Advanced Perl Programming [Paperback]

Preface; Audience; Contents; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; We'd Like to Hear from You; Safari® Enabled; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Advanced Techniques; 1.1 Introspection; 1.2 Messing with the Class Model; 1.3 Unexpected Code; 1.4 Conclusion; Chapter 2: Parsing Techniques; 2.1 Parse::RecDescent Grammars; 2.2 Parse::Yapp; 2.3 Other Parsing Techniques; 2.4 Conclusion; Chapter 3: Templating Tools; 3.1 Formats and Text::Autoformat; 3.2 Text::Template; 3.3 HTML::Template; 3.4 HTML::Mason; 3.5 Template Toolkit; 3.6 AxKit; 3.7 Conclusion; Chapter 4: Objects, Databases, and Applications; 4.1 Beyond Flat Files; 4.2 Object Serialization; 4.3 Object Databases; 4.4 Database Abstraction; 4.5 Practical Uses in Web Applications; 4.6 Conclusion; Chapter 5: Natural Language Tools; 5.1 Perl and Natural Languages; 5.2 Handling English Text; 5.3 Modules for Parsing English; 5.4 Categorization and Extraction; 5.5 Conclusion; Chapter 6: Perl and Unicode; 6.1 Terminology; 6.2 What Is Unicode?; 6.3 Unicode Transformation Formats; 6.4 Handling UTF-8 Data; 6.5 Encode; 6.6 Unicode for XS Authors; 6.7 Conclusion; Chapter 7: POE; 7.1 Programming in an Event-Driven Environment; 7.2 Top-Level Pieces: Components; 7.3 Conclusion; Chapter 8: Testing; 8.1 Test::Simple; 8.2 Test::More; 8.3 Test::Harness; 8.4 Test::Builder; 8.5 Test::Builder::Tester; 8.6 Keeping Tests and Code Together; 8.7 Unit Tests; 8.8 Conclusion; Chapter 9: Inline Extensions; 9.1 Simple Inline::C; 9.2 More Complex Tasks with Inline::C; 9.3 Inline:: Everything Else; 9.4 Conclusion; Chapter 10: Fun with Perl; 10.1 Obfuscation; 10.2 Just Another Perl Hacker; 10.3 Perl Golf; 10.4 Perl Poetry; 10.5 Acme::*; 10.6 Conclusion; Colophon;