Re: `perldoc -f` doesn't work for me

Since "perldoc" and related code is written in perl, you can use a debugger to debug it. You can do: perl -d `which perldoc` -f sort See: * http://perl-begin.org/topics/debugging/ Thank you very much, Shlomi!! I debugged perldoc as you suggested and found the error. Basically, the p

Re: `perldoc -f` doesn't work for me

Hi Pablo! See below for my response. On Sat, 23 May 2015 03:10:18 -0300 Pablo wrote: > Hi. > > Something really odd is happening to me. For example, if I do `perldoc > -v $_` I get the information about $_ as expected, but whenever I try > `perldoc -f sort` I get this message: > > /No docum

Re: perldoc perlre

Hi Rob, On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:45:02 +0100 Rob Dixon wrote: > My memory always fails me regarding the result of a Perl pattern match. > It depends on > > - m// or s/// > - scalar or list context > - /g qualifier > > ... and I am not certain that that is all! > Heh, yes, that trips me too. >

Re: perldoc output looks strange

On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 12:14:41 +1000, Noah Garrett Wallach wrote: Hi there, Hello does anybody know why the perldoc output looks so strange on my mac? Here are the first few lines of 'perldoc perldoc' I have no idea on the strange output but on my linux box some characters are not di

Re: perldoc modules

At 7:34 PM -0700 9/4/09, Noah Garrett Wallach wrote: Hi there, this might be obvious but how can I find a list of all the perldoc modules? Perldoc will only work for modules that are installed on your system. The directories in which Perl will search for modules is given by the array @INC.

Re: perldoc modules

2009/9/5 Noah Garrett Wallach : > Hi there, > > this might be obvious but how can I find a list of all the perldoc modules? > All standard modules including core and non-core modules have perldoc interface. For checking core modules: http://search.cpan.org/~rgarcia/Module-CoreList-2.18/lib/Module

Re: perldoc doesn't work

Snider wrote: I'm experiencing a strange problem with perldoc on a RHEL 4 box. Basically, I get no output when I run perldoc as a regular user. In other words, I get a blank less output. If I run the command as root I can see the information. I'm kind of stumped as to how to debug this proble

Re: perldoc -q "How can I make my Perl program run faster?"

On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 17:17 -0700, oryann9 wrote: > So in general in a web environment with 8-12gb RAM, > mod_Perl and a MySQL/Postgres backend, do you or > people you know statically link libc.a? My understanding is with mod_perl the perl is constantly loaded into Apache, not starting and stopp

Re: perldoc -q "How can I make my Perl program run faster?"

--- Jay Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/22/07, oryann9 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > This really isn't a Perl question, though. If > you > > > have questions about > > > dynamic vs. static linking, and why you might > want > > > to do one or the > > > other, you should probably pi

Re: perldoc -q "How can I make my Perl program run faster?"

On 3/22/07, oryann9 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This really isn't a Perl question, though. If you > have questions about > dynamic vs. static linking, and why you might want > to do one or the > other, you should probably pick up a good book on C > and/or the C > compiler on your system. > > HT

Re: perldoc -q "How can I make my Perl program run faster?"

On 3/22/07, oryann9 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip So in general in a web environment with 8-12gb RAM, mod_Perl and a MySQL/Postgres backend, do you or people you know statically link libc.a? For mod_perl performance related questions I would suggest asking on the mod_perl list ([EMAIL PROTECT

Re: perldoc -q "How can I make my Perl program run faster?"

> This really isn't a Perl question, though. If you > have questions about > dynamic vs. static linking, and why you might want > to do one or the > other, you should probably pick up a good book on C > and/or the C > compiler on your system. > > HTH, > > -- jay thank you for responding, howev

Re: perldoc -q "How can I make my Perl program run faster?"

On 3/22/07, oryann9 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Chas Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/22/07, oryann9 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > snip > > Am I linked to libc.a? > snip > >libc=/usr/lib/libc.a, so=dll, useshrplib=true, > libperl=libperl.a > snip > > It looks like it. My perl says

Re: perldoc -q "How can I make my Perl program run faster?"

--- Chas Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/22/07, oryann9 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > snip > > Am I linked to libc.a? > snip > >libc=/usr/lib/libc.a, so=dll, useshrplib=true, > libperl=libperl.a > snip > > It looks like it. My perl says > libc=/lib/libc-2.4.so, so=so, useshrplib=t

Re: perldoc -q "How can I make my Perl program run faster?"

On 3/22/07, oryann9 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip Am I linked to libc.a? snip libc=/usr/lib/libc.a, so=dll, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.a snip It looks like it. My perl says libc=/lib/libc-2.4.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so.5.8.8 it looks like you are using Acti

Re: perldoc strangeness

On 3/3/07, Jay Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: perldoc -f doesn't return anything for a number of functions Is this normal behavior? Nope. This sounds like a job for perlbug. Cheers! --Tom Phoenix Stonehenge Perl Training -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional comm

RE: Perldoc question...

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Charles K. Clarkson wrote: > Octavian Rasnita wrote: > > : "perldoc" is a program included in the perl package. > : > : Just run the commands: > : > : perldoc perldoc > : perldoc perl > > You can run the commands from a dos (or command prompt

RE: Perldoc question...

Octavian Rasnita wrote: : "perldoc" is a program included in the perl package. : : Just run the commands: : : perldoc perldoc : perldoc perl You can run the commands from a dos (or command prompt) window on a Windows type machine. : And you will see how you sho

Re: Perldoc question...

From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm really new to PERL, and have what's probably a really basic question I've seen references to "perldoc" where apparently a person can look and find explanations of various PERL topics...but where do I go to find PERLDOC? Is this a website or ??? "perldoc" is

Re: Perldoc advice

Brian Volk wrote: Hi All, which perldoc (s) should I read if I'm going to be writing a program using regular expression? Substitutions - case shifting. I have a folder which contains thousands of text files. (short desc. for image files). I copied and pasted most of the short descriptions so some

Re: Perldoc on Win98

Fungii wrote: - Original Message - From: "Randy W. Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Fungii" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 9:00 PM Subject: Re: Perldoc on Win98 cd D:\perl\site\lib\Pod\ copy Perldoc.pm Per

Re: Perldoc on Win98

L PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 7:19 PM Subject: Re: Perldoc on Win98 ** snip** 1) Install Pod::Perldoc, the new replacement for the older perldoc. Ok, I did that. -or- 1) What is the exact error message? 2) What is the output for 'perldoc -

Re: Perldoc on Win98

- Original Message - From: "Randy W. Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Fungii" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 9:00 PM Subject: Re: Perldoc on Win98 > cd D:\perl\site\lib\Pod\ > copy Perldoc.pm P

Re: Perldoc on Win98

- Original Message - From: "Fungii" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Randy W. Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 11:49 PM Subject: Re: Perldoc on Win98 > It outputs 'About to try calling more&l

Re: Perldoc on Win98

- Original Message - From: "Randy W. Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Fungii" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 9:00 PM Subject: Re: Perldoc on Win98 > Let's keep this on the list, so if others run i

Re: Perldoc on Win98

L PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 7:19 PM Subject: Re: Perldoc on Win98 ** snip** 1) Install Pod::Perldoc, the new replacement for the older perldoc. Ok, I did that. -or- 1) What is the exact error message? 2) What is the output for 'perldoc -v pe

Re: Perldoc on Win98

On 4/29/2004 8:50 PM, Randy W. Sims wrote: On 4/29/2004 9:39 PM, Fungii wrote: Hi everybody, I had an earlier version of perl installed on my Win98 machine and I could never get Perldoc to work. I figured something was misconfigured, so I didn't worry about it until I installed a newer versi

Re: Perldoc on Win98

On 4/29/2004 9:39 PM, Fungii wrote: Hi everybody, I had an earlier version of perl installed on my Win98 machine and I could never get Perldoc to work. I figured something was misconfigured, so I didn't worry about it until I installed a newer version of perl. And guess what, Perldoc still do

Re: perldoc perltoc WAS Using Benchmark module

Jerry Rocteur wrote: > In as much as perldoc is your friend (Just like Google ;-) I find when > you first use perldoc you get awfully confused as to which one to look > for. > > I like to use perldoc perltoc and of course > http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perltoc.html is the bees knees.. > >

Re: perldoc perltoc WAS Using Benchmark module

On Wednesday, Nov 26, 2003, at 12:21 US/Pacific, Jerry Rocteur wrote: [..] In as much as perldoc is your friend (Just like Google ;-) I find when you first use perldoc you get awfully confused as to which one to look for. I like to use perldoc perltoc and of course

Re: perldoc

Jerry Rocteur wrote: Hi, How do you guys always know what perldoc option to give to find info.. John knows them all backwards but Is there some kind of index or is it just experience and if it is experience then it is useless to those learning... ?? Sometimes I spend ages and still

Re: perldoc - html format ?

HI Janek, This doesnt seem to work on my Active perl 5.8. Mark G - Original Message - From: "Janek Schleicher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 3:28 PM Subject: Re: perldoc - html format ? > Jeff Westman wrote at Fri, 2

Re: perldoc - html format ?

Jeff Westman wrote at Fri, 20 Jun 2003 11:33:59 -0700: > Is it possible to reformat a perldoc in HTML format? > I don't see this as an option to 'perldoc'. From perldoc perldoc -o output-formatname This specifies that you want Perldoc to try using a Pod-formatting c

RE: perldoc - html format ?

just yesterday i used: pod2html. Seems to work good. -Sharad -Original Message- From: Jeff Westman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 11:34 AM To: beginners Subject: perldoc - html format ? Hi, Is it possible to reformat a perldoc in HTML format? I don't see this a

Re: Perldoc?

Kevin Old wrote: have noticed that the perldoc command isn't availableI've looked for Doesn't that one use man ? man html::parser etc. -- Alan. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: perldoc as root

From: Ramprasad A Padmanabhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cant I tweak perldoc so that it allows me to run as root > Everytime I want to refer to perldoc I have to su as some other user > which is time wasting > > Ram You should spend as little time as root as possible! Besides ... you can't have tw

RE: perldoc as root

on a linux / unix box: alias perldoc='perldoc -U' R -Original Message- From: Ramprasad A Padmanabhan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 25 September 2002 11:01 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: perldoc as root Cant I tweak perldoc so that it allows me to run as root Everytime I want to r

RE: Perldoc

>-Original Message- >From: Chris Ball [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >I've submitted a documentation patch on this and it's been applied to >the 5.8 tree. There'll be mention of perltoc as a good place to start >on the `perldoc perldoc` page in that release. I was very tempted to buy Pro

Re: Perldoc

> "Harry" == Harry Jackson writes: Harry> perldoc perl perldoc perltoc Harry> These where just what I was after. Its hard to believe I have Harry> been rummaging around in Perl for a few weeks and only Harry> realised they where on my system yesterday. Cheers for all Har

Re: Perldoc

On Thursday, May 16, 2002, at 11:52 , Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > Yes, perldoc is only useful if you already know what > you are looking for! the same is equally as true about the man pages for folks who have never been in a unix environment. { it is SO ANNOYING that perldoc perldoc does not have

Re: Perldoc

Yes, perldoc is only useful if you already know what you are looking for! Some perlmeister should come up with something that does a real search for terms in the things that perldoc knows about that works something along the lines of man -k. For instance, contrast man float with man -k float. Unt

RE: Perldoc

My humble apologies for sending the HTML mail. I have no idea how it happened other than I am using a very flaky operating system with several flaky applications. Harry * COLT Telecommunications Registered in En

RE: Perldoc

Title: RE: Perldoc >-Original Message- >From: Chris Ball [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >If this is the case, the perldoc page containing the table of contents >for perldoc is found with:  perldoc perltoc Sorry about not confirming sooner. perldoc perl perldoc p

Re: Perldoc

> "Robert" == Robert Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> If I wanted information on declaring variables using perldoc how >> would I find it. perldoc perldoc is no use. Robert> The "perldoc" manpage is about the perldoc Robert> utility... "perlpod" talks about the Plain Ol

RE: Perldoc

The "perldoc" manpage is about the perldoc utility... "perlpod" talks about the Plain Old Documentation (pod) format. So I think "perldoc perlpod" is what you are looking for. Rob -Original Message- From: Jackson, Harry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 9:48 AM To

Re: Perldoc

On Thursday, May 16, 2002, at 06:48 , Jackson, Harry wrote: > If I wanted information on declaring variables using perldoc how would I > find it. there are possibly three or four ways that sentance can be parsed. the coping with scoping problems - as to how far 'closure' goes with a variable d

RE: Perldoc

> -Original Message- > From: Jackson, Harry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 9:48 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Perldoc > > > If I wanted information on declaring variables using perldoc > how would I > find it. > > perldoc perldoc > > is no use. "p

Re: perldoc use Mostly::Readable - Re: Text file manipulation

> "Drieux" == Drieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Drieux> I just do NOT know right off the top of my head, when, Drieux> where or HOW I would use that type of a conditional in a split... @lines = split /\^M\^J|\^J|\^M/, $text_with_unknown_line_endings; -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Co

Re: perldoc use Mostly::Readable - Re: Text file manipulation

On Friday, May 10, 2002, at 03:29 , Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: [..] > I'm not necessarily speaking to you -- I'm reminding anyone reading these > messages that at no point do single quotes stop a regex from being a > regex. > > [snip credentials] > >> I know what INTERPOLATION is, and the differ

Re: perldoc use Mostly::Readable - Re: Text file manipulation

On May 10, Jonathan E. Paton said: >> >and hence the magic of using single quotes doesn't work as you'd expect. >> >It does get you out of other trouble though: >> > >> >s'$%@|'replacement'; >> > >> >where you'd otherwise spend all day backslashing things. >> >> All single quotes do is stop INTE

Re: perldoc use Mostly::Readable - Re: Text file manipulation

> >and hence the magic of using single quotes doesn't work as you'd expect. > >It does get you out of other trouble though: > > > >s'$%@|'replacement'; > > > >where you'd otherwise spend all day backslashing things. > > All single quotes do is stop INTERPOLATION. Interpolation is not the > issue

Re: perldoc use Mostly::Readable - Re: Text file manipulation

On May 10, Jonathan E. Paton said: >and hence the magic of using single quotes doesn't work as you'd expect. >It does get you out of other trouble though: > >s'$%@|'replacement'; > >where you'd otherwise spend all day backslashing things. All single quotes do is stop INTERPOLATION. Interpolatio

Re: perldoc use Mostly::Readable - Re: Text file manipulation

> > Oh yeah makes perfect sense now...match nothing or nothing and sense > > everything has nothing it always matches. haha...I like that. > > > > Tanton > > I guess the two HORRORS I would like to stomp on are > > a) using "|" as a delimiter Everyone should be using the standard CSV nota

Re: Perldoc question

> To: "Hanson, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 1:15 PM Subject: RE: Perldoc question > I really don ' t understand what you mean. I am new to > Unix and Perl. > Please help me out here. What i should to ?, read o

RE: Perldoc question

I really don ' t understand what you mean. I am new to Unix and Perl. Please help me out here. What i should to ?, read or what ? Thanks. Joe. --- "Hanson, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > perldoc isn't in your path most likely. > > Check your path environment variable (echo $PATH),

RE: Perldoc question

perldoc isn't in your path most likely. Check your path environment variable (echo $PATH), and make sure that perldoc is in one of those directories. If I had to guess you probably have a symlink to the perl executable in your path, but not the actual bin/ directory of perl. Rob -Original

RE: perldoc manual

do : perldoc -f push print function help -Original Message- From: Scott Lutz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 4:32 PM To: Beginners (E-mail) Subject: perldoc manual Where can one find a good reference to the perldocs? I want to find out about "push", so I

Re: perldoc manual

Thursday, February 21, 2002, 12:31:45 AM, Scott Lutz wrote: > Where can one find a good reference to the perldocs? > I want to find out about "push", so I tried : perldoc list ->> No documentation found for "push". perldoc array ->> No documentation found for "array". perldoc list ->> No documen

RE: perldoc manual

You should be able to find it in the perlfunc section of the documentation. -Original Message- From: Scott Lutz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 4:32 PM To: Beginners (E-mail) Subject: perldoc manual Where can one find a good reference to the perldocs? I wa

RE: perldoc -f localtime: What is (localtime)[8] ??

If non zero indicates Daylight Savings Time is in effect. Wags ;) -Original Message- From: Frank Newland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 09:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: perldoc -f localtime: What is (localtime)[8] ?? perldoc -f localtime returns

Re: perldoc quotes? is this a bug in the display?

On Jan 14, zentara said: >I've been reading the module docs with perldoc, >and I don't quite understand the quoting method, >or else my perldoc program is making errors. > >The quotes seem to start with a ` (backtick) >yet end with a ' (singlequote) > >What is the proper way to interpret this,

Re: perldoc

More should have worked, you can try this: perldoc -f some_functions |tee text_file.txt __ William Ampeh (x3939) Federal Reserve Board -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: perldoc under HPUX

Michael Fowler [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 10:23:40AM -0500, Messier, Jean-Francois wrote: *>> *>> This might seem like a beginner's question, but I saw several *>> messages ending with something about perldoc. I tried this command under *>> HP-UX v11, and first it di

Re: perldoc under HPUX

On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 10:23:40AM -0500, Messier, Jean-Francois wrote: > > This might seem like a beginner's question, but I saw several > messages ending with something about perldoc. I tried this command under > HP-UX v11, and first it did not work. I found where the program actually > w

RE: PerlDoc

> -Original Message- > From: Purshottam Chandak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 4:10 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: PerlDoc > > > I typed the command perldoc -u -f and it works. > > However, when I used the command: perldoc -u -f atan2 > It doesn't

Re: perldoc perl/pathing problem?

On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, McCormick, Rob E wrote: > I'm on Solaris that has Perl installed but I'm unable to use 'perldoc' > > :~> perldoc perl > bash: perldoc: command not found > > ~> perl -v > This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for sun4-solaris Add /usr/perl5/bin to your path, and you should be a

Re: perldoc perl/pathing problem?

Rob E McCormick wrote: > > I'm on Solaris that has Perl installed but I'm unable to use 'perldoc' > > :~> perldoc perl > bash: perldoc: command not found > > ~> perl -v > This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for sun4-solaris > > ~> perl -V > > > Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):

RE: perldoc and pod2man

> -Original Message- > From: Sofia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 2:40 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: perldoc and pod2man > > > Is perldoc a module I need to install separately? No. perldoc is a script which comes with the standard perl distribution an

RE: perldoc

ok, now i think i see. so a fully declared variable looks just like my $email; just linked the perldoc. =) At 05:09 PM 7/25/01 -0400, you wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: David Freeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 5:03 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTE

RE: perldoc

> -Original Message- > From: David Freeman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 5:03 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: perldoc > > > > ok so to have global symbols i need to declare them. i can understand > that. in perldoc there in no my on this system it

Re: perldoc error

I had a similar problem on a recent upgrade -- I had put a copy of Perl into a local directory for folks who needed it, and it was at a higher priority than the newly installed version in my path list. I copied the new one into the old one's spot, and everything works fine. --- Casey West <[EMAI

Re: perldoc error

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 01:06:06PM -0500, Boex,Matthew W. wrote: : : when i try to run perldoc, i get the following error. do i need to : alter perldoc itself? i can run all sorts of other perl programs : with modules just fine. >From below, it seems that you have a perldoc built f