You can also, of course, save the script in a file. This tutorial uses example code to introduce the features of xmllibxml and the ways in which you can use the module. Thats what learning perl, a kinder and gentler introduction to perl, is designed for. Activeperl is activestates commercially supported, qualityassured perl distribution. To install the documentation you will have to install the whole site at the same time though, but this should just be a benefit because you can mirror the whole site locally and have access to all the information available here. Weve bundled some of the best packages and tools to easily adopt this language in your projects. I used filefetch as this is a core perl module i didnt need to install any additional packages and will try a number of different ways to download a file depending on whats installed on the system. It has rather good documentation of its own which can be accessed using the perldoc command from your shellcommand prompt.
This compilation in one single pdf document has been conceived using the perl pod2latex script to get latex, then converted into pdf thanks to pd. Feel free to read online or download it right from the source. Multiline comments start with and with the cut statement. For programs longer than a line, its wise to turn on a couple of options. What an attacker has to enter is rm fr, which is the unix command for deleting everything in. The primary source of webmin documentation is now the webmin wiki hosted by doxfer. At the time of writing this tutorial, the latest version of perl was 5. Chaque document est disponible au format pod original, html, pdf et roff man. Official documentation for perl 5 displays the documentation, and also includes links to download the html and pdf.
If you are new to the perl language, good places to start reading are the introduction and overview at perlintro, and the extensive faq section, which provides answers to over 300 common questions. Perl 6 compiler developers may also be interested in the perl 6 specification. Here are some direct links which may be of interest. Since this is a wiki, we welcome anyone to sign up and contribute documentation for both core modules and those. When you install perl modules, you get access to documentation for that module. For example, it may be a pdf document or simply some audio clips. Neither a reference book nor a tutorial book, the perl cookbook serves as a companion book to both. Perl 5 tutorial, first edition chan bernard ki hong. Perl and c application program interface for understand. In order to make it easier to find various strange operators of perl, you can search for them in the menubar of the perl maven site. To read the documentation for a module, use the perldoc command.
Get project updates, sponsored content from our select partners, and more. Core perl documentation and cpan module documentation. Perl xmllibxml by example documentation, release thexmllibxmlperl module is a wrapper around thelibxml2parser library which is written in c. Apprendre a programmer facilement avec le langage apprendre a programmer facilement avec le langage perl perl 3. The example scripts and xml documents are available as a zip file download. Brazilian portuguese french italian japanese russian spanish. The perl api is available for use under the terms defined in the open source initiative osi apache license, version 2. Documentation for perl and its most popular extensions in pdf format converted from pod. Your contribution will go a long way in helping us. On unixlike including linux and mac os x systems, you can access the documentation for installed modules with the perldoc command for example, to get the documentation for iofile, enter perldoc iofile from your command prompt. The most convenient way to access the documentation of core perl is to visit the perldoc website. On the product download page click the hypertext links for the driver version, utility or document you require.
Documentation for the different but related perl 5 language can be found on the perl 5 documentation website. Apprendre a programmer facilement avec le langage perl. Activestate perl has binary distributions of perl for mac os x. Perle software, device drivers, utilities, manuals, user guides, and release notes can be downloaded for free by perle customers. It is available in several different formats, including online in html and pdf.
Official documentation for the perl programming language. These are special comments called pod plain old documentation. Heres the index to the pages that have been translated. Perl language getting started with perl language perl. To learn how to install modules you download from cpan, read perlmodinstall. Here seven free perl ebook that is presented by library. Perl programming documentation, also called perldoc, is the name of the user manual for the perl 5 programming language. Assuming you have subversion installed, run the following command from the directory you want to place the modperldocs directory in. Although you can download the source code for perl and compile it under windows this would. There are many perl books, you may also find these links useful. Not to be overly flip, but the best way to document perl code is the same way as you would document code in any other language. If you are looking for instructions on how to use the various modules, you should go direct to the module documentation pages. Beginning perl impatient perl html or pdf extreme perl html, pdf or a4 pdf macperl.
As for specific tools, i use a mix of standard inline comments, pod for larger chunks of documentation where a format similar to man is appropriate, and tex as a final fallback for documents that need to be more freeform. Ebooks are in various format, either pdf or browsable online html books. If youre on a microsoft system, youll probably prefer the learning perl on win32 systems version. If you use the pdf version of this documentation or a paper version stemming from the pdf one for any other use than a personal one, i would be thankful if you could keep me informed by email. This is primarily used for the documentation for the perl library modules. L l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l l scientific toolworks, inc. To access the perl documentation you use the perldoc utility. Open a terminal application in the utilities folder of your applications folder and run perl v to find out which version. Sometimes it is needful to backtrack after reading. Just remove the e command line option and use the filename of the script. It contains an html version of the documentation for perl, the language, and for the modules that come with core perl as released by the perl 5 porters. Perl is an open source software, licensed under its artistic license, or the gnu general public license gpl. The documentation is bundled with perl in its own format, known as plain old documentation pod. The third example requires you to install the moose moose, pp.
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