Adopted as the undisputed Perl bible soon after the first edition appeared in 1991, Programming Perl is still the go-to guide for this highly practical language. Perl began life as a super-fueled text processing utility, but quickly evolved into a general purpose programming language that’s helped hundreds of thousands of programmers, system administrators, and enthusiasts, like you, get your job done.
In this much-anticipated update to "the Camel," three renowned Perl authors cover the language up to its current version, Perl 5.14, with a preview of features in the upcoming 5.16. In a world where Unicode is increasingly essential for text processing, Perl offers the best and least painful support of any major language, smoothly integrating Unicode everywhere—including in Perl’s most popular feature: regular expressions.
Important features covered by this update include:
The definitive Perl 5 reference and user's guide, from the creator of Perl. An extensive overview is followed by details of syntax, terms, operators, pattern matching, formats, variables, and functions. Discusses references and nested data structures, packages, modules, object classes, social engineering (cooperation with other processes and languages), and, of course, the Standard Perl Library. For programmers unsure of their scripting prowess, we suggest two good companion volumes for this reference: Perl 5 Interactive Course by Orwant and Perl 5 How-To by Glover et al. The first is a comprehensive Perl tutorial, complete with your ezone mentor on the Web. The second is a practical guide, complete with problem solving scripting examples and excellent debugging and diagnostic procedures for this Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister (aka Perl).
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