Learning Perl

US: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated, 2011. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Learning Perl by Randal L. Schwartz, brian d foy, Tom Phoenix If you're just getting started with Perl, this is the book you want-whether you're a programmer, system administrator, or web hacker. Nicknamed "the L lama" by two generations of users, this bestseller closely follows the popu lar introductory Perl course taught by the authors since 1991. This 6th edi tion covers recent changes to the language up to version 5.14. Perl is suitable for almost any task on almost any platform, from short fix es to complete web applications. Learning Perl teaches you the basics and s hows you how to write programs up to 128 lines long-roughly the size of 90% of the Perl programs in use today. Each chapter includes exercises to help you practice what you've just learned. Other books may teach you to progra m in Perl, but this book will turn you into a Perl programmer. Topics include: Perl data and variable types Subroutines File operations Regular expressions String manipulation (including Unicode) Lists and sorting Process management Smart matching Use of third party modules Editorial Reviews The Barnes & Noble Review Want to learn Perl? Any Perlmonger will tell you where to start -- with "th e Llama book," Learning Perl. Now's the time: It's just been thoroughly upd ated for Perl 5.8 and reorganized to be even more effective at teaching Per l novices. No introductory guide can cover all of Perl, but Learning Perl cover all you need to get seriously productive: scalar data, lists,