package Pod::Functions; use strict; =head1 NAME Pod::Functions - Group Perl's functions a la perlfunc.pod =head1 SYNOPSIS use Pod:Functions; my @misc_ops = @{ $Kinds{ 'Misc' } }; my $misc_dsc = $Type_Description{ 'Misc' }; or perl /path/to/lib/Pod/Functions.pm This will print a grouped list of Perl's functions, like the L section. =head1 DESCRIPTION It exports the following variables: =over 4 =item %Kinds This holds a hash-of-lists. Each list contains the functions in the catagory the key denotes. =item %Type In this hash each key represents a function and the value is the catagory. The catagory can be a comma separated list. =item %Flavor In this hash each key represents a function and the value is a short description of that function. =item %Type_Description In this hash each key represents a catagory of functions and the value is a short description of that catagory. =item @Type_Order This list of catagories is used to produce the same order as the L section. =back =head1 CHANGES 1.01 20011229 fixed some bugs that slipped in after 5.6.1 added the pod finished making it strict safe 1.00 ?? first numbered version =cut our $VERSION = '1.01'; require Exporter; our @ISA = qw(Exporter); our @EXPORT = qw(%Kinds %Type %Flavor %Type_Description @Type_Order); our(%Kinds, %Type, %Flavor); our %Type_Description = ( 'ARRAY' => 'Functions for real @ARRAYs', 'Binary' => 'Functions for fixed length data or records', 'File' => 'Functions for filehandles, files, or directories', 'Flow' => 'Keywords related to control flow of your perl program', 'HASH' => 'Functions for real %HASHes', 'I/O' => 'Input and output functions', 'LIST' => 'Functions for list data', 'Math' => 'Numeric functions', 'Misc' => 'Miscellaneous functions', 'Modules' => 'Keywords related to perl modules', 'Network' => 'Fetching network info', 'Objects' => 'Keywords related to classes and object-orientedness', 'Process' => 'Functions for processes and process groups', 'Regexp' => 'Regular expressions and pattern matching', 'Socket' => 'Low-level socket functions', 'String' => 'Functions for SCALARs or strings', 'SysV' => 'System V interprocess communication functions', 'Time' => 'Time-related functions', 'User' => 'Fetching user and group info', 'Namespace' => 'Keywords altering or affecting scoping of identifiers', ); our @Type_Order = qw{ String Regexp Math ARRAY LIST HASH I/O Binary File Flow Namespace Misc Process Modules Objects Socket SysV User Network Time }; while () { chomp; s/#.*//; next unless $_; my($name, $type, $text) = split " ", $_, 3; $Type{$name} = $type; $Flavor{$name} = $text; for my $t ( split /[,\s]+/, $type ) { push @{$Kinds{$t}}, $name; } } close DATA; my( $typedesc, $list ); unless (caller) { foreach my $type ( @Type_Order ) { $list = join(", ", sort @{$Kinds{$type}}); $typedesc = $Type_Description{$type} . ":"; write; } } format = ^<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< $typedesc ~~ ^<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< $typedesc ~~ ^<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< $list . 1; __DATA__ -X File a file test (-r, -x, etc) abs Math absolute value function accept Socket accept an incoming socket connect alarm Process schedule a SIGALRM atan2 Math arctangent of Y/X in the range -PI to PI bind Socket binds an address to a socket binmode I/O prepare binary files for I/O bless Objects create an object caller Flow,Namespace get context of the current subroutine call chdir File change your current working directory chmod File changes the permissions on a list of files chomp String remove a trailing record separator from a string chop String remove the last character from a string chown File change the owership on a list of files chr String get character this number represents chroot File make directory new root for path lookups close I/O close file (or pipe or socket) handle closedir I/O close directory handle connect Socket connect to a remote socket continue Flow optional trailing block in a while or foreach cos Math cosine function crypt String one-way passwd-style encryption dbmclose Objects,I/O breaks binding on a tied dbm file dbmopen Objects,I/O create binding on a tied dbm file defined Misc test whether a value, variable, or function is defined delete HASH deletes a value from a hash die I/O,Flow raise an exception or bail out do Flow,Modules turn a BLOCK into a TERM dump Misc,Flow create an immediate core dump each HASH retrieve the next key/value pair from a hash endgrent User be done using group file endhostent User be done using hosts file endnetent User be done using networks file endprotoent Network be done using protocols file endpwent User be done using passwd file endservent Network be done using services file eof I/O test a filehandle for its end eval Flow,Misc catch exceptions or compile and run code exec Process abandon this program to run another exists HASH test whether a hash key is present exit Flow terminate this program exp Math raise I to a power fcntl File file control system call fileno I/O return file descriptor from filehandle flock I/O lock an entire file with an advisory lock fork Process create a new process just like this one format I/O declare a picture format with use by the write() function formline Misc internal function used for formats getc I/O get the next character from the filehandle getgrent User get next group record getgrgid User get group record given group user ID getgrnam User get group record given group name gethostbyaddr Network get host record given its address gethostbyname Network get host record given name gethostent Network get next hosts record getlogin User return who logged in at this tty getnetbyaddr Network get network record given its address getnetbyname Network get networks record given name getnetent Network get next networks record getpeername Socket find the other end of a socket connection getpgrp Process get process group getppid Process get parent process ID getpriority Process get current nice value getprotobyname Network get protocol record given name getprotobynumber Network get protocol record numeric protocol getprotoent Network get next protocols record getpwent User get next passwd record getpwnam User get passwd record given user login name getpwuid User get passwd record given user ID getservbyname Network get services record given its name getservbyport Network get services record given numeric port getservent Network get next services record getsockname Socket retrieve the sockaddr for a given socket getsockopt Socket get socket options on a given socket glob File expand filenames using wildcards gmtime Time convert UNIX time into record or string using Greenwich time goto Flow create spaghetti code grep LIST locate elements in a list test true against a given criterion hex Math,String convert a string to a hexadecimal number import Modules,Namespace patch a module's namespace into your own index String find a substring within a string int Math get the integer portion of a number ioctl File system-dependent device control system call join LIST join a list into a string using a separator keys HASH retrieve list of indices from a hash kill Process send a signal to a process or process group last Flow exit a block prematurely lc String return lower-case version of a string lcfirst String return a string with just the next letter in lower case length String return the number of bytes in a string link File create a hard link in the filesytem listen Socket register your socket as a server local Misc,Namespace create a temporary value for a global variable (dynamic scoping) localtime Time convert UNIX time into record or string using local time lock Threads get a thread lock on a variable, subroutine, or method log Math retrieve the natural logarithm for a number lstat File stat a symbolic link m// Regexp match a string with a regular expression pattern map LIST apply a change to a list to get back a new list with the changes mkdir File create a directory msgctl SysV SysV IPC message control operations msgget SysV get SysV IPC message queue msgrcv SysV receive a SysV IPC message from a message queue msgsnd SysV send a SysV IPC message to a message queue my Misc,Namespace declare and assign a local variable (lexical scoping) next Flow iterate a block prematurely no Modules unimport some module symbols or semantics at compile time package Modules,Objects,Namespace declare a separate global namespace prototype Flow,Misc get the prototype (if any) of a subroutine oct String,Math convert a string to an octal number open File open a file, pipe, or descriptor opendir File open a directory ord String find a character's numeric representation our Misc,Namespace declare and assign a package variable (lexical scoping) pack Binary,String convert a list into a binary representation pipe Process open a pair of connected filehandles pop ARRAY remove the last element from an array and return it pos Regexp find or set the offset for the last/next m//g search print I/O output a list to a filehandle printf I/O output a formatted list to a filehandle push ARRAY append one or more elements to an array q/STRING/ String singly quote a string qq/STRING/ String doubly quote a string quotemeta Regexp quote regular expression magic characters qw/STRING/ LIST quote a list of words qx/STRING/ Process backquote quote a string qr/PATTERN/ Regexp Compile pattern rand Math retrieve the next pseudorandom number read I/O,Binary fixed-length buffered input from a filehandle readdir I/O get a directory from a directory handle readline I/O fetch a record from a file readlink File determine where a symbolic link is pointing recv Socket receive a message over a Socket redo Flow start this loop iteration over again ref Objects find out the type of thing being referenced rename File change a filename require Modules load in external functions from a library at runtime reset Misc clear all variables of a given name return Flow get out of a function early reverse String,LIST flip a string or a list rewinddir I/O reset directory handle rindex String right-to-left substring search rmdir File remove a directory s/// Regexp replace a pattern with a string scalar Misc force a scalar context seek I/O reposition file pointer for random-access I/O seekdir I/O reposition directory pointer select I/O reset default output or do I/O multiplexing semctl SysV SysV semaphore control operations semget SysV get set of SysV semaphores semop SysV SysV semaphore operations send Socket send a message over a socket setgrent User prepare group file for use sethostent Network prepare hosts file for use setnetent Network prepare networks file for use setpgrp Process set the process group of a process setpriority Process set a process's nice value setprotoent Network prepare protocols file for use setpwent User prepare passwd file for use setservent Network prepare services file for use setsockopt Socket set some socket options shift ARRAY remove the first element of an array, and return it shmctl SysV SysV shared memory operations shmget SysV get SysV shared memory segment identifier shmread SysV read SysV shared memory shmwrite SysV write SysV shared memory shutdown Socket close down just half of a socket connection sin Math return the sine of a number sleep Process block for some number of seconds socket Socket create a socket socketpair Socket create a pair of sockets sort LIST sort a list of values splice ARRAY add or remove elements anywhere in an array split Regexp split up a string using a regexp delimiter sprintf String formatted print into a string sqrt Math square root function srand Math seed the random number generator stat File get a file's status information study Regexp optimize input data for repeated searches sub Flow declare a subroutine, possibly anonymously substr String get or alter a portion of a stirng symlink File create a symbolic link to a file syscall I/O,Binary execute an arbitrary system call sysread I/O,Binary fixed-length unbuffered input from a filehandle sysseek I/O,Binary position I/O pointer on handle used with sysread and syswrite system Process run a separate program syswrite I/O,Binary fixed-length unbuffered output to a filehandle tell I/O get current seekpointer on a filehandle telldir I/O get current seekpointer on a directory handle tie Objects bind a variable to an object class time Time return number of seconds since 1970 times Process,Time return elapsed time for self and child processes tr/// String transliterate a string truncate I/O shorten a file uc String return upper-case version of a string ucfirst String return a string with just the next letter in upper case umask File set file creation mode mask undef Misc remove a variable or function definition unlink File remove one link to a file unpack Binary,LIST convert binary structure into normal perl variables unshift ARRAY prepend more elements to the beginning of a list untie Objects break a tie binding to a variable use Modules,Namespace load a module and import its namespace use Objects load in a module at compile time utime File set a file's last access and modify times values HASH return a list of the values in a hash vec Binary test or set particular bits in a string wait Process wait for any child process to die waitpid Process wait for a particular child process to die wantarray Misc,Flow get void vs scalar vs list context of current subroutine call warn I/O print debugging info write I/O print a picture record y/// String transliterate a string