Programming perl

By Larry Wall, Randal L. Schwartz
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Pages: 482
ISBN 10: 0-937175-64-1 | ISBN 13: 9780937175644

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An authoritative guide to the hottest new UNIX utility in years, coauthored by its creator, Larry Wall. Perl is a language for easily manipulating text, files, and processes. Programming perl covers Perl syntax, functions, debugging, efficiency, the Perl library, and more.
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This is the authoritative guide to the hottest new UNIX utility in years, coauthored by its creator, Larry Wall. Perl is a language for easily manipulating text, files, and processes. Perl provides a more concise and readable way to do many jobs that were formerly accomplished (with difficulty) by programming in the C language or one of the shells. Even though Perl is not yet a standard part of UNIX, it is likely to be available wherever you choose to work. And if it isn't, you can get it and install it easily and free of charge. Contents include:
  • An introduction to Perl
  • Common tasks with Perl
  • Real Perl programs; includes database manipulation, programming aids, system administration, text and filename manipulation, interprocess communication, and more
  • Perl syntax
  • Perl functions
  • Other oddments; invocation options, debugging, efficiency, the Perl library, linking in C subroutines, etc.
Also includes a pull-out quick-reference card (designed and created by Johan Vromans).

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"Perl is the most significant general-purpose tool to hit the UNIX world in years. If you haven't used Perl, it's a lot like C, with
awk, sed, grep, shell programming, and just about everything else included. In particular, system administrators have found it handy, since they're the ones most often tasked with writing or maintaining convoluted shell scripts. Some test and manufacturing groups at computer vendors are now considering using perl as their one-and-only language for test engineers." --;login, June 1991

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