Amazon.co.uk Review
Core Perl is an incredibly powerful programming language which has proved a major hit with the Unix and Windows programming community.
Add a whole heap of plug-in modules and it raises the language to a whole new level of usability and usefulness.
In this excellent volume Dave Roth (who, coincidentally, is a prolific Win32 Perl module writer) thoroughly documents and explains the standard extensions, gathering for the first time all of the information vital to squeezing the best from these freeware add-ins.
From ODBC to user authentication over networks and even playing .WAV files there's something here to excite the interest of anyone using Perl on a Windows-based platform, even to the extent that Roth explains the intricacies of using the Win32::API module to access DLLs directly--powerful stuff indeed.
Backed up by dozens of useful code snippets and examples this is such a useful book no self- respecting Win/Perl hacker should be without it.
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Designed to provide in-depth documentation on Windows-specific funtionality in Perl. This book is the ideal resource for system administrators, and programmers who want to employ the Perl language in their Windows NT or Windows 95 network. Intended for intermediate advanced level users, this authoritative guide includes: critical information on program automation covering OLE and COM object management; thorough coverage of communication-oriented procedures; detailed guidelines for data access with ODBC including routing operations, advanced features, and troubleshooting fixes; hard to find information on extension and function syntax, Win32:ODBC function constants, and Win32network error descriptions; and numerous proven scripts ready for use.
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