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, PerlIO *old);…
perlapi – autogenerated documentation for the perl public API DescriptionThis 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 of…
perlandroid – Perl under Android SynopsisThe 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. DescriptionThis document describes how to set up your host…
perlamiga – Perl under AmigaOS 4.1 NoteThis 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 greater is…
perlaix – Perl version 5 on IBM AIX (UNIX) systems DescriptionThis 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 AIXFor information on compilers on older versions of AIX, see “Compiling Perl 5 on older AIX…
perl6 – Rakudo Perl 6 Compiler Synopsis perl6 [switches] [–] [programfile] [arguments]DescriptionWith 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…
perl6 – Rakudo Perl 6 Compiler Synopsis perl6 [switches] [–] [programfile] [arguments]DescriptionWith 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…
perl595delta – what is new for perl v5.9.5 DescriptionThis 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 ChangesTainting and printfWhen perl is run under taint mode, "printf()" and "sprintf()" will now reject any tainted format argument. (Rafael…
perl594delta – what is new for perl v5.9.4 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.9.3 and the 5.9.4 development releases. See perl590delta, perl591delta, perl592delta and perl593delta for the differences between 5.8.0 and 5.9.3. Incompatible Changeschdir FOOA bareword argument to chdir() is now recognized as a file handle. Earlier releases interpreted the bareword as a directory…
perl593delta – what is new for perl v5.9.3 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.9.2 and the 5.9.3 development releases. See perl590delta, perl591delta and perl592delta for the differences between 5.8.0 and 5.9.2. Incompatible ChangesParsing of -f _The identifier "_" is now forced to be a bareword after a filetest operator. This solves a number of…
perl592delta – what is new for perl v5.9.2 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.9.1 and the 5.9.2 development releases. See perl590delta and perl591delta for the differences between 5.8.0 and 5.9.1. Incompatible ChangesPacking and UTF-8 stringsThe semantics of pack() and unpack() regarding UTF-8-encoded data has been changed. Processing is now by default character per character…
perl591delta – what is new for perl v5.9.1 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.9.0 and the 5.9.1 development releases. See perl590delta for the differences between 5.8.0 and 5.9.0. Incompatible Changessubstr() lvalues are no longer fixed-lengthThe lvalues returned by the three argument form of substr() used to be a “fixed length window” on the original…
perl590delta – what is new for perl v5.9.0 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.8.0 release and the 5.9.0 release. Incompatible ChangesHash RandomisationMainly due to security reasons, the “random ordering” of hashes has been made even more random. Previously while the order of hash elements from keys(), values(), and each() was essentially random, it was…
perl58delta – what is new for perl v5.8.0 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.6.0 release and the 5.8.0 release. Many of the bug fixes in 5.8.0 were already seen in the 5.6.1 maintenance release since the two releases were kept closely coordinated (while 5.8.0 was still called 5.7.something). Changes that were integrated into the…
perl589delta – what is new for perl v5.8.9 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.8.8 release and the 5.8.9 release. NoticeThe 5.8.9 release will be the last significant release of the 5.8.x series. Any future releases of 5.8.x will likely only be to deal with security issues, and platform build failures. Hence you should look…
perl588delta – what is new for perl v5.8.8 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.8.7 release and the 5.8.8 release. Incompatible ChangesThere are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.8.7. If any exist, they are bugs and reports are welcome. Core Enhancements• "chdir", "chmod" and "chown" can now work on filehandles as well as filenames, if…
perl587delta – what is new for perl v5.8.7 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.8.6 release and the 5.8.7 release. Incompatible ChangesThere are no changes incompatible with 5.8.6. Core EnhancementsUnicode Character Database 4.1.0The copy of the Unicode Character Database included in Perl 5.8 has been updated to 4.1.0 from 4.0.1. See <http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.1.0/#NotableChanges> for the notable…
perl586delta – what is new for perl v5.8.6 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.8.5 release and the 5.8.6 release. Incompatible ChangesThere are no changes incompatible with 5.8.5. Core EnhancementsThe perl interpreter is now more tolerant of UTF-16-encoded scripts. On Win32, Perl can now use non-IFS compatible LSPs, which allows Perl to work in conjunction…
perl585delta – what is new for perl v5.8.5 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.8.4 release and the 5.8.5 release. Incompatible ChangesThere are no changes incompatible with 5.8.4. Core EnhancementsPerl’s regular expression engine now contains support for matching on the intersection of two Unicode character classes. You can also now refer to user-defined character classes…
perl584delta – what is new for perl v5.8.4 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.8.3 release and the 5.8.4 release. Incompatible ChangesMany minor bugs have been fixed. Scripts which happen to rely on previously erroneous behaviour will consider these fixes as incompatible changes :-) You are advised to perform sufficient acceptance testing on this release…