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Preface	p. xv
Getting Started
Introduction to Perl	p. 3
What's Perl Good For?	p. 4
Perl Development	p. 5
Which Platforms Support Perl?	p. 5
Perl Resources	p. 5
Installing Perl	p. 10
The CPAN Architecture	p. 10
How Is CPAN Organized?	p. 11
Installing Perl	p. 12
Getting and Installing Modules	p. 15
Documentation	p. 25
Language Basics
The Perl Interpreter	p. 31
Command Processing	p. 32
Command-Line Options	p. 33
Environment Variables	p. 38
The Perl Compiler	p. 39
Threads	p. 41
The Perl Language	p. 42
Program Structure	p. 42
Data Types and Variables	p. 43
Statements	p. 48
Special Variables	p. 51
Operators	p. 57
Regular Expressions	p. 63
Subroutines	p. 70
References and Complex Data Structures	p. 72
Filehandles	p. 74
Formats	p. 75
Pod	p. 77
Function Reference	p. 85
Perl Functions by Category	p. 86
Perl Functions in Alphabetical Order	p. 87
Debugging	p. 142
The Perl Debugger	p. 142
Debugger Commands	p. 143
Using the Debugger	p. 152
Customizing the Debugger	p. 153
The Perl Profiler	p. 154
The perlbug Program	p. 155
Modules
Packages, Modules, and Objects	p. 159
Namespaces and Packages	p. 160
Modules	p. 160
Object-Oriented Perl	p. 161
Object Syntax	p. 162
Standard Modules	p. 164
AnyDBM_File	p. 168
attrs	p. 168
AutoLoader	p. 169
AutoSplit	p. 169
autouse	p. 170
B	p. 170
B::Asmdata	p. 171
B::Assembler	p. 171
B::Bblock	p. 171
B::Bytecode	p. 171
B::C	p. 172
B::CC	p. 173
B::Debug	p. 174
B::Deparse	p. 174
B::Disassembler	p. 175
B::Lint	p. 175
B::Showlex	p. 176
B::Stackobj	p. 176
B::Terse	p. 176
B::Xref	p. 176
base	p. 177
Benchmark	p. 177
blib	p. 180
Carp	p. 180
CGI	p. 181
CGI::Apache	p. 181
CGI::Carp	p. 181
CGI::Cookie	p. 182
CGI::Fast	p. 184
CGI::Push	p. 184
CGI::Switch	p. 185
Class::Struct	p. 185
Config	p. 187
Constant	p. 188
CPAN	p. 188
CPAN::FirstTime	p. 189
CPAN::Nox	p. 190
Cwd	p. 190
Data::Dumper	p. 190
DB_File	p. 194
Devel::SelfStubber	p. 195
Diagnostics	p. 196
DirHandle	p. 197
DynaLoader	p. 198
English	p. 200
Env	p. 201
Errno	p. 201
Exporter	p. 201
ExtUtils::Command	p. 203
ExtUtils::Embed	p. 204
ExtUtils::Install	p. 207
ExtUtils::Installed	p. 208
ExtUtils::Liblist	p. 210
ExtUtils::MakeMaker	p. 211
ExtUtils::Manifest	p. 217
ExtUtils::Miniperl	p. 219
ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap	p. 220
ExtUtils::Mksymlists	p. 220
ExtUtils::MM_OS2	p. 221
ExtUtils::MM_Unix	p. 221
ExtUtils::MM_VMS	p. 224
ExtUtils::MM_Win32	p. 225
ExtUtils::Packlist	p. 227
ExtUtils::testlib	p. 228
Fatal	p. 228
Fcntl	p. 229
Fields	p. 229
File::Basename	p. 229
File::CheckTree	p. 230
File::Compare	p. 231
File::Copy	p. 231
File::DosGlob	p. 232
File::Find	p. 232
File::Path	p. 233
File::Spec	p. 234
File::Spec::Mac	p. 234
File::Spec::OS2	p. 236
File::Spec::Unix	p. 236
File::Spec::VMS	p. 237
File::Spec::Win32	p. 238
File::stat	p. 239
FileCache	p. 240
FileHandle	p. 240
FindBin	p. 242
GDBM_File	p. 242
Getopt::Long	p. 242
Getopt::Std	p. 245
I18N::Collate	p. 246
Integer	p. 246
IO	p. 246
IO::File	p. 247
IO::Handle	p. 247
IO::Pipe	p. 250
IO::Seekable	p. 251
IO::Select	p. 252
IO::Socket	p. 253
IPC::Msg	p. 254
IPC::Open2	p. 255
IPC::Open3	p. 256
IPC::Semaphore	p. 256
IPC::SysV	p. 258
less	p. 258
lib	p. 259
locale	p. 259
Math::BigFloat	p. 259
Math::BigInt	p. 261
Math::Complex	p. 263
Math::Trig	p. 264
NDBM_File	p. 265
Net::hostent	p. 265
Net::netent	p. 266
Net::Ping	p. 266
Net::protoent	p. 268
Net::servent	p. 269
O	p. 270
ODBM_File	p. 270
Opcode	p. 270
ops	p. 272
overload	p. 273
Pod::Functions	p. 275
Pod::Html	p. 275
Pod::Text	p. 275
POSIX	p. 275
re	p. 287
Safe	p. 287
SDBM_File	p. 290
Search::Dict	p. 290
SelectSaver	p. 290
SelfLoader	p. 291
Shell	p. 291
sigtrap	p. 291
Socket	p. 292
strict	p. 292
subs	p. 293
Symbol	p. 293
Sys::Hostname	p. 294
Sys::Syslog	p. 294
Term::Cap	p. 295
Term::Complete	p. 296
Term::ReadLine	p. 297
Test	p. 298
Test::Harness	p. 299
Text::Abbrev	p. 299
Text::ParseWords	p. 300
Text::Soundex	p. 300
Text::Tabs	p. 301
Text::Wrap	p. 301
Thread	p. 302
Thread::Queue	p. 304
Thread::Semaphore	p. 305
Thread::Signal	p. 305
Thread::Specific	p. 305
Tie::Array, Tie::StdArray	p. 306
Tie::Handle	p. 308
Tie::Hash, Tie::StdHash	p. 309
Tie::RefHash	p. 310
Tie::Scalar, Tie::StdScalar	p. 311
Tie::SubstrHash	p. 311
Time::gmtime	p. 312
Time::Local	p. 313
Time::localtime	p. 313
Time::tm	p. 314
UNIVERSAL	p. 314
User::grent	p. 315
User::pwent	p. 316
vars	p. 317
vmsish	p. 317
CGI
CGI Overview	p. 321
A Typical CGI Interaction	p. 322
URL Encoding	p. 325
Extra Path Information	p. 326
CGI Environment Variables	p. 326
The CGI.pm Module	p. 329
HTML Tag Generation	p. 332
Importing Method Groups	p. 332
Maintaining State	p. 333
Named Parameters	p. 334
Using JavaScript Features	p. 334
Debugging	p. 334
CGI.pm Reference	p. 335
Web Server Programming with mod_perl	p. 354
Design of mod_perl	p. 354
Installing mod_perl	p. 355
mod_perl Handlers	p. 355
Running CGI Scripts with mod_perl	p. 357
Server-Side Includes with mod_perl	p. 358
[Perl] Sections	p. 358
Apache:: Modules	p. 359
Databases
Databases and Perl	p. 365
DBM Databases and DBM Hashes	p. 365
Design of DBI	p. 366
DBI Methods	p. 370
DBI Environment Variables	p. 376
Network Programming
Sockets	p. 379
Built-in Socket Functions	p. 380
The IO::Socket Module	p. 385
Email Connectivity	p. 390
The Net Modules	p. 391
The Mail Modules	p. 398
Usenet News	p. 423
The NNTP Protocol	p. 424
Net::NNTP	p. 426
The News::Newsrc Module	p. 433
FTP	p. 439
The FTP Protocol	p. 439
Net::FTP	p. 440
FTP Configuration with Net::Netrc	p. 449
The LWP Library	p. 451
LWP Overview	p. 452
The LWP Modules	p. 453
The HTTP Modules	p. 460
The HTML Module	p. 477
The URI Module	p. 485
Perl/Tk
Perl/Tk	p. 493
Widgets	p. 494
Geometry Managers	p. 496
Common Widget Configuration Options	p. 502
The Button Widget	p. 506
The Checkbutton Widget	p. 506
The Radiobutton Widget	p. 507
The Label Widget	p. 509
The Entry Widget	p. 509
The Scrollbar Widget	p. 512
The Listbox Widget	p. 513
The Text Widget	p. 516
The Canvas Widget	p. 524
The Scale Widget	p. 533
The Menubutton Widget	p. 535
The Menu Widget	p. 538
The Optionmenu Widget	p. 539
The Frame Widget	p. 540
The Toplevel Widget	p. 541
Win32
Win32 Modules and Extensions	p. 547
Win32::Clipboard	p. 548
Win32::Console	p. 549
Win32::ChangeNotification	p. 557
Win32::Eventlog	p. 558
Win32::File	p. 560
Win32::FileSecurity	p. 561
Win32::Internet	p. 562
Win32::IPC	p. 576
Win32::Mutex	p. 577
Win32::NetAdmin	p. 577
Win32::NetResource	p. 581
Win32::Process	p. 584
Win32::Registry	p. 587
Win32::Semaphore	p. 590
Win32::Service	p. 590
Win32::Shortcut	p. 592
Win32 Extensions	p. 596
OLE Automation	p. 598
PerlScript	p. 608
Client-Side PerlScript	p. 609
Server-Side PerlScript	p. 612
Index	p. 619
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