=head2 perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language
+=over
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-Many usability enhancements, Simplified grammar, Lexical scoping,
-Arbitrarily nested data structures, Modularity and reusability,
-Object-oriented programming, Embeddable and Extensible, POSIX compliant,
-Package constructors and destructors, Multiple simultaneous DBM
-implementations, Subroutine definitions may now be autoloaded, Regular
-expression enhancements, Innumerable Unbundled Modules, Compilability
+modularity and reusability using innumerable modules, embeddable and
+extensible, roll-your-own magic variables (including multiple simultaneous
+DBM implementations), subroutines can now be overridden, autoloaded, and
+prototyped, arbitrarily nested data structures and anonymous functions,
+object-oriented programming, compilability into C code or Perl bytecode,
+support for light-weight processes (threads), support for
+internationalization, localization, and Unicode, lexical scoping, regular
+expression enhancements, enhanced debugger and interactive Perl
+environment, with integrated editor support, POSIX 1003.1 compliant library
+
+=item AVAILABILITY
=item ENVIRONMENT
=item NOTES
-=head2 perlfaq - frequently asked questions about Perl ($Date: 1997/04/24
-22:46:06 $)
+=back
+
+=head2 perlfaq - frequently asked questions about Perl ($Date: 1999/05/23
+20:38:02 $)
+
+=over
=item DESCRIPTION
perlfaq: Structural overview of the FAQ, L<perlfaq1>: General Questions
-About Perl, L<perlfaq2>: Obtaining and Learning about Perl, L<perlfaq3>:
-Programming Tools, L<perlfaq4>: Data Manipulation, L<perlfaq5>: Files and
-Formats, L<perlfaq6>: Regexps, L<perlfaq7>: General Perl Language Issues,
-L<perlfaq8>: System Interaction, L<perlfaq9>: Networking
+About Perl, What is Perl?, Who supports Perl? Who develops it? Why is it
+free?, Which version of Perl should I use?, What are perl4 and perl5?, What
+is perl6?, How stable is Perl?, Is Perl difficult to learn?, How does Perl
+compare with other languages like Java, Python, REXX, Scheme, or Tcl?, Can
+I do [task] in Perl?, When shouldn't I program in Perl?, What's the
+difference between "perl" and "Perl"?, Is it a Perl program or a Perl
+script?, What is a JAPH?, Where can I get a list of Larry Wall witticisms?,
+How can I convince my sysadmin/supervisor/employees to use version
+(5/5.005/Perl instead of some other language)?, L<perlfaq2>: Obtaining and
+Learning about Perl, What machines support Perl? Where do I get it?, How
+can I get a binary version of Perl?, I don't have a C compiler on my
+system. How can I compile perl?, I copied the Perl binary from one machine
+to another, but scripts don't work, I grabbed the sources and tried to
+compile but gdbm/dynamic loading/malloc/linking/... failed. How do I make
+it work?, What modules and extensions are available for Perl? What is
+CPAN? What does CPAN/src/... mean?, Is there an ISO or ANSI certified
+version of Perl?, Where can I get information on Perl?, What are the Perl
+newsgroups on USENET? Where do I post questions?, Where should I post
+source code?, Perl Books, Perl in Magazines, Perl on the Net: FTP and WWW
+Access, What mailing lists are there for perl?, Archives of
+comp.lang.perl.misc, Where can I buy a commercial version of Perl?, Where
+do I send bug reports?, What is perl.com?, L<perlfaq3>: Programming Tools,
+How do I do (anything)?, How can I use Perl interactively?, Is there a Perl
+shell?, How do I debug my Perl programs?, How do I profile my Perl
+programs?, How do I cross-reference my Perl programs?, Is there a
+pretty-printer (formatter) for Perl?, Is there a ctags for Perl?, Is there
+an IDE or Windows Perl Editor?, Where can I get Perl macros for vi?, Where
+can I get perl-mode for emacs?, How can I use curses with Perl?, How can I
+use X or Tk with Perl?, How can I generate simple menus without using CGI
+or Tk?, What is undump?, How can I make my Perl program run faster?, How
+can I make my Perl program take less memory?, Is it unsafe to return a
+pointer to local data?, How can I free an array or hash so my program
+shrinks?, How can I make my CGI script more efficient?, How can I hide the
+source for my Perl program?, How can I compile my Perl program into byte
+code or C?, How can I compile Perl into Java?, How can I get C<#!perl> to
+work on [MS-DOS,NT,...]?, Can I write useful perl programs on the command
+line?, Why don't perl one-liners work on my DOS/Mac/VMS system?, Where can
+I learn about CGI or Web programming in Perl?, Where can I learn about
+object-oriented Perl programming?, Where can I learn about linking C with
+Perl? [h2xs, xsubpp], I've read perlembed, perlguts, etc., but I can't
+embed perl inmy C program, what am I doing wrong?, When I tried to run my
+script, I got this message. What does itmean?, What's MakeMaker?,
+L<perlfaq4>: Data Manipulation, Why am I getting long decimals (eg,
+19.9499999999999) instead of the numbers I should be getting (eg, 19.95)?,
+Why isn't my octal data interpreted correctly?, Does Perl have a round()
+function? What about ceil() and floor()? Trig functions?, How do I
+convert bits into ints?, Why doesn't & work the way I want it to?, How do I
+multiply matrices?, How do I perform an operation on a series of integers?,
+How can I output Roman numerals?, Why aren't my random numbers random?, How
+do I find the week-of-the-year/day-of-the-year?, How do I find the current
+century or millennium?, How can I compare two dates and find the
+difference?, How can I take a string and turn it into epoch seconds?, How
+can I find the Julian Day?, How do I find yesterday's date?, Does Perl have
+a year 2000 problem? Is Perl Y2K compliant?, How do I validate input?, How
+do I unescape a string?, How do I remove consecutive pairs of characters?,
+How do I expand function calls in a string?, How do I find matching/nesting
+anything?, How do I reverse a string?, How do I expand tabs in a string?,
+How do I reformat a paragraph?, How can I access/change the first N letters
+of a string?, How do I change the Nth occurrence of something?, How can I
+count the number of occurrences of a substring within a string?, How do I
+capitalize all the words on one line?, How can I split a [character]
+delimited string except when inside[character]? (Comma-separated files),
+How do I strip blank space from the beginning/end of a string?, How do I
+pad a string with blanks or pad a number with zeroes?, How do I extract
+selected columns from a string?, How do I find the soundex value of a
+string?, How can I expand variables in text strings?, What's wrong with
+always quoting "$vars"?, Why don't my E<lt>E<lt>HERE documents work?, What
+is the difference between a list and an array?, What is the difference
+between $array[1] and @array[1]?, How can I remove duplicate elements from
+a list or array?, How can I tell whether a list or array contains a certain
+element?, How do I compute the difference of two arrays? How do I compute
+the intersection of two arrays?, How do I test whether two arrays or hashes
+are equal?, How do I find the first array element for which a condition is
+true?, How do I handle linked lists?, How do I handle circular lists?, How
+do I shuffle an array randomly?, How do I process/modify each element of an
+array?, How do I select a random element from an array?, How do I permute N
+elements of a list?, How do I sort an array by (anything)?, How do I
+manipulate arrays of bits?, Why does defined() return true on empty arrays
+and hashes?, How do I process an entire hash?, What happens if I add or
+remove keys from a hash while iterating over it?, How do I look up a hash
+element by value?, How can I know how many entries are in a hash?, How do I
+sort a hash (optionally by value instead of key)?, How can I always keep my
+hash sorted?, What's the difference between "delete" and "undef" with
+hashes?, Why don't my tied hashes make the defined/exists distinction?, How
+do I reset an each() operation part-way through?, How can I get the unique
+keys from two hashes?, How can I store a multidimensional array in a DBM
+file?, How can I make my hash remember the order I put elements into it?,
+Why does passing a subroutine an undefined element in a hash create it?,
+How can I make the Perl equivalent of a C structure/C++ class/hash or array
+of hashes or arrays?, How can I use a reference as a hash key?, How do I
+handle binary data correctly?, How do I determine whether a scalar is a
+number/whole/integer/float?, How do I keep persistent data across program
+calls?, How do I print out or copy a recursive data structure?, How do I
+define methods for every class/object?, How do I verify a credit card
+checksum?, How do I pack arrays of doubles or floats for XS code?,
+L<perlfaq5>: Files and Formats, How do I flush/unbuffer an output
+filehandle? Why must I do this?, 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?, How do I count the number of lines in a file?, How do
+I make a temporary file name?, How can I manipulate fixed-record-length
+files?, 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?,
+How can I use a filehandle indirectly?, How can I set up a footer format to
+be used with write()?, How can I write() into a string?, How can I output
+my numbers with commas added?, How can I translate tildes (~) in a
+filename?, How come when I open a file read-write it wipes it out?, Why do
+I sometimes get an "Argument list too long" when I use E<lt>*E<gt>?, Is
+there a leak/bug in glob()?, How can I open a file with a leading "E<gt>"
+or trailing blanks?, How can I reliably rename a file?, How can I lock a
+file?, Why can't I just open(FH, ">file.lock")?, I still don't get locking.
+ I just want to increment the number in the file. How can I do this?, How
+do I randomly update a binary file?, How do I get a file's timestamp in
+perl?, How do I set a file's timestamp in perl?, How do I print to more
+than one file at once?, How can I read in an entire file all at once?, How
+can I read in a file by paragraphs?, How can I read a single character from
+a file? From the keyboard?, How can I tell whether there's a character
+waiting on a filehandle?, How do I do a C<tail -f> in perl?, How do I dup()
+a filehandle in Perl?, How do I close a file descriptor by number?, Why
+can't I use "C:\temp\foo" in DOS paths? What doesn't `C:\temp\foo.exe`
+work?, Why doesn't glob("*.*") get all the files?, Why does Perl let me
+delete read-only files? Why does C<-i> clobber protected files? Isn't
+this a bug in Perl?, How do I select a random line from a file?, Why do I
+get weird spaces when I print an array of lines?, L<perlfaq6>: Regexps, How
+can I hope to use regular expressions without creating illegible and
+unmaintainable code?, I'm having trouble matching over more than one line.
+What's wrong?, How can I pull out lines between two patterns that are
+themselves on different lines?, I put a regular expression into $/ but it
+didn't work. What's wrong?, How do I substitute case insensitively on the
+LHS, but preserving case on the RHS?, How can I make C<\w> match national
+character sets?, How can I match a locale-smart version of C</[a-zA-Z]/>?,
+How can I quote a variable to use in a regex?, What is C</o> really for?,
+How do I use a regular expression to strip C style comments from a file?,
+Can I use Perl regular expressions to match balanced text?, What does it
+mean that regexes are greedy? How can I get around it?, How do I process
+each word on each line?, How can I print out a word-frequency or
+line-frequency summary?, How can I do approximate matching?, How do I
+efficiently match many regular expressions at once?, Why don't
+word-boundary searches with C<\b> work for me?, Why does using $&, $`, or
+$' slow my program down?, What good is C<\G> in a regular expression?, Are
+Perl regexes DFAs or NFAs? Are they POSIX compliant?, What's wrong with
+using grep or map in a void context?, How can I match strings with
+multibyte characters?, How do I match a pattern that is supplied by the
+user?, L<perlfaq7>: General Perl Language Issues, Can I get a BNF/yacc/RE
+for the Perl language?, What are all these $@%&* punctuation signs, and how
+do I know when to use them?, Do I always/never have to quote my strings or
+use semicolons and commas?, How do I skip some return values?, How do I
+temporarily block warnings?, What's an extension?, Why do Perl operators
+have different precedence than C operators?, How do I declare/create a
+structure?, How do I create a module?, How do I create a class?, How can I
+tell if a variable is tainted?, What's a closure?, What is variable suicide
+and how can I prevent it?, How can I pass/return a {Function, FileHandle,
+Array, Hash, Method, Regex}?, How do I create a static variable?, What's
+the difference between dynamic and lexical (static) scoping? Between
+local() and my()?, How can I access a dynamic variable while a similarly
+named lexical is in scope?, What's the difference between deep and shallow
+binding?, Why doesn't "my($foo) = E<lt>FILEE<gt>;" work right?, How do I
+redefine a builtin function, operator, or method?, What's the difference
+between calling a function as &foo and foo()?, How do I create a switch or
+case statement?, How can I catch accesses to undefined
+variables/functions/methods?, Why can't a method included in this same file
+be found?, How can I find out my current package?, How can I comment out a
+large block of perl code?, How do I clear a package?, How can I use a
+variable as a variable name?, L<perlfaq8>: System Interaction, How do I
+find out which operating system I'm running under?, How come exec() doesn't
+return?, How do I do fancy stuff with the keyboard/screen/mouse?, How do I
+print something out in color?, How do I read just one key without waiting
+for a return key?, How do I check whether input is ready on the keyboard?,
+How do I clear the screen?, How do I get the screen size?, How do I ask the
+user for a password?, How do I read and write the serial port?, How do I
+decode encrypted password files?, How do I start a process in the
+background?, How do I trap control characters/signals?, How do I modify the
+shadow password file on a Unix system?, How do I set the time and date?,
+How can I sleep() or alarm() for under a second?, How can I measure time
+under a second?, How can I do an atexit() or setjmp()/longjmp()? (Exception
+handling), Why doesn't my sockets program work under System V (Solaris)?
+What does the error message "Protocol not supported" mean?, How can I call
+my system's unique C functions from Perl?, Where do I get the include files
+to do ioctl() or syscall()?, Why do setuid perl scripts complain about
+kernel problems?, How can I open a pipe both to and from a command?, Why
+can't I get the output of a command with system()?, How can I capture
+STDERR from an external command?, Why doesn't open() return an error when a
+pipe open fails?, What's wrong with using backticks in a void context?, How
+can I call backticks without shell processing?, Why can't my script read
+from STDIN after I gave it EOF (^D on Unix, ^Z on MS-DOS)?, How can I
+convert my shell script to perl?, Can I use perl to run a telnet or ftp
+session?, How can I write expect in Perl?, Is there a way to hide perl's
+command line from programs such as "ps"?, 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?, How do I close
+a process's filehandle without waiting for it to complete?, How do I fork a
+daemon process?, How do I make my program run with sh and csh?, How do I
+find out if I'm running interactively or not?, How do I timeout a slow
+event?, How do I set CPU limits?, How do I avoid zombies on a Unix system?,
+How do I use an SQL database?, How do I make a system() exit on control-C?,
+How do I open a file without blocking?, How do I install a module from
+CPAN?, What's the difference between require and use?, How do I keep my own
+module/library directory?, How do I add the directory my program lives in
+to the module/library search path?, How do I add a directory to my include
+path at runtime?, What is socket.ph and where do I get it?, L<perlfaq9>:
+Networking, My CGI script runs from the command line but not the browser.
+(500 Server Error), How can I get better error messages from a CGI
+program?, How do I remove HTML from a string?, How do I extract URLs?, How
+do I download a file from the user's machine? How do I open a file on
+another machine?, How do I make a pop-up menu in HTML?, How do I fetch an
+HTML file?, How do I automate an HTML form submission?, How do I decode or
+create those %-encodings on the web?, How do I redirect to another page?,
+How do I put a password on my web pages?, How do I edit my .htpasswd and
+.htgroup files with Perl?, How do I make sure users can't enter values into
+a form that cause my CGI script to do bad things?, How do I parse a mail
+header?, How do I decode a CGI form?, How do I check a valid mail address?,
+How do I decode a MIME/BASE64 string?, How do I return the user's mail
+address?, How do I send mail?, How do I read mail?, How do I find out my
+hostname/domainname/IP address?, How do I fetch a news article or the
+active newsgroups?, How do I fetch/put an FTP file?, How can I do RPC in
+Perl?
=over
=over
-=item Noncommercial Reproduction
-
-=item Commercial Reproduction
+=item Bundled Distributions
=item Disclaimer
=item Changes
-24/April/97, 23/April/97, 25/March/97, 18/March/97, 17/March/97 Version,
-Initial Release: 11/March/97
+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
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.23 $, $Date:
+1999/05/23 16:08:30 $)
-=head2 perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.12 $, $Date:
-1997/04/24 22:43:34 $)
+=over
=item DESCRIPTION
=item What are perl4 and perl5?
+=item What is perl6?
+
=item How stable is Perl?
=item Is Perl difficult to learn?
=item Where can I get a list of Larry Wall witticisms?
=item How can I convince my sysadmin/supervisor/employees to use version
-(5/5.004/Perl instead of some other language)?
+(5/5.005/Perl instead of some other language)?
=back
=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
-=head2 perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.16 $,
-$Date: 1997/04/23 18:04:09 $)
+=back
+
+=head2 perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.32 $,
+$Date: 1999/10/14 18:46:09 $)
+
+=over
=item DESCRIPTION
=item Where can I get information on Perl?
-=item What are the Perl newsgroups on USENET? Where do I post questions?
+=item What are the Perl newsgroups on Usenet? Where do I post questions?
=item Where should I post source code?
=item Perl Books
+References, Tutorials
+ *Learning Perl [2nd edition]
+ by Randal L. Schwartz and Tom Christiansen
+ with foreword by Larry Wall, Task-Oriented, Special Topics
+
=item Perl in Magazines
=item Perl on the Net: FTP and WWW Access
-=item What mailing lists are there for perl?
-
-MacPerl, Perl5-Porters, NTPerl, Perl-Packrats
+=item What mailing lists are there for Perl?
=item Archives of comp.lang.perl.misc
-=item Perl Training
-
=item Where can I buy a commercial version of Perl?
=item Where do I send bug reports?
-=item What is perl.com? perl.org? The Perl Institute?
-
-=item How do I learn about object-oriented Perl programming?
+=item What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org?
=back
=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
-=head2 perlfaq3 - Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.22 $, $Date: 1997/04/24
-22:43:42 $)
+=back
+
+=head2 perlfaq3 - Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.38 $, $Date: 1999/05/23
+16:08:30 $)
+
+=over
=item DESCRIPTION
=item Is there a ctags for Perl?
+=item Is there an IDE or Windows Perl Editor?
+
=item Where can I get Perl macros for vi?
=item Where can I get perl-mode for emacs?
=item How can I generate simple menus without using CGI or Tk?
-=item Can I dynamically load C routines into Perl?
-
=item What is undump?
=item How can I make my Perl program run faster?
=item How can I compile my Perl program into byte code or C?
-=item How can I get '#!perl' to work on [MS-DOS,NT,...]?
+=item How can I compile Perl into Java?
-=item Can I write useful perl programs on the command line?
+=item How can I get C<#!perl> to work on [MS-DOS,NT,...]?
-=item Why don't perl one-liners work on my DOS/Mac/VMS system?
+=item Can I write useful Perl programs on the command line?
+
+=item Why don't Perl one-liners work on my DOS/Mac/VMS system?
=item Where can I learn about CGI or Web programming in Perl?
=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
-=head2 perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation ($Revision: 1.19 $, $Date: 1997/04/24
-22:43:57 $)
+=back
+
+=head2 perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation ($Revision: 1.49 $, $Date: 1999/05/23
+20:37:49 $)
+
+=over
=item DESCRIPTION
=item Why isn't my octal data interpreted correctly?
-=item Does perl have a round function? What about ceil() and floor()?
+=item Does Perl have a round() function? What about ceil() and floor()?
Trig functions?
=item How do I convert bits into ints?
+=item Why doesn't & work the way I want it to?
+
=item How do I multiply matrices?
=item How do I perform an operation on a series of integers?
=item How do I find the week-of-the-year/day-of-the-year?
-=item How can I compare two date strings?
+=item How do I find the current century or millennium?
+
+=item How can I compare two dates and find the difference?
=item How can I take a string and turn it into epoch seconds?
=item How can I find the Julian Day?
-=item Does Perl have a year 2000 problem?
+=item How do I find yesterday's date?
+
+=item Does Perl have a Year 2000 problem? Is Perl Y2K compliant?
=back
=item How do I strip blank space from the beginning/end of a string?
+=item How do I pad a string with blanks or pad a number with zeroes?
+
=item How do I extract selected columns from a string?
=item How do I find the soundex value of a string?
=item What's wrong with always quoting "$vars"?
-=item Why don't my <<HERE documents work?
+=item Why don't my E<lt>E<lt>HERE documents work?
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
=over
+=item What is the difference between a list and an array?
+
=item What is the difference between $array[1] and @array[1]?
-=item How can I extract just the unique elements of an array?
+=item How can I remove duplicate elements from a list or array?
-a) If @in is sorted, and you want @out to be sorted:, b) If you don't know
-whether @in is sorted:, c) Like (b), but @in contains only small integers:,
-d) A way to do (b) without any loops or greps:, e) Like (d), but @in
-contains only small positive integers:
+a) If @in is sorted, and you want @out to be sorted:(this assumes all true
+values in the array), b) If you don't know whether @in is sorted:, c) Like
+(b), but @in contains only small integers:, d) A way to do (b) without any
+loops or greps:, e) Like (d), but @in contains only small positive
+integers:
-=item How can I tell whether an array contains a certain element?
+=item How can I tell whether a list or array contains a certain element?
=item How do I compute the difference of two arrays? How do I compute the
intersection of two arrays?
+=item How do I test whether two arrays or hashes are equal?
+
=item How do I find the first array element for which a condition is true?
=item How do I handle linked lists?
=item How do I verify a credit card checksum?
+=item How do I pack arrays of doubles or floats for XS code?
+
=back
=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
-=head2 perlfaq5 - Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.22 $, $Date: 1997/04/24
-22:44:02 $)
+=back
+
+=head2 perlfaq5 - Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.38 $, $Date: 1999/05/23
+16:08:30 $)
+
+=over
=item DESCRIPTION
=over
-=item How do I flush/unbuffer a filehandle? Why must I do this?
+=item How do I flush/unbuffer an output filehandle? Why must I do this?
=item How do I change one line in a file/delete a line in a file/insert a
line in the middle of a file/append to the beginning of a file?
=item How can I make a filehandle local to a subroutine? How do I pass
filehandles between subroutines? How do I make an array of filehandles?
+=item How can I use a filehandle indirectly?
+
=item How can I set up a footer format to be used with write()?
=item How can I write() into a string?
=item How can I translate tildes (~) in a filename?
-=item How come when I open the file read-write it wipes it out?
+=item How come when I open a file read-write it wipes it out?
-=item Why do I sometimes get an "Argument list too long" when I use <*>?
+=item Why do I sometimes get an "Argument list too long" when I use
+E<lt>*E<gt>?
=item Is there a leak/bug in glob()?
=item How can I lock a file?
-=item What can't I just open(FH, ">file.lock")?
+=item Why can't I just open(FH, ">file.lock")?
=item I still don't get locking. I just want to increment the number in
the file. How can I do this?
=item How do I print to more than one file at once?
+=item How can I read in an entire file all at once?
+
=item How can I read in a file by paragraphs?
=item How can I read a single character from a file? From the keyboard?
-=item How can I tell if there's a character waiting on a filehandle?
-
-=item How do I open a file without blocking?
-
-=item How do I create a file only if it doesn't exist?
+=item How can I tell whether there's a character waiting on a filehandle?
=item How do I do a C<tail -f> in perl?
=item How do I select a random line from a file?
+=item Why do I get weird spaces when I print an array of lines?
+
=back
=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
-=head2 perlfaq6 - Regexps ($Revision: 1.17 $, $Date: 1997/04/24 22:44:10 $)
+=back
+
+=head2 perlfaq6 - Regexes ($Revision: 1.27 $, $Date: 1999/05/23 16:08:30 $)
+
+=over
=item DESCRIPTION
=item How can I hope to use regular expressions without creating illegible
and unmaintainable code?
-Comments Outside the Regexp, Comments Inside the Regexp, Different
-Delimiters
+Comments Outside the Regex, Comments Inside the Regex, Different Delimiters
=item I'm having trouble matching over more than one line. What's wrong?
=item How do I substitute case insensitively on the LHS, but preserving
case on the RHS?
-=item How can I make C<\w> match accented characters?
+=item How can I make C<\w> match national character sets?
=item How can I match a locale-smart version of C</[a-zA-Z]/>?
-=item How can I quote a variable to use in a regexp?
+=item How can I quote a variable to use in a regex?
=item What is C</o> really for?
=item Can I use Perl regular expressions to match balanced text?
-=item What does it mean that regexps are greedy? How can I get around it?
+=item What does it mean that regexes are greedy? How can I get around it?
=item How do I process each word on each line?
=item What good is C<\G> in a regular expression?
-=item Are Perl regexps DFAs or NFAs? Are they POSIX compliant?
+=item Are Perl regexes DFAs or NFAs? Are they POSIX compliant?
=item What's wrong with using grep or map in a void context?
=item How can I match strings with multibyte characters?
+=item How do I match a pattern that is supplied by the user?
+
=back
=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
-=head2 perlfaq7 - Perl Language Issues ($Revision: 1.18 $, $Date:
-1997/04/24 22:44:14 $)
+=back
+
+=head2 perlfaq7 - Perl Language Issues ($Revision: 1.28 $, $Date:
+1999/05/23 20:36:18 $)
+
+=over
=item DESCRIPTION
=item Can I get a BNF/yacc/RE for the Perl language?
-=item What are all these $@%* punctuation signs, and how do I know when to
+=item What are all these $@%&* punctuation signs, and how do I know when to
use them?
=item Do I always/never have to quote my strings or use semicolons and
=item What is variable suicide and how can I prevent it?
=item How can I pass/return a {Function, FileHandle, Array, Hash, Method,
-Regexp}?
+Regex}?
-Passing Variables and Functions, Passing Filehandles, Passing Regexps,
+Passing Variables and Functions, Passing Filehandles, Passing Regexes,
Passing Methods
=item How do I create a static variable?
=item What's the difference between deep and shallow binding?
-=item Why doesn't "local($foo) = <FILE>;" work right?
+=item Why doesn't "my($foo) = E<lt>FILEE<gt>;" work right?
=item How do I redefine a builtin function, operator, or method?
=item How can I comment out a large block of perl code?
+=item How do I clear a package?
+
+=item How can I use a variable as a variable name?
+
=back
=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
-=head2 perlfaq8 - System Interaction ($Revision: 1.21 $, $Date: 1997/04/24
-22:44:19 $)
+=back
+
+=head2 perlfaq8 - System Interaction ($Revision: 1.39 $, $Date: 1999/05/23
+18:37:57 $)
+
+=over
=item DESCRIPTION
Keyboard, Screen, Mouse
+=item How do I print something out in color?
+
+=item How do I read just one key without waiting for a return key?
+
+=item How do I check whether input is ready on the keyboard?
+
+=item How do I clear the screen?
+
+=item How do I get the screen size?
+
=item How do I ask the user for a password?
=item How do I read and write the serial port?
=item How do I start a process in the background?
-STDIN, STDOUT and STDERR are shared, Signals, Zombies
+STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR are shared, Signals, Zombies
=item How do I trap control characters/signals?
come the change disappeared when I exited the script? How do I get my
changes to be visible?
-Unix, VMS
+Unix
=item How do I close a process's filehandle without waiting for it to
complete?
=item How do I open a file without blocking?
-=item How do I install a CPAN module?
+=item How do I install a module from CPAN?
+
+=item What's the difference between require and use?
=item How do I keep my own module/library directory?
=item How do I add a directory to my include path at runtime?
-=back
+=item What is socket.ph and where do I get it?
-=item How do I get one key from the terminal at a time, under POSIX?
+=back
=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
-=head2 perlfaq9 - Networking ($Revision: 1.17 $, $Date: 1997/04/24 22:44:29
+=back
+
+=head2 perlfaq9 - Networking ($Revision: 1.26 $, $Date: 1999/05/23 16:08:30
$)
+=over
+
=item DESCRIPTION
=over
-=item My CGI script runs from the command line but not the browser. Can
-you help me fix it?
+=item My CGI script runs from the command line but not the browser. (500
+Server Error)
+
+=item How can I get better error messages from a CGI program?
=item How do I remove HTML from a string?
=item How do I fetch an HTML file?
-=item how do I decode or create those %-encodings on the web?
+=item How do I automate an HTML form submission?
+
+=item How do I decode or create those %-encodings on the web?
=item How do I redirect to another page?
=item How do I make sure users can't enter values into a form that cause my
CGI script to do bad things?
-=item How do I parse an email header?
+=item How do I parse a mail header?
=item How do I decode a CGI form?
-=item How do I check a valid email address?
+=item How do I check a valid mail address?
=item How do I decode a MIME/BASE64 string?
-=item How do I return the user's email address?
+=item How do I return the user's mail address?
+
+=item How do I send mail?
-=item How do I send/read mail?
+=item How do I read mail?
=item How do I find out my hostname/domainname/IP address?
=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
-=head2 perldelta - what's new for perl5.004
+=back
+
+=head2 perldelta - what's new for perl v5.6 (as of v5.005_64)
+
+=over
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Supported Environments
+=item Incompatible Changes
+
+=over
+
+=item Perl Source Incompatibilities
+
+CHECK is a new keyword, Treatment of list slices of undef has changed,
+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() handles, Writing C<"$$1"> to mean C<"${$}1"> is
+unsupported, delete(), values() and C<\(%h)> operate on aliases to values,
+not copies, 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
+
+=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>, Support for C++ exceptions
+
+=item Binary Incompatibilities
+
+=back
+
+=item Installation and Configuration Improvements
+
+=over
+
+=item New Configure flags
+
+=item -Dusethreads and -Duse64bits 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 Core Changes
=over
-=item List assignment to %ENV works
+=item Unicode and UTF-8 support
-=item "Can't locate Foo.pm in @INC" error now lists @INC
+=item Interpreter threads
-=item Compilation option: Binary compatibility with 5.003
+=item Lexically scoped warning categories
-=item $PERL5OPT environment variable
+=item Lvalue subroutines
-=item Limitations on B<-M>, B<-m>, and B<-T> options
+=item "our" declarations
-=item More precise warnings
+=item Weak references
-=item Deprecated: Inherited C<AUTOLOAD> for non-methods
+=item File globbing implemented internally
-=item Previously deprecated %OVERLOAD is no longer usable
+=item Binary numbers supported
-=item Subroutine arguments created only when they're modified
+=item Some arrows may be omitted in calls through references
-=item Group vector changeable with C<$)>
+=item exists() is supported on subroutine names
-=item Fixed parsing of $$<digit>, &$<digit>, etc.
+=item exists() and delete() are supported on array elements
-=item No resetting of $. on implicit close
+=item syswrite() ease-of-use
-=item C<wantarray> may return undef
+=item File and directory handles can be autovivified
-=item Changes to tainting checks
+=item 64-bit support
-No glob() or <*>, No spawning if tainted $CDPATH, $ENV, $BASH_ENV, No
-spawning if tainted $TERM doesn't look like a terminal name
+=item Large file support
-=item New Opcode module and revised Safe module
+=item Long doubles
-=item Embedding improvements
+=item "more bits"
-=item Internal change: FileHandle class based on IO::* classes
+=item Enhanced support for sort() subroutines
-=item Internal change: PerlIO abstraction interface
+=item Better syntax checks on parenthesized unary operators
-=item New and changed syntax
+=item POSIX character class syntax [: :] supported
-$coderef->(PARAMS)
+=item Improved C<qw//> operator
-=item New and changed builtin constants
+=item pack() format 'Z' supported
-__PACKAGE__
+=item pack() format modifier '!' supported
-=item New and changed builtin variables
+=item pack() and unpack() support counted strings
-$^E, $^H, $^M
+=item Comments in pack() templates
-=item New and changed builtin functions
+=item $^X variables may now have names longer than one character
-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 C<use attrs> implicit in subroutine attributes
-=item New builtin methods
+=item Regular expression improvements
-isa(CLASS), can(METHOD), VERSION( [NEED] )
+=item Overloading improvements
-=item TIEHANDLE now supported
+=item open() with more than two arguments
-TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, PRINT this, LIST, PRINTF this, LIST, READ this
-LIST, READLINE this, GETC this, DESTROY this
+=item Support for interpolating named characters
-=item Malloc enhancements
+=item Experimental support for user-hooks in @INC
--DDEBUGGING_MSTATS, -DEMERGENCY_SBRK, -DPACK_MALLOC, -DTWO_POT_OPTIMIZE
+=item C<require> and C<do> may be overridden
-=item Miscellaneous efficiency enhancements
+=item New variable $^C reflects C<-c> switch
+
+=item Optional Y2K warnings
=back
-=item Support for More Operating Systems
+=item Significant bug fixes
=over
-=item Win32
+=item E<lt>HANDLEE<gt> on empty files
-=item Plan 9
+=item C<eval '...'> improvements
-=item QNX
+=item All compilation errors are true errors
-=item AmigaOS
+=item Automatic flushing of output buffers
-=back
+=item Better diagnostics on meaningless filehandle operations
-=item Pragmata
+=item Where possible, buffered data discarded from duped input filehandle
-use autouse MODULE => qw(sub1 sub2 sub3), use blib, use blib 'dir', use
-constant NAME => VALUE, use locale, use ops, use vmsish
+=item eof() has the same old magic as <>
-=item Modules
+=item system(), backticks and pipe open now reflect exec() failure
-=over
+=item Implicitly closed filehandles are safer
+
+=item C<(\$)> prototype and C<$foo{a}>
+
+=item Pseudo-hashes work better
+
+=item C<goto &sub> and AUTOLOAD
+
+=item C<-bareword> allowed under C<use integer>
-=item Required Updates
+=item Boolean assignment operators are legal lvalues
-=item Installation directories
+=item C<sort $coderef @foo> allowed
-=item Module information summary
+=item Failures in DESTROY()
-=item Fcntl
+=item Locale bugs fixed
-=item IO
+=item Memory leaks
-=item Math::Complex
+=item Spurious subroutine stubs after failed subroutine calls
-=item Math::Trig
+=item Consistent numeric conversions
-=item DB_File
+=item Taint failures under C<-U>
-=item Net::Ping
+=item END blocks and the C<-c> switch
-=item Object-oriented overrides for builtin operators
+=item Potential to leak DATA filehandles
+
+=item Diagnostics follow STDERR
+
+=item Other fixes for better diagnostics
=back
-=item Utility Changes
+=item Performance enhancements
=over
-=item pod2html
+=item Simple sort() using { $a <=> $b } and the like are optimized
-Sends converted HTML to standard output
+=item Optimized assignments to lexical variables
-=item xsubpp
+=item Method lookups optimized
+
+=item Faster mechanism to invoke XSUBs
+
+=item Perl_malloc() improvements
+
+=item Faster subroutine calls
+
+=back
+
+=item Platform specific changes
+
+=over
+
+=item Additional supported platforms
+
+=item DOS
+
+=item OS/2
+
+=item VMS
+
+=item Win32
+
+=back
+
+=item New tests
+
+=item Modules and Pragmata
+
+=over
-C<void> XSUBs now default to returning nothing
+=item Modules
+
+attributes, B, ByteLoader, constant, charnames, Data::Dumper, DB, DB_File,
+Devel::DProf, Dumpvalue, Benchmark, Devel::Peek, ExtUtils::MakeMaker,
+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::Text and Pod::Man, SDBM_File,
+Time::Local, Win32, DBM Filters
+
+=item Pragmata
=back
-=item C Language API Changes
+=item Utility Changes
+
+=over
+
+=item h2ph
+
+=item perlcc
+
+=item h2xs
-C<gv_fetchmethod> and C<perl_call_sv>, C<perl_eval_pv>, Extended API for
-manipulating hashes
+=back
=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,
-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 package `%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
+perlapi.pod, perlcompile.pod, perlfilter.pod, perlhack.pod, perlintern.pod,
+perlopentut.pod, perlreftut.pod, perltootc.pod
+
+=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, 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): %%^H is not localized, constant(%s): %s, 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 Y2K bug:
+%s, 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), 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 Obsolete Diagnostics
+
+Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions, Ill-formed
+logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter, regexp too big, Use of "$$<digit>" to
+mean "${$}<digit>" is deprecated
=item BUGS
=item HISTORY
+=back
+
=head2 perldata - Perl data types
+=over
+
=item DESCRIPTION
=over
=item List value constructors
+=item Slices
+
=item Typeglobs and Filehandles
=back
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
=head2 perlsyn - Perl syntax
+=over
+
=item DESCRIPTION
=over
=back
+=back
+
=head2 perlop - Perl operators and precedence
+=over
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
=item C-style Logical Or
-=item Range Operator
+=item Range Operators
=item Conditional Operator
=item Regexp Quote-Like Operators
-?PATTERN?, m/PATTERN/gimosx, /PATTERN/gimosx, q/STRING/, C<'STRING'>,
-qq/STRING/, "STRING", qx/STRING/, `STRING`, qw/STRING/,
-s/PATTERN/REPLACEMENT/egimosx, tr/SEARCHLIST/REPLACEMENTLIST/cds,
-y/SEARCHLIST/REPLACEMENTLIST/cds
+?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/cdsUC,
+y/SEARCHLIST/REPLACEMENTLIST/cdsUC
+
+=item Gory details of parsing quoted constructs
+
+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*globE<gt>>, C<?RE?>, C</RE/>, C<m/RE/>,
+C<s/RE/foo/>,, Interpolation of regular expressions, Optimization of
+regular expressions
=item I/O Operators
=item Constant Folding
+=item Bitwise String Operators
+
=item Integer Arithmetic
=item Floating-point Arithmetic
+=item Bigger Numbers
+
+=back
+
=back
=head2 perlre - Perl regular expressions
+=over
+
=item DESCRIPTION
i, m, s, x
=item Regular Expressions
-(?#text), (?:regexp), (?=regexp), (?!regexp), (?imsx)
+cntrl, graph, print, punct, xdigit
+
+=item Extended Patterns
+
+C<(?#text)>, C<(?imsx-imsx)>, C<(?:pattern)>, C<(?imsx-imsx:pattern)>,
+C<(?=pattern)>, C<(?!pattern)>, C<(?E<lt>=pattern)>, C<(?<!pattern)>, C<(?{
+code })>, C<(?p{ code })>, C<(?E<gt>pattern)>,
+C<(?(condition)yes-pattern|no-pattern)>, C<(?(condition)yes-pattern)>
=item Backtracking
=item Version 8 Regular Expressions
-=item WARNING on \1 vs $1
+=item Warning on \1 vs $1
+
+=item Repeated patterns matching zero-length substring
+
+=item Combining pieces together
+
+C<ST>, C<S|T>, C<S{REPEAT_COUNT}>, C<S{min,max}>, C<S{min,max}?>, C<S?>,
+C<S*>, C<S+>, C<S??>, C<S*?>, C<S+?>, C<(?E<gt>S)>, C<(?=S)>, C<(?<=S)>,
+C<(?!S)>, C<(?<!S)>, C<(?p{ EXPR })>,
+C<(?(condition)yes-pattern|no-pattern)>
+
+=item Creating custom RE engines
+
+=back
+
+=item BUGS
=item SEE ALSO
=head2 perlrun - how to execute the Perl interpreter
+=over
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
=item #! and quoting on non-Unix systems
-OS/2, MS-DOS, Win95/NT, Macintosh
+OS/2, MS-DOS, Win95/NT, Macintosh, VMS
+
+=item Location of Perl
-=item Switches
+=item Command Switches
-B<-0>[I<digits>], B<-a>, B<-c>, B<-d>, B<-d:>I<foo>, B<-D>I<number>,
-B<-D>I<list>, B<-e> I<commandline>, B<-F>I<pattern>, B<-h>,
+B<-0>[I<digits>], B<-a>, B<-c>, B<-d>, B<-d:>I<foo>, 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<-x> I<directory>
+B<-T>, B<-u>, B<-U>, B<-v>, B<-V>, B<-V:>I<name>, B<-w>, B<-W>, B<-X>,
+B<-x> I<directory>
=back
=item ENVIRONMENT
HOME, LOGDIR, PATH, PERL5LIB, PERL5OPT, PERLLIB, PERL5DB, PERL5SHELL
-(specific to WIN32 port), PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS, PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL
+(specific to the Win32 port), PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS, PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL
+
+=back
=head2 perlfunc - Perl builtin functions
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=over
- I<THERE IS NO GENERAL RULE FOR CONVERTING A LIST INTO A SCALAR!>
+=item DESCRIPTION
=over
info, Time-related functions, Functions new in perl5, Functions obsoleted
in perl5
+=item Portability
+
=item Alphabetical Listing of Perl Functions
--I<X> FILEHANDLE, -I<X> EXPR, -I<X>, abs VALUE, abs, accept
+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, 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, closedir DIRHANDLE, connect SOCKET,NAME, continue BLOCK,
-cos EXPR, crypt PLAINTEXT,SALT, dbmclose HASH, dbmopen HASH,DBNAME,MODE,
-defined EXPR, defined, delete EXPR, die LIST, do BLOCK, do
-SUBROUTINE(LIST), do EXPR, dump LABEL, each HASH, eof FILEHANDLE, eof (),
-eof, eval EXPR, eval BLOCK, exec 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 LIST, last LABEL, last, lc EXPR, lc, lcfirst
-EXPR, lcfirst, length EXPR, length, link OLDFILE,NEWFILE, listen
-SOCKET,QUEUESIZE, local EXPR, localtime EXPR, log EXPR, log, lstat
-FILEHANDLE, lstat EXPR, lstat, m//, map BLOCK LIST, map EXPR,LIST, mkdir
-FILENAME,MODE, msgctl ID,CMD,ARG, msgget KEY,FLAGS, msgsnd ID,MSG,FLAGS,
-msgrcv ID,VAR,SIZE,TYPE,FLAGS, my EXPR, next LABEL, next, no Module LIST,
-oct EXPR, oct, open FILEHANDLE,EXPR, open FILEHANDLE, opendir
-DIRHANDLE,EXPR, ord EXPR, ord, pack TEMPLATE,LIST, package NAMESPACE, 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/,
-qx/STRING/, qw/STRING/, quotemeta EXPR, quotemeta, rand EXPR, rand, read
-FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET, read FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH, readdir
-DIRHANDLE, readlink EXPR, readlink, recv SOCKET,SCALAR,LEN,FLAGS, redo
-LABEL, redo, ref EXPR, ref, rename OLDNAME,NEWNAME, 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
+close FILEHANDLE, close, closedir DIRHANDLE, connect SOCKET,NAME, continue
+BLOCK, cos EXPR, 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, log EXPR, log, lstat FILEHANDLE, lstat EXPR, lstat, m//, map BLOCK
+LIST, map EXPR,LIST, mkdir FILENAME,MASK, msgctl ID,CMD,ARG, msgget
+KEY,FLAGS, msgsnd ID,MSG,FLAGS, msgrcv ID,VAR,SIZE,TYPE,FLAGS, my EXPR, my
+EXPR : ATTRIBUTES, next LABEL, next, no Module LIST, oct EXPR, oct, open
+FILEHANDLE,MODE,EXPR, open FILEHANDLE,EXPR, open FILEHANDLE, opendir
+DIRHANDLE,EXPR, ord EXPR, ord, our EXPR, pack TEMPLATE,LIST, package,
+package NAMESPACE, 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 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
splice ARRAY,OFFSET, 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,LEN, 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, syswrite
-FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET, syswrite FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH, tell
+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
=back
+=back
+
=head2 perlvar - Perl predefined variables
+=over
+
=item DESCRIPTION
=over
=item Predefined Names
-$ARG, $_, $E<lt>I<digit>E<gt>, $MATCH, $&, $PREMATCH, $`, $POSTMATCH, $',
-$LAST_PAREN_MATCH, $+, $MULTILINE_MATCHING, $*, input_line_number HANDLE
-EXPR, $INPUT_LINE_NUMBER, $NR, $, input_record_separator HANDLE EXPR,
-$INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR, $RS, $/, autoflush HANDLE EXPR, $OUTPUT_AUTOFLUSH,
-$|, output_field_separator HANDLE EXPR, $OUTPUT_FIELD_SEPARATOR, $OFS, $,,
-output_record_separator HANDLE EXPR, $OUTPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR, $ORS, $\,
-$LIST_SEPARATOR, $", $SUBSCRIPT_SEPARATOR, $SUBSEP, $;, $OFMT, $#,
-format_page_number HANDLE EXPR, $FORMAT_PAGE_NUMBER, $%,
-format_lines_per_page HANDLE EXPR, $FORMAT_LINES_PER_PAGE, $=,
-format_lines_left HANDLE EXPR, $FORMAT_LINES_LEFT, $-, format_name HANDLE
-EXPR, $FORMAT_NAME, $~, format_top_name HANDLE EXPR, $FORMAT_TOP_NAME, $^,
+$ARG, $_, $E<lt>I<digits>E<gt>, $MATCH, $&, $PREMATCH, $`, $POSTMATCH, $',
+$LAST_PAREN_MATCH, $+, @+, $MULTILINE_MATCHING, $*, input_line_number
+HANDLE EXPR, $INPUT_LINE_NUMBER, $NR, $, input_record_separator HANDLE
+EXPR, $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR, $RS, $/, autoflush HANDLE EXPR,
+$OUTPUT_AUTOFLUSH, $|, output_field_separator HANDLE EXPR,
+$OUTPUT_FIELD_SEPARATOR, $OFS, $,, output_record_separator HANDLE EXPR,
+$OUTPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR, $ORS, $\, $LIST_SEPARATOR, $",
+$SUBSCRIPT_SEPARATOR, $SUBSEP, $;, $OFMT, $#, format_page_number HANDLE
+EXPR, $FORMAT_PAGE_NUMBER, $%, format_lines_per_page HANDLE EXPR,
+$FORMAT_LINES_PER_PAGE, $=, format_lines_left HANDLE EXPR,
+$FORMAT_LINES_LEFT, $-, @-, format_name HANDLE EXPR, $FORMAT_NAME, $~,
+format_top_name HANDLE EXPR, $FORMAT_TOP_NAME, $^,
format_line_break_characters HANDLE EXPR, $FORMAT_LINE_BREAK_CHARACTERS,
$:, format_formfeed HANDLE EXPR, $FORMAT_FORMFEED, $^L, $ACCUMULATOR, $^A,
$CHILD_ERROR, $?, $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, $[, $PERL_VERSION, $],
-$DEBUGGING, $^D, $SYSTEM_FD_MAX, $^F, $^H, $INPLACE_EDIT, $^I, $OSNAME,
-$^O, $PERLDB, $^P, $BASETIME, $^T, $WARNING, $^W, $EXECUTABLE_NAME, $^X,
-$ARGV, @ARGV, @INC, %INC, $ENV{expr}, $SIG{expr}, $^M
+$COMPILING, $^C, $DEBUGGING, $^D, $SYSTEM_FD_MAX, $^F, $^H, %^H,
+$INPLACE_EDIT, $^I, $^M, $OSNAME, $^O, $PERLDB, $^P, 0x01, 0x02, 0x04,
+0x08, 0x10, 0x20, $^R, $^S, $BASETIME, $^T, $WARNING, $^W, ${^Warnings},
+$EXECUTABLE_NAME, $^X, $ARGV, @ARGV, @INC, @_, %INC, %ENV, $ENV{expr},
+%SIG, $SIG{expr}
+
+=item Error Indicators
+
+=item Technical Note on the Syntax of Variable Names
+
+=back
+
+=item BUGS
=back
=head2 perlsub - Perl subroutines
+=over
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
=item Private Variables via my()
+=item Persistent Private Variables
+
=item Temporary Values via local()
+=item Lvalue subroutines
+
=item Passing Symbol Table Entries (typeglobs)
+=item When to Still Use local()
+
+1. You need to give a global variable a temporary value, especially $_, 2.
+You need to create a local file or directory handle or a local function, 3.
+You want to temporarily change just one element of an array or hash
+
=item Pass by Reference
=item Prototypes
=item Constant Functions
-=item Overriding Builtin Functions
+=item Overriding Built-in Functions
=item Autoloading
+=item Subroutine Attributes
+
=back
=item SEE ALSO
+=back
+
=head2 perlmod - Perl modules (packages and symbol tables)
+=over
+
=item DESCRIPTION
=over
=item SEE ALSO
+=back
+
=head2 perlmodlib - constructing new Perl modules and finding existing ones
+=over
+
=item DESCRIPTION
=item THE PERL MODULE LIBRARY
=item Pragmatic Modules
-use autouse MODULE => qw(sub1 sub2 sub3), blib, diagnostics, integer, less,
-lib, locale, ops, overload, sigtrap, strict, subs, vmsish, vars
+attributes, attrs, autouse, base, blib, caller, charnames, constant,
+diagnostics, fields, filetest, integer, less, lib, locale, ops, overload,
+re, sigtrap, strict, subs, utf8, vars, warnings
=item Standard Modules
-AnyDBM_File, AutoLoader, AutoSplit, Benchmark, CPAN, CPAN::FirstTime,
-CPAN::Nox, Carp, Class::Struct, Config, Cwd, DB_File, Devel::SelfStubber,
-DirHandle, DynaLoader, English, Env, Exporter, ExtUtils::Embed,
-ExtUtils::Install, ExtUtils::Liblist, ExtUtils::MM_OS2, ExtUtils::MM_Unix,
-ExtUtils::MM_VMS, ExtUtils::MakeMaker, ExtUtils::Manifest,
-ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap, ExtUtils::Mksymlists, ExtUtils::testlib, Fcntl,
-File::Basename, File::CheckTree, File::Compare, File::Copy, File::Find,
-File::Path, File::stat, FileCache, FileHandle, FindBin, GDBM_File,
-Getopt::Long, Getopt::Std, I18N::Collate, IO, IO::File, IO::Handle,
-IO::Pipe, IO::Seekable, IO::Select, IO::Socket, IPC::Open2, IPC::Open3,
-Math::BigFloat, Math::BigInt, Math::Complex, Math::Trig, NDBM_File,
-Net::Ping, Net::hostent, Net::netent, Net::protoent, Net::servent, Opcode,
-Pod::Text, POSIX, SDBM_File, Safe, Search::Dict, SelectSaver, SelfLoader,
-Shell, Socket, Symbol, Sys::Hostname, Sys::Syslog, Term::Cap,
-Term::Complete, Term::ReadLine, Test::Harness, Text::Abbrev,
-Text::ParseWords, Text::Soundex, Text::Tabs, Text::Wrap, Tie::Hash,
+AnyDBM_File, AutoLoader, AutoSplit, B, 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::Terse, B::Xref, Benchmark, ByteLoader, CGI,
+CGI::Apache, CGI::Carp, CGI::Cookie, CGI::Fast, CGI::Pretty, CGI::Push,
+CGI::Switch, CPAN, CPAN::FirstTime, CPAN::Nox, Carp, Carp::Heavy,
+Class::Struct, Config, Cwd, DB, DB_File, Data::Dumper, Devel::DProf,
+Devel::Peek, Devel::SelfStubber, DirHandle, Dumpvalue, DynaLoader, English,
+Env, Errno, Exporter, Exporter::Heavy, ExtUtils::Command, ExtUtils::Embed,
+ExtUtils::Install, ExtUtils::Installed, ExtUtils::Liblist,
+ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin, 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::Glob,
+File::Path, File::Spec, File::Spec::Functions, File::Spec::Mac,
+File::Spec::OS2, File::Spec::Unix, File::Spec::VMS, File::Spec::Win32,
+File::stat, FileCache, FileHandle, FindBin, GDBM_File, Getopt::Long,
+Getopt::Std, I18N::Collate, IO, IO::Dir, IO::File, IO::Handle, IO::Pipe,
+IO::Poll, IO::Seekable, IO::Select, IO::Socket, IO::Socket::INET,
+IO::Socket::UNIX, IPC::Msg, IPC::Open2, IPC::Open3, IPC::Semaphore,
+IPC::SysV, Math::BigFloat, Math::BigInt, Math::Complex, Math::Trig,
+Net::Ping, Net::hostent, Net::netent, Net::protoent, Net::servent, O,
+Opcode, POSIX, Pod::Checker, Pod::Html, Pod::InputObjects, Pod::Man,
+Pod::Parser, Pod::Select, Pod::Text, Pod::Text::Color, Pod::Usage,
+SDBM_File, Safe, Search::Dict, SelectSaver, SelfLoader, Shell, Socket,
+Symbol, Sys::Hostname, Sys::Syslog, Term::Cap, Term::Complete,
+Term::ReadLine, Test, Test::Harness, Text::Abbrev, Text::ParseWords,
+Text::Soundex, Text::Wrap, Tie::Array, Tie::Handle, Tie::Hash,
Tie::RefHash, Tie::Scalar, Tie::SubstrHash, Time::Local, Time::gmtime,
Time::localtime, Time::tm, UNIVERSAL, User::grent, User::pwent
Archiving and Compression, Images, Pixmap and Bitmap Manipulation, Drawing,
and Graphing, Mail and Usenet News, Control Flow Utilities (callbacks and
exceptions etc), File Handle and Input/Output Stream Utilities,
-Miscellaneous Modules, Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, North America,
-South America
+Miscellaneous Modules, Africa, Asia, Australasia, Central America, Europe,
+North America, South America
=item Modules: Creation, Use, and Abuse
=item Guidelines for Reusing Application Code
Complete applications rarely belong in the Perl Module Library, Many
-applications contain some perl code which could be reused, Break-out the
+applications contain some Perl code that could be reused, Break-out the
reusable code into one or more separate module files, Take the opportunity
to reconsider and redesign the interfaces, In some cases the 'application'
can then be reduced to a small
=item NOTE
-=head2 perlform - Perl formats
+=back
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=head2 perlmodinstall - Installing CPAN Modules
=over
-=item Format Variables
-
-=back
-
-=item NOTES
+=item DESCRIPTION
=over
-=item Footers
+=item PREAMBLE
-=item Accessing Formatting Internals
+B<DECOMPRESS> the file, B<UNPACK> the file into a directory, B<BUILD> the
+module (sometimes unnecessary), B<INSTALL> the module
=back
-=item WARNINGS
+=item HEY
-=head2 perllocale - Perl locale handling (internationalization and
-localization)
+=item AUTHOR
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item COPYRIGHT
-=item PREPARING TO USE LOCALES
+=back
-=item USING LOCALES
+=head2 perlfork - Perl's fork() emulation
=over
-=item The use locale pragma
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item The setlocale function
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item The localeconv function
+=over
-=back
+=item Behavior of other Perl features in forked pseudo-processes
-=item LOCALE CATEGORIES
+$$ 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
-=over
+=item Resource limits
-=item Category LC_COLLATE: Collation
+=item Killing the parent process
+
+=item Lifetime of the parent process and pseudo-processes
+
+=item CAVEATS AND LIMITATIONS
+
+BEGIN blocks, Open filehandles, Forking pipe open() not yet implemented,
+Global state maintained by XSUBs, Interpreter embedded in larger
+application, Thread-safety of extensions
+
+=back
+
+=item BUGS
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlform - Perl formats
+
+=over
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over
+
+=item Format Variables
+
+=back
+
+=item NOTES
+
+=over
+
+=item Footers
+
+=item Accessing Formatting Internals
+
+=back
+
+=item WARNINGS
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perllocale - Perl locale handling (internationalization and
+localization)
+
+=over
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item PREPARING TO USE LOCALES
+
+=item USING LOCALES
+
+=over
+
+=item The use locale pragma
+
+=item The setlocale function
+
+=item Finding locales
+
+=item LOCALE PROBLEMS
+
+=item Temporarily fixing locale problems
+
+=item Permanently fixing locale problems
+
+=item Permanently fixing your locale configuration
+
+=item Fixing system locale configuration
+
+=item The localeconv function
+
+=back
+
+=item LOCALE CATEGORIES
+
+=over
+
+=item Category LC_COLLATE: Collation
=item Category LC_CTYPE: Character Types
=item SECURITY
B<Comparison operators> (C<lt>, C<le>, C<ge>, C<gt> and C<cmp>):,
-B<Case-mapping interpolation> (with C<\l>, C<\L>, C<\u> or <\U>),
+B<Case-mapping interpolation> (with C<\l>, C<\L>, C<\u> or C<\U>),
B<Matching operator> (C<m//>):, B<Substitution operator> (C<s///>):,
-B<In-memory formatting function> (sprintf()):, B<Output formatting
-functions> (printf() and write()):, B<Case-mapping functions> (lc(),
-lcfirst(), uc(), ucfirst()):, B<POSIX locale-dependent functions>
-(localeconv(), strcoll(),strftime(), strxfrm()):, B<POSIX character class
-tests> (isalnum(), isalpha(), isdigit(),isgraph(), islower(), isprint(),
-ispunct(), isspace(), isupper(),
+B<Output formatting functions> (printf() and write()):, B<Case-mapping
+functions> (lc(), lcfirst(), uc(), ucfirst()):, B<POSIX locale-dependent
+functions> (localeconv(), strcoll(),strftime(), strxfrm()):, B<POSIX
+character class tests> (isalnum(), isalpha(), isdigit(),isgraph(),
+islower(), isprint(), ispunct(), isspace(), isupper(),
isxdigit()):
=item ENVIRONMENT
-PERL_BADLANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE, LC_MONETARY, LC_NUMERIC,
-LC_TIME, LANG
+PERL_BADLANG, LC_ALL, LANGUAGE, LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE, LC_MONETARY,
+LC_NUMERIC, LC_TIME, LANG
=item NOTES
=item HISTORY
+=back
+
=head2 perlref - Perl references and nested data structures
+=over
+
+=item NOTE
+
=item DESCRIPTION
=over
+=item Making References
+
+=item Using References
+
=item Symbolic references
=item Not-so-symbolic references
+=item Pseudo-hashes: Using an array as a hash
+
+=item Function Templates
+
=back
=item WARNING
=item SEE ALSO
+=back
+
+=head2 perlreftut - Mark's very short tutorial about references
+
+=over
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item Who Needs Complicated Data Structures?
+
+=item The Solution
+
+=item Syntax
+
+=over
+
+=item Making References
+
+=item Using References
+
+=back
+
+=item An Example
+
+=item Arrow Rule
+
+=item Solution
+
+=item The Rest
+
+=item Summary
+
+=item Credits
+
+=over
+
+=item Distribution Conditions
+
+=back
+
+=back
+
=head2 perldsc - Perl Data Structures Cookbook
+=over
+
=item DESCRIPTION
arrays of arrays, hashes of arrays, arrays of hashes, hashes of hashes,
=item CODE EXAMPLES
-=item LISTS OF LISTS
+=item ARRAYS OF ARRAYS
=over
-=item Declaration of a LIST OF LISTS
+=item Declaration of a ARRAY OF ARRAYS
-=item Generation of a LIST OF LISTS
+=item Generation of a ARRAY OF ARRAYS
-=item Access and Printing of a LIST OF LISTS
+=item Access and Printing of a ARRAY OF ARRAYS
=back
-=item HASHES OF LISTS
+=item HASHES OF ARRAYS
=over
-=item Declaration of a HASH OF LISTS
+=item Declaration of a HASH OF ARRAYS
-=item Generation of a HASH OF LISTS
+=item Generation of a HASH OF ARRAYS
-=item Access and Printing of a HASH OF LISTS
+=item Access and Printing of a HASH OF ARRAYS
=back
-=item LISTS OF HASHES
+=item ARRAYS OF HASHES
=over
-=item Declaration of a LIST OF HASHES
+=item Declaration of a ARRAY OF HASHES
-=item Generation of a LIST OF HASHES
+=item Generation of a ARRAY OF HASHES
-=item Access and Printing of a LIST OF HASHES
+=item Access and Printing of a ARRAY OF HASHES
=back
=item AUTHOR
-=head2 perllol, perlLoL - Manipulating Lists of Lists in Perl
+=back
+
+=head2 perllol - Manipulating Arrays of Arrays in Perl
+
+=over
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Declaration and Access of Lists of Lists
+=item Declaration and Access of Arrays of Arrays
=item Growing Your Own
=item AUTHOR
+=back
+
=head2 perltoot - Tom's object-oriented tutorial for perl
+=over
+
=item DESCRIPTION
=item Creating a Class
=item SEE ALSO
+=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
+
=item COPYRIGHT
=over
=back
+=back
+
+=head2 perltootc - Tom's OO Tutorial for Class Data in Perl
+
+=over
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item Class Data as Package Variables
+
+=over
+
+=item Putting All Your Eggs in One Basket
+
+=item Inheritance Concerns
+
+=item The Eponymous Meta-Object
+
+=item Indirect References to Class Data
+
+=item Monadic Classes
+
+=item Translucent Attributes
+
+=back
+
+=item Class Data as Lexical Variables
+
+=over
+
+=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 NOTES
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
+
+=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
+
+=item HISTORY
+
+=back
+
=head2 perlobj - Perl objects
+=over
+
=item DESCRIPTION
=over
=item Method Invocation
+=item WARNING
+
=item Default UNIVERSAL methods
isa(CLASS), can(METHOD), VERSION( [NEED] )
=item Destructors
-=item WARNING
-
=item Summary
=item Two-Phased Garbage Collection
=item SEE ALSO
+=back
+
=head2 perltie - how to hide an object class in a simple variable
+=over
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
=item Tying FileHandles
-TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, PRINT this, LIST, PRINTF this, LIST, READ this
-LIST, READLINE this, GETC this, DESTROY this
+TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, WRITE this, LIST, PRINT this, LIST, PRINTF this,
+LIST, READ this, LIST, READLINE this, GETC this, CLOSE this, DESTROY this
=item The C<untie> Gotcha
=item AUTHOR
+=back
+
=head2 perlbot - Bag'o Object Tricks (the BOT)
+=over
+
=item DESCRIPTION
=item OO SCALING TIPS
=item DELEGATION
+=back
+
=head2 perlipc - Perl interprocess communication (signals, fifos, pipes,
safe subprocesses, sockets, and semaphores)
+=over
+
=item DESCRIPTION
=item Signals
=item Named Pipes
+=over
+
+=item WARNING
+
+=back
+
=item Using open() for IPC
=over
=item Bidirectional Communication with Another Process
+=item Bidirectional Communication with Yourself
+
=back
=item Sockets: Client/Server Communication
=over
+=item Internet Line Terminators
+
=item Internet TCP Clients and Servers
=item Unix-Domain TCP Clients and Servers
=item SEE ALSO
+=back
+
+=head2 perldbmfilter - Perl DBM Filters
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+B<filter_store_key>, B<filter_store_value>, B<filter_fetch_key>,
+B<filter_fetch_value>
+
+=over
+
+=item The Filter
+
+=item An Example -- the NULL termination problem.
+
+=item Another Example -- Key is a C int.
+
+=back
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
=head2 perldebug - Perl debugging
+=over
+
=item DESCRIPTION
=item The Perl Debugger
subname, -, w [line], f filename, /pattern/, ?pattern?, L, S [[!]pattern],
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, O [opt[=val]] [opt"val"] [opt?].., 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<arrayDepth>, C<hashDepth>,
-C<compactDump>, C<veryCompact>, C<globPrint>, C<DumpDBFiles>,
-C<DumpPackages>, C<quote>, C<HighBit>, C<undefPrint>, C<UsageOnly>, C<TTY>,
-C<noTTY>, C<ReadLine>, C<NonStop>, E<lt> [ command ], E<lt>E<lt> command,
-E<gt> command, E<gt>E<gt> command, { [ command ], {{ command, ! number, !
--number, ! pattern, !! cmd, H -number, q or ^D, R, |dbcmd, ||dbcmd, =
-[alias value], command, m expr, m package
+command, A, W [expr], W, O [opt[=val]] [opt"val"] [opt?]..,
+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<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>, E<lt> [ command ],
+E<lt>E<lt> command, E<gt> command, E<gt>E<gt> command, { [ command ], {{
+command, ! number, ! -number, ! pattern, !! cmd, H -number, q or ^D, R,
+|dbcmd, ||dbcmd, command, m expr, m package
=item Debugger input/output
=item Other resources
+=item BUGS
+
=back
-=item BUGS
+=item Debugging Perl memory usage
+
+=over
+
+=item Using C<$ENV{PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS}>
+
+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 Example of using B<-DL> switch
+
+C<717>, C<002>, C<054>, C<602>, C<702>, C<704>
+
+=item B<-DL> details
+
+C<!!!>, C<!!>, C<!>
+
+=item Limitations of B<-DL> statistic
+
+=back
+
+=item Debugging regular expressions
+
+=over
+
+=item Compile-time output
+
+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 Types of nodes
+
+=item Run-time output
+
+=back
+
+=back
=head2 perldiag - various Perl diagnostics
+=over
+
=item DESCRIPTION
+=back
+
=head2 perlsec - Perl security
+=over
+
=item DESCRIPTION
=over
=back
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
=head2 perltrap - Perl traps for the unwary
+=over
+
=item DESCRIPTION
=over
Discontinuance, Deprecation, BugFix, Discontinuance, Discontinuance,
Discontinuance, BugFix, Discontinuance, Discontinuance, BugFix,
-Discontinuance, Discontinuance, Deprecation, Discontinuance
+Discontinuance, Deprecation, Discontinuance
=item Parsing Traps
-Parsing, Parsing, Parsing
+Parsing, Parsing, Parsing, Parsing
=item Numerical Traps
-Numerical, Numerical, Numerical
+Numerical, Numerical, Numerical, Bitwise string ops
=item General data type traps
-(Arrays), (Arrays), (Hashes), (Globs), (Scalar String), (Constants),
-(Scalars), (Variable Suicide)
+(Arrays), (Arrays), (Hashes), (Globs), (Globs), (Scalar String),
+(Constants), (Scalars), (Variable Suicide)
=item Context Traps - scalar, list contexts
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
=item Unclassified Traps
-Unclassified
+C<require>/C<do> trap using returned value, C<split> on empty string with
+LIMIT specified
=back
-=head2 perlstyle - Perl style guide
+=back
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=head2 perlport - Writing portable Perl
-=head2 perlpod - plain old documentation
+=over
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+Not all Perl programs have to be portable, Nearly all of Perl already I<is>
+portable
+
+=item ISSUES
+
+=over
+
+=item Newlines
+
+=item Numbers endianness and Width
+
+=item Files and Filesystems
+
+=item System Interaction
+
+=item Interprocess Communication (IPC)
+
+=item External Subroutines (XS)
+
+=item Standard Modules
+
+=item Time and Date
+
+=item Character sets and character encoding
+
+=item Internationalisation
+
+=item System Resources
+
+=item Security
+
+=item Style
+
+=back
+
+=item CPAN Testers
+
+Mailing list: cpan-testers@perl.org, Testing results:
+C<http://www.perl.org/cpan-testers/>
+
+=item PLATFORMS
+
+=over
+
+=item Unix
+
+=item DOS and Derivatives
+
+The djgpp environment for DOS, C<http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/>, The EMX
+environment for DOS, OS/2, etc.
+C<emx@iaehv.nl>,C<http://www.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/leo/gnu/emx+gcc/index.
+html> or
+C<ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/emx>, Build instructions for Win32,
+L<perlwin32>, The ActiveState Pages, C<http://www.activestate.com/>, The
+Cygwin environment for Win32;
+L<README.cygwin>,C<http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/>, The U/WIN
+environment for Win32,C<http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/>
+
+=item S<Mac OS>
+
+The MacPerl Pages, C<http://www.macperl.com/>, The MacPerl mailing lists,
+C<http://www.macperl.org/>, MacPerl Module Porters,
+C<http://pudge.net/mmp/>
+
+=item VMS
+
+L<README.vms>, L<perlvms.pod>, vmsperl list, C<majordomo@perl.org>, vmsperl
+on the web, C<http://www.sidhe.org/vmsperl/index.html>
+
+=item VOS
+
+L<README.vos>, VOS mailing list, VOS Perl on the web at
+C<http://ftp.stratus.com/pub/vos/vos.html>
+
+=item EBCDIC Platforms
+
+L<README.os390>, L<README.posix-bc>, L<README.vmesa>, perl-mvs list, AS/400
+Perl information at C<http://as400.rochester.ibm.com/>as well as on CPAN in
+the F<ports/> directory
+
+=item Acorn RISC OS
+
+=item Other perls
+
+Amiga, L<README.amiga>, Atari, L<README.mint> and Guido Flohr's web
+pageC<http://stud.uni-sb.de/~gufl0000/>, Be OS, L<README.beos>, HP 300
+MPE/iX, L<README.mpeix> and Mark Bixby's web
+pageC<http://www.cccd.edu/~markb/perlix.html>, Novell Netware, Plan 9,
+L<README.plan9>
+
+=back
+
+=item FUNCTION IMPLEMENTATIONS
+
+=over
+
+=item Alphabetical Listing of Perl Functions
+
+-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, 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, setpgrp PID,PGRP, setpriority
+WHICH,WHO,PRIORITY, setsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME,OPTVAL, shmctl
+ID,CMD,ARG, shmget KEY,SIZE,FLAGS, shmread ID,VAR,POS,SIZE, shmwrite
+ID,STRING,POS,SIZE, socketpair SOCKET1,SOCKET2,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL, stat
+FILEHANDLE, stat EXPR, stat, symlink OLDFILE,NEWFILE, syscall LIST, sysopen
+FILEHANDLE,FILENAME,MODE,PERMS, system LIST, times, truncate
+FILEHANDLE,LENGTH, truncate EXPR,LENGTH, umask EXPR, umask, utime LIST,
+wait, waitpid PID,FLAGS
+
+=back
+
+=item CHANGES
+
+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 AUTHORS / CONTRIBUTORS
+
+=item VERSION
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlstyle - Perl style guide
+
+=over
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=back
+
+=head2 perlpod - plain old documentation
+
+=over
=item DESCRIPTION
+=over
+
+=item Verbatim Paragraph
+
+=item Command Paragraph
+
+=item Ordinary Block of Text
+
+=item The Intent
+
=item Embedding Pods in Perl Modules
=item Common Pod Pitfalls
+=back
+
=item SEE ALSO
=item AUTHOR
+=back
+
=head2 perlbook - Perl book information
+=over
+
=item DESCRIPTION
+=back
+
=head2 perlembed - how to embed perl in your C program
+=over
+
=item DESCRIPTION
=over
=item COPYRIGHT
+=back
+
=head2 perlapio - perl's IO abstraction interface.
+=over
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
B<PerlIO_open(path, mode)>, B<PerlIO_fdopen(fd,mode)>,
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(s,f)>,
-B<PerlIO_putc(c,f)>, B<PerlIO_ungetc(c,f)>, B<PerlIO_getc(f)>,
+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_tell(f)>,
B<PerlIO_seek(f,o,w)>, B<PerlIO_getpos(f,p)>, B<PerlIO_setpos(f,p)>,
=back
+=back
+
=head2 perlxs - XS language reference manual
+=over
+
=item DESCRIPTION
=over
=item Variable-length Parameter Lists
+=item The C_ARGS: Keyword
+
=item The PPCODE: Keyword
=item Returning Undef And Empty Lists
=item The ALIAS: Keyword
+=item The INTERFACE: Keyword
+
+=item The INTERFACE_MACRO: Keyword
+
=item The INCLUDE: Keyword
=item The CASE: Keyword
=item AUTHOR
-=head2 perlxstut, perlXStut - Tutorial for XSUBs
+=back
+
+=head2 perlxstut, perlXStut - Tutorial for writing XSUBs
+
+=over
=item DESCRIPTION
+=item SPECIAL NOTES
+
=over
-=item VERSION CAVEAT
+=item make
+
+=item Version caveat
-=item DYNAMIC VERSUS STATIC
+=item Dynamic Loading versus Static Loading
+
+=back
+
+=item TUTORIAL
+
+=over
=item EXAMPLE 1
=item EXAMPLE 2
-=item WHAT HAS GONE ON?
+=item What has gone on?
-=item WRITING GOOD TEST SCRIPTS
+=item Writing good test scripts
=item EXAMPLE 3
-=item WHAT'S NEW HERE?
+=item What's new here?
-=item INPUT AND OUTPUT PARAMETERS
+=item Input and Output Parameters
-=item THE XSUBPP COMPILER
+=item The XSUBPP Program
-=item THE TYPEMAP FILE
+=item The TYPEMAP file
-=item WARNING
+=item Warning about Output Arguments
=item EXAMPLE 4
-=item WHAT HAS HAPPENED HERE?
+=item What has happened here?
-=item SPECIFYING ARGUMENTS TO XSUBPP
+=item Anatomy of .xs file
-=item THE ARGUMENT STACK
+=item Getting the fat out of XSUBs
-=item EXTENDING YOUR EXTENSION
+=item More about XSUB arguments
-=item DOCUMENTING YOUR EXTENSION
+=item The Argument Stack
-=item INSTALLING YOUR EXTENSION
+=item Extending your Extension
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item Documenting your Extension
+
+=item Installing your Extension
+
+=item EXAMPLE 5
+
+=item New Things in this Example
+
+=item EXAMPLE 6 (Coming Soon)
+
+=item EXAMPLE 7 (Coming Soon)
+
+=item EXAMPLE 8 (Coming Soon)
+
+=item EXAMPLE 9 (Coming Soon)
+
+=item Troubleshooting these Examples
+
+=back
+
+=item See also
=item Author
+=over
+
=item Last Changed
=back
-=head2 perlguts - Perl's Internal Functions
+=back
+
+=head2 perlguts - Introduction to the Perl API
+
+=over
=item DESCRIPTION
=item Understanding the Magic of Tied Hashes and Arrays
+=item Localizing changes
+
+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<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 Subroutines
=back
-=item API LISTING
+=item How multiple interpreters and concurrency are supported
-AvFILL, av_clear, av_extend, av_fetch, av_len, av_make, av_pop, av_push,
-av_shift, av_store, av_undef, av_unshift, CLASS, Copy, croak, CvSTASH,
-DBsingle, DBsub, DBtrace, dMARK, dORIGMARK, dowarn, dSP, dXSARGS, dXSI32,
-dXSI32, ENTER, EXTEND, FREETMPS, G_ARRAY, G_DISCARD, G_EVAL, GIMME,
-GIMME_V, G_NOARGS, G_SCALAR, G_VOID, gv_fetchmeth, gv_fetchmethod,
-gv_fetchmethod_autoload, gv_stashpv, gv_stashsv, GvSV, HEf_SVKEY, HeHASH,
-HeKEY, HeKLEN, HePV, HeSVKEY, HeSVKEY_force, HeSVKEY_set, HeVAL, hv_clear,
-hv_delayfree_ent, hv_delete, hv_delete_ent, hv_exists, hv_exists_ent,
-hv_fetch, hv_fetch_ent, hv_free_ent, hv_iterinit, hv_iterkey, hv_iterkeysv,
-hv_iternext, hv_iternextsv, hv_iterval, hv_magic, HvNAME, hv_store,
-hv_store_ent, hv_undef, isALNUM, isALPHA, isDIGIT, isLOWER, isSPACE,
-isUPPER, items, ix, LEAVE, MARK, mg_clear, mg_copy, mg_find, mg_free,
-mg_get, mg_len, mg_magical, mg_set, Move, na, New, Newc, Newz, newAV,
-newHV, newRV_inc, newRV_noinc, newSV, newSViv, newSVnv, newSVpv, newSVrv,
-newSVsv, newXS, newXSproto, Nullav, Nullch, Nullcv, Nullhv, Nullsv,
-ORIGMARK, perl_alloc, perl_call_argv, perl_call_method, perl_call_pv,
-perl_call_sv, perl_construct, perl_destruct, perl_eval_sv, perl_eval_pv,
-perl_free, perl_get_av, perl_get_cv, perl_get_hv, perl_get_sv, perl_parse,
-perl_require_pv, perl_run, POPi, POPl, POPp, POPn, POPs, PUSHMARK, PUSHi,
-PUSHn, PUSHp, PUSHs, PUTBACK, Renew, Renewc, RETVAL, safefree, safemalloc,
-saferealloc, savepv, savepvn, SAVETMPS, SP, SPAGAIN, ST, strEQ, strGE,
-strGT, strLE, strLT, strNE, strnEQ, strnNE, sv_2mortal, sv_bless, sv_catpv,
-sv_catpvn, sv_catpvf, sv_catsv, sv_cmp, sv_cmp, SvCUR, SvCUR_set, sv_dec,
-sv_dec, SvEND, sv_eq, SvGROW, sv_grow, sv_inc, SvIOK, SvIOK_off, SvIOK_on,
-SvIOK_only, SvIOK_only, SvIOKp, sv_isa, SvIV, sv_isobject, SvIVX, SvLEN,
-sv_len, sv_len, sv_magic, sv_mortalcopy, SvOK, sv_newmortal, sv_no, SvNIOK,
-SvNIOK_off, SvNIOKp, SvNOK, SvNOK_off, SvNOK_on, SvNOK_only, SvNOK_only,
-SvNOKp, SvNV, SvNVX, SvPOK, SvPOK_off, SvPOK_on, SvPOK_only, SvPOK_only,
-SvPOKp, SvPV, SvPVX, SvREFCNT, SvREFCNT_dec, SvREFCNT_inc, SvROK,
-SvROK_off, SvROK_on, SvRV, sv_setiv, sv_setnv, sv_setpv, sv_setpvn,
-sv_setpvf, sv_setref_iv, sv_setref_nv, sv_setref_pv, sv_setref_pvn,
-sv_setsv, SvSTASH, SVt_IV, SVt_PV, SVt_PVAV, SVt_PVCV, SVt_PVHV, SVt_PVMG,
-SVt_NV, SvTRUE, SvTYPE, svtype, SvUPGRADE, sv_upgrade, sv_undef, sv_unref,
-sv_usepvn, sv_yes, THIS, toLOWER, toUPPER, warn, XPUSHi, XPUSHn, XPUSHp,
-XPUSHs, XS, XSRETURN, XSRETURN_EMPTY, XSRETURN_IV, XSRETURN_NO,
-XSRETURN_NV, XSRETURN_PV, XSRETURN_UNDEF, XSRETURN_YES, XST_mIV, XST_mNV,
-XST_mNO, XST_mPV, XST_mUNDEF, XST_mYES, XS_VERSION, XS_VERSION_BOOTCHECK,
-Zero
-
-=item EDITOR
+=over
-=item DATE
+=item Background and PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
+
+=item How do I use all this in extensions?
+
+=item Future Plans and PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
+
+=back
+
+=item AUTHORS
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
=head2 perlcall - Perl calling conventions from C
+=over
+
=item DESCRIPTION
An Error Handler, An Event Driven Program
=item THE PERL_CALL FUNCTIONS
-B<perl_call_sv>, B<perl_call_pv>, B<perl_call_method>, B<perl_call_argv>
+perl_call_sv, perl_call_pv, perl_call_method, perl_call_argv
=item FLAG VALUES
=item DATE
-=head1 PRAGMA DOCUMENTATION
+=back
-=head2 autouse - postpone load of modules until a function is used
+=head2 perlcompile - Introduction to the Perl Compiler-Translator
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=over
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item WARNING
+=over
-=item BUGS
+=item Layout
-=item AUTHOR
+B::Bytecode, B::C, B::CC, B::Lint, B::Deparse, B::Xref
-=item SEE ALSO
+=back
-=head2 blib - Use MakeMaker's uninstalled version of a package
+=item Using The Back Ends
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=over
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item The Cross Referencing Back End (B::Xref)
-=item BUGS
+i, &, s, r
-=item AUTHOR
+=item The Decompiling Back End
-=head2 constant - Perl pragma to declare constants
+=item The Lint Back End (B::Lint)
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item The Simple C Back End
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item The Bytecode Back End
-=item NOTES
+=item The Optimized C Back End
-=item TECHNICAL NOTE
+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 BUGS
+=back
+
+=item KNOWN PROBLEMS
=item AUTHOR
-=item COPYRIGHT
+=back
-=head2 diagnostics - Perl compiler pragma to force verbose warning
-diagnostics
+=head2 perlapi - autogenerated documentation for the perl public API
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=over
=item DESCRIPTION
-=over
+AvFILL, av_clear, av_extend, av_fetch, av_len, av_make, av_pop, av_push,
+av_shift, av_store, av_undef, av_unshift, call_argv, call_method, call_pv,
+call_sv, CLASS, Copy, croak, CvSTASH, dMARK, dORIGMARK, dSP, dXSARGS,
+dXSI32, ENTER, eval_pv, eval_sv, EXTEND, fbm_compile, fbm_instr, FREETMPS,
+get_av, get_cv, get_hv, get_sv, GIMME, GIMME_V, 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, items, ix, LEAVE, 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, newSViv, newSVnv, newSVpv, newSVpvf, newSVpvn, newSVrv, newSVsv,
+newXS, newXSproto, Newz, Nullav, Nullch, Nullcv, Nullhv, Nullsv, ORIGMARK,
+perl_alloc, perl_construct, perl_destruct, perl_free, perl_parse, perl_run,
+PL_DBsingle, PL_DBsub, PL_DBtrace, PL_dowarn, PL_modglobal, PL_na,
+PL_sv_no, PL_sv_undef, PL_sv_yes, POPi, POPl, POPn, POPp, POPs, PUSHi,
+PUSHMARK, PUSHn, PUSHp, PUSHs, PUSHu, PUTBACK, Renew, Renewc, require_pv,
+RETVAL, Safefree, savepv, savepvn, SAVETMPS, SP, SPAGAIN, ST, strEQ, strGE,
+strGT, strLE, strLT, strNE, strnEQ, strnNE, StructCopy, SvCUR, SvCUR_set,
+SvEND, SvGETMAGIC, SvGROW, SvIOK, SvIOKp, SvIOK_off, SvIOK_on, SvIOK_only,
+SvIV, SvIVX, SvLEN, SvNIOK, SvNIOKp, SvNIOK_off, SvNOK, SvNOKp, SvNOK_off,
+SvNOK_on, SvNOK_only, SvNV, SvNVX, SvOK, SvOOK, SvPOK, SvPOKp, SvPOK_off,
+SvPOK_on, SvPOK_only, SvPV, SvPVX, SvPV_force, SvPV_nolen, SvREFCNT,
+SvREFCNT_dec, SvREFCNT_inc, SvROK, SvROK_off, SvROK_on, SvRV, SvSETMAGIC,
+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, SvUPGRADE, SvUV, SvUVX, sv_2mortal, sv_bless,
+sv_catpv, sv_catpvf, sv_catpvf_mg, sv_catpvn, sv_catpvn_mg, sv_catpv_mg,
+sv_catsv, sv_catsv_mg, sv_chop, sv_cmp, sv_dec, sv_derived_from, sv_eq,
+sv_grow, sv_inc, sv_insert, sv_isa, sv_isobject, sv_len, sv_magic,
+sv_mortalcopy, sv_newmortal, 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_setsv, sv_setsv_mg, sv_setuv, sv_setuv_mg, sv_unref,
+sv_upgrade, sv_usepvn, sv_usepvn_mg, sv_vcatpvfn, sv_vsetpvfn, THIS,
+toLOWER, toUPPER, 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
-=item The C<diagnostics> Pragma
+=item AUTHORS
-=item The I<splain> Program
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=item EXAMPLES
+=head2 perlintern - autogenerated documentation of purely B<internal>
+ Perl functions
-=item INTERNALS
+=over
-=item BUGS
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item AUTHOR
+=item AUTHORS
-=head2 integer - Perl pragma to compute arithmetic in integer instead of
-double
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=back
+
+=head2 perlhist - the Perl history records
+
+=over
=item DESCRIPTION
-=head2 less - perl pragma to request less of something from the compiler
+=item INTRODUCTION
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item THE KEEPERS OF THE PUMPKIN
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=over
-=head2 lib - manipulate @INC at compile time
+=item PUMPKIN?
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=back
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item THE RECORDS
=over
-=item ADDING DIRECTORIES TO @INC
+=item SELECTED RELEASE SIZES
+
+=item SELECTED PATCH SIZES
-=item DELETING DIRECTORIES FROM @INC
+=back
-=item RESTORING ORIGINAL @INC
+=item THE KEEPERS OF THE RECORDS
=back
-=item SEE ALSO
+=head1 PRAGMA DOCUMENTATION
-=item AUTHOR
+=head2 attrs - set/get attributes of a subroutine (deprecated)
-=head2 locale - Perl pragma to use and avoid POSIX locales for built-in
-operations
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-=head2 ops - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when compiling
+method, locked
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=back
+
+=head2 re - Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item SEE ALSO
+=back
-=head2 overload - Package for overloading perl operations
+=head2 attributes - get/set subroutine or variable attributes
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=over
-=item CAVEAT SCRIPTOR
+=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
=over
-=item Declaration of overloaded functions
-
-=item Calling Conventions for Binary Operations
+=item Built-in Attributes
-FALSE, TRUE, C<undef>
+locked, method
-=item Calling Conventions for Unary Operations
+=item Available Subroutines
-=item Overloadable Operations
+get, reftype
-I<Arithmetic operations>, I<Comparison operations>, I<Bit operations>,
-I<Increment and decrement>, I<Transcendental functions>, I<Boolean, string
-and numeric conversion>, I<Special>
+=item Package-specific Attribute Handling
-=item Inheritance and overloading
+FETCH_I<type>_ATTRIBUTES, MODIFY_I<type>_ATTRIBUTES
-Strings as values of C<use overload> directive, Overloading of an operation
-is inherited by derived classes
+=item Syntax of Attribute Lists
=back
-=item SPECIAL SYMBOLS FOR C<use overload>
+=item EXPORTS
=over
-=item Last Resort
+=item Default exports
-=item Fallback
+=item Available exports
-C<undef>, TRUE, defined, but FALSE
+=item Export tags defined
-=item Copy Constructor
+=back
-B<Example>
+=item EXAMPLES
+
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=item MAGIC AUTOGENERATION
+=head2 attrs - set/get attributes of a subroutine (deprecated)
-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<Copy operator>
+=over
-=item WARNING
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item Run-time Overloading
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Public functions
+method, locked
-overload::StrVal(arg), overload::Overloaded(arg), overload::Method(obj,op)
+=back
-=item IMPLEMENTATION
+=head2 autouse - postpone load of modules until a function is used
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item WARNING
=item AUTHOR
-=item DIAGNOSTICS
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item BUGS
+=back
-=head2 sigtrap - Perl pragma to enable simple signal handling
+=head2 base - Establish IS-A relationship with base class at compile time
+
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item OPTIONS
+=item HISTORY
-=over
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item SIGNAL HANDLERS
+=back
-B<stack-trace>, B<die>, B<handler> I<your-handler>
+=head2 blib - Use MakeMaker's uninstalled version of a package
-=item SIGNAL LISTS
+=over
-B<normal-signals>, B<error-signals>, B<old-interface-signals>
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item OTHER
+=item DESCRIPTION
-B<untrapped>, B<any>, I<signal>, I<number>
+=item BUGS
+
+=item AUTHOR
=back
-=item EXAMPLES
+=head2 byte - Perl pragma to turn force treating strings as bytes not
+UNICODE
-=head2 strict - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe constructs
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-C<strict refs>, C<strict vars>, C<strict subs>
+=back
-=head2 subs - Perl pragma to predeclare sub names
+=head2 caller - inherit pragmatic attributes from the context of the caller
+
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-=head2 vars - Perl pragma to predeclare global variable names
+encoding
+
+=back
+
+=head2 charnames - define character names for C<\N{named}> string literal
+escape.
+
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-=head1 MODULE DOCUMENTATION
+=item CUSTOM TRANSLATORS
-=head2 AnyDBM_File - provide framework for multiple DBMs
+=item BUGS
+
+=back
+
+=head2 constant - Perl pragma to declare constants
+
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-=over
+=item NOTES
-=item DBM Comparisons
+=item TECHNICAL NOTE
-[0], [1], [2], [3]
+=item BUGS
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
=back
-=item SEE ALSO
+=head2 diagnostics - Perl compiler pragma to force verbose warning
+diagnostics
-=head2 AutoLoader - load subroutines only on demand
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=over
-=item Subroutine Stubs
+=item The C<diagnostics> Pragma
-=item Using B<AutoLoader>'s AUTOLOAD Subroutine
+=item The I<splain> Program
-=item Overriding B<AutoLoader>'s AUTOLOAD Subroutine
+=back
-=item Package Lexicals
+=item EXAMPLES
-=item B<AutoLoader> vs. B<SelfLoader>
+=item INTERNALS
-=back
+=item BUGS
-=item CAVEATS
+=item AUTHOR
-=item SEE ALSO
+=back
-=head2 AutoSplit - split a package for autoloading
+=head2 fields - compile-time class fields
+
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item CAVEATS
-
-=item DIAGNOSTICS
-
-=head2 Benchmark - benchmark running times of code
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=back
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=head2 filetest - Perl pragma to control the filetest permission operators
=over
-=item Methods
+=item SYNOPSIS
-new, debug
+ $can_perhaps_read = -r "file"; # use the mode bits
+ {
+ use filetest 'access'; # intuit harder
+ $can_really_read = -r "file";
+ }
+ $can_perhaps_read = -r "file"; # use the mode bits again
-=item Standard Exports
+=item DESCRIPTION
-timeit(COUNT, CODE), timethis ( COUNT, CODE, [ TITLE, [ STYLE ]] ),
-timethese ( COUNT, CODEHASHREF, [ STYLE ] ), timediff ( T1, T2 ), timestr (
-TIMEDIFF, [ STYLE, [ FORMAT ]] )
+=over
-=item Optional Exports
+=item subpragma access
-clearcache ( COUNT ), clearallcache ( ), disablecache ( ), enablecache ( )
+=back
=back
-=item NOTES
+=head2 integer - Perl pragma to compute arithmetic in integer instead of
+double
-=item INHERITANCE
+=over
-=item CAVEATS
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item AUTHORS
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item MODIFICATION HISTORY
+=back
-=head2 Bundle::CPAN - A bundle to play with all the other modules on CPAN
+=head2 less - perl pragma to request less of something from the compiler
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=over
-=item CONTENTS
+=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item AUTHOR
-
-=head2 CGI - Simple Common Gateway Interface Class
+=back
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=head2 lib - manipulate @INC at compile time
-=item ABSTRACT
+=over
-=item INSTALLATION
+=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
=over
-=item CREATING A NEW QUERY OBJECT:
-
-=item CREATING A NEW QUERY OBJECT FROM AN INPUT FILE
-
-=item FETCHING A LIST OF KEYWORDS FROM THE QUERY:
+=item Adding directories to @INC
-=item FETCHING THE NAMES OF ALL THE PARAMETERS PASSED TO YOUR SCRIPT:
+=item Deleting directories from @INC
-=item FETCHING THE VALUE OR VALUES OF A SINGLE NAMED PARAMETER:
+=item Restoring original @INC
-=item SETTING THE VALUE(S) OF A NAMED PARAMETER:
+=back
-=item APPENDING ADDITIONAL VALUES TO A NAMED PARAMETER:
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item IMPORTING ALL PARAMETERS INTO A NAMESPACE:
+=item AUTHOR
-=item DELETING A PARAMETER COMPLETELY:
+=back
-=item DELETING ALL PARAMETERS:
+=head2 locale - Perl pragma to use and avoid POSIX locales for built-in
+operations
-=item SAVING THE STATE OF THE FORM TO A FILE:
+=over
-=item CREATING A SELF-REFERENCING URL THAT PRESERVES STATE INFORMATION:
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item COMPATIBILITY WITH CGI-LIB.PL
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item CALLING CGI FUNCTIONS THAT TAKE MULTIPLE ARGUMENTS
+=back
-=item CREATING THE HTTP HEADER:
+=head2 ops - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when compiling
-=item GENERATING A REDIRECTION INSTRUCTION
+=over
-=item CREATING THE HTML HEADER:
+=item SYNOPSIS
-B<Parameters:>, 4, 5, 6..
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item ENDING THE HTML DOCUMENT:
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=item CREATING FORMS
+=head2 overload - Package for overloading perl operations
=over
-=item CREATING AN ISINDEX TAG
-
-=item STARTING AND ENDING A FORM
+=item SYNOPSIS
-B<application/x-www-form-urlencoded>, B<multipart/form-data>
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item CREATING A TEXT FIELD
+=over
-B<Parameters>
+=item Declaration of overloaded functions
-=item CREATING A BIG TEXT FIELD
+=item Calling Conventions for Binary Operations
-=item CREATING A PASSWORD FIELD
+FALSE, TRUE, C<undef>
-=item CREATING A FILE UPLOAD FIELD
+=item Calling Conventions for Unary Operations
-B<Parameters>
+=item Calling Conventions for Mutators
-=item CREATING A POPUP MENU
+C<++> and C<-->, C<x=> and other assignment versions
-=item CREATING A SCROLLING LIST
+=item Overloadable Operations
-B<Parameters:>
+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 CREATING A GROUP OF RELATED CHECKBOXES
+=item Inheritance and overloading
-B<Parameters:>
+Strings as values of C<use overload> directive, Overloading of an operation
+is inherited by derived classes
-=item CREATING A STANDALONE CHECKBOX
+=back
-B<Parameters:>
+=item SPECIAL SYMBOLS FOR C<use overload>
-=item CREATING A RADIO BUTTON GROUP
+=over
-B<Parameters:>
+=item Last Resort
-=item CREATING A SUBMIT BUTTON
+=item Fallback
-B<Parameters:>
+C<undef>, TRUE, defined, but FALSE
-=item CREATING A RESET BUTTON
+=item Copy Constructor
-=item CREATING A DEFAULT BUTTON
+B<Example>
-=item CREATING A HIDDEN FIELD
+=back
-B<Parameters:>
+=item MAGIC AUTOGENERATION
-=item CREATING A CLICKABLE IMAGE BUTTON
+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>
-B<Parameters:>, 3.The third option (-align, optional) is an alignment type,
-and may be
-TOP, BOTTOM or MIDDLE
+=item Losing overloading
-=item CREATING A JAVASCRIPT ACTION BUTTON
+=item Run-time Overloading
-=back
+=item Public functions
-=item NETSCAPE COOKIES
+overload::StrVal(arg), overload::Overloaded(arg), overload::Method(obj,op)
-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 Overloading constants
-=item WORKING WITH NETSCAPE FRAMES
+integer, float, binary, q, qr
-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 IMPLEMENTATION
-=item LIMITED SUPPORT FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS
+=item Metaphor clash
-=item DEBUGGING
+=item Cookbook
=over
-=item DUMPING OUT ALL THE NAME/VALUE PAIRS
+=item Two-face scalars
-=back
+=item Two-face references
-=item FETCHING ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
+=item Symbolic calculator
-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_software ()>, B<remote_user ()>, B<user_name ()>,
-B<request_method()>
+=item I<Really> symbolic calculator
-=item CREATING HTML ELEMENTS
+=back
-=over
+=item AUTHOR
-=item PROVIDING ARGUMENTS TO HTML SHORTCUTS
+=item DIAGNOSTICS
-=item Generating new HTML tags
+=item BUGS
=back
-=item IMPORTING CGI METHOD CALLS INTO YOUR NAME SPACE
+=head2 re - Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour
-B<cgi>, B<form>, B<html2>, B<html3>, B<netscape>, B<shortcuts>,
-B<standard>, B<all>
+=over
-=item USING NPH SCRIPTS
+=item SYNOPSIS
-In the B<use> statementSimply add ":nph" to the list of symbols to be
-imported into your script:, By calling the B<nph()> method:, By using
-B<-nph> parameters in the B<header()> and B<redirect()> statements:
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item AUTHOR INFORMATION
+=back
-=item CREDITS
-
-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@csgrad1.cs.wvu.edu), 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), ...and many many more..
-
-=item A COMPLETE EXAMPLE OF A SIMPLE FORM-BASED SCRIPT
-
-=item BUGS
-
-=item SEE ALSO
+=head2 sigtrap - Perl pragma to enable simple signal handling
-=head2 CGI::Apache - Make things work with CGI.pm against Perl-Apache API
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item NOTE 1
+=item OPTIONS
-=item NOTE 2
+=over
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item SIGNAL HANDLERS
-=item AUTHOR
+B<stack-trace>, B<die>, B<handler> I<your-handler>
-=head2 CGI::Carp, B<CGI::Carp> - CGI routines for writing to the HTTPD (or
-other) error log
+=item SIGNAL LISTS
-=item SYNOPSIS
+B<normal-signals>, B<error-signals>, B<old-interface-signals>
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item OTHER
-=item REDIRECTING ERROR MESSAGES
+B<untrapped>, B<any>, I<signal>, I<number>
-=item MAKING PERL ERRORS APPEAR IN THE BROWSER WINDOW
+=back
-=item CHANGE LOG
+=item EXAMPLES
-=item AUTHORS
+=back
-=item SEE ALSO
+=head2 strict - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe constructs
-=head2 CGI::Fast - CGI Interface for Fast CGI
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item OTHER PIECES OF THE PUZZLE
+C<strict refs>, C<strict vars>, C<strict subs>
-=item WRITING FASTCGI PERL SCRIPTS
+=back
-=item INSTALLING FASTCGI SCRIPTS
+=head2 subs - Perl pragma to predeclare sub names
-=item USING FASTCGI SCRIPTS AS CGI SCRIPTS
+=over
-=item CAVEATS
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item AUTHOR INFORMATION
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item BUGS
+=back
-=item SEE ALSO
+=head2 utf8 - Perl pragma to turn on UTF-8 and Unicode support
-=head2 CGI::Push - Simple Interface to Server Push
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item USING CGI::Push
+=item CAVEATS
--last_page, -type, -delay, -cookie, -target, -expires
+=back
-=item INSTALLING CGI::Push SCRIPTS
+=head2 vars - Perl pragma to predeclare global variable names (obsolete)
-=item CAVEATS
+=over
-=item AUTHOR INFORMATION
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item BUGS
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item SEE ALSO
+=back
-=head2 CGI::Switch - Try more than one constructors and return the first
-object available
+=head2 warnings - Perl pragma to control optional warnings
+
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item SEE ALSO
+=back
-=item AUTHOR
+=head1 MODULE DOCUMENTATION
-=head2 CPAN - query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites
+=head2 AnyDBM_File - provide framework for multiple DBMs
+
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=over
-=item Interactive Mode
-
-Searching for authors, bundles, distribution files and modules, make, test,
-install, clean modules or distributions, readme, look module or
-distribution
+=item DBM Comparisons
-=item CPAN::Shell
+[0], [1], [2], [3]
-=item autobundle
+=back
-=item recompile
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item The 4 Classes: Authors, Bundles, Modules, Distributions
+=back
-=item ProgrammerE<39>s interface
+=head2 AutoLoader - load subroutines only on demand
-expand($type,@things), Programming Examples
+=over
-=item Cache Manager
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item Bundles
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Prerequisites
+=over
-=item Debugging
+=item Subroutine Stubs
-=item Floppy, Zip, and all that Jazz
+=item Using B<AutoLoader>'s AUTOLOAD Subroutine
-=back
+=item Overriding B<AutoLoader>'s AUTOLOAD Subroutine
-=item CONFIGURATION
+=item Package Lexicals
-o conf E<lt>scalar optionE<gt>, o conf E<lt>scalar optionE<gt>
-E<lt>valueE<gt>, o conf E<lt>list optionE<gt>, o conf E<lt>list optionE<gt>
-[shift|pop], o conf E<lt>list optionE<gt> [unshift|push|splice]
-E<lt>listE<gt>
+=item B<AutoLoader> vs. B<SelfLoader>
-=item SECURITY
+=back
-=item EXPORT
+=item CAVEATS
-=item BUGS
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item AUTHOR
+=back
-=item SEE ALSO
+=head2 AutoSplit - split a package for autoloading
-=head2 CPAN::FirstTime - Utility for CPAN::Config file Initialization
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-=head2 CPANox, CPAN::Nox - Wrapper around CPAN.pm without using any XS
-module
+$keep, $check, $modtime
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=over
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Multiple packages
-=item SEE ALSO
+=back
-=head2 Carp, carp - warn of errors (from perspective of caller)
+=item DIAGNOSTICS
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=back
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=head2 B - The Perl Compiler
-=head2 Class::Struct - declare struct-like datatypes as Perl classes
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-=over
+=item OVERVIEW OF CLASSES
-=item The C<struct()> function
+=over
-=item Element Types and Accessor Methods
+=item SV-RELATED CLASSES
-Scalar (C<'$'> or C<'*$'>), Array (C<'@'> or C<'*@'>), Hash (C<'%'> or
-C<'*%'>), Class (C<'Class_Name'> or C<'*Class_Name'>)
+=item B::SV METHODS
-=back
+REFCNT, FLAGS
-=item EXAMPLES
+=item B::IV METHODS
-Example 1, Example 2
+IV, IVX, needs64bits, packiv
-=item Author and Modification History
+=item B::NV METHODS
-=head2 Config - access Perl configuration information
+NV, NVX
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item B::RV METHODS
-=item DESCRIPTION
+RV
-myconfig(), config_sh(), config_vars(@names)
+=item B::PV METHODS
-=item EXAMPLE
+PV
-=item WARNING
+=item B::PVMG METHODS
-=item NOTE
+MAGIC, SvSTASH
-=head2 Cwd, getcwd - get pathname of current working directory
+=item B::MAGIC METHODS
-=item SYNOPSIS
+MOREMAGIC, PRIVATE, TYPE, FLAGS, OBJ, PTR
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item B::PVLV METHODS
-=head2 DB_File - Perl5 access to Berkeley DB
+TARGOFF, TARGLEN, TYPE, TARG
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item B::BM METHODS
-=item DESCRIPTION
+USEFUL, PREVIOUS, RARE, TABLE
-B<DB_HASH>, B<DB_BTREE>, B<DB_RECNO>
+=item B::GV METHODS
-=over
+NAME, STASH, SV, IO, FORM, AV, HV, EGV, CV, CVGEN, LINE, FILE, FILEGV,
+GvREFCNT, FLAGS
-=item Interface to Berkeley DB
+=item B::IO METHODS
-=item Opening a Berkeley DB Database File
+LINES, PAGE, PAGE_LEN, LINES_LEFT, TOP_NAME, TOP_GV, FMT_NAME, FMT_GV,
+BOTTOM_NAME, BOTTOM_GV, SUBPROCESS, IoTYPE, IoFLAGS
-=item Default Parameters
+=item B::AV METHODS
-=item In Memory Databases
+FILL, MAX, OFF, ARRAY, AvFLAGS
-=back
+=item B::CV METHODS
-=item DB_HASH
+STASH, START, ROOT, GV, FILE, DEPTH, PADLIST, OUTSIDE, XSUB, XSUBANY,
+CvFLAGS
-=over
+=item B::HV METHODS
-=item A Simple Example
+FILL, MAX, KEYS, RITER, NAME, PMROOT, ARRAY
-=back
+=item OP-RELATED CLASSES
-=item DB_BTREE
+=item B::OP METHODS
-=over
+next, sibling, name, ppaddr, desc, targ, type, seq, flags, private
-=item Changing the BTREE sort order
+=item B::UNOP METHOD
-=item Handling Duplicate Keys
+first
-=item The get_dup() Method
+=item B::BINOP METHOD
-=item Matching Partial Keys
+last
-=back
+=item B::LOGOP METHOD
-=item DB_RECNO
+other
-=over
+=item B::LISTOP METHOD
-=item The 'bval' Option
+children
-=item A Simple Example
+=item B::PMOP METHODS
-=item Extra Methods
+pmreplroot, pmreplstart, pmnext, pmregexp, pmflags, pmpermflags, precomp
-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>
+=item B::SVOP METHOD
-=item Another Example
+sv, gv
-=back
+=item B::PADOP METHOD
-=item THE API INTERFACE
+padix
-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 B::PVOP METHOD
-=item HINTS AND TIPS
+pv
-=over
+=item B::LOOP METHODS
-=item Locking Databases
+redoop, nextop, lastop
-=item Sharing Databases With C Applications
+=item B::COP METHODS
-=item The untie() Gotcha
+label, stash, file, cop_seq, arybase, line
=back
-=item COMMON QUESTIONS
-
-=over
-
-=item Why is there Perl source in my database?
-
-=item How do I store complex data structures with DB_File?
+=item FUNCTIONS EXPORTED BY C<B>
-=item What does "Invalid Argument" mean?
+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), svref_2object(SV), ppname(OPNUM),
+hash(STR), cast_I32(I), minus_c, cstring(STR), class(OBJ), threadsv_names
-=item What does "Bareword 'DB_File' not allowed" mean?
+=item AUTHOR
=back
-=item HISTORY
-
-=item BUGS
-
-=item AVAILABILITY
-
-=item SEE ALSO
-
-=item AUTHOR
+=head2 B::Asmdata - Autogenerated data about Perl ops, used to generate
+bytecode
-=head2 Devel::SelfStubber - generate stubs for a SelfLoading module
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-=head2 DirHandle - supply object methods for directory handles
+=item AUTHOR
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=back
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=head2 B::Assembler - Assemble Perl bytecode
-=head2 DynaLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-@dl_library_path, @dl_resolve_using, @dl_require_symbols, @dl_librefs,
-@dl_modules, dl_error(), $dl_debug, dl_findfile(), dl_expandspec(),
-dl_load_file(), dl_loadflags(), dl_find_symbol(),
-dl_find_symbol_anywhere(), dl_undef_symbols(), dl_install_xsub(),
-bootstrap()
-
=item AUTHOR
-=head2 English - use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation
-variables
-
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=back
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=head2 B::Bblock - Walk basic blocks
-=head2 Env - perl module that imports environment variables
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item AUTHOR
-=head2 Exporter - Implements default import method for modules
+=back
+
+=head2 B::Bytecode - Perl compiler's bytecode backend
+
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-=over
-
-=item Selecting What To Export
+=item OPTIONS
-=item Specialised Import Lists
+B<-ofilename>, B<-afilename>, B<-->, B<-f>, B<-fcompress-nullops>,
+B<-fomit-sequence-numbers>, B<-fbypass-nullops>, B<-fstrip-syntax-tree>,
+B<-On>, B<-D>, B<-Do>, B<-Db>, B<-Da>, B<-DC>, B<-S>, B<-m>
-=item Module Version Checking
+=item EXAMPLES
-=item Managing Unknown Symbols
+=item BUGS
-=item Tag Handling Utility Functions
+=item AUTHOR
=back
-=head2 ExtUtils::Command - utilities to replace common UNIX commands in
-Makefiles etc.
+=head2 B::C - Perl compiler's C backend
+
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-cat, eqtime src dst, rm_f files..., rm_f files..., touch files .., mv
-source... destination, cp source... destination, chmod mode files.., mkpath
-directory.., test_f file
+=item OPTIONS
-=item BUGS
+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>
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item EXAMPLES
+
+=item BUGS
=item AUTHOR
-=head2 ExtUtils::Embed - Utilities for embedding Perl in C/C++ applications
+=back
+
+=head2 B::CC - Perl compiler's optimized C translation backend
+
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item @EXPORT
-
-=item FUNCTIONS
+=item OPTIONS
-xsinit(), Examples, ldopts(), Examples, perl_inc(), ccflags(), ccdlflags(),
-ccopts(), xsi_header(), xsi_protos(@modules), xsi_body(@modules)
+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
-
-=item AUTHOR
-
-=head2 ExtUtils::Install - install files from here to there
-
-=item SYNOPSIS
-
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item BUGS
-=head2 ExtUtils::Liblist - determine libraries to use and how to use them
+=item DIFFERENCES
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=over
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Loops
-For static extensions, For dynamic extensions, For dynamic extensions
+=item Context of ".."
-=over
+=item Arithmetic
-=item EXTRALIBS
+=item Deprecated features
-=item LDLOADLIBS and LD_RUN_PATH
+=back
-=item BSLOADLIBS
+=item AUTHOR
=back
-=item PORTABILITY
+=head2 B::Debug - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing debug info about ops
=over
-=item VMS implementation
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item Win32 implementation
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item AUTHOR
=back
-=item SEE ALSO
+=head2 B::Deparse - Perl compiler backend to produce perl code
-=head2 ExtUtils::MM_OS2 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
-ExtUtils::MakeMaker
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-=head2 ExtUtils::MM_Unix - methods used by ExtUtils::MakeMaker
-
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item OPTIONS
-=item DESCRIPTION
+B<-l>, B<-p>, B<-q>, B<-u>I<PACKAGE>, B<-s>I<LETTERS>, B<C>, B<i>I<NUMBER>,
+B<T>, B<v>I<STRING>B<.>
-=item METHODS
+=item USING B::Deparse AS A MODULE
=over
-=item Preloaded methods
-
-canonpath, catdir, catfile, curdir, rootdir, updir
-
-=item SelfLoaded methods
+=item Synopsis
-c_o (o), cflags (o), clean (o), const_cccmd (o), const_config (o),
-const_loadlibs (o), constants (o), depend (o), dir_target (o), dist (o),
-dist_basics (o), dist_ci (o), dist_core (o), dist_dir (o), dist_test (o),
-dlsyms (o), dynamic (o), dynamic_bs (o), dynamic_lib (o), exescan,
-extliblist, file_name_is_absolute, find_perl
+=item Description
-=item Methods to actually produce chunks of text for the Makefile
+=item new
-force (o), guess_name, has_link_code, init_dirscan, init_main, init_others,
-install (o), installbin (o), libscan (o), linkext (o), lsdir, macro (o),
-makeaperl (o), makefile (o), manifypods (o), maybe_command,
-maybe_command_in_dirs, needs_linking (o), nicetext, parse_version, pasthru
-(o), path, perl_script, perldepend (o), pm_to_blib, post_constants (o),
-post_initialize (o), postamble (o), prefixify, processPL (o), realclean
-(o), replace_manpage_separator, static (o), static_lib (o), staticmake (o),
-subdir_x (o), subdirs (o), test (o), test_via_harness (o), test_via_script
-(o), tool_autosplit (o), tools_other (o), tool_xsubpp (o), top_targets (o),
-writedoc, xs_c (o), xs_o (o), perl_archive, export_list
+=item coderef2text
=back
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item BUGS
-=head2 ExtUtils::MM_VMS - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
-ExtUtils::MakeMaker
+=item AUTHOR
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=back
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=head2 B::Disassembler - Disassemble Perl bytecode
=over
-=item Methods always loaded
-
-eliminate_macros, fixpath, catdir, catfile, wraplist, curdir (override),
-rootdir (override), updir (override)
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item SelfLoaded methods
+=item DESCRIPTION
-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_others
-(override), constants (override), cflags (override), const_cccmd
-(override), pm_to_blib (override), tool_autosplit (override), tool_sxubpp
-(override), xsubpp_version (override), tools_other (override), dist
-(override), c_o (override), xs_c (override), xs_o (override), top_targets
-(override), dlsyms (override), dynamic_lib (override), dynamic_bs
-(override), static_lib (override), manifypods (override), processPL
-(override), installbin (override), subdir_x (override), clean (override),
-realclean (override), dist_basics (override), dist_core (override),
-dist_dir (override), dist_test (override), install (override), perldepend
-(override), makefile (override), test (override), test_via_harness
-(override), test_via_script (override), makeaperl (override), nicetext
-(override)
+=item AUTHOR
=back
-=head2 ExtUtils::MM_Win32 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
-ExtUtils::MakeMaker
-
-=item SYNOPSIS
-
-=item DESCRIPTION
-
-catfile, constants (o), static_lib (o), dynamic_bs (o), dynamic_lib (o),
-canonpath, perl_script, pm_to_blib, test_via_harness (o), tool_autosplit
-(override), tools_other (o), xs_o (o), top_targets (o), manifypods (o),
-dist_ci (o), dist_core (o), pasthru (o)
+=head2 B::Lint - Perl lint
-=head2 ExtUtils::MakeMaker - create an extension Makefile
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-=over
+=item OPTIONS AND LINT CHECKS
-=item How To Write A Makefile.PL
+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 Default Makefile Behaviour
+=item NON LINT-CHECK OPTIONS
-=item make test
+B<-u Package>
-=item make testdb
+=item BUGS
-=item make install
+=item AUTHOR
-=item PREFIX and LIB attribute
+=back
-=item AFS users
+=head2 B::O, O - Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends
-=item Static Linking of a new Perl Binary
+=over
-=item Determination of Perl Library and Installation Locations
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item Which architecture dependent directory?
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=item Using Attributes and Parameters
+=item CONVENTIONS
-C, CONFIG, CONFIGURE, DEFINE, DIR, DISTNAME, DL_FUNCS, DL_VARS,
-EXCLUDE_EXT, EXE_FILES, NO_VC, FIRST_MAKEFILE, FULLPERL, H, INC,
-INCLUDE_EXT, INSTALLARCHLIB, INSTALLBIN, INSTALLDIRS, INSTALLMAN1DIR,
-INSTALLMAN3DIR, INSTALLPRIVLIB, INSTALLSCRIPT, INSTALLSITELIB,
-INSTALLSITEARCH, INST_ARCHLIB, INST_BIN, INST_EXE, INST_LIB, INST_MAN1DIR,
-INST_MAN3DIR, INST_SCRIPT, LDFROM, LIBPERL_A, LIB, LIBS, LINKTYPE,
-MAKEAPERL, MAKEFILE, MAN1PODS, MAN3PODS, MAP_TARGET, MYEXTLIB, NAME,
-NEEDS_LINKING, NOECHO, NORECURS, OBJECT, OPTIMIZE, PERL, PERLMAINCC,
-PERL_ARCHLIB, PERL_LIB, PERL_SRC, PL_FILES, PM, PMLIBDIRS, PREFIX,
-PREREQ_PM, SKIP, TYPEMAPS, VERSION, VERSION_FROM, XS, XSOPT, XSPROTOARG,
-XS_VERSION
+=item IMPLEMENTATION
-=item Additional lowercase attributes
+=item AUTHOR
-clean, depend, dist, dynamic_lib, installpm, linkext, macro, realclean,
-tool_autosplit
+=back
-=item Overriding MakeMaker Methods
+=head2 B::Showlex - Show lexical variables used in functions or files
-=item Hintsfile support
+=over
-=item Distribution Support
+=item SYNOPSIS
- make distcheck, make skipcheck, make distclean, make manifest,
- make distdir, make tardist, make dist, make uutardist, make
-shdist, make zipdist, make ci
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=back
+=item AUTHOR
-=item SEE ALSO
+=back
-=item AUTHORS
+=head2 B::Stackobj - Helper module for CC backend
-=head2 ExtUtils::Manifest - utilities to write and check a MANIFEST file
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item MANIFEST.SKIP
+=item AUTHOR
-=item EXPORT_OK
+=back
-=item GLOBAL VARIABLES
+=head2 B::Terse - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing terse info about ops
-=item DIAGNOSTICS
+=over
-C<Not in MANIFEST:> I<file>, C<No such file:> I<file>, C<MANIFEST:> I<$!>,
-C<Added to MANIFEST:> I<file>
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item DESCRIPTION
=item AUTHOR
-=head2 ExtUtils::Miniperl, writemain - write the C code for perlmain.c
+=back
+
+=head2 B::Xref - Generates cross reference reports for Perl programs
+
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item OPTIONS
-=head2 ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap - make a bootstrap file for use by DynaLoader
+C<-oFILENAME>, C<-r>, C<-D[tO]>
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item BUGS
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item AUTHOR
-=head2 ExtUtils::Mksymlists - write linker options files for dynamic
-extension
+=back
+
+=head2 Bblock, B::Bblock - Walk basic blocks
+
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-NAME, DL_FUNCS, DL_VARS, FILE, FUNCLIST, DLBASE
-
=item AUTHOR
-=item REVISION
+=back
-=head2 ExtUtils::testlib - add blib/* directories to @INC
+=head2 Benchmark - benchmark running times of Perl code
+
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-=head2 Fcntl - load the C Fcntl.h defines
+=over
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item Methods
-=item DESCRIPTION
+new, debug, iters
-=item NOTE
+=item Standard Exports
-=item EXPORTED SYMBOLS
+timeit(COUNT, CODE), timethis ( COUNT, CODE, [ TITLE, [ STYLE ]] ),
+timethese ( COUNT, CODEHASHREF, [ STYLE ] ), timediff ( T1, T2 ), timestr (
+TIMEDIFF, [ STYLE, [ FORMAT ] ] )
-=head2 File::Basename, fileparse - split a pathname into pieces
+=item Optional Exports
-=item SYNOPSIS
+clearcache ( COUNT ), clearallcache ( ), cmpthese ( COUT, CODEHASHREF, [
+STYLE ] ), cmpthese ( RESULTSHASHREF ), countit(TIME, CODE), disablecache (
+), enablecache ( ), timesum ( T1, T2 )
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=back
-fileparse_set_fstype, fileparse
+=item NOTES
=item EXAMPLES
-C<basename>, C<dirname>
-
-=head2 File::CheckTree, validate - run many filetest checks on a tree
-
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item INHERITANCE
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item CAVEATS
-=head2 File::Compare - Compare files or filehandles
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item AUTHORS
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item MODIFICATION HISTORY
-=item RETURN
+=back
-=item AUTHOR
+=head2 ByteLoader - load byte compiled perl code
-=head2 File::Copy - Copy files or filehandles
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-=over
-
-=item Special behavior if C<syscopy> is defined (VMS and OS/2)
+=item AUTHOR
-rmscopy($from,$to[,$date_flag])
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=item RETURN
-
-=item AUTHOR
+=head2 Bytecode, B::Bytecode - Perl compiler's bytecode backend
-=head2 File::DosGlob - DOS like globbing and then some
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item EXPORTS (by request only)
+=item OPTIONS
+
+B<-ofilename>, B<-afilename>, B<-->, B<-f>, B<-fcompress-nullops>,
+B<-fomit-sequence-numbers>, B<-fbypass-nullops>, B<-fstrip-syntax-tree>,
+B<-On>, B<-D>, B<-Do>, B<-Db>, B<-Da>, B<-DC>, B<-S>, B<-m>
+
+=item EXAMPLES
=item BUGS
=item AUTHOR
-=item HISTORY
+=back
-=item SEE ALSO
+=head2 CGI - Simple Common Gateway Interface Class
-=head2 File::Find, find - traverse a file tree
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
+=item ABSTRACT
+
=item DESCRIPTION
-=head2 File::Path - create or remove a series of directories
+=over
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item PROGRAMMING STYLE
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item CALLING CGI.PM ROUTINES
-=item AUTHORS
+1. Use another name for the argument, if one is available. Forexample,
+-value is an alias for -values, 2. Change the capitalization, e.g. -Values,
+3. Put quotes around the argument name, e.g. '-values'
-=item REVISION
+=item CREATING A NEW QUERY OBJECT (OBJECT-ORIENTED STYLE):
-=head2 File::stat - by-name interface to Perl's built-in stat() functions
+=item CREATING A NEW QUERY OBJECT FROM AN INPUT FILE
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item FETCHING A LIST OF KEYWORDS FROM THE QUERY:
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item FETCHING THE NAMES OF ALL THE PARAMETERS PASSED TO YOUR SCRIPT:
-=item NOTE
+=item FETCHING THE VALUE OR VALUES OF A SINGLE NAMED PARAMETER:
-=item AUTHOR
+=item SETTING THE VALUE(S) OF A NAMED PARAMETER:
-=head2 FileCache - keep more files open than the system permits
+=item APPENDING ADDITIONAL VALUES TO A NAMED PARAMETER:
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item IMPORTING ALL PARAMETERS INTO A NAMESPACE:
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item DELETING A PARAMETER COMPLETELY:
-=item BUGS
+=item DELETING ALL PARAMETERS:
-=head2 FileHandle - supply object methods for filehandles
+=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:
-$fh->print, $fh->printf, $fh->getline, $fh->getlines
+=item RETRIEVING CGI ERRORS
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item USING THE FUNCTION-ORIENTED INTERFACE
-=head2 FindBin - Locate directory of original perl script
+B<:cgi>, B<:form>, B<:html2>, B<:html3>, B<:netscape>, B<:html>,
+B<:standard>, B<:all>
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item PRAGMAS
-=item DESCRIPTION
+-any, -compile, -nph, -newstyle_urls, -autoload, -no_debug,
+-private_tempfiles
-=item EXPORTABLE VARIABLES
+=item SPECIAL FORMS FOR IMPORTING HTML-TAG FUNCTIONS
-=item KNOWN BUGS
+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)
-=item AUTHORS
+=back
-=item COPYRIGHT
+=item GENERATING DYNAMIC DOCUMENTS
-=item REVISION
+=over
-=head2 GDBM_File - Perl5 access to the gdbm library.
+=item CREATING A STANDARD HTTP HEADER:
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item GENERATING A REDIRECTION HEADER
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item CREATING THE HTML DOCUMENT HEADER
-=item AVAILABILITY
+B<Parameters:>, 4, 5, 6..
-=item BUGS
+=item ENDING THE HTML DOCUMENT:
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item CREATING A SELF-REFERENCING URL THAT PRESERVES STATE INFORMATION:
-=head2 Getopt::Long, GetOptions - extended processing of command line
-options
+=item OBTAINING THE SCRIPT'S URL
-=item SYNOPSIS
+B<-absolute>, B<-relative>, B<-full>, B<-path> (B<-path_info>), B<-query>
+(B<-query_string>)
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item MIXING POST AND URL PARAMETERS
+
+=back
-E<lt>noneE<gt>, !, =s, :s, =i, :i, =f, :f
+=item CREATING STANDARD HTML ELEMENTS:
=over
-=item Linkage specification
+=item PROVIDING ARGUMENTS TO HTML SHORTCUTS
-=item Aliases and abbreviations
+=item THE DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY OF HTML SHORTCUTS
-=item Non-option call-back routine
+=item HTML SHORTCUTS AND LIST INTERPOLATION
-=item Option starters
+=item NON-STANDARD HTML SHORTCUTS
-=item Return value
+=item PRETTY-PRINTING HTML
=back
-=item COMPATIBILITY
-
-=item EXAMPLES
-
-=item CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
-
-default, auto_abbrev, getopt_compat, require_order, permute, bundling
-(default: reset), bundling_override (default: reset), ignore_case
-(default: set), ignore_case_always (default: reset), pass_through (default:
-reset), debug (default: reset)
-
-=item OTHER USEFUL VARIABLES
+=item CREATING FILL-OUT FORMS:
-$Getopt::Long::VERSION, $Getopt::Long::error
+=over
-=head2 Getopt::Std, getopt - Process single-character switches with switch
-clustering
+=item CREATING AN ISINDEX TAG
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item STARTING AND ENDING A FORM
-=item DESCRIPTION
+B<application/x-www-form-urlencoded>, B<multipart/form-data>
-=head2 I18N::Collate - compare 8-bit scalar data according to the current
-locale
+=item CREATING A TEXT FIELD
-=item SYNOPSIS
+B<Parameters>
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item CREATING A BIG TEXT FIELD
-=head2 IO - load various IO modules
+=item CREATING A PASSWORD FIELD
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item CREATING A FILE UPLOAD FIELD
-=item DESCRIPTION
+B<Parameters>
-=head2 IO::File - supply object methods for filehandles
+=item CREATING A POPUP MENU
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item CREATING A SCROLLING LIST
-=item DESCRIPTION
+B<Parameters:>
-=item CONSTRUCTOR
+=item CREATING A GROUP OF RELATED CHECKBOXES
-new ([ ARGS ] ), new_tmpfile
+B<Parameters:>
-=item METHODS
+=item CREATING A STANDALONE CHECKBOX
-open( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] )
+B<Parameters:>
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item CREATING A RADIO BUTTON GROUP
-=item HISTORY
+B<Parameters:>
-=head2 IO::Handle - supply object methods for I/O handles
+=item CREATING A SUBMIT BUTTON
-=item SYNOPSIS
+B<Parameters:>
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item CREATING A RESET BUTTON
-=item CONSTRUCTOR
+=item CREATING A DEFAULT BUTTON
-new (), new_from_fd ( FD, MODE )
+=item CREATING A HIDDEN FIELD
-=item METHODS
+B<Parameters:>
-$fh->fdopen ( FD, MODE ), $fh->opened, $fh->getline, $fh->getlines,
-$fh->ungetc ( ORD ), $fh->write ( BUF, LEN [, OFFSET }\] ), $fh->flush,
-$fh->error, $fh->clearerr, $fh->untaint
+=item CREATING A CLICKABLE IMAGE BUTTON
-=item NOTE
+B<Parameters:>, 3.The third option (-align, optional) is an alignment type,
+and may be
+TOP, BOTTOM or MIDDLE
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item CREATING A JAVASCRIPT ACTION BUTTON
-=item BUGS
+=back
-=item HISTORY
+=item HTTP COOKIES
-=head2 IO::Pipe, IO::pipe - supply object methods for pipes
+1. an expiration time, 2. a domain, 3. a path, 4. a "secure" flag,
+B<-name>, B<-value>, B<-path>, B<-domain>, B<-expires>, B<-secure>
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item WORKING WITH FRAMES
-=item DESCRIPTION
+1. Create a <Frameset> document, 2. Specify the destination for the
+document in the HTTP header, 3. Specify the destination for the document in
+the <FORM> tag
-=item CONSTRCUTOR
+=item LIMITED SUPPORT FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS
-new ( [READER, WRITER] )
+=item DEBUGGING
-=item METHODS
+=over
-reader ([ARGS]), writer ([ARGS]), handles ()
+=item DUMPING OUT ALL THE NAME/VALUE PAIRS
-=item SEE ALSO
+=back
-=item AUTHOR
+=item FETCHING ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
-=item COPYRIGHT
+B<Accept()>, B<raw_cookie()>, B<user_agent()>, B<path_info()>,
+B<path_translated()>, B<remote_host()>, B<script_name()>Return the script
+name as a partial URL, for self-refering
+scripts, B<referer()>, B<auth_type ()>, B<server_name ()>, B<virtual_host
+()>, B<server_software ()>, B<remote_user ()>, B<user_name ()>,
+B<request_method()>, B<content_type()>, B<http()>, B<https()>
-=head2 IO::Seekable - supply seek based methods for I/O objects
+=item USING NPH SCRIPTS
-=item SYNOPSIS
+In the B<use> statement, By calling the B<nph()> method:, By using B<-nph>
+parameters in the B<header()> and B<redirect()> statements:
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Server Push
-=item SEE ALSO
+multipart_init()
+ multipart_init(-boundary=>$boundary);, multipart_start(), multipart_end()
-=item HISTORY
+=item Avoiding Denial of Service Attacks
-=head2 IO::Select - OO interface to the select system call
+B<$CGI::POST_MAX>, B<$CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS>, B<1. On a script-by-script
+basis>, B<2. Globally for all scripts>
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item COMPATIBILITY WITH CGI-LIB.PL
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item AUTHOR INFORMATION
-=item CONSTRUCTOR
+=item CREDITS
-new ( [ HANDLES ] )
+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 METHODS
+=item A COMPLETE EXAMPLE OF A SIMPLE FORM-BASED SCRIPT
-add ( HANDLES ), remove ( HANDLES ), exists ( HANDLE ), handles, can_read (
-[ TIMEOUT ] ), can_write ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), has_error ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), count
-(), bits(), bits(), select ( READ, WRITE, ERROR [, TIMEOUT ] )
+=item BUGS
-=item EXAMPLE
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item AUTHOR
+=back
-=item COPYRIGHT
+=head2 CGI::Apache - Backward compatibility module for CGI.pm
-=head2 IO::Socket - Object interface to socket communications
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
+=item ABSTRACT
+
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item CONSTRUCTOR
+=item AUTHOR INFORMATION
-new ( [ARGS] )
+=item BUGS
-=item METHODS
+=item SEE ALSO
-accept([PKG]), timeout([VAL]), sockopt(OPT [, VAL]), sockdomain, socktype,
-protocol
+=back
-=item SUB-CLASSES
+=head2 CGI::Carp, B<CGI::Carp> - CGI routines for writing to the HTTPD (or
+other) error log
=over
-=item IO::Socket::INET
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item METHODS
+=item DESCRIPTION
-sockaddr (), sockport (), sockhost (), peeraddr (), peerport (), peerhost
-()
+=item REDIRECTING ERROR MESSAGES
-=item IO::Socket::UNIX
+=item MAKING PERL ERRORS APPEAR IN THE BROWSER WINDOW
-=item METHODS
+=over
-hostpath(), peerpath()
+=item Changing the default message
=back
+=item CHANGE LOG
+
+=item AUTHORS
+
=item SEE ALSO
-=item AUTHOR
+=back
-=item COPYRIGHT
+=head2 CGI::Cookie - Interface to Netscape Cookies
-=head2 IO::lib::IO::File, IO::File - supply object methods for filehandles
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item CONSTRUCTOR
-
-new ([ ARGS ] ), new_tmpfile
-
-=item METHODS
-
-open( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] )
+=item USING CGI::Cookie
-=item SEE ALSO
+B<1. expiration date>, B<2. domain>, B<3. path>, B<4. secure flag>
-=item HISTORY
+=over
-=head2 IO::lib::IO::Handle, IO::Handle - supply object methods for I/O
-handles
+=item Creating New Cookies
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item Sending the Cookie to the Browser
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Recovering Previous Cookies
-=item CONSTRUCTOR
+=item Manipulating Cookies
-new (), new_from_fd ( FD, MODE )
+B<name()>, B<value()>, B<domain()>, B<path()>, B<expires()>
-=item METHODS
+=back
-$fh->fdopen ( FD, MODE ), $fh->opened, $fh->getline, $fh->getlines,
-$fh->ungetc ( ORD ), $fh->write ( BUF, LEN [, OFFSET }\] ), $fh->flush,
-$fh->error, $fh->clearerr, $fh->untaint
+=item AUTHOR INFORMATION
-=item NOTE
+=item BUGS
=item SEE ALSO
-=item BUGS
+=back
-=item HISTORY
+=head2 CGI::Fast - CGI Interface for Fast CGI
-=head2 IO::lib::IO::Pipe, IO::pipe - supply object methods for pipes
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item CONSTRCUTOR
-
-new ( [READER, WRITER] )
-
-=item METHODS
-
-reader ([ARGS]), writer ([ARGS]), handles ()
+=item OTHER PIECES OF THE PUZZLE
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item WRITING FASTCGI PERL SCRIPTS
-=item AUTHOR
+=item INSTALLING FASTCGI SCRIPTS
-=item COPYRIGHT
+=item USING FASTCGI SCRIPTS AS CGI SCRIPTS
-=head2 IO::lib::IO::Seekable, IO::Seekable - supply seek based methods for
-I/O objects
+=item CAVEATS
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item AUTHOR INFORMATION
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item BUGS
=item SEE ALSO
-=item HISTORY
+=back
-=head2 IO::lib::IO::Select, IO::Select - OO interface to the select system
-call
+=head2 CGI::Pretty - module to produce nicely formatted HTML code
+
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item CONSTRUCTOR
+=over
-new ( [ HANDLES ] )
+=item Tags that won't be formatted
-=item METHODS
+=item Customizing the Indenting
-add ( HANDLES ), remove ( HANDLES ), exists ( HANDLE ), handles, can_read (
-[ TIMEOUT ] ), can_write ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), has_error ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), count
-(), bits(), bits(), select ( READ, WRITE, ERROR [, TIMEOUT ] )
+=back
-=item EXAMPLE
+=item BUGS
=item AUTHOR
-=item COPYRIGHT
+=item SEE ALSO
-=head2 IO::lib::IO::Socket, IO::Socket - Object interface to socket
-communications
+=back
+
+=head2 CGI::Push - Simple Interface to Server Push
+
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item CONSTRUCTOR
+=item USING CGI::Push
-new ( [ARGS] )
+-next_page, -last_page, -type, -delay, -cookie, -target, -expires
-=item METHODS
+=over
-accept([PKG]), timeout([VAL]), sockopt(OPT [, VAL]), sockdomain, socktype,
-protocol
+=item Heterogeneous Pages
-=item SUB-CLASSES
+=item Changing the Page Delay on the Fly
-=over
+=back
-=item IO::Socket::INET
+=item INSTALLING CGI::Push SCRIPTS
-=item METHODS
+=item AUTHOR INFORMATION
-sockaddr (), sockport (), sockhost (), peeraddr (), peerport (), peerhost
-()
+=item BUGS
-=item IO::Socket::UNIX
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item METHODS
+=back
-hostpath(), peerpath()
+=head2 CGI::Switch - Backward compatibility module for defunct CGI::Switch
-=back
+=over
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item AUTHOR
+=item ABSTRACT
-=item COPYRIGHT
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=head2 IPC::Open2, open2 - open a process for both reading and writing
+=item AUTHOR INFORMATION
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item BUGS
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item WARNING
+=back
-=item SEE ALSO
+=head2 CPAN - query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites
-=head2 IPC::Open3, open3 - open a process for reading, writing, and error
-handling
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item WARNING
+=over
-=head2 Math::BigFloat - Arbitrary length float math package
+=item Interactive Mode
-=item SYNOPSIS
+Searching for authors, bundles, distribution files and modules, make, test,
+install, clean modules or distributions, readme, look module or
+distribution, Signals
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item CPAN::Shell
-number format, Error returns 'NaN', Division is computed to
+=item autobundle
-=item BUGS
+=item recompile
-=item AUTHOR
+=item The four C<CPAN::*> Classes: Author, Bundle, Module, Distribution
-=head2 Math::BigInt - Arbitrary size integer math package
+=item ProgrammerE<39>s interface
-=item SYNOPSIS
+expand($type,@things), Programming Examples
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Methods in the four Classes
-Canonical notation, Input, Output
+=item Cache Manager
-=item EXAMPLES
+=item Bundles
-=item BUGS
+=item Prerequisites
-=item AUTHOR
+=item Finding packages and VERSION
-=head2 Math::Complex - complex numbers and associated mathematical
-functions
+=item Debugging
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item Floppy, Zip, Offline Mode
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=back
-=item OPERATIONS
+=item CONFIGURATION
-=item CREATION
+o conf E<lt>scalar optionE<gt>, o conf E<lt>scalar optionE<gt>
+E<lt>valueE<gt>, o conf E<lt>list optionE<gt>, o conf E<lt>list optionE<gt>
+[shift|pop], o conf E<lt>list optionE<gt> [unshift|push|splice]
+E<lt>listE<gt>
-=item STRINGIFICATION
+=over
-=item USAGE
+=item Note on urllist parameter's format
-=item ERRORS DUE TO DIVISION BY ZERO
+=item urllist parameter has CD-ROM support
-=item BUGS
+=back
-=item AUTHORS
+=item SECURITY
-=head2 Math::Trig - trigonometric functions
+=item EXPORT
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item POPULATE AN INSTALLATION WITH LOTS OF MODULES
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item WORKING WITH CPAN.pm BEHIND FIREWALLS
-=item TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS
+http firewall, ftp firewall, One way visibility, SOCKS, IP Masquerade
-=over
+=item BUGS
-=item ERRORS DUE TO DIVISION BY ZERO
+=item AUTHOR
-=item SIMPLE (REAL) ARGUMENTS, COMPLEX RESULTS
+=item SEE ALSO
=back
-=item ANGLE CONVERSIONS
-
-=item BUGS
-
-=item AUTHORS
+=head2 CPAN::FirstTime - Utility for CPAN::Config file Initialization
-=head2 NDBM_File - Tied access to ndbm files
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-=head2 Net::Ping - check a remote host for reachability
-
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=back
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=head2 CPANox, CPAN::Nox - Wrapper around CPAN.pm without using any XS
+module
=over
-=item Functions
+=item SYNOPSIS
-Net::Ping->new([$proto [, $def_timeout [, $bytes]]]);, $p->ping($host [,
-$timeout]);, $p->close();, pingecho($host [, $timeout]);
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=back
+=item SEE ALSO
-=item WARNING
+=back
-=item NOTES
+=head2 Carp, carp - warn of errors (from perspective of caller)
-=head2 Net::hostent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in gethost*()
-functions
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item EXAMPLES
+=over
-=item NOTE
+=item Forcing a Stack Trace
-=item AUTHOR
+=back
-=head2 Net::netent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getnet*()
-functions
+=item BUGS
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=back
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=head2 Carp::Heavy - Carp guts
-=item EXAMPLES
+=over
-=item NOTE
+=item SYNOPIS
-=item AUTHOR
+=item DESCRIPTION
-=head2 Net::protoent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getproto*()
-functions
+=back
+
+=head2 Class::Struct - declare struct-like datatypes as Perl classes
+
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item NOTE
+=over
-=item AUTHOR
+=item The C<struct()> function
-=head2 Net::servent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getserv*()
-functions
+=item Element Types and Accessor Methods
-=item SYNOPSIS
+Scalar (C<'$'> or C<'*$'>), Array (C<'@'> or C<'*@'>), Hash (C<'%'> or
+C<'*%'>), Class (C<'Class_Name'> or C<'*Class_Name'>)
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item Initializing with C<new>
-=item EXAMPLES
+=back
-=item NOTE
+=item EXAMPLES
-=item AUTHOR
+Example 1, Example 2, Example 3
-=head2 ODBM_File - Tied access to odbm files
+=item Author and Modification History
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=back
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=head2 Config - access Perl configuration information
-=head2 Opcode - Disable named opcodes when compiling perl code
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item NOTE
+myconfig(), config_sh(), config_vars(@names)
+
+=item EXAMPLE
=item WARNING
-=item Operator Names and Operator Lists
+=item GLOSSARY
-an operator name (opname), an operator tag name (optag), a negated opname
-or optag, an operator set (opset)
+=over
-=item Opcode Functions
+=item _
+
+C<_a>, C<_exe>, C<_o>
+
+=item a
+
+C<afs>, 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>
+
+=item b
+
+C<baserev>, C<bash>, C<bin>, C<bincompat5005>, C<binexp>, C<bison>,
+C<byacc>, C<byteorder>
+
+=item c
+
+C<c>, C<castflags>, C<cat>, C<cc>, C<cccdlflags>, C<ccdlflags>, C<ccflags>,
+C<ccsymbols>, C<cf_by>, C<cf_email>, C<cf_time>, C<charsize>, C<chgrp>,
+C<chmod>, C<chown>, C<clocktype>, C<comm>, C<compress>
+
+=item C
+
+C<CONFIGDOTSH>, 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<crosscompile>, C<cryptlib>, C<csh>
+
+=item d
+
+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_closedir>, C<d_const>, C<d_crypt>, C<d_csh>, C<d_cuserid>,
+C<d_dbl_dig>, 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_endspent>, C<d_eofnblk>, C<d_eunice>, C<d_fchmod>,
+C<d_fchown>, C<d_fcntl>, C<d_fd_macros>, C<d_fd_set>, C<d_fds_bits>,
+C<d_fgetpos>, C<d_flexfnam>, C<d_flock>, C<d_fork>, C<d_fpathconf>,
+C<d_fpos64_t>, C<d_fs_data_s>, C<d_fseeko>, C<d_fsetpos>, C<d_fstatfs>,
+C<d_fstatvfs>, C<d_ftello>, C<d_ftime>, C<d_Gconvert>, C<d_getgrent>,
+C<d_getgrps>, C<d_gethbyaddr>, C<d_gethbyname>, C<d_gethent>,
+C<d_gethname>, C<d_gethostprotos>, C<d_getlogin>, C<d_getmnt>,
+C<d_getmntent>, C<d_getnbyaddr>, C<d_getnbyname>, C<d_getnent>,
+C<d_getnetprotos>, 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_getpwent>, C<d_getsbyname>, C<d_getsbyport>,
+C<d_getsent>, C<d_getservprotos>, C<d_getspent>, 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_int64t>, C<d_isascii>, 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_lstat>, 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_mkfifo>, C<d_mktime>, 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_msgrcv>, C<d_msgsnd>,
+C<d_mymalloc>, C<d_nice>, C<d_nvpresuv>, 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_phostname>, C<d_pipe>,
+C<d_poll>, C<d_portable>, C<d_PRId64>, C<d_PRIeldbl>, C<d_PRIEldbl>,
+C<d_PRIfldbl>, C<d_PRIFldbl>, C<d_PRIgldbl>, C<d_PRIGldbl>, C<d_PRIi64>,
+C<d_PRIo64>, C<d_PRIu64>, C<d_PRIx64>, C<d_PRIX64>, 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_quad>, C<d_readdir>,
+C<d_readlink>, C<d_rename>, C<d_rewinddir>, C<d_rmdir>, C<d_safebcpy>,
+C<d_safemcpy>, C<d_sanemcmp>, C<d_sched_yield>, C<d_scm_rights>,
+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_setegid>, C<d_seteuid>,
+C<d_setgrent>, C<d_setgrps>, C<d_sethent>, 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_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_setspent>, 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_sigsetjmp>, C<d_socket>, C<d_sockpair>, C<d_sqrtl>, 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_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_strtod>, C<d_strtol>, C<d_strtold>, C<d_strtoll>,
+C<d_strtoul>, C<d_strtoull>, C<d_strtouq>, C<d_strxfrm>, C<d_suidsafe>,
+C<d_symlink>, C<d_syscall>, 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_umask>, C<d_uname>, C<d_union_semun>, C<d_ustat>, 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_xenix>, C<date>, C<db_hashtype>, C<db_prefixtype>,
+C<defvoidused>, C<direntrytype>, C<dlext>, C<dlsrc>, C<doublesize>,
+C<drand01>, C<dynamic_ext>
+
+=item e
+
+C<eagain>, C<ebcdic>, C<echo>, C<egrep>, C<emacs>, C<eunicefix>,
+C<exe_ext>, C<expr>, C<extensions>
+
+=item f
+
+C<fflushall>, C<fflushNULL>, C<find>, C<firstmakefile>, C<flex>,
+C<fpossize>, C<fpostype>, C<freetype>, C<full_ar>, C<full_csh>, C<full_sed>
+
+=item g
+
+C<gccversion>, C<gidformat>, C<gidsign>, C<gidsize>, C<gidtype>,
+C<glibpth>, C<grep>, C<groupcat>, C<groupstype>, C<gzip>
+
+=item h
+
+C<h_fcntl>, C<h_sysfile>, C<hint>, C<hostcat>, C<huge>
+
+=item i
+
+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_gdbm>,
+C<i_grp>, C<i_inttypes>, 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_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_sysaccess>,
+C<i_sysdir>, C<i_sysfile>, C<i_sysfilio>, C<i_sysin>, C<i_sysioctl>,
+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_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<installvendorbin>, C<installvendorlib>, C<intsize>,
+C<ivdformat>, C<ivsize>, C<ivtype>
+
+=item k
+
+C<known_extensions>, C<ksh>
+
+=item l
+
+C<large>, C<ld>, C<lddlflags>, C<ldflags>, C<ldlibpthname>, C<less>,
+C<lib_ext>, C<libc>, C<libperl>, C<libpth>, C<libs>, C<libswanted>,
+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>
+
+=item m
+
+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>
+
+=item M
+
+C<Mcc>, C<medium>, C<mips_type>, C<mkdir>, C<models>, C<modetype>, C<more>,
+C<multiarch>, C<mv>, C<myarchname>, C<mydomain>, C<myhostname>, C<myuname>
+
+=item n
+
+C<n>, 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<nvsize>, C<nvtype>
-opcodes, opset (OP, ...), opset_to_ops (OPSET), opset_to_hex (OPSET),
-full_opset, empty_opset, invert_opset (OPSET), verify_opset (OPSET, ...),
-define_optag (OPTAG, OPSET), opmask_add (OPSET), opmask, opdesc (OP, ...),
-opdump (PAT)
+=item o
-=item Manipulating Opsets
+C<o_nonblock>, C<obj_ext>, C<old_pthread_create_joinable>, C<optimize>,
+C<orderlib>, C<osname>, C<osvers>
-=item TO DO (maybe)
+=item p
-=item Predefined Opcode Tags
+C<package>, C<pager>, C<passcat>, C<patchlevel>, C<path_sep>, C<perl>
-:base_core, :base_mem, :base_loop, :base_io, :base_orig, :base_math,
-:default, :filesys_read, :sys_db, :browse, :filesys_open, :filesys_write,
-:subprocess, :ownprocess, :others, :still_to_be_decided, :dangerous
+=item P
-=item SEE ALSO
+C<PERL_REVISION>, C<PERL_SUBVERSION>, C<PERL_VERSION>, C<perladmin>,
+C<perlpath>, C<pg>, C<phostname>, C<pidtype>, C<plibpth>, C<pmake>, C<pr>,
+C<prefix>, C<prefixexp>, C<privlib>, C<privlibexp>, C<prototype>,
+C<ptrsize>
-=item AUTHORS
+=item q
-=head2 Opcode::Safe, Safe - Compile and execute code in restricted
-compartments
+C<quadkind>, C<quadtype>
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=item r
-=item DESCRIPTION
+C<randbits>, C<randfunc>, C<randseedtype>, C<ranlib>, C<rd_nodata>, C<rm>,
+C<rmail>, C<runnm>
-a new namespace, an operator mask
+=item s
-=item WARNING
+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<signal_t>,
+C<sitearch>, C<sitearchexp>, C<sitebin>, C<sitebinexp>, C<sitelib>,
+C<sitelibexp>, C<siteprefix>, C<siteprefixexp>, C<sizetype>, C<sleep>,
+C<smail>, C<small>, C<so>, C<sockethdr>, C<socketlib>, C<sort>,
+C<spackage>, C<spitshell>, C<split>, C<sPRId64>, C<sPRIeldbl>,
+C<sPRIEldbl>, C<sPRIfldbl>, C<sPRIFldbl>, C<sPRIgldbl>, C<sPRIGldbl>,
+C<sPRIi64>, C<sPRIo64>, C<sPRIu64>, C<sPRIx64>, C<sPRIX64>, C<src>,
+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>
-=over
+=item t
-=item RECENT CHANGES
+C<tail>, C<tar>, C<tbl>, C<tee>, C<test>, C<timeincl>, C<timetype>,
+C<touch>, C<tr>, C<trnl>, C<troff>
-=item Methods in class Safe
+=item u
-permit (OP, ...), permit_only (OP, ...), deny (OP, ...), deny_only (OP,
-...), trap (OP, ...), untrap (OP, ...), share (NAME, ...), share_from
-(PACKAGE, ARRAYREF), varglob (VARNAME), reval (STRING), rdo (FILENAME),
-root (NAMESPACE), mask (MASK)
+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<use64bits>, C<usedl>,
+C<useithreads>, C<uselargefiles>, C<uselongdouble>, C<uselonglong>,
+C<usemorebits>, C<usemultiplicity>, C<usemymalloc>, C<usenm>, C<useopcode>,
+C<useperlio>, C<useposix>, 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>
-=item Some Safety Issues
+=item v
-Memory, CPU, Snooping, Signals, State Changes
+C<vendorbin>, C<vendorbinexp>, C<vendorlib>, C<vendorlibexp>,
+C<vendorprefix>, C<vendorprefixexp>, C<version>, C<vi>, C<voidflags>
-=item AUTHOR
+=item x
-=back
+C<xlibpth>
-=head2 Opcode::ops, ops - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when
-compiling
+=item z
-=item SYNOPSIS
+C<zcat>, C<zip>
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=back
-=item SEE ALSO
+=item NOTE
-=head2 POSIX - Perl interface to IEEE Std 1003.1
+=back
+
+=head2 Cwd, getcwd - get pathname of current working directory
+
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item NOTE
+=back
-=item CAVEATS
+=head2 DB - programmatic interface to the Perl debugging API (draft,
+subject to
+change)
-=item FUNCTIONS
+=over
-_exit, abort, abs, access, acos, alarm, asctime, asin, assert, atan, atan2,
-atexit, atof, atoi, atol, bsearch, calloc, ceil, chdir, chmod, chown,
-clearerr, clock, close, closedir, cos, cosh, creat, ctermid, ctime,
-cuserid, difftime, div, dup, dup2, errno, execl, execle, execlp, execv,
-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,
-sigsuspend, sin, sinh, sleep, sprintf, sqrt, srand, sscanf, stat, strcat,
-strchr, strcmp, strcoll, strcpy, strcspn, strerror, strftime, strlen,
-strncat, strncmp, strncpy, stroul, strpbrk, strrchr, strspn, strstr,
-strtod, strtok, strtol, strtoul, strxfrm, sysconf, system, tan, tanh,
-tcdrain, tcflow, tcflush, tcgetpgrp, tcsendbreak, tcsetpgrp, time, times,
-tmpfile, tmpnam, tolower, toupper, ttyname, tzname, tzset, umask, uname,
-ungetc, unlink, utime, vfprintf, vprintf, vsprintf, wait, waitpid,
-wcstombs, wctomb, write
+=item SYNOPSIS
-=item CLASSES
+=item DESCRIPTION
=over
-=item POSIX::SigAction
+=item Global Variables
-new
+ $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 POSIX::SigSet
+=item API Methods
-new, addset, delset, emptyset, fillset, ismember
+CLIENT->register(), CLIENT->evalcode(STRING), CLIENT->skippkg('D::hide'),
+CLIENT->run(), CLIENT->step(), CLIENT->next(), CLIENT->done()
-=item POSIX::Termios
+=item Client Callback Methods
-new, getattr, getcc, getcflag, getiflag, getispeed, getlflag, getoflag,
-getospeed, setattr, setcc, setcflag, setiflag, setispeed, setlflag,
-setoflag, setospeed, Baud rate values, Terminal interface values, c_cc
-field values, c_cflag field values, c_iflag field values, c_lflag field
-values, c_oflag field values
+CLIENT->init(), CLIENT->prestop([STRING]), CLIENT->stop(), CLIENT->idle(),
+CLIENT->poststop([STRING]), CLIENT->evalcode(STRING), CLIENT->cleanup(),
+CLIENT->output(LIST)
=back
-=item PATHNAME CONSTANTS
+=item BUGS
-Constants
+=item AUTHOR
-=item POSIX CONSTANTS
+=back
-Constants
+=head2 DB_File - Perl5 access to Berkeley DB version 1.x
-=item SYSTEM CONFIGURATION
+=over
-Constants
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+B<DB_HASH>, B<DB_BTREE>, B<DB_RECNO>
+
+=over
+
+=item Using DB_File with Berkeley DB version 2 or 3
+
+=item Interface to Berkeley DB
+
+=item Opening a Berkeley DB Database File
+
+=item Default Parameters
+
+=item In Memory Databases
+
+=back
+
+=item DB_HASH
+
+=over
+
+=item A Simple Example
+
+=back
+
+=item DB_BTREE
+
+=over
+
+=item Changing the BTREE sort order
+
+=item Handling Duplicate Keys
+
+=item The get_dup() Method
+
+=item The find_dup() Method
+
+=item The del_dup() Method
+
+=item Matching Partial Keys
+
+=back
+
+=item DB_RECNO
+
+=over
+
+=item The 'bval' Option
+
+=item A Simple Example
+
+=item Extra RECNO Methods
+
+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>
+
+=item Another Example
+
+=back
+
+=item THE API INTERFACE
+
+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 DBM FILTERS
+
+B<filter_store_key>, B<filter_store_value>, B<filter_fetch_key>,
+B<filter_fetch_value>
+
+=over
+
+=item The Filter
+
+=item An Example -- the NULL termination problem.
+
+=item Another Example -- Key is a C int.
+
+=back
+
+=item HINTS AND TIPS
+
+=over
+
+=item Locking: The Trouble with fd
+
+=item Safe ways to lock a database
+
+B<Tie::DB_Lock>, B<Tie::DB_LockFile>, B<DB_File::Lock>
+
+=item Sharing Databases With C Applications
+
+=item The untie() Gotcha
+
+=back
+
+=item COMMON QUESTIONS
+
+=over
+
+=item Why is there Perl source in my database?
+
+=item How do I store complex data structures with DB_File?
+
+=item What does "Invalid Argument" mean?
+
+=item What does "Bareword 'DB_File' not allowed" mean?
+
+=back
+
+=item REFERENCES
+
+=item HISTORY
+
+=item BUGS
+
+=item AVAILABILITY
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Data::Dumper - stringified perl data structures, suitable for both
+printing and C<eval>
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over
+
+=item Methods
+
+I<PACKAGE>->new(I<ARRAYREF [>, I<ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Dump I<or>
+I<PACKAGE>->Dump(I<ARRAYREF [>, I<ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Dumpxs I<or>
+I<PACKAGE>->Dumpxs(I<ARRAYREF [>, I<ARRAYREF]>),
+I<$OBJ>->Seen(I<[HASHREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Values(I<[ARRAYREF]>),
+I<$OBJ>->Names(I<[ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Reset
+
+=item Functions
+
+Dumper(I<LIST>), DumperX(I<LIST>)
+
+=item Configuration Variables or Methods
+
+$Data::Dumper::Indent I<or> I<$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]>)
+
+=item Exports
+
+Dumper
+
+=back
+
+=item EXAMPLES
+
+=item BUGS
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item VERSION
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Devel::DProf - a Perl code profiler
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item PROFILE FORMAT
+
+=item AUTOLOAD
+
+=item ENVIRONMENT
+
+=item BUGS
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Devel::Peek - A data debugging tool for the XS programmer
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item EXAMPLES
+
+=over
+
+=item A simple scalar string
+
+=item A simple scalar number
+
+=item A simple scalar with an extra reference
+
+=item A reference to a simple scalar
+
+=item A reference to an array
+
+=item A reference to a hash
+
+=item Dumping a large array or hash
+
+=item A reference to an SV which holds a C pointer
+
+=item A reference to a subroutine
+
+=back
+
+=item EXPORTS
+
+=item BUGS
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Devel::SelfStubber - generate stubs for a SelfLoading module
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=back
+
+=head2 DirHandle - supply object methods for directory handles
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Dumpvalue - provides screen dump of Perl data.
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over
+
+=item Creation
+
+C<arrayDepth>, C<hashDepth>, C<compactDump>, C<veryCompact>, C<globPrint>,
+C<DumpDBFiles>, C<DumpPackages>, C<DumpReused>, C<tick>, C<HighBit>,
+C<printUndef>, C<UsageOnly>, unctrl, subdump, bareStringify, quoteHighBit,
+stopDbSignal
+
+=item Methods
+
+dumpValue, dumpValues, dumpvars, set_quote, set_unctrl, compactDump,
+veryCompact, set, get
+
+=back
+
+=back
+
+=head2 DynaLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+@dl_library_path, @dl_resolve_using, @dl_require_symbols, @dl_librefs,
+@dl_modules, dl_error(), $dl_debug, dl_findfile(), dl_expandspec(),
+dl_load_file(), dl_loadflags(), dl_find_symbol(),
+dl_find_symbol_anywhere(), dl_undef_symbols(), dl_install_xsub(),
+bootstrap()
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 DynaLoader::XSLoader, XSLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into
+Perl code
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 English - use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation
+variables
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Env - perl module that imports environment variables
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Errno - System errno constants
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Exporter - Implements default import method for modules
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over
+
+=item How to Export
+
+=item Selecting What To Export
+
+=item Specialised Import Lists
+
+=item Exporting without using Export's import method
+
+=item Module Version Checking
+
+=item Managing Unknown Symbols
+
+=item Tag Handling Utility Functions
+
+=back
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Exporter::Heavy - Exporter guts
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=back
+
+=head2 ExtUtils::Command - utilities to replace common UNIX commands in
+Makefiles etc.
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=back
+
+cat
+
+eqtime src dst
+
+rm_f files...
+
+rm_f files...
+
+touch files ..
+
+mv source... destination
+
+cp source... destination
+
+chmod mode files..
+
+mkpath directory..
+
+test_f file
+
+=over
+
+=item BUGS
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 ExtUtils::Embed - Utilities for embedding Perl in C/C++ applications
+
+=over
+
+=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
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=back
+
+=head2 ExtUtils::Installed - Inventory management of installed modules
+
+=over
+
+=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
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+For static extensions, For dynamic extensions, For dynamic extensions
+
+=over
+
+=item EXTRALIBS
+
+=item LDLOADLIBS and LD_RUN_PATH
+
+=item BSLOADLIBS
+
+=back
+
+=item PORTABILITY
+
+=over
+
+=item VMS implementation
+
+=item Win32 implementation
+
+=back
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
+ExtUtils::MakeMaker
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+canonpath, cflags, manifypods, perl_archive
+
+=back
+
+=head2 ExtUtils::MM_OS2 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
+ExtUtils::MakeMaker
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=back
+
+=head2 ExtUtils::MM_Unix - methods used by ExtUtils::MakeMaker
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item METHODS
+
+=over
+
+=item Preloaded methods
+
+canonpath
+
+=back
+
+=back
+
+catdir
+
+catfile
+
+curdir
+
+rootdir
+
+updir
+
+=over
+
+=item SelfLoaded methods
+
+c_o (o)
+
+=back
+
+cflags (o)
+
+clean (o)
+
+const_cccmd (o)
+
+const_config (o)
+
+const_loadlibs (o)
+
+constants (o)
+
+depend (o)
+
+dir_target (o)
+
+dist (o)
+
+dist_basics (o)
+
+dist_ci (o)
+
+dist_core (o)
+
+dist_dir (o)
+
+dist_test (o)
+
+dlsyms (o)
+
+dynamic (o)
+
+dynamic_bs (o)
+
+dynamic_lib (o)
+
+exescan
+
+extliblist
+
+file_name_is_absolute
+
+find_perl
+
+=over
+
+=item Methods to actually produce chunks of text for the Makefile
+
+fixin
+
+=back
+
+force (o)
+
+guess_name
+
+has_link_code
+
+htmlifypods (o)
+
+init_dirscan
+
+init_main
+
+init_others
+
+install (o)
+
+installbin (o)
+
+libscan (o)
+
+linkext (o)
+
+lsdir
+
+macro (o)
+
+makeaperl (o)
+
+makefile (o)
+
+manifypods (o)
+
+maybe_command
+
+maybe_command_in_dirs
+
+needs_linking (o)
+
+nicetext
+
+parse_version
+
+parse_abstract
+
+pasthru (o)
+
+path
+
+perl_script
+
+perldepend (o)
+
+ppd
+
+perm_rw (o)
+
+perm_rwx (o)
+
+pm_to_blib
+
+post_constants (o)
+
+post_initialize (o)
+
+postamble (o)
+
+prefixify
+
+processPL (o)
+
+realclean (o)
+
+replace_manpage_separator
+
+static (o)
+
+static_lib (o)
+
+staticmake (o)
+
+subdir_x (o)
+
+subdirs (o)
+
+test (o)
+
+test_via_harness (o)
+
+test_via_script (o)
+
+tool_autosplit (o)
+
+tools_other (o)
+
+tool_xsubpp (o)
+
+top_targets (o)
+
+writedoc
+
+xs_c (o)
+
+xs_cpp (o)
+
+xs_o (o)
+
+perl_archive
+
+export_list
+
+=over
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 ExtUtils::MM_VMS - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
+ExtUtils::MakeMaker
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over
+
+=item Methods always loaded
+
+wraplist
+
+=back
+
+=back
+
+rootdir (override)
+
+=over
+
+=item SelfLoaded methods
+
+guess_name (override)
+
+=back
+
+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_others (override)
+
+constants (override)
+
+cflags (override)
+
+const_cccmd (override)
+
+pm_to_blib (override)
+
+tool_autosplit (override)
+
+tool_sxubpp (override)
+
+xsubpp_version (override)
+
+tools_other (override)
+
+dist (override)
+
+c_o (override)
+
+xs_c (override)
+
+xs_o (override)
+
+top_targets (override)
+
+dlsyms (override)
+
+dynamic_lib (override)
+
+dynamic_bs (override)
+
+static_lib (override)
+
+manifypods (override)
+
+processPL (override)
+
+installbin (override)
+
+subdir_x (override)
+
+clean (override)
+
+realclean (override)
+
+dist_basics (override)
+
+dist_core (override)
+
+dist_dir (override)
+
+dist_test (override)
+
+install (override)
+
+perldepend (override)
+
+makefile (override)
+
+test (override)
+
+test_via_harness (override)
+
+test_via_script (override)
+
+makeaperl (override)
+
+nicetext (override)
+
+=head2 ExtUtils::MM_Win32 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
+ExtUtils::MakeMaker
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=back
+
+catfile
+
+constants (o)
+
+static_lib (o)
+
+dynamic_bs (o)
+
+dynamic_lib (o)
+
+canonpath
+
+perl_script
+
+pm_to_blib
+
+test_via_harness (o)
+
+tool_autosplit (override)
+
+tools_other (o)
+
+xs_o (o)
+
+top_targets (o)
+
+htmlifypods (o)
+
+manifypods (o)
+
+dist_ci (o)
+
+dist_core (o)
+
+pasthru (o)
+
+=head2 ExtUtils::MakeMaker - create an extension Makefile
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over
+
+=item How To Write A Makefile.PL
+
+=item Default Makefile Behaviour
+
+=item make test
+
+=item make testdb
+
+=item make install
+
+=item PREFIX and LIB attribute
+
+=item AFS users
+
+=item Static Linking of a new Perl Binary
+
+=item Determination of Perl Library and Installation Locations
+
+=item Which architecture dependent directory?
+
+=item Using Attributes and Parameters
+
+AUTHOR, ABSTRACT, ABSTRACT_FROM, BINARY_LOCATION, C, CAPI, 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_LIB, INST_HTMLLIBDIR, INST_HTMLSCRIPTDIR, INST_MAN1DIR,
+INST_MAN3DIR, INST_SCRIPT, PERL_MALLOC_OK, LDFROM, LIB, LIBPERL_A, LIBS,
+LINKTYPE, MAKEAPERL, MAKEFILE, MAN1PODS, MAN3PODS, MAP_TARGET, MYEXTLIB,
+NAME, NEEDS_LINKING, NOECHO, NORECURS, NO_VC, OBJECT, OPTIMIZE, PERL,
+PERLMAINCC, PERL_ARCHLIB, PERL_LIB, PERL_SRC, PERM_RW, PERM_RWX, PL_FILES,
+PM, PMLIBDIRS, POLLUTE, PPM_INSTALL_EXEC, PPM_INSTALL_SCRIPT, PREFIX,
+PREREQ_PM, SKIP, TYPEMAPS, VERSION, VERSION_FROM, XS, XSOPT, XSPROTOARG,
+XS_VERSION
+
+=item Additional lowercase attributes
+
+clean, depend, dist, dynamic_lib, linkext, macro, realclean, test,
+tool_autosplit
+
+=item Overriding MakeMaker Methods
+
+=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
+
+=item Disabling an extension
+
+=back
+
+=item ENVIRONMENT
+
+PERL_MM_OPT
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHORS
+
+=back
+
+=head2 ExtUtils::Manifest - utilities to write and check a MANIFEST file
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item MANIFEST.SKIP
+
+=item EXPORT_OK
+
+=item GLOBAL VARIABLES
+
+=item DIAGNOSTICS
+
+C<Not in MANIFEST:> I<file>, C<No such file:> I<file>, C<MANIFEST:> I<$!>,
+C<Added to MANIFEST:> I<file>
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 ExtUtils::Miniperl, writemain - write the C code for perlmain.c
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap - make a bootstrap file for use by DynaLoader
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=back
+
+=head2 ExtUtils::Mksymlists - write linker options files for dynamic
+extension
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+DLBASE, DL_FUNCS, DL_VARS, FILE, FUNCLIST, IMPORTS, NAME
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item REVISION
+
+=back
+
+=head2 ExtUtils::Packlist - manage .packlist files
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item USAGE
+
+=item FUNCTIONS
+
+new(), read(), write(), validate(), packlist_file()
+
+=item EXAMPLE
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 ExtUtils::testlib - add blib/* directories to @INC
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Fatal - replace functions with equivalents which succeed or die
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Fcntl - load the C Fcntl.h defines
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item NOTE
+
+=item EXPORTED SYMBOLS
+
+=back
+
+=head2 File::Basename, fileparse - split a pathname into pieces
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+fileparse_set_fstype, fileparse
+
+=item EXAMPLES
+
+C<basename>, C<dirname>
+
+=back
+
+=head2 File::CheckTree, validate - run many filetest checks on a tree
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=back
+
+=head2 File::Compare - Compare files or filehandles
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item RETURN
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 File::Copy - Copy files or filehandles
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over
+
+=item Special behaviour if C<syscopy> is defined (OS/2, VMS and Win32)
+
+rmscopy($from,$to[,$date_flag])
+
+=back
+
+=item RETURN
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 File::DosGlob - DOS like globbing and then some
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item EXPORTS (by request only)
+
+=item BUGS
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item HISTORY
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 File::Find, find - traverse a file tree
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+C<wanted>, C<bydepth>, C<follow>, C<follow_fast>, C<follow_skip>,
+C<no_chdir>, C<untaint>, C<untaint_pattern>, C<untaint_skip>
+
+=item CAVEAT
+
+=back
+
+=head2 File::Glob - Perl extension for BSD glob routine
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+C<GLOB_ERR>, C<GLOB_MARK>, C<GLOB_NOCASE>, C<GLOB_NOCHECK>, C<GLOB_NOSORT>,
+C<GLOB_BRACE>, C<GLOB_NOMAGIC>, C<GLOB_QUOTE>, C<GLOB_TILDE>, C<GLOB_CSH>
+
+=item DIAGNOSTICS
+
+C<GLOB_NOSPACE>, C<GLOB_ABEND>
+
+=item NOTES
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 File::Path - create or remove directory trees
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item AUTHORS
+
+=back
+
+=head2 File::Spec - portably perform operations on file names
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHORS
+
+=back
+
+=head2 File::Spec::Functions - portably perform operations on file names
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over
+
+=item Exports
+
+=back
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 File::Spec::Mac - File::Spec for MacOS
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item METHODS
+
+canonpath
+
+=back
+
+catdir
+
+catfile
+
+curdir
+
+devnull
+
+rootdir
+
+tmpdir
+
+updir
+
+file_name_is_absolute
+
+path
+
+=over
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 File::Spec::OS2 - methods for OS/2 file specs
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=back
+
+=head2 File::Spec::Unix - methods used by File::Spec
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item METHODS
+
+canonpath
+
+=back
+
+catdir
+
+catfile
+
+curdir
+
+devnull
+
+rootdir
+
+tmpdir
+
+updir
+
+no_upwards
+
+file_name_is_absolute
+
+path
+
+join
+
+splitpath
+
+splitdir
+
+catpath
+
+abs2rel
+
+rel2abs
+
+=over
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 File::Spec::VMS - methods for VMS file specs
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+eliminate_macros
+
+=back
+
+fixpath
+
+=over
+
+=item Methods always loaded
+
+catdir
+
+=back
+
+catfile
+
+curdir (override)
+
+devnull (override)
+
+rootdir (override)
+
+tmpdir (override)
+
+updir (override)
+
+path (override)
+
+file_name_is_absolute (override)
+
+=over
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 File::Spec::Win32 - methods for Win32 file specs
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+devnull
+
+=back
+
+tmpdir
+
+catfile
+
+canonpath
+
+splitpath
+
+splitdir
+
+catpath
+
+abs2rel
+
+rel2abs
+
+=over
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 File::stat - by-name interface to Perl's built-in stat() functions
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item NOTE
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 FileCache - keep more files open than the system permits
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item BUGS
+
+=back
+
+=head2 FileHandle - supply object methods for filehandles
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+$fh->print, $fh->printf, $fh->getline, $fh->getlines
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 FindBin - Locate directory of original perl script
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item EXPORTABLE VARIABLES
+
+=item KNOWN BUGS
+
+=item AUTHORS
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
+=back
+
+=head2 GDBM_File - Perl5 access to the gdbm library.
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item AVAILABILITY
+
+=item BUGS
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Getopt::Long, GetOptions - extended processing of command line
+options
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+!, +, :s, :i, :f
+
+=over
+
+=item Linkage specification
+
+=item Aliases and abbreviations
+
+=item Non-option call-back routine
+
+=item Option starters
+
+=item Return values and Errors
+
+=back
+
+=item COMPATIBILITY
+
+=item EXAMPLES
+
+=item CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
+
+default, auto_abbrev, getopt_compat, require_order, permute, bundling
+(default: reset), bundling_override (default: reset), ignore_case
+(default: set), ignore_case_always (default: reset), pass_through (default:
+reset), prefix, prefix_pattern, debug (default: reset)
+
+=item OTHER USEFUL VARIABLES
+
+$Getopt::Long::VERSION, $Getopt::Long::error
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Getopt::Std, getopt - Process single-character switches with switch
+clustering
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=back
+
+=head2 I18N::Collate - compare 8-bit scalar data according to the current
+locale
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=back
+
+=head2 IO - load various IO modules
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=back
+
+=head2 IO::Dir - supply object methods for directory handles
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+new ( [ DIRNAME ] ), open ( DIRNAME ), read (), seek ( POS ), tell (),
+rewind (), close (), tie %hash, IO::Dir, DIRNAME [, OPTIONS ]
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
+=back
+
+=head2 IO::File - supply object methods for filehandles
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item CONSTRUCTOR
+
+new ( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ), new_tmpfile
+
+=item METHODS
+
+open( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] )
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item HISTORY
+
+=back
+
+=head2 IO::Handle - supply object methods for I/O handles
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item CONSTRUCTOR
+
+new (), new_from_fd ( FD, MODE )
+
+=item METHODS
+
+$io->fdopen ( FD, MODE ), $io->opened, $io->getline, $io->getlines,
+$io->ungetc ( ORD ), $io->write ( BUF, LEN [, OFFSET ] ), $io->error,
+$io->clearerr, $io->sync, $io->flush, $io->printflush ( ARGS ),
+$io->blocking ( [ BOOL ] ), $io->untaint
+
+=item NOTE
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item BUGS
+
+=item HISTORY
+
+=back
+
+=head2 IO::Pipe - supply object methods for pipes
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item CONSTRUCTOR
+
+new ( [READER, WRITER] )
+
+=item METHODS
+
+reader ([ARGS]), writer ([ARGS]), handles ()
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
+=back
+
+=head2 IO::Poll - Object interface to system poll call
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item METHODS
+
+mask ( IO [, EVENT_MASK ] ), poll ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), events ( IO ), remove (
+IO ), handles( [ EVENT_MASK ] )
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
+=back
+
+=head2 IO::Seekable - supply seek based methods for I/O objects
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item HISTORY
+
+=back
+
+=head2 IO::Select - OO interface to the select system call
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item CONSTRUCTOR
+
+new ( [ HANDLES ] )
+
+=item METHODS
+
+add ( HANDLES ), remove ( HANDLES ), exists ( HANDLE ), handles, can_read (
+[ TIMEOUT ] ), can_write ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), has_exception ( [ TIMEOUT ] ),
+count (), bits(), select ( READ, WRITE, ERROR [, TIMEOUT ] )
+
+=item EXAMPLE
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
+=back
+
+=head2 IO::Socket - Object interface to socket communications
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item CONSTRUCTOR
+
+new ( [ARGS] )
+
+=item METHODS
+
+accept([PKG]), socketpair(DOMAIN, TYPE, PROTOCOL), timeout([VAL]),
+sockopt(OPT [, VAL]), sockdomain, socktype, protocol, connected
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
+=back
+
+=head2 IO::Socket::INET - Object interface for AF_INET domain sockets
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item CONSTRUCTOR
+
+new ( [ARGS] )
+
+=over
+
+=item METHODS
+
+sockaddr (), sockport (), sockhost (), peeraddr (), peerport (), peerhost
+()
+
+=back
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
+=back
+
+=head2 IO::Socket::UNIX - Object interface for AF_UNIX domain sockets
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item CONSTRUCTOR
+
+new ( [ARGS] )
+
+=item METHODS
+
+hostpath(), peerpath()
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
+=back
+
+=head2 IO::lib::IO::Dir, IO::Dir - supply object methods for directory
+handles
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+new ( [ DIRNAME ] ), open ( DIRNAME ), read (), seek ( POS ), tell (),
+rewind (), close (), tie %hash, IO::Dir, DIRNAME [, OPTIONS ]
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
+=back
+
+=head2 IO::lib::IO::File, IO::File - supply object methods for filehandles
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item CONSTRUCTOR
+
+new ( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ), new_tmpfile
+
+=item METHODS
+
+open( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] )
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item HISTORY
+
+=back
+
+=head2 IO::lib::IO::Handle, IO::Handle - supply object methods for I/O
+handles
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item CONSTRUCTOR
+
+new (), new_from_fd ( FD, MODE )
+
+=item METHODS
+
+$io->fdopen ( FD, MODE ), $io->opened, $io->getline, $io->getlines,
+$io->ungetc ( ORD ), $io->write ( BUF, LEN [, OFFSET ] ), $io->error,
+$io->clearerr, $io->sync, $io->flush, $io->printflush ( ARGS ),
+$io->blocking ( [ BOOL ] ), $io->untaint
+
+=item NOTE
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item BUGS
+
+=item HISTORY
+
+=back
+
+=head2 IO::lib::IO::Pipe, IO::Pipe - supply object methods for pipes
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item CONSTRUCTOR
+
+new ( [READER, WRITER] )
+
+=item METHODS
+
+reader ([ARGS]), writer ([ARGS]), handles ()
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
+=back
+
+=head2 IO::lib::IO::Poll, IO::Poll - Object interface to system poll call
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item METHODS
+
+mask ( IO [, EVENT_MASK ] ), poll ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), events ( IO ), remove (
+IO ), handles( [ EVENT_MASK ] )
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
+=back
+
+=head2 IO::lib::IO::Seekable, IO::Seekable - supply seek based methods for
+I/O objects
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item HISTORY
+
+=back
+
+=head2 IO::lib::IO::Select, IO::Select - OO interface to the select system
+call
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item CONSTRUCTOR
+
+new ( [ HANDLES ] )
+
+=item METHODS
+
+add ( HANDLES ), remove ( HANDLES ), exists ( HANDLE ), handles, can_read (
+[ TIMEOUT ] ), can_write ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), has_exception ( [ TIMEOUT ] ),
+count (), bits(), select ( READ, WRITE, ERROR [, TIMEOUT ] )
+
+=item EXAMPLE
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
+=back
+
+=head2 IO::lib::IO::Socket, IO::Socket - Object interface to socket
+communications
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item CONSTRUCTOR
+
+new ( [ARGS] )
+
+=item METHODS
+
+accept([PKG]), socketpair(DOMAIN, TYPE, PROTOCOL), timeout([VAL]),
+sockopt(OPT [, VAL]), sockdomain, socktype, protocol, connected
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
+=back
+
+=head2 IO::lib::IO::Socket::INET, IO::Socket::INET - Object interface for
+AF_INET domain sockets
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item CONSTRUCTOR
+
+new ( [ARGS] )
+
+=over
+
+=item METHODS
+
+sockaddr (), sockport (), sockhost (), peeraddr (), peerport (), peerhost
+()
+
+=back
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
+=back
+
+=head2 IO::lib::IO::Socket::UNIX, IO::Socket::UNIX - Object interface for
+AF_UNIX domain sockets
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item CONSTRUCTOR
+
+new ( [ARGS] )
+
+=item METHODS
+
+hostpath(), peerpath()
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
+=back
+
+=head2 IPC::Msg - SysV Msg IPC object class
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item METHODS
+
+new ( KEY , FLAGS ), id, rcv ( BUF, LEN [, TYPE [, FLAGS ]] ), remove, set
+( STAT ), set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), snd ( TYPE, MSG [,
+FLAGS ] ), stat
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
+=back
+
+=head2 IPC::Open2, open2 - open a process for both reading and writing
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item WARNING
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 IPC::Open3, open3 - open a process for reading, writing, and error
+handling
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item WARNING
+
+=back
+
+=head2 IPC::Semaphore - SysV Semaphore IPC object class
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item METHODS
+
+new ( KEY , NSEMS , FLAGS ), getall, getncnt ( SEM ), getpid ( SEM ),
+getval ( SEM ), getzcnt ( SEM ), id, op ( OPLIST ), remove, set ( STAT ),
+set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), setall ( VALUES ), setval ( N
+, VALUE ), stat
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
+=back
+
+=head2 IPC::SysV - SysV IPC constants
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+ftok( PATH, ID )
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHORS
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
+=back
+
+=head2 IPC::SysV::Msg, IPC::Msg - SysV Msg IPC object class
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item METHODS
+
+new ( KEY , FLAGS ), id, rcv ( BUF, LEN [, TYPE [, FLAGS ]] ), remove, set
+( STAT ), set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), snd ( TYPE, MSG [,
+FLAGS ] ), stat
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
+=back
+
+=head2 IPC::SysV::Semaphore, IPC::Semaphore - SysV Semaphore IPC object
+class
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item METHODS
+
+new ( KEY , NSEMS , FLAGS ), getall, getncnt ( SEM ), getpid ( SEM ),
+getval ( SEM ), getzcnt ( SEM ), id, op ( OPLIST ), remove, set ( STAT ),
+set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), setall ( VALUES ), setval ( N
+, VALUE ), stat
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Math::BigFloat - Arbitrary length float math package
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+number format, Error returns 'NaN', Division is computed to, Rounding is
+performed
+
+=item BUGS
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Math::BigInt - Arbitrary size integer math package
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+Canonical notation, Input, Output
+
+=item EXAMPLES
+
+=item Autocreating constants
+
+=item BUGS
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Math::Complex - complex numbers and associated mathematical
+functions
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item OPERATIONS
+
+=item CREATION
+
+=item STRINGIFICATION
+
+=item USAGE
+
+=item ERRORS DUE TO DIVISION BY ZERO OR LOGARITHM OF ZERO
+
+=item ERRORS DUE TO INDIGESTIBLE ARGUMENTS
+
+=item BUGS
+
+=item AUTHORS
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Math::Trig - trigonometric functions
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS
+
+B<tan>
+
+=over
+
+=item ERRORS DUE TO DIVISION BY ZERO
+
+=item SIMPLE (REAL) ARGUMENTS, COMPLEX RESULTS
+
+=back
+
+=item PLANE ANGLE CONVERSIONS
+
+=item RADIAL COORDINATE CONVERSIONS
+
+=over
+
+=item COORDINATE SYSTEMS
+
+=item 3-D ANGLE CONVERSIONS
+
+cartesian_to_cylindrical, cartesian_to_spherical, cylindrical_to_cartesian,
+cylindrical_to_spherical, spherical_to_cartesian, spherical_to_cylindrical
+
+=back
+
+=item GREAT CIRCLE DISTANCES
+
+=item EXAMPLES
+
+=item BUGS
+
+=item AUTHORS
+
+=back
+
+=head2 NDBM_File - Tied access to ndbm files
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Net::Ping - check a remote host for reachability
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over
+
+=item Functions
+
+Net::Ping->new([$proto [, $def_timeout [, $bytes]]]);, $p->ping($host [,
+$timeout]);, $p->close();, pingecho($host [, $timeout]);
+
+=back
+
+=item WARNING
+
+=item NOTES
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Net::hostent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in gethost*()
+functions
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item EXAMPLES
+
+=item NOTE
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Net::netent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getnet*()
+functions
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item EXAMPLES
+
+=item NOTE
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Net::protoent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getproto*()
+functions
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item NOTE
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Net::servent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getserv*()
+functions
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item EXAMPLES
+
+=item NOTE
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 O - Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item CONVENTIONS
+
+=item IMPLEMENTATION
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 ODBM_File - Tied access to odbm files
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Opcode - Disable named opcodes when compiling perl code
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item NOTE
+
+=item WARNING
+
+=item Operator Names and Operator Lists
+
+an operator name (opname), an operator tag name (optag), a negated opname
+or optag, an operator set (opset)
+
+=item Opcode Functions
+
+opcodes, opset (OP, ...), opset_to_ops (OPSET), opset_to_hex (OPSET),
+full_opset, empty_opset, invert_opset (OPSET), verify_opset (OPSET, ...),
+define_optag (OPTAG, OPSET), opmask_add (OPSET), opmask, opdesc (OP, ...),
+opdump (PAT)
+
+=item Manipulating Opsets
+
+=item TO DO (maybe)
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item Predefined Opcode Tags
+
+:base_core, :base_mem, :base_loop, :base_io, :base_orig, :base_math,
+:base_thread, :default, :filesys_read, :sys_db, :browse, :filesys_open,
+:filesys_write, :subprocess, :ownprocess, :others, :still_to_be_decided,
+:dangerous
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHORS
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Opcode::Safe, Safe - Compile and execute code in restricted
+compartments
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+a new namespace, an operator mask
+
+=item WARNING
+
+=over
+
+=item RECENT CHANGES
+
+=item Methods in class Safe
+
+permit (OP, ...), permit_only (OP, ...), deny (OP, ...), deny_only (OP,
+...), trap (OP, ...), untrap (OP, ...), share (NAME, ...), share_from
+(PACKAGE, ARRAYREF), varglob (VARNAME), reval (STRING), rdo (FILENAME),
+root (NAMESPACE), mask (MASK)
+
+=item Some Safety Issues
+
+Memory, CPU, Snooping, Signals, State Changes
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Opcode::ops, ops - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when
+compiling
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 POSIX - Perl interface to IEEE Std 1003.1
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item NOTE
+
+=item CAVEATS
+
+=item FUNCTIONS
+
+_exit, abort, abs, access, acos, alarm, asctime, asin, assert, atan, atan2,
+atexit, atof, atoi, atol, bsearch, calloc, ceil, chdir, chmod, chown,
+clearerr, clock, close, closedir, cos, cosh, creat, ctermid, ctime,
+cuserid, difftime, div, dup, dup2, errno, execl, execle, execlp, execv,
+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,
+sigsuspend, sin, sinh, sleep, sprintf, sqrt, srand, sscanf, stat, strcat,
+strchr, strcmp, strcoll, strcpy, strcspn, strerror, strftime, strlen,
+strncat, strncmp, strncpy, stroul, strpbrk, strrchr, strspn, strstr,
+strtod, strtok, strtol, strtoul, strxfrm, sysconf, system, tan, tanh,
+tcdrain, tcflow, tcflush, tcgetpgrp, tcsendbreak, tcsetpgrp, time, times,
+tmpfile, tmpnam, tolower, toupper, ttyname, tzname, tzset, umask, uname,
+ungetc, unlink, utime, vfprintf, vprintf, vsprintf, wait, waitpid,
+wcstombs, wctomb, write
+
+=item CLASSES
+
+=over
+
+=item POSIX::SigAction
+
+new
+
+=item POSIX::SigSet
+
+new, addset, delset, emptyset, fillset, ismember
+
+=item POSIX::Termios
+
+new, getattr, getcc, getcflag, getiflag, getispeed, getlflag, getoflag,
+getospeed, setattr, setcc, setcflag, setiflag, setispeed, setlflag,
+setoflag, setospeed, Baud rate values, Terminal interface values, c_cc
+field values, c_cflag field values, c_iflag field values, c_lflag field
+values, c_oflag field values
+
+=back
+
+=item PATHNAME CONSTANTS
+
+Constants
+
+=item POSIX CONSTANTS
+
+Constants
+
+=item SYSTEM CONFIGURATION
+
+Constants
=item ERRNO
-Constants
+Constants
+
+=item FCNTL
+
+Constants
+
+=item FLOAT
+
+Constants
+
+=item LIMITS
+
+Constants
+
+=item LOCALE
+
+Constants
+
+=item MATH
+
+Constants
+
+=item SIGNAL
+
+Constants
+
+=item STAT
+
+Constants, Macros
+
+=item STDLIB
+
+Constants
+
+=item STDIO
+
+Constants
+
+=item TIME
+
+Constants
+
+=item UNISTD
+
+Constants
+
+=item WAIT
+
+Constants, Macros
+
+=item CREATION
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Pod::Checker, podchecker() - check pod documents for syntax errors
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item OPTIONS/ARGUMENTS
+
+=over
+
+=item Options
+
+B<-warnings> =E<gt> I<val>
+
+=back
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=over
+
+=item Warnings
+
+=back
+
+=item DIAGNOSTICS
+
+=item RETURN VALUE
+
+=item EXAMPLES
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Pod::Checker, Pod::Hyperlink - class for manipulation of POD
+hyperlinks
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item METHODS
+
+new(), parse(), markup($on,$off,$pageon,$pageoff), text(), warning(),
+page(), node(), type(), alttext(), line(), file()
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Pod::Html - module to convert pod files to HTML
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item ARGUMENTS
+
+help, htmldir, htmlroot, infile, outfile, podroot, podpath, libpods,
+netscape, nonetscape, index, noindex, recurse, norecurse, title, css,
+verbose, quiet
+
+=item EXAMPLE
+
+=item ENVIRONMENT
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item COPYRIGHT
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Pod::InputObjects - objects representing POD input paragraphs,
+commands, etc.
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item REQUIRES
+
+=item EXPORTS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+B<Pod::InputSource>, B<Pod::Paragraph>, B<Pod::InteriorSequence>,
+B<Pod::ParseTree>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<Pod::InputSource>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<new()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<name()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<handle()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<was_cutting()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<Pod::Paragraph>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<new()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<cmd_name()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<text()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<raw_text()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<cmd_prefix()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<cmd_separator()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<parse_tree()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<file_line()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<Pod::InteriorSequence>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<new()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<cmd_name()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<prepend()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<append()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<nested()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<raw_text()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<left_delimiter()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<right_delimiter()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<parse_tree()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<file_line()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<DESTROY()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<Pod::ParseTree>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<new()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<top()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<children()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<prepend()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<append()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<raw_text()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<DESTROY()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Pod::Man - Convert POD data to formatted *roff input
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+center, date, fixed, fixedbold, fixeditalic, fixedbolditalic, release,
+section
+
+=item DIAGNOSTICS
+
+roff font should be 1 or 2 chars, not `%s', Invalid link %s, Unknown escape
+EE<lt>%sE<gt>, Unknown sequence %s, Unmatched =back
+
+=item BUGS
+
+=item NOTES
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Pod::Parser - base class for creating POD filters and translators
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item REQUIRES
+
+=item EXPORTS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item QUICK OVERVIEW
+
+=item PARSING OPTIONS
+
+B<-want_nonPODs> (default: unset), B<-process_cut_cmd> (default: unset)
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item RECOMMENDED SUBROUTINE/METHOD OVERRIDES
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<command()>
+
+C<$cmd>, C<$text>, C<$line_num>, C<$pod_para>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<verbatim()>
+
+C<$text>, C<$line_num>, C<$pod_para>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<textblock()>
+
+C<$text>, C<$line_num>, C<$pod_para>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<interior_sequence()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item OPTIONAL SUBROUTINE/METHOD OVERRIDES
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<new()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<initialize()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<begin_pod()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<begin_input()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<end_input()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<end_pod()>
-=item FCNTL
+=back
-Constants
+=over
-=item FLOAT
+=item B<preprocess_line()>
-Constants
+=back
-=item LIMITS
+=over
-Constants
+=item B<preprocess_paragraph()>
-=item LOCALE
+=back
-Constants
+=over
-=item MATH
+=item METHODS FOR PARSING AND PROCESSING
-Constants
+=back
-=item SIGNAL
+=over
-Constants
+=item B<parse_text()>
-=item STAT
+B<-expand_seq> =E<gt> I<code-ref>|I<method-name>, B<-expand_text> =E<gt>
+I<code-ref>|I<method-name>, B<-expand_ptree> =E<gt>
+I<code-ref>|I<method-name>
-Constants, Macros
+=back
-=item STDLIB
+=over
-Constants
+=item B<interpolate()>
-=item STDIO
+=back
-Constants
+=over
-=item TIME
+=item B<parse_paragraph()>
-Constants
+=back
-=item UNISTD
+=over
-Constants
+=item B<parse_from_filehandle()>
-=item WAIT
+=back
-Constants, Macros
+=over
-=item CREATION
+=item B<parse_from_file()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item ACCESSOR METHODS
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<errorsub()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<cutting()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<parseopts()>
+
+=back
-=head2 Pod::Html, Pod::HTML - module to convert pod files to HTML
+=over
+
+=item B<output_file()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<output_handle()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<input_file()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<input_handle()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<input_streams()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<top_stream()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item PRIVATE METHODS AND DATA
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<_push_input_stream()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<_pop_input_stream()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item TREE-BASED PARSING
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Pod::Select, podselect() - extract selected sections of POD from
+input
+
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
+=item REQUIRES
+
+=item EXPORTS
+
=item DESCRIPTION
-=item ARGUMENTS
+=item SECTION SPECIFICATIONS
-help, htmlroot, infile, outfile, podroot, podpath, libpods, netscape,
-nonetscape, index, noindex, recurse, norecurse, title, verbose
+=item RANGE SPECIFICATIONS
-=item EXAMPLE
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item OBJECT METHODS
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<curr_headings()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<select()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<add_selection()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<clear_selections()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<match_section()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<is_selected()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item EXPORTED FUNCTIONS
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<podselect()>
+
+B<-output>, B<-sections>, B<-ranges>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item PRIVATE METHODS AND DATA
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item B<_compile_section_spec()>
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item $self->{_SECTION_HEADINGS}
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item $self->{_SELECTED_SECTIONS}
+
+=back
+
+=over
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Pod::Text - Convert POD data to formatted ASCII text
+
+=over
+
+=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::Text::Color - Convert POD data to formatted color ASCII text
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
=item BUGS
=item SEE ALSO
-=item COPYRIGHT
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Pod::Text::Termcap, Pod::Text::Color - Convert POD data to ASCII
+text with format escapes
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Pod::Usage, pod2usage() - print a usage message from embedded pod
+documentation
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item ARGUMENTS
+
+C<-message>, C<-msg>, C<-exitval>, C<-verbose>, C<-output>, C<-input>,
+C<-pathlist>
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item EXAMPLES
+
+=over
-=head2 Pod::Text - convert POD data to formatted ASCII text
+=item Recommended Use
-=item SYNOPSIS
+=back
-=item DESCRIPTION
+=item CAVEATS
=item AUTHOR
-=item TODO
+=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
+
+=back
=head2 SDBM_File - Tied access to sdbm files
+=over
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
+=back
+
=head2 Safe - Compile and execute code in restricted compartments
+=over
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
=back
+=back
+
=head2 Search::Dict, look - search for key in dictionary file
+=over
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
+=back
+
=head2 SelectSaver - save and restore selected file handle
+=over
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
+=back
+
=head2 SelfLoader - load functions only on demand
+=over
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
=item Multiple packages and fully qualified subroutine names
+=back
+
=head2 Shell - run shell commands transparently within perl
+=over
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
=item AUTHOR
+=back
+
=head2 Socket, sockaddr_in, sockaddr_un, inet_aton, inet_ntoa - load the C
socket.h defines and structure manipulators
+=over
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
SOCKADDR_IN, sockaddr_un PATHNAME, sockaddr_un SOCKADDR_UN,
pack_sockaddr_un PATH, unpack_sockaddr_un SOCKADDR_UN
+=back
+
=head2 Symbol - manipulate Perl symbols and their names
+=over
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
+=back
+
=head2 Sys::Hostname - Try every conceivable way to get hostname
+=over
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
=item AUTHOR
+=back
+
=head2 Syslog, Sys::Syslog, openlog, closelog, setlogmask, syslog - Perl
interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls
+=over
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
openlog $ident, $logopt, $facility, syslog $priority, $format, @args,
-setlogmask $mask_priority, closelog
+setlogmask $mask_priority, setlogsock $sock_type (added in 5.004_02),
+closelog
=item EXAMPLES
=item AUTHOR
+=back
+
=head2 Term::Cap - Perl termcap interface
+=over
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
=item EXAMPLES
+=back
+
=head2 Term::Complete - Perl word completion module
+=over
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
=item AUTHOR
+=back
+
=head2 Term::ReadLine - Perl interface to various C<readline> packages. If
no real package is found, substitutes stubs instead of basic functions.
+=over
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
=item Additional supported functions
+C<tkRunning>, C<ornaments>, C<newTTY>
+
=item EXPORTS
=item ENVIRONMENT
+=back
+
+=head2 Test - provides a simple framework for writing test scripts
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item TEST TYPES
+
+NORMAL TESTS, SKIPPED TESTS, TODO TESTS
+
+=item RETURN VALUE
+
+=item ONFAIL
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
=head2 Test::Harness - run perl standard test scripts with statistics
+=over
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
%d)>, C<Failed 1 test, %.2f%% okay. %s>, C<Failed %d/%d tests, %.2f%% okay.
%s>
+=item ENVIRONMENT
+
=item SEE ALSO
=item AUTHORS
=item BUGS
+=back
+
=head2 Text::Abbrev, abbrev - create an abbreviation table from a list
+=over
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
=item EXAMPLE
-=head2 Text::ParseWords - parse text into an array of tokens
+=back
+
+=head2 Text::ParseWords - parse text into an array of tokens or array of
+arrays
+
+=over
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
+=item EXAMPLES
+
+0a simple word, 1multiple spaces are skipped because of our $delim, 2use of
+quotes to include a space in a word, 3use of a backslash to include a space
+in a word, 4use of a backslash to remove the special meaning of a
+double-quote, 5another simple word (note the lack of effect of the
+backslashed double-quote)
+
=item AUTHORS
+=back
+
=head2 Text::Soundex - Implementation of the Soundex Algorithm as Described
by Knuth
+=over
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
=item AUTHOR
+=back
+
=head2 Text::Tabs -- expand and unexpand tabs per the unix expand(1) and
unexpand(1)
+=over
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
=item AUTHOR
+=back
+
=head2 Text::Wrap - line wrapping to form simple paragraphs
+=over
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
=item EXAMPLE
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Thread - multithreading
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item FUNCTIONS
+
+new \&start_sub, new \&start_sub, LIST, lock VARIABLE, async BLOCK;,
+Thread->self, Thread->list, cond_wait VARIABLE, cond_signal VARIABLE,
+cond_broadcast VARIABLE, yield
+
+=item METHODS
+
+join, eval, detach, equal, tid
+
+=item LIMITATIONS
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Thread::Queue - thread-safe queues
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item FUNCTIONS AND METHODS
+
+new, enqueue LIST, dequeue, dequeue_nb, pending
+
+=item SEE ALSO
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Thread::Semaphore - thread-safe semaphores
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item FUNCTIONS AND METHODS
+
+new, new NUMBER, down, down NUMBER, up, up NUMBER
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Thread::Signal - Start a thread which runs signal handlers reliably
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
=item BUGS
-=item AUTHOR
+=back
+
+=head2 Thread::Specific - thread-specific keys
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Tie::Array - base class for tied arrays
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+TIEARRAY classname, LIST, STORE this, index, value, FETCH this, index,
+FETCHSIZE this, STORESIZE this, count, EXTEND this, count, EXISTS this,
+key, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this, DESTROY this, PUSH this, LIST, POP this,
+SHIFT this, UNSHIFT this, LIST, SPLICE this, offset, length, LIST
+
+=item CAVEATS
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
+=head2 Tie::Handle, Tie::StdHandle - base class definitions for tied
+handles
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, WRITE this, scalar, length, offset, PRINT this,
+LIST, PRINTF this, format, LIST, READ this, scalar, length, offset,
+READLINE this, GETC this, CLOSE this, OPEN this, filename, BINMODE this,
+EOF this, TELL this, SEEK this, offset, whence, DESTROY this
+
+=item MORE INFORMATION
+
+=back
=head2 Tie::Hash, Tie::StdHash - base class definitions for tied hashes
+=over
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
=item MORE INFORMATION
+=back
+
=head2 Tie::RefHash - use references as hash keys
+=over
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
=item SEE ALSO
+=back
+
=head2 Tie::Scalar, Tie::StdScalar - base class definitions for tied
scalars
+=over
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
=item MORE INFORMATION
+=back
+
=head2 Tie::SubstrHash - Fixed-table-size, fixed-key-length hashing
+=over
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
=item CAVEATS
+=back
+
=head2 Time::Local - efficiently compute time from local and GMT time
+=over
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
+=item IMPLEMENTATION
+
+=item BUGS
+
+=back
+
=head2 Time::gmtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in gmtime()
function
+=over
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
=item AUTHOR
+=back
+
=head2 Time::localtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in localtime()
function
+=over
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
=item AUTHOR
+=back
+
=head2 Time::tm - internal object used by Time::gmtime and Time::localtime
+=over
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
=item AUTHOR
+=back
+
=head2 UNIVERSAL - base class for ALL classes (blessed references)
+=over
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
-isa ( TYPE ), can ( METHOD ), VERSION ( [ REQUIRE ] ), isa ( VAL, TYPE ),
-can ( VAL, METHOD )
+isa ( TYPE ), can ( METHOD ), VERSION ( [ REQUIRE ] ), UNIVERSAL::isa (
+VAL, TYPE ), UNIVERSAL::can ( VAL, METHOD )
+
+=back
=head2 User::grent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getgr*()
functions
+=over
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
=item AUTHOR
+=back
+
=head2 User::pwent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getpw*()
functions
+=over
+
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
=item AUTHOR
+=back
+
+=head2 XSLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code
+
+=over
+
+=item SYNOPSIS
+
+=item DESCRIPTION
+
+=item AUTHOR
+
+=back
+
=head1 AUXILIARY DOCUMENTATION
Here should be listed all the extra programs' documentation, but they
don't all have manual pages yet:
+=over
+
=item a2p
=item s2p
=item wrapsuid
+=back
+
=head1 AUTHOR
Larry Wall <F<larry@wall.org>>, with the help of oodles
projects / p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git / blobdiff