Learning Perl, 2nd Edition
by Randal Schwartz and Tom Christiansen


Here are the changes made in the 4/99 reprint:


<24> Added parantheses:

	chomp ($word;

Now reads:

	chomp ($word);


{29} Line 17 used to read: "can't rename $filename.old"

It now reads:

	"can't rename $filename".


(33) In the paragraph under Single-Quoted Strings, changed "single-quoted
            string" in the second-to-last sentence to "double-quoted string."


<39> Added three lines to table 2-3:


     Left              << >>

     Nonassociative    < > <= >= lt gt le ge
     Nonassociative    == != <=> eq ne cmp


{43} Changed \ in last footnote to:

	Or whatever the input record separator $/ is set to.


{49} Changed last line of code to:

	print ("The answer is ", @a,"\n");


{49} Changed $a to @a in the last paragraph.


{69} The values Function, paragraph 1, lines 1-3: %arrayname has been changed
to
     %hashname in 3 places.


{70} In the 5th paragraph in "Hash Slices" section, line of code used to read:

        @league{keys %score} = values %score;

It now reads:

        %league{keys %score} = values %score;


{90} The second example from the bottom used to read:

	$result = (join "+", "", @fields);

Moved parantheses, so it now reads:

	$result = join ("+", "", @fields);


{97} 2nd code sample:  line 10 used to read:

        @result;                        # return the final list

It now reads:

        return@result;                  # return the final list


{121} Format, line 2: "cool" has been replaced by "pretty" in 3 places.


{130} In the first snippet of code: "/dev/hosts" has been changed to
                  "/etc/hosts"


{136} In the 1st paragraph: "File::Find" has been changed to "File::Copy"


{139} In the foreach loop example:

	warn "hmm... couldn't chmod $file.\$!";

Now reads:

	warn "hmm... couldn't chmod $file: $!";


(164) In the third paragraph, changed last sentence before code.  The text used
       to read:

	...into an array with the following values:

It now reads:

	...into a list with the following values:


{187} Changed import tag ":html3": removed "proposed."


{187} In the program at bottom of page, line 5: h1("Hello World") now reads
      h1("Greetings, Terrans!").


{201} 2nd code block, lines 3 and 4:  "$CHATFILE" now reads "$CHATNAME"


{207} 2nd code example, line 9 use to read:

	"$result->title"

Now reads:

	"$webdoc->title"


{215} 2nd para. used to read:

	"because that element has been printed"

Now reads:

	"because that element has been popped"


{232} #1, sub by_last: $last{a} now reads $last{$a}.


(233) In the first paragraph, line 3, changed "chomps" to "chops"


{238} Paragraph 1, line 2 now reads:

	Deleted Modules new to 5.004 are marked like this.


{252} Other Operators, paragraph 1, line 2 used to read:

	"?\ :"

It now reads:

	"? :".


{252} Many, Many More Functions, grep and map, map examples, line 3,
      comment: "unchop" now reads "unchomp"