Computer Science and Perl Programming

by Orwant, Jon

• ISBN13: 9780596003104
• ISBN10: 0596003102
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-01
• Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc

Summary

Founded in 1996, The Perl Journal is the only magazine dedicated to Perl, the popular open source scripting language. Started by Perl gurus as a grass-roots effort to help the rest of the world understand Perl's potential, TPJ acquired a cult following during the past five years and is known as "the voice of the Perl community". Its archives contain information that is still useful to the development community. O'Reilly recently acquired exclusive rights to distribute The Perl Journal's complete archive, and in Computer Science & Perl Programming: Best of the Perl Journal our editors have selected the best and most timeless articles for publication in three volumes.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Preface	xiii
Introduction	1	(8)
Part I. Beginner Concepts
All About Arrays	9	(9)
Perfect Programming	18	(6)
Precedence	24	(12)
The Birth of a One-Liner	36	(5)
Comparators, Sorting, and Hashes	41	(7)
What Is Truth?	48	(6)
Using Object-Oriented Modules	54	(11)
Unreal Numbers	65	(6)
CryptoContext	71	(5)
References	76	(7)
Perl Heresies	83	(6)
Part II. Regular Expressions
Understanding Regular Expressions, Part I	89	(15)
Understanding Regular Expressions, Part II	104	(7)
Understanding Regular Expressions, Part III	111	(4)
Nibbling Strings	115	(7)
How Regexes Work	122	(17)
Part III. Computer Science
Infinite Lists	139	(13)
Compression	152	(9)
Memoization	161	(15)
Parsing	176	(24)
Trees and Game Trees	200	(21)
B-Trees	221	(17)
Making Life and Death Decisions with Perl	238	(7)
Information Retrieval	245	(9)
Randomness	254	(6)
Random Number Generators and XS	260	(13)
Part IV. Programming Techniques
Suffering from Buffering	273	(8)
Scoping	281	(10)
Seven Useful Uses of local	291	(13)
Parsing Command-Line Options	304	(7)
Building a Better Hash with tie	311	(16)
Source Filters	327	(12)
Overloading	339	(9)
Building Objects Out of Arrays	348	(7)
Hiding Objects with Closures	355	(11)
Multiple Dispatch in Perl	366	(23)
Part V. Software Development
Using Other Languages from Perl	389	(15)
SWIG	404	(14)
Benchmarking	418	(6)
Building Software with Cons	424	(11)
MakeMaker	435	(8)
Autoloading Perl Code	443	(5)
Debugging and Devel::	448	(7)
Part VI. Networking
Email with Attachments	455	(9)
Sending Mail Without sendmail	464	(8)
Filtering Mail	472	(8)
Net::Telnet	480	(5)
Microsoft Office	485	(7)
Client-Server Applications	492	(15)
Managing Streaming Audio	507	(11)
A 74-Line IP Telephone	518	(13)
Controlling Modems	531	(10)
Using Usenet from Perl	541	(6)
Transferring Files with FTP	547	(10)
Spidering an FTP Site	557	(13)
DNS Updates with Perl	570	(9)
Part VII. Databases
DBI	579	(8)
Using DBI with Microsoft Access	587	(8)
DBI Caveats	595	(6)
Beyond Hardcoded Database Applications with DBIx::Recordset	601	(7)
Win32::ODBC	608	(14)
Net:: LDAP	622	(15)
Web Databases the Genome Project Way	637	(19)
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel	656	(15)
Part VIII. Internals
How to Improve Perl	671	(5)
Components of the Perl Distribution	676	(3)
Basic Perl Anatomy	679	(6)
Lexical Analysis	685	(7)
Debugging Perl Programs with-D	692	(13)
Microperl	705	(6)
Index	711	(20)
About the Authors	731