Programming Perl

Third Edition.
Intermediate Level Users.

Perl has emerged as the language of choice for World Wide Web programming. This revised and updated third edition is not just a book about Perl; it is a unique introduction to the language and its culture. The definitive guidebook includes all the nooks and crannies of the language, showing why the features were created and how to use them idiomatically.

This edition has been expanded to cover the new 5.6 release of Perl, and has been completely reorganised and fortified with numerous examples. Most existing topics have been dramatically reworked from the ground up, like object-oriented programming and regular expressions, and many brand new chapters have been added, including those on profiling, pod, Unicode, threading, compiling, and Perl internals.

Part bible, part encyclopedia, and part almanac, this is the essential book on Perl, ideal for system administrators and web programmers.