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perlnewmod(1) -- preparing a new module for distribution
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This document gives you some suggestions about how to go about writing Perl modules, preparing them for distribution, and making them available via CPAN. One of the things that makes Perl really power... |
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perlnumber(1) -- semantics of numbers and numeric operations in Perl
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This document describes how Perl internally handles numeric values. Perl's operator overloading facility is completely ignored here. Operator overloading allows user-defined behaviors for numbers, su... |
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perlobj(1) -- Perl objects
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First you need to understand what references are in Perl. See perlref for that. Second, if you still find the following reference work too complicated, a tutorial on object-oriented programming in Per... |
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perlop(1) -- Perl operators and precedence
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Operator Precedence and Associativity Operator precedence and associativity work in Perl more or less like they do in mathematics. Operator precedence means some operators are evaluated before others.... |
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perlopentut(1) -- tutorial on opening things in Perl
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Perl has two simple, built-in ways to open files: the shell way for convenience, and the C way for precision. The shell way also has 2- and 3-argument forms, which have different semantics for handlin... |
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perlothrtut(1) -- old tutorial on threads in Perl
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WARNING: This tutorial describes the old-style thread model that was introduced in release 5.005. This model is now deprecated, and will be removed, probably in version 5.10. The interfaces described ... |
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perlpacktut(1) -- tutorial on "pack" and "unpack"
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"pack" and "unpack" are two functions for transforming data according to a user-defined template, between the guarded way Perl stores values and some well-defined representation as might be requir... |
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perlpod(1) -- the Plain Old Documentation format
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Pod is a simple-to-use markup language used for writing documentation for Perl, Perl programs, and Perl modules. Translators are available for converting Pod to various formats like plain text, HTML, ... |
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perlpodspec(1) -- Plain Old Documentation: format specification and notes
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This document is detailed notes on the Pod markup language. Most people will only have to read perlpod to know how to write in Pod, but this document may answer some incidental questions to do with pa... |
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perlport(1) -- Writing portable Perl
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Perl runs on numerous operating systems. While most of them share much in common, they also have their own unique features. This document is meant to help you to find out what constitutes portable Per... |
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perlre(1) -- Perl regular expressions
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This page describes the syntax of regular expressions in Perl. If you haven't used regular expressions before, a quickstart introduction is available in perlrequick, and a longer tutorial introductio... |
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perlref(1) -- Perl references and nested data structures
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Before release 5 of Perl it was difficult to represent complex data structures, because all references had to be symbolic--and even then it was difficult to refer to a variable instead of a symbol tab... |
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perlreftut(1) -- Mark's very short tutorial about references
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One of the most important new features in Perl 5 was the capability to manage complicated data structures like multidimensional arrays and nested hashes. To enable these, Perl 5 introduced a feature c... |
