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Learning Perl

Author: Randal L Schwartz

Learning Perl, popularly known as "the Llama," is the book most programmers rely on to get started with Perl. The bestselling Perl tutorial since it was first published in 1993, this new fifth edition covers recent changes to the language up to Perl 5.10. This book reflects the combined experience of its authors, who have taught Perl at Stonehenge Consulting since 1991. Years of classroom testing and experience helped shape the book's pace and scope, and this edition is packed with exercises that let you practice the concepts while you follow the text. Topics include: Perl data & variable types Subroutines File operations Regular expressions String manipulation Lists & sorting Process management Smart matching Using third party modules Perl is the language for people who want to get work done. Originally targeted to sysadmins for heavy-duty text processing, Perl is now a full-featured programming language suitable for almost any task on almost any platform-from short fixes on the command line to web applications, bioinformatics, finance, and much more. Other books may teach you to program in Perl, but this book will turn you into a Perl programmer.

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A hands-on tutorial featuring exercises and complete solutions, covering basics rather than advanced issues. Contents include Perl basics, the language's broad capabilities, brief code examples, system commands, and how to manage DBM databases using Perl. This second edition contains a new chapter on CGI programming. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

Preface     xi
Introduction     1
Questions and Answers     1
What Does "Perl" Stand For?     4
How Can I Get Perl?     8
How Do I Make a Perl Program?     12
A Whirlwind Tour of Perl     16
Exercises     17
Scalar Data     19
Numbers     19
Strings     22
Perl's Built-in Warnings     26
Scalar Variables     27
Output with print     29
The if Control Structure     33
Getting User Input     34
The chomp Operator     35
The while Control Structure     36
The undef Value     36
The defined Function     37
Exercises     38
Lists and Arrays     39
Accessing Elements of an Array     40
Special Array Indices     41
List Literals     41
List Assignment     43
Interpolating Arrays into Strings     46
The foreach Control Structure     47
Scalar and List Context     49
[left angle bracket]STDIN[right angle bracket] in List Context     52
Exercises     54
Subroutines     55
Defining a Subroutine     55
Invoking a Subroutine     56
Return Values     56
Arguments     58
Private Variables in Subroutines     60
Variable-Length Parameter Lists     60
Notes on Lexical (my) Variables     63
The use strict Pragma     64
The return Operator     65
Nonscalar Return Values     67
Persistent, Private Variables     68
Exercises     69
Input and Output     71
Input from Standard Input     71
Input from the Diamond Operator     73
The Invocation Arguments     75
Output to Standard Output     76
Formatted Output with printf     79
Filehandles     81
Opening a Filehandle     83
Fatal Errors with die     86
Using Filehandles     88
Reopening a Standard Filehandle     90
Output with say     90
Exercises     91
Hashes     93
What Is a Hash?     93
Hash Element Access     96
Hash Functions     100
Typical Use of a Hash      103
The %ENV hash     104
Exercises     105
In the World of Regular Expressions     107
What Are Regular Expressions?     107
Using Simple Patterns     108
Character Classes     113
Exercises     115
Matching with Regular Expressions     117
Matches with m//     117
Option Modifiers     118
Anchors     120
The Binding Operator, =

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Microsoft IIS 6.0 Administrator's Pocket Consultant

Author: William R Stanek

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