NAME DESCRIPTION A basic example Key naming Implementation details NAME perlpragma - how to write a user pragma DESCRIPTION A pragma is a module which influences some aspect of the compile time or run time behaviour of Perl, such as strict or warnings . With Perl 5.10 you are no longer limited to the built in pragmata; you can now create user pragmata that modify the behaviour of user functions within a lexical scope. A basic example For example, say you need to create a class implementing ov

NAME DESCRIPTIONRequired Software for Compiling Perl on QNX4 Outstanding Issues with Perl on QNX4 QNX auxiliary files Outstanding issues with perl under QNX6 Cross-compilation AUTHOR NAME perlqnx - Perl version 5 on QNX DESCRIPTION As of perl5.7.2 all tests pass under: QNX 4.24G Watcom 10.6 with Beta/970211.wcc.update.tar.F socket3r.lib Nov21 1996. As of perl5.8.1 there is at least one test still failing. Some tests may complain under known circumstances. See below and hints/qnx.sh for mor

NAME DESCRIPTION ISSUESNewlines 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 PLATFORMSUnix DOS and Derivatives VMS VOS EBCDIC Platforms Acorn RISC OS Other perls FUNCTION IMPLEMENTATIONSAlphabetical Listing of Perl Functions Sup

NAME DESCRIPTION SEE ALSO AUTHOR COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE NAME perlpodstyle - Perl POD style guide DESCRIPTION These are general guidelines for how to write POD documentation for Perl scripts and modules, based on general guidelines for writing good UNIX man pages. All of these guidelines are, of course, optional, but following them will make your documentation more consistent with other documentation on the system. The name of the program being documented is conventionally written in bold (usin

NAME DESCRIPTION GOVERNANCEPerl 5 Porters MAINTENANCE AND SUPPORT BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY AND DEPRECATIONTerminology MAINTENANCE BRANCHESGetting changes into a maint branch CONTRIBUTED MODULESA Social Contract about Artistic Control DOCUMENTATION STANDARDS OF CONDUCT CREDITS NAME perlpolicy - Various and sundry policies and commitments related to the Perl core DESCRIPTION This document is the master document which records all written policies about how the Perl 5 Porters collectively devel

NAME DESCRIPTION Pod Definitions Pod Commands Pod Formatting Codes Notes on Implementing Pod Processors About L<...> Codes About =over...=back Regions About Data Paragraphs and "=begin/=end" Regions SEE ALSO AUTHOR NAME perlpodspec - Plain Old Documentation: format specification and notes DESCRIPTION This document is detailed notes on the Pod markup language. Most people will only have to read perlpod to know how to write in Pod, but this document may answer some incidental questions to

NAME DESCRIPTIONOrdinary Paragraph Verbatim Paragraph Command Paragraph Formatting Codes The Intent Embedding Pods in Perl Modules Hints for Writing Pod SEE ALSO AUTHOR NAME perlpod - the Plain Old Documentation format DESCRIPTION Pod is a simple-to-use markup language used for writing documentation for Perl, Perl programs, and Perl modules. Translators are available for converting Pod to various formats like plain text, HTML, man pages, and more. Pod markup consists of three basic

NAME DESCRIPTIONInvoking 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 9Installing Perl Documentation on Plan 9 BUGS Revision date AUTHOR NAME perlplan9 - Plan 9-specific documentation for Perl DESCRIPTION These are a few notes describing features peculiar to Plan 9 Perl. As such, it is not intended to be a replacement for the rest of the Perl 5 documentation (which is

NAME DESCRIPTION OVERVIEWONE STEP SIDEWAYS ONE STEP FORWARD ANOTHER STEP SIDEWAYS GENERAL GUIDELINES BENCHMARKSAssigning and Dereferencing Variables. Search and replace or tr PROFILING TOOLSDevel::DProf Devel::Profiler Devel::SmallProf Devel::FastProf Devel::NYTProf SORTING LOGGINGLogging if DEBUG (constant) POSTSCRIPT SEE ALSOPERLDOCS MAN PAGES MODULES URLS AUTHOR NAME perlperf - Perl Performance and Optimization Techniques DESCRIPTION This is an introduction to the use of performan

NAME DESCRIPTION The Basic Principle Packing Text Packing NumbersIntegers Unpacking a Stack Frame How to Eat an Egg on a Net Byte-order modifiers Floating point Numbers Exotic TemplatesBit Strings Uuencoding Doing Sums Unicode Another Portable Binary Encoding Template Grouping Lengths and WidthsString Lengths Dynamic Templates Counting Repetitions Intel HEX Packing and Unpacking C StructuresThe Alignment Pit Dealing with Endian-ness Alignment, Take 2 Alignment, Take 3 Pointers for How to