Perl For Dummies, 4th EditionISBN: 978-0-7645-3750-9
Paperback
408 pages
March 2003
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Part I: Getting Started with Perl.
Chapter 1: Perl’s Place in the Programming World.
Chapter 2: Running Perl on Your Computer.
Chapter 3: Diving into the Guts of Perl.
Chapter 4: A Perl Program Tour, Times Two.
Part II: The Basic Perl Programming Ingredients.
Chapter 5: Terrific Text.
Chapter 6: Nifty Numbers.
Chapter 7: Learning to Love Lists and Hashes.
Chapter 8: Creating Cool Conditionals and Lovely Loops.
Chapter 9: Doing Advanced Stuff with Operators and Functions.
Part III: The Nuts and Bolts of Perl.
Chapter 10: The Files Go In, The Files Go Out.
Chapter 11: Beyond File and Directory Basics.
Chapter 12: Stringing Along: Pattern Matching and Regular Expressions.
Chapter 13: Looking Like a Pro: Subroutines, Imported Code, and Graceful Exits.
Part IV: Advanced Perl Demystified.
Chapter 14: Perl and CGI: Web Server Programs Demystified.
Chapter 15: Perl Gets Cozy with the Web, E-Mail, and the Rest of the Internet.
Chapter 16: Using Perl as a Gateway to XML and Web Services.
Chapter 17: Dancing with Databases.
Chapter 18: Controlling Your Computer from Perl.
Chapter 19: Object-Oriented Perl.
Part V: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 20: Ten Guidelines for Programming with Style.
Chapter 21: Ten Really Short, Really Useful Perl Programs.
Part VI: Appendix.
Appendix: The Great Perl Reference.
Index.