Ebook: Programming Perl: Unmatched Power for Text Processing and Scripting
- Genre: Computers // Programming: Programming Languages
- Tags: Perl, Perl Programming, Unicode, Data Structures, Packages, Modules, Perl Object System, Object-Oriented Programming, IPC, Interprocess Communication, Perl Debugger, CPAN, Secure Code, POD, Plain Old Documentation, Perl Culture, Standard Perl Library, Pragmatic Modules
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media
- City: Sebastopol, CA
- Edition: 4
- Language: English
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Adopted as the undisputed Perl bible soon after the first edition appeared in 1991, Programming Perl is still the go-to guide for this highly practical language. Perl began life as a super-fueled text processing utility, but quickly evolved into a general purpose programming language that’s helped hundreds of thousands of programmers, system administrators, and enthusiasts, like you, get your job done.
In this much-anticipated update to "the Camel," three renowned Perl authors cover the language up to its current version, Perl 5.14, with a preview of features in the upcoming 5.16. In a world where Unicode is increasingly essential for text processing, Perl offers the best and least painful support of any major language, smoothly integrating Unicode everywhere—including in Perl’s most popular feature: regular expressions.
Important features covered by this update include:
- New keywords and syntax
- I/O layers and encodings
- New backslash escapes
- Unicode 6.0
- Unicode grapheme clusters and properties
- Named captures in regexes
- Recursive and grammatical patterns
- Expanded coverage of CPAN
- Current best practices