On the command line type 

perldoc perl

for a listing of docs

type

perldoc -f funcname

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type 

perldoc -q term

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On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 16:21, Dittrich G. Michael wrote:
> oh! Thanks!
> 
> by the way: is there a online source for command reference? My source is really poor!
> 
> Thanks in forward
> 
> ============================================================
> Von: Nikola Janceski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Datum: 2002/02/14 Do PM 03:05:04 GMT-06:00
> An: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,  
>       [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Betreff: RE: is it a bug? (less-equal compare)
> 
> le and ge does a string comparison... you want a numerical comparison < and
> >
> 
> "89" le "100" is false because 8 is bigger than 1 on the ASCII chart
> "89" le "99" is true because 8 is smaller than 9
> 
> "98" le "99" is also true...
> "089" le "100" is true because 0 is smaller than 1
> 
> Try it.. but le and ge are for string comparisons... remember it goes down
> the string one charater at a time and is ordered as on the ASCII chart by
> the decimal value.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dittrich G. Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 3:57 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: is it a bug? (less-equal compare)
> 
> 
> I do:
> $lowerlimit = "89" le "100";
> response ""
> 
> I do:
> $lowerlimit = "89" le "99";
> response "1"
> 
> please help me! I dont get it! is this a bug? or am I nuts?
> 
> perl -ver
> "This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for i386-freebsd"
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