perlglossary - Perl Glossary

NAME VERSION DESCRIPTIONA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT NAME perlglossary - Perl Glossary VERSION version 5.021009 DESCRIPTION A glossary of terms (technical and otherwise) used in the Perl documentation, derived from the Glossary of Programming Perl, Fourth Edition. Words or phrases in bold are defined elsewhere in this glossary. Other useful sources include the Unicode Glossary http://unicode.org/glossary/, the Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

perlfunc - Perl builtin functions

NAME DESCRIPTIONPerl Functions by Category Portability Alphabetical Listing of Perl Functions Non-function Keywords by Cross-reference NAME perlfunc - Perl builtin functions DESCRIPTION The functions in this section can serve as terms in an expression. They fall into two major categories: list operators and named unary operators. These differ in their precedence relationship with a following comma. (See the precedence table in perlop.) List operators take more than one argument, while u

perlfreebsd - Perl version 5 on FreeBSD systems

NAME DESCRIPTIONFreeBSD core dumps from readdir_r with ithreads $^X doesn't always contain a full path in FreeBSD AUTHOR NAME perlfreebsd - Perl version 5 on FreeBSD systems DESCRIPTION This document describes various features of FreeBSD that will affect how Perl version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs. FreeBSD core dumps from readdir_r with ithreads When perl is configured to use ithreads, it will use re-entrant library calls in preference to non-re-entrant versions. There

perlform - Perl formats

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

perlfork - Perl's fork() emulation

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

perlfilter - Source Filters

NAME DESCRIPTION CONCEPTS USING FILTERS WRITING A SOURCE FILTER WRITING A SOURCE FILTER IN C CREATING A SOURCE FILTER AS A SEPARATE EXECUTABLE WRITING A SOURCE FILTER IN PERL USING CONTEXT: THE DEBUG FILTER CONCLUSION LIMITATIONS THINGS TO LOOK OUT FOR REQUIREMENTS AUTHOR Copyrights NAME perlfilter - Source Filters DESCRIPTION This article is about a little-known feature of Perl called source filters. Source filters alter the program text of a module before Perl sees it, much as a C preproces

perlfaq9 - Web, Email and Networking

NAME VERSION DESCRIPTIONShould I use a web framework? Which web framework should I use? What is Plack and PSGI? How do I remove HTML from a string? How do I extract URLs? How do I fetch an HTML file? How do I automate an HTML form submission? How do I decode or create those %-encodings on the web? How do I redirect to another page? How do I put a password on my web pages? How do I make sure users can't enter values into a form that causes my CGI script to do bad things? How do I parse a mail

perlfaq8 - System Interaction

NAME VERSION DESCRIPTIONHow do I find out which operating system I'm running under? How come exec() doesn't return? How do I do fancy stuff with the keyboard/screen/mouse? How do I print something out in color? How do I read just one key without waiting for a return key? How do I check whether input is ready on the keyboard? How do I clear the screen? How do I get the screen size? How do I ask the user for a password? How do I read and write the serial port? How do I decode encrypted password

perlfaq7 - General Perl Language Issues

NAME VERSION DESCRIPTIONCan I get a BNF/yacc/RE for the Perl language? What are all these $@%&* punctuation signs, and how do I know when to use them? Do I always/never have to quote my strings or use semicolons and commas? How do I skip some return values? How do I temporarily block warnings? What's an extension? Why do Perl operators have different precedence than C operators? How do I declare/create a structure? How do I create a module? How do I adopt or take over a module already on C

perlfaq6 - Regular Expressions

NAME VERSION DESCRIPTIONHow can I hope to use regular expressions without creating illegible and unmaintainable code? I'm having trouble matching over more than one line. What's wrong? How can I pull out lines between two patterns that are themselves on different lines? How do I match XML, HTML, or other nasty, ugly things with a regex? I put a regular expression into $/ but it didn't work. What's wrong? How do I substitute case-insensitively on the LHS while preserving case on the RHS?