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Perl Index - Perl Book :
Perl Cookbook
by Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington, Larry Wall Paperback: 794 pages Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates ISBN: 1565922433; (August 1998) When the second edition of Programming Perl was released, the authors omitted two chapters: "Common Tasks with Perl" and "Real Perl Programs." Publisher O'Reilly & Associates soon realized that there would be too many pages in Programming Perl if it put updated recipes in the new edition. Instead, O'Reilly chose to release the many Perl code examples as a separate entity: The Perl Cookbook. The recipes are well documented and the examples aren't too arcane; even beginners will be able to pick up the lessons taught here. The authors write in relatively easy-to-understand language (for a technical guide). Through this book and its arsenal of recipes, you will learn many new things about Perl to help you through your toughest projects. The next time you're working on a project at 2 a.m., you'll thank yourself for the guidance and direction The Perl Cookbook provides. --Doug Beaver Book Description: The Perl Cookbook is a comprehensive collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples for anyone programming in Perl. Topics range from beginner questions to techniques that even the most experienced of Perl programmers will learn from. More than just a collection of tips and tricks, the Perl Cookbook is the long-awaited companion volume to Programming Perl, filled with previously unpublished Perl arcana. The Perl Cookbook contains thousands upon thousands of examples ranging from brief one-liners to complete applications. Covered topic areas spread across nearly four hundred separate "recipes," including: • Manipulation of strings, numbers, dates, arrays, and hashes • Reading, writing, and updating text and binary files • Pattern matching and text substitutions • Subroutines, libraries, and modules • References, data structures, objects, and classes • Signals and exceptions • Accessing text, hashes, and SQL databases • Screen addressing, menus, and graphical applications • Managing other processes • Writing secure scripts • Client-server programming • Internet applications programming with mail, news, ftp, and telnet • CGI programming and Web automation These recipes were rigorously reviewed by scores of the best minds inside and outside Perl, foremost of which was Larry Wall, the creator of Perl himself. The Perl Cookbook is written by Tom Christiansen, Perl evangelist and coauthor of the bestselling Programming Perl and Learning Perl; and Nathan Torkington, Perl trainer and co-maintainer of the Perl Frequently Asked Questions list. Book Info: Comprehensive collection of problems, solutions, & practical examples for anyone programming in Perl. Topics range from beginner questions to techniques that even the most experienced Perl programmers can learn from. Card catalog description: The Perl Cookbook is a comprehensive collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples for anyone programming in Perl. Topics range from beginner questions to techniques that even the most experienced Perl programmers can learn from. More than just a collection of tips and tricks, the Perl Cookbook is the long-awaited companion volume to Programming Perl, filled with previously unpublished Perl arcana. Customer Reviews Reviewer: Vlatko Primorac from Naperville, IL Soon after I bought this book, it's been on my desk anytime I'm writing Perl code. It provides a fast way of getting straight to the code samples perfectly suitable for most tasks one might need to incorporate in Perl script. That much you could expect from a "cookbook". What makes this book brilliant is that it supports the idea of "learn as you go", the very reason many programmers turned to Perl. You don't need to know every feature of the language in order to produce powerful Perl programs. What you need in most cases is in-depth knowledge of the area you're focusing on. That's exactly where "Perl Cookbook" saves the day! Well organized set of solutions each followed with comprehensive analysis I enjoyed reading and greatly benefited from. Reviewer: A reader from Fairfax, VA I have had experience in the language for a few months now. The only reason I even started learning Perl was because I was intrigued with programming CGI. I bought "Programming Perl" and enjoyed it as a beginners reference but was left hanging as where to turn next. I picked up 2-3 other books, specifically for web programming with Perl, but they all did not get into topics besides basic form parsing, etc and the information was repeatative from book to book. I finally found this book and it has answered all my questions and cleared all my confusions with my CGI scripts. It has a lot of good examples/scripts with helpful subroutines. I use them in almost every CGI script I program now because of their ease of use and accuracy. There were a few minor mistakes in their code (perhaps a test to see if you can debug their scripts using your new knowledge Reviewer: Dave Hilton from Seattle, USA Having used Perl for about 3 years now, I was overly comfortable with the language and originally bought the book because many a colleagues had recommended this resource to even seasoned perl programmers .The approach of this book is far different from most of those lofty, heady books with their shopping carts and examples of basically useless coding ideas. Tom takes real life needs and cooks them up with short, useable snippets of code. Having read this book from front to back i have found the resource ideal as a daily reference for problem solving]." Another nice thing was that I started finding functions that I didn't even know existed and then started imagining uses for them to solve problems I hadn't thought of as problems! Great one. Keep these good books coming. Reviewer: foodaone from Burlington, MA United States More books like these should be written for all popular languages. This is by far the most used book for me when I started to learn and program using Win32 Perl. I've not run into any problems with programming in the Win32 environment with this book. The second most used book is "Perl in a Nutshell," also by O'Reilly. But if there's a problem I have, I reach for this book first. 700+ pages packed with solutions and explanations of those solutions to many common problems. Most of the time, you'll find something in there to get you started if it doesn't solve your problem outright. There are whole sections for solving problems with: - Strings - Numbers - Date and Times - Arrays - Hashes - Pattern Matching - File Access - File Contents - Directories - Subroutines - References and Records - Packages, Libraries and Modules - Classes, Objects and Ties - Database Access - User Interface - Process Management and Communication - Sockets - Internet Services - CGI Programming - Web Automation That's 20 sections in all! Get the book and stop suffering while looking for answers to your Perl problems. This book easily saved a month's worth of my time during a 4 month project. Plus, it saved me from writing inefficient code simply because I was new to the language and didn't know the tricks that can be used for such a wonderful language. |
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