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PERLTOC(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERLTOC(1)
NAME
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 - Practical Extraction and Report Language
SYNOPSIS
Overview
Tutorials
Reference Manual
Internals and C Language Interface
Miscellaneous
Language-Specific
Platform-Specific
DESCRIPTION
AVAILABILITY
ENVIRONMENT
AUTHOR
FILES
SEE ALSO
DIAGNOSTICS
BUGS
NOTES
perlintro -- a brief introduction and overview of Perl
DESCRIPTION
What is Perl?
Running Perl programs
Basic syntax overview
Perl variable types
Scalars, Arrays, Hashes
Variable scoping
Conditional and looping constructs
if, while, for, foreach
Builtin operators and functions
Arithmetic, Numeric comparison, String comparison, Boolean
logic, Miscellaneous
Files and I/O
Regular expressions
Simple matching, Simple substitution, More complex regular
expressions, Parentheses for capturing, Other regexp features
Writing subroutines
OO Perl
Using Perl modules
AUTHOR
perlreftut - Mark's very short tutorial about references
DESCRIPTION
Who Needs Complicated Data Structures?
The Solution
Syntax
Making References
Using References
An Example
Arrow Rule
Solution
The Rest
Summary
Credits
Distribution Conditions
perldsc - Perl Data Structures Cookbook
DESCRIPTION
arrays of arrays, hashes of arrays, arrays of hashes, hashes of
hashes, more elaborate constructs
REFERENCES
COMMON MISTAKES
CAVEAT ON PRECEDENCE
WHY YOU SHOULD ALWAYS "use strict"
DEBUGGING
CODE EXAMPLES
ARRAYS OF ARRAYS
Declaration of an ARRAY OF ARRAYS
Generation of an ARRAY OF ARRAYS
Access and Printing of an ARRAY OF ARRAYS
HASHES OF ARRAYS
Declaration of a HASH OF ARRAYS
Generation of a HASH OF ARRAYS
Access and Printing of a HASH OF ARRAYS
ARRAYS OF HASHES
Declaration of an ARRAY OF HASHES
Generation of an ARRAY OF HASHES
Access and Printing of an ARRAY OF HASHES
HASHES OF HASHES
Declaration of a HASH OF HASHES
Generation of a HASH OF HASHES
Access and Printing of a HASH OF HASHES
MORE ELABORATE RECORDS
Declaration of MORE ELABORATE RECORDS
Declaration of a HASH OF COMPLEX RECORDS
Generation of a HASH OF COMPLEX RECORDS
Database Ties
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
perllol - Manipulating Arrays of Arrays in Perl
DESCRIPTION
Declaration and Access of Arrays of Arrays
Growing Your Own
Access and Printing
Slices
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
perlrequick - Perl regular expressions quick start
DESCRIPTION
The Guide
Simple word matching
Using character classes
Matching this or that
Grouping things and hierarchical matching
Extracting matches
Matching repetitions
More matching
Search and replace
The split operator
BUGS
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
Acknowledgments
perlretut - Perl regular expressions tutorial
DESCRIPTION
Part 1: The basics
Simple word matching
Using character classes
Matching this or that
Grouping things and hierarchical matching
Extracting matches
Matching repetitions
Building a regexp
Using regular expressions in Perl
Part 2: Power tools
More on characters, strings, and character classes
Compiling and saving regular expressions
Embedding comments and modifiers in a regular expression
Non-capturing groupings
Looking ahead and looking behind
Using independent subexpressions to prevent backtracking
Conditional expressions
A bit of magic: executing Perl code in a regular expression
Pragmas and debugging
BUGS
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
Acknowledgments
perlboot - Beginner's Object-Oriented Tutorial
DESCRIPTION
If we could talk to the animals...
Introducing the method invocation arrow
Invoking a barnyard
The extra parameter of method invocation
Calling a second method to simplify things
Inheriting the windpipes
A few notes about @ISA
Overriding the methods
Starting the search from a different place
The SUPER way of doing things
Where we're at so far...
A horse is a horse, of course of course -- or is it?
Invoking an instance method
Accessing the instance data
How to build a horse
Inheriting the constructor
Making a method work with either classes or instances
Adding parameters to a method
More interesting instances
A horse of a different color
Summary
SEE ALSO
COPYRIGHT
perltoot - Tom's object-oriented tutorial for perl
DESCRIPTION
Creating a Class
Object Representation
Class Interface
Constructors and Instance Methods
Planning for the Future: Better Constructors
Destructors
Other Object Methods
Class Data
Accessing Class Data
Debugging Methods
Class Destructors
Documenting the Interface
Aggregation
Inheritance
Overridden Methods
Multiple Inheritance
UNIVERSAL: The Root of All Objects
Alternate Object Representations
Arrays as Objects
Closures as Objects
AUTOLOAD: Proxy Methods
Autoloaded Data Methods
Inherited Autoloaded Data Methods
Metaclassical Tools
Class::Struct
Data Members as Variables
NOTES
Object Terminology
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
COPYRIGHT
Acknowledgments
perltooc - Tom's OO Tutorial for Class Data in Perl
DESCRIPTION
Class Data in a Can
Class Data as Package Variables
Putting All Your Eggs in One Basket
Inheritance Concerns
The Eponymous Meta-Object
Indirect References to Class Data
Monadic Classes
Translucent Attributes
Class Data as Lexical Variables
Privacy and Responsibility
File-Scoped Lexicals
More Inheritance Concerns
Locking the Door and Throwing Away the Key
Translucency Revisited
NOTES
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
HISTORY
perlbot - Bag'o Object Tricks (the BOT)
DESCRIPTION
OO SCALING TIPS
INSTANCE VARIABLES
SCALAR INSTANCE VARIABLES
INSTANCE VARIABLE INHERITANCE
OBJECT RELATIONSHIPS
OVERRIDING SUPERCLASS METHODS
USING RELATIONSHIP WITH SDBM
THINKING OF CODE REUSE
CLASS CONTEXT AND THE OBJECT
INHERITING A CONSTRUCTOR
DELEGATION
SEE ALSO
perlstyle - Perl style guide
DESCRIPTION
perlcheat - Perl 5 Cheat Sheet
DESCRIPTION
The sheet
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
AUTHOR
SEE ALSO
perltrap - Perl traps for the unwary
DESCRIPTION
Awk Traps
C/C++ Traps
Sed Traps
Shell Traps
Perl Traps
Perl4 to Perl5 Traps
Discontinuance, Deprecation, and BugFix traps, Parsing Traps,
Numerical Traps, General data type traps, Context Traps -
scalar, list contexts, Precedence Traps, General Regular
Expression Traps using s///, etc, Subroutine, Signal, Sorting
Traps, OS Traps, DBM Traps, Unclassified Traps
Discontinuance, Deprecation, and BugFix traps
Symbols starting with "_" no longer forced into main, Double-
colon valid package separator in variable name, 2nd and 3rd
args to "splice()" are now in scalar context, Can't do "goto"
into a block that is optimized away, Can't use whitespace as
variable name or quote delimiter, "while/if BLOCK BLOCK" gone,
"**" binds tighter than unary minus, "foreach" changed when
iterating over a list, "split" with no args behavior changed,
-e behavior fixed, "push" returns number of elements in result-
ing list, Some error messages differ, "split()" honors subrou-
tine args, Bugs removed
Parsing Traps
Space between . and = triggers syntax error, Better parsing in
perl 5, Function parsing, String interpolation of $#array dif-
fers, Perl guesses on "map", "grep" followed by "{" if it
starts BLOCK or hash ref
Numerical Traps
Formatted output and significant digits, Auto-increment opera-
tor over signed int limit deleted, Assignment of return values
from numeric equality tests doesn't work, Bitwise string ops
General data type traps
Negative array subscripts now count from the end of array, Set-
ting $#array lower now discards array elements, Hashes get
defined before use, Glob assignment from localized variable to
variable, Assigning "undef" to glob, Changes in unary negation
(of strings), Modifying of constants prohibited, "defined $var"
behavior changed, Variable Suicide
Context Traps - scalar, list contexts
Elements of argument lists for formats evaluated in list con-
text, "caller()" returns false value in scalar context if no
caller present, Comma operator in scalar context gives scalar
context to args, "sprintf()" prototyped as "($;@)"
Precedence Traps
LHS vs. RHS of any assignment operator, Semantic errors intro-
duced due to precedence, Precedence of assignment operators
same as the precedence of assignment, "open" requires parenthe-
ses around filehandle, $: precedence over $:: gone, Precedence
of file test operators documented, "keys", "each", "values" are
regular named unary operators
General Regular Expression Traps using s///, etc.
"s'$lhs'$rhs'" interpolates on either side, "m//g" attaches its
state to the searched string, "m//o" used within an anonymous
sub, $+ isn't set to whole match, Substitution now returns null
string if it fails, "s`lhs`rhs`" is now a normal substitution,
Stricter parsing of variables in regular expressions, "m?x?"
matches only once, Failed matches don't reset the match vari-
ables
Subroutine, Signal, Sorting Traps
Barewords that used to look like strings look like subroutine
calls, Reverse is no longer allowed as the name of a sort sub-
routine, "warn()" won't let you specify a filehandle
OS Traps
SysV resets signal handler correctly, SysV "seek()" appends
correctly
Interpolation Traps
"@" always interpolates an array in double-quotish strings,
Double-quoted strings may no longer end with an unescaped $,
Arbitrary expressions are evaluated inside braces within double
quotes, $$x now tries to dereference $x, Creation of hashes on
the fly with "eval "EXPR"" requires protection, Bugs in earlier
perl versions, Array and hash brackets during interpolation,
Interpolation of "\$$foo{bar}", "qq()" string passed to "eval"
will not find string terminator
DBM Traps
Perl5 must have been linked with same dbm/ndbm as the default
for "dbmopen()", DBM exceeding limit on the key/value size will
cause perl5 to exit immediately
Unclassified Traps
"require"/"do" trap using returned value, "split" on empty
string with LIMIT specified
perldebtut - Perl debugging tutorial
DESCRIPTION
use strict
Looking at data and -w and v
help
Stepping through code
Placeholder for a, w, t, T
REGULAR EXPRESSIONS
OUTPUT TIPS
CGI
GUIs
SUMMARY
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
CONTRIBUTORS
perlfaq - frequently asked questions about Perl ($Date: 2005/12/30
15:04:07 $)
DESCRIPTION
Where to get the perlfaq
How to contribute to the perlfaq
What will happen if you mail your Perl programming problems to the
authors
Credits
Author and Copyright Information
Bundled Distributions
Disclaimer
Table of Contents
perlfaq - this document, perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl,
perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl, perlfaq3 - Program-
ming Tools, perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation, perlfaq5 - Files and For-
mats, perlfaq6 - Regular Expressions, perlfaq7 - General Perl Lan-
guage Issues, perlfaq8 - System Interaction, perlfaq9 - Networking
The Questions
perlfaq1: General Questions About Perl
perlfaq2: Obtaining and Learning about Perl
perlfaq3: Programming Tools
perlfaq4: Data Manipulation
perlfaq5: Files and Formats
perlfaq6: Regular Expressions
perlfaq7: General Perl Language Issues
perlfaq8: System Interaction
perlfaq9: Networking
perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.19 $, $Date:
2005/12/31 00:54:37 $)
DESCRIPTION
What is Perl?
Who supports Perl? Who develops it? Why is it free?
Which version of Perl should I use?
What are perl4, perl5, or perl6?
What is Ponie?
What is perl6?
How stable is Perl?
Is Perl difficult to learn?
How does Perl compare with other languages like Java, Python, REXX,
Scheme, or Tcl?
Can I do [task] in Perl?
When shouldn't I program in Perl?
What's the difference between "perl" and "Perl"?
Is it a Perl program or a Perl script?
What is a JAPH?
Where can I get a list of Larry Wall witticisms?
How can I convince my sysadmin/supervisor/employees to use version
5/5.6.1/Perl instead of some other language?
AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.38 $, $Date:
2005/12/31 00:54:37 $)
DESCRIPTION
What machines support perl? Where do I get it?
How can I get a binary version of perl?
I don't have a C compiler. How can I build my own Perl interpreter?
I copied the perl binary from one machine to another, but scripts
don't work.
I grabbed the sources and tried to compile but gdbm/dynamic load-
ing/malloc/linking/... failed. How do I make it work?
What modules and extensions are available for Perl? What is CPAN?
What does CPAN/src/... mean?
Is there an ISO or ANSI certified version of Perl?
Where can I get information on Perl?
What are the Perl newsgroups on Usenet? Where do I post questions?
Where should I post source code?
Perl Books
References, Tutorials, Task-Oriented, Special Topics
Perl in Magazines
Perl on the Net: FTP and WWW Access
What mailing lists are there for Perl?
Archives of comp.lang.perl.misc
Where can I buy a commercial version of perl?
Where do I send bug reports?
What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org? cpan.org?
AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
perlfaq3 - Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.56 $, $Date: 2005/12/31
00:54:37 $)
DESCRIPTION
How do I do (anything)?
How can I use Perl interactively?
Is there a Perl shell?
How do I find which modules are installed on my system?
How do I debug my Perl programs?
How do I profile my Perl programs?
How do I cross-reference my Perl programs?
Is there a pretty-printer (formatter) for Perl?
Is there a ctags for Perl?
Is there an IDE or Windows Perl Editor?
Eclipse, Enginsite, Komodo, Open Perl IDE, OptiPerl, Perl-
Builder, visiPerl+, Visual Perl, Zeus, GNU Emacs, MicroEMACS,
XEmacs, Jed, Elvis, Vile, Vim, Codewright, MultiEdit,
SlickEdit, Bash, Ksh, Tcsh, Zsh, Affrus, Alpha, BBEdit and BBE-
dit Lite
Where can I get Perl macros for vi?
Where can I get perl-mode for emacs?
How can I use curses with Perl?
How can I use X or Tk with Perl?
How can I make my Perl program run faster?
How can I make my Perl program take less memory?
Don't slurp!, Use map and grep selectively, Avoid unnecessary
quotes and stringification, Pass by reference, Tie large vari-
ables to disk
Is it safe to return a reference to local or lexical data?
How can I free an array or hash so my program shrinks?
How can I make my CGI script more efficient?
How can I hide the source for my Perl program?
How can I compile my Perl program into byte code or C?
How can I compile Perl into Java?
How can I get "#!perl" to work on [MS-DOS,NT,...]?
Can I write useful Perl programs on the command line?
Why don't Perl one-liners work on my DOS/Mac/VMS system?
Where can I learn about CGI or Web programming in Perl?
Where can I learn about object-oriented Perl programming?
Where can I learn about linking C with Perl?
I've read perlembed, perlguts, etc., but I can't embed perl in my C
program; what am I doing wrong?
When I tried to run my script, I got this message. What does it
mean?
What's MakeMaker?
AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation ($Revision: 1.73 $, $Date: 2005/12/31
00:54:37 $)
DESCRIPTION
Data: Numbers
Why am I getting long decimals (eg, 19.9499999999999) instead of
the numbers I should be getting (eg, 19.95)?
Why is int() broken?
Why isn't my octal data interpreted correctly?
Does Perl have a round() function? What about ceil() and floor()?
Trig functions?
How do I convert between numeric representations/bases/radixes?
How do I convert hexadecimal into decimal, How do I convert
from decimal to hexadecimal, How do I convert from octal to
decimal, How do I convert from decimal to octal, How do I con-
vert from binary to decimal, How do I convert from decimal to
binary
Why doesn't & work the way I want it to?
How do I multiply matrices?
How do I perform an operation on a series of integers?
How can I output Roman numerals?
Why aren't my random numbers random?
How do I get a random number between X and Y?
Data: Dates
How do I find the day or week of the year?
How do I find the current century or millennium?
How can I compare two dates and find the difference?
How can I take a string and turn it into epoch seconds?
How can I find the Julian Day?
How do I find yesterday's date?
Does Perl have a Year 2000 problem? Is Perl Y2K compliant?
Data: Strings
How do I validate input?
How do I unescape a string?
How do I remove consecutive pairs of characters?
How do I expand function calls in a string?
How do I find matching/nesting anything?
How do I reverse a string?
How do I expand tabs in a string?
How do I reformat a paragraph?
How can I access or change N characters of a string?
How do I change the Nth occurrence of something?
How can I count the number of occurrences of a substring within a
string?
How do I capitalize all the words on one line?
How can I split a [character] delimited string except when inside
[character]?
How do I strip blank space from the beginning/end of a string?
How do I pad a string with blanks or pad a number with zeroes?
How do I extract selected columns from a string?
How do I find the soundex value of a string?
How can I expand variables in text strings?
What's wrong with always quoting "$vars"?
Why don't my <defined() return true on empty arrays and hashes?
Data: Hashes (Associative Arrays)
How do I process an entire hash?
What happens if I add or remove keys from a hash while iterating
over it?
How do I look up a hash element by value?
How can I know how many entries are in a hash?
How do I sort a hash (optionally by value instead of key)?
How can I always keep my hash sorted?
What's the difference between "delete" and "undef" with hashes?
Why don't my tied hashes make the defined/exists distinction?
How do I reset an each() operation part-way through?
How can I get the unique keys from two hashes?
How can I store a multidimensional array in a DBM file?
How can I make my hash remember the order I put elements into it?
Why does passing a subroutine an undefined element in a hash create
it?
How can I make the Perl equivalent of a C structure/C++ class/hash
or array of hashes or arrays?
How can I use a reference as a hash key?
Data: Misc
How do I handle binary data correctly?
How do I determine whether a scalar is a number/whole/inte-
ger/float?
How do I keep persistent data across program calls?
How do I print out or copy a recursive data structure?
How do I define methods for every class/object?
How do I verify a credit card checksum?
How do I pack arrays of doubles or floats for XS code?
AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
perlfaq5 - Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.42 $, $Date: 2005/12/31
00:54:37 $)
DESCRIPTION
How do I flush/unbuffer an output filehandle? Why must I do this?
How do I change one line in a file/delete a line in a file/insert a
line in the middle of a file/append to the beginning of a file?
How do I count the number of lines in a file?
How can I use Perl's "-i" option from within a program?
How can I copy a file?
How do I make a temporary file name?
How can I manipulate fixed-record-length files?
How can I make a filehandle local to a subroutine? How do I pass
filehandles between subroutines? How do I make an array of file-
handles?
How can I use a filehandle indirectly?
How can I set up a footer format to be used with write()?
How can I write() into a string?
How can I output my numbers with commas added?
How can I translate tildes (~) in a filename?
How come when I open a file read-write it wipes it out?
Why do I sometimes get an "Argument list too long" when I use <*>?
Is there a leak/bug in glob()?
How can I open a file with a leading ">" or trailing blanks?
How can I reliably rename a file?
How can I lock a file?
Why can't I just open(FH, ">file.lock")?
I still don't get locking. I just want to increment the number in
the file. How can I do this?
All I want to do is append a small amount of text to the end of a
file. Do I still have to use locking?
How do I randomly update a binary file?
How do I get a file's timestamp in perl?
How do I set a file's timestamp in perl?
How do I print to more than one file at once?
How can I read in an entire file all at once?
How can I read in a file by paragraphs?
How can I read a single character from a file? From the keyboard?
How can I tell whether there's a character waiting on a filehandle?
How do I do a "tail -f" in perl?
How do I dup() a filehandle in Perl?
How do I close a file descriptor by number?
Why can't I use "C:\temp\foo" in DOS paths? Why doesn't
`C:\temp\foo.exe` work?
Why doesn't glob("*.*") get all the files?
Why does Perl let me delete read-only files? Why does "-i" clobber
protected files? Isn't this a bug in Perl?
How do I select a random line from a file?
Why do I get weird spaces when I print an array of lines?
AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
perlfaq6 - Regular Expressions ($Revision: 1.38 $, $Date: 2005/12/31
00:54:37 $)
DESCRIPTION
How can I hope to use regular expressions without creating illegi-
ble and unmaintainable code?
Comments Outside the Regex, Comments Inside the Regex, Differ-
ent Delimiters
I'm having trouble matching over more than one line. What's wrong?
How can I pull out lines between two patterns that are themselves
on different lines?
I put a regular expression into $/ but it didn't work. What's
wrong?
How do I substitute case insensitively on the LHS while preserving
case on the RHS?
How can I make "\w" match national character sets?
How can I match a locale-smart version of "/[a-zA-Z]/"?
How can I quote a variable to use in a regex?
What is "/o" really for?
How do I use a regular expression to strip C style comments from a
file?
Can I use Perl regular expressions to match balanced text?
What does it mean that regexes are greedy? How can I get around
it?
How do I process each word on each line?
How can I print out a word-frequency or line-frequency summary?
How can I do approximate matching?
How do I efficiently match many regular expressions at once?
Why don't word-boundary searches with "\b" work for me?
Why does using $&, $`, or $' slow my program down?
What good is "\G" in a regular expression?
Are Perl regexes DFAs or NFAs? Are they POSIX compliant?
What's wrong with using grep in a void context?
How can I match strings with multibyte characters?
How do I match a pattern that is supplied by the user?
AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
perlfaq7 - General Perl Language Issues ($Revision: 1.28 $, $Date:
2005/12/31 00:54:37 $)
DESCRIPTION
Can I get a BNF/yacc/RE for the Perl language?
What are all these $@%&* punctuation signs, and how do I know when
to use them?
Do I always/never have to quote my strings or use semicolons and
commas?
How do I skip some return values?
How do I temporarily block warnings?
What's an extension?
Why do Perl operators have different precedence than C operators?
How do I declare/create a structure?
How do I create a module?
How do I create a class?
How can I tell if a variable is tainted?
What's a closure?
What is variable suicide and how can I prevent it?
How can I pass/return a {Function, FileHandle, Array, Hash, Method,
Regex}?
Passing Variables and Functions, Passing Filehandles, Passing
Regexes, Passing Methods
How do I create a static variable?
What's the difference between dynamic and lexical (static) scoping?
Between local() and my()?
How can I access a dynamic variable while a similarly named lexical
is in scope?
What's the difference between deep and shallow binding?
Why doesn't "my($foo) = ;" work right?
How do I redefine a builtin function, operator, or method?
What's the difference between calling a function as &foo and foo()?
How do I create a switch or case statement?
How can I catch accesses to undefined variables, functions, or
methods?
Why can't a method included in this same file be found?
How can I find out my current package?
How can I comment out a large block of perl code?
How do I clear a package?
How can I use a variable as a variable name?
What does "bad interpreter" mean?
AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
perlfaq8 - System Interaction ($Revision: 1.27 $, $Date: 2005/12/31
00:54:37 $)
DESCRIPTION
How do I find out which operating system I'm running under?
How come exec() doesn't return?
How do I do fancy stuff with the keyboard/screen/mouse?
Keyboard, Screen, Mouse
How do I print something out in color?
How do I read just one key without waiting for a return key?
How do I check whether input is ready on the keyboard?
How do I clear the screen?
How do I get the screen size?
How do I ask the user for a password?
How do I read and write the serial port?
lockfiles, open mode, end of line, flushing output, non-block-
ing input
How do I decode encrypted password files?
How do I start a process in the background?
STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR are shared, Signals, Zombies
How do I trap control characters/signals?
How do I modify the shadow password file on a Unix system?
How do I set the time and date?
How can I sleep() or alarm() for under a second?
How can I measure time under a second?
How can I do an atexit() or setjmp()/longjmp()? (Exception han-
dling)
Why doesn't my sockets program work under System V (Solaris)? What
does the error message "Protocol not supported" mean?
How can I call my system's unique C functions from Perl?
Where do I get the include files to do ioctl() or syscall()?
Why do setuid perl scripts complain about kernel problems?
How can I open a pipe both to and from a command?
Why can't I get the output of a command with system()?
How can I capture STDERR from an external command?
Why doesn't open() return an error when a pipe open fails?
What's wrong with using backticks in a void context?
How can I call backticks without shell processing?
Why can't my script read from STDIN after I gave it EOF (^D on
Unix, ^Z on MS-DOS)?
How can I convert my shell script to perl?
Can I use perl to run a telnet or ftp session?
How can I write expect in Perl?
Is there a way to hide perl's command line from programs such as
"ps"?
I {changed directory, modified my environment} in a perl
script. How come the change disappeared when I exited the script?
How do I get my changes to be visible?
Unix
How do I close a process's filehandle without waiting for it to
complete?
How do I fork a daemon process?
How do I find out if I'm running interactively or not?
How do I timeout a slow event?
How do I set CPU limits?
How do I avoid zombies on a Unix system?
How do I use an SQL database?
How do I make a system() exit on control-C?
How do I open a file without blocking?
How do I tell the difference between errors from the shell and
perl?
How do I install a module from CPAN?
What's the difference between require and use?
How do I keep my own module/library directory?
How do I add the directory my program lives in to the mod-
ule/library search path?
How do I add a directory to my include path (@INC) at runtime?
What is socket.ph and where do I get it?
AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
perlfaq9 - Networking ($Revision: 1.28 $, $Date: 2005/12/31 00:54:37 $)
DESCRIPTION
What is the correct form of response from a CGI script?
My CGI script runs from the command line but not the browser. (500
Server Error)
How can I get better error messages from a CGI program?
How do I remove HTML from a string?
How do I extract URLs?
How do I download a file from the user's machine? How do I open a
file on another machine?
How do I make a pop-up menu in HTML?
How do I fetch an HTML file?
How do I automate an HTML form submission?
How do I decode or create those %-encodings on the web?
How do I redirect to another page?
How do I put a password on my web pages?
How do I edit my .htpasswd and .htgroup files with Perl?
How do I make sure users can't enter values into a form that cause
my CGI script to do bad things?
How do I parse a mail header?
How do I decode a CGI form?
How do I check a valid mail address?
How do I decode a MIME/BASE64 string?
How do I return the user's mail address?
How do I send mail?
How do I use MIME to make an attachment to a mail message?
How do I read mail?
How do I find out my hostname, domainname, or IP address?
gethostbyname, Socket, Net::Domain, Sys::Hostname"
How do I fetch a news article or the active newsgroups?
How do I fetch/put an FTP file?
How can I do RPC in Perl?
AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
perlsyn - Perl syntax
DESCRIPTION
Declarations
Comments
Simple Statements
Truth and Falsehood
Statement Modifiers
Compound Statements
Loop Control
For Loops
Foreach Loops
Basic BLOCKs and Switch Statements
Goto
PODs: Embedded Documentation
Plain Old Comments (Not!)
perldata - Perl data types
DESCRIPTION
Variable names
Context
Scalar values
Scalar value constructors
List value constructors
Subscripts
Slices
Typeglobs and Filehandles
SEE ALSO
perlop - Perl operators and precedence
DESCRIPTION
Operator Precedence and Associativity
Terms and List Operators (Leftward)
The Arrow Operator
Auto-increment and Auto-decrement
Exponentiation
Symbolic Unary Operators
Binding Operators
Multiplicative Operators
Additive Operators
Shift Operators
Named Unary Operators
Relational Operators
Equality Operators
Bitwise And
Bitwise Or and Exclusive Or
C-style Logical And
C-style Logical Or
Range Operators
Conditional Operator
Assignment Operators
Comma Operator
List Operators (Rightward)
Logical Not
Logical And
Logical or and Exclusive Or
err operator, logical, defined or operator, logical, exclusive
or or xor err"
C Operators Missing From Perl
unary &, unary *, (TYPE)
Quote and Quote-like Operators
Regexp Quote-Like Operators
?PATTERN? , m/PATTERN/cgimosx
, /PATTERN/cgimosx, q/STRING/ , 'STRING', qq/STRING/ ,
"STRING", qr/STRING/imosx , qx/STRING/
, `STRING`, qw/STRING/ , s/PATTERN/REPLACEMENT/egimosx
, tr/SEARCHLIST/REPLACEMENTLIST/cds
, y/SEARCHLIST/REPLACEMENTLIST/cds, <", "?RE?", "/RE/",
"m/RE/", "s/RE/foo/",, Interpolation of regular expressions ,
Optimization of regular expressions optimization"
I/O Operators
Constant Folding
No-ops
Bitwise String Operators
Integer Arithmetic
Floating-point Arithmetic
Bigger Numbers
perlsub - Perl subroutines
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Private Variables via my()
Persistent Private Variables
Temporary Values via local()
Lvalue subroutines
Lvalue subroutines are EXPERIMENTAL
Passing Symbol Table Entries (typeglobs)
When to Still Use local()
Pass by Reference
Prototypes
Constant Functions
Overriding Built-in Functions
Autoloading
Subroutine Attributes
SEE ALSO
perlfunc - Perl builtin functions
DESCRIPTION
Perl Functions by Category
Functions for SCALARs or strings , Regular expressions and
pattern matching , Numeric functions , Functions for real
@ARRAYs , Functions for list data , Functions for real %HASHes
, Input and output functions
, Functions for fixed length data or records, Functions for
filehandles, files, or directories
, Keywords related to the control flow of your Perl program
, Keywords related to scoping, Miscellaneous functions, Func-
tions for processes and process groups
, Keywords related to perl modules , Keywords related to
classes and object-orientedness
, Low-level socket functions , System V interprocess communi-
cation functions
, Fetching user and group info
, Fetching network info , Time-related functions , Func-
tions new in perl5 , Functions obsoleted in perl5
Portability
Alphabetical Listing of Perl Functions
-X FILEHANDLE
, -X EXPR, -X, abs VALUE , abs, accept NEWSOCKET,GENERICSOCKET
, alarm SECONDS , alarm, atan2 Y,X
, bind SOCKET,NAME , binmode FILEHANDLE, LAYER , binmode
FILEHANDLE, bless REF,CLASSNAME , bless REF, caller EXPR
, caller, chdir EXPR , chdir FILEHANDLE, chdir DIRHANDLE,
chdir, chmod LIST , chomp VARIABLE , chomp( LIST ), chomp, chop
VARIABLE , chop( LIST ), chop, chown LIST , chr NUMBER
, chr, chroot FILENAME , chroot, close FILEHANDLE , close,
closedir DIRHANDLE , connect SOCKET,NAME , continue BLOCK , cos
EXPR
, cos, crypt PLAINTEXT,SALT
, dbmclose HASH , dbmopen HASH,DBNAME,MASK , defined EXPR
, defined, delete EXPR , die LIST
, do BLOCK , do SUBROUTINE(LIST) , do EXPR , dump LABEL
, dump, each HASH , eof FILEHANDLE , eof (), eof, eval EXPR
, eval BLOCK, eval, exec LIST , exec PROGRAM LIST, exists
EXPR , exit EXPR , exit, exp EXPR , exp, fcntl FILEHAN-
DLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR , fileno FILEHANDLE , flock FILEHAN-
DLE,OPERATION , fork , format , formline PICTURE,LIST , getc
FILEHANDLE , getc, getlogin , getpeername SOCKET , getpgrp
PID , getppid , getpriority WHICH,WHO
, getpwnam NAME
, getgrnam NAME, gethostbyname NAME, getnetbyname NAME, get-
protobyname NAME, getpwuid UID, getgrgid GID, getservbyname
NAME,PROTO, gethostbyaddr ADDR,ADDRTYPE, getnetbyaddr
ADDR,ADDRTYPE, getprotobynumber NUMBER, getservbyport
PORT,PROTO, getpwent, getgrent, gethostent, getnetent, getpro-
toent, getservent, setpwent, setgrent, sethostent STAYOPEN,
setnetent STAYOPEN, setprotoent STAYOPEN, setservent STAYOPEN,
endpwent, endgrent, endhostent, endnetent, endprotoent, endser-
vent, getsockname SOCKET , getsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME ,
glob EXPR
, glob, gmtime EXPR , gmtime, goto LABEL , goto EXPR, goto
&NAME, grep BLOCK LIST , grep EXPR,LIST, hex EXPR , hex, import
LIST , index STR,SUBSTR,POSITION
, index STR,SUBSTR, int EXPR
, int, ioctl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR , join EXPR,LIST ,
keys HASH , kill SIGNAL, LIST , last LABEL , last, lc EXPR ,
lc, lcfirst EXPR , lcfirst, length EXPR , length, link OLD-
FILE,NEWFILE , listen SOCKET,QUEUESIZE , local EXPR , localtime
EXPR , localtime, lock THING , log EXPR , log, lstat EXPR ,
lstat, m//, map BLOCK LIST , map EXPR,LIST, mkdir FILENAME,MASK
, mkdir FILENAME, msgctl ID,CMD,ARG , msgget KEY,FLAGS , msgrcv
ID,VAR,SIZE,TYPE,FLAGS , msgsnd ID,MSG,FLAGS , my EXPR , my
TYPE EXPR, my EXPR : ATTRS, my TYPE EXPR : ATTRS, next LABEL
, next, no Module VERSION LIST , no Module VERSION, no Module
LIST, no Module, oct EXPR
, oct, open FILEHANDLE,EXPR , open FILEHANDLE,MODE,EXPR, open
FILEHANDLE,MODE,EXPR,LIST, open FILEHANDLE,MODE,REFERENCE, open
FILEHANDLE, opendir DIRHANDLE,EXPR , ord EXPR , ord, our EXPR
, our EXPR TYPE, our EXPR : ATTRS, our TYPE EXPR : ATTRS, pack
TEMPLATE,LIST , package NAMESPACE , package, pipe READHAN-
DLE,WRITEHANDLE , pop ARRAY , pop, pos SCALAR
, pos, print FILEHANDLE LIST , print LIST, print, printf FILE-
HANDLE FORMAT, LIST , printf FORMAT, LIST, prototype FUNCTION ,
push ARRAY,LIST , , q/STRING/, qq/STRING/, qr/STRING/,
qx/STRING/, qw/STRING/, quotemeta EXPR
, quotemeta, rand EXPR , rand, read FILEHAN-
DLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET , read FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH, read-
dir DIRHANDLE , readline EXPR
, readlink EXPR , readlink, readpipe EXPR , recv
SOCKET,SCALAR,LENGTH,FLAGS , redo LABEL , redo, ref EXPR ,
ref, rename OLDNAME,NEWNAME
, require VERSION , require EXPR, require, reset EXPR ,
reset, return EXPR , return, reverse LIST , rewinddir DIRHAN-
DLE , rindex STR,SUBSTR,POSITION , rindex STR,SUBSTR, rmdir
FILENAME
, rmdir, s///, scalar EXPR , seek FILEHANDLE,POSITION,WHENCE
, seekdir DIRHANDLE,POS , select FILEHANDLE , select, select
RBITS,WBITS,EBITS,TIMEOUT , semctl ID,SEMNUM,CMD,ARG , semget
KEY,NSEMS,FLAGS , semop KEY,OPSTRING , send SOCKET,MSG,FLAGS,TO
, send SOCKET,MSG,FLAGS, setpgrp PID,PGRP , setpriority
WHICH,WHO,PRIORITY , setsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME,OPTVAL
, shift ARRAY , shift, shmctl ID,CMD,ARG , shmget
KEY,SIZE,FLAGS , shmread ID,VAR,POS,SIZE , shmwrite
ID,STRING,POS,SIZE, shutdown SOCKET,HOW , sin EXPR , sin, sleep
EXPR , sleep, socket SOCKET,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL , socketpair
SOCKET1,SOCKET2,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL , sort SUBNAME LIST
, sort BLOCK LIST, sort LIST, splice ARRAY,OFF-
SET,LENGTH,LIST , splice ARRAY,OFFSET,LENGTH, splice ARRAY,OFF-
SET, splice ARRAY, split /PATTERN/,EXPR,LIMIT , split /PAT-
TERN/,EXPR, split /PATTERN/, split, sprintf FORMAT, LIST , for-
mat parameter index, flags, vector flag, (minimum) width, pre-
cision, or maximum width , size, order of arguments, sqrt EXPR
, sqrt, srand EXPR , srand, stat FILEHANDLE , stat EXPR, stat,
study SCALAR , study, sub NAME BLOCK , sub NAME (PROTO) BLOCK,
sub NAME : ATTRS BLOCK, sub NAME (PROTO) : ATTRS BLOCK, substr
EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH,REPLACEMENT , substr EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH,
substr EXPR,OFFSET, symlink OLDFILE,NEWFILE , syscall NUM-
BER, LIST , sysopen FILEHANDLE,FILENAME,MODE , sysopen FILE-
HANDLE,FILENAME,MODE,PERMS, sysread FILEHAN-
DLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET , sysread FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,
sysseek FILEHANDLE,POSITION,WHENCE , system LIST , system PRO-
GRAM LIST, syswrite FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET , syswrite
FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH, syswrite FILEHANDLE,SCALAR, tell
FILEHANDLE , tell, telldir DIRHANDLE , tie VARIABLE,CLASS-
NAME,LIST , tied VARIABLE , time , times , tr///, truncate
FILEHANDLE,LENGTH , truncate EXPR,LENGTH, uc EXPR , uc,
ucfirst EXPR , ucfirst, umask EXPR , umask, undef EXPR ,
undef, unlink LIST , unlink, unpack TEMPLATE,EXPR , untie VARI-
ABLE , unshift ARRAY,LIST , use Module VERSION LIST , use Mod-
ule VERSION, use Module LIST, use Module, use VERSION, utime
LIST , values HASH , vec EXPR,OFFSET,BITS
, wait , waitpid PID,FLAGS , wantarray
, warn LIST , write FILEHANDLE , write EXPR, write, y///
default select semctl semget semop send setpgrp group setprior-
ity priority nice renice setsockopt shift shmctl shmget shmread
shmwrite shutdown sin sine asin arcsine sleep pause socket
socketpair sort qsort quicksort mergesort splice split sprintf
precision sqrt root square root srand seed randseed stat file,
status study sub substr substring mid left right symlink link
symbolic link link, symbolic syscall system call sysopen sys-
read sysseek lseek system shell syswrite tell telldir tie tied
time epoch times truncate uc uppercase toupper ucfirst upper-
case umask undef undefine unlink delete remove rm unpack untie
unshift use module import utime values vec bit bit vector wait
waitpid wantarray context warn warning STDERR write"
perlopentut - tutorial on opening things in Perl
DESCRIPTION
Open A la shell
Simple Opens
Indirect Filehandles
Pipe Opens
The Minus File
Mixing Reads and Writes
Filters
Open A la C
Permissions A la mode
Obscure Open Tricks
Re-Opening Files (dups)
Dispelling the Dweomer
Paths as Opens
Single Argument Open
Playing with STDIN and STDOUT
Other I/O Issues
Opening Non-File Files
Opening Named Pipes
Opening Sockets
Binary Files
File Locking
IO Layers
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT
HISTORY
perlpacktut - tutorial on "pack" and "unpack"
DESCRIPTION
The Basic Principle
Packing Text
Packing Numbers
Integers
Unpacking a Stack Frame
How to Eat an Egg on a Net
Floating point Numbers
Exotic Templates
Bit Strings
Uuencoding
Doing Sums
Unicode
Another Portable Binary Encoding
Template Grouping
Lengths and Widths
String Lengths
Dynamic Templates
Counting Repetitions
Packing and Unpacking C Structures
The Alignment Pit
Alignment, Take 2
Alignment, Take 3
Pointers for How to Use Them
Pack Recipes
Funnies Section
Authors
perlpod - the Plain Old Documentation format
DESCRIPTION
Ordinary Paragraph
Verbatim Paragraph
Command Paragraph
"=head1 Heading Text"
, "=head2 Heading Text", "=head3 Heading Text", "=head4 Head-
ing Text", "=over indentlevel"
, "=item stuff...", "=back", "=cut" , "=pod" , "=begin
formatname"
, "=end formatname", "=for formatname text...", "=encoding
encodingname"
Formatting Codes
"I" -- italic text , "B" -- bold text
, "C" -- code text
, "L" -- a hyperlink , "E" -- a character
escape
, "F" -- used for filenames , "S" -- text con-
tains non-breaking spaces
, "X" -- an index entry
, "Z<>" -- a null (zero-effect) formatting code code, italic
italic B B<> POD, formatting code, bold bold C C<> POD, format-
ting code, code code L L<> POD, formatting code, hyperlink
hyperlink E E<> POD, formatting code, escape escape F F<> POD,
formatting code, filename filename S S<> POD, formatting code,
non-breaking space non-breaking space X X<> POD, formatting
code, index entry index entry Z Z<> POD, formatting code, null
null"
The Intent
Embedding Pods in Perl Modules
Hints for Writing Pod
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
perlpodspec - Plain Old Documentation: format specification and notes
DESCRIPTION
Pod Definitions
Pod Commands
"=head1", "=head2", "=head3", "=head4", "=pod", "=cut", "=over",
"=item", "=back", "=begin formatname", "=end formatname", "=for
formatname text...", "=encoding encodingname"
Pod Formatting Codes
"I" -- italic text, "B" -- bold text, "C" -- code
text, "F" -- style for filenames, "X" -- an
index entry, "Z<>" -- a null (zero-effect) formatting code,
"L" -- a hyperlink, "E" -- a character escape,
"S" -- text contains non-breaking spaces
Notes on Implementing Pod Processors
About L<...> Codes
First:, Second:, Third:, Fourth:, Fifth:, Sixth:
About =over...=back Regions
About Data Paragraphs and "=begin/=end" Regions
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
perlrun - how to execute the Perl interpreter
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
#! and quoting on non-Unix systems
OS/2, MS-DOS, Win95/NT, Macintosh, VMS
Location of Perl
Command Switches
-0[octal/hexadecimal] , -a , -C [nnuummbbeerr//lliisstt] , -c , -d ,
-dt, -d:foo[=bar,baz] , -dt:foo[=bar,baz], -Dletters ,
-Dnumber, -e commandline , -f , -Fpattern , -h , -i[extension]
, -Idirectory , -l[octnum] , -m[-]module , -M[-]module,
-M[-]'module ...', -[mM][-]module=arg[,arg]..., -n , -p , -P ,
-s , -S , -t , -T , -u , -U , -v , -V , -V:configvar, -w , -W ,
-X , -x , -x directory
ENVIRONMENT
HOME , LOGDIR , PATH , PERL5LIB , PERL5OPT , PERLIO , :bytes ,
:crlf , :mmap , :perlio , :pop , :raw , :stdio , :unix , :utf8 ,
:win32 , PERLIO_DEBUG , PERLLIB , PERL5DB , PERL5DB_THREADED ,
PERL5SHELL (specific to the Win32 port) , PERL_ALLOW_NON_IFS_LSP
(specific to the Win32 port) , PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS ,
PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL , PERL_DL_NONLAZY , PERL_ENCODING ,
PERL_HASH_SEED , PERL_HASH_SEED_DEBUG , PERL_ROOT (specific to the
VMS port) , PERL_SIGNALS , PERL_UNICODE , SYS$LOGIN (specific to
the VMS port)
perldiag - various Perl diagnostics
DESCRIPTION
perllexwarn - Perl Lexical Warnings
DESCRIPTION
Default Warnings and Optional Warnings
What's wrong with -w and $^W
Controlling Warnings from the Command Line
-w , -W , -X
Backward Compatibility
Category Hierarchy
Fatal Warnings
Reporting Warnings from a Module
TODO
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
perldebug - Perl debugging
DESCRIPTION
The Perl Debugger
Debugger Commands
h , h [command], h h, p expr , x [maxdepth] expr , V [pkg
[vars]] , X [vars] , y [level [vars]] , T , s [expr] , n
[expr] , r , , c [line|sub] , l , l min+incr, l min-max, l
line, l subname, - , v [line] , . , f filename , /pattern/,
?pattern?, L [abw] , S [[!]regex] , t , t expr , b , b [line]
[condition] , b subname [condition] , b postpone subname
[condition] , b load filename , b compile subname
, B line , B * , a [line] command , A line , A * , w expr ,
W expr , W * , o , o booloption ... , o anyoption? ... , o
option=value ... , < ? , < [ command ] , < * , << command , > ?
, > command , > * , >> command , { ? , { [ command ], { * , {{
command , ! number , ! -number , ! pattern , !! cmd , source
file , H -number , q or ^D
, R , |dbcmd , ||dbcmd , command, m expr , M , man [manpage]
command, V debugger command, X debugger command, y debugger
command, T backtrace stack, backtrace debugger command, s step
debugger command, n debugger command, r debugger command, c
debugger command, l debugger command, - debugger command, v
debugger command, . debugger command, f debugger command, L
debugger command, S debugger command, t debugger command, t
breakpoint debugger command, b breakpoint debugger command, b
breakpoint debugger command, b breakpoint debugger command, b
breakpoint debugger command, b breakpoint debugger command, b
breakpoint debugger command, B breakpoint debugger command, B
debugger command, a debugger command, A debugger command, A
debugger command, w debugger command, W debugger command, W
debugger command, o debugger command, o debugger command, o
debugger command, o debugger command, < debugger command, <
debugger command, < debugger command, << debugger command, >
debugger command, > debugger command, > debugger command, >>
debugger command, { debugger command, { debugger command, {{
debugger command, ! debugger command, ! debugger command, !
debugger command, !! debugger command, source debugger command,
H debugger command, q debugger command, ^D debugger command, R
debugger command, | debugger command, || debugger command, m
debugger command, M debugger command, man"
Configurable Options
"recallCommand", "ShellBang" , "pager" , "tkRunning" , "sig-
nalLevel", "warnLevel", "dieLevel"
, "AutoTrace" , "LineInfo" , "inhibit_exit" , "PrintRet" ,
"ornaments" , "frame" , "maxTraceLen" , "windowSize" , "array-
Depth", "hashDepth" , "dumpDepth" , "compactDump",
"veryCompact" , "globPrint" , "DumpDBFiles" , "DumpPackages" ,
"DumpReused" , "quote", "HighBit", "undefPrint"
, "UsageOnly" , "TTY" , "noTTY" , "ReadLine" , "NonStop"
option, ShellBang debugger option, pager debugger option,
tkRunning debugger option, signalLevel debugger option, warn-
Level debugger option, dieLevel debugger option, AutoTrace
debugger option, LineInfo debugger option, inhibit_exit debug-
ger option, PrintRet debugger option, ornaments debugger
option, frame debugger option, maxTraceLen debugger option,
windowSize debugger option, arrayDepth debugger option,
hashDepth debugger option, dumpDepth debugger option, compact-
Dump debugger option, veryCompact debugger option, globPrint
debugger option, DumpDBFiles debugger option, DumpPackages
debugger option, DumpReused debugger option, quote debugger
option, HighBit debugger option, undefPrint debugger option,
UsageOnly debugger option, TTY debugger option, noTTY debugger
option, ReadLine debugger option, NonStop"
Debugger input/output
Prompt, Multiline commands, Stack backtrace , Line Listing
Format, Frame listing backtrace"
Debugging compile-time statements
Debugger Customization
Readline Support
Editor Support for Debugging
The Perl Profiler
Debugging regular expressions
Debugging memory usage
SEE ALSO
BUGS
perlvar - Perl predefined variables
DESCRIPTION
Predefined Names
$ARG, $_, $a, $b, $<digits>, $MATCH, $&, $PREMATCH, $`, $POST-
MATCH, $', $LAST_PAREN_MATCH, $+, $^N, @LAST_MATCH_END, @+, $*,
HANDLE->input_line_number(EXPR), $INPUT_LINE_NUMBER, $NR, $,
IO::Handle->input_record_separator(EXPR), $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARA-
TOR, $RS, $/, HANDLE->autoflush(EXPR), $OUTPUT_AUTOFLUSH, $|,
IO::Handle->output_field_separator EXPR, $OUTPUT_FIELD_SEPARA-
TOR, $OFS, $,, IO::Handle->output_record_separator EXPR, $OUT-
PUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR, $ORS, $\, $LIST_SEPARATOR, $", $SUB-
SCRIPT_SEPARATOR, $SUBSEP, $;, $#, HANDLE->format_page_num-
ber(EXPR), $FORMAT_PAGE_NUMBER, $%, HANDLE->for-
mat_lines_per_page(EXPR), $FORMAT_LINES_PER_PAGE, $=, HAN-
DLE->format_lines_left(EXPR), $FORMAT_LINES_LEFT, $-,
@LAST_MATCH_START, @-, $` is the same as "substr($var, 0,
$-[0])", $& is the same as "substr($var, $-[0], $+[0] -
$-[0])", $' is the same as "substr($var, $+[0])", $1 is the
same as "substr($var, $-[1], $+[1] - $-[1])", $2 is the same as
"substr($var, $-[2], $+[2] - $-[2])", $3 is the same as "sub-
str($var, $-[3], $+[3] - $-[3])", HANDLE->format_name(EXPR),
$FORMAT_NAME, $~, HANDLE->format_top_name(EXPR), $FOR-
MAT_TOP_NAME, $^, IO::Handle->format_line_break_characters
EXPR, $FORMAT_LINE_BREAK_CHARACTERS, $:, IO::Handle->for-
mat_formfeed EXPR, $FORMAT_FORMFEED, $^L, $ACCUMULATOR, $^A,
$CHILD_ERROR, $?, ${^ENCODING}, $OS_ERROR, $ERRNO, $!, %!,
$EXTENDED_OS_ERROR, $^E, $EVAL_ERROR, $@, $PROCESS_ID, $PID,
$$, $REAL_USER_ID, $UID, $<, $EFFECTIVE_USER_ID, $EUID, $>,
$REAL_GROUP_ID, $GID, $(, $EFFECTIVE_GROUP_ID, $EGID, $), $PRO-
GRAM_NAME, $0, $[, $], $COMPILING, $^C, $DEBUGGING, $^D, $SYS-
TEM_FD_MAX, $^F, $^H, %^H, $INPLACE_EDIT, $^I, $^M, $OSNAME,
$^O, ${^OPEN}, $PERLDB, $^P, 0x01, 0x02, 0x04, 0x08, 0x10,
0x20, 0x40, 0x80, 0x100, 0x200, 0x400, $LAST_REG-
EXP_CODE_RESULT, $^R, $EXCEPTIONS_BEING_CAUGHT, $^S, $BASETIME,
$^T, ${^TAINT}, ${^UNICODE}, ${^UTF8LOCALE}, $PERL_VERSION,
$^V, $WARNING, $^W, ${^WARNING_BITS}, $EXECUTABLE_NAME, $^X,
ARGV, $ARGV, @ARGV, ARGVOUT, @F, @INC, @_, %INC, %ENV,
$ENV{expr}, %SIG, $SIG{expr}
Error Indicators
Technical Note on the Syntax of Variable Names
BUGS
perlre - Perl regular expressions
DESCRIPTION
i , m , s
, x expression, case-insensitive m regex, multiline regexp, mul-
tiline regular expression, multiline s regex, single-line regexp,
single-line regular expression, single-line x"
Regular Expressions
[1], [2], [3], cntrl , graph , print , punct , xdigit
Extended Patterns
"(?#text)" , "(?imsx-imsx)" , "(?:pattern)" , "(?imsx-imsx:pat-
tern)", "(?=pattern)" , "(?!pattern)" , "(?<=pattern)" ,
"(?pattern)" , "(?(condition)yes-pattern|no-pattern)"
, "(?(condition)yes-pattern)" postponed regex, recursive reg-
exp, recursive regular expression, recursive backtrack back-
tracking (?()"
Backtracking
Version 8 Regular Expressions
Warning on \1 vs $1
Repeated patterns matching zero-length substring
Combining pieces together
"ST", "S|T", "S{REPEAT_COUNT}", "S{min,max}", "S{min,max}?",
"S?", "S*", "S+", "S??", "S*?", "S+?", "(?>S)", "(?=S)",
"(?<=S)", "(?!S)", "(?perlreref - Perl Regular Expressions Reference
DESCRIPTION
OPERATORS
SYNTAX
ESCAPE SEQUENCES
CHARACTER CLASSES
ANCHORS
QUANTIFIERS
EXTENDED CONSTRUCTS
VARIABLES
FUNCTIONS
TERMINOLOGY
AUTHOR
SEE ALSO
THANKS
perlref - Perl references and nested data structures
NOTE
DESCRIPTION
Making References
1. , 2.
, 3.
, 4. , 5. , 6. , 7. anonymous subroutine, reference
reference, subroutine scope, lexical closure lexical lexical
scope constructor new autovivification *foo{THING} *"
Using References
2. , 3. , 4.
Symbolic references
Not-so-symbolic references
Pseudo-hashes: Using an array as a hash
Function Templates
WARNING
SEE ALSO
perlform - Perl formats
DESCRIPTION
Text Fields
Numeric Fields
The Field @* for Variable Width Multi-Line Text
The Field ^* for Variable Width One-line-at-a-time Text
Specifying Values
Using Fill Mode
Suppressing Lines Where All Fields Are Void
Repeating Format Lines
Top of Form Processing
Format Variables
NOTES
Footers
Accessing Formatting Internals
WARNINGS
perlobj - Perl objects
DESCRIPTION
An Object is Simply a Reference
A Class is Simply a Package
A Method is Simply a Subroutine
Method Invocation
Indirect Object Syntax
Default UNIVERSAL methods
isa(CLASS) , can(METHOD) , VERSION( [NEED] )
Destructors
Summary
Two-Phased Garbage Collection
SEE ALSO
perltie - how to hide an object class in a simple variable
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Tying Scalars
TIESCALAR classname, LIST , FETCH this , STORE this, value ,
UNTIE this , DESTROY this
Tying Arrays
TIEARRAY classname, LIST , FETCH this, index , STORE this,
index, value , FETCHSIZE this , STORESIZE this, count , EXTEND
this, count , EXISTS this, key , DELETE this, key , CLEAR this
, PUSH this, LIST
, POP this , SHIFT this , UNSHIFT this, LIST , SPLICE this,
offset, length, LIST , UNTIE this , DESTROY this
Tying Hashes
USER, HOME, CLOBBER, LIST, TIEHASH classname, LIST , FETCH
this, key , STORE this, key, value , DELETE this, key , CLEAR
this , EXISTS this, key , FIRSTKEY this , NEXTKEY this, lastkey
, SCALAR this , UNTIE this , DESTROY this
Tying FileHandles
TIEHANDLE classname, LIST , WRITE this, LIST , PRINT this, LIST
, PRINTF this, LIST , READ this, LIST , READLINE this , GETC
this , CLOSE this , UNTIE this , DESTROY this
UNTIE this
The "untie" Gotcha
SEE ALSO
BUGS
AUTHOR
perldbmfilter - Perl DBM Filters
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
filter_store_key, filter_store_value, filter_fetch_key, fil-
ter_fetch_value
The Filter
An Example -- the NULL termination problem.
Another Example -- Key is a C int.
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
perlipc - Perl interprocess communication (signals, fifos, pipes, safe
subprocesses, sockets, and semaphores)
DESCRIPTION
Signals
Handling the SIGHUP Signal in Daemons
Named Pipes
Deferred Signals (Safe Signals)
Long running opcodes, Interrupting IO, Restartable system
calls, Signals as "faults", Signals triggered by operating sys-
tem state
Using open() for IPC
Filehandles
Background Processes
Complete Dissociation of Child from Parent
Safe Pipe Opens
Bidirectional Communication with Another Process
Bidirectional Communication with Yourself
Sockets: Client/Server Communication
Internet Line Terminators
Internet TCP Clients and Servers
Unix-Domain TCP Clients and Servers
TCP Clients with IO::Socket
A Simple Client
"Proto", "PeerAddr", "PeerPort"
A Webget Client
Interactive Client with IO::Socket
TCP Servers with IO::Socket
Proto, LocalPort, Listen, Reuse
UDP: Message Passing
SysV IPC
NOTES
BUGS
AUTHOR
SEE ALSO
perlfork - Perl's fork() emulation
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Behavior of other Perl features in forked pseudo-processes
$$ or $PROCESS_ID, %ENV, chdir() and all other builtins that
accept filenames, wait() and waitpid(), kill(), exec(), exit(),
Open handles to files, directories and network sockets
Resource limits
Killing the parent process
Lifetime of the parent process and pseudo-processes
CAVEATS AND LIMITATIONS
BEGIN blocks, Open filehandles, Forking pipe open() not yet
implemented, Global state maintained by XSUBs, Interpreter
embedded in larger application, Thread-safety of extensions
BUGS
AUTHOR
SEE ALSO
perlnumber - semantics of numbers and numeric operations in Perl
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Storing numbers
Numeric operators and numeric conversions
Flavors of Perl numeric operations
Arithmetic operators, ++, Arithmetic operators during "use inte-
ger", Other mathematical operators, Bitwise operators, Bitwise
operators during "use integer", Operators which expect an integer,
Operators which expect a string
AUTHOR
SEE ALSO
perlthrtut - tutorial on threads in Perl
DESCRIPTION
Status
What Is A Thread Anyway?
Threaded Program Models
Boss/Worker
Work Crew
Pipeline
What kind of threads are Perl threads?
Thread-Safe Modules
Thread Basics
Basic Thread Support
A Note about the Examples
Creating Threads
Waiting For A Thread To Exit
Ignoring A Thread
Threads And Data
Shared And Unshared Data
Thread Pitfalls: Races
Synchronization and control
Controlling access: lock()
A Thread Pitfall: Deadlocks
Queues: Passing Data Around
Semaphores: Synchronizing Data Access
Basic semaphores
Advanced Semaphores
cond_wait() and cond_signal()
Giving up control
General Thread Utility Routines
What Thread Am I In?
Thread IDs
Are These Threads The Same?
What Threads Are Running?
A Complete Example
Different implementations of threads
Performance considerations
Process-scope Changes
Thread-Safety of System Libraries
Conclusion
Bibliography
Introductory Texts
OS-Related References
Other References
Acknowledgements
AUTHOR
Copyrights
perlothrtut - old tutorial on threads in Perl
DESCRIPTION
What Is A Thread Anyway?
Threaded Program Models
Boss/Worker
Work Crew
Pipeline
Native threads
What kind of threads are perl threads?
Threadsafe Modules
Thread Basics
Basic Thread Support
Creating Threads
Giving up control
Waiting For A Thread To Exit
Errors In Threads
Ignoring A Thread
Threads And Data
Shared And Unshared Data
Thread Pitfall: Races
Controlling access: lock()
Thread Pitfall: Deadlocks
Queues: Passing Data Around
Threads And Code
Semaphores: Synchronizing Data Access
Basic semaphores, Advanced Semaphores
Attributes: Restricting Access To Subroutines
Subroutine Locks
Methods
Locking A Subroutine
General Thread Utility Routines
What Thread Am I In?
Thread IDs
Are These Threads The Same?
What Threads Are Running?
A Complete Example
Conclusion
Bibliography
Introductory Texts
OS-Related References
Other References
Acknowledgements
AUTHOR
Copyrights
perlport - Writing portable Perl
DESCRIPTION
Not all Perl programs have to be portable, Nearly all of Perl
already is portable
ISSUES
Newlines
Numbers endianness and Width
Files and Filesystems
System Interaction
Command names versus file pathnames
Networking
Interprocess Communication (IPC)
External Subroutines (XS)
Standard Modules
Time and Date
Character sets and character encoding
Internationalisation
System Resources
Security
Style
CPAN Testers
PLATFORMS
Unix
DOS and Derivatives
Mac OS
VMS
VOS
EBCDIC Platforms
Acorn RISC OS
Other perls
FUNCTION IMPLEMENTATIONS
Alphabetical Listing of Perl Functions
-X, atan2 Y,X, atan2, binmode, chmod, chown, chroot, crypt,
dbmclose, dbmopen, dump, exec, exit, fcntl, flock, fork, getlo-
gin, getpgrp, getppid, getpriority, getpwnam, getgrnam, getnet-
byname, getpwuid, getgrgid, getnetbyaddr, getprotobynumber,
getservbyport, getpwent, getgrent, gethostbyname, gethostent,
getnetent, getprotoent, getservent, sethostent, setnetent, set-
protoent, setservent, endpwent, endgrent, endhostent, endne-
tent, endprotoent, endservent, getsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME,
glob, gmtime, ioctl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, kill, link,
localtime, lstat, msgctl, msgget, msgsnd, msgrcv, open, pipe,
readlink, rename, select, semctl, semget, semop, setgrent,
setpgrp, setpriority, setpwent, setsockopt, shmctl, shmget,
shmread, shmwrite, sockatmark, socketpair, stat, symlink,
syscall, sysopen, system, times, truncate, umask, utime, wait,
waitpid
Supported Platforms
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS / CONTRIBUTORS
perllocale - Perl locale handling (internationalization and localiza-
tion)
DESCRIPTION
PREPARING TO USE LOCALES
USING LOCALES
The use locale pragma
The setlocale function
Finding locales
LOCALE PROBLEMS
Temporarily fixing locale problems
Permanently fixing locale problems
Permanently fixing your system's locale configuration
Fixing system locale configuration
The localeconv function
I18N::Langinfo
LOCALE CATEGORIES
Category LC_COLLATE: Collation
Category LC_CTYPE: Character Types
Category LC_NUMERIC: Numeric Formatting
Category LC_MONETARY: Formatting of monetary amounts
LC_TIME
Other categories
SECURITY
ENVIRONMENT
PERL_BADLANG, LC_ALL, LANGUAGE, LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE, LC_MONETARY,
LC_NUMERIC, LC_TIME, LANG
NOTES
Backward compatibility
I18N:Collate obsolete
Sort speed and memory use impacts
write() and LC_NUMERIC
Freely available locale definitions
I18n and l10n
An imperfect standard
Unicode and UTF-8
BUGS
Broken systems
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
perluniintro - Perl Unicode introduction
DESCRIPTION
Unicode
Perl's Unicode Support
Perl's Unicode Model
Unicode and EBCDIC
Creating Unicode
Handling Unicode
Legacy Encodings
Unicode I/O
Displaying Unicode As Text
Special Cases
Advanced Topics
Miscellaneous
Questions With Answers
Hexadecimal Notation
Further Resources
UNICODE IN OLDER PERLS
SEE ALSO
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
AUTHOR, COPYRIGHT, AND LICENSE
perlunicode - Unicode support in Perl
DESCRIPTION
Important Caveats
Input and Output Layers, Regular Expressions, "use utf8" still
needed to enable UTF-8/UTF-EBCDIC in scripts, BOM-marked
scripts and UTF-16 scripts autodetected, "use encoding" needed
to upgrade non-Latin-1 byte strings
Byte and Character Semantics
Effects of Character Semantics
Scripts
Blocks
User-Defined Character Properties
Character Encodings for Input and Output
Unicode Regular Expression Support Level
Unicode Encodings
Security Implications of Unicode
Unicode in Perl on EBCDIC
Locales
When Unicode Does Not Happen
Forcing Unicode in Perl (Or Unforcing Unicode in Perl)
Using Unicode in XS
BUGS
Interaction with Locales
Interaction with Extensions
Speed
Porting code from perl-5.6.X
SEE ALSO
perlebcdic - Considerations for running Perl on EBCDIC platforms
DESCRIPTION
COMMON CHARACTER CODE SETS
ASCII
ISO 8859
Latin 1 (ISO 8859-1)
EBCDIC
13 variant characters
0037
1047
POSIX-BC
Unicode code points versus EBCDIC code points
Remaining Perl Unicode problems in EBCDIC
Unicode and UTF
Using Encode
SINGLE OCTET TABLES
recipe 0, recipe 1, recipe 2, recipe 3, recipe 4, recipe 5, recipe
6
IDENTIFYING CHARACTER CODE SETS
CONVERSIONS
tr///
iconv
C RTL
OPERATOR DIFFERENCES
FUNCTION DIFFERENCES
chr(), ord(), pack(), print(), printf(), sort(), sprintf(),
unpack()
REGULAR EXPRESSION DIFFERENCES
SOCKETS
SORTING
Ignore ASCII vs. EBCDIC sort differences.
MONO CASE then sort data.
Convert, sort data, then re convert.
Perform sorting on one type of machine only.
TRANSFORMATION FORMATS
URL decoding and encoding
uu encoding and decoding
Quoted-Printable encoding and decoding
Caesarian ciphers
Hashing order and checksums
I18N AND L10N
MULTI OCTET CHARACTER SETS
OS ISSUES
OS/400
PASE, IFS access
OS/390, z/OS
chcp, dataset access, OS/390, z/OS iconv, locales
VM/ESA?
POSIX-BC?
BUGS
SEE ALSO
REFERENCES
HISTORY
AUTHOR
perlsec - Perl security
DESCRIPTION
Laundering and Detecting Tainted Data
Switches On the "#!" Line
Taint mode and @INC
Cleaning Up Your Path
Security Bugs
Protecting Your Programs
Unicode
Algorithmic Complexity Attacks
SEE ALSO
perlmod - Perl modules (packages and symbol tables)
DESCRIPTION
Packages
Symbol Tables
BEGIN, CHECK, INIT and END
Perl Classes
Perl Modules
Making your module threadsafe
SEE ALSO
perlmodlib - constructing new Perl modules and finding existing ones
THE PERL MODULE LIBRARY
Pragmatic Modules
assertions::compat, attributes, attrs, autouse, base, bigint,
bignum, bigrat, blib, bytes, charnames, constant, diagnostics,
encoding, fields, filetest, if, integer, less, lib, locale,
open, ops, overload, re, sigtrap, sort, strict, subs, threads,
threads::shared, utf8, vars, vmsish, warnings, warnings::regis-
ter
Standard Modules
AnyDBM_File, Archive::Tar, Archive::Tar::File, Attribute::Han-
dlers, AutoLoader, AutoSplit, B, B::Asmdata, B::Assembler,
B::Bblock, B::Bytecode, B::C, B::CC, B::Concise, B::Debug,
B::Deparse, B::Disassembler, B::Lint, B::Showlex, B::Stackobj,
B::Stash, B::Terse, B::Xref, Benchmark, ByteLoader, CGI,
CGI::Apache, CGI::Carp, CGI::Cookie, CGI::Fast, CGI::Pretty,
CGI::Push, CGI::Switch, CGI::Util, CPAN, CPAN::FirstTime,
CPAN::Nox, Carp, Carp::Heavy, Class::ISA, Class::Struct, Com-
press::Zlib, Config, Cwd, DB, DB_File, Data::Dumper,
Devel::DProf, Devel::PPPort, Devel::Peek, Devel::SelfStubber,
Digest, Digest::MD5, Digest::base, DirHandle, Dumpvalue,
DynaLoader, Encode, Encode::Alias, Encode::Byte, Encode::CJK-
Constants, Encode::CN, Encode::CN::HZ, Encode::Config,
Encode::EBCDIC, Encode::Encoder, Encode::Encoding,
Encode::Guess, Encode::JP, Encode::JP::H2Z, Encode::JP::JIS7,
Encode::KR, Encode::KR::2022_KR, Encode::MIME::Header,
Encode::PerlIO, Encode::Supported, Encode::Symbol, Encode::TW,
Encode::Unicode, Encode::Unicode::UTF7, English, Env, Errno,
Exporter, Exporter::Heavy, ExtUtils::CBuilder, ExtU-
tils::CBuilder::Platform::Windows, ExtUtils::Command, ExtU-
tils::Command::MM, ExtUtils::Constant, ExtUtils::Embed, ExtU-
tils::Install, ExtUtils::Installed, ExtUtils::Liblist, ExtU-
tils::MM, ExtUtils::MM_AIX, ExtUtils::MM_Any, ExtU-
tils::MM_BeOS, ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin, ExtUtils::MM_DOS, ExtU-
tils::MM_MacOS, ExtUtils::MM_NW5, ExtUtils::MM_OS2, ExtU-
tils::MM_QNX, ExtUtils::MM_UWIN, ExtUtils::MM_Unix, ExtU-
tils::MM_VMS, ExtUtils::MM_VOS, ExtUtils::MM_Win32, ExtU-
tils::MM_Win95, ExtUtils::MY, ExtUtils::MakeMaker, ExtU-
tils::MakeMaker::Config, ExtUtils::MakeMaker::FAQ, ExtU-
tils::MakeMaker::Tutorial, ExtUtils::MakeMaker::bytes, ExtU-
tils::MakeMaker::vmsish, ExtUtils::Manifest, ExtUtils::Mkboot-
strap, ExtUtils::Mksymlists, ExtUtils::Packlist, ExtUtils::Par-
seXS, ExtUtils::testlib, Fatal, Fcntl, File::Basename,
File::CheckTree, File::Compare, File::Copy, File::DosGlob,
File::Find, File::Glob, File::Path, File::Spec,
File::Spec::Cygwin, File::Spec::Epoc, File::Spec::Functions,
File::Spec::Mac, File::Spec::OS2, File::Spec::Unix,
File::Spec::VMS, File::Spec::Win32, File::Temp, File::stat,
FileCache, FileHandle, Filter::Simple, Filter::Util::Call,
FindBin, GDBM_File, Getopt::Long, Getopt::Std, Hash::Util,
I18N::Collate, I18N::LangTags, I18N::LangTags::List,
I18N::Langinfo, IO, IO::Dir, IO::File, IO::Handle, IO::Pipe,
IO::Poll, IO::Seekable, IO::Select, IO::Socket,
IO::Socket::INET, IO::Socket::UNIX, IO::Zlib, IPC::Open2,
IPC::Open3, IPC::SysV, IPC::SysV::Msg, IPC::SysV::Semaphore,
List::Util, Locale::Constants, Locale::Country, Locale::Cur-
rency, Locale::Language, Locale::Maketext, Locale::Make-
text::TPJ13, Locale::Script, MIME::Base64, MIME::Base64::Quot-
edPrint, Math::BigFloat, Math::BigInt, Math::BigInt::Calc,
Math::BigInt::FastCalc, Math::BigRat, Math::Complex,
Math::Trig, Memoize, Memoize::AnyDBM_File, Memoize::Expire,
Memoize::ExpireFile, Memoize::ExpireTest, Memoize::NDBM_File,
Memoize::SDBM_File, Memoize::Storable, NDBM_File, NEXT,
Net::Cmd, Net::Config, Net::Domain, Net::FTP, Net::NNTP,
Net::Netrc, Net::POP3, Net::Ping, Net::SMTP, Net::Time,
Net::hostent, Net::libnetFAQ, Net::netent, Net::protoent,
Net::servent, O, ODBM_File, Opcode, POSIX, PerlIO, Per-
lIO::encoding, PerlIO::scalar, PerlIO::via, PerlIO::via::Quot-
edPrint, Pod::Checker, Pod::Find, Pod::Functions, Pod::Html,
Pod::InputObjects, Pod::LaTeX, Pod::Man, Pod::ParseLink,
Pod::ParseUtils, Pod::Parser, Pod::Perldoc::ToChecker,
Pod::Perldoc::ToMan, Pod::Perldoc::ToNroff, Pod::Perl-
doc::ToPod, Pod::Perldoc::ToRtf, Pod::Perldoc::ToText,
Pod::Perldoc::ToTk, Pod::Perldoc::ToXml, Pod::PlainText,
Pod::Plainer, Pod::Select, Pod::Text, Pod::Text::Color,
Pod::Text::Overstrike, Pod::Text::Termcap, Pod::Usage,
SDBM_File, Safe, Scalar::Util, Search::Dict, SelectSaver, Self-
Loader, Shell, Socket, Storable, Switch, Symbol, Sys::Hostname,
Sys::Syslog, Term::ANSIColor, Term::Cap, Term::Complete,
Term::ReadLine, Test, Test::Builder, Test::Harness, Test::Har-
ness::Assert, Test::Harness::Iterator, Test::Harness::Point,
Test::Harness::Straps, Test::More, Test::Simple, Test::Tuto-
rial, Text::Abbrev, Text::Balanced, Text::ParseWords,
Text::Soundex, Text::Tabs, Text::Wrap, Thread, Thread::Queue,
Thread::Semaphore, Thread::Signal, Thread::Specific,
Tie::Array, Tie::File, Tie::Handle, Tie::Hash, Tie::Memoize,
Tie::RefHash, Tie::Scalar, Tie::SubstrHash, Time::HiRes,
Time::Local, Time::gmtime, Time::localtime, Time::tm, UNIVER-
SAL, Unicode::Collate, Unicode::Normalize, Unicode::UCD,
User::grent, User::pwent, Win32, XS::APItest, XS::Typemap,
XSLoader
Extension Modules
CPAN
Africa
South Africa
Asia
China, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Russian Federation,
Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand
Central America
Costa Rica
Europe
Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia,
Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany,
Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania,
Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slo-
vakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine,
United Kingdom
North America
Canada, Alberta, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Mexico, United
States, Alabama, California, Colorado, Delaware, District of
Columbia, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan,
Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon,
Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington,
Wisconsin
Oceania
Australia, New Zealand, United States
South America
Argentina, Brazil, Chile
RSYNC Mirrors
Modules: Creation, Use, and Abuse
Guidelines for Module Creation
Guidelines for Converting Perl 4 Library Scripts into Modules
Guidelines for Reusing Application Code
NOTE
perlmodstyle - Perl module style guide
INTRODUCTION
QUICK CHECKLIST
Before you start
The API
Stability
Documentation
Release considerations
BEFORE YOU START WRITING A MODULE
Has it been done before?
Do one thing and do it well
What's in a name?
DESIGNING AND WRITING YOUR MODULE
To OO or not to OO?
Designing your API
Write simple routines to do simple things, Separate functional-
ity from output, Provide sensible shortcuts and defaults, Nam-
ing conventions, Parameter passing
Strictness and warnings
Backwards compatibility
Error handling and messages
DOCUMENTING YOUR MODULE
POD
README, INSTALL, release notes, changelogs
perl Makefile.PL, make, make test, make install, perl Build.PL,
perl Build, perl Build test, perl Build install
RELEASE CONSIDERATIONS
Version numbering
Pre-requisites
Testing
Packaging
Licensing
COMMON PITFALLS
Reinventing the wheel
Trying to do too much
Inappropriate documentation
SEE ALSO
perlstyle, perlnewmod, perlpod, podchecker, Packaging Tools, Test-
ing tools, http://pause.perl.org/, Any good book on software engi-
neering
AUTHOR
perlmodinstall - Installing CPAN Modules
DESCRIPTION
PREAMBLE
DECOMPRESS the file, UNPACK the file into a directory, BUILD
the module (sometimes unnecessary), INSTALL the module
PORTABILITY
HEY
AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT
perlnewmod - preparing a new module for distribution
DESCRIPTION
Warning
What should I make into a module?
Step-by-step: Preparing the ground
Look around, Check it's new, Discuss the need, Choose a name,
Check again
Step-by-step: Making the module
Start with module-starter or h2xs, Use strict and warnings, Use
Carp, Use Exporter - wisely!, Use plain old documentation,
Write tests, Write the README
Step-by-step: Distributing your module
Get a CPAN user ID, "perl Makefile.PL; make test; make dist",
Upload the tarball, Announce to the modules list, Announce to
clpa, Fix bugs!
AUTHOR
SEE ALSO
perlutil - utilities packaged with the Perl distribution
DESCRIPTION
DOCUMENTATION
perldoc, pod2man and pod2text, pod2html and pod2latex,
pod2usage, podselect, podchecker, splain, roffitall
CONVERTORS
a2p, s2p, find2perl
Administration
libnetcfg
Development
perlbug, h2ph, c2ph and pstruct, h2xs, dprofpp, perlcc
SEE ALSO
perlcompile - Introduction to the Perl Compiler-Translator
DESCRIPTION
Layout
B::Bytecode, B::C, B::CC, B::Lint, B::Deparse, B::Xref
Using The Back Ends
The Cross Referencing Back End
i, &, s, r
The Decompiling Back End
The Lint Back End
The Simple C Back End
The Bytecode Back End
The Optimized C Back End
Module List for the Compiler Suite
B, O, B::Asmdata, B::Assembler, B::Bblock, B::Bytecode, B::C,
B::CC, B::Concise, B::Debug, B::Deparse, B::Disassembler, B::Lint,
B::Showlex, B::Stackobj, B::Stash, B::Terse, B::Xref
KNOWN PROBLEMS
AUTHOR
perlfilter - Source Filters
DESCRIPTION
CONCEPTS
USING FILTERS
WRITING A SOURCE FILTER
WRITING A SOURCE FILTER IN C
Decryption Filters
CREATING A SOURCE FILTER AS A SEPARATE EXECUTABLE
WRITING A SOURCE FILTER IN PERL
USING CONTEXT: THE DEBUG FILTER
CONCLUSION
THINGS TO LOOK OUT FOR
Some Filters Clobber the "DATA" Handle
REQUIREMENTS
AUTHOR
Copyrights
perlglossary - Perl Glossary
DESCRIPTION
A accessor methods, actual arguments, address operator, algo-
rithm, alias, alternatives, anonymous, architecture, argument,
ARGV, arithmetical operator, array, array context, ASCII,
assertion, assignment, assignment operator, associative array,
associativity, asynchronous, atom, atomic operation, attribute,
autogeneration, autoincrement, autoload, autosplit, autovivifi-
cation, AV, awk
B backreference, backtracking, backward compatibility, bareword,
base class, big-endian, binary, binary operator, bind, bit, bit
shift, bit string, bless, block, BLOCK, block buffering,
Boolean, Boolean context, breakpoint, broadcast, BSD, bucket,
buffer, built-in, bundle, byte, bytecode
C C, C preprocessor, call by reference, call by value, callback,
canonical, capturing, character, character class, character
property, circumfix operator, class, class method, client,
cloister, closure, cluster, CODE, code generator, code subpat-
tern, collating sequence, command, command buffering, command
name, command-line arguments, comment, compilation unit, com-
pile phase, compile time, compiler, composer, concatenation,
conditional, connection, construct, constructor, context, con-
tinuation, core dump, CPAN, cracker, current package, current
working directory, currently selected output channel, CV
D dangling statement, data structure, data type, datagram, DBM,
declaration, decrement, default, defined, delimiter, derefer-
ence, derived class, descriptor, destroy, destructor, device,
directive, directory, directory handle, dispatch, distribution,
dweomer, dwimmer, dynamic scoping
E eclectic, element, embedding, empty subclass test, en passant,
encapsulation, endian, environment, environment variable, EOF,
errno, error, escape sequence, exception, exception handling,
exec, executable file, execute, execute bit, exit status,
export, expression, extension
F false, FAQ, fatal error, field, FIFO, file, file descriptor,
file test operator, fileglob, filehandle, filename, filesystem,
filter, flag, floating point, flush, FMTEYEWTK, fork, formal
arguments, format, freely available, freely redistributable,
freeware, function, funny character, garbage collection
G GID, glob, global, global destruction, glue language, granular-
ity, greedy, grep, group, GV
H hacker, handler, hard reference, hash, hash table, header file,
here document, hexadecimal, home directory, host, hubris, HV
I identifier, impatience, implementation, import, increment,
indexing, indirect filehandle, indirect object, indirect object
slot, indirection, infix, inheritance, instance, instance vari-
able, integer, interface, interpolation, interpreter, invocant,
invocation, I/O, IO, IP, IPC, is-a, iteration, iterator, IV
J JAPH
K key, keyword
L label, laziness, left shift, leftmost longest, lexeme, lexer,
lexical analysis, lexical scoping, lexical variable, library,
LIFO, line, line buffering, line number, link, LIST, list, list
context, list operator, list value, literal, little-endian,
local, logical operator, lookahead, lookbehind, loop, loop con-
trol statement, loop label, lvaluable, lvalue, lvalue modifier
M magic, magical increment, magical variables, Makefile, man,
manpage, matching, member data, memory, metacharacter, metasym-
bol, method, minimalism, mode, modifier, module, modulus, mon-
ger, mortal, multidimensional array, multiple inheritance
N named pipe, namespace, network address, newline, NFS, null
character, null list, null string, numeric context, NV, nybble
O object, octal, offset, one-liner, open source software, oper-
and, operating system, operator, operator overloading, options,
overloading, overriding, owner
P package, pad, parameter, parent class, parse tree, parsing,
patch, PATH, pathname, pattern, pattern matching, permission
bits, Pern, pipe, pipeline, platform, pod, pointer, polymor-
phism, port, portable, porter, POSIX, postfix, pp, pragma,
precedence, prefix, preprocessing, procedure, process, program
generator, progressive matching, property, protocol, prototype,
pseudofunction, pseudohash, pseudoliteral, public domain, pump-
kin, pumpking, PV
Q qualified, quantifier
R readable, reaping, record, recursion, reference, referent,
regex, regular expression, regular expression modifier, regular
file, relational operator, reserved words, return value, RFC,
right shift, root, RTFM, run phase, run time, run-time pattern,
RV, rvalue
S scalar, scalar context, scalar literal, scalar value, scalar
variable, scope, scratchpad, script, script kiddie, sed, sema-
phore, separator, serialization, server, service, setgid,
setuid, shared memory, shebang, shell, side effects, signal,
signal handler, single inheritance, slice, slurp, socket, soft
reference, source filter, stack, standard, standard error,
standard I/O, standard input, standard output, stat structure,
statement, statement modifier, static, static method, static
scoping, static variable, status, STDERR, STDIN, STDIO, STDOUT,
stream, string, string context, stringification, struct, struc-
ture, subclass, subpattern, subroutine, subscript, substitu-
tion, substring, superclass, superuser, SV, switch, switch
cluster, switch statement, symbol, symbol table, symbolic
debugger, symbolic link, symbolic reference, synchronous, syn-
tactic sugar, syntax, syntax tree, syscall
T tainted, TCP, term, terminator, ternary, text, thread, tie,
TMTOWTDI, token, tokener, tokenizing, toolbox approach,
transliterate, trigger, trinary, troff, true, truncating, type,
type casting, typed lexical, typedef, typeglob, typemap
U UDP, UID, umask, unary operator, Unicode, Unix
V value, variable, variable interpolation, variadic, vector, vir-
tual, void context, v-string
W warning, watch expression, whitespace, word, working directory,
wrapper, WYSIWYG
X XS, XSUB
Y yacc
Z zero width, zombie
AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
perlembed - how to embed perl in your C program
DESCRIPTION
PREAMBLE
Use C from Perl?, Use a Unix program from Perl?, Use Perl from
Perl?, Use C from C?, Use Perl from C?
ROADMAP
Compiling your C program
Adding a Perl interpreter to your C program
Calling a Perl subroutine from your C program
Evaluating a Perl statement from your C program
Performing Perl pattern matches and substitutions from your C pro-
gram
Fiddling with the Perl stack from your C program
Maintaining a persistent interpreter
Execution of END blocks
Maintaining multiple interpreter instances
Using Perl modules, which themselves use C libraries, from your C
program
Embedding Perl under Win32
Hiding Perl_
MORAL
AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT
perldebguts - Guts of Perl debugging
DESCRIPTION
Debugger Internals
Writing Your Own Debugger
Frame Listing Output Examples
Debugging regular expressions
Compile-time output
"anchored" STRING "at" POS, "floating" STRING "at" POS1..POS2,
"matching floating/anchored", "minlen", "stclass" TYPE,
"noscan", "isall", "GPOS", "plus", "implicit", "with eval",
"anchored(TYPE)"
Types of nodes
Run-time output
Debugging Perl memory usage
Using $ENV{PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS}
"buckets SMALLEST(APPROX)..GREATEST(APPROX)", Free/Used, "Total
sbrk(): SBRKed/SBRKs:CONTINUOUS", "pad: 0", "heads: 2192",
"chain: 0", "tail: 6144"
SEE ALSO
perlxstut, perlXStut - Tutorial for writing XSUBs
DESCRIPTION
SPECIAL NOTES
make
Version caveat
Dynamic Loading versus Static Loading
TUTORIAL
EXAMPLE 1
EXAMPLE 2
What has gone on?
Writing good test scripts
EXAMPLE 3
What's new here?
Input and Output Parameters
The XSUBPP Program
The TYPEMAP file
Warning about Output Arguments
EXAMPLE 4
What has happened here?
Anatomy of .xs file
Getting the fat out of XSUBs
More about XSUB arguments
The Argument Stack
Extending your Extension
Documenting your Extension
Installing your Extension
EXAMPLE 5
New Things in this Example
EXAMPLE 6
New Things in this Example
EXAMPLE 7 (Coming Soon)
EXAMPLE 8 (Coming Soon)
EXAMPLE 9 Passing open files to XSes
Troubleshooting these Examples
See also
Author
Last Changed
perlxs - XS language reference manual
DESCRIPTION
Introduction
On The Road
The Anatomy of an XSUB
The Argument Stack
The RETVAL Variable
Returning SVs, AVs and HVs through RETVAL
The MODULE Keyword
The PACKAGE Keyword
The PREFIX Keyword
The OUTPUT: Keyword
The NO_OUTPUT Keyword
The CODE: Keyword
The INIT: Keyword
The NO_INIT Keyword
Initializing Function Parameters
Default Parameter Values
The PREINIT: Keyword
The SCOPE: Keyword
The INPUT: Keyword
The IN/OUTLIST/IN_OUTLIST/OUT/IN_OUT Keywords
The "length(NAME)" Keyword
Variable-length Parameter Lists
The C_ARGS: Keyword
The PPCODE: Keyword
Returning Undef And Empty Lists
The REQUIRE: Keyword
The CLEANUP: Keyword
The POSTCALL: Keyword
The BOOT: Keyword
The VERSIONCHECK: Keyword
The PROTOTYPES: Keyword
The PROTOTYPE: Keyword
The ALIAS: Keyword
The OVERLOAD: Keyword
The FALLBACK: Keyword
The INTERFACE: Keyword
The INTERFACE_MACRO: Keyword
The INCLUDE: Keyword
The CASE: Keyword
The & Unary Operator
Inserting POD, Comments and C Preprocessor Directives
Using XS With C++
Interface Strategy
Perl Objects And C Structures
The Typemap
Safely Storing Static Data in XS
MY_CXT_KEY, typedef my_cxt_t, START_MY_CXT, MY_CXT_INIT,
dMY_CXT, MY_CXT
EXAMPLES
XS VERSION
AUTHOR
perlclib - Internal replacements for standard C library functions
DESCRIPTION
Conventions
"t", "p", "n", "s"
File Operations
File Input and Output
File Positioning
Memory Management and String Handling
Character Class Tests
stdlib.h functions
Miscellaneous functions
SEE ALSO
perlguts - Introduction to the Perl API
DESCRIPTION
Variables
Datatypes
What is an "IV"?
Working with SVs
Offsets
What's Really Stored in an SV?
Working with AVs
Working with HVs
Hash API Extensions
AVs, HVs and undefined values
References
Blessed References and Class Objects
Creating New Variables
GV_ADDMULTI, GV_ADDWARN
Reference Counts and Mortality
Stashes and Globs
Double-Typed SVs
Magic Variables
Assigning Magic
Magic Virtual Tables
Finding Magic
Understanding the Magic of Tied Hashes and Arrays
Localizing changes
"SAVEINT(int i)", "SAVEIV(IV i)", "SAVEI32(I32 i)", "SAVE-
LONG(long i)", SAVESPTR(s), SAVEPPTR(p), "SAVEFREESV(SV *sv)",
"SAVEMORTALIZESV(SV *sv)", "SAVEFREEOP(OP *op)", SAVEFREEPV(p),
"SAVECLEARSV(SV *sv)", "SAVEDELETE(HV *hv, char *key, I32
length)", "SAVEDESTRUCTOR(DESTRUCTORFUNC_NOCONTEXT_t f, void
*p)", "SAVEDESTRUCTOR_X(DESTRUCTORFUNC_t f, void *p)", "SAVES-
TACK_POS()", "SV* save_scalar(GV *gv)", "AV* save_ary(GV *gv)",
"HV* save_hash(GV *gv)", "void save_item(SV *item)", "void
save_list(SV **sarg, I32 maxsarg)", "SV* save_svref(SV
**sptr)", "void save_aptr(AV **aptr)", "void save_hptr(HV
**hptr)"
Subroutines
XSUBs and the Argument Stack
Calling Perl Routines from within C Programs
Memory Allocation
PerlIO
Putting a C value on Perl stack
Scratchpads
Scratchpads and recursion
Compiled code
Code tree
Examining the tree
Compile pass 1: check routines
Compile pass 1a: constant folding
Compile pass 2: context propagation
Compile pass 3: peephole optimization
Pluggable runops
Examining internal data structures with the "dump" functions
How multiple interpreters and concurrency are supported
Background and PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
So what happened to dTHR?
How do I use all this in extensions?
Should I do anything special if I call perl from multiple threads?
Future Plans and PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
Internal Functions
A, p, d, s, n, r, f, M, o, x, m, X, E, b
Formatted Printing of IVs, UVs, and NVs
Pointer-To-Integer and Integer-To-Pointer
Source Documentation
Backwards compatibility
Unicode Support
What is Unicode, anyway?
How can I recognise a UTF-8 string?
How does UTF-8 represent Unicode characters?
How does Perl store UTF-8 strings?
How do I convert a string to UTF-8?
Is there anything else I need to know?
Custom Operators
AUTHORS
SEE ALSO
perlcall - Perl calling conventions from C
DESCRIPTION
An Error Handler, An Event Driven Program
THE CALL_ FUNCTIONS
call_sv, call_pv, call_method, call_argv
FLAG VALUES
G_VOID
G_SCALAR
G_ARRAY
G_DISCARD
G_NOARGS
G_EVAL
G_KEEPERR
Determining the Context
EXAMPLES
No Parameters, Nothing returned
Passing Parameters
Returning a Scalar
Returning a list of values
Returning a list in a scalar context
Returning Data from Perl via the parameter list
Using G_EVAL
Using G_KEEPERR
Using call_sv
Using call_argv
Using call_method
Using GIMME_V
Using Perl to dispose of temporaries
Strategies for storing Callback Context Information
1. Ignore the problem - Allow only 1 callback, 2. Create a
sequence of callbacks - hard wired limit, 3. Use a parameter to
map to the Perl callback
Alternate Stack Manipulation
Creating and calling an anonymous subroutine in C
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
DATE
perlapi - autogenerated documentation for the perl public API
DESCRIPTION
"Gimme" Values
GIMME , GIMME_V , G_ARRAY , G_DISCARD , G_EVAL , G_NOARGS ,
G_SCALAR , G_VOID
Array Manipulation Functions
AvFILL , av_clear , av_delete , av_exists , av_extend , av_fetch ,
av_fill , av_len , av_make , av_pop , av_push , av_shift , av_store
, av_undef , av_unshift , get_av , newAV , sortsv
Callback Functions
call_argv , call_method , call_pv , call_sv , ENTER , eval_pv ,
eval_sv , FREETMPS , LEAVE , SAVETMPS
Character classes
isALNUM , isALPHA , isDIGIT , isLOWER , isSPACE , isUPPER , toLOWER
, toUPPER
Cloning an interpreter
perl_clone
CV Manipulation Functions
CvSTASH , get_cv
Embedding Functions
cv_undef , load_module , nothreadhook , perl_alloc , perl_construct
, perl_destruct , perl_free , perl_parse , perl_run , require_pv
Functions in file pp_pack.c
packlist , pack_cat , unpackstring , unpack_str
Global Variables
PL_modglobal , PL_na , PL_sv_no , PL_sv_undef , PL_sv_yes
GV Functions
GvSV , gv_fetchmeth , gv_fetchmethod , gv_fetchmethod_autoload ,
gv_fetchmeth_autoload , gv_stashpv , gv_stashpvn , gv_stashsv
Handy Values
Nullav , Nullch , Nullcv , Nullhv , Nullsv
Hash Manipulation Functions
get_hv , HEf_SVKEY , HeHASH , HeKEY , HeKLEN , HePV , HeSVKEY ,
HeSVKEY_force , HeSVKEY_set , HeVAL , HvNAME , hv_clear ,
hv_clear_placeholders , hv_delete , hv_delete_ent , hv_exists ,
hv_exists_ent , hv_fetch , hv_fetch_ent , hv_iterinit , hv_iterkey
, hv_iterkeysv , hv_iternext , hv_iternextsv , hv_iternext_flags ,
hv_iterval , hv_magic , hv_scalar , hv_store , hv_store_ent ,
hv_undef , newHV
Magical Functions
mg_clear , mg_copy , mg_find , mg_free , mg_get , mg_length ,
mg_magical , mg_set , SvGETMAGIC , SvLOCK , SvSETMAGIC , SvSetMag-
icSV , SvSetMagicSV_nosteal , SvSetSV , SvSetSV_nosteal , SvSHARE ,
SvUNLOCK
Memory Management
Copy , CopyD , Move , MoveD , Newx , Newxc , Newxz , Poison , Renew
, Renewc , Safefree , savepv , savepvn , savesharedpv , savesvpv ,
StructCopy , Zero , ZeroD
Miscellaneous Functions
fbm_compile , fbm_instr , form , getcwd_sv , strEQ , strGE , strGT
, strLE , strLT , strNE , strnEQ , strnNE , sv_nolocking ,
sv_nosharing , sv_nounlocking
Numeric functions
grok_bin , grok_hex , grok_number , grok_numeric_radix , grok_oct ,
scan_bin , scan_hex , scan_oct
Optree Manipulation Functions
cv_const_sv , newCONSTSUB , newXS
Pad Data Structures
pad_sv
Stack Manipulation Macros
dMARK , dORIGMARK , dSP , EXTEND , MARK , mPUSHi , mPUSHn , mPUSHp
, mPUSHu , mXPUSHi , mXPUSHn , mXPUSHp , mXPUSHu , ORIGMARK , POPi
, POPl , POPn , POPp , POPpbytex , POPpx , POPs , PUSHi , PUSHMARK
, PUSHmortal , PUSHn , PUSHp , PUSHs , PUSHu , PUTBACK , SP , SPA-
GAIN , XPUSHi , XPUSHmortal , XPUSHn , XPUSHp , XPUSHs , XPUSHu ,
XSRETURN , XSRETURN_EMPTY , XSRETURN_IV , XSRETURN_NO , XSRETURN_NV
, XSRETURN_PV , XSRETURN_UNDEF , XSRETURN_UV , XSRETURN_YES ,
XST_mIV , XST_mNO , XST_mNV , XST_mPV , XST_mUNDEF , XST_mYES
SV Flags
svtype , SVt_IV , SVt_NV , SVt_PV , SVt_PVAV , SVt_PVCV , SVt_PVHV
, SVt_PVMG
SV Manipulation Functions
get_sv , looks_like_number , newRV_inc , newRV_noinc , NEWSV ,
newSV , newSVhek , newSViv , newSVnv , newSVpv , newSVpvf ,
newSVpvn , newSVpvn_share , newSVrv , newSVsv , newSVuv , SvCUR ,
SvCUR_set , SvEND , SvGROW , SvIOK , SvIOKp , SvIOK_notUV ,
SvIOK_off , SvIOK_on , SvIOK_only , SvIOK_only_UV , SvIOK_UV ,
SvIsCOW , SvIsCOW_shared_hash , SvIV , SvIVX , SvIVx , SvIV_set ,
SvLEN , SvLEN_set , SvMAGIC_set , SvNIOK , SvNIOKp , SvNIOK_off ,
SvNOK , SvNOKp , SvNOK_off , SvNOK_on , SvNOK_only , SvNV , SvNVX ,
SvNVx , SvNV_set , SvOK , SvOOK , SvPOK , SvPOKp , SvPOK_off ,
SvPOK_on , SvPOK_only , SvPOK_only_UTF8 , SvPV , SvPVbyte , SvPVby-
tex , SvPVbytex_force , SvPVbyte_force , SvPVbyte_nolen , SvPVutf8
, SvPVutf8x , SvPVutf8x_force , SvPVutf8_force , SvPVutf8_nolen ,
SvPVX , SvPVx , SvPV_force , SvPV_force_nomg , SvPV_nolen ,
SvPV_set , SvREFCNT , SvREFCNT_dec , SvREFCNT_inc , SvROK ,
SvROK_off , SvROK_on , SvRV , SvRV_set , SvSTASH , SvSTASH_set ,
SvTAINT , SvTAINTED , SvTAINTED_off , SvTAINTED_on , SvTRUE ,
SvTYPE , SvUOK , SvUPGRADE , SvUTF8 , SvUTF8_off , SvUTF8_on , SvUV
, SvUVX , SvUVx , SvUV_set , sv_2bool , sv_2cv , sv_2io , sv_2iv ,
sv_2mortal , sv_2nv , sv_2pvbyte , sv_2pvbyte_nolen , sv_2pvutf8 ,
sv_2pvutf8_nolen , sv_2pv_flags , sv_2pv_nolen , sv_2uv , sv_back-
off , sv_bless , sv_catpv , sv_catpvf , sv_catpvf_mg , sv_catpvn ,
sv_catpvn_flags , sv_catpvn_mg , sv_catpvn_nomg , sv_catpv_mg ,
sv_catsv , sv_catsv_flags , sv_catsv_mg , sv_catsv_nomg , sv_chop ,
sv_clear , sv_cmp , sv_cmp_locale , sv_collxfrm , sv_copypv ,
sv_dec , sv_derived_from , sv_eq , sv_force_normal , sv_force_nor-
mal_flags , sv_free , sv_gets , sv_grow , sv_inc , sv_insert ,
sv_isa , sv_isobject , sv_iv , sv_len , sv_len_utf8 , sv_magic ,
sv_magicext , sv_mortalcopy , sv_newmortal , sv_newref , sv_nv ,
sv_pos_b2u , sv_pos_u2b , sv_pv , sv_pvbyte , sv_pvbyten ,
sv_pvbyten_force , sv_pvn , sv_pvn_force , sv_pvn_force_flags ,
sv_pvutf8 , sv_pvutf8n , sv_pvutf8n_force , sv_reftype , sv_replace
, sv_report_used , sv_reset , sv_rvweaken , sv_setiv , sv_setiv_mg
, sv_setnv , sv_setnv_mg , sv_setpv , sv_setpvf , sv_setpvf_mg ,
sv_setpviv , sv_setpviv_mg , sv_setpvn , sv_setpvn_mg , sv_setpv_mg
, sv_setref_iv , sv_setref_nv , sv_setref_pv , sv_setref_pvn ,
sv_setref_uv , sv_setsv , sv_setsv_flags , sv_setsv_mg ,
sv_setsv_nomg , sv_setuv , sv_setuv_mg , sv_taint , sv_tainted ,
sv_true , sv_unmagic , sv_unref , sv_unref_flags , sv_untaint ,
sv_upgrade , sv_usepvn , sv_usepvn_mg , sv_utf8_decode ,
sv_utf8_downgrade , sv_utf8_encode , sv_utf8_upgrade ,
sv_utf8_upgrade_flags , sv_uv , sv_vcatpvf , sv_vcatpvfn , sv_vcat-
pvf_mg , sv_vsetpvf , sv_vsetpvfn , sv_vsetpvf_mg
Unicode Support
bytes_from_utf8 , bytes_to_utf8 , ibcmp_utf8 , is_utf8_char ,
is_utf8_string , is_utf8_string_loc , is_utf8_string_loclen ,
pv_uni_display , sv_cat_decode , sv_recode_to_utf8 , sv_uni_display
, to_utf8_case , to_utf8_fold , to_utf8_lower , to_utf8_title ,
to_utf8_upper , utf8n_to_uvchr , utf8n_to_uvuni , utf8_distance ,
utf8_hop , utf8_length , utf8_to_bytes , utf8_to_uvchr ,
utf8_to_uvuni , uvchr_to_utf8 , uvuni_to_utf8_flags
Variables created by "xsubpp" and "xsubpp" internal functions
ax , CLASS , dAX , dAXMARK , dITEMS , dXSARGS , dXSI32 , items , ix
, newXSproto , RETVAL , ST , THIS , XS , XS_VERSION , XS_VER-
SION_BOOTCHECK
Warning and Dieing
croak , warn
AUTHORS
SEE ALSO
perlintern - autogenerated documentation of purely internal Perl func-
tions
DESCRIPTION
CV reference counts and CvOUTSIDE
CvWEAKOUTSIDE
Functions in file pad.h
CX_CURPAD_SAVE , CX_CURPAD_SV , PAD_BASE_SV , PAD_CLONE_VARS ,
PAD_COMPNAME_FLAGS , PAD_COMPNAME_GEN , PAD_COMPNAME_GEN_set ,
PAD_COMPNAME_OURSTASH , PAD_COMPNAME_PV , PAD_COMPNAME_TYPE ,
PAD_DUP , PAD_RESTORE_LOCAL , PAD_SAVE_LOCAL , PAD_SAVE_SETNULLPAD
, PAD_SETSV , PAD_SET_CUR , PAD_SET_CUR_NOSAVE , PAD_SV , PAD_SVl ,
SAVECLEARSV , SAVECOMPPAD , SAVEPADSV
Functions in file pp_ctl.c
find_runcv
Global Variables
PL_DBsingle , PL_DBsub , PL_DBtrace , PL_dowarn , PL_last_in_gv ,
PL_ofs_sv , PL_rs
GV Functions
is_gv_magical
IO Functions
start_glob
Pad Data Structures
CvPADLIST , cv_clone , cv_dump , do_dump_pad , intro_my ,
pad_add_anon , pad_add_name , pad_alloc , pad_block_start ,
pad_check_dup , pad_findlex , pad_findmy , pad_fixup_inner_anons ,
pad_free , pad_leavemy , pad_new , pad_push , pad_reset , pad_setsv
, pad_swipe , pad_tidy , pad_undef
Stack Manipulation Macros
djSP , LVRET
SV Manipulation Functions
report_uninit , sv_add_arena , sv_clean_all , sv_clean_objs ,
sv_free_arenas
AUTHORS
SEE ALSO
perliol - C API for Perl's implementation of IO in Layers.
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
History and Background
Basic Structure
Layers vs Disciplines
Data Structures
Functions and Attributes
Per-instance Data
Layers in action.
Per-instance flag bits
PERLIO_F_EOF, PERLIO_F_CANWRITE, PERLIO_F_CANREAD, PER-
LIO_F_ERROR, PERLIO_F_TRUNCATE, PERLIO_F_APPEND, PERLIO_F_CRLF,
PERLIO_F_UTF8, PERLIO_F_UNBUF, PERLIO_F_WRBUF, PERLIO_F_RDBUF,
PERLIO_F_LINEBUF, PERLIO_F_TEMP, PERLIO_F_OPEN, PERLIO_F_FAST-
GETS
Methods in Detail
fsize, name, size, kind, PERLIO_K_BUFFERED, PERLIO_K_RAW, PER-
LIO_K_CANCRLF, PERLIO_K_FASTGETS, PERLIO_K_MULTIARG, Pushed,
Popped, Open, Binmode, Getarg, Fileno, Dup, Read, Write, Seek,
Tell, Close, Flush, Fill, Eof, Error, Clearerr, Setlinebuf,
Get_base, Get_bufsiz, Get_ptr, Get_cnt, Set_ptrcnt
Utilities
Implementing PerlIO Layers
C implementations, Perl implementations
Core Layers
"unix", "perlio", "stdio", "crlf", "mmap", "pending", "raw",
"utf8"
Extension Layers
":encoding", ":scalar", ":via"
TODO
perlapio - perl's IO abstraction interface.
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
1. USE_STDIO, 2. USE_SFIO, 3. USE_PERLIO, PPeerrllIIOO__ssttddiinn(()), PPeerr--
llIIOO__ssttddoouutt(()), PPeerrllIIOO__ssttddeerrrr(()), PerlIO_open(path, mode), Per-
lIO_fdopen(fd,mode), PerlIO_reopen(path,mode,f), Per-
lIO_printf(f,fmt,...), PerlIO_vprintf(f,fmt,a), PerlIO_std-
outf(fmt,...), PerlIO_read(f,buf,count), PerlIO_write(f,buf,count),
PerlIO_close(f), PerlIO_puts(f,s), PerlIO_putc(f,c), Per-
lIO_ungetc(f,c), PerlIO_getc(f), PerlIO_eof(f), PerlIO_error(f),
PerlIO_fileno(f), PerlIO_clearerr(f), PerlIO_flush(f), Per-
lIO_seek(f,offset,whence), PerlIO_tell(f), PerlIO_getpos(f,p), Per-
lIO_setpos(f,p), PerlIO_rewind(f), PPeerrllIIOO__ttmmppffiillee(()), PerlIO_set-
linebuf(f)
Co-existence with stdio
PerlIO_importFILE(f,mode), PerlIO_exportFILE(f,mode), Per-
lIO_releaseFILE(p,f), PerlIO_findFILE(f)
"Fast gets" Functions
PerlIO_fast_gets(f), PerlIO_has_cntptr(f), PerlIO_get_cnt(f),
PerlIO_get_ptr(f), PerlIO_set_ptrcnt(f,p,c), Per-
lIO_canset_cnt(f), PerlIO_set_cnt(f,c), PerlIO_has_base(f),
PerlIO_get_base(f), PerlIO_get_bufsiz(f)
Other Functions
PerlIO_apply_layers(f,mode,layers), PerlIO_bin-
mode(f,ptype,imode,layers), '<' read, '>' write, '+'
read/write, PerlIO_debug(fmt,...)
perlhack - How to hack at the Perl internals
DESCRIPTION
Does concept match the general goals of Perl?, Where is the imple-
mentation?, Backwards compatibility, Could it be a module instead?,
Is the feature generic enough?, Does it potentially introduce new
bugs?, Does it preclude other desirable features?, Is the implemen-
tation robust?, Is the implementation generic enough to be porta-
ble?, Is the implementation tested?, Is there enough documenta-
tion?, Is there another way to do it?, Does it create too much
work?, Patches speak louder than words
Keeping in sync
rsync'ing the source tree, Using rsync over the LAN, Using
pushing over the NFS, rsync'ing the patches
Why rsync the source tree
It's easier to rsync the source tree, It's more reliable
Why rsync the patches
It's easier to rsync the patches, It's a good reference, Find-
ing a start point, Finding how to fix a bug, Finding the source
of misbehaviour
Working with the source
Perlbug administration
Submitting patches
perlguts, perlxstut and perlxs, perlapi, Porting/pumpkin.pod,
The perl5-porters FAQ
Finding Your Way Around
Core modules, Tests, Documentation, Configure, Interpreter
Elements of the interpreter
Startup, Parsing, Optimization, Running, Exception handing
Internal Variable Types
Op Trees
Stacks
Argument stack, Mark stack, Save stack
Millions of Macros
The .i Targets
Poking at Perl
Using a source-level debugger
run [args], break function_name, break source.c:xxx, step,
next, continue, finish, 'enter', print
gdb macro support
Dumping Perl Data Structures
Patching
Patching a core module
Adding a new function to the core
Writing a test
t/base/, t/cmd/, t/comp/, t/io/, t/lib/, t/op/, t/pod/, t/run/,
t/uni/, t/win32/, t/x2p, t/base t/comp, t/cmd t/run t/io t/op,
t/lib ext lib
Special Make Test Targets
coretest, test.deparse, test.taintwarn, minitest, test.valgrind
check.valgrind utest.valgrind ucheck.valgrind, test.third
check.third utest.third ucheck.third, test.torture torturetest,
utest ucheck test.utf8 check.utf8, minitest.utf16 test.utf16,
test_harness, test-notty test_notty
Running tests by hand
-v, -torture, -re=PATTERN, -re LIST OF PATTERNS, PERL_CORE=1,
PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL=2, PERL, PERL_SKIP_TTY_TEST
EXTERNAL TOOLS FOR DEBUGGING PERL
Rational Software's Purify
Purify on Unix
-Accflags=-DPURIFY, -Doptimize='-g', -Uusemymalloc, -Dusemulti-
plicity
Purify on NT
DEFINES, USE_MULTI = define, #PERL_MALLOC = define, CFG = Debug
valgrind
Compaq's/Digital's/HP's Third Degree
PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL
Profiling
Gprof Profiling
-a, -b, -e routine, -f routine, -s, -z
GCC gcov Profiling
Pixie Profiling
-h, -l, -p[rocedures], -h[eavy], -i[nvocations], -l[ines],
-testcoverage, -z[ero]
Miscellaneous tricks
CONCLUSION
The Road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it
began.
AUTHOR
perlbook - Perl book information
DESCRIPTION
perltodo - Perl TO-DO List
DESCRIPTION
The roadmap to 5.10
Needed for a 5.9.4 release
Needed for a 5.9.5 release
Implement "_ prototype character", Implement "state variables"
Needed for a 5.9.6 release
Tasks that only need Perl knowledge
common test code for timed bail out
POD -> HTML conversion in the core still sucks
Parallel testing
Make Schwern poorer
Improve the coverage of the core tests
test B
A decent benchmark
fix tainting bugs
Dual life everything
Improving "threads::shared"
POSIX memory footprint
Tasks that need a little sysadmin-type knowledge
Relocatable perl
make HTML install work
compressed man pages
Add a code coverage target to the Makefile
Make Config.pm cope with differences between build and installed
perl
make parallel builds work
linker specification files
Tasks that need a little C knowledge
Make it clear from -v if this is the exact official release
Tidy up global variables
Ordering of "global" variables.
bincompat functions
am I hot or not?
emulate the per-thread memory pool on Unix
reduce duplication in sv_setsv_flags
Tasks that need a knowledge of XS
IPv6
shrink "GV"s, "CV"s
merge Perl_sv_2[inpu]v
UTF8 caching code
Implicit Latin 1 => Unicode translation
autovivification
Unicode in Filenames
Unicode in %ENV
use less 'memory'
Re-implement ":unique" in a way that is actually thread-safe
Make tainting consistent
readpipe(LIST)
Tasks that need a knowledge of the interpreter
lexical pragmas
Attach/detach debugger from running program
Constant folding
LVALUE functions for lists
LVALUE functions in the debugger
_ prototype character
state variables
@INC source filter to Filter::Simple
regexp optimiser optional
UNITCHECK
optional optimizer
You WANT *how* many
lexical aliases
entersub XS vs Perl
Self ties
Optimize away @_
What hooks would assertions need?
Big projects
make ithreads more robust
iCOW
(?{...}) closures in regexps
A re-entrant regexp engine
perldoc - Look up Perl documentation in Pod format.
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
-h, -v, -t, -u, -m module, -l, -F, -f perlfunc, -q perlfaq-search-
regexp, -T, -d destination-filename, -o output-formatname, -M mod-
ule-name, -w option:value or -w option, -X, PageName|Module-
Name|ProgramName, -n some-formatter, -r, -i, -V
SECURITY
ENVIRONMENT
AUTHOR
perlhist - the Perl history records
DESCRIPTION
INTRODUCTION
THE KEEPERS OF THE PUMPKIN
PUMPKIN?
THE RECORDS
SELECTED RELEASE SIZES
SELECTED PATCH SIZES
THE KEEPERS OF THE RECORDS
perldelta - what is new for perl v5.8.8
DESCRIPTION
Incompatible Changes
Core Enhancements
Modules and Pragmata
Utility Changes
New Documentation
Performance Enhancements
Installation and Configuration Improvements
Selected Bug Fixes
New or Changed Diagnostics
Changed Internals
New Tests
Known Problems
Platform Specific Problems
Reporting Bugs
SEE ALSO
perl588delta, perldelta - what is new for perl v5.8.8
DESCRIPTION
Incompatible Changes
Core Enhancements
Modules and Pragmata
Utility Changes
New Documentation
Performance Enhancements
Installation and Configuration Improvements
Selected Bug Fixes
New or Changed Diagnostics
Changed Internals
New Tests
Known Problems
Platform Specific Problems
Reporting Bugs
SEE ALSO
perl587delta, perldelta - what is new for perl v5.8.7
DESCRIPTION
Incompatible Changes
Core Enhancements
Unicode Character Database 4.1.0
suidperl less insecure
Optional site customization script
"Config.pm" is now much smaller.
Modules and Pragmata
Utility Changes
find2perl enhancements
Performance Enhancements
Installation and Configuration Improvements
Selected Bug Fixes
New or Changed Diagnostics
Changed Internals
Known Problems
Platform Specific Problems
Reporting Bugs
SEE ALSO
perl586delta - what is new for perl v5.8.6
DESCRIPTION
Incompatible Changes
Core Enhancements
Modules and Pragmata
Utility Changes
Performance Enhancements
Selected Bug Fixes
New or Changed Diagnostics
Changed Internals
New Tests
Reporting Bugs
SEE ALSO
perl585delta - what is new for perl v5.8.5
DESCRIPTION
Incompatible Changes
Core Enhancements
Modules and Pragmata
Utility Changes
Perl's debugger
h2ph
Installation and Configuration Improvements
Selected Bug Fixes
New or Changed Diagnostics
Changed Internals
Known Problems
Platform Specific Problems
Reporting Bugs
SEE ALSO
perl584delta - what is new for perl v5.8.4
DESCRIPTION
Incompatible Changes
Core Enhancements
Malloc wrapping
Unicode Character Database 4.0.1
suidperl less insecure
format
Modules and Pragmata
Updated modules
Attribute::Handlers, B, Benchmark, CGI, Carp, Cwd, Exporter,
File::Find, IO, IPC::Open3, Local::Maketext, Math::BigFloat,
Math::BigInt, Math::BigRat, MIME::Base64, ODBM_File, POSIX,
Shell, Socket, Storable, Switch, Sys::Syslog, Term::ANSIColor,
Time::HiRes, Unicode::UCD, Win32, base, open, threads, utf8
Performance Enhancements
Utility Changes
Installation and Configuration Improvements
Selected Bug Fixes
New or Changed Diagnostics
Changed Internals
Future Directions
Platform Specific Problems
Reporting Bugs
SEE ALSO
perl583delta - what is new for perl v5.8.3
DESCRIPTION
Incompatible Changes
Core Enhancements
Modules and Pragmata
CGI, Cwd, Digest, Digest::MD5, Encode, File::Spec, FindBin,
List::Util, Math::BigInt, PodParser, Pod::Perldoc, POSIX, Uni-
code::Collate, Unicode::Normalize, Test::Harness, threads::shared
Utility Changes
New Documentation
Installation and Configuration Improvements
Selected Bug Fixes
New or Changed Diagnostics
Changed Internals
Configuration and Building
Platform Specific Problems
Known Problems
Future Directions
Obituary
Reporting Bugs
SEE ALSO
perl582delta - what is new for perl v5.8.2
DESCRIPTION
Incompatible Changes
Core Enhancements
Hash Randomisation
Threading
Modules and Pragmata
Updated Modules And Pragmata
Devel::PPPort, Digest::MD5, I18N::LangTags, libnet,
MIME::Base64, Pod::Perldoc, strict, Tie::Hash, Time::HiRes,
Unicode::Collate, Unicode::Normalize, UNIVERSAL
Selected Bug Fixes
Changed Internals
Platform Specific Problems
Future Directions
Reporting Bugs
SEE ALSO
perl581delta - what is new for perl v5.8.1
DESCRIPTION
Incompatible Changes
Hash Randomisation
UTF-8 On Filehandles No Longer Activated By Locale
Single-number v-strings are no longer v-strings before "=>"
(Win32) The -C Switch Has Been Repurposed
(Win32) The /d Switch Of cmd.exe
Core Enhancements
UTF-8 no longer default under UTF-8 locales
Unsafe signals again available
Tied Arrays with Negative Array Indices
local ${$x}
Unicode Character Database 4.0.0
Deprecation Warnings
Miscellaneous Enhancements
Modules and Pragmata
Updated Modules And Pragmata
base, B::Bytecode, B::Concise, B::Deparse, Benchmark,
ByteLoader, bytes, CGI, charnames, CPAN, Data::Dumper, DB_File,
Devel::PPPort, Digest::MD5, Encode, fields, libnet, Math::Big-
Int, MIME::Base64, NEXT, Net::Ping, PerlIO::scalar, podlators,
Pod::LaTeX, PodParsers, Pod::Perldoc, Scalar::Util, Storable,
strict, Term::ANSIcolor, Test::Harness, Test::More, Test::Sim-
ple, Text::Balanced, Time::HiRes, threads, threads::shared,
Unicode::Collate, Unicode::Normalize, Win32::GetFolderPath,
Win32::GetOSVersion
Utility Changes
New Documentation
Installation and Configuration Improvements
Platform-specific enhancements
Selected Bug Fixes
Closures, eval and lexicals
Generic fixes
Platform-specific fixes
New or Changed Diagnostics
Changed "A thread exited while %d threads were running"
Removed "Attempt to clear a restricted hash"
New "Illegal declaration of anonymous subroutine"
Changed "Invalid range "%s" in transliteration operator"
New "Missing control char name in \c"
New "Newline in left-justified string for %s"
New "Possible precedence problem on bitwise %c operator"
New "Pseudo-hashes are deprecated"
New "read() on %s filehandle %s"
New "5.005 threads are deprecated"
New "Tied variable freed while still in use"
New "To%s: illegal mapping '%s'"
New "Use of freed value in iteration"
Changed Internals
New Tests
Known Problems
Tied hashes in scalar context
Net::Ping 450_service and 510_ping_udp failures
B::C
Platform Specific Problems
EBCDIC Platforms
Cygwin 1.5 problems
HP-UX: HP cc warnings about sendfile and sendpath
IRIX: t/uni/tr_7jis.t falsely failing
Mac OS X: no usemymalloc
Tru64: No threaded builds with GNU cc (gcc)
Win32: sysopen, sysread, syswrite
Future Directions
Reporting Bugs
SEE ALSO
perl58delta - what is new for perl v5.8.0
DESCRIPTION
Highlights In 5.8.0
Incompatible Changes
Binary Incompatibility
64-bit platforms and malloc
AIX Dynaloading
Attributes for "my" variables now handled at run-time
Socket Extension Dynamic in VMS
IEEE-format Floating Point Default on OpenVMS Alpha
New Unicode Semantics (no more "use utf8", almost)
New Unicode Properties
REF(...) Instead Of SCALAR(...)
pack/unpack D/F recycled
glob() now returns filenames in alphabetical order
Deprecations
Core Enhancements
Unicode Overhaul
PerlIO is Now The Default
ithreads
Restricted Hashes
Safe Signals
Understanding of Numbers
Arrays now always interpolate into double-quoted strings [561]
Miscellaneous Changes
Modules and Pragmata
New Modules and Pragmata
Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
Utility Changes
New Documentation
Performance Enhancements
Installation and Configuration Improvements
Generic Improvements
New Or Improved Platforms
Selected Bug Fixes
Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
New or Changed Diagnostics
Changed Internals
Security Vulnerability Closed [561]
New Tests
Known Problems
The Compiler Suite Is Still Very Experimental
Localising Tied Arrays and Hashes Is Broken
Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
Modifying $_ Inside for(..)
mod_perl 1.26 Doesn't Build With Threaded Perl
lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
libwww-perl (LWP) fails base/date #51
PDL failing some tests
Perl_get_sv
Self-tying Problems
ext/threads/t/libc
Failure of Thread (5.005-style) tests
Timing problems
Tied/Magical Array/Hash Elements Do Not Autovivify
Unicode in package/class and subroutine names does not work
Platform Specific Problems
AIX
Alpha systems with old gccs fail several tests
AmigaOS
BeOS
Cygwin "unable to remap"
Cygwin ndbm tests fail on FAT
DJGPP Failures
FreeBSD built with ithreads coredumps reading large directories
FreeBSD Failing locale Test 117 For ISO 8859-15 Locales
IRIX fails ext/List/Util/t/shuffle.t or Digest::MD5
HP-UX lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails When LP64-Configured
Linux with glibc 2.2.5 fails t/op/int subtest #6 with -Duse64bitint
Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
Mac OS X
Mac OS X dyld undefined symbols
OS/2 Test Failures
op/sprintf tests 91, 129, and 130
SCO
Solaris 2.5
Solaris x86 Fails Tests With -Duse64bitint
SUPER-UX (NEC SX)
Term::ReadKey not working on Win32
UNICOS/mk
UTS
VOS (Stratus)
VMS
Win32
XML::Parser not working
z/OS (OS/390)
Unicode Support on EBCDIC Still Spotty
Seen In Perl 5.7 But Gone Now
Reporting Bugs
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
perl573delta - what's new for perl v5.7.3
DESCRIPTION
Changes
Reporting Bugs
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
perl572delta - what's new for perl v5.7.2
DESCRIPTION
Security Vulnerability Closed
Incompatible Changes
64-bit platforms and malloc
AIX Dynaloading
Socket Extension Dynamic in VMS
Different Definition of the Unicode Character Classes \p{In...}
Deprecations
Core Enhancements
Modules and Pragmata
New Modules and Distributions
Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
Utility Changes
New Documentation
Installation and Configuration Improvements
New Or Improved Platforms
Generic Improvements
Selected Bug Fixes
Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
New or Changed Diagnostics
Source Code Enhancements
MAGIC constants
Better commented code
Regex pre-/post-compilation items matched up
gcc -Wall
New Tests
Known Problems
AIX
Amiga Perl Invoking Mystery
lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
Cygwin intermittent failures of lib/Memoize/t/expire_file 11 and 12
HP-UX lib/io_multihomed Fails When LP64-Configured
HP-UX lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails When LP64-Configured
Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
OS/390
op/sprintf tests 129 and 130
Failure of Thread tests
UNICOS
UTS
VMS
Win32
Localising a Tied Variable Leaks Memory
Self-tying of Arrays and Hashes Is Forbidden
Variable Attributes are not Currently Usable for Tieing
Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
The Long Double Support is Still Experimental
Reporting Bugs
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
perl571delta - what's new for perl v5.7.1
DESCRIPTION
Security Vulnerability Closed
Incompatible Changes
Core Enhancements
AUTOLOAD Is Now Lvaluable
PerlIO is Now The Default
Signals Are Now Safe
Modules and Pragmata
New Modules
Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
Performance Enhancements
Utility Changes
New Documentation
perlclib
perliol
README.aix
README.bs2000
README.macos
README.mpeix
README.solaris
README.vos
Porting/repository.pod
Installation and Configuration Improvements
New Or Improved Platforms
Generic Improvements
d_cmsghdr, d_fcntl_can_lock, d_fsync, d_getitimer, d_getpagsz,
d_msghdr_s, need_va_copy, d_readv, d_recvmsg, d_sendmsg,
sig_size, d_sockatmark, d_strtoq, d_u32align, d_ualarm,
d_usleep
Selected Bug Fixes
Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
New or Changed Diagnostics
Changed Internals
New Tests
Known Problems
AIX vac 5.0.0.0 May Produce Buggy Code For Perl
lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
lib/io_multihomed Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX
Test lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX
lib/b test 19
Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
sigaction test 13 in VMS
sprintf tests 129 and 130
Failure of Thread tests
Localising a Tied Variable Leaks Memory
Self-tying of Arrays and Hashes Is Forbidden
Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
Reporting Bugs
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
perl570delta - what's new for perl v5.7.0
DESCRIPTION
Security Vulnerability Closed
Incompatible Changes
Core Enhancements
Modules and Pragmata
New Modules
Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata
Utility Changes
New Documentation
Performance Enhancements
Installation and Configuration Improvements
Generic Improvements
Selected Bug Fixes
Platform Specific Changes and Fixes
New or Changed Diagnostics
Changed Internals
Known Problems
Unicode Support Still Far From Perfect
EBCDIC Still A Lost Platform
Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles
ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure'
Test lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX
Long Doubles Still Don't Work In Solaris
Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48
Storable tests fail in some platforms
Threads Are Still Experimental
The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental
Reporting Bugs
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
perl561delta - what's new for perl v5.6.x
DESCRIPTION
Summary of changes between 5.6.0 and 5.6.1
Security Issues
Core bug fixes
"UNIVERSAL::isa()", Memory leaks, Numeric conversions,
qw(a\\b), caller(), Bugs in regular expressions, "slurp" mode,
Autovivification of symbolic references to special variables,
Lexical warnings, Spurious warnings and errors, glob(), Taint-
ing, sort(), #line directives, Subroutine prototypes, map(),
Debugger, PERL5OPT, chop(), Unicode support, 64-bit support,
Compiler, Lvalue subroutines, IO::Socket, File::Find, xsubpp,
"no Module;", Tests
Core features
Configuration issues
Documentation
Bundled modules
B::Concise, File::Temp, Pod::LaTeX, Pod::Text::Overstrike, CGI,
CPAN, Class::Struct, DB_File, Devel::Peek, File::Find,
Getopt::Long, IO::Poll, IPC::Open3, Math::BigFloat, Math::Com-
plex, Net::Ping, Opcode, Pod::Parser, Pod::Text, SDBM_File,
Sys::Syslog, Tie::RefHash, Tie::SubstrHash
Platform-specific improvements
NCR MP-RAS, NonStop-UX
Core Enhancements
Interpreter cloning, threads, and concurrency
Lexically scoped warning categories
Unicode and UTF-8 support
Support for interpolating named characters
"our" declarations
Support for strings represented as a vector of ordinals
Improved Perl version numbering system
New syntax for declaring subroutine attributes
File and directory handles can be autovivified
open() with more than two arguments
64-bit support
Large file support
Long doubles
"more bits"
Enhanced support for sort() subroutines
"sort $coderef @foo" allowed
File globbing implemented internally
Support for CHECK blocks
POSIX character class syntax [: :] supported
Better pseudo-random number generator
Improved "qw//" operator
Better worst-case behavior of hashes
pack() format 'Z' supported
pack() format modifier '!' supported
pack() and unpack() support counted strings
Comments in pack() templates
Weak references
Binary numbers supported
Lvalue subroutines
Some arrows may be omitted in calls through references
Boolean assignment operators are legal lvalues
exists() is supported on subroutine names
exists() and delete() are supported on array elements
Pseudo-hashes work better
Automatic flushing of output buffers
Better diagnostics on meaningless filehandle operations
Where possible, buffered data discarded from duped input filehandle
eof() has the same old magic as <>
binmode() can be used to set :crlf and :raw modes
"-T" filetest recognizes UTF-8 encoded files as "text"
system(), backticks and pipe open now reflect exec() failure
Improved diagnostics
Diagnostics follow STDERR
More consistent close-on-exec behavior
syswrite() ease-of-use
Better syntax checks on parenthesized unary operators
Bit operators support full native integer width
Improved security features
More functional bareword prototype (*)
"require" and "do" may be overridden
$^X variables may now have names longer than one character
New variable $^C reflects "-c" switch
New variable $^V contains Perl version as a string
Optional Y2K warnings
Arrays now always interpolate into double-quoted strings
@- and @+ provide starting/ending offsets of regex submatches
Modules and Pragmata
Modules
attributes, B, Benchmark, ByteLoader, constant, charnames,
Data::Dumper, DB, DB_File, Devel::DProf, Devel::Peek, Dump-
value, DynaLoader, English, Env, Fcntl, File::Compare,
File::Find, File::Glob, File::Spec, File::Spec::Functions,
Getopt::Long, IO, JPL, lib, Math::BigInt, Math::Complex,
Math::Trig, Pod::Parser, Pod::InputObjects, Pod::Checker, pod-
checker, Pod::ParseUtils, Pod::Find, Pod::Select, podselect,
Pod::Usage, pod2usage, Pod::Text and Pod::Man, SDBM_File,
Sys::Syslog, Sys::Hostname, Term::ANSIColor, Time::Local,
Win32, XSLoader, DBM Filters
Pragmata
Utility Changes
dprofpp
find2perl
h2xs
perlcc
perldoc
The Perl Debugger
Improved Documentation
perlapi.pod, perlboot.pod, perlcompile.pod, perldbmfilter.pod,
perldebug.pod, perldebguts.pod, perlfork.pod, perlfilter.pod, perl-
hack.pod, perlintern.pod, perllexwarn.pod, perlnumber.pod, per-
lopentut.pod, perlreftut.pod, perltootc.pod, perltodo.pod, perluni-
code.pod
Performance enhancements
Simple sort() using { $a <=> $b } and the like are optimized
Optimized assignments to lexical variables
Faster subroutine calls
delete(), each(), values() and hash iteration are faster
Installation and Configuration Improvements
-Dusethreads means something different
New Configure flags
Threadedness and 64-bitness now more daring
Long Doubles
-Dusemorebits
-Duselargefiles
installusrbinperl
SOCKS support
"-A" flag
Enhanced Installation Directories
gcc automatically tried if 'cc' does not seem to be working
Platform specific changes
Supported platforms
DOS
OS390 (OpenEdition MVS)
VMS
Win32
Significant bug fixes
on empty files
"eval '...'" improvements
All compilation errors are true errors
Implicitly closed filehandles are safer
Behavior of list slices is more consistent
"(\$)" prototype and $foo{a}
"goto &sub" and AUTOLOAD
"-bareword" allowed under "use integer"
Failures in DESTROY()
Locale bugs fixed
Memory leaks
Spurious subroutine stubs after failed subroutine calls
Taint failures under "-U"
END blocks and the "-c" switch
Potential to leak DATA filehandles
New or Changed Diagnostics
"%s" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same %s, "my sub" not
yet implemented, "our" variable %s redeclared, '!' allowed only
after types %s, / cannot take a count, / must be followed by a, A
or Z, / must be followed by a*, A* or Z*, / must follow a numeric
type, /%s/: Unrecognized escape \\%c passed through, /%s/: Unrecog-
nized escape \\%c in character class passed through, /%s/ should
probably be written as "%s", %s() called too early to check proto-
type, %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element, %s argument is
not a HASH or ARRAY element or slice, %s argument is not a subrou-
tine name, %s package attribute may clash with future reserved
word: %s, (in cleanup) %s, <> should be quotes, Attempt to join
self, Bad evalled substitution pattern, Bad realloc() ignored,
Bareword found in conditional, Binary number >
0b11111111111111111111111111111111 non-portable, Bit vector size >
32 non-portable, Buffer overflow in prime_env_iter: %s, Can't check
filesystem of script "%s", Can't declare class for non-scalar %s in
"%s", Can't declare %s in "%s", Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing
to default, Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine call, Can't read
CRTL environ, Can't remove %s: %s, skipping file, Can't return %s
from lvalue subroutine, Can't weaken a nonreference, Character
class [:%s:] unknown, Character class syntax [%s] belongs inside
character classes, Constant is not %s reference, constant(%s): %s,
CORE::%s is not a keyword, defined(@array) is deprecated,
defined(%hash) is deprecated, Did not produce a valid header, (Did
you mean "local" instead of "our"?), Document contains no data,
entering effective %s failed, false [] range "%s" in regexp, File-
handle %s opened only for output, flock() on closed filehandle %s,
Global symbol "%s" requires explicit package name, Hexadecimal num-
ber > 0xffffffff non-portable, Ill-formed CRTL environ value "%s",
Ill-formed message in prime_env_iter: |%s|, Illegal binary digit
%s, Illegal binary digit %s ignored, Illegal number of bits in vec,
Integer overflow in %s number, Invalid %s attribute: %s, Invalid %s
attributes: %s, invalid [] range "%s" in regexp, Invalid separator
character %s in attribute list, Invalid separator character %s in
subroutine attribute list, leaving effective %s failed, Lvalue subs
returning %s not implemented yet, Method %s not permitted, Missing
%sbrace%s on \N{}, Missing command in piped open, Missing name in
"my sub", No %s specified for -%c, No package name allowed for
variable %s in "our", No space allowed after -%c, no UTC offset
information; assuming local time is UTC, Octal number >
037777777777 non-portable, panic: del_backref, panic: kid popen
errno read, panic: magic_killbackrefs, Parentheses missing around
"%s" list, Possible unintended interpolation of %s in string, Pos-
sible Y2K bug: %s, pragma "attrs" is deprecated, use "sub NAME :
ATTRS" instead, Premature end of script headers, Repeat count in
pack overflows, Repeat count in unpack overflows, realloc() of
freed memory ignored, Reference is already weak, setpgrp can't take
arguments, Strange *+?{} on zero-length expression, switching
effective %s is not implemented, This Perl can't reset CRTL environ
elements (%s), This Perl can't set CRTL environ elements (%s=%s),
Too late to run %s block, Unknown open() mode '%s', Unknown process
%x sent message to prime_env_iter: %s, Unrecognized escape \\%c
passed through, Unterminated attribute parameter in attribute list,
Unterminated attribute list, Unterminated attribute parameter in
subroutine attribute list, Unterminated subroutine attribute list,
Value of CLI symbol "%s" too long, Version number must be a con-
stant number
New tests
Incompatible Changes
Perl Source Incompatibilities
CHECK is a new keyword, Treatment of list slices of undef has
changed, Format of $English::PERL_VERSION is different, Liter-
als of the form 1.2.3 parse differently, Possibly changed
pseudo-random number generator, Hashing function for hash keys
has changed, "undef" fails on read only values, Close-on-exec
bit may be set on pipe and socket handles, Writing "$$1" to
mean "${$}1" is unsupported, delete(), each(), values() and
"\(%h)", vec(EXPR,OFFSET,BITS) enforces powers-of-two BITS,
Text of some diagnostic output has changed, "%@" has been
removed, Parenthesized not() behaves like a list operator,
Semantics of bareword prototype "(*)" have changed, Semantics
of bit operators may have changed on 64-bit platforms, More
builtins taint their results
C Source Incompatibilities
"PERL_POLLUTE", "PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT", "PERL_POLLUTE_MALLOC"
Compatible C Source API Changes
"PATCHLEVEL" is now "PERL_VERSION"
Binary Incompatibilities
Known Problems
Localizing a tied hash element may leak memory
Known test failures
EBCDIC platforms not fully supported
UNICOS/mk CC failures during Configure run
Arrow operator and arrays
Experimental features
Threads, Unicode, 64-bit support, Lvalue subroutines, Weak ref-
erences, The pseudo-hash data type, The Compiler suite, Inter-
nal implementation of file globbing, The DB module, The regular
expression code constructs:
Obsolete Diagnostics
Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions,
Ill-formed logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter, In string, @%s now
must be written as \@%s, Probable precedence problem on %s, regexp
too big, Use of "$$" to mean "${$}" is deprecated
Reporting Bugs
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
perl56delta - what's new for perl v5.6.0
DESCRIPTION
Core Enhancements
Interpreter cloning, threads, and concurrency
Lexically scoped warning categories
Unicode and UTF-8 support
Support for interpolating named characters
"our" declarations
Support for strings represented as a vector of ordinals
Improved Perl version numbering system
New syntax for declaring subroutine attributes
File and directory handles can be autovivified
open() with more than two arguments
64-bit support
Large file support
Long doubles
"more bits"
Enhanced support for sort() subroutines
"sort $coderef @foo" allowed
File globbing implemented internally
Support for CHECK blocks
POSIX character class syntax [: :] supported
Better pseudo-random number generator
Improved "qw//" operator
Better worst-case behavior of hashes
pack() format 'Z' supported
pack() format modifier '!' supported
pack() and unpack() support counted strings
Comments in pack() templates
Weak references
Binary numbers supported
Lvalue subroutines
Some arrows may be omitted in calls through references
Boolean assignment operators are legal lvalues
exists() is supported on subroutine names
exists() and delete() are supported on array elements
Pseudo-hashes work better
Automatic flushing of output buffers
Better diagnostics on meaningless filehandle operations
Where possible, buffered data discarded from duped input filehandle
eof() has the same old magic as <>
binmode() can be used to set :crlf and :raw modes
"-T" filetest recognizes UTF-8 encoded files as "text"
system(), backticks and pipe open now reflect exec() failure
Improved diagnostics
Diagnostics follow STDERR
More consistent close-on-exec behavior
syswrite() ease-of-use
Better syntax checks on parenthesized unary operators
Bit operators support full native integer width
Improved security features
More functional bareword prototype (*)
"require" and "do" may be overridden
$^X variables may now have names longer than one character
New variable $^C reflects "-c" switch
New variable $^V contains Perl version as a string
Optional Y2K warnings
Arrays now always interpolate into double-quoted strings
@- and @+ provide starting/ending offsets of regex matches
Modules and Pragmata
Modules
attributes, B, Benchmark, ByteLoader, constant, charnames,
Data::Dumper, DB, DB_File, Devel::DProf, Devel::Peek, Dump-
value, DynaLoader, English, Env, Fcntl, File::Compare,
File::Find, File::Glob, File::Spec, File::Spec::Functions,
Getopt::Long, IO, JPL, lib, Math::BigInt, Math::Complex,
Math::Trig, Pod::Parser, Pod::InputObjects, Pod::Checker, pod-
checker, Pod::ParseUtils, Pod::Find, Pod::Select, podselect,
Pod::Usage, pod2usage, Pod::Text and Pod::Man, SDBM_File,
Sys::Syslog, Sys::Hostname, Term::ANSIColor, Time::Local,
Win32, XSLoader, DBM Filters
Pragmata
Utility Changes
dprofpp
find2perl
h2xs
perlcc
perldoc
The Perl Debugger
Improved Documentation
perlapi.pod, perlboot.pod, perlcompile.pod, perldbmfilter.pod,
perldebug.pod, perldebguts.pod, perlfork.pod, perlfilter.pod, perl-
hack.pod, perlintern.pod, perllexwarn.pod, perlnumber.pod, per-
lopentut.pod, perlreftut.pod, perltootc.pod, perltodo.pod, perluni-
code.pod
Performance enhancements
Simple sort() using { $a <=> $b } and the like are optimized
Optimized assignments to lexical variables
Faster subroutine calls
delete(), each(), values() and hash iteration are faster
Installation and Configuration Improvements
-Dusethreads means something different
New Configure flags
Threadedness and 64-bitness now more daring
Long Doubles
-Dusemorebits
-Duselargefiles
installusrbinperl
SOCKS support
"-A" flag
Enhanced Installation Directories
Platform specific changes
Supported platforms
DOS
OS390 (OpenEdition MVS)
VMS
Win32
Significant bug fixes
on empty files
"eval '...'" improvements
All compilation errors are true errors
Implicitly closed filehandles are safer
Behavior of list slices is more consistent
"(\$)" prototype and $foo{a}
"goto &sub" and AUTOLOAD
"-bareword" allowed under "use integer"
Failures in DESTROY()
Locale bugs fixed
Memory leaks
Spurious subroutine stubs after failed subroutine calls
Taint failures under "-U"
END blocks and the "-c" switch
Potential to leak DATA filehandles
New or Changed Diagnostics
"%s" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same %s, "my sub" not
yet implemented, "our" variable %s redeclared, '!' allowed only
after types %s, / cannot take a count, / must be followed by a, A
or Z, / must be followed by a*, A* or Z*, / must follow a numeric
type, /%s/: Unrecognized escape \\%c passed through, /%s/: Unrecog-
nized escape \\%c in character class passed through, /%s/ should
probably be written as "%s", %s() called too early to check proto-
type, %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element, %s argument is
not a HASH or ARRAY element or slice, %s argument is not a subrou-
tine name, %s package attribute may clash with future reserved
word: %s, (in cleanup) %s, <> should be quotes, Attempt to join
self, Bad evalled substitution pattern, Bad realloc() ignored,
Bareword found in conditional, Binary number >
0b11111111111111111111111111111111 non-portable, Bit vector size >
32 non-portable, Buffer overflow in prime_env_iter: %s, Can't check
filesystem of script "%s", Can't declare class for non-scalar %s in
"%s", Can't declare %s in "%s", Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing
to default, Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine call, Can't read
CRTL environ, Can't remove %s: %s, skipping file, Can't return %s
from lvalue subroutine, Can't weaken a nonreference, Character
class [:%s:] unknown, Character class syntax [%s] belongs inside
character classes, Constant is not %s reference, constant(%s): %s,
CORE::%s is not a keyword, defined(@array) is deprecated,
defined(%hash) is deprecated, Did not produce a valid header, (Did
you mean "local" instead of "our"?), Document contains no data,
entering effective %s failed, false [] range "%s" in regexp, File-
handle %s opened only for output, flock() on closed filehandle %s,
Global symbol "%s" requires explicit package name, Hexadecimal num-
ber > 0xffffffff non-portable, Ill-formed CRTL environ value "%s",
Ill-formed message in prime_env_iter: |%s|, Illegal binary digit
%s, Illegal binary digit %s ignored, Illegal number of bits in vec,
Integer overflow in %s number, Invalid %s attribute: %s, Invalid %s
attributes: %s, invalid [] range "%s" in regexp, Invalid separator
character %s in attribute list, Invalid separator character %s in
subroutine attribute list, leaving effective %s failed, Lvalue subs
returning %s not implemented yet, Method %s not permitted, Missing
%sbrace%s on \N{}, Missing command in piped open, Missing name in
"my sub", No %s specified for -%c, No package name allowed for
variable %s in "our", No space allowed after -%c, no UTC offset
information; assuming local time is UTC, Octal number >
037777777777 non-portable, panic: del_backref, panic: kid popen
errno read, panic: magic_killbackrefs, Parentheses missing around
"%s" list, Possible unintended interpolation of %s in string, Pos-
sible Y2K bug: %s, pragma "attrs" is deprecated, use "sub NAME :
ATTRS" instead, Premature end of script headers, Repeat count in
pack overflows, Repeat count in unpack overflows, realloc() of
freed memory ignored, Reference is already weak, setpgrp can't take
arguments, Strange *+?{} on zero-length expression, switching
effective %s is not implemented, This Perl can't reset CRTL environ
elements (%s), This Perl can't set CRTL environ elements (%s=%s),
Too late to run %s block, Unknown open() mode '%s', Unknown process
%x sent message to prime_env_iter: %s, Unrecognized escape \\%c
passed through, Unterminated attribute parameter in attribute list,
Unterminated attribute list, Unterminated attribute parameter in
subroutine attribute list, Unterminated subroutine attribute list,
Value of CLI symbol "%s" too long, Version number must be a con-
stant number
New tests
Incompatible Changes
Perl Source Incompatibilities
CHECK is a new keyword, Treatment of list slices of undef has
changed, Format of $English::PERL_VERSION is different, Liter-
als of the form 1.2.3 parse differently, Possibly changed
pseudo-random number generator, Hashing function for hash keys
has changed, "undef" fails on read only values, Close-on-exec
bit may be set on pipe and socket handles, Writing "$$1" to
mean "${$}1" is unsupported, delete(), each(), values() and
"\(%h)", vec(EXPR,OFFSET,BITS) enforces powers-of-two BITS,
Text of some diagnostic output has changed, "%@" has been
removed, Parenthesized not() behaves like a list operator,
Semantics of bareword prototype "(*)" have changed, Semantics
of bit operators may have changed on 64-bit platforms, More
builtins taint their results
C Source Incompatibilities
"PERL_POLLUTE", "PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT", "PERL_POLLUTE_MALLOC"
Compatible C Source API Changes
"PATCHLEVEL" is now "PERL_VERSION"
Binary Incompatibilities
Known Problems
Thread test failures
EBCDIC platforms not supported
In 64-bit HP-UX the lib/io_multihomed test may hang
NEXTSTEP 3.3 POSIX test failure
Tru64 (aka Digital UNIX, aka DEC OSF/1) lib/sdbm test failure with
gcc
UNICOS/mk CC failures during Configure run
Arrow operator and arrays
Experimental features
Threads, Unicode, 64-bit support, Lvalue subroutines, Weak ref-
erences, The pseudo-hash data type, The Compiler suite, Inter-
nal implementation of file globbing, The DB module, The regular
expression code constructs:
Obsolete Diagnostics
Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions,
Ill-formed logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter, In string, @%s now
must be written as \@%s, Probable precedence problem on %s, regexp
too big, Use of "$$" to mean "${$}" is deprecated
Reporting Bugs
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
perl5005delta - what's new for perl5.005
DESCRIPTION
About the new versioning system
Incompatible Changes
WARNING: This version is not binary compatible with Perl 5.004.
Default installation structure has changed
Perl Source Compatibility
C Source Compatibility
Binary Compatibility
Security fixes may affect compatibility
Relaxed new mandatory warnings introduced in 5.004
Licensing
Core Changes
Threads
Compiler
Regular Expressions
Many new and improved optimizations, Many bug fixes, New regu-
lar expression constructs, New operator for precompiled regular
expressions, Other improvements, Incompatible changes
Improved malloc()
Quicksort is internally implemented
Reliable signals
Reliable stack pointers
More generous treatment of carriage returns
Memory leaks
Better support for multiple interpreters
Behavior of local() on array and hash elements is now well-defined
"%!" is transparently tied to the Errno module
Pseudo-hashes are supported
"EXPR foreach EXPR" is supported
Keywords can be globally overridden
$^E is meaningful on Win32
"foreach (1..1000000)" optimized
"Foo::" can be used as implicitly quoted package name
"exists $Foo::{Bar::}" tests existence of a package
Better locale support
Experimental support for 64-bit platforms
prototype() returns useful results on builtins
Extended support for exception handling
Re-blessing in DESTROY() supported for chaining DESTROY() methods
All "printf" format conversions are handled internally
New "INIT" keyword
New "lock" keyword
New "qr//" operator
"our" is now a reserved word
Tied arrays are now fully supported
Tied handles support is better
4th argument to substr
Negative LENGTH argument to splice
Magic lvalues are now more magical
<> now reads in records
Supported Platforms
New Platforms
Changes in existing support
Modules and Pragmata
New Modules
B, Data::Dumper, Dumpvalue, Errno, File::Spec, ExtU-
tils::Installed, ExtUtils::Packlist, Fatal, IPC::SysV, Test,
Tie::Array, Tie::Handle, Thread, attrs, fields, re
Changes in existing modules
Benchmark, Carp, CGI, Fcntl, Math::Complex, Math::Trig, POSIX,
DB_File, MakeMaker, CPAN, Cwd
Utility Changes
Documentation Changes
New Diagnostics
Ambiguous call resolved as CORE::%s(), qualify as such or use &,
Bad index while coercing array into hash, Bareword "%s" refers to
nonexistent package, Can't call method "%s" on an undefined value,
Can't check filesystem of script "%s" for nosuid, Can't coerce
array into hash, Can't goto subroutine from an eval-string, Can't
localize pseudo-hash element, Can't use %%! because Errno.pm is not
available, Cannot find an opnumber for "%s", Character class syntax
[. .] is reserved for future extensions, Character class syntax [:
:] is reserved for future extensions, Character class syntax [= =]
is reserved for future extensions, %s: Eval-group in insecure regu-
lar expression, %s: Eval-group not allowed, use re 'eval', %s:
Eval-group not allowed at run time, Explicit blessing to '' (assum-
ing package main), Illegal hex digit ignored, No such array field,
No such field "%s" in variable %s of type %s, Out of memory during
ridiculously large request, Range iterator outside integer range,
Recursive inheritance detected while looking for method '%s' %s,
Reference found where even-sized list expected, Undefined value
assigned to typeglob, Use of reserved word "%s" is deprecated,
perl: warning: Setting locale failed
Obsolete Diagnostics
Can't mktemp(), Can't write to temp file for -e: %s, Cannot open
temporary file, regexp too big
Configuration Changes
BUGS
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
perl5004delta - what's new for perl5.004
DESCRIPTION
Supported Environments
Core Changes
List assignment to %ENV works
Change to "Can't locate Foo.pm in @INC" error
Compilation option: Binary compatibility with 5.003
$PERL5OPT environment variable
Limitations on -M, -m, and -T options
More precise warnings
Deprecated: Inherited "AUTOLOAD" for non-methods
Previously deprecated %OVERLOAD is no longer usable
Subroutine arguments created only when they're modified
Group vector changeable with $)
Fixed parsing of $$, &$, etc.
Fixed localization of $, $&, etc.
No resetting of $. on implicit close
"wantarray" may return undef
"eval EXPR" determines value of EXPR in scalar context
Changes to tainting checks
No glob() or <*>, No spawning if tainted $CDPATH, $ENV,
$BASH_ENV, No spawning if tainted $TERM doesn't look like a
terminal name
New Opcode module and revised Safe module
Embedding improvements
Internal change: FileHandle class based on IO::* classes
Internal change: PerlIO abstraction interface
New and changed syntax
$coderef->(PARAMS)
New and changed builtin constants
__PACKAGE__
New and changed builtin variables
$^E, $^H, $^M
New and changed builtin functions
delete on slices, flock, printf and sprintf, keys as an lvalue,
my() in Control Structures, pack() and unpack(), sysseek(), use
VERSION, use Module VERSION LIST, prototype(FUNCTION), srand,
$_ as Default, "m//gc" does not reset search position on fail-
ure, "m//x" ignores whitespace before ?*+{}, nested "sub{}"
closures work now, formats work right on changing lexicals
New builtin methods
isa(CLASS), can(METHOD), VERSION( [NEED] )
TIEHANDLE now supported
TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, PRINT this, LIST, PRINTF this, LIST,
READ this LIST, READLINE this, GETC this, DESTROY this
Malloc enhancements
-DPERL_EMERGENCY_SBRK, -DPACK_MALLOC, -DTWO_POT_OPTIMIZE
Miscellaneous efficiency enhancements
Support for More Operating Systems
Win32
Plan 9
QNX
AmigaOS
Pragmata
use autouse MODULE => qw(sub1 sub2 sub3), use blib, use blib 'dir',
use constant NAME => VALUE, use locale, use ops, use vmsish
Modules
Required Updates
Installation directories
Module information summary
Fcntl
IO
Math::Complex
Math::Trig
DB_File
Net::Ping
Object-oriented overrides for builtin operators
Utility Changes
pod2html
Sends converted HTML to standard output
xsubpp
"void" XSUBs now default to returning nothing
C Language API Changes
"gv_fetchmethod" and "perl_call_sv", "perl_eval_pv", Extended API
for manipulating hashes
Documentation Changes
perldelta, perlfaq, perllocale, perltoot, perlapio, perlmodlib,
perldebug, perlsec
New Diagnostics
"my" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same scope, %s argu-
ment is not a HASH element or slice, Allocation too large: %lx,
Allocation too large, Applying %s to %s will act on scalar(%s),
Attempt to free nonexistent shared string, Attempt to use reference
as lvalue in substr, Bareword "%s" refers to nonexistent package,
Can't redefine active sort subroutine %s, Can't use bareword ("%s")
as %s ref while "strict refs" in use, Cannot resolve method `%s'
overloading `%s' in package `%s', Constant subroutine %s redefined,
Constant subroutine %s undefined, Copy method did not return a ref-
erence, Died, Exiting pseudo-block via %s, Identifier too long,
Illegal character %s (carriage return), Illegal switch in PERL5OPT:
%s, Integer overflow in hex number, Integer overflow in octal num-
ber, internal error: glob failed, Invalid conversion in %s: "%s",
Invalid type in pack: '%s', Invalid type in unpack: '%s', Name
"%s::%s" used only once: possible typo, Null picture in formline,
Offset outside string, Out of memory!, Out of memory during request
for %s, panic: frexp, Possible attempt to put comments in qw()
list, Possible attempt to separate words with commas, Scalar value
@%s{%s} better written as $%s{%s}, Stub found while resolving
method `%s' overloading `%s' in %s, Too late for "-T" option, untie
attempted while %d inner references still exist, Unrecognized char-
acter %s, Unsupported function fork, Use of "$$" to mean
"${$}" is deprecated, Value of %s can be "0"; test with
defined(), Variable "%s" may be unavailable, Variable "%s" will not
stay shared, Warning: something's wrong, Ill-formed logical name
|%s| in prime_env_iter, Got an error from DosAllocMem, Malformed
PERLLIB_PREFIX, PERL_SH_DIR too long, Process terminated by SIG%s
BUGS
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
perlartistic - the Perl Artistic License
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
The "Artistic License"
Preamble
Definitions
"Package", "Standard Version", "Copyright Holder", "You", "Rea-
sonable copying fee", "Freely Available"
Conditions
a), b), c), d), a), b), c), d)
perlgpl - the GNU General Public License, version 2
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
perlaix, README.aix - Perl version 5 on IBM Unix (AIX) systems
DESCRIPTION
Compiling Perl 5 on AIX
OS level
Building Dynamic Extensions on AIX
The IBM ANSI C Compiler
The usenm option
Using GNU's gcc for building perl
Using Large Files with Perl
Threaded Perl
64-bit Perl
AIX 4.2 and extensions using C++ with statics
AUTHOR
DATE
perlamiga - Perl under Amiga OS
NOTE
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Prerequisites for Compiling Perl on AmigaOS
Unix emulation for AmigaOS: ixemul.library, Version of Amiga OS
Starting Perl programs under AmigaOS
Shortcomings of Perl under AmigaOS
INSTALLATION
Accessing documentation
Manpages for Perl on AmigaOS
Perl HTML Documentation on AmigaOS
Perl GNU Info Files on AmigaOS
Perl LaTeX Documentation on AmigaOS
BUILDING PERL ON AMIGAOS
Build Prerequisites for Perl on AmigaOS
Getting the Perl Source for AmigaOS
Making Perl on AmigaOS
Testing Perl on AmigaOS
Installing the built Perl on AmigaOS
PERL 5.8.0 BROKEN IN AMIGAOS
AUTHORS
SEE ALSO
perlapollo, README.apollo - Perl version 5 on Apollo DomainOS
DESCRIPTION
AUTHOR
perlbeos, README.beos - Perl version 5.8+ on BeOS
DESCRIPTION
BUILD AND INSTALL
Requirements
Configure
Build
Install
KNOWN PROBLEMS
CONTACT
perlbs2000, README.BS2000 - building and installing Perl for BS2000.
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
gzip on BS2000
bison on BS2000
Unpacking Perl Distribution on BS2000
Compiling Perl on BS2000
Testing Perl on BS2000
Installing Perl on BS2000
Using Perl in the Posix-Shell of BS2000
Using Perl in "native" BS2000
Floating point anomalies on BS2000
Using PerlIO and different encodings on ASCII and EBCDIC partitions
AUTHORS
SEE ALSO
Mailing list
HISTORY
perlce - Perl for WinCE
DESCRIPTION
BUILD
Tools & SDK
Microsoft Embedded Visual Tools, Microsoft Visual C++, Rainer
Keuchel's celib-sources, Rainer Keuchel's console-sources
Make
go to ./wince subdirectory, edit file compile.bat, run com-
pile.bat, run
compile.bat dist
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
AUTHORS
perlcygwin, README.cygwin - Perl for Cygwin
SYNOPSIS
PREREQUISITES FOR COMPILING PERL ON CYGWIN
Cygwin = GNU+Cygnus+Windows (Don't leave UNIX without it)
Cygwin Configuration
"PATH", nroff, Permissions
CONFIGURE PERL ON CYGWIN
Stripping Perl Binaries on Cygwin
Optional Libraries for Perl on Cygwin
"-lcrypt", "-lgdbm" ("use GDBM_File"), "-ldb" ("use DB_File"),
"-lcygipc" ("use IPC::SysV"), "-lutil"
Configure-time Options for Perl on Cygwin
"-Uusedl", "-Uusemymalloc", "-Uuseperlio", "-Dusemultiplicity",
"-Duse64bitint", "-Duselongdouble", "-Dusethreads", "-Duse-
largefiles", "-Dmksymlinks"
Suspicious Warnings on Cygwin
dlsym(), Win9x and "d_eofnblk", Compiler/Preprocessor defines
MAKE ON CYGWIN
Errors on Cygwin
ld2 on Cygwin
TEST ON CYGWIN
File Permissions on Cygwin
NDBM_File and ODBM_File do not work on FAT filesystems
"fork()" failures in io_* tests
Specific features of the Cygwin port
Script Portability on Cygwin
Pathnames, Text/Binary, PerlIO, .exe, cygwin vs. windows
process ids, "chown()", Miscellaneous
Prebuilt methods:
"Cwd::cwd", "Cygwin::pid_to_winpid", "Cygwin::winpid_to_pid"
INSTALL PERL ON CYGWIN
MANIFEST ON CYGWIN
Documentation, Build, Configure, Make, Install, Tests, Compiled
Perl Source, Compiled Module Source, Perl Modules/Scripts
BUGS ON CYGWIN
AUTHORS
HISTORY
perldgux - Perl under DG/UX.
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
BUILDING PERL ON DG/UX
Non-threaded Perl on DG/UX
Threaded Perl on DG/UX
Testing Perl on DG/UX
Installing the built perl on DG/UX
AUTHOR
SEE ALSO
perldos - Perl under DOS, W31, W95.
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Prerequisites for Compiling Perl on DOS
DJGPP, Pthreads
Shortcomings of Perl under DOS
Building Perl on DOS
Testing Perl on DOS
Installation of Perl on DOS
BUILDING AND INSTALLING MODULES ON DOS
Building Prerequisites for Perl on DOS
Unpacking CPAN Modules on DOS
Building Non-XS Modules on DOS
Building XS Modules on DOS
AUTHOR
SEE ALSO
perlepoc, README.epoc - Perl for EPOC
SYNOPSIS
INTRODUCTION
INSTALLING PERL ON EPOC
STARTING PERL ON EPOC
Editors on Epoc
Features of Perl on Epoc
Restrictions of Perl on Epoc
Compiling Perl 5 on the EPOC cross compiling environment
SUPPORT STATUS OF PERL ON EPOC
AUTHOR
LAST UPDATE
perlfreebsd, README.freebsd - Perl version 5 on FreeBSD systems
DESCRIPTION
FreeBSD core dumps from readdir_r with ithreads
$^X doesn't always contain a full path in FreeBSD
Perl will no longer be part of "base FreeBSD"
AUTHOR
perlhpux, README.hpux - Perl version 5 on Hewlett-Packard Unix (HP-UX)
systems
DESCRIPTION
Using perl as shipped with HP-UX
Using perl from HP's porting centre
Compiling Perl 5 on HP-UX
PA-RISC
Portability Between PA-RISC Versions
PA-RISC 1.0
PA-RISC 1.1
PA-RISC 2.0
Itanium Processor Family and HP-UX
Itanium & Itanium 2
Building Dynamic Extensions on HP-UX
The HP ANSI C Compiler
The GNU C Compiler
Using Large Files with Perl on HP-UX
Threaded Perl on HP-UX
64-bit Perl on HP-UX
Oracle on HP-UX
GDBM and Threads on HP-UX
NFS filesystems and utime(2) on HP-UX
perl -P and // and HP-UX
HP-UX Kernel Parameters (maxdsiz) for Compiling Perl
nss_delete core dump from op/pwent or op/grent
AUTHOR
DATE
perlhurd, README.hurd - Perl version 5 on Hurd
DESCRIPTION
Known Problems with Perl on Hurd
AUTHOR
perlirix, README.irix - Perl version 5 on Irix systems
DESCRIPTION
Building 32-bit Perl in Irix
Building 64-bit Perl in Irix
About Compiler Versions of Irix
Linker Problems in Irix
Malloc in Irix
Building with threads in Irix
Irix 5.3
AUTHOR
perllinux, README.linux - Perl version 5 on Linux systems
DESCRIPTION
Experimental Support for Sun Studio Compilers for Linux OS
AUTHOR
perlmachten, README.machten - Perl version 5 on Power MachTen systems
DESCRIPTION
Perl version 5.8.x and greater not supported
Compiling Perl 5.6.x on MachTen
Failures during "make test" on MachTen
op/lexassign.t, pragma/warnings.t
Building external modules on MachTen
AUTHOR
DATE
perlmacos, README.macos - Perl under Mac OS (Classic)
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
AUTHOR
DATE
perlmacosx, README.macosx - Perl under Mac OS X
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Installation Prefix
libperl and Prebinding
Updating Apple-supplied Perl
64-bit Perl
Intel processor support
Universal binaries
Known problems
MacPerl
Carbon
Cocoa
Starting From Scratch
AUTHOR
DATE
perlmint, README.mint - Perl version 5 on Atari MiNT
DESCRIPTION
Known problems with Perl on MiNT
AUTHOR
perlmpeix, README.mpeix - Perl/iX for HP e3000 MPE
SYNOPSIS
NOTE
Binary distribution from HP
What's New in Perl for MPE/iX
Welcome to Perl/iX
System Requirements for Perl/iX
How to Obtain Perl/iX
Perl/iX Distribution Contents Highlights
README, INSTALL, LIBSHP3K, PERL, .cpan/, lib/, man/, pub-
lic_html/feedback.cgi, src/perl-5.6.0-mpe
How to Compile Perl/iX
4, 6
Getting Started with Perl/iX
MPE/iX Implementation Considerations
Known Perl/iX Bugs Under Investigation
Perl/iX To-Do List
Perl/iX Change History
AUTHOR
perlnetware - Perl for NetWare
DESCRIPTION
BUILD
Tools & SDK
Setup
SetNWBld.bat, Buildtype.bat
Make
Interpreter
Extensions
INSTALL
BUILD NEW EXTENSIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
AUTHORS
DATE
perlopenbsd, README.openbsd - Perl version 5 on OpenBSD systems
DESCRIPTION
OpenBSD core dumps from getprotobyname_r and getservbyname_r with
ithreads
AUTHOR
perlos2 - Perl under OS/2, DOS, Win0.3*, Win0.95 and WinNT.
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Target
Other OSes
Prerequisites
EMX, RSX, HPFS, pdksh
Starting Perl programs under OS/2 (and DOS and...)
Starting OS/2 (and DOS) programs under Perl
Frequently asked questions
"It does not work"
I cannot run external programs
I cannot embed perl into my program, or use perl.dll from my pro-
gram.
Is your program EMX-compiled with "-Zmt -Zcrtdll"?, Did you use
ExtUtils::Embed?
`` and pipe-"open" do not work under DOS.
Cannot start "find.exe "pattern" file"
INSTALLATION
Automatic binary installation
"PERL_BADLANG", "PERL_BADFREE", Config.pm
Manual binary installation
Perl VIO and PM executables (dynamically linked), Perl_ VIO
executable (statically linked), Executables for Perl utilities,
Main Perl library, Additional Perl modules, Tools to compile
Perl modules, Manpages for Perl and utilities, Manpages for
Perl modules, Source for Perl documentation, Perl manual in
.INF format, Pdksh
Warning
Accessing documentation
OS/2 .INF file
Plain text
Manpages
HTML
GNU "info" files
PDF files
"LaTeX" docs
BUILD
The short story
Prerequisites
Getting perl source
Application of the patches
Hand-editing
Making
Testing
A lot of "bad free", Process terminated by SIGTERM/SIGINT,
op/fs.t, op/stat.t
Installing the built perl
"a.out"-style build
Building a binary distribution
Building custom .EXE files
Making executables with a custom collection of statically loaded
extensions
Making executables with a custom search-paths
Build FAQ
Some "/" became "\" in pdksh.
'errno' - unresolved external
Problems with tr or sed
Some problem (forget which ;-)
Library ... not found
Segfault in make
op/sprintf test failure
Specific (mis)features of OS/2 port
"setpriority", "getpriority"
"system()"
"extproc" on the first line
Additional modules:
Prebuilt methods:
"File::Copy::syscopy", "DynaLoader::mod2fname", "Cwd::cur-
rent_drive()",
"Cwd::sys_chdir(name)", "Cwd::change_drive(name)",
"Cwd::sys_is_absolute(name)", "Cwd::sys_is_rooted(name)",
"Cwd::sys_is_relative(name)", "Cwd::sys_cwd(name)",
"Cwd::sys_abspath(name, dir)", "Cwd::extLibpath([type])",
"Cwd::extLibpath_set( path [, type ] )", "OS2::Error(do_harder-
ror,do_exception)", "OS2::Errors2Drive(drive)", OS2::SysInfo(),
OS2::BootDrive(), "OS2::MorphPM(serve)", "OS2::UnMor-
phPM(serve)", "OS2::Serve_Messages(force)", "OS2::Process_Mes-
sages(force [, cnt])", "OS2::_control87(new,mask)",
OS2::get_control87(), "OS2::set_con-
trol87_em(new=MCW_EM,mask=MCW_EM)", "OS2::DLLname([how [,
\&xsub]])"
Prebuilt variables:
$OS2::emx_rev, $OS2::emx_env, $OS2::os_ver, $OS2::is_aout,
$OS2::can_fork, $OS2::nsyserror
Misfeatures
Modifications
"popen", "tmpnam", "tmpfile", "ctermid", "stat", "mkdir",
"rmdir", "flock"
Identifying DLLs
Centralized management of resources
"HAB", "HMQ", Treating errors reported by OS/2 API, "CheckOSEr-
ror(expr)", "CheckWinError(expr)", "SaveWinError(expr)", "Save-
CroakWinError(expr,die,name1,name2)", "WinError_2_Perl_rc",
"FillWinError", "FillOSError(rc)", Loading DLLs and ordinals in
DLLs
Perl flavors
perl.exe
perl_.exe
perl__.exe
perl___.exe
Why strange names?
Why dynamic linking?
Why chimera build?
ENVIRONMENT
"PERLLIB_PREFIX"
"PERL_BADLANG"
"PERL_BADFREE"
"PERL_SH_DIR"
"USE_PERL_FLOCK"
"TMP" or "TEMP"
Evolution
Text-mode filehandles
Priorities
DLL name mangling: pre 5.6.2
DLL name mangling: 5.6.2 and beyond
Global DLLs, specific DLLs, "BEGINLIBPATH" and "ENDLIBPATH", .
from "LIBPATH"
DLL forwarder generation
Threading
Calls to external programs
Memory allocation
Threads
"COND_WAIT", os2.c
BUGS
AUTHOR
SEE ALSO
perlos390, README.os390 - building and installing Perl for OS/390 and
z/OS
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Tools
Unpacking Perl distribution on OS/390
Setup and utilities for Perl on OS/390
Configure Perl on OS/390
Build, Test, Install Perl on OS/390
Build Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
Testing Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
Installation Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
Usage Hints for Perl on OS/390
Floating Point Anomalies with Perl on OS/390
Modules and Extensions for Perl on OS/390
AUTHORS
SEE ALSO
Mailing list for Perl on OS/390
HISTORY
perlos400, README.os400 - Perl version 5 on OS/400
DESCRIPTION
Compiling Perl for OS/400 PASE
Installing Perl in OS/400 PASE
Using Perl in OS/400 PASE
Known Problems
Perl on ILE
AUTHORS
perlplan9 - Plan 9-specific documentation for Perl
DESCRIPTION
Invoking Perl
What's in Plan 9 Perl
What's not in Plan 9 Perl
Perl5 Functions not currently supported in Plan 9 Perl
Signals in Plan 9 Perl
COMPILING AND INSTALLING PERL ON PLAN 9
Installing Perl Documentation on Plan 9
BUGS
Revision date
AUTHOR
perlqnx, README.qnx - Perl version 5 on QNX
DESCRIPTION
Required Software for Compiling Perl on QNX4
/bin/sh, ar, nm, cpp, make
Outstanding Issues with Perl on QNX4
QNX auxiliary files
qnx/ar, qnx/cpp
Outstanding issues with perl under QNX6
AUTHOR
perlsolaris, README.solaris - Perl version 5 on Solaris systems
DESCRIPTION
Solaris Version Numbers.
RESOURCES
Solaris FAQ, Precompiled Binaries, Solaris Documentation
SETTING UP
File Extraction Problems on Solaris.
Compiler and Related Tools on Solaris.
Environment for Compiling perl on Solaris
RUN CONFIGURE.
64-bit perl on Solaris.
Threads in perl on Solaris.
Malloc Issues with perl on Solaris.
MAKE PROBLEMS.
Dynamic Loading Problems With GNU as and GNU ld, ld.so.1: ./perl:
fatal: relocation error:, dlopen: stub interception failed, #error
"No DATAMODEL_NATIVE specified", sh: ar: not found, warning: dead
part of constant expression is nonconstant
MAKE TEST
op/stat.t test 4 in Solaris
nss_delete core dump from op/pwent or op/grent
PREBUILT BINARIES OF PERL FOR SOLARIS.
RUNTIME ISSUES FOR PERL ON SOLARIS.
Limits on Numbers of Open Files on Solaris.
SOLARIS-SPECIFIC MODULES.
SOLARIS-SPECIFIC PROBLEMS WITH MODULES.
Proc::ProcessTable on Solaris
BSD::Resource on Solaris
Net::SSLeay on Solaris
SunOS 4.x
AUTHOR
perltru64, README.tru64 - Perl version 5 on Tru64 (formerly known as
Digital UNIX formerly known as DEC OSF/1) systems
DESCRIPTION
Compiling Perl 5 on Tru64
Using Large Files with Perl on Tru64
Threaded Perl on Tru64
Long Doubles on Tru64
DB_File tests failing on Tru64
64-bit Perl on Tru64
Warnings about floating-point overflow when compiling Perl on Tru64
Testing Perl on Tru64
ext/ODBM_File/odbm Test Failing With Static Builds
Perl Fails Because Of Unresolved Symbol sockatmark
AUTHOR
perluts - Perl under UTS
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
BUILDING PERL ON UTS
Installing the built perl on UTS
AUTHOR
perlvmesa, README.vmesa - building and installing Perl for VM/ESA.
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Unpacking Perl Distribution on VM/ESA
Setup Perl and utilities on VM/ESA
Configure Perl on VM/ESA
Testing Anomalies of Perl on VM/ESA
Usage Hints for Perl on VM/ESA
AUTHORS
SEE ALSO
Mailing list for Perl on VM/ESA
perlvms - VMS-specific documentation for Perl
DESCRIPTION
Installation
Organization of Perl Images
Core Images
Perl Extensions
Installing static extensions
Installing dynamic extensions
File specifications
Syntax
Wildcard expansion
Pipes
PERL5LIB and PERLLIB
Command line
I/O redirection and backgrounding
Command line switches
-i, -S, -u
Perl functions
File tests, backticks, binmode FILEHANDLE, crypt PLAINTEXT, USER,
dump, exec LIST, fork, getpwent, getpwnam, getpwuid, gmtime, kill,
qx//, select (system call), stat EXPR, system LIST, time, times,
unlink LIST, utime LIST, waitpid PID,FLAGS
Perl variables
%ENV, CRTL_ENV, CLISYM_[LOCAL], Any other string, $!, $^E, $?, $|
Standard modules with VMS-specific differences
SDBM_File
Revision date
AUTHOR
perlvos, README.vos - Perl for Stratus VOS
SYNOPSIS
Multiple methods to build perl for VOS
Stratus POSIX Support
INSTALLING PERL IN VOS
Compiling Perl 5 on VOS
Installing Perl 5 on VOS
USING PERL IN VOS
Unimplemented Features of Perl on VOS
Restrictions of Perl on VOS
Handling of underflow and overflow
TEST STATUS
SUPPORT STATUS
AUTHOR
LAST UPDATE
perlwin32 - Perl under Windows
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Setting Up Perl on Win32
Make, Command Shell, Borland C++, Microsoft Visual C++,
Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003, Microsoft Platform SDK
64-bit Compiler, MinGW release 3 with gcc, MinGW release 1 with
gcc
Building
Testing Perl on Win32
Installation of Perl on Win32
Usage Hints for Perl on Win32
Environment Variables, File Globbing, Using perl from the com-
mand line, Building Extensions, Command-line Wildcard Expan-
sion, Win32 Specific Extensions, Notes on 64-bit Windows
Running Perl Scripts
Miscellaneous Things
BUGS AND CAVEATS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
AUTHORS
Gary Ng <71564.1743@CompuServe.COM>, Gurusamy Sarathy
, Nick Ing-Simmons ,
Jan Dubois , Steve Hay
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
PRAGMA DOCUMENTATION
attrs - set/get attributes of a subroutine (deprecated)
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
method, locked
re - Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
threadshared::shared, threads::shared - Perl extension for sharing data
structures between threads
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
EXPORT
FUNCTIONS
share VARIABLE, lock VARIABLE, cond_wait VARIABLE, cond_wait COND-
VAR, LOCKVAR, cond_timedwait VARIABLE, ABS_TIMEOUT, cond_timedwait
CONDVAR, ABS_TIMEOUT, LOCKVAR, cond_signal VARIABLE, cond_broadcast
VARIABLE
NOTES
BUGS
AUTHOR
SEE ALSO
threads - Perl extension allowing use of interpreter based threads from
perl
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
$thread = threads->create(function, LIST), $thread->join,
$thread->detach, threads->self, $thread->tid, threads->object( tid
), threads->yield();, threads->list();, async BLOCK;
WARNINGS
A thread exited while %d other threads were still running
TODO
BUGS
Parent-Child threads, tid is I32, Returning objects, Creating
threads inside BEGIN blocks, PERL_OLD_SIGNALS are not threadsafe,
will not be
AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT
SEE ALSO
attributes - get/set subroutine or variable attributes
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Built-in Attributes
locked, method, lvalue
Available Subroutines
get, reftype
Package-specific Attribute Handling
FETCH_type_ATTRIBUTES, MODIFY_type_ATTRIBUTES
Syntax of Attribute Lists
EXPORTS
Default exports
Available exports
Export tags defined
EXAMPLES
SEE ALSO
autouse - postpone load of modules until a function is used
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
WARNING
AUTHOR
SEE ALSO
base - Establish IS-A relationship with base classes at compile time
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
DIAGNOSTICS
Base class package "%s" is empty
HISTORY
CAVEATS
SEE ALSO
bigint - Transparent BigInteger support for Perl
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Options
a or accuracy, p or precision, t or trace, l or lib, v or ver-
sion
Math Library
Internal Format
Sign
Methods
Caveat
MODULES USED
EXAMPLES
LICENSE
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS
bignum - Transparent BigNumber support for Perl
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Options
a or accuracy, p or precision, t or trace, l or lib, v or ver-
sion
Methods
Caveat
inf(), NaN(), upgrade()
MATH LIBRARY
INTERNAL FORMAT
SIGN
MODULES USED
EXAMPLES
LICENSE
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS
bigrat - Transparent BigNumber/BigRational support for Perl
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Modules Used
Math Library
Sign
Methods
Cavaet
Options
a or accuracy, p or precision, t or trace, l or lib, v or ver-
sion
EXAMPLES
perl -Mbigrat -le 'print sqrt(33)'
perl -Mbigrat -le 'print 2*255'
perl -Mbigrat -le 'print 4.5+2*255'
perl -Mbigrat -le 'print 3/7 + 5/7 + 8/3'
perl -Mbigrat -le 'print 12->is_odd()';
LICENSE
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS
blib - Use MakeMaker's uninstalled version of a package
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
BUGS
AUTHOR
bytes - Perl pragma to force byte semantics rather than character
semantics
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
LIMITATIONS
SEE ALSO
charnames - define character names for "\N{named}" string literal
escapes
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
CUSTOM TRANSLATORS
CUSTOM ALIASES
Anonymous hashes
Alias file
Alias shortcut
charnames::viacode(code)
charnames::vianame(name)
ALIASES
ILLEGAL CHARACTERS
BUGS
constant - Perl pragma to declare constants
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
NOTES
List constants
Defining multiple constants at once
Magic constants
TECHNICAL NOTES
BUGS
AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT
diagnostics, splain - produce verbose warning diagnostics
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
The "diagnostics" Pragma
The splain Program
EXAMPLES
INTERNALS
BUGS
AUTHOR
encoding - allows you to write your script in non-ascii or non-utf8
SYNOPSIS
ABSTRACT
Literal Conversions
PerlIO layers for "STD(IN|OUT)"
Implicit upgrading for byte strings
FEATURES THAT REQUIRE 5.8.1
"NON-EUC" doublebyte encodings, tr//, DATA pseudo-filehandle
USAGE
use encoding [ENCNAME] ;, use encoding ENCNAME [ STDIN => ENC-
NAME_IN ...] ;, use encoding ENCNAME Filter=>1;, no encoding;
The Filter Option
Filter-related changes at Encode version 1.87
CAVEATS
NOT SCOPED
DO NOT MIX MULTIPLE ENCODINGS
tr/// with ranges
Legend of characters above
EXAMPLE - Greekperl
KNOWN PROBLEMS
literals in regex that are longer than 127 bytes, EBCDIC, format
The Logic of :locale
HISTORY
SEE ALSO
fields - compile-time class fields
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
new, phash
SEE ALSO
filetest - Perl pragma to control the filetest permission operators
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
subpragma access
if - "use" a Perl module if a condition holds
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
BUGS
AUTHOR
integer - Perl pragma to use integer arithmetic instead of floating
point
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
less - perl pragma to request less of something from the compiler
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
lib - manipulate @INC at compile time
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Adding directories to @INC
Deleting directories from @INC
Restoring original @INC
CAVEATS
NOTES
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
locale - Perl pragma to use and avoid POSIX locales for built-in opera-
tions
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
open - perl pragma to set default PerlIO layers for input and output
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
NONPERLIO FUNCTIONALITY
IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS
SEE ALSO
ops - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when compiling
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
SEE ALSO
overload - Package for overloading Perl operations
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Declaration of overloaded functions
Calling Conventions for Binary Operations
FALSE, TRUE, "undef"
Calling Conventions for Unary Operations
Calling Conventions for Mutators
"++" and "--", "x=" and other assignment versions
Overloadable Operations
Arithmetic operations, Comparison operations, Bit operations,
Increment and decrement, Transcendental functions, Boolean,
string and numeric conversion, Iteration, Dereferencing, Spe-
cial
Inheritance and overloading
Strings as values of "use overload" directive, Overloading of
an operation is inherited by derived classes
SPECIAL SYMBOLS FOR "use overload"
Last Resort
Fallback
"undef", TRUE, defined, but FALSE
Copy Constructor
Example
MAGIC AUTOGENERATION
Assignment forms of arithmetic operations, Conversion operations,
Increment and decrement, "abs($a)", Unary minus, Negation, Concate-
nation, Comparison operations, Iterator, Dereferencing, Copy opera-
tor
Losing overloading
Run-time Overloading
Public functions
overload::StrVal(arg), overload::Overloaded(arg), over-
load::Method(obj,op)
Overloading constants
integer, float, binary, q, qr
IMPLEMENTATION
Metaphor clash
Cookbook
Two-face scalars
Two-face references
Symbolic calculator
Really symbolic calculator
AUTHOR
DIAGNOSTICS
Odd number of arguments for overload::constant, `%s' is not an
overloadable type, `%s' is not a code reference
BUGS
sigtrap - Perl pragma to enable simple signal handling
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
SIGNAL HANDLERS
stack-trace, die, handler your-handler
SIGNAL LISTS
normal-signals, error-signals, old-interface-signals
OTHER
untrapped, any, signal, number
EXAMPLES
sort - perl pragma to control sort() behaviour
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
CAVEATS
strict - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe constructs
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
"strict refs", "strict vars", "strict subs"
HISTORY
subs - Perl pragma to predeclare sub names
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
threadshared, threads::shared - Perl extension for sharing data struc-
tures between threads
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
EXPORT
FUNCTIONS
share VARIABLE, lock VARIABLE, cond_wait VARIABLE, cond_wait COND-
VAR, LOCKVAR, cond_timedwait VARIABLE, ABS_TIMEOUT, cond_timedwait
CONDVAR, ABS_TIMEOUT, LOCKVAR, cond_signal VARIABLE, cond_broadcast
VARIABLE
NOTES
BUGS
AUTHOR
SEE ALSO
utf8 - Perl pragma to enable/disable UTF-8 (or UTF-EBCDIC) in source
code
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Utility functions
$num_octets = utf8::upgrade($string), $success = utf8::down-
grade($string[, FAIL_OK]), utf8::encode($string),
utf8::decode($string), $flag = utf8::is_utf8(STRING), $flag =
utf8::valid(STRING)
BUGS
SEE ALSO
vars - Perl pragma to predeclare global variable names (obsolete)
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
vmsish - Perl pragma to control VMS-specific language features
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
"vmsish status", "vmsish exit", "vmsish time", "vmsish hushed"
warnings - Perl pragma to control optional warnings
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
use warnings::register, warnings::enabled(), warn-
ings::enabled($category), warnings::enabled($object), warn-
ings::warn($message), warnings::warn($category, $message), warn-
ings::warn($object, $message), warnings::warnif($message), warn-
ings::warnif($category, $message), warnings::warnif($object, $mes-
sage)
warnings::register - warnings import function
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
MODULE DOCUMENTATION
AnyDBM_File - provide framework for multiple DBMs
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
DBM Comparisons
[0], [1], [2], [3]
SEE ALSO
Attribute::Handlers - Simpler definition of attribute handlers
VERSION
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
[0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]
Typed lexicals
Type-specific attribute handlers
Non-interpretive attribute handlers
Phase-specific attribute handlers
Attributes as "tie" interfaces
EXAMPLES
DIAGNOSTICS
"Bad attribute type: ATTR(%s)", "Attribute handler %s doesn't han-
dle %s attributes", "Declaration of %s attribute in package %s may
clash with future reserved word", "Can't have two ATTR specifiers
on one subroutine", "Can't autotie a %s", "Internal error: %s sym-
bol went missing", "Won't be able to apply END handler"
AUTHOR
BUGS
COPYRIGHT
AutoLoader - load subroutines only on demand
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Subroutine Stubs
Using AutoLoader's AUTOLOAD Subroutine
Overriding AutoLoader's AUTOLOAD Subroutine
Package Lexicals
Not Using AutoLoader
AutoLoader vs. SelfLoader
CAVEATS
SEE ALSO
AutoSplit - split a package for autoloading
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
$keep, $check, $modtime
Multiple packages
DIAGNOSTICS
B - The Perl Compiler
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OVERVIEW
Utility Functions
Functions Returning "B::SV", "B::AV", "B::HV", and "B::CV" objects
sv_undef, sv_yes, sv_no, svref_2object(SVREF), amagic_genera-
tion, init_av, check_av, begin_av, end_av, comppadlist,
regex_padav, main_cv
Functions for Examining the Symbol Table
walksymtable(SYMREF, METHOD, RECURSE, PREFIX)
Functions Returning "B::OP" objects or for walking op trees
main_root, main_start, walkoptree(OP, METHOD), walkop-
tree_debug(DEBUG)
Miscellaneous Utility Functions
ppname(OPNUM), hash(STR), cast_I32(I), minus_c, cstring(STR),
perlstring(STR), class(OBJ), threadsv_names
OVERVIEW OF CLASSES
SV-RELATED CLASSES
B::SV Methods
REFCNT, FLAGS, object_2svref
B::IV Methods
IV, IVX, UVX, int_value, needs64bits, packiv
B::NV Methods
NV, NVX
B::RV Methods
RV
B::PV Methods
PV, RV, PVX
B::PVMG Methods
MAGIC, SvSTASH
B::MAGIC Methods
MOREMAGIC, precomp, PRIVATE, TYPE, FLAGS, OBJ, PTR, REGEX
B::PVLV Methods
TARGOFF, TARGLEN, TYPE, TARG
B::BM Methods
USEFUL, PREVIOUS, RARE, TABLE
B::GV Methods
is_empty, NAME, SAFENAME, STASH, SV, IO, FORM, AV, HV, EGV, CV,
CVGEN, LINE, FILE, FILEGV, GvREFCNT, FLAGS
B::IO Methods
LINES, PAGE, PAGE_LEN, LINES_LEFT, TOP_NAME, TOP_GV, FMT_NAME,
FMT_GV, BOTTOM_NAME, BOTTOM_GV, SUBPROCESS, IoTYPE, IoFLAGS,
IsSTD
B::AV Methods
FILL, MAX, OFF, ARRAY, ARRAYelt, AvFLAGS
B::CV Methods
STASH, START, ROOT, GV, FILE, DEPTH, PADLIST, OUTSIDE, OUT-
SIDE_SEQ, XSUB, XSUBANY, CvFLAGS, const_sv
B::HV Methods
FILL, MAX, KEYS, RITER, NAME, PMROOT, ARRAY
OP-RELATED CLASSES
B::OP Methods
next, sibling, name, ppaddr, desc, targ, type, opt, static,
flags, private, spare
B::UNOP METHOD
first
B::BINOP METHOD
last
B::LOGOP METHOD
other
B::LISTOP METHOD
children
B::PMOP Methods
pmreplroot, pmreplstart, pmnext, pmregexp, pmflags, pmdynflags,
pmpermflags, precomp, pmoffset
B::SVOP METHOD
sv, gv
B::PADOP METHOD
padix
B::PVOP METHOD
pv
B::LOOP Methods
redoop, nextop, lastop
B::COP Methods
label, stash, stashpv, file, cop_seq, arybase, line, warnings,
io
AUTHOR
B::Asmdata - Autogenerated data about Perl ops, used to generate byte-
code
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
%insn_data, @insn_name, @optype, @specialsv_name
AUTHOR
B::Assembler - Assemble Perl bytecode
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
AUTHORS
B::Bblock - Walk basic blocks
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Functions
find_leaders
AUTHOR
B::Bytecode - Perl compiler's bytecode backend
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
EXAMPLE
OPTIONS
-b, -H, -k, -ooutfile, -s
KNOWN BUGS
NOTICE
AUTHORS
B::C - Perl compiler's C backend
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
-ofilename, -v, --, -uPackname, -D, -Do, -Dc, -DA, -DC, -DM, -f,
-fcog, -fsave-data, -fppaddr, -fwarn-sv, -fuse-script-name,
-fsave-sig-hash, -On, -O0, -O1, -O2, -llimit
EXAMPLES
BUGS
AUTHOR
B::CC - Perl compiler's optimized C translation backend
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
-ofilename, -v, --, -uPackname, -mModulename, -D, -Dr, -DO, -Ds,
-Dp, -Dq, -Dl, -Dt, -f, -ffreetmps-each-bblock,
-ffreetmps-each-loop, -fomit-taint, -On
EXAMPLES
BUGS
DIFFERENCES
Loops
Context of ".."
Arithmetic
Deprecated features
AUTHOR
B::Concise - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing concise info about ops
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
EXAMPLE
OPTIONS
Options for Opcode Ordering
-basic, -exec, -tree
Options for Line-Style
-concise, -terse, -linenoise, -debug, -env
Options for tree-specific formatting
-compact, -loose, -vt, -ascii
Options controlling sequence numbering
-basen, -bigendian, -littleendian
Other options
-main, -nomain, -nobanner, -banner, -banneris => subref
Option Stickiness
ABBREVIATIONS
OP class abbreviations
OP flags abbreviations
FORMATTING SPECIFICATIONS
Special Patterns
(x(exec_text;basic_text)x), (*(text)*), (*(text1;text2)*),
(?(text1#varText2)?), ~
# Variables
#var, #varN, #Var, #addr, #arg, #class, #classsym, #coplabel,
#exname, #extarg, #firstaddr, #flags, #flagval, #hyphseq,
#label, #lastaddr, #name, #NAME, #next, #nextaddr, #noise,
#private, #privval, #seq, #seqnum, #opt, #static, #sibaddr,
#svaddr, #svclass, #svval, #targ, #targarg, #targarglife,
#typenum
Using B::Concise outside of the O framework
Example: Altering Concise Renderings
set_style()
set_style_standard($name)
add_style()
add_callback()
Running B::Concise::compile()
B::Concise::reset_sequence()
Errors
AUTHOR
B::Debug - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing debug info about ops
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
AUTHOR
B::Deparse - Perl compiler backend to produce perl code
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
-d, -fFILE, -l, -p, -P, -q, -sLETTERS, C, iNUMBER, T, vSTRING.,
-xLEVEL
USING B::Deparse AS A MODULE
Synopsis
Description
new
ambient_pragmas
strict, $[, bytes, utf8, integer, re, warnings, hint_bits,
warning_bits
coderef2text
BUGS
AUTHOR
B::Disassembler - Disassemble Perl bytecode
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
AUTHOR
B::Lint - Perl lint
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS AND LINT CHECKS
context, implicit-read and implicit-write, bare-subs, dollar-under-
score, private-names, undefined-subs, regexp-variables, all, none
NON LINT-CHECK OPTIONS
-u Package
BUGS
AUTHOR
B::O, O - Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
CONVENTIONS
IMPLEMENTATION
BUGS
AUTHOR
B::Showlex - Show lexical variables used in functions or files
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
EXAMPLES
OPTIONS
SEE ALSO
TODO
AUTHOR
B::Stackobj - Helper module for CC backend
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
AUTHOR
B::Stash - show what stashes are loaded
B::Terse - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing terse info about ops
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
AUTHOR
B::Xref - Generates cross reference reports for Perl programs
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
"-oFILENAME", "-r", "-d", "-D[tO]"
BUGS
AUTHOR
Bblock, B::Bblock - Walk basic blocks
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Functions
find_leaders
AUTHOR
Benchmark - benchmark running times of Perl code
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
Methods
new, debug, iters
Standard Exports
timeit(COUNT, CODE), timethis ( COUNT, CODE, [ TITLE, [ STYLE
]] ), timethese ( COUNT, CODEHASHREF, [ STYLE ] ), timediff (
T1, T2 ), timestr ( TIMEDIFF, [ STYLE, [ FORMAT ] ] )
Optional Exports
clearcache ( COUNT ), clearallcache ( ), cmpthese ( COUNT,
CODEHASHREF, [ STYLE ] ), cmpthese ( RESULTSHASHREF, [ STYLE ]
), countit(TIME, CODE), disablecache ( ), enablecache ( ),
timesum ( T1, T2 )
:hireswallclock
NOTES
EXAMPLES
INHERITANCE
CAVEATS
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS
MODIFICATION HISTORY
ByteLoader - load byte compiled perl code
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
AUTHOR
SEE ALSO
Bytecode, B::Bytecode - Perl compiler's bytecode backend
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
EXAMPLE
OPTIONS
-b, -H, -k, -ooutfile, -s
KNOWN BUGS
NOTICE
AUTHORS
CGI - Simple Common Gateway Interface Class
SYNOPSIS
ABSTRACT
DESCRIPTION
PROGRAMMING STYLE
CALLING CGI.PM ROUTINES
CREATING A NEW QUERY OBJECT (OBJECT-ORIENTED STYLE):
CREATING A NEW QUERY OBJECT FROM AN INPUT FILE
FETCHING A LIST OF KEYWORDS FROM THE QUERY:
FETCHING THE NAMES OF ALL THE PARAMETERS PASSED TO YOUR SCRIPT:
FETCHING THE VALUE OR VALUES OF A SINGLE NAMED PARAMETER:
SETTING THE VALUE(S) OF A NAMED PARAMETER:
APPENDING ADDITIONAL VALUES TO A NAMED PARAMETER:
IMPORTING ALL PARAMETERS INTO A NAMESPACE:
DELETING A PARAMETER COMPLETELY:
DELETING ALL PARAMETERS:
HANDLING NON-URLENCODED ARGUMENTS
DIRECT ACCESS TO THE PARAMETER LIST:
FETCHING THE PARAMETER LIST AS A HASH:
SAVING THE STATE OF THE SCRIPT TO A FILE:
RETRIEVING CGI ERRORS
USING THE FUNCTION-ORIENTED INTERFACE
:cgi, :form, :html2, :html3, :html4, :netscape, :html, :stan-
dard, :all
PRAGMAS
-any, -compile, -nosticky, -tabindex, -no_undef_params,
-no_xhtml, -nph, -newstyle_urls, -oldstyle_urls, -autoload,
-no_debug, -debug, -private_tempfiles
SPECIAL FORMS FOR IMPORTING HTML-TAG FUNCTIONS
1. start_table() (generates a tag), 2. end_table()
(generates a tag), 3. start_ul() (generates a
tag), 4. end_ul() (generates a tag)
GENERATING DYNAMIC DOCUMENTS
CREATING A STANDARD HTTP HEADER:
GENERATING A REDIRECTION HEADER
CREATING THE HTML DOCUMENT HEADER
Parameters:, 4, 5, 6..
ENDING THE HTML DOCUMENT:
CREATING A SELF-REFERENCING URL THAT PRESERVES STATE INFORMATION:
OBTAINING THE SCRIPT'S URL
-absolute, -relative, -full, -path (-path_info), -query
(-query_string), -base, -rewrite
MIXING POST AND URL PARAMETERS
CREATING STANDARD HTML ELEMENTS:
PROVIDING ARGUMENTS TO HTML SHORTCUTS
THE DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY OF HTML SHORTCUTS
HTML SHORTCUTS AND LIST INTERPOLATION
NON-STANDARD HTML SHORTCUTS
AUTOESCAPING HTML
$escaped_string = escapeHTML("unescaped string");, $charset =
charset([$charset]);, $flag = autoEscape([$flag]);
PRETTY-PRINTING HTML
CREATING FILL-OUT FORMS:
CREATING AN ISINDEX TAG
STARTING AND ENDING A FORM
application/x-www-form-urlencoded, multipart/form-data
FORM ELEMENTS
-name, -value, -values, -tabindex, -id, -override, -onChange,
-onFocus, -onBlur, -onMouseOver, -onMouseOut, -onSelect
CREATING A TEXT FIELD
Parameters
CREATING A BIG TEXT FIELD
CREATING A PASSWORD FIELD
CREATING A FILE UPLOAD FIELD
Parameters
CREATING A POPUP MENU
CREATING AN OPTION GROUP
CREATING A SCROLLING LIST
Parameters:
CREATING A GROUP OF RELATED CHECKBOXES
Parameters:
CREATING A STANDALONE CHECKBOX
Parameters:
CREATING A RADIO BUTTON GROUP
Parameters:
CREATING A SUBMIT BUTTON
Parameters:
CREATING A RESET BUTTON
CREATING A DEFAULT BUTTON
CREATING A HIDDEN FIELD
Parameters:
CREATING A CLICKABLE IMAGE BUTTON
Parameters:, 3. The third option (-align, optional) is an
alignment type, and may be TOP, BOTTOM or MIDDLE
CREATING A JAVASCRIPT ACTION BUTTON
HTTP COOKIES
1. an expiration time, 2. a domain, 3. a path, 4. a "secure" flag,
-name, -value, -path, -domain, -expires, -secure
WORKING WITH FRAMES
1. Create a |