Section 1: user commands and tools
NAME perlopentut – simple recipes for opening files and pipes in Perl DESCRIPTION Whenever you do I/O on a file in Perl, you do so through what in Perl is called a filehandle. A filehandle is an internal name for an external file. It is the job of the "open" function to make the association…
NAME perlopenbsd – Perl version 5 on OpenBSD systems DESCRIPTION This document describes various features of OpenBSD that will affect how Perl version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs. OpenBSD core dumps from getprotobyname_r and getservbyname_r with ithreads When Perl is configured to use ithreads, it will use re-entrant library calls in preference…
NAME perlop – Perl operators and precedence DESCRIPTION In Perl, the operator determines what operation is performed, independent of the type of the operands. For example "$x + $y" is always a numeric addition, and if $x or $y do not contain numbers, an attempt is made to convert them to numbers first. This is in contrast…
NAME perlootut – Object-Oriented Programming in Perl Tutorial DATE This document was created in February, 2011, and the last major revision was in February, 2013. If you are reading this in the future then it’s possible that the state of the art has changed. We recommend you start by reading the perlootut document in the…
NAME perlobj – Perl object reference DESCRIPTION This document provides a reference for Perl’s object orientation features. If you’re looking for an introduction to object-oriented programming in Perl, please see perlootut. In order to understand Perl objects, you first need to understand references in Perl. See perlreftut for details. This document describes all of Perl’s…
NAME perlnumber – semantics of numbers and numeric operations in Perl SYNOPSIS $n = 1234; #decimal integer $n = 0b1110011; #binary integer $n = 01234; #octal integer $n = 0x1234; #hexadecimal integer $n = 12.34e-56; #exponential notation $n = “-12.34e56”; #number specified as a string $n = “1234”; #number specified as a string DESCRIPTION This…
NAME perlnewmod – preparing a new module for distribution DESCRIPTION This document gives you some suggestions about how to go about writing Perl modules, preparing them for distribution, and making them available via CPAN. One of the things that makes Perl really powerful is the fact that Perl hackers tend to want to share the…
NAME perlnetware – Perl for NetWare DESCRIPTION This file gives instructions for building Perl 5.7 and above, and also Perl modules for NetWare. Before you start, you may want to read the README file found in the top level directory into which the Perl source code distribution was extracted. Make sure you read and understand…
NAME perlmroapi – Perl method resolution plugin interface DESCRIPTION As of Perl 5.10.1 there is a new interface for plugging and using method resolution orders other than the default (linear depth first search). The C3 method resolution order added in 5.10.0 has been re-implemented as a plugin, without changing its Perl-space interface. Each plugin should…
NAME perlmpeix – Perl/iX for HP e3000 MPE SYNOPSIS http://www.bixby.org/mark/perlix.html Perl language for MPE Last updated January 12, 2006 @ 2100 UTC NOTE This is a podified version of what used to be on the above-mentioned web page, podified by Jarkko Hietaniemi 2001-Jan-01. What’s New in Perl for MPE/iX January 12, 2006 • Updated for…
NAME perlmodstyle – Perl module style guide INTRODUCTION This document attempts to describe the Perl Community’s “best practice” for writing Perl modules. It extends the recommendations found in perlstyle , which should be considered required reading before reading this document. While this document is intended to be useful to all module authors, it is particularly…
NAME perlmodlib – constructing new Perl modules and finding existing ones THE PERL MODULE LIBRARY Many modules are included in the Perl distribution. These are described below, and all end in .pm. You may discover compiled library files (usually ending in .so) or small pieces of modules to be autoloaded (ending in .al); these were…
NAME perlmodinstall – Installing CPAN Modules DESCRIPTION You can think of a module as the fundamental unit of reusable Perl code; see perlmod for details. Whenever anyone creates a chunk of Perl code that they think will be useful to the world, they register as a Perl developer at <http://www.cpan.org/modules/04pause.html> so that they can then…
NAME perlmod – Perl modules (packages and symbol tables) DESCRIPTION Is this the document you were after? There are other documents which might contain the information that you’re looking for: This doc Perl’s packages, namespaces, and some info on classes. perlnewmod Tutorial on making a new module. perlmodstyle Best practices for making a new module….
NAME README.mint – Perl version 5 on Atari MiNT DESCRIPTION There is a binary version of perl available from the FreeMiNT project http://freemint.de/ You may wish to use this instead of trying to compile yourself. The following advice is from perl 5.004_02 and is probably rather out of date. If you want to build perl…
perlmine – A game to clear hidden mines from a minefield Synopsis perl perlmine.pl Description An example of config file: # -*- perl -*- # ~/.perlmine use utf8; %Config = ( %Config, rows => 10, cols => 10, mines => 10, image_directory => ‘/usr/share/pixmaps/gnomine’, name => ‘XXX’, ); Pod Errors Hey! The above document had…
NAME perlmacosx – Perl under Mac OS X SYNOPSIS This document briefly describes Perl under Mac OS X. curl -O http://www.cpan.org/src/perl-5.30.0.tar.gz tar -xzf perl-5.30.0.tar.gz cd perl-5.30.0 ./Configure -des -Dprefix=/usr/local/ make make test sudo make install DESCRIPTION The latest Perl release (5.30.0 as of this writing) builds without changes under all versions of Mac OS X…
NAME perlmacos – Perl under Mac OS (Classic) SYNOPSIS For Mac OS X see README.macosx Perl under Mac OS Classic has not been supported since before Perl 5.10 (April 2004). When we say “Mac OS” below, we mean Mac OS 7, 8, and 9, and not Mac OS X. DESCRIPTION The port of Perl to…
NAME README.machten – Perl version 5 on Power MachTen systems DESCRIPTION This document describes how to build Perl 5 on Power MachTen systems, and discusses a few wrinkles in the implementation. Perl version 5.8.x and greater not supported Power MachTen is not supported by versions of Perl later than 5.6.x. If you wish to build…
NAME perllol – Manipulating Arrays of Arrays in Perl DESCRIPTION Declaration and Access of Arrays of Arrays The simplest two-level data structure to build in Perl is an array of arrays, sometimes casually called a list of lists. It’s reasonably easy to understand, and almost everything that applies here will also be applicable later on…