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Perl Cookbook, Second Edition

By Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington
Second Edition August 2003
Pages: 964
Series: Cookbooks
ISBN 10: 0-596-00313-7 | ISBN 13: 9780596003135
(Average of 7 Customer Reviews)

Book description

Find a Perl programmer, and you'll find a copy of Perl Cookbook nearby. Perl Cookbook is a comprehensive collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples for anyone programming in Perl. The book contains hundreds of rigorously reviewed Perl "recipes" and thousands of examples ranging from brief one-liners to complete applications. The second edition of Perl Cookbook has been fully updated for Perl 5.8, with extensive changes for Unicode support, I/O layers, mod_perl, and new technologies that have emerged since the previous edition of the book. Recipes have been updated to include the latest modules. New recipes have been added to every chapter of the book, and some chapters have almost doubled in size.
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Manipulating strings, numbers, dates, arrays, and hashes
Pattern matching and text substitutions
References, data structures, objects, and classes
Signals and exceptions
Screen addressing, menus, and graphical applications
Managing other processes
Writing secure scripts
Client-server programming
Internet applications programming with mail, news, ftp, and telnet
CGI and mod_perl programming
Web programming

Since its first release in 1998, Perl Cookbook has earned its place in the libraries of serious Perl users of all levels of expertise by providing practical answers, code examples, and mini-tutorials addressing the challenges that programmers face. Now the second edition of this bestselling book is ready to earn its place among the ranks of favorite Perl books as well. Whether you're a novice or veteran Perl programmer, you'll find Perl Cookbook, 2nd Edition to be one of the most useful books on Perl available. Its comfortable discussion style and accurate attention to detail cover just about any topic you'd want to know about. You can get by without having this book in your library, but once you've tried a few of the recipes, you won't want to.

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professional, September 02 2006

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Submitted by Nimasdj [Respond | View]

The book is good, but not recommended for beginners. only for professionals as a reference book.

Pcolalug practical review, May 17 2005

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Submitted by Brett H. [Respond | View]

PERL Cookbook 2nd Edition O'reilly
By: Tom Christiansen & Nathan Torkington

Well I have the complete PERL library. From the PERL Black book to the PERL bookshelf and all between. When I first ordered the PERL Cookbook I was looking for a god resource for quick scripts to help me in My OpenMosix development. I received the book at our April Meeting and was immediately surprised by it's heft at 927 pages it is well packed with technical information on a wide range of subjects and code snippets to get you on you way.
I was let down by the complex nature of the language...While well done for a PERL or Programming Guru it was not easy comprehend able by the average user that I felt would be looking to purchase this book. The code snippets are a God send thou and more than make up for the overly technical writing.
I personally used the network and file scripts and was able to put them to work immediately. I would not recommend this book to Novices, But all others would surely gain a valuable edge by having this in there library.
Brett hoff
Pensacola Linux User Group.
bhoff@pcolalug.org

A must have, March 08 2005

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Submitted by Greg [Respond | View]

A must have for anyone who is serious about writing Perl code.

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Perl Cookbook, 2nd Edition Review, December 31 2003

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Submitted by Joshua Wait [Respond | View]

I love Perl. I am almost obsessed with it. I have even left love messages for my wife in the mirror written in the best Perl I can manage. That's not to say that I am a Perl expert--not by any means. I think I shall forever remain a student as there is always more to learn. I am always searching for the latest Perl tidbit and I usually turn first to an O'Reilly book. One of the latest publications to come from O'Reilly on the subject of Perl is the second edition of the Perl Cookbook. Five years have passed since the last edition was published and a lot has changed in that short time span.

For those of you looking to improve your physique without leaving your desk, you'll find hefting this latest edition better suited to the task. It's about 200 pages thicker and about 543 pounds heavier. Okay, so the weight is an exaggeration. There are 80 new recipes (and two new chapters) covering technologies such as Unicode, XML and mod_perl. Even if you own a copy of the first edition, you will find the new recipes and the updated recipes of great value.

For those of you unfamiliar The Perl Cookbook, you will discover a rich treasure trove of excellent solutions to vexing problems. While the Perl Cookbook won't teach you the basics of Perl, beginners can benefit from not having to reinvent the wheel for addressing common tasks such as sorting, traversing, printing or deleting hashes. Advanced Perl Mongers may find the updated discussion on process management, object orientation and module creation enlightening.

Perl Cookbook, 2nd Edition Review, October 01 2003

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Submitted by Chris [Respond | View]

great book but where are the examples?

Perl Cookbook, 2nd Edition Review, August 14 2003

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Submitted by Kyle [Respond | View]

Please, no rioting!

:-)

The book will arrive in our warehouses on August 25th, and will be available in stores as soon afer that as we can get it delivered and shelved. It will be worth the wait!

Perl Cookbook, 2nd Edition Review, August 14 2003

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Submitted by joe blow [Respond | View]

It sucks cause it's not out yet! It's going to start a riot soon if you don't release it!

Media reviews "This is a fantastic companion reference to have on the book of any developer's desk, absolutely fantastic...When I open a book with the title 'Cookbook' I expect a whole myriad of recipes and while this is the case some of the time, it's not always true. For the retail price of $49.95 you are getting an absolute BARGAIN with the amount of material that is enclosed in this book (over 900+ pages). It is quite possible with the amount of examples and blurbs in this book that you might never need another programming reference for Perl."
--Daniel J. McKinnon, Amazon.com review, June 2005

"After finishing the second edition of the 'Perl Cookbook,' I felt ready for the challenges of programming Perl in today's environment. Where the first edition seems inadequate today because of technologies that have emerged since its printing, the second edition again provides a stable foundation for any Perl programmer, beginner to advanced. I recommend the 'Perl Cookbook' strongly, even for those who already have the first edition...I recommend it without reservations, and I'm sure it will be useful for years to come. "
--Teodor Zlatanov, IBM.com, May 2004
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-cpbooks.html?ca=dgr-perlw02PerlBooks

"As a Perl programmer, you probably own or have access to O'Reilly's 'Perl Cookbook." It's an essential book for the advanced development of Perl skills...Fortunately, you now how an additional excuse to buy a fresh copy of the 'Perl Cookbook,' since the second edition is out...[The editors have] managed to find tune the existing recipes for the latest version of Perl and have added many more recipes to keep up with the developing needs of Perl programmers. This was quite an undertaking on their part, and they've succeeded nicely."
--The Perl Journal, February 2004

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