Preface

3.3.2 continue 3.3.3 return 3.4 Exercises 4 Data types

4.1 Basic types 4.1.1 int 4.1.2 float 4.1.3 string

4.2 Pointer types 4.2.1 array 4.2.2 mapping 4.2.3 multiset 4.2.4 program 4.2.5 object 4.2.6 function 4.3 Sharing data

4.4 Writing data types 5 Operators

5.1 Arithmetic operators 5.2 Comparison operators 5.3 Logical operators

5.4 Bitwise/set operators 5.5 Indexing

5.6 The assignment operators 5.7 The rest of the operators 5.8 Operator precedence 5.9 Operator functions 6 Object orientation

6.1 Terminology 6.2 The approach

6.3 How does this help?

6.4 Pike and object orientation 6.5 Inherit

6.6 Multiple inherit

6.7 Pike inherit compared to other languages 6.8 Modifiers

6.9 Operator overloading 6.10 Simple exercises 7 Miscellaneous functions

7.1 sscanf

7.2 catch & throw 7.3 gauge 7.4 typeof 8 Modules

8.1 How to use modules

8.2 Where do modules come from? 8.3 The . operator

8.4 How to write a module 8.5 Simple exercises 9 File I/O

9.1 File management - Stdio.File

9.2 Buffered file management - Stdio.FILE

9.3 Standard streams - Stdio.stdin, stdout and stderr 9.4 Listening to sockets - Stdio.Port

9.5 UDP socket and message management - Stdio.UDP 9.6 Terminal management - Stdio.Terminfo 9.6.1 Stdio.Terminfo.Termcap 9.6.2 Stdio.Terminfo.Terminfo

9.7 Simple input-by-prompt - Stdio.Readline 9.8 Other Stdio functions 9.9 A simple example

9.10 A more complex example - a simple WWW server 10 Threads

10.1 Starting a thread

10.2 Threads reference section 10.3 Threads example

11 Modules for specific data types

11.1 String 11.2 Array 12 Image

12.1 Image.Image

12.2 Image.Colortable 12.3 Image.Layer 12.4 Image.Font

12.5 Image.colortable 12.6 Image.Poly 12.7 Image.Color

12.7.1 Image.Color.Color 12.8 Image.X 12.9 Image.ANY 12.10 Image.AVS 12.11 Image.BMP 12.12 Image.GD 12.13 Image.GIF 12.14 Image.HRZ 12.15 Image.ILBM 12.16 Image.PCX 12.17 Image.PNG

12.18 Image.PNM 12.19 Image.PSD 12.20 Image.TGA 12.21 Image.XBM 12.22 Image.XCF 12.23 Image.XWD 12.24 Image.JPEG 12.25 Image.TIFF 12.26 Image.TTF

12.26.1 Image.TTF.Face

12.26.2 Image.TTF.FaceInstance 12.27 Image.XFace 13 Protocols

13.1 Protocols.HTTP

13.1.1 Protocols.HTTP.Query 13.2 Protocols.LysKOM

13.2.1 Protocols.LysKOM.Session 13.2.2 Protocols.LysKOM.Connection 13.2.3 Protocols.LysKOM.Request

13.2.3.1 Protocols.LysKOM.Request._Request 13.3 Protocols.DNS

13.3.1 Protocols.DNS.client 14 Other modules

14.1 System 14.2 Process 14.3 Regexp 14.4 Gmp 14.5 Gdbm 14.6 Getopt 14.7 Gz 14.8 Yp

14.9 ADT.Table

14.10 Yabu transaction database 14.10.1 The database 14.10.2 Tables

14.10.3 Transactions 14.11 MIME

14.11.1 Global functions

14.11.2 The MIME.Message class 14.11.2.1 Public fields 14.11.2.2 Public methods 14.12 Simulate 14.13 Mysql.mysql

14.14 The Pike Crypto Toolkit

14.14.1 Introduction 14.14.2 Block ciphers 14.14.3 Stream Ciphers 14.14.4 Hash Functions

14.14.5 Public key algorithms 14.14.6 Combining block cryptos 14.15 Locale.Gettext 14.16 Calendar

14.16.1 Calendar.time_unit 14.16.2 Calendar.Gregorian 14.16.2.1 Calendar.Gregorian. 14.16.2.2 Calendar.Gregorian.Year 14.16.2.3 Calendar.Gregorian.Stardate

14.16.2.3.1 Calendar.Gregorian.Stardate.TNGDate 14.17 Parser 14.18 Math

14.18.1 Math.Matrix

14.19 Calendar.time_unit 14.20 Calendar.Gregorian 14.20.1 Calendar.Gregorian. 14.20.2 Calendar.Gregorian.Year

14.20.3 Calendar.Gregorian.Stardate

14.20.3.1 Calendar.Gregorian.Stardate.TNGDate 14.21 Crypto.randomness

14.21.1 Crypto.randomness.pike_random 14.21.2 Crypto.randomness.arcfour_random 14.22 Geographical.Position 14.23 Geographical.Countries 14.24 Parser.SGML 14.25 Protocols.HTTP

14.25.1 Protocols.HTTP.Query 14.26 Protocols.LysKOM

14.26.1 Protocols.LysKOM.Session 14.26.2 Protocols.LysKOM.Connection 14.26.3 Protocols.LysKOM.Request

14.26.3.1 Protocols.LysKOM.Request._Request 14.27 Protocols.DNS

14.27.1 Protocols.DNS.client 15 The preprocessor 16 Builtin functions

17 Pike internals - how to extend Pike

17.1 The master object

17.2 Data types from the inside 17.2.1 Basic data types

17.2.2 struct svalue

17.2.3 struct pike_string 17.2.4 struct array 17.2.5 struct mapping 17.2.6 struct object 17.2.7 struct program 17.3 The interpreter Appendix A Terms and jargon Appendix B Register program Appendix C Reserved words Appendix D BNF for Pike

Appendix E How to install Pike

Appendix F How to convert from old versions of Pike Appendix G Image.Layer modes Appendix H Image.Color colors Index