The essential guide to Perl programming.

This fully updated edition of the best-selling Perl Core Language Utf/e Black Book is one of the most practical and concise guides available for Perl programmers. It includes hundreds of highly .useful solutions on programming with Perl, using object-oriented features, and integrating Perl with XML. This new edition provides insightful tips and techniques to programming with Perl. Immediate solutions are provided with field tested examples to help programmers and VXeb Developers quickly solve problems and exploit the power and flexibility of Perl. The updated edition covers the current version of Perl (5.8) as well as highlighting critical features of the upcoming 6.0 version. Some of the highlights of the new edition include how to create programs and scripts that integrate both Perl and XML, how to use Perl's newest object-oriented features, how to use Perl's newer built-in functions, working with Perl's latest data types, using security features, and mastering the new database modules.

This book will help you:

• Use the full spectrum of Perl from the core language to Web scripting techniques
• Use Perl's newest security programming features
• Use new Unicode semantics, IO, and implementation features
• Program with built-in functions for data processing, I/O, and inter-process communication and file handling
• Learn to use the latest information on new XML support in Perl, handling XML with both DOM and SAX parsing
• Solve all of your tricky Perl programming problems

The Little Black Book Series

Little Black Books provide brief discussions of critical problems and then immediate solutions that can be implemented right away. They are designed to be problem-solving guides and complete references that help you perform specific tasks, especially critical ones that are not well-documented in other books.

What Is in this Book for You?

• Write professional, real-world applications
• Integrate Perl with XML
• Learn Web programming using Perl
• Quick solutions to help you save valuable programming time

This Book Is Written for:

• Perl programmers
• Web programmers
• XML programmers

• Perl Syntax
  • Essential Perl
  • Scalar Variables And Lists
  • Arrays And Hashes
  • Operators And Precedence
  • Conditionals And Loops
  • Regular Expressions
  • Subroutines
• Built-In Resources
  • Perl References
  • Built-In Variables
  • Built-In Functions : Data Processing
  • Built-In Functions : I/O And Interprocess Communication
  • Built-In Functions : File Handling
• Perl Programming
  • Built-In Modules
  • Data Structures
  • Creating Packages And Modules
  • Creating Classes And Objects
  • Perl Debugging And Style Guide
• CGI Programming
  • CGI Programming
  • Perl And XML
  • CGI : Web Counters, Guest Books, Emailers, And Secure Scripts
  • CGI : Multiuser Chat, Cookies, And Games