Mastering Perl. Creating Professional programs with Perl
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Author(s): B. D. Foy
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 0596527241
Format: softback
322pp
Price: $39.99
Review Date: 02 October 2007
Review: This is the third book, following Learning Perl and Intermediate Perl. Having learned the basic syntax and how to create reusable software, this book pulls everything together to help you on the road to becoming a master. There are chapters on: Advanced regular expressions; Secure programming techniques; Debugging Perl; Profiling Perl; Benchmarking Perl; Cleaning up Perl; Symbol tables and typeglobs; Dynamic subroutines; Modifying and jury-rigging modules; Configuring Perl programs; detecting and reporting errors; Logging; data persistence; Working with Pod; Working with bits; The Magic of tied variables; and Modules as programs.