kathryn barrett

Favorite Perl Recipes for Every Occasion
O'Reilly Releases "Perl Cookbook, Second Edition"

Sebastopol, CA--Find a Perl programmer, and you'll find a copy of the
"Perl Cookbook" nearby. The book may not be known by the animal on its
cover--like the Camel book ("Programming Perl") or the Llama book
("Learning Perl")--but the reason for that is clear: as with any
favorite cookbook, you'll find it propped open on a desk or table,
well-thumbed and marked up, its cover seldom visible.

Since its first release in 1998, the "Perl Cookbook" has earned its
place in the libraries of serious Perl users of all levels of
expertise--from beginners to the most experienced--by providing
practical answers, code examples, and mini-tutorials that address the
challenges that programmers face. Now the "Perl Cookbook, Second
Edition" (O'Reilly, US $49.95) by Tom Christiansen and Nathan
Torkington is sure to earn its place among the ranks of favorite Perl
books as well.

Updated for Perl 5.8, the new edition of the "Perl Cookbook" has been
expanded to cover new features in Perl itself as well as new
technologies that have emerged since the first edition. Two new
chapters have been added and many existing chapters have been expanded.
In all, eighty new recipes have been added and more than one hundred
older recipes have been updated to include new modules or techniques.

As with the first edition, "Perl Cookbook, Second Edition" covers data
manipulation (strings, numbers, dates, arrays, and hashes), file I/O,
regular expressions, modules, references, objects, data structures,
signal processing, database processing, graphical applications,
interprocess communication, security, internet programming, CGI, and
LWP. In addition, the book includes:

-Coverage of Unicode character handling in Perl
-A new chapter devoted to mod_perl, an Apache module that embeds Perl
into the Apache web server
-New and updated recipes covering modules now included in the Perl core
distribution
-A new chapter on processing XML

things are done by the experts, and then explaining why they work. The
"Perl Cookbook" isn't a book about the Perl programming language; it's
a book about how to program in Perl.

Praise for the previous edition:

"'The Perl Cookbook' is an amazing catalog of recipes that allows even
beginning Perl programmers to figure out solutions to their problems
and get their work done. No stone is left unturned as Tom Christiansen
and Nathan Torkington explain common problems that a Perl programmer
might run into."--Doug Beaver, amazon.com, December 1998

"While the language's (Perl's) motto might be, 'There's more than one
way to do it,' beginners and harassed web site administrators would
often be happy to be shown just one, so long as it worked. Enter the
'Perl Cookbook.' The writing is clear, concise, and thankfully free
from in-jokes, and the index and 'see also' links always led me to the
answers I wanted with a minimum of fuss and backtracking. If only it
was small enough to carry around without backstrain."
--Gregory V. Wilson, Dr. Dobbs Journal, February 1999.

"Precious few books can meet the needs of novices and experts
simultaneously. The 'Perl Cookbook' does, and on nearly every page. It
has the perfect mix of instruction, revelation, and attitude--exactly
what I expected from Tom and Nat, pillars of the Perl Community."
--Jon Orwant, editor of "The Perl Journal"

Further reviews of the first edition can be found at:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cookbook/reviews.html


Additional Resources:

"Perl Cookbook, Second Edition" is also available on the O'Reilly
Network Safari Bookshelf, see: http://safari.oreilly.com/

Chapter One, "Strings," is available free online at:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlckbk2/chapter/index.html

For more information about the book, including Table of Contents,
index, author bios, and samples, see:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlckbk2/

For a cover graphic in JPEG format, go to:
ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/graphics/book_covers/hi-res/0596003137.jpg

Perl Cookbook
Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington
ISBN 0-596-00313-7, 927 pages, $49.95 US, $77.95 CA, 35.50 UK
order@oreilly.com
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