Programming Perl, 2nd edition
by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Randal Schwartz


Here are the changes that were made for the 3/98 reprint:


{153}: The line:

$pwd = (getpwuid $<)[1];

was changed to:

$pwd = (getpwuid($<))[1];

(158): Paragraph 3, line 1: removed the extraneous comma after EXPR.

{182}: deleted the extra close paren in the first line of the third
code block:

foreach $key (sort { $hash{$b} <=> $hash{a} } keys %hash)) {

{194}: changed next-to-last code example from:

$file =~ s#^\s#./$&#;
open FOO, "< $file\0";

to

$file =~ s#^(\s)#./$1#;
open (FOO, "< $file\0");

(195): last line of text: changed "give" to "gives"
[200]: Under printf, the lines:

     printf FILEHANDLE LIST
     printf LIST

were changed to:

     printf FILEHANDLE FORMAT LIST
     printf FORMAT LIST

{263}: In the bottom paragraph, "Suppose $LoL is already an array of
references to arrays." changed to "Suppose @LoL is already an array
of references to arrays."

(292): Line 3: "should generally treated" changed to "should generally
be treated".

(306): para. 2 line 2: put "BSD::Resource" in constant width font

(608): AV referred to in definition of HV changed to HV.

(627): added entry for "compiler for Perl, 369"
(630): added entry for "flush, 70, 442"
(640): In the "-s switch" entry, the reference to pages 517-527 was
removed.