Documentation
notes and best practice for packaging perl 5
README for the Porting/ directory in the Perl 5 core distribution.
Utility to add new pod/*.pod file to core distribution
Compare the performance of perl code snippets across multiple perls.
use git bisect to pinpoint changes
Check that all the URLs in the Perl source are valid
Check source code for ANSI-C violations
Perl Documentation Team Charter
list of Perl release epigraphs
expand C macros using the C preprocessor
Annotate commits for perldelta
How to write a perldelta
Notes on handling the Perl Patch Pumpkin And Porting Perl
Releasing a new version of perl 5.x
Perl 5 release schedule
short description of the security issue, with an identifier of the issue as the manpage name
Sort warning and error messages in perldiag.pod
Perl TO-DO list
A post processor for make test.valgrind
Perl Governance Vote Administrator Guide
Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code
System errno constants
Group Perl's functions a la perlfunc.pod
convert .pod files to .html files
Plain Old Documentation: format specification and notes
Perl predefined variables
converts a collection of POD pages to HTML format.
Namespace for Perl's core routines
Reserved special namespace for internals related functions
Tests for Pod::Usage
the perl debugger
wrapper to execute code under the debugger and examine the results.
make patchnum
distribute ppport.h among extensions
The Perl 5 language interpreter
what's new for perl5.004
what's new for perl5.005
what is new for perl 5.10.0
what is new for perl v5.10.1
what is new for perl v5.12.0
what is new for perl v5.12.1
what is new for perl v5.12.2
what is new for perl v5.12.3
what is new for perl v5.12.4
what is new for perl v5.12.5
what is new for perl v5.14.0
what is new for perl v5.14.1
what is new for perl v5.14.2
what is new for perl v5.14.3
what is new for perl v5.14.4
what is new for perl v5.16.0
what is new for perl v5.16.1
what is new for perl v5.16.2
what is new for perl v5.16.3
what is new for perl v5.18.0
what is new for perl v5.18.1
what is new for perl v5.18.2
what is new for perl v5.18.4
what is new for perl v5.20.0
what is new for perl v5.20.1
what is new for perl v5.20.2
what is new for perl v5.20.3
what is new for perl v5.22.0
what is new for perl v5.22.1
what is new for perl v5.22.2
what is new for perl v5.22.3
what is new for perl v5.22.4
what is new for perl v5.24.0
what is new for perl v5.24.1
what is new for perl v5.24.2
what is new for perl v5.24.3
what is new for perl v5.24.4
what is new for perl v5.26.0
what is new for perl v5.26.1
what is new for perl v5.26.2
what is new for perl v5.26.3
what is new for perl v5.28.0
what is new for perl v5.28.1
what is new for perl v5.28.2
what is new for perl v5.28.3
what is new for perl v5.30.0
what is new for perl v5.30.1
what is new for perl v5.30.2
what is new for perl v5.30.3
what is new for perl v5.32.0
what is new for perl v5.32.1
what is new for perl v5.34.0
what is new for perl v5.34.1
what is new for perl v5.34.2
what is new for perl v5.34.3
what is new for perl v5.36.0
what is new for perl v5.36.1
what is new for perl v5.36.2
what is new for perl v5.36.3
what is new for perl v5.38.0
what is new for perl v5.38.1
what is new for perl v5.38.2
what is new for perl v5.40.0
what's new for perl v5.6.1
what's new for perl v5.6.0
what is new for perl v5.8.1
what is new for perl v5.8.2
what is new for perl v5.8.3
what is new for perl v5.8.4
what is new for perl v5.8.5
what is new for perl v5.8.6
what is new for perl v5.8.7
what is new for perl v5.8.8
what is new for perl v5.8.9
what is new for perl v5.8.0
perl's IO abstraction interface.
the Perl Artistic License
Books about and related to Perl
Links to information on object-oriented programming in Perl
Links to information on object-oriented programming in Perl
Perl calling conventions from C
Perl 5 Cheat Sheet
Perl class syntax reference
Internals of how feature 'class' and class syntax works
Interacting with standard C library functions
a brief overview of the Perl community
Perl data types
Perl DBM Filters
Guts of Perl debugging
Perl debugging tutorial
Perl debugging
what is new for perl v5.40.1
list Perl deprecations
various Perl diagnostics
A style guide for writing Perl's documentation
Perl Data Structures Cookbook
Perl's support for DTrace
Considerations for running Perl on EBCDIC platforms
how to embed perl in your C program
A listing of experimental features in Perl
Source Filters
Perl's fork() emulation
Perl formats
Perl builtin functions
Detailed information about git and the Perl repository
Perl Rules of Governance
the GNU General Public License, version 1
Introduction to the Perl API
How to hack on Perl
Tips for Perl core C code hacking
Walk through the creation of a simple C code patch
the Perl history records
An overview of the Perl interpreter
a brief introduction and overview of Perl
C API for Perl's implementation of IO in Layers.
Perl interprocess communication (signals, fifos, pipes, safe subprocesses, sockets, and semaphores)
Perl Lexical Warnings
Perl locale handling (internationalization and localization)
Manipulating Arrays of Arrays in Perl
Perl modules (packages and symbol tables)
Installing CPAN Modules
constructing new Perl modules and finding existing ones
Perl module style guide
Perl method resolution plugin interface
preparing a new module for distribution
semantics of numbers and numeric operations in Perl
Perl object reference
Object-Oriented Programming in Perl Tutorial
Perl expressions: operators, precedence, string literals
simple recipes for opening files and pipes in Perl
tutorial on pack and unpack
Perl Performance and Optimization Techniques
the Plain Old Documentation format
Plain Old Documentation: format specification and notes
Perl POD style guide
Various and sundry policies and commitments related to the Perl core
Writing portable Perl
how to write a user pragma
Perl regular expressions
Perl regular expression plugin interface
Perl Regular Expression Backslash Sequences and Escapes
Perl Regular Expression Character Classes
Perl references and nested data structures
Mark's very short tutorial about references
Description of the Perl regular expression engine.
Links to current information on the Perl source repository
Perl regular expressions quick start
Perl Regular Expressions Reference
Perl regular expressions tutorial
how to execute the Perl interpreter
Perl security
Perl security report handling policy
A guide to the Perl source tree
Perl style guide
Perl subroutines (user-defined functions)
Perl syntax: declarations, statements, comments
Tutorial on threads in Perl
how to hide an object class in a simple variable
Link to the Perl to-do list
Links to information on object-oriented programming in Perl
Links to information on object-oriented programming in Perl
Perl traps for the unwary
Unicode support in Perl
cookbookish examples of handling Unicode in Perl
Perl Unicode FAQ
Perl Unicode introduction
Perl Unicode Tutorial
utilities packaged with the Perl distribution
Perl predefined variables
VMS-specific documentation for Perl
Perl pragma to enable new features
Generate C macros that match character classes efficiently
Perl pragma to control optional warnings
convert .h C header files to .ph Perl header files
convert .h C header files to Perl extensions
configure libnet
how to submit bug reports on Perl
Perl Installation Verification Procedure
Rough tool to translate Perl4 .pl files to Perl5 .pm modules.
Modules
Library to automatically update AUTHORS and .mailmap based on commit data.
functions for dealing with RFC3066-style language tags
detect the user's language preferences
tags and names for human languages
Perl extension for ARexx support
Perl extension for low level amiga support
The Perl Compiler Backend
Walk Perl syntax tree, printing concise info about ops
Show lexical variables used in functions or files
Walk Perl syntax tree, printing terse info about ops
Generates cross reference reports for Perl programs
Generic interface to Perl Compiler backends
A data debugging tool for the XS programmer
write the C code for miniperlmain.c and perlmain.c
various flag constants and helper functions from C's fcntl.h
DOS like globbing and then some
Traverse a directory tree.
Perl extension for BSD glob routine
keep more files open than the system permits
Perl5 access to the gdbm library.
Support for Inside-Out Classes
A selection of general-utility hash subroutines
query locale information
open a process for both reading and writing using open2()
open a process for reading, writing, and error handling using open3()
Tied access to ndbm files
Tied access to odbm files
Disable named opcodes when compiling perl code
Perl pragma to restrict unsafe operations when compiling
Perl interface to IEEE Std 1003.1
encoding layer
Memory mapped IO
in-memory IO, scalar IO
Helper class for PerlIO layers implemented in perl
module to convert pod files to HTML
helper functions for Pod-Html
Tied access to sdbm files
Try every conceivable way to get hostname
Named regexp capture buffers
add data to hash when needed
Perl extension to manipulate DCL symbols
convert between VMS and Unix file specification syntax
standard I/O functions via VMS extensions
Win32 CORE function stubs
Test the perl C API
module to test the XS typemaps distributed with perl
get/set subroutine or variable attributes
Method Resolution Order
Perl pragma to alter regular expression behaviour
Interfaces to some Haiku API Functions
provide framework for multiple DBMs
Perl compiler backend to produce perl code
OP op_private flag definitions
benchmark running times of Perl code
declare struct-like datatypes as Perl classes
hash lookup of which core extensions were built.
programmatic interface to the Perl debugging API
Filter DBM keys/values
filter for DBM_Filter
filter for DBM_Filter
filter for DBM_Filter
filter for DBM_Filter
filter for DBM_Filter
(obsolete) supply object methods for directory handles
use nice English (or awk) names for ugly punctuation variables
Utilities for embedding Perl in C/C++ applications
keep sets of symbol names palatable to the VMS linker
Parse file paths into directory, filename and suffix.
Compare files or filehandles
Copy files or filehandles
by-name interface to Perl's built-in stat() functions
supply object methods for filehandles
Process single-character switches with switch clustering
by-name interface to Perl's built-in gethost*() functions
by-name interface to Perl's built-in getnet*() functions
by-name interface to Perl's built-in getproto*() functions
by-name interface to Perl's built-in getserv*() functions
On demand loader for PerlIO layers and root of PerlIO::* name space
save and restore selected file handle
manipulate Perl symbols and their names
Manipulate threads in Perl (for old code only)
base class for tied arrays
base class definitions for tied handles
base class definitions for tied handles
Fixed-table-size, fixed-key-length hashing
by-name interface to Perl's built-in gmtime() function
by-name interface to Perl's built-in localtime() function
internal object used by Time::gmtime and Time::localtime
base class for ALL classes (blessed references)
Unicode character database
by-name interface to Perl's built-in getgr*() functions
by-name interface to Perl's built-in getpw*() functions
Use MakeMaker's uninstalled version of a package
Perl pragma to import built-in utility functions
Perl pragma to expose the individual bytes of characters
access to Unicode character names and named character sequences; also define character names
Perl pragma for deprecating the inclusion of a module in core
Perl pragma to enable new features
Perl pragma to control the filetest permission operators
Perl pragma to use integer arithmetic instead of floating point
perl pragma to request less of something
Perl pragma to use or avoid POSIX locales for built-in operations
perl pragma to set default PerlIO layers for input and output
Package for overloading Perl operations
perl pragma to lexically control overloading
Perl pragma to enable simple signal handling
perl pragma to control sort() behaviour
Perl pragma to restrict unsafe constructs
Perl pragma to predeclare subroutine names
Perl pragma to enable/disable UTF-8 (or UTF-EBCDIC) in source code
Perl pragma to predeclare global variable names
Perl pragma to control VMS-specific language features
Perl pragma to control optional warnings
warnings import function
Perl access to extended attributes.
Perl extension for access to OS/2 setting database.
exports constants for system() call, and process control on OS2.
access to DLLs with REXX calling convention.
access to DLLs with REXX calling convention and REXX runtime.
A minimal header file parser that can be hooked by other porting scripts.
Provides
in ext/Amiga-ARexx/ARexx.pm
in ext/B/B.pm
in lib/Class/Struct.pm
in Porting/GitUtils.pm
in os2/OS2/OS2-REXX/DLL/DLL.pm
in os2/OS2/OS2-PrfDB/PrfDB.pm
in os2/OS2/OS2-PrfDB/PrfDB.pm
in os2/OS2/OS2-REXX/REXX.pm
in os2/OS2/OS2-REXX/REXX.pm
in os2/OS2/OS2-REXX/REXX.pm
in os2/OS2/OS2-Process/Process.pm
in ext/POSIX/lib/POSIX.pm
in ext/POSIX/lib/POSIX.pm
in ext/POSIX/lib/POSIX.pm
in ext/Pod-Html/lib/Pod/Html.pm
in lib/Tie/Hash.pm
in lib/DBM_Filter.pm
in lib/Tie/Hash.pm
in lib/Tie/Scalar.pm
in lib/Tie/Array.pm
in lib/Tie/Hash.pm
in lib/Tie/Scalar.pm
in lib/diagnostics.pm
in lib/overload/numbers.pm
Other files
- AUTHORS
- MANIFEST
- META.json
- META.yml
- Porting/acknowledgements.pl
- Porting/bisect.pl
- Porting/corelist-perldelta.pl
- Porting/makemeta
- Porting/manifest_lib.pl
- Porting/newtests-perldelta.pl
- Porting/pod_lib.pl
- Porting/sync-with-cpan
- Porting/updateAUTHORS.pl
- README
- dist/Attribute-Handlers/demo/demo.pl
- dist/Attribute-Handlers/demo/demo2.pl
- dist/Attribute-Handlers/demo/demo3.pl
- dist/Attribute-Handlers/demo/demo4.pl
- dist/Attribute-Handlers/demo/demo_call.pl
- dist/Attribute-Handlers/demo/demo_chain.pl
- dist/Attribute-Handlers/demo/demo_cycle.pl
- dist/Attribute-Handlers/demo/demo_hashdir.pl
- dist/Attribute-Handlers/demo/demo_phases.pl
- dist/Attribute-Handlers/demo/demo_range.pl
- dist/Attribute-Handlers/demo/demo_rawdata.pl
- pod/buildtoc
- regen/op_private
- regen/unicode_constants.pl
Module Install Instructions
To install less, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm lessperl -MCPAN -e shellinstall lessFor more information on module installation, please visitthe detailed CPAN module installation guide.