Perl by example

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Quigley, Ellie
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Upper Saddle River, N.J. Prentice Hall 2008
Edition:4th ed
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • The practical extraction and report language
  • Perl quick start
  • Perl scripts
  • Getting a handle on printing
  • What's in a name
  • Where's the operator?
  • If only, unconditionally, forever
  • Regular expressions-pattern matching
  • Getting control-regular expression metacharacters
  • Getting a handle on files
  • How do subroutines function?
  • Modularize it, package it, and send it to the library!
  • Does this job require a reference?
  • Bless those things (object-oriented Perl)
  • Those magic ties and DBM stuff
  • CGI and Perl: the hyper dynamic duo
  • Perl meets MySQL-a perfect connection
  • Interfacing with the system
  • Report writing with pictures
  • Send it over the net and sock it to 'em
  • Appendix: A. Perl built-ins, progmas, modules, and the debugger
  • B. SQL language tutorial
  • C. Perl and biology
  • D. Power and speed: CGI and mod_perl