=over =item vec EXPR,OFFSET,BITS X<vec> X<bit> X<bit vector> Treats the string in EXPR as a bit vector made up of elements of width BITS and returns the value of the element specified by OFFSET as ...

=head1 NAME perlpacktut - tutorial on C<pack> and C<unpack> =head1 DESCRIPTION C<pack> and C<unpack> are two functions for transforming data according to a user-defined template, between the guarde...

=head1 NAME X<tie> perltie - how to hide an object class in a simple variable =head1 SYNOPSIS tie VARIABLE, CLASSNAME, LIST $object = tied VARIABLE untie VARIABLE =head1 DESCRIPTION Prior to releas...

=head1 NAME perltrap - Perl traps for the unwary =head1 DESCRIPTION The biggest trap of all is forgetting to C<use warnings> or use the B<-w> switch; see L<warnings> and L<perlrun/-w>. The second b...

=head1 NAME perliol - C API for Perl's implementation of IO in Layers. =head1 SYNOPSIS /* Defining a layer ... */ #include <perliol.h> =head1 DESCRIPTION This document describes the behavior and im...

=over =item sprintf FORMAT, LIST X<sprintf> Returns a string formatted by the usual L<C<printf>|/printf FILEHANDLE FORMAT, LIST> conventions of the C library function L<C<sprintf>|/sprintf FORMAT, ...

=head1 NAME perl589delta - what is new for perl v5.8.9 =head1 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.8.8 release and the 5.8.9 release. =head1 Notice The 5.8.9 release will b...

=head1 NAME perlreguts - Description of the Perl regular expression engine. =head1 DESCRIPTION This document is an attempt to shine some light on the guts of the regex engine and how it works. The ...

=head1 NAME X<debug> X<debugger> perldebug - Perl debugging =head1 DESCRIPTION First of all, have you tried using L<C<use strict;>|strict> and L<C<use warnings;>|warnings>? If you're new to the Per...

=head1 NAME perldebtut - Perl debugging tutorial =head1 DESCRIPTION A (very) lightweight introduction in the use of the perl debugger, and a pointer to existing, deeper sources of information on th...