Perl Cookbook: Solutions & Examples For Perl Programmers

by Tom; Torkington Christiansen, Nathan Torkington

This second edition of Perl Cookbook has been expanded to cover not only new features in Perl itself, but also new technologies that have emerged since the first edition. Two new chapters have been added and many existing chapters have been expanded. In all, 80 new recipes have been added, and more than 100 older recipes have been updated to include new modules or techniques. As with the first edition of Perl Cookbook , this book covers data manipulation, file I/O, regular expressions, modules, references, objects, data structures, signal processing, database processing, graphical applications, interprocess communication, security, Internet programming, CGI, and LWP. In addition, this edition also includes: Coverage of Unicode character handling in Perl, particularly with respect to string manipulation, regular expression handling, and file I/O A chapter devoted to programming in mod_perl, an Apache module that embeds Perl into the Apache web server, vastly improving the speed of tasks that might otherwise be performed using CGI New and updated recipes to cover modules that are now included with the Perl core distribution A new chapter on processing XML, the worldwide standard used for representing and exchanging documents and information, independent of its final form.

Genres: Programming, Reference, Computer Science, Computers, Technology, Nonfiction, Technical

976 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1998

Reviews

[James Swenson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is invaluable: 900 pages of wheels that I don't have to reinvent, with tons of code samples that actually work. Perfect, especially, for the self-taught programmer who needs to get a lot of text reformatted fast.

One nice feature is that the authors often point the reader to pre-existing modules: otherwise, how would I know to look for them?

[Doug Wolf · Rating 5 out of 5]

I greatly enjoyed the examples in this book. They gave me food for thought for a lot of subsequent projects.

[Uli Kunkel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really enjoyed, reading was surprisingly easy. Explained well all rules and principles. I always thought of our production code while reading it.

[Mark A.]

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[Ed · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wish every language I have ever used had a Cookbook like this one. If you know and love PERL, then you will love this book. It has clear examples of almost anything you could ever want to do with PERL. I didn't read it in order, but over the years I'm sure I read 90% of this cookbook. I got this as a Christmas Gift December 1998 while I was working at my first Internet startup company, e-Markets.

[Dave Peticolas · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you only use Perl occasionaly, this is a fantastic book. It is organized using "recipes" for accomplishing common tasks, so when you get stuck, you can look up the operation you are trying to implement.

[RJ]

Perl Cookbook, Second Edition by Tom Christiansen (2003)

[Caleb Clark · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a must have for any perl coder. Not the best for introductory learning, but essential once the basics are out of the way.

[Jerry W Stachowski · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great way to get more familiar with Perl. Not as good as taking a class from Tom, but I've been known to browse this book and write test programs

[Detlef · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another one from my old library in the 1990s I want to replace today.

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

While I don't recommend doing anything in Perl, this was a great book back in the day.