Perl 5 How-To: The Definitive Perl 5 Problem-Solver [With Includes the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network...]

by Aidan Humphreys, Ed Weiss, Reggie David, et al.

More than 200 Perl problems are presented in this work, with a description of the problem and why it occurs. It includes step-by-step solutions, with warnings, enhancements and alternate solutions, as... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571691189
• ISBN13: 9781571691187
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Waite Group Press
• Length: 894 Pages
• Weight: 3.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 7.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Great book premise/very helpful

I just bought this book today after much Perl book researching. This book is well organized/layed out and every example shows how to accomplish a real world task. Normally I go for the O'Reilly books, but this book illustrates how to do so much (dynamic HTML, sockets, forking processes, etc.) in one volume. I do wish that the book did touch more on SQL database access modules. Very happy I found this book.

Some problems with this book

There are a lot of apparent printing errors in this book. They might have not done proofreading at all. First 4 authors (of totally 6) have no contact information. The evaluation form is not postage-paid or mailable. Can only be used as a supplemental reference book.

Good for Unix, dubious for Win 95

This book is clear, well-organized, and has many useful examples, but the authors did not check their examples on Windows 95 systems. For instance, and this is not a minor point, they say that you can run command lines under DOS in the same way you can under Unix. Not true! Even something as simple as perl -e 'print "hello";' will not work. Because of this, the book would be far more useful for those working on Unix systems than for those using Windows. I am not sure if there is a better book available, but "Perl 5 Unleashed" does have the correct information on command lines.

Excellent book with plenty of great examples.

This book covers the more popular and usefull areas of Perl. The book contains great examples of how to use/do various things within Perl. Also all examples are real-world based. This is my most used Perl book in my collection, by far