Monday, August 3, 2009

Using Perl Documentation

There is lot of information on Perl documented as Perl documentation, to use this documentation you can type "perldoc" and some tags with it.
To get the info about these tags just type "perldoc perl" you will get all the commands which you can give.
some of the important commands which can be used to explore more in perldoc are as following:
perldoc perldoc: Instructions on using perldoc
perldoc perl :to get the overview of Perl documentation
perldoc perlintro : Perl Introduction for beginners
perldoc perltoc: Table of contents
perldoc perlfunc : full list of all functions
perldoc -f : Help with specific function
perldoc perlmodlib : List of all modules installed
perldoc perllocal : locally installed modules

Tutorials: perldoc _ _ _ _

perlreftut: Perl references
perlretut: Perl Regular Expressions
perlboot: perl object oriented tutorial for beginners
perlbot: some OO tricks and examples
perldebtut: debugging tutorial
perlfaq: Frequently asked questions
perlopentut : perl open() tutorial

perlbook & perlfaq2 : gives info about perl books

For reference manuals: perldoc_ _ _ _
perldata : perl data structures,
perlop : perl operators and precedence,
perlre : perl regular expressions,

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