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There are also functions for producing HTML or XHTML output, but these are now unmaintained and are to be avoided. [1] CGI.pm was a core Perl module but has been removed as of v5.22 of Perl. [ 1 ] The module was written by Lincoln Stein and is now maintained by Lee Johnson.
This includes Perl itself, nearly all publicly released modules, many scripts, most design documents, many articles on Perl.com and other Perl-related web sites, and the Parrot virtual machine. Pod is rarely read in the raw, although it is designed to be readable without the assistance of a formatting tool.
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 formats, including online in HTML and PDF. The documentation is bundled with Perl in its own format, known as Plain Old Documentation (pod).
As the format string is processed left-to-right, a subsequent value is used for each format specifier found. A format specifier starts with a % character and has one or more following characters that specify how to serialize a value. The format string syntax and semantics is the same for all of the functions in the printf-like family.
EPUB is a format designed for reading electronic books on portable devices. It is a derivative of HTML. XML (Generated via texi2any --xml.) Unlike all the other output formats, is a transliteration of the Texinfo source, rather than finished output. The purpose of the Texinfo XML output is to allow further processing by XML tools. Info
Pretty-printing (or prettyprinting) is the application of any of various stylistic formatting conventions to text files, such as source code, markup, and similar kinds of content. These formatting conventions may entail adhering to an indentation style , using different color and typeface to highlight syntactic elements of source code, or ...
Version 5.10 of Perl introduces a say function that implicitly appends a newline character to its output, making the minimal "Hello World" program even shorter: use 5.010 ; # must be present to import the new 5.10 functions, notice that it is 5.010 not 5.10 say 'Hello, World!'
^ The primary format is binary, but text and JSON formats are available. [8] [9] ^ Means that generic tools/libraries know how to encode, decode, and dereference a reference to another piece of data in the same document. A tool may require the IDL file, but no more. Excludes custom, non-standardized referencing techniques.