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SAMS Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours THIRD EDITION
By Clinton  Pierce
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Publisher: Sams Publishing
Pub Date: June 15, 2005
ISBN: 0-672-32793-7
Pages: 480

Table of Contents    Index

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		Copyright
		About the Author
		Acknowledgments
		We Want to Hear from You!
		Reader Services
		Introduction
			How to Use This Book
			Conventions Used in This Book
		Part  I.   Perl Fundamentals
			Hour  1.   Getting Started with Perl
				Installing Perl
				Documentation
				Your First Program
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
			Hour  2.   Perl's Building Blocks: Numbers and Strings
				Literals
				Scalar Variables
				Expressions and Operators
				More Operators
				Exercise: Interest Calculator
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
			Hour  3.   Controlling the Program's Flow
				Blocks
				The if Statement
				Looping
				Other Flow Control Tools
				Exercise: Finding Primes
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
			Hour  4.   Stacking Building Blocks: Lists and Arrays
				Putting Things into Lists and Arrays
				Getting Elements Out of an Array
				Manipulating Arrays
				Exercise: Playing a Little Game
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
			Hour  5.   Working with Files
				Opening Files
				Reading
				Writing
				Free Files, Testing Files, and Binary Data
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
			Hour  6.   Pattern Matching
				Simple Patterns
				The Metacharacters
				Substitution
				Exercise: Cleaning Up Input Data
				Pattern Matching Odds and Ends
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
			Hour  7.   Hashes
				Filling Your Hash
				Getting Data Out of a Hash
				Lists and Hashes
				Hash Odds and Ends
				Useful Things to Do with a Hash
				Exercise: Creating a Simple Customer Database with Perl
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
			Hour  8.   Functions
				Creating and Calling Subroutines
				Scope
				Exercise: Statistics
				Function Footnotes
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
		Part  II.   Advanced Features
			Hour  9.   More Functions and Operators
				Searching Scalars
				Transliteration, Not Substitution
				A Better Way to print
				Exercise: A Formatted Report
				New Ways with Arrays
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
			Hour  10.   Files and Directories
				Getting a Directory Listing
				Exercise: The Unix grep
				Directories
				Unix Stuff
				Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About THAT File
				Exercise: Renaming Files En Masse
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
			Hour  11.   System Interaction
				The system() Function
				Capturing Output
				Pipes
				First Lesson in Portability
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
			Hour  12.   Using Perl's Command-Line Tools
				What Is the Debugger?
				Exercise: Finding the Bug
				Other Command-Line Stuff
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
			Hour  13.   References and Structures
				Reference Basics
				Recipes for Structures
				Exercise: Another Game, Maze
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
			Hour  14.   Using Modules
				A Gentle Introduction
				A Quick Tour
				Full List of Standard Modules
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
			Hour  15.   Finding Permanence
				DBM Files
				Exercise: A Free-Form Memo Pad
				Text Files as Databases
				Random File Access
				Locking
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
			Hour  16.   The Perl Community
				What's Perl All About, Anyway?
				The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)
				Your Next Steps
				Other Resources
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
		Part  III.   Applying Perl
			Hour  17.   Writing Modules
				Building a Module
				Scoping Revisited
				Another statement: our
				Example: A Module to Handle Common File Information Requests
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
			Hour  18.   Object Primer
				Classes, Properties, and Methods
				Example: Implementation of Car in Perl
				Example: File Information Class
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
			Hour  19.   Data Processing
				How to Look at Data
				Dealing with Table Data
				XML Data
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
			Hour  20.   Perl as a Glue Language
				Weather Station
				Presenting Data as PDF
				Reading and Writing Excel Spreadsheets
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
			Hour  21.   Introduction to CGI
				Browsing the Web
				Don't Skip This Section
				Your First CGI Program
				What to Do When Your CGI Program Doesn't Work
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
			Hour  22.   Basic Forms
				How Forms Work
				Passing Information to Your CGI Program
				Web Security 101
				A Guestbook
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
			Hour  23.   Complex Forms
				The Stateless Web
				Hidden Fields
				A Multipage Survey
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
			Hour  24.   Manipulating HTTP and Cookies
				The HTTP Conversation
				More Details on Calling CGI Programs
				Cookies
				Long Term Cookies
				Problems with Cookies
				Summary
				Q&A
				Workshop
		Part  IV.   Appendixes
			Appendix  A.   Installing Modules
				Picking the Right Module
				Installing the Modules Under
				What to Do When You're Not Allowed to Install Modules
		Index