NAME¶

pirl - A read-eval-print loop in Perl (see Shell::Perl)

SYNOPSIS¶

    pirl
    pirl --noornaments
    pirl --version
    pirl -v
    pirl -I dir
    pirl -Idir1 -Idir2

EXAMPLE SESSION¶

    $ pirl
    Welcome to the Perl shell. Type ':help' for more information
    pirl @> 1+1
    2
    pirl @> use YAML qw(Load Dump);
    ()
    pirl @> $data = Load("--- { a: 1, b: [ 1, 2, 3] }\n");
    { a => 1, b => [1, 2, 3] }
    pirl @> $var = 'a 1 2 3'; $var =~ /(\w+) (\d+) (\d+)/
    ("a", 1, 2)
    pirl @> :q

DESCRIPTION¶

This script is the command-line interface to "Shell::Perl" which does it all.

By now, read the fine details at "Shell::Perl" documentation.

OPTIONS¶

    -I dir - add the given directory to @INC
    --ornaments - turn on terminal ornaments (default)
    --noornaments - turn off terminal organments
    --version, -v - prints version info and exits with 0

SEE ALSO¶

See Shell::Perl for more documentation.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE¶

Copyright (C) 2007–2011 by Adriano R. Ferreira

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.