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Title: Perl Cookbook
 Author: Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington
Rating: Must Read!
Publisher: O'Reilly
Web Page: http://www.oreilly.com
Reviewed by: Frank Livaudais

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    The Perl Cookbook is a masterpiece and a must own for any developer serious about using Perl. This is one of the few books that has the range to cover basic topics as well as advanced concepts.

    The Perl Cookbook is like any other cookbook, it contains many 'Recipes'. Each recipe is teaches you how to solve a certain problem. Topics cover:

  • Manipulation of strings, numbers, dates, arrays and hashes
  • Reading writing and updating text and binary files
  • Pattern matching and text substitutions
  • Signals and exceptions
  • Accessing text, hashes and SQL databases
  • Client-Server programming
  • CGI programming and web automation

    And much, much more. This book is always on my desk when ever I have to do anything with Perl. Each recipe contains code that you can plug right into your application and be done. Want to know how to write a POP mail client? Recipe 18.5 is for you. Want to mirror a web page? Try recipe 20.10. Maybe you want to know more about file locking. Try recipe 7.11. The Perl Cookbook is a must read, must own and must use for developer working in internet space, or any space for that matter.







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