Beginning Perl, Second Edition

Lee, James; Simon Cozens; Peter Wainwright

ISBN 10: 159059391X / ISBN 13: 9781590593912

Published by Apress, 2004

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Book is in good condition. Minimal signs of wear. It May have markings or highlights, but kept to only a few pages. May not come with supplemental materials if applicable. Seller Inventory # LFM.3REK

Bibliographic Details

Title: Beginning Perl, Second Edition

Publisher: Apress

Publication Date: 2004

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: good

Edition: 2nd Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Immensely popular Perl combines the best features of C, key UNIX utilities, and powerful regular expressions. Perl is commonly used for web programming, as well as e-mail and Usenet news filtering. Fast becoming the system administrator's scripting language of choice, Perl is also useful for file and directory manipulation, database access, and a broad range of daily system operator chores. This second edition dispels the image of Perl as a sometimes confusing, obscure language, and instead, promotes Perl as a legible, sensible programming language. Concise and focused, this book reaches out to users of all experience levels, and covers basic to advanced aspects of Perl, Apache modPerl, and Perlscript (for use with Wintel systems). This book also stresses the cross-platform nature of Perl.

Synopsis:

Originally created as a powerful text processing tool, Perl has since evolved into a multi-purpose, multi-platform language capable of implementing a variety of tasks such as system administration, CGI and network programming, XML processing, and more. Beginning Perl, Second Edition provides valuable insight into Perl's role regarding all of these tasks and more. Commencing with a comprehensive overview of language basics, you'll learn all about important concepts such as Perl's data types and control flow constructs. This material sets the stage for a discussion of more complex topics, such as writing custom functions, using regular expressions, and file input and output. Next, we move on to the advanced topics of object oriented programming, modules, CGI programming, and database administration with Perl's powerful database interface module, DBI. The examples and code provided offer you all of the information you need to start writing your own powerful scripts to solve the problems listed above, and many more. Whether you are a complete novice or an experienced programmer, Beginning Perl, Second Edition offers an ideal guide to learning Perl.