Perl Pocket Reference 5th Edition

Johan Vromans has engaged in software engineering research since 1975. Convinced of the importance of a good programming environment, he became an expert in using GNU Emacs and the Perl programming language. Recently he was instrumental in bringing the Internet to the Netherlands as a commercial activity. He currently owns his own typesetting and consulting business called Squirrel Consultancy. He can be reached at JVromans@squirrel.nl.

Chapter 1: Perl Pocket Reference; 1.1 Perl 5.14.1; 1.2 Conventions used in this book; 1.3 Features; 1.4 Syntax; 1.5 Embedded Documentation; 1.6 Data Types; 1.7 Quotes and Interpolation; 1.8 Literal Values; 1.9 Variables; 1.10 Context; 1.11 Operators and Precedence; 1.12 Statements; 1.13 Packages and Modules; 1.14 Pragmatic Modules; 1.15 Subroutines; 1.16 Special Subroutines; 1.17 Object-Oriented Programming; 1.18 Special Classes; 1.19 Arithmetic Functions; 1.20 Conversion Functions; 1.21 Structure Conversion; 1.22 String Functions; 1.23 Array and List Functions; 1.24 Hash Functions; 1.25 Smartmatching; 1.26 Regular Expression Patterns; 1.27 Search and Replace Functions; 1.28 File Operations; 1.29 File Test Operators; 1.30 Input and Output; 1.31 Formatted Printing; 1.32 Formats; 1.33 Directory Reading Routines; 1.34 System Interaction; 1.35 Networking; 1.36 System V IPC; 1.37 Miscellaneous; 1.38 Tying Variables; 1.39 Information from System Databases; 1.40 Special Variables; 1.41 Special Arrays; 1.42 Special Hashes; 1.43 Environment Variables; 1.44 Threads; Command-Line Options; PERL5OPT; #!; The Perl Debugger; Perl Links; Organizational; Sources, documentation, support; News, blogs, publications; Platforms, distributions;