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Mastering Perl
This is the third in O'Reilly's series of landmark Perl
tutorials, which started with Learning Perl, the bestselling
introduction that taught you the basics of Perl syntax, and
Intermediate Perl, which taught you how to create re-usable
Perl software. Mastering Perl pulls everything together to
show you how to bend Perl to
your will. It convey's Perl's
special models and programming idioms.
This book isn't a collection of clever tricks, but a way of
thinking about Perl programming so you can integrate the
real-life problems of debugging, maintenance, configuration,
and other tasks you encounter as a working programmer.
The book explains how to:
Use advanced regular expressions, including global matches,
lookarounds, readable regexes, and regex debugging
Avoid common programing problems with secure programming
techniques
Profile and benchmark Perl to find out where to focus your
improvements
Wrangle Perl code to make it more presentable and readable
See how Perl keeps track of package variables and how you
can use that for some powerful tricks
Define subroutines on the fly and turn the tables on normal
procedural programming.
Modify and jury rig modules to fix code without editing the
original source
Let your users configure your programs without touching the
code
Learn how you can detect errors Perl doesn't report, and how
to tell users about them
Let your Perl program talk back to you by using Log4perl
Store data for later use in another program, a later run of
the same program, or to send them over a network
Write programs as modules to get the benefit of Perl's
distribution and testing tools
Appendices include "brian's Guide to Solving Any Perl
Problem" to improve your troubleshooting skills, as well as
suggested reading to continue your Perl education. Mastering
Perl starts you on your path to becoming the person with the
answers, and, failing that, the person who knows how to find
the answers or discover the problem.
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