Perl 5 How-To

by Glover, Mike; Humphreys, Aidan; Weiss, Ed

• ISBN13: 9781571690586
• ISBN10: 1571690581
• Edition: CD
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-06-01
• Publisher: Waite Group Pr

Summary

Perl 5 How-To: The Definitive Perl Problem-Solver saves Perl programmers hours of programming time by providing solutions to over 200 Perl problems in easy-to-access, award-winning Q&A format.
-- Multi-platform (UNIX, DOS) documentation and solutions
-- Over 200 practical solutions to Perl programming problems
-- CD-ROM includes Perl source code, binaries, scripts, and utilities -- all of which can be plugged into the reader's own Perl programs

Table of Contents

Installation
Perl Basics	p. 1
Creating Perl Programs	p. 43
File Manipulation	p. 63
Environment Variables and Commands	p. 109
File Handling	p. 137
Advanced Control Structures	p. 153
User Input	p. 175
Matching, Filtering, and Transforming	p. 197
Writing Reports in Perl	p. 225
DBM Files	p. 245
Program Automation	p. 277
Interprocess Communications	p. 315
Client-Server and Network Programming	p. 341
Functions, Libraries, Packages, and Modules	p. 365
Handling Asynchronous Events	p. 397
Data Structures	p. 419
Sorting, Searching, and Recursion	p. 449
Special File Processing	p. 483
Unix System Administration	p. 503
Perl Praxis	p. 551
The Perl Debugger	p. 585
Perl Tricks	p. 607
Object-Oriented Programming	p. 639
Graphic User Interfaces	p. 671
Perl and the World Wide Web	p. 717
Extending Perl 5	p. 759
Internet Resources	p. 811
Compiling Perl and the TK-Perl Extension	p. 817
GNU GPL and LGPL	p. 827
Index	p. 843
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