Perl: The Complete Reference - Softcover

Brown, Martin C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072129506 ISBN 13: 9780072129502

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2001

Synopsis

Updated to incorporate Perl 5.6, this guide utilizes hundreds of real-world examples and advanced techniques that a successful applications developer needs, detailed explanations of programming and the Data Definition Language elements, and advice on database design, web site applications, modeling details, and cross-platform solutions. Original. (Intermediate)

About this title

About the Author

Martin C. Brown is the author of Perl: The Complete Reference and Perl Annotated Archives. He has more than 15 years of multi-platform programming experience in Perl, Shellscript, Basic, Pascal, C/C++, Java, JavaScript, VBScript, and Awk.

From the Back Cover

The Most Comprehensive Perl Resource Available!

Learn all you need to know about Perl from this definitive, hands-on reference. Perl expert Martin Brown will walk you through everything--from the basics of writing your first script and understanding Perl’s syntax to the complexities of processing data, communicating with external databases, and communicating over the Web. Along the way, you’ll learn how to network, design user interfaces, and write scripts that work under UNIX, Windows, and MacOS. Also covers how to interface to an external C library and embed the Perl interpreter into your C programs. For building, developing, and fine-tuning robust Perl applications, you’ll want this thorough guide!

• Master Perl basics--understand the building blocks of expressions, statements and declarations
• Learn to create your code with subroutines, packages and modules
• Communicate with external files, databases and other machines over your network
• Convert your subroutines and modules into methods and objects
• Organize your data with Perl's complex structures and interfaces
• Create cross-platform compatible user interface solutions
• Work with XML, HTML, and generate Web scripts to solve your problems
• Maximize your scripts performance and debug your code before it's released

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0072129506
• ISBN 13: 9780072129502
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1207