Section 1: user commands and tools
NAME perlclib – Internal replacements for standard C library functions DESCRIPTION One 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…
NAME perlcheat – Perl 5 Cheat Sheet DESCRIPTION This ‘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…
NAME perlce – Perl for WinCE Building Perl for WinCE WARNING Much of this document has become very out of date and needs updating, rewriting or deleting.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,…
NAME perlcall – Perl calling conventions from C DESCRIPTION The 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…
NAME perlbug – how to submit bug reports on Perl SYNOPSIS perlbug 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 DESCRIPTION This program is designed to help you generate bug reports (and thank-you notes) about perl5 and the modules which ship with it. In…
NAME 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>. SYNOPSIS This document will help you Configure, build, test and install Perl on BS2000 in the POSIX subsystem. DESCRIPTION This is a…
NAME perlbot – Links to information on object-oriented programming in Perl DESCRIPTION For 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.) Index
NAME perlbook – Books about and related to Perl DESCRIPTION There 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…
NAME perlbeos – Perl version 5.8+ on BeOS DESCRIPTION This file contains instructions how to build Perl under BeOS and lists known problems. BUILD AND INSTALL Requirements I 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…
NAME Perlbal – Reverse-proxy load balancer and webserver DESCRIPTION For 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 LICENSE Copyright 2004, Danga Interactive, Inc. Copyright 2005-2007, Six Apart, Ltd. You can use and redistribute Perlbal under the…
NAME 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" 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 published by the…
NAME README.apollo – Perl version 5 on Apollo DomainOS DESCRIPTION The 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…
NAME 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,…
perlapi – autogenerated documentation for the perl public API Description This 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…
NAME perlandroid – Perl under Android SYNOPSIS The first portions of this documents contains instructions to cross-compile Perl for Android 2.0 and later, using the binaries provided by Google. The latter portion describes how to build perl native using one of the toolchains available on the Play Store. DESCRIPTION This document describes how to set…
NAME perlamiga – Perl under AmigaOS 4.1 NOTE This is a port of Perl 5.22.1, it is a fresh port and not in any way compatible with my previous ports of Perl 5.8 and 5.16.3. This means you will need to reinstall / rebuild any third party modules you have installed. newlib.library version 53.28 or…
NAME perlaix – Perl version 5 on IBM AIX (UNIX) systems DESCRIPTION This document describes various features of IBM‘s UNIX operating system AIX that will affect how Perl version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs. Compiling Perl 5 on AIX For information on compilers on older versions of AIX, see “Compiling Perl 5…
NAME perl6 – Rakudo Perl 6 Compiler SYNOPSIS perl6[switches][–][programfile][arguments] DESCRIPTION With no arguments, enters a REPL. With a "[programfile]" or the "-e" option, compiles the given program and by default also executes the compiled code. -c check syntax only (runs BEGIN and CHECK blocks) –doc extract documentation and print it as text -e program one…
NAME perl6 – Rakudo Perl 6 Compiler SYNOPSIS perl6[switches][–][programfile][arguments] DESCRIPTION With no arguments, enters a REPL. With a "[programfile]" or the "-e" option, compiles the given program and by default also executes the compiled code. -c check syntax only (runs BEGIN and CHECK blocks) –doc extract documentation and print it as text -e program one…
NAME perl595delta – what is new for perl v5.9.5 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.9.4 and the 5.9.5 development releases. See perl590delta, perl591delta, perl592delta, perl593delta and perl594delta for the differences between 5.8.0 and 5.9.4. Incompatible Changes Tainting and printf When perl is run under taint mode, "printf()" and "sprintf()" will now reject any…