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Designed for working programmers, this is a reference guide to the world of Perl. It covers all the core features of the language, from command-line options and built-in functions, to general syntax, special variables, and regular expressions.
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- Title
- Perl in a Nutshell
- Author
- Ellen Siever
- Publisher
- O'Reilly Media
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1565922867
- ISBN 13
- 9781565922860
- Series
- Book 6 of 32: In a Nutshell (O'Reilly)
- A basic language reference
- An introduction to using Perl modules
- Perl and CGI: CGI basics, CGI.pm, mod_perl
- DBI, the database-independent API for Perl
- Sockets programming in Perl
- LWP, the library for World Wide Web programming in Perl
- The Net::* modules
- pTk, the Tk extension to Perl
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About the Author
Ellen Siever is a writer and editor specializing in Linux and other open source topics. In addition to Linux in a Nutshell, she co-authored Perl in a Nutshell. She is a long-time Linux and Unix user, and was a programmer for many years until she decided that writing about computers was more fun.
Stephen Spainhour co-authored Webmaster in a Nutshell, Perl in a Nutshell, 1st Edition, and contributed to many other OReilly titles. He is an avid fan of professional tennis, and when hes not checking for tennis scores on the Web, he enjoys cooking, electronic music, troubleshooting his home-built PC, and watching too much television.
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