Learning PerlLearning Perl, popularly known as "the Llama," is the book most programmers rely on to get started with Perl. The bestselling Perl tutorial since it was first published in 1993, this new fifth edition covers recent changes to the language up to Perl 5.10.
Perl is the language for people who want to get work done. Originally targeted to sysadmins for heavy-duty text processing, Perl is now a full-featured programming language suitable for almost any task on almost any platform-from short fixes on the command line to web applications, bioinformatics, finance, and much more. Other books may teach you to program in Perl, but this book will turn you into a Perl programmer. |
Contents
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Chapter 3 Lists and Arrays | 39 |
Chapter 4 Subroutines | 55 |
Chapter 5 Input and Output | 71 |
Chapter 6 Hashes | 93 |
Chapter 7 In the World of Regular Expressions | 107 |
Chapter 8 Matching with Regular Expressions | 117 |
Chapter 12 File Tests | 179 |
Chapter 13 Directory Operations | 191 |
Chapter 14 Strings and Sorting | 209 |
Chapter 15 Smart Matching and givenwhen | 221 |
Chapter 16 Process Management | 233 |
Chapter 17 Some Advanced Perl Techniques | 249 |
Appendix A Exercise Answers | 261 |
Appendix B Beyond the Llama | 295 |