Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour, Nathan Patwardhan.
Perl in a nutshell.
O'Reilly. 1999
Perl in a Nutshell is a comprehensive reference guide to the Perl programming language.
This book covers all the core features of the language.
It ranges widely through the Perl programmer’s universe,
gathering together in convenient form a wealth of information about Perl itself
and its application to CGI scripts, network programming, database interaction, and graphical user interfaces.
It also gives detailed coverage about using Perl within a Win32 environment.
This book assembles more information about the language in one place than any other reference work. Here are just some of the topics covered in the book:
• Basic Perl language reference
• Quick reference to built-in functions and standard modules
• Perl and CGI: CGI.pm, mod_perl
• DBI, the database-independent API for Perl
• Sockets programming in Perl
• LWP, the library for World Wide Web programming in Perl
• Network programming with the Net modules
• Perl/Tk, the Tk extension to Perl for graphical interfaces
• Modules for interfacing with Win32 systems