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Learning Perl on Win32 Systems

By Randal L. Schwartz, Erik Olson & Tom Christiansen; ISBN 1-56592-324-3, 306 pages, First Edition, August 1997

This book is a gentle introduction to Perl. By the time you've gone through this book, you'll have touched on the majority of the most common operations and language idioms found in most Perl programs.

This book is not intended as a comprehensive guide to Perl - on the contrary, in order to keep the book from being yet another comprehensive reference guide, we've been selective about covering the things you are most likely to use early in your Perl hacking career. For more information, check out the voluminous and readily available Perl reference material. For obvious reasons, we recommend highly the companion volume to this book, Programming Perl, Second Edition, published by O'Reilly & Associates.

This book is based on the second edition of Learning Perl. We have removed some things that are not applicable to Perl programmers on Windows NT systems, and have added coverage of other things that are special to Windows NT. A wealth of Perl extensions for the Windows platforms exist; we have introduced some of the most important of these extensions, but we have again been selective in doing so.

Each chapter ends with a series of exercises to help you practice what you have just read. If you read at a typical pace, and do all of the exercises, you should be able to get through each chapter in about 2 or 3 hours, and finish the book in 40 or 50 hours.

Table of Contents
Foreword to the First Edition of Learning Perl
Foreword to the Present Edition
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Scalar Data
Chapter 3: Arrays and List Data
Chapter 4: Control Structures
Chapter 5: Hashes
Chapter 6: Basic I/O
Chapter 7: Regular Expressions
Chapter 8: Functions
Chapter 9: Miscellaneous Control Structures
Chapter 10: Filehandles and File Tests
Chapter 11: Formats
Chapter 12: Directory Access
Chapter 13: File and Directory Manipulation
Chapter 14: Process Management
Chapter 15: Other Data Transformation
Chapter 16: System Information
Chapter 17: Database Manipulation
Chapter 18: CGI Programming
Chapter 19: OLE Automation

Appendix A: Exercise Answers
Appendix B: Libraries and Modules
Appendix C: Networking Clients
Appendix D: Topics We Didn't Mention

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