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

2015-05-25 Thread pierrot
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. Basi

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

2015-05-23 Thread Shlomi Fish
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 me

`perldoc -f` doesn't work for me

2015-05-23 Thread Pablo
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 documentation for perl function 'sort' found./ It seems that perldoc doesn't find a

Re: Can't find perldoc in Cygwin

2013-11-17 Thread Peter Gordon
On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 00:35:17 -0500, Peter Holsberg wrote: >Peter Gordon  wrote: >>>On 11/18/2013 10:45 AM, Juan Wei wrote: >> >>>I have the Cywin version of perl installed on a Windows 7 >>>computer, and it does not have a perldoc executable. >>> >&

Re: Can't find perldoc in Cygwin

2013-11-17 Thread Peter Holsberg
Peter Gordon wrote: >>On 11/18/2013 10:45 AM, Juan Wei wrote: > >> I have the Cywin version of perl installed on a Windows 7 >> computer, and it does not have a perldoc executable. >> >> How can I get perldoc functionality? >> >Open a bash window &

Re: Can't find perldoc in Cygwin

2013-11-17 Thread Peter Gordon
>On 11/18/2013 10:45 AM, Juan Wei wrote: > I have the Cywin version of perl installed on a Windows 7 > computer, and it does not have a perldoc executable. > > How can I get perldoc functionality? > Open a bash window & type perldoc -h This should give you the documentatio

Re: Can't find perldoc in Cygwin

2013-11-17 Thread Michael Brader
Hi Juan, see below: On 11/18/2013 10:45 AM, Juan Wei wrote: Michael, Please send questions to the list. I'm not a private support channel and you will likely find more help faster there. I have the Cywin version of perl installed on a Windows 7 computer, and it does not have a pe

Re: POD and Perldoc

2012-09-14 Thread John Penkethman
nt $str; >> } >> >> # here I want to put POD that describes this function > [...] > > Of course you can; that's almost exactly how most POD is written. > > Look at nearly any half-decent module on CPAN, or see perldoc perlpod - > it even has examples.

Re: POD and Perldoc

2012-09-13 Thread David Precious
almost exactly how most POD is written. Look at nearly any half-decent module on CPAN, or see perldoc perlpod - it even has examples. They key is that =cut ends POD, and POD directives restart it. e.g. =head1 NAME Badger =head1 SYNOPSIS my $badger = Badger->new; if ($b

Re: POD and Perldoc

2012-09-13 Thread Brandon McCaig
back to Perl with =cut. If the intent is only to have the documentation for the subroutines right above them so they're nearby and easier to keep in sync then I think that the Pod format will work just fine. :) If you haven't already then you should read through `perldoc p

POD and Perldoc

2012-09-13 Thread Weidner, Ron
I'm looking at documenting perl code I'm working on. I'm considering POD but I don't think it can do what I want. Example of what I would like... [code] # here I would put POD synopsis etc. # here I want to put POD that describes this function sub my_echo { my ($str)

Re: syntax question conc​erning Rex::Commands​::Iptables perldoc s​ynopsis​

2012-08-17 Thread Dominik Danter
Andy Bach hat am 17. August 2012 um 22:12 geschrieben: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Andy Bach wrote: > > So try starting the test script w/.: > > use Rex; > > use Rex::Commands::Iptables; > > Nope - sort of the other way round, 'rex' is an executable program > that, like perl, you use t

Re: syntax question conc​erning Rex::Commands​::Iptables perldoc s​ynopsis​

2012-08-17 Thread Andy Bach
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Andy Bach wrote: > So try starting the test script w/.: > use Rex; > use Rex::Commands::Iptables; Nope - sort of the other way round, 'rex' is an executable program that, like perl, you use to run your script. It normally processes a file in the current dir call R

Re: syntax question conc​erning Rex::Commands​::Iptables perldoc s​ynopsis​

2012-08-17 Thread Andy Bach
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Dominik Danter wrote: > Wow, that was fast; thank you! > I did define it - here is the code that produced the output: > #!/usr/bin/env perl > > use Rex::Commands::Iptables; Oh, well, that wasn't in the snippet. 'task' is actually in Rex, not Rex::Commands::Iptabl

Re: syntax question conc​erning Rex::Commands​::Iptables perldoc synopsis​

2012-08-17 Thread Brandon McCaig
oo { my ($arg1, $sub) = @_; print "Called foo with these arguments: @_\n"; # Calling the subroutine via reference. $sub->($arg1); } sub named_sub { print "Called named_sub with these arguments: @_\n"; } See perldoc perlsub. Regards, -- Brandon McCai

Re: syntax question conc​erning Rex::Commands​::Iptables perldoc s​ynopsis​

2012-08-17 Thread Dominik Danter
Andy Bach hat am 17. August 2012 um 20:25 geschrieben: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Andy Bach wrote: > > Well, 'task' isn't a Perl function built-in or core module > > Whoops - dang gmail hides the subject line on me - > http://search.cpan.org/~jfried/Rex-0.31.3/lib/Rex/Commands/Iptab

Re: syntax question conc​erning Rex::Commands​::Iptables perldoc s​ynopsis​

2012-08-17 Thread Andy Bach
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Andy Bach wrote: > Well, 'task' isn't a Perl function built-in or core module Whoops - dang gmail hides the subject line on me - http://search.cpan.org/~jfried/Rex-0.31.3/lib/Rex/Commands/Iptables.pm you left off the line: use Rex::Commands::Iptables; The module

Re: syntax question conc​erning Rex::Commands​::Iptables perldoc s​ynopsis​

2012-08-17 Thread Andy Bach
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Dominik Danter wrote: > String found where operator expected at ./test.pl line 5, near "task > "firewall"" Well, 'task' isn't a Perl function built-in or core module so ... can't find anything that uses that syntax for some kind of multitasking/fork/parallel (PO

syntax question conc​erning Rex::Commands​::Iptables perldoc s​ynopsis​

2012-08-17 Thread Dominik Danter
Hi, I don't understand the following code: task "firewall", sub { iptables_clear; ... ... }; I have searched for "perl task" and have not found anything meaningful. Copy pasting the snippet and executing result in the following: 1286 % ./test.pl String found whe

Re: No documentation found for perldoc

2012-02-10 Thread Shawn H Corey
On 12-02-10 11:26 AM, casandra riera ribas wrote: Hi, I have some (probably very stupid) problem when trying to search in perldoc in my computer (MacOSX 10.7.2), see: I would say that your Perl documentation is missing. On Linux, some distros come without it. I know how to load it in Debian

No documentation found for perldoc

2012-02-10 Thread casandra riera ribas
Hi, I have some (probably very stupid) problem when trying to search in perldoc in my computer (MacOSX 10.7.2), see: maccasandra:~ mcasandrariera$ perldoc perltoc No documentation found for "perltoc". maccasandra:~ mcasandrariera$ perldoc List::Util ##this worked maccasandra:~ mcas

Re: DBIx::Class add rows to table, confusion in perldoc example....

2012-02-05 Thread Dermot
On 5 February 2012 03:29, Rajeev Prasad wrote: > > > Author says: > > Adding and removing rows > To create a new record in the database, you can use the create method. It > returns an instance of My::Schema::Result::Album that can be used to access > the data in the new record: > > my $new_album

DBIx::Class add rows to table, confusion in perldoc example....

2012-02-04 Thread Rajeev Prasad
Author says: Adding and removing rows To create a new record in the database, you can use the create method. It returns an instance of My::Schema::Result::Album that can be used to access the data in the new record: my $new_album = $schema->resultset('Album')->create({ title => 'Wish You Were

Re: perldoc perlre

2011-07-25 Thread Shlomi Fish
Heh, yes, that trips me too. > The details are in > > perldoc perlre > That's not all there is there. And the "BUGS" section reads: [QUOTE] This document varies from difficult to understand to completely and utterly opaque. The wandering prose riddled with jargon is h

perldoc perlre

2011-07-25 Thread Rob Dixon
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! The details are in perldoc perlre but my question is whether the list thinks a more ordered document would be

Re:Links to perldoc in pdf

2011-06-28 Thread pangj
Download it with both HTML and PDF files: http://perldoc.perl.org/perldoc.tar.gz > Message du 27/06/11 23:42 > De : "Peng Yu" > A : "Perl Beginners" > Copie à : > Objet : Links to perldoc in pdf > > Hi, > > perldoc.perl.org has the perl docum

Links to perldoc in pdf

2011-06-27 Thread Peng Yu
Hi, perldoc.perl.org has the perl document in pdf format. But I don't find a webpage that links to all the pdfs. I only find webpage that links to htmls. Does anybody know if there is a webpage that has links to all the pdf document? perldoc.perl.org/perlintro.pdf -- Regards, Peng -- To unsub

Re: command line perldoc and Padre, the Perl IDE

2009-09-10 Thread Chas. Owens
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 13:54, Gabor Szabo wrote: snip > There is the new  perlopref  document by Chas. Owens who is also on > this list. That's great. Thanks Chas!  That will be able to explain > certain expressions such as &&. > > I am sure he will be happy to get some help from you. > See http:

command line perldoc and Padre, the Perl IDE

2009-09-10 Thread Gabor Szabo
perldoc has all sorts of problems, it is hard to use to people who don't yet know how to use it and it does not give you a useful answer to many questions. It gives you a correct answer, it is just not very useful to beginners. tryperldoc -f open It has a long explanation on all kin

Re: perldoc output looks strange

2009-09-06 Thread Dave Tang
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

Re: perldoc modules

2009-09-04 Thread Jim Gibson
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

2009-09-04 Thread Jeff Pang
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-CoreL

perldoc modules

2009-09-04 Thread Noah Garrett Wallach
Hi there, this might be obvious but how can I find a list of all the perldoc modules? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

perldoc output looks strange

2009-09-04 Thread Noah Garrett Wallach
Hi there, does anybody know why the perldoc output looks so strange on my mac? Here are the first few lines of 'perldoc perldoc' SYNOPSIS perldoc [###7m<88><92>^H###7m<88><92>h] [###7m<88><92>^H###7m<88><92>v] [###7m<88>

Re: AW: perldoc perlboot

2009-06-23 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Thomas" == Thomas Bätzler writes: Thomas> Now $class is 'Dormouse', but the current package is 'Mouse' and the Thomas> explanation from perlboot makes sense: $class->SUPER::speak() invokes Thomas> Animal::speak() and not Mouse::speak(). Exactly, because if it didn't, it'd be an infinite l

AW: perldoc perlboot

2009-06-18 Thread Thomas Bätzler
Dave Tang asked: > I've been going through perldoc perlboot and I have a question about > using the SUPER class. Here's the code in the documentation: > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > use strict; > use warnings; > > { > package Animal; > sub speak { &g

perldoc perlboot

2009-06-18 Thread Dave Tang
Hello, I've been going through perldoc perlboot and I have a question about using the SUPER class. Here's the code in the documentation: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; { package Animal; sub speak { my $class = shift; print "a $class goes ",

Re: "Programming Perl" vs perldoc

2009-04-10 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "asmith9983" == asmith9983 writes: asmith9983> I've found the site:- asmith9983> [redacted] asmith9983> very useful for things I've worked on for examples. Sir, I'm personally offended by you. The authors of the materials you've just posted an indirect link for worked hard to produce th

Re: "Programming Perl" vs perldoc

2009-04-09 Thread James Coupe
Dermot wrote: >2009/4/8 Richard Hobson : >> On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:50 -0400, "Chas. Owens" >> wrote: > Amazon US has "Intermediate Perl" new for $25, >> while Amazon UK has it for $46, excluding postage. > > >It's £30.99 and postage is free if you accept standard 2nd class delivery. 30.99 GBP in

Re: "Programming Perl" vs perldoc

2009-04-09 Thread Dermot
2009/4/8 Richard Hobson : > On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:50 -0400, "Chas. Owens" > wrote: Amazon US has "Intermediate Perl" new for $25, > while Amazon UK has it for $46, excluding postage. It's £30.99 and postage is free if you accept standard 2nd class delivery. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Intermediat

RE: "Programming Perl" vs perldoc

2009-04-08 Thread David Christensen
t;, but I've heard that > "Programming Perl" is the best next step. > But, what's the advantage of "Programming Perl" when we have "perldoc"? > What does the book give me that perldoc does not? A chess program sounds ambitious for a first program in

Re: "Programming Perl" vs perldoc

2009-04-08 Thread asmith9983
in particular that you are getting hung up on? I thought about getting "Intermediate Perl", but I've heard that "Programming Perl" is the best next step. I'd disagree and say that your suggestion of Intermediate Perl would be the next best step. But, what's the

Re: "Programming Perl" vs perldoc

2009-04-08 Thread Telemachus
One other thing: http://perldoc.perl.org/ is an excellent way to read the docs online (searchable too), and it provides pdf versions of almost everything. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: "Programming Perl" vs perldoc

2009-04-08 Thread Telemachus
On Wed Apr 08 2009 @ 1:08, Richard Hobson wrote: > But, what's the advantage of "Programming Perl" when we have "perldoc"? > What does the book give me that perldoc does not? One thing that nobody has mentioned is that Programming Perl hasn't been updated

Re: "Programming Perl" vs perldoc

2009-04-08 Thread Chas. Owens
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 08:57, Richard Hobson wrote: > On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:50 -0400, "Chas. Owens" > wrote: >> Your whois information suggests that you live in the US; I am always >> amazed to hear fellow Americans say things like "that book is >> expensive."  We have a wonderful lending librar

Re: "Programming Perl" vs perldoc

2009-04-08 Thread Richard Hobson
On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:50 -0400, "Chas. Owens" wrote: > Your whois information suggests that you live in the US; I am always > amazed to hear fellow Americans say things like "that book is > expensive." We have a wonderful lending library system in this > country, use it. If your local library d

Re: "Programming Perl" vs perldoc

2009-04-08 Thread Peter Scott
On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:08:41 +0100, Richard Hobson wrote: > But, what's the advantage of "Programming Perl" when we have "perldoc"? > What does the book give me that perldoc does not? In earlier editions, the only difference was footnotes. Later editions have mor

Re: "Programming Perl" vs perldoc

2009-04-08 Thread Chas. Owens
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 08:42, Richard Hobson wrote: snip > OK. I'll probably stick with perldoc and get "Intermediate Perl". I'm > currently unemployed, so I can't really fork out for both books right > now - but I have plenty of time to learn Perl! snip Your w

Re: "Programming Perl" vs perldoc

2009-04-08 Thread Brian J. Miller
e and say that your suggestion of Intermediate Perl would be >> the next best step. >> >> A book. Some descriptions are more in depth and having a book with a >> table of contents and index can often be easier to reference when you >> don't know *where* to look in per

Re: "Programming Perl" vs perldoc

2009-04-08 Thread Chas. Owens
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 08:37, Brian J. Miller wrote: snip >> I thought about getting "Intermediate Perl", but I've heard that >> "Programming Perl" is the best next step. >> > > I'd disagree and say that your suggestion of Intermediate Perl would be > the next best step. snip I would say both are

Re: "Programming Perl" vs perldoc

2009-04-08 Thread Richard Hobson
easier to reference when you > don't know *where* to look in perldoc, but much of the information will > be the same. (Any number of sites and Google can help with where to > look.) OK. I'll probably stick with perldoc and get "Intermediate Perl". I'm currently u

Re: "Programming Perl" vs perldoc

2009-04-08 Thread Richard Hobson
easier to reference when you > don't know *where* to look in perldoc, but much of the information will > be the same. (Any number of sites and Google can help with where to > look.) OK. I'll probably stick with perldoc and get "Intermediate Perl". I'm currently u

Re: "Programming Perl" vs perldoc

2009-04-08 Thread Brian J. Miller
something in particular that you are getting hung up on? > I thought about getting "Intermediate Perl", but I've heard that > "Programming Perl" is the best next step. > I'd disagree and say that your suggestion of Intermediate Perl would be the next best st

"Programming Perl" vs perldoc

2009-04-08 Thread Richard Hobson
Programming Perl" is the best next step. But, what's the advantage of "Programming Perl" when we have "perldoc"? What does the book give me that perldoc does not? Thanks, Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/

Re: perldoc doesn't work

2008-03-14 Thread John W. Krahn
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

perldoc doesn't work

2008-03-14 Thread Snider
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 problem.

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

2007-03-24 Thread Ken Foskey
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?"

2007-03-23 Thread oryann9
ant > > > 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 respon

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

2007-03-23 Thread Jay Savage
e C > compiler on your system. > > HTH, > > -- jay thank you for responding, however I have to disagree with you in that this is not a Perl question because it is, otherwise perldoc -q would not have this info. In addition it directly talks about options when installing Perl. I th

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

2007-03-22 Thread Chas Owens
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?"

2007-03-22 Thread oryann9
> -- jay thank you for responding, however I have to disagree with you in that this is not a Perl question because it is, otherwise perldoc -q would not have this info. In addition it directly talks about options when installing Perl. So in general in a web environment with 8-12gb RAM, mod_Perl a

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

2007-03-22 Thread Jay Savage
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?"

2007-03-22 Thread oryann9
--- 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?"

2007-03-22 Thread Chas Owens
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

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

2007-03-22 Thread oryann9
On this FAQ I read: If you're currently linking your perl executable to a shared libc.so, you can often gain a 10-25% performance benefit by rebuilding it to link with a static libc.a instead. This will make a bigger perl exe-cutable, but your Perl programs (and programmers) may thank you for it.

Re: perldoc strangeness

2007-03-03 Thread Tom Phoenix
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

perldoc strangeness

2007-03-03 Thread Jay Savage
I just noticed something strange with my perldoc (v5.8.6 built for darwin-thread-multi-2level): some perldoc -f doesn't return anything for a number of functions, particularly, it seems, a number of the functions for SCALRs and strings. I noticied it first with chr, but none of the func

Re: Re: All of "perldoc" to text @ 1162502881

2006-11-02 Thread Johan Meskens CS3 jmcs3
> never read or heard before. Also surprising is how detailed it is, > > you > > wand and chant some special words and magically out pops some thing > > you wave a > > "perldoc" to me has always been this kind of magicians hat where > > > &g

Re: All of "perldoc" to text

2006-11-02 Thread Tommy Nordgren
On 1 nov 2006, at 23.03, Bryan R Harris wrote: "perldoc" to me has always been this kind of magicians hat where you wave a wand and chant some special words and magically out pops some thing you never read or heard before. Also surprising is how detailed it is, it seem

Re: All of "perldoc" to text

2006-11-02 Thread Arnaldo Guzman
On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 11:02 -0700, Bryan R Harris wrote: > > On 11/1/06, Bryan R Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> "perldoc" to me has always been this kind of magicians hat where you > >> wave a wand and chant some special words and magica

Re: Re: All of "perldoc" to text

2006-11-02 Thread Tom Phoenix
On 11/2/06, Bryan R Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: is there a way to get perldoc to dump *everything* it knows into a huge text file? In addition to the core Perl documentation, which is a large set of pod files, nearly all modules have their own documentation files (usually with .

Re: All of "perldoc" to text

2006-11-02 Thread Bryan R Harris
> On 11/1/06, Bryan R Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> "perldoc" to me has always been this kind of magicians hat where you >> wave a wand and chant some special words and magically out pops >> some thing you never read or heard before. > >&g

Re: All of "perldoc" to text

2006-11-01 Thread Tom Phoenix
On 11/1/06, Bryan R Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "perldoc" to me has always been this kind of magicians hat where you wave a wand and chant some special words and magically out pops some thing you never read or heard before. Is it possible to somehow pipe the whole t

All of "perldoc" to text

2006-11-01 Thread Bryan R Harris
"perldoc" to me has always been this kind of magicians hat where you wave a wand and chant some special words and magically out pops some thing you never read or heard before. Also surprising is how detailed it is, it seems to have things that even the Perl Bookshelf doesn't. Is

Re: [OT] perldoc typo

2006-08-25 Thread Adriano Ferreira
using). Chances are that the thing that annoys you has already been taken care of. As Tom said, perlbug is one of the most promising ways to go - it already takes care of including your version info into the bug report. I found that you meant perldoc -q filehandle and the problem is

Re: [OT] perldoc typo

2006-08-24 Thread Mathew
Tom Phoenix wrote: On 8/24/06, Klaus Jantzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would like to inform whoever feels responsible for perldoc You may use the perlbug program to send bug reports for Perl, its utilities, and its documentation. Send a patch, if you can. output of perl

Re: [OT] perldoc typo

2006-08-24 Thread Tom Phoenix
On 8/24/06, Klaus Jantzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would like to inform whoever feels responsible for perldoc You may use the perlbug program to send bug reports for Perl, its utilities, and its documentation. Send a patch, if you can. output of perldoc -f filehandle

[OT] perldoc typo

2006-08-24 Thread Klaus Jantzen
I would like to inform whoever feels responsible for perldoc that the output of perldoc -f filehandle contains a small typo. Before anybody says "it does not work" here the the info: Line 85 should say "$fh = IO::Handle -> new();" i.e. the dash of the arrow is

Re: which perldoc ?

2005-10-19 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Oct 19, Randy W. Sims said: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: On Oct 19, Brian Volk said: Is there a perldoc that will list the available arguments and there meanings for perl-one-liners? Yes. To try and figure out what perldoc to look at for a given topic, do: perldoc perldoc

Re: which perldoc ?

2005-10-19 Thread Randy W. Sims
Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: On Oct 19, Brian Volk said: Is there a perldoc that will list the available arguments and there meanings for perl-one-liners? Yes. To try and figure out what perldoc to look at for a given topic, do: perldoc perldoc You mean `perldoc perl` ?

Re: which perldoc ?

2005-10-19 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Oct 19, Brian Volk said: Is there a perldoc that will list the available arguments and there meanings for perl-one-liners? Yes. To try and figure out what perldoc to look at for a given topic, do: perldoc perldoc which will show the names of the documentation sections and a brief

Re: which perldoc ?

2005-10-19 Thread John W. Krahn
Brian Volk wrote: > Hi All~ Hello, > Is there a perldoc that will list the available arguments and there meanings > for perl-one-liners? perldoc perlrun > I saw this in an earlier email; Subject: Delete a char from a file > >Perl -pi -e '/s/%/

which perldoc ?

2005-10-19 Thread Brian Volk
Hi All~ Is there a perldoc that will list the available arguments and there meanings for perl-one-liners? I saw this in an earlier email; Subject: Delete a char from a file Perl -pi -e '/s/%/ /' filename I'm guessing the -i is for in-place edi

RE: Perldoc question...

2005-10-17 Thread Chris Devers
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Charles K. Clarkson wrote: > Octavian Rasnita <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > : "perldoc" is a program included in the perl package. > : > : Just run the commands: > : > : perldoc perldoc > : perldoc perl > > Y

RE: Perldoc question...

2005-10-17 Thread Charles K. Clarkson
Octavian Rasnita <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: Perldoc question...

2005-10-17 Thread Octavian Rasnita
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

Perldoc question...

2005-10-17 Thread Richard.Copits
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 ??? Thank you

perldoc formatting

2005-07-10 Thread christopher . l . hood
Ok basically I have written a module, and it works, I have updated the documentation in the module, and it works for the most part. What I am seeing is that when I use a single quote that the line looks like this when you use perldoc. ookup::GetInfo(’$affiliate’,’$ip_address’,’

Re: where to get perldoc Net::Telnet? missing in the perldoc from perldoc.perl.org

2005-06-20 Thread Wijaya Edward
ubject: where to get perldoc Net::Telnet? missing in the perldoc from perldoc.perl.org > Hi, > I do not have the Net::Telnet in the perldoc i > downloaded from perldoc.perl.org. even > http://perldoccom/cspan/Net/Telnet.Html page is not &g

where to get perldoc Net::Telnet? missing in the perldoc from perldoc.perl.org

2005-06-20 Thread MEENA SELVAM
Hi, I do not have the Net::Telnet in the perldoc i downloaded from perldoc.perl.org. even http://perldoccom/cspan/Net/Telnet.Html page is not working meena __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http

Re: Which perldoc discuss about loops ?

2004-11-03 Thread Bee
Thanks Jenda ! Got it now =) - Original Message - From: "Jenda Krynicky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 5:57 AM Subject: Re: Which perldoc discuss about loops ? > From: "Bee" <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Which perldoc discuss about loops ?

2004-11-03 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: "Bee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Just a quick question, which perldoc talking about loops ? > for, while, do until... ? I just can't find it out perlsyn Jenda = [EMAIL PROTECTED] === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz = When it comes to wine, women an

Which perldoc discuss about loops ?

2004-11-03 Thread Bee
Hi, Just a quick question, which perldoc talking about loops ? for, while, do until... ? I just can't find it out TIA, Bee

Re: What search string do I use on google or perldoc so that I know how to display a specified range of lines from a file (like sed -n 24, 48p filename)?

2004-10-23 Thread Bob Showalter
Ken Wolcott wrote: A fishing pole question rather than a fish question :-) What search string do I use on google or perldoc so that I know how to display a specified range of lines from a file (like sed -n 24, 48p filename)? Zeus gave you the solution, but the background is explained in perldoc

Re: What search string do I use on google or perldoc so that I know how to display a specified range of lines from a file (like sed -n 24, 48p filename)?

2004-10-23 Thread Zeus Odin
The following prints lines 24-48 of filename: prompt> perl -ne "print if 24..48" filename "Ken Wolcott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > A fishing pole question rather than a fish question :-) > > What search string do I use on g

Re: What search string do I use on google or perldoc ...

2004-10-22 Thread David le Blanc
On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 00:32:09 +0200, Jenda Krynicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Ken Wolcott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > What search string do I use on google or perldoc so that I know how to > > display a specified range of lines from a file (like sed -n 24, 4

Re: What search string do I use on google or perldoc ...

2004-10-22 Thread Jenda Krynicky
From: Ken Wolcott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What search string do I use on google or perldoc so that I know how to > display a specified range of lines from a file (like sed -n 24, 48p > filename)? Whatever you like. I doubt you'll find anything. > s2p no longer operates t

What search string do I use on google or perldoc so that I know how to display a specified range of lines from a file (like sed -n 24, 48p filename)?

2004-10-22 Thread Ken Wolcott
A fishing pole question rather than a fish question :-) What search string do I use on google or perldoc so that I know how to display a specified range of lines from a file (like sed -n 24, 48p filename)? s2p no longer operates the way I used to use it back in perl 3x days :-) man s2p really

perldoc and utf8 or something..

2004-08-14 Thread Harry Putnam
I've been noticing for a while now. I keep forgetting to ask about it since it only comes up if I copy/paste something from the output of perldoc. Here is an example of what I see: perldoc -f split Now from that output, find the first example of actual scripting (scroll down to find it)

Re: Perldoc advice

2004-06-05 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
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 descriptio

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