Introduces the programming language to beginners and provides a Perl language reference for experienced users, covering operators, statements, formats, modules, objects, threads, tied variables, debugging, and security.
Rev. edition of: Programming Perl / Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen and Jon Orwant. 2000. 3rd edition Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
An overview of Perl Bits and pieces Unary and binary operators Statements and declarations Pattern matching Unicode Subroutines References Data structures Packages Modules Objects Overloading Tied variables Interprocess communication Compiling The command-line interface The Perl debugger CPAN Security Common practices Portable Perl Plain old documentation Perl culture Special names Formats Functions The standard Perl library Pragmatic modules
