perlcheat
NAME
perlcheat - Perl 5 Cheat Sheet
DESCRIPTION
This 'cheat sheet' is a handy reference, meant for beginning Perl programmers. Not everything is mentioned, but 195 features may already be overwhelming.
The sheet
- CONTEXTS SIGILS ref ARRAYS HASHES
- void $scalar SCALAR @array %hash
- scalar @array ARRAY @array[0, 2] @hash{'a', 'b'}
- list %hash HASH $array[0] $hash{'a'}
- &sub CODE
- *glob GLOB SCALAR VALUES
- FORMAT number, string, ref, glob, undef
- REFERENCES
- \ reference $$foo[1] aka $foo->[1]
- $@%&* dereference $$foo{bar} aka $foo->{bar}
- [] anon. arrayref ${$$foo[1]}[2] aka $foo->[1]->[2]
- {} anon. hashref ${$$foo[1]}[2] aka $foo->[1][2]
- \() list of refs
- SYNTAX
- OPERATOR PRECEDENCE foreach (LIST) { } for (a;b;c) { }
- -> while (e) { } until (e) { }
- ++ -- if (e) { } elsif (e) { } else { }
- ** unless (e) { } elsif (e) { } else { }
- ! ~ \ u+ u- given (e) { when (e) {} default {} }
- =~ !~
- * / % x NUMBERS vs STRINGS FALSE vs TRUE
- + - . = = undef, "", 0, "0"
- << >> + . anything else
- named uops == != eq ne
- < > <= >= lt gt le ge < > <= >= lt gt le ge
- == != <=> eq ne cmp ~~ <=> cmp
- &
- | ^ REGEX MODIFIERS REGEX METACHARS
- && /i case insensitive ^ string begin
- || // /m line based ^$ $ str end (bfr \n)
- .. ... /s . includes \n + one or more
- ?: /x ignore wh.space * zero or more
- = += last goto /p preserve ? zero or one
- , => /a ASCII /aa safe {3,7} repeat in range
- list ops /l locale /d dual | alternation
- not /u Unicode [] character class
- and /e evaluate /ee rpts \b boundary
- or xor /g global \z string end
- /o compile pat once () capture
- DEBUG (?:p) no capture
- -MO=Deparse REGEX CHARCLASSES (?#t) comment
- -MO=Terse . [^\n] (?=p) ZW pos ahead
- -D## \s whitespace (?!p) ZW neg ahead
- -d:Trace \w word chars (?<=p) ZW pos behind \K
- \d digits (?<!p) ZW neg behind
- CONFIGURATION \pP named property (?>p) no backtrack
- perl -V:ivsize \h horiz.wh.space (?|p|p)branch reset
- \R linebreak (?<n>p)named capture
- \S \W \D \H negate \g{n} ref to named cap
- \K keep left part
- FUNCTION RETURN LISTS
- stat localtime caller SPECIAL VARIABLES
- 0 dev 0 second 0 package $_ default variable
- 1 ino 1 minute 1 filename $0 program name
- 2 mode 2 hour 2 line $/ input separator
- 3 nlink 3 day 3 subroutine $\ output separator
- 4 uid 4 month-1 4 hasargs $| autoflush
- 5 gid 5 year-1900 5 wantarray $! sys/libcall error
- 6 rdev 6 weekday 6 evaltext $@ eval error
- 7 size 7 yearday 7 is_require $$ process ID
- 8 atime 8 is_dst 8 hints $. line number
- 9 mtime 9 bitmask @ARGV command line args
- 10 ctime 10 hinthash @INC include paths
- 11 blksz 3..10 only @_ subroutine args
- 12 blcks with EXPR %ENV environment
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The first version of this document appeared on Perl Monks, where several people had useful suggestions. Thank you, Perl Monks.
A special thanks to Damian Conway, who didn't only suggest important changes, but also took the time to count the number of listed features and make a Perl 6 version to show that Perl will stay Perl.
AUTHOR
Juerd Waalboer <#####@juerd.nl>, with the help of many Perl Monks.
SEE ALSO
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http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=216602 - the original PM post
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http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=238031 - Damian Conway's Perl 6 version
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http://juerd.nl/site.plp/perlcheat - home of the Perl Cheat Sheet