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Programming Perl by Tom Christiansen

Programming Perl

Unmatched Power for Text Processing and Scripting

Tom Christiansen, brian foy, Larry Wall

O'Reilly Media · Print & ebook · April 3, 2012

Adopted as the undisputed Perl bible soon after the first edition appeared in 1991, Programming Perl is still the go-to guide for this highly practical language.

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A practical guide to Perl’s reach, from text processing and scripting to Unicode-aware regular expressions.
Themes
Perl programming, Text processing and scripting, Unicode and regular expressions
Genres
Perl Programming, Computer Resources, Programming Basics

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Adopted as the undisputed Perl bible soon after the first edition appeared in 1991, Programming Perl is still the go-to guide for this highly practical language. Perl began life as a super-fueled text processing utility, but quickly evolved into a general purpose programming language that’s helped hundreds of thousands of programmers, system administrators, and enthusiasts, like you, get your job done.

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In this much-anticipated update to "the Camel," three renowned Perl authors cover the language up to its current version, Perl 5.14, with a preview of features in the upcoming 5.16. In a world where Unicode is increasingly essential for text processing, Perl offers the best and least painful support of any major language, smoothly integrating Unicode everywhere—including in Perl’s most popular feature: regular expressions. Important features covered by this update include: - New keywords and syntax - I/O layers and encodings - New backslash escapes - Unicode 6.0 - Unicode grapheme clusters and properties - Named captures in regexes - Recursive and grammatical patterns - Expanded coverage of CPAN - Current best practices

Perl, In Practice

A practical guide to Perl’s reach, from text processing and scripting to Unicode-aware regular expressions.

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  • A working language guide with text processing at its center
  • Unicode and regular expressions treated as practical tools

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  • Coverage of Perl 5.14, with a preview of 5.16
  • Syntax, I/O, CPAN, and current best practices

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Authors
Tom Christiansen, brian foy, Larry Wall
Publisher
O'Reilly Media
Published
April 3, 2012
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Perl programming · Text processing and scripting · Unicode and regular expressions
Reading lane
Perl Programming