> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Tue Mar 23 19:05:15 2004]: > > Gentlemen, from the point of view of mediocre me, with perldoc -f, > for some things one can at least get clues about where to look: > > $ perldoc -f tr > tr/// The transliteration operator. Same as "y///". See perlop. > $ perldoc -f y > y/// The transliteration operator. Same as "tr///". See perlop. > > and for other things one can't: > > $ perldoc -f x > No documentation for perl function `x' found > $ perldoc -f = > No documentation for perl function `=' found > > Sure, the latter pair are a whole different class of operators perhaps > etc. etc. However, to mediocre me, they are just more perl "things", > and I hope that for any perl thing, perldoc -f should cough up some > tip about where to read more. >
$ perldoc -h perldoc [options] PageName|ModuleName|ProgramName... perldoc [options] -f BuiltinFunction perldoc [options] -q FAQRegex As you mentioned, x and = are operators, not functions, and therefore not returned by perldoc -f. This is not a bug.
