Foreword to the First Edition of Learning Perl;Foreword to the Present Edition;Preface; What This Book Is About; We''d Like to Hear from You; Conventions; Exercises; Acknowledgments for First Edition; Acknowledgments for the Second Edition; Acknowledgments for the Win32 Edition;Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 History of Perl; 1.2 Purpose of Perl; 1.3 Availability; 1.4 Support; 1.5 Basic Concepts; 1.6 A Stroll Through Perl; 1.7 Exercises;Chapter 2: Scalar Data; 2.

1 What Is Scalar Data?; 2.2 Numbers; 2.3 Strings; 2.4 Scalar Operators; 2.5 Scalar Variables; 2.6 Scalar Operators and Functions; 2.7as a Scalar Value; 2.8 Output with print; 2.

9 The Undefined Value; 2.10 Exercises;Chapter 3: Arrays and List Data; 3.1 What Is a List or Array?; 3.2 Literal Representation; 3.3 Variables; 3.4 Array Operators and Functions; 3.5 Scalar and List Context; 3.6as an Array; 3.

7 Variable Interpolation of Arrays; 3.8 Exercises;Chapter 4: Control Structures; 4.1 Statement Blocks; 4.2 The if/unless Statement; 4.3 The while/until Statement; 4.4 The do {} while/until Statement; 4.5 The for Statement; 4.6 The foreach Statement; 4.

7 Exercises;Chapter 5: Hashes; 5.1 What Is a Hash?; 5.2 Hash Variables; 5.3 Literal Representation of a Hash; 5.4 Hash Functions; 5.5 Hash Slices; 5.6 Exercises;Chapter 6: Basic I/O; 6.1 Input from STDIN; 6.

2 Input from the Diamond Operator; 6.3 Output to STDOUT; 6.4 Exercises;Chapter 7: Regular Expressions; 7.1 Concepts About Regular Expressions; 7.2 Simple Uses of Regular Expressions; 7.3 Patterns; 7.4 More on the Matching Operator; 7.5 Substitutions; 7.

6 The split and join Functions; 7.7 Exercises;Chapter 8: Functions; 8.1 Defining a User Function; 8.2 Invoking a User Function; 8.3 Return Values; 8.4 Arguments; 8.5 Private Variables in Functions; 8.6 Semiprivate Variables Using local; 8.

7 File-Level my( ) Variables; 8.8 Exercises;Chapter 9: Miscellaneous Control Structures; 9.1 The last Statement; 9.2 The next Statement; 9.3 The redo Statement; 9.4 Labeled Blocks; 9.5 Expression Modifiers; 9.6 &&, , and ?: as Control Structures; 9.

7 Exercises;Chapter 10: Filehandles and File Tests; 10.1 What Is a Filehandle?; 10.2 Opening and Closing a Filehandle; 10.3 Using Pathnames and Filenames; 10.4 A Slight Diversion: die; 10.5 Using Filehandles; 10.6 The -x File Tests; 10.7 The stat Function; 10.

8 Exercises;Chapter 11: Formats; 11.1 What Is a Format?; 11.2 Defining a Format; 11.3 Invoking a Format; 11.4 More About the Fieldholders; 11.5 The Top-of-Page Format; 11.6 Changing Defaults for Formats; 11.7 The FileHandle Module; 11.

8 Exercises;Chapter 12: Directory Access; 12.1 Moving Around the Directory Tree; 12.2 Globbing; 12.3 Directory Handles; 12.4 Opening and Closing a Directory Handle; 12.5 Reading a Directory Handle; 12.6 Exercises;Chapter 13: File and Directory Manipulation; 13.1 Removing a File; 13.

2 Renaming a File; 13.3 Making and Removing Directories; 13.4 Modifying Permissions; 13.5 Modifying Timestamps; 13.6 Exercises;Chapter 14: Process Management; 14.1 Using system and exec; 14.2 Using Backquotes; 14.3 Using Processes as Filehandles; 14.

4 Summary of Process Operations; 14.5 Win32::Process; 14.6 Exercises;Chapter 15: Other Data Transformation; 15.1 Finding a Substring; 15.2 Extracting and Replacing a Substring; 15.3 Formatting Data with sprintf( ); 15.4 Advanced Sorting; 15.5 Transliteration; 15.

6 Exercises;Chapter 16: System Information; 16.1 Getting User and Machine Information; 16.2 Packing and Unpacking Binary Data; 16.3 Getting Network Information; 16.4 The Registry; 16.5 Opening and Reading Registry Values; 16.6 Setting Registry Values; 16.7 Exercises;Chapter 17: Database Manipulation; 17.

1 DBM Databases and DBM Hashes; 17.2 Opening and Closing DBM Hashes; 17.3 Using a DBM Hash; 17.4 Fixed-Length Random-Access Databases; 17.5 Variable-Length ( Text) Databases; 17.6 Win32 Database Interfaces; 17.7 Exercises;Chapter 18: CGI Programming; 18.1 The CGI.

pm Module; 18.2 Your CGI Program in Context; 18.3 Simplest CGI Program; 18.4 Passing Parameters via CGI; 18.5 Creating a Guestbook Program; 18.6 Troubleshooting CGI Programs; 18.7 Perl and the Web: Beyond CGI Programming; 18.8 Further Reading; 18.

9 Exercises;Chapter 19: OLE Automation; 19.1 Introduction to OLE Automation; 19.2 Creating Automation Objects; 19.3 Using Automation Objects; 19.4 Variants; 19.5 Tips and Techniques; 19.6 Exercises;Exercise Answers; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Chapter 15; Chapter 16; Chapter 17; Chapter 18; Chapter 19;Libraries and Modules; Library Terminology; Standard Modules; CPAN: Beyond the Standard Library; Win32 Extensions;Networking Clients; A Simple Client; A Webget Client;Topics We Didn''t Mention; Full Interprocess Communications; The Debugger; The Command Line; Other Operators; Many, Many More Functions; Many, Many Predefined Variables; Symbol Table Manipulation With *FRED; Additional Regular Expression Features; Packages; Embeddible, Extensible; And Other Stuff;Colophon;.