Documentation

Appropriate format for patches to the perl source tree
Notes on handling the Perl Patch Pumpkin And Porting Perl
Using the Perl repository
Perl and Java
Frequently Asked Questions About MakeMaker
Writing a module with MakeMaker
constants for Locale codes
ISO codes for country identification (ISO 3166)
ISO three letter codes for currency identification (ISO 4217)
ISO two letter codes for language identification (ISO 639)
framework for localization
ISO codes for script identification (ISO 15924)
libnet Frequently Asked Questions
framework for parsing Pod
Test of various basic POD features in translators.
Test HTML links
A tutorial about writing really basic tests
Practical Extraction and Report Language
what's new for perl5.004
what's new for perl5.005
what's new for perl v5.6.x
what's new for perl v5.6.0
what's new for perl v5.7.0
what's new for perl v5.7.1
what's new for perl v5.7.2
what's new for perl v5.7.3
what is new for perl v5.8.1
what is new for perl v5.8.2
what is new for perl v5.8.3
what is new for perl v5.8.4
what is new for perl v5.8.5
what is new for perl v5.8.6
what is new for perl v5.8.7
what is new for perl v5.8.0
what is new for perl v5.9.0
what is new for perl v5.9.1
what is new for perl v5.9.2
what is new for perl v5.9.3
autogenerated documentation for the perl public API
perl's IO abstraction interface.
the Perl Artistic License
Perl book information
Beginner's Object-Oriented Tutorial
Bag'o Object Tricks (the BOT)
Perl calling conventions from C
Perl 5 Cheat Sheet
Internal replacements for standard C library functions
Introduction to the Perl Compiler-Translator
Perl data types
Perl DBM Filters
Guts of Perl debugging
Perl debugging tutorial
Perl debugging
various Perl diagnostics
Look up Perl documentation in Pod format.
Perl Data Structures Cookbook
Considerations for running Perl on EBCDIC platforms
how to embed perl in your C program
frequently asked questions about Perl
General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.19 $, $Date: 2005/12/31 00:54:37 $)
Obtaining and Learning about Perl ($Revision: 1.39 $, $Date: 2006/01/08 14:27:07 $)
Programming Tools ($Revision: 1.56 $, $Date: 2005/12/31 00:54:37 $)
Data Manipulation ($Revision: 1.73 $, $Date: 2005/12/31 00:54:37 $)
Files and Formats ($Revision: 1.42 $, $Date: 2005/12/31 00:54:37 $)
Regular Expressions ($Revision: 1.38 $, $Date: 2005/12/31 00:54:37 $)
General Perl Language Issues ($Revision: 1.28 $, $Date: 2005/12/31 00:54:37 $)
System Interaction ($Revision: 1.27 $, $Date: 2005/12/31 00:54:37 $)
Networking ($Revision: 1.28 $, $Date: 2005/12/31 00:54:37 $)
Source Filters
Perl's fork() emulation
Perl formats
Perl builtin functions
Perl Glossary
the GNU General Public License, version 2
Introduction to the Perl API
How to hack at the Perl internals
the Perl history records
autogenerated documentation of purely internal Perl functions
a brief introduction and overview of Perl
C API for Perl's implementation of IO in Layers.
Perl interprocess communication (signals, fifos, pipes, safe subprocesses, sockets, and semaphores)
Perl Lexical Warnings
Perl locale handling (internationalization and localization)
Manipulating Arrays of Arrays in Perl
Perl modules (packages and symbol tables)
Installing CPAN Modules
constructing new Perl modules and finding existing ones
Perl module style guide
preparing a new module for distribution
semantics of numbers and numeric operations in Perl
Perl objects
Perl operators and precedence
tutorial on opening things in Perl
old tutorial on threads in Perl
tutorial on pack and unpack
the Plain Old Documentation format
Plain Old Documentation: format specification and notes
Writing portable Perl
Perl regular expressions
Perl references and nested data structures
Mark's very short tutorial about references
Perl regular expressions quick start
Perl Regular Expressions Reference
Perl regular expressions tutorial
how to execute the Perl interpreter
Perl security
Perl style guide
Perl subroutines
Perl syntax
tutorial on threads in Perl
how to hide an object class in a simple variable
perl documentation table of contents
Perl TO-DO List
Tom's OO Tutorial for Class Data in Perl
Tom's object-oriented tutorial for perl
Perl traps for the unwary
Unicode support in Perl
Perl Unicode introduction
utilities packaged with the Perl distribution
Perl predefined variables
XS language reference manual
Tutorial for writing XSUBs
a C++ base class encapsulating a Perl interpreter in Symbian
a C++ utility class for Perl/Symbian
VMS-specific documentation for Perl
Awk to Perl translator

Modules

module for manipulations of tar archives
Simpler definition of attribute handlers
Simple Common Gateway Interface Class
query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites
report the search path for a class's ISA tree
get pathname of current working directory
programmatic interface to the Perl debugging API (draft, subject to change)
Modules that calculate message digests
Compile and link C code for Perl modules
utilities to replace common UNIX commands in Makefiles etc.
install files from here to there
Inventory management of installed modules
determine libraries to use and how to use them
OS adjusted ExtUtils::MakeMaker subclass
AIX specific subclass of ExtUtils::MM_Unix
Platform-agnostic MM methods
methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker
methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker
DOS specific subclass of ExtUtils::MM_Unix
once produced Makefiles for MacOS Classic
methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker
methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker
QNX specific subclass of ExtUtils::MM_Unix
U/WIN specific subclass of ExtUtils::MM_Unix
methods used by ExtUtils::MakeMaker
methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker
VOS specific subclass of ExtUtils::MM_Unix
methods to override UN*X behaviour in ExtUtils::MakeMaker
method to customize MakeMaker for Win9X
ExtUtils::MakeMaker subclass for customization
Create a module Makefile
utilities to write and check a MANIFEST file
make a bootstrap file for use by DynaLoader
write linker options files for dynamic extension
manage .packlist files
converts Perl XS code into C code
add blib/* directories to @INC
portably perform operations on file names
return name and handle of a temporary file safely
Simplified source filtering
Extended processing of command line options
functions for dealing with RFC3066-style language tags
IO:: style interface to Compress::Zlib
Arbitrary size floating point math package
Arbitrary size integer/float math package
Arbitrary big rational numbers
Make functions faster by trading space for time
what modules shipped with versions of perl
Provide a pseudo-class NEXT (et al) that allows method redispatch
Network Command class (as used by FTP, SMTP etc)
Local configuration data for libnet
Attempt to evaluate the current host's internet name and domain
FTP Client class
NNTP Client class
OO interface to users netrc file
Post Office Protocol 3 Client class (RFC1939)
check a remote host for reachability
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Client
time and daytime network client interface
PerlIO layer for quoted-printable strings
for resolving Pod Elt...gt sequences
find POD documents in directory trees
objects representing POD input paragraphs, commands, etc.
Convert Pod data to formatted Latex
Convert POD data to formatted *roff input
Parse an Lltgt formatting code in POD text
helpers for POD parsing and conversion
base class for creating POD filters and translators
Convert POD data to formatted ASCII text
Convert POD data to formatted ASCII text
Convert POD data to formatted color ASCII text
Convert POD data to formatted overstrike text
Convert POD data to ASCII text with format escapes
A switch statement for Perl
Color screen output using ANSI escape sequences
Perl termcap interface
provides a simple framework for writing test scripts
Backend for building test libraries
Run Perl standard test scripts with statistics
yet another framework for writing test scripts
Basic utilities for writing tests.
Extract delimited text sequences from strings.
expand and unexpand tabs per the unix expand(1) and unexpand(1)
line wrapping to form simple paragraphs
Access the lines of a disk file via a Perl array
efficiently compute time from local and GMT time
Unicode Collation Algorithm
select assertions in blocks of code
Establish IS-A relationship with base classes at compile time
Transparent BigInteger support for Perl
Transparent BigNumber support for Perl
Transparent BigNumber/BigRational support for Perl
Warn on implicit encoding conversions
compile-time class fields
use a Perl module if a condition holds

Provides

in lib/AnyDBM_File.pm
in lib/AutoLoader.pm
in lib/AutoSplit.pm
B
in ext/B/B.pm
in ext/B/B/Asmdata.pm
in ext/B/B/Assembler.pm
in ext/B/B/Bblock.pm
in ext/B/B/Bytecode.pm
in ext/B/B/C.pm
in ext/B/B/C.pm
in ext/B/B/C.pm
in ext/B/B/CC.pm
in ext/B/B/Concise.pm
in ext/B/B/Debug.pm
in ext/B/B/Deparse.pm
in ext/B/B/Disassembler.pm
in ext/B/B/Disassembler.pm
in ext/B/B/Lint.pm
in ext/B/B.pm
in ext/B/B/CC.pm
in ext/B/B.pm
in ext/B/B/CC.pm
in ext/B/B/Showlex.pm
in ext/B/B/Stackobj.pm
in ext/B/B/Stash.pm
in ext/B/B/Terse.pm
in ext/B/B/Xref.pm
in lib/Benchmark.pm
in ext/ByteLoader/ByteLoader.pm
in lib/Carp.pm
in lib/Carp/Heavy.pm
in lib/Class/Struct.pm
in lib/Class/Struct.pm
in lib/Config/Extensions.pm
in lib/DBM_Filter.pm
in lib/DBM_Filter/compress.pm
in lib/DBM_Filter/encode.pm
in lib/DBM_Filter/int32.pm
in lib/DBM_Filter/null.pm
in lib/DBM_Filter/utf8.pm
in ext/Devel/DProf/DProf.pm
in ext/Devel/Peek/Peek.pm
in lib/Devel/SelfStubber.pm
in lib/DirHandle.pm
in lib/Dumpvalue.pm
in lib/English.pm
Env
in lib/Env.pm
in lib/Env.pm
in lib/Env.pm
in lib/Exporter.pm
in lib/Exporter/Heavy.pm
in lib/ExtUtils/Command/MM.pm
in lib/ExtUtils/Constant.pm
in lib/ExtUtils/Constant/Base.pm
in lib/ExtUtils/Constant/ProxySubs.pm
in lib/ExtUtils/Constant/Utils.pm
in lib/ExtUtils/Constant/XS.pm
in lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm
in lib/ExtUtils/Liblist/Kid.pm
in lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker/Config.pm
in lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker/bytes.pm
in lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker/vmsish.pm
in vms/ext/XSSymSet.pm
in lib/Fatal.pm
in ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm
in lib/File/Basename.pm
in lib/File/CheckTree.pm
in lib/File/Compare.pm
in lib/File/Copy.pm
in lib/File/DosGlob.pm
in lib/File/Find.pm
in ext/File/Glob/Glob.pm
in lib/File/Path.pm
in lib/File/stat.pm
in lib/FileCache.pm
in lib/FileHandle.pm
in lib/FindBin.pm
in win32/FindExt.pm
in ext/GDBM_File/GDBM_File.pm
in lib/Getopt/Std.pm
in lib/Hash/Util.pm
in lib/I18N/Collate.pm
in ext/I18N/Langinfo/Langinfo.pm
in ext/IPC/SysV/Msg.pm
in ext/IPC/SysV/Msg.pm
in lib/IPC/Open2.pm
in lib/IPC/Open3.pm
in ext/IPC/SysV/Semaphore.pm
in ext/IPC/SysV/Semaphore.pm
in ext/IPC/SysV/SysV.pm
JNI
in jpl/JNI/JNI.pm
in jpl/JPL/AutoLoader.pm
in jpl/JPL/Class.pm
in jpl/JPL/Compile.pm
in Porting/Maintainers.pm
in lib/Math/Complex.pm
in lib/Math/Trig.pm
in symbian/ext/Moped/Msg/Msg.pm
in ext/NDBM_File/NDBM_File.pm
in lib/Net/hostent.pm
in lib/Net/netent.pm
in lib/Net/protoent.pm
in lib/Net/servent.pm
O
in ext/B/O.pm
in ext/ODBM_File/ODBM_File.pm
in os2/OS2/REXX/DLL/DLL.pm
in os2/OS2/REXX/DLL/DLL.pm
in os2/OS2/ExtAttr/ExtAttr.pm
in os2/OS2/PrfDB/PrfDB.pm
in os2/OS2/PrfDB/PrfDB.pm
in os2/OS2/PrfDB/PrfDB.pm
in os2/OS2/Process/Process.pm
in os2/OS2/REXX/REXX.pm
in os2/OS2/REXX/REXX.pm
in os2/OS2/REXX/REXX.pm
in os2/OS2/REXX/REXX.pm
in os2/OS2/Process/Process.pm
in ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm
in ext/B/t/OptreeCheck.pm
in ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm
in ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm
in ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm
in lib/PerlIO.pm
in ext/PerlIO/encoding/encoding.pm
in ext/PerlIO/scalar/scalar.pm
in ext/PerlIO/via/via.pm
in lib/Pod/Functions.pm
in lib/Pod/Html.pm
in lib/Pod/Plainer.pm
in ext/SDBM_File/SDBM_File.pm
in ext/Opcode/Safe.pm
in lib/Search/Dict.pm
in lib/SelectSaver.pm
in lib/SelfLoader.pm
in lib/Shell.pm
in ext/Socket/Socket.pm
in lib/Symbol.pm
in ext/Sys/Hostname/Hostname.pm
in ext/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.pm
in lib/Term/Complete.pm
in lib/Term/ReadLine.pm
in lib/Term/ReadLine.pm
in lib/Term/ReadLine.pm
in lib/Term/ReadLine.pm
in lib/Test/Builder/Module.pm
in lib/Test/Builder/Tester.pm
in lib/Test/Builder/Tester/Color.pm
in lib/Test/Builder/Tester.pm
in lib/Text/Abbrev.pm
in lib/Text/ParseWords.pm
in lib/Text/Soundex.pm
in lib/Thread.pm
in lib/Thread/Queue.pm
in lib/Thread/Semaphore.pm
in ext/Thread/Thread/Signal.pm
in ext/Thread/Thread/Specific.pm
in lib/Tie/Array.pm
in lib/Tie/Hash.pm
in lib/Tie/Handle.pm
in lib/DBM_Filter.pm
in lib/Tie/Hash.pm
in lib/Tie/Memoize.pm
in lib/Tie/RefHash.pm
in lib/Tie/RefHash.pm
in lib/Tie/Scalar.pm
in lib/Tie/Array.pm
in lib/Tie/Handle.pm
in lib/Tie/Hash.pm
in lib/Tie/Scalar.pm
in lib/Tie/SubstrHash.pm
in lib/Time/gmtime.pm
in lib/Time/localtime.pm
in lib/Time/tm.pm
in lib/UNIVERSAL.pm
in lib/Unicode/UCD.pm
in lib/User/grent.pm
in lib/User/pwent.pm
in vms/ext/DCLsym/DCLsym.pm
in vms/ext/Filespec.pm
in vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm
in vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm
in win32/ext/Win32/Win32.pm
in ext/XS/APItest/APItest.pm
in ext/XS/Typemap/Typemap.pm
in lib/attributes.pm
in ext/attrs/attrs.pm
in lib/autouse.pm
in lib/blib.pm
in lib/bytes.pm
in lib/charnames.pm
in lib/constant.pm
in lib/diagnostics.pm
in lib/feature.pm
in lib/filetest.pm
in lib/integer.pm
in jpl/JPL/AutoLoader.pm
in lib/less.pm
in lib/locale.pm
in lib/open.pm
ops
in ext/Opcode/ops.pm
in lib/overload.pm
re
in ext/re/re.pm
in lib/sigtrap.pm
in lib/sort.pm
in lib/strict.pm
in lib/subs.pm
in ext/threads/threads.pm
in ext/threads/shared/shared.pm
in lib/utf8.pm
in lib/vars.pm
in lib/version.pm
in lib/vmsish.pm
in lib/warnings.pm
in lib/warnings/register.pm

Examples

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