Beginning Perl, Third Edition provides valuable insight into the role of Perl? About all the tasks and more. Beginning with a comprehensive picture of the basics of the language, you? Will learn all about important concepts such as Perl type s? Data and flow control construction. Furthermore, the book moves into advanced topics of object-oriented programming, modules, web programming, and database administration with Perl's powerful database interface module, DBI?. The examples and code provided offer all the information you need to start writing your own powerful scripts to solve problems listed above, and more. Whether you are a complete beginner or an experienced programmer, Beginning Perl, Third Edition offers an ideal guide to learning Perl. What are you? Will learn how to use the power of Perl How to handle data structures Perl How to build database applications regardless of the database How to parse a complex data How to write industrial-strength object-oriented Perl How to start a web programming Perl Who is this book? Think again. Table of contents Chapter 1: First Step in a Perl Chapter 2: scalar Chapter 3: Flow Control Building Chapter 4: Lists and Array Chapter 5: hashes Chapter 6: The subroutine / function Chapter 7: Regular Expressions Chapter 8: Files and Data Chapter 9: Processing Strings Chapter 10: Interfacing to the Operating System Chapter 11: References Chapter 12: Module Chapter 13: Object-Oriented Perl Chapter 14: Introduction to CGI Chapter 15: Perl and DBI