Programming Perl

Perl is a powerful programming language that has grown in popularity since it first appeared in 1988. The first edition of this book, Programming Perl, hit the shelves in 1990, and was quickly adopted as the undisputed bible of the language. Since then, Perl has grown with the times, and so has this...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wall, Larry
Other Authors: Christiansen, Tom, Orwant, Jon
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Beijing O'Reilly 2000
Edition:3rd ed
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • An overview of Perl
  • Bits and pieces
  • Unary and binary operators
  • Statements and declarations
  • Pattern matching
  • Subroutines
  • Formats
  • References
  • Data structures
  • Packages
  • Modules
  • Objects
  • Overloading
  • Tied variables
  • Unicode
  • Interprocess communication
  • Threads
  • Compiling
  • The command-line interface
  • The Perl debugger
  • Internals and externals
  • CPAN
  • Security
  • Common practices
  • Portable Perl
  • Plain old documentation
  • Perl culture
  • Special names
  • Functions
  • The standard Perl library
  • Pragmatic modules
  • Standard modules
  • Diagnostic messages
  • Glossary
  • Index