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Preface
I. Getting Started
1. Introduction to Perl
What's Perl Good For?
Perl Development
Which Platforms Support Perl?
Perl Resources
2. Installing Perl
The CPAN Architecture
How Is CPAN Organized?
Installing Perl
Getting and Installing Modules
Documentation
II. Language Basics
3. The Perl Executable
Command Processing
Command-Line Options
Environment Variables
The Perl Compiler
Threads
4. The Perl Language
Program Structure
Data Types and Variables
Statements
Special Variables
Operators
Regular Expressions
Subroutines
References and Complex Data Structures
Filehandles
Signals
Unicode
Formats
Pod
5. Function Reference
Perl Functions by Category
Perl Functions in Alphabetical Order
6. Debugging
The Perl Debugger
Debugger Commands
Using the Debugger
Customizing the Debugger
The Perl Profiler
The perlbug Program
III. Modules
7. Packages, Modules, and Objects
Namespaces and Packages
Modules
Object-Oriented Perl
Object Syntax
8. Standard Modules
AnyDBM_File
Attribute::Handlers
attributes
attrs
AutoLoader
AutoSplit
autouse
B
B::Asmdata
B::Assembler
B::Bblock
B::Bytecode
B::C
B::CC
B::Concise
B::Debug
B::Deparse
B::Disassembler
B::Lint
B::Showlex
B::Stackobj
B::Terse
B::Xref
base
Benchmark
bigint
bignum
bigrat
blib
bytes
ByteLoader
Carp
CGI
CGI::Apache
CGI::Carp
CGI::Cookie
CGI::Fast
CGI::Pretty
CGI::Push
CGI::Switch
charnames
Class::ISA
Class::Struct
Config
constant
CPAN
CPAN::FirstTime
CPAN::Nox
Cwd
Data::Dumper
DB
DB_File
Devel::DProf
Devel::PPPort
Devel::SelfStubber
diagnostics
Digest
Digest::MD5
DirHandle
Dumpvalue
DynaLoader
encoding
English
Env
Errno
Exporter
ExtUtils::Command
ExtUtils::Command::MM
ExtUtils::Constant
ExtUtils::Embed
ExtUtils::Install
ExtUtils::Installed
ExtUtils::Liblist
ExtUtils::MakeMaker
ExtUtils::Manifest
ExtUtils::Miniperl
ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap
ExtUtils::Mksymlists
ExtUtils::MM
ExtUtils::MM_Any
ExtUtils::MM_BeOS
ExtUtils::MM_DOS
ExtUtils::MM_NW5
ExtUtils::MM_OS2
ExtUtils::MM_Unix
ExtUtils::MM_UWIN
ExtUtils::MM_VMS
ExtUtils::MM_Win32
ExtUtils::MY
ExtUtils::Packlist
ExtUtils::testlib
Fatal
Fcntl
fields
File::Basename
File::CheckTree
File::Compare
File::Copy
File::DosGlob
File::Find
File::Path
File::Spec
File::Spec::Cygwin
File::Spec::Mac
File::Spec::OS2
File::Spec::Unix
File::Spec::VMS
File::Spec::Win32
File::stat
File::Temp
FileCache
FileHandle
Filter::Simple
Filter::Util::Call
FindBin
GDBM_File
Getopt::Long
Getopt::Std
Hash::Util
I18N::Collate
I18N::Langinfo
I18N::LangTags
I18N::LangTags::List
if
integer
IO
IO::File
IO::Handle
IO::Pipe
IO::Seekable
IO::Select
IO::Socket
IPC::Msg
IPC::Open2
IPC::Open3
IPC::Semaphore
IPC::SysV
less
lib
List::Util
locale
Math::BigFloat
Math::BigInt
Math::BigInt::Calc
Math::BigRat
Math::Complex
Math::Trig
MIME::Base64
MIME::QuotedPrint
NDBM_File
Net::Cmd
Net::Config
Net::Domain
Net::FTP
Net::hostent
Net::netent
Net::Netrc
Net::NNTP
Net::Ping
Net::POP3
Net::protoent
Net::servent
Net::SMTP
Net::Time
O
ODBM_File
Opcode
ops
overload
PerlIO
PerlIO::Scalar
PerlIO::Via
Pod::Functions
Pod::Html
Pod::ParseLink
Pod::Text
POSIX
re
Safe
Scalar::Util
SDBM_File
Search::Dict
SelectSaver
SelfLoader
Shell
sigtrap
Socket
sort
Storable
strict
subs
Switch
Symbol