PERL -- Practical Extraction and Report Language

This manual is for perl4; the perl5 manual is also available.
  • SYNOPSIS -- perl [options] filename args
  • MASTER INDEX
  • DESCRIPTION
  • Introduction and Hype
  • Starting a Perl Script
  • Options
  • Data Types and Objects
  • Syntax
  • Compound statements
  • Simple statements
  • Expressions (including pre-defined functions and "special" operations)
  • Flow control operations
  • Operators (including File Test operators)
  • Arithmetic functions
  • Conversion functions
  • String functions
  • Array and list functions
  • File operations
  • Directory reading
  • I/O operations
  • Search and modification operations
  • System interaction routines
  • IPC and Networking operations
  • Miscellaneous operations
  • System information
  • Precedence
  • Subroutines
  • Passing By Reference
  • Regular Expressions
  • Formats
  • Interprocess Communication
  • Predefined Names
  • Packages
  • Style
  • Debugging
  • Setuid Scripts
  • ENVIRONMENT
  • AUTHOR
  • Larry Wall <lwall@netlabs.com>
  • MS-DOS port by Diomidis Spinellis <dds@cc.ic.ac.uk>
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  • FILES -- /tmp/perl-eXXXXXX temporary file for -e commands.
  • SEE ALSO
  • a2p -- awk to perl translator
  • s2p -- sed to perl translator
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  • DIAGNOSTICS
  • TRAPS
  • ERRATA AND ADDENDA (to "Programming Perl" book)
  • BUGS
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