CONTENTS

• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• GETTING HELP
  • Overview
  • Tutorials
  • Reference Manual
  • Internals and C Language Interface
  • Miscellaneous
  • Language-Specific
  • Platform-Specific
  • Stubs for Deleted Documents
• DESCRIPTION
• AVAILABILITY
• ENVIRONMENT
• AUTHOR
• FILES
• SEE ALSO
• DIAGNOSTICS
• BUGS
• NOTES

#NAME

perl - The Perl 5 language interpreter

#SYNOPSIS

perl [ -sTtuUWX ] [ -hv ] [ -V[:configvar] ] [ -cw ] [ -d[t][:debugger] ] [ -D[number/list] ] [ -pna ] [ -Fpattern ] [ -l[octal] ] [ -0[octal/hexadecimal] ] [ -Idir ] [ -m[-]module ] [ -M[-]'module...' ] [ -f ] [ -C [number/list] ] [ -S ] [ -x[dir] ] [ -i[extension] ] [ [-e|-E] 'command' ] [ -- ] [ programfile ] [ argument ]...

For more information on these options, you can run perldoc perlrun.

#GETTING HELP

The perldoc program gives you access to all the documentation that comes with Perl. You can get more documentation, tutorials and community support online at http://www.perl.org/.

If you're new to Perl, you should start by running perldoc perlintro, which is a general intro for beginners and provides some background to help you navigate the rest of Perl's extensive documentation. Run perldoc perldoc to learn more things you can do with perldoc.

For ease of access, the Perl manual has been split up into several sections.

#Overview

perl		Perl overview (this section)
perlintro		Perl introduction for beginners
perlrun		Perl execution and options
perltoc		Perl documentation table of contents

#Tutorials

perlreftut		Perl references short introduction
perldsc		Perl data structures intro
perllol		Perl data structures: arrays of arrays

perlrequick 	Perl regular expressions quick start
perlretut		Perl regular expressions tutorial

perlootut		Perl OO tutorial for beginners

perlperf		Perl Performance and Optimization Techniques

perlstyle		Perl style guide

perlcheat		Perl cheat sheet
perltrap		Perl traps for the unwary
perldebtut		Perl debugging tutorial

perlfaq		Perl frequently asked questions
  perlfaq1		General Questions About Perl
  perlfaq2		Obtaining and Learning about Perl
  perlfaq3		Programming Tools
  perlfaq4		Data Manipulation
  perlfaq5		Files and Formats
  perlfaq6		Regexes
  perlfaq7		Perl Language Issues
  perlfaq8		System Interaction
  perlfaq9		Networking

#Reference Manual

perlsyn		Perl syntax
perldata		Perl data structures
perlop		Perl operators and precedence
perlsub		Perl subroutines
perlfunc		Perl built-in functions
  perlopentut	Perl open() tutorial
  perlpacktut	Perl pack() and unpack() tutorial
perlpod		Perl plain old documentation
perlpodspec 	Perl plain old documentation format specification
perlpodstyle	Perl POD style guide
perldiag		Perl diagnostic messages
perldeprecation     Perl deprecations
perllexwarn 	Perl warnings and their control