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 -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]