Randal Schwartz's Perls of Wisdom

by David Schwartz

Overview

* Provides the insights of a true Perl wizard! A compendium of the best-selling author's magazine articles: While some of Randal's columns are available from his web site, not all are, and the book will organize the material into reasonable order, teach concepts, and then expand on the reader's skills.

* Teaches basic techniques to programmers just learning Perl.

* Describes and demonstrates unique applications of existing CPAN modules.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590593233
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	12/15/2004
Series:	The Expert's Voice in Open Source Series
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	350
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.28(d)

About the Author

Randal Schwartz is one of the best-selling authors of all time, having been fortunate enough to coauthor two of the seminal books on learning Perl. Perl is perhaps the seminal programming language of the Internet boom and one of the most popular programming languages for doing anything from system administration to parsing a CSV file. In addition to Programming Perl and Learning Perl, Randal has completed a book for intermediate Perl developers, and has been the Perl columnist for UNIX Review, Web Techniques, Sys Admin, and Linux Magazine.

Table of Contents

• Advanced Perl Tutorials
• Text Searching and Editing
• HTML and XML Processing
• CGI Programming
• The Webmaster's Toolkit

Editorial Reviews

The Barnes & Noble Review
If you’re clued in to the Perl community, you’ve seen Randal Schwartz’s work everywhere. Hey, he did coauthor Larry Wall’s original Programming Perl, making him the go-to guy for magazine publishers seeking Perl wisdom. Now he’s brought together his coolest ideas from years of columns. Intellectually, you know Perl can do just about anything. This book will really bring it home to you.

Schwartz’s solutions cut a wide swath across Perl’s capabilities. Text searching and editing. HTML and XML processing. CGI programming and loads of other Webmaster stuff (from DBI to a really simple, handcrafted “poor man’s load balancer”). You’ll find plenty of useful stuff here -- but even if you didn’t, you’d learn tons of stuff about Perl. If only all programming authors explained their code this well! Bill Camarda, from the March 2005 Read Only

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