Perl is one of the important and the most powerful language available today, and Professional Perl Programming offers in-depth guide to utilizing some of the best features. The initial part covers almost all the significant details of the Perl language, from data types (including scalars, arrays, and hashes, which helps provide a unique personality Perl) to report the flow of control and their scoping rules. An important chapter presents an object-oriented Perl, including the design of a general class of structures such as inheritance. The emphasis of much of this book are details of the use of key Perl modules to perform basic and important tasks such as file I / O, working with files and directories, process control, and network. (In addition to fundamentals, the book examine optimize your regular expressions for better performance.) Then section shows you how to do networking in Perl, and how to get Perl to operate with C and even Java. The book concludes with a short list of Perl functions are available, as well as the most important Perl modules. Professional Perl Programming is not dumb down the subject is not Dragan. - Richard Topics covered: Introduction to Perl distribution and Running a Perl module on Unix, Windows and other platforms Intensive Perl and Perl programming tutorial string operators in detail Numbers Using scalars, lists, arrays, and hash data structures are complex and typeglobs expression and block Flow Statement subroutine loop control and Scope and visibility rules in Perl includes and uses the Perl module autoloading module Creating a module is installed in-depth tutorial for regular expressions (including performance tips) Perl file I / O and file handling (including working with files and directory) command line handling and / shellfish Terminal IO Warnings and errors in Perl Using Perl debugger Automated testing and profiling, text processing and reporting in an object-oriented Perl Perl (including the basic features of the design object-oriented classes such as inheritance) Integrating internal Perl Perl with C, Java, and COM Creating and manage the processes in Perl (including signals, IPC, and threads) Perl network (from the socket to the IP level is higher) technique for writing portable code Perl Unicode support Local and internationalization techniques in reference to Perl 5.6 Perl Functions Recording standard Perl modules