Programming Perl: Unmatched power for text processing and scripting

About this book

Adopted as the undisputed Perl bible soon after the first edition appeared in 1991 Programming Perl is still the go-to guide for this highly practical language. Perl began life as a super-fueled text processing utility but quickly evolved into a general purpose programming language thats helped hundreds of thousands of programmers system administrators and enthusiasts like you get your job done. In this much-anticipated update to "the Camel " three renowned Perl authors cover the language up to its current version Perl 5.14 with a preview of features in the upcoming 5.16. In a world where Unicode is increasingly essential for text processing Perl offers the best and least painful support of any major language smoothly integrating Unicode everywhereincluding in Perls most popular feature: regular expressions. Important features covered by this update include: New keywords and syntax I/O layers and encodings New backslash escapes Unicode 6.0 Unicode grapheme clusters and properties Named captures in regexes Recursive and grammatical patterns Expanded coverage of CPAN Current best practices