Section 1: user commands and tools
NAME perllocale – Perl locale handling (internationalization and localization) DESCRIPTION In the beginning there was ASCII, the “American Standard Code for Information Interchange”, which works quite well for Americans with their English alphabet and dollar-denominated currency. But it doesn’t work so well even for other English speakers, who may use different currencies, such as the…
NAME perllinux – Perl version 5 on Linux systems DESCRIPTION This document describes various features of Linux that will affect how Perl version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs. Experimental Support for Sun Studio Compilers for Linux OS Sun Microsystems has released a port of their Sun Studio compilers for Linux. As of…
NAME perllexwarn – Perl Lexical Warnings DESCRIPTION Perl v5.6.0 introduced lexical control over the handling of warnings by category. The "warnings" pragma generally replaces the command line flag -w. Documentation on the use of lexical warnings, once partly found in this document, is now found in the warnings documentation. Index
NAME perlivp – Perl Installation Verification Procedure SYNOPSIS perlivp [-p] [-v] [-h] DESCRIPTION The perlivp program is set up at Perl source code build time to test the Perl version it was built under. It can be used after running: make install (or your platform’s equivalent procedure) to verify that perl and its libraries have…
NAME perlirix – Perl version 5 on Irix systems DESCRIPTION This document describes various features of Irix that will affect how Perl version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs. Building 32-bit Perl in Irix Use sh Configure -Dcc=’cc -n32′ to compile Perl 32-bit. Don’t bother with -n32 unless you have 7.1 or later…
NAME perlipc – Perl interprocess communication (signals, fifos, pipes, safe subprocesses, sockets, and semaphores) DESCRIPTION The basic IPC facilities of Perl are built out of the good old Unix signals, named pipes, pipe opens, the Berkeley socket routines, and SysV IPC calls. Each is used in slightly different situations. Signals Perl uses a simple signal…
NAME perliol – C API for Perl’s implementation of IO in Layers. SYNOPSIS /* Defining a layer … */ #include <perliol.h> DESCRIPTION This document describes the behavior and implementation of the PerlIO abstraction described in perlapio when "USE_PERLIO" is defined. History and Background The PerlIO abstraction was introduced in perl5.003_02 but languished as just an…
NAME perlintro — a brief introduction and overview of Perl DESCRIPTION This document is intended to give you a quick overview of the Perl programming language, along with pointers to further documentation. It is intended as a “bootstrap” guide for those who are new to the language, and provides just enough information for you to…
NAME perlinterp – An overview of the Perl interpreter DESCRIPTION This document provides an overview of how the Perl interpreter works at the level of C code, along with pointers to the relevant C source code files. ELEMENTS OF THE INTERPRETER The work of the interpreter has two main stages: compiling the code into the…
NAME perlintern – autogenerated documentation of purely internal Perl functions DESCRIPTION This file is the autogenerated documentation of functions in the Perl interpreter that are documented using Perl’s internal documentation format but are not marked as part of the Perl API. In other words, they are not for use in extensions! Compile-time scope hooks…
NAME perlhurd – Perl version 5 on Hurd DESCRIPTION If you want to use Perl on the Hurd, I recommend using the Debian GNU/Hurd distribution ( see <http://www.debian.org/> ), even if an official, stable release has not yet been made. The old “gnu-0.2” binary distribution will most certainly have additional problems. Known Problems with Perl…
NAME perlhpux – Perl version 5 on Hewlett-Packard Unix (HP-UX) systems DESCRIPTION This document describes various features of HP‘s Unix operating system (HP-UX) that will affect how Perl version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs. Using perl as shipped with HP-UX Application release September 2001, HP-UX 11.00 is the first to ship with…
NAME perlhist – the Perl history records DESCRIPTION This document aims to record the Perl source code releases. INTRODUCTION Perl history in brief, by Larry Wall: Perl 0 introduced Perl to my officemates. Perl 1 introduced Perl to the world, and changed /\(…\|…\)/ to /(…|…)/. \(Dan Faigin still hasn’t forgiven me. :-\) Perl 2 introduced…
NAME perlhaiku – Perl version 5.10+ on Haiku DESCRIPTION This file contains instructions how to build Perl for Haiku and lists known problems. BUILD AND INSTALL The build procedure is completely standard: ./Configure -de make make install Make perl executable and create a symlink for libperl: chmod a+x /boot/common/bin/perl cd /boot/common/lib; ln -s perl5/5.30.0/BePC-haiku/CORE/libperl.so ….
NAME perlhacktut – Walk through the creation of a simple C code patch DESCRIPTION This document takes you through a simple patch example. If you haven’t read perlhack yet, go do that first! You might also want to read through perlsource too. Once you’re done here, check out perlhacktips next. EXAMPLE OF A SIMPLE PATCH…
NAME perlhacktips – Tips for Perl core C code hacking DESCRIPTION This document will help you learn the best way to go about hacking on the Perl core C code. It covers common problems, debugging, profiling, and more. If you haven’t read perlhack and perlhacktut yet, you might want to do that first. COMMON PROBLEMS…
NAME perlhack – How to hack on Perl DESCRIPTION This document explains how Perl development works. It includes details about the Perl 5 Porters email list, the Perl repository, the Perlbug bug tracker, patch guidelines, and commentary on Perl development philosophy. SUPER QUICK PATCH GUIDE If you just want to submit a single small patch…
NAME perlguts – Introduction to the Perl API DESCRIPTION This document attempts to describe how to use the Perl API, as well as to provide some info on the basic workings of the Perl core. It is far from complete and probably contains many errors. Please refer any questions or comments to the author below….
NAME perlgpl – the GNU General Public License, version 1 SYNOPSIS You can refer to this document in Pod via "L<perlgpl>" Or you can see this document by entering "perldoc perlgpl" DESCRIPTION Perl is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: a) the GNU General Public License as…
NAME perlglossary – Perl Glossary VERSION version 5.20190126 DESCRIPTION A glossary of terms (technical and otherwise) used in the Perl documentation, derived from the Glossary of Programming Perl, Fourth Edition. Words or phrases in bold are defined elsewhere in this glossary. Other useful sources include the Unicode Glossary <http://unicode.org/glossary/>, the Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing…