perldbmfilter – Perl DBM Filters Synopsis $db = tie %hash, ‘DBM’, … $old_filter = $db->filter_store_key ( sub { … } ); $old_filter = $db->filter_store_value( sub { … } ); $old_filter = $db->filter_fetch_key ( sub { … } ); $old_filter = $db->filter_fetch_value( sub { … } );DescriptionThe four "filter_*" methods shown above are available in all…
perldata – Perl data types DescriptionVariable namesPerl has three built-in data types: scalars, arrays of scalars, and associative arrays of scalars, known as “hashes”. A scalar is a single string (of any size, limited only by the available memory), number, or a reference to something (which will be discussed in perlref). Normal arrays are ordered…
perlcygwin – Perl for Cygwin SynopsisThis document will help you configure, make, test and install Perl on Cygwin. This document also describes features of Cygwin that will affect how Perl behaves at runtime. NOTE: There are pre-built Perl packages available for Cygwin and a version of Perl is provided in the normal Cygwin install. If…
"perlcritic" – Command-line interface to critique Perl source. Synopsis perlcritic [-12345 | –brutal | –cruel | –harsh | –stern | –gentle] [–severity number | name] [{-p | –profile} file | –noprofile] [–top [ number ]] [–theme expression] [–include pattern] [–exclude pattern] [{-s | –single-policy} pattern] [–only | –noonly] [–profile-strictness {warn|fatal|quiet}] [–force | –noforce] [–statistics] [–statistics-only]…
perlcompile – Introduction to the Perl Compiler-Translator DescriptionPerl has always had a compiler: your source is compiled into an internal form (a parse tree) which is then optimized before being run. Since version 5.005, Perl has shipped with a module capable of inspecting the optimized parse tree ("B"), and this has been used to write…
perlcommunity – a brief overview of the Perl community DescriptionThis document aims to provide an overview of the vast perl community, which is far too large and diverse to provide a detailed listing. If any specific niche has been forgotten, it is not meant as an insult but an omission for the sake of brevity….
perlclib – Internal replacements for standard C library functions DescriptionOne thing Perl porters should note is that perl doesn’t tend to use that much of the C standard library internally; you’ll see very little use of, for example, the ctype.h functions in there. This is because Perl tends to reimplement or abstract standard library functions,…
perlcheat – Perl 5 Cheat Sheet DescriptionThis ‘cheat sheet’ is a handy reference, meant for beginning Perl programmers. Not everything is mentioned, but 195 features may already be overwhelming. The sheet CONTEXTS SIGILS ref ARRAYS HASHES void $scalar SCALAR @array %hash scalar @array ARRAY @array[0, 2] @hash{‘a’, ‘b’} list %hash HASH $array[0] $hash{‘a’} &sub CODE…
perlce – Perl for WinCE Building Perl for WinCEWARNINGMuch of this document has become very out of date and needs updating, rewriting or deleting. The build process was overhauled during the 5.19 development track and the current instructions as of that time are given in “CURRENT BUILD INSTRUCTIONS”; the previous build instructions, which are largely…
perlcall – Perl calling conventions from C DescriptionThe purpose of this document is to show you how to call Perl subroutines directly from C, i.e., how to write callbacks. Apart from discussing the C interface provided by Perl for writing callbacks the document uses a series of examples to show how the interface actually works…
perlbug – how to submit bug reports on Perl Synopsisperlbug perlbug [ -v ] [ -a address ] [ -s subject ] [ -b body | -f inputfile ] [ -F outputfile ] [ -r returnaddress ] [ -e editor ] [ -c adminaddress | -C ] [ -S ] [ -t ] [ -d ] [ -h ] [ -T ] perlbug [ -v ] [ -r returnaddress ] [ -ok | -okay | -nok | -nokay ] perlthanks DescriptionThis program is designed to help you generate bug reports (and thank-you notes) about perl5 and the modules which ship with it. In most cases, you…
perlbs2000 – building and installing Perl for BS2000. This document needs to be updated, but we don’t know what it should say. Please email comments to perlbug [at] perl.org <mailto:perlbug [at] perl.org>. SynopsisThis document will help you Configure, build, test and install Perl on BS2000 in the POSIX subsystem. DescriptionThis is a ported perl for…
perlbot – Links to information on object-oriented programming in Perl DescriptionFor information on OO programming with Perl, please see perlootut and perlobj. (The above documents supersede the collection of tricks that was formerly here in perlbot.)
perlbook – Books about and related to Perl DescriptionThere are many books on Perl and Perl-related. A few of these are good, some are OK, but many aren’t worth your money. There is a list of these books, some with extensive reviews, at <http://books.perl.org/> . We list some of the books here, and while listing…
perlbeos – Perl version 5.8+ on BeOS DescriptionThis file contains instructions how to build Perl under BeOS and lists known problems. Build And InstallRequirementsI have built and tested Perl 5.8.6 and 5.9.1 under BeOS R5 x86 net server. I can’t say anything with regard to PPC. Since Perl 5.8.0 had been released for BeOS BONE,…
Perlbal – Reverse-proxy load balancer and webserver DescriptionFor now, see example configuration files in conf/ from the CPAN tarball http://search.cpan.org/dist/Perlbal/ Authors Brad Fitzpatrick, <brad [at] danga.com> Mark Smith, <marksmith [at] danga.com>See Also http://www.danga.com/perlbal/Copyright And LicenseCopyright 2004, Danga Interactive, Inc. Copyright 2005-2007, Six Apart, Ltd. You can use and redistribute Perlbal under the same terms as…
perlartistic – the Perl Artistic License Synopsis You can refer to this document in Pod via "L<perlartistic>" Or you can see this document by entering "perldoc perlartistic"DescriptionPerl is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: a) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation;…
README.apollo – Perl version 5 on Apollo DomainOS DescriptionThe following tests are known to fail as of Perl 5.005_03: comp/decl……….FAILED at test 0 op/write………..FAILED at test 0 lib/filefind…….FAILED at test 2 lib/io_udp………FAILED at test 2 lib/findbin……..stat(/ressel/ABT/USER/vta/jk/proj.local/perl/perl5.005_03-MAINT_TRIAL_5/t/lib/): No such file or directory at ../lib/FindBin.pm line 162 stat(/ressel/ABT/USER/vta/jk/proj.local/perl/perl5.005_03-MAINT_TRIAL_5/t/lib/): No such file or directory at ../lib/FindBin.pm line 163…
perlapio – perl’s IO abstraction interface. Synopsis #define PERLIO_NOT_STDIO 0 /* For co-existence with stdio only */ #include <perlio.h> /* Usually via #include <perl.h> */ PerlIO *PerlIO_stdin(void); PerlIO *PerlIO_stdout(void); PerlIO *PerlIO_stderr(void); PerlIO *PerlIO_open(const char *path,const char *mode); PerlIO *PerlIO_fdopen(int fd, const char *mode); PerlIO *PerlIO_reopen(const char *path, /* deprecated */ const char *mode, PerlIO *old);…
perlapi – autogenerated documentation for the perl public API DescriptionThis file contains the documentation of the perl public API generated by embed.pl, specifically a listing of functions, macros, flags, and variables that may be used by extension writers. At the end is a list of functions which have yet to be documented. The interfaces of…