Stuart White wrote: > > > You might want to depend on the documentation that comes with > > perl more than the book you are using. 'perlfunc' has a listing of > > almost all the the functions you'll see here. Perldoc.com has > > handy html documentation for the major versions of perl. 'Perlsub' > > does a better, deeper job than me with subroutines. > > Yeah, I had this problem before. Someone told me to > go to STart->Program Files->ActiveSTate 5.8-> > Documentation > This gave me what I find at the manpages, not perldoc. > It was laid out well, but it was confusing.
Same thing. The perldoc utility serves up man-pages in a system-independent manner using plain text. The ActiveState documentaion is the same POD converted to HTML. The only real difference that I can detect is the output format. Joseph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
