I wish I had purchased this book years ago

As a DBA, I bought this book to enhance my data manipulation skills with Perl but I found so much more in this compact book. David Cross provides many excellent code examples and explanations for common, non-database data manipulation tasks. For example: working on delimited and fixed-width text files and managing complex data structures in perl with array and hash refs. David has excellent communications skills as his examples and explanations taught me much about Perl that I did not previously understand completely. I also found the Chapter 4 on regular expressions to be one of the best and most concise. The only downside of this book is that I wish it had more pages to read! Regardless, it's a must-have perl book.

Other Reviews

• David Cross is usually funnier.
• No-nonsense resource for meat and potatoes Perl scripting
• I wish I had purchased this book years ago
• Belongs on every sysadmin's desk
• Valuable for its _clarity_