Perl programming on MPE/iX - April 2002

Solution Symposium Page 23April 4, 2002
built-in functions - a partial list
• Functions for SCALARs or strings
• chomp, chop, chr, crypt, hex, index, lc, lcfirst, length, oct, ord, pack, q/STRING/,
qq/STRING/, reverse, rindex, sprintf, substr, tr///, uc, ucfirst, y///
• Regular expressions and pattern matching
• m//, pos, quotemeta, s///, split, study, qr//
• Numeric functions
• abs, atan2, cos, exp, hex, int, log, oct, rand, sin, sqrt, srand
• Functions for real @ARRAYs
• pop, push, shift, splice, unshift
• Functions for list data
• grep, join, map, qw/STRING/, reverse, sort, unpack
• Functions for real %HASHes
• delete, each, exists, keys, values
• Functions for fixed length data or records
• pack, read, syscall, sysread, syswrite, unpack, vec