Unless otherwise indicated, the following examples conform to the [[Perl]] programming language, release 5.8.8, [[January 31]] [[2006]]. TheTthe syntaxif andstatements conventions used in these examples coincide with that of other programming environments as well (e.g., see Java inreturn a Nutshell - Page 213, Python Scripting for Computational Science - Page 320, Programming PHP - Page 106TRUE ).value</th>
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