Book description
If you have a Perl programming question, you'll find the answer quickly in this handy, easy-to-use quick reference. The Perl Pocket Reference condenses and organizes stacks of documentation down to the most essential facts, so you can find what you need in a heartbeat.
Updated for Perl 5.14, the 5th edition provides a summary of Perl syntax rules and a complete list of operators, built-in functions, and other features. It's the perfect companion to O'Reilly's authoritative and in-depth Perl programming books, including Learning Perl, Programming Perl, and the Perl Cookbook..
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Table of contents
- Perl: Pocket Reference
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1. Perl Pocket Reference
- Perl 5.14.1
- Conventions used in this book
- Features
- Syntax
- Embedded Documentation
- Data Types
- Quotes and Interpolation
- Literal Values
- Variables
- Context
- Operators and Precedence
- Statements
- Packages and Modules
- Pragmatic Modules
- Subroutines
- Special Subroutines
- Object-Oriented Programming
- Special Classes
- Arithmetic Functions
- Conversion Functions
- Structure Conversion
- String Functions
- Array and List Functions
- Hash Functions
- Smartmatching
- Regular Expression Patterns
- Search and Replace Functions
- File Operations
- File Test Operators
- Input and Output
- Formatted Printing
- Formats
- Directory Reading Routines
- System Interaction
- Networking
- System V IPC
- Miscellaneous
- Tying Variables
- Information from System Databases
- Special Variables
- Special Arrays
- Special Hashes
- Environment Variables
- Threads
- A. Command-Line Options
- B. The Perl Debugger
- C. Perl Links
- Index
- About the Author
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Perl Pocket Reference, 5th Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2011
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781449312978
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