Re: Need some information about perl documentation.

[email protected] (Gunnar Hjalmarsson) Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:34:54 +0100
Newsgroups perl.beginners.cgi
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Raheel Hassan wrote:
> I am a new member to this group, i am working on my research project 
> where i have to work using Perl. The first phase of the project is 
> written by many people and they have not done any documentation with 
> the code.

Sounds to me as a miserable start of a Perl project.

> When i tried to understand the code i did not get any thing as they 
> have used perl network programming using PHP, scoket programming and 
> connected with MySql server including many database modules. Could 
> any one tell me from where i will start any tips?

You reasonably need to know Perl at a certain level in order to 
understand undocumented code written by others.

http://learn.perl.org/

> and is there any tool which can generate the documentation

Not that I'm aware of.

> or pictorial view?

http://perldoc.perl.org/

I'm sure that people are willing to help you with the understanding of 
small code fragments, provided that you try on your own first. Please 
post such possible questions to the beginners list, unless they are CGI 
related.

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