Programming Perl, 4th Edition

                  Programming Perl, 4th Edition,Book review

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

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Programming Perl, 4th Edition

Publisher: O’Reilly Media

By Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall, Jon Orwant

Print ISBN: 9780596004927

Ebook ISBN: 9781449398903  

Pages: 1184

Print Price: $54.99

Ebook Price: $39.99