Perl Pocket Reference: Programming Tools

by Johan Vromans

Overview

If you have a Perl programming question, you'll find the answer quickly in this handy, easy-to-use quick reference. The Perl Pocket Reference condenses and organizes stacks of documentation down to the most essential facts, so you can find what you need in a heartbeat.

Updated for Perl 5.14, the 5th edition provides a summary of Perl syntax rules and a complete list of operators, built-in functions, and other features. It's the perfect companion to O'Reilly's authoritative and in-depth Perl programming books, including Learning Perl, Programming Perl, and the Perl Cookbook..

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781449312978
Publisher:	O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date:	07/19/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	104
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Johan Vromans has engaged in software engineering research since 1975. Convinced of the importance of a good programming environment, he became an expert in using GNU Emacs and the Perl programming language. Recently he was instrumental in bringing the Internet to the Netherlands as a commercial activity. He currently owns his own typesetting and consulting business called Squirrel Consultancy. He can be reached at [e-mail].

Table of Contents

	Command-Line Options	2
	Syntax	4
	Embedded Documentation	4
	Data Types	6
	Quotes and Interpolation	6
	Literal Values	8
	Variables	10
	Context	12
	Operators and Precedence	13
	Statements	14
	Subroutines	16
	Packages and Modules	19
	Pragmatic Modules	20
	Object-Oriented Programming	23
	Special Classes	24
	Arithmetic Functions	25
	Conversion Functions	25
	Structure Conversion	27
	String Functions	28
	Array and Hash Functions	30
	Regular Expressions	32
	Search and Replace Functions	37
	File Test Operators	39
	File Operations	40
	Input and Output	42
	Formatted Printing	48
	Formats	50
	Tying Variables	51
	Directory Reading Routines	52
	System Interaction	53
	Networking	55
	System V IPC	56
	Miscellaneous	57
	Information from System Databases	59
	Special Variables	63
	Special Arrays	68
	Special Hashes	69
	Environment Variables	69
	Threads	70
	Compiler Backends	72
	The Perl Debugger	72
Appendix A	Standard Modules	77
Appendix B	Perl Links	85
	Index	87