=item How do I find out which operating system I'm running under?
-TIESCALAR classname, LIST, FETCH this, STORE this, value, UNTIE this,
-DESTROY this
+=item How come exec() doesn't return?
-=item Tying Arrays
+=item How do I do fancy stuff with the keyboard/screen/mouse?
-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
+Keyboard, Screen, Mouse
-=item Tying Hashes
+=item How do I print something out in color?
-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 read just one key without waiting for a return key?
-=item Tying FileHandles
+=item How do I check whether input is ready on the keyboard?
-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 clear the screen?
-=item UNTIE this
+=item How do I get the screen size?
-=item The C<untie> Gotcha
+=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
-=item BUGS
+=item How do I decode encrypted password files?
-=item AUTHOR
+=item How do I start a process in the background?
-=back
+STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR are shared, Signals, Zombies
-=head2 perlipc - Perl interprocess communication (signals, fifos, pipes,
-safe subprocesses, sockets, and semaphores)
+=item How do I trap control characters/signals?
-=over 4
+=item How do I modify the shadow password file on a Unix system?
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item How do I set the time and date?
-=item Signals
+=item How can I sleep() or alarm() for under a second?
-=item Named Pipes
+=item How can I measure time under a second?
-=over 4
+=item How can I do an atexit() or setjmp()/longjmp()? (Exception handling)
-=item WARNING
+=item Why doesn't my sockets program work under System V (Solaris)? What
+does the error message "Protocol not supported" mean?
-=back
+=item How can I call my system's unique C functions from Perl?
-=item Using open() for IPC
+=item Where do I get the include files to do ioctl() or syscall()?
-=over 4
+=item Why do setuid perl scripts complain about kernel problems?
-=item Filehandles
+=item How can I open a pipe both to and from a command?
-=item Background Processes
+=item Why can't I get the output of a command with system()?
-=item Complete Dissociation of Child from Parent
+=item How can I capture STDERR from an external command?
-=item Safe Pipe Opens
+=item Why doesn't open() return an error when a pipe open fails?
-=item Bidirectional Communication with Another Process
+=item What's wrong with using backticks in a void context?
-=item Bidirectional Communication with Yourself
+=item How can I call backticks without shell processing?
-=back
+=item Why can't my script read from STDIN after I gave it EOF (^D on Unix,
+^Z on MS-DOS)?
-=item Sockets: Client/Server Communication
+=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 Internet Line Terminators
+=item How can I write expect in Perl?
-=item Internet TCP Clients and Servers
+=item Is there a way to hide perl's command line from programs such as
+"ps"?
-=item Unix-Domain TCP Clients and Servers
+=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?
-=back
+Unix
-=item TCP Clients with IO::Socket
+=item How do I close a process's filehandle without waiting for it to
+complete?
-=over 4
+=item How do I fork a daemon process?
-=item A Simple Client
+=item How do I find out if I'm running interactively or not?
-C<Proto>, C<PeerAddr>, C<PeerPort>
+=item How do I timeout a slow event?
-=item A Webget Client
+=item How do I set CPU limits?
-=item Interactive Client with IO::Socket
+=item How do I avoid zombies on a Unix system?
-=back
+=item How do I use an SQL database?
-=item TCP Servers with IO::Socket
+=item How do I make a system() exit on control-C?
-Proto, LocalPort, Listen, Reuse
+=item How do I open a file without blocking?
-=item UDP: Message Passing
+=item How do I install a module from CPAN?
-=item SysV IPC
+=item What's the difference between require and use?
-=item NOTES
+=item How do I keep my own module/library directory?
-=item BUGS
+=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 (@INC) at runtime?
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item What is socket.ph and where do I get it?
=back
-=head2 perlfork - Perl's fork() emulation (EXPERIMENTAL, subject to change)
+=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
-=over 4
+=back
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=head2 perlfaq9 - Networking ($Revision: 1.15 $, $Date: 2003/01/31 17:36:57
+$)
+
+=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
=over 4
-=item Behavior of other Perl features in forked pseudo-processes
+=item What is the correct form of response from a CGI script?
-$$ 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 My CGI script runs from the command line but not the browser. (500
+Server Error)
-=item Resource limits
+=item How can I get better error messages from a CGI program?
-=item Killing the parent process
+=item How do I remove HTML from a string?
-=item Lifetime of the parent process and pseudo-processes
+=item How do I extract URLs?
-=item CAVEATS AND LIMITATIONS
+=item How do I download a file from the user's machine? How do I open a
+file on another machine?
-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 How do I make a pop-up menu in HTML?
-=back
+=item How do I fetch an HTML file?
-=item BUGS
+=item How do I automate an HTML form submission?
-=item AUTHOR
+=item How do I decode or create those %-encodings on the web?
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item How do I redirect to another page?
-=back
+=item How do I put a password on my web pages?
-=head2 perlnumber - semantics of numbers and numeric operations in Perl
+=item How do I edit my .htpasswd and .htgroup files with Perl?
-=over 4
+=item How do I make sure users can't enter values into a form that cause my
+CGI script to do bad things?
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item How do I parse a mail header?
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item How do I decode a CGI form?
-=item Storing numbers
+=item How do I check a valid mail address?
-=item Numeric operators and numeric conversions
+=item How do I decode a MIME/BASE64 string?
-=item Flavors of Perl numeric operations
+=item How do I return the user's mail address?
-Arithmetic operators except, C<no integer>, Arithmetic operators except,
-C<use integer>, Bitwise operators, C<no integer>, Bitwise operators, C<use
-integer>, Operators which expect an integer, Operators which expect a
-string
+=item How do I send mail?
-=item AUTHOR
+=item How do I use MIME to make an attachment to a mail message?
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item How do I read mail?
-=back
+=item How do I find out my hostname/domainname/IP address?
-=head2 perlthrtut - tutorial on threads in Perl
+=item How do I fetch a news article or the active newsgroups?
-=over 4
+=item How do I fetch/put an FTP file?
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item How can I do RPC in Perl?
=back
-=head2 perlothrtut - old tutorial on threads in Perl
+=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
-=over 4
+=back
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=head2 perlsyn - Perl syntax
-=item What Is A Thread Anyway?
+=over 4
-=item Threaded Program Models
+=item DESCRIPTION
=over 4
-=item Boss/Worker
-
-=item Work Crew
+=item Declarations
-=item Pipeline
+=item Comments
-=back
+=item Simple Statements
-=item Native threads
+=item Truth and Falsehood
-=item What kind of threads are perl threads?
+=item Statement Modifiers
-=item Threadsafe Modules
+=item Compound Statements
-=item Thread Basics
+=item Loop Control
-=over 4
+=item For Loops
-=item Basic Thread Support
+=item Foreach Loops
-=item Creating Threads
+=item Basic BLOCKs and Switch Statements
-=item Giving up control
+=item Goto
-=item Waiting For A Thread To Exit
+=item PODs: Embedded Documentation
-=item Errors In Threads
+=item Plain Old Comments (Not!)
-=item Ignoring A Thread
+=back
=back
-=item Threads And Data
+=head2 perldata - Perl data types
=over 4
-=item Shared And Unshared Data
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Thread Pitfall: Races
+=over 4
-=item Controlling access: lock()
+=item Variable names
-=item Thread Pitfall: Deadlocks
+=item Context
-=item Queues: Passing Data Around
+=item Scalar values
-=back
+=item Scalar value constructors
-=item Threads And Code
+=item List value constructors
-=over 4
+=item Subscripts
-=item Semaphores: Synchronizing Data Access
+=item Slices
-Basic semaphores, Advanced Semaphores
+=item Typeglobs and Filehandles
-=item Attributes: Restricting Access To Subroutines
+=back
-=item Subroutine Locks
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item Methods
+=back
-=item Locking A Subroutine
+=head2 perlop - Perl operators and precedence
-=back
+=over 4
-=item General Thread Utility Routines
+=item DESCRIPTION
=over 4
-=item What Thread Am I In?
+=item Operator Precedence and Associativity
-=item Thread IDs
+=item Terms and List Operators (Leftward)
-=item Are These Threads The Same?
+=item The Arrow Operator
-=item What Threads Are Running?
+=item Auto-increment and Auto-decrement
-=back
+=item Exponentiation
-=item A Complete Example
+=item Symbolic Unary Operators
-=item Conclusion
+=item Binding Operators
-=item Bibliography
+=item Multiplicative Operators
-=over 4
+=item Additive Operators
-=item Introductory Texts
+=item Shift Operators
-=item OS-Related References
+=item Named Unary Operators
-=item Other References
+=item Relational Operators
-=back
+=item Equality Operators
-=item Acknowledgements
+=item Bitwise And
-=item AUTHOR
+=item Bitwise Or and Exclusive Or
-=item Copyrights
+=item C-style Logical And
-=back
+=item C-style Logical Or
-=head2 perlport - Writing portable Perl
+=item C-style Logical Defined-Or
-=over 4
+=item Range Operators
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Conditional Operator
-Not all Perl programs have to be portable, Nearly all of Perl already I<is>
-portable
+=item Assignment Operators
-=item ISSUES
+=item Comma Operator
-=over 4
+=item List Operators (Rightward)
-=item Newlines
+=item Logical Not
-=item Numbers endianness and Width
+=item Logical And
-=item Files and Filesystems
+=item Logical or, Defined or, and Exclusive Or
-=item System Interaction
+=item C Operators Missing From Perl
-=item Interprocess Communication (IPC)
+unary &, unary *, (TYPE)
-=item External Subroutines (XS)
+=item Quote and Quote-like Operators
-=item Standard Modules
+=item Regexp Quote-Like Operators
-=item Time and Date
+?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 Character sets and character encoding
+=item Gory details of parsing quoted constructs
-=item Internationalisation
+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 System Resources
+=item I/O Operators
-=item Security
+=item Constant Folding
-=item Style
+=item Bitwise String Operators
-=back
+=item Integer Arithmetic
-=item CPAN Testers
+=item Floating-point Arithmetic
-Mailing list: cpan-testers@perl.org, Testing results:
-http://testers.cpan.org/
+=item Bigger Numbers
-=item PLATFORMS
+=back
-=over 4
+=back
-=item Unix
+=head2 perlsub - Perl subroutines
-=item DOS and Derivatives
+=over 4
-=item S<Mac OS>
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item VMS
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item VOS
+=over 4
-=item EBCDIC Platforms
+=item Private Variables via my()
-=item Acorn RISC OS
+=item Persistent Private Variables
-=item Other perls
+=item Temporary Values via local()
-=back
+=item Lvalue subroutines
-=item FUNCTION IMPLEMENTATIONS
+Lvalue subroutines are EXPERIMENTAL
-=over 4
+=item Passing Symbol Table Entries (typeglobs)
-=item Alphabetical Listing of Perl Functions
+=item When to Still Use local()
--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, gethostent, getnetent,
-getprotoent, getservent, setpwent, setgrent, 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 Pass by Reference
-=back
+=item Prototypes
-=item CHANGES
+=item Constant Functions
-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 Overriding Built-in Functions
-=item Supported Platforms
+=item Autoloading
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item Subroutine Attributes
-=item AUTHORS / CONTRIBUTORS
+=back
-=item VERSION
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=head2 perllocale - Perl locale handling (internationalization and
-localization)
+=head2 perlfunc - Perl builtin functions
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item PREPARING TO USE LOCALES
-
-=item USING LOCALES
-
=over 4
-=item The use locale pragma
-
-=item The setlocale function
+=item Perl Functions by Category
-=item Finding locales
+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 LOCALE PROBLEMS
+=item Portability
-=item Temporarily fixing locale problems
+=item Alphabetical Listing of Perl Functions
-=item Permanently fixing locale problems
+-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///
-=item Permanently fixing your system's locale configuration
+=back
-=item Fixing system locale configuration
+=back
-=item The localeconv function
+=head2 perlopentut - tutorial on opening things in Perl
-=item I18N::Langinfo
+=over 4
-=back
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item LOCALE CATEGORIES
+=item Open E<agrave> la shell
=over 4
-=item Category LC_COLLATE: Collation
+=item Simple Opens
-=item Category LC_CTYPE: Character Types
+=item Indirect Filehandles
-=item Category LC_NUMERIC: Numeric Formatting
+=item Pipe Opens
-=item Category LC_MONETARY: Formatting of monetary amounts
+=item The Minus File
-=item LC_TIME
+=item Mixing Reads and Writes
-=item Other categories
+=item Filters
=back
-=item SECURITY
-
-=item ENVIRONMENT
+=item Open E<agrave> la C
-PERL_BADLANG, LC_ALL, LANGUAGE, LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE, LC_MONETARY,
-LC_NUMERIC, LC_TIME, LANG
+=over 4
-=item NOTES
+=item Permissions E<agrave> la mode
-=over 4
+=back
-=item Backward compatibility
+=item Obscure Open Tricks
-=item I18N:Collate obsolete
+=over 4
-=item Sort speed and memory use impacts
+=item Re-Opening Files (dups)
-=item write() and LC_NUMERIC
+=item Dispelling the Dweomer
-=item Freely available locale definitions
+=item Paths as Opens
-=item I18n and l10n
+=item Single Argument Open
-=item An imperfect standard
+=item Playing with STDIN and STDOUT
=back
-=item BUGS
+=item Other I/O Issues
=over 4
-=item Broken systems
+=item Opening Non-File Files
-=back
+=item Opening Named Pipes
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item Opening Sockets
-=item HISTORY
+=item Binary Files
-=back
+=item File Locking
-=head2 perluniintro - Perl Unicode introduction
+=item IO Layers
-=over 4
+=back
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item SEE ALSO
-=over 4
+=item AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT
-=item Unicode
+=item HISTORY
-=item Perl's Unicode Support
+=back
-=item Perl's Unicode Model
+=head2 perlpacktut - tutorial on C<pack> and C<unpack>
-=item Creating Unicode
+=over 4
-=item Handling Unicode
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Legacy Encodings
+=item The Basic Principle
-=item Unicode I/O
+=item Packing Text
-=item Special Cases
+=item Packing Numbers
-=item Advanced Topics
+=over 4
-=item Miscellaneous
+=item Integers
-=item Questions With Answers
+=item Unpacking a Stack Frame
-Will My Old Scripts Break?, How Do I Make My Scripts Work With Unicode?,
-How Do I Know Whether My String Is In Unicode?, How Do I Detect Invalid
-UTF-8?, How Do I Convert Data Into UTF-8? Or Vice Versa?, How Do I Display
-Unicode? How Do I Input Unicode?, How Does Unicode Work With Traditional
-Locales?
+=item How to Eat an Egg on a Net
-=item Hexadecimal Notation
+=item Byte-order modifiers
-=item Further Resources
+=item Floating point Numbers
=back
-=item SEE ALSO
-
-=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
+=item Exotic Templates
-=item AUTHOR, COPYRIGHT, AND LICENSE
+=over 4
-=back
+=item Bit Strings
-=head2 perlunicode - Unicode support in Perl
+=item Uuencoding
-=over 4
+=item Doing Sums
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Unicode
-=over 4
+=item Another Portable Binary Encoding
-=item Important Caveats
+=back
-Input and Output Disciplines, Regular Expressions, C<use utf8> still needed
-to enable UTF-8/UTF-EBCDIC in scripts
+=item Template Grouping
-=item Byte and Character semantics
+=item Lengths and Widths
-=item Effects of character semantics
+=over 4
-=item Scripts
+=item String Lengths
-=item Blocks
+=item Dynamic Templates
-=item Character encodings for input and output
+=item Counting Repetitions
=back
-=item CAVEATS
-
-=item UNICODE REGULAR EXPRESSION SUPPORT LEVEL
+=item Packing and Unpacking C Structures
=over 4
-=item Unicode Encodings
+=item The Alignment Pit
-UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-16BE, UTF16-LE, Surrogates, and BOMs (Byte Order Marks),
-UTF-32, UTF-32BE, UTF32-LE, UCS-2, UCS-4, UTF-7
+=item Dealing with Endian-ness
-=item Security Implications of Malformed UTF-8
+=item Alignment, Take 2
-=item Unicode in Perl on EBCDIC
+=item Alignment, Take 3
+
+=item Pointers for How to Use Them
=back
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item Pack Recipes
+
+=item Funnies Section
+
+=item Authors
=back
-=head2 perlebcdic - Considerations for running Perl on EBCDIC platforms
+=head2 perlpod - the Plain Old Documentation format
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item COMMON CHARACTER CODE SETS
-
=over 4
-=item ASCII
+=item Ordinary Paragraph
-=item ISO 8859
+=item Verbatim Paragraph
-=item Latin 1 (ISO 8859-1)
+=item Command Paragraph
-=item EBCDIC
+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 13 variant characters
+=item Formatting Codes
-=item 0037
+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 1047
+=item The Intent
-=item POSIX-BC
+=item Embedding Pods in Perl Modules
-=item Unicode and UTF
+=item Hints for Writing Pod
=back
-=item SINGLE OCTET TABLES
+=item SEE ALSO
-recipe 0, recipe 1, recipe 2, recipe 3, recipe 4, recipe 5, recipe 6
+=item AUTHOR
-=item IDENTIFYING CHARACTER CODE SETS
+=back
-=item CONVERSIONS
+=head2 perlpodspec - Plain Old Documentation: format specification and
+notes
=over 4
-=item tr///
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item iconv
+=item Pod Definitions
-=item C RTL
+=item Pod Commands
-=back
+"=head1", "=head2", "=head3", "=head4", "=pod", "=cut", "=over", "=item",
+"=back", "=begin formatname", "=end formatname", "=for formatname text...",
+"=encoding encodingname"
-=item OPERATOR DIFFERENCES
-
-=item FUNCTION DIFFERENCES
-
-chr(), ord(), pack(), print(), printf(), sort(), sprintf(), unpack()
+=item Pod Formatting Codes
-=item REGULAR EXPRESSION DIFFERENCES
+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 SOCKETS
+=item Notes on Implementing Pod Processors
-=item SORTING
+=item About LE<lt>...E<gt> Codes
-=over 4
+First:, Second:, Third:, Fourth:, Fifth:, Sixth:
-=item Ignore ASCII vs. EBCDIC sort differences.
+=item About =over...=back Regions
-=item MONO CASE then sort data.
+=item About Data Paragraphs and "=begin/=end" Regions
-=item Convert, sort data, then re convert.
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item Perform sorting on one type of machine only.
+=item AUTHOR
=back
-=item TRANSFORMATION FORMATS
+=head2 perlrun - how to execute the Perl interpreter
=over 4
-=item URL decoding and encoding
-
-=item uu encoding and decoding
-
-=item Quoted-Printable encoding and decoding
-
-=item Caesarian ciphers
-
-=back
-
-=item Hashing order and checksums
-
-=item I18N AND L10N
-
-=item MULTI OCTET CHARACTER SETS
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item OS ISSUES
+=item DESCRIPTION
=over 4
-=item OS/400
-
-IFS access
+=item #! and quoting on non-Unix systems
-=item OS/390, z/OS
+OS/2, MS-DOS, Win95/NT, Macintosh, VMS
-chcp, dataset access, OS/390, z/OS iconv, locales
+=item Location of Perl
-=item VM/ESA?
+=item Command Switches
-=item POSIX-BC?
+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>, B<-x> I<directory>
=back
-=item BUGS
+=item ENVIRONMENT
-=item SEE ALSO
+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_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)
-=item REFERENCES
+=back
-=item HISTORY
+=head2 perldiag - various Perl diagnostics
-=item AUTHOR
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
=back
-=head2 perlsec - Perl security
+=head2 perllexwarn - Perl Lexical Warnings
=over 4
=over 4
-=item Laundering and Detecting Tainted Data
+=item Default Warnings and Optional Warnings
-=item Switches On the "#!" Line
+=item What's wrong with B<-w> and C<$^W>
-=item Cleaning Up Your Path
+=item Controlling Warnings from the Command Line
-=item Security Bugs
+B<-w>, B<-W>, B<-X>
-=item Protecting Your Programs
+=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 perlmod - Perl modules (packages and symbol tables)
+=head2 perldebug - Perl debugging
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
+=item The Perl Debugger
+
=over 4
-=item Packages
+=item Debugger Commands
-=item Symbol Tables
+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 Package Constructors and Destructors
+=item Configurable Options
-=item Perl Classes
+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 Perl Modules
+=item Debugger input/output
-=item Making your module threadsafe
+Prompt, Multiline commands, Stack backtrace, Line Listing Format, Frame
+listing
+
+=item Debugging compile-time statements
+
+=item Debugger Customization
+
+=item Readline Support
+
+=item Editor Support for Debugging
+
+=item The Perl Profiler
=back
+=item Debugging regular expressions
+
+=item Debugging memory usage
+
=item SEE ALSO
+=item BUGS
+
=back
-=head2 perlmodinstall - Installing CPAN Modules
+=head2 perlvar - Perl predefined variables
=over 4
=over 4
-=item PREAMBLE
-
-B<DECOMPRESS> the file, B<UNPACK> the file into a directory, B<BUILD> the
-module (sometimes unnecessary), B<INSTALL> the module
+=item Predefined Names
-=back
+$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 PORTABILITY
+=item Error Indicators
-=item HEY
+=item Technical Note on the Syntax of Variable Names
-=item AUTHOR
+=back
-=item COPYRIGHT
+=item BUGS
=back
-=head2 perlmodlib - constructing new Perl modules and finding existing ones
+=head2 perlre - Perl regular expressions
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item THE PERL MODULE LIBRARY
+i, m, s, x
=over 4
-=item Pragmatic Modules
-
-attributes, attrs, autouse, base, blib, bytes, charnames, constant,
-diagnostics, fields, filetest, integer, less, locale, open, ops, overload,
-re, sigtrap, strict, subs, threads, utf8, vars, warnings,
-warnings::register
+=item Regular Expressions
-=item Standard Modules
+[1], [2], [3], cntrl, graph, print, punct, xdigit
-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, Cwd, DB, DB_File, Devel::SelfStubber, Digest, DirHandle,
-Dumpvalue, Encode, Encode::EncodeFormat, Encode::Tcl, English, Env,
-Exporter, Exporter::Heavy, ExtUtils::Command, ExtUtils::Constant,
-ExtUtils::Embed, ExtUtils::Install, ExtUtils::Installed, ExtUtils::Liblist,
-ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin, ExtUtils::MM_NW5, ExtUtils::MM_OS2, ExtUtils::MM_Unix,
-ExtUtils::MM_VMS, ExtUtils::MM_Win32, ExtUtils::MakeMaker,
-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::Path, File::Spec, 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, FindBin, Getopt::Long, Getopt::Std, I18N::Collate,
-I18N::LangTags, I18N::LangTags::List, IO, IPC::Open2, IPC::Open3,
-Lingua::KO::Hangul::Util, Locale::Constants, Locale::Country,
-Locale::Currency, Locale::Language, Locale::Maketext,
-Locale::Maketext::TPJ13, Math::BigFloat, Math::BigInt, Math::BigInt::Calc,
-Math::Complex, Math::Trig, Memoize, Memoize::AnyDBM_File, Memoize::Expire,
-Memoize::ExpireFile, Memoize::ExpireTest, Memoize::NDBM_File,
-Memoize::SDBM_File, Memoize::Saves, 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, Pod::Checker, Pod::Find, Pod::Html, Pod::InputObjects, Pod::LaTeX,
-Pod::Man, Pod::ParseUtils, Pod::Parser, Pod::Plainer, Pod::Select,
-Pod::Text, Pod::Text::Color, Pod::Text::Overstrike, Pod::Text::Termcap,
-Pod::Usage, SDBM_File, Safe, Search::Dict, SelectSaver, SelfLoader, Shell,
-Socket, Storable, Switch, Symbol, Term::ANSIColor, Term::Cap,
-Term::Complete, Term::ReadLine, Test, Test::Harness, Test::More,
-Test::Simple, Test::Tutorial, Text::Abbrev, Text::Balanced,
-Text::ParseWords, Text::Soundex, Text::Tabs, Text::Wrap, Tie::Array,
-Tie::Handle, Tie::Hash, Tie::RefHash, Tie::Scalar, Tie::SubstrHash,
-Time::Local, Time::gmtime, Time::localtime, Time::tm, UNIVERSAL,
-Unicode::Collate, Unicode::Normalize, Unicode::UCD, User::grent,
-User::pwent, Win32
+=item Extended Patterns
-=item Extension Modules
+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)>
-=back
+=item Backtracking
-=item CPAN
+=item Version 8 Regular Expressions
-=over 4
+=item Warning on \1 vs $1
-=item Africa
+=item Repeated patterns matching zero-length substring
-=item Asia
+=item Combining pieces together
-=item Central America
+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 Europe
+=item Creating custom RE engines
-=item North America
+=back
-=item Oceania
+=item BUGS
-=item South America
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=item Modules: Creation, Use, and Abuse
+=head2 perlreref - Perl Regular Expressions Reference
=over 4
-=item Guidelines for Module Creation
-
-Adding a Copyright Notice
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Guidelines for Converting Perl 4 Library Scripts into Modules
+=over 4
-=item Guidelines for Reusing Application Code
+=item OPERATORS
-=back
+=item SYNTAX
-=item NOTE
+=item ESCAPE SEQUENCES
-=back
+=item CHARACTER CLASSES
-=head2 perlmodstyle - Perl module style guide
+=item ANCHORS
-=over 4
+=item QUANTIFIERS
-=item INTRODUCTION
+=item EXTENDED CONSTRUCTS
-=item QUICK CHECKLIST
+=item VARIABLES
-=over 4
+=item FUNCTIONS
-=item Before you start
+=item TERMINOLOGY
-=item The API
+=back
-=item Stability
+=item AUTHOR
-=item Documentation
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item Release considerations
+=item THANKS
=back
-=item BEFORE YOU START WRITING A MODULE
+=head2 perlref - Perl references and nested data structures
=over 4
-=item Has it been done before?
+=item NOTE
-=item Do one thing and do it well
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item What's in a name?
+=over 4
-=back
+=item Making References
-=item DESIGNING AND WRITING YOUR MODULE
+=item Using References
-=over 4
+=item Symbolic references
-=item To OO or not to OO?
+=item Not-so-symbolic references
-=item Designing your API
+=item Pseudo-hashes: Using an array as a hash
-Write simple routines to do simple things, Separate functionality from
-output, Provide sensible shortcuts and defaults, Naming conventions,
-Parameter passing
+=item Function Templates
-=item Strictness and warnings
+=back
-=item Backwards compatibility
+=item WARNING
-=item Error handling and messages
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=item DOCUMENTING YOUR MODULE
+=head2 perlform - Perl formats
=over 4
-=item POD
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item README, INSTALL, release notes, changelogs
+=over 4
-=back
+=item Text Fields
-=item RELEASE CONSIDERATIONS
+=item Numeric Fields
-=over 4
+=item The Field @* for Variable Width Multi-Line Text
-=item Version numbering
+=item The Field ^* for Variable Width One-line-at-a-time Text
-=item Pre-requisites
+=item Specifying Values
-=item Testing
+=item Using Fill Mode
-=item Packaging
+=item Suppressing Lines Where All Fields Are Void
-=item Licensing
+=item Repeating Format Lines
+
+=item Top of Form Processing
+
+=item Format Variables
=back
-=item COMMON PITFALLS
+=item NOTES
=over 4
-=item Reinventing the wheel
-
-=item Trying to do too much
+=item Footers
-=item Inappropriate documentation
+=item Accessing Formatting Internals
=back
-=item SEE ALSO
-
-L<perlstyle>, L<perlnewmod>, L<perlpod>, L<podchecker>, Testing tools,
-http://pause.perl.org/, Any good book on software engineering
-
-=item AUTHOR
+=item WARNINGS
=back
-=head2 perlnewmod - preparing a new module for distribution
+=head2 perlobj - Perl objects
=over 4
=over 4
-=item Warning
+=item An Object is Simply a Reference
-=item What should I make into a module?
+=item A Class is Simply a Package
-=item Step-by-step: Preparing the ground
+=item A Method is Simply a Subroutine
-Look around, Check it's new, Discuss the need, Choose a name, Check again
+=item Method Invocation
-=item Step-by-step: Making the module
+=item Indirect Object Syntax
-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 Default UNIVERSAL methods
-=item Step-by-step: Distributing your module
+isa(CLASS), can(METHOD), VERSION( [NEED] )
-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 Destructors
-=back
+=item Summary
-=item AUTHOR
+=item Two-Phased Garbage Collection
+
+=back
=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=head2 perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.2 $, $Date:
-2001/11/09 08:06:04 $)
+=head2 perltie - how to hide an object class in a simple variable
=over 4
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
=item DESCRIPTION
=over 4
-=item What is Perl?
-
-=item Who supports Perl? Who develops it? Why is it free?
-
-=item Which version of Perl should I use?
-
-=item What are perl4 and perl5?
+=item Tying Scalars
-=item What is perl6?
+TIESCALAR classname, LIST, FETCH this, STORE this, value, UNTIE this,
+DESTROY this
-=item How stable is Perl?
+=item Tying Arrays
-=item Is Perl difficult to learn?
+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 How does Perl compare with other languages like Java, Python, REXX,
-Scheme, or Tcl?
+=item Tying Hashes
-=item Can I do [task] in Perl?
+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 When shouldn't I program in Perl?
+=item Tying FileHandles
-=item What's the difference between "perl" and "Perl"?
+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 Is it a Perl program or a Perl script?
+=item UNTIE this
-=item What is a JAPH?
+=item The C<untie> Gotcha
-=item Where can I get a list of Larry Wall witticisms?
+=back
-=item How can I convince my sysadmin/supervisor/employees to use version
-5/5.005/Perl instead of some other language?
+=item SEE ALSO
-=back
+=item BUGS
-=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
+=item AUTHOR
=back
-=head2 perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.3 $,
-$Date: 2001/11/09 08:06:04 $)
+=head2 perldbmfilter - Perl DBM Filters
=over 4
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
=item DESCRIPTION
-=over 4
+B<filter_store_key>, B<filter_store_value>, B<filter_fetch_key>,
+B<filter_fetch_value>
-=item What machines support Perl? Where do I get it?
+=over 4
-=item How can I get a binary version of Perl?
+=item The Filter
-=item I don't have a C compiler on my system. How can I compile perl?
+=item An Example -- the NULL termination problem.
-=item I copied the Perl binary from one machine to another, but scripts
-don't work.
+=item Another Example -- Key is a C int.
-=item I grabbed the sources and tried to compile but gdbm/dynamic
-loading/malloc/linking/... failed. How do I make it work?
+=back
-=item What modules and extensions are available for Perl? What is CPAN?
-What does CPAN/src/... mean?
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item Is there an ISO or ANSI certified version of Perl?
+=item AUTHOR
-=item Where can I get information on Perl?
+=back
-=item What are the Perl newsgroups on Usenet? Where do I post questions?
+=head2 perlipc - Perl interprocess communication (signals, fifos, pipes,
+safe subprocesses, sockets, and semaphores)
-=item Where should I post source code?
+=over 4
-=item Perl Books
+=item DESCRIPTION
-References, Tutorials, Task-Oriented, Special Topics
+=item Signals
-=item Perl in Magazines
+=over 4
-=item Perl on the Net: FTP and WWW Access
+=item Handling the SIGHUP Signal in Daemons
-=item What mailing lists are there for Perl?
+=back
-=item Archives of comp.lang.perl.misc
+=item Named Pipes
-=item Where can I buy a commercial version of Perl?
+=over 4
-=item Where do I send bug reports?
+=item Deferred Signals (Safe Signals)
-=item What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org?
+Long running opcodes, Interrupting IO, Restartable system calls, Signals as
+"faults", Signals triggered by operating system state
=back
-=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
+=item Using open() for IPC
-=back
+=over 4
-=head2 perlfaq3 - Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.10 $, $Date: 2001/11/19
-17:09:37 $)
+=item Filehandles
-=over 4
+=item Background Processes
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Complete Dissociation of Child from Parent
-=over 4
+=item Safe Pipe Opens
-=item How do I do (anything)?
+=item Bidirectional Communication with Another Process
-=item How can I use Perl interactively?
+=item Bidirectional Communication with Yourself
-=item Is there a Perl shell?
+=back
-=item How do I debug my Perl programs?
+=item Sockets: Client/Server Communication
-=item How do I profile my Perl programs?
+=over 4
-=item How do I cross-reference my Perl programs?
+=item Internet Line Terminators
-=item Is there a pretty-printer (formatter) for Perl?
+=item Internet TCP Clients and Servers
-=item Is there a ctags for Perl?
+=item Unix-Domain TCP Clients and Servers
-=item Is there an IDE or Windows Perl Editor?
+=back
-Komodo, The Object System, Open Perl IDE, PerlBuilder, visiPerl+,
-CodeMagicCD, GNU Emacs, MicroEMACS, XEmacs, Elvis, Vile, Vim, Codewright,
-MultiEdit, SlickEdit, Bash, Ksh, Tcsh, Zsh, BBEdit and BBEdit Lite, Alpha
+=item TCP Clients with IO::Socket
-=item Where can I get Perl macros for vi?
+=over 4
-=item Where can I get perl-mode for emacs?
+=item A Simple Client
-=item How can I use curses with Perl?
+C<Proto>, C<PeerAddr>, C<PeerPort>
-=item How can I use X or Tk with Perl?
+=item A Webget Client
-=item How can I generate simple menus without using CGI or Tk?
+=item Interactive Client with IO::Socket
-=item How can I make my Perl program run faster?
+=back
-=item How can I make my Perl program take less memory?
+=item TCP Servers with IO::Socket
-Don't slurp!, Use map and grep selectively, Avoid unnecessary quotes and
-stringification, Pass by reference, Tie large variables to disk
+Proto, LocalPort, Listen, Reuse
-=item Is it unsafe to return a pointer to local data?
+=item UDP: Message Passing
-=item How can I free an array or hash so my program shrinks?
+=item SysV IPC
-=item How can I make my CGI script more efficient?
+=item NOTES
-=item How can I hide the source for my Perl program?
+=item BUGS
-=item How can I compile my Perl program into byte code or C?
+=item AUTHOR
-=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 perlfork - Perl's fork() emulation
-=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 SYNOPSIS
-=item Where can I learn about object-oriented Perl programming?
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Where can I learn about linking C with Perl? [h2xs, xsubpp]
+=over 4
-=item I've read perlembed, perlguts, etc., but I can't embed perl in
-my C program; what am I doing wrong?
+=item Behavior of other Perl features in forked pseudo-processes
+
+$$ or $PROCESS_ID, %ENV, chdir() and all other builtins that accept
+filenames, wait() and waitpid(), kill(), exec(), exit(), Open handles to
+files, directories and network sockets
-=item When I tried to run my script, I got this message. What does it
-mean?
+=item Resource limits
-=item What's MakeMaker?
+=item Killing the parent process
-=back
+=item Lifetime of the parent process and pseudo-processes
-=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
+=item CAVEATS AND LIMITATIONS
+
+BEGIN blocks, Open filehandles, Forking pipe open() not yet implemented,
+Global state maintained by XSUBs, Interpreter embedded in larger
+application, Thread-safety of extensions
=back
-=head2 perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation ($Revision: 1.8 $, $Date: 2001/11/09
-08:06:04 $)
+=item BUGS
-=over 4
+=item AUTHOR
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item Data: Numbers
+=back
+
+=head2 perlnumber - semantics of numbers and numeric operations in Perl
=over 4
-=item Why am I getting long decimals (eg, 19.9499999999999) instead of the
-numbers I should be getting (eg, 19.95)?
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item Why isn't my octal data interpreted correctly?
-
-=item Does Perl have a round() function? What about ceil() and floor()?
-Trig functions?
-
-=item How do I convert between numeric representations:
+=item DESCRIPTION
-B<How do I convert Hexadecimal into decimal:>, B<How do I convert from
-decimal to hexadecimal:>, B<How do I convert from octal to decimal:>, B<How
-do I convert from decimal to octal:>, B<How do I convert from binary to
-decimal:>, B<How do I convert from decimal to binary:>
+=item Storing numbers
-=item Why doesn't & work the way I want it to?
+=item Numeric operators and numeric conversions
-=item How do I multiply matrices?
+=item Flavors of Perl numeric operations
-=item How do I perform an operation on a series of integers?
+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 How can I output Roman numerals?
+=item AUTHOR
-=item Why aren't my random numbers random?
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=item Data: Dates
+=head2 perlthrtut - tutorial on threads in Perl
=over 4
-=item How do I find the week-of-the-year/day-of-the-year?
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item How do I find the current century or millennium?
+=item Status
-=item How can I compare two dates and find the difference?
+=item What Is A Thread Anyway?
-=item How can I take a string and turn it into epoch seconds?
+=item Threaded Program Models
-=item How can I find the Julian Day?
+=over 4
-=item How do I find yesterday's date?
+=item Boss/Worker
-=item Does Perl have a Year 2000 problem? Is Perl Y2K compliant?
+=item Work Crew
+
+=item Pipeline
=back
-=item Data: Strings
+=item What kind of threads are Perl threads?
+
+=item Thread-Safe Modules
+
+=item Thread Basics
=over 4
-=item How do I validate input?
+=item Basic Thread Support
-=item How do I unescape a string?
+=item A Note about the Examples
-=item How do I remove consecutive pairs of characters?
+=item Creating Threads
-=item How do I expand function calls in a string?
+=item Waiting For A Thread To Exit
-=item How do I find matching/nesting anything?
+=item Ignoring A Thread
-=item How do I reverse a string?
+=back
-=item How do I expand tabs in a string?
+=item Threads And Data
-=item How do I reformat a paragraph?
+=over 4
-=item How can I access/change the first N letters of a string?
+=item Shared And Unshared Data
-=item How do I change the Nth occurrence of something?
+=item Thread Pitfalls: Races
-=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?
+=item Synchronization and control
-=item How can I split a [character] delimited string except when inside
-[character]? (Comma-separated files)
+=over 4
-=item How do I strip blank space from the beginning/end of a string?
+=item Controlling access: lock()
-=item How do I pad a string with blanks or pad a number with zeroes?
+=item A Thread Pitfall: Deadlocks
-=item How do I extract selected columns from a string?
+=item Queues: Passing Data Around
-=item How do I find the soundex value of a string?
+=item Semaphores: Synchronizing Data Access
-=item How can I expand variables in text strings?
+=item Basic semaphores
-=item What's wrong with always quoting "$vars"?
+=item Advanced Semaphores
-=item Why don't my <<HERE documents work?
+=item cond_wait() and cond_signal()
-1. There must be no space after the << part, 2. There (probably) should be
-a semicolon at the end, 3. You can't (easily) have any space in front of
-the tag
+=item Giving up control
=back
-=item Data: Arrays
+=item General Thread Utility Routines
=over 4
-=item What is the difference between a list and an array?
+=item What Thread Am I In?
-=item What is the difference between $array[1] and @array[1]?
+=item Thread IDs
-=item How can I remove duplicate elements from a list or array?
+=item Are These Threads The Same?
-a), b), c), d), e)
+=item What Threads Are Running?
-=item How can I tell whether a certain element is contained in a list or
-array?
+=back
-=item How do I compute the difference of two arrays? How do I compute the
-intersection of two arrays?
+=item A Complete Example
-=item How do I test whether two arrays or hashes are equal?
+=item Different implementations of threads
-=item How do I find the first array element for which a condition is true?
+=item Performance considerations
-=item How do I handle linked lists?
+=item Process-scope Changes
-=item How do I handle circular lists?
+=item Thread-Safety of System Libraries
-=item How do I shuffle an array randomly?
+=item Conclusion
-=item How do I process/modify each element of an array?
+=item Bibliography
-=item How do I select a random element from an array?
+=over 4
-=item How do I permute N elements of a list?
+=item Introductory Texts
-=item How do I sort an array by (anything)?
+=item OS-Related References
-=item How do I manipulate arrays of bits?
+=item Other References
-=item Why does defined() return true on empty arrays and hashes?
+=back
+
+=item Acknowledgements
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item Copyrights
=back
-=item Data: Hashes (Associative Arrays)
+=head2 perlothrtut - old tutorial on threads in Perl
=over 4
-=item How do I process an entire hash?
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item What happens if I add or remove keys from a hash while iterating over
-it?
+=item What Is A Thread Anyway?
-=item How do I look up a hash element by value?
+=item Threaded Program Models
-=item How can I know how many entries are in a hash?
+=over 4
-=item How do I sort a hash (optionally by value instead of key)?
+=item Boss/Worker
-=item How can I always keep my hash sorted?
+=item Work Crew
-=item What's the difference between "delete" and "undef" with hashes?
+=item Pipeline
-=item Why don't my tied hashes make the defined/exists distinction?
+=back
-=item How do I reset an each() operation part-way through?
+=item Native threads
-=item How can I get the unique keys from two hashes?
+=item What kind of threads are perl threads?
-=item How can I store a multidimensional array in a DBM file?
+=item Threadsafe Modules
-=item How can I make my hash remember the order I put elements into it?
+=item Thread Basics
-=item Why does passing a subroutine an undefined element in a hash create
-it?
+=over 4
-=item How can I make the Perl equivalent of a C structure/C++ class/hash or
-array of hashes or arrays?
+=item Basic Thread Support
-=item How can I use a reference as a hash key?
+=item Creating Threads
-=back
+=item Giving up control
-=item Data: Misc
+=item Waiting For A Thread To Exit
-=over 4
+=item Errors In Threads
-=item How do I handle binary data correctly?
+=item Ignoring A Thread
-=item How do I determine whether a scalar is a number/whole/integer/float?
+=back
-=item How do I keep persistent data across program calls?
+=item Threads And Data
-=item How do I print out or copy a recursive data structure?
+=over 4
-=item How do I define methods for every class/object?
+=item Shared And Unshared Data
-=item How do I verify a credit card checksum?
+=item Thread Pitfall: Races
-=item How do I pack arrays of doubles or floats for XS code?
+=item Controlling access: lock()
-=back
+=item Thread Pitfall: Deadlocks
-=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
+=item Queues: Passing Data Around
=back
-=head2 perlfaq5 - Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.4 $, $Date: 2001/11/09
-08:06:04 $)
+=item Threads And Code
=over 4
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Semaphores: Synchronizing Data Access
-=over 4
+Basic semaphores, Advanced Semaphores
-=item How do I flush/unbuffer an output filehandle? Why must I do this?
+=item Attributes: Restricting Access To Subroutines
-=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 Subroutine Locks
-=item How do I count the number of lines in a file?
+=item Methods
-=item How do I make a temporary file name?
+=item Locking A Subroutine
-=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 General Thread Utility Routines
-=item How can I use a filehandle indirectly?
+=over 4
-=item How can I set up a footer format to be used with write()?
+=item What Thread Am I In?
-=item How can I write() into a string?
+=item Thread IDs
-=item How can I output my numbers with commas added?
+=item Are These Threads The Same?
-=item How can I translate tildes (~) in a filename?
+=item What Threads Are Running?
-=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 <*>?
+=item A Complete Example
-=item Is there a leak/bug in glob()?
+=item Conclusion
-=item How can I open a file with a leading ">" or trailing blanks?
+=item Bibliography
-=item How can I reliably rename a file?
+=over 4
-=item How can I lock a file?
+=item Introductory Texts
-=item Why can't I just open(FH, ">file.lock")?
+=item OS-Related References
-=item I still don't get locking. I just want to increment the number in
-the file. How can I do this?
+=item Other References
-=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?
+=back
-=item How do I randomly update a binary file?
+=item Acknowledgements
-=item How do I get a file's timestamp in perl?
+=item AUTHOR
-=item How do I set a file's timestamp in perl?
+=item Copyrights
-=item How do I print to more than one file at once?
+=back
-=item How can I read in an entire file all at once?
+=head2 perlport - Writing portable Perl
-=item How can I read in a file by paragraphs?
+=over 4
-=item How can I read a single character from a file? From the keyboard?
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item How can I tell whether there's a character waiting on a filehandle?
+Not all Perl programs have to be portable, Nearly all of Perl already I<is>
+portable
-=item How do I do a C<tail -f> in perl?
+=item ISSUES
-=item How do I dup() a filehandle in Perl?
+=over 4
-=item How do I close a file descriptor by number?
+=item Newlines
-=item Why can't I use "C:\temp\foo" in DOS paths? What doesn't
-`C:\temp\foo.exe` work?
+=item Numbers endianness and Width
-=item Why doesn't glob("*.*") get all the files?
+=item Files and Filesystems
-=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 System Interaction
-=item How do I select a random line from a file?
+=item Command names versus file pathnames
-=item Why do I get weird spaces when I print an array of lines?
+=item Networking
-=back
+=item Interprocess Communication (IPC)
-=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
+=item External Subroutines (XS)
-=back
+=item Standard Modules
-=head2 perlfaq6 - Regexes ($Revision: 1.4 $, $Date: 2001/11/09 08:06:04 $)
+=item Time and Date
-=over 4
+=item Character sets and character encoding
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Internationalisation
-=over 4
+=item System Resources
-=item How can I hope to use regular expressions without creating illegible
-and unmaintainable code?
+=item Security
-Comments Outside the Regex, Comments Inside the Regex, Different Delimiters
+=item Style
-=item I'm having trouble matching over more than one line. What's wrong?
+=back
-=item How can I pull out lines between two patterns that are themselves on
-different lines?
+=item CPAN Testers
-=item I put a regular expression into $/ but it didn't work. What's wrong?
+Mailing list: cpan-testers@perl.org, Testing results:
+http://testers.cpan.org/
-=item How do I substitute case insensitively on the LHS while preserving
-case on the RHS?
+=item PLATFORMS
-=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 Unix
-=item How can I quote a variable to use in a regex?
+=item DOS and Derivatives
-=item What is C</o> really for?
+=item S<Mac OS>
-=item How do I use a regular expression to strip C style comments from a
-file?
+=item VMS
-=item Can I use Perl regular expressions to match balanced text?
+=item VOS
-=item What does it mean that regexes are greedy? How can I get around it?
+=item EBCDIC Platforms
-=item How do I process each word on each line?
+=item Acorn RISC OS
-=item How can I print out a word-frequency or line-frequency summary?
+=item Other perls
-=item How can I do approximate matching?
+=back
-=item How do I efficiently match many regular expressions at once?
+=item FUNCTION IMPLEMENTATIONS
-=item Why don't word-boundary searches with C<\b> work for me?
+=over 4
-=item Why does using $&, $`, or $' slow my program down?
+=item Alphabetical Listing of Perl Functions
-=item What good is C<\G> in a regular expression?
+-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
-=item Are Perl regexes DFAs or NFAs? Are they POSIX compliant?
+=back
-=item What's wrong with using grep or map in a void context?
+=item CHANGES
-=item How can I match strings with multibyte characters?
+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 How do I match a pattern that is supplied by the user?
+=item Supported Platforms
-=back
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
+=item AUTHORS / CONTRIBUTORS
=back
-=head2 perlfaq7 - Perl Language Issues ($Revision: 1.4 $, $Date: 2001/11/07
-02:27:50 $)
+=head2 perllocale - Perl locale handling (internationalization and
+localization)
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
+=item PREPARING TO USE LOCALES
+
+=item USING LOCALES
+
=over 4
-=item Can I get a BNF/yacc/RE for the Perl language?
+=item The use locale pragma
-=item What are all these $@%&* punctuation signs, and how do I know when to
-use them?
+=item The setlocale function
-=item Do I always/never have to quote my strings or use semicolons and
-commas?
+=item Finding locales
-=item How do I skip some return values?
+=item LOCALE PROBLEMS
-=item How do I temporarily block warnings?
+=item Temporarily fixing locale problems
-=item What's an extension?
+=item Permanently fixing locale problems
-=item Why do Perl operators have different precedence than C operators?
+=item Permanently fixing your system's locale configuration
-=item How do I declare/create a structure?
+=item Fixing system locale configuration
-=item How do I create a module?
+=item The localeconv function
-=item How do I create a class?
+=item I18N::Langinfo
-=item How can I tell if a variable is tainted?
+=back
-=item What's a closure?
+=item LOCALE CATEGORIES
-=item What is variable suicide and how can I prevent it?
+=over 4
-=item How can I pass/return a {Function, FileHandle, Array, Hash, Method,
-Regex}?
+=item Category LC_COLLATE: Collation
-Passing Variables and Functions, Passing Filehandles, Passing Regexes,
-Passing Methods
+=item Category LC_CTYPE: Character Types
-=item How do I create a static variable?
+=item Category LC_NUMERIC: Numeric Formatting
-=item What's the difference between dynamic and lexical (static) scoping?
-Between local() and my()?
+=item Category LC_MONETARY: Formatting of monetary amounts
-=item How can I access a dynamic variable while a similarly named lexical
-is in scope?
+=item LC_TIME
-=item What's the difference between deep and shallow binding?
+=item Other categories
-=item Why doesn't "my($foo) = <FILE>;" work right?
+=back
-=item How do I redefine a builtin function, operator, or method?
+=item SECURITY
-=item What's the difference between calling a function as &foo and foo()?
+=item ENVIRONMENT
-=item How do I create a switch or case statement?
+PERL_BADLANG, LC_ALL, LANGUAGE, LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE, LC_MONETARY,
+LC_NUMERIC, LC_TIME, LANG
-=item How can I catch accesses to undefined variables/functions/methods?
+=item NOTES
-=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 Backward compatibility
-=item How can I comment out a large block of perl code?
+=item I18N:Collate obsolete
-=item How do I clear a package?
+=item Sort speed and memory use impacts
-=item How can I use a variable as a variable name?
+=item write() and LC_NUMERIC
-=back
+=item Freely available locale definitions
-=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
+=item I18n and l10n
+
+=item An imperfect standard
=back
-=head2 perlfaq8 - System Interaction ($Revision: 1.4 $, $Date: 2001/11/09
-08:06:04 $)
+=item Unicode and UTF-8
+
+=item BUGS
=over 4
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Broken systems
-=over 4
+=back
-=item How do I find out which operating system I'm running under?
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item How come exec() doesn't return?
+=item HISTORY
-=item How do I do fancy stuff with the keyboard/screen/mouse?
+=back
-Keyboard, Screen, Mouse
+=head2 perluniintro - Perl Unicode introduction
-=item How do I print something out in color?
+=over 4
-=item How do I read just one key without waiting for a return key?
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item How do I check whether input is ready on the keyboard?
+=over 4
-=item How do I clear the screen?
+=item Unicode
-=item How do I get the screen size?
+=item Perl's Unicode Support
-=item How do I ask the user for a password?
+=item Perl's Unicode Model
-=item How do I read and write the serial port?
+=item Unicode and EBCDIC
-lockfiles, open mode, end of line, flushing output, non-blocking input
+=item Creating Unicode
-=item How do I decode encrypted password files?
+=item Handling Unicode
-=item How do I start a process in the background?
+=item Legacy Encodings
-STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR are shared, Signals, Zombies
+=item Unicode I/O
-=item How do I trap control characters/signals?
+=item Displaying Unicode As Text
-=item How do I modify the shadow password file on a Unix system?
+=item Special Cases
-=item How do I set the time and date?
+=item Advanced Topics
-=item How can I sleep() or alarm() for under a second?
+=item Miscellaneous
-=item How can I measure time under a second?
+=item Questions With Answers
-=item How can I do an atexit() or setjmp()/longjmp()? (Exception handling)
+=item Hexadecimal Notation
-=item Why doesn't my sockets program work under System V (Solaris)? What
-does the error message "Protocol not supported" mean?
+=item Further Resources
-=item How can I call my system's unique C functions from Perl?
+=back
-=item Where do I get the include files to do ioctl() or syscall()?
+=item UNICODE IN OLDER PERLS
-=item Why do setuid perl scripts complain about kernel problems?
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item How can I open a pipe both to and from a command?
+=item ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
-=item Why can't I get the output of a command with system()?
+=item AUTHOR, COPYRIGHT, AND LICENSE
-=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 perlunicode - Unicode support in Perl
-=item What's wrong with using backticks in a void context?
+=over 4
-=item How can I call backticks without shell processing?
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Why can't my script read from STDIN after I gave it EOF (^D on Unix,
-^Z on MS-DOS)?
+=over 4
-=item How can I convert my shell script to perl?
+=item Important Caveats
-=item Can I use perl to run a telnet or ftp session?
+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 How can I write expect in Perl?
+=item Byte and Character Semantics
-=item Is there a way to hide perl's command line from programs such as
-"ps"?
+=item Effects of Character Semantics
-=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 Scripts
-Unix
+=item Blocks
-=item How do I close a process's filehandle without waiting for it to
-complete?
+=item User-Defined Character Properties
-=item How do I fork a daemon process?
+=item Character Encodings for Input and Output
-=item How do I find out if I'm running interactively or not?
+=item Unicode Regular Expression Support Level
-=item How do I timeout a slow event?
+=item Unicode Encodings
-=item How do I set CPU limits?
+=item Security Implications of Unicode
-=item How do I avoid zombies on a Unix system?
+=item Unicode in Perl on EBCDIC
-=item How do I use an SQL database?
+=item Locales
-=item How do I make a system() exit on control-C?
+=item When Unicode Does Not Happen
-=item How do I open a file without blocking?
+=item Forcing Unicode in Perl (Or Unforcing Unicode in Perl)
-=item How do I install a module from CPAN?
+=item Using Unicode in XS
-=item What's the difference between require and use?
+=back
-=item How do I keep my own module/library directory?
+=item BUGS
-=item How do I add the directory my program lives in to the module/library
-search path?
+=over 4
-=item How do I add a directory to my include path at runtime?
+=item Interaction with Locales
-=item What is socket.ph and where do I get it?
+=item Interaction with Extensions
+
+=item Speed
+
+=item Porting code from perl-5.6.X
=back
-=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=head2 perlfaq9 - Networking ($Revision: 1.5 $, $Date: 2001/11/09 08:06:04
-$)
+=head2 perlebcdic - Considerations for running Perl on EBCDIC platforms
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=over 4
-
-=item What is the correct form of response from a CGI script?
+=item COMMON CHARACTER CODE SETS
-=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 ASCII
-=item How do I remove HTML from a string?
+=item ISO 8859
-=item How do I extract URLs?
+=item Latin 1 (ISO 8859-1)
-=item How do I download a file from the user's machine? How do I open a
-file on another machine?
+=item EBCDIC
-=item How do I make a pop-up menu in HTML?
+=item 13 variant characters
-=item How do I fetch an HTML file?
+=item 0037
-=item How do I automate an HTML form submission?
+=item 1047
-=item How do I decode or create those %-encodings on the web?
+=item POSIX-BC
-=item How do I redirect to another page?
+=item Unicode code points versus EBCDIC code points
-=item How do I put a password on my web pages?
+=item Remaining Perl Unicode problems in EBCDIC
-=item How do I edit my .htpasswd and .htgroup files with Perl?
+=item Unicode and UTF
-=item How do I make sure users can't enter values into a form that cause my
-CGI script to do bad things?
+=item Using Encode
-=item How do I parse a mail header?
+=back
-=item How do I decode a CGI form?
+=item SINGLE OCTET TABLES
-=item How do I check a valid mail address?
+recipe 0, recipe 1, recipe 2, recipe 3, recipe 4, recipe 5, recipe 6
-=item How do I decode a MIME/BASE64 string?
+=item IDENTIFYING CHARACTER CODE SETS
-=item How do I return the user's mail address?
+=item CONVERSIONS
-=item How do I send mail?
+=over 4
-=item How do I use MIME to make an attachment to a mail message?
+=item tr///
-=item How do I read mail?
+=item iconv
-=item How do I find out my hostname/domainname/IP address?
+=item C RTL
-=item How do I fetch a news article or the active newsgroups?
+=back
-=item How do I fetch/put an FTP file?
+=item OPERATOR DIFFERENCES
-=item How can I do RPC in Perl?
+=item FUNCTION DIFFERENCES
-=back
+chr(), ord(), pack(), print(), printf(), sort(), sprintf(), unpack()
-=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
+=item REGULAR EXPRESSION DIFFERENCES
-=back
+=item SOCKETS
-=head2 perlcompile - Introduction to the Perl Compiler-Translator
+=item SORTING
=over 4
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Ignore ASCII vs. EBCDIC sort differences.
-=over 4
+=item MONO CASE then sort data.
-=item Layout
+=item Convert, sort data, then re convert.
-B::Bytecode, B::C, B::CC, B::Lint, B::Deparse, B::Xref
+=item Perform sorting on one type of machine only.
=back
-=item Using The Back Ends
+=item TRANSFORMATION FORMATS
=over 4
-=item The Cross Referencing Back End
-
-i, &, s, r
-
-=item The Decompiling Back End
-
-=item The Lint Back End
-
-=item The Simple C Back End
+=item URL decoding and encoding
-=item The Bytecode Back End
+=item uu encoding and decoding
-=item The Optimized C Back End
+=item Quoted-Printable encoding and decoding
-B, O, B::Asmdata, B::Assembler, B::Bblock, B::Bytecode, B::C, B::CC,
-B::Debug, B::Deparse, B::Disassembler, B::Lint, B::Showlex, B::Stackobj,
-B::Stash, B::Terse, B::Xref
+=item Caesarian ciphers
=back
-=item KNOWN PROBLEMS
-
-=item AUTHOR
-
-=back
+=item Hashing order and checksums
-=head2 perlembed - how to embed perl in your C program
+=item I18N AND L10N
-=over 4
+=item MULTI OCTET CHARACTER SETS
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item OS ISSUES
=over 4
-=item PREAMBLE
-
-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 ROADMAP
-
-=item Compiling your C program
-
-=item Adding a Perl interpreter to your C program
-
-=item Calling a Perl subroutine from your C program
+=item OS/400
-=item Evaluating a Perl statement from your C program
+PASE, IFS access
-=item Performing Perl pattern matches and substitutions from your C program
+=item OS/390, z/OS
-=item Fiddling with the Perl stack from your C program
+chcp, dataset access, OS/390, z/OS iconv, locales
-=item Maintaining a persistent interpreter
+=item VM/ESA?
-=item Execution of END blocks
+=item POSIX-BC?
-=item Maintaining multiple interpreter instances
+=back
-=item Using Perl modules, which themselves use C libraries, from your C
-program
+=item BUGS
-=back
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item Embedding Perl under Win32
+=item REFERENCES
-=item MORAL
+=item HISTORY
=item AUTHOR
-=item COPYRIGHT
-
=back
-=head2 perldebguts - Guts of Perl debugging
+=head2 perlsec - Perl security
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Debugger Internals
-
=over 4
-=item Writing Your Own Debugger
+=item Laundering and Detecting Tainted Data
-=back
+=item Switches On the "#!" Line
-=item Frame Listing Output Examples
+=item Taint mode and @INC
-=item Debugging regular expressions
+=item Cleaning Up Your Path
-=over 4
+=item Security Bugs
-=item Compile-time output
+=item Protecting Your Programs
-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 Unicode
-=item Types of nodes
+=item Algorithmic Complexity Attacks
-=item Run-time output
+=back
+
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=item Debugging Perl memory usage
+=head2 perlmod - Perl modules (packages and symbol tables)
=over 4
-=item Using C<$ENV{PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS}>
+=item DESCRIPTION
-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>
+=over 4
-=item Example of using B<-DL> switch
+=item Packages
-C<717>, C<002>, C<054>, C<602>, C<702>, C<704>
+=item Symbol Tables
-=item B<-DL> details
+=item BEGIN, CHECK, INIT and END
-C<!!!>, C<!!>, C<!>
+=item Perl Classes
-=item Limitations of B<-DL> statistics
+=item Perl Modules
+
+=item Making your module threadsafe
=back
=back
-=head2 perlxstut, perlXStut - Tutorial for writing XSUBs
+=head2 perlmodlib - constructing new Perl modules and finding existing ones
=over 4
-=item DESCRIPTION
-
-=item SPECIAL NOTES
+=item THE PERL MODULE LIBRARY
=over 4
-=item make
+=item Pragmatic Modules
-=item Version caveat
+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 Dynamic Loading versus Static Loading
+=item Standard Modules
-=back
+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 TUTORIAL
+=item Extension Modules
-=over 4
+=back
-=item EXAMPLE 1
+=item CPAN
-=item EXAMPLE 2
+=over 4
-=item What has gone on?
+=item Africa
-=item Writing good test scripts
+South Africa
-=item EXAMPLE 3
+=item Asia
-=item What's new here?
+China, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Russian Federation, Saudi
+Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand
-=item Input and Output Parameters
+=item Central America
-=item The XSUBPP Program
+Costa Rica
-=item The TYPEMAP file
+=item Europe
-=item Warning about Output Arguments
+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 EXAMPLE 4
+=item North America
-=item What has happened here?
+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
-=item Anatomy of .xs file
+=item Oceania
-=item Getting the fat out of XSUBs
+Australia, New Zealand, United States
-=item More about XSUB arguments
+=item South America
-=item The Argument Stack
+Argentina, Brazil, Chile
-=item Extending your Extension
+=item RSYNC Mirrors
-=item Documenting your Extension
+=back
-=item Installing your Extension
+=item Modules: Creation, Use, and Abuse
-=item EXAMPLE 5
+=over 4
-=item New Things in this Example
+=item Guidelines for Module Creation
-=item EXAMPLE 6
+=item Guidelines for Converting Perl 4 Library Scripts into Modules
-=item New Things in this Example
+=item Guidelines for Reusing Application Code
-=item EXAMPLE 7 (Coming Soon)
+=back
-=item EXAMPLE 8 (Coming Soon)
+=item NOTE
-=item EXAMPLE 9 (Coming Soon)
+=back
-=item Troubleshooting these Examples
+=head2 perlmodstyle - Perl module style guide
-=back
+=over 4
-=item See also
+=item INTRODUCTION
-=item Author
+=item QUICK CHECKLIST
=over 4
-=item Last Changed
+=item Before you start
-=back
+=item The API
-=back
+=item Stability
-=head2 perlxs - XS language reference manual
+=item Documentation
-=over 4
+=item Release considerations
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=back
+
+=item BEFORE YOU START WRITING A MODULE
=over 4
-=item Introduction
+=item Has it been done before?
-=item On The Road
+=item Do one thing and do it well
-=item The Anatomy of an XSUB
+=item What's in a name?
-=item The Argument Stack
+=back
-=item The RETVAL Variable
+=item DESIGNING AND WRITING YOUR MODULE
-=item The MODULE Keyword
+=over 4
-=item The PACKAGE Keyword
+=item To OO or not to OO?
-=item The PREFIX Keyword
+=item Designing your API
-=item The OUTPUT: Keyword
+Write simple routines to do simple things, Separate functionality from
+output, Provide sensible shortcuts and defaults, Naming conventions,
+Parameter passing
-=item The NO_OUTPUT Keyword
+=item Strictness and warnings
-=item The CODE: Keyword
+=item Backwards compatibility
-=item The INIT: Keyword
+=item Error handling and messages
-=item The NO_INIT Keyword
+=back
-=item Initializing Function Parameters
+=item DOCUMENTING YOUR MODULE
-=item Default Parameter Values
+=over 4
-=item The PREINIT: Keyword
+=item POD
-=item The SCOPE: Keyword
+=item README, INSTALL, release notes, changelogs
-=item The INPUT: Keyword
+perl Makefile.PL, make, make test, make install, perl Build.PL, perl Build,
+perl Build test, perl Build install
-=item The IN/OUTLIST/IN_OUTLIST/OUT/IN_OUT Keywords
+=back
-=item Variable-length Parameter Lists
+=item RELEASE CONSIDERATIONS
-=item The C_ARGS: Keyword
+=over 4
-=item The PPCODE: Keyword
+=item Version numbering
-=item Returning Undef And Empty Lists
+=item Pre-requisites
-=item The REQUIRE: Keyword
+=item Testing
-=item The CLEANUP: Keyword
+=item Packaging
-=item The POSTCALL: Keyword
+=item Licensing
-=item The BOOT: Keyword
+=back
-=item The VERSIONCHECK: Keyword
+=item COMMON PITFALLS
-=item The PROTOTYPES: Keyword
+=over 4
-=item The PROTOTYPE: Keyword
+=item Reinventing the wheel
-=item The ALIAS: Keyword
+=item Trying to do too much
-=item The INTERFACE: Keyword
+=item Inappropriate documentation
-=item The INTERFACE_MACRO: Keyword
+=back
-=item The INCLUDE: Keyword
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item The CASE: Keyword
+L<perlstyle>, L<perlnewmod>, L<perlpod>, L<podchecker>, Packaging Tools,
+Testing tools, http://pause.perl.org/, Any good book on software
+engineering
-=item The & Unary Operator
+=item AUTHOR
-=item Inserting POD, Comments and C Preprocessor Directives
+=back
-=item Using XS With C++
+=head2 perlmodinstall - Installing CPAN Modules
-=item Interface Strategy
+=over 4
-=item Perl Objects And C Structures
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item The Typemap
+=over 4
-=item Safely Storing Static Data in XS
+=item PREAMBLE
-MY_CXT_KEY, typedef my_cxt_t, START_MY_CXT, MY_CXT_INIT, dMY_CXT, MY_CXT
+B<DECOMPRESS> the file, B<UNPACK> the file into a directory, B<BUILD> the
+module (sometimes unnecessary), B<INSTALL> the module
=back
-=item EXAMPLES
+=item PORTABILITY
-=item XS VERSION
+=item HEY
=item AUTHOR
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
=back
-=head2 perlclib - Internal replacements for standard C library functions
+=head2 perlnewmod - preparing a new module for distribution
=over 4
=over 4
-=item Conventions
-
-C<t>, C<p>, C<n>, C<s>
+=item Warning
-=item File Operations
+=item What should I make into a module?
-=item File Input and Output
+=item Step-by-step: Preparing the ground
-=item File Positioning
+Look around, Check it's new, Discuss the need, Choose a name, Check again
-=item Memory Management and String Handling
+=item Step-by-step: Making the module
-=item Character Class Tests
+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 F<stdlib.h> functions
+=item Step-by-step: Distributing your module
-=item Miscellaneous functions
+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!
=back
+=item AUTHOR
+
=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=head2 perlguts - Introduction to the Perl API
+=head2 perlutil - utilities packaged with the Perl distribution
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Variables
-
=over 4
-=item Datatypes
+=item DOCUMENTATION
-=item What is an "IV"?
+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 Working with SVs
+=item CONVERTORS
-=item Offsets
+L<a2p|a2p>, L<s2p|s2p>, L<find2perl|find2perl>
-=item What's Really Stored in an SV?
+=item Administration
-=item Working with AVs
+L<libnetcfg|libnetcfg>
-=item Working with HVs
+=item Development
-=item Hash API Extensions
+L<perlbug|perlbug>, L<h2ph|h2ph>, L<c2ph|c2ph> and L<pstruct|pstruct>,
+L<h2xs|h2xs>, L<dprofpp|dprofpp>, L<perlcc|perlcc>
-=item References
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item Blessed References and Class Objects
+=back
-=item Creating New Variables
+=back
-=item Reference Counts and Mortality
+=head2 perlcompile - Introduction to the Perl Compiler-Translator
-=item Stashes and Globs
+=over 4
-=item Double-Typed SVs
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Magic Variables
+=over 4
-=item Assigning Magic
+=item Layout
-=item Magic Virtual Tables
+B::Bytecode, B::C, B::CC, B::Lint, B::Deparse, B::Xref
-=item Finding Magic
+=back
-=item Understanding the Magic of Tied Hashes and Arrays
+=item Using The Back Ends
-=item Localizing changes
+=over 4
-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)>
+=item The Cross Referencing Back End
-=back
+i, &, s, r
-=item Subroutines
+=item The Decompiling Back End
-=over 4
+=item The Lint Back End
-=item XSUBs and the Argument Stack
+=item The Simple C Back End
-=item Calling Perl Routines from within C Programs
+=item The Bytecode Back End
-=item Memory Allocation
+=item The Optimized C Back End
-=item PerlIO
+=back
-=item Putting a C value on Perl stack
+=item Module List for the Compiler Suite
-=item Scratchpads
+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 Scratchpads and recursion
+=item KNOWN PROBLEMS
+
+=item AUTHOR
=back
-=item Compiled code
+=head2 perlfilter - Source Filters
=over 4
-=item Code tree
-
-=item Examining the tree
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Compile pass 1: check routines
+=item CONCEPTS
-=item Compile pass 1a: constant folding
+=item USING FILTERS
-=item Compile pass 2: context propagation
+=item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER
-=item Compile pass 3: peephole optimization
+=item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER IN C
-=item Pluggable runops
+B<Decryption Filters>
-=back
+=item CREATING A SOURCE FILTER AS A SEPARATE EXECUTABLE
-=item Examining internal data structures with the C<dump> functions
+=item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER IN PERL
-=item How multiple interpreters and concurrency are supported
+=item USING CONTEXT: THE DEBUG FILTER
-=over 4
+=item CONCLUSION
-=item Background and PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
+=item THINGS TO LOOK OUT FOR
-=item So what happened to dTHR?
+Some Filters Clobber the C<DATA> Handle
-=item How do I use all this in extensions?
+=item REQUIREMENTS
-=item Should I do anything special if I call perl from multiple threads?
+=item AUTHOR
-=item Future Plans and PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
+=item Copyrights
=back
-=item Internal Functions
-
-A, p, d, s, n, r, f, M, o, j, x
+=head2 perlembed - how to embed perl in your C program
=over 4
-=item Formatted Printing of IVs, UVs, and NVs
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Pointer-To-Integer and Integer-To-Pointer
+=over 4
-=item Source Documentation
+=item PREAMBLE
-=back
+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 Unicode Support
-
-=over 4
+=item ROADMAP
-=item What B<is> Unicode, anyway?
+=item Compiling your C program
-=item How can I recognise a UTF8 string?
+=item Adding a Perl interpreter to your C program
-=item How does UTF8 represent Unicode characters?
+=item Calling a Perl subroutine from your C program
-=item How does Perl store UTF8 strings?
+=item Evaluating a Perl statement from your C program
-=item How do I convert a string to UTF8?
+=item Performing Perl pattern matches and substitutions from your C program
-=item Is there anything else I need to know?
+=item Fiddling with the Perl stack from your C program
-=back
+=item Maintaining a persistent interpreter
-=item Custom Operators
+=item Execution of END blocks
-=item AUTHORS
+=item Maintaining multiple interpreter instances
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item Using Perl modules, which themselves use C libraries, from your C
+program
=back
-=head2 perlcall - Perl calling conventions from C
+=item Embedding Perl under Win32
-=over 4
+=item Hiding Perl_
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item MORAL
-An Error Handler, An Event Driven Program
+=item AUTHOR
-=item THE CALL_ FUNCTIONS
+=item COPYRIGHT
-call_sv, call_pv, call_method, call_argv
+=back
-=item FLAG VALUES
+=head2 perldebguts - Guts of Perl debugging
=over 4
-=item G_VOID
-
-=item G_SCALAR
-
-=item G_ARRAY
-
-=item G_DISCARD
-
-=item G_NOARGS
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item G_EVAL
+=item Debugger Internals
-=item G_KEEPERR
+=over 4
-=item Determining the Context
+=item Writing Your Own Debugger
=back
-=item KNOWN PROBLEMS
+=item Frame Listing Output Examples
-=item EXAMPLES
+=item Debugging regular expressions
=over 4
-=item No Parameters, Nothing returned
-
-=item Passing Parameters
-
-=item Returning a Scalar
-
-=item Returning a list of values
+=item Compile-time output
-=item Returning a list in a scalar context
+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 Returning Data from Perl via the parameter list
+=item Types of nodes
-=item Using G_EVAL
+=item Run-time output
-=item Using G_KEEPERR
+=back
-=item Using call_sv
+=item Debugging Perl memory usage
-=item Using call_argv
+=over 4
-=item Using call_method
+=item Using C<$ENV{PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS}>
-=item Using GIMME_V
+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 Using Perl to dispose of temporaries
+=item Example of using B<-DL> switch
-=item Strategies for storing Callback Context Information
+C<717>, C<002>, C<054>, C<602>, C<702>, C<704>
-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 B<-DL> details
-=item Alternate Stack Manipulation
+C<!!!>, C<!!>, C<!>
-=item Creating and calling an anonymous subroutine in C
+=item Limitations of B<-DL> statistics
=back
=item SEE ALSO
-=item AUTHOR
-
-=item DATE
-
=back
-=head2 perlutil - utilities packaged with the Perl distribution
+=head2 perlxstut, perlXStut - Tutorial for writing XSUBs
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
+=item SPECIAL NOTES
+
=over 4
-=item DOCUMENTATION
+=item make
-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 Version caveat
-=item CONVERTORS
+=item Dynamic Loading versus Static Loading
-L<a2p|a2p>, L<s2p|s2p>, L<find2perl|find2perl>
+=back
-=item Administration
+=item TUTORIAL
-L<libnetcfg|libnetcfg>
+=over 4
-=item Development
+=item EXAMPLE 1
-L<perlbug|perlbug>, L<h2ph|h2ph>, L<c2ph|c2ph> and L<pstruct|pstruct>,
-L<h2xs|h2xs>, L<dprofpp|dprofpp>, L<perlcc|perlcc>
+=item EXAMPLE 2
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item What has gone on?
-=back
+=item Writing good test scripts
-=back
+=item EXAMPLE 3
-=head2 perlfilter - Source Filters
+=item What's new here?
-=over 4
+=item Input and Output Parameters
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item The XSUBPP Program
-=item CONCEPTS
+=item The TYPEMAP file
-=item USING FILTERS
+=item Warning about Output Arguments
-=item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER
+=item EXAMPLE 4
-=item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER IN C
+=item What has happened here?
-B<Decryption Filters>
+=item Anatomy of .xs file
-=item CREATING A SOURCE FILTER AS A SEPARATE EXECUTABLE
+=item Getting the fat out of XSUBs
-=item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER IN PERL
+=item More about XSUB arguments
-=item USING CONTEXT: THE DEBUG FILTER
+=item The Argument Stack
-=item CONCLUSION
+=item Extending your Extension
-=item REQUIREMENTS
+=item Documenting your Extension
-=item AUTHOR
+=item Installing your Extension
-=item Copyrights
+=item EXAMPLE 5
-=back
+=item New Things in this Example
-=head2 perldbmfilter - Perl DBM Filters
+=item EXAMPLE 6
-=over 4
+=item New Things in this Example
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item EXAMPLE 7 (Coming Soon)
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item EXAMPLE 8 (Coming Soon)
-B<filter_store_key>, B<filter_store_value>, B<filter_fetch_key>,
-B<filter_fetch_value>
+=item EXAMPLE 9 Passing open files to XSes
-=over 4
+=item Troubleshooting these Examples
-=item The Filter
+=back
-=item An Example -- the NULL termination problem.
+=item See also
-=item Another Example -- Key is a C int.
+=item Author
-=back
+=over 4
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item Last Changed
-=item AUTHOR
+=back
=back
-=head2 perlapi - autogenerated documentation for the perl public API
+=head2 perlxs - XS language reference manual
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-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,
-ax, bytes_from_utf8, bytes_to_utf8, call_argv, call_method, call_pv,
-call_sv, CLASS, Copy, croak, CvSTASH, cv_const_sv, dAX, dITEMS, dMARK,
-dORIGMARK, dSP, dXSARGS, dXSI32, ENTER, eval_pv, eval_sv, EXTEND,
-fbm_compile, fbm_instr, FREETMPS, getcwd_sv, get_av, get_cv, get_hv,
-get_sv, GIMME, GIMME_V, grok_bin, grok_hex, grok_number,
-grok_numeric_radix, grok_oct, GvSV, gv_fetchmeth, gv_fetchmethod,
-gv_fetchmethod_autoload, gv_stashpv, gv_stashsv, G_ARRAY, G_DISCARD,
-G_EVAL, G_NOARGS, G_SCALAR, G_VOID, HEf_SVKEY, 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_iterval, hv_magic, hv_store, hv_store_ent, hv_undef, isALNUM, isALPHA,
-isDIGIT, isLOWER, isSPACE, isUPPER, is_utf8_char, is_utf8_string, items,
-ix, LEAVE, load_module, looks_like_number, MARK, mg_clear, mg_copy,
-mg_find, mg_free, mg_get, mg_length, mg_magical, mg_set, Move, New, newAV,
-Newc, newCONSTSUB, newHV, newRV_inc, newRV_noinc, NEWSV, newSV, newSViv,
-newSVnv, newSVpv, newSVpvf, newSVpvn, newSVpvn_share, newSVrv, newSVsv,
-newSVuv, newXS, newXSproto, Newz, new_vstring, Nullav, Nullch, Nullcv,
-Nullhv, Nullsv, ORIGMARK, perl_alloc, perl_clone, perl_construct,
-perl_destruct, perl_free, perl_parse, perl_run, PL_modglobal, PL_na,
-PL_sv_no, PL_sv_undef, PL_sv_yes, POPi, POPl, POPn, POPp, POPpbytex, POPpx,
-POPs, PUSHi, PUSHMARK, PUSHn, PUSHp, PUSHs, PUSHu, PUTBACK, Renew, Renewc,
-require_pv, RETVAL, Safefree, savepv, savepvn, SAVETMPS, scan_bin,
-scan_hex, scan_oct, sharedsv_find, sharedsv_init, sharedsv_lock,
-sharedsv_new, sharedsv_thrcnt_dec, sharedsv_thrcnt_inc, sharedsv_unlock,
-sortsv, SP, SPAGAIN, ST, strEQ, strGE, strGT, strLE, strLT, strNE, strnEQ,
-strnNE, StructCopy, SvCUR, SvCUR_set, SvEND, SvGETMAGIC, SvGROW, SvIOK,
-SvIOKp, SvIOK_notUV, SvIOK_off, SvIOK_on, SvIOK_only, SvIOK_only_UV,
-SvIOK_UV, 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, SvSETMAGIC,
-SvSetMagicSV, SvSetMagicSV_nosteal, SvSetSV, SvSetSV_nosteal, SvSTASH,
-SvTAINT, SvTAINTED, SvTAINTED_off, SvTAINTED_on, SvTRUE, svtype, SvTYPE,
-SVt_IV, SVt_NV, SVt_PV, SVt_PVAV, SVt_PVCV, SVt_PVHV, SVt_PVMG, SvUOK,
-SvUPGRADE, SvUTF8, SvUTF8_off, SvUTF8_on, SvUV, SvUVx, SvUVX, 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_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_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_recode_to_utf8, 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,
-THIS, toLOWER, toUPPER, to_utf8_case, 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, warn, XPUSHi, XPUSHn, XPUSHp,
-XPUSHs, XPUSHu, XS, XSRETURN, XSRETURN_EMPTY, XSRETURN_IV, XSRETURN_NO,
-XSRETURN_NV, XSRETURN_PV, XSRETURN_UNDEF, XSRETURN_YES, XST_mIV, XST_mNO,
-XST_mNV, XST_mPV, XST_mUNDEF, XST_mYES, XS_VERSION, XS_VERSION_BOOTCHECK,
-Zero
+=over 4
-=item AUTHORS
+=item Introduction
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item On The Road
-=back
+=item The Anatomy of an XSUB
-=head2 perlintern - autogenerated documentation of purely B<internal>
- Perl functions
+=item The Argument Stack
-=over 4
+=item The RETVAL Variable
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Returning SVs, AVs and HVs through RETVAL
-djSP, is_gv_magical, LVRET, PL_DBsingle, PL_DBsub, PL_DBtrace, PL_dowarn,
-PL_last_in_gv, PL_ofs_sv, PL_rs, report_uninit, start_glob, sv_add_arena,
-sv_clean_all, sv_clean_objs, sv_free_arenas
+=item The MODULE Keyword
-=item AUTHORS
+=item The PACKAGE Keyword
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item The PREFIX Keyword
-=back
+=item The OUTPUT: Keyword
-=head2 perliol - C API for Perl's implementation of IO in Layers.
+=item The NO_OUTPUT Keyword
-=over 4
+=item The CODE: Keyword
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item The INIT: Keyword
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item The NO_INIT Keyword
-=over 4
+=item Initializing Function Parameters
-=item History and Background
+=item Default Parameter Values
-=item Layers vs Disciplines
+=item The PREINIT: Keyword
-=item Data Structures
+=item The SCOPE: Keyword
-=item Functions and Attributes
+=item The INPUT: Keyword
-=item Per-instance Data
+=item The IN/OUTLIST/IN_OUTLIST/OUT/IN_OUT Keywords
-=item Layers in action.
+=item The C<length(NAME)> Keyword
-=item Per-instance flag bits
+=item Variable-length Parameter Lists
-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 The C_ARGS: Keyword
-=item Methods in Detail
+=item The PPCODE: Keyword
- IV (*Pushed)(PerlIO *f,const char *mode, SV *arg);, IV
- (*Popped)(PerlIO *f);, PerlIO * (*Open)(...);, SV *
-(*Getarg)(PerlIO *f);, IV (*Fileno)(PerlIO *f);, SSize_t
-(*Read)(PerlIO *f, void *vbuf, Size_t count);, SSize_t (*Unread)(PerlIO
-*f, const void *vbuf, Size_t count);, SSize_t (*Write)(PerlIO *f, const
-void *vbuf, Size_t count);, IV (*Seek)(PerlIO *f, Off_t
-offset, int whence);, Off_t (*Tell)(PerlIO *f);, IV
- (*Close)(PerlIO *f);, IV (*Flush)(PerlIO *f);, IV
- (*Fill)(PerlIO *f);, IV (*Eof)(PerlIO *f);, IV
- (*Error)(PerlIO *f);, void (*Clearerr)(PerlIO *f);, void
- (*Setlinebuf)(PerlIO *f);, STDCHAR * (*Get_base)(PerlIO *f);,
-Size_t (*Get_bufsiz)(PerlIO *f);, STDCHAR *
-(*Get_ptr)(PerlIO *f);, SSize_t (*Get_cnt)(PerlIO *f);, void
- (*Set_ptrcnt)(PerlIO *f,STDCHAR *ptr,SSize_t cnt);
+=item Returning Undef And Empty Lists
-=item Core Layers
+=item The REQUIRE: Keyword
-"unix", "perlio", "stdio", "crlf", "mmap", "pending", "raw", "utf8"
+=item The CLEANUP: Keyword
-=item Extension Layers
+=item The POSTCALL: Keyword
-":encoding", ":Scalar", ":Object" or ":Perl"
+=item The BOOT: Keyword
-=back
+=item The VERSIONCHECK: Keyword
-=back
+=item The PROTOTYPES: Keyword
-=head2 perlapio - perl's IO abstraction interface.
+=item The PROTOTYPE: Keyword
-=over 4
+=item The ALIAS: Keyword
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item The OVERLOAD: Keyword
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item The FALLBACK: Keyword
-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 The INTERFACE: Keyword
-=over 4
+=item The INTERFACE_MACRO: Keyword
-=item Co-existence with stdio
+=item The INCLUDE: Keyword
-B<PerlIO_importFILE(f,flags)>, B<PerlIO_exportFILE(f,flags)>,
-B<PerlIO_findFILE(f)>, B<PerlIO_releaseFILE(p,f)>
+=item The CASE: Keyword
-=item "Fast gets" Functions
+=item The & Unary Operator
-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 Inserting POD, Comments and C Preprocessor Directives
-=item Other Functions
+=item Using XS With C++
-PerlIO_apply_layers(f,mode,layers), PerlIO_binmode(f,ptype,imode,layers),
-'E<lt>' read, 'E<gt>' write, '+' read/write, PerlIO_debug(fmt,...)
+=item Interface Strategy
+
+=item Perl Objects And C Structures
+
+=item The Typemap
+
+=item Safely Storing Static Data in XS
+
+MY_CXT_KEY, typedef my_cxt_t, START_MY_CXT, MY_CXT_INIT, dMY_CXT, MY_CXT
=back
+=item EXAMPLES
+
+=item XS VERSION
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
=back
-=head2 perltodo - Perl TO-DO List
+=head2 perlclib - Internal replacements for standard C library functions
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item To do during 5.6.x
-
=over 4
-=item Support for I/O disciplines
+=item Conventions
-=item Autoload bytes.pm
+C<t>, C<p>, C<n>, C<s>
-=item Make "\u{XXXX}" et al work
+=item File Operations
-=item Create a char *sv_pvprintify(sv, STRLEN *lenp, UV flags)
+=item File Input and Output
-=item Overloadable regex assertions
+=item File Positioning
-=item Unicode
+=item Memory Management and String Handling
+
+=item Character Class Tests
-=item use Thread for iThreads
+=item F<stdlib.h> functions
-=item make perl_clone optionally clone ops
+=item Miscellaneous functions
-=item Work out exit/die semantics for threads
+=back
-=item Typed lexicals for compiler
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item Compiler workarounds for Win32
+=back
-=item AUTOLOADing in the compiler
+=head2 perlguts - Introduction to the Perl API
-=item Fixing comppadlist when compiling
+=over 4
-=item Cleaning up exported namespace
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Complete signal handling
+=item Variables
-=item Out-of-source builds
+=over 4
-=item POSIX realtime support
+=item Datatypes
-=item UNIX98 support
+=item What is an "IV"?
-=item IPv6 Support
+=item Working with SVs
-=item Long double conversion
+=item Offsets
-=item Locales
+=item What's Really Stored in an SV?
-=item Thread-safe regexes
+=item Working with AVs
-=item Arithmetic on non-Arabic numerals
+=item Working with HVs
-=item POSIX Unicode character classes
+=item Hash API Extensions
-=item Factoring out common suffices/prefices in regexps (trie optimization)
+=item AVs, HVs and undefined values
-=item Security audit shipped utilities
+=item References
-=item Custom opcodes
+=item Blessed References and Class Objects
-=item DLL Versioning
+=item Creating New Variables
-=item Introduce @( and @)
+GV_ADDMULTI, GV_ADDWARN
-=item Floating point handling
+=item Reference Counts and Mortality
-=item IV/UV preservation
+=item Stashes and Globs
-=item Replace pod2html with something using Pod::Parser
+=item Double-Typed SVs
-=item Automate module testing on CPAN
+=item Magic Variables
-=item sendmsg and recvmsg
+=item Assigning Magic
-=item Rewrite perlre documentation
+=item Magic Virtual Tables
-=item Convert example code to IO::Handle filehandles
+=item Finding Magic
-=item Document Win32 choices
+=item Understanding the Magic of Tied Hashes and Arrays
-=item Check new modules
+=item Localizing changes
-=item Make roffitall find pods and libs itself
+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)>
=back
-=item To do at some point
+=item Subroutines
=over 4
-=item Remove regular expression recursion
+=item XSUBs and the Argument Stack
-=item Memory leaks after failed eval
+=item Calling Perl Routines from within C Programs
-=item pack "(stuff)*"
+=item Memory Allocation
-=item bitfields in pack
+=item PerlIO
-=item Cross compilation
+=item Putting a C value on Perl stack
-=item Perl preprocessor / macros
+=item Scratchpads
-=item Perl lexer in Perl
+=item Scratchpads and recursion
-=item Using POSIX calls internally
+=back
-=item -i rename file when changed
+=item Compiled code
-=item All ARGV input should act like E<lt>E<gt>
+=over 4
-=item Support for rerunning debugger
+=item Code tree
-=item Test Suite for the Debugger
+=item Examining the tree
-=item my sub foo { }
+=item Compile pass 1: check routines
-=item One-pass global destruction
+=item Compile pass 1a: constant folding
-=item Rewrite regexp parser
+=item Compile pass 2: context propagation
-=item Cache recently used regexps
+=item Compile pass 3: peephole optimization
-=item Re-entrant functions
+=item Pluggable runops
-=item Cross-compilation support
+=back
-=item Bit-shifting bitvectors
+=item Examining internal data structures with the C<dump> functions
-=item debugger pragma
+=item How multiple interpreters and concurrency are supported
-=item use less pragma
+=over 4
-=item switch structures
+=item Background and PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
-=item Cache eval tree
+=item So what happened to dTHR?
-=item rcatmaybe
+=item How do I use all this in extensions?
-=item Shrink opcode tables
+=item Should I do anything special if I call perl from multiple threads?
-=item Optimize away @_
+=item Future Plans and PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
-=item Prototypes versus indirect objects
+=back
+
+=item Internal Functions
-=item Install HTML
+A, p, d, s, n, r, f, M, o, x, m, X, E, b
-=item Prototype method calls
+=over 4
-=item Return context prototype declarations
+=item Formatted Printing of IVs, UVs, and NVs
-=item magic_setisa
+=item Pointer-To-Integer and Integer-To-Pointer
-=item Garbage collection
+=item Source Documentation
-=item IO tutorial
+=back
-=item pack/unpack tutorial
+=item Unicode Support
-=item Rewrite perldoc
+=over 4
-=item Install .3p manpages
+=item What B<is> Unicode, anyway?
-=item Unicode tutorial
+=item How can I recognise a UTF-8 string?
-=item Update POSIX.pm for 1003.1-2
+=item How does UTF-8 represent Unicode characters?
-=item Retargetable installation
+=item How does Perl store UTF-8 strings?
-=item POSIX emulation on non-POSIX systems
+=item How do I convert a string to UTF-8?
-=item Rename Win32 headers
+=item Is there anything else I need to know?
-=item Finish off lvalue functions
+=back
-=item Update sprintf documentation
+=item Custom Operators
-=item Use fchown/fchmod internally
+=item AUTHORS
-=item Make v-strings overloaded objects
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=item Vague ideas
+=head2 perlcall - Perl calling conventions from C
=over 4
-=item ref() in list context
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+An Error Handler, An Event Driven Program
-=item Make tr/// return histogram of characters in list context
+=item THE CALL_ FUNCTIONS
-=item Compile to real threaded code
+call_sv, call_pv, call_method, call_argv
-=item Structured types
+=item FLAG VALUES
-=item Modifiable $1 et al.
+=over 4
-=item Procedural interfaces for IO::*, etc.
+=item G_VOID
-=item RPC modules
+=item G_SCALAR
-=item Attach/detach debugger from running program
+=item G_ARRAY
-=item Alternative RE syntax module
+=item G_DISCARD
-=item GUI::Native
+=item G_NOARGS
-=item foreach(reverse ...)
+=item G_EVAL
-=item Constant function cache
+=item G_KEEPERR
-=item Approximate regular expression matching
+=item Determining the Context
=back
-=item Ongoing
+=item KNOWN PROBLEMS
+
+=item EXAMPLES
=over 4
-=item Update guts documentation
+=item No Parameters, Nothing returned
-=item Add more tests
+=item Passing Parameters
-=item Update auxiliary tools
+=item Returning a Scalar
-=back
+=item Returning a list of values
-=item Recently done things
+=item Returning a list in a scalar context
-=over 4
+=item Returning Data from Perl via the parameter list
-=item Safe signal handling
+=item Using G_EVAL
-=item Tie Modules
+=item Using G_KEEPERR
-=item gettimeofday
+=item Using call_sv
-=item setitimer and getimiter
+=item Using call_argv
-=item Testing __DIE__ hook
+=item Using call_method
-=item CPP equivalent in Perl
+=item Using GIMME_V
-=item Explicit switch statements
+=item Using Perl to dispose of temporaries
-=item autocroak
+=item Strategies for storing Callback Context Information
-=item UTF/EBCDIC
+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 UTF Regexes
+=item Alternate Stack Manipulation
-=item perlcc to produce executable
+=item Creating and calling an anonymous subroutine in C
-=item END blocks saved in compiled output
+=back
-=item Secure temporary file module
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item Integrate Time::HiRes
+=item AUTHOR
-=item Turn Cwd into XS
+=item DATE
-=item Mmap for input
+=back
-=item Byte to/from UTF8 and UTF8 to/from local conversion
+=head2 perlapi - autogenerated documentation for the perl public API
-=item Add sockatmark support
+=over 4
-=item Mailing list archives
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Bug tracking
+=item "Gimme" Values
-=item Integrate MacPerl
+GIMME, GIMME_V, G_ARRAY, G_DISCARD, G_EVAL, G_NOARGS, G_SCALAR, G_VOID
-=item Web "nerve center" for Perl
+=item Array Manipulation Functions
-=item Regular expression tutorial
+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 Debugging Tutorial
+=item Callback Functions
-=item Integrate new modules
+call_argv, call_method, call_pv, call_sv, ENTER, eval_pv, eval_sv,
+FREETMPS, LEAVE, SAVETMPS
-=item Integrate profiler
+=item Character classes
-=item Y2K error detection
+isALNUM, isALPHA, isDIGIT, isLOWER, isSPACE, isUPPER, toLOWER, toUPPER
-=item Regular expression debugger
+=item Cloning an interpreter
-=item POD checker
+perl_clone
-=item "Dynamic" lexicals
+=item CV Manipulation Functions
-=item Cache precompiled modules
+CvSTASH, get_cv
-=back
+=item Embedding Functions
-=item Deprecated Wishes
+cv_undef, load_module, nothreadhook, perl_alloc, perl_construct,
+perl_destruct, perl_free, perl_parse, perl_run, require_pv
-=over 4
+=item Functions in file pp_pack.c
-=item Loop control on do{}
+packlist, pack_cat, unpackstring, unpack_str
-=item Lexically scoped typeglobs
+=item Global Variables
-=item format BOTTOM
+PL_modglobal, PL_na, PL_sv_no, PL_sv_undef, PL_sv_yes
-=item report HANDLE
+=item GV Functions
-=item Generalised want()/caller())
+GvSV, gv_fetchmeth, gv_fetchmethod, gv_fetchmethod_autoload,
+gv_fetchmeth_autoload, gv_stashpv, gv_stashsv
-=item Named prototypes
+=item Handy Values
-=item Built-in globbing
+Nullav, Nullch, Nullcv, Nullhv, Nullsv
-=item Regression tests for suidperl
+=item Hash Manipulation Functions
-=item Cached hash values
+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 Add compression modules
+=item Magical Functions
-=item Reorganise documentation into tutorials/references
+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 Remove distinction between functions and operators
+=item Memory Management
-=item Make XS easier to use
+Copy, CopyD, Move, MoveD, New, Newc, Newz, Poison, Renew, Renewc, Safefree,
+savepv, savepvn, savesharedpv, StructCopy, Zero, ZeroD
-=item Make embedding easier to use
+=item Miscellaneous Functions
-=item man for perl
+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 my $Package::variable
+=item Numeric functions
-=item "or" tests defined, not truth
+grok_bin, grok_hex, grok_number, grok_numeric_radix, grok_oct, scan_bin,
+scan_hex, scan_oct
-=item "class"-based lexicals
+=item Optree Manipulation Functions
-=item byteperl
+cv_const_sv, newCONSTSUB, newXS
-=item Lazy evaluation / tail recursion removal
+=item Pad Data Structures
-=item Make "use utf8" the default
+pad_sv
-=item Unicode collation and normalization
+=item Stack Manipulation Macros
-=item Create debugging macros
+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
-=back
+=item SV Flags
-=back
+svtype, SVt_IV, SVt_NV, SVt_PV, SVt_PVAV, SVt_PVCV, SVt_PVHV, SVt_PVMG
-=head2 perlhack - How to hack at the Perl internals
+=item SV Manipulation Functions
-=over 4
+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_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 DESCRIPTION
+=item Unicode Support
-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
+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
-=over 4
+=item Variables created by C<xsubpp> and C<xsubpp> internal functions
-=item Keeping in sync
+ax, CLASS, dAX, dITEMS, dUNDERBAR, dXSARGS, dXSI32, items, ix, newXSproto,
+RETVAL, ST, THIS, UNDERBAR, XS, XS_VERSION, XS_VERSION_BOOTCHECK
-rsync'ing the source tree, Using rsync over the LAN, Using pushing over the
-NFS, rsync'ing the patches
+=item Warning and Dieing
-=item Why rsync the source tree
+croak, warn
-It's easier to rsync the source tree, It's more recent, It's more reliable
+=item AUTHORS
-=item Why rsync the patches
+=item SEE ALSO
-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
+=back
-=item Perlbug remote interface
+=head2 perlintern - autogenerated documentation of purely B<internal>
+ Perl functions
-1 http://bugs.perl.org, 2 bugdb@perl.org, 3
-commands_and_bugdids@bugs.perl.org, notes, patches, tests
+=over 4
-=item Submitting patches
+=item DESCRIPTION
-L<perlguts>, L<perlxstut> and L<perlxs>, L<perlapi>,
-F<Porting/pumpkin.pod>, The perl5-porters FAQ
+=item CV reference counts and CvOUTSIDE
-=item Finding Your Way Around
+CvWEAKOUTSIDE
-Core modules, Tests, Documentation, Configure, Interpreter
+=item Functions in file pad.h
-=item Elements of the interpreter
+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
-Startup, Parsing, Optimization, Running
+=item Functions in file pp_ctl.c
-=item Internal Variable Types
+find_runcv
-=item Op Trees
+=item Global Variables
-=item Stacks
+PL_DBsingle, PL_DBsub, PL_DBtrace, PL_dowarn, PL_last_in_gv, PL_ofs_sv,
+PL_rs
-Argument stack, Mark stack, Save stack
+=item GV Functions
-=item Millions of Macros
+is_gv_magical
-=item Poking at Perl
+=item IO Functions
-=item Using a source-level debugger
+start_glob
-run [args], break function_name, break source.c:xxx, step, next, continue,
-finish, 'enter', print
+=item Pad Data Structures
-=item Dumping Perl Data Structures
+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 Patching
+=item Stack Manipulation Macros
-=item Patching a core module
+djSP, LVRET
-=item Adding a new function to the core
+=item SV Manipulation Functions
-=item Writing a test
+find_uninit_var, report_uninit, sv_add_arena, sv_clean_all, sv_clean_objs,
+sv_free_arenas
-F<t/base/>, F<t/cmd/>, F<t/comp/>, F<t/io/>, F<t/lib/>, F<t/op/>,
-F<t/pod/>, F<t/run/>, t/base t/comp, t/cmd t/run t/io t/op, t/lib ext lib
+=item AUTHORS
+
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=item EXTERNAL TOOLS FOR DEBUGGING PERL
+=head2 perliol - C API for Perl's implementation of IO in Layers.
=over 4
-=item Rational Software's Purify
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item Purify on Unix
+=item DESCRIPTION
--Accflags=-DPURIFY, -Doptimize='-g', -Uusemymalloc, -Dusemultiplicity
+=over 4
-=item Purify on NT
+=item History and Background
-DEFINES, USE_MULTI = define, #PERL_MALLOC = define, CFG = Debug
+=item Basic Structure
-=item Compaq's/Digital's Third Degree
+=item Layers vs Disciplines
-=item PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL
+=item Data Structures
-=item Profiling
+=item Functions and Attributes
-=item Gprof Profiling
+=item Per-instance Data
--a, -b, -e routine, -f routine, -s, -z
+=item Layers in action.
-=item GCC gcov Profiling
+=item Per-instance flag bits
-=item Pixie Profiling
+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
--h, -l, -p[rocedures], -h[eavy], -i[nvocations], -l[ines], -testcoverage,
--z[ero]
+=item Methods in Detail
-=item CONCLUSION
+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
-I<The Road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began.>
+=item Utilities
+
+=item Implementing PerlIO Layers
+
+C implementations, Perl implementations
+
+=item Core Layers
+
+"unix", "perlio", "stdio", "crlf", "mmap", "pending", "raw", "utf8"
+
+=item Extension Layers
+
+":encoding", ":scalar", ":via"
=back
-=item AUTHOR
+=item TODO
=back
-=head2 perlhist - the Perl history records
+=head2 perlapio - perl's IO abstraction interface.
=over 4
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item INTRODUCTION
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item THE KEEPERS OF THE PUMPKIN
+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)>
=over 4
-=item PUMPKIN?
+=item Co-existence with stdio
-=back
+B<PerlIO_importFILE(f,mode)>, B<PerlIO_exportFILE(f,mode)>,
+B<PerlIO_releaseFILE(p,f)>, B<PerlIO_findFILE(f)>
-=item THE RECORDS
+=item "Fast gets" Functions
-=over 4
+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 SELECTED RELEASE SIZES
+=item Other Functions
-=item SELECTED PATCH SIZES
+PerlIO_apply_layers(f,mode,layers), PerlIO_binmode(f,ptype,imode,layers),
+'E<lt>' read, 'E<gt>' write, '+' read/write, PerlIO_debug(fmt,...)
=back
-=item THE KEEPERS OF THE RECORDS
-
=back
-=head2 perldelta - what is new for perl v5.8.0
+=head2 perlhack - How to hack at the Perl internals
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Incompatible Changes
+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
=over 4
-=item 64-bit platforms and malloc
+=item Keeping in sync
-=item AIX Dynaloading
+rsync'ing the source tree, Using rsync over the LAN, Using pushing over the
+NFS, rsync'ing the patches
-=item Socket Extension Dynamic in VMS
+=item Why rsync the source tree
-=item Different Definition of the Unicode Character Classes \p{In...}
+It's easier to rsync the source tree, It's more reliable
-=item Perl Parser Stress Tested
+=item Why rsync the patches
-=item Deprecations
+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
-=back
+=item Working with the source
-=item Core Enhancements
+=item Perlbug administration
-=over 4
+=item Submitting patches
-=item AUTOLOAD Is Now Lvaluable
+L<perlguts>, L<perlxstut> and L<perlxs>, L<perlapi>,
+F<Porting/pumpkin.pod>, The perl5-porters FAQ
-=item PerlIO is Now The Default
+=item Finding Your Way Around
-=item Signals Are Now Safe
+Core modules, Tests, Documentation, Configure, Interpreter
-=item Understanding of Numbers
+=item Elements of the interpreter
-=back
+Startup, Parsing, Optimization, Running
-=item Modules and Pragmata
+=item Internal Variable Types
-=over 4
+=item Op Trees
-=item New Modules
+=item Stacks
-=item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
+Argument stack, Mark stack, Save stack
-=back
+=item Millions of Macros
-=item Utility Changes
+=item The .i Targets
-=item New Documentation
+=item Poking at Perl
-=item Performance Enhancements
+=item Using a source-level debugger
-=item Installation and Configuration Improvements
+run [args], break function_name, break source.c:xxx, step, next, continue,
+finish, 'enter', print
-=over 4
+=item gdb macro support
-=item Generic Improvements
+=item Dumping Perl Data Structures
-=item New Or Improved Platforms
+=item Patching
-=back
+=item Patching a core module
-=item Selected Bug Fixes
+=item Adding a new function to the core
-=over 4
+=item Writing a test
-=item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
+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
-=back
+=item Special Make Test Targets
-=item New or Changed Diagnostics
+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, test_harness
-=item Changed Internals
+=item Running tests by hand
-=item Security Vulnerability Closed
+PERL_CORE=1, PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL=2, PERL, PERL_SKIP_TTY_TEST
-=item New Tests
+=back
-=item Known Problems
+=item EXTERNAL TOOLS FOR DEBUGGING PERL
=over 4
-=item AIX
-
-=item Amiga Perl Invoking Mystery
+=item Rational Software's Purify
-=item lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
+=item Purify on Unix
-=item Cygwin intermittent failures of lib/Memoize/t/expire_file 11 and 12
+-Accflags=-DPURIFY, -Doptimize='-g', -Uusemymalloc, -Dusemultiplicity
-=item HP-UX lib/io_multihomed Fails When LP64-Configured
+=item Purify on NT
-=item HP-UX lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails When LP64-Configured
+DEFINES, USE_MULTI = define, #PERL_MALLOC = define, CFG = Debug
-=item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
+=item valgrind
-=item OS/390
+=item Compaq's/Digital's/HP's Third Degree
-=item op/sprintf tests 129 and 130
+=item PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL
-=item Failure of Thread tests
+=item Profiling
-=item UNICOS
+=item Gprof Profiling
-=item UTS
+-a, -b, -e routine, -f routine, -s, -z
-=item VMS
+=item GCC gcov Profiling
-=item Win32
+=item Pixie Profiling
-=item Localising a Tied Variable Leaks Memory
+-h, -l, -p[rocedures], -h[eavy], -i[nvocations], -l[ines], -testcoverage,
+-z[ero]
-=item Self-tying of Arrays and Hashes Is Forbidden
+=item Miscellaneous tricks
-=item Variable Attributes are not Currently Usable for Tieing
+=item CONCLUSION
-=item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
+I<The Road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began.>
-=item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
+=back
-=item The Long Double Support is Still Experimental
+=item AUTHOR
=back
-=item Reporting Bugs
+=head2 perlbook - Perl book information
-=item SEE ALSO
+=over 4
-=item HISTORY
+=item DESCRIPTION
=back
-=head2 perl572delta - what's new for perl v5.7.2
+=head2 perltodo - Perl TO-DO List
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Security Vulnerability Closed
+=item assertions
-=item Incompatible Changes
+=item iCOW
-=over 4
+=item (?{...}) closures in regexps
-=item 64-bit platforms and malloc
+=item A re-entrant regexp engine
-=item AIX Dynaloading
+=item pragmata
-=item Socket Extension Dynamic in VMS
+=over 4
-=item Different Definition of the Unicode Character Classes \p{In...}
+=item lexical pragmas
-=item Deprecations
+=item use less 'memory'
=back
-=item Core Enhancements
-
-=item Modules and Pragmata
+=item prototypes and functions
=over 4
-=item New Modules and Distributions
+=item _ prototype character
-=item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
+=item inlining autoloaded constants
+
+=item Finish off lvalue functions
=back
-=item Utility Changes
+=item Unicode and UTF8
-=item New Documentation
+=over 4
-=item Installation and Configuration Improvements
+=item Implicit Latin 1 => Unicode translation
-=over 4
+=item UTF8 caching code
-=item New Or Improved Platforms
+=item Unicode in Filenames
-=item Generic Improvements
+=item Unicode in %ENV
=back
-=item Selected Bug Fixes
+=item Regexps
=over 4
-=item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
+=item regexp optimiser optional
-=back
+=item common suffices/prefices in regexps (trie optimization)
-=item New or Changed Diagnostics
+=back
-=item Source Code Enhancements
+=item POD
=over 4
-=item MAGIC constants
+=item POD -> HTML conversion still sucks
-=item Better commented code
+=back
-=item Regex pre-/post-compilation items matched up
+=item Misc medium sized projects
-=item gcc -Wall
+=over 4
-=back
+=item UNITCHECK
-=item New Tests
+=item optional optimizer
-=item Known Problems
+=item You WANT *how* many
-=over 4
+=item lexical aliases
-=item AIX
+=item no 6
-=item Amiga Perl Invoking Mystery
+=item IPv6
-=item lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
+=item entersub XS vs Perl
-=item Cygwin intermittent failures of lib/Memoize/t/expire_file 11 and 12
+=item @INC source filter to Filter::Simple
-=item HP-UX lib/io_multihomed Fails When LP64-Configured
+=item bincompat functions
-=item HP-UX lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails When LP64-Configured
+=item Use fchown/fchmod internally
-=item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
+=back
-=item OS/390
+=item Tests
-=item op/sprintf tests 129 and 130
+=over 4
-=item Failure of Thread tests
+=item Make Schwern poorer
-=item UNICOS
+=item test B
-=item UTS
+=item Improve tests for Config.pm
-=item VMS
+=item common test code for timed bailout
-=item Win32
+=back
-=item Localising a Tied Variable Leaks Memory
+=item Installation
-=item Self-tying of Arrays and Hashes Is Forbidden
+=over 4
-=item Variable Attributes are not Currently Usable for Tieing
+=item compressed man pages
-=item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
+=item Make Config.pm cope with differences between build and installed perl
-=item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
+=item Relocatable perl
-=item The Long Double Support is Still Experimental
+=item make HTML install work
+
+=item put patchlevel in -v
=back
-=item Reporting Bugs
+=item Incremental things
-=item SEE ALSO
+=over 4
-=item HISTORY
+=item autovivification
+
+=item fix tainting bugs
+
+=item Make tainting consistent
+
+=item Dual life everything
=back
-=head2 perl571delta - what's new for perl v5.7.1
+=item Vague things
=over 4
-=item DESCRIPTION
-
-=item Security Vulnerability Closed
+=item threads
-=item Incompatible Changes
+=item POSIX memory footprint
-=item Core Enhancements
+=item Optimize away @_
-=over 4
+=item switch ops
-=item AUTOLOAD Is Now Lvaluable
+=item Attach/detach debugger from running program
-=item PerlIO is Now The Default
+=item A decent benchmark
-=item Signals Are Now Safe
+=back
=back
-=item Modules and Pragmata
+=head2 perldoc - Look up Perl documentation in Pod format.
=over 4
-=item New Modules
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=back
+=item OPTIONS
-=item Performance Enhancements
+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 Utility Changes
+=item SECURITY
-=item New Documentation
+=item ENVIRONMENT
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlhist - the Perl history records
=over 4
-=item perlclib
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item perliol
+=item INTRODUCTION
-=item README.aix
+=item THE KEEPERS OF THE PUMPKIN
-=item README.bs2000
+=over 4
-=item README.macos
+=item PUMPKIN?
-=item README.mpeix
+=back
-=item README.solaris
+=item THE RECORDS
-=item README.vos
+=over 4
-=item Porting/repository.pod
+=item SELECTED RELEASE SIZES
+
+=item SELECTED PATCH SIZES
=back
-=item Installation and Configuration Improvements
+=item THE KEEPERS OF THE RECORDS
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perldelta - what is new for perl v5.9.2
=over 4
-=item New Or Improved Platforms
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Generic Improvements
+=item Incompatible Changes
-d_cmsghdr, d_fcntl_can_lock, d_fsync, d_getitimer, d_getpagsz, d_msghdr_s,
-need_va_copy, d_readv, d_recvmsg, d_sendmsg, sig_size, d_sockatmark,
-d_strtoq, d_u32align, d_ualarm, d_usleep
+=item Core Enhancements
-=back
+=item Modules and Pragmata
+
+=item Utility Changes
+
+=item Documentation
+
+=item Performance Enhancements
+
+=item Installation and Configuration Improvements
=item Selected Bug Fixes
+=item New or Changed Diagnostics
+
+=item Changed Internals
+
+=item Known Problems
+
=over 4
-=item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
+=item Platform Specific Problems
=back
-=item New or Changed Diagnostics
+=item Reporting Bugs
-=item Changed Internals
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item New Tests
+=back
-=item Known Problems
+=head2 perl592delta, perldelta - what is new for perl v5.9.2
=over 4
-=item AIX vac 5.0.0.0 May Produce Buggy Code For Perl
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
+=item Incompatible Changes
-=item lib/io_multihomed Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX
+=item Core Enhancements
-=item Test lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX
+=item Modules and Pragmata
-=item lib/b test 19
+=item Utility Changes
-=item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
+=item Documentation
-=item sigaction test 13 in VMS
+=item Performance Enhancements
-=item sprintf tests 129 and 130
+=item Installation and Configuration Improvements
-=item Failure of Thread tests
+=item Selected Bug Fixes
-=item Localising a Tied Variable Leaks Memory
+=item New or Changed Diagnostics
-=item Self-tying of Arrays and Hashes Is Forbidden
+=item Changed Internals
-=item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
+=item Known Problems
-=item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
+=over 4
+
+=item Platform Specific Problems
=back
=item SEE ALSO
-=item HISTORY
-
=back
-=head2 perl570delta - what's new for perl v5.7.0
+=head2 perl591delta, perldelta - what is new for perl v5.9.1
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Security Vulnerability Closed
-
=item Incompatible Changes
-=item Core Enhancements
-
-=item Modules and Pragmata
-
=over 4
-=item New Modules
+=item substr() lvalues are no longer fixed-length
-=item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
+=item The C<:unique> attribute is only meaningful for globals
=back
-=item Utility Changes
+=item Core Enhancements
-=item New Documentation
+=over 4
-=item Performance Enhancements
+=item Lexical C<$_>
-=item Installation and Configuration Improvements
+=item Tied hashes in scalar context
-=over 4
+=item Formats
-=item Generic Improvements
+=item Stacked filetest operators
=back
+=item Modules and Pragmata
+
+Benchmark, Carp, Exporter, FindBin, List::Util, threads::shared
+
+=item Utility Changes
+
+=item Documentation
+
+=item Performance Enhancements
+
=item Selected Bug Fixes
=over 4
-=item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
+=item UTF-8 bugs
+
+=item Threading bugs
+
+=item More bugs
=back
=item Changed Internals
-=item Known Problems
-
=over 4
-=item Unicode Support Still Far From Perfect
-
-=item EBCDIC Still A Lost Platform
+=item Reordering of SVt_* constants
-=item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
+=item Removal of CPP symbols
-=item ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
+=item Less space is used by ops
-=item Test lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX
+=item New parser
-=item Long Doubles Still Don't Work In Solaris
+=back
-=item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
+=item Configuration and Building
-=item Storable tests fail in some platforms
+=item Known Problems
-=item Threads Are Still Experimental
+=over 4
-=item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
+=item Platform Specific Problems
=back
+=item To-do for perl 5.10.0
+
=item Reporting Bugs
=item SEE ALSO
-=item HISTORY
-
=back
-=head2 perl56delta, perldelta - what's new for perl v5.6.0
+=head2 perl590delta, perldelta - what is new for perl v5.9.0
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Core Enhancements
+=item Incompatible Changes
=over 4
-=item Interpreter cloning, threads, and concurrency
+=item Hash Randomisation
-=item Lexically scoped warning categories
+=item UTF-8 On Filehandles No Longer Activated By Locale
-=item Unicode and UTF-8 support
+=item Single-number v-strings are no longer v-strings before "=>"
-=item Support for interpolating named characters
+=item (Win32) The -C Switch Has Been Repurposed
-=item "our" declarations
+=item (Win32) The /d Switch Of cmd.exe
-=item Support for strings represented as a vector of ordinals
+=item The C<$*> variable has been removed
-=item Improved Perl version numbering system
+=back
-=item New syntax for declaring subroutine attributes
+=item Core Enhancements
-=item File and directory handles can be autovivified
+=over 4
-=item open() with more than two arguments
+=item Assertions
-=item 64-bit support
+=item Defined-or operators
-=item Large file support
+=item UTF-8 no longer default under UTF-8 locales
-=item Long doubles
+=item Unsafe signals again available
-=item "more bits"
+=item Tied Arrays with Negative Array Indices
-=item Enhanced support for sort() subroutines
+=item local ${$x}
-=item C<sort $coderef @foo> allowed
+=item Unicode Character Database 4.0.0
-=item File globbing implemented internally
+=item Miscellaneous Enhancements
-=item Support for CHECK blocks
+=back
-=item POSIX character class syntax [: :] supported
+=item Modules and Pragmata
-=item Better pseudo-random number generator
+=over 4
-=item Improved C<qw//> operator
+=item Updated Modules And Pragmata
-=item Better worst-case behavior of hashes
+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 pack() format 'Z' supported
+=back
-=item pack() format modifier '!' supported
+=item Utility Changes
-=item pack() and unpack() support counted strings
+=item New Documentation
-=item Comments in pack() templates
+=item Performance Enhancements
-=item Weak references
+=item Installation and Configuration Improvements
-=item Binary numbers supported
+=over 4
-=item Lvalue subroutines
+=item Platform-specific enhancements
-=item Some arrows may be omitted in calls through references
+=back
-=item Boolean assignment operators are legal lvalues
+=item Selected Bug Fixes
-=item exists() is supported on subroutine names
+=over 4
-=item exists() and delete() are supported on array elements
+=item Closures, eval and lexicals
-=item Pseudo-hashes work better
+=item Generic fixes
-=item Automatic flushing of output buffers
+=item Platform-specific fixes
-=item Better diagnostics on meaningless filehandle operations
+=back
-=item Where possible, buffered data discarded from duped input filehandle
+=item New or Changed Diagnostics
-=item eof() has the same old magic as <>
+=over 4
-=item binmode() can be used to set :crlf and :raw modes
+=item Changed "A thread exited while %d threads were running"
-=item C<-T> filetest recognizes UTF-8 encoded files as "text"
+=item Removed "Attempt to clear a restricted hash"
-=item system(), backticks and pipe open now reflect exec() failure
+=item New "Illegal declaration of anonymous subroutine"
-=item Improved diagnostics
+=item Changed "Invalid range "%s" in transliteration operator"
-=item Diagnostics follow STDERR
+=item New "Missing control char name in \c"
-=item More consistent close-on-exec behavior
+=item New "Newline in left-justified string for %s"
-=item syswrite() ease-of-use
+=item New "Possible precedence problem on bitwise %c operator"
-=item Better syntax checks on parenthesized unary operators
+=item New "read() on %s filehandle %s"
-=item Bit operators support full native integer width
+=item New "Tied variable freed while still in use"
-=item Improved security features
+=item New "To%s: illegal mapping '%s'"
-=item More functional bareword prototype (*)
+=item New "Use of freed value in iteration"
-=item C<require> and C<do> may be overridden
+=back
-=item $^X variables may now have names longer than one character
+=item Changed Internals
-=item New variable $^C reflects C<-c> switch
+=item New Tests
-=item New variable $^V contains Perl version as a string
+=item Known Problems
-=item Optional Y2K warnings
+=over 4
-=item Arrays now always interpolate into double-quoted strings
+=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
=over 4
-=item Modules
-
-attributes, B, Benchmark, ByteLoader, constant, charnames, Data::Dumper,
-DB, DB_File, Devel::DProf, Devel::Peek, Dumpvalue, DynaLoader, English,
-Env, Fcntl, File::Compare, File::Find, File::Glob, File::Spec,
-File::Spec::Functions, Getopt::Long, IO, JPL, lib, Math::BigInt,
-Math::Complex, Math::Trig, Pod::Parser, Pod::InputObjects, Pod::Checker,
-podchecker, Pod::ParseUtils, Pod::Find, Pod::Select, podselect, Pod::Usage,
-pod2usage, Pod::Text and Pod::Man, SDBM_File, Sys::Syslog, Sys::Hostname,
-Term::ANSIColor, Time::Local, Win32, XSLoader, DBM Filters
+=item EBCDIC Platforms
-=item Pragmata
+=item Cygwin 1.5 problems
-=back
+=item HP-UX: HP cc warnings about sendfile and sendpath
-=item Utility Changes
+=item IRIX: t/uni/tr_7jis.t falsely failing
-=over 4
+=item Mac OS X: no usemymalloc
-=item dprofpp
+=item Tru64: No threaded builds with GNU cc (gcc)
-=item find2perl
+=item Win32: sysopen, sysread, syswrite
-=item h2xs
+=back
-=item perlcc
+=item TODO
-=item perldoc
+=item Reporting Bugs
-=item The Perl Debugger
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=item Improved Documentation
+=head2 perl585delta - what is new for perl v5.8.5
-perlapi.pod, perlboot.pod, perlcompile.pod, perldbmfilter.pod,
-perldebug.pod, perldebguts.pod, perlfork.pod, perlfilter.pod, perlhack.pod,
-perlintern.pod, perllexwarn.pod, perlnumber.pod, perlopentut.pod,
-perlreftut.pod, perltootc.pod, perltodo.pod, perlunicode.pod
+=over 4
-=item Performance enhancements
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=over 4
+=item Incompatible Changes
-=item Simple sort() using { $a <=> $b } and the like are optimized
+=item Core Enhancements
-=item Optimized assignments to lexical variables
+=item Modules and Pragmata
-=item Faster subroutine calls
+=item Utility Changes
-=item delete(), each(), values() and hash iteration are faster
+=over 4
+
+=item Perl's debugger
+
+=item h2ph
=back
=item Installation and Configuration Improvements
-=over 4
+=item Selected Bug Fixes
-=item -Dusethreads means something different
+=item New or Changed Diagnostics
-=item New Configure flags
+=item Changed Internals
-=item Threadedness and 64-bitness now more daring
+=item Known Problems
-=item Long Doubles
+=item Platform Specific Problems
-=item -Dusemorebits
+=item Reporting Bugs
-=item -Duselargefiles
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item installusrbinperl
+=back
-=item SOCKS support
+=head2 perl584delta - what is new for perl v5.8.4
-=item C<-A> flag
+=over 4
-=item Enhanced Installation Directories
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=back
+=item Incompatible Changes
-=item Platform specific changes
+=item Core Enhancements
=over 4
-=item Supported platforms
-
-=item DOS
+=item Malloc wrapping
-=item OS390 (OpenEdition MVS)
+=item Unicode Character Database 4.0.1
-=item VMS
+=item suidperl less insecure
-=item Win32
+=item format
=back
-=item Significant bug fixes
+=item Modules and Pragmata
=over 4
-=item <HANDLE> on empty files
-
-=item C<eval '...'> improvements
-
-=item All compilation errors are true errors
+=item Updated modules
-=item Implicitly closed filehandles are safer
+Attribute::Handlers, B, Benchmark, CGI, Carp, Cwd, Exporter, File::Find,
+IO, IPC::Open3, Local::Maketext, Math::BigFloat, Math::BigInt,
+Math::BigRat, MIME::Base64, ODBM_File, POSIX, Shell, Socket, Storable,
+Switch, Sys::Syslog, Term::ANSIColor, Time::HiRes, Unicode::UCD, Win32,
+base, open, threads, utf8
-=item Behavior of list slices is more consistent
+=back
-=item C<(\$)> prototype and C<$foo{a}>
+=item Performance Enhancements
-=item C<goto &sub> and AUTOLOAD
+=item Utility Changes
-=item C<-bareword> allowed under C<use integer>
+=item Installation and Configuration Improvements
-=item Failures in DESTROY()
+=item Selected Bug Fixes
-=item Locale bugs fixed
+=item New or Changed Diagnostics
-=item Memory leaks
+=item Changed Internals
-=item Spurious subroutine stubs after failed subroutine calls
+=item Future Directions
-=item Taint failures under C<-U>
+=item Platform Specific Problems
-=item END blocks and the C<-c> switch
+=item Reporting Bugs
-=item Potential to leak DATA filehandles
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=item New or Changed Diagnostics
+=head2 perl583delta - what is new for perl v5.8.3
-"%s" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same %s, "my sub" not yet
-implemented, "our" variable %s redeclared, '!' allowed only after types %s,
-/ cannot take a count, / must be followed by a, A or Z, / must be followed
-by a*, A* or Z*, / must follow a numeric type, /%s/: Unrecognized escape
-\\%c passed through, /%s/: Unrecognized escape \\%c in character class
-passed through, /%s/ should probably be written as "%s", %s() called too
-early to check prototype, %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element, %s
-argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element or slice, %s argument is not a
-subroutine name, %s package attribute may clash with future reserved word:
-%s, (in cleanup) %s, <> should be quotes, Attempt to join self, Bad evalled
-substitution pattern, Bad realloc() ignored, Bareword found in conditional,
-Binary number > 0b11111111111111111111111111111111 non-portable, Bit vector
-size > 32 non-portable, Buffer overflow in prime_env_iter: %s, Can't check
-filesystem of script "%s", Can't declare class for non-scalar %s in "%s",
-Can't declare %s in "%s", Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default,
-Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine call, Can't read CRTL environ, Can't
-remove %s: %s, skipping file, Can't return %s from lvalue subroutine, Can't
-weaken a nonreference, Character class [:%s:] unknown, Character class
-syntax [%s] belongs inside character classes, Constant is not %s reference,
-constant(%s): %s, CORE::%s is not a keyword, defined(@array) is deprecated,
-defined(%hash) is deprecated, Did not produce a valid header, (Did you mean
-"local" instead of "our"?), Document contains no data, entering effective
-%s failed, false [] range "%s" in regexp, Filehandle %s opened only for
-output, flock() on closed filehandle %s, Global symbol "%s" requires
-explicit package name, Hexadecimal number > 0xffffffff non-portable,
-Ill-formed CRTL environ value "%s", Ill-formed message in prime_env_iter:
-|%s|, Illegal binary digit %s, Illegal binary digit %s ignored, Illegal
-number of bits in vec, Integer overflow in %s number, Invalid %s attribute:
-%s, Invalid %s attributes: %s, invalid [] range "%s" in regexp, Invalid
-separator character %s in attribute list, Invalid separator character %s in
-subroutine attribute list, leaving effective %s failed, Lvalue subs
-returning %s not implemented yet, Method %s not permitted, Missing
-%sbrace%s on \N{}, Missing command in piped open, Missing name in "my sub",
-No %s specified for -%c, No package name allowed for variable %s in "our",
-No space allowed after -%c, no UTC offset information; assuming local time
-is UTC, Octal number > 037777777777 non-portable, panic: del_backref,
-panic: kid popen errno read, panic: magic_killbackrefs, Parentheses missing
-around "%s" list, Possible unintended interpolation of %s in string,
-Possible Y2K bug: %s, pragma "attrs" is deprecated, use "sub NAME : ATTRS"
-instead, Premature end of script headers, Repeat count in pack overflows,
-Repeat count in unpack overflows, realloc() of freed memory ignored,
-Reference is already weak, setpgrp can't take arguments, Strange *+?{} on
-zero-length expression, switching effective %s is not implemented, This
-Perl can't reset CRTL environ elements (%s), This Perl can't set CRTL
-environ elements (%s=%s), Too late to run %s block, Unknown open() mode
-'%s', Unknown process %x sent message to prime_env_iter: %s, Unrecognized
-escape \\%c passed through, Unterminated attribute parameter in attribute
-list, Unterminated attribute list, Unterminated attribute parameter in
-subroutine attribute list, Unterminated subroutine attribute list, Value of
-CLI symbol "%s" too long, Version number must be a constant number
+=over 4
-=item New tests
+=item DESCRIPTION
=item Incompatible Changes
-=over 4
+=item Core Enhancements
-=item Perl Source Incompatibilities
+=item Modules and Pragmata
-CHECK is a new keyword, Treatment of list slices of undef has changed,
-Format of $English::PERL_VERSION is different, Literals of the form
-C<1.2.3> parse differently, Possibly changed pseudo-random number
-generator, Hashing function for hash keys has changed, C<undef> fails on
-read only values, Close-on-exec bit may be set on pipe and socket handles,
-Writing C<"$$1"> to mean C<"${$}1"> is unsupported, delete(), each(),
-values() and C<\(%h)>, vec(EXPR,OFFSET,BITS) enforces powers-of-two BITS,
-Text of some diagnostic output has changed, C<%@> has been removed,
-Parenthesized not() behaves like a list operator, Semantics of bareword
-prototype C<(*)> have changed, Semantics of bit operators may have changed
-on 64-bit platforms, More builtins taint their results
+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 C Source Incompatibilities
+=item Utility Changes
-C<PERL_POLLUTE>, C<PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT>, C<PERL_POLLUTE_MALLOC>
+=item New Documentation
-=item Compatible C Source API Changes
+=item Installation and Configuration Improvements
-C<PATCHLEVEL> is now C<PERL_VERSION>
+=item Selected Bug Fixes
-=item Binary Incompatibilities
+=item New or Changed Diagnostics
-=back
+=item Changed Internals
+
+=item Configuration and Building
+
+=item Platform Specific Problems
=item Known Problems
+=item Future Directions
+
+=item Obituary
+
+=item Reporting Bugs
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perl582delta - what is new for perl v5.8.2
+
=over 4
-=item Thread test failures
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item EBCDIC platforms not supported
+=item Incompatible Changes
-=item In 64-bit HP-UX the lib/io_multihomed test may hang
+=item Core Enhancements
-=item NEXTSTEP 3.3 POSIX test failure
+=over 4
-=item Tru64 (aka Digital UNIX, aka DEC OSF/1) lib/sdbm test failure with
-gcc
+=item Hash Randomisation
-=item UNICOS/mk CC failures during Configure run
+=item Threading
-=item Arrow operator and arrays
+=back
-=item Experimental features
+=item Modules and Pragmata
-Threads, Unicode, 64-bit support, Lvalue subroutines, Weak references, The
-pseudo-hash data type, The Compiler suite, Internal implementation of file
-globbing, The DB module, The regular expression code constructs:
+=over 4
+
+=item Updated Modules And Pragmata
+
+Devel::PPPort, Digest::MD5, I18N::LangTags, libnet, MIME::Base64,
+Pod::Perldoc, strict, Tie::Hash, Time::HiRes, Unicode::Collate,
+Unicode::Normalize, UNIVERSAL
=back
-=item Obsolete Diagnostics
+=item Selected Bug Fixes
-Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions, Ill-formed
-logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter, In string, @%s now must be written as
-\@%s, Probable precedence problem on %s, regexp too big, Use of "$$<digit>"
-to mean "${$}<digit>" is deprecated
+=item Changed Internals
+
+=item Platform Specific Problems
+
+=item Future Directions
=item Reporting Bugs
=item SEE ALSO
-=item HISTORY
-
=back
-=head2 perl5005delta, perldelta - what's new for perl5.005
+=head2 perl581delta - what is new for perl v5.8.1
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item About the new versioning system
-
=item Incompatible Changes
=over 4
-=item WARNING: This version is not binary compatible with Perl 5.004.
-
-=item Default installation structure has changed
-
-=item Perl Source Compatibility
-
-=item C Source Compatibility
+=item Hash Randomisation
-=item Binary Compatibility
+=item UTF-8 On Filehandles No Longer Activated By Locale
-=item Security fixes may affect compatibility
+=item Single-number v-strings are no longer v-strings before "=>"
-=item Relaxed new mandatory warnings introduced in 5.004
+=item (Win32) The -C Switch Has Been Repurposed
-=item Licensing
+=item (Win32) The /d Switch Of cmd.exe
=back
-=item Core Changes
+=item Core Enhancements
=over 4
-=item Threads
+=item UTF-8 no longer default under UTF-8 locales
-=item Compiler
-
-=item Regular Expressions
+=item Unsafe signals again available
-Many new and improved optimizations, Many bug fixes, New regular expression
-constructs, New operator for precompiled regular expressions, Other
-improvements, Incompatible changes
+=item Tied Arrays with Negative Array Indices
-=item Improved malloc()
+=item local ${$x}
-=item Quicksort is internally implemented
+=item Unicode Character Database 4.0.0
-=item Reliable signals
+=item Deprecation Warnings
-=item Reliable stack pointers
+=item Miscellaneous Enhancements
-=item More generous treatment of carriage returns
+=back
-=item Memory leaks
+=item Modules and Pragmata
-=item Better support for multiple interpreters
+=over 4
-=item Behavior of local() on array and hash elements is now well-defined
+=item Updated Modules And Pragmata
-=item C<%!> is transparently tied to the L<Errno> module
+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 Pseudo-hashes are supported
+=back
-=item C<EXPR foreach EXPR> is supported
+=item Utility Changes
-=item Keywords can be globally overridden
+=item New Documentation
-=item C<$^E> is meaningful on Win32
+=item Installation and Configuration Improvements
-=item C<foreach (1..1000000)> optimized
+=over 4
-=item C<Foo::> can be used as implicitly quoted package name
+=item Platform-specific enhancements
-=item C<exists $Foo::{Bar::}> tests existence of a package
+=back
-=item Better locale support
+=item Selected Bug Fixes
-=item Experimental support for 64-bit platforms
+=over 4
-=item prototype() returns useful results on builtins
+=item Closures, eval and lexicals
-=item Extended support for exception handling
+=item Generic fixes
-=item Re-blessing in DESTROY() supported for chaining DESTROY() methods
+=item Platform-specific fixes
-=item All C<printf> format conversions are handled internally
+=back
-=item New C<INIT> keyword
+=item New or Changed Diagnostics
-=item New C<lock> keyword
+=over 4
-=item New C<qr//> operator
+=item Changed "A thread exited while %d threads were running"
-=item C<our> is now a reserved word
+=item Removed "Attempt to clear a restricted hash"
-=item Tied arrays are now fully supported
+=item New "Illegal declaration of anonymous subroutine"
-=item Tied handles support is better
+=item Changed "Invalid range "%s" in transliteration operator"
-=item 4th argument to substr
+=item New "Missing control char name in \c"
-=item Negative LENGTH argument to splice
+=item New "Newline in left-justified string for %s"
-=item Magic lvalues are now more magical
+=item New "Possible precedence problem on bitwise %c operator"
-=item <> now reads in records
+=item New "Pseudo-hashes are deprecated"
-=back
+=item New "read() on %s filehandle %s"
-=item Supported Platforms
+=item New "5.005 threads are deprecated"
-=over 4
+=item New "Tied variable freed while still in use"
-=item New Platforms
+=item New "To%s: illegal mapping '%s'"
-=item Changes in existing support
+=item New "Use of freed value in iteration"
=back
-=item Modules and Pragmata
+=item Changed Internals
-=over 4
+=item New Tests
-=item New Modules
+=item Known Problems
-B, Data::Dumper, Dumpvalue, Errno, File::Spec, ExtUtils::Installed,
-ExtUtils::Packlist, Fatal, IPC::SysV, Test, Tie::Array, Tie::Handle,
-Thread, attrs, fields, re
+=over 4
-=item Changes in existing modules
+=item Tied hashes in scalar context
-Benchmark, Carp, CGI, Fcntl, Math::Complex, Math::Trig, POSIX, DB_File,
-MakeMaker, CPAN, Cwd
+=item Net::Ping 450_service and 510_ping_udp failures
+
+=item B::C
=back
-=item Utility Changes
+=item Platform Specific Problems
-=item Documentation Changes
+=over 4
-=item New Diagnostics
+=item EBCDIC Platforms
-Ambiguous call resolved as CORE::%s(), qualify as such or use &, Bad index
-while coercing array into hash, Bareword "%s" refers to nonexistent
-package, Can't call method "%s" on an undefined value, Can't check
-filesystem of script "%s" for nosuid, Can't coerce array into hash, Can't
-goto subroutine from an eval-string, Can't localize pseudo-hash element,
-Can't use %%! because Errno.pm is not available, Cannot find an opnumber
-for "%s", Character class syntax [. .] is reserved for future extensions,
-Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions, Character
-class syntax [= =] is reserved for future extensions, %s: Eval-group in
-insecure regular expression, %s: Eval-group not allowed, use re 'eval', %s:
-Eval-group not allowed at run time, Explicit blessing to '' (assuming
-package main), Illegal hex digit ignored, No such array field, No such
-field "%s" in variable %s of type %s, Out of memory during ridiculously
-large request, Range iterator outside integer range, Recursive inheritance
-detected while looking for method '%s' %s, Reference found where even-sized
-list expected, Undefined value assigned to typeglob, Use of reserved word
-"%s" is deprecated, perl: warning: Setting locale failed
+=item Cygwin 1.5 problems
-=item Obsolete Diagnostics
+=item HP-UX: HP cc warnings about sendfile and sendpath
-Can't mktemp(), Can't write to temp file for B<-e>: %s, Cannot open
-temporary file, regexp too big
+=item IRIX: t/uni/tr_7jis.t falsely failing
-=item Configuration Changes
+=item Mac OS X: no usemymalloc
-=item BUGS
+=item Tru64: No threaded builds with GNU cc (gcc)
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item Win32: sysopen, sysread, syswrite
-=item HISTORY
+=back
+
+=item Future Directions
+
+=item Reporting Bugs
+
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=head2 perl5004delta, perldelta - what's new for perl5.004
+=head2 perl58delta - what is new for perl v5.8.0
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Supported Environments
+=item Highlights In 5.8.0
-=item Core Changes
+=item Incompatible Changes
=over 4
-=item List assignment to %ENV works
+=item Binary Incompatibility
-=item Change to "Can't locate Foo.pm in @INC" error
+=item 64-bit platforms and malloc
-=item Compilation option: Binary compatibility with 5.003
+=item AIX Dynaloading
-=item $PERL5OPT environment variable
+=item Attributes for C<my> variables now handled at run-time
-=item Limitations on B<-M>, B<-m>, and B<-T> options
+=item Socket Extension Dynamic in VMS
-=item More precise warnings
+=item IEEE-format Floating Point Default on OpenVMS Alpha
-=item Deprecated: Inherited C<AUTOLOAD> for non-methods
+=item New Unicode Semantics (no more C<use utf8>, almost)
-=item Previously deprecated %OVERLOAD is no longer usable
+=item New Unicode Properties
-=item Subroutine arguments created only when they're modified
+=item REF(...) Instead Of SCALAR(...)
-=item Group vector changeable with C<$)>
+=item pack/unpack D/F recycled
-=item Fixed parsing of $$<digit>, &$<digit>, etc.
+=item glob() now returns filenames in alphabetical order
-=item Fixed localization of $<digit>, $&, etc.
+=item Deprecations
-=item No resetting of $. on implicit close
+=back
-=item C<wantarray> may return undef
+=item Core Enhancements
-=item C<eval EXPR> determines value of EXPR in scalar context
+=over 4
-=item Changes to tainting checks
+=item Unicode Overhaul
-No glob() or <*>, No spawning if tainted $CDPATH, $ENV, $BASH_ENV, No
-spawning if tainted $TERM doesn't look like a terminal name
+=item PerlIO is Now The Default
-=item New Opcode module and revised Safe module
+=item ithreads
-=item Embedding improvements
+=item Restricted Hashes
-=item Internal change: FileHandle class based on IO::* classes
+=item Safe Signals
-=item Internal change: PerlIO abstraction interface
+=item Understanding of Numbers
-=item New and changed syntax
+=item Arrays now always interpolate into double-quoted strings [561]
-$coderef->(PARAMS)
+=item Miscellaneous Changes
-=item New and changed builtin constants
+=back
-__PACKAGE__
+=item Modules and Pragmata
-=item New and changed builtin variables
+=over 4
-$^E, $^H, $^M
+=item New Modules and Pragmata
-=item New and changed builtin functions
+=item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
-delete on slices, flock, printf and sprintf, keys as an lvalue, my() in
-Control Structures, pack() and unpack(), sysseek(), use VERSION, use Module
-VERSION LIST, prototype(FUNCTION), srand, $_ as Default, C<m//gc> does not
-reset search position on failure, C<m//x> ignores whitespace before ?*+{},
-nested C<sub{}> closures work now, formats work right on changing lexicals
+=back
-=item New builtin methods
+=item Utility Changes
-isa(CLASS), can(METHOD), VERSION( [NEED] )
+=item New Documentation
-=item TIEHANDLE now supported
+=item Performance Enhancements
-TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, PRINT this, LIST, PRINTF this, LIST, READ this
-LIST, READLINE this, GETC this, DESTROY this
+=item Installation and Configuration Improvements
-=item Malloc enhancements
+=over 4
--DPERL_EMERGENCY_SBRK, -DPACK_MALLOC, -DTWO_POT_OPTIMIZE
+=item Generic Improvements
-=item Miscellaneous efficiency enhancements
+=item New Or Improved Platforms
=back
-=item Support for More Operating Systems
+=item Selected Bug Fixes
=over 4
-=item Win32
-
-=item Plan 9
+=item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
-=item QNX
+=back
-=item AmigaOS
+=item New or Changed Diagnostics
-=back
+=item Changed Internals
-=item Pragmata
+=item Security Vulnerability Closed [561]
-use autouse MODULE => qw(sub1 sub2 sub3), use blib, use blib 'dir', use
-constant NAME => VALUE, use locale, use ops, use vmsish
+=item New Tests
-=item Modules
+=item Known Problems
=over 4
-=item Required Updates
+=item The Compiler Suite Is Still Very Experimental
-=item Installation directories
+=item Localising Tied Arrays and Hashes Is Broken
-=item Module information summary
+=item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
-=item Fcntl
+=item Modifying $_ Inside for(..)
-=item IO
+=item mod_perl 1.26 Doesn't Build With Threaded Perl
-=item Math::Complex
+=item lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
-=item Math::Trig
+=item libwww-perl (LWP) fails base/date #51
-=item DB_File
+=item PDL failing some tests
-=item Net::Ping
+=item Perl_get_sv
-=item Object-oriented overrides for builtin operators
+=item Self-tying Problems
+
+=item ext/threads/t/libc
+
+=item Failure of Thread (5.005-style) tests
+
+=item Timing problems
+
+=item Tied/Magical Array/Hash Elements Do Not Autovivify
+
+=item Unicode in package/class and subroutine names does not work
=back
-=item Utility Changes
+=item Platform Specific Problems
=over 4
-=item pod2html
+=item AIX
-Sends converted HTML to standard output
+=item Alpha systems with old gccs fail several tests
-=item xsubpp
+=item AmigaOS
-C<void> XSUBs now default to returning nothing
+=item BeOS
-=back
+=item Cygwin "unable to remap"
-=item C Language API Changes
+=item Cygwin ndbm tests fail on FAT
-C<gv_fetchmethod> and C<perl_call_sv>, C<perl_eval_pv>, Extended API for
-manipulating hashes
+=item DJGPP Failures
-=item Documentation Changes
+=item FreeBSD built with ithreads coredumps reading large directories
-L<perldelta>, L<perlfaq>, L<perllocale>, L<perltoot>, L<perlapio>,
-L<perlmodlib>, L<perldebug>, L<perlsec>
+=item FreeBSD Failing locale Test 117 For ISO 8859-15 Locales
-=item New Diagnostics
+=item IRIX fails ext/List/Util/t/shuffle.t or Digest::MD5
-"my" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same scope, %s argument is
-not a HASH element or slice, Allocation too large: %lx, Allocation too
-large, Applying %s to %s will act on scalar(%s), Attempt to free
-nonexistent shared string, Attempt to use reference as lvalue in substr,
-Bareword "%s" refers to nonexistent package, Can't redefine active sort
-subroutine %s, Can't use bareword ("%s") as %s ref while "strict refs" in
-use, Cannot resolve method `%s' overloading `%s' in package `%s', Constant
-subroutine %s redefined, Constant subroutine %s undefined, Copy method did
-not return a reference, Died, Exiting pseudo-block via %s, Identifier too
-long, Illegal character %s (carriage return), Illegal switch in PERL5OPT:
-%s, Integer overflow in hex number, Integer overflow in octal number,
-internal error: glob failed, Invalid conversion in %s: "%s", Invalid type
-in pack: '%s', Invalid type in unpack: '%s', Name "%s::%s" used only once:
-possible typo, Null picture in formline, Offset outside string, Out of
-memory!, Out of memory during request for %s, panic: frexp, Possible
-attempt to put comments in qw() list, Possible attempt to separate words
-with commas, Scalar value @%s{%s} better written as $%s{%s}, Stub found
-while resolving method `%s' overloading `%s' in %s, Too late for "B<-T>"
-option, untie attempted while %d inner references still exist, Unrecognized
-character %s, Unsupported function fork, Use of "$$<digit>" to mean
-"${$}<digit>" is deprecated, Value of %s can be "0"; test with defined(),
-Variable "%s" may be unavailable, Variable "%s" will not stay shared,
-Warning: something's wrong, Ill-formed logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter,
-Got an error from DosAllocMem, Malformed PERLLIB_PREFIX, PERL_SH_DIR too
-long, Process terminated by SIG%s
+=item HP-UX lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails When LP64-Configured
-=item BUGS
+=item Linux with glibc 2.2.5 fails t/op/int subtest #6 with -Duse64bitint
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
-=item HISTORY
+=item Mac OS X
-=back
+=item Mac OS X dyld undefined symbols
-=head2 perlaix, README.aix - Perl version 5 on IBM Unix (AIX) systems
+=item OS/2 Test Failures
-=over 4
+=item op/sprintf tests 91, 129, and 130
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item SCO
-=over 4
+=item Solaris 2.5
-=item Compiling Perl 5 on AIX
+=item Solaris x86 Fails Tests With -Duse64bitint
-=item OS level
+=item SUPER-UX (NEC SX)
-=item Building Dynamic Extensions on AIX
+=item Term::ReadKey not working on Win32
-=item The IBM ANSI C Compiler
+=item UNICOS/mk
-=item Using GNU's gcc for building perl
+=item UTS
-=item Using Large Files with Perl
+=item VOS (Stratus)
-=item Threaded Perl
+=item VMS
-=item 64-bit Perl
+=item Win32
-=item AIX 4.2 and extensions using C++ with statics
+=item XML::Parser not working
+
+=item z/OS (OS/390)
+
+=item Unicode Support on EBCDIC Still Spotty
+
+=item Seen In Perl 5.7 But Gone Now
=back
-=item AUTHOR
+=item Reporting Bugs
-=item DATE
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item HISTORY
=back
-=head2 perlapollo, README.apollo - Perl version 5 on Apollo DomainOS
+=head2 perl573delta - what's new for perl v5.7.3
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item AUTHOR
-
-=back
+=item Changes
-=head2 perlamiga - Perl under Amiga OS
+=item Reporting Bugs
-=over 4
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item HISTORY
=back
+=head2 perl572delta - what's new for perl v5.7.2
+
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Security Vulnerability Closed
+
+=item Incompatible Changes
+
=over 4
-=item Prerequisites for Compiling Perl on AmigaOS
+=item 64-bit platforms and malloc
-B<Unix emulation for AmigaOS: ixemul.library>, B<Version of Amiga OS>
+=item AIX Dynaloading
-=item Starting Perl programs under AmigaOS
+=item Socket Extension Dynamic in VMS
-=item Shortcomings of Perl under AmigaOS
+=item Different Definition of the Unicode Character Classes \p{In...}
+
+=item Deprecations
=back
-=item INSTALLATION
+=item Core Enhancements
-=item Accessing documentation
+=item Modules and Pragmata
=over 4
-=item Manpages for Perl on AmigaOS
-
-=item Perl HTML Documentation on AmigaOS
-
-=item Perl GNU Info Files on AmigaOS
+=item New Modules and Distributions
-=item Perl LaTeX Documentation on AmigaOS
+=item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
=back
-=item BUILDING PERL ON AMIGAOS
-
-=over 4
+=item Utility Changes
-=item Build Prerequisites for Perl on AmigaOS
+=item New Documentation
-=item Getting the Perl Source for AmigaOS
+=item Installation and Configuration Improvements
-=item Making Perl on AmigaOS
+=over 4
-=item Testing Perl on AmigaOS
+=item New Or Improved Platforms
-=item Installing the built Perl on AmigaOS
+=item Generic Improvements
=back
-=item AUTHORS
+=item Selected Bug Fixes
-=item SEE ALSO
+=over 4
-=back
+=item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
-=head2 perlbeos, README.beos - Perl version 5 on BeOS
+=back
-=over 4
+=item New or Changed Diagnostics
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Source Code Enhancements
=over 4
-=item General Issues with Perl on BeOS
+=item MAGIC constants
-=item BeOS Release-specific Notes
+=item Better commented code
-R4 x86, R4 PPC
+=item Regex pre-/post-compilation items matched up
-=item Contact Information
+=item gcc -Wall
=back
-=back
+=item New Tests
-=head2 perlbs2000, README.BS2000 - building and installing Perl for BS2000.
+=item Known Problems
=over 4
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item AIX
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Amiga Perl Invoking Mystery
-=over 4
+=item lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
-=item gzip on BS2000
+=item Cygwin intermittent failures of lib/Memoize/t/expire_file 11 and 12
-=item bison on BS2000
+=item HP-UX lib/io_multihomed Fails When LP64-Configured
-=item Unpacking Perl Distribution on BS2000
+=item HP-UX lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails When LP64-Configured
-=item Compiling Perl on BS2000
+=item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
-=item Testing Perl on BS2000
+=item OS/390
-=item Installing Perl on BS2000
+=item op/sprintf tests 129 and 130
-=item Using Perl in the Posix-Shell of BS2000
+=item Failure of Thread tests
-=item Using Perl in "native" BS2000
+=item UNICOS
-=item Floating point anomalies on BS2000
+=item UTS
-=back
+=item VMS
-=item AUTHORS
+=item Win32
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item Localising a Tied Variable Leaks Memory
-=over 4
+=item Self-tying of Arrays and Hashes Is Forbidden
-=item Mailing list
+=item Variable Attributes are not Currently Usable for Tieing
-=back
+=item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
-=item HISTORY
+=item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
+
+=item The Long Double Support is Still Experimental
=back
-=over 4
+=item Reporting Bugs
-=item Name
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item Description
+=item HISTORY
+
+=back
-=item Build
+=head2 perl571delta - what's new for perl v5.7.1
=over 4
-=item Tools & SDK
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Make
+=item Security Vulnerability Closed
-=back
+=item Incompatible Changes
-=item Acknowledgements
+=item Core Enhancements
-=item Author
+=over 4
-=back
+=item AUTOLOAD Is Now Lvaluable
-=head2 perlcygwin, README.cygwin - Perl for Cygwin
+=item PerlIO is Now The Default
-=over 4
+=item Signals Are Now Safe
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=back
-=item PREREQUISITES FOR COMPILING PERL ON CYGWIN
+=item Modules and Pragmata
=over 4
-=item Cygwin = GNU+Cygnus+Windows (Don't leave UNIX without it)
-
-=item Cygwin Configuration
+=item New Modules
-C<PATH>, I<nroff>, Permissions
+=item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
=back
-=item CONFIGURE PERL ON CYGWIN
-
-=over 4
+=item Performance Enhancements
-=item Stripping Perl Binaries on Cygwin
+=item Utility Changes
-=item Optional Libraries for Perl on Cygwin
+=item New Documentation
-C<-lcrypt>, C<-lgdbm> (C<use GDBM_File>), C<-ldb> (C<use DB_File>),
-C<-lcygipc> (C<use IPC::SysV>)
+=over 4
-=item Configure-time Options for Perl on Cygwin
+=item perlclib
-C<-Uusedl>, C<-Uusemymalloc>, C<-Dusemultiplicity>, C<-Duseperlio>,
-C<-Duse64bitint>, C<-Duselongdouble>, C<-Dusethreads>, C<-Duselargefiles>
+=item perliol
-=item Suspicious Warnings on Cygwin
+=item README.aix
-I<dlsym()>, Win9x and C<d_eofnblk>, Compiler/Preprocessor defines
+=item README.bs2000
-=back
+=item README.macos
-=item MAKE ON CYGWIN
+=item README.mpeix
-=over 4
+=item README.solaris
-=item Warnings on Cygwin
+=item README.vos
-=item ld2 on Cygwin
+=item Porting/repository.pod
=back
-=item TEST ON CYGWIN
+=item Installation and Configuration Improvements
=over 4
-=item File Permissions on Cygwin
+=item New Or Improved Platforms
-=item Hard Links on Cygwin
+=item Generic Improvements
-=item Filetime Granularity on Cygwin
+d_cmsghdr, d_fcntl_can_lock, d_fsync, d_getitimer, d_getpagsz, d_msghdr_s,
+need_va_copy, d_readv, d_recvmsg, d_sendmsg, sig_size, d_sockatmark,
+d_strtoq, d_u32align, d_ualarm, d_usleep
-=item Tainting Checks on Cygwin
+=back
-=item /etc/group on Cygwin
+=item Selected Bug Fixes
-=item Script Portability on Cygwin
+=over 4
-Pathnames, Text/Binary, F<.exe>, chown(), Miscellaneous
+=item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
=back
-=item INSTALL PERL ON CYGWIN
-
-=item MANIFEST ON CYGWIN
+=item New or Changed Diagnostics
-Documentation, Build, Configure, Make, Install, Tests, Compiled Perl
-Source, Compiled Module Source, Perl Modules/Scripts
+=item Changed Internals
-=item BUGS ON CYGWIN
+=item New Tests
-=item AUTHORS
+=item Known Problems
-=item HISTORY
+=over 4
-=back
+=item AIX vac 5.0.0.0 May Produce Buggy Code For Perl
-=head2 perldgux - Perl under DG/UX.
+=item lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
-=over 4
+=item lib/io_multihomed Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item Test lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX
-=back
+=item lib/b test 19
-=over 4
+=item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item sigaction test 13 in VMS
-=item BUILDING PERL ON DG/UX
+=item sprintf tests 129 and 130
-=over 4
+=item Failure of Thread tests
-=item Non-threaded Perl on DG/UX
+=item Localising a Tied Variable Leaks Memory
-=item Threaded Perl on DG/UX
+=item Self-tying of Arrays and Hashes Is Forbidden
-=item Testing Perl on DG/UX
+=item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
-=item Installing the built perl on DG/UX
+=item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
=back
-=item AUTHOR
+=item Reporting Bugs
=item SEE ALSO
+=item HISTORY
+
=back
-=head2 perldos - Perl under DOS, W31, W95.
+=head2 perl570delta - what's new for perl v5.7.0
=over 4
-=item SYNOPSIS
-
=item DESCRIPTION
-=over 4
+=item Security Vulnerability Closed
-=item Prerequisites for Compiling Perl on DOS
+=item Incompatible Changes
-DJGPP, Pthreads
+=item Core Enhancements
-=item Shortcomings of Perl under DOS
+=item Modules and Pragmata
-=item Building Perl on DOS
+=over 4
-=item Testing Perl on DOS
+=item New Modules
-=item Installation of Perl on DOS
+=item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
=back
-=item BUILDING AND INSTALLING MODULES ON DOS
+=item Utility Changes
-=over 4
+=item New Documentation
-=item Building Prerequisites for Perl on DOS
+=item Performance Enhancements
-=item Unpacking CPAN Modules on DOS
+=item Installation and Configuration Improvements
-=item Building Non-XS Modules on DOS
+=over 4
-=item Building XS Modules on DOS
+=item Generic Improvements
=back
-=item AUTHOR
+=item Selected Bug Fixes
-=item SEE ALSO
+=over 4
-=back
+=item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
-=head2 perlepoc, README.epoc - Perl for EPOC
+=back
-=over 4
+=item New or Changed Diagnostics
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item Changed Internals
-=item INTRODUCTION
+=item Known Problems
-=item INSTALLING PERL ON EPOC
+=over 4
-=item STARTING PERL ON EPOC
+=item Unicode Support Still Far From Perfect
-=item STOPPING PERL ON EPOC
+=item EBCDIC Still A Lost Platform
-=item USING PERL ON EPOC
+=item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
-=over 4
+=item ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
-=item I/O Redirection on Epoc
+=item Test lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX
-=item PATH Names on Epoc
+=item Long Doubles Still Don't Work In Solaris
-=item Editors on Epoc
+=item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
-=item Features of Perl on Epoc
+=item Storable tests fail in some platforms
-=item Restrictions of Perl on Epoc
+=item Threads Are Still Experimental
-=item Compiling Perl 5 on the EPOC cross compiling environment
+=item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
=back
-=item SUPPORT STATUS OF PERL ON EPOC
+=item Reporting Bugs
-=item AUTHOR
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item LAST UPDATE
+=item HISTORY
=back
-=head2 perlhpux, README.hpux - Perl version 5 on Hewlett-Packard Unix
-(HP-UX) systems
+=head2 perl561delta - what's new for perl v5.6.x
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=over 4
+=item Summary of changes between 5.6.0 and 5.6.1
-=item Using perl as shipped with HP-UX
+=over 4
-=item Compiling Perl 5 on HP-UX
+=item Security Issues
-=item PA-RISC
+=item Core bug fixes
-=item PA-RISC 1.0
+C<UNIVERSAL::isa()>, Memory leaks, Numeric conversions, qw(a\\b), caller(),
+Bugs in regular expressions, "slurp" mode, Autovivification of symbolic
+references to special variables, Lexical warnings, Spurious warnings and
+errors, glob(), Tainting, sort(), #line directives, Subroutine prototypes,
+map(), Debugger, PERL5OPT, chop(), Unicode support, 64-bit support,
+Compiler, Lvalue subroutines, IO::Socket, File::Find, xsubpp, C<no
+Module;>, Tests
-=item PA-RISC 1.1
+=item Core features
-=item PA-RISC 2.0
+=item Configuration issues
-=item Itanium
+=item Documentation
-=item Portability Between PA-RISC Versions
+=item Bundled modules
-=item Itanium Processor Family and HP-UX
+B::Concise, File::Temp, Pod::LaTeX, Pod::Text::Overstrike, CGI, CPAN,
+Class::Struct, DB_File, Devel::Peek, File::Find, Getopt::Long, IO::Poll,
+IPC::Open3, Math::BigFloat, Math::Complex, Net::Ping, Opcode, Pod::Parser,
+Pod::Text, SDBM_File, Sys::Syslog, Tie::RefHash, Tie::SubstrHash
-=item Building Dynamic Extensions on HP-UX
+=item Platform-specific improvements
-=item The HP ANSI C Compiler
+NCR MP-RAS, NonStop-UX
-=item Using Large Files with Perl on HP-UX
+=back
-=item Threaded Perl on HP-UX
+=item Core Enhancements
-=item 64-bit Perl on HP-UX
+=over 4
-=item GDBM and Threads on HP-UX
+=item Interpreter cloning, threads, and concurrency
-=item NFS filesystems and utime(2) on HP-UX
+=item Lexically scoped warning categories
-=item perl -P and // and HP-UX
+=item Unicode and UTF-8 support
-=item HP-UX Kernel Parameters (maxdsiz) for Compiling Perl
+=item Support for interpolating named characters
-=back
+=item "our" declarations
-=item nss_delete core dump from op/pwent or op/grent
+=item Support for strings represented as a vector of ordinals
-=item AUTHOR
+=item Improved Perl version numbering system
-=item DATE
+=item New syntax for declaring subroutine attributes
-=back
+=item File and directory handles can be autovivified
-=head2 perlhurd, README.hurd - Perl version 5 on Hurd
+=item open() with more than two arguments
-=over 4
+=item 64-bit support
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Large file support
-=over 4
+=item Long doubles
-=item Known Problems with Perl on Hurd
+=item "more bits"
-=back
+=item Enhanced support for sort() subroutines
-=item AUTHOR
+=item C<sort $coderef @foo> allowed
-=back
+=item File globbing implemented internally
-=head2 perlmachten, README.machten - Perl version 5 on Power MachTen
-systems
+=item Support for CHECK blocks
-=over 4
+=item POSIX character class syntax [: :] supported
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Better pseudo-random number generator
-=over 4
+=item Improved C<qw//> operator
-=item Compiling Perl 5 on MachTen
+=item Better worst-case behavior of hashes
-=item Failures during C<make test> on MachTen
+=item pack() format 'Z' supported
-op/lexassign.t, pragma/warnings.t
+=item pack() format modifier '!' supported
-=item Building external modules on MachTen
+=item pack() and unpack() support counted strings
-=back
+=item Comments in pack() templates
-=item AUTHOR
+=item Weak references
-=item DATE
+=item Binary numbers supported
-=back
+=item Lvalue subroutines
-=head2 perlmacos, README.macos - Perl under Mac OS (Classic)
+=item Some arrows may be omitted in calls through references
-=over 4
+=item Boolean assignment operators are legal lvalues
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item exists() is supported on subroutine names
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item exists() and delete() are supported on array elements
-=item AUTHOR
+=item Pseudo-hashes work better
-=item DATE
+=item Automatic flushing of output buffers
-=back
+=item Better diagnostics on meaningless filehandle operations
-=head2 perlmint, README.mint - Perl version 5 on Atari MiNT
+=item Where possible, buffered data discarded from duped input filehandle
-=over 4
+=item eof() has the same old magic as <>
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item binmode() can be used to set :crlf and :raw modes
-=item Known problems with Perl on MiNT
+=item C<-T> filetest recognizes UTF-8 encoded files as "text"
-=item AUTHOR
+=item system(), backticks and pipe open now reflect exec() failure
-=back
+=item Improved diagnostics
-=head2 perlmpeix, README.mpeix - Perl/iX for HP e3000 MPE
+=item Diagnostics follow STDERR
-=over 4
+=item More consistent close-on-exec behavior
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item syswrite() ease-of-use
-=item NOTE
+=item Better syntax checks on parenthesized unary operators
-=item What's New in Perl for MPE/iX
+=item Bit operators support full native integer width
-=item Welcome to Perl/iX
+=item Improved security features
-=item System Requirements for Perl/iX
+=item More functional bareword prototype (*)
-=item How to Obtain Perl/iX
+=item C<require> and C<do> may be overridden
-=item Perl/iX Distribution Contents Highlights
+=item $^X variables may now have names longer than one character
-README, INSTALL, LIBSHP3K, PERL, .cpan/, lib/, man/,
-public_html/feedback.cgi, src/perl-5.6.0-mpe
+=item New variable $^C reflects C<-c> switch
-=item How to Compile Perl/iX
+=item New variable $^V contains Perl version as a string
- 4, 6
+=item Optional Y2K warnings
-=item Getting Started with Perl/iX
+=item Arrays now always interpolate into double-quoted strings
-=item MPE/iX Implementation Considerations
+=back
-=item Known Perl/iX Bugs Under Investigation
+=item Modules and Pragmata
-=item Perl/iX To-Do List
+=over 4
-=item Perl/iX Change History
+=item Modules
-=item AUTHOR
+attributes, B, Benchmark, ByteLoader, constant, charnames, Data::Dumper,
+DB, DB_File, Devel::DProf, Devel::Peek, Dumpvalue, DynaLoader, English,
+Env, Fcntl, File::Compare, File::Find, File::Glob, File::Spec,
+File::Spec::Functions, Getopt::Long, IO, JPL, lib, Math::BigInt,
+Math::Complex, Math::Trig, Pod::Parser, Pod::InputObjects, Pod::Checker,
+podchecker, Pod::ParseUtils, Pod::Find, Pod::Select, podselect, Pod::Usage,
+pod2usage, Pod::Text and Pod::Man, SDBM_File, Sys::Syslog, Sys::Hostname,
+Term::ANSIColor, Time::Local, Win32, XSLoader, DBM Filters
-=item Name
+=item Pragmata
-=item Description
+=back
-=item Build
+=item Utility Changes
=over 4
-=item Tools & SDK
+=item dprofpp
-=item Setup
+=item find2perl
-Buildtype.bat, SetNWBld.bat, MPKBuild.bat
+=item h2xs
-=item Make
+=item perlcc
-=item Interpreter
+=item perldoc
-=item Extensions
+=item The Perl Debugger
=back
-=item Install
+=item Improved Documentation
-=item Build new extensions
+perlapi.pod, perlboot.pod, perlcompile.pod, perldbmfilter.pod,
+perldebug.pod, perldebguts.pod, perlfork.pod, perlfilter.pod, perlhack.pod,
+perlintern.pod, perllexwarn.pod, perlnumber.pod, perlopentut.pod,
+perlreftut.pod, perltootc.pod, perltodo.pod, perlunicode.pod
-=item Known Issues
+=item Performance enhancements
-=item Acknowledgements
+=over 4
-=item Authors
+=item Simple sort() using { $a <=> $b } and the like are optimized
-=item Date
+=item Optimized assignments to lexical variables
+
+=item Faster subroutine calls
+
+=item delete(), each(), values() and hash iteration are faster
=back
-=head2 perlos2 - Perl under OS/2, DOS, Win0.3*, Win0.95 and WinNT.
+=item Installation and Configuration Improvements
=over 4
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item -Dusethreads means something different
-=back
+=item New Configure flags
-=over 4
+=item Threadedness and 64-bitness now more daring
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Long Doubles
-=over 4
+=item -Dusemorebits
+
+=item -Duselargefiles
+
+=item installusrbinperl
+
+=item SOCKS support
+
+=item C<-A> flag
+
+=item Enhanced Installation Directories
+
+=item gcc automatically tried if 'cc' does not seem to be working
+
+=back
+
+=item Platform specific changes
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Supported platforms
+
+=item DOS
+
+=item OS390 (OpenEdition MVS)
+
+=item VMS
+
+=item Win32
+
+=back
+
+=item Significant bug fixes
+
+=over 4
+
+=item <HANDLE> on empty files
+
+=item C<eval '...'> improvements
+
+=item All compilation errors are true errors
+
+=item Implicitly closed filehandles are safer
+
+=item Behavior of list slices is more consistent
+
+=item C<(\$)> prototype and C<$foo{a}>
+
+=item C<goto &sub> and AUTOLOAD
+
+=item C<-bareword> allowed under C<use integer>
+
+=item Failures in DESTROY()
+
+=item Locale bugs fixed
+
+=item Memory leaks
+
+=item Spurious subroutine stubs after failed subroutine calls
+
+=item Taint failures under C<-U>
+
+=item END blocks and the C<-c> switch
+
+=item Potential to leak DATA filehandles
+
+=back
+
+=item New or Changed Diagnostics
+
+"%s" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same %s, "my sub" not yet
+implemented, "our" variable %s redeclared, '!' allowed only after types %s,
+/ cannot take a count, / must be followed by a, A or Z, / must be followed
+by a*, A* or Z*, / must follow a numeric type, /%s/: Unrecognized escape
+\\%c passed through, /%s/: Unrecognized escape \\%c in character class
+passed through, /%s/ should probably be written as "%s", %s() called too
+early to check prototype, %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element, %s
+argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element or slice, %s argument is not a
+subroutine name, %s package attribute may clash with future reserved word:
+%s, (in cleanup) %s, <> should be quotes, Attempt to join self, Bad evalled
+substitution pattern, Bad realloc() ignored, Bareword found in conditional,
+Binary number > 0b11111111111111111111111111111111 non-portable, Bit vector
+size > 32 non-portable, Buffer overflow in prime_env_iter: %s, Can't check
+filesystem of script "%s", Can't declare class for non-scalar %s in "%s",
+Can't declare %s in "%s", Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default,
+Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine call, Can't read CRTL environ, Can't
+remove %s: %s, skipping file, Can't return %s from lvalue subroutine, Can't
+weaken a nonreference, Character class [:%s:] unknown, Character class
+syntax [%s] belongs inside character classes, Constant is not %s reference,
+constant(%s): %s, CORE::%s is not a keyword, defined(@array) is deprecated,
+defined(%hash) is deprecated, Did not produce a valid header, (Did you mean
+"local" instead of "our"?), Document contains no data, entering effective
+%s failed, false [] range "%s" in regexp, Filehandle %s opened only for
+output, flock() on closed filehandle %s, Global symbol "%s" requires
+explicit package name, Hexadecimal number > 0xffffffff non-portable,
+Ill-formed CRTL environ value "%s", Ill-formed message in prime_env_iter:
+|%s|, Illegal binary digit %s, Illegal binary digit %s ignored, Illegal
+number of bits in vec, Integer overflow in %s number, Invalid %s attribute:
+%s, Invalid %s attributes: %s, invalid [] range "%s" in regexp, Invalid
+separator character %s in attribute list, Invalid separator character %s in
+subroutine attribute list, leaving effective %s failed, Lvalue subs
+returning %s not implemented yet, Method %s not permitted, Missing
+%sbrace%s on \N{}, Missing command in piped open, Missing name in "my sub",
+No %s specified for -%c, No package name allowed for variable %s in "our",
+No space allowed after -%c, no UTC offset information; assuming local time
+is UTC, Octal number > 037777777777 non-portable, panic: del_backref,
+panic: kid popen errno read, panic: magic_killbackrefs, Parentheses missing
+around "%s" list, Possible unintended interpolation of %s in string,
+Possible Y2K bug: %s, pragma "attrs" is deprecated, use "sub NAME : ATTRS"
+instead, Premature end of script headers, Repeat count in pack overflows,
+Repeat count in unpack overflows, realloc() of freed memory ignored,
+Reference is already weak, setpgrp can't take arguments, Strange *+?{} on
+zero-length expression, switching effective %s is not implemented, This
+Perl can't reset CRTL environ elements (%s), This Perl can't set CRTL
+environ elements (%s=%s), Too late to run %s block, Unknown open() mode
+'%s', Unknown process %x sent message to prime_env_iter: %s, Unrecognized
+escape \\%c passed through, Unterminated attribute parameter in attribute
+list, Unterminated attribute list, Unterminated attribute parameter in
+subroutine attribute list, Unterminated subroutine attribute list, Value of
+CLI symbol "%s" too long, Version number must be a constant number
+
+=item New tests
+
+=item Incompatible Changes
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Perl Source Incompatibilities
+
+CHECK is a new keyword, Treatment of list slices of undef has changed,
+Format of $English::PERL_VERSION is different, Literals of the form
+C<1.2.3> parse differently, Possibly changed pseudo-random number
+generator, Hashing function for hash keys has changed, C<undef> fails on
+read only values, Close-on-exec bit may be set on pipe and socket handles,
+Writing C<"$$1"> to mean C<"${$}1"> is unsupported, delete(), each(),
+values() and C<\(%h)>, vec(EXPR,OFFSET,BITS) enforces powers-of-two BITS,
+Text of some diagnostic output has changed, C<%@> has been removed,
+Parenthesized not() behaves like a list operator, Semantics of bareword
+prototype C<(*)> have changed, Semantics of bit operators may have changed
+on 64-bit platforms, More builtins taint their results
+
+=item C Source Incompatibilities
+
+C<PERL_POLLUTE>, C<PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT>, C<PERL_POLLUTE_MALLOC>
+
+=item Compatible C Source API Changes
+
+C<PATCHLEVEL> is now C<PERL_VERSION>
+
+=item Binary Incompatibilities
+
+=back
+
+=item Known Problems
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Localizing a tied hash element may leak memory
+
+=item Known test failures
+
+=item EBCDIC platforms not fully supported
+
+=item UNICOS/mk CC failures during Configure run
+
+=item Arrow operator and arrays
+
+=item Experimental features
+
+Threads, Unicode, 64-bit support, Lvalue subroutines, Weak references, The
+pseudo-hash data type, The Compiler suite, Internal implementation of file
+globbing, The DB module, The regular expression code constructs:
+
+=back
+
+=item Obsolete Diagnostics
+
+Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions, Ill-formed
+logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter, In string, @%s now must be written as
+\@%s, Probable precedence problem on %s, regexp too big, Use of "$$<digit>"
+to mean "${$}<digit>" is deprecated
+
+=item Reporting Bugs
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item HISTORY
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perl56delta - what's new for perl v5.6.0
+
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item Core Enhancements
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Interpreter cloning, threads, and concurrency
+
+=item Lexically scoped warning categories
+
+=item Unicode and UTF-8 support
+
+=item Support for interpolating named characters
+
+=item "our" declarations
+
+=item Support for strings represented as a vector of ordinals
+
+=item Improved Perl version numbering system
+
+=item New syntax for declaring subroutine attributes
+
+=item File and directory handles can be autovivified
+
+=item open() with more than two arguments
+
+=item 64-bit support
+
+=item Large file support
+
+=item Long doubles
+
+=item "more bits"
+
+=item Enhanced support for sort() subroutines
+
+=item C<sort $coderef @foo> allowed
+
+=item File globbing implemented internally
+
+=item Support for CHECK blocks
+
+=item POSIX character class syntax [: :] supported
+
+=item Better pseudo-random number generator
+
+=item Improved C<qw//> operator
+
+=item Better worst-case behavior of hashes
+
+=item pack() format 'Z' supported
+
+=item pack() format modifier '!' supported
+
+=item pack() and unpack() support counted strings
+
+=item Comments in pack() templates
+
+=item Weak references
+
+=item Binary numbers supported
+
+=item Lvalue subroutines
+
+=item Some arrows may be omitted in calls through references
+
+=item Boolean assignment operators are legal lvalues
+
+=item exists() is supported on subroutine names
+
+=item exists() and delete() are supported on array elements
+
+=item Pseudo-hashes work better
+
+=item Automatic flushing of output buffers
+
+=item Better diagnostics on meaningless filehandle operations
+
+=item Where possible, buffered data discarded from duped input filehandle
+
+=item eof() has the same old magic as <>
+
+=item binmode() can be used to set :crlf and :raw modes
+
+=item C<-T> filetest recognizes UTF-8 encoded files as "text"
+
+=item system(), backticks and pipe open now reflect exec() failure
+
+=item Improved diagnostics
+
+=item Diagnostics follow STDERR
+
+=item More consistent close-on-exec behavior
+
+=item syswrite() ease-of-use
+
+=item Better syntax checks on parenthesized unary operators
+
+=item Bit operators support full native integer width
+
+=item Improved security features
+
+=item More functional bareword prototype (*)
+
+=item C<require> and C<do> may be overridden
+
+=item $^X variables may now have names longer than one character
+
+=item New variable $^C reflects C<-c> switch
+
+=item New variable $^V contains Perl version as a string
+
+=item Optional Y2K warnings
+
+=item Arrays now always interpolate into double-quoted strings
+
+=back
+
+=item Modules and Pragmata
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Modules
+
+attributes, B, Benchmark, ByteLoader, constant, charnames, Data::Dumper,
+DB, DB_File, Devel::DProf, Devel::Peek, Dumpvalue, DynaLoader, English,
+Env, Fcntl, File::Compare, File::Find, File::Glob, File::Spec,
+File::Spec::Functions, Getopt::Long, IO, JPL, lib, Math::BigInt,
+Math::Complex, Math::Trig, Pod::Parser, Pod::InputObjects, Pod::Checker,
+podchecker, Pod::ParseUtils, Pod::Find, Pod::Select, podselect, Pod::Usage,
+pod2usage, Pod::Text and Pod::Man, SDBM_File, Sys::Syslog, Sys::Hostname,
+Term::ANSIColor, Time::Local, Win32, XSLoader, DBM Filters
+
+=item Pragmata
+
+=back
+
+=item Utility Changes
+
+=over 4
+
+=item dprofpp
+
+=item find2perl
+
+=item h2xs
+
+=item perlcc
+
+=item perldoc
+
+=item The Perl Debugger
+
+=back
+
+=item Improved Documentation
+
+perlapi.pod, perlboot.pod, perlcompile.pod, perldbmfilter.pod,
+perldebug.pod, perldebguts.pod, perlfork.pod, perlfilter.pod, perlhack.pod,
+perlintern.pod, perllexwarn.pod, perlnumber.pod, perlopentut.pod,
+perlreftut.pod, perltootc.pod, perltodo.pod, perlunicode.pod
+
+=item Performance enhancements
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Simple sort() using { $a <=> $b } and the like are optimized
+
+=item Optimized assignments to lexical variables
+
+=item Faster subroutine calls
+
+=item delete(), each(), values() and hash iteration are faster
+
+=back
+
+=item Installation and Configuration Improvements
+
+=over 4
+
+=item -Dusethreads means something different
+
+=item New Configure flags
+
+=item Threadedness and 64-bitness now more daring
+
+=item Long Doubles
+
+=item -Dusemorebits
+
+=item -Duselargefiles
+
+=item installusrbinperl
+
+=item SOCKS support
+
+=item C<-A> flag
+
+=item Enhanced Installation Directories
+
+=back
+
+=item Platform specific changes
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Supported platforms
+
+=item DOS
+
+=item OS390 (OpenEdition MVS)
+
+=item VMS
+
+=item Win32
+
+=back
+
+=item Significant bug fixes
+
+=over 4
+
+=item <HANDLE> on empty files
+
+=item C<eval '...'> improvements
+
+=item All compilation errors are true errors
+
+=item Implicitly closed filehandles are safer
+
+=item Behavior of list slices is more consistent
+
+=item C<(\$)> prototype and C<$foo{a}>
+
+=item C<goto &sub> and AUTOLOAD
+
+=item C<-bareword> allowed under C<use integer>
+
+=item Failures in DESTROY()
+
+=item Locale bugs fixed
+
+=item Memory leaks
+
+=item Spurious subroutine stubs after failed subroutine calls
+
+=item Taint failures under C<-U>
+
+=item END blocks and the C<-c> switch
+
+=item Potential to leak DATA filehandles
+
+=back
+
+=item New or Changed Diagnostics
+
+"%s" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same %s, "my sub" not yet
+implemented, "our" variable %s redeclared, '!' allowed only after types %s,
+/ cannot take a count, / must be followed by a, A or Z, / must be followed
+by a*, A* or Z*, / must follow a numeric type, /%s/: Unrecognized escape
+\\%c passed through, /%s/: Unrecognized escape \\%c in character class
+passed through, /%s/ should probably be written as "%s", %s() called too
+early to check prototype, %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element, %s
+argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element or slice, %s argument is not a
+subroutine name, %s package attribute may clash with future reserved word:
+%s, (in cleanup) %s, <> should be quotes, Attempt to join self, Bad evalled
+substitution pattern, Bad realloc() ignored, Bareword found in conditional,
+Binary number > 0b11111111111111111111111111111111 non-portable, Bit vector
+size > 32 non-portable, Buffer overflow in prime_env_iter: %s, Can't check
+filesystem of script "%s", Can't declare class for non-scalar %s in "%s",
+Can't declare %s in "%s", Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default,
+Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine call, Can't read CRTL environ, Can't
+remove %s: %s, skipping file, Can't return %s from lvalue subroutine, Can't
+weaken a nonreference, Character class [:%s:] unknown, Character class
+syntax [%s] belongs inside character classes, Constant is not %s reference,
+constant(%s): %s, CORE::%s is not a keyword, defined(@array) is deprecated,
+defined(%hash) is deprecated, Did not produce a valid header, (Did you mean
+"local" instead of "our"?), Document contains no data, entering effective
+%s failed, false [] range "%s" in regexp, Filehandle %s opened only for
+output, flock() on closed filehandle %s, Global symbol "%s" requires
+explicit package name, Hexadecimal number > 0xffffffff non-portable,
+Ill-formed CRTL environ value "%s", Ill-formed message in prime_env_iter:
+|%s|, Illegal binary digit %s, Illegal binary digit %s ignored, Illegal
+number of bits in vec, Integer overflow in %s number, Invalid %s attribute:
+%s, Invalid %s attributes: %s, invalid [] range "%s" in regexp, Invalid
+separator character %s in attribute list, Invalid separator character %s in
+subroutine attribute list, leaving effective %s failed, Lvalue subs
+returning %s not implemented yet, Method %s not permitted, Missing
+%sbrace%s on \N{}, Missing command in piped open, Missing name in "my sub",
+No %s specified for -%c, No package name allowed for variable %s in "our",
+No space allowed after -%c, no UTC offset information; assuming local time
+is UTC, Octal number > 037777777777 non-portable, panic: del_backref,
+panic: kid popen errno read, panic: magic_killbackrefs, Parentheses missing
+around "%s" list, Possible unintended interpolation of %s in string,
+Possible Y2K bug: %s, pragma "attrs" is deprecated, use "sub NAME : ATTRS"
+instead, Premature end of script headers, Repeat count in pack overflows,
+Repeat count in unpack overflows, realloc() of freed memory ignored,
+Reference is already weak, setpgrp can't take arguments, Strange *+?{} on
+zero-length expression, switching effective %s is not implemented, This
+Perl can't reset CRTL environ elements (%s), This Perl can't set CRTL
+environ elements (%s=%s), Too late to run %s block, Unknown open() mode
+'%s', Unknown process %x sent message to prime_env_iter: %s, Unrecognized
+escape \\%c passed through, Unterminated attribute parameter in attribute
+list, Unterminated attribute list, Unterminated attribute parameter in
+subroutine attribute list, Unterminated subroutine attribute list, Value of
+CLI symbol "%s" too long, Version number must be a constant number
+
+=item New tests
+
+=item Incompatible Changes
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Perl Source Incompatibilities
+
+CHECK is a new keyword, Treatment of list slices of undef has changed,
+Format of $English::PERL_VERSION is different, Literals of the form
+C<1.2.3> parse differently, Possibly changed pseudo-random number
+generator, Hashing function for hash keys has changed, C<undef> fails on
+read only values, Close-on-exec bit may be set on pipe and socket handles,
+Writing C<"$$1"> to mean C<"${$}1"> is unsupported, delete(), each(),
+values() and C<\(%h)>, vec(EXPR,OFFSET,BITS) enforces powers-of-two BITS,
+Text of some diagnostic output has changed, C<%@> has been removed,
+Parenthesized not() behaves like a list operator, Semantics of bareword
+prototype C<(*)> have changed, Semantics of bit operators may have changed
+on 64-bit platforms, More builtins taint their results
+
+=item C Source Incompatibilities
+
+C<PERL_POLLUTE>, C<PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT>, C<PERL_POLLUTE_MALLOC>
+
+=item Compatible C Source API Changes
+
+C<PATCHLEVEL> is now C<PERL_VERSION>
+
+=item Binary Incompatibilities
+
+=back
+
+=item Known Problems
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Thread test failures
+
+=item EBCDIC platforms not supported
+
+=item In 64-bit HP-UX the lib/io_multihomed test may hang
+
+=item NEXTSTEP 3.3 POSIX test failure
+
+=item Tru64 (aka Digital UNIX, aka DEC OSF/1) lib/sdbm test failure with
+gcc
+
+=item UNICOS/mk CC failures during Configure run
+
+=item Arrow operator and arrays
+
+=item Experimental features
+
+Threads, Unicode, 64-bit support, Lvalue subroutines, Weak references, The
+pseudo-hash data type, The Compiler suite, Internal implementation of file
+globbing, The DB module, The regular expression code constructs:
+
+=back
+
+=item Obsolete Diagnostics
+
+Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions, Ill-formed
+logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter, In string, @%s now must be written as
+\@%s, Probable precedence problem on %s, regexp too big, Use of "$$<digit>"
+to mean "${$}<digit>" is deprecated
+
+=item Reporting Bugs
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item HISTORY
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perl5005delta - what's new for perl5.005
+
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item About the new versioning system
+
+=item Incompatible Changes
+
+=over 4
+
+=item WARNING: This version is not binary compatible with Perl 5.004.
+
+=item Default installation structure has changed
+
+=item Perl Source Compatibility
+
+=item C Source Compatibility
+
+=item Binary Compatibility
+
+=item Security fixes may affect compatibility
+
+=item Relaxed new mandatory warnings introduced in 5.004
+
+=item Licensing
+
+=back
+
+=item Core Changes
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Threads
+
+=item Compiler
+
+=item Regular Expressions
+
+Many new and improved optimizations, Many bug fixes, New regular expression
+constructs, New operator for precompiled regular expressions, Other
+improvements, Incompatible changes
+
+=item Improved malloc()
+
+=item Quicksort is internally implemented
+
+=item Reliable signals
+
+=item Reliable stack pointers
+
+=item More generous treatment of carriage returns
+
+=item Memory leaks
+
+=item Better support for multiple interpreters
+
+=item Behavior of local() on array and hash elements is now well-defined
+
+=item C<%!> is transparently tied to the L<Errno> module
+
+=item Pseudo-hashes are supported
+
+=item C<EXPR foreach EXPR> is supported
+
+=item Keywords can be globally overridden
+
+=item C<$^E> is meaningful on Win32
+
+=item C<foreach (1..1000000)> optimized
+
+=item C<Foo::> can be used as implicitly quoted package name
+
+=item C<exists $Foo::{Bar::}> tests existence of a package
+
+=item Better locale support
+
+=item Experimental support for 64-bit platforms
+
+=item prototype() returns useful results on builtins
+
+=item Extended support for exception handling
+
+=item Re-blessing in DESTROY() supported for chaining DESTROY() methods
+
+=item All C<printf> format conversions are handled internally
+
+=item New C<INIT> keyword
+
+=item New C<lock> keyword
+
+=item New C<qr//> operator
+
+=item C<our> is now a reserved word
+
+=item Tied arrays are now fully supported
+
+=item Tied handles support is better
+
+=item 4th argument to substr
+
+=item Negative LENGTH argument to splice
+
+=item Magic lvalues are now more magical
+
+=item <> now reads in records
+
+=back
+
+=item Supported Platforms
+
+=over 4
+
+=item New Platforms
+
+=item Changes in existing support
+
+=back
+
+=item Modules and Pragmata
+
+=over 4
+
+=item New Modules
+
+B, Data::Dumper, Dumpvalue, Errno, File::Spec, ExtUtils::Installed,
+ExtUtils::Packlist, Fatal, IPC::SysV, Test, Tie::Array, Tie::Handle,
+Thread, attrs, fields, re
+
+=item Changes in existing modules
+
+Benchmark, Carp, CGI, Fcntl, Math::Complex, Math::Trig, POSIX, DB_File,
+MakeMaker, CPAN, Cwd
+
+=back
+
+=item Utility Changes
+
+=item Documentation Changes
+
+=item New Diagnostics
+
+Ambiguous call resolved as CORE::%s(), qualify as such or use &, Bad index
+while coercing array into hash, Bareword "%s" refers to nonexistent
+package, Can't call method "%s" on an undefined value, Can't check
+filesystem of script "%s" for nosuid, Can't coerce array into hash, Can't
+goto subroutine from an eval-string, Can't localize pseudo-hash element,
+Can't use %%! because Errno.pm is not available, Cannot find an opnumber
+for "%s", Character class syntax [. .] is reserved for future extensions,
+Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions, Character
+class syntax [= =] is reserved for future extensions, %s: Eval-group in
+insecure regular expression, %s: Eval-group not allowed, use re 'eval', %s:
+Eval-group not allowed at run time, Explicit blessing to '' (assuming
+package main), Illegal hex digit ignored, No such array field, No such
+field "%s" in variable %s of type %s, Out of memory during ridiculously
+large request, Range iterator outside integer range, Recursive inheritance
+detected while looking for method '%s' %s, Reference found where even-sized
+list expected, Undefined value assigned to typeglob, Use of reserved word
+"%s" is deprecated, perl: warning: Setting locale failed
+
+=item Obsolete Diagnostics
+
+Can't mktemp(), Can't write to temp file for B<-e>: %s, Cannot open
+temporary file, regexp too big
+
+=item Configuration Changes
+
+=item BUGS
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item HISTORY
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perl5004delta - what's new for perl5.004
+
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item Supported Environments
+
+=item Core Changes
+
+=over 4
+
+=item List assignment to %ENV works
+
+=item Change to "Can't locate Foo.pm in @INC" error
+
+=item Compilation option: Binary compatibility with 5.003
+
+=item $PERL5OPT environment variable
+
+=item Limitations on B<-M>, B<-m>, and B<-T> options
+
+=item More precise warnings
+
+=item Deprecated: Inherited C<AUTOLOAD> for non-methods
+
+=item Previously deprecated %OVERLOAD is no longer usable
+
+=item Subroutine arguments created only when they're modified
+
+=item Group vector changeable with C<$)>
+
+=item Fixed parsing of $$<digit>, &$<digit>, etc.
+
+=item Fixed localization of $<digit>, $&, etc.
+
+=item No resetting of $. on implicit close
+
+=item C<wantarray> may return undef
+
+=item C<eval EXPR> determines value of EXPR in scalar context
+
+=item Changes to tainting checks
+
+No glob() or <*>, No spawning if tainted $CDPATH, $ENV, $BASH_ENV, No
+spawning if tainted $TERM doesn't look like a terminal name
+
+=item New Opcode module and revised Safe module
+
+=item Embedding improvements
+
+=item Internal change: FileHandle class based on IO::* classes
+
+=item Internal change: PerlIO abstraction interface
+
+=item New and changed syntax
+
+$coderef->(PARAMS)
+
+=item New and changed builtin constants
+
+__PACKAGE__
+
+=item New and changed builtin variables
+
+$^E, $^H, $^M
+
+=item New and changed builtin functions
+
+delete on slices, flock, printf and sprintf, keys as an lvalue, my() in
+Control Structures, pack() and unpack(), sysseek(), use VERSION, use Module
+VERSION LIST, prototype(FUNCTION), srand, $_ as Default, C<m//gc> does not
+reset search position on failure, C<m//x> ignores whitespace before ?*+{},
+nested C<sub{}> closures work now, formats work right on changing lexicals
+
+=item New builtin methods
+
+isa(CLASS), can(METHOD), VERSION( [NEED] )
+
+=item TIEHANDLE now supported
+
+TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, PRINT this, LIST, PRINTF this, LIST, READ this
+LIST, READLINE this, GETC this, DESTROY this
+
+=item Malloc enhancements
+
+-DPERL_EMERGENCY_SBRK, -DPACK_MALLOC, -DTWO_POT_OPTIMIZE
+
+=item Miscellaneous efficiency enhancements
+
+=back
+
+=item Support for More Operating Systems
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Win32
+
+=item Plan 9
+
+=item QNX
+
+=item AmigaOS
+
+=back
+
+=item Pragmata
+
+use autouse MODULE => qw(sub1 sub2 sub3), use blib, use blib 'dir', use
+constant NAME => VALUE, use locale, use ops, use vmsish
+
+=item Modules
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Required Updates
+
+=item Installation directories
+
+=item Module information summary
+
+=item Fcntl
+
+=item IO
+
+=item Math::Complex
+
+=item Math::Trig
+
+=item DB_File
+
+=item Net::Ping
+
+=item Object-oriented overrides for builtin operators
+
+=back
+
+=item Utility Changes
+
+=over 4
+
+=item pod2html
+
+Sends converted HTML to standard output
+
+=item xsubpp
+
+C<void> XSUBs now default to returning nothing
+
+=back
+
+=item C Language API Changes
+
+C<gv_fetchmethod> and C<perl_call_sv>, C<perl_eval_pv>, Extended API for
+manipulating hashes
+
+=item Documentation Changes
+
+L<perldelta>, L<perlfaq>, L<perllocale>, L<perltoot>, L<perlapio>,
+L<perlmodlib>, L<perldebug>, L<perlsec>
+
+=item New Diagnostics
+
+"my" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same scope, %s argument is
+not a HASH element or slice, Allocation too large: %lx, Allocation too
+large, Applying %s to %s will act on scalar(%s), Attempt to free
+nonexistent shared string, Attempt to use reference as lvalue in substr,
+Bareword "%s" refers to nonexistent package, Can't redefine active sort
+subroutine %s, Can't use bareword ("%s") as %s ref while "strict refs" in
+use, Cannot resolve method `%s' overloading `%s' in package `%s', Constant
+subroutine %s redefined, Constant subroutine %s undefined, Copy method did
+not return a reference, Died, Exiting pseudo-block via %s, Identifier too
+long, Illegal character %s (carriage return), Illegal switch in PERL5OPT:
+%s, Integer overflow in hex number, Integer overflow in octal number,
+internal error: glob failed, Invalid conversion in %s: "%s", Invalid type
+in pack: '%s', Invalid type in unpack: '%s', Name "%s::%s" used only once:
+possible typo, Null picture in formline, Offset outside string, Out of
+memory!, Out of memory during request for %s, panic: frexp, Possible
+attempt to put comments in qw() list, Possible attempt to separate words
+with commas, Scalar value @%s{%s} better written as $%s{%s}, Stub found
+while resolving method `%s' overloading `%s' in %s, Too late for "B<-T>"
+option, untie attempted while %d inner references still exist, Unrecognized
+character %s, Unsupported function fork, Use of "$$<digit>" to mean
+"${$}<digit>" is deprecated, Value of %s can be "0"; test with defined(),
+Variable "%s" may be unavailable, Variable "%s" will not stay shared,
+Warning: something's wrong, Ill-formed logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter,
+Got an error from DosAllocMem, Malformed PERLLIB_PREFIX, PERL_SH_DIR too
+long, Process terminated by SIG%s
+
+=item BUGS
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item HISTORY
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlartistic - the Perl Artistic License
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item The "Artistic License"
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Preamble
+
+=item Definitions
+
+"Package", "Standard Version", "Copyright Holder", "You", "Reasonable
+copying fee", "Freely Available"
+
+=item Conditions
+
+a), b), c), d), a), b), c), d)
+
+=back
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlgpl - the GNU General Public License, version 2
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=back
+
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlaix, README.aix - Perl version 5 on IBM Unix (AIX) systems
+
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Compiling Perl 5 on AIX
+
+=item OS level
+
+=item Building Dynamic Extensions on AIX
+
+=item The IBM ANSI C Compiler
+
+=item The usenm option
+
+=item Using GNU's gcc for building perl
+
+=item Using Large Files with Perl
+
+=item Threaded Perl
+
+=item 64-bit Perl
+
+=item AIX 4.2 and extensions using C++ with statics
+
+=back
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item DATE
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlamiga - Perl under Amiga OS
+
+=over 4
+
+=item NOTE
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=back
+
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Prerequisites for Compiling Perl on AmigaOS
+
+B<Unix emulation for AmigaOS: ixemul.library>, B<Version of Amiga OS>
+
+=item Starting Perl programs under AmigaOS
+
+=item Shortcomings of Perl under AmigaOS
+
+=back
+
+=item INSTALLATION
+
+=item Accessing documentation
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Manpages for Perl on AmigaOS
+
+=item Perl HTML Documentation on AmigaOS
+
+=item Perl GNU Info Files on AmigaOS
+
+=item Perl LaTeX Documentation on AmigaOS
+
+=back
+
+=item BUILDING PERL ON AMIGAOS
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Build Prerequisites for Perl on AmigaOS
+
+=item Getting the Perl Source for AmigaOS
+
+=item Making Perl on AmigaOS
+
+=item Testing Perl on AmigaOS
+
+=item Installing the built Perl on AmigaOS
+
+=back
+
+=item PERL 5.8.0 BROKEN IN AMIGAOS
+
+=item AUTHORS
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlapollo, README.apollo - Perl version 5 on Apollo DomainOS
+
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlbeos, README.beos - Perl version 5 on BeOS
+
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item General Issues with Perl on BeOS
+
+=item BeOS Release-specific Notes
+
+R4 x86, R4 PPC
+
+=item Contact Information
+
+=item Update 2002-05-30
+
+=back
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlbs2000, README.BS2000 - building and installing Perl for BS2000.
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item gzip on BS2000
+
+=item bison on BS2000
+
+=item Unpacking Perl Distribution on BS2000
+
+=item Compiling Perl on BS2000
+
+=item Testing Perl on BS2000
+
+=item Installing Perl on BS2000
+
+=item Using Perl in the Posix-Shell of BS2000
+
+=item Using Perl in "native" BS2000
+
+=item Floating point anomalies on BS2000
+
+=item Using PerlIO and different encodings on ASCII and EBCDIC partitions
+
+=back
+
+=item AUTHORS
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Mailing list
+
+=back
+
+=item HISTORY
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlce - Perl for WinCE
+
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item BUILD
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Tools & SDK
+
+Microsoft Embedded Visual Tools, Microsoft Visual C++, Rainer Keuchel's
+celib-sources, Rainer Keuchel's console-sources
+
+=item Make
+
+go to ./wince subdirectory, edit file compile.bat, run compile.bat, run
+ compile.bat dist
+
+=back
+
+=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
+
+=item AUTHORS
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlcygwin, README.cygwin - Perl for Cygwin
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item PREREQUISITES FOR COMPILING PERL ON CYGWIN
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Cygwin = GNU+Cygnus+Windows (Don't leave UNIX without it)
+
+=item Cygwin Configuration
+
+C<PATH>, I<nroff>, Permissions
+
+=back
+
+=item CONFIGURE PERL ON CYGWIN
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Stripping Perl Binaries on Cygwin
+
+=item Optional Libraries for Perl on Cygwin
+
+C<-lcrypt>, C<-lgdbm> (C<use GDBM_File>), C<-ldb> (C<use DB_File>),
+C<-lcygipc> (C<use IPC::SysV>), C<-lutil>
+
+=item Configure-time Options for Perl on Cygwin
+
+C<-Uusedl>, C<-Uusemymalloc>, C<-Uuseperlio>, C<-Dusemultiplicity>,
+C<-Duse64bitint>, C<-Duselongdouble>, C<-Dusethreads>, C<-Duselargefiles>,
+C<-Dmksymlinks>
+
+=item Suspicious Warnings on Cygwin
+
+I<dlsym()>, Win9x and C<d_eofnblk>, Compiler/Preprocessor defines
+
+=back
+
+=item MAKE ON CYGWIN
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Errors on Cygwin
+
+=item ld2 on Cygwin
+
+=back
+
+=item TEST ON CYGWIN
+
+=over 4
+
+=item File Permissions on Cygwin
+
+=item NDBM_File and ODBM_File do not work on FAT filesystems
+
+=item C<fork()> failures in io_* tests
+
+=item Script Portability on Cygwin
+
+Pathnames, Text/Binary, PerlIO, F<.exe>, C<chown()>, Miscellaneous
+
+=back
+
+=item INSTALL PERL ON CYGWIN
+
+=item MANIFEST ON CYGWIN
+
+Documentation, Build, Configure, Make, Install, Tests, Compiled Perl
+Source, Compiled Module Source, Perl Modules/Scripts
+
+=item BUGS ON CYGWIN
+
+=item AUTHORS
+
+=item HISTORY
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perldgux - Perl under DG/UX.
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=back
+
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item BUILDING PERL ON DG/UX
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Non-threaded Perl on DG/UX
+
+=item Threaded Perl on DG/UX
+
+=item Testing Perl on DG/UX
+
+=item Installing the built perl on DG/UX
+
+=back
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perldos - Perl under DOS, W31, W95.
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Prerequisites for Compiling Perl on DOS
+
+DJGPP, Pthreads
+
+=item Shortcomings of Perl under DOS
+
+=item Building Perl on DOS
+
+=item Testing Perl on DOS
+
+=item Installation of Perl on DOS
+
+=back
+
+=item BUILDING AND INSTALLING MODULES ON DOS
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Building Prerequisites for Perl on DOS
+
+=item Unpacking CPAN Modules on DOS
+
+=item Building Non-XS Modules on DOS
+
+=item Building XS Modules on DOS
+
+=back
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlepoc, README.epoc - Perl for EPOC
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item INTRODUCTION
+
+=item INSTALLING PERL ON EPOC
+
+=item STARTING PERL ON EPOC
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Editors on Epoc
+
+=item Features of Perl on Epoc
+
+=item Restrictions of Perl on Epoc
+
+=item Compiling Perl 5 on the EPOC cross compiling environment
+
+=back
+
+=item SUPPORT STATUS OF PERL ON EPOC
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item LAST UPDATE
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlfreebsd, README.freebsd - Perl version 5 on FreeBSD systems
+
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item FreeBSD core dumps from readdir_r with ithreads
+
+=item $^X doesn't always contain a full path in FreeBSD
+
+=item Perl will no longer be part of "base FreeBSD"
+
+=back
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlhpux, README.hpux - Perl version 5 on Hewlett-Packard Unix
+(HP-UX) systems
+
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Using perl as shipped with HP-UX
+
+=item Using perl from HP's porting centre
+
+=item Compiling Perl 5 on HP-UX
+
+=item PA-RISC
+
+=item PA-RISC 1.0
+
+=item PA-RISC 1.1
+
+=item PA-RISC 2.0
+
+=item Itanium & Itanium 2
+
+=item Portability Between PA-RISC Versions
+
+=item Itanium Processor Family and HP-UX
+
+=item Building Dynamic Extensions on HP-UX
+
+=item The HP ANSI C Compiler
+
+=item The GNU C Compiler
+
+=item Using Large Files with Perl on HP-UX
+
+=item Threaded Perl on HP-UX
+
+=item 64-bit Perl on HP-UX
+
+=item Oracle on HP-UX
+
+=item GDBM and Threads on HP-UX
+
+=item NFS filesystems and utime(2) on HP-UX
+
+=item perl -P and // and HP-UX
+
+=item HP-UX Kernel Parameters (maxdsiz) for Compiling Perl
+
+=back
+
+=item nss_delete core dump from op/pwent or op/grent
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item DATE
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlhurd, README.hurd - Perl version 5 on Hurd
+
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Known Problems with Perl on Hurd
+
+=back
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlirix, README.irix - Perl version 5 on Irix systems
+
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Building 32-bit Perl in Irix
+
+=item Building 64-bit Perl in Irix
+
+=item About Compiler Versions of Irix
+
+=item Linker Problems in Irix
+
+=item Malloc in Irix
+
+=item Building with threads in Irix
+
+=item Irix 5.3
+
+=back
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlmachten, README.machten - Perl version 5 on Power MachTen
+systems
+
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=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
+
+op/lexassign.t, pragma/warnings.t
+
+=item Building external modules on MachTen
+
+=back
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item DATE
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlmacos, README.macos - Perl under Mac OS (Classic)
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item DATE
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlmacosx, README.macosx - Perl under Mac OS X
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Installation Prefix
+
+=item libperl and Prebinding
+
+=item Updating Panther
+
+=item Known problems
+
+=item MacPerl
+
+=item Carbon
+
+=item Cocoa
+
+=back
+
+=item Starting From Scratch
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item DATE
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlmint, README.mint - Perl version 5 on Atari MiNT
+
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item Known problems with Perl on MiNT
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlmpeix, README.mpeix - Perl/iX for HP e3000 MPE
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item NOTE
+
+=item Binary distribution from HP
+
+=item What's New in Perl for MPE/iX
+
+=item Welcome to Perl/iX
+
+=item System Requirements for Perl/iX
+
+=item How to Obtain Perl/iX
+
+=item Perl/iX Distribution Contents Highlights
+
+README, INSTALL, LIBSHP3K, PERL, .cpan/, lib/, man/,
+public_html/feedback.cgi, src/perl-5.6.0-mpe
+
+=item How to Compile Perl/iX
+
+ 4, 6
+
+=item Getting Started with Perl/iX
+
+=item MPE/iX Implementation Considerations
+
+=item Known Perl/iX Bugs Under Investigation
+
+=item Perl/iX To-Do List
+
+=item Perl/iX Change History
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlnetware - Perl for NetWare
+
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item BUILD
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Tools & SDK
+
+=item Setup
+
+SetNWBld.bat, Buildtype.bat
+
+=item Make
+
+=item Interpreter
+
+=item Extensions
+
+=back
+
+=item INSTALL
+
+=item BUILD NEW EXTENSIONS
+
+=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
+
+=item AUTHORS
+
+=item DATE
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlos2 - Perl under OS/2, DOS, Win0.3*, Win0.95 and WinNT.
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=back
+
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Target
+
+=item Other OSes
+
+=item Prerequisites
+
+EMX, RSX, HPFS, pdksh
+
+=item Starting Perl programs under OS/2 (and DOS and...)
+
+=item Starting OS/2 (and DOS) programs under Perl
+
+=back
+
+=item Frequently asked questions
+
+=over 4
+
+=item "It does not work"
+
+=item I cannot run external programs
+
+=item I cannot embed perl into my program, or use F<perl.dll> from my
+program.
+
+Is your program EMX-compiled with C<-Zmt -Zcrtdll>?, Did you use
+L<ExtUtils::Embed>?
+
+=item C<``> and pipe-C<open> do not work under DOS.
+
+=item Cannot start C<find.exe "pattern" file>
+
+=back
+
+=item INSTALLATION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Automatic binary installation
+
+C<PERL_BADLANG>, C<PERL_BADFREE>, F<Config.pm>
+
+=item Manual binary installation
+
+Perl VIO and PM executables (dynamically linked), Perl_ VIO executable
+(statically linked), Executables for Perl utilities, Main Perl library,
+Additional Perl modules, Tools to compile Perl modules, Manpages for Perl
+and utilities, Manpages for Perl modules, Source for Perl documentation,
+Perl manual in F<.INF> format, Pdksh
+
+=item B<Warning>
+
+=back
+
+=item Accessing documentation
+
+=over 4
+
+=item OS/2 F<.INF> file
+
+=item Plain text
+
+=item Manpages
+
+=item HTML
+
+=item GNU C<info> files
+
+=item F<PDF> files
+
+=item C<LaTeX> docs
+
+=back
+
+=item BUILD
+
+=over 4
+
+=item The short story
+
+=item Prerequisites
+
+=item Getting perl source
+
+=item Application of the patches
+
+=item Hand-editing
+
+=item Making
+
+=item Testing
+
+A lot of C<bad free>, Process terminated by SIGTERM/SIGINT, F<op/fs.t>,
+F<op/stat.t>
+
+=item Installing the built perl
+
+=item C<a.out>-style build
+
+=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
+
+=item Some C</> became C<\> in pdksh.
+
+=item C<'errno'> - unresolved external
+
+=item Problems with tr or sed
+
+=item Some problem (forget which ;-)
+
+=item Library ... not found
+
+=item Segfault in make
+
+=item op/sprintf test failure
+
+=back
+
+=item Specific (mis)features of OS/2 port
+
+=over 4
+
+=item C<setpriority>, C<getpriority>
+
+=item C<system()>
+
+=item C<extproc> on the first line
+
+=item Additional modules:
+
+=item Prebuilt methods:
+
+C<File::Copy::syscopy>, C<DynaLoader::mod2fname>, C<Cwd::current_drive()>,
+ C<Cwd::sys_chdir(name)>, C<Cwd::change_drive(name)>,
+C<Cwd::sys_is_absolute(name)>, C<Cwd::sys_is_rooted(name)>,
+C<Cwd::sys_is_relative(name)>, C<Cwd::sys_cwd(name)>,
+C<Cwd::sys_abspath(name, dir)>, C<Cwd::extLibpath([type])>,
+C<Cwd::extLibpath_set( path [, type ] )>,
+C<OS2::Error(do_harderror,do_exception)>, C<OS2::Errors2Drive(drive)>,
+OS2::SysInfo(), OS2::BootDrive(), C<OS2::MorphPM(serve)>,
+C<OS2::UnMorphPM(serve)>, C<OS2::Serve_Messages(force)>,
+C<OS2::Process_Messages(force [, cnt])>, C<OS2::_control87(new,mask)>,
+OS2::get_control87(), C<OS2::set_control87_em(new=MCW_EM,mask=MCW_EM)>,
+C<OS2::DLLname([how [, \&xsub]])>
+
+=item Prebuilt variables:
+
+$OS2::emx_rev, $OS2::emx_env, $OS2::os_ver, $OS2::is_aout, $OS2::can_fork,
+$OS2::nsyserror
+
+=item Misfeatures
+
+=item Modifications
+
+C<popen>, C<tmpnam>, C<tmpfile>, C<ctermid>, C<stat>, C<mkdir>, C<rmdir>,
+C<flock>
+
+=item Identifying DLLs
+
+=item Centralized management of resources
+
+C<HAB>, C<HMQ>, Treating errors reported by OS/2 API,
+C<CheckOSError(expr)>, C<CheckWinError(expr)>, C<SaveWinError(expr)>,
+C<SaveCroakWinError(expr,die,name1,name2)>, C<WinError_2_Perl_rc>,
+C<FillWinError>, C<FillOSError(rc)>, Loading DLLs and ordinals in DLLs
+
+=back
+
+=item Perl flavors
+
+=over 4
+
+=item F<perl.exe>
+
+=item F<perl_.exe>
+
+=item F<perl__.exe>
+
+=item F<perl___.exe>
+
+=item Why strange names?
+
+=item Why dynamic linking?
+
+=item Why chimera build?
+
+=back
+
+=item ENVIRONMENT
+
+=over 4
+
+=item C<PERLLIB_PREFIX>
+
+=item C<PERL_BADLANG>
+
+=item C<PERL_BADFREE>
+
+=item C<PERL_SH_DIR>
+
+=item C<USE_PERL_FLOCK>
+
+=item C<TMP> or C<TEMP>
+
+=back
+
+=item Evolution
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Text-mode filehandles
+
+=item Priorities
+
+=item DLL name mangling: pre 5.6.2
+
+=item DLL name mangling: 5.6.2 and beyond
+
+Global DLLs, specific DLLs, C<BEGINLIBPATH> and C<ENDLIBPATH>, F<.> from
+C<LIBPATH>
+
+=item DLL forwarder generation
+
+=item Threading
+
+=item Calls to external programs
+
+=item Memory allocation
+
+=item Threads
+
+C<COND_WAIT>, F<os2.c>
+
+=back
+
+=item BUGS
+
+=back
+
+=over 4
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlos390, README.os390 - building and installing Perl for OS/390
+and z/OS
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Tools
+
+=item Unpacking Perl distribution on OS/390
+
+=item Setup and utilities for Perl on OS/390
+
+=item Configure Perl on OS/390
+
+=item Build, Test, Install Perl on OS/390
+
+=item Build Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
+
+=item Testing Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
+
+=item Installation Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
+
+=item Usage Hints for Perl on OS/390
+
+=item Floating Point Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
+
+=item Modules and Extensions for Perl on OS/390
+
+=back
+
+=item AUTHORS
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Mailing list for Perl on OS/390
+
+=back
+
+=item HISTORY
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlos400, README.os400 - Perl version 5 on OS/400
+
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Compiling Perl for OS/400 PASE
+
+=item Installing Perl in OS/400 PASE
+
+=item Using Perl in OS/400 PASE
+
+=item Known Problems
+
+=item Perl on ILE
+
+=back
+
+=item AUTHORS
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlplan9 - Plan 9-specific documentation for Perl
+
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=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 Signals in Plan 9 Perl
+
+=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 perlqnx, README.qnx - Perl version 5 on QNX
+
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Required Software for Compiling Perl on QNX4
+
+/bin/sh, ar, nm, cpp, make
+
+=item Outstanding Issues with Perl on QNX4
+
+=item QNX auxiliary files
+
+qnx/ar, qnx/cpp
+
+=item Outstanding issues with perl under QNX6
+
+=back
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlsolaris, README.solaris - Perl version 5 on Solaris systems
+
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Solaris Version Numbers.
+
+=back
+
+=item RESOURCES
+
+Solaris FAQ, Precompiled Binaries, Solaris Documentation
+
+=item SETTING UP
+
+=over 4
+
+=item File Extraction Problems on Solaris.
+
+=item Compiler and Related Tools on Solaris.
+
+=item Environment for Compiling perl on Solaris
+
+=back
+
+=item RUN CONFIGURE.
+
+=over 4
+
+=item 64-bit perl on Solaris.
+
+=item Threads in perl on Solaris.
+
+=item Malloc Issues with perl on Solaris.
+
+=back
+
+=item MAKE PROBLEMS.
+
+Dynamic Loading Problems With GNU as and GNU ld, ld.so.1: ./perl: fatal:
+relocation error:, dlopen: stub interception failed, #error "No
+DATAMODEL_NATIVE specified", sh: ar: not found
+
+=item MAKE TEST
+
+=over 4
+
+=item op/stat.t test 4 in Solaris
+
+=item nss_delete core dump from op/pwent or op/grent
+
+=back
+
+=item PREBUILT BINARIES OF PERL FOR SOLARIS.
+
+=item RUNTIME ISSUES FOR PERL ON SOLARIS.
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Limits on Numbers of Open Files on Solaris.
+
+=back
+
+=item SOLARIS-SPECIFIC MODULES.
+
+=item SOLARIS-SPECIFIC PROBLEMS WITH MODULES.
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Proc::ProcessTable on Solaris
+
+=item BSD::Resource on Solaris
+
+=item Net::SSLeay on Solaris
+
+=back
+
+=item SunOS 4.x
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item LAST MODIFIED
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perltru64, README.tru64 - Perl version 5 on Tru64 (formerly known as
+Digital UNIX formerly known as DEC OSF/1) systems
+
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Compiling Perl 5 on Tru64
+
+=item Using Large Files with Perl on Tru64
+
+=item Threaded Perl on Tru64
+
+=item Long Doubles on Tru64
+
+=item DB_File tests failing on Tru64
+
+=item 64-bit Perl on Tru64
+
+=item Warnings about floating-point overflow when compiling Perl on Tru64
+
+=back
+
+=item Testing Perl on Tru64
+
+=item ext/ODBM_File/odbm Test Failing With Static Builds
+
+=item Perl Fails Because Of Unresolved Symbol sockatmark
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perluts - Perl under UTS
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item BUILDING PERL ON UTS
+
+=item Installing the built perl on UTS
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlvmesa, README.vmesa - building and installing Perl for VM/ESA.
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Unpacking Perl Distribution on VM/ESA
+
+=item Setup Perl and utilities on VM/ESA
+
+=item Configure Perl on VM/ESA
+
+=item Testing Anomalies of Perl on VM/ESA
+
+=item Usage Hints for Perl on VM/ESA
+
+=back
+
+=item AUTHORS
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Mailing list for Perl on VM/ESA
+
+=back
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlvms - VMS-specific documentation for Perl
+
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item Installation
+
+=item Organization of Perl Images
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Core Images
+
+=item Perl Extensions
+
+=item Installing static extensions
+
+=item Installing dynamic extensions
+
+=back
+
+=item File specifications
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Syntax
+
+=item Wildcard expansion
+
+=item Pipes
+
+=back
+
+=item PERL5LIB and PERLLIB
+
+=item Command line
+
+=over 4
+
+=item I/O redirection and backgrounding
+
+=item Command line switches
+
+-i, -S, -u
+
+=back
+
+=item Perl functions
+
+File tests, backticks, binmode FILEHANDLE, crypt PLAINTEXT, USER, dump,
+exec LIST, fork, getpwent, getpwnam, getpwuid, gmtime, kill, qx//, select
+(system call), stat EXPR, system LIST, time, times, unlink LIST, utime
+LIST, waitpid PID,FLAGS
+
+=item Perl variables
+
+%ENV, CRTL_ENV, CLISYM_[LOCAL], Any other string, $!, $^E, $?, $|
+
+=item Standard modules with VMS-specific differences
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SDBM_File
+
+=back
+
+=item Revision date
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlvos, README.vos - Perl for Stratus VOS
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item BUILDING PERL FOR VOS
+
+=item INSTALLING PERL IN VOS
+
+=item USING PERL IN VOS
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Restrictions of Perl on VOS
+
+=item Handling of underflow and overflow
+
+=back
+
+=item TEST STATUS
+
+=item SUPPORT STATUS
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item LAST UPDATE
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlwin32 - Perl under Windows
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Setting Up Perl on Win32
+
+Make, Command Shell, Borland C++, Microsoft Visual C++, Microsoft Platform
+SDK 64-bit Compiler, MinGW release 3 with gcc, MinGW release 1 with gcc
+
+=item Building
+
+=item Testing Perl on Win32
+
+=item Installation of Perl on Win32
+
+=item Usage Hints for Perl on Win32
+
+Environment Variables, File Globbing, Using perl from the command line,
+Building Extensions, Command-line Wildcard Expansion, Win32 Specific
+Extensions, Notes on 64-bit Windows
+
+=item Running Perl Scripts
+
+Miscellaneous Things
+
+=back
+
+=item BUGS AND CAVEATS
+
+=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
+
+=item AUTHORS
+
+Gary Ng E<lt>71564.1743@CompuServe.COME<gt>, Gurusamy Sarathy
+E<lt>gsar@activestate.comE<gt>, Nick Ing-Simmons
+E<lt>nick@ing-simmons.netE<gt>
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item HISTORY
+
+=back
+
+=head1 PRAGMA DOCUMENTATION
+
+=head2 attrs - set/get attributes of a subroutine (deprecated)
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+method, locked
+
+=back
+
+=head2 re - Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=back
+
+=head2 threadshared::shared, threads::shared - Perl extension for sharing
+data structures between threads
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item EXPORT
+
+=item FUNCTIONS
+
+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 BUGS
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=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 WARNINGS
+
+A thread exited while %d other threads were still running
+
+=item TODO
+
+=item BUGS
+
+Parent-Child threads, Returning objects, Creating threads inside BEGIN
+blocks, PERL_OLD_SIGNALS are not threadsafe, will not be
+
+=item AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 assertions - select assertions in blocks of code
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
+
+=back
+
+=head2 assertions::activate - activate assertions
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
+
+=back
+
+=head2 attributes - get/set subroutine or variable attributes
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Built-in Attributes
+
+locked, method, lvalue
+
+=item Available Subroutines
+
+get, reftype
+
+=item Package-specific Attribute Handling
+
+FETCH_I<type>_ATTRIBUTES, MODIFY_I<type>_ATTRIBUTES
+
+=item Syntax of Attribute Lists
+
+=back
+
+=item EXPORTS
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Default exports
+
+=item Available exports
+
+=item Export tags defined
+
+=back
+
+=item EXAMPLES
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 autouse - postpone load of modules until a function is used
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item WARNING
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 base - Establish IS-A relationship with base classes at compile time
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item DIAGNOSTICS
+
+Base class package "%s" is empty
+
+=item HISTORY
+
+=item CAVEATS
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 bigint - Transparent BigInteger support for Perl
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item OPTIONS
+
+a or accuracy, p or precision, t or trace, l or lib, v or version
+
+=item MATH LIBRARY
+
+=item INTERNAL FORMAT
+
+=item SIGN
+
+=item METHODS
+
+=item CAVEAT
+
+=back
+
+=item MODULES USED
+
+=item EXAMPLES
+
+=item LICENSE
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHORS
+
+=back
+
+=head2 bignum - Transparent BigNumber support for Perl
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item OPTIONS
+
+a or accuracy, p or precision, t or trace, l or lib, v or version
+
+=item METHODS
+
+=item CAVEAT
+
+inf(), NaN(), upgrade()
+
+=item MATH LIBRARY
+
+=item INTERNAL FORMAT
+
+=item SIGN
+
+=back
+
+=item MODULES USED
+
+=item EXAMPLES
+
+=item LICENSE
-=item Target
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item Other OSes
+=item AUTHORS
-=item Prerequisites
+=back
-EMX, RSX, HPFS, pdksh
+=head2 bigrat - Transparent BigNumber/BigRational support for Perl
-=item Starting Perl programs under OS/2 (and DOS and...)
+=over 4
-=item Starting OS/2 (and DOS) programs under Perl
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item MODULES USED
+
+=item MATH LIBRARY
+
+=item SIGN
+
+=item METHODS
+
+=item CAVEAT
=back
-=item Frequently asked questions
+=item EXAMPLES
+
+ perl -Mbigrat -le 'print sqrt(33)'
+ perl -Mbigrat -le 'print 2*255'
+ perl -Mbigrat -le 'print 4.5+2*255'
+ perl -Mbigrat -le 'print 3/7 + 5/7 + 8/3'
+ perl -Mbigrat -le 'print 12->is_odd()';
+
+=item LICENSE
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHORS
+
+=back
+
+=head2 blib - Use MakeMaker's uninstalled version of a package
=over 4
-=item "It does not work"
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item I cannot run external programs
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item I cannot embed perl into my program, or use F<perl.dll> from my
-program.
+=item BUGS
-Is your program EMX-compiled with C<-Zmt -Zcrtdll>?, Did you use
-L<ExtUtils::Embed>?
+=item AUTHOR
-=item C<``> and pipe-C<open> do not work under DOS.
+=back
-=item Cannot start C<find.exe "pattern" file>
+=head2 bytes - Perl pragma to force byte semantics rather than character
+semantics
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item LIMITATIONS
+
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=item INSTALLATION
+=head2 charnames - define character names for C<\N{named}> string literal
+escapes
=over 4
-=item Automatic binary installation
+=item SYNOPSIS
-C<PERL_BADLANG>, C<PERL_BADFREE>, F<Config.pm>
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Manual binary installation
+=item CUSTOM TRANSLATORS
-Perl VIO and PM executables (dynamically linked), Perl_ VIO executable
-(statically linked), Executables for Perl utilities, Main Perl library,
-Additional Perl modules, Tools to compile Perl modules, Manpages for Perl
-and utilities, Manpages for Perl modules, Source for Perl documentation,
-Perl manual in F<.INF> format, Pdksh
+=item CUSTOM ALIASES
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Anonymous hashes
+
+=item Alias file
+
+=item Alias shortcut
+
+=back
+
+=item charnames::viacode(code)
+
+=item charnames::vianame(name)
+
+=item ALIASES
+
+=item ILLEGAL CHARACTERS
+
+=item BUGS
+
+=back
+
+=head2 constant - Perl pragma to declare constants
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item NOTES
+
+=over 4
+
+=item List constants
+
+=item Defining multiple constants at once
+
+=item Magic constants
+
+=back
+
+=item TECHNICAL NOTES
+
+=item BUGS
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
+=back
+
+=head2 diagnostics, splain - produce verbose warning diagnostics
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item The C<diagnostics> Pragma
+
+=item The I<splain> Program
+
+=back
+
+=item EXAMPLES
+
+=item INTERNALS
+
+=item BUGS
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 encoding - allows you to write your script in non-ascii or non-utf8
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item ABSTRACT
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Literal Conversions
+
+=item PerlIO layers for C<STD(IN|OUT)>
+
+=item Implicit upgrading for byte strings
+
+=back
+
+=item FEATURES THAT REQUIRE 5.8.1
+
+"NON-EUC" doublebyte encodings, tr//, DATA pseudo-filehandle
+
+=item USAGE
+
+use encoding [I<ENCNAME>] ;, use encoding I<ENCNAME> [ STDIN =E<gt>
+I<ENCNAME_IN> ...] ;, use encoding I<ENCNAME> Filter=E<gt>1;, no encoding;
+
+=item The Filter Option
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Filter-related changes at Encode version 1.87
+
+=back
+
+=item CAVEATS
+
+=over 4
+
+=item NOT SCOPED
+
+=item DO NOT MIX MULTIPLE ENCODINGS
+
+=item tr/// with ranges
+
+Legend of characters above
+
+=back
+
+=item EXAMPLE - Greekperl
+
+=item KNOWN PROBLEMS
+
+literals in regex that are longer than 127 bytes, EBCDIC, format
+
+=item HISTORY
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 fields - compile-time class fields
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+new, phash
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 filetest - Perl pragma to control the filetest permission operators
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item subpragma access
+
+=back
+
+=back
+
+=head2 if - C<use> a Perl module if a condition holds
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item BUGS
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 integer - Perl pragma to use integer arithmetic instead of floating
+point
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=back
+
+=head2 less - perl pragma to request less of something from the compiler
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=back
+
+=head2 lib - manipulate @INC at compile time
-=item B<Warning>
+=over 4
-=back
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item Accessing documentation
+=item DESCRIPTION
=over 4
-=item OS/2 F<.INF> file
+=item Adding directories to @INC
-=item Plain text
+=item Deleting directories from @INC
-=item Manpages
+=item Restoring original @INC
-=item HTML
+=back
-=item GNU C<info> files
+=item CAVEATS
-=item F<.PDF> files
+=item NOTES
-=item C<LaTeX> docs
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
=back
-=item BUILD
+=head2 locale - Perl pragma to use and avoid POSIX locales for built-in
+operations
=over 4
-=item The short story
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item Prerequisites
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Getting perl source
+=back
-=item Application of the patches
+=head2 open - perl pragma to set default PerlIO layers for input and output
-=item Hand-editing
+=over 4
-=item Making
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item Testing
+=item DESCRIPTION
-A lot of C<bad free>, Process terminated by SIGTERM/SIGINT, F<op/fs.t>,
-F<op/stat.t>
+=item NONPERLIO FUNCTIONALITY
-=item Installing the built perl
+=item IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS
-=item C<a.out>-style build
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=item Build FAQ
+=head2 ops - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when compiling
=over 4
-=item Some C</> became C<\> in pdksh.
-
-=item C<'errno'> - unresolved external
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item Problems with tr or sed
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Some problem (forget which ;-)
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item Library ... not found
+=back
-=item Segfault in make
+=head2 overload - Package for overloading perl operations
-=item op/sprintf test failure
+=over 4
-=back
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item Specific (mis)features of OS/2 port
+=item DESCRIPTION
=over 4
-=item C<setpriority>, C<getpriority>
+=item Declaration of overloaded functions
-=item C<system()>
+=item Calling Conventions for Binary Operations
-=item C<extproc> on the first line
+FALSE, TRUE, C<undef>
-=item Additional modules:
+=item Calling Conventions for Unary Operations
-=item Prebuilt methods:
+=item Calling Conventions for Mutators
-C<File::Copy::syscopy>, C<DynaLoader::mod2fname>, C<Cwd::current_drive()>,
- C<Cwd::sys_chdir(name)>, C<Cwd::change_drive(name)>,
-C<Cwd::sys_is_absolute(name)>, C<Cwd::sys_is_rooted(name)>,
-C<Cwd::sys_is_relative(name)>, C<Cwd::sys_cwd(name)>,
-C<Cwd::sys_abspath(name, dir)>, C<Cwd::extLibpath([type])>,
-C<Cwd::extLibpath_set( path [, type ] )>,
-C<OS2::Error(do_harderror,do_exception)>, C<OS2::Errors2Drive(drive)>,
-OS2::SysInfo(), OS2::BootDrive(), C<OS2::MorphPM(serve)>,
-C<OS2::UnMorphPM(serve)>, C<OS2::Serve_Messages(force)>,
-C<OS2::Process_Messages(force [, cnt])>, C<OS2::_control87(new,mask)>,
-OS2::get_control87(), C<OS2::set_control87_em(new=MCW_EM,mask=MCW_EM)>
+C<++> and C<-->, C<x=> and other assignment versions
-=item Prebuilt variables:
+=item Overloadable Operations
-$OS2::emx_rev, $OS2::emx_env, $OS2::os_ver
+I<Arithmetic operations>, I<Comparison operations>, I<Bit operations>,
+I<Increment and decrement>, I<Transcendental functions>, I<Boolean, string
+and numeric conversion>, I<Iteration>, I<Dereferencing>, I<Special>
-=item Misfeatures
+=item Inheritance and overloading
-=item Modifications
+Strings as values of C<use overload> directive, Overloading of an operation
+is inherited by derived classes
-C<popen>, C<tmpnam>, C<tmpfile>, C<ctermid>, C<stat>, C<mkdir>, C<rmdir>,
-C<flock>
+=back
-=item Identifying DLLs
+=item SPECIAL SYMBOLS FOR C<use overload>
-=item Centralized management of resources
+=over 4
+
+=item Last Resort
+
+=item Fallback
+
+C<undef>, TRUE, defined, but FALSE
+
+=item Copy Constructor
-C<HAB>, C<HMQ>
+B<Example>
=back
-=item Perl flavors
+=item MAGIC AUTOGENERATION
-=over 4
+I<Assignment forms of arithmetic operations>, I<Conversion operations>,
+I<Increment and decrement>, C<abs($a)>, I<Unary minus>, I<Negation>,
+I<Concatenation>, I<Comparison operations>, I<Iterator>, I<Dereferencing>,
+I<Copy operator>
-=item F<perl.exe>
+=item Losing overloading
-=item F<perl_.exe>
+=item Run-time Overloading
-=item F<perl__.exe>
+=item Public functions
-=item F<perl___.exe>
+overload::StrVal(arg), overload::Overloaded(arg), overload::Method(obj,op)
-=item Why strange names?
+=item Overloading constants
-=item Why dynamic linking?
+integer, float, binary, q, qr
-=item Why chimera build?
+=item IMPLEMENTATION
-=back
+=item Metaphor clash
-=item ENVIRONMENT
+=item Cookbook
=over 4
-=item C<PERLLIB_PREFIX>
+=item Two-face scalars
-=item C<PERL_BADLANG>
+=item Two-face references
-=item C<PERL_BADFREE>
+=item Symbolic calculator
-=item C<PERL_SH_DIR>
+=item I<Really> symbolic calculator
-=item C<USE_PERL_FLOCK>
+=back
-=item C<TMP> or C<TEMP>
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item DIAGNOSTICS
+
+Odd number of arguments for overload::constant, `%s' is not an overloadable
+type, `%s' is not a code reference
+
+=item BUGS
=back
-=item Evolution
+=head2 sigtrap - Perl pragma to enable simple signal handling
=over 4
-=item Priorities
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item DLL name mangling: pre 5.6.2
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item DLL name mangling: 5.6.2 and beyond
+=item OPTIONS
-Global DLLs, specific DLLs, C<BEGINLIBPATH> and C<ENDLIBPATH>, F<.> from
-C<LIBPATH>
+=over 4
-=item DLL forwarder generation
+=item SIGNAL HANDLERS
-=item Threading
+B<stack-trace>, B<die>, B<handler> I<your-handler>
-=item Calls to external programs
+=item SIGNAL LISTS
-=item Memory allocation
+B<normal-signals>, B<error-signals>, B<old-interface-signals>
-=item Threads
+=item OTHER
-C<COND_WAIT>, F<os2.c>
+B<untrapped>, B<any>, I<signal>, I<number>
=back
-=item BUGS
+=item EXAMPLES
=back
+=head2 sort - perl pragma to control sort() behaviour
+
=over 4
-=item AUTHOR
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item CAVEATS
=back
-=head2 perlos390, README.os390 - building and installing Perl for OS/390.
+=head2 strict - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe constructs
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=over 4
+C<strict refs>, C<strict vars>, C<strict subs>
-=item Unpacking Perl distribution on OS/390
+=item HISTORY
-=item Setup and utilities for Perl on OS/390
+=back
-=item Configure Perl on OS/390
+=head2 subs - Perl pragma to predeclare sub names
-=item Build, Test, Install Perl on OS/390
+=over 4
-=item Build Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item Testing Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Installation Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
+=back
-=item Usage Hints for Perl on OS/390
+=head2 threadshared, threads::shared - Perl extension for sharing data
+structures between threads
-=item Floating Point Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
+=over 4
-=item Modules and Extensions for Perl on OS/390
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=back
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item AUTHORS
+=item EXPORT
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item FUNCTIONS
-=over 4
+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 Mailing list for Perl on OS/390
+=item NOTES
-=back
+=item BUGS
-=item HISTORY
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=head2 perlqnx, README.qnx - Perl version 5 on QNX
+=head2 utf8 - Perl pragma to enable/disable UTF-8 (or UTF-EBCDIC) in source
+code
=over 4
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
=item DESCRIPTION
=over 4
-=item Required Software for Compiling Perl on QNX4
-
-/bin/sh, ar, nm, cpp, make
-
-=item Outstanding Issues with Perl on QNX4
-
-=item QNX auxiliary files
-
-qnx/ar, qnx/cpp
+=item Utility functions
-=item Outstanding issues with perl under QNX6
+$num_octets = utf8::upgrade($string), $success = utf8::downgrade($string[,
+FAIL_OK]), utf8::encode($string), utf8::decode($string), $flag =
+utf8::is_utf8(STRING), $flag = utf8::valid(STRING)
=back
-=item AUTHOR
-
-=back
+=item BUGS
-=head2 perlplan9 - Plan 9-specific documentation for Perl
+=item SEE ALSO
-=over 4
+=back
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=head2 vars - Perl pragma to predeclare global variable names (obsolete)
=over 4
-=item Invoking Perl
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item What's in Plan 9 Perl
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item What's not in Plan 9 Perl
+=back
-=item Perl5 Functions not currently supported in Plan 9 Perl
+=head2 version - Perl extension for Version Objects
-=item Signals in Plan 9 Perl
+=over 4
-=back
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item COMPILING AND INSTALLING PERL ON PLAN 9
+=item DESCRIPTION
=over 4
-=item Installing Perl Documentation on Plan 9
+=item What IS a version
-=back
+Numeric Versions, Quoted Versions
-=item BUGS
+=item What about v-strings?
-=item Revision date
+=item Numeric Versions
-=item AUTHOR
+=item Quoted Versions
-=back
+=item Object Methods
-=head2 perlsolaris, README.solaris - Perl version 5 on Solaris systems
+New Operator, qv(), Normal Form, Numification, Stringification, Comparison
+operators, Logical Operators
-=over 4
+=item Quoting
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Types of Versions Objects
-=over 4
+Ordinary versions, Alpha versions
-=item Solaris Version Numbers.
+=item Replacement UNIVERSAL::VERSION
=back
-=item RESOURCES
+=item EXPORT
-Solaris FAQ, Precompiled Binaries, Solaris Documentation
+=item AUTHOR
-=item SETTING UP
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 vmsish - Perl pragma to control VMS-specific language features
=over 4
-=item File Extraction Problems on Solaris.
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item Compiler and Related Tools on Solaris.
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Environment for Compiling Perl on Solaris
+C<vmsish status>, C<vmsish exit>, C<vmsish time>, C<vmsish hushed>
=back
-=item RUN CONFIGURE.
+=head2 warnings - Perl pragma to control optional warnings
=over 4
-=item 64-bit Issues with Perl on Solaris.
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item Threads in Perl on Solaris.
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Malloc Issues with Perl on Solaris.
+use warnings::register, warnings::enabled(), warnings::enabled($category),
+warnings::enabled($object), warnings::warn($message),
+warnings::warn($category, $message), warnings::warn($object, $message),
+warnings::warnif($message), warnings::warnif($category, $message),
+warnings::warnif($object, $message)
=back
-=item MAKE PROBLEMS.
-
-Dynamic Loading Problems With GNU as and GNU ld, ld.so.1: ./perl: fatal:
-relocation error:, dlopen: stub interception failed, #error "No
-DATAMODEL_NATIVE specified", sh: ar: not found
-
-=item MAKE TEST
+=head2 warnings::register - warnings import function
=over 4
-=item op/stat.t test 4 in Solaris
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item nss_delete core dump from op/pwent or op/grent
+=item DESCRIPTION
=back
-=item PREBUILT BINARIES OF PERL FOR SOLARIS.
+=head1 MODULE DOCUMENTATION
-=item RUNTIME ISSUES FOR PERL ON SOLARIS.
+=head2 AnyDBM_File - provide framework for multiple DBMs
=over 4
-=item Limits on Numbers of Open Files on Solaris.
-
-=back
-
-=item SOLARIS-SPECIFIC MODULES.
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item SOLARIS-SPECIFIC PROBLEMS WITH MODULES.
+=item DESCRIPTION
=over 4
-=item Proc::ProcessTable on Solaris
-
-=item BSD::Resource on Solaris
+=item DBM Comparisons
-=item Net::SSLeay on Solaris
+[0], [1], [2], [3]
=back
-=item AUTHOR
-
-=item LAST MODIFIED
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=head2 perltru64, README.tru64 - Perl version 5 on Tru64 (formerly known as
-Digital UNIX formerly known as DEC OSF/1) systems
+=head2 Attribute::Handlers - Simpler definition of attribute handlers
=over 4
-=item DESCRIPTION
-
-=over 4
+=item VERSION
-=item Compiling Perl 5 on Tru64
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item Using Large Files with Perl on Tru64
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Threaded Perl on Tru64
+[0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]
-=item Long Doubles on Tru64
+=over 4
-=item 64-bit Perl on Tru64
+=item Typed lexicals
-=item Warnings about floating-point overflow when compiling Perl on Tru64
+=item Type-specific attribute handlers
-=back
+=item Non-interpretive attribute handlers
-=item Testing Perl on Tru64
+=item Phase-specific attribute handlers
-=item AUTHOR
+=item Attributes as C<tie> interfaces
=back
-=head2 perluts - Perl under UTS
-
-=over 4
+=item EXAMPLES
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item DIAGNOSTICS
-=item DESCRIPTION
+C<Bad attribute type: ATTR(%s)>, C<Attribute handler %s doesn't handle %s
+attributes>, C<Declaration of %s attribute in package %s may clash with
+future reserved word>, C<Can't have two ATTR specifiers on one subroutine>,
+C<Can't autotie a %s>, C<Internal error: %s symbol went missing>, C<Won't
+be able to apply END handler>
-=item BUILDING PERL ON UTS
+=item AUTHOR
-=item Installing the built perl on UTS
+=item BUGS
-=item AUTHOR
+=item COPYRIGHT
=back
-=head2 perlvmesa, README.vmesa - building and installing Perl for VM/ESA.
+=head2 AutoLoader - load subroutines only on demand
=over 4
=over 4
-=item Unpacking Perl Distribution on VM/ESA
+=item Subroutine Stubs
-=item Setup Perl and utilities on VM/ESA
+=item Using B<AutoLoader>'s AUTOLOAD Subroutine
-=item Configure Perl on VM/ESA
+=item Overriding B<AutoLoader>'s AUTOLOAD Subroutine
-=item Testing Anomalies of Perl on VM/ESA
+=item Package Lexicals
-=item Usage Hints for Perl on VM/ESA
+=item Not Using AutoLoader
+
+=item B<AutoLoader> vs. B<SelfLoader>
=back
-=item AUTHORS
+=item CAVEATS
=item SEE ALSO
+=back
+
+=head2 AutoSplit - split a package for autoloading
+
=over 4
-=item Mailing list for Perl on VM/ESA
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+$keep, $check, $modtime
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Multiple packages
=back
+=item DIAGNOSTICS
+
=back
-=head2 perlvms - VMS-specific documentation for Perl
+=head2 B - The Perl Compiler
=over 4
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Installation
+=item OVERVIEW
-=item Organization of Perl Images
+=item Utility Functions
=over 4
-=item Core Images
-
-=item Perl Extensions
-
-=item Installing static extensions
+=item Functions Returning C<B::SV>, C<B::AV>, C<B::HV>, and C<B::CV>
+objects
-=item Installing dynamic extensions
+sv_undef, sv_yes, sv_no, svref_2object(SVREF), amagic_generation, init_av,
+check_av, begin_av, end_av, comppadlist, regex_padav, main_cv
-=back
+=item Functions for Examining the Symbol Table
-=item File specifications
+walksymtable(SYMREF, METHOD, RECURSE, PREFIX)
-=over 4
+=item Functions Returning C<B::OP> objects or for walking op trees
-=item Syntax
+main_root, main_start, walkoptree(OP, METHOD), walkoptree_debug(DEBUG)
-=item Wildcard expansion
+=item Miscellaneous Utility Functions
-=item Pipes
+ppname(OPNUM), hash(STR), cast_I32(I), minus_c, cstring(STR),
+perlstring(STR), class(OBJ), threadsv_names
=back
-=item PERL5LIB and PERLLIB
-
-=item Command line
+=item OVERVIEW OF CLASSES
=over 4
-=item I/O redirection and backgrounding
-
-=item Command line switches
+=item SV-RELATED CLASSES
--i, -S, -u
+=item B::SV Methods
-=back
+REFCNT, FLAGS, object_2svref
-=item Perl functions
+=item B::IV Methods
-File tests, backticks, binmode FILEHANDLE, crypt PLAINTEXT, USER, dump,
-exec LIST, fork, getpwent, getpwnam, getpwuid, gmtime, kill, qx//, select
-(system call), stat EXPR, system LIST, time, times, unlink LIST, utime
-LIST, waitpid PID,FLAGS
+IV, IVX, UVX, int_value, needs64bits, packiv
-=item Perl variables
+=item B::NV Methods
-%ENV, CRTL_ENV, CLISYM_[LOCAL], Any other string, $!, $^E, $?, $|
+NV, NVX
-=item Standard modules with VMS-specific differences
+=item B::RV Methods
-=over 4
+RV
-=item SDBM_File
+=item B::PV Methods
-=back
+PV, RV, PVX
-=item Revision date
+=item B::PVMG Methods
-=item AUTHOR
+MAGIC, SvSTASH
-=back
+=item B::MAGIC Methods
-=head2 perlvos, README.vos - Perl for Stratus VOS
+MOREMAGIC, precomp, PRIVATE, TYPE, FLAGS, OBJ, PTR, REGEX
-=over 4
+=item B::PVLV Methods
-=item SYNOPSIS
+TARGOFF, TARGLEN, TYPE, TARG
-=over 4
+=item B::BM Methods
-=item Stratus POSIX Support
+USEFUL, PREVIOUS, RARE, TABLE
-=back
+=item B::GV Methods
-=item INSTALLING PERL IN VOS
+is_empty, NAME, SAFENAME, STASH, SV, IO, FORM, AV, HV, EGV, CV, CVGEN,
+LINE, FILE, FILEGV, GvREFCNT, FLAGS
-=over 4
+=item B::IO Methods
-=item Compiling Perl 5 on VOS
+LINES, PAGE, PAGE_LEN, LINES_LEFT, TOP_NAME, TOP_GV, FMT_NAME, FMT_GV,
+BOTTOM_NAME, BOTTOM_GV, SUBPROCESS, IoTYPE, IoFLAGS, IsSTD
-=item Installing Perl 5 on VOS
+=item B::AV Methods
-=back
+FILL, MAX, OFF, ARRAY, ARRAYelt, AvFLAGS
-=item USING PERL IN VOS
+=item B::CV Methods
-=over 4
+STASH, START, ROOT, GV, FILE, DEPTH, PADLIST, OUTSIDE, OUTSIDE_SEQ, XSUB,
+XSUBANY, CvFLAGS, const_sv
-=item Unimplemented Features of Perl on VOS
+=item B::HV Methods
-=item Restrictions of Perl on VOS
+FILL, MAX, KEYS, RITER, NAME, PMROOT, ARRAY
-=back
+=item OP-RELATED CLASSES
-=item SUPPORT STATUS
+=item B::OP Methods
-=item AUTHOR
+next, sibling, name, ppaddr, desc, targ, type, seq, flags, private
-=item LAST UPDATE
+=item B::UNOP METHOD
-=back
+first
-=head2 perlwin32 - Perl under Win32
+=item B::BINOP METHOD
-=over 4
+last
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item B::LOGOP METHOD
-=item DESCRIPTION
+other
-=over 4
+=item B::LISTOP METHOD
-=item Setting Up Perl on Win32
+children
-Make, Command Shell, Borland C++, Microsoft Visual C++, Mingw32 with GCC
+=item B::PMOP Methods
-=item Building
+pmreplroot, pmreplstart, pmnext, pmregexp, pmflags, pmdynflags,
+pmpermflags, precomp, pmoffset
-=item Testing Perl on Win32
+=item B::SVOP METHOD
-=item Installation of Perl on Win32
+sv, gv
-=item Usage Hints for Perl on Win32
+=item B::PADOP METHOD
-Environment Variables, File Globbing, Using perl from the command line,
-Building Extensions, Command-line Wildcard Expansion, Win32 Specific
-Extensions, Running Perl Scripts, Miscellaneous Things
+padix
-=back
+=item B::PVOP METHOD
-=item BUGS AND CAVEATS
+pv
-=item AUTHORS
+=item B::LOOP Methods
-Gary Ng E<lt>71564.1743@CompuServe.COME<gt>, Gurusamy Sarathy
-E<lt>gsar@activestate.comE<gt>, Nick Ing-Simmons
-E<lt>nick@ing-simmons.netE<gt>
+redoop, nextop, lastop
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item B::COP Methods
-=item HISTORY
+label, stash, stashpv, file, cop_seq, arybase, line, warnings, io
=back
-=head1 PRAGMA DOCUMENTATION
+=item AUTHOR
-=head2 attrs - set/get attributes of a subroutine (deprecated)
+=back
+
+=head2 B::Asmdata - Autogenerated data about Perl ops, used to generate
+bytecode
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-method, locked
+%insn_data, @insn_name, @optype, @specialsv_name
+
+=item AUTHOR
=back
-=head2 re - Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour
+=head2 B::Assembler - Assemble Perl bytecode
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
+=item AUTHORS
+
=back
-=head2 threadshared::shared, threads::shared - Perl extension for sharing
-data structures between threads
+=head2 B::Bblock - Walk basic blocks
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item EXPORT
+=over 4
-=item FUNCTIONS
+=item Functions
-share VARIABLE, lock VARIABLE, unlock VARIABLE, cond_wait VARIABLE,
-cond_signal VARIABLE, cond_broadcast VARIABLE
+B<find_leaders>
-=item BUGS
+=back
=item AUTHOR
-=item SEE ALSO
-
=back
-=head2 threads - Perl extension allowing use of interpreter based threads
-from perl
+=head2 B::Bytecode - Perl compiler's bytecode backend
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-$thread = new(function, LIST), $thread->join, $thread->detach,
-threads->self, $thread->tid
-
-=item TODO
+=item EXAMPLE
-Fix so the return value is returned when you join, Add join_all, Fix memory
-leaks!
+=item OPTIONS
-=item AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT
+B<-b>, B<-H>, B<-k>, B<-o>I<outfile>, B<-s>
-=item BUGS
+=item KNOWN BUGS
-creating a thread from within a thread is unsafe under win32,
-PERL_OLD_SIGNALS are not threadsafe, will not be
+=item NOTICE
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item AUTHORS
=back
-=head2 attributes - get/set subroutine or variable attributes
+=head2 B::C - Perl compiler's C backend
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=over 4
-
-=item Built-in Attributes
-
-locked, method, lvalue
-
-=item Available Subroutines
+=item OPTIONS
-get, reftype
+B<-ofilename>, B<-v>, B<-->, B<-uPackname>, B<-D>, B<-Do>, B<-Dc>, B<-DA>,
+B<-DC>, B<-DM>, B<-f>, B<-fcog>, B<-fsave-data>, B<-fppaddr>, B<-fwarn-sv>,
+B<-fuse-script-name>, B<-fsave-sig-hash>, B<-On>, B<-O0>, B<-O1>, B<-O2>,
+B<-llimit>
-=item Package-specific Attribute Handling
+=item EXAMPLES
-FETCH_I<type>_ATTRIBUTES, MODIFY_I<type>_ATTRIBUTES
+=item BUGS
-=item Syntax of Attribute Lists
+=item AUTHOR
=back
-=item EXPORTS
+=head2 B::CC - Perl compiler's optimized C translation backend
=over 4
-=item Default exports
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item Available exports
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Export tags defined
+=item OPTIONS
-=back
+B<-ofilename>, B<-v>, B<-->, B<-uPackname>, B<-mModulename>, B<-D>, B<-Dr>,
+B<-DO>, B<-Ds>, B<-Dp>, B<-Dq>, B<-Dl>, B<-Dt>, B<-f>,
+B<-ffreetmps-each-bblock>, B<-ffreetmps-each-loop>, B<-fomit-taint>, B<-On>
=item EXAMPLES
-=item SEE ALSO
-
-=back
+=item BUGS
-=head2 attrs - set/get attributes of a subroutine (deprecated)
+=item DIFFERENCES
=over 4
-=item SYNOPSIS
-
-=item DESCRIPTION
-
-method, locked
-
-=back
-
-=head2 autouse - postpone load of modules until a function is used
+=item Loops
-=over 4
+=item Context of ".."
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item Arithmetic
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Deprecated features
-=item WARNING
+=back
=item AUTHOR
-=item SEE ALSO
-
=back
-=head2 base - Establish IS-A relationship with base class at compile time
+=head2 B::Concise - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing concise info about ops
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item HISTORY
-
-=item SEE ALSO
-
-=back
+=item EXAMPLE
-=head2 blib - Use MakeMaker's uninstalled version of a package
+=item OPTIONS
=over 4
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item Options for Opcode Ordering
-=item DESCRIPTION
+B<-basic>, B<-exec>, B<-tree>
-=item BUGS
+=item Options for Line-Style
-=item AUTHOR
+B<-concise>, B<-terse>, B<-linenoise>, B<-debug>, B<-env>
-=back
+=item Options for tree-specific formatting
-=head2 bytes - Perl pragma to force byte semantics rather than character
-semantics
+B<-compact>, B<-loose>, B<-vt>, B<-ascii>
-=over 4
+=item Options controlling sequence numbering
-=item SYNOPSIS
+B<-base>I<n>, B<-bigendian>, B<-littleendian>
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Other options
-=item SEE ALSO
+B<-main>, B<-nomain>, B<-nobanner>, B<-banner>, B<-banneris> => subref
+
+=item Option Stickiness
=back
-=head2 charnames - define character names for C<\N{named}> string literal
-escapes.
+=item ABBREVIATIONS
=over 4
-=item SYNOPSIS
-
-=item DESCRIPTION
-
-=item CUSTOM TRANSLATORS
-
-=item charnames::viacode(code)
+=item OP class abbreviations
-=item BUGS
+=item OP flags abbreviations
=back
-=head2 constant - Perl pragma to declare constants
-
-=over 4
-
-=item SYNOPSIS
-
-=item DESCRIPTION
-
-=item NOTES
+=item FORMATTING SPECIFICATIONS
=over 4
-=item List constants
-
-=item Defining multiple constants at once
-
-=item Magic constants
-
-=back
-
-=item TECHNICAL NOTES
+=item Special Patterns
-=item BUGS
+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<~>
-=item AUTHOR
+=item # Variables
-=item COPYRIGHT
+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<#opt>, B<#static>, B<#sibaddr>, B<#svaddr>, B<#svclass>,
+B<#svval>, B<#targ>, B<#targarg>, B<#targarglife>, B<#typenum>
=back
-=head2 diagnostics - Perl compiler pragma to force verbose warning
-diagnostics
+=item Using B::Concise outside of the O framework
=over 4
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item Example: Altering Concise Renderings
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item set_style()
-=over 4
+=item set_style_standard($name)
-=item The C<diagnostics> Pragma
+=item add_style()
-=item The I<splain> Program
+=item add_callback()
-=back
+=item Running B::Concise::compile()
-=item EXAMPLES
+=item B::Concise::reset_sequence()
-=item INTERNALS
+=item Errors
-=item BUGS
+=back
=item AUTHOR
=back
-=head2 encoding - pragma to control the conversion of legacy data into
-Unicode
+=head2 B::Debug - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing debug info about ops
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item KNOWN PROBLEMS
-
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item AUTHOR
=back
-=head2 fields - compile-time class fields
+=head2 B::Deparse - Perl compiler backend to produce perl code
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-new, phash
-
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item OPTIONS
-=back
+B<-d>, B<-f>I<FILE>, B<-l>, B<-p>, B<-P>, B<-q>, B<-s>I<LETTERS>, B<C>,
+B<i>I<NUMBER>, B<T>, B<v>I<STRING>B<.>, B<-x>I<LEVEL>
-=head2 filetest - Perl pragma to control the filetest permission operators
+=item USING B::Deparse AS A MODULE
=over 4
-=item SYNOPSIS
-
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Synopsis
-=over 4
+=item Description
-=item subpragma access
+=item new
-=back
+=item ambient_pragmas
-=back
+strict, $[, bytes, utf8, integer, re, warnings, hint_bits, warning_bits
-=head2 integer - Perl pragma to use integer arithmetic instead of floating
-point
+=item coderef2text
-=over 4
+=back
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item BUGS
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item AUTHOR
=back
-=head2 less - perl pragma to request less of something from the compiler
+=head2 B::Disassembler - Disassemble Perl bytecode
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
+=item AUTHOR
+
=back
-=head2 lib - manipulate @INC at compile time
+=head2 B::Lint - Perl lint
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=over 4
-
-=item Adding directories to @INC
+=item OPTIONS AND LINT CHECKS
-=item Deleting directories from @INC
+B<context>, B<implicit-read> and B<implicit-write>, B<bare-subs>,
+B<dollar-underscore>, B<private-names>, B<undefined-subs>,
+B<regexp-variables>, B<all>, B<none>
-=item Restoring original @INC
+=item NON LINT-CHECK OPTIONS
-=back
+B<-u Package>
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item BUGS
=item AUTHOR
=back
-=head2 locale - Perl pragma to use and avoid POSIX locales for built-in
-operations
+=head2 B::O, O - Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
+=item CONVENTIONS
+
+=item IMPLEMENTATION
+
+=item BUGS
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
=back
-=head2 open - perl pragma to set default disciplines for input and output
+=head2 B::Showlex - Show lexical variables used in functions or files
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item NONPERLIO FUNCTIONALITY
-
-=item IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS
-
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item AUTHOR
=back
-=head2 ops - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when compiling
+=head2 B::Stackobj - Helper module for CC backend
=over 4
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item AUTHOR
=back
-=head2 overload - Package for overloading perl operations
+=head2 B::Stash - show what stashes are loaded
+
+=head2 B::Terse - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing terse info about ops
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=over 4
-
-=item Declaration of overloaded functions
+=item AUTHOR
-=item Calling Conventions for Binary Operations
+=back
-FALSE, TRUE, C<undef>
+=head2 B::Xref - Generates cross reference reports for Perl programs
-=item Calling Conventions for Unary Operations
+=over 4
-=item Calling Conventions for Mutators
+=item SYNOPSIS
-C<++> and C<-->, C<x=> and other assignment versions
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Overloadable Operations
+=item OPTIONS
-I<Arithmetic operations>, I<Comparison operations>, I<Bit operations>,
-I<Increment and decrement>, I<Transcendental functions>, I<Boolean, string
-and numeric conversion>, I<Iteration>, I<Dereferencing>, I<Special>
+C<-oFILENAME>, C<-r>, C<-d>, C<-D[tO]>
-=item Inheritance and overloading
+=item BUGS
-Strings as values of C<use overload> directive, Overloading of an operation
-is inherited by derived classes
+=item AUTHOR
=back
-=item SPECIAL SYMBOLS FOR C<use overload>
+=head2 Bblock, B::Bblock - Walk basic blocks
=over 4
-=item Last Resort
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item Fallback
+=item DESCRIPTION
-C<undef>, TRUE, defined, but FALSE
+=over 4
-=item Copy Constructor
+=item Functions
-B<Example>
+B<find_leaders>
=back
-=item MAGIC AUTOGENERATION
+=item AUTHOR
-I<Assignment forms of arithmetic operations>, I<Conversion operations>,
-I<Increment and decrement>, C<abs($a)>, I<Unary minus>, I<Negation>,
-I<Concatenation>, I<Comparison operations>, I<Iterator>, I<Dereferencing>,
-I<Copy operator>
+=back
-=item Losing overloading
+=head2 Benchmark - benchmark running times of Perl code
-=item Run-time Overloading
+=over 4
-=item Public functions
+=item SYNOPSIS
-overload::StrVal(arg), overload::Overloaded(arg), overload::Method(obj,op)
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Overloading constants
+=over 4
-integer, float, binary, q, qr
+=item Methods
-=item IMPLEMENTATION
+new, debug, iters
-=item Metaphor clash
+=item Standard Exports
-=item Cookbook
+timeit(COUNT, CODE), timethis ( COUNT, CODE, [ TITLE, [ STYLE ]] ),
+timethese ( COUNT, CODEHASHREF, [ STYLE ] ), timediff ( T1, T2 ), timestr (
+TIMEDIFF, [ STYLE, [ FORMAT ] ] )
-=over 4
+=item Optional Exports
-=item Two-face scalars
+clearcache ( COUNT ), clearallcache ( ), cmpthese ( COUNT, CODEHASHREF, [
+STYLE ] ), cmpthese ( RESULTSHASHREF, [ STYLE ] ), countit(TIME, CODE),
+disablecache ( ), enablecache ( ), timesum ( T1, T2 )
-=item Two-face references
+=item :hireswallclock
-=item Symbolic calculator
+=back
-=item I<Really> symbolic calculator
+=item NOTES
-=back
+=item EXAMPLES
-=item AUTHOR
+=item INHERITANCE
-=item DIAGNOSTICS
+=item CAVEATS
-Odd number of arguments for overload::constant, `%s' is not an overloadable
-type, `%s' is not a code reference
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item BUGS
+=item AUTHORS
+
+=item MODIFICATION HISTORY
=back
-=head2 re - Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour
+=head2 ByteLoader - load byte compiled perl code
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
=back
-=head2 sigtrap - Perl pragma to enable simple signal handling
+=head2 Bytecode, B::Bytecode - Perl compiler's bytecode backend
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item OPTIONS
-
-=over 4
-
-=item SIGNAL HANDLERS
-
-B<stack-trace>, B<die>, B<handler> I<your-handler>
-
-=item SIGNAL LISTS
+=item EXAMPLE
-B<normal-signals>, B<error-signals>, B<old-interface-signals>
+=item OPTIONS
-=item OTHER
+B<-b>, B<-H>, B<-k>, B<-o>I<outfile>, B<-s>
-B<untrapped>, B<any>, I<signal>, I<number>
+=item KNOWN BUGS
-=back
+=item NOTICE
-=item EXAMPLES
+=item AUTHORS
=back
-=head2 sort - perl pragma to control sort() behaviour
+=head2 CGI - Simple Common Gateway Interface Class
=over 4
=item SYNOPSIS
+=item ABSTRACT
+
=item DESCRIPTION
-=back
+=over 4
-=head2 strict - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe constructs
+=item PROGRAMMING STYLE
-=over 4
+=item CALLING CGI.PM ROUTINES
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item CREATING A NEW QUERY OBJECT (OBJECT-ORIENTED STYLE):
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item CREATING A NEW QUERY OBJECT FROM AN INPUT FILE
-C<strict refs>, C<strict vars>, C<strict subs>
+=item FETCHING A LIST OF KEYWORDS FROM THE QUERY:
-=back
+=item FETCHING THE NAMES OF ALL THE PARAMETERS PASSED TO YOUR SCRIPT:
-=head2 subs - Perl pragma to predeclare sub names
+=item FETCHING THE VALUE OR VALUES OF A SINGLE NAMED PARAMETER:
-=over 4
+=item SETTING THE VALUE(S) OF A NAMED PARAMETER:
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item APPENDING ADDITIONAL VALUES TO A NAMED PARAMETER:
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item IMPORTING ALL PARAMETERS INTO A NAMESPACE:
-=back
+=item DELETING A PARAMETER COMPLETELY:
-=head2 threads - Perl extension allowing use of interpreter based threads
-from perl
+=item DELETING ALL PARAMETERS:
-=over 4
+=item DIRECT ACCESS TO THE PARAMETER LIST:
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item FETCHING THE PARAMETER LIST AS A HASH:
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item SAVING THE STATE OF THE SCRIPT TO A FILE:
-$thread = new(function, LIST), $thread->join, $thread->detach,
-threads->self, $thread->tid
+=item RETRIEVING CGI ERRORS
-=item TODO
+=item USING THE FUNCTION-ORIENTED INTERFACE
-Fix so the return value is returned when you join, Add join_all, Fix memory
-leaks!
+B<:cgi>, B<:form>, B<:html2>, B<:html3>, B<:html4>, B<:netscape>, B<:html>,
+B<:standard>, B<:all>
-=item AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT
+=item PRAGMAS
-=item BUGS
+-any, -compile, -nosticky, -no_undef_params, -no_xhtml, -nph,
+-newstyle_urls, -oldstyle_urls, -autoload, -no_debug, -debug,
+-private_tempfiles
-creating a thread from within a thread is unsafe under win32,
-PERL_OLD_SIGNALS are not threadsafe, will not be
+=item SPECIAL FORMS FOR IMPORTING HTML-TAG FUNCTIONS
-=item SEE ALSO
+1. start_table() (generates a <table> tag), 2. end_table() (generates a
+</table> tag), 3. start_ul() (generates a <ul> tag), 4. end_ul() (generates
+a </ul> tag)
=back
-=head2 threadshared, threads::shared - Perl extension for sharing data
-structures between threads
+=item GENERATING DYNAMIC DOCUMENTS
=over 4
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item CREATING A STANDARD HTTP HEADER:
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item GENERATING A REDIRECTION HEADER
-=item EXPORT
+=item CREATING THE HTML DOCUMENT HEADER
-=item FUNCTIONS
+B<Parameters:>, 4, 5, 6..
-share VARIABLE, lock VARIABLE, unlock VARIABLE, cond_wait VARIABLE,
-cond_signal VARIABLE, cond_broadcast VARIABLE
+=item ENDING THE HTML DOCUMENT:
-=item BUGS
+=item CREATING A SELF-REFERENCING URL THAT PRESERVES STATE INFORMATION:
-=item AUTHOR
+=item OBTAINING THE SCRIPT'S URL
-=item SEE ALSO
+B<-absolute>, B<-relative>, B<-full>, B<-path> (B<-path_info>), B<-query>
+(B<-query_string>), B<-base>
+
+=item MIXING POST AND URL PARAMETERS
=back
-=head2 utf8 - Perl pragma to enable/disable UTF-8 (or UTF-EBCDIC) in source
-code
+=item CREATING STANDARD HTML ELEMENTS:
=over 4
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item PROVIDING ARGUMENTS TO HTML SHORTCUTS
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item THE DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY OF HTML SHORTCUTS
-=over 4
+=item HTML SHORTCUTS AND LIST INTERPOLATION
-=item Utility functions
+=item NON-STANDARD HTML SHORTCUTS
-$num_octets = utf8::upgrade($string);, utf8::downgrade($string[, CHECK]),
-utf8::encode($string), $flag = utf8::decode($string)
+=item AUTOESCAPING HTML
-=back
+$escaped_string = escapeHTML("unescaped string");, $charset =
+charset([$charset]);, $flag = autoEscape([$flag]);
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item PRETTY-PRINTING HTML
=back
-=head2 vars - Perl pragma to predeclare global variable names (obsolete)
+=item CREATING FILL-OUT FORMS:
=over 4
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item CREATING AN ISINDEX TAG
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item STARTING AND ENDING A FORM
-=back
+B<application/x-www-form-urlencoded>, B<multipart/form-data>
-=head2 vmsish - Perl pragma to control VMS-specific language features
+=item CREATING A TEXT FIELD
-=over 4
+B<Parameters>
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item CREATING A BIG TEXT FIELD
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item CREATING A PASSWORD FIELD
-C<vmsish status>, C<vmsish exit>, C<vmsish time>, C<vmsish hushed>
+=item CREATING A FILE UPLOAD FIELD
-=back
+B<Parameters>
-=head2 warnings - Perl pragma to control optional warnings
+=item CREATING A POPUP MENU
-=over 4
+=item CREATING AN OPTION GROUP
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item CREATING A SCROLLING LIST
-=item DESCRIPTION
+B<Parameters:>
-use warnings::register, warnings::enabled(), warnings::enabled($category),
-warnings::enabled($object), warnings::warn($message),
-warnings::warn($category, $message), warnings::warn($object, $message),
-warnings::warnif($message), warnings::warnif($category, $message),
-warnings::warnif($object, $message)
+=item CREATING A GROUP OF RELATED CHECKBOXES
-=back
+B<Parameters:>
-=head2 warnings::register - warnings import function
+=item CREATING A STANDALONE CHECKBOX
-=over 4
+B<Parameters:>
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item CREATING A RADIO BUTTON GROUP
-=item DESCRIPTION
+B<Parameters:>
-=back
+=item CREATING A SUBMIT BUTTON
-=head1 MODULE DOCUMENTATION
+B<Parameters:>
-=head2 AnyDBM_File - provide framework for multiple DBMs
+=item CREATING A RESET BUTTON
-=over 4
+=item CREATING A DEFAULT BUTTON
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item CREATING A HIDDEN FIELD
-=item DESCRIPTION
+B<Parameters:>
-=over 4
+=item CREATING A CLICKABLE IMAGE BUTTON
-=item DBM Comparisons
+B<Parameters:>, 3. The third option (-align, optional) is an alignment
+type, and may be TOP, BOTTOM or MIDDLE
-[0], [1], [2], [3]
+=item CREATING A JAVASCRIPT ACTION BUTTON
+
+=back
+
+=item HTTP COOKIES
+
+1. an expiration time, 2. a domain, 3. a path, 4. a "secure" flag,
+B<-name>, B<-value>, B<-path>, B<-domain>, B<-expires>, B<-secure>
-=back
+=item WORKING WITH FRAMES
-=item SEE ALSO
+1. Create a <Frameset> document, 2. Specify the destination for the
+document in the HTTP header, 3. Specify the destination for the document in
+the <form> tag
-=back
+=item LIMITED SUPPORT FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS
-=head2 Attribute::Handlers - Simpler definition of attribute handlers
+=item DEBUGGING
=over 4
-=item VERSION
+=item DUMPING OUT ALL THE NAME/VALUE PAIRS
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=back
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item FETCHING ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
-[0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]
+B<Accept()>, B<raw_cookie()>, B<user_agent()>, B<path_info()>,
+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<virtual_port ()>, B<server_software ()>, B<remote_user ()>, B<user_name
+()>, B<request_method()>, B<content_type()>, B<http()>, B<https()>
-=over 4
+=item USING NPH SCRIPTS
-=item Typed lexicals
+In the B<use> statement, By calling the B<nph()> method:, By using B<-nph>
+parameters
-=item Type-specific attribute handlers
+=item Server Push
-=item Non-interpretive attribute handlers
+multipart_init(), multipart_start(), multipart_end(), multipart_final()
-=item Phase-specific attribute handlers
+=item Avoiding Denial of Service Attacks
-=item Attributes as C<tie> interfaces
+B<$CGI::POST_MAX>, B<$CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS>, B<1. On a script-by-script
+basis>, B<2. Globally for all scripts>
-=back
+=item COMPATIBILITY WITH CGI-LIB.PL
-=item EXAMPLES
+=item AUTHOR INFORMATION
-=item DIAGNOSTICS
+=item CREDITS
-C<Bad attribute type: ATTR(%s)>, C<Attribute handler %s doesn't handle %s
-attributes>, C<Declaration of %s attribute in package %s may clash with
-future reserved word>, C<Can't have two ATTR specifiers on one subroutine>,
-C<Can't autotie a %s>, C<Internal error: %s symbol went missing>
+Matt Heffron (heffron@falstaff.css.beckman.com), James Taylor
+(james.taylor@srs.gov), Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com>, Mike Jewell
+(mlj3u@virginia.edu), Timothy Shimmin (tes@kbs.citri.edu.au), Joergen Haegg
+(jh@axis.se), Laurent Delfosse (delfosse@delfosse.com), Richard Resnick
+(applepi1@aol.com), Craig Bishop (csb@barwonwater.vic.gov.au), Tony Curtis
+(tc@vcpc.univie.ac.at), Tim Bunce (Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk), Tom Christiansen
+(tchrist@convex.com), Andreas Koenig (k@franz.ww.TU-Berlin.DE), Tim
+MacKenzie (Tim.MacKenzie@fulcrum.com.au), Kevin B. Hendricks
+(kbhend@dogwood.tyler.wm.edu), Stephen Dahmen (joyfire@inxpress.net), Ed
+Jordan (ed@fidalgo.net), David Alan Pisoni (david@cnation.com), Doug
+MacEachern (dougm@opengroup.org), Robin Houston (robin@oneworld.org),
+...and many many more..
-=item AUTHOR
+=item A COMPLETE EXAMPLE OF A SIMPLE FORM-BASED SCRIPT
=item BUGS
-=item COPYRIGHT
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=head2 AutoLoader - load subroutines only on demand
+=head2 CGI::Apache - Backward compatibility module for CGI.pm
=over 4
=item SYNOPSIS
-=item DESCRIPTION
-
-=over 4
-
-=item Subroutine Stubs
-
-=item Using B<AutoLoader>'s AUTOLOAD Subroutine
-
-=item Overriding B<AutoLoader>'s AUTOLOAD Subroutine
-
-=item Package Lexicals
-
-=item Not Using AutoLoader
+=item ABSTRACT
-=item B<AutoLoader> vs. B<SelfLoader>
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=back
+=item AUTHOR INFORMATION
-=item CAVEATS
+=item BUGS
=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=head2 AutoSplit - split a package for autoloading
+=head2 CGI::Carp, B<CGI::Carp> - CGI routines for writing to the HTTPD (or
+other) error log
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-$keep, $check, $modtime
+=item REDIRECTING ERROR MESSAGES
+
+=item MAKING PERL ERRORS APPEAR IN THE BROWSER WINDOW
=over 4
-=item Multiple packages
+=item Changing the default message
=back
-=item DIAGNOSTICS
-
-=back
+=item MAKING WARNINGS APPEAR AS HTML COMMENTS
-=head2 B - The Perl Compiler
+=item OVERRIDING THE NAME OF THE PROGRAM
-=over 4
+=item AUTHORS
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=back
-=item OVERVIEW OF CLASSES
+=head2 CGI::Cookie - Interface to Netscape Cookies
=over 4
-=item SV-RELATED CLASSES
-
-=item B::SV METHODS
+=item SYNOPSIS
-REFCNT, FLAGS
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item B::IV METHODS
+=item USING CGI::Cookie
-IV, IVX, UVX, int_value, needs64bits, packiv
+B<1. expiration date>, B<2. domain>, B<3. path>, B<4. secure flag>
-=item B::NV METHODS
+=over 4
-NV, NVX
+=item Creating New Cookies
-=item B::RV METHODS
+=item Sending the Cookie to the Browser
-RV
+=item Recovering Previous Cookies
-=item B::PV METHODS
+=item Manipulating Cookies
-PV, PVX
+B<name()>, B<value()>, B<domain()>, B<path()>, B<expires()>
-=item B::PVMG METHODS
+=back
-MAGIC, SvSTASH
+=item AUTHOR INFORMATION
-=item B::MAGIC METHODS
+=item BUGS
-MOREMAGIC, PRIVATE, TYPE, FLAGS, OBJ, PTR
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item B::PVLV METHODS
+=back
-TARGOFF, TARGLEN, TYPE, TARG
+=head2 CGI::Fast - CGI Interface for Fast CGI
-=item B::BM METHODS
+=over 4
-USEFUL, PREVIOUS, RARE, TABLE
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item B::GV METHODS
+=item DESCRIPTION
-is_empty, NAME, SAFENAME, STASH, SV, IO, FORM, AV, HV, EGV, CV, CVGEN,
-LINE, FILE, FILEGV, GvREFCNT, FLAGS
+=item OTHER PIECES OF THE PUZZLE
-=item B::IO METHODS
+=item WRITING FASTCGI PERL SCRIPTS
-LINES, PAGE, PAGE_LEN, LINES_LEFT, TOP_NAME, TOP_GV, FMT_NAME, FMT_GV,
-BOTTOM_NAME, BOTTOM_GV, SUBPROCESS, IoTYPE, IoFLAGS
+=item INSTALLING FASTCGI SCRIPTS
-=item B::AV METHODS
+=item USING FASTCGI SCRIPTS AS CGI SCRIPTS
-FILL, MAX, OFF, ARRAY, AvFLAGS
+=item EXTERNAL FASTCGI SERVER INVOCATION
-=item B::CV METHODS
+FCGI_SOCKET_PATH, FCGI_LISTEN_QUEUE
-STASH, START, ROOT, GV, FILE, DEPTH, PADLIST, OUTSIDE, XSUB, XSUBANY,
-CvFLAGS, const_sv
+=item CAVEATS
-=item B::HV METHODS
+=item AUTHOR INFORMATION
-FILL, MAX, KEYS, RITER, NAME, PMROOT, ARRAY
+=item BUGS
-=item OP-RELATED CLASSES
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item B::OP METHODS
+=back
-next, sibling, name, ppaddr, desc, targ, type, seq, flags, private
+=head2 CGI::Pretty - module to produce nicely formatted HTML code
-=item B::UNOP METHOD
+=over 4
-first
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item B::BINOP METHOD
+=item DESCRIPTION
-last
+=over 4
-=item B::LOGOP METHOD
+=item Tags that won't be formatted
-other
+=item Customizing the Indenting
-=item B::LISTOP METHOD
+=back
-children
+=item BUGS
-=item B::PMOP METHODS
+=item AUTHOR
-pmreplroot, pmreplstart, pmnext, pmregexp, pmflags, pmpermflags, precomp
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item B::SVOP METHOD
+=back
-sv, gv
+=head2 CGI::Push - Simple Interface to Server Push
-=item B::PADOP METHOD
+=over 4
-padix
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item B::PVOP METHOD
+=item DESCRIPTION
-pv
+=item USING CGI::Push
-=item B::LOOP METHODS
+-next_page, -last_page, -type, -delay, -cookie, -target, -expires, -nph
-redoop, nextop, lastop
+=over 4
-=item B::COP METHODS
+=item Heterogeneous Pages
-label, stash, file, cop_seq, arybase, line
+=item Changing the Page Delay on the Fly
=back
-=item FUNCTIONS EXPORTED BY C<B>
+=item INSTALLING CGI::Push SCRIPTS
+
+=item AUTHOR INFORMATION
-main_cv, init_av, main_root, main_start, comppadlist, sv_undef, sv_yes,
-sv_no, amagic_generation, walkoptree(OP, METHOD), walkoptree_debug(DEBUG),
-walksymtable(SYMREF, METHOD, RECURSE, PREFIX), svref_2object(SV),
-ppname(OPNUM), hash(STR), cast_I32(I), minus_c, cstring(STR), class(OBJ),
-threadsv_names
+=item BUGS
-=item AUTHOR
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=head2 B::Asmdata - Autogenerated data about Perl ops, used to generate
-bytecode
+=head2 CGI::Switch - Backward compatibility module for defunct CGI::Switch
=over 4
=item SYNOPSIS
+=item ABSTRACT
+
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item AUTHOR
+=item AUTHOR INFORMATION
+
+=item BUGS
+
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=head2 B::Assembler - Assemble Perl bytecode
+=head2 CGI::Util - Internal utilities used by CGI module
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item AUTHORS
+=item AUTHOR INFORMATION
+
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=head2 B::Bblock - Walk basic blocks
+=head2 CPAN - query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites
=over 4
=item SYNOPSIS
-=item DESCRIPTION
-
-=item AUTHOR
-
-=back
+=item STATUS
-=head2 B::Bytecode - Perl compiler's bytecode backend
+=item DESCRIPTION
=over 4
-=item SYNOPSIS
-
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Interactive Mode
-=item OPTIONS
+Searching for authors, bundles, distribution files and modules, make, test,
+install, clean modules or distributions, get, readme, look module or
+distribution, ls author, Signals
-B<-ofilename>, B<-afilename>, B<-->, B<-f>, B<-fcompress-nullops>,
-B<-fomit-sequence-numbers>, B<-fbypass-nullops>, B<-On>, B<-D>, B<-Do>,
-B<-Db>, B<-Da>, B<-DC>, B<-S>, B<-upackage>
+=item CPAN::Shell
-=item EXAMPLES
+=item autobundle
-=item BUGS
+=item recompile
-=item AUTHORS
+=item The four C<CPAN::*> Classes: Author, Bundle, Module, Distribution
-=back
+=item Programmer's interface
-=head2 B::C - Perl compiler's C backend
+expand($type,@things), expandany(@things), Programming Examples
-=over 4
+=item Methods in the other Classes
-=item SYNOPSIS
+CPAN::Author::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Author::as_string(),
+CPAN::Author::email(), CPAN::Author::fullname(), CPAN::Author::name(),
+CPAN::Bundle::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Bundle::as_string(),
+CPAN::Bundle::clean(), CPAN::Bundle::contains(),
+CPAN::Bundle::force($method,@args), CPAN::Bundle::get(),
+CPAN::Bundle::inst_file(), CPAN::Bundle::inst_version(),
+CPAN::Bundle::uptodate(), CPAN::Bundle::install(), CPAN::Bundle::make(),
+CPAN::Bundle::readme(), CPAN::Bundle::test(),
+CPAN::Distribution::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Distribution::as_string(),
+CPAN::Distribution::clean(), CPAN::Distribution::containsmods(),
+CPAN::Distribution::cvs_import(), CPAN::Distribution::dir(),
+CPAN::Distribution::force($method,@args), CPAN::Distribution::get(),
+CPAN::Distribution::install(), CPAN::Distribution::isa_perl(),
+CPAN::Distribution::look(), CPAN::Distribution::make(),
+CPAN::Distribution::prereq_pm(), CPAN::Distribution::readme(),
+CPAN::Distribution::test(), CPAN::Distribution::uptodate(),
+CPAN::Index::force_reload(), CPAN::Index::reload(), CPAN::InfoObj::dump(),
+CPAN::Module::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Module::as_string(),
+CPAN::Module::clean(), CPAN::Module::cpan_file(),
+CPAN::Module::cpan_version(), CPAN::Module::cvs_import(),
+CPAN::Module::description(), CPAN::Module::force($method,@args),
+CPAN::Module::get(), CPAN::Module::inst_file(),
+CPAN::Module::inst_version(), CPAN::Module::install(),
+CPAN::Module::look(), CPAN::Module::make(),
+CPAN::Module::manpage_headline(), CPAN::Module::readme(),
+CPAN::Module::test(), CPAN::Module::uptodate(), CPAN::Module::userid()
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Cache Manager
-=item OPTIONS
+=item Bundles
-B<-ofilename>, B<-v>, B<-->, B<-uPackname>, B<-D>, B<-Do>, B<-Dc>, B<-DA>,
-B<-DC>, B<-DM>, B<-f>, B<-fcog>, B<-fno-cog>, B<-On>, B<-llimit>
+=item Prerequisites
-=item EXAMPLES
+=item Finding packages and VERSION
-=item BUGS
+=item Debugging
-=item AUTHOR
+=item Floppy, Zip, Offline Mode
=back
-=head2 B::CC - Perl compiler's optimized C translation backend
+=item CONFIGURATION
+
+C<o conf E<lt>scalar optionE<gt>>, C<o conf E<lt>scalar optionE<gt>
+E<lt>valueE<gt>>, C<o conf E<lt>list optionE<gt>>, C<o conf E<lt>list
+optionE<gt> [shift|pop]>, C<o conf E<lt>list optionE<gt>
+[unshift|push|splice] E<lt>listE<gt>>
=over 4
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item Note on urllist parameter's format
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item urllist parameter has CD-ROM support
-=item OPTIONS
+=back
-B<-ofilename>, B<-v>, B<-->, B<-uPackname>, B<-mModulename>, B<-D>, B<-Dr>,
-B<-DO>, B<-Ds>, B<-Dp>, B<-Dq>, B<-Dl>, B<-Dt>, B<-f>,
-B<-ffreetmps-each-bblock>, B<-ffreetmps-each-loop>, B<-fomit-taint>, B<-On>
+=item SECURITY
-=item EXAMPLES
+=item EXPORT
-=item BUGS
+=item POPULATE AN INSTALLATION WITH LOTS OF MODULES
-=item DIFFERENCES
+=item WORKING WITH CPAN.pm BEHIND FIREWALLS
=over 4
-=item Loops
-
-=item Context of ".."
-
-=item Arithmetic
-
-=item Deprecated features
+=item Three basic types of firewalls
-=back
+http firewall, ftp firewall, One way visibility, SOCKS, IP Masquerade
-=item AUTHOR
+=item Configuring lynx or ncftp for going through a firewall
=back
-=head2 B::Concise - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing concise info about ops
-
-=over 4
+=item FAQ
-=item SYNOPSIS
+1), 2), 3), 4), 5), 6), 7), 8), 9), 10)
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item BUGS
-=item OPTIONS
+=item AUTHOR
-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>
+=item TRANSLATIONS
-=item FORMATTING SPECIFICATIONS
+=item SEE ALSO
-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<#classym>, B<#coplabel>, B<#exname>, B<#extarg>, B<#firstaddr>,
-B<#flags>, B<#flagval>, B<#hyphenseq>, 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>
+=back
-=item ABBREVIATIONS
+=head2 CPAN::FirstTime - Utility for CPAN::Config file Initialization
=over 4
-=item OP flags abbreviations
-
-=item OP class abbreviations
-
-=back
-
-=item Using B::Concise outside of the O framework
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item AUTHOR
+=item DESCRIPTION
=back
-=head2 B::Debug - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing debug info about ops
+=head2 CPANox, CPAN::Nox - Wrapper around CPAN.pm without using any XS
+module
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item AUTHOR
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=head2 B::Deparse - Perl compiler backend to produce perl code
+=head2 Carp, carp - warn of errors (from perspective of caller)
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item OPTIONS
-
-B<-l>, B<-p>, B<-q>, B<-f>I<FILE>, B<-s>I<LETTERS>, B<C>, B<i>I<NUMBER>,
-B<T>, B<v>I<STRING>B<.>, B<-x>I<LEVEL>
-
-=item USING B::Deparse AS A MODULE
-
=over 4
-=item Synopsis
-
-=item Description
-
-=item new
-
-=item ambient_pragmas
-
-strict, $[, bytes, utf8, integer, re, warnings, hint_bits, warning_bits
-
-=item coderef2text
+=item Forcing a Stack Trace
=back
=item BUGS
-=item AUTHOR
-
=back
-=head2 B::Disassembler - Disassemble Perl bytecode
-
-=over 4
-
-=item SYNOPSIS
-
-=item DESCRIPTION
-
-=item AUTHOR
-
-=back
+=head2 Carp::Heavy - heavy machinery, no user serviceable parts inside
-=head2 B::Lint - Perl lint
+=head2 Class::ISA -- report the search path for a class's ISA tree
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item OPTIONS AND LINT CHECKS
-
-B<context>, B<implicit-read> and B<implicit-write>, B<dollar-underscore>,
-B<private-names>, B<undefined-subs>, B<regexp-variables>, B<all>, B<none>
+=item FUNCTIONS
-=item NON LINT-CHECK OPTIONS
+the function Class::ISA::super_path($CLASS), the function
+Class::ISA::self_and_super_path($CLASS), the function
+Class::ISA::self_and_super_versions($CLASS)
-B<-u Package>
+=item CAUTIONARY NOTES
-=item BUGS
+=item COPYRIGHT
=item AUTHOR
=back
-=head2 B::O, O - Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends
+=head2 Class::Struct - declare struct-like datatypes as Perl classes
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item CONVENTIONS
+=over 4
-=item IMPLEMENTATION
+=item The C<struct()> function
-=item AUTHOR
+=item Class Creation at Compile Time
-=back
+=item Element Types and Accessor Methods
-=head2 B::Showlex - Show lexical variables used in functions or files
+Scalar (C<'$'> or C<'*$'>), Array (C<'@'> or C<'*@'>), Hash (C<'%'> or
+C<'*%'>), Class (C<'Class_Name'> or C<'*Class_Name'>)
-=over 4
+=item Initializing with C<new>
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=back
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item EXAMPLES
-=item AUTHOR
+Example 1, Example 2, Example 3
+
+=item Author and Modification History
=back
-=head2 B::Stackobj - Helper module for CC backend
+=head2 Config - access Perl configuration information
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item AUTHOR
+myconfig(), config_sh(), config_re($regex), config_vars(@names)
-=back
+=item EXAMPLE
-=head2 B::Stash - show what stashes are loaded
+=item WARNING
-=head2 B::Terse - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing terse info about ops
+=item GLOSSARY
=over 4
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item _
-=item DESCRIPTION
+C<_a>, C<_exe>, C<_o>
-=item AUTHOR
+=item a
-=back
+C<afs>, C<afsroot>, C<alignbytes>, C<ansi2knr>, C<aphostname>,
+C<api_revision>, C<api_subversion>, C<api_version>, C<api_versionstring>,
+C<ar>, C<archlib>, C<archlibexp>, C<archname64>, C<archname>, C<archobjs>,
+C<asctime_r_proto>, C<awk>
-=head2 B::Xref - Generates cross reference reports for Perl programs
+=item b
-=over 4
+C<baserev>, C<bash>, C<bin>, C<binexp>, C<bison>, C<byacc>, C<byteorder>
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item c
-=item DESCRIPTION
+C<c>, C<castflags>, C<cat>, C<cc>, C<cccdlflags>, C<ccdlflags>, C<ccflags>,
+C<ccflags_uselargefiles>, C<ccname>, C<ccsymbols>, C<ccversion>, C<cf_by>,
+C<cf_email>, C<cf_time>, C<charsize>, C<chgrp>, C<chmod>, C<chown>,
+C<clocktype>, C<comm>, C<compress>, C<contains>, C<cp>, C<cpio>, C<cpp>,
+C<cpp_stuff>, C<cppccsymbols>, C<cppflags>, C<cpplast>, C<cppminus>,
+C<cpprun>, C<cppstdin>, C<cppsymbols>, C<crypt_r_proto>, C<cryptlib>,
+C<csh>, C<ctermid_r_proto>, C<ctime_r_proto>
-=item OPTIONS
+=item d
+
+C<d__fwalk>, C<d_access>, C<d_accessx>, C<d_aintl>, C<d_alarm>,
+C<d_archlib>, C<d_asctime_r>, C<d_atolf>, C<d_atoll>, C<d_attribut>,
+C<d_bcmp>, C<d_bcopy>, C<d_bsd>, C<d_bsdgetpgrp>, C<d_bsdsetpgrp>,
+C<d_bzero>, C<d_casti32>, C<d_castneg>, C<d_charvspr>, C<d_chown>,
+C<d_chroot>, C<d_chsize>, C<d_class>, C<d_closedir>, C<d_cmsghdr_s>,
+C<d_const>, C<d_copysignl>, C<d_crypt>, C<d_crypt_r>, C<d_csh>,
+C<d_ctermid_r>, C<d_ctime_r>, C<d_cuserid>, C<d_dbl_dig>,
+C<d_dbminitproto>, C<d_difftime>, C<d_dirfd>, C<d_dirnamlen>, C<d_dlerror>,
+C<d_dlopen>, C<d_dlsymun>, C<d_dosuid>, C<d_drand48_r>, C<d_drand48proto>,
+C<d_dup2>, C<d_eaccess>, C<d_endgrent>, C<d_endgrent_r>, C<d_endhent>,
+C<d_endhostent_r>, C<d_endnent>, C<d_endnetent_r>, C<d_endpent>,
+C<d_endprotoent_r>, C<d_endpwent>, C<d_endpwent_r>, C<d_endsent>,
+C<d_endservent_r>, C<d_eofnblk>, C<d_eunice>, C<d_faststdio>, C<d_fchdir>,
+C<d_fchmod>, C<d_fchown>, C<d_fcntl>, C<d_fcntl_can_lock>, C<d_fd_macros>,
+C<d_fd_set>, C<d_fds_bits>, C<d_fgetpos>, C<d_finite>, C<d_finitel>,
+C<d_flexfnam>, C<d_flock>, C<d_flockproto>, C<d_fork>, C<d_fp_class>,
+C<d_fpathconf>, C<d_fpclass>, C<d_fpclassify>, C<d_fpclassl>,
+C<d_fpos64_t>, C<d_frexpl>, C<d_fs_data_s>, C<d_fseeko>, C<d_fsetpos>,
+C<d_fstatfs>, C<d_fstatvfs>, C<d_fsync>, C<d_ftello>, C<d_ftime>,
+C<d_Gconvert>, C<d_getcwd>, C<d_getespwnam>, C<d_getfsstat>, C<d_getgrent>,
+C<d_getgrent_r>, C<d_getgrgid_r>, C<d_getgrnam_r>, C<d_getgrps>,
+C<d_gethbyaddr>, C<d_gethbyname>, C<d_gethent>, C<d_gethname>,
+C<d_gethostbyaddr_r>, C<d_gethostbyname_r>, C<d_gethostent_r>,
+C<d_gethostprotos>, C<d_getitimer>, C<d_getlogin>, C<d_getlogin_r>,
+C<d_getmnt>, C<d_getmntent>, C<d_getnbyaddr>, C<d_getnbyname>,
+C<d_getnent>, C<d_getnetbyaddr_r>, C<d_getnetbyname_r>, C<d_getnetent_r>,
+C<d_getnetprotos>, C<d_getpagsz>, C<d_getpbyname>, C<d_getpbynumber>,
+C<d_getpent>, C<d_getpgid>, C<d_getpgrp2>, C<d_getpgrp>, C<d_getppid>,
+C<d_getprior>, C<d_getprotobyname_r>, C<d_getprotobynumber_r>,
+C<d_getprotoent_r>, C<d_getprotoprotos>, C<d_getprpwnam>, C<d_getpwent>,
+C<d_getpwent_r>, C<d_getpwnam_r>, C<d_getpwuid_r>, C<d_getsbyname>,
+C<d_getsbyport>, C<d_getsent>, C<d_getservbyname_r>, C<d_getservbyport_r>,
+C<d_getservent_r>, C<d_getservprotos>, C<d_getspnam>, C<d_getspnam_r>,
+C<d_gettimeod>, C<d_gmtime_r>, C<d_gnulibc>, C<d_grpasswd>, C<d_hasmntopt>,
+C<d_htonl>, C<d_ilogbl>, C<d_index>, C<d_inetaton>, C<d_int64_t>,
+C<d_isascii>, C<d_isfinite>, C<d_isinf>, C<d_isnan>, C<d_isnanl>,
+C<d_killpg>, C<d_lchown>, C<d_ldbl_dig>, C<d_link>, C<d_localtime_r>,
+C<d_locconv>, C<d_lockf>, C<d_longdbl>, C<d_longlong>, C<d_lseekproto>,
+C<d_lstat>, C<d_madvise>, C<d_mblen>, C<d_mbstowcs>, C<d_mbtowc>,
+C<d_memchr>, C<d_memcmp>, C<d_memcpy>, C<d_memmove>, C<d_memset>,
+C<d_mkdir>, C<d_mkdtemp>, C<d_mkfifo>, C<d_mkstemp>, C<d_mkstemps>,
+C<d_mktime>, C<d_mmap>, C<d_modfl>, C<d_modfl_pow32_bug>, C<d_modflproto>,
+C<d_mprotect>, C<d_msg>, C<d_msg_ctrunc>, C<d_msg_dontroute>, C<d_msg_oob>,
+C<d_msg_peek>, C<d_msg_proxy>, C<d_msgctl>, C<d_msgget>, C<d_msghdr_s>,
+C<d_msgrcv>, C<d_msgsnd>, C<d_msync>, C<d_munmap>, C<d_mymalloc>,
+C<d_nice>, C<d_nl_langinfo>, C<d_nv_preserves_uv>, C<d_off64_t>,
+C<d_old_pthread_create_joinable>, C<d_oldpthreads>, C<d_oldsock>,
+C<d_open3>, C<d_pathconf>, C<d_pause>, C<d_perl_otherlibdirs>,
+C<d_phostname>, C<d_pipe>, C<d_poll>, C<d_portable>, C<d_PRId64>,
+C<d_PRIeldbl>, C<d_PRIEUldbl>, C<d_PRIfldbl>, C<d_PRIFUldbl>,
+C<d_PRIgldbl>, C<d_PRIGUldbl>, C<d_PRIi64>, C<d_PRIo64>, C<d_PRIu64>,
+C<d_PRIx64>, C<d_PRIXU64>, C<d_procselfexe>, C<d_pthread_atfork>,
+C<d_pthread_attr_setscope>, C<d_pthread_yield>, C<d_pwage>, C<d_pwchange>,
+C<d_pwclass>, C<d_pwcomment>, C<d_pwexpire>, C<d_pwgecos>, C<d_pwpasswd>,
+C<d_pwquota>, C<d_qgcvt>, C<d_quad>, C<d_random_r>, C<d_readdir64_r>,
+C<d_readdir>, C<d_readdir_r>, C<d_readlink>, C<d_readv>, C<d_recvmsg>,
+C<d_rename>, C<d_rewinddir>, C<d_rmdir>, C<d_safebcpy>, C<d_safemcpy>,
+C<d_sanemcmp>, C<d_sbrkproto>, C<d_scalbnl>, C<d_sched_yield>,
+C<d_scm_rights>, C<d_SCNfldbl>, C<d_seekdir>, C<d_select>, C<d_sem>,
+C<d_semctl>, C<d_semctl_semid_ds>, C<d_semctl_semun>, C<d_semget>,
+C<d_semop>, C<d_sendmsg>, C<d_setegid>, C<d_seteuid>, C<d_setgrent>,
+C<d_setgrent_r>, C<d_setgrps>, C<d_sethent>, C<d_sethostent_r>,
+C<d_setitimer>, C<d_setlinebuf>, C<d_setlocale>, C<d_setlocale_r>,
+C<d_setnent>, C<d_setnetent_r>, C<d_setpent>, C<d_setpgid>, C<d_setpgrp2>,
+C<d_setpgrp>, C<d_setprior>, C<d_setproctitle>, C<d_setprotoent_r>,
+C<d_setpwent>, C<d_setpwent_r>, C<d_setregid>, C<d_setresgid>,
+C<d_setresuid>, C<d_setreuid>, C<d_setrgid>, C<d_setruid>, C<d_setsent>,
+C<d_setservent_r>, C<d_setsid>, C<d_setvbuf>, C<d_sfio>, C<d_shm>,
+C<d_shmat>, C<d_shmatprototype>, C<d_shmctl>, C<d_shmdt>, C<d_shmget>,
+C<d_sigaction>, C<d_sigprocmask>, C<d_sigsetjmp>, C<d_sockatmark>,
+C<d_sockatmarkproto>, C<d_socket>, C<d_socklen_t>, C<d_sockpair>,
+C<d_socks5_init>, C<d_sqrtl>, C<d_srand48_r>, C<d_srandom_r>,
+C<d_sresgproto>, C<d_sresuproto>, C<d_statblks>, C<d_statfs_f_flags>,
+C<d_statfs_s>, C<d_statvfs>, C<d_stdio_cnt_lval>, C<d_stdio_ptr_lval>,
+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<-oFILENAME>, C<-r>, C<-D[tO]>
+=item e
-=item BUGS
+C<eagain>, C<ebcdic>, C<echo>, C<egrep>, C<emacs>, C<endgrent_r_proto>,
+C<endhostent_r_proto>, C<endnetent_r_proto>, C<endprotoent_r_proto>,
+C<endpwent_r_proto>, C<endservent_r_proto>, C<eunicefix>, C<exe_ext>,
+C<expr>, C<extensions>, C<extras>
-=item AUTHOR
+=item f
-=back
+C<fflushall>, C<fflushNULL>, C<find>, C<firstmakefile>, C<flex>,
+C<fpossize>, C<fpostype>, C<freetype>, C<from>, C<full_ar>, C<full_csh>,
+C<full_sed>
-=head2 Bblock, B::Bblock - Walk basic blocks
+=item g
-=over 4
+C<gccansipedantic>, C<gccosandvers>, C<gccversion>, C<getgrent_r_proto>,
+C<getgrgid_r_proto>, C<getgrnam_r_proto>, C<gethostbyaddr_r_proto>,
+C<gethostbyname_r_proto>, C<gethostent_r_proto>, C<getlogin_r_proto>,
+C<getnetbyaddr_r_proto>, C<getnetbyname_r_proto>, C<getnetent_r_proto>,
+C<getprotobyname_r_proto>, C<getprotobynumber_r_proto>,
+C<getprotoent_r_proto>, C<getpwent_r_proto>, C<getpwnam_r_proto>,
+C<getpwuid_r_proto>, C<getservbyname_r_proto>, C<getservbyport_r_proto>,
+C<getservent_r_proto>, C<getspnam_r_proto>, C<gidformat>, C<gidsign>,
+C<gidsize>, C<gidtype>, C<glibpth>, C<gmake>, C<gmtime_r_proto>,
+C<gnulibc_version>, C<grep>, C<groupcat>, C<groupstype>, C<gzip>
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item h
-=item DESCRIPTION
+C<h_fcntl>, C<h_sysfile>, C<hint>, C<hostcat>, C<html1dir>, C<html1direxp>,
+C<html3dir>, C<html3direxp>
-=item AUTHOR
+=item i
-=back
+C<i16size>, C<i16type>, C<i32size>, C<i32type>, C<i64size>, C<i64type>,
+C<i8size>, C<i8type>, C<i_arpainet>, C<i_bsdioctl>, C<i_crypt>, C<i_db>,
+C<i_dbm>, C<i_dirent>, C<i_dld>, C<i_dlfcn>, C<i_fcntl>, C<i_float>,
+C<i_fp>, C<i_fp_class>, C<i_gdbm>, C<i_grp>, C<i_ieeefp>, C<i_inttypes>,
+C<i_langinfo>, C<i_libutil>, C<i_limits>, C<i_locale>, C<i_machcthr>,
+C<i_malloc>, C<i_math>, C<i_memory>, C<i_mntent>, C<i_ndbm>, C<i_netdb>,
+C<i_neterrno>, C<i_netinettcp>, C<i_niin>, C<i_poll>, C<i_prot>,
+C<i_pthread>, C<i_pwd>, C<i_rpcsvcdbm>, C<i_sfio>, C<i_sgtty>, C<i_shadow>,
+C<i_socks>, C<i_stdarg>, C<i_stddef>, C<i_stdlib>, C<i_string>,
+C<i_sunmath>, C<i_sysaccess>, C<i_sysdir>, C<i_sysfile>, C<i_sysfilio>,
+C<i_sysin>, C<i_sysioctl>, C<i_syslog>, C<i_sysmman>, C<i_sysmode>,
+C<i_sysmount>, C<i_sysndir>, C<i_sysparam>, C<i_sysresrc>, C<i_syssecrt>,
+C<i_sysselct>, C<i_syssockio>, C<i_sysstat>, C<i_sysstatfs>,
+C<i_sysstatvfs>, C<i_systime>, C<i_systimek>, C<i_systimes>, C<i_systypes>,
+C<i_sysuio>, C<i_sysun>, C<i_sysutsname>, C<i_sysvfs>, C<i_syswait>,
+C<i_termio>, C<i_termios>, C<i_time>, C<i_unistd>, C<i_ustat>, C<i_utime>,
+C<i_values>, C<i_varargs>, C<i_varhdr>, C<i_vfork>,
+C<ignore_versioned_solibs>, C<inc_version_list>, C<inc_version_list_init>,
+C<incpath>, C<inews>, C<installarchlib>, C<installbin>, C<installhtml1dir>,
+C<installhtml3dir>, C<installman1dir>, C<installman3dir>, C<installprefix>,
+C<installprefixexp>, C<installprivlib>, C<installscript>,
+C<installsitearch>, C<installsitebin>, C<installsitehtml1dir>,
+C<installsitehtml3dir>, C<installsitelib>, C<installsiteman1dir>,
+C<installsiteman3dir>, C<installsitescript>, C<installstyle>,
+C<installusrbinperl>, C<installvendorarch>, C<installvendorbin>,
+C<installvendorhtml1dir>, C<installvendorhtml3dir>, C<installvendorlib>,
+C<installvendorman1dir>, C<installvendorman3dir>, C<installvendorscript>,
+C<intsize>, C<issymlink>, C<ivdformat>, C<ivsize>, C<ivtype>
-=head2 Benchmark - benchmark running times of Perl code
+=item k
-=over 4
+C<known_extensions>, C<ksh>
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item l
-=item DESCRIPTION
+C<ld>, C<lddlflags>, C<ldflags>, C<ldflags_uselargefiles>, C<ldlibpthname>,
+C<less>, C<lib_ext>, C<libc>, C<libperl>, C<libpth>, C<libs>, C<libsdirs>,
+C<libsfiles>, C<libsfound>, C<libspath>, C<libswanted>,
+C<libswanted_uselargefiles>, C<line>, C<lint>, C<lkflags>, C<ln>, C<lns>,
+C<localtime_r_proto>, C<locincpth>, C<loclibpth>, C<longdblsize>,
+C<longlongsize>, C<longsize>, C<lp>, C<lpr>, C<ls>, C<lseeksize>,
+C<lseektype>
-=over 4
+=item m
-=item Methods
+C<mail>, C<mailx>, C<make>, C<make_set_make>, C<mallocobj>, C<mallocsrc>,
+C<malloctype>, C<man1dir>, C<man1direxp>, C<man1ext>, C<man3dir>,
+C<man3direxp>, C<man3ext>
-new, debug, iters
+=item M
-=item Standard Exports
+C<Mcc>, C<mips_type>, C<mistrustnm>, C<mkdir>, C<mmaptype>, C<modetype>,
+C<more>, C<multiarch>, C<mv>, C<myarchname>, C<mydomain>, C<myhostname>,
+C<myuname>
-timeit(COUNT, CODE), timethis ( COUNT, CODE, [ TITLE, [ STYLE ]] ),
-timethese ( COUNT, CODEHASHREF, [ STYLE ] ), timediff ( T1, T2 ), timestr (
-TIMEDIFF, [ STYLE, [ FORMAT ] ] )
+=item n
-=item Optional Exports
+C<n>, C<need_va_copy>, C<netdb_hlen_type>, C<netdb_host_type>,
+C<netdb_name_type>, C<netdb_net_type>, C<nm>, C<nm_opt>, C<nm_so_opt>,
+C<nonxs_ext>, C<nroff>, C<nv_preserves_uv_bits>, C<nveformat>,
+C<nvEUformat>, C<nvfformat>, C<nvFUformat>, C<nvgformat>, C<nvGUformat>,
+C<nvsize>, C<nvtype>
-clearcache ( COUNT ), clearallcache ( ), cmpthese ( COUT, CODEHASHREF, [
-STYLE ] ), cmpthese ( RESULTSHASHREF, [ STYLE ] ), countit(TIME, CODE),
-disablecache ( ), enablecache ( ), timesum ( T1, T2 )
+=item o
-=back
+C<o_nonblock>, C<obj_ext>, C<old_pthread_create_joinable>, C<optimize>,
+C<orderlib>, C<osname>, C<osvers>, C<otherlibdirs>
-=item NOTES
+=item p
-=item EXAMPLES
+C<package>, C<pager>, C<passcat>, C<patchlevel>, C<path_sep>, C<perl5>,
+C<perl>, C<perl_patchlevel>
-=item INHERITANCE
+=item P
-=item CAVEATS
+C<PERL_REVISION>, C<PERL_SUBVERSION>, C<PERL_VERSION>, C<perladmin>,
+C<perllibs>, C<perlpath>, C<pg>, C<phostname>, C<pidtype>, C<plibpth>,
+C<pmake>, C<pr>, C<prefix>, C<prefixexp>, C<privlib>, C<privlibexp>,
+C<procselfexe>, C<prototype>, C<ptrsize>
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item q
-=item AUTHORS
+C<quadkind>, C<quadtype>
-=item MODIFICATION HISTORY
+=item r
-=back
+C<randbits>, C<randfunc>, C<random_r_proto>, C<randseedtype>, C<ranlib>,
+C<rd_nodata>, C<readdir64_r_proto>, C<readdir_r_proto>, C<revision>, C<rm>,
+C<rmail>, C<run>, C<runnm>
-=head2 ByteLoader - load byte compiled perl code
+=item s
-=over 4
+C<sched_yield>, C<scriptdir>, C<scriptdirexp>, C<sed>, C<seedfunc>,
+C<selectminbits>, C<selecttype>, C<sendmail>, C<setgrent_r_proto>,
+C<sethostent_r_proto>, C<setlocale_r_proto>, C<setnetent_r_proto>,
+C<setprotoent_r_proto>, C<setpwent_r_proto>, C<setservent_r_proto>, C<sh>,
+C<shar>, C<sharpbang>, C<shmattype>, C<shortsize>, C<shrpenv>, C<shsharp>,
+C<sig_count>, C<sig_name>, C<sig_name_init>, C<sig_num>, C<sig_num_init>,
+C<sig_size>, C<signal_t>, C<sitearch>, C<sitearchexp>, C<sitebin>,
+C<sitebinexp>, C<sitehtml1dir>, C<sitehtml1direxp>, C<sitehtml3dir>,
+C<sitehtml3direxp>, C<sitelib>, C<sitelib_stem>, C<sitelibexp>,
+C<siteman1dir>, C<siteman1direxp>, C<siteman3dir>, C<siteman3direxp>,
+C<siteprefix>, C<siteprefixexp>, C<sitescript>, C<sitescriptexp>,
+C<sizesize>, C<sizetype>, C<sleep>, C<smail>, C<so>, C<sockethdr>,
+C<socketlib>, C<socksizetype>, C<sort>, C<spackage>, C<spitshell>,
+C<sPRId64>, C<sPRIeldbl>, C<sPRIEUldbl>, C<sPRIfldbl>, C<sPRIFUldbl>,
+C<sPRIgldbl>, C<sPRIGUldbl>, C<sPRIi64>, C<sPRIo64>, C<sPRIu64>,
+C<sPRIx64>, C<sPRIXU64>, C<srand48_r_proto>, C<srandom_r_proto>, C<src>,
+C<sSCNfldbl>, C<ssizetype>, C<startperl>, C<startsh>, C<static_ext>,
+C<stdchar>, C<stdio_base>, C<stdio_bufsiz>, C<stdio_cnt>, C<stdio_filbuf>,
+C<stdio_ptr>, C<stdio_stream_array>, C<strerror_r_proto>, C<strings>,
+C<submit>, C<subversion>, C<sysman>
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item t
-=item DESCRIPTION
+C<tail>, C<tar>, C<targetarch>, C<tbl>, C<tee>, C<test>, C<timeincl>,
+C<timetype>, C<tmpnam_r_proto>, C<to>, C<touch>, C<tr>, C<trnl>, C<troff>,
+C<ttyname_r_proto>
-=item AUTHOR
+=item u
-=item SEE ALSO
+C<u16size>, C<u16type>, C<u32size>, C<u32type>, C<u64size>, C<u64type>,
+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>
-=back
+=item v
-=head2 Bytecode, B::Bytecode - Perl compiler's bytecode backend
+C<vendorarch>, C<vendorarchexp>, C<vendorbin>, C<vendorbinexp>,
+C<vendorhtml1dir>, C<vendorhtml1direxp>, C<vendorhtml3dir>,
+C<vendorhtml3direxp>, C<vendorlib>, C<vendorlib_stem>, C<vendorlibexp>,
+C<vendorman1dir>, C<vendorman1direxp>, C<vendorman3dir>,
+C<vendorman3direxp>, C<vendorprefix>, C<vendorprefixexp>, C<vendorscript>,
+C<vendorscriptexp>, C<version>, C<version_patchlevel_string>,
+C<versiononly>, C<vi>, C<voidflags>
-=over 4
+=item x
-=item SYNOPSIS
+C<xlibpth>
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item y
-=item OPTIONS
+C<yacc>, C<yaccflags>
-B<-ofilename>, B<-afilename>, B<-->, B<-f>, B<-fcompress-nullops>,
-B<-fomit-sequence-numbers>, B<-fbypass-nullops>, B<-On>, B<-D>, B<-Do>,
-B<-Db>, B<-Da>, B<-DC>, B<-S>, B<-upackage>
+=item z
-=item EXAMPLES
+C<zcat>, C<zip>
-=item BUGS
+=back
-=item AUTHORS
+=item NOTE
=back
-=head2 CGI - Simple Common Gateway Interface Class
+=head2 Cwd - get pathname of current working directory
=over 4
=item SYNOPSIS
-=item ABSTRACT
-
=item DESCRIPTION
=over 4
-=item PROGRAMMING STYLE
-
-=item CALLING CGI.PM ROUTINES
+=item getcwd and friends
-=item CREATING A NEW QUERY OBJECT (OBJECT-ORIENTED STYLE):
+getcwd, cwd, fastcwd, fastgetcwd, getdcwd
-=item CREATING A NEW QUERY OBJECT FROM AN INPUT FILE
+=item abs_path and friends
-=item FETCHING A LIST OF KEYWORDS FROM THE QUERY:
+abs_path, realpath, fast_abs_path
-=item FETCHING THE NAMES OF ALL THE PARAMETERS PASSED TO YOUR SCRIPT:
+=item $ENV{PWD}
-=item FETCHING THE VALUE OR VALUES OF A SINGLE NAMED PARAMETER:
+=back
-=item SETTING THE VALUE(S) OF A NAMED PARAMETER:
+=item NOTES
-=item APPENDING ADDITIONAL VALUES TO A NAMED PARAMETER:
+=item AUTHOR
-=item IMPORTING ALL PARAMETERS INTO A NAMESPACE:
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item DELETING A PARAMETER COMPLETELY:
+=back
-=item DELETING ALL PARAMETERS:
+=head2 DB - programmatic interface to the Perl debugging API (draft,
+subject to
+change)
-=item DIRECT ACCESS TO THE PARAMETER LIST:
+=over 4
-=item FETCHING THE PARAMETER LIST AS A HASH:
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item SAVING THE STATE OF THE SCRIPT TO A FILE:
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item RETRIEVING CGI ERRORS
+=over 4
-=item USING THE FUNCTION-ORIENTED INTERFACE
+=item Global Variables
-B<:cgi>, B<:form>, B<:html2>, B<:html3>, B<:netscape>, B<:html>,
-B<:standard>, B<:all>
+ $DB::sub, %DB::sub, $DB::single, $DB::signal, $DB::trace, @DB::args,
+@DB::dbline, %DB::dbline, $DB::package, $DB::filename, $DB::subname,
+$DB::lineno
-=item PRAGMAS
+=item API Methods
--any, -compile, -nosticky, -no_undef_params, -no_xhtml, -nph,
--newstyle_urls, -oldstyle_urls, -autoload, -no_debug, -debug,
--private_tempfiles
+CLIENT->register(), CLIENT->evalcode(STRING), CLIENT->skippkg('D::hide'),
+CLIENT->run(), CLIENT->step(), CLIENT->next(), CLIENT->done()
-=item SPECIAL FORMS FOR IMPORTING HTML-TAG FUNCTIONS
+=item Client Callback Methods
-1. start_table() (generates a <TABLE> tag), 2. end_table() (generates a
-</TABLE> tag), 3. start_ul() (generates a <UL> tag), 4. end_ul() (generates
-a </UL> tag)
+CLIENT->init(), CLIENT->prestop([STRING]), CLIENT->stop(), CLIENT->idle(),
+CLIENT->poststop([STRING]), CLIENT->evalcode(STRING), CLIENT->cleanup(),
+CLIENT->output(LIST)
=back
-=item GENERATING DYNAMIC DOCUMENTS
-
-=over 4
+=item BUGS
-=item CREATING A STANDARD HTTP HEADER:
+=item AUTHOR
-=item GENERATING A REDIRECTION HEADER
+=back
-=item CREATING THE HTML DOCUMENT HEADER
+=head2 DBM_Filter -- Filter DBM keys/values
-B<Parameters:>, 4, 5, 6..
+=over 4
-=item ENDING THE HTML DOCUMENT:
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item CREATING A SELF-REFERENCING URL THAT PRESERVES STATE INFORMATION:
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item OBTAINING THE SCRIPT'S URL
+=item What is a DBM Filter?
-B<-absolute>, B<-relative>, B<-full>, B<-path> (B<-path_info>), B<-query>
-(B<-query_string>), B<-base>
+=over 4
-=item MIXING POST AND URL PARAMETERS
+=item So what's new?
=back
-=item CREATING STANDARD HTML ELEMENTS:
+=item METHODS
=over 4
-=item PROVIDING ARGUMENTS TO HTML SHORTCUTS
-
-=item THE DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY OF HTML SHORTCUTS
+=item $db->Filter_Push()
-=item HTML SHORTCUTS AND LIST INTERPOLATION
+=item $db->Filter_Key_Push()
-=item NON-STANDARD HTML SHORTCUTS
+=item $db->Filter_Value_Push()
-=item AUTOESCAPING HTML
+Filter_Push, Filter_Key_Push, Filter_Value_Push
-$escaped_string = escapeHTML("unescaped string");, $charset =
-charset([$charset]);, $flag = autoEscape([$flag]);
+=item $db->Filter_Pop()
-=item PRETTY-PRINTING HTML
+=item $db->Filtered()
=back
-=item CREATING FILL-OUT FORMS:
+=item Writing a Filter
=over 4
-=item CREATING AN ISINDEX TAG
-
-=item STARTING AND ENDING A FORM
+=item Immediate Filters
-B<application/x-www-form-urlencoded>, B<multipart/form-data>
+=item Canned Filters
-=item CREATING A TEXT FIELD
+"name", params
-B<Parameters>
+=back
-=item CREATING A BIG TEXT FIELD
+=item Filters Included
-=item CREATING A PASSWORD FIELD
+utf8, encode, compress, int32, null
-=item CREATING A FILE UPLOAD FIELD
+=item NOTES
-B<Parameters>
+=over 4
-=item CREATING A POPUP MENU
+=item Maintain Round Trip Integrity
-=item CREATING A SCROLLING LIST
+=item Don't mix filtered & non-filtered data in the same database file.
-B<Parameters:>
+=back
-=item CREATING A GROUP OF RELATED CHECKBOXES
+=item EXAMPLE
-B<Parameters:>
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item CREATING A STANDALONE CHECKBOX
+=item AUTHOR
-B<Parameters:>
+=back
-=item CREATING A RADIO BUTTON GROUP
+=head2 DB_File - Perl5 access to Berkeley DB version 1.x
-B<Parameters:>
+=over 4
-=item CREATING A SUBMIT BUTTON
+=item SYNOPSIS
-B<Parameters:>
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item CREATING A RESET BUTTON
+B<DB_HASH>, B<DB_BTREE>, B<DB_RECNO>
-=item CREATING A DEFAULT BUTTON
+=over 4
-=item CREATING A HIDDEN FIELD
+=item Using DB_File with Berkeley DB version 2 or greater
-B<Parameters:>
+=item Interface to Berkeley DB
-=item CREATING A CLICKABLE IMAGE BUTTON
+=item Opening a Berkeley DB Database File
-B<Parameters:>, 3. The third option (-align, optional) is an alignment
-type, and may be TOP, BOTTOM or MIDDLE
+=item Default Parameters
-=item CREATING A JAVASCRIPT ACTION BUTTON
+=item In Memory Databases
=back
-=item HTTP COOKIES
-
-1. an expiration time, 2. a domain, 3. a path, 4. a "secure" flag,
-B<-name>, B<-value>, B<-path>, B<-domain>, B<-expires>, B<-secure>
-
-=item WORKING WITH FRAMES
-
-1. Create a <Frameset> document, 2. Specify the destination for the
-document in the HTTP header, 3. Specify the destination for the document in
-the <FORM> tag
-
-=item LIMITED SUPPORT FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS
-
-=item DEBUGGING
+=item DB_HASH
=over 4
-=item DUMPING OUT ALL THE NAME/VALUE PAIRS
+=item A Simple Example
=back
-=item FETCHING ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
-
-B<Accept()>, B<raw_cookie()>, B<user_agent()>, B<path_info()>,
-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()>
-
-=item USING NPH SCRIPTS
-
-In the B<use> statement, By calling the B<nph()> method:, By using B<-nph>
-parameters
-
-=item Server Push
-
-multipart_init(), multipart_start(), multipart_end(), multipart_final()
-
-=item Avoiding Denial of Service Attacks
-
-B<$CGI::POST_MAX>, B<$CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS>, B<1. On a script-by-script
-basis>, B<2. Globally for all scripts>
+=item DB_BTREE
-=item COMPATIBILITY WITH CGI-LIB.PL
+=over 4
-=item AUTHOR INFORMATION
+=item Changing the BTREE sort order
-=item CREDITS
+=item Handling Duplicate Keys
-Matt Heffron (heffron@falstaff.css.beckman.com), James Taylor
-(james.taylor@srs.gov), Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com>, Mike Jewell
-(mlj3u@virginia.edu), Timothy Shimmin (tes@kbs.citri.edu.au), Joergen Haegg
-(jh@axis.se), Laurent Delfosse (delfosse@delfosse.com), Richard Resnick
-(applepi1@aol.com), Craig Bishop (csb@barwonwater.vic.gov.au), Tony Curtis
-(tc@vcpc.univie.ac.at), Tim Bunce (Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk), Tom Christiansen
-(tchrist@convex.com), Andreas Koenig (k@franz.ww.TU-Berlin.DE), Tim
-MacKenzie (Tim.MacKenzie@fulcrum.com.au), Kevin B. Hendricks
-(kbhend@dogwood.tyler.wm.edu), Stephen Dahmen (joyfire@inxpress.net), Ed
-Jordan (ed@fidalgo.net), David Alan Pisoni (david@cnation.com), Doug
-MacEachern (dougm@opengroup.org), Robin Houston (robin@oneworld.org),
-...and many many more..
+=item The get_dup() Method
-=item A COMPLETE EXAMPLE OF A SIMPLE FORM-BASED SCRIPT
+=item The find_dup() Method
-=item BUGS
+=item The del_dup() Method
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item Matching Partial Keys
=back
-=head2 CGI::Apache - Backward compatibility module for CGI.pm
+=item DB_RECNO
=over 4
-=item SYNOPSIS
-
-=item ABSTRACT
+=item The 'bval' Option
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item A Simple Example
-=item AUTHOR INFORMATION
+=item Extra RECNO Methods
-=item BUGS
+B<$X-E<gt>push(list) ;>, B<$value = $X-E<gt>pop ;>, B<$X-E<gt>shift>,
+B<$X-E<gt>unshift(list) ;>, B<$X-E<gt>length>, B<$X-E<gt>splice(offset,
+length, elements);>
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item Another Example
=back
-=head2 CGI::Carp, B<CGI::Carp> - CGI routines for writing to the HTTPD (or
-other) error log
-
-=over 4
-
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item THE API INTERFACE
-=item DESCRIPTION
+B<$status = $X-E<gt>get($key, $value [, $flags]) ;>, B<$status =
+$X-E<gt>put($key, $value [, $flags]) ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>del($key [,
+$flags]) ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>fd ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>seq($key,
+$value, $flags) ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>sync([$flags]) ;>
-=item REDIRECTING ERROR MESSAGES
+=item DBM FILTERS
-=item MAKING PERL ERRORS APPEAR IN THE BROWSER WINDOW
+B<filter_store_key>, B<filter_store_value>, B<filter_fetch_key>,
+B<filter_fetch_value>
=over 4
-=item Changing the default message
+=item The Filter
-=back
+=item An Example -- the NULL termination problem.
-=item MAKING WARNINGS APPEAR AS HTML COMMENTS
+=item Another Example -- Key is a C int.
-=item CHANGE LOG
+=back
-=item AUTHORS
+=item HINTS AND TIPS
-=item SEE ALSO
+=over 4
-=back
+=item Locking: The Trouble with fd
-=head2 CGI::Cookie - Interface to Netscape Cookies
+=item Safe ways to lock a database
-=over 4
+B<Tie::DB_Lock>, B<Tie::DB_LockFile>, B<DB_File::Lock>
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item Sharing Databases With C Applications
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item The untie() Gotcha
-=item USING CGI::Cookie
+=back
-B<1. expiration date>, B<2. domain>, B<3. path>, B<4. secure flag>
+=item COMMON QUESTIONS
=over 4
-=item Creating New Cookies
-
-=item Sending the Cookie to the Browser
+=item Why is there Perl source in my database?
-=item Recovering Previous Cookies
+=item How do I store complex data structures with DB_File?
-=item Manipulating Cookies
+=item What does "Invalid Argument" mean?
-B<name()>, B<value()>, B<domain()>, B<path()>, B<expires()>
+=item What does "Bareword 'DB_File' not allowed" mean?
=back
-=item AUTHOR INFORMATION
+=item REFERENCES
+
+=item HISTORY
=item BUGS
+=item AVAILABILITY
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
=item SEE ALSO
+=item AUTHOR
+
=back
-=head2 CGI::Fast - CGI Interface for Fast CGI
+=head2 Data::Dumper - stringified perl data structures, suitable for both
+printing and C<eval>
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item OTHER PIECES OF THE PUZZLE
-
-=item WRITING FASTCGI PERL SCRIPTS
-
-=item INSTALLING FASTCGI SCRIPTS
+=over 4
-=item USING FASTCGI SCRIPTS AS CGI SCRIPTS
+=item Methods
-=item EXTERNAL FASTCGI SERVER INVOCATION
+I<PACKAGE>->new(I<ARRAYREF [>, I<ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Dump I<or>
+I<PACKAGE>->Dump(I<ARRAYREF [>, I<ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Seen(I<[HASHREF]>),
+I<$OBJ>->Values(I<[ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Names(I<[ARRAYREF]>),
+I<$OBJ>->Reset
-FCGI_SOCKET_PATH, FCGI_LISTEN_QUEUE
+=item Functions
-=item CAVEATS
+Dumper(I<LIST>)
-=item AUTHOR INFORMATION
+=item Configuration Variables or Methods
-=item BUGS
+=item Exports
-=item SEE ALSO
+Dumper
=back
-=head2 CGI::Pretty - module to produce nicely formatted HTML code
-
-=over 4
-
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item EXAMPLES
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item BUGS
=over 4
-=item Tags that won't be formatted
-
-=item Customizing the Indenting
+=item NOTE
=back
-=item BUGS
-
=item AUTHOR
+=item VERSION
+
=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=head2 CGI::Push - Simple Interface to Server Push
+=head2 Devel::DProf - a Perl code profiler
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item USING CGI::Push
-
--next_page, -last_page, -type, -delay, -cookie, -target, -expires, -nph
-
-=over 4
-
-=item Heterogeneous Pages
-
-=item Changing the Page Delay on the Fly
-
-=back
+=item PROFILE FORMAT
-=item INSTALLING CGI::Push SCRIPTS
+=item AUTOLOAD
-=item AUTHOR INFORMATION
+=item ENVIRONMENT
=item BUGS
=back
-=head2 CGI::Switch - Backward compatibility module for defunct CGI::Switch
+=head2 Devel::PPPort - Perl/Pollution/Portability
=over 4
=item SYNOPSIS
-=item ABSTRACT
-
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item AUTHOR INFORMATION
+=over 4
-=item BUGS
+=item WriteFile
+
+=back
+
+=item ppport.h
+
+=item AUTHOR
=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=head2 CGI::Util - Internal utilities used by CGI module
+=head2 Devel::Peek - A data debugging tool for the XS programmer
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item AUTHOR INFORMATION
+=over 4
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item Runtime debugging
+
+=item Memory footprint debugging
=back
-=head2 CPAN - query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites
+=item EXAMPLES
=over 4
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item A simple scalar string
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item A simple scalar number
-=over 4
+=item A simple scalar with an extra reference
-=item Interactive Mode
+=item A reference to a simple scalar
-Searching for authors, bundles, distribution files and modules, make, test,
-install, clean modules or distributions, get, readme, look module or
-distribution, ls author, Signals
+=item A reference to an array
-=item CPAN::Shell
+=item A reference to a hash
-=item autobundle
+=item Dumping a large array or hash
-=item recompile
+=item A reference to an SV which holds a C pointer
-=item The four C<CPAN::*> Classes: Author, Bundle, Module, Distribution
+=item A reference to a subroutine
-=item Programmer's interface
+=back
-expand($type,@things), expandany(@things), Programming Examples
+=item EXPORTS
-=item Methods in the other Classes
+=item BUGS
-CPAN::Author::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Author::as_string(),
-CPAN::Author::email(), CPAN::Author::fullname(), CPAN::Author::name(),
-CPAN::Bundle::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Bundle::as_string(),
-CPAN::Bundle::clean(), CPAN::Bundle::contains(),
-CPAN::Bundle::force($method,@args), CPAN::Bundle::get(),
-CPAN::Bundle::inst_file(), CPAN::Bundle::inst_version(),
-CPAN::Bundle::uptodate(), CPAN::Bundle::install(), CPAN::Bundle::make(),
-CPAN::Bundle::readme(), CPAN::Bundle::test(),
-CPAN::Distribution::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Distribution::as_string(),
-CPAN::Distribution::clean(), CPAN::Distribution::containsmods(),
-CPAN::Distribution::cvs_import(), CPAN::Distribution::dir(),
-CPAN::Distribution::force($method,@args), CPAN::Distribution::get(),
-CPAN::Distribution::install(), CPAN::Distribution::isa_perl(),
-CPAN::Distribution::look(), CPAN::Distribution::make(),
-CPAN::Distribution::prereq_pm(), CPAN::Distribution::readme(),
-CPAN::Distribution::test(), CPAN::Distribution::uptodate(),
-CPAN::Index::force_reload(), CPAN::Index::reload(), CPAN::InfoObj::dump(),
-CPAN::Module::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Module::as_string(),
-CPAN::Module::clean(), CPAN::Module::cpan_file(),
-CPAN::Module::cpan_version(), CPAN::Module::cvs_import(),
-CPAN::Module::description(), CPAN::Module::force($method,@args),
-CPAN::Module::get(), CPAN::Module::inst_file(),
-CPAN::Module::inst_version(), CPAN::Module::install(),
-CPAN::Module::look(), CPAN::Module::make(),
-CPAN::Module::manpage_headline(), CPAN::Module::readme(),
-CPAN::Module::test(), CPAN::Module::uptodate(), CPAN::Module::userid()
+=item AUTHOR
-=item Cache Manager
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item Bundles
+=back
-=item Prerequisites
+=head2 Devel::SelfStubber - generate stubs for a SelfLoading module
-=item Finding packages and VERSION
+=over 4
-=item Debugging
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item Floppy, Zip, Offline Mode
+=item DESCRIPTION
=back
-=item CONFIGURATION
-
-C<o conf E<lt>scalar optionE<gt>>, C<o conf E<lt>scalar optionE<gt>
-E<lt>valueE<gt>>, C<o conf E<lt>list optionE<gt>>, C<o conf E<lt>list
-optionE<gt> [shift|pop]>, C<o conf E<lt>list optionE<gt>
-[unshift|push|splice] E<lt>listE<gt>>
+=head2 Digest - Modules that calculate message digests
=over 4
-=item Note on urllist parameter's format
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item urllist parameter has CD-ROM support
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=back
+I<binary>, I<hex>, I<base64>
-=item SECURITY
+=item OO INTERFACE
-=item EXPORT
+$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 ), $ctx->add_bits(
+$data, $nbits ), $ctx->add_bits( $bitstring ), $ctx->digest,
+$ctx->hexdigest, $ctx->b64digest
-=item POPULATE AN INSTALLATION WITH LOTS OF MODULES
+=item Digest speed
-=item WORKING WITH CPAN.pm BEHIND FIREWALLS
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Digest::MD5 - Perl interface to the MD5 Algorithm
=over 4
-=item Three basic types of firewalls
+=item SYNOPSIS
-http firewall, ftp firewall, One way visibility, SOCKS, IP Masquerade
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Configuring lynx or ncftp for going through a firewall
+=item FUNCTIONS
-=back
+md5($data,...), md5_hex($data,...), md5_base64($data,...)
-=item FAQ
+=item METHODS
-1), 2), 3), 4), 5), 6), 7), 8), 9), 10)
+$md5 = Digest::MD5->new, $md5->reset, $md5->clone, $md5->add($data,...),
+$md5->addfile($io_handle), $md5->add_bits($data, $nbits),
+$md5->add_bits($bitstring), $md5->digest, $md5->hexdigest, $md5->b64digest
-=item BUGS
+=item EXAMPLES
-=item AUTHOR
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item TRANSLATIONS
+=item COPYRIGHT
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item AUTHORS
=back
-=head2 CPAN::FirstTime - Utility for CPAN::Config file Initialization
+=head2 Digest::base - Digest base class
=over 4
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item SYNPOSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
+=item SEE ALSO
+
=back
-=head2 CPANox, CPAN::Nox - Wrapper around CPAN.pm without using any XS
-module
+=head2 DirHandle - supply object methods for directory handles
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item NOTES
=back
-=head2 Carp, carp - warn of errors (from perspective of caller)
+=head2 Dumpvalue - provides screen dump of Perl data.
=over 4
=over 4
-=item Forcing a Stack Trace
+=item Creation
-=back
+C<arrayDepth>, C<hashDepth>, C<compactDump>, C<veryCompact>, C<globPrint>,
+C<dumpDBFiles>, C<dumpPackages>, C<dumpReused>, C<tick>, C<quoteHighBit>,
+C<printUndef>, C<usageOnly>, unctrl, subdump, bareStringify, quoteHighBit,
+stopDbSignal
-=item BUGS
+=item Methods
+
+dumpValue, dumpValues, stringify, dumpvars, set_quote, set_unctrl,
+compactDump, veryCompact, set, get
=back
-=head2 Carp::Heavy, Carp heavy machinery - no user serviceable parts inside
+=back
-=head2 Class::ISA -- report the search path for a class's ISA tree
+=head2 DynaLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item FUNCTIONS
-
-the function Class::ISA::super_path($CLASS), the function
-Class::ISA::self_and_super_path($CLASS), the function
-Class::ISA::self_and_super_versions($CLASS)
-
-=item CAUTIONARY NOTES
-
-=item COPYRIGHT
+@dl_library_path, @dl_resolve_using, @dl_require_symbols, @dl_librefs,
+@dl_modules, @dl_shared_objects, dl_error(), $dl_debug, dl_findfile(),
+dl_expandspec(), dl_load_file(), dl_unload_file(), dl_load_flags(),
+dl_find_symbol(), dl_find_symbol_anywhere(), dl_undef_symbols(),
+dl_install_xsub(), bootstrap()
=item AUTHOR
=back
-=head2 Class::Struct - declare struct-like datatypes as Perl classes
+=head2 DynaLoader::XSLoader, XSLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into
+Perl code
=over 4
=over 4
-=item The C<struct()> function
+=item Migration from C<DynaLoader>
-=item Class Creation at Compile Time
+=item Backward compatible boilerplate
-=item Element Types and Accessor Methods
+=back
-Scalar (C<'$'> or C<'*$'>), Array (C<'@'> or C<'*@'>), Hash (C<'%'> or
-C<'*%'>), Class (C<'Class_Name'> or C<'*Class_Name'>)
+=item Order of initialization: early load()
-=item Initializing with C<new>
+=over 4
-=back
+=item The most hairy case
-=item EXAMPLES
+=back
-Example 1, Example 2, Example 3
+=item LIMITATIONS
-=item Author and Modification History
+=item AUTHOR
=back
-=head2 Config - access Perl configuration information
+=head2 Encode - character encodings
=over 4
=item SYNOPSIS
-=item DESCRIPTION
-
-myconfig(), config_sh(), config_vars(@names)
+=over 4
-=item EXAMPLE
+=item Table of Contents
-=item WARNING
+=back
-=item GLOSSARY
+=item DESCRIPTION
=over 4
-=item _
+=item TERMINOLOGY
-C<_a>, C<_exe>, C<_o>
+=back
-=item a
+=item PERL ENCODING API
-C<afs>, C<afsroot>, C<alignbytes>, C<ansi2knr>, C<aphostname>,
-C<api_revision>, C<api_subversion>, C<api_version>, C<api_versionstring>,
-C<ar>, C<archlib>, C<archlibexp>, C<archname64>, C<archname>, C<archobjs>,
-C<awk>
+$octets = encode(ENCODING, $string [, CHECK]), $string = decode(ENCODING,
+$octets [, CHECK]), [$length =] from_to($octets, FROM_ENC, TO_ENC [,
+CHECK]), $octets = encode_utf8($string);, $string = decode_utf8($octets [,
+CHECK]);
-=item b
+=over 4
-C<baserev>, C<bash>, C<bin>, C<bincompat5005>, C<binexp>, C<bison>,
-C<byacc>, C<byteorder>
+=item Listing available encodings
-=item c
+=item Defining Aliases
-C<c>, C<castflags>, C<cat>, C<cc>, C<cccdlflags>, C<ccdlflags>, C<ccflags>,
-C<ccflags_uselargefiles>, C<ccname>, C<ccsymbols>, C<ccversion>, C<cf_by>,
-C<cf_email>, C<cf_time>, C<charsize>, C<chgrp>, C<chmod>, C<chown>,
-C<clocktype>, C<comm>, C<compress>, C<contains>, C<cp>, C<cpio>, C<cpp>,
-C<cpp_stuff>, C<cppccsymbols>, C<cppflags>, C<cpplast>, C<cppminus>,
-C<cpprun>, C<cppstdin>, C<cppsymbols>, C<cryptlib>, C<csh>
+=back
-=item d
+=item Encoding via PerlIO
-C<d__fwalk>, C<d_access>, C<d_accessx>, C<d_alarm>, C<d_archlib>,
-C<d_atolf>, C<d_atoll>, C<d_attribut>, C<d_bcmp>, C<d_bcopy>,
-C<d_bincompat5005>, C<d_bsd>, C<d_bsdgetpgrp>, C<d_bsdsetpgrp>, C<d_bzero>,
-C<d_casti32>, C<d_castneg>, C<d_charvspr>, C<d_chown>, C<d_chroot>,
-C<d_chsize>, C<d_class>, C<d_closedir>, C<d_cmsghdr_s>, C<d_const>,
-C<d_crypt>, C<d_csh>, C<d_cuserid>, C<d_dbl_dig>, C<d_dbminitproto>,
-C<d_difftime>, C<d_dirnamlen>, C<d_dlerror>, C<d_dlopen>, C<d_dlsymun>,
-C<d_dosuid>, C<d_drand48proto>, C<d_dup2>, C<d_eaccess>, C<d_endgrent>,
-C<d_endhent>, C<d_endnent>, C<d_endpent>, C<d_endpwent>, C<d_endsent>,
-C<d_eofnblk>, C<d_eunice>, C<d_fchdir>, C<d_fchmod>, C<d_fchown>,
-C<d_fcntl>, C<d_fcntl_can_lock>, C<d_fd_macros>, C<d_fd_set>,
-C<d_fds_bits>, C<d_fgetpos>, C<d_finite>, C<d_finitel>, C<d_flexfnam>,
-C<d_flock>, C<d_flockproto>, C<d_fork>, C<d_fp_class>, C<d_fpathconf>,
-C<d_fpclass>, C<d_fpclassify>, C<d_fpclassl>, C<d_fpos64_t>, C<d_frexpl>,
-C<d_fs_data_s>, C<d_fseeko>, C<d_fsetpos>, C<d_fstatfs>, C<d_fstatvfs>,
-C<d_fsync>, C<d_ftello>, C<d_ftime>, C<d_Gconvert>, C<d_getcwd>,
-C<d_getespwnam>, C<d_getfsstat>, C<d_getgrent>, C<d_getgrps>,
-C<d_gethbyaddr>, C<d_gethbyname>, C<d_gethent>, C<d_gethname>,
-C<d_gethostprotos>, C<d_getitimer>, C<d_getlogin>, C<d_getmnt>,
-C<d_getmntent>, C<d_getnbyaddr>, C<d_getnbyname>, C<d_getnent>,
-C<d_getnetprotos>, C<d_getpagsz>, C<d_getpbyname>, C<d_getpbynumber>,
-C<d_getpent>, C<d_getpgid>, C<d_getpgrp2>, C<d_getpgrp>, C<d_getppid>,
-C<d_getprior>, C<d_getprotoprotos>, C<d_getprpwnam>, C<d_getpwent>,
-C<d_getsbyname>, C<d_getsbyport>, C<d_getsent>, C<d_getservprotos>,
-C<d_getspnam>, C<d_gettimeod>, C<d_gnulibc>, C<d_grpasswd>, C<d_hasmntopt>,
-C<d_htonl>, C<d_index>, C<d_inetaton>, C<d_int64_t>, C<d_isascii>,
-C<d_isfinite>, C<d_isinf>, C<d_isnan>, C<d_isnanl>, C<d_killpg>,
-C<d_lchown>, C<d_ldbl_dig>, C<d_link>, C<d_locconv>, C<d_lockf>,
-C<d_longdbl>, C<d_longlong>, C<d_lseekproto>, C<d_lstat>, C<d_madvise>,
-C<d_mblen>, C<d_mbstowcs>, C<d_mbtowc>, C<d_memchr>, C<d_memcmp>,
-C<d_memcpy>, C<d_memmove>, C<d_memset>, C<d_mkdir>, C<d_mkdtemp>,
-C<d_mkfifo>, C<d_mkstemp>, C<d_mkstemps>, C<d_mktime>, C<d_mmap>,
-C<d_modfl>, C<d_modfl_pow32_bug>, C<d_mprotect>, C<d_msg>, C<d_msg_ctrunc>,
-C<d_msg_dontroute>, C<d_msg_oob>, C<d_msg_peek>, C<d_msg_proxy>,
-C<d_msgctl>, C<d_msgget>, C<d_msghdr_s>, C<d_msgrcv>, C<d_msgsnd>,
-C<d_msync>, C<d_munmap>, C<d_mymalloc>, C<d_nice>, C<d_nl_langinfo>,
-C<d_nv_preserves_uv>, C<d_nv_preserves_uv_bits>, C<d_off64_t>,
-C<d_old_pthread_create_joinable>, C<d_oldpthreads>, C<d_oldsock>,
-C<d_open3>, C<d_pathconf>, C<d_pause>, C<d_perl_otherlibdirs>,
-C<d_phostname>, C<d_pipe>, C<d_poll>, C<d_portable>, C<d_PRId64>,
-C<d_PRIeldbl>, C<d_PRIEUldbl>, C<d_PRIfldbl>, C<d_PRIFUldbl>,
-C<d_PRIgldbl>, C<d_PRIGUldbl>, C<d_PRIi64>, C<d_PRIo64>, C<d_PRIu64>,
-C<d_PRIx64>, C<d_PRIXU64>, C<d_pthread_atfork>, C<d_pthread_yield>,
-C<d_pwage>, C<d_pwchange>, C<d_pwclass>, C<d_pwcomment>, C<d_pwexpire>,
-C<d_pwgecos>, C<d_pwpasswd>, C<d_pwquota>, C<d_qgcvt>, C<d_quad>,
-C<d_readdir>, C<d_readlink>, C<d_readv>, C<d_recvmsg>, C<d_rename>,
-C<d_rewinddir>, C<d_rmdir>, C<d_safebcpy>, C<d_safemcpy>, C<d_sanemcmp>,
-C<d_sbrkproto>, C<d_sched_yield>, C<d_scm_rights>, C<d_SCNfldbl>,
-C<d_seekdir>, C<d_select>, C<d_sem>, C<d_semctl>, C<d_semctl_semid_ds>,
-C<d_semctl_semun>, C<d_semget>, C<d_semop>, C<d_sendmsg>, C<d_setegid>,
-C<d_seteuid>, C<d_setgrent>, C<d_setgrps>, C<d_sethent>, C<d_setitimer>,
-C<d_setlinebuf>, C<d_setlocale>, C<d_setnent>, C<d_setpent>, C<d_setpgid>,
-C<d_setpgrp2>, C<d_setpgrp>, C<d_setprior>, C<d_setproctitle>,
-C<d_setpwent>, C<d_setregid>, C<d_setresgid>, C<d_setresuid>,
-C<d_setreuid>, C<d_setrgid>, C<d_setruid>, C<d_setsent>, C<d_setsid>,
-C<d_setvbuf>, C<d_sfio>, C<d_shm>, C<d_shmat>, C<d_shmatprototype>,
-C<d_shmctl>, C<d_shmdt>, C<d_shmget>, C<d_sigaction>, C<d_sigprocmask>,
-C<d_sigsetjmp>, C<d_sockatmark>, C<d_sockatmarkproto>, C<d_socket>,
-C<d_socklen_t>, C<d_sockpair>, C<d_socks5_init>, C<d_sqrtl>,
-C<d_sresgproto>, C<d_sresuproto>, C<d_statblks>, C<d_statfs_f_flags>,
-C<d_statfs_s>, C<d_statvfs>, C<d_stdio_cnt_lval>, C<d_stdio_ptr_lval>,
-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_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_truncate>, 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_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<dynamic_ext>
+=item Handling Malformed Data
-=item e
+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
-C<eagain>, C<ebcdic>, C<echo>, C<egrep>, C<emacs>, C<eunicefix>,
-C<exe_ext>, C<expr>, C<extensions>, C<extras>
+=over 4
-=item f
+=item Unimplemented fallback schemes
-C<fflushall>, C<fflushNULL>, C<find>, C<firstmakefile>, C<flex>,
-C<fpossize>, C<fpostype>, C<freetype>, C<from>, C<full_ar>, C<full_csh>,
-C<full_sed>
+=back
-=item g
+=item Defining Encodings
-C<gccosandvers>, C<gccversion>, C<gidformat>, C<gidsign>, C<gidsize>,
-C<gidtype>, C<glibpth>, C<grep>, C<groupcat>, C<groupstype>, C<gzip>
+=item The UTF-8 flag
-=item h
+Goal #1:, Goal #2:, Goal #3:, Goal #4:
-C<h_fcntl>, C<h_sysfile>, C<hint>, C<hostcat>
+=over 4
-=item i
+=item Messing with Perl's Internals
-C<i16size>, C<i16type>, C<i32size>, C<i32type>, C<i64size>, C<i64type>,
-C<i8size>, C<i8type>, C<i_arpainet>, C<i_bsdioctl>, C<i_db>, C<i_dbm>,
-C<i_dirent>, C<i_dld>, C<i_dlfcn>, C<i_fcntl>, C<i_float>, C<i_fp>,
-C<i_fp_class>, C<i_gdbm>, C<i_grp>, C<i_ieeefp>, C<i_inttypes>,
-C<i_langinfo>, C<i_libutil>, C<i_limits>, C<i_locale>, C<i_machcthr>,
-C<i_malloc>, C<i_math>, C<i_memory>, C<i_mntent>, C<i_ndbm>, C<i_netdb>,
-C<i_neterrno>, C<i_netinettcp>, C<i_niin>, C<i_poll>, C<i_prot>,
-C<i_pthread>, C<i_pwd>, C<i_rpcsvcdbm>, C<i_sfio>, C<i_sgtty>, C<i_shadow>,
-C<i_socks>, C<i_stdarg>, C<i_stddef>, C<i_stdlib>, C<i_string>,
-C<i_sunmath>, C<i_sysaccess>, C<i_sysdir>, C<i_sysfile>, C<i_sysfilio>,
-C<i_sysin>, C<i_sysioctl>, C<i_syslog>, C<i_sysmman>, C<i_sysmode>,
-C<i_sysmount>, C<i_sysndir>, C<i_sysparam>, C<i_sysresrc>, C<i_syssecrt>,
-C<i_sysselct>, C<i_syssockio>, C<i_sysstat>, C<i_sysstatfs>,
-C<i_sysstatvfs>, C<i_systime>, C<i_systimek>, C<i_systimes>, C<i_systypes>,
-C<i_sysuio>, C<i_sysun>, C<i_sysutsname>, C<i_sysvfs>, C<i_syswait>,
-C<i_termio>, C<i_termios>, C<i_time>, C<i_unistd>, C<i_ustat>, C<i_utime>,
-C<i_values>, C<i_varargs>, C<i_varhdr>, C<i_vfork>,
-C<ignore_versioned_solibs>, C<inc_version_list>, C<inc_version_list_init>,
-C<incpath>, C<inews>, C<installarchlib>, C<installbin>, C<installman1dir>,
-C<installman3dir>, C<installprefix>, C<installprefixexp>,
-C<installprivlib>, C<installscript>, C<installsitearch>, C<installsitebin>,
-C<installsitelib>, C<installstyle>, C<installusrbinperl>,
-C<installvendorarch>, C<installvendorbin>, C<installvendorlib>, C<intsize>,
-C<issymlink>, C<ivdformat>, C<ivsize>, C<ivtype>
+is_utf8(STRING [, CHECK]), _utf8_on(STRING), _utf8_off(STRING)
-=item k
+=back
-C<known_extensions>, C<ksh>
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item l
+=item MAINTAINER
-C<ld>, C<lddlflags>, C<ldflags>, C<ldflags_uselargefiles>, C<ldlibpthname>,
-C<less>, C<lib_ext>, C<libc>, C<libperl>, C<libpth>, C<libs>, C<libsdirs>,
-C<libsfiles>, C<libsfound>, C<libspath>, C<libswanted>,
-C<libswanted_uselargefiles>, C<line>, C<lint>, C<lkflags>, C<ln>, C<lns>,
-C<locincpth>, C<loclibpth>, C<longdblsize>, C<longlongsize>, C<longsize>,
-C<lp>, C<lpr>, C<ls>, C<lseeksize>, C<lseektype>
+=back
-=item m
+=head2 Encode::Alias - alias definitions to encodings
-C<mail>, C<mailx>, C<make>, C<make_set_make>, C<mallocobj>, C<mallocsrc>,
-C<malloctype>, C<man1dir>, C<man1direxp>, C<man1ext>, C<man3dir>,
-C<man3direxp>, C<man3ext>
+=over 4
-=item M
+=item SYNOPSIS
-C<Mcc>, C<mips_type>, C<mkdir>, C<mmaptype>, C<modetype>, C<more>,
-C<multiarch>, C<mv>, C<myarchname>, C<mydomain>, C<myhostname>, C<myuname>
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item n
+As a simple string, As a qr// compiled regular expression, e.g.:, As a code
+reference, e.g.:
-C<n>, C<need_va_copy>, C<netdb_hlen_type>, C<netdb_host_type>,
-C<netdb_name_type>, C<netdb_net_type>, C<nm>, C<nm_opt>, C<nm_so_opt>,
-C<nonxs_ext>, C<nroff>, C<nveformat>, C<nvEUformat>, C<nvfformat>,
-C<nvFUformat>, C<nvgformat>, C<nvGUformat>, C<nvsize>, C<nvtype>
+=over 4
-=item o
+=item Alias overloading
-C<o_nonblock>, C<obj_ext>, C<old_pthread_create_joinable>, C<optimize>,
-C<orderlib>, C<osname>, C<osvers>, C<otherlibdirs>
+=back
-=item p
+=item SEE ALSO
-C<package>, C<pager>, C<passcat>, C<patchlevel>, C<path_sep>, C<perl5>,
-C<perl>, C<perl_patchlevel>
+=back
-=item P
+=head2 Encode::Byte - Single Byte Encodings
-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<prototype>, C<ptrsize>
+=over 4
-=item q
+=item SYNOPSIS
-C<quadkind>, C<quadtype>
+=item ABSTRACT
-=item r
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item SEE ALSO
-C<randbits>, C<randfunc>, C<randseedtype>, C<ranlib>, C<rd_nodata>,
-C<revision>, C<rm>, C<rmail>, C<run>, C<runnm>
+=back
-=item s
+=head2 Encode::CJKConstants -- Internally used by Encode::??::ISO_2022_*
-C<sched_yield>, C<scriptdir>, C<scriptdirexp>, C<sed>, C<seedfunc>,
-C<selectminbits>, C<selecttype>, C<sendmail>, C<sh>, C<shar>, C<sharpbang>,
-C<shmattype>, C<shortsize>, C<shrpenv>, C<shsharp>, C<sig_count>,
-C<sig_name>, C<sig_name_init>, C<sig_num>, C<sig_num_init>, C<sig_size>,
-C<signal_t>, C<sitearch>, C<sitearchexp>, C<sitebin>, C<sitebinexp>,
-C<sitelib>, C<sitelib_stem>, C<sitelibexp>, C<siteprefix>,
-C<siteprefixexp>, C<sizesize>, C<sizetype>, C<sleep>, C<smail>, C<so>,
-C<sockethdr>, C<socketlib>, C<socksizetype>, C<sort>, C<spackage>,
-C<spitshell>, C<sPRId64>, C<sPRIeldbl>, C<sPRIEUldbl>, C<sPRIfldbl>,
-C<sPRIFUldbl>, C<sPRIgldbl>, C<sPRIGUldbl>, C<sPRIi64>, C<sPRIo64>,
-C<sPRIu64>, C<sPRIx64>, C<sPRIXU64>, C<src>, C<sSCNfldbl>, C<ssizetype>,
-C<startperl>, C<startsh>, C<static_ext>, C<stdchar>, C<stdio_base>,
-C<stdio_bufsiz>, C<stdio_cnt>, C<stdio_filbuf>, C<stdio_ptr>,
-C<stdio_stream_array>, C<strings>, C<submit>, C<subversion>, C<sysman>
+=head2 Encode::CN - China-based Chinese Encodings
-=item t
+=over 4
-C<tail>, C<tar>, C<targetarch>, C<tbl>, C<tee>, C<test>, C<timeincl>,
-C<timetype>, C<to>, C<touch>, C<tr>, C<trnl>, C<troff>
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item u
+=item DESCRIPTION
-C<u16size>, C<u16type>, C<u32size>, C<u32type>, C<u64size>, C<u64type>,
-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<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>
+=item NOTES
-=item v
+=item BUGS
-C<vendorarch>, C<vendorarchexp>, C<vendorbin>, C<vendorbinexp>,
-C<vendorlib>, C<vendorlib_stem>, C<vendorlibexp>, C<vendorprefix>,
-C<vendorprefixexp>, C<version>, C<version_patchlevel_string>,
-C<versiononly>, C<vi>, C<voidflags>
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item x
+=back
-C<xlibpth>, C<xs_apiversion>
+=head2 Encode::CN::HZ -- internally used by Encode::CN
-=item y
+=head2 Encode::Config -- internally used by Encode
-C<yacc>, C<yaccflags>
+=head2 Encode::EBCDIC - EBCDIC Encodings
-=item z
+=over 4
-C<zcat>, C<zip>
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=back
+=item ABSTRACT
-=item NOTE
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=head2 Cwd - get pathname of current working directory
+=head2 Encode::Encoding - Encode Implementation Base Class
=over 4
=over 4
-=item getcwd and friends
+=item Methods you should implement
-getcwd, cwd, fastcwd, fastgetcwd
+-E<gt>encode($string [,$check]), -E<gt>decode($octets [,$check]),
+-E<gt>cat_decode($destination, $octets, $offset, $terminator [,$check])
-=item abs_path and friends
+=item Other methods defined in Encode::Encodings
-abs_path, realpath, fast_abs_path
+-E<gt>name, -E<gt>renew, -E<gt>perlio_ok(), -E<gt>needs_lines()
-=item $ENV{PWD}
+=item Example: Encode::ROT13
=back
-=item NOTES
+=item Why the heck Encode API is different?
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Compiled Encodings
+
+=back
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+Scheme 1, Scheme 2, Other Schemes
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Encode::Guess -- Guesses encoding from data
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item ABSTRACT
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+Encode::Guess->set_suspects, Encode::Guess->add_suspects,
+Encode::decode("Guess" ...), Encode::Guess->guess($data),
+guess_encoding($data, [, I<list of suspects>])
+
+=item CAVEATS
+
+=item TO DO
=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=head2 DB - programmatic interface to the Perl debugging API (draft,
-subject to
-change)
+=head2 Encode::JP - Japanese Encodings
=over 4
=item SYNOPSIS
-=item DESCRIPTION
-
-=over 4
-
-=item Global Variables
-
- $DB::sub, %DB::sub, $DB::single, $DB::signal, $DB::trace, @DB::args,
-@DB::dbline, %DB::dbline, $DB::package, $DB::filename, $DB::subname,
-$DB::lineno
+=item ABSTRACT
-=item API Methods
+=item DESCRIPTION
-CLIENT->register(), CLIENT->evalcode(STRING), CLIENT->skippkg('D::hide'),
-CLIENT->run(), CLIENT->step(), CLIENT->next(), CLIENT->done()
+=item Note on ISO-2022-JP(-1)?
-=item Client Callback Methods
+=item BUGS
-CLIENT->init(), CLIENT->prestop([STRING]), CLIENT->stop(), CLIENT->idle(),
-CLIENT->poststop([STRING]), CLIENT->evalcode(STRING), CLIENT->cleanup(),
-CLIENT->output(LIST)
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=item BUGS
-
-=item AUTHOR
+=head2 Encode::JP::H2Z -- internally used by Encode::JP::2022_JP*
-=back
+=head2 Encode::JP::JIS7 -- internally used by Encode::JP
-=head2 DB_File - Perl5 access to Berkeley DB version 1.x
+=head2 Encode::KR - Korean Encodings
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-B<DB_HASH>, B<DB_BTREE>, B<DB_RECNO>
+=item BUGS
-=over 4
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item Using DB_File with Berkeley DB version 2 or greater
+=back
-=item Interface to Berkeley DB
+=head2 Encode::KR::2022_KR -- internally used by Encode::KR
-=item Opening a Berkeley DB Database File
+=head2 Encode::MIME::Header -- MIME 'B' and 'Q' header encoding
-=item Default Parameters
+=over 4
-=item In Memory Databases
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=back
+=item ABSTRACT
-=item DB_HASH
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=over 4
+=item BUGS
-=item A Simple Example
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=item DB_BTREE
+=head2 Encode::PerlIO -- a detailed document on Encode and PerlIO
=over 4
-=item Changing the BTREE sort order
+=item Overview
-=item Handling Duplicate Keys
+=item How does it work?
-=item The get_dup() Method
+=item Line Buffering
-=item The find_dup() Method
+=over 4
-=item The del_dup() Method
+=item How can I tell whether my encoding fully supports PerlIO ?
-=item Matching Partial Keys
+=back
+
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=item DB_RECNO
+=head2 Encode::Supported -- Encodings supported by Encode
=over 4
-=item The 'bval' Option
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item A Simple Example
+=over 4
-=item Extra RECNO Methods
+=item Encoding Names
-B<$X-E<gt>push(list) ;>, B<$value = $X-E<gt>pop ;>, B<$X-E<gt>shift>,
-B<$X-E<gt>unshift(list) ;>, B<$X-E<gt>length>, B<$X-E<gt>splice(offset,
-length, elements);>
+=back
-=item Another Example
+=item Supported Encodings
-=back
+=over 4
-=item THE API INTERFACE
+=item Built-in Encodings
-B<$status = $X-E<gt>get($key, $value [, $flags]) ;>, B<$status =
-$X-E<gt>put($key, $value [, $flags]) ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>del($key [,
-$flags]) ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>fd ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>seq($key,
-$value, $flags) ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>sync([$flags]) ;>
+=item Encode::Unicode -- other Unicode encodings
-=item DBM FILTERS
+=item Encode::Byte -- Extended ASCII
-B<filter_store_key>, B<filter_store_value>, B<filter_fetch_key>,
-B<filter_fetch_value>
+ISO-8859 and corresponding vendor mappings, KOI8 - De Facto Standard for
+the Cyrillic world, gsm0338 - Hentai Latin 1
-=over 4
+=item CJK: Chinese, Japanese, Korean (Multibyte)
-=item The Filter
+Encode::CN -- Continental China, Encode::JP -- Japan, Encode::KR -- Korea,
+Encode::TW -- Taiwan, Encode::HanExtra -- More Chinese via CPAN,
+Encode::JIS2K -- JIS X 0213 encodings via CPAN
-=item An Example -- the NULL termination problem.
+=item Miscellaneous encodings
-=item Another Example -- Key is a C int.
+Encode::EBCDIC, Encode::Symbols, Encode::MIME::Header, Encode::Guess
=back
-=item HINTS AND TIPS
+=item Unsupported encodings
-=over 4
+ ISO-2022-JP-2 [RFC1554], ISO-2022-CN [RFC1922], Various HP-UX encodings,
+Cyrillic encoding ISO-IR-111, ISO-8859-8-1 [Hebrew], ISIRI 3342, Iran
+System, ISIRI 2900 [Farsi], Thai encoding TCVN, Vietnamese encodings VPS,
+Various Mac encodings, (Mac) Indic encodings
-=item Locking: The Trouble with fd
+=item Encoding vs. Charset -- terminology
-=item Safe ways to lock a database
+=item Encoding Classification (by Anton Tagunov and Dan Kogai)
-B<Tie::DB_Lock>, B<Tie::DB_LockFile>, B<DB_File::Lock>
+=over 4
-=item Sharing Databases With C Applications
+=item Microsoft-related naming mess
-=item The untie() Gotcha
+KS_C_5601-1987, GB2312, Big5, Shift_JIS
=back
-=item COMMON QUESTIONS
+=item Glossary
+
+character repertoire, coded character set (CCS), character encoding scheme
+(CES), charset (in MIME context), EUC, ISO-2022, UCS, UCS-2, Unicode, UTF,
+UTF-16
+
+=item See Also
+
+=item References
+
+ECMA, ECMA-035 (eq C<ISO-2022>), IANA, Assigned Charset Names by IANA, ISO,
+RFC, UC, Unicode Glossary
=over 4
-=item Why is there Perl source in my database?
+=item Other Notable Sites
-=item How do I store complex data structures with DB_File?
+czyborra.com, CJK.inf, Jungshik Shin's Hangul FAQ, debian.org:
+"Introduction to i18n"
-=item What does "Invalid Argument" mean?
+=item Offline sources
-=item What does "Bareword 'DB_File' not allowed" mean?
+C<CJKV Information Processing> by Ken Lunde
=back
-=item REFERENCES
+=back
-=item HISTORY
+=head2 Encode::Symbol - Symbol Encodings
-=item BUGS
+=over 4
-=item AVAILABILITY
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item COPYRIGHT
+=item ABSTRACT
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item AUTHOR
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=head2 Data::Dumper - stringified perl data structures, suitable for both
-printing and C<eval>
+=head2 Encode::TW - Taiwan-based Chinese Encodings
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=over 4
+=item NOTES
-=item Methods
+=item BUGS
-I<PACKAGE>->new(I<ARRAYREF [>, I<ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Dump I<or>
-I<PACKAGE>->Dump(I<ARRAYREF [>, I<ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Seen(I<[HASHREF]>),
-I<$OBJ>->Values(I<[ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Names(I<[ARRAYREF]>),
-I<$OBJ>->Reset
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item Functions
+=back
-Dumper(I<LIST>)
+=head2 Encode::Unicode -- Various Unicode Transformation Formats
-=item Configuration Variables or Methods
+=over 4
-$Data::Dumper::Indent I<or> I<$OBJ>->Indent(I<[NEWVAL]>),
-$Data::Dumper::Purity I<or> I<$OBJ>->Purity(I<[NEWVAL]>),
-$Data::Dumper::Pad I<or> I<$OBJ>->Pad(I<[NEWVAL]>),
-$Data::Dumper::Varname I<or> I<$OBJ>->Varname(I<[NEWVAL]>),
-$Data::Dumper::Useqq I<or> I<$OBJ>->Useqq(I<[NEWVAL]>),
-$Data::Dumper::Terse I<or> I<$OBJ>->Terse(I<[NEWVAL]>),
-$Data::Dumper::Freezer I<or> $I<OBJ>->Freezer(I<[NEWVAL]>),
-$Data::Dumper::Toaster I<or> $I<OBJ>->Toaster(I<[NEWVAL]>),
-$Data::Dumper::Deepcopy I<or> $I<OBJ>->Deepcopy(I<[NEWVAL]>),
-$Data::Dumper::Quotekeys I<or> $I<OBJ>->Quotekeys(I<[NEWVAL]>),
-$Data::Dumper::Bless I<or> $I<OBJ>->Bless(I<[NEWVAL]>),
-$Data::Dumper::Maxdepth I<or> $I<OBJ>->Maxdepth(I<[NEWVAL]>),
-$Data::Dumper::Useperl I<or> $I<OBJ>->Useperl(I<[NEWVAL]>),
-$Data::Dumper::Sortkeys I<or> $I<OBJ>->Sortkeys(I<[NEWVAL]>),
-$Data::Dumper::Deparse I<or> $I<OBJ>->Deparse(I<[NEWVAL]>)
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item Exports
+=item ABSTRACT
-Dumper
+L<http://www.unicode.org/glossary/> says:, Quick Reference
-=back
+=item Size, Endianness, and BOM
-=item EXAMPLES
+=over 4
-=item BUGS
+=item by size
-=item AUTHOR
+=item by endianness
-=item VERSION
+BOM as integer when fetched in network byte order
+
+=back
+
+=item Surrogate Pairs
=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=head2 Devel::DProf - a Perl code profiler
+=head2 Encode::Unicode::UTF7 -- UTF-7 encoding
=over 4
=item SYNOPSIS
-=item DESCRIPTION
-
-=item PROFILE FORMAT
-
-=item AUTOLOAD
-
-=item ENVIRONMENT
+=item ABSTRACT
-=item BUGS
+=item In Practice
=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=head2 Devel::PPPort, Perl/Pollution/Portability
+=head2 Encode::lib::Encode::Alias, Encode::Alias - alias definitions to
+encodings
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
+As a simple string, As a qr// compiled regular expression, e.g.:, As a code
+reference, e.g.:
+
=over 4
-=item WriteFile
+=item Alias overloading
=back
-=item AUTHOR
-
=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=head2 Devel::Peek - A data debugging tool for the XS programmer
+=head2 Encode::lib::Encode::CJKConstants, Encode::CJKConstants.pm --
+Internally used by Encode::??::ISO_2022_*
+
+=head2 Encode::lib::Encode::CN::HZ, Encode::CN::HZ -- internally used by
+Encode::CN
+
+=head2 Encode::lib::Encode::Config, Encode::Config -- internally used by
+Encode
+
+=head2 Encode::lib::Encode::Encoding, Encode::Encoding - Encode
+Implementation Base Class
=over 4
=over 4
-=item Runtime debugging
+=item Methods you should implement
-=item Memory footprint debugging
+-E<gt>encode($string [,$check]), -E<gt>decode($octets [,$check]),
+-E<gt>cat_decode($destination, $octets, $offset, $terminator [,$check])
+
+=item Other methods defined in Encode::Encodings
+
+-E<gt>name, -E<gt>renew, -E<gt>perlio_ok(), -E<gt>needs_lines()
+
+=item Example: Encode::ROT13
=back
-=item EXAMPLES
+=item Why the heck Encode API is different?
=over 4
-=item A simple scalar string
+=item Compiled Encodings
-=item A simple scalar number
+=back
-=item A simple scalar with an extra reference
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item A reference to a simple scalar
+Scheme 1, Scheme 2, Other Schemes
-=item A reference to an array
+=back
-=item A reference to a hash
+=head2 Encode::lib::Encode::Guess, Encode::Guess -- Guesses encoding from
+data
-=item Dumping a large array or hash
+=over 4
-=item A reference to an SV which holds a C pointer
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item A reference to a subroutine
+=item ABSTRACT
-=back
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item EXPORTS
+Encode::Guess->set_suspects, Encode::Guess->add_suspects,
+Encode::decode("Guess" ...), Encode::Guess->guess($data),
+guess_encoding($data, [, I<list of suspects>])
-=item BUGS
+=item CAVEATS
-=item AUTHOR
+=item TO DO
=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=head2 Devel::SelfStubber - generate stubs for a SelfLoading module
+=head2 Encode::lib::Encode::JP::H2Z, Encode::JP::H2Z -- internally used by
+Encode::JP::2022_JP*
+
+=head2 Encode::lib::Encode::JP::JIS7, Encode::JP::JIS7 -- internally used
+by Encode::JP
+
+=head2 Encode::lib::Encode::KR::2022_KR, Encode::KR::2022_KR -- internally
+used by Encode::KR
+
+=head2 Encode::lib::Encode::MIME::Header, Encode::MIME::Header -- MIME 'B'
+and 'Q' header encoding
=over 4
=item SYNOPSIS
+=item ABSTRACT
+
=item DESCRIPTION
+=item BUGS
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
=back
-=head2 Digest:: - Modules that calculate message digests
+=head2 Encode::lib::Encode::PerlIO, Encode::PerlIO -- a detailed document
+on Encode and PerlIO
=over 4
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item Overview
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item How does it work?
-I<binary>, I<hex>, I<base64>
+=item Line Buffering
-=item OO INTERFACE
+=over 4
-$ctx = Digest->XXX($arg,...), $ctx = Digest->new(XXX => $arg,...), $ctx =
-Digest::XXX->new($arg,...), $ctx->reset, $ctx->add($data,...),
-$ctx->addfile($io_handle), $ctx->digest, $ctx->hexdigest, $ctx->b64digest
+=item How can I tell whether my encoding fully supports PerlIO ?
-=item SEE ALSO
+=back
-=item AUTHOR
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=head2 Digest::MD5 - Perl interface to the MD5 Algorithm
+=head2 Encode::lib::Encode::Supported, Encode::Supported -- Encodings
+supported by Encode
=over 4
-=item SYNOPSIS
-
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item FUNCTIONS
-
-md5($data,...), md5_hex($data,...), md5_base64($data,...)
+=over 4
-=item METHODS
+=item Encoding Names
-$md5 = Digest::MD5->new, $md5->reset, $md5->add($data,...),
-$md5->addfile($io_handle), $md5->digest, $md5->hexdigest, $md5->b64digest
+=back
-=item EXAMPLES
+=item Supported Encodings
-=item SEE ALSO
+=over 4
-=item COPYRIGHT
+=item Built-in Encodings
-=item AUTHORS
+=item Encode::Unicode -- other Unicode encodings
-=back
+=item Encode::Byte -- Extended ASCII
-=head2 DirHandle - supply object methods for directory handles
+ISO-8859 and corresponding vendor mappings, KOI8 - De Facto Standard for
+the Cyrillic world, gsm0338 - Hentai Latin 1
-=over 4
+=item CJK: Chinese, Japanese, Korean (Multibyte)
-=item SYNOPSIS
+Encode::CN -- Continental China, Encode::JP -- Japan, Encode::KR -- Korea,
+Encode::TW -- Taiwan, Encode::HanExtra -- More Chinese via CPAN,
+Encode::JIS2K -- JIS X 0213 encodings via CPAN
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Miscellaneous encodings
-=item NOTES
+Encode::EBCDIC, Encode::Symbols, Encode::MIME::Header, Encode::Guess
=back
-=head2 Dumpvalue - provides screen dump of Perl data.
+=item Unsupported encodings
-=over 4
+ ISO-2022-JP-2 [RFC1554], ISO-2022-CN [RFC1922], Various HP-UX encodings,
+Cyrillic encoding ISO-IR-111, ISO-8859-8-1 [Hebrew], ISIRI 3342, Iran
+System, ISIRI 2900 [Farsi], Thai encoding TCVN, Vietnamese encodings VPS,
+Various Mac encodings, (Mac) Indic encodings
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item Encoding vs. Charset -- terminology
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Encoding Classification (by Anton Tagunov and Dan Kogai)
=over 4
-=item Creation
+=item Microsoft-related naming mess
-C<arrayDepth>, C<hashDepth>, C<compactDump>, C<veryCompact>, C<globPrint>,
-C<dumpDBFiles>, C<dumpPackages>, C<dumpReused>, C<tick>, C<quoteHighBit>,
-C<printUndef>, C<usageOnly>, unctrl, subdump, bareStringify, quoteHighBit,
-stopDbSignal
+KS_C_5601-1987, GB2312, Big5, Shift_JIS
-=item Methods
+=back
-dumpValue, dumpValues, dumpvars, set_quote, set_unctrl, compactDump,
-veryCompact, set, get
+=item Glossary
-=back
+character repertoire, coded character set (CCS), character encoding scheme
+(CES), charset (in MIME context), EUC, ISO-2022, UCS, UCS-2, Unicode, UTF,
+UTF-16
-=back
+=item See Also
-=head2 DynaLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code
+=item References
+
+ECMA, ECMA-035 (eq C<ISO-2022>), IANA, Assigned Charset Names by IANA, ISO,
+RFC, UC, Unicode Glossary
=over 4
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item Other Notable Sites
-=item DESCRIPTION
+czyborra.com, CJK.inf, Jungshik Shin's Hangul FAQ, debian.org:
+"Introduction to i18n"
+
+=item Offline sources
-@dl_library_path, @dl_resolve_using, @dl_require_symbols, @dl_librefs,
-@dl_modules, dl_error(), $dl_debug, dl_findfile(), dl_expandspec(),
-dl_load_file(), dl_unload_file(), dl_loadflags(), dl_find_symbol(),
-dl_find_symbol_anywhere(), dl_undef_symbols(), dl_install_xsub(),
-bootstrap()
+C<CJKV Information Processing> by Ken Lunde
-=item AUTHOR
+=back
=back
-=head2 DynaLoader::XSLoader, XSLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into
-Perl code
+=head2 Encode::lib::Encode::Unicode::UTF7, Encode::Unicode::UTF7 -- UTF-7
+encoding
=over 4
=item SYNOPSIS
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item ABSTRACT
-=item AUTHOR
+=item In Practice
+
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=head2 Encode - character encodings
+=head2 Encode::lib::Encoder, Encode::Encoder -- Object Oriented Encoder
=over 4
=item SYNOPSIS
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item ABSTRACT
+
+=item Description
=over 4
-=item TERMINOLOGY
+=item Predefined Methods
-=back
+$e = Encode::Encoder-E<gt>new([$data, $encoding]);, encoder(),
+$e-E<gt>data([$data]), $e-E<gt>encoding([$encoding]),
+$e-E<gt>bytes([$encoding])
-=item ENCODINGS
+=item Example: base64 transcoder
-=over 4
+=item Operator Overloading
-=item Characteristics of an Encoding
+=back
-=item Types of Encodings
+=item SEE ALSO
-Fixed length 8-bit (or less) encodings, Fixed length 16-bit encodings,
-Fixed length 32-bit encodings, Multi-byte encodings, "Escape" encodings
+=back
-=item Specifying Encodings
+=head2 Encodencoding, encoding - allows you to write your script in
+non-ascii or non-utf8
-1. By name, 2. As an object
+=over 4
-=item Encoding Names
+=item SYNOPSIS
-The MIME name as defined in IETF RFCs, The name in the IANA registry, The
-name used by the organization that defined it
+=item ABSTRACT
-=back
+=over 4
-=item PERL ENCODING API
+=item Literal Conversions
-=over 4
+=item PerlIO layers for C<STD(IN|OUT)>
-=item Generic Encoding Interface
+=item Implicit upgrading for byte strings
-=item Handling Malformed Data
+=back
-Scheme 1, Scheme 2, Other Schemes
+=item FEATURES THAT REQUIRE 5.8.1
-=item UTF-8 / utf8
+"NON-EUC" doublebyte encodings, tr//, DATA pseudo-filehandle
-=item Other Encodings of Unicode
+=item USAGE
-=item Listing available encodings
+use encoding [I<ENCNAME>] ;, use encoding I<ENCNAME> [ STDIN =E<gt>
+I<ENCNAME_IN> ...] ;, use encoding I<ENCNAME> Filter=E<gt>1;, no encoding;
-=item Defining Aliases
+=item The Filter Option
-As a simple string, As a qr// compiled regular expression, e.g.:, As a code
-reference, e.g.:
+=over 4
-=item Defining Encodings
+=item Filter-related changes at Encode version 1.87
=back
-=item Encoding and IO
+=item CAVEATS
-=item Encoding How to ...
+=over 4
-IO with mixed content (faking iso-2020-*), MIME's Content-Length:, UTF-8
-strings in binary data, Perl/Encode wrappers on non-Unicode XS modules
+=item NOT SCOPED
-=item Messing with Perl's Internals
+=item DO NOT MIX MULTIPLE ENCODINGS
-is_utf8(STRING [, CHECK]), valid_utf8(STRING)
+=item tr/// with ranges
-=item IMPLEMENTATION CLASSES
+Legend of characters above
--E<gt>name, -E<gt>new_sequence, -E<gt>encode($string,$check),
--E<gt>decode($octets,$check)
+=back
-=over 4
+=item EXAMPLE - Greekperl
-=item Compiled Encodings
+=item KNOWN PROBLEMS
-.enc, .ucm, .ucm, .c, .xs, ascii and iso-8859-*, IBM-1047 and two other
-variants of EBCDIC, symbol and dingbats as used by Tk on X11
+literals in regex that are longer than 127 bytes, EBCDIC, format
-=back
+=item HISTORY
=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=head2 Encode::EncodeFormat, EncodeFormat - the format of encoding tables
-of the Encode extension
+=head2 Encoder, Encode::Encoder -- Object Oriented Encoder
=over 4
-=item DESCRIPTION
-
-[1] B<S>, [2] B<D>, [3] B<M>, [4] B<E>
-
-=item KEYWORDS
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item COPYRIGHT
+=item ABSTRACT
-=back
+=item Description
-=head2 Encode::Tcl - Tcl encodings
+=over 4
-=head2 EncodeFormat - the format of encoding tables of the Encode extension
+=item Predefined Methods
-=over 4
+$e = Encode::Encoder-E<gt>new([$data, $encoding]);, encoder(),
+$e-E<gt>data([$data]), $e-E<gt>encoding([$encoding]),
+$e-E<gt>bytes([$encoding])
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Example: base64 transcoder
-[1] B<S>, [2] B<D>, [3] B<M>, [4] B<E>
+=item Operator Overloading
-=item KEYWORDS
+=back
-=item COPYRIGHT
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
=item Selecting What To Export
+=item How to Import
+
+C<use ModuleName;>, C<use ModuleName ();>, C<use ModuleName qw(...);>
+
+=back
+
+=item Advanced features
+
+=over 4
+
=item Specialised Import Lists
-=item Exporting without using Export's import method
+=item Exporting without using Exporter's import method
+
+=item Exporting without inheriting from Exporter
=item Module Version Checking
=item Tag Handling Utility Functions
+=item Generating combined tags
+
+=item C<AUTOLOAD>ed Constants
+
=back
=back
=over 4
-=item SYNOPIS
+=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
test_f file
+dos2unix
+
=over 4
=item BUGS
=back
+=head2 ExtUtils::Command::MM - Commands for the MM's to use in Makefiles
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+B<test_harness>
+
+=back
+
+B<pod2man>
+
+B<warn_if_old_packlist>
+
+B<perllocal_install>
+
+B<uninstall>
+
=head2 ExtUtils::Constant - generate XS code to import C header constants
=over 4
C_stringify NAME
+perl_stringify NAME
+
constant_types
memEQ_clause NAME, CHECKED_AT, INDENT
dogfood
C_constant, name, type, value, macro, default, pre, post, def_pre =item
-def_post
+def_post, utf8
+
+XS_constant PACKAGE, TYPES, SUBNAME, C_SUBNAME
+
+autoload PACKAGE, VERSION, AUTOLOADER
+
+WriteMakefileSnippet
+
+WriteConstants ATTRIBUTE =E<gt> VALUE [, ...], NAME, DEFAULT_TYPE,
+BREAKOUT_AT, NAMES, C_FILE, XS_FILE, SUBNAME, C_SUBNAME
+
+=over 4
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 ExtUtils::Embed - Utilities for embedding Perl in C/C++ applications
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item @EXPORT
+
+=item FUNCTIONS
+
+xsinit(), Examples, ldopts(), Examples, perl_inc(), ccflags(), ccdlflags(),
+ccopts(), xsi_header(), xsi_protos(@modules), xsi_body(@modules)
+
+=item EXAMPLES
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 ExtUtils::Install - install files from here to there
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Functions
+
+B<install>
+
+=back
+
+=back
+
+B<install_default> I<DISCOURAGED>
+
+B<uninstall>
+
+B<pm_to_blib>
+
+_autosplit
+
+=over 4
+
+=item ENVIRONMENT
+
+B<PERL_INSTALL_ROOT>
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item LICENSE
+
+=back
+
+=head2 ExtUtils::Installed - Inventory management of installed modules
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item USAGE
+
+=item FUNCTIONS
+
+new(), modules(), files(), directories(), directory_tree(), validate(),
+packlist(), version()
+
+=item EXAMPLE
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 ExtUtils::Liblist - determine libraries to use and how to use them
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+For static extensions, For dynamic extensions at build/link time, For
+dynamic extensions at load time
+
+=over 4
+
+=item EXTRALIBS
+
+=item LDLOADLIBS and LD_RUN_PATH
+
+=item BSLOADLIBS
+
+=back
+
+=item PORTABILITY
+
+=over 4
+
+=item VMS implementation
+
+=item Win32 implementation
+
+=back
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 ExtUtils::MM - OS adjusted ExtUtils::MakeMaker subclass
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=back
+
+=head2 ExtUtils::MM_Any - Platform-agnostic MM methods
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item Inherently Cross-Platform Methods
+
+installvars
+
+=back
+
+os_flavor_is
+
+blibdirs_target (o)
+
+=over 4
+
+=item File::Spec wrappers
+
+catfile
+
+=back
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Thought To Be Cross-Platform Methods
+
+B<split_command>
+
+=back
+
+B<echo>
+
+init_VERSION
+
+wraplist
+
+manifypods
+
+manifypods_target
+
+makemakerdflt_target
+
+special_targets
-XS_constant PACKAGE, TYPES, SUBNAME, C_SUBNAME
+POD2MAN_macro
-autoload PACKAGE, VERSION, AUTOLOADER
+test_via_harness
-WriteMakefileSnippet
+test_via_script
-WriteConstants ATTRIBUTE =E<gt> VALUE [, ...], NAME, DEFAULT_TYPE,
-BREAKOUT_AT, NAMES, C_FILE, XS_FILE, SUBNAME, C_SUBNAME
+libscan
-=over 4
+tool_autosplit
-=item AUTHOR
+all_target
-=back
+metafile_target
-=head2 ExtUtils::Embed - Utilities for embedding Perl in C/C++ applications
+signature_target
-=over 4
+metafile_addtomanifest_target
-=item SYNOPSIS
+signature_addtomanifest_target
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=over 4
-=item @EXPORT
+=item Abstract methods
-=item FUNCTIONS
+oneliner, B<quote_literal>, B<escape_newlines>, max_exec_len,
+B<init_others>, init_DIRFILESEP, init_linker, init_platform,
+platform_constants
-xsinit(), Examples, ldopts(), Examples, perl_inc(), ccflags(), ccdlflags(),
-ccopts(), xsi_header(), xsi_protos(@modules), xsi_body(@modules)
+=back
-=item EXAMPLES
+os_flavor
-=item SEE ALSO
+=over 4
=item AUTHOR
=back
-=head2 ExtUtils::Install - install files from here to there
+=head2 ExtUtils::MM_BeOS - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
+ExtUtils::MakeMaker
=over 4
=back
-=head2 ExtUtils::Installed - Inventory management of installed modules
+os_flavor (o)
+
+init_linker
+
+=head2 ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
+ExtUtils::MakeMaker
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item USAGE
-
-=item FUNCTIONS
+os_flavor (o)
-new(), modules(), files(), directories(), directory_tree(), validate(),
-packlist(), version()
+=back
-=item EXAMPLE
+cflags (o)
-=item AUTHOR
+replace_manpage_separator (o)
-=back
+init_linker
-=head2 ExtUtils::Liblist - determine libraries to use and how to use them
+=head2 ExtUtils::MM_DOS - DOS specific subclass of ExtUtils::MM_Unix
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-For static extensions, For dynamic extensions, For dynamic extensions
-
=over 4
-=item EXTRALIBS
+=item Overridden methods
-=item LDLOADLIBS and LD_RUN_PATH
+os_flavor
-=item BSLOADLIBS
+=back
=back
-=item PORTABILITY
+B<replace_manpage_separator>
=over 4
-=item VMS implementation
-
-=item Win32 implementation
-
-=back
+=item AUTHOR
=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=head2 ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
+=head2 ExtUtils::MM_MacOS - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
ExtUtils::MakeMaker
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-canonpath, cflags, manifypods, perl_archive
-
=back
-=head2 ExtUtils::MM_NW5 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
-ExtUtils::MakeMaker
+maybe_command
-=over 4
+guess_name
-=item SYNOPSIS
+macify
-=item DESCRIPTION
+patternify
-=back
+init_main
-catfile
+init_others
-constants (o)
+init_platform, platform_constants
-static_lib (o)
+init_dirscan
-dynamic_bs (o)
+init_VERSION (o)
-dynamic_lib (o)
+special_targets (o)
-canonpath
+static (o)
-perl_script
+dlsyms (o)
-pm_to_blib
+dynamic (o)
-test_via_harness (o)
+clean (o)
-tool_autosplit (override)
+clean_subdirs_target
-tools_other (o)
+realclean (o)
-xs_o (o)
+realclean_subdirs_target
-top_targets (o)
+rulez (o)
-htmlifypods (o)
+processPL (o)
-manifypods (o)
+os_flavor
-dist_ci (o)
+=head2 ExtUtils::MM_NW5 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
+ExtUtils::MakeMaker
-dist_core (o)
+=over 4
-pasthru (o)
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=back
+
+os_flavor
+
+init_platform (o), platform_constants
+
+const_cccmd (o)
+
+static_lib (o)
+
+dynamic_lib (o)
=head2 ExtUtils::MM_OS2 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
ExtUtils::MakeMaker
=item METHODS
+init_dist (o)
+
=back
-perl_archive_after
+init_linker
-=head2 ExtUtils::MM_Unix - methods used by ExtUtils::MakeMaker
+os_flavor
+
+=head2 ExtUtils::MM_UWIN - U/WIN specific subclass of ExtUtils::MM_Unix
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item METHODS
-
=over 4
-=item Preloaded methods
+=item Overridden methods
-canonpath
+os_flavor
=back
=back
-catdir
+B<replace_manpage_separator>
-catfile
+=over 4
-curdir
+=item AUTHOR
-rootdir
+=item SEE ALSO
-updir
+=back
+
+=head2 ExtUtils::MM_Unix - methods used by ExtUtils::MakeMaker
=over 4
-=item SelfLoaded methods
+=item SYNOPSIS
-c_o (o)
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item METHODS
+
+=back
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Methods
+
+os_flavor (o)
=back
+c_o (o)
+
cflags (o)
clean (o)
+clean_subdirs_target
+
const_cccmd (o)
const_config (o)
depend (o)
-dir_target (o)
+dir_target B<DEPRECATED>
+
+init_DEST
+
+init_dist
dist (o)
dist_core (o)
-dist_dir (o)
+B<dist_target>
+
+B<tardist_target>
-dist_test (o)
+B<zipdist_target>
+
+B<tarfile_target>
+
+zipfile_target
+
+uutardist_target
+
+shdist_target
+
+distdir
+
+dist_test
dlsyms (o)
extliblist
-file_name_is_absolute
-
find_perl
+find_tests
+
=over 4
=item Methods to actually produce chunks of text for the Makefile
has_link_code
-htmlifypods (o)
-
init_dirscan
+init_DIRFILESEP
+
init_main
init_others
+init_INST
+
+init_INSTALL
+
+init_linker
+
+init_lib2arch
+
+init_PERL
+
+init_platform (o), platform_constants (o)
+
+init_PERM
+
+init_xs
+
install (o)
installbin (o)
-libscan (o)
-
linkext (o)
lsdir
makefile (o)
-manifypods (o)
-
maybe_command
-maybe_command_in_dirs
-
needs_linking (o)
nicetext
-parse_version
-
parse_abstract
-pasthru (o)
+parse_version
-path
+pasthru (o)
perl_script
perldepend (o)
-ppd
-
perm_rw (o)
perm_rwx (o)
postamble (o)
+ppd
+
prefixify
processPL (o)
realclean (o)
+realclean_subdirs_target
+
replace_manpage_separator
+oneliner (o)
+
+quote_literal
+
+escape_newlines
+
+max_exec_len
+
static (o)
static_lib (o)
test (o)
-test_via_harness (o)
-
-test_via_script (o)
+test_via_harness (override)
-tool_autosplit (o)
+test_via_script (override)
tools_other (o)
tool_xsubpp (o)
+all_target
+
top_targets (o)
writedoc
xs_o (o)
-perl_archive
-
-perl_archive_after
-
-export_list
-
=over 4
=item SEE ALSO
=back
-rootdir (override)
-
=over 4
-=item SelfLoaded methods
+=item Methods
guess_name (override)
find_perl (override)
-path (override)
-
maybe_command (override)
-maybe_command_in_dirs (override)
-
perl_script (override)
-file_name_is_absolute (override)
-
replace_manpage_separator
+init_DEST
+
+init_DIRFILESEP
+
+init_main (override)
+
init_others (override)
+init_platform (override)
+
+platform_constants
+
+init_VERSION (override)
+
constants (override)
+special_targets
+
cflags (override)
const_cccmd (override)
-pm_to_blib (override)
-
-tool_autosplit (override)
-
tool_sxubpp (override)
-xsubpp_version (override)
-
tools_other (override)
-dist (override)
+init_dist (override)
c_o (override)
xs_o (override)
-top_targets (override)
-
dlsyms (override)
dynamic_lib (override)
static_lib (override)
-manifypods (override)
-
processPL (override)
installbin (override)
-subdir_x (override)
+subdir_x (override)
+
+clean (override)
+
+clean_subdirs_target
+
+realclean (override)
+
+zipfile_target (o), tarfile_target (o), shdist_target (o)
+
+dist_test (override)
+
+install (override)
+
+perldepend (override)
+
+makefile (override)
+
+find_tests (override)
+
+test (override)
+
+makeaperl (override)
+
+nicetext (override)
+
+prefixify (override)
+
+oneliner (o)
+
+B<echo> (o)
+
+quote_literal
+
+escape_newlines
+
+max_exec_len
+
+init_linker (o)
+
+eliminate_macros
+
+fixpath
+
+os_flavor
+
+blibdirs_target (override)
+
+=head2 ExtUtils::MM_Win32 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
+ExtUtils::MakeMaker
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=back
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Overridden methods
+
+B<dlsyms>
+
+=back
+
+replace_manpage_separator
+
+B<maybe_command>
+
+B<find_tests>
-clean (override)
+B<init_DIRFILESEP>
-realclean (override)
+B<init_others>
-dist_basics (override)
+init_platform (o), platform_constants (o)
-dist_core (override)
+special_targets (o)
-dist_dir (override)
+static_lib (o)
-dist_test (override)
+dynamic_lib (o)
-install (override)
+clean
-perldepend (override)
+init_linker
-makefile (override)
+perl_script
-test (override)
+xs_o (o)
-test_via_harness (override)
+pasthru (o)
-test_via_script (override)
+oneliner (o)
-makeaperl (override)
+max_exec_len
-nicetext (override)
+os_flavor
-=head2 ExtUtils::MM_Win32 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
-ExtUtils::MakeMaker
+=head2 ExtUtils::MM_Win95 - method to customize MakeMaker for Win9X
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=back
+=over 4
-catfile
+=item Overriden methods
-constants (o)
+dist_test
-static_lib (o)
+=back
-dynamic_bs (o)
+=back
-dynamic_lib (o)
+subdir_x
-canonpath
+xs_c
-perl_script
+xs_cpp
-pm_to_blib
+xs_o
-test_via_harness (o)
+clean_subdirs_target
-tool_autosplit (override)
+realclean_subdirs_target
-tools_other (o)
+max_exec_len
-xs_o (o)
+os_flavor
-top_targets (o)
+=over 4
-htmlifypods (o)
+=item AUTHOR
-manifypods (o)
+=back
-dist_ci (o)
+=head2 ExtUtils::MY - ExtUtils::MakeMaker subclass for customization
-dist_core (o)
+=over 4
-pasthru (o)
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=head2 ExtUtils::MakeMaker - create an extension Makefile
+=back
+
+=head2 ExtUtils::MakeMaker - Create a module Makefile
=over 4
=item Using Attributes and Parameters
ABSTRACT, ABSTRACT_FROM, AUTHOR, BINARY_LOCATION, C, CCFLAGS, CONFIG,
-CONFIGURE, DEFINE, DIR, DISTNAME, DL_FUNCS, DL_VARS, EXCLUDE_EXT,
-EXE_FILES, FIRST_MAKEFILE, FULLPERL, FUNCLIST, H, HTMLLIBPODS,
-HTMLSCRIPTPODS, IMPORTS, INC, INCLUDE_EXT, INSTALLARCHLIB, INSTALLBIN,
-INSTALLDIRS, INSTALLHTMLPRIVLIBDIR, INSTALLHTMLSCRIPTDIR,
-INSTALLHTMLSITELIBDIR, INSTALLMAN1DIR, INSTALLMAN3DIR, INSTALLPRIVLIB,
-INSTALLSCRIPT, INSTALLSITEARCH, INSTALLSITELIB, INST_ARCHLIB, INST_BIN,
-INST_EXE, INST_HTMLLIBDIR, INST_HTMLSCRIPTDIR, INST_LIB, INST_MAN1DIR,
-INST_MAN3DIR, INST_SCRIPT, LDFROM, LIB, LIBPERL_A, LIBS, LINKTYPE,
-MAKEAPERL, MAKEFILE, MAN1PODS, MAN3PODS, MAP_TARGET, MYEXTLIB, NAME,
-NEEDS_LINKING, NOECHO, NORECURS, NO_VC, OBJECT, OPTIMIZE, PERL, PERL_CORE,
-PERLMAINCC, PERL_ARCHLIB, PERL_LIB, PERL_MALLOC_OK, PERLRUN, PERM_RW,
+CONFIGURE, DEFINE, DESTDIR, DIR, DISTNAME, DISTVNAME, DL_FUNCS, DL_VARS,
+EXCLUDE_EXT, EXE_FILES, FIRST_MAKEFILE, FULLPERL, FULLPERLRUN,
+FULLPERLRUNINST, FUNCLIST, H, IMPORTS, INC, INCLUDE_EXT, INSTALLARCHLIB,
+INSTALLBIN, INSTALLDIRS, INSTALLMAN1DIR, INSTALLMAN3DIR, INSTALLPRIVLIB,
+INSTALLSCRIPT, INSTALLSITEARCH, INSTALLSITEBIN, INSTALLSITELIB,
+INSTALLSITEMAN1DIR, INSTALLSITEMAN3DIR, INSTALLVENDORARCH,
+INSTALLVENDORBIN, INSTALLVENDORLIB, INSTALLVENDORMAN1DIR,
+INSTALLVENDORMAN3DIR, INST_ARCHLIB, INST_BIN, INST_LIB, INST_MAN1DIR,
+INST_MAN3DIR, INST_SCRIPT, LD, LDDLFLAGS, LDFROM, LIB, LIBPERL_A, LIBS,
+LINKTYPE, MAKEAPERL, MAKEFILE_OLD, MAN1PODS, MAN3PODS, MAP_TARGET,
+MYEXTLIB, NAME, NEEDS_LINKING, NOECHO, NORECURS, NO_META, NO_VC, OBJECT,
+OPTIMIZE, PERL, PERL_CORE, PERLMAINCC, PERL_ARCHLIB, PERL_LIB,
+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_PM, PREREQ_FATAL, PREREQ_PRINT,
-PRINT_PREREQ, SKIP, TEST_LIBS, VERSION, VERSION_FROM, XS, XSOPT,
-XSPROTOARG, XS_VERSION
+PPM_INSTALL_SCRIPT, PREFIX, PREREQ_FATAL, PREREQ_PM, PREREQ_PRINT,
+PRINT_PREREQ, SITEPREFIX, SIGN, SKIP, TYPEMAPS, VENDORPREFIX, VERBINST,
+VERSION, VERSION_FROM, VERSION_SYM, XS, XSOPT, XSPROTOARG, XS_VERSION
=item Additional lowercase attributes
-clean, depend, dist, dynamic_lib, linkext, macro, realclean, test,
-tool_autosplit
+clean, depend, dist, dynamic_lib, linkext, macro, postamble, realclean,
+test, tool_autosplit
=item Overriding MakeMaker Methods
+=item The End Of Cargo Cult Programming
+
+C<<MAN3PODS => ' '>>
+
=item Hintsfile support
=item Distribution Support
make distcheck, make skipcheck, make distclean, make manifest,
- make distdir, make tardist, make dist, make uutardist, make
-shdist, make zipdist, make ci
+ make distdir, make disttest, make tardist, make dist, make
+uutardist, make shdist, make zipdist, make ci
+
+=item Module Meta-Data
=item Disabling an extension
+=item Other Handy Functions
+
+prompt
+
=back
=item ENVIRONMENT
=item AUTHORS
+=item LICENSE
+
+=back
+
+=head2 ExtUtils::MakeMaker::FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions About
+MakeMaker
+
+=over 4
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=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 is
+Module::Build and how does it relate to MakeMaker?, pure perl. no make, no
+shell commands, easier to customize, cleaner internals, less cruft
+
+=item Module Writing
+
+How do I keep my $VERSION up to date without resetting it manually?, What's
+this F<META.yml> thing and how did it get in my F<MANIFEST>?!
+
+=item XS
+
+How to I prevent "object version X.XX does not match bootstrap parameter
+Y.YY" errors?, How do I make two or more XS files coexist in the same
+directory?
+
+=back
+
+=item PATCHING
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 ExtUtils::MakeMaker::Tutorial - Writing a module with MakeMaker
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item The Mantra
+
+=item The Layout
+
+Makefile.PL, MANIFEST, lib/, t/, Changes, README, INSTALL, MANIFEST.SKIP,
+bin/
+
+=back
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 ExtUtils::MakeMaker::bytes - Version-agnostic bytes.pm
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=back
+
+=head2 ExtUtils::MakeMaker::vmsish - Platform-agnostic vmsish.pm
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
=back
=head2 ExtUtils::Manifest - utilities to write and check a MANIFEST file
=item DESCRIPTION
+=over 4
+
+=item Functions
+
+mkmanifest
+
+=back
+
+=back
+
+manifind
+
+manicheck
+
+filecheck
+
+fullcheck
+
+skipcheck
+
+maniread
+
+manicopy
+
+maniadd
+
+=over 4
+
+=item MANIFEST
+
=item MANIFEST.SKIP
=item EXPORT_OK
=item GLOBAL VARIABLES
+=back
+
+=over 4
+
=item DIAGNOSTICS
-C<Not in MANIFEST:> I<file>, C<No such file:> I<file>, C<MANIFEST:> I<$!>,
-C<Added to MANIFEST:> I<file>
+C<Not in MANIFEST:> I<file>, C<Skipping> I<file>, C<No such file:> I<file>,
+C<MANIFEST:> I<$!>, C<Added to MANIFEST:> I<file>
=item ENVIRONMENT
=item DESCRIPTION
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item HISTORY
+
=back
=head2 File::Compare - Compare files or filehandles
=back
-=head2 File::Find, find - traverse a file tree
+=head2 File::Find - Traverse a directory tree.
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
+B<find>, B<finddepth>
+
+=over 4
+
+=item %options
+
C<wanted>, C<bydepth>, C<preprocess>, C<postprocess>, C<follow>,
C<follow_fast>, C<follow_skip>, C<dangling_symlinks>, C<no_chdir>,
C<untaint>, C<untaint_pattern>, C<untaint_skip>
+=item The wanted function
+
+C<$File::Find::dir> is the current directory name,, C<$_> is the current
+filename within that directory, C<$File::Find::name> is the complete
+pathname to the file
+
+=back
+
=item WARNINGS
=item CAVEAT
=item NOTES
+=item BUGS AND CAVEATS
+
=item HISTORY
=back
=item DESCRIPTION
+=item DIAGNOSTICS
+
=item AUTHORS
=back
=back
-=head2 File::Spec::Epoc - methods for Epoc file specs
+=head2 File::Spec::Cygwin - methods for Cygwin file specs
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-devnull
-
=back
-tmpdir
+canonpath
-path
+file_name_is_absolute
-canonpath()
+tmpdir (override)
-splitpath
+=head2 File::Spec::Epoc - methods for Epoc file specs
-splitdir
+=over 4
-catpath
+=item SYNOPSIS
-abs2rel
+=item DESCRIPTION
-rel2abs()
+=item AUTHORS
+
+=back
+
+canonpath()
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
+tmpdir, splitpath
+
=back
=head2 File::Spec::Unix - File::Spec for Unix, base for other File::Spec
=over 4
+=item Note For File::Spec::Win32 Maintainers
+
+=back
+
+=over 4
+
=item SEE ALSO
=back
=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 DESCRIPTION
+=item BUGS
+
=item NOTE
=item AUTHOR
=item DESCRIPTION
+cacheout EXPR, cacheout MODE, EXPR
+
+=item CAVEATS
+
=item BUGS
=back
filters
described in the previous section.
+=item Using Filter::Simple with an explicit C<import> subroutine
+
=item Using Filter::Simple and Exporter together
=item How it works
=item Summary of Option Specifications
-!, +, s, i, o, f, : I<type> [ I<desttype> ]
+!, +, s, i, o, f, : I<type> [ I<desttype> ], : I<number> [ I<desttype> ], :
++ [ I<desttype> ]
=back
=item Object oriented interface
+=item Thread Safety
+
=item Documentation and help texts
=item Storing options in a hash
default, posix_default, auto_abbrev, getopt_compat, gnu_compat, gnu_getopt,
require_order, permute, bundling (default: disabled), bundling_override
(default: disabled), ignore_case (default: enabled), ignore_case_always
-(default: disabled), pass_through (default: disabled), prefix,
+(default: disabled), auto_version (default:disabled), auto_help
+(default:disabled), pass_through (default: disabled), prefix,
prefix_pattern, debug (default: disabled)
+=item Exportable Methods
+
+VersionMessage, C<-message>, C<-msg>, C<-exitval>, C<-output>, HelpMessage
+
=item Return values and Errors
=item Legacy
=over 4
-=item Warning: Ignoring '!' modifier for short option
-
=item GetOptions does not return a false result when an option is not
supplied
=item GetOptions does not split the command line correctly
+=item Undefined subroutine &main::GetOptions called
+
=item How do I put a "-?" option into a Getopt::Long?
=back
=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
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item C<--help> and C<--version>
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Hash::Util - A selection of general-utility hash subroutines
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
+=over 4
+
+=item Restricted hashes
+
+lock_keys, unlock_keys
+
+=back
+
+=back
+
+lock_value, unlock_value
+
+B<lock_hash>, B<unlock_hash>
+
+B<hash_seed>
+
+=over 4
+
+=item CAVEATS
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
=back
=head2 I18N::Collate - compare 8-bit scalar data according to the current
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 LIST OF LANGUAGES
-{ab} : Abkhazian, {ace} : Achinese, {ach} : Acoli, {ada} : Adangme, {aa} :
-Afar, {afh} : Afrihili, {af} : Afrikaans, [{afa} : Afro-Asiatic (Other)],
-{aka} : Akan, {akk} : Akkadian, {sq} : Albanian, {ale} : Aleut, [{alg} :
-Algonquian languages], [{tut} : Altaic (Other)], {am} : Amharic, {i-ami} :
-Ami, [{apa} : Apache languages], {ar} : Arabic, {arc} : Aramaic, {arp} :
-Arapaho, {arn} : Araucanian, {arw} : Arawak, {hy} : Armenian, [{art} :
-Artificial (Other)], {as} : Assamese, [{ath} : Athapascan languages],
-[{aus} : Australian languages], [{map} : Austronesian (Other)], {ava} :
-Avaric, {ae} : Avestan, {awa} : Awadhi, {ay} : Aymara, {az} : Azerbaijani,
-{ban} : Balinese, [{bat} : Baltic (Other)], {bal} : Baluchi, {bam} :
-Bambara, [{bai} : Bamileke languages], {bad} : Banda, [{bnt} : Bantu
-(Other)], {bas} : Basa, {ba} : Bashkir, {eu} : Basque, {btk} : Batak
-(Indonesia), {bej} : Beja, {be} : Belarusian, {bem} : Bemba, {bn} :
-Bengali, [{ber} : Berber (Other)], {bho} : Bhojpuri, {bh} : Bihari, {bik} :
-Bikol, {bin} : Bini, {bi} : Bislama, {bs} : Bosnian, {bra} : Braj, {br} :
-Breton, {bug} : Buginese, {bg} : Bulgarian, {i-bnn} : Bunun, {bua} :
-Buriat, {my} : Burmese, {cad} : Caddo, {car} : Carib, {ca} : Catalan,
-[{cau} : Caucasian (Other)], {ceb} : Cebuano, [{cel} : Celtic (Other)],
-[{cai} : Central American Indian (Other)], {chg} : Chagatai, [{cmc} :
-Chamic languages], {ch} : Chamorro, {ce} : Chechen, {chr} : Cherokee, {chy}
-: Cheyenne, {chb} : Chibcha, {ny} : Chichewa, {zh} : Chinese, {chn} :
-Chinook Jargon, {chp} : Chipewyan, {cho} : Choctaw, {cu} : Church Slavic,
-{chk} : Chuukese, {cv} : Chuvash, {cop} : Coptic, {kw} : Cornish, {co} :
-Corsican, {cre} : Cree, {mus} : Creek, [{cpe} : English-based Creoles and
-pidgins (Other)], [{cpf} : French-based Creoles and pidgins (Other)],
-[{cpp} : Portuguese-based Creoles and pidgins (Other)], [{crp} : Creoles
-and pidgins (Other)], {hr} : Croatian, [{cus} : Cushitic (Other)], {cs} :
-Czech, {dak} : Dakota, {da} : Danish, {day} : Dayak, {i-default} : Default
-(Fallthru) Language, {del} : Delaware, {din} : Dinka, {div} : Divehi, {doi}
-: Dogri, {dgr} : Dogrib, [{dra} : Dravidian (Other)], {dua} : Duala, {nl} :
-Dutch, {dum} : Middle Dutch (ca.1050-1350), {dyu} : Dyula, {dz} : Dzongkha,
-{efi} : Efik, {egy} : Ancient Egyptian, {eka} : Ekajuk, {elx} : Elamite,
-{en} : English, {enm} : Old English (1100-1500), {ang} : Old English
-(ca.450-1100), {eo} : Esperanto, {et} : Estonian, {ewe} : Ewe, {ewo} :
-Ewondo, {fan} : Fang, {fat} : Fanti, {fo} : Faroese, {fj} : Fijian, {fi} :
-Finnish, [{fiu} : Finno-Ugrian (Other)], {fon} : Fon, {fr} : French, {frm}
-: Middle French (ca.1400-1600), {fro} : Old French (842-ca.1400), {fy} :
-Frisian, {fur} : Friulian, {ful} : Fulah, {gaa} : Ga, {gd} : Scots Gaelic,
-{gl} : Gallegan, {lug} : Ganda, {gay} : Gayo, {gba} : Gbaya, {gez} : Geez,
-{ka} : Georgian, {de} : German, {gmh} : Middle High German (ca.1050-1500),
-{goh} : Old High German (ca.750-1050), [{gem} : Germanic (Other)], {gil} :
-Gilbertese, {gon} : Gondi, {gor} : Gorontalo, {got} : Gothic, {grb} :
-Grebo, {grc} : Ancient Greek, {el} : Modern Greek, {gn} : Guarani, {gu} :
-Gujarati, {gwi} : Gwich'in, {hai} : Haida, {ha} : Hausa, {haw} : Hawaiian,
+{ab} : Abkhazian, {ace} : Achinese, {ach} : Acoli, {ada} : Adangme, {ady} :
+Adyghe, {aa} : Afar, {afh} : Afrihili, {af} : Afrikaans, [{afa} :
+Afro-Asiatic (Other)], {ak} : Akan, {akk} : Akkadian, {sq} : Albanian,
+{ale} : Aleut, [{alg} : Algonquian languages], [{tut} : Altaic (Other)],
+{am} : Amharic, {i-ami} : Ami, [{apa} : Apache languages], {ar} : Arabic,
+{arc} : Aramaic, {arp} : Arapaho, {arn} : Araucanian, {arw} : Arawak, {hy}
+: Armenian, {an} : Aragonese, [{art} : Artificial (Other)], {ast} :
+Asturian, {as} : Assamese, [{ath} : Athapascan languages], [{aus} :
+Australian languages], [{map} : Austronesian (Other)], {av} : Avaric, {ae}
+: Avestan, {awa} : Awadhi, {ay} : Aymara, {az} : Azerbaijani, {ban} :
+Balinese, [{bat} : Baltic (Other)], {bal} : Baluchi, {bm} : Bambara, [{bai}
+: Bamileke languages], {bad} : Banda, [{bnt} : Bantu (Other)], {bas} :
+Basa, {ba} : Bashkir, {eu} : Basque, {btk} : Batak (Indonesia), {bej} :
+Beja, {be} : Belarusian, {bem} : Bemba, {bn} : Bengali, [{ber} : Berber
+(Other)], {bho} : Bhojpuri, {bh} : Bihari, {bik} : Bikol, {bin} : Bini,
+{bi} : Bislama, {bs} : Bosnian, {bra} : Braj, {br} : Breton, {bug} :
+Buginese, {bg} : Bulgarian, {i-bnn} : Bunun, {bua} : Buriat, {my} :
+Burmese, {cad} : Caddo, {car} : Carib, {ca} : Catalan, [{cau} : Caucasian
+(Other)], {ceb} : Cebuano, [{cel} : Celtic (Other)], [{cai} : Central
+American Indian (Other)], {chg} : Chagatai, [{cmc} : Chamic languages],
+{ch} : Chamorro, {ce} : Chechen, {chr} : Cherokee, {chy} : Cheyenne, {chb}
+: Chibcha, {ny} : Chichewa, {zh} : Chinese, {chn} : Chinook Jargon, {chp} :
+Chipewyan, {cho} : Choctaw, {cu} : Church Slavic, {chk} : Chuukese, {cv} :
+Chuvash, {cop} : Coptic, {kw} : Cornish, {co} : Corsican, {cr} : Cree,
+{mus} : Creek, [{cpe} : English-based Creoles and pidgins (Other)], [{cpf}
+: French-based Creoles and pidgins (Other)], [{cpp} : Portuguese-based
+Creoles and pidgins (Other)], [{crp} : Creoles and pidgins (Other)], {hr} :
+Croatian, [{cus} : Cushitic (Other)], {cs} : Czech, {dak} : Dakota, {da} :
+Danish, {dar} : Dargwa, {day} : Dayak, {i-default} : Default (Fallthru)
+Language, {del} : Delaware, {din} : Dinka, {dv} : Divehi, {doi} : Dogri,
+{dgr} : Dogrib, [{dra} : Dravidian (Other)], {dua} : Duala, {nl} : Dutch,
+{dum} : Middle Dutch (ca.1050-1350), {dyu} : Dyula, {dz} : Dzongkha, {efi}
+: Efik, {egy} : Ancient Egyptian, {eka} : Ekajuk, {elx} : Elamite, {en} :
+English, {enm} : Old English (1100-1500), {ang} : Old English
+(ca.450-1100), {i-enochian} : Enochian (Artificial), {myv} : Erzya, {eo} :
+Esperanto, {et} : Estonian, {ee} : Ewe, {ewo} : Ewondo, {fan} : Fang, {fat}
+: Fanti, {fo} : Faroese, {fj} : Fijian, {fi} : Finnish, [{fiu} :
+Finno-Ugrian (Other)], {fon} : Fon, {fr} : French, {frm} : Middle French
+(ca.1400-1600), {fro} : Old French (842-ca.1400), {fy} : Frisian, {fur} :
+Friulian, {ff} : Fulah, {gaa} : Ga, {gd} : Scots Gaelic, {gl} : Gallegan,
+{lg} : Ganda, {gay} : Gayo, {gba} : Gbaya, {gez} : Geez, {ka} : Georgian,
+{de} : German, {gmh} : Middle High German (ca.1050-1500), {goh} : Old High
+German (ca.750-1050), [{gem} : Germanic (Other)], {gil} : Gilbertese, {gon}
+: Gondi, {gor} : Gorontalo, {got} : Gothic, {grb} : Grebo, {grc} : Ancient
+Greek, {el} : Modern Greek, {gn} : Guarani, {gu} : Gujarati, {gwi} :
+Gwich'in, {hai} : Haida, {ht} : Haitian, {ha} : Hausa, {haw} : Hawaiian,
{he} : Hebrew, {hz} : Herero, {hil} : Hiligaynon, {him} : Himachali, {hi} :
Hindi, {ho} : Hiri Motu, {hit} : Hittite, {hmn} : Hmong, {hu} : Hungarian,
-{hup} : Hupa, {iba} : Iban, {is} : Icelandic, {ibo} : Igbo, {ijo} : Ijo,
-{ilo} : Iloko, [{inc} : Indic (Other)], [{ine} : Indo-European (Other)],
-{id} : Indonesian, {ia} : Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language
-Association), {ie} : Interlingue, {iu} : Inuktitut, {ik} : Inupiaq, [{ira}
-: Iranian (Other)], {ga} : Irish, {mga} : Middle Irish (900-1200), {sga} :
-Old Irish (to 900), [{iro} : Iroquoian languages], {it} : Italian, {ja} :
-Japanese, {jw} : Javanese, {jrb} : Judeo-Arabic, {jpr} : Judeo-Persian,
-{kab} : Kabyle, {kac} : Kachin, {kl} : Kalaallisut, {kam} : Kamba, {kn} :
-Kannada, {kau} : Kanuri, {kaa} : Kara-Kalpak, {kar} : Karen, {ks} :
-Kashmiri, {kaw} : Kawi, {kk} : Kazakh, {kha} : Khasi, {km} : Khmer, [{khi}
-: Khoisan (Other)], {kho} : Khotanese, {ki} : Kikuyu, {kmb} : Kimbundu,
-{rw} : Kinyarwanda, {ky} : Kirghiz, {i-klingon} : Klingon, {kv} : Komi,
-{kon} : Kongo, {kok} : Konkani, {ko} : Korean, {kos} : Kosraean, {kpe} :
-Kpelle, {kro} : Kru, {kj} : Kuanyama, {kum} : Kumyk, {ku} : Kurdish, {kru}
-: Kurukh, {kut} : Kutenai, {lad} : Ladino, {lah} : Lahnda, {lam} : Lamba,
-{lo} : Lao, {la} : Latin, {lv} : Latvian, {lb} : Letzeburgesch, {lez} :
-Lezghian, {ln} : Lingala, {lt} : Lithuanian, {nds} : Low German, {loz} :
-Lozi, {lub} : Luba-Katanga, {lua} : Luba-Lulua, {lui} : Luiseno, {lun} :
-Lunda, {luo} : Luo (Kenya and Tanzania), {lus} : Lushai, {mk} : Macedonian,
-{mad} : Madurese, {mag} : Magahi, {mai} : Maithili, {mak} : Makasar, {mg} :
-Malagasy, {ms} : Malay, {ml} : Malayalam, {mt} : Maltese, {mnc} : Manchu,
-{mdr} : Mandar, {man} : Mandingo, {mni} : Manipuri, [{mno} : Manobo
-languages], {gv} : Manx, {mi} : Maori, {mr} : Marathi, {chm} : Mari, {mh} :
-Marshall, {mwr} : Marwari, {mas} : Masai, [{myn} : Mayan languages], {men}
-: Mende, {mic} : Micmac, {min} : Minangkabau, {i-mingo} : Mingo, [{mis} :
-Miscellaneous languages], {moh} : Mohawk, {mo} : Moldavian, [{mkh} :
-Mon-Khmer (Other)], {lol} : Mongo, {mn} : Mongolian, {mos} : Mossi, [{mul}
-: Multiple languages], [{mun} : Munda languages], {nah} : Nahuatl, {na} :
-Nauru, {nv} : Navajo, {nd} : North Ndebele, {nr} : South Ndebele, {ng} :
-Ndonga, {ne} : Nepali, {new} : Newari, {nia} : Nias, [{nic} :
+{hup} : Hupa, {iba} : Iban, {is} : Icelandic, {io} : Ido, {ig} : Igbo,
+{ijo} : Ijo, {ilo} : Iloko, [{inc} : Indic (Other)], [{ine} : Indo-European
+(Other)], {id} : Indonesian, {inh} : Ingush, {ia} : Interlingua
+(International Auxiliary Language Association), {ie} : Interlingue, {iu} :
+Inuktitut, {ik} : Inupiaq, [{ira} : Iranian (Other)], {ga} : Irish, {mga} :
+Middle Irish (900-1200), {sga} : Old Irish (to 900), [{iro} : Iroquoian
+languages], {it} : Italian, {ja} : Japanese, {jv} : Javanese, {jrb} :
+Judeo-Arabic, {jpr} : Judeo-Persian, {kbd} : Kabardian, {kab} : Kabyle,
+{kac} : Kachin, {kl} : Kalaallisut, {xal} : Kalmyk, {kam} : Kamba, {kn} :
+Kannada, {kr} : Kanuri, {krc} : Karachay-Balkar, {kaa} : Kara-Kalpak, {kar}
+: Karen, {ks} : Kashmiri, {csb} : Kashubian, {kaw} : Kawi, {kk} : Kazakh,
+{kha} : Khasi, {km} : Khmer, [{khi} : Khoisan (Other)], {kho} : Khotanese,
+{ki} : Kikuyu, {kmb} : Kimbundu, {rw} : Kinyarwanda, {ky} : Kirghiz,
+{i-klingon} : Klingon, {kv} : Komi, {kg} : Kongo, {kok} : Konkani, {ko} :
+Korean, {kos} : Kosraean, {kpe} : Kpelle, {kro} : Kru, {kj} : Kuanyama,
+{kum} : Kumyk, {ku} : Kurdish, {kru} : Kurukh, {kut} : Kutenai, {lad} :
+Ladino, {lah} : Lahnda, {lam} : Lamba, {lo} : Lao, {la} : Latin, {lv} :
+Latvian, {lb} : Letzeburgesch, {lez} : Lezghian, {li} : Limburgish, {ln} :
+Lingala, {lt} : Lithuanian, {nds} : Low German, {art-lojban} : Lojban
+(Artificial), {loz} : Lozi, {lu} : Luba-Katanga, {lua} : Luba-Lulua, {lui}
+: Luiseno, {lun} : Lunda, {luo} : Luo (Kenya and Tanzania), {lus} : Lushai,
+{mk} : Macedonian, {mad} : Madurese, {mag} : Magahi, {mai} : Maithili,
+{mak} : Makasar, {mg} : Malagasy, {ms} : Malay, {ml} : Malayalam, {mt} :
+Maltese, {mnc} : Manchu, {mdr} : Mandar, {man} : Mandingo, {mni} :
+Manipuri, [{mno} : Manobo languages], {gv} : Manx, {mi} : Maori, {mr} :
+Marathi, {chm} : Mari, {mh} : Marshall, {mwr} : Marwari, {mas} : Masai,
+[{myn} : Mayan languages], {men} : Mende, {mic} : Micmac, {min} :
+Minangkabau, {i-mingo} : Mingo, [{mis} : Miscellaneous languages], {moh} :
+Mohawk, {mdf} : Moksha, {mo} : Moldavian, [{mkh} : Mon-Khmer (Other)],
+{lol} : Mongo, {mn} : Mongolian, {mos} : Mossi, [{mul} : Multiple
+languages], [{mun} : Munda languages], {nah} : Nahuatl, {nap} : Neapolitan,
+{na} : Nauru, {nv} : Navajo, {nd} : North Ndebele, {nr} : South Ndebele,
+{ng} : Ndonga, {ne} : Nepali, {new} : Newari, {nia} : Nias, [{nic} :
Niger-Kordofanian (Other)], [{ssa} : Nilo-Saharan (Other)], {niu} : Niuean,
-{non} : Old Norse, [{nai} : North American Indian], {se} : Northern Sami,
-{no} : Norwegian, {nb} : Norwegian Bokmal, {nn} : Norwegian Nynorsk, [{nub}
-: Nubian languages], {nym} : Nyamwezi, {nyn} : Nyankole, {nyo} : Nyoro,
-{nzi} : Nzima, {oc} : Occitan (post 1500), {oji} : Ojibwa, {or} : Oriya,
-{om} : Oromo, {osa} : Osage, {os} : Ossetian; Ossetic, [{oto} : Otomian
+{nog} : Nogai, {non} : Old Norse, [{nai} : North American Indian], {no} :
+Norwegian, {nb} : Norwegian Bokmal, {nn} : Norwegian Nynorsk, [{nub} :
+Nubian languages], {nym} : Nyamwezi, {nyn} : Nyankole, {nyo} : Nyoro, {nzi}
+: Nzima, {oc} : Occitan (post 1500), {oj} : Ojibwa, {or} : Oriya, {om} :
+Oromo, {osa} : Osage, {os} : Ossetian; Ossetic, [{oto} : Otomian
languages], {pal} : Pahlavi, {i-pwn} : Paiwan, {pau} : Palauan, {pi} :
Pali, {pam} : Pampanga, {pag} : Pangasinan, {pa} : Panjabi, {pap} :
Papiamento, [{paa} : Papuan (Other)], {fa} : Persian, {peo} : Old Persian
Raeto-Romance, {raj} : Rajasthani, {rap} : Rapanui, {rar} : Rarotongan,
[{qaa - qtz} : Reserved for local use.], [{roa} : Romance (Other)], {ro} :
Romanian, {rom} : Romany, {rn} : Rundi, {ru} : Russian, [{sal} : Salishan
-languages], {sam} : Samaritan Aramaic, [{smi} : Sami languages (Other)],
-{sm} : Samoan, {sad} : Sandawe, {sg} : Sango, {sa} : Sanskrit, {sat} :
-Santali, {sc} : Sardinian, {sas} : Sasak, {sco} : Scots, {sel} : Selkup,
-[{sem} : Semitic (Other)], {sr} : Serbian, {srr} : Serer, {shn} : Shan,
-{sn} : Shona, {sid} : Sidamo, {sgn-...} : Sign Languages, {bla} : Siksika,
-{sd} : Sindhi, {si} : Sinhalese, [{sit} : Sino-Tibetan (Other)], [{sio} :
-Siouan languages], {den} : Slave (Athapascan), [{sla} : Slavic (Other)],
-{sk} : Slovak, {sl} : Slovenian, {sog} : Sogdian, {so} : Somali, {son} :
-Songhai, {snk} : Soninke, {wen} : Sorbian languages, {nso} : Northern
-Sotho, {st} : Southern Sotho, [{sai} : South American Indian (Other)], {es}
-: Spanish, {suk} : Sukuma, {sux} : Sumerian, {su} : Sundanese, {sus} :
-Susu, {sw} : Swahili, {ss} : Swati, {sv} : Swedish, {syr} : Syriac, {tl} :
-Tagalog, {ty} : Tahitian, [{tai} : Tai (Other)], {tg} : Tajik, {tmh} :
-Tamashek, {ta} : Tamil, {i-tao} : Tao, {tt} : Tatar, {i-tay} : Tayal, {te}
-: Telugu, {ter} : Tereno, {tet} : Tetum, {th} : Thai, {bo} : Tibetan, {tig}
-: Tigre, {ti} : Tigrinya, {tem} : Timne, {tiv} : Tiv, {tli} : Tlingit,
-{tpi} : Tok Pisin, {tkl} : Tokelau, {tog} : Tonga (Nyasa), {to} : Tonga
-(Tonga Islands), {tsi} : Tsimshian, {ts} : Tsonga, {i-tsu} : Tsou, {tn} :
-Tswana, {tum} : Tumbuka, {tr} : Turkish, {ota} : Ottoman Turkish
-(1500-1928), {tk} : Turkmen, {tvl} : Tuvalu, {tyv} : Tuvinian, {tw} : Twi,
-{uga} : Ugaritic, {ug} : Uighur, {uk} : Ukrainian, {umb} : Umbundu, {und} :
-Undetermined, {ur} : Urdu, {uz} : Uzbek, {vai} : Vai, {ven} : Venda, {vi} :
-Vietnamese, {vo} : Volapuk, {vot} : Votic, [{wak} : Wakashan languages],
-{wal} : Walamo, {war} : Waray, {was} : Washo, {cy} : Welsh, {wo} : Wolof,
-{x-...} : Unregistered (Semi-Private Use), {xh} : Xhosa, {sah} : Yakut,
-{yao} : Yao, {yap} : Yapese, {yi} : Yiddish, {yo} : Yoruba, [{ypk} : Yupik
-languages], {znd} : Zande, [{zap} : Zapotec], {zen} : Zenaga, {za} :
-Zhuang, {zu} : Zulu, {zun} : Zuni
+languages], {sam} : Samaritan Aramaic, {se} : Northern Sami, {sma} :
+Southern Sami, {smn} : Inari Sami, {smj} : Lule Sami, {sms} : Skolt Sami,
+[{smi} : Sami languages (Other)], {sm} : Samoan, {sad} : Sandawe, {sg} :
+Sango, {sa} : Sanskrit, {sat} : Santali, {sc} : Sardinian, {sas} : Sasak,
+{sco} : Scots, {sel} : Selkup, [{sem} : Semitic (Other)], {sr} : Serbian,
+{srr} : Serer, {shn} : Shan, {sn} : Shona, {sid} : Sidamo, {sgn-...} : Sign
+Languages, {bla} : Siksika, {sd} : Sindhi, {si} : Sinhalese, [{sit} :
+Sino-Tibetan (Other)], [{sio} : Siouan languages], {den} : Slave
+(Athapascan), [{sla} : Slavic (Other)], {sk} : Slovak, {sl} : Slovenian,
+{sog} : Sogdian, {so} : Somali, {son} : Songhai, {snk} : Soninke, {wen} :
+Sorbian languages, {nso} : Northern Sotho, {st} : Southern Sotho, [{sai} :
+South American Indian (Other)], {es} : Spanish, {suk} : Sukuma, {sux} :
+Sumerian, {su} : Sundanese, {sus} : Susu, {sw} : Swahili, {ss} : Swati,
+{sv} : Swedish, {syr} : Syriac, {tl} : Tagalog, {ty} : Tahitian, [{tai} :
+Tai (Other)], {tg} : Tajik, {tmh} : Tamashek, {ta} : Tamil, {i-tao} : Tao,
+{tt} : Tatar, {i-tay} : Tayal, {te} : Telugu, {ter} : Tereno, {tet} :
+Tetum, {th} : Thai, {bo} : Tibetan, {tig} : Tigre, {ti} : Tigrinya, {tem} :
+Timne, {tiv} : Tiv, {tli} : Tlingit, {tpi} : Tok Pisin, {tkl} : Tokelau,
+{tog} : Tonga (Nyasa), {to} : Tonga (Tonga Islands), {tsi} : Tsimshian,
+{ts} : Tsonga, {i-tsu} : Tsou, {tn} : Tswana, {tum} : Tumbuka, [{tup} :
+Tupi languages], {tr} : Turkish, {ota} : Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928), {crh}
+: Crimean Turkish, {tk} : Turkmen, {tvl} : Tuvalu, {tyv} : Tuvinian, {tw} :
+Twi, {udm} : Udmurt, {uga} : Ugaritic, {ug} : Uighur, {uk} : Ukrainian,
+{umb} : Umbundu, {und} : Undetermined, {ur} : Urdu, {uz} : Uzbek, {vai} :
+Vai, {ve} : Venda, {vi} : Vietnamese, {vo} : Volapuk, {vot} : Votic, [{wak}
+: Wakashan languages], {wa} : Walloon, {wal} : Walamo, {war} : Waray, {was}
+: Washo, {cy} : Welsh, {wo} : Wolof, {x-...} : Unregistered (Semi-Private
+Use), {xh} : Xhosa, {sah} : Yakut, {yao} : Yao, {yap} : Yapese, {ii} :
+Sichuan Yi, {yi} : Yiddish, {yo} : Yoruba, [{ypk} : Yupik languages], {znd}
+: Zande, [{zap} : Zapotec], {zen} : Zenaga, {za} : Zhuang, {zu} : Zulu,
+{zun} : Zuni
=item SEE ALSO
=item DESCRIPTION
+=item DEPRECATED
+
=back
=head2 IO::Dir - supply object methods for directory handles
=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 [,MODE [,PERMS]] ), open( FILENAME, IOLAYERS )
=item SEE ALSO
add ( HANDLES ), remove ( HANDLES ), exists ( HANDLE ), handles, can_read (
[ TIMEOUT ] ), can_write ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), has_exception ( [ TIMEOUT ] ),
-count (), bits(), select ( READ, WRITE, ERROR [, TIMEOUT ] )
+count (), bits(), select ( READ, WRITE, EXCEPTION [, TIMEOUT ] )
=item EXAMPLE
=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 [,MODE [,PERMS]] ), open( FILENAME, IOLAYERS )
=item SEE ALSO
add ( HANDLES ), remove ( HANDLES ), exists ( HANDLE ), handles, can_read (
[ TIMEOUT ] ), can_write ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), has_exception ( [ TIMEOUT ] ),
-count (), bits(), select ( READ, WRITE, ERROR [, TIMEOUT ] )
+count (), bits(), select ( READ, WRITE, EXCEPTION [, TIMEOUT ] )
=item EXAMPLE
first BLOCK LIST, max LIST, maxstr LIST, min LIST, minstr LIST, reduce
BLOCK LIST, shuffle LIST, sum LIST
+=item KNOWN BUGS
+
=item SUGGESTED ADDITIONS
=item COPYRIGHT
first BLOCK LIST, max LIST, maxstr LIST, min LIST, minstr LIST, reduce
BLOCK LIST, shuffle LIST, sum LIST
+=item KNOWN BUGS
+
=item SUGGESTED ADDITIONS
=item COPYRIGHT
=item DESCRIPTION
-blessed EXPR, dualvar NUM, STRING, isweak EXPR, readonly SCALAR, reftype
-EXPR, tainted EXPR, weaken REF
+blessed EXPR, dualvar NUM, STRING, isvstring EXPR, isweak EXPR,
+looks_like_number EXPR, openhandle FH, refaddr EXPR, reftype EXPR,
+set_prototype CODEREF, PROTOTYPE, tainted EXPR, weaken REF
+
+=item KNOWN BUGS
=item COPYRIGHT
=item SEE ALSO
-Locale::Language, Locale::Country, Locale::Currency
+Locale::Language, Locale::Country, Locale::Script, Locale::Currency
=item AUTHOR
=item SYNOPSIS
-=back
-
-=over 4
-
=item DESCRIPTION
B<alpha-2>, B<alpha-3>, B<numeric>
-=back
-
-=over 4
-
=item CONVERSION ROUTINES
code2country( CODE, [ CODESET ] ), country2code( STRING, [ CODESET ] ),
country_code2code( CODE, CODESET, CODESET )
-=back
-
-=over 4
-
=item QUERY ROUTINES
C<all_country_codes( [ CODESET ] )>, C<all_country_names( [ CODESET ] )>
-=back
+=item SEMI-PRIVATE ROUTINES
=over 4
-=item CODE ALIASING
+=item alias_code
-=back
+=item rename_country
-=over 4
+=back
=item EXAMPLES
=item SEE ALSO
-Locale::Language, Locale::Currency, ISO 3166,
-http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nabd/iso3166ma/,
+Locale::Language, Locale::Script, Locale::Currency, Locale::SubCountry, ISO
+3166-1, http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/index.html,
http://www.egt.ie/standards/iso3166/iso3166-1-en.html,
-http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/docs/app-f.html
+http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/docs/app-d-1.html
=item AUTHOR
=item SYNOPSIS
-=back
-
-=over 4
-
=item DESCRIPTION
XTS, XXX
-=back
-
-=over 4
-
=item CONVERSION ROUTINES
code2currency(), currency2code()
-=back
-
-=over 4
-
=item QUERY ROUTINES
C<all_currency_codes()>, C<all_currency_names()>
-=back
-
-=over 4
-
=item EXAMPLES
=item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
=item SEE ALSO
-Locale::Country, ISO 4217:1995, http://www.bsi-global.com/iso4217currency
+Locale::Country, Locale::Script, ISO 4217:1995,
+http://www.bsi-global.com/iso4217currency
=item AUTHOR
=item SYNOPSIS
-=back
-
-=over 4
-
=item DESCRIPTION
-=back
-
-=over 4
-
=item CONVERSION ROUTINES
code2language(), language2code()
-=back
-
-=over 4
-
=item QUERY ROUTINES
C<all_language_codes()>, C<all_language_names()>
-=back
-
-=over 4
-
=item EXAMPLES
=item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
=item SEE ALSO
-Locale::Country, Locale::Currency, ISO 639:1988 (E/F),
+Locale::Country, Locale::Script, Locale::Currency, ISO 639:1988 (E/F),
http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/langhome.html
=item AUTHOR
=back
-=head2 Locale::Maketext -- framework for localization
+=head2 Locale::Maketext - framework for localization
=over 4
=back
+=head2 Locale::Script - ISO codes for script identification (ISO 15924)
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+B<alpha-2>, B<alpha-3>, B<numeric>
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SPECIAL CODES
+
+=back
+
+=item CONVERSION ROUTINES
+
+code2script( CODE, [ CODESET ] ), script2code( STRING, [ CODESET ] ),
+script_code2code( CODE, CODESET, CODESET )
+
+=item QUERY ROUTINES
+
+C<all_script_codes ( [ CODESET ] )>, C<all_script_names ( [ CODESET ] )>
+
+=item EXAMPLES
+
+=item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+Locale::Language, Locale::Currency, Locale::Country, ISO 15924,
+http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso15924/
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
+=back
+
=head2 MIME::Base64 - Encoding and decoding of base64 strings
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-encode_base64($str, [$eol]), decode_base64($str)
+encode_base64($str), encode_base64($str, $eol);, decode_base64($str)
=item DIAGNOSTICS
=item COPYRIGHT
+=item SEE ALSO
+
=back
=head2 MIME::Base64::QuotedPrint, MIME::QuotedPrint - Encoding and decoding
=item DESCRIPTION
-encode_qp($str), decode_qp($str);
+encode_qp($str), encode_qp($str, $eol), decode_qp($str);
=item COPYRIGHT
+=item SEE ALSO
+
=back
=head2 MIME::QuotedPrint - Encoding and decoding of quoted-printable
=item DESCRIPTION
-encode_qp($str), decode_qp($str);
+encode_qp($str), encode_qp($str, $eol), decode_qp($str);
=item COPYRIGHT
+=item SEE ALSO
+
=back
=head2 Math::BigFloat - Arbitrary size floating point math package
=item Autocreating constants
+=over 4
+
+=item Math library
+
+=item Using Math::BigInt::Lite
+
+=back
+
=item BUGS
-=item CAVEAT
+=item CAVEATS
stringify, bstr(), bdiv, Modifying and =, bpow
+=item SEE ALSO
+
=item LICENSE
=item AUTHORS
=item DESCRIPTION
-Canonical notation, Input, Output
+Input, Output
+
+=item METHODS
+
+=over 4
+
+=item config
+
+=item accuracy
+
+=item precision
+
+=item brsft
+
+=item new
+
+=item bnan
+
+=item bzero
+
+=item binf
+
+=item bone
+
+=item is_one()/is_zero()/is_nan()/is_inf()
+
+=item is_pos()/is_neg()
+
+ $x->is_pos(); # true if >= 0
+ $x->is_neg(); # true if < 0
+
+=item is_odd()/is_even()/is_int()
+
+=item bcmp
+
+=item bacmp
+
+=item sign
+
+=item digit
+
+=item bneg
+
+=item babs
+
+=item bnorm
+
+=item bnot
+
+=item binc
+
+=item bdec
+
+=item badd
+
+=item bsub
+
+=item bmul
+
+=item bdiv
+
+=item bmod
+
+=item bmodinv
+
+=item bmodpow
+
+=item bpow
+
+=item blsft
+
+=item brsft
+
+=item band
+
+=item bior
+
+=item bxor
+
+=item bnot
+
+=item bsqrt
+
+=item bfac
+
+=item round
+
+=item bround
+
+=item bfround
+
+=item bfloor
+
+=item bceil
+
+=item bgcd
+
+=item blcm
+
+=item exponent
+
+=item mantissa
+
+=item parts
+
+=item copy
+
+=item as_int
+
+=item bsstr
+
+=item as_hex
+
+=item as_bin
+
+=back
=item ACCURACY and PRECISION
=item EXAMPLES
- use Math::BigInt qw(bstr);
+ use Math::BigInt;
=item Autocreating constants
=item Alternative math libraries
+=item SUBCLASSING
+
+=back
+
+=item Subclassing Math::BigInt
+
+=item UPGRADING
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Auto-upgrade
+
+bsqrt(), div(), blog()
+
=back
=item BUGS
-Out of Memory!, Fails to load Calc on Perl prior 5.6.0
+broot() does not work, Out of Memory!, Fails to load Calc on Perl prior
+5.6.0
=item CAVEATS
-stringify, bstr(), bsstr() and 'cmp', int(), length, bdiv, infinity
-handling, Modifying and =, bpow, Overloading -$x, Mixing different object
-types, bsqrt()
+bstr(), bsstr() and 'cmp', int(), length, bdiv, infinity handling,
+Modifying and =, bpow, Overloading -$x, Mixing different object types,
+bsqrt(), brsft()
+
+=item LICENSE
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHORS
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Math::BigInt::Calc - Pure Perl module to support Math::BigInt
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item STORAGE
+
+=item METHODS
+
+=item WRAP YOUR OWN
=item LICENSE
+This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
+under
+the same terms as Perl itself.
+
+=item AUTHORS
+
=item SEE ALSO
+=back
+
+=head2 Math::BigInt::CalcEmu - Emulate low-level math with BigInt code
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item METHODS
+
+=item LICENSE
+
+This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
+under
+the same terms as Perl itself.
+
=item AUTHORS
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Math::BigRat - arbitrarily big rational numbers
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item MATH LIBRARY
+
=back
-=head2 Math::BigInt::Calc - Pure Perl module to support Math::BigInt
+=item METHODS
+
+=over 4
+
+=item new()
+
+=item numerator()
+
+=item denominator()
+
+ $d = $x->denominator();
+
+=item parts()
+
+=item as_number()
+
+=item bfac()
+
+=item blog()
+
+=item bround()/round()/bfround()
+
+=item bmod()
+
+=item is_one()
+
+=item is_zero()
+
+=item is_positive()
+
+=item is_negative()
+
+=item is_int()
+
+=item is_odd()
+
+=item is_even()
+
+=item bceil()
+
+=item bfloor()
+
+ $x->bfloor();
+
+=item bsqrt()
-=over 4
+ $x->bsqrt();
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item config
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=back
-=item EXPORT
+=item BUGS
-=item WRAP YOUR OWN
+inf handling (partial), NaN handling (partial), rounding (not implemented
+except for bceil/bfloor), $x ** $y where $y is not an integer, bmod(),
+blog(), bmodinv() and bmodpow() (partial)
=item LICENSE
-This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
-under
-the same terms as Perl itself.
+=item SEE ALSO
=item AUTHORS
-=item SEE ALSO
-
=back
=head2 Math::Complex - complex numbers and associated mathematical
=back
-=head2 Memoize - Make your functions faster by trading space for time
+=head2 Memoize - Make functions faster by trading space for time
=over 4
=back
-=head2 Memoize::Saves - Plug-in module to specify which return values
-should be memoized
-
-=over 4
-
-=item SYNOPSIS
-
-=item DESCRIPTION
-
-=item CAVEATS
-
-=item AUTHOR
-
-=item SEE ALSO
-
-=back
-
=head2 Memoize::Storable - store Memoized data in Storable database
=over 4
=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
debug_print ( DIR, TEXT ), debug_text ( TEXT ), command ( CMD [, ARGS, ...
]), unsupported (), response (), parse_response ( TEXT ), getline (),
-ungetline ( TEXT ), read_until_dot ()
+ungetline ( TEXT ), rawdatasend ( DATA ), read_until_dot (), tied_fh ()
=item EXPORTS
=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 ] ), 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 ( SRC_FILE, DEST_SERVER [, DEST_FILE ] ),
-pasv_wait ( NON_PASV_SERVER ), abort (), quit ()
+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 (
+SRC_FILE, DEST_SERVER [, DEST_FILE ] ), pasv_wait ( NON_PASV_SERVER ),
+abort (), quit ()
=over 4
=item UNIMPLEMENTED
-B<ALLO>, B<SMNT>, B<HELP>, B<MODE>, B<SYST>, B<STAT>, B<STRU>, B<REIN>
+B<SMNT>, B<HELP>, B<MODE>, B<SYST>, B<STAT>, B<STRU>, B<REIN>
=item REPORTING BUGS
=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 METHODS
article ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ], [FH] ), body ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ], [FH] ), head (
-[ MSGID|MSGNUM ], [FH] ), nntpstat ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ] ), group ( [ GROUP ]
-), ihave ( MSGID [, MESSAGE ]), last (), date (), postok (), authinfo (
-USER, PASS ), list (), newgroups ( SINCE [, DISTRIBUTIONS ]), newnews (
-SINCE [, GROUPS [, DISTRIBUTIONS ]]), next (), post ( [ MESSAGE ] ), slave
-(), quit ()
+[ MSGID|MSGNUM ], [FH] ), articlefh ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ] ), bodyfh ( [
+MSGID|MSGNUM ] ), headfh ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ] ), nntpstat ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ]
+), group ( [ GROUP ] ), ihave ( MSGID [, MESSAGE ]), last (), date (),
+postok (), authinfo ( USER, PASS ), list (), newgroups ( SINCE [,
+DISTRIBUTIONS ]), newnews ( SINCE [, GROUPS [, DISTRIBUTIONS ]]), next (),
+post ( [ MESSAGE ] ), postfh (), slave (), quit ()
=over 4
=back
-=head2 Net::POP3 - Post Office Protocol 3 Client class (RFC1081)
+=head2 Net::POP3 - Post Office Protocol 3 Client class (RFC1939)
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item EXAMPLES
-
=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 ] ), 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 DESCRIPTION
-icmp, udp, tcp, stream, external
-
=over 4
=item Functions
-Net::Ping->new([$proto [, $def_timeout [, $bytes]]]);, $p->ping($host [,
-$timeout]);, $p->open($host);, $p->close();, pingecho($host [, $timeout]);
+Net::Ping->new([$proto [, $def_timeout [, $bytes [, $device [, $tos
+]]]]]);, $p->ping($host [, $timeout]);, $p->source_verify( { 0 | 1 } );,
+$p->service_check( { 0 | 1 } );, $p->tcp_service_check( { 0 | 1 } );,
+$p->hires( { 0 | 1 } );, $p->bind($local_addr);, $p->open($host);, $p->ack(
+[ $host ] );, $p->nack( $failed_ack_host );, $p->close();, pingecho($host
+[, $timeout]);
=back
=item NOTES
+=item INSTALL
+
+=item BUGS
+
+=item AUTHORS
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
=back
=head2 Net::SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Client
=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 SEE ALSO
=item IMPLEMENTATION
+=item BUGS
+
=item AUTHOR
=back
execve, execvp, exit, exp, fabs, fclose, fcntl, fdopen, feof, ferror,
fflush, fgetc, fgetpos, fgets, fileno, floor, fmod, fopen, fork, fpathconf,
fprintf, fputc, fputs, fread, free, freopen, frexp, fscanf, fseek, fsetpos,
-fstat, ftell, fwrite, getc, getchar, getcwd, getegid, getenv, geteuid,
-getgid, getgrgid, getgrnam, getgroups, getlogin, getpgrp, getpid, getppid,
-getpwnam, getpwuid, gets, getuid, gmtime, isalnum, isalpha, isatty,
-iscntrl, isdigit, isgraph, islower, isprint, ispunct, isspace, isupper,
-isxdigit, kill, labs, ldexp, ldiv, link, localeconv, localtime, log, log10,
-longjmp, lseek, malloc, mblen, mbstowcs, mbtowc, memchr, memcmp, memcpy,
-memmove, memset, mkdir, mkfifo, mktime, modf, nice, offsetof, open,
-opendir, pathconf, pause, perror, pipe, pow, printf, putc, putchar, puts,
-qsort, raise, rand, read, readdir, realloc, remove, rename, rewind,
-rewinddir, rmdir, scanf, setgid, setjmp, setlocale, setpgid, setsid,
-setuid, sigaction, siglongjmp, sigpending, sigprocmask, sigsetjmp,
+fstat, fsync, ftell, fwrite, getc, getchar, getcwd, getegid, getenv,
+geteuid, getgid, getgrgid, getgrnam, getgroups, getlogin, getpgrp, getpid,
+getppid, getpwnam, getpwuid, gets, getuid, gmtime, isalnum, isalpha,
+isatty, iscntrl, isdigit, isgraph, islower, isprint, ispunct, isspace,
+isupper, isxdigit, kill, labs, ldexp, ldiv, link, localeconv, localtime,
+log, log10, longjmp, lseek, malloc, mblen, mbstowcs, mbtowc, memchr,
+memcmp, memcpy, memmove, memset, mkdir, mkfifo, mktime, modf, nice,
+offsetof, open, opendir, pathconf, pause, perror, pipe, pow, printf, putc,
+putchar, puts, qsort, raise, rand, read, readdir, realloc, remove, rename,
+rewind, rewinddir, rmdir, scanf, setgid, setjmp, setlocale, setpgid,
+setsid, setuid, sigaction, siglongjmp, sigpending, sigprocmask, sigsetjmp,
sigsuspend, sin, sinh, sleep, sprintf, sqrt, srand, sscanf, stat, strcat,
strchr, strcmp, strcoll, strcpy, strcspn, strerror, strftime, strlen,
strncat, strncmp, strncpy, strpbrk, strrchr, strspn, strstr, strtod,
=item POSIX::SigAction
-new
+new, handler, mask, flags, safe
=item POSIX::SigSet
=item WAIT
-Constants, Macros
+Constants, WNOHANG, WUNTRACED, Macros, WIFEXITED, WEXITSTATUS, WIFSIGNALED,
+WTERMSIG, WIFSTOPPED, WSTOPSIG
=back
=item DESCRIPTION
-unix, stdio, perlio, crlf, utf8, raw
+:unix, :stdio, :perlio, :crlf, :mmap, :utf8, :bytes, :raw, :pop, :win32
=over 4
+=item Custom Layers
+
+:encoding, :via
+
+=item Alternatives to raw
+
=item Defaults and how to override them
+=item Querying the layers of filehandles
+
=back
=item AUTHOR
=back
-=head2 PerlIO::Scalar - support module for in-memory IO.
+=head2 PerlIO::encoding - encoding layer
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=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
+=head2 PerlIO::via - Helper class for PerlIO layers implemented in perl
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-$class->PUSHED([$mode][,$fh]), $obj->POPPED([$fh]),
-$class->OPEN($path,$mode[,$fh]), $class->FDOPEN($fd),
-$class->SYSOPEN($path,$imode,$perm,$fh), $obj->FILENO($fh),
+=item EXPECTED METHODS
+
+$class->PUSHED([$mode[,$fh]]), $obj->POPPED([$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
+
=over 4
=item Example - a Hexadecimal Handle
=back
+=head2 PerlIO::via::QuotedPrint - PerlIO layer for quoted-printable strings
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item REQUIRED MODULES
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
+=back
+
=head2 Pod::Checker, podchecker() - check pod documents for syntax errors
=over 4
=item Warnings
-multiple occurence of link target I<name>, line containing nothing but
+multiple occurrence of link target I<name>, line containing nothing but
whitespace in paragraph, file does not start with =head, previous =item has
no contents, preceding non-item paragraph(s), =item type mismatch (I<one>
vs. I<two>), I<N> unescaped C<E<lt>E<gt>> in paragraph, Unknown entity, No
items in =over, No argument for =item, empty section in previous paragraph,
-Verbatim paragraph in NAME section
+Verbatim paragraph in NAME section, =headI<n> without preceding higher
+level
=item Hyperlinks
C<$checker-E<gt>num_errors()>
+C<$checker-E<gt>num_warnings()>
+
C<$checker-E<gt>name()>
C<$checker-E<gt>node()>
=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
roff font should be 1 or 2 chars, not "%s", Invalid link %s, Invalid quote
specification "%s", %s:%d: Unknown command paragraph "%s", %s:%d: Unknown
-escape EE<lt>%sE<gt>, %s:%d: Unknown sequence %s, %s:%d: Unmatched =back
+escape EE<lt>%sE<gt>, %s:%d: Unknown formatting code %s, %s:%d: Unmatched
+=back
=item BUGS
+=item CAVEATS
+
=item SEE ALSO
=item AUTHOR
=back
-=head2 Pod::ParseLink -- Parse an L<> formatting code in POD text
+=head2 Pod::ParseLink - Parse an LE<lt>E<gt> formatting code in POD text
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
+=item SEE ALSO
+
=item AUTHOR
=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
=back
+=head2 Pod::Perldoc::ToChecker - let Perldoc check Pod for errors
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Pod::Perldoc::ToMan - let Perldoc render Pod as man pages
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item CAVEAT
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Pod::Perldoc::ToNroff - let Perldoc convert Pod to nroff
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item CAVEAT
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Pod::Perldoc::ToPod - let Perldoc render Pod as ... Pod!
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Pod::Perldoc::ToRtf - let Perldoc render Pod as RTF
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Pod::Perldoc::ToText - let Perldoc render Pod as plaintext
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item CAVEAT
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Pod::Perldoc::ToTk - let Perldoc use Tk::Pod to render Pod
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Pod::Perldoc::ToXml - let Perldoc render Pod as XML
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Pod::PlainText - Convert POD data to formatted ASCII text
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+alt, indent, loose, sentence, width
+
+=item DIAGNOSTICS
+
+Bizarre space in item, Can't open %s for reading: %s, Unknown escape: %s,
+Unknown sequence: %s, Unmatched =back
+
+=item RESTRICTIONS
+
+=item NOTES
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
=head2 Pod::Plainer - Perl extension for converting Pod to old style Pod.
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-alt, code, indent, loose, quotes, sentence, width
+alt, code, indent, loose, margin, quotes, sentence, width
=item DIAGNOSTICS
Bizarre space in item, Item called without tag, Can't open %s for reading:
-%s, Invalid quote specification "%s", %s:%d: Unknown command paragraph
-"%s", %s:%d: Unknown escape: %s, %s:%d: Unknown sequence: %s, %s:%d:
+%s, Invalid quote specification "%s", %s:%d: Unknown command paragraph: %s,
+%s:%d: Unknown escape: %s, %s:%d: Unknown formatting code: %s, %s:%d:
Unmatched =back
=item RESTRICTIONS
=back
-=head2 Pod::Text::Termcap, Pod::Text::Color - Convert POD data to ASCII
-text with format escapes
+=head2 Pod::Text::Termcap - Convert POD data to ASCII text with format
+escapes
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
+=item NOTES
+
=item SEE ALSO
=item AUTHOR
=item SYNOPSIS
-=item ARGUMENTS
-
-C<-message>, C<-msg>, C<-exitval>, C<-verbose>, C<-output>, C<-input>,
-C<-pathlist>
-
-=item DESCRIPTION
-
-=item EXAMPLES
-
-=over 4
-
-=item Recommended Use
-
-=back
-
-=item CAVEATS
-
-=item AUTHOR
-
-=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
-
-=back
-
-=head2 Pod::t::basic, basic.pod - Test of various basic POD features in
-translators.
-
-=over 4
-
-=item HEADINGS
-
-=item This C<is> a "level 1" heading
-
-=over 4
+=item ARGUMENTS
-=item ``Level'' "2 I<heading>
+C<-message>, C<-msg>, C<-exitval>, C<-verbose>, C<-output>, C<-input>,
+C<-pathlist>
-=back
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item This C<is> a "level 1" heading
+=item EXAMPLES
=over 4
-=item ``Level'' 2 I<heading>
+=item Recommended Use
=back
-=item LINKS
-
-=item OVER AND ITEMS
-
-This is a test, a, b, a, b, c, d, "foo", B<bar>, C<baz>, Some longer item
-text
-
-=item FORMATTING CODES
+=item CAVEATS
-E<amp>, E<apos>, E<lt>, E<gt>, E<quot>, E<sol>
+=item AUTHOR
-=item VERBATIM
+=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
=back
=item DESCRIPTION
-blessed EXPR, dualvar NUM, STRING, isweak EXPR, readonly SCALAR, reftype
-EXPR, tainted EXPR, weaken REF
+blessed EXPR, dualvar NUM, STRING, isvstring EXPR, isweak EXPR,
+looks_like_number EXPR, openhandle FH, refaddr EXPR, reftype EXPR,
+set_prototype CODEREF, PROTOTYPE, tainted EXPR, weaken REF
+
+=item KNOWN BUGS
=item COPYRIGHT
=over 4
-=item OBJECT ORIENTED SYNTAX
+=item Caveats
+
+=item Escaping Magic Characters
+
+=item Configuration
=back
+=item BUGS
+
=item AUTHOR
=back
=item DESCRIPTION
inet_aton HOSTNAME, inet_ntoa IP_ADDRESS, INADDR_ANY, INADDR_BROADCAST,
-INADDR_LOOPBACK, INADDR_NONE, sockaddr_in PORT, ADDRESS, sockaddr_in
-SOCKADDR_IN, pack_sockaddr_in PORT, IP_ADDRESS, unpack_sockaddr_in
-SOCKADDR_IN, sockaddr_un PATHNAME, sockaddr_un SOCKADDR_UN,
-pack_sockaddr_un PATH, unpack_sockaddr_un SOCKADDR_UN
+INADDR_LOOPBACK, INADDR_NONE, sockaddr_family SOCKADDR, sockaddr_in PORT,
+ADDRESS, sockaddr_in SOCKADDR_IN, pack_sockaddr_in PORT, IP_ADDRESS,
+unpack_sockaddr_in SOCKADDR_IN, sockaddr_un PATHNAME, sockaddr_un
+SOCKADDR_UN, pack_sockaddr_un PATH, unpack_sockaddr_un SOCKADDR_UN
=back
-=head2 Storable - persistency for perl data structures
+=head2 Storable - persistence for Perl data structures
=over 4
=item CANONICAL REPRESENTATION
+=item CODE REFERENCES
+
+=item FORWARD COMPATIBILITY
+
+utf8 data, restricted hashes, files from future versions of Storable
+
=item ERROR REPORTING
=item WIZARDS ONLY
=back
+=item Storable magic
+
=item EXAMPLES
=item WARNING
=item BUGS
-=item CREDITS
+=over 4
-=item TRANSLATIONS
+=item 64 bit data in perl 5.6.0 and 5.6.1
+
+=back
+
+=item CREDITS
=item AUTHOR
=item BUGS
-=item LIMITATION
+=item LIMITATIONS
=item COPYRIGHT
=item DESCRIPTION
+=item BUGS
+
=back
=head2 Sys::Hostname - Try every conceivable way to get hostname
=item DESCRIPTION
openlog $ident, $logopt, $facility, syslog $priority, $format, @args,
-setlogmask $mask_priority, setlogsock $sock_type (added in 5.004_02),
-closelog
+setlogmask $mask_priority, setlogsock $sock_type [$stream_location] (added
+in 5.004_02), closelog
=item EXAMPLES
=item DESCRIPTION
openlog $ident, $logopt, $facility, syslog $priority, $format, @args,
-setlogmask $mask_priority, setlogsock $sock_type (added in 5.004_02),
-closelog
+setlogmask $mask_priority, setlogsock $sock_type [$stream_location] (added
+in 5.004_02), closelog
=item EXAMPLES
=item AUTHORS
-=item LICENSE
+=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
=back
=back
-=head2 Term::ReadLine - Perl interface to various C<readline> packages. If
-no real package is found, substitutes stubs instead of basic functions.
+=head2 Term::ReadLine - Perl interface to various C<readline> packages.
+If no real package is found, substitutes stubs instead of basic functions.
=over 4
=item Minimal set of supported functions
-C<ReadLine>, C<new>, C<readline>, C<addhistory>, C<IN>, $C<OUT>,
-C<MinLine>, C<findConsole>, Attribs, C<Features>
+C<ReadLine>, C<new>, C<readline>, C<addhistory>, C<IN>, C<OUT>, C<MinLine>,
+C<findConsole>, Attribs, C<Features>
=item Additional supported functions
=item DESCRIPTION
+=item QUICK START GUIDE
+
=over 4
=item Functions
-B<plan>
+C<plan(...)>, C<tests =E<gt> I<number>>, C<todo =E<gt> [I<1,5,14>]>,
+C<onfail =E<gt> sub { ... }>, C<onfail =E<gt> \&some_sub>
=back
B<_to_value>
-B<ok>
+C<ok(...)>
+
+C<skip(I<skip_if_true>, I<args...>)>
=over 4
=item BUGS and CAVEATS
-=item TODO
+=item ENVIRONMENT
+
+=item NOTE
=item SEE ALSO
B<no_plan>
-B<skip_all>
+B<has_plan>
+
+B<skip_all>
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Running tests
+
+B<ok>
+
+=back
+
+B<is_eq>, B<is_num>
+
+B<isnt_eq>, B<isnt_num>
+
+B<like>, B<unlike>
+
+B<maybe_regex>
+
+B<cmp_ok>
+
+B<BAILOUT>
+
+B<skip>
+
+B<todo_skip>
+
+B<skip_rest>
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Test style
+
+B<level>
+
+=back
+
+B<use_numbers>
+
+B<no_header>, B<no_ending>
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Output
+
+B<diag>
+
+=back
+
+B<_print>
+
+B<output>, B<failure_output>, B<todo_output>
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Test Status and Info
+
+B<current_test>
+
+=back
+
+B<summary>
+
+B<details>
+
+B<todo>
+
+B<caller>
+
+B<_sanity_check>
+
+B<_whoa>
+
+B<_my_exit>
+
+=over 4
+
+=item THREADS
+
+=item EXAMPLES
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHORS
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Test::Harness - Run Perl standard test scripts with statistics
+
+=over 4
+
+=item VERSION
+
+=back
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item The test script output
+
+B<'1..M'>, B<'ok', 'not ok'. Ok?>, B<test numbers>, B<test names>,
+B<Skipping tests>, B<Todo tests>, B<Bail out!>, B<Comments>, B<Anything
+else>
+
+=item Taint mode
+
+=item Configuration variables.
+
+B<$Test::Harness::Verbose>, B<$Test::Harness::switches>
+
+=item Failure
+
+B<Failed Test>, B<Stat>, B<Wstat>, B<Total>, B<Fail>, B<Failed>, B<List of
+Failed>
+
+=item Functions
+
+B<runtests>
+
+=back
+
+=back
+
+B<_all_ok>
+
+B<_globdir>
+
+B<_run_all_tests>
+
+B<_mk_leader>
+
+B<_leader_width>
+
+=over 4
+
+=item EXPORT
+
+=item DIAGNOSTICS
+
+C<All tests successful.\nFiles=%d, Tests=%d, %s>, C<FAILED tests
+%s\n\tFailed %d/%d tests, %.2f%% okay.>, C<Test returned status %d (wstat
+%d)>, C<Failed 1 test, %.2f%% okay. %s>, C<Failed %d/%d tests, %.2f%% okay.
+%s>, C<FAILED--Further testing stopped: %s>
+
+=item ENVIRONMENT
+
+C<HARNESS_ACTIVE>, C<HARNESS_COLUMNS>, C<HARNESS_COMPILE_TEST>,
+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 SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHORS
+
+=item LICENSE
+
+=item TODO
+
+=item BUGS
+
+=item AUTHORS
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Test::Harness::Assert - simple assert
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item FUNCTIONS
+
+=over 4
+
+=item C<assert()>
+
+=back
+
+=back
+
+=over 4
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Test::Harness::Iterator - Internal Test::Harness Iterator
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item new()
+
+=item next()
+
+=back
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Test::Harness::Straps - detailed analysis of test results
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item Construction
+
+=over 4
+
+=item C<new>
+
+=back
+
+=back
+
+=over 4
+
+=item C<_init>
+
+=back
=over 4
-=item Running tests
+=item Analysis
-B<ok>
+=over 4
+
+=item C<analyze>
=back
-B<is_eq>, B<is_num>
+=back
-B<like>
+=over 4
-B<skip>
+=item C<analyze_fh>
-B<skip_rest>
+=back
=over 4
-=item Test style
-
-B<level>
+=item C<analyze_file>
=back
-B<use_numbers>
-
-B<no_header>, B<no_ending>
-
=over 4
-=item Output
-
-B<diag>
+=item C<_command_line( $file )>
=back
-B<_print>
+=over 4
-B<output>, B<failure_output>, B<todo_output>
+=item C<_command>
-=over 4
+=back
-=item Test Status and Info
+=over 4
-B<current_test>
+=item C<_switches>
=back
-B<summary>
+=over 4
-B<details> I<UNIMPLEMENTED>, B<todo>
+=item C<_cleaned_switches>
-B<caller>
+=back
-B<_sanity_check>
+=over 4
-B<_whoa>
+=item C<_INC2PERL5LIB>
-B<_my_exit>
+=back
=over 4
-=item EXAMPLES
+=item C<_filtered_INC>
-=item SEE ALSO
+=back
-=item AUTHORS
+=over 4
-=item COPYRIGHT
+=item C<_restore_PERL5LIB>
=back
-=head2 Test::Harness - run perl standard test scripts with statistics
+=over 4
+
+=item Parsing
=over 4
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item C<_is_comment>
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=back
+
+=back
=over 4
-=item The test script output
+=item C<_is_header>
-B<'1..M'>, B<'ok', 'not ok'. Ok?>, B<test numbers>,
-B<$Test::Harness::verbose>, B<$Test::Harness::switches>, B<Skipping tests>,
-B<Todo tests>, B<Bail out!>, B<Comments>, B<Anything else>
+=back
-=item Failure
+=over 4
-B<Failed Test>, B<Stat>, B<Wstat>, B<Total>, B<Fail>, B<Failed>, B<List of
-Failed>
+=item C<_is_test>
-=item Functions
+=back
-B<runtests>
+=over 4
-=back
+=item C<_is_bail_out>
=back
-B<_all_ok>
-
-B<_globdir>
+=over 4
-B<_run_all_tests>
+=item C<_reset_file_state>
-B<_mk_leader>
+=back
=over 4
-=item EXPORT
-
-=item DIAGNOSTICS
+=item Results
-C<All tests successful.\nFiles=%d, Tests=%d, %s>, C<FAILED tests
-%s\n\tFailed %d/%d tests, %.2f%% okay.>, C<Test returned status %d (wstat
-%d)>, C<Failed 1 test, %.2f%% okay. %s>, C<Failed %d/%d tests, %.2f%% okay.
-%s>, C<FAILED--Further testing stopped%s>
+=over 4
-=item ENVIRONMENT
+=item C<_detailize>
-C<HARNESS_IGNORE_EXITCODE>, C<HARNESS_NOTTY>, C<HARNESS_COMPILE_TEST>,
-C<HARNESS_FILELEAK_IN_DIR>, C<HARNESS_PERL_SWITCHES>, C<HARNESS_COLUMNS>,
-C<HARNESS_ACTIVE>
+=back
-=item EXAMPLE
+=back
-=item SEE ALSO
+=over 4
-=item AUTHORS
+=item EXAMPLES
-=item TODO
+=item AUTHOR
-=item BUGS
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
B<like>
+B<unlike>
+
+B<cmp_ok>
+
B<can_ok>
B<isa_ok>
=over 4
+=item Diagnostics
+
+B<diag>
+
+=back
+
+=over 4
+
=item Module tests
B<use_ok>
=back
-B<TODO: BLOCK>
+B<TODO: BLOCK>, B<todo_skip>
+
+When do I use SKIP vs. TODO?
=over 4
=over 4
+=item Extending and Embedding Test::More
+
+B<builder>
+
+=back
+
+=over 4
+
=item NOTES
=item BUGS and CAVEATS
-Making your own ok(), The eq_* family have some caveats, Test::Harness
+Making your own ok(), The eq_* family has some caveats, Test::Harness
upgrades
=item HISTORY
=item C<extract_bracketed>
+=item C<extract_variable>
+
+[0], [1], [2]
+
=item C<extract_tagged>
C<reject =E<gt> $listref>, C<ignore =E<gt> $listref>, C<fail =E<gt> $str>,
=back
-=head2 Thread - manipulate threads in Perl
+=head2 Thread - manipulate threads in Perl (for old code only)
=over 4
=back
=head2 Thread::Signal - Start a thread which runs signal handlers reliably
+(for old code)
=over 4
+=item CAVEAT
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
=back
+=head2 Tie::File - Access the lines of a disk file via a Perl array
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over 4
+
+=item C<recsep>
+
+=item C<autochomp>
+
+=item C<mode>
+
+=item C<memory>
+
+=item C<dw_size>
+
+=item Option Format
+
+=back
+
+=item Public Methods
+
+=over 4
+
+=item C<flock>
+
+=item C<autochomp>
+
+=item C<defer>, C<flush>, C<discard>, and C<autodefer>
+
+=item C<offset>
+
+=back
+
+=item Tying to an already-opened filehandle
+
+=item Deferred Writing
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Autodeferring
+
+=back
+
+=item CONCURRENT ACCESS TO FILES
+
+=item CAVEATS
+
+=item SUBCLASSING
+
+=item WHAT ABOUT C<DB_File>?
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item LICENSE
+
+=item WARRANTY
+
+=item THANKS
+
+=item TODO
+
+=back
+
=head2 Tie::Handle, Tie::StdHandle - base class definitions for tied
handles
=back
-=head2 Tie::Hash, Tie::StdHash - base class definitions for tied hashes
+=head2 Tie::Hash, Tie::StdHash, Tie::ExtraHash - base class definitions for
+tied hashes
=over 4
=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 CAVEATS
+=item Inheriting from B<Tie::StdHash>
+
+=item Inheriting from B<Tie::ExtraHash>
+
+=item C<SCALAR>, C<UNTIE> and C<DESTROY>
=item MORE INFORMATION
=back
+=head2 Tie::Memoize - add data to hash when needed
+
+=over 4
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item Inheriting from B<Tie::Memoize>
+
+=item EXAMPLE
+
+=item BUGS
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
=head2 Tie::RefHash - use references as hash keys
=over 4
gettimeofday (), usleep ( $useconds ), ualarm ( $useconds [,
$interval_useconds ] ), tv_interval, time (), sleep ( $floating_seconds ),
-alarm ( $floating_seconds [, $interval_floating_seconds ] ), setitimer,
-getitimer ( $which )
+alarm ( $floating_seconds [, $interval_floating_seconds ] ), setitimer (
+$which, $floating_seconds [, $interval_floating_seconds ] ), getitimer (
+$which )
=item EXAMPLES
=item C API
+=item DIAGNOSTICS
+
+=over 4
+
+=item negative time not invented yet
+
+=item internal error: useconds < 0 (unsigned ... signed ...)
+
+=back
+
=item CAVEATS
=item AUTHORS
-=item REVISION
-
-=item COPYRIGHT
+=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
=back
=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 SUPPORT
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
=back
=head2 Time::gmtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in gmtime()
=item DESCRIPTION
-$obj->isa( TYPE ), CLASS->isa( TYPE ), isa( VAL, TYPE ), $obj->can( METHOD
-), CLASS->can( METHOD ), can( VAL, METHOD ), VERSION ( [ REQUIRE ] )
+C<< $obj->isa( TYPE ) >>, C<< CLASS->isa( TYPE ) >>, C<isa( VAL, TYPE )>,
+C<TYPE>, C<$obj>, C<CLASS>, C<VAL>, C<< $obj->can( METHOD ) >>, C<<
+CLASS->can( METHOD ) >>, C<can( VAL, METHOD )>, C<VERSION ( [ REQUIRE ] )>
+
+=item EXPORTS
=back
-=head2 Unicode::Collate - use UCA (Unicode Collation Algorithm)
+=head2 Unicode::Collate - Unicode Collation Algorithm
=over 4
=item Constructor and Tailoring
-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 Other methods
+=item Methods for Collation
C<@sorted = $Collator-E<gt>sort(@not_sorted)>, C<$result =
$Collator-E<gt>cmp($a, $b)>, C<$result = $Collator-E<gt>eq($a, $b)>,
C<$result = $Collator-E<gt>ne($a, $b)>, C<$result = $Collator-E<gt>lt($a,
$b)>, C<$result = $Collator-E<gt>le($a, $b)>, C<$result =
$Collator-E<gt>gt($a, $b)>, C<$result = $Collator-E<gt>ge($a, $b)>,
-C<$sortKey = $Collator-E<gt>getSortKey($string)>, C<$position =
-$Collator-E<gt>index($string, $substring)>, C<($position, $length) =
-$Collator-E<gt>index($string, $substring)>
+C<$sortKey = $Collator-E<gt>getSortKey($string)>, C<$sortKeyForm =
+$Collator-E<gt>viewSortKey($string)>
+
+=item Methods for Searching
+
+C<$position = $Collator-E<gt>index($string, $substring[, $position])>,
+C<($position, $length) = $Collator-E<gt>index($string, $substring[,
+$position])>, C<$match_ref = $Collator-E<gt>match($string, $substring)>,
+C<($match) = $Collator-E<gt>match($string, $substring)>, C<@match =
+$Collator-E<gt>gmatch($string, $substring)>, C<$count =
+$Collator-E<gt>subst($string, $substring, $replacement)>, C<$count =
+$Collator-E<gt>gsubst($string, $substring, $replacement)>
+
+=item Other Methods
+
+C<%old_tailoring = $Collator-E<gt>change(%new_tailoring)>, C<$version =
+$Collator-E<gt>version()>, C<UCA_Version()>, C<Base_Unicode_Version()>
=item EXPORT
=item CAVEAT
+=item Conformance Test
+
=back
=item AUTHOR
=item SEE ALSO
-Unicode Collation Algorithm - Unicode TR #10, L<Unicode::Normalize>
+Unicode Collation Algorithm - UTS #10, The Default Unicode Collation
+Element Table (DUCET), The conformance test for the UCA, Hangul Syllable
+Type, Unicode Normalization Forms - UAX #15, L<Unicode::Normalize>
=back
-=head2 Unicode::Normalize - normalized forms of Unicode text
+=head2 Unicode::Normalize - Unicode Normalization Forms
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-C<$string_NFD = NFD($raw_string)>, C<$string_NFC = NFC($raw_string)>,
-C<$string_NFKD = NFKD($raw_string)>, C<$string_NFKC = NFKC($raw_string)>,
-C<$normalized_string = normalize($form_name, $raw_string)>
-
=over 4
+=item Normalization Forms
+
+C<$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, $string)>
+
+=item Decomposition and Composition
+
+C<$decomposed_string = decompose($string)>, C<$decomposed_string =
+decompose($string, $useCompatMapping)>, C<$reordered_string =
+reorder($string)>, C<$composed_string = compose($string)>
+
+=item Quick Check
+
+C<$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, $string)>
+
+=item Character Data
+
+C<$canonical_decomposed = getCanon($codepoint)>,
+C<$compatibility_decomposed = getCompat($codepoint)>,
+C<$codepoint_composite = getComposite($codepoint_here, $codepoint_next)>,
+C<$combining_class = getCombinClass($codepoint)>, C<$is_exclusion =
+isExclusion($codepoint)>, C<$is_singleton = isSingleton($codepoint)>,
+C<$is_non_starter_decomposition = isNonStDecomp($codepoint)>,
+C<$may_be_composed_with_prev_char = isComp2nd($codepoint)>
+
=item EXPORT
=back
=item SEE ALSO
-L<Lingua::KO::Hangul::Util>, http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr15/
+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
-
-=over 4
-
-=item DESCRIPTION
-
-=over 4
-
-=item Alphabetical Listing of Win32 Functions
-
-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::GetFullPathName(FILENAME),
-Win32::GetLastError(), Win32::GetLongPathName(PATHNAME),
-Win32::GetNextAvailDrive(), Win32::GetOSVersion(),
-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::SetCwd(NEWDIRECTORY),
-Win32::SetLastError(ERROR), Win32::Sleep(TIME), Win32::Spawn(COMMAND, ARGS,
-PID), Win32::UnregisterServer(LIBRARYNAME)
-
-=back
-
-=back
-
-=head2 XS::Typemap - module to test the XS typemaps distributed with perl
+=head2 XSLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
-=back
-
=over 4
-=item NOTES
+=item Migration from C<DynaLoader>
-=item AUTHOR
+=item Backward compatible boilerplate
=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