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Perl Hacks
By   chromatic , Damian Conway, Curtis "Ovid" Poe
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Publisher: O'Reilly
Pub Date: May 2006
Print ISBN-10: 0-596-52674-1
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-59-652674-0
Pages: 296

Table of Contents  | Index

		Copyright
		credits Credits
		Preface
		Chapter 1.  Productivity Hacks
			Hack 1.  Add CPAN Shortcuts to Firefox
			Hack 2.  Put Perldoc to Work
			Hack 3.  Browse Perl Docs Online
			Hack 4.  Make the Most of Shell Aliases
			Hack 5.  Autocomplete Perl Identifiers in Vim
			Hack 6.  Use the Best Emacs Mode for Perl
			Hack 7.  Enforce Local Style
			Hack 8.  Don't Save Bad Perl
			Hack 9.  Automate Checkin Code Reviews
			Hack 10.  Run Tests from Within Vim
			Hack 11.  Run Perl from Emacs
		Chapter 2.  User Interaction
			Hack 12.  Use $EDITOR As Your UI
			Hack 13.  Interact Correctly on the Command Line
			Hack 14.  Simplify Your Terminal Interactions
			Hack 15.  Alert Your Mac
			Hack 16.  Interactive Graphical Apps
			Hack 17.  Collect Configuration Information
			Hack 18.  Rewrite the Web
		Chapter 3.  Data Munging
			Hack 19.  Treat a File As an Array
			Hack 20.  Read Files Backwards
			Hack 21.  Use Any Spreadsheet As a Data Source
			Hack 22.  Factor Out Database Code
			Hack 23.  Build a SQL Library
			Hack 24.  Query Databases Dynamically Without SQL
			Hack 25.  Bind Database Columns
			Hack 26.  Iterate and Generate Expensive Data
			Hack 27.  Pull Multiple Values from an Iterator
		Chapter 4.  Working with Modules
			Hack 28.  Shorten Long Class Names
			Hack 29.  Manage Module Paths
			Hack 30.  Reload Modified Modules
			Hack 31.  Create Personal Module Bundles
			Hack 32.  Manage Module Installations
			Hack 33.  Presolve Module Paths
			Hack 34.  Create a Standard Module Toolkit
			Hack 35.  Write Demos from Tutorials
			Hack 36.  Replace Bad Code from the Outside
			Hack 37.  Drink to the CPAN
			Hack 38.  Improve Exceptional Conditions
			Hack 39.  Search CPAN Modules Locally
			Hack 40.  Package Standalone Perl Applications
			Hack 41.  Create Your Own Lexical Warnings
			Hack 42.  Find and Report Module Bugs
		Chapter 5.  Object Hacks
			Hack 43.  Turn Your Objects Inside Out
			Hack 44.  Serialize Objects (Mostly) for Free
			Hack 45.  Add Information with Attributes
			Hack 46.  Make Methods Really Private
			Hack 47.  Autodeclare Method Arguments
			Hack 48.  Control Access to Remote Objects
			Hack 49.  Make Your Objects Truly Polymorphic
			Hack 50.  Autogenerate Your Accessors
		Chapter 6.  Debugging
			Hack 51.  Find Compilation Errors Fast
			Hack 52.  Make Invisible Characters Apparent
			Hack 53.  Debug with Test Cases
			Hack 54.  Debug with Comments
			Hack 55.  Show Source Code on Errors
			Hack 56.  Deparse Anonymous Functions
			Hack 57.  Name Your Anonymous Subroutines
			Hack 58.  Find a Subroutine's Source
			Hack 59.  Customize the Debugger
		Chapter 7.  Developer Tricks
			Hack 60.  Rebuild Your Distributions
			Hack 61.  Test with Specifications
			Hack 62.  Segregate Developer and User Tests
			Hack 63.  Run Tests Automatically
			Hack 64.  See Test Failure Diagnostics in Color!
			Hack 65.  Test Live Code
			Hack 66.  Cheat on Benchmarks
			Hack 67.  Build Your Own Perl
			Hack 68.  Run Test Suites Persistently
			Hack 69.  Simulate Hostile Environments in Your Tests
		Chapter 8.  Know Thy Code
			Hack 70.  Understand What Happens When
			Hack 71.  Inspect Your Data Structures
			Hack 72.  Find Functions Safely
			Hack 73.  Know What's Core and When
			Hack 74.  Trace All Used Modules
			Hack 75.  Find All Symbols in a Package
			Hack 76.  Peek Inside Closures
			Hack 77.  Find All Global Variables
			Hack 78.  Introspect Your Subroutines
			Hack 79.  Find Imported Functions
			Hack 80.  Profile Your Program Size
			Hack 81.  Reuse Perl Processes
			Hack 82.  Trace Your Ops
			Hack 83.  Write Your Own Warnings
		Chapter 9.  Expand Your Perl Foo
			Hack 84.  Double Your Data with Dualvars
			Hack 85.  Replace Soft References with Real Ones
			Hack 86.  Optimize Away the Annoying Stuff
			Hack 87.  Lock Down Your Hashes
			Hack 88.  Clean Up at the End of a Scope
			Hack 89.  Invoke Functions in Odd Ways
			Hack 90.  Glob Those Sequences
			Hack 91.  Write Less Error-Checking Code
			Hack 92.  Return Smarter Values
			Hack 93.  Return Active Values
			Hack 94.  Add Your Own Perl Syntax
			Hack 95.  Modify Semantics with a Source Filter
			Hack 96.  Use Shared Libraries Without XS
			Hack 97.  Run Two Services on a Single TCP Port
			Hack 98.  Improve Your Dispatch Tables
			Hack 99.  Track Your Approximations
			Hack 100.  Overload Your Operators
			Hack 101.  Learn from Obfuscations
		Colophon
		Index