December 1998
Beginner to intermediate
674 pages
40h 41m
English
Overview
Perl in a Nutshell is a comprehensive reference guide to the Perl programming language. This book covers all the core features of the language. It ranges widely through the Perl programmer's universe, gathering together in convenient form a wealth of information about Perl itself and its application to CGI scripts, network programming, database interaction, and graphical user interfaces. It also gives detailed coverage about using Perl within a Win32 environment. This book assembles more information about the language in one place than any other reference work. Here are just some of the topics covered in the book:
Basic language reference
Introduction to using Perl modules
Perl and CGI: CGI basics, CGI.pm, mod_perl
DBI, the database-independent API for Perl
Sockets programming in Perl
LWP, the library for World Wide Web programming in Perl
The Net::* modules
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