=head1 NAME perlvms - VMS-specific documentation for Perl =head1 DESCRIPTION Gathered below are notes describing details of Perl 5's behavior on VMS. They are a supplement to the regular Perl 5 doc...

=encoding utf8 =head1 NAME perl5125delta - what is new for perl v5.12.5 =head1 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.12.4 release and the 5.12.5 release. If you are upgradin...

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=head1 NAME perl5004delta - what's new for perl5.004 =head1 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.003 release (as documented in I<Programming Perl>, second edition--the Came...

=head1 NAME perl5101delta - what is new for perl v5.10.1 =head1 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.10.0 release and the 5.10.1 release. If you are upgrading from an earli...

=over =item %{^HOOK} X<%{^HOOK}> This hash contains coderefs which are called when various perl keywords which are hard or impossible to wrap are called. The keys of this hash are named after the k...

=over =item $BASETIME =item $^T X<$^T> X<$BASETIME> The time at which the program began running, in seconds since the epoch (beginning of 1970). The values returned by the B<-M>, B<-A>, and B<-C> f...

=over =item $PROGRAM_NAME =item $0 X<$0> X<$PROGRAM_NAME> Contains the name of the program being executed. On some (but not all) operating systems assigning to C<$0> modifies the argument area that...

=over =item $EXECUTABLE_NAME =item $^X X<$^X> X<$EXECUTABLE_NAME> The name used to execute the current copy of Perl, from C's C<argv[0]> or (where supported) F</proc/self/exe>. Depending on the hos...

=over =item @LAST_MATCH_START =item @- X<@-> X<@LAST_MATCH_START> This array holds the offsets of the beginnings of the last successful match and any capture buffers it contains. (See L</Scoping Ru...