Salient Features The highly-anticipated update to this classic book - now fully reflects today's most powerful idioms and adds nine new chapters! * Packed with carefully-explained examples that show how to write Perl code like the experts do and why * New chapters on CPAN, databases, debugging, distributions, external processes, files, production Perl, testing, and Unicode * Follows Scott Meyers' best-selling Effective C format * An indispensable resource for every experienced Perl programmer
Table of Content Introduction 1. The Basics of Perl 2. Idiomatic Perl 3. Regular Expressions 4. Subroutines 5. Files and File handles 6. References 7. CPAN 8. Unicode 9. Distributions 10. Testing 11. Warnings 12. Databases 13. Miscellany
Appendix A: Perl Resources Appendix B: Map from First to Second Edition Books Websites Blogs and Pod casts Getting Help Index