PERL for Dummies Book

Introduction.

PART I: Getting Started with Perl.

Chapter 1: Perl's Place in the Programming World.

Chapter 2: Running Perl on Your Computer.

Chapter 3: Diving into the Guts of Perl.

Chapter 4: A Perl Program Tour, Times Two.

PART II: The Basic Perl Programming Ingredients.

Chapter 5: Terrific Text.

Chapter 6: Nifty Numbers.

Chapter 7: Learning to Love Lists.

Chapter 8: Creating Cool Conditionals and Lovely Loops.

Chapter 9: Doing Advanced Stuff with Operators and Functions.

PART III: The Nuts and Bolts of Pert.

Chapter 10: Perl and CGI: Web Server Programs Demystified.

Chapter 11: The Files Go In, The Files Go Out.

Chapter 12: Beyond File and Directory Basics.

Chapter 13: Stringing Along: Pattern Matching and Regular Expressions.

Chapter 14: Looking Like a Pro: Subroutines, Imported Code, and Graceful Exits.

PART IV: Advanced Pert Demystified.

Chapter 15: Perl Gets Cozy with the Web, E-Mail, and XML.

Chapter 16: Associative Arrays and Multidimensional Lists.

Chapter 17: Dancing with Databases.

Chapter 18: Controlling Your Computer from Perl.

Chapter 19: Object-Oriented Perl.

PART V: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 20: Ten Guidelines for Programming with Style.

Chapter 21: Ten Really Short, Really Useful Perl Programs.

Chapter 22: Ten Advanced Perl Topics.

Chapter 23: Ten Great Perl Web Sites.

Chapter 24: Ten Cool Features Introduced with Perl 5.

Chapter 25: Ten Reasons Why Perl Is Better Than Java.

PART VI: Appendixes.

Appendix A: The Great Perl Reference.

Appendix B: About theCD.

Index.

Hungry Minds End-User License Agreement.

Installation Instructions.

Book Registration Information.