In this update of the original bestseller, two leading Perl Trainers teach you to use the most universal scripting language in the age of the World Wide Web. With a forewword by Larry wall, the creator of perl, this carefully paced book is the "official" guide for both classroom and workplace. It is now current for Perl Version 5.004.

Learning Perl is a hands-on tutorial designed to get you writing useful Perl scripts as quickly as possible Exercises (with complete solutions) accompany each chapter. A lengthy new chapter in this edition introduces you to CGI programming, touching on the use of library modules, references, and Perl's object-oriented constructs.

Perl is a language for easily manipulating text, files, and processes. It comes standard on most UNIX platforms and is available free of charge on all other important operating systems.

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Scalar Data
Chapter 3: Arrays and List Data
Chapter 4: Control Structures
Chapter 5: Hashes
Chapter 6: Basic I/O
Chapter 7: Regular Expressions
Chapter 8: Functions
Chapter 9: Miscellaneous Control Structures
Chapter 10: Filehandles and File Tests
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