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.