Info file: perl.info, -*-Text-*- produced by `texinfo-format-buffer' from file `perl.texinfo' using `texinfmt.el' version 2.30 of 18 May 1993. This file documents perl, Practical Extraction and Report Language, and was originally based on Larry Wall's unix-style man page for perl. GNU Texinfo version adapted by Jeff Kellem . Copyright (C) 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 Larry Wall Texinfo version Copyright (C) 1990, 1991, 1993 Jeff Kellem Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided also that the sections entitled "GNU General Public License" and "Conditions for Using Perl" are included exactly as in the original, and provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that the section entitled "GNU General Public License" and this permission notice may be included in translations approved by the Free Software Foundation instead of in the original English.  Indirect: perl.info-1: 1380 perl.info-2: 51304 perl.info-3: 103080 perl.info-4: 154428 perl.info-5: 206753 perl.info-6: 258302  Tag table: (Indirect) Node: Top1382 Node: Introduction3879 Node: Copying5177 Node: Conditions18382 Node: Preface19866 Node: Perl Startup21683 Node: Options22491 Node: Data Types32923 Node: Syntax51306 Node: Compound Statements52832 Node: Simple Statements58257 Node: Expressions59502 Node: Commands72672 Node: Math Functions74083 Node: Structure Conversion75523 Node: String Functions80304 Node: Array and List Functions82891 Node: File Operations94390 Node: Directory Reading Functions100851 Node: Input/Output103082 Node: Search and Replace Functions117808 Node: System Interaction129963 Node: Networking Functions143681 Node: System V IPC147323 Node: Time Functions150804 Node: DBM Functions152221 Node: Flow Control Functions154430 Node: Perl Library Functions157240 Node: Subroutine Functions159739 Node: Variable Functions163578 Node: Miscellaneous Functions166623 Node: Precedence172307 Node: Subroutines175218 Node: Passing By Reference177556 Node: Regular Expressions179523 Node: Formats184057 Node: Interprocess Communication189253 Node: Predefined Names192006 Node: Packages206755 Node: Style210525 Node: Debugging213195 Node: Setuid Scripts217169 Node: Environment221495 Node: a2p222667 Node: a2p Options223091 Node: a2p Considerations223783 Node: a2p Bugs228266 Node: s2p228655 Node: s2p Options229027 Node: s2p Considerations229501 Node: h2ph230109 Node: Diagnostics231253 Node: Traps231719 Node: Awk Traps232134 Node: C Traps234931 Node: Sed Traps235667 Node: Shell Traps236043 Node: Bugs236884 Node: Credits237693 Node: Errata238061 Node: Command Summary240076 Node: Function Index246087 Node: Concept Index258304  End tag table