Perl Power! The Comprehensive Guide

Description

Perl is a flexible, open-source, and widely accessible scripting language used by systems administrators and others to automate their daily tasks. "Perl Power!: The Comprehensive Guide" will cover every aspect of the most up-to-date version of Perl including scalar data, lists, arrays, hashes, subroutines, files, directories, strings, and much more. Technical topics are explained clearly and concisely and end-of-chapter projects encourage the reader to program on their own. A detailed table of contents and a complete, well-organized index make this book a great reference tool. All code used in the book will be available for download on the companion website.

CONTENTS:

1. Perl Basics
2. Getting Started
3. Scalars and Strings
4. Print Functions
5. Scalars and Formatting
6. Array Fundamentals
7. Arrays and Data Containers
8. Hashes
9. Extending Hash Applications
10. Control Structures
11. Control Structures and Applications
12. Functions
13. References
14. File IO
15. Regular Expressions