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 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.