Rothwell, William Bo

Pro perl programming : from professional to advanced / William Bo Rothwell - New York Apress 2022 - 325 p.

Master intermediate to advanced techniques of the Perl programming language starting with a focus on regular expressions and some of their advanced features. This book then covers other pro-level features, including formatted output, file handling, and more.



Additionally, you'll learn and explore the most useful built-in variables, pragmas, and modules available in the Perl language. Furthermore, you'll work with geometry managers and get a thorough treatment of graphical user interface development using Perl/TK and widgets. Lastly, you’ll cover debugging techniques.



Pro Perl Programming is a professional-level reference guide on Perl and includes important aspects of it that you need as a professional programmer.



What You Will Learn


Program regular expressions including atoms, smartmatch operators, and more
Use advanced features such as HiRes Time, slurp functions, Critic, Tidy and many more functions
Handle advanced formatted output such as printf and sprintf
Explore useful built-in variables, including status variables, separator variables, and the signal handle variable
Explore and use Perl's built-in modules, including the Pragma modules
Work with Perl/TK and its widgets-like geometry managers, frames, labels, buttons, check buttons, radio buttons, scrollbars, scales, entries, and menus

9781484275122


Perl (Computer program language)
Open source software
Programming languages (Electronic computers)
Computer programming

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