Book description
William "Bo" Rothwell's Advanced Perl Programming continues where his previous book left off, more or less, as it guides you through advanced techniques of the Perl programming language starting with command-line options, references, and arrays and hashes from advanced data types. Next, you'll learn about typeglobs for symbolic entries.- Carry out command-line parsing and extract scripts
- Create references; return values from a reference; work with the ref Function and strict refs
- Work with advanced Perl data types using arrays, hashes, and hash of hashes
- Use Typeglobs for symbol table entries
- Build modules and install CPAN modules
- Write documentation for Perl using POD
- Work with the newest features in Perl, including the smartmatch operator, yada yada, automated regex modifiers, the CORE namespace and more
Table of contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- 1. Command-Line Options
- 2. References
- 3. Advanced Data Types: Arrays
- 4. Advanced Data Types: Hashes
- 5. Typeglobs
- 6. Advanced Subroutine Handling
- 7. Packages and Namespaces
- 8. Building Modules
- 9. Installing CPAN Modules
- 10. POD
- 11. Advanced Features
- 12. Advanced Data Structures
- 13. New Features
- Back Matter
Product information
- Title: Advanced Perl Programming: From Advanced to Expert
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2020
- Publisher(s): Apress
- ISBN: 9781484258637
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