Professional Perl Programming

What does this book cover?

• In-depth coverage of Perl 5.6
• Regular expression matching, text processing, and interactive text applications
• Working with filehandles, filenames, and directories
• Debugging and profiling
• Using, manipulating, and creating modules and packages
• Object oriented programming
• Processes, interprocess communication, and threads
• Network client and server programming
• Unicode, locale, and internationalization
• Portable Perl, Perl internals, and integrating Perl and C

Book overview

Perl is one of the most important scripting languages in use today. Open source, freely available, portable, versatile, and robust, powerful and easy to use, Perl is the first choice for thousands of professional web developers. But Perl is far more than a scripting language for the web. Supported by a comprehensive standard library and hundreds of third-party libraries, Perl is an increasingly popular choice for application programming.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the Perl language. It covers the fundamentals of data types and file handling through advanced features like regular expressions, object- oriented programming, threads, internationalization, and integrating Perl with the C programming language. The latest version of the language, Perl 5.6, is used throughout, with commentary for those with earlier versions.

Who is this book for?

Both aspiring and experienced Perl programmers will benefit from the expertise in this book, whether they are looking to develop serious applications, improve their productivity, or simply learn a more powerful and portable replacement for shell scripts. Whatever the task at hand, this book is an invaluable, detailed resource of the Perl language.

PART ONE

• Subroutines
  
• Anonymous Subroutines and Subroutine References
  
• Strict Subroutines and the 'use strict subs' Pragma
  
• Overriding Built-in Functions
  
• The Subroutine Stack
  
• Recursion
  

PART TWO

• Checking for Subroutines and Defining Subroutines On the Fly
  
• Passing Parameters
  
• Passing Lists and Hashes
  
• Converting Scalar Subroutines into List Processors
  
• Named Parameters
  
• Named Parameters: Additional Information
  

PART THREE

• Prototypes
  
• Parameters (Continued)
  
• Prototyping Code References
  
• Requiring Variables Rather than Values
  
• Optional Parameters
  

PART FOUR

• Returning Values from Subroutines
  
• Returning the Undefined Value
  
• Determining and Responding to the Calling Context
  
• Handling Context: An Example
  
• Closures
  
• Assignable Subroutines
  
• Attribute Lists
  
• Special Attributes
  

	Title: Professional Perl Programming
	ISBN: 1861004494
	US Price: $ 59.99 Canadian Price: C$ 89.95 UK Price: £ 45.99
	Publication Date: February 2001
	Pages: 1214
	Wrox Press Limited, US and UK.