Presents guidelines on the art of coding with Perl, covering such topics as references and scoping, object-oriented programing, writing and using modules, testing Perl code, and contributing to CPAN.

Foreword

Preface

1．Introduction

what Should YOU Know Already?

What About AU Those Footnotes?

What’S with the Exercises?

What If I’m a Perl Course Instructor?

2．Intermediate Foundations

List Operators

Trapping Errors with eval

Dynamic Code with eval

Exercises

3．Using Modules

The Standard Distribution

Using Modules

Functional Interfaces

Selecting What to Import

Object．Oriented Inteffaces

A More Typical Object—Oriented Module：Math：BigInt

The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network

Installing Modules from CPAN

Setting the Path at the Right Time

Exercises

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4．Introduction to References

5．References and Scoping

6．Manipulating Complex Data Structures

7．Subroutine References

8．Filehandle References

9．Practical Reference Tricks

10．Building Larger Programs

11．Introduction to Objects

12．Objects with Data

13．Object Destruction

14．Some Advanced Object Topics

15．Exporter

16．Writing a Distribution

17．Essential Testing

18．Advanced Testing

19．Contributing to CPAN

Appedix: Answers to Exercises

Index