Description

If you’re just getting started with Perl, this is the book you want—whether you’re a programmer, system administrator, or web hacker. Nicknamed “the Llama” by two generations of users, this best seller closely follows the popular introductory Perl course taught by the authors since 1991. This eighth edition covers recent changes to the language up to version 5.34.

Perl is suitable for almost any task on almost any platform, from short fixes to complete web applications. Learning Perl teaches you the basics and shows you how to write simple, single-file programs—roughly 90% of the Perl programs in use today. And each chapter includes exercises to help you practice what you’ve just learned. Other books may teach you to program in Perl, but this book will turn you into a Perl programmer.

Topics include:

   Perl data and variable types
   Subroutines
   File operations
   Regular expressions
   String manipulation (including Unicode)
   Lists and sorting
   Process management
   Use of third-party modules

Book Details

   Language: English
   Published: 2021
   ISBN: 1492094951
   Format: True (PDF, EPUB)