On Dec 17, Leon said:

>Sometimes I need to see the syntax of a particular function, so what must I
>do.

For *functions*, you can simply say

  perldoc -f FUNCNAME

However, things like 'for' and 'if' and 'while' are not functions, but
control structures.  They are documented in the perlsyn section:

  perldoc perlsyn

For the listing of the documentation and what's found where, see

  perldoc perl

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