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PERL -- Practical Extraction and Report Language

• SYNOPSIS -- perl [options] filename args
• MASTER INDEX
• DESCRIPTION
  • Introduction and Hype
  • Starting a Perl Script
  • Options
  • Data Types and Objects
  • Syntax
  • Compound statements
  • Simple statements
  • Expressions (including pre-defined functions and "special" operations)
    • Flow control operations
    • Operators (including File Test operators)
    • Arithmetic functions
    • Conversion functions
    • String functions
    • Array and list functions
    • File operations
    • Directory reading
    • I/O operations
    • Search and modification operations
    • System interaction routines
    • IPC and Networking operations
    • Miscellaneous operations
    • System information
  • Precedence
  • Subroutines
  • Passing By Reference
  • Regular Expressions
  • Formats
  • Interprocess Communication
  • Predefined Names
  • Packages
  • Style
  • Debugging
  • Setuid Scripts
• ENVIRONMENT
• AUTHOR
  • Larry Wall
  • MS-DOS port by Diomidis Spinellis
• FILES -- /tmp/perl-eXXXXXX temporary file for -e commands.
• SEE ALSO
  • a2p -- awk to perl translator
  • s2p -- sed to perl translator
• DIAGNOSTICS
• TRAPS
• ERRATA AND ADDENDA (to "Programming Perl" book)
• BUGS

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