# !!!!!!! 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 X X X =item COMMON MISTAKES =item CAVEAT ON PRECEDENCE X X =item WHY YOU SHOULD ALWAYS C =item DEBUGGING X X X X X X X X X X =item CODE EXAMPLES =item ARRAYS OF ARRAYS X X =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 X =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 X =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 X =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 X X =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 are now in scalar context, Can't do C into a block that is optimized away, Can't use whitespace as variable name or quote delimiter, C gone, C<**> binds tighter than unary minus, C changed when iterating over a list, C with no args behavior changed, B<-e> behavior fixed, C returns number of elements in resulting list, Some error messages differ, C 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