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m// (pattern match operator)

        modifiers 2nd 3rd 4th

Macintosh

        installing Perl

        mapping

        pathnames

       Perl

                preinstalled

        Perl documentation

man

mandatory locking

mantissa

map function

        regular expressions

Mastering Regular Expressions

Math++* module (CPAN)

Math::* modules

mean

median

memo pad

        exercise

                code listing

                output listing

metacharacters

        anchors 2nd

        carriage return

        character classes

       dot (.)

                regular expressions

        formfeed

        newline

        quantifiers 2nd 3rd 4th

                *

                +

                ?

                {}

        regular expressions 2nd 3rd

        tab

        unprintables 2nd

metadata

        testing

METAR codes

        NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)

methods (OOP) 2nd 3rd

Methods in the Car Class (Listing 18.3) 2nd

Microsoft Word

        RTF documents

mkdir function

        creating directories 2nd

        permissions

modification time

        file test

modules

        (function libraries)

        AutoLoader

        AutoSplit

        Benchmark

        building 2nd

        calling 2nd

        Carp

        CGI

        constant

       copying files

                File::Copy

        CPAN 2nd

                CGI++*

                Data++*

                Date++*

                DBD++*

                DBI++*

                GD++*

                HTML++*

                Image++*

                LWP++*

                Math++*

                Net++*

                String++*

                Term++*

                Time++*

                Tk

                Tree++*

                URI++*

                Web site

                Win32++*

                WWW++*

       debugging

                diagnostics

       directories

                separating from programs

        DirHandle

        documentation 2nd

                perldoc program

        Env

        errors

        Exporter

        ExtUtils::*

       file information requests

                File Information Module (Listing 17.7) 2nd 3rd

                Sample Usage of the File Information Module (Listing 17.8) 2nd 3rd

        File::*

        File::Find

                file removal code listing

                file-finding code listing

        FileCache

        FileSpec::*

        FindBin

        Getopt::*

        grouping by name

        Il8N::Collate

        installing

                choosing modules 2nd

                in non-standard directory 2nd

                private copies 2nd

                UNIX 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th

                Windows 95/98/NT 2nd 3rd

        integer

        IPC::*

       listings

                A Reworking of Listing 17.9 with a Class (18.7) 2nd

                FileInfo Module, as a Class (18.6) 2nd 3rd 4th

                Program to Use Statistics Module (17.2) 2nd

                Statistics Module (17.1) 2nd

                Using Multiple FileInfo Objects at Once (18.8) 2nd 3rd 4th

        locale

        Math::*

       moving files

                File::Copy

        namespace pollution 2nd 3rd

        namespaces 2nd

       naming special variables

                English

        Net::*

        OLE++Win32

       PDF++API2

                PDF file writing 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th

        pm file extension

        Pod::*

        reasons for

        reasons for using

       Spreadsheet++ParseExcel

                spreadsheet reading 2nd 3rd

       Spreadsheet++WriteExcel

                CSV table conversion to spreadsheet 2nd 3rd 4th

       standard

                list

        Statistics Program with Function Name Export (Listing 17.6) 2nd 3rd 4th 5th

       subroutines

                forcing names on

                forcing names on (Exporter) 2nd 3rd 4th 5th

                grouping

        Symbol

        Sys::Hostname

        Sys::Syslog

        Term::*

       testing systems

                Net::Ping

        Text::Abbrev

        Text::ParseWords

        Text::Soundex

        Tie::*

        Time::*

       TYPFileInfo.pm

                file information requests 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th

        TYPStats.pm 2nd 3rd 4th

                mean subroutine 2nd

                median subroutine 2nd

        use directive 2nd

        using

       XML++Simple

                weather station application, zip code retrieval 2nd 3rd

MS-DOS

        command prompt

        pathnames

multipage forms 2nd 3rd 4th

        hidden HTML fields 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th

        survey example 2nd

                listings 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th

my operator

       private variables

                blocks

                subroutines