NAME perl5124delta – what is new for perl v5.12.4 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.12.3 release and the 5.12.4 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.12.2, first read perl5123delta, which describes differences between 5.12.2 and 5.12.3. The major changes made in 5.12.0 are described in perl5120delta. Incompatible Changes…
NAME perl5123delta – what is new for perl v5.12.3 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.12.2 release and the 5.12.3 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.12.1, first read perl5122delta, which describes differences between 5.12.1 and 5.12.2. The major changes made in 5.12.0 are described in perl5120delta. Incompatible Changes…
NAME perl5122delta – what is new for perl v5.12.2 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.12.1 release and the 5.12.2 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier major version, such as 5.10.1, first read perl5120delta, which describes differences between 5.10.1 and 5.12.0, as well as perl5121delta, which describes earlier changes in the 5.12…
NAME perl5121delta – what is new for perl v5.12.1 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.12.0 release and the 5.12.1 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.10.1, first read perl5120delta, which describes differences between 5.10.1 and 5.12.0. Incompatible Changes There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.12.0. If any…
NAME perl5120delta – what is new for perl v5.12.0 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.10.0 release and the 5.12.0 release. Many of the bug fixes in 5.12.0 are already included in the 5.10.1 maintenance release. You can see the list of those changes in the 5.10.1 release notes (perl5101delta). Core Enhancements New package…
NAME perl5115delta – what is new for perl v5.11.5 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.11.4 release and the 5.11.5 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.11.3, first read perl5114delta, which describes differences between 5.11.3 and 5.11.4. Core Enhancements 32-bit limit on substr arguments removed The 32-bit limit on…
NAME perl5114delta – what is new for perl v5.11.4 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.11.3 release and the 5.11.4 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.11.2, first read perl5113delta, which describes differences between 5.11.2 and 5.11.3. Incompatible Changes Version number formats Acceptable version number formats have been formalized…
NAME perl5113delta – what is new for perl v5.11.3 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.11.2 release and the 5.11.3 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.11.1, first read the perl5112delta, which describes differences between 5.11.1 and 5.11.2 Incompatible Changes Filehandles are blessed directly into IO::Handle, as FileHandle is…
NAME perl5112delta – what is new for perl v5.11.2 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.11.1 release and the 5.11.2 release. Core Enhancements qr overloading It is now possible to overload the "qr//" operator, that is, conversion to regexp, like it was already possible to overload conversion to boolean, string or number of objects….
NAME perl5111delta – what is new for perl v5.11.1 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.11.0 release and the 5.11.1 release. Incompatible Changes • The boolkeys op moved to the group of hash ops. This breaks binary compatibility. • "\s" "\w" and "\d" once again have the semantics they had in Perl 5.8.x. Core…
NAME perl5110delta – what is new for perl v5.11.0 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.10.0 release and the 5.11.0 development release. Incompatible Changes Unicode interpretation of \w, \d, \s, and the POSIX character classes redefined. Previous versions of Perl tried to map POSIX style character class definitions onto Unicode property names so that…
NAME perl5101delta – what is new for perl v5.10.1 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.10.0 release and the 5.10.1 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.8.8, first read the perl5100delta, which describes differences between 5.8.8 and 5.10.0 Incompatible Changes Switch statement changes The handling of complex expressions by…
NAME perl5100delta – what is new for perl 5.10.0 DESCRIPTION This document describes the differences between the 5.8.8 release and the 5.10.0 release. Many of the bug fixes in 5.10.0 were already seen in the 5.8.X maintenance releases; they are not duplicated here and are documented in the set of man pages named perl58[1-8]?delta. Core…
NAME perl5005delta – what’s new for perl5.005 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.004 release and this one. About the new versioning system Perl is now developed on two tracks: a maintenance track that makes small, safe updates to released production versions with emphasis on compatibility; and a development track that pursues more aggressive…
NAME perl5004delta – what’s new for perl5.004 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.003 release (as documented in Programming Perl, second edition—the Camel Book) and this one. Supported Environments Perl5.004 builds out of the box on Unix, Plan 9, LynxOS, VMS, OS/2, QNX, AmigaOS, and Windows NT. Perl runs on Windows 95 as well,…
perl – The Perl 5 language interpreter Synopsis perl [ -sTtuUWX ] [ -hv ] [ -V[:configvar] ] [ -cw ] [ -d[t][:debugger] ] [ -D[number/list] ] [ -pna ] [ -Fpattern ] [ -l[octal] ] [ -0[octal/hexadecimal] ] [ -Idir ] [ -m[–]module ] [ -M[–]‘module…’ ] [ -f ] [ -C [number/list] ] [ -S ] [ -x[dir] ] [ -i[extension] ] [ [-e|-E] ‘command’ ] [ — ] [ programfile ] [ argument ]… For more information on these options, you can run "perldoc perlrun". Getting Help The perldoc program gives you access to all the documentation that comes with Perl. You can get more documentation, tutorials and community support online…
perl – The Perl 5 language interpreter Synopsis perl [ -sTtuUWX ] [ -hv ] [ -V[:configvar] ] [ -cw ] [ -d[t][:debugger] ] [ -D[number/list] ] [ -pna ] [ -Fpattern ] [ -l[octal] ] [ -0[octal/hexadecimal] ] [ -Idir ] [ -m[–]module ] [ -M[–]‘module…’ ] [ -f ] [ -C [number/list] ] [ -S ] [ -x[dir] ] [ -i[extension] ] [ [-e|-E] ‘command’ ] [ — ] [ programfile ] [ argument ]… For more information on these options, you can run "perldoc perlrun". Getting Help The perldoc program gives you access to all the documentation that comes with Perl. You can get more documentation, tutorials and community support online…
perl – The Perl 5 language interpreter Synopsis perl [ -sTtuUWX ] [ -hv ] [ -V[:configvar] ] [ -cw ] [ -d[t][:debugger] ] [ -D[number/list] ] [ -pna ] [ -Fpattern ] [ -l[octal] ] [ -0[octal/hexadecimal] ] [ -Idir ] [ -m[–]module ] [ -M[–]‘module…’ ] [ -f ] [ -C [number/list] ] [ -S ] [ -x[dir] ] [ -i[extension] ] [ [-e|-E] ‘command’ ] [ — ] [ programfile ] [ argument ]… For more information on these options, you can run "perldoc perlrun". Getting Help The perldoc program gives you access to all the documentation that comes with Perl. You can get more documentation, tutorials and community support online…
perl – The Perl 5 language interpreter Synopsis perl [ -sTtuUWX ] [ -hv ] [ -V[:configvar] ] [ -cw ] [ -d[t][:debugger] ] [ -D[number/list] ] [ -pna ] [ -Fpattern ] [ -l[octal] ] [ -0[octal/hexadecimal] ] [ -Idir ] [ -m[–]module ] [ -M[–]‘module…’ ] [ -f ] [ -C [number/list] ] [ -S ] [ -x[dir] ] [ -i[extension] ] [ [-e|-E] ‘command’ ] [ — ] [ programfile ] [ argument ]… For more information on these options, you can run "perldoc perlrun". Getting Help The perldoc program gives you access to all the documentation that comes with Perl. You can get more documentation, tutorials and community support online…
perl – The Perl 5 language interpreter Synopsis perl [ -sTtuUWX ] [ -hv ] [ -V[:configvar] ] [ -cw ] [ -d[t][:debugger] ] [ -D[number/list] ] [ -pna ] [ -Fpattern ] [ -l[octal] ] [ -0[octal/hexadecimal] ] [ -Idir ] [ -m[–]module ] [ -M[–]‘module…’ ] [ -f ] [ -C [number/list] ] [ -S ] [ -x[dir] ] [ -i[extension] ] [ [-e|-E] ‘command’ ] [ — ] [ programfile ] [ argument ]… For more information on these options, you can run "perldoc perlrun". Getting Help The perldoc program gives you access to all the documentation that comes with Perl. You can get more documentation, tutorials and community support online…