Perl: The Complete Reference by Martin C. Brown (PDF)

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Updated to incorporate Perl 5.6, this guide utilizes hundreds of real-world examples and advanced techniques that a successful applications developer needs, detailed explanations of programming and the Data Definition Language elements, and advice on database design, web site applications, modeling details, and cross-platform solutions. Original. (Intermediate)

User’s Reviews

Editorial Reviews: From the Back Cover The Most Comprehensive Perl Resource Available!Learn all you need to know about Perl from this definitive, hands-on reference. Perl expert Martin Brown will walk you through everything–from the basics of writing your first script and understanding Perl’s syntax to the complexities of processing data, communicating with external databases, and communicating over the Web. Along the way, you’ll learn how to network, design user interfaces, and write scripts that work under UNIX, Windows, and MacOS. Also covers how to interface to an external C library and embed the Perl interpreter into your C programs. For building, developing, and fine-tuning robust Perl applications, you’ll want this thorough guide! Master Perl basics–understand the building blocks of expressions, statements and declarations Learn to create your code with subroutines, packages and modules Communicate with external files, databases and other machines over your network Convert your subroutines and modules into methods and objects Organize your data with Perl’s complex structures and interfaces Create cross-platform compatible user interface solutions Work with XML, HTML, and generate Web scripts to solve your problems Maximize your scripts performance and debug your code before it’s released About the Author Martin C. Brown is the author of Perl: The Complete Reference and Perl Annotated Archives. He has more than 15 years of multi-platform programming experience in Perl, Shellscript, Basic, Pascal, C/C++, Java, JavaScript, VBScript, and Awk.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐I felt this book fell into the trap that many teaching books fall into – it assumes that the reader is at the same level as the author.Don’t get me wrong, it was a *very* useful book, but it could have been a lot clearer about many of the key issues.For a beginner – don’t buy this book. For an “advanced beginner”, do =D

⭐This book is an outstanding Perl REFERENCE.It’s perfect for those times when you need something done in Perl but can’t recall the syntax, semantics or parameters of some construct or function, or just when looking for a way to do something. I use it daily when writing in Perl, preferring it over perldoc and half a bookshelf of other Perl books that I have access to – it’s that much better.It’s not a “tutorial”, though, and it’s not “for dummies”. While you can certainly learn Perl from scratch using just this volume, I would advise against that if you’re a TOTAL programming beginner. There are better “tutorial” books out there, get one of those and then get this as a reference. If you’re a programmer already proficient in some other language, you won’t have much of a problem switching to Perl using just this book.Pros :* it’s very readable* goes into considerable detail – mind the page count!* the explanations are to the point – no useless stories or “cute” stuff* summary tables are there when they ought to be – easy on the eyes* it has a very comprehensive index – a must for a reference* it’s original content – not a perldoc rehash like some other books * for each function there’s an additional short summary including scalar/list context return values (love that one!).Cons :* it’s… big. physically. not very convenient – but the content is well worth it!* it’s slightly dated (it covers Perl 5.6) but that hardly shows as of 5.8* the more serious problem is that of availability – you can hardly find this book in stores nowadays, no idea why.In a word, if you’re shopping for a Perl reference – this is the book to get.

⭐Apparently, this book is not for beginners. You will get lost if you try to learn perl by yourself. It may be a good reference book, I think, after I read the exhaustive listing of I/O variations.

⭐Terrible book for learning Perl. As an example, I needed to know how to add an element to the end of an array. So I went to the ‘Variables and Data’ chapter where there is a section on arrays. Well, it mentions how to create an array, how to change the value of a specific array position and thats about it. I had to search online to find out how to do a very basic thing–add to the end of an array. The ‘Variables and Data’ section makes no mention of using ‘push(@array, “whatever”)’. I keep having to search online for very basic things that should be easily found in this book. Oh, and starting the book by talking in-depth about ‘Perl parsing rules’–I got confused from the start. Definitely not something you want to learn Perl with.

⭐Exactly as you expect. Good quality, excellent reference book. Had this book a while, and it sits on my desk along with the C books, regex, etc. Good stuff…

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