Intermediate Perl

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Perl programmers need a clear roadmap for improving their skills. Intermediate Perl teaches a working knowledge of Perl's objects, references, and modules -- all of which makes the language so versatile and effective. Written by the authors of the bestselling Llama book, Learning Perl, this guide offers a gentle but thorough introduction to intermediate programming in Perl. Topics include packages and namespaces, references and scoping, manipulating complex data structures, writing and using modules, package implementation, and using CPAN.  Read more... Abstract: Perl programmers need a clear roadmap for improving their skills. Intermediate Perl teaches a working knowledge of Perl's objects, references, and modules -- all of which makes the language so versatile and effective. Written by the authors of the bestselling Llama book, Learning Perl, this guide offers a gentle but thorough introduction to intermediate programming in Perl. Topics include packages and namespaces, references and scoping, manipulating complex data structures, writing and using modules, package implementation, and using CPAN Content: Intermediate Perl Preface Conventions Used in This Book Using Code Examples Comments and Questions Safari® Enabled Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 1.2. What About All Those Footnotes? 1.3. What & s with the Exercises? 1.4. What If I & m a Perl Course Instructor? 2. Intermediate Foundations 2.1.2. Transforming Lists with map 2.2. Trapping Errors with eval 2.3. Dynamic Code with eval 2.4. Exercises 2.4.2. Exercise 2 [25 min] 3. Using Modules 3.2. Using Modules 3.3. Functional Interfaces 3.4. Selecting What to Import 3.5. Object-Oriented Interfaces. 3.6. A More Typical Object-Oriented Module: Math::BigInt3.7. The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network 3.8. Installing Modules from CPAN 3.9. Setting the Path at the Right Time 3.10. Exercises 3.10.2. Exercise 2 [35 min] 4. Introduction to References 4.2. Taking a Reference to an Array 4.3. Dereferencing the Array Reference 4.4. Getting Our Braces Off 4.5. Modifying the Array 4.6. Nested Data Structures 4.7. Simplifying Nested Element References wit.