On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Bryan R Harris <bryan_r_har...@raytheon.com> wrote: > >>>>>>> "ES" == Erez Schatz <moonb...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>>> $| is a special variable. All perl special variables are listed in >>>> perldoc perlvar. See that document for a full explanation. >> >> ES> This isn't really helping, sorry. >> >> sorry, but pointing someone to the docs is helping more than directly >> answering the question. this has been debated for years and teaching >> newbies how to use the docs has always proven to be a win because it is >> a skill they need to learn. perl's docs are among the best out there and >> very comprehensive. > > > Curiously the most helpful people on this list seem to think the perldoc > system is great, but I've always found it to be rather hard to use. If I > need to figure out what "$." means, how do I even start? I can't type > "perldoc '$.'" (well, I can, but it doesn't find anything). How would I > ever know that "perlvar" is the place to go without asking? > > Everybody gets pointed back to the perldoc system, and yet when they have > more questions, they often still have to come back here to even start.
I aggree that it is not that useful unless someone explains how to actually get that info. Luckily the recent version of perldoc supports this. Install Pod::Perldoc 3.15 and you can type perldoc -v $. of course if you use Padre, highlighting $. and clicking on F2 will actually show the documentation too. Gabor -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
