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:
<ul>
<li>Manipulating strings, numbers, dates, arrays, and hashes</li>
<li>Pattern matching and text substitutions</li>
<li>References, data structures, objects, and classes</li>
<li>Signals and exceptions</li>
<li>Screen addressing, menus, and graphical applications</li>
<li>Managing other processes</li>
<li>Writing secure scripts</li>
<li>Client-server programming</li>
<li>Internet applications programming with mail, news, ftp, and telnet</li>
<li>CGI and mod_perl programming</li>
<li>Web programming</li>
</ul>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: Solutions & Examples for Perl Programmers

Computers & Technology

Christiansen, Tom

Torkington, Nathan

Web Development & Design

O'Reilly Media

Regular expressions are such a powerful tool for manipulating text and data that anyone who uses a computer can benefit from them. Composed of a mixture of symbols and text, regular expressions can be an outlet for creativity, for brilliant programming, and for the elegant solution. While a command of regular expressions is an invaluable skill, all there is to know about them fills a very large volume, and you don't always have time to thumb through hundreds of pages each time a question arises. The answer is the Regular Expression Pocket Reference. Concise and easy-to-use, this little book is the portable companion to Mastering Regular Expressions. This handy guide offers programmers a complete overview of the syntax and semantics of regular expressions that are at the heart of every text-processing application. Ideal as an introduction for beginners and a quick reference for advanced programmers, Regular Expression Pocket Reference is a comprehensive guide to regular expression APIs for C, Perl, PHP,Java, .NET, Python, vi, and the POSIX regular expression libraries. O'Reilly's Pocket References have become a favorite among programmers everywhere. By providing a wealth of important details in a concise, well-organized format, these handy books deliver just what you need to complete the task at hand. When you've reached a sticking point and need to get to a solution quickly, the new Regular Expression Pocket Reference is the book you'll want to have.

Regular Expression Pocket Reference

Stubblebine, Tony

The Perl Cookbook is a comprehensive collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples for anyone programming in Perl. Topics range from beginner questions to techniques that even the most experienced of Perl programmers will learn from. More than just a collection of tips and tricks, the Perl Cookbook is the long-awaited companion volume to Programming Perl, filled with previously unpublished Perl arcana.The Perl Cookbook contains thousands upon thousands of examples ranging from brief one-liners to complete applications. Covered topic areas spread across nearly four hundred separate "recipes," including:
<ul>
<li>Manipulation of strings, numbers, dates, arrays, and hashes</li>
<li>Reading, writing, and updating text and binary files</li>
<li>Pattern matching and text substitutions</li>
<li>Subroutines, libraries, and modules</li>
<li>References, data structures, objects, and classes</li>
<li>Signals and exceptions</li>
<li>Accessing text, hashes, and SQL databases</li>
<li>Screen addressing, menus, and graphical applications</li>
<li>Managing other processes</li>
<li>Writing secure scripts</li>
<li>Client-server programming</li>
<li>Internet applications programming with mail, news, ftp, and telnet</li>
</ul>These recipes were rigorously reviewed by scores of the best minds inside and outside Perl, foremost of which was Larry Wall, the creator of Perl himself.The Perl Cookbook is written by Tom Christiansen, Perl evangelist and coauthor of the bestselling Programming Perl and Learning Perl; and Nathan Torkington, Perl trainer and co-maintainer of the Perl Frequently Asked Questions list.

Perl Cookbook

O'Reilly

Perl Cookbook (Second Edition)

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