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Best way to look up perl information?
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| I don't want a fish, I want to learn how to fish...;}
What is the best way to search for information on a particular problem?
For example, right now I need information on connection from perl to
JAVA and pass values back and forth. What type of search and syntax is
most
effective in rooting out this information from the newsgroups?
I've noticed a lot of duplicate information being requested in these
newsgroups.
This way I hope to just look up past information.
Also, perldoc was not installed on our server. Where else can I look up
this information?
Thanks to all,
Sam
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| hi there
i think you can download it off the perl site. as for the other part ,
Pass on the info, dude!
ciao
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| Paul Lalli 2006-01-24, 7:55 am |
| Nooby wrote:
> I don't want a fish, I want to learn how to fish...;}
You may be my favorite poster, ever.
> What is the best way to search for information on a particular problem?
In general, the perldoc executable and corresponding website.
> For example, right now I need information on connection from perl to
> JAVA and pass values back and forth.
Did you look at the "perlembed" documentation. That's primarily
dealing with C, but maybe you can adapt the information to your needs?
> What type of search and syntax is most
> effective in rooting out this information from the newsgroups?
Why are you limiting yourself to the newsgroups?
> I've noticed a lot of duplicate information being requested in these
> newsgroups.
> This way I hope to just look up past information.
Regardless, Google keeps an archive of all posts to this group for the
past decade or more. http://groups.google.com/group/perl.beginners or
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.perl.misc might be good places
to start your searches.
> Also, perldoc was not installed on our server.
Then your server is broken. You should get your SysAdmins to fix it.
> Where else can I look up this information?
http://perldoc.perl.org
Paul Lalli
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| I appreciate your comments, but...perhaps I wasn't as clear as I should
have been. In the example above, I would have needed to know about
"perlembed" before I did a perldoc on it. What if I didn't know about
it? What is the best way to research something unknown? So far I've
been simply typing in the subject (ie perl java interface) into the
search line of the google advanced search page. This gives me a wide
variety of hits, many completely unrelated, many duplicated, most a
waste of time. Is this how all the experienced folks research a
problem? If this is the best way to search for information, then I'm at
the end of my search on searches and need to move on. But I really
think there has to be a, better, more efficient way to search on a
topic. This is what I'm really looking for...
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| Paul Lalli 2006-01-24, 6:56 pm |
| Nooby wrote:
> I appreciate your comments, but...perhaps I wasn't as clear as I should
> have been. In the example above, I would have needed to know about
> "perlembed" before I did a perldoc on it. What if I didn't know about
> it? What is the best way to research something unknown?
perldoc perltoc
will give you a full Table of Contents of all the available Perl
documentation, with a brief explanation of what each one describes.
Perhaps that's what you're looking for?
> So far I've
> been simply typing in the subject (ie perl java interface) into the
> search line of the google advanced search page. This gives me a wide
> variety of hits, many completely unrelated, many duplicated, most a
> waste of time. Is this how all the experienced folks research a
> problem?
I never trust random Google searches for actual information. I use
perldoc. The simple fact is, once you use it often enough, you start
to realize what's there simply by having noticed references to it in
other pages in the documentation. I don't think I've ever actually
read all of `perldoc perlembed`, but I know that it exists simply
because I've been using perldoc for so long.
> If this is the best way to search for information, then I'm at
> the end of my search on searches and need to move on. But I really
> think there has to be a, better, more efficient way to search on a
> topic. This is what I'm really looking for...
You could also use the HTML-ified documentation at
http://perldoc.perl.org and use their search page.
Hope this helps,
Paul Lalli
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