Regular expressions are an extremely powerful tool for manipulating text and data. They are standard features in a range of languages and popular tools. Showing how the regular expression engine works, this title includes a comparison of features among different versions of many languages and tools. It also has a chapter devoted to PHP.

Offers an account for the changes to the language up to Perl 5.10. This book includes exercises and solutions for practice. It covers topics including: Perl variable types; Subroutines; File operations; Regular expressions; Text processing; Strings and sorting; Process management; and, Using third party modules.

As of December 2001 there were more than 36 million sites on the Web and every one of them uses HTTP. Anyone who interacts with the Web professionally needs to understand HTTP. This book offers comprehensive information on the language and its use.

Perl Cookbook collects together hundreds of problems and their solutions (with examples) for anyone programming in Perl. Topics range from beginners questions to techniques for more experienced programmers.

Extend the capabilities of the Apache Web server with this guide to programming which explains the design of the Perl and API and demonstrates how to use them to rewrite CGI scripts, filter HTML documents on the server-side, enhance server log functionality, convert file formats on the fly and more.

This third edition covers Java 1.4 and contains 193 examples: over 21,900 lines of densely commented Java code, covering 20 client-side and server-side APIs. It includes new chapters on the Java Sound API and the New I/O API. The chapters on XML and servlets have been rewritten to cover latest versions and best practices for Java 1.4.