Perl by Example (Prentice Hall PTR Open Source Technology Series) (Paperback)

Perl by Example is the most well organized, "to-the-point" Perl tutorial and reference you can find. In this extensively-revised third edition, renowned Perl trainer Ellie Quigley adds extensive new coverage of Perl 5.6.0, CGI Web development, DBI, and much more -- including all-new exercises and examples for UNIX, Linux, Windows, and Macintosh environments! Quigley takes you from your first program to highly sophisticated Perl scripting. She shows how Perl can be a convenient substitute for utilities like grep, awk, sed, tr, shells and C, and how it can serve the specific needs of system administrators. She offers practical insight into every aspect of Perl development, from names and operators to regular expressions, file handles, libraries, references, reporting, object-oriented Perl -- even scripting for complex networking and interprocess communications tasks. This new edition adds extensive new coverage of Web CGI programming, including Lincoln Stein's CGI.pm module; database integration with Perl DBI; and the latest version of Perl. The accompanying CD-ROM includes all sample programs from the book.

The grand-daddy of all Perl guides-now updated for Perl on all key platforms.

• All new edition of the classic hands-on guide to Perl
• Extensive new coverage of CGI for Web development
• Now with full cross-platform coverage, including Linux, UNIX, Windows NT, and Macintosh
• Packed with examples, all on the enclosed CD-ROM, along with up-to-date Perl software for Windows users
• Best-selling author Ellie Quigley is Silicon Valley's leading Perl instructor!

The Perl tutorial and reference that started it all is now available in a thoroughly revised edition that covers all flavors of Perl and all system and Web applications. Best-selling author Ellie Quigley combines her deep background and UNIX chops with up-to-the-minute experience teaching Perl and shell programming on all platforms. This translates into hands-on examples that all users can put straight to work whether scripting Web applications or managing networks.

Filled with practical information on Perl development, Perl by Example, Third Edition covers names and operators, regular expressions, file handles, libraries, references, reporting, and more.

Highlights include:

• Support for Perl on Unix, Linux, Windows, and Macintosh
• CGI Web development with CGI.pm
• Database integration with Perl DBI

The user-friendly style offers one-to-one comparisons with other popular languages and utilities and a massive reference section for easy look-up. The hands-on tutorials are great for beginners, but also offer handy refreshers for experienced programmers looking to update their skills.

The CD-ROM includes all source code from the book, plus new Perl distributions for Windows.

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