Perl Cookbook

by Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington

The Perl Cookbook is a comprehensive collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples for anyone programming in Perl. Topics range from beginner questions to techniques that even the most experienced of Perl programmers will learn from. More than just a collection of tips and tricks, the Perl Cookbook is the long-awaited companion volume to Programming Perl, filled with previously unpublished Perl arcana.The Perl Cookbook contains thousands upon thousands of examples ranging from brief one-liners to complete applications. Covered topic areas spread across nearly four hundred separate "recipes," These recipes were rigorously reviewed by scores of the best minds inside and outside Perl, foremost of which was Larry Wall, the creator of Perl himself.The Perl Cookbook is written by Tom Christiansen, Perl evangelist and coauthor of the bestselling Programming Perl and Learning Perl ; and Nathan Torkington, Perl trainer and co-maintainer of the Perl Frequently Asked Questions list.

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

757 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.