Resources

This section presents a list of the various online resources you can access to give you more information about what’s been discussed in this chapter.

Online Documentation

  • perldoc perl— An overview of the various online Perl documents.

  • perldoc CPAN— The CPAN module, used for installing modules on UNIX and Linux.

  • perldoc PPM— The Perl Package Manager, used for installation of modules on Microsoft Windows.

  • perldoc pod2html— The pod2html command turns Perl style documentation into HTML. (This makes it easy to print nice-looking documentation.)

  • perldoc perldebug— Information on the command-line debugger. This debugger is extremely powerful but somewhat cryptic.

  • perldoc Devel::ptkdb— Information on the visual debugger. This debugger is ...

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