Book description
Take the next step toward Perl mastery with advanced concepts that make coding easier, maintenance simpler, and execution faster. Mastering Perl isn't a collection of clever tricks, but a way of thinking about Perl programming for solving debugging, configuration, and many other real-world problems you’ll encounter as a working programmer.
The third in O’Reilly’s series of landmark Perl tutorials (after Learning Perl and Intermediate Perl), this fully upated edition pulls everything together and helps you bend Perl to your will.
- Explore advanced regular expressions features
- Avoid common problems when writing secure programs
- Profile and benchmark Perl programs to see where they need work
- Wrangle Perl code to make it more presentable and readable
- Understand how Perl keeps track of package variables
- Define subroutines on the fly
- Jury-rig modules to fix code without editing the original source
- Use bit operations and bit vectors to store large data efficiently
- Learn how to detect errors that Perl doesn’t report
- Dive into logging, data persistence, and the magic of tied variables
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Table of contents
- Preface
- 1. Advanced Regular Expressions
- 2. Secure Programming Techniques
- 3. Perl Debuggers
- 4. Profiling Perl
- 5. Benchmarking Perl
- 6. Cleaning Up Perl
- 7. Symbol Tables and Typeglobs
- 8. Dynamic Subroutines
- 9. Modifying and Jury-Rigging Modules
- 10. Configuring Perl Programs
- 11. Detecting and Reporting Errors
- 12. Logging
- 13. Data Persistence
- 14. Working with Pod
- 15. Working with Bits
- 16. The Magic of Tied Variables
- 17. Modules as Programs
- A. Further Reading
- B. brian’s Guide to Solving Any Perl Problem
- Index of Perl Modules in This Book
- Index
- Colophon
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Mastering Perl, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2014
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781449393113
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