Beginning Perl (Programmer to Programmer)

About this book

Perl is an immensely popular scripting language that combines the best features of C key UNIX utilities and a powerful use of regular expressions. It has a wide range of uses beyond simple text processing and is commonly used for web programming - creating and parsing CGI forms validating HTML syntax and hyperlinks - as well as e-mail and Usenet news filtering. Perl is increasingly the system administrators scripting language of choice and is used for file and directory manipulation database access and a whole range of daily system operator chores.