Perl Data Language

Description

PDL turns Perl in to a free, array-oriented, numerical language similar to IDL and MatLab.

Usage

First, load the modulefile to get access to the additionally installed Perl modules like so:

$ module load perl

You can access the Perl module by adding the following lines into your Perl scripts:

use PDL;

If you want to enable the interactive PDL shell, create the file .perldlrc with the following content:

use lib "/usr/local/perl_modules/PDL/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/";

use PDL;
use PDL::Dbg;  # Enable useful commands
use PDL::AutoLoader;
#use PDL::Lite; # Alternative to above for hard-core freaks

# PDL waffle options (and pacify -w)
BEGIN{
   $PDL::debug = $PDL::debug = 0;
   $PDL::verbose = $PDL::verbose = 1;
}

if ( $PERLDL::TERM->ReadLine() =~ /::Perl$/ ) {
   if ( defined $readline::rl_MaxHistorySize ) {
      $readline::rl_MaxHistorySize = $PERLDL::HISTFILESIZE;
   }
}

use PDL::Doc::Perldl; # online docs module

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