Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days

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Introduction	p. 1
How This Book Is Organized	p. 2
Conventions Used in This Book	p. 4
Getting Started	p. 5
An Introduction to Perl	p. 7
What Is Perl and Where Did It Come From?	p. 8
Why Learn Perl?	p. 9
Getting Started Programming in Perl	p. 12
An Example: The Ubiquitous Hello World	p. 13
Create Hello World	p. 13
Running Hello World	p. 15
What to Do if It Doesn't Work	p. 16
How Does It Work?	p. 16
A Note About Warnings	p. 17
Another Example: Echo	p. 18
A Third Example: The Cookie Monster	p. 19
Going Deeper	p. 20
Summary	p. 21
QandA	p. 22
Workshop	p. 24
Quiz	p. 24
Exercises	p. 24
Answers	p. 25
Quiz Answers	p. 25
Exercise Answers	p. 26
Working with Strings and Numbers	p. 29
Scalar Data and Scalar Variables	p. 30
Numbers	p. 30
Strings	p. 31
Converting Between Numbers and Strings	p. 33
Scalar Variables	p. 34
Constructing Perl Scripts	p. 35
Arithmetic Operators	p. 36
Arithmetic and Decimal Precision	p. 37
An Example: Converting Fahrenheit to Celsius	p. 38
Operators for Tests and Comparisons	p. 40
The Meaning of Truth	p. 40
Equality and Relational Operators	p. 40
Logical Operators	p. 42
Going Deeper	p. 44
Quoting Strings	p. 44
Upper- and Lowercase Escapes	p. 45
More About Variable Interpolation in Strings	p. 45
Summary	p. 46
QandA	p. 47
Workshop	p. 47
Quiz	p. 48
Exercises	p. 48
Answers	p. 49
Quiz Answers	p. 49
Exercise Answers	p. 50
More Scalar Data and Operators	p. 51
Assignment Operators	p. 52
Increment and Decrement Operators	p. 53
String Concatenation and Repetition	p. 54
Operator Precedence and Associativity	p. 55
An Example: Simple Statistics	p. 57
Input and Output	p. 59
File Handles and Standard Input and Output	p. 60
Reading a Line from Standard Input with [STDIN]	p. 60
Writing to Standard Output with print	p. 61
printf and sprintf	p. 62
A Note About Using Functions	p. 64
Going Deeper	p. 64
Useful Number and String Functions	p. 65
Bitwise Operators	p. 66
The cmp and [=] Operators	p. 66
Functions and Function-Like Operators	p. 66
Summary	p. 66
QandA	p. 67
Workshop	p. 68
Quiz	p. 68
Exercises	p. 68
Answers	p. 69
Quiz Answers	p. 69
Exercise Answers	p. 70
Working with Lists and Arrays	p. 71
List Data and Variables	p. 71
Defining and Using Lists and Arrays	p. 72
Creating Lists	p. 73
Creating Lists Using the Range Operator	p. 74
Assignment and Lists	p. 75
Accessing Array Elements	p. 76
Growing Arrays	p. 77
Finding the End of an Array	p. 77
Finding the Length of an Array	p. 78
Sorting Lists and Arrays	p. 78
Processing Each Element of an Array	p. 79
An Example: More Stats	p. 79
List and Scalar Context	p. 82
What Is Context?	p. 82
Finding the Number of Elements in an Array, Revisited	p. 83
Context and Assignment	p. 84
Other Contexts	p. 85
The scalar Function	p. 86
Input, Output, and Lists	p. 87
Using [STDIN] in List Context	p. 87
Printing Lists	p. 88
Going Deeper	p. 89
Negative Array Indexes	p. 89
More About Ranges	p. 89
chomp and chop on Lists	p. 89
Output Field, Record, and List Separators	p. 90
Void Context	p. 91
Summary	p. 91
QandA	p. 92
Workshop	p. 93
Quiz	p. 93
Exercises	p. 94
Answers	p. 94
Quiz Answers	p. 94
Exercise Answers	p. 95
Working with Hashes	p. 97
Hashes Versus Arrays and Lists	p. 98
Hashes	p. 99
List Syntax and Hashes	p. 99
Converting Between Arrays, Lists, and Hashes	p. 100
Accessing Hash Elements	p. 101
Deleting Hash Elements	p. 102
Processing All the Values in a Hash	p. 102
Hashes and Context	p. 103
An Example: Frequencies in the Statistics Program	p. 104
Extracting Data into Arrays or Hashes Using the split Function	p. 108
Another Example: Alphabetical Lists of Names	p. 109
Going Deeper	p. 110
Summary	p. 110
QandA	p. 111
Workshop	p. 112
Quiz	p. 112
Exercises	p. 112
Answers	p. 113
Quiz Answers	p. 113
Exercise Answers	p. 114
Conditionals and Loops	p. 117
Complex Statements and Blocks	p. 118
Conditionals	p. 118
if, if . . . else, and if . . . elsif	p. 118
unless	p. 120
Conditional Operator?	p. 120
Using Logical Operators as Conditionals	p. 121
while Loops	p. 122
while	p. 122
until	p. 124
do	p. 124
An Example: Pick a Number	p. 125
Iteration with for Loops	p. 127
for	p. 128
foreach	p. 129
Controlling Loops	p. 130
last, next, and redo	p. 131
Labeling Loops	p. 132
Using the $_ (Default) Variable	p. 134
Input from Files with while Loops and []	p. 135
Going Deeper	p. 138
Conditional and Loop Modifiers	p. 138
Using continue Blocks	p. 139
Constructing switch or case Statements	p. 140
goto	p. 140
Summary	p. 141
QandA	p. 142
Workshop	p. 142
Quiz	p. 142
Exercises	p. 143
Answers	p. 143
Quiz Answers	p. 143
Exercise Answers	p. 144
Exploring a Few Longer Examples	p. 147
Statistics with a Better Histogram	p. 148
A Number Speller	p. 152
Text-to-HTML Converter Script	p. 155
How It Works	p. 155
The Input File	p. 157
The Script	p. 157
Summary	p. 161
Doing More	p. 163
Manipulating Lists and Strings	p. 165
Array and Hash Slices	p. 166
Sorting Lists	p. 167
Searching	p. 168
An Example: More Names	p. 170
Modifying List Elements	p. 175
push and pop	p. 175
shift and unshift	p. 177
splice	p. 177
Other Ways to Mess with Lists	p. 178
reverse	p. 179
join	p. 179
map	p. 179
Manipulating Strings	p. 180
reverse	p. 181
index and rindex	p. 181
substr	p. 182
Going Deeper	p. 183
Summary	p. 184
QandA	p. 184
Workshop	p. 185
Quiz	p. 185
Exercises	p. 186
Answers	p. 186
Quiz Answers	p. 186
Exercise Answers	p. 187
Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions	p. 191
The Whys and Wherefores of Pattern Matching	p. 192
Pattern Matching Operators and Expressions	p. 193
Simple Patterns	p. 195
Character Sequences	p. 195
Matching at Word or Line Boundaries	p. 196
Matching Alternatives	p. 198
Matching Groups of Characters	p. 199
Character Classes	p. 199
Ranges	p. 200
Negated Character Classes	p. 200
Special Classes	p. 201
Matching Any Character with . (dot)	p. 202
An Example: Optimizing numspeller	p. 202
Matching Multiple Instances of Characters	p. 208
Optional Characters with ?	p. 208
Matching Multiple Characters with *	p. 209
Requiring at Least One Instance with +	p. 210
Restricting the Number of Instances	p. 210
More About Building Patterns	p. 211
Patterns and Variables	p. 212
Patterns and Loops	p. 212
Another Example: Counting	p. 213
Pattern Precedence	p. 214
Going Deeper	p. 215
More Uses of Patterns	p. 215
Pattern Delimiters and Escapes	p. 215
Summary	p. 216
QandA	p. 217
Workshop	p. 217
Quiz	p. 217
Exercises	p. 218
Answers	p. 218
Quiz Answers	p. 218
Exercise Answers	p. 219
Doing More with Regular Expressions	p. 221
Extracting Matches	p. 222
Using Parentheses for Backreferences	p. 222
Saved Match Variables	p. 224
Matches and Context	p. 224
A Note About Greed	p. 225
Using Patterns for Search and Replace	p. 227
More About split	p. 228
Matching Patterns over Multiple Lines	p. 229
Storing Multiple Lines of Input	p. 230
Handling Input with Newlines	p. 230
A Summary of Options and Escapes	p. 232
An Example: Image Extractor	p. 233
Hints for Building Regular Expressions	p. 237
Going Deeper	p. 238
More Metacharacters	p. 239
Special Variables	p. 239
Options	p. 240
Summary	p. 241
QandA	p. 241
Workshop	p. 242
Quiz	p. 242
Exercises	p. 243
Answers	p. 243
Quiz Answers	p. 243
Exercise Answers	p. 244
Creating and Using Subroutines	p. 247
Subroutines Versus Functions	p. 248
Defining and Calling Basic Subroutines	p. 248
An Example of a Subroutine	p. 249
Defining Subroutines	p. 249
Calling Subroutines	p. 250
An Example: Son of Stats	p. 251
Returning Values from Subroutines	p. 253
Using Local Variables in Subroutines	p. 254
Passing Values into Subroutines	p. 257
Passing Arguments	p. 257
Handling Arguments Inside Subroutines	p. 257
A Note on Arguments Passed by Reference	p. 259
Subroutines and Context	p. 259
Another Example: Stats with a Menu	p. 260
Going Deeper	p. 267
Leaving Off the Parentheses for Arguments	p. 268
Using @_ to Pass Arguments to Subroutines	p. 268
Anonymous Subroutines	p. 269
Using Subroutine Prototypes	p. 269
The caller Function	p. 270
Summary	p. 270
QandA	p. 271
Workshop	p. 272
Quiz	p. 272
Exercises	p. 272
Answers	p. 273
Quiz Answers	p. 273
Exercise Answers	p. 275
Debugging Perl	p. 279
Using the Debugger: A Simple Example	p. 280
Starting and Running the Debugger	p. 285
Tracing Execution	p. 286
Stepping Through the Script	p. 287
Listing the Source	p. 287
Printing Variables	p. 289
Setting Breakpoints	p. 290
Other Commands	p. 290
One Other Thing	p. 291
Going Deeper	p. 291
Using Different Debuggers	p. 291
Running Perl Interactively	p. 291
Common Pitfalls and FAQs	p. 292
Summary	p. 292
QandA	p. 292
Workshop	p. 293
Quiz	p. 293
Exercises	p. 293
Answers	p. 294
Quiz Answers	p. 294
Exercise Answers	p. 295
Scope, Modules, and Importing Code	p. 297
Global Variables and Packages	p. 298
The Problem with Globals	p. 298
What's a Package?	p. 299
How Packages and Variables Work	p. 299
Using Non-Package Global Variables	p. 300
Local Scope and Variables	p. 302
Local Variables and Local Scope	p. 302
Local Variables with my and local	p. 303
Using Perl Modules	p. 304
Some Terminology	p. 304
Getting Modules	p. 305
Importing Modules	p. 306
Using Modules	p. 308
Importing Symbols by Hand	p. 309
Import Tags	p. 310
Using Pragmas	p. 311
The English Module	p. 313
An Example: Using the Text::Wrap Module	p. 313
Using Modules from CPAN (The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network)	p. 315
A Note of Caution	p. 315
Acquiring Modules from CPAN	p. 316
Installing CPAN Modules on Windows Using PPM	p. 317
Using Modules from CPAN	p. 317
Going Deeper	p. 318
Typeglobs	p. 318
One Other Difference Between local and my	p. 319
An Example of local Versus my	p. 319
Package Initialization and Finalization with Begin and End	p. 321
Importing Code with require	p. 321
Summary	p. 322
QandA	p. 323
Workshop	p. 325
Quiz	p. 325
Exercises	p. 325
Answers	p. 326
Quiz Answers	p. 326
Exercise Answers	p. 327
Exploring a Few Longer Examples	p. 329
A Searchable Address Book (address.pl)	p. 330
How It Works	p. 330
The Address File	p. 331
Inside the Script	p. 332
The Code	p. 338
A Web Log Processor (weblog.pl)	p. 340
How It Works	p. 341
What a Web Log Looks Like	p. 342
Building the Script	p. 343
The Code	p. 351
Summary	p. 354
Advanced Perl	p. 357
Working with Files and I/O	p. 359
Input and Output with File Handles	p. 360
Creating File Handles with open	p. 360
The die Function	p. 362
Reading Input from a File Handle	p. 363
Writing Output to a File Handle	p. 364
Reading and Writing Binary Files	p. 365
Closing a File Handle	p. 365
An Example: Extract Subjects and Save Them	p. 366
File Tests	p. 367
Working with @ARGV and Script Arguments	p. 369
Anatomy of the @ARGV	p. 369
Script Switches and Fun with Getopt	p. 369
getopts	p. 370
Script Switches on the Macintosh	p. 373
Another Example	p. 374
Going Deeper	p. 375
More About open and File Handles	p. 375
Various Other File-Related Functions	p. 376
Expert-Level I/O	p. 376
DBM Files	p. 377
Timestamps	p. 378
Summary	p. 378
QandA	p. 379
Workshop	p. 380
Quiz	p. 380
Exercises	p. 381
Answers	p. 381
Quiz Answers	p. 381
Exercise Answers	p. 383
Using Perl for CGI Scripting	p. 387
Before You Start	p. 388
How CGI Works	p. 389
Building a CGI Script, From Form to Response	p. 390
The Form	p. 390
Creating the Script	p. 391
Testing the Script	p. 393
Developing CGI Scripts with CGI.pm	p. 395
Getting CGI.pm	p. 395
Using CGI.pm	p. 395
Processing Form Input	p. 396
Generating HTML	p. 397
Debugging the Result	p. 399
An Example: Survey	p. 400
The Form	p. 401
The Script	p. 402
Going Deeper	p. 406
Using CGI Variables	p. 406
Post Versus Get	p. 407
Redirection	p. 407
Cookies and File Upload	p. 408
CGI Scripts and Security	p. 408
Embedding Perl in Web Servers	p. 408
Summary	p. 409
QandA	p. 410
Workshop	p. 411
Quiz	p. 411
Exercises	p. 411
Answers	p. 412
Quiz Answers	p. 412
Exercise Answers	p. 413
Managing Files and Directories	p. 417
Managing Files	p. 417
Renaming Files	p. 418
Creating and Following Links	p. 418
Removing Files and Links	p. 419
Other Operations	p. 419
Managing and Navigating Directories	p. 420
Navigating Directories	p. 420
Listing Files	p. 421
Making and Removing Directories	p. 423
An Example: Creating Links	p. 424
Going Deeper	p. 426
Summary	p. 427
QandA	p. 427
Workshop	p. 428
Quiz	p. 428
Exercises	p. 428
Answers	p. 429
Quiz Answers	p. 429
Exercise Answers	p. 430
Perl and the Operating System	p. 435
UNIX Features in Perl	p. 436
Environment Variables	p. 436
Running UNIX Programs with system	p. 437
Input with Backquotes	p. 438
Using Processes: fork, wait, and exec	p. 439
Other UNIX-Related Functions	p. 446
Perl for Windows	p. 447
Compatibility with UNIX	p. 448
Built-In Win32 Subroutines	p. 448
Win32::MsgBox	p. 449
Win32 Processes	p. 451
Working with the Win32 Registry	p. 453
Other Win32 Modules	p. 455
MacPerl Features	p. 456
Compatibility with UNIX	p. 456
Dialogs	p. 457
Other MacPerl Features	p. 459
Going Deeper	p. 460
Pipes	p. 460
Signals	p. 460
Basic Networking	p. 460
Creating User Interfaces with Perl	p. 461
Summary	p. 461
QandA	p. 461
Workshop	p. 463
Quiz	p. 463
Exercises	p. 463
Answers	p. 464
Quiz Answers	p. 464
Exercise Answers	p. 464
Working with References	p. 467
What Is a Reference?	p. 468
The Basics: A General Overview of How to Use References	p. 468
Creating a Reference	p. 469
Printing and Using References	p. 470
Dereferencing References	p. 471
Changing Referenced-To Data	p. 472
Using References with Subroutine Arguments and Return Values	p. 473
Subroutine Arguments	p. 473
Passing References Back from Subroutines	p. 475
Other Ways of Using References	p. 476
Dereferencing List Reference Elements	p. 476
References with Blocks	p. 477
The ref Function	p. 478
A Note About Memory and Garbage Collection	p. 479
Creating Nested Data Structures with References	p. 480
What Is a Nested Data Structure?	p. 480
Using Anonymous Data	p. 481
Creating Data Structures with Anonymous Data	p. 483
Other Structures	p. 486
Building Data Structures with Existing Data	p. 486
Accessing Elements in Nested Data Structures	p. 488
Another Example: A Database of Artists and Their Works	p. 490
Going Deeper	p. 494
Shorthand References to Scalars	p. 494
Symbolic References	p. 495
References to Typeglobs and Filehandles	p. 495
References to Subroutines	p. 496
Summary	p. 496
QandA	p. 497
Workshop	p. 498
Quiz	p. 498
Exercises	p. 499
Answers	p. 500
Quiz Answers	p. 500
Exercise Answers	p. 502
Odds and Ends	p. 505
Perl One-Liners	p. 506
Object-Oriented Programming	p. 508
Getting Started and Learning More	p. 508
The Basics (for Those Who Already Know OOP)	p. 509
An Example: Using Object-Oriented Modules	p. 516
Formats	p. 518
Sockets	p. 521
POD (Plain Old Documentation) Files	p. 522
Creating POD Files	p. 523
Embedding POD in Scripts	p. 524
Evaluating Code On-the-Fly	p. 525
Creating International Perl Scripts	p. 525
Script Security with Taint Checking	p. 526
PerlScript	p. 527
Perl Extensions	p. 527
New and Advanced Features in Perl 5.005	p. 528
Going Deeper	p. 529
Summary	p. 529
QandA	p. 530
Workshop	p. 531
Quiz	p. 532
Exercises	p. 532
Answers	p. 533
Quiz Answers	p. 533
Exercise Answers	p. 534
Exploring a Few Longer Examples	p. 539
A Home Page Generator (myhomepage.pl)	p. 540
How It Works	p. 540
Inside the Script	p. 542
Another Configuration	p. 547
A Web-Based To Do List Manager (todolist.pl)	p. 550
The Data File	p. 551
How the Script Works	p. 552
The Code	p. 556
Summary	p. 564
Appendixes	p. 565
Perl Functions	p. 567
For More Information	p. 567
Perl Functions, in Alphabetical Order	p. 568
abs	p. 568
accept	p. 568
alarm	p. 568
atan2	p. 569
bind	p. 569
binmode	p. 569
bless	p. 569
caller	p. 569
chdir	p. 570
chmod	p. 570
chomp	p. 570
chop	p. 570
chown	p. 571
chr	p. 571
chroot	p. 571
close	p. 571
closedir	p. 572
connect	p. 572
cos	p. 572
crypt	p. 572
dbmclose	p. 572
dbmopen	p. 572
defined	p. 573
delete	p. 573
die	p. 573
do	p. 573
dump	p. 574
each	p. 574
eof	p. 574
eval	p. 575
exec	p. 575
exists	p. 575
exit	p. 576
exp	p. 576
fcntl	p. 576
fileno	p. 576
flock	p. 576
fork	p. 576
format	p. 577
formline	p. 577
getc	p. 577
getlogin	p. 577
getpeername	p. 577
getpgrp	p. 577
getppid	p. 577
getpriority	p. 578
getsockname	p. 578
getsockopt	p. 578
glob	p. 578
gmtime	p. 578
goto	p. 578
grep	p. 579
hex	p. 579
import	p. 579
index	p. 579
int	p. 580
ioctl	p. 580
join	p. 580
keys	p. 580
kill	p. 581
last	p. 581
lc	p. 581
lcfirst	p. 581
length	p. 581
link	p. 581
listen	p. 582
local	p. 582
localtime	p. 582
log	p. 582
lstat	p. 582
map	p. 582
mkdir	p. 583
msgctl	p. 583
msgget	p. 583
msgrcv	p. 583
msgsnd	p. 584
my	p. 584
next	p. 584
no	p. 584
oct	p. 584
open	p. 584
opendir	p. 585
ord	p. 585
pack	p. 585
package	p. 586
pipe	p. 587
pop	p. 587
pos	p. 587
print	p. 587
printf	p. 587
push	p. 588
quotemeta	p. 588
rand	p. 588
read	p. 588
readdir	p. 589
readlink	p. 589
recv	p. 589
redo	p. 589
ref	p. 589
rename	p. 590
require	p. 590
reset	p. 590
return	p. 590
reverse	p. 590
rewinddir	p. 591
rmdir	p. 591
scalar	p. 591
seek	p. 591
seekdir	p. 591
select	p. 591
semctl	p. 592
semget	p. 592
semop	p. 592
send	p. 592
setpgrp	p. 592
setpriority	p. 592
setsockopt	p. 593
shift	p. 593
shmctl	p. 593
shmget	p. 593
shmread	p. 593
shmwrite	p. 593
shutdown	p. 593
sin	p. 594
sleep	p. 594
socket	p. 594
socketpair	p. 594
sort	p. 594
splice	p. 595
split	p. 596
sprintf	p. 597
sqrt	p. 597
srand	p. 597
stat	p. 598
study	p. 598
substr	p. 598
symlink	p. 599
syscall	p. 599
sysopen	p. 599
sysread	p. 599
sysseek	p. 599
system	p. 600
syswrite	p. 600
tell	p. 600
telldir	p. 600
tie	p. 600
tied	p. 600
time	p. 600
times	p. 601
truncate	p. 601
uc	p. 601
ucfirst	p. 601
umask	p. 601
undef	p. 601
unlink	p. 602
unpack	p. 602
unshift	p. 602
utime	p. 602
values	p. 602
vec	p. 602
wait	p. 603
waitpid	p. 603
wantarray	p. 603
warn	p. 603
write	p. 603
A Survey of Perl Modules	p. 605
Pragmas	p. 606
constant	p. 606
diagnostics	p. 606
integer	p. 606
lib	p. 606
overload	p. 606
sigtrap	p. 607
strict	p. 607
subs	p. 607
vars	p. 607
Basic Perl Modules	p. 607
Autoloader	p. 607
B	p. 607
Carp	p. 607
Config	p. 608
English	p. 608
Exporter	p. 608
Opcode	p. 608
PodParser	p. 608
Symbol	p. 608
Tie Modules	p. 608
Development Support Modules	p. 609
Benchmark	p. 609
Devel::DProf	p. 609
ExtUtils	p. 609
Usage	p. 609
Operating System Interfaces	p. 609
AppleII	p. 609
BSD::Resource	p. 609
BSD::Time	p. 610
Env	p. 610
Fcntl	p. 610
Mac Modules	p. 610
OS2	p. 610
POSIX	p. 610
Networking Modules	p. 610
IPC::Signal	p. 610
Net::Bind	p. 610
Net::Cmd	p. 611
Net::Country	p. 611
Net::DNS	p. 611
Net::Domain	p. 611
Net::FTP	p. 611
Net::Gen	p. 611
Net::Ident	p. 611
Net::Inet	p. 611
Net::Netrc	p. 611
Net::NIS, Net::NISPlus	p. 611
Net::NNTP	p. 612
Net::Ping	p. 612
Net::POP3	p. 612
Net::SMTP	p. 612
Net::SNPP	p. 612
Net::SSLeay	p. 612
Net::TCP	p. 612
Net::Telnet	p. 612
Net::Time	p. 612
Net::UDP	p. 613
SNMP	p. 613
Socket	p. 613
Data Type Utilities	p. 613
Date::DateCalc	p. 613
Date::Format	p. 613
Date::Language	p. 613
Date::Manip	p. 613
Date::Parse	p. 613
Math::BigFloat, Math::BigInt	p. 614
Math::Complex	p. 614
Math::Fraction	p. 614
Math::Matrix	p. 614
Math::PRSG	p. 614
Math::Trig	p. 614
Math::TrulyRandom	p. 614
Ref	p. 614
Sort::Versions	p. 614
Statistics::Descriptive	p. 614
Time-Modules	p. 615
TimeDate Bundle	p. 615
Database-Related Modules	p. 615
AnyDBM_File	p. 615
DBD	p. 615
DBI	p. 615
DB_File	p. 615
Msql	p. 616
Oraperl	p. 616
Pg	p. 616
SDBM_File	p. 616
Sybperl	p. 616
User Interfaces	p. 616
Curses	p. 616
Qt	p. 616
Term::AnsiColor	p. 616
Term::Gnuplot	p. 616
Tk	p. 617
X11::FVWM	p. 617
X11::Protocol	p. 617
File System Modules	p. 617
Cwd	p. 617
File::Df	p. 617
File::Flock	p. 617
File::Copy	p. 617
File::Lock	p. 617
File::Lockf	p. 618
File::Recurse	p. 618
File::Tools	p. 618
String Processing Modules	p. 618
Option/Argument Processing	p. 618
Getopt::Long	p. 618
Getopt::Mixed	p. 618
Getopt::Std	p. 618
IniConf	p. 618
Internationalization and Localization	p. 619
I18N::Collate	p. 619
Locale::Codes	p. 619
Unicode	p. 619
Cryptography, Authentication, and Security	p. 619
Authen::Radius	p. 619
Crypt::Des	p. 619
Crypt::Idea	p. 619
MD5	p. 619
PGP	p. 619
HTML, HTTP, WWW, and CGI-Related Modules	p. 620
Apache	p. 620
CGI	p. 620
libwww	p. 620
Archiving and Compression	p. 620
Compress	p. 620
Convert::BinHex	p. 620
Convert::UU	p. 620
Image/Bitmap Manipulation	p. 621
GD	p. 621
Image::Size	p. 621
Image::Magick	p. 621
Mail and Usenet	p. 621
Mail::POP3Client	p. 621
News::Newsrc	p. 621
Flow Control Utilities	p. 621
AtExit	p. 621
Religion	p. 622
Filehandles and Input/Output	p. 622
DirHandle	p. 622
FileCache	p. 622
FileHandle	p. 622
IO	p. 622
Windows Modules	p. 622
libwin32	p. 622
Other Modules	p. 623
Archie	p. 623
Business::CreditCard	p. 623
CPAN	p. 623
Installing Perl on a UNIX System	p. 625
Do You Need to Install Perl?	p. 625
Obtaining Perl	p. 626
Getting Binaries	p. 626
Getting Source (and Related Tools)	p. 627
Extracting and Compiling Perl	p. 628
Running the Configure Program	p. 628
Run make	p. 632
For More Information	p. 633
Installing Perl for Windows	p. 635
Downloading Perl for Windows	p. 636
Installing Perl for Windows	p. 637
Running Perl for Windows	p. 638
Downloading the Perl Source Code	p. 639
Getting More Information	p. 639
Installing Perl for the Macintosh	p. 641
Downloading MacPerl	p. 642
Installing MacPerl	p. 643
Starting the MacPerl Application	p. 644
Running MacPerl from Inside MPW	p. 644
Getting More Information	p. 644
Index	p. 647
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