Perl in a nutshell / Nathan Patwardhan, Ellen Siever and Stephen Spainhour.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patwardhan, Nate.

Contributor:

Siever, Ellen.

Spainhour, Stephen.

Series:

Nutshell handbook

In a nutshell

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Perl (Computer program language).

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

xx, 737 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Sebastopol, CA : O'Reilly, 2002.

Summary:

Perl in a Nutshell is a complete, comprehensive reference guide to the Perl programming language. This book ranges widely through the Perl programmer's universe, gathering together in a convenient form a wealth of information about Perl itself and its application to CGI scripts, XML processing, network programming, database interaction, and graphical user interfaces. In this second edition of Perl in a Nutshell, the book has been expanded to cover Perl Version 5.8 and the technologies that Perl programmers are working in today, such as XML.

Contents:

2. Installing Perl 10

Part II. Language Basics

3. The Perl Executable 33

4. The Perl Language 43

5. Function Reference 92

6. Debugging 147

Part III. Modules

7. Packages, Modules, and Objects 163

8. Standard Modules 168

Part IV. CGI

9. CGI Overview 369

10. The CGI.pm Module 376

11. Web Server Programming with mod_perl 399

Part V. Databases

12. Databases and Perl 411

Part VI. XML and SOAP

13. XML and Perl 425

14. SOAP 435

Part VII. Network Programming

15. Sockets 443

16. Email Connectivity 454

17. Usenet News 484

18. FTP 499

19. Lightweight Directory Access with Net::LDAP 511

Part VIII. LWP

20. The LWP Library 525

Part IX. Perl/Tk

21. Perl/Tk 575

Part X. Win32

22. Win32 Modules and Extensions 629

23. OLE Automation 682

24. ODBC Extension for Win32 692.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0596002416

OCLC:

49618610