Perl in a Nutshell. A Desktop Quick Reference.

Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour and Nathan Patwardhan.

ISBN 10: 1565922867 / ISBN 13: 9781565922860

Published by O'Reilly & Associates, U.S.A, 1999

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Trade Paperback. This book is a comprehensive reference guide to the Perl programming language. This book covers all the core features of the language. It ranges widely through the Perl programmer's information about Perl itself and its application to CGI scripts, network programming, database interaction, and graphical user interfaces. It also gives detailed coverage about using Perl within a Win32 environment. 654 pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Perl in a Nutshell. A Desktop Quick Reference.
• Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates, U.S.A
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1565922867
• ISBN 13: 9781565922860
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Academic Education Learning Business

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Synopsis

Perl in a Nutshell is a comprehensive reference guide to the Perl programming language. This book covers all the core features of the language. It ranges widely through the Perl programmer's universe, gathering together in convenient form a wealth of information about Perl itself and its application to CGI scripts, network programming, database interaction, and graphical user interfaces. It also gives detailed coverage about using Perl within a Win32 environment.This book assembles more information about the language in one place than any other reference work. Here are just some of the topics covered in the book:

• Basic language reference
• 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

As part of the successful "in a Nutshell" series of books from O'Reilly & Associates, Perl in a Nutshell is for readers who want a single reference for all their needs.

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.