Perl!: I Didn't Know You Could Do That... [With CDROM]

by Martin C. Brown

Perl was originally created as a programming language for Unix, but the emergence of the Web has thrust Perl into the mainstream. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0782128629
• ISBN13: 9780782128628
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Sybex
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

The CD-ROM is very useful, worth of spending $$$!!

The ultimate programmer stocking stuffer, this book takes readers beyond what is found in other beginning-intermediate Perl books by providing more than 50 Perl scripts to do useful things, such as tricks with CGI, handling Palm data and using XML. CD-ROM is filled with more than 50 Perl scripts readers can download and use right away to do useful work.

It's nice to know someone has been there before!

I'm familiar with Perl, but I'm no Perl guru. For me, the book had a lot of new material in it, including two items (XML::Parser and Archive::Tar) that I really wanted but didn't even know I should be looking for.It is full of twists and tricks for UNIX/Linux and Microsoft versions of Perl (can't comment on Macs as I'm not a Mac user), although it does not always make it clear whether a utility will or will not go under a particular operating system. The bits which are clearly platform specific are found at the back of the book in their own section, and the URLs are given for important sites.I kept typing modified examples in - just to see if things really were that easy - and I wasn't disappointed. I should really have got the CD out earlier and saved myself some typing :) This one is living on the bookshelf over my PC, and its CD is going in a proper jewel case.