Perl by Example (3rd Edition)

Perl by Example is the most well organized, "to-the-point" Perl tutorial and reference you can find. In this extensively-revised third edition, renowned Perl trainer Ellie Quigley adds extensive new coverage of Perl 5.6.0, CGI Web development, DBI, and much more -- including all-new exercises and examples for UNIX, Linux, Windows, and Macintosh environments! Quigley takes you from your first program to highly sophisticated Perl scripting. She shows how Perl can be a convenient substitute for utilities like grep, awk, sed, tr, shells and C, and how it can serve the specific needs of system administrators. She offers practical insight into every aspect of Perl development, from names and operators to regular expressions, file handles, libraries, references, reporting, object-oriented Perl -- even scripting for complex networking and interprocess communications tasks. This new edition adds extensive new coverage of Web CGI programming, including Lincoln Stein's CGI.pm module; database integration with Perl DBI; and the latest version of Perl. The accompanying CD-ROM includes all sample programs from the book.