OReilly Mastering Perl Jul 2007 eBook BBL

Mastering Perl (c) by O'Reilly Media, Inc.

The type of the release is: eBook

In the PDF format with ISBN: 0596527241 and Pub Date: July 16, 2007

The size of the release is: 03 disks x 2.88mb

And released on: 09/30/2007

This is the third in O'Reilly's series of landmark Perl tutorials, which

started with Learning Perl, the bestselling introduction that taught you

the basics of Perl syntax, and Intermediate Perl, which taught you how

to create re-usable Perl software. Mastering Perl pulls everything

together to show you how to bend Perl to your will. It convey's Perl's

special models and programming idioms. This book isn't a collection of

clever tricks, but a way of thinking about Perl programming so you can

integrate the real-life problems of debugging, maintenance,

configuration, and other tasks you encounter as a working programmer.

The book explains how to:

- Use advanced regular expressions, including global matches,

lookarounds, readable regexes, and regex debugging

- Avoid common programing problems with secure programming techniques

- Profile and benchmark Perl to find out where to focus your

improvements

- Wrangle Perl code to make it more presentable and readable

- See how Perl keeps track of package variables and how you can use

that for some powerful tricks

- Define subroutines on the fly and turn the tables on normal

procedural programming.

- Modify and jury rig modules to fix code without editing the original

source

- Let your users configure your programs without touching the code

- Learn how you can detect errors Perl doesn't report, and how to tell

users about them

- Let your Perl program talk back to you by using Log4perl

- Store data for later use in another program, a later run of the same

program, or to send them over a network

- Write programs as modules to get the benefit of Perl's distribution

and testing tools Appendices include "brian's Guide to Solving Any Perl

Problem" to improve your troubleshooting skills, as well as suggested

reading to continue your Perl education. Mastering Perl starts you on

your path to becoming the person with the answers, and, failing that,

the person who knows how to find the answers or discover the problem.

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