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.
