Security Advisories (18)
regcomp.c in Perl before 5.30.3 allows a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression because of recursive S_study_chunk calls.
- https://github.com/Perl/perl5/compare/v5.30.2...v5.30.3
- https://github.com/Perl/perl5/blob/blead/pod/perl5303delta.pod
- https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/16947
- https://github.com/perl/perl5/commit/66bbb51b93253a3f87d11c2695cfb7bdb782184a
- https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17743
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200611-0001/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-03
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IN3TTBO5KSGWE5IRIKDJ5JSQRH7ANNXE/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00044.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
- https://perldoc.perl.org/perl5283delta
- https://perldoc.perl.org/perl5303delta
- https://perldoc.perl.org/perl5320delta
Perl before 5.30.3 has an integer overflow related to mishandling of a "PL_regkind[OP(n)] == NOTHING" situation. A crafted regular expression could lead to malformed bytecode with a possibility of instruction injection.
- https://github.com/Perl/perl5/compare/v5.30.2...v5.30.3
- https://github.com/perl/perl5/commit/3295b48defa0f8570114877b063fe546dd348b3c
- https://github.com/perl/perl5/commit/0a320d753fe7fca03df259a4dfd8e641e51edaa8
- https://github.com/Perl/perl5/blob/blead/pod/perl5303delta.pod
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200611-0001/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-03
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IN3TTBO5KSGWE5IRIKDJ5JSQRH7ANNXE/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00044.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
- https://perldoc.perl.org/perl5283delta
- https://perldoc.perl.org/perl5303delta
- https://perldoc.perl.org/perl5320delta
Perl before 5.30.3 on 32-bit platforms allows a heap-based buffer overflow because nested regular expression quantifiers have an integer overflow.
- https://github.com/Perl/perl5/compare/v5.30.2...v5.30.3
- https://github.com/perl/perl5/commit/897d1f7fd515b828e4b198d8b8bef76c6faf03ed
- https://github.com/Perl/perl5/blob/blead/pod/perl5303delta.pod
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200611-0001/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-03
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IN3TTBO5KSGWE5IRIKDJ5JSQRH7ANNXE/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00044.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
- https://perldoc.perl.org/perl5283delta
- https://perldoc.perl.org/perl5303delta
- https://perldoc.perl.org/perl5320delta
Heap-based buffer overflow in the pack function in Perl before 5.26.2 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large item count.
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4172
- https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=131844
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00009.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040681
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-2/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-1/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103953
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-01
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
- https://perldoc.perl.org/perl5244delta
- https://perldoc.perl.org/perl5262delta
- https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/16098
Perl before 5.26.3 has a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression that triggers invalid write operations.
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4347
- https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=131649
- https://metacpan.org/changes/release/SHAY/perl-5.26.3
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RWQGEB543QN7SSBRKYJM6PSOC3RLYGSM/
- https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/19a498a461d7c81ae3507c450953d1148efecf4f
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1646751
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042181
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3834-1/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106145
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0010
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0001
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190221-0003/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-01
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
Perl before 5.26.3 has a buffer over-read via a crafted regular expression that triggers disclosure of sensitive information from process memory.
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4347
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3834-2/
- https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=133192
- https://metacpan.org/changes/release/SHAY/perl-5.26.3
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RWQGEB543QN7SSBRKYJM6PSOC3RLYGSM/
- https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/43b2f4ef399e2fd7240b4eeb0658686ad95f8e62
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1646738
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042181
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3834-1/
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0010
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0001
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190221-0003/
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT209600
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/42
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Mar/49
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-01
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
Perl before 5.26.3 and 5.28.0 before 5.28.1 has a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression that triggers invalid write operations.
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4347
- https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=133423
- https://metacpan.org/changes/release/SHAY/perl-5.28.1
- https://metacpan.org/changes/release/SHAY/perl-5.26.3
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RWQGEB543QN7SSBRKYJM6PSOC3RLYGSM/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1646734
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042181
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3834-1/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106179
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0010
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0001
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190221-0003/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-01
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
- https://perldoc.perl.org/perl5281delta
- https://perldoc.perl.org/perl5263delta
Perl before 5.26.3 and 5.28.x before 5.28.1 has a buffer overflow via a crafted regular expression that triggers invalid write operations.
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4347
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3834-2/
- https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=133204
- https://metacpan.org/changes/release/SHAY/perl-5.28.1
- https://metacpan.org/changes/release/SHAY/perl-5.26.3
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RWQGEB543QN7SSBRKYJM6PSOC3RLYGSM/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00039.html
- https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/34716e2a6ee2af96078d62b065b7785c001194be
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1646730
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042181
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3834-1/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106145
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0010
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0001
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0109
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190221-0003/
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT209600
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/42
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Mar/49
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10278
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1790
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2019-5072835.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1942
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2400
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-01
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
- https://perldoc.perl.org/perl5281delta
- https://perldoc.perl.org/perl5263delta
The (1) S_reghop3, (2) S_reghop4, and (3) S_reghopmaybe3 functions in regexec.c in Perl before 5.24.0 allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via crafted utf-8 data, as demonstrated by "a\x80."
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/183592.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/7
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1329106
- https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=123562
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/5
- http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/22b433eff9a1ffa2454e18405a56650f07b385b5
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/86707
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-75
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-2/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3625-1/
The rehash mechanism in Perl 5.8.2 through 5.16.x allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via a crafted hash key.
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/58311
- http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/d59e31f
- http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/9d83adc
- http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2013/03/msg199755.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2641
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52499
- http://secunia.com/advisories/52472
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=912276
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702296
- http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/6e79fe5
- http://osvdb.org/90892
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1770-1
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0685.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Oct/msg00004.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=137891988921058&w=2
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:113
- https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2013-0094
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10735
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/82598
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18771
Heap-based buffer overflow in the Perl_repeatcpy function in util.c in Perl 5.12.x before 5.12.5, 5.14.x before 5.14.3, and 5.15.x before 15.15.5 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via the 'x' string repeat operator.
- http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/2709980d5a193ce6f3a16f0d19879a6560dcde44
- http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2012/10/msg193886.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56287
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/27/1
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51457
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/26/2
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1643-1
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2586
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0685.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55314
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:113
- https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0352
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10735
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10705
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10673
Perl might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism in a child process via duplicate environment variables in envp.
- http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/perl/porters/326387
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3501
- http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/ae37b791a73a9e78dedb89fb2429d2628cf58076
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2016-3090568.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83802
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2916-1
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00112.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-75
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2017-3236622.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2017-3236626.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
Integer underflow in regcomp.c in Perl before 5.20, as used in Apple OS X before 10.10.5 and other products, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long digit string associated with an invalid backreference within a regular expression.
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Aug/msg00001.html
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT205031
- http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/0c2990d652e985784f095bba4bc356481a66aa06
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75704
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2916-1
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-11
Perl for Windows relies on the system path environment variable to find the shell (cmd.exe). When running an executable which uses Windows Perl interpreter, Perl attempts to find and execute cmd.exe within the operating system. However, due to path search order issues, Perl initially looks for cmd.exe in the current working directory. An attacker with limited privileges can exploit this behavior by placing cmd.exe in locations with weak permissions, such as C:\ProgramData. By doing so, when an administrator attempts to use this executable from these compromised locations, arbitrary code can be executed.
In Perl before 5.38.2, S_parse_uniprop_string in regcomp.c can write to unallocated space because a property name associated with a \p{...} regular expression construct is mishandled. The earliest affected version is 5.30.0.
A heap buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in Perl. When there are non-ASCII bytes in the left-hand-side of the `tr` operator, `S_do_trans_invmap` can overflow the destination pointer `d`. $ perl -e '$_ = "\x{FF}" x 1000000; tr/\xFF/\x{100}/;' Segmentation fault (core dumped) It is believed that this vulnerability can enable Denial of Service and possibly Code Execution attacks on platforms that lack sufficient defenses.
- https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/87f42aa0e0096e9a346c9672aa3a0bd3bef8c1dd.patch
- https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.38.4/changes
- https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.40.2/changes
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/04/13/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/04/13/4
(1) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptar, (2) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptardiff, (3) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptargrep, (4) cpan/CPAN/scripts/cpan, (5) cpan/Digest-SHA/shasum, (6) cpan/Encode/bin/enc2xs, (7) cpan/Encode/bin/encguess, (8) cpan/Encode/bin/piconv, (9) cpan/Encode/bin/ucmlint, (10) cpan/Encode/bin/unidump, (11) cpan/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/bin/instmodsh, (12) cpan/IO-Compress/bin/zipdetails, (13) cpan/JSON-PP/bin/json_pp, (14) cpan/Test-Harness/bin/prove, (15) dist/ExtUtils-ParseXS/lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp, (16) dist/Module-CoreList/corelist, (17) ext/Pod-Html/bin/pod2html, (18) utils/c2ph.PL, (19) utils/h2ph.PL, (20) utils/h2xs.PL, (21) utils/libnetcfg.PL, (22) utils/perlbug.PL, (23) utils/perldoc.PL, (24) utils/perlivp.PL, and (25) utils/splain.PL in Perl 5.x before 5.22.3-RC2 and 5.24 before 5.24.1-RC2 do not properly remove . (period) characters from the end of the includes directory array, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse module under the current working directory.
- https://perldoc.perl.org/5.24.1/perldelta
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00002.html
- http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/cee96d52c39b1e7b36e1c62d38bcd8d86e9a41ab
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3628
- http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238271.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92136
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036440
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7f6a16bc0fd0fd5e67c7fd95bd655069a2ac7d1f88e42d3c853e601c%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00016.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2FBQOCV3GBAN2EYZUM3CFDJ4ECA3GZOK/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DOFRQWJRP2NQJEYEWOMECVW3HAMD5SYN/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TZBNQH3DMI7HDELJAZ4TFJJANHXOEDWH/
- https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=127834
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-75
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201812-07
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00002.html
- http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/cee96d52c39b1e7b36e1c62d38bcd8d86e9a41ab
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3628
- http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/07/msg238271.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92136
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036440
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7f6a16bc0fd0fd5e67c7fd95bd655069a2ac7d1f88e42d3c853e601c%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00016.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2FBQOCV3GBAN2EYZUM3CFDJ4ECA3GZOK/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DOFRQWJRP2NQJEYEWOMECVW3HAMD5SYN/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TZBNQH3DMI7HDELJAZ4TFJJANHXOEDWH/
- https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=127834
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-75
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201812-07
The VDir::MapPathA and VDir::MapPathW functions in Perl 5.22 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) drive letter or (2) pInName argument.
NAME
Tie::Array - base class for tied arrays
SYNOPSIS
package Tie::NewArray;
use Tie::Array;
@ISA = ('Tie::Array');
# mandatory methods
sub TIEARRAY { ... }
sub FETCH { ... }
sub FETCHSIZE { ... }
sub STORE { ... } # mandatory if elements writeable
sub STORESIZE { ... } # mandatory if elements can be added/deleted
sub EXISTS { ... } # mandatory if exists() expected to work
sub DELETE { ... } # mandatory if delete() expected to work
# optional methods - for efficiency
sub CLEAR { ... }
sub PUSH { ... }
sub POP { ... }
sub SHIFT { ... }
sub UNSHIFT { ... }
sub SPLICE { ... }
sub EXTEND { ... }
sub DESTROY { ... }
package Tie::NewStdArray;
use Tie::Array;
@ISA = ('Tie::StdArray');
# all methods provided by default
package main;
$object = tie @somearray,'Tie::NewArray';
$object = tie @somearray,'Tie::StdArray';
$object = tie @somearray,'Tie::NewStdArray';
DESCRIPTION
This module provides methods for array-tying classes. See perltie for a list of the functions required in order to tie an array to a package. The basic Tie::Array package provides stub DESTROY, and EXTEND methods that do nothing, stub DELETE and EXISTS methods that croak() if the delete() or exists() builtins are ever called on the tied array, and implementations of PUSH, POP, SHIFT, UNSHIFT, SPLICE and CLEAR in terms of basic FETCH, STORE, FETCHSIZE, STORESIZE.
The Tie::StdArray package provides efficient methods required for tied arrays which are implemented as blessed references to an "inner" perl array. It inherits from Tie::Array, and should cause tied arrays to behave exactly like standard arrays, allowing for selective overloading of methods.
For developers wishing to write their own tied arrays, the required methods are briefly defined below. See the perltie section for more detailed descriptive, as well as example code:
- TIEARRAY classname, LIST
-
The class method is invoked by the command
tie @array, classname. Associates an array instance with the specified class.LISTwould represent additional arguments (along the lines of AnyDBM_File and compatriots) needed to complete the association. The method should return an object of a class which provides the methods below. - STORE this, index, value
-
Store datum value into index for the tied array associated with object this. If this makes the array larger then class's mapping of
undefshould be returned for new positions. - FETCH this, index
-
Retrieve the datum in index for the tied array associated with object this.
- FETCHSIZE this
-
Returns the total number of items in the tied array associated with object this. (Equivalent to
scalar(@array)). - STORESIZE this, count
-
Sets the total number of items in the tied array associated with object this to be count. If this makes the array larger then class's mapping of
undefshould be returned for new positions. If the array becomes smaller then entries beyond count should be deleted. - EXTEND this, count
-
Informative call that array is likely to grow to have count entries. Can be used to optimize allocation. This method need do nothing.
- EXISTS this, key
-
Verify that the element at index key exists in the tied array this.
The Tie::Array implementation is a stub that simply croaks.
- DELETE this, key
-
Delete the element at index key from the tied array this.
The Tie::Array implementation is a stub that simply croaks.
- CLEAR this
-
Clear (remove, delete, ...) all values from the tied array associated with object this.
- DESTROY this
-
Normal object destructor method.
- PUSH this, LIST
-
Append elements of LIST to the array.
- POP this
-
Remove last element of the array and return it.
- SHIFT this
-
Remove the first element of the array (shifting other elements down) and return it.
- UNSHIFT this, LIST
-
Insert LIST elements at the beginning of the array, moving existing elements up to make room.
- SPLICE this, offset, length, LIST
-
Perform the equivalent of
spliceon the array.offset is optional and defaults to zero, negative values count back from the end of the array.
length is optional and defaults to rest of the array.
LIST may be empty.
Returns a list of the original length elements at offset.
CAVEATS
There is no support at present for tied @ISA. There is a potential conflict between magic entries needed to notice setting of @ISA, and those needed to implement 'tie'.
Very little consideration has been given to the behaviour of tied arrays when $[ is not default value of zero.
AUTHOR
Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
Module Install Instructions
To install P5re, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm P5re
perl -MCPAN -e shell
install P5re
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