NAME perlunitut – Perl Unicode Tutorial DESCRIPTION The days of just flinging strings around are over. It’s well established that modern programs need to be capable of communicating funny accented letters, and things like euro symbols. This means that programmers need new habits. It’s easy to program Unicode capable software, but it does require discipline…
NAME perluniprops – Index of Unicode Version 12.1.0 character properties in Perl DESCRIPTION This document provides information about the portion of the Unicode database that deals with character properties, that is the portion that is defined on single code points. (“Other information in the Unicode data base” below briefly mentions other data that Unicode provides.)…
NAME perluniintro – Perl Unicode introduction DESCRIPTION This document gives a general idea of Unicode and how to use Unicode in Perl. See “Further Resources” for references to more in-depth treatments of Unicode. Unicode Unicode is a character set standard which plans to codify all of the writing systems of the world, plus many other…
NAME perlunifaq – Perl Unicode FAQ Q and A This is a list of questions and answers about Unicode in Perl, intended to be read after perlunitut. perlunitut isn’t really a Unicode tutorial, is it? No, and this isn’t really a Unicode FAQ. Perl has an abstracted interface for all supported character encodings, so this…
NAME perlunicode – Unicode support in Perl DESCRIPTION If you haven’t already, before reading this document, you should become familiar with both perlunitut and perluniintro. Unicode aims to UNI-fy the en-CODE-ings of all the world’s character sets into a single Standard. For quite a few of the various coding standards that existed when Unicode was…
NAME perltru64 – Perl version 5 on Tru64 (formerly known as Digital UNIX formerly known as DEC OSF/1) systems DESCRIPTION This document describes various features of HP‘s (formerly Compaq’s, formerly Digital’s) Unix operating system (Tru64) that will affect how Perl version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is configured, compiled and/or runs. Compiling Perl 5 on Tru64…
NAME perltrap – Perl traps for the unwary DESCRIPTION The biggest trap of all is forgetting to "use warnings" or use the -w switch; see warnings and perlrun. The second biggest trap is not making your entire program runnable under "use strict". The third biggest trap is not reading the list of changes in this…
NAME perltodo – Link to the Perl to-do list DESCRIPTION The Perl 5 to-do list is maintained in the git repository, and can be viewed at <http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blob/HEAD:/Porting/todo.pod> (The to-do list used to be here in perltodo. That has stopped, as installing a snapshot that becomes increasingly out of date isn’t that useful to anyone.) Index
perltoc – perl documentation table of contents Description This page provides a brief table of contents for the rest of the Perl documentation set. It is meant to be scanned quickly or grepped through to locate the proper section you’re looking for. Basic Documentation perl – The Perl 5 language interpreter SYNOPSIS GETTING HELP Overview…
NAME perltie – how to hide an object class in a simple variable SYNOPSIS tie VARIABLE, CLASSNAME, LIST $object = tied VARIABLE untie VARIABLE DESCRIPTION Prior to release 5.0 of Perl, a programmer could use dbmopen() to connect an on-disk database in the standard Unix dbm(3x) format magically to a %HASH in their program. However,…
NAME perltidy – a perl script indenter and reformatter SYNOPSIS perltidy[options] file1 file2 file3…(output goes to file1.tdy, file2.tdy, file3.tdy, …) perltidy[options] file1 – o outfile perltidy[options] file1 – st > outfile perltidy[options]<infile> outfile DESCRIPTION Perltidy reads a perl script and writes an indented, reformatted script. Many users will find enough information in “EXAMPLES” to get…
NAME perlthrtut – Tutorial on threads in Perl DESCRIPTION This tutorial describes the use of Perl interpreter threads (sometimes referred to as ithreads). In this model, each thread runs in its own Perl interpreter, and any data sharing between threads must be explicit. The user-level interface for ithreads uses the threads class. NOTE: There was…
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 perltex – enable LaTeX macros to be defined in terms of Perl code SYNOPSIS perltex [–help] [–latex=program] [—[no]safe] [–permit=feature] [–makesty] [latex options] DESCRIPTION LaTeX — through the underlying TeX typesetting system — produces beautifully typeset documents but has a macro language that is difficult to program. In particular, support for complex string manipulation is…
NAME perlsynology – Perl 5 on Synology DSM systems DESCRIPTION Synology manufactures a vast number of Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices that are very popular in large organisations as well as small businesses and homes. The NAS systems are equipped with Synology Disk Storage Manager (DSM), which is a trimmed-down Linux system enhanced with several…
NAME perlsyn – Perl syntax DESCRIPTION A Perl program consists of a sequence of declarations and statements which run from the top to the bottom. Loops, subroutines, and other control structures allow you to jump around within the code. Perl is a free-form language: you can format and indent it however you like. Whitespace serves…
NAME perlsymbian – Perl version 5 on Symbian OS DESCRIPTION This document describes various features of the Symbian operating system that will affect how Perl version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs. NOTE: this port (as of 0.4.1) does not compile into a Symbian OS GUI application, but instead it results in a…
NAME perlsub – Perl subroutines SYNOPSIS To declare subroutines: sub NAME; #A “forward” declaration.sub NAME(PROTO); #ditto, but with prototypes sub NAME : ATTRS; #with attributes sub NAME(PROTO) : ATTRS; #with attributes and prototypes sub NAME BLOCK #A declaration and a definition.sub NAME(PROTO) BLOCK #ditto, but with prototypes sub NAME : ATTRS BLOCK #with attributes sub…
NAME perlstyle – Perl style guide DESCRIPTION Each programmer will, of course, have his or her own preferences in regards to formatting, but there are some general guidelines that will make your programs easier to read, understand, and maintain. The most important thing is to run your programs under the -w flag at all times….
NAME perlsource – A guide to the Perl source tree DESCRIPTION This document describes the layout of the Perl source tree. If you’re hacking on the Perl core, this will help you find what you’re looking for. FINDING YOUR WAY AROUND The Perl source tree is big. Here’s some of the thing you’ll find in…