World Of Scripting Languages Book

	Preface	xi
	Acknowledgements	xiii
Part 1	The Big Picture	1
1	Introduction to scripts and scripting	3
1.1	Scripts and programs	3
1.2	Origins of scripting	4
1.3	Scripting today	5
1.4	Characteristics of scripting languages	5
1.5	Uses for scripting languages	7
1.6	Web scripting	12
1.7	Java	13
1.8	The universe of scripting languages	13
Part 2	Languages	15
2	Getting the job done in Perl	17
2.1	The Perl phenomenon	17
2.2	Introducing Perl	18
2.3	Names and values in Perl	24
2.4	Variables and assignment	28
2.5	Scalar expressions	29
2.6	Control structures	32
2.7	Built-in functions	36
2.8	Collections of data	37
2.9	Working with arrays and lists	41
2.10	Working with hashes	45
2.11	Simple input and output	47
2.12	Strings, patterns and regular expressions	48
2.13	Subroutines	58
2.14	Scripts with arguments	61
2.15	Conclusion	62
2.16	Reference: operators and precedence	63
3	Advanced Perl	64
3.1	Finer points of looping	64
3.2	Finer points of subroutines	65
3.3	Using pack and unpack	68
3.4	Working with files	69
3.5	Navigating the file system	74
3.6	Typeglobs	76
3.7	eval	78
3.8	References	79
3.9	Data structures	86
3.10	Packages	88
3.11	Libraries and modules	89
3.12	Objects	92
3.13	Objects and modules in action	97
3.14	Tied variables	100
3.15	Interfacing to the operating system	103
3.16	Creating 'Internet-aware' applications	109
3.17	'Dirty hands' Internet programming	112
3.18	Security issues	116
4	Tcl	118
4.1	The Tcl phenomenon	118
4.2	The Tcl philosophy	118
4.3	Tcl structure	119
4.4	Tcl syntax	120
4.5	Understanding Tcl: the parser	120
4.6	Variables and data in Tcl	124
4.7	Control flow	126
4.8	Data structures	127
4.9	Simple input/output	130
4.10	Procedures	132
4.11	Working with strings	135
4.12	Working with patterns	136
4.13	Working with files and pipes	140
4.14	Putting it all together: some example code	142
4.15	Reference material	144
5	Advanced Tcl	148
5.1	The eval, source, exec and uplevel commands	148
5.2	Libraries and packages	149
5.3	Namespaces	152
5.4	Trapping errors	155
5.5	Event-driven programs	156
5.6	Making applications 'Internet-aware'	159
5.7	'Nuts-and-bolts' Internet programming	161
5.8	Security issues: running untrusted code	166
5.9	The C interface	169
5.10	The Java interface	173
6	Tk	176
6.1	Visual toolkits	176
6.2	Fundamental concepts of Tk	177
6.3	Tk by example	182
6.4	Events and bindings	198
6.5	Geometry managers	202
6.6	Perl-Tk	207
7	Visual Basic and VBA	210
7.1	The Visual Basic family	210
7.2	Visual Basic: the core language	213
7.3	The Visual Basic way of objects	230
7.4	Object models and type libraries	231
7.5	Working with objects	232
7.6	System objects	241
7.7	Event-driven programming	245
7.8	Working with Visual Basic (the application)	247
7.9	Reference: operators and operator precedence	255
8	Advanced Visual Basic	257
8.1	Developing Internet-aware applications	257
8.2	COM objects	262
8.3	The Visual Basic event model	264
8.4	Class modules	267
8.5	Drag-and-drop	276
8.6	Creating ActiveX controls	285
8.7	Interfacing to the Windows API	286
8.8	Accessing external databases	288
Part 3	Scripting Web Clients and Servers	293
9	JavaScript	295
9.1	What is JavaScript?	295
9.2	Object models	296
9.3	Design philosophy	297
9.4	Versions of JavaScript	297
9.5	The JavaScript core language	298
9.6	System objects	313
9.7	Advanced facilities	322
9.8	JavaScript and Java	324
9.9	JavaScript operators and precedence	325
10	VBScript	326
10.1	What is VBScript?	326
10.2	The VBScript core language	327
10.3	Objects in VBScript	335
10.4	New features in VBScript 5	338
11	Scripting Web clients and servers	344
11.1	Client-side Web scripting	344
11.2	Active Server Pages	362
12	Dynamic HTML and the DOM	368
12.1	From HTML to Dynamic HTML	368
12.2	Dynamic HTML	369
12.3	Document object models	369
12.4	The Netscape document object model	370
12.5	The Microsoft document object model	375
12.6	The W3C document object model (DOM)	380
12.7	The event model	381
12.8	DHTML scriptlets	391
Part 4	The Microsoft Scripting Model	395
13	Scripting Microsoft Office	397
13.1	VBA	397
13.2	Macros and macro languages	398
13.3	WordBasic	399
13.4	The Office object models	401
13.5	Programming the Word object model	404
13.6	Modifying Word's built-in dialogs	415
13.7	Events	415
13.8	Automation: programming the Office suite	418
13.9	Using the Windows API	422
13.10	Macro viruses	423
14	The Microsoft Scripting Runtime Library	425
14.1	Scripting hosts, scripting engines and object libraries	425
14.2	The Scripting Runtime Library	426
14.3	The Dictionary object	426
14.4	The File System Object Model	428
14.5	Working with the FileSystemObject object	430
14.6	The Drive object	432
14.7	The File and Folder objects	433
14.8	Text I/O with the TextStream object	435
15	The Windows Script Host and the Script Control	440
15.1	What is the Windows Script Host?	440
15.2	The Windows Script Host object model	441
15.3	Examples	444
15.4	The future of the Windows Script Host	446
15.5	The Script Control	446
Part 5	And Finally	449
16	Loose ends	451
16.1	Pre-history of scripting	451
16.2	Precursors of scripting	452
16.3	AWK	459
16.4	REXX	464
17	Epilogue	474
	Appendix	477
	Index	485
	Scripting Program Index	490