Learning Perl, 5th Edition
by Alpha01
I finally finished reading my second book on Perl. Unlike Apress’ Beginning Perl, Learning Perl 5th Edition by Randal Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and brian d foy is not a book for someone new to programming. With a solid understanding of dynamic languages like PHP and Ruby, I found most of the material covered on this book very comprehensive, thus said, at times I found myself re-reading portions of the chapters just to understand concept the authors were trying to cover. For the most part, I read this book jointly with Apress’ Beginning Perl and I found this book to have more practical real word code examples (at least if you’re a sysadmin). The most notably difference on how this book was written for someone who is new to programming with Perl, but to not new to programming are the three chapters the authors dedicate to regular expressions.
I would only suggest this book to someone with a solid knowledge of another scripting language. As Randal Schwartz commented on my original book review in my blog, “if you know why you would want an array, and what a subroutine is for, you’ll probably do ok.”
Rating: 3/5
Learning Perl: Making Easy things Easy & Hard Things Possible, 5th Edition
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Scalar Data
- Chapter 3: Lists and Arrays
- Chapter 4: Subroutines
- Chapter 5: Input and Output
- Chapter 6: Hashes
- Chapter 7: In the World of Regular Expressions
- Chapter 8: Matching with Regular Expressions
- Chapter 9: Processing Text with Regular Expressions
- Chapter 10: More Control Structures
- Chapter 11: Perl Modules
- Chapter 12: File Tests
- Chapter 13: Directory Operations
- Chapter 14: Strings and Sorting
- Chapter 15: Smart Matching and given-when
- Chapter 16: Process Management
- Chapter 17: Some Advanced Perl Techniques
- Chapter 14 Introduction to CGI
- Chapter 15: Perl and DBI
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