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Perl in a Nutshell 2nd Edition
This complete guide to the Perl programming language ranges
widely through the Perl programmer's universe, gathering
together in a convenient form a wealth of information about
Perl itself and its application to CGI scripts, XML
processing, network programming, database interaction, and
graphical user interfaces. The book is
an ideal reference
for experienced Perl programmers and beginners alike.
With more than a million dedicated programmers, Perl is
proving to be the best language for the latest trends in
computing and business, including network programming and
the ability to create and manage web sites. It's a language
that every Unix system administrator and serious web
developer needs to know. In the past few years, Perl has
found its way into complex web applications of multinational
banks, the U.S. Federal Reserve, and hundreds of large
corporations.
In this second edition, Perl in a Nutshell has been expanded
to include coverage of Perl 5.8, with information on Unicode
processing in Perl, new functions and modules that have been
added to the core language, and up-to-date details on
running Perl on the Win32 platform. The book also covers
Perl modules for recent technologies such as XML and SOAP.
Here are just some of the topics contained in this book:
Basic Perl reference
Quick reference to built-in functions and standard modules
CGI.pm and mod_perl
XML::* modules
DBI, the database-independent API for Perl
Sockets programming
LWP, the library for Web programming in Perl
Network programming with the Net modules
Perl/Tk, the Tk extension to Perl for graphical interfaces
Modules for interfacing with Win32 systems
As part of the successful "in a Nutshell" book series from
O'Reilly & Associates, Perl in a Nutshell is for readers who
want a single reference for all their needs.
"In a nutshell, Perl is designed to make the easy jobs easy,
without making the hard jobs impossible."
-- Larry Wall, creator of Perl
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