Perl for C Programmers

Resources

Online Documentation

• perldoc perlref— Information on references including references to file handles.

Modules

• Fcntl— Provides named open flags, such as O_RDONLY and O_RDWR.

• IO::Handle— An object-oriented interface to the I/O system.

• IO::File— A superclass of IO::Handle for files.

• Symbol— Symbol table manipulation functions.

Functions

• perldoc –f open— Information on opening a file.

• perldoc –f sysopen— An interface to the systems open call.

• perldoc –f binmode— Set the binary mode of a file.

• perldoc –f read— Read a series of bytes from a file.

• perldoc –f write— Write a series of bytes to a file.

• perldoc –f pack— Turn a list of strings into binary data.

• perldoc –f unpack— Turn binary data into strings that Perl can use.