Perl in a Nutshell – A Desktop Quick Reference - Softcover

Siever, Ellen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565922867 ISBN 13: 9781565922860

Publisher: O′Reilly, 1999

Synopsis

Perl in a Nutshell is a comprehensive reference guide to the Perl programming language. This book covers all the core features of the language. It ranges widely through the Perl programmer's universe, gathering together in convenient form a wealth of information about Perl itself and its application to CGI scripts, network programming, database interaction, and graphical user interfaces. It also gives detailed coverage about using Perl within a Win32 environment. This book assembles more information about the language in one place than any other reference work. Here are just some of the topics covered in the book: Basic language reference Introduction to using Perl modules Perl and CGI: CGI basics, CGI.pm, mod_perl DBI, the database-independent API for Perl Sockets programming in Perl LWP, the library for World Wide Web programming in Perl The Net::* modules pTk, the Tk extension to Perl As part of the successful "in a Nutshell" series of books from O'Reilly & Associates, Perl in a Nutshell is for readers who want a single reference for all their needs.

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About the Author

Ellen Siever is a writer and editor at O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. In addition to Linux in a Nutshell, she has co-authored Perl in a Nutshell and the Perl Modules Reference for the Unix edition of the Perl Resource Kit. She was a programmer for many years, until she decided that writing about computers was more fun. Stephen Spainhour is a writer for O'Reilly & Associates. He co-authored Webmaster in a Nutshell, Perl in a Nutshell, and has contributed to many other O'Reilly titles. He is an avid fan of professional tennis, and when he's not checking for tennis scores on the Web, he enjoys cooking, electronic music, troubleshooting his home-built PC, and watching too much television Prior to joining O'Reilly & Associates as UNIX system administrator, Nathan Patwardhan was a software developer and system administrator for Banta Integrated Media in Cambridge, MA. When not hacking Perl or advocating FreeBSD and Linux to his friends, coworkers, relatives, and other folks who don't know UNIX from Munich, Nathan is an avid music collector

Edition details

• Publisher: O′Reilly
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1565922867
• ISBN 13: 9781565922860
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 680