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Re^2: RFC: How to survive your first few months of Perl

by graff (Chancellor)
on Nov 12, 2008 at 02:48 UTC ( [id://723046]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: RFC: How to survive your first few months of Perl
in thread RFC: How to survive your first few months of Perl

perldoc -f

In my first few months of using Perl (back in 1995), I cannot tell you how much time I would have saved if I had known about this option on perldoc. Initially, I was learning by adapting code that someone else had written, so in the course of a day, I ran "perldoc perlfunc" repeatedly to look up the details on function calls, and I was constantly paging down to the function of interest...

UPDATE: On second thought, I have to admit that I learned a lot more about perl (and grew to appreciate it more quickly) by virtue of spending so much time with the "perlfunc" man page.

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