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<?xml version="1.0" ?>
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
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<title>perl - The Perl 5 language interpreter</title>
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<link rev="made" href="mailto:[email protected]" />
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<ul id="index">
<li><a href="#NAME">NAME</a></li>
<li><a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></li>
<li><a href="#GETTING-HELP">GETTING HELP</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#Overview">Overview</a></li>
<li><a href="#Tutorials">Tutorials</a></li>
<li><a href="#Reference-Manual">Reference Manual</a></li>
<li><a href="#Internals-and-C-Language-Interface">Internals and C Language Interface</a></li>
<li><a href="#Miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</a></li>
<li><a href="#Language-Specific">Language-Specific</a></li>
<li><a href="#Platform-Specific">Platform-Specific</a></li>
<li><a href="#Stubs-for-Deleted-Documents">Stubs for Deleted Documents</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></li>
<li><a href="#AVAILABILITY">AVAILABILITY</a></li>
<li><a href="#ENVIRONMENT">ENVIRONMENT</a></li>
<li><a href="#AUTHOR">AUTHOR</a></li>
<li><a href="#FILES">FILES</a></li>
<li><a href="#SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></li>
<li><a href="#DIAGNOSTICS">DIAGNOSTICS</a></li>
<li><a href="#BUGS">BUGS</a></li>
<li><a href="#NOTES">NOTES</a></li>
</ul>
<h1 id="NAME">NAME</h1>
<p>perl - The Perl 5 language interpreter</p>
<h1 id="SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</h1>
<p><b>perl</b> <span style="white-space: nowrap;">[ <b>-sTtuUWX</b> ]</span> <span style="white-space: nowrap;">[ <b>-hv</b> ] [ <b>-V</b>[:<i>configvar</i>] ]</span> <span style="white-space: nowrap;">[ <b>-cw</b> ] [ <b>-d</b>[<b>t</b>][:<i>debugger</i>] ] [ <b>-D</b>[<i>number/list</i>] ]</span> <span style="white-space: nowrap;">[ <b>-pna</b> ] [ <b>-F</b><i>pattern</i> ] [ <b>-l</b>[<i>octal</i>] ] [ <b>-0</b>[<i>octal/hexadecimal</i>] ]</span> <span style="white-space: nowrap;">[ <b>-I</b><i>dir</i> ] [ <b>-m</b>[<b>-</b>]<i>module</i> ] [ <b>-M</b>[<b>-</b>]<i>'module...'</i> ] [ <b>-f</b> ]</span> <span style="white-space: nowrap;">[ <b>-C [<i>number/list</i>] </b>]</span> <span style="white-space: nowrap;">[ <b>-S</b> ]</span> <span style="white-space: nowrap;">[ <b>-x</b>[<i>dir</i>] ]</span> <span style="white-space: nowrap;">[ <b>-i</b>[<i>extension</i>] ]</span> <span style="white-space: nowrap;">[ [<b>-e</b>|<b>-E</b>] <i>'command'</i> ] [ <b>--</b> ] [ <i>programfile</i> ] [ <i>argument</i> ]...</span></p>
<p>For more information on these options, you can run <code>perldoc perlrun</code>.</p>
<h1 id="GETTING-HELP">GETTING HELP</h1>
<p>The <i>perldoc</i> program gives you access to all the documentation that comes with Perl. You can get more documentation, tutorials and community support online at <a href="http://www.perl.org/">http://www.perl.org/</a>.</p>
<p>If you're new to Perl, you should start by running <code>perldoc perlintro</code>, which is a general intro for beginners and provides some background to help you navigate the rest of Perl's extensive documentation. Run <code>perldoc perldoc</code> to learn more things you can do with <i>perldoc</i>.</p>
<p>For ease of access, the Perl manual has been split up into several sections.</p>
<h2 id="Overview">Overview</h2>
<pre><code> perl Perl overview (this section)
perlintro Perl introduction for beginners
perlrun Perl execution and options
perltoc Perl documentation table of contents</code></pre>
<h2 id="Tutorials">Tutorials</h2>
<pre><code> 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</code></pre>
<h2 id="Reference-Manual">Reference Manual</h2>
<pre><code> 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
perldebug Perl debugging
perlvar Perl predefined variables
perlre Perl regular expressions, the rest of the story
perlrebackslash Perl regular expression backslash sequences
perlrecharclass Perl regular expression character classes
perlreref Perl regular expressions quick reference
perlref Perl references, the rest of the story
perlform Perl formats
perlobj Perl objects
perlclass Modern cperl classes and roles
perltie Perl objects hidden behind simple variables
perldbmfilter Perl DBM filters
perltypes cperl type support
perlipc Perl interprocess communication
perlfork Perl fork() information
perlnumber Perl number semantics
perlthrtut Perl threads tutorial
perlport Perl portability guide
perllocale Perl locale support
perluniintro Perl Unicode introduction
perlunicode Perl Unicode support
perlunicook Perl Unicode cookbook
perlunifaq Perl Unicode FAQ
perluniprops Index of Unicode properties in Perl
perlunitut Perl Unicode tutorial
perlebcdic Considerations for running Perl on EBCDIC platforms
perlsec Perl security
perlmod Perl modules: how they work
perlmodlib Perl modules: how to write and use
perlmodstyle Perl modules: how to write modules with style
perlmodinstall Perl modules: how to install from CPAN
perlnewmod Perl modules: preparing a new module for distribution
perlpragma Perl modules: writing a user pragma
perlutil utilities packaged with the Perl distribution
perlfilter Perl source filters
perldtrace Perl's support for DTrace
perlglossary Perl Glossary</code></pre>
<h2 id="Internals-and-C-Language-Interface">Internals and C Language Interface</h2>
<pre><code> perlembed Perl ways to embed perl in your C or C++ application
perldebguts Perl debugging guts and tips
perlxstut Perl XS tutorial
perlxs Perl XS application programming interface
perlxstypemap Perl XS C/Perl type conversion tools
perlclib Internal replacements for standard C library functions
perlguts Perl internal functions for those doing extensions
perlcall Perl calling conventions from C
perlmroapi Perl method resolution plugin interface
perlreapi Perl regular expression plugin interface
perlreguts Perl regular expression engine internals
perlapi Perl API listing (autogenerated)
perlintern Perl internal functions (autogenerated)
perliol C API for Perl's implementation of IO in Layers
perlapio Perl internal IO abstraction interface
perlhack Perl hackers guide
perlsource Guide to the Perl source tree
perlinterp Overview of the Perl interpreter source and how it works
perlhacktut Walk through the creation of a simple C code patch
perlhacktips Tips for Perl core C code hacking
perlpolicy Perl development policies
perlgit Using git with the Perl repository</code></pre>
<h2 id="Miscellaneous">Miscellaneous</h2>
<pre><code> perlbook Perl book information
perlcommunity Perl community information
perldoc Look up Perl documentation in Pod format
perlhist Perl history records
perldelta Perl changes in version 5.30.0
perl5282delta Perl changes in version 5.28.2
perl5281delta Perl changes in version 5.28.1
perl5280delta Perl changes in version 5.28.0
perl5263delta Perl changes in version 5.26.3
perl5262delta Perl changes in version 5.26.2
perl5261delta Perl changes in version 5.26.1
perl5260delta Perl changes in version 5.26.0
perl5244delta Perl changes in version 5.24.4
perl5243delta Perl changes in version 5.24.3
perl5242delta Perl changes in version 5.24.2
perl5241delta Perl changes in version 5.24.1
perl5240delta Perl changes in version 5.24.0
perl5224delta Perl changes in version 5.22.4
perl5223delta Perl changes in version 5.22.3
perl5222delta Perl changes in version 5.22.2
perl5221delta Perl changes in version 5.22.1
perl5220delta Perl changes in version 5.22.0
perl5203delta Perl changes in version 5.20.3
perl5202delta Perl changes in version 5.20.2
perl5201delta Perl changes in version 5.20.1
perl5200delta Perl changes in version 5.20.0
perl5184delta Perl changes in version 5.18.4
perl5182delta Perl changes in version 5.18.2
perl5181delta Perl changes in version 5.18.1
perl5180delta Perl changes in version 5.18.0
perl5163delta Perl changes in version 5.16.3
perl5162delta Perl changes in version 5.16.2
perl5161delta Perl changes in version 5.16.1
perl5160delta Perl changes in version 5.16.0
perl5144delta Perl changes in version 5.14.4
perl5143delta Perl changes in version 5.14.3
perl5142delta Perl changes in version 5.14.2
perl5141delta Perl changes in version 5.14.1
perl5140delta Perl changes in version 5.14.0
perl5125delta Perl changes in version 5.12.5
perl5124delta Perl changes in version 5.12.4
perl5123delta Perl changes in version 5.12.3
perl5122delta Perl changes in version 5.12.2
perl5121delta Perl changes in version 5.12.1
perl5120delta Perl changes in version 5.12.0
perl5101delta Perl changes in version 5.10.1
perl5100delta Perl changes in version 5.10.0
perl589delta Perl changes in version 5.8.9
perl588delta Perl changes in version 5.8.8
perl587delta Perl changes in version 5.8.7
perl586delta Perl changes in version 5.8.6
perl585delta Perl changes in version 5.8.5
perl584delta Perl changes in version 5.8.4
perl583delta Perl changes in version 5.8.3
perl582delta Perl changes in version 5.8.2
perl581delta Perl changes in version 5.8.1
perl58delta Perl changes in version 5.8.0
perl561delta Perl changes in version 5.6.1
perl56delta Perl changes in version 5.6
perl5005delta Perl changes in version 5.005
perl5004delta Perl changes in version 5.004
perlexperiment A listing of experimental features in Perl
perlcperl Perl notes for cperl (variant)
perlcdelta cperl changes in version 5.30.0c
perl5282cdelta cperl changes in version 5.28.2c
perl5281cdelta cperl changes in version 5.28.1c
perl5280cdelta cperl changes in version 5.28.0c
perl5265cdelta cperl changes in version 5.26.5c
perl5264cdelta cperl changes in version 5.26.4c
perl5263cdelta cperl changes in version 5.26.3c
perl5262cdelta cperl changes in version 5.26.2c
perl5261cdelta cperl changes in version 5.26.1c
perl5260cdelta cperl changes in version 5.26.0c
perl5244cdelta cperl changes in version 5.24.4c
perl5243cdelta cperl changes in version 5.24.3c
perl5242cdelta cperl changes in version 5.24.2c
perl5241cdelta cperl changes in version 5.24.1c
perl5240cdelta cperl changes in version 5.24.0c
perl5225cdelta cperl changes in version 5.22.5c
perl5224cdelta cperl changes in version 5.22.4c
perl5223cdelta cperl changes in version 5.22.3c
perl5222cdelta cperl changes in version 5.22.2c
perl5221cdelta cperl changes in version 5.22.1c
perlartistic Perl Artistic License
perlgpl GNU General Public License</code></pre>
<h2 id="Language-Specific">Language-Specific</h2>
<pre><code> perlcn Perl for Simplified Chinese (in EUC-CN)
perljp Perl for Japanese (in EUC-JP)
perlko Perl for Korean (in EUC-KR)
perltw Perl for Traditional Chinese (in Big5)</code></pre>
<h2 id="Platform-Specific">Platform-Specific</h2>
<pre><code> perlaix Perl notes for AIX
perlamiga Perl notes for AmigaOS
perlandroid Perl notes for Android
perlbs2000 Perl notes for POSIX-BC BS2000
perlce Perl notes for WinCE
perlcygwin Perl notes for Cygwin
perldos Perl notes for DOS
perlfreebsd Perl notes for FreeBSD
perlhaiku Perl notes for Haiku
perlhpux Perl notes for HP-UX
perlhurd Perl notes for Hurd
perlirix Perl notes for Irix
perllinux Perl notes for Linux
perlmacos Perl notes for Mac OS (Classic)
perlmacosx Perl notes for Mac OS X
perlnetware Perl notes for NetWare
perlopenbsd Perl notes for OpenBSD
perlos2 Perl notes for OS/2
perlos390 Perl notes for OS/390
perlos400 Perl notes for OS/400
perlplan9 Perl notes for Plan 9
perlqnx Perl notes for QNX
perlriscos Perl notes for RISC OS
perlsolaris Perl notes for Solaris
perlsymbian Perl notes for Symbian
perlsynology Perl notes for Synology
perltru64 Perl notes for Tru64
perlvms Perl notes for VMS
perlvos Perl notes for Stratus VOS
perlwin32 Perl notes for Windows</code></pre>
<h2 id="Stubs-for-Deleted-Documents">Stubs for Deleted Documents</h2>
<pre><code> perlboot
perlbot
perlrepository
perltodo
perltooc
perltoot </code></pre>
<p>On a Unix-like system, these documentation files will usually also be available as manpages for use with the <i>man</i> program.</p>
<p>Some documentation is not available as man pages, so if a cross-reference is not found by man, try it with <a href="/cperl/lib/perldoc.html">perldoc</a>. Perldoc can also take you directly to documentation for functions (with the <b>-f</b> switch). See <code>perldoc --help</code> (or <code>perldoc perldoc</code> or <code>man perldoc</code>) for other helpful options <a href="/cperl/lib/perldoc.html">perldoc</a> has to offer.</p>
<p>In general, if something strange has gone wrong with your program and you're not sure where you should look for help, try making your code comply with <b>use strict</b> and <b>use warnings</b>. These will often point out exactly where the trouble is.</p>
<h1 id="DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</h1>
<p>Perl officially stands for Practical Extraction and Report Language, except when it doesn't.</p>
<p>Perl was originally a language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information from those text files, and printing reports based on that information. It quickly became a good language for many system management tasks. Over the years, Perl has grown into a general-purpose programming language. It's widely used for everything from quick "one-liners" to full-scale application development.</p>
<p>The language is intended to be practical (easy to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant, minimal). It combines (in the author's opinion, anyway) some of the best features of <b>sed</b>, <b>awk</b>, and <b>sh</b>, making it familiar and easy to use for Unix users to whip up quick solutions to annoying problems. Its general-purpose programming facilities support procedural, functional, and object-oriented programming paradigms, making Perl a comfortable language for the long haul on major projects, whatever your bent.</p>
<p>Perl's roots in text processing haven't been forgotten over the years. It still boasts some of the most powerful regular expressions to be found anywhere, and its support for Unicode text is world-class. It handles all kinds of structured text, too, through an extensive collection of extensions. Those libraries, collected in the CPAN, provide ready-made solutions to an astounding array of problems. When they haven't set the standard themselves, they steal from the best -- just like Perl itself.</p>
<h1 id="AVAILABILITY">AVAILABILITY</h1>
<p>Perl is available for most operating systems, including virtually all Unix-like platforms. See <a href="/cperl/perlport.html#Supported-Platforms">"Supported Platforms" in perlport</a> for a listing.</p>
<h1 id="ENVIRONMENT">ENVIRONMENT</h1>
<p>See <a href="/cperl/perlrun.html">perlrun</a>.</p>
<h1 id="AUTHOR">AUTHOR</h1>
<p>Larry Wall <[email protected]>, with the help of oodles of other folks.</p>
<p>If your Perl success stories and testimonials may be of help to others who wish to advocate the use of Perl in their applications, or if you wish to simply express your gratitude to Larry and the Perl developers, please write to [email protected] .</p>
<p>cperl is developed by Reini Urban <[email protected]>.</p>
<h1 id="FILES">FILES</h1>
<pre><code> "@INC" locations of perl libraries</code></pre>
<p>"@INC" above is a reference to the built-in variable of the same name; see <a href="/cperl/perlvar.html">perlvar</a> for more information.</p>
<h1 id="SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</h1>
<pre><code> http://www.perl.org/ the Perl homepage
http://www.perl.com/ Perl articles (O'Reilly)
http://www.cpan.org/ the Comprehensive Perl Archive
http://www.pm.org/ the Perl Mongers
http://perl11.github.io/cperl/ cperl</code></pre>
<h1 id="DIAGNOSTICS">DIAGNOSTICS</h1>
<p>Using the <code>use strict</code> pragma ensures that all variables are properly declared and prevents other misuses of legacy Perl features.</p>
<p>The <code>use warnings</code> pragma produces some lovely diagnostics. One can also use the <b>-w</b> flag, but its use is normally discouraged, because it gets applied to all executed Perl code, including that not under your control.</p>
<p>See <a href="/cperl/perldiag.html">perldiag</a> for explanations of all Perl's diagnostics. The <code>use diagnostics</code> pragma automatically turns Perl's normally terse warnings and errors into these longer forms.</p>
<p>Compilation errors will tell you the line number of the error, with an indication of the next token or token type that was to be examined. (In a script passed to Perl via <b>-e</b> switches, each <b>-e</b> is counted as one line.)</p>
<p>Setuid scripts have additional constraints that can produce error messages such as "Insecure dependency". See <a href="/cperl/perlsec.html">perlsec</a>.</p>
<p>Did we mention that you should definitely consider using the <b>use warnings</b> pragma?</p>
<h1 id="BUGS">BUGS</h1>
<p>The behavior implied by the <b>use warnings</b> pragma is not mandatory.</p>
<p>Perl is at the mercy of your machine's definitions of various operations such as type casting, atof(), and floating-point output with sprintf().</p>
<p>If your stdio requires a seek or eof between reads and writes on a particular stream, so does Perl. (This doesn't apply to sysread() and syswrite().)</p>
<p>While none of the built-in data types have any arbitrary size limits (apart from memory size), there are still a few arbitrary limits: a given variable name may not be longer than 251 characters. Line numbers displayed by diagnostics are internally stored as short integers, so they are limited to a maximum of 65535 (higher numbers usually being affected by wraparound).</p>
<p>For Perl5 you may mail your bug reports (be sure to include full configuration information as output by the myconfig program in the perl source tree, or by <code>perl -V</code>) to [email protected] . If you've succeeded in compiling perl, the <code>perlbug</code> script in the <i>utils/</i> subdirectory can be used to help mail in a bug report. For <b>cperl</b> either use the <a>cperlbug</a> script or file an issue at the <a href="https://github.com/perl11/cperl">https://github.com/perl11/cperl</a> repository.</p>
<p>Perl actually stands for Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister, but don't tell anyone I said that.</p>
<h1 id="NOTES">NOTES</h1>
<p>The Perl motto is "There's more than one way to do it." Divining how many more is left as an exercise to the reader.</p>
<p>The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. See the Camel Book for why.</p>
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