Section 1: user commands and tools
NAME perlreftut – Mark’s very short tutorial about references DESCRIPTION One of the most important new features in Perl 5 was the capability to manage complicated data structures like multidimensional arrays and nested hashes. To enable these, Perl 5 introduced a feature called references, and using references is the key to managing complicated, structured data…
NAME perlref – Perl references and nested data structures NOTE This is complete documentation about all aspects of references. For a shorter, tutorial introduction to just the essential features, see perlreftut. DESCRIPTION Before release 5 of Perl it was difficult to represent complex data structures, because all references had to be symbolic—and even then it…
NAME perlrecharclass – Perl Regular Expression Character Classes DESCRIPTION The top level documentation about Perl regular expressions is found in perlre. This manual page discusses the syntax and use of character classes in Perl regular expressions. A character class is a way of denoting a set of characters in such a way that one character…
NAME perlrebackslash – Perl Regular Expression Backslash Sequences and Escapes DESCRIPTION The top level documentation about Perl regular expressions is found in perlre. This document describes all backslash and escape sequences. After explaining the role of the backslash, it lists all the sequences that have a special meaning in Perl regular expressions (in alphabetical order),…
NAME perlreapi – Perl regular expression plugin interface DESCRIPTION As of Perl 5.9.5 there is a new interface for plugging and using regular expression engines other than the default one. Each engine is supposed to provide access to a constant structure of the following format: typedef struct regexp_engine { REGEXP *(*comp)(pTHX_ const SV *const pattern,…
NAME perlre – Perl regular expressions DESCRIPTION This page describes the syntax of regular expressions in Perl. If you haven’t used regular expressions before, a tutorial introduction is available in perlretut. If you know just a little about them, a quick-start introduction is available in perlrequick. Except for “The Basics” section, this page assumes you…
NAME perlqnx – Perl version 5 on QNX DESCRIPTION As of perl5.7.2 all tests pass under: QNX 4.24G Watcom 10.6 with Beta/970211.wcc.update.tar.F socket3r.lib Nov21 1996. As of perl5.8.1 there is at least one test still failing. Some tests may complain under known circumstances. See below and hints/qnx.sh for more information. Under QNX 6.2.0 there are…
NAME perlpragma – how to write a user pragma DESCRIPTION A pragma is a module which influences some aspect of the compile time or run time behaviour of Perl, such as "strict" or "warnings". With Perl 5.10 you are no longer limited to the built in pragmata; you can now create user pragmata that modify…
NAME perlport – Writing portable Perl DESCRIPTION Perl runs on numerous operating systems. While most of them share much in common, they also have their own unique features. This document is meant to help you to find out what constitutes portable Perl code. That way once you make a decision to write portably, you know…
NAME perlpolicy – Various and sundry policies and commitments related to the Perl core DESCRIPTION This document is the master document which records all written policies about how the Perl 5 Porters collectively develop and maintain the Perl core. GOVERNANCE Perl 5 Porters Subscribers to perl5-porters (the porters themselves) come in several flavours. Some are…
NAME perlpodstyle – Perl POD style guide DESCRIPTION These are general guidelines for how to write POD documentation for Perl scripts and modules, based on general guidelines for writing good UNIX man pages. All of these guidelines are, of course, optional, but following them will make your documentation more consistent with other documentation on the…
NAME perlpodspec – Plain Old Documentation: format specification and notes DESCRIPTION This document is detailed notes on the Pod markup language. Most people will only have to read perlpod to know how to write in Pod, but this document may answer some incidental questions to do with parsing and rendering Pod. In this document, “must”…
NAME perlpod – the Plain Old Documentation format DESCRIPTION Pod is a simple-to-use markup language used for writing documentation for Perl, Perl programs, and Perl modules. Translators are available for converting Pod to various formats like plain text, HTML, man pages, and more. Pod markup consists of three basic kinds of paragraphs: ordinary, verbatim, and…
NAME perlplan9 – Plan 9-specific documentation for Perl DESCRIPTION These are a few notes describing features peculiar to Plan 9 Perl. As such, it is not intended to be a replacement for the rest of the Perl 5 documentation (which is both copious and excellent). If you have any questions to which you can’t find…
NAME perlperf – Perl Performance and Optimization Techniques DESCRIPTION This is an introduction to the use of performance and optimization techniques which can be used with particular reference to perl programs. While many perl developers have come from other languages, and can use their prior knowledge where appropriate, there are many other people who might…
NAME perlpacktut – tutorial on "pack" and "unpack" DESCRIPTION "pack" and "unpack" are two functions for transforming data according to a user-defined template, between the guarded way Perl stores values and some well-defined representation as might be required in the environment of a Perl program. Unfortunately, they’re also two of the most misunderstood and most…
NAME perlothrtut – old tutorial on threads in Perl DESCRIPTION WARNING: This tutorial describes the old-style thread model that was introduced in release 5.005. This model is deprecated, and has been removed for version 5.10. The interfaces described here were considered experimental, and are likely to be buggy. For information about the new interpreter threads…
NAME perlos400 – Perl version 5 on OS/400 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>. DESCRIPTION This document describes various features of IBM‘s OS/400 operating system that will affect how Perl version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled…
NAME perlos390 – building and installing Perl for OS/390 and z/OS SYNOPSIS This document will help you Configure, build, test and install Perl on OS/390 (aka z/OS) Unix System Services. 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>. DESCRIPTION…
NAME perlos2 – Perl under OS/2, DOS, Win0.3*, Win0.95 and WinNT. SYNOPSIS One can read this document in the following formats: man perlos2 view perl perlos2 explorer perlos2.html info perlos2 to list some (not all may be available simultaneously), or it may be read as is: either as README.os2, or pod/perlos2.pod. To read the .INF…