Perl for Dummies

Name: Perl for Dummies
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ISBN: 9780764507762

ISBN-10: 0764507761

ISBN-13: 9780764507762

Edition: 3rd 2001

Authors: Paul E. Hoffman

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This title is designed for the new user of Perl. It provides the reader with all the tools and instructions they need to begin programming in Perl and includes tips to integrate XML with existing Web data.

Book details

List price: $24.99
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/15/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Paul E. Hoffman is Professor of History at Louisiana State University and author of several books including the prize-winning A New Andalucia and a Way to the Orient: The American Southeast during the Sixteenth Century. He is honored by LSU with appointment as the Paul W. and Nancy W. Murrill Distinguished Professor.



Introduction



Getting Started with Perl



Perl's Place in the Programming World



Running Perl on Your Computer



Diving into the Guts of Perl



A Perl Program Tour, Times Two



The Basic Perl Programming Ingredients



Terrific Text



Nifty Numbers



Learning to Love Lists



Creating Cool Conditionals and Lovely Loops



Doing Advanced Stuff with Operators and Functions



The Nuts and Bolts of Pert



Perl and CGI: Web Server Programs Demystified



The Files Go In, The Files Go Out



Beyond File and Directory Basics



Stringing Along: Pattern Matching and Regular Expressions



Looking Like a Pro: Subroutines, Imported Code, and Graceful Exits



Advanced Pert Demystified



Perl Gets Cozy with the Web, E-Mail, and XML



Associative Arrays and Multidimensional Lists



Dancing with Databases



Controlling Your Computer from Perl



Object-Oriented Perl



The Part of Tens



Ten Guidelines for Programming with Style



Ten Really Short, Really Useful Perl Programs



Ten Advanced Perl Topics



Ten Great Perl Web Sites



Ten Cool Features Introduced with Perl 5



Ten Reasons Why Perl Is Better Than Java



Appendixes



The Great Perl Reference



About the CD


Index


Hungry Minds End-User License Agreement


Installation Instructions


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