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=head1 NAME
perltoc - perl documentation table of contents
=head1 DESCRIPTION
This page provides a brief table of contents for the rest of the Perl
documentation set. It is meant to be scanned quickly or grepped
through to locate the proper section you're looking for.
=head1 BASIC DOCUMENTATION
=head2 perl - The Perl 5 language interpreter
=over 4
=item SYNOPSIS
=item GETTING HELP
=over 4
=item Overview
=item Tutorials
=item Reference Manual
=item Internals and C Language Interface
=item History
=item Miscellaneous
=item Language-Specific
=item Platform-Specific
=item Stubs for Deleted Documents
=back
=item DESCRIPTION
=item AVAILABILITY
=item ENVIRONMENT
=item AUTHOR
=item FILES
=item SEE ALSO
L , L ,
L , L
=item DIAGNOSTICS
=item BUGS
=item NOTES
=back
=head2 perlintro - a brief introduction and overview of Perl
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
=over 4
=item What is Perl?
=item Running Perl programs
=item Safety net
=item Basic syntax overview
=item Perl variable types
Scalars, Arrays, Hashes
=item Variable scoping
=item Conditional and looping constructs
if, while, for, foreach
=item Builtin operators and functions
Arithmetic, Numeric comparison, String comparison, Boolean logic,
Miscellaneous
=item Files and I/O
=item Regular expressions
Simple matching, Simple substitution, More complex regular expressions,
Parentheses for capturing, Other regexp features
=item Writing subroutines
=item OO Perl
=item Using Perl modules
=back
=item AUTHOR
=back
=head2 perlrun - how to execute the Perl interpreter
=over 4
=item SYNOPSIS
=item DESCRIPTION
=over 4
=item #! and quoting on non-Unix systems
X X<#!>
OS/2, MS-DOS, Win95/NT, VMS
=item Location of Perl
X
=item Command Switches
X X
B<-0>[I] X<-0> X<$/>, B<-a> X<-a> X, B<-C
[I]> X<-C>, B<-c> X<-c>, B<-d> X<-d> X<-dt>, B<-dt>,
B<-d:>I X<-d> X<-dt>, B<-dt:>I,
B<-D>I X<-D> X X<-DDEBUGGING>, B<-D>I, B<-e>
I X<-e>, B<-E> I X<-E>, B<-f> X<-f>
X X, B<-F>I X<-F>, B<-g> X<-g>,
B<-h> X<-h>, B<-?> X<-?>, B<-i>[I] X<-i> X,
B<-I>I X<-I> X<@INC>, B<-l>[I] X<-l> X<$/> X<$\>,
B<-m>[B<->]I X<-m> X<-M>, B<-M>[B<->]I,
B<-M>[B<->]I<'module ...'>, B<-[mM]>[B<->]I, B<-n>
X<-n>, B<-p> X<-p>, B<-s> X<-s>, B<-S> X<-S>, B<-t> X<-t>, B<-T> X<-T>,
B<-u> X<-u>, B<-U> X<-U>, B<-v> X<-v>, B<-V> X<-V>, B<-V:>I,
B<-w> X<-w>, B<-W> X<-W>, B<-X> X<-X>, B<-x> X<-x>, B<-x>I
=back
=item ENVIRONMENT
X
HOME X, LOGDIR X, PATH X, PERL5LIB X,
PERL5OPT X, PERLIO X, :crlf X<:crlf>, :perlio X<:perlio>,
:stdio X<:stdio>, :unix X<:unix>, PERLIO_DEBUG X, PERLLIB
X, PERL5DB X, PERL5DB_THREADED X,
PERL5SHELL (specific to the Win32 port) X,
PERL_ALLOW_NON_IFS_LSP (specific to the Win32 port)
X, PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS X,
PERL_DESTRUCT_LEVEL X, PERL_DL_NONLAZY
X, PERL_ENCODING X, PERL_HASH_SEED
X, PERL_PERTURB_KEYS X,
PERL_HASH_SEED_DEBUG X, PERL_MEM_LOG X,
PERL_ROOT (specific to the VMS port) X, PERL_SIGNALS
X, PERL_UNICODE X, PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC
X, SYS$LOGIN (specific to the VMS port) X,
PERL_INTERNAL_RAND_SEED X, PERL_RAND_SEED
X
=item ORDER OF APPLICATION
-I, -M, the PERL5LIB environment variable, combinations of -I, -M and
PERL5LIB, the PERL5OPT environment variable, Other complications, arch and
version subdirs, sitecustomize.pl
=back
=head2 perlreftut - Mark's very short tutorial about references
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
=item Who Needs Complicated Data Structures?
=item The Solution
=item Syntax
=over 4
=item Making References
=item Using References
=item An Example
=item Arrow Rule
=back
=item Solution
=item The Rest
=item Summary
=item Credits
=over 4
=item Distribution Conditions
=back
=back
=head2 perldsc - Perl Data Structures Cookbook
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
arrays of arrays, hashes of arrays, arrays of hashes, hashes of hashes,
more elaborate constructs
=item REFERENCES
X X X X
=item COMMON MISTAKES
=item CAVEAT ON PRECEDENCE
X X
=item WHY YOU SHOULD ALWAYS C
=item DEBUGGING
X X
X X X X
X X
X X
=item CODE EXAMPLES
=item ARRAYS OF ARRAYS
X X
=over 4
=item Declaration of an ARRAY OF ARRAYS
=item Generation of an ARRAY OF ARRAYS
=item Access and Printing of an ARRAY OF ARRAYS
=back
=item HASHES OF ARRAYS
X X
=over 4
=item Declaration of a HASH OF ARRAYS
=item Generation of a HASH OF ARRAYS
=item Access and Printing of a HASH OF ARRAYS
=back
=item ARRAYS OF HASHES
X X
=over 4
=item Declaration of an ARRAY OF HASHES
=item Generation of an ARRAY OF HASHES
=item Access and Printing of an ARRAY OF HASHES
=back
=item HASHES OF HASHES
X X
=over 4
=item Declaration of a HASH OF HASHES
=item Generation of a HASH OF HASHES
=item Access and Printing of a HASH OF HASHES
=back
=item MORE ELABORATE RECORDS
X X X
=over 4
=item Declaration of MORE ELABORATE RECORDS
=item Declaration of a HASH OF COMPLEX RECORDS
=item Generation of a HASH OF COMPLEX RECORDS
=back
=item Database Ties
=item SEE ALSO
=item AUTHOR
=back
=head2 perllol - Manipulating Arrays of Arrays in Perl
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
=over 4
=item Declaration and Access of Arrays of Arrays
=item Growing Your Own
=item Access and Printing
=item Slices
=back
=item SEE ALSO
=item AUTHOR
=back
=head2 perlrequick - Perl regular expressions quick start
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
=item The Guide
=over 4
=item Simple word matching
=item Using character classes
=item Matching this or that
=item Grouping things and hierarchical matching
=item Extracting matches
=item Matching repetitions
=item More matching
=item Search and replace
=item The split operator
=item C
=back
=item BUGS
=item SEE ALSO
=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
=over 4
=item Acknowledgments
=back
=back
=head2 perlretut - Perl regular expressions tutorial
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
=item Part 1: The basics
=over 4
=item Simple word matching
=item Using character classes
=item Matching this or that
=item Grouping things and hierarchical matching
=item Extracting matches
=item Backreferences
=item Relative backreferences
=item Named backreferences
=item Alternative capture group numbering
=item Position information
=item Non-capturing groupings
=item Matching repetitions
=item Possessive quantifiers
=item Building a regexp
=item Using regular expressions in Perl
=back
=item Part 2: Power tools
=over 4
=item More on characters, strings, and character classes
=item Compiling and saving regular expressions
=item Composing regular expressions at runtime
=item Embedding comments and modifiers in a regular expression
=item Looking ahead and looking behind
=item Using independent subexpressions to prevent backtracking
=item Conditional expressions
=item Defining named patterns
=item Recursive patterns
=item A bit of magic: executing Perl code in a regular expression
=item Backtracking control verbs
=item Pragmas and debugging
=back
=item SEE ALSO
=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
=over 4
=item Acknowledgments
=back
=back
=head2 perlootut - Object-Oriented Programming in Perl Tutorial
=over 4
=item DATE
=item DESCRIPTION
=item OBJECT-ORIENTED FUNDAMENTALS
=over 4
=item Object
=item Class
=item Methods
=item Attributes
=item Polymorphism
=item Inheritance
=item Encapsulation
=item Composition
=item Roles
=item When to Use OO
=back
=item PERL OO SYSTEMS
=over 4
=item Moose
Declarative sugar, Roles built-in, A miniature type system, Full
introspection and manipulation, Self-hosted and extensible, Rich ecosystem,
Many more features
=item Class::Accessor
=item Class::Tiny
=item Role::Tiny
=item OO System Summary
L, L, L, L
=item Other OO Systems
=back
=item CONCLUSION
=back
=head2 perlperf - Perl Performance and Optimization Techniques
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
=item OVERVIEW
=over 4
=item ONE STEP SIDEWAYS
=item ONE STEP FORWARD
=item ANOTHER STEP SIDEWAYS
=back
=item GENERAL GUIDELINES
=item BENCHMARKS
=over 4
=item Assigning and Dereferencing Variables.
=item Search and replace or tr
=back
=item PROFILING TOOLS
=over 4
=item Devel::DProf
=item Devel::Profiler
=item Devel::SmallProf
=item Devel::FastProf
=item Devel::NYTProf
=back
=item SORTING
Elapsed Real Time, User CPU Time, System CPU Time
=item LOGGING
=over 4
=item Logging if DEBUG (constant)
=back
=item POSTSCRIPT
=item SEE ALSO
=over 4
=item PERLDOCS
=item MAN PAGES
=item MODULES
=item URLS
=back
=item AUTHOR
=back
=head2 perlstyle - Perl style guide
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
=back
=head2 perlcheat - Perl 5 Cheat Sheet
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
=over 4
=item The sheet
=back
=item ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
=item AUTHOR
=item SEE ALSO
=back
=head2 perltrap - Perl traps for the unwary
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
=over 4
=item Awk Traps
=item C/C++ Traps
=item JavaScript Traps
=item Sed Traps
=item Shell Traps
=item Perl Traps
=back
=back
=head2 perldebtut - Perl debugging tutorial
=over 4
=item DESCRIPTION
=item use strict
=item Looking at data and -w and v
=item help
=item Stepping through code
=item Placeholder for a, w, t, T
=item REGULAR EXPRESSIONS
=item OUTPUT TIPS
=item CGI
=item GUIs
=item SUMMARY
=item SEE ALSO
=item AUTHOR
=item CONTRIBUTORS
=back
=head2 perlfaq - Frequently asked questions about Perl
=over 4
=item VERSION
=item DESCRIPTION
=over 4
=item Where to find the perlfaq
=item How to use the perlfaq
=item How to contribute to the perlfaq
=item What if my question isn't answered in the FAQ?
=back
=item TABLE OF CONTENTS
perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl, perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning
about Perl, perlfaq3 - Programming Tools, perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation,
perlfaq5 - Files and Formats, perlfaq6 - Regular Expressions, perlfaq7 -
General Perl Language Issues, perlfaq8 - System Interaction, perlfaq9 -
Web, Email and Networking
=item THE QUESTIONS
=over 4
=item L: General Questions About Perl
=item L: Obtaining and Learning about Perl
=item L: Programming Tools
=item L: Data Manipulation
=item L: Files and Formats
=item L: Regular Expressions
=item L: General Perl Language Issues
=item L: System Interaction
=item L: Web, Email and Networking
=back
=item CREDITS
=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
=back
=head2 perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl
=over 4
=item VERSION
=item DESCRIPTION
=over 4
=item What is Perl?
=item Who supports Perl? Who develops it? Why is it free?
=item Which version of Perl should I use?
=item What are Perl 4, Perl 5, or Raku (Perl 6)?
=item What is Raku (Perl 6)?
=item How stable is Perl?
=item How often are new versions of Perl released?
=item Is Perl difficult to learn?
=item How does Perl compare with other languages like Java, Python, REXX,
Scheme, or Tcl?
=item Can I do [task] in Perl?
=item When shouldn't I program in Perl?
=item What's the difference between "perl" and "Perl"?
=item What is a JAPH?
=item How can I convince others to use Perl?
L,
L
=back
=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
=back
=head2 perlfaq2 - Obtaining and Learning about Perl
=over 4
=item VERSION
=item DESCRIPTION
=over 4
=item What machines support Perl? Where do I get it?
=item How can I get a binary version of Perl?
=item I don't have a C compiler. How can I build my own Perl interpreter?
=item I copied the Perl binary from one machine to another, but scripts
don't work.
=item I grabbed the sources and tried to compile but gdbm/dynamic
loading/malloc/linking/... failed. How do I make it work?
=item What modules and extensions are available for Perl? What is CPAN?
=item Where can I get information on Perl?
L , L ,
L
=item What is perl.com? Perl Mongers? pm.org? perl.org? cpan.org?
L , L ,
L , L
=item Where can I post questions?
=item Perl Books
=item Which magazines have Perl content?
=item Which Perl blogs should I read?
=item What mailing lists are there for Perl?
=item Where can I buy a commercial version of Perl?
=item Where do I send bug reports?
=back
=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
=back
=head2 perlfaq3 - Programming Tools
=over 4
=item VERSION
=item DESCRIPTION
=over 4
=item How do I do (anything)?
Basics, L - Perl data types, L - Perl pre-defined
variables, L - Perl syntax, L - Perl operators and
precedence, L - Perl subroutines, Execution, L - how to
execute the Perl interpreter, L - Perl debugging, Functions,
L - Perl builtin functions, Objects, L - Perl references
and nested data structures, L - Perl modules (packages and symbol
tables), L - Perl objects, L - how to hide an object
class in a simple variable, Data Structures, L - Perl references
and nested data structures, L - Manipulating arrays of arrays in
Perl, L - Perl Data Structures Cookbook, Modules, L -
Perl modules (packages and symbol tables), L - constructing new
Perl modules and finding existing ones, Regexes, L - Perl regular
expressions, L - Perl builtin functions>, L - Perl
operators and precedence, L - Perl locale handling
(internationalization and localization), Moving to perl5, L -
Perl traps for the unwary, L, Linking with C, L - Tutorial
for writing XSUBs, L - XS language reference manual, L -
Perl calling conventions from C, L - Introduction to the Perl
API, L - how to embed perl in your C program, Various
=item How can I use Perl interactively?
=item How do I find which modules are installed on my system?
=item How do I debug my Perl programs?
=item How do I profile my Perl programs?
=item How do I cross-reference my Perl programs?
=item Is there a pretty-printer (formatter) for Perl?
=item Is there an IDE or Windows Perl Editor?
Eclipse, Enginsite, IntelliJ IDEA, Kephra, Komodo, Notepad++, Open Perl
IDE, OptiPerl, Padre, PerlBuilder, visiPerl+, Visual Perl, Zeus, GNU Emacs,
MicroEMACS, XEmacs, Jed, Vim, Vile, MultiEdit, SlickEdit, ConTEXT, bash,
zsh, BBEdit and TextWrangler
=item Where can I get Perl macros for vi?
=item Where can I get perl-mode or cperl-mode for emacs?
X
=item How can I use curses with Perl?
=item How can I write a GUI (X, Tk, Gtk, etc.) in Perl?
X X X X X X X X
Tk, Wx, Gtk and Gtk2, Win32::GUI, CamelBones, Qt, Athena
=item How can I make my Perl program run faster?
=item How can I make my Perl program take less memory?
Don't slurp!, Use map and grep selectively, Avoid unnecessary quotes and
stringification, Pass by reference, Tie large variables to disk
=item Is it safe to return a reference to local or lexical data?
=item How can I free an array or hash so my program shrinks?
=item How can I make my CGI script more efficient?
=item How can I hide the source for my Perl program?
=item How can I compile my Perl program into byte code or C?
=item How can I get C<#!perl> to work on [MS-DOS,NT,...]?
=item Can I write useful Perl programs on the command line?
=item Why don't Perl one-liners work on my DOS/Mac/VMS system?
=item Where can I learn about CGI or Web programming in Perl?
=item Where can I learn about object-oriented Perl programming?
=item Where can I learn about linking C with Perl?
=item I've read perlembed, perlguts, etc., but I can't embed perl in my C
program; what am I doing wrong?
=item When I tried to run my script, I got this message. What does it mean?
=item What's MakeMaker?
=back
=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
=back
=head2 perlfaq4 - Data Manipulation
=over 4
=item VERSION
=item DESCRIPTION
=item Data: Numbers
=over 4
=item Why am I getting long decimals (eg, 19.9499999999999) instead of the
numbers I should be getting (eg, 19.95)?
=item Why is int() broken?
=item Why isn't my octal data interpreted correctly?
=item Does Perl have a round() function? What about ceil() and floor()?
Trig functions?
=item How do I convert between numeric representations/bases/radixes?
How do I convert hexadecimal into decimal, How do I convert from decimal to
hexadecimal, How do I convert from octal to decimal, How do I convert from
decimal to octal, How do I convert from binary to decimal, How do I convert
from decimal to binary
=item Why doesn't & work the way I want it to?
=item How do I multiply matrices?
=item How do I perform an operation on a series of integers?
=item How can I output Roman numerals?
=item Why aren't my random numbers random?
=item How do I get a random number between X and Y?
=back
=item Data: Dates
=over 4
=item How do I find the day or week of the year?
=item How do I find the current century or millennium?
=item How can I compare two dates and find the difference?
=item How can I take a string and turn it into epoch seconds?
=item How can I find the Julian Day?
=item How do I find yesterday's date?
X X X X X
X X X X
X
=item Does Perl have a Year 2000 or 2038 problem? Is Perl Y2K compliant?
=back
=item Data: Strings
=over 4
=item How do I validate input?
=item How do I unescape a string?
=item How do I remove consecutive pairs of characters?
=item How do I expand function calls in a string?
=item How do I find matching/nesting anything?
=item How do I reverse a string?
=item How do I expand tabs in a string?
=item How do I reformat a paragraph?
=item How can I access or change N characters of a string?
=item How do I change the Nth occurrence of something?
=item How can I count the number of occurrences of a substring within a
string?
=item How do I capitalize all the words on one line?
X X X X
=item How can I split a [character]-delimited string except when inside
[character]?
=item How do I strip blank space from the beginning/end of a string?
=item How do I pad a string with blanks or pad a number with zeroes?
=item How do I extract selected columns from a string?
=item How do I find the soundex value of a string?
=item How can I expand variables in text strings?
=item Does Perl have anything like Ruby's #{} or Python's f string?
=item What's wrong with always quoting "$vars"?
=item Why don't my EEHERE documents work?
There must be no space after the EE part, There (probably) should
be a semicolon at the end of the opening token, You can't (easily) have any
space in front of the tag, There needs to be at least a line separator
after the end token
=back
=item Data: Arrays
=over 4
=item What is the difference between a list and an array?
=item What is the difference between $array[1] and @array[1]?
=item How can I remove duplicate elements from a list or array?
=item How can I tell whether a certain element is contained in a list or
array?
=item How do I compute the difference of two arrays? How do I compute the
intersection of two arrays?
=item How do I test whether two arrays or hashes are equal?
=item How do I find the first array element for which a condition is true?
=item How do I handle linked lists?
=item How do I handle circular lists?
X X X X
X X
=item How do I shuffle an array randomly?
=item How do I process/modify each element of an array?
=item How do I select a random element from an array?
=item How do I permute N elements of a list?
X X X X
X X
=item How do I sort an array by (anything)?
=item How do I manipulate arrays of bits?
=item Why does defined() return true on empty arrays and hashes?
=back
=item Data: Hashes (Associative Arrays)
=over 4
=item How do I process an entire hash?
=item How do I merge two hashes?
X X X
=item What happens if I add or remove keys from a hash while iterating over
it?
=item How do I look up a hash element by value?
=item How can I know how many entries are in a hash?
=item How do I sort a hash (optionally by value instead of key)?
=item How can I always keep my hash sorted?
X
=item What's the difference between "delete" and "undef" with hashes?
=item Why don't my tied hashes make the defined/exists distinction?
=item How do I reset an each() operation part-way through?
=item How can I get the unique keys from two hashes?
=item How can I store a multidimensional array in a DBM file?
=item How can I make my hash remember the order I put elements into it?
=item Why does passing a subroutine an undefined element in a hash create
it?
=item How can I make the Perl equivalent of a C structure/C++ class/hash or
array of hashes or arrays?
=item How can I use a reference as a hash key?
=item How can I check if a key exists in a multilevel hash?
=item How can I prevent addition of unwanted keys into a hash?
=back
=item Data: Misc
=over 4
=item How do I handle binary data correctly?
=item How do I determine whether a scalar is a number/whole/integer/float?
=item How do I keep persistent data across program calls?
=item How do I print out or copy a recursive data structure?
=item How do I define methods for every class/object?
=item How do I verify a credit card checksum?
=item How do I pack arrays of doubles or floats for XS code?
=back
=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
=back
=head2 perlfaq5 - Files and Formats
=over 4
=item VERSION
=item DESCRIPTION
=over 4
=item How do I flush/unbuffer an output filehandle? Why must I do this?
X X X X
=item How do I change, delete, or insert a line in a file, or append to the
beginning of a file?
X
=item How do I count the number of lines in a file?
X X X
=item How do I delete the last N lines from a file?
X X
=item How can I use Perl's C<-i> option from within a program?
X<-i> X
=item How can I copy a file?
X X X
=item How do I make a temporary file name?
X
=item How can I manipulate fixed-record-length files?
X X
=item How can I make a filehandle local to a subroutine? How do I pass
filehandles between subroutines? How do I make an array of filehandles?
X X X
=item How can I use a filehandle indirectly?
X
=item How can I open a filehandle to a string?
X X X X
=item How can I set up a footer format to be used with write()?
X
=item How can I write() into a string?
X
=item How can I output my numbers with commas added?
X
=item How can I translate tildes (~) in a filename?
X X
=item How come when I open a file read-write it wipes it out?
X X X X X
=item Why do I sometimes get an "Argument list too long" when I use
E*E?
X
=item How can I open a file named with a leading ">" or trailing blanks?
X
=item How can I reliably rename a file?
X X X X
=item How can I lock a file?
X X X
=item Why can't I just open(FH, "Efile.lock")?
X
=item I still don't get locking. I just want to increment the number in the
file. How can I do this?
X X
=item All I want to do is append a small amount of text to the end of a
file. Do I still have to use locking?
X X
=item How do I randomly update a binary file?
X
=item How do I get a file's timestamp in perl?
X X
=item How do I set a file's timestamp in perl?
X X
=item How do I print to more than one file at once?
X
=item How can I read in an entire file all at once?
X X
=item How can I read in a file by paragraphs?
X
=item How can I read a single character from a file? From the keyboard?
X X
=item How can I tell whether there's a character waiting on a filehandle?
=item How do I do a C in perl?
X X X X
=item How do I dup() a filehandle in Perl?
X
=item How do I close a file descriptor by number?
X X X
=item Why can't I use "C:\temp\foo" in DOS paths? Why doesn't
`C:\temp\foo.exe` work?
X
=item Why doesn't glob("*.*") get all the files?
X
=item Why does Perl let me delete read-only files? Why does C<-i> clobber
protected files? Isn't this a bug in Perl?
=item How do I select a random line from a file?
X
=item Why do I get weird spaces when I print an array of lines?
=item How do I traverse a directory tree?
=item How do I delete a directory tree?
=item How do I copy an entire directory?
=back
=item AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
=back
=head2 perlfaq6 - Regular Expressions
=over 4
=item VERSION
=item DESCRIPTION
=over 4
=item How can I hope to use regular expressions without creating illegible
and unmaintainable code?
X X
X X
Comments Outside the Regex, Comments Inside the Regex, Different Delimiters
=item I'm having trouble matching over more than one line. What's wrong?
X X X
=item How can I pull out lines between two patterns that are themselves on
different lines?
X<..>
=item How do I match XML, HTML, or other nasty, ugly things with a regex?
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