Beginning Perl Second Edition Author:James Lee, Peter Wainwright Beginning Perl, Second Edition is a well-named text that starts exactly where it claims This book is a fine place to start. — James Edward Gray II, Slashdot contributor ...there are great examples, and projects assigned after each chapter to help you really understand and remember how to code in Perl. — Mark Spritzl... more »er, JavaRanch Bartender This book is a well-conceived introduction to Perl in tutorial form... A Very Good Book. :) :) :) :) of 5. — George Woolley of Oakland Perl Mongers The Perl (this book) teaches is strong industry-standard Perl that is considered best practice. — Jack Herrington, Editor, Code Generation Network Immensely popular Perl combines the best features of C, key UNIX utilities, and powerful regular expressions. Perl is commonly used for web programming, as well as email and Usenet news filtering. Fast becoming the system administrators scripting language of choice, Perl is also useful for file and directory manipulation, database access, and a broad range of daily system operator chores. This second edition emphasizes the cross-platform nature of Perl. Throughout the book, author James Lee promotes Perl as a legible, sensible programming language and dispels the myth that Perl is confusing and obscure. Perfect for the beginning Perl user looking to gain a quick and masterful grasp on the language, this concise and focused book begins with the basics and moves on to more advanced features of Perl, including references, modules, and object-oriented programming.« less