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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 be quickly scanned or grepped through to locate the proper section you're looking for. BASIC DOCUMENTATION perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION Many usability enhancements, Simplified grammar, Lexical scoping, Arbitrarily nested data structures, Modularity and reusability, Object-oriented programming, Embeddable and Extensible, POSIX compliant, Package constructors and destructors, Multiple simultaneous DBM implementations, Subroutine definitions may now be autoloaded, Regular expression enhancements ENVIRONMENT HOME, LOGDIR, PATH, PERL5LIB, PERL5DB, PERLLIB AUTHOR FILES SEE ALSO DIAGNOSTICS BUGS NOTES perldata - Perl data types DESCRIPTION Variable names Context Scalar values Scalar value constructors List value constructors Typeglobs and FileHandles perlsyn - Perl syntax DESCRIPTION Declarations Simple statements Compound statements Loop Control For Loops Foreach Loops Basic BLOCKs and Switch Statements Goto PODs: Embedded Documentation perlop - Perl operators and precedence SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION Terms and List Operators (Leftward) The Arrow Operator Autoincrement and Autodecrement 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 Operator Conditional Operator Assignment Operators Comma Operator List Operators (Rightward) Logical Not Logical And Logical or and Exclusive Or C Operators Missing From Perl unary &, unary *, (TYPE) Quote and Quotelike Operators Regexp Quotelike Operators ?PATTERN?, m/PATTERN/gimosx, /PATTERN/gimosx, q/STRING/, 'STRING', qq/STRING/, "STRING", qx/STRING/, `STRING`, qw/STRING/, s/PATTERN/REPLACEMENT/egimosx, tr/SEARCHLIST/REPLACEMENTLIST/cds, y/SEARCHLIST/REPLACEMENTLIST/cds I/O Operators Constant Folding Integer arithmetic perlre - Perl regular expressions DESCRIPTION Regular Expressions (?#text), (?:regexp), (?=regexp), (?!regexp), (?imsx) Backtracking Version 8 Regular Expressions WARNING on \1 vs $1 perlrun - how to execute the Perl interpreter SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION Switches -0digits, -a, -c, -d, -d:foo, -Dnumber, -Dlist, -e commandline, -Fregexp, -iextension, -Idirectory, -loctnum, -mmodule, -Mmodule, -n, -p, -P, -s, -S, -T, -u, -U, -v, -V, -V:name, -w, -x directory 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, Functions for processes and process groups, Keywords related to perl modules, Keywords related to classes and object-orientedness, Low-level socket functions, System V interprocess communication functions, Fetching user and group info, Fetching network info, Time-related functions Alphabetical Listing of Perl Functions -X FILEHANDLE, -X EXPR, -X, abs VALUE, accept NEWSOCKET,GENERICSOCKET, alarm SECONDS, atan2 Y,X, bind SOCKET,NAME, binmode FILEHANDLE, bless REF,CLASSNAME, bless REF, caller EXPR, caller, chdir EXPR, chmod LIST, chomp VARIABLE, chomp LIST, chomp, chop VARIABLE, chop LIST, chop, chown LIST, chr NUMBER, chroot FILENAME, close FILEHANDLE, closedir DIRHANDLE, connect SOCKET,NAME, continue BLOCK, cos EXPR, crypt PLAINTEXT,SALT, dbmclose ASSOC_ARRAY, dbmopen ASSOC,DBNAME,MODE, defined EXPR, delete EXPR, die LIST, do BLOCK, do SUBROUTINE(LIST), do EXPR, dump LABEL, each ASSOC_ARRAY, eof FILEHANDLE, eof (), eof, eval EXPR, eval BLOCK, exec LIST, exists EXPR, exit EXPR, exp EXPR, fcntl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, fileno FILEHANDLE, flock FILEHANDLE,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, getprotobyname NAME, getpwuid UID, getgrgid GID, getservb perlvar - Perl predefined variables DESCRIPTION Predefined Names $ARG, $_, $<digit>, $MATCH, $&, $PREMATCH, $`, $POSTMATCH, $', $LAST_PAREN_MATCH, $+, $MULTILINE_MATCHING, $*, input_line_number HANDLE EXPR, $INPUT_LINE_NUMBER, $NR, $, input_record_separator HANDLE EXPR, $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR, $RS, $/, autoflush HANDLE EXPR, $OUTPUT_AUTOFLUSH, $|, output_field_separator HANDLE EXPR, $OUTPUT_FIELD_SEPARATOR, $OFS, $,, output_record_separator HANDLE EXPR, $OUTPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR, $ORS, $\, $LIST_SEPARATOR, $", $SUBSCRIPT_SEPARATOR, $SUBSEP, $;, $OFMT, $#, format_page_number HANDLE EXPR, $FORMAT_PAGE_NUMBER, $%, format_lines_per_page HANDLE EXPR, $FORMAT_LINES_PER_PAGE, $=, format_lines_left HANDLE EXPR, $FORMAT_LINES_LEFT, $-, format_name HANDLE EXPR, $FORMAT_NAME, $~, format_top_name HANDLE EXPR, $FORMAT_TOP_NAME, $^, format_line_break_characters HANDLE EXPR, $FORMAT_LINE_BREAK_CHARACTERS, $:, format_formfeed HANDLE EXPR, $FORMAT_FORMFEED, $^L, $ACCUMULATOR, $^A, $CHILD_ERROR, $?, $OS_ERROR, $ERRNO, $!, $EVAL_ERROR, $@, $PROCESS_ID, $PID, $$, $REAL_USER_ID, $UID, $<, perlsub - Perl subroutines SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION Private Variables via my() Temporary Values via local() Passing Symbol Table Entries (typeglobs) Pass by Reference Prototypes Overriding Builtin Functions Autoloading SEE ALSO perlmod - Perl modules (packages) DESCRIPTION Packages Symbol Tables Package Constructors and Destructors Perl Classes Perl Modules NOTE THE PERL MODULE LIBRARY Pragmatic Modules diagnostics, integer, less, overload, sigtrap, strict, subs Standard Modules AnyDBM_File, AutoLoader, AutoSplit, Benchmark, Carp, Config, Cwd, DB_File, Devel::SelfStubber, DynaLoader, English, Env, Exporter, ExtUtils::Liblist, ExtUtils::MakeMaker, ExtUtils::Manifest, ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap, ExtUtils::Miniperl, Fcntl, File::Basename, File::CheckTree, File::Find, FileHandle, File::Path, Getopt::Long, Getopt::Std, I18N::Collate, IPC::Open2, IPC::Open3, Net::Ping, POSIX, SelfLoader, Safe, Socket, Test::Harness, Text::Abbrev Extension Modules CPAN Language Extensions and Documentation Tools, Development Support, Operating System Interfaces, Networking, Device Control (modems) and InterProcess Communication, Data Types and Data Type Utilities, Database Interfaces, User Interfaces, Interfaces to / Emulations of Other Programming Languages, File Names, File Systems and File Locking (see also File Handles), String Processing, Language Text Processing, Parsing and Searching, Option, Argument, Parameter and Configuration File Processing, Internationalization and Locale, Authentication, Security and Encryption, World Wide Web, HTML, HTTP, CGI, MIME, Server and Daemon Utilities, Archiving and Compression, Images, Pixmap and Bitmap Manipulation, Drawing and Graphing, Mail and Usenet News, Control Flow Utilities (callbacks and exceptions etc), File Handle and Input/Output Stream Utilities, Miscellaneous Modules Modules: Creation, Use and Abuse Guidelines for Module Creation Do similar modules already exist in some form?, Try to design the new module to be easy to extend and reuse, Some simple style guidelines, Select what to export, Select a name for the module, Have you got it right?, README and other Additional Files, A description of the module/package/extension etc, A copyright notice - see below, Prerequisites - what else you may need to have, How to build it - possible changes to Makefile.PL etc, How to install it, Recent changes in this release, especially incompatibilities, Changes / enhancements you plan to make in the future, Adding a Copyright Notice, Give the module a version/issue/release number, How to release and distribute a module, Take care when changing a released module Guidelines for Converting Perl 4 Library Scripts into Modules There is no requirement to convert anything, Consider the implications, Make the most of the opportunity, The pl2pm utility will get you started, Adds the standard Module prologue lines, Converts package specifiers from ' to ::, Converts die(...) to croak(...), Several other minor changes Guidelines for Reusing Application Code Complete applications rarely belong in the Perl Module Library, Many applications contain some perl code which could be reused, Break-out the reusable code into one or more separate module files, Take the opportunity to reconsider and redesign the interfaces, In some cases the 'application' can then be reduced to a small perlref - Perl references and nested data structures DESCRIPTION Symbolic references Not-so-symbolic references WARNING SEE ALSO perldsc - Perl Data Structures Cookbook DESCRIPTION arrays of arrays, hashes of arrays, arrays of hashes, hashes of hashes, more elaborate constructs, recursive and self-referential data structures, objects REFERENCES COMMON MISTAKES CAVEAT ON PRECEDENCE WHY YOU SHOULD ALWAYS use strict DEBUGGING CODE EXAMPLES LISTS OF LISTS Declaration of a LIST OF LISTS Generation of a LIST OF LISTS Access and Printing of a LIST OF LISTS HASHES OF LISTS Declaration of a HASH OF LISTS Generation of a HASH OF LISTS Access and Printing of a HASH OF LISTS LISTS OF HASHES Declaration of a LIST OF HASHES Generation of a LIST OF HASHES Access and Printing of a LIST 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, perlLoL - Manipulating Lists of Lists in Perl DESCRIPTION Declaration and Access of Lists of Lists Growing Your Own Access and Printing Slices SEE ALSO AUTHOR perlobj - Perl objects DESCRIPTION An Object is Simply a Reference A Class is Simply a Package A Method is Simply a Subroutine Method Invocation Destructors WARNING 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, DESTROY this Tying Arrays TIEARRAY classname, LIST, FETCH this, index, STORE this, index, value, 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, DESTROY this Tying FileHandles SEE ALSO BUGS AUTHOR 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 perldebug - Perl debugging DESCRIPTION Debugging h, T, s, n, f, c, c line, <CR>, l min+incr, l min- max, l line, l, -, w line, l subname, /pattern/, ?pattern?, L, S, t, b line [ condition ], b subname [ condition ], d line, D, a line command, A, < command, > command, V package [symbols], X [symbols], ! number, ! -number, H -number, q or ^D, command, p expr Customization Other resources BUGS perldiag - various Perl diagnostics DESCRIPTION perlform - Perl formats DESCRIPTION Format Variables NOTES Footers Accessing Formatting Internals WARNING perlipc - Perl interprocess communication (signals, fifos, pipes, safe subprocceses, sockets, and semaphores) DESCRIPTION Signals Named Pipes Using open() for IPC Safe Pipe Opens Bidirectional Communication Sockets: Client/Server Communication Internet TCP Clients and Servers Unix-Domain TCP Clients and Servers UDP: Message Passing SysV IPC WARNING NOTES BUGS AUTHOR SEE ALSO perlsec - Perl security DESCRIPTION perltrap - Perl traps for the unwary DESCRIPTION Awk Traps C Traps Sed Traps Shell Traps Perl Traps Perl4 Traps perlstyle - Perl style guide DESCRIPTION perlxs - XS language reference manual DESCRIPTION Introduction On The Road The Anatomy of an XSUB The Argument Stack The RETVAL Variable The MODULE Keyword The PACKAGE Keyword The PREFIX Keyword The OUTPUT: Keyword The CODE: Keyword The INIT: Keyword The NO_INIT Keyword Initializing Function Parameters Default Parameter Values The PREINIT: Keyword The INPUT: Keyword Variable-length Parameter Lists The PPCODE: Keyword Returning Undef And Empty Lists The REQUIRE: Keyword The CLEANUP: Keyword The BOOT: Keyword The VERSIONCHECK: Keyword The PROTOTYPES: Keyword The PROTOTYPE: Keyword The ALIAS: Keyword The INCLUDE: Keyword The CASE: Keyword The & Unary Operator Inserting Comments and C Preprocessor Directives Using XS With C++ Interface Strategy Perl Objects And C Structures The Typemap EXAMPLES XS VERSION AUTHOR perlxstut, perlXStut - Tutorial for XSUB's DESCRIPTION VERSION CAVEAT DYNAMIC VERSUS STATIC EXAMPLE 1 EXAMPLE 2 WHAT HAS GONE ON? EXAMPLE 3 WHAT'S NEW HERE? INPUT AND OUTPUT PARAMETERS THE XSUBPP COMPILER THE TYPEMAP FILE WARNING SPECIFYING ARGUMENTS TO XSUBPP THE ARGUMENT STACK EXTENDING YOUR EXTENSION DOCUMENTING YOUR EXTENSION INSTALLING YOUR EXTENSION SEE ALSO Author Last Changed perlguts - Perl's Internal Functions DESCRIPTION Datatypes What is an "IV"? Working with SV's What's Really Stored in an SV? Working with AV's Working with HV's References Blessed References and Class Objects Creating New Variables XSUB's and the Argument Stack Mortality Stashes Magic Assigning Magic Magic Virtual Tables Finding Magic Double-Typed SV's Calling Perl Routines from within C Programs Memory Allocation API LISTING AvFILL, av_clear, av_extend, av_fetch, av_len, av_make, av_pop, av_push, av_shift, av_store, av_undef, av_unshift, CLASS, Copy, croak, CvSTASH, DBsingle, DBsub, dMARK, dORIGMARK, dSP, dXSARGS, ENTER, EXTEND, FREETMPS, G_ARRAY, G_DISCARD, G_EVAL, GIMME, G_NOARGS, G_SCALAR, gv_stashpv, gv_stashsv, GvSV, he_free, hv_clear, hv_delete, hv_exists, hv_fetch, hv_iterinit, hv_iterkey, hv_iternext, hv_iternextsv, hv_iterval, hv_magic, HvNAME, hv_store, hv_undef, isALNUM, isALPHA, isDIGIT, isLOWER, isSPACE, isUPPER, items, LEAVE, MARK, mg_clear, mg_copy, mg_find, mg_free, mg_get, mg_len, mg_magical, mg_set, Move, na, New, Newc, Newz, newAV, newHV, newRV, newSV, newSViv, newSVnv, newSVpv, newSVrv, newSVsv, newXS, newXSproto, Nullav, Nullch, Nullcv, Nullhv, Nullsv, ORIGMARK, perl_alloc, perl_call_argv, perl_call_method, perl_call_pv, perl_call_sv, perl_construct, perl_destruct, perl_eval_sv, perl_free, perl_get_av, perl_get_cv, perl_get_hv, perl_get_sv, perl_parse, perl_require_pv, perl_run, POPi, POPl, POPp, POPn, POPs, AUTHOR DATE perlcall - Perl calling conventions from C DESCRIPTION An Error Handler, An Event Driven Program THE PERL_CALL FUNCTIONS perl_call_sv, perl_call_pv, perl_call_method, perl_call_argv FLAG VALUES G_SCALAR G_ARRAY G_DISCARD G_NOARGS G_EVAL G_KEEPERR Determining the Context KNOWN PROBLEMS 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 perl_call_sv Using perl_call_argv Using perl_call_method Using GIMME 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 SEE ALSO AUTHOR DATE 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 program MORAL AUTHOR perlpod - plain old documentation DESCRIPTION Embedding Pods in Perl Modules SEE ALSO AUTHOR perlbook - Perl book information DESCRIPTION PRAGMA DOCUMENTATION diagnostics - Perl compiler pragma to force verbose warning diagnostics SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION The diagnostics Pragma The splain Program EXAMPLES INTERNALS BUGS AUTHOR integer - Perl pragma to compute arithmetic in integer instead of double 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 SEE ALSO AUTHOR overload - Package for overloading perl operations SYNOPSIS CAVEAT SCRIPTOR DESCRIPTION Declaration of overloaded functions Calling Conventions for Binary Operations FALSE, TRUE, undef Calling Conventions for Unary Operations Overloadable Operations Arithmetic operations, Comparison operations, Bit operations, Increment and decrement, Transcendental functions, Boolean, string and numeric conversion, Special 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, Concatenation, Comparison operations, Copy operator WARNING Run-time Overloading Public functions overload::StrVal(arg), overload::Overloaded(arg), overload::Method(obj,op) IMPLEMENTATION AUTHOR DIAGNOSTICS BUGS sigtrap - Perl pragma to enable stack backtrace on unexpected signals SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION strict - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe constructs SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION strict refs, strict vars, strict subs subs - Perl pragma to predeclare sub names SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION vars - Perl pragma to predeclare global variable names SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION MODULE DOCUMENTATION AnyDBM_File - provide framework for multiple DBMs SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION DBM Comparisons [0], [1], [2], [3] SEE ALSO AutoLoader - load functions only on demand SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION AutoSplit - split a package for autoloading SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION Benchmark - benchmark running times of code SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION Methods new, debug Standard Exports timeit(COUNT, CODE), timethis, timethese, timediff, timestr Optional Exports NOTES INHERITANCE CAVEATS AUTHORS MODIFICATION HISTORY Carp, carp - warn of errors (from perspective of caller) SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION Cwd, getcwd - get pathname of current working directory SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION DB_File - Perl5 access to Berkeley DB SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION DB_HASH, DB_BTREE, DB_RECNO How does DB_File interface to Berkeley DB? Differences with Berkeley DB RECNO In Memory Databases Using the Berkeley DB Interface Directly get, put, del, fd, seq, sync EXAMPLES Using HASH Using BTREE Using RECNO Locking Databases HISTORY WARNINGS BUGS AVAILABILITY SEE ALSO AUTHOR Devel::SelfStubber - generate stubs for a SelfLoading module SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION DirHandle - supply object methods for directory handles SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION DynaLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION @dl_library_path, @dl_resolve_using, @dl_require_symbols, dl_error(), $dl_debug, dl_findfile(), dl_expandspec(), dl_load_file(), dl_find_symbol(), dl_undef_symbols(), dl_install_xsub(), boostrap() AUTHOR English - use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation variables SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION Env - perl module that imports environment variables SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION AUTHOR Exporter - Implements default import method for modules SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION Selecting What To Export Specialised Import Lists Module Version Checking Managing Unknown Symbols Tag Handling Utility Functions ExtUtils::Install - install files from here to there SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ExtUtils::Liblist - determine libraries to use and how to use them SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION For static extensions, For dynamic extensions, For dynamic extensions EXTRALIBS LDLOADLIBS and LD_RUN_PATH BSLOADLIBS PORTABILITY SEE ALSO ExtUtils::MM_OS2 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker DESCRIPTION ExtUtils::MM_Unix - methods used by ExtUtils::MakeMaker SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION METHODS Preloaded methods catdir, catfile, nicetext, libscan, exescan, lsdir, path, replace_manpage_separator, file_name_is_absolute, prefixify, maybe_command_in_dirs, maybe_command, perl_script SelfLoaded methods guess_name, init_main, init_dirscan, init_others, find_perl Methods to actually produce chunks of text for the Makefile post_initialize, const_config, constants, const_loadlibs, const_cccmd, tool_autosplit, tool_xsubpp, tools_other, dist, macro, depend, post_constants, pasthru, c_o, xs_c, xs_o, top_targets, linkext, dlsyms, dynamic, dynamic_bs, dynamic_lib, static, static_lib, installpm, installpm_x, manifypods, processPL, installbin, subdirs, subdir_x, clean, realclean, dist_basics, dist_core, dist_dir, dist_test, dist_ci, install, force, perldepend, makefile, staticmake, test, test_via_harness, test_via_script, postamble, makeaperl, extliblist, dir_target, needs_linking, has_link_code, writedoc SEE ALSO ExtUtils::MM_VMS - methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker DESCRIPTION ExtUtils::MakeMaker - create an extension Makefile SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION Hintsfile support What's new in version 5 of MakeMaker Incompatibilities between MakeMaker 5.00 and 4.23 Default Makefile Behaviour make test make install PREFIX attribute AFS users Static Linking of a new Perl Binary Determination of Perl Library and Installation Locations Useful Default Makefile Macros Using Attributes and Parameters C, CONFIG, CONFIGURE, DEFINE, DIR, DISTNAME, DL_FUNCS, DL_VARS, EXE_FILES, FIRST_MAKEFILE, FULLPERL, H, INC, INSTALLARCHLIB, INSTALLBIN, INSTALLDIRS, INSTALLMAN1DIR, INSTALLMAN3DIR, INSTALLPRIVLIB, INSTALLSITELIB, INSTALLSITEARCH, INST_ARCHLIB, INST_EXE, INST_LIB, INST_MAN1DIR, INST_MAN3DIR, LDFROM, LIBPERL_A, LIBS, LINKTYPE, MAKEAPERL, MAKEFILE, MAN1PODS, MAN3PODS, MAP_TARGET, MYEXTLIB, NAME, NEEDS_LINKING, NOECHO, NORECURS, OBJECT, PERL, PERLMAINCC, PERL_ARCHLIB, PERL_LIB, PERL_SRC, PL_FILES, PM, PMLIBDIRS, PREFIX, PREREQ, SKIP, TYPEMAPS, VERSION, VERSION_FROM, XS, XSOPT, XSPROTOARG, XS_VERSION Additional lowercase attributes clean, depend, dist, dynamic_lib, installpm, linkext, macro, realclean, tool_autosplit Overriding MakeMaker Methods Distribution Support make distcheck, make skipcheck, make distclean, make manifest, make distdir, make tardist, make dist, make uutardist, make shdist, make ci AUTHORS MODIFICATION HISTORY TODO ExtUtils::Manifest - utilities to write and check a MANIFEST file SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION MANIFEST.SKIP EXPORT_OK GLOBAL VARIABLES DIAGNOSTICS Not in MANIFEST: file, No such file: file, MANIFEST: $!, Added to MANIFEST: file SEE ALSO AUTHOR ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap - make a bootstrap file for use by DynaLoader SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ExtUtils::Mksymlists - write linker options files for dynamic extension SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION NAME, DL_FUNCS, DL_VARS, FILE, FUNCLIST, DLBASE AUTHOR REVISION Fcntl - load the C Fcntl.h defines SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION NOTE File::Basename, Basename - parse file specifications SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION fileparse_set_fstype, fileparse EXAMPLES basename, dirname File::CheckTree, validate - run many filetest checks on a tree SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION File::Find, find - traverse a file tree SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION File::Path - create or remove a series of directories SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION AUTHORS REVISION FileCache - keep more files open than the system permits SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION BUGS FileHandle - supply object methods for filehandles SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION $fh->print, $fh->printf, $fh->getline, $fh->getlines SEE ALSO BUGS GDBM_File - Perl5 access to the gdbm library. SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION AVAILABILITY BUGS SEE ALSO Getopt::Long, GetOptions - extended processing of command line options SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION <none>, !, =s, :s, =i, :i, =f, :f Linkage specification Aliases and abbreviations Non-option call-back routine Option starters Return value COMPATIBILITY EXAMPLES CONFIGURATION VARIABLES $Getopt::Long::autoabbrev, $Getopt::Long::getopt_compat, $Getopt::Long::order, $Getopt::Long::ignorecase, $Getopt::Long::VERSION, $Getopt::Long::error, $Getopt::Long::debug Getopt::Std, getopt - Process single-character switches with switch clustering SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION I18N::Collate - compare 8-bit scalar data according to the current locale SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION IPC::Open2, open2 - open a process for both reading and writing SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION WARNING SEE ALSO IPC::Open3, open3 - open a process for reading, writing, and error handling SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION Net::Ping, pingecho - check a host for upness SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION Parameters hostname, timeout WARNING POSIX - Perl interface to IEEE Std 1003.1 SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION NOTE CAVEATS FUNCTIONS _exit, abort, abs, access, acos, alarm, asctime, asin, assert, atan, atan2, atexit, atof, atoi, atol, bsearch, calloc, ceil, chdir, chmod, chown, clearerr, clock, close, closedir, cos, cosh, creat, ctermid, ctime, cuserid, difftime, div, dup, dup2, errno, execl, execle, execlp, execv, execve, execvp, exit, exp, fabs, fclose, fcntl, fdopen, feof, ferror, fflush, fgetc, fgetpos, fgets, fileno, floor, fmod, fopen, fork, fpathconf, fprintf, fputc, fputs, fread, free, freopen, frexp, fscanf, fseek, fsetpos, fstat, ftell, fwrite, getc, getchar, getcwd, getegid, getenv, geteuid, getgid, getgrgid, getgrnam, getgroups, getlogin, getpgrp, getpid, getppid, getpwnam, getpwuid, gets, getuid, gmtime, isalnum, isalpha, isatty, iscntrl, isdigit, isgraph, islower, isprint, ispunct, isspace, isupper, isxdigit, kill, labs, ldexp, ldiv, link, localeconv, localtime, log, log10, longjmp, lseek, malloc, mblen, mbstowcs, mbtowc, memchr, memcmp, memcpy, memmove, memset, mkdir, mkfifo, mktime, modf, nice, offsetof, open, opendir, pat CLASSES POSIX::SigAction new POSIX::SigSet new, addset, delset, emptyset, fillset, ismember POSIX::Termios new, getattr, getcc, getcflag, getiflag, getispeed, getlflag, getoflag, getospeed, setattr, setcc, setcflag, setiflag, setispeed, setlflag, setoflag, setospeed, Baud rate values, Terminal interface values, c_cc field values, c_cflag field values, c_iflag field values, c_lflag field values, c_oflag field values PATHNAME CONSTANTS Constants POSIX CONSTANTS Constants SYSTEM CONFIGURATION Constants ERRNO Constants FCNTL Constants FLOAT Constants LIMITS Constants LOCALE Constants MATH Constants SIGNAL Constants STAT Constants, Macros STDLIB Constants STDIO Constants TIME Constants UNISTD Constants WAIT Constants, Macros CREATION Pod::Text - convert POD data to formatted ASCII text SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION AUTHOR TODO Safe - Safe extension module for Perl DESCRIPTION a new namespace, an operator mask Operator masks Methods in class Safe NAMESPACE, MASK, root (NAMESPACE), mask (MASK), trap (OP, ...), untrap (OP, ...), share (VARNAME, ...), varglob (VARNAME), reval (STRING), rdo (FILENAME) Subroutines in package Safe ops_to_mask (OP, ...), mask_to_ops (MASK), opcode (OP, ...), opname (OP, ...), fullmask, emptymask, MAXO, op_mask AUTHOR Search::Dict, look - search for key in dictionary file SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION SelectSaver - save and restore selected file handle SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION SelfLoader - load functions only on demand SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION The __DATA__ token SelfLoader autoloading Autoloading and package lexicals SelfLoader and AutoLoader __DATA__, __END__, and the FOOBAR::DATA filehandle. Classes and inherited methods. Multiple packages and fully qualified subroutine names Socket, sockaddr_in, sockaddr_un, inet_aton, inet_ntoa - load the C socket.h defines and structure manipulators SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION inet_aton HOSTNAME, inet_ntoa IP_ADDRESS, INADDR_ANY, INADDR_LOOPBACK, INADDR_NONE, sockaddr_in PORT, ADDRESS, sockaddr_in SOCKADDR_IN, pack_sockaddr_in PORT, IP_ADDRESS, unpack_sockaddr_in SOCKADDR_IN, sockaddr_un PATHNAME, sockaddr_un SOCKADDR_UN, pack_sockaddr_un PATH, unpack_sockaddr_un SOCKADDR_UN Symbol - manipulate Perl symbols and their names SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION Sys::Hostname - Try every conceivable way to get hostname SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION AUTHOR Syslog, Sys::Syslog, openlog, closelog, setlogmask, syslog - Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION openlog $ident, $logopt, $facility, syslog $priority, $mask, $format, @args, setlogmask $mask_priority, closelog EXAMPLES DEPENDENCIES SEE ALSO AUTHOR Term::Cap - Perl termcap interface SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION EXAMPLES Term::Complete - Perl word completion module SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION <tab>Attempts word completion. Cannot be changed, ^D, ^U, <del>, <bs> DIAGNOSTICS BUGS AUTHOR Term::ReadLine - Perl interface to various readline packages. If no real package is found, substitutes stubs instead of basic functions. SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION Minimal set of supported functions ReadLine, new, readline, addhistory, IN, $OUT, MinLine, findConsole, Features EXPORTS Test::Harness - run perl standard test scripts with statistics SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION The test script output EXPORT DIAGNOSTICS All tests successful.\nFiles=%d, Tests=%d, %s, FAILED tests %s\n\tFailed %d/%d tests, %.2f%% okay., Test returned status %d (wstat %d), Failed 1 test, %.2f%% okay. %s, Failed %d/%d tests, %.2f%% okay. %s SEE ALSO AUTHORS BUGS Text::Abbrev, abbrev - create an abbreviation table from a list SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE Text::Soundex - Implementation of the Soundex Algorithm as Described by Knuth SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION EXAMPLES LIMITATIONS AUTHOR Text::Tabs -- expand and unexpand tabs SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION AUTHOR Text::Wrap -- wrap text into a paragraph SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION AUTHOR Tie::Hash, Tie::StdHash - base class definitions for tied hashes SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION TIEHASH classname, LIST, STORE this, key, value, FETCH this, key, FIRSTKEY this, NEXTKEY this, lastkey, EXISTS this, key, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this CAVEATS MORE INFORMATION Tie::Scalar, Tie::StdScalar - base class definitions for tied scalars SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION TIESCALAR classname, LIST, FETCH this, STORE this, value, DESTROY this MORE INFORMATION Tie::SubstrHash - Fixed-table-size, fixed-key-length hashing SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION CAVEATS Time::Local - efficiently compute tome from local and GMT time SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION AUXILIARY DOCUMENTATION Here should be listed all the extra program's docs, but they don't all have man pages yet: a2p s2p find2perl h2ph c2ph h2xs xsubpp pod2man wrapsuid AUTHOR Larry Wall <<lwall@sems.com>, with the help of oodles of other folks.