Perl terms starting with N

11 terms

1. named pipe A "pipe" with a name embedded in the "filesystem" so that it can be accessed by two unrelated processes.
2. namespace A prefix applied to URIs, URNs, and XML entities to prevent naming conflicts.
3. network address The most important attribute of a socket, like your telephone's telephone number. Typically an IP address. See also "port".
4. newline The \n character.
5. NFS Network File System, which allows you to mount a remote filesystem as if it were local.
6. null character The \u0000 character. Care should be taken not to confuse this with the null reference.
7. null list A "list value" with zero elements, represented in Perl by ().
8. null string A "string" containing no characters, not to be confused with a string containing a "null character", which has a positive length and is "true".
9. numeric context The situation in which an expression is expected by its surroundings (the code calling it) to return a number. See also "context" and "string context".
10. NV Short for Nevada, no part of which will ever be confused with civilization. NV also means an internal floating-point Numeric Value of the type a "scalar"…
11. nybble Half a "byte", equivalent to one "hexadecimal" digit, and worth four bits.