Andrew-L Johnson

Here's a complete introduction to programming using Perl, written so its accessible to those learning Perl as their first programming language. With examples ranging from a useful utility to search the Perl FAQs to a web client for tracking and charting stock quotes to an object-oriented student grading system, this book offers you a practical, hands-on approach to learning programming the Perl way. What's inside • Style and design issues and the software development cycle • Full descriptions of Perl's data types, variables, operators, and control structures In-depth coverage of Perl's regular expressions • References and nested data structures • Documentation and Literate Programming • Text and list manipulation • Debugging techniques • Using and writing modules • Object-oriented programming and abstract data structures