Better perl docs?

From: Joe Cosby (joecosby_at_SPAMBLOCKmindspring.com)
Date: 03/21/04 

Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 13:53:13 -0800

This isn't meant as flame fodder ...

Are there perl docs available anywhere on a par with the Javadocs on
Sun's site for example?

For instance, I am writing a script which needs date/time
functionality. I am using perldoc.com to try to find out what I have
available and how it works, so I found the Time::localtime package
docs here

http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/lib/Time/localtime.html

(I know localtime() doesn't necessarily need the wrapper class, but
just for example ... )

It doesn't really tell me much, not as much as I need, anyway. What
are the members of the class? What are the methods? Two methods are
mentioned in passing ... apparently there's a localtime->year()
method, but what other methods are available? year() appears to
return a centuryless year, are there other methods that return a year
with century?

In this particular case I can probably guess my way through it; I
need to build a string of the form YYYYMMDD so I guess month will be a
month() method and date will be a day() or date() method, but a
comprehensive list of the class methods and members ala Javadocs would
definitely be nice ...

I am somewhat new to Perl, I have programmed with it in the past but
not comprehensively, mostly just to alter or fix existing code, so if
this is newbie stuff I apologize 

-- 
Joe Cosby
http://users.zhonka.net/joecosby/ 
"Evil is a dunghill, Mr. Angel.  Everybody climbs up on theirs to 
speak out against somebody else's"
- Satan

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