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Beginning Perl, 2nd Edition
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"Beginning Perl, Second Edition is a well-named text that starts
exactly where it claims…This book is a fine place to start."
— James Edward Gray II, Slashdot contributor
"...there are great examples, and projects assigned after each chapter
to help you really understand and remember how to code in Perl."
— Mark Spritzler, JavaRanch Bartender
"This book is a well-conceived introduction to Perl in tutorial form...
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— George Woolley of Oakland Perl Mongers
"The Perl (this book) teaches is strong industry-standard Perl that is…considered
best practice."
— Jack Herrington, Editor, Code Generation Network
Immensely popular Perl combines the best features of C, key UNIX utilities,
and powerful regular expressions. Perl is commonly used for web programming,
as well as email and Usenet news filtering. Fast becoming the system administrator’s
scripting language of choice, Perl is also useful for file and directory manipulation,
database access, and a broad range of daily system operator chores.
This second edition emphasizes the cross-platform nature of Perl. Throughout
the book, author James Lee promotes Perl as a legible, sensible programming
language and dispels the myth that Perl is confusing and obscure. Perfect
for the beginning Perl user looking to gain a quick and masterful grasp on
the language, this concise and focused book begins with the basics and moves
on to more advanced features of Perl, including references, modules, and object-oriented
programming.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 – First Steps in Perl
Chapter 2 – Scalars
Chapter 3 – Control Flow Constructs
Chapter 4 – Lists and Arrays
Chapter 5 – Hashes
Chapter 6 – Subroutines/ Functions
Chapter 7 – Regular Expressions
Chapter 8 – Files and Data
Chapter 9 – String Processing
Chapter 10 – Interfacing to the Operating System
Chapter 11 – References
Chapter 12 – Object-Oriented Perl
Chapter 13 – Modules
Chapter 14 – Introductions to CGI
Chapter 15 – Perl and DBI
Appendix – Exercise Solutions
About the Author
James Lee is a hacker and open-source advocate based in Illinois. He holds
a master's degree from Northwestern University, and he can often be seen rooting
for the Wildcats during football season. As founder of Onsight, Lee has worked
as a programmer, trainer, manager, writer, and open-source advocate. Lee coauthored
the recently published Hacking Linux Exposed, Second Edition, as well
as Open Source Web Development with LAMP. He enjoys hacking Perl and
has written many articles on Perl for Linux Journal. Lee also enjoys
developing software for the Web, reading, traveling and, most of all, playing
with his kids—who are too young to know why dad's favorite animals are
penguins and camels.
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