Perl in a Nutshell
by Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour & Nathan Patwarhan


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This page was last updated on April 4, 2001.


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        [page-number]: serious technical mistake
        {page-number}: minor technical mistake
        <page-number>: important language/formatting problem
        (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem
        ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification


Confirmed errors:


{62} Under "Bitwise Operators," the following sentence should be added at the 
end of the paragraph:

	The bit-shift operators (<< and >>) return the value 
	of the left argument shifted to the left or right by
	the number of bits specified by the right argument.


(324) 2nd paragraph:
"t," should read "t", 


{469} 4th paragraph, line2:
	
     	"from LWP-created server" 

should read
	
     	"from an LWP-created server"


[588] top of page (prepend new 1st method before "Open" entry):
Chapter 19 - Win32 Modules and Extensions documentation for the 
Win32::Registry module, the method "Connect" is missing.  This could be listed
near the method "Open".  For instance, it could read something like this:

------------------
Connect

$HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->Connect("\\\\server",$keyRemote)

Opens a connection to the HKLM registry key on a remote machine and saves it 
as the object reference named by $keyRemote. 


{588}  bottom of page (QueryValue description):
In ActivePerl, QueryValue does not work as documented.  There are actually two
methods:  QueryValue and QueryValueEx.  They are the "query" versions of 
SetValue and SetValueEx.  QueryValue gets the data for the default value of 
the named subkey, and though, as documented, it does have 2 arguments, they 
would be more correctly named "subkey" and "value".  QueryValueEx gets the 
data and type for the named value of the current subkey via arguments which 
might reasonably be named "name", "type", and "value".

Also, Win32::Registry::Close is not documented.