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diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/pods/perltoc.pod b/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/pods/perltoc.pod new file mode 100755 index 00000000000..88804e3ec1e --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/pods/perltoc.pod @@ -0,0 +1,38976 @@ + +# !!!!!!! DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE !!!!!!! +# This file is autogenerated by buildtoc from all the other pods. +# Edit those files and run buildtoc --build-toc to effect changes. + +=head1 NAME + +perltoc - perl documentation table of contents + +=head1 DESCRIPTION + +This page provides a brief table of contents for the rest of the Perl +documentation set. It is meant to be scanned quickly or grepped +through to locate the proper section you're looking for. + +=head1 BASIC DOCUMENTATION + +=head2 perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=over 4 + +=item Overview + +=item Tutorials + +=item Reference Manual + +=item Internals and C Language Interface + +=item Miscellaneous + +=item Language-Specific + +=item Platform-Specific + +=back + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AVAILABILITY + +=item ENVIRONMENT + +=item AUTHOR + +=item FILES + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + +=item BUGS + +=item NOTES + +=back + +=head2 perlintro -- a brief introduction and overview of Perl + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item What is Perl? + +=item Running Perl programs + +=item Safety net + +=item Basic syntax overview + +=item Perl variable types + +Scalars, Arrays, Hashes + +=item Variable scoping + +=item Conditional and looping constructs + +if, while, for, foreach + +=item Builtin operators and functions + +Arithmetic, Numeric comparison, String comparison, Boolean logic, +Miscellaneous + +=item Files and I/O + +=item Regular expressions + +Simple matching, Simple substitution, More complex regular expressions, +Parentheses for capturing, Other regexp features + +=item Writing subroutines + +=item OO Perl + +=item Using Perl modules + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perlreftut - Mark's very short tutorial about references + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Who Needs Complicated Data Structures? + +=item The Solution + +=item Syntax + +=over 4 + +=item Making References + +=item Using References + +=item An Example + +=item Arrow Rule + +=back + +=item Solution + +=item The Rest + +=item Summary + +=item Credits + +=over 4 + +=item Distribution Conditions + +=back + +=back + +=head2 perldsc - Perl Data Structures Cookbook + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +arrays of arrays, hashes of arrays, arrays of hashes, hashes of hashes, +more elaborate constructs + +=item REFERENCES +X<reference> X<dereference> X<dereferencing> X<pointer> + +=item COMMON MISTAKES + +=item CAVEAT ON PRECEDENCE +X<dereference, precedence> X<dereferencing, precedence> + +=item WHY YOU SHOULD ALWAYS C<use strict> + +=item DEBUGGING +X<data structure, debugging> X<complex data structure, debugging> +X<AoA, debugging> X<HoA, debugging> X<AoH, debugging> X<HoH, debugging> +X<array of arrays, debugging> X<hash of arrays, debugging> +X<array of hashes, debugging> X<hash of hashes, debugging> + +=item CODE EXAMPLES + +=item ARRAYS OF ARRAYS +X<array of arrays> X<AoA> + +=over 4 + +=item Declaration of an ARRAY OF ARRAYS + +=item Generation of an ARRAY OF ARRAYS + +=item Access and Printing of an ARRAY OF ARRAYS + +=back + +=item HASHES OF ARRAYS +X<hash of arrays> X<HoA> + +=over 4 + +=item Declaration of a HASH OF ARRAYS + +=item Generation of a HASH OF ARRAYS + +=item Access and Printing of a HASH OF ARRAYS + +=back + +=item ARRAYS OF HASHES +X<array of hashes> X<AoH> + +=over 4 + +=item Declaration of an ARRAY OF HASHES + +=item Generation of an ARRAY OF HASHES + +=item Access and Printing of an ARRAY OF HASHES + +=back + +=item HASHES OF HASHES +X<hash of hashes> X<HoH> + +=over 4 + +=item Declaration of a HASH OF HASHES + +=item Generation of a HASH OF HASHES + +=item Access and Printing of a HASH OF HASHES + +=back + +=item MORE ELABORATE RECORDS +X<record> X<structure> X<struct> + +=over 4 + +=item Declaration of MORE ELABORATE RECORDS + +=item Declaration of a HASH OF COMPLEX RECORDS + +=item Generation of a HASH OF COMPLEX RECORDS + +=back + +=item Database Ties + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perllol - Manipulating Arrays of Arrays in Perl + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Declaration and Access of Arrays of Arrays + +=item Growing Your Own + +=item Access and Printing + +=item Slices + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perlrequick - Perl regular expressions quick start + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item The Guide + +=over 4 + +=item Simple word matching + +=item Using character classes + +=item Matching this or that + +=item Grouping things and hierarchical matching + +=item Extracting matches + +=item Matching repetitions + +=item More matching + +=item Search and replace + +=item The split operator + +=back + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT + +=over 4 + +=item Acknowledgments + +=back + +=back + +=head2 perlretut - Perl regular expressions tutorial + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Part 1: The basics + +=over 4 + +=item Simple word matching + +=item Using character classes + +=item Matching this or that + +=item Grouping things and hierarchical matching + +=item Extracting matches + +=item Backreferences + +=item Relative backreferences + +=item Named backreferences + +=item Alternative capture group numbering + +=item Position information + +=item Non-capturing groupings + +=item Matching repetitions + +=item Possessive quantifiers + +=item Building a regexp + +=item Using regular expressions in Perl + +=back + +=item Part 2: Power tools + +=over 4 + +=item More on characters, strings, and character classes + +=item Compiling and saving regular expressions + +=item Composing regular expressions at runtime + +=item Embedding comments and modifiers in a regular expression + +=item Looking ahead and looking behind + +=item Using independent subexpressions to prevent backtracking + +=item Conditional expressions + +=item Defining named patterns + +=item Recursive patterns + +=item A bit of magic: executing Perl code in a regular expression + +=item Backtracking control verbs + +=item Pragmas and debugging + +=back + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT + +=over 4 + +=item Acknowledgments + +=back + +=back + +=head2 perlboot - Beginner's Object-Oriented Tutorial + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item If we could talk to the animals... + +=item Introducing the method invocation arrow + +=item Invoking a barnyard + +=item The extra parameter of method invocation + +=item Calling a second method to simplify things + +=item Inheriting the windpipes + +=item A few notes about @ISA + +=item Overriding the methods + +=item Starting the search from a different place + +=item The SUPER way of doing things + +=item Let's review... + +=item A horse is a horse, of course of course -- or is it? + +=item Invoking an instance method + +=item Accessing the instance data + +=item How to build a horse + +=item Inheriting the constructor + +=item Making a method work with either classes or instances + +=item Adding parameters to a method + +=item More interesting instances + +=item A horse of a different color + +=item Summary + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 perltoot - Tom's object-oriented tutorial for perl + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Creating a Class + +=over 4 + +=item Object Representation + +=item Class Interface + +=item Constructors and Instance Methods + +=item Planning for the Future: Better Constructors + +=item Destructors + +=item Other Object Methods + +=back + +=item Class Data + +=over 4 + +=item Accessing Class Data + +=item Debugging Methods + +=item Class Destructors + +=item Documenting the Interface + +=back + +=item Aggregation + +=item Inheritance + +=over 4 + +=item Overridden Methods + +=item Multiple Inheritance + +=item UNIVERSAL: The Root of All Objects + +=item Deeper UNIVERSAL details + +=back + +=item Alternate Object Representations + +=over 4 + +=item Arrays as Objects + +=item Closures as Objects + +=back + +=item AUTOLOAD: Proxy Methods + +=over 4 + +=item Autoloaded Data Methods + +=item Inherited Autoloaded Data Methods + +=back + +=item Metaclassical Tools + +=over 4 + +=item Class::Struct + +=item Data Members as Variables + +=back + +=item NOTES + +=over 4 + +=item Object Terminology + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=over 4 + +=item Acknowledgments + +=back + +=back + +=head2 perltooc - Tom's OO Tutorial for Class Data in Perl + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Class Data in a Can + +=item Class Data as Package Variables + +=over 4 + +=item Putting All Your Eggs in One Basket + +=item Inheritance Concerns + +=item The Eponymous Meta-Object + +=item Indirect References to Class Data + +=item Monadic Classes + +=item Translucent Attributes + +=back + +=item Class Data as Lexical Variables + +=over 4 + +=item Privacy and Responsibility + +=item File-Scoped Lexicals + +=item More Inheritance Concerns + +=item Locking the Door and Throwing Away the Key + +=item Translucency Revisited + +=back + +=item NOTES + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT + +=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=head2 perlbot - Bag'o Object Tricks (the BOT) + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OO SCALING TIPS + +=item INSTANCE VARIABLES + +=item SCALAR INSTANCE VARIABLES + +=item INSTANCE VARIABLE INHERITANCE + +=item OBJECT RELATIONSHIPS + +=item OVERRIDING SUPERCLASS METHODS + +=item USING RELATIONSHIP WITH SDBM + +=item THINKING OF CODE REUSE + +=item CLASS CONTEXT AND THE OBJECT + +=item INHERITING A CONSTRUCTOR + +=item DELEGATION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perlperf - Perl Performance and Optimization Techniques + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OVERVIEW + +=over 4 + +=item ONE STEP SIDEWAYS + +=item ONE STEP FORWARD + +=item ANOTHER STEP SIDEWAYS + +=back + +=item GENERAL GUIDELINES + +=item BENCHMARKS + +=over 4 + +=item Assigning and Dereferencing Variables. + +=item Search and replace or tr + +=back + +=item PROFILING TOOLS + +=over 4 + +=item Devel::DProf + +=item Devel::Profiler + +=item Devel::SmallProf + +=item Devel::FastProf + +=item Devel::NYTProf + +=back + +=item SORTING + +Elapsed Real Time, User CPU Time, System CPU Time + +=item LOGGING + +=over 4 + +=item Logging if DEBUG (constant) + +=back + +=item POSTSCRIPT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=over 4 + +=item PERLDOCS + +=item MAN PAGES + +=item MODULES + +=item URLS + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perlstyle - Perl style guide + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head2 perlcheat - Perl 5 Cheat Sheet + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item The sheet + +=back + +=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perltrap - Perl traps for the unwary + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Awk Traps + +=item C/C++ Traps + +=item Sed Traps + +=item Shell Traps + +=item Perl Traps + +=item Perl4 to Perl5 Traps + +Discontinuance, Deprecation, and BugFix traps, Parsing Traps, Numerical +Traps, General data type traps, Context Traps - scalar, list contexts, +Precedence Traps, General Regular Expression Traps using s///, etc, +Subroutine, Signal, Sorting Traps, OS Traps, DBM Traps, Unclassified Traps + +=item Discontinuance, Deprecation, and BugFix traps + +Symbols starting with "_" no longer forced into main, Double-colon valid +package separator in variable name, 2nd and 3rd args to C<splice()> are now +in scalar context, Can't do C<goto> into a block that is optimized away, +Can't use whitespace as variable name or quote delimiter, C<while/if BLOCK +BLOCK> gone, C<**> binds tighter than unary minus, C<foreach> changed when +iterating over a list, C<split> with no args behavior changed, B<-e> +behavior fixed, C<push> returns number of elements in resulting list, Some +error messages differ, C<split()> honors subroutine args, Bugs removed + +=item Parsing Traps + +Space between . and = triggers syntax error, Better parsing in perl 5, +Function parsing, String interpolation of C<$#array> differs, Perl guesses +on C<map>, C<grep> followed by C<{> if it starts BLOCK or hash ref + +=item Numerical Traps + +Formatted output and significant digits, Auto-increment operator over +signed int limit deleted, Assignment of return values from numeric equality +tests doesn't work, Bitwise string ops + +=item General data type traps + +Negative array subscripts now count from the end of array, Setting +C<$#array> lower now discards array elements, Hashes get defined before +use, Glob assignment from localized variable to variable, Assigning +C<undef> to glob, Changes in unary negation (of strings), Modifying of +constants prohibited, C<defined $var> behavior changed, Variable Suicide + +=item Context Traps - scalar, list contexts + +Elements of argument lists for formats evaluated in list context, +C<caller()> returns false value in scalar context if no caller present, +Comma operator in scalar context gives scalar context to args, C<sprintf()> +prototyped as C<($;@)> + +=item Precedence Traps + +LHS vs. RHS of any assignment operator, Semantic errors introduced due to +precedence, Precedence of assignment operators same as the precedence of +assignment, C<open> requires parentheses around filehandle, C<$:> +precedence over C<$::> gone, Precedence of file test operators documented, +C<keys>, C<each>, C<values> are regular named unary operators + +=item General Regular Expression Traps using s///, etc. + +C<s'$lhs'$rhs'> interpolates on either side, C<m//g> attaches its state to +the searched string, C<m//o> used within an anonymous sub, C<$+> isn't set +to whole match, Substitution now returns null string if it fails, +C<s`lhs`rhs`> is now a normal substitution, Stricter parsing of variables +in regular expressions, C<m?x?> matches only once, Failed matches don't +reset the match variables + +=item Subroutine, Signal, Sorting Traps + +Barewords that used to look like strings look like subroutine calls, +Reverse is no longer allowed as the name of a sort subroutine, C<warn()> +won't let you specify a filehandle + +=item OS Traps + +SysV resets signal handler correctly, SysV C<seek()> appends correctly + +=item Interpolation Traps + +C<@> always interpolates an array in double-quotish strings, Double-quoted +strings may no longer end with an unescaped $, Arbitrary expressions are +evaluated inside braces within double quotes, C<$$x> now tries to +dereference $x, Creation of hashes on the fly with C<eval "EXPR"> requires +protection, Bugs in earlier perl versions, Array and hash brackets during +interpolation, Interpolation of C<\$$foo{bar}>, C<qq()> string passed to +C<eval> will not find string terminator + +=item DBM Traps + +Perl5 must have been linked with same dbm/ndbm as the default for +C<dbmopen()>, DBM exceeding limit on the key/value size will cause perl5 to +exit immediately + +=item Unclassified Traps + +C<require>/C<do> trap using returned value, C<split> on empty string with +LIMIT specified + +=back + +=back + +=head2 perldebtut - Perl debugging tutorial + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item use strict + +=item Looking at data and -w and v + +=item help + +=item Stepping through code + +=item Placeholder for a, w, t, T + +=item REGULAR EXPRESSIONS + +=item OUTPUT TIPS + +=item CGI + +=item GUIs + +=item SUMMARY + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item CONTRIBUTORS + +=back + +=head2 perlfaq - frequently asked questions about Perl + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Where to get the perlfaq + +=item How to contribute to the perlfaq + +=item What will happen if you mail your Perl programming problems to the +authors? + +=back + +=item CREDITS + +=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT + +=item Table of Contents + +perlfaq - this document, perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl, perlfaq2 +- Obtaining and Learning about Perl, perlfaq3 - Programming Tools, perlfaq4 +- Data Manipulation, perlfaq5 - Files and Formats, perlfaq6 - Regular +Expressions, perlfaq7 - General Perl Language Issues, perlfaq8 - System +Interaction, perlfaq9 - Networking + +=item The Questions + +=over 4 + +=item L<perlfaq1>: General Questions About Perl + +=item L<perlfaq2>: Obtaining and Learning about Perl + +=item L<perlfaq3>: Programming Tools + +=item L<perlfaq4>: Data Manipulation + +=item L<perlfaq5>: Files and Formats + +=item L<perlfaq6>: Regular Expressions + +=item L<perlfaq7>: General Perl Language Issues + +=item L<perlfaq8>: System Interaction + +=item L<perlfaq9>: Networking + +=back + +=back + +=head2 perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item What is Perl? + +=item Who supports Perl? Who develops it? Why is it free? + +=item Which version of Perl should I use? + +=item What are Perl 4, Perl 5, or Perl 6? + +=item What was Ponie? + +=item What is Perl 6? + +=item How stable is Perl? + +=item Is Perl difficult to learn? + +=item How does Perl compare with other languages like Java, Python, REXX, +Scheme, or Tcl? + +=item Can I do [task] in Perl? + +=item When shouldn't I program in Perl? + +=item What's the difference between "perl" and "Perl"? + +=item Is it a Perl program or a Perl script? + +=item What is a JAPH? + +=item Where can I get a list of Larry Wall witticisms? + +=item How can I convince others to use Perl? + +http://perltraining.com.au/whyperl.html, +http://www.perl.org/advocacy/whyperl.html + +=back + +=item REVISION + +=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item What machines support perl? Where do I get it? + +=item How can I get a binary version of perl? + +=item I don't have a C compiler. How can I build my own Perl interpreter? + +=item I copied the perl binary from one machine to another, but scripts +don't work. + +=item I grabbed the sources and tried to compile but gdbm/dynamic +loading/malloc/linking/... failed. How do I make it work? + +=item What modules and extensions are available for Perl? What is CPAN? +What does CPAN/src/... mean? + +=item Is there an ISO or ANSI certified version of Perl? + +=item Where can I get information on Perl? + +=item What are the Perl newsgroups on Usenet? Where do I post questions? + +=item Where should I post source code? + +=item Perl Books + +References, Tutorials, Task-Oriented, Special Topics + +=item Which magazines have Perl content? + +=item What mailing lists are there for Perl? + +=item Where are the archives for comp.lang.perl.misc? + +=item Where can I buy a commercial version of perl? + +=item Where do I send bug reports? + +=item What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org? cpan.org? + +=back + +=item REVISION + +=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 perlfaq3 - Programming Tools + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item How do I do (anything)? + +=item How can I use Perl interactively? + +=item Is there a Perl shell? + +=item How do I find which modules are installed on my system? + +=item How do I debug my Perl programs? + +=item How do I profile my Perl programs? + +=item How do I cross-reference my Perl programs? + +=item Is there a pretty-printer (formatter) for Perl? + +=item Is there a ctags for Perl? + +=item Is there an IDE or Windows Perl Editor? + +Eclipse, Enginsite, Komodo, Open Perl IDE, OptiPerl, Padre, PerlBuilder, +visiPerl+, Visual Perl, Zeus, GNU Emacs, MicroEMACS, XEmacs, Jed, Elvis, +Vile, Vim, Codewright, MultiEdit, SlickEdit, ConTEXT, Bash, Ksh, Tcsh, Zsh, +Affrus, Alpha, BBEdit and BBEdit Lite + +=item Where can I get Perl macros for vi? + +=item Where can I get perl-mode for emacs? + +=item How can I use curses with Perl? + +=item How can I write a GUI (X, Tk, Gtk, etc.) in Perl? +X<GUI> X<Tk> X<Wx> X<WxWidgets> X<Gtk> X<Gtk2> X<CamelBones> X<Qt> + +Tk, Wx, Gtk and Gtk2, Win32::GUI, CamelBones, Qt, Athena + +=item How can I make my Perl program run faster? + +=item How can I make my Perl program take less memory? + +Don't slurp!, Use map and grep selectively, Avoid unnecessary quotes and +stringification, Pass by reference, Tie large variables to disk + +=item Is it safe to return a reference to local or lexical data? + +=item How can I free an array or hash so my program shrinks? + +=item How can I make my CGI script more efficient? + +=item How can I hide the source for my Perl program? + +=item How can I compile my Perl program into byte code or C? + +=item How can I get C<#!perl> to work on [MS-DOS,NT,...]? + +=item Can I write useful Perl programs on the command line? + +=item Why don't Perl one-liners work on my DOS/Mac/VMS system? + +=item Where can I learn about CGI or Web programming in Perl? + +=item Where can I learn about object-oriented Perl programming? + +=item Where can I learn about linking C with Perl? + +=item I've read perlembed, perlguts, etc., but I can't embed perl in my C +program; what am I doing wrong? + +=item When I tried to run my script, I got this message. What does it mean? + +=item What's MakeMaker? + +=back + +=item REVISION + +=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Data: Numbers + +=over 4 + +=item Why am I getting long decimals (eg, 19.9499999999999) instead of the +numbers I should be getting (eg, 19.95)? + +=item Why is int() broken? + +=item Why isn't my octal data interpreted correctly? + +=item Does Perl have a round() function? What about ceil() and floor()? +Trig functions? + +=item How do I convert between numeric representations/bases/radixes? + +How do I convert hexadecimal into decimal, How do I convert from decimal to +hexadecimal, How do I convert from octal to decimal, How do I convert from +decimal to octal, How do I convert from binary to decimal, How do I convert +from decimal to binary + +=item Why doesn't & work the way I want it to? + +=item How do I multiply matrices? + +=item How do I perform an operation on a series of integers? + +=item How can I output Roman numerals? + +=item Why aren't my random numbers random? + +=item How do I get a random number between X and Y? + +=back + +=item Data: Dates + +=over 4 + +=item How do I find the day or week of the year? + +=item How do I find the current century or millennium? + +=item How can I compare two dates and find the difference? + +=item How can I take a string and turn it into epoch seconds? + +=item How can I find the Julian Day? + +=item How do I find yesterday's date? +X<date> X<yesterday> X<DateTime> X<Date::Calc> X<Time::Local> +X<daylight saving time> X<day> X<Today_and_Now> X<localtime> +X<timelocal> + +=item Does Perl have a Year 2000 problem? Is Perl Y2K compliant? + +=back + +=item Data: Strings + +=over 4 + +=item How do I validate input? + +=item How do I unescape a string? + +=item How do I remove consecutive pairs of characters? + +=item How do I expand function calls in a string? + +=item How do I find matching/nesting anything? + +=item How do I reverse a string? + +=item How do I expand tabs in a string? + +=item How do I reformat a paragraph? + +=item How can I access or change N characters of a string? + +=item How do I change the Nth occurrence of something? + +=item How can I count the number of occurrences of a substring within a +string? + +=item Does Perl have a Year 2038 problem? + +=item How do I capitalize all the words on one line? +X<Text::Autoformat> X<capitalize> X<case, title> X<case, sentence> + +=item How can I split a [character] delimited string except when inside +[character]? + +=item How do I strip blank space from the beginning/end of a string? + +=item How do I pad a string with blanks or pad a number with zeroes? + +=item How do I extract selected columns from a string? + +=item How do I find the soundex value of a string? + +=item How can I expand variables in text strings? + +=item What's wrong with always quoting "$vars"? + +=item Why don't my E<lt>E<lt>HERE documents work? + +There must be no space after the E<lt>E<lt> part, There (probably) should +be a semicolon at the end, You can't (easily) have any space in front of +the tag + +=back + +=item Data: Arrays + +=over 4 + +=item What is the difference between a list and an array? + +=item What is the difference between $array[1] and @array[1]? + +=item How can I remove duplicate elements from a list or array? + +=item How can I tell whether a certain element is contained in a list or +array? + +=item How do I compute the difference of two arrays? How do I compute the +intersection of two arrays? + +=item How do I test whether two arrays or hashes are equal? + +=item How do I find the first array element for which a condition is true? + +=item How do I handle linked lists? + +=item How do I handle circular lists? +X<circular> X<array> X<Tie::Cycle> X<Array::Iterator::Circular> +X<cycle> X<modulus> + +=item How do I shuffle an array randomly? + +=item How do I process/modify each element of an array? + +=item How do I select a random element from an array? + +=item How do I permute N elements of a list? +X<List::Permuter> X<permute> X<Algorithm::Loops> X<Knuth> +X<The Art of Computer Programming> X<Fischer-Krause> + +=item How do I sort an array by (anything)? + +=item How do I manipulate arrays of bits? + +=item Why does defined() return true on empty arrays and hashes? + +=back + +=item Data: Hashes (Associative Arrays) + +=over 4 + +=item How do I process an entire hash? + +=item How do I merge two hashes? +X<hash> X<merge> X<slice, hash> + +=item What happens if I add or remove keys from a hash while iterating over +it? + +=item How do I look up a hash element by value? + +=item How can I know how many entries are in a hash? + +=item How do I sort a hash (optionally by value instead of key)? + +=item How can I always keep my hash sorted? +X<hash tie sort DB_File Tie::IxHash> + +=item What's the difference between "delete" and "undef" with hashes? + +=item Why don't my tied hashes make the defined/exists distinction? + +=item How do I reset an each() operation part-way through? + +=item How can I get the unique keys from two hashes? + +=item How can I store a multidimensional array in a DBM file? + +=item How can I make my hash remember the order I put elements into it? + +=item Why does passing a subroutine an undefined element in a hash create +it? + +=item How can I make the Perl equivalent of a C structure/C++ class/hash or +array of hashes or arrays? + +=item How can I use a reference as a hash key? + +=back + +=item Data: Misc + +=over 4 + +=item How do I handle binary data correctly? + +=item How do I determine whether a scalar is a number/whole/integer/float? + +=item How do I keep persistent data across program calls? + +=item How do I print out or copy a recursive data structure? + +=item How do I define methods for every class/object? + +=item How do I verify a credit card checksum? + +=item How do I pack arrays of doubles or floats for XS code? + +=back + +=item REVISION + +=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 perlfaq5 - Files and Formats + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item How do I flush/unbuffer an output filehandle? Why must I do this? +X<flush> X<buffer> X<unbuffer> X<autoflush> + +=item How do I change, delete, or insert a line in a file, or append to the +beginning of a file? +X<file, editing> + +=item How do I count the number of lines in a file? +X<file, counting lines> X<lines> X<line> + +=item How can I use Perl's C<-i> option from within a program? +X<-i> X<in-place> + +=item How can I copy a file? +X<copy> X<file, copy> X<File::Copy> + +=item How do I make a temporary file name? +X<file, temporary> + +=item How can I manipulate fixed-record-length files? +X<fixed-length> X<file, fixed-length records> + +=item How can I make a filehandle local to a subroutine? How do I pass +filehandles between subroutines? How do I make an array of filehandles? +X<filehandle, local> X<filehandle, passing> X<filehandle, reference> + +=item How can I use a filehandle indirectly? +X<filehandle, indirect> + +=item How can I set up a footer format to be used with write()? +X<footer> + +=item How can I write() into a string? +X<write, into a string> + +=item How can I open a filehandle to a string? +X<string> X<open> X<IO::String> X<filehandle> + +=item How can I output my numbers with commas added? +X<number, commify> + +=item How can I translate tildes (~) in a filename? +X<tilde> X<tilde expansion> + +=item How come when I open a file read-write it wipes it out? +X<clobber> X<read-write> X<clobbering> X<truncate> X<truncating> + +=item Why do I sometimes get an "Argument list too long" when I use +E<lt>*E<gt>? +X<argument list too long> + +=item Is there a leak/bug in glob()? +X<glob> + +=item How can I open a file with a leading ">" or trailing blanks? +X<filename, special characters> + +=item How can I reliably rename a file? +X<rename> X<mv> X<move> X<file, rename> X<ren> + +=item How can I lock a file? +X<lock> X<file, lock> X<flock> + +=item Why can't I just open(FH, "E<gt>file.lock")? +X<lock, lockfile race condition> + +=item I still don't get locking. I just want to increment the number in +the file. How can I do this? +X<counter> X<file, counter> + +=item All I want to do is append a small amount of text to the end of a +file. Do I still have to use locking? +X<append> X<file, append> + +=item How do I randomly update a binary file? +X<file, binary patch> + +=item How do I get a file's timestamp in perl? +X<timestamp> X<file, timestamp> + +=item How do I set a file's timestamp in perl? +X<timestamp> X<file, timestamp> + +=item How do I print to more than one file at once? +X<print, to multiple files> + +=item How can I read in an entire file all at once? +X<slurp> X<file, slurping> + +=item How can I read in a file by paragraphs? +X<file, reading by paragraphs> + +=item How can I read a single character from a file? From the keyboard? +X<getc> X<file, reading one character at a time> + +=item How can I tell whether there's a character waiting on a filehandle? + +=item How do I do a C<tail -f> in perl? +X<tail> X<IO::Handle> X<File::Tail> X<clearerr> + +=item How do I dup() a filehandle in Perl? +X<dup> + +=item How do I close a file descriptor by number? +X<file, closing file descriptors> X<POSIX> X<close> + +=item Why can't I use "C:\temp\foo" in DOS paths? Why doesn't +`C:\temp\foo.exe` work? +X<filename, DOS issues> + +=item Why doesn't glob("*.*") get all the files? +X<glob> + +=item Why does Perl let me delete read-only files? Why does C<-i> clobber +protected files? Isn't this a bug in Perl? + +=item How do I select a random line from a file? +X<file, selecting a random line> + +=item Why do I get weird spaces when I print an array of lines? + +=item How do I traverse a directory tree? + +=item How do I delete a directory tree? + +=item How do I copy an entire directory? + +=back + +=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 perlfaq6 - Regular Expressions + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item How can I hope to use regular expressions without creating illegible +and unmaintainable code? +X<regex, legibility> X<regexp, legibility> +X<regular expression, legibility> X</x> + +Comments Outside the Regex, Comments Inside the Regex, Different Delimiters + +=item I'm having trouble matching over more than one line. What's wrong? +X<regex, multiline> X<regexp, multiline> X<regular expression, multiline> + +=item How can I pull out lines between two patterns that are themselves on +different lines? +X<..> + +=item How do I match XML, HTML, or other nasty, ugly things with a regex? +X<regex, XML> X<regex, HTML> X<XML> X<HTML> X<pain> X<frustration> +X<sucking out, will to live> + +Solve the balanced text problem from another question in L<perlfaq6>, Try +the recursive regex features in Perl 5.10 and later. See L<perlre>, Try +defining a grammar using Perl 5.10's C<(?DEFINE)> feature, Break the +problem down into sub-problems instead of trying to use a single regex, +Convince everyone not to use XML or HTML in the first place + +=item I put a regular expression into $/ but it didn't work. What's wrong? +X<$/, regexes in> X<$INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR, regexes in> +X<$RS, regexes in> + +=item How do I substitute case insensitively on the LHS while preserving +case on the RHS? +X<replace, case preserving> X<substitute, case preserving> +X<substitution, case preserving> X<s, case preserving> + +=item How can I make C<\w> match national character sets? +X<\w> + +=item How can I match a locale-smart version of C</[a-zA-Z]/>? +X<alpha> + +=item How can I quote a variable to use in a regex? +X<regex, escaping> X<regexp, escaping> X<regular expression, escaping> + +=item What is C</o> really for? +X</o, regular expressions> X<compile, regular expressions> + +=item How do I use a regular expression to strip C style comments from a +file? + +=item Can I use Perl regular expressions to match balanced text? +X<regex, matching balanced test> X<regexp, matching balanced test> +X<regular expression, matching balanced test> X<possessive> X<PARNO> +X<Text::Balanced> X<Regexp::Common> X<backtracking> X<recursion> + +=item What does it mean that regexes are greedy? How can I get around it? +X<greedy> X<greediness> + +=item How do I process each word on each line? +X<word> + +=item How can I print out a word-frequency or line-frequency summary? + +=item How can I do approximate matching? +X<match, approximate> X<matching, approximate> + +=item How do I efficiently match many regular expressions at once? +X<regex, efficiency> X<regexp, efficiency> +X<regular expression, efficiency> + +=item Why don't word-boundary searches with C<\b> work for me? +X<\b> + +=item Why does using $&, $`, or $' slow my program down? +X<$MATCH> X<$&> X<$POSTMATCH> X<$'> X<$PREMATCH> X<$`> + +=item What good is C<\G> in a regular expression? +X<\G> + +=item Are Perl regexes DFAs or NFAs? Are they POSIX compliant? +X<DFA> X<NFA> X<POSIX> + +=item What's wrong with using grep in a void context? +X<grep> + +=item How can I match strings with multibyte characters? +X<regex, and multibyte characters> X<regexp, and multibyte characters> +X<regular expression, and multibyte characters> X<martian> X<encoding, +Martian> + +=item How do I match a regular expression that's in a variable? +X<regex, in variable> X<eval> X<regex> X<quotemeta> X<\Q, regex> +X<\E, regex>, X<qr//> + +=back + +=item REVISION + +=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 perlfaq7 - General Perl Language Issues + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Can I get a BNF/yacc/RE for the Perl language? + +=item What are all these $@%&* punctuation signs, and how do I know when to +use them? + +=item Do I always/never have to quote my strings or use semicolons and +commas? + +=item How do I skip some return values? + +=item How do I temporarily block warnings? + +=item What's an extension? + +=item Why do Perl operators have different precedence than C operators? + +=item How do I declare/create a structure? + +=item How do I create a module? + +=item How do I adopt or take over a module already on CPAN? + +=item How do I create a class? +X<class, creation> X<package> + +=item How can I tell if a variable is tainted? + +=item What's a closure? + +=item What is variable suicide and how can I prevent it? + +=item How can I pass/return a {Function, FileHandle, Array, Hash, Method, +Regex}? + +Passing Variables and Functions, Passing Filehandles, Passing Regexes, +Passing Methods + +=item How do I create a static variable? + +=item What's the difference between dynamic and lexical (static) scoping? +Between local() and my()? + +=item How can I access a dynamic variable while a similarly named lexical +is in scope? + +=item What's the difference between deep and shallow binding? + +=item Why doesn't "my($foo) = E<lt>FILEE<gt>;" work right? + +=item How do I redefine a builtin function, operator, or method? + +=item What's the difference between calling a function as &foo and foo()? + +=item How do I create a switch or case statement? + +=item How can I catch accesses to undefined variables, functions, or +methods? + +=item Why can't a method included in this same file be found? + +=item How can I find out my current or calling package? + +=item How can I comment out a large block of Perl code? + +=item How do I clear a package? + +=item How can I use a variable as a variable name? + +=item What does "bad interpreter" mean? + +=back + +=item REVISION + +=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 perlfaq8 - System Interaction + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item How do I find out which operating system I'm running under? + +=item How come exec() doesn't return? +X<exec> X<system> X<fork> X<open> X<pipe> + +=item How do I do fancy stuff with the keyboard/screen/mouse? + +Keyboard, Screen, Mouse + +=item How do I print something out in color? + +=item How do I read just one key without waiting for a return key? + +=item How do I check whether input is ready on the keyboard? + +=item How do I clear the screen? + +=item How do I get the screen size? + +=item How do I ask the user for a password? + +=item How do I read and write the serial port? + +lockfiles, open mode, end of line, flushing output, non-blocking input + +=item How do I decode encrypted password files? + +=item How do I start a process in the background? + +STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR are shared, Signals, Zombies + +=item How do I trap control characters/signals? + +=item How do I modify the shadow password file on a Unix system? + +=item How do I set the time and date? + +=item How can I sleep() or alarm() for under a second? +X<Time::HiRes> X<BSD::Itimer> X<sleep> X<select> + +=item How can I measure time under a second? +X<Time::HiRes> X<BSD::Itimer> X<sleep> X<select> + +=item How can I do an atexit() or setjmp()/longjmp()? (Exception handling) + +=item Why doesn't my sockets program work under System V (Solaris)? What +does the error message "Protocol not supported" mean? + +=item How can I call my system's unique C functions from Perl? + +=item Where do I get the include files to do ioctl() or syscall()? + +=item Why do setuid perl scripts complain about kernel problems? + +=item How can I open a pipe both to and from a command? + +=item Why can't I get the output of a command with system()? + +=item How can I capture STDERR from an external command? + +=item Why doesn't open() return an error when a pipe open fails? + +=item What's wrong with using backticks in a void context? + +=item How can I call backticks without shell processing? + +=item Why can't my script read from STDIN after I gave it EOF (^D on Unix, +^Z on MS-DOS)? + +=item How can I convert my shell script to perl? + +=item Can I use perl to run a telnet or ftp session? + +=item How can I write expect in Perl? + +=item Is there a way to hide perl's command line from programs such as +"ps"? + +=item I {changed directory, modified my environment} in a perl script. How +come the change disappeared when I exited the script? How do I get my +changes to be visible? + +Unix + +=item How do I close a process's filehandle without waiting for it to +complete? + +=item How do I fork a daemon process? + +=item How do I find out if I'm running interactively or not? + +=item How do I timeout a slow event? + +=item How do I set CPU limits? +X<BSD::Resource> X<limit> X<CPU> + +=item How do I avoid zombies on a Unix system? + +=item How do I use an SQL database? + +=item How do I make a system() exit on control-C? + +=item How do I open a file without blocking? + +=item How do I tell the difference between errors from the shell and perl? + +=item How do I install a module from CPAN? + +=item What's the difference between require and use? + +=item How do I keep my own module/library directory? + +=item How do I add the directory my program lives in to the module/library +search path? + +=item How do I add a directory to my include path (@INC) at runtime? + +the PERLLIB environment variable, the PERL5LIB environment variable, the +perl -Idir command line flag, the use lib pragma: + +=item What is socket.ph and where do I get it? + +=back + +=item REVISION + +=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 perlfaq9 - Networking + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item What is the correct form of response from a CGI script? + +=item My CGI script runs from the command line but not the browser. (500 +Server Error) + +=item How can I get better error messages from a CGI program? + +=item How do I remove HTML from a string? + +=item How do I extract URLs? + +=item How do I download a file from the user's machine? How do I open a +file on another machine? + +=item How do I make an HTML pop-up menu with Perl? + +=item How do I fetch an HTML file? + +=item How do I automate an HTML form submission? + +=item How do I decode or create those %-encodings on the web? +X<URI> X<CGI.pm> X<CGI> X<URI::Escape> X<RFC 2396> + +=item How do I redirect to another page? + +=item How do I put a password on my web pages? + +=item How do I edit my .htpasswd and .htgroup files with Perl? + +=item How do I make sure users can't enter values into a form that cause my +CGI script to do bad things? + +=item How do I parse a mail header? + +=item How do I decode a CGI form? + +=item How do I check a valid mail address? + +=item How do I decode a MIME/BASE64 string? + +=item How do I return the user's mail address? + +=item How do I send mail? + +=item How do I use MIME to make an attachment to a mail message? + +=item How do I read mail? + +=item How do I find out my hostname, domainname, or IP address? +X<hostname, domainname, IP address, host, domain, hostfqdn, inet_ntoa, +gethostbyname, Socket, Net::Domain, Sys::Hostname> + +=item How do I fetch a news article or the active newsgroups? + +=item How do I fetch/put an FTP file? + +=item How can I do RPC in Perl? + +=back + +=item REVISION + +=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 perlsyn - Perl syntax + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Declarations +X<declaration> X<undef> X<undefined> X<uninitialized> + +=item Comments +X<comment> X<#> + +=item Simple Statements +X<statement> X<semicolon> X<expression> X<;> + +=item Truth and Falsehood +X<truth> X<falsehood> X<true> X<false> X<!> X<not> X<negation> X<0> + +=item Statement Modifiers +X<statement modifier> X<modifier> X<if> X<unless> X<while> +X<until> X<foreach> X<for> + +=item Compound Statements +X<statement, compound> X<block> X<bracket, curly> X<curly bracket> X<brace> +X<{> X<}> X<if> X<unless> X<while> X<until> X<foreach> X<for> X<continue> + +=item Loop Control +X<loop control> X<loop, control> X<next> X<last> X<redo> X<continue> + +=item For Loops +X<for> X<foreach> + +=item Foreach Loops +X<for> X<foreach> + +=item Basic BLOCKs +X<block> + +=item Switch statements +X<switch> X<case> X<given> X<when> X<default> + +=item Goto +X<goto> + +=item PODs: Embedded Documentation +X<POD> X<documentation> + +=item Plain Old Comments (Not!) +X<comment> X<line> X<#> X<preprocessor> X<eval> + +=back + +=back + +=head2 perldata - Perl data types + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Variable names +X<variable, name> X<variable name> X<data type> X<type> + +=item Context +X<context> X<scalar context> X<list context> + +=item Scalar values +X<scalar> X<number> X<string> X<reference> + +=item Scalar value constructors +X<scalar, literal> X<scalar, constant> + +=item List value constructors +X<list> + +=item Subscripts + +=item Slices +X<slice> X<array, slice> X<hash, slice> + +=item Typeglobs and Filehandles +X<typeglob> X<filehandle> X<*> + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perlop - Perl operators and precedence + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Operator Precedence and Associativity +X<operator, precedence> X<precedence> X<associativity> + +=item Terms and List Operators (Leftward) +X<list operator> X<operator, list> X<term> + +=item The Arrow Operator +X<arrow> X<dereference> X<< -> >> + +=item Auto-increment and Auto-decrement +X<increment> X<auto-increment> X<++> X<decrement> X<auto-decrement> X<--> + +=item Exponentiation +X<**> X<exponentiation> X<power> + +=item Symbolic Unary Operators +X<unary operator> X<operator, unary> + +=item Binding Operators +X<binding> X<operator, binding> X<=~> X<!~> + +=item Multiplicative Operators +X<operator, multiplicative> + +=item Additive Operators +X<operator, additive> + +=item Shift Operators +X<shift operator> X<operator, shift> X<<< << >>> +X<<< >> >>> X<right shift> X<left shift> X<bitwise shift> +X<shl> X<shr> X<shift, right> X<shift, left> + +=item Named Unary Operators +X<operator, named unary> + +=item Relational Operators +X<relational operator> X<operator, relational> + +=item Equality Operators +X<equality> X<equal> X<equals> X<operator, equality> + +=item Bitwise And +X<operator, bitwise, and> X<bitwise and> X<&> + +=item Bitwise Or and Exclusive Or +X<operator, bitwise, or> X<bitwise or> X<|> X<operator, bitwise, xor> +X<bitwise xor> X<^> + +=item C-style Logical And +X<&&> X<logical and> X<operator, logical, and> + +=item C-style Logical Or +X<||> X<operator, logical, or> + +=item C-style Logical Defined-Or +X<//> X<operator, logical, defined-or> + +=item Range Operators +X<operator, range> X<range> X<..> X<...> + +=item Conditional Operator +X<operator, conditional> X<operator, ternary> X<ternary> X<?:> + +=item Assignment Operators +X<assignment> X<operator, assignment> X<=> X<**=> X<+=> X<*=> X<&=> +X<<< <<= >>> X<&&=> X<-=> X</=> X<|=> X<<< >>= >>> X<||=> X<//=> X<.=> +X<%=> X<^=> X<x=> + +=item Comma Operator +X<comma> X<operator, comma> X<,> + +=item List Operators (Rightward) +X<operator, list, rightward> X<list operator> + +=item Logical Not +X<operator, logical, not> X<not> + +=item Logical And +X<operator, logical, and> X<and> + +=item Logical or, Defined or, and Exclusive Or +X<operator, logical, or> X<operator, logical, xor> +X<operator, logical, defined or> X<operator, logical, exclusive or> +X<or> X<xor> + +=item C Operators Missing From Perl +X<operator, missing from perl> X<&> X<*> +X<typecasting> X<(TYPE)> + +unary &, unary *, (TYPE) + +=item Quote and Quote-like Operators +X<operator, quote> X<operator, quote-like> X<q> X<qq> X<qx> X<qw> X<m> +X<qr> X<s> X<tr> X<'> X<''> X<"> X<""> X<//> X<`> X<``> X<<< << >>> +X<escape sequence> X<escape> + +=item Regexp Quote-Like Operators +X<operator, regexp> + +qr/STRING/msixpo X<qr> X</i> X</m> X</o> X</s> X</x> X</p>, +m/PATTERN/msixpogc X<m> X<operator, match> X<regexp, options> X<regexp> +X<regex, options> X<regex> X</m> X</s> X</i> X</x> X</p> X</o> X</g> X</c>, +/PATTERN/msixpogc, The empty pattern //, Matching in list context, \G +assertion, ?PATTERN? X<?>, s/PATTERN/REPLACEMENT/msixpogce X<substitute> +X<substitution> X<replace> X<regexp, replace> X<regexp, substitute> X</m> +X</s> X</i> X</x> X</p> X</o> X</g> X</c> X</e> + +=item Quote-Like Operators +X<operator, quote-like> + +q/STRING/ X<q> X<quote, single> X<'> X<''>, 'STRING', qq/STRING/ X<qq> +X<quote, double> X<"> X<"">, "STRING", qx/STRING/ X<qx> X<`> X<``> +X<backtick>, `STRING`, qw/STRING/ X<qw> X<quote, list> X<quote, words>, +tr/SEARCHLIST/REPLACEMENTLIST/cds X<tr> X<y> X<transliterate> X</c> X</d> +X</s>, y/SEARCHLIST/REPLACEMENTLIST/cds, <<EOF X<here-doc> X<heredoc> +X<here-document> X<<< << >>>, Double Quotes, Single Quotes, Backticks + +=item Gory details of parsing quoted constructs +X<quote, gory details> + +Finding the end, Interpolation X<interpolation>, C<<<'EOF'>, C<m''>, the +pattern of C<s'''>, C<''>, C<q//>, C<tr'''>, C<y'''>, the replacement of +C<s'''>, C<tr///>, C<y///>, C<"">, C<``>, C<qq//>, C<qx//>, C<< <file*glob> +>>, C<<<"EOF">, the replacement of C<s///>, C<RE> in C<?RE?>, C</RE/>, +C<m/RE/>, C<s/RE/foo/>,, parsing regular expressions X<regexp, parse>, +Optimization of regular expressions X<regexp, optimization> + +=item I/O Operators +X<operator, i/o> X<operator, io> X<io> X<while> X<filehandle> +X<< <> >> X<@ARGV> + +=item Constant Folding +X<constant folding> X<folding> + +=item No-ops +X<no-op> X<nop> + +=item Bitwise String Operators +X<operator, bitwise, string> + +=item Integer Arithmetic +X<integer> + +=item Floating-point Arithmetic +X<floating-point> X<floating point> X<float> X<real> + +=item Bigger Numbers +X<number, arbitrary precision> + +=back + +=back + +=head2 perlsub - Perl subroutines + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Private Variables via my() +X<my> X<variable, lexical> X<lexical> X<lexical variable> X<scope, lexical> +X<lexical scope> X<attributes, my> + +=item Persistent Private Variables +X<state> X<state variable> X<static> X<variable, persistent> X<variable, +static> X<closure> + +=item Temporary Values via local() +X<local> X<scope, dynamic> X<dynamic scope> X<variable, local> +X<variable, temporary> + +=item Lvalue subroutines +X<lvalue> X<subroutine, lvalue> + +Lvalue subroutines are EXPERIMENTAL + +=item Passing Symbol Table Entries (typeglobs) +X<typeglob> X<*> + +=item When to Still Use local() +X<local> X<variable, local> + +=item Pass by Reference +X<pass by reference> X<pass-by-reference> X<reference> + +=item Prototypes +X<prototype> X<subroutine, prototype> + +=item Constant Functions +X<constant> + +=item Overriding Built-in Functions +X<built-in> X<override> X<CORE> X<CORE::GLOBAL> + +=item Autoloading +X<autoloading> X<AUTOLOAD> + +=item Subroutine Attributes +X<attribute> X<subroutine, attribute> X<attrs> + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perlfunc - Perl builtin functions + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Perl Functions by Category +X<function> + +Functions for SCALARs or strings X<scalar> X<string> X<character>, Regular +expressions and pattern matching X<regular expression> X<regex> X<regexp>, +Numeric functions X<numeric> X<number> X<trigonometric> X<trigonometry>, +Functions for real @ARRAYs X<array>, Functions for list data X<list>, +Functions for real %HASHes X<hash>, Input and output functions X<I/O> +X<input> X<output> X<dbm>, Functions for fixed length data or records, +Functions for filehandles, files, or directories X<file> X<filehandle> +X<directory> X<pipe> X<link> X<symlink>, Keywords related to the control +flow of your Perl program X<control flow>, Keywords related to switch, +Keywords related to scoping, Miscellaneous functions, Functions for +processes and process groups X<process> X<pid> X<process id>, Keywords +related to perl modules X<module>, Keywords related to classes and +object-orientation X<object> X<class> X<package>, Low-level socket +functions X<socket> X<sock>, System V interprocess communication functions +X<IPC> X<System V> X<semaphore> X<shared memory> X<memory> X<message>, +Fetching user and group info X<user> X<group> X<password> X<uid> X<gid> +X<passwd> X</etc/passwd>, Fetching network info X<network> X<protocol> +X<host> X<hostname> X<IP> X<address> X<service>, Time-related functions +X<time> X<date>, Functions new in perl5 X<perl5>, Functions obsoleted in +perl5 + +=item Portability +X<portability> X<Unix> X<portable> + +=item Alphabetical Listing of Perl Functions + +-I<X> FILEHANDLE +X<-r>X<-w>X<-x>X<-o>X<-R>X<-W>X<-X>X<-O>X<-e>X<-z>X<-s>X<-f>X<-d>X<-l>X<-p> +X<-S>X<-b>X<-c>X<-t>X<-u>X<-g>X<-k>X<-T>X<-B>X<-M>X<-A>X<-C>, -I<X> EXPR, +-I<X> DIRHANDLE, -I<X>, abs VALUE X<abs> X<absolute>, abs, accept +NEWSOCKET,GENERICSOCKET X<accept>, alarm SECONDS X<alarm> X<SIGALRM> +X<timer>, alarm, atan2 Y,X X<atan2> X<arctangent> X<tan> X<tangent>, bind +SOCKET,NAME X<bind>, binmode FILEHANDLE, LAYER X<binmode> X<binary> X<text> +X<DOS> X<Windows>, binmode FILEHANDLE, bless REF,CLASSNAME X<bless>, bless +REF, break, caller EXPR X<caller> X<call stack> X<stack> X<stack trace>, +caller, chdir EXPR X<chdir> X<cd> X<directory, change>, chdir FILEHANDLE, +chdir DIRHANDLE, chdir, chmod LIST X<chmod> X<permission> X<mode>, chomp +VARIABLE X<chomp> X<INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR> X<$/> X<newline> X<eol>, chomp( +LIST ), chomp, chop VARIABLE X<chop>, chop( LIST ), chop, chown LIST +X<chown> X<owner> X<user> X<group>, chr NUMBER X<chr> X<character> X<ASCII> +X<Unicode>, chr, chroot FILENAME X<chroot> X<root>, chroot, close +FILEHANDLE X<close>, close, closedir DIRHANDLE X<closedir>, connect +SOCKET,NAME X<connect>, continue BLOCK X<continue>, continue, cos EXPR +X<cos> X<cosine> X<acos> X<arccosine>, cos, crypt PLAINTEXT,SALT X<crypt> +X<digest> X<hash> X<salt> X<plaintext> X<password> X<decrypt> +X<cryptography> X<passwd> X<encrypt>, dbmclose HASH X<dbmclose>, dbmopen +HASH,DBNAME,MASK X<dbmopen> X<dbm> X<ndbm> X<sdbm> X<gdbm>, defined EXPR +X<defined> X<undef> X<undefined>, defined, delete EXPR X<delete>, die LIST +X<die> X<throw> X<exception> X<raise> X<$@> X<abort>, do BLOCK X<do> +X<block>, do SUBROUTINE(LIST) X<do>, do EXPR X<do>, dump LABEL X<dump> +X<core> X<undump>, dump, each HASH X<each> X<hash, iterator>, eof +FILEHANDLE X<eof> X<end of file> X<end-of-file>, eof (), eof, eval EXPR +X<eval> X<try> X<catch> X<evaluate> X<parse> X<execute> X<error, handling> +X<exception, handling>, eval BLOCK, eval, exec LIST X<exec> X<execute>, +exec PROGRAM LIST, exists EXPR X<exists> X<autovivification>, exit EXPR +X<exit> X<terminate> X<abort>, exit, exp EXPR X<exp> X<exponential> +X<antilog> X<antilogarithm> X<e>, exp, fcntl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR +X<fcntl>, fileno FILEHANDLE X<fileno>, flock FILEHANDLE,OPERATION X<flock> +X<lock> X<locking>, fork X<fork> X<child> X<parent>, format X<format>, +formline PICTURE,LIST X<formline>, getc FILEHANDLE X<getc> X<getchar> +X<character> X<file, read>, getc, getlogin X<getlogin> X<login>, +getpeername SOCKET X<getpeername> X<peer>, getpgrp PID X<getpgrp> X<group>, +getppid X<getppid> X<parent> X<pid>, getpriority WHICH,WHO X<getpriority> +X<priority> X<nice>, getpwnam NAME X<getpwnam> X<getgrnam> X<gethostbyname> +X<getnetbyname> X<getprotobyname> X<getpwuid> X<getgrgid> X<getservbyname> +X<gethostbyaddr> X<getnetbyaddr> X<getprotobynumber> X<getservbyport> +X<getpwent> X<getgrent> X<gethostent> X<getnetent> X<getprotoent> +X<getservent> X<setpwent> X<setgrent> X<sethostent> X<setnetent> +X<setprotoent> X<setservent> X<endpwent> X<endgrent> X<endhostent> +X<endnetent> X<endprotoent> X<endservent>, getgrnam NAME, gethostbyname +NAME, getnetbyname NAME, getprotobyname NAME, getpwuid UID, getgrgid GID, +getservbyname NAME,PROTO, gethostbyaddr ADDR,ADDRTYPE, getnetbyaddr +ADDR,ADDRTYPE, getprotobynumber NUMBER, getservbyport PORT,PROTO, getpwent, +getgrent, gethostent, getnetent, getprotoent, getservent, setpwent, +setgrent, sethostent STAYOPEN, setnetent STAYOPEN, setprotoent STAYOPEN, +setservent STAYOPEN, endpwent, endgrent, endhostent, endnetent, +endprotoent, endservent, getsockname SOCKET X<getsockname>, getsockopt +SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME X<getsockopt>, glob EXPR X<glob> X<wildcard> +X<filename, expansion> X<expand>, glob, gmtime EXPR X<gmtime> X<UTC> +X<Greenwich>, gmtime, goto LABEL X<goto> X<jump> X<jmp>, goto EXPR, goto +&NAME, grep BLOCK LIST X<grep>, grep EXPR,LIST, hex EXPR X<hex> +X<hexadecimal>, hex, import LIST X<import>, index STR,SUBSTR,POSITION +X<index> X<indexOf> X<InStr>, index STR,SUBSTR, int EXPR X<int> X<integer> +X<truncate> X<trunc> X<floor>, int, ioctl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR +X<ioctl>, join EXPR,LIST X<join>, keys HASH X<keys> X<key>, kill SIGNAL, +LIST X<kill> X<signal>, last LABEL X<last> X<break>, last, lc EXPR X<lc> +X<lowercase>, lc, lcfirst EXPR X<lcfirst> X<lowercase>, lcfirst, length +EXPR X<length> X<size>, length, link OLDFILE,NEWFILE X<link>, listen +SOCKET,QUEUESIZE X<listen>, local EXPR X<local>, localtime EXPR +X<localtime> X<ctime>, localtime, lock THING X<lock>, log EXPR X<log> +X<logarithm> X<e> X<ln> X<base>, log, lstat EXPR X<lstat>, lstat, m//, map +BLOCK LIST X<map>, map EXPR,LIST, mkdir FILENAME,MASK X<mkdir> X<md> +X<directory, create>, mkdir FILENAME, mkdir, msgctl ID,CMD,ARG X<msgctl>, +msgget KEY,FLAGS X<msgget>, msgrcv ID,VAR,SIZE,TYPE,FLAGS X<msgrcv>, msgsnd +ID,MSG,FLAGS X<msgsnd>, my EXPR X<my>, my TYPE EXPR, my EXPR : ATTRS, my +TYPE EXPR : ATTRS, next LABEL X<next> X<continue>, next, no Module VERSION +LIST X<no>, no Module VERSION, no Module LIST, no Module, no VERSION, oct +EXPR X<oct> X<octal> X<hex> X<hexadecimal> X<binary> X<bin>, oct, open +FILEHANDLE,EXPR X<open> X<pipe> X<file, open> X<fopen>, open +FILEHANDLE,MODE,EXPR, open FILEHANDLE,MODE,EXPR,LIST, open +FILEHANDLE,MODE,REFERENCE, open FILEHANDLE, opendir DIRHANDLE,EXPR +X<opendir>, ord EXPR X<ord> X<encoding>, ord, our EXPR X<our> X<global>, +our TYPE EXPR, our EXPR : ATTRS, our TYPE EXPR : ATTRS, pack TEMPLATE,LIST +X<pack>, package NAMESPACE X<package> X<module> X<namespace>, package, pipe +READHANDLE,WRITEHANDLE X<pipe>, pop ARRAY X<pop> X<stack>, pop, pos SCALAR +X<pos> X<match, position>, pos, print FILEHANDLE LIST X<print>, print LIST, +print, printf FILEHANDLE FORMAT, LIST X<printf>, printf FORMAT, LIST, +prototype FUNCTION X<prototype>, push ARRAY,LIST X<push> X<stack>, +q/STRING/, qq/STRING/, qx/STRING/, qw/STRING/, qr/STRING/, quotemeta EXPR +X<quotemeta> X<metacharacter>, quotemeta, rand EXPR X<rand> X<random>, +rand, read FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET X<read> X<file, read>, read +FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH, readdir DIRHANDLE X<readdir>, readline EXPR, +readline X<readline> X<gets> X<fgets>, readlink EXPR X<readlink>, readlink, +readpipe EXPR, readpipe X<readpipe>, recv SOCKET,SCALAR,LENGTH,FLAGS +X<recv>, redo LABEL X<redo>, redo, ref EXPR X<ref> X<reference>, ref, +rename OLDNAME,NEWNAME X<rename> X<move> X<mv> X<ren>, require VERSION +X<require>, require EXPR, require, reset EXPR X<reset>, reset, return EXPR +X<return>, return, reverse LIST X<reverse> X<rev> X<invert>, rewinddir +DIRHANDLE X<rewinddir>, rindex STR,SUBSTR,POSITION X<rindex>, rindex +STR,SUBSTR, rmdir FILENAME X<rmdir> X<rd> X<directory, remove>, rmdir, +s///, say FILEHANDLE LIST X<say>, say LIST, say, scalar EXPR X<scalar> +X<context>, seek FILEHANDLE,POSITION,WHENCE X<seek> X<fseek> X<filehandle, +position>, seekdir DIRHANDLE,POS X<seekdir>, select FILEHANDLE X<select> +X<filehandle, default>, select, select RBITS,WBITS,EBITS,TIMEOUT X<select>, +semctl ID,SEMNUM,CMD,ARG X<semctl>, semget KEY,NSEMS,FLAGS X<semget>, semop +KEY,OPSTRING X<semop>, send SOCKET,MSG,FLAGS,TO X<send>, send +SOCKET,MSG,FLAGS, setpgrp PID,PGRP X<setpgrp> X<group>, setpriority +WHICH,WHO,PRIORITY X<setpriority> X<priority> X<nice> X<renice>, setsockopt +SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME,OPTVAL X<setsockopt>, shift ARRAY X<shift>, shift, +shmctl ID,CMD,ARG X<shmctl>, shmget KEY,SIZE,FLAGS X<shmget>, shmread +ID,VAR,POS,SIZE X<shmread> X<shmwrite>, shmwrite ID,STRING,POS,SIZE, +shutdown SOCKET,HOW X<shutdown>, sin EXPR X<sin> X<sine> X<asin> +X<arcsine>, sin, sleep EXPR X<sleep> X<pause>, sleep, socket +SOCKET,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL X<socket>, socketpair +SOCKET1,SOCKET2,DOMAIN,TYPE,PROTOCOL X<socketpair>, sort SUBNAME LIST +X<sort> X<qsort> X<quicksort> X<mergesort>, sort BLOCK LIST, sort LIST, +splice ARRAY,OFFSET,LENGTH,LIST X<splice>, splice ARRAY,OFFSET,LENGTH, +splice ARRAY,OFFSET, splice ARRAY, split /PATTERN/,EXPR,LIMIT X<split>, +split /PATTERN/,EXPR, split /PATTERN/, split, sprintf FORMAT, LIST +X<sprintf>, format parameter index, flags, vector flag, (minimum) width, +precision, or maximum width X<precision>, size, order of arguments, sqrt +EXPR X<sqrt> X<root> X<square root>, sqrt, srand EXPR X<srand> X<seed> +X<randseed>, srand, stat FILEHANDLE X<stat> X<file, status> X<ctime>, stat +EXPR, stat DIRHANDLE, stat, state EXPR X<state>, state TYPE EXPR, state +EXPR : ATTRS, state TYPE EXPR : ATTRS, study SCALAR X<study>, study, sub +NAME BLOCK X<sub>, sub NAME (PROTO) BLOCK, sub NAME : ATTRS BLOCK, sub NAME +(PROTO) : ATTRS BLOCK, substr EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH,REPLACEMENT X<substr> +X<substring> X<mid> X<left> X<right>, substr EXPR,OFFSET,LENGTH, substr +EXPR,OFFSET, symlink OLDFILE,NEWFILE X<symlink> X<link> X<symbolic link> +X<link, symbolic>, syscall NUMBER, LIST X<syscall> X<system call>, sysopen +FILEHANDLE,FILENAME,MODE X<sysopen>, sysopen +FILEHANDLE,FILENAME,MODE,PERMS, sysread FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET +X<sysread>, sysread FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH, sysseek +FILEHANDLE,POSITION,WHENCE X<sysseek> X<lseek>, system LIST X<system> +X<shell>, system PROGRAM LIST, syswrite FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET +X<syswrite>, syswrite FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH, syswrite FILEHANDLE,SCALAR, +tell FILEHANDLE X<tell>, tell, telldir DIRHANDLE X<telldir>, tie +VARIABLE,CLASSNAME,LIST X<tie>, tied VARIABLE X<tied>, time X<time> +X<epoch>, times X<times>, tr///, truncate FILEHANDLE,LENGTH X<truncate>, +truncate EXPR,LENGTH, uc EXPR X<uc> X<uppercase> X<toupper>, uc, ucfirst +EXPR X<ucfirst> X<uppercase>, ucfirst, umask EXPR X<umask>, umask, undef +EXPR X<undef> X<undefine>, undef, unlink LIST X<unlink> X<delete> X<remove> +X<rm> X<del>, unlink, unpack TEMPLATE,EXPR X<unpack>, unpack TEMPLATE, +untie VARIABLE X<untie>, unshift ARRAY,LIST X<unshift>, use Module VERSION +LIST X<use> X<module> X<import>, use Module VERSION, use Module LIST, use +Module, use VERSION, utime LIST X<utime>, values HASH X<values>, vec +EXPR,OFFSET,BITS X<vec> X<bit> X<bit vector>, wait X<wait>, waitpid +PID,FLAGS X<waitpid>, wantarray X<wantarray> X<context>, warn LIST X<warn> +X<warning> X<STDERR>, write FILEHANDLE X<write>, write EXPR, write, y/// + +=back + +=back + +=head2 perlopentut - tutorial on opening things in Perl + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Open E<agrave> la shell + +=over 4 + +=item Simple Opens + +=item Indirect Filehandles + +=item Pipe Opens + +=item The Minus File + +=item Mixing Reads and Writes + +=item Filters + +=back + +=item Open E<agrave> la C + +=over 4 + +=item Permissions E<agrave> la mode + +=back + +=item Obscure Open Tricks + +=over 4 + +=item Re-Opening Files (dups) + +=item Dispelling the Dweomer + +=item Paths as Opens + +=item Single Argument Open + +=item Playing with STDIN and STDOUT + +=back + +=item Other I/O Issues + +=over 4 + +=item Opening Non-File Files + +=item Opening Named Pipes + +=item Opening Sockets + +=item Binary Files + +=item File Locking + +=item IO Layers + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=head2 perlpacktut - tutorial on C<pack> and C<unpack> + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item The Basic Principle + +=item Packing Text + +=item Packing Numbers + +=over 4 + +=item Integers + +=item Unpacking a Stack Frame + +=item How to Eat an Egg on a Net + +=item Byte-order modifiers + +=item Floating point Numbers + +=back + +=item Exotic Templates + +=over 4 + +=item Bit Strings + +=item Uuencoding + +=item Doing Sums + +=item Unicode + +=item Another Portable Binary Encoding + +=back + +=item Template Grouping + +=item Lengths and Widths + +=over 4 + +=item String Lengths + +=item Dynamic Templates + +=item Counting Repetitions + +=item Intel HEX + +=back + +=item Packing and Unpacking C Structures + +=over 4 + +=item The Alignment Pit + +=item Dealing with Endian-ness + +=item Alignment, Take 2 + +=item Alignment, Take 3 + +=item Pointers for How to Use Them + +=back + +=item Pack Recipes + +=item Funnies Section + +=item Authors + +=back + +=head2 perlpod - the Plain Old Documentation format + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Ordinary Paragraph +X<POD, ordinary paragraph> + +=item Verbatim Paragraph +X<POD, verbatim paragraph> X<verbatim> + +=item Command Paragraph +X<POD, command> + +C<=head1 I<Heading Text>> X<=head1> X<=head2> X<=head3> X<=head4> X<head1> +X<head2> X<head3> X<head4>, C<=head2 I<Heading Text>>, C<=head3 I<Heading +Text>>, C<=head4 I<Heading Text>>, C<=over I<indentlevel>> X<=over> +X<=item> X<=back> X<over> X<item> X<back>, C<=item I<stuff...>>, C<=back>, +C<=cut> X<=cut> X<cut>, C<=pod> X<=pod> X<pod>, C<=begin I<formatname>> +X<=begin> X<=end> X<=for> X<begin> X<end> X<for>, C<=end I<formatname>>, +C<=for I<formatname> I<text...>>, C<=encoding I<encodingname>> X<=encoding> +X<encoding> + +=item Formatting Codes +X<POD, formatting code> X<formatting code> +X<POD, interior sequence> X<interior sequence> + +C<IE<lt>textE<gt>> -- italic text X<I> X<< IZ<><> >> X<POD, formatting +code, italic> X<italic>, C<BE<lt>textE<gt>> -- bold text X<B> X<< BZ<><> >> +X<POD, formatting code, bold> X<bold>, C<CE<lt>codeE<gt>> -- code text X<C> +X<< CZ<><> >> X<POD, formatting code, code> X<code>, C<LE<lt>nameE<gt>> -- +a hyperlink X<L> X<< LZ<><> >> X<POD, formatting code, hyperlink> +X<hyperlink>, C<EE<lt>escapeE<gt>> -- a character escape X<E> X<< EZ<><> >> +X<POD, formatting code, escape> X<escape>, C<FE<lt>filenameE<gt>> -- used +for filenames X<F> X<< FZ<><> >> X<POD, formatting code, filename> +X<filename>, C<SE<lt>textE<gt>> -- text contains non-breaking spaces X<S> +X<< SZ<><> >> X<POD, formatting code, non-breaking space> X<non-breaking +space>, C<XE<lt>topic nameE<gt>> -- an index entry X<X> X<< XZ<><> >> +X<POD, formatting code, index entry> X<index entry>, C<ZE<lt>E<gt>> -- a +null (zero-effect) formatting code X<Z> X<< ZZ<><> >> X<POD, formatting +code, null> X<null> + +=item The Intent +X<POD, intent of> + +=item Embedding Pods in Perl Modules +X<POD, embedding> + +=item Hints for Writing Pod + +X<podchecker> X<POD, validating> + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perlpodspec - Plain Old Documentation: format specification and +notes + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Pod Definitions + +=item Pod Commands + +"=head1", "=head2", "=head3", "=head4", "=pod", "=cut", "=over", "=item", +"=back", "=begin formatname", "=end formatname", "=for formatname text...", +"=encoding encodingname" + +=item Pod Formatting Codes + +C<IE<lt>textE<gt>> -- italic text, C<BE<lt>textE<gt>> -- bold text, +C<CE<lt>codeE<gt>> -- code text, C<FE<lt>filenameE<gt>> -- style for +filenames, C<XE<lt>topic nameE<gt>> -- an index entry, C<ZE<lt>E<gt>> -- a +null (zero-effect) formatting code, C<LE<lt>nameE<gt>> -- a hyperlink, +C<EE<lt>escapeE<gt>> -- a character escape, C<SE<lt>textE<gt>> -- text +contains non-breaking spaces + +=item Notes on Implementing Pod Processors + +=item About LE<lt>...E<gt> Codes + +First:, Second:, Third:, Fourth:, Fifth:, Sixth: + +=item About =over...=back Regions + +=item About Data Paragraphs and "=begin/=end" Regions + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perlrun - how to execute the Perl interpreter + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item #! and quoting on non-Unix systems +X<hashbang> X<#!> + +OS/2, MS-DOS, Win95/NT, Macintosh, VMS + +=item Location of Perl +X<perl, location of interpreter> + +=item Command Switches +X<perl, command switches> X<command switches> + +B<-0>[I<octal/hexadecimal>] X<-0> X<$/>, B<-a> X<-a> X<autosplit>, B<-C +[I<number/list>]> X<-C>, B<-c> X<-c>, B<-d> X<-d> X<-dt>, B<-dt>, +B<-d:>I<foo[=bar,baz]> X<-d> X<-dt>, B<-dt:>I<foo[=bar,baz]>, +B<-D>I<letters> X<-D> X<DEBUGGING> X<-DDEBUGGING>, B<-D>I<number>, B<-e> +I<commandline> X<-e>, B<-E> I<commandline> X<-E>, B<-f> X<-f>, +B<-F>I<pattern> X<-F>, B<-h> X<-h>, B<-i>[I<extension>] X<-i> X<in-place>, +B<-I>I<directory> X<-I> X<@INC>, B<-l>[I<octnum>] X<-l> X<$/> X<$\>, +B<-m>[B<->]I<module> X<-m> X<-M>, B<-M>[B<->]I<module>, +B<-M>[B<->]I<'module ...'>, B<-[mM]>[B<->]I<module=arg[,arg]...>, B<-n> +X<-n>, B<-p> X<-p>, B<-P> X<-P>, B<-s> X<-s>, B<-S> X<-S>, B<-t> X<-t>, +B<-T> X<-T>, B<-u> X<-u>, B<-U> X<-U>, B<-v> X<-v>, B<-V> X<-V>, +B<-V:>I<configvar>, B<-w> X<-w>, B<-W> X<-W>, B<-X> X<-X>, B<-x> X<-x>, +B<-x>I<directory> + +=back + +=item ENVIRONMENT +X<perl, environment variables> + +HOME X<HOME>, LOGDIR X<LOGDIR>, PATH X<PATH>, PERL5LIB X<PERL5LIB>, +PERL5OPT X<PERL5OPT>, PERLIO X<PERLIO>, :bytes X<:bytes>, :crlf X<:crlf>, +:mmap X<:mmap>, :perlio X<:perlio>, :pop X<:pop>, :raw X<:raw>, :stdio +X<:stdio>, :unix X<:unix>, :utf8 X<:utf8>, :win32 X<:win32>, PERLIO_DEBUG +X<PERLIO_DEBUG>, PERLLIB X<PERLLIB>, PERL5DB X<PERL5DB>, PERL5DB_THREADED +X<PERL5DB_THREADED>, PERL5SHELL (specific to the Win32 port) X<PERL5SHELL>, +PERL_ALLOW_NON_IFS_LSP (specific to the Win32 port) +X<PERL_ALLOW_NON_IFS_LSP>, PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS X<PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS>, +PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL X<PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL>, PERL_DL_NONLAZY +X<PERL_DL_NONLAZY>, PERL_ENCODING X<PERL_ENCODING>, PERL_HASH_SEED +X<PERL_HASH_SEED>, PERL_HASH_SEED_DEBUG X<PERL_HASH_SEED_DEBUG>, PERL_ROOT +(specific to the VMS port) X<PERL_ROOT>, PERL_SIGNALS X<PERL_SIGNALS>, +PERL_UNICODE X<PERL_UNICODE>, SYS$LOGIN (specific to the VMS port) +X<SYS$LOGIN> + +=back + +=head2 perldiag - various Perl diagnostics + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perllexwarn - Perl Lexical Warnings + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Default Warnings and Optional Warnings + +=item What's wrong with B<-w> and C<$^W> + +=item Controlling Warnings from the Command Line + +B<-w> X<-w>, B<-W> X<-W>, B<-X> X<-X> + +=item Backward Compatibility + +=item Category Hierarchy +X<warning, categories> + +=item Fatal Warnings +X<warning, fatal> + +=item Reporting Warnings from a Module +X<warning, reporting> X<warning, registering> + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perldebug - Perl debugging + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item The Perl Debugger + +=over 4 + +=item Calling the debugger + +perl -d program_name, perl -d -e 0, perl -d:Ptkdb program_name, perl -dt +threaded_program_name + +=item Debugger Commands + +h X<debugger command, h>, h [command], h h, p expr X<debugger command, p>, +x [maxdepth] expr X<debugger command, x>, V [pkg [vars]] X<debugger +command, V>, X [vars] X<debugger command, X>, y [level [vars]] X<debugger +command, y>, T X<debugger command, T> X<backtrace> X<stack, backtrace>, s +[expr] X<debugger command, s> X<step>, n [expr] X<debugger command, n>, r +X<debugger command, r>, <CR>, c [line|sub] X<debugger command, c>, l +X<debugger command, l>, l min+incr, l min-max, l line, l subname, - +X<debugger command, ->, v [line] X<debugger command, v>, . X<debugger +command, .>, f filename X<debugger command, f>, /pattern/, ?pattern?, L +[abw] X<debugger command, L>, S [[!]regex] X<debugger command, S>, t +X<debugger command, t>, t expr X<debugger command, t>, b X<breakpoint> +X<debugger command, b>, b [line] [condition] X<breakpoint> X<debugger +command, b>, b subname [condition] X<breakpoint> X<debugger command, b>, b +postpone subname [condition] X<breakpoint> X<debugger command, b>, b load +filename X<breakpoint> X<debugger command, b>, b compile subname +X<breakpoint> X<debugger command, b>, B line X<breakpoint> X<debugger +command, B>, B * X<breakpoint> X<debugger command, B>, a [line] command +X<debugger command, a>, A line X<debugger command, A>, A * X<debugger +command, A>, w expr X<debugger command, w>, W expr X<debugger command, W>, +W * X<debugger command, W>, o X<debugger command, o>, o booloption ... +X<debugger command, o>, o anyoption? ... X<debugger command, o>, o +option=value ... X<debugger command, o>, < ? X<< debugger command, < >>, < +[ command ] X<< debugger command, < >>, < * X<< debugger command, < >>, << +command X<< debugger command, << >>, > ? X<< debugger command, > >>, > +command X<< debugger command, > >>, > * X<< debugger command, > >>, >> +command X<<< debugger command, >> >>>, { ? X<debugger command, {>, { [ +command ], { * X<debugger command, {>, {{ command X<debugger command, {{>, +! number X<debugger command, !>, ! -number X<debugger command, !>, ! +pattern X<debugger command, !>, !! cmd X<debugger command, !!>, source file +X<debugger command, source>, H -number X<debugger command, H>, q or ^D +X<debugger command, q> X<debugger command, ^D>, R X<debugger command, R>, +|dbcmd X<debugger command, |>, ||dbcmd X<debugger command, ||>, command, m +expr X<debugger command, m>, M X<debugger command, M>, man [manpage] +X<debugger command, man> + +=item Configurable Options + +C<recallCommand>, C<ShellBang> X<debugger option, recallCommand> X<debugger +option, ShellBang>, C<pager> X<debugger option, pager>, C<tkRunning> +X<debugger option, tkRunning>, C<signalLevel>, C<warnLevel>, C<dieLevel> +X<debugger option, signalLevel> X<debugger option, warnLevel> X<debugger +option, dieLevel>, C<AutoTrace> X<debugger option, AutoTrace>, C<LineInfo> +X<debugger option, LineInfo>, C<inhibit_exit> X<debugger option, +inhibit_exit>, C<PrintRet> X<debugger option, PrintRet>, C<ornaments> +X<debugger option, ornaments>, C<frame> X<debugger option, frame>, +C<maxTraceLen> X<debugger option, maxTraceLen>, C<windowSize> X<debugger +option, windowSize>, C<arrayDepth>, C<hashDepth> X<debugger option, +arrayDepth> X<debugger option, hashDepth>, C<dumpDepth> X<debugger option, +dumpDepth>, C<compactDump>, C<veryCompact> X<debugger option, compactDump> +X<debugger option, veryCompact>, C<globPrint> X<debugger option, +globPrint>, C<DumpDBFiles> X<debugger option, DumpDBFiles>, C<DumpPackages> +X<debugger option, DumpPackages>, C<DumpReused> X<debugger option, +DumpReused>, C<quote>, C<HighBit>, C<undefPrint> X<debugger option, quote> +X<debugger option, HighBit> X<debugger option, undefPrint>, C<UsageOnly> +X<debugger option, UsageOnly>, C<TTY> X<debugger option, TTY>, C<noTTY> +X<debugger option, noTTY>, C<ReadLine> X<debugger option, ReadLine>, +C<NonStop> X<debugger option, NonStop> + +=item Debugger input/output + +Prompt, Multiline commands, Stack backtrace X<backtrace> X<stack, +backtrace>, Line Listing Format, Frame listing + +=item Debugging compile-time statements + +=item Debugger Customization + +=item Readline Support / History in the debugger + +=item Editor Support for Debugging + +=item The Perl Profiler +X<profile> X<profiling> X<profiler> + +=back + +=item Debugging regular expressions +X<regular expression, debugging> +X<regex, debugging> X<regexp, debugging> + +=item Debugging memory usage +X<memory usage> + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item BUGS + +=back + +=head2 perlvar - Perl predefined variables + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Predefined Names + +$ARG, $_ X<$_> X<$ARG>, $a, $b X<$a> X<$b>, $<I<digits>> X<$1> X<$2> X<$3>, +$MATCH, $& X<$&> X<$MATCH>, ${^MATCH} X<${^MATCH}>, $PREMATCH, $` X<$`> +X<$PREMATCH>, ${^PREMATCH} X<${^PREMATCH}>, $POSTMATCH, $' X<$'> +X<$POSTMATCH>, ${^POSTMATCH} X<${^POSTMATCH}>, $LAST_PAREN_MATCH, $+ X<$+> +X<$LAST_PAREN_MATCH>, $LAST_SUBMATCH_RESULT, $^N X<$^N>, @LAST_MATCH_END, +@+ X<@+> X<@LAST_MATCH_END>, %LAST_PAREN_MATCH, %+ X<%+>, +HANDLE->input_line_number(EXPR), $INPUT_LINE_NUMBER, $NR, $. X<$.> X<$NR> +X<$INPUT_LINE_NUMBER> X<line number>, +IO::Handle->input_record_separator(EXPR), $INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR, $RS, $/ +X<$/> X<$RS> X<$INPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR>, HANDLE->autoflush(EXPR), +$OUTPUT_AUTOFLUSH, $| X<$|> X<autoflush> X<flush> X<$OUTPUT_AUTOFLUSH>, +IO::Handle->output_field_separator EXPR, $OUTPUT_FIELD_SEPARATOR, $OFS, $, +X<$,> X<$OFS> X<$OUTPUT_FIELD_SEPARATOR>, +IO::Handle->output_record_separator EXPR, $OUTPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR, $ORS, +$\ X<$\> X<$ORS> X<$OUTPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR>, $LIST_SEPARATOR, $" X<$"> +X<$LIST_SEPARATOR>, $SUBSCRIPT_SEPARATOR, $SUBSEP, $; X<$;> X<$SUBSEP> +X<SUBSCRIPT_SEPARATOR>, HANDLE->format_page_number(EXPR), +$FORMAT_PAGE_NUMBER, $% X<$%> X<$FORMAT_PAGE_NUMBER>, +HANDLE->format_lines_per_page(EXPR), $FORMAT_LINES_PER_PAGE, $= X<$=> +X<$FORMAT_LINES_PER_PAGE>, HANDLE->format_lines_left(EXPR), +$FORMAT_LINES_LEFT, $- X<$-> X<$FORMAT_LINES_LEFT>, @LAST_MATCH_START, @- +X<@-> X<@LAST_MATCH_START>, C<$`> is the same as C<substr($var, 0, $-[0])>, +C<$&> is the same as C<substr($var, $-[0], $+[0] - $-[0])>, C<$'> is the +same as C<substr($var, $+[0])>, C<$1> is the same as C<substr($var, $-[1], +$+[1] - $-[1])>, C<$2> is the same as C<substr($var, $-[2], $+[2] - +$-[2])>, C<$3> is the same as C<substr($var, $-[3], $+[3] - $-[3])>, %- +X<%->, HANDLE->format_name(EXPR), $FORMAT_NAME, $~ X<$~> X<$FORMAT_NAME>, +HANDLE->format_top_name(EXPR), $FORMAT_TOP_NAME, $^ X<$^> +X<$FORMAT_TOP_NAME>, IO::Handle->format_line_break_characters EXPR, +$FORMAT_LINE_BREAK_CHARACTERS, $: X<$:> X<FORMAT_LINE_BREAK_CHARACTERS>, +IO::Handle->format_formfeed EXPR, $FORMAT_FORMFEED, $^L X<$^L> +X<$FORMAT_FORMFEED>, $ACCUMULATOR, $^A X<$^A> X<$ACCUMULATOR>, +$CHILD_ERROR, $? X<$?> X<$CHILD_ERROR>, ${^CHILD_ERROR_NATIVE} +X<$^CHILD_ERROR_NATIVE>, ${^ENCODING} X<$^ENCODING>, $OS_ERROR, $ERRNO, $! +X<$!> X<$ERRNO> X<$OS_ERROR>, %OS_ERROR, %ERRNO, %! X<%!>, +$EXTENDED_OS_ERROR, $^E X<$^E> X<$EXTENDED_OS_ERROR>, $EVAL_ERROR, $@ X<$@> +X<$EVAL_ERROR>, $PROCESS_ID, $PID, $$ X<$$> X<$PID> X<$PROCESS_ID>, +$REAL_USER_ID, $UID, $< X<< $< >> X<$UID> X<$REAL_USER_ID>, +$EFFECTIVE_USER_ID, $EUID, $> X<< $> >> X<$EUID> X<$EFFECTIVE_USER_ID>, +$REAL_GROUP_ID, $GID, $( X<$(> X<$GID> X<$REAL_GROUP_ID>, +$EFFECTIVE_GROUP_ID, $EGID, $) X<$)> X<$EGID> X<$EFFECTIVE_GROUP_ID>, +$PROGRAM_NAME, $0 X<$0> X<$PROGRAM_NAME>, $[ X<$[>, $] X<$]>, $COMPILING, +$^C X<$^C> X<$COMPILING>, $DEBUGGING, $^D X<$^D> X<$DEBUGGING>, +${^RE_DEBUG_FLAGS}, ${^RE_TRIE_MAXBUF}, $SYSTEM_FD_MAX, $^F X<$^F> +X<$SYSTEM_FD_MAX>, $^H, %^H, $INPLACE_EDIT, $^I X<$^I> X<$INPLACE_EDIT>, +$^M X<$^M>, $OSNAME, $^O X<$^O> X<$OSNAME>, ${^OPEN}, $PERLDB, $^P X<$^P> +X<$PERLDB>, 0x01, 0x02, 0x04, 0x08, 0x10, 0x20, 0x40, 0x80, 0x100, 0x200, +0x400, $LAST_REGEXP_CODE_RESULT, $^R X<$^R> X<$LAST_REGEXP_CODE_RESULT>, +$EXCEPTIONS_BEING_CAUGHT, $^S X<$^S> X<$EXCEPTIONS_BEING_CAUGHT>, +$BASETIME, $^T X<$^T> X<$BASETIME>, ${^TAINT}, ${^UNICODE}, ${^UTF8CACHE}, +${^UTF8LOCALE}, $PERL_VERSION, $^V X<$^V> X<$PERL_VERSION>, $WARNING, $^W +X<$^W> X<$WARNING>, ${^WARNING_BITS}, ${^WIN32_SLOPPY_STAT}, +$EXECUTABLE_NAME, $^X X<$^X> X<$EXECUTABLE_NAME>, ARGV X<ARGV>, $ARGV +X<$ARGV>, @ARGV X<@ARGV>, ARGVOUT X<ARGVOUT>, @F X<@F>, @INC X<@INC>, @ARG, +@_ X<@_> X<@ARG>, %INC X<%INC>, %ENV, $ENV{expr} X<%ENV>, %SIG, $SIG{expr} +X<%SIG> + +=item Error Indicators +X<error> X<exception> + +=item Technical Note on the Syntax of Variable Names + +=back + +=item BUGS + +=back + +=head2 perlre - Perl regular expressions + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Modifiers + +m X</m> X<regex, multiline> X<regexp, multiline> X<regular expression, +multiline>, s X</s> X<regex, single-line> X<regexp, single-line> X<regular +expression, single-line>, i X</i> X<regex, case-insensitive> X<regexp, +case-insensitive> X<regular expression, case-insensitive>, x X</x>, p X</p> +X<regex, preserve> X<regexp, preserve>, g and c X</g> X</c> + +=item Regular Expressions + +[1], [2], [3], [1], [2], [3], C<$>, C<+> C<< < >> C<=> C<< > >> C<|> C<~>, +C<^> C<`>, cntrl X<cntrl>, graph X<graph>, print X<print>, punct X<punct>, +xdigit X<xdigit> + +=item Extended Patterns + +C<(?#text)> X<(?#)>, C<(?pimsx-imsx)> X<(?)>, C<(?:pattern)> X<(?:)>, +C<(?imsx-imsx:pattern)>, C<(?|pattern)> X<(?|)> X<Branch reset>, +Look-Around Assertions X<look-around assertion> X<lookaround assertion> +X<look-around> X<lookaround>, C<(?=pattern)> X<(?=)> X<look-ahead, +positive> X<lookahead, positive>, C<(?!pattern)> X<(?!)> X<look-ahead, +negative> X<lookahead, negative>, C<(?<=pattern)> C<\K> X<(?<=)> +X<look-behind, positive> X<lookbehind, positive> X<\K>, C<(?<!pattern)> +X<(?<!)> X<look-behind, negative> X<lookbehind, negative>, +C<(?'NAME'pattern)>, C<< (?<NAME>pattern) >> X<< (?<NAME>) >> X<(?'NAME')> +X<named capture> X<capture>, C<< \k<NAME> >>, C<< \k'NAME' >>, C<(?{ code +})> X<(?{})> X<regex, code in> X<regexp, code in> X<regular expression, +code in>, C<(??{ code })> X<(??{})> X<regex, postponed> X<regexp, +postponed> X<regular expression, postponed>, C<(?PARNO)> C<(?-PARNO)> +C<(?+PARNO)> C<(?R)> C<(?0)> X<(?PARNO)> X<(?1)> X<(?R)> X<(?0)> X<(?-1)> +X<(?+1)> X<(?-PARNO)> X<(?+PARNO)> X<regex, recursive> X<regexp, recursive> +X<regular expression, recursive> X<regex, relative recursion>, C<(?&NAME)> +X<(?&NAME)>, C<(?(condition)yes-pattern|no-pattern)> X<(?()>, +C<(?(condition)yes-pattern)>, (1) (2) .., (<NAME>) ('NAME'), (?{ CODE }), +(R), (R1) (R2) .., (R&NAME), (DEFINE), C<< (?>pattern) >> X<backtrack> +X<backtracking> X<atomic> X<possessive> + +=item Special Backtracking Control Verbs + +Verbs that take an argument, C<(*PRUNE)> C<(*PRUNE:NAME)> X<(*PRUNE)> +X<(*PRUNE:NAME)>, C<(*SKIP)> C<(*SKIP:NAME)> X<(*SKIP)>, C<(*MARK:NAME)> +C<(*:NAME)> X<(*MARK)> C<(*MARK:NAME)> C<(*:NAME)>, C<(*THEN)> +C<(*THEN:NAME)>, C<(*COMMIT)> X<(*COMMIT)>, Verbs without an argument, +C<(*FAIL)> C<(*F)> X<(*FAIL)> X<(*F)>, C<(*ACCEPT)> X<(*ACCEPT)> + +=item Backtracking +X<backtrack> X<backtracking> + +=item Version 8 Regular Expressions +X<regular expression, version 8> X<regex, version 8> X<regexp, version 8> + +=item Warning on \1 Instead of $1 + +=item Repeated Patterns Matching a Zero-length Substring + +=item Combining RE Pieces + +C<ST>, C<S|T>, C<S{REPEAT_COUNT}>, C<S{min,max}>, C<S{min,max}?>, C<S?>, +C<S*>, C<S+>, C<S??>, C<S*?>, C<S+?>, C<< (?>S) >>, C<(?=S)>, C<(?<=S)>, +C<(?!S)>, C<(?<!S)>, C<(??{ EXPR })>, C<(?PARNO)>, +C<(?(condition)yes-pattern|no-pattern)> + +=item Creating Custom RE Engines + +=back + +=item PCRE/Python Support + +C<< (?PE<lt>NAMEE<gt>pattern) >>, C<< (?P=NAME) >>, C<< (?P>NAME) >> + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perlrebackslash - Perl Regular Expression Backslash Sequences and +Escapes + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item The backslash + +[1] + +=item All the sequences and escapes + +=item Character Escapes + +[1], [2] + +=item Modifiers + +=item Character classes + +=item Referencing + +=item Assertions + +\A, \z, \Z, \G, \b, \B + +=item Misc + +\C, \K, \R, \X + +=back + +=back + +=head2 perlrecharclass - Perl Regular Expression Character Classes + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item The dot + +=item Backslashed sequences + +[1] + +=item Bracketed Character Classes + +cntrl, graph, print, punct + +=item Locale, Unicode and UTF-8 + +=back + +=back + +=head2 perlreref - Perl Regular Expressions Reference + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item OPERATORS + +=item SYNTAX + +=item ESCAPE SEQUENCES + +=item CHARACTER CLASSES + +=item ANCHORS + +=item QUANTIFIERS + +=item EXTENDED CONSTRUCTS + +=item VARIABLES + +=item FUNCTIONS + +=item TERMINOLOGY + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item THANKS + +=back + +=head2 perlref - Perl references and nested data structures + +=over 4 + +=item NOTE + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Making References +X<reference, creation> X<referencing> + +1. X<\> X<backslash>, 2. X<array, anonymous> X<[> X<[]> X<square bracket> +X<bracket, square> X<arrayref> X<array reference> X<reference, array>, 3. +X<hash, anonymous> X<{> X<{}> X<curly bracket> X<bracket, curly> X<brace> +X<hashref> X<hash reference> X<reference, hash>, 4. X<subroutine, +anonymous> X<subroutine, reference> X<reference, subroutine> X<scope, +lexical> X<closure> X<lexical> X<lexical scope>, 5. X<constructor> X<new>, +6. X<autovivification>, 7. X<*foo{THING}> X<*> + +=item Using References +X<reference, use> X<dereferencing> X<dereference> + +=item Symbolic references +X<reference, symbolic> X<reference, soft> +X<symbolic reference> X<soft reference> + +=item Not-so-symbolic references + +=item Pseudo-hashes: Using an array as a hash +X<pseudo-hash> X<pseudo hash> X<pseudohash> + +=item Function Templates +X<scope, lexical> X<closure> X<lexical> X<lexical scope> +X<subroutine, nested> X<sub, nested> X<subroutine, local> X<sub, local> + +=back + +=item WARNING +X<reference, string context> X<reference, use as hash key> + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perlform - Perl formats + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Text Fields +X<format, text field> + +=item Numeric Fields +X<#> X<format, numeric field> + +=item The Field @* for Variable Width Multi-Line Text +X<@*> + +=item The Field ^* for Variable Width One-line-at-a-time Text +X<^*> + +=item Specifying Values +X<format, specifying values> + +=item Using Fill Mode +X<format, fill mode> + +=item Suppressing Lines Where All Fields Are Void +X<format, suppressing lines> + +=item Repeating Format Lines +X<format, repeating lines> + +=item Top of Form Processing +X<format, top of form> X<top> X<header> + +=item Format Variables +X<format variables> +X<format, variables> + +=back + +=item NOTES + +=over 4 + +=item Footers +X<format, footer> X<footer> + +=item Accessing Formatting Internals +X<format, internals> + +=back + +=item WARNINGS + +=back + +=head2 perlobj - Perl objects + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item An Object is Simply a Reference +X<object> X<bless> X<constructor> X<new> + +=item A Class is Simply a Package +X<class> X<package> X<@ISA> X<inheritance> + +=item A Method is Simply a Subroutine +X<method> + +=item Method Invocation +X<invocation> X<method> X<arrow> X<< -> >> + +=item Indirect Object Syntax +X<indirect object syntax> X<invocation, indirect> X<indirect> + +=item Default UNIVERSAL methods +X<UNIVERSAL> + +isa(CLASS) X<isa>, DOES(ROLE) X<DOES>, can(METHOD) X<can>, VERSION( [NEED] +) X<VERSION> + +=item Destructors +X<destructor> X<DESTROY> + +=item Summary + +=item Two-Phased Garbage Collection +X<garbage collection> X<GC> X<circular reference> +X<reference, circular> X<DESTROY> X<destructor> + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perltie - how to hide an object class in a simple variable + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Tying Scalars +X<scalar, tying> + +TIESCALAR classname, LIST X<TIESCALAR>, FETCH this X<FETCH>, STORE this, +value X<STORE>, UNTIE this X<UNTIE>, DESTROY this X<DESTROY> + +=item Tying Arrays +X<array, tying> + +TIEARRAY classname, LIST X<TIEARRAY>, FETCH this, index X<FETCH>, STORE +this, index, value X<STORE>, FETCHSIZE this X<FETCHSIZE>, STORESIZE this, +count X<STORESIZE>, EXTEND this, count X<EXTEND>, EXISTS this, key +X<EXISTS>, DELETE this, key X<DELETE>, CLEAR this X<CLEAR>, PUSH this, LIST + X<PUSH>, POP this X<POP>, SHIFT this X<SHIFT>, UNSHIFT this, LIST +X<UNSHIFT>, SPLICE this, offset, length, LIST X<SPLICE>, UNTIE this +X<UNTIE>, DESTROY this X<DESTROY> + +=item Tying Hashes +X<hash, tying> + +USER, HOME, CLOBBER, LIST, TIEHASH classname, LIST X<TIEHASH>, FETCH this, +key X<FETCH>, STORE this, key, value X<STORE>, DELETE this, key X<DELETE>, +CLEAR this X<CLEAR>, EXISTS this, key X<EXISTS>, FIRSTKEY this X<FIRSTKEY>, +NEXTKEY this, lastkey X<NEXTKEY>, SCALAR this X<SCALAR>, UNTIE this +X<UNTIE>, DESTROY this X<DESTROY> + +=item Tying FileHandles +X<filehandle, tying> + +TIEHANDLE classname, LIST X<TIEHANDLE>, WRITE this, LIST X<WRITE>, PRINT +this, LIST X<PRINT>, PRINTF this, LIST X<PRINTF>, READ this, LIST X<READ>, +READLINE this X<READLINE>, GETC this X<GETC>, CLOSE this X<CLOSE>, UNTIE +this X<UNTIE>, DESTROY this X<DESTROY> + +=item UNTIE this +X<UNTIE> + +=item The C<untie> Gotcha +X<untie> + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perldbmfilter - Perl DBM Filters + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +B<filter_store_key>, B<filter_store_value>, B<filter_fetch_key>, +B<filter_fetch_value> + +=over 4 + +=item The Filter + +=item An Example -- the NULL termination problem. + +=item Another Example -- Key is a C int. + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perlipc - Perl interprocess communication (signals, fifos, pipes, +safe subprocesses, sockets, and semaphores) + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Signals + +=over 4 + +=item Handling the SIGHUP Signal in Daemons + +=back + +=item Named Pipes + +=over 4 + +=item Deferred Signals (Safe Signals) + +Long-running opcodes, Interrupting IO, Restartable system calls, Signals as +"faults", Signals triggered by operating system state + +=back + +=item Using open() for IPC + +=over 4 + +=item Filehandles + +=item Background Processes + +=item Complete Dissociation of Child from Parent + +=item Safe Pipe Opens + +=item Avoiding Pipe Deadlocks + +=item Bidirectional Communication with Another Process + +=item Bidirectional Communication with Yourself + +=back + +=item Sockets: Client/Server Communication + +=over 4 + +=item Internet Line Terminators + +=item Internet TCP Clients and Servers + +=item Unix-Domain TCP Clients and Servers + +=back + +=item TCP Clients with IO::Socket + +=over 4 + +=item A Simple Client + +C<Proto>, C<PeerAddr>, C<PeerPort> + +=item A Webget Client + +=item Interactive Client with IO::Socket + +=back + +=item TCP Servers with IO::Socket + +Proto, LocalPort, Listen, Reuse + +=item UDP: Message Passing + +=item SysV IPC + +=item NOTES + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perlfork - Perl's fork() emulation + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Behavior of other Perl features in forked pseudo-processes + +$$ or $PROCESS_ID, %ENV, chdir() and all other builtins that accept +filenames, wait() and waitpid(), kill(), exec(), exit(), Open handles to +files, directories and network sockets + +=item Resource limits + +=item Killing the parent process + +=item Lifetime of the parent process and pseudo-processes + +=item CAVEATS AND LIMITATIONS + +BEGIN blocks, Open filehandles, Forking pipe open() not yet implemented, +Global state maintained by XSUBs, Interpreter embedded in larger +application, Thread-safety of extensions + +=back + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perlnumber - semantics of numbers and numeric operations in Perl + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Storing numbers + +=item Numeric operators and numeric conversions + +=item Flavors of Perl numeric operations + +Arithmetic operators, ++, Arithmetic operators during C<use integer>, Other +mathematical operators, Bitwise operators, Bitwise operators during C<use +integer>, Operators which expect an integer, Operators which expect a +string + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perlthrtut - Tutorial on threads in Perl + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item What Is A Thread Anyway? + +=item Threaded Program Models + +=over 4 + +=item Boss/Worker + +=item Work Crew + +=item Pipeline + +=back + +=item What kind of threads are Perl threads? + +=item Thread-Safe Modules + +=item Thread Basics + +=over 4 + +=item Basic Thread Support + +=item A Note about the Examples + +=item Creating Threads + +=item Waiting For A Thread To Exit + +=item Ignoring A Thread + +=item Process and Thread Termination + +=back + +=item Threads And Data + +=over 4 + +=item Shared And Unshared Data + +=item Thread Pitfalls: Races + +=back + +=item Synchronization and control + +=over 4 + +=item Controlling access: lock() + +=item A Thread Pitfall: Deadlocks + +=item Queues: Passing Data Around + +=item Semaphores: Synchronizing Data Access + +=item Basic semaphores + +=item Advanced Semaphores + +=item Waiting for a Condition + +=item Giving up control + +=back + +=item General Thread Utility Routines + +=over 4 + +=item What Thread Am I In? + +=item Thread IDs + +=item Are These Threads The Same? + +=item What Threads Are Running? + +=back + +=item A Complete Example + +=item Different implementations of threads + +=item Performance considerations + +=item Process-scope Changes + +=item Thread-Safety of System Libraries + +=item Conclusion + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item Bibliography + +=over 4 + +=item Introductory Texts + +=item OS-Related References + +=item Other References + +=back + +=item Acknowledgements + +=item AUTHOR + +=item Copyrights + +=back + +=head2 perlothrtut - old tutorial on threads in Perl + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item What Is A Thread Anyway? + +=item Threaded Program Models + +=over 4 + +=item Boss/Worker + +=item Work Crew + +=item Pipeline + +=back + +=item Native threads + +=item What kind of threads are perl threads? + +=item Threadsafe Modules + +=item Thread Basics + +=over 4 + +=item Basic Thread Support + +=item Creating Threads + +=item Giving up control + +=item Waiting For A Thread To Exit + +=item Errors In Threads + +=item Ignoring A Thread + +=back + +=item Threads And Data + +=over 4 + +=item Shared And Unshared Data + +=item Thread Pitfall: Races + +=item Controlling access: lock() + +=item Thread Pitfall: Deadlocks + +=item Queues: Passing Data Around + +=back + +=item Threads And Code + +=over 4 + +=item Semaphores: Synchronizing Data Access + +Basic semaphores, Advanced Semaphores + +=item Attributes: Restricting Access To Subroutines + +=item Subroutine Locks + +=item Methods + +=item Locking A Subroutine + +=back + +=item General Thread Utility Routines + +=over 4 + +=item What Thread Am I In? + +=item Thread IDs + +=item Are These Threads The Same? + +=item What Threads Are Running? + +=back + +=item A Complete Example + +=item Conclusion + +=item Bibliography + +=over 4 + +=item Introductory Texts + +=item OS-Related References + +=item Other References + +=back + +=item Acknowledgements + +=item AUTHOR + +=item Copyrights + +=back + +=head2 perlport - Writing portable Perl + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +Not all Perl programs have to be portable, Nearly all of Perl already I<is> +portable + +=item ISSUES + +=over 4 + +=item Newlines + +=item Numbers endianness and Width + +=item Files and Filesystems + +=item System Interaction + +=item Command names versus file pathnames + +=item Networking + +=item Interprocess Communication (IPC) + +=item External Subroutines (XS) + +=item Standard Modules + +=item Time and Date + +=item Character sets and character encoding + +=item Internationalisation + +=item System Resources + +=item Security + +=item Style + +=back + +=item CPAN Testers + +=item PLATFORMS + +=over 4 + +=item Unix + +=item DOS and Derivatives + +=item S<Mac OS> + +=item VMS + +=item VOS + +=item EBCDIC Platforms + +=item Acorn RISC OS + +=item Other perls + +=back + +=item FUNCTION IMPLEMENTATIONS + +=over 4 + +=item Alphabetical Listing of Perl Functions + +-I<X>, atan2, binmode, chmod, chown, chroot, crypt, dbmclose, dbmopen, +dump, exec, exit, fcntl, flock, fork, getlogin, getpgrp, getppid, +getpriority, getpwnam, getgrnam, getnetbyname, getpwuid, getgrgid, +getnetbyaddr, getprotobynumber, getservbyport, getpwent, getgrent, +gethostbyname, gethostent, getnetent, getprotoent, getservent, sethostent, +setnetent, setprotoent, setservent, endpwent, endgrent, endhostent, +endnetent, endprotoent, endservent, getsockopt SOCKET,LEVEL,OPTNAME, glob, +gmtime, ioctl FILEHANDLE,FUNCTION,SCALAR, kill, link, localtime, lstat, +msgctl, msgget, msgsnd, msgrcv, open, pipe, readlink, rename, select, +semctl, semget, semop, setgrent, setpgrp, setpriority, setpwent, +setsockopt, shmctl, shmget, shmread, shmwrite, sockatmark, socketpair, +stat, symlink, syscall, sysopen, system, times, truncate, umask, utime, +wait, waitpid + +=back + +=item Supported Platforms + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHORS / CONTRIBUTORS + +=back + +=head2 perllocale - Perl locale handling (internationalization and +localization) + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item PREPARING TO USE LOCALES + +=item USING LOCALES + +=over 4 + +=item The use locale pragma + +=item The setlocale function + +=item Finding locales + +=item LOCALE PROBLEMS + +=item Temporarily fixing locale problems + +=item Permanently fixing locale problems + +=item Permanently fixing your system's locale configuration + +=item Fixing system locale configuration + +=item The localeconv function + +=item I18N::Langinfo + +=back + +=item LOCALE CATEGORIES + +=over 4 + +=item Category LC_COLLATE: Collation + +=item Category LC_CTYPE: Character Types + +=item Category LC_NUMERIC: Numeric Formatting + +=item Category LC_MONETARY: Formatting of monetary amounts + +=item LC_TIME + +=item Other categories + +=back + +=item SECURITY + +=item ENVIRONMENT + +PERL_BADLANG, LC_ALL, LANGUAGE, LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE, LC_MONETARY, +LC_NUMERIC, LC_TIME, LANG + +=over 4 + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item NOTES + +=over 4 + +=item Backward compatibility + +=item I18N:Collate obsolete + +=item Sort speed and memory use impacts + +=item write() and LC_NUMERIC + +=item Freely available locale definitions + +=item I18n and l10n + +=item An imperfect standard + +=back + +=item Unicode and UTF-8 + +=item BUGS + +=over 4 + +=item Broken systems + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=head2 perluniintro - Perl Unicode introduction + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Unicode + +=item Perl's Unicode Support + +=item Perl's Unicode Model + +=item Unicode and EBCDIC + +=item Creating Unicode + +=item Handling Unicode + +=item Legacy Encodings + +=item Unicode I/O + +=item Displaying Unicode As Text + +=item Special Cases + +=item Advanced Topics + +=item Miscellaneous + +=item Questions With Answers + +=item Hexadecimal Notation + +=item Further Resources + +=back + +=item UNICODE IN OLDER PERLS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item ACKNOWLEDGMENTS + +=item AUTHOR, COPYRIGHT, AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 perlunicode - Unicode support in Perl + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Important Caveats + +Input and Output Layers, Regular Expressions, C<use utf8> still needed to +enable UTF-8/UTF-EBCDIC in scripts, BOM-marked scripts and UTF-16 scripts +autodetected, C<use encoding> needed to upgrade non-Latin-1 byte strings + +=item Byte and Character Semantics + +=item Effects of Character Semantics + +=item Unicode Character Properties + +General Category, Bidirectional Character Types, Scripts, Extended property +classes, Use of "Is" Prefix, Blocks + +=item User-Defined Character Properties + +=item User-Defined Case Mappings + +=item Character Encodings for Input and Output + +=item Unicode Regular Expression Support Level + +=item Unicode Encodings + +=item Security Implications of Unicode + +=item Unicode in Perl on EBCDIC + +=item Locales + +=item When Unicode Does Not Happen + +=item Forcing Unicode in Perl (Or Unforcing Unicode in Perl) + +=item Using Unicode in XS + +=back + +=item BUGS + +=over 4 + +=item Interaction with Locales + +=item Problems with characters whose ordinal numbers are in the range 128 - +255 with no Locale specified + +=item Interaction with Extensions + +=item Speed + +=item Possible problems on EBCDIC platforms + +=item Porting code from perl-5.6.X + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perlunifaq - Perl Unicode FAQ + +=over 4 + +=item Q and A + +=over 4 + +=item perlunitut isn't really a Unicode tutorial, is it? + +=item What character encodings does Perl support? + +=item Which version of perl should I use? + +=item What about binary data, like images? + +=item When should I decode or encode? + +=item What if I don't decode? + +=item What if I don't encode? + +=item Is there a way to automatically decode or encode? + +=item What if I don't know which encoding was used? + +=item Can I use Unicode in my Perl sources? + +=item Data::Dumper doesn't restore the UTF8 flag; is it broken? + +=item Why do regex character classes sometimes match only in the ASCII +range? + +=item Why do some characters not uppercase or lowercase correctly? + +=item How can I determine if a string is a text string or a binary string? + +=item How do I convert from encoding FOO to encoding BAR? + +=item What are C<decode_utf8> and C<encode_utf8>? + +=item What is a "wide character"? + +=back + +=item INTERNALS + +=over 4 + +=item What is "the UTF8 flag"? + +=item What about the C<use bytes> pragma? + +=item What about the C<use encoding> pragma? + +=item What is the difference between C<:encoding> and C<:utf8>? + +=item What's the difference between C<UTF-8> and C<utf8>? + +=item I lost track; what encoding is the internal format really? + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perlunitut - Perl Unicode Tutorial + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Definitions + +=item Your new toolkit + +=item I/O flow (the actual 5 minute tutorial) + +=back + +=item SUMMARY + +=item Q and A (or FAQ) + +=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perlebcdic - Considerations for running Perl on EBCDIC platforms + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item COMMON CHARACTER CODE SETS + +=over 4 + +=item ASCII + +=item ISO 8859 + +=item Latin 1 (ISO 8859-1) + +=item EBCDIC + +=item The 13 variant characters + +=item 0037 + +=item 1047 + +=item POSIX-BC + +=item Unicode code points versus EBCDIC code points + +=item Remaining Perl Unicode problems in EBCDIC + +=item Unicode and UTF + +=item Using Encode + +=back + +=item SINGLE OCTET TABLES + +recipe 0, recipe 1, recipe 2, recipe 3, recipe 4, recipe 5, recipe 6 + +=item IDENTIFYING CHARACTER CODE SETS + +=item CONVERSIONS + +=over 4 + +=item tr/// + +=item iconv + +=item C RTL + +=back + +=item OPERATOR DIFFERENCES + +=item FUNCTION DIFFERENCES + +chr(), ord(), pack(), print(), printf(), sort(), sprintf(), unpack() + +=item REGULAR EXPRESSION DIFFERENCES + +=item SOCKETS + +=item SORTING + +=over 4 + +=item Ignore ASCII vs. EBCDIC sort differences. + +=item MONO CASE then sort data. + +=item Convert, sort data, then re convert. + +=item Perform sorting on one type of platform only. + +=back + +=item TRANSFORMATION FORMATS + +=over 4 + +=item URL decoding and encoding + +=item uu encoding and decoding + +=item Quoted-Printable encoding and decoding + +=item Caesarian ciphers + +=back + +=item Hashing order and checksums + +=item I18N AND L10N + +=item MULTI OCTET CHARACTER SETS + +=item OS ISSUES + +=over 4 + +=item OS/400 + +PASE, IFS access + +=item OS/390, z/OS + +chcp, dataset access, OS/390, z/OS iconv, locales + +=item VM/ESA? + +=item POSIX-BC? + +=back + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item REFERENCES + +=item HISTORY + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perlsec - Perl security + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SECURITY VULNERABILITY CONTACT INFORMATION + +=item SECURITY MECHANISMS AND CONCERNS + +=over 4 + +=item Taint mode + +=item Laundering and Detecting Tainted Data + +=item Switches On the "#!" Line + +=item Taint mode and @INC + +=item Cleaning Up Your Path + +=item Security Bugs + +=item Protecting Your Programs + +=item Unicode + +=item Algorithmic Complexity Attacks + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perlmod - Perl modules (packages and symbol tables) + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Packages +X<package> X<namespace> X<variable, global> X<global variable> X<global> + +=item Symbol Tables +X<symbol table> X<stash> X<%::> X<%main::> X<typeglob> X<glob> X<alias> + +=item BEGIN, UNITCHECK, CHECK, INIT and END +X<BEGIN> X<UNITCHECK> X<CHECK> X<INIT> X<END> + +=item Perl Classes +X<class> X<@ISA> + +=item Perl Modules +X<module> + +=item Making your module threadsafe +X<threadsafe> X<thread safe> +X<module, threadsafe> X<module, thread safe> +X<CLONE> X<CLONE_SKIP> X<thread> X<threads> X<ithread> + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perlmodlib - constructing new Perl modules and finding existing ones + +=over 4 + +=item THE PERL MODULE LIBRARY + +=over 4 + +=item Pragmatic Modules + +attributes, attrs, autodie, autodie::exception, autodie::exception::system, +autodie::hints, autouse, base, bigint, bignum, bigrat, blib, bytes, +charnames, constant, diagnostics, encoding, encoding::warnings, feature, +fields, filetest, if, integer, less, lib, locale, mro, open, ops, overload, +overloading, parent, re, sigtrap, sort, strict, subs, threads, +threads::shared, utf8, vars, version, vmsish, warnings, warnings::register + +=item Standard Modules + +AnyDBM_File, App::Prove, App::Prove::State, App::Prove::State::Result, +App::Prove::State::Result::Test, Archive::Extract, Archive::Tar, +Archive::Tar::File, Attribute::Handlers, AutoLoader, AutoSplit, B, +B::Concise, B::Debug, B::Deparse, B::Lint, B::Lint::Debug, B::Showlex, +B::Terse, B::Xref, Benchmark, CGI, CGI::Apache, CGI::Carp, CGI::Cookie, +CGI::Fast, CGI::Pretty, CGI::Push, CGI::Switch, CGI::Util, CORE, CPAN, +CPAN::API::HOWTO, CPAN::Distroprefs, CPAN::FirstTime, CPAN::Kwalify, +CPAN::Nox, CPAN::Version, CPANPLUS, CPANPLUS::Dist::Base, +CPANPLUS::Dist::Build, CPANPLUS::Dist::Build::Constants, +CPANPLUS::Dist::Sample, CPANPLUS::Internals::Source::Memory, +CPANPLUS::Internals::Source::SQLite, CPANPLUS::Shell::Classic, +CPANPLUS::Shell::Default::Plugins::HOWTO, Carp, Carp::Heavy, Class::ISA, +Class::Struct, Compress::Raw::Bzip2, Compress::Raw::Bzip2::FAQ, +Compress::Raw::Zlib, Compress::Raw::Zlib::FAQ, Compress::Zlib, Config, Cwd, +DB, DBM_Filter, DBM_Filter::compress, DBM_Filter::encode, +DBM_Filter::int32, DBM_Filter::null, DBM_Filter::utf8, DB_File, +Data::Dumper, Devel::DProf, Devel::InnerPackage, Devel::PPPort, +Devel::Peek, Devel::SelfStubber, Digest, Digest::MD5, Digest::SHA, +Digest::base, Digest::file, DirHandle, Dumpvalue, DynaLoader, Encode, +Encode::Alias, Encode::Byte, Encode::CJKConstants, Encode::CN, +Encode::CN::HZ, Encode::Config, Encode::EBCDIC, Encode::Encoder, +Encode::Encoding, Encode::GSM0338, Encode::Guess, Encode::JP, +Encode::JP::H2Z, Encode::JP::JIS7, Encode::KR, Encode::KR::2022_KR, +Encode::MIME::Header, Encode::MIME::Name, Encode::PerlIO, +Encode::Supported, Encode::Symbol, Encode::TW, Encode::Unicode, +Encode::Unicode::UTF7, English, Env, Errno, Exporter, Exporter::Heavy, +ExtUtils::CBuilder, ExtUtils::CBuilder::Platform::Windows, +ExtUtils::Command, ExtUtils::Command::MM, ExtUtils::Constant, +ExtUtils::Constant::Base, ExtUtils::Constant::Utils, +ExtUtils::Constant::XS, ExtUtils::Embed, ExtUtils::Install, +ExtUtils::Installed, ExtUtils::Liblist, ExtUtils::MM, ExtUtils::MM_AIX, +ExtUtils::MM_Any, ExtUtils::MM_BeOS, ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin, ExtUtils::MM_DOS, +ExtUtils::MM_Darwin, ExtUtils::MM_MacOS, ExtUtils::MM_NW5, +ExtUtils::MM_OS2, ExtUtils::MM_QNX, ExtUtils::MM_UWIN, ExtUtils::MM_Unix, +ExtUtils::MM_VMS, ExtUtils::MM_VOS, ExtUtils::MM_Win32, ExtUtils::MM_Win95, +ExtUtils::MY, ExtUtils::MakeMaker, ExtUtils::MakeMaker::Config, +ExtUtils::MakeMaker::FAQ, ExtUtils::MakeMaker::Tutorial, +ExtUtils::Manifest, ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap, ExtUtils::Mksymlists, +ExtUtils::Packlist, ExtUtils::ParseXS, ExtUtils::XSSymSet, +ExtUtils::testlib, Fatal, Fcntl, File::Basename, File::CheckTree, +File::Compare, File::Copy, File::DosGlob, File::Fetch, File::Find, +File::Glob, File::GlobMapper, File::Path, File::Spec, File::Spec::Cygwin, +File::Spec::Epoc, File::Spec::Functions, File::Spec::Mac, File::Spec::OS2, +File::Spec::Unix, File::Spec::VMS, File::Spec::Win32, File::Temp, +File::stat, FileCache, FileHandle, Filter::Simple, Filter::Util::Call, +FindBin, GDBM_File, Getopt::Long, Getopt::Std, Hash::Util, +Hash::Util::FieldHash, I18N::Collate, I18N::LangTags, +I18N::LangTags::Detect, I18N::LangTags::List, I18N::Langinfo, IO, +IO::Compress::Base, IO::Compress::Bzip2, IO::Compress::Deflate, +IO::Compress::FAQ, IO::Compress::Gzip, IO::Compress::RawDeflate, +IO::Compress::Zip, IO::Dir, IO::File, IO::Handle, IO::Pipe, IO::Poll, +IO::Seekable, IO::Select, IO::Socket, IO::Socket::INET, IO::Socket::UNIX, +IO::Uncompress::AnyInflate, IO::Uncompress::AnyUncompress, +IO::Uncompress::Base, IO::Uncompress::Bunzip2, IO::Uncompress::Gunzip, +IO::Uncompress::Inflate, IO::Uncompress::RawInflate, IO::Uncompress::Unzip, +IO::Zlib, IPC::Cmd, IPC::Msg, IPC::Open2, IPC::Open3, IPC::Semaphore, +IPC::SharedMem, IPC::SysV, List::Util, List::Util::XS, Locale::Constants, +Locale::Country, Locale::Currency, Locale::Language, Locale::Maketext, +Locale::Maketext::Simple, Locale::Maketext::TPJ13, Locale::Script, +Log::Message, Log::Message::Config, Log::Message::Handlers, +Log::Message::Item, MIME::Base64, MIME::QuotedPrint, Math::BigFloat, +Math::BigInt, Math::BigInt::Calc, Math::BigInt::CalcEmu, +Math::BigInt::FastCalc, Math::BigRat, Math::Complex, Math::Trig, Memoize, +Memoize::AnyDBM_File, Memoize::Expire, Memoize::ExpireFile, +Memoize::ExpireTest, Memoize::NDBM_File, Memoize::SDBM_File, +Memoize::Storable, Module::Build, Module::Build::API, +Module::Build::Authoring, Module::Build::Base, Module::Build::Compat, +Module::Build::ConfigData, Module::Build::Cookbook, +Module::Build::ModuleInfo, Module::Build::Notes, Module::Build::PPMMaker, +Module::Build::Platform::Amiga, Module::Build::Platform::Default, +Module::Build::Platform::EBCDIC, Module::Build::Platform::MPEiX, +Module::Build::Platform::MacOS, Module::Build::Platform::RiscOS, +Module::Build::Platform::Unix, Module::Build::Platform::VMS, +Module::Build::Platform::VOS, Module::Build::Platform::Windows, +Module::Build::Platform::aix, Module::Build::Platform::cygwin, +Module::Build::Platform::darwin, Module::Build::Platform::os2, +Module::Build::YAML, Module::CoreList, Module::Load, +Module::Load::Conditional, Module::Loaded, Module::Pluggable, +Module::Pluggable::Object, NDBM_File, NEXT, Net::Cmd, Net::Config, +Net::Domain, Net::FTP, Net::NNTP, Net::Netrc, Net::POP3, Net::Ping, +Net::SMTP, Net::Time, Net::hostent, Net::libnetFAQ, Net::netent, +Net::protoent, Net::servent, O, ODBM_File, Opcode, POSIX, +Package::Constants, Params::Check, Parse::CPAN::Meta, PerlIO, +PerlIO::encoding, PerlIO::scalar, PerlIO::via, PerlIO::via::QuotedPrint, +Pod::Checker, Pod::Escapes, Pod::Find, Pod::Functions, Pod::Html, +Pod::InputObjects, Pod::LaTeX, Pod::Man, Pod::ParseLink, Pod::ParseUtils, +Pod::Parser, Pod::Perldoc::ToChecker, Pod::Perldoc::ToMan, +Pod::Perldoc::ToNroff, Pod::Perldoc::ToPod, Pod::Perldoc::ToRtf, +Pod::Perldoc::ToText, Pod::Perldoc::ToTk, Pod::Perldoc::ToXml, +Pod::PlainText, Pod::Plainer, Pod::Select, Pod::Simple, +Pod::Simple::Checker, Pod::Simple::Debug, Pod::Simple::DumpAsText, +Pod::Simple::DumpAsXML, Pod::Simple::HTML, Pod::Simple::HTMLBatch, +Pod::Simple::LinkSection, Pod::Simple::Methody, Pod::Simple::PullParser, +Pod::Simple::PullParserEndToken, Pod::Simple::PullParserStartToken, +Pod::Simple::PullParserTextToken, Pod::Simple::PullParserToken, +Pod::Simple::RTF, Pod::Simple::Search, Pod::Simple::SimpleTree, +Pod::Simple::Subclassing, Pod::Simple::Text, Pod::Simple::TextContent, +Pod::Simple::XHTML, Pod::Simple::XMLOutStream, Pod::Text, Pod::Text::Color, +Pod::Text::Termcap, Pod::Usage, SDBM_File, Safe, Scalar::Util, +Search::Dict, SelectSaver, SelfLoader, Shell, Socket, Storable, Switch, +Symbol, Sys::Hostname, Sys::Syslog, Sys::Syslog::Win32, TAP::Base, +TAP::Formatter::Color, TAP::Formatter::Console, TAP::Formatter::Console, +TAP::Formatter::Console::ParallelSession, TAP::Formatter::Console::Session, +TAP::Formatter::File, TAP::Formatter::File::Session, +TAP::Formatter::Session, TAP::Harness, TAP::Object, TAP::Parser, +TAP::Parser::Aggregator, TAP::Parser::Grammar, TAP::Parser::Iterator, +TAP::Parser::Iterator::Array, TAP::Parser::Iterator::Process, +TAP::Parser::Iterator::Stream, TAP::Parser::IteratorFactory, +TAP::Parser::Multiplexer, TAP::Parser::Result, +TAP::Parser::Result::Bailout, TAP::Parser::Result::Comment, +TAP::Parser::Result::Plan, TAP::Parser::Result::Pragma, +TAP::Parser::Result::Test, TAP::Parser::Result::Unknown, +TAP::Parser::Result::Version, TAP::Parser::Result::YAML, +TAP::Parser::ResultFactory, TAP::Parser::Scheduler, +TAP::Parser::Scheduler::Job, TAP::Parser::Scheduler::Spinner, +TAP::Parser::Source, TAP::Parser::Source::Perl, TAP::Parser::Utils, +TAP::Parser::YAMLish::Reader, TAP::Parser::YAMLish::Writer, +Term::ANSIColor, Term::Cap, Term::Complete, Term::ReadLine, Term::UI, Test, +Test::Builder, Test::Builder::Module, Test::Builder::Tester, +Test::Builder::Tester::Color, Test::Harness, Test::More, Test::Simple, +Test::Tutorial, Text::Abbrev, Text::Balanced, Text::ParseWords, +Text::Soundex, Text::Tabs, Text::Wrap, Thread, Thread::Queue, +Thread::Semaphore, Tie::Array, Tie::File, Tie::Handle, Tie::Hash, +Tie::Hash::NamedCapture, Tie::Memoize, Tie::RefHash, Tie::Scalar, +Tie::StdHandle, Tie::SubstrHash, Time::HiRes, Time::Local, Time::Piece, +Time::Seconds, Time::gmtime, Time::localtime, Time::tm, UNIVERSAL, +Unicode::Collate, Unicode::Normalize, Unicode::UCD, User::grent, +User::pwent, Win32, Win32API::File, Win32CORE, XS::APItest, XS::Typemap, +XSLoader, version::Internal + +=item Extension Modules + +=back + +=item CPAN + +=over 4 + +=item Africa + +South Africa + +=item Asia + +China, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Russian Federation, Saudi +Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand + +=item Central America + +Costa Rica + +=item Europe + +Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech +Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, +Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, +Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, +Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom + +=item North America + +Canada, Alberta, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Mexico, United States, +Alabama, California, Colorado, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, +Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, +North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, +Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin + +=item Oceania + +Australia, New Zealand, United States + +=item South America + +Argentina, Brazil, Chile + +=item RSYNC Mirrors + +=back + +=item Modules: Creation, Use, and Abuse + +=over 4 + +=item Guidelines for Module Creation + +=item Guidelines for Converting Perl 4 Library Scripts into Modules + +=item Guidelines for Reusing Application Code + +=back + +=item NOTE + +=back + +=head2 perlmodstyle - Perl module style guide + +=over 4 + +=item INTRODUCTION + +=item QUICK CHECKLIST + +=over 4 + +=item Before you start + +=item The API + +=item Stability + +=item Documentation + +=item Release considerations + +=back + +=item BEFORE YOU START WRITING A MODULE + +=over 4 + +=item Has it been done before? + +=item Do one thing and do it well + +=item What's in a name? + +=back + +=item DESIGNING AND WRITING YOUR MODULE + +=over 4 + +=item To OO or not to OO? + +=item Designing your API + +Write simple routines to do simple things, Separate functionality from +output, Provide sensible shortcuts and defaults, Naming conventions, +Parameter passing + +=item Strictness and warnings + +=item Backwards compatibility + +=item Error handling and messages + +=back + +=item DOCUMENTING YOUR MODULE + +=over 4 + +=item POD + +=item README, INSTALL, release notes, changelogs + +perl Makefile.PL, make, make test, make install, perl Build.PL, perl Build, +perl Build test, perl Build install + +=back + +=item RELEASE CONSIDERATIONS + +=over 4 + +=item Version numbering + +=item Pre-requisites + +=item Testing + +=item Packaging + +=item Licensing + +=back + +=item COMMON PITFALLS + +=over 4 + +=item Reinventing the wheel + +=item Trying to do too much + +=item Inappropriate documentation + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +L<perlstyle>, L<perlnewmod>, L<perlpod>, L<podchecker>, Packaging Tools, +Testing tools, http://pause.perl.org/, Any good book on software +engineering + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perlmodinstall - Installing CPAN Modules + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item PREAMBLE + +B<DECOMPRESS> the file, B<UNPACK> the file into a directory, B<BUILD> the +module (sometimes unnecessary), B<INSTALL> the module + +=back + +=item PORTABILITY + +=item HEY + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 perlnewmod - preparing a new module for distribution + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Warning + +=item What should I make into a module? + +=item Step-by-step: Preparing the ground + +Look around, Check it's new, Discuss the need, Choose a name, Check again + +=item Step-by-step: Making the module + +Start with F<module-starter> or F<h2xs>, Use L<strict|strict> and +L<warnings|warnings>, Use L<Carp|Carp>, Use L<Exporter|Exporter> - wisely!, +Use L<plain old documentation|perlpod>, Write tests, Write the README + +=item Step-by-step: Distributing your module + +Get a CPAN user ID, C<perl Makefile.PL; make test; make dist>, Upload the +tarball, Announce to the modules list, Announce to clpa, Fix bugs! + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perlpragma - how to write a user pragma + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item A basic example + +=item Implementation details + +=back + +=head2 perlutil - utilities packaged with the Perl distribution + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item LIST OF UTILITIES + +=over 4 + +=item Documentation + +L<perldoc|perldoc>, L<pod2man|pod2man> and L<pod2text|pod2text>, +L<pod2html|pod2html> and L<pod2latex|pod2latex>, L<pod2usage|pod2usage>, +L<podselect|podselect>, L<podchecker|podchecker>, L<splain|splain>, +L<roffitall|roffitall> + +=item Convertors + +L<a2p|a2p>, L<s2p|s2p> and L<psed>, L<find2perl|find2perl> + +=item Administration + +L<config_data|config_data>, L<libnetcfg|libnetcfg>, L<perlivp> + +=item Development + +L<perlbug|perlbug>, L<perlthanks|perlthanks>, L<h2ph|h2ph>, L<c2ph|c2ph> +and L<pstruct|pstruct>, L<h2xs|h2xs>, L<enc2xs>, L<xsubpp>, +L<dprofpp|dprofpp>, L<prove>, L<corelist> + +=item General tools + +L<piconv>, L<ptar>, L<ptardiff>, L<shasum> + +=item Installation + +L<cpan>, L<cpanp>, L<cpan2dist>, L<instmodsh> + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perlcompile - Introduction to the Perl Compiler-Translator + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Layout + +B::Lint, B::Deparse, B::Xref + +=back + +=item Using The Back Ends + +=over 4 + +=item The Cross Referencing Back End + +i, &, s, r + +=item The Decompiling Back End + +=item The Lint Back End + +=back + +=item Module List for the Compiler Suite + +B, O, B::Concise, B::Debug, B::Deparse, B::Lint, B::Showlex, B::Terse, +B::Xref + +=item KNOWN PROBLEMS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perlfilter - Source Filters + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CONCEPTS + +=item USING FILTERS + +=item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER + +=item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER IN C + +B<Decryption Filters> + +=item CREATING A SOURCE FILTER AS A SEPARATE EXECUTABLE + +=item WRITING A SOURCE FILTER IN PERL + +=item USING CONTEXT: THE DEBUG FILTER + +=item CONCLUSION + +=item THINGS TO LOOK OUT FOR + +Some Filters Clobber the C<DATA> Handle + +=item REQUIREMENTS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item Copyrights + +=back + +=head2 perlglossary - Perl Glossary + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item A + +accessor methods, actual arguments, address operator, algorithm, alias, +alternatives, anonymous, architecture, argument, ARGV, arithmetical +operator, array, array context, ASCII, assertion, assignment, assignment +operator, associative array, associativity, asynchronous, atom, atomic +operation, attribute, autogeneration, autoincrement, autoload, autosplit, +autovivification, AV, awk + +=item B + +backreference, backtracking, backward compatibility, bareword, base class, +big-endian, binary, binary operator, bind, bit, bit shift, bit string, +bless, block, BLOCK, block buffering, Boolean, Boolean context, breakpoint, +broadcast, BSD, bucket, buffer, built-in, bundle, byte, bytecode + +=item C + +C, C preprocessor, call by reference, call by value, callback, canonical, +capturing, character, character class, character property, circumfix +operator, class, class method, client, cloister, closure, cluster, CODE, +code generator, code subpattern, collating sequence, command, command +buffering, command name, command-line arguments, comment, compilation unit, +compile phase, compile time, compiler, composer, concatenation, +conditional, connection, construct, constructor, context, continuation, +core dump, CPAN, cracker, current package, current working directory, +currently selected output channel, CV + +=item D + +dangling statement, data structure, data type, datagram, DBM, declaration, +decrement, default, defined, delimiter, deprecated modules and features, +dereference, derived class, descriptor, destroy, destructor, device, +directive, directory, directory handle, dispatch, distribution, (to be) +dropped modules, dweomer, dwimmer, dynamic scoping + +=item E + +eclectic, element, embedding, empty subclass test, en passant, +encapsulation, endian, environment, environment variable, EOF, errno, +error, escape sequence, exception, exception handling, exec, executable +file, execute, execute bit, exit status, export, expression, extension + +=item F + +false, FAQ, fatal error, field, FIFO, file, file descriptor, file test +operator, fileglob, filehandle, filename, filesystem, filter, flag, +floating point, flush, FMTEYEWTK, fork, formal arguments, format, freely +available, freely redistributable, freeware, function, funny character, +garbage collection + +=item G + +GID, glob, global, global destruction, glue language, granularity, greedy, +grep, group, GV + +=item H + +hacker, handler, hard reference, hash, hash table, header file, here +document, hexadecimal, home directory, host, hubris, HV + +=item I + +identifier, impatience, implementation, import, increment, indexing, +indirect filehandle, indirect object, indirect object slot, indirection, +infix, inheritance, instance, instance variable, integer, interface, +interpolation, interpreter, invocant, invocation, I/O, IO, IP, IPC, is-a, +iteration, iterator, IV + +=item J + +JAPH + +=item K + +key, keyword + +=item L + +label, laziness, left shift, leftmost longest, lexeme, lexer, lexical +analysis, lexical scoping, lexical variable, library, LIFO, line, line +buffering, line number, link, LIST, list, list context, list operator, list +value, literal, little-endian, local, logical operator, lookahead, +lookbehind, loop, loop control statement, loop label, lvaluable, lvalue, +lvalue modifier + +=item M + +magic, magical increment, magical variables, Makefile, man, manpage, +matching, member data, memory, metacharacter, metasymbol, method, +minimalism, mode, modifier, module, modulus, monger, mortal, +multidimensional array, multiple inheritance + +=item N + +named pipe, namespace, network address, newline, NFS, null character, null +list, null string, numeric context, NV, nybble + +=item O + +object, octal, offset, one-liner, open source software, operand, operating +system, operator, operator overloading, options, overloading, overriding, +owner + +=item P + +package, pad, parameter, parent class, parse tree, parsing, patch, PATH, +pathname, pattern, pattern matching, permission bits, Pern, pipe, pipeline, +platform, pod, pointer, polymorphism, port, portable, porter, POSIX, +postfix, pp, pragma, precedence, prefix, preprocessing, procedure, process, +program generator, progressive matching, property, protocol, prototype, +pseudofunction, pseudohash, pseudoliteral, public domain, pumpkin, +pumpking, PV + +=item Q + +qualified, quantifier + +=item R + +readable, reaping, record, recursion, reference, referent, regex, regular +expression, regular expression modifier, regular file, relational operator, +reserved words, return value, RFC, right shift, root, RTFM, run phase, run +time, run-time pattern, RV, rvalue + +=item S + +scalar, scalar context, scalar literal, scalar value, scalar variable, +scope, scratchpad, script, script kiddie, sed, semaphore, separator, +serialization, server, service, setgid, setuid, shared memory, shebang, +shell, side effects, signal, signal handler, single inheritance, slice, +slurp, socket, soft reference, source filter, stack, standard, standard +error, standard I/O, standard input, standard output, stat structure, +statement, statement modifier, static, static method, static scoping, +static variable, status, STDERR, STDIN, STDIO, STDOUT, stream, string, +string context, stringification, struct, structure, subclass, subpattern, +subroutine, subscript, substitution, substring, superclass, superuser, SV, +switch, switch cluster, switch statement, symbol, symbol table, symbolic +debugger, symbolic link, symbolic reference, synchronous, syntactic sugar, +syntax, syntax tree, syscall + +=item T + +tainted, TCP, term, terminator, ternary, text, thread, tie, TMTOWTDI, +token, tokener, tokenizing, toolbox approach, transliterate, trigger, +trinary, troff, true, truncating, type, type casting, typed lexical, +typedef, typeglob, typemap + +=item U + +UDP, UID, umask, unary operator, Unicode, Unix + +=item V + +value, variable, variable interpolation, variadic, vector, virtual, void +context, v-string + +=item W + +warning, watch expression, whitespace, word, working directory, wrapper, +WYSIWYG + +=item X + +XS, XSUB + +=item Y + +yacc + +=item Z + +zero width, zombie + +=back + +=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 perlembed - how to embed perl in your C program + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item PREAMBLE + +B<Use C from Perl?>, B<Use a Unix program from Perl?>, B<Use Perl from +Perl?>, B<Use C from C?>, B<Use Perl from C?> + +=item ROADMAP + +=item Compiling your C program + +=item Adding a Perl interpreter to your C program + +=item Calling a Perl subroutine from your C program + +=item Evaluating a Perl statement from your C program + +=item Performing Perl pattern matches and substitutions from your C program + +=item Fiddling with the Perl stack from your C program + +=item Maintaining a persistent interpreter + +=item Execution of END blocks + +=item $0 assignments + +=item Maintaining multiple interpreter instances + +=item Using Perl modules, which themselves use C libraries, from your C +program + +=back + +=item Embedding Perl under Win32 + +=item Hiding Perl_ + +=item MORAL + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 perldebguts - Guts of Perl debugging + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Debugger Internals + +=over 4 + +=item Writing Your Own Debugger + +=back + +=item Frame Listing Output Examples + +=item Debugging regular expressions + +=over 4 + +=item Compile-time output + +C<anchored> I<STRING> C<at> I<POS>, C<floating> I<STRING> C<at> +I<POS1..POS2>, C<matching floating/anchored>, C<minlen>, C<stclass> +I<TYPE>, C<noscan>, C<isall>, C<GPOS>, C<plus>, C<implicit>, C<with eval>, +C<anchored(TYPE)> + +=item Types of nodes + +=item Run-time output + +=back + +=item Debugging Perl memory usage + +=over 4 + +=item Using C<$ENV{PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS}> + +C<buckets SMALLEST(APPROX)..GREATEST(APPROX)>, Free/Used, C<Total sbrk(): +SBRKed/SBRKs:CONTINUOUS>, C<pad: 0>, C<heads: 2192>, C<chain: 0>, C<tail: +6144> + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perlxstut, perlXStut - Tutorial for writing XSUBs + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SPECIAL NOTES + +=over 4 + +=item make + +=item Version caveat + +=item Dynamic Loading versus Static Loading + +=back + +=item TUTORIAL + +=over 4 + +=item EXAMPLE 1 + +=item EXAMPLE 2 + +=item What has gone on? + +=item Writing good test scripts + +=item EXAMPLE 3 + +=item What's new here? + +=item Input and Output Parameters + +=item The XSUBPP Program + +=item The TYPEMAP file + +=item Warning about Output Arguments + +=item EXAMPLE 4 + +=item What has happened here? + +=item Anatomy of .xs file + +=item Getting the fat out of XSUBs + +=item More about XSUB arguments + +=item The Argument Stack + +=item Extending your Extension + +=item Documenting your Extension + +=item Installing your Extension + +=item EXAMPLE 5 + +=item New Things in this Example + +=item EXAMPLE 6 + +=item New Things in this Example + +=item EXAMPLE 7 (Coming Soon) + +=item EXAMPLE 8 (Coming Soon) + +=item EXAMPLE 9 Passing open files to XSes + +=item Troubleshooting these Examples + +=back + +=item See also + +=item Author + +=over 4 + +=item Last Changed + +=back + +=back + +=head2 perlxs - XS language reference manual + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Introduction + +=item On The Road + +=item The Anatomy of an XSUB + +=item The Argument Stack + +=item The RETVAL Variable + +=item Returning SVs, AVs and HVs through RETVAL + +=item The MODULE Keyword + +=item The PACKAGE Keyword + +=item The PREFIX Keyword + +=item The OUTPUT: Keyword + +=item The NO_OUTPUT Keyword + +=item The CODE: Keyword + +=item The INIT: Keyword + +=item The NO_INIT Keyword + +=item Initializing Function Parameters + +=item Default Parameter Values + +=item The PREINIT: Keyword + +=item The SCOPE: Keyword + +=item The INPUT: Keyword + +=item The IN/OUTLIST/IN_OUTLIST/OUT/IN_OUT Keywords + +=item The C<length(NAME)> Keyword + +=item Variable-length Parameter Lists + +=item The C_ARGS: Keyword + +=item The PPCODE: Keyword + +=item Returning Undef And Empty Lists + +=item The REQUIRE: Keyword + +=item The CLEANUP: Keyword + +=item The POSTCALL: Keyword + +=item The BOOT: Keyword + +=item The VERSIONCHECK: Keyword + +=item The PROTOTYPES: Keyword + +=item The PROTOTYPE: Keyword + +=item The ALIAS: Keyword + +=item The OVERLOAD: Keyword + +=item The FALLBACK: Keyword + +=item The INTERFACE: Keyword + +=item The INTERFACE_MACRO: Keyword + +=item The INCLUDE: Keyword + +=item The CASE: Keyword + +=item The & Unary Operator + +=item Inserting POD, Comments and C Preprocessor Directives + +=item Using XS With C++ + +=item Interface Strategy + +=item Perl Objects And C Structures + +=item The Typemap + +=item Safely Storing Static Data in XS + +MY_CXT_KEY, typedef my_cxt_t, START_MY_CXT, MY_CXT_INIT, dMY_CXT, MY_CXT, +aMY_CXT/pMY_CXT, MY_CXT_CLONE, MY_CXT_INIT_INTERP(my_perl), +dMY_CXT_INTERP(my_perl) + +=item Thread-aware system interfaces + +=back + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item XS VERSION + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perlclib - Internal replacements for standard C library functions + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Conventions + +C<t>, C<p>, C<n>, C<s> + +=item File Operations + +=item File Input and Output + +=item File Positioning + +=item Memory Management and String Handling + +=item Character Class Tests + +=item F<stdlib.h> functions + +=item Miscellaneous functions + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perlguts - Introduction to the Perl API + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Variables + +=over 4 + +=item Datatypes + +=item What is an "IV"? + +=item Working with SVs + +=item Offsets + +=item What's Really Stored in an SV? + +=item Working with AVs + +=item Working with HVs + +=item Hash API Extensions + +=item AVs, HVs and undefined values + +=item References + +=item Blessed References and Class Objects + +=item Creating New Variables + +GV_ADDMULTI, GV_ADDWARN + +=item Reference Counts and Mortality + +=item Stashes and Globs + +=item Double-Typed SVs + +=item Magic Variables + +=item Assigning Magic + +=item Magic Virtual Tables + +=item Finding Magic + +=item Understanding the Magic of Tied Hashes and Arrays + +=item Localizing changes + +C<SAVEINT(int i)>, C<SAVEIV(IV i)>, C<SAVEI32(I32 i)>, C<SAVELONG(long i)>, +C<SAVESPTR(s)>, C<SAVEPPTR(p)>, C<SAVEFREESV(SV *sv)>, C<SAVEMORTALIZESV(SV +*sv)>, C<SAVEFREEOP(OP *op)>, C<SAVEFREEPV(p)>, C<SAVECLEARSV(SV *sv)>, +C<SAVEDELETE(HV *hv, char *key, I32 length)>, +C<SAVEDESTRUCTOR(DESTRUCTORFUNC_NOCONTEXT_t f, void *p)>, +C<SAVEDESTRUCTOR_X(DESTRUCTORFUNC_t f, void *p)>, C<SAVESTACK_POS()>, C<SV* +save_scalar(GV *gv)>, C<AV* save_ary(GV *gv)>, C<HV* save_hash(GV *gv)>, +C<void save_item(SV *item)>, C<void save_list(SV **sarg, I32 maxsarg)>, +C<SV* save_svref(SV **sptr)>, C<void save_aptr(AV **aptr)>, C<void +save_hptr(HV **hptr)> + +=back + +=item Subroutines + +=over 4 + +=item XSUBs and the Argument Stack + +=item Calling Perl Routines from within C Programs + +=item Memory Allocation + +=item PerlIO + +=item Putting a C value on Perl stack + +=item Scratchpads + +=item Scratchpads and recursion + +=back + +=item Compiled code + +=over 4 + +=item Code tree + +=item Examining the tree + +=item Compile pass 1: check routines + +=item Compile pass 1a: constant folding + +=item Compile pass 2: context propagation + +=item Compile pass 3: peephole optimization + +=item Pluggable runops + +=back + +=item Examining internal data structures with the C<dump> functions + +=item How multiple interpreters and concurrency are supported + +=over 4 + +=item Background and PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT + +=item So what happened to dTHR? + +=item How do I use all this in extensions? + +=item Should I do anything special if I call perl from multiple threads? + +=item Future Plans and PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS + +=back + +=item Internal Functions + +A, p, d, s, n, r, f, M, o, x, m, X, E, b, others + +=over 4 + +=item Formatted Printing of IVs, UVs, and NVs + +=item Pointer-To-Integer and Integer-To-Pointer + +=item Exception Handling + +=item Source Documentation + +=item Backwards compatibility + +=back + +=item Unicode Support + +=over 4 + +=item What B<is> Unicode, anyway? + +=item How can I recognise a UTF-8 string? + +=item How does UTF-8 represent Unicode characters? + +=item How does Perl store UTF-8 strings? + +=item How do I convert a string to UTF-8? + +=item Is there anything else I need to know? + +=back + +=item Custom Operators + +=item AUTHORS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perlcall - Perl calling conventions from C + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +An Error Handler, An Event Driven Program + +=item THE CALL_ FUNCTIONS + +call_sv, call_pv, call_method, call_argv + +=item FLAG VALUES + +=over 4 + +=item G_VOID + +=item G_SCALAR + +=item G_ARRAY + +=item G_DISCARD + +=item G_NOARGS + +=item G_EVAL + +=item G_KEEPERR + +=item Determining the Context + +=back + +=item EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item No Parameters, Nothing returned + +=item Passing Parameters + +=item Returning a Scalar + +=item Returning a list of values + +=item Returning a list in a scalar context + +=item Returning Data from Perl via the parameter list + +=item Using G_EVAL + +=item Using G_KEEPERR + +=item Using call_sv + +=item Using call_argv + +=item Using call_method + +=item Using GIMME_V + +=item Using Perl to dispose of temporaries + +=item Strategies for storing Callback Context Information + +1. Ignore the problem - Allow only 1 callback, 2. Create a sequence of +callbacks - hard wired limit, 3. Use a parameter to map to the Perl +callback + +=item Alternate Stack Manipulation + +=item Creating and calling an anonymous subroutine in C + +=back + +=item LIGHTWEIGHT CALLBACKS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item DATE + +=back + +=head2 perlmroapi - Perl method resolution plugin interface + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +resolve, name, length, kflags, hash + +=item Callbacks + +=item Caching + +=item Examples + +=item AUTHORS + +=back + +=head2 perlreapi - perl regular expression plugin interface + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Callbacks + +=over 4 + +=item comp + +C</m> - RXf_PMf_MULTILINE, C</s> - RXf_PMf_SINGLELINE, C</i> - +RXf_PMf_FOLD, C</x> - RXf_PMf_EXTENDED, C</p> - RXf_PMf_KEEPCOPY, +RXf_PMf_LOCALE, RXf_UTF8, RXf_SPLIT, RXf_SKIPWHITE, RXf_START_ONLY, +RXf_WHITE, RXf_NULL + +=item exec + +=item intuit + +=item checkstr + +=item free + +=item Numbered capture callbacks + +=item Named capture callbacks + +=item qr_package + +=item dupe + +=back + +=item The REGEXP structure + +=over 4 + +=item C<engine> + +=item C<mother_re> + +=item C<extflags> + +=item C<minlen> C<minlenret> + +=item C<gofs> + +=item C<substrs> + +=item C<nparens>, C<lasparen>, and C<lastcloseparen> + +=item C<intflags> + +=item C<pprivate> + +=item C<swap> + +=item C<offs> + +=item C<precomp> C<prelen> + +=item C<paren_names> + +=item C<substrs> + +=item C<subbeg> C<sublen> C<saved_copy> + +=item C<wrapped> C<wraplen> + +=item C<seen_evals> + +=item C<refcnt> + +=back + +=item HISTORY + +=item AUTHORS + +=item LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 perlreguts - Description of the Perl regular expression engine. + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OVERVIEW + +=over 4 + +=item A quick note on terms + +=item What is a regular expression engine? + +=item Structure of a Regexp Program + +C<regnode_1>, C<regnode_2>, C<regnode_string>, C<regnode_charclass>, +C<regnode_charclass_class> + +=back + +=item Process Overview + +A. Compilation, 1. Parsing for size, 2. Parsing for construction, 3. +Peep-hole optimisation and analysis, B. Execution, 4. Start position and +no-match optimisations, 5. Program execution + +=over 4 + +=item Compilation + +anchored fixed strings, floating fixed strings, minimum and maximum length +requirements, start class, Beginning/End of line positions + +=item Execution + +=back + +=item MISCELLANEOUS + +=over 4 + +=item Unicode and Localisation Support + +=item Base Structures + +C<swap>, C<offsets>, C<regstclass>, C<data>, C<program> + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item LICENCE + +=item REFERENCES + +=back + +=head2 perlapi - autogenerated documentation for the perl public API + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION +X<Perl API> X<API> X<api> + +=item "Gimme" Values + +GIMME X<GIMME>, GIMME_V X<GIMME_V>, G_ARRAY X<G_ARRAY>, G_DISCARD +X<G_DISCARD>, G_EVAL X<G_EVAL>, G_NOARGS X<G_NOARGS>, G_SCALAR X<G_SCALAR>, +G_VOID X<G_VOID> + +=item Array Manipulation Functions + +AvFILL X<AvFILL>, av_clear X<av_clear>, av_create_and_push +X<av_create_and_push>, av_create_and_unshift_one +X<av_create_and_unshift_one>, av_delete X<av_delete>, av_exists +X<av_exists>, av_extend X<av_extend>, av_fetch X<av_fetch>, av_fill +X<av_fill>, av_len X<av_len>, av_make X<av_make>, av_pop X<av_pop>, av_push +X<av_push>, av_shift X<av_shift>, av_store X<av_store>, av_undef +X<av_undef>, av_unshift X<av_unshift>, get_av X<get_av>, newAV X<newAV>, +sortsv X<sortsv>, sortsv_flags X<sortsv_flags> + +=item Callback Functions + +call_argv X<call_argv>, call_method X<call_method>, call_pv X<call_pv>, +call_sv X<call_sv>, ENTER X<ENTER>, eval_pv X<eval_pv>, eval_sv X<eval_sv>, +FREETMPS X<FREETMPS>, LEAVE X<LEAVE>, SAVETMPS X<SAVETMPS> + +=item Character classes + +isALNUM X<isALNUM>, isALPHA X<isALPHA>, isDIGIT X<isDIGIT>, isLOWER +X<isLOWER>, isSPACE X<isSPACE>, isUPPER X<isUPPER>, toLOWER X<toLOWER>, +toUPPER X<toUPPER> + +=item Cloning an interpreter + +perl_clone X<perl_clone> + +=item CV Manipulation Functions + +CvSTASH X<CvSTASH>, get_cv X<get_cv>, get_cvn_flags X<get_cvn_flags> + +=item Embedding Functions + +cv_undef X<cv_undef>, load_module X<load_module>, nothreadhook +X<nothreadhook>, perl_alloc X<perl_alloc>, perl_construct +X<perl_construct>, perl_destruct X<perl_destruct>, perl_free X<perl_free>, +perl_parse X<perl_parse>, perl_run X<perl_run>, require_pv X<require_pv> + +=item Functions in file dump.c + +pv_display X<pv_display>, pv_escape X<pv_escape>, pv_pretty X<pv_pretty> + +=item Functions in file mathoms.c + +gv_fetchmethod X<gv_fetchmethod>, pack_cat X<pack_cat>, sv_2pvbyte_nolen +X<sv_2pvbyte_nolen>, sv_2pvutf8_nolen X<sv_2pvutf8_nolen>, sv_2pv_nolen +X<sv_2pv_nolen>, sv_catpvn_mg X<sv_catpvn_mg>, sv_catsv_mg X<sv_catsv_mg>, +sv_force_normal X<sv_force_normal>, sv_iv X<sv_iv>, sv_nolocking +X<sv_nolocking>, sv_nounlocking X<sv_nounlocking>, sv_nv X<sv_nv>, sv_pv +X<sv_pv>, sv_pvbyte X<sv_pvbyte>, sv_pvbyten X<sv_pvbyten>, sv_pvn +X<sv_pvn>, sv_pvutf8 X<sv_pvutf8>, sv_pvutf8n X<sv_pvutf8n>, sv_taint +X<sv_taint>, sv_unref X<sv_unref>, sv_usepvn X<sv_usepvn>, sv_usepvn_mg +X<sv_usepvn_mg>, sv_uv X<sv_uv>, unpack_str X<unpack_str> + +=item Functions in file perl.h + +PERL_SYS_INIT X<PERL_SYS_INIT>, PERL_SYS_INIT3 X<PERL_SYS_INIT3>, +PERL_SYS_TERM X<PERL_SYS_TERM> + +=item Functions in file pp_ctl.c + +find_runcv X<find_runcv> + +=item Functions in file pp_pack.c + +packlist X<packlist>, unpackstring X<unpackstring> + +=item GV Functions + +GvSV X<GvSV>, gv_const_sv X<gv_const_sv>, gv_fetchmeth X<gv_fetchmeth>, +gv_fetchmethod_autoload X<gv_fetchmethod_autoload>, gv_fetchmeth_autoload +X<gv_fetchmeth_autoload>, gv_stashpv X<gv_stashpv>, gv_stashpvn +X<gv_stashpvn>, gv_stashpvs X<gv_stashpvs>, gv_stashsv X<gv_stashsv> + +=item Handy Values + +Nullav X<Nullav>, Nullch X<Nullch>, Nullcv X<Nullcv>, Nullhv X<Nullhv>, +Nullsv X<Nullsv> + +=item Hash Manipulation Functions + +get_hv X<get_hv>, HEf_SVKEY X<HEf_SVKEY>, HeHASH X<HeHASH>, HeKEY X<HeKEY>, +HeKLEN X<HeKLEN>, HePV X<HePV>, HeSVKEY X<HeSVKEY>, HeSVKEY_force +X<HeSVKEY_force>, HeSVKEY_set X<HeSVKEY_set>, HeUTF8 X<HeUTF8>, HeVAL +X<HeVAL>, HvNAME X<HvNAME>, hv_assert X<hv_assert>, hv_clear X<hv_clear>, +hv_clear_placeholders X<hv_clear_placeholders>, hv_delete X<hv_delete>, +hv_delete_ent X<hv_delete_ent>, hv_exists X<hv_exists>, hv_exists_ent +X<hv_exists_ent>, hv_fetch X<hv_fetch>, hv_fetchs X<hv_fetchs>, +hv_fetch_ent X<hv_fetch_ent>, hv_iterinit X<hv_iterinit>, hv_iterkey +X<hv_iterkey>, hv_iterkeysv X<hv_iterkeysv>, hv_iternext X<hv_iternext>, +hv_iternextsv X<hv_iternextsv>, hv_iternext_flags X<hv_iternext_flags>, +hv_iterval X<hv_iterval>, hv_magic X<hv_magic>, hv_scalar X<hv_scalar>, +hv_store X<hv_store>, hv_stores X<hv_stores>, hv_store_ent X<hv_store_ent>, +hv_undef X<hv_undef>, newHV X<newHV> + +=item Magical Functions + +mg_clear X<mg_clear>, mg_copy X<mg_copy>, mg_find X<mg_find>, mg_free +X<mg_free>, mg_get X<mg_get>, mg_length X<mg_length>, mg_magical +X<mg_magical>, mg_set X<mg_set>, SvGETMAGIC X<SvGETMAGIC>, SvLOCK +X<SvLOCK>, SvSETMAGIC X<SvSETMAGIC>, SvSetMagicSV X<SvSetMagicSV>, +SvSetMagicSV_nosteal X<SvSetMagicSV_nosteal>, SvSetSV X<SvSetSV>, +SvSetSV_nosteal X<SvSetSV_nosteal>, SvSHARE X<SvSHARE>, SvUNLOCK +X<SvUNLOCK> + +=item Memory Management + +Copy X<Copy>, CopyD X<CopyD>, Move X<Move>, MoveD X<MoveD>, Newx X<Newx>, +Newxc X<Newxc>, Newxz X<Newxz>, Poison X<Poison>, PoisonFree X<PoisonFree>, +PoisonNew X<PoisonNew>, PoisonWith X<PoisonWith>, Renew X<Renew>, Renewc +X<Renewc>, Safefree X<Safefree>, savepv X<savepv>, savepvn X<savepvn>, +savepvs X<savepvs>, savesharedpv X<savesharedpv>, savesharedpvn +X<savesharedpvn>, savesvpv X<savesvpv>, StructCopy X<StructCopy>, Zero +X<Zero>, ZeroD X<ZeroD> + +=item Miscellaneous Functions + +fbm_compile X<fbm_compile>, fbm_instr X<fbm_instr>, form X<form>, getcwd_sv +X<getcwd_sv>, my_snprintf X<my_snprintf>, my_sprintf X<my_sprintf>, +my_vsnprintf X<my_vsnprintf>, new_version X<new_version>, scan_version +X<scan_version>, strEQ X<strEQ>, strGE X<strGE>, strGT X<strGT>, strLE +X<strLE>, strLT X<strLT>, strNE X<strNE>, strnEQ X<strnEQ>, strnNE +X<strnNE>, sv_destroyable X<sv_destroyable>, sv_nosharing X<sv_nosharing>, +upg_version X<upg_version>, vcmp X<vcmp>, vnormal X<vnormal>, vnumify +X<vnumify>, vstringify X<vstringify>, vverify X<vverify> + +=item MRO Functions + +mro_get_linear_isa X<mro_get_linear_isa>, mro_method_changed_in +X<mro_method_changed_in> + +=item Multicall Functions + +dMULTICALL X<dMULTICALL>, MULTICALL X<MULTICALL>, POP_MULTICALL +X<POP_MULTICALL>, PUSH_MULTICALL X<PUSH_MULTICALL> + +=item Numeric functions + +grok_bin X<grok_bin>, grok_hex X<grok_hex>, grok_number X<grok_number>, +grok_numeric_radix X<grok_numeric_radix>, grok_oct X<grok_oct>, +Perl_signbit X<Perl_signbit>, scan_bin X<scan_bin>, scan_hex X<scan_hex>, +scan_oct X<scan_oct> + +=item Optree Manipulation Functions + +cv_const_sv X<cv_const_sv>, newCONSTSUB X<newCONSTSUB>, newXS X<newXS> + +=item Pad Data Structures + +pad_sv X<pad_sv> + +=item Per-Interpreter Variables + +PL_modglobal X<PL_modglobal>, PL_na X<PL_na>, PL_sv_no X<PL_sv_no>, +PL_sv_undef X<PL_sv_undef>, PL_sv_yes X<PL_sv_yes> + +=item REGEXP Functions + +SvRX X<SvRX>, SvRXOK X<SvRXOK> + +=item Simple Exception Handling Macros + +dXCPT X<dXCPT>, XCPT_CATCH X<XCPT_CATCH>, XCPT_RETHROW X<XCPT_RETHROW>, +XCPT_TRY_END X<XCPT_TRY_END>, XCPT_TRY_START X<XCPT_TRY_START> + +=item Stack Manipulation Macros + +dMARK X<dMARK>, dORIGMARK X<dORIGMARK>, dSP X<dSP>, EXTEND X<EXTEND>, MARK +X<MARK>, mPUSHi X<mPUSHi>, mPUSHn X<mPUSHn>, mPUSHp X<mPUSHp>, mPUSHs +X<mPUSHs>, mPUSHu X<mPUSHu>, mXPUSHi X<mXPUSHi>, mXPUSHn X<mXPUSHn>, +mXPUSHp X<mXPUSHp>, mXPUSHs X<mXPUSHs>, mXPUSHu X<mXPUSHu>, ORIGMARK +X<ORIGMARK>, POPi X<POPi>, POPl X<POPl>, POPn X<POPn>, POPp X<POPp>, +POPpbytex X<POPpbytex>, POPpx X<POPpx>, POPs X<POPs>, PUSHi X<PUSHi>, +PUSHMARK X<PUSHMARK>, PUSHmortal X<PUSHmortal>, PUSHn X<PUSHn>, PUSHp +X<PUSHp>, PUSHs X<PUSHs>, PUSHu X<PUSHu>, PUTBACK X<PUTBACK>, SP X<SP>, +SPAGAIN X<SPAGAIN>, XPUSHi X<XPUSHi>, XPUSHmortal X<XPUSHmortal>, XPUSHn +X<XPUSHn>, XPUSHp X<XPUSHp>, XPUSHs X<XPUSHs>, XPUSHu X<XPUSHu>, XSRETURN +X<XSRETURN>, XSRETURN_EMPTY X<XSRETURN_EMPTY>, XSRETURN_IV X<XSRETURN_IV>, +XSRETURN_NO X<XSRETURN_NO>, XSRETURN_NV X<XSRETURN_NV>, XSRETURN_PV +X<XSRETURN_PV>, XSRETURN_UNDEF X<XSRETURN_UNDEF>, XSRETURN_UV +X<XSRETURN_UV>, XSRETURN_YES X<XSRETURN_YES>, XST_mIV X<XST_mIV>, XST_mNO +X<XST_mNO>, XST_mNV X<XST_mNV>, XST_mPV X<XST_mPV>, XST_mUNDEF +X<XST_mUNDEF>, XST_mYES X<XST_mYES> + +=item SV Flags + +svtype X<svtype>, SVt_IV X<SVt_IV>, SVt_NV X<SVt_NV>, SVt_PV X<SVt_PV>, +SVt_PVAV X<SVt_PVAV>, SVt_PVCV X<SVt_PVCV>, SVt_PVHV X<SVt_PVHV>, SVt_PVMG +X<SVt_PVMG> + +=item SV Manipulation Functions + +croak_xs_usage X<croak_xs_usage>, get_sv X<get_sv>, newRV_inc X<newRV_inc>, +newSVpvn_utf8 X<newSVpvn_utf8>, SvCUR X<SvCUR>, SvCUR_set X<SvCUR_set>, +SvEND X<SvEND>, SvGAMAGIC X<SvGAMAGIC>, SvGROW X<SvGROW>, SvIOK X<SvIOK>, +SvIOKp X<SvIOKp>, SvIOK_notUV X<SvIOK_notUV>, SvIOK_off X<SvIOK_off>, +SvIOK_on X<SvIOK_on>, SvIOK_only X<SvIOK_only>, SvIOK_only_UV +X<SvIOK_only_UV>, SvIOK_UV X<SvIOK_UV>, SvIsCOW X<SvIsCOW>, +SvIsCOW_shared_hash X<SvIsCOW_shared_hash>, SvIV X<SvIV>, SvIVX X<SvIVX>, +SvIVx X<SvIVx>, SvIV_nomg X<SvIV_nomg>, SvIV_set X<SvIV_set>, SvLEN +X<SvLEN>, SvLEN_set X<SvLEN_set>, SvMAGIC_set X<SvMAGIC_set>, SvNIOK +X<SvNIOK>, SvNIOKp X<SvNIOKp>, SvNIOK_off X<SvNIOK_off>, SvNOK X<SvNOK>, +SvNOKp X<SvNOKp>, SvNOK_off X<SvNOK_off>, SvNOK_on X<SvNOK_on>, SvNOK_only +X<SvNOK_only>, SvNV X<SvNV>, SvNVX X<SvNVX>, SvNVx X<SvNVx>, SvNV_set +X<SvNV_set>, SvOK X<SvOK>, SvOOK X<SvOOK>, SvPOK X<SvPOK>, SvPOKp +X<SvPOKp>, SvPOK_off X<SvPOK_off>, SvPOK_on X<SvPOK_on>, SvPOK_only +X<SvPOK_only>, SvPOK_only_UTF8 X<SvPOK_only_UTF8>, SvPV X<SvPV>, SvPVbyte +X<SvPVbyte>, SvPVbytex X<SvPVbytex>, SvPVbytex_force X<SvPVbytex_force>, +SvPVbyte_force X<SvPVbyte_force>, SvPVbyte_nolen X<SvPVbyte_nolen>, +SvPVutf8 X<SvPVutf8>, SvPVutf8x X<SvPVutf8x>, SvPVutf8x_force +X<SvPVutf8x_force>, SvPVutf8_force X<SvPVutf8_force>, SvPVutf8_nolen +X<SvPVutf8_nolen>, SvPVX X<SvPVX>, SvPVx X<SvPVx>, SvPV_force +X<SvPV_force>, SvPV_force_nomg X<SvPV_force_nomg>, SvPV_nolen +X<SvPV_nolen>, SvPV_nomg X<SvPV_nomg>, SvPV_set X<SvPV_set>, SvREFCNT +X<SvREFCNT>, SvREFCNT_dec X<SvREFCNT_dec>, SvREFCNT_inc X<SvREFCNT_inc>, +SvREFCNT_inc_NN X<SvREFCNT_inc_NN>, SvREFCNT_inc_simple +X<SvREFCNT_inc_simple>, SvREFCNT_inc_simple_NN X<SvREFCNT_inc_simple_NN>, +SvREFCNT_inc_simple_void X<SvREFCNT_inc_simple_void>, +SvREFCNT_inc_simple_void_NN X<SvREFCNT_inc_simple_void_NN>, +SvREFCNT_inc_void X<SvREFCNT_inc_void>, SvREFCNT_inc_void_NN +X<SvREFCNT_inc_void_NN>, SvROK X<SvROK>, SvROK_off X<SvROK_off>, SvROK_on +X<SvROK_on>, SvRV X<SvRV>, SvRV_set X<SvRV_set>, SvSTASH X<SvSTASH>, +SvSTASH_set X<SvSTASH_set>, SvTAINT X<SvTAINT>, SvTAINTED X<SvTAINTED>, +SvTAINTED_off X<SvTAINTED_off>, SvTAINTED_on X<SvTAINTED_on>, SvTRUE +X<SvTRUE>, SvTYPE X<SvTYPE>, SvUOK X<SvUOK>, SvUPGRADE X<SvUPGRADE>, SvUTF8 +X<SvUTF8>, SvUTF8_off X<SvUTF8_off>, SvUTF8_on X<SvUTF8_on>, SvUV X<SvUV>, +SvUVX X<SvUVX>, SvUVx X<SvUVx>, SvUV_nomg X<SvUV_nomg>, SvUV_set +X<SvUV_set>, SvVOK X<SvVOK>, sv_catpvn_nomg X<sv_catpvn_nomg>, +sv_catsv_nomg X<sv_catsv_nomg>, sv_derived_from X<sv_derived_from>, sv_does +X<sv_does>, sv_report_used X<sv_report_used>, sv_setsv_nomg +X<sv_setsv_nomg>, sv_utf8_upgrade_nomg X<sv_utf8_upgrade_nomg> + +=item SV-Body Allocation + +looks_like_number X<looks_like_number>, newRV_noinc X<newRV_noinc>, newSV +X<newSV>, newSVhek X<newSVhek>, newSViv X<newSViv>, newSVnv X<newSVnv>, +newSVpv X<newSVpv>, newSVpvf X<newSVpvf>, newSVpvn X<newSVpvn>, +newSVpvn_flags X<newSVpvn_flags>, newSVpvn_share X<newSVpvn_share>, +newSVpvs X<newSVpvs>, newSVpvs_flags X<newSVpvs_flags>, newSVpvs_share +X<newSVpvs_share>, newSVrv X<newSVrv>, newSVsv X<newSVsv>, newSVuv +X<newSVuv>, newSV_type X<newSV_type>, sv_2bool X<sv_2bool>, sv_2cv +X<sv_2cv>, sv_2io X<sv_2io>, sv_2iv_flags X<sv_2iv_flags>, sv_2mortal +X<sv_2mortal>, sv_2nv X<sv_2nv>, sv_2pvbyte X<sv_2pvbyte>, sv_2pvutf8 +X<sv_2pvutf8>, sv_2pv_flags X<sv_2pv_flags>, sv_2uv_flags X<sv_2uv_flags>, +sv_backoff X<sv_backoff>, sv_bless X<sv_bless>, sv_catpv X<sv_catpv>, +sv_catpvf X<sv_catpvf>, sv_catpvf_mg X<sv_catpvf_mg>, sv_catpvn +X<sv_catpvn>, sv_catpvn_flags X<sv_catpvn_flags>, sv_catpvs X<sv_catpvs>, +sv_catpv_mg X<sv_catpv_mg>, sv_catsv X<sv_catsv>, sv_catsv_flags +X<sv_catsv_flags>, sv_chop X<sv_chop>, sv_clear X<sv_clear>, sv_cmp +X<sv_cmp>, sv_cmp_locale X<sv_cmp_locale>, sv_collxfrm X<sv_collxfrm>, +sv_copypv X<sv_copypv>, sv_dec X<sv_dec>, sv_eq X<sv_eq>, +sv_force_normal_flags X<sv_force_normal_flags>, sv_free X<sv_free>, sv_gets +X<sv_gets>, sv_grow X<sv_grow>, sv_inc X<sv_inc>, sv_insert X<sv_insert>, +sv_insert_flags X<sv_insert_flags>, sv_isa X<sv_isa>, sv_isobject +X<sv_isobject>, sv_len X<sv_len>, sv_len_utf8 X<sv_len_utf8>, sv_magic +X<sv_magic>, sv_magicext X<sv_magicext>, sv_mortalcopy X<sv_mortalcopy>, +sv_newmortal X<sv_newmortal>, sv_newref X<sv_newref>, sv_pos_b2u +X<sv_pos_b2u>, sv_pos_u2b X<sv_pos_u2b>, sv_pvbyten_force +X<sv_pvbyten_force>, sv_pvn_force X<sv_pvn_force>, sv_pvn_force_flags +X<sv_pvn_force_flags>, sv_pvutf8n_force X<sv_pvutf8n_force>, sv_reftype +X<sv_reftype>, sv_replace X<sv_replace>, sv_reset X<sv_reset>, sv_rvweaken +X<sv_rvweaken>, sv_setiv X<sv_setiv>, sv_setiv_mg X<sv_setiv_mg>, sv_setnv +X<sv_setnv>, sv_setnv_mg X<sv_setnv_mg>, sv_setpv X<sv_setpv>, sv_setpvf +X<sv_setpvf>, sv_setpvf_mg X<sv_setpvf_mg>, sv_setpviv X<sv_setpviv>, +sv_setpviv_mg X<sv_setpviv_mg>, sv_setpvn X<sv_setpvn>, sv_setpvn_mg +X<sv_setpvn_mg>, sv_setpvs X<sv_setpvs>, sv_setpv_mg X<sv_setpv_mg>, +sv_setref_iv X<sv_setref_iv>, sv_setref_nv X<sv_setref_nv>, sv_setref_pv +X<sv_setref_pv>, sv_setref_pvn X<sv_setref_pvn>, sv_setref_uv +X<sv_setref_uv>, sv_setsv X<sv_setsv>, sv_setsv_flags X<sv_setsv_flags>, +sv_setsv_mg X<sv_setsv_mg>, sv_setuv X<sv_setuv>, sv_setuv_mg +X<sv_setuv_mg>, sv_tainted X<sv_tainted>, sv_true X<sv_true>, sv_unmagic +X<sv_unmagic>, sv_unref_flags X<sv_unref_flags>, sv_untaint X<sv_untaint>, +sv_upgrade X<sv_upgrade>, sv_usepvn_flags X<sv_usepvn_flags>, +sv_utf8_decode X<sv_utf8_decode>, sv_utf8_downgrade X<sv_utf8_downgrade>, +sv_utf8_encode X<sv_utf8_encode>, sv_utf8_upgrade X<sv_utf8_upgrade>, +sv_utf8_upgrade_flags X<sv_utf8_upgrade_flags>, sv_utf8_upgrade_nomg +X<sv_utf8_upgrade_nomg>, sv_vcatpvf X<sv_vcatpvf>, sv_vcatpvfn +X<sv_vcatpvfn>, sv_vcatpvf_mg X<sv_vcatpvf_mg>, sv_vsetpvf X<sv_vsetpvf>, +sv_vsetpvfn X<sv_vsetpvfn>, sv_vsetpvf_mg X<sv_vsetpvf_mg> + +=item Unicode Support + +bytes_from_utf8 X<bytes_from_utf8>, bytes_to_utf8 X<bytes_to_utf8>, +ibcmp_utf8 X<ibcmp_utf8>, is_utf8_char X<is_utf8_char>, is_utf8_string +X<is_utf8_string>, is_utf8_string_loc X<is_utf8_string_loc>, +is_utf8_string_loclen X<is_utf8_string_loclen>, pv_uni_display +X<pv_uni_display>, sv_cat_decode X<sv_cat_decode>, sv_recode_to_utf8 +X<sv_recode_to_utf8>, sv_uni_display X<sv_uni_display>, to_utf8_case +X<to_utf8_case>, to_utf8_fold X<to_utf8_fold>, to_utf8_lower +X<to_utf8_lower>, to_utf8_title X<to_utf8_title>, to_utf8_upper +X<to_utf8_upper>, utf8n_to_uvchr X<utf8n_to_uvchr>, utf8n_to_uvuni +X<utf8n_to_uvuni>, utf8_distance X<utf8_distance>, utf8_hop X<utf8_hop>, +utf8_length X<utf8_length>, utf8_to_bytes X<utf8_to_bytes>, utf8_to_uvchr +X<utf8_to_uvchr>, utf8_to_uvuni X<utf8_to_uvuni>, uvchr_to_utf8 +X<uvchr_to_utf8>, uvuni_to_utf8_flags X<uvuni_to_utf8_flags> + +=item Variables created by C<xsubpp> and C<xsubpp> internal functions + +ax X<ax>, CLASS X<CLASS>, dAX X<dAX>, dAXMARK X<dAXMARK>, dITEMS X<dITEMS>, +dUNDERBAR X<dUNDERBAR>, dXSARGS X<dXSARGS>, dXSI32 X<dXSI32>, items +X<items>, ix X<ix>, newXSproto X<newXSproto>, RETVAL X<RETVAL>, ST X<ST>, +THIS X<THIS>, UNDERBAR X<UNDERBAR>, XS X<XS>, XS_VERSION X<XS_VERSION>, +XS_VERSION_BOOTCHECK X<XS_VERSION_BOOTCHECK> + +=item Warning and Dieing + +croak X<croak>, warn X<warn> + +=item AUTHORS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perlintern - autogenerated documentation of purely B<internal> + Perl functions + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION +X<internal Perl functions> X<interpreter functions> + +=item CV reference counts and CvOUTSIDE + +CvWEAKOUTSIDE X<CvWEAKOUTSIDE> + +=item Functions in file pad.h + +CX_CURPAD_SAVE X<CX_CURPAD_SAVE>, CX_CURPAD_SV X<CX_CURPAD_SV>, PAD_BASE_SV +X<PAD_BASE_SV>, PAD_CLONE_VARS X<PAD_CLONE_VARS>, PAD_COMPNAME_FLAGS +X<PAD_COMPNAME_FLAGS>, PAD_COMPNAME_GEN X<PAD_COMPNAME_GEN>, +PAD_COMPNAME_GEN_set X<PAD_COMPNAME_GEN_set>, PAD_COMPNAME_OURSTASH +X<PAD_COMPNAME_OURSTASH>, PAD_COMPNAME_PV X<PAD_COMPNAME_PV>, +PAD_COMPNAME_TYPE X<PAD_COMPNAME_TYPE>, PAD_DUP X<PAD_DUP>, +PAD_RESTORE_LOCAL X<PAD_RESTORE_LOCAL>, PAD_SAVE_LOCAL X<PAD_SAVE_LOCAL>, +PAD_SAVE_SETNULLPAD X<PAD_SAVE_SETNULLPAD>, PAD_SETSV X<PAD_SETSV>, +PAD_SET_CUR X<PAD_SET_CUR>, PAD_SET_CUR_NOSAVE X<PAD_SET_CUR_NOSAVE>, +PAD_SV X<PAD_SV>, PAD_SVl X<PAD_SVl>, SAVECLEARSV X<SAVECLEARSV>, +SAVECOMPPAD X<SAVECOMPPAD>, SAVEPADSV X<SAVEPADSV> + +=item GV Functions + +is_gv_magical X<is_gv_magical>, is_gv_magical_sv X<is_gv_magical_sv> + +=item Hash Manipulation Functions + +refcounted_he_chain_2hv X<refcounted_he_chain_2hv>, refcounted_he_free +X<refcounted_he_free>, refcounted_he_new X<refcounted_he_new> + +=item IO Functions + +start_glob X<start_glob> + +=item Magical Functions + +magic_clearhint X<magic_clearhint>, magic_sethint X<magic_sethint>, +mg_localize X<mg_localize> + +=item MRO Functions + +mro_get_linear_isa_dfs X<mro_get_linear_isa_dfs>, mro_isa_changed_in +X<mro_isa_changed_in> + +=item Pad Data Structures + +CvPADLIST X<CvPADLIST>, cv_clone X<cv_clone>, cv_dump X<cv_dump>, +do_dump_pad X<do_dump_pad>, intro_my X<intro_my>, pad_add_anon +X<pad_add_anon>, pad_add_name X<pad_add_name>, pad_alloc X<pad_alloc>, +pad_block_start X<pad_block_start>, pad_check_dup X<pad_check_dup>, +pad_findlex X<pad_findlex>, pad_findmy X<pad_findmy>, pad_fixup_inner_anons +X<pad_fixup_inner_anons>, pad_free X<pad_free>, pad_leavemy X<pad_leavemy>, +pad_new X<pad_new>, pad_push X<pad_push>, pad_reset X<pad_reset>, pad_setsv +X<pad_setsv>, pad_swipe X<pad_swipe>, pad_tidy X<pad_tidy>, pad_undef +X<pad_undef> + +=item Per-Interpreter Variables + +PL_DBsingle X<PL_DBsingle>, PL_DBsub X<PL_DBsub>, PL_DBtrace X<PL_DBtrace>, +PL_dowarn X<PL_dowarn>, PL_last_in_gv X<PL_last_in_gv>, PL_ofs_sv +X<PL_ofs_sv>, PL_rs X<PL_rs> + +=item Stack Manipulation Macros + +djSP X<djSP>, LVRET X<LVRET> + +=item SV Manipulation Functions + +sv_add_arena X<sv_add_arena>, sv_clean_all X<sv_clean_all>, sv_clean_objs +X<sv_clean_objs>, sv_free_arenas X<sv_free_arenas> + +=item SV-Body Allocation + +sv_2num X<sv_2num> + +=item Unicode Support + +find_uninit_var X<find_uninit_var>, report_uninit X<report_uninit> + +=item AUTHORS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perliol - C API for Perl's implementation of IO in Layers. + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item History and Background + +=item Basic Structure + +=item Layers vs Disciplines + +=item Data Structures + +=item Functions and Attributes + +=item Per-instance Data + +=item Layers in action. + +=item Per-instance flag bits + +PERLIO_F_EOF, PERLIO_F_CANWRITE, PERLIO_F_CANREAD, PERLIO_F_ERROR, +PERLIO_F_TRUNCATE, PERLIO_F_APPEND, PERLIO_F_CRLF, PERLIO_F_UTF8, +PERLIO_F_UNBUF, PERLIO_F_WRBUF, PERLIO_F_RDBUF, PERLIO_F_LINEBUF, +PERLIO_F_TEMP, PERLIO_F_OPEN, PERLIO_F_FASTGETS + +=item Methods in Detail + +fsize, name, size, kind, PERLIO_K_BUFFERED, PERLIO_K_RAW, PERLIO_K_CANCRLF, +PERLIO_K_FASTGETS, PERLIO_K_MULTIARG, Pushed, Popped, Open, Binmode, +Getarg, Fileno, Dup, Read, Write, Seek, Tell, Close, Flush, Fill, Eof, +Error, Clearerr, Setlinebuf, Get_base, Get_bufsiz, Get_ptr, Get_cnt, +Set_ptrcnt + +=item Utilities + +=item Implementing PerlIO Layers + +C implementations, Perl implementations + +=item Core Layers + +"unix", "perlio", "stdio", "crlf", "mmap", "pending", "raw", "utf8" + +=item Extension Layers + +":encoding", ":scalar", ":via" + +=back + +=item TODO + +=back + +=head2 perlapio - perl's IO abstraction interface. + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +1. USE_STDIO, 2. USE_SFIO, 3. USE_PERLIO, B<PerlIO_stdin()>, +B<PerlIO_stdout()>, B<PerlIO_stderr()>, B<PerlIO_open(path, mode)>, +B<PerlIO_fdopen(fd,mode)>, B<PerlIO_reopen(path,mode,f)>, +B<PerlIO_printf(f,fmt,...)>, B<PerlIO_vprintf(f,fmt,a)>, +B<PerlIO_stdoutf(fmt,...)>, B<PerlIO_read(f,buf,count)>, +B<PerlIO_write(f,buf,count)>, B<PerlIO_close(f)>, B<PerlIO_puts(f,s)>, +B<PerlIO_putc(f,c)>, B<PerlIO_ungetc(f,c)>, B<PerlIO_getc(f)>, +B<PerlIO_eof(f)>, B<PerlIO_error(f)>, B<PerlIO_fileno(f)>, +B<PerlIO_clearerr(f)>, B<PerlIO_flush(f)>, B<PerlIO_seek(f,offset,whence)>, +B<PerlIO_tell(f)>, B<PerlIO_getpos(f,p)>, B<PerlIO_setpos(f,p)>, +B<PerlIO_rewind(f)>, B<PerlIO_tmpfile()>, B<PerlIO_setlinebuf(f)> + +=over 4 + +=item Co-existence with stdio + +B<PerlIO_importFILE(f,mode)>, B<PerlIO_exportFILE(f,mode)>, +B<PerlIO_releaseFILE(p,f)>, B<PerlIO_findFILE(f)> + +=item "Fast gets" Functions + +B<PerlIO_fast_gets(f)>, B<PerlIO_has_cntptr(f)>, B<PerlIO_get_cnt(f)>, +B<PerlIO_get_ptr(f)>, B<PerlIO_set_ptrcnt(f,p,c)>, B<PerlIO_canset_cnt(f)>, +B<PerlIO_set_cnt(f,c)>, B<PerlIO_has_base(f)>, B<PerlIO_get_base(f)>, +B<PerlIO_get_bufsiz(f)> + +=item Other Functions + +PerlIO_apply_layers(f,mode,layers), PerlIO_binmode(f,ptype,imode,layers), +'E<lt>' read, 'E<gt>' write, '+' read/write, PerlIO_debug(fmt,...) + +=back + +=back + +=head2 perlhack - How to hack at the Perl internals + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +Does concept match the general goals of Perl?, Where is the +implementation?, Backwards compatibility, Could it be a module instead?, Is +the feature generic enough?, Does it potentially introduce new bugs?, Does +it preclude other desirable features?, Is the implementation robust?, Is +the implementation generic enough to be portable?, Is the implementation +tested?, Is there enough documentation?, Is there another way to do it?, +Does it create too much work?, Patches speak louder than words + +=over 4 + +=item Keeping in sync + +=item Perlbug administration + +=item Submitting patches + +L<perlguts>, L<perlxstut> and L<perlxs>, L<perlapi>, +F<Porting/pumpkin.pod>, The perl5-porters FAQ + +=item Finding Your Way Around + +Core modules, Tests, Documentation, Configure, Interpreter + +=item Elements of the interpreter + +Startup, Parsing, Optimization, Running, Exception handing + +=item Internal Variable Types + +=item Op Trees + +=item Stacks + +Argument stack, Mark stack, Save stack + +=item Millions of Macros + +=item The .i Targets + +=back + +=item SOURCE CODE STATIC ANALYSIS + +=over 4 + +=item lint, splint + +=item Coverity + +=item cpd (cut-and-paste detector) + +=item gcc warnings + +=item Warnings of other C compilers + +=item DEBUGGING + +=item Poking at Perl + +=item Using a source-level debugger + +run [args], break function_name, break source.c:xxx, step, next, continue, +finish, 'enter', print + +=item gdb macro support + +=item Dumping Perl Data Structures + +=item Patching + +=item Patching a core module + +=item Adding a new function to the core + +=item Writing a test + +F<t/base/>, F<t/cmd/>, F<t/comp/>, F<t/io/>, F<t/lib/>, F<t/mro/>, +F<t/op/>, F<t/pod/>, F<t/run/>, F<t/uni/>, F<t/win32/>, F<t/x2p>, t/base +t/comp, t/cmd t/run t/io t/op, t/lib ext lib + +=item Special Make Test Targets + +coretest, test.deparse, test.taintwarn, minitest, test.valgrind +check.valgrind utest.valgrind ucheck.valgrind, test.third check.third +utest.third ucheck.third, test.torture torturetest, utest ucheck test.utf8 +check.utf8, minitest.utf16 test.utf16, test_harness, test-notty test_notty + +=item Running tests by hand + +-v, -torture, -re=PATTERN, -re LIST OF PATTERNS, PERL_CORE=1, +PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL=2, PERL, PERL_SKIP_TTY_TEST, PERL_TEST_Net_Ping, +PERL_TEST_NOVREXX, PERL_TEST_NUMCONVERTS + +=item Common problems when patching Perl source code + +=item Perl environment problems + +=item Portability problems + +=item Problematic System Interfaces + +=item Security problems + +=back + +=item EXTERNAL TOOLS FOR DEBUGGING PERL + +=over 4 + +=item Rational Software's Purify + +=item Purify on Unix + +-Accflags=-DPURIFY, -Doptimize='-g', -Uusemymalloc, -Dusemultiplicity + +=item Purify on NT + +DEFINES, USE_MULTI = define, #PERL_MALLOC = define, CFG = Debug + +=item valgrind + +=item Compaq's/Digital's/HP's Third Degree + +=item PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL + +=item PERL_MEM_LOG + +=item Profiling + +=item Gprof Profiling + +-a, -b, -e routine, -f routine, -s, -z + +=item GCC gcov Profiling + +=item Pixie Profiling + +-h, -l, -p[rocedures], -h[eavy], -i[nvocations], -l[ines], -testcoverage, +-z[ero] + +=item Miscellaneous tricks + +=back + +=item CONCLUSION + +I<The Road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began.> + +=over 4 + +=item Metaphoric Quotations + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perlrepository - Using the Perl source repository + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item GETTING ACCESS TO THE REPOSITORY + +=over 4 + +=item READ ACCESS VIA THE WEB + +=item READ ACCESS VIA GIT + +=item WRITE ACCESS TO THE REPOSITORY + +=back + +=item OVERVIEW OF THE REPOSITORY + +=over 4 + +=item FINDING OUT YOUR STATUS + +=back + +=item SUBMITTING A PATCH + +=over 4 + +=item A note on derived files + +=item A note on binary files + +=item Getting your patch accepted + +Comments, Comments, Comments, Style, Testsuite + +=back + +=item ACCEPTING A PATCH + +=item CLEANING A WORKING DIRECTORY + +=item BISECTING + +=item SUBMITTING A PATCH VIA GITHUB + +=item MERGING FROM A BRANCH VIA GITHUB + +=item COMMITTING TO MAINTENANCE VERSIONS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perlbook - Perl book information + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head2 perlcommunity - a brief overview of the Perl community + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Where to find the community + +=item Mailing lists and Newsgroups + +=item IRC + +=item Websites + +L<http://perl.com/>, L<http://use.perl.org/>, L<http://www.perlmonks.org/> + +=item User Groups + +=item Workshops + +=item Hackathons + +=item Conventions + +=item Calendar of Perl Events + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perltodo - Perl TO-DO List + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Tasks that only need Perl knowledge + +=over 4 + +=item Remove macperl references from tests + +=item Remove duplication of test setup. + +=item POD -E<gt> HTML conversion in the core still sucks + +=item Make ExtUtils::ParseXS use strict; + +=item Parallel testing + +=item Make Schwern poorer + +=item Improve the coverage of the core tests + +=item test B + +=item A decent benchmark + +=item fix tainting bugs + +=item Dual life everything + +=item Bundle dual life modules in ext/ + +=item POSIX memory footprint + +=item embed.pl/makedef.pl + +=item use strict; and AutoLoad + +=item profile installman + +=back + +=item Tasks that need a little sysadmin-type knowledge + +=over 4 + +=item make HTML install work + +=item compressed man pages + +=item Add a code coverage target to the Makefile + +=item Make Config.pm cope with differences between built and installed perl + +=item linker specification files + +=item Cross-compile support + +=item roffitall + +=item Split "linker" from "compiler" + +C<cc> (in F<cc.U>), C<ld> (in F<dlsrc.U>) + +=item Configure Windows using PowerShell + +=item decouple -g and -DDEBUGGING + +=back + +=item Tasks that need a little C knowledge + +=over 4 + +=item Weed out needless PERL_UNUSED_ARG + +=item Modernize the order of directories in @INC + +=item -Duse32bit* + +=item Profile Perl - am I hot or not? + +=item Allocate OPs from arenas + +=item Improve win32/wince.c + +=item Use secure CRT functions when building with VC8 on Win32 + +=item Fix POSIX::access() and chdir() on Win32 + +=item strcat(), strcpy(), strncat(), strncpy(), sprintf(), vsprintf() + +=item -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2, -fstack-protector + +=item Arenas for GPs? For MAGIC? + +=item Shared arenas + +=back + +=item Tasks that need a knowledge of XS + +=over 4 + +=item Remove the use of SVs as temporaries in dump.c + +=item safely supporting POSIX SA_SIGINFO + +=item autovivification + +=item Unicode in Filenames + +=item Unicode in %ENV + +=item Unicode and glob() + +=item Unicode and lc/uc operators + +=item use less 'memory' + +=item Re-implement C<:unique> in a way that is actually thread-safe + +=item Make tainting consistent + +=item readpipe(LIST) + +=item Audit the code for destruction ordering assumptions + +=item Extend PerlIO and PerlIO::Scalar + +=item -C on the #! line + +=item Duplicate logic in S_method_common() and +Perl_gv_fetchmethod_autoload() + +=item Organize error messages + +=back + +=item Tasks that need a knowledge of the interpreter + +=over 4 + +=item forbid labels with keyword names + +=item truncate() prototype + +=item decapsulation of smart match argument + +=item error reporting of [$a ; $b] + +=item lexicals used only once + +=item UTF-8 revamp + +=item Properly Unicode safe tokeniser and pads. + +=item state variable initialization in list context + +=item Implement $value ~~ 0 .. $range + +=item A does() built-in + +=item Tied filehandles and write() don't mix + +=item Propagate compilation hints to the debugger + +=item Attach/detach debugger from running program + +=item LVALUE functions for lists + +=item regexp optimiser optional + +=item delete &function + +=item C</w> regex modifier + +=item optional optimizer + +=item You WANT *how* many + +=item lexical aliases + +=item entersub XS vs Perl + +=item Self-ties + +=item Optimize away @_ + +=item The yada yada yada operators + +=item Virtualize operating system access + +=item Investigate PADTMP hash pessimisation + +=item Store the current pad in the OP slab allocator + +=item repack the optree + +=item eliminate incorrect line numbers in warnings + +=item optimize tail-calls + +=item C<\N> + +=back + +=item Big projects + +=over 4 + +=item make ithreads more robust + +=item iCOW + +=item (?{...}) closures in regexps + +=item A re-entrant regexp engine + +=item Add class set operations to regexp engine + +=back + +=item Tasks for microperl + +=over 4 + +=item make creating uconfig.sh automatic + +=item make creating Makefile.micro automatic + +=item do away with fork/exec/wait? + +=item some of the uconfig.sh really needs to be probed (using cc) in +buildtime: + +=back + +=back + +=head2 perldoc - Look up Perl documentation in Pod format. + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OPTIONS + +B<-h>, B<-v>, B<-t>, B<-u>, B<-m> I<module>, B<-l>, B<-F>, B<-f> +I<perlfunc>, B<-q> I<perlfaq-search-regexp>, B<-T>, B<-d> +I<destination-filename>, B<-o> I<output-formatname>, B<-M> I<module-name>, +B<-w> I<option:value> or B<-w> I<option>, B<-X>, B<-L> I<language_code>, +B<PageName|ModuleName|ProgramName>, B<-n> I<some-formatter>, B<-r>, B<-i>, +B<-V> + +=item SECURITY + +=item ENVIRONMENT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perlhist - the Perl history records + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item INTRODUCTION + +=item THE KEEPERS OF THE PUMPKIN + +=over 4 + +=item PUMPKIN? + +=back + +=item THE RECORDS + +=over 4 + +=item SELECTED RELEASE SIZES + +=item SELECTED PATCH SIZES + +=back + +=item THE KEEPERS OF THE RECORDS + +=back + +=head2 perldelta - what is new for perl v5.10.1 + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Incompatible Changes + +=over 4 + +=item Switch statement changes + +flip-flop operators, defined-or operator + +=item Smart match changes + +=item Other incompatible changes + +=back + +=item Core Enhancements + +=over 4 + +=item Unicode Character Database 5.1.0 + +=item A proper interface for pluggable Method Resolution Orders + +=item The C<overloading> pragma + +=item Parallel tests + +=item DTrace support + +=item Support for C<configure_requires> in CPAN module metadata + +=back + +=item Modules and Pragmata + +=over 4 + +=item New Modules and Pragmata + +C<autodie>, C<Compress::Raw::Bzip2>, C<parent>, C<Parse::CPAN::Meta> + +=item Pragmata Changes + +C<attributes>, C<attrs>, C<base>, C<bigint>, C<bignum>, C<bigrat>, +C<charnames>, C<constant>, C<feature>, C<fields>, C<lib>, C<open>, +C<overload>, C<overloading>, C<version> + +=item Updated Modules + +C<Archive::Extract>, C<Archive::Tar>, C<Attribute::Handlers>, +C<AutoLoader>, C<AutoSplit>, C<B>, C<B::Debug>, C<B::Deparse>, C<B::Lint>, +C<B::Xref>, C<Benchmark>, C<Carp>, C<CGI>, C<Compress::Zlib>, C<CPAN>, +C<CPANPLUS>, C<CPANPLUS::Dist::Build>, C<Cwd>, C<Data::Dumper>, C<DB>, +C<DB_File>, C<Devel::PPPort>, C<Digest::MD5>, C<Digest::SHA>, C<DirHandle>, +C<Dumpvalue>, C<DynaLoader>, C<Encode>, C<Errno>, C<Exporter>, +C<ExtUtils::CBuilder>, C<ExtUtils::Command>, C<ExtUtils::Constant>, +C<ExtUtils::Embed>, C<ExtUtils::Install>, C<ExtUtils::MakeMaker>, +C<ExtUtils::Manifest>, C<ExtUtils::ParseXS>, C<Fatal>, C<File::Basename>, +C<File::Compare>, C<File::Copy>, C<File::Fetch>, C<File::Find>, +C<File::Path>, C<File::Spec>, C<File::stat>, C<File::Temp>, C<FileCache>, +C<FileHandle>, C<Filter::Simple>, C<Filter::Util::Call>, C<FindBin>, +C<GDBM_File>, C<Getopt::Long>, C<Hash::Util::FieldHash>, C<I18N::Collate>, +C<IO>, C<IO::Compress::*>, C<IO::Dir>, C<IO::Handle>, C<IO::Socket>, +C<IO::Zlib>, C<IPC::Cmd>, C<IPC::Open3>, C<IPC::SysV>, C<lib>, +C<List::Util>, C<Locale::MakeText>, C<Log::Message>, C<Math::BigFloat>, +C<Math::BigInt>, C<Math::BigInt::FastCalc>, C<Math::BigRat>, +C<Math::Complex>, C<Math::Trig>, C<Memoize>, C<Module::Build>, +C<Module::CoreList>, C<Module::Load>, C<Module::Load::Conditional>, +C<Module::Loaded>, C<Module::Pluggable>, C<NDBM_File>, C<Net::Ping>, +C<NEXT>, C<Object::Accessor>, C<OS2::REXX>, C<Package::Constants>, +C<PerlIO>, C<PerlIO::via>, C<Pod::Man>, C<Pod::Parser>, C<Pod::Simple>, +C<Pod::Text>, C<POSIX>, C<Safe>, C<Scalar::Util>, C<SelectSaver>, +C<SelfLoader>, C<Socket>, C<Storable>, C<Switch>, C<Symbol>, +C<Sys::Syslog>, C<Term::ANSIColor>, C<Term::ReadLine>, C<Term::UI>, +C<Test::Harness>, C<Test::Simple>, C<Text::ParseWords>, C<Text::Tabs>, +C<Text::Wrap>, C<Thread::Queue>, C<Thread::Semaphore>, C<threads>, +C<threads::shared>, C<Tie::RefHash>, C<Tie::StdHandle>, C<Time::HiRes>, +C<Time::Local>, C<Time::Piece>, C<Unicode::Normalize>, C<Unicode::UCD>, +C<UNIVERSAL>, C<Win32>, C<Win32API::File>, C<XSLoader> + +=back + +=item Utility Changes + +F<h2ph>, F<h2xs>, F<perl5db.pl>, F<perlthanks> + +=item New Documentation + +L<perlhaiku>, L<perlmroapi>, L<perlperf>, L<perlrepository>, L<perlthanks> + +=item Changes to Existing Documentation + +=item Performance Enhancements + +=item Installation and Configuration Improvements + +=over 4 + +=item F<ext/> reorganisation + +=item Configuration improvements + +=item Compilation improvements + +=item Platform Specific Changes + +AIX, Cygwin, FreeBSD, Irix, Haiku, MirOS BSD, NetBSD, Stratus VOS, Symbian, +Win32, VMS + +=back + +=item Selected Bug Fixes + +=item New or Changed Diagnostics + +C<panic: sv_chop %s>, C<Can't locate package %s for the parents of %s>, +C<v-string in use/require is non-portable>, C<Deep recursion on subroutine +"%s"> + +=item Changed Internals + +C<SVf_UTF8>, C<SVs_TEMP> + +=item New Tests + +t/comp/retainedlines.t, t/io/perlio_fail.t, t/io/perlio_leaks.t, +t/io/perlio_open.t, t/io/perlio.t, t/io/pvbm.t, t/mro/package_aliases.t, +t/op/dbm.t, t/op/index_thr.t, t/op/pat_thr.t, t/op/qr_gc.t, +t/op/reg_email_thr.t, t/op/regexp_qr_embed_thr.t, +t/op/regexp_unicode_prop.t, t/op/regexp_unicode_prop_thr.t, +t/op/reg_nc_tie.t, t/op/reg_posixcc.t, t/op/re.t, t/op/setpgrpstack.t, +t/op/substr_thr.t, t/op/upgrade.t, t/uni/lex_utf8.t, t/uni/tie.t + +=item Known Problems + +=item Deprecations + +=item Acknowledgements + +=item Reporting Bugs + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perl5101delta, perldelta - what is new for perl v5.10.1 + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Incompatible Changes + +=over 4 + +=item Switch statement changes + +flip-flop operators, defined-or operator + +=item Smart match changes + +=item Other incompatible changes + +=back + +=item Core Enhancements + +=over 4 + +=item Unicode Character Database 5.1.0 + +=item A proper interface for pluggable Method Resolution Orders + +=item The C<overloading> pragma + +=item Parallel tests + +=item DTrace support + +=item Support for C<configure_requires> in CPAN module metadata + +=back + +=item Modules and Pragmata + +=over 4 + +=item New Modules and Pragmata + +C<autodie>, C<Compress::Raw::Bzip2>, C<parent>, C<Parse::CPAN::Meta> + +=item Pragmata Changes + +C<attributes>, C<attrs>, C<base>, C<bigint>, C<bignum>, C<bigrat>, +C<charnames>, C<constant>, C<feature>, C<fields>, C<lib>, C<open>, +C<overload>, C<overloading>, C<version> + +=item Updated Modules + +C<Archive::Extract>, C<Archive::Tar>, C<Attribute::Handlers>, +C<AutoLoader>, C<AutoSplit>, C<B>, C<B::Debug>, C<B::Deparse>, C<B::Lint>, +C<B::Xref>, C<Benchmark>, C<Carp>, C<CGI>, C<Compress::Zlib>, C<CPAN>, +C<CPANPLUS>, C<CPANPLUS::Dist::Build>, C<Cwd>, C<Data::Dumper>, C<DB>, +C<DB_File>, C<Devel::PPPort>, C<Digest::MD5>, C<Digest::SHA>, C<DirHandle>, +C<Dumpvalue>, C<DynaLoader>, C<Encode>, C<Errno>, C<Exporter>, +C<ExtUtils::CBuilder>, C<ExtUtils::Command>, C<ExtUtils::Constant>, +C<ExtUtils::Embed>, C<ExtUtils::Install>, C<ExtUtils::MakeMaker>, +C<ExtUtils::Manifest>, C<ExtUtils::ParseXS>, C<Fatal>, C<File::Basename>, +C<File::Compare>, C<File::Copy>, C<File::Fetch>, C<File::Find>, +C<File::Path>, C<File::Spec>, C<File::stat>, C<File::Temp>, C<FileCache>, +C<FileHandle>, C<Filter::Simple>, C<Filter::Util::Call>, C<FindBin>, +C<GDBM_File>, C<Getopt::Long>, C<Hash::Util::FieldHash>, C<I18N::Collate>, +C<IO>, C<IO::Compress::*>, C<IO::Dir>, C<IO::Handle>, C<IO::Socket>, +C<IO::Zlib>, C<IPC::Cmd>, C<IPC::Open3>, C<IPC::SysV>, C<lib>, +C<List::Util>, C<Locale::MakeText>, C<Log::Message>, C<Math::BigFloat>, +C<Math::BigInt>, C<Math::BigInt::FastCalc>, C<Math::BigRat>, +C<Math::Complex>, C<Math::Trig>, C<Memoize>, C<Module::Build>, +C<Module::CoreList>, C<Module::Load>, C<Module::Load::Conditional>, +C<Module::Loaded>, C<Module::Pluggable>, C<NDBM_File>, C<Net::Ping>, +C<NEXT>, C<Object::Accessor>, C<OS2::REXX>, C<Package::Constants>, +C<PerlIO>, C<PerlIO::via>, C<Pod::Man>, C<Pod::Parser>, C<Pod::Simple>, +C<Pod::Text>, C<POSIX>, C<Safe>, C<Scalar::Util>, C<SelectSaver>, +C<SelfLoader>, C<Socket>, C<Storable>, C<Switch>, C<Symbol>, +C<Sys::Syslog>, C<Term::ANSIColor>, C<Term::ReadLine>, C<Term::UI>, +C<Test::Harness>, C<Test::Simple>, C<Text::ParseWords>, C<Text::Tabs>, +C<Text::Wrap>, C<Thread::Queue>, C<Thread::Semaphore>, C<threads>, +C<threads::shared>, C<Tie::RefHash>, C<Tie::StdHandle>, C<Time::HiRes>, +C<Time::Local>, C<Time::Piece>, C<Unicode::Normalize>, C<Unicode::UCD>, +C<UNIVERSAL>, C<Win32>, C<Win32API::File>, C<XSLoader> + +=back + +=item Utility Changes + +F<h2ph>, F<h2xs>, F<perl5db.pl>, F<perlthanks> + +=item New Documentation + +L<perlhaiku>, L<perlmroapi>, L<perlperf>, L<perlrepository>, L<perlthanks> + +=item Changes to Existing Documentation + +=item Performance Enhancements + +=item Installation and Configuration Improvements + +=over 4 + +=item F<ext/> reorganisation + +=item Configuration improvements + +=item Compilation improvements + +=item Platform Specific Changes + +AIX, Cygwin, FreeBSD, Irix, Haiku, MirOS BSD, NetBSD, Stratus VOS, Symbian, +Win32, VMS + +=back + +=item Selected Bug Fixes + +=item New or Changed Diagnostics + +C<panic: sv_chop %s>, C<Can't locate package %s for the parents of %s>, +C<v-string in use/require is non-portable>, C<Deep recursion on subroutine +"%s"> + +=item Changed Internals + +C<SVf_UTF8>, C<SVs_TEMP> + +=item New Tests + +t/comp/retainedlines.t, t/io/perlio_fail.t, t/io/perlio_leaks.t, +t/io/perlio_open.t, t/io/perlio.t, t/io/pvbm.t, t/mro/package_aliases.t, +t/op/dbm.t, t/op/index_thr.t, t/op/pat_thr.t, t/op/qr_gc.t, +t/op/reg_email_thr.t, t/op/regexp_qr_embed_thr.t, +t/op/regexp_unicode_prop.t, t/op/regexp_unicode_prop_thr.t, +t/op/reg_nc_tie.t, t/op/reg_posixcc.t, t/op/re.t, t/op/setpgrpstack.t, +t/op/substr_thr.t, t/op/upgrade.t, t/uni/lex_utf8.t, t/uni/tie.t + +=item Known Problems + +=item Deprecations + +=item Acknowledgements + +=item Reporting Bugs + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perl5100delta - what is new for perl 5.10.0 + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Core Enhancements + +=over 4 + +=item The C<feature> pragma + +=item New B<-E> command-line switch + +=item Defined-or operator + +=item Switch and Smart Match operator + +=item Regular expressions + +Recursive Patterns, Named Capture Buffers, Possessive Quantifiers, +Backtracking control verbs, Relative backreferences, C<\K> escape, Vertical +and horizontal whitespace, and linebreak + +=item C<say()> + +=item Lexical C<$_> + +=item The C<_> prototype + +=item UNITCHECK blocks + +=item New Pragma, C<mro> + +=item readdir() may return a "short filename" on Windows + +=item readpipe() is now overridable + +=item Default argument for readline() + +=item state() variables + +=item Stacked filetest operators + +=item UNIVERSAL::DOES() + +=item Formats + +=item Byte-order modifiers for pack() and unpack() + +=item C<no VERSION> + +=item C<chdir>, C<chmod> and C<chown> on filehandles + +=item OS groups + +=item Recursive sort subs + +=item Exceptions in constant folding + +=item Source filters in @INC + +=item New internal variables + +C<${^RE_DEBUG_FLAGS}>, C<${^CHILD_ERROR_NATIVE}>, C<${^RE_TRIE_MAXBUF}>, +C<${^WIN32_SLOPPY_STAT}> + +=item Miscellaneous + +=item UCD 5.0.0 + +=item MAD + +=item kill() on Windows + +=back + +=item Incompatible Changes + +=over 4 + +=item Packing and UTF-8 strings + +=item Byte/character count feature in unpack() + +=item The C<$*> and C<$#> variables have been removed + +=item substr() lvalues are no longer fixed-length + +=item Parsing of C<-f _> + +=item C<:unique> + +=item Effect of pragmas in eval + +=item chdir FOO + +=item Handling of .pmc files + +=item $^V is now a C<version> object instead of a v-string + +=item @- and @+ in patterns + +=item $AUTOLOAD can now be tainted + +=item Tainting and printf + +=item undef and signal handlers + +=item strictures and dereferencing in defined() + +=item C<(?p{})> has been removed + +=item Pseudo-hashes have been removed + +=item Removal of the bytecode compiler and of perlcc + +=item Removal of the JPL + +=item Recursive inheritance detected earlier + +=back + +=item Modules and Pragmata + +=over 4 + +=item Upgrading individual core modules + +=item Pragmata Changes + +C<feature>, C<mro>, Scoping of the C<sort> pragma, Scoping of C<bignum>, +C<bigint>, C<bigrat>, C<base>, C<strict> and C<warnings>, C<version>, +C<warnings>, C<less> + +=item New modules + +=item Selected Changes to Core Modules + +C<Attribute::Handlers>, C<B::Lint>, C<B>, C<Thread> + +=back + +=item Utility Changes + +perl -d, ptar, ptardiff, shasum, corelist, h2ph and h2xs, perlivp, +find2perl, config_data, cpanp, cpan2dist, pod2html + +=item New Documentation + +=item Performance Enhancements + +=over 4 + +=item In-place sorting + +=item Lexical array access + +=item XS-assisted SWASHGET + +=item Constant subroutines + +=item C<PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV> + +=item Weak references are cheaper + +=item sort() enhancements + +=item Memory optimisations + +=item UTF-8 cache optimisation + +=item Sloppy stat on Windows + +=item Regular expressions optimisations + +Engine de-recursivised, Single char char-classes treated as literals, Trie +optimisation of literal string alternations, Aho-Corasick start-point +optimisation + +=back + +=item Installation and Configuration Improvements + +=over 4 + +=item Configuration improvements + +C<-Dusesitecustomize>, Relocatable installations, strlcat() and strlcpy(), +C<d_pseudofork> and C<d_printf_format_null>, Configure help + +=item Compilation improvements + +Parallel build, Borland's compilers support, Static build on Windows, +ppport.h files, C++ compatibility, Support for Microsoft 64-bit compiler, +Visual C++, Win32 builds + +=item Installation improvements + +Module auxiliary files + +=item New Or Improved Platforms + +=back + +=item Selected Bug Fixes + +strictures in regexp-eval blocks, Calling CORE::require(), Subscripts of +slices, C<no warnings 'category'> works correctly with -w, threads +improvements, chr() and negative values, PERL5SHELL and tainting, Using +*FILE{IO}, Overloading and reblessing, Overloading and UTF-8, eval memory +leaks fixed, Random device on Windows, PERLIO_DEBUG, PerlIO::scalar and +read-only scalars, study() and UTF-8, Critical signals, @INC-hook fix, +C<-t> switch fix, Duping UTF-8 filehandles, Localisation of hash elements + +=item New or Changed Diagnostics + +Use of uninitialized value, Deprecated use of my() in false conditional, +!=~ should be !~, Newline in left-justified string, Too late for "-T" +option, "%s" variable %s masks earlier declaration, +readdir()/closedir()/etc. attempted on invalid dirhandle, Opening +dirhandle/filehandle %s also as a file/directory, Use of -P is deprecated, +v-string in use/require is non-portable, perl -V + +=item Changed Internals + +=over 4 + +=item Reordering of SVt_* constants + +=item Elimination of SVt_PVBM + +=item New type SVt_BIND + +=item Removal of CPP symbols + +=item Less space is used by ops + +=item New parser + +=item Use of C<const> + +=item Mathoms + +=item C<AvFLAGS> has been removed + +=item C<av_*> changes + +=item $^H and %^H + +=item B:: modules inheritance changed + +=item Anonymous hash and array constructors + +=back + +=item Known Problems + +=over 4 + +=item UTF-8 problems + +=back + +=item Platform Specific Problems + +=item Reporting Bugs + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perl595delta - what is new for perl v5.9.5 + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Incompatible Changes + +=over 4 + +=item Tainting and printf + +=item undef and signal handlers + +=item strictures and array/hash dereferencing in defined() + +=item C<(?p{})> has been removed + +=item Pseudo-hashes have been removed + +=item Removal of the bytecode compiler and of perlcc + +=item Removal of the JPL + +=item Recursive inheritance detected earlier + +=back + +=item Core Enhancements + +=over 4 + +=item Regular expressions + +Recursive Patterns, Named Capture Buffers, Possessive Quantifiers, +Backtracking control verbs, Relative backreferences, C<\K> escape, Vertical +and horizontal whitespace, and linebreak + +=item The C<_> prototype + +=item UNITCHECK blocks + +=item readpipe() is now overridable + +=item default argument for readline() + +=item UCD 5.0.0 + +=item Smart match + +=item Implicit loading of C<feature> + +=back + +=item Modules and Pragmas + +=over 4 + +=item New Pragma, C<mro> + +=item bignum, bigint, bigrat + +=item Math::BigInt/Math::BigFloat + +config(), import(), roundmode common, bpi(), bcos(), bsin(), batan(), +batan2(), bmuladd(), bexp(), bnok(), from_hex(), from_oct(), and +from_bin(), as_oct() + +=item New Core Modules + +=item Module changes + +C<assertions>, C<base>, C<strict> and C<warnings>, C<warnings>, C<less>, +C<Attribute::Handlers>, C<B::Lint>, C<B>, C<Thread> + +=back + +=item Utility Changes + +=over 4 + +=item C<cpanp> + +=item C<cpan2dist> + +=item C<pod2html> + +=back + +=item Documentation + +=over 4 + +=item New manpage, perlunifaq + +=back + +=item Installation and Configuration Improvements + +=over 4 + +=item C++ compatibility + +=item Visual C++ + +=item Static build on Win32 + +=item win32 builds + +=item C<d_pseudofork> and C<d_printf_format_null> + +=item Help + +=item 64bit systems + +=item Ports + +=back + +=item Selected Bug Fixes + +=item New or Changed Diagnostics + +=over 4 + +=item Deprecations + +=back + +=item Changed Internals + +=item Reporting Bugs + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perl594delta - what is new for perl v5.9.4 + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Incompatible Changes + +=over 4 + +=item chdir FOO + +=item Handling of pmc files + +=item @- and @+ in patterns + +=item $AUTOLOAD can now be tainted + +=back + +=item Core Enhancements + +=over 4 + +=item state() variables + +=item UNIVERSAL::DOES() + +=item Exceptions in constant folding + +=item Source filters in @INC + +=item MAD + +=back + +=item Modules and Pragmas + +=over 4 + +=item New Core Modules + +=back + +=item Utility Changes + +=over 4 + +=item config_data + +=back + +=item Documentation + +=over 4 + +=item New manpage, perlpragma + +=item New manpage, perlreguts + +=item New manpage, perlunitut + +=back + +=item Performance Enhancements + +=over 4 + +=item Memory optimisations + +=item UTF-8 cache optimisation + +=item Regular expressions + +Engine de-recursivised, Single char char-classes treated as literals, Trie +optimisation of literal string alternations, Aho-Corasick start-point +optimisation + +=item Sloppy stat on Windows + +=back + +=item Installation and Configuration Improvements + +=over 4 + +=item Relocatable installations + +=item Ports + +=item Compilation improvements + +=item New probes + +=item Windows build improvements + +Building XS extensions, Support for 64-bit compiler + +=back + +=item Selected Bug Fixes + +=over 4 + +=item PERL5SHELL and tainting + +=item Using *FILE{IO} + +=item Overloading and reblessing + +=item Overloading and UTF-8 + +=item eval memory leaks fixed + +=item Random device on Windows + +=back + +=item New or Changed Diagnostics + +State variable %s will be reinitialized + +=item Changed Internals + +=item Known Problems + +=item Reporting Bugs + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perl593delta - what is new for perl v5.9.3 + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Incompatible Changes + +=over 4 + +=item Parsing of C<-f _> + +=item C<mkdir()> + +=item Magic goto and eval + +=item C<$#> has been removed + +=item C<:unique> + +=item Scoping of the C<sort> pragma + +=back + +=item Core Enhancements + +=over 4 + +=item The C<feature> pragma + +=item Switch and Smart Match operator + +=item C<say()> + +=item C<CLONE_SKIP()> + +=item C<${^CHILD_ERROR_NATIVE}> + +=item Assertions + +=item Unicode Character Database 4.1.0 + +=item C<no VERSION> + +=item Recursive sort subs + +=item Effect of pragmas in eval + +=item New B<-E> command-line switch + +=item C<chdir>, C<chmod> and C<chown> on filehandles + +=item OS groups + +=back + +=item Modules and Pragmata + +=over 4 + +=item New Core Modules + +=back + +=item Utility Changes + +=over 4 + +=item C<ptar> + +=item C<ptardiff> + +=item C<shasum> + +=item C<h2xs> enhancements + +=item C<perlivp> enhancements + +=back + +=item Documentation + +=over 4 + +=item Perl Glossary + +=back + +=item Performance Enhancements + +=over 4 + +=item XS-assisted SWASHGET + +=item Constant subroutines + +=item C<PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV> + +=item Weak references are cheaper + +=item sort() enhancements + +=back + +=item Installation and Configuration Improvements + +=over 4 + +=item Compilation improvements + +=item New Or Improved Platforms + +=item New probes + +=item Module auxiliary files + +=back + +=item Selected Bug Fixes + +=over 4 + +=item C<defined $$x> + +=item Calling CORE::require() + +=item Subscripts of slices + +=item Remove over-optimisation + +=item sprintf() fixes + +=item no warnings 'category' works correctly with -w + +=item Smaller fixes + +=item More Unicode Fixes + +=back + +=item New or Changed Diagnostics + +=over 4 + +=item Attempt to set length of freed array + +=item Non-string passed as bitmask + +=item Search pattern not terminated or ternary operator parsed as search +pattern + +=item "%s" variable %s masks earlier declaration + +=item readdir()/closedir()/etc. attempted on invalid dirhandle + +=back + +=item Changed Internals + +=over 4 + +=item B:: modules inheritance changed + +=back + +=item Reporting Bugs + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perl592delta - what is new for perl v5.9.2 + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Incompatible Changes + +=over 4 + +=item Packing and UTF-8 strings + +=item Miscellaneous + +=back + +=item Core Enhancements + +=over 4 + +=item Malloc wrapping + +=item Unicode Character Database 4.0.1 + +=item suidperl less insecure + +=item PERLIO_DEBUG + +=item Formats + +=item Unicode Character Classes + +=item Byte-order modifiers for pack() and unpack() + +=item Byte count feature in pack() + +=item New variables + +=back + +=item Modules and Pragmata + +=over 4 + +=item New modules + +=item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata + +B::Concise, Socket, Sys::Syslog, threads + +=back + +=item Utility Changes + +=item Performance Enhancements + +=item Installation and Configuration Improvements + +=item Selected Bug Fixes + +=item New or Changed Diagnostics + +=item Changed Internals + +=item Known Problems + +=item Plans for the next release + +=item Reporting Bugs + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perl591delta - what is new for perl v5.9.1 + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Incompatible Changes + +=over 4 + +=item substr() lvalues are no longer fixed-length + +=item The C<:unique> attribute is only meaningful for globals + +=back + +=item Core Enhancements + +=over 4 + +=item Lexical C<$_> + +=item Tied hashes in scalar context + +=item Formats + +=item Stacked filetest operators + +=back + +=item Modules and Pragmata + +Benchmark, Carp, Exporter, FindBin, List::Util, threads::shared + +=item Utility Changes + +=item Documentation + +=item Performance Enhancements + +=item Selected Bug Fixes + +=over 4 + +=item UTF-8 bugs + +=item Threading bugs + +=item More bugs + +=back + +=item New or Changed Diagnostics + +=item Changed Internals + +=over 4 + +=item Reordering of SVt_* constants + +=item Removal of CPP symbols + +=item Less space is used by ops + +=item New parser + +=back + +=item Configuration and Building + +=item Known Problems + +=over 4 + +=item Platform Specific Problems + +=back + +=item To-do for perl 5.10.0 + +=item Reporting Bugs + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perl590delta - what is new for perl v5.9.0 + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Incompatible Changes + +=over 4 + +=item Hash Randomisation + +=item UTF-8 On Filehandles No Longer Activated By Locale + +=item Single-number v-strings are no longer v-strings before "=>" + +=item (Win32) The -C Switch Has Been Repurposed + +=item (Win32) The /d Switch Of cmd.exe + +=item The C<$*> variable has been removed + +=back + +=item Core Enhancements + +=over 4 + +=item Assertions + +=item Defined-or operators + +=item UTF-8 no longer default under UTF-8 locales + +=item Unsafe signals again available + +=item Tied Arrays with Negative Array Indices + +=item local ${$x} + +=item Unicode Character Database 4.0.0 + +=item Miscellaneous Enhancements + +=back + +=item Modules and Pragmata + +=over 4 + +=item Updated Modules And Pragmata + +base, B::Bytecode, B::Concise, B::Deparse, Benchmark, ByteLoader, bytes, +CGI, charnames, CPAN, Data::Dumper, DB_File, Devel::PPPort, Digest::MD5, +Encode, fields, libnet, Math::BigInt, MIME::Base64, NEXT, Net::Ping, +PerlIO::scalar, podlators, Pod::LaTeX, PodParsers, Pod::Perldoc, +Scalar::Util, Storable, strict, Term::ANSIcolor, Test::Harness, Test::More, +Test::Simple, Text::Balanced, Time::HiRes, threads, threads::shared, +Unicode::Collate, Unicode::Normalize, Win32::GetFolderPath, +Win32::GetOSVersion + +=back + +=item Utility Changes + +=item New Documentation + +=item Installation and Configuration Improvements + +=over 4 + +=item Platform-specific enhancements + +=back + +=item Selected Bug Fixes + +=over 4 + +=item Closures, eval and lexicals + +=item Generic fixes + +=item Platform-specific fixes + +=back + +=item New or Changed Diagnostics + +=over 4 + +=item Changed "A thread exited while %d threads were running" + +=item Removed "Attempt to clear a restricted hash" + +=item New "Illegal declaration of anonymous subroutine" + +=item Changed "Invalid range "%s" in transliteration operator" + +=item New "Missing control char name in \c" + +=item New "Newline in left-justified string for %s" + +=item New "Possible precedence problem on bitwise %c operator" + +=item New "read() on %s filehandle %s" + +=item New "Tied variable freed while still in use" + +=item New "To%s: illegal mapping '%s'" + +=item New "Use of freed value in iteration" + +=back + +=item Changed Internals + +=item New Tests + +=item Known Problems + +=over 4 + +=item Tied hashes in scalar context + +=item Net::Ping 450_service and 510_ping_udp failures + +=item B::C + +=back + +=item Platform Specific Problems + +=over 4 + +=item EBCDIC Platforms + +=item Cygwin 1.5 problems + +=item HP-UX: HP cc warnings about sendfile and sendpath + +=item IRIX: t/uni/tr_7jis.t falsely failing + +=item Mac OS X: no usemymalloc + +=item Tru64: No threaded builds with GNU cc (gcc) + +=item Win32: sysopen, sysread, syswrite + +=back + +=item TODO + +=item Reporting Bugs + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perl588delta - what is new for perl v5.8.8 + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Incompatible Changes + +=item Core Enhancements + +=item Modules and Pragmata + +=item Utility Changes + +=over 4 + +=item C<h2xs> enhancements + +=item C<perlivp> enhancements + +=back + +=item New Documentation + +=item Performance Enhancements + +=item Installation and Configuration Improvements + +=item Selected Bug Fixes + +=over 4 + +=item no warnings 'category' works correctly with -w + +=item Remove over-optimisation + +=item sprintf() fixes + +=item Debugger and Unicode slowdown + +=item Smaller fixes + +=back + +=item New or Changed Diagnostics + +=over 4 + +=item Attempt to set length of freed array + +=item Non-string passed as bitmask + +=item Search pattern not terminated or ternary operator parsed as search +pattern + +=back + +=item Changed Internals + +=item Platform Specific Problems + +=item Reporting Bugs + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perl589delta - what is new for perl v5.8.9 + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Notice + +=item Incompatible Changes + +=item Core Enhancements + +=over 4 + +=item Unicode Character Database 5.1.0. + +=item stat and -X on directory handles + +=item Source filters in @INC + +=item Exceptions in constant folding + +=item C<no VERSION> + +=item Improved internal UTF-8 caching code + +=item Runtime relocatable installations + +=item New internal variables + +C<${^CHILD_ERROR_NATIVE}>, C<${^UTF8CACHE}> + +=item C<readpipe> is now overridable + +=item simple exception handling macros + +=item -D option enhancements + +=item XS-assisted SWASHGET + +=item Constant subroutines + +=back + +=item New Platforms + +=item Modules and Pragmata + +=over 4 + +=item New Modules + +=item Updated Modules + +=back + +=item Utility Changes + +=over 4 + +=item debugger upgraded to version 1.31 + +=item F<perlthanks> + +=item F<perlbug> + +=item F<h2xs> + +=item F<h2ph> + +=back + +=item New Documentation + +=item Changes to Existing Documentation + +=item Performance Enhancements + +=item Installation and Configuration Improvements + +=over 4 + +=item Relocatable installations + +=item Configuration improvements + +=item Compilation improvements + +=item Installation improvements. + +=item Platform Specific Changes + +=back + +=item Selected Bug Fixes + +=over 4 + +=item Unicode + +=item PerlIO + +=item Magic + +=item Reblessing overloaded objects now works + +=item C<strict> now propagates correctly into string evals + +=item Other fixes + +=item Platform Specific Fixes + +=item Smaller fixes + +=back + +=item New or Changed Diagnostics + +=over 4 + +=item panic: sv_chop %s + +=item Maximal count of pending signals (%s) exceeded + +=item panic: attempt to call %s in %s + +=item FETCHSIZE returned a negative value + +=item Can't upgrade %s (%d) to %d + +=item %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element or a subroutine + +=item Cannot make the non-overridable builtin %s fatal + +=item Unrecognized character '%s' in column %d + +=item Offset outside string + +=item Invalid escape in the specified encoding in regexp; marked by <-- +HERE in m/%s/ + +=item Your machine doesn't support dump/undump. + +=back + +=item Changed Internals + +=over 4 + +=item Macro cleanups + +=back + +=item New Tests + +ext/DynaLoader/t/DynaLoader.t, t/comp/fold.t, t/io/pvbm.t, +t/lib/proxy_constant_subs.t, t/op/attrhand.t, t/op/dbm.t, +t/op/inccode-tie.t, t/op/incfilter.t, t/op/kill0.t, t/op/qrstack.t, +t/op/qr.t, t/op/regexp_qr_embed.t, t/op/regexp_qr.t, t/op/rxcode.t, +t/op/studytied.t, t/op/substT.t, t/op/symbolcache.t, t/op/upgrade.t, +t/mro/package_aliases.t, t/pod/twice.t, t/run/cloexec.t, t/uni/cache.t, +t/uni/chr.t, t/uni/greek.t, t/uni/latin2.t, t/uni/overload.t, t/uni/tie.t + +=item Known Problems + +=item Platform Specific Notes + +=over 4 + +=item Win32 + +=item OS/2 + +=item VMS + +=back + +=item Obituary + +=item Acknowledgements + +=item Reporting Bugs + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perl587delta - what is new for perl v5.8.7 + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Incompatible Changes + +=item Core Enhancements + +=over 4 + +=item Unicode Character Database 4.1.0 + +=item suidperl less insecure + +=item Optional site customization script + +=item C<Config.pm> is now much smaller. + +=back + +=item Modules and Pragmata + +=item Utility Changes + +=over 4 + +=item find2perl enhancements + +=back + +=item Performance Enhancements + +=item Installation and Configuration Improvements + +=item Selected Bug Fixes + +=item New or Changed Diagnostics + +=item Changed Internals + +=item Known Problems + +=item Platform Specific Problems + +=item Reporting Bugs + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perl586delta - what is new for perl v5.8.6 + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Incompatible Changes + +=item Core Enhancements + +=item Modules and Pragmata + +=item Utility Changes + +=item Performance Enhancements + +=item Selected Bug Fixes + +=item New or Changed Diagnostics + +=item Changed Internals + +=item New Tests + +=item Reporting Bugs + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perl585delta - what is new for perl v5.8.5 + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Incompatible Changes + +=item Core Enhancements + +=item Modules and Pragmata + +=item Utility Changes + +=over 4 + +=item Perl's debugger + +=item h2ph + +=back + +=item Installation and Configuration Improvements + +=item Selected Bug Fixes + +=item New or Changed Diagnostics + +=item Changed Internals + +=item Known Problems + +=item Platform Specific Problems + +=item Reporting Bugs + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perl584delta - what is new for perl v5.8.4 + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Incompatible Changes + +=item Core Enhancements + +=over 4 + +=item Malloc wrapping + +=item Unicode Character Database 4.0.1 + +=item suidperl less insecure + +=item format + +=back + +=item Modules and Pragmata + +=over 4 + +=item Updated modules + +Attribute::Handlers, B, Benchmark, CGI, Carp, Cwd, Exporter, File::Find, +IO, IPC::Open3, Local::Maketext, Math::BigFloat, Math::BigInt, +Math::BigRat, MIME::Base64, ODBM_File, POSIX, Shell, Socket, Storable, +Switch, Sys::Syslog, Term::ANSIColor, Time::HiRes, Unicode::UCD, Win32, +base, open, threads, utf8 + +=back + +=item Performance Enhancements + +=item Utility Changes + +=item Installation and Configuration Improvements + +=item Selected Bug Fixes + +=item New or Changed Diagnostics + +=item Changed Internals + +=item Future Directions + +=item Platform Specific Problems + +=item Reporting Bugs + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perl583delta - what is new for perl v5.8.3 + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Incompatible Changes + +=item Core Enhancements + +=item Modules and Pragmata + +CGI, Cwd, Digest, Digest::MD5, Encode, File::Spec, FindBin, List::Util, +Math::BigInt, PodParser, Pod::Perldoc, POSIX, Unicode::Collate, +Unicode::Normalize, Test::Harness, threads::shared + +=item Utility Changes + +=item New Documentation + +=item Installation and Configuration Improvements + +=item Selected Bug Fixes + +=item New or Changed Diagnostics + +=item Changed Internals + +=item Configuration and Building + +=item Platform Specific Problems + +=item Known Problems + +=item Future Directions + +=item Obituary + +=item Reporting Bugs + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perl582delta - what is new for perl v5.8.2 + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Incompatible Changes + +=item Core Enhancements + +=over 4 + +=item Hash Randomisation + +=item Threading + +=back + +=item Modules and Pragmata + +=over 4 + +=item Updated Modules And Pragmata + +Devel::PPPort, Digest::MD5, I18N::LangTags, libnet, MIME::Base64, +Pod::Perldoc, strict, Tie::Hash, Time::HiRes, Unicode::Collate, +Unicode::Normalize, UNIVERSAL + +=back + +=item Selected Bug Fixes + +=item Changed Internals + +=item Platform Specific Problems + +=item Future Directions + +=item Reporting Bugs + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perl581delta - what is new for perl v5.8.1 + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Incompatible Changes + +=over 4 + +=item Hash Randomisation + +=item UTF-8 On Filehandles No Longer Activated By Locale + +=item Single-number v-strings are no longer v-strings before "=>" + +=item (Win32) The -C Switch Has Been Repurposed + +=item (Win32) The /d Switch Of cmd.exe + +=back + +=item Core Enhancements + +=over 4 + +=item UTF-8 no longer default under UTF-8 locales + +=item Unsafe signals again available + +=item Tied Arrays with Negative Array Indices + +=item local ${$x} + +=item Unicode Character Database 4.0.0 + +=item Deprecation Warnings + +=item Miscellaneous Enhancements + +=back + +=item Modules and Pragmata + +=over 4 + +=item Updated Modules And Pragmata + +base, B::Bytecode, B::Concise, B::Deparse, Benchmark, ByteLoader, bytes, +CGI, charnames, CPAN, Data::Dumper, DB_File, Devel::PPPort, Digest::MD5, +Encode, fields, libnet, Math::BigInt, MIME::Base64, NEXT, Net::Ping, +PerlIO::scalar, podlators, Pod::LaTeX, PodParsers, Pod::Perldoc, +Scalar::Util, Storable, strict, Term::ANSIcolor, Test::Harness, Test::More, +Test::Simple, Text::Balanced, Time::HiRes, threads, threads::shared, +Unicode::Collate, Unicode::Normalize, Win32::GetFolderPath, +Win32::GetOSVersion + +=back + +=item Utility Changes + +=item New Documentation + +=item Installation and Configuration Improvements + +=over 4 + +=item Platform-specific enhancements + +=back + +=item Selected Bug Fixes + +=over 4 + +=item Closures, eval and lexicals + +=item Generic fixes + +=item Platform-specific fixes + +=back + +=item New or Changed Diagnostics + +=over 4 + +=item Changed "A thread exited while %d threads were running" + +=item Removed "Attempt to clear a restricted hash" + +=item New "Illegal declaration of anonymous subroutine" + +=item Changed "Invalid range "%s" in transliteration operator" + +=item New "Missing control char name in \c" + +=item New "Newline in left-justified string for %s" + +=item New "Possible precedence problem on bitwise %c operator" + +=item New "Pseudo-hashes are deprecated" + +=item New "read() on %s filehandle %s" + +=item New "5.005 threads are deprecated" + +=item New "Tied variable freed while still in use" + +=item New "To%s: illegal mapping '%s'" + +=item New "Use of freed value in iteration" + +=back + +=item Changed Internals + +=item New Tests + +=item Known Problems + +=over 4 + +=item Tied hashes in scalar context + +=item Net::Ping 450_service and 510_ping_udp failures + +=item B::C + +=back + +=item Platform Specific Problems + +=over 4 + +=item EBCDIC Platforms + +=item Cygwin 1.5 problems + +=item HP-UX: HP cc warnings about sendfile and sendpath + +=item IRIX: t/uni/tr_7jis.t falsely failing + +=item Mac OS X: no usemymalloc + +=item Tru64: No threaded builds with GNU cc (gcc) + +=item Win32: sysopen, sysread, syswrite + +=back + +=item Future Directions + +=item Reporting Bugs + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perl58delta - what is new for perl v5.8.0 + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Highlights In 5.8.0 + +=item Incompatible Changes + +=over 4 + +=item Binary Incompatibility + +=item 64-bit platforms and malloc + +=item AIX Dynaloading + +=item Attributes for C<my> variables now handled at run-time + +=item Socket Extension Dynamic in VMS + +=item IEEE-format Floating Point Default on OpenVMS Alpha + +=item New Unicode Semantics (no more C<use utf8>, almost) + +=item New Unicode Properties + +=item REF(...) Instead Of SCALAR(...) + +=item pack/unpack D/F recycled + +=item glob() now returns filenames in alphabetical order + +=item Deprecations + +=back + +=item Core Enhancements + +=over 4 + +=item Unicode Overhaul + +=item PerlIO is Now The Default + +=item ithreads + +=item Restricted Hashes + +=item Safe Signals + +=item Understanding of Numbers + +=item Arrays now always interpolate into double-quoted strings [561] + +=item Miscellaneous Changes + +=back + +=item Modules and Pragmata + +=over 4 + +=item New Modules and Pragmata + +=item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata + +=back + +=item Utility Changes + +=item New Documentation + +=item Performance Enhancements + +=item Installation and Configuration Improvements + +=over 4 + +=item Generic Improvements + +=item New Or Improved Platforms + +=back + +=item Selected Bug Fixes + +=over 4 + +=item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes + +=back + +=item New or Changed Diagnostics + +=item Changed Internals + +=item Security Vulnerability Closed [561] + +=item New Tests + +=item Known Problems + +=over 4 + +=item The Compiler Suite Is Still Very Experimental + +=item Localising Tied Arrays and Hashes Is Broken + +=item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles + +=item Modifying $_ Inside for(..) + +=item mod_perl 1.26 Doesn't Build With Threaded Perl + +=item lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure' + +=item libwww-perl (LWP) fails base/date #51 + +=item PDL failing some tests + +=item Perl_get_sv + +=item Self-tying Problems + +=item ext/threads/t/libc + +=item Failure of Thread (5.005-style) tests + +=item Timing problems + +=item Tied/Magical Array/Hash Elements Do Not Autovivify + +=item Unicode in package/class and subroutine names does not work + +=back + +=item Platform Specific Problems + +=over 4 + +=item AIX + +=item Alpha systems with old gccs fail several tests + +=item AmigaOS + +=item BeOS + +=item Cygwin "unable to remap" + +=item Cygwin ndbm tests fail on FAT + +=item DJGPP Failures + +=item FreeBSD built with ithreads coredumps reading large directories + +=item FreeBSD Failing locale Test 117 For ISO 8859-15 Locales + +=item IRIX fails ext/List/Util/t/shuffle.t or Digest::MD5 + +=item HP-UX lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails When LP64-Configured + +=item Linux with glibc 2.2.5 fails t/op/int subtest #6 with -Duse64bitint + +=item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48 + +=item Mac OS X + +=item Mac OS X dyld undefined symbols + +=item OS/2 Test Failures + +=item op/sprintf tests 91, 129, and 130 + +=item SCO + +=item Solaris 2.5 + +=item Solaris x86 Fails Tests With -Duse64bitint + +=item SUPER-UX (NEC SX) + +=item Term::ReadKey not working on Win32 + +=item UNICOS/mk + +=item UTS + +=item VOS (Stratus) + +=item VMS + +=item Win32 + +=item XML::Parser not working + +=item z/OS (OS/390) + +=item Unicode Support on EBCDIC Still Spotty + +=item Seen In Perl 5.7 But Gone Now + +=back + +=item Reporting Bugs + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=head2 perl573delta - what's new for perl v5.7.3 + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Changes + +=item Reporting Bugs + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=head2 perl572delta - what's new for perl v5.7.2 + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Security Vulnerability Closed + +=item Incompatible Changes + +=over 4 + +=item 64-bit platforms and malloc + +=item AIX Dynaloading + +=item Socket Extension Dynamic in VMS + +=item Different Definition of the Unicode Character Classes \p{In...} + +=item Deprecations + +=back + +=item Core Enhancements + +=item Modules and Pragmata + +=over 4 + +=item New Modules and Distributions + +=item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata + +=back + +=item Utility Changes + +=item New Documentation + +=item Installation and Configuration Improvements + +=over 4 + +=item New Or Improved Platforms + +=item Generic Improvements + +=back + +=item Selected Bug Fixes + +=over 4 + +=item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes + +=back + +=item New or Changed Diagnostics + +=item Source Code Enhancements + +=over 4 + +=item MAGIC constants + +=item Better commented code + +=item Regex pre-/post-compilation items matched up + +=item gcc -Wall + +=back + +=item New Tests + +=item Known Problems + +=over 4 + +=item AIX + +=item Amiga Perl Invoking Mystery + +=item lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure' + +=item Cygwin intermittent failures of lib/Memoize/t/expire_file 11 and 12 + +=item HP-UX lib/io_multihomed Fails When LP64-Configured + +=item HP-UX lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails When LP64-Configured + +=item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48 + +=item OS/390 + +=item op/sprintf tests 129 and 130 + +=item Failure of Thread tests + +=item UNICOS + +=item UTS + +=item VMS + +=item Win32 + +=item Localising a Tied Variable Leaks Memory + +=item Self-tying of Arrays and Hashes Is Forbidden + +=item Variable Attributes are not Currently Usable for Tieing + +=item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles + +=item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental + +=item The Long Double Support is Still Experimental + +=back + +=item Reporting Bugs + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=head2 perl571delta - what's new for perl v5.7.1 + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Security Vulnerability Closed + +=item Incompatible Changes + +=item Core Enhancements + +=over 4 + +=item AUTOLOAD Is Now Lvaluable + +=item PerlIO is Now The Default + +=item Signals Are Now Safe + +=back + +=item Modules and Pragmata + +=over 4 + +=item New Modules + +=item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata + +=back + +=item Performance Enhancements + +=item Utility Changes + +=item New Documentation + +=over 4 + +=item perlclib + +=item perliol + +=item README.aix + +=item README.bs2000 + +=item README.macos + +=item README.mpeix + +=item README.solaris + +=item README.vos + +=item Porting/repository.pod + +=back + +=item Installation and Configuration Improvements + +=over 4 + +=item New Or Improved Platforms + +=item Generic Improvements + +d_cmsghdr, d_fcntl_can_lock, d_fsync, d_getitimer, d_getpagsz, d_msghdr_s, +need_va_copy, d_readv, d_recvmsg, d_sendmsg, sig_size, d_sockatmark, +d_strtoq, d_u32align, d_ualarm, d_usleep + +=back + +=item Selected Bug Fixes + +=over 4 + +=item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes + +=back + +=item New or Changed Diagnostics + +=item Changed Internals + +=item New Tests + +=item Known Problems + +=over 4 + +=item AIX vac 5.0.0.0 May Produce Buggy Code For Perl + +=item lib/ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure' + +=item lib/io_multihomed Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX + +=item Test lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX + +=item lib/b test 19 + +=item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48 + +=item sigaction test 13 in VMS + +=item sprintf tests 129 and 130 + +=item Failure of Thread tests + +=item Localising a Tied Variable Leaks Memory + +=item Self-tying of Arrays and Hashes Is Forbidden + +=item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles + +=item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental + +=back + +=item Reporting Bugs + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=head2 perl570delta - what's new for perl v5.7.0 + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Security Vulnerability Closed + +=item Incompatible Changes + +=item Core Enhancements + +=item Modules and Pragmata + +=over 4 + +=item New Modules + +=item Updated And Improved Modules and Pragmata + +=back + +=item Utility Changes + +=item New Documentation + +=item Performance Enhancements + +=item Installation and Configuration Improvements + +=over 4 + +=item Generic Improvements + +=back + +=item Selected Bug Fixes + +=over 4 + +=item Platform Specific Changes and Fixes + +=back + +=item New or Changed Diagnostics + +=item Changed Internals + +=item Known Problems + +=over 4 + +=item Unicode Support Still Far From Perfect + +=item EBCDIC Still A Lost Platform + +=item Building Extensions Can Fail Because Of Largefiles + +=item ftmp-security tests warn 'system possibly insecure' + +=item Test lib/posix Subtest 9 Fails In LP64-Configured HP-UX + +=item Long Doubles Still Don't Work In Solaris + +=item Linux With Sfio Fails op/misc Test 48 + +=item Storable tests fail in some platforms + +=item Threads Are Still Experimental + +=item The Compiler Suite Is Still Experimental + +=back + +=item Reporting Bugs + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=head2 perl561delta - what's new for perl v5.6.x + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Summary of changes between 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 + +=over 4 + +=item Security Issues + +=item Core bug fixes + +C<UNIVERSAL::isa()>, Memory leaks, Numeric conversions, qw(a\\b), caller(), +Bugs in regular expressions, "slurp" mode, Autovivification of symbolic +references to special variables, Lexical warnings, Spurious warnings and +errors, glob(), Tainting, sort(), #line directives, Subroutine prototypes, +map(), Debugger, PERL5OPT, chop(), Unicode support, 64-bit support, +Compiler, Lvalue subroutines, IO::Socket, File::Find, xsubpp, C<no +Module;>, Tests + +=item Core features + +=item Configuration issues + +=item Documentation + +=item Bundled modules + +B::Concise, File::Temp, Pod::LaTeX, Pod::Text::Overstrike, CGI, CPAN, +Class::Struct, DB_File, Devel::Peek, File::Find, Getopt::Long, IO::Poll, +IPC::Open3, Math::BigFloat, Math::Complex, Net::Ping, Opcode, Pod::Parser, +Pod::Text, SDBM_File, Sys::Syslog, Tie::RefHash, Tie::SubstrHash + +=item Platform-specific improvements + +NCR MP-RAS, NonStop-UX + +=back + +=item Core Enhancements + +=over 4 + +=item Interpreter cloning, threads, and concurrency + +=item Lexically scoped warning categories + +=item Unicode and UTF-8 support + +=item Support for interpolating named characters + +=item "our" declarations + +=item Support for strings represented as a vector of ordinals + +=item Improved Perl version numbering system + +=item New syntax for declaring subroutine attributes + +=item File and directory handles can be autovivified + +=item open() with more than two arguments + +=item 64-bit support + +=item Large file support + +=item Long doubles + +=item "more bits" + +=item Enhanced support for sort() subroutines + +=item C<sort $coderef @foo> allowed + +=item File globbing implemented internally + +=item Support for CHECK blocks + +=item POSIX character class syntax [: :] supported + +=item Better pseudo-random number generator + +=item Improved C<qw//> operator + +=item Better worst-case behavior of hashes + +=item pack() format 'Z' supported + +=item pack() format modifier '!' supported + +=item pack() and unpack() support counted strings + +=item Comments in pack() templates + +=item Weak references + +=item Binary numbers supported + +=item Lvalue subroutines + +=item Some arrows may be omitted in calls through references + +=item Boolean assignment operators are legal lvalues + +=item exists() is supported on subroutine names + +=item exists() and delete() are supported on array elements + +=item Pseudo-hashes work better + +=item Automatic flushing of output buffers + +=item Better diagnostics on meaningless filehandle operations + +=item Where possible, buffered data discarded from duped input filehandle + +=item eof() has the same old magic as <> + +=item binmode() can be used to set :crlf and :raw modes + +=item C<-T> filetest recognizes UTF-8 encoded files as "text" + +=item system(), backticks and pipe open now reflect exec() failure + +=item Improved diagnostics + +=item Diagnostics follow STDERR + +=item More consistent close-on-exec behavior + +=item syswrite() ease-of-use + +=item Better syntax checks on parenthesized unary operators + +=item Bit operators support full native integer width + +=item Improved security features + +=item More functional bareword prototype (*) + +=item C<require> and C<do> may be overridden + +=item $^X variables may now have names longer than one character + +=item New variable $^C reflects C<-c> switch + +=item New variable $^V contains Perl version as a string + +=item Optional Y2K warnings + +=item Arrays now always interpolate into double-quoted strings + +=item @- and @+ provide starting/ending offsets of regex submatches + +=back + +=item Modules and Pragmata + +=over 4 + +=item Modules + +attributes, B, Benchmark, ByteLoader, constant, charnames, Data::Dumper, +DB, DB_File, Devel::DProf, Devel::Peek, Dumpvalue, DynaLoader, English, +Env, Fcntl, File::Compare, File::Find, File::Glob, File::Spec, +File::Spec::Functions, Getopt::Long, IO, JPL, lib, Math::BigInt, +Math::Complex, Math::Trig, Pod::Parser, Pod::InputObjects, Pod::Checker, +podchecker, Pod::ParseUtils, Pod::Find, Pod::Select, podselect, Pod::Usage, +pod2usage, Pod::Text and Pod::Man, SDBM_File, Sys::Syslog, Sys::Hostname, +Term::ANSIColor, Time::Local, Win32, XSLoader, DBM Filters + +=item Pragmata + +=back + +=item Utility Changes + +=over 4 + +=item dprofpp + +=item find2perl + +=item h2xs + +=item perlcc + +=item perldoc + +=item The Perl Debugger + +=back + +=item Improved Documentation + +perlapi.pod, perlboot.pod, perlcompile.pod, perldbmfilter.pod, +perldebug.pod, perldebguts.pod, perlfork.pod, perlfilter.pod, perlhack.pod, +perlintern.pod, perllexwarn.pod, perlnumber.pod, perlopentut.pod, +perlreftut.pod, perltootc.pod, perltodo.pod, perlunicode.pod + +=item Performance enhancements + +=over 4 + +=item Simple sort() using { $a <=> $b } and the like are optimized + +=item Optimized assignments to lexical variables + +=item Faster subroutine calls + +=item delete(), each(), values() and hash iteration are faster + +=back + +=item Installation and Configuration Improvements + +=over 4 + +=item -Dusethreads means something different + +=item New Configure flags + +=item Threadedness and 64-bitness now more daring + +=item Long Doubles + +=item -Dusemorebits + +=item -Duselargefiles + +=item installusrbinperl + +=item SOCKS support + +=item C<-A> flag + +=item Enhanced Installation Directories + +=item gcc automatically tried if 'cc' does not seem to be working + +=back + +=item Platform specific changes + +=over 4 + +=item Supported platforms + +=item DOS + +=item OS390 (OpenEdition MVS) + +=item VMS + +=item Win32 + +=back + +=item Significant bug fixes + +=over 4 + +=item <HANDLE> on empty files + +=item C<eval '...'> improvements + +=item All compilation errors are true errors + +=item Implicitly closed filehandles are safer + +=item Behavior of list slices is more consistent + +=item C<(\$)> prototype and C<$foo{a}> + +=item C<goto &sub> and AUTOLOAD + +=item C<-bareword> allowed under C<use integer> + +=item Failures in DESTROY() + +=item Locale bugs fixed + +=item Memory leaks + +=item Spurious subroutine stubs after failed subroutine calls + +=item Taint failures under C<-U> + +=item END blocks and the C<-c> switch + +=item Potential to leak DATA filehandles + +=back + +=item New or Changed Diagnostics + +"%s" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same %s, "my sub" not yet +implemented, "our" variable %s redeclared, '!' allowed only after types %s, +/ cannot take a count, / must be followed by a, A or Z, / must be followed +by a*, A* or Z*, / must follow a numeric type, /%s/: Unrecognized escape +\\%c passed through, /%s/: Unrecognized escape \\%c in character class +passed through, /%s/ should probably be written as "%s", %s() called too +early to check prototype, %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element, %s +argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element or slice, %s argument is not a +subroutine name, %s package attribute may clash with future reserved word: +%s, (in cleanup) %s, <> should be quotes, Attempt to join self, Bad evalled +substitution pattern, Bad realloc() ignored, Bareword found in conditional, +Binary number > 0b11111111111111111111111111111111 non-portable, Bit vector +size > 32 non-portable, Buffer overflow in prime_env_iter: %s, Can't check +filesystem of script "%s", Can't declare class for non-scalar %s in "%s", +Can't declare %s in "%s", Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default, +Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine call, Can't read CRTL environ, Can't +remove %s: %s, skipping file, Can't return %s from lvalue subroutine, Can't +weaken a nonreference, Character class [:%s:] unknown, Character class +syntax [%s] belongs inside character classes, Constant is not %s reference, +constant(%s): %s, CORE::%s is not a keyword, defined(@array) is deprecated, +defined(%hash) is deprecated, Did not produce a valid header, (Did you mean +"local" instead of "our"?), Document contains no data, entering effective +%s failed, false [] range "%s" in regexp, Filehandle %s opened only for +output, flock() on closed filehandle %s, Global symbol "%s" requires +explicit package name, Hexadecimal number > 0xffffffff non-portable, +Ill-formed CRTL environ value "%s", Ill-formed message in prime_env_iter: +|%s|, Illegal binary digit %s, Illegal binary digit %s ignored, Illegal +number of bits in vec, Integer overflow in %s number, Invalid %s attribute: +%s, Invalid %s attributes: %s, invalid [] range "%s" in regexp, Invalid +separator character %s in attribute list, Invalid separator character %s in +subroutine attribute list, leaving effective %s failed, Lvalue subs +returning %s not implemented yet, Method %s not permitted, Missing +%sbrace%s on \N{}, Missing command in piped open, Missing name in "my sub", +No %s specified for -%c, No package name allowed for variable %s in "our", +No space allowed after -%c, no UTC offset information; assuming local time +is UTC, Octal number > 037777777777 non-portable, panic: del_backref, +panic: kid popen errno read, panic: magic_killbackrefs, Parentheses missing +around "%s" list, Possible unintended interpolation of %s in string, +Possible Y2K bug: %s, pragma "attrs" is deprecated, use "sub NAME : ATTRS" +instead, Premature end of script headers, Repeat count in pack overflows, +Repeat count in unpack overflows, realloc() of freed memory ignored, +Reference is already weak, setpgrp can't take arguments, Strange *+?{} on +zero-length expression, switching effective %s is not implemented, This +Perl can't reset CRTL environ elements (%s), This Perl can't set CRTL +environ elements (%s=%s), Too late to run %s block, Unknown open() mode +'%s', Unknown process %x sent message to prime_env_iter: %s, Unrecognized +escape \\%c passed through, Unterminated attribute parameter in attribute +list, Unterminated attribute list, Unterminated attribute parameter in +subroutine attribute list, Unterminated subroutine attribute list, Value of +CLI symbol "%s" too long, Version number must be a constant number + +=item New tests + +=item Incompatible Changes + +=over 4 + +=item Perl Source Incompatibilities + +CHECK is a new keyword, Treatment of list slices of undef has changed, +Format of $English::PERL_VERSION is different, Literals of the form +C<1.2.3> parse differently, Possibly changed pseudo-random number +generator, Hashing function for hash keys has changed, C<undef> fails on +read only values, Close-on-exec bit may be set on pipe and socket handles, +Writing C<"$$1"> to mean C<"${$}1"> is unsupported, delete(), each(), +values() and C<\(%h)>, vec(EXPR,OFFSET,BITS) enforces powers-of-two BITS, +Text of some diagnostic output has changed, C<%@> has been removed, +Parenthesized not() behaves like a list operator, Semantics of bareword +prototype C<(*)> have changed, Semantics of bit operators may have changed +on 64-bit platforms, More builtins taint their results + +=item C Source Incompatibilities + +C<PERL_POLLUTE>, C<PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT>, C<PERL_POLLUTE_MALLOC> + +=item Compatible C Source API Changes + +C<PATCHLEVEL> is now C<PERL_VERSION> + +=item Binary Incompatibilities + +=back + +=item Known Problems + +=over 4 + +=item Localizing a tied hash element may leak memory + +=item Known test failures + +=item EBCDIC platforms not fully supported + +=item UNICOS/mk CC failures during Configure run + +=item Arrow operator and arrays + +=item Experimental features + +Threads, Unicode, 64-bit support, Lvalue subroutines, Weak references, The +pseudo-hash data type, The Compiler suite, Internal implementation of file +globbing, The DB module, The regular expression code constructs: + +=back + +=item Obsolete Diagnostics + +Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions, Ill-formed +logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter, In string, @%s now must be written as +\@%s, Probable precedence problem on %s, regexp too big, Use of "$$<digit>" +to mean "${$}<digit>" is deprecated + +=item Reporting Bugs + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=head2 perl56delta - what's new for perl v5.6.0 + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Core Enhancements + +=over 4 + +=item Interpreter cloning, threads, and concurrency + +=item Lexically scoped warning categories + +=item Unicode and UTF-8 support + +=item Support for interpolating named characters + +=item "our" declarations + +=item Support for strings represented as a vector of ordinals + +=item Improved Perl version numbering system + +=item New syntax for declaring subroutine attributes + +=item File and directory handles can be autovivified + +=item open() with more than two arguments + +=item 64-bit support + +=item Large file support + +=item Long doubles + +=item "more bits" + +=item Enhanced support for sort() subroutines + +=item C<sort $coderef @foo> allowed + +=item File globbing implemented internally + +=item Support for CHECK blocks + +=item POSIX character class syntax [: :] supported + +=item Better pseudo-random number generator + +=item Improved C<qw//> operator + +=item Better worst-case behavior of hashes + +=item pack() format 'Z' supported + +=item pack() format modifier '!' supported + +=item pack() and unpack() support counted strings + +=item Comments in pack() templates + +=item Weak references + +=item Binary numbers supported + +=item Lvalue subroutines + +=item Some arrows may be omitted in calls through references + +=item Boolean assignment operators are legal lvalues + +=item exists() is supported on subroutine names + +=item exists() and delete() are supported on array elements + +=item Pseudo-hashes work better + +=item Automatic flushing of output buffers + +=item Better diagnostics on meaningless filehandle operations + +=item Where possible, buffered data discarded from duped input filehandle + +=item eof() has the same old magic as <> + +=item binmode() can be used to set :crlf and :raw modes + +=item C<-T> filetest recognizes UTF-8 encoded files as "text" + +=item system(), backticks and pipe open now reflect exec() failure + +=item Improved diagnostics + +=item Diagnostics follow STDERR + +=item More consistent close-on-exec behavior + +=item syswrite() ease-of-use + +=item Better syntax checks on parenthesized unary operators + +=item Bit operators support full native integer width + +=item Improved security features + +=item More functional bareword prototype (*) + +=item C<require> and C<do> may be overridden + +=item $^X variables may now have names longer than one character + +=item New variable $^C reflects C<-c> switch + +=item New variable $^V contains Perl version as a string + +=item Optional Y2K warnings + +=item Arrays now always interpolate into double-quoted strings + +=item @- and @+ provide starting/ending offsets of regex matches + +=back + +=item Modules and Pragmata + +=over 4 + +=item Modules + +attributes, B, Benchmark, ByteLoader, constant, charnames, Data::Dumper, +DB, DB_File, Devel::DProf, Devel::Peek, Dumpvalue, DynaLoader, English, +Env, Fcntl, File::Compare, File::Find, File::Glob, File::Spec, +File::Spec::Functions, Getopt::Long, IO, JPL, lib, Math::BigInt, +Math::Complex, Math::Trig, Pod::Parser, Pod::InputObjects, Pod::Checker, +podchecker, Pod::ParseUtils, Pod::Find, Pod::Select, podselect, Pod::Usage, +pod2usage, Pod::Text and Pod::Man, SDBM_File, Sys::Syslog, Sys::Hostname, +Term::ANSIColor, Time::Local, Win32, XSLoader, DBM Filters + +=item Pragmata + +=back + +=item Utility Changes + +=over 4 + +=item dprofpp + +=item find2perl + +=item h2xs + +=item perlcc + +=item perldoc + +=item The Perl Debugger + +=back + +=item Improved Documentation + +perlapi.pod, perlboot.pod, perlcompile.pod, perldbmfilter.pod, +perldebug.pod, perldebguts.pod, perlfork.pod, perlfilter.pod, perlhack.pod, +perlintern.pod, perllexwarn.pod, perlnumber.pod, perlopentut.pod, +perlreftut.pod, perltootc.pod, perltodo.pod, perlunicode.pod + +=item Performance enhancements + +=over 4 + +=item Simple sort() using { $a <=> $b } and the like are optimized + +=item Optimized assignments to lexical variables + +=item Faster subroutine calls + +=item delete(), each(), values() and hash iteration are faster + +=back + +=item Installation and Configuration Improvements + +=over 4 + +=item -Dusethreads means something different + +=item New Configure flags + +=item Threadedness and 64-bitness now more daring + +=item Long Doubles + +=item -Dusemorebits + +=item -Duselargefiles + +=item installusrbinperl + +=item SOCKS support + +=item C<-A> flag + +=item Enhanced Installation Directories + +=back + +=item Platform specific changes + +=over 4 + +=item Supported platforms + +=item DOS + +=item OS390 (OpenEdition MVS) + +=item VMS + +=item Win32 + +=back + +=item Significant bug fixes + +=over 4 + +=item <HANDLE> on empty files + +=item C<eval '...'> improvements + +=item All compilation errors are true errors + +=item Implicitly closed filehandles are safer + +=item Behavior of list slices is more consistent + +=item C<(\$)> prototype and C<$foo{a}> + +=item C<goto &sub> and AUTOLOAD + +=item C<-bareword> allowed under C<use integer> + +=item Failures in DESTROY() + +=item Locale bugs fixed + +=item Memory leaks + +=item Spurious subroutine stubs after failed subroutine calls + +=item Taint failures under C<-U> + +=item END blocks and the C<-c> switch + +=item Potential to leak DATA filehandles + +=back + +=item New or Changed Diagnostics + +"%s" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same %s, "my sub" not yet +implemented, "our" variable %s redeclared, '!' allowed only after types %s, +/ cannot take a count, / must be followed by a, A or Z, / must be followed +by a*, A* or Z*, / must follow a numeric type, /%s/: Unrecognized escape +\\%c passed through, /%s/: Unrecognized escape \\%c in character class +passed through, /%s/ should probably be written as "%s", %s() called too +early to check prototype, %s argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element, %s +argument is not a HASH or ARRAY element or slice, %s argument is not a +subroutine name, %s package attribute may clash with future reserved word: +%s, (in cleanup) %s, <> should be quotes, Attempt to join self, Bad evalled +substitution pattern, Bad realloc() ignored, Bareword found in conditional, +Binary number > 0b11111111111111111111111111111111 non-portable, Bit vector +size > 32 non-portable, Buffer overflow in prime_env_iter: %s, Can't check +filesystem of script "%s", Can't declare class for non-scalar %s in "%s", +Can't declare %s in "%s", Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default, +Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine call, Can't read CRTL environ, Can't +remove %s: %s, skipping file, Can't return %s from lvalue subroutine, Can't +weaken a nonreference, Character class [:%s:] unknown, Character class +syntax [%s] belongs inside character classes, Constant is not %s reference, +constant(%s): %s, CORE::%s is not a keyword, defined(@array) is deprecated, +defined(%hash) is deprecated, Did not produce a valid header, (Did you mean +"local" instead of "our"?), Document contains no data, entering effective +%s failed, false [] range "%s" in regexp, Filehandle %s opened only for +output, flock() on closed filehandle %s, Global symbol "%s" requires +explicit package name, Hexadecimal number > 0xffffffff non-portable, +Ill-formed CRTL environ value "%s", Ill-formed message in prime_env_iter: +|%s|, Illegal binary digit %s, Illegal binary digit %s ignored, Illegal +number of bits in vec, Integer overflow in %s number, Invalid %s attribute: +%s, Invalid %s attributes: %s, invalid [] range "%s" in regexp, Invalid +separator character %s in attribute list, Invalid separator character %s in +subroutine attribute list, leaving effective %s failed, Lvalue subs +returning %s not implemented yet, Method %s not permitted, Missing +%sbrace%s on \N{}, Missing command in piped open, Missing name in "my sub", +No %s specified for -%c, No package name allowed for variable %s in "our", +No space allowed after -%c, no UTC offset information; assuming local time +is UTC, Octal number > 037777777777 non-portable, panic: del_backref, +panic: kid popen errno read, panic: magic_killbackrefs, Parentheses missing +around "%s" list, Possible unintended interpolation of %s in string, +Possible Y2K bug: %s, pragma "attrs" is deprecated, use "sub NAME : ATTRS" +instead, Premature end of script headers, Repeat count in pack overflows, +Repeat count in unpack overflows, realloc() of freed memory ignored, +Reference is already weak, setpgrp can't take arguments, Strange *+?{} on +zero-length expression, switching effective %s is not implemented, This +Perl can't reset CRTL environ elements (%s), This Perl can't set CRTL +environ elements (%s=%s), Too late to run %s block, Unknown open() mode +'%s', Unknown process %x sent message to prime_env_iter: %s, Unrecognized +escape \\%c passed through, Unterminated attribute parameter in attribute +list, Unterminated attribute list, Unterminated attribute parameter in +subroutine attribute list, Unterminated subroutine attribute list, Value of +CLI symbol "%s" too long, Version number must be a constant number + +=item New tests + +=item Incompatible Changes + +=over 4 + +=item Perl Source Incompatibilities + +CHECK is a new keyword, Treatment of list slices of undef has changed, +Format of $English::PERL_VERSION is different, Literals of the form +C<1.2.3> parse differently, Possibly changed pseudo-random number +generator, Hashing function for hash keys has changed, C<undef> fails on +read only values, Close-on-exec bit may be set on pipe and socket handles, +Writing C<"$$1"> to mean C<"${$}1"> is unsupported, delete(), each(), +values() and C<\(%h)>, vec(EXPR,OFFSET,BITS) enforces powers-of-two BITS, +Text of some diagnostic output has changed, C<%@> has been removed, +Parenthesized not() behaves like a list operator, Semantics of bareword +prototype C<(*)> have changed, Semantics of bit operators may have changed +on 64-bit platforms, More builtins taint their results + +=item C Source Incompatibilities + +C<PERL_POLLUTE>, C<PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT>, C<PERL_POLLUTE_MALLOC> + +=item Compatible C Source API Changes + +C<PATCHLEVEL> is now C<PERL_VERSION> + +=item Binary Incompatibilities + +=back + +=item Known Problems + +=over 4 + +=item Thread test failures + +=item EBCDIC platforms not supported + +=item In 64-bit HP-UX the lib/io_multihomed test may hang + +=item NEXTSTEP 3.3 POSIX test failure + +=item Tru64 (aka Digital UNIX, aka DEC OSF/1) lib/sdbm test failure with +gcc + +=item UNICOS/mk CC failures during Configure run + +=item Arrow operator and arrays + +=item Experimental features + +Threads, Unicode, 64-bit support, Lvalue subroutines, Weak references, The +pseudo-hash data type, The Compiler suite, Internal implementation of file +globbing, The DB module, The regular expression code constructs: + +=back + +=item Obsolete Diagnostics + +Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions, Ill-formed +logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter, In string, @%s now must be written as +\@%s, Probable precedence problem on %s, regexp too big, Use of "$$<digit>" +to mean "${$}<digit>" is deprecated + +=item Reporting Bugs + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=head2 perl5005delta - what's new for perl5.005 + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item About the new versioning system + +=item Incompatible Changes + +=over 4 + +=item WARNING: This version is not binary compatible with Perl 5.004. + +=item Default installation structure has changed + +=item Perl Source Compatibility + +=item C Source Compatibility + +=item Binary Compatibility + +=item Security fixes may affect compatibility + +=item Relaxed new mandatory warnings introduced in 5.004 + +=item Licensing + +=back + +=item Core Changes + +=over 4 + +=item Threads + +=item Compiler + +=item Regular Expressions + +Many new and improved optimizations, Many bug fixes, New regular expression +constructs, New operator for precompiled regular expressions, Other +improvements, Incompatible changes + +=item Improved malloc() + +=item Quicksort is internally implemented + +=item Reliable signals + +=item Reliable stack pointers + +=item More generous treatment of carriage returns + +=item Memory leaks + +=item Better support for multiple interpreters + +=item Behavior of local() on array and hash elements is now well-defined + +=item C<%!> is transparently tied to the L<Errno> module + +=item Pseudo-hashes are supported + +=item C<EXPR foreach EXPR> is supported + +=item Keywords can be globally overridden + +=item C<$^E> is meaningful on Win32 + +=item C<foreach (1..1000000)> optimized + +=item C<Foo::> can be used as implicitly quoted package name + +=item C<exists $Foo::{Bar::}> tests existence of a package + +=item Better locale support + +=item Experimental support for 64-bit platforms + +=item prototype() returns useful results on builtins + +=item Extended support for exception handling + +=item Re-blessing in DESTROY() supported for chaining DESTROY() methods + +=item All C<printf> format conversions are handled internally + +=item New C<INIT> keyword + +=item New C<lock> keyword + +=item New C<qr//> operator + +=item C<our> is now a reserved word + +=item Tied arrays are now fully supported + +=item Tied handles support is better + +=item 4th argument to substr + +=item Negative LENGTH argument to splice + +=item Magic lvalues are now more magical + +=item <> now reads in records + +=back + +=item Supported Platforms + +=over 4 + +=item New Platforms + +=item Changes in existing support + +=back + +=item Modules and Pragmata + +=over 4 + +=item New Modules + +B, Data::Dumper, Dumpvalue, Errno, File::Spec, ExtUtils::Installed, +ExtUtils::Packlist, Fatal, IPC::SysV, Test, Tie::Array, Tie::Handle, +Thread, attrs, fields, re + +=item Changes in existing modules + +Benchmark, Carp, CGI, Fcntl, Math::Complex, Math::Trig, POSIX, DB_File, +MakeMaker, CPAN, Cwd + +=back + +=item Utility Changes + +=item Documentation Changes + +=item New Diagnostics + +Ambiguous call resolved as CORE::%s(), qualify as such or use &, Bad index +while coercing array into hash, Bareword "%s" refers to nonexistent +package, Can't call method "%s" on an undefined value, Can't check +filesystem of script "%s" for nosuid, Can't coerce array into hash, Can't +goto subroutine from an eval-string, Can't localize pseudo-hash element, +Can't use %%! because Errno.pm is not available, Cannot find an opnumber +for "%s", Character class syntax [. .] is reserved for future extensions, +Character class syntax [: :] is reserved for future extensions, Character +class syntax [= =] is reserved for future extensions, %s: Eval-group in +insecure regular expression, %s: Eval-group not allowed, use re 'eval', %s: +Eval-group not allowed at run time, Explicit blessing to '' (assuming +package main), Illegal hex digit ignored, No such array field, No such +field "%s" in variable %s of type %s, Out of memory during ridiculously +large request, Range iterator outside integer range, Recursive inheritance +detected while looking for method '%s' %s, Reference found where even-sized +list expected, Undefined value assigned to typeglob, Use of reserved word +"%s" is deprecated, perl: warning: Setting locale failed + +=item Obsolete Diagnostics + +Can't mktemp(), Can't write to temp file for B<-e>: %s, Cannot open +temporary file, regexp too big + +=item Configuration Changes + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=head2 perl5004delta - what's new for perl5.004 + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Supported Environments + +=item Core Changes + +=over 4 + +=item List assignment to %ENV works + +=item Change to "Can't locate Foo.pm in @INC" error + +=item Compilation option: Binary compatibility with 5.003 + +=item $PERL5OPT environment variable + +=item Limitations on B<-M>, B<-m>, and B<-T> options + +=item More precise warnings + +=item Deprecated: Inherited C<AUTOLOAD> for non-methods + +=item Previously deprecated %OVERLOAD is no longer usable + +=item Subroutine arguments created only when they're modified + +=item Group vector changeable with C<$)> + +=item Fixed parsing of $$<digit>, &$<digit>, etc. + +=item Fixed localization of $<digit>, $&, etc. + +=item No resetting of $. on implicit close + +=item C<wantarray> may return undef + +=item C<eval EXPR> determines value of EXPR in scalar context + +=item Changes to tainting checks + +No glob() or <*>, No spawning if tainted $CDPATH, $ENV, $BASH_ENV, No +spawning if tainted $TERM doesn't look like a terminal name + +=item New Opcode module and revised Safe module + +=item Embedding improvements + +=item Internal change: FileHandle class based on IO::* classes + +=item Internal change: PerlIO abstraction interface + +=item New and changed syntax + +$coderef->(PARAMS) + +=item New and changed builtin constants + +__PACKAGE__ + +=item New and changed builtin variables + +$^E, $^H, $^M + +=item New and changed builtin functions + +delete on slices, flock, printf and sprintf, keys as an lvalue, my() in +Control Structures, pack() and unpack(), sysseek(), use VERSION, use Module +VERSION LIST, prototype(FUNCTION), srand, $_ as Default, C<m//gc> does not +reset search position on failure, C<m//x> ignores whitespace before ?*+{}, +nested C<sub{}> closures work now, formats work right on changing lexicals + +=item New builtin methods + +isa(CLASS), can(METHOD), VERSION( [NEED] ) + +=item TIEHANDLE now supported + +TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, PRINT this, LIST, PRINTF this, LIST, READ this +LIST, READLINE this, GETC this, DESTROY this + +=item Malloc enhancements + +-DPERL_EMERGENCY_SBRK, -DPACK_MALLOC, -DTWO_POT_OPTIMIZE + +=item Miscellaneous efficiency enhancements + +=back + +=item Support for More Operating Systems + +=over 4 + +=item Win32 + +=item Plan 9 + +=item QNX + +=item AmigaOS + +=back + +=item Pragmata + +use autouse MODULE => qw(sub1 sub2 sub3), use blib, use blib 'dir', use +constant NAME => VALUE, use locale, use ops, use vmsish + +=item Modules + +=over 4 + +=item Required Updates + +=item Installation directories + +=item Module information summary + +=item Fcntl + +=item IO + +=item Math::Complex + +=item Math::Trig + +=item DB_File + +=item Net::Ping + +=item Object-oriented overrides for builtin operators + +=back + +=item Utility Changes + +=over 4 + +=item pod2html + +Sends converted HTML to standard output + +=item xsubpp + +C<void> XSUBs now default to returning nothing + +=back + +=item C Language API Changes + +C<gv_fetchmethod> and C<perl_call_sv>, C<perl_eval_pv>, Extended API for +manipulating hashes + +=item Documentation Changes + +L<perldelta>, L<perlfaq>, L<perllocale>, L<perltoot>, L<perlapio>, +L<perlmodlib>, L<perldebug>, L<perlsec> + +=item New Diagnostics + +"my" variable %s masks earlier declaration in same scope, %s argument is +not a HASH element or slice, Allocation too large: %lx, Allocation too +large, Applying %s to %s will act on scalar(%s), Attempt to free +nonexistent shared string, Attempt to use reference as lvalue in substr, +Bareword "%s" refers to nonexistent package, Can't redefine active sort +subroutine %s, Can't use bareword ("%s") as %s ref while "strict refs" in +use, Cannot resolve method `%s' overloading `%s' in package `%s', Constant +subroutine %s redefined, Constant subroutine %s undefined, Copy method did +not return a reference, Died, Exiting pseudo-block via %s, Identifier too +long, Illegal character %s (carriage return), Illegal switch in PERL5OPT: +%s, Integer overflow in hex number, Integer overflow in octal number, +internal error: glob failed, Invalid conversion in %s: "%s", Invalid type +in pack: '%s', Invalid type in unpack: '%s', Name "%s::%s" used only once: +possible typo, Null picture in formline, Offset outside string, Out of +memory!, Out of memory during request for %s, panic: frexp, Possible +attempt to put comments in qw() list, Possible attempt to separate words +with commas, Scalar value @%s{%s} better written as $%s{%s}, Stub found +while resolving method `%s' overloading `%s' in %s, Too late for "B<-T>" +option, untie attempted while %d inner references still exist, Unrecognized +character %s, Unsupported function fork, Use of "$$<digit>" to mean +"${$}<digit>" is deprecated, Value of %s can be "0"; test with defined(), +Variable "%s" may be unavailable, Variable "%s" will not stay shared, +Warning: something's wrong, Ill-formed logical name |%s| in prime_env_iter, +Got an error from DosAllocMem, Malformed PERLLIB_PREFIX, PERL_SH_DIR too +long, Process terminated by SIG%s + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=head2 perlartistic - the Perl Artistic License + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item The "Artistic License" + +=over 4 + +=item Preamble + +=item Definitions + +"Package", "Standard Version", "Copyright Holder", "You", "Reasonable +copying fee", "Freely Available" + +=item Conditions + +a), b), c), d), a), b), c), d) + +=back + +=back + +=head2 perlgpl - the GNU General Public License, version 2 + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 perlaix, README.aix - Perl version 5 on IBM Unix (AIX) systems + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Compiling Perl 5 on AIX + +=item Supported Compilers + +=item Incompatibility with AIX Toolbox lib gdbm + +=item Perl 5.10 was successfully compiled and tested on: + +=item Building Dynamic Extensions on AIX + +=item Using Large Files with Perl + +=item Threaded Perl + +=item 64-bit Perl + +=item Recommended Options AIX 5.1/5.2/5.3 and 6.1 (threaded/32-bit) + +=item Recommended Options AIX 5.1/5.2/5.3 and 6.1 (32-bit) + +=item Recommended Options AIX 5.1/5.2/5.3 and 6.1 (threaded/64-bit) + +=item Recommended Options AIX 5.1/5.2/5.3 and 6.1(64-bit) + +=item Compiling Perl 5 on older AIX versions up to 4.3.3 + +=item OS level + +=item Building Dynamic Extensions on AIX + +=item The IBM ANSI C Compiler + +=item The usenm option + +=item Using GNU's gcc for building Perl + +=item Using Large Files with Perl + +=item Threaded Perl + +=item 64-bit Perl + +=item AIX 4.2 and extensions using C++ with statics + +=back + +=item AUTHORS + +=item DATE + +=back + +=head2 perlamiga - Perl under Amiga OS + +=over 4 + +=item NOTE + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Prerequisites for Compiling Perl on AmigaOS + +B<Unix emulation for AmigaOS: ixemul.library>, B<Version of Amiga OS> + +=item Starting Perl programs under AmigaOS + +=item Shortcomings of Perl under AmigaOS + +=back + +=item INSTALLATION + +=item Accessing documentation + +=over 4 + +=item Manpages for Perl on AmigaOS + +=item Perl HTML Documentation on AmigaOS + +=item Perl GNU Info Files on AmigaOS + +=item Perl LaTeX Documentation on AmigaOS + +=back + +=item BUILDING PERL ON AMIGAOS + +=over 4 + +=item Build Prerequisites for Perl on AmigaOS + +=item Getting the Perl Source for AmigaOS + +=item Making Perl on AmigaOS + +=item Testing Perl on AmigaOS + +=item Installing the built Perl on AmigaOS + +=back + +=item PERL 5.8.0 BROKEN IN AMIGAOS + +=item AUTHORS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perlapollo, README.apollo - Perl version 5 on Apollo DomainOS + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perlbeos, README.beos - Perl version 5.8+ on BeOS + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item BUILD AND INSTALL + +=over 4 + +=item Requirements + +=item Configure + +=item Build + +=item Install + +=back + +=item KNOWN PROBLEMS + +=item CONTACT + +=back + +=head2 perlbs2000, README.BS2000 - building and installing Perl for BS2000. + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item gzip on BS2000 + +=item bison on BS2000 + +=item Unpacking Perl Distribution on BS2000 + +=item Compiling Perl on BS2000 + +=item Testing Perl on BS2000 + +=item Installing Perl on BS2000 + +=item Using Perl in the Posix-Shell of BS2000 + +=item Using Perl in "native" BS2000 + +=item Floating point anomalies on BS2000 + +=item Using PerlIO and different encodings on ASCII and EBCDIC partitions + +=back + +=item AUTHORS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=over 4 + +=item Mailing list + +=back + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=head2 perlce - Perl for WinCE + +=over 4 + +=item Building Perl for WinCE + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item General explanations on cross-compiling WinCE + +=item BUILD + +Microsoft Embedded Visual Tools, Microsoft Visual C++, Rainer Keuchel's +celib-sources, Rainer Keuchel's console-sources, go to C<./win32> +subdirectory, edit file C<./win32/ce-helpers/compile.bat>, run +compile.bat, run compile.bat dist + +=back + +=item Using Perl on WinCE + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item LIMITATIONS + +=item ENVIRONMENT + +PERL5LIB, PATH, TMP, UNIXROOTPATH, ROWS/COLS, HOME, CONSOLEFONTSIZE + +=item REGISTRY + +=item XS + +=item BUGS + +=item INSTALLATION + +=back + +=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS + +=item History of WinCE port + +=item AUTHORS + +Rainer Keuchel <coyxc@rainer-keuchel.de>, Vadim Konovalov + +=back + +=head2 perlcygwin, README.cygwin - Perl for Cygwin + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item PREREQUISITES FOR COMPILING PERL ON CYGWIN + +=over 4 + +=item Cygwin = GNU+Cygnus+Windows (Don't leave UNIX without it) + +=item Cygwin Configuration + +C<PATH>, I<nroff>, Permissions + +=back + +=item CONFIGURE PERL ON CYGWIN + +=over 4 + +=item Stripping Perl Binaries on Cygwin + +=item Optional Libraries for Perl on Cygwin + +C<-lcrypt>, C<-lgdbm_compat> (C<use GDBM_File>), C<-ldb> (C<use DB_File>), +C<cygserver> (C<use IPC::SysV>), C<-lutil> + +=item Configure-time Options for Perl on Cygwin + +C<-Uusedl>, C<-Uusemymalloc>, C<-Uuseperlio>, C<-Dusemultiplicity>, +C<-Duse64bitint>, C<-Duselongdouble>, C<-Dusethreads>, C<-Duselargefiles>, +C<-Dmksymlinks> + +=item Suspicious Warnings on Cygwin + +Win9x and C<d_eofnblk>, Compiler/Preprocessor defines + +=back + +=item MAKE ON CYGWIN + +=item TEST ON CYGWIN + +=over 4 + +=item File Permissions on Cygwin + +=item NDBM_File and ODBM_File do not work on FAT filesystems + +=item C<fork()> failures in io_* tests + +=back + +=item Specific features of the Cygwin port + +=over 4 + +=item Script Portability on Cygwin + +Pathnames, Text/Binary, PerlIO, F<.exe>, Cygwin vs. Windows process ids, +Cygwin vs. Windows errors, C<chown()>, Miscellaneous + +=item Prebuilt methods: + +C<Cwd::cwd>, C<Cygwin::pid_to_winpid>, C<Cygwin::winpid_to_pid>, +C<Cygwin::win_to_posix_path>, C<Cygwin::posix_to_win_path>, +C<Cygwin::mount_table()>, C<Cygwin::mount_flags>, C<Cygwin::is_binmount> + +=back + +=item INSTALL PERL ON CYGWIN + +=item MANIFEST ON CYGWIN + +Documentation, Build, Configure, Make, Install, Tests, Compiled Perl +Source, Compiled Module Source, Perl Modules/Scripts, Perl Module Tests + +=item BUGS ON CYGWIN + +=item AUTHORS + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=head2 perldgux - Perl under DG/UX. + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item BUILDING PERL ON DG/UX + +=over 4 + +=item Non-threaded Perl on DG/UX + +=item Threaded Perl on DG/UX + +=item Testing Perl on DG/UX + +=item Installing the built perl on DG/UX + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perldos - Perl under DOS, W31, W95. + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Prerequisites for Compiling Perl on DOS + +DJGPP, Pthreads + +=item Shortcomings of Perl under DOS + +=item Building Perl on DOS + +=item Testing Perl on DOS + +=item Installation of Perl on DOS + +=back + +=item BUILDING AND INSTALLING MODULES ON DOS + +=over 4 + +=item Building Prerequisites for Perl on DOS + +=item Unpacking CPAN Modules on DOS + +=item Building Non-XS Modules on DOS + +=item Building XS Modules on DOS + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perlepoc, README.epoc - Perl for EPOC + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item INTRODUCTION + +=item INSTALLING PERL ON EPOC + +=item STARTING PERL ON EPOC + +=over 4 + +=item Editors on Epoc + +=item Features of Perl on Epoc + +=item Restrictions of Perl on Epoc + +=item Compiling Perl 5 on the EPOC cross compiling environment + +=back + +=item SUPPORT STATUS OF PERL ON EPOC + +=item AUTHOR + +=item LAST UPDATE + +=back + +=head2 perlfreebsd, README.freebsd - Perl version 5 on FreeBSD systems + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item FreeBSD core dumps from readdir_r with ithreads + +=item $^X doesn't always contain a full path in FreeBSD + +=item Perl will no longer be part of "base FreeBSD" + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perlhaiku, README.haiku - Perl version 5.10+ on Haiku + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item BUILD AND INSTALL + +=item KNOWN PROBLEMS + +=item CONTACT + +=back + +=head2 perlhpux, README.hpux - Perl version 5 on Hewlett-Packard Unix +(HP-UX) systems + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Using perl as shipped with HP-UX + +=item Using perl from HP's porting centre + +=item Compiling Perl 5 on HP-UX + +=item PA-RISC + +=item Portability Between PA-RISC Versions + +=item PA-RISC 1.0 + +=item PA-RISC 1.1 + +=item PA-RISC 2.0 + +=item Itanium Processor Family (IPF) and HP-UX + +=item Itanium, Itanium 2 & Madison 6 + +=item HP-UX versions + +=item Building Dynamic Extensions on HP-UX + +=item The HP ANSI C Compiler + +=item The GNU C Compiler + +=item Using Large Files with Perl on HP-UX + +=item Threaded Perl on HP-UX + +=item 64-bit Perl on HP-UX + +=item Oracle on HP-UX + +=item GDBM and Threads on HP-UX + +=item NFS filesystems and utime(2) on HP-UX + +=item perl -P and // and HP-UX + +=item HP-UX Kernel Parameters (maxdsiz) for Compiling Perl + +=back + +=item nss_delete core dump from op/pwent or op/grent + +=item Miscellaneous + +=item AUTHOR + +=item DATE + +=back + +=head2 perlhurd, README.hurd - Perl version 5 on Hurd + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Known Problems with Perl on Hurd + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perlirix, README.irix - Perl version 5 on Irix systems + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Building 32-bit Perl in Irix + +=item Building 64-bit Perl in Irix + +=item About Compiler Versions of Irix + +=item Linker Problems in Irix + +=item Malloc in Irix + +=item Building with threads in Irix + +=item Irix 5.3 + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perllinux, README.linux - Perl version 5 on Linux systems + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Experimental Support for Sun Studio Compilers for Linux OS + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perlmachten, README.machten - Perl version 5 on Power MachTen +systems + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Perl version 5.8.x and greater not supported + +=item Compiling Perl 5.6.x on MachTen + +=item Failures during C<make test> on MachTen + +op/lexassign.t, pragma/warnings.t + +=item Building external modules on MachTen + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=item DATE + +=back + +=head2 perlmacos, README.macos - Perl under Mac OS (Classic) + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR + +=item DATE + +=back + +=head2 perlmacosx, README.macosx - Perl under Mac OS X + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Installation Prefix + +=item SDK support + +=item Universal Binary support + +=item 64-bit PPC support + +=item libperl and Prebinding + +=item Updating Apple's Perl + +=item Known problems + +=item MacPerl + +=item Carbon + +=item Cocoa + +=back + +=item Starting From Scratch + +=item AUTHOR + +=item DATE + +=back + +=head2 perlmint, README.mint - Perl version 5 on Atari MiNT + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Known problems with Perl on MiNT + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perlmpeix, README.mpeix - Perl/iX for HP e3000 MPE + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item NOTE + +=item Binary distribution from HP + +=item What's New in Perl for MPE/iX + +=item Welcome to Perl/iX + +=item System Requirements for Perl/iX + +=item How to Obtain Perl/iX + +=item Perl/iX Distribution Contents Highlights + +README, INSTALL, LIBSHP3K, PERL, .cpan/, lib/, man/, +public_html/feedback.cgi, src/perl-5.6.0-mpe + +=item How to Compile Perl/iX + + 4, 6 + +=item Getting Started with Perl/iX + +=item MPE/iX Implementation Considerations + +=item Known Perl/iX Bugs Under Investigation + +=item Perl/iX To-Do List + +=item Perl/iX Change History + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perlnetware - Perl for NetWare + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item BUILD + +=over 4 + +=item Tools & SDK + +=item Setup + +SetNWBld.bat, Buildtype.bat + +=item Make + +=item Interpreter + +=item Extensions + +=back + +=item INSTALL + +=item BUILD NEW EXTENSIONS + +=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS + +=item AUTHORS + +=item DATE + +=back + +=head2 perlopenbsd, README.openbsd - Perl version 5 on OpenBSD systems + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item OpenBSD core dumps from getprotobyname_r and getservbyname_r with +ithreads + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perlos2 - Perl under OS/2, DOS, Win0.3*, Win0.95 and WinNT. + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Target + +=item Other OSes + +=item Prerequisites + +EMX, RSX, HPFS, pdksh + +=item Starting Perl programs under OS/2 (and DOS and...) + +=item Starting OS/2 (and DOS) programs under Perl + +=back + +=item Frequently asked questions + +=over 4 + +=item "It does not work" + +=item I cannot run external programs + +=item I cannot embed perl into my program, or use F<perl.dll> from my +program. + +Is your program EMX-compiled with C<-Zmt -Zcrtdll>?, Did you use +L<ExtUtils::Embed>? + +=item C<``> and pipe-C<open> do not work under DOS. + +=item Cannot start C<find.exe "pattern" file> + +=back + +=item INSTALLATION + +=over 4 + +=item Automatic binary installation + +C<PERL_BADLANG>, C<PERL_BADFREE>, F<Config.pm> + +=item Manual binary installation + +Perl VIO and PM executables (dynamically linked), Perl_ VIO executable +(statically linked), Executables for Perl utilities, Main Perl library, +Additional Perl modules, Tools to compile Perl modules, Manpages for Perl +and utilities, Manpages for Perl modules, Source for Perl documentation, +Perl manual in F<.INF> format, Pdksh + +=item B<Warning> + +=back + +=item Accessing documentation + +=over 4 + +=item OS/2 F<.INF> file + +=item Plain text + +=item Manpages + +=item HTML + +=item GNU C<info> files + +=item F<PDF> files + +=item C<LaTeX> docs + +=back + +=item BUILD + +=over 4 + +=item The short story + +=item Prerequisites + +=item Getting perl source + +=item Application of the patches + +=item Hand-editing + +=item Making + +=item Testing + +A lot of C<bad free>, Process terminated by SIGTERM/SIGINT, F<op/fs.t>, +F<op/stat.t> + +=item Installing the built perl + +=item C<a.out>-style build + +=back + +=item Building a binary distribution + +=item Building custom F<.EXE> files + +=over 4 + +=item Making executables with a custom collection of statically loaded +extensions + +=item Making executables with a custom search-paths + +=back + +=item Build FAQ + +=over 4 + +=item Some C</> became C<\> in pdksh. + +=item C<'errno'> - unresolved external + +=item Problems with tr or sed + +=item Some problem (forget which ;-) + +=item Library ... not found + +=item Segfault in make + +=item op/sprintf test failure + +=back + +=item Specific (mis)features of OS/2 port + +=over 4 + +=item C<setpriority>, C<getpriority> + +=item C<system()> + +=item C<extproc> on the first line + +=item Additional modules: + +=item Prebuilt methods: + +C<File::Copy::syscopy>, C<DynaLoader::mod2fname>, C<Cwd::current_drive()>, + C<Cwd::sys_chdir(name)>, C<Cwd::change_drive(name)>, +C<Cwd::sys_is_absolute(name)>, C<Cwd::sys_is_rooted(name)>, +C<Cwd::sys_is_relative(name)>, C<Cwd::sys_cwd(name)>, +C<Cwd::sys_abspath(name, dir)>, C<Cwd::extLibpath([type])>, +C<Cwd::extLibpath_set( path [, type ] )>, +C<OS2::Error(do_harderror,do_exception)>, C<OS2::Errors2Drive(drive)>, +OS2::SysInfo(), OS2::BootDrive(), C<OS2::MorphPM(serve)>, +C<OS2::UnMorphPM(serve)>, C<OS2::Serve_Messages(force)>, +C<OS2::Process_Messages(force [, cnt])>, C<OS2::_control87(new,mask)>, +OS2::get_control87(), C<OS2::set_control87_em(new=MCW_EM,mask=MCW_EM)>, +C<OS2::DLLname([how [, \&xsub]])> + +=item Prebuilt variables: + +$OS2::emx_rev, $OS2::emx_env, $OS2::os_ver, $OS2::is_aout, $OS2::can_fork, +$OS2::nsyserror + +=item Misfeatures + +=item Modifications + +C<popen>, C<tmpnam>, C<tmpfile>, C<ctermid>, C<stat>, C<mkdir>, C<rmdir>, +C<flock> + +=item Identifying DLLs + +=item Centralized management of resources + +C<HAB>, C<HMQ>, Treating errors reported by OS/2 API, +C<CheckOSError(expr)>, C<CheckWinError(expr)>, C<SaveWinError(expr)>, +C<SaveCroakWinError(expr,die,name1,name2)>, C<WinError_2_Perl_rc>, +C<FillWinError>, C<FillOSError(rc)>, Loading DLLs and ordinals in DLLs + +=back + +=item Perl flavors + +=over 4 + +=item F<perl.exe> + +=item F<perl_.exe> + +=item F<perl__.exe> + +=item F<perl___.exe> + +=item Why strange names? + +=item Why dynamic linking? + +=item Why chimera build? + +=back + +=item ENVIRONMENT + +=over 4 + +=item C<PERLLIB_PREFIX> + +=item C<PERL_BADLANG> + +=item C<PERL_BADFREE> + +=item C<PERL_SH_DIR> + +=item C<USE_PERL_FLOCK> + +=item C<TMP> or C<TEMP> + +=back + +=item Evolution + +=over 4 + +=item Text-mode filehandles + +=item Priorities + +=item DLL name mangling: pre 5.6.2 + +=item DLL name mangling: 5.6.2 and beyond + +Global DLLs, specific DLLs, C<BEGINLIBPATH> and C<ENDLIBPATH>, F<.> from +C<LIBPATH> + +=item DLL forwarder generation + +=item Threading + +=item Calls to external programs + +=item Memory allocation + +=item Threads + +C<COND_WAIT>, F<os2.c> + +=back + +=item BUGS + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 perlos390, README.os390 - building and installing Perl for OS/390 +and z/OS + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Tools + +=item Unpacking Perl distribution on OS/390 + +=item Setup and utilities for Perl on OS/390 + +=item Configure Perl on OS/390 + +=item Build, Test, Install Perl on OS/390 + +=item Build Anomalies with Perl on OS/390 + +=item Testing Anomalies with Perl on OS/390 + +=item Installation Anomalies with Perl on OS/390 + +=item Usage Hints for Perl on OS/390 + +=item Floating Point Anomalies with Perl on OS/390 + +=item Modules and Extensions for Perl on OS/390 + +=back + +=item AUTHORS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=over 4 + +=item Mailing list for Perl on OS/390 + +=back + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=head2 perlos400, README.os400 - Perl version 5 on OS/400 + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Compiling Perl for OS/400 PASE + +=item Installing Perl in OS/400 PASE + +=item Using Perl in OS/400 PASE + +=item Known Problems + +=item Perl on ILE + +=back + +=item AUTHORS + +=back + +=head2 perlplan9 - Plan 9-specific documentation for Perl + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Invoking Perl + +=item What's in Plan 9 Perl + +=item What's not in Plan 9 Perl + +=item Perl5 Functions not currently supported in Plan 9 Perl + +=item Signals in Plan 9 Perl + +=back + +=item COMPILING AND INSTALLING PERL ON PLAN 9 + +=over 4 + +=item Installing Perl Documentation on Plan 9 + +=back + +=item BUGS + +=item Revision date + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perlqnx, README.qnx - Perl version 5 on QNX + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Required Software for Compiling Perl on QNX4 + +/bin/sh, ar, nm, cpp, make + +=item Outstanding Issues with Perl on QNX4 + +=item QNX auxiliary files + +qnx/ar, qnx/cpp + +=item Outstanding issues with perl under QNX6 + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perlriscos, README.riscos - Perl version 5 for RISC OS + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item BUILD + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perlsolaris, README.solaris - Perl version 5 on Solaris systems + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Solaris Version Numbers. + +=back + +=item RESOURCES + +Solaris FAQ, Precompiled Binaries, Solaris Documentation + +=item SETTING UP + +=over 4 + +=item File Extraction Problems on Solaris. + +=item Compiler and Related Tools on Solaris. + +=item Environment for Compiling perl on Solaris + +=back + +=item RUN CONFIGURE. + +=over 4 + +=item 64-bit perl on Solaris. + +=item Threads in perl on Solaris. + +=item Malloc Issues with perl on Solaris. + +=back + +=item MAKE PROBLEMS. + +Dynamic Loading Problems With GNU as and GNU ld, ld.so.1: ./perl: fatal: +relocation error:, dlopen: stub interception failed, #error "No +DATAMODEL_NATIVE specified", sh: ar: not found + +=item MAKE TEST + +=over 4 + +=item op/stat.t test 4 in Solaris + +=item nss_delete core dump from op/pwent or op/grent + +=back + +=item PREBUILT BINARIES OF PERL FOR SOLARIS. + +=item RUNTIME ISSUES FOR PERL ON SOLARIS. + +=over 4 + +=item Limits on Numbers of Open Files on Solaris. + +=back + +=item SOLARIS-SPECIFIC MODULES. + +=item SOLARIS-SPECIFIC PROBLEMS WITH MODULES. + +=over 4 + +=item Proc::ProcessTable on Solaris + +=item BSD::Resource on Solaris + +=item Net::SSLeay on Solaris + +=back + +=item SunOS 4.x + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perlsymbian, README.symbian - Perl version 5 on Symbian OS + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Compiling Perl on Symbian + +=item Compilation problems + +=item PerlApp + +=item sisify.pl + +=item Using Perl in Symbian + +=back + +=item TO DO + +=item WARNING + +=item NOTE + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item LICENSE + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=head2 perltru64, README.tru64 - Perl version 5 on Tru64 (formerly known as +Digital UNIX formerly known as DEC OSF/1) systems + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Compiling Perl 5 on Tru64 + +=item Using Large Files with Perl on Tru64 + +=item Threaded Perl on Tru64 + +=item Long Doubles on Tru64 + +=item DB_File tests failing on Tru64 + +=item 64-bit Perl on Tru64 + +=item Warnings about floating-point overflow when compiling Perl on Tru64 + +=back + +=item Testing Perl on Tru64 + +=item ext/ODBM_File/odbm Test Failing With Static Builds + +=item Perl Fails Because Of Unresolved Symbol sockatmark + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perluts - Perl under UTS + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item BUILDING PERL ON UTS + +=item Installing the built perl on UTS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perlvmesa, README.vmesa - building and installing Perl for VM/ESA. + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Unpacking Perl Distribution on VM/ESA + +=item Setup Perl and utilities on VM/ESA + +=item Configure Perl on VM/ESA + +=item Testing Anomalies of Perl on VM/ESA + +=item Usage Hints for Perl on VM/ESA + +=back + +=item AUTHORS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=over 4 + +=item Mailing list for Perl on VM/ESA + +=back + +=back + +=head2 perlvms - VMS-specific documentation for Perl + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Installation + +=item Organization of Perl Images + +=over 4 + +=item Core Images + +=item Perl Extensions + +=item Installing static extensions + +=item Installing dynamic extensions + +=back + +=item File specifications + +=over 4 + +=item Syntax + +=item Filename Case + +=item Symbolic Links + +=item Wildcard expansion + +=item Pipes + +=back + +=item PERL5LIB and PERLLIB + +=item The Perl Forked Debugger + +=item PERL_VMS_EXCEPTION_DEBUG + +=item Command line + +=over 4 + +=item I/O redirection and backgrounding + +=item Command line switches + +-i, -S, -u + +=back + +=item Perl functions + +File tests, backticks, binmode FILEHANDLE, crypt PLAINTEXT, USER, die, +dump, exec LIST, fork, getpwent, getpwnam, getpwuid, gmtime, kill, qx//, +select (system call), stat EXPR, system LIST, time, times, unlink LIST, +utime LIST, waitpid PID,FLAGS + +=item Perl variables + +%ENV, CRTL_ENV, CLISYM_[LOCAL], Any other string, $!, $^E, $?, $| + +=item Standard modules with VMS-specific differences + +=over 4 + +=item SDBM_File + +=back + +=item Revision date + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 perlvos, README.vos - Perl for Stratus VOS + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item BUILDING PERL FOR VOS + +=item INSTALLING PERL IN VOS + +=item USING PERL IN VOS + +=over 4 + +=item Restrictions of Perl on VOS + +=item Handling of underflow and overflow + +=back + +=item TEST STATUS + +=item SUPPORT STATUS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item LAST UPDATE + +=back + +=head2 perlwin32 - Perl under Windows + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Setting Up Perl on Win32 + +Make, Command Shell, Borland C++, Microsoft Visual C++, Microsoft Visual +C++ 2008 Express Edition, Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition, +Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003, Microsoft Platform SDK 64-bit Compiler, +MinGW release 3 with gcc, MinGW release 1 with gcc + +=item Building + +=item Testing Perl on Win32 + +=item Installation of Perl on Win32 + +=item Usage Hints for Perl on Win32 + +Environment Variables, File Globbing, Using perl from the command line, +Building Extensions, Command-line Wildcard Expansion, Win32 Specific +Extensions, Notes on 64-bit Windows + +=item Running Perl Scripts + +=item Miscellaneous Things + +=back + +=item BUGS AND CAVEATS + +=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS + +=item AUTHORS + +Gary Ng E<lt>71564.1743@CompuServe.COME<gt>, Gurusamy Sarathy +E<lt>gsar@activestate.comE<gt>, Nick Ing-Simmons +E<lt>nick@ing-simmons.netE<gt>, Jan Dubois E<lt>jand@activestate.comE<gt>, +Steve Hay E<lt>steve.hay@uk.radan.comE<gt> + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=head1 PRAGMA DOCUMENTATION + +=head2 attrs - set/get attributes of a subroutine (deprecated) + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +method, locked + +=back + +=head2 mro - Method Resolution Order + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OVERVIEW + +=item The C3 MRO + +=over 4 + +=item What is C3? + +=item How does C3 work + +=back + +=item Functions + +=over 4 + +=item mro::get_linear_isa($classname[, $type]) + +=item mro::set_mro($classname, $type) + +=item mro::get_mro($classname) + +=item mro::get_isarev($classname) + +=item mro::is_universal($classname) + +=item mro::invalidate_all_method_caches() + +=item mro::method_changed_in($classname) + +=item mro::get_pkg_gen($classname) + +=item next::method + +=item next::can + +=item maybe::next::method + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=over 4 + +=item The original Dylan paper + +L<http://www.webcom.com/haahr/dylan/linearization-oopsla96.html> + +=item The prototype Perl 6 Object Model uses C3 + +L<http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/perl5/Perl6-MetaModel/> + +=item Parrot now uses C3 + +L<http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/perl6-internals/2746631>, +L<http://use.perl.org/~autrijus/journal/25768> + +=item Python 2.3 MRO related links + +L<http://www.python.org/2.3/mro.html>, +L<http://www.python.org/2.2.2/descrintro.html#mro> + +=item C3 for TinyCLOS + +L<http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/eggs/c3.html> + +=item Class::C3 + +L<Class::C3> + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 re - Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item 'taint' mode + +=item 'eval' mode + +=item 'debug' mode + +=item 'Debug' mode + +Compile related options, COMPILE, PARSE, OPTIMISE, TRIEC, DUMP, Execute +related options, EXECUTE, MATCH, TRIEE, INTUIT, Extra debugging options, +EXTRA, BUFFERS, TRIEM, STATE, STACK, OPTIMISEM, OFFSETS, OFFSETSDBG, Other +useful flags, ALL, All, MORE, More + +=item Exportable Functions + +is_regexp($ref), regexp_pattern($ref), regmust($ref), regname($name,$all), +regnames($all), regnames_count() + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 threads-shared, threads::shared - Perl extension for sharing data +structures between threads + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item EXPORT + +=item FUNCTIONS + +share VARIABLE, shared_clone REF, is_shared VARIABLE, lock VARIABLE, +cond_wait VARIABLE, cond_wait CONDVAR, LOCKVAR, cond_timedwait VARIABLE, +ABS_TIMEOUT, cond_timedwait CONDVAR, ABS_TIMEOUT, LOCKVAR, cond_signal +VARIABLE, cond_broadcast VARIABLE + +=item OBJECTS + +=item NOTES + +=item BUGS AND LIMITATIONS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 threads - Perl interpreter-based threads + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +$thr = threads->create(FUNCTION, ARGS), $thr->join(), $thr->detach(), +threads->detach(), threads->self(), $thr->tid(), threads->tid(), "$thr", +threads->object($tid), threads->yield(), threads->list(), +threads->list(threads::all), threads->list(threads::running), +threads->list(threads::joinable), $thr1->equal($thr2), async BLOCK;, +$thr->error(), $thr->_handle(), threads->_handle() + +=item EXITING A THREAD + +threads->exit(), threads->exit(status), die(), exit(status), use threads +'exit' => 'threads_only', threads->create({'exit' => 'thread_only'}, ...), +$thr->set_thread_exit_only(boolean), threads->set_thread_exit_only(boolean) + +=item THREAD STATE + +$thr->is_running(), $thr->is_joinable(), $thr->is_detached(), +threads->is_detached() + +=item THREAD CONTEXT + +=over 4 + +=item Explicit context + +=item Implicit context + +=item $thr->wantarray() + +=item threads->wantarray() + +=back + +=item THREAD STACK SIZE + +threads->get_stack_size();, $size = $thr->get_stack_size();, $old_size = +threads->set_stack_size($new_size);, use threads ('stack_size' => VALUE);, +$ENV{'PERL5_ITHREADS_STACK_SIZE'}, threads->create({'stack_size' => VALUE}, +FUNCTION, ARGS), $thr2 = $thr1->create(FUNCTION, ARGS) + +=item THREAD SIGNALLING + +$thr->kill('SIG...'); + +=item WARNINGS + +Perl exited with active threads:, Thread creation failed: pthread_create +returned #, Thread # terminated abnormally: .., Using minimum thread stack +size of #, Thread creation failed: pthread_attr_setstacksize(I<SIZE>) +returned 22 + +=item ERRORS + +This Perl not built to support threads, Cannot change stack size of an +existing thread, Cannot signal threads without safe signals, Unrecognized +signal name: .. + +=item BUGS AND LIMITATIONS + +Thread-safe modules, Using non-thread-safe modules, Current working +directory, Environment variables, Parent-child threads, Creating threads +inside special blocks, Unsafe signals, Perl has been built with +C<PERL_OLD_SIGNALS> (see C<perl -V>), The environment variable +C<PERL_SIGNALS> is set to C<unsafe> (see L<perlrun/"PERL_SIGNALS">), The +module L<Perl::Unsafe::Signals> is used, Returning closures from threads, +Returning objects from threads, END blocks in threads, Perl Bugs and the +CPAN Version of L<threads> + +=item REQUIREMENTS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item LICENSE + +=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS + +=back + +=head2 attributes - get/set subroutine or variable attributes + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item What C<import> does + +=item Built-in Attributes + +locked, method, lvalue + +=item Available Subroutines + +get, reftype + +=item Package-specific Attribute Handling + +FETCH_I<type>_ATTRIBUTES, MODIFY_I<type>_ATTRIBUTES + +=item Syntax of Attribute Lists + +=back + +=item EXPORTS + +=over 4 + +=item Default exports + +=item Available exports + +=item Export tags defined + +=back + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item MORE EXAMPLES + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 autodie - Replace functions with ones that succeed or die with +lexical scope + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item EXCEPTIONS + +=item CATEGORIES + +=item FUNCTION SPECIFIC NOTES + +=over 4 + +=item flock + +=item system/exec + +=back + +=item GOTCHAS + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + +:void cannot be used with lexical scope, No user hints defined for %s + +=item BUGS + +=over 4 + +=item autodie and string eval + +=item REPORTING BUGS + +=back + +=item FEEDBACK + +=item AUTHOR + +=item LICENSE + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS + +=back + +=head2 autodiexception, autodie::exception - Exceptions from autodying +functions. + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Common Methods + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Advanced methods + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item LICENSE + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 autodiexception::system, autodie::exception::system - Exceptions +from autodying system(). + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item stringify + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item LICENSE + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 autodie::hints - Provide hints about user subroutines to autodie + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Introduction + +=item What are hints? + +=item Example hints + +=back + +=item Manually setting hints from within your program + +=item Adding hints to your module + +=item Insisting on hints + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Diagnostics + +Attempts to set_hints_for unidentifiable subroutine, fail hints cannot be +provided with either scalar or list hints for %s, %s hint missing for %s + +=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item LICENSE + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 autouse - postpone load of modules until a function is used + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item WARNING + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 base - Establish an ISA relationship with base classes at compile +time + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + +Base class package "%s" is empty, Class 'Foo' tried to inherit from itself + +=item HISTORY + +=item CAVEATS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 bigint - Transparent BigInteger support for Perl + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item use integer vs. use bigint + +=item Options + +a or accuracy, p or precision, t or trace, hex, oct, l, lib, try or only, v +or version + +=item Math Library + +=item Internal Format + +=item Sign + +=item Methods + +inf(), NaN(), e, PI, bexp(), bpi(), upgrade(), in_effect() + +=item MATH LIBRARY + +=item Caveat + +=back + +=item CAVAETS + +in_effect(), hex()/oct() + +=item MODULES USED + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item LICENSE + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHORS + +=back + +=head2 bignum - Transparent BigNumber support for Perl + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Options + +a or accuracy, p or precision, t or trace, l or lib, hex, oct, v or version + +=item Methods + +=item Caveats + +inf(), NaN(), e, PI(), bexp(), bpi(), upgrade(), in_effect() + +=item Math Library + +=item INTERNAL FORMAT + +=item SIGN + +=back + +=item CAVAETS + +in_effect(), hex()/oct() + +=item MODULES USED + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item LICENSE + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHORS + +=back + +=head2 bigrat - Transparent BigNumber/BigRational support for Perl + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Modules Used + +=item Math Library + +=item Sign + +=item Methods + +inf(), NaN(), e, PI, bexp(), bpi(), upgrade(), in_effect() + +=item MATH LIBRARY + +=item Cavaet + +=item Options + +a or accuracy, p or precision, t or trace, l or lib, hex, oct, v or version + +=back + +=item CAVAETS + +in_effect(), hex()/oct() + +=item EXAMPLES + + perl -Mbigrat -le 'print sqrt(33)' + perl -Mbigrat -le 'print 2*255' + perl -Mbigrat -le 'print 4.5+2*255' + perl -Mbigrat -le 'print 3/7 + 5/7 + 8/3' + perl -Mbigrat -le 'print 12->is_odd()'; + perl -Mbignum=l,GMP -le 'print 7 ** 7777' + +=item LICENSE + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHORS + +=back + +=head2 blib - Use MakeMaker's uninstalled version of a package + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 bytes - Perl pragma to force byte semantics rather than character +semantics + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item LIMITATIONS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 charnames - define character names for C<\N{named}> string literal +escapes + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item ALIASES + +=item CUSTOM ALIASES + +=over 4 + +=item Anonymous hashes + +=item Alias file + +=item Alias shortcut + +=back + +=item charnames::viacode(code) + +=item charnames::vianame(name) + +=item CUSTOM TRANSLATORS + +=item ILLEGAL CHARACTERS + +=item BUGS + +=back + +=head2 constant - Perl pragma to declare constants + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item NOTES + +=over 4 + +=item List constants + +=item Defining multiple constants at once + +=item Magic constants + +=back + +=item TECHNICAL NOTES + +=item CAVEATS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHORS + +=item COPYRIGHT & LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 diagnostics, splain - produce verbose warning diagnostics + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item The C<diagnostics> Pragma + +=item The I<splain> Program + +=back + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item INTERNALS + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 encoding - allows you to write your script in non-ascii or non-utf8 + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item ABSTRACT + +=over 4 + +=item Literal Conversions + +=item PerlIO layers for C<STD(IN|OUT)> + +=item Implicit upgrading for byte strings + +=item Side effects + +=back + +=item FEATURES THAT REQUIRE 5.8.1 + +"NON-EUC" doublebyte encodings, tr//, DATA pseudo-filehandle + +=item USAGE + +use encoding [I<ENCNAME>] ;, use encoding I<ENCNAME> [ STDIN =E<gt> +I<ENCNAME_IN> ...] ;, use encoding I<ENCNAME> Filter=E<gt>1;, no encoding; + +=item The Filter Option + +=over 4 + +=item Filter-related changes at Encode version 1.87 + +=back + +=item CAVEATS + +=over 4 + +=item NOT SCOPED + +=item DO NOT MIX MULTIPLE ENCODINGS + +=item tr/// with ranges + +Legend of characters above + +=back + +=item EXAMPLE - Greekperl + +=item KNOWN PROBLEMS + +literals in regex that are longer than 127 bytes, EBCDIC, format, Thread +safety + +=over 4 + +=item The Logic of :locale + +=back + +=item HISTORY + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 encoding::warnings - Warn on implicit encoding conversions + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Overview of the problem + +=item Detecting the problem + +=item Solving the problem + +Upgrade both sides to unicode-strings, Downgrade both sides to +byte-strings, Specify the encoding for implicit byte-string upgrading, +PerlIO layers for B<STDIN> and B<STDOUT>, Literal conversions, Implicit +upgrading for byte-strings + +=back + +=item CAVEATS + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHORS + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 feature - Perl pragma to enable new syntactic features + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Lexical effect + +=item C<no feature> + +=item The 'switch' feature + +=item The 'say' feature + +=item the 'state' feature + +=back + +=item FEATURE BUNDLES + +=item IMPLICIT LOADING + +=back + +=head2 fields - compile-time class fields + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +new, phash + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 filetest - Perl pragma to control the filetest permission operators + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Consider this carefully + +=item The "access" sub-pragma + +=item Limitation with regard to C<_> + +=back + +=back + +=head2 if - C<use> a Perl module if a condition holds + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 integer - Perl pragma to use integer arithmetic instead of floating +point + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head2 less - perl pragma to request less of something + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item FOR MODULE AUTHORS + +=over 4 + +=item C<< BOOLEAN = less->of( FEATURE ) >> + +=item C<< FEATURES = less->of() >> + +=back + +=item CAVEATS + +This probably does nothing, This works only on 5.10+ + +=back + +=head2 lib - manipulate @INC at compile time + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Adding directories to @INC + +=item Deleting directories from @INC + +=item Restoring original @INC + +=back + +=item CAVEATS + +=item NOTES + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 locale - Perl pragma to use and avoid POSIX locales for built-in +operations + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head2 open - perl pragma to set default PerlIO layers for input and output + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item NONPERLIO FUNCTIONALITY + +=item IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 ops - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when compiling + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 overload - Package for overloading Perl operations + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Declaration of overloaded functions + +=item Calling Conventions for Binary Operations + +FALSE, TRUE, C<undef> + +=item Calling Conventions for Unary Operations + +=item Calling Conventions for Mutators + +C<++> and C<-->, C<x=> and other assignment versions + +=item Overloadable Operations + +I<Arithmetic operations>, I<Comparison operations>, I<Bit operations>, +I<Increment and decrement>, I<Transcendental functions>, I<Boolean, string +and numeric conversion>, I<Iteration>, I<Matching>, I<Dereferencing>, +I<Special> + +=item Inheritance and overloading + +Strings as values of C<use overload> directive, Overloading of an operation +is inherited by derived classes + +=back + +=item SPECIAL SYMBOLS FOR C<use overload> + +=over 4 + +=item Last Resort + +=item Fallback + +C<undef>, TRUE, defined, but FALSE + +=item Copy Constructor + +B<Example> + +=back + +=item MAGIC AUTOGENERATION + +I<Assignment forms of arithmetic operations>, I<Conversion operations>, +I<Increment and decrement>, C<abs($a)>, I<Unary minus>, I<Negation>, +I<Concatenation>, I<Comparison operations>, I<Iterator>, I<Dereferencing>, +I<Copy operator> + +=item Minimal set of overloaded operations + +=item Losing overloading + +=item Run-time Overloading + +=item Public functions + +overload::StrVal(arg), overload::Overloaded(arg), overload::Method(obj,op) + +=item Overloading constants + +integer, float, binary, q, qr + +=item IMPLEMENTATION + +=item Metaphor clash + +=item Cookbook + +=over 4 + +=item Two-face scalars + +=item Two-face references + +=item Symbolic calculator + +=item I<Really> symbolic calculator + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + +Odd number of arguments for overload::constant, `%s' is not an overloadable +type, `%s' is not a code reference + +=item BUGS + +=back + +=head2 overloading - perl pragma to lexically control overloading + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +C<no overloading>, C<no overloading @ops>, C<use overloading>, C<use +overloading @ops> + +=back + +=head2 parent - Establish an ISA relationship with base classes at compile +time + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + +Class 'Foo' tried to inherit from itself + +=item HISTORY + +=item CAVEATS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTORS + +=item MAINTAINER + +=item LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 sigtrap - Perl pragma to enable simple signal handling + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OPTIONS + +=over 4 + +=item SIGNAL HANDLERS + +B<stack-trace>, B<die>, B<handler> I<your-handler> + +=item SIGNAL LISTS + +B<normal-signals>, B<error-signals>, B<old-interface-signals> + +=item OTHER + +B<untrapped>, B<any>, I<signal>, I<number> + +=back + +=item EXAMPLES + +=back + +=head2 sort - perl pragma to control sort() behaviour + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CAVEATS + +=back + +=head2 strict - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe constructs + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +C<strict refs>, C<strict vars>, C<strict subs> + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=head2 subs - Perl pragma to predeclare sub names + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head2 threadshared, threads::shared - Perl extension for sharing data +structures between threads + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item EXPORT + +=item FUNCTIONS + +share VARIABLE, shared_clone REF, is_shared VARIABLE, lock VARIABLE, +cond_wait VARIABLE, cond_wait CONDVAR, LOCKVAR, cond_timedwait VARIABLE, +ABS_TIMEOUT, cond_timedwait CONDVAR, ABS_TIMEOUT, LOCKVAR, cond_signal +VARIABLE, cond_broadcast VARIABLE + +=item OBJECTS + +=item NOTES + +=item BUGS AND LIMITATIONS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 utf8 - Perl pragma to enable/disable UTF-8 (or UTF-EBCDIC) in source +code + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Utility functions + +$num_octets = utf8::upgrade($string), $success = utf8::downgrade($string[, +FAIL_OK]), utf8::encode($string), $success = utf8::decode($string), $flag = +utf8::is_utf8(STRING), $flag = utf8::valid(STRING) + +=back + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 vars - Perl pragma to predeclare global variable names (obsolete) + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head2 version - Perl extension for Version Objects + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item TYPES OF VERSION OBJECTS + +Decimal Versions, Dotted Decimal Versions + +=item DECLARING VERSIONS + +=over 4 + +=item How to convert a module from decimal to dotted-decimal + +=item How to C<declare()> a dotted-decimal version + +=back + +=item PARSING AND COMPARING VERSIONS + +=over 4 + +=item How to C<parse()> a version + +=item How to compare version objects + +=back + +=item VERSION OBJECT DETAILS + +=over 4 + +=item Equivalence between Decimal and Dotted-Decimal Versions + +=item Quoting rules + +=item What about v-strings? + +=item Alpha versions + +=back + +=item OBJECT METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item is_alpha() + +=item is_qv() + +=item normal() + +=item numify() + +=item stringify() + +=back + +=item EXPORTED FUNCTIONS + +=over 4 + +=item qv() + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 version::Internals, version::Internal - Perl extension for Version +Objects + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item What IS a version + +Decimal Versions, Dotted-Decimal Versions + +=over 4 + +=item Decimal Versions + +=item Dotted-Decimal Versions + +=item Decimal Alpha Versions + +=back + +=item High level design + +=over 4 + +=item version objects + +original, qv, alpha, version + +=item Replacement UNIVERSAL::VERSION + +=back + +=item Usage question + +=over 4 + +=item Using modules that use version.pm + +Decimal versions always work, Dotted-Decimal version work sometimes + +=item Object Methods + +New Operator, qv(), Normal Form, Numification, Stringification, Comparison +operators, Logical Operators + +=item Quoting + +=back + +=item SUBCLASSING + +=item EXPORT + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 vmsish - Perl pragma to control VMS-specific language features + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +C<vmsish status>, C<vmsish exit>, C<vmsish time>, C<vmsish hushed> + +=back + +=head2 warnings - Perl pragma to control optional warnings + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +use warnings::register, warnings::enabled(), warnings::enabled($category), +warnings::enabled($object), warnings::warn($message), +warnings::warn($category, $message), warnings::warn($object, $message), +warnings::warnif($message), warnings::warnif($category, $message), +warnings::warnif($object, $message) + +=back + +=head2 warnings::register - warnings import function + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head1 MODULE DOCUMENTATION + +=head2 AnyDBM_File - provide framework for multiple DBMs + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item DBM Comparisons + +[0], [1], [2], [3] + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 App::Prove - Implements the C<prove> command. + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Attributes + +C<archive>, C<argv>, C<backwards>, C<blib>, C<color>, C<directives>, +C<dry>, C<exec>, C<extension>, C<failures>, C<comments>, C<formatter>, +C<harness>, C<ignore_exit>, C<includes>, C<jobs>, C<lib>, C<merge>, +C<modules>, C<parse>, C<plugins>, C<quiet>, C<really_quiet>, C<recurse>, +C<rules>, C<show_count>, C<show_help>, C<show_man>, C<show_version>, +C<shuffle>, C<state>, C<state_class>, C<taint_fail>, C<taint_warn>, +C<test_args>, C<timer>, C<verbose>, C<warnings_fail>, C<warnings_warn> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item PLUGINS + +=over 4 + +=item Sample Plugin + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 App::Prove::State - State storage for the C<prove> command. + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +C<store>, C<extension> (optional), C<result_class> (optional) + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item C<result_class> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item C<extension> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item C<results> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item C<commit> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Instance Methods + +C<last>, C<failed>, C<passed>, C<all>, C<hot>, C<todo>, C<slow>, C<fast>, +C<new>, C<old>, C<save> + +=back + +=head2 App::Prove::State::Result - Individual test suite results. + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item C<state_version> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item C<test_class> + +=back + +=head2 App::Prove::State::Result::Test - Individual test results. + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=head2 Archive::Extract - A generic archive extracting mechanism + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item $ae = Archive::Extract->new(archive => '/path/to/archive',[type => +TYPE]) + +tar, tgz, gz, Z, zip, bz2, tbz, lzma + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $ae->extract( [to => '/output/path'] ) + +$ae->extract_path, $ae->files + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item ACCESSORS + +=over 4 + +=item $ae->error([BOOL]) + +=item $ae->extract_path + +=item $ae->files + +=item $ae->archive + +=item $ae->type + +=item $ae->types + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $ae->is_tgz + +=item $ae->is_tar + +=item $ae->is_gz + +=item $ae->is_Z + +=item $ae->is_zip + +=item $ae->is_lzma + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $ae->bin_tar + +=item $ae->bin_gzip + +=item $ae->bin_unzip + +=item $ae->bin_unlzma + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $ae->have_old_bunzip2 + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item HOW IT WORKS + +=item CAVEATS + +=over 4 + +=item File Extensions + +=item Supporting Very Large Files + +=item Bunzip2 support of arbitrary extensions. + +=back + +=item GLOBAL VARIABLES + +=over 4 + +=item $Archive::Extract::DEBUG + +=item $Archive::Extract::WARN + +=item $Archive::Extract::PREFER_BIN + +=back + +=item TODO / CAVEATS + +Mime magic support, Thread safety + +=item BUG REPORTS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Archive::Tar - module for manipulations of tar archives + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Object Methods + +=over 4 + +=item Archive::Tar->new( [$file, $compressed] ) + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $tar->read ( $filename|$handle, [$compressed, {opt => 'val'}] ) + +limit, filter, extract + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $tar->contains_file( $filename ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $tar->extract( [@filenames] ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $tar->extract_file( $file, [$extract_path] ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $tar->list_files( [\@properties] ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $tar->get_files( [@filenames] ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $tar->get_content( $file ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $tar->replace_content( $file, $content ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $tar->rename( $file, $new_name ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $tar->remove (@filenamelist) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $tar->clear + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $tar->write ( [$file, $compressed, $prefix] ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $tar->add_files( @filenamelist ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $tar->add_data ( $filename, $data, [$opthashref] ) + +FILE, HARDLINK, SYMLINK, CHARDEV, BLOCKDEV, DIR, FIFO, SOCKET + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $tar->error( [$BOOL] ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $tar->setcwd( $cwd ); + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=over 4 + +=item Archive::Tar->create_archive($file, $compressed, @filelist) + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Archive::Tar->iter( $filename, [ $compressed, {opt => $val} ] ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Archive::Tar->list_archive($file, $compressed, [\@properties]) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Archive::Tar->extract_archive($file, $compressed) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = Archive::Tar->has_io_string + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = Archive::Tar->has_perlio + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = Archive::Tar->has_zlib_support + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = Archive::Tar->has_bzip2_support + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Archive::Tar->can_handle_compressed_files + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item GLOBAL VARIABLES + +=over 4 + +=item $Archive::Tar::FOLLOW_SYMLINK + +=item $Archive::Tar::CHOWN + +=item $Archive::Tar::CHMOD + +=item $Archive::Tar::SAME_PERMISSIONS + +=item $Archive::Tar::DO_NOT_USE_PREFIX + +=item $Archive::Tar::DEBUG + +=item $Archive::Tar::WARN + +=item $Archive::Tar::error + +=item $Archive::Tar::INSECURE_EXTRACT_MODE + +=item $Archive::Tar::HAS_PERLIO + +=item $Archive::Tar::HAS_IO_STRING + +=back + +=item FAQ + +What's the minimum perl version required to run Archive::Tar?, Isn't +Archive::Tar slow?, Isn't Archive::Tar heavier on memory than /bin/tar?, +Can you lazy-load data instead?, How much memory will an X kb tar file +need?, What do you do with unsupported filetypes in an archive?, I'm using +WinZip, or some other non-POSIX client, and files are not being extracted +properly!, How do I extract only files that have property X from an +archive?, How do I access .tar.Z files?, How do I handle Unicode strings? + +=item CAVEATS + +=item TODO + +Check if passed in handles are open for read/write, Allow archives to be +passed in as string, Facilitate processing an opened filehandle of a +compressed archive + +=item SEE ALSO + +The GNU tar specification, The PAX format specication, A comparison of GNU +and POSIX tar standards; +C<http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/tar/tar_114.html>, GNU tar intends to +switch to POSIX compatibility, A Comparison between various tar +implementations + +=item AUTHOR + +=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Archive::Tar::File - a subclass for in-memory extracted file from +Archive::Tar + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Accessors + +name, mode, uid, gid, size, mtime, chksum, type, linkname, magic, version, +uname, gname, devmajor, devminor, prefix, raw + +=back + +=item Methods + +=over 4 + +=item Archive::Tar::File->new( file => $path ) + +=item Archive::Tar::File->new( data => $path, $data, $opt ) + +=item Archive::Tar::File->new( chunk => $chunk ) + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $file->extract( [ $alternative_name ] ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $path = $file->full_path + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $file->validate + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $file->has_content + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $content = $file->get_content + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $cref = $file->get_content_by_ref + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $file->replace_content( $content ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $file->rename( $new_name ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Convenience methods + +$file->is_file, $file->is_dir, $file->is_hardlink, $file->is_symlink, +$file->is_chardev, $file->is_blockdev, $file->is_fifo, $file->is_socket, +$file->is_longlink, $file->is_label, $file->is_unknown + +=back + +=head2 Attribute-Handlers::lib::Attribute::Handlers, Attribute::Handlers - +Simpler definition of attribute handlers + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +[0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7] + +=over 4 + +=item Typed lexicals + +=item Type-specific attribute handlers + +=item Non-interpretive attribute handlers + +=item Phase-specific attribute handlers + +=item Attributes as C<tie> interfaces + +=back + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item UTILITY FUNCTIONS + +findsym + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + +C<Bad attribute type: ATTR(%s)>, C<Attribute handler %s doesn't handle %s +attributes>, C<Declaration of %s attribute in package %s may clash with +future reserved word>, C<Can't have two ATTR specifiers on one subroutine>, +C<Can't autotie a %s>, C<Internal error: %s symbol went missing>, C<Won't +be able to apply END handler> + +=item AUTHOR + +=item BUGS + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 Attribute::Handlers - Simpler definition of attribute handlers + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +[0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7] + +=over 4 + +=item Typed lexicals + +=item Type-specific attribute handlers + +=item Non-interpretive attribute handlers + +=item Phase-specific attribute handlers + +=item Attributes as C<tie> interfaces + +=back + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item UTILITY FUNCTIONS + +findsym + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + +C<Bad attribute type: ATTR(%s)>, C<Attribute handler %s doesn't handle %s +attributes>, C<Declaration of %s attribute in package %s may clash with +future reserved word>, C<Can't have two ATTR specifiers on one subroutine>, +C<Can't autotie a %s>, C<Internal error: %s symbol went missing>, C<Won't +be able to apply END handler> + +=item AUTHOR + +=item BUGS + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 AutoLoader - load subroutines only on demand + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Subroutine Stubs + +=item Using B<AutoLoader>'s AUTOLOAD Subroutine + +=item Overriding B<AutoLoader>'s AUTOLOAD Subroutine + +=item Package Lexicals + +=item Not Using AutoLoader + +=item B<AutoLoader> vs. B<SelfLoader> + +=back + +=item CAVEATS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 AutoSplit - split a package for autoloading + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +$keep, $check, $modtime + +=over 4 + +=item Multiple packages + +=back + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 B - The Perl Compiler + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OVERVIEW + +=item Utility Functions + +=over 4 + +=item Functions Returning C<B::SV>, C<B::AV>, C<B::HV>, and C<B::CV> +objects + +sv_undef, sv_yes, sv_no, svref_2object(SVREF), amagic_generation, init_av, +check_av, unitcheck_av, begin_av, end_av, comppadlist, regex_padav, main_cv + +=item Functions for Examining the Symbol Table + +walksymtable(SYMREF, METHOD, RECURSE, PREFIX) + +=item Functions Returning C<B::OP> objects or for walking op trees + +main_root, main_start, walkoptree(OP, METHOD), walkoptree_debug(DEBUG) + +=item Miscellaneous Utility Functions + +ppname(OPNUM), hash(STR), cast_I32(I), minus_c, cstring(STR), +perlstring(STR), class(OBJ), threadsv_names + +=item Exported utility variabiles + +@optype, @specialsv_name + +=back + +=item OVERVIEW OF CLASSES + +=over 4 + +=item SV-RELATED CLASSES + +=item B::SV Methods + +REFCNT, FLAGS, object_2svref + +=item B::IV Methods + +IV, IVX, UVX, int_value, needs64bits, packiv + +=item B::NV Methods + +NV, NVX + +=item B::RV Methods + +RV + +=item B::PV Methods + +PV, RV, PVX + +=item B::PVMG Methods + +MAGIC, SvSTASH + +=item B::MAGIC Methods + +MOREMAGIC, precomp, PRIVATE, TYPE, FLAGS, OBJ, PTR, REGEX + +=item B::PVLV Methods + +TARGOFF, TARGLEN, TYPE, TARG + +=item B::BM Methods + +USEFUL, PREVIOUS, RARE, TABLE + +=item B::GV Methods + +is_empty, NAME, SAFENAME, STASH, SV, IO, FORM, AV, HV, EGV, CV, CVGEN, +LINE, FILE, FILEGV, GvREFCNT, FLAGS + +=item B::IO Methods + +LINES, PAGE, PAGE_LEN, LINES_LEFT, TOP_NAME, TOP_GV, FMT_NAME, FMT_GV, +BOTTOM_NAME, BOTTOM_GV, SUBPROCESS, IoTYPE, IoFLAGS, IsSTD + +=item B::AV Methods + +FILL, MAX, ARRAY, ARRAYelt, OFF, AvFLAGS + +=item B::CV Methods + +STASH, START, ROOT, GV, FILE, DEPTH, PADLIST, OUTSIDE, OUTSIDE_SEQ, XSUB, +XSUBANY, CvFLAGS, const_sv + +=item B::HV Methods + +FILL, MAX, KEYS, RITER, NAME, ARRAY, PMROOT + +=item OP-RELATED CLASSES + +=item B::OP Methods + +next, sibling, name, ppaddr, desc, targ, type, opt, flags, private, spare + +=item B::UNOP METHOD + +first + +=item B::BINOP METHOD + +last + +=item B::LOGOP METHOD + +other + +=item B::LISTOP METHOD + +children + +=item B::PMOP Methods + +pmreplroot, pmreplstart, pmnext, pmregexp, pmflags, extflags, precomp, +pmoffset + +=item B::SVOP METHOD + +sv, gv + +=item B::PADOP METHOD + +padix + +=item B::PVOP METHOD + +pv + +=item B::LOOP Methods + +redoop, nextop, lastop + +=item B::COP Methods + +label, stash, stashpv, file, cop_seq, arybase, line, warnings, io, hints, +hints_hash + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 B::Concise - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing concise info about ops + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item EXAMPLE + +=item OPTIONS + +=over 4 + +=item Options for Opcode Ordering + +B<-basic>, B<-exec>, B<-tree> + +=item Options for Line-Style + +B<-concise>, B<-terse>, B<-linenoise>, B<-debug>, B<-env> + +=item Options for tree-specific formatting + +B<-compact>, B<-loose>, B<-vt>, B<-ascii> + +=item Options controlling sequence numbering + +B<-base>I<n>, B<-bigendian>, B<-littleendian> + +=item Other options + +B<-src>, B<-stash="somepackage">, B<-main>, B<-nomain>, B<-nobanner>, +B<-banner>, B<-banneris> => subref + +=item Option Stickiness + +=back + +=item ABBREVIATIONS + +=over 4 + +=item OP class abbreviations + +=item OP flags abbreviations + +=back + +=item FORMATTING SPECIFICATIONS + +=over 4 + +=item Special Patterns + +B<(x(>I<exec_text>B<;>I<basic_text>B<)x)>, B<(*(>I<text>B<)*)>, +B<(*(>I<text1>B<;>I<text2>B<)*)>, B<(?(>I<text1>B<#>I<var>I<Text2>B<)?)>, +B<~> + +=item # Variables + +B<#>I<var>, B<#>I<var>I<N>, B<#>I<Var>, B<#addr>, B<#arg>, B<#class>, +B<#classsym>, B<#coplabel>, B<#exname>, B<#extarg>, B<#firstaddr>, +B<#flags>, B<#flagval>, B<#hints>, B<#hintsval>, B<#hyphseq>, B<#label>, +B<#lastaddr>, B<#name>, B<#NAME>, B<#next>, B<#nextaddr>, B<#noise>, +B<#private>, B<#privval>, B<#seq>, B<#seqnum>, B<#opt>, B<#sibaddr>, +B<#svaddr>, B<#svclass>, B<#svval>, B<#targ>, B<#targarg>, B<#targarglife>, +B<#typenum> + +=back + +=item One-Liner Command tips + +perl -MO=Concise,bar foo.pl, perl -MDigest::MD5=md5 -MO=Concise,md5 -e1, +perl -MPOSIX -MO=Concise,_POSIX_ARG_MAX -e1, perl -MPOSIX -MO=Concise,a -e +'print _POSIX_SAVED_IDS', perl -MPOSIX -MO=Concise,a -e 'sub +a{_POSIX_SAVED_IDS}', perl -MB::Concise -e +'B::Concise::compile("-exec","-src", \%B::Concise::)->()' + +=item Using B::Concise outside of the O framework + +=over 4 + +=item Example: Altering Concise Renderings + +=item set_style() + +=item set_style_standard($name) + +=item add_style() + +=item add_callback() + +=item Running B::Concise::compile() + +=item B::Concise::reset_sequence() + +=item Errors + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 B::Debug - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing debug info about ops + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OPTIONS + +=item Changes + +=item AUTHOR + +=item LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 B::Deparse - Perl compiler backend to produce perl code + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OPTIONS + +B<-d>, B<-f>I<FILE>, B<-l>, B<-p>, B<-P>, B<-q>, B<-s>I<LETTERS>, B<C>, +B<i>I<NUMBER>, B<T>, B<v>I<STRING>B<.>, B<-x>I<LEVEL> + +=item USING B::Deparse AS A MODULE + +=over 4 + +=item Synopsis + +=item Description + +=item new + +=item ambient_pragmas + +strict, $[, bytes, utf8, integer, re, warnings, hint_bits, warning_bits, +%^H + +=item coderef2text + +=back + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 B::Lint - Perl lint + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OPTIONS AND LINT CHECKS + +B<magic-diamond>, B<context>, B<implicit-read> and B<implicit-write>, +B<bare-subs>, B<dollar-underscore>, B<private-names>, B<undefined-subs>, +B<regexp-variables>, B<all>, B<none> + +=item NON LINT-CHECK OPTIONS + +B<-u Package> + +=item EXTENDING LINT + +=item TODO + +while(<FH>) stomps $_, strict oo, unchecked system calls, more tests, +validate against older perls + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS + +=back + +=head2 B::Lint::Debug - Adds debugging stringification to B:: + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head2 B::O, O - Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CONVENTIONS + +=item IMPLEMENTATION + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 B::Showlex - Show lexical variables used in functions or files + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item OPTIONS + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item TODO + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 B::Terse - Walk Perl syntax tree, printing terse info about ops + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 B::Xref - Generates cross reference reports for Perl programs + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OPTIONS + +C<-oFILENAME>, C<-r>, C<-d>, C<-D[tO]> + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Benchmark - benchmark running times of Perl code + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Methods + +new, debug, iters + +=item Standard Exports + +timeit(COUNT, CODE), timethis ( COUNT, CODE, [ TITLE, [ STYLE ]] ), +timethese ( COUNT, CODEHASHREF, [ STYLE ] ), timediff ( T1, T2 ), timestr ( +TIMEDIFF, [ STYLE, [ FORMAT ] ] ) + +=item Optional Exports + +clearcache ( COUNT ), clearallcache ( ), cmpthese ( COUNT, CODEHASHREF, [ +STYLE ] ), cmpthese ( RESULTSHASHREF, [ STYLE ] ), countit(TIME, CODE), +disablecache ( ), enablecache ( ), timesum ( T1, T2 ) + +=item :hireswallclock + +=back + +=item NOTES + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item INHERITANCE + +=item CAVEATS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHORS + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=back + +=head2 CGI - Handle Common Gateway Interface requests and responses + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item PROGRAMMING STYLE + +=item CALLING CGI.PM ROUTINES + +=item CREATING A NEW QUERY OBJECT (OBJECT-ORIENTED STYLE): + +=item CREATING A NEW QUERY OBJECT FROM AN INPUT FILE + +=item FETCHING A LIST OF KEYWORDS FROM THE QUERY: + +=item FETCHING THE NAMES OF ALL THE PARAMETERS PASSED TO YOUR SCRIPT: + +=item FETCHING THE VALUE OR VALUES OF A SINGLE NAMED PARAMETER: + +=item SETTING THE VALUE(S) OF A NAMED PARAMETER: + +=item APPENDING ADDITIONAL VALUES TO A NAMED PARAMETER: + +=item IMPORTING ALL PARAMETERS INTO A NAMESPACE: + +=item DELETING A PARAMETER COMPLETELY: + +=item DELETING ALL PARAMETERS: + +=item HANDLING NON-URLENCODED ARGUMENTS + +=item DIRECT ACCESS TO THE PARAMETER LIST: + +=item FETCHING THE PARAMETER LIST AS A HASH: + +=item SAVING THE STATE OF THE SCRIPT TO A FILE: + +=item RETRIEVING CGI ERRORS + +=item USING THE FUNCTION-ORIENTED INTERFACE + +B<:cgi>, B<:form>, B<:html2>, B<:html3>, B<:html4>, B<:netscape>, B<:html>, +B<:standard>, B<:all> + +=item PRAGMAS + +-any, -compile, -nosticky, -tabindex, -no_undef_params, -no_xhtml, -utf8, +-nph, -newstyle_urls, -oldstyle_urls, -autoload, -no_debug, -debug, +-private_tempfiles + +=item SPECIAL FORMS FOR IMPORTING HTML-TAG FUNCTIONS + +1. start_table() (generates a <table> tag), 2. end_table() (generates a +</table> tag), 3. start_ul() (generates a <ul> tag), 4. end_ul() (generates +a </ul> tag) + +=back + +=item GENERATING DYNAMIC DOCUMENTS + +=over 4 + +=item CREATING A STANDARD HTTP HEADER: + +=item GENERATING A REDIRECTION HEADER + +=item CREATING THE HTML DOCUMENT HEADER + +B<Parameters:>, 4, 5, 6.. + +=item ENDING THE HTML DOCUMENT: + +=item CREATING A SELF-REFERENCING URL THAT PRESERVES STATE INFORMATION: + +=item OBTAINING THE SCRIPT'S URL + +B<-absolute>, B<-relative>, B<-full>, B<-path> (B<-path_info>), B<-query> +(B<-query_string>), B<-base>, B<-rewrite> + +=item MIXING POST AND URL PARAMETERS + +=back + +=item CREATING STANDARD HTML ELEMENTS: + +=over 4 + +=item PROVIDING ARGUMENTS TO HTML SHORTCUTS + +=item THE DISTRIBUTIVE PROPERTY OF HTML SHORTCUTS + +=item HTML SHORTCUTS AND LIST INTERPOLATION + +=item NON-STANDARD HTML SHORTCUTS + +=item AUTOESCAPING HTML + +$escaped_string = escapeHTML("unescaped string");, $charset = +charset([$charset]);, $flag = autoEscape([$flag]); + +=item PRETTY-PRINTING HTML + +=back + +=item CREATING FILL-OUT FORMS: + +=over 4 + +=item CREATING AN ISINDEX TAG + +=item STARTING AND ENDING A FORM + +B<application/x-www-form-urlencoded>, B<multipart/form-data> + +=item FORM ELEMENTS + +B<-name>, B<-value>, B<-values>, B<-tabindex>, B<-id>, B<-override>, +B<-onChange>, B<-onFocus>, B<-onBlur>, B<-onMouseOver>, B<-onMouseOut>, +B<-onSelect> + +=item CREATING A TEXT FIELD + +B<Parameters> + +=item CREATING A BIG TEXT FIELD + +=item CREATING A PASSWORD FIELD + +=item CREATING A FILE UPLOAD FIELD + +B<Parameters> + +=item CREATING A POPUP MENU + +=item CREATING AN OPTION GROUP + +=item CREATING A SCROLLING LIST + +B<Parameters:> + +=item CREATING A GROUP OF RELATED CHECKBOXES + +B<Parameters:> + +=item CREATING A STANDALONE CHECKBOX + +B<Parameters:> + +=item CREATING A RADIO BUTTON GROUP + +B<Parameters:> + +=item CREATING A SUBMIT BUTTON + +B<Parameters:> + +=item CREATING A RESET BUTTON + +=item CREATING A DEFAULT BUTTON + +=item CREATING A HIDDEN FIELD + +B<Parameters:> + +=item CREATING A CLICKABLE IMAGE BUTTON + +B<Parameters:>, 3. The third option (-align, optional) is an alignment +type, and may be TOP, BOTTOM or MIDDLE + +=item CREATING A JAVASCRIPT ACTION BUTTON + +=back + +=item HTTP COOKIES + +1. an expiration time, 2. a domain, 3. a path, 4. a "secure" flag, +B<-name>, B<-value>, B<-path>, B<-domain>, B<-expires>, B<-secure> + +=item WORKING WITH FRAMES + +1. Create a <Frameset> document, 2. Specify the destination for the +document in the HTTP header, 3. Specify the destination for the document in +the <form> tag + +=item SUPPORT FOR JAVASCRIPT + +B<onLoad>, B<onUnload>, B<onSubmit>, B<onClick>, B<onChange>, B<onFocus>, +B<onBlur>, B<onSelect>, B<onMouseOver>, B<onMouseOut> + +=item LIMITED SUPPORT FOR CASCADING STYLE SHEETS + +=item DEBUGGING + +=over 4 + +=item DUMPING OUT ALL THE NAME/VALUE PAIRS + +=back + +=item FETCHING ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES + +B<Accept()>, B<raw_cookie()>, B<user_agent()>, B<path_info()>, +B<path_translated()>, B<remote_host()>, B<script_name()> Return the script +name as a partial URL, for self-refering scripts, B<referer()>, B<auth_type +()>, B<server_name ()>, B<virtual_host ()>, B<server_port ()>, +B<virtual_port ()>, B<server_software ()>, B<remote_user ()>, B<user_name +()>, B<request_method()>, B<content_type()>, B<http()>, B<https()> + +=item USING NPH SCRIPTS + +In the B<use> statement, By calling the B<nph()> method:, By using B<-nph> +parameters + +=item Server Push + +multipart_init(), multipart_start(), multipart_end(), multipart_final() + +=item Avoiding Denial of Service Attacks + +B<$CGI::POST_MAX>, B<$CGI::DISABLE_UPLOADS>, B<1. On a script-by-script +basis>, B<2. Globally for all scripts> + +=item COMPATIBILITY WITH CGI-LIB.PL + +=item AUTHOR INFORMATION + +=item CREDITS + +Matt Heffron (heffron@falstaff.css.beckman.com), James Taylor +(james.taylor@srs.gov), Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com>, Mike Jewell +(mlj3u@virginia.edu), Timothy Shimmin (tes@kbs.citri.edu.au), Joergen Haegg +(jh@axis.se), Laurent Delfosse (delfosse@delfosse.com), Richard Resnick +(applepi1@aol.com), Craig Bishop (csb@barwonwater.vic.gov.au), Tony Curtis +(tc@vcpc.univie.ac.at), Tim Bunce (Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk), Tom Christiansen +(tchrist@convex.com), Andreas Koenig (k@franz.ww.TU-Berlin.DE), Tim +MacKenzie (Tim.MacKenzie@fulcrum.com.au), Kevin B. Hendricks +(kbhend@dogwood.tyler.wm.edu), Stephen Dahmen (joyfire@inxpress.net), Ed +Jordan (ed@fidalgo.net), David Alan Pisoni (david@cnation.com), Doug +MacEachern (dougm@opengroup.org), Robin Houston (robin@oneworld.org), +...and many many more.. + +=item A COMPLETE EXAMPLE OF A SIMPLE FORM-BASED SCRIPT + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 CGI::Apache - Backward compatibility module for CGI.pm + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item ABSTRACT + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR INFORMATION + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 CGI::Carp, B<CGI::Carp> - CGI routines for writing to the HTTPD (or +other) error log + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item REDIRECTING ERROR MESSAGES + +=item MAKING PERL ERRORS APPEAR IN THE BROWSER WINDOW + +=over 4 + +=item Changing the default message + +=back + +=item DOING MORE THAN PRINTING A MESSAGE IN THE EVENT OF PERL ERRORS + +=item MAKING WARNINGS APPEAR AS HTML COMMENTS + +=item OVERRIDING THE NAME OF THE PROGRAM + +=item AUTHORS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 CGI::Cookie - Interface to Netscape Cookies + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item USING CGI::Cookie + +B<1. expiration date>, B<2. domain>, B<3. path>, B<4. secure flag>, B<4. +httponly flag> + +=over 4 + +=item Creating New Cookies + +=item Sending the Cookie to the Browser + +=item Recovering Previous Cookies + +=item Manipulating Cookies + +B<name()>, B<value()>, B<domain()>, B<path()>, B<expires()> + +=back + +=item AUTHOR INFORMATION + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 CGI::Fast - CGI Interface for Fast CGI + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OTHER PIECES OF THE PUZZLE + +=item WRITING FASTCGI PERL SCRIPTS + +=item INSTALLING FASTCGI SCRIPTS + +=item USING FASTCGI SCRIPTS AS CGI SCRIPTS + +=item EXTERNAL FASTCGI SERVER INVOCATION + +FCGI_SOCKET_PATH, FCGI_LISTEN_QUEUE + +=item CAVEATS + +=item AUTHOR INFORMATION + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 CGI::Pretty - module to produce nicely formatted HTML code + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Tags that won't be formatted + +=item Customizing the Indenting + +=back + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 CGI::Push - Simple Interface to Server Push + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item USING CGI::Push + +-next_page, -last_page, -type, -delay, -cookie, -target, -expires, -nph + +=over 4 + +=item Heterogeneous Pages + +=item Changing the Page Delay on the Fly + +=back + +=item INSTALLING CGI::Push SCRIPTS + +=item AUTHOR INFORMATION + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 CGI::Switch - Backward compatibility module for defunct CGI::Switch + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item ABSTRACT + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR INFORMATION + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 CGI::Util - Internal utilities used by CGI module + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR INFORMATION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 CORE - Pseudo-namespace for Perl's core routines + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OVERRIDING CORE FUNCTIONS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 CPAN - query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item CPAN::shell([$prompt, $command]) Starting Interactive Mode + +Searching for authors, bundles, distribution files and modules, C<get>, +C<make>, C<test>, C<install>, C<clean> modules or distributions, C<readme>, +C<perldoc>, C<look> module or distribution, C<ls> author, C<ls> +globbing_expression, C<failed>, Persistence between sessions, The C<force> +and the C<fforce> pragma, Lockfile, Signals + +=item CPAN::Shell + +=item autobundle + +=item hosts + +=item mkmyconfig + +=item recent ***EXPERIMENTAL COMMAND*** + +=item recompile + +=item report Bundle|Distribution|Module + +=item smoke ***EXPERIMENTAL COMMAND*** + +=item upgrade [Module|/Regex/]... + +=item The four C<CPAN::*> Classes: Author, Bundle, Module, Distribution + +=item Integrating local directories + +=item Redirection + +=back + +=item CONFIGURATION + +completion support, displaying some help: o conf help, displaying current +values: o conf [KEY], changing of scalar values: o conf KEY VALUE, changing +of list values: o conf KEY SHIFT|UNSHIFT|PUSH|POP|SPLICE|LIST, reverting to +saved: o conf defaults, saving the config: o conf commit + +=over 4 + +=item Config Variables + +C<o conf E<lt>scalar optionE<gt>>, C<o conf E<lt>scalar optionE<gt> +E<lt>valueE<gt>>, C<o conf E<lt>list optionE<gt>>, C<o conf E<lt>list +optionE<gt> [shift|pop]>, C<o conf E<lt>list optionE<gt> +[unshift|push|splice] E<lt>listE<gt>>, interactive editing: o conf init +[MATCH|LIST] + +=item CPAN::anycwd($path): Note on config variable getcwd + +cwd, getcwd, fastcwd, backtickcwd + +=item Note on the format of the urllist parameter + +=item The urllist parameter has CD-ROM support + +=item Maintaining the urllist parameter + +=item The C<requires> and C<build_requires> dependency declarations + +=item Configuration for individual distributions (I<Distroprefs>) + +=item Filenames + +=item Fallback Data::Dumper and Storable + +=item Blueprint + +=item Language Specs + +comment [scalar], cpanconfig [hash], depends [hash] *** EXPERIMENTAL +FEATURE ***, disabled [boolean], features [array] *** EXPERIMENTAL FEATURE +***, goto [string], install [hash], make [hash], match [hash], patches +[array], pl [hash], test [hash] + +=item Processing Instructions + +args [array], commandline, eexpect [hash], env [hash], expect [array] + +=item Schema verification with C<Kwalify> + +=item Example Distroprefs Files + +=back + +=item PROGRAMMER'S INTERFACE + +expand($type,@things), expandany(@things), Programming Examples + +=over 4 + +=item Methods in the other Classes + +CPAN::Author::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Author::as_string(), +CPAN::Author::email(), CPAN::Author::fullname(), CPAN::Author::name(), +CPAN::Bundle::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Bundle::as_string(), +CPAN::Bundle::clean(), CPAN::Bundle::contains(), +CPAN::Bundle::force($method,@args), CPAN::Bundle::get(), +CPAN::Bundle::inst_file(), CPAN::Bundle::inst_version(), +CPAN::Bundle::uptodate(), CPAN::Bundle::install(), CPAN::Bundle::make(), +CPAN::Bundle::readme(), CPAN::Bundle::test(), +CPAN::Distribution::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Distribution::as_string(), +CPAN::Distribution::author, CPAN::Distribution::pretty_id(), +CPAN::Distribution::base_id(), CPAN::Distribution::clean(), +CPAN::Distribution::containsmods(), CPAN::Distribution::cvs_import(), +CPAN::Distribution::dir(), CPAN::Distribution::force($method,@args), +CPAN::Distribution::get(), CPAN::Distribution::install(), +CPAN::Distribution::install_tested(), CPAN::Distribution::isa_perl(), +CPAN::Distribution::look(), CPAN::Distribution::make(), +CPAN::Distribution::perldoc(), CPAN::Distribution::prefs(), +CPAN::Distribution::prereq_pm(), CPAN::Distribution::readme(), +CPAN::Distribution::reports(), CPAN::Distribution::read_yaml(), +CPAN::Distribution::test(), CPAN::Distribution::uptodate(), +CPAN::Index::force_reload(), CPAN::Index::reload(), CPAN::InfoObj::dump(), +CPAN::Module::as_glimpse(), CPAN::Module::as_string(), +CPAN::Module::clean(), CPAN::Module::cpan_file(), +CPAN::Module::cpan_version(), CPAN::Module::cvs_import(), +CPAN::Module::description(), CPAN::Module::distribution(), +CPAN::Module::dslip_status(), CPAN::Module::force($method,@args), +CPAN::Module::get(), CPAN::Module::inst_file(), +CPAN::Module::available_file(), CPAN::Module::inst_version(), +CPAN::Module::available_version(), CPAN::Module::install(), +CPAN::Module::look(), CPAN::Module::make(), +CPAN::Module::manpage_headline(), CPAN::Module::perldoc(), +CPAN::Module::readme(), CPAN::Module::reports(), CPAN::Module::test(), +CPAN::Module::uptodate(), CPAN::Module::userid() + +=item Cache Manager + +=item Bundles + +=back + +=item PREREQUISITES + +=item UTILITIES + +=over 4 + +=item Finding packages and VERSION + +=item Debugging + +o debug package.., o debug -package.., o debug all, o debug number + +=item Floppy, Zip, Offline Mode + +=item Basic Utilities for Programmers + +has_inst($module), has_usable($module), instance($module) + +=back + +=item SECURITY + +=over 4 + +=item Cryptographically signed modules + +=back + +=item EXPORT + +=item ENVIRONMENT + +=item POPULATE AN INSTALLATION WITH LOTS OF MODULES + +=item WORKING WITH CPAN.pm BEHIND FIREWALLS + +=over 4 + +=item Three basic types of firewalls + +http firewall, ftp firewall, One-way visibility, SOCKS, IP Masquerade + +=item Configuring lynx or ncftp for going through a firewall + +=back + +=item FAQ + +1), 2), 3), 4), 5), 6), 7), 8), 9), 10), 11), 12), 13), 14), 15), 16), 17), +18) + +=item COMPATIBILITY + +=over 4 + +=item OLD PERL VERSIONS + +=item CPANPLUS + +=back + +=item SECURITY ADVICE + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item LICENSE + +=item TRANSLATIONS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 CPAN::API::HOWTO - a recipe book for programming with CPAN.pm + +=over 4 + +=item RECIPES + +=over 4 + +=item What distribution contains a particular module? + +=item What modules does a particular distribution contain? + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item LICENSE + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 CPAN::Distroprefs -- read and match distroprefs + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item INTERFACE + +a CPAN::Distroprefs::Result object, C<undef>, indicating that no prefs +files remain to be found + +=item RESULTS + +=over 4 + +=item Common + +=item Errors + +=item Successes + +=back + +=item PREFS + +=item LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 CPAN::FirstTime - Utility for CPAN::Config file Initialization + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +auto_commit, build_cache, build_dir, build_dir_reuse, +build_requires_install_policy, cache_metadata, check_sigs, colorize_output, +colorize_print, colorize_warn, colorize_debug, commandnumber_in_prompt, +connect_to_internet_ok, ftp_passive, ftpstats_period, ftpstats_size, +getcwd, halt_on_failure, histfile, histsize, inactivity_timeout, +index_expire, inhibit_startup_message, keep_source_where, +load_module_verbosity, makepl_arg, make_arg, make_install_arg, +make_install_make_command, mbuildpl_arg, mbuild_arg, mbuild_install_arg, +mbuild_install_build_command, pager, prefer_installer, prefs_dir, +prerequisites_policy, randomize_urllist, scan_cache, shell, +show_unparsable_versions, show_upload_date, show_zero_versions, +tar_verbosity, term_is_latin, term_ornaments, test_report, +perl5lib_verbosity, trust_test_report_history, use_sqlite, yaml_load_code, +yaml_module + +=over 4 + +=item LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 CPAN::Kwalify - Interface between CPAN.pm and Kwalify.pm + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +_validate($schema_name, $data, $file, $doc), yaml($schema_name) + +=item AUTHOR + +=item LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 CPAN::Version - utility functions to compare CPAN versions + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUS - API & CLI access to the CPAN mirrors + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item GUIDE TO DOCUMENTATION + +=over 4 + +=item GENERAL USAGE + +=item API REFERENCE + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item COMMANDLINE TOOLS + +=over 4 + +=item STARTING AN INTERACTIVE SHELL + +=item BUILDING PACKAGES + +=item $bool = install( Module::Name | /A/AU/AUTHOR/Module-Name-1.tgz ) + +=item $where = fetch( Module::Name | /A/AU/AUTHOR/Module-Name-1.tgz ) + +=item $where = get( Module::Name | /A/AU/AUTHOR/Module-Name-1.tgz ) + +=item shell() + +=back + +=item FAQ + +=item BUG REPORTS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item CONTACT INFORMATION + +Bug reporting: I<bug-cpanplus@rt.cpan.org>, Questions & suggestions: +I<cpanplus-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUS::Backend + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item ENVIRONMENT + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item $cb = CPANPLUS::Backend->new( [CONFIGURE_OBJ] ) + +Provide a valid C<CPANPLUS::Configure> object, No arguments + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $href = $cb->module_tree( [@modules_names_list] ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $href = $cb->author_tree( [@author_names_list] ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $conf = $cb->configure_object; + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $su = $cb->selfupdate_object; + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item @mods = $cb->search( type => TYPE, allow => AREF, [data => AREF, +verbose => BOOL] ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $backend_rv = $cb->fetch( modules => \@mods ) + +=item $backend_rv = $cb->extract( modules => \@mods ) + +=item $backend_rv = $cb->install( modules => \@mods ) + +=item $backend_rv = $cb->readme( modules => \@mods ) + +=item $backend_rv = $cb->files( modules => \@mods ) + +=item $backend_rv = $cb->distributions( modules => \@mods ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $mod_obj = $cb->parse_module( module => +$modname|$distname|$modobj|URI|PATH ) + +Text::Bastardize, Text-Bastardize, Text-Bastardize-1.06, +AYRNIEU/Text-Bastardize, AYRNIEU/Text-Bastardize-1.06, +AYRNIEU/Text-Bastardize-1.06.tar.gz, +http://example.com/Text-Bastardize-1.06.tar.gz, +file:///tmp/Text-Bastardize-1.06.tar.gz, /tmp/Text-Bastardize-1.06, +./Text-Bastardize-1.06 + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $cb->reload_indices( [update_source => BOOL, verbose => BOOL] +); + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $cb->flush(CACHE_NAME) + +C<methods>, C<hosts>, C<modules>, C<lib>, C<load>, C<all> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item @mods = $cb->installed() + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $cb->local_mirror([path => '/dir/to/save/to', index_files => +BOOL, force => BOOL, verbose => BOOL] ) + +path, index_files, force, verbose + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $file = $cb->autobundle([path => OUTPUT_PATH, force => BOOL, verbose +=> BOOL]) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $cb->save_state + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item CUSTOM MODULE SOURCES + +=over 4 + +=item %files = $cb->list_custom_sources + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $local_index = $cb->add_custom_source( uri => URI, [verbose => BOOL] +); + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $local_index = $cb->remove_custom_source( uri => URI, [verbose => +BOOL] ); + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $cb->update_custom_source( [remote => URI] ); + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $file = $cb->write_custom_source_index( path => +/path/to/package/root, [to => /path/to/index/file, verbose => BOOL] ); + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item BUG REPORTS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUS::Backend::RV + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item new( ok => BOOL, args => DATA, rv => DATA, [function => $method_name] +) + +ok, args, rv, function + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item BUG REPORTS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUS::Config + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CONFIGURATION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Section 'conf' + +hosts + +=back + +base + +buildflags + +cpantest + +cpantest_mx + +debug + +dist_type + +email + +extractdir + +fetchdir + +flush + +force + +lib + +makeflags + +makemakerflags + +md5 + +no_update + +passive + +prefer_bin + +prefer_makefile + +prereqs + +shell + +show_startup_tip + +signature + +skiptest + +storable + +timeout + +verbose + +write_install_log + +source_engine + +cpantest_reporter_args + +editor + +make + +pager + +shell + +sudo + +perlwrapper + +=over 4 + +=item BUG REPORTS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUS::Configure + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item $Configure = CPANPLUS::Configure->new( load_configs => BOOL ) + +load_configs + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $Configure->init( [rescan => BOOL]) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item can_save( [$config_location] ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $file = $conf->save( [$package_name] ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item options( type => TYPE ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item ACCESSORS + +=over 4 + +=item get_SOMETHING( ITEM, [ITEM, ITEM, ... ] ); + +=item set_SOMETHING( ITEM => VAL, [ITEM => VAL, ITEM => VAL, ... ] ); + +=item add_SOMETHING( ITEM => VAL, [ITEM => VAL, ITEM => VAL, ... ] ); + +set|get_conf, set|get_program, _set|_get_build, _set|_get_source, +_set|_get_mirror, _set|_get_fetch + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item BUG REPORTS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUS::Dist + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item ACCESSORS + +parent(), status() + +=item STATUS ACCESSORS + +created(), installed(), uninstalled(), dist() + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $dist = CPANPLUS::Dist::YOUR_DIST_TYPE_HERE->new( module => MODOBJ ); + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item @dists = CPANPLUS::Dist->dist_types; + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = CPANPLUS::Dist->rescan_dist_types; + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = CPANPLUS::Dist->has_dist_type( $type ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $dist->prereq_satisfied( modobj => $modobj, version => +$version_spec ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $configure_requires = $dist->find_configure_requires( [file => +/path/to/META.yml] ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $dist->_resolve_prereqs( ... ) + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUS::Dist::Autobundle + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUS::Dist::Base - Base class for custom distribution classes + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item FLOW + +=item METHODS + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item @subs = $Class->methods + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $Class->format_available + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $dist->init + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $dist->prepare + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $dist->create + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $dist->install + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $dist->uninstall + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUS::Dist::Build - CPANPLUS plugin to install packages that use +Build.PL + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item ACCESSORS + +C<parent()>, C<status()> + +=item STATUS ACCESSORS + +C<build_pl ()>, C<build ()>, C<test ()>, C<prepared ()>, C<distdir ()>, +C<created ()>, C<installed ()>, uninstalled (), C<_create_args ()>, +C<_install_args ()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = CPANPLUS::Dist::Build->format_available(); + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $dist->init(); + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $dist->prepare([perl => '/path/to/perl', buildflags => +'EXTRA=FLAGS', force => BOOL, verbose => BOOL]) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $dist->create([perl => '/path/to/perl', buildflags => 'EXTRA=FLAGS', +prereq_target => TARGET, force => BOOL, verbose => BOOL, skiptest => BOOL]) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $dist->install([verbose => BOOL, perl => /path/to/perl]) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item AUTHOR + +=item LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUS::Dist::Build::Constants - Constants for +CPANPLUS::Dist::Build + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR + +=item LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUS::Dist::MM + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item ACCESSORS + +parent(), status() + +=item STATUS ACCESSORS + +makefile (), make (), test (), prepared (), distdir (), created (), +installed (), uninstalled (), _create_args (), _install_args () + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $dist->format_available(); + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $href = $dist->_find_prereqs( file => '/path/to/Makefile', [verbose +=> BOOL]) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $dist->create([perl => '/path/to/perl', make => +'/path/to/make', makeflags => 'EXTRA=FLAGS', prereq_target => TARGET, +skiptest => BOOL, force => BOOL, verbose => BOOL]) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $dist->install([make => '/path/to/make', makemakerflags => +'EXTRA=FLAGS', force => BOOL, verbose => BOOL]) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $dist->write_makefile_pl([force => BOOL, verbose => BOOL]) + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUS::Dist::Sample -- Sample code to create your own Dist::* +plugin + +=over 4 + +=item Description. + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUS::Error + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item FUNCTIONS + +=over 4 + +=item cp_msg("message string" [,VERBOSE]) + +=item msg() + +=item cp_error("error string" [,VERBOSE]) + +=item error() + +=back + +=item CLASS METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item CPANPLUS::Error->stack() + +=item CPANPLUS::Error->stack_as_string([TRACE]) + +=item CPANPLUS::Error->flush() + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item GLOBAL VARIABLES + +$ERROR_FH, $MSG_FH + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUS::FAQ + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item BUG REPORTS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUS::Hacking + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OBTAINING CPANPLUS + +=item INSTALLING CPANPLUS + +=item CONFIGURING CPANPLUS + +=item RUNNING CPANPLUS FROM DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT + +=item RUNNING CPANPLUS TESTS + +=item FINDING BUGS + +Problem description, Program demonstrating the bug, [OPTIONAL] A patch to +the test suite to test for the bug, [OPTIONAL] A patch to the code + tests ++ documentation + +=item SUPPLYING PATCHES + +In C<diff -u> or C<diff -c> format, From the root of the snapshot, +Including patches for code + tests + docs, Sent per mail to +cpanplus-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, With subject containing C<[PATCH]> + +description of the patch + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUS::Internals + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item ACCESSORS + +_conf, _id + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item $internals = CPANPLUS::Internals->_init( _conf => CONFIG_OBJ ) + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $internals->_flush( list => \@caches ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $internals->_register_callback( name => CALLBACK_NAME, code +=> CODEREF ); + +install_prerequisite, send_test_report, munge_test_report, +edit_test_report, proceed_on_test_failure, munge_dist_metafile + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $internals->_add_to_includepath( directories => \@dirs ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $id = CPANPLUS::Internals->_last_id + +=item $id = CPANPLUS::Internals->_store_id( $internals ) + +=item $obj = CPANPLUS::Internals->_retrieve_id( $ID ) + +=item CPANPLUS::Internals->_remove_id( $ID ) + +=item @objs = CPANPLUS::Internals->_return_all_objects + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUS::Internals::Extract + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item $dir = _extract( module => $modobj, [perl => '/path/to/perl', +extractdir => '/path/to/extract/to', prefer_bin => BOOL, verbose => BOOL, +force => BOOL] ) + +module, extractdir, prefer_bin, perl, verbose, force + +=back + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUS::Internals::Fetch + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $path = _fetch( module => $modobj, [fetchdir => '/path/to/save/to', +fetch_from => 'scheme://path/to/fetch/from', verbose => BOOL, force => +BOOL, prefer_bin => BOOL, ttl => $seconds] ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item _add_fail_host( host => $host_hashref ) + +=item _host_ok( host => $host_hashref ) + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUS::Internals::Report + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $cb->_have_query_report_modules + +=item $bool = $cb->_have_send_report_modules + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item @list = $cb->_query_report( module => $modobj, [all_versions => BOOL, +verbose => BOOL] ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $cb->_send_report( module => $modobj, buffer => $make_output, +failed => BOOL, [save => BOOL, address => $email_to, verbose => BOOL, force +=> BOOL]); + +module, buffer, failed, save, address, verbose, force + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUS::Internals::Search + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item _search_module_tree( type => TYPE, allow => \@regexes, [data => +\@previous_results ] ) + +type, allow, data + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item _search_author_tree( type => TYPE, allow => \@regexex, [data => +\@previous_results ] ) + +type, allow, data + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item _all_installed() + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUS::Internals::Source + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $cb->_build_trees( uptodate => BOOL, [use_stored => BOOL, path => +$path, verbose => BOOL] ) + +uptodate, path, verbose, use_stored + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $cb->_check_trees( [update_source => BOOL, path => PATH, verbose => +BOOL] ) + +update_source, path, verbose + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $cb->__check_uptodate( file => $file, name => $name, [update_source +=> BOOL, verbose => BOOL] ) + +file, name, update_source, verbose + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $cb->_update_source( name => $name, [path => $path, verbose => BOOL] +) + +name, path, verbose + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $cb->__create_author_tree([path => $path, uptodate => BOOL, verbose +=> BOOL]) + +uptodate, path, verbose + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $cb->_create_mod_tree([path => $path, uptodate => BOOL, verbose => +BOOL]) + +uptodate, path, verbose + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $cb->__create_dslip_tree([path => $path, uptodate => BOOL, verbose => +BOOL]) + +uptodate, path, verbose + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $cb->_dslip_defs () + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $file = $cb->_add_custom_module_source( uri => URI, [verbose => BOOL] +); + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $index = $cb->__custom_module_source_index_file( uri => $uri ); + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $file = $cb->_remove_custom_module_source( uri => URI, [verbose => +BOOL] ); + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item %files = $cb->__list_custom_module_sources + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $cb->__update_custom_module_sources( [verbose => BOOL] ); + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $ok = $cb->__update_custom_module_source + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $cb->__write_custom_module_index( path => /path/to/packages, +[to => /path/to/index/file, verbose => BOOL] ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $cb->__create_custom_module_entries( [verbose => BOOL] ) + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUS::Internals::Source::Memory - In memory implementation + +=over 4 + +=item $cb->__memory_retrieve_source(name => $name, [path => $path, uptodate +=> BOOL, verbose => BOOL]) + +name, uptodate, path, verbose + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $cb->__memory_save_source([verbose => BOOL, path => $path]) + +path, verbose + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUS::Internals::Source::SQLite - SQLite implementation + +=head2 CPANPLUS::Internals::Utils + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item $cb->_mkdir( dir => '/some/dir' ) + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $cb->_chdir( dir => '/some/dir' ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $cb->_rmdir( dir => '/some/dir' ); + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $cb->_perl_version ( perl => 'some/perl/binary' ); + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $cb->_version_to_number( version => $version ); + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $cb->_whoami + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item _get_file_contents( file => $file ); + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $cb->_mode_plus_w( file => '/path/to/file' ); + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $uri = $cb->_host_to_uri( scheme => SCHEME, host => HOST, path => +PATH ); + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $cb->_vcmp( VERSION, VERSION ); + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $cb->_home_dir + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $path = $cb->_safe_path( path => $path ); + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item ($pkg, $version, $ext) = $cb->_split_package_string( package => +PACKAGE_STRING ); + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUS::Module + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item CLASS METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item accessors () + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item ACCESSORS + +name, module, version, path, comment, package, description, dslip + +=back + +status, author, parent + +=over 4 + +=item STATUS ACCESSORS + +installer_type, dist_cpan, dist, prereqs | requires, configure_requires, +signature, extract, fetch, readme, uninstall, created, installed, +checksums, checksum_ok, checksum_value + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item $self = CPANPLUS::Module->new( OPTIONS ) + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $mod->package_name( [$package_string] ) + +=item $mod->package_version( [$package_string] ) + +=item $mod->package_extension( [$package_string] ) + +=item $mod->package_is_perl_core + +=item $mod->module_is_supplied_with_perl_core( [version => $]] ) + +=item $mod->is_bundle + +=item $mod->is_autobundle; + +=item $mod->is_third_party + +=item $mod->third_party_information + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $clone = $self->clone + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $where = $self->fetch + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $path = $self->extract + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $type = $self->get_installer_type([prefer_makefile => BOOL]) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $dist = $self->dist([target => 'prepare|create', format => +DISTRIBUTION_TYPE, args => {key => val}]); + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $mod->prepare( ) + +Convenience method around C<install()> that prepares a module +without actually building it. This is equivalent to invoking C<install> +with C<target> set to C<prepare> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $mod->create( ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $mod->test( ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $self->install([ target => 'init|prepare|create|install', +format => FORMAT_TYPE, extractdir => DIRECTORY, fetchdir => DIRECTORY, +prefer_bin => BOOL, force => BOOL, verbose => BOOL, ..... ]); + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $text = $self->readme + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $version = $self->installed_version() + +=item $where = $self->installed_file() + +=item $dir = $self->installed_dir() + +=item $bool = $self->is_uptodate([version => VERSION_NUMBER]) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $href = $self->details() + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item @list = $self->contains() + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item @list_of_hrefs = $self->fetch_report() + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $self->uninstall([type => [all|man|prog]) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item @modobj = $self->distributions() + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item @list = $self->files () + +=item @list = $self->directory_tree () + +=item @list = $self->packlist () + +=item @list = $self->validate () + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $self->add_to_includepath; + +=item $path = $self->best_path_to_module_build(); + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item BUG REPORTS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUS::Module::Author + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item ACCESSORS + +author, cpanid, email, parent + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item $auth = CPANPLUS::Module::Author->new( author => AUTHOR_NAME, cpanid +=> CPAN_ID, _id => INTERNALS_ID [, email => AUTHOR_EMAIL] ) + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item @mod_objs = $auth->modules() + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item @dists = $auth->distributions() + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item CLASS METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item accessors () + +=back + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUS::Module::Author::Fake + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item new( _id => DIGIT ) + +=back + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUS::Module::Checksums + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item $mod->checksums + +=back + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUS::Module::Fake + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item new( module => $mod, path => $path, package => $pkg, [_id => DIGIT] ) + +=back + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUSelfupdate, CPANPLUS::Selfupdate + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item $self = CPANPLUS::Selfupdate->new( $backend_object ); + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item %list = $self->list_modules_to_update( update => +"core|dependencies|enabled_features|features|all", [latest => BOOL] ) + +List which modules C<selfupdate> would upgrade. You can update either +the core (CPANPLUS itself), the core dependencies, all features you have +currently turned on, or all features available, or everything. + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item @features = $self->list_features + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item @features = $self->list_enabled_features + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item @mods = $self->modules_for_feature( FEATURE [,AS_HASH] ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item @mods = $self->list_core_dependencies( [AS_HASH] ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item @mods = $self->list_core_modules( [AS_HASH] ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item CPANPLUS::Selfupdate::Module + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $version = $mod->version_required + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $mod->is_installed_version_sufficient + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item BUG REPORTS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUShell, CPANPLUS::Shell + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item BUG REPORTS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUShell::Classic, CPANPLUS::Shell::Classic - CPAN.pm emulation +for CPANPLUS + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item BUG REPORTS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUShell::Default, CPANPLUS::Shell::Default + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item BUG REPORTS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUShell::Default::Plugins::CustomSource, +CPANPLUS::Shell::Default::Plugins::CustomSource + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + + ### elaborate help text + CPAN Terminal> /? cs + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUShell::Default::Plugins::HOWTO, +CPANPLUS::Shell::Default::Plugins::HOWTO -- documentation on how to write +your own plugins + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item HOWTO + +=over 4 + +=item Registering Plugin Modules + +=item Registering Plugin Commands + +=item Registering Plugin Help + +=item Arguments to Plugin Commands + +Classname -- The name of your plugin class, Shell -- The +CPANPLUS::Shell::Default object, Backend -- The CPANPLUS::Backend object, +Command -- The command issued by the user, Input -- The input string +from the user, Options -- A hashref of options provided by the user + +=back + +=item BUG REPORTS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUShell::Default::Plugins::Remote, +CPANPLUS::Shell::Default::Plugins::Remote + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item BUG REPORTS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 CPANPLUShell::Default::Plugins::Source, +CPANPLUS::Shell::Default::Plugins::Source + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item BUG REPORTS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 CPANox, CPAN::Nox - Wrapper around CPAN.pm without using any XS +module + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item LICENSE + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Carp, carp - warn of errors (from perspective of caller) + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Forcing a Stack Trace + +=back + +=item GLOBAL VARIABLES + +=over 4 + +=item $Carp::MaxEvalLen + +=item $Carp::MaxArgLen + +=item $Carp::MaxArgNums + +=item $Carp::Verbose + +=item %Carp::Internal + +=item %Carp::CarpInternal + +=item $Carp::CarpLevel + +=back + +=item BUGS + +=back + +=head2 Carp::Heavy - heavy machinery, no user serviceable parts inside + +=head2 Class::ISA -- report the search path for a class's ISA tree + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item FUNCTIONS + +the function Class::ISA::super_path($CLASS), the function +Class::ISA::self_and_super_path($CLASS), the function +Class::ISA::self_and_super_versions($CLASS) + +=item CAUTIONARY NOTES + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Class::Struct - declare struct-like datatypes as Perl classes + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item The C<struct()> function + +=item Class Creation at Compile Time + +=item Element Types and Accessor Methods + +Scalar (C<'$'> or C<'*$'>), Array (C<'@'> or C<'*@'>), Hash (C<'%'> or +C<'*%'>), Class (C<'Class_Name'> or C<'*Class_Name'>) + +=item Initializing with C<new> + +=back + +=item EXAMPLES + +Example 1, Example 2, Example 3 + +=item Author and Modification History + +=back + +=head2 Compress-Raw-Bzip2::lib::Compress::Raw::Bzip2, Compress::Raw::Bzip2 +- Low-Level Interface to bzip2 compression library + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Compression + +=over 4 + +=item ($z, $status) = new Compress::Raw::Bzip2 $appendOutput, +$blockSize100k, $workfactor; + +B<$appendOutput>, B<$blockSize100k>, B<$workfactor> + +=item $status = $bz->bzdeflate($input, $output); + +=item $status = $bz->bzflush($output); + +=item $status = $bz->bzclose($output); + +=item Example + +=back + +=item Uncompression + +=over 4 + +=item ($z, $status) = new Compress::Raw::Bunzip2 $appendOutput, +$consumeInput, $small, $limitOutput; + +B<$appendOutput>, B<$consumeInput>, B<$small>, B<$limitOutput> + +=item $status = $z->bzinflate($input, $output); + +=back + +=item Misc + +=over 4 + +=item my $version = Compress::Raw::Bzip2::bzlibversion(); + +=back + +=item Constants + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 Compress-Raw-Bzip2::pod::FAQ, Compress::Raw::Bzip2::FAQ -- +Frequently Asked Questions about Compress::Raw::Bzip2 + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Compatibility with Unix compress/uncompress. + +=item Accessing .tar.Z files + +=item Accessing Zip Files + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 Compress-Raw-Zlib::Compress::Raw::Zlib, Compress::Raw::Zlib - +Low-Level Interface to zlib compression library + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Compress::Raw::Zlib::Deflate + +=over 4 + +=item B<($d, $status) = new Compress::Raw::Zlib::Deflate( [OPT] ) > + +B<-Level>, B<-Method>, B<-WindowBits>, B<-MemLevel>, B<-Strategy>, +B<-Dictionary>, B<-Bufsize>, B<-AppendOutput>, B<-CRC32>, B<-ADLER32> + +=item B<$status = $d-E<gt>deflate($input, $output)> + +=item B<$status = $d-E<gt>flush($output [, $flush_type]) > + +=item B<$status = $d-E<gt>deflateReset() > + +=item B<$status = $d-E<gt>deflateParams([OPT])> + +B<-Level>, B<-Strategy>, B<-BufSize> + +=item B<$status = $d-E<gt>deflateTune($good_length, $max_lazy, +$nice_length, $max_chain)> + +=item B<$d-E<gt>dict_adler()> + +=item B<$d-E<gt>crc32()> + +=item B<$d-E<gt>adler32()> + +=item B<$d-E<gt>msg()> + +=item B<$d-E<gt>total_in()> + +=item B<$d-E<gt>total_out()> + +=item B<$d-E<gt>get_Strategy()> + +=item B<$d-E<gt>get_Level()> + +=item B<$d-E<gt>get_BufSize()> + +=item Example + +=back + +=item Compress::Raw::Zlib::Inflate + +=over 4 + +=item B< ($i, $status) = new Compress::Raw::Zlib::Inflate( [OPT] ) > + +B<-WindowBits>, B<-Bufsize>, B<-Dictionary>, B<-AppendOutput>, B<-CRC32>, +B<-ADLER32>, B<-ConsumeInput>, B<-LimitOutput> + +=item B< $status = $i-E<gt>inflate($input, $output [,$eof]) > + +=item B<$status = $i-E<gt>inflateSync($input)> + +=item B<$i-E<gt>dict_adler()> + +=item B<$i-E<gt>crc32()> + +=item B<$i-E<gt>adler32()> + +=item B<$i-E<gt>msg()> + +=item B<$i-E<gt>total_in()> + +=item B<$i-E<gt>total_out()> + +=item B<$d-E<gt>get_BufSize()> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item CHECKSUM FUNCTIONS + +=item Misc + +=over 4 + +=item my $version = Compress::Raw::Zlib::zlib_version(); + +=back + +=item The LimitOutput option. + +=item ACCESSING ZIP FILES + +=item CONSTANTS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 Compress-Raw-Zlib::pod::FAQ, Compress::Raw::Zlib::FAQ -- Frequently +Asked Questions about Compress::Raw::Zlib + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Compatibility with Unix compress/uncompress. + +=item Accessing .tar.Z files + +=item Accessing Zip Files + +=item Zlib Library Version Support + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 Compress::Raw::Bzip2 - Low-Level Interface to bzip2 compression +library + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Compression + +=over 4 + +=item ($z, $status) = new Compress::Raw::Bzip2 $appendOutput, +$blockSize100k, $workfactor; + +B<$appendOutput>, B<$blockSize100k>, B<$workfactor> + +=item $status = $bz->bzdeflate($input, $output); + +=item $status = $bz->bzflush($output); + +=item $status = $bz->bzclose($output); + +=item Example + +=back + +=item Uncompression + +=over 4 + +=item ($z, $status) = new Compress::Raw::Bunzip2 $appendOutput, +$consumeInput, $small, $limitOutput; + +B<$appendOutput>, B<$consumeInput>, B<$small>, B<$limitOutput> + +=item $status = $z->bzinflate($input, $output); + +=back + +=item Misc + +=over 4 + +=item my $version = Compress::Raw::Bzip2::bzlibversion(); + +=back + +=item Constants + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 Compress::Raw::Zlib - Low-Level Interface to zlib compression +library + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Compress::Raw::Zlib::Deflate + +=over 4 + +=item B<($d, $status) = new Compress::Raw::Zlib::Deflate( [OPT] ) > + +B<-Level>, B<-Method>, B<-WindowBits>, B<-MemLevel>, B<-Strategy>, +B<-Dictionary>, B<-Bufsize>, B<-AppendOutput>, B<-CRC32>, B<-ADLER32> + +=item B<$status = $d-E<gt>deflate($input, $output)> + +=item B<$status = $d-E<gt>flush($output [, $flush_type]) > + +=item B<$status = $d-E<gt>deflateReset() > + +=item B<$status = $d-E<gt>deflateParams([OPT])> + +B<-Level>, B<-Strategy>, B<-BufSize> + +=item B<$status = $d-E<gt>deflateTune($good_length, $max_lazy, +$nice_length, $max_chain)> + +=item B<$d-E<gt>dict_adler()> + +=item B<$d-E<gt>crc32()> + +=item B<$d-E<gt>adler32()> + +=item B<$d-E<gt>msg()> + +=item B<$d-E<gt>total_in()> + +=item B<$d-E<gt>total_out()> + +=item B<$d-E<gt>get_Strategy()> + +=item B<$d-E<gt>get_Level()> + +=item B<$d-E<gt>get_BufSize()> + +=item Example + +=back + +=item Compress::Raw::Zlib::Inflate + +=over 4 + +=item B< ($i, $status) = new Compress::Raw::Zlib::Inflate( [OPT] ) > + +B<-WindowBits>, B<-Bufsize>, B<-Dictionary>, B<-AppendOutput>, B<-CRC32>, +B<-ADLER32>, B<-ConsumeInput>, B<-LimitOutput> + +=item B< $status = $i-E<gt>inflate($input, $output [,$eof]) > + +=item B<$status = $i-E<gt>inflateSync($input)> + +=item B<$i-E<gt>dict_adler()> + +=item B<$i-E<gt>crc32()> + +=item B<$i-E<gt>adler32()> + +=item B<$i-E<gt>msg()> + +=item B<$i-E<gt>total_in()> + +=item B<$i-E<gt>total_out()> + +=item B<$d-E<gt>get_BufSize()> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item CHECKSUM FUNCTIONS + +=item Misc + +=over 4 + +=item my $version = Compress::Raw::Zlib::zlib_version(); + +=back + +=item The LimitOutput option. + +=item ACCESSING ZIP FILES + +=item CONSTANTS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 Compress::Zlib - Interface to zlib compression library + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Notes for users of Compress::Zlib version 1 + +=back + +=item GZIP INTERFACE + +B<$gz = gzopen($filename, $mode)>, B<$gz = gzopen($filehandle, $mode)>, +B<$bytesread = $gz-E<gt>gzread($buffer [, $size]) ;>, B<$bytesread = +$gz-E<gt>gzreadline($line) ;>, B<$byteswritten = $gz-E<gt>gzwrite($buffer) +;>, B<$status = $gz-E<gt>gzflush($flush_type) ;>, B<$offset = +$gz-E<gt>gztell() ;>, B<$status = $gz-E<gt>gzseek($offset, $whence) ;>, +B<$gz-E<gt>gzclose>, B<$gz-E<gt>gzsetparams($level, $strategy>, B<$level>, +B<$strategy>, B<$gz-E<gt>gzerror>, B<$gzerrno> + +=over 4 + +=item Examples + +=item Compress::Zlib::memGzip + +=item Compress::Zlib::memGunzip + +=back + +=item COMPRESS/UNCOMPRESS + +B<$dest = compress($source [, $level] ) ;>, B<$dest = uncompress($source) +;> + +=item Deflate Interface + +=over 4 + +=item B<($d, $status) = deflateInit( [OPT] )> + +B<-Level>, B<-Method>, B<-WindowBits>, B<-MemLevel>, B<-Strategy>, +B<-Dictionary>, B<-Bufsize> + +=item B<($out, $status) = $d-E<gt>deflate($buffer)> + +=item B<($out, $status) = $d-E<gt>flush()> +=head2 B<($out, $status) = $d-E<gt>flush($flush_type)> + +=item B<$status = $d-E<gt>deflateParams([OPT])> + +B<-Level>, B<-Strategy> + +=item B<$d-E<gt>dict_adler()> + +=item B<$d-E<gt>msg()> + +=item B<$d-E<gt>total_in()> + +=item B<$d-E<gt>total_out()> + +=item Example + +=back + +=item Inflate Interface + +=over 4 + +=item B<($i, $status) = inflateInit()> + +B<-WindowBits>, B<-Bufsize>, B<-Dictionary> + +=item B<($out, $status) = $i-E<gt>inflate($buffer)> + +=item B<$status = $i-E<gt>inflateSync($buffer)> + +=item B<$i-E<gt>dict_adler()> + +=item B<$i-E<gt>msg()> + +=item B<$i-E<gt>total_in()> + +=item B<$i-E<gt>total_out()> + +=item Example + +=back + +=item CHECKSUM FUNCTIONS + +=item Misc + +=over 4 + +=item my $version = Compress::Zlib::zlib_version(); + +=back + +=item CONSTANTS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 Config - access Perl configuration information + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +myconfig(), config_sh(), config_re($regex), config_vars(@names) + +=item EXAMPLE + +=item WARNING + +=item GLOSSARY + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item _ + +=back + +C<_a>, C<_exe>, C<_o> + +=over 4 + +=item a + +=back + +C<afs>, C<afsroot>, C<alignbytes>, C<ansi2knr>, C<aphostname>, +C<api_revision>, C<api_subversion>, C<api_version>, C<api_versionstring>, +C<ar>, C<archlib>, C<archlibexp>, C<archname>, C<archname64>, C<archobjs>, +C<asctime_r_proto>, C<awk> + +=over 4 + +=item b + +=back + +C<baserev>, C<bash>, C<bin>, C<binexp>, C<bison>, C<byacc>, C<byteorder> + +=over 4 + +=item c + +=back + +C<c>, C<castflags>, C<cat>, C<cc>, C<cccdlflags>, C<ccdlflags>, C<ccflags>, +C<ccflags_uselargefiles>, C<ccname>, C<ccsymbols>, C<ccversion>, C<cf_by>, +C<cf_email>, C<cf_time>, C<chgrp>, C<chmod>, C<chown>, C<clocktype>, +C<comm>, C<compress>, C<contains>, C<cp>, C<cpio>, C<cpp>, C<cpp_stuff>, +C<cppccsymbols>, C<cppflags>, C<cpplast>, C<cppminus>, C<cpprun>, +C<cppstdin>, C<cppsymbols>, C<crypt_r_proto>, C<cryptlib>, C<csh>, +C<ctermid_r_proto>, C<ctime_r_proto> + +=over 4 + +=item d + +=back + +C<d__fwalk>, C<d_access>, C<d_accessx>, C<d_aintl>, C<d_alarm>, +C<d_archlib>, C<d_asctime64>, C<d_asctime_r>, C<d_atolf>, C<d_atoll>, +C<d_attribute_deprecated>, C<d_attribute_format>, C<d_attribute_malloc>, +C<d_attribute_nonnull>, C<d_attribute_noreturn>, C<d_attribute_pure>, +C<d_attribute_unused>, C<d_attribute_warn_unused_result>, C<d_bcmp>, +C<d_bcopy>, C<d_bsd>, C<d_bsdgetpgrp>, C<d_bsdsetpgrp>, +C<d_builtin_choose_expr>, C<d_builtin_expect>, C<d_bzero>, +C<d_c99_variadic_macros>, C<d_casti32>, C<d_castneg>, C<d_charvspr>, +C<d_chown>, C<d_chroot>, C<d_chsize>, C<d_class>, C<d_clearenv>, +C<d_closedir>, C<d_cmsghdr_s>, C<d_const>, C<d_copysignl>, C<d_cplusplus>, +C<d_crypt>, C<d_crypt_r>, C<d_csh>, C<d_ctermid>, C<d_ctermid_r>, +C<d_ctime64>, C<d_ctime_r>, C<d_cuserid>, C<d_dbl_dig>, C<d_dbminitproto>, +C<d_difftime>, C<d_difftime64>, C<d_dir_dd_fd>, C<d_dirfd>, C<d_dirnamlen>, +C<d_dlerror>, C<d_dlopen>, C<d_dlsymun>, C<d_dosuid>, C<d_drand48_r>, +C<d_drand48proto>, C<d_dup2>, C<d_eaccess>, C<d_endgrent>, C<d_endgrent_r>, +C<d_endhent>, C<d_endhostent_r>, C<d_endnent>, C<d_endnetent_r>, +C<d_endpent>, C<d_endprotoent_r>, C<d_endpwent>, C<d_endpwent_r>, +C<d_endsent>, C<d_endservent_r>, C<d_eofnblk>, C<d_eunice>, C<d_faststdio>, +C<d_fchdir>, C<d_fchmod>, C<d_fchown>, C<d_fcntl>, C<d_fcntl_can_lock>, +C<d_fd_macros>, C<d_fd_set>, C<d_fds_bits>, C<d_fgetpos>, C<d_finite>, +C<d_finitel>, C<d_flexfnam>, C<d_flock>, C<d_flockproto>, C<d_fork>, +C<d_fp_class>, C<d_fpathconf>, C<d_fpclass>, C<d_fpclassify>, +C<d_fpclassl>, C<d_fpos64_t>, C<d_frexpl>, C<d_fs_data_s>, C<d_fseeko>, +C<d_fsetpos>, C<d_fstatfs>, C<d_fstatvfs>, C<d_fsync>, C<d_ftello>, +C<d_ftime>, C<d_futimes>, C<d_Gconvert>, C<d_gdbm_ndbm_h_uses_prototypes>, +C<d_gdbmndbm_h_uses_prototypes>, C<d_getaddrinfo>, C<d_getcwd>, +C<d_getespwnam>, C<d_getfsstat>, C<d_getgrent>, C<d_getgrent_r>, +C<d_getgrgid_r>, C<d_getgrnam_r>, C<d_getgrps>, C<d_gethbyaddr>, +C<d_gethbyname>, C<d_gethent>, C<d_gethname>, C<d_gethostbyaddr_r>, +C<d_gethostbyname_r>, C<d_gethostent_r>, C<d_gethostprotos>, +C<d_getitimer>, C<d_getlogin>, C<d_getlogin_r>, C<d_getmnt>, +C<d_getmntent>, C<d_getnameinfo>, C<d_getnbyaddr>, C<d_getnbyname>, +C<d_getnent>, C<d_getnetbyaddr_r>, C<d_getnetbyname_r>, C<d_getnetent_r>, +C<d_getnetprotos>, C<d_getpagsz>, C<d_getpbyname>, C<d_getpbynumber>, +C<d_getpent>, C<d_getpgid>, C<d_getpgrp>, C<d_getpgrp2>, C<d_getppid>, +C<d_getprior>, C<d_getprotobyname_r>, C<d_getprotobynumber_r>, +C<d_getprotoent_r>, C<d_getprotoprotos>, C<d_getprpwnam>, C<d_getpwent>, +C<d_getpwent_r>, C<d_getpwnam_r>, C<d_getpwuid_r>, C<d_getsbyname>, +C<d_getsbyport>, C<d_getsent>, C<d_getservbyname_r>, C<d_getservbyport_r>, +C<d_getservent_r>, C<d_getservprotos>, C<d_getspnam>, C<d_getspnam_r>, +C<d_gettimeod>, C<d_gmtime64>, C<d_gmtime_r>, C<d_gnulibc>, C<d_grpasswd>, +C<d_hasmntopt>, C<d_htonl>, C<d_ilogbl>, C<d_inc_version_list>, C<d_index>, +C<d_inetaton>, C<d_inetntop>, C<d_inetpton>, C<d_int64_t>, C<d_isascii>, +C<d_isfinite>, C<d_isinf>, C<d_isnan>, C<d_isnanl>, C<d_killpg>, +C<d_lchown>, C<d_ldbl_dig>, C<d_libm_lib_version>, C<d_link>, +C<d_localtime64>, C<d_localtime_r>, C<d_localtime_r_needs_tzset>, +C<d_locconv>, C<d_lockf>, C<d_longdbl>, C<d_longlong>, C<d_lseekproto>, +C<d_lstat>, C<d_madvise>, C<d_malloc_good_size>, C<d_malloc_size>, +C<d_mblen>, C<d_mbstowcs>, C<d_mbtowc>, C<d_memchr>, C<d_memcmp>, +C<d_memcpy>, C<d_memmove>, C<d_memset>, C<d_mkdir>, C<d_mkdtemp>, +C<d_mkfifo>, C<d_mkstemp>, C<d_mkstemps>, C<d_mktime>, C<d_mktime64>, +C<d_mmap>, C<d_modfl>, C<d_modfl_pow32_bug>, C<d_modflproto>, +C<d_mprotect>, C<d_msg>, C<d_msg_ctrunc>, C<d_msg_dontroute>, C<d_msg_oob>, +C<d_msg_peek>, C<d_msg_proxy>, C<d_msgctl>, C<d_msgget>, C<d_msghdr_s>, +C<d_msgrcv>, C<d_msgsnd>, C<d_msync>, C<d_munmap>, C<d_mymalloc>, +C<d_ndbm>, C<d_ndbm_h_uses_prototypes>, C<d_nice>, C<d_nl_langinfo>, +C<d_nv_preserves_uv>, C<d_nv_zero_is_allbits_zero>, C<d_off64_t>, +C<d_old_pthread_create_joinable>, C<d_oldpthreads>, C<d_oldsock>, +C<d_open3>, C<d_pathconf>, C<d_pause>, C<d_perl_otherlibdirs>, +C<d_phostname>, C<d_pipe>, C<d_poll>, C<d_portable>, C<d_PRId64>, +C<d_PRIeldbl>, C<d_PRIEUldbl>, C<d_PRIfldbl>, C<d_PRIFUldbl>, +C<d_PRIgldbl>, C<d_PRIGUldbl>, C<d_PRIi64>, C<d_printf_format_null>, +C<d_PRIo64>, C<d_PRIu64>, C<d_PRIx64>, C<d_PRIXU64>, C<d_procselfexe>, +C<d_pseudofork>, C<d_pthread_atfork>, C<d_pthread_attr_setscope>, +C<d_pthread_yield>, C<d_pwage>, C<d_pwchange>, C<d_pwclass>, +C<d_pwcomment>, C<d_pwexpire>, C<d_pwgecos>, C<d_pwpasswd>, C<d_pwquota>, +C<d_qgcvt>, C<d_quad>, C<d_random_r>, C<d_readdir>, C<d_readdir64_r>, +C<d_readdir_r>, C<d_readlink>, C<d_readv>, C<d_recvmsg>, C<d_rename>, +C<d_rewinddir>, C<d_rmdir>, C<d_safebcpy>, C<d_safemcpy>, C<d_sanemcmp>, +C<d_sbrkproto>, C<d_scalbnl>, C<d_sched_yield>, C<d_scm_rights>, +C<d_SCNfldbl>, C<d_seekdir>, C<d_select>, C<d_sem>, C<d_semctl>, +C<d_semctl_semid_ds>, C<d_semctl_semun>, C<d_semget>, C<d_semop>, +C<d_sendmsg>, C<d_setegid>, C<d_seteuid>, C<d_setgrent>, C<d_setgrent_r>, +C<d_setgrps>, C<d_sethent>, C<d_sethostent_r>, C<d_setitimer>, +C<d_setlinebuf>, C<d_setlocale>, C<d_setlocale_r>, C<d_setnent>, +C<d_setnetent_r>, C<d_setpent>, C<d_setpgid>, C<d_setpgrp>, C<d_setpgrp2>, +C<d_setprior>, C<d_setproctitle>, C<d_setprotoent_r>, C<d_setpwent>, +C<d_setpwent_r>, C<d_setregid>, C<d_setresgid>, C<d_setresuid>, +C<d_setreuid>, C<d_setrgid>, C<d_setruid>, C<d_setsent>, C<d_setservent_r>, +C<d_setsid>, C<d_setvbuf>, C<d_sfio>, C<d_shm>, C<d_shmat>, +C<d_shmatprototype>, C<d_shmctl>, C<d_shmdt>, C<d_shmget>, C<d_sigaction>, +C<d_signbit>, C<d_sigprocmask>, C<d_sigsetjmp>, C<d_sitearch>, +C<d_snprintf>, C<d_sockatmark>, C<d_sockatmarkproto>, C<d_socket>, +C<d_socklen_t>, C<d_sockpair>, C<d_socks5_init>, +C<d_sprintf_returns_strlen>, C<d_sqrtl>, C<d_srand48_r>, C<d_srandom_r>, +C<d_sresgproto>, C<d_sresuproto>, C<d_statblks>, C<d_statfs_f_flags>, +C<d_statfs_s>, C<d_statvfs>, C<d_stdio_cnt_lval>, C<d_stdio_ptr_lval>, +C<d_stdio_ptr_lval_nochange_cnt>, C<d_stdio_ptr_lval_sets_cnt>, +C<d_stdio_stream_array>, C<d_stdiobase>, C<d_stdstdio>, C<d_strchr>, +C<d_strcoll>, C<d_strctcpy>, C<d_strerrm>, C<d_strerror>, C<d_strerror_r>, +C<d_strftime>, C<d_strlcat>, C<d_strlcpy>, C<d_strtod>, C<d_strtol>, +C<d_strtold>, C<d_strtoll>, C<d_strtoq>, C<d_strtoul>, C<d_strtoull>, +C<d_strtouq>, C<d_strxfrm>, C<d_suidsafe>, C<d_symlink>, C<d_syscall>, +C<d_syscallproto>, C<d_sysconf>, C<d_sysernlst>, C<d_syserrlst>, +C<d_system>, C<d_tcgetpgrp>, C<d_tcsetpgrp>, C<d_telldir>, +C<d_telldirproto>, C<d_time>, C<d_timegm>, C<d_times>, C<d_tm_tm_gmtoff>, +C<d_tm_tm_zone>, C<d_tmpnam_r>, C<d_truncate>, C<d_ttyname_r>, C<d_tzname>, +C<d_u32align>, C<d_ualarm>, C<d_umask>, C<d_uname>, C<d_union_semun>, +C<d_unordered>, C<d_unsetenv>, C<d_usleep>, C<d_usleepproto>, C<d_ustat>, +C<d_vendorarch>, C<d_vendorbin>, C<d_vendorlib>, C<d_vendorscript>, +C<d_vfork>, C<d_void_closedir>, C<d_voidsig>, C<d_voidtty>, C<d_volatile>, +C<d_vprintf>, C<d_vsnprintf>, C<d_wait4>, C<d_waitpid>, C<d_wcstombs>, +C<d_wctomb>, C<d_writev>, C<d_xenix>, C<date>, C<db_hashtype>, +C<db_prefixtype>, C<db_version_major>, C<db_version_minor>, +C<db_version_patch>, C<defvoidused>, C<direntrytype>, C<dlext>, C<dlsrc>, +C<doublesize>, C<drand01>, C<drand48_r_proto>, C<dtrace>, C<dynamic_ext> + +=over 4 + +=item e + +=back + +C<eagain>, C<ebcdic>, C<echo>, C<egrep>, C<emacs>, C<endgrent_r_proto>, +C<endhostent_r_proto>, C<endnetent_r_proto>, C<endprotoent_r_proto>, +C<endpwent_r_proto>, C<endservent_r_proto>, C<eunicefix>, C<exe_ext>, +C<expr>, C<extensions>, C<extern_C>, C<extras> + +=over 4 + +=item f + +=back + +C<fflushall>, C<fflushNULL>, C<find>, C<firstmakefile>, C<flex>, +C<fpossize>, C<fpostype>, C<freetype>, C<from>, C<full_ar>, C<full_csh>, +C<full_sed> + +=over 4 + +=item g + +=back + +C<gccansipedantic>, C<gccosandvers>, C<gccversion>, C<getgrent_r_proto>, +C<getgrgid_r_proto>, C<getgrnam_r_proto>, C<gethostbyaddr_r_proto>, +C<gethostbyname_r_proto>, C<gethostent_r_proto>, C<getlogin_r_proto>, +C<getnetbyaddr_r_proto>, C<getnetbyname_r_proto>, C<getnetent_r_proto>, +C<getprotobyname_r_proto>, C<getprotobynumber_r_proto>, +C<getprotoent_r_proto>, C<getpwent_r_proto>, C<getpwnam_r_proto>, +C<getpwuid_r_proto>, C<getservbyname_r_proto>, C<getservbyport_r_proto>, +C<getservent_r_proto>, C<getspnam_r_proto>, C<gidformat>, C<gidsign>, +C<gidsize>, C<gidtype>, C<glibpth>, C<gmake>, C<gmtime_r_proto>, +C<gnulibc_version>, C<grep>, C<groupcat>, C<groupstype>, C<gzip> + +=over 4 + +=item h + +=back + +C<h_fcntl>, C<h_sysfile>, C<hint>, C<hostcat>, C<html1dir>, C<html1direxp>, +C<html3dir>, C<html3direxp> + +=over 4 + +=item i + +=back + +C<i16size>, C<i16type>, C<i32size>, C<i32type>, C<i64size>, C<i64type>, +C<i8size>, C<i8type>, C<i_arpainet>, C<i_assert>, C<i_bsdioctl>, +C<i_crypt>, C<i_db>, C<i_dbm>, C<i_dirent>, C<i_dld>, C<i_dlfcn>, +C<i_fcntl>, C<i_float>, C<i_fp>, C<i_fp_class>, C<i_gdbm>, C<i_gdbm_ndbm>, +C<i_gdbmndbm>, C<i_grp>, C<i_ieeefp>, C<i_inttypes>, C<i_langinfo>, +C<i_libutil>, C<i_limits>, C<i_locale>, C<i_machcthr>, C<i_malloc>, +C<i_mallocmalloc>, C<i_math>, C<i_memory>, C<i_mntent>, C<i_ndbm>, +C<i_netdb>, C<i_neterrno>, C<i_netinettcp>, C<i_niin>, C<i_poll>, +C<i_prot>, C<i_pthread>, C<i_pwd>, C<i_rpcsvcdbm>, C<i_sfio>, C<i_sgtty>, +C<i_shadow>, C<i_socks>, C<i_stdarg>, C<i_stddef>, C<i_stdlib>, +C<i_string>, C<i_sunmath>, C<i_sysaccess>, C<i_sysdir>, C<i_sysfile>, +C<i_sysfilio>, C<i_sysin>, C<i_sysioctl>, C<i_syslog>, C<i_sysmman>, +C<i_sysmode>, C<i_sysmount>, C<i_sysndir>, C<i_sysparam>, C<i_syspoll>, +C<i_sysresrc>, C<i_syssecrt>, C<i_sysselct>, C<i_syssockio>, C<i_sysstat>, +C<i_sysstatfs>, C<i_sysstatvfs>, C<i_systime>, C<i_systimek>, +C<i_systimes>, C<i_systypes>, C<i_sysuio>, C<i_sysun>, C<i_sysutsname>, +C<i_sysvfs>, C<i_syswait>, C<i_termio>, C<i_termios>, C<i_time>, +C<i_unistd>, C<i_ustat>, C<i_utime>, C<i_values>, C<i_varargs>, +C<i_varhdr>, C<i_vfork>, C<ignore_versioned_solibs>, C<inc_version_list>, +C<inc_version_list_init>, C<incpath>, C<inews>, C<initialinstalllocation>, +C<installarchlib>, C<installbin>, C<installhtml1dir>, C<installhtml3dir>, +C<installman1dir>, C<installman3dir>, C<installprefix>, +C<installprefixexp>, C<installprivlib>, C<installscript>, +C<installsitearch>, C<installsitebin>, C<installsitehtml1dir>, +C<installsitehtml3dir>, C<installsitelib>, C<installsiteman1dir>, +C<installsiteman3dir>, C<installsitescript>, C<installstyle>, +C<installusrbinperl>, C<installvendorarch>, C<installvendorbin>, +C<installvendorhtml1dir>, C<installvendorhtml3dir>, C<installvendorlib>, +C<installvendorman1dir>, C<installvendorman3dir>, C<installvendorscript>, +C<intsize>, C<issymlink>, C<ivdformat>, C<ivsize>, C<ivtype> + +=over 4 + +=item k + +=back + +C<known_extensions>, C<ksh> + +=over 4 + +=item l + +=back + +C<ld>, C<lddlflags>, C<ldflags>, C<ldflags_uselargefiles>, C<ldlibpthname>, +C<less>, C<lib_ext>, C<libc>, C<libperl>, C<libpth>, C<libs>, C<libsdirs>, +C<libsfiles>, C<libsfound>, C<libspath>, C<libswanted>, +C<libswanted_uselargefiles>, C<line>, C<lint>, C<lkflags>, C<ln>, C<lns>, +C<localtime_r_proto>, C<locincpth>, C<loclibpth>, C<longdblsize>, +C<longlongsize>, C<longsize>, C<lp>, C<lpr>, C<ls>, C<lseeksize>, +C<lseektype> + +=over 4 + +=item m + +=back + +C<mad>, C<madlyh>, C<madlyobj>, C<madlysrc>, C<mail>, C<mailx>, C<make>, +C<make_set_make>, C<mallocobj>, C<mallocsrc>, C<malloctype>, C<man1dir>, +C<man1direxp>, C<man1ext>, C<man3dir>, C<man3direxp>, C<man3ext>, +C<mips_type>, C<mistrustnm>, C<mkdir>, C<mmaptype>, C<modetype>, C<more>, +C<multiarch>, C<mv>, C<myarchname>, C<mydomain>, C<myhostname>, C<myuname> + +=over 4 + +=item n + +=back + +C<n>, C<need_va_copy>, C<netdb_hlen_type>, C<netdb_host_type>, +C<netdb_name_type>, C<netdb_net_type>, C<nm>, C<nm_opt>, C<nm_so_opt>, +C<nonxs_ext>, C<nroff>, C<nv_overflows_integers_at>, +C<nv_preserves_uv_bits>, C<nveformat>, C<nvEUformat>, C<nvfformat>, +C<nvFUformat>, C<nvgformat>, C<nvGUformat>, C<nvsize>, C<nvtype> + +=over 4 + +=item o + +=back + +C<o_nonblock>, C<obj_ext>, C<old_pthread_create_joinable>, C<optimize>, +C<orderlib>, C<osname>, C<osvers>, C<otherlibdirs> + +=over 4 + +=item p + +=back + +C<package>, C<pager>, C<passcat>, C<patchlevel>, C<path_sep>, C<perl>, +C<perl5> + +=over 4 + +=item P + +=back + +C<PERL_API_REVISION>, C<PERL_API_SUBVERSION>, C<PERL_API_VERSION>, +C<PERL_CONFIG_SH>, C<PERL_PATCHLEVEL>, C<perl_patchlevel>, +C<PERL_REVISION>, C<PERL_SUBVERSION>, C<PERL_VERSION>, C<perladmin>, +C<perllibs>, C<perlpath>, C<pg>, C<phostname>, C<pidtype>, C<plibpth>, +C<pmake>, C<pr>, C<prefix>, C<prefixexp>, C<privlib>, C<privlibexp>, +C<procselfexe>, C<prototype>, C<ptrsize> + +=over 4 + +=item q + +=back + +C<quadkind>, C<quadtype> + +=over 4 + +=item r + +=back + +C<randbits>, C<randfunc>, C<random_r_proto>, C<randseedtype>, C<ranlib>, +C<rd_nodata>, C<readdir64_r_proto>, C<readdir_r_proto>, C<revision>, C<rm>, +C<rm_try>, C<rmail>, C<run>, C<runnm> + +=over 4 + +=item s + +=back + +C<sched_yield>, C<scriptdir>, C<scriptdirexp>, C<sed>, C<seedfunc>, +C<selectminbits>, C<selecttype>, C<sendmail>, C<setgrent_r_proto>, +C<sethostent_r_proto>, C<setlocale_r_proto>, C<setnetent_r_proto>, +C<setprotoent_r_proto>, C<setpwent_r_proto>, C<setservent_r_proto>, +C<sGMTIME_max>, C<sGMTIME_min>, C<sh>, C<shar>, C<sharpbang>, C<shmattype>, +C<shortsize>, C<shrpenv>, C<shsharp>, C<sig_count>, C<sig_name>, +C<sig_name_init>, C<sig_num>, C<sig_num_init>, C<sig_size>, C<signal_t>, +C<sitearch>, C<sitearchexp>, C<sitebin>, C<sitebinexp>, C<sitehtml1dir>, +C<sitehtml1direxp>, C<sitehtml3dir>, C<sitehtml3direxp>, C<sitelib>, +C<sitelib_stem>, C<sitelibexp>, C<siteman1dir>, C<siteman1direxp>, +C<siteman3dir>, C<siteman3direxp>, C<siteprefix>, C<siteprefixexp>, +C<sitescript>, C<sitescriptexp>, C<sizesize>, C<sizetype>, C<sleep>, +C<sLOCALTIME_max>, C<sLOCALTIME_min>, C<smail>, C<so>, C<sockethdr>, +C<socketlib>, C<socksizetype>, C<sort>, C<spackage>, C<spitshell>, +C<sPRId64>, C<sPRIeldbl>, C<sPRIEUldbl>, C<sPRIfldbl>, C<sPRIFUldbl>, +C<sPRIgldbl>, C<sPRIGUldbl>, C<sPRIi64>, C<sPRIo64>, C<sPRIu64>, +C<sPRIx64>, C<sPRIXU64>, C<srand48_r_proto>, C<srandom_r_proto>, C<src>, +C<sSCNfldbl>, C<ssizetype>, C<startperl>, C<startsh>, C<static_ext>, +C<stdchar>, C<stdio_base>, C<stdio_bufsiz>, C<stdio_cnt>, C<stdio_filbuf>, +C<stdio_ptr>, C<stdio_stream_array>, C<strerror_r_proto>, C<strings>, +C<submit>, C<subversion>, C<sysman> + +=over 4 + +=item t + +=back + +C<tail>, C<tar>, C<targetarch>, C<tbl>, C<tee>, C<test>, C<timeincl>, +C<timetype>, C<tmpnam_r_proto>, C<to>, C<touch>, C<tr>, C<trnl>, C<troff>, +C<ttyname_r_proto> + +=over 4 + +=item u + +=back + +C<u16size>, C<u16type>, C<u32size>, C<u32type>, C<u64size>, C<u64type>, +C<u8size>, C<u8type>, C<uidformat>, C<uidsign>, C<uidsize>, C<uidtype>, +C<uname>, C<uniq>, C<uquadtype>, C<use5005threads>, C<use64bitall>, +C<use64bitint>, C<usecrosscompile>, C<usedevel>, C<usedl>, C<usedtrace>, +C<usefaststdio>, C<useithreads>, C<uselargefiles>, C<uselongdouble>, +C<usemallocwrap>, C<usemorebits>, C<usemultiplicity>, C<usemymalloc>, +C<usenm>, C<useopcode>, C<useperlio>, C<useposix>, C<usereentrant>, +C<userelocatableinc>, C<usesfio>, C<useshrplib>, C<usesitecustomize>, +C<usesocks>, C<usethreads>, C<usevendorprefix>, C<usevfork>, C<usrinc>, +C<uuname>, C<uvoformat>, C<uvsize>, C<uvtype>, C<uvuformat>, C<uvxformat>, +C<uvXUformat> + +=over 4 + +=item v + +=back + +C<vendorarch>, C<vendorarchexp>, C<vendorbin>, C<vendorbinexp>, +C<vendorhtml1dir>, C<vendorhtml1direxp>, C<vendorhtml3dir>, +C<vendorhtml3direxp>, C<vendorlib>, C<vendorlib_stem>, C<vendorlibexp>, +C<vendorman1dir>, C<vendorman1direxp>, C<vendorman3dir>, +C<vendorman3direxp>, C<vendorprefix>, C<vendorprefixexp>, C<vendorscript>, +C<vendorscriptexp>, C<version>, C<version_patchlevel_string>, +C<versiononly>, C<vi>, C<voidflags> + +=over 4 + +=item x + +=back + +C<xlibpth> + +=over 4 + +=item y + +=back + +C<yacc>, C<yaccflags> + +=over 4 + +=item z + +=back + +C<zcat>, C<zip> + +=over 4 + +=item GIT DATA + +=item NOTE + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +dynamic, nonxs, static + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Cwd - get pathname of current working directory + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item getcwd and friends + +getcwd, cwd, fastcwd, fastgetcwd, getdcwd + +=item abs_path and friends + +abs_path, realpath, fast_abs_path + +=item $ENV{PWD} + +=back + +=item NOTES + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 DB - programmatic interface to the Perl debugging API + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Global Variables + + $DB::sub, %DB::sub, $DB::single, $DB::signal, $DB::trace, @DB::args, +@DB::dbline, %DB::dbline, $DB::package, $DB::filename, $DB::subname, +$DB::lineno + +=item API Methods + +CLIENT->register(), CLIENT->evalcode(STRING), CLIENT->skippkg('D::hide'), +CLIENT->run(), CLIENT->step(), CLIENT->next(), CLIENT->done() + +=item Client Callback Methods + +CLIENT->init(), CLIENT->prestop([STRING]), CLIENT->stop(), CLIENT->idle(), +CLIENT->poststop([STRING]), CLIENT->evalcode(STRING), CLIENT->cleanup(), +CLIENT->output(LIST) + +=back + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 DBM_Filter -- Filter DBM keys/values + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item What is a DBM Filter? + +=over 4 + +=item So what's new? + +=back + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item $db->Filter_Push() + +=item $db->Filter_Key_Push() + +=item $db->Filter_Value_Push() + +Filter_Push, Filter_Key_Push, Filter_Value_Push + +=item $db->Filter_Pop() + +=item $db->Filtered() + +=back + +=item Writing a Filter + +=over 4 + +=item Immediate Filters + +=item Canned Filters + +"name", params + +=back + +=item Filters Included + +utf8, encode, compress, int32, null + +=item NOTES + +=over 4 + +=item Maintain Round Trip Integrity + +=item Don't mix filtered & non-filtered data in the same database file. + +=back + +=item EXAMPLE + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 DBM_Filter::compress - filter for DBM_Filter + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 DBM_Filter::encode - filter for DBM_Filter + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 DBM_Filter::int32 - filter for DBM_Filter + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 DBM_Filter::null - filter for DBM_Filter + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 DBM_Filter::utf8 - filter for DBM_Filter + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 DB_File - Perl5 access to Berkeley DB version 1.x + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +B<DB_HASH>, B<DB_BTREE>, B<DB_RECNO> + +=over 4 + +=item Using DB_File with Berkeley DB version 2 or greater + +=item Interface to Berkeley DB + +=item Opening a Berkeley DB Database File + +=item Default Parameters + +=item In Memory Databases + +=back + +=item DB_HASH + +=over 4 + +=item A Simple Example + +=back + +=item DB_BTREE + +=over 4 + +=item Changing the BTREE sort order + +=item Handling Duplicate Keys + +=item The get_dup() Method + +=item The find_dup() Method + +=item The del_dup() Method + +=item Matching Partial Keys + +=back + +=item DB_RECNO + +=over 4 + +=item The 'bval' Option + +=item A Simple Example + +=item Extra RECNO Methods + +B<$X-E<gt>push(list) ;>, B<$value = $X-E<gt>pop ;>, B<$X-E<gt>shift>, +B<$X-E<gt>unshift(list) ;>, B<$X-E<gt>length>, B<$X-E<gt>splice(offset, +length, elements);> + +=item Another Example + +=back + +=item THE API INTERFACE + +B<$status = $X-E<gt>get($key, $value [, $flags]) ;>, B<$status = +$X-E<gt>put($key, $value [, $flags]) ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>del($key [, +$flags]) ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>fd ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>seq($key, +$value, $flags) ;>, B<$status = $X-E<gt>sync([$flags]) ;> + +=item DBM FILTERS + +B<filter_store_key>, B<filter_store_value>, B<filter_fetch_key>, +B<filter_fetch_value> + +=over 4 + +=item The Filter + +=item An Example -- the NULL termination problem. + +=item Another Example -- Key is a C int. + +=back + +=item HINTS AND TIPS + +=over 4 + +=item Locking: The Trouble with fd + +=item Safe ways to lock a database + +B<Tie::DB_Lock>, B<Tie::DB_LockFile>, B<DB_File::Lock> + +=item Sharing Databases With C Applications + +=item The untie() Gotcha + +=back + +=item COMMON QUESTIONS + +=over 4 + +=item Why is there Perl source in my database? + +=item How do I store complex data structures with DB_File? + +=item What does "Invalid Argument" mean? + +=item What does "Bareword 'DB_File' not allowed" mean? + +=back + +=item REFERENCES + +=item HISTORY + +=item BUGS + +=item AVAILABILITY + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Data-Dumper, Data::Dumper - stringified perl data structures, +suitable for both printing and C<eval> + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Methods + +I<PACKAGE>->new(I<ARRAYREF [>, I<ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Dump I<or> +I<PACKAGE>->Dump(I<ARRAYREF [>, I<ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Seen(I<[HASHREF]>), +I<$OBJ>->Values(I<[ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Names(I<[ARRAYREF]>), +I<$OBJ>->Reset + +=item Functions + +Dumper(I<LIST>) + +=item Configuration Variables or Methods + +=item Exports + +Dumper + +=back + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item BUGS + +=over 4 + +=item NOTE + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=item VERSION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Data::Dumper - stringified perl data structures, suitable for both +printing and C<eval> + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Methods + +I<PACKAGE>->new(I<ARRAYREF [>, I<ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Dump I<or> +I<PACKAGE>->Dump(I<ARRAYREF [>, I<ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Seen(I<[HASHREF]>), +I<$OBJ>->Values(I<[ARRAYREF]>), I<$OBJ>->Names(I<[ARRAYREF]>), +I<$OBJ>->Reset + +=item Functions + +Dumper(I<LIST>) + +=item Configuration Variables or Methods + +=item Exports + +Dumper + +=back + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item BUGS + +=over 4 + +=item NOTE + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=item VERSION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Devel-DProf, Devel::DProf - a Perl code profiler + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item PROFILE FORMAT + +=item AUTOLOAD + +=item ENVIRONMENT + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Devel-PPPort, Devel::PPPort - Perl/Pollution/Portability + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Why use ppport.h? + +=item How to use ppport.h + +=item Running ppport.h + +=back + +=item FUNCTIONS + +=over 4 + +=item WriteFile + +=back + +=item COMPATIBILITY + +=over 4 + +=item Provided Perl compatibility API + +=item Perl API not supported by ppport.h + +perl 5.11.0, perl 5.10.0, perl 5.9.5, perl 5.9.4, perl 5.9.3, perl 5.9.2, +perl 5.9.1, perl 5.9.0, perl 5.8.3, perl 5.8.1, perl 5.8.0, perl 5.7.3, +perl 5.7.2, perl 5.7.1, perl 5.6.1, perl 5.6.0, perl 5.005_03, perl 5.005, +perl 5.004_05, perl 5.004 + +=back + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHORS + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Devel-Peek, Devel::Peek - A data debugging tool for the XS +programmer + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Runtime debugging + +=item Memory footprint debugging + +=back + +=item EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item A simple scalar string + +=item A simple scalar number + +=item A simple scalar with an extra reference + +=item A reference to a simple scalar + +=item A reference to an array + +=item A reference to a hash + +=item Dumping a large array or hash + +=item A reference to an SV which holds a C pointer + +=item A reference to a subroutine + +=back + +=item EXPORTS + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Devel::DProf - a Perl code profiler + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item PROFILE FORMAT + +=item AUTOLOAD + +=item ENVIRONMENT + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Devel::InnerPackage - find all the inner packages of a package + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item list_packages <package name> + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYING + +=item BUGS + +=back + +=head2 Devel::PPPort - Perl/Pollution/Portability + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Why use ppport.h? + +=item How to use ppport.h + +=item Running ppport.h + +=back + +=item FUNCTIONS + +=over 4 + +=item WriteFile + +=back + +=item COMPATIBILITY + +=over 4 + +=item Provided Perl compatibility API + +=item Perl API not supported by ppport.h + +perl 5.11.0, perl 5.10.0, perl 5.9.5, perl 5.9.4, perl 5.9.3, perl 5.9.2, +perl 5.9.1, perl 5.9.0, perl 5.8.3, perl 5.8.1, perl 5.8.0, perl 5.7.3, +perl 5.7.2, perl 5.7.1, perl 5.6.1, perl 5.6.0, perl 5.005_03, perl 5.005, +perl 5.004_05, perl 5.004 + +=back + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHORS + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Devel::Peek - A data debugging tool for the XS programmer + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Runtime debugging + +=item Memory footprint debugging + +=back + +=item EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item A simple scalar string + +=item A simple scalar number + +=item A simple scalar with an extra reference + +=item A reference to a simple scalar + +=item A reference to an array + +=item A reference to a hash + +=item Dumping a large array or hash + +=item A reference to an SV which holds a C pointer + +=item A reference to a subroutine + +=back + +=item EXPORTS + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Devel::SelfStubber - generate stubs for a SelfLoading module + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head2 Digest - Modules that calculate message digests + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +I<binary>, I<hex>, I<base64> + +=item OO INTERFACE + +$ctx = Digest->XXX($arg,...), $ctx = Digest->new(XXX => $arg,...), $ctx = +Digest::XXX->new($arg,...), $other_ctx = $ctx->clone, $ctx->reset, +$ctx->add( $data ), $ctx->add( $chunk1, $chunk2, ... ), $ctx->addfile( +$io_handle ), $ctx->add_bits( $data, $nbits ), $ctx->add_bits( $bitstring +), $ctx->digest, $ctx->hexdigest, $ctx->b64digest + +=item Digest speed + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Digest-MD5, Digest::MD5 - Perl interface to the MD5 Algorithm + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item FUNCTIONS + +md5($data,...), md5_hex($data,...), md5_base64($data,...) + +=item METHODS + +$md5 = Digest::MD5->new, $md5->reset, $md5->clone, $md5->add($data,...), +$md5->addfile($io_handle), $md5->add_bits($data, $nbits), +$md5->add_bits($bitstring), $md5->digest, $md5->hexdigest, $md5->b64digest + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item AUTHORS + +=back + +=head2 Digest-SHA::lib::Digest::SHA, Digest::SHA - Perl extension for +SHA-1/224/256/384/512 + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item SYNOPSIS (HMAC-SHA) + +=item ABSTRACT + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item NIST STATEMENT ON SHA-1 + +=item PADDING OF BASE64 DIGESTS + +=item EXPORT + +=item EXPORTABLE FUNCTIONS + +B<sha1($data, ...)>, B<sha224($data, ...)>, B<sha256($data, ...)>, +B<sha384($data, ...)>, B<sha512($data, ...)>, B<sha1_hex($data, ...)>, +B<sha224_hex($data, ...)>, B<sha256_hex($data, ...)>, B<sha384_hex($data, +...)>, B<sha512_hex($data, ...)>, B<sha1_base64($data, ...)>, +B<sha224_base64($data, ...)>, B<sha256_base64($data, ...)>, +B<sha384_base64($data, ...)>, B<sha512_base64($data, ...)>, B<new($alg)>, +B<reset($alg)>, B<hashsize>, B<algorithm>, B<clone>, B<add($data, ...)>, +B<add_bits($data, $nbits)>, B<add_bits($bits)>, B<addfile(*FILE)>, +B<addfile($filename [, $mode])>, B<dump($filename)>, B<load($filename)>, +B<digest>, B<hexdigest>, B<b64digest>, B<hmac_sha1($data, $key)>, +B<hmac_sha224($data, $key)>, B<hmac_sha256($data, $key)>, +B<hmac_sha384($data, $key)>, B<hmac_sha512($data, $key)>, +B<hmac_sha1_hex($data, $key)>, B<hmac_sha224_hex($data, $key)>, +B<hmac_sha256_hex($data, $key)>, B<hmac_sha384_hex($data, $key)>, +B<hmac_sha512_hex($data, $key)>, B<hmac_sha1_base64($data, $key)>, +B<hmac_sha224_base64($data, $key)>, B<hmac_sha256_base64($data, $key)>, +B<hmac_sha384_base64($data, $key)>, B<hmac_sha512_base64($data, $key)> + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item ACKNOWLEDGMENTS + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 Digest::MD5 - Perl interface to the MD5 Algorithm + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item FUNCTIONS + +md5($data,...), md5_hex($data,...), md5_base64($data,...) + +=item METHODS + +$md5 = Digest::MD5->new, $md5->reset, $md5->clone, $md5->add($data,...), +$md5->addfile($io_handle), $md5->add_bits($data, $nbits), +$md5->add_bits($bitstring), $md5->digest, $md5->hexdigest, $md5->b64digest + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item AUTHORS + +=back + +=head2 Digest::SHA - Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/384/512 + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item SYNOPSIS (HMAC-SHA) + +=item ABSTRACT + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item NIST STATEMENT ON SHA-1 + +=item PADDING OF BASE64 DIGESTS + +=item EXPORT + +=item EXPORTABLE FUNCTIONS + +B<sha1($data, ...)>, B<sha224($data, ...)>, B<sha256($data, ...)>, +B<sha384($data, ...)>, B<sha512($data, ...)>, B<sha1_hex($data, ...)>, +B<sha224_hex($data, ...)>, B<sha256_hex($data, ...)>, B<sha384_hex($data, +...)>, B<sha512_hex($data, ...)>, B<sha1_base64($data, ...)>, +B<sha224_base64($data, ...)>, B<sha256_base64($data, ...)>, +B<sha384_base64($data, ...)>, B<sha512_base64($data, ...)>, B<new($alg)>, +B<reset($alg)>, B<hashsize>, B<algorithm>, B<clone>, B<add($data, ...)>, +B<add_bits($data, $nbits)>, B<add_bits($bits)>, B<addfile(*FILE)>, +B<addfile($filename [, $mode])>, B<dump($filename)>, B<load($filename)>, +B<digest>, B<hexdigest>, B<b64digest>, B<hmac_sha1($data, $key)>, +B<hmac_sha224($data, $key)>, B<hmac_sha256($data, $key)>, +B<hmac_sha384($data, $key)>, B<hmac_sha512($data, $key)>, +B<hmac_sha1_hex($data, $key)>, B<hmac_sha224_hex($data, $key)>, +B<hmac_sha256_hex($data, $key)>, B<hmac_sha384_hex($data, $key)>, +B<hmac_sha512_hex($data, $key)>, B<hmac_sha1_base64($data, $key)>, +B<hmac_sha224_base64($data, $key)>, B<hmac_sha256_base64($data, $key)>, +B<hmac_sha384_base64($data, $key)>, B<hmac_sha512_base64($data, $key)> + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item ACKNOWLEDGMENTS + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 Digest::base - Digest base class + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Digest::file - Calculate digests of files + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +digest_file( $file, $algorithm, [$arg,...] ), digest_file_hex( $file, +$algorithm, [$arg,...] ), digest_file_base64( $file, $algorithm, [$arg,...] +) + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 DirHandle - supply object methods for directory handles + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item NOTES + +=back + +=head2 Dumpvalue - provides screen dump of Perl data. + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Creation + +C<arrayDepth>, C<hashDepth>, C<compactDump>, C<veryCompact>, C<globPrint>, +C<dumpDBFiles>, C<dumpPackages>, C<dumpReused>, C<tick>, C<quoteHighBit>, +C<printUndef>, C<usageOnly>, unctrl, subdump, bareStringify, quoteHighBit, +stopDbSignal + +=item Methods + +dumpValue, dumpValues, stringify, dumpvars, set_quote, set_unctrl, +compactDump, veryCompact, set, get + +=back + +=back + +=head2 DynaLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +@dl_library_path, @dl_resolve_using, @dl_require_symbols, @dl_librefs, +@dl_modules, @dl_shared_objects, dl_error(), $dl_debug, dl_findfile(), +dl_expandspec(), dl_load_file(), dl_unload_file(), dl_load_flags(), +dl_find_symbol(), dl_find_symbol_anywhere(), dl_undef_symbols(), +dl_install_xsub(), bootstrap() + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 DynaLoader::XSLoader, XSLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into +Perl code + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Migration from C<DynaLoader> + +=item Backward compatible boilerplate + +=back + +=item Order of initialization: early load() + +=over 4 + +=item The most hairy case + +=back + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + +C<Can't find '%s' symbol in %s>, C<Can't load '%s' for module %s: %s>, +C<Undefined symbols present after loading %s: %s>, +C<XSLoader::load('Your::Module', $Your::Module::VERSION)> + +=item LIMITATIONS + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHORS + +=item COPYRIGHT & LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 Encode - character encodings + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=over 4 + +=item Table of Contents + +=back + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item TERMINOLOGY + +=back + +=item PERL ENCODING API + +$octets = encode(ENCODING, $string [, CHECK]), $string = decode(ENCODING, +$octets [, CHECK]), [$obj =] find_encoding(ENCODING), [$length =] +from_to($octets, FROM_ENC, TO_ENC [, CHECK]), $octets = +encode_utf8($string);, $string = decode_utf8($octets [, CHECK]); + +=over 4 + +=item Listing available encodings + +=item Defining Aliases + +=item Finding IANA Character Set Registry names + +=back + +=item Encoding via PerlIO + +=item Handling Malformed Data + +B<NOTE:> Not all encoding support this feature, I<CHECK> = +Encode::FB_DEFAULT ( == 0), I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_CROAK ( == 1), I<CHECK> = +Encode::FB_QUIET, I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_WARN, perlqq mode (I<CHECK> = +Encode::FB_PERLQQ), HTML charref mode (I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_HTMLCREF), XML +charref mode (I<CHECK> = Encode::FB_XMLCREF), The bitmask, +Encode::LEAVE_SRC + +=over 4 + +=item coderef for CHECK + +=back + +=item Defining Encodings + +=item The UTF8 flag + +Goal #1:, Goal #2:, Goal #3:, Goal #4: + +=over 4 + +=item Messing with Perl's Internals + +is_utf8(STRING [, CHECK]), _utf8_on(STRING), _utf8_off(STRING) + +=back + +=item UTF-8 vs. utf8 vs. UTF8 + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item MAINTAINER + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Encode::Alias - alias definitions to encodings + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +As a simple string, As a qr// compiled regular expression, e.g.:, As a code +reference, e.g.: + +=over 4 + +=item Alias overloading + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Encode::Byte - Single Byte Encodings + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item ABSTRACT + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Encode::CJKConstants -- Internally used by Encode::??::ISO_2022_* + +=head2 Encode::CN - China-based Chinese Encodings + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item NOTES + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Encode::CN::HZ -- internally used by Encode::CN + +=head2 Encode::Config -- internally used by Encode + +=head2 Encode::EBCDIC - EBCDIC Encodings + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item ABSTRACT + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Encode::Encoding - Encode Implementation Base Class + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Methods you should implement + +-E<gt>encode($string [,$check]), -E<gt>decode($octets [,$check]), +-E<gt>cat_decode($destination, $octets, $offset, $terminator [,$check]) + +=item Other methods defined in Encode::Encodings + +-E<gt>name, -E<gt>mime_name, -E<gt>renew, -E<gt>renewed, -E<gt>perlio_ok(), +-E<gt>needs_lines() + +=item Example: Encode::ROT13 + +=back + +=item Why the heck Encode API is different? + +=over 4 + +=item Compiled Encodings + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +Scheme 1, Scheme 2, Other Schemes + +=back + +=head2 Encode::GSM0338 -- ESTI GSM 03.38 Encoding + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item NOTES + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Encode::Guess -- Guesses encoding from data + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item ABSTRACT + +=item DESCRIPTION + +Encode::Guess->set_suspects, Encode::Guess->add_suspects, +Encode::decode("Guess" ...), Encode::Guess->guess($data), +guess_encoding($data, [, I<list of suspects>]) + +=item CAVEATS + +=item TO DO + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Encode::JP - Japanese Encodings + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item ABSTRACT + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Note on ISO-2022-JP(-1)? + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Encode::JP::H2Z -- internally used by Encode::JP::2022_JP* + +=head2 Encode::JP::JIS7 -- internally used by Encode::JP + +=head2 Encode::KR - Korean Encodings + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Encode::KR::2022_KR -- internally used by Encode::KR + +=head2 Encode::MIME::Header -- MIME 'B' and 'Q' header encoding + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item ABSTRACT + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Encode::MIME::Name, Encode::MIME::NAME -- internally used by Encode + +=over 4 + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Encode::PerlIO -- a detailed document on Encode and PerlIO + +=over 4 + +=item Overview + +=item How does it work? + +=item Line Buffering + +=over 4 + +=item How can I tell whether my encoding fully supports PerlIO ? + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Encode::Supported -- Encodings supported by Encode + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Encoding Names + +=back + +=item Supported Encodings + +=over 4 + +=item Built-in Encodings + +=item Encode::Unicode -- other Unicode encodings + +=item Encode::Byte -- Extended ASCII + +ISO-8859 and corresponding vendor mappings, KOI8 - De Facto Standard for +the Cyrillic world + +=item gsm0338 - Hentai Latin 1 + +gsm0338 support before 2.19 + +=item CJK: Chinese, Japanese, Korean (Multibyte) + +Encode::CN -- Continental China, Encode::JP -- Japan, Encode::KR -- Korea, +Encode::TW -- Taiwan, Encode::HanExtra -- More Chinese via CPAN, +Encode::JIS2K -- JIS X 0213 encodings via CPAN + +=item Miscellaneous encodings + +Encode::EBCDIC, Encode::Symbols, Encode::MIME::Header, Encode::Guess + +=back + +=item Unsupported encodings + + ISO-2022-JP-2 [RFC1554], ISO-2022-CN [RFC1922], Various HP-UX encodings, +Cyrillic encoding ISO-IR-111, ISO-8859-8-1 [Hebrew], ISIRI 3342, Iran +System, ISIRI 2900 [Farsi], Thai encoding TCVN, Vietnamese encodings VPS, +Various Mac encodings, (Mac) Indic encodings + +=item Encoding vs. Charset -- terminology + +=item Encoding Classification (by Anton Tagunov and Dan Kogai) + +=over 4 + +=item Microsoft-related naming mess + +KS_C_5601-1987, GB2312, Big5, Shift_JIS + +=back + +=item Glossary + +character repertoire, coded character set (CCS), character encoding scheme +(CES), charset (in MIME context), EUC, ISO-2022, UCS, UCS-2, Unicode, UTF, +UTF-16 + +=item See Also + +=item References + +ECMA, ECMA-035 (eq C<ISO-2022>), IANA, Assigned Charset Names by IANA, ISO, +RFC, UC, Unicode Glossary + +=over 4 + +=item Other Notable Sites + +czyborra.com, CJK.inf, Jungshik Shin's Hangul FAQ, debian.org: +"Introduction to i18n" + +=item Offline sources + +C<CJKV Information Processing> by Ken Lunde + +=back + +=back + +=head2 Encode::Symbol - Symbol Encodings + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item ABSTRACT + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Encode::TW - Taiwan-based Chinese Encodings + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item NOTES + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Encode::Unicode -- Various Unicode Transformation Formats + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item ABSTRACT + +L<http://www.unicode.org/glossary/> says:, Quick Reference + +=item Size, Endianness, and BOM + +=over 4 + +=item by size + +=item by endianness + +BOM as integer when fetched in network byte order + +=back + +=item Surrogate Pairs + +=item Error Checking + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Encode::Unicode::UTF7 -- UTF-7 encoding + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item ABSTRACT + +=item In Practice + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Encode::lib::Encode::Alias, Encode::Alias - alias definitions to +encodings + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +As a simple string, As a qr// compiled regular expression, e.g.:, As a code +reference, e.g.: + +=over 4 + +=item Alias overloading + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Encode::lib::Encode::CJKConstants, Encode::CJKConstants.pm -- +Internally used by Encode::??::ISO_2022_* + +=head2 Encode::lib::Encode::CN::HZ, Encode::CN::HZ -- internally used by +Encode::CN + +=head2 Encode::lib::Encode::Config, Encode::Config -- internally used by +Encode + +=head2 Encode::lib::Encode::Encoding, Encode::Encoding - Encode +Implementation Base Class + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Methods you should implement + +-E<gt>encode($string [,$check]), -E<gt>decode($octets [,$check]), +-E<gt>cat_decode($destination, $octets, $offset, $terminator [,$check]) + +=item Other methods defined in Encode::Encodings + +-E<gt>name, -E<gt>mime_name, -E<gt>renew, -E<gt>renewed, -E<gt>perlio_ok(), +-E<gt>needs_lines() + +=item Example: Encode::ROT13 + +=back + +=item Why the heck Encode API is different? + +=over 4 + +=item Compiled Encodings + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +Scheme 1, Scheme 2, Other Schemes + +=back + +=head2 Encode::lib::Encode::GSM0338, Encode::GSM0338 -- ESTI GSM 03.38 +Encoding + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item NOTES + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Encode::lib::Encode::Guess, Encode::Guess -- Guesses encoding from +data + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item ABSTRACT + +=item DESCRIPTION + +Encode::Guess->set_suspects, Encode::Guess->add_suspects, +Encode::decode("Guess" ...), Encode::Guess->guess($data), +guess_encoding($data, [, I<list of suspects>]) + +=item CAVEATS + +=item TO DO + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Encode::lib::Encode::JP::H2Z, Encode::JP::H2Z -- internally used by +Encode::JP::2022_JP* + +=head2 Encode::lib::Encode::JP::JIS7, Encode::JP::JIS7 -- internally used +by Encode::JP + +=head2 Encode::lib::Encode::KR::2022_KR, Encode::KR::2022_KR -- internally +used by Encode::KR + +=head2 Encode::lib::Encode::MIME::Header, Encode::MIME::Header -- MIME 'B' +and 'Q' header encoding + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item ABSTRACT + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Encode::lib::Encode::MIME::Name, Encode::MIME::NAME -- internally +used by Encode + +=over 4 + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Encode::lib::Encode::PerlIO, Encode::PerlIO -- a detailed document +on Encode and PerlIO + +=over 4 + +=item Overview + +=item How does it work? + +=item Line Buffering + +=over 4 + +=item How can I tell whether my encoding fully supports PerlIO ? + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Encode::lib::Encode::Supported, Encode::Supported -- Encodings +supported by Encode + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Encoding Names + +=back + +=item Supported Encodings + +=over 4 + +=item Built-in Encodings + +=item Encode::Unicode -- other Unicode encodings + +=item Encode::Byte -- Extended ASCII + +ISO-8859 and corresponding vendor mappings, KOI8 - De Facto Standard for +the Cyrillic world + +=item gsm0338 - Hentai Latin 1 + +gsm0338 support before 2.19 + +=item CJK: Chinese, Japanese, Korean (Multibyte) + +Encode::CN -- Continental China, Encode::JP -- Japan, Encode::KR -- Korea, +Encode::TW -- Taiwan, Encode::HanExtra -- More Chinese via CPAN, +Encode::JIS2K -- JIS X 0213 encodings via CPAN + +=item Miscellaneous encodings + +Encode::EBCDIC, Encode::Symbols, Encode::MIME::Header, Encode::Guess + +=back + +=item Unsupported encodings + + ISO-2022-JP-2 [RFC1554], ISO-2022-CN [RFC1922], Various HP-UX encodings, +Cyrillic encoding ISO-IR-111, ISO-8859-8-1 [Hebrew], ISIRI 3342, Iran +System, ISIRI 2900 [Farsi], Thai encoding TCVN, Vietnamese encodings VPS, +Various Mac encodings, (Mac) Indic encodings + +=item Encoding vs. Charset -- terminology + +=item Encoding Classification (by Anton Tagunov and Dan Kogai) + +=over 4 + +=item Microsoft-related naming mess + +KS_C_5601-1987, GB2312, Big5, Shift_JIS + +=back + +=item Glossary + +character repertoire, coded character set (CCS), character encoding scheme +(CES), charset (in MIME context), EUC, ISO-2022, UCS, UCS-2, Unicode, UTF, +UTF-16 + +=item See Also + +=item References + +ECMA, ECMA-035 (eq C<ISO-2022>), IANA, Assigned Charset Names by IANA, ISO, +RFC, UC, Unicode Glossary + +=over 4 + +=item Other Notable Sites + +czyborra.com, CJK.inf, Jungshik Shin's Hangul FAQ, debian.org: +"Introduction to i18n" + +=item Offline sources + +C<CJKV Information Processing> by Ken Lunde + +=back + +=back + +=head2 Encode::lib::Encode::Unicode::UTF7, Encode::Unicode::UTF7 -- UTF-7 +encoding + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item ABSTRACT + +=item In Practice + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Encode::lib::Encoder, Encode::Encoder -- Object Oriented Encoder + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item ABSTRACT + +=item Description + +=over 4 + +=item Predefined Methods + +$e = Encode::Encoder-E<gt>new([$data, $encoding]);, encoder(), +$e-E<gt>data([$data]), $e-E<gt>encoding([$encoding]), +$e-E<gt>bytes([$encoding]) + +=item Example: base64 transcoder + +=item Operator Overloading + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Encodencoding, encoding - allows you to write your script in +non-ascii or non-utf8 + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item ABSTRACT + +=over 4 + +=item Literal Conversions + +=item PerlIO layers for C<STD(IN|OUT)> + +=item Implicit upgrading for byte strings + +=item Side effects + +=back + +=item FEATURES THAT REQUIRE 5.8.1 + +"NON-EUC" doublebyte encodings, tr//, DATA pseudo-filehandle + +=item USAGE + +use encoding [I<ENCNAME>] ;, use encoding I<ENCNAME> [ STDIN =E<gt> +I<ENCNAME_IN> ...] ;, use encoding I<ENCNAME> Filter=E<gt>1;, no encoding; + +=item The Filter Option + +=over 4 + +=item Filter-related changes at Encode version 1.87 + +=back + +=item CAVEATS + +=over 4 + +=item NOT SCOPED + +=item DO NOT MIX MULTIPLE ENCODINGS + +=item tr/// with ranges + +Legend of characters above + +=back + +=item EXAMPLE - Greekperl + +=item KNOWN PROBLEMS + +literals in regex that are longer than 127 bytes, EBCDIC, format, Thread +safety + +=over 4 + +=item The Logic of :locale + +=back + +=item HISTORY + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Encoder, Encode::Encoder -- Object Oriented Encoder + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item ABSTRACT + +=item Description + +=over 4 + +=item Predefined Methods + +$e = Encode::Encoder-E<gt>new([$data, $encoding]);, encoder(), +$e-E<gt>data([$data]), $e-E<gt>encoding([$encoding]), +$e-E<gt>bytes([$encoding]) + +=item Example: base64 transcoder + +=item Operator Overloading + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 English - use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation +variables + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item PERFORMANCE + +=back + +=head2 Env - perl module that imports environment variables as scalars or +arrays + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item LIMITATIONS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Errno - System errno constants + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CAVEATS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Exporter - Implements default import method for modules + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item How to Export + +=item Selecting What To Export + +=item How to Import + +C<use YourModule;>, C<use YourModule ();>, C<use YourModule qw(...);> + +=back + +=item Advanced features + +=over 4 + +=item Specialised Import Lists + +=item Exporting without using Exporter's import method + +=item Exporting without inheriting from Exporter + +=item Module Version Checking + +=item Managing Unknown Symbols + +=item Tag Handling Utility Functions + +=item Generating combined tags + +=item C<AUTOLOAD>ed Constants + +=back + +=item Good Practices + +=over 4 + +=item Declaring C<@EXPORT_OK> and Friends + +=item Playing Safe + +=item What not to Export + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 Exporter::Heavy - Exporter guts + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::CBuilder - Compile and link C code for Perl modules + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +new, have_compiler, compile, C<object_file>, C<include_dirs>, +C<extra_compiler_flags>, link, lib_file, module_name, extra_linker_flags, +link_executable, exe_file, object_file, lib_file, exe_file, prelink, +need_prelink, extra_link_args_after_prelink + +=item TO DO + +=item HISTORY + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::CBuilder::Platform::Windows - Builder class for Windows +platforms + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::Command - utilities to replace common UNIX commands in +Makefiles etc. + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item FUNCTIONS + +=back + +=back + +cat + +eqtime + +rm_rf + +rm_f + +touch + +mv + +cp + +chmod + +mkpath + +test_f + +test_d + +dos2unix + +=over 4 + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::Command::MM - Commands for the MM's to use in Makefiles + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +B<test_harness> + +=back + +B<pod2man> + +B<warn_if_old_packlist> + +B<perllocal_install> + +B<uninstall> + +=head2 ExtUtils::Constant - generate XS code to import C header constants + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item USAGE + +IV, UV, NV, PV, PVN, SV, YES, NO, UNDEF + +=item FUNCTIONS + +=back + +constant_types + +XS_constant PACKAGE, TYPES, XS_SUBNAME, C_SUBNAME + +autoload PACKAGE, VERSION, AUTOLOADER + +WriteMakefileSnippet + +WriteConstants ATTRIBUTE =E<gt> VALUE [, ...], NAME, DEFAULT_TYPE, +BREAKOUT_AT, NAMES, PROXYSUBS, C_FH, C_FILE, XS_FH, XS_FILE, XS_SUBNAME, +C_SUBNAME + +=over 4 + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::Constant::Base - base class for ExtUtils::Constant objects + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item USAGE + +=back + +header + +memEQ_clause args_hashref + +dump_names arg_hashref, ITEM.. + +assign arg_hashref, VALUE.. + +return_clause arg_hashref, ITEM + +switch_clause arg_hashref, NAMELEN, ITEMHASH, ITEM.. + +params WHAT + +dogfood arg_hashref, ITEM.. + +normalise_items args, default_type, seen_types, seen_items, ITEM.. + +C_constant arg_hashref, ITEM.., name, type, value, macro, default, pre, +post, def_pre, def_post, utf8, weight + +=over 4 + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::Constant::Utils - helper functions for ExtUtils::Constant + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item USAGE + +C_stringify NAME + +=back + +perl_stringify NAME + +=over 4 + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::Constant::XS - generate C code for XS modules' constants. + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::Embed - Utilities for embedding Perl in C/C++ applications + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item @EXPORT + +=item FUNCTIONS + +xsinit(), Examples, ldopts(), Examples, perl_inc(), ccflags(), ccdlflags(), +ccopts(), xsi_header(), xsi_protos(@modules), xsi_body(@modules) + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::Install - install files from here to there + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +_chmod($$;$), _warnonce(@), _choke(@) + +=back + +_move_file_at_boot( $file, $target, $moan ) + +_unlink_or_rename( $file, $tryhard, $installing ) + +=over 4 + +=item Functions + +_get_install_skip + +=back + +_have_write_access + +_can_write_dir(C<$dir>) + +_mkpath($dir,$show,$mode,$verbose,$dry_run) + +_copy($from,$to,$verbose,$dry_run) + +_chdir($from) + +B<install> + +_do_cleanup + +install_rooted_file( $file ), install_rooted_dir( $dir ) + +forceunlink( $file, $tryhard ) + +directory_not_empty( $dir ) + +B<install_default> I<DISCOURAGED> + +B<uninstall> + +inc_uninstall($filepath,$libdir,$verbose,$dry_run,$ignore,$results) + +run_filter($cmd,$src,$dest) + +B<pm_to_blib> + +_autosplit + +_invokant + +=over 4 + +=item ENVIRONMENT + +B<PERL_INSTALL_ROOT>, B<EU_INSTALL_IGNORE_SKIP>, +B<EU_INSTALL_SITE_SKIPFILE>, B<EU_INSTALL_ALWAYS_COPY> + +=item AUTHOR + +=item LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::Installed - Inventory management of installed modules + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item USAGE + +=item METHODS + +new(), modules(), files(), directories(), directory_tree(), validate(), +packlist(), version() + +=item EXAMPLE + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::Liblist - determine libraries to use and how to use them + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +For static extensions, For dynamic extensions at build/link time, For +dynamic extensions at load time + +=over 4 + +=item EXTRALIBS + +=item LDLOADLIBS and LD_RUN_PATH + +=item BSLOADLIBS + +=back + +=item PORTABILITY + +=over 4 + +=item VMS implementation + +=item Win32 implementation + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::MM - OS adjusted ExtUtils::MakeMaker subclass + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::MM_AIX - AIX specific subclass of ExtUtils::MM_Unix + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Overridden methods + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::MM_Any - Platform-agnostic MM methods + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Cross-platform helper methods + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Targets + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Init methods + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Tools + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item File::Spec wrappers + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Misc + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::MM_BeOS - methods to override UN*X behaviour in +ExtUtils::MakeMaker + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +os_flavor + +init_linker + +=head2 ExtUtils::MM_Cygwin - methods to override UN*X behaviour in +ExtUtils::MakeMaker + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +os_flavor + +=back + +cflags + +replace_manpage_separator + +init_linker + +maybe_command + +=head2 ExtUtils::MM_DOS - DOS specific subclass of ExtUtils::MM_Unix + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Overridden methods + +os_flavor + +=back + +=back + +B<replace_manpage_separator> + +=over 4 + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::MM_Darwin - special behaviors for OS X + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Overriden Methods + +=back + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::MM_MacOS - once produced Makefiles for MacOS Classic + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::MM_NW5 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in +ExtUtils::MakeMaker + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +os_flavor + +init_platform, platform_constants + +const_cccmd + +static_lib + +dynamic_lib + +=head2 ExtUtils::MM_OS2 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in +ExtUtils::MakeMaker + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +init_dist + +=back + +init_linker + +os_flavor + +=head2 ExtUtils::MM_QNX - QNX specific subclass of ExtUtils::MM_Unix + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Overridden methods + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::MM_UWIN - U/WIN specific subclass of ExtUtils::MM_Unix + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Overridden methods + +os_flavor + +=back + +=back + +B<replace_manpage_separator> + +=over 4 + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::MM_Unix - methods used by ExtUtils::MakeMaker + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Methods + +os_flavor + +=back + +c_o (o) + +cflags (o) + +const_cccmd (o) + +const_config (o) + +const_loadlibs (o) + +constants (o) + +depend (o) + +init_DEST + +init_dist + +dist (o) + +dist_basics (o) + +dist_ci (o) + +dist_core (o) + +B<dist_target> + +B<tardist_target> + +B<zipdist_target> + +B<tarfile_target> + +zipfile_target + +uutardist_target + +shdist_target + +dlsyms (o) + +dynamic_bs (o) + +dynamic_lib (o) + +exescan + +extliblist + +find_perl + +fixin + +force (o) + +guess_name + +has_link_code + +init_dirscan + +init_MANPODS + +init_MAN1PODS + +init_MAN3PODS + +init_PM + +init_DIRFILESEP + +init_main + +init_others + +init_linker + +init_lib2arch + +init_PERL + +init_platform, platform_constants + +init_PERM + +init_xs + +install (o) + +installbin (o) + +linkext (o) + +lsdir + +macro (o) + +makeaperl (o) + +makefile (o) + +maybe_command + +needs_linking (o) + +parse_abstract + +parse_version + +pasthru (o) + +perl_script + +perldepend (o) + +pm_to_blib + +post_constants (o) + +post_initialize (o) + +postamble (o) + +ppd + +prefixify + +processPL (o) + +quote_paren + +replace_manpage_separator + +cd + +oneliner + +quote_literal + +escape_newlines + +max_exec_len + +static (o) + +static_lib (o) + +staticmake (o) + +subdir_x (o) + +subdirs (o) + +test (o) + +test_via_harness (override) + +test_via_script (override) + +tool_xsubpp (o) + +all_target + +top_targets (o) + +writedoc + +xs_c (o) + +xs_cpp (o) + +xs_o (o) + +=over 4 + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::MM_VMS - methods to override UN*X behaviour in +ExtUtils::MakeMaker + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Methods always loaded + +wraplist + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Methods + +guess_name (override) + +=back + +find_perl (override) + +maybe_command (override) + +pasthru (override) + +pm_to_blib (override) + +perl_script (override) + +replace_manpage_separator + +init_DEST + +init_DIRFILESEP + +init_main (override) + +init_others (override) + +init_platform (override) + +platform_constants + +init_VERSION (override) + +constants (override) + +special_targets + +cflags (override) + +const_cccmd (override) + +tools_other (override) + +init_dist (override) + +c_o (override) + +xs_c (override) + +xs_o (override) + +dlsyms (override) + +dynamic_lib (override) + +static_lib (override) + +extra_clean_files + +zipfile_target, tarfile_target, shdist_target + +install (override) + +perldepend (override) + +makeaperl (override) + +maketext_filter (override) + +prefixify (override) + +cd + +oneliner + +B<echo> + +quote_literal + +escape_newlines + +max_exec_len + +init_linker + +catdir (override), catfile (override) + +eliminate_macros + +fixpath + +os_flavor + +=over 4 + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::MM_VOS - VOS specific subclass of ExtUtils::MM_Unix + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Overridden methods + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::MM_Win32 - methods to override UN*X behaviour in +ExtUtils::MakeMaker + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Overridden methods + +B<dlsyms> + +=back + +replace_manpage_separator + +B<maybe_command> + +B<init_DIRFILESEP> + +B<init_others> + +init_platform, platform_constants + +special_targets + +static_lib + +dynamic_lib + +extra_clean_files + +init_linker + +perl_script + +xs_o + +pasthru + +arch_check (override) + +oneliner + +cd + +max_exec_len + +os_flavor + +cflags + +=head2 ExtUtils::MM_Win95 - method to customize MakeMaker for Win9X + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Overridden methods + +xs_c + +=back + +=back + +xs_cpp + +xs_o + +max_exec_len + +os_flavor + +=over 4 + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::MY - ExtUtils::MakeMaker subclass for customization + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::MakeMaker - Create a module Makefile + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item How To Write A Makefile.PL + +=item Default Makefile Behaviour + +=item make test + +=item make testdb + +=item make install + +=item INSTALL_BASE + +=item PREFIX and LIB attribute + +=item AFS users + +=item Static Linking of a new Perl Binary + +=item Determination of Perl Library and Installation Locations + +=item Which architecture dependent directory? + +=item Using Attributes and Parameters + +ABSTRACT, ABSTRACT_FROM, AUTHOR, BINARY_LOCATION, BUILD_REQUIRES, C, +CCFLAGS, CONFIG, CONFIGURE, CONFIGURE_REQUIRES, DEFINE, DESTDIR, DIR, +DISTNAME, DISTVNAME, DL_FUNCS, DL_VARS, EXCLUDE_EXT, EXE_FILES, +FIRST_MAKEFILE, FULLPERL, FULLPERLRUN, FULLPERLRUNINST, FUNCLIST, H, +IMPORTS, INC, INCLUDE_EXT, INSTALLARCHLIB, INSTALLBIN, INSTALLDIRS, +INSTALLMAN1DIR, INSTALLMAN3DIR, INSTALLPRIVLIB, INSTALLSCRIPT, +INSTALLSITEARCH, INSTALLSITEBIN, INSTALLSITELIB, INSTALLSITEMAN1DIR, +INSTALLSITEMAN3DIR, INSTALLSITESCRIPT, INSTALLVENDORARCH, INSTALLVENDORBIN, +INSTALLVENDORLIB, INSTALLVENDORMAN1DIR, INSTALLVENDORMAN3DIR, +INSTALLVENDORSCRIPT, INST_ARCHLIB, INST_BIN, INST_LIB, INST_MAN1DIR, +INST_MAN3DIR, INST_SCRIPT, LD, LDDLFLAGS, LDFROM, LIB, LIBPERL_A, LIBS, +LICENSE, LINKTYPE, MAKE, MAKEAPERL, MAKEFILE_OLD, MAN1PODS, MAN3PODS, +MAP_TARGET, META_ADD, META_MERGE, MIN_PERL_VERSION, MYEXTLIB, NAME, +NEEDS_LINKING, NOECHO, NORECURS, NO_META, NO_VC, OBJECT, OPTIMIZE, PERL, +PERL_CORE, PERLMAINCC, PERL_ARCHLIB, PERL_LIB, PERL_MALLOC_OK, PERLPREFIX, +PERLRUN, PERLRUNINST, PERL_SRC, PERM_DIR, PERM_RW, PERM_RWX, PL_FILES, PM, +PMLIBDIRS, PM_FILTER, POLLUTE, PPM_INSTALL_EXEC, PPM_INSTALL_SCRIPT, +PREFIX, PREREQ_FATAL, PREREQ_PM, PREREQ_PRINT, PRINT_PREREQ, SITEPREFIX, +SIGN, SKIP, TYPEMAPS, VENDORPREFIX, VERBINST, VERSION, VERSION_FROM, +VERSION_SYM, XS, XSOPT, XSPROTOARG, XS_VERSION + +=item Additional lowercase attributes + +clean, depend, dist, dynamic_lib, linkext, macro, postamble, realclean, +test, tool_autosplit + +=item Overriding MakeMaker Methods + +=item The End Of Cargo Cult Programming + +C<< MAN3PODS => ' ' >> + +=item Hintsfile support + +=item Distribution Support + + make distcheck, make skipcheck, make distclean, make manifest, + make distdir, make disttest, make tardist, make dist, make +uutardist, make shdist, make zipdist, make ci + +=item Module Meta-Data + +=item Disabling an extension + +=item Other Handy Functions + +prompt + +=back + +=item ENVIRONMENT + +PERL_MM_OPT, PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT, PERL_CORE + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHORS + +=item LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::MakeMaker::Config - Wrapper around Config.pm + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::MakeMaker::FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions About +MakeMaker + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Module Installation + +How do I install a module into my home directory?, How do I get MakeMaker +and Module::Build to install to the same place?, How do I keep from +installing man pages?, How do I use a module without installing it?, PREFIX +vs INSTALL_BASE from Module::Build::Cookbook + +=item Philosophy and History + +Why not just use <insert other build config tool here>?, What is +Module::Build and how does it relate to MakeMaker?, pure perl. no make, no +shell commands, easier to customize, cleaner internals, less cruft + +=item Module Writing + +How do I keep my $VERSION up to date without resetting it manually?, What's +this F<META.yml> thing and how did it get in my F<MANIFEST>?!, How do I +delete everything not in my F<MANIFEST>?, Which zip should I use on Windows +for '[nd]make zipdist'? + +=item XS + +How to I prevent "object version X.XX does not match bootstrap parameter +Y.YY" errors?, How do I make two or more XS files coexist in the same +directory? + +=back + +=item PATCHING + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::MakeMaker::Tutorial - Writing a module with MakeMaker + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item The Mantra + +=item The Layout + +Makefile.PL, MANIFEST, lib/, t/, Changes, README, INSTALL, MANIFEST.SKIP, +bin/ + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::Manifest - utilities to write and check a MANIFEST file + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Functions + +mkmanifest + +=back + +=back + +manifind + +manicheck + +filecheck + +fullcheck + +skipcheck + +maniread + +maniskip + +manicopy + +maniadd + +=over 4 + +=item MANIFEST + +=item MANIFEST.SKIP + +#!include_default, #!include /Path/to/another/manifest.skip + +=item EXPORT_OK + +=item GLOBAL VARIABLES + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + +C<Not in MANIFEST:> I<file>, C<Skipping> I<file>, C<No such file:> I<file>, +C<MANIFEST:> I<$!>, C<Added to MANIFEST:> I<file> + +=item ENVIRONMENT + +B<PERL_MM_MANIFEST_DEBUG> + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::Miniperl, writemain - write the C code for perlmain.c + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap - make a bootstrap file for use by DynaLoader + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::Mksymlists - write linker options files for dynamic +extension + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +DLBASE, DL_FUNCS, DL_VARS, FILE, FUNCLIST, IMPORTS, NAME + +=item AUTHOR + +=item REVISION + +mkfh() + +=back + +__find_relocations + +=head2 ExtUtils::Packlist - manage .packlist files + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item USAGE + +=item FUNCTIONS + +new(), read(), write(), validate(), packlist_file() + +=item EXAMPLE + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::ParseXS - converts Perl XS code into C code + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item EXPORT + +=item FUNCTIONS + +process_xs(), B<C++>, B<hiertype>, B<except>, B<typemap>, B<prototypes>, +B<versioncheck>, B<linenumbers>, B<optimize>, B<inout>, B<argtypes>, B<s>, +errors() + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::XSSymSet - keep sets of symbol names palatable to the VMS +linker + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +new([$maxlen[,$silent]]), addsym($name[,$maxlen[,$silent]]), +trimsym($name[,$maxlen[,$silent]]), delsym($name), get_orig($trimmed), +get_trimmed($name), all_orig(), all_trimmed() + +=item AUTHOR + +=item REVISION + +=back + +=head2 ExtUtils::testlib - add blib/* directories to @INC + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head2 Fatal - Replace functions with equivalents which succeed or die + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item BEST PRACTICE + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + +Bad subroutine name for Fatal: %s, %s is not a Perl subroutine, %s is +neither a builtin, nor a Perl subroutine, Cannot make the non-overridable +%s fatal, Internal error: %s + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item LICENSE + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Fcntl - load the C Fcntl.h defines + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item NOTE + +=item EXPORTED SYMBOLS + +=back + +=head2 File-Glob, File::Glob - Perl extension for BSD glob routine + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item META CHARACTERS + +=item POSIX FLAGS + +C<GLOB_ERR>, C<GLOB_LIMIT>, C<GLOB_MARK>, C<GLOB_NOCASE>, C<GLOB_NOCHECK>, +C<GLOB_NOSORT>, C<GLOB_BRACE>, C<GLOB_NOMAGIC>, C<GLOB_QUOTE>, +C<GLOB_TILDE>, C<GLOB_CSH>, C<GLOB_ALPHASORT> + +=back + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + +C<GLOB_NOSPACE>, C<GLOB_ABEND> + +=item NOTES + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 File::Basename - Parse file paths into directory, filename and +suffix. + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +C<fileparse> X<fileparse> + +C<basename> X<basename> X<filename> + +C<dirname> X<dirname> + +C<fileparse_set_fstype> X<filesystem> + +=over 4 + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 File::CheckTree - run many filetest checks on a tree + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=head2 File::Compare - Compare files or filehandles + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item RETURN + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 File::Copy - Copy files or filehandles + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +copy X<copy> X<cp>, move X<move> X<mv> X<rename>, syscopy X<syscopy>, +rmscopy($from,$to[,$date_flag]) X<rmscopy> + +=item RETURN + +=item NOTES + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 File::DosGlob - DOS like globbing and then some + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item NOTES + +=item EXPORTS (by request only) + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item HISTORY + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 File::Fetch - A generic file fetching mechanism + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item ACCESSORS + +$ff->uri, $ff->scheme, $ff->host, $ff->vol, $ff->share, $ff->path, +$ff->file + +=back + +$ff->output_file + +=over 4 + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item $ff = File::Fetch->new( uri => 'http://some.where.com/dir/file.txt' +); + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $where = $ff->fetch( [to => /my/output/dir/ | \$scalar] ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $ff->error([BOOL]) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item HOW IT WORKS + +=item GLOBAL VARIABLES + +=over 4 + +=item $File::Fetch::FROM_EMAIL + +=item $File::Fetch::USER_AGENT + +=item $File::Fetch::FTP_PASSIVE + +=item $File::Fetch::TIMEOUT + +=item $File::Fetch::WARN + +=item $File::Fetch::DEBUG + +=item $File::Fetch::BLACKLIST + +=item $File::Fetch::METHOD_FAIL + +=back + +=item MAPPING + +=item FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS + +=over 4 + +=item So how do I use a proxy with File::Fetch? + +=item I used 'lynx' to fetch a file, but its contents is all wrong! + +=item Files I'm trying to fetch have reserved characters or non-ASCII +characters in them. What do I do? + +=back + +=item TODO + +Implement $PREFER_BIN + +=item BUG REPORTS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 File::Find - Traverse a directory tree. + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +B<find>, B<finddepth> + +=over 4 + +=item %options + +C<wanted>, C<bydepth>, C<preprocess>, C<postprocess>, C<follow>, +C<follow_fast>, C<follow_skip>, C<dangling_symlinks>, C<no_chdir>, +C<untaint>, C<untaint_pattern>, C<untaint_skip> + +=item The wanted function + +C<$File::Find::dir> is the current directory name,, C<$_> is the current +filename within that directory, C<$File::Find::name> is the complete +pathname to the file + +=back + +=item WARNINGS + +=item CAVEAT + +$dont_use_nlink, symlinks + +=item NOTES + +=item BUGS AND CAVEATS + +=item HISTORY + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 File::Glob - Perl extension for BSD glob routine + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item META CHARACTERS + +=item POSIX FLAGS + +C<GLOB_ERR>, C<GLOB_LIMIT>, C<GLOB_MARK>, C<GLOB_NOCASE>, C<GLOB_NOCHECK>, +C<GLOB_NOSORT>, C<GLOB_BRACE>, C<GLOB_NOMAGIC>, C<GLOB_QUOTE>, +C<GLOB_TILDE>, C<GLOB_CSH>, C<GLOB_ALPHASORT> + +=back + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + +C<GLOB_NOSPACE>, C<GLOB_ABEND> + +=item NOTES + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 File::GlobMapper - Extend File Glob to Allow Input and Output Files + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Behind The Scenes + +=item Limitations + +=item Input File Glob + +B<~>, B<~user>, B<.>, B<*>, B<?>, B<\>, B<[]>, B<{,}>, B<()> + +=item Output File Glob + +"*", #1 + +=item Returned Data + +=back + +=item EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item A Rename script + +=item A few example globmaps + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 File::Path - Create or remove directory trees + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +make_path( $dir1, $dir2, .... ), make_path( $dir1, $dir2, ...., \%opts ), +mode => $num, verbose => $bool, error => \$err, mkpath( $dir ), mkpath( +$dir, $verbose, $mode ), mkpath( [$dir1, $dir2,...], $verbose, $mode ), +mkpath( $dir1, $dir2,..., \%opt ), remove_tree( $dir1, $dir2, .... ), +remove_tree( $dir1, $dir2, ...., \%opts ), verbose => $bool, safe => $bool, +keep_root => $bool, result => \$res, error => \$err, rmtree( $dir ), +rmtree( $dir, $verbose, $safe ), rmtree( [$dir1, $dir2,...], $verbose, +$safe ), rmtree( $dir1, $dir2,..., \%opt ) + +=over 4 + +=item ERROR HANDLING + +B<NOTE:> + +=item NOTES + +=back + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + +mkdir [path]: [errmsg] (SEVERE), No root path(s) specified, No such file or +directory, cannot fetch initial working directory: [errmsg], cannot stat +initial working directory: [errmsg], cannot chdir to [dir]: [errmsg], +directory [dir] changed before chdir, expected dev=[n] ino=[n], actual +dev=[n] ino=[n], aborting. (FATAL), cannot make directory [dir] +read+writeable: [errmsg], cannot read [dir]: [errmsg], cannot reset chmod +[dir]: [errmsg], cannot remove [dir] when cwd is [dir], cannot chdir to +[parent-dir] from [child-dir]: [errmsg], aborting. (FATAL), cannot stat +prior working directory [dir]: [errmsg], aborting. (FATAL), previous +directory [parent-dir] changed before entering [child-dir], expected +dev=[n] ino=[n], actual dev=[n] ino=[n], aborting. (FATAL), cannot make +directory [dir] writeable: [errmsg], cannot remove directory [dir]: +[errmsg], cannot restore permissions of [dir] to [0nnn]: [errmsg], cannot +make file [file] writeable: [errmsg], cannot unlink file [file]: [errmsg], +cannot restore permissions of [file] to [0nnn]: [errmsg] + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item BUGS + +=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS + +=item AUTHORS + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 File::Spec - portably perform operations on file names + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +canonpath X<canonpath>, catdir X<catdir>, catfile X<catfile>, curdir +X<curdir>, devnull X<devnull>, rootdir X<rootdir>, tmpdir X<tmpdir>, updir +X<updir>, no_upwards, case_tolerant, file_name_is_absolute, path X<path>, +join X<join, path>, splitpath X<splitpath> X<split, path>, splitdir +X<splitdir> X<split, dir>, catpath(), abs2rel X<abs2rel> X<absolute, path> +X<relative, path>, rel2abs() X<rel2abs> X<absolute, path> X<relative, path> + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 File::Spec::Cygwin - methods for Cygwin file specs + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +canonpath + +file_name_is_absolute + +tmpdir (override) + +case_tolerant + +=over 4 + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 File::Spec::Epoc - methods for Epoc file specs + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +canonpath() + +=over 4 + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 File::Spec::Functions - portably perform operations on file names + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Exports + +=back + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 File::Spec::Mac - File::Spec for Mac OS (Classic) + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +canonpath + +=back + +catdir() + +catfile + +curdir + +devnull + +rootdir + +tmpdir + +updir + +file_name_is_absolute + +path + +splitpath + +splitdir + +catpath + +abs2rel + +rel2abs + +=over 4 + +=item AUTHORS + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 File::Spec::OS2 - methods for OS/2 file specs + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +tmpdir, splitpath + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 File::Spec::Unix - File::Spec for Unix, base for other File::Spec +modules + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +canonpath() + +=back + +catdir() + +catfile + +curdir + +devnull + +rootdir + +tmpdir + +updir + +no_upwards + +case_tolerant + +file_name_is_absolute + +path + +join + +splitpath + +splitdir + +catpath() + +abs2rel + +rel2abs() + +=over 4 + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 File::Spec::VMS - methods for VMS file specs + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +canonpath (override) + +catdir (override) + +catfile (override) + +curdir (override) + +devnull (override) + +rootdir (override) + +tmpdir (override) + +updir (override) + +case_tolerant (override) + +path (override) + +file_name_is_absolute (override) + +splitpath (override) + +splitdir (override) + +catpath (override) + +abs2rel (override) + +rel2abs (override) + +=over 4 + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 File::Spec::Win32 - methods for Win32 file specs + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +devnull + +=back + +tmpdir + +case_tolerant + +file_name_is_absolute + +catfile + +canonpath + +splitpath + +splitdir + +catpath + +=over 4 + +=item Note For File::Spec::Win32 Maintainers + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 File::Temp - return name and handle of a temporary file safely + +=over 4 + +=item PORTABILITY + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item OBJECT-ORIENTED INTERFACE + +B<new> + +=back + +B<newdir> + +B<filename> + +B<dirname>, B<unlink_on_destroy> + +B<DESTROY> + +=over 4 + +=item FUNCTIONS + +B<tempfile> + +=back + +B<tempdir> + +=over 4 + +=item MKTEMP FUNCTIONS + +B<mkstemp> + +=back + +B<mkstemps> + +B<mkdtemp> + +B<mktemp> + +=over 4 + +=item POSIX FUNCTIONS + +B<tmpnam> + +=back + +B<tmpfile> + +=over 4 + +=item ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS + +B<tempnam> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item UTILITY FUNCTIONS + +B<unlink0> + +=back + +B<cmpstat> + +B<unlink1> + +B<cleanup> + +=over 4 + +=item PACKAGE VARIABLES + +B<safe_level>, STANDARD, MEDIUM, HIGH + +=back + +TopSystemUID + +B<$KEEP_ALL>, B<$DEBUG> + +=over 4 + +=item WARNING + +=over 4 + +=item Temporary files and NFS + +=item Forking + +=item Directory removal + +=item BINMODE + +=back + +=item HISTORY + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 File::stat - by-name interface to Perl's built-in stat() functions + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item BUGS + +=item NOTE + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 FileCache - keep more files open than the system permits + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +cacheout EXPR, cacheout MODE, EXPR + +=item CAVEATS + +=item BUGS + +=back + +=head2 FileHandle - supply object methods for filehandles + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +$fh->print, $fh->printf, $fh->getline, $fh->getlines + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Filter-Util-Call, Filter::Util::Call - Perl Source Filter Utility +Module + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item B<use Filter::Util::Call> + +=item B<import()> + +=item B<filter() and anonymous sub> + +B<$_>, B<$status>, B<filter_read> and B<filter_read_exact>, B<filter_del> + +=back + +=item EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item Example 1: A simple filter. + +=item Example 2: Using the context + +=item Example 3: Using the context within the filter + +=item Example 4: Using filter_del + +=back + +=item Filter::Simple + +=item AUTHOR + +=item DATE + +=back + +=head2 Filter::Simple - Simplified source filtering + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item The Problem + +=item A Solution + +=item Disabling or changing <no> behaviour + +=item All-in-one interface + +=item Filtering only specific components of source code + +C<"code">, C<"code_no_comments">, C<"executable">, +C<"executable_no_comments">, C<"quotelike">, C<"string">, C<"regex">, +C<"all"> + +=item Filtering only the code parts of source code + +Most source code ceases to be grammatically correct when it is broken up +into the pieces between string literals and regexes. So the C<'code'> +and C<'code_no_comments'> component filter behave slightly differently +from the other partial filters described in the previous section. + +=item Using Filter::Simple with an explicit C<import> subroutine + +=item Using Filter::Simple and Exporter together + +=item How it works + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=item CONTACT + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 Filter::Util::Call - Perl Source Filter Utility Module + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item B<use Filter::Util::Call> + +=item B<import()> + +=item B<filter() and anonymous sub> + +B<$_>, B<$status>, B<filter_read> and B<filter_read_exact>, B<filter_del> + +=back + +=item EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item Example 1: A simple filter. + +=item Example 2: Using the context + +=item Example 3: Using the context within the filter + +=item Example 4: Using filter_del + +=back + +=item Filter::Simple + +=item AUTHOR + +=item DATE + +=back + +=head2 FindBin - Locate directory of original perl script + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item EXPORTABLE VARIABLES + +=item KNOWN ISSUES + +=item KNOWN BUGS + +=item AUTHORS + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 GDBM_File - Perl5 access to the gdbm library. + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AVAILABILITY + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Getopt::Long - Extended processing of command line options + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Command Line Options, an Introduction + +=item Getting Started with Getopt::Long + +=over 4 + +=item Simple options + +=item A little bit less simple options + +=item Mixing command line option with other arguments + +=item Options with values + +=item Options with multiple values + +=item Options with hash values + +=item User-defined subroutines to handle options + +=item Options with multiple names + +=item Case and abbreviations + +=item Summary of Option Specifications + +!, +, s, i, o, f, : I<type> [ I<desttype> ], : I<number> [ I<desttype> ], : ++ [ I<desttype> ] + +=back + +=item Advanced Possibilities + +=over 4 + +=item Object oriented interface + +=item Thread Safety + +=item Documentation and help texts + +=item Parsing options from an arbitrary array + +=item Parsing options from an arbitrary string + +=item Storing options values in a hash + +=item Bundling + +=item The lonesome dash + +=item Argument callback + +=back + +=item Configuring Getopt::Long + +default, posix_default, auto_abbrev, getopt_compat, gnu_compat, gnu_getopt, +require_order, permute, bundling (default: disabled), bundling_override +(default: disabled), ignore_case (default: enabled), ignore_case_always +(default: disabled), auto_version (default:disabled), auto_help +(default:disabled), pass_through (default: disabled), prefix, +prefix_pattern, long_prefix_pattern, debug (default: disabled) + +=item Exportable Methods + +VersionMessage, C<-message>, C<-msg>, C<-exitval>, C<-output>, HelpMessage + +=item Return values and Errors + +=item Legacy + +=over 4 + +=item Default destinations + +=item Alternative option starters + +=item Configuration variables + +=back + +=item Tips and Techniques + +=over 4 + +=item Pushing multiple values in a hash option + +=back + +=item Troubleshooting + +=over 4 + +=item GetOptions does not return a false result when an option is not +supplied + +=item GetOptions does not split the command line correctly + +=item Undefined subroutine &main::GetOptions called + +=item How do I put a "-?" option into a Getopt::Long? + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER + +=back + +=head2 Getopt::Std, getopt, getopts - Process single-character switches +with switch clustering + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item C<--help> and C<--version> + +=back + +=head2 Hash-Util-FieldHash::lib::Hash::Util::FieldHash, +Hash::Util::FieldHash - Support for Inside-Out Classes + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item FUNCTIONS + +id, id_2obj, register, idhash, idhashes, fieldhash, fieldhashes + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item The Inside-out Technique + +=item Problems of Inside-out + +=item Solutions + +=item More Problems + +=item The Generic Object + +=item How to use Field Hashes + +=item Garbage-Collected Hashes + +=back + +=item EXAMPLES + +C<init()>, C<first()>, C<last()>, C<name()>, C<Name_hash>, C<Name_id>, +C<Name_idhash>, C<Name_id_reg>, C<Name_idhash_reg>, C<Name_fieldhash> + +=over 4 + +=item Example 1 + +=item Example 2 + +=back + +=item GUTS + +=over 4 + +=item The C<PERL_MAGIC_uvar> interface for hashes + +=item Weakrefs call uvar magic + +=item How field hashes work + +=item Internal function Hash::Util::FieldHash::_fieldhash + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 Hash-Utilib::Hash::Util, Hash::Util - A selection of general-utility +hash subroutines + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Restricted hashes + +B<lock_keys>, B<unlock_keys> + +=back + +=back + +B<lock_keys_plus> + +B<lock_value>, B<unlock_value> + +B<lock_hash>, B<unlock_hash> + +B<lock_hash_recurse>, B<unlock_hash_recurse> + +B<hash_unlocked> + +B<legal_keys>, B<hidden_keys>, B<all_keys>, B<hash_seed> + +B<hv_store> + +=over 4 + +=item Operating on references to hashes. + +lock_ref_keys, unlock_ref_keys, lock_ref_keys_plus, lock_ref_value, +unlock_ref_value, lock_hashref, unlock_hashref, lock_hashref_recurse, +unlock_hashref_recurse, hash_ref_unlocked, legal_ref_keys, hidden_ref_keys + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item CAVEATS + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Hash::Util - A selection of general-utility hash subroutines + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Restricted hashes + +B<lock_keys>, B<unlock_keys> + +=back + +=back + +B<lock_keys_plus> + +B<lock_value>, B<unlock_value> + +B<lock_hash>, B<unlock_hash> + +B<lock_hash_recurse>, B<unlock_hash_recurse> + +B<hash_unlocked> + +B<legal_keys>, B<hidden_keys>, B<all_keys>, B<hash_seed> + +B<hv_store> + +=over 4 + +=item Operating on references to hashes. + +lock_ref_keys, unlock_ref_keys, lock_ref_keys_plus, lock_ref_value, +unlock_ref_value, lock_hashref, unlock_hashref, lock_hashref_recurse, +unlock_hashref_recurse, hash_ref_unlocked, legal_ref_keys, hidden_ref_keys + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item CAVEATS + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Hash::Util::FieldHash - Support for Inside-Out Classes + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item FUNCTIONS + +id, id_2obj, register, idhash, idhashes, fieldhash, fieldhashes + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item The Inside-out Technique + +=item Problems of Inside-out + +=item Solutions + +=item More Problems + +=item The Generic Object + +=item How to use Field Hashes + +=item Garbage-Collected Hashes + +=back + +=item EXAMPLES + +C<init()>, C<first()>, C<last()>, C<name()>, C<Name_hash>, C<Name_id>, +C<Name_idhash>, C<Name_id_reg>, C<Name_idhash_reg>, C<Name_fieldhash> + +=over 4 + +=item Example 1 + +=item Example 2 + +=back + +=item GUTS + +=over 4 + +=item The C<PERL_MAGIC_uvar> interface for hashes + +=item Weakrefs call uvar magic + +=item How field hashes work + +=item Internal function Hash::Util::FieldHash::_fieldhash + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 I18N-Langinfo, I18N::Langinfo - query locale information + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item EXPORT + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 I18N::Collate - compare 8-bit scalar data according to the current +locale + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head2 I18N::LangTags - functions for dealing with RFC3066-style language +tags + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +the function is_language_tag($lang1) + +the function extract_language_tags($whatever) + +the function same_language_tag($lang1, $lang2) + +the function similarity_language_tag($lang1, $lang2) + +the function is_dialect_of($lang1, $lang2) + +the function super_languages($lang1) + +the function locale2language_tag($locale_identifier) + +the function encode_language_tag($lang1) + +the function alternate_language_tags($lang1) + +the function @langs = panic_languages(@accept_languages) + +the function implicate_supers( ...languages... ), the function +implicate_supers_strictly( ...languages... ) + +=over 4 + +=item ABOUT LOWERCASING + +=item ABOUT UNICODE PLAINTEXT LANGUAGE TAGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 I18N::LangTags::Detect - detect the user's language preferences + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item FUNCTIONS + +=item ENVIRONMENT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 I18N::LangTags::List -- tags and names for human languages + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item ABOUT LANGUAGE TAGS + +=item LIST OF LANGUAGES + +{ab} : Abkhazian, {ace} : Achinese, {ach} : Acoli, {ada} : Adangme, {ady} : +Adyghe, {aa} : Afar, {afh} : Afrihili, {af} : Afrikaans, [{afa} : +Afro-Asiatic (Other)], {ak} : Akan, {akk} : Akkadian, {sq} : Albanian, +{ale} : Aleut, [{alg} : Algonquian languages], [{tut} : Altaic (Other)], +{am} : Amharic, {i-ami} : Ami, [{apa} : Apache languages], {ar} : Arabic, +{arc} : Aramaic, {arp} : Arapaho, {arn} : Araucanian, {arw} : Arawak, {hy} +: Armenian, {an} : Aragonese, [{art} : Artificial (Other)], {ast} : +Asturian, {as} : Assamese, [{ath} : Athapascan languages], [{aus} : +Australian languages], [{map} : Austronesian (Other)], {av} : Avaric, {ae} +: Avestan, {awa} : Awadhi, {ay} : Aymara, {az} : Azerbaijani, {ban} : +Balinese, [{bat} : Baltic (Other)], {bal} : Baluchi, {bm} : Bambara, [{bai} +: Bamileke languages], {bad} : Banda, [{bnt} : Bantu (Other)], {bas} : +Basa, {ba} : Bashkir, {eu} : Basque, {btk} : Batak (Indonesia), {bej} : +Beja, {be} : Belarusian, {bem} : Bemba, {bn} : Bengali, [{ber} : Berber +(Other)], {bho} : Bhojpuri, {bh} : Bihari, {bik} : Bikol, {bin} : Bini, +{bi} : Bislama, {bs} : Bosnian, {bra} : Braj, {br} : Breton, {bug} : +Buginese, {bg} : Bulgarian, {i-bnn} : Bunun, {bua} : Buriat, {my} : +Burmese, {cad} : Caddo, {car} : Carib, {ca} : Catalan, [{cau} : Caucasian +(Other)], {ceb} : Cebuano, [{cel} : Celtic (Other)], [{cai} : Central +American Indian (Other)], {chg} : Chagatai, [{cmc} : Chamic languages], +{ch} : Chamorro, {ce} : Chechen, {chr} : Cherokee, {chy} : Cheyenne, {chb} +: Chibcha, {ny} : Chichewa, {zh} : Chinese, {chn} : Chinook Jargon, {chp} : +Chipewyan, {cho} : Choctaw, {cu} : Church Slavic, {chk} : Chuukese, {cv} : +Chuvash, {cop} : Coptic, {kw} : Cornish, {co} : Corsican, {cr} : Cree, +{mus} : Creek, [{cpe} : English-based Creoles and pidgins (Other)], [{cpf} +: French-based Creoles and pidgins (Other)], [{cpp} : Portuguese-based +Creoles and pidgins (Other)], [{crp} : Creoles and pidgins (Other)], {hr} : +Croatian, [{cus} : Cushitic (Other)], {cs} : Czech, {dak} : Dakota, {da} : +Danish, {dar} : Dargwa, {day} : Dayak, {i-default} : Default (Fallthru) +Language, {del} : Delaware, {din} : Dinka, {dv} : Divehi, {doi} : Dogri, +{dgr} : Dogrib, [{dra} : Dravidian (Other)], {dua} : Duala, {nl} : Dutch, +{dum} : Middle Dutch (ca.1050-1350), {dyu} : Dyula, {dz} : Dzongkha, {efi} +: Efik, {egy} : Ancient Egyptian, {eka} : Ekajuk, {elx} : Elamite, {en} : +English, {enm} : Old English (1100-1500), {ang} : Old English +(ca.450-1100), {i-enochian} : Enochian (Artificial), {myv} : Erzya, {eo} : +Esperanto, {et} : Estonian, {ee} : Ewe, {ewo} : Ewondo, {fan} : Fang, {fat} +: Fanti, {fo} : Faroese, {fj} : Fijian, {fi} : Finnish, [{fiu} : +Finno-Ugrian (Other)], {fon} : Fon, {fr} : French, {frm} : Middle French +(ca.1400-1600), {fro} : Old French (842-ca.1400), {fy} : Frisian, {fur} : +Friulian, {ff} : Fulah, {gaa} : Ga, {gd} : Scots Gaelic, {gl} : Gallegan, +{lg} : Ganda, {gay} : Gayo, {gba} : Gbaya, {gez} : Geez, {ka} : Georgian, +{de} : German, {gmh} : Middle High German (ca.1050-1500), {goh} : Old High +German (ca.750-1050), [{gem} : Germanic (Other)], {gil} : Gilbertese, {gon} +: Gondi, {gor} : Gorontalo, {got} : Gothic, {grb} : Grebo, {grc} : Ancient +Greek, {el} : Modern Greek, {gn} : Guarani, {gu} : Gujarati, {gwi} : +Gwich'in, {hai} : Haida, {ht} : Haitian, {ha} : Hausa, {haw} : Hawaiian, +{he} : Hebrew, {hz} : Herero, {hil} : Hiligaynon, {him} : Himachali, {hi} : +Hindi, {ho} : Hiri Motu, {hit} : Hittite, {hmn} : Hmong, {hu} : Hungarian, +{hup} : Hupa, {iba} : Iban, {is} : Icelandic, {io} : Ido, {ig} : Igbo, +{ijo} : Ijo, {ilo} : Iloko, [{inc} : Indic (Other)], [{ine} : Indo-European +(Other)], {id} : Indonesian, {inh} : Ingush, {ia} : Interlingua +(International Auxiliary Language Association), {ie} : Interlingue, {iu} : +Inuktitut, {ik} : Inupiaq, [{ira} : Iranian (Other)], {ga} : Irish, {mga} : +Middle Irish (900-1200), {sga} : Old Irish (to 900), [{iro} : Iroquoian +languages], {it} : Italian, {ja} : Japanese, {jv} : Javanese, {jrb} : +Judeo-Arabic, {jpr} : Judeo-Persian, {kbd} : Kabardian, {kab} : Kabyle, +{kac} : Kachin, {kl} : Kalaallisut, {xal} : Kalmyk, {kam} : Kamba, {kn} : +Kannada, {kr} : Kanuri, {krc} : Karachay-Balkar, {kaa} : Kara-Kalpak, {kar} +: Karen, {ks} : Kashmiri, {csb} : Kashubian, {kaw} : Kawi, {kk} : Kazakh, +{kha} : Khasi, {km} : Khmer, [{khi} : Khoisan (Other)], {kho} : Khotanese, +{ki} : Kikuyu, {kmb} : Kimbundu, {rw} : Kinyarwanda, {ky} : Kirghiz, +{i-klingon} : Klingon, {kv} : Komi, {kg} : Kongo, {kok} : Konkani, {ko} : +Korean, {kos} : Kosraean, {kpe} : Kpelle, {kro} : Kru, {kj} : Kuanyama, +{kum} : Kumyk, {ku} : Kurdish, {kru} : Kurukh, {kut} : Kutenai, {lad} : +Ladino, {lah} : Lahnda, {lam} : Lamba, {lo} : Lao, {la} : Latin, {lv} : +Latvian, {lb} : Letzeburgesch, {lez} : Lezghian, {li} : Limburgish, {ln} : +Lingala, {lt} : Lithuanian, {nds} : Low German, {art-lojban} : Lojban +(Artificial), {loz} : Lozi, {lu} : Luba-Katanga, {lua} : Luba-Lulua, {lui} +: Luiseno, {lun} : Lunda, {luo} : Luo (Kenya and Tanzania), {lus} : Lushai, +{mk} : Macedonian, {mad} : Madurese, {mag} : Magahi, {mai} : Maithili, +{mak} : Makasar, {mg} : Malagasy, {ms} : Malay, {ml} : Malayalam, {mt} : +Maltese, {mnc} : Manchu, {mdr} : Mandar, {man} : Mandingo, {mni} : +Manipuri, [{mno} : Manobo languages], {gv} : Manx, {mi} : Maori, {mr} : +Marathi, {chm} : Mari, {mh} : Marshall, {mwr} : Marwari, {mas} : Masai, +[{myn} : Mayan languages], {men} : Mende, {mic} : Micmac, {min} : +Minangkabau, {i-mingo} : Mingo, [{mis} : Miscellaneous languages], {moh} : +Mohawk, {mdf} : Moksha, {mo} : Moldavian, [{mkh} : Mon-Khmer (Other)], +{lol} : Mongo, {mn} : Mongolian, {mos} : Mossi, [{mul} : Multiple +languages], [{mun} : Munda languages], {nah} : Nahuatl, {nap} : Neapolitan, +{na} : Nauru, {nv} : Navajo, {nd} : North Ndebele, {nr} : South Ndebele, +{ng} : Ndonga, {ne} : Nepali, {new} : Newari, {nia} : Nias, [{nic} : +Niger-Kordofanian (Other)], [{ssa} : Nilo-Saharan (Other)], {niu} : Niuean, +{nog} : Nogai, {non} : Old Norse, [{nai} : North American Indian], {no} : +Norwegian, {nb} : Norwegian Bokmal, {nn} : Norwegian Nynorsk, [{nub} : +Nubian languages], {nym} : Nyamwezi, {nyn} : Nyankole, {nyo} : Nyoro, {nzi} +: Nzima, {oc} : Occitan (post 1500), {oj} : Ojibwa, {or} : Oriya, {om} : +Oromo, {osa} : Osage, {os} : Ossetian; Ossetic, [{oto} : Otomian +languages], {pal} : Pahlavi, {i-pwn} : Paiwan, {pau} : Palauan, {pi} : +Pali, {pam} : Pampanga, {pag} : Pangasinan, {pa} : Panjabi, {pap} : +Papiamento, [{paa} : Papuan (Other)], {fa} : Persian, {peo} : Old Persian +(ca.600-400 B.C.), [{phi} : Philippine (Other)], {phn} : Phoenician, {pon} +: Pohnpeian, {pl} : Polish, {pt} : Portuguese, [{pra} : Prakrit languages], +{pro} : Old Provencal (to 1500), {ps} : Pushto, {qu} : Quechua, {rm} : +Raeto-Romance, {raj} : Rajasthani, {rap} : Rapanui, {rar} : Rarotongan, +[{qaa - qtz} : Reserved for local use.], [{roa} : Romance (Other)], {ro} : +Romanian, {rom} : Romany, {rn} : Rundi, {ru} : Russian, [{sal} : Salishan +languages], {sam} : Samaritan Aramaic, {se} : Northern Sami, {sma} : +Southern Sami, {smn} : Inari Sami, {smj} : Lule Sami, {sms} : Skolt Sami, +[{smi} : Sami languages (Other)], {sm} : Samoan, {sad} : Sandawe, {sg} : +Sango, {sa} : Sanskrit, {sat} : Santali, {sc} : Sardinian, {sas} : Sasak, +{sco} : Scots, {sel} : Selkup, [{sem} : Semitic (Other)], {sr} : Serbian, +{srr} : Serer, {shn} : Shan, {sn} : Shona, {sid} : Sidamo, {sgn-...} : Sign +Languages, {bla} : Siksika, {sd} : Sindhi, {si} : Sinhalese, [{sit} : +Sino-Tibetan (Other)], [{sio} : Siouan languages], {den} : Slave +(Athapascan), [{sla} : Slavic (Other)], {sk} : Slovak, {sl} : Slovenian, +{sog} : Sogdian, {so} : Somali, {son} : Songhai, {snk} : Soninke, {wen} : +Sorbian languages, {nso} : Northern Sotho, {st} : Southern Sotho, [{sai} : +South American Indian (Other)], {es} : Spanish, {suk} : Sukuma, {sux} : +Sumerian, {su} : Sundanese, {sus} : Susu, {sw} : Swahili, {ss} : Swati, +{sv} : Swedish, {syr} : Syriac, {tl} : Tagalog, {ty} : Tahitian, [{tai} : +Tai (Other)], {tg} : Tajik, {tmh} : Tamashek, {ta} : Tamil, {i-tao} : Tao, +{tt} : Tatar, {i-tay} : Tayal, {te} : Telugu, {ter} : Tereno, {tet} : +Tetum, {th} : Thai, {bo} : Tibetan, {tig} : Tigre, {ti} : Tigrinya, {tem} : +Timne, {tiv} : Tiv, {tli} : Tlingit, {tpi} : Tok Pisin, {tkl} : Tokelau, +{tog} : Tonga (Nyasa), {to} : Tonga (Tonga Islands), {tsi} : Tsimshian, +{ts} : Tsonga, {i-tsu} : Tsou, {tn} : Tswana, {tum} : Tumbuka, [{tup} : +Tupi languages], {tr} : Turkish, {ota} : Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928), {crh} +: Crimean Turkish, {tk} : Turkmen, {tvl} : Tuvalu, {tyv} : Tuvinian, {tw} : +Twi, {udm} : Udmurt, {uga} : Ugaritic, {ug} : Uighur, {uk} : Ukrainian, +{umb} : Umbundu, {und} : Undetermined, {ur} : Urdu, {uz} : Uzbek, {vai} : +Vai, {ve} : Venda, {vi} : Vietnamese, {vo} : Volapuk, {vot} : Votic, [{wak} +: Wakashan languages], {wa} : Walloon, {wal} : Walamo, {war} : Waray, {was} +: Washo, {cy} : Welsh, {wo} : Wolof, {x-...} : Unregistered (Semi-Private +Use), {xh} : Xhosa, {sah} : Yakut, {yao} : Yao, {yap} : Yapese, {ii} : +Sichuan Yi, {yi} : Yiddish, {yo} : Yoruba, [{ypk} : Yupik languages], {znd} +: Zande, [{zap} : Zapotec], {zen} : Zenaga, {za} : Zhuang, {zu} : Zulu, +{zun} : Zuni + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 IO - load various IO modules + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item DEPRECATED + +=back + +=head2 IO-Compress::lib::Compress::Zlib, Compress::Zlib - Interface to zlib +compression library + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Notes for users of Compress::Zlib version 1 + +=back + +=item GZIP INTERFACE + +B<$gz = gzopen($filename, $mode)>, B<$gz = gzopen($filehandle, $mode)>, +B<$bytesread = $gz-E<gt>gzread($buffer [, $size]) ;>, B<$bytesread = +$gz-E<gt>gzreadline($line) ;>, B<$byteswritten = $gz-E<gt>gzwrite($buffer) +;>, B<$status = $gz-E<gt>gzflush($flush_type) ;>, B<$offset = +$gz-E<gt>gztell() ;>, B<$status = $gz-E<gt>gzseek($offset, $whence) ;>, +B<$gz-E<gt>gzclose>, B<$gz-E<gt>gzsetparams($level, $strategy>, B<$level>, +B<$strategy>, B<$gz-E<gt>gzerror>, B<$gzerrno> + +=over 4 + +=item Examples + +=item Compress::Zlib::memGzip + +=item Compress::Zlib::memGunzip + +=back + +=item COMPRESS/UNCOMPRESS + +B<$dest = compress($source [, $level] ) ;>, B<$dest = uncompress($source) +;> + +=item Deflate Interface + +=over 4 + +=item B<($d, $status) = deflateInit( [OPT] )> + +B<-Level>, B<-Method>, B<-WindowBits>, B<-MemLevel>, B<-Strategy>, +B<-Dictionary>, B<-Bufsize> + +=item B<($out, $status) = $d-E<gt>deflate($buffer)> + +=item B<($out, $status) = $d-E<gt>flush()> +=head2 B<($out, $status) = $d-E<gt>flush($flush_type)> + +=item B<$status = $d-E<gt>deflateParams([OPT])> + +B<-Level>, B<-Strategy> + +=item B<$d-E<gt>dict_adler()> + +=item B<$d-E<gt>msg()> + +=item B<$d-E<gt>total_in()> + +=item B<$d-E<gt>total_out()> + +=item Example + +=back + +=item Inflate Interface + +=over 4 + +=item B<($i, $status) = inflateInit()> + +B<-WindowBits>, B<-Bufsize>, B<-Dictionary> + +=item B<($out, $status) = $i-E<gt>inflate($buffer)> + +=item B<$status = $i-E<gt>inflateSync($buffer)> + +=item B<$i-E<gt>dict_adler()> + +=item B<$i-E<gt>msg()> + +=item B<$i-E<gt>total_in()> + +=item B<$i-E<gt>total_out()> + +=item Example + +=back + +=item CHECKSUM FUNCTIONS + +=item Misc + +=over 4 + +=item my $version = Compress::Zlib::zlib_version(); + +=back + +=item CONSTANTS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 IO-Compress::lib::File::GlobMapper, File::GlobMapper - Extend File +Glob to Allow Input and Output Files + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Behind The Scenes + +=item Limitations + +=item Input File Glob + +B<~>, B<~user>, B<.>, B<*>, B<?>, B<\>, B<[]>, B<{,}>, B<()> + +=item Output File Glob + +"*", #1 + +=item Returned Data + +=back + +=item EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item A Rename script + +=item A few example globmaps + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 IO-Compress::lib::IO::Compress::Base, IO::Compress::Base - Base +Class for IO::Compress modules + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 IO-Compress::lib::IO::Compress::Bzip2, IO::Compress::Bzip2 - Write +bzip2 files/buffers + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Functional Interface + +=over 4 + +=item bzip2 $input => $output [, OPTS] + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An array reference, An Input +FileGlob string, A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An Array +Reference, An Output FileGlob + +=item Notes + +=item Optional Parameters + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< BinModeIn => 0|1 >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item OO Interface + +=over 4 + +=item Constructor + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference + +=item Constructor Options + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, A Buffer, A Filename, A +Filehandle, C<< BlockSize100K => number >>, C<< WorkFactor => number >>, +C<< Strict => 0|1 >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item Methods + +=over 4 + +=item print + +=item printf + +=item syswrite + +=item write + +=item flush + +=item tell + +=item eof + +=item seek + +=item binmode + +=item opened + +=item autoflush + +=item input_line_number + +=item fileno + +=item close + +=item newStream([OPTS]) + +=back + +=item Importing + +:all + +=item EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item Apache::GZip Revisited + +=item Working with Net::FTP + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 IO-Compress::lib::IO::Compress::Deflate, IO::Compress::Deflate - +Write RFC 1950 files/buffers + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Functional Interface + +=over 4 + +=item deflate $input => $output [, OPTS] + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An array reference, An Input +FileGlob string, A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An Array +Reference, An Output FileGlob + +=item Notes + +=item Optional Parameters + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< BinModeIn => 0|1 >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item OO Interface + +=over 4 + +=item Constructor + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference + +=item Constructor Options + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, A Buffer, A Filename, A +Filehandle, C<< Merge => 0|1 >>, -Level, -Strategy, C<< Strict => 0|1 >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item Methods + +=over 4 + +=item print + +=item printf + +=item syswrite + +=item write + +=item flush + +=item tell + +=item eof + +=item seek + +=item binmode + +=item opened + +=item autoflush + +=item input_line_number + +=item fileno + +=item close + +=item newStream([OPTS]) + +=item deflateParams + +=back + +=item Importing + +:all, :constants, :flush, :level, :strategy + +=item EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item Apache::GZip Revisited + +=item Working with Net::FTP + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 IO-Compress::lib::IO::Compress::Gzip, IO::Compress::Gzip - Write RFC +1952 files/buffers + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Functional Interface + +=over 4 + +=item gzip $input => $output [, OPTS] + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An array reference, An Input +FileGlob string, A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An Array +Reference, An Output FileGlob + +=item Notes + +=item Optional Parameters + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< BinModeIn => 0|1 >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item OO Interface + +=over 4 + +=item Constructor + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference + +=item Constructor Options + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, A Buffer, A Filename, A +Filehandle, C<< Merge => 0|1 >>, -Level, -Strategy, C<< Minimal => 0|1 >>, +C<< Comment => $comment >>, C<< Name => $string >>, C<< Time => $number >>, +C<< TextFlag => 0|1 >>, C<< HeaderCRC => 0|1 >>, C<< OS_Code => $value >>, +C<< ExtraField => $data >>, C<< ExtraFlags => $value >>, C<< Strict => 0|1 +>> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item Methods + +=over 4 + +=item print + +=item printf + +=item syswrite + +=item write + +=item flush + +=item tell + +=item eof + +=item seek + +=item binmode + +=item opened + +=item autoflush + +=item input_line_number + +=item fileno + +=item close + +=item newStream([OPTS]) + +=item deflateParams + +=back + +=item Importing + +:all, :constants, :flush, :level, :strategy + +=item EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item Apache::GZip Revisited + +=item Working with Net::FTP + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 IO-Compress::lib::IO::Compress::RawDeflate, IO::Compress::RawDeflate +- Write RFC 1951 files/buffers + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Functional Interface + +=over 4 + +=item rawdeflate $input => $output [, OPTS] + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An array reference, An Input +FileGlob string, A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An Array +Reference, An Output FileGlob + +=item Notes + +=item Optional Parameters + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< BinModeIn => 0|1 >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item OO Interface + +=over 4 + +=item Constructor + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference + +=item Constructor Options + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, A Buffer, A Filename, A +Filehandle, C<< Merge => 0|1 >>, -Level, -Strategy, C<< Strict => 0|1 >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item Methods + +=over 4 + +=item print + +=item printf + +=item syswrite + +=item write + +=item flush + +=item tell + +=item eof + +=item seek + +=item binmode + +=item opened + +=item autoflush + +=item input_line_number + +=item fileno + +=item close + +=item newStream([OPTS]) + +=item deflateParams + +=back + +=item Importing + +:all, :constants, :flush, :level, :strategy + +=item EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item Apache::GZip Revisited + +=item Working with Net::FTP + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 IO-Compress::lib::IO::Compress::Zip, IO::Compress::Zip - Write zip +files/buffers + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Functional Interface + +=over 4 + +=item zip $input => $output [, OPTS] + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An array reference, An Input +FileGlob string, A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An Array +Reference, An Output FileGlob + +=item Notes + +=item Optional Parameters + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< BinModeIn => 0|1 >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item OO Interface + +=over 4 + +=item Constructor + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference + +=item Constructor Options + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, A Buffer, A Filename, A +Filehandle, C<< Name => $string >>, C<< Time => $number >>, C<< ExtAttr => +$attr >>, C<< exTime => [$atime, $mtime, $ctime] >>, C<< exUnix2 => [$uid, +$gid] >>, C<< Comment => $comment >>, C<< ZipComment => $comment >>, C<< +Method => $method >>, C<< Stream => 0|1 >>, C<< Zip64 => 0|1 >>, C<< +TextFlag => 0|1 >>, C<< ExtraFieldLocal => $data >> =item C<< +ExtraFieldCentral => $data >>, C<< Minimal => 1|0 >>, C<< BlockSize100K => +number >>, C<< WorkFactor => number >>, -Level, -Strategy, C<< Strict => +0|1 >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item Methods + +=over 4 + +=item print + +=item printf + +=item syswrite + +=item write + +=item flush + +=item tell + +=item eof + +=item seek + +=item binmode + +=item opened + +=item autoflush + +=item input_line_number + +=item fileno + +=item close + +=item newStream([OPTS]) + +=item deflateParams + +=back + +=item Importing + +:all, :constants, :flush, :level, :strategy, :zip_method + +=item EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item Apache::GZip Revisited + +=item Working with Net::FTP + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 IO-Compress::lib::IO::Uncompress::AnyInflate, +IO::Uncompress::AnyInflate - Uncompress zlib-based (zip, gzip) file/buffer + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +RFC 1950, RFC 1951 (optionally), gzip (RFC 1952), zip + +=item Functional Interface + +=over 4 + +=item anyinflate $input => $output [, OPTS] + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An array reference, An Input +FileGlob string, A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An Array +Reference, An Output FileGlob + +=item Notes + +=item Optional Parameters + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< BinModeOut => 0|1 >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, +C<< MultiStream => 0|1 >>, C<< TrailingData => $scalar >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item OO Interface + +=over 4 + +=item Constructor + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference + +=item Constructor Options + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< MultiStream => 0|1 >>, C<< Prime => $string +>>, C<< Transparent => 0|1 >>, C<< BlockSize => $num >>, C<< InputLength => +$size >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, C<< Strict => 0|1 >>, C<< RawInflate => 0|1 +>>, C<< ParseExtra => 0|1 >> If the gzip FEXTRA header field is present and +this option is set, it will force the module to check that it conforms to +the sub-field structure as defined in RFC 1952 + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item Methods + +=over 4 + +=item read + +=item read + +=item getline + +=item getc + +=item ungetc + +=item inflateSync + +=item getHeaderInfo + +=item tell + +=item eof + +=item seek + +=item binmode + +=item opened + +=item autoflush + +=item input_line_number + +=item fileno + +=item close + +=item nextStream + +=item trailingData + +=back + +=item Importing + +:all + +=item EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item Working with Net::FTP + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 IO-Compress::lib::IO::Uncompress::AnyUncompress, +IO::Uncompress::AnyUncompress - Uncompress gzip, zip, bzip2 or lzop +file/buffer + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +RFC 1950, RFC 1951 (optionally), gzip (RFC 1952), zip, bzip2, lzop, lzf + +=item Functional Interface + +=over 4 + +=item anyuncompress $input => $output [, OPTS] + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An array reference, An Input +FileGlob string, A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An Array +Reference, An Output FileGlob + +=item Notes + +=item Optional Parameters + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< BinModeOut => 0|1 >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, +C<< MultiStream => 0|1 >>, C<< TrailingData => $scalar >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item OO Interface + +=over 4 + +=item Constructor + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference + +=item Constructor Options + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< MultiStream => 0|1 >>, C<< Prime => $string +>>, C<< Transparent => 0|1 >>, C<< BlockSize => $num >>, C<< InputLength => +$size >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, C<< Strict => 0|1 >>, C<< RawInflate => 0|1 +>> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item Methods + +=over 4 + +=item read + +=item read + +=item getline + +=item getc + +=item ungetc + +=item getHeaderInfo + +=item tell + +=item eof + +=item seek + +=item binmode + +=item opened + +=item autoflush + +=item input_line_number + +=item fileno + +=item close + +=item nextStream + +=item trailingData + +=back + +=item Importing + +:all + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 IO-Compress::lib::IO::Uncompress::Base, IO::Uncompress::Base - Base +Class for IO::Uncompress modules + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 IO-Compress::lib::IO::Uncompress::Bunzip2, IO::Uncompress::Bunzip2 - +Read bzip2 files/buffers + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Functional Interface + +=over 4 + +=item bunzip2 $input => $output [, OPTS] + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An array reference, An Input +FileGlob string, A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An Array +Reference, An Output FileGlob + +=item Notes + +=item Optional Parameters + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< BinModeOut => 0|1 >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, +C<< MultiStream => 0|1 >>, C<< TrailingData => $scalar >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item OO Interface + +=over 4 + +=item Constructor + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference + +=item Constructor Options + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< MultiStream => 0|1 >>, C<< Prime => $string +>>, C<< Transparent => 0|1 >>, C<< BlockSize => $num >>, C<< InputLength => +$size >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, C<< Strict => 0|1 >>, C<< Small => 0|1 >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item Methods + +=over 4 + +=item read + +=item read + +=item getline + +=item getc + +=item ungetc + +=item getHeaderInfo + +=item tell + +=item eof + +=item seek + +=item binmode + +=item opened + +=item autoflush + +=item input_line_number + +=item fileno + +=item close + +=item nextStream + +=item trailingData + +=back + +=item Importing + +:all + +=item EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item Working with Net::FTP + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 IO-Compress::lib::IO::Uncompress::Gunzip, IO::Uncompress::Gunzip - +Read RFC 1952 files/buffers + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Functional Interface + +=over 4 + +=item gunzip $input => $output [, OPTS] + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An array reference, An Input +FileGlob string, A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An Array +Reference, An Output FileGlob + +=item Notes + +=item Optional Parameters + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< BinModeOut => 0|1 >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, +C<< MultiStream => 0|1 >>, C<< TrailingData => $scalar >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item OO Interface + +=over 4 + +=item Constructor + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference + +=item Constructor Options + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< MultiStream => 0|1 >>, C<< Prime => $string +>>, C<< Transparent => 0|1 >>, C<< BlockSize => $num >>, C<< InputLength => +$size >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, C<< Strict => 0|1 >>, C<< ParseExtra => 0|1 +>> If the gzip FEXTRA header field is present and this option is set, it +will force the module to check that it conforms to the sub-field structure +as defined in RFC 1952 + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item Methods + +=over 4 + +=item read + +=item read + +=item getline + +=item getc + +=item ungetc + +=item inflateSync + +=item getHeaderInfo + +Name, Comment + +=item tell + +=item eof + +=item seek + +=item binmode + +=item opened + +=item autoflush + +=item input_line_number + +=item fileno + +=item close + +=item nextStream + +=item trailingData + +=back + +=item Importing + +:all + +=item EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item Working with Net::FTP + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 IO-Compress::lib::IO::Uncompress::Inflate, IO::Uncompress::Inflate - +Read RFC 1950 files/buffers + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Functional Interface + +=over 4 + +=item inflate $input => $output [, OPTS] + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An array reference, An Input +FileGlob string, A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An Array +Reference, An Output FileGlob + +=item Notes + +=item Optional Parameters + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< BinModeOut => 0|1 >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, +C<< MultiStream => 0|1 >>, C<< TrailingData => $scalar >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item OO Interface + +=over 4 + +=item Constructor + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference + +=item Constructor Options + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< MultiStream => 0|1 >>, C<< Prime => $string +>>, C<< Transparent => 0|1 >>, C<< BlockSize => $num >>, C<< InputLength => +$size >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, C<< Strict => 0|1 >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item Methods + +=over 4 + +=item read + +=item read + +=item getline + +=item getc + +=item ungetc + +=item inflateSync + +=item getHeaderInfo + +=item tell + +=item eof + +=item seek + +=item binmode + +=item opened + +=item autoflush + +=item input_line_number + +=item fileno + +=item close + +=item nextStream + +=item trailingData + +=back + +=item Importing + +:all + +=item EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item Working with Net::FTP + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 IO-Compress::lib::IO::Uncompress::RawInflate, +IO::Uncompress::RawInflate - Read RFC 1951 files/buffers + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Functional Interface + +=over 4 + +=item rawinflate $input => $output [, OPTS] + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An array reference, An Input +FileGlob string, A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An Array +Reference, An Output FileGlob + +=item Notes + +=item Optional Parameters + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< BinModeOut => 0|1 >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, +C<< MultiStream => 0|1 >>, C<< TrailingData => $scalar >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item OO Interface + +=over 4 + +=item Constructor + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference + +=item Constructor Options + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< MultiStream => 0|1 >>, C<< Prime => $string +>>, C<< Transparent => 0|1 >>, C<< BlockSize => $num >>, C<< InputLength => +$size >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, C<< Strict => 0|1 >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item Methods + +=over 4 + +=item read + +=item read + +=item getline + +=item getc + +=item ungetc + +=item inflateSync + +=item getHeaderInfo + +=item tell + +=item eof + +=item seek + +=item binmode + +=item opened + +=item autoflush + +=item input_line_number + +=item fileno + +=item close + +=item nextStream + +=item trailingData + +=back + +=item Importing + +:all + +=item EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item Working with Net::FTP + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 IO-Compress::lib::IO::Uncompress::Unzip, IO::Uncompress::Unzip - +Read zip files/buffers + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Functional Interface + +=over 4 + +=item unzip $input => $output [, OPTS] + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An array reference, An Input +FileGlob string, A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An Array +Reference, An Output FileGlob + +=item Notes + +=item Optional Parameters + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< BinModeOut => 0|1 >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, +C<< MultiStream => 0|1 >>, C<< TrailingData => $scalar >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item OO Interface + +=over 4 + +=item Constructor + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference + +=item Constructor Options + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< MultiStream => 0|1 >>, C<< Prime => $string +>>, C<< Transparent => 0|1 >>, C<< BlockSize => $num >>, C<< InputLength => +$size >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, C<< Strict => 0|1 >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item Methods + +=over 4 + +=item read + +=item read + +=item getline + +=item getc + +=item ungetc + +=item inflateSync + +=item getHeaderInfo + +=item tell + +=item eof + +=item seek + +=item binmode + +=item opened + +=item autoflush + +=item input_line_number + +=item fileno + +=item close + +=item nextStream + +=item trailingData + +=back + +=item Importing + +:all + +=item EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item Working with Net::FTP + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 IO-Compress::pod::FAQ, IO::Compress::FAQ -- Frequently Asked +Questions about IO::Compress + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Compatibility with Unix compress/uncompress. + +=item Accessing .tar.Z files + +=item Accessing Zip Files + +=item Compressed files and Net::FTP + +=item How do I recompress using a different compression? + +=item Apache::GZip Revisited + +=item Using C<InputLength> to uncompress data embedded in a larger +file/buffer. + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 IO::Compress::Base - Base Class for IO::Compress modules + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 IO::Compress::Bzip2 - Write bzip2 files/buffers + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Functional Interface + +=over 4 + +=item bzip2 $input => $output [, OPTS] + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An array reference, An Input +FileGlob string, A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An Array +Reference, An Output FileGlob + +=item Notes + +=item Optional Parameters + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< BinModeIn => 0|1 >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item OO Interface + +=over 4 + +=item Constructor + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference + +=item Constructor Options + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, A Buffer, A Filename, A +Filehandle, C<< BlockSize100K => number >>, C<< WorkFactor => number >>, +C<< Strict => 0|1 >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item Methods + +=over 4 + +=item print + +=item printf + +=item syswrite + +=item write + +=item flush + +=item tell + +=item eof + +=item seek + +=item binmode + +=item opened + +=item autoflush + +=item input_line_number + +=item fileno + +=item close + +=item newStream([OPTS]) + +=back + +=item Importing + +:all + +=item EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item Apache::GZip Revisited + +=item Working with Net::FTP + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 IO::Compress::Deflate - Write RFC 1950 files/buffers + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Functional Interface + +=over 4 + +=item deflate $input => $output [, OPTS] + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An array reference, An Input +FileGlob string, A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An Array +Reference, An Output FileGlob + +=item Notes + +=item Optional Parameters + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< BinModeIn => 0|1 >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item OO Interface + +=over 4 + +=item Constructor + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference + +=item Constructor Options + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, A Buffer, A Filename, A +Filehandle, C<< Merge => 0|1 >>, -Level, -Strategy, C<< Strict => 0|1 >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item Methods + +=over 4 + +=item print + +=item printf + +=item syswrite + +=item write + +=item flush + +=item tell + +=item eof + +=item seek + +=item binmode + +=item opened + +=item autoflush + +=item input_line_number + +=item fileno + +=item close + +=item newStream([OPTS]) + +=item deflateParams + +=back + +=item Importing + +:all, :constants, :flush, :level, :strategy + +=item EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item Apache::GZip Revisited + +=item Working with Net::FTP + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 IO::Compress::Gzip - Write RFC 1952 files/buffers + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Functional Interface + +=over 4 + +=item gzip $input => $output [, OPTS] + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An array reference, An Input +FileGlob string, A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An Array +Reference, An Output FileGlob + +=item Notes + +=item Optional Parameters + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< BinModeIn => 0|1 >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item OO Interface + +=over 4 + +=item Constructor + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference + +=item Constructor Options + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, A Buffer, A Filename, A +Filehandle, C<< Merge => 0|1 >>, -Level, -Strategy, C<< Minimal => 0|1 >>, +C<< Comment => $comment >>, C<< Name => $string >>, C<< Time => $number >>, +C<< TextFlag => 0|1 >>, C<< HeaderCRC => 0|1 >>, C<< OS_Code => $value >>, +C<< ExtraField => $data >>, C<< ExtraFlags => $value >>, C<< Strict => 0|1 +>> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item Methods + +=over 4 + +=item print + +=item printf + +=item syswrite + +=item write + +=item flush + +=item tell + +=item eof + +=item seek + +=item binmode + +=item opened + +=item autoflush + +=item input_line_number + +=item fileno + +=item close + +=item newStream([OPTS]) + +=item deflateParams + +=back + +=item Importing + +:all, :constants, :flush, :level, :strategy + +=item EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item Apache::GZip Revisited + +=item Working with Net::FTP + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 IO::Compress::RawDeflate - Write RFC 1951 files/buffers + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Functional Interface + +=over 4 + +=item rawdeflate $input => $output [, OPTS] + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An array reference, An Input +FileGlob string, A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An Array +Reference, An Output FileGlob + +=item Notes + +=item Optional Parameters + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< BinModeIn => 0|1 >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item OO Interface + +=over 4 + +=item Constructor + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference + +=item Constructor Options + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, A Buffer, A Filename, A +Filehandle, C<< Merge => 0|1 >>, -Level, -Strategy, C<< Strict => 0|1 >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item Methods + +=over 4 + +=item print + +=item printf + +=item syswrite + +=item write + +=item flush + +=item tell + +=item eof + +=item seek + +=item binmode + +=item opened + +=item autoflush + +=item input_line_number + +=item fileno + +=item close + +=item newStream([OPTS]) + +=item deflateParams + +=back + +=item Importing + +:all, :constants, :flush, :level, :strategy + +=item EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item Apache::GZip Revisited + +=item Working with Net::FTP + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 IO::Compress::Zip - Write zip files/buffers + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Functional Interface + +=over 4 + +=item zip $input => $output [, OPTS] + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An array reference, An Input +FileGlob string, A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An Array +Reference, An Output FileGlob + +=item Notes + +=item Optional Parameters + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< BinModeIn => 0|1 >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item OO Interface + +=over 4 + +=item Constructor + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference + +=item Constructor Options + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, A Buffer, A Filename, A +Filehandle, C<< Name => $string >>, C<< Time => $number >>, C<< ExtAttr => +$attr >>, C<< exTime => [$atime, $mtime, $ctime] >>, C<< exUnix2 => [$uid, +$gid] >>, C<< Comment => $comment >>, C<< ZipComment => $comment >>, C<< +Method => $method >>, C<< Stream => 0|1 >>, C<< Zip64 => 0|1 >>, C<< +TextFlag => 0|1 >>, C<< ExtraFieldLocal => $data >> =item C<< +ExtraFieldCentral => $data >>, C<< Minimal => 1|0 >>, C<< BlockSize100K => +number >>, C<< WorkFactor => number >>, -Level, -Strategy, C<< Strict => +0|1 >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item Methods + +=over 4 + +=item print + +=item printf + +=item syswrite + +=item write + +=item flush + +=item tell + +=item eof + +=item seek + +=item binmode + +=item opened + +=item autoflush + +=item input_line_number + +=item fileno + +=item close + +=item newStream([OPTS]) + +=item deflateParams + +=back + +=item Importing + +:all, :constants, :flush, :level, :strategy, :zip_method + +=item EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item Apache::GZip Revisited + +=item Working with Net::FTP + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 IO::Dir - supply object methods for directory handles + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +new ( [ DIRNAME ] ), open ( DIRNAME ), read (), seek ( POS ), tell (), +rewind (), close (), tie %hash, 'IO::Dir', DIRNAME [, OPTIONS ] + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 IO::File - supply object methods for filehandles + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CONSTRUCTOR + +new ( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ), new_tmpfile + +=item METHODS + +open( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ), open( FILENAME, IOLAYERS ), binmode( +[LAYER] ) + +=item NOTE + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=head2 IO::Handle - supply object methods for I/O handles + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CONSTRUCTOR + +new (), new_from_fd ( FD, MODE ) + +=item METHODS + +$io->fdopen ( FD, MODE ), $io->opened, $io->getline, $io->getlines, +$io->ungetc ( ORD ), $io->write ( BUF, LEN [, OFFSET ] ), $io->error, +$io->clearerr, $io->sync, $io->flush, $io->printflush ( ARGS ), +$io->blocking ( [ BOOL ] ), $io->untaint + +=item NOTE + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item BUGS + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=head2 IO::Pipe - supply object methods for pipes + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CONSTRUCTOR + +new ( [READER, WRITER] ) + +=item METHODS + +reader ([ARGS]), writer ([ARGS]), handles () + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 IO::Poll - Object interface to system poll call + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +mask ( IO [, EVENT_MASK ] ), poll ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), events ( IO ), remove ( +IO ), handles( [ EVENT_MASK ] ) + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 IO::Seekable - supply seek based methods for I/O objects + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +$io->getpos, $io->setpos, $io->seek ( POS, WHENCE ), WHENCE=0 (SEEK_SET), +WHENCE=1 (SEEK_CUR), WHENCE=2 (SEEK_END), $io->sysseek( POS, WHENCE ), +$io->tell + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=head2 IO::Select - OO interface to the select system call + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CONSTRUCTOR + +new ( [ HANDLES ] ) + +=item METHODS + +add ( HANDLES ), remove ( HANDLES ), exists ( HANDLE ), handles, can_read ( +[ TIMEOUT ] ), can_write ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), has_exception ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), +count (), bits(), select ( READ, WRITE, EXCEPTION [, TIMEOUT ] ) + +=item EXAMPLE + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 IO::Socket - Object interface to socket communications + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CONSTRUCTOR + +new ( [ARGS] ) + +=item METHODS + +accept([PKG]), socketpair(DOMAIN, TYPE, PROTOCOL), atmark, connected, +protocol, sockdomain, sockopt(OPT [, VAL]), socktype, timeout([VAL]) + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 IO::Socket::INET - Object interface for AF_INET domain sockets + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CONSTRUCTOR + +new ( [ARGS] ) + +=over 4 + +=item METHODS + +sockaddr (), sockport (), sockhost (), peeraddr (), peerport (), peerhost +() + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 IO::Socket::UNIX - Object interface for AF_UNIX domain sockets + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CONSTRUCTOR + +new ( [ARGS] ) + +=item METHODS + +hostpath(), peerpath() + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 IO::Uncompress::AnyInflate - Uncompress zlib-based (zip, gzip) +file/buffer + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +RFC 1950, RFC 1951 (optionally), gzip (RFC 1952), zip + +=item Functional Interface + +=over 4 + +=item anyinflate $input => $output [, OPTS] + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An array reference, An Input +FileGlob string, A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An Array +Reference, An Output FileGlob + +=item Notes + +=item Optional Parameters + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< BinModeOut => 0|1 >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, +C<< MultiStream => 0|1 >>, C<< TrailingData => $scalar >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item OO Interface + +=over 4 + +=item Constructor + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference + +=item Constructor Options + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< MultiStream => 0|1 >>, C<< Prime => $string +>>, C<< Transparent => 0|1 >>, C<< BlockSize => $num >>, C<< InputLength => +$size >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, C<< Strict => 0|1 >>, C<< RawInflate => 0|1 +>>, C<< ParseExtra => 0|1 >> If the gzip FEXTRA header field is present and +this option is set, it will force the module to check that it conforms to +the sub-field structure as defined in RFC 1952 + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item Methods + +=over 4 + +=item read + +=item read + +=item getline + +=item getc + +=item ungetc + +=item inflateSync + +=item getHeaderInfo + +=item tell + +=item eof + +=item seek + +=item binmode + +=item opened + +=item autoflush + +=item input_line_number + +=item fileno + +=item close + +=item nextStream + +=item trailingData + +=back + +=item Importing + +:all + +=item EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item Working with Net::FTP + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 IO::Uncompress::AnyUncompress - Uncompress gzip, zip, bzip2 or lzop +file/buffer + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +RFC 1950, RFC 1951 (optionally), gzip (RFC 1952), zip, bzip2, lzop, lzf + +=item Functional Interface + +=over 4 + +=item anyuncompress $input => $output [, OPTS] + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An array reference, An Input +FileGlob string, A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An Array +Reference, An Output FileGlob + +=item Notes + +=item Optional Parameters + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< BinModeOut => 0|1 >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, +C<< MultiStream => 0|1 >>, C<< TrailingData => $scalar >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item OO Interface + +=over 4 + +=item Constructor + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference + +=item Constructor Options + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< MultiStream => 0|1 >>, C<< Prime => $string +>>, C<< Transparent => 0|1 >>, C<< BlockSize => $num >>, C<< InputLength => +$size >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, C<< Strict => 0|1 >>, C<< RawInflate => 0|1 +>> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item Methods + +=over 4 + +=item read + +=item read + +=item getline + +=item getc + +=item ungetc + +=item getHeaderInfo + +=item tell + +=item eof + +=item seek + +=item binmode + +=item opened + +=item autoflush + +=item input_line_number + +=item fileno + +=item close + +=item nextStream + +=item trailingData + +=back + +=item Importing + +:all + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 IO::Uncompress::Base - Base Class for IO::Uncompress modules + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 IO::Uncompress::Bunzip2 - Read bzip2 files/buffers + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Functional Interface + +=over 4 + +=item bunzip2 $input => $output [, OPTS] + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An array reference, An Input +FileGlob string, A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An Array +Reference, An Output FileGlob + +=item Notes + +=item Optional Parameters + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< BinModeOut => 0|1 >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, +C<< MultiStream => 0|1 >>, C<< TrailingData => $scalar >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item OO Interface + +=over 4 + +=item Constructor + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference + +=item Constructor Options + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< MultiStream => 0|1 >>, C<< Prime => $string +>>, C<< Transparent => 0|1 >>, C<< BlockSize => $num >>, C<< InputLength => +$size >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, C<< Strict => 0|1 >>, C<< Small => 0|1 >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item Methods + +=over 4 + +=item read + +=item read + +=item getline + +=item getc + +=item ungetc + +=item getHeaderInfo + +=item tell + +=item eof + +=item seek + +=item binmode + +=item opened + +=item autoflush + +=item input_line_number + +=item fileno + +=item close + +=item nextStream + +=item trailingData + +=back + +=item Importing + +:all + +=item EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item Working with Net::FTP + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 IO::Uncompress::Gunzip - Read RFC 1952 files/buffers + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Functional Interface + +=over 4 + +=item gunzip $input => $output [, OPTS] + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An array reference, An Input +FileGlob string, A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An Array +Reference, An Output FileGlob + +=item Notes + +=item Optional Parameters + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< BinModeOut => 0|1 >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, +C<< MultiStream => 0|1 >>, C<< TrailingData => $scalar >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item OO Interface + +=over 4 + +=item Constructor + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference + +=item Constructor Options + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< MultiStream => 0|1 >>, C<< Prime => $string +>>, C<< Transparent => 0|1 >>, C<< BlockSize => $num >>, C<< InputLength => +$size >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, C<< Strict => 0|1 >>, C<< ParseExtra => 0|1 +>> If the gzip FEXTRA header field is present and this option is set, it +will force the module to check that it conforms to the sub-field structure +as defined in RFC 1952 + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item Methods + +=over 4 + +=item read + +=item read + +=item getline + +=item getc + +=item ungetc + +=item inflateSync + +=item getHeaderInfo + +Name, Comment + +=item tell + +=item eof + +=item seek + +=item binmode + +=item opened + +=item autoflush + +=item input_line_number + +=item fileno + +=item close + +=item nextStream + +=item trailingData + +=back + +=item Importing + +:all + +=item EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item Working with Net::FTP + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 IO::Uncompress::Inflate - Read RFC 1950 files/buffers + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Functional Interface + +=over 4 + +=item inflate $input => $output [, OPTS] + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An array reference, An Input +FileGlob string, A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An Array +Reference, An Output FileGlob + +=item Notes + +=item Optional Parameters + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< BinModeOut => 0|1 >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, +C<< MultiStream => 0|1 >>, C<< TrailingData => $scalar >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item OO Interface + +=over 4 + +=item Constructor + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference + +=item Constructor Options + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< MultiStream => 0|1 >>, C<< Prime => $string +>>, C<< Transparent => 0|1 >>, C<< BlockSize => $num >>, C<< InputLength => +$size >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, C<< Strict => 0|1 >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item Methods + +=over 4 + +=item read + +=item read + +=item getline + +=item getc + +=item ungetc + +=item inflateSync + +=item getHeaderInfo + +=item tell + +=item eof + +=item seek + +=item binmode + +=item opened + +=item autoflush + +=item input_line_number + +=item fileno + +=item close + +=item nextStream + +=item trailingData + +=back + +=item Importing + +:all + +=item EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item Working with Net::FTP + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 IO::Uncompress::RawInflate - Read RFC 1951 files/buffers + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Functional Interface + +=over 4 + +=item rawinflate $input => $output [, OPTS] + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An array reference, An Input +FileGlob string, A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An Array +Reference, An Output FileGlob + +=item Notes + +=item Optional Parameters + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< BinModeOut => 0|1 >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, +C<< MultiStream => 0|1 >>, C<< TrailingData => $scalar >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item OO Interface + +=over 4 + +=item Constructor + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference + +=item Constructor Options + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< MultiStream => 0|1 >>, C<< Prime => $string +>>, C<< Transparent => 0|1 >>, C<< BlockSize => $num >>, C<< InputLength => +$size >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, C<< Strict => 0|1 >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item Methods + +=over 4 + +=item read + +=item read + +=item getline + +=item getc + +=item ungetc + +=item inflateSync + +=item getHeaderInfo + +=item tell + +=item eof + +=item seek + +=item binmode + +=item opened + +=item autoflush + +=item input_line_number + +=item fileno + +=item close + +=item nextStream + +=item trailingData + +=back + +=item Importing + +:all + +=item EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item Working with Net::FTP + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 IO::Uncompress::Unzip - Read zip files/buffers + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Functional Interface + +=over 4 + +=item unzip $input => $output [, OPTS] + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An array reference, An Input +FileGlob string, A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference, An Array +Reference, An Output FileGlob + +=item Notes + +=item Optional Parameters + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< BinModeOut => 0|1 >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, +C<< MultiStream => 0|1 >>, C<< TrailingData => $scalar >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item OO Interface + +=over 4 + +=item Constructor + +A filename, A filehandle, A scalar reference + +=item Constructor Options + +C<< AutoClose => 0|1 >>, C<< MultiStream => 0|1 >>, C<< Prime => $string +>>, C<< Transparent => 0|1 >>, C<< BlockSize => $num >>, C<< InputLength => +$size >>, C<< Append => 0|1 >>, C<< Strict => 0|1 >> + +=item Examples + +=back + +=item Methods + +=over 4 + +=item read + +=item read + +=item getline + +=item getc + +=item ungetc + +=item inflateSync + +=item getHeaderInfo + +=item tell + +=item eof + +=item seek + +=item binmode + +=item opened + +=item autoflush + +=item input_line_number + +=item fileno + +=item close + +=item nextStream + +=item trailingData + +=back + +=item Importing + +:all + +=item EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item Working with Net::FTP + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item MODIFICATION HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 IO::Zlib - IO:: style interface to L<Compress::Zlib> + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CONSTRUCTOR + +new ( [ARGS] ) + +=item OBJECT METHODS + +open ( FILENAME, MODE ), opened, close, getc, getline, getlines, print ( +ARGS... ), read ( BUF, NBYTES, [OFFSET] ), eof, seek ( OFFSET, WHENCE ), +tell, setpos ( POS ), getpos ( POS ) + +=item USING THE EXTERNAL GZIP + +=item CLASS METHODS + +has_Compress_Zlib, gzip_external, gzip_used, gzip_read_open, +gzip_write_open + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + +IO::Zlib::getlines: must be called in list context, +IO::Zlib::gzopen_external: mode '...' is illegal, IO::Zlib::import: '...' +is illegal, IO::Zlib::import: ':gzip_external' requires an argument, +IO::Zlib::import: 'gzip_read_open' requires an argument, IO::Zlib::import: +'gzip_read' '...' is illegal, IO::Zlib::import: 'gzip_write_open' requires +an argument, IO::Zlib::import: 'gzip_write_open' '...' is illegal, +IO::Zlib::import: no Compress::Zlib and no external gzip, IO::Zlib::open: +needs a filename, IO::Zlib::READ: NBYTES must be specified, +IO::Zlib::WRITE: too long LENGTH + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item HISTORY + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 IO::lib::IO::Dir, IO::Dir - supply object methods for directory +handles + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +new ( [ DIRNAME ] ), open ( DIRNAME ), read (), seek ( POS ), tell (), +rewind (), close (), tie %hash, 'IO::Dir', DIRNAME [, OPTIONS ] + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 IO::lib::IO::File, IO::File - supply object methods for filehandles + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CONSTRUCTOR + +new ( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ), new_tmpfile + +=item METHODS + +open( FILENAME [,MODE [,PERMS]] ), open( FILENAME, IOLAYERS ), binmode( +[LAYER] ) + +=item NOTE + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=head2 IO::lib::IO::Handle, IO::Handle - supply object methods for I/O +handles + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CONSTRUCTOR + +new (), new_from_fd ( FD, MODE ) + +=item METHODS + +$io->fdopen ( FD, MODE ), $io->opened, $io->getline, $io->getlines, +$io->ungetc ( ORD ), $io->write ( BUF, LEN [, OFFSET ] ), $io->error, +$io->clearerr, $io->sync, $io->flush, $io->printflush ( ARGS ), +$io->blocking ( [ BOOL ] ), $io->untaint + +=item NOTE + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item BUGS + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=head2 IO::lib::IO::Pipe, IO::Pipe - supply object methods for pipes + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CONSTRUCTOR + +new ( [READER, WRITER] ) + +=item METHODS + +reader ([ARGS]), writer ([ARGS]), handles () + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 IO::lib::IO::Poll, IO::Poll - Object interface to system poll call + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +mask ( IO [, EVENT_MASK ] ), poll ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), events ( IO ), remove ( +IO ), handles( [ EVENT_MASK ] ) + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 IO::lib::IO::Seekable, IO::Seekable - supply seek based methods for +I/O objects + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +$io->getpos, $io->setpos, $io->seek ( POS, WHENCE ), WHENCE=0 (SEEK_SET), +WHENCE=1 (SEEK_CUR), WHENCE=2 (SEEK_END), $io->sysseek( POS, WHENCE ), +$io->tell + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=head2 IO::lib::IO::Select, IO::Select - OO interface to the select system +call + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CONSTRUCTOR + +new ( [ HANDLES ] ) + +=item METHODS + +add ( HANDLES ), remove ( HANDLES ), exists ( HANDLE ), handles, can_read ( +[ TIMEOUT ] ), can_write ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), has_exception ( [ TIMEOUT ] ), +count (), bits(), select ( READ, WRITE, EXCEPTION [, TIMEOUT ] ) + +=item EXAMPLE + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 IO::lib::IO::Socket, IO::Socket - Object interface to socket +communications + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CONSTRUCTOR + +new ( [ARGS] ) + +=item METHODS + +accept([PKG]), socketpair(DOMAIN, TYPE, PROTOCOL), atmark, connected, +protocol, sockdomain, sockopt(OPT [, VAL]), socktype, timeout([VAL]) + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 IO::lib::IO::Socket::INET, IO::Socket::INET - Object interface for +AF_INET domain sockets + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CONSTRUCTOR + +new ( [ARGS] ) + +=over 4 + +=item METHODS + +sockaddr (), sockport (), sockhost (), peeraddr (), peerport (), peerhost +() + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 IO::lib::IO::Socket::UNIX, IO::Socket::UNIX - Object interface for +AF_UNIX domain sockets + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CONSTRUCTOR + +new ( [ARGS] ) + +=item METHODS + +hostpath(), peerpath() + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 IPC-SysV::lib::IPC::Msg, IPC::Msg - SysV Msg IPC object class + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +new ( KEY , FLAGS ), id, rcv ( BUF, LEN [, TYPE [, FLAGS ]] ), remove, set +( STAT ), set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), snd ( TYPE, MSG [, +FLAGS ] ), stat + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHORS + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 IPC-SysV::lib::IPC::Semaphore, IPC::Semaphore - SysV Semaphore IPC +object class + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +new ( KEY , NSEMS , FLAGS ), getall, getncnt ( SEM ), getpid ( SEM ), +getval ( SEM ), getzcnt ( SEM ), id, op ( OPLIST ), remove, set ( STAT ), +set ( NAME => VALUE [, NAME => VALUE ...] ), setall ( VALUES ), setval ( N +, VALUE ), stat + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHORS + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 IPC-SysV::lib::IPC::SharedMem, IPC::SharedMem - SysV Shared Memory +IPC object class + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +new ( KEY , SIZE , FLAGS ), id, read ( POS, SIZE ), write ( STRING, POS, +SIZE ), remove, is_removed, stat, attach ( [FLAG] ), detach, addr + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHORS + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 IPC-SysV::lib::IPC::SysV, IPC::SysV - System V IPC constants and +system calls + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +ftok( PATH ), ftok( PATH, ID ), shmat( ID, ADDR, FLAG ), shmdt( ADDR ), +memread( ADDR, VAR, POS, SIZE ), memwrite( ADDR, STRING, POS, SIZE ) + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHORS + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 IPC::Open2, open2 - open a process for both reading and writing + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item WARNING + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 IPC::Open3, open3 - open a process for reading, writing, and error +handling + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item See Also + +L<IPC::Open2>, L<IPC::Run> + +=item WARNING + +=back + +=head2 IPCmd, IPC::Cmd - finding and running system commands made easy + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CLASS METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item $ipc_run_version = IPC::Cmd->can_use_ipc_run( [VERBOSE] ) + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $ipc_open3_version = IPC::Cmd->can_use_ipc_open3( [VERBOSE] ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = IPC::Cmd->can_capture_buffer + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item FUNCTIONS + +=over 4 + +=item $path = can_run( PROGRAM ); + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $ok | ($ok, $err, $full_buf, $stdout_buff, $stderr_buff) = run( +command => COMMAND, [verbose => BOOL, buffer => \$SCALAR, timeout => DIGIT] +); + +command, verbose, buffer, timeout, success, error message, full_buffer, +out_buffer, error_buffer + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $q = QUOTE + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item HOW IT WORKS + +=item Global Variables + +=over 4 + +=item $IPC::Cmd::VERBOSE + +=item $IPC::Cmd::USE_IPC_RUN + +=item $IPC::Cmd::USE_IPC_OPEN3 + +=item $IPC::Cmd::WARN + +=back + +=item Caveats + +Whitespace and IPC::Open3 / system(), Whitespace and IPC::Run, IO Redirect, +Interleaving STDOUT/STDERR + +=item See Also + +=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS + +=item BUG REPORTS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 List-Utilib::List::Util, List::Util - A selection of general-utility +list subroutines + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +first BLOCK LIST, max LIST, maxstr LIST, min LIST, minstr LIST, reduce +BLOCK LIST, shuffle LIST, sum LIST + +=item KNOWN BUGS + +=item SUGGESTED ADDITIONS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 List-Utilib::List::Util::XS, List::Util::XS - Indicate if List::Util +was compiled with a C compiler + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 List-Utilib::Scalar::Util, Scalar::Util - A selection of +general-utility scalar subroutines + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +blessed EXPR, dualvar NUM, STRING, isvstring EXPR, isweak EXPR, +looks_like_number EXPR, openhandle FH, refaddr EXPR, reftype EXPR, +set_prototype CODEREF, PROTOTYPE, tainted EXPR, weaken REF + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + +Weak references are not implemented in the version of perl, Vstrings are +not implemented in the version of perl, C<NAME> is only available with the +XS version of Scalar::Util + +=item KNOWN BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 List::Util - A selection of general-utility list subroutines + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +first BLOCK LIST, max LIST, maxstr LIST, min LIST, minstr LIST, reduce +BLOCK LIST, shuffle LIST, sum LIST + +=item KNOWN BUGS + +=item SUGGESTED ADDITIONS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 List::Util::XS - Indicate if List::Util was compiled with a C +compiler + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Locale::Constants - constants for Locale codes + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS + +=item SEE ALSO + +Locale::Language, Locale::Country, Locale::Script, Locale::Currency + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Locale::Country - ISO codes for country identification (ISO 3166) + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +B<alpha-2>, B<alpha-3>, B<numeric> + +=item CONVERSION ROUTINES + +code2country( CODE, [ CODESET ] ), country2code( STRING, [ CODESET ] ), +country_code2code( CODE, CODESET, CODESET ) + +=item QUERY ROUTINES + +C<all_country_codes( [ CODESET ] )>, C<all_country_names( [ CODESET ] )> + +=item SEMI-PRIVATE ROUTINES + +=over 4 + +=item alias_code + +=item rename_country + +=back + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item DOMAIN NAMES + +=item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS + +=item SEE ALSO + +Locale::Language, Locale::Script, Locale::Currency, Locale::SubCountry, ISO +3166-1, http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/index.html, +http://www.egt.ie/standards/iso3166/iso3166-1-en.html, +http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/docs/app-d-1.html + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Locale::Currency - ISO three letter codes for currency +identification (ISO 4217) + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +XTS, XXX + +=item CONVERSION ROUTINES + +code2currency(), currency2code() + +=item QUERY ROUTINES + +C<all_currency_codes()>, C<all_currency_names()> + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS + +=item SEE ALSO + +Locale::Country, Locale::Script, ISO 4217:1995, +http://www.bsi-global.com/iso4217currency + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Locale::Language - ISO two letter codes for language identification +(ISO 639) + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CONVERSION ROUTINES + +code2language(), language2code() + +=item QUERY ROUTINES + +C<all_language_codes()>, C<all_language_names()> + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS + +=item SEE ALSO + +Locale::Country, Locale::Script, Locale::Currency, ISO 639:1988 (E/F), +http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/langhome.html + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Locale::Maketext - framework for localization + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item QUICK OVERVIEW + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Construction Methods + +=item The "maketext" Method + +$lh->fail_with I<or> $lh->fail_with(I<PARAM>), $lh->failure_handler_auto + +=item Utility Methods + +$language->quant($number, $singular), $language->quant($number, $singular, +$plural), $language->quant($number, $singular, $plural, $negative), +$language->numf($number), $language->sprintf($format, @items), +$language->language_tag(), $language->encoding() + +=item Language Handle Attributes and Internals + +=back + +=item LANGUAGE CLASS HIERARCHIES + +=item ENTRIES IN EACH LEXICON + +=item BRACKET NOTATION + +=item AUTO LEXICONS + +=item CONTROLLING LOOKUP FAILURE + +=item HOW TO USE MAKETEXT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Locale::Maketext::Simple - Simple interface to +Locale::Maketext::Lexicon + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OPTIONS + +=over 4 + +=item Class + +=item Path + +=item Style + +=item Export + +=item Subclass + +=item Decode + +=item Encoding + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item ACKNOWLEDGMENTS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHORS + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=over 4 + +=item The "MIT" License + +=back + +=back + +=head2 Locale::Maketext::TPJ13 -- article about software localization + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Localization and Perl: gettext breaks, Maketext fixes + +=over 4 + +=item A Localization Horror Story: It Could Happen To You + +=item The Linguistic View + +=item Breaking gettext + +=item Replacing gettext + +=item Buzzwords: Abstraction and Encapsulation + +=item Buzzword: Isomorphism + +=item Buzzword: Inheritance + +=item Buzzword: Concision + +=item The Devil in the Details + +=item The Proof in the Pudding: Localizing Web Sites + +=item References + +=back + +=back + +=head2 Locale::Script - ISO codes for script identification (ISO 15924) + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +B<alpha-2>, B<alpha-3>, B<numeric> + +=over 4 + +=item SPECIAL CODES + +=back + +=item CONVERSION ROUTINES + +code2script( CODE, [ CODESET ] ), script2code( STRING, [ CODESET ] ), +script_code2code( CODE, CODESET, CODESET ) + +=item QUERY ROUTINES + +C<all_script_codes ( [ CODESET ] )>, C<all_script_names ( [ CODESET ] )> + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS + +=item SEE ALSO + +Locale::Language, Locale::Currency, Locale::Country, ISO 15924, +http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso15924/ + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Log::Message - A generic message storing mechanism; + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Hierarchy + +Log::Message, Log::Message::Item, Log::Message::Handlers, +Log::Message::Config + +=item Options + +config, private, verbose, tag, level, remove, chrono + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Methods + +=over 4 + +=item new + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item store + +message, tag, level, extra + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item retrieve + +tag, level, message, amount, chrono, remove + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item first + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item last + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item flush + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item Acknowledgements + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Log::Message::Config - Configuration options for Log::Message + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item Acknowledgements + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Log::Message::Handlers - Message handlers for Log::Message + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Default Handlers + +=over 4 + +=item log + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item carp + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item croak + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item cluck + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item confess + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item die + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item warn + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item trace + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Custom Handlers + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item Acknowledgements + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Log::Message::Item - Message objects for Log::Message + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Methods and Accessors + +=over 4 + +=item remove + +=item id + +=item when + +=item message + +=item level + +=item tag + +=item shortmess + +=item longmess + +=item parent + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item Acknowledgements + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Log::Message::Simple + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item FUNCTIONS + +=over 4 + +=item msg("message string" [,VERBOSE]) + +=item debug("message string" [,VERBOSE]) + +=item error("error string" [,VERBOSE]) + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item carp(); + +=item croak(); + +=item confess(); + +=item cluck(); + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item CLASS METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Log::Message::Simple->stack() + +=item Log::Message::Simple->stack_as_string([TRACE]) + +=item Log::Message::Simple->flush() + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item GLOBAL VARIABLES + +$ERROR_FH, $MSG_FH, $DEBUG_FH, $STACKTRACE_ON_ERROR + +=back + +=head2 MIME-Base64, MIME::Base64 - Encoding and decoding of base64 strings + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +encode_base64($str), encode_base64($str, $eol);, decode_base64($str) + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + +Premature end of base64 data, Premature padding of base64 data, Wide +character in subroutine entry + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 MIME-Base64::QuotedPrint, MIME::QuotedPrint - Encoding and decoding +of quoted-printable strings + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +encode_qp($str), encode_qp($str, $eol), encode_qp($str, $eol, $binmode), +decode_qp($str); + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 MIME::Base64 - Encoding and decoding of base64 strings + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +encode_base64($str), encode_base64($str, $eol);, decode_base64($str) + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + +Premature end of base64 data, Premature padding of base64 data, Wide +character in subroutine entry + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 MIME::QuotedPrint - Encoding and decoding of quoted-printable +strings + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +encode_qp($str), encode_qp($str, $eol), encode_qp($str, $eol, $binmode), +decode_qp($str); + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Math-BigInt-FastCalc, Math::BigInt::FastCalc - Math::BigInt::Calc +with some XS for more speed + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item STORAGE + +=item METHODS + +=item LICENSE + +This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it +under +the same terms as Perl itself. + +=item AUTHORS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Math::BigFloat - Arbitrary size floating point math package + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Canonical notation + +=item Output + +=item C<mantissa()>, C<exponent()> and C<parts()> + +=item Accuracy vs. Precision + +=item Rounding + +ffround ( +$scale ), ffround ( -$scale ), ffround ( 0 ), fround ( +$scale +), fround ( -$scale ) and fround ( 0 ) + +=back + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item accuracy + +=item precision() + +=item bexp() + +=item bnok() + +=item bpi() + +=item bcos() + +=item bsin() + +=item batan2() + +=item batan() + +=item bmuladd() + +=back + +=item Autocreating constants + +=over 4 + +=item Math library + +=item Using Math::BigInt::Lite + +=back + +=item EXPORTS + +=item BUGS + +=item CAVEATS + +stringify, bstr(), bdiv, brsft, Modifying and =, bpow, precision() vs. +accuracy() + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item LICENSE + +=item AUTHORS + +=back + +=head2 Math::BigInt - Arbitrary size integer/float math package + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +Input, Output + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item config() + +=item accuracy() + +=item precision() + +=item brsft() + +=item new() + +=item from_oct() + +=item from_hex() + +=item from_bin() + +=item bnan() + +=item bzero() + +=item binf() + +=item bone() + +=item is_one()/is_zero()/is_nan()/is_inf() + +=item is_pos()/is_neg()/is_positive()/is_negative() + + $x->is_pos(); # true if > 0 + $x->is_neg(); # true if < 0 + +=item is_odd()/is_even()/is_int() + +=item bcmp() + +=item bacmp() + +=item sign() + +=item digit() + +=item bneg() + +=item babs() + +=item bnorm() + +=item bnot() + +=item binc() + +=item bdec() + +=item badd() + +=item bsub() + +=item bmul() + +=item bmuladd() + +=item bdiv() + +=item bmod() + +=item bmodinv() + +=item bmodpow() + +=item bpow() + +=item blog() + +=item bexp() + +=item bnok() + +=item bpi() + +=item bcos() + +=item bsin() + +=item batan2() + +=item batan() + +=item blsft() + +=item brsft() + +=item band() + +=item bior() + +=item bxor() + +=item bnot() + +=item bsqrt() + +=item broot() + +=item bfac() + +=item round() + +=item bround() + +=item bfround() + +=item bfloor() + +=item bceil() + +=item bgcd() + +=item blcm() + +=item exponent() + +=item mantissa() + +=item parts() + +=item copy() + +=item as_int()/as_number() + +=item bsstr() + +=item as_hex() + +=item as_bin() + +=item as_oct() + +=item numify() + +=item modify() + +=item upgrade()/downgrade() + +=item div_scale() + +=item round_mode() + +=back + +=item ACCURACY and PRECISION + +=over 4 + +=item Precision P + +=item Accuracy A + +=item Fallback F + +=item Rounding mode R + +'trunc', 'even', 'odd', '+inf', '-inf', 'zero', 'common', Precision, +Accuracy (significant digits), Setting/Accessing, Creating numbers, Usage, +Precedence, Overriding globals, Local settings, Rounding, Default values, +Remarks + +=back + +=item Infinity and Not a Number + +oct()/hex(), log(-inf), exp(), cos(), sin(), atan2() + +=item INTERNALS + +=over 4 + +=item MATH LIBRARY + +=item SIGN + +=item mantissa(), exponent() and parts() + +=back + +=item EXAMPLES + + use Math::BigInt; + +=item Autocreating constants + +=item PERFORMANCE + +=over 4 + +=item Alternative math libraries + +=item SUBCLASSING + +=back + +=item Subclassing Math::BigInt + +=item UPGRADING + +=over 4 + +=item Auto-upgrade + +bsqrt(), div(), blog(), bexp() + +=back + +=item EXPORTS + +=item CAVEATS + +bstr(), bsstr() and 'cmp', int(), length, bdiv, infinity handling, +Modifying and =, bpow, Overloading -$x, Mixing different object types, +bsqrt(), brsft() + +=item LICENSE + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHORS + +=back + +=head2 Math::BigInt::Calc - Pure Perl module to support Math::BigInt + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item STORAGE + +=item METHODS + +=item WRAP YOUR OWN + +=item LICENSE + +This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it +under +the same terms as Perl itself. + +=item AUTHORS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Math::BigInt::CalcEmu - Emulate low-level math with BigInt code + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item __emu_bxor + +=item __emu_band + +=item __emu_bior + +=back + +=item LICENSE + +This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it +under +the same terms as Perl itself. + +=item AUTHORS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Math::BigInt::FastCalc - Math::BigInt::Calc with some XS for more +speed + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item STORAGE + +=item METHODS + +=item LICENSE + +This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it +under +the same terms as Perl itself. + +=item AUTHORS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Math::BigRat - Arbitrary big rational numbers + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item MATH LIBRARY + +=back + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item new() + +=item numerator() + +=item denominator() + + $d = $x->denominator(); + +=item parts() + +=item numify() + +=item as_int()/as_number() + +=item as_float() + +=item as_hex() + +=item as_bin() + +=item as_oct() + +=item from_hex()/from_bin()/from_oct() + +=item length() + +=item digit() + +=item bnorm() + +=item bfac() + +=item bround()/round()/bfround() + +=item bmod() + +=item bneg() + +=item is_one() + +=item is_zero() + +=item is_pos()/is_positive() + +=item is_neg()/is_negative() + +=item is_int() + +=item is_odd() + +=item is_even() + +=item bceil() + +=item bfloor() + + $x->bfloor(); + +=item bsqrt() + + $x->bsqrt(); + +=item broot() + + $x->broot($n); + +=item badd()/bmul()/bsub()/bdiv()/bdec()/binc() + +=item copy() + +=item bstr()/bsstr() + +=item bacmp()/bcmp() + +=item blsft()/brsft() + +=item bpow() + +=item bexp() + +=item bnok() + +=item config() + +=item objectify() + +=back + +=item BUGS + +inf handling (partial), NaN handling (partial), rounding (not implemented +except for bceil/bfloor), $x ** $y where $y is not an integer, bmod(), +blog(), bmodinv() and bmodpow() (partial) + +=item LICENSE + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHORS + +=back + +=head2 Math::Complex - complex numbers and associated mathematical +functions + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OPERATIONS + +=item CREATION + +=item DISPLAYING + +=over 4 + +=item CHANGED IN PERL 5.6 + +=back + +=item USAGE + +=item CONSTANTS + +=over 4 + +=item PI + +=item Inf + +=back + +=item ERRORS DUE TO DIVISION BY ZERO OR LOGARITHM OF ZERO + +=item ERRORS DUE TO INDIGESTIBLE ARGUMENTS + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHORS + +=item LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 Math::Trig - trigonometric functions + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item TRIGONOMETRIC FUNCTIONS + +B<tan> + +=over 4 + +=item ERRORS DUE TO DIVISION BY ZERO + +=item SIMPLE (REAL) ARGUMENTS, COMPLEX RESULTS + +=back + +=item PLANE ANGLE CONVERSIONS + +deg2rad, grad2rad, rad2deg, grad2deg, deg2grad, rad2grad, rad2rad, deg2deg, +grad2grad + +=item RADIAL COORDINATE CONVERSIONS + +=over 4 + +=item COORDINATE SYSTEMS + +=item 3-D ANGLE CONVERSIONS + +cartesian_to_cylindrical, cartesian_to_spherical, cylindrical_to_cartesian, +cylindrical_to_spherical, spherical_to_cartesian, spherical_to_cylindrical + +=back + +=item GREAT CIRCLE DISTANCES AND DIRECTIONS + +=over 4 + +=item great_circle_distance + +=item great_circle_direction + +=item great_circle_bearing + +=item great_circle_destination + +=item great_circle_midpoint + +=item great_circle_waypoint + +=back + +=item EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item CAVEAT FOR GREAT CIRCLE FORMULAS + +=item Real-valued asin and acos + +asin_real, acos_real + +=back + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHORS + +=item LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 Memoize - Make functions faster by trading space for time + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item DETAILS + +=item OPTIONS + +=over 4 + +=item INSTALL + +=item NORMALIZER + +=item C<SCALAR_CACHE>, C<LIST_CACHE> + +C<MEMORY>, C<HASH>, C<TIE>, C<FAULT>, C<MERGE> + +=back + +=item OTHER FACILITIES + +=over 4 + +=item C<unmemoize> + +=item C<flush_cache> + +=back + +=item CAVEATS + +=item PERSISTENT CACHE SUPPORT + +=item EXPIRATION SUPPORT + +=item BUGS + +=item MAILING LIST + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=item THANK YOU + +=back + +=head2 Memoize::AnyDBM_File - glue to provide EXISTS for AnyDBM_File for +Storable use + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head2 Memoize::Expire - Plug-in module for automatic expiration of +memoized values + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item INTERFACE + + TIEHASH, EXISTS, STORE + +=item ALTERNATIVES + +=item CAVEATS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Memoize::ExpireFile - test for Memoize expiration semantics + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head2 Memoize::ExpireTest - test for Memoize expiration semantics + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head2 Memoize::NDBM_File - glue to provide EXISTS for NDBM_File for +Storable use + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head2 Memoize::SDBM_File - glue to provide EXISTS for SDBM_File for +Storable use + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head2 Memoize::Storable - store Memoized data in Storable database + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head2 Module-Pluggable::lib::Devel::InnerPackage, Devel::InnerPackage - +find all the inner packages of a package + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item list_packages <package name> + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYING + +=item BUGS + +=back + +=head2 Module-Pluggable::lib::Module::Pluggable, Module::Pluggable - +automatically give your module the ability to have plugins + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item EXAMPLE + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item ADVANCED USAGE + +=item INNER PACKAGES + +=item OPTIONS + +=over 4 + +=item sub_name + +=item search_path + +=item search_dirs + +=item instantiate + +=item require + +=item inner + +=item only + +=item except + +=item package + +=item file_regex + +=item include_editor_junk + +=back + +=item METHODs + +=over 4 + +=item search_path + +=back + +=item FUTURE PLANS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYING + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Module-Pluggable::lib::Module::Pluggable::Object, +Module::Pluggable::Object - automatically give your module the ability to +have plugins + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OPTIONS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYING + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Module::Build - Build and install Perl modules + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item GUIDE TO DOCUMENTATION + +General Usage (L<Module::Build>), Authoring Reference +(L<Module::Build::Authoring>), API Reference (L<Module::Build::API>), +Cookbook (L<Module::Build::Cookbook>) + +=item ACTIONS + +build, clean, code, config_data, diff, dist, distcheck, distclean, distdir, +distmeta, distsign, disttest, docs, fakeinstall, help, html, install, +manifest, manpages, pardist, ppd, ppmdist, prereq_data, prereq_report, +pure_install, realclean, retest, skipcheck, test, testall, testcover, +testdb, testpod, testpodcoverage, versioninstall + +=item OPTIONS + +=over 4 + +=item Command Line Options + +quiet, use_rcfile, verbose, allow_mb_mismatch, debug + +=item Default Options File (F<.modulebuildrc>) + +=back + +=item INSTALL PATHS + +lib, arch, script, bin, bindoc, libdoc, binhtml, libhtml, installdirs, +install_path, install_base, destdir, prefix + +=item MOTIVATIONS + ++, + + +=item TO DO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Module::Build::API - API Reference for Module Authors + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item CONSTRUCTORS + +current(), new(), add_to_cleanup, auto_configure_requires, auto_features, +autosplit, build_class, build_requires, create_packlist, c_source, +conflicts, create_license, create_makefile_pl, create_readme, +dist_abstract, dist_author, dist_name, dist_version, dist_version_from, +dynamic_config, extra_compiler_flags, extra_linker_flags, get_options, +type, store, default, include_dirs, install_path, installdirs, license, +apache, artistic, artistic_2, bsd, gpl, lgpl, mit, mozilla, open_source, +perl, restrictive, unrestricted, meta_add, meta_merge, module_name, +PL_files, pm_files, pod_files, recommends, recursive_test_files, requires, +script_files, sign, test_files, use_tap_harness, tap_harness_args, +xs_files, new_from_context(%args), resume(), subclass(), add_property, +C<default>, C<check>, property_error + +=item METHODS + +add_build_element($type), add_to_cleanup(@files), args(), +autosplit_file($from, $to), base_dir(), build_requires(), can_action( +$action ), cbuilder(), check_installed_status($module, $version), +check_installed_version($module, $version), compare_versions($v1, $op, +$v2), config($key), config($key, $value), config() [deprecated], +config_data($name), config_data($name => $value), conflicts(), +contains_pod($file), copy_if_modified(%parameters), create_build_script(), +current_action(), depends_on(@actions), dir_contains($first_dir, +$second_dir), dispatch($action, %args), dist_dir(), dist_name(), +dist_version(), do_system($cmd, @args), feature($name), feature($name => +$value), fix_shebang_line(@files), have_c_compiler(), +install_base_relpaths(), install_base_relpaths($type), +install_base_relpaths($type => $path), install_destination($type), +install_path(), install_path($type), install_path($type => $path), +install_types(), invoked_action(), notes(), notes($key), notes($key => +$value), orig_dir(), os_type(), is_vmsish(), is_windowsish(), is_unixish(), +prefix_relpaths(), prefix_relpaths($installdirs), +prefix_relpaths($installdirs, $type), prefix_relpaths($installdirs, $type +=> $path), prepare_metadata(), prereq_failures(), prereq_data(), +prereq_report(), prompt($message, $default), recommends(), requires(), +rscan_dir($dir, $pattern), runtime_params(), runtime_params($key), +script_files(), up_to_date($source_file, $derived_file), +up_to_date(\@source_files, \@derived_files), y_n($message, $default) + +=item Autogenerated Accessors + +PL_files(), allow_mb_mismatch(), auto_configure_requires(), autosplit(), +base_dir(), bindoc_dirs(), blib(), build_bat(), build_class(), +build_elements(), build_requires(), build_script(), c_source(), +config_dir(), configure_requires(), conflicts(), create_license(), +create_makefile_pl(), create_packlist(), create_readme(), debug(), +debugger(), destdir(), get_options(), html_css(), include_dirs(), +install_base(), install_sets(), installdirs(), libdoc_dirs(), license(), +magic_number(), mb_version(), meta_add(), meta_merge(), metafile(), +module_name(), orig_dir(), original_prefix(), perl(), pm_files(), +pod_files(), pollute(), prefix(), prereq_action_types(), program_name(), +quiet(), recommends(), recurse_into(), recursive_test_files(), requires(), +scripts(), sign(), tap_harness_args(), test_file_exts(), use_rcfile(), +use_tap_harness(), verbose(), xs_files() + +=back + +=item MODULE METADATA + +keywords, resources + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Module::Build::Authoring - Authoring Module::Build modules + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item STRUCTURE + +=item SUBCLASSING + +=item PREREQUISITES + +=over 4 + +=item Types of prerequisites + +configure_requires, build_requires, requires, recommends, conflicts + +=item Format of prerequisites + +=item XS Extensions + +=back + +=item SAVING CONFIGURATION INFORMATION + +=item STARTING MODULE DEVELOPMENT + +=item AUTOMATION + +=item MIGRATION + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Module::Build::Base - Default methods for Module::Build + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Module::Build::Compat - Compatibility with ExtUtils::MakeMaker + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +create_makefile_pl($style, $build), small, passthrough, traditional, +run_build_pl(args => \@ARGV), args, script, write_makefile(), makefile + +=item SCENARIOS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Module::Build::ConfigData - Configuration for Module::Build + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +config($name), feature($name), set_config($name, $value), +set_feature($name, $value), config_names(), feature_names(), +auto_feature_names(), write() + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Module::Build::Cookbook - Examples of Module::Build Usage + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item BASIC RECIPES + +=over 4 + +=item Installing modules that use Module::Build + +=item Modifying Config.pm values + +=item Installing modules using the programmatic interface + +=item Installing to a temporary directory + +=item Installing to a non-standard directory + +=item Installing in the same location as ExtUtils::MakeMaker + +=item Running a single test file + +=back + +=item ADVANCED RECIPES + +=over 4 + +=item Making a CPAN.pm-compatible distribution + +=item Changing the order of the build process + +=item Adding new file types to the build process + +=item Adding new elements to the install process + +=back + +=item EXAMPLES ON CPAN + +=over 4 + +=item SVN-Notify-Mirror + +1. Using C<auto_features>, I check to see whether two optional modules are +available - SVN::Notify::Config and Net::SSH;, 2. If the S::N::Config +module is loaded, I automatically generate test files for it during Build +(using the C<PL_files> property), 3. If the C<ssh_feature> is available, I +ask if the user wishes to perform the ssh tests (since it requires a little +preliminary setup);, 4. Only if the user has C<ssh_feature> and answers yes +to the testing, do I generate a test file + +=item Modifying an action + +=item Adding an action + +=item Bundling Module::Build + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Module::Build::ModuleInfo, ModuleInfo - Gather package and POD +information from a perl module file + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +new_from_file($filename, collect_pod => 1), new_from_module($module, +collect_pod => 1, inc => \@dirs), name(), version($package), filename(), +packages_inside(), pod_inside(), contains_pod(), pod($section), +find_module_by_name($module, \@dirs), find_module_dir_by_name($module, +\@dirs) + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Module::Build::Notes, $notes_name - Configuration for $module_name + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +config(\$name), feature(\$name), set_config(\$name, \$value), +set_feature(\$name, \$value), config_names(), feature_names(), +auto_feature_names(), write() + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Module::Build::PPMMaker - Perl Package Manager file creation + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Module::Build::Platform::Amiga - Builder class for Amiga platforms + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Module::Build::Platform::Default - Stub class for unknown platforms + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Module::Build::Platform::EBCDIC - Builder class for EBCDIC platforms + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Module::Build::Platform::MPEiX - Builder class for MPEiX platforms + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Module::Build::Platform::MacOS - Builder class for MacOS platforms + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Overridden Methods + +new(), make_executable(), dispatch(), ACTION_realclean() + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Module::Build::Platform::RiscOS - Builder class for RiscOS platforms + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Module::Build::Platform::Unix - Builder class for Unix platforms + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Module::Build::Platform::VMS - Builder class for VMS platforms + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Overridden Methods + +_set_defaults + +=back + +=back + +cull_args + +manpage_separator + +prefixify + +_quote_args + +have_forkpipe + +_backticks + +do_system + +oneliner + +_infer_xs_spec + +rscan_dir + +dist_dir + +man3page_name + +expand_test_dir + +_detildefy + +find_perl_interpreter + +localize_file_path + +localize_dir_path + +ACTION_clean + +=over 4 + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Module::Build::Platform::VOS - Builder class for VOS platforms + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Module::Build::Platform::Windows - Builder class for Windows +platforms + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Module::Build::Platform::aix - Builder class for AIX platform + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Module::Build::Platform::cygwin - Builder class for Cygwin platform + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Module::Build::Platform::darwin - Builder class for Mac OS X +platform + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Module::Build::Platform::os2 - Builder class for OS/2 platform + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Module::Build::YAML - Provides just enough YAML support so that +Module::Build works even if YAML.pm is not installed + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CAVEATS + +=item HISTORY + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Module::Load - runtime require of both modules and files + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Rules + +=item Caveats + +=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS + +=item BUG REPORTS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Module::Load::Conditional - Looking up module information / loading +at runtime + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Methods + +=item $href = check_install( module => NAME [, version => VERSION, verbose +=> BOOL ] ); + +module, version, verbose, file, dir, version, uptodate + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = can_load( modules => { NAME => VERSION [,NAME => VERSION] }, +[verbose => BOOL, nocache => BOOL] ) + +modules, verbose, nocache + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item @list = requires( MODULE ); + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Global Variables + +=over 4 + +=item $Module::Load::Conditional::VERBOSE + +=item $Module::Load::Conditional::FIND_VERSION + +=item $Module::Load::Conditional::CHECK_INC_HASH + +=item $Module::Load::Conditional::CACHE + +=item $Module::Load::Conditional::ERROR + +=back + +=item See Also + +=item BUG REPORTS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Module::Loaded - mark modules as loaded or unloaded + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item FUNCTIONS + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = mark_as_loaded( PACKAGE ); + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = mark_as_unloaded( PACKAGE ); + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $loc = is_loaded( PACKAGE ); + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item BUG REPORTS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Module::Pluggable - automatically give your module the ability to +have plugins + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item EXAMPLE + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item ADVANCED USAGE + +=item INNER PACKAGES + +=item OPTIONS + +=over 4 + +=item sub_name + +=item search_path + +=item search_dirs + +=item instantiate + +=item require + +=item inner + +=item only + +=item except + +=item package + +=item file_regex + +=item include_editor_junk + +=back + +=item METHODs + +=over 4 + +=item search_path + +=back + +=item FUTURE PLANS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYING + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Module::Pluggable::Object - automatically give your module the +ability to have plugins + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OPTIONS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYING + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 NDBM_File - Tied access to ndbm files + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +C<O_RDONLY>, C<O_WRONLY>, C<O_RDWR> + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + +=over 4 + +=item C<ndbm store returned -1, errno 22, key "..." at ...> + +=back + +=item BUGS AND WARNINGS + +=back + +=head2 NEXT - Provide a pseudo-class NEXT (et al) that allows method +redispatch + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Enforcing redispatch + +=item Avoiding repetitions + +=item Invoking all versions of a method with a single call + +=item Using C<EVERY> methods + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=item BUGS AND IRRITATIONS + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Net::Cmd - Network Command class (as used by FTP, SMTP etc) + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item USER METHODS + +debug ( VALUE ), message (), code (), ok (), status (), datasend ( DATA ), +dataend () + +=item CLASS METHODS + +debug_print ( DIR, TEXT ), debug_text ( TEXT ), command ( CMD [, ARGS, ... +]), unsupported (), response (), parse_response ( TEXT ), getline (), +ungetline ( TEXT ), rawdatasend ( DATA ), read_until_dot (), tied_fh () + +=item EXPORTS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Net::Config - Local configuration data for libnet + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSYS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +requires_firewall HOST + +=item NetConfig VALUES + +nntp_hosts, snpp_hosts, pop3_hosts, smtp_hosts, ph_hosts, daytime_hosts, +time_hosts, inet_domain, ftp_firewall, ftp_firewall_type, ftp_ext_passive, +ftp_int_passive, local_netmask, test_hosts, test_exists + +=back + +=head2 Net::Domain - Attempt to evaluate the current host's internet name +and domain + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +hostfqdn (), domainname (), hostname (), hostdomain () + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Net::FTP - FTP Client class + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OVERVIEW + +=item CONSTRUCTOR + +new ([ HOST ] [, OPTIONS ]) + +=item METHODS + +login ([LOGIN [,PASSWORD [, ACCOUNT] ] ]), authorize ( [AUTH [, RESP]]), +site (ARGS), ascii, binary, rename ( OLDNAME, NEWNAME ), delete ( FILENAME +), cwd ( [ DIR ] ), cdup (), pwd (), restart ( WHERE ), rmdir ( DIR [, +RECURSE ]), mkdir ( DIR [, RECURSE ]), alloc ( SIZE [, RECORD_SIZE] ), ls ( +[ DIR ] ), dir ( [ DIR ] ), get ( REMOTE_FILE [, LOCAL_FILE [, WHERE]] ), +put ( LOCAL_FILE [, REMOTE_FILE ] ), put_unique ( LOCAL_FILE [, REMOTE_FILE +] ), append ( LOCAL_FILE [, REMOTE_FILE ] ), unique_name (), mdtm ( FILE ), +size ( FILE ), supported ( CMD ), hash ( [FILEHANDLE_GLOB_REF],[ +BYTES_PER_HASH_MARK] ), feature ( NAME ), nlst ( [ DIR ] ), list ( [ DIR ] +), retr ( FILE ), stor ( FILE ), stou ( FILE ), appe ( FILE ), port ( [ +PORT ] ), pasv (), pasv_xfer ( SRC_FILE, DEST_SERVER [, DEST_FILE ] ), +pasv_xfer_unique ( SRC_FILE, DEST_SERVER [, DEST_FILE ] ), pasv_wait ( +NON_PASV_SERVER ), abort (), quit () + +=over 4 + +=item Methods for the adventurous + +quot (CMD [,ARGS]) + +=back + +=item THE dataconn CLASS + +read ( BUFFER, SIZE [, TIMEOUT ] ), write ( BUFFER, SIZE [, TIMEOUT ] ), +bytes_read (), abort (), close () + +=item UNIMPLEMENTED + +B<SMNT>, B<HELP>, B<MODE>, B<SYST>, B<STAT>, B<STRU>, B<REIN> + +=item REPORTING BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item USE EXAMPLES + +http://www.csh.rit.edu/~adam/Progs/ + +=item CREDITS + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Net::NNTP - NNTP Client class + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CONSTRUCTOR + +new ( [ HOST ] [, OPTIONS ]) + +=item METHODS + +article ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ], [FH] ), body ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ], [FH] ), head ( +[ MSGID|MSGNUM ], [FH] ), articlefh ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ] ), bodyfh ( [ +MSGID|MSGNUM ] ), headfh ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ] ), nntpstat ( [ MSGID|MSGNUM ] +), group ( [ GROUP ] ), ihave ( MSGID [, MESSAGE ]), last (), date (), +postok (), authinfo ( USER, PASS ), list (), newgroups ( SINCE [, +DISTRIBUTIONS ]), newnews ( SINCE [, GROUPS [, DISTRIBUTIONS ]]), next (), +post ( [ MESSAGE ] ), postfh (), slave (), quit () + +=over 4 + +=item Extension methods + +newsgroups ( [ PATTERN ] ), distributions (), subscriptions (), +overview_fmt (), active_times (), active ( [ PATTERN ] ), xgtitle ( PATTERN +), xhdr ( HEADER, MESSAGE-SPEC ), xover ( MESSAGE-SPEC ), xpath ( +MESSAGE-ID ), xpat ( HEADER, PATTERN, MESSAGE-SPEC), xrover, listgroup ( [ +GROUP ] ), reader + +=back + +=item UNSUPPORTED + +=item DEFINITIONS + +MESSAGE-SPEC, PATTERN, Examples, C<[^]-]>, C<*bdc>, C<[0-9a-zA-Z]>, C<a??d> + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Net::POP3 - Post Office Protocol 3 Client class (RFC1939) + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CONSTRUCTOR + +new ( [ HOST ] [, OPTIONS ] 0 + +=item METHODS + +auth ( USERNAME, PASSWORD ), user ( USER ), pass ( PASS ), login ( [ USER +[, PASS ]] ), apop ( [ USER [, PASS ]] ), banner (), capa (), capabilities +(), top ( MSGNUM [, NUMLINES ] ), list ( [ MSGNUM ] ), get ( MSGNUM [, FH ] +), getfh ( MSGNUM ), last (), popstat (), ping ( USER ), uidl ( [ MSGNUM ] +), delete ( MSGNUM ), reset (), quit () + +=item NOTES + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Net::Ping - check a remote host for reachability + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Functions + +Net::Ping->new([$proto [, $def_timeout [, $bytes [, $device [, $tos +]]]]]);, $p->ping($host [, $timeout]);, $p->source_verify( { 0 | 1 } );, +$p->service_check( { 0 | 1 } );, $p->tcp_service_check( { 0 | 1 } );, +$p->hires( { 0 | 1 } );, $p->bind($local_addr);, $p->open($host);, $p->ack( +[ $host ] );, $p->nack( $failed_ack_host );, $p->close();, +$p->port_number([$port_number]), pingecho($host [, $timeout]); + +=back + +=item NOTES + +=item INSTALL + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHORS + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Net::SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Client + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item CONSTRUCTOR + +new ( [ HOST ] [, OPTIONS ] ) + +=item METHODS + +banner (), domain (), hello ( DOMAIN ), host (), etrn ( DOMAIN ), auth ( +USERNAME, PASSWORD ), mail ( ADDRESS [, OPTIONS] ), send ( ADDRESS ), +send_or_mail ( ADDRESS ), send_and_mail ( ADDRESS ), reset (), recipient ( +ADDRESS [, ADDRESS, [...]] [, OPTIONS ] ), to ( ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] +), cc ( ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] ), bcc ( ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] ), +data ( [ DATA ] ), expand ( ADDRESS ), verify ( ADDRESS ), help ( [ +$subject ] ), quit () + +=item ADDRESSES + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Net::Time - time and daytime network client interface + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +inet_time ( [HOST [, PROTOCOL [, TIMEOUT]]]), inet_daytime ( [HOST [, +PROTOCOL [, TIMEOUT]]]) + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Net::hostent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in gethost*() +functions + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item NOTE + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Net::libnetFAQ, libnetFAQ - libnet Frequently Asked Questions + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Where to get this document + +=item How to contribute to this document + +=back + +=item Author and Copyright Information + +=over 4 + +=item Disclaimer + +=back + +=item Obtaining and installing libnet + +=over 4 + +=item What is libnet ? + +=item Which version of perl do I need ? + +=item What other modules do I need ? + +=item What machines support libnet ? + +=item Where can I get the latest libnet release + +=back + +=item Using Net::FTP + +=over 4 + +=item How do I download files from an FTP server ? + +=item How do I transfer files in binary mode ? + +=item How can I get the size of a file on a remote FTP server ? + +=item How can I get the modification time of a file on a remote FTP server +? + +=item How can I change the permissions of a file on a remote server ? + +=item Can I do a reget operation like the ftp command ? + +=item How do I get a directory listing from an FTP server ? + +=item Changing directory to "" does not fail ? + +=item I am behind a SOCKS firewall, but the Firewall option does not work ? + +=item I am behind an FTP proxy firewall, but cannot access machines outside +? + +=item My ftp proxy firewall does not listen on port 21 + +=item Is it possible to change the file permissions of a file on an FTP +server ? + +=item I have seen scripts call a method message, but cannot find it +documented ? + +=item Why does Net::FTP not implement mput and mget methods + +=back + +=item Using Net::SMTP + +=over 4 + +=item Why can't the part of an Email address after the @ be used as the +hostname ? + +=item Why does Net::SMTP not do DNS MX lookups ? + +=item The verify method always returns true ? + +=back + +=item Debugging scripts + +=over 4 + +=item How can I debug my scripts that use Net::* modules ? + +=back + +=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Net::netent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getnet*() +functions + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item NOTE + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Net::protoent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getproto*() +functions + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item NOTE + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Net::servent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getserv*() +functions + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item NOTE + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Netrc, Net::Netrc - OO interface to users netrc file + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item THE .netrc FILE + +machine name, default, login name, password string, account string, macdef +name + +=item CONSTRUCTOR + +lookup ( MACHINE [, LOGIN ]) + +=item METHODS + +login (), password (), account (), lpa () + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 O - Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CONVENTIONS + +=item IMPLEMENTATION + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 ODBM_File - Tied access to odbm files + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +C<O_RDONLY>, C<O_WRONLY>, C<O_RDWR> + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + +=over 4 + +=item C<odbm store returned -1, errno 22, key "..." at ...> + +=back + +=item BUGS AND WARNINGS + +=back + +=head2 Object::Accessor + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item $object = Object::Accessor->new( [ARGS] ); + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $object->mk_accessors( @ACCESSORS | \%ACCESSOR_MAP ); + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item @list = $self->ls_accessors; + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $ref = $self->ls_allow(KEY) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $self->mk_aliases( alias => method, [alias2 => method2, ...] +); + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $clone = $self->mk_clone; + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $self->mk_flush; + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $self->mk_verify; + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $self->register_callback( sub { ... } ); + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $self->can( METHOD_NAME ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $val = $self->___get( METHOD_NAME ); + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $self->___set( METHOD_NAME => VALUE ); + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $self->___alias( ALIAS => METHOD ); + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item LVALUE ACCESSORS + +=over 4 + +=item CAVEATS + +Allow handlers, Callbacks + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item GLOBAL VARIABLES + +=over 4 + +=item $Object::Accessor::FATAL + +=item $Object::Accessor::DEBUG + +=back + +=item TODO + +=over 4 + +=item Create read-only accessors + +=back + +=item CAVEATS + +=item BUG REPORTS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Opcode - Disable named opcodes when compiling perl code + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item NOTE + +=item WARNING + +=item Operator Names and Operator Lists + +an operator name (opname), an operator tag name (optag), a negated opname +or optag, an operator set (opset) + +=item Opcode Functions + +opcodes, opset (OP, ...), opset_to_ops (OPSET), opset_to_hex (OPSET), +full_opset, empty_opset, invert_opset (OPSET), verify_opset (OPSET, ...), +define_optag (OPTAG, OPSET), opmask_add (OPSET), opmask, opdesc (OP, ...), +opdump (PAT) + +=item Manipulating Opsets + +=item TO DO (maybe) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Predefined Opcode Tags + +:base_core, :base_mem, :base_loop, :base_io, :base_orig, :base_math, +:base_thread, :default, :filesys_read, :sys_db, :browse, :filesys_open, +:filesys_write, :subprocess, :ownprocess, :others, :load, +:still_to_be_decided, :dangerous + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHORS + +=back + +=head2 Opcode::ops, ops - Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when +compiling + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 POSIX - Perl interface to IEEE Std 1003.1 + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item NOTE + +=item CAVEATS + +=item FUNCTIONS + +_exit, abort, abs, access, acos, alarm, asctime, asin, assert, atan, atan2, +atexit, atof, atoi, atol, bsearch, calloc, ceil, chdir, chmod, chown, +clearerr, clock, close, closedir, cos, cosh, creat, ctermid, ctime, +cuserid, difftime, div, dup, dup2, errno, execl, execle, execlp, execv, +execve, execvp, exit, exp, fabs, fclose, fcntl, fdopen, feof, ferror, +fflush, fgetc, fgetpos, fgets, fileno, floor, fmod, fopen, fork, fpathconf, +fprintf, fputc, fputs, fread, free, freopen, frexp, fscanf, fseek, fsetpos, +fstat, fsync, ftell, fwrite, getc, getchar, getcwd, getegid, getenv, +geteuid, getgid, getgrgid, getgrnam, getgroups, getlogin, getpgrp, getpid, +getppid, getpwnam, getpwuid, gets, getuid, gmtime, isalnum, isalpha, +isatty, iscntrl, isdigit, isgraph, islower, isprint, ispunct, isspace, +isupper, isxdigit, kill, labs, ldexp, ldiv, link, localeconv, localtime, +log, log10, longjmp, lseek, malloc, mblen, mbstowcs, mbtowc, memchr, +memcmp, memcpy, memmove, memset, mkdir, mkfifo, mktime, modf, nice, +offsetof, open, opendir, pathconf, pause, perror, pipe, pow, printf, putc, +putchar, puts, qsort, raise, rand, read, readdir, realloc, remove, rename, +rewind, rewinddir, rmdir, scanf, setgid, setjmp, setlocale, setpgid, +setsid, setuid, sigaction, siglongjmp, sigpending, sigprocmask, sigsetjmp, +sigsuspend, sin, sinh, sleep, sprintf, sqrt, srand, sscanf, stat, strcat, +strchr, strcmp, strcoll, strcpy, strcspn, strerror, strftime, strlen, +strncat, strncmp, strncpy, strpbrk, strrchr, strspn, strstr, strtod, +strtok, strtol, strtoul, strxfrm, sysconf, system, tan, tanh, tcdrain, +tcflow, tcflush, tcgetpgrp, tcsendbreak, tcsetpgrp, time, times, tmpfile, +tmpnam, tolower, toupper, ttyname, tzname, tzset, umask, uname, ungetc, +unlink, utime, vfprintf, vprintf, vsprintf, wait, waitpid, wcstombs, +wctomb, write + +=item CLASSES + +=over 4 + +=item POSIX::SigAction + +new, handler, mask, flags, safe + +=item POSIX::SigRt + +%SIGRT, SIGRTMIN, SIGRTMAX + +=item POSIX::SigSet + +new, addset, delset, emptyset, fillset, ismember + +=item POSIX::Termios + +new, getattr, getcc, getcflag, getiflag, getispeed, getlflag, getoflag, +getospeed, setattr, setcc, setcflag, setiflag, setispeed, setlflag, +setoflag, setospeed, Baud rate values, Terminal interface values, c_cc +field values, c_cflag field values, c_iflag field values, c_lflag field +values, c_oflag field values + +=back + +=item PATHNAME CONSTANTS + +Constants + +=item POSIX CONSTANTS + +Constants + +=item SYSTEM CONFIGURATION + +Constants + +=item ERRNO + +Constants + +=item FCNTL + +Constants + +=item FLOAT + +Constants + +=item LIMITS + +Constants + +=item LOCALE + +Constants + +=item MATH + +Constants + +=item SIGNAL + +Constants + +=item STAT + +Constants, Macros + +=item STDLIB + +Constants + +=item STDIO + +Constants + +=item TIME + +Constants + +=item UNISTD + +Constants + +=item WAIT + +Constants, WNOHANG, WUNTRACED, Macros, WIFEXITED, WEXITSTATUS, WIFSIGNALED, +WTERMSIG, WIFSTOPPED, WSTOPSIG + +=back + +=head2 Package::Constants - List all constants declared in a package + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CLASS METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item @const = Package::Constants->list( PACKAGE_NAME ); + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item GLOBAL VARIABLES + +=over 4 + +=item $Package::Constants::DEBUG + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item BUG REPORTS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Params::Check - A generic input parsing/checking mechanism. + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Template + +default, required, strict_type, defined, no_override, store, allow + +=item Functions + +=over 4 + +=item check( \%tmpl, \%args, [$verbose] ); + +Template, Arguments, Verbose + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item allow( $test_me, \@criteria ); + +string, regexp, subroutine, array ref + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item last_error() + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Global Variables + +=over 4 + +=item $Params::Check::VERBOSE + +=item $Params::Check::STRICT_TYPE + +=item $Params::Check::ALLOW_UNKNOWN + +=item $Params::Check::STRIP_LEADING_DASHES + +=item $Params::Check::NO_DUPLICATES + +=item $Params::Check::PRESERVE_CASE + +=item $Params::Check::ONLY_ALLOW_DEFINED + +=item $Params::Check::SANITY_CHECK_TEMPLATE + +=item $Params::Check::WARNINGS_FATAL + +=item $Params::Check::CALLER_DEPTH + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=item Acknowledgements + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Parse::CPAN::Meta - Parse META.yml and other similar CPAN metadata +files + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item FUNCTIONS + +=over 4 + +=item Load + +=item LoadFile + +=back + +=item SUPPORT + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 PerlIO - On demand loader for PerlIO layers and root of PerlIO::* +name space + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +:unix, :stdio, :perlio, :crlf, :mmap, :utf8, :bytes, :raw, :pop, :win32 + +=over 4 + +=item Custom Layers + +:encoding, :via + +=item Alternatives to raw + +=item Defaults and how to override them + +=item Querying the layers of filehandles + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 PerlIO-encoding, PerlIO::encoding - encoding layer + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 PerlIO-scalar, PerlIO::scalar - in-memory IO, scalar IO + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item IMPLEMENTATION NOTE + +=back + +=head2 PerlIO-via, PerlIO::via - Helper class for PerlIO layers implemented +in perl + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item EXPECTED METHODS + +$class->PUSHED([$mode,[$fh]]), $obj->POPPED([$fh]), +$obj->UTF8($bellowFlag,[$fh]), $obj->OPEN($path,$mode,[$fh]), +$obj->BINMODE([$fh]), $obj->FDOPEN($fd,[$fh]), +$obj->SYSOPEN($path,$imode,$perm,[$fh]), $obj->FILENO($fh), +$obj->READ($buffer,$len,$fh), $obj->WRITE($buffer,$fh), $obj->FILL($fh), +$obj->CLOSE($fh), $obj->SEEK($posn,$whence,$fh), $obj->TELL($fh), +$obj->UNREAD($buffer,$fh), $obj->FLUSH($fh), $obj->SETLINEBUF($fh), +$obj->CLEARERR($fh), $obj->ERROR($fh), $obj->EOF($fh) + +=item EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item Example - a Hexadecimal Handle + +=back + +=back + +=head2 PerlIO::encoding - encoding layer + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 PerlIO::scalar - in-memory IO, scalar IO + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item IMPLEMENTATION NOTE + +=back + +=head2 PerlIO::via - Helper class for PerlIO layers implemented in perl + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item EXPECTED METHODS + +$class->PUSHED([$mode,[$fh]]), $obj->POPPED([$fh]), +$obj->UTF8($bellowFlag,[$fh]), $obj->OPEN($path,$mode,[$fh]), +$obj->BINMODE([$fh]), $obj->FDOPEN($fd,[$fh]), +$obj->SYSOPEN($path,$imode,$perm,[$fh]), $obj->FILENO($fh), +$obj->READ($buffer,$len,$fh), $obj->WRITE($buffer,$fh), $obj->FILL($fh), +$obj->CLOSE($fh), $obj->SEEK($posn,$whence,$fh), $obj->TELL($fh), +$obj->UNREAD($buffer,$fh), $obj->FLUSH($fh), $obj->SETLINEBUF($fh), +$obj->CLEARERR($fh), $obj->ERROR($fh), $obj->EOF($fh) + +=item EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item Example - a Hexadecimal Handle + +=back + +=back + +=head2 PerlIO::via::QuotedPrint - PerlIO layer for quoted-printable strings + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item REQUIRED MODULES + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Checker, podchecker() - check pod documents for syntax errors + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item OPTIONS/ARGUMENTS + +=over 4 + +=item podchecker() + +B<-warnings> =E<gt> I<val> + +=back + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + +=over 4 + +=item Errors + +empty =headn, =over on line I<N> without closing =back, =item without +previous =over, =back without previous =over, No argument for =begin, =end +without =begin, Nested =begin's, =for without formatter specification, +unresolved internal link I<NAME>, Unknown command "I<CMD>", Unknown +interior-sequence "I<SEQ>", nested commands +I<CMD>E<lt>...I<CMD>E<lt>...E<gt>...E<gt>, garbled entity I<STRING>, Entity +number out of range, malformed link LE<lt>E<gt>, nonempty ZE<lt>E<gt>, +empty XE<lt>E<gt>, Spurious text after =pod / =cut, Spurious character(s) +after =back + +=item Warnings + +multiple occurrence of link target I<name>, line containing nothing but +whitespace in paragraph, file does not start with =head, previous =item has +no contents, preceding non-item paragraph(s), =item type mismatch (I<one> +vs. I<two>), I<N> unescaped C<E<lt>E<gt>> in paragraph, Unknown entity, No +items in =over, No argument for =item, empty section in previous paragraph, +Verbatim paragraph in NAME section, =headI<n> without preceding higher +level + +=item Hyperlinks + +ignoring leading/trailing whitespace in link, (section) in '$page' +deprecated, alternative text/node '%s' contains non-escaped | or / + +=back + +=item RETURN VALUE + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item INTERFACE + +=back + +C<Pod::Checker-E<gt>new( %options )> + +C<$checker-E<gt>poderror( @args )>, C<$checker-E<gt>poderror( {%opts}, +@args )> + +C<$checker-E<gt>num_errors()> + +C<$checker-E<gt>num_warnings()> + +C<$checker-E<gt>name()> + +C<$checker-E<gt>node()> + +C<$checker-E<gt>idx()> + +C<$checker-E<gt>hyperlink()> + +=over 4 + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Escapes -- for resolving Pod EE<lt>...E<gt> sequences + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item GOODIES + +e2char($e_content), e2charnum($e_content), $Name2character{I<name>}, +$Name2character_number{I<name>}, $Latin1Code_to_fallback{I<integer>}, +$Latin1Char_to_fallback{I<character>}, $Code2USASCII{I<integer>} + +=item CAVEATS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Find - find POD documents in directory trees + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item C<pod_find( { %opts } , @directories )> + +C<-verbose =E<gt> 1>, C<-perl =E<gt> 1>, C<-script =E<gt> 1>, C<-inc =E<gt> +1> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item C<simplify_name( $str )> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item C<pod_where( { %opts }, $pod )> + +C<-inc =E<gt> 1>, C<-dirs =E<gt> [ $dir1, $dir2, ... ]>, C<-verbose =E<gt> +1> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item C<contains_pod( $file , $verbose )> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Html - module to convert pod files to HTML + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item FUNCTIONS + +=over 4 + +=item pod2html + +backlink, cachedir, css, flush, header, help, hiddendirs, htmldir, +htmlroot, index, infile, libpods, netscape, outfile, podpath, podroot, +quiet, recurse, title, verbose + +=item htmlify + +=item anchorify + +=back + +=item ENVIRONMENT + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Pod::InputObjects - objects representing POD input paragraphs, +commands, etc. + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item REQUIRES + +=item EXPORTS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +package B<Pod::InputSource>, package B<Pod::Paragraph>, package +B<Pod::InteriorSequence>, package B<Pod::ParseTree> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<Pod::InputSource> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<new()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<name()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<handle()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<was_cutting()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<Pod::Paragraph> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Pod::Paragraph-E<gt>B<new()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $pod_para-E<gt>B<cmd_name()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $pod_para-E<gt>B<text()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $pod_para-E<gt>B<raw_text()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $pod_para-E<gt>B<cmd_prefix()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $pod_para-E<gt>B<cmd_separator()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $pod_para-E<gt>B<parse_tree()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $pod_para-E<gt>B<file_line()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<Pod::InteriorSequence> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Pod::InteriorSequence-E<gt>B<new()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<cmd_name()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<prepend()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<append()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<nested()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<raw_text()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<left_delimiter()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<right_delimiter()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<parse_tree()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $pod_seq-E<gt>B<file_line()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Pod::InteriorSequence::B<DESTROY()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<Pod::ParseTree> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Pod::ParseTree-E<gt>B<new()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $ptree-E<gt>B<top()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $ptree-E<gt>B<children()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $ptree-E<gt>B<prepend()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $ptree-E<gt>B<append()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $ptree-E<gt>B<raw_text()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Pod::ParseTree::B<DESTROY()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Pod::LaTeX - Convert Pod data to formatted Latex + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item OBJECT METHODS + +C<initialize> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Data Accessors + +B<AddPreamble> + +=back + +B<AddPostamble> + +B<Head1Level> + +B<Label> + +B<LevelNoNum> + +B<MakeIndex> + +B<ReplaceNAMEwithSection> + +B<StartWithNewPage> + +B<TableOfContents> + +B<UniqueLabels> + +B<UserPreamble> + +B<UserPostamble> + +B<Lists> + +=over 4 + +=item Subclassed methods + +=back + +B<begin_pod> + +B<end_pod> + +B<command> + +B<verbatim> + +B<textblock> + +B<interior_sequence> + +=over 4 + +=item List Methods + +B<begin_list> + +=back + +B<end_list> + +B<add_item> + +=over 4 + +=item Methods for headings + +B<head> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Internal methods + +B<_output> + +=back + +B<_replace_special_chars> + +B<_replace_special_chars_late> + +B<_create_label> + +B<_create_index> + +B<_clean_latex_commands> + +B<_split_delimited> + +=over 4 + +=item NOTES + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHORS + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item REVISION + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Man - Convert POD data to formatted *roff input + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +center, date, fixed, fixedbold, fixeditalic, fixedbolditalic, name, quotes, +release, section, stderr, utf8 + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + +roff font should be 1 or 2 chars, not "%s", Invalid quote specification +"%s" + +=item BUGS + +=item CAVEATS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Pod::ParseLink - Parse an LE<lt>E<gt> formatting code in POD text + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 Pod::ParseUtils - helpers for POD parsing and conversion + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Pod::List + +Pod::List-E<gt>new() + +=back + +$list-E<gt>file() + +$list-E<gt>start() + +$list-E<gt>indent() + +$list-E<gt>type() + +$list-E<gt>rx() + +$list-E<gt>item() + +$list-E<gt>parent() + +$list-E<gt>tag() + +=over 4 + +=item Pod::Hyperlink + +Pod::Hyperlink-E<gt>new() + +=back + +$link-E<gt>parse($string) + +$link-E<gt>markup($string) + +$link-E<gt>text() + +$link-E<gt>warning() + +$link-E<gt>file(), $link-E<gt>line() + +$link-E<gt>page() + +$link-E<gt>node() + +$link-E<gt>alttext() + +$link-E<gt>type() + +$link-E<gt>link() + +=over 4 + +=item Pod::Cache + +Pod::Cache-E<gt>new() + +=back + +$cache-E<gt>item() + +$cache-E<gt>find_page($name) + +=over 4 + +=item Pod::Cache::Item + +Pod::Cache::Item-E<gt>new() + +=back + +$cacheitem-E<gt>page() + +$cacheitem-E<gt>description() + +$cacheitem-E<gt>path() + +$cacheitem-E<gt>file() + +$cacheitem-E<gt>nodes() + +$cacheitem-E<gt>find_node($name) + +$cacheitem-E<gt>idx() + +=over 4 + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Parser - base class for creating POD filters and translators + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item REQUIRES + +=item EXPORTS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item QUICK OVERVIEW + +=item PARSING OPTIONS + +B<-want_nonPODs> (default: unset), B<-process_cut_cmd> (default: unset), +B<-warnings> (default: unset) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item RECOMMENDED SUBROUTINE/METHOD OVERRIDES + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<command()> + +C<$cmd>, C<$text>, C<$line_num>, C<$pod_para> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<verbatim()> + +C<$text>, C<$line_num>, C<$pod_para> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<textblock()> + +C<$text>, C<$line_num>, C<$pod_para> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<interior_sequence()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item OPTIONAL SUBROUTINE/METHOD OVERRIDES + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<new()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<initialize()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<begin_pod()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<begin_input()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<end_input()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<end_pod()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<preprocess_line()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<preprocess_paragraph()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item METHODS FOR PARSING AND PROCESSING + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<parse_text()> + +B<-expand_seq> =E<gt> I<code-ref>|I<method-name>, B<-expand_text> =E<gt> +I<code-ref>|I<method-name>, B<-expand_ptree> =E<gt> +I<code-ref>|I<method-name> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<interpolate()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<parse_paragraph()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<parse_from_filehandle()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<parse_from_file()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item ACCESSOR METHODS + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<errorsub()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<cutting()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<parseopts()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<output_file()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<output_handle()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<input_file()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<input_handle()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<input_streams()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<top_stream()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item PRIVATE METHODS AND DATA + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<_push_input_stream()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<_pop_input_stream()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item TREE-BASED PARSING + +=item CAVEATS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Perldoc::ToChecker - let Perldoc check Pod for errors + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Perldoc::ToMan - let Perldoc render Pod as man pages + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CAVEAT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Perldoc::ToNroff - let Perldoc convert Pod to nroff + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CAVEAT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Perldoc::ToPod - let Perldoc render Pod as ... Pod! + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Perldoc::ToRtf - let Perldoc render Pod as RTF + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Perldoc::ToText - let Perldoc render Pod as plaintext + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CAVEAT + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Perldoc::ToTk - let Perldoc use Tk::Pod to render Pod + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Perldoc::ToXml - let Perldoc render Pod as XML + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Pod::PlainText - Convert POD data to formatted ASCII text + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +alt, indent, loose, sentence, width + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + +Bizarre space in item, Can't open %s for reading: %s, Unknown escape: %s, +Unknown sequence: %s, Unmatched =back + +=item RESTRICTIONS + +=item NOTES + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Plainer - Perl extension for converting Pod to old style Pod. + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item EXPORT + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Select, podselect() - extract selected sections of POD from +input + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item REQUIRES + +=item EXPORTS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SECTION SPECIFICATIONS + +=item RANGE SPECIFICATIONS + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item OBJECT METHODS + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<curr_headings()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<select()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<add_selection()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<clear_selections()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<match_section()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<is_selected()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item EXPORTED FUNCTIONS + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<podselect()> + +B<-output>, B<-sections>, B<-ranges> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item PRIVATE METHODS AND DATA + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<_compile_section_spec()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $self->{_SECTION_HEADINGS} + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $self->{_SELECTED_SECTIONS} + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Simple - framework for parsing Pod + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item MAIN METHODS + +C<< $parser = I<SomeClass>->new(); >>, C<< $parser->output_fh( *OUT ); >>, +C<< $parser->output_string( \$somestring ); >>, C<< $parser->parse_file( +I<$some_filename> ); >>, C<< $parser->parse_file( *INPUT_FH ); >>, C<< +$parser->parse_string_document( I<$all_content> ); >>, C<< +$parser->parse_lines( I<...@lines...>, undef ); >>, C<< +$parser->content_seen >>, C<< I<SomeClass>->filter( I<$filename> ); >>, C<< +I<SomeClass>->filter( I<*INPUT_FH> ); >>, C<< I<SomeClass>->filter( +I<\$document_content> ); >> + +=item SECONDARY METHODS + +C<< $parser->no_whining( I<SOMEVALUE> ) >>, C<< $parser->no_errata_section( +I<SOMEVALUE> ) >>, C<< $parser->complain_stderr( I<SOMEVALUE> ) >>, C<< +$parser->source_filename >>, C<< $parser->doc_has_started >>, C<< +$parser->source_dead >> + +=item CAVEATS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS + +=item AUTHOR + +Allison Randal C<allison@perl.org>, Hans Dieter Pearcey C<hdp@cpan.org> + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Simple::Checker -- check the Pod syntax of a document + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Simple::Debug -- put Pod::Simple into trace/debug mode + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CAVEATS + +=item GUTS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Simple::DumpAsText -- dump Pod-parsing events as text + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Simple::DumpAsXML -- turn Pod into XML + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Simple::HTML - convert Pod to HTML + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CALLING FROM THE COMMAND LINE + +=item CALLING FROM PERL + +=item METHODS + +=item SUBCLASSING + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Simple::HTMLBatch - convert several Pod files to several HTML +files + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item FROM THE COMMAND LINE + +=back + +=item MAIN METHODS + +$batchconv = Pod::Simple::HTMLBatch->new;, $batchconv->batch_convert( +I<indirs>, I<outdir> );, $batchconv->batch_convert( undef , ...);, +$batchconv->batch_convert( q{@INC}, ...);, $batchconv->batch_convert( +\@dirs , ...);, $batchconv->batch_convert( "somedir" , ...);, +$batchconv->batch_convert( 'somedir:someother:also' , ...);, +$batchconv->batch_convert( ... , undef );, $batchconv->batch_convert( ... , +'somedir' ); + +=over 4 + +=item ACCESSOR METHODS + +$batchconv->verbose( I<nonnegative_integer> );, $batchconv->index( +I<true-or-false> );, $batchconv->contents_file( I<filename> );, +$batchconv->contents_page_start( I<HTML_string> );, +$batchconv->contents_page_end( I<HTML_string> );, $batchconv->add_css( $url +);, $batchconv->add_javascript( $url );, $batchconv->css_flurry( +I<true-or-false> );, $batchconv->javascript_flurry( I<true-or-false> );, +$batchconv->no_contents_links( I<true-or-false> );, +$batchconv->html_render_class( I<classname> ); + +=back + +=item NOTES ON CUSTOMIZATION + +=item ASK ME! + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Simple::LinkSection -- represent "section" attributes of L +codes + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Simple::Methody -- turn Pod::Simple events into method calls + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHOD CALLING + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Simple::PullParser -- a pull-parser interface to parsing Pod + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +my $token = $parser->get_token, $parser->unget_token( $token ), +$parser->unget_token( $token1, $token2, ... ), $parser->set_source( +$filename ), $parser->set_source( $filehandle_object ), +$parser->set_source( \$document_source ), $parser->set_source( +\@document_lines ), $parser->parse_file(...), +$parser->parse_string_document(...), $parser->filter(...), +$parser->parse_from_file(...), my $title_string = $parser->get_title, my +$title_string = $parser->get_short_title, $author_name = +$parser->get_author, $description_name = $parser->get_description, +$version_block = $parser->get_version + +=item NOTE + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Simple::PullParserEndToken -- end-tokens from +Pod::Simple::PullParser + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +$token->tagname, $token->tagname(I<somestring>), $token->tag(...), +$token->is_tag(I<somestring>) or $token->is_tagname(I<somestring>) + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Simple::PullParserStartToken -- start-tokens from +Pod::Simple::PullParser + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +$token->tagname, $token->tagname(I<somestring>), $token->tag(...), +$token->is_tag(I<somestring>) or $token->is_tagname(I<somestring>), +$token->attr(I<attrname>), $token->attr(I<attrname>, I<newvalue>), +$token->attr_hash + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Simple::PullParserTextToken -- text-tokens from +Pod::Simple::PullParser + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +$token->text, $token->text(I<somestring>), $token->text_r() + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Simple::PullParserToken -- tokens from Pod::Simple::PullParser + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +$token->type, $token->is_start, $token->is_text, $token->is_end, +$token->dump + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Simple::RTF -- format Pod as RTF + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item FORMAT CONTROL ATTRIBUTES + +$parser->head1_halfpoint_size( I<halfpoint_integer> );, +$parser->head2_halfpoint_size( I<halfpoint_integer> );, +$parser->head3_halfpoint_size( I<halfpoint_integer> );, +$parser->head4_halfpoint_size( I<halfpoint_integer> );, +$parser->codeblock_halfpoint_size( I<halfpoint_integer> );, +$parser->header_halfpoint_size( I<halfpoint_integer> );, +$parser->normal_halfpoint_size( I<halfpoint_integer> );, +$parser->no_proofing_exemptions( I<true_or_false> );, $parser->doc_lang( +I<microsoft_decimal_language_code> ) + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Simple::Search - find POD documents in directory trees + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CONSTRUCTOR + +=item ACCESSORS + +$search->inc( I<true-or-false> );, $search->verbose( I<nonnegative-number> +);, $search->limit_glob( I<some-glob-string> );, $search->callback( +I<\&some_routine> );, $search->laborious( I<true-or-false> );, +$search->shadows( I<true-or-false> );, $search->limit_re( I<some-regxp> );, +$search->dir_prefix( I<some-string-value> );, $search->progress( +I<some-progress-object> );, $name2path = $self->name2path;, $path2name = +$self->path2name; + +=item MAIN SEARCH METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item C<< $search->survey( @directories ) >> + +C<name2path>, C<path2name> + +=item C<< $search->simplify_name( $str ) >> + +=item C<< $search->find( $pod ) >> + +=item C<< $search->find( $pod, @search_dirs ) >> + +=item C<< $self->contains_pod( $file ) >> + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Simple::Subclassing -- write a formatter as a Pod::Simple +subclass + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Events + +C<< $parser->_handle_element_start( I<element_name>, I<attr_hashref> ) >>, +C<< $parser->_handle_element_end( I<element_name> ) >>, C<< +$parser->_handle_text( I<text_string> ) >>, events with an element_name +of Document, events with an element_name of Para, events with an +element_name of B, C, F, or I, events with an element_name of S, events +with an element_name of X, events with an element_name of L, events with an +element_name of E or Z, events with an element_name of Verbatim, events +with an element_name of head1 .. head4, events with an element_name of +over-bullet, events with an element_name of over-number, events with an +element_name of over-text, events with an element_name of over-block, +events with an element_name of item-bullet, events with an element_name of +item-number, events with an element_name of item-text, events with an +element_name of for, events with an element_name of Data + +=item More Pod::Simple Methods + +C<< $parser->accept_targets( I<SOMEVALUE> ) >>, C<< +$parser->accept_targets_as_text( I<SOMEVALUE> ) >>, C<< +$parser->accept_codes( I<Codename>, I<Codename>... ) >>, C<< +$parser->accept_directive_as_data( I<directive_name> ) >>, C<< +$parser->accept_directive_as_verbatim( I<directive_name> ) >>, C<< +$parser->accept_directive_as_processed( I<directive_name> ) >>, C<< +$parser->nbsp_for_S( I<BOOLEAN> ); >>, C<< $parser->version_report() >>, +C<< $parser->pod_para_count() >>, C<< $parser->line_count() >>, C<< +$parser->nix_X_codes( I<SOMEVALUE> ) >>, C<< $parser->merge_text( +I<SOMEVALUE> ) >>, C<< $parser->code_handler( I<CODE_REF> ) >>, C<< +$parser->cut_handler( I<CODE_REF> ) >>, C<< $parser->whine( +I<linenumber>, I<complaint string> ) >>, C<< $parser->scream( +I<linenumber>, I<complaint string> ) >>, C<< $parser->source_dead(1) >>, +C<< $parser->hide_line_numbers( I<SOMEVALUE> ) >>, C<< $parser->no_whining( +I<SOMEVALUE> ) >>, C<< $parser->no_errata_section( I<SOMEVALUE> ) >>, C<< +$parser->complain_stderr( I<SOMEVALUE> ) >>, C<< $parser->bare_output( +I<SOMEVALUE> ) >>, C<< $parser->preserve_whitespace( I<SOMEVALUE> ) >> + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Simple::Text -- format Pod as plaintext + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Simple::TextContent -- get the text content of Pod + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Simple::XHTML -- format Pod as validating XHTML + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item perldoc_url_prefix + +=item perldoc_url_postfix + +=item title_prefix, title_postfix + +=item html_css + +=item html_javascript + +=item html_doctype + +=item html_header_tags + +=item default_title + +=item force_title + +=item html_header, html_footer + +=item index + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SUBCLASSING + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item handle_text + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Simple::XMLOutStream -- turn Pod into XML + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item ABOUT EXTENDING POD + +=item ASK ME! + +=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Pod::SimpleTree, Pod::Simple::SimpleTree -- parse Pod into a simple +parse tree + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=item Tree Contents + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Text - Convert POD data to formatted ASCII text + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +alt, code, indent, loose, margin, quotes, sentence, stderr, utf8, width + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + +Bizarre space in item, Item called without tag, Can't open %s for reading: +%s, Invalid quote specification "%s" + +=item BUGS + +=item CAVEATS + +=item NOTES + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Text::Color - Convert POD data to formatted color ASCII text + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Text::Overstrike, =for stopwords +overstrike + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Text::Termcap - Convert POD data to ASCII text with format +escapes + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item NOTES + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 Pod::Usage, pod2usage() - print a usage message from embedded pod +documentation + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item ARGUMENTS + +C<-message>, C<-msg>, C<-exitval>, C<-verbose>, C<-sections>, C<-output>, +C<-input>, C<-pathlist>, C<-noperldoc> + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item Recommended Use + +=back + +=item CAVEATS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item ACKNOWLEDGMENTS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 SDBM_File - Tied access to sdbm files + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +C<O_RDONLY>, C<O_WRONLY>, C<O_RDWR> + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + +=over 4 + +=item C<sdbm store returned -1, errno 22, key "..." at ...> + +=back + +=item BUGS AND WARNINGS + +=back + +=head2 Safe - Compile and execute code in restricted compartments + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +a new namespace, an operator mask + +=item WARNING + +=over 4 + +=item RECENT CHANGES + +=item Methods in class Safe + +permit (OP, ...), permit_only (OP, ...), deny (OP, ...), deny_only (OP, +...), trap (OP, ...), untrap (OP, ...), share (NAME, ...), share_from +(PACKAGE, ARRAYREF), varglob (VARNAME), reval (STRING, STRICT), rdo +(FILENAME), root (NAMESPACE), mask (MASK) + +=item Some Safety Issues + +Memory, CPU, Snooping, Signals, State Changes + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=back + +=head2 Scalar::Util - A selection of general-utility scalar subroutines + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +blessed EXPR, dualvar NUM, STRING, isvstring EXPR, isweak EXPR, +looks_like_number EXPR, openhandle FH, refaddr EXPR, reftype EXPR, +set_prototype CODEREF, PROTOTYPE, tainted EXPR, weaken REF + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + +Weak references are not implemented in the version of perl, Vstrings are +not implemented in the version of perl, C<NAME> is only available with the +XS version of Scalar::Util + +=item KNOWN BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Search::Dict, look - search for key in dictionary file + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head2 SelectSaver - save and restore selected file handle + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head2 SelfLoader - load functions only on demand + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item The __DATA__ token + +=item SelfLoader autoloading + +=item Autoloading and package lexicals + +=item SelfLoader and AutoLoader + +=item __DATA__, __END__, and the FOOBAR::DATA filehandle. + +=item Classes and inherited methods. + +=back + +=item Multiple packages and fully qualified subroutine names + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +B<_make_cmd> + +=head2 Shell - run shell commands transparently within perl + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Caveats + +=item Escaping Magic Characters + +=item Configuration + +=back + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Socket, sockaddr_in, sockaddr_un, inet_aton, inet_ntoa - load the C +socket.h defines and structure manipulators + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +inet_aton HOSTNAME, inet_ntoa IP_ADDRESS, INADDR_ANY, INADDR_BROADCAST, +INADDR_LOOPBACK, INADDR_NONE, sockaddr_family SOCKADDR, sockaddr_in PORT, +ADDRESS, sockaddr_in SOCKADDR_IN, pack_sockaddr_in PORT, IP_ADDRESS, +unpack_sockaddr_in SOCKADDR_IN, sockaddr_un PATHNAME, sockaddr_un +SOCKADDR_UN, pack_sockaddr_un PATH, unpack_sockaddr_un SOCKADDR_UN + +=back + +=head2 Storable - persistence for Perl data structures + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item MEMORY STORE + +=item ADVISORY LOCKING + +=item SPEED + +=item CANONICAL REPRESENTATION + +=item CODE REFERENCES + +=item FORWARD COMPATIBILITY + +utf8 data, restricted hashes, files from future versions of Storable + +=item ERROR REPORTING + +=item WIZARDS ONLY + +=over 4 + +=item Hooks + +C<STORABLE_freeze> I<obj>, I<cloning>, C<STORABLE_thaw> I<obj>, I<cloning>, +I<serialized>, .., C<STORABLE_attach> I<class>, I<cloning>, I<serialized> + +=item Predicates + +C<Storable::last_op_in_netorder>, C<Storable::is_storing>, +C<Storable::is_retrieving> + +=item Recursion + +=item Deep Cloning + +=back + +=item Storable magic + +$info = Storable::file_magic( $filename ), C<version>, C<version_nv>, +C<major>, C<minor>, C<hdrsize>, C<netorder>, C<byteorder>, C<intsize>, +C<longsize>, C<ptrsize>, C<nvsize>, C<file>, $info = Storable::read_magic( +$buffer ), $info = Storable::read_magic( $buffer, $must_be_file ) + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item WARNING + +=item BUGS + +=over 4 + +=item 64 bit data in perl 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 + +=back + +=item CREDITS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Switch - A switch statement for Perl + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item BACKGROUND + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Allowing fall-through + +=item Automating fall-through + +=item Alternative syntax + +=item Higher-order Operations + +=back + +=item DEPENDENCIES + +=item AUTHOR + +=item BUGS + +=item LIMITATIONS + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Symbol - manipulate Perl symbols and their names + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item BUGS + +=back + +=head2 Sys-Hostname, Sys::Hostname - Try every conceivable way to get +hostname + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Sys-Syslog, Sys::Syslog - Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item EXPORTS + +=item FUNCTIONS + +B<openlog($ident, $logopt, $facility)>, B<syslog($priority, $message)>, +B<syslog($priority, $format, @args)>, B<Note>, +B<setlogmask($mask_priority)>, B<setlogsock($sock_type)>, +B<setlogsock($sock_type, $stream_location)> (added in Perl 5.004_02), +B<setlogsock($sock_type, $stream_location, $sock_timeout)> (added in 0.25), +B<Note>, B<closelog()> + +=item THE RULES OF SYS::SYSLOG + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item CONSTANTS + +=over 4 + +=item Facilities + +=item Levels + +=back + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + +C<Invalid argument passed to setlogsock>, C<eventlog passed to setlogsock, +but no Win32 API available>, C<no connection to syslog available>, C<stream +passed to setlogsock, but %s is not writable>, C<stream passed to +setlogsock, but could not find any device>, C<tcp passed to setlogsock, but +tcp service unavailable>, C<syslog: expecting argument %s>, C<syslog: +invalid level/facility: %s>, C<syslog: too many levels given: %s>, +C<syslog: too many facilities given: %s>, C<syslog: level must be given>, +C<udp passed to setlogsock, but udp service unavailable>, C<unix passed to +setlogsock, but path not available> + +=item SEE ALSO + +=over 4 + +=item Manual Pages + +=item RFCs + +=item Articles + +=item Event Log + +=back + +=item AUTHORS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS + +=item BUGS + +=item SUPPORT + +AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation, CPAN Ratings, RT: CPAN's request +tracker, Search CPAN, Kobes' CPAN Search, Perl Documentation + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 Sys-Syslog::win32::Win32, Sys::Syslog::Win32 - Win32 support for +Sys::Syslog + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHORS + +=item LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 Sys::Hostname - Try every conceivable way to get hostname + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 TAP::Base - Base class that provides common functionality to +L<TAP::Parser> +and L<TAP::Harness> + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=back + +=back + +=head2 TAP::Formatter::Base, TAP::Formatter::Console - Harness output +delegate for default console output + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +C<verbosity>, C<verbose>, C<timer>, C<failures>, C<comments>, C<quiet>, +C<really_quiet>, C<silent>, C<errors>, C<directives>, C<stdout>, C<color>, +C<jobs>, C<show_count> + +=back + +=back + +=head2 TAP::Formatter::Color - Run Perl test scripts with color + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=back + +=back + +=head2 TAP::Formatter::Console - Harness output delegate for default +console output + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=over 4 + +=item C<< open_test >> + +=back + +=back + +=head2 TAP::Formatter::Console::ParallelSession - Harness output delegate +for parallel console output + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=back + +=back + +=head2 TAP::Formatter::Console::Session - Harness output delegate for +default console output + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item C<< clear_for_close >> + +=item C<< close_test >> + +=item C<< header >> + +=item C<< result >> + +=back + +=head2 TAP::Formatter::File - Harness output delegate for file output + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=over 4 + +=item C<< open_test >> + +=back + +=back + +=head2 TAP::Formatter::File::Session - Harness output delegate for file +output + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item result + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item close_test + +=back + +=head2 TAP::Formatter::Session - Abstract base class for harness output +delegate + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +C<formatter>, C<parser>, C<name>, C<show_count> + +=back + +=back + +=head2 TAP::Harness - Run test scripts with statistics + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +C<verbosity>, C<timer>, C<failures>, C<comments>, C<show_count>, +C<normalize>, C<lib>, C<switches>, C<test_args>, C<color>, C<exec>, +C<merge>, C<aggregator_class>, C<formatter_class>, C<multiplexer_class>, +C<parser_class>, C<scheduler_class>, C<formatter>, C<errors>, +C<directives>, C<ignore_exit>, C<jobs>, C<rules>, C<stdout> + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +the file name of a test script to run, a reference to a [ file name, +display name ] array + +=over 4 + +=item SUBCLASSING + +=over 4 + +=item Methods + +C<start>, C<tests> + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item REPLACING + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 TAP::Object - Base class that provides common functionality to all +C<TAP::*> modules + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=head2 TAParser, TAP::Parser - Parse L<TAP|Test::Harness::TAP> output + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +C<source>, C<tap>, C<exec>, C<callback>, C<switches>, C<test_args>, +C<spool>, C<merge>, C<source_class>, C<perl_source_class>, +C<grammar_class>, C<iterator_factory_class>, C<result_factory_class> + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item INDIVIDUAL RESULTS + +=over 4 + +=item Result types + +Version, Plan, Pragma, Test, Comment, Bailout, Unknown + +=item Common type methods + +=item C<plan> methods + +=item C<pragma> methods + +=item C<bailout> methods + +=item C<unknown> methods + +=item C<test> methods + +=back + +=item TOTAL RESULTS + +=over 4 + +=item Individual Results + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Pragmas + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Summary Results + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item C<ignore_exit> + +=back + +Misplaced plan, No plan, More than one plan, Test numbers out of sequence + +=over 4 + +=item CALLBACKS + +C<test>, C<version>, C<plan>, C<comment>, C<bailout>, C<yaml>, C<unknown>, +C<ELSE>, C<ALL>, C<EOF> + +=item TAP GRAMMAR + +=item BACKWARDS COMPATABILITY + +=over 4 + +=item Differences + +TODO plans, 'Missing' tests + +=back + +=item SUBCLASSING + +=over 4 + +=item Parser Components + +option 1, option 2 + +=back + +=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS + +Michael Schwern, Andy Lester, chromatic, GEOFFR, Shlomi Fish, Torsten +Schoenfeld, Jerry Gay, Aristotle, Adam Kennedy, Yves Orton, Adrian Howard, +Sean & Lil, Andreas J. Koenig, Florian Ragwitz, Corion, Mark Stosberg, Matt +Kraai, David Wheeler, Alex Vandiver + +=item AUTHORS + +=item BUGS + +=item COPYRIGHT & LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 TAParser::Aggregator, TAP::Parser::Aggregator - Aggregate +TAP::Parser results + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Summary methods + +failed, parse_errors, passed, planned, skipped, todo, todo_passed, wait, +exit + +=back + +Failed tests, Parse errors, Bad exit or wait status + +=over 4 + +=item See Also + +=back + +=head2 TAParser::Grammar, TAP::Parser::Grammar - A grammar for the Test +Anything Protocol. + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item TAP GRAMMAR + +=item SUBCLASSING + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 TAParser::Iterator, TAP::Parser::Iterator - Internal base class for +TAP::Parser Iterators + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SUBCLASSING + +=over 4 + +=item Example + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 TAParser::Iterator::Array, TAP::Parser::Iterator::Array - Internal +TAP::Parser array Iterator + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item ATTRIBUTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 TAParser::Iterator::Process, TAP::Parser::Iterator::Process - +Internal TAP::Parser Iterator + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item ATTRIBUTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 TAParser::Iterator::Stream, TAP::Parser::Iterator::Stream - Internal +TAP::Parser Iterator + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item ATTRIBUTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 TAParser::IteratorFactory, TAP::Parser::IteratorFactory - Internal +TAP::Parser Iterator + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SUBCLASSING + +=over 4 + +=item Example + +=back + +=item ATTRIBUTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 TAParser::Multiplexer, TAP::Parser::Multiplexer - Multiplex multiple +TAP::Parsers + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item See Also + +=back + +=head2 TAParser::Result, TAP::Parser::Result - Base class for TAP::Parser +output objects + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Boolean methods + +C<is_plan>, C<is_pragma>, C<is_test>, C<is_comment>, C<is_bailout>, +C<is_version>, C<is_unknown>, C<is_yaml> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SUBCLASSING + +=over 4 + +=item Example + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 TAParser::Result::Bailout, TAP::Parser::Result::Bailout - Bailout +result token. + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OVERRIDDEN METHODS + +C<as_string> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=head2 TAParser::Result::Comment, TAP::Parser::Result::Comment - Comment +result token. + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OVERRIDDEN METHODS + +C<as_string> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=head2 TAParser::Result::Plan, TAP::Parser::Result::Plan - Plan result +token. + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OVERRIDDEN METHODS + +C<as_string>, C<raw> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=head2 TAParser::Result::Pragma, TAP::Parser::Result::Pragma - TAP pragma +token. + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OVERRIDDEN METHODS + +C<as_string>, C<raw> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=head2 TAParser::Result::Test, TAP::Parser::Result::Test - Test result +token. + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OVERRIDDEN METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=back + +=head2 TAParser::Result::Unknown, TAP::Parser::Result::Unknown - Unknown +result token. + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OVERRIDDEN METHODS + +C<as_string>, C<raw> + +=back + +=head2 TAParser::Result::Version, TAP::Parser::Result::Version - TAP syntax +version token. + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OVERRIDDEN METHODS + +C<as_string>, C<raw> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=head2 TAParser::Result::YAML, TAP::Parser::Result::YAML - YAML result +token. + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OVERRIDDEN METHODS + +C<as_string>, C<raw> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=head2 TAParser::ResultFactory, TAP::Parser::ResultFactory - Factory for +creating TAP::Parser output objects + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=item Class Methods + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SUBCLASSING + +=over 4 + +=item Example + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 TAParser::Scheduler, TAP::Parser::Scheduler - Schedule tests during +parallel testing + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=back + +=back + +=head2 TAParser::Scheduler::Job, TAP::Parser::Scheduler::Job - A single +testing job. + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=back + +=back + +=head2 TAParser::Scheduler::Spinner, TAP::Parser::Scheduler::Spinner - A +no-op job. + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=back + +=back + +=head2 TAParser::Source, TAP::Parser::Source - Stream output from some +source + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SUBCLASSING + +=over 4 + +=item Example + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 TAParser::Source::Perl, TAP::Parser::Source::Perl - Stream Perl +output + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SUBCLASSING + +=over 4 + +=item Example + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 TAParser::Utils, TAP::Parser::Utils - Internal TAP::Parser utilities + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item INTERFACE + +=back + +=back + +=head2 TAParser::YAMLish::Reader, TAP::Parser::YAMLish::Reader - Read +YAMLish data from iterator + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 TAParser::YAMLish::Writer, TAP::Parser::YAMLish::Writer - Write +YAMLish data + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=item Instance Methods + +a reference to a scalar to append YAML to, the handle of an open file, a +reference to an array into which YAML will be pushed, a code reference + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Term::ANSIColor - Color screen output using ANSI escape sequences + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + +Bad escape sequence %s, Bareword "%s" not allowed while "strict subs" in +use, Invalid attribute name %s, Name "%s" used only once: possible typo, No +comma allowed after filehandle, No name for escape sequence %s + +=item ENVIRONMENT + +ANSI_COLORS_DISABLED + +=item RESTRICTIONS + +=item NOTES + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHORS + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 Term::Cap - Perl termcap interface + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item METHODS + +=back + +=back + +B<Tgetent>, OSPEED, TERM + +B<Tpad>, B<$string>, B<$cnt>, B<$FH> + +B<Tputs>, B<$cap>, B<$cnt>, B<$FH> + +B<Tgoto>, B<$cap>, B<$col>, B<$row>, B<$FH> + +B<Trequire> + +=over 4 + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Term::Complete - Perl word completion module + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +E<lt>tabE<gt>, ^D, ^U, E<lt>delE<gt>, E<lt>bsE<gt> + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Term::ReadLine - Perl interface to various C<readline> packages. +If no real package is found, substitutes stubs instead of basic functions. + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Minimal set of supported functions + +C<ReadLine>, C<new>, C<readline>, C<addhistory>, C<IN>, C<OUT>, C<MinLine>, +C<findConsole>, Attribs, C<Features> + +=item Additional supported functions + +C<tkRunning>, C<ornaments>, C<newTTY> + +=item EXPORTS + +=item ENVIRONMENT + +=item CAVEATS + +=back + +=head2 Term::UI - Term::ReadLine UI made easy + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item HOW IT WORKS + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item $reply = $term->get_reply( prompt => 'question?', [choices => \@list, +default => $list[0], multi => BOOL, print_me => "extra text to print & +record", allow => $ref] ); + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $bool = $term->ask_yn( prompt => "your question", [default => +(y|1,n|0), print_me => "extra text to print & record"] ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item ($opts, $munged) = $term->parse_options( STRING ); + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item $str = $term->history_as_string + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item GLOBAL VARIABLES + +=over 4 + +=item $Term::UI::VERBOSE + +=item $Term::UI::AUTOREPLY + +=item $Term::UI::INVALID + +=item $Term::UI::History::HISTORY_FH + +=back + +=item EXAMPLES + +=over 4 + +=item Basic get_reply sample + +=item get_reply with choices + +=item get_reply with choices and default + +=item get_reply using print_me & multi + +=item get_reply & allow + +=item an elaborate ask_yn sample + +=back + +=item See Also + +=item BUG REPORTS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Term::UI::History + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item FUNCTIONS + +=over 4 + +=item history("message string" [,VERBOSE]) + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item GLOBAL VARIABLES + +$HISTORY_FH + +=item See Also + +=item AUTHOR + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Test - provides a simple framework for writing test scripts + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item QUICK START GUIDE + +=over 4 + +=item Functions + +C<plan(...)>, C<tests =E<gt> I<number>>, C<todo =E<gt> [I<1,5,14>]>, +C<onfail =E<gt> sub { ... }>, C<onfail =E<gt> \&some_sub> + +=back + +=back + +B<_to_value> + +C<ok(...)> + +C<skip(I<skip_if_true>, I<args...>)> + +=over 4 + +=item TEST TYPES + +NORMAL TESTS, SKIPPED TESTS, TODO TESTS + +=item ONFAIL + +=item BUGS and CAVEATS + +=item ENVIRONMENT + +=item NOTE + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::App::Prove, App::Prove - Implements the C<prove> +command. + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Attributes + +C<archive>, C<argv>, C<backwards>, C<blib>, C<color>, C<directives>, +C<dry>, C<exec>, C<extension>, C<failures>, C<comments>, C<formatter>, +C<harness>, C<ignore_exit>, C<includes>, C<jobs>, C<lib>, C<merge>, +C<modules>, C<parse>, C<plugins>, C<quiet>, C<really_quiet>, C<recurse>, +C<rules>, C<show_count>, C<show_help>, C<show_man>, C<show_version>, +C<shuffle>, C<state>, C<state_class>, C<taint_fail>, C<taint_warn>, +C<test_args>, C<timer>, C<verbose>, C<warnings_fail>, C<warnings_warn> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item PLUGINS + +=over 4 + +=item Sample Plugin + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::App::Prove::State, App::Prove::State - State +storage for the C<prove> command. + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +C<store>, C<extension> (optional), C<result_class> (optional) + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item C<result_class> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item C<extension> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item C<results> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item C<commit> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Instance Methods + +C<last>, C<failed>, C<passed>, C<all>, C<hot>, C<todo>, C<slow>, C<fast>, +C<new>, C<old>, C<save> + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::App::Prove::State::Result, +App::Prove::State::Result - Individual test suite results. + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item C<state_version> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item C<test_class> + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::App::Prove::State::Result::Test, +App::Prove::State::Result::Test - Individual test results. + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAP::Base, TAP::Base - Base class that provides +common functionality to L<TAP::Parser> +and L<TAP::Harness> + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=back + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAP::Formatter::Base, TAP::Formatter::Console - +Harness output delegate for default console output + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +C<verbosity>, C<verbose>, C<timer>, C<failures>, C<comments>, C<quiet>, +C<really_quiet>, C<silent>, C<errors>, C<directives>, C<stdout>, C<color>, +C<jobs>, C<show_count> + +=back + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAP::Formatter::Color, TAP::Formatter::Color - +Run Perl test scripts with color + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=back + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAP::Formatter::Console, TAP::Formatter::Console +- Harness output delegate for default console output + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=over 4 + +=item C<< open_test >> + +=back + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAP::Formatter::Console::ParallelSession, +TAP::Formatter::Console::ParallelSession - Harness output delegate for +parallel console output + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=back + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAP::Formatter::Console::Session, +TAP::Formatter::Console::Session - Harness output delegate for default +console output + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item C<< clear_for_close >> + +=item C<< close_test >> + +=item C<< header >> + +=item C<< result >> + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAP::Formatter::File, TAP::Formatter::File - +Harness output delegate for file output + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=over 4 + +=item C<< open_test >> + +=back + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAP::Formatter::File::Session, +TAP::Formatter::File::Session - Harness output delegate for file output + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item result + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item close_test + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAP::Formatter::Session, TAP::Formatter::Session +- Abstract base class for harness output delegate + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +C<formatter>, C<parser>, C<name>, C<show_count> + +=back + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAP::Harness, TAP::Harness - Run test scripts +with statistics + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +C<verbosity>, C<timer>, C<failures>, C<comments>, C<show_count>, +C<normalize>, C<lib>, C<switches>, C<test_args>, C<color>, C<exec>, +C<merge>, C<aggregator_class>, C<formatter_class>, C<multiplexer_class>, +C<parser_class>, C<scheduler_class>, C<formatter>, C<errors>, +C<directives>, C<ignore_exit>, C<jobs>, C<rules>, C<stdout> + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +the file name of a test script to run, a reference to a [ file name, +display name ] array + +=over 4 + +=item SUBCLASSING + +=over 4 + +=item Methods + +C<start>, C<tests> + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item REPLACING + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAP::Object, TAP::Object - Base class that +provides common functionality to all C<TAP::*> modules + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAParser, TAP::Parser - Parse +L<TAP|Test::Harness::TAP> output + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +C<source>, C<tap>, C<exec>, C<callback>, C<switches>, C<test_args>, +C<spool>, C<merge>, C<source_class>, C<perl_source_class>, +C<grammar_class>, C<iterator_factory_class>, C<result_factory_class> + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item INDIVIDUAL RESULTS + +=over 4 + +=item Result types + +Version, Plan, Pragma, Test, Comment, Bailout, Unknown + +=item Common type methods + +=item C<plan> methods + +=item C<pragma> methods + +=item C<bailout> methods + +=item C<unknown> methods + +=item C<test> methods + +=back + +=item TOTAL RESULTS + +=over 4 + +=item Individual Results + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Pragmas + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Summary Results + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item C<ignore_exit> + +=back + +Misplaced plan, No plan, More than one plan, Test numbers out of sequence + +=over 4 + +=item CALLBACKS + +C<test>, C<version>, C<plan>, C<comment>, C<bailout>, C<yaml>, C<unknown>, +C<ELSE>, C<ALL>, C<EOF> + +=item TAP GRAMMAR + +=item BACKWARDS COMPATABILITY + +=over 4 + +=item Differences + +TODO plans, 'Missing' tests + +=back + +=item SUBCLASSING + +=over 4 + +=item Parser Components + +option 1, option 2 + +=back + +=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS + +Michael Schwern, Andy Lester, chromatic, GEOFFR, Shlomi Fish, Torsten +Schoenfeld, Jerry Gay, Aristotle, Adam Kennedy, Yves Orton, Adrian Howard, +Sean & Lil, Andreas J. Koenig, Florian Ragwitz, Corion, Mark Stosberg, Matt +Kraai, David Wheeler, Alex Vandiver + +=item AUTHORS + +=item BUGS + +=item COPYRIGHT & LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAParser::Aggregator, TAP::Parser::Aggregator - +Aggregate TAP::Parser results + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Summary methods + +failed, parse_errors, passed, planned, skipped, todo, todo_passed, wait, +exit + +=back + +Failed tests, Parse errors, Bad exit or wait status + +=over 4 + +=item See Also + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAParser::Grammar, TAP::Parser::Grammar - A +grammar for the Test Anything Protocol. + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item TAP GRAMMAR + +=item SUBCLASSING + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAParser::Iterator, TAP::Parser::Iterator - +Internal base class for TAP::Parser Iterators + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SUBCLASSING + +=over 4 + +=item Example + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAParser::Iterator::Array, +TAP::Parser::Iterator::Array - Internal TAP::Parser array Iterator + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item ATTRIBUTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAParser::Iterator::Process, +TAP::Parser::Iterator::Process - Internal TAP::Parser Iterator + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item ATTRIBUTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAParser::Iterator::Stream, +TAP::Parser::Iterator::Stream - Internal TAP::Parser Iterator + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item ATTRIBUTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAParser::IteratorFactory, +TAP::Parser::IteratorFactory - Internal TAP::Parser Iterator + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SUBCLASSING + +=over 4 + +=item Example + +=back + +=item ATTRIBUTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAParser::Multiplexer, TAP::Parser::Multiplexer - +Multiplex multiple TAP::Parsers + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item See Also + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAParser::Result, TAP::Parser::Result - Base +class for TAP::Parser output objects + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Boolean methods + +C<is_plan>, C<is_pragma>, C<is_test>, C<is_comment>, C<is_bailout>, +C<is_version>, C<is_unknown>, C<is_yaml> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SUBCLASSING + +=over 4 + +=item Example + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAParser::Result::Bailout, +TAP::Parser::Result::Bailout - Bailout result token. + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OVERRIDDEN METHODS + +C<as_string> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAParser::Result::Comment, +TAP::Parser::Result::Comment - Comment result token. + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OVERRIDDEN METHODS + +C<as_string> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAParser::Result::Plan, TAP::Parser::Result::Plan +- Plan result token. + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OVERRIDDEN METHODS + +C<as_string>, C<raw> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAParser::Result::Pragma, +TAP::Parser::Result::Pragma - TAP pragma token. + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OVERRIDDEN METHODS + +C<as_string>, C<raw> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAParser::Result::Test, TAP::Parser::Result::Test +- Test result token. + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OVERRIDDEN METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAParser::Result::Unknown, +TAP::Parser::Result::Unknown - Unknown result token. + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OVERRIDDEN METHODS + +C<as_string>, C<raw> + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAParser::Result::Version, +TAP::Parser::Result::Version - TAP syntax version token. + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OVERRIDDEN METHODS + +C<as_string>, C<raw> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAParser::Result::YAML, TAP::Parser::Result::YAML +- YAML result token. + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OVERRIDDEN METHODS + +C<as_string>, C<raw> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAParser::ResultFactory, +TAP::Parser::ResultFactory - Factory for creating TAP::Parser output +objects + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=item Class Methods + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SUBCLASSING + +=over 4 + +=item Example + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAParser::Scheduler, TAP::Parser::Scheduler - +Schedule tests during parallel testing + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=back + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAParser::Scheduler::Job, +TAP::Parser::Scheduler::Job - A single testing job. + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=back + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAParser::Scheduler::Spinner, +TAP::Parser::Scheduler::Spinner - A no-op job. + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=back + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAParser::Source, TAP::Parser::Source - Stream +output from some source + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SUBCLASSING + +=over 4 + +=item Example + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAParser::Source::Perl, TAP::Parser::Source::Perl +- Stream Perl output + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SUBCLASSING + +=over 4 + +=item Example + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAParser::Utils, TAP::Parser::Utils - Internal +TAP::Parser utilities + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item INTERFACE + +=back + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAParser::YAMLish::Reader, +TAP::Parser::YAMLish::Reader - Read YAMLish data from iterator + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=item Instance Methods + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::TAParser::YAMLish::Writer, +TAP::Parser::YAMLish::Writer - Write YAMLish data + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=over 4 + +=item Class Methods + +=item Instance Methods + +a reference to a scalar to append YAML to, the handle of an open file, a +reference to an array into which YAML will be pushed, a code reference + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Test-Harness::lib::Test::Harness, Test::Harness - Run Perl standard +test scripts with statistics + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item FUNCTIONS + +=over 4 + +=item runtests( @test_files ) + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item execute_tests( tests => \@test_files, out => \*FH ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item EXPORT + +=item ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES THAT TAP::HARNESS::COMPATIBLE SETS + +C<HARNESS_ACTIVE>, C<HARNESS_VERSION> + +=item ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES THAT AFFECT TEST::HARNESS + +C<HARNESS_TIMER>, C<HARNESS_VERBOSE>, C<HARNESS_OPTIONS>, C<< j<n> >>, C<< +f >> + +=item Taint Mode + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHORS + +=item LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Test::Builder - Backend for building test libraries + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Construction + +B<new> + +=back + +=back + +B<create> + +B<reset> + +=over 4 + +=item Setting up tests + +B<plan> + +=back + +B<expected_tests> + +B<no_plan> + +B<_output_plan> + +B<done_testing> + +B<has_plan> + +B<skip_all> + +B<exported_to> + +=over 4 + +=item Running tests + +B<ok> + +=back + +B<is_eq>, B<is_num> + +B<isnt_eq>, B<isnt_num> + +B<like>, B<unlike> + +B<cmp_ok> + +=over 4 + +=item Other Testing Methods + +B<BAIL_OUT> + +=back + +B<skip> + +B<todo_skip> + +B<skip_rest> + +=over 4 + +=item Test building utility methods + +B<maybe_regex> + +=back + +B<_try> + +B<is_fh> + +=over 4 + +=item Test style + +B<level> + +=back + +B<use_numbers> + +B<no_diag>, B<no_ending>, B<no_header> + +=over 4 + +=item Output + +B<diag> + +=back + +B<note> + +B<explain> + +B<_print> + +B<output>, B<failure_output>, B<todo_output> + +reset_outputs + +carp, croak + +=over 4 + +=item Test Status and Info + +B<current_test> + +=back + +B<summary> + +B<details> + +B<todo> + +B<find_TODO> + +B<in_todo> + +B<todo_start> + +C<todo_end> + +B<caller> + +B<_sanity_check> + +B<_whoa> + +B<_my_exit> + +=over 4 + +=item EXIT CODES + +=item THREADS + +=item MEMORY + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHORS + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Test::Builder::Module - Base class for test modules + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Importing + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Builder + +=back + +=head2 Test::Builder::Tester - test testsuites that have been built with +Test::Builder + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Functions + +test_out, test_err + +=back + +test_fail + +test_diag + +test_test, title (synonym 'name', 'label'), skip_out, skip_err + +line_num + +color + +=over 4 + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item NOTES + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Test::Builder::Tester::Color - turn on colour in +Test::Builder::Tester + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item AUTHOR + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Test::Harness - Run Perl standard test scripts with statistics + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item FUNCTIONS + +=over 4 + +=item runtests( @test_files ) + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item execute_tests( tests => \@test_files, out => \*FH ) + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item EXPORT + +=item ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES THAT TAP::HARNESS::COMPATIBLE SETS + +C<HARNESS_ACTIVE>, C<HARNESS_VERSION> + +=item ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES THAT AFFECT TEST::HARNESS + +C<HARNESS_TIMER>, C<HARNESS_VERBOSE>, C<HARNESS_OPTIONS>, C<< j<n> >>, C<< +f >> + +=item Taint Mode + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHORS + +=item LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Test::More - yet another framework for writing test scripts + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item I love it when a plan comes together + +=back + +=back + +B<done_testing> + +=over 4 + +=item Test names + +=item I'm ok, you're not ok. + +B<ok> + +=back + +B<is>, B<isnt> + +B<like> + +B<unlike> + +B<cmp_ok> + +B<can_ok> + +B<isa_ok> + +B<new_ok> + +B<pass>, B<fail> + +=over 4 + +=item Module tests + +B<use_ok> + +=back + +B<require_ok> + +=over 4 + +=item Complex data structures + +B<is_deeply> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Diagnostics + +B<diag>, B<note> + +=back + +B<explain> + +=over 4 + +=item Conditional tests + +B<SKIP: BLOCK> + +=back + +B<TODO: BLOCK>, B<todo_skip> + +When do I use SKIP vs. TODO? + +=over 4 + +=item Test control + +B<BAIL_OUT> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Discouraged comparison functions + +B<eq_array> + +=back + +B<eq_hash> + +B<eq_set> + +=over 4 + +=item Extending and Embedding Test::More + +B<builder> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item EXIT CODES + +=item CAVEATS and NOTES + +Backwards compatibility, utf8 / "Wide character in print", Overloaded +objects, Threads, Test::Harness upgrade + +=item HISTORY + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHORS + +=item BUGS + +=item SOURCE + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Test::Simple - Basic utilities for writing tests. + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +B<ok> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item EXAMPLE + +=item CAVEATS + +=item NOTES + +=item HISTORY + +=item SEE ALSO + +L<Test::More> + +=item AUTHORS + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Test::Tutorial - A tutorial about writing really basic tests + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Nuts and bolts of testing. + +=item Where to start? + +=item Names + +=item Test the manual + +=item Sometimes the tests are wrong + +=item Testing lots of values + +=item Informative names + +=item Skipping tests + +=item Todo tests + +=item Testing with taint mode. + +=back + +=item FOOTNOTES + +=item AUTHORS + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Text-Soundex, Text::Soundex - Implementation of the soundex +algorithm. + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item LIMITATIONS + +=item MAINTAINER + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=head2 Text::Abbrev, abbrev - create an abbreviation table from a list + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item EXAMPLE + +=back + +=head2 Text::Balanced - Extract delimited text sequences from strings. + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item General behaviour in list contexts + +[0], [1], [2] + +=item General behaviour in scalar and void contexts + +=item A note about prefixes + +=item C<extract_delimited> + +=item C<extract_bracketed> + +=item C<extract_variable> + +[0], [1], [2] + +=item C<extract_tagged> + +C<reject =E<gt> $listref>, C<ignore =E<gt> $listref>, C<fail =E<gt> $str>, +[0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] + +=item C<gen_extract_tagged> + +=item C<extract_quotelike> + +[0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10] + +=item C<extract_quotelike> and "here documents" + +[0], [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7..10] + +=item C<extract_codeblock> + +=item C<extract_multiple> + +=item C<gen_delimited_pat> + +=item C<delimited_pat> + +=back + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + + C<Did not find a suitable bracket: "%s">, C<Did not find prefix: /%s/>, +C<Did not find opening bracket after prefix: "%s">, C<No quotelike +operator found after prefix: "%s">, C<Unmatched closing bracket: "%c">, +C<Unmatched opening bracket(s): "%s">, C<Unmatched embedded quote (%s)>, +C<Did not find closing delimiter to match '%s'>, C<Mismatched closing +bracket: expected "%c" but found "%s">, C<No block delimiter found after +quotelike "%s">, C<Did not find leading dereferencer>, C<Bad identifier +after dereferencer>, C<Did not find expected opening bracket at %s>, +C<Improperly nested codeblock at %s>, C<Missing second block for quotelike +"%s">, C<No match found for opening bracket>, C<Did not find opening tag: +/%s/>, C<Unable to construct closing tag to match: /%s/>, C<Found invalid +nested tag: %s>, C<Found unbalanced nested tag: %s>, C<Did not find closing +tag> + +=item AUTHOR + +=item BUGS AND IRRITATIONS + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=back + +=head2 Text::ParseWords - parse text into an array of tokens or array of +arrays + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item AUTHORS + +=back + +=head2 Text::Soundex - Implementation of the soundex algorithm. + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item LIMITATIONS + +=item MAINTAINER + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=head2 Text::Tabs -- expand and unexpand tabs per the unix expand(1) and +unexpand(1) + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item EXAMPLE + +=item LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 Text::Wrap - line wrapping to form simple paragraphs + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item OVERRIDES + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 Thread - Manipulate threads in Perl (for old code only) + +=over 4 + +=item DEPRECATED + +=item HISTORY + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item FUNCTIONS + +$thread = Thread->new(\&start_sub), $thread = Thread->new(\&start_sub, +LIST), lock VARIABLE, async BLOCK;, Thread->self, Thread->list, cond_wait +VARIABLE, cond_signal VARIABLE, cond_broadcast VARIABLE, yield + +=item METHODS + +join, detach, equal, tid, done + +=item DEFUNCT + +lock(\&sub), eval, flags + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Thread::Queue - Thread-safe queues + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +Ordinary scalars, Array refs, Hash refs, Scalar refs, Objects based on the +above + +=item QUEUE CREATION + +->new(), ->new(LIST) + +=item BASIC METHODS + +->enqueue(LIST), ->dequeue(), ->dequeue(COUNT), ->dequeue_nb(), +->dequeue_nb(COUNT), ->pending() + +=item ADVANCED METHODS + +->peek(), ->peek(INDEX), ->insert(INDEX, LIST), ->extract(), +->extract(INDEX), ->extract(INDEX, COUNT) + +=item NOTES + +=item LIMITATIONS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item MAINTAINER + +=item LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 Thread::Semaphore - Thread-safe semaphores + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +->new(), ->new(NUMBER), ->down(), ->down(NUMBER), ->up(), ->up(NUMBER) + +=item NOTES + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item MAINTAINER + +=item LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 Tie::Array - base class for tied arrays + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +TIEARRAY classname, LIST, STORE this, index, value, FETCH this, index, +FETCHSIZE this, STORESIZE this, count, EXTEND this, count, EXISTS this, +key, DELETE this, key, CLEAR this, DESTROY this, PUSH this, LIST, POP this, +SHIFT this, UNSHIFT this, LIST, SPLICE this, offset, length, LIST + +=item CAVEATS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Tie::File - Access the lines of a disk file via a Perl array + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item C<recsep> + +=item C<autochomp> + +=item C<mode> + +=item C<memory> + +=item C<dw_size> + +=item Option Format + +=back + +=item Public Methods + +=over 4 + +=item C<flock> + +=item C<autochomp> + +=item C<defer>, C<flush>, C<discard>, and C<autodefer> + +=item C<offset> + +=back + +=item Tying to an already-opened filehandle + +=item Deferred Writing + +=over 4 + +=item Autodeferring + +=back + +=item CONCURRENT ACCESS TO FILES + +=item CAVEATS + +=item SUBCLASSING + +=item WHAT ABOUT C<DB_File>? + +=item AUTHOR + +=item LICENSE + +=item WARRANTY + +=item THANKS + +=item TODO + +=back + +=head2 Tie::Handle - base class definitions for tied handles + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +TIEHANDLE classname, LIST, WRITE this, scalar, length, offset, PRINT this, +LIST, PRINTF this, format, LIST, READ this, scalar, length, offset, +READLINE this, GETC this, CLOSE this, OPEN this, filename, BINMODE this, +EOF this, TELL this, SEEK this, offset, whence, DESTROY this + +=item MORE INFORMATION + +=item COMPATIBILITY + +=back + +=head2 Tie::Hash, Tie::StdHash, Tie::ExtraHash - base class definitions for +tied hashes + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +TIEHASH classname, LIST, STORE this, key, value, FETCH this, key, FIRSTKEY +this, NEXTKEY this, lastkey, EXISTS this, key, DELETE this, key, CLEAR +this, SCALAR this + +=item Inheriting from B<Tie::StdHash> + +=item Inheriting from B<Tie::ExtraHash> + +=item C<SCALAR>, C<UNTIE> and C<DESTROY> + +=item MORE INFORMATION + +=back + +=head2 Tie::Hash::NamedCapture - Named regexp capture buffers + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Tie::Memoize - add data to hash when needed + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item Inheriting from B<Tie::Memoize> + +=item EXAMPLE + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Tie::RefHash - use references as hash keys + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item EXAMPLE + +=item THREAD SUPPORT + +=item STORABLE SUPPORT + +=item RELIC SUPPORT + +=item MAINTAINER + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Tie::Scalar, Tie::StdScalar - base class definitions for tied +scalars + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +TIESCALAR classname, LIST, FETCH this, STORE this, value, DESTROY this + +=item MORE INFORMATION + +=back + +=head2 Tie::StdHandle - base class definitions for tied handles + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=head2 Tie::SubstrHash - Fixed-table-size, fixed-key-length hashing + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item CAVEATS + +=back + +=head2 Time-HiRes, Time::HiRes - High resolution alarm, sleep, +gettimeofday, interval timers + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +gettimeofday (), usleep ( $useconds ), nanosleep ( $nanoseconds ), ualarm ( +$useconds [, $interval_useconds ] ), tv_interval, time (), sleep ( +$floating_seconds ), alarm ( $floating_seconds [, +$interval_floating_seconds ] ), setitimer ( $which, $floating_seconds [, +$interval_floating_seconds ] ), getitimer ( $which ), clock_gettime ( +$which ), clock_getres ( $which ), clock_nanosleep ( $which, $nanoseconds, +$flags = 0), clock(), stat, stat FH, stat EXPR + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item C API + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + +=over 4 + +=item useconds or interval more than ... + +=item negative time not invented yet + +=item internal error: useconds < 0 (unsigned ... signed ...) + +=item useconds or uinterval equal to or more than 1000000 + +=item unimplemented in this platform + +=back + +=item CAVEATS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHORS + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 Time-Piece, Time::Piece - Object Oriented time objects + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item USAGE + +=over 4 + +=item Local Locales + +=item Date Calculations + +=item Date Comparisons + +=item Date Parsing + +=item YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss + +=item Week Number + +=item Global Overriding + +=back + +=item CAVEATS + +=over 4 + +=item Setting $ENV{TZ} in Threads on Win32 + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=item License + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item BUGS + +=back + +=head2 Time-Piece::Seconds, Time::Seconds - a simple API to convert seconds +to other date values + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item LICENSE + +=item Bugs + +=back + +=head2 Time::HiRes - High resolution alarm, sleep, gettimeofday, interval +timers + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +gettimeofday (), usleep ( $useconds ), nanosleep ( $nanoseconds ), ualarm ( +$useconds [, $interval_useconds ] ), tv_interval, time (), sleep ( +$floating_seconds ), alarm ( $floating_seconds [, +$interval_floating_seconds ] ), setitimer ( $which, $floating_seconds [, +$interval_floating_seconds ] ), getitimer ( $which ), clock_gettime ( +$which ), clock_getres ( $which ), clock_nanosleep ( $which, $nanoseconds, +$flags = 0), clock(), stat, stat FH, stat EXPR + +=item EXAMPLES + +=item C API + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + +=over 4 + +=item useconds or interval more than ... + +=item negative time not invented yet + +=item internal error: useconds < 0 (unsigned ... signed ...) + +=item useconds or uinterval equal to or more than 1000000 + +=item unimplemented in this platform + +=back + +=item CAVEATS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHORS + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 Time::Local - efficiently compute time from local and GMT time + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item FUNCTIONS + +=over 4 + +=item C<timelocal()> and C<timegm()> + +=item C<timelocal_nocheck()> and C<timegm_nocheck()> + +=item Year Value Interpretation + +=item Limits of time_t + +=item Ambiguous Local Times (DST) + +=item Non-Existent Local Times (DST) + +=item Negative Epoch Values + +=back + +=item IMPLEMENTATION + +=item BUGS + +=item SUPPORT + +=item COPYRIGHT + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Time::Piece - Object Oriented time objects + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item USAGE + +=over 4 + +=item Local Locales + +=item Date Calculations + +=item Date Comparisons + +=item Date Parsing + +=item YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss + +=item Week Number + +=item Global Overriding + +=back + +=item CAVEATS + +=over 4 + +=item Setting $ENV{TZ} in Threads on Win32 + +=back + +=item AUTHOR + +=item License + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item BUGS + +=back + +=head2 Time::Seconds - a simple API to convert seconds to other date values + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item METHODS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item LICENSE + +=item Bugs + +=back + +=head2 Time::gmtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in gmtime() +function + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item NOTE + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Time::localtime - by-name interface to Perl's built-in localtime() +function + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item NOTE + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 Time::tm - internal object used by Time::gmtime and Time::localtime + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 UNIVERSAL - base class for ALL classes (blessed references) + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +C<< $obj->isa( TYPE ) >>, C<< CLASS->isa( TYPE ) >>, C<< eval { VAL->isa( +TYPE ) } >>, C<TYPE>, C<$obj>, C<CLASS>, C<VAL>, C<< $obj->DOES( ROLE ) >>, +C<< CLASS->DOES( ROLE ) >>, C<< $obj->can( METHOD ) >>, C<< CLASS->can( +METHOD ) >>, C<< eval { VAL->can( METHOD ) } >>, C<VERSION ( [ REQUIRE ] )> + +=item WARNINGS + +=item EXPORTS + +=back + +=head2 Unicode-Normalize, Unicode::Normalize - Unicode Normalization Forms + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Normalization Forms + +C<$NFD_string = NFD($string)>, C<$NFC_string = NFC($string)>, +C<$NFKD_string = NFKD($string)>, C<$NFKC_string = NFKC($string)>, +C<$FCD_string = FCD($string)>, C<$FCC_string = FCC($string)>, +C<$normalized_string = normalize($form_name, $string)> + +=item Decomposition and Composition + +C<$decomposed_string = decompose($string [, $useCompatMapping])>, +C<$reordered_string = reorder($string)>, C<$composed_string = +compose($string)> + +=item Quick Check + +C<$result = checkNFD($string)>, C<$result = checkNFC($string)>, C<$result = +checkNFKD($string)>, C<$result = checkNFKC($string)>, C<$result = +checkFCD($string)>, C<$result = checkFCC($string)>, C<$result = +check($form_name, $string)> + +=item Character Data + +C<$canonical_decomposition = getCanon($code_point)>, +C<$compatibility_decomposition = getCompat($code_point)>, +C<$code_point_composite = getComposite($code_point_here, +$code_point_next)>, C<$combining_class = getCombinClass($code_point)>, +C<$may_be_composed_with_prev_char = isComp2nd($code_point)>, +C<$is_exclusion = isExclusion($code_point)>, C<$is_singleton = +isSingleton($code_point)>, C<$is_non_starter_decomposition = +isNonStDecomp($code_point)>, C<$is_Full_Composition_Exclusion = +isComp_Ex($code_point)>, C<$NFD_is_NO = isNFD_NO($code_point)>, +C<$NFC_is_NO = isNFC_NO($code_point)>, C<$NFC_is_MAYBE = +isNFC_MAYBE($code_point)>, C<$NFKD_is_NO = isNFKD_NO($code_point)>, +C<$NFKC_is_NO = isNFKC_NO($code_point)>, C<$NFKC_is_MAYBE = +isNFKC_MAYBE($code_point)> + +=back + +=item EXPORT + +=item CAVEATS + +Perl's version vs. Unicode version, Correction of decomposition mapping, +Revised definition of canonical composition + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr15/, +http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/CompositionExclusions.txt, +http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/DerivedNormalizationProps.txt, +http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/NormalizationCorrections.txt, +http://www.unicode.org/review/pr-29.html, http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn5/ + +=back + +=head2 Unicode::Collate - Unicode Collation Algorithm + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Constructor and Tailoring + +UCA_Version, alternate, backwards, entry, hangul_terminator, ignoreChar, +ignoreName, katakana_before_hiragana, level, normalization, overrideCJK, +overrideHangul, preprocess, rearrange, table, undefChar, undefName, +upper_before_lower, variable + +=item Methods for Collation + +C<@sorted = $Collator-E<gt>sort(@not_sorted)>, C<$result = +$Collator-E<gt>cmp($a, $b)>, C<$result = $Collator-E<gt>eq($a, $b)>, +C<$result = $Collator-E<gt>ne($a, $b)>, C<$result = $Collator-E<gt>lt($a, +$b)>, C<$result = $Collator-E<gt>le($a, $b)>, C<$result = +$Collator-E<gt>gt($a, $b)>, C<$result = $Collator-E<gt>ge($a, $b)>, +C<$sortKey = $Collator-E<gt>getSortKey($string)>, C<$sortKeyForm = +$Collator-E<gt>viewSortKey($string)> + +=item Methods for Searching + +C<$position = $Collator-E<gt>index($string, $substring[, $position])>, +C<($position, $length) = $Collator-E<gt>index($string, $substring[, +$position])>, C<$match_ref = $Collator-E<gt>match($string, $substring)>, +C<($match) = $Collator-E<gt>match($string, $substring)>, C<@match = +$Collator-E<gt>gmatch($string, $substring)>, C<$count = +$Collator-E<gt>subst($string, $substring, $replacement)>, C<$count = +$Collator-E<gt>gsubst($string, $substring, $replacement)> + +=item Other Methods + +C<%old_tailoring = $Collator-E<gt>change(%new_tailoring)>, C<$version = +$Collator-E<gt>version()>, C<UCA_Version()>, C<Base_Unicode_Version()> + +=back + +=item EXPORT + +=item INSTALL + +=item CAVEATS + +Normalization, Conformance Test + +=item AUTHOR, COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=item SEE ALSO + +Unicode Collation Algorithm - UTS #10, The Default Unicode Collation +Element Table (DUCET), The conformance test for the UCA, Hangul Syllable +Type, Unicode Normalization Forms - UAX #15 + +=back + +=head2 Unicode::Normalize - Unicode Normalization Forms + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Normalization Forms + +C<$NFD_string = NFD($string)>, C<$NFC_string = NFC($string)>, +C<$NFKD_string = NFKD($string)>, C<$NFKC_string = NFKC($string)>, +C<$FCD_string = FCD($string)>, C<$FCC_string = FCC($string)>, +C<$normalized_string = normalize($form_name, $string)> + +=item Decomposition and Composition + +C<$decomposed_string = decompose($string [, $useCompatMapping])>, +C<$reordered_string = reorder($string)>, C<$composed_string = +compose($string)> + +=item Quick Check + +C<$result = checkNFD($string)>, C<$result = checkNFC($string)>, C<$result = +checkNFKD($string)>, C<$result = checkNFKC($string)>, C<$result = +checkFCD($string)>, C<$result = checkFCC($string)>, C<$result = +check($form_name, $string)> + +=item Character Data + +C<$canonical_decomposition = getCanon($code_point)>, +C<$compatibility_decomposition = getCompat($code_point)>, +C<$code_point_composite = getComposite($code_point_here, +$code_point_next)>, C<$combining_class = getCombinClass($code_point)>, +C<$may_be_composed_with_prev_char = isComp2nd($code_point)>, +C<$is_exclusion = isExclusion($code_point)>, C<$is_singleton = +isSingleton($code_point)>, C<$is_non_starter_decomposition = +isNonStDecomp($code_point)>, C<$is_Full_Composition_Exclusion = +isComp_Ex($code_point)>, C<$NFD_is_NO = isNFD_NO($code_point)>, +C<$NFC_is_NO = isNFC_NO($code_point)>, C<$NFC_is_MAYBE = +isNFC_MAYBE($code_point)>, C<$NFKD_is_NO = isNFKD_NO($code_point)>, +C<$NFKC_is_NO = isNFKC_NO($code_point)>, C<$NFKC_is_MAYBE = +isNFKC_MAYBE($code_point)> + +=back + +=item EXPORT + +=item CAVEATS + +Perl's version vs. Unicode version, Correction of decomposition mapping, +Revised definition of canonical composition + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr15/, +http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/CompositionExclusions.txt, +http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/DerivedNormalizationProps.txt, +http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/NormalizationCorrections.txt, +http://www.unicode.org/review/pr-29.html, http://www.unicode.org/notes/tn5/ + +=back + +=head2 Unicode::UCD - Unicode character database + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item code point argument + +=item B<charinfo()> + +B<code>, B<name>, B<category>, B<combining>, B<bidi>, B<decomposition>, +B<decimal>, B<digit>, B<numeric>, B<mirrored>, B<unicode10>, B<comment>, +B<upper>, B<lower>, B<title>, B<block>, B<script> + +=back + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<charblock()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<charscript()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<charblocks()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<charscripts()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<charinrange()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<general_categories()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<bidi_types()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<compexcl()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<casefold()> + +B<code>, B<full>, B<simple>, B<mapping>, B<status>, B<*>, B<*>, B<turkic> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<casespec()> + +B<code>, B<lower>, B<title>, B<lower>, B<condition> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<namedseq()> + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item Unicode::UCD::UnicodeVersion + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item B<Blocks versus Scripts> + +=item B<Matching Scripts and Blocks> + +=item Implementation Note + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 User::grent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getgr*() +functions + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item NOTE + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 User::pwent - by-name interface to Perl's built-in getpw*() +functions + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item System Specifics + +=back + +=item NOTE + +=item AUTHOR + +=item HISTORY + +March 18th, 2000 + +=back + +=head2 Win32 - Interfaces to some Win32 API Functions + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Alphabetical Listing of Win32 Functions + +Win32::AbortSystemShutdown(MACHINE), Win32::BuildNumber(), +Win32::CopyFile(FROM, TO, OVERWRITE), Win32::CreateDirectory(DIRECTORY), +Win32::CreateFile(FILE), Win32::DomainName(), +Win32::ExpandEnvironmentStrings(STRING), Win32::FormatMessage(ERRORCODE), +Win32::FsType(), Win32::FreeLibrary(HANDLE), +Win32::GetANSIPathName(FILENAME), Win32::GetArchName(), +Win32::GetChipName(), Win32::GetCwd(), Win32::GetCurrentProcessId(), +Win32::GetCurrentThreadId(), Win32::GetFileVersion(FILENAME), +Win32::GetFolderPath(FOLDER [, CREATE]), Win32::GetFullPathName(FILENAME), +Win32::GetLastError(), Win32::GetLongPathName(PATHNAME), +Win32::GetNextAvailDrive(), Win32::GetOSVersion(), Win32::GetOSName(), +Win32::GetShortPathName(PATHNAME), Win32::GetProcAddress(INSTANCE, +PROCNAME), Win32::GetTickCount(), Win32::GuidGen(), Win32::IsAdminUser(), +Win32::IsWinNT(), Win32::IsWin95(), Win32::LoadLibrary(LIBNAME), +Win32::LoginName(), Win32::LookupAccountName(SYSTEM, ACCOUNT, DOMAIN, SID, +SIDTYPE), Win32::LookupAccountSID(SYSTEM, SID, ACCOUNT, DOMAIN, SIDTYPE), +Win32::MsgBox(MESSAGE [, FLAGS [, TITLE]]), Win32::NodeName(), +Win32::OutputDebugString(STRING), Win32::RegisterServer(LIBRARYNAME), +Win32::SetChildShowWindow(SHOWWINDOW), Win32::SetCwd(NEWDIRECTORY), +Win32::SetLastError(ERROR), Win32::Sleep(TIME), Win32::Spawn(COMMAND, ARGS, +PID), Win32::UnregisterServer(LIBRARYNAME) + +=back + +=back + +=head2 Win32API-File, Win32API::File - Low-level access to Win32 system API +calls for files/dirs. + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Object Oriented/Tied Handle Interface + +=item Exports + +C<":Func">, attrLetsToBits, C<$uBits= attrLetsToBits( $sAttributeLetters +)>, C<"a">, C<"c">, C<"h">, C<"o">, C<"r">, C<"s">, C<"t">, createFile, +C<$hObject= createFile( $sPath )>, C<$hObject= createFile( $sPath, +$rvhvOptions )>, C<$hObject= createFile( $sPath, $svAccess )>, C<$hObject= +createFile( $sPath, $svAccess, $rvhvOptions )>, C<$hObject= createFile( +$sPath, $svAccess, $svShare )>, C<$hObject= createFile( $sPath, $svAccess, +$svShare, $rvhvOptions )>, C<"q">, C<"r">, C<"w">, C<"k">, C<"t">, C<"n">, +C<"c">, C<"e">, C<"kc">, C<"ke">, C<"tc">, C<"te">, C<"nc">, C<"ne">, Flags +=> $uFlags, Attributes => $sAttributes, Security => $pSecurityAttributes, +Model => $hModelFile, Access => $sAccess, Access => $uAccess, Create => +$sCreate, Create => $uCreate, Share => $sShare, Share => $uShare, +getLogicalDrives, C<@roots= getLogicalDrives()>, CloseHandle, +C<CloseHandle( $hObject )>, CopyFile, C<CopyFile( $sOldFileName, +$sNewFileName, $bFailIfExists )>, CreateFile, C<$hObject= CreateFile( +$sPath, $uAccess, $uShare, $pSecAttr, $uCreate, $uFlags, $hModel )>, +C<"//./PhysicalDrive0">, C<"//./C:">, C<"//./A:">, C<"//./PIPE/PipeName">, +DefineDosDevice, C<DefineDosDevice( $uFlags, $sDosDeviceName, $sTargetPath +)>, C<DDD_RAW_TARGET_PATH>, C<DDD_REMOVE_DEFINITION>, +C<DDD_EXACT_MATCH_ON_REMOVE>, DeleteFile, C<DeleteFile( $sFileName )>, +DeviceIoControl, C<DeviceIoControl( $hDevice, $uIoControlCode, $pInBuf, +$lInBuf, $opOutBuf, $lOutBuf, $olRetBytes, $pOverlapped )>, FdGetOsFHandle, +C<$hNativeHandle= FdGetOsFHandle( $ivFd )>, fileConstant, C<$value= +fileConstant( $sConstantName )>, fileLastError, C<$svError= +fileLastError();>, C<fileLastError( $uError );>, GetDriveType, +C<$uDriveType= GetDriveType( $sRootPath )>, C<DRIVE_UNKNOWN>, +C<DRIVE_NO_ROOT_DIR>, C<DRIVE_REMOVABLE>, C<DRIVE_FIXED>, C<DRIVE_REMOTE>, +C<DRIVE_CDROM>, C<DRIVE_RAMDISK>, GetFileAttributes, C<$uAttrs = +GetFileAttributes( $sPath )>, C<FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ARCHIVE>, +C<FILE_ATTRIBUTE_COMPRESSED>, C<FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DEVICE>, +C<FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY>, C<FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ENCRYPTED>, +C<FILE_ATTRIBUTE_HIDDEN>, C<FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL>, +C<FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NOT_CONTENT_INDEXED>, C<FILE_ATTRIBUTE_OFFLINE>, +C<FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY>, C<FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT>, +C<FILE_ATTRIBUTE_SPARSE_FILE>, C<FILE_ATTRIBUTE_SYSTEM>, +C<FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEMPORARY>, GetFileType, C<$uFileType= GetFileType( $hFile +)>, C<FILE_TYPE_UNKNOWN>, C<FILE_TYPE_DISK>, C<FILE_TYPE_CHAR>, +C<FILE_TYPE_PIPE>, getFileSize, C<$size= getFileSize( $hFile )>, +GetFileSize, C<$iSizeLow= GetFileSize($win32Handle, $iSizeHigh)>, +GetOverlappedResult, C<$bRetval= GetOverlappedResult( $win32Handle, +$pOverlapped, $numBytesTransferred, $bWait )>, GetLogicalDrives, +C<$uDriveBits= GetLogicalDrives()>, GetLogicalDriveStrings, C<$olOutLength= +GetLogicalDriveStrings( $lBufSize, $osBuffer )>, GetHandleInformation, +C<GetHandleInformation( $hObject, $ouFlags )>, GetOsFHandle, +C<$hNativeHandle= GetOsFHandle( FILE )>, GetVolumeInformation, +C<GetVolumeInformation( $sRootPath, $osVolName, $lVolName, $ouSerialNum, +$ouMaxNameLen, $ouFsFlags, $osFsType, $lFsType )>, C<FS_CASE_IS_PRESERVED>, +C<FS_CASE_SENSITIVE>, C<FS_UNICODE_STORED_ON_DISK>, C<FS_PERSISTENT_ACLS>, +C<FS_FILE_COMPRESSION>, C<FS_VOL_IS_COMPRESSED>, IsRecognizedPartition, +C<IsRecognizedPartition( $ivPartitionType )>, IsContainerPartition, +C<IsContainerPartition( $ivPartitionType )>, MoveFile, C<MoveFile( +$sOldName, $sNewName )>, MoveFileEx, C<MoveFileEx( $sOldName, $sNewName, +$uFlags )>, C<MOVEFILE_REPLACE_EXISTING>, C<MOVEFILE_COPY_ALLOWED>, +C<MOVEFILE_DELAY_UNTIL_REBOOT>, C<MOVEFILE_WRITE_THROUGH>, OsFHandleOpen, +C<OsFHandleOpen( FILE, $hNativeHandle, $sMode )>, OsFHandleOpenFd, C<$ivFD= +OsFHandleOpenFd( $hNativeHandle, $uMode )>, QueryDosDevice, C<$olTargetLen= +QueryDosDevice( $sDosDeviceName, $osTargetPath, $lTargetBuf )>, ReadFile, +C<ReadFile( $hFile, $opBuffer, $lBytes, $olBytesRead, $pOverlapped )>, +SetErrorMode, C<$uOldMode= SetErrorMode( $uNewMode )>, +C<SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS>, C<SEM_NOALIGNMENTFAULTEXCEPT>, +C<SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX>, C<SEM_NOOPENFILEERRORBOX>, setFilePointer, +C<$uNewPos = setFilePointer( $hFile, $ivOffset, $uFromWhere )>, +SetFilePointer, C<$uNewPos = SetFilePointer( $hFile, $ivOffset, +$ioivOffsetHigh, $uFromWhere )>, SetHandleInformation, +C<SetHandleInformation( $hObject, $uMask, $uFlags )>, WriteFile, +C<WriteFile( $hFile, $pBuffer, $lBytes, $ouBytesWritten, $pOverlapped )>, +C<":FuncA">, C<":FuncW">, CopyFileW, C<CopyFileW( $swOldFileName, +$swNewFileName, $bFailIfExists )>, CreateFileW, C<$hObject= CreateFileW( +$swPath, $uAccess, $uShare, $pSecAttr, $uCreate, $uFlags, $hModel )>, +DefineDosDeviceW, C<DefineDosDeviceW( $uFlags, $swDosDeviceName, +$swTargetPath )>, DeleteFileW, C<DeleteFileW( $swFileName )>, +GetDriveTypeW, C<$uDriveType= GetDriveTypeW( $swRootPath )>, +GetFileAttributesW, C<$uAttrs= GetFileAttributesW( $swPath )>, +GetLogicalDriveStringsW, C<$olwOutLength= GetLogicalDriveStringsW( +$lwBufSize, $oswBuffer )>, GetVolumeInformationW, C<GetVolumeInformationW( +$swRootPath, $oswVolName, $lwVolName, $ouSerialNum, $ouMaxNameLen, +$ouFsFlags, $oswFsType, $lwFsType )>, MoveFileW, C<MoveFileW( $swOldName, +$swNewName )>, MoveFileExW, C<MoveFileExW( $swOldName, $swNewName, $uFlags +)>, QueryDosDeviceW, C<$olwTargetLen= QueryDosDeviceW( $swDeviceName, +$oswTargetPath, $lwTargetBuf )>, C<":Misc">, C<":DDD_">, C<":DRIVE_">, +C<":FILE_">, C<":FILE_ATTRIBUTE_">, C<":FILE_FLAG_">, C<":FILE_SHARE_">, +C<":FILE_TYPE_">, C<":FS_">, C<":HANDLE_FLAG_">, HANDLE_FLAG_INHERIT, +HANDLE_FLAG_PROTECT_FROM_CLOSE, C<":IOCTL_STORAGE_">, +C<IOCTL_STORAGE_CHECK_VERIFY>, C<IOCTL_STORAGE_MEDIA_REMOVAL>, +C<IOCTL_STORAGE_EJECT_MEDIA>, C<IOCTL_STORAGE_LOAD_MEDIA>, +C<IOCTL_STORAGE_RESERVE>, C<IOCTL_STORAGE_RELEASE>, +C<IOCTL_STORAGE_FIND_NEW_DEVICES>, C<IOCTL_STORAGE_GET_MEDIA_TYPES>, +C<$ucCylsLow[$i]>, C<$ivcCylsHigh[$i]>, C<$uMediaType[$i]>, +C<$uTracksPerCyl[$i]>, C<$uSectsPerTrack[$i]>, C<$uBytesPerSect[$i]>, +C<":IOCTL_DISK_">, C<IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_GEOMETRY>, C<$ucCylsLow>, +C<$ivcCylsHigh>, C<$uMediaType>, C<$uTracksPerCyl>, C<$uSectsPerTrack>, +C<$uBytesPerSect>, C<IOCTL_DISK_GET_PARTITION_INFO>, C<$uStartLow> and +C<$ivStartHigh>, C<$ucHiddenSects>, C<$uPartitionSeqNumber>, +C<$uPartitionType>, C<$bActive>, C<$bRecognized>, C<$bToRewrite>, +C<IOCTL_DISK_SET_PARTITION_INFO>, C<IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_LAYOUT>, +C<$cPartitions>, C<$uDiskSignature>, C<IOCTL_DISK_GET_MEDIA_TYPES>, +C<IOCTL_DISK_SET_DRIVE_LAYOUT>, C<IOCTL_DISK_VERIFY>, C<$uStartOffsetLow> +and C<$ivStartOffsetHigh>, C<$uLength>, C<IOCTL_DISK_FORMAT_TRACKS>, +C<IOCTL_DISK_REASSIGN_BLOCKS>, C<IOCTL_DISK_PERFORMANCE>, +C<IOCTL_DISK_IS_WRITABLE>, C<IOCTL_DISK_LOGGING>, DISK_LOGGING_START, +DISK_LOGGING_STOP, DISK_LOGGING_DUMP, DISK_LOGGING_BINNING, +C<IOCTL_DISK_FORMAT_TRACKS_EX>, C<IOCTL_DISK_HISTOGRAM_STRUCTURE>, +C<IOCTL_DISK_HISTOGRAM_DATA>, C<IOCTL_DISK_HISTOGRAM_RESET>, +C<IOCTL_DISK_REQUEST_STRUCTURE>, C<IOCTL_DISK_REQUEST_DATA>, C<":FSCTL_">, +C<FSCTL_SET_REPARSE_POINT>, C<FSCTL_GET_REPARSE_POINT>, +C<FSCTL_DELETE_REPARSE_POINT>, C<":GENERIC_">, C<":MEDIA_TYPE">, +C<Unknown>, C<F5_1Pt2_512>, C<F3_1Pt44_512>, C<F3_2Pt88_512>, +C<F3_20Pt8_512>, C<F3_720_512>, C<F5_360_512>, C<F5_320_512>, +C<F5_320_1024>, C<F5_180_512>, C<F5_160_512>, C<RemovableMedia>, +C<FixedMedia>, C<F3_120M_512>, C<":MOVEFILE_">, C<":SECURITY_">, +C<":SEM_">, C<":PARTITION_">, C<":ALL"> + +=back + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Win32API::File - Low-level access to Win32 system API calls for +files/dirs. + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Object Oriented/Tied Handle Interface + +=item Exports + +C<":Func">, attrLetsToBits, C<$uBits= attrLetsToBits( $sAttributeLetters +)>, C<"a">, C<"c">, C<"h">, C<"o">, C<"r">, C<"s">, C<"t">, createFile, +C<$hObject= createFile( $sPath )>, C<$hObject= createFile( $sPath, +$rvhvOptions )>, C<$hObject= createFile( $sPath, $svAccess )>, C<$hObject= +createFile( $sPath, $svAccess, $rvhvOptions )>, C<$hObject= createFile( +$sPath, $svAccess, $svShare )>, C<$hObject= createFile( $sPath, $svAccess, +$svShare, $rvhvOptions )>, C<"q">, C<"r">, C<"w">, C<"k">, C<"t">, C<"n">, +C<"c">, C<"e">, C<"kc">, C<"ke">, C<"tc">, C<"te">, C<"nc">, C<"ne">, Flags +=> $uFlags, Attributes => $sAttributes, Security => $pSecurityAttributes, +Model => $hModelFile, Access => $sAccess, Access => $uAccess, Create => +$sCreate, Create => $uCreate, Share => $sShare, Share => $uShare, +getLogicalDrives, C<@roots= getLogicalDrives()>, CloseHandle, +C<CloseHandle( $hObject )>, CopyFile, C<CopyFile( $sOldFileName, +$sNewFileName, $bFailIfExists )>, CreateFile, C<$hObject= CreateFile( +$sPath, $uAccess, $uShare, $pSecAttr, $uCreate, $uFlags, $hModel )>, +C<"//./PhysicalDrive0">, C<"//./C:">, C<"//./A:">, C<"//./PIPE/PipeName">, +DefineDosDevice, C<DefineDosDevice( $uFlags, $sDosDeviceName, $sTargetPath +)>, C<DDD_RAW_TARGET_PATH>, C<DDD_REMOVE_DEFINITION>, +C<DDD_EXACT_MATCH_ON_REMOVE>, DeleteFile, C<DeleteFile( $sFileName )>, +DeviceIoControl, C<DeviceIoControl( $hDevice, $uIoControlCode, $pInBuf, +$lInBuf, $opOutBuf, $lOutBuf, $olRetBytes, $pOverlapped )>, FdGetOsFHandle, +C<$hNativeHandle= FdGetOsFHandle( $ivFd )>, fileConstant, C<$value= +fileConstant( $sConstantName )>, fileLastError, C<$svError= +fileLastError();>, C<fileLastError( $uError );>, GetDriveType, +C<$uDriveType= GetDriveType( $sRootPath )>, C<DRIVE_UNKNOWN>, +C<DRIVE_NO_ROOT_DIR>, C<DRIVE_REMOVABLE>, C<DRIVE_FIXED>, C<DRIVE_REMOTE>, +C<DRIVE_CDROM>, C<DRIVE_RAMDISK>, GetFileAttributes, C<$uAttrs = +GetFileAttributes( $sPath )>, C<FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ARCHIVE>, +C<FILE_ATTRIBUTE_COMPRESSED>, C<FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DEVICE>, +C<FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY>, C<FILE_ATTRIBUTE_ENCRYPTED>, +C<FILE_ATTRIBUTE_HIDDEN>, C<FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NORMAL>, +C<FILE_ATTRIBUTE_NOT_CONTENT_INDEXED>, C<FILE_ATTRIBUTE_OFFLINE>, +C<FILE_ATTRIBUTE_READONLY>, C<FILE_ATTRIBUTE_REPARSE_POINT>, +C<FILE_ATTRIBUTE_SPARSE_FILE>, C<FILE_ATTRIBUTE_SYSTEM>, +C<FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEMPORARY>, GetFileType, C<$uFileType= GetFileType( $hFile +)>, C<FILE_TYPE_UNKNOWN>, C<FILE_TYPE_DISK>, C<FILE_TYPE_CHAR>, +C<FILE_TYPE_PIPE>, getFileSize, C<$size= getFileSize( $hFile )>, +GetFileSize, C<$iSizeLow= GetFileSize($win32Handle, $iSizeHigh)>, +GetOverlappedResult, C<$bRetval= GetOverlappedResult( $win32Handle, +$pOverlapped, $numBytesTransferred, $bWait )>, GetLogicalDrives, +C<$uDriveBits= GetLogicalDrives()>, GetLogicalDriveStrings, C<$olOutLength= +GetLogicalDriveStrings( $lBufSize, $osBuffer )>, GetHandleInformation, +C<GetHandleInformation( $hObject, $ouFlags )>, GetOsFHandle, +C<$hNativeHandle= GetOsFHandle( FILE )>, GetVolumeInformation, +C<GetVolumeInformation( $sRootPath, $osVolName, $lVolName, $ouSerialNum, +$ouMaxNameLen, $ouFsFlags, $osFsType, $lFsType )>, C<FS_CASE_IS_PRESERVED>, +C<FS_CASE_SENSITIVE>, C<FS_UNICODE_STORED_ON_DISK>, C<FS_PERSISTENT_ACLS>, +C<FS_FILE_COMPRESSION>, C<FS_VOL_IS_COMPRESSED>, IsRecognizedPartition, +C<IsRecognizedPartition( $ivPartitionType )>, IsContainerPartition, +C<IsContainerPartition( $ivPartitionType )>, MoveFile, C<MoveFile( +$sOldName, $sNewName )>, MoveFileEx, C<MoveFileEx( $sOldName, $sNewName, +$uFlags )>, C<MOVEFILE_REPLACE_EXISTING>, C<MOVEFILE_COPY_ALLOWED>, +C<MOVEFILE_DELAY_UNTIL_REBOOT>, C<MOVEFILE_WRITE_THROUGH>, OsFHandleOpen, +C<OsFHandleOpen( FILE, $hNativeHandle, $sMode )>, OsFHandleOpenFd, C<$ivFD= +OsFHandleOpenFd( $hNativeHandle, $uMode )>, QueryDosDevice, C<$olTargetLen= +QueryDosDevice( $sDosDeviceName, $osTargetPath, $lTargetBuf )>, ReadFile, +C<ReadFile( $hFile, $opBuffer, $lBytes, $olBytesRead, $pOverlapped )>, +SetErrorMode, C<$uOldMode= SetErrorMode( $uNewMode )>, +C<SEM_FAILCRITICALERRORS>, C<SEM_NOALIGNMENTFAULTEXCEPT>, +C<SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX>, C<SEM_NOOPENFILEERRORBOX>, setFilePointer, +C<$uNewPos = setFilePointer( $hFile, $ivOffset, $uFromWhere )>, +SetFilePointer, C<$uNewPos = SetFilePointer( $hFile, $ivOffset, +$ioivOffsetHigh, $uFromWhere )>, SetHandleInformation, +C<SetHandleInformation( $hObject, $uMask, $uFlags )>, WriteFile, +C<WriteFile( $hFile, $pBuffer, $lBytes, $ouBytesWritten, $pOverlapped )>, +C<":FuncA">, C<":FuncW">, CopyFileW, C<CopyFileW( $swOldFileName, +$swNewFileName, $bFailIfExists )>, CreateFileW, C<$hObject= CreateFileW( +$swPath, $uAccess, $uShare, $pSecAttr, $uCreate, $uFlags, $hModel )>, +DefineDosDeviceW, C<DefineDosDeviceW( $uFlags, $swDosDeviceName, +$swTargetPath )>, DeleteFileW, C<DeleteFileW( $swFileName )>, +GetDriveTypeW, C<$uDriveType= GetDriveTypeW( $swRootPath )>, +GetFileAttributesW, C<$uAttrs= GetFileAttributesW( $swPath )>, +GetLogicalDriveStringsW, C<$olwOutLength= GetLogicalDriveStringsW( +$lwBufSize, $oswBuffer )>, GetVolumeInformationW, C<GetVolumeInformationW( +$swRootPath, $oswVolName, $lwVolName, $ouSerialNum, $ouMaxNameLen, +$ouFsFlags, $oswFsType, $lwFsType )>, MoveFileW, C<MoveFileW( $swOldName, +$swNewName )>, MoveFileExW, C<MoveFileExW( $swOldName, $swNewName, $uFlags +)>, QueryDosDeviceW, C<$olwTargetLen= QueryDosDeviceW( $swDeviceName, +$oswTargetPath, $lwTargetBuf )>, C<":Misc">, C<":DDD_">, C<":DRIVE_">, +C<":FILE_">, C<":FILE_ATTRIBUTE_">, C<":FILE_FLAG_">, C<":FILE_SHARE_">, +C<":FILE_TYPE_">, C<":FS_">, C<":HANDLE_FLAG_">, HANDLE_FLAG_INHERIT, +HANDLE_FLAG_PROTECT_FROM_CLOSE, C<":IOCTL_STORAGE_">, +C<IOCTL_STORAGE_CHECK_VERIFY>, C<IOCTL_STORAGE_MEDIA_REMOVAL>, +C<IOCTL_STORAGE_EJECT_MEDIA>, C<IOCTL_STORAGE_LOAD_MEDIA>, +C<IOCTL_STORAGE_RESERVE>, C<IOCTL_STORAGE_RELEASE>, +C<IOCTL_STORAGE_FIND_NEW_DEVICES>, C<IOCTL_STORAGE_GET_MEDIA_TYPES>, +C<$ucCylsLow[$i]>, C<$ivcCylsHigh[$i]>, C<$uMediaType[$i]>, +C<$uTracksPerCyl[$i]>, C<$uSectsPerTrack[$i]>, C<$uBytesPerSect[$i]>, +C<":IOCTL_DISK_">, C<IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_GEOMETRY>, C<$ucCylsLow>, +C<$ivcCylsHigh>, C<$uMediaType>, C<$uTracksPerCyl>, C<$uSectsPerTrack>, +C<$uBytesPerSect>, C<IOCTL_DISK_GET_PARTITION_INFO>, C<$uStartLow> and +C<$ivStartHigh>, C<$ucHiddenSects>, C<$uPartitionSeqNumber>, +C<$uPartitionType>, C<$bActive>, C<$bRecognized>, C<$bToRewrite>, +C<IOCTL_DISK_SET_PARTITION_INFO>, C<IOCTL_DISK_GET_DRIVE_LAYOUT>, +C<$cPartitions>, C<$uDiskSignature>, C<IOCTL_DISK_GET_MEDIA_TYPES>, +C<IOCTL_DISK_SET_DRIVE_LAYOUT>, C<IOCTL_DISK_VERIFY>, C<$uStartOffsetLow> +and C<$ivStartOffsetHigh>, C<$uLength>, C<IOCTL_DISK_FORMAT_TRACKS>, +C<IOCTL_DISK_REASSIGN_BLOCKS>, C<IOCTL_DISK_PERFORMANCE>, +C<IOCTL_DISK_IS_WRITABLE>, C<IOCTL_DISK_LOGGING>, DISK_LOGGING_START, +DISK_LOGGING_STOP, DISK_LOGGING_DUMP, DISK_LOGGING_BINNING, +C<IOCTL_DISK_FORMAT_TRACKS_EX>, C<IOCTL_DISK_HISTOGRAM_STRUCTURE>, +C<IOCTL_DISK_HISTOGRAM_DATA>, C<IOCTL_DISK_HISTOGRAM_RESET>, +C<IOCTL_DISK_REQUEST_STRUCTURE>, C<IOCTL_DISK_REQUEST_DATA>, C<":FSCTL_">, +C<FSCTL_SET_REPARSE_POINT>, C<FSCTL_GET_REPARSE_POINT>, +C<FSCTL_DELETE_REPARSE_POINT>, C<":GENERIC_">, C<":MEDIA_TYPE">, +C<Unknown>, C<F5_1Pt2_512>, C<F3_1Pt44_512>, C<F3_2Pt88_512>, +C<F3_20Pt8_512>, C<F3_720_512>, C<F5_360_512>, C<F5_320_512>, +C<F5_320_1024>, C<F5_180_512>, C<F5_160_512>, C<RemovableMedia>, +C<FixedMedia>, C<F3_120M_512>, C<":MOVEFILE_">, C<":SECURITY_">, +C<":SEM_">, C<":PARTITION_">, C<":ALL"> + +=back + +=item BUGS + +=item AUTHOR + +=item SEE ALSO + +=back + +=head2 Win32CORE - Win32 CORE function stubs + +=over 4 + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=item HISTORY + +=back + +=head2 XS-APItest, XS::APItest - Test the perl C API + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item ABSTRACT + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item EXPORT + +B<print_double>, B<print_long_double>, B<have_long_double>, B<print_nv>, +B<print_iv>, B<print_uv>, B<print_int>, B<print_long>, B<print_float>, +B<call_sv>, B<call_pv>, B<call_method>, B<eval_sv>, B<eval_pv>, +B<require_pv> + +=back + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHORS + +=item COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE + +=back + +=head2 XS-Typemap, XS::Typemap - module to test the XS typemaps distributed +with perl + +=over 4 + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=back + +=over 4 + +=item NOTES + +=item AUTHOR + +=back + +=head2 XSLoader - Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code + +=over 4 + +=item VERSION + +=item SYNOPSIS + +=item DESCRIPTION + +=over 4 + +=item Migration from C<DynaLoader> + +=item Backward compatible boilerplate + +=back + +=item Order of initialization: early load() + +=over 4 + +=item The most hairy case + +=back + +=item DIAGNOSTICS + +C<Can't find '%s' symbol in %s>, C<Can't load '%s' for module %s: %s>, +C<Undefined symbols present after loading %s: %s>, +C<XSLoader::load('Your::Module', $Your::Module::VERSION)> + +=item LIMITATIONS + +=item BUGS + +=item SEE ALSO + +=item AUTHORS + +=item COPYRIGHT & LICENSE + +=back + +=head1 AUXILIARY DOCUMENTATION + +Here should be listed all the extra programs' documentation, but they +don't all have manual pages yet: + +=over 4 + +=item a2p + +=item c2ph + +=item dprofpp + +=item h2ph + +=item h2xs + +=item perlbug + +=item perldoc + +=item pl2pm + +=item pod2html + +=item pod2man + +=item s2p + +=item splain + +=item xsubpp + +=back + +=head1 AUTHOR + +Larry Wall <F<larry@wall.org>>, with the help of oodles +of other folks. + |