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Author Patwardhan, Nate

Title Perl in a nutshell / Nathan Patwardhan, Ellen Siever and Stephen Spainhour
Edition 2nd ed
Published Sebastopol, CA : O'Reilly, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 737 pages) : illustrations
Series In a nutshell
In a nutshell (O'Reilly & Associates)
Contents Table of Contents; Preface; How This Book Is Organized; Conventions in This Book; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments for the First Edition; Acknowledgments for the Second Edition; I; Introduction to Perl; What's Perl Good For?; Perl Development; Which Platforms Support Perl?; Perl Resources; The comp.lang.perl.* Newsgroups; Frequently Asked Questions Lists (FAQs); Mailing Lists; CPAN; www.perl.com; Perl Mongers (www.perl.org); The Perl Journal; Perl Conferences; Books; Installing Perl; The CPAN Architecture; How Is CPAN Organized?; Installing Perl; Installing on Unix; Perl examples; Patches
Installing on Win32ActivePerl; Standard Perl distribution; Getting and Installing Modules; Locating Modules; Module Installation; Installing Modules with ActiveState Perl; Using MakeMaker; Using the Perl Package Manager; Installing Modules with the CPAN Module;?;!; a; autobundle; b; clean; d; force; h; i; install; look; m; make; o; q; r; readme; recompile; reload; test; u; Documentation; Installing the Documentation; The Perl Manpages; II; The Perl Executable; Command Processing; Command-Line Options; Environment Variables; The Perl Compiler; Threads; The Perl Language; Program Structure
Data Types and VariablesNumbers; String Interpolation; Here Documents; Lists; Variables; Arrays; Hashes; Scalar and List Contexts; Declarations and Scope; Statements; Conditionals and Loops; while loops; for loops; foreach loops; Modifiers; Loop control; goto; Special Variables; Global Special Variables; Global Special Arrays and Hashes; Global Special Filehandles; Global Special Constants; Regular Expression Special Variables; Filehandle Special Variables; Operators; The Arrow Operator; Unary Operators; Arithmetic Operators; Comparison Operators; Relational operators; Equality operators
Autoincrement and AutodecrementAssignment Operators; Pattern Match Operators; File Test Operators; Logical Operators; Bitwise Operators; Miscellaneous Operators; Range operator; Conditional operator; Comma operator; String operator; Regular Expressions; Pattern-Matching Operators; Regular Expression Syntax; Escaped Sequences; Character Classes; Anchors; Quantifiers; Pattern Match Variables; Extended Regular Expressions; Subroutines; Calling Subroutines; Passing Arguments; Passing References; Private and Local Variables; Prototypes; References and Complex Data Structures; Creating References
Referencing anonymous dataDereferencing; Arrow dereferencing; Filehandles; Perl 5.8 and PerlIO; Signals; Unicode; Formats; Pod; Paragraph Tags; =back; =begin; =cut; =end; =for; =head1; =head2; =item; =over; =pod; Interior Sequences; Pod Utilities; perldoc; pod2fm; pod2html; pod2latex; pod2man; pod2text; Function Reference; Perl Functions by Category; Perl Functions in Alphabetical Order; abs; accept; alarm; atan2; bind; binmode; bless; caller; chdir; chmod; chomp; chop; chown; chr; chroot; close; closedir; connect; cos; crypt; dbmclose; dbmopen; defined; delete; die; do; dump; each; endgrent
Summary This complete guide to the Perl programming language ranges widely through the Perl programmer's universe, gathering together in a convenient form a wealth of information about Perl itself and its application to CGI scripts, XML processing, network programming, database interaction, and graphical user interfaces. The book is an ideal reference for experienced Perl programmers and beginners alike. With more than a million dedicated programmers, Perl is proving to be the best language for the latest trends in computing and business, including network programming and the ability to
Notes Includes index
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Subject Perl (Computer program language)
COMPUTERS -- Programming Languages -- C♯
COMPUTERS -- Programming Languages -- Java.
COMPUTERS -- Programming Languages -- Pascal.
Perl (Computer program language)
PERL.
Form Electronic book
Author Siever, Ellen
Spainhour, Stephen
ISBN 9780596516550
059651655X
9781449378820
144937882X