Description: "Advanced Perl Programming" says in the Preface that it has two goals: 1) "To make you a perl expert" and 2) "to supplement your current arsenal of techniques and tools for crafting applications". If you want to buy this book because of the first goal mentioned above, you'll be decieved. Because the book doesn't cover all the issues in details to be able to make one a "Perl expert". To achieve that goal, I recommend you to go for "Programming Perl", "Perl Cookbook", "Object Oriented Perl" and "Mastering Regular expression". Those four all together will make a "perl expert" out of you. The book only meets its second goal, but only partially. Chapter 1 covers some basic data structure and introduces to references/pointers as they are implemented in Perl. The chapter is 22 pages only. Chapter 2, "Implementing Complex Data Structures" does show the implementation of some complex tasks using Perl's multi-dimensional data structures. It lasts about 14 pages You might find chapter 3, "Type ..
ISBN:
1565922204
Release Date:
August, 1997
List Price:
$24.47
Author:
Sriram Srinivasan
Publisher:
O'Reilly & Associates
Last Updated:
06/26/2003
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