Effective Perl Programming, 2nd Edition
Venue
Addison-Wesley Professional (2010), pp. 445
Publication Year
2010
Authors
Joshua McAdams, brian d foy, Joseph Hall
BibTeX
Abstract
The Classic Guide to Solving Real-World Problems with Perl - Now Fully Updated for
Today;s Best Idioms! For years, experienced programmers have relied on Effective
Perl Programming to discover better ways to solve problems with Perl. Now, in this
long-awaited second edition, three renowned Perl programmers bring together today's
best idioms, techniques, and examples: everything you need to write more powerful,
fluent, expressive, and succinct code with Perl. Nearly twice the size of the first
edition, Effective Perl Programming, Second Edition, offers everything from rules
of thumb to avoid common pitfalls to the latest wisdom for using Perl modules. You
won't just learn the right ways to use Perl: You'll learn why these approaches work
so well. New coverage in this edition includes - Reorganized and expanded material
spanning twelve years of Perl evolution - Eight new chapters on CPAN, databases,
distributions, files and filehandles, production Perl, testing, Unicode, and
warnings - Updates for Perl 5.12, the latest version of Perl Systematically updated
examples reflecting today's best idioms You'll learn how to work with strings,
numbers, lists, arrays, strictures, namespaces, regular expressions, subroutines,
references, distributions, inline code, warnings, Perl::Tidy, data munging, Perl
one-liners, and a whole lot more. Every technique is organized in the same Items
format that helped make the first edition so convenient and popular.
