Programming Perl / Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen & Jon Orwant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wall, Larry.

Contributor:

Christiansen, Tom.

Orwant, Jon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Perl (Computer program language).

Physical Description:

xxxi, 1070 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Beijing ; Sebastopol, CA : O'Reilly, 2000.

Summary:

This comprehensive guide gives readers the inside scoop to the nooks and crannies of the language. Expanded to cover version 5.6, new topics of "Programming Perl" include threading, the compiler, Unicode, and other new features that have been added since the previous edition.

Contents:

1 An Overview of Perl 3

Natural and Artificial Languages 4

An Average Example 17

Filehandles 20

Operators 22

Control Structures 29

Regular Expressions 35

List Processing 41

What You Don't Know Won't Hurt You (Much) 43

II The Gory Details 45

2 Bits and Pieces 47

Atoms 47

Molecules 49

Built-in Data Types 50

Variables 52

Names 53

Scalar Values 58

Context 69

List Values and Arrays 72

Hashes 76

Typeglobs and Filehandles 78

Input Operators 79

3 Unary and Binary Operators 86

Terms and List Operators (Leftward) 89

The Arrow Operator 90

Autoincrement and Autodecrement 91

Exponentiation 92

Ideographic Unary Operators 92

Binding Operators 93

Multiplicative Operators 94

Additive Operators 95

Shift Operators 95

Named Unary and File Test Operators 95

Relational Operators 100

Equality Operators 101

Bitwise Operators 101

C-Style Logical (Short-Circuit) Operators 102

Range Operator 103

Conditional Operator 105

Assignment Operators 107

Comma Operators 108

List Operators (Rightward) 109

Logical and, or, not, and xor 109

C Operators Missing from Perl 110

4 Statements and Declarations 111

Simple Statements 111

Compound Statements 113

if and unless Statements 114

Loop Statements 115

Bare Blocks 123

goto 126

Global Declarations 127

Scoped Declarations 129

Pragmas 136

5 Pattern Matching 139

The Regular Expression Bestiary 140

Pattern-Matching Operators 143

Metacharacters and Metasymbols 158

Character Classes 165

Quantifiers 176

Positions 178

Capturing and Clustering 182

Alternation 187

Staying in Control 188

Fancy Patterns 202

6 Subroutines 217

Syntax 217

Semantics 219

Passing References 224

Prototypes 225

Subroutine Attributes 231

7 Formats 234

Format Variables 237

Footers 240

What Is a Reference? 242

Creating References 245

Using Hard References 251

Symbolic References 263

Braces, Brackets, and Quoting 264

9 Data Structures 268

Arrays of Arrays 268

Hashes of Arrays 275

Arrays of Hashes 277

Hashes of Hashes 279

Hashes of Functions 282

More Elaborate Records 283

Saving Data Structures 286

10 Packages 288

Symbol Tables 293

Autoloading 296

11 Modules 299

Using Modules 299

Creating Modules 301

Overriding Built-in Functions 306

12 Objects 308

Brief Refresher on Object-Oriented Lingo 308

Perl's Object System 310

Method Invocation 311

Object Construction 317

Class Inheritance 321

Instance Destructors 330

Managing Instance Data 331

Managing Class Data 343

13 Overloading 347

The overload Pragma 348

Overload Handlers 349

Overloadable Operators 350

The Copy Constructor (=) 357

When an Overload Handler Is Missing (nomethod and fallback) 358

Overloading Constants 359

Public Overload Functions 360

Inheritance and Overloading 361

Run-Time Overloading 361

Overloading Diagnostics 362

14 Tied Variables 363

Tying Scalars 365

Tying Arrays 372

Tying Hashes 378

Tying Filehandles 384

A Subtle Untying Trap 395

Tie Modules on CPAN 397

III Perl as Technology 399

15 Unicode 401

Building Character 402

Effects of Character Semantics 405

Caution, [characters not reproducible] Working 409

16 Interprocess Communication 411

Signals 412

Files 418

Pipes 426

System V IPC 434

Sockets 437

17 Threads 446

The Process Model 447

The Thread Model 448

18 Compiling 464

The Life Cycle of a Perl Program 465

Compiling Your Code 467

Executing Your Code 473

Compiler Backends 476

Code Generators 477

Code Development Tools 479

Avant-Garde Compiler, Retro Interpreter 480

19 The Command-Line Interface 486

Command Processing 486

Environment Variables 503

20 The Perl Debugger 506

Using the Debugger 507

Debugger Commands 509

Debugger Customization 518

Unattended Execution 521

Debugger Support 523

The Perl Profiler 525

21 Internals and Externals 530

How Perl Works 531

Internal Data Types 531

Extending Perl (Using C from Perl) 532

Embedding Perl (Using Perl from C) 538

The Moral of the Story 544

IV Perl as Culture 545

22 CPAN 547

The CPAN modules Directory 548

Using CPAN Modules 551

Creating CPAN Modules 554

23 Security 557

Handling Insecure Data 558

Handling Timing Glitches 569

Handling Insecure Code 576

24 Common Practices 585

Common Goofs for Novices 585

Efficiency 593

Programming with Style 603

Fluent Perl 607

Program Generation 616

25 Portable Perl 621

Newlines 622

Endianness and Number Width 623

Files and Filesystems 624

System Interaction 625

Interprocess Communication (IPC) 626

External Subroutines (XS) 626

Standard Modules 627

Dates and Times 627

Internationalization 628

Style 628

26 Plain Old Documentation 629

Pod in a Nutshell 629

Pod Translators and Modules 638

Writing Your Own Pod Tools 640

Pod Pitfalls 643

Documenting Your Perl Programs 644

27 Perl Culture 645

History Made Practical 645

Perl Poetry 647

V Reference Material 651

28 Special Names 653

Special Names Grouped by Type 653

Special Variables in Alphabetical Order 656

29 Functions 677

Perl Functions by Category 680

Perl Functions in Alphabetical Order 682

30 The Standard Perl Library 831

Library Science 831

A Tour of the Perl Library 833

31 Pragmatic Modules 836

use attributes 837

use autouse 838

use base 839

use blib 840

use bytes 840

use charnames 841

use constant 842

use diagnostics 844

use fields 846

use filetest 848

use integer 849

use less 850

use lib 850

use locale 852

use open 852

use overload 853

use re 854

use sigtrap 855

use strict 858

use subs 860

use vars 861

use warnings 861

32 Standard Modules 865

Listings by Type 866

Benchmark 875

Carp 878

CGI 878

CGI::Carp 879

Class::Struct 879

Config 880

CPAN 881

Cwd 881

Data::Dumper 882

DB_File 883

Dumpvalue 884

English 884

Errno 885

Exporter 885

Fatal 886

Fcntl 887

File::Basename 887

File::Compare 888

File::Copy 889

File::Find 889

File::Glob 890

File::Spec 893

File::stat 894

File::Temp 894

FileHandle 895

Getopt::Long 898

Getopt::Std 899

IO::Socket 899

IPC::Open2 900

IPC::Open3 901

Math::BigInt 902

Math::Complex 902

Math::Trig 903

Net::hostent 903

POSIX 904

Safe 906

Socket 907

Symbol 908

Sys::Hostname 909

Sys::Syslog 909

Term::Cap 911

Text::Wrap 911

Time::Local 912

Time::localtime 912

User::grent 913

User::pwent 913

33 Diagnostic Messages 916.

ISBN:

0596000278

OCLC:

44425562