• NAME
• DESCRIPTION
• BASIC DOCUMENTATION
• perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language
• perlfaq - frequently asked questions about Perl ($Date: 1999/05/23
• perlbook - Perl book information
• perlsyn - Perl syntax
• perldata - Perl data types
• perlop - Perl operators and precedence
• perlsub - Perl subroutines
• perlfunc - Perl builtin functions
• perlreftut - Mark's very short tutorial about references
• perldsc - Perl Data Structures Cookbook
• perlrequick - Perl regular expressions quick start
• perlpod - plain old documentation
• perlstyle - Perl style guide
• perltrap - Perl traps for the unwary
• perlrun - how to execute the Perl interpreter
• perldiag - various Perl diagnostics
• perllexwarn - Perl Lexical Warnings
• perldebtut - Perl debugging tutorial
• perldebug - Perl debugging
• perlvar - Perl predefined variables
• perllol - Manipulating Arrays of Arrays in Perl
• perlopentut - tutorial on opening things in Perl
• perlretut - Perl regular expressions tutorial
• perlre - Perl regular expressions
• perlref - Perl references and nested data structures
• perlform - Perl formats
• perlboot - Beginner's Object-Oriented Tutorial
• perltoot - Tom's object-oriented tutorial for perl
• perltootc - Tom's OO Tutorial for Class Data in Perl
• perlobj - Perl objects
• perlbot - Bag'o Object Tricks (the BOT)
• perltie - how to hide an object class in a simple variable
• perlipc - Perl interprocess communication (signals, fifos, pipes,
• perlfork - Perl's fork() emulation (EXPERIMENTAL, subject to change)
• perlnumber - semantics of numbers and numeric operations in Perl
• perlthrtut - tutorial on threads in Perl
• perlport - Writing portable Perl
• perllocale - Perl locale handling (internationalization and
• perlunicode - Unicode support in Perl (EXPERIMENTAL, subject to
• perlebcdic - Considerations for running Perl on EBCDIC platforms
• perlsec - Perl security
• perlmod - Perl modules (packages and symbol tables)
• perlmodlib - constructing new Perl modules and finding existing ones
• perlmodinstall - Installing CPAN Modules
• perlnewmod - preparing a new module for distribution
• perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.23 $, $Date:
• perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.32 $,
• perlfaq3 - Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.38 $, $Date: 1999/05/23
• perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation ($Revision: 1.49 $, $Date: 1999/05/23
• perlfaq5 - Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.38 $, $Date: 1999/05/23
• perlfaq6 - Regexes ($Revision: 1.27 $, $Date: 1999/05/23 16:08:30 $)
• perlfaq7 - Perl Language Issues ($Revision: 1.28 $, $Date:
• perlfaq8 - System Interaction ($Revision: 1.39 $, $Date: 1999/05/23
• perlfaq9 - Networking ($Revision: 1.26 $, $Date: 1999/05/23 16:08:30
• perlcompile - Introduction to the Perl Compiler-Translator
• perlembed - how to embed perl in your C program
• perldebguts - Guts of Perl debugging
• perlxstut, perlXStut - Tutorial for writing XSUBs
• perlxs - XS language reference manual
• perlclib - Internal replacements for standard C library functions
• perlguts - Introduction to the Perl API
• perlcall - Perl calling conventions from C
• perlutil - utilities packaged with the Perl distribution
• perlfilter - Source Filters
• perldbmfilter - Perl DBM Filters
• perlapi - autogenerated documentation for the perl public API
• perlintern - autogenerated documentation of purely internal
• perlapio - perl's IO abstraction interface.
• perltodo - Perl TO-DO List
• perlhack - How to hack at the Perl internals
• perlhist - the Perl history records
• perldelta - what's new for perl v5.6
• perl5005delta, perldelta - what's new for perl5.005
• perl5004delta, perldelta - what's new for perl5.004
• perlaix, README.aix - Perl version 5 on IBM Unix (AIX) systems
• perlamiga - Perl under Amiga OS
• perlbs2000, README.BS2000 - building and installing Perl for BS2000.
• perlcygwin, README.cygwin - Perl for Cygwin
• perldos - Perl under DOS, W31, W95.
• perlepoc, README.epoc - Perl for EPOC
• perlhpux, README.hpux - Perl version 5 on Hewlett-Packard Unix
• perlmachten, README.machten - Perl version 5 on Power MachTen
• perlmacos, README.macos - Perl under Mac OS (Classic)
• perlmpeix, README.mpeix - Perl/iX for HP e3000 MPE
• SYNOPSIS
• perlos2 - Perl under OS/2, DOS, Win0.3*, Win0.95 and WinNT.
• perlos390, README.os390 - building and installing Perl for OS/390.
• perlsolaris, README.solaris - Perl version 5 on Solaris systems
• perlvmesa, README.vmesa - building and installing Perl for VM/ESA.
• perlvms - VMS-specific documentation for Perl
• perlvos, README.vos - Perl for Stratus VOS
• perlwin32 - Perl under Win32
• PRAGMA DOCUMENTATION
• attrs - set/get attributes of a subroutine (deprecated)
• re - Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour
• attributes - get/set subroutine or variable attributes
• attrs - set/get attributes of a subroutine (deprecated)
• autouse - postpone load of modules until a function is used
• base - Establish IS-A relationship with base class at compile time
• blib - Use MakeMaker's uninstalled version of a package
• bytes - Perl pragma to force byte semantics rather than character
• charnames - define character names for \N{named} string literal
• constant - Perl pragma to declare constants
• diagnostics - Perl compiler pragma to force verbose warning
• fields - compile-time class fields
• filetest - Perl pragma to control the filetest permission operators
• integer - Perl pragma to use integer arithmetic instead of floating
• less - perl pragma to request less of something from the compiler
• lib - manipulate @INC at compile time
• locale - Perl pragma to use and avoid POSIX locales for built-in
• open - perl pragma to set default disciplines for input and output
• ops - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when compiling
• overload - Package for overloading perl operations
• re - Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour
• sigtrap - Perl pragma to enable simple signal handling
• strict - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe constructs
• subs - Perl pragma to predeclare sub names
• utf8 - Perl pragma to enable/disable UTF-8 in source code
• vars - Perl pragma to predeclare global variable names (obsolete)
• warnings - Perl pragma to control optional warnings
• warnings::register - warnings import function
• MODULE DOCUMENTATION
• AnyDBM_File - provide framework for multiple DBMs
• AutoLoader - load subroutines only on demand
• AutoSplit - split a package for autoloading
• B - The Perl Compiler
• B::Asmdata - Autogenerated data about Perl ops, used to generate
• B::Assembler - Assemble Perl bytecode
• B::Bblock - Walk basic blocks
• B::Bytecode - Perl compiler's bytecode backend
• B::C - Perl compiler's C backend
• B::CC - Perl compiler's optimized C translation backend
• B::Concise - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing concise info about ops
• B::Debug - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing debug info about ops
• B::Deparse - Perl compiler backend to produce perl code
• B::Disassembler - Disassemble Perl bytecode
• B::Lint - Perl lint
• B::O, O - Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends
• B::Showlex - Show lexical variables used in functions or files
• B::Stackobj - Helper module for CC backend
• B::Stash - show what stashes are loaded
• B::Terse - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing terse info about ops
• B::Xref - Generates cross reference reports for Perl programs
• Bblock, B::Bblock - Walk basic blocks
• Benchmark - benchmark running times of Perl code
• ByteLoader - load byte compiled perl code
• Bytecode, B::Bytecode - Perl compiler's bytecode backend
• CGI - Simple Common Gateway Interface Class
• CGI::Apache - Backward compatibility module for CGI.pm
• CGI::Carp, CGI::Carp - CGI routines for writing to the HTTPD (or
• CGI::Cookie - Interface to Netscape Cookies
• CGI::Fast - CGI Interface for Fast CGI
• CGI::Pretty - module to produce nicely formatted HTML code
• CGI::Push - Simple Interface to Server Push
• CGI::Switch - Backward compatibility module for defunct CGI::Switch
• CGI::Util - Internal utilities used by CGI module
• CPAN - query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites
• CPAN::FirstTime - Utility for CPAN::Config file Initialization
• CPANox, CPAN::Nox - Wrapper around CPAN.pm without using any XS
• Carp, carp - warn of errors (from perspective of caller)
• Carp::Heavy - Carp guts
• Class::Struct - declare struct-like datatypes as Perl classes
• Config - access Perl configuration information
• Cwd - get pathname of current working directory
• DB - programmatic interface to the Perl debugging API (draft,
• DB_File - Perl5 access to Berkeley DB version 1.x
• Data::Dumper - stringified perl data structures, suitable for both
• Devel::DProf - a Perl code profiler
• Devel::Peek - A data debugging tool for the XS programmer
• Devel::SelfStubber - generate stubs for a SelfLoading module
• DirHandle - supply object methods for directory handles
• Dumpvalue - provides screen dump of Perl data.
• DynaLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code
• DynaLoader::XSLoader, XSLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into
• English - use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation
• Env - perl module that imports environment variables as scalars or
• Errno - System errno constants
• Exporter - Implements default import method for modules
• Exporter::Heavy - Exporter guts
• ExtUtils::Command - utilities to replace common UNIX commands in
• ExtUtils::Embed - Utilities for embedding Perl in C/C++ applications
• ExtUtils::Install - install files from here to there
• ExtUtils::Installed - Inventory management of installed modules
• ExtUtils::Liblist - determine libraries to use and how to use them
• ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
• ExtUtils::MM_OS2 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
• ExtUtils::MM_Unix - methods used by ExtUtils::MakeMaker
• ExtUtils::MM_VMS - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
• ExtUtils::MM_Win32 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in
• ExtUtils::MakeMaker - create an extension Makefile
• ExtUtils::Manifest - utilities to write and check a MANIFEST file
• ExtUtils::Miniperl, writemain - write the C code for perlmain.c
• ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap - make a bootstrap file for use by DynaLoader
• ExtUtils::Mksymlists - write linker options files for dynamic
• ExtUtils::Packlist - manage .packlist files
• ExtUtils::testlib - add blib/* directories to @INC
• Fatal - replace functions with equivalents which succeed or die
• Fcntl - load the C Fcntl.h defines
• File::Basename, fileparse - split a pathname into pieces
• File::CheckTree, validate - run many filetest checks on a tree
• File::Compare - Compare files or filehandles
• File::Copy - Copy files or filehandles
• File::DosGlob - DOS like globbing and then some
• File::Find, find - traverse a file tree
• File::Glob - Perl extension for BSD glob routine
• File::Path - create or remove directory trees
• File::Spec - portably perform operations on file names
• File::Spec::Epoc - methods for Epoc file specs
• File::Spec::Functions - portably perform operations on file names
• File::Spec::Mac - File::Spec for MacOS
• File::Spec::OS2 - methods for OS/2 file specs
• File::Spec::Unix - methods used by File::Spec
• File::Spec::VMS - methods for VMS file specs
• File::Spec::Win32 - methods for Win32 file specs
• File::Temp - return name and handle of a temporary file safely
• File::stat - by-name interface to Perl's built-in stat() functions
• FileCache - keep more files open than the system permits
• FileHandle - supply object methods for filehandles
• FindBin - Locate directory of original perl script
• GDBM_File - Perl5 access to the gdbm library.
• Getopt::Long - Extended processing of command line options
• Getopt::Std, getopt - Process single-character switches with switch
• I18N::Collate - compare 8-bit scalar data according to the current
• IO - load various IO modules
• IO::Dir - supply object methods for directory handles
• IO::File - supply object methods for filehandles
• IO::Handle - supply object methods for I/O handles
• IO::Pipe - supply object methods for pipes
• IO::Poll - Object interface to system poll call
• IO::Seekable - supply seek based methods for I/O objects
• IO::Select - OO interface to the select system call
• IO::Socket - Object interface to socket communications
• IO::Socket::INET - Object interface for AF_INET domain sockets
• IO::Socket::UNIX - Object interface for AF_UNIX domain sockets
• IO::lib::IO::Dir, IO::Dir - supply object methods for directory
• IO::lib::IO::File, IO::File - supply object methods for filehandles
• IO::lib::IO::Handle, IO::Handle - supply object methods for I/O
• IO::lib::IO::Pipe, IO::Pipe - supply object methods for pipes
• IO::lib::IO::Poll, IO::Poll - Object interface to system poll call
• IO::lib::IO::Seekable, IO::Seekable - supply seek based methods for
• IO::lib::IO::Select, IO::Select - OO interface to the select system
• IO::lib::IO::Socket, IO::Socket - Object interface to socket
• IO::lib::IO::Socket::INET, IO::Socket::INET - Object interface for
• IO::lib::IO::Socket::UNIX, IO::Socket::UNIX - Object interface for
• IPC::Msg - SysV Msg IPC object class
• IPC::Open2, open2 - open a process for both reading and writing
• IPC::Open3, open3 - open a process for reading, writing, and error
• IPC::Semaphore - SysV Semaphore IPC object class
• IPC::SysV - SysV IPC constants
• IPC::SysV::Msg, IPC::Msg - SysV Msg IPC object class
• IPC::SysV::Semaphore, IPC::Semaphore - SysV Semaphore IPC object
• Math::BigFloat - Arbitrary length float math package
• Math::BigInt - Arbitrary size integer math package
• Math::Complex - complex numbers and associated mathematical
• Math::Trig - trigonometric functions
• NDBM_File - Tied access to ndbm files
• Net::Ping - check a remote host for reachability
• Net::hostent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in gethost*()
• Net::netent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getnet*()
• Net::protoent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getproto*()
• Net::servent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getserv*()
• O - Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends
• ODBM_File - Tied access to odbm files
• Opcode - Disable named opcodes when compiling perl code
• Opcode::Safe, Safe - Compile and execute code in restricted
• Opcode::ops, ops - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when
• POSIX - Perl interface to IEEE Std 1003.1
• Pod::Checker, podchecker() - check pod documents for syntax errors
• Pod::Find - find POD documents in directory trees
• Pod::Html - module to convert pod files to HTML
• Pod::InputObjects - objects representing POD input paragraphs,
• Pod::LaTeX - Convert Pod data to formatted Latex
• Pod::Man - Convert POD data to formatted *roff input
• Pod::ParseUtils - helpers for POD parsing and conversion
• Pod::Parser - base class for creating POD filters and translators
• Pod::Plainer - Perl extension for converting Pod to old style Pod.
• Pod::Select, podselect() - extract selected sections of POD from
• Pod::Text - Convert POD data to formatted ASCII text
• Pod::Text::Color - Convert POD data to formatted color ASCII text
• Pod::Text::Overstrike - Convert POD data to formatted overstrike
• Pod::Text::Termcap, Pod::Text::Color - Convert POD data to ASCII
• Pod::Usage, pod2usage() - print a usage message from embedded pod
• SDBM_File - Tied access to sdbm files
• Safe - Compile and execute code in restricted compartments
• Search::Dict, look - search for key in dictionary file
• SelectSaver - save and restore selected file handle
• SelfLoader - load functions only on demand
• Shell - run shell commands transparently within perl
• Socket, sockaddr_in, sockaddr_un, inet_aton, inet_ntoa - load the C
• Symbol - manipulate Perl symbols and their names
• Sys::Hostname - Try every conceivable way to get hostname
• Syslog, Sys::Syslog, openlog, closelog, setlogmask, syslog - Perl
• Syslog::Syslog, Sys::Syslog, openlog, closelog, setlogmask, syslog -
• Term::ANSIColor - Color screen output using ANSI escape sequences
• Term::Cap - Perl termcap interface
• Term::Complete - Perl word completion module
• Term::ReadLine - Perl interface to various readline packages. If
• Test - provides a simple framework for writing test scripts
• Test::Harness - run perl standard test scripts with statistics
• Text::Abbrev, abbrev - create an abbreviation table from a list
• Text::ParseWords - parse text into an array of tokens or array of
• Text::Soundex - Implementation of the Soundex Algorithm as Described
• Text::Tabs - expand and unexpand tabs per the unix expand(1) and
• Text::Wrap - line wrapping to form simple paragraphs
• Thread - manipulate threads in Perl (EXPERIMENTAL, subject to
• Thread::Queue - thread-safe queues
• Thread::Semaphore - thread-safe semaphores
• Thread::Signal - Start a thread which runs signal handlers reliably
• Thread::Specific - thread-specific keys
• Tie::Array - base class for tied arrays
• Tie::Handle, Tie::StdHandle - base class definitions for tied
• Tie::Hash, Tie::StdHash - base class definitions for tied hashes
• Tie::RefHash - use references as hash keys
• Tie::Scalar, Tie::StdScalar - base class definitions for tied
• Tie::SubstrHash - Fixed-table-size, fixed-key-length hashing
• Time::Local - efficiently compute time from local and GMT time
• Time::gmtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in gmtime()
• Time::localtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in localtime()
• Time::tm - internal object used by Time::gmtime and Time::localtime
• UNIVERSAL - base class for ALL classes (blessed references)
• User::grent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getgr*()
• User::pwent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getpw*()
• Win32 - Interfaces to some Win32 API Functions
• XSLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code
• AUXILIARY DOCUMENTATION
• AUTHOR

NAME

perltoc - perl documentation table of contents

DESCRIPTION

This page provides a brief table of contents for the rest of the Perl documentation set. It is meant to be scanned quickly or grepped through to locate the proper section you're looking for.

BASIC DOCUMENTATION

perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

AVAILABILITY

ENVIRONMENT

AUTHOR

FILES

SEE ALSO

DIAGNOSTICS

BUGS

NOTES

perlfaq - frequently asked questions about Perl ($Date: 1999/05/23 20:38:02 $)

DESCRIPTION

perlfaq: Structural overview of the FAQ.

the perlfaq1 manpage: General Questions About Perl

the perlfaq2 manpage: Obtaining and Learning about Perl

the perlfaq3 manpage: Programming Tools

the perlfaq4 manpage: Data Manipulation

the perlfaq5 manpage: Files and Formats

the perlfaq6 manpage: Regexps

the perlfaq7 manpage: General Perl Language Issues

the perlfaq8 manpage: System Interaction

the perlfaq9 manpage: Networking

About the perlfaq documents

Where to get the perlfaq

How to contribute to the perlfaq

What will happen if you mail your Perl programming problems to the authors

Credits

Author and Copyright Information

Bundled Distributions

Disclaimer

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

perlbook - Perl book information

DESCRIPTION

perlsyn - Perl syntax

DESCRIPTION

Declarations

Simple statements

Compound statements

Loop Control

For Loops

Foreach Loops

Basic BLOCKs and Switch Statements

Goto

PODs: Embedded Documentation

Plain Old Comments (Not!)

perldata - Perl data types

DESCRIPTION

Variable names

Context

Scalar values

Scalar value constructors

List value constructors

Slices

Typeglobs and Filehandles

SEE ALSO

perlop - Perl operators and precedence

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

Terms and List Operators (Leftward)

The Arrow Operator

Auto-increment and Auto-decrement

Exponentiation

Symbolic Unary Operators

Binding Operators

Multiplicative Operators

Additive Operators

Shift Operators

Named Unary Operators

Relational Operators

Equality Operators

Bitwise And

Bitwise Or and Exclusive Or

C-style Logical And

C-style Logical Or

Range Operators

Conditional Operat