Where is Perldoc

[Alfred Vahau]

Hi,
Does Perl installation in Ubuntu come with online Perl documentation 
which I expected to be the case?
I needed to look up the syntax of the split command and when I issued

perldoc -f split

I received an error message telling me that I have must have perl-doc 
package installed before I can use
the command. After the aptitude and the apt-cache searches and the 
Synaptic PM returning negative
results, I decided to install it manually from CPAN with its dependent 
modules. Now the command is in the /usr/bin/perldoc path
but it is not a symlink. There is no entry in /etc/alternatives either.

perldoc is really part of Perl and I am surprised that it didn't come in 
the first place with Perl. But then I am learning new things about
Debian and Ubuntu and I may be surprised. Thanks for any hints on what I 
need to do to get the online documentation on Perl.

Alfred,