This book aims to give existing Perl programmers more detailed knowledge of some of the more advanced elements of the language.

In the days before personal computers, BASIC was the easy programming language to learn, and serious programmers learned FORTRAN or COBOL to do “real work.”

Perl was originally written by Larry Wall while he was working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labs. Larry is an Internet legend, known not just for Perl, but as the

A guide to getting the most out of Perl covers such topics as productivity hacks, user interaction, data munging, working with modules, object hacks, and debugg

* Functions as the most up-to-date beginner’s Perl book, current through Perl version 5.8.2. * Covers what a new Perl programmer needs to know, using real-wor