Beginning Perl
by Simon Cozens, Peter Wainwright
Publisher: Wrox Press 2000
ISBN/ASIN: 1861003145
ISBN-13: 9781861003140
Number of pages: 700
Description:
Perl is an immensely popular scripting language that combines the best features of C, key UNIX utilities and a powerful use of regular expressions. It has a wide range of uses beyond simple text processing and is commonly used for web programming - creating and parsing CGI forms, validating HTML syntax and hyperlinks - as well as e-mail and Usenet news filtering. Perl is increasingly the system administrator's scripting language of choice and is used for file and directory manipulation, database access and a whole range of daily system operator chores.
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