Perl for professionals. Elements for Web and advanced applications (Q2756972)

Perl (Practical Extraction and Report Language) is a scripting language, which is based on the UNIX-Tools shell, awk, sed and grep and which in rough outlines uses the syntax of the language C. Despite of its origins today Perl is available on nearly all operating systems. It supports a text based pattern matching. Therefore it is widely in use as a text processing tool, especially for web page processing.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe book is a refinement and completion of articles, which appeared in a wide spread German computer magazine (iX, Heise-publishing house). It addresses advanced Perl programmers and is divided into the paragraphs: Foundations (objects, threads,\dots), Traditional applications (OLE analysis, NT administration,\dots), Building blocks for the World Wide Web (CGI, data base access,\dots) and Web applications (supervision of Web pages, link checking,\dots).NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEIn most cases the individual contributions use Perl modules which don't belong to the standard distribution of Perl. They have to be loaded from CPAN (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network), a process which is explained in detail at the book's first pages.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEAt all contributions the accompanying source code is presented, so the text easily can be understood. Nevertheless the book is not suitable to learn Perl. It is not a tutorial but addresses professional Perl programmers. For those people surely the book is an interesting collection of advanced Perl topics.