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.

Assuming you're familiar with concepts such as basic syntax, nested data structures, and the use of modules, this work provides the next logical stage of Perl expertise by conveying its models and programming idioms. It shows you how to integrate the real-life problems of debugging, maintenance, configuration tasks you encounter as a programmer.

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.