Core Perl Documentation

# Core Perl Documentation (v5.6.1)

Every Every perl distribution comes with the following documentation, typically viewable through the standard man program, the slower and less flexible perldoc program, or as HTML. However, many programmers seem to have trouble finding that documentation, so here it all is. You may also fetch it manually as one gigantic GNU-zipped tarfile (1.6MB) for viewing on your local system.

Places to Start

- The main perl manpage
- The Frequently Asked Questions
- Table of Contents
- Index

Often Visited Documents

- Perl predefined variables
- Builtin Perl Functions
- Perl Regular Expressions

Notes:

- Converted to HTML with Marek Rouchal's Marek::Pod::HTML module.
- Some platform-specific and developer documentation is not included in this HTML conversion.