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Perl Programming Documentation, also called perldoc, is the name of the user manual for the Perl 5 programming language. It is available in several different
Perl Programming Documentation
Perl_Programming_Documentation
Overview of and topical guide to Perl
included. Perl Programming Documentation – name of the user manual for the Perl 5 programming language, available online and for offline use. Perl language
Outline of the Perl programming language
Outline_of_the_Perl_programming_language
Interpreted programming language first released in 1987
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Though Perl is not officially an acronym, there are various backronyms
Perl
Markup language for Perl documentation
Plain Old Documentation (pod) is a lightweight markup language used to document the Perl programming language, modules, and programs. Pod is designed to
Plain_Old_Documentation
Patterns used in computer programming
Perl has both a glob function (as discussed in Larry Wall's book Programming Perl) and a Glob extension which mimics the BSD glob routine. Perl's angle
Glob_(programming)
Programming language derived from Perl
Raku is a member of the Perl family of programming languages. Formerly named Perl 6, it was renamed in October 2019. Raku introduces elements of many
Raku_(programming_language)
2005 book
Higher-Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs (ISBN 1-55860-701-3) is a book about the Perl programming language written by Mark Jason Dominus
Higher-Order_Perl
Approach to software development
Literate programming (LP) is a programming paradigm introduced in 1984 by Donald Knuth in which a computer program is given as an explanation of how it
Literate_programming
Perl module software repository
written in the Perl programming language by over 14,500 contributors. CPAN can denote either the archive network or the Perl program that acts as an
CPAN
Text in computer source code that is generally ignored by a compiler/interpreter
Instead of a regular block commenting construct, Perl uses literate programming plain old documentation (POD) markup. For example: =item Pod::List-E<gt>new()
Comment (computer programming)
Comment_(computer_programming)
Library of modules (software)
The Perl Object Environment (POE) is a library of Perl modules written in the Perl programming language by Rocco Caputo et al. From CPAN: "POE originally
Perl_Object_Environment
the Perl equivalent of the class when object-oriented programming is employed.[discuss] A collection of modules, with accompanying documentation, build
Perl_module
Perl::Critic – A tool to help enforce common Perl best practices. Most best practices are based on Damian Conway's Perl Best Practices book. PerlTidy –
List of tools for static code analysis
List_of_tools_for_static_code_analysis
General-purpose programming language
collection. Python supports multiple programming paradigms but with an emphasis on object-oriented programming and dynamic typing. Guido van Rossum began
Python_(programming_language)
General-purpose programming language
multiple programming paradigms, including procedural, object-oriented, and functional programming. According to the creator, Ruby was influenced by Perl, Smalltalk
Ruby_(programming_language)
Programming paradigm based on applying and composing functions
functional programming is a programming paradigm where programs are constructed by applying and composing functions. It is a declarative programming paradigm
Functional_programming
Traditional first example of a computer programming language
"Hello, world" program in a given programming language. This is one measure of a programming language's ease of use. Since the program is meant as an
Hello,_world
This article compares the syntax of many notable programming languages. Programming language expressions can be broadly classified into four syntax structures:
Comparison of programming languages (syntax)
Comparison_of_programming_languages_(syntax)
career. Most programming languages are not standardized by an international (or national) standard, even widely used ones, such as Perl or Standard ML
Comparison of programming languages
Comparison_of_programming_languages
List of programming languages types and the languages that meet its description
ML (SML) Alice OCaml F# Nemerle Nim Opal OPS5 Perl Raku PHP PL/pgSQL Python Q (equational programming language) R Rebol Red Ruby REFAL Rust Scala Swift
List of programming languages by type
List_of_programming_languages_by_type
Programming language for statistics
files, documentation, and user-created packages. CRAN's name and scope mimic the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) and the Comprehensive Perl Archive
R_(programming_language)
American computer programmer
The Perl Review, a magazine devoted to Perl and co-author of several books on Perl including Learning Perl, Intermediate Perl and Mastering Perl. He is
Brian_d_foy
Programming languages can be grouped by the number and types of paradigms supported. A concise reference for the programming paradigms listed in this article
Comparison of multi-paradigm programming languages
Comparison_of_multi-paradigm_programming_languages
Array programming library for Perl
Perl Data Language (abbreviated PDL) is a set of free software array programming extensions to the Perl programming language. PDL extends the data structures
Perl_Data_Language
Windows port of perl by ActiveState
ActivePython ActiveTcl "ActivePerl 5.28 Documentation". docs.activestate.com. Official website Introduction to PerlScript PerlScript FAQ at ActiveState
ActivePerl
Applying operations to whole sets of values simultaneously
used in scientific and engineering settings. Modern programming languages that support array programming (also known as vector or multidimensional languages)
Array_programming
XS is a Perl foreign function interface through which a program can call a C or C++ subroutine. XS or xsub is an abbreviation of "eXtendable Subroutine"
XS_(Perl)
Organizing code into modules
Modular programming is a programming paradigm that emphasizes organizing the functions of a codebase into independent modules, each providing an aspect
Modular_programming
Issue of incomplete software being deployed
comprehensive suite of automated tests to reduce risk in changes "Lava Flow". Perl Design Patterns Wiki. Archived from the original on March 31, 2016. Retrieved
Lava_flow_(programming)
Computer control characters
Controls and Basic Latin" (PDF). Unicode Consortium. "charnames". Perl Programming Documentation. ECMA (1994). "7.3: Invocation of character-set code elements"
C0_and_C1_control_codes
List of versions of a programming language
Perl is an open-source programming language whose first version, 1.0, was released in 1987. The following table contains the Perl 5 version history, showing
Perl_5_version_history
Overview of and topical guide to Python
language Outline of the JavaScript programming language Outline of the Perl programming language Outline of the Rust programming language Wikibooks has a book
Outline of the Python programming language
Outline_of_the_Python_programming_language
Function reference passed to and called by another function
In computer programming, a callback is a programming pattern in which a function reference is passed from one context (consumer) to another (provider)
Callback (computer programming)
Callback_(computer_programming)
Language for controlling a computer
programming, assembly languages (or second-generation programming languages—2GLs) were invented, diverging from the machine language to make programs
Programming_language
Symbol representing the word "and" (&)
application: x & f means the same thing as f x. Perl uses the ampersand as a sigil to refer to subroutines: In Perl 4 and earlier, it was effectively required
Ampersand
history of programming languages spans from documentation of early mechanical computers to modern tools for software development. Early programming languages
History of programming languages
History_of_programming_languages
Built-in documentation generator module for Python
Pydoc is the standard documentation module for the programming language Python. Similar to the functionality of Perldoc within Perl and Javadoc within Java
Pydoc
Computing operation which compares two values
A22-6703-4. Retrieved September 22, 2025. Data.Ord "Math::Complex". Perl Programming Documentation. Retrieved 26 September 2014. Herb Sutter proposed adding a
Three-way_comparison
Anti-pattern
of a program, and that avoids shared states, can largely eliminate problems caused by action at a distance. This example, from the Perl programming language
Action at a distance (computer programming)
Action_at_a_distance_(computer_programming)
Computer program used to develop another program
A programming tool or software development tool is a computer program that is used to develop another computer program, usually by helping the developer
Programming_tool
Improved version of the vi text editor
Matt. "Vim documentation: if_perl". Archived from the original on 8 February 2012. Retrieved 27 August 2019. Moore, Paul. "Vim documentation: if_pyth"
Vim_(text_editor)
Internet application framework
free software under the Artistic License v 2.0, it is written in the Perl programming language, and is designed for use in both simple and complex web applications
Mojolicious
Software application used to develop software
object-oriented programming via features such as class browser and object browser. Typically, an IDE provides special support for one or more programming languages
Integrated development environment
Integrated_development_environment
Software development methodology
elements of extreme programming include programming in pairs or doing extensive code review, unit testing of all code, not programming features until they
Extreme_programming
Escape characters making an expression unreadable
or both). Many quines fall into the latter category. The official Perl documentation introduced the term to wider usage; there, the phrase is used to describe
Leaning_toothpick_syndrome
Non-English-based programming languages are programming languages that do not use keywords taken from or inspired by English vocabulary. The use of the
Non-English-based programming languages
Non-English-based_programming_languages
PL/Perl (Procedural Language/Perl) is a procedural language supported by the PostgreSQL RDBMS. PL/Perl, as an imperative programming language, allows
PL/Perl
Perl GNU Savannah – Perl Design Patterns Book Jon Bentley – Programming Pearls Joseph N. Hall – Effective Perl Programming Larry Wall – Programming Perl
List_of_computer_books
String literal that provides documentation per computer programming language syntax
automated documentation generation Literate programming – Approach to software development Plain Old Documentation – Markup language for Perl documentation "Function
Docstring
Part of a computer program where a given name binding is valid
for example, Perl's packages are largely similar to C++'s namespaces, but optionally double as classes for object-oriented programming; and Java organizes
Scope_(computer_programming)
Overview of and topical guide to Rust
language Outline of the Perl programming language Outline of the Python programming language Official website Rust documentation Rust-lang on GitHub page
Outline of the Rust programming language
Outline_of_the_Rust_programming_language
Basic programming language construct
In computer programming, an operator is a programming language construct that provides functionality that may not be possible to define as a user-defined
Operator (computer programming)
Operator_(computer_programming)
Programming language with hardware abstraction
object-oriented and generic programming while retaining system-programming abilities. Scripting and rapid-application languages such as Perl, Python, Ruby, and
High-level programming language
High-level_programming_language
the Perl programming language encompasses both the syntactical rules of the language and the general ways in which programs are organized. Perl's design
Perl_language_structure
Computational operation
org. Retrieved 2022-02-19. Perl documentation "POSIX - Perl interface to IEEE Std 1003.1 - Perldoc Browser". perldoc.perl.org. Retrieved 2026-05-22. "PHP:
Modulo
Retrieved 2025-02-22. "perlop - Perl expressions: operators, precedence, string literals - Perldoc Browser". perldoc.perl.org. Retrieved 2025-02-22. "Built-in
Range_(computer_programming)
In the Perl programming language, autovivification is the automatic creation of new arrays and hashes as required every time an undefined value is dereferenced
Autovivification
Web application framework
Plack is a Perl web application programming framework inspired by Rack for Ruby and WSGI for Python, and it is the project behind the PSGI specification
Plack_(software)
Database feature
even if the underlying DBMS does not support them, including Java's JDBC, Perl's DBI, PHP's PDO and Python's DB-API. Client-side emulation can be faster
Prepared_statement
Ability of a process to examine and modify itself
for a programming construct. These features can be implemented in different ways. In MOO, reflection forms a natural part of everyday programming idiom
Reflective_programming
System to create software documentation
Doxygen (/ˈdɒksidʒən/ DOK-see-jən) is a documentation generator that works with many programming languages. It extracts information from specially-formatted
Doxygen
Text-based user interface API
for ncurses in a variety of programming languages, including Ada, Common Lisp, Python, Gambas, Ruby, PHP, JavaScript, Perl, Object REXX (ooRexx) and Rust
Ncurses
General-purpose programming language
programming languages, with C compilers available for practically all modern computer architectures and operating systems. The book The C Programming
C_(programming_language)
Short command-line instruction
Textbooks from Wikibooks Resources from Wikiversity Perl Programming links Wikibooks Free Tcl Programming introduction & download pdf SourceForge, download
One-liner_program
object system of the Perl programming language. Its stated purpose is to bring modern object-oriented programming language features to Perl 5, and to make object-oriented
Moose_(Perl)
High-level programming language
the Java programming language Outline of the Perl programming language Outline of the Python programming language Outline of the Rust programming language
Outline of the JavaScript programming language
Outline_of_the_JavaScript_programming_language
Type of programming paradigm in computer science
In computer science, imperative programming is a software programming paradigm that provides specific instructions for how computations should take place
Imperative_programming
Lightweight markup language
(POD) for Perl. Docutils can extract comments and information from Python programs, and format them into various forms of program documentation. In this
ReStructuredText
Function definition that is not bound to an identifier
functions have been a feature of programming languages since Lisp in 1958, and a growing number of modern programming languages support anonymous functions
Anonymous_function
Programming language
JavaScript programming language Outline of the Perl programming language Outline of the Python programming language Outline of the Rust programming language
Outline of the C sharp programming language
Outline_of_the_C_sharp_programming_language
Special function called to create an object
error. In Perl, constructors are, by convention, named "new" and have to do a fair amount of object creation. In Moose object system for Perl, constructors
Constructor (object-oriented programming)
Constructor_(object-oriented_programming)
Documentation defining a programming language
In computer programming, a programming language specification (or standard or definition) is a specification language or documentation[dubious – discuss]
Programming language specification
Programming_language_specification
Words joined with underscores
2020. "Programming Rules". Archived from the original on 2010-09-04. Retrieved 2017-08-11. "GDScript Style Guide — Godot Engine (3.0) documentation in English"
Snake_case
Sequence of characters that forms a search pattern
standard library of many programming languages, including Java and Python, and is built into the syntax of others, including Perl and ECMAScript. In the
Regular_expression
Overview of and topical guide to computer programming
Java programming language Outline of the JavaScript programming language Outline of the Perl programming language Outline of the Python programming language
Outline of computer programming
Outline_of_computer_programming
Can automatically carry out a stored sequence of operations
series and other onboard languages and programming tools discussed by many include Fortran, awk, Pascal, Rexx, Perl, Common Lisp, Python, tcl, and various
Programmable_calculator
Programming language used in many domains
In computer software, a general-purpose programming language (GPL) is a programming language for building software in a wide variety of application domains
General-purpose programming language
General-purpose_programming_language
Standards and guidelines for writing code
guidelines for a specific programming language that recommend programming style, practices, and methods for each aspect of a program written in that language
Coding_conventions
Object-oriented programming language
its release, and has been a popular programming language since then. Java was the third most popular programming language in 2022[update] according to
Java_(programming_language)
Numerical computing environment and programming language
"External Programming Language Interfaces". MathWorks. Archived from the original on March 11, 2014. Retrieved August 14, 2013. "Call Perl script using
MATLAB
Section of a source code file that is treated as if it were a separate file
high-level languages, notably the Perl programming language (syntax inspired by Unix shell) and languages influenced by Perl, such as PHP and Ruby. JavaScript
Here_document
Symbol affixed to a variable name
adopted shell scripting's use of sigils for his Perl programming language.[citation needed] In Perl, the sigils do not specify fine-grained data types
Sigil_(computer_programming)
Control flow construct for executing code repeatedly
or to implement a long lived program. Loops are a feature of high-level programming languages. In low-level programming languages the same functionality
Loop_(statement)
subdivided by the language of implementation: JavaScript, Java, PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, and so on. TiddlyWiki is a HTML-JavaScript-based server-less wiki
List_of_wiki_software
Computer language security feature
Taint checking is a feature in some computer programming languages, such as Perl, Ruby or Ballerina designed to increase security by preventing malicious
Taint_checking
Programming language
language Outline of the Perl programming language Outline of the Python programming language Outline of the Rust programming language "Introduction to
Outline of the C programming language
Outline_of_the_C_programming_language
Programming languages and computing platforms that typically support reflective programming (reflection) include dynamically typed languages such as Smalltalk
List of reflective programming languages and platforms
List_of_reflective_programming_languages_and_platforms
Functional programming language created in 2007
Idris is a purely-functional programming language with dependent types, quantity annotations, optional lazy evaluation, and features such as a totality
Idris_(programming_language)
Text editor for dynamic programming languages
features, including support for many popular languages (including Python, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Tcl, SQL, Smarty, CSS, HTML, and XML), across all common operating
Komodo_Edit
Human-readable data serialization language
hashmaps). These data types are based on the Perl programming language, though all commonly used high-level programming languages share very similar concepts
YAML
Procedural programming language
PL/pgSQL is one of the programming languages included in the standard PostgreSQL distribution, the others being PL/Tcl, PL/Perl and PL/Python. In addition
PL/pgSQL
Overview of and topical guide to Java
JavaScript programming language Outline of the Perl programming language Outline of the Python programming language Outline of the Rust programming language
Outline of the Java programming language
Outline_of_the_Java_programming_language
Notation for ranges or parent directory
(Unicode) ellipsis character cannot be used. In some programming languages (including Ada, Perl, Ruby, Apache Groovy, Kotlin, Haskell, and Pascal), a
Ellipsis (computer programming)
Ellipsis_(computer_programming)
In computing, the Perl DBI (Perl Database Interface) offers a standardized way for programmers using the Perl programming language to embed database communication
Perl_DBI
Language construct that specifies how a compiler should process its input
8.27 documentation". docs.soliditylang.org. Retrieved 2024-06-03. Feuerstein, Steven; Pribyl, Bill (23 January 2014). Oracle PL/SQL Programming (6 ed
Directive_(programming)
Automation technology for Windows
VBScript, JScript, and PerlScript examples. As of the most recent releases and going back a number of versions now, the programmability of 4NT / Take Command
Windows_Script_Host
Set of software subsystems or components needed to create a complete platform
(programming language) Seaside (web framework) LAMP Linux (operating system) Apache (web server) MySQL or MariaDB (database management systems) Perl,
Solution_stack
Utility for transforming text
alternative tools for text manipulation and stream editing include AWK and Perl. The shell command that runs the utility has the same name: sed. First appearing
Sed
Set of methods that extend the functionality of a class
methods might call it. Traits originate in the programming language Self and are supported by these programming languages: AmbientTalk: Combines the properties
Trait_(computer_programming)
Explains the functionality of software
Software documentation is written text or illustration that accompanies computer software or is embedded in the source code. The documentation either explains
Software_documentation
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Surname or Lastname
English (mainly northern)
English (mainly northern) : from Anglo-Norman French pel ‘stake’, ‘pole’ (Old French piel, from Latin palus), a nickname for a tall, thin man. It may also have been a topographic name for someone who lived by a stake fence or in a property defended by one, or a metonymic occupational name for a builder of such fences. Compare Pallister.Dutch : habitational name from places so called in North Brabant (where there is also a district called De Peel) and Dutch Limburg, from De Peel in Ravels, Antwerp province, or from Pedele in Kaggevinne and in Adorp, Brabant.German : possily a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place name.German : perhaps an altered spelling of Piel or Piehl.
Girl/Female
Australian, British, English, French, Greek, Latin, Swedish
A Gem of the Sea; Pearl
Male
Slovene
Slovene form of Portuguese/Spanish Gaspar, GAÅ PER means "treasure bearer."Â
Girl/Female
Hindu
Grand
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the Middle English personal name Pell, a pet form of Peter.English : metonymic occupational name for a dealer in furs, from Middle English, Old French pel ‘skin’.English : variant of Pill 1.German : variant of Pelle or, in some instances, a variant of Pfell, the South German form of this name, from Middle High German phelle(e) ‘purple silk cloth’.
Girl/Female
Latin
Mother of Asopus.
Girl/Female
Australian, Latin
A Gem of the Sea; Pearl
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : nickname from Old French apert ‘ready’, ‘skillful’.
Girl/Female
Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
The Pearl
Surname or Lastname
Southern French (Péré)
Southern French (Péré) : topographic name from a variant of périer ‘pear tree’.Catalan : from the personal name Pere, Catalan equivalent of Peter.English : variant of Pear 1.Hungarian : from the old secular personal name Pere, Pöre.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Peel.
Male
Spanish
Spanish name derived from Latin juniperus, JUNÃPERO means "juniper tree."
Female
English
English gem name derived from the vocabulary word, from Latin perla, PEARL means "pearl." The pearl is the birthstone for the month of June.
Female
Italian
Italian and Spanish form of English Pearl, PERLA means "pearl."
Female
Yiddish
Yiddish name PERLE means "pearl."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : metonymic occupational name for a trader in pearls, which in the Middle Ages were fashionable among the rich for the ornamentation of clothes, from Middle English, Old French perle (Late Latin perla).Americanized form of Jewish Perel.
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : from a medieval pet form of the personal name Peter. Compare Perkin.Jewish (from Lithuania) : habitational name from Perki in Lithuania.
Male
Scandinavian
Scandinavian form of Latin Petrus, PER means "rock, stone."
Girl/Female
American, Australian, British, English, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Swedish
Pearl; A Little Sphere; A Gem of the Sea
Surname or Lastname
English
English : probably a variant of Parr.Jewish (American) : shortened form of some Ashkenazic surname such as Perelman and Perlstein.
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Girl/Female
Australian, Christian, Greek, Swedish
Resurrection
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Surrounding the Earth
Boy/Male
American, Anglo, British, English
Town by the Still River; From the Still River Settlement
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Sanskrit, Thai
Wise
Surname or Lastname
Irish (County Cork)
Irish (County Cork) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Murthuile, ‘descendant of Murthuile’, a personal name from murthuile ‘sea tide’ (muir ‘sea’ + tuile ‘tide’, ‘flood’).Irish (Donegal and Mayo) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Murghaile ‘descendant of Murghal’, a personal name from muir ‘sea’ + gal ‘valor’.English : possibly of Irish origin, but it occurs chiefly in southwestern counties, suggesting that it may be a variant of the habitational name Morley, from Moreleigh in Devon.
Surname or Lastname
Dutch
Dutch : from the personal name Hansel or Ansel, a pet form of Anselm (see Anselmo).English : probably of Dutch origin (see 1).German (also Hänsel) : from a pet form of the personal name Hans.
Boy/Male
Hindu
From the name sabine An italian culture
Female
German
Feminine form of German Wiebe, WIBEKE means "war."
Girl/Female
Tamil
East
Girl/Female
Hindu
A bunch of gems
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n.
Peril.
imp. & p. p.
of Purl
a.
Perk; pert; jaunty; trim.
n.
The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange.
v. t.
To cause to resemble pearls; to make into small round grains; as, to pearl barley.
v. t.
To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Purl
a.
Pert.
n.
A pearl.
n.
Hence, figuratively, something resembling a pearl; something very precious.
n.
A shelly concretion, usually rounded, and having a brilliant luster, with varying tints, found in the mantle, or between the mantle and shell, of certain bivalve mollusks, especially in the pearl oysters and river mussels, and sometimes in certain univalves. It is usually due to a secretion of shelly substance around some irritating foreign particle. Its substance is the same as nacre, or mother-of-pearl. Pearls which are round, or nearly round, and of fine luster, are highly esteemed as jewels, and compare in value with the precious stones.
prep.
Through; by means of; through the agency of; by; for; for each; as, per annum; per capita, by heads, or according to individuals; per curiam, by the court; per se, by itself, of itself. Per is also sometimes used with English words.
n.
Nacre, or mother-of-pearl.
v. t.
To expose to danger; to hazard; to risk; as, to peril one's life.
v. t.
To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of; as, to perk the ears; to perk up one's head.
a.
Of or pertaining to pearl or pearls; made of pearls, or of mother-of-pearl.
n.
A gentle murmur, as that produced by the running of a liquid among obstructions; as, the purl of a brook.
v. i.
To resemble pearl or pearls.
n.
The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
v. t.
To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl. Used also figuratively.