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Programming Perl, 4th Edition
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Programming Perl, 4th Edition

by Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall, Jon Orwant
February 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1184 pages
37h 17m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Index

Symbols

^ (bitwise XOR) operator, Bitwise Operators
^ regex assertion, Beginnings: The \A and ^ Assertions
_ (underline) filehandle, Special Variables in Alphabetical Order
– (subtraction) operator, Additive Operators
– debugger command, Locating Code
–– switch, Switches
–– (autodecrement) operator, Autoincrement and Autodecrement
–> (arrow) operator, The Arrow Operator, Using the Arrow OperatorUsing the Arrow Operator, Method Invocation Using the Arrow Operator
–0 command-line switch, Command Processing, Switches
, (comma) operator, Comma Operators
; (semicolon), Simple Statements, Prototypes, Universal Blunders, Fluent Perl
programming practices, Universal Blunders, Fluent Perl
in simple statements, Simple Statements
subroutines and, Prototypes
:: package separator, Names, Library Science
! (logical NOT) operator, Logical Operators, Logical and, or, not, and xor
!! debugger command, Actions and Command Execution
!= (not equal) operator, Some Numeric and String Comparison Operators, Equality Operators
?: (conditional) operator, Conditional OperatorConditional Operator
. debugger command, Stepping and Running
.. (range) operator, Range OperatorsRange Operators, Python Traps
... (range) operator, The Ellipsis Statement
... (ellipsis statement), The Ellipsis Statement
( ) (parentheses), Terms and List Operators (Leftward), The Regular Expression Bestiary, Frequently Ignored Advice
[ ] (square brackets), Arrays, Complexities, Bracketed Character ClassesBracketed ...
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