CONTENTS

• NAME
• VERSION
• DESCRIPTION
  • How do I do (anything)?
  • How can I use Perl interactively?
  • How do I find which modules are installed on my system?
  • How do I debug my Perl programs?
  • How do I profile my Perl programs?
  • How do I cross-reference my Perl programs?
  • Is there a pretty-printer (formatter) for Perl?
  • Is there an IDE or Windows Perl Editor?
  • Where can I get Perl macros for vi?
  • Where can I get perl-mode or cperl-mode for emacs?
  • How can I use curses with Perl?
  • How can I write a GUI (X, Tk, Gtk, etc.) in Perl?
  • How can I make my Perl program run faster?
  • How can I make my Perl program take less memory?
  • Is it safe to return a reference to local or lexical data?
  • How can I free an array or hash so my program shrinks?
  • How can I make my CGI script more efficient?
  • How can I hide the source for my Perl program?
  • How can I compile my Perl program into byte code or C?
  • How can I get #!perl to work on [MS-DOS,NT,...]?
  • Can I write useful Perl programs on the command line?
  • Why don't Perl one-liners work on my DOS/Mac/VMS system?
  • Where can I learn about CGI or Web programming in Perl?
  • Where can I learn about object-oriented Perl programming?
  • Where can I learn about linking C with Perl?
  • I've read perlembed, perlguts, etc., but I can't embed perl in my C program; what am I doing wrong?
  • When I tried to run my script, I got this message. What does it mean?
  • What's MakeMaker?
• AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT

#NAME

perlfaq3 - Programming Tools

#VERSION

version 5.20210520

#DESCRIPTION

This section of the FAQ answers questions related to programmer tools and programming support.

#How do I do (anything)?

Have you looked at CPAN (see perlfaq2)? The chances are that someone has already written a module that can solve your problem. Have you read the appropriate manpages? Here's a brief index:

#Basics

#perldata - Perl data types

#perlvar - Perl pre-defined variables

#perlsyn - Perl syntax

#perlop - Perl operators and precedence

#perlsub - Perl subroutines

#Execution

#perlrun - how to execute the Perl interpreter

#perldebug - Perl debugging

#Functions

#perlfunc - Perl builtin functions

#Objects

#perlref - Perl references and nested data structures

#perlmod - Perl modules (packages and symbol tables)

#