- Learning Perl on Win32 Systems
- Foreword to the First Edition of Learning Perl
- Foreword to the Present Edition
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- History of Perl
- Purpose of Perl
- Availability
- Support
- Basic Concepts
- A Stroll Through Perl
- The “Hello, world” Program
- Asking Questions and Remembering the Result
- Adding Choices
- Guessing the Secret Word
- More than One Secret Word
- Giving Each Person a Different Secret Word
- Handling Varying Input Formats
- Making It Fair for the Rest
- Making It a Bit More Modular
- Moving the Secret Word List into a Separate File
- Ensuring a Modest Amount of Security
- Warning Someone When Things Go Astray
- Many Secret Word Files in the Current Directory
- Listing the Secret Words
- Making Those Old Word Lists More Noticeable
- Maintaining a Last-Good-Guess Database
- The Final Programs
- Exercises
- 2. Scalar Data
- 3. Arrays and List Data
- 4. Control Structures
- 5. Hashes
- 6. Basic I/O
- 7. Regular Expressions
- 8. Functions
- 9. Miscellaneous Control Structures
- 10. Filehandles and File Tests
- 11. Formats
- 12. Directory Access
- 13. File and Directory Manipulation
- 14. Process Management
- 15. Other Data Transformation
- 16. System Information
- 17. Database Manipulation
- 18. CGI Programming
- 19. OLE Automation
- A. Exercise Answers
- B. Libraries and Modules
- Library Terminology
- Standard Modules
- General Programming: Miscellaneous
- General Programming: Error Handling and Logging
- General Programming: File Access and Handling
- General Programming: Classes for I/O Operations
- General Programming: Text Processing and Screen Interfaces
- Database Interfaces
- Mathematics
- The World Wide Web
- Networking and Interprocess Communication
- Automated Access to the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
- Time and Locale
- Object Interfaces to Built-in Functions
- For Developers: Autoloading and Dynamic Loading
- For Developers: Language Extensions and Platform Development Support
- For Developers: Object-Oriented Programming Support
- CPAN: Beyond the Standard Library
- Win32 Extensions
- C. Networking Clients
- D. Topics We Didn’t Mention
- Index
- Colophon
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