Effective Perl Programming

This guide for readers with some experience using Perl provides advice on how to use CPAN, how to solve Perl problems, and how to understand Perl style. After introductory chapters on basics of Perl and idiomatic Perl, chapter topics include regular expressions, subroutines, and references. Reflecting 12 years of Perl evolution, this second edition features eight new chapters on CPAN, databases, distributions, files and filehandles, production Perl, testing, Unicode, and warnings, with updated examples of Perl 5.12, the latest version. Hall is a programmer. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)