Section 1: user commands and tools
NAME perlxstut – Tutorial for writing XSUBs DESCRIPTION This tutorial will educate the reader on the steps involved in creating a Perl extension. The reader is assumed to have access to perlguts, perlapi and perlxs. This tutorial starts with very simple examples and becomes more complex, with each new example adding new features. Certain concepts…
NAME perlxs – XS language reference manual DESCRIPTION Introduction XS is an interface description file format used to create an extension interface between Perl and C code (or a C library) which one wishes to use with Perl. The XS interface is combined with the library to create a new library which can then be…
NAME perlwin32 – Perl under Windows SYNOPSIS These are instructions for building Perl under Windows 2000 and later. DESCRIPTION Before you start, you should glance through the README file found in the top-level directory to which the Perl distribution was extracted. Make sure you read and understand the terms under which this software is being…
NAME perlvos – Perl for Stratus OpenVOS SYNOPSIS This file contains notes for building perl on the Stratus OpenVOS operating system. Perl is a scripting or macro language that is popular on many systems. See perlbook for a number of good books on Perl. These are instructions for building Perl from source. This version of…
NAME perlvms – VMS-specific documentation for Perl DESCRIPTION Gathered below are notes describing details of Perl 5’s behavior on VMS. They are a supplement to the regular Perl 5 documentation, so we have focussed on the ways in which Perl 5 functions differently under VMS than it does under Unix, and on the interactions between…
NAME perlvmesa – building and installing Perl for VM/ESA. SYNOPSIS This document will help you Configure, build, test and install Perl on VM/ESA. DESCRIPTION This is a fully ported perl for VM/ESA 2.3.0. It may work on other versions, but that’s the one we’ve tested it on. If you’ve downloaded the binary distribution, it needs…
NAME perlver – The Perl Minimum Version Analyzer SYNOPSIS adam@red:~$ perlver Perl-MinimumVersion Found directory ‘.’ Searching for Perl files… found 3 file(s) Scanning lib/Perl/MinimumVersion.pm… done Scanning t/01_compile.t… done Scanning t/02_main.t… done ——————————————————— | file | explicit | syntax | external | | ——————————————————— | | lib/Perl/MinimumVersion.pm | 5.005 | ~ | n/a | | t/01_compile.t…
NAME perlvar – Perl predefined variables DESCRIPTION The Syntax of Variable Names Variable names in Perl can have several formats. Usually, they must begin with a letter or underscore, in which case they can be arbitrarily long (up to an internal limit of 251 characters) and may contain letters, digits, underscores, or the special sequence…
NAME perluts – Perl under UTS SYNOPSIS This document can be read as is: as README.uts, or you can read it after you build your package using “man perluts”. The purpose is to help you build Perl for UTS, which, if you follow these instructions, should be easy, and result in a solidly working installation….
NAME perlutil – utilities packaged with the Perl distribution DESCRIPTION Along with the Perl interpreter itself, the Perl distribution installs a range of utilities on your system. There are also several utilities which are used by the Perl distribution itself as part of the install process. This document exists to list all of these utilities,…
NAME perlunitut – Perl Unicode Tutorial DESCRIPTION The days of just flinging strings around are over. It’s well established that modern programs need to be capable of communicating funny accented letters, and things like euro symbols. This means that programmers need new habits. It’s easy to program Unicode capable software, but it does require discipline…
NAME perluniprops – Index of Unicode Version 12.1.0 character properties in Perl DESCRIPTION This document provides information about the portion of the Unicode database that deals with character properties, that is the portion that is defined on single code points. (“Other information in the Unicode data base” below briefly mentions other data that Unicode provides.)…
NAME perluniintro – Perl Unicode introduction DESCRIPTION This document gives a general idea of Unicode and how to use Unicode in Perl. See “Further Resources” for references to more in-depth treatments of Unicode. Unicode Unicode is a character set standard which plans to codify all of the writing systems of the world, plus many other…
NAME perlunifaq – Perl Unicode FAQ Q and A This is a list of questions and answers about Unicode in Perl, intended to be read after perlunitut. perlunitut isn’t really a Unicode tutorial, is it? No, and this isn’t really a Unicode FAQ. Perl has an abstracted interface for all supported character encodings, so this…
NAME perlunicode – Unicode support in Perl DESCRIPTION If you haven’t already, before reading this document, you should become familiar with both perlunitut and perluniintro. Unicode aims to UNI-fy the en-CODE-ings of all the world’s character sets into a single Standard. For quite a few of the various coding standards that existed when Unicode was…
NAME perltru64 – Perl version 5 on Tru64 (formerly known as Digital UNIX formerly known as DEC OSF/1) systems DESCRIPTION This document describes various features of HP‘s (formerly Compaq’s, formerly Digital’s) Unix operating system (Tru64) that will affect how Perl version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is configured, compiled and/or runs. Compiling Perl 5 on Tru64…
NAME perltrap – Perl traps for the unwary DESCRIPTION The biggest trap of all is forgetting to "use warnings" or use the -w switch; see warnings and perlrun. The second biggest trap is not making your entire program runnable under "use strict". The third biggest trap is not reading the list of changes in this…
NAME perltodo – Link to the Perl to-do list DESCRIPTION The Perl 5 to-do list is maintained in the git repository, and can be viewed at <http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blob/HEAD:/Porting/todo.pod> (The to-do list used to be here in perltodo. That has stopped, as installing a snapshot that becomes increasingly out of date isn’t that useful to anyone.) Index
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 – The Perl 5 language interpreter SYNOPSIS GETTING HELP Overview…
NAME perltie – how to hide an object class in a simple variable SYNOPSIS tie VARIABLE, CLASSNAME, LIST $object = tied VARIABLE untie VARIABLE DESCRIPTION Prior to release 5.0 of Perl, a programmer could use dbmopen() to connect an on-disk database in the standard Unix dbm(3x) format magically to a %HASH in their program. However,…