NAME DESCRIPTIONText 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 NOTESFooters Accessing Formatting Internals WARNINGS NAME perlform - Perl formats DESCRIPTION Perl has a mechanism to help you generate simple reports and charts. To facilitate this, Perl hel

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION CAVEATS NAME sort - perl pragma to control sort() behaviour SYNOPSIS use sort 'stable'; # guarantee stability use sort '_quicksort'; # use a quicksort algorithm use sort '_mergesort'; # use a mergesort algorithm use sort 'defaults'; # revert to default behavior no sort 'stable'; # stability not important use sort '_qsort'; # alias for quicksort my $current; BEGIN { $current = sort::current(); # identify prevailing algorithm } DESCRIP

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTIONBehavior of other Perl features in forked pseudo-processes Resource limits Killing the parent process Lifetime of the parent process and pseudo-processes CAVEATS AND LIMITATIONS PORTABILITY CAVEATS BUGS AUTHOR SEE ALSO NAME perlfork - Perl's fork() emulation SYNOPSIS NOTE: As of the 5.8.0 release, fork() emulation has considerably matured. However, there are still a few known bugs and differences from real fork() that might affect you. See the "BUGS" and "CAVEATS

@F The array @F contains the fields of each line read in when autosplit mode is turned on. See perlrun for the -a switch. This array is package-specific, and must be declared or given a full package name if not in package main when running under strict 'vars' .

NAME SYNOPSISTable of Contents DESCRIPTIONTERMINOLOGY THE PERL ENCODING APIBasic methods Listing available encodings Defining Aliases Finding IANA Character Set Registry names Encoding via PerlIO Handling Malformed DataList of _CHECK_ values coderef for CHECK Defining Encodings The UTF8 flagMessing with Perl's Internals UTF-8 vs. utf8 vs. UTF8 SEE ALSO MAINTAINER COPYRIGHT NAME Encode - character encodings in Perl SYNOPSIS use Encode qw(decode encode); $characters = decode('UTF-8', $oc

NAME DESCRIPTIONImportant Caveats Byte and Character Semantics ASCII Rules versus Unicode Rules Extended Grapheme Clusters (Logical characters) Unicode Character Properties User-Defined Character Properties User-Defined Case Mappings (for serious hackers only) Character Encodings for Input and Output Unicode Regular Expression Support Level Unicode Encodings Noncharacter code points Beyond Unicode code points Security Implications of Unicode Unicode in Perl on EBCDIC Locales When Unicode Does

waitpid PID,FLAGS Waits for a particular child process to terminate and returns the pid of the deceased process, or -1 if there is no such child process. On some systems, a value of 0 indicates that there are processes still running. The status is returned in $? and ${^CHILD_ERROR_NATIVE} . If you say use POSIX ":sys_wait_h"; #... do { $kid = waitpid(-1, WNOHANG); } while $kid > 0; then you can do a non-blocking wait for all pending zombie processes. Non-blocking wait is available on ma

IO::Handle->format_formfeed(EXPR)

NAME SYNOPSIS VERSION DESCRIPTION ENVIRONMENT AUTHOR LICENSE NAME ExtUtils::Install - install files from here to there SYNOPSIS use ExtUtils::Install; install({ 'blib/lib' => 'some/install/dir' } ); uninstall($packlist); pm_to_blib({ 'lib/Foo/Bar.pm' => 'blib/lib/Foo/Bar.pm' }); VERSION 2.04 DESCRIPTION Handles the installing and uninstalling of perl modules, scripts, man pages, etc... Both install() and uninstall() are specific to the way ExtUtils::MakeMaker handles the installatio

abs VALUE abs Returns the absolute value of its argument. If VALUE is omitted, uses $_ .