NAME DESCRIPTIONDeclarations Comments Simple Statements Truth and Falsehood Statement Modifiers Compound Statements Loop Control For Loops Foreach Loops Basic BLOCKs Switch Statements Goto The Ellipsis Statement PODs: Embedded Documentation Plain Old Comments (Not!) Experimental Details on given and when NAME perlsyn - Perl syntax DESCRIPTION A Perl program consists of a sequence of declarations and statements which run from the top to the bottom. Loops, subroutines, and oth

NAME DESCRIPTIONCompiling Perl on Symbian Compilation problems PerlApp sisify.pl Using Perl in Symbian TO DO WARNING NOTE AUTHOR COPYRIGHT LICENSE HISTORY NAME perlsymbian - Perl version 5 on Symbian OS DESCRIPTION This document describes various features of the Symbian operating system that will affect how Perl version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs. NOTE: this port (as of 0.4.1) does not compile into a Symbian OS GUI application, but instead it results in a Symbian DLL. T

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTIONSignatures Private Variables via my() Persistent Private Variables Temporary Values via local() Lvalue subroutines Lexical Subroutines 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 NAME perlsub - Perl subroutines SYNOPSIS To declare subroutines: sub NAME; # A "forward" declaration. sub NAME(PROTO); # di

NAME DESCRIPTION NAME perlstyle - Perl style guide DESCRIPTION Each programmer will, of course, have his or her own preferences in regards to formatting, but there are some general guidelines that will make your programs easier to read, understand, and maintain. The most important thing is to run your programs under the -w flag at all times. You may turn it off explicitly for particular portions of code via the no warnings pragma or the $^W variable if you must. You should also always run und

NAME DESCRIPTION FINDING YOUR WAY AROUNDC code Core modules Tests Documentation Hacking tools and documentation Build system _AUTHORS_ _MANIFEST_ NAME perlsource - A guide to the Perl source tree DESCRIPTION This document describes the layout of the Perl source tree. If you're hacking on the Perl core, this will help you find what you're looking for. FINDING YOUR WAY AROUND The Perl source tree is big. Here's some of the thing you'll find in it: C code The C source code and header files mos

NAME DESCRIPTIONSolaris Version Numbers. RESOURCES SETTING UPFile 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. MAKE TESTop/stat.t test 4 in Solaris nss_delete core dump from op/pwent or op/grent CROSS-COMPILATION PREBUILT BINARIES OF PERL FOR SOLARIS. RUNTIME ISSUES FOR PERL ON SOLARIS.Limits on Numbers o

NAME DESCRIPTION SECURITY VULNERABILITY CONTACT INFORMATION SECURITY MECHANISMS AND CONCERNSTaint mode 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 NAME perlsec - Perl security DESCRIPTION Perl is designed to make it easy to program securely even when running with extra privileges, like setuid or setgid programs. Unlike most command line shells,

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION#! and quoting on non-Unix systems Location of Perl Command Switches ENVIRONMENT NAME perlrun - how to execute the Perl interpreter SYNOPSIS perl [ -sTtuUWX ] [ -hv ] [ -V[:configvar] ] [ -cw ] [ -d[t][:debugger] ] [ -D[number/list] ] [ -pna ] [ -Fpattern ] [ -l[octal] ] [ -0[octal/hexadecimal] ] [ -Idir ] [ -m[-]module ] [ -M[-]'module...' ] [ -f ] [ -C [number/list] ] [ -S ] [ -x[dir] ] [ -i[extension] ] [ [-e|-E] 'command' ] [ -- ] [ programfile ] [ argument

NAME DESCRIPTION BUILD AUTHOR NAME perlriscos - Perl version 5 for RISC OS DESCRIPTION This document gives instructions for building Perl for RISC OS. It is complicated by the need to cross compile. There is a binary version of perl available from http://www.cp15.org/perl/ which you may wish to use instead of trying to compile it yourself. BUILD You need an installed and working gccsdk cross compiler http://gccsdk.riscos.info/ and REXEN http://www.cp15.org/programming/ Firstly, copy the sourc

NAME DESCRIPTION Part 1: The basicsSimple word matching Using character classes Matching this or that Grouping things and hierarchical matching Extracting matches Backreferences Relative backreferences Named backreferences Alternative capture group numbering Position information Non-capturing groupings Matching repetitions Possessive quantifiers Building a regexp Using regular expressions in Perl Part 2: Power toolsMore on characters, strings, and character classes Compiling and saving regul