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Description: The book is definetely written for those who at least have some (or maybe a little more than just "some") programming background, and willing to learn Perl from the author of the language. I read the first edition of the book, which was about 200 pages, or something in that range, which filled my mind with nothing but questions. Current edition, however, could answer to all of those questions (well, almost). Of course, to make it answer them I had to re-read the book four times. But none of the books I currently own (and I own quite a few) could've taken me to the innards of the language so deep no matter how many times I had read them. So the book is of value. The Camel book, especially, does a great job on Regular Expressions and pattern matching. If you want to learn RegEx of perl in very details, you definitely need listen to the author of Perl. "Mastering Regular Expressions" by Jeffrey Friedl is also a good choise, but doesn't include the latest updates. Formats aren't covered v ..
| ISBN: |
0596000278 |
| Release Date: |
July, 2000 |
| List Price: |
$34.97 |
| Author: |
Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, Jon Orwant |
| Publisher: |
O'Reilly & Associates |
| Last Updated: |
06/26/2003 |
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0.00 (out of 5)