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| What Is Perl? | |
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| Why program in Perl? | |
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| Why did I write this book? | |
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| Who should read this book? | |
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| Overview of the Book | |
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| A Tutorial Introduction to Perl | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Perl Variables | |
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| Control Flow Constructs | |
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| Altering Loop Control Flow | |
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| A Few Special Perl Variables | |
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| Regular Expressions | |
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| Writing Your Own Functions | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Input and Output in Perl | |
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| Filehandles | |
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| Creating Your Own Filehandles | |
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| File Operators | |
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| The stat Function | |
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| Other Filehandles | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Operators in Perl | |
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| Perl Operators | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Arrays and Array Functions | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The @ARGV Array | |
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| Array Functions | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Hashes | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Sorting Hashes | |
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| Hash Solutions to Common Problems | |
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| Built-in Associative Arrays | |
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| Reading from a File into a Hash | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Regular Expressions | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Match Operator | |
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| Regular Expression Metacharacters | |
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| Anchoring Patterns | |
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| Remembering Parts of Matches | |
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| Greedy Regular Expressions | |
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| Substitutions | |
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| Backtracking | |
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| The tr Operator | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Subprograms | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Passing Arguments to Subroutines | |
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| Returning Values from Subroutines | |
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| Perl Libraries | |
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| The Perl Standard Library | |
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| Packages | |
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| Predefined Subroutines | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Generating Reports in Perl | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Format | |
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| Top-of-page formatting | |
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| The select Function | |
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| Bottom-of-Page Formatting | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Accessing System Resources | |
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| Introduction | |
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| File and Directory System Calls | |
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| Process Creation | |
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| Updating Files | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Perl References | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Anonymous References | |
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| Complex Data Structures | |
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| Collections of Records | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Object-Oriented Programming | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Vocabulary of Object Orientation | |
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| Defining and Using Objects | |
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| Inheritance | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Client/Server Applications | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Writing Clients | |
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| Writing Servers | |
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| Iterative Servers | |
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| Exercises | |
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| CGI Programming with Perl | |
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| Introduction | |
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| HTML and Forms | |
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| Relationship between Server and CGI Script. cgi-lib.pl and cgi.pm | |
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| CGI Scripts and Databases | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Graphical User Interfaces with the Tk.pm Module | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Geometry Management | |
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| Buttons | |
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| Other Widgets | |
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| Frames | |
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| Binding | |
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| Exercise | |
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| Accessing Real Databases in Perl | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A Review of SQL and Relational Databases | |
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| Accessing a Database from Perl | |
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| Adding a Graphical Front-End | |
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| Accessing a Real Database via a Web Form | |
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