Wiley.com
Print this page Share

Perl For Dummies, 4th Edition

ISBN: 978-0-7645-3750-9
Paperback
408 pages
March 2003
List Price: US $29.99
Government Price: US $16.82
Enter Quantity:   Buy
Perl For Dummies, 4th Edition (0764537504) cover image
Other Available Formats: E-book

Introduction.

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.

Related Titles

General Programming & Software Development

by Janet Valade
by David Buser, John Kauffman, Juan T. Llibre, Brian Francis, Dave Sussman, Chris Ullman, Jon Duckett
by Rob Bovey, Stephen Bullen, John Green, Robert Rosenberg
by John Kauffman, Fabio Claudio Ferracchiati, Brian Matsik, Eric N. Mintz, Jan D. Narkiewicz, Kent Tegels, Donald Xie, John West, Jesudas Chinnathampi, James Greenwood
by Andrew Filev, Tony Loton, Kevin McNeish, Ben Schoellmann, John Slater, Chaur G. Wu
Back to Top