For More Information

Further information on any of these functions can be found in the perlfunc man page. As with all Perl documentation, you can access this man page through the man command on Unix, the perldoc command on Unix or Windows (perldoc perlfunc for the whole thing, or perldoc -f for individual functions, or the Shuck application if you use MacPerl).

All the documentation for Perl can also be found on the Web at http://www.perldoc.com.

In addition to Perl-related man pages, this appendix also frequently refers to other Unix man pages (mostly because Perl makes use of many Unix features).

Unix man pages are organized into numbered chapters. When you see an item listed with a number in parentheses after it, it indicates that the item is found in that chapter in the man pages. For example, fseek(2) is found in Chapter 2 of the Unix manual. To look up fseek in Chapter 2, you would use the following Unix command:

man 2 fseek

Or, on some systems:

man -s 2 fseek

The command man man will help you on the man command itself.