If you're just getting started with Perl, this is the book you want—whether you're a programmer, system administrator, or web hacker. Nicknamed "the Llama" by two generations of users, this best seller closely follows the popular introductory Perl course taught by the authors since 1991. This eighth edition covers recent changes to the language up to version 5.34. Perl is suitable for almost any task on almost any platform, from short fixes to complete web applications. Learning Perl teaches you the basics and shows you how to write simple, single-file programs—roughly 90% of the Perl programs in use today. And each chapter includes exercises to help you practice what you've just learned. Other books may teach you to program in Perl, but this book will turn you into a Perl programmer. Topics include: Perl data and variable types Subroutines File operations Regular expressions String manipulation (including Unicode) Lists and sorting Process management Use of third-party modules

This book picks up right where "Learning Perl" leaves off. With "Intermediate Perl," you'll graduate from short scripts to much larger programs, using features that make Perl a general-purpose language. This gentle but thorough guide introduces you to modules, complex data structures, and object-oriented programming.

Each chapter is small enough to be read in just an hour or two, ending with exercises to help you practice what you've learned. If you're familiar with the material in "Learning Perl" and have the ambition to go further, Intermediate Perl will teach you most of the core Perl language concepts you need for writing robust programs on any platform.

Topics include: Packages and namespaces References and scoping, including regular expression references Manipulating complex data structures Object-oriented programming Writing and using modules Testing Perl code Contributing to CPAN

Just like "Learning Perl," material in this book closely follows the popular introductory Perl course the authors have taught since 1991. This second edition covers recent changes to the language up to version 5.14.

Perl ist eine Skriptsprache zur einfachen Bearbeitung von Texten, Dateien und Prozessen. Ursprunglich ein beliebtes Werkzeug von Unix-Systemadministratoren fur die zahllosen alltaglichen Aufgaben hat sich Perl zu einer ausgewachsenen Programmiersprache fur nahezu jede Rechnerplattform entwickelt und wird fur Web- und Datenbank-Programmierung, XML-Verarbeitung, Systemadministration und vieles mehr eingesetzt. Das Schweizer Messer der Programmiersprachen Gleichzeitig ist Perl immer noch das Schweizer Messer fur die kleinen alltaglichen Aufgaben. Perl ist schnell, macht Spa und erweist sich als auerordentlich nutzlich. Viele haben Perl gelernt, weil sie mussten, und benutzen es weiter, weil sie es lieben. Fur Einsteiger Einfuhrung in Perl ist ein sorgfaltig abgestimmter Kurs fur Einsteiger von drei der erfahrensten Perl-Dozenten. Mit vielen Programmierbeispielen sowie Ubungen und ausgearbeiteten Losungen zu jedem Thema zeigen die Autoren Schritt fur Schritt, wie man mit Perl, Version 5.14, programmiert. Ideal fur Systemadministoren und Programmierer Einfuhrung in Perl ist das ideale Buch fur Systemadministratoren und Programmierer, die schon nach kurzer Zeit einsetzbare Perl-Skripten schreiben wollen.

In this carefully paced course, leading Perl trainers and a Windows NT practitioner teach you to program in the language that promises to emerge as the scripting language of choice on NT. Based on the "llama" book, this book features tips for PC users and new NT-specific examples, along with a foreword by Larry Wall, the creator of Perl, and Dick Hardt, the creator of Perl for Win32.