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Re: Listen To PDP-1 Kenobi (was Re: oo programming-how do I find existing methods?)
by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Dec 05, 2001 at 06:28 UTC

    To expand on chip's point, perldoc has the handy '-m' switch which lists the entire module as found by perl in @INC.

    $ perldoc -m HTTPD::RealmManager # paged listing follows
    Look at @EXPORT and @EXPORT_OK near the top for names. If your $ENV{'PAGER'} supports searching, you can go directly to the definition you want.

    su

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