Mastering Perl: Creating Professional Programs with Perl, 2nd Edition

Take the next step toward Perl mastery withadvanced concepts that make coding easier, maintenance simpler, and executionfaster. Mastering Perl isn’t a collection of clever tricks, but a way ofthinking about Perl programming for solving debugging, configuration, and manyother real-world problems you’ll encounter as a working programmer.

The third in O’Reilly’s series of landmark Perl tutorials (after Learning Perland Intermediate Perl), this fully upated edition pulls everything together andhelps you bend Perl to your will.

• Explore advanced regular expressions features
• Avoid common problems when writing secure programs
• Profile and benchmark Perl programs to see where they need work
• Wrangle Perl code to make it more presentable and readable
• Understand how Perl keeps track of package variables
• Define subroutines on the fly
• Jury-rig modules to fix code without editing the original source
• Use bit operations and bit vectors to store large data efficiently
• Learn how to detect errors that Perl doesn’t report
• Dive into logging, data persistence, and the magic of tied variables