Perl in a Nutshell

Preface; How This Book Is Organized; Conventions in This Book; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments for the First Edition; Acknowledgments for the Second Edition; Part I: Getting Started; Chapter 1: Introduction to Perl; 1.1 What's Perl Good For?; 1.2 Perl Development; 1.3 Which Platforms Support Perl?; 1.4 Perl Resources; Chapter 2: Installing Perl; 2.1 The CPAN Architecture; 2.2 How Is CPAN Organized?; 2.3 Installing Perl; 2.4 Getting and Installing Modules; 2.5 Documentation; Part II: Language Basics; Chapter 3: The Perl Executable; 3.1 Command Processing; 3.2 Command-Line Options; 3.3 Environment Variables; 3.4 The Perl Compiler; 3.5 Threads; Chapter 4: The Perl Language; 4.1 Program Structure; 4.2 Data Types and Variables; 4.3 Statements; 4.4 Special Variables; 4.5 Operators; 4.6 Regular Expressions; 4.7 Subroutines; 4.8 References and Complex Data Structures; 4.9 Filehandles; 4.10 Signals; 4.11 Unicode; 4.12 Formats; 4.13 Pod; Chapter 5: Function Reference; 5.1 Perl Functions by Category; 5.2 abs; 5.3 accept; 5.4 alarm; 5.5 atan2; 5.6 bind; 5.7 binmode; 5.8 bless; 5.9 caller; 5.10 chdir; 5.11 chmod; 5.12 chomp; 5.13 chop; 5.14 chown; 5.15 chr; 5.16 chroot; 5.17 close; 5.18 closedir; 5.19 connect; 5.20 cos; 5.21 crypt; 5.22 dbmclose; 5.23 dbmopen; 5.24 defined; 5.25 delete; 5.26 die; 5.27 do; 5.28 dump; 5.29 each; 5.30 endgrent; 5.31 endhostent; 5.32 endnetent; 5.33 endprotoent; 5.34 endpwent; 5.35 endservent; 5.36 eof; 5.37 eval; 5.38 exec; 5.39 exists; 5.40 exit; 5.41 exp; 5.42 fcntl; 5.43 fileno; 5.44 flock; 5.45 fork; 5.46 formline; 5.47 getc; 5.48 getgrent; 5.49 getgrgid; 5.50 getgrnam; 5.51 gethostbyaddr; 5.52 gethostbyname; 5.53 gethostent; 5.54 getlogin; 5.55 getnetbyaddr; 5.56 getnetbyname; 5.57 getnetent; 5.58 getpeername; 5.59 getpgrp; 5.60 getppid; 5.61 getpriority; 5.62 getprotobyname; 5.63 getprotobynumber; 5.64 getprotoent; 5.65 getpwent; 5.66 getpwnam; 5.67 getpwuid; 5.68 getservbyname; 5.69 getservbyport; 5.70 getservent; 5.71 getsockname; 5.72 getsockopt; 5.73 glob; 5.74 gmtime; 5.75 goto; 5.76 grep; 5.77 hex; 5.78 index; 5.79 int; 5.80 ioctl; 5.81 join; 5.82 keys; 5.83 kill; 5.84 last; 5.85 lc; 5.86 lcfirst; 5.87 length; 5.88 link; 5.89 listen; 5.90 local; 5.91 localtime; 5.92 log; 5.93 lstat; 5.94 map; 5.95 mkdir; 5.96 msgctl; 5.97 msgget; 5.98 msgrcv; 5.99 msgsnd; 5.100 my; 5.101 next; 5.102 no; 5.103 oct; 5.104 open; 5.105 opendir; 5.106 ord; 5.107 our; 5.108 pack; 5.109 package; 5.110 pipe; 5.111 pop; 5.112 pos; 5.113 print; 5.114 printf; 5.115 prototype; 5.116 push; 5.117 q/string/; 5.118 quotemeta; 5.119 rand; 5.120 read; 5.121 readdir; 5.122 readline; 5.123 readlink; 5.124 readpipe; 5.125 recv; 5.126 redo; 5.127 ref; 5.128 rename; 5.129 require; 5.130 reset; 5.131 return; 5.132 reverse; 5.133 rewinddir; 5.134 rindex; 5.135 rmdir; 5.136 scalar; 5.137 seek; 5.138 seekdir; 5.139 select; 5.140 select; 5.141 semctl; 5.142 semget; 5.143 semop; 5.144 send; 5.145 sethostent; 5.146 setgrent; 5.147 setnetent; 5.148 setpgrp; 5.149 setpriority; 5.150 setprotoent; 5.151 setpwent; 5.152 setservent; 5.153 setsockopt; 5.154 shift; 5.155 shmctl; 5.156 shmget; 5.157 shmread; 5.158 shmwrite; 5.159 shutdown; 5.160 sin; 5.161 sleep; 5.162 socket; 5.163 socketpair; 5.164 sort; 5.165 splice; 5.166 split; 5.167 sprintf; 5.168 sqrt; 5.169 srand; 5.170 stat; 5.171 study; 5.172 sub; 5.173 substr; 5.174 symlink; 5.175 syscall; 5.176 sysopen; 5.177 sysread; 5.178 sysseek; 5.179 system; 5.180 syswrite; 5.181 tell; 5.182 telldir; 5.183 tie; 5.184 tied; 5.185 time; 5.186 times; 5.187 truncate; 5.188 uc; 5.189 ucfirst; 5.190 umask; 5.191 undef; 5.192 unlink; 5.193 unpack; 5.194 unshift; 5.195 untie; 5.196 use; 5.197 utime; 5.198 values; 5.199 vec; 5.200 wait; 5.201 waitpid; 5.202 wantarray; 5.203 warn; 5.204 write; Chapter 6: Debugging; 6.1 The Perl Debugger; 6.2 Debugger Commands; 6.3 Using the Debugger; 6.4 Customizing the Debugger; 6.5 The Perl Profiler; 6.6 The perlbug Program; Part III: Modules; Chapter 7: Packages, Modules, and Objects; 7.1 Namespaaaaaaces and Packages; 7.2 Modules; 7.3 Object-Oriented Perl; 7.4 Object Syntax; Chapter 8: Standard Modules; 8.1 AnyDBM_File; 8.2 Attribute::Handlers; 8.3 attributes; 8.4 attrs; 8.5 AutoLoader; 8.6 AutoSplit; 8.7 autouse; 8.8 B; 8.9 B::Asmdata; 8.10 B::Assembler; 8.11 B::Bblock; 8.12 B::Bytecode; 8.13 B::C; 8.14 B::CC; 8.15 B::Concise; 8.16 B::Debug; 8.17 B::Deparse; 8.18 B::Disassembler; 8.19 B::Lint; 8.20 B::Showlex; 8.21 B::Stackobj; 8.22 B::Terse; 8.23 B::Xref; 8.24 base; 8.25 Benchmark; 8.26 bigint; 8.27 bignum; 8.28 bigrat; 8.29 blib; 8.30 bytes; 8.31 ByteLoader; 8.32 Carp; 8.33 CGI; 8.34 CGI::Apache; 8.35 CGI::Carp; 8.36 CGI::Cookie; 8.37 CGI::Fast; 8.38 CGI::Pretty; 8.39 CGI::Push; 8.40 CGI::Switch; 8.41 charnames; 8.42 Class::ISA; 8.43 Class::Struct; 8.44 Config; 8.45 constant; 8.46 CPAN; 8.47 CPAN::FirstTime; 8.48 CPAN::Nox; 8.49 Cwd; 8.50 Data::Dumper; 8.51 DB; 8.52 DB_File; 8.53 Devel::DProf; 8.54 Devel::PPPort; 8.55 Devel::SelfStubber; 8.56 diagnostics; 8.57 Digest; 8.58 Digest::MD5; 8.59 DirHandle; 8.60 Dumpvalue; 8.61 DynaLoader; 8.62 encoding; 8.63 English; 8.64 Env; 8.65 Errno; 8.66 Exporter; 8.67 ExtUtils::Command; 8.68 ExtUtils::Command::MM; 8.69 ExtUtils::Constant; 8.70 ExtUtils::Embed; 8.71 ExtUtils::Install; 8.72 ExtUtils::Installed; 8.73 ExtUtils::Liblist; 8.74 ExtUtils::MakeMaker; 8.75 ExtUtils::Manifest; 8.76 ExtUtils::Miniperl; 8.77 ExtUtils::Mkbootstrap; 8.78 ExtUtils::Mksymlists; 8.79 ExtUtils::MM; 8.80 ExtUtils::MM_Any; 8.81 ExtUtils::MM_BeOS; 8.82 ExtUtils::MM_DOS; 8.83 ExtUtils::MM_NW5; 8.84 ExtUtils::MM_OS2; 8.85 ExtUtils::MM_Unix; 8.86 ExtUtils::MM_UWIN; 8.87 ExtUtils::MM_VMS; 8.88 ExtUtils::MM_Win32; 8.89 ExtUtils::MY; 8.90 ExtUtils::Packlist; 8.91 ExtUtils::testlib; 8.92 Fatal; 8.93 Fcntl; 8.94 fields; 8.95 File::Basename; 8.96 File::CheckTree; 8.97 File::Compare; 8.98 File::Copy; 8.99 File::DosGlob; 8.100 File::Find; 8.101 File::Path; 8.102 File::Spec; 8.103 File::Spec::Cygwin; 8.104 File::Spec::Mac; 8.105 File::Spec::OS2; 8.106 File::Spec::Unix; 8.107 File::Spec::VMS; 8.108 File::Spec::Win32; 8.109 File::stat; 8.110 File::Temp; 8.111 FileCache; 8.112 FileHandle; 8.113 Filter::Simple; 8.114 Filter::Util::Call; 8.115 FindBin; 8.116 GDBM_File; 8.117 Getopt::Long; 8.118 Getopt::Std; 8.119 Hash::Util; 8.120 I18N::Collate; 8.121 I18N::Langinfo; 8.122 I18N::LangTags; 8.123 I18N::LangTags::List; 8.124 if; 8.125 integer; 8.126 IO; 8.127 IO::File; 8.128 IO::Handle; 8.129 IO::Pipe; 8.130 IO::Seekable; 8.131 IO::Select; 8.132 IO::Socket; 8.133 IPC::Msg; 8.134 IPC::Open2; 8.135 IPC::Open3; 8.136 IPC::Semaphore; 8.137 IPC::SysV; 8.138 less; 8.139 lib; 8.140 List::Util; 8.141 locale; 8.142 Math::BigFloat; 8.143 Math::BigInt; 8.144 Math::BigInt::Calc; 8.145 Math::BigRat; 8.146 Math::Complex; 8.147 Math::Trig; 8.148 MIME::Base64; 8.149 MIME::QuotedPrint; 8.150 NDBM_File; 8.151 Net::Cmd; 8.152 Net::Config; 8.153 Net::Domain; 8.154 Net::FTP; 8.155 Net::hostent; 8.156 Net::netent; 8.157 Net::Netrc; 8.158 Net::NNTP; 8.159 Net::Ping; 8.160 Net::POP3; 8.161 Net::protoent; 8.162 Net::servent; 8.163 Net::SMTP; 8.164 Net::Time; 8.165 O; 8.166 ODBM_File; 8.167 Opcode; 8.168 ops; 8.169 overload; 8.170 PerlIO; 8.171 PerlIO::Scalar; 8.172 PerlIO::Via; 8.173 Pod::Functions; 8.174 Pod::Html; 8.175 Pod::ParseLink; 8.176 Pod::Text; 8.177 POSIX; 8.178 re; 8.179 Safe; 8.180 Scalar::Util; 8.181 SDBM_File; 8.182 Search::Dict; 8.183 SelectSaver; 8.184 SelfLoader; 8.185 Shell; 8.186 sigtrap; 8.187 Socket; 8.188 sort; 8.189 Storable; 8.190 strict; 8.191 subs; 8.192 Switch; 8.193 Symbol; 8.194 Sys::Hostname; 8.195 Sys::Syslog; 8.196 Term::Cap; 8.197 Term::Complete; 8.198 Term::ReadLine; 8.199 Test; 8.200 Test::Builder; 8.201 Test::Harness; 8.202 Test::More; 8.203 Test::Simple; 8.204 Text::Abbrev; 8.205 Text::Balanced; 8.206 Text::ParseWords; 8.207 Text::Soundex; 8.208 Text::Tabs; 8.209 Text::Wrap; 8.210 Thread; 8.211 Thread::Queue; 8.212 Thread::Semaphore; 8.213 Thread::Signal; 8.214 Thread::Specific; 8.215 Tie::Array, Tie::StdArray; 8.216 Tie::File; 8.217 Tie::Handle; 8.218 Tie::Hash; 8.219 Tie::Memoize; 8.220 Tie::RefHash; 8.221 Tie::Scalar; 8.222 Tie::SubstrHash; 8.223 Time::gmtime; 8.224 Time::HiRes; 8.225 Time::Local; 8.226 Time::localtime; 8.227 Time::tm; 8.228 UNIVERSAL; 8.229 User::grent; 8.230 User::pwent; 8.231 utf8; 8.232 vars; 8.233 vmsish; 8.234 XS::Typemap; Part IV: CGI; Chapter 9: CGI Overview; 9.1 A Typical CGI Interaction; 9.2 URL Encoding; 9.3 Extra Path Information; 9.4 CGI Environment Variables; Chapter 10: The CGI.pm Module; 10.1 HTML Tag Generation; 10.2 Importing Method Groups; 10.3 Maintaining State; 10.4 Named Parameters; 10.5 Using JavaScript Features; 10.6 Debugging; 10.7 CGI.pm Reference; Chapter 11: Web Server Programming with mod_perl; 11.1 Design of mod_perl; 11.2 Installing mod_perl; 11.3 mod_perl Handlers; 11.4 Running CGI Scripts with mod_perl; 11.5 Server-Side Includes with mod_perl; 11.6 Sections; 11.7 Apache:: Modules; Part V: Databases; Chapter 12: Databases and Perl; 12.1 DBM Databases and DBM Hashes; 12.2 Design of DBI; 12.3 DBI Methods; 12.4 DBI Environment Variables; Part VI: XML and SOAP; Chapter 13: XML and Perl; 13.1 XML Parsing and Validation; 13.2 XML::Parser Methods; 13.3 Expat Handlers; 13.4 XML::Parser Styles; 13.5 Expat Encodings; 13.6 XML::Parser::ContentModel Methods; Chapter 14: SOAP; 14.1 What Is SOAP?; 14.2 SOAP::Lite; 14.3 SOAP::Data; 14.4 SOAP::Serializer; 14.5 SOAP::Fault; Part VII: Network Programming; Chapter 15: Sockets; 15.1 Built-in Socket Functions; 15.2 The IO::Socket Module; Chapter 16: Email Connectivity; 16.1 The Net Modules; 16.2 The Mail Modules; Chapter 17: Usenet News; 17.1 The NNTP Protocol; 17.2 Net::NNTP; 17.3 The News::Newsrc Module; Chapter 18: FTP; 18.1 The FTP Protocol; 18.2 Net::FTP; 18.3 FTP Configuration with Net::Netrc; Chapter 19: Lightweight Directory Access with Net::LDAP; 19.1 How Data Is Stored in LDAP; 19.2 Searching an LDAP Directory with Net::LDAP; 19.3 Adding an Entry to the Directory with Net::LDAP; 19.4 Net::LDAP Methods; Part VIII: LWP; Chapter 20: The LWP Library; 20.1 LWP Overview; 20.2 The LWP Modules; 20.3 The HTTP Modules; 20.4 The HTML Modules; 20.5 The URI Module; Part IX: Perl/Tk; Chapter 21: Perl/Tk; 21.1 Widgets; 21.2 Geometry Managers; 21.3 Common Widget Configuration Options; 21.4 The Button Widget; 21.5 The Checkbutton Widget; 21.6 The Radiobutton Widget; 21.7 The Label Widget; 21.8 The Entry Widget; 21.9 The Scrollbar Widget; 21.10 The Listbox Widget; 21.11 The Text Widget; 21.12 The Canvas Widget; 21.13 The Scale Widget; 21.14 The Menubutton Widget; 21.15 The Menu Widget; 21.16 The Optionmenu Widget; 21.17 The Frame Widget; 21.18 The Toplevel Widget; Part X: Win32; Chapter 22: Win32 Modules and Extensions; 22.1 Win32::Clipboard; 22.2 Win32::Console; 22.3 Win32::ChangeNotify; 22.4 Win32::Eventlog; 22.5 Win32::File; 22.6 Win32::FileSecurity; 22.7 Win32::Internet; 22.8 Win32::IPC; 22.9 Win32::Mutex; 22.10 Win32::NetAdmin; 22.11 Win32::NetResource; 22.12 Win32::PerfLib; 22.13 Win32::Pipe; 22.14 Win32::Process; 22.15 Win32::Registry; 22.16 Win32::Semaphore; 22.17 Win32::Service; 22.18 Win32::Shortcut; 22.19 Win32 Extensions; Chapter 23: OLE Automation; 23.1 Creating Objects; 23.2 Automation Methods and Properties; 23.3 Win32::OLE::Enum; 23.4 Win32::OLE::Variant; 23.5 Win32::OLE::Const; Chapter 24: ODBC Extension for Win32; 24.1 ODBC Methods and Properties; Colophon;