Perldoc: No documentation on perl found [newbie]

[Shashank Khanvilkar]

Hi,
Whenever i do
%>perldoc -f foreach
I get the following message
No documentation for perl function `foreach' found

Are there any environment variables that I need to set for perldoc to
finc the documentation? or am i doing something wrong?
ANy help appreciated.
Shashank

 

[Arndt Jonasson]

Whenever i do
%>perldoc -f foreach
I get the following message
No documentation for perl function `foreach' found

Are there any environment variables that I need to set for perldoc to
finc the documentation? or am i doing something wrong?

'foreach' is not a built-in function, so "perldoc -f" doesn't find it.
You can read about it in the syntax chapter: "perldoc perlsyn".

I don't know if there is an easy way to get there just knowing the
word "foreach".

 

[Chris Mattern]

Hi,
Whenever i do
%>perldoc -f foreach
I get the following message
No documentation for perl function `foreach' found

Are there any environment variables that I need to set for perldoc to
finc the documentation? or am i doing something wrong?
ANy help appreciated.
Shashank

Your basic problem is that foreach is not a function. It's a keyword
for a looping construct. So -f isn't going to find it. Try perldoc
perlintro and search for "foreach".

--
Christopher Mattern

"Which one you figure tracked us?"
"The ugly one, sir."
"...Could you be more specific?"

 

[A. Sinan Unur]

'foreach' is not a built-in function, so "perldoc -f" doesn't find it.
You can read about it in the syntax chapter: "perldoc perlsyn".

I don't know if there is an easy way to get there just knowing the
word "foreach".

One can always look in the table of contents:

perldoc perltoc

Sinan.