michael$ perl -v

This is perl, v5.6.1 built for sun4-solaris-64int
(with 48 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2001, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit.

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this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'.  If you have access to the
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michael$ perl -le'print ref qr/abc/'
Regexp