Perl Cookbook, 2nd Edition

Find a Perl programmer, and you’ll find a copy of Perl Cookbook nearby. Perl Cookbook is a comprehensive collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples for anyone programming in Perl. The book contains hundreds of rigorously reviewed Perl “recipes” and thousands of examples ranging from brief one-liners to complete applications. \n The second edition of Perl Cookbook has been fully updated for Perl 5.8, with extensive changes for Unicode support, I/O layers, mod_perl, and new technologies that have emerged since the previous edition of the book. Recipes have been updated to include the latest modules. New recipes have been added to every chapter of the book, and some chapters have almost doubled in size. COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / JavaScript Find a Perl programmer, and you'll find a copy of Perl Cookbook nearby. Perl Cookbook is a comprehensive collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples for anyone programming in Perl. The book contains hundreds of rigorously reviewed Perl "recipes" and thousands of examples ranging from brief one-liners to complete applications.The second edition of Perl Cookbook has been fully updated for Perl 5.8, with extensive changes for Unicode support, I/O layers, mod_perl, and new technologies that have emerged since the previous edition of the book. Recipes have been updated to include the latest modules. New recipes have been added to every chapter of the book, and some chapters have almost doubled in size.Covered topic areas include: Manipulating strings, numbers, dates, arrays, and hashes Pattern matching and text substitutions References, data structures, objects, and classes Signals and exceptions Screen addressing, menus, and graphical applications Managing other processes Writing secure scripts Client-server programming Internet applications programming with mail, news, ftp, and telnet CGI and mod_perl programming Web programming Since its first release in 1998, Perl Cookbook has earned its place in the libraries of serious Perl users of all levels of expertise by providing practical answers, code examples, and mini-tutorials addressing the challenges that programmers face. Now the second edition of this bestselling book is ready to earn its place among the ranks of favorite Perl books as well.Whether you're a novice or veteran Perl programmer, you'll find Perl Cookbook , 2nd Edition to be one of the most useful books on Perl available. Its comfortable discussion style and accurate attention to detail cover just about any topic you'd want to know about. You can get by without having this book in your library, but once you've tried a few of the recipes, you won't want to. Perl Cookbook is a comprehensive collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples for anyone programming in Perl. The first edition of Perl Cookbook was published in 1998 to universal acclaim. It quickly became known not only as one of the best books on Perl, but also as one of the best programming books for any language. With Perl Cookbook, a new type of programming book had been invented: not just a collection of tips and tricks, but a book that taught the nuances of programming 1 Strings 2 Numbers 3 Dates and Times 4. Arrays 5. Hashes 6. Pattern Matching 7. File Access 8. File Contents 9. Directories 10. Subroutines 11. References and Records 12. Packages, Libraries, and Modules 13. Classes, Objects, and Ties 14. Database Access 15. Interactivity 16. Process Management and Communication 17. Sockets 18. Internet Services 19. CGI Programming 20. Web Automation 21. mod_perl 22. XML The Perl Cookbook is a collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples for anyone using the Perl programming language. The examples range in complexity from brief one-liners to complete applications. The publisher represents it as a companion volume to "Programming Perl", also by Christiansen. Forward by Larry Wall. 733 pages. Paperback. A comprehensive guide to the programming language covers updating text and binary files, subroutines, libraries, data structures, signals, screen addressing, and client-server programming. 'Solutions & expamples for Perl programmers'--CoverIncludes bibliographical references (p. xxvi-xxvii) and index