=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 perlfaq3 - Programming Tools =head1 VERSION version 5.20210520 =head1 DESCRIPTION This section of the FAQ answers questions related to programmer tools and programming support. =head2 H...

=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...

=encoding utf8 =for comment Consistent formatting of this file is achieved with: perl ./Porting/podtidy pod/perlobj.pod =head1 NAME X<object> X<OOP> perlobj - Perl object reference =head1 DESCRIPTI...

=head1 NAME X<data structure> X<complex data structure> X<struct> perldsc - Perl Data Structures Cookbook =head1 DESCRIPTION Perl lets us have complex data structures. You can write something like ...

=head1 NAME perlfaq7 - General Perl Language Issues =head1 VERSION version 5.20210520 =head1 DESCRIPTION This section deals with general Perl language issues that don't clearly fit into any of the ...

=head1 NAME X<subroutine> X<function> perlsub - Perl subroutines =head1 SYNOPSIS To declare subroutines: X<subroutine, declaration> X<sub> sub NAME; # A "forward" declaration. sub NAME(PROTO); # di...

=head1 NAME perlrun - how to execute the Perl interpreter =head1 SYNOPSIS B<perl> S<[ B<-gsTtuUWX> ]> S<[ B<-h?v> ] [ B<-V>[:I<configvar>] ]> S<[ B<-cw> ] [ B<-d>[B<t>][:I<debugger>] ] [ B<-D>[I<nu...