This text provides an introduction to the Perl programming language and its culture. This third edition has been expanded to cover Version 5.6 of Perl. New topics include threading, the compiler, and Unicode.

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.

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.

This is a reference for those who find themselves frequently searching for a quick answer to a question or reminder of a syntax rule. It condenses stacks of Perl documentation down to essential facts and offers a complete overview of the Perl programming language packed into a convenient booklet.

This complete guide to the Perl programming language ranges widely through the Perl programmer's universe, gathering together information about Perl itself and its application to CGI scripts, XML processing, network programming, database interaction, and graphical user interfaces.

Provides information on how to carry out traditional programming tasks in a high-powered, efficient, easy-to-maintain manner with Perl. Topics range in complexity from sorting and searching to statistical algorithms, numerical analysis, and encryption.

Explaining the architecture of the Perl DBI, this text shows how to write DBI-based programs and explains both DBI's nuances and the peculiarities of each individual DBD.

Offering a collection of 256 guidelines on the art of coding to help you write better Perl code, this book covers code layout, naming conventions, choice of data and control structures, program decomposition, interface design and implementation, modularity, object orientation, error handling, testing, and debugging.

Perl is a versatile programming language used in a variety of disciplines. This book offers an introduction to intermediate programming in Perl. Topics covered include: packages and namespaces; references and scoping; manipulating complex data structures; object-oriented programming; writing and using modules; testing Perl code; and more.

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.

Assuming only a little familiarity with Perl, this text guides the reader through areas where Perl can be most useful, including filesystem management, user administration, directory services, database administration, log files, and security and network monitoring.

Good software testing can increase productivity, improve designs, raise quality, and make you more productive overall. This hands-on labs series teaches how Perl's test tools work and how to use them to create basic and complex tests and interpret the results. This notebook is helpful in reducing the software development cycle times.

Provides an explanation of CGI for those who want to provide their own Web servers. The text features Perl 5 techniques and shows how to use two popular Perl modules, CGI.pm and CGI_lite. It also covers speed-up techniques, such as FastCGI and mod_perl, and material on security.

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 text is aimed at Perl programmers who need to work with XML documents and data. It offers a comprehensive tour of the landscape of Perl and XML, the myriad of modules, terminology, and techniques. The last two chapters give examples of XML applications, pulling together all the tools.

Teaches the techniques for production-ready Perl programs. This guide explains concepts such as introspection, overriding built-ins, extending Perl's object-oriented model, and testing code for greater stability.

With more than a million dedicated programmers, Perl has proven to be the best computing language in computing and business. This book contains chapters on productivity hacks, user interaction, data munging, working with modules, object hacks, and, debugging. It is aimed at experienced developer or a dabbler who simply enjoys exploring technology.

Perl/Tk is the marriage of the Tk graphical toolkit with Perl, the powerful programming language used primarily for system administration, Web programming, and database manipulation. With this text you should be able to build Perl programs with an attractive, intuitive GUI interface.

This text covers topics including: understanding LWP and its design; fetching and analyzing URLs; extracting information from HTML using regular expressions and tokens; working with the structure of HTML documents using trees; and setting and inspecting HTTP headers and response codes.

This volume aims to teach readers how to program in the Perl language. This is a guide for both formal (classroom) and informal learning and features tips for PC users and also includes NT-specific examples.