5200Beginning Perl (Paperback)http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1861003145/Perl is an immensely popular scripting language that combines the best features of C, key UNIX utilities and a powerful use of regular expressions. It has a wide range of uses beyond simple text processing and is commonly used for web programming - creating and parsing CGI forms, validating HTML syntax and hyperlinks - as well as e-mail and Usenet news filtering. Perl is increasingly the system administrator's scripting language of choice and is used for file and directory manipulation, database access and a whole range of daily system operator chores.CGI and Perl > BooksOct 10, 2006Wrox Press
Checking links, batch editing HTML files, tracking users, and writing CGI scripts--these are the often tedious daily tasks that can be done much more easily with Perl, the scripting language that runs on almost all computing platforms. If you're more interested in streamlining your web activities than in learning a new programming language, Perl for Web Site Management is for you: it's not so much about learning Perl as it is about using Perl to do common web chores more efficiently. The secret is that, although becoming a Perl expert may be hard, most Perl scripts are relatively simple. Using Perl and other open source tools, you'll learn how to:
It's quickly apparent that Lincoln Stein and Doug MacEachern spent valuable time writing this book considering the breadth of their subject and the depth they devote to it. The only downside to the book is that it's kind of hard to explain all of the API functionality without assuming a minimum level of competence from the audience. For that reason, this book might be a bit intimidating to novice programmers, but it really rewards you if you put time into it and tinker with things.
In this update of a bestseller, two leading Perl trainers teach you to use the most universal scripting language in the age of the World Wide Web. With a foreword by Larry Wall, the creator of Perl, this smooth, carefully paced book is the "official" guide for both formal (classroom) and informal learning. It is now current for Perl version 5.004.
Provides fully working examples of problems and applications most people write in Perl--all examples used in this book come from the Web and the author's own vast code library. No other book has thousands of lines of annotated code--serves as a memory jogger, a source for new ideas, a solutions gold mine, as well as a stepping stone to learning the semantics and specifics of the language. Cut-and-paste code on CD--contains all the code and applications from the book in a simple chapter-by-chapter directory structure. Descriptions of HOW the programmer tackled problems in line-by-line detail is provided with each solution. Variety of programs provided--Many listed will work on both Windows and Unix machines without any modifications, and some will contain specific lines of code for running on Unix machines that are not necessary for the Windows platform.
Programming Perl, 2nd Edition is the authoritative guide to Perl version 5, the scripting utility that has established itself as the programming tool of choice for the World Wide Web, UNIX system administration, and a vast range of other applications. Version 5 of Perl includes object-oriented programming facilities. The book is coauthored by Larry Wall, the creator of Perl.
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