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| Preface | |
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| The Practical Extraction and Report Language | |
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| What Is Perl? | |
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| What Is an Interpreted Language? | |
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| Who Uses Perl? | |
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| Where to Get Perl | |
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| What Is CPAN? | |
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| Perl Documentation | |
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| What You Should Know | |
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| What s Next? | |
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| Perl Quick Start | |
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| Quick Start, Quick Reference | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| What s Next? | |
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| Perl Scripts | |
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| Script Setup | |
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| The Script | |
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| Perl at the Command Line | |
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| What You Should Know | |
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| What s Next? | |
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| Getting a Handle on Printing | |
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| The Filehandle | |
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| Words | |
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| The print Function | |
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| The printf Function | |
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| What You Should Know | |
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| What s Next? | |
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| What s in a Name | |
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| About Perl Variables | |
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| Scalars, Arrays, and Hashes | |
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| Reading from STDIN | |
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| Array Functions | |
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| Hash (Associative Array) Functions | |
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| More Hashes | |
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| What You Should Know | |
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| What s Next? | |
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| Where s the Operator? | |
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| About Perl Operators | |
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| Mixing Data Types | |
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| Precedence and Associativity | |
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| What You Should Know | |
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| What s Next? | |
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| If Only, Unconditionally, Forever | |
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| Control Structures, Blocks, and Compound Statements | |
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| Repetition with Loops | |
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| What You Should Know | |
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| What s Next? | |
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| Regular ExpressionsPattern Matching | |
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| What Is a Regular Expression? | |
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| Expression Modifiers and Simple Statements | |
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| Regular Expression Operators | |
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| What You Should Know | |
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| What s Next? | |
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| Getting ControlRegular Expression Metacharacters | |
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| Regular Expression Metacharacters | |
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| Unicode | |
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| What You Should Know | |
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| What s Next? | |
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| Getting a Handle on Files | |
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| The User-Defined Filehandle | |
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| Passing Arguments | |
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| File Testing | |
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| What You Should Know | |
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| What s Next? | |
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| How Do Subroutines Function? | |
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| Subroutines/Functions | |
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| Passing Arguments | |
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| Call-by-Reference | |
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| What You Should Know | |
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| What s Next? | |
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| Modularize It, Package It, and Send It to the Library! | |
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| Packages and Modules | |
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| The Standard Perl Library | |
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| Modules from CPAN | |
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| What You Should Know | |
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| What s Next? | |
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| Does This Job Require a Reference? | |
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| What Is a Reference? What Is a Pointer? | |
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| What You Should Know | |
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| What s Next? | |
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| Bless Those Things! (Object-Oriented Perl) | |
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| The OOP Paradigm | |
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| Classes, Objects, and Methods | |
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| Anonymous Subroutines, Closures, and Privacy | |
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| Inheritance | |
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| Public User InterfaceDocumenting Classes | |
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| Using Objects from the Perl Library | |
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| What You Should Know | |
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| What s Next? | |
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| Those Magic Ties and DBM Stuff | |
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| Tying Variables to a Class | |
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| DBM Files | |
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| What You Should Know | |
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| What s Next? | |
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| CGI and Perl: The Hyper Dynamic Duo | |
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| Static and Dynamic Web Pages 513 | |
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| How It all Works | |
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| Creating a Web Page with HTML | |
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| How HTML and CGI Work Together | |
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| Getting Information Into and Out of the CGI Script | |
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| CGI and Forms | |
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