X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=pod%2Fperltoc.pod;h=617ed2390f2bc21729319d06b9ba26a6593761c1;hb=c4f1ce08c1c189f6f2a738bd05fe6603760d0e85;hp=87737b3488bd28f00864977dd626948c42f17f59;hpb=d420ca496e0666582fb2271d93a0641c43e81971;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/pod/perltoc.pod b/pod/perltoc.pod index 87737b3..617ed23 100644 --- a/pod/perltoc.pod +++ b/pod/perltoc.pod @@ -17,17 +17,23 @@ through to locate the proper section you're looking for. =item SYNOPSIS -=item DESCRIPTION +=over 4 + +=item Overview + +=item Tutorials + +=item Reference Manual + +=item Internals and C Language Interface + +=item Miscellaneous + +=item Platform-Specific -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 +=back + +=item DESCRIPTION =item AVAILABILITY @@ -47,283 +53,116 @@ environment, with integrated editor support, POSIX 1003.1 compliant library =back -=head2 perlfaq - frequently asked questions about Perl ($Date: 1999/05/23 -20:38:02 $) - -=over 4 - -=item DESCRIPTION - -perlfaq: Structural overview of the FAQ, L: General Questions -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: 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: 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 in my C program; what am I doing wrong?, When I tried to run my -script, I got this message. What does it mean?, What's MakeMaker?, -L: 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 <: 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 <*>?, Is there a -leak/bug in glob()?, How can I open a file with a leading ">" 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 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: 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 while 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?, -How can I quote a variable to use in a regex?, What is C 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: 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) = ;" 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: 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: -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? +=head2 perlintro -- a brief introduction and overview of Perl =over 4 -=item Where to get this document +=item DESCRIPTION -=item How to contribute to this document +=over 4 -=item What will happen if you mail your Perl programming problems to the -authors +=item What is Perl? -=back +=item Running Perl programs -=item Credits +=item Basic syntax overview -=item Author and Copyright Information +=item Perl variable types -=over 4 +Scalars, Arrays, Hashes -=item Bundled Distributions +=item Variable scoping -=item Disclaimer +=item Conditional and looping constructs -=back +if, while, for, foreach -=item Changes +=item Builtin operators and functions -1/November/2000, 23/May/99, 13/April/99, 7/January/99, 22/June/98, -24/April/97, 23/April/97, 25/March/97, 18/March/97, 17/March/97 Version, -Initial Release: 11/March/97 +Arithmetic, Numeric comparison, String comparison, Boolean logic, +Miscellaneous + +=item Files and I/O + +=item Regular expressions + +Simple matching, Simple substitution, More complex regular expressions, +Parentheses for capturing, Other regexp features + +=item Writing subroutines + +=item OO Perl + +=item Using Perl modules + +=back + +=item AUTHOR =back -=head2 perltoc - perl documentation table of contents +=head2 perlfaq - frequently asked questions about Perl ($Date: 2001/11/19 +17:09:37 $) =over 4 =item DESCRIPTION -=item BASIC DOCUMENTATION +=over 4 + +=item perlfaq: Structural overview of the FAQ. + +=item L: General Questions About Perl + +=item L: Obtaining and Learning about Perl + +=item L: Programming Tools + +=item L: Data Manipulation + +=item L: Files and Formats + +=item L: Regexps + +=item L: General Perl Language Issues + +=item L: System Interaction + +=item L: Networking + +=back + +=item About the perlfaq documents =over 4 -=item perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language +=item Where to get the perlfaq + +=item How to contribute to the perlfaq + +=item What will happen if you mail your Perl programming problems to the +authors + +=back + +=item Credits + +=item Author and Copyright Information -SYNOPSIS, DESCRIPTION, AVAILABILITY, ENVIRONMENT, AUTHOR, FILES, SEE ALSO, -DIAGNOSTICS, BUGS, NOTES +=over 4 -=item perlfaq - frequently asked questions about Perl ($Date: 1999/05/23 -20:38:02 $) +=item Bundled Distributions -DESCRIPTION +=item Disclaimer =back +=item Changes + +1/November/2000, 23/May/99, 13/April/99, 7/January/99, 22/June/98, +24/April/97, 23/April/97, 25/March/97, 18/March/97, 17/March/97 Version, +Initial Release: 11/March/97 + =back =head2 perlbook - Perl book information @@ -463,7 +302,7 @@ unary &, unary *, (TYPE) ?PATTERN?, m/PATTERN/cgimosx, /PATTERN/cgimosx, q/STRING/, C<'STRING'>, qq/STRING/, "STRING", qr/STRING/imosx, qx/STRING/, `STRING`, qw/STRING/, s/PATTERN/REPLACEMENT/egimosx, tr/SEARCHLIST/REPLACEMENTLIST/cds, -y/SEARCHLIST/REPLACEMENTLIST/cds +y/SEARCHLIST/REPLACEMENTLIST/cds, < FILEHANDLE, I<-X> EXPR, I<-X>, abs VALUE, abs, accept NEWSOCKET,GENERICSOCKET, alarm SECONDS, alarm, atan2 Y,X, bind SOCKET,NAME, binmode FILEHANDLE, DISCIPLINE, binmode FILEHANDLE, bless REF,CLASSNAME, bless REF, caller EXPR, caller, chdir EXPR, chmod LIST, chomp VARIABLE, -chomp LIST, chomp, chop VARIABLE, chop LIST, chop, chown LIST, chr NUMBER, -chr, chroot FILENAME, chroot, close FILEHANDLE, close, closedir DIRHANDLE, -connect SOCKET,NAME, continue BLOCK, cos EXPR, cos, crypt PLAINTEXT,SALT, -dbmclose HASH, dbmopen HASH,DBNAME,MASK, defined EXPR, defined, delete -EXPR, die LIST, do BLOCK, do SUBROUTINE(LIST), do EXPR, dump LABEL, dump, -each HASH, eof FILEHANDLE, eof (), eof, eval EXPR, eval BLOCK, exec LIST, -exec PROGRAM LIST, exists EXPR, exit EXPR, exp EXPR, exp, fcntl -FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, fileno FILEHANDLE, flock FILEHANDLE,OPERATION, -fork, format, formline PICTURE,LIST, getc FILEHANDLE, getc, getlogin, -getpeername SOCKET, getpgrp PID, getppid, getpriority WHICH,WHO, getpwnam -NAME, getgrnam NAME, gethostbyname NAME, getnetbyname NAME, getprotobyname -NAME, getpwuid UID, getgrgid GID, getservbyname NAME,PROTO, gethostbyaddr -ADDR,ADDRTYPE, getnetbyaddr ADDR,ADDRTYPE, getprotobynumber NUMBER, -getservbyport PORT,PROTO, getpwent, getgrent, gethostent, getnetent, -getprotoent, getservent, setpwent, setgrent, sethostent STAYOPEN, setnetent -STAYOPEN, setprotoent STAYOPEN, setservent STAYOPEN, endpwent, endgrent, -endhostent, endnetent, endprotoent, endservent, getsockname SOCKET, -getsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME, glob EXPR, glob, gmtime EXPR, goto LABEL, -goto EXPR, goto &NAME, grep BLOCK LIST, grep EXPR,LIST, hex EXPR, hex, -import, index STR,SUBSTR,POSITION, index STR,SUBSTR, int EXPR, int, ioctl -FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, join EXPR,LIST, keys HASH, kill SIGNAL, LIST, -last LABEL, last, lc EXPR, lc, lcfirst EXPR, lcfirst, length EXPR, length, -link OLDFILE,NEWFILE, listen SOCKET,QUEUESIZE, local EXPR, localtime EXPR, -lock, log EXPR, log, lstat EXPR, lstat, m//, map BLOCK LIST, map EXPR,LIST, -mkdir FILENAME,MASK, mkdir FILENAME, msgctl ID,CMD,ARG, msgget KEY,FLAGS, -msgrcv ID,VAR,SIZE,TYPE,FLAGS, msgsnd ID,MSG,FLAGS, my EXPR, my EXPR : -ATTRIBUTES, next LABEL, next, no Module LIST, oct EXPR, oct, open -FILEHANDLE,MODE,LIST, open FILEHANDLE,EXPR, open FILEHANDLE, opendir -DIRHANDLE,EXPR, ord EXPR, ord, our EXPR, pack TEMPLATE,LIST, package +chomp( LIST ), chomp, chop VARIABLE, chop( LIST ), chop, chown LIST, chr +NUMBER, chr, chroot FILENAME, chroot, close FILEHANDLE, close, closedir +DIRHANDLE, connect SOCKET,NAME, continue BLOCK, cos EXPR, cos, crypt +PLAINTEXT,SALT, dbmclose HASH, dbmopen HASH,DBNAME,MASK, defined EXPR, +defined, delete EXPR, die LIST, do BLOCK, do SUBROUTINE(LIST), do EXPR, +dump LABEL, dump, each HASH, eof FILEHANDLE, eof (), eof, eval EXPR, eval +BLOCK, exec LIST, exec PROGRAM LIST, exists EXPR, exit EXPR, exp EXPR, exp, +fcntl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, fileno FILEHANDLE, flock +FILEHANDLE,OPERATION, fork, format, formline PICTURE,LIST, getc FILEHANDLE, +getc, getlogin, getpeername SOCKET, getpgrp PID, getppid, getpriority +WHICH,WHO, getpwnam NAME, getgrnam NAME, gethostbyname NAME, getnetbyname +NAME, getprotobyname NAME, getpwuid UID, getgrgid GID, getservbyname +NAME,PROTO, gethostbyaddr ADDR,ADDRTYPE, getnetbyaddr ADDR,ADDRTYPE, +getprotobynumber NUMBER, getservbyport PORT,PROTO, getpwent, getgrent, +gethostent, getnetent, getprotoent, getservent, setpwent, setgrent, +sethostent STAYOPEN, setnetent STAYOPEN, setprotoent STAYOPEN, setservent +STAYOPEN, endpwent, endgrent, endhostent, endnetent, endprotoent, +endservent, getsockname SOCKET, getsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME, glob EXPR, +glob, gmtime EXPR, goto LABEL, goto EXPR, goto &NAME, grep BLOCK LIST, grep +EXPR,LIST, hex EXPR, hex, import, index STR,SUBSTR,POSITION, index +STR,SUBSTR, int EXPR, int, ioctl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, join +EXPR,LIST, keys HASH, kill SIGNAL, LIST, last LABEL, last, lc EXPR, lc, +lcfirst EXPR, lcfirst, length EXPR, length, link OLDFILE,NEWFILE, listen +SOCKET,QUEUESIZE, local EXPR, localtime EXPR, lock THING, log EXPR, log, +lstat EXPR, lstat, m//, map BLOCK LIST, map EXPR,LIST, mkdir FILENAME,MASK, +mkdir FILENAME, msgctl ID,CMD,ARG, msgget KEY,FLAGS, msgrcv +ID,VAR,SIZE,TYPE,FLAGS, msgsnd ID,MSG,FLAGS, my EXPR, my EXPR : ATTRIBUTES, +next LABEL, next, no Module LIST, oct EXPR, oct, open FILEHANDLE,EXPR, open +FILEHANDLE,MODE,EXPR, open FILEHANDLE,MODE,EXPR,LIST, open +FILEHANDLE,MODE,REFERENCE, open FILEHANDLE, opendir DIRHANDLE,EXPR, ord +EXPR, ord, our EXPR, our EXPR : ATTRIBUTES, pack TEMPLATE,LIST, package NAMESPACE, package, pipe READHANDLE,WRITEHANDLE, pop ARRAY, pop, pos SCALAR, pos, print FILEHANDLE LIST, print LIST, print, printf FILEHANDLE FORMAT, LIST, printf FORMAT, LIST, prototype FUNCTION, push ARRAY,LIST, @@ -609,14 +446,14 @@ SOCKET,MSG,FLAGS,TO, send SOCKET,MSG,FLAGS, setpgrp PID,PGRP, setpriority WHICH,WHO,PRIORITY, setsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME,OPTVAL, shift ARRAY, shift, shmctl ID,CMD,ARG, shmget KEY,SIZE,FLAGS, shmread ID,VAR,POS,SIZE, shmwrite ID,STRING,POS,SIZE, shutdown SOCKET,HOW, sin EXPR, sin, sleep -EXPR, sleep, socket SOCKET,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL, socketpair -SOCKET1,SOCKET2,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL, sort SUBNAME LIST, sort BLOCK LIST, -sort LIST, splice ARRAY,OFFSET,LENGTH,LIST, splice ARRAY,OFFSET,LENGTH, -splice ARRAY,OFFSET, splice ARRAY, split /PATTERN/,EXPR,LIMIT, split -/PATTERN/,EXPR, split /PATTERN/, split, sprintf FORMAT, LIST, sqrt EXPR, -sqrt, srand EXPR, srand, stat FILEHANDLE, stat EXPR, stat, study SCALAR, -study, sub BLOCK, sub NAME, sub NAME BLOCK, substr -EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH,REPLACEMENT, substr EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH, substr +EXPR, sleep, sockatmark SOCKET, socket SOCKET,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL, +socketpair SOCKET1,SOCKET2,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL, sort SUBNAME LIST, sort +BLOCK LIST, sort LIST, splice ARRAY,OFFSET,LENGTH,LIST, splice +ARRAY,OFFSET,LENGTH, splice ARRAY,OFFSET, splice ARRAY, split +/PATTERN/,EXPR,LIMIT, split /PATTERN/,EXPR, split /PATTERN/, split, sprintf +FORMAT, LIST, sqrt EXPR, sqrt, srand EXPR, srand, stat FILEHANDLE, stat +EXPR, stat, study SCALAR, study, sub BLOCK, sub NAME, sub NAME BLOCK, +substr EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH,REPLACEMENT, substr EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH, substr EXPR,OFFSET, symlink OLDFILE,NEWFILE, syscall LIST, sysopen FILEHANDLE,FILENAME,MODE, sysopen FILEHANDLE,FILENAME,MODE,PERMS, sysread FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET, sysread FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH, sysseek @@ -700,11 +537,11 @@ more elaborate constructs =over 4 -=item Declaration of a ARRAY OF ARRAYS +=item Declaration of an ARRAY OF ARRAYS -=item Generation of a ARRAY OF ARRAYS +=item Generation of an ARRAY OF ARRAYS -=item Access and Printing of a ARRAY OF ARRAYS +=item Access and Printing of an ARRAY OF ARRAYS =back @@ -724,11 +561,11 @@ more elaborate constructs =over 4 -=item Declaration of a ARRAY OF HASHES +=item Declaration of an ARRAY OF HASHES -=item Generation of a ARRAY OF HASHES +=item Generation of an ARRAY OF HASHES -=item Access and Printing of a ARRAY OF HASHES +=item Access and Printing of an ARRAY OF HASHES =back @@ -778,13 +615,6 @@ more elaborate constructs =item Using character classes -\d is a digit and represents [0-9], \s is a whitespace character and -represents [\ \t\r\n\f], \w is a word character (alphanumeric or _) and -represents [0-9a-zA-Z_], \D is a negated \d; it represents any character -but a digit [^0-9], \S is a negated \s; it represents any non-whitespace -character [^\s], \W is a negated \w; it represents any non-word character -[^\w], The period '.' matches any character but "\n" - =item Matching this or that =item Grouping things and hierarchical matching @@ -793,12 +623,6 @@ character [^\s], \W is a negated \w; it represents any non-word character =item Matching repetitions -C = match 'a' 1 or 0 times, C = match 'a' 0 or more times, i.e., -any number of times, C = match 'a' 1 or more times, i.e., at least -once, C = match at least C times, but not more than C times, -C = match at least C or more times, C = match exactly C -times - =item More matching =item Search and replace @@ -821,7 +645,7 @@ times =back -=head2 perlpod - plain old documentation +=head2 perlpod - the Plain Old Documentation format =over 4 @@ -829,20 +653,73 @@ times =over 4 +=item Ordinary Paragraph + =item Verbatim Paragraph =item Command Paragraph -=item Ordinary Block of Text +C<=head1 I>, C<=head2 I>, C<=head3 I>, C<=head4 I>, C<=over I>, C<=item +I>, C<=back>, C<=cut>, C<=pod>, C<=begin I>, C<=end +I>, C<=for I I> + +=item Formatting Codes + +CtextE> -- italic text, CtextE> -- bold text, +CcodeE> -- code text, CnameE> -- a hyperlink, +CescapeE> -- a character escape, CfilenameE> -- used +for filenames, CtextE> -- text contains non-breaking spaces, +Ctopic nameE> -- an index entry, CE> -- a null +(zero-effect) formatting code =item The Intent =item Embedding Pods in Perl Modules -=item Common Pod Pitfalls +=item Hints for Writing Pod + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR =back +=head2 perlpodspec - Plain Old Documentation: format specification and +notes + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Pod Definitions + +=item Pod Commands + +"=head1", "=head2", "=head3", "=head4", "=pod", "=cut", "=over", "=item", +"=back", "=begin formatname", "=end formatname", "=for formatname text..." + +=item Pod Formatting Codes + +CtextE> -- italic text, CtextE> -- bold text, +CcodeE> -- code text, CfilenameE> -- style for +filenames, Ctopic nameE> -- an index entry, CE> -- a +null (zero-effect) formatting code, CnameE> -- a hyperlink, +CescapeE> -- a character escape, CtextE> -- text +contains non-breaking spaces + +=item Notes on Implementing Pod Processors + +=item About LE...E Codes + +First:, Second:, Third:, Fourth:, Fifth:, Sixth: + +=item About =over...=back Regions + +=item About Data Paragraphs and "=begin/=end" Regions + =item SEE ALSO =item AUTHOR @@ -890,7 +767,7 @@ Discontinuance, Deprecation, Discontinuance, Discontinuance =item Parsing Traps -Parsing, Parsing, Parsing, Parsing +Parsing, Parsing, Parsing, Parsing, Parsing =item Numerical Traps @@ -974,7 +851,8 @@ B<-x> I HOME, LOGDIR, PATH, PERL5LIB, PERL5OPT, PERLLIB, PERL5DB, PERL5SHELL (specific to the Win32 port), PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS, PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL, -PERL_ROOT (specific to the VMS port), SYS$LOGIN (specific to the VMS port) +PERL_ENCODING, PERL_ROOT (specific to the VMS port), SYS$LOGIN (specific to +the VMS port) =back @@ -1074,16 +952,17 @@ b [line] [condition], b subname [condition], b postpone subname command, a [line], A, W expr, W, O booloption .., O anyoption? .., O option=value .., < ?, < [ command ], << command, > ?, > command, >> command, { ?, { [ command ], {{ command, ! number, ! -number, ! pattern, !! -cmd, H -number, q or ^D, R, |dbcmd, ||dbcmd, command, m expr, man [manpage] +cmd, @ file, H -number, q or ^D, R, |dbcmd, ||dbcmd, command, m expr, man +[manpage] =item Configurable Options C, C, C, C, C, C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, C =item Debugger input/output @@ -1122,35 +1001,36 @@ listing =item Predefined Names -$ARG, $_, $>, $MATCH, $&, $PREMATCH, $`, $POSTMATCH, $', -$LAST_PAREN_MATCH, $+, @LAST_MATCH_END, @+, $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, $-, @LAST_MATCH_START, @-, C<$`> is the same as -C, C<$&> is the same as C, C<$'> is the same as C, C<$1> is the same -as C, C<$2> is the same as -C, C<$3> is the same as C, 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, $$, $REAL_USER_ID, $UID, $<, -$EFFECTIVE_USER_ID, $EUID, $>, $REAL_GROUP_ID, $GID, $(, -$EFFECTIVE_GROUP_ID, $EGID, $), $PROGRAM_NAME, $0, $[, $], $COMPILING, $^C, -$DEBUGGING, $^D, $SYSTEM_FD_MAX, $^F, $^H, %^H, $INPLACE_EDIT, $^I, $^M, -$OSNAME, $^O, $PERLDB, $^P, 0x01, 0x02, 0x04, 0x08, 0x10, 0x20, 0x40, 0x80, +$ARG, $_, $a, $b, $>, $MATCH, $&, $PREMATCH, $`, $POSTMATCH, $', +$LAST_PAREN_MATCH, $+, $^N, @LAST_MATCH_END, @+, $MULTILINE_MATCHING, $*, +HANDLE->input_line_number(EXPR), $INPUT_LINE_NUMBER, $NR, $, +IO::Handle->input_record_separator(EXPR), $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR, $RS, $/, +HANDLE->autoflush(EXPR), $OUTPUT_AUTOFLUSH, $|, +IO::Handle->output_field_separator EXPR, $OUTPUT_FIELD_SEPARATOR, $OFS, $,, +IO::Handle->output_record_separator EXPR, $OUTPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR, $ORS, +$\, $LIST_SEPARATOR, $", $SUBSCRIPT_SEPARATOR, $SUBSEP, $;, $OFMT, $#, +HANDLE->format_page_number(EXPR), $FORMAT_PAGE_NUMBER, $%, +HANDLE->format_lines_per_page(EXPR), $FORMAT_LINES_PER_PAGE, $=, +HANDLE->format_lines_left(EXPR), $FORMAT_LINES_LEFT, $-, @LAST_MATCH_START, +@-, C<$`> is the same as C, C<$&> is the same as +C, C<$'> is the same as C, C<$1> is the same as C, C<$2> +is the same as C, C<$3> is the same as +C, HANDLE->format_name(EXPR), +$FORMAT_NAME, $~, HANDLE->format_top_name(EXPR), $FORMAT_TOP_NAME, $^, +IO::Handle->format_line_break_characters EXPR, +$FORMAT_LINE_BREAK_CHARACTERS, $:, IO::Handle->format_formfeed EXPR, +$FORMAT_FORMFEED, $^L, $ACCUMULATOR, $^A, $CHILD_ERROR, $?, ${^ENCODING}, +$OS_ERROR, $ERRNO, $!, $EXTENDED_OS_ERROR, $^E, $EVAL_ERROR, $@, +$PROCESS_ID, $PID, $$, $REAL_USER_ID, $UID, $<, $EFFECTIVE_USER_ID, $EUID, +$>, $REAL_GROUP_ID, $GID, $(, $EFFECTIVE_GROUP_ID, $EGID, $), +$PROGRAM_NAME, $0, $[, $], $COMPILING, $^C, $DEBUGGING, $^D, +$SYSTEM_FD_MAX, $^F, $^H, %^H, $INPLACE_EDIT, $^I, $^M, $OSNAME, $^O, +${^OPEN}, $PERLDB, $^P, 0x01, 0x02, 0x04, 0x08, 0x10, 0x20, 0x40, 0x80, 0x100, 0x200, $LAST_REGEXP_CODE_RESULT, $^R, $EXCEPTIONS_BEING_CAUGHT, $^S, -$BASETIME, $^T, $PERL_VERSION, $^V, $WARNING, $^W, ${^WARNING_BITS}, -${^WIDE_SYSTEM_CALLS}, $EXECUTABLE_NAME, $^X, $ARGV, @ARGV, @INC, @_, %INC, -%ENV, $ENV{expr}, %SIG, $SIG{expr} +$BASETIME, $^T, ${^TAINT}, $PERL_VERSION, $^V, $WARNING, $^W, +${^WARNING_BITS}, ${^WIDE_SYSTEM_CALLS}, $EXECUTABLE_NAME, $^X, ARGV, +$ARGV, @ARGV, @F, @INC, @_, %INC, %ENV, $ENV{expr}, %SIG, $SIG{expr} =item Error Indicators @@ -1168,6 +1048,8 @@ ${^WIDE_SYSTEM_CALLS}, $EXECUTABLE_NAME, $^X, $ARGV, @ARGV, @INC, @_, %INC, =item DESCRIPTION +=over 4 + =item Declaration and Access of Arrays of Arrays =item Growing Your Own @@ -1176,6 +1058,8 @@ ${^WIDE_SYSTEM_CALLS}, $EXECUTABLE_NAME, $^X, $ARGV, @ARGV, @INC, @_, %INC, =item Slices +=back + =item SEE ALSO =item AUTHOR @@ -1248,6 +1132,78 @@ ${^WIDE_SYSTEM_CALLS}, $EXECUTABLE_NAME, $^X, $ARGV, @ARGV, @INC, @_, %INC, =back +=head2 perlpacktut - tutorial on C and C + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item The Basic Principle + +=item Packing Text + +=item Packing Numbers + +=over 4 + +=item Integers + +=item Unpacking a Stack Frame + +=item How to Eat an Egg on a Net + +=item Floating point Numbers + +=back + +=item Exotic Templates + +=over 4 + +=item Bit Strings + +=item Uuencoding + +=item Doing Sums + +=item Unicode + +=item Another Portable Binary Encoding + +=back + +=item Lengths and Widths + +=over 4 + +=item String Lengths + +=item Dynamic Templates + +=back + +=item Packing and Unpacking C Structures + +=over 4 + +=item The Alignment Pit + +=item Alignment, Take 2 + +=item Alignment, Take 3 + +=item Pointers for How to Use Them + +=back + +=item Pack Recipes + +=item Funnies Section + +=item Authors + +=back + =head2 perlretut - Perl regular expressions tutorial =over 4 @@ -1262,90 +1218,16 @@ ${^WIDE_SYSTEM_CALLS}, $EXECUTABLE_NAME, $^X, $ARGV, @ARGV, @INC, @_, %INC, =item Using character classes -\d is a digit and represents [0-9], \s is a whitespace character and -represents [\ \t\r\n\f], \w is a word character (alphanumeric or _) and -represents [0-9a-zA-Z_], \D is a negated \d; it represents any character -but a digit [^0-9], \S is a negated \s; it represents any non-whitespace -character [^\s], \W is a negated \w; it represents any non-word character -[^\w], The period '.' matches any character but "\n", no modifiers (//): -Default behavior. C<'.'> matches any character except C<"\n">. C<^> -matches only at the beginning of the string and C<$> matches only at the -end or before a newline at the end, s modifier (//s): Treat string as a -single long line. C<'.'> matches any character, even C<"\n">. C<^> -matches only at the beginning of the string and C<$> matches only at the -end or before a newline at the end, m modifier (//m): Treat string as a set -of multiple lines. C<'.'> matches any character except C<"\n">. C<^> and -C<$> are able to match at the start or end of I line within the -string, both s and m modifiers (//sm): Treat string as a single long line, -but detect multiple lines. C<'.'> matches any character, even C<"\n">. -C<^> and C<$>, however, are able to match at the start or end of I -line within the string - =item Matching this or that =item Grouping things and hierarchical matching -0 Start with the first letter in the string 'a', 1 Try the first -alternative in the first group 'abd', 2 Match 'a' followed by 'b'. So far -so good, 3 'd' in the regexp doesn't match 'c' in the string - a dead end. -So backtrack two characters and pick the second alternative in the first -group 'abc', 4 Match 'a' followed by 'b' followed by 'c'. We are on a roll -and have satisfied the first group. Set $1 to 'abc', 5 Move on to the -second group and pick the first alternative 'df', 6 Match the 'd', 7 'f' in -the regexp doesn't match 'e' in the string, so a dead end. Backtrack one -character and pick the second alternative in the second group 'd', 8 'd' -matches. The second grouping is satisfied, so set $2 to 'd', 9 We are at -the end of the regexp, so we are done! We have matched 'abcd' out of the -string "abcde" - =item Extracting matches =item Matching repetitions -C = match 'a' 1 or 0 times, C = match 'a' 0 or more times, i.e., -any number of times, C = match 'a' 1 or more times, i.e., at least -once, C = match at least C times, but not more than C times, -C = match at least C or more times, C = match exactly C -times, Principle 0: Taken as a whole, any regexp will be matched at the -earliest possible position in the string, Principle 1: In an alternation -C, the leftmost alternative that allows a match for the whole -regexp will be the one used, Principle 2: The maximal matching quantifiers -C, C<*>, C<+> and C<{n,m}> will in general match as much of the string -as possible while still allowing the whole regexp to match, Principle 3: If -there are two or more elements in a regexp, the leftmost greedy quantifier, -if any, will match as much of the string as possible while still allowing -the whole regexp to match. The next leftmost greedy quantifier, if any, -will try to match as much of the string remaining available to it as -possible, while still allowing the whole regexp to match. And so on, until -all the regexp elements are satisfied, C = match 'a' 0 or 1 times. Try -0 first, then 1, C = match 'a' 0 or more times, i.e., any number of -times, but as few times as possible, C = match 'a' 1 or more times, -i.e., at least once, but as few times as possible, C = match at -least C times, not more than C times, as few times as possible, -C = match at least C times, but as few times as possible, -C = match exactly C times. Because we match exactly C times, -C is equivalent to C and is just there for notational -consistency, Principle 3: If there are two or more elements in a regexp, -the leftmost greedy (non-greedy) quantifier, if any, will match as much -(little) of the string as possible while still allowing the whole regexp to -match. The next leftmost greedy (non-greedy) quantifier, if any, will try -to match as much (little) of the string remaining available to it as -possible, while still allowing the whole regexp to match. And so on, until -all the regexp elements are satisfied, 0 Start with the first letter in the -string 't', 1 The first quantifier '.*' starts out by matching the whole -string 'the cat in the hat', 2 'a' in the regexp element 'at' doesn't match -the end of the string. Backtrack one character, 3 'a' in the regexp -element 'at' still doesn't match the last letter of the string 't', so -backtrack one more character, 4 Now we can match the 'a' and the 't', 5 -Move on to the third element '.*'. Since we are at the end of the string -and '.*' can match 0 times, assign it the empty string, 6 We are done! - =item Building a regexp -specifying the task in detail,, breaking down the problem into smaller -parts,, translating the small parts into regexps,, combining the regexps,, -and optimizing the final combined regexp - =item Using regular expressions in Perl =back @@ -1400,7 +1282,7 @@ i, m, s, x =item Regular Expressions -cntrl, graph, print, punct, xdigit +[1], [2], [3], cntrl, graph, print, punct, xdigit =item Extended Patterns @@ -1652,12 +1534,14 @@ C<(?(condition)yes-pattern|no-pattern)> =back -=head2 perltootc - Tom's OO Tutorial for Class Data in Perl +=head2 perltooc - Tom's OO Tutorial for Class Data in Perl =over 4 =item DESCRIPTION +=item Class Data in a Can + =item Class Data as Package Variables =over 4 @@ -1720,7 +1604,7 @@ C<(?(condition)yes-pattern|no-pattern)> =item Method Invocation -=item WARNING +=item Indirect Object Syntax =item Default UNIVERSAL methods @@ -1786,7 +1670,10 @@ DESTROY this =item Tying Arrays TIEARRAY classname, LIST, FETCH this, index, STORE this, index, value, -UNTIE this, DESTROY this +FETCHSIZE this, STORESIZE this, count, EXTEND this, count, EXISTS this, +key, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this, PUSH this, LIST, POP this, SHIFT this, +UNSHIFT this, LIST, SPLICE this, offset, length, LIST, UNTIE this, DESTROY +this =item Tying Hashes @@ -1893,7 +1780,7 @@ Proto, LocalPort, Listen, Reuse =back -=head2 perlfork - Perl's fork() emulation +=head2 perlfork - Perl's fork() emulation (EXPERIMENTAL, subject to change) =over 4 @@ -1962,6 +1849,14 @@ string =item DESCRIPTION +=back + +=head2 perlothrtut - old tutorial on threads in Perl + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + =item What Is A Thread Anyway? =item Threaded Program Models @@ -2126,8 +2021,6 @@ http://testers.cpan.org/ =item DOS and Derivatives -Build instructions for OS/2, L - =item S =item VMS @@ -2151,25 +2044,26 @@ Build instructions for OS/2, L -I FILEHANDLE, -I EXPR, -I, alarm SECONDS, alarm, binmode FILEHANDLE, chmod LIST, chown LIST, chroot FILENAME, chroot, crypt PLAINTEXT,SALT, dbmclose HASH, dbmopen HASH,DBNAME,MODE, dump LABEL, exec -LIST, 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 +LIST, exit EXPR, exit, fcntl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, flock +FILEHANDLE,OPERATION, fork, getlogin, getpgrp PID, getppid, getpriority +WHICH,WHO, getpwnam NAME, getgrnam NAME, getnetbyname NAME, getpwuid UID, +getgrgid GID, getnetbyaddr ADDR,ADDRTYPE, getprotobynumber NUMBER, +getservbyport PORT,PROTO, getpwent, getgrent, gethostent, getnetent, +getprotoent, getservent, setpwent, setgrent, sethostent STAYOPEN, setnetent +STAYOPEN, setprotoent STAYOPEN, setservent STAYOPEN, endpwent, endgrent, +endhostent, endnetent, endprotoent, endservent, getsockopt +SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME, glob EXPR, glob, ioctl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, +kill SIGNAL, LIST, link OLDFILE,NEWFILE, lstat FILEHANDLE, lstat EXPR, +lstat, msgctl ID,CMD,ARG, msgget KEY,FLAGS, msgsnd ID,MSG,FLAGS, msgrcv +ID,VAR,SIZE,TYPE,FLAGS, open FILEHANDLE,EXPR, open FILEHANDLE, pipe +READHANDLE,WRITEHANDLE, readlink EXPR, readlink, select +RBITS,WBITS,EBITS,TIMEOUT, semctl ID,SEMNUM,CMD,ARG, semget KEY,NSEMS,FLAGS, semop KEY,OPSTRING, setgrent, setpgrp PID,PGRP, setpriority WHICH,WHO,PRIORITY, setpwent, setsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME,OPTVAL, shmctl ID,CMD,ARG, shmget KEY,SIZE,FLAGS, -shmread ID,VAR,POS,SIZE, shmwrite ID,STRING,POS,SIZE, socketpair -SOCKET1,SOCKET2,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL, stat FILEHANDLE, stat EXPR, stat, -symlink OLDFILE,NEWFILE, syscall LIST, sysopen +shmread ID,VAR,POS,SIZE, shmwrite ID,STRING,POS,SIZE, sockatmark SOCKET, +socketpair SOCKET1,SOCKET2,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL, stat FILEHANDLE, stat +EXPR, stat, symlink OLDFILE,NEWFILE, syscall LIST, sysopen FILEHANDLE,FILENAME,MODE,PERMS, system LIST, times, truncate FILEHANDLE,LENGTH, truncate EXPR,LENGTH, umask EXPR, umask, utime LIST, wait, waitpid PID,FLAGS @@ -2178,12 +2072,12 @@ wait, waitpid PID,FLAGS =item CHANGES -v1.47, 22 March 2000, v1.46, 12 February 2000, v1.45, 20 December 1999, -v1.44, 19 July 1999, v1.43, 24 May 1999, v1.42, 22 May 1999, v1.41, 19 May -1999, v1.40, 11 April 1999, v1.39, 11 February 1999, v1.38, 31 December -1998, v1.37, 19 December 1998, v1.36, 9 September 1998, v1.35, 13 August -1998, v1.33, 06 August 1998, v1.32, 05 August 1998, v1.30, 03 August 1998, -v1.23, 10 July 1998 +v1.48, 02 February 2001, v1.47, 22 March 2000, v1.46, 12 February 2000, +v1.45, 20 December 1999, v1.44, 19 July 1999, v1.43, 24 May 1999, v1.42, 22 +May 1999, v1.41, 19 May 1999, v1.40, 11 April 1999, v1.39, 11 February +1999, v1.38, 31 December 1998, v1.37, 19 December 1998, v1.36, 9 September +1998, v1.35, 13 August 1998, v1.33, 06 August 1998, v1.32, 05 August 1998, +v1.30, 03 August 1998, v1.23, 10 July 1998 =item Supported Platforms @@ -2226,6 +2120,8 @@ localization) =item The localeconv function +=item I18N::Langinfo + =back =item LOCALE CATEGORIES @@ -2248,15 +2144,6 @@ localization) =item SECURITY -B (C, C, C, C and C):, -B (with C<\l>, C<\L>, C<\u> or C<\U>), -B (C):, B (C):, -B (printf() and write()):, B (lc(), lcfirst(), uc(), ucfirst()):, B (localeconv(), strcoll(), strftime(), strxfrm()):, B (isalnum(), isalpha(), isdigit(), isgraph(), -islower(), isprint(), ispunct(), isspace(), isupper(), isxdigit()): - =item ENVIRONMENT PERL_BADLANG, LC_ALL, LANGUAGE, LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE, LC_MONETARY, @@ -2296,6 +2183,60 @@ LC_NUMERIC, LC_TIME, LANG =back +=head2 perluniintro - Perl Unicode introduction + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Unicode + +=item Perl's Unicode Support + +=item Perl's Unicode Model + +=item Creating Unicode + +=item Handling Unicode + +=item Legacy Encodings + +=item Unicode I/O + +=item Displaying Unicode As Text + +=item Special Cases + +=item Advanced Topics + +=item Miscellaneous + +=item Questions With Answers + +Will My Old Scripts Break?, How Do I Make My Scripts Work With Unicode?, +How Do I Know Whether My String Is In Unicode?, How Do I Detect Invalid +UTF-8?, How Do I Convert Data Into UTF-8? Or Vice Versa?, How Do I Display +Unicode? How Do I Input Unicode?, How Does Unicode Work With Traditional +Locales? + +=item Hexadecimal Notation + +=item Further Resources + +=back + +=item UNICODE IN OLDER PERLS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS + +=item AUTHOR, COPYRIGHT, AND LICENSE + +=back + =head2 perlunicode - Unicode support in Perl =over 4 @@ -2304,21 +2245,40 @@ LC_NUMERIC, LC_TIME, LANG =over 4 -=item Important Caveat +=item Important Caveats Input and Output Disciplines, Regular Expressions, C still needed -to enable a few features +to enable UTF-8/UTF-EBCDIC in scripts =item Byte and Character semantics =item Effects of character semantics +=item Scripts + +=item Blocks + =item Character encodings for input and output =back =item CAVEATS +=item UNICODE REGULAR EXPRESSION SUPPORT LEVEL + +=over 4 + +=item Unicode Encodings + +UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-16BE, UTF16-LE, Surrogates, and BOMs (Byte Order Marks), +UTF-32, UTF-32BE, UTF32-LE, UCS-2, UCS-4, UTF-7 + +=item Security Implications of Malformed UTF-8 + +=item Unicode in Perl on EBCDIC + +=back + =item SEE ALSO =back @@ -2349,11 +2309,13 @@ to enable a few features =item POSIX-BC +=item Unicode and UTF + =back =item SINGLE OCTET TABLES -recipe 0, recipe 1, recipe 2, recipe 3, recipe 4 +recipe 0, recipe 1, recipe 2, recipe 3, recipe 4, recipe 5, recipe 6 =item IDENTIFYING CHARACTER CODE SETS @@ -2393,7 +2355,7 @@ chr(), ord(), pack(), print(), printf(), sort(), sprintf(), unpack() =back -=item TRANFORMATION FORMATS +=item TRANSFORMATION FORMATS =over 4 @@ -2403,7 +2365,7 @@ chr(), ord(), pack(), print(), printf(), sort(), sprintf(), unpack() =item Quoted-Printable encoding and decoding -=item Caesarian cyphers +=item Caesarian ciphers =back @@ -2421,9 +2383,9 @@ chr(), ord(), pack(), print(), printf(), sort(), sprintf(), unpack() IFS access -=item OS/390 +=item OS/390, z/OS -chcp, dataset access, OS/390 iconv, locales +chcp, dataset access, OS/390, z/OS iconv, locales =item VM/ESA? @@ -2437,6 +2399,8 @@ chcp, dataset access, OS/390 iconv, locales =item REFERENCES +=item HISTORY + =item AUTHOR =back @@ -2483,12 +2447,39 @@ chcp, dataset access, OS/390 iconv, locales =item Perl Modules +=item Making your module threadsafe + =back =item SEE ALSO =back +=head2 perlmodinstall - Installing CPAN Modules + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item PREAMBLE + +B the file, B the file into a directory, B the +module (sometimes unnecessary), B the module + +=back + +=item PORTABILITY + +=item HEY + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + =head2 perlmodlib - constructing new Perl modules and finding existing ones =over 4 @@ -2502,39 +2493,52 @@ chcp, dataset access, OS/390 iconv, locales =item Pragmatic Modules attributes, attrs, autouse, base, blib, bytes, charnames, constant, -diagnostics, fields, filetest, integer, less, locale, open, ops, overload, -re, sigtrap, strict, subs, utf8, vars, warnings, warnings::register +diagnostics, encoding, fields, filetest, integer, less, locale, open, ops, +overload, re, sigtrap, sort, strict, subs, utf8, vars, vmsish, warnings, +warnings::register =item Standard Modules 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::Stash, 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, Cwd, DB, DB_File, Devel::SelfStubber, -DirHandle, Dumpvalue, Encode, English, Env, 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::Path, File::Spec, File::Spec::Functions, File::Spec::Mac, +B::Bytecode, B::C, B::CC, B::Concise, B::Debug, B::Deparse, +B::Disassembler, B::Lint, B::Showlex, B::Stackobj, B::Stash, B::Terse, +B::Xref, Benchmark, ByteLoader, CGI, CGI::Apache, CGI::Carp, CGI::Cookie, +CGI::Fast, CGI::Pretty, CGI::Push, CGI::Switch, CGI::Util, CPAN, +CPAN::FirstTime, CPAN::Nox, Carp, Carp::Heavy, Class::ISA, Class::Struct, +Cwd, DB, DB_File, Devel::SelfStubber, Digest, DirHandle, Dumpvalue, Encode, +Encode::EncodeFormat, Encode::Tcl, English, Env, Exporter, Exporter::Heavy, +ExtUtils::Command, ExtUtils::Constant, ExtUtils::Embed, ExtUtils::Install, +ExtUtils::Installed, ExtUtils::Liblist, ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin, +ExtUtils::MM_NW5, ExtUtils::MM_OS2, ExtUtils::MM_Unix, ExtUtils::MM_VMS, +ExtUtils::MM_Win32, ExtUtils::MakeMaker, ExtUtils::Manifest, +ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap, ExtUtils::Mksymlists, ExtUtils::Packlist, +ExtUtils::testlib, Fatal, Fcntl, File::Basename, File::CheckTree, +File::Compare, File::Copy, File::DosGlob, File::Find, File::Path, +File::Spec, File::Spec::Epoc, File::Spec::Functions, File::Spec::Mac, File::Spec::OS2, File::Spec::Unix, File::Spec::VMS, File::Spec::Win32, -File::Temp, File::stat, FileCache, FileHandle, FindBin, Getopt::Long, -Getopt::Std, I18N::Collate, IO, IPC::Open2, IPC::Open3, Math::BigFloat, -Math::BigInt, Math::Complex, Math::Trig, NDBM_File, Net::Ping, -Net::hostent, Net::netent, Net::protoent, Net::servent, O, ODBM_File, -Opcode, Pod::Checker, Pod::Find, Pod::Html, Pod::InputObjects, Pod::LaTeX, -Pod::Man, Pod::ParseUtils, Pod::Parser, Pod::Plainer, Pod::Select, -Pod::Text, Pod::Text::Color, Pod::Text::Termcap, Pod::Usage, SDBM_File, -Safe, Search::Dict, SelectSaver, SelfLoader, Shell, Socket, Storable, +File::Temp, File::stat, FileCache, FileHandle, Filter::Simple, FindBin, +Getopt::Long, Getopt::Std, I18N::Collate, I18N::LangTags, +I18N::LangTags::List, IO, IPC::Open2, IPC::Open3, Locale::Constants, +Locale::Country, Locale::Currency, Locale::Language, Locale::Maketext, +Locale::Maketext::TPJ13, Math::BigFloat, Math::BigInt, Math::BigInt::Calc, +Math::Complex, Math::Trig, Memoize, Memoize::AnyDBM_File, Memoize::Expire, +Memoize::ExpireFile, Memoize::ExpireTest, Memoize::NDBM_File, +Memoize::SDBM_File, Memoize::Saves, Memoize::Storable, NDBM_File, NEXT, +Net::Cmd, Net::Config, Net::Domain, Net::FTP, Net::NNTP, Net::Netrc, +Net::POP3, Net::Ping, Net::SMTP, Net::Time, Net::hostent, Net::libnetFAQ, +Net::netent, Net::protoent, Net::servent, O, ODBM_File, Opcode, POSIX, +PerlIO, Pod::Checker, Pod::Find, Pod::Html, Pod::InputObjects, Pod::LaTeX, +Pod::Man, Pod::ParseLink, Pod::ParseUtils, Pod::Parser, Pod::Plainer, +Pod::Select, Pod::Text, Pod::Text::Color, Pod::Text::Overstrike, +Pod::Text::Termcap, Pod::Usage, Pod::t::basic, SDBM_File, Safe, +Search::Dict, SelectSaver, SelfLoader, Shell, Socket, Storable, Switch, Symbol, Term::ANSIColor, 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 +Test::Builder, Test::Harness, Test::More, Test::Simple, Test::Tutorial, +Text::Abbrev, Text::Balanced, Text::ParseWords, Text::Soundex, Text::Tabs, +Text::Wrap, Thread, Tie::Array, Tie::Handle, Tie::Hash, Tie::RefHash, +Tie::Scalar, Tie::SubstrHash, Time::Local, Time::gmtime, Time::localtime, +Time::tm, UNIVERSAL, Unicode::Collate, Unicode::UCD, User::grent, +User::pwent, Win32 =item Extension Modules @@ -2542,82 +2546,138 @@ UNIVERSAL, User::grent, User::pwent =item CPAN -Language Extensions and Documentation Tools, Development Support, Operating -System Interfaces, Networking, Device Control (modems) and InterProcess -Communication, Data Types and Data Type Utilities, Database Interfaces, -User Interfaces, Interfaces to / Emulations of Other Programming Languages, -File Names, File Systems and File Locking (see also File Handles), String -Processing, Language Text Processing, Parsing, and Searching, Option, -Argument, Parameter, and Configuration File Processing, -Internationalization and Locale, Authentication, Security, and Encryption, -World Wide Web, HTML, HTTP, CGI, MIME, Server and Daemon Utilities, -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, Central America, Europe, -North America, South America - -=item Modules: Creation, Use, and Abuse - =over 4 -=item Guidelines for Module Creation - -Do similar modules already exist in some form?, Try to design the new -module to be easy to extend and reuse, Some simple style guidelines, Select -what to export, Select a name for the module, Have you got it right?, -README and other Additional Files, A description of the -module/package/extension etc, A copyright notice - see below, Prerequisites -- what else you may need to have, How to build it - possible changes to -Makefile.PL etc, How to install it, Recent changes in this release, -especially incompatibilities, Changes / enhancements you plan to make in -the future, Adding a Copyright Notice, Give the module a -version/issue/release number, How to release and distribute a module, Take -care when changing a released module +=item Africa -=item Guidelines for Converting Perl 4 Library Scripts into Modules +=item Asia -There is no requirement to convert anything, Consider the implications, -Make the most of the opportunity, The pl2pm utility will get you started, -Adds the standard Module prologue lines, Converts package specifiers from ' -to ::, Converts die(...) to croak(...), Several other minor changes +=item Central America -=item Guidelines for Reusing Application Code +=item Europe -Complete applications rarely belong in the Perl Module Library, Many -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 North America -=back +=item Oceania -=item NOTE +=item South America =back -=head2 perlmodinstall - Installing CPAN Modules +=item Modules: Creation, Use, and Abuse =over 4 -=item DESCRIPTION +=item Guidelines for Module Creation + +=item Guidelines for Converting Perl 4 Library Scripts into Modules + +=item Guidelines for Reusing Application Code + +=back + +=item NOTE + +=back + +=head2 perlmodstyle - Perl module style guide =over 4 -=item PREAMBLE +=item INTRODUCTION -B the file, B the file into a directory, B the -module (sometimes unnecessary), B the module +=item QUICK CHECKLIST + +=over 4 + +=item Before you start + +=item The API + +=item Stability + +=item Documentation + +=item Release considerations =back -=item PORTABILITY +=item BEFORE YOU START WRITING A MODULE -=item HEY +=over 4 -=item AUTHOR +=item Has it been done before? -=item COPYRIGHT +=item Do one thing and do it well + +=item What's in a name? + +=back + +=item DESIGNING AND WRITING YOUR MODULE + +=over 4 + +=item To OO or not to OO? + +=item Designing your API + +Write simple routines to do simple things, Separate functionality from +output, Provide sensible shortcuts and defaults, Naming conventions, +Parameter passing + +=item Strictness and warnings + +=item Backwards compatibility + +=item Error handling and messages + +=back + +=item DOCUMENTING YOUR MODULE + +=over 4 + +=item POD + +=item README, INSTALL, release notes, changelogs + +=back + +=item RELEASE CONSIDERATIONS + +=over 4 + +=item Version numbering + +=item Pre-requisites + +=item Testing + +=item Packaging + +=item Licensing + +=back + +=item COMMON PITFALLS + +=over 4 + +=item Reinventing the wheel + +=item Trying to do too much + +=item Inappropriate documentation + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +L, L, L, L, Testing tools, +http://pause.perl.org/, Any good book on software engineering + +=item AUTHOR =back @@ -2656,8 +2716,8 @@ tarball, Announce to the modules list, Announce to clpa, Fix bugs! =back -=head2 perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.23 $, $Date: -1999/05/23 16:08:30 $) +=head2 perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.2 $, $Date: +2001/11/09 08:06:04 $) =over 4 @@ -2694,8 +2754,8 @@ Scheme, or Tcl? =item Where can I get a list of Larry Wall witticisms? -=item How can I convince my sysadmin/supervisor/employees to use (version -5/5.005/Perl) instead of some other language? +=item How can I convince my sysadmin/supervisor/employees to use version +5/5.005/Perl instead of some other language? =back @@ -2703,8 +2763,8 @@ Scheme, or Tcl? =back -=head2 perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.32 $, -$Date: 1999/10/14 18:46:09 $) +=head2 perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.3 $, +$Date: 2001/11/09 08:06:04 $) =over 4 @@ -2759,8 +2819,8 @@ References, Tutorials, Task-Oriented, Special Topics =back -=head2 perlfaq3 - Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.38 $, $Date: 1999/05/23 -16:08:30 $) +=head2 perlfaq3 - Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.10 $, $Date: 2001/11/19 +17:09:37 $) =over 4 @@ -2786,6 +2846,10 @@ References, Tutorials, Task-Oriented, Special Topics =item Is there an IDE or Windows Perl Editor? +Komodo, The Object System, Open Perl IDE, PerlBuilder, visiPerl+, +CodeMagicCD, GNU Emacs, MicroEMACS, XEmacs, Elvis, Vile, Vim, Codewright, +MultiEdit, SlickEdit, Bash, Ksh, Tcsh, Zsh, BBEdit and BBEdit Lite, Alpha + =item Where can I get Perl macros for vi? =item Where can I get perl-mode for emacs? @@ -2796,12 +2860,13 @@ References, Tutorials, Task-Oriented, Special Topics =item How can I generate simple menus without using CGI or Tk? -=item What is undump? - =item How can I make my Perl program run faster? =item How can I make my Perl program take less memory? +Don't slurp!, Use map and grep selectively, Avoid unnecessary quotes and +stringification, Pass by reference, Tie large variables to disk + =item Is it unsafe to return a pointer to local data? =item How can I free an array or hash so my program shrinks? @@ -2840,8 +2905,8 @@ mean? =back -=head2 perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation ($Revision: 1.49 $, $Date: 1999/05/23 -20:37:49 $) +=head2 perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation ($Revision: 1.9 $, $Date: 2001/12/07 +21:17:58 $) =over 4 @@ -2859,7 +2924,12 @@ numbers I should be getting (eg, 19.95)? =item Does Perl have a round() function? What about ceil() and floor()? Trig functions? -=item How do I convert bits into ints? +=item How do I convert between numeric representations: + +B, B, B, B, B, B =item Why doesn't & work the way I want it to? @@ -2955,13 +3025,10 @@ the tag =item How can I remove duplicate elements from a list or array? -a) If @in is sorted, and you want @out to be sorted: (this assumes all true -values in the array), b) If you don't know whether @in is sorted:, c) Like -(b), but @in contains only small integers:, d) A way to do (b) without any -loops or greps:, e) Like (d), but @in contains only small positive -integers: +a), b), c), d), e) -=item How can I tell whether a list or array contains a certain element? +=item How can I tell whether a certain element is contained in a list or +array? =item How do I compute the difference of two arrays? How do I compute the intersection of two arrays? @@ -3053,8 +3120,8 @@ array of hashes or arrays? =back -=head2 perlfaq5 - Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.38 $, $Date: 1999/05/23 -16:08:30 $) +=head2 perlfaq5 - Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.4 $, $Date: 2001/11/09 +08:06:04 $) =over 4 @@ -3103,6 +3170,9 @@ filehandles between subroutines? How do I make an array of filehandles? =item I still don't get locking. I just want to increment the number in the file. How can I do this? +=item All I want to do is append a small amount of text to the end of a +file. Do I still have to use locking? + =item How do I randomly update a binary file? =item How do I get a file's timestamp in perl? @@ -3143,7 +3213,7 @@ protected files? Isn't this a bug in Perl? =back -=head2 perlfaq6 - Regexes ($Revision: 1.27 $, $Date: 1999/05/23 16:08:30 $) +=head2 perlfaq6 - Regexes ($Revision: 1.5 $, $Date: 2001/12/02 01:55:12 $) =over 4 @@ -3181,7 +3251,7 @@ file? =item What does it mean that regexes are greedy? How can I get around it? -=item How do I process each word on each line? +=item How do I process each word on each line? =item How can I print out a word-frequency or line-frequency summary? @@ -3209,8 +3279,8 @@ file? =back -=head2 perlfaq7 - Perl Language Issues ($Revision: 1.28 $, $Date: -1999/05/23 20:36:18 $) +=head2 perlfaq7 - Perl Language Issues ($Revision: 1.4 $, $Date: 2001/11/07 +02:27:50 $) =over 4 @@ -3288,8 +3358,8 @@ is in scope? =back -=head2 perlfaq8 - System Interaction ($Revision: 1.39 $, $Date: 1999/05/23 -18:37:57 $) +=head2 perlfaq8 - System Interaction ($Revision: 1.4 $, $Date: 2001/11/09 +08:06:04 $) =over 4 @@ -3416,7 +3486,7 @@ search path? =back -=head2 perlfaq9 - Networking ($Revision: 1.26 $, $Date: 1999/05/23 16:08:30 +=head2 perlfaq9 - Networking ($Revision: 1.5 $, $Date: 2001/11/09 08:06:04 $) =over 4 @@ -3425,6 +3495,8 @@ $) =over 4 +=item What is the correct form of response from a CGI script? + =item My CGI script runs from the command line but not the browser. (500 Server Error) @@ -3466,6 +3538,8 @@ CGI script to do bad things? =item How do I send mail? +=item How do I use MIME to make an attachment to a mail message? + =item How do I read mail? =item How do I find out my hostname/domainname/IP address? @@ -3541,14 +3615,6 @@ Perl?>, B, B =item ROADMAP -Compiling your C program, Adding a Perl interpreter to your C program, -Calling a Perl subroutine from your C program, Evaluating a Perl statement -from your C program, Performing Perl pattern matches and substitutions from -your C program, Fiddling with the Perl stack from your C program, -Maintaining a persistent interpreter, Maintaining multiple interpreter -instances, Using Perl modules, which themselves use C libraries, from your -C program, Embedding Perl under Win32 - =item Compiling your C program =item Adding a Perl interpreter to your C program @@ -3563,6 +3629,8 @@ C program, Embedding Perl under Win32 =item Maintaining a persistent interpreter +=item Execution of END blocks + =item Maintaining multiple interpreter instances =item Using Perl modules, which themselves use C libraries, from your C @@ -3773,7 +3841,7 @@ C, C, C =item The INPUT: Keyword -=item The IN/OUTLIST/IN_OUTLIST Keywords +=item The IN/OUTLIST/IN_OUTLIST/OUT/IN_OUT Keywords =item Variable-length Parameter Lists @@ -3787,7 +3855,7 @@ C, C, C =item The CLEANUP: Keyword -=item The POST_CALL: Keyword +=item The POSTCALL: Keyword =item The BOOT: Keyword @@ -3809,7 +3877,7 @@ C, C, C =item The & Unary Operator -=item Inserting Comments and C Preprocessor Directives +=item Inserting POD, Comments and C Preprocessor Directives =item Using XS With C++ @@ -3819,6 +3887,10 @@ C, C, C =item The Typemap +=item Safely Storing Static Data in XS + +MY_CXT_KEY, typedef my_cxt_t, START_MY_CXT, MY_CXT_INIT, dMY_CXT, MY_CXT + =back =item EXAMPLES @@ -3829,6 +3901,38 @@ C, C, C =back +=head2 perlclib - Internal replacements for standard C library functions + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Conventions + +C, C

, C, C + +=item File Operations + +=item File Input and Output + +=item File Positioning + +=item Memory Management and String Handling + +=item Character Class Tests + +=item F functions + +=item Miscellaneous functions + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + =head2 perlguts - Introduction to the Perl API =over 4 @@ -3880,14 +3984,15 @@ C, C, C =item Localizing changes C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, C, C, -C +C, C, C, C, C, C, C, +C, +C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, +C, C, C =back @@ -3927,23 +4032,31 @@ C =item Compile pass 3: peephole optimization +=item Pluggable runops + =back +=item Examining internal data structures with the C functions + =item How multiple interpreters and concurrency are supported =over 4 =item Background and PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT +=item So what happened to dTHR? + =item How do I use all this in extensions? +=item Should I do anything special if I call perl from multiple threads? + =item Future Plans and PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS =back =item Internal Functions -A, p, d, s, n, r, f, m, o, j, x +A, p, d, s, n, r, f, M, o, j, x =over 4 @@ -3973,6 +4086,8 @@ A, p, d, s, n, r, f, m, o, j, x =back +=item Custom Operators + =item AUTHORS =item SEE ALSO @@ -4084,6 +4199,10 @@ L L, L, L +=item Administration + +L + =item Development L, L, L and L, @@ -4162,53 +4281,71 @@ B AvFILL, av_clear, av_delete, av_exists, av_extend, av_fetch, av_fill, av_len, av_make, av_pop, av_push, av_shift, av_store, av_undef, av_unshift, -bytes_to_utf8, call_argv, call_method, call_pv, call_sv, CLASS, Copy, -croak, CvSTASH, cv_const_sv, 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, +ax, bytes_from_utf8, bytes_to_utf8, call_argv, call_method, call_pv, +call_sv, CLASS, Copy, croak, CvSTASH, cv_const_sv, dAX, dITEMS, dMARK, +dORIGMARK, dSP, dXSARGS, dXSI32, ENTER, eval_pv, eval_sv, EXTEND, +fbm_compile, fbm_instr, FREETMPS, getcwd_sv, get_av, get_cv, get_hv, +get_sv, GIMME, GIMME_V, grok_bin, grok_hex, grok_number, +grok_numeric_radix, grok_oct, GvSV, gv_fetchmeth, gv_fetchmethod, gv_fetchmethod_autoload, gv_stashpv, gv_stashsv, G_ARRAY, G_DISCARD, G_EVAL, G_NOARGS, G_SCALAR, G_VOID, HEf_SVKEY, HeHASH, HeKEY, HeKLEN, HePV, HeSVKEY, HeSVKEY_force, HeSVKEY_set, HeVAL, HvNAME, hv_clear, hv_delete, hv_delete_ent, hv_exists, hv_exists_ent, hv_fetch, hv_fetch_ent, hv_iterinit, hv_iterkey, hv_iterkeysv, hv_iternext, hv_iternextsv, hv_iterval, hv_magic, hv_store, hv_store_ent, hv_undef, isALNUM, isALPHA, -isDIGIT, isLOWER, isSPACE, isUPPER, 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, newSVpvn_share, -newSVrv, newSVsv, newSVuv, 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_notUV, SvIOK_off, SvIOK_on, SvIOK_only, SvIOK_only_UV, -SvIOK_UV, 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, SvPOK_only_UTF8, 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, SvUTF8, -SvUTF8_off, SvUTF8_on, 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_clear, sv_cmp, sv_cmp_locale, sv_dec, -sv_derived_from, sv_eq, sv_free, sv_gets, sv_grow, sv_inc, sv_insert, -sv_isa, sv_isobject, sv_len, sv_len_utf8, sv_magic, sv_mortalcopy, -sv_newmortal, sv_pvn_force, sv_pvutf8n_force, sv_reftype, sv_replace, -sv_rvweaken, sv_setiv, sv_setiv_mg, sv_setnv, sv_setnv_mg, sv_setpv, -sv_setpvf, sv_setpvf_mg, sv_setpviv, sv_setpviv_mg, sv_setpvn, -sv_setpvn_mg, sv_setpv_mg, sv_setref_iv, sv_setref_nv, sv_setref_pv, -sv_setref_pvn, sv_setsv, sv_setsv_mg, sv_setuv, sv_setuv_mg, sv_true, -sv_unmagic, sv_unref, sv_upgrade, sv_usepvn, sv_usepvn_mg, -sv_utf8_downgrade, sv_utf8_encode, sv_utf8_upgrade, sv_vcatpvfn, -sv_vsetpvfn, THIS, toLOWER, toUPPER, U8 *s, utf8_to_bytes, utf8_to_uv, -utf8_to_uv_simple, warn, XPUSHi, 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Safefree, savepv, savepvn, SAVETMPS, scan_bin, +scan_hex, scan_oct, sharedsv_find, sharedsv_init, sharedsv_lock, +sharedsv_new, sharedsv_thrcnt_dec, sharedsv_thrcnt_inc, sharedsv_unlock, +sortsv, SP, SPAGAIN, ST, strEQ, strGE, strGT, strLE, strLT, strNE, strnEQ, +strnNE, StructCopy, SvCUR, SvCUR_set, SvEND, SvGETMAGIC, SvGROW, SvIOK, +SvIOKp, SvIOK_notUV, SvIOK_off, SvIOK_on, SvIOK_only, SvIOK_only_UV, +SvIOK_UV, SvIV, SvIVX, SvIVx, SvLEN, SvNIOK, SvNIOKp, SvNIOK_off, SvNOK, +SvNOKp, SvNOK_off, SvNOK_on, SvNOK_only, SvNV, SvNVx, SvNVX, SvOK, SvOOK, +SvPOK, SvPOKp, SvPOK_off, SvPOK_on, SvPOK_only, SvPOK_only_UTF8, SvPV, +SvPVbyte, SvPVbytex, SvPVbytex_force, SvPVbyte_force, SvPVbyte_nolen, +SvPVutf8, SvPVutf8x, SvPVutf8x_force, SvPVutf8_force, SvPVutf8_nolen, +SvPVX, SvPVx, SvPV_force, SvPV_force_nomg, SvPV_nolen, SvREFCNT, +SvREFCNT_dec, SvREFCNT_inc, SvROK, SvROK_off, SvROK_on, SvRV, SvSETMAGIC, +SvSetMagicSV, SvSetMagicSV_nosteal, SvSetSV, SvSetSV_nosteal, SvSTASH, +SvTAINT, SvTAINTED, SvTAINTED_off, SvTAINTED_on, SvTRUE, svtype, SvTYPE, +SVt_IV, SVt_NV, SVt_PV, SVt_PVAV, SVt_PVCV, SVt_PVHV, SVt_PVMG, SvUOK, +SvUPGRADE, SvUTF8, SvUTF8_off, SvUTF8_on, SvUV, SvUVx, SvUVX, sv_2bool, +sv_2cv, sv_2io, sv_2iv, sv_2mortal, sv_2nv, sv_2pvbyte, sv_2pvbyte_nolen, +sv_2pvutf8, sv_2pvutf8_nolen, sv_2pv_flags, sv_2pv_nolen, sv_2uv, +sv_backoff, sv_bless, sv_catpv, sv_catpvf, sv_catpvf_mg, sv_catpvn, +sv_catpvn_flags, sv_catpvn_mg, sv_catpv_mg, sv_catsv, sv_catsv_flags, +sv_catsv_mg, sv_chop, sv_clear, sv_cmp, sv_cmp_locale, sv_collxfrm, sv_dec, +sv_derived_from, sv_eq, sv_force_normal, sv_force_normal_flags, sv_free, +sv_gets, sv_grow, sv_inc, sv_insert, sv_isa, sv_isobject, sv_iv, sv_len, +sv_len_utf8, sv_magic, sv_mortalcopy, sv_newmortal, sv_newref, sv_nv, +sv_pos_b2u, sv_pos_u2b, sv_pv, sv_pvbyte, sv_pvbyten, sv_pvbyten_force, +sv_pvn, sv_pvn_force, sv_pvn_force_flags, sv_pvutf8, sv_pvutf8n, +sv_pvutf8n_force, sv_recode_to_utf8, sv_reftype, sv_replace, +sv_report_used, sv_reset, sv_rvweaken, sv_setiv, sv_setiv_mg, sv_setnv, +sv_setnv_mg, sv_setpv, sv_setpvf, sv_setpvf_mg, sv_setpviv, sv_setpviv_mg, +sv_setpvn, sv_setpvn_mg, sv_setpv_mg, sv_setref_iv, sv_setref_nv, +sv_setref_pv, sv_setref_pvn, sv_setref_uv, sv_setsv, sv_setsv_flags, +sv_setsv_mg, sv_setuv, sv_setuv_mg, sv_taint, sv_tainted, sv_true, +sv_unmagic, sv_unref, sv_unref_flags, sv_untaint, sv_upgrade, sv_usepvn, +sv_usepvn_mg, sv_utf8_decode, sv_utf8_downgrade, sv_utf8_encode, +sv_utf8_upgrade, sv_utf8_upgrade_flags, sv_uv, sv_vcatpvfn, sv_vsetpvfn, +THIS, toLOWER, toUPPER, to_utf8_case, utf8n_to_uvchr, utf8n_to_uvuni, +utf8_distance, utf8_hop, utf8_length, utf8_to_bytes, utf8_to_uvchr, +utf8_to_uvuni, uvchr_to_utf8, uvuni_to_utf8, warn, XPUSHi, XPUSHn, XPUSHp, +XPUSHs, XPUSHu, XS, XSRETURN, XSRETURN_EMPTY, XSRETURN_IV, XSRETURN_NO, +XSRETURN_NV, XSRETURN_PV, XSRETURN_UNDEF, XSRETURN_YES, XST_mIV, XST_mNO, +XST_mNV, XST_mPV, XST_mUNDEF, XST_mYES, XS_VERSION, XS_VERSION_BOOTCHECK, +Zero =item AUTHORS @@ -4223,7 +4360,9 @@ XST_mPV, XST_mUNDEF, XST_mYES, XS_VERSION, XS_VERSION_BOOTCHECK, Zero =item DESCRIPTION -is_gv_magical +djSP, is_gv_magical, LVRET, PL_DBsingle, PL_DBsub, PL_DBtrace, PL_dowarn, +PL_last_in_gv, PL_ofs_sv, PL_rs, report_uninit, start_glob, sv_add_arena, +sv_clean_all, sv_clean_objs, sv_free_arenas =item AUTHORS @@ -4231,6 +4370,64 @@ is_gv_magical =back +=head2 perliol - C API for Perl's implementation of IO in Layers. + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item History and Background + +=item Layers vs Disciplines + +=item Data Structures + +=item Functions and Attributes + +=item Per-instance Data + +=item Layers in action. + +=item Per-instance flag bits + +PERLIO_F_EOF, PERLIO_F_CANWRITE, PERLIO_F_CANREAD, PERLIO_F_ERROR, +PERLIO_F_TRUNCATE, PERLIO_F_APPEND, PERLIO_F_CRLF, PERLIO_F_UTF8, +PERLIO_F_UNBUF, PERLIO_F_WRBUF, PERLIO_F_RDBUF, PERLIO_F_LINEBUF, +PERLIO_F_TEMP, PERLIO_F_OPEN, PERLIO_F_FASTGETS + +=item Methods in Detail + + IV (*Pushed)(PerlIO *f,const char *mode, SV *arg);, IV + (*Popped)(PerlIO *f);, PerlIO * (*Open)(...);, SV * +(*Getarg)(PerlIO *f);, IV (*Fileno)(PerlIO *f);, SSize_t +(*Read)(PerlIO *f, void *vbuf, Size_t count);, SSize_t (*Unread)(PerlIO +*f, const void *vbuf, Size_t count);, SSize_t (*Write)(PerlIO *f, const +void *vbuf, Size_t count);, IV (*Seek)(PerlIO *f, Off_t +offset, int whence);, Off_t (*Tell)(PerlIO *f);, IV + (*Close)(PerlIO *f);, IV (*Flush)(PerlIO *f);, IV + (*Fill)(PerlIO *f);, IV (*Eof)(PerlIO *f);, IV + (*Error)(PerlIO *f);, void (*Clearerr)(PerlIO *f);, void + (*Setlinebuf)(PerlIO *f);, STDCHAR * (*Get_base)(PerlIO *f);, +Size_t (*Get_bufsiz)(PerlIO *f);, STDCHAR * +(*Get_ptr)(PerlIO *f);, SSize_t (*Get_cnt)(PerlIO *f);, void + (*Set_ptrcnt)(PerlIO *f,STDCHAR *ptr,SSize_t cnt); + +=item Core Layers + +"unix", "perlio", "stdio", "crlf", "mmap", "pending", "raw", "utf8" + +=item Extension Layers + +":encoding", ":Scalar", ":Object" or ":Perl" + +=back + +=back + =head2 perlapio - perl's IO abstraction interface. =over 4 @@ -4239,27 +4436,36 @@ is_gv_magical =item DESCRIPTION -B, B, B, B, -B, B, +1. USE_STDIO, 2. USE_SFIO, 3. USE_PERLIO, B, +B, B, B, +B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B, -B, B, B, -B, B, B, -B, B +B, B, B, +B, B, B, +B, B, B =over 4 =item Co-existence with stdio B, B, -B, B, B, -B, B, B, -B, B, -B, B, B, -B, B +B, B + +=item "Fast gets" Functions + +B, B, B, +B, B, B, +B, B, B, +B + +=item Other Functions + +PerlIO_apply_layers(f,mode,layers), PerlIO_binmode(f,ptype,imode,layers), +'E' read, 'E' write, '+' read/write, PerlIO_debug(fmt,...) =back @@ -4271,301 +4477,347 @@ B, B =item DESCRIPTION -=item Infrastructure +=item To do during 5.6.x =over 4 -=item Mailing list archives +=item Support for I/O disciplines -=item Bug tracking system +=item Autoload bytes.pm -=item Regression Tests +=item Make "\u{XXXX}" et al work -Coverage, Regression, __DIE__, suidperl, The 25% slowdown from perl4 to -perl5 +=item Create a char *sv_pvprintify(sv, STRLEN *lenp, UV flags) -=back +=item Overloadable regex assertions -=item Configure +=item Unicode -=over 4 +=item use Thread for iThreads -=item Install HTML +=item make perl_clone optionally clone ops -=back +=item Work out exit/die semantics for threads -=item Perl Language +=item Typed lexicals for compiler -=over 4 +=item Compiler workarounds for Win32 -=item 64-bit Perl +=item AUTOLOADing in the compiler -=item Prototypes +=item Fixing comppadlist when compiling -Named prototypes, Indirect objects, Method calls, Context, Scoped subs +=item Cleaning up exported namespace -=back +=item Complete signal handling -=item Perl Internals +=item Out-of-source builds -=over 4 +=item POSIX realtime support -=item magic_setisa +=item UNIX98 support -=item Garbage Collection +=item IPv6 Support -=item Reliable signals +=item Long double conversion -Alternate runops() for signal despatch, Figure out how to die() in delayed -sighandler, Add tests for Thread::Signal, Automatic tests against CPAN +=item Locales -=item Interpolated regex performance bugs +=item Thread-safe regexes -=item Memory leaks from failed eval/regcomp +=item Arithmetic on non-Arabic numerals -=item Make XS easier to use +=item POSIX Unicode character classes + +=item Factoring out common suffices/prefices in regexps (trie optimization) + +=item Security audit shipped utilities + +=item Custom opcodes + +=item DLL Versioning + +=item Introduce @( and @) + +=item Floating point handling + +=item IV/UV preservation -=item Make embedded Perl easier to use +=item Replace pod2html with something using Pod::Parser -=item Namespace cleanup +=item Automate module testing on CPAN -=item MULTIPLICITY +=item sendmsg and recvmsg -=item MacPerl +=item Rewrite perlre documentation + +=item Convert example code to IO::Handle filehandles + +=item Document Win32 choices + +=item Check new modules + +=item Make roffitall find pods and libs itself =back -=item Documentation +=item To do at some point =over 4 -=item A clear division into tutorial and reference +=item Remove regular expression recursion -=item Remove the artificial distinction between operators and functions +=item Memory leaks after failed eval -=item More tutorials +=item pack "(stuff)*" -Regular expressions, I/O, pack/unpack, Debugging +=item bitfields in pack -=item Include a search tool +=item Cross compilation -=item Include a locate tool +=item Perl preprocessor / macros -=item Separate function manpages by default +=item Perl lexer in Perl -=item Users can't find the manpages +=item Using POSIX calls internally -=item Install ALL Documentation +=item -i rename file when changed -=item Outstanding issues to be documented +=item All ARGV input should act like EE -=item Adapt www.linuxhq.com for Perl +=item Support for rerunning debugger -=item Replace man with a perl program +=item Test Suite for the Debugger -=item Unicode tutorial +=item my sub foo { } -=back +=item One-pass global destruction -=item Modules +=item Rewrite regexp parser -=over 4 +=item Cache recently used regexps -=item Update the POSIX extension to conform with the POSIX 1003.1 Edition 2 +=item Re-entrant functions -=item Module versions +=item Cross-compilation support -=item New modules +=item Bit-shifting bitvectors -=item Profiler +=item debugger pragma -=item Tie Modules +=item use less pragma -VecArray, SubstrArray, VirtualArray, ShiftSplice +=item switch structures -=item Procedural options +=item Cache eval tree -=item RPC +=item rcatmaybe -=item y2k localtime/gmtime +=item Shrink opcode tables -=item Export File::Find variables +=item Optimize away @_ -=item Ioctl +=item Prototypes versus indirect objects -=item Debugger attach/detach +=item Install HTML -=item Regular Expression debugger +=item Prototype method calls -=item Alternative RE Syntax +=item Return context prototype declarations -=item Bundled modules +=item magic_setisa -=item Expect +=item Garbage collection -=item GUI::Native +=item IO tutorial -=item Update semibroken auxiliary tools; h2ph, a2p, etc. +=item pack/unpack tutorial -=item pod2html +=item Rewrite perldoc -=item Podchecker +=item Install .3p manpages -=back +=item Unicode tutorial -=item Tom's Wishes +=item Update POSIX.pm for 1003.1-2 -=over 4 +=item Retargetable installation + +=item POSIX emulation on non-POSIX systems -=item Webperl +=item Rename Win32 headers -=item Mobile agents +=item Finish off lvalue functions -=item POSIX on non-POSIX +=item Update sprintf documentation -=item Portable installations +=item Use fchown/fchmod internally + +=item Make v-strings overloaded objects =back -=item Win32 Stuff +=item Vague ideas =over 4 -=item Rename new headers to be consistent with the rest +=item ref() in list context -=item Sort out the spawnvp() mess +=item Make tr/// return histogram of characters in list context -=item Work out DLL versioning +=item Compile to real threaded code -=item Style-check +=item Structured types -=back +=item Modifiable $1 et al. -=item Would be nice to have +=item Procedural interfaces for IO::*, etc. -C, Contiguous bitfields in pack/unpack, lexperl, Bundled -perl preprocessor, Use posix calls internally where possible, format -BOTTOM, -i rename file only when successfully changed, All ARGV input -should act like <>, report HANDLE [formats], support in perlmain to rerun -debugger, lvalue functions +=item RPC modules -=item Possible pragmas +=item Attach/detach debugger from running program + +=item Alternative RE syntax module + +=item GUI::Native + +=item foreach(reverse ...) + +=item Constant function cache + +=item Approximate regular expression matching + +=back + +=item Ongoing =over 4 -=item 'less' +=item Update guts documentation + +=item Add more tests + +=item Update auxiliary tools =back -=item Optimizations +=item Recently done things =over 4 -=item constant function cache +=item Safe signal handling -=item foreach(reverse...) +=item Tie Modules -=item Cache eval tree +=item gettimeofday -=item rcatmaybe +=item setitimer and getimiter -=item Shrink opcode tables +=item Testing __DIE__ hook -=item Cache hash value +=item CPP equivalent in Perl -=item Optimize away @_ where possible +=item Explicit switch statements -=item Optimize sort by { $a <=> $b } +=item autocroak -=item Rewrite regexp parser for better integrated optimization +=item UTF/EBCDIC -=back +=item UTF Regexes -=item Vague possibilities +=item perlcc to produce executable -ref function in list context, make tr/// return histogram in list context?, -Loop control on do{} et al, Explicit switch statements, compile to real -threaded code, structured types, Modifiable $1 et al +=item END blocks saved in compiled output -=item To Do Or Not To Do +=item Secure temporary file module -=over 4 +=item Integrate Time::HiRes -=item Making my() work on "package" variables +=item Turn Cwd into XS -=item "or" testing defined not truth +=item Mmap for input -=item "dynamic" lexicals +=item Byte to/from UTF8 and UTF8 to/from local conversion -=item "class"-based, rather than package-based "lexicals" +=item Add sockatmark support -=back +=item Mailing list archives -=item Threading +=item Bug tracking -=over 4 +=item Integrate MacPerl -=item Modules +=item Web "nerve center" for Perl -=item Testing +=item Regular expression tutorial -=item $AUTOLOAD +=item Debugging Tutorial -=item exit/die +=item Integrate new modules -=item External threads +=item Integrate profiler -=item Thread::Pool +=item Y2K error detection -=item thread-safety +=item Regular expression debugger -=item Per-thread GVs +=item POD checker + +=item "Dynamic" lexicals + +=item Cache precompiled modules =back -=item Compiler +=item Deprecated Wishes =over 4 -=item Optimization +=item Loop control on do{} -=item Byteperl +=item Lexically scoped typeglobs -=item Precompiled modules +=item format BOTTOM -=item Executables +=item report HANDLE -=item Typed lexicals +=item Generalised want()/caller()) -=item Win32 +=item Named prototypes -=item END blocks +=item Built-in globbing -=item _AUTOLOAD +=item Regression tests for suidperl -=item comppadlist +=item Cached hash values -=item Cached compilation +=item Add compression modules -=back +=item Reorganise documentation into tutorials/references -=item Recently Finished Tasks +=item Remove distinction between functions and operators -=over 4 +=item Make XS easier to use -=item Figure a way out of $^(capital letter) +=item Make embedding easier to use -=item Filenames +=item man for perl -=item Foreign lines +=item my $Package::variable -=item Namespace cleanup +=item "or" tests defined, not truth -=item ISA.pm +=item "class"-based lexicals -=item gettimeofday +=item byteperl -=item autocroak? +=item Lazy evaluation / tail recursion removal + +=item Make "use utf8" the default + +=item Unicode collation and normalization + +=item Create debugging macros =back @@ -4581,9 +4833,9 @@ Does concept match the general goals of Perl?, Where is the implementation?, Backwards compatibility, Could it be a module instead?, Is the feature generic enough?, Does it potentially introduce new bugs?, Does it preclude other desirable features?, Is the implementation robust?, Is -the implementation generic enough to be portable?, Is there enough -documentation?, Is there another way to do it?, Does it create too much -work?, Patches speak louder than words +the implementation generic enough to be portable?, Is the implementation +tested?, Is there enough documentation?, Is there another way to do it?, +Does it create too much work?, Patches speak louder than words =over 4 @@ -4594,12 +4846,17 @@ NFS, rsync'ing the patches =item Why rsync the source tree -It's easier, It's more recent, It's more reliable +It's easier to rsync the source tree, It's more recent, It's more reliable =item Why rsync the patches -It's easier, It's a good reference, Finding a start point, Finding how to -fix a bug, Finding the source of misbehaviour +It's easier to rsync the patches, It's a good reference, Finding a start +point, Finding how to fix a bug, Finding the source of misbehaviour + +=item Perlbug remote interface + +1 http://bugs.perl.org, 2 bugdb@perl.org, 3 +commands_and_bugdids@bugs.perl.org, notes, patches, tests =item Submitting patches @@ -4608,7 +4865,7 @@ F, The perl5-porters FAQ =item Finding Your Way Around -Core modules, Documentation, Configure, Interpreter +Core modules, Tests, Documentation, Configure, Interpreter =item Elements of the interpreter @@ -4635,6 +4892,15 @@ finish, 'enter', print =item Patching +=item Patching a core module + +=item Adding a new function to the core + +=item Writing a test + +F, F, F, F, F, F, +F, F, t/base t/comp, t/cmd t/run t/io t/op, t/lib ext lib + =back =item EXTERNAL TOOLS FOR DEBUGGING PERL @@ -4651,6 +4917,23 @@ finish, 'enter', print DEFINES, USE_MULTI = define, #PERL_MALLOC = define, CFG = Debug +=item Compaq's/Digital's Third Degree + +=item PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL + +=item Profiling + +=item Gprof Profiling + +-a, -b, -e routine, -f routine, -s, -z + +=item GCC gcov Profiling + +=item Pixie Profiling + +-h, -l, -p[rocedures], -h[eavy], -i[nvocations], -l[ines], -testcoverage, +-z[ero] + =item CONCLUSION I @@ -4691,55 +4974,81 @@ I =back -=head2 perldelta - what's new for perl v5.7.0 +=head2 perldelta - what is new for perl v5.8.0 =over 4 =item DESCRIPTION -=item Security Vulnerability Closed +=item Highlights In 5.8.0 =item Incompatible Changes -=item Core Enhancements - -=item Modules and Pragmata - =over 4 -=item New Modules - -=item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata +=item 64-bit platforms and malloc -=back +=item AIX Dynaloading -=item Utility Changes +=item Attributes for C variables now handled at run-time. -=item New Documentation +=item Socket Extension Dynamic in VMS -=item Performance Enhancements +=item IEEE-format Floating Point Default on OpenVMS Alpha -sort() has been changed to use mergesort internally as opposed to the -earlier quicksort. For very small lists this may result in slightly slower -sorting times, but in general the speedup should be at least 20%. -Additional bonuses are that the worst case behaviour of sort() is now -better (in computer science terms it now runs in time O(N log N), as -opposed to quicksort's Theta(N**2) worst-case run time behaviour), and that -sort() is now stable (meaning that elements with identical keys will stay -ordered as they were before the sort) +=item Different Definition of the Unicode Character Classes \p{In...} -=item Installation and Configuration Improvements +=item Perl Parser Stress Tested -=over 4 +=item REF(...) Instead Of SCALAR(...) -=item Generic Improvements +=item Deprecations =back -=item Selected Bug Fixes +=item Core Enhancements + +=over 4 + +=item PerlIO is Now The Default + +=item Signals Are Now Safe + +=item Unicode Overhaul + +=item Understanding of Numbers + +=item Miscellaneous Enhancements + +=back + +=item Modules and Pragmata + +=over 4 + +=item New Modules and Pragmata + +=item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata + +=back + +=item Utility Changes + +=item New Documentation + +=item Performance Enhancements + +=item Installation and Configuration Improvements + +=over 4 + +=item Generic Improvements -sort() arguments are now compiled in the right wantarray context (they were -accidentally using the context of the sort() itself) +=item New Or Improved Platforms + +=back + +=item Selected Bug Fixes =over 4 @@ -4751,30 +5060,58 @@ accidentally using the context of the sort() itself) =item Changed Internals +=item Security Vulnerability Closed + +=item New Tests + =item Known Problems =over 4 -=item Unicode Support Still Far From Perfect +=item AIX -=item EBCDIC Still A Lost Platform +=item Amiga Perl Invoking Mystery -=item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles +=item lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure' -=item ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure' +=item Cygwin intermittent failures of lib/Memoize/t/expire_file 11 and 12 -=item Test lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX +=item HP-UX lib/io_multihomed Fails When LP64-Configured -=item Long Doubles Still Don't Work In Solaris +=item HP-UX lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails When LP64-Configured =item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48 -=item Storable tests fail in some platforms +=item Mac OS X -=item Threads Are Still Experimental +=item OS/390 + +=item op/sprintf tests 129 and 130 + +=item Failure of Thread tests + +=item UNICOS + +=item UTS + +=item VMS + +=item Localising a Tied Variable Leaks Memory + +=item Localising Tied Arrays and Hashes Is Broken + +=item Self-tying of Arrays and Hashes Is Forbidden + +=item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles + +=item Unicode Support on EBCDIC Still Spotty =item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental +=item The Long Double Support Is Still Experimental + +=item Seen In Perl 5.7 But Gone Now + =back =item Reporting Bugs @@ -4785,384 +5122,337 @@ accidentally using the context of the sort() itself) =back -=head2 perl56delta, perldelta - what's new for perl v5.6.0 +=head2 perl572delta - what's new for perl v5.7.2 =over 4 =item DESCRIPTION -=item Core Enhancements +=item Security Vulnerability Closed -=over 4 +=item Incompatible Changes -=item Interpreter cloning, threads, and concurrency +=over 4 -=item Lexically scoped warning categories +=item 64-bit platforms and malloc -=item Unicode and UTF-8 support +=item AIX Dynaloading -=item Support for interpolating named characters +=item Socket Extension Dynamic in VMS -=item "our" declarations +=item Different Definition of the Unicode Character Classes \p{In...} -=item Support for strings represented as a vector of ordinals +=item Deprecations -=item Improved Perl version numbering system +=back -=item New syntax for declaring subroutine attributes +=item Core Enhancements -=item File and directory handles can be autovivified +=item Modules and Pragmata -=item open() with more than two arguments +=over 4 -=item 64-bit support +=item New Modules and Distributions -=item Large file support +=item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata -=item Long doubles +=back -=item "more bits" +=item Utility Changes -=item Enhanced support for sort() subroutines +=item New Documentation -=item C allowed +=item Installation and Configuration Improvements -=item File globbing implemented internally +=over 4 -=item Support for CHECK blocks +=item New Or Improved Platforms -=item POSIX character class syntax [: :] supported +=item Generic Improvements -=item Better pseudo-random number generator +=back -=item Improved C operator +=item Selected Bug Fixes -=item Better worst-case behavior of hashes +=over 4 -=item pack() format 'Z' supported +=item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes -=item pack() format modifier '!' supported +=back -=item pack() and unpack() support counted strings +=item New or Changed Diagnostics -=item Comments in pack() templates +=item Source Code Enhancements -=item Weak references +=over 4 -=item Binary numbers supported +=item MAGIC constants -=item Lvalue subroutines +=item Better commented code -=item Some arrows may be omitted in calls through references +=item Regex pre-/post-compilation items matched up -=item Boolean assignment operators are legal lvalues +=item gcc -Wall -=item exists() is supported on subroutine names +=back -=item exists() and delete() are supported on array elements +=item New Tests -=item Pseudo-hashes work better +=item Known Problems -=item Automatic flushing of output buffers +=over 4 -=item Better diagnostics on meaningless filehandle operations +=item AIX -=item Where possible, buffered data discarded from duped input filehandle +=item Amiga Perl Invoking Mystery -=item eof() has the same old magic as <> +=item lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure' -=item binmode() can be used to set :crlf and :raw modes +=item Cygwin intermittent failures of lib/Memoize/t/expire_file 11 and 12 -=item C<-T> filetest recognizes UTF-8 encoded files as "text" +=item HP-UX lib/io_multihomed Fails When LP64-Configured -=item system(), backticks and pipe open now reflect exec() failure +=item HP-UX lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails When LP64-Configured -=item Improved diagnostics +=item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48 -=item Diagnostics follow STDERR +=item OS/390 -=item More consistent close-on-exec behavior +=item op/sprintf tests 129 and 130 -=item syswrite() ease-of-use +=item Failure of Thread tests -=item Better syntax checks on parenthesized unary operators +=item UNICOS -=item Bit operators support full native integer width +=item UTS -=item Improved security features +=item VMS -=item More functional bareword prototype (*) +=item Win32 -=item C and C may be overridden +=item Localising a Tied Variable Leaks Memory -=item $^X variables may now have names longer than one character +=item Self-tying of Arrays and Hashes Is Forbidden -=item New variable $^C reflects C<-c> switch +=item Variable Attributes are not Currently Usable for Tieing -=item New variable $^V contains Perl version as a string +=item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles -=item Optional Y2K warnings +=item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental -=item Arrays now always interpolate into double-quoted strings +=item The Long Double Support is Still Experimental =back -=item Modules and Pragmata - -=over 4 - -=item Modules +=item Reporting Bugs -attributes, B, Benchmark, ByteLoader, constant, charnames, Data::Dumper, -DB, DB_File, Devel::DProf, Devel::Peek, Dumpvalue, DynaLoader, English, -Env, Fcntl, File::Compare, File::Find, File::Glob, File::Spec, -File::Spec::Functions, Getopt::Long, IO, JPL, lib, Math::BigInt, -Math::Complex, Math::Trig, Pod::Parser, Pod::InputObjects, Pod::Checker, -podchecker, Pod::ParseUtils, Pod::Find, Pod::Select, podselect, Pod::Usage, -pod2usage, Pod::Text and Pod::Man, SDBM_File, Sys::Syslog, Sys::Hostname, -Term::ANSIColor, Time::Local, Win32, XSLoader, DBM Filters +=item SEE ALSO -=item Pragmata +=item HISTORY =back -=item Utility Changes +=head2 perl571delta - what's new for perl v5.7.1 =over 4 -=item dprofpp +=item DESCRIPTION -=item find2perl +=item Security Vulnerability Closed -=item h2xs +=item Incompatible Changes -=item perlcc +=item Core Enhancements -=item perldoc +=over 4 -=item The Perl Debugger +=item AUTOLOAD Is Now Lvaluable -=back +=item PerlIO is Now The Default -=item Improved Documentation +=item Signals Are Now Safe -perlapi.pod, perlboot.pod, perlcompile.pod, perldbmfilter.pod, -perldebug.pod, perldebguts.pod, perlfork.pod, perlfilter.pod, perlhack.pod, -perlintern.pod, perllexwarn.pod, perlnumber.pod, perlopentut.pod, -perlreftut.pod, perltootc.pod, perltodo.pod, perlunicode.pod +=back -=item Performance enhancements +=item Modules and Pragmata =over 4 -=item Simple sort() using { $a <=> $b } and the like are optimized +=item New Modules -=item Optimized assignments to lexical variables +=item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata -=item Faster subroutine calls +=back -=item delete(), each(), values() and hash iteration are faster +=item Performance Enhancements -=back +=item Utility Changes -=item Installation and Configuration Improvements +=item New Documentation =over 4 -=item -Dusethreads means something different - -=item New Configure flags +=item perlclib -=item Threadedness and 64-bitness now more daring +=item perliol -=item Long Doubles +=item README.aix -=item -Dusemorebits +=item README.bs2000 -=item -Duselargefiles +=item README.macos -=item installusrbinperl +=item README.mpeix -=item SOCKS support +=item README.solaris -=item C<-A> flag +=item README.vos -=item Enhanced Installation Directories +=item Porting/repository.pod =back -=item Platform specific changes +=item Installation and Configuration Improvements =over 4 -=item Supported platforms +=item New Or Improved Platforms -=item DOS +=item Generic Improvements -=item OS390 (OpenEdition MVS) +d_cmsghdr, d_fcntl_can_lock, d_fsync, d_getitimer, d_getpagsz, d_msghdr_s, +need_va_copy, d_readv, d_recvmsg, d_sendmsg, sig_size, d_sockatmark, +d_strtoq, d_u32align, d_ualarm, d_usleep -=item VMS +=back -=item Win32 +=item Selected Bug Fixes + +=over 4 + +=item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes =back -=item Significant bug fixes +=item New or Changed Diagnostics + +=item Changed Internals + +=item New Tests + +=item Known Problems =over 4 -=item on empty files +=item AIX vac 5.0.0.0 May Produce Buggy Code For Perl -=item C improvements +=item lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure' -=item All compilation errors are true errors +=item lib/io_multihomed Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX -=item Implicitly closed filehandles are safer +=item Test lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX -=item Behavior of list slices is more consistent +=item lib/b test 19 -=item C<(\$)> prototype and C<$foo{a}> +=item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48 -=item C and AUTOLOAD +=item sigaction test 13 in VMS -=item C<-bareword> allowed under C +=item sprintf tests 129 and 130 -=item Failures in DESTROY() +=item Failure of Thread tests -=item Locale bugs fixed +=item Localising a Tied Variable Leaks Memory -=item Memory leaks +=item Self-tying of Arrays and Hashes Is Forbidden -=item Spurious subroutine stubs after failed subroutine calls +=item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles -=item Taint failures under C<-U> +=item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental -=item END blocks and the C<-c> switch +=back -=item Potential to leak DATA filehandles +=item Reporting Bugs + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item HISTORY =back -=item New or Changed Diagnostics +=head2 perl570delta - what's new for perl v5.7.0 -"%s" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same %s, "my sub" not yet -implemented, "our" variable %s redeclared, '!' allowed only after types %s, -/ cannot take a count, / must be followed by a, A or Z, / must be followed -by a*, A* or Z*, / must follow a numeric type, /%s/: Unrecognized escape -\\%c passed through, /%s/: Unrecognized escape \\%c in character class -passed through, /%s/ should probably be written as "%s", %s() called too -early to check prototype, %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element, %s -argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element or slice, %s argument is not a -subroutine name, %s package attribute may clash with future reserved word: -%s, (in cleanup) %s, <> should be quotes, Attempt to join self, Bad evalled -substitution pattern, Bad realloc() ignored, Bareword found in conditional, -Binary number > 0b11111111111111111111111111111111 non-portable, Bit vector -size > 32 non-portable, Buffer overflow in prime_env_iter: %s, Can't check -filesystem of script "%s", Can't declare class for non-scalar %s in "%s", -Can't declare %s in "%s", Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default, -Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine call, Can't read CRTL environ, Can't -remove %s: %s, skipping file, Can't return %s from lvalue subroutine, Can't -weaken a nonreference, Character class [:%s:] unknown, Character class -syntax [%s] belongs inside character classes, Constant is not %s reference, -constant(%s): %s, CORE::%s is not a keyword, defined(@array) is deprecated, -defined(%hash) is deprecated, Did not produce a valid header, (Did you mean -"local" instead of "our"?), Document contains no data, entering effective -%s failed, false [] range "%s" in regexp, Filehandle %s opened only for -output, flock() on closed filehandle %s, Global symbol "%s" requires -explicit package name, Hexadecimal number > 0xffffffff non-portable, -Ill-formed CRTL environ value "%s", Ill-formed message in prime_env_iter: -|%s|, Illegal binary digit %s, Illegal binary digit %s ignored, Illegal -number of bits in vec, Integer overflow in %s number, Invalid %s attribute: -%s, Invalid %s attributes: %s, invalid [] range "%s" in regexp, Invalid -separator character %s in attribute list, Invalid separator character %s in -subroutine attribute list, leaving effective %s failed, Lvalue subs -returning %s not implemented yet, Method %s not permitted, Missing -%sbrace%s on \N{}, Missing command in piped open, Missing name in "my sub", -No %s specified for -%c, No package name allowed for variable %s in "our", -No space allowed after -%c, no UTC offset information; assuming local time -is UTC, Octal number > 037777777777 non-portable, panic: del_backref, -panic: kid popen errno read, panic: magic_killbackrefs, Parentheses missing -around "%s" list, Possible unintended interpolation of %s in string, -Possible Y2K bug: %s, pragma "attrs" is deprecated, use "sub NAME : ATTRS" -instead, Premature end of script headers, Repeat count in pack overflows, -Repeat count in unpack overflows, realloc() of freed memory ignored, -Reference is already weak, setpgrp can't take arguments, Strange *+?{} on -zero-length expression, switching effective %s is not implemented, This -Perl can't reset CRTL environ elements (%s), This Perl can't set CRTL -environ elements (%s=%s), Too late to run %s block, Unknown open() mode -'%s', Unknown process %x sent message to prime_env_iter: %s, Unrecognized -escape \\%c passed through, Unterminated attribute parameter in attribute -list, Unterminated attribute list, Unterminated attribute parameter in -subroutine attribute list, Unterminated subroutine attribute list, Value of -CLI symbol "%s" too long, Version number must be a constant number +=over 4 -=item New tests +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Security Vulnerability Closed =item Incompatible Changes +=item Core Enhancements + +=item Modules and Pragmata + =over 4 -=item Perl Source Incompatibilities +=item New Modules -CHECK is a new keyword, Treatment of list slices of undef has changed, -Format of $English::PERL_VERSION is different, Literals of the form -C<1.2.3> parse differently, Possibly changed pseudo-random number -generator, Hashing function for hash keys has changed, C fails on -read only values, Close-on-exec bit may be set on pipe and socket handles, -Writing C<"$$1"> to mean C<"${$}1"> is unsupported, delete(), 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, Semantics of bit -operators may have changed on 64-bit platforms, More builtins taint their -results +=item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata -=item C Source Incompatibilities +=back -C, C, C +=item Utility Changes -=item Compatible C Source API Changes +=item New Documentation -C is now C +=item Performance Enhancements -=item Binary Incompatibilities +=item Installation and Configuration Improvements + +=over 4 + +=item Generic Improvements =back -=item Known Problems +=item Selected Bug Fixes =over 4 -=item Thread test failures +=item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes -=item EBCDIC platforms not supported +=back -=item In 64-bit HP-UX the lib/io_multihomed test may hang +=item New or Changed Diagnostics -=item NEXTSTEP 3.3 POSIX test failure +=item Changed Internals -=item Tru64 (aka Digital UNIX, aka DEC OSF/1) lib/sdbm test failure with -gcc +=item Known Problems -=item UNICOS/mk CC failures during Configure run +=over 4 -=item Arrow operator and arrays +=item Unicode Support Still Far From Perfect -=item Experimental features +=item EBCDIC Still A Lost Platform -Threads, Unicode, 64-bit support, Lvalue subroutines, Weak references, The -pseudo-hash data type, The Compiler suite, Internal implementation of file -globbing, The DB module, The regular expression constructs C<(?{ code })> -and C<(??{ code })> +=item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles -=back +=item ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure' -=item Obsolete Diagnostics +=item Test lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX -Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions, Ill-formed -logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter, In string, @%s now must be written as -\@%s, Probable precedence problem on %s, regexp too big, Use of "$$" -to mean "${$}" is deprecated +=item Long Doubles Still Don't Work In Solaris + +=item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48 + +=item Storable tests fail in some platforms + +=item Threads Are Still Experimental + +=item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental + +=back =item Reporting Bugs @@ -5172,160 +5462,955 @@ to mean "${$}" is deprecated =back -=head2 perl5005delta, perldelta - what's new for perl5.005 +=head2 perl561delta, perldelta - what's new for perl v5.6.x =over 4 =item DESCRIPTION -=item About the new versioning system - -=item Incompatible Changes +=item Summary of changes between 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 =over 4 -=item WARNING: This version is not binary compatible with Perl 5.004. +=item Security Issues -=item Default installation structure has changed +=item Core bug fixes -=item Perl Source Compatibility +C, Memory leaks, Numeric conversions, qw(a\\b), caller(), +Bugs in regular expressions, "slurp" mode, Autovivification of symbolic +references to special variables, Lexical warnings, Spurious warnings and +errors, glob(), Tainting, sort(), #line directives, Subroutine prototypes, +map(), Debugger, PERL5OPT, chop(), Unicode support, 64-bit support, +Compiler, Lvalue subroutines, IO::Socket, File::Find, xsubpp, C, Tests -=item C Source Compatibility +=item Core features -Core sources now require ANSI C compiler, All Perl global variables must -now be referenced with an explicit prefix, Enabling threads has source -compatibility issues +=item Configuration issues -=item Binary Compatibility +=item Documentation -=item Security fixes may affect compatibility +=item Bundled modules -=item Relaxed new mandatory warnings introduced in 5.004 +B::Concise, File::Temp, Pod::LaTeX, Pod::Text::Overstrike, CGI, CPAN, +Class::Struct, DB_File, Devel::Peek, File::Find, Getopt::Long, IO::Poll, +IPC::Open3, Math::BigFloat, Math::Complex, Net::Ping, Opcode, Pod::Parser, +Pod::Text, SDBM_File, Sys::Syslog, Tie::RefHash, Tie::SubstrHash -=item Licensing +=item Platform-specific improvements -=back +NCR MP-RAS, NonStop-UX -=item Core Changes +=item Interpreter cloning, threads, and concurrency -=over 4 +=item Lexically scoped warning categories -=item Threads +=item Unicode and UTF-8 support -=item Compiler +=item Support for interpolating named characters -=item Regular Expressions +=item "our" declarations -Many new and improved optimizations, Many bug fixes, New regular expression -constructs, New operator for precompiled regular expressions, Other -improvements, Incompatible changes +=item Support for strings represented as a vector of ordinals -=item Improved malloc() +=item Improved Perl version numbering system -=item Quicksort is internally implemented +=item New syntax for declaring subroutine attributes -=item Reliable signals +=item File and directory handles can be autovivified -=item Reliable stack pointers +=item open() with more than two arguments -=item More generous treatment of carriage returns +=item 64-bit support -=item Memory leaks +=item Large file support -=item Better support for multiple interpreters +=item Long doubles -=item Behavior of local() on array and hash elements is now well-defined +=item "more bits" -=item C<%!> is transparently tied to the L module +=item Enhanced support for sort() subroutines -=item Pseudo-hashes are supported +=item C allowed -=item C is supported +=item File globbing implemented internally -=item Keywords can be globally overridden +=item Support for CHECK blocks -=item C<$^E> is meaningful on Win32 +=item POSIX character class syntax [: :] supported -=item C optimized +=item Better pseudo-random number generator -=item C can be used as implicitly quoted package name +=item Improved C operator -=item C tests existence of a package +=item Better worst-case behavior of hashes -=item Better locale support +=item pack() format 'Z' supported -=item Experimental support for 64-bit platforms +=item pack() format modifier '!' supported -=item prototype() returns useful results on builtins +=item pack() and unpack() support counted strings -=item Extended support for exception handling +=item Comments in pack() templates -=item Re-blessing in DESTROY() supported for chaining DESTROY() methods +=item Weak references -=item All C format conversions are handled internally +=item Binary numbers supported -=item New C keyword +=item Lvalue subroutines -=item New C keyword +=item Some arrows may be omitted in calls through references -=item New C operator +=item Boolean assignment operators are legal lvalues -=item C is now a reserved word +=item exists() is supported on subroutine names -=item Tied arrays are now fully supported +=item exists() and delete() are supported on array elements -=item Tied handles support is better +=item Pseudo-hashes work better -=item 4th argument to substr +=item Automatic flushing of output buffers -=item Negative LENGTH argument to splice +=item Better diagnostics on meaningless filehandle operations -=item Magic lvalues are now more magical +=item Where possible, buffered data discarded from duped input filehandle -=item <> now reads in records +=item eof() has the same old magic as <> -=back +=item binmode() can be used to set :crlf and :raw modes -=item Supported Platforms +=item C<-T> filetest recognizes UTF-8 encoded files as "text" -=over 4 +=item system(), backticks and pipe open now reflect exec() failure -=item New Platforms +=item Improved diagnostics -=item Changes in existing support +=item Diagnostics follow STDERR -=back +=item More consistent close-on-exec behavior -=item Modules and Pragmata +=item syswrite() ease-of-use -=over 4 +=item Better syntax checks on parenthesized unary operators -=item New Modules +=item Bit operators support full native integer width -B, Data::Dumper, Dumpvalue, Errno, File::Spec, ExtUtils::Installed, -ExtUtils::Packlist, Fatal, IPC::SysV, Test, Tie::Array, Tie::Handle, -Thread, attrs, fields, re +=item Improved security features -=item Changes in existing modules +=item More functional bareword prototype (*) -Benchmark, Carp, CGI, Fcntl, Math::Complex, Math::Trig, POSIX, DB_File, -MakeMaker, CPAN, Cwd, Benchmark +=item C and C may be overridden -=back +=item $^X variables may now have names longer than one character -=item Utility Changes +=item New variable $^C reflects C<-c> switch -=item Documentation Changes +=item New variable $^V contains Perl version as a string -=item New Diagnostics +=item Optional Y2K warnings -Ambiguous call resolved as CORE::%s(), qualify as such or use &, Bad index -while coercing array into hash, Bareword "%s" refers to nonexistent -package, Can't call method "%s" on an undefined value, Can't check -filesystem of script "%s" for nosuid, Can't coerce array into hash, Can't -goto subroutine from an eval-string, Can't localize pseudo-hash element, -Can't use %%! because Errno.pm is not available, Cannot find an opnumber -for "%s", Character class syntax [. .] is reserved for future extensions, +=item Arrays now always interpolate into double-quoted strings + +=back + +=item Modules and Pragmata + +=over 4 + +=item Modules + +attributes, B, Benchmark, ByteLoader, constant, charnames, Data::Dumper, +DB, DB_File, Devel::DProf, Devel::Peek, Dumpvalue, DynaLoader, English, +Env, Fcntl, File::Compare, File::Find, File::Glob, File::Spec, +File::Spec::Functions, Getopt::Long, IO, JPL, lib, Math::BigInt, +Math::Complex, Math::Trig, Pod::Parser, Pod::InputObjects, Pod::Checker, +podchecker, Pod::ParseUtils, Pod::Find, Pod::Select, podselect, Pod::Usage, +pod2usage, Pod::Text and Pod::Man, SDBM_File, Sys::Syslog, Sys::Hostname, +Term::ANSIColor, Time::Local, Win32, XSLoader, DBM Filters + +=item Pragmata + +=back + +=item Utility Changes + +=over 4 + +=item dprofpp + +=item find2perl + +=item h2xs + +=item perlcc + +=item perldoc + +=item The Perl Debugger + +=back + +=item Improved Documentation + +perlapi.pod, perlboot.pod, perlcompile.pod, perldbmfilter.pod, +perldebug.pod, perldebguts.pod, perlfork.pod, perlfilter.pod, perlhack.pod, +perlintern.pod, perllexwarn.pod, perlnumber.pod, perlopentut.pod, +perlreftut.pod, perltootc.pod, perltodo.pod, perlunicode.pod + +=item Performance enhancements + +=over 4 + +=item Simple sort() using { $a <=> $b } and the like are optimized + +=item Optimized assignments to lexical variables + +=item Faster subroutine calls + +=item delete(), each(), values() and hash iteration are faster + +=back + +=item Installation and Configuration Improvements + +=over 4 + +=item -Dusethreads means something different + +=item New Configure flags + +=item Threadedness and 64-bitness now more daring + +=item Long Doubles + +=item -Dusemorebits + +=item -Duselargefiles + +=item installusrbinperl + +=item SOCKS support + +=item C<-A> flag + +=item Enhanced Installation Directories + +=item gcc automatically tried if 'cc' does not seem to be working + +=back + +=item Platform specific changes + +=over 4 + +=item Supported platforms + +=item DOS + +=item OS390 (OpenEdition MVS) + +=item VMS + +=item Win32 + +=back + +=item Significant bug fixes + +=over 4 + +=item on empty files + +=item C improvements + +=item All compilation errors are true errors + +=item Implicitly closed filehandles are safer + +=item Behavior of list slices is more consistent + +=item C<(\$)> prototype and C<$foo{a}> + +=item C and AUTOLOAD + +=item C<-bareword> allowed under C + +=item Failures in DESTROY() + +=item Locale bugs fixed + +=item Memory leaks + +=item Spurious subroutine stubs after failed subroutine calls + +=item Taint failures under C<-U> + +=item END blocks and the C<-c> switch + +=item Potential to leak DATA filehandles + +=back + +=item New or Changed Diagnostics + +"%s" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same %s, "my sub" not yet +implemented, "our" variable %s redeclared, '!' allowed only after types %s, +/ cannot take a count, / must be followed by a, A or Z, / must be followed +by a*, A* or Z*, / must follow a numeric type, /%s/: Unrecognized escape +\\%c passed through, /%s/: Unrecognized escape \\%c in character class +passed through, /%s/ should probably be written as "%s", %s() called too +early to check prototype, %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element, %s +argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element or slice, %s argument is not a +subroutine name, %s package attribute may clash with future reserved word: +%s, (in cleanup) %s, <> should be quotes, Attempt to join self, Bad evalled +substitution pattern, Bad realloc() ignored, Bareword found in conditional, +Binary number > 0b11111111111111111111111111111111 non-portable, Bit vector +size > 32 non-portable, Buffer overflow in prime_env_iter: %s, Can't check +filesystem of script "%s", Can't declare class for non-scalar %s in "%s", +Can't declare %s in "%s", Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default, +Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine call, Can't read CRTL environ, Can't +remove %s: %s, skipping file, Can't return %s from lvalue subroutine, Can't +weaken a nonreference, Character class [:%s:] unknown, Character class +syntax [%s] belongs inside character classes, Constant is not %s reference, +constant(%s): %s, CORE::%s is not a keyword, defined(@array) is deprecated, +defined(%hash) is deprecated, Did not produce a valid header, (Did you mean +"local" instead of "our"?), Document contains no data, entering effective +%s failed, false [] range "%s" in regexp, Filehandle %s opened only for +output, flock() on closed filehandle %s, Global symbol "%s" requires +explicit package name, Hexadecimal number > 0xffffffff non-portable, +Ill-formed CRTL environ value "%s", Ill-formed message in prime_env_iter: +|%s|, Illegal binary digit %s, Illegal binary digit %s ignored, Illegal +number of bits in vec, Integer overflow in %s number, Invalid %s attribute: +%s, Invalid %s attributes: %s, invalid [] range "%s" in regexp, Invalid +separator character %s in attribute list, Invalid separator character %s in +subroutine attribute list, leaving effective %s failed, Lvalue subs +returning %s not implemented yet, Method %s not permitted, Missing +%sbrace%s on \N{}, Missing command in piped open, Missing name in "my sub", +No %s specified for -%c, No package name allowed for variable %s in "our", +No space allowed after -%c, no UTC offset information; assuming local time +is UTC, Octal number > 037777777777 non-portable, panic: del_backref, +panic: kid popen errno read, panic: magic_killbackrefs, Parentheses missing +around "%s" list, Possible unintended interpolation of %s in string, +Possible Y2K bug: %s, pragma "attrs" is deprecated, use "sub NAME : ATTRS" +instead, Premature end of script headers, Repeat count in pack overflows, +Repeat count in unpack overflows, realloc() of freed memory ignored, +Reference is already weak, setpgrp can't take arguments, Strange *+?{} on +zero-length expression, switching effective %s is not implemented, This +Perl can't reset CRTL environ elements (%s), This Perl can't set CRTL +environ elements (%s=%s), Too late to run %s block, Unknown open() mode +'%s', Unknown process %x sent message to prime_env_iter: %s, Unrecognized +escape \\%c passed through, Unterminated attribute parameter in attribute +list, Unterminated attribute list, Unterminated attribute parameter in +subroutine attribute list, Unterminated subroutine attribute list, Value of +CLI symbol "%s" too long, Version number must be a constant number + +=item New tests + +=item Incompatible Changes + +=over 4 + +=item Perl Source Incompatibilities + +CHECK is a new keyword, Treatment of list slices of undef has changed, +Format of $English::PERL_VERSION is different, Literals of the form +C<1.2.3> parse differently, Possibly changed pseudo-random number +generator, Hashing function for hash keys has changed, C fails on +read only values, Close-on-exec bit may be set on pipe and socket handles, +Writing C<"$$1"> to mean C<"${$}1"> is unsupported, delete(), each(), +values() and C<\(%h)>, vec(EXPR,OFFSET,BITS) enforces powers-of-two BITS, +Text of some diagnostic output has changed, C<%@> has been removed, +Parenthesized not() behaves like a list operator, Semantics of bareword +prototype C<(*)> have changed, Semantics of bit operators may have changed +on 64-bit platforms, More builtins taint their results + +=item C Source Incompatibilities + +C, C, C + +=item Compatible C Source API Changes + +C is now C + +=item Binary Incompatibilities + +=back + +=item Known Problems + +=over 4 + +=item Localizing a tied hash element may leak memory + +=item Known test failures + +64-bit builds, Failure of Thread tests, NEXTSTEP 3.3 POSIX test failure, +Tru64 (aka Digital UNIX, aka DEC OSF/1) lib/sdbm test failure with gcc + +=item EBCDIC platforms not fully supported + +=item UNICOS/mk CC failures during Configure run + +=item Arrow operator and arrays + +=item Experimental features + +Threads, Unicode, 64-bit support, Lvalue subroutines, Weak references, The +pseudo-hash data type, The Compiler suite, Internal implementation of file +globbing, The DB module, The regular expression code constructs: + +=back + +=item Obsolete Diagnostics + +Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions, Ill-formed +logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter, In string, @%s now must be written as +\@%s, Probable precedence problem on %s, regexp too big, Use of "$$" +to mean "${$}" is deprecated + +=item Reporting Bugs + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=head2 perl56delta, perldelta - what's new for perl v5.6.0 + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Core Enhancements + +=over 4 + +=item Interpreter cloning, threads, and concurrency + +=item Lexically scoped warning categories + +=item Unicode and UTF-8 support + +=item Support for interpolating named characters + +=item "our" declarations + +=item Support for strings represented as a vector of ordinals + +=item Improved Perl version numbering system + +=item New syntax for declaring subroutine attributes + +=item File and directory handles can be autovivified + +=item open() with more than two arguments + +=item 64-bit support + +=item Large file support + +=item Long doubles + +=item "more bits" + +=item Enhanced support for sort() subroutines + +=item C allowed + +=item File globbing implemented internally + +=item Support for CHECK blocks + +=item POSIX character class syntax [: :] supported + +=item Better pseudo-random number generator + +=item Improved C operator + +=item Better worst-case behavior of hashes + +=item pack() format 'Z' supported + +=item pack() format modifier '!' supported + +=item pack() and unpack() support counted strings + +=item Comments in pack() templates + +=item Weak references + +=item Binary numbers supported + +=item Lvalue subroutines + +=item Some arrows may be omitted in calls through references + +=item Boolean assignment operators are legal lvalues + +=item exists() is supported on subroutine names + +=item exists() and delete() are supported on array elements + +=item Pseudo-hashes work better + +=item Automatic flushing of output buffers + +=item Better diagnostics on meaningless filehandle operations + +=item Where possible, buffered data discarded from duped input filehandle + +=item eof() has the same old magic as <> + +=item binmode() can be used to set :crlf and :raw modes + +=item C<-T> filetest recognizes UTF-8 encoded files as "text" + +=item system(), backticks and pipe open now reflect exec() failure + +=item Improved diagnostics + +=item Diagnostics follow STDERR + +=item More consistent close-on-exec behavior + +=item syswrite() ease-of-use + +=item Better syntax checks on parenthesized unary operators + +=item Bit operators support full native integer width + +=item Improved security features + +=item More functional bareword prototype (*) + +=item C and C may be overridden + +=item $^X variables may now have names longer than one character + +=item New variable $^C reflects C<-c> switch + +=item New variable $^V contains Perl version as a string + +=item Optional Y2K warnings + +=item Arrays now always interpolate into double-quoted strings + +=back + +=item Modules and Pragmata + +=over 4 + +=item Modules + +attributes, B, Benchmark, ByteLoader, constant, charnames, Data::Dumper, +DB, DB_File, Devel::DProf, Devel::Peek, Dumpvalue, DynaLoader, English, +Env, Fcntl, File::Compare, File::Find, File::Glob, File::Spec, +File::Spec::Functions, Getopt::Long, IO, JPL, lib, Math::BigInt, +Math::Complex, Math::Trig, Pod::Parser, Pod::InputObjects, Pod::Checker, +podchecker, Pod::ParseUtils, Pod::Find, Pod::Select, podselect, Pod::Usage, +pod2usage, Pod::Text and Pod::Man, SDBM_File, Sys::Syslog, Sys::Hostname, +Term::ANSIColor, Time::Local, Win32, XSLoader, DBM Filters + +=item Pragmata + +=back + +=item Utility Changes + +=over 4 + +=item dprofpp + +=item find2perl + +=item h2xs + +=item perlcc + +=item perldoc + +=item The Perl Debugger + +=back + +=item Improved Documentation + +perlapi.pod, perlboot.pod, perlcompile.pod, perldbmfilter.pod, +perldebug.pod, perldebguts.pod, perlfork.pod, perlfilter.pod, perlhack.pod, +perlintern.pod, perllexwarn.pod, perlnumber.pod, perlopentut.pod, +perlreftut.pod, perltootc.pod, perltodo.pod, perlunicode.pod + +=item Performance enhancements + +=over 4 + +=item Simple sort() using { $a <=> $b } and the like are optimized + +=item Optimized assignments to lexical variables + +=item Faster subroutine calls + +=item delete(), each(), values() and hash iteration are faster + +=back + +=item Installation and Configuration Improvements + +=over 4 + +=item -Dusethreads means something different + +=item New Configure flags + +=item Threadedness and 64-bitness now more daring + +=item Long Doubles + +=item -Dusemorebits + +=item -Duselargefiles + +=item installusrbinperl + +=item SOCKS support + +=item C<-A> flag + +=item Enhanced Installation Directories + +=back + +=item Platform specific changes + +=over 4 + +=item Supported platforms + +=item DOS + +=item OS390 (OpenEdition MVS) + +=item VMS + +=item Win32 + +=back + +=item Significant bug fixes + +=over 4 + +=item on empty files + +=item C improvements + +=item All compilation errors are true errors + +=item Implicitly closed filehandles are safer + +=item Behavior of list slices is more consistent + +=item C<(\$)> prototype and C<$foo{a}> + +=item C and AUTOLOAD + +=item C<-bareword> allowed under C + +=item Failures in DESTROY() + +=item Locale bugs fixed + +=item Memory leaks + +=item Spurious subroutine stubs after failed subroutine calls + +=item Taint failures under C<-U> + +=item END blocks and the C<-c> switch + +=item Potential to leak DATA filehandles + +=back + +=item New or Changed Diagnostics + +"%s" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same %s, "my sub" not yet +implemented, "our" variable %s redeclared, '!' allowed only after types %s, +/ cannot take a count, / must be followed by a, A or Z, / must be followed +by a*, A* or Z*, / must follow a numeric type, /%s/: Unrecognized escape +\\%c passed through, /%s/: Unrecognized escape \\%c in character class +passed through, /%s/ should probably be written as "%s", %s() called too +early to check prototype, %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element, %s +argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element or slice, %s argument is not a +subroutine name, %s package attribute may clash with future reserved word: +%s, (in cleanup) %s, <> should be quotes, Attempt to join self, Bad evalled +substitution pattern, Bad realloc() ignored, Bareword found in conditional, +Binary number > 0b11111111111111111111111111111111 non-portable, Bit vector +size > 32 non-portable, Buffer overflow in prime_env_iter: %s, Can't check +filesystem of script "%s", Can't declare class for non-scalar %s in "%s", +Can't declare %s in "%s", Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default, +Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine call, Can't read CRTL environ, Can't +remove %s: %s, skipping file, Can't return %s from lvalue subroutine, Can't +weaken a nonreference, Character class [:%s:] unknown, Character class +syntax [%s] belongs inside character classes, Constant is not %s reference, +constant(%s): %s, CORE::%s is not a keyword, defined(@array) is deprecated, +defined(%hash) is deprecated, Did not produce a valid header, (Did you mean +"local" instead of "our"?), Document contains no data, entering effective +%s failed, false [] range "%s" in regexp, Filehandle %s opened only for +output, flock() on closed filehandle %s, Global symbol "%s" requires +explicit package name, Hexadecimal number > 0xffffffff non-portable, +Ill-formed CRTL environ value "%s", Ill-formed message in prime_env_iter: +|%s|, Illegal binary digit %s, Illegal binary digit %s ignored, Illegal +number of bits in vec, Integer overflow in %s number, Invalid %s attribute: +%s, Invalid %s attributes: %s, invalid [] range "%s" in regexp, Invalid +separator character %s in attribute list, Invalid separator character %s in +subroutine attribute list, leaving effective %s failed, Lvalue subs +returning %s not implemented yet, Method %s not permitted, Missing +%sbrace%s on \N{}, Missing command in piped open, Missing name in "my sub", +No %s specified for -%c, No package name allowed for variable %s in "our", +No space allowed after -%c, no UTC offset information; assuming local time +is UTC, Octal number > 037777777777 non-portable, panic: del_backref, +panic: kid popen errno read, panic: magic_killbackrefs, Parentheses missing +around "%s" list, Possible unintended interpolation of %s in string, +Possible Y2K bug: %s, pragma "attrs" is deprecated, use "sub NAME : ATTRS" +instead, Premature end of script headers, Repeat count in pack overflows, +Repeat count in unpack overflows, realloc() of freed memory ignored, +Reference is already weak, setpgrp can't take arguments, Strange *+?{} on +zero-length expression, switching effective %s is not implemented, This +Perl can't reset CRTL environ elements (%s), This Perl can't set CRTL +environ elements (%s=%s), Too late to run %s block, Unknown open() mode +'%s', Unknown process %x sent message to prime_env_iter: %s, Unrecognized +escape \\%c passed through, Unterminated attribute parameter in attribute +list, Unterminated attribute list, Unterminated attribute parameter in +subroutine attribute list, Unterminated subroutine attribute list, Value of +CLI symbol "%s" too long, Version number must be a constant number + +=item New tests + +=item Incompatible Changes + +=over 4 + +=item Perl Source Incompatibilities + +CHECK is a new keyword, Treatment of list slices of undef has changed, +Format of $English::PERL_VERSION is different, Literals of the form +C<1.2.3> parse differently, Possibly changed pseudo-random number +generator, Hashing function for hash keys has changed, C fails on +read only values, Close-on-exec bit may be set on pipe and socket handles, +Writing C<"$$1"> to mean C<"${$}1"> is unsupported, delete(), each(), +values() and C<\(%h)>, vec(EXPR,OFFSET,BITS) enforces powers-of-two BITS, +Text of some diagnostic output has changed, C<%@> has been removed, +Parenthesized not() behaves like a list operator, Semantics of bareword +prototype C<(*)> have changed, Semantics of bit operators may have changed +on 64-bit platforms, More builtins taint their results + +=item C Source Incompatibilities + +C, C, C + +=item Compatible C Source API Changes + +C is now C + +=item Binary Incompatibilities + +=back + +=item Known Problems + +=over 4 + +=item Thread test failures + +=item EBCDIC platforms not supported + +=item In 64-bit HP-UX the lib/io_multihomed test may hang + +=item NEXTSTEP 3.3 POSIX test failure + +=item Tru64 (aka Digital UNIX, aka DEC OSF/1) lib/sdbm test failure with +gcc + +=item UNICOS/mk CC failures during Configure run + +=item Arrow operator and arrays + +=item Experimental features + +Threads, Unicode, 64-bit support, Lvalue subroutines, Weak references, The +pseudo-hash data type, The Compiler suite, Internal implementation of file +globbing, The DB module, The regular expression code constructs: + +=back + +=item Obsolete Diagnostics + +Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions, Ill-formed +logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter, In string, @%s now must be written as +\@%s, Probable precedence problem on %s, regexp too big, Use of "$$" +to mean "${$}" is deprecated + +=item Reporting Bugs + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=head2 perl5005delta, perldelta - what's new for perl5.005 + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item About the new versioning system + +=item Incompatible Changes + +=over 4 + +=item WARNING: This version is not binary compatible with Perl 5.004. + +=item Default installation structure has changed + +=item Perl Source Compatibility + +=item C Source Compatibility + +=item Binary Compatibility + +=item Security fixes may affect compatibility + +=item Relaxed new mandatory warnings introduced in 5.004 + +=item Licensing + +=back + +=item Core Changes + +=over 4 + +=item Threads + +=item Compiler + +=item Regular Expressions + +Many new and improved optimizations, Many bug fixes, New regular expression +constructs, New operator for precompiled regular expressions, Other +improvements, Incompatible changes + +=item Improved malloc() + +=item Quicksort is internally implemented + +=item Reliable signals + +=item Reliable stack pointers + +=item More generous treatment of carriage returns + +=item Memory leaks + +=item Better support for multiple interpreters + +=item Behavior of local() on array and hash elements is now well-defined + +=item C<%!> is transparently tied to the L module + +=item Pseudo-hashes are supported + +=item C is supported + +=item Keywords can be globally overridden + +=item C<$^E> is meaningful on Win32 + +=item C optimized + +=item C can be used as implicitly quoted package name + +=item C tests existence of a package + +=item Better locale support + +=item Experimental support for 64-bit platforms + +=item prototype() returns useful results on builtins + +=item Extended support for exception handling + +=item Re-blessing in DESTROY() supported for chaining DESTROY() methods + +=item All C format conversions are handled internally + +=item New C keyword + +=item New C keyword + +=item New C operator + +=item C is now a reserved word + +=item Tied arrays are now fully supported + +=item Tied handles support is better + +=item 4th argument to substr + +=item Negative LENGTH argument to splice + +=item Magic lvalues are now more magical + +=item <> now reads in records + +=back + +=item Supported Platforms + +=over 4 + +=item New Platforms + +=item Changes in existing support + +=back + +=item Modules and Pragmata + +=over 4 + +=item New Modules + +B, Data::Dumper, Dumpvalue, Errno, File::Spec, ExtUtils::Installed, +ExtUtils::Packlist, Fatal, IPC::SysV, Test, Tie::Array, Tie::Handle, +Thread, attrs, fields, re + +=item Changes in existing modules + +Benchmark, Carp, CGI, Fcntl, Math::Complex, Math::Trig, POSIX, DB_File, +MakeMaker, CPAN, Cwd + +=back + +=item Utility Changes + +=item Documentation Changes + +=item New Diagnostics + +Ambiguous call resolved as CORE::%s(), qualify as such or use &, Bad index +while coercing array into hash, Bareword "%s" refers to nonexistent +package, Can't call method "%s" on an undefined value, Can't check +filesystem of script "%s" for nosuid, Can't coerce array into hash, Can't +goto subroutine from an eval-string, Can't localize pseudo-hash element, +Can't use %%! because Errno.pm is not available, Cannot find an opnumber +for "%s", Character class syntax [. .] is reserved for future extensions, Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions, Character class syntax [= =] is reserved for future extensions, %s: Eval-group in insecure regular expression, %s: Eval-group not allowed, use re 'eval', %s: @@ -5333,748 +6418,3715 @@ Eval-group not allowed at run time, Explicit blessing to '' (assuming package main), Illegal hex digit ignored, No such array field, No such field "%s" in variable %s of type %s, Out of memory during ridiculously large request, Range iterator outside integer range, Recursive inheritance -detected while looking for method '%s' in package '%s', Reference found -where even-sized list expected, Undefined value assigned to typeglob, Use -of reserved word "%s" is deprecated, perl: warning: Setting locale failed +detected while looking for method '%s' %s, Reference found where even-sized +list expected, Undefined value assigned to typeglob, Use of reserved word +"%s" is deprecated, perl: warning: Setting locale failed + +=item Obsolete Diagnostics + +Can't mktemp(), Can't write to temp file for B<-e>: %s, Cannot open +temporary file, regexp too big + +=item Configuration Changes + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=head2 perl5004delta, perldelta - what's new for perl5.004 + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Supported Environments + +=item Core Changes + +=over 4 + +=item List assignment to %ENV works + +=item Change to "Can't locate Foo.pm in @INC" error + +=item Compilation option: Binary compatibility with 5.003 + +=item $PERL5OPT environment variable + +=item Limitations on B<-M>, B<-m>, and B<-T> options + +=item More precise warnings + +=item Deprecated: Inherited C for non-methods + +=item Previously deprecated %OVERLOAD is no longer usable + +=item Subroutine arguments created only when they're modified + +=item Group vector changeable with C<$)> + +=item Fixed parsing of $$, &$, etc. + +=item Fixed localization of $, $&, etc. + +=item No resetting of $. on implicit close + +=item C may return undef + +=item C determines value of EXPR in scalar context + +=item Changes to tainting checks + +No glob() or <*>, No spawning if tainted $CDPATH, $ENV, $BASH_ENV, No +spawning if tainted $TERM doesn't look like a terminal name + +=item New Opcode module and revised Safe module + +=item Embedding improvements + +=item Internal change: FileHandle class based on IO::* classes + +=item Internal change: PerlIO abstraction interface + +=item New and changed syntax + +$coderef->(PARAMS) + +=item New and changed builtin constants + +__PACKAGE__ + +=item New and changed builtin variables + +$^E, $^H, $^M + +=item New and changed builtin functions + +delete on slices, flock, printf and sprintf, keys as an lvalue, my() in +Control Structures, pack() and unpack(), sysseek(), use VERSION, use Module +VERSION LIST, prototype(FUNCTION), srand, $_ as Default, C does not +reset search position on failure, C ignores whitespace before ?*+{}, +nested C closures work now, formats work right on changing lexicals + +=item New builtin methods + +isa(CLASS), can(METHOD), VERSION( [NEED] ) + +=item TIEHANDLE now supported + +TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, PRINT this, LIST, PRINTF this, LIST, READ this +LIST, READLINE this, GETC this, DESTROY this + +=item Malloc enhancements + +-DPERL_EMERGENCY_SBRK, -DPACK_MALLOC, -DTWO_POT_OPTIMIZE + +=item Miscellaneous efficiency enhancements + +=back + +=item Support for More Operating Systems + +=over 4 + +=item Win32 + +=item Plan 9 + +=item QNX + +=item AmigaOS + +=back + +=item Pragmata + +use autouse MODULE => qw(sub1 sub2 sub3), use blib, use blib 'dir', use +constant NAME => VALUE, use locale, use ops, use vmsish + +=item Modules + +=over 4 + +=item Required Updates + +=item Installation directories + +=item Module information summary + +=item Fcntl + +=item IO + +=item Math::Complex + +=item Math::Trig + +=item DB_File + +=item Net::Ping + +=item Object-oriented overrides for builtin operators + +=back + +=item Utility Changes + +=over 4 + +=item pod2html + +Sends converted HTML to standard output + +=item xsubpp + +C XSUBs now default to returning nothing + +=back + +=item C Language API Changes + +C and C, C, Extended API for +manipulating hashes + +=item Documentation Changes + +L, L, L, L, L, +L, L, L + +=item New Diagnostics + +"my" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same scope, %s argument is +not a HASH element or slice, Allocation too large: %lx, Allocation too +large, Applying %s to %s will act on scalar(%s), Attempt to free +nonexistent shared string, Attempt to use reference as lvalue in substr, +Bareword "%s" refers to nonexistent package, Can't redefine active sort +subroutine %s, Can't use bareword ("%s") as %s ref while "strict refs" in +use, Cannot resolve method `%s' overloading `%s' in package `%s', Constant +subroutine %s redefined, Constant subroutine %s undefined, Copy method did +not return a reference, Died, Exiting pseudo-block via %s, Identifier too +long, Illegal character %s (carriage return), Illegal switch in PERL5OPT: +%s, Integer overflow in hex number, Integer overflow in octal number, +internal error: glob failed, Invalid conversion in %s: "%s", Invalid type +in pack: '%s', Invalid type in unpack: '%s', Name "%s::%s" used only once: +possible typo, Null picture in formline, Offset outside string, Out of +memory!, Out of memory during request for %s, panic: frexp, Possible +attempt to put comments in qw() list, Possible attempt to separate words +with commas, Scalar value @%s{%s} better written as $%s{%s}, Stub found +while resolving method `%s' overloading `%s' in %s, Too late for "B<-T>" +option, untie attempted while %d inner references still exist, Unrecognized +character %s, Unsupported function fork, Use of "$$" to mean +"${$}" is deprecated, Value of %s can be "0"; test with defined(), +Variable "%s" may be unavailable, Variable "%s" will not stay shared, +Warning: something's wrong, Ill-formed logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter, +Got an error from DosAllocMem, Malformed PERLLIB_PREFIX, PERL_SH_DIR too +long, Process terminated by SIG%s + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=head2 perlaix, README.aix - Perl version 5 on IBM Unix (AIX) systems + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Compiling Perl 5 on AIX + +=item OS level + +=item Building Dynamic Extensions on AIX + +=item The IBM ANSI C Compiler + +=item Using GNU's gcc for building perl + +=item Using Large Files with Perl + +=item Threaded Perl + +=item 64-bit Perl + +=item AIX 4.2 and extensions using C++ with statics + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=item DATE + +=back + +=head2 perlapollo, README.apollo - Perl version 5 on Apollo DomainOS + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perlamiga - Perl under Amiga OS + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Prerequisites for Compiling Perl on AmigaOS + +B, B + +=item Starting Perl programs under AmigaOS + +=item Shortcomings of Perl under AmigaOS + +=back + +=item INSTALLATION + +=item Accessing documentation + +=over 4 + +=item Manpages for Perl on AmigaOS + +=item Perl HTML Documentation on AmigaOS + +=item Perl GNU Info Files on AmigaOS + +=item Perl LaTeX Documentation on AmigaOS + +=back + +=item BUILDING PERL ON AMIGAOS + +=over 4 + +=item Build Prerequisites for Perl on AmigaOS + +=item Getting the Perl Source for AmigaOS + +=item Making Perl on AmigaOS + +=item Testing Perl on AmigaOS + +=item Installing the built Perl on AmigaOS + +=back + +=item AUTHORS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perlbeos, README.beos - Perl version 5 on BeOS + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item General Issues with Perl on BeOS + +=item BeOS Release-specific Notes + +R4 x86, R4 PPC + +=item Contact Information + +=back + +=back + +=head2 perlbs2000, README.BS2000 - building and installing Perl for BS2000. + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item gzip on BS2000 + +=item bison on BS2000 + +=item Unpacking Perl Distribution on BS2000 + +=item Compiling Perl on BS2000 + +=item Testing Perl on BS2000 + +=item Installing Perl on BS2000 + +=item Using Perl in the Posix-Shell of BS2000 + +=item Using Perl in "native" BS2000 + +=item Floating point anomalies on BS2000 + +=back + +=item AUTHORS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=over 4 + +=item Mailing list + +=back + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Name + +=item Description + +=item Build + +=over 4 + +=item Tools & SDK + +=item Make + +=back + +=item Acknowledgements + +=item Author + +=back + +=head2 perlcygwin, README.cygwin - Perl for Cygwin + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item PREREQUISITES FOR COMPILING PERL ON CYGWIN + +=over 4 + +=item Cygwin = GNU+Cygnus+Windows (Don't leave UNIX without it) + +=item Cygwin Configuration + +C, I, Permissions + +=back + +=item CONFIGURE PERL ON CYGWIN + +=over 4 + +=item Stripping Perl Binaries on Cygwin + +=item Optional Libraries for Perl on Cygwin + +C<-lcrypt>, C<-lgdbm> (C), C<-ldb> (C), +C<-lcygipc> (C) + +=item Configure-time Options for Perl on Cygwin + +C<-Uusedl>, C<-Uusemymalloc>, C<-Uuseperlio>, C<-Dusemultiplicity>, +C<-Duse64bitint>, C<-Duselongdouble>, C<-Dusethreads>, C<-Duselargefiles> + +=item Suspicious Warnings on Cygwin + +I, Win9x and C, Compiler/Preprocessor defines + +=back + +=item MAKE ON CYGWIN + +=over 4 + +=item Warnings on Cygwin + +=item ld2 on Cygwin + +=back + +=item TEST ON CYGWIN + +=over 4 + +=item File Permissions on Cygwin + +=item Hard Links on Cygwin + +=item Filetime Granularity on Cygwin + +=item Tainting Checks on Cygwin + +=item /etc/group on Cygwin + +=item Script Portability on Cygwin + +Pathnames, Text/Binary, F<.exe>, chown(), Miscellaneous + +=back + +=item INSTALL PERL ON CYGWIN + +=item MANIFEST ON CYGWIN + +Documentation, Build, Configure, Make, Install, Tests, Compiled Perl +Source, Compiled Module Source, Perl Modules/Scripts + +=item BUGS ON CYGWIN + +=item AUTHORS + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=head2 perldgux - Perl under DG/UX. + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item BUILDING PERL ON DG/UX + +=over 4 + +=item Non-threaded Perl on DG/UX + +=item Threaded Perl on DG/UX + +=item Testing Perl on DG/UX + +=item Installing the built perl on DG/UX + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perldos - Perl under DOS, W31, W95. + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Prerequisites for Compiling Perl on DOS + +DJGPP, Pthreads + +=item Shortcomings of Perl under DOS + +=item Building Perl on DOS + +=item Testing Perl on DOS + +=item Installation of Perl on DOS + +=back + +=item BUILDING AND INSTALLING MODULES ON DOS + +=over 4 + +=item Building Prerequisites for Perl on DOS + +=item Unpacking CPAN Modules on DOS + +=item Building Non-XS Modules on DOS + +=item Building XS Modules on DOS + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perlepoc, README.epoc - Perl for EPOC + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item INTRODUCTION + +=item INSTALLING PERL ON EPOC + +=item STARTING PERL ON EPOC + +=item STOPPING PERL ON EPOC + +=item USING PERL ON EPOC + +=over 4 + +=item I/O Redirection on Epoc + +=item PATH Names on Epoc + +=item Editors on Epoc + +=item Features of Perl on Epoc + +=item Restrictions of Perl on Epoc + +=item Compiling Perl 5 on the EPOC cross compiling environment + +=back + +=item SUPPORT STATUS OF PERL ON EPOC + +=item AUTHOR + +=item LAST UPDATE + +=back + +=head2 perlhpux, README.hpux - Perl version 5 on Hewlett-Packard Unix +(HP-UX) systems + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Using perl as shipped with HP-UX + +=item Compiling Perl 5 on HP-UX + +=item PA-RISC + +=item PA-RISC 1.0 + +=item PA-RISC 1.1 + +=item PA-RISC 2.0 + +=item Itanium + +=item Portability Between PA-RISC Versions + +=item Itanium Processor Family and HP-UX + +=item Building Dynamic Extensions on HP-UX + +=item The HP ANSI C Compiler + +=item Using Large Files with Perl on HP-UX + +=item Threaded Perl on HP-UX + +=item 64-bit Perl on HP-UX + +=item GDBM and Threads on HP-UX + +=item NFS filesystems and utime(2) on HP-UX + +=item perl -P and // and HP-UX + +=item HP-UX Kernel Parameters (maxdsiz) for Compiling Perl + +=back + +=item nss_delete core dump from op/pwent or op/grent + +=item AUTHOR + +=item DATE + +=back + +=head2 perlhurd, README.hurd - Perl version 5 on Hurd + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Known Problems with Perl on Hurd + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perlmachten, README.machten - Perl version 5 on Power MachTen +systems + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Compiling Perl 5 on MachTen + +=item Failures during C on MachTen + +op/lexassign.t, pragma/warnings.t + +=item Building external modules on MachTen + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=item DATE + +=back + +=head2 perlmacos, README.macos - Perl under Mac OS (Classic) + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR + +=item DATE + +=back + +=head2 perlmint, README.mint - Perl version 5 on Atari MiNT + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Known problems with Perl on MiNT + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perlmpeix, README.mpeix - Perl/iX for HP e3000 MPE + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item NOTE + +=item Binary distribution from HP + +=item What's New in Perl for MPE/iX + +=item Welcome to Perl/iX + +=item System Requirements for Perl/iX + +=item How to Obtain Perl/iX + +=item Perl/iX Distribution Contents Highlights + +README, INSTALL, LIBSHP3K, PERL, .cpan/, lib/, man/, +public_html/feedback.cgi, src/perl-5.6.0-mpe + +=item How to Compile Perl/iX + + 4, 6 + +=item Getting Started with Perl/iX + +=item MPE/iX Implementation Considerations + +=item Known Perl/iX Bugs Under Investigation + +=item Perl/iX To-Do List + +=item Perl/iX Change History + +=item AUTHOR + +=item Name + +=item Description + +=item Build + +=over 4 + +=item Tools & SDK + +=item Setup + +Buildtype.bat, SetNWBld.bat, MPKBuild.bat + +=item Make + +=item Interpreter + +=item Extensions + +=back + +=item Install + +=item Build new extensions + +=item Known Issues + +=item Acknowledgements + +=item Authors + +=item Date + +=back + +=head2 perlos2 - Perl under OS/2, DOS, Win0.3*, Win0.95 and WinNT. + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Target + +=item Other OSes + +=item Prerequisites + +EMX, RSX, HPFS, pdksh + +=item Starting Perl programs under OS/2 (and DOS and...) + +=item Starting OS/2 (and DOS) programs under Perl + +=back + +=item Frequently asked questions + +=over 4 + +=item "It does not work" + +=item I cannot run external programs + +=item I cannot embed perl into my program, or use F from my +program. + +Is your program EMX-compiled with C<-Zmt -Zcrtdll>?, Did you use +L? + +=item C<``> and pipe-C do not work under DOS. + +=item Cannot start C + +=back + +=item INSTALLATION + +=over 4 + +=item Automatic binary installation + +C, C, F + +=item Manual binary installation + +Perl VIO and PM executables (dynamically linked), Perl_ VIO executable +(statically linked), Executables for Perl utilities, Main Perl library, +Additional Perl modules, Tools to compile Perl modules, Manpages for Perl +and utilities, Manpages for Perl modules, Source for Perl documentation, +Perl manual in F<.INF> format, Pdksh + +=item B + +=back + +=item Accessing documentation + +=over 4 + +=item OS/2 F<.INF> file + +=item Plain text + +=item Manpages + +=item HTML + +=item GNU C files + +=item F<.PDF> files + +=item C docs + +=back + +=item BUILD + +=over 4 + +=item The short story + +=item Prerequisites + +=item Getting perl source + +=item Application of the patches + +=item Hand-editing + +=item Making + +=item Testing + +A lot of C, Process terminated by SIGTERM/SIGINT, F, +F + +=item Installing the built perl + +=item C-style build + +=back + +=item Build FAQ + +=over 4 + +=item Some C became C<\> in pdksh. + +=item C<'errno'> - unresolved external + +=item Problems with tr or sed + +=item Some problem (forget which ;-) + +=item Library ... not found + +=item Segfault in make + +=item op/sprintf test failure + +=back + +=item Specific (mis)features of OS/2 port + +=over 4 + +=item C, C + +=item C + +=item C on the first line + +=item Additional modules: + +=item Prebuilt methods: + +C, C, C, + C, C, +C, C, +C, C, +C, C, +C, +C, C, +OS2::SysInfo(), OS2::BootDrive(), C, +C, C, +C, C, +OS2::get_control87(), C + +=item Prebuilt variables: + +$OS2::emx_rev, $OS2::emx_env, $OS2::os_ver + +=item Misfeatures + +=item Modifications + +C, C, C, C, C, C, C, +C + +=item Identifying DLLs + +=item Centralized management of resources + +C, C + +=back + +=item Perl flavors + +=over 4 + +=item F + +=item F + +=item F + +=item F + +=item Why strange names? + +=item Why dynamic linking? + +=item Why chimera build? + +=back + +=item ENVIRONMENT + +=over 4 + +=item C + +=item C + +=item C + +=item C + +=item C + +=item C or C + +=back + +=item Evolution + +=over 4 + +=item Priorities + +=item DLL name mangling: pre 5.6.2 + +=item DLL name mangling: 5.6.2 and beyond + +Global DLLs, specific DLLs, C and C, F<.> from +C + +=item DLL forwarder generation + +=item Threading + +=item Calls to external programs + +=item Memory allocation + +=item Threads + +C, F + +=back + +=item BUGS + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perlos390, README.os390 - building and installing Perl for OS/390 +and z/OS + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Tools + +=item Unpacking Perl distribution on OS/390 + +=item Setup and utilities for Perl on OS/390 + +=item Configure Perl on OS/390 + +=item Build, Test, Install Perl on OS/390 + +=item Build Anomalies with Perl on OS/390 + +=item Testing Anomalies with Perl on OS/390 + +=item Installation Anomalies with Perl on OS/390 + +=item Usage Hints for Perl on OS/390 + +=item Floating Point Anomalies with Perl on OS/390 + +=item Modules and Extensions for Perl on OS/390 + +=back + +=item AUTHORS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=over 4 + +=item Mailing list for Perl on OS/390 + +=back + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=head2 perlqnx, README.qnx - Perl version 5 on QNX + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Required Software for Compiling Perl on QNX4 + +/bin/sh, ar, nm, cpp, make + +=item Outstanding Issues with Perl on QNX4 + +=item QNX auxiliary files + +qnx/ar, qnx/cpp + +=item Outstanding issues with perl under QNX6 + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perlplan9 - Plan 9-specific documentation for Perl + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Invoking Perl + +=item What's in Plan 9 Perl + +=item What's not in Plan 9 Perl + +=item Perl5 Functions not currently supported in Plan 9 Perl + +=item Signals in Plan 9 Perl + +=back + +=item COMPILING AND INSTALLING PERL ON PLAN 9 + +=over 4 + +=item Installing Perl Documentation on Plan 9 + +=back + +=item BUGS + +=item Revision date + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perlsolaris, README.solaris - Perl version 5 on Solaris systems + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Solaris Version Numbers. + +=back + +=item RESOURCES + +Solaris FAQ, Precompiled Binaries, Solaris Documentation + +=item SETTING UP + +=over 4 + +=item File Extraction Problems on Solaris. + +=item Compiler and Related Tools on Solaris. + +=item Environment for Compiling Perl on Solaris + +=back + +=item RUN CONFIGURE. + +=over 4 + +=item 64-bit Issues with Perl on Solaris. + +=item Threads in Perl on Solaris. + +=item Malloc Issues with Perl on Solaris. + +=back + +=item MAKE PROBLEMS. + +Dynamic Loading Problems With GNU as and GNU ld, ld.so.1: ./perl: fatal: +relocation error:, dlopen: stub interception failed, #error "No +DATAMODEL_NATIVE specified", sh: ar: not found + +=item MAKE TEST + +=over 4 + +=item op/stat.t test 4 in Solaris + +=item nss_delete core dump from op/pwent or op/grent + +=back + +=item PREBUILT BINARIES OF PERL FOR SOLARIS. + +=item RUNTIME ISSUES FOR PERL ON SOLARIS. + +=over 4 + +=item Limits on Numbers of Open Files on Solaris. + +=back + +=item SOLARIS-SPECIFIC MODULES. + +=item SOLARIS-SPECIFIC PROBLEMS WITH MODULES. + +=over 4 + +=item Proc::ProcessTable on Solaris + +=item BSD::Resource on Solaris + +=item Net::SSLeay on Solaris + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=item LAST MODIFIED + +=back + +=head2 perltru64, README.tru64 - Perl version 5 on Tru64 (formerly known as +Digital UNIX formerly known as DEC OSF/1) systems + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Compiling Perl 5 on Tru64 + +=item Using Large Files with Perl on Tru64 + +=item Threaded Perl on Tru64 + +=item Long Doubles on Tru64 + +=item 64-bit Perl on Tru64 + +=item Warnings about floating-point overflow when compiling Perl on Tru64 + +=back + +=item Testing Perl on Tru64 + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perluts - Perl under UTS + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item BUILDING PERL ON UTS + +=item Installing the built perl on UTS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perlvmesa, README.vmesa - building and installing Perl for VM/ESA. + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Unpacking Perl Distribution on VM/ESA + +=item Setup Perl and utilities on VM/ESA + +=item Configure Perl on VM/ESA + +=item Testing Anomalies of Perl on VM/ESA + +=item Usage Hints for Perl on VM/ESA + +=back + +=item AUTHORS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=over 4 + +=item Mailing list for Perl on VM/ESA + +=back + +=back + +=head2 perlvms - VMS-specific documentation for Perl + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Installation + +=item Organization of Perl Images + +=over 4 + +=item Core Images + +=item Perl Extensions + +=item Installing static extensions + +=item Installing dynamic extensions + +=back + +=item File specifications + +=over 4 + +=item Syntax + +=item Wildcard expansion + +=item Pipes + +=back + +=item PERL5LIB and PERLLIB + +=item Command line + +=over 4 + +=item I/O redirection and backgrounding + +=item Command line switches + +-i, -S, -u + +=back + +=item Perl functions + +File tests, backticks, binmode FILEHANDLE, crypt PLAINTEXT, USER, dump, +exec LIST, fork, getpwent, getpwnam, getpwuid, gmtime, kill, qx//, select +(system call), stat EXPR, system LIST, time, times, unlink LIST, utime +LIST, waitpid PID,FLAGS + +=item Perl variables + +%ENV, CRTL_ENV, CLISYM_[LOCAL], Any other string, $!, $^E, $?, $| + +=item Standard modules with VMS-specific differences + +=over 4 + +=item SDBM_File + +=back + +=item Revision date + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perlvos, README.vos - Perl for Stratus VOS + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=over 4 + +=item Stratus POSIX Support + +=back + +=item INSTALLING PERL IN VOS + +=over 4 + +=item Compiling Perl 5 on VOS + +=item Installing Perl 5 on VOS + +=back + +=item USING PERL IN VOS + +=over 4 + +=item Unimplemented Features of Perl on VOS + +=item Restrictions of Perl on VOS + +=back + +=item SUPPORT STATUS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item LAST UPDATE + +=back + +=head2 perlwin32 - Perl under Win32 + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Setting Up Perl on Win32 + +Make, Command Shell, Borland C++, Microsoft Visual C++, Mingw32 with GCC + +=item Building + +=item Testing Perl on Win32 + +=item Installation of Perl on Win32 + +=item Usage Hints for Perl on Win32 + +Environment Variables, File Globbing, Using perl from the command line, +Building Extensions, Command-line Wildcard Expansion, Win32 Specific +Extensions, Running Perl Scripts, Miscellaneous Things + +=back + +=item BUGS AND CAVEATS + +=item AUTHORS + +Gary Ng E71564.1743@CompuServe.COME, Gurusamy Sarathy +Egsar@activestate.comE, Nick Ing-Simmons +Enick@ing-simmons.netE + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=head1 PRAGMA DOCUMENTATION + +=head2 attrs - set/get attributes of a subroutine (deprecated) + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +method, locked + +=back + +=head2 re - Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head2 threadshared::shared, threads::shared - Perl extension for sharing +data structures between threads + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item EXPORT + +=item FUNCTIONS + +share VARIABLE, lock VARIABLE, unlock VARIABLE, cond_wait VARIABLE, +cond_signal VARIABLE, cond_broadcast VARIABLE + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 threads - Perl extension allowing use of interpreter based threads +from perl + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +$thread = new(function, LIST), $thread->join, $thread->detach, +threads->self, $thread->tid + +=item TODO + +Fix so the return value is returned when you join, Add join_all, Fix memory +leaks! + +=item AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT + +=item BUGS + +creating a thread from within a thread is unsafe under win32, +PERL_OLD_SIGNALS are not threadsafe, will not be + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 attributes - get/set subroutine or variable attributes + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Built-in Attributes + +locked, method, lvalue + +=item Available Subroutines + +get, reftype + +=item Package-specific Attribute Handling + +FETCH_I_ATTRIBUTES, MODIFY_I_ATTRIBUTES + +=item Syntax of Attribute Lists + +=back + +=item EXPORTS + +=over 4 + +=item Default exports + +=item Available exports + +=item Export tags defined + +=back + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 attrs - set/get attributes of a subroutine (deprecated) + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +method, locked + +=back + +=head2 autouse - postpone load of modules until a function is used + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item WARNING + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 base - Establish IS-A relationship with base class at compile time + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item HISTORY + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 blib - Use MakeMaker's uninstalled version of a package + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 bytes - Perl pragma to force byte semantics rather than character +semantics + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 charnames - define character names for C<\N{named}> string literal +escapes. + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CUSTOM TRANSLATORS + +=item charnames::viacode(code) + +=item charnames::vianame(code) + +=item BUGS + +=back + +=head2 constant - Perl pragma to declare constants + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item NOTES + +=over 4 + +=item List constants + +=item Defining multiple constants at once + +=item Magic constants + +=back + +=item TECHNICAL NOTES + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 diagnostics - Perl compiler pragma to force verbose warning +diagnostics + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item The C Pragma + +=item The I Program + +=back + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item INTERNALS + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 encoding - pragma to control the conversion of legacy data into +Unicode + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item KNOWN PROBLEMS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 fields - compile-time class fields + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +new, phash + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 filetest - Perl pragma to control the filetest permission operators + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item subpragma access + +=back + +=back + +=head2 integer - Perl pragma to use integer arithmetic instead of floating +point + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head2 less - perl pragma to request less of something from the compiler + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head2 lib - manipulate @INC at compile time + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Adding directories to @INC + +=item Deleting directories from @INC + +=item Restoring original @INC + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 locale - Perl pragma to use and avoid POSIX locales for built-in +operations + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head2 open - perl pragma to set default disciplines for input and output + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item NONPERLIO FUNCTIONALITY + +=item IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 ops - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when compiling + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 overload - Package for overloading perl operations + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Declaration of overloaded functions + +=item Calling Conventions for Binary Operations + +FALSE, TRUE, C + +=item Calling Conventions for Unary Operations + +=item Calling Conventions for Mutators + +C<++> and C<-->, C and other assignment versions + +=item Overloadable Operations + +I, I, I, +I, I, I, I, I, I + +=item Inheritance and overloading + +Strings as values of C directive, Overloading of an operation +is inherited by derived classes + +=back + +=item SPECIAL SYMBOLS FOR C + +=over 4 + +=item Last Resort + +=item Fallback + +C, TRUE, defined, but FALSE + +=item Copy Constructor + +B + +=back + +=item MAGIC AUTOGENERATION + +I, I, +I, C, I, I, +I, I, I, I, +I + +=item Losing overloading + +=item Run-time Overloading + +=item Public functions + +overload::StrVal(arg), overload::Overloaded(arg), overload::Method(obj,op) + +=item Overloading constants + +integer, float, binary, q, qr + +=item IMPLEMENTATION + +=item Metaphor clash + +=item Cookbook + +=over 4 + +=item Two-face scalars + +=item Two-face references + +=item Symbolic calculator + +=item I symbolic calculator + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + +Odd number of arguments for overload::constant, `%s' is not an overloadable +type, `%s' is not a code reference + +=item BUGS + +=back + +=head2 re - Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head2 sigtrap - Perl pragma to enable simple signal handling + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OPTIONS + +=over 4 + +=item SIGNAL HANDLERS + +B, B, B I + +=item SIGNAL LISTS + +B, B, B + +=item OTHER + +B, B, I, I + +=back + +=item EXAMPLES + +=back + +=head2 sort - perl pragma to control sort() behaviour + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head2 strict - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe constructs + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +C, C, C + +=back + +=head2 subs - Perl pragma to predeclare sub names + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head2 utf8 - Perl pragma to enable/disable UTF-8 (or UTF-EBCDIC) in source +code + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Utility functions + +$num_octets = utf8::upgrade($string);, utf8::downgrade($string[, CHECK]), +utf8::encode($string), $flag = utf8::decode($string) + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 vars - Perl pragma to predeclare global variable names (obsolete) + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head2 vmsish - Perl pragma to control VMS-specific language features + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +C, C, C, C + +=back + +=head2 warnings - Perl pragma to control optional warnings + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +use warnings::register, warnings::enabled(), warnings::enabled($category), +warnings::enabled($object), warnings::warn($message), +warnings::warn($category, $message), warnings::warn($object, $message), +warnings::warnif($message), warnings::warnif($category, $message), +warnings::warnif($object, $message) + +=back + +=head2 warnings::register - warnings import function + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head1 MODULE DOCUMENTATION + +=head2 AnyDBM_File - provide framework for multiple DBMs + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item DBM Comparisons + +[0], [1], [2], [3] + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 AutoLoader - load subroutines only on demand + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Subroutine Stubs + +=item Using B's AUTOLOAD Subroutine + +=item Overriding B's AUTOLOAD Subroutine + +=item Package Lexicals + +=item Not Using AutoLoader + +=item B vs. B + +=back + +=item CAVEATS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 AutoSplit - split a package for autoloading + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +$keep, $check, $modtime + +=over 4 + +=item Multiple packages + +=back + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + +=back + +=head2 B - The Perl Compiler + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OVERVIEW OF CLASSES + +=over 4 + +=item SV-RELATED CLASSES + +=item B::SV METHODS + +REFCNT, FLAGS + +=item B::IV METHODS + +IV, IVX, UVX, int_value, needs64bits, packiv + +=item B::NV METHODS + +NV, NVX + +=item B::RV METHODS + +RV + +=item B::PV METHODS + +PV, PVX + +=item B::PVMG METHODS + +MAGIC, SvSTASH + +=item B::MAGIC METHODS + +MOREMAGIC, PRIVATE, TYPE, FLAGS, OBJ, PTR + +=item B::PVLV METHODS + +TARGOFF, TARGLEN, TYPE, TARG + +=item B::BM METHODS + +USEFUL, PREVIOUS, RARE, TABLE + +=item B::GV METHODS + +is_empty, NAME, SAFENAME, STASH, SV, IO, FORM, AV, HV, EGV, CV, CVGEN, +LINE, FILE, FILEGV, GvREFCNT, FLAGS + +=item B::IO METHODS + +LINES, PAGE, PAGE_LEN, LINES_LEFT, TOP_NAME, TOP_GV, FMT_NAME, FMT_GV, +BOTTOM_NAME, BOTTOM_GV, SUBPROCESS, IoTYPE, IoFLAGS + +=item B::AV METHODS + +FILL, MAX, OFF, ARRAY, AvFLAGS + +=item B::CV METHODS + +STASH, START, ROOT, GV, FILE, DEPTH, PADLIST, OUTSIDE, XSUB, XSUBANY, +CvFLAGS, const_sv + +=item B::HV METHODS + +FILL, MAX, KEYS, RITER, NAME, PMROOT, ARRAY + +=item OP-RELATED CLASSES + +=item B::OP METHODS + +next, sibling, name, ppaddr, desc, targ, type, seq, flags, private + +=item B::UNOP METHOD + +first + +=item B::BINOP METHOD + +last + +=item B::LOGOP METHOD + +other + +=item B::LISTOP METHOD + +children + +=item B::PMOP METHODS + +pmreplroot, pmreplstart, pmnext, pmregexp, pmflags, pmpermflags, precomp + +=item B::SVOP METHOD + +sv, gv + +=item B::PADOP METHOD + +padix + +=item B::PVOP METHOD + +pv + +=item B::LOOP METHODS + +redoop, nextop, lastop + +=item B::COP METHODS + +label, stash, file, cop_seq, arybase, line + +=back + +=item FUNCTIONS EXPORTED BY C + +main_cv, init_av, main_root, main_start, comppadlist, sv_undef, sv_yes, +sv_no, amagic_generation, walkoptree(OP, METHOD), walkoptree_debug(DEBUG), +walksymtable(SYMREF, METHOD, RECURSE, PREFIX), svref_2object(SV), +ppname(OPNUM), hash(STR), cast_I32(I), minus_c, cstring(STR), class(OBJ), +threadsv_names + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 B::Asmdata - Autogenerated data about Perl ops, used to generate +bytecode + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 B::Assembler - Assemble Perl bytecode + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHORS + +=back + +=head2 B::Bblock - Walk basic blocks + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 B::Bytecode - Perl compiler's bytecode backend + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OPTIONS + +B<-ofilename>, B<-afilename>, B<-->, B<-f>, B<-fcompress-nullops>, +B<-fomit-sequence-numbers>, B<-fbypass-nullops>, B<-On>, B<-D>, B<-Do>, +B<-Db>, B<-Da>, B<-DC>, B<-S>, B<-upackage> + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHORS + +=back + +=head2 B::C - Perl compiler's C backend + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OPTIONS + +B<-ofilename>, B<-v>, B<-->, B<-uPackname>, B<-D>, B<-Do>, B<-Dc>, B<-DA>, +B<-DC>, B<-DM>, B<-f>, B<-fcog>, B<-fno-cog>, B<-On>, B<-llimit> + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 B::CC - Perl compiler's optimized C translation backend + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OPTIONS + +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 BUGS + +=item DIFFERENCES + +=over 4 + +=item Loops + +=item Context of ".." + +=item Arithmetic + +=item Deprecated features + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 B::Concise - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing concise info about ops + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OPTIONS + +B<-basic>, B<-exec>, B<-tree>, B<-compact>, B<-loose>, B<-vt>, B<-ascii>, +B<-main>, B<-base>I, B<-bigendian>, B<-littleendian>, B<-concise>, +B<-terse>, B<-linenoise>, B<-debug>, B<-env> + +=item FORMATTING SPECIFICATIONS + +B<(x(>IB<;>IB<)x)>, B<(*(>IB<)*)>, +B<(*(>IB<;>IB<)*)>, B<(?(>IB<#>IIB<)?)>, +B<#>I, B<#>II, B<~>, B<#addr>, B<#arg>, B<#class>, +B<#classym>, B<#coplabel>, B<#exname>, B<#extarg>, B<#firstaddr>, +B<#flags>, B<#flagval>, B<#hyphenseq>, B<#label>, B<#lastaddr>, B<#name>, +B<#NAME>, B<#next>, B<#nextaddr>, B<#noise>, B<#private>, B<#privval>, +B<#seq>, B<#seqnum>, B<#sibaddr>, B<#svaddr>, B<#svclass>, B<#svval>, +B<#targ>, B<#targarg>, B<#targarglife>, B<#typenum> + +=item ABBREVIATIONS + +=over 4 + +=item OP flags abbreviations + +=item OP class abbreviations + +=back + +=item Using B::Concise outside of the O framework + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 B::Debug - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing debug info about ops + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 B::Deparse - Perl compiler backend to produce perl code + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OPTIONS + +B<-l>, B<-p>, B<-q>, B<-f>I, B<-s>I, B, BI, +B, BIB<.>, B<-x>I + +=item USING B::Deparse AS A MODULE + +=over 4 + +=item Synopsis + +=item Description + +=item new + +=item ambient_pragmas + +strict, $[, bytes, utf8, integer, re, warnings, hint_bits, warning_bits + +=item coderef2text + +=back + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 B::Disassembler - Disassemble Perl bytecode + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 B::Lint - Perl lint + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OPTIONS AND LINT CHECKS + +B, B and B, B, +B, B, B, B, B + +=item NON LINT-CHECK OPTIONS + +B<-u Package> + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 B::O, O - Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CONVENTIONS + +=item IMPLEMENTATION + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 B::Showlex - Show lexical variables used in functions or files + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 B::Stackobj - Helper module for CC backend + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 B::Stash - show what stashes are loaded + +=head2 B::Terse - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing terse info about ops + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 B::Xref - Generates cross reference reports for Perl programs + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OPTIONS + +C<-oFILENAME>, C<-r>, C<-D[tO]> + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Bblock, B::Bblock - Walk basic blocks + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Benchmark - benchmark running times of Perl code + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Methods + +new, debug, iters + +=item Standard Exports + +timeit(COUNT, CODE), timethis ( COUNT, CODE, [ TITLE, [ STYLE ]] ), +timethese ( COUNT, CODEHASHREF, [ STYLE ] ), timediff ( T1, T2 ), timestr ( +TIMEDIFF, [ STYLE, [ FORMAT ] ] ) + +=item Optional Exports + +clearcache ( COUNT ), clearallcache ( ), cmpthese ( COUT, CODEHASHREF, [ +STYLE ] ), cmpthese ( RESULTSHASHREF, [ STYLE ] ), countit(TIME, CODE), +disablecache ( ), enablecache ( ), timesum ( T1, T2 ) + +=back + +=item NOTES + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item INHERITANCE + +=item CAVEATS + +=item SEE ALSO -=item Obsolete Diagnostics +=item AUTHORS -Can't mktemp(), Can't write to temp file for B<-e>: %s, Cannot open -temporary file, regexp too big +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY -=item Configuration Changes +=back -=item BUGS +=head2 ByteLoader - load byte compiled perl code -=item SEE ALSO +=over 4 -=item HISTORY +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO =back -=head2 perl5004delta, perldelta - what's new for perl5.004 +=head2 Bytecode, B::Bytecode - Perl compiler's bytecode backend =over 4 +=item SYNOPSIS + =item DESCRIPTION -=item Supported Environments +=item OPTIONS -=item Core Changes +B<-ofilename>, B<-afilename>, B<-->, B<-f>, B<-fcompress-nullops>, +B<-fomit-sequence-numbers>, B<-fbypass-nullops>, B<-On>, B<-D>, B<-Do>, +B<-Db>, B<-Da>, B<-DC>, B<-S>, B<-upackage> + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHORS + +=back + +=head2 CGI - Simple Common Gateway Interface Class =over 4 -=item List assignment to %ENV works +=item SYNOPSIS -=item Change to "Can't locate Foo.pm in @INC" error +=item ABSTRACT -=item Compilation option: Binary compatibility with 5.003 +=item DESCRIPTION -=item $PERL5OPT environment variable +=over 4 -=item Limitations on B<-M>, B<-m>, and B<-T> options +=item PROGRAMMING STYLE -=item More precise warnings +=item CALLING CGI.PM ROUTINES -=item Deprecated: Inherited C for non-methods +=item CREATING A NEW QUERY OBJECT (OBJECT-ORIENTED STYLE): -=item Previously deprecated %OVERLOAD is no longer usable +=item CREATING A NEW QUERY OBJECT FROM AN INPUT FILE -=item Subroutine arguments created only when they're modified +=item FETCHING A LIST OF KEYWORDS FROM THE QUERY: -=item Group vector changeable with C<$)> +=item FETCHING THE NAMES OF ALL THE PARAMETERS PASSED TO YOUR SCRIPT: -=item Fixed parsing of $$, &$, etc. +=item FETCHING THE VALUE OR VALUES OF A SINGLE NAMED PARAMETER: -=item Fixed localization of $, $&, etc. +=item SETTING THE VALUE(S) OF A NAMED PARAMETER: -=item No resetting of $. on implicit close +=item APPENDING ADDITIONAL VALUES TO A NAMED PARAMETER: -=item C may return undef +=item IMPORTING ALL PARAMETERS INTO A NAMESPACE: -=item C determines value of EXPR in scalar context +=item DELETING A PARAMETER COMPLETELY: -=item Changes to tainting checks +=item DELETING ALL PARAMETERS: -No glob() or <*>, No spawning if tainted $CDPATH, $ENV, $BASH_ENV, No -spawning if tainted $TERM doesn't look like a terminal name +=item DIRECT ACCESS TO THE PARAMETER LIST: -=item New Opcode module and revised Safe module +=item FETCHING THE PARAMETER LIST AS A HASH: -=item Embedding improvements +=item SAVING THE STATE OF THE SCRIPT TO A FILE: -=item Internal change: FileHandle class based on IO::* classes +=item RETRIEVING CGI ERRORS -=item Internal change: PerlIO abstraction interface +=item USING THE FUNCTION-ORIENTED INTERFACE -=item New and changed syntax +B<:cgi>, B<:form>, B<:html2>, B<:html3>, B<:netscape>, B<:html>, +B<:standard>, B<:all> -$coderef->(PARAMS) +=item PRAGMAS -=item New and changed builtin constants +-any, -compile, -nosticky, -no_undef_params, -no_xhtml, -nph, +-newstyle_urls, -oldstyle_urls, -autoload, -no_debug, -debug, +-private_tempfiles -__PACKAGE__ +=item SPECIAL FORMS FOR IMPORTING HTML-TAG FUNCTIONS -=item New and changed builtin variables +1. start_table() (generates a tag), 2. end_table() (generates a +
tag), 3. start_ul() (generates a

    tag), 4. end_ul() (generates +a
tag) -$^E, $^H, $^M +=back -=item New and changed builtin functions +=item GENERATING DYNAMIC DOCUMENTS -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, $_ as Default, C does not -reset search position on failure, C ignores whitespace before ?*+{}, -nested C closures work now, formats work right on changing lexicals +=over 4 -=item New builtin methods +=item CREATING A STANDARD HTTP HEADER: -isa(CLASS), can(METHOD), VERSION( [NEED] ) +=item GENERATING A REDIRECTION HEADER -=item TIEHANDLE now supported +=item CREATING THE HTML DOCUMENT HEADER -TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, PRINT this, LIST, PRINTF this, LIST, READ this -LIST, READLINE this, GETC this, DESTROY this +B, 4, 5, 6.. -=item Malloc enhancements +=item ENDING THE HTML DOCUMENT: --DPERL_EMERGENCY_SBRK, -DPACK_MALLOC, -DTWO_POT_OPTIMIZE +=item CREATING A SELF-REFERENCING URL THAT PRESERVES STATE INFORMATION: -=item Miscellaneous efficiency enhancements +=item OBTAINING THE SCRIPT'S URL + +B<-absolute>, B<-relative>, B<-full>, B<-path> (B<-path_info>), B<-query> +(B<-query_string>), B<-base> + +=item MIXING POST AND URL PARAMETERS =back -=item Support for More Operating Systems +=item CREATING STANDARD HTML ELEMENTS: =over 4 -=item Win32 +=item PROVIDING ARGUMENTS TO HTML SHORTCUTS -=item Plan 9 +=item THE DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY OF HTML SHORTCUTS -=item QNX +=item HTML SHORTCUTS AND LIST INTERPOLATION -=item AmigaOS +=item NON-STANDARD HTML SHORTCUTS -=back +=item AUTOESCAPING HTML -=item Pragmata +$escaped_string = escapeHTML("unescaped string");, $charset = +charset([$charset]);, $flag = autoEscape([$flag]); -use autouse MODULE => qw(sub1 sub2 sub3), use blib, use blib 'dir', use -constant NAME => VALUE, use locale, use ops, use vmsish +=item PRETTY-PRINTING HTML -=item Modules +=back + +=item CREATING FILL-OUT FORMS: =over 4 -=item Required Updates +=item CREATING AN ISINDEX TAG -=item Installation directories +=item STARTING AND ENDING A FORM -=item Module information summary +B, B -=item Fcntl +=item CREATING A TEXT FIELD -=item IO +B -=item Math::Complex +=item CREATING A BIG TEXT FIELD -=item Math::Trig +=item CREATING A PASSWORD FIELD -=item DB_File +=item CREATING A FILE UPLOAD FIELD -=item Net::Ping +B -=item Object-oriented overrides for builtin operators +=item CREATING A POPUP MENU + +=item CREATING A SCROLLING LIST + +B + +=item CREATING A GROUP OF RELATED CHECKBOXES + +B + +=item CREATING A STANDALONE CHECKBOX + +B + +=item CREATING A RADIO BUTTON GROUP + +B + +=item CREATING A SUBMIT BUTTON + +B + +=item CREATING A RESET BUTTON + +=item CREATING A DEFAULT BUTTON + +=item CREATING A HIDDEN FIELD + +B + +=item CREATING A CLICKABLE IMAGE BUTTON + +B, 3. The third option (-align, optional) is an alignment +type, and may be TOP, BOTTOM or MIDDLE + +=item CREATING A JAVASCRIPT ACTION BUTTON =back -=item Utility Changes +=item HTTP COOKIES + +1. an expiration time, 2. a domain, 3. a path, 4. a "secure" flag, +B<-name>, B<-value>, B<-path>, B<-domain>, B<-expires>, B<-secure> + +=item WORKING WITH FRAMES + +1. Create a document, 2. Specify the destination for the +document in the HTTP header, 3. Specify the destination for the document in +the
tag + +=item LIMITED SUPPORT FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS + +=item DEBUGGING =over 4 -=item pod2html +=item DUMPING OUT ALL THE NAME/VALUE PAIRS + +=back + +=item FETCHING ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES + +B, B, B, B, +B, B, B Return the script +name as a partial URL, for self-refering scripts, B, B, B, B, B, +B, B, B, +B, B, B, B + +=item USING NPH SCRIPTS + +In the B statement, By calling the B method:, By using B<-nph> +parameters + +=item Server Push + +multipart_init(), multipart_start(), multipart_end(), multipart_final() + +=item Avoiding Denial of Service Attacks + +B<$CGI::POST_MAX>, B<$CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS>, B<1. On a script-by-script +basis>, B<2. Globally for all scripts> + +=item COMPATIBILITY WITH CGI-LIB.PL + +=item AUTHOR INFORMATION + +=item CREDITS + +Matt Heffron (heffron@falstaff.css.beckman.com), James Taylor +(james.taylor@srs.gov), Scott Anguish , 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.. -Sends converted HTML to standard output +=item A COMPLETE EXAMPLE OF A SIMPLE FORM-BASED SCRIPT -=item xsubpp +=item BUGS -C XSUBs now default to returning nothing +=item SEE ALSO =back -=item C Language API Changes +=head2 CGI::Apache - Backward compatibility module for CGI.pm -C and C, C, Extended API for -manipulating hashes +=over 4 -=item Documentation Changes +=item SYNOPSIS -L, L, L, L, L, -L, L, L +=item ABSTRACT -=item New Diagnostics +=item DESCRIPTION -"my" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same scope, %s argument is -not a HASH element or slice, Allocation too large: %lx, Allocation too -large, Applying %s to %s will act on scalar(%s), Attempt to free -nonexistent shared string, Attempt to use reference as lvalue in substr, -Bareword "%s" refers to nonexistent package, Can't redefine active sort -subroutine %s, Can't use bareword ("%s") as %s ref while "strict refs" in -use, Cannot resolve method `%s' overloading `%s' in package `%s', Constant -subroutine %s redefined, Constant subroutine %s undefined, Copy method did -not return a reference, Died, Exiting pseudo-block via %s, Identifier too -long, Illegal character %s (carriage return), Illegal switch in PERL5OPT: -%s, Integer overflow in hex number, Integer overflow in octal number, -internal error: glob failed, Invalid conversion in %s: "%s", Invalid type -in pack: '%s', Invalid type in unpack: '%s', Name "%s::%s" used only once: -possible typo, Null picture in formline, Offset outside string, Out of -memory!, Out of memory during request for %s, panic: frexp, Possible -attempt to put comments in qw() list, Possible attempt to separate words -with commas, Scalar value @%s{%s} better written as $%s{%s}, Stub found -while resolving method `%s' overloading `%s' in package `%s', Too late for -"B<-T>" option, untie attempted while %d inner references still exist, -Unrecognized character %s, Unsupported function fork, Use of "$$" to -mean "${$}" is deprecated, Value of %s can be "0"; test with -defined(), Variable "%s" may be unavailable, Variable "%s" will not stay -shared, Warning: something's wrong, Ill-formed logical name |%s| in -prime_env_iter, Got an error from DosAllocMem, Malformed PERLLIB_PREFIX, -PERL_SH_DIR too long, Process terminated by SIG%s +=item AUTHOR INFORMATION =item BUGS =item SEE ALSO -=item HISTORY - =back -=head2 perlaix, README.aix - Perl version 5 on IBM Unix (AIX) systems - -=over 4 - -=item DESCRIPTION +=head2 CGI::Carp, B - CGI routines for writing to the HTTPD (or +other) error log =over 4 -=item Compiling Perl 5 on AIX - -=item OS level - -=item Building Dynamic Extensions on AIX +=item SYNOPSIS -=item The IBM ANSI C Compiler +=item DESCRIPTION -=item Using GNU's gcc for building perl +=item REDIRECTING ERROR MESSAGES -=item Using Large Files with Perl +=item MAKING PERL ERRORS APPEAR IN THE BROWSER WINDOW -=item Threaded Perl +=over 4 -=item 64-bit Perl +=item Changing the default message -=item GDBM and Threads +=back -=item NFS filesystems and utime(2) +=item MAKING WARNINGS APPEAR AS HTML COMMENTS -=back +=item CHANGE LOG -=item AUTHOR +=item AUTHORS -=item DATE +=item SEE ALSO =back -=head2 perlamiga - Perl under Amiga OS (possibly very outdated information) +=head2 CGI::Cookie - Interface to Netscape Cookies =over 4 =item SYNOPSIS -=back +=item DESCRIPTION -=over 4 +=item USING CGI::Cookie -=item DESCRIPTION +B<1. expiration date>, B<2. domain>, B<3. path>, B<4. secure flag> =over 4 -=item Prerequisites +=item Creating New Cookies -B, B +=item Sending the Cookie to the Browser -=item Starting Perl programs under AmigaOS +=item Recovering Previous Cookies -=item Shortcomings of Perl under AmigaOS +=item Manipulating Cookies -fork(), some features of the UNIX filesystem regarding link count and file -dates, inplace operation (the -i switch) without backup file, umask() -works, but the correct permissions are only set when the file is -finally close()d +B, B, B, B, B =back -=item INSTALLATION +=item AUTHOR INFORMATION -=item Accessing documentation +=item BUGS -=over 4 +=item SEE ALSO -=item Manpages +=back -=item B +=head2 CGI::Fast - CGI Interface for Fast CGI -=item B C files +=over 4 -=item C docs +=item SYNOPSIS -=back +=item DESCRIPTION -=item BUILD +=item OTHER PIECES OF THE PUZZLE -=over 4 +=item WRITING FASTCGI PERL SCRIPTS -=item Prerequisites +=item INSTALLING FASTCGI SCRIPTS -=item Getting the perl source +=item USING FASTCGI SCRIPTS AS CGI SCRIPTS -=item Making +=item EXTERNAL FASTCGI SERVER INVOCATION -=item Testing +FCGI_SOCKET_PATH, FCGI_LISTEN_QUEUE -=item Installing the built perl +=item CAVEATS -=back +=item AUTHOR INFORMATION -=item AUTHOR +=item BUGS =item SEE ALSO =back -=head2 perlcygwin, README.cygwin - Perl for Cygwin +=head2 CGI::Pretty - module to produce nicely formatted HTML code =over 4 =item SYNOPSIS -=item PREREQUISITES +=item DESCRIPTION =over 4 -=item Cygwin = GNU+Cygnus+Windows (Don't leave UNIX without it) +=item Tags that won't be formatted -=item Cygwin Configuration +=item Customizing the Indenting -C, I, Permissions +=back + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO =back -=item CONFIGURE +=head2 CGI::Push - Simple Interface to Server Push =over 4 -=item Strip Binaries +=item SYNOPSIS -=item Optional Libraries +=item DESCRIPTION -C<-lcrypt>, C<-lgdbm> (C), C<-ldb> (C), -C<-lcygipc> (C) +=item USING CGI::Push -=item Configure-time Options +-next_page, -last_page, -type, -delay, -cookie, -target, -expires, -nph -C<-Uusedl>, C<-Uusemymalloc>, C<-Dusemultiplicity>, C<-Duseperlio>, -C<-Duse64bitint>, C<-Duselongdouble>, C<-Dusethreads>, C<-Duselargefiles> +=over 4 -=item Suspicious Warnings +=item Heterogeneous Pages -I, Win9x and C, Checking how std your stdio is.., -Compiler/Preprocessor defines +=item Changing the Page Delay on the Fly =back -=item MAKE +=item INSTALLING CGI::Push SCRIPTS -=over 4 +=item AUTHOR INFORMATION -=item Warnings +=item BUGS -=item ld2 +=item SEE ALSO =back -=item TEST +=head2 CGI::Switch - Backward compatibility module for defunct CGI::Switch =over 4 -=item File Permissions - -=item Hard Links +=item SYNOPSIS -=item Filetime Granularity +=item ABSTRACT -=item Tainting Checks +=item DESCRIPTION -=item /etc/group +=item AUTHOR INFORMATION -=item Script Portability +=item BUGS -Pathnames, Text/Binary, F<.exe>, chown(), Miscellaneous +=item SEE ALSO =back -=item INSTALL +=head2 CGI::Util - Internal utilities used by CGI module -=item MANIFEST +=over 4 -Documentation, Build, Configure, Make, Install, Tests, Compiled Perl -Source, Compiled Module Source, Perl Modules/Scripts +=item SYNOPSIS -=item BUGS +=item DESCRIPTION -=item AUTHORS +=item AUTHOR INFORMATION -=item HISTORY +=item SEE ALSO =back -=head2 perlepoc, README.epoc - Perl for EPOC +=head2 CPAN - query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites =over 4 =item SYNOPSIS -=item INTRODUCTION +=item DESCRIPTION -=item INSTALLING PERL ON EPOC +=over 4 -=item USING PERL ON EPOC +=item Interactive Mode -=over 4 +Searching for authors, bundles, distribution files and modules, make, test, +install, clean modules or distributions, get, readme, look module or +distribution, ls author, Signals -=item IO Redirection +=item CPAN::Shell -=item PATH Names +=item autobundle -=item Editors +=item recompile -=item Features +=item The four C Classes: Author, Bundle, Module, Distribution -=item Restrictions +=item Programmer's interface -=item Compiling Perl 5 on the EPOC cross compiling environment +expand($type,@things), expandany(@things), Programming Examples + +=item Methods in the other Classes + +CPAN::Author::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Author::as_string(), +CPAN::Author::email(), CPAN::Author::fullname(), CPAN::Author::name(), +CPAN::Bundle::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Bundle::as_string(), +CPAN::Bundle::clean(), CPAN::Bundle::contains(), +CPAN::Bundle::force($method,@args), CPAN::Bundle::get(), +CPAN::Bundle::inst_file(), CPAN::Bundle::inst_version(), +CPAN::Bundle::uptodate(), CPAN::Bundle::install(), CPAN::Bundle::make(), +CPAN::Bundle::readme(), CPAN::Bundle::test(), +CPAN::Distribution::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Distribution::as_string(), +CPAN::Distribution::clean(), CPAN::Distribution::containsmods(), +CPAN::Distribution::cvs_import(), CPAN::Distribution::dir(), +CPAN::Distribution::force($method,@args), CPAN::Distribution::get(), +CPAN::Distribution::install(), CPAN::Distribution::isa_perl(), +CPAN::Distribution::look(), CPAN::Distribution::make(), +CPAN::Distribution::prereq_pm(), CPAN::Distribution::readme(), +CPAN::Distribution::test(), CPAN::Distribution::uptodate(), +CPAN::Index::force_reload(), CPAN::Index::reload(), CPAN::InfoObj::dump(), +CPAN::Module::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Module::as_string(), +CPAN::Module::clean(), CPAN::Module::cpan_file(), +CPAN::Module::cpan_version(), CPAN::Module::cvs_import(), +CPAN::Module::description(), CPAN::Module::force($method,@args), +CPAN::Module::get(), CPAN::Module::inst_file(), +CPAN::Module::inst_version(), CPAN::Module::install(), +CPAN::Module::look(), CPAN::Module::make(), +CPAN::Module::manpage_headline(), CPAN::Module::readme(), +CPAN::Module::test(), CPAN::Module::uptodate(), CPAN::Module::userid() -=back +=item Cache Manager -=item SUPPORT STATUS +=item Bundles -=item AUTHOR +=item Prerequisites -=item LAST UPDATE +=item Finding packages and VERSION + +=item Debugging + +=item Floppy, Zip, Offline Mode =back -=head2 perlhpux, README.hpux - Perl version 5 on Hewlett-Packard Unix -(HP-UX) systems +=item CONFIGURATION + +Cscalar optionE>, Cscalar optionE +EvalueE>, Clist optionE>, Clist +optionE [shift|pop]>, Clist optionE +[unshift|push|splice] ElistE> =over 4 -=item DESCRIPTION +=item Note on urllist parameter's format -=over 4 +=item urllist parameter has CD-ROM support -=item Compiling Perl 5 on HP-UX +=back -=item PA-RISC +=item SECURITY -=item PA-RISC 1.0 +=item EXPORT -=item PA-RISC 1.1 +=item POPULATE AN INSTALLATION WITH LOTS OF MODULES -=item PA-RISC 2.0 +=item WORKING WITH CPAN.pm BEHIND FIREWALLS -=item Portability Between PA-RISC Versions +=over 4 -=item Building Dynamic Extensions on HP-UX +=item Three basic types of firewalls -=item The HP ANSI C Compiler +http firewall, ftp firewall, One way visibility, SOCKS, IP Masquerade -=item Using Large Files with Perl +=item Configuring lynx or ncftp for going through a firewall -=item Threaded Perl +=back -=item 64-bit Perl +=item FAQ + +1), 2), 3), 4), 5), 6), 7), 8), 9), 10) -=item GDBM and Threads +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR -=item NFS filesystems and utime(2) +=item TRANSLATIONS -=item perl -P and // +=item SEE ALSO =back -=item AUTHOR +=head2 CPAN::FirstTime - Utility for CPAN::Config file Initialization -=item DATE +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION =back -=head2 perlmachten, README.machten - Perl version 5 on Power MachTen -systems +=head2 CPANox, CPAN::Nox - Wrapper around CPAN.pm without using any XS +module =over 4 +=item SYNOPSIS + =item DESCRIPTION +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Carp, carp - warn of errors (from perspective of caller) + =over 4 -=item Compiling Perl 5 on MachTen +=item SYNOPSIS -=item Failures during C +=item DESCRIPTION -op/lexassign.t, pragma/warnings.t +=over 4 -=item Building external modules +=item Forcing a Stack Trace =back -=item AUTHOR - -=item DATE +=item BUGS =back -=head2 perlos2 - Perl under OS/2, DOS, Win0.3*, Win0.95 and WinNT. +=head2 Carp::Heavy, Carp heavy machinery - no user serviceable parts inside + +=head2 Class::ISA -- report the search path for a class's ISA tree =over 4 =item SYNOPSIS -=back - -=over 4 - =item DESCRIPTION -=over 4 - -=item Target - -=item Other OSes +=item FUNCTIONS -=item Prerequisites +the function Class::ISA::super_path($CLASS), the function +Class::ISA::self_and_super_path($CLASS), the function +Class::ISA::self_and_super_versions($CLASS) -EMX, RSX, HPFS, pdksh +=item CAUTIONARY NOTES -=item Starting Perl programs under OS/2 (and DOS and...) +=item COPYRIGHT -=item Starting OS/2 (and DOS) programs under Perl +=item AUTHOR =back -=item Frequently asked questions +=head2 Class::Struct - declare struct-like datatypes as Perl classes =over 4 -=item I cannot run external programs - -=item I cannot embed perl into my program, or use F from my -program. +=item SYNOPSIS -Is your program EMX-compiled with C<-Zmt -Zcrtdll>?, Did you use -L? +=item DESCRIPTION -=item C<``> and pipe-C do not work under DOS. +=over 4 -=item Cannot start C +=item The C function -=back +=item Class Creation at Compile Time -=item INSTALLATION +=item Element Types and Accessor Methods -=over 4 +Scalar (C<'$'> or C<'*$'>), Array (C<'@'> or C<'*@'>), Hash (C<'%'> or +C<'*%'>), Class (C<'Class_Name'> or C<'*Class_Name'>) -=item Automatic binary installation +=item Initializing with C -C, C, F +=back -=item Manual binary installation +=item EXAMPLES -Perl VIO and PM executables (dynamically linked), Perl_ VIO executable -(statically linked), Executables for Perl utilities, Main Perl library, -Additional Perl modules, Tools to compile Perl modules, Manpages for Perl -and utilities, Manpages for Perl modules, Source for Perl documentation, -Perl manual in F<.INF> format, Pdksh +Example 1, Example 2, Example 3 -=item B +=item Author and Modification History =back -=item Accessing documentation +=head2 Config - access Perl configuration information =over 4 -=item OS/2 F<.INF> file +=item SYNOPSIS -=item Plain text +=item DESCRIPTION -=item Manpages +myconfig(), config_sh(), config_vars(@names) -=item HTML +=item EXAMPLE -=item GNU C files +=item WARNING -=item F<.PDF> files +=item GLOSSARY -=item C docs +=over 4 -=back +=item _ -=item BUILD +C<_a>, C<_exe>, C<_o> -=over 4 +=item a -=item Prerequisites +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, C, +C -=item Getting perl source +=item b -=item Application of the patches +C, C, C, C, C, C, +C, C -=item Hand-editing +=item c -=item Making +C, C, C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C -=item Testing +=item d -A lot of C, Process terminated by SIGTERM/SIGINT, F, -F, F, F, F +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, +C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, +C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C -=item Installing the built perl +=item e -=item C-style build +C, C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C -=back +=item f -=item Build FAQ +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, C, +C -=over 4 +=item g -=item Some C became C<\> in pdksh. +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, C -=item C<'errno'> - unresolved external +=item h -=item Problems with tr or sed +C, C, C, C -=item Some problem (forget which ;-) +=item i -=item Library ... not found +C, C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C -=item Segfault in make +=item k -=item op/sprintf test failure +C, C -=back +=item l -=item Specific (mis)features of OS/2 port +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C -=over 4 +=item m -=item C, C +C, C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C -=item C +=item M -=item C on the first line +C, C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, C -=item Additional modules: +=item n -=item Prebuilt methods: +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C -C, C, C, - C, C, -C, C, -C, C, -C, C, -C +=item o -=item Misfeatures +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C -=item Modifications +=item p -C, C, C, C, C, C +C, C, C, C, C, C, +C, C -=back +=item P -=item Perl flavors +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C -=over 4 +=item q -=item F +C, C -=item F +=item r -=item F +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C -=item F +=item s -=item Why strange names? +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C -=item Why dynamic linking? +=item t -=item Why chimera build? +C, C, C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, C -explicit fork(), open FH, "|-", open FH, "-|" +=item u -=back +C, C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C -=item ENVIRONMENT +=item v -=over 4 +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, +C, C, C -=item C +=item x -=item C +C, C -=item C +=item y -=item C +C, C -=item C +=item z -=item C or C +C, C =back -=item Evolution +=item NOTE + +=back + +=head2 Cwd - get pathname of current working directory =over 4 -=item Priorities +=item SYNOPSIS -=item DLL name mangling +=item DESCRIPTION -=item Threading +=over 4 -=item Calls to external programs +=item getcwd and friends -=item Memory allocation +getcwd, cwd, fastcwd, fastgetcwd -=item Threads +=item abs_path and friends -C, F +abs_path, realpath, fast_abs_path -=back +=item $ENV{PWD} =back -=over 4 - -=item AUTHOR +=item NOTES =item SEE ALSO =back -=head2 perlos390, README.os390 - building and installing Perl for OS/390. +=head2 DB - programmatic interface to the Perl debugging API (draft, +subject to +change) =over 4 @@ -6084,36 +10136,32 @@ C, F =over 4 -=item Unpacking +=item Global Variables -=item Setup and utilities + $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 Configure +=item API Methods -=item Build, test, install +CLIENT->register(), CLIENT->evalcode(STRING), CLIENT->skippkg('D::hide'), +CLIENT->run(), CLIENT->step(), CLIENT->next(), CLIENT->done() -=item Usage Hints +=item Client Callback Methods -=item Extensions +CLIENT->init(), CLIENT->prestop([STRING]), CLIENT->stop(), CLIENT->idle(), +CLIENT->poststop([STRING]), CLIENT->evalcode(STRING), CLIENT->cleanup(), +CLIENT->output(LIST) =back -=item AUTHORS - -=item SEE ALSO - -=over 4 - -=item Mailing list - -=back +=item BUGS -=item HISTORY +=item AUTHOR =back -=head2 perlposix-bc, README.posix-bc - building and installing Perl for -BS2000 POSIX. +=head2 DB_File - Perl5 access to Berkeley DB version 1.x =over 4 @@ -6121,248 +10169,285 @@ BS2000 POSIX. =item DESCRIPTION +B, B, B + =over 4 -=item gzip +=item Using DB_File with Berkeley DB version 2 or greater -=item bison +=item Interface to Berkeley DB -=item Unpacking +=item Opening a Berkeley DB Database File -=item Compiling +=item Default Parameters -=item Testing +=item In Memory Databases -=item Install +=back -=item Using Perl +=item DB_HASH -=back +=over 4 -=item AUTHORS +=item A Simple Example -=item SEE ALSO +=back + +=item DB_BTREE =over 4 -=item Mailing list +=item Changing the BTREE sort order -=back +=item Handling Duplicate Keys -=item HISTORY +=item The get_dup() Method + +=item The find_dup() Method + +=item The del_dup() Method + +=item Matching Partial Keys =back -=head2 perlsolaris, README.solaris - Perl version 5 on Solaris systems +=item DB_RECNO =over 4 -=item DESCRIPTION +=item The 'bval' Option -=over 4 +=item A Simple Example -=item Solaris Version Numbers. +=item Extra RECNO Methods + +B<$X-Epush(list) ;>, B<$value = $X-Epop ;>, B<$X-Eshift>, +B<$X-Eunshift(list) ;>, B<$X-Elength>, B<$X-Esplice(offset, +length, elements);> + +=item Another Example =back -=item RESOURCES +=item THE API INTERFACE -Solaris FAQ, Precompiled Binaries, Solaris Documentation +B<$status = $X-Eget($key, $value [, $flags]) ;>, B<$status = +$X-Eput($key, $value [, $flags]) ;>, B<$status = $X-Edel($key [, +$flags]) ;>, B<$status = $X-Efd ;>, B<$status = $X-Eseq($key, +$value, $flags) ;>, B<$status = $X-Esync([$flags]) ;> -=item SETTING UP +=item DBM FILTERS + +B, B, B, +B =over 4 -=item File Extraction Problems. +=item The Filter -=item Compiler and Related Tools. +=item An Example -- the NULL termination problem. -=item Environment +=item Another Example -- Key is a C int. =back -=item RUN CONFIGURE. +=item HINTS AND TIPS =over 4 -=item 64-bit Issues. +=item Locking: The Trouble with fd -=item Threads. +=item Safe ways to lock a database -=item Malloc Issues. +B, B, B -=back +=item Sharing Databases With C Applications -=item MAKE PROBLEMS. +=item The untie() Gotcha -Dynamic Loading Problems With GNU as and GNU ld, ld.so.1: ./perl: fatal: -relocation error:, dlopen: stub interception failed, #error "No -DATAMODEL_NATIVE specified", sh: ar: not found +=back -=item MAKE TEST +=item COMMON QUESTIONS =over 4 -=item op/stat.t test 4 - -=back - -=item PREBUILT BINARIES. +=item Why is there Perl source in my database? -=item RUNTIME ISSUES. +=item How do I store complex data structures with DB_File? -=over 4 +=item What does "Invalid Argument" mean? -=item Limits on Numbers of Open Files. +=item What does "Bareword 'DB_File' not allowed" mean? =back -=item SOLARIS-SPECIFIC MODULES. +=item REFERENCES -=item SOLARIS-SPECIFIC PROBLEMS WITH MODULES. +=item HISTORY -=over 4 +=item BUGS -=item Proc::ProcessTable +=item AVAILABILITY -=item BSD::Resource +=item COPYRIGHT -=back +=item SEE ALSO =item AUTHOR -=item LAST MODIFIED - =back -=head2 perlvms - VMS-specific documentation for Perl +=head2 Data::Dumper - stringified perl data structures, suitable for both +printing and C =over 4 +=item SYNOPSIS + =item DESCRIPTION -=item Installation +=over 4 -=item Organization of Perl Images +=item Methods -=over 4 +I->new(I, I), I<$OBJ>->Dump I +I->Dump(I, I), I<$OBJ>->Seen(I<[HASHREF]>), +I<$OBJ>->Values(I<[ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Names(I<[ARRAYREF]>), +I<$OBJ>->Reset -=item Core Images +=item Functions -=item Perl Extensions +Dumper(I) -=item Installing static extensions +=item Configuration Variables or Methods -=item Installing dynamic extensions +$Data::Dumper::Indent I I<$OBJ>->Indent(I<[NEWVAL]>), +$Data::Dumper::Purity I I<$OBJ>->Purity(I<[NEWVAL]>), +$Data::Dumper::Pad I I<$OBJ>->Pad(I<[NEWVAL]>), +$Data::Dumper::Varname I I<$OBJ>->Varname(I<[NEWVAL]>), +$Data::Dumper::Useqq I I<$OBJ>->Useqq(I<[NEWVAL]>), +$Data::Dumper::Terse I I<$OBJ>->Terse(I<[NEWVAL]>), +$Data::Dumper::Freezer I $I->Freezer(I<[NEWVAL]>), +$Data::Dumper::Toaster I $I->Toaster(I<[NEWVAL]>), +$Data::Dumper::Deepcopy I $I->Deepcopy(I<[NEWVAL]>), +$Data::Dumper::Quotekeys I $I->Quotekeys(I<[NEWVAL]>), +$Data::Dumper::Bless I $I->Bless(I<[NEWVAL]>), +$Data::Dumper::Maxdepth I $I->Maxdepth(I<[NEWVAL]>), +$Data::Dumper::Useperl I $I->Useperl(I<[NEWVAL]>), +$Data::Dumper::Sortkeys I $I->Sortkeys(I<[NEWVAL]>), +$Data::Dumper::Deparse I $I->Deparse(I<[NEWVAL]>) + +=item Exports + +Dumper =back -=item File specifications +=item EXAMPLES -=over 4 +=item BUGS -=item Syntax +=item AUTHOR -=item Wildcard expansion +=item VERSION -=item Pipes +=item SEE ALSO =back -=item PERL5LIB and PERLLIB - -=item Command line +=head2 Devel::DProf - a Perl code profiler =over 4 -=item I/O redirection and backgrounding +=item SYNOPSIS -=item Command line switches +=item DESCRIPTION --i, -S, -u +=item PROFILE FORMAT -=back +=item AUTOLOAD -=item Perl functions +=item ENVIRONMENT -File tests, backticks, binmode FILEHANDLE, crypt PLAINTEXT, USER, dump, -exec LIST, fork, getpwent, getpwnam, getpwuid, gmtime, kill, qx//, select -(system call), stat EXPR, system LIST, time, times, unlink LIST, utime -LIST, waitpid PID,FLAGS +=item BUGS -=item Perl variables +=item SEE ALSO -%ENV, CRTL_ENV, CLISYM_[LOCAL], Any other string, $!, $^E, $?, $^S, $| +=back -=item Standard modules with VMS-specific differences +=head2 Devel::PPPort, Perl/Pollution/Portability =over 4 -=item SDBM_File +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item WriteFile =back -=item Revision date +=item ppport.h =item AUTHOR +=item SEE ALSO + =back -=head2 perlvos, README.vos - Perl for Stratus VOS +=head2 Devel::Peek - A data debugging tool for the XS programmer =over 4 =item SYNOPSIS -=over 4 - -=item Stratus POSIX Support - -=back - -=item INSTALLING PERL IN VOS +=item DESCRIPTION =over 4 -=item Compiling Perl 5 on VOS +=item Runtime debugging -=item Installing Perl 5 on VOS +=item Memory footprint debugging =back -=item USING PERL IN VOS +=item EXAMPLES =over 4 -=item Unimplemented Features +=item A simple scalar string -=item Restrictions +=item A simple scalar number -=back +=item A simple scalar with an extra reference -=item SUPPORT STATUS +=item A reference to a simple scalar -=item AUTHOR +=item A reference to an array -=item LAST UPDATE +=item A reference to a hash -=back +=item Dumping a large array or hash -=head1 PRAGMA DOCUMENTATION +=item A reference to an SV which holds a C pointer -=head2 attrs - set/get attributes of a subroutine (deprecated) +=item A reference to a subroutine -=over 4 +=back -=item SYNOPSIS +=item EXPORTS -=item DESCRIPTION +=item BUGS -method, locked +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO =back -=head2 re - Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour +=head2 Devel::SelfStubber - generate stubs for a SelfLoading module =over 4 @@ -6372,7 +10457,7 @@ method, locked =back -=head2 attributes - get/set subroutine or variable attributes +=head2 Digest:: - Modules that calculate message digests =over 4 @@ -6380,55 +10465,48 @@ method, locked =item DESCRIPTION -=over 4 - -=item Built-in Attributes - -locked, method, lvalue - -=item Available Subroutines +I, I, I -get, reftype +=item OO INTERFACE -=item Package-specific Attribute Handling +$ctx = Digest->XXX($arg,...), $ctx = Digest->new(XXX => $arg,...), $ctx = +Digest::XXX->new($arg,...), $ctx->reset, $ctx->add($data,...), +$ctx->addfile($io_handle), $ctx->digest, $ctx->hexdigest, $ctx->b64digest -FETCH_I_ATTRIBUTES, MODIFY_I_ATTRIBUTES +=item SEE ALSO -=item Syntax of Attribute Lists +=item AUTHOR =back -=item EXPORTS +=head2 Digest::MD5 - Perl interface to the MD5 Algorithm =over 4 -=item Default exports - -=item Available exports - -=item Export tags defined +=item SYNOPSIS -=back +=item DESCRIPTION -=item EXAMPLES +=item FUNCTIONS -=item SEE ALSO +md5($data,...), md5_hex($data,...), md5_base64($data,...) -=back +=item METHODS -=head2 attrs - set/get attributes of a subroutine (deprecated) +$md5 = Digest::MD5->new, $md5->reset, $md5->add($data,...), +$md5->addfile($io_handle), $md5->digest, $md5->hexdigest, $md5->b64digest -=over 4 +=item EXAMPLES -=item SYNOPSIS +=item SEE ALSO -=item DESCRIPTION +=item COPYRIGHT -method, locked +=item AUTHORS =back -=head2 autouse - postpone load of modules until a function is used +=head2 DirHandle - supply object methods for directory handles =over 4 @@ -6436,15 +10514,11 @@ method, locked =item DESCRIPTION -=item WARNING - -=item AUTHOR - -=item SEE ALSO +=item NOTES =back -=head2 base - Establish IS-A relationship with base class at compile time +=head2 Dumpvalue - provides screen dump of Perl data. =over 4 @@ -6452,13 +10526,25 @@ method, locked =item DESCRIPTION -=item HISTORY +=over 4 -=item SEE ALSO +=item Creation + +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, unctrl, subdump, bareStringify, quoteHighBit, +stopDbSignal + +=item Methods + +dumpValue, dumpValues, dumpvars, set_quote, set_unctrl, compactDump, +veryCompact, set, get =back -=head2 blib - Use MakeMaker's uninstalled version of a package +=back + +=head2 DynaLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code =over 4 @@ -6466,14 +10552,18 @@ method, locked =item DESCRIPTION -=item BUGS +@dl_library_path, @dl_resolve_using, @dl_require_symbols, @dl_librefs, +@dl_modules, dl_error(), $dl_debug, dl_findfile(), dl_expandspec(), +dl_load_file(), dl_unload_file(), dl_loadflags(), dl_find_symbol(), +dl_find_symbol_anywhere(), dl_undef_symbols(), dl_install_xsub(), +bootstrap() =item AUTHOR =back -=head2 bytes - Perl pragma to force byte semantics rather than character -semantics +=head2 DynaLoader::XSLoader, XSLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into +Perl code =over 4 @@ -6481,12 +10571,11 @@ semantics =item DESCRIPTION -=item SEE ALSO +=item AUTHOR =back -=head2 charnames - define character names for C<\N{named}> string literal -escape. +=head2 Encode - character encodings =over 4 @@ -6494,136 +10583,121 @@ escape. =item DESCRIPTION -=item CUSTOM TRANSLATORS +=over 4 -=item BUGS +=item TERMINOLOGY =back -=head2 constant - Perl pragma to declare constants +=item ENCODINGS =over 4 -=item SYNOPSIS +=item Characteristics of an Encoding -=item DESCRIPTION +=item Types of Encodings -=item NOTES +Fixed length 8-bit (or less) encodings, Fixed length 16-bit encodings, +Fixed length 32-bit encodings, Multi-byte encodings, "Escape" encodings -=item TECHNICAL NOTE +=item Specifying Encodings -=item BUGS +1. By name, 2. As an object -=item AUTHOR +=item Encoding Names -=item COPYRIGHT +The MIME name as defined in IETF RFCs, The name in the IANA registry, The +name used by the organization that defined it =back -=head2 diagnostics - Perl compiler pragma to force verbose warning -diagnostics +=item PERL ENCODING API =over 4 -=item SYNOPSIS - -=item DESCRIPTION +=item Generic Encoding Interface -=over 4 +=item Handling Malformed Data -=item The C Pragma +Scheme 1, Scheme 2, Other Schemes -=item The I Program +=item UTF-8 / utf8 -=back +=item Other Encodings of Unicode -=item EXAMPLES +=item Listing available encodings -=item INTERNALS +=item Defining Aliases -=item BUGS +As a simple string, As a qr// compiled regular expression, e.g.:, As a code +reference, e.g.: -=item AUTHOR +=item Defining Encodings =back -=head2 fields - compile-time class fields - -=over 4 +=item Encoding and IO -=item SYNOPSIS +=item Encoding How to ... -=item DESCRIPTION +IO with mixed content (faking iso-2020-*), MIME's Content-Length:, UTF-8 +strings in binary data, Perl/Encode wrappers on non-Unicode XS modules -new, phash +=item Messing with Perl's Internals -=item SEE ALSO +is_utf8(STRING [, CHECK]), valid_utf8(STRING) -=back +=item IMPLEMENTATION CLASSES -=head2 filetest - Perl pragma to control the filetest permission operators +-Ename, -Enew_sequence, -Eencode($string,$check), +-Edecode($octets,$check) =over 4 -=item SYNOPSIS - -=item DESCRIPTION - -=over 4 +=item Compiled Encodings -=item subpragma access +.enc, .ucm, .ucm, .c, .xs, ascii and iso-8859-*, IBM-1047 and two other +variants of EBCDIC, symbol and dingbats as used by Tk on X11 =back +=item SEE ALSO + =back -=head2 integer - Perl pragma to compute arithmetic in integer instead of -double +=head2 Encode::EncodeFormat, EncodeFormat - the format of encoding tables +of the Encode extension =over 4 -=item SYNOPSIS - =item DESCRIPTION -=back - -=head2 less - perl pragma to request less of something from the compiler - -=over 4 +[1] B, [2] B, [3] B, [4] B -=item SYNOPSIS +=item KEYWORDS -=item DESCRIPTION +=item COPYRIGHT =back -=head2 lib - manipulate @INC at compile time - -=over 4 - -=item SYNOPSIS +=head2 Encode::Tcl - Tcl encodings -=item DESCRIPTION +=head2 EncodeFormat - the format of encoding tables of the Encode extension =over 4 -=item Adding directories to @INC - -=item Deleting directories from @INC - -=item Restoring original @INC +=item DESCRIPTION -=back +[1] B, [2] B, [3] B, [4] B -=item SEE ALSO +=item KEYWORDS -=item AUTHOR +=item COPYRIGHT =back -=head2 locale - Perl pragma to use and avoid POSIX locales for built-in -operations +=head2 English - use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation +variables =over 4 @@ -6631,9 +10705,12 @@ operations =item DESCRIPTION +=item PERFORMANCE + =back -=head2 open - perl pragma to set default disciplines for input and output +=head2 Env - perl module that imports environment variables as scalars or +arrays =over 4 @@ -6641,25 +10718,29 @@ operations =item DESCRIPTION -=item UNIMPLEMENTED FUNCTIONALITY +=item LIMITATIONS -=item SEE ALSO +=item AUTHOR =back -=head2 ops - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when compiling +=head2 Errno - System errno constants =over 4 -=item SYNOPSIS +=item SYNOPSIS =item DESCRIPTION -=item SEE ALSO +=item CAVEATS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT =back -=head2 overload - Package for overloading perl operations +=head2 Exporter - Implements default import method for modules =over 4 @@ -6669,126 +10750,130 @@ operations =over 4 -=item Declaration of overloaded functions - -=item Calling Conventions for Binary Operations +=item How to Export -FALSE, TRUE, C +=item Selecting What To Export -=item Calling Conventions for Unary Operations +=item Specialised Import Lists -=item Calling Conventions for Mutators +=item Exporting without using Export's import method -C<++> and C<-->, C and other assignment versions +=item Module Version Checking -=item Overloadable Operations +=item Managing Unknown Symbols -I, I, I, -I, I, I, I, I, I +=item Tag Handling Utility Functions -=item Inheritance and overloading +=item Ced Constants -Strings as values of C directive, Overloading of an operation -is inherited by derived classes +=back =back -=item SPECIAL SYMBOLS FOR C +=head2 Exporter::Heavy - Exporter guts =over 4 -=item Last Resort +=item SYNOPIS -=item Fallback +=item DESCRIPTION -C, TRUE, defined, but FALSE +=back -=item Copy Constructor +=head2 ExtUtils::Command - utilities to replace common UNIX commands in +Makefiles etc. -B +=over 4 -=back +=item SYNOPSIS -=item MAGIC AUTOGENERATION +=item DESCRIPTION -I, I, -I, C, I, I, -I, I, I, I, -I +=back -=item Losing overloading +cat -=item Run-time Overloading +eqtime src dst -=item Public functions +rm_rf files... -overload::StrVal(arg), overload::Overloaded(arg), overload::Method(obj,op) +rm_f files... -=item Overloading constants +touch files .. -integer, float, binary, q, qr +mv source... destination -=item IMPLEMENTATION +cp source... destination -=item Metaphor clash +chmod mode files.. -=item Cookbook +mkpath directory.. -=over 4 +test_f file -=item Two-face scalars +=over 4 -=item Two-face references +=item BUGS -=item Symbolic calculator +=item SEE ALSO -=item I symbolic calculator +=item AUTHOR =back -=item AUTHOR +=head2 ExtUtils::Constant - generate XS code to import C header constants -=item DIAGNOSTICS +=over 4 -Odd number of arguments for overload::constant, `%s' is not an overloadable -type, `%s' is not a code reference +=item SYNOPSIS -=item BUGS +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item USAGE + +IV, UV, NV, PV, PVN, SV, YES, NO, UNDEF + +=item FUNCTIONS =back -=head2 perlio - perl pragma to configure C level IO +C_stringify NAME -=over 4 +constant_types -=item SYNOPSIS +memEQ_clause NAME, CHECKED_AT, INDENT -=item DESCRIPTION +assign INDENT, TYPE, PRE, POST, VALUE.. -unix, stdio, perlio +return_clause -=over 4 +switch_clause INDENT, NAMELEN, ITEMHASH, ITEM.. -=item Defaults and how to override them +params WHAT -=back +dump_names -=item AUTHOR +dogfood -=back +C_constant, name, type, value, macro, default, pre, post, def_pre =item +def_post -=head2 re - Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour +XS_constant PACKAGE, TYPES, SUBNAME, C_SUBNAME -=over 4 +autoload PACKAGE, VERSION, AUTOLOADER -=item SYNOPSIS +WriteMakefileSnippet -=item DESCRIPTION +WriteConstants ATTRIBUTE =E VALUE [, ...], NAME, DEFAULT_TYPE, +BREAKOUT_AT, NAMES, C_FILE, XS_FILE, SUBNAME, C_SUBNAME + +=over 4 + +=item AUTHOR =back -=head2 sigtrap - Perl pragma to enable simple signal handling +=head2 ExtUtils::Embed - Utilities for embedding Perl in C/C++ applications =over 4 @@ -6796,29 +10881,32 @@ unix, stdio, perlio =item DESCRIPTION -=item OPTIONS +=item @EXPORT -=over 4 +=item FUNCTIONS -=item SIGNAL HANDLERS +xsinit(), Examples, ldopts(), Examples, perl_inc(), ccflags(), ccdlflags(), +ccopts(), xsi_header(), xsi_protos(@modules), xsi_body(@modules) -B, B, B I +=item EXAMPLES -=item SIGNAL LISTS +=item SEE ALSO -B, B, B +=item AUTHOR -=item OTHER +=back -B, B, I, I +=head2 ExtUtils::Install - install files from here to there -=back +=over 4 -=item EXAMPLES +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION =back -=head2 strict - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe constructs +=head2 ExtUtils::Installed - Inventory management of installed modules =over 4 @@ -6826,11 +10914,20 @@ B, B, I, I =item DESCRIPTION -C, C, C +=item USAGE + +=item FUNCTIONS + +new(), modules(), files(), directories(), directory_tree(), validate(), +packlist(), version() + +=item EXAMPLE + +=item AUTHOR =back -=head2 subs - Perl pragma to predeclare sub names +=head2 ExtUtils::Liblist - determine libraries to use and how to use them =over 4 @@ -6838,31 +10935,34 @@ C, C, C =item DESCRIPTION -=back - -=head2 utf8 - Perl pragma to enable/disable UTF-8 in source code +For static extensions, For dynamic extensions, For dynamic extensions =over 4 -=item SYNOPSIS +=item EXTRALIBS -=item DESCRIPTION +=item LDLOADLIBS and LD_RUN_PATH -=item SEE ALSO +=item BSLOADLIBS =back -=head2 vars - Perl pragma to predeclare global variable names (obsolete) +=item PORTABILITY =over 4 -=item SYNOPSIS +=item VMS implementation -=item DESCRIPTION +=item Win32 implementation =back -=head2 warnings - Perl pragma to control optional warnings +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin - methods to override UN*X behaviour in +ExtUtils::MakeMaker =over 4 @@ -6870,19 +10970,12 @@ C, C, C =item DESCRIPTION -use warnings::register, warnings::enabled(), warnings::enabled($category), -warnings::enabled($object), warnings::warn($message), -warnings::warn($category, $message), warnings::warn($object, $message), -warnings::warnif($message), warnings::warnif($category, $message), -warnings::warnif($object, $message) +canonpath, cflags, manifypods, perl_archive =back -=head2 warnings::register - warnings import function - -=head1 MODULE DOCUMENTATION - -=head2 AnyDBM_File - provide framework for multiple DBMs +=head2 ExtUtils::MM_NW5 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in +ExtUtils::MakeMaker =over 4 @@ -6890,49 +10983,46 @@ warnings::warnif($object, $message) =item DESCRIPTION -=over 4 - -=item DBM Comparisons - -[0], [1], [2], [3] - =back -=item SEE ALSO +catfile -=back +constants (o) -=head2 AutoLoader - load subroutines only on demand +static_lib (o) -=over 4 +dynamic_bs (o) -=item SYNOPSIS +dynamic_lib (o) -=item DESCRIPTION +canonpath -=over 4 +perl_script -=item Subroutine Stubs +pm_to_blib -=item Using B's AUTOLOAD Subroutine +test_via_harness (o) -=item Overriding B's AUTOLOAD Subroutine +tool_autosplit (override) -=item Package Lexicals +tools_other (o) -=item Not Using AutoLoader +xs_o (o) -=item B vs. B +top_targets (o) -=back +htmlifypods (o) -=item CAVEATS +manifypods (o) -=item SEE ALSO +dist_ci (o) -=back +dist_core (o) -=head2 AutoSplit - split a package for autoloading +pasthru (o) + +=head2 ExtUtils::MM_OS2 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in +ExtUtils::MakeMaker =over 4 @@ -6940,19 +11030,13 @@ warnings::warnif($object, $message) =item DESCRIPTION -$keep, $check, $modtime - -=over 4 - -=item Multiple packages +=item METHODS =back -=item DIAGNOSTICS - -=back +perl_archive_after -=head2 B - The Perl Compiler +=head2 ExtUtils::MM_Unix - methods used by ExtUtils::MakeMaker =over 4 @@ -6960,212 +11044,210 @@ $keep, $check, $modtime =item DESCRIPTION -=item OVERVIEW OF CLASSES +=item METHODS =over 4 -=item SV-RELATED CLASSES +=item Preloaded methods -=item B::SV METHODS +canonpath -REFCNT, FLAGS +=back -=item B::IV METHODS +=back -IV, IVX, needs64bits, packiv +catdir -=item B::NV METHODS +catfile -NV, NVX +curdir -=item B::RV METHODS +rootdir -RV +updir -=item B::PV METHODS +=over 4 -PV +=item SelfLoaded methods -=item B::PVMG METHODS +c_o (o) -MAGIC, SvSTASH +=back -=item B::MAGIC METHODS +cflags (o) -MOREMAGIC, PRIVATE, TYPE, FLAGS, OBJ, PTR +clean (o) -=item B::PVLV METHODS +const_cccmd (o) -TARGOFF, TARGLEN, TYPE, TARG +const_config (o) -=item B::BM METHODS +const_loadlibs (o) -USEFUL, PREVIOUS, RARE, TABLE +constants (o) -=item B::GV METHODS +depend (o) -is_empty, NAME, STASH, SV, IO, FORM, AV, HV, EGV, CV, CVGEN, LINE, FILE, -FILEGV, GvREFCNT, FLAGS +dir_target (o) -=item B::IO METHODS +dist (o) -LINES, PAGE, PAGE_LEN, LINES_LEFT, TOP_NAME, TOP_GV, FMT_NAME, FMT_GV, -BOTTOM_NAME, BOTTOM_GV, SUBPROCESS, IoTYPE, IoFLAGS +dist_basics (o) -=item B::AV METHODS +dist_ci (o) -FILL, MAX, OFF, ARRAY, AvFLAGS +dist_core (o) -=item B::CV METHODS +dist_dir (o) -STASH, START, ROOT, GV, FILE, DEPTH, PADLIST, OUTSIDE, XSUB, XSUBANY, -CvFLAGS, const_sv +dist_test (o) -=item B::HV METHODS +dlsyms (o) -FILL, MAX, KEYS, RITER, NAME, PMROOT, ARRAY +dynamic (o) -=item OP-RELATED CLASSES +dynamic_bs (o) -=item B::OP METHODS +dynamic_lib (o) -next, sibling, name, ppaddr, desc, targ, type, seq, flags, private +exescan -=item B::UNOP METHOD +extliblist -first +file_name_is_absolute -=item B::BINOP METHOD +find_perl -last +=over 4 -=item B::LOGOP METHOD +=item Methods to actually produce chunks of text for the Makefile -other +fixin -=item B::LISTOP METHOD +=back -children +force (o) -=item B::PMOP METHODS +guess_name -pmreplroot, pmreplstart, pmnext, pmregexp, pmflags, pmpermflags, precomp +has_link_code -=item B::SVOP METHOD +htmlifypods (o) -sv, gv +init_dirscan -=item B::PADOP METHOD +init_main -padix +init_others -=item B::PVOP METHOD +install (o) -pv +installbin (o) -=item B::LOOP METHODS +libscan (o) -redoop, nextop, lastop +linkext (o) -=item B::COP METHODS +lsdir -label, stash, file, cop_seq, arybase, line +macro (o) -=back +makeaperl (o) -=item FUNCTIONS EXPORTED BY C +makefile (o) -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 +manifypods (o) -=item AUTHOR +maybe_command -=back +maybe_command_in_dirs -=head2 B::Asmdata - Autogenerated data about Perl ops, used to generate -bytecode +needs_linking (o) -=over 4 +nicetext -=item SYNOPSIS +parse_version -=item DESCRIPTION +parse_abstract -=item AUTHOR +pasthru (o) -=back +path -=head2 B::Assembler - Assemble Perl bytecode +perl_script -=over 4 +perldepend (o) -=item SYNOPSIS +ppd -=item DESCRIPTION +perm_rw (o) -=item AUTHORS +perm_rwx (o) -=back +pm_to_blib -=head2 B::Bblock - Walk basic blocks +post_constants (o) -=over 4 +post_initialize (o) + +postamble (o) + +prefixify + +processPL (o) + +quote_paren -=item SYNOPSIS +realclean (o) -=item DESCRIPTION +replace_manpage_separator -=item AUTHOR +static (o) -=back +static_lib (o) -=head2 B::Bytecode - Perl compiler's bytecode backend +staticmake (o) -=over 4 +subdir_x (o) -=item SYNOPSIS +subdirs (o) -=item DESCRIPTION +test (o) -=item OPTIONS +test_via_harness (o) -B<-ofilename>, B<-afilename>, B<-->, B<-f>, B<-fcompress-nullops>, -B<-fomit-sequence-numbers>, B<-fbypass-nullops>, B<-On>, B<-D>, B<-Do>, -B<-Db>, B<-Da>, B<-DC>, B<-S>, B<-upackage> Stores package in the -output. =back +test_via_script (o) -=item EXAMPLES +tool_autosplit (o) -=item BUGS +tools_other (o) -=item AUTHORS +tool_xsubpp (o) -=back +top_targets (o) -=head2 B::C - Perl compiler's C backend +writedoc -=over 4 +xs_c (o) -=item SYNOPSIS +xs_cpp (o) -=item DESCRIPTION +xs_o (o) -=item OPTIONS +perl_archive -B<-ofilename>, B<-v>, B<-->, B<-uPackname>, B<-D>, B<-Do>, B<-Dc>, B<-DA>, -B<-DC>, B<-DM>, B<-f>, B<-fcog>, B<-fno-cog>, B<-On>, B<-llimit> +perl_archive_after -=item EXAMPLES +export_list -=item BUGS +=over 4 -=item AUTHOR +=item SEE ALSO =back -=head2 B::CC - Perl compiler's optimized C translation backend +=head2 ExtUtils::MM_VMS - methods to override UN*X behaviour in +ExtUtils::MakeMaker =over 4 @@ -7173,115 +11255,114 @@ B<-DC>, B<-DM>, B<-f>, B<-fcog>, B<-fno-cog>, B<-On>, B<-llimit> =item DESCRIPTION -=item OPTIONS +=over 4 -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 Methods always loaded -=item EXAMPLES +wraplist -=item BUGS +=back -=item DIFFERENCES +=back + +rootdir (override) =over 4 -=item Loops +=item SelfLoaded methods -=item Context of ".." +guess_name (override) -=item Arithmetic +=back -=item Deprecated features +find_perl (override) -=back +path (override) -=item AUTHOR +maybe_command (override) -=back +maybe_command_in_dirs (override) -=head2 B::Debug - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing debug info about ops +perl_script (override) -=over 4 +file_name_is_absolute (override) -=item SYNOPSIS +replace_manpage_separator -=item DESCRIPTION +init_others (override) -=item AUTHOR +constants (override) -=back +cflags (override) -=head2 B::Deparse - Perl compiler backend to produce perl code +const_cccmd (override) -=over 4 +pm_to_blib (override) -=item SYNOPSIS +tool_autosplit (override) -=item DESCRIPTION +tool_sxubpp (override) -=item OPTIONS +xsubpp_version (override) -B<-l>, B<-p>, B<-q>, B<-u>I, B<-s>I, B, BI, -B, BIB<.> +tools_other (override) -=item USING B::Deparse AS A MODULE +dist (override) -=over 4 +c_o (override) -=item Synopsis +xs_c (override) -=item Description +xs_o (override) -=item new +top_targets (override) -=item coderef2text +dlsyms (override) -=back +dynamic_lib (override) -=item BUGS +dynamic_bs (override) -=item AUTHOR +static_lib (override) -=back +manifypods (override) -=head2 B::Disassembler - Disassemble Perl bytecode +processPL (override) -=over 4 +installbin (override) -=item SYNOPSIS +subdir_x (override) -=item DESCRIPTION +clean (override) -=item AUTHOR +realclean (override) -=back +dist_basics (override) -=head2 B::Lint - Perl lint +dist_core (override) -=over 4 +dist_dir (override) -=item SYNOPSIS +dist_test (override) -=item DESCRIPTION +install (override) -=item OPTIONS AND LINT CHECKS +perldepend (override) -B, B and B, B, -B, B, B, B, B +makefile (override) -=item NON LINT-CHECK OPTIONS +test (override) -B<-u Package> +test_via_harness (override) -=item BUGS +test_via_script (override) -=item AUTHOR +makeaperl (override) -=back +nicetext (override) -=head2 B::O, O - Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends +=head2 ExtUtils::MM_Win32 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in +ExtUtils::MakeMaker =over 4 @@ -7289,53 +11370,45 @@ B<-u Package> =item DESCRIPTION -=item CONVENTIONS - -=item IMPLEMENTATION - -=item AUTHOR - =back -=head2 B::Showlex - Show lexical variables used in functions or files - -=over 4 +catfile -=item SYNOPSIS +constants (o) -=item DESCRIPTION +static_lib (o) -=item AUTHOR +dynamic_bs (o) -=back +dynamic_lib (o) -=head2 B::Stackobj - Helper module for CC backend +canonpath -=over 4 +perl_script -=item SYNOPSIS +pm_to_blib -=item DESCRIPTION +test_via_harness (o) -=item AUTHOR +tool_autosplit (override) -=back +tools_other (o) -=head2 B::Stash - show what stashes are loaded +xs_o (o) -=head2 B::Terse - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing terse info about ops +top_targets (o) -=over 4 +htmlifypods (o) -=item SYNOPSIS +manifypods (o) -=item DESCRIPTION +dist_ci (o) -=item AUTHOR +dist_core (o) -=back +pasthru (o) -=head2 B::Xref - Generates cross reference reports for Perl programs +=head2 ExtUtils::MakeMaker - create an extension Makefile =over 4 @@ -7343,73 +11416,77 @@ B<-u Package> =item DESCRIPTION -=item OPTIONS - -C<-oFILENAME>, C<-r>, C<-D[tO]> - -=item BUGS - -=item AUTHOR - -=back +=over 4 -=head2 Bblock, B::Bblock - Walk basic blocks +=item How To Write A Makefile.PL -=over 4 +=item Default Makefile Behaviour -=item SYNOPSIS +=item make test -=item DESCRIPTION +=item make testdb -=item AUTHOR +=item make install -=back +=item PREFIX and LIB attribute -=head2 Benchmark - benchmark running times of Perl code +=item AFS users -=over 4 +=item Static Linking of a new Perl Binary -=item SYNOPSIS +=item Determination of Perl Library and Installation Locations -=item DESCRIPTION +=item Which architecture dependent directory? -=over 4 +=item Using Attributes and Parameters -=item Methods +ABSTRACT, ABSTRACT_FROM, AUTHOR, BINARY_LOCATION, C, CCFLAGS, CONFIG, +CONFIGURE, DEFINE, DIR, DISTNAME, DL_FUNCS, DL_VARS, EXCLUDE_EXT, +EXE_FILES, FIRST_MAKEFILE, FULLPERL, FUNCLIST, H, HTMLLIBPODS, +HTMLSCRIPTPODS, IMPORTS, INC, INCLUDE_EXT, INSTALLARCHLIB, INSTALLBIN, +INSTALLDIRS, INSTALLHTMLPRIVLIBDIR, INSTALLHTMLSCRIPTDIR, +INSTALLHTMLSITELIBDIR, INSTALLMAN1DIR, INSTALLMAN3DIR, INSTALLPRIVLIB, +INSTALLSCRIPT, INSTALLSITEARCH, INSTALLSITELIB, INST_ARCHLIB, INST_BIN, +INST_EXE, INST_HTMLLIBDIR, INST_HTMLSCRIPTDIR, INST_LIB, INST_MAN1DIR, +INST_MAN3DIR, INST_SCRIPT, LDFROM, LIB, LIBPERL_A, LIBS, LINKTYPE, +MAKEAPERL, MAKEFILE, MAN1PODS, MAN3PODS, MAP_TARGET, MYEXTLIB, NAME, +NEEDS_LINKING, NOECHO, NORECURS, NO_VC, OBJECT, OPTIMIZE, PERL, PERL_CORE, +PERLMAINCC, PERL_ARCHLIB, PERL_LIB, PERL_MALLOC_OK, PERLRUN, PERM_RW, +PERM_RWX, PL_FILES, PM, PMLIBDIRS, PM_FILTER, POLLUTE, PPM_INSTALL_EXEC, +PPM_INSTALL_SCRIPT, PREFIX, PREREQ_PM, PREREQ_FATAL, PREREQ_PRINT, +PRINT_PREREQ, SKIP, TEST_LIBS, VERSION, VERSION_FROM, XS, XSOPT, +XSPROTOARG, XS_VERSION -new, debug, iters +=item Additional lowercase attributes -=item Standard Exports +clean, depend, dist, dynamic_lib, linkext, macro, realclean, test, +tool_autosplit -timeit(COUNT, CODE), timethis ( COUNT, CODE, [ TITLE, [ STYLE ]] ), -timethese ( COUNT, CODEHASHREF, [ STYLE ] ), timediff ( T1, T2 ), timestr ( -TIMEDIFF, [ STYLE, [ FORMAT ] ] ) +=item Overriding MakeMaker Methods -=item Optional Exports +=item Hintsfile support -clearcache ( COUNT ), clearallcache ( ), cmpthese ( COUT, CODEHASHREF, [ -STYLE ] ), cmpthese ( RESULTSHASHREF ), countit(TIME, CODE), disablecache ( -), enablecache ( ), timesum ( T1, T2 ) +=item Distribution Support -=back + make distcheck, make skipcheck, make distclean, make manifest, + make distdir, make tardist, make dist, make uutardist, make +shdist, make zipdist, make ci -=item NOTES +=item Disabling an extension -=item EXAMPLES +=back -=item INHERITANCE +=item ENVIRONMENT -=item CAVEATS +PERL_MM_OPT, PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT =item SEE ALSO =item AUTHORS -=item MODIFICATION HISTORY - =back -=head2 ByteLoader - load byte compiled perl code +=head2 ExtUtils::Manifest - utilities to write and check a MANIFEST file =over 4 @@ -7417,299 +11494,255 @@ STYLE ] ), cmpthese ( RESULTSHASHREF ), countit(TIME, CODE), disablecache ( =item DESCRIPTION -=item AUTHOR - -=item SEE ALSO - -=back - -=head2 Bytecode, B::Bytecode - Perl compiler's bytecode backend +=item MANIFEST.SKIP -=over 4 +=item EXPORT_OK -=item SYNOPSIS +=item GLOBAL VARIABLES -=item DESCRIPTION +=item DIAGNOSTICS -=item OPTIONS +C I, C I, C I<$!>, +C I -B<-ofilename>, B<-afilename>, B<-->, B<-f>, B<-fcompress-nullops>, -B<-fomit-sequence-numbers>, B<-fbypass-nullops>, B<-On>, B<-D>, B<-Do>, -B<-Db>, B<-Da>, B<-DC>, B<-S>, B<-upackage> Stores package in the -output. =back +=item ENVIRONMENT -=item EXAMPLES +B -=item BUGS +=item SEE ALSO -=item AUTHORS +=item AUTHOR =back -=head2 CGI - Simple Common Gateway Interface Class +=head2 ExtUtils::Miniperl, writemain - write the C code for perlmain.c =over 4 =item SYNOPSIS -=item ABSTRACT - =item DESCRIPTION -=over 4 +=item SEE ALSO -=item PROGRAMMING STYLE +=back -=item CALLING CGI.PM ROUTINES +=head2 ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap - make a bootstrap file for use by DynaLoader -1. Use another name for the argument, if one is available. For example, --value is an alias for -values, 2. Change the capitalization, e.g. -Values, -3. Put quotes around the argument name, e.g. '-values' +=over 4 -=item CREATING A NEW QUERY OBJECT (OBJECT-ORIENTED STYLE): +=item SYNOPSIS -=item CREATING A NEW QUERY OBJECT FROM AN INPUT FILE +=item DESCRIPTION -=item FETCHING A LIST OF KEYWORDS FROM THE QUERY: +=back -=item FETCHING THE NAMES OF ALL THE PARAMETERS PASSED TO YOUR SCRIPT: +=head2 ExtUtils::Mksymlists - write linker options files for dynamic +extension -=item FETCHING THE VALUE OR VALUES OF A SINGLE NAMED PARAMETER: +=over 4 -=item SETTING THE VALUE(S) OF A NAMED PARAMETER: +=item SYNOPSIS -=item APPENDING ADDITIONAL VALUES TO A NAMED PARAMETER: +=item DESCRIPTION -=item IMPORTING ALL PARAMETERS INTO A NAMESPACE: +DLBASE, DL_FUNCS, DL_VARS, FILE, FUNCLIST, IMPORTS, NAME -=item DELETING A PARAMETER COMPLETELY: +=item AUTHOR -=item DELETING ALL PARAMETERS: +=item REVISION -=item DIRECT ACCESS TO THE PARAMETER LIST: +=back -=item FETCHING THE PARAMETER LIST AS A HASH: +=head2 ExtUtils::Packlist - manage .packlist files -=item SAVING THE STATE OF THE SCRIPT TO A FILE: +=over 4 -=item RETRIEVING CGI ERRORS +=item SYNOPSIS -=item USING THE FUNCTION-ORIENTED INTERFACE +=item DESCRIPTION -B<:cgi>, B<:form>, B<:html2>, B<:html3>, B<:netscape>, B<:html>, -B<:standard>, B<:all> +=item USAGE -=item PRAGMAS +=item FUNCTIONS --any, -compile, -nosticky, -no_xhtml, -nph, -newstyle_urls, -oldstyle_urls, --autoload, -no_debug, -debug, -private_tempfiles +new(), read(), write(), validate(), packlist_file() -=item SPECIAL FORMS FOR IMPORTING HTML-TAG FUNCTIONS +=item EXAMPLE -1. start_table() (generates a tag), 2. end_table() (generates a -
tag), 3. start_ul() (generates a
    tag), 4. end_ul() (generates -a
tag) +=item AUTHOR =back -=item GENERATING DYNAMIC DOCUMENTS +=head2 ExtUtils::testlib - add blib/* directories to @INC =over 4 -=item CREATING A STANDARD HTTP HEADER: - -=item GENERATING A REDIRECTION HEADER +=item SYNOPSIS -=item CREATING THE HTML DOCUMENT HEADER +=item DESCRIPTION -B, 4, 5, 6.. +=back -=item ENDING THE HTML DOCUMENT: +=head2 Fatal - replace functions with equivalents which succeed or die -=item CREATING A SELF-REFERENCING URL THAT PRESERVES STATE INFORMATION: +=over 4 -=item OBTAINING THE SCRIPT'S URL +=item SYNOPSIS -B<-absolute>, B<-relative>, B<-full>, B<-path> (B<-path_info>), B<-query> -(B<-query_string>), B<-base> +=item DESCRIPTION -=item MIXING POST AND URL PARAMETERS +=item AUTHOR =back -=item CREATING STANDARD HTML ELEMENTS: +=head2 Fcntl - load the C Fcntl.h defines =over 4 -=item PROVIDING ARGUMENTS TO HTML SHORTCUTS - -=item THE DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY OF HTML SHORTCUTS - -=item HTML SHORTCUTS AND LIST INTERPOLATION - -=item NON-STANDARD HTML SHORTCUTS +=item SYNOPSIS -=item AUTOESCAPING HTML +=item DESCRIPTION -$escaped_string = escapeHTML("unescaped string");, $charset = -charset([$charset]);, $flag = autoEscape([$flag]); +=item NOTE -=item PRETTY-PRINTING HTML +=item EXPORTED SYMBOLS =back -=item CREATING FILL-OUT FORMS: +=head2 File::Basename, fileparse - split a pathname into pieces =over 4 -=item CREATING AN ISINDEX TAG - -=item STARTING AND ENDING A FORM - -B, B +=item SYNOPSIS -=item CREATING A TEXT FIELD +=item DESCRIPTION -B +fileparse_set_fstype, fileparse -=item CREATING A BIG TEXT FIELD +=item EXAMPLES -=item CREATING A PASSWORD FIELD +C, C -=item CREATING A FILE UPLOAD FIELD +=back -B +=head2 File::CheckTree, validate - run many filetest checks on a tree -=item CREATING A POPUP MENU +=over 4 -=item CREATING A SCROLLING LIST +=item SYNOPSIS -B +=item DESCRIPTION -=item CREATING A GROUP OF RELATED CHECKBOXES +=back -B +=head2 File::Compare - Compare files or filehandles -=item CREATING A STANDALONE CHECKBOX +=over 4 -B +=item SYNOPSIS -=item CREATING A RADIO BUTTON GROUP +=item DESCRIPTION -B +=item RETURN -=item CREATING A SUBMIT BUTTON +=item AUTHOR -B +=back -=item CREATING A RESET BUTTON +=head2 File::Copy - Copy files or filehandles -=item CREATING A DEFAULT BUTTON +=over 4 -=item CREATING A HIDDEN FIELD +=item SYNOPSIS -B +=item DESCRIPTION -=item CREATING A CLICKABLE IMAGE BUTTON +=over 4 -B, 3. The third option (-align, optional) is an alignment -type, and may be TOP, BOTTOM or MIDDLE +=item Special behaviour if C is defined (OS/2, VMS and Win32) -=item CREATING A JAVASCRIPT ACTION BUTTON +rmscopy($from,$to[,$date_flag]) =back -=item HTTP COOKIES - -1. an expiration time, 2. a domain, 3. a path, 4. a "secure" flag, -B<-name>, B<-value>, B<-path>, B<-domain>, B<-expires>, B<-secure> +=item RETURN -=item WORKING WITH FRAMES +=item NOTES -1. Create a document, 2. Specify the destination for the -document in the HTTP header, 3. Specify the destination for the document in -the tag +=item AUTHOR -=item LIMITED SUPPORT FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS +=back -=item DEBUGGING +=head2 File::DosGlob - DOS like globbing and then some =over 4 -=item DUMPING OUT ALL THE NAME/VALUE PAIRS +=item SYNOPSIS -=back +=item DESCRIPTION -=item FETCHING ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES +=item NOTES -B, B, B, B, -B, B, B Return the script -name as a partial URL, for self-refering scripts, B, B, B, B, B, -B, B, B, -B, B, B, B +=item EXPORTS (by request only) -=item USING NPH SCRIPTS +=item BUGS -In the B statement, By calling the B method:, By using B<-nph> -parameters in the B and B statements: +=item AUTHOR -=item Server Push +=item HISTORY -multipart_init(), multipart_start(), multipart_end() +=item SEE ALSO -=item Avoiding Denial of Service Attacks +=back -B<$CGI::POST_MAX>, B<$CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS>, B<1. On a script-by-script -basis>, B<2. Globally for all scripts> +=head2 File::Find, find - traverse a file tree -=item COMPATIBILITY WITH CGI-LIB.PL +=over 4 -=item AUTHOR INFORMATION +=item SYNOPSIS -=item CREDITS +=item DESCRIPTION -Matt Heffron (heffron@falstaff.css.beckman.com), James Taylor -(james.taylor@srs.gov), Scott Anguish , Mike Jewell -(mlj3u@virginia.edu), Timothy Shimmin (tes@kbs.citri.edu.au), Joergen Haegg -(jh@axis.se), Laurent Delfosse (delfosse@delfosse.com), Richard Resnick -(applepi1@aol.com), Craig Bishop (csb@barwonwater.vic.gov.au), Tony Curtis -(tc@vcpc.univie.ac.at), Tim Bunce (Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk), Tom Christiansen -(tchrist@convex.com), Andreas Koenig (k@franz.ww.TU-Berlin.DE), Tim -MacKenzie (Tim.MacKenzie@fulcrum.com.au), Kevin B. Hendricks -(kbhend@dogwood.tyler.wm.edu), Stephen Dahmen (joyfire@inxpress.net), Ed -Jordan (ed@fidalgo.net), David Alan Pisoni (david@cnation.com), Doug -MacEachern (dougm@opengroup.org), Robin Houston (robin@oneworld.org), -...and many many more.. +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C + +=item WARNINGS + +=item CAVEAT -=item A COMPLETE EXAMPLE OF A SIMPLE FORM-BASED SCRIPT +$dont_use_nlink, symlinks -=item BUGS +=item NOTES -=item SEE ALSO +=item HISTORY =back -=head2 CGI::Apache - Backward compatibility module for CGI.pm +=head2 File::Glob - Perl extension for BSD glob routine =over 4 =item SYNOPSIS -=item ABSTRACT - =item DESCRIPTION -=item AUTHOR INFORMATION +C, C, C, C, C, +C, C, C, C, +C, C, C -=item BUGS +=item DIAGNOSTICS -=item SEE ALSO +C, C + +=item NOTES + +=item AUTHOR =back -=head2 CGI::Carp, B - CGI routines for writing to the HTTPD (or -other) error log +=head2 File::Path - create or remove directory trees =over 4 @@ -7717,27 +11750,31 @@ other) error log =item DESCRIPTION -=item REDIRECTING ERROR MESSAGES +=item AUTHORS -=item MAKING PERL ERRORS APPEAR IN THE BROWSER WINDOW +=back -=over 4 +=head2 File::Spec - portably perform operations on file names -=item Changing the default message +=over 4 -=back +=item SYNOPSIS -=item MAKING WARNINGS APPEAR AS HTML COMMENTS +=item DESCRIPTION -=item CHANGE LOG +=item METHODS -=item AUTHORS +canonpath, catdir, catfile, curdir, devnull, rootdir, tmpdir, updir, +no_upwards, case_tolerant, file_name_is_absolute, path, join, splitpath, +splitdir, catpath(), abs2rel, rel2abs() =item SEE ALSO +=item AUTHORS + =back -=head2 CGI::Cookie - Interface to Netscape Cookies +=head2 File::Spec::Epoc - methods for Epoc file specs =over 4 @@ -7745,33 +11782,33 @@ other) error log =item DESCRIPTION -=item USING CGI::Cookie +devnull -B<1. expiration date>, B<2. domain>, B<3. path>, B<4. secure flag> +=back -=over 4 +tmpdir -=item Creating New Cookies +path -=item Sending the Cookie to the Browser +canonpath() -=item Recovering Previous Cookies +splitpath -=item Manipulating Cookies +splitdir -B, B, B, B, B +catpath -=back +abs2rel -=item AUTHOR INFORMATION +rel2abs() -=item BUGS +=over 4 =item SEE ALSO =back -=head2 CGI::Fast - CGI Interface for Fast CGI +=head2 File::Spec::Functions - portably perform operations on file names =over 4 @@ -7779,25 +11816,17 @@ B, B, B, B, B =item DESCRIPTION -=item OTHER PIECES OF THE PUZZLE - -=item WRITING FASTCGI PERL SCRIPTS - -=item INSTALLING FASTCGI SCRIPTS - -=item USING FASTCGI SCRIPTS AS CGI SCRIPTS - -=item CAVEATS +=over 4 -=item AUTHOR INFORMATION +=item Exports -=item BUGS +=back =item SEE ALSO =back -=head2 CGI::Pretty - module to produce nicely formatted HTML code +=head2 File::Spec::Mac - File::Spec for Mac OS (Classic) =over 4 @@ -7805,71 +11834,60 @@ B, B, B, B, B =item DESCRIPTION -=over 4 - -=item Tags that won't be formatted +=item METHODS -=item Customizing the Indenting +canonpath =back -=item BUGS - -=item AUTHOR +catdir() -=item SEE ALSO +catfile -=back +curdir -=head2 CGI::Push - Simple Interface to Server Push +devnull -=over 4 +rootdir -=item SYNOPSIS +tmpdir -=item DESCRIPTION +updir -=item USING CGI::Push +file_name_is_absolute --next_page, -last_page, -type, -delay, -cookie, -target, -expires +path -=over 4 +splitpath -=item Heterogeneous Pages +splitdir -=item Changing the Page Delay on the Fly +catpath -=back +abs2rel -=item INSTALLING CGI::Push SCRIPTS +rel2abs -=item AUTHOR INFORMATION +=over 4 -=item BUGS +=item AUTHORS =item SEE ALSO =back -=head2 CGI::Switch - Backward compatibility module for defunct CGI::Switch +=head2 File::Spec::OS2 - methods for OS/2 file specs =over 4 =item SYNOPSIS -=item ABSTRACT - =item DESCRIPTION -=item AUTHOR INFORMATION - -=item BUGS - -=item SEE ALSO - =back -=head2 CPAN - query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites +=head2 File::Spec::Unix - File::Spec for Unix, base for other File::Spec +modules =over 4 @@ -7877,152 +11895,111 @@ B, B, B, B, B =item DESCRIPTION -=over 4 - -=item Interactive Mode - -Searching for authors, bundles, distribution files and modules, make, test, -install, clean modules or distributions, get, readme, look module or -distribution, Signals - -=item CPAN::Shell - -=item autobundle - -=item recompile - -=item The four C Classes: Author, Bundle, Module, Distribution - -=item Programmer's interface +=item METHODS -expand($type,@things), Programming Examples +canonpath() -=item Methods in the four Classes +=back -=item Cache Manager +catdir() -=item Bundles +catfile -=item Prerequisites +curdir -=item Finding packages and VERSION +devnull -=item Debugging +rootdir -=item Floppy, Zip, Offline Mode +tmpdir -=back +updir -=item CONFIGURATION +no_upwards -Cscalar optionE>, Cscalar optionE -EvalueE>, Clist optionE>, Clist -optionE [shift|pop]>, Clist optionE -[unshift|push|splice] ElistE> +case_tolerant -=over 4 +file_name_is_absolute -=item Note on urllist parameter's format +path -=item urllist parameter has CD-ROM support +join -=back +splitpath -=item SECURITY +splitdir -=item EXPORT +catpath() -=item POPULATE AN INSTALLATION WITH LOTS OF MODULES +abs2rel -=item WORKING WITH CPAN.pm BEHIND FIREWALLS +rel2abs() =over 4 -=item Three basic types of firewalls - -http firewall, ftp firewall, One way visibility, SOCKS, IP Masquerade - -=item Configuring lynx or ncftp for going through a firewall +=item SEE ALSO =back -=item FAQ +=head2 File::Spec::VMS - methods for VMS file specs -1) I installed a new version of module X but CPAN keeps saying, I -have the old version installed, 2) So why is UNINST=1 not the default?, 3) -I want to clean up my mess, and install a new perl along with all -modules I have. How do I go about it?, 4) When I install bundles or -multiple modules with one command there is too much output to keep -track of, 5) I am not root, how can I install a module in a personal -directory?, 6) How to get a package, unwrap it, and make a change before - building it?, 7) I installed a Bundle and had a couple of fails. When I - retried, everything resolved nicely. Can this be fixed to work -on first try?, 8) In our intranet we have many modules for internal use. -How can I integrate these modules with CPAN.pm but without uploading - the modules to CPAN?, 9) When I run CPAN's shell, I get error msg -about line 1 to 4, setting meta input/output via the /etc/inputrc -file +=over 4 -=item BUGS +=item SYNOPSIS -=item AUTHOR +=item DESCRIPTION -=item SEE ALSO +eliminate_macros =back -=head2 CPAN::FirstTime - Utility for CPAN::Config file Initialization +fixpath =over 4 -=item SYNOPSIS +=item Methods always loaded -=item DESCRIPTION +canonpath (override) =back -=head2 CPANox, CPAN::Nox - Wrapper around CPAN.pm without using any XS -module - -=over 4 +catdir -=item SYNOPSIS +catfile -=item DESCRIPTION +curdir (override) -=item SEE ALSO +devnull (override) -=back +rootdir (override) -=head2 Carp, carp - warn of errors (from perspective of caller) +tmpdir (override) -=over 4 +updir (override) -=item SYNOPSIS +case_tolerant (override) -=item DESCRIPTION +path (override) -=over 4 +file_name_is_absolute (override) -=item Forcing a Stack Trace +splitpath (override) -=back +splitdir (override) -=item BUGS +catpath (override) -=back +abs2rel (override) -=head2 Carp::Heavy - Carp guts +rel2abs (override) =over 4 -=item SYNOPIS - -=item DESCRIPTION +=item SEE ALSO =back -=head2 Class::Struct - declare struct-like datatypes as Perl classes +=head2 File::Spec::Win32 - methods for Win32 file specs =over 4 @@ -8030,302 +12007,159 @@ module =item DESCRIPTION -=over 4 +devnull -=item The C function +=back -=item Class Creation at Compile Time +tmpdir -=item Element Types and Accessor Methods +catfile -Scalar (C<'$'> or C<'*$'>), Array (C<'@'> or C<'*@'>), Hash (C<'%'> or -C<'*%'>), Class (C<'Class_Name'> or C<'*Class_Name'>) +canonpath -=item Initializing with C +splitpath -=back +splitdir -=item EXAMPLES +catpath -Example 1, Example 2, Example 3 +=over 4 -=item Author and Modification History +=item SEE ALSO =back -=head2 Config - access Perl configuration information +=head2 File::Temp - return name and handle of a temporary file safely =over 4 +=item PORTABILITY + =item SYNOPSIS =item DESCRIPTION -myconfig(), config_sh(), config_vars(@names) - -=item EXAMPLE - -=item WARNING - -=item GLOSSARY +=back =over 4 -=item _ +=item FUNCTIONS -C<_a>, C<_exe>, C<_o> +B -=item a +=back -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C +B -=item b +=over 4 -C, C, C, C, C, C, -C, C +=item MKTEMP FUNCTIONS -=item c +B -C, C, C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C +=back -=item C +B -C, C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C +B -=item d +B -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, -C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C +=over 4 -=item e +=item POSIX FUNCTIONS -C, C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C +B -=item f +=back -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, C +B -=item g +=over 4 -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, C +=item ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS -=item h +B -C, C, C, C +=back -=item i +=over 4 -C, C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C +=item UTILITY FUNCTIONS -=item k +B -C, C +=back -=item l +=over 4 -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C +=item PACKAGE VARIABLES -=item m +B, STANDARD, MEDIUM, HIGH -C, C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C +=back -=item M +TopSystemUID -C, C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, C +=over 4 -=item n +=item WARNING -C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C +=over 4 -=item o +=item Temporary files and NFS -C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C +=back -=item p +=item HISTORY -C, C, C, C, C, C, -C +=item SEE ALSO -=item P +=item AUTHOR -C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C +=back -=item q +=head2 File::stat - by-name interface to Perl's built-in stat() functions -C, C +=over 4 -=item r +=item SYNOPSIS -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C +=item DESCRIPTION -=item s +=item NOTE -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C +=item AUTHOR -=item t +=back -C, C, C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C +=head2 FileCache - keep more files open than the system permits -=item u +=over 4 -C, C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, C, -C, C +=item SYNOPSIS -=item v +=item DESCRIPTION -C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C +=item BUGS -=item x +=back -C, C +=head2 FileHandle - supply object methods for filehandles -=item z +=over 4 -C, C +=item SYNOPSIS -=back +=item DESCRIPTION -=item NOTE +$fh->print, $fh->printf, $fh->getline, $fh->getlines + +=item SEE ALSO =back -=head2 Cwd, getcwd - get pathname of current working directory +=head2 Filter::Simple - Simplified source filtering =over 4 @@ -8333,46 +12167,44 @@ C, C =item DESCRIPTION -=back +=over 4 -=head2 DB - programmatic interface to the Perl debugging API (draft, -subject to -change) +=item The Problem -=over 4 +=item A Solution -=item SYNOPSIS +=item Disabling or changing behaviour -=item DESCRIPTION +=item All-in-one interface -=over 4 +=item Filtering only specific components of source code -=item Global Variables +C<"code">, C<"executable">, C<"quotelike">, C<"string">, C<"regex">, +C<"all"> - $DB::sub, %DB::sub, $DB::single, $DB::signal, $DB::trace, @DB::args, -@DB::dbline, %DB::dbline, $DB::package, $DB::filename, $DB::subname, -$DB::lineno +=item Filtering only the code parts of source code -=item API Methods +Most source code ceases to be grammatically correct when it is broken up +into the pieces between string literals and regexes. So the C<'code'> +component filter behaves slightly differently from the other partial +filters +described in the previous section. -CLIENT->register(), CLIENT->evalcode(STRING), CLIENT->skippkg('D::hide'), -CLIENT->run(), CLIENT->step(), CLIENT->next(), CLIENT->done() +=item Using Filter::Simple with an explicit C subroutine -=item Client Callback Methods +=item Using Filter::Simple and Exporter together -CLIENT->init(), CLIENT->prestop([STRING]), CLIENT->stop(), CLIENT->idle(), -CLIENT->poststop([STRING]), CLIENT->evalcode(STRING), CLIENT->cleanup(), -CLIENT->output(LIST) +=item How it works =back -=item BUGS - =item AUTHOR +=item COPYRIGHT + =back -=head2 DB_File - Perl5 access to Berkeley DB version 1.x +=head2 Filter::Util::Call - Perl Source Filter Utility Module =over 4 @@ -8380,189 +12212,177 @@ CLIENT->output(LIST) =item DESCRIPTION -B, B, B - =over 4 -=item Using DB_File with Berkeley DB version 2 or 3 +=item B -=item Interface to Berkeley DB - -=item Opening a Berkeley DB Database File +=item B -=item Default Parameters +=item B -=item In Memory Databases +B<$_>, B<$status>, B and B, B =back -=item DB_HASH +=item EXAMPLES =over 4 -=item A Simple Example - -=back - -=item DB_BTREE +=item Example 1: A simple filter. -=over 4 +=item Example 2: Using the context -=item Changing the BTREE sort order +=item Example 3: Using the context within the filter -=item Handling Duplicate Keys +=item Example 4: Using filter_del -=item The get_dup() Method +=back -=item The find_dup() Method +=item Filter::Simple -=item The del_dup() Method +=item AUTHOR -=item Matching Partial Keys +=item DATE =back -=item DB_RECNO +=head2 FindBin - Locate directory of original perl script =over 4 -=item The 'bval' Option - -=item A Simple Example +=item SYNOPSIS -=item Extra RECNO Methods +=item DESCRIPTION -B<$X-Epush(list) ;>, B<$value = $X-Epop ;>, B<$X-Eshift>, -B<$X-Eunshift(list) ;>, B<$X-Elength> +=item EXPORTABLE VARIABLES -=item Another Example +=item KNOWN ISSUES -=back +=item KNOWN BUGS -=item THE API INTERFACE +=item AUTHORS -B<$status = $X-Eget($key, $value [, $flags]) ;>, B<$status = -$X-Eput($key, $value [, $flags]) ;>, B<$status = $X-Edel($key [, -$flags]) ;>, B<$status = $X-Efd ;>, B<$status = $X-Eseq($key, -$value, $flags) ;>, B<$status = $X-Esync([$flags]) ;> +=item COPYRIGHT -=item DBM FILTERS +=back -B, B, B, -B +=head2 GDBM_File - Perl5 access to the gdbm library. =over 4 -=item The Filter +=item SYNOPSIS -=item An Example -- the NULL termination problem. +=item DESCRIPTION -=item Another Example -- Key is a C int. +=item AVAILABILITY + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO =back -=item HINTS AND TIPS +=head2 Getopt::Long - Extended processing of command line options =over 4 -=item Locking: The Trouble with fd +=item SYNOPSIS -=item Safe ways to lock a database +=item DESCRIPTION -B, B, B +=item Command Line Options, an Introduction -=item Sharing Databases With C Applications +=item Getting Started with Getopt::Long -=item The untie() Gotcha +=over 4 -=back +=item Simple options -=item COMMON QUESTIONS +=item A little bit less simple options + +=item Mixing command line option with other arguments + +=item Options with values + +=item Options with multiple values + +=item Options with hash values -=over 4 +=item User-defined subroutines to handle options -=item Why is there Perl source in my database? +=item Options with multiple names -=item How do I store complex data structures with DB_File? +=item Case and abbreviations -=item What does "Invalid Argument" mean? +=item Summary of Option Specifications -=item What does "Bareword 'DB_File' not allowed" mean? +!, +, s, i, o, f, : I [ I ] =back -=item REFERENCES +=item Advanced Possibilities -=item HISTORY +=over 4 -=item BUGS +=item Object oriented interface -=item AVAILABILITY +=item Documentation and help texts -=item COPYRIGHT +=item Storing options in a hash -=item SEE ALSO +=item Bundling -=item AUTHOR +=item The lonesome dash + +=item Argument callback =back -=head2 Data::Dumper - stringified perl data structures, suitable for both -printing and C +=item Configuring Getopt::Long -=over 4 +default, posix_default, auto_abbrev, getopt_compat, gnu_compat, gnu_getopt, +require_order, permute, bundling (default: disabled), bundling_override +(default: disabled), ignore_case (default: enabled), ignore_case_always +(default: disabled), pass_through (default: disabled), prefix, +prefix_pattern, debug (default: disabled) -=item SYNOPSIS +=item Return values and Errors -=item DESCRIPTION +=item Legacy =over 4 -=item Methods +=item Default destinations -I->new(I, I), I<$OBJ>->Dump I -I->Dump(I, I), I<$OBJ>->Seen(I<[HASHREF]>), -I<$OBJ>->Values(I<[ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Names(I<[ARRAYREF]>), -I<$OBJ>->Reset +=item Alternative option starters -=item Functions +=item Configuration variables -Dumper(I) +=back -=item Configuration Variables or Methods +=item Trouble Shooting -$Data::Dumper::Indent I I<$OBJ>->Indent(I<[NEWVAL]>), -$Data::Dumper::Purity I I<$OBJ>->Purity(I<[NEWVAL]>), -$Data::Dumper::Pad I I<$OBJ>->Pad(I<[NEWVAL]>), -$Data::Dumper::Varname I I<$OBJ>->Varname(I<[NEWVAL]>), -$Data::Dumper::Useqq I I<$OBJ>->Useqq(I<[NEWVAL]>), -$Data::Dumper::Terse I I<$OBJ>->Terse(I<[NEWVAL]>), -$Data::Dumper::Freezer I $I->Freezer(I<[NEWVAL]>), -$Data::Dumper::Toaster I $I->Toaster(I<[NEWVAL]>), -$Data::Dumper::Deepcopy I $I->Deepcopy(I<[NEWVAL]>), -$Data::Dumper::Quotekeys I $I->Quotekeys(I<[NEWVAL]>), -$Data::Dumper::Bless I $I->Bless(I<[NEWVAL]>), -$Data::Dumper::Maxdepth I $I->Maxdepth(I<[NEWVAL]>) +=over 4 -=item Exports +=item Warning: Ignoring '!' modifier for short option -Dumper +=item GetOptions does not return a false result when an option is not +supplied -=back +=item GetOptions does not split the command line correctly -=item EXAMPLES +=item How do I put a "-?" option into a Getopt::Long? -=item BUGS +=back =item AUTHOR -=item VERSION - -=item SEE ALSO +=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER =back -=head2 Devel::DProf - a Perl code profiler +=head2 Getopt::Std, getopt - Process single-character switches with switch +clustering =over 4 @@ -8570,19 +12390,21 @@ Dumper =item DESCRIPTION -=item PROFILE FORMAT +=back -=item AUTOLOAD +=head2 I18N::Collate - compare 8-bit scalar data according to the current +locale -=item ENVIRONMENT +=over 4 -=item BUGS +=item SYNOPSIS -=item SEE ALSO +=item DESCRIPTION =back -=head2 Devel::Peek - A data debugging tool for the XS programmer +=head2 I18N::LangTags - functions for dealing with RFC3066-style language +tags =over 4 @@ -8590,47 +12412,43 @@ Dumper =item DESCRIPTION -=over 4 - -=item Memory footprint debugging - =back -=item EXAMPLES +the function is_language_tag($lang1) -=over 4 +the function extract_language_tags($whatever) -=item A simple scalar string +the function same_language_tag($lang1, $lang2) -=item A simple scalar number +the function similarity_language_tag($lang1, $lang2) -=item A simple scalar with an extra reference +the function is_dialect_of($lang1, $lang2) -=item A reference to a simple scalar +the function super_languages($lang1) -=item A reference to an array +the function locale2language_tag($locale_identifier) -=item A reference to a hash +the function encode_language_tag($lang1) -=item Dumping a large array or hash +the function alternate_language_tags($lang1) -=item A reference to an SV which holds a C pointer +the function @langs = panic_languages(@accept_languages) -=item A reference to a subroutine +=over 4 -=back +=item ABOUT LOWERCASING -=item EXPORTS +=item ABOUT UNICODE PLAINTEXT LANGUAGE TAGS -=item BUGS +=item SEE ALSO -=item AUTHOR +=item COPYRIGHT -=item SEE ALSO +=item AUTHOR =back -=head2 Devel::SelfStubber - generate stubs for a SelfLoading module +=head2 I18N::LangTags::List -- tags and names for human languages =over 4 @@ -8638,19 +12456,139 @@ Dumper =item DESCRIPTION -=back - -=head2 DirHandle - supply object methods for directory handles +=item ABOUT LANGUAGE TAGS + +=item LIST OF LANGUAGES + +{ab} : Abkhazian, {ace} : Achinese, {ach} : Acoli, {ada} : Adangme, {aa} : +Afar, {afh} : Afrihili, {af} : Afrikaans, [{afa} : Afro-Asiatic (Other)], +{aka} : Akan, {akk} : Akkadian, {sq} : Albanian, {ale} : Aleut, [{alg} : +Algonquian languages], [{tut} : Altaic (Other)], {am} : Amharic, {i-ami} : +Ami, [{apa} : Apache languages], {ar} : Arabic, {arc} : Aramaic, {arp} : +Arapaho, {arn} : Araucanian, {arw} : Arawak, {hy} : Armenian, [{art} : +Artificial (Other)], {as} : Assamese, [{ath} : Athapascan languages], +[{aus} : Australian languages], [{map} : Austronesian (Other)], {ava} : +Avaric, {ae} : Avestan, {awa} : Awadhi, {ay} : Aymara, {az} : Azerbaijani, +{ban} : Balinese, [{bat} : Baltic (Other)], {bal} : Baluchi, {bam} : +Bambara, [{bai} : Bamileke languages], {bad} : Banda, [{bnt} : Bantu +(Other)], {bas} : Basa, {ba} : Bashkir, {eu} : Basque, {btk} : Batak +(Indonesia), {bej} : Beja, {be} : Belarusian, {bem} : Bemba, {bn} : +Bengali, [{ber} : Berber (Other)], {bho} : Bhojpuri, {bh} : Bihari, {bik} : +Bikol, {bin} : Bini, {bi} : Bislama, {bs} : Bosnian, {bra} : Braj, {br} : +Breton, {bug} : Buginese, {bg} : Bulgarian, {i-bnn} : Bunun, {bua} : +Buriat, {my} : Burmese, {cad} : Caddo, {car} : Carib, {ca} : Catalan, +[{cau} : Caucasian (Other)], {ceb} : Cebuano, [{cel} : Celtic (Other)], +[{cai} : Central American Indian (Other)], {chg} : Chagatai, [{cmc} : +Chamic languages], {ch} : Chamorro, {ce} : Chechen, {chr} : Cherokee, {chy} +: Cheyenne, {chb} : Chibcha, {ny} : Chichewa, {zh} : Chinese, {chn} : +Chinook Jargon, {chp} : Chipewyan, {cho} : Choctaw, {cu} : Church Slavic, +{chk} : Chuukese, {cv} : Chuvash, {cop} : Coptic, {kw} : Cornish, {co} : +Corsican, {cre} : Cree, {mus} : Creek, [{cpe} : English-based Creoles and +pidgins (Other)], [{cpf} : French-based Creoles and pidgins (Other)], +[{cpp} : Portuguese-based Creoles and pidgins (Other)], [{crp} : Creoles +and pidgins (Other)], {hr} : Croatian, [{cus} : Cushitic (Other)], {cs} : +Czech, {dak} : Dakota, {da} : Danish, {day} : Dayak, {i-default} : Default +(Fallthru) Language, {del} : Delaware, {din} : Dinka, {div} : Divehi, {doi} +: Dogri, {dgr} : Dogrib, [{dra} : Dravidian (Other)], {dua} : Duala, {nl} : +Dutch, {dum} : Middle Dutch (ca.1050-1350), {dyu} : Dyula, {dz} : Dzongkha, +{efi} : Efik, {egy} : Ancient Egyptian, {eka} : Ekajuk, {elx} : Elamite, +{en} : English, {enm} : Old English (1100-1500), {ang} : Old English +(ca.450-1100), {eo} : Esperanto, {et} : Estonian, {ewe} : Ewe, {ewo} : +Ewondo, {fan} : Fang, {fat} : Fanti, {fo} : Faroese, {fj} : Fijian, {fi} : +Finnish, [{fiu} : Finno-Ugrian (Other)], {fon} : Fon, {fr} : French, {frm} +: Middle French (ca.1400-1600), {fro} : Old French (842-ca.1400), {fy} : +Frisian, {fur} : Friulian, {ful} : Fulah, {gaa} : Ga, {gd} : Scots Gaelic, +{gl} : Gallegan, {lug} : Ganda, {gay} : Gayo, {gba} : Gbaya, {gez} : Geez, +{ka} : Georgian, {de} : German, {gmh} : Middle High German (ca.1050-1500), +{goh} : Old High German (ca.750-1050), [{gem} : Germanic (Other)], {gil} : +Gilbertese, {gon} : Gondi, {gor} : Gorontalo, {got} : Gothic, {grb} : +Grebo, {grc} : Ancient Greek, {el} : Modern Greek, {gn} : Guarani, {gu} : +Gujarati, {gwi} : Gwich'in, {hai} : Haida, {ha} : Hausa, {haw} : Hawaiian, +{he} : Hebrew, {hz} : Herero, {hil} : Hiligaynon, {him} : Himachali, {hi} : +Hindi, {ho} : Hiri Motu, {hit} : Hittite, {hmn} : Hmong, {hu} : Hungarian, +{hup} : Hupa, {iba} : Iban, {is} : Icelandic, {ibo} : Igbo, {ijo} : Ijo, +{ilo} : Iloko, [{inc} : Indic (Other)], [{ine} : Indo-European (Other)], +{id} : Indonesian, {ia} : Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language +Association), {ie} : Interlingue, {iu} : Inuktitut, {ik} : Inupiaq, [{ira} +: Iranian (Other)], {ga} : Irish, {mga} : Middle Irish (900-1200), {sga} : +Old Irish (to 900), [{iro} : Iroquoian languages], {it} : Italian, {ja} : +Japanese, {jw} : Javanese, {jrb} : Judeo-Arabic, {jpr} : Judeo-Persian, +{kab} : Kabyle, {kac} : Kachin, {kl} : Kalaallisut, {kam} : Kamba, {kn} : +Kannada, {kau} : Kanuri, {kaa} : Kara-Kalpak, {kar} : Karen, {ks} : +Kashmiri, {kaw} : Kawi, {kk} : Kazakh, {kha} : Khasi, {km} : Khmer, [{khi} +: Khoisan (Other)], {kho} : Khotanese, {ki} : Kikuyu, {kmb} : Kimbundu, +{rw} : Kinyarwanda, {ky} : Kirghiz, {i-klingon} : Klingon, {kv} : Komi, +{kon} : Kongo, {kok} : Konkani, {ko} : Korean, {kos} : Kosraean, {kpe} : +Kpelle, {kro} : Kru, {kj} : Kuanyama, {kum} : Kumyk, {ku} : Kurdish, {kru} +: Kurukh, {kut} : Kutenai, {lad} : Ladino, {lah} : Lahnda, {lam} : Lamba, +{lo} : Lao, {la} : Latin, {lv} : Latvian, {lb} : Letzeburgesch, {lez} : +Lezghian, {ln} : Lingala, {lt} : Lithuanian, {nds} : Low German, {loz} : +Lozi, {lub} : Luba-Katanga, {lua} : Luba-Lulua, {lui} : Luiseno, {lun} : +Lunda, {luo} : Luo (Kenya and Tanzania), {lus} : Lushai, {mk} : Macedonian, +{mad} : Madurese, {mag} : Magahi, {mai} : Maithili, {mak} : Makasar, {mg} : +Malagasy, {ms} : Malay, {ml} : Malayalam, {mt} : Maltese, {mnc} : Manchu, +{mdr} : Mandar, {man} : Mandingo, {mni} : Manipuri, [{mno} : Manobo +languages], {gv} : Manx, {mi} : Maori, {mr} : Marathi, {chm} : Mari, {mh} : +Marshall, {mwr} : Marwari, {mas} : Masai, [{myn} : Mayan languages], {men} +: Mende, {mic} : Micmac, {min} : Minangkabau, {i-mingo} : Mingo, [{mis} : +Miscellaneous languages], {moh} : Mohawk, {mo} : Moldavian, [{mkh} : +Mon-Khmer (Other)], {lol} : Mongo, {mn} : Mongolian, {mos} : Mossi, [{mul} +: Multiple languages], [{mun} : Munda languages], {nah} : Nahuatl, {na} : +Nauru, {nv} : Navajo, {nd} : North Ndebele, {nr} : South Ndebele, {ng} : +Ndonga, {ne} : Nepali, {new} : Newari, {nia} : Nias, [{nic} : +Niger-Kordofanian (Other)], [{ssa} : Nilo-Saharan (Other)], {niu} : Niuean, +{non} : Old Norse, [{nai} : North American Indian], {se} : Northern Sami, +{no} : Norwegian, {nb} : Norwegian Bokmal, {nn} : Norwegian Nynorsk, [{nub} +: Nubian languages], {nym} : Nyamwezi, {nyn} : Nyankole, {nyo} : Nyoro, +{nzi} : Nzima, {oc} : Occitan (post 1500), {oji} : Ojibwa, {or} : Oriya, +{om} : Oromo, {osa} : Osage, {os} : Ossetian; Ossetic, [{oto} : Otomian +languages], {pal} : Pahlavi, {i-pwn} : Paiwan, {pau} : Palauan, {pi} : +Pali, {pam} : Pampanga, {pag} : Pangasinan, {pa} : Panjabi, {pap} : +Papiamento, [{paa} : Papuan (Other)], {fa} : Persian, {peo} : Old Persian +(ca.600-400 B.C.), [{phi} : Philippine (Other)], {phn} : Phoenician, {pon} +: Pohnpeian, {pl} : Polish, {pt} : Portuguese, [{pra} : Prakrit languages], +{pro} : Old Provencal (to 1500), {ps} : Pushto, {qu} : Quechua, {rm} : +Raeto-Romance, {raj} : Rajasthani, {rap} : Rapanui, {rar} : Rarotongan, +[{qaa - qtz} : Reserved for local use.], [{roa} : Romance (Other)], {ro} : +Romanian, {rom} : Romany, {rn} : Rundi, {ru} : Russian, [{sal} : Salishan +languages], {sam} : Samaritan Aramaic, [{smi} : Sami languages (Other)], +{sm} : Samoan, {sad} : Sandawe, {sg} : Sango, {sa} : Sanskrit, {sat} : +Santali, {sc} : Sardinian, {sas} : Sasak, {sco} : Scots, {sel} : Selkup, +[{sem} : Semitic (Other)], {sr} : Serbian, {srr} : Serer, {shn} : Shan, +{sn} : Shona, {sid} : Sidamo, {sgn-...} : Sign Languages, {bla} : Siksika, +{sd} : Sindhi, {si} : Sinhalese, [{sit} : Sino-Tibetan (Other)], [{sio} : +Siouan languages], {den} : Slave (Athapascan), [{sla} : Slavic (Other)], +{sk} : Slovak, {sl} : Slovenian, {sog} : Sogdian, {so} : Somali, {son} : +Songhai, {snk} : Soninke, {wen} : Sorbian languages, {nso} : Northern +Sotho, {st} : Southern Sotho, [{sai} : South American Indian (Other)], {es} +: Spanish, {suk} : Sukuma, {sux} : Sumerian, {su} : Sundanese, {sus} : +Susu, {sw} : Swahili, {ss} : Swati, {sv} : Swedish, {syr} : Syriac, {tl} : +Tagalog, {ty} : Tahitian, [{tai} : Tai (Other)], {tg} : Tajik, {tmh} : +Tamashek, {ta} : Tamil, {i-tao} : Tao, {tt} : Tatar, {i-tay} : Tayal, {te} +: Telugu, {ter} : Tereno, {tet} : Tetum, {th} : Thai, {bo} : Tibetan, {tig} +: Tigre, {ti} : Tigrinya, {tem} : Timne, {tiv} : Tiv, {tli} : Tlingit, +{tpi} : Tok Pisin, {tkl} : Tokelau, {tog} : Tonga (Nyasa), {to} : Tonga +(Tonga Islands), {tsi} : Tsimshian, {ts} : Tsonga, {i-tsu} : Tsou, {tn} : +Tswana, {tum} : Tumbuka, {tr} : Turkish, {ota} : Ottoman Turkish +(1500-1928), {tk} : Turkmen, {tvl} : Tuvalu, {tyv} : Tuvinian, {tw} : Twi, +{uga} : Ugaritic, {ug} : Uighur, {uk} : Ukrainian, {umb} : Umbundu, {und} : +Undetermined, {ur} : Urdu, {uz} : Uzbek, {vai} : Vai, {ven} : Venda, {vi} : +Vietnamese, {vo} : Volapuk, {vot} : Votic, [{wak} : Wakashan languages], +{wal} : Walamo, {war} : Waray, {was} : Washo, {cy} : Welsh, {wo} : Wolof, +{x-...} : Unregistered (Semi-Private Use), {xh} : Xhosa, {sah} : Yakut, +{yao} : Yao, {yap} : Yapese, {yi} : Yiddish, {yo} : Yoruba, [{ypk} : Yupik +languages], {znd} : Zande, [{zap} : Zapotec], {zen} : Zenaga, {za} : +Zhuang, {zu} : Zulu, {zun} : Zuni -=over 4 +=item SEE ALSO -=item SYNOPSIS +=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER -=item DESCRIPTION +=item AUTHOR =back -=head2 Dumpvalue - provides screen dump of Perl data. +=head2 I18N::Langinfo - query locale information =over 4 @@ -8660,23 +12598,19 @@ Dumper =over 4 -=item Creation +=item EXPORT -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, unctrl, subdump, bareStringify, quoteHighBit, -stopDbSignal +=back -=item Methods +=item SEE ALSO -dumpValue, dumpValues, dumpvars, set_quote, set_unctrl, compactDump, -veryCompact, set, get +=item AUTHOR -=back +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE =back -=head2 DynaLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code +=head2 IO - load various IO modules =over 4 @@ -8684,18 +12618,9 @@ veryCompact, set, get =item DESCRIPTION -@dl_library_path, @dl_resolve_using, @dl_require_symbols, @dl_librefs, -@dl_modules, dl_error(), $dl_debug, dl_findfile(), dl_expandspec(), -dl_load_file(), dl_unload_file(), dl_loadflags(), dl_find_symbol(), -dl_find_symbol_anywhere(), dl_undef_symbols(), dl_install_xsub(), -bootstrap() - -=item AUTHOR - =back -=head2 DynaLoader::XSLoader, XSLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into -Perl code +=head2 IO::Dir - supply object methods for directory handles =over 4 @@ -8703,34 +12628,40 @@ Perl code =item DESCRIPTION +new ( [ DIRNAME ] ), open ( DIRNAME ), read (), seek ( POS ), tell (), +rewind (), close (), tie %hash, IO::Dir, DIRNAME [, OPTIONS ] + +=item SEE ALSO + =item AUTHOR +=item COPYRIGHT + =back -=head2 Encode - character encodings +=head2 IO::File - supply object methods for filehandles =over 4 -=item TERMINOLOGY +=item SYNOPSIS -=item bytes +=item DESCRIPTION -=item chars +=item CONSTRUCTOR -=item chars With Encoding +new ( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ), new_tmpfile -=item Testing For UTF-8 +=item METHODS -=item Toggling UTF-8-ness +open( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ) -=item UTF-16 and UTF-32 Encodings +=item SEE ALSO -=item Handling Malformed Data +=item HISTORY =back -=head2 English - use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation -variables +=head2 IO::Handle - supply object methods for I/O handles =over 4 @@ -8738,12 +12669,28 @@ variables =item DESCRIPTION -=item PERFORMANCE +=item CONSTRUCTOR + +new (), new_from_fd ( FD, MODE ) + +=item METHODS + +$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 ] ), $io->untaint + +=item NOTE + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item BUGS + +=item HISTORY =back -=head2 Env - perl module that imports environment variables as scalars or -arrays +=head2 IO::Pipe - supply object methods for pipes =over 4 @@ -8751,13 +12698,23 @@ arrays =item DESCRIPTION -=item LIMITATIONS +=item CONSTRUCTOR + +new ( [READER, WRITER] ) + +=item METHODS + +reader ([ARGS]), writer ([ARGS]), handles () + +=item SEE ALSO =item AUTHOR +=item COPYRIGHT + =back -=head2 Errno - System errno constants +=head2 IO::Poll - Object interface to system poll call =over 4 @@ -8765,7 +12722,12 @@ arrays =item DESCRIPTION -=item CAVEATS +=item METHODS + +mask ( IO [, EVENT_MASK ] ), poll ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), events ( IO ), remove ( +IO ), handles( [ EVENT_MASK ] ) + +=item SEE ALSO =item AUTHOR @@ -8773,7 +12735,7 @@ arrays =back -=head2 Exporter - Implements default import method for modules +=head2 IO::Seekable - supply seek based methods for I/O objects =over 4 @@ -8781,78 +12743,97 @@ arrays =item DESCRIPTION -=over 4 +$io->getpos, $io->setpos, $io->seek ( POS, WHENCE ), WHENCE=0 (SEEK_SET), +WHENCE=1 (SEEK_CUR), WHENCE=2 (SEEK_END), $io->sysseek( POS, WHENCE ), +$io->tell -=item How to Export +=item SEE ALSO -=item Selecting What To Export +=item HISTORY -=item Specialised Import Lists +=back -=item Exporting without using Export's import method +=head2 IO::Select - OO interface to the select system call -=item Module Version Checking +=over 4 -=item Managing Unknown Symbols +=item SYNOPSIS -=item Tag Handling Utility Functions +=item DESCRIPTION -=back +=item CONSTRUCTOR -=back +new ( [ HANDLES ] ) -=head2 Exporter::Heavy - Exporter guts +=item METHODS -=over 4 +add ( HANDLES ), remove ( HANDLES ), exists ( HANDLE ), handles, can_read ( +[ TIMEOUT ] ), can_write ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), has_exception ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), +count (), bits(), select ( READ, WRITE, ERROR [, TIMEOUT ] ) -=item SYNOPIS +=item EXAMPLE -=item DESCRIPTION +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT =back -=head2 ExtUtils::Command - utilities to replace common UNIX commands in -Makefiles etc. +=head2 IO::Socket - Object interface to socket communications =over 4 =item SYNOPSIS -=item DESCRIPTION +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CONSTRUCTOR + +new ( [ARGS] ) + +=item METHODS -=back +accept([PKG]), socketpair(DOMAIN, TYPE, PROTOCOL), atmark, connected, +protocol, sockdomain, sockopt(OPT [, VAL]), socktype, timeout([VAL]) -cat +=item SEE ALSO -eqtime src dst +=item AUTHOR -rm_f files... +=item COPYRIGHT -rm_f files... +=back -touch files .. +=head2 IO::Socket::INET - Object interface for AF_INET domain sockets -mv source... destination +=over 4 -cp source... destination +=item SYNOPSIS -chmod mode files.. +=item DESCRIPTION -mkpath directory.. +=item CONSTRUCTOR -test_f file +new ( [ARGS] ) =over 4 -=item BUGS +=item METHODS -=item SEE ALSO +sockaddr (), sockport (), sockhost (), peeraddr (), peerport (), peerhost +() + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO =item AUTHOR +=item COPYRIGHT + =back -=head2 ExtUtils::Embed - Utilities for embedding Perl in C/C++ applications +=head2 IO::Socket::UNIX - Object interface for AF_UNIX domain sockets =over 4 @@ -8860,22 +12841,24 @@ test_f file =item DESCRIPTION -=item @EXPORT +=item CONSTRUCTOR -=item FUNCTIONS +new ( [ARGS] ) -xsinit(), Examples, ldopts(), Examples, perl_inc(), ccflags(), ccdlflags(), -ccopts(), xsi_header(), xsi_protos(@modules), xsi_body(@modules) +=item METHODS -=item EXAMPLES +hostpath(), peerpath() =item SEE ALSO =item AUTHOR +=item COPYRIGHT + =back -=head2 ExtUtils::Install - install files from here to there +=head2 IO::lib::IO::Dir, IO::Dir - supply object methods for directory +handles =over 4 @@ -8883,9 +12866,18 @@ ccopts(), xsi_header(), xsi_protos(@modules), xsi_body(@modules) =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 ExtUtils::Installed - Inventory management of installed modules +=head2 IO::lib::IO::File, IO::File - supply object methods for filehandles =over 4 @@ -8893,20 +12885,22 @@ ccopts(), xsi_header(), xsi_protos(@modules), xsi_body(@modules) =item DESCRIPTION -=item USAGE +=item CONSTRUCTOR -=item FUNCTIONS +new ( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ), new_tmpfile -new(), modules(), files(), directories(), directory_tree(), validate(), -packlist(), version() +=item METHODS -=item EXAMPLE +open( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ) -=item AUTHOR +=item SEE ALSO + +=item HISTORY =back -=head2 ExtUtils::Liblist - determine libraries to use and how to use them +=head2 IO::lib::IO::Handle, IO::Handle - supply object methods for I/O +handles =over 4 @@ -8914,34 +12908,28 @@ packlist(), version() =item DESCRIPTION -For static extensions, For dynamic extensions, For dynamic extensions - -=over 4 - -=item EXTRALIBS - -=item LDLOADLIBS and LD_RUN_PATH - -=item BSLOADLIBS +=item CONSTRUCTOR -=back +new (), new_from_fd ( FD, MODE ) -=item PORTABILITY +=item METHODS -=over 4 +$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 ] ), $io->untaint -=item VMS implementation +=item NOTE -=item Win32 implementation +=item SEE ALSO -=back +=item BUGS -=item SEE ALSO +=item HISTORY =back -=head2 ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin - methods to override UN*X behaviour in -ExtUtils::MakeMaker +=head2 IO::lib::IO::Pipe, IO::Pipe - supply object methods for pipes =over 4 @@ -8949,22 +12937,23 @@ ExtUtils::MakeMaker =item DESCRIPTION -canonpath, cflags, manifypods, perl_archive +=item CONSTRUCTOR -=back +new ( [READER, WRITER] ) -=head2 ExtUtils::MM_OS2 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in -ExtUtils::MakeMaker +=item METHODS -=over 4 +reader ([ARGS]), writer ([ARGS]), handles () -=item SYNOPSIS +=item SEE ALSO -=item DESCRIPTION +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT =back -=head2 ExtUtils::MM_Unix - methods used by ExtUtils::MakeMaker +=head2 IO::lib::IO::Poll, IO::Poll - Object interface to system poll call =over 4 @@ -8974,204 +12963,217 @@ ExtUtils::MakeMaker =item METHODS -=over 4 +mask ( IO [, EVENT_MASK ] ), poll ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), events ( IO ), remove ( +IO ), handles( [ EVENT_MASK ] ) -=item Preloaded methods +=item SEE ALSO -canonpath +=item AUTHOR -=back +=item COPYRIGHT =back -catdir - -catfile +=head2 IO::lib::IO::Seekable, IO::Seekable - supply seek based methods for +I/O objects -curdir +=over 4 -rootdir +=item SYNOPSIS -updir +=item DESCRIPTION -=over 4 +$io->getpos, $io->setpos, $io->seek ( POS, WHENCE ), WHENCE=0 (SEEK_SET), +WHENCE=1 (SEEK_CUR), WHENCE=2 (SEEK_END), $io->sysseek( POS, WHENCE ), +$io->tell -=item SelfLoaded methods +=item SEE ALSO -c_o (o) +=item HISTORY =back -cflags (o) - -clean (o) - -const_cccmd (o) +=head2 IO::lib::IO::Select, IO::Select - OO interface to the select system +call -const_config (o) +=over 4 -const_loadlibs (o) +=item SYNOPSIS -constants (o) +=item DESCRIPTION -depend (o) +=item CONSTRUCTOR -dir_target (o) +new ( [ HANDLES ] ) -dist (o) +=item METHODS -dist_basics (o) +add ( HANDLES ), remove ( HANDLES ), exists ( HANDLE ), handles, can_read ( +[ TIMEOUT ] ), can_write ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), has_exception ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), +count (), bits(), select ( READ, WRITE, ERROR [, TIMEOUT ] ) -dist_ci (o) +=item EXAMPLE -dist_core (o) +=item AUTHOR -dist_dir (o) +=item COPYRIGHT -dist_test (o) +=back -dlsyms (o) +=head2 IO::lib::IO::Socket, IO::Socket - Object interface to socket +communications -dynamic (o) +=over 4 -dynamic_bs (o) +=item SYNOPSIS -dynamic_lib (o) +=item DESCRIPTION -exescan +=item CONSTRUCTOR -extliblist +new ( [ARGS] ) -file_name_is_absolute +=item METHODS -find_perl +accept([PKG]), socketpair(DOMAIN, TYPE, PROTOCOL), atmark, connected, +protocol, sockdomain, sockopt(OPT [, VAL]), socktype, timeout([VAL]) -=over 4 +=item SEE ALSO -=item Methods to actually produce chunks of text for the Makefile +=item AUTHOR -fixin +=item COPYRIGHT =back -force (o) - -guess_name +=head2 IO::lib::IO::Socket::INET, IO::Socket::INET - Object interface for +AF_INET domain sockets -has_link_code +=over 4 -htmlifypods (o) +=item SYNOPSIS -init_dirscan +=item DESCRIPTION -init_main +=item CONSTRUCTOR -init_others +new ( [ARGS] ) -install (o) +=over 4 -installbin (o) +=item METHODS -libscan (o) +sockaddr (), sockport (), sockhost (), peeraddr (), peerport (), peerhost +() -linkext (o) +=back -lsdir +=item SEE ALSO -macro (o) +=item AUTHOR -makeaperl (o) +=item COPYRIGHT -makefile (o) +=back -manifypods (o) +=head2 IO::lib::IO::Socket::UNIX, IO::Socket::UNIX - Object interface for +AF_UNIX domain sockets -maybe_command +=over 4 -maybe_command_in_dirs +=item SYNOPSIS -needs_linking (o) +=item DESCRIPTION -nicetext +=item CONSTRUCTOR -parse_version +new ( [ARGS] ) -parse_abstract +=item METHODS -pasthru (o) +hostpath(), peerpath() -path +=item SEE ALSO -perl_script +=item AUTHOR -perldepend (o) +=item COPYRIGHT -ppd +=back -perm_rw (o) +=head2 IPC::Msg - SysV Msg IPC object class -perm_rwx (o) +=over 4 -pm_to_blib +=item SYNOPSIS -post_constants (o) +=item DESCRIPTION -post_initialize (o) +=item METHODS -postamble (o) +new ( KEY , FLAGS ), id, rcv ( BUF, LEN [, TYPE [, FLAGS ]] ), remove, set +( STAT ), set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), snd ( TYPE, MSG [, +FLAGS ] ), stat -prefixify +=item SEE ALSO -processPL (o) +=item AUTHOR -realclean (o) +=item COPYRIGHT -replace_manpage_separator +=back -static (o) +=head2 IPC::Open2, open2 - open a process for both reading and writing -static_lib (o) +=over 4 -staticmake (o) +=item SYNOPSIS -subdir_x (o) +=item DESCRIPTION -subdirs (o) +=item WARNING -test (o) +=item SEE ALSO -test_via_harness (o) +=back -test_via_script (o) +=head2 IPC::Open3, open3 - open a process for reading, writing, and error +handling -tool_autosplit (o) +=over 4 -tools_other (o) +=item SYNOPSIS -tool_xsubpp (o) +=item DESCRIPTION -top_targets (o) +=item WARNING -writedoc +=back -xs_c (o) +=head2 IPC::Semaphore - SysV Semaphore IPC object class -xs_cpp (o) +=over 4 -xs_o (o) +=item SYNOPSIS -perl_archive +=item DESCRIPTION -export_list +=item METHODS -=over 4 +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 ExtUtils::MM_VMS - methods to override UN*X behaviour in -ExtUtils::MakeMaker +=head2 IPC::SysV - SysV IPC constants =over 4 @@ -9179,274 +13181,293 @@ ExtUtils::MakeMaker =item DESCRIPTION -=over 4 +ftok( PATH, ID ) -=item Methods always loaded +=item SEE ALSO -wraplist +=item AUTHORS -=back +=item COPYRIGHT =back -rootdir (override) +=head2 IPC::SysV::Msg, IPC::Msg - SysV Msg IPC object class =over 4 -=item SelfLoaded methods +=item SYNOPSIS -guess_name (override) +=item DESCRIPTION -=back +=item METHODS -find_perl (override) +new ( KEY , FLAGS ), id, rcv ( BUF, LEN [, TYPE [, FLAGS ]] ), remove, set +( STAT ), set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), snd ( TYPE, MSG [, +FLAGS ] ), stat -path (override) +=item SEE ALSO -maybe_command (override) +=item AUTHOR -maybe_command_in_dirs (override) +=item COPYRIGHT -perl_script (override) +=back -file_name_is_absolute (override) +=head2 IPC::SysV::Semaphore, IPC::Semaphore - SysV Semaphore IPC object +class -replace_manpage_separator +=over 4 -init_others (override) +=item SYNOPSIS -constants (override) +=item DESCRIPTION -cflags (override) +=item METHODS -const_cccmd (override) +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 -pm_to_blib (override) +=item SEE ALSO -tool_autosplit (override) +=item AUTHOR -tool_sxubpp (override) +=item COPYRIGHT -xsubpp_version (override) +=back -tools_other (override) +=head2 List::Util - A selection of general-utility list subroutines -dist (override) +=over 4 -c_o (override) +=item SYNOPSIS -xs_c (override) +=item DESCRIPTION -xs_o (override) +first BLOCK LIST, max LIST, maxstr LIST, min LIST, minstr LIST, reduce +BLOCK LIST, shuffle LIST, sum LIST -top_targets (override) +=item SUGGESTED ADDITIONS -dlsyms (override) +=item COPYRIGHT -dynamic_lib (override) +=back -dynamic_bs (override) +=head2 List::Utilib::List::Util, List::Util - A selection of +general-utility list subroutines -static_lib (override) +=over 4 -manifypods (override) +=item SYNOPSIS -processPL (override) +=item DESCRIPTION -installbin (override) +first BLOCK LIST, max LIST, maxstr LIST, min LIST, minstr LIST, reduce +BLOCK LIST, shuffle LIST, sum LIST -subdir_x (override) +=item SUGGESTED ADDITIONS -clean (override) +=item COPYRIGHT -realclean (override) +=back -dist_basics (override) +=head2 List::Utilib::Scalar::Util, Scalar::Util - A selection of +general-utility scalar subroutines -dist_core (override) +=over 4 -dist_dir (override) +=item SYNOPSIS -dist_test (override) +=item DESCRIPTION -install (override) +blessed EXPR, dualvar NUM, STRING, isweak EXPR, readonly SCALAR, reftype +EXPR, tainted EXPR, weaken REF -perldepend (override) +=item COPYRIGHT -makefile (override) +=item BLATANT PLUG -test (override) +=back -test_via_harness (override) +=head2 Locale::Constants - constants for Locale codes -test_via_script (override) +=over 4 -makeaperl (override) +=item SYNOPSIS -nicetext (override) +=item DESCRIPTION -=head2 ExtUtils::MM_Win32 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in -ExtUtils::MakeMaker +=item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS -=over 4 +=item SEE ALSO -=item SYNOPSIS +Locale::Language, Locale::Country, Locale::Currency -=item DESCRIPTION +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT =back -catfile +=head2 Locale::Country - ISO codes for country identification (ISO 3166) -constants (o) +=over 4 -static_lib (o) +=item SYNOPSIS -dynamic_bs (o) +=back -dynamic_lib (o) +=over 4 -canonpath +=item DESCRIPTION -perl_script +B, B, B -pm_to_blib +=back -test_via_harness (o) +=over 4 -tool_autosplit (override) +=item CONVERSION ROUTINES -tools_other (o) +code2country( CODE, [ CODESET ] ), country2code( STRING, [ CODESET ] ), +country_code2code( CODE, CODESET, CODESET ) -xs_o (o) +=back -top_targets (o) +=over 4 -htmlifypods (o) +=item QUERY ROUTINES -manifypods (o) +C, C -dist_ci (o) +=back -dist_core (o) +=over 4 -pasthru (o) +=item CODE ALIASING -=head2 ExtUtils::MakeMaker - create an extension Makefile +=back =over 4 -=item SYNOPSIS +=item EXAMPLES -=item DESCRIPTION +=item DOMAIN NAMES -=over 4 +=item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS -=item How To Write A Makefile.PL +=item SEE ALSO -=item Default Makefile Behaviour +Locale::Language, Locale::Currency, ISO 3166, +http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nabd/iso3166ma/, +http://www.egt.ie/standards/iso3166/iso3166-1-en.html, +http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/docs/app-f.html -=item make test +=item AUTHOR -=item make testdb +=item COPYRIGHT -=item make install +=back -=item PREFIX and LIB attribute +=head2 Locale::Currency - ISO three letter codes for currency +identification (ISO 4217) -=item AFS users +=over 4 -=item Static Linking of a new Perl Binary +=item SYNOPSIS -=item Determination of Perl Library and Installation Locations +=back -=item Which architecture dependent directory? +=over 4 -=item Using Attributes and Parameters +=item DESCRIPTION -ABSTRACT, ABSTRACT_FROM, AUTHOR, 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_HTMLLIBDIR, INST_HTMLSCRIPTDIR, INST_LIB, INST_MAN1DIR, -INST_MAN3DIR, INST_SCRIPT, LDFROM, LIB, LIBPERL_A, LIBS, LINKTYPE, -MAKEAPERL, MAKEFILE, MAN1PODS, MAN3PODS, MAP_TARGET, MYEXTLIB, NAME, -NEEDS_LINKING, NOECHO, NORECURS, NO_VC, OBJECT, OPTIMIZE, PERL, PERLMAINCC, -PERL_ARCHLIB, PERL_LIB, PERL_MALLOC_OK, 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 +XTS, XXX -=item Additional lowercase attributes +=back -clean, depend, dist, dynamic_lib, linkext, macro, realclean, test, -tool_autosplit +=over 4 -=item Overriding MakeMaker Methods +=item CONVERSION ROUTINES -=item Hintsfile support +code2currency(), currency2code() + +=back -=item Distribution Support +=over 4 - make distcheck, make skipcheck, make distclean, make manifest, - make distdir, make tardist, make dist, make uutardist, make -shdist, make zipdist, make ci +=item QUERY ROUTINES -=item Disabling an extension +C, C =back -=item ENVIRONMENT +=over 4 -PERL_MM_OPT +=item EXAMPLES + +=item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS =item SEE ALSO -=item AUTHORS +Locale::Country, ISO 4217:1995, http://www.bsi-global.com/iso4217currency + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT =back -=head2 ExtUtils::Manifest - utilities to write and check a MANIFEST file +=head2 Locale::Language - ISO two letter codes for language identification +(ISO 639) =over 4 =item SYNOPSIS +=back + +=over 4 + =item DESCRIPTION -=item MANIFEST.SKIP +=back -=item EXPORT_OK +=over 4 -=item GLOBAL VARIABLES +=item CONVERSION ROUTINES -=item DIAGNOSTICS +code2language(), language2code() -C I, C I, C I<$!>, -C I +=back -=item SEE ALSO +=over 4 -=item AUTHOR +=item QUERY ROUTINES -=back +C, C -=head2 ExtUtils::Miniperl, writemain - write the C code for perlmain.c +=back =over 4 -=item SYNOPSIS +=item EXAMPLES -=item DESCRIPTION +=item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS =item SEE ALSO +Locale::Country, Locale::Currency, ISO 639:1988 (E/F), +http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/langhome.html + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + =back -=head2 ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap - make a bootstrap file for use by DynaLoader +=head2 Locale::Maketext -- framework for localization =over 4 @@ -9454,46 +13475,50 @@ C I =item DESCRIPTION -=back +=item QUICK OVERVIEW -=head2 ExtUtils::Mksymlists - write linker options files for dynamic -extension +=item METHODS =over 4 -=item SYNOPSIS +=item Construction Methods -=item DESCRIPTION +=item The "maketext" Method -DLBASE, DL_FUNCS, DL_VARS, FILE, FUNCLIST, IMPORTS, NAME +$lh->fail_with I $lh->fail_with(I), $lh->failure_handler_auto -=item AUTHOR +=item Utility Methods -=item REVISION +$language->quant($number, $singular), $language->quant($number, $singular, +$plural), $language->quant($number, $singular, $plural, $negative), +$language->numf($number), $language->sprintf($format, @items), +$language->language_tag(), $language->encoding() + +=item Language Handle Attributes and Internals =back -=head2 ExtUtils::Packlist - manage .packlist files +=item LANGUAGE CLASS HIERARCHIES -=over 4 +=item ENTRIES IN EACH LEXICON -=item SYNOPSIS +=item BRACKET NOTATION -=item DESCRIPTION +=item AUTO LEXICONS -=item USAGE +=item CONTROLLING LOOKUP FAILURE -=item FUNCTIONS +=item HOW TO USE MAKETEXT -new(), read(), write(), validate(), packlist_file() +=item SEE ALSO -=item EXAMPLE +=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER =item AUTHOR =back -=head2 ExtUtils::testlib - add blib/* directories to @INC +=head2 Locale::Maketext::TPJ13 -- article about software localization =over 4 @@ -9501,35 +13526,37 @@ new(), read(), write(), validate(), packlist_file() =item DESCRIPTION -=back - -=head2 Fatal - replace functions with equivalents which succeed or die +=item Localization and Perl: gettext breaks, Maketext fixes =over 4 -=item SYNOPSIS +=item A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen To You -=item DESCRIPTION +=item The Linguistic View -=item AUTHOR +=item Breaking gettext -=back +=item Replacing gettext -=head2 Fcntl - load the C Fcntl.h defines +=item Buzzwords: Abstraction and Encapsulation -=over 4 +=item Buzzword: Isomorphism -=item SYNOPSIS +=item Buzzword: Inheritance -=item DESCRIPTION +=item Buzzword: Concision -=item NOTE +=item The Devil in the Details -=item EXPORTED SYMBOLS +=item The Proof in the Pudding: Localizing Web Sites + +=item References =back -=head2 File::Basename, fileparse - split a pathname into pieces +=back + +=head2 MIME::Base64 - Encoding and decoding of base64 strings =over 4 @@ -9537,15 +13564,20 @@ new(), read(), write(), validate(), packlist_file() =item DESCRIPTION -fileparse_set_fstype, fileparse +encode_base64($str, [$eol]), decode_base64($str) + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + +Premature end of base64 data, Premature padding of base64 data =item EXAMPLES -C, C +=item COPYRIGHT =back -=head2 File::CheckTree, validate - run many filetest checks on a tree +=head2 MIME::Base64::QuotedPrint, MIME::QuotedPrint - Encoding and decoding +of quoted-printable strings =over 4 @@ -9553,9 +13585,14 @@ C, C =item DESCRIPTION +encode_qp($str), decode_qp($str); + +=item COPYRIGHT + =back -=head2 File::Compare - Compare files or filehandles +=head2 MIME::QuotedPrint - Encoding and decoding of quoted-printable +strings =over 4 @@ -9563,13 +13600,13 @@ C, C =item DESCRIPTION -=item RETURN +encode_qp($str), decode_qp($str); -=item AUTHOR +=item COPYRIGHT =back -=head2 File::Copy - Copy files or filehandles +=head2 Math::BigFloat - Arbitrary size floating point math package =over 4 @@ -9579,39 +13616,40 @@ C, C =over 4 -=item Special behaviour if C is defined (OS/2, VMS and Win32) - -rmscopy($from,$to[,$date_flag]) +=item Canonical notation -=back +=item Output -=item RETURN +=item C, C and C -=item AUTHOR +=item Accuracy vs. Precision -=back +=item Rounding -=head2 File::DosGlob - DOS like globbing and then some +ffround ( +$scale ), ffround ( -$scale ), ffround ( 0 ), fround ( +$scale +), fround ( -$scale ) and fround ( 0 ) -=over 4 +=back -=item SYNOPSIS +=item EXAMPLES -=item DESCRIPTION + # not ready yet -=item EXPORTS (by request only) +=item Autocreating constants =item BUGS -=item AUTHOR +=item CAVEAT -=item HISTORY +stringify, bstr(), bdiv, Modifying and =, bpow -=item SEE ALSO +=item LICENSE + +=item AUTHORS =back -=head2 File::Find, find - traverse a file tree +=head2 Math::BigInt - Arbitrary size integer math package =over 4 @@ -9619,80 +13657,72 @@ rmscopy($from,$to[,$date_flag]) =item DESCRIPTION -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, -C, C - -=item CAVEAT - -=back +Canonical notation, Input, Output -=head2 File::Glob - Perl extension for BSD glob routine +=item ACCURACY and PRECISION =over 4 -=item SYNOPSIS - -=item DESCRIPTION - -C, C, C, C, C, -C, C, C, C, C +=item Precision P -=item DIAGNOSTICS +=item Accuracy A -C, C +=item Fallback F -=item NOTES +=item Rounding mode R -=item AUTHOR +'trunc', 'even', 'odd', '+inf', '-inf', 'zero', Precision, Accuracy +(significant digits), Setting/Accessing, Creating numbers, Usage, +Precedence, Overriding globals, Local settings, Rounding, Default values, +Remarks =back -=head2 File::Path - create or remove directory trees +=item INTERNALS =over 4 -=item SYNOPSIS +=item MATH LIBRARY -=item DESCRIPTION +=item SIGN -=item AUTHORS +=item mantissa(), exponent() and parts() =back -=head2 File::Spec - portably perform operations on file names +=item EXAMPLES -=over 4 + use Math::BigInt; -=item SYNOPSIS +=item Autocreating constants -=item DESCRIPTION +=item PERFORMANCE -=item SEE ALSO +=over 4 -=item AUTHORS +=item Alternative math libraries =back -=head2 File::Spec::Functions - portably perform operations on file names - -=over 4 - -=item SYNOPSIS +=item BUGS -=item DESCRIPTION +Out of Memory!, Fails to load Calc on Perl prior 5.6.0 -=over 4 +=item CAVEATS -=item Exports +stringify, bstr(), bsstr() and 'cmp', int(), length, bdiv, infinity +handling, Modifying and =, bpow, Overloading -$x, Mixing different object +types, bsqrt() -=back +=item LICENSE =item SEE ALSO +=item AUTHORS + =back -=head2 File::Spec::Mac - File::Spec for MacOS +=head2 Math::BigInt::Calc - Pure Perl module to support Math::BigInt =over 4 @@ -9700,57 +13730,56 @@ C, C =item DESCRIPTION -=item METHODS - -canonpath - -=back - -catdir +=item EXPORT -catfile +=item WRAP YOUR OWN -curdir +=item LICENSE -devnull +This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it +under +the same terms as Perl itself. -rootdir +=item AUTHORS -tmpdir +=item SEE ALSO -updir +=back -file_name_is_absolute +=head2 Math::Complex - complex numbers and associated mathematical +functions -path +=over 4 -splitpath +=item SYNOPSIS -splitdir +=item DESCRIPTION -catpath +=item OPERATIONS -abs2rel +=item CREATION -rel2abs +=item STRINGIFICATION =over 4 -=item SEE ALSO +=item CHANGED IN PERL 5.6 =back -=head2 File::Spec::OS2 - methods for OS/2 file specs +=item USAGE -=over 4 +=item ERRORS DUE TO DIVISION BY ZERO OR LOGARITHM OF ZERO -=item SYNOPSIS +=item ERRORS DUE TO INDIGESTIBLE ARGUMENTS -=item DESCRIPTION +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHORS =back -=head2 File::Spec::Unix - methods used by File::Spec +=head2 Math::Trig - trigonometric functions =over 4 @@ -9758,53 +13787,50 @@ rel2abs =item DESCRIPTION -=item METHODS - -canonpath - -=back +=item TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS -catdir +B -catfile +=over 4 -curdir +=item ERRORS DUE TO DIVISION BY ZERO -devnull +=item SIMPLE (REAL) ARGUMENTS, COMPLEX RESULTS -rootdir +=back -tmpdir +=item PLANE ANGLE CONVERSIONS -updir +=item RADIAL COORDINATE CONVERSIONS -no_upwards +=over 4 -case_tolerant +=item COORDINATE SYSTEMS -file_name_is_absolute +=item 3-D ANGLE CONVERSIONS -path +cartesian_to_cylindrical, cartesian_to_spherical, cylindrical_to_cartesian, +cylindrical_to_spherical, spherical_to_cartesian, spherical_to_cylindrical -join +=back -splitpath +=item GREAT CIRCLE DISTANCES AND DIRECTIONS -splitdir +=item EXAMPLES -catpath +=over 4 -abs2rel +=item CAVEAT FOR GREAT CIRCLE FORMULAS -rel2abs +=back -=over 4 +=item BUGS -=item SEE ALSO +=item AUTHORS =back -=head2 File::Spec::VMS - methods for VMS file specs +=head2 Memoize - Make your functions faster by trading space for time =over 4 @@ -9812,57 +13838,61 @@ rel2abs =item DESCRIPTION -eliminate_macros - -=back +=item DETAILS -fixpath +=item OPTIONS =over 4 -=item Methods always loaded +=item INSTALL -canonpath (override) +=item NORMALIZER + +=item C, C + +C, C, C, C, C =back -catdir +=item OTHER FACILITIES -catfile +=over 4 -curdir (override) +=item C -devnull (override) +=item C -rootdir (override) +=back -tmpdir (override) +=item CAVEATS -updir (override) +=item PERSISTENT CACHE SUPPORT -case_tolerant (override) +=item EXPIRATION SUPPORT -path (override) +=item BUGS -file_name_is_absolute (override) +=item MAILING LIST -splitpath (override) +=item AUTHOR -splitdir (override) +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE -catpath (override) +=item THANK YOU -abs2rel (override) +=back -rel2abs (override) +=head2 Memoize::AnyDBM_File - glue to provide EXISTS for AnyDBM_File for +Storable use =over 4 -=item SEE ALSO +=item DESCRIPTION =back -=head2 File::Spec::Win32 - methods for Win32 file specs +=head2 Memoize::Expire - Plug-in module for automatic expiration of +memoized values =over 4 @@ -9870,113 +13900,102 @@ rel2abs (override) =item DESCRIPTION -devnull +=item INTERFACE -=back + TIEHASH, EXISTS, STORE -tmpdir +=item ALTERNATIVES -catfile +=item CAVEATS -canonpath +=item AUTHOR -splitpath +=item SEE ALSO -splitdir +=back -catpath +=head2 Memoize::ExpireFile - test for Memoize expiration semantics =over 4 -=item SEE ALSO +=item DESCRIPTION =back -=head2 File::Temp - return name and handle of a temporary file safely +=head2 Memoize::ExpireTest - test for Memoize expiration semantics =over 4 -=item PORTABILITY - -=item SYNOPSIS - =item DESCRIPTION =back -=over 4 +=head2 Memoize::NDBM_File - glue to provide EXISTS for NDBM_File for +Storable use -=item FUNCTIONS +=over 4 -B +=item DESCRIPTION =back -B +=head2 Memoize::SDBM_File - glue to provide EXISTS for SDBM_File for +Storable use =over 4 -=item MKTEMP FUNCTIONS - -B +=item DESCRIPTION =back -B - -B - -B +=head2 Memoize::Saves - Plug-in module to specify which return values +should be memoized =over 4 -=item POSIX FUNCTIONS - -B - -=back +=item SYNOPSIS -B +=item DESCRIPTION -=over 4 +=item CAVEATS -=item ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS +=item AUTHOR -B +=item SEE ALSO =back -=over 4 +=head2 Memoize::Storable - store Memoized data in Storable database -=item UTILITY FUNCTIONS +=over 4 -B +=item DESCRIPTION =back +=head2 NDBM_File - Tied access to ndbm files + =over 4 -=item PACKAGE VARIABLES +=item SYNOPSIS -B, STANDARD, MEDIUM, HIGH +=item DESCRIPTION -=back +C, C, C -TopSystemUID +=item DIAGNOSTICS =over 4 -=item WARNING - -=item HISTORY +=item C -=item SEE ALSO +=back -=item AUTHOR +=item BUGS AND WARNINGS =back -=head2 File::stat - by-name interface to Perl's built-in stat() functions +=head2 NEXT - Provide a pseudo-class NEXT that allows method redispatch =over 4 @@ -9984,13 +14003,23 @@ TopSystemUID =item DESCRIPTION -=item NOTE +=over 4 + +=item Enforcing redispatch + +=item Avoiding repetitions + +=back =item AUTHOR +=item BUGS AND IRRITATIONS + +=item COPYRIGHT + =back -=head2 FileCache - keep more files open than the system permits +=head2 Net::Cmd - Network Command class (as used by FTP, SMTP etc) =over 4 @@ -9998,43 +14027,47 @@ TopSystemUID =item DESCRIPTION -=item BUGS - -=back +=item USER METHODS -=head2 FileHandle - supply object methods for filehandles +debug ( VALUE ), message (), code (), ok (), status (), datasend ( DATA ), +dataend () -=over 4 +=item CLASS METHODS -=item SYNOPSIS +debug_print ( DIR, TEXT ), debug_text ( TEXT ), command ( CMD [, ARGS, ... +]), unsupported (), response (), parse_response ( TEXT ), getline (), +ungetline ( TEXT ), read_until_dot () -=item DESCRIPTION +=item EXPORTS -$fh->print, $fh->printf, $fh->getline, $fh->getlines +=item AUTHOR -=item SEE ALSO +=item COPYRIGHT =back -=head2 FindBin - Locate directory of original perl script +=head2 Net::Config - Local configuration data for libnet =over 4 -=item SYNOPSIS +=item SYNOPSYS =item DESCRIPTION -=item EXPORTABLE VARIABLES +=item METHODS -=item KNOWN BUGS +requires_firewall HOST -=item AUTHORS +=item NetConfig VALUES -=item COPYRIGHT +nntp_hosts, snpp_hosts, pop3_hosts, smtp_hosts, ph_hosts, daytime_hosts, +time_hosts, inet_domain, ftp_firewall, ftp_firewall_type, ftp_ext_passive, +ftp_int_pasive, local_netmask, test_hosts, test_exists =back -=head2 GDBM_File - Perl5 access to the gdbm library. +=head2 Net::Domain - Attempt to evaluate the current host's internet name +and domain =over 4 @@ -10042,15 +14075,15 @@ $fh->print, $fh->printf, $fh->getline, $fh->getlines =item DESCRIPTION -=item AVAILABILITY +hostfqdn (), hostname (), hostdomain () -=item BUGS +=item AUTHOR -=item SEE ALSO +=item COPYRIGHT =back -=head2 Getopt::Long - Extended processing of command line options +=head2 Net::FTP - FTP Client class =over 4 @@ -10058,95 +14091,109 @@ $fh->print, $fh->printf, $fh->getline, $fh->getlines =item DESCRIPTION -=item Command Line Options, an Introduction +=item OVERVIEW -=item Getting Started with Getopt::Long +=item CONSTRUCTOR -=over 4 +new (HOST [,OPTIONS]) -=item Simple options +=item METHODS -=item A little bit less simple options +login ([LOGIN [,PASSWORD [, ACCOUNT] ] ]), authorize ( [AUTH [, RESP]]), +site (ARGS), type (TYPE [, ARGS]), ascii ([ARGS]) binary([ARGS]) +ebcdic([ARGS]) byte([ARGS]), rename ( OLDNAME, NEWNAME ), delete ( FILENAME +), cwd ( [ DIR ] ), cdup (), pwd (), restart ( WHERE ), rmdir ( DIR ), +mkdir ( DIR [, RECURSE ]), ls ( [ DIR ] ), dir ( [ DIR ] ), get ( +REMOTE_FILE [, LOCAL_FILE [, WHERE]] ), put ( LOCAL_FILE [, REMOTE_FILE ] +), put_unique ( LOCAL_FILE [, REMOTE_FILE ] ), append ( LOCAL_FILE [, +REMOTE_FILE ] ), unique_name (), mdtm ( FILE ), size ( FILE ), supported ( +CMD ), hash ( [FILEHANDLE_GLOB_REF],[ BYTES_PER_HASH_MARK] ), nlst ( [ DIR +] ), list ( [ DIR ] ), retr ( FILE ), stor ( FILE ), stou ( FILE ), appe ( +FILE ), port ( [ PORT ] ), pasv (), pasv_xfer ( SRC_FILE, DEST_SERVER [, +DEST_FILE ] ), pasv_xfer_unique ( SRC_FILE, DEST_SERVER [, DEST_FILE ] ), +pasv_wait ( NON_PASV_SERVER ), abort (), quit () -=item Mixing command line option with other arguments +=over 4 -=item Options with values +=item Methods for the adventurous -=item Options with multiple values +quot (CMD [,ARGS]) -=item Options with hash values +=back -=item User-defined subroutines to handle options +=item THE dataconn CLASS -=item Options with multiple names +read ( BUFFER, SIZE [, TIMEOUT ] ), write ( BUFFER, SIZE [, TIMEOUT ] ), +bytes_read (), abort (), close () -=item Case and abbreviations +=item UNIMPLEMENTED -=item Summary of Option Specifications +B, B, B, B, B, B, B, B -!, +, s, i, f, : I [ I ] +=item REPORTING BUGS -=back +=item AUTHOR -=item Advanced Possibilities +=item SEE ALSO -=over 4 +=item USE EXAMPLES -=item Object oriented interface +http://www.csh.rit.edu/~adam/Progs/autoftp-2.0.tar.gz -=item Documentation and help texts +=item CREDITS -=item Storing options in a hash +=item COPYRIGHT -=item Bundling +=back -=item The lonesome dash +=head2 Net::NNTP - NNTP Client class -=item Argument call-back +=over 4 -=back +=item SYNOPSIS -=item Configuring Getopt::Long +=item DESCRIPTION -default, posix_default, auto_abbrev, getopt_compat, gnu_compat, gnu_getopt, -require_order, permute, bundling (default: disabled), bundling_override -(default: disabled), ignore_case (default: enabled), ignore_case_always -(default: disabled), pass_through (default: disabled), prefix, -prefix_pattern, debug (default: disabled) +=item CONSTRUCTOR -=item Return values and Errors +new ( [ HOST ] [, OPTIONS ]) -=item Legacy +=item METHODS -=over 4 +article ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ], [FH] ), body ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ], [FH] ), head ( +[ MSGID|MSGNUM ], [FH] ), nntpstat ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ] ), group ( [ GROUP ] +), ihave ( MSGID [, MESSAGE ]), last (), date (), postok (), authinfo ( +USER, PASS ), list (), newgroups ( SINCE [, DISTRIBUTIONS ]), newnews ( +SINCE [, GROUPS [, DISTRIBUTIONS ]]), next (), post ( [ MESSAGE ] ), slave +(), quit () -=item Default destinations +=over 4 -=item Alternative option starters +=item Extension methods -=item Configuration variables +newsgroups ( [ PATTERN ] ), distributions (), subscriptions (), +overview_fmt (), active_times (), active ( [ PATTERN ] ), xgtitle ( PATTERN +), xhdr ( HEADER, MESSAGE-SPEC ), xover ( MESSAGE-SPEC ), xpath ( +MESSAGE-ID ), xpat ( HEADER, PATTERN, MESSAGE-SPEC), xrover, listgroup ( [ +GROUP ] ), reader =back -=item Trouble Shooting - -=over 4 +=item UNSUPPORTED -=item Warning: Ignoring '!' modifier for short option +=item DEFINITIONS -=item GetOptions does not return a false result when an option is not -supplied +MESSAGE-SPEC, PATTERN, Examples, C<[^]-]>, C<*bdc>, C<[0-9a-zA-Z]>, C -=back +=item SEE ALSO =item AUTHOR -=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER +=item COPYRIGHT =back -=head2 Getopt::Std, getopt - Process single-character switches with switch -clustering +=head2 Net::POP3 - Post Office Protocol 3 Client class (RFC1081) =over 4 @@ -10154,10 +14201,30 @@ clustering =item DESCRIPTION +=item EXAMPLES + +=item CONSTRUCTOR + +new ( [ HOST, ] [ OPTIONS ] ) + +=item METHODS + +user ( USER ), pass ( PASS ), login ( [ USER [, PASS ]] ), apop ( USER, +PASS ), top ( MSGNUM [, NUMLINES ] ), list ( [ MSGNUM ] ), get ( MSGNUM [, +FH ] ), last (), popstat (), ping ( USER ), uidl ( [ MSGNUM ] ), delete ( +MSGNUM ), reset (), quit () + +=item NOTES + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + =back -=head2 I18N::Collate - compare 8-bit scalar data according to the current -locale +=head2 Net::Ping - check a remote host for reachability =over 4 @@ -10165,19 +14232,27 @@ locale =item DESCRIPTION +=over 4 + +=item Functions + +Net::Ping->new([$proto [, $def_timeout [, $bytes]]]);, $p->ping($host [, +$timeout]);, $p->open($host);, $p->open($host);, $p->close();, +pingecho($host [, $timeout]); + =back -=head2 IO - load various IO modules +=item WARNING -=over 4 +=item NOTES -=item SYNOPSIS +=item AUTHOR(S) -=item DESCRIPTION +=item COPYRIGHT =back -=head2 IO::Dir - supply object methods for directory handles +=head2 Net::SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Client =over 4 @@ -10185,8 +14260,21 @@ locale =item DESCRIPTION -new ( [ DIRNAME ] ), open ( DIRNAME ), read (), seek ( POS ), tell (), -rewind (), close (), tie %hash, IO::Dir, DIRNAME [, OPTIONS ] +=item EXAMPLES + +=item CONSTRUCTOR + +new Net::SMTP [ HOST, ] [ OPTIONS ] + +=item METHODS + +banner (), domain (), hello ( DOMAIN ), etrn ( DOMAIN ), auth ( USERNAME, +PASSWORD ), mail ( ADDRESS [, OPTIONS] ), send ( ADDRESS ), send_or_mail ( +ADDRESS ), send_and_mail ( ADDRESS ), reset (), recipient ( ADDRESS [, +ADDRESS [ ...]] [, OPTIONS ] ), to ( ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] ), cc ( +ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] ), bcc ( ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] ), data ( [ +DATA ] ), expand ( ADDRESS ), verify ( ADDRESS ), help ( [ $subject ] ), +quit () =item SEE ALSO @@ -10196,7 +14284,7 @@ rewind (), close (), tie %hash, IO::Dir, DIRNAME [, OPTIONS ] =back -=head2 IO::File - supply object methods for filehandles +=head2 Net::Time - time and daytime network client interface =over 4 @@ -10204,21 +14292,17 @@ rewind (), close (), tie %hash, IO::Dir, DIRNAME [, OPTIONS ] =item DESCRIPTION -=item CONSTRUCTOR - -new ( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ), new_tmpfile - -=item METHODS - -open( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ) +inet_time ( [HOST [, PROTOCOL [, TIMEOUT]]]), inet_daytime ( [HOST [, +PROTOCOL [, TIMEOUT]]]) -=item SEE ALSO +=item AUTHOR -=item HISTORY +=item COPYRIGHT =back -=head2 IO::Handle - supply object methods for I/O handles +=head2 Net::hostent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in gethost*() +functions =over 4 @@ -10226,113 +14310,117 @@ open( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ) =item DESCRIPTION -=item CONSTRUCTOR +=item EXAMPLES -new (), new_from_fd ( FD, MODE ) +=item NOTE -=item METHODS +=item AUTHOR -$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 +=back -=item NOTE +=head2 Net::libnetFAQ, libnetFAQ - libnet Frequently Asked Questions -=item SEE ALSO +=over 4 -=item BUGS +=item DESCRIPTION -=item HISTORY +=over 4 + +=item Where to get this document + +=item How to contribute to this document =back -=head2 IO::Pipe - supply object methods for pipes +=item Author and Copyright Information =over 4 -=item SYNOPSIS +=item Disclaimer -=item DESCRIPTION +=back -=item CONSTRUCTOR +=item Obtaining and installing libnet -new ( [READER, WRITER] ) +=over 4 -=item METHODS +=item What is libnet ? -reader ([ARGS]), writer ([ARGS]), handles () +=item Which version of perl do I need ? -=item SEE ALSO +=item What other modules do I need ? -=item AUTHOR +=item What machines support libnet ? -=item COPYRIGHT +=item Where can I get the latest libnet release =back -=head2 IO::Poll - Object interface to system poll call +=item Using Net::FTP =over 4 -=item SYNOPSIS +=item How do I download files from an FTP server ? -=item DESCRIPTION +=item How do I transfer files in binary mode ? -=item METHODS +=item How can I get the size of a file on a remote FTP server ? -mask ( IO [, EVENT_MASK ] ), poll ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), events ( IO ), remove ( -IO ), handles( [ EVENT_MASK ] ) +=item How can I get the modification time of a file on a remote FTP server +? -=item SEE ALSO +=item How can I change the permissions of a file on a remote server ? -=item AUTHOR +=item Can I do a reget operation like the ftp command ? -=item COPYRIGHT +=item How do I get a directory listing from an FTP server ? -=back +=item Changing directory to "" does not fail ? -=head2 IO::Seekable - supply seek based methods for I/O objects +=item I am behind a SOCKS firewall, but the Firewall option does not work ? -=over 4 +=item I am behind an FTP proxy firewall, but cannot access machines outside +? -=item SYNOPSIS +=item My ftp proxy firewall does not listen on port 21 -=item DESCRIPTION +=item Is it possible to change the file permissions of a file on an FTP +server ? -=item SEE ALSO +=item I have seen scripts call a method message, but cannot find it +documented ? -=item HISTORY +=item Why does Net::FTP not implement mput and mget methods =back -=head2 IO::Select - OO interface to the select system call +=item Using Net::SMTP =over 4 -=item SYNOPSIS +=item Why can't the part of an Email address after the @ be used as the +hostname ? -=item DESCRIPTION +=item Why does Net::SMTP not do DNS MX lookups ? -=item CONSTRUCTOR +=item The verify method always returns true ? -new ( [ HANDLES ] ) +=back -=item METHODS +=item Debugging scripts -add ( HANDLES ), remove ( HANDLES ), exists ( HANDLE ), handles, can_read ( -[ TIMEOUT ] ), can_write ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), has_exception ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), -count (), bits(), select ( READ, WRITE, ERROR [, TIMEOUT ] ) +=over 4 -=item EXAMPLE +=item How can I debug my scripts that use Net::* modules ? -=item AUTHOR +=back -=item COPYRIGHT +=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT =back -=head2 IO::Socket - Object interface to socket communications +=head2 Net::netent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getnet*() +functions =over 4 @@ -10340,24 +14428,16 @@ count (), bits(), select ( READ, WRITE, ERROR [, TIMEOUT ] ) =item DESCRIPTION -=item CONSTRUCTOR - -new ( [ARGS] ) - -=item METHODS - -accept([PKG]), socketpair(DOMAIN, TYPE, PROTOCOL), timeout([VAL]), -sockopt(OPT [, VAL]), sockdomain, socktype, protocol, connected +=item EXAMPLES -=item SEE ALSO +=item NOTE =item AUTHOR -=item COPYRIGHT - =back -=head2 IO::Socket::INET - Object interface for AF_INET domain sockets +=head2 Net::protoent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getproto*() +functions =over 4 @@ -10365,28 +14445,30 @@ sockopt(OPT [, VAL]), sockdomain, socktype, protocol, connected =item DESCRIPTION -=item CONSTRUCTOR +=item NOTE -new ( [ARGS] ) +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Net::servent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getserv*() +functions =over 4 -=item METHODS +=item SYNOPSIS -sockaddr (), sockport (), sockhost (), peeraddr (), peerport (), peerhost -() +=item DESCRIPTION -=back +=item EXAMPLES -=item SEE ALSO +=item NOTE =item AUTHOR -=item COPYRIGHT - =back -=head2 IO::Socket::UNIX - Object interface for AF_UNIX domain sockets +=head2 Netrc, Net::Netrc - OO interface to users netrc file =over 4 @@ -10394,24 +14476,28 @@ sockaddr (), sockport (), sockhost (), peeraddr (), peerport (), peerhost =item DESCRIPTION +=item THE .netrc FILE + +machine name, default, login name, password string, account string, macdef +name + =item CONSTRUCTOR -new ( [ARGS] ) +lookup ( MACHINE [, LOGIN ]) =item METHODS -hostpath(), peerpath() - -=item SEE ALSO +login (), password (), account (), lpa () =item AUTHOR +=item SEE ALSO + =item COPYRIGHT =back -=head2 IO::lib::IO::Dir, IO::Dir - supply object methods for directory -handles +=head2 O - Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends =over 4 @@ -10419,18 +14505,15 @@ handles =item DESCRIPTION -new ( [ DIRNAME ] ), open ( DIRNAME ), read (), seek ( POS ), tell (), -rewind (), close (), tie %hash, IO::Dir, DIRNAME [, OPTIONS ] +=item CONVENTIONS -=item SEE ALSO +=item IMPLEMENTATION =item AUTHOR -=item COPYRIGHT - =back -=head2 IO::lib::IO::File, IO::File - supply object methods for filehandles +=head2 ODBM_File - Tied access to odbm files =over 4 @@ -10438,22 +14521,21 @@ rewind (), close (), tie %hash, IO::Dir, DIRNAME [, OPTIONS ] =item DESCRIPTION -=item CONSTRUCTOR +C, C, C -new ( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ), new_tmpfile +=item DIAGNOSTICS -=item METHODS +=over 4 -open( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ) +=item C -=item SEE ALSO +=back -=item HISTORY +=item BUGS AND WARNINGS =back -=head2 IO::lib::IO::Handle, IO::Handle - supply object methods for I/O -handles +=head2 Opcode - Disable named opcodes when compiling perl code =over 4 @@ -10461,89 +14543,91 @@ handles =item DESCRIPTION -=item CONSTRUCTOR +=item NOTE -new (), new_from_fd ( FD, MODE ) +=item WARNING -=item METHODS +=item Operator Names and Operator Lists -$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 +an operator name (opname), an operator tag name (optag), a negated opname +or optag, an operator set (opset) -=item NOTE +=item Opcode Functions -=item SEE ALSO +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 BUGS +=item Manipulating Opsets -=item HISTORY +=item TO DO (maybe) =back -=head2 IO::lib::IO::Pipe, IO::Pipe - supply object methods for pipes - =over 4 -=item SYNOPSIS +=item Predefined Opcode Tags -=item DESCRIPTION +: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 CONSTRUCTOR +=item SEE ALSO -new ( [READER, WRITER] ) +=item AUTHORS -=item METHODS +=back -reader ([ARGS]), writer ([ARGS]), handles () +=head2 Opcode::Safe, Safe - Compile and execute code in restricted +compartments -=item SEE ALSO +=over 4 -=item AUTHOR +=item SYNOPSIS -=item COPYRIGHT +=item DESCRIPTION -=back +a new namespace, an operator mask -=head2 IO::lib::IO::Poll, IO::Poll - Object interface to system poll call +=item WARNING =over 4 -=item SYNOPSIS +=item RECENT CHANGES -=item DESCRIPTION +=item Methods in class Safe -=item METHODS +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) -mask ( IO [, EVENT_MASK ] ), poll ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), events ( IO ), remove ( -IO ), handles( [ EVENT_MASK ] ) +=item Some Safety Issues -=item SEE ALSO +Memory, CPU, Snooping, Signals, State Changes =item AUTHOR -=item COPYRIGHT +=back =back -=head2 IO::lib::IO::Seekable, IO::Seekable - supply seek based methods for -I/O objects +=head2 Opcode::ops, ops - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when +compiling =over 4 -=item SYNOPSIS +=item SYNOPSIS =item DESCRIPTION =item SEE ALSO -=item HISTORY - =back -=head2 IO::lib::IO::Select, IO::Select - OO interface to the select system -call +=head2 POSIX - Perl interface to IEEE Std 1003.1 =over 4 @@ -10551,106 +14635,129 @@ call =item DESCRIPTION -=item CONSTRUCTOR +=item NOTE -new ( [ HANDLES ] ) +=item CAVEATS -=item METHODS +=item FUNCTIONS -add ( HANDLES ), remove ( HANDLES ), exists ( HANDLE ), handles, can_read ( -[ TIMEOUT ] ), can_write ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), has_exception ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), -count (), bits(), select ( READ, WRITE, ERROR [, TIMEOUT ] ) +_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, 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 EXAMPLE +=item CLASSES -=item AUTHOR +=over 4 -=item COPYRIGHT +=item POSIX::SigAction -=back +new -=head2 IO::lib::IO::Socket, IO::Socket - Object interface to socket -communications +=item POSIX::SigSet -=over 4 +new, addset, delset, emptyset, fillset, ismember -=item SYNOPSIS +=item POSIX::Termios -=item DESCRIPTION +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 -=item CONSTRUCTOR +=back -new ( [ARGS] ) +=item PATHNAME CONSTANTS -=item METHODS +Constants -accept([PKG]), socketpair(DOMAIN, TYPE, PROTOCOL), timeout([VAL]), -sockopt(OPT [, VAL]), sockdomain, socktype, protocol, connected +=item POSIX CONSTANTS -=item SEE ALSO +Constants -=item AUTHOR +=item SYSTEM CONFIGURATION -=item COPYRIGHT +Constants -=back +=item ERRNO -=head2 IO::lib::IO::Socket::INET, IO::Socket::INET - Object interface for -AF_INET domain sockets +Constants -=over 4 +=item FCNTL -=item SYNOPSIS +Constants -=item DESCRIPTION +=item FLOAT -=item CONSTRUCTOR +Constants -new ( [ARGS] ) +=item LIMITS -=over 4 +Constants -=item METHODS +=item LOCALE -sockaddr (), sockport (), sockhost (), peeraddr (), peerport (), peerhost -() +Constants -=back +=item MATH -=item SEE ALSO +Constants -=item AUTHOR +=item SIGNAL -=item COPYRIGHT +Constants -=back +=item STAT -=head2 IO::lib::IO::Socket::UNIX, IO::Socket::UNIX - Object interface for -AF_UNIX domain sockets +Constants, Macros -=over 4 +=item STDLIB -=item SYNOPSIS +Constants -=item DESCRIPTION +=item STDIO -=item CONSTRUCTOR +Constants -new ( [ARGS] ) +=item TIME -=item METHODS +Constants -hostpath(), peerpath() +=item UNISTD -=item SEE ALSO +Constants -=item AUTHOR +=item WAIT -=item COPYRIGHT +Constants, Macros =back -=head2 IPC::Msg - SysV Msg IPC object class +=head2 PerlIO - On demand loader for PerlIO layers and root of PerlIO::* +name space =over 4 @@ -10658,36 +14765,21 @@ hostpath(), peerpath() =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 +unix, stdio, perlio, crlf, utf8, raw =over 4 -=item SYNOPSIS +=item Defaults and how to override them -=item DESCRIPTION +=back -=item WARNING +=item AUTHOR =item SEE ALSO =back -=head2 IPC::Open3, open3 - open a process for reading, writing, and error -handling +=head2 PerlIO::Scalar - support module for in-memory IO. =over 4 @@ -10695,11 +14787,9 @@ handling =item DESCRIPTION -=item WARNING - =back -=head2 IPC::Semaphore - SysV Semaphore IPC object class +=head2 PerlIO::Via - Helper class for PerlIO layers implemented in perl =over 4 @@ -10707,103 +14797,102 @@ handling =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 +$class->PUSHED([$mode[,$fh]]), $obj->POPPED([$fh]), +$class->OPEN($path,$mode[,$fh]), $class->FDOPEN($fd), +$class->SYSOPEN($path,$imode,$perm,$fh), $obj->FILENO($fh), +$obj->READ($buffer,$len,$fh), $obj->WRITE($buffer,$fh), $obj->FILL($fh), +$obj->CLOSE($fh), $obj->SEEK($posn,$whence,$fh), $obj->TELL($fh), +$obj->UNREAD($buffer,$fh), $obj->FLUSH($fh), $obj->SETLINEBUF($fh), +$obj->CLEARERR($fh), $obj->ERROR($fh), $obj->EOF($fh) -=item SEE ALSO +=over 4 -=item AUTHOR +=item Example - a Hexadecimal Handle -=item COPYRIGHT +=back =back -=head2 IPC::SysV - SysV IPC constants +=head2 Pod::Checker, podchecker() - check pod documents for syntax errors =over 4 =item SYNOPSIS -=item DESCRIPTION - -ftok( PATH, ID ) +=item OPTIONS/ARGUMENTS -=item SEE ALSO +=over 4 -=item AUTHORS +=item podchecker() -=item COPYRIGHT +B<-warnings> =E I =back -=head2 IPC::SysV::Msg, IPC::Msg - SysV Msg IPC object class +=item DESCRIPTION -=over 4 +=item DIAGNOSTICS -=item SYNOPSIS +=over 4 -=item DESCRIPTION +=item Errors -=item METHODS +empty =headn, =over on line I without closing =back, =item without +previous =over, =back without previous =over, No argument for =begin, =end +without =begin, Nested =begin's, =for without formatter specification, +unresolved internal link I, Unknown command "I", Unknown +interior-sequence "I", nested commands +IE...IE...E...E, garbled entity I, Entity +number out of range, malformed link LEE, nonempty ZEE, +empty XEE, Spurious text after =pod / =cut, Spurious character(s) +after =back -new ( KEY , FLAGS ), id, rcv ( BUF, LEN [, TYPE [, FLAGS ]] ), remove, set -( STAT ), set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), snd ( TYPE, MSG [, -FLAGS ] ), stat +=item Warnings -=item SEE ALSO +multiple occurence of link target I, line containing nothing but +whitespace in paragraph, file does not start with =head, previous =item has +no contents, preceding non-item paragraph(s), =item type mismatch (I +vs. I), I unescaped CE> in paragraph, Unknown entity, No +items in =over, No argument for =item, empty section in previous paragraph, +Verbatim paragraph in NAME section -=item AUTHOR +=item Hyperlinks -=item COPYRIGHT +ignoring leading/trailing whitespace in link, (section) in '$page' +deprecated, alternative text/node '%s' contains non-escaped | or / =back -=head2 IPC::SysV::Semaphore, IPC::Semaphore - SysV Semaphore IPC object -class +=item RETURN VALUE -=over 4 +=item EXAMPLES -=item SYNOPSIS +=item INTERFACE -=item DESCRIPTION +=back -=item METHODS +Cnew( %options )> -new ( KEY , NSEMS , FLAGS ), getall, getncnt ( SEM ), getpid ( SEM ), -getval ( SEM ), getzcnt ( SEM ), id, op ( OPLIST ), remove, set ( STAT ), -set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), setall ( VALUES ), setval ( N -, VALUE ), stat +C<$checker-Epoderror( @args )>, C<$checker-Epoderror( {%opts}, +@args )> -=item SEE ALSO +C<$checker-Enum_errors()> -=item AUTHOR +C<$checker-Ename()> -=item COPYRIGHT +C<$checker-Enode()> -=back +C<$checker-Eidx()> -=head2 Math::BigFloat - Arbitrary length float math package +C<$checker-Ehyperlink()> =over 4 -=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 +=head2 Pod::Find - find POD documents in directory trees =over 4 @@ -10811,544 +14900,469 @@ performed =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 4 -=item SYNOPSIS - -=item DESCRIPTION - -=item OPERATIONS +=item C -=item CREATION +C<-verbose =E 1>, C<-perl =E 1>, C<-script =E 1>, C<-inc =E +1> -=item STRINGIFICATION +=back =over 4 -=item CHANGED IN PERL 5.6 +=item C =back -=item USAGE - -=item ERRORS DUE TO DIVISION BY ZERO OR LOGARITHM OF ZERO - -=item ERRORS DUE TO INDIGESTIBLE ARGUMENTS +=over 4 -=item BUGS +=item C -=item AUTHORS +C<-inc =E 1>, C<-dirs =E [ $dir1, $dir2, ... ]>, C<-verbose =E +1> =back -=head2 Math::Trig - trigonometric functions - =over 4 -=item SYNOPSIS - -=item DESCRIPTION - -=item TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS +=item C -B +=back =over 4 -=item ERRORS DUE TO DIVISION BY ZERO - -=item SIMPLE (REAL) ARGUMENTS, COMPLEX RESULTS +=item AUTHOR -=back +=item SEE ALSO -=item PLANE ANGLE CONVERSIONS +=back -=item RADIAL COORDINATE CONVERSIONS +=head2 Pod::Html - module to convert pod files to HTML =over 4 -=item COORDINATE SYSTEMS +=item SYNOPSIS -=item 3-D ANGLE CONVERSIONS +=item DESCRIPTION -cartesian_to_cylindrical, cartesian_to_spherical, cylindrical_to_cartesian, -cylindrical_to_spherical, spherical_to_cartesian, spherical_to_cylindrical +=item ARGUMENTS -=back +backlink, cachedir, css, flush, header, help, htmldir, htmlroot, index, +infile, libpods, netscape, outfile, podpath, podroot, quiet, recurse, +title, verbose -=item GREAT CIRCLE DISTANCES +=item EXAMPLE -=item EXAMPLES +=item ENVIRONMENT -=item BUGS +=item AUTHOR -=item AUTHORS +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT =back -=head2 NDBM_File - Tied access to ndbm files +=head2 Pod::InputObjects - objects representing POD input paragraphs, +commands, etc. =over 4 =item SYNOPSIS -C, C, C +=item REQUIRES -=item DIAGNOSTICS +=item EXPORTS -=over 4 +=item DESCRIPTION -=item C +package B, package B, package +B, package B =back -=item BUGS AND WARNINGS +=over 4 -=back +=item B -=head2 Net::Ping - check a remote host for reachability +=back =over 4 -=item SYNOPSIS +=item B -=item DESCRIPTION +=back =over 4 -=item Functions - -Net::Ping->new([$proto [, $def_timeout [, $bytes]]]);, $p->ping($host [, -$timeout]);, $p->close();, pingecho($host [, $timeout]); +=item B =back -=item WARNING +=over 4 -=item NOTES +=item B =back -=head2 Net::hostent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in gethost*() -functions - =over 4 -=item SYNOPSIS - -=item DESCRIPTION +=item B -=item EXAMPLES +=back -=item NOTE +=over 4 -=item AUTHOR +=item B =back -=head2 Net::netent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getnet*() -functions - =over 4 -=item SYNOPSIS - -=item DESCRIPTION +=item Pod::Paragraph-EB -=item EXAMPLES +=back -=item NOTE +=over 4 -=item AUTHOR +=item $pod_para-EB =back -=head2 Net::protoent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getproto*() -functions - =over 4 -=item SYNOPSIS +=item $pod_para-EB -=item DESCRIPTION +=back -=item NOTE +=over 4 -=item AUTHOR +=item $pod_para-EB =back -=head2 Net::servent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getserv*() -functions - =over 4 -=item SYNOPSIS - -=item DESCRIPTION +=item $pod_para-EB -=item EXAMPLES +=back -=item NOTE +=over 4 -=item AUTHOR +=item $pod_para-EB =back -=head2 O - Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends - =over 4 -=item SYNOPSIS - -=item DESCRIPTION +=item $pod_para-EB -=item CONVENTIONS +=back -=item IMPLEMENTATION +=over 4 -=item AUTHOR +=item $pod_para-EB =back -=head2 ODBM_File - Tied access to odbm files - =over 4 -=item SYNOPSIS - -C, C, C +=item B -=item DIAGNOSTICS +=back =over 4 -=item C +=item Pod::InteriorSequence-EB =back -=item BUGS AND WARNINGS +=over 4 -=back +=item $pod_seq-EB -=head2 Opcode - Disable named opcodes when compiling perl code +=back =over 4 -=item SYNOPSIS +=item $pod_seq-EB -=item DESCRIPTION +=back -=item NOTE +=over 4 -=item WARNING +=item $pod_seq-EB -=item Operator Names and Operator Lists +=back -an operator name (opname), an operator tag name (optag), a negated opname -or optag, an operator set (opset) +=over 4 -=item Opcode Functions +=item $pod_seq-EB -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) +=back -=item Manipulating Opsets +=over 4 -=item TO DO (maybe) +=item $pod_seq-EB =back =over 4 -=item Predefined Opcode Tags +=item $pod_seq-EB -: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 +=back -=item SEE ALSO +=over 4 -=item AUTHORS +=item $pod_seq-EB =back -=head2 Opcode::Safe, Safe - Compile and execute code in restricted -compartments - =over 4 -=item SYNOPSIS +=item $pod_seq-EB -=item DESCRIPTION +=back -a new namespace, an operator mask +=over 4 -=item WARNING +=item $pod_seq-EB + +=back =over 4 -=item RECENT CHANGES +=item Pod::InteriorSequence::B -=item Methods in class Safe +=back -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) +=over 4 -=item Some Safety Issues +=item B -Memory, CPU, Snooping, Signals, State Changes +=back -=item AUTHOR +=over 4 -=back +=item Pod::ParseTree-EB =back -=head2 Opcode::ops, ops - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when -compiling - =over 4 -=item SYNOPSIS +=item $ptree-EB -=item DESCRIPTION +=back -=item SEE ALSO +=over 4 + +=item $ptree-EB =back -=head2 POSIX - Perl interface to IEEE Std 1003.1 +=over 4 + +=item $ptree-EB + +=back =over 4 -=item SYNOPSIS +=item $ptree-EB -=item DESCRIPTION +=back -=item NOTE 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