NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION SEE ALSO HISTORY NAME IO::Seekable - supply seek based methods for I/O objects SYNOPSIS use IO::Seekable; package IO::Something; @ISA = qw(IO::Seekable); DESCRIPTION IO::Seekable does not have a constructor of its own as it is intended to be inherited by other IO::Handle based objects. It provides methods which allow seeking of the file descriptors. $io->getpos Returns an opaque value that represents the current position of the IO::File, or undef if this is not

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION SEE ALSO COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS AUTHOR NAME Pod::Perldoc::ToChecker - let Perldoc check Pod for errors SYNOPSIS % perldoc -o checker SomeFile.pod No Pod errors in SomeFile.pod (or an error report) DESCRIPTION This is a "plug-in" class that allows Perldoc to use Pod::Simple::Checker as a "formatter" class (or if that is not available, then Pod::Checker), to check for errors in a given Pod file. This is actually a Pod::Simple::Checker (or Pod::Checker) subclass, an

$^A The current value of the write() accumulator for format() lines. A format contains formline() calls that put their result into $^A . After calling its format, write() prints out the contents of $^A and empties. So you never really see the contents of $^A unless you call formline() yourself and then look at it. See perlform and formline PICTURE,LIST.

Exponentiation Binary "**" is the exponentiation operator. It binds even more tightly than unary minus, so -2**4 is -(2**4) , not (-2)**4 . (This is implemented using C's pow(3) function, which actually works on doubles internally.) Note that certain exponentiation expressions are ill-defined: these include 0**0 , 1**Inf , and Inf**0 . Do not expect any particular results from these special cases, the results are platform-dependent.

NAME SYNOPSISOPTIONS DESCRIPTION NAME c2ph, pstruct - Dump C structures as generated from cc -g -S stabs SYNOPSIS c2ph [-dpnP] [var=val] [files ...] OPTIONS Options: -w wide; short for: type_width=45 member_width=35 offset_width=8 -x hex; short for: offset_fmt=x offset_width=08 size_fmt=x size_width=04 -n do not generate perl code (default when invoked as pstruct) -p generate perl code (default when invoked as c2ph) -v generate perl code, with C decls as comments -i do NOT reco

time Returns the number of non-leap seconds since whatever time the system considers to be the epoch, suitable for feeding to gmtime and localtime. On most systems the epoch is 00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970; a prominent exception being Mac OS Classic which uses 00:00:00, January 1, 1904 in the current local time zone for its epoch. For measuring time in better granularity than one second, use the Time::HiRes module from Perl 5.8 onwards (or from CPAN before then), or, if you have gettimeofday(2

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION NAME SelectSaver - save and restore selected file handle SYNOPSIS use SelectSaver; { my $saver = SelectSaver->new(FILEHANDLE); # FILEHANDLE is selected } # previous handle is selected { my $saver = SelectSaver->new; # new handle may be selected, or not } # previous handle is selected DESCRIPTION A SelectSaver object contains a reference to the file handle that was selected when it was created. If its new method gets an extra parameter, then that

utime LIST Changes the access and modification times on each file of a list of files. The first two elements of the list must be the NUMERIC access and modification times, in that order. Returns the number of files successfully changed. The inode change time of each file is set to the current time. For example, this code has the same effect as the Unix touch(1) command when the files already exist and belong to the user running the program: #!/usr/bin/perl $atime = $mtime = time; utime $atime,

$# $# was a variable that could be used to format printed numbers. After a deprecation cycle, its magic was removed in Perl v5.10.0 and using it now triggers a warning: $# is no longer supported. This is not the sigil you use in front of an array name to get the last index, like $#array . That's still how you get the last index of an array in Perl. The two have nothing to do with each other. Deprecated in Perl 5. Removed in Perl v5.10.0.

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION NAME Search::Dict - look - search for key in dictionary file SYNOPSIS use Search::Dict; look *FILEHANDLE, $key, $dict, $fold; use Search::Dict; look *FILEHANDLE, $params; DESCRIPTION Sets file position in FILEHANDLE to be first line greater than or equal (stringwise) to $key. Returns the new file position, or -1 if an error occurs. The flags specify dictionary order and case folding: If $dict is true, search by dictionary order (ignore anything but word characters