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perl-5.19.9
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Documentation

INSTALL
README.pod
README for the Porting/ directory in the Perl 5 core distribution.
bisect.pl
use git bisect to pinpoint changes
checkURL.pl
Check that all the URLs in the Perl source are valid
checkansi.pl
Check source code for ANSI-C violations
perlepigraphs
list of Perl release epigraphs
expand-macro.pl
expand C macros using the C preprocessor
git-deltatool
Annotate commits for perldelta
how_to_write_a_perldelta
How to write a perldelta
Release
Porting/perl5200delta.pod
Pumpkin
Notes on handling the Perl Patch Pumpkin And Porting Perl
release_managers_guide
Releasing a new version of perl 5.x
release_schedule
Perl 5 release schedule
sort_perldiag.pl
Sort warning and error messages in perldiag.pod
todo
Perl TO-DO list
valgrindpp.pl
A post processor for make test.valgrind
perlapi
autogenerated documentation for the perl public API
Config
access Perl configuration information
ExtUtils::MakeMaker::FAQ
IO::Compress::FAQ
cpan::Module-Build::t::README
lib
manipulate @INC at compile time
DynaLoader
Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code
Errno
System errno constants
Pod::Functions
Group Perl's functions a la perlfunc.pod
Functions.t
Test Pod::Functions
pod2html
convert .pod files to .html files
anchorify
Test Pod::Html::anchorify()
the
htmlcrossref
Test HTML cross reference links
crlf
ext::Pod-Html::t::feature
ext::Pod-Html::t::feature2
htmldir
Test --htmldir feature
htmldir
Test --htmldir feature
htmldir
Test --htmldir feature
htmldir
Test --htmldir feature
htmldir
Test --htmldir feature
Escape
htmllink
Test HTML links
Test
Test
Test
perlpodspeccopy
Plain Old Documentation: format specification and notes
perlvarcopy
Perl predefined variables
installhtml
converts a collection of POD pages to HTML format.
CORE
Namespace for Perl's core routines
InputObjects.t
The tests for Pod::InputObjects
Select.t
Tests for Pod::Select.
Usage.t
Tests for Pod::Usage
perl5db.pl
the perl debugger
make_patchnum.pl
make patchnum
mkppport
distribute ppport.h among extensions
perl
The Perl 5 language interpreter
perl5004delta
what's new for perl5.004
perl5005delta
what's new for perl5.005
perl5100delta
what is new for perl 5.10.0
perl5101delta
what is new for perl v5.10.1
perl5120delta
what is new for perl v5.12.0
perl5121delta
what is new for perl v5.12.1
perl5122delta
what is new for perl v5.12.2
perl5123delta
what is new for perl v5.12.3
perl5124delta
what is new for perl v5.12.4
perl5125delta
what is new for perl v5.12.5
perl5140delta
what is new for perl v5.14.0
perl5141delta
what is new for perl v5.14.1
perl5142delta
what is new for perl v5.14.2
perl5143delta
what is new for perl v5.14.3
perl5144delta
what is new for perl v5.14.4
perl5160delta
what is new for perl v5.16.0
perl5161delta
what is new for perl v5.16.1
perl5162delta
what is new for perl v5.16.2
perl5163delta
what is new for perl v5.16.3
perl5180delta
what is new for perl v5.18.0
perl5181delta
what is new for perl v5.18.1
perl5190delta
what is new for perl v5.19.0
perl5191delta
what is new for perl v5.19.1
perl5192delta
what is new for perl v5.19.2
perl5193delta
what is new for perl v5.19.3
perl5194delta
what is new for perl v5.19.4
perl5195delta
what is new for perl v5.19.5
perl5196delta
what is new for perl v5.19.6
perl5197delta
what is new for perl v5.19.7
perl5198delta
what is new for perl v5.19.8
perl561delta
what's new for perl v5.6.1
perl56delta
what's new for perl v5.6.0
perl581delta
what is new for perl v5.8.1
perl582delta
what is new for perl v5.8.2
perl583delta
what is new for perl v5.8.3
perl584delta
what is new for perl v5.8.4
perl585delta
what is new for perl v5.8.5
perl586delta
what is new for perl v5.8.6
perl587delta
what is new for perl v5.8.7
perl588delta
what is new for perl v5.8.8
perl589delta
what is new for perl v5.8.9
perl58delta
what is new for perl v5.8.0
perlapio
perl's IO abstraction interface.
perlartistic
the Perl Artistic License
perlbook
Books about and related to Perl
perlboot
Links to information on object-oriented programming in Perl
perlbot
Links to information on object-oriented programming in Perl
perlcall
Perl calling conventions from C
perlcheat
Perl 5 Cheat Sheet
perlclib
Internal replacements for standard C library functions
perlcommunity
a brief overview of the Perl community
perldata
Perl data types
perldbmfilter
Perl DBM Filters
perldebguts
Guts of Perl debugging
perldebtut
Perl debugging tutorial
perldebug
Perl debugging
perldelta
what is new for perl v5.19.9
perldiag
various Perl diagnostics
perldsc
Perl Data Structures Cookbook
perldtrace
Perl's support for DTrace
perlebcdic
Considerations for running Perl on EBCDIC platforms
perlembed
how to embed perl in your C program
perlexperiment
A listing of experimental features in Perl
perlfilter
Source Filters
perlfork
Perl's fork() emulation
perlform
Perl formats
perlfunc
Perl builtin functions
perlgit
Detailed information about git and the Perl repository
perlgpl
the GNU General Public License, version 1
perlguts
Introduction to the Perl API
perlhack
How to hack on Perl
perlhacktips
Tips for Perl core C code hacking
perlhacktut
Walk through the creation of a simple C code patch
perlhist
the Perl history records
perlinterp
An overview of the Perl interpreter
perlintro
a brief introduction and overview of Perl
perliol
C API for Perl's implementation of IO in Layers.
perlipc
Perl interprocess communication (signals, fifos, pipes, safe subprocesses, sockets, and semaphores)
perllexwarn
Perl Lexical Warnings
perllocale
Perl locale handling (internationalization and localization)
perllol
Manipulating Arrays of Arrays in Perl
perlmod
Perl modules (packages and symbol tables)
perlmodinstall
Installing CPAN Modules
perlmodlib
constructing new Perl modules and finding existing ones
perlmodstyle
Perl module style guide
perlmroapi
Perl method resolution plugin interface
perlnewmod
preparing a new module for distribution
perlnumber
semantics of numbers and numeric operations in Perl
perlobj
Perl object reference
perlootut
Object-Oriented Programming in Perl Tutorial
perlop
Perl operators and precedence
perlopentut
simple recipes for opening files and pipes in Perl
perlpacktut
tutorial on pack and unpack
perlperf
Perl Performance and Optimization Techniques
perlpod
the Plain Old Documentation format
perlpodspec
Plain Old Documentation: format specification and notes
perlpodstyle
Perl POD style guide
perlpolicy
Various and sundry policies and commitments related to the Perl core
perlport
Writing portable Perl
perlpragma
how to write a user pragma
perlre
Perl regular expressions
perlreapi
Perl regular expression plugin interface
perlrebackslash
Perl Regular Expression Backslash Sequences and Escapes
perlrecharclass
Perl Regular Expression Character Classes
perlref
Perl references and nested data structures
perlreftut
Mark's very short tutorial about references
perlreguts
Description of the Perl regular expression engine.
perlrepository
Links to current information on the Perl source repository
perlrequick
Perl regular expressions quick start
perlreref
Perl Regular Expressions Reference
perlretut
Perl regular expressions tutorial
perlrun
how to execute the Perl interpreter
perlsec
Perl security
perlsource
A guide to the Perl source tree
perlstyle
Perl style guide
perlsub
Perl subroutines
perlsyn
Perl syntax
perlthrtut
Tutorial on threads in Perl
perltie
how to hide an object class in a simple variable
perltodo
Link to the Perl to-do list
perltooc
Links to information on object-oriented programming in Perl
perltoot
Links to information on object-oriented programming in Perl
perltrap
Perl traps for the unwary
perlunicode
Unicode support in Perl
perlunifaq
Perl Unicode FAQ
perluniintro
Perl Unicode introduction
perlunitut
Perl Unicode Tutorial
perlutil
utilities packaged with the Perl distribution
perlvar
Perl predefined variables
perlvms
VMS-specific documentation for Perl
feature
Perl pragma to enable new features
CharClass::Matcher
Generate C macros that match character classes efficiently
warnings
Perl pragma to control optional warnings
CPerlBase
a C++ base class encapsulating a Perl interpreter in Symbian
PerlUtil
a C++ utility class for Perl/Symbian
h2ph
convert .h C header files to .ph Perl header files
h2xs
convert .h C header files to Perl extensions
libnetcfg
configure libnet
perlbug
how to submit bug reports on Perl
perlivp
Perl Installation Verification Procedure
pl2pm
Rough tool to translate Perl4 .pl files to Perl5 .pm modules.
a2p
Awk to Perl translator
find2perl
translate find command lines to Perl code
psed
a stream editor

Modules

I18N::LangTags
functions for dealing with RFC3066-style language tags
I18N::LangTags::Detect
detect the user's language preferences
I18N::LangTags::List
tags and names for human languages
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
B
The Perl Compiler Backend
B::Concise
Walk Perl syntax tree, printing concise info about ops
B::Showlex
Show lexical variables used in functions or files
B::Terse
Walk Perl syntax tree, printing terse info about ops
B::Xref
Generates cross reference reports for Perl programs
O
Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends
OptreeCheck
check optrees as rendered by B::Concise
Devel::Peek
A data debugging tool for the XS programmer
ExtUtils::Miniperl
write the C code for perlmain.c
Fcntl
load the C Fcntl.h defines
File::DosGlob
DOS like globbing and then some
File::Find
Traverse a directory tree.
File::Glob
Perl extension for BSD glob routine
FileCache
keep more files open than the system permits
GDBM_File
Perl5 access to the gdbm library.
Hash::Util::FieldHash
Support for Inside-Out Classes
Hash::Util
A selection of general-utility hash subroutines
I18N::Langinfo
query locale information
IPC::Open2
open a process for both reading and writing using open2()
IPC::Open3
open a process for reading, writing, and error handling using open3()
NDBM_File
Tied access to ndbm files
ODBM_File
Tied access to odbm files
Opcode
Disable named opcodes when compiling perl code
ops
Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when compiling
POSIX
Perl interface to IEEE Std 1003.1
PerlIO::encoding
encoding layer
PerlIO::mmap
Memory mapped IO
PerlIO::scalar
in-memory IO, scalar IO
PerlIO::via
Helper class for PerlIO layers implemented in perl
Pod::Html
module to convert pod files to HTML
SDBM_File
Tied access to sdbm files
Sys::Hostname
Try every conceivable way to get hostname
Tie::Hash::NamedCapture
Named regexp capture buffers
Tie::Memoize
add data to hash when needed
VMS::DCLsym
Perl extension to manipulate DCL symbols
VMS::Filespec
convert between VMS and Unix file specification syntax
VMS::Stdio
standard I/O functions via VMS extensions
Win32CORE
Win32 CORE function stubs
XS::APItest
Test the perl C API
XS::Typemap
module to test the XS typemaps distributed with perl
arybase
Set indexing base via $[
attributes
get/set subroutine or variable attributes
mro
Method Resolution Order
re
Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour
Haiku
Interfaces to some Haiku API Functions
AnyDBM_File
provide framework for multiple DBMs
B::Deparse
Perl compiler backend to produce perl code
Benchmark
benchmark running times of Perl code
Class::Struct
declare struct-like datatypes as Perl classes
Config::Extensions
hash lookup of which core extensions were built.
DB
programmatic interface to the Perl debugging API
DBM_Filter
Filter DBM keys/values
DBM_Filter::compress
filter for DBM_Filter
DBM_Filter::encode
filter for DBM_Filter
DBM_Filter::int32
filter for DBM_Filter
DBM_Filter::null
filter for DBM_Filter
DBM_Filter::utf8
filter for DBM_Filter
DirHandle
supply object methods for directory handles
English
use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation variables
ExtUtils::Embed
Utilities for embedding Perl in C/C++ applications
ExtUtils::XSSymSet
keep sets of symbol names palatable to the VMS linker
File::Basename
Parse file paths into directory, filename and suffix.
File::Compare
Compare files or filehandles
File::Copy
Copy files or filehandles
File::stat
by-name interface to Perl's built-in stat() functions
FileHandle
supply object methods for filehandles
FindBin
Locate directory of original perl script
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
PerlIO
On demand loader for PerlIO layers and root of PerlIO::* name space
SelectSaver
save and restore selected file handle
Symbol
manipulate Perl symbols and their names
Thread
Manipulate threads in Perl (for old code only)
Tie::Array
base class for tied arrays
Tie::Handle
base class definitions for tied handles
Tie::StdHandle
base class definitions for tied handles
Tie::SubstrHash
Fixed-table-size, fixed-key-length hashing
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)
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
blib
Use MakeMaker's uninstalled version of a package
bytes
Perl pragma to force byte semantics rather than character semantics
charnames
access to Unicode character names and named character sequences; also define character names
deprecate
Perl pragma for deprecating the core version of a module
feature
Perl pragma to enable new features
filetest
Perl pragma to control the filetest permission operators
integer
Perl pragma to use integer arithmetic instead of floating point
less
perl pragma to request less of something
locale
Perl pragma to use or avoid POSIX locales for built-in operations
open
perl pragma to set default PerlIO layers for input and output
overload
Package for overloading Perl operations
overloading
perl pragma to lexically control overloading
sigtrap
Perl pragma to enable simple signal handling
sort
perl pragma to control sort() behaviour
strict
Perl pragma to restrict unsafe constructs
subs
Perl pragma to predeclare sub names
utf8
Perl pragma to enable/disable UTF-8 (or UTF-EBCDIC) in source code
vars
Perl pragma to predeclare global variable names
vmsish
Perl pragma to control VMS-specific language features
warnings
Perl pragma to control optional warnings
warnings::register
warnings import function
OS2::ExtAttr
Perl access to extended attributes.
OS2::PrfDB
Perl extension for access to OS/2 setting database.
OS2::Process
exports constants for system() call, and process control on OS2.
OS2::DLL
access to DLLs with REXX calling convention.
OS2::REXX
access to DLLs with REXX calling convention and REXX runtime.

Provides

B::OBJECT
in ext/B/B.pm
B::Section
in ext/B/B.pm
Class::Struct::Tie_ISA
in lib/Class/Struct.pm
EnableModule
in lib/perl5db/t/EnableModule.pm
Getopt::Std
in lib/Getopt/Std.pm
Moped::Msg
in symbian/ext/Moped/Msg/Msg.pm
MyModule
in lib/perl5db/t/MyModule.pm
OS2::DLL::dll
in os2/OS2/OS2-REXX/DLL/DLL.pm
OS2::PrfDB::Hini
in os2/OS2/OS2-PrfDB/PrfDB.pm
OS2::PrfDB::Sub
in os2/OS2/OS2-PrfDB/PrfDB.pm
OS2::REXX::_ARRAY
in os2/OS2/OS2-REXX/REXX.pm
OS2::REXX::_HASH
in os2/OS2/OS2-REXX/REXX.pm
OS2::REXX::_SCALAR
in os2/OS2/OS2-REXX/REXX.pm
OS2::localMorphPM
in os2/OS2/OS2-Process/Process.pm
POSIX::SigAction
in ext/POSIX/lib/POSIX.pm
POSIX::SigRt
in ext/POSIX/lib/POSIX.pm
POSIX::SigSet
in ext/POSIX/lib/POSIX.pm
Pod::Simple::XHTML::LocalPodLinks
in ext/Pod-Html/lib/Pod/Html.pm
Testing
in ext/File-Find/t/lib/Testing.pm
Tie::ExtraHash
in lib/Tie/Hash.pm
Tie::Hash
in lib/DBM_Filter.pm
Tie::Hash
in lib/Tie/Hash.pm
Tie::Scalar
in lib/Tie/Scalar.pm
Tie::StdArray
in lib/Tie/Array.pm
Tie::StdHash
in lib/Tie/Hash.pm
Tie::StdScalar
in lib/Tie/Scalar.pm
VMS::stdio
in ext/VMS-Stdio/Stdio.pm
diagnostics
in lib/diagnostics.pm
overload::numbers
in lib/overload/numbers.pm
t::BHK
in ext/XS-APItest/t/BHK.pm
t::Markers
in ext/XS-APItest/t/Markers.pm

Examples

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