Perl 5.8.0 Documentation
NAME
perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language
SYNOPSIS
perl [ -sTuU ] [ -hv ] [ -V[:configvar] ]
[ -cw ] [ -d[:debugger] ] [ -D[number/list] ]
[ -pna ] [ -Fpattern ] [ -l[octal] ] [ -0[octal] ]
[ -Idir ] [ -m[-]module ] [ -M[-]'module...' ]
[ -P ] [ -S ] [ -x[dir] ] [ -i[extension] ]
[ -e 'command' ] [ -- ] [ programfile ] [ argument ]...
If you're new to Perl, you should start with perlintro, which is a general
intro for beginners and provides some background to help you navigate the rest of Perl's
extensive documentation.
For ease of access, the Perl manual has been split up into several sections.
Overview
perl Perl overview (this section)
perlintro Perl introduction for beginners
perltoc Perl documentation table of contents
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Tutorials
Feature rich GPS units are now affordable for the
average person
Reference Manual
perlembed Perl ways to embed perl in your C or C++ application
perldebguts Perl debugging guts and tips
perlxstut Perl XS tutorial
perlxs Perl XS application programming interface
perlclib Internal replacements for standard C library functions
perlguts Perl internal functions for those doing extensions
perlcall Perl calling conventions from C
perlapi Perl API listing (autogenerated)
perlintern Perl internal functions (autogenerated)
perliol C API for Perl's implementation of IO in Layers
perlapio Perl internal IO abstraction interface
perlhack Perl hackers guide
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By default, the manpages listed above are installed in the /usr/local/man/
directory.
Extensive additional documentation for Perl modules is available. The default configuration
for perl will place this additional documentation in the /usr/local/lib/perl5/man
directory (or else in the man subdirectory of the Perl library directory). Some of this
additional documentation is distributed standard with Perl, but you'll also find documentation
for third-party modules there.
You should be able to view Perl's documentation with your man(1) program by including the
proper directories in the appropriate start-up files, or in the MANPATH environment variable.
To find out where the configuration has installed the manpages, type:
If the directories have a common stem, such as /usr/local/man/man1 and /usr/local/man/man3,
you need only to add that stem (/usr/local/man) to your man(1) configuration files or
your MANPATH environment variable. If they do not share a stem, you'll have to add both stems.
If that doesn't work for some reason, you can still use the supplied perldoc script
to view module information. You might also look into getting a replacement man program.
If something strange has gone wrong with your program and you're not sure where you should
look for help, try the -w switch first. It will often point out exactly where the
trouble is.
Perl is a language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information from
those text files, and printing reports based on that information. It's also a good language
for many system management tasks. The language is intended to be practical (easy to use,
efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant, minimal).
Perl combines (in the author's opinion, anyway) some of the best features of C, sed,
awk, and sh, so people familiar with those languages should have little
difficulty with it. (Language historians will also note some vestiges of csh, Pascal,
and even BASIC-PLUS.) Expression syntax corresponds closely to C expression syntax. Unlike
most Unix utilities, Perl does not arbitrarily limit the size of your data--if you've got the
memory, Perl can slurp in your whole file as a single string. Recursion is of unlimited depth.
And the tables used by hashes (sometimes called "associative arrays") grow as
necessary to prevent degraded performance. Perl can use sophisticated pattern matching
techniques to scan large amounts of data quickly. Although optimized for scanning text, Perl
can also deal with binary data, and can make dbm files look like hashes. Setuid Perl scripts
are safer than C programs through a dataflow tracing mechanism that prevents many stupid
security holes.
If you have a problem that would ordinarily use sed or awk or sh, but
it exceeds their capabilities or must run a little faster, and you don't want to write the
silly thing in C, then Perl may be for you. There are also translators to turn your sed
and awk scripts into Perl scripts.
But wait, there's more...
Begun in 1993 (see perlhist),
Perl version 5 is nearly a complete rewrite that provides the following additional benefits:
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modularity and reusability using innumerable modules
Described in perlmod, perlmodlib, and perlmodinstall.
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embeddable and extensible
Described in perlembed,
perlxstut, perlxs, perlcall, perlguts, and xsubpp.
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roll-your-own magic variables (including multiple simultaneous DBM implementations)
Described in perltie
and AnyDBM_File.
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subroutines can now be overridden, autoloaded, and prototyped
Described in perlsub.
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arbitrarily nested data structures and anonymous functions
Described in perlreftut,
perlref, perldsc, and perllol.
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object-oriented programming
Described in perlobj, perlboot, perltoot, perltooc, and perlbot.
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compilability into C code or Perl bytecode
Described in B and B::Bytecode.
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support for light-weight processes (threads)
Described in perlthrtut
and Thread.
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support for internationalization, localization, and Unicode
Described in perllocale
and utf8.
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lexical scoping
Described in perlsub.
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regular expression enhancements
Described in perlre,
with additional examples in perlop.
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enhanced debugger and interactive Perl environment, with integrated editor support
Described in perldebtut,
perldebug and perldebguts.
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POSIX 1003.1 compliant library
Described in POSIX.
PODS - Supporting Manpages
Perl PODs
Modules - Perl Module Library
Perl Modules
AnyDBM_File provide framework for multiple DBMs
Attribute::Handlers Simpler definition of attribute handlers
AutoLoader load subroutines only on demand
AutoSplit split a package for autoloading
B The Perl Compiler
B::Asmdata Autogenerated data about Perl ops, used to generate bytecode
B::Assembler Assemble Perl bytecode
B::Bblock Walk basic blocks
B::Bytecode Perl compiler's bytecode backend
B::C Perl compiler's C backend
B::CC Perl compiler's optimized C translation backend
B::Concise Walk Perl syntax tree, printing concise info about ops
B::Debug Walk Perl syntax tree, printing debug info about ops
B::Deparse Perl compiler backend to produce perl code
B::Disassembler Disassemble Perl bytecode
B::Lint Perl lint
B::Showlex Show lexical variables used in functions or files
B::Stackobj Helper module for CC backend
B::Stash show what stashes are loaded
B::Terse Walk Perl syntax tree, printing terse info about ops
B::Xref Generates cross reference reports for Perl programs
Benchmark benchmark running times of Perl code
Bundle::LWP A bundle to install all libwww-perl related modules
ByteLoader load byte compiled perl code
CGI Simple Common Gateway Interface Class
CGI::Apache Backward compatibility module for CGI.pm
CGI::Carp CGI routines for writing to the HTTPD (or other) error log
CGI::Cookie Interface to Netscape Cookies
CGI::Fast CGI Interface for Fast CGI
CGI::Pretty module to produce nicely formatted HTML code
CGI::Push Simple Interface to Server Push
CGI::Switch Backward compatibility module for defunct CGI::Switch
CGI::Util Internal utilities used by CGI module
CPAN query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites
CPAN::FirstTime Utility for CPAN::Config file Initialization
CPAN::Nox Wrapper around CPAN.pm without using any XS module
Carp heavy machinery no user serviceable parts inside
Class::ISA report the search path for a class's ISA tree
Class::Struct declare struct-like datatypes as Perl classes
Config access Perl configuration information
Cwd get pathname of current working directory
DB programmatic interface to the Perl debugging API
Data::Dumper stringified perl data structures, suitable for both
printing and eval
Devel::DProf a Perl code profiler
Devel::Peek A data debugging tool for the XS programmer
Devel::SelfStubber generate stubs for a SelfLoading module
Digest:: Modules that calculate message digests
Digest::MD5 Perl interface to the MD5 Algorithm
DirHandle supply object methods for directory handles
Dumpvalue provides screen dump of Perl data.
DynaLoader Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code
Encode character encodings
Encode::Alias alias definitions to encodings
Encode::Byte Single Byte Encodings
Encode::CJKConstants.pm Internally used by Encode::??::ISO_2022_*
Encode::CN China-based Chinese Encodings
Encode::CN::HZ internally used by Encode::CN
Encode::Config internally used by Encode
Encode::EBCDIC EBCDIC Encodings
Encode::Encoder Object Oriented Encoder
Encode::Encoding Encode Implementation Base Class
Encode::Guess Guesses encoding from data
Encode::JP Japanese Encodings
Encode::JP::H2Z internally used by Encode::JP::2022_JP*
Encode::JP::JIS7 internally used by Encode::JP
Encode::KR Korean Encodings
Encode::KR::2022_KR internally used by Encode::KR
Encode::MIME::Header MIME 'B' and 'Q' header encoding
Encode::PerlIO a detailed document on Encode and PerlIO
Encode::Supported Encodings supported by Encode
Encode::Symbol Symbol Encodings
Encode::TW Taiwan-based Chinese Encodings
Encode::Unicode Various Unicode Transformation Formats
English use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation
variables
Env perl module that imports environment variables as scalars
or arrays
Errno System errno constants
Exporter Implements default import method for modules
Exporter::Heavy Exporter guts
ExtUtils::Command utilities to replace common UNIX commands in Makefiles etc.
ExtUtils::Command::MM Commands for the MM's to use in Makefiles
ExtUtils::Constant generate XS code to import C header constants
ExtUtils::Embed Utilities for embedding Perl in C/C++ applications
ExtUtils::Install install files from here to there
ExtUtils::Installed Inventory management of installed modules
ExtUtils::Liblist determine libraries to use and how to use them
ExtUtils::MM OS adjusted ExtUtils::MakeMaker subclass
ExtUtils::MM_Any Platform agnostic MM methods
ExtUtils::MM_BeOS methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker
ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker
ExtUtils::MM_DOS DOS specific subclass of ExtUtils::MM_Unix
ExtUtils::MM_MacOS methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker
ExtUtils::MM_NW5 methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker
ExtUtils::MM_OS2 methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker
ExtUtils::MM_UWIN U/WIN specific subclass of ExtUtils::MM_Unix
ExtUtils::MM_Unix methods used by ExtUtils::MakeMaker
ExtUtils::MM_VMS methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker
ExtUtils::MM_Win32 methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker
ExtUtils::MM_Win95 method to customize MakeMaker for Win9X
ExtUtils::MY ExtUtils::MakeMaker subclass for customization
ExtUtils::MakeMaker create an extension Makefile
ExtUtils::Manifest utilities to write and check a MANIFEST file
ExtUtils::Miniperl, writemain
write the C code for perlmain.c
ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap make a bootstrap file for use by DynaLoader
ExtUtils::Mksymlists write linker options files for dynamic extension
ExtUtils::Packlist manage .packlist files
ExtUtils::testlib add blib/* directories to @INC
Fatal replace functions with equivalents which succeed or die
Fcntl load the C Fcntl.h defines
File::Compare Compare files or filehandles
File::Copy Copy files or filehandles
File::DosGlob DOS like globbing and then some
File::Find Traverse a directory tree.
File::Glob Perl extension for BSD glob routine
File::Path create or remove directory trees
File::Spec portably perform operations on file names
File::Spec::Cygwin methods for Cygwin file specs
File::Spec::Epoc methods for Epoc file specs
File::Spec::Functions portably perform operations on file names
File::Spec::Mac File::Spec for Mac OS (Classic)
File::Spec::Unix File::Spec for Unix, base for other File::Spec modules
File::Spec::VMS methods for VMS file specs
File::Spec::Win32 methods for Win32 file specs
File::Temp return name and handle of a temporary file safely
File::stat by-name interface to Perl's built-in stat() functions
FileCache keep more files open than the system permits
FileHandle supply object methods for filehandles
Filter::Simple Simplified source filtering
Filter::Util::Call Perl Source Filter Utility Module
FindBin Locate directory of original perl script
Getopt::Long Extended processing of command line options
HTML::Entities Encode or decode strings with HTML entities
HTML::Filter Filter HTML text through the parser
HTML::Form Class that represents HTML forms
HTML::HeadParser Parse <HEAD> section of a HTML document
HTML::LinkExtor Extract links from an HTML document
HTML::Parser HTML parser class
HTML::PullParser Alternative HTML::Parser interface
HTML::Stream HTML output stream class, and some markup utilities
HTML::Tagset data tables useful in parsing HTML
HTML::TokeParser Alternative HTML::Parser interface
HTTP::Cookies Cookie storage and management
HTTP::Daemon a simple http server class
HTTP::Date date conversion routines
HTTP::Headers Class encapsulating HTTP Message headers
HTTP::Headers::Util Header value parsing utility functions
HTTP::Message Class encapsulating HTTP messages
HTTP::Request Class encapsulating HTTP Requests
HTTP::Request::Common Construct common HTTP::Request objects
HTTP::Response Class encapsulating HTTP Responses
HTTP::Status HTTP Status code processing
Hash::Util A selection of general-utility hash subroutines
I18N::Collate compare 8-bit scalar data according to the current locale
I18N::LangTags functions for dealing with RFC3066-style language tags
I18N::LangTags::List tags and names for human languages
I18N::Langinfo query locale information
IO load various IO modules
IO::Dir supply object methods for directory handles
IO::File supply object methods for filehandles
IO::Handle supply object methods for I/O handles
IO::Pipe supply object methods for pipes
IO::Poll Object interface to system poll call
IO::Seekable supply seek based methods for I/O objects
IO::Select OO interface to the select system call
IO::Socket Object interface to socket communications
IO::Socket::INET Object interface for AF_INET domain sockets
IO::Socket::UNIX Object interface for AF_UNIX domain sockets
IPC::Msg SysV Msg IPC object class
IPC::Open2, open2 open a process for both reading and writing
IPC::Open3, open3 open a process for reading, writing, and error handling
IPC::Semaphore SysV Semaphore IPC object class
IPC::SysV SysV IPC constants
LWP The World-Wide Web library for Perl
LWP::ConnCache Connection cache manager
LWP::Debug debug routines for the libwww-perl library
LWP::MediaTypes guess media type for a file or a URL
LWP::MemberMixin Member access mixin class
LWP::Protocol Base class for LWP protocols
LWP::RobotUA A class for Web Robots
LWP::UserAgent A WWW UserAgent class
List::Util A selection of general-utility list subroutines
Locale::Constants constants for Locale codes
Locale::Country ISO codes for country identification (ISO 3166)
Locale::Currency ISO three letter codes for currency identification (ISO 4217)
Locale::Language ISO two letter codes for language identification (ISO 639)
Locale::Maketext framework for localization
Locale::Maketext::TPJ13 article about software localization
Locale::Script ISO codes for script identification (ISO 15924)
MIME::Base64 Encoding and decoding of base64 strings
MIME::QuotedPrint Encoding and decoding of quoted-printable strings
Math::BigFloat Arbitrary size floating point math package
Math::BigInt Arbitrary size integer math package
Math::BigInt::Calc Pure Perl module to support Math::BigInt
Math::BigRat arbitrarily big rationals
Math::Complex complex numbers and associated mathematical functions
Math::Trig trigonometric functions
Memoize Make functions faster by trading space for time
Memoize::AnyDBM_File glue to provide EXISTS for AnyDBM_File for Storable use
Memoize::Expire Plug-in module for automatic expiration of memoized values
Memoize::ExpireFile test for Memoize expiration semantics
Memoize::ExpireTest test for Memoize expiration semantics
Memoize::NDBM_File glue to provide EXISTS for NDBM_File for Storable use
Memoize::SDBM_File glue to provide EXISTS for SDBM_File for Storable use
Memoize::Storable store Memoized data in Storable database
NEXT.pm Provide a pseudo-class NEXT that allows method redispatch
Net::Cmd Network Command class (as used by FTP, SMTP etc)
Net::Config Local configuration data for libnet
Net::Domain Attempt to evaluate the current host's internet name and
domain
Net::FTP FTP Client class
Net::HTTP Low-level HTTP client connection
Net::HTTP::NB Non-blocking HTTP client
Net::NNTP NNTP Client class
Net::Netrc OO interface to users netrc file
Net::POP3 Post Office Protocol 3 Client class (RFC1939)
Net::Ping check a remote host for reachability
Net::SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Client
Net::Time time and daytime network client interface
Net::hostent by-name interface to Perl's built-in gethost*() functions
Net::netent by-name interface to Perl's built-in getnet*() functions
Net::protoent by-name interface to Perl's built-in getproto*() functions
Net::servent by-name interface to Perl's built-in getserv*() functions
O Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends
Opcode Disable named opcodes when compiling perl code
POSIX Perl interface to IEEE Std 1003.1
Perl/Pollution/Portability
PerlIO On demand loader for PerlIO layers and root of PerlIO::*
name space
PerlIO::encoding encoding layer
PerlIO::scalar support module for in-memory IO.
PerlIO::via Helper class for PerlIO layers implemented in perl
PerlIO::via::QuotedPrint PerlIO layer for quoted-printable strings
Pod::Checker, podchecker()
check pod documents for syntax errors
Pod::Escapes for resolving Pod E<...> sequences
Pod::Find find POD documents in directory trees
Pod::Functions Group Perl's functions a la perlfunc.pod
Pod::Html module to convert pod files to HTML
Pod::InputObjects objects representing POD input paragraphs, commands, etc.
Pod::LaTeX Convert Pod data to formatted Latex
Pod::Man Convert POD data to formatted *roff input
Pod::ParseLink Parse an L<> formatting code in POD text
Pod::ParseUtils helpers for POD parsing and conversion
Pod::Parser base class for creating POD filters and translators
Pod::Plainer Perl extension for converting Pod to old style Pod.
Pod::Select, podselect() extract selected sections of POD from input
Pod::Text Convert POD data to formatted ASCII text
Pod::Text::Color Convert POD data to formatted color ASCII text
Pod::Text::Overstrike Convert POD data to formatted overstrike text
Pod::Text::Termcap Convert POD data to ASCII text with format escapes
Pod::Tree Create a static syntax tree for a POD
Pod::Tree::HTML Generate HTML from a Pod::Tree
Pod::Tree::Node nodes in a Pod::Tree
Pod::Tree::PerlBin translate program PODs to HTML
Pod::Tree::PerlDist translate Perl distribution documentation to HTML
Pod::Tree::PerlFunc translate perlfunc.pod to HTML
Pod::Tree::PerlLib translate module PODs to HTML
Pod::Tree::PerlMap map names to URLs
Pod::Tree::PerlPod translate Perl PODs to HTML
Pod::Tree::PerlTop generate a top-level index for Perl PODs
Pod::Tree::Pod Convert a Pod::Tree back to a POD
Pod::Usage, pod2usage() print a usage message from embedded pod documentation
SDBM_File Tied access to sdbm files
Safe Compile and execute code in restricted compartments
Scalar::Util A selection of general-utility scalar subroutines
Search::Dict, look search for key in dictionary file
SelectSaver save and restore selected file handle
SelfLoader load functions only on demand
Shell run shell commands transparently within perl
Socket, sockaddr_in, sockaddr_un, inet_aton, inet_ntoa
load the C socket.h defines and structure manipulators
Storable persistence for Perl data structures
Switch A switch statement for Perl
Symbol manipulate Perl symbols and their names
Sys::Hostname Try every conceivable way to get hostname
Sys::Syslog, openlog, closelog, setlogmask, syslog
Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls
Term::ANSIColor Color screen output using ANSI escape sequences
Term::Cap Perl termcap interface
Term::Complete Perl word completion module
Term::ReadLine Perl interface to various readline packages.
Test provides a simple framework for writing test scripts
Test::Builder Backend for building test libraries
Test::Harness run perl standard test scripts with statistics
Test::Harness::Assert simple assert
Test::Harness::Iterator Internal Test::Harness Iterator
Test::Harness::Straps detailed analysis of test results
Test::More yet another framework for writing test scripts
Test::Simple Basic utilities for writing tests.
Test::Tutorial A tutorial about writing really basic tests
Text::Balanced Extract delimited text sequences from strings.
Text::ParseWords parse text into an array of tokens or array of arrays
Text::Soundex Implementation of the Soundex Algorithm as Described by Knuth
Text::Tabs expand and unexpand tabs per the unix expand(1) and
unexpand(1)
Text::Wrap line wrapping to form simple paragraphs
Thread manipulate threads in Perl (for old code only)
Thread::Queue thread-safe queues
Thread::Semaphore thread-safe semaphores
Tie::Array base class for tied arrays
Tie::File Access the lines of a disk file via a Perl array
Tie::Handle, Tie::StdHandle
base class definitions for tied handles
Tie::Hash, Tie::StdHash, Tie::ExtraHash
base class definitions for tied hashes
Tie::Memoize add data to hash when needed
Tie::RefHash use references as hash keys
Tie::Scalar, Tie::StdScalar
base class definitions for tied scalars
Tie::SubstrHash Fixed-table-size, fixed-key-length hashing
Time::HiRes High resolution alarm, sleep, gettimeofday, interval timers
Time::Local efficiently compute time from local and GMT time
Time::gmtime by-name interface to Perl's built-in gmtime() function
Time::localtime by-name interface to Perl's built-in localtime() function
Time::tm internal object used by Time::gmtime and Time::localtime
UNIVERSAL base class for ALL classes (blessed references)
URI Uniform Resource Identifiers (absolute and relative)
URI::Escape Escape and unescape unsafe characters
URI::URL Uniform Resource Locators
URI::WithBase URIs which remember their base
URI::data URI that contain immediate data
URI::file URI that map to local file names
URI::ldap LDAP Uniform Resource Locators
Unicode::Collate Unicode Collation Algorithm
Unicode::Normalize Unicode Normalization Forms
Unicode::UCD Unicode character database
User::grent by-name interface to Perl's built-in getgr*() functions
User::pwent by-name interface to Perl's built-in getpw*() functions
WWW::RobotRules::AnyDBM_File
Persistent RobotRules
WWW::RobotsRules Parse robots.txt files
Win32 Interfaces to some Win32 API Functions
XS::APItest Test the perl C API
XS::Typemap module to test the XS typemaps distributed with perl
XSLoader Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code
abbrev create an abbreviation table from a list
attributes get/set subroutine or variable attributes
attrs set/get attributes of a subroutine (deprecated)
autouse postpone load of modules until a function is used
base Establish IS-A relationship with base class at compile time
bigint Transparent big integer support for Perl
bignum Transparent BigNumber support for Perl
bigrat Transparent BigNumber/BigRational support for Perl
blib Use MakeMaker's uninstalled version of a package
bytes Perl pragma to force byte semantics rather than character
semantics
carp warn of errors (from perspective of caller)
charnames define character names for \N{named} string literal escapes
choose choose a variant of a document to serve (HTTP content
negotiation)
constant Perl pragma to declare constants
diagnostics Perl compiler pragma to force verbose warning diagnostics
encoding allows you to write your script in non-ascii or non-utf8
fields compile-time class fields
fileparse split a pathname into pieces
filetest Perl pragma to control the filetest permission operators
get, head, getprint, getstore, mirror
Procedural LWP interface
getopt Process single-character switches with switch clustering
if use a Perl module if a condition holds
integer Perl pragma to use integer arithmetic instead of floating
point
less perl pragma to request less of something from the compiler
lib manipulate @INC at compile time
libnetFAQ libnet Frequently Asked Questions
locale Perl pragma to use and avoid POSIX locales for built-in
operations
lwpcook The libwww-perl cookbook
open perl pragma to set default PerlIO layers for input and output
ops Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when compiling
overload Package for overloading perl operations
parse_dir parse directory listing
re Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour
sigtrap Perl pragma to enable simple signal handling
sort perl pragma to control sort() behaviour
splitpath
strict Perl pragma to restrict unsafe constructs
subs Perl pragma to predeclare sub names
threads Perl extension allowing use of interpreter based threads
from perl
threads::shared Perl extension for sharing data structures between threads
uf_uristr Expand URI using heuristics
utf8 Perl pragma to enable/disable UTF-8 (or UTF-EBCDIC) in
source code
validate run many filetest checks on a tree
vars Perl pragma to predeclare global variable names (obsolete)
vmsish Perl pragma to control VMS-specific language features
warnings Perl pragma to control optional warnings
warnings::register warnings import function
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Executables - Perl Programs & Utilities
Perl Executables
c2ph, pstruct Dump C structures as generated from cc -g -S stabs
dbiproxy A proxy server for the DBD::Proxy driver
dbish Interactive command shell for the Perl DBI
diagnostics Perl compiler pragma to force verbose warning diagnostics
dprofpp display perl profile data
embedxpm embed xpm pictures into perl source
find2perl translate find command lines to Perl code
fvwm-menu-directory builds a directory browsing menu for FVWM
fvwm-menu-headlines builds headlines menu definition for FVWM
fvwm-menu-xlock builds xlock menu definition for FVWM
h2ph convert .h C header files to .ph Perl header files
h2xs convert .h C header files to Perl extensions
htmlclean a small script to clean up existing HTML
lwp-download fetch large files from the net
lwp-mirror Simple mirror utility for WWW
lwp-request, GET, HEAD, POST
Simple WWW user agent
lwp-rget Retrieve WWW documents recursively
pdldoc shell interface to PDL documentation
perl2html generate Perl documentation in HTML
perlbug how to submit bug reports on Perl
perlcc generate executables from Perl programs
perldl Simple shell for PDL
perldoc Look up Perl documentation in pod format.
pl2pm Rough tool to translate Perl4 .pl files to Perl5 .pm modules.
pod2html translate a POD to HTML
pod2latex convert pod documentation to latex format
pod2man Convert POD data to formatted *roff input
pod2sdf converts POD to SDF markup
pod2text Convert POD data to formatted ASCII text
pod2usage print usage messages from embedded pod docs in files
podchecker check the syntax of POD format documentation files
podlint check POD for correctness using Pod::POM
pods2html translate a tree of PODs to HTML
podselect print selected sections of pod documentation on standard
output
pom2 convert POD to Text, HTML, etc., with Pod::POM
ptked an editor in Perl/Tk
ptksh Perl/Tk script to provide a graphical user interface for
testing Perl/Tk commands and scripts.
rss-to-site convert a "My Netscape" RSS file to a Sitescooper .site file.
s2p Sed to Perl translator
scm2perl convert script-fu to perl
scm2scm convert script-fu to script-fu
showtable Show data in nicely formatted columns
sitescooper download news from web sites and convert it automatically
into one of several formats suitable for viewing on a
Palm handheld.
subs-to-site convert an AvantGo .subs file to a Sitescooper .site file.
widget Demonstration of Perl/Tk widgets
xcftopnm convert xcf files to pnm files
xsubpp compiler to convert Perl XS code into C code
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FAQs Index - Frequently Asked Questions
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