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With a worldwide community of users and more than a million dedicated programmers, Perl has proven to be the most effective language for the latest trends in computing and business.

Every programmer must keep up with the latest tools and techniques. This updated version of Advanced Perl Programming from O'Reilly gives you the essential knowledge of the modern Perl programmer. Whatever your current level of Perl expertise, this book will help you push your skills to the next level and become a more accomplished programmer.

O'Reilly's most high-level Perl tutorial to date, Advanced Perl Programming, Second Edition teaches you all the complex techniques for production-ready Perl programs. This completely updated guide clearly explains concepts such as introspection, overriding built-ins, extending Perl's object-oriented model, and testing your code for greater stability.

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What makes an “advanced” Perl programmer? Not just familiarity with technique but clarity about what works and what doesn’t. Not just strong coding skills but the ability to make the most of CPAN. Simon Cozens’ Advanced Perl Programming, Second Edition is about gaining all that knowledge.

A comprehensive revamp of Sriram Srinivasan’s older book by the same name, this book reflects key trends in Perl development while focusing more heavily on practical problem solving. Cozens’ elegant solutions range from introspection to object serialization, templating to Unicode. He takes on “hard” problems, such as parsing and natural language processing, and presents a full chapter on using inline modules to efficiently access the power of libraries from other languages. Read this book, and you’ll think about Perl in powerful new ways -- no matter what you’re doing with it. Bill Camarda, from the August 2005 Read Only

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780596004569
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/10/2005
Edition description: Second Edition
Edition number: 2
Pages: 300
Sales rank: 1,132,777
Product dimensions: 7.00 (w) x 9.19 (h) x 0.63 (d)

Meet the Author

Simon Cozens is an Open Source programmer and author. He has released over a hundred Perl modules including Email::Simple, Mail::Audit, Maypole, Plucene, and B::Generate. He's the co-author of Beginning Perl (Wrox) and Extending and Embedding Perl (Manning) and was the managing editor of Perl.com from 2001 to 2004. A graduate in Japanese from Oxford University, he now lives in Wales and enjoys Japanese and Greek food, bizarre music and fine typography.

Preface; Audience; Contents; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; We'd Like to Hear from You; Safari® Enabled; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Advanced Techniques; 1.1 Introspection; 1.2 Messing with the Class Model; 1.3 Unexpected Code; 1.4 Conclusion; Chapter 2: Parsing Techniques; 2.1 Parse::RecDescent Grammars; 2.2 Parse::Yapp; 2.3 Other Parsing Techniques; 2.4 Conclusion; Chapter 3: Templating Tools; 3.1 Formats and Text::Autoformat; 3.2 Text::Template; 3.3 HTML::Template; 3.4 HTML::Mason; 3.5 Template Toolkit; 3.6 AxKit; 3.7 Conclusion; Chapter 4: Objects, Databases, and Applications; 4.1 Beyond Flat Files; 4.2 Object Serialization; 4.3 Object Databases; 4.4 Database Abstraction; 4.5 Practical Uses in Web Applications; 4.6 Conclusion; Chapter 5: Natural Language Tools; 5.1 Perl and Natural Languages; 5.2 Handling English Text; 5.3 Modules for Parsing English; 5.4 Categorization and Extraction; 5.5 Conclusion; Chapter 6: Perl and Unicode; 6.1 Terminology; 6.2 What Is Unicode?; 6.3 Unicode Transformation Formats; 6.4 Handling UTF-8 Data; 6.5 Encode; 6.6 Unicode for XS Authors; 6.7 Conclusion; Chapter 7: POE; 7.1 Programming in an Event-Driven Environment; 7.2 Top-Level Pieces: Components; 7.3 Conclusion; Chapter 8: Testing; 8.1 Test::Simple; 8.2 Test::More; 8.3 Test::Harness; 8.4 Test::Builder; 8.5 Test::Builder::Tester; 8.6 Keeping Tests and Code Together; 8.7 Unit Tests; 8.8 Conclusion; Chapter 9: Inline Extensions; 9.1 Simple Inline::C; 9.2 More Complex Tasks with Inline::C; 9.3 Inline:: Everything Else; 9.4 Conclusion; Chapter 10: Fun with Perl; 10.1 Obfuscation; 10.2 Just Another Perl Hacker; 10.3 Perl Golf; 10.4 Perl Poetry; 10.5 Acme::*; 10.6 Conclusion; Colophon;

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Anonymous

Posted August 20, 2005

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING PERL ENVIRONMENT

The Perl world has changed drastically in the last five years! Author Simon Cozens has done an outstanding job of keeping up with those changes in this 2nd edition of the book by taking you through some of the most important Perl techniques and resources available at the moment. Cozens begins by introducing a few common tricks advanced Perl programmers use with examples from popular Perl modules. Next, the author covers parsing irregular or unstructured data with Parse::RecDescent and Parse::Yapp, plus parsing HTML and XML. Then, he details some of the most common tools for templating and when to use them, including formats, Text::Template, HTML::Template, HTML::Mason, and the Template Toolkit. The author continues by explaining various ways to efficiently store and retrieve complex data using objects--a concept commonly called object-relational mapping. In addition, the author next shows you some of the ways Perl can manipulate natural language data: inflections, conversions, parsing, extraction, and Bayesian analysis. He also reviews some of the problems and solutions to make the most of Perl's Unicode support. The author next looks at the popular Perl event-based environment for task scheduling, multitasking, and non-blocking I/O code. Next, the author covers the essentials of testing your code. Then, he talks about how to extend Perl by writing code in other languages, using the Inline::* modules. Finally, he closes on a lighter note with a few recreational use of Perl. With the preceding in mind, the author has done an excellent job of making sure that you will have a good idea of how to use what's available in Perl and, how you can save yourself time and effort by using Perl and the resources available to get the job done. At the end of the day, you'll be ready to use and integrate whatever developments come down the line.
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