Perl Cookbook

by Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington

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 useful books 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.

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

964 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1998

Reviews

[James Swenson]

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]

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

[Uli Kunkel]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[David]

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