Product Description
Find a Perl programmer, and you'll find a copy of "Perl Cookbook" nearby. "Perl Cookbook" is a comprehensive collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples for anyone programming in Perl. The book contains hundreds of rigorously reviewed Perl "recipes" and thousands of examples ranging from brief one-liners to complete applications.

The second edition of "Perl Cookbook" has been fully updated for Perl 5.8, with extensive changes for Unicode support, I/O layers, mod_perl, and new technologies that have emerged since the previous edition of the book. Recipes have been updated to include the latest modules. New recipes have been added to every chapter of the book, and some chapters have almost doubled in size.

Covered topic areas include:

Manipulating strings, numbers, dates, arrays, and hashes

Pattern matching and text substitutions

References, data structures, objects, and classes

Signals and exceptions

Screen addressing, menus, and graphical applications

Managing other processes

Writing secure scripts

Client-server programming

Internet applications programming with mail, news, ftp, and telnet

CGI and mod_perl programming

Web programming

Since its first release in 1998, "Perl Cookbook" has earned its place in the libraries of serious Perl users of all levels of expertise by providing practical answers, code examples, and mini-tutorials addressing the challenges that programmers face. Now the second edition of this bestselling book is ready to earn its place among the ranks of favorite Perl books as well.

Whether you're a novice or veteran Perl programmer, you'll find "Perl Cookbook," 2nd Edition to be one of the most usefulbooks on Perl available. Its comfortable discussion style and accurate attention to detail cover just about any topic you'd want to know about. You can get by without having this book in your library, but once you've tried a few of the recipes, you won't want to.

Amazon.com Review
When the second edition of Programming Perl was released, the authors omitted two chapters: "Common Tasks with Perl" and "Real Perl Programs." Publisher O'Reilly & Associates soon realized that there would be too many pages in Programming Perl if it put updated recipes in the new edition. Instead, O'Reilly chose to release the many Perl code examples as a separate entity: The Perl Cookbook.

The recipes are well documented and the examples aren't too arcane; even beginners will be able to pick up the lessons taught here. The authors write in relatively easy-to-understand language (for a technical guide). Through this book and its arsenal of recipes, you will learn many new things about Perl to help you through your toughest projects. The next time you're working on a project at 2 a.m., you'll thank yourself for the guidance and direction The Perl Cookbook provides. --Doug Beaver

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 2 reviews)

many points of veiw

Much like breaking a huge mirror then taking a picture,... each of the
falling pieces shows a different angle and this book gives you lots of
programing ideas to work with using different ways to do it for
many of the Examples,... if your a program inventor , and if your stuck on how to do something you should get this book!! then you can spend less time searching the internet for answers and more time being productive.

This book will show you how to use perl in many ways that you may not have realized, or have had no idea how to do. this book also gives
Discussions on why the code works the way it does. and then shows another way to do it.

"The book can be used as a reference but I find my self reading it like a novel"
September 01, 2008

Extremely useful

I recommend this book for both Perl novices and experts alike. It works well both as a reference for a specific problem as well as reading to brush up on available Perl techniques.
April 23, 2008

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