ActivePerl Documentation
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Getting Started
Welcome To ActivePerl Release Notes Readme ActivePerl Change Log Install Notes Linux Solaris Windows ActivePerl Components Overview PPM Windows Specifics OLE Browser PerlScript Perl for ISAPI PerlEZ ActivePerl FAQ Introduction Availability & Install Using PPM Docs & Support Windows Specifics Perl for ISAPI Windows 9X/NT/2000 Quirks Web Server Config Web programming Programming Modules & Samples Embedding & Extending Using OLE with Perl Windows Scripting Active Server Pages Windows Script Host Windows Script ComponentsCore Perl Documentation
perl perlfaq perltoc perlbook perlsyn perldata perlop perlreftut perldsc perllol perllexwarn perldebug perlrun perlfunc perlopentut perlvar perlsub perlmod perlpod perlstyle perlmodlib perlmodinstall perltrap perlport perlsec perlref perlre perlform perllocale perlunicode perlboot perltoot perltootc perlobj perlbot perltie perlipc perlnumber perlfork perlthrtut perldiag perlfaq1 perlfaq2 perlfaq3 perlfaq4 perlfaq5 perlfaq6 perlfaq7 perlfaq8 perlfaq9 perlcompile perlembed perlxstut perlxs perlguts perlcall perlfilter perldbmfilter perlapi perlintern perlapio perltodo perlhack perlhist perldelta perl5005delta perl5004delta perlamiga perlcygwin perldos perlhpux perlmachten perlos2 perlos390 perlvms perlwin32Pragmas
attributes attrs autouse base blib bytes charnames constant diagnostics fields filetest integer less lib locale lwpcook open ops overload perllocal re sigtrap strict subs utf8 vars warningsLibraries
ActivePerl DocTools TOC RDF AnyDBM_File Archive Tar AutoLoader AutoSplit B Asmdata Assembler Bblock Bytecode C CC Debug Deparse Disassembler Lint Showlex Stackobj Terse Xref Benchmark Bundle LWP ByteLoader Carp Heavy CGI Apache Carp Cookie Fast Pretty Push Switch Class Struct Compress Zlib Config CPAN FirstTime Nox Cwd Data Dumper DB Devel DProf Peek SelfStubber Digest HMAC HMAC_MD5 HMAC_SHA1 MD2 MD5 SHA1 DirHandle Dumpvalue DynaLoader English Env Errno Exporter Heavy ExtUtils Command Embed Install Installed Liblist MakeMaker Manifest Miniperl Mkbootstrap Mksymlists MM_Cygwin MM_OS2 MM_Unix MM_VMS MM_Win32 Packlist testlib Fatal Fcntl File Basename CheckTree Compare Copy CounterFile DosGlob Find Glob Listing Path Spec Functions Mac OS2 Unix VMS Win32 stat FileCache FileHandle FindBin Font AFM Getopt Long Std HTML AsSubs Element Entities Filter Form FormatPS Formatter FormatText HeadParser LinkExtor Parse Parser TokeParser TreeBuilder HTTP Cookies Daemon Date Headers Util Message Negotiate Request Common Response Status I18N Collate IO Dir File Handle Pipe Poll Seekable Select Socket INET UNIX IPC Msg Open2 Open3 Semaphore SysV LWP Debug MediaTypes MemberMixin Protocol RobotUA Simple UserAgent Math BigFloat BigInt Complex Trig MD5 MIME Base64 QuotedPrint NDBM_File Net Cmd Config Domain DummyInetd FTP hostent libnetFAQ netent Netrc NNTP PH Ping POP3 protoent servent SMTP SNPP Time O ODBM_File Opcode Pod Checker Find Html InputObjects Man Parser ParseUtils Plainer Select Text Color Termcap Usage POSIX PPM SOAPClient SOAPServer Safe SDBM_File Search Dict SelectSaver SelfLoader SHA Shell SOAP Defs Envelope EnvelopeMaker GenericHashSerializer GenericInputStream GenericScalarSerializer Lite OutputStream Packager Parser Transport HTTP Apache CGI Client Server LOCAL MAILTO POP3 TCP TypeMapper Socket Symbol Sys Hostname Syslog Term ANSIColor Cap Complete ReadLine Test Harness Text Abbrev ParseWords Soundex Tabs Wrap Thread Queue Semaphore Signal Specific Tie Array Handle Hash RefHash Scalar SubstrHash Time gmtime Local localtime tm UDDI Lite UNIVERSAL URI data Escape file Heuristic ldap URL WithBase User grent pwent Win32 AuthenticateUser ChangeNotify Clipboard Console Event EventLog File FileSecurity Internet IPC Mutex NetAdmin NetResource ODBC OLE Const Enum NEWS NLS TPJ Variant PerfLib Pipe Process Registry Semaphore Service Sound TieRegistry Win32API File Net Registry WWW RobotRules AnyDBM_File XML Element Parser Expat PPD PPMConfig ValidatingElement XSLoader|
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What is ActivePerl?
The ActivePerl Package is the most significant and exciting advance in Perl platforms! This is the long-awaited "merge" of the popular Perl ports, and has the absolute best of both plus more!
New Features in ActivePerl:
- Globalization and Unicode
- Concurrent Interpreters
- Granularity of warnings
- New regex constructs
- Additional documentation and tutorials
- Lvalue subroutines
- Subroutine attributes
- 64-bit platforms
- Large File Systems
The complete ActivePerl Package contains:
- Perl - binary of core perl distribution
- Complete Online documentation
- Perl Package Manager - Perl extension installer and manager.
The Windows version also includes:
- Perl for ISAPI - IIS plug-in that makes perl CGI faster
- PerlScript - ActiveX scripting engine, like JavaScript or VBScript with a Perl brain
- PerlEz - Embedded Perl
The ActivePerl Package is covered by the Community License. This defines your rights to use and redistribute this package.
Getting Started
Running Perl scripts from the command line
To run your Perl scripts, type:
perl <scriptname>
at the command prompt, where <scriptname> is the name of the script you want
to launch. Also, if you are using Windows and have associated the extension of the file with perl,
typing <scriptname> will also launch the script.
Sample Script
In the /eg directory of your Perl install there is a sample script named example.pl
To run it, launch a console window, make the /eg directory your current working
directory and type:
perl example.pl
You should see:
"Hello from ActivePerl!"
If you do, you've successfully installed ActivePerl! If not, there's something wrong with your
install. Check to make sure that your Path environment variable includes the directories to which
you installed the Perl core binaries. (You can type set at the command prompt to see
what's in your Path.) If you chose the defaults during the install, these should be set to the
correct values for you when you start a new command prompt.
One last note, typing perl -h will display all of the available command line options
available to you.
Troubleshooting FAQ
The ActivePerl Package comes with the newly updated collection of Frequently Asked Questions about ActivePerl. The FAQ is a valuable source of distilled wisdom about using Perl. It is a must read!
Questions, comments and info
We're interested in what you have to say. Do you have something that used to work that just doesn't work anymore? Any incompatibilities? Let us know! We can't guarantee that all suggestions will be implemented in future releases, but we'll do our best!
Please submit bug reports here. All bug reports should be accompanied by one or more concrete examples that will help us reproduce the problem. Include all relevant information that you think will help us recreate the particular environment in which the bug was observed. Remember, if we cannot reproduce the problem, we cannot fix it!
General help and questions about using ActivePerl are available from the Perl-Win32-Users mailing list. ActiveState also hosts several other highly engaging mailing-lists on various topics related to Perl.
Before posting to any of the mailing lists, please be sure to read the online documentation included with every copy of ActivePerl, which includes the Perl FAQ, and the ActivePerl FAQ.
Thanks!
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