Foreword;Preface; Structure of This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments;Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 What Should You Know Already?; 1.2 strict and warnings; 1.3 Perl v5.14; 1.4 What About All Those Footnotes?; 1.5 What''s With the Exercises?; 1.6 How to Get Help; 1.

7 What If I''m a Perl Course Instructor?; 1.8 Exercises;Chapter 2: Using Modules; 2.1 The Standard Distribution; 2.2 Exploring CPAN; 2.3 Using Modules; 2.4 Functional Interfaces; 2.5 Object-Oriented Interfaces; 2.6 What''s in Core?; 2.

7 The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network; 2.8 Installing Modules from CPAN; 2.9 Setting the Path at the Right Time; 2.10 Setting the Path Outside the Program; 2.11 local::lib; 2.12 Exercises;Chapter 3: Intermediate Foundations; 3.1 List Operators; 3.2 Trapping Errors with eval; 3.

3 Dynamic Code with eval; 3.4 The do Block; 3.5 Exercises;Chapter 4: Introduction to References; 4.1 Doing the Same Task on Many Arrays; 4.2 PeGS: Perl Graphical Structures; 4.3 Taking a Reference to an Array; 4.4 Dereferencing the Array Reference; 4.5 Getting Our Braces Off; 4.

6 Modifying the Array; 4.7 Nested Data Structures; 4.8 Simplifying Nested Element References with Arrows; 4.9 References to Hashes; 4.10 Checking Reference Types; 4.11 Exercises;Chapter 5: References and Scoping; 5.1 More than One Reference to Data; 5.2 What If That Was the Name?; 5.

3 Reference Counting and Nested Data Structures; 5.4 When Reference Counting Goes Bad; 5.5 Creating an Anonymous Array Directly; 5.6 Creating an Anonymous Hash; 5.7 Autovivification; 5.8 Autovivification and Hashes; 5.9 Exercises;Chapter 6: Manipulating Complex Data Structures; 6.1 Using the Debugger to View Complex Data; 6.

2 Viewing Complex Data with Data::Dumper; 6.3 Marshalling Data; 6.4 Using the map and grep Operators; 6.5 Applying a Bit of Indirection; 6.6 Selecting and Altering Complex Data; 6.7 Exercises;Chapter 7: Subroutine References; 7.1 Referencing a Named Subroutine; 7.2 Anonymous Subroutines; 7.

3 Callbacks; 7.4 Closures; 7.5 Returning a Subroutine from a Subroutine; 7.6 Closure Variables as Inputs; 7.7 Closure Variables as Static Local Variables; 7.8 Finding Out Who We Are; 7.9 Exercise;Chapter 8: Filehandle References; 8.1 The Old Way; 8.

2 The Improved Way; 8.3 Filehandles to Strings; 8.4 Collections of Filehandles; 8.5 IO::Handle and Friends; 8.6 Directory Handles; 8.7 Exercises;Chapter 9: Regular Expression References; 9.1 Before Regular Expression References; 9.2 Precompiled Patterns; 9.

3 Regexes as Scalars; 9.4 Build Up Regular Expressions; 9.5 Regex-Creating Modules; 9.6 Exercises;Chapter 10: Practical Reference Tricks; 10.1 Fancier Sorting; 10.2 Sorting with Indices; 10.3 Sorting Efficiently; 10.4 The Schwartzian Transform; 10.

5 Multilevel Sort with the Schwartzian Transform; 10.6 Recursively Defined Data; 10.7 Building Recursively Defined Data; 10.8 Displaying Recursively Defined Data; 10.9 Avoiding Recursion; 10.10 Exercises;Chapter 11: Building Larger Programs; 11.1 The Cure for the Common Code; 11.2 Inserting Code with eval; 11.

3 Using do; 11.4 Using require; 11.5 The Problem of Namespace Collisions; 11.6 Packages as Namespace Separators; 11.7 Scope of a Package Directive; 11.8 Packages and Lexicals; 11.9 Package Blocks; 11.10 Exercises;Chapter 12: Creating Your Own Perl Distribution; 12.

1 Perl''s Two Build Systems; 12.2 Our First Distribution; 12.3 Inside Your Perl Distribution; 12.4 Inside a Module; 12.5 Plain Ol'' Documentation; 12.6 The Module Code; 12.7 Module Building Summary; 12.8 Exercises;Chapter 13: Introduction to Objects; 13.

1 If We Could Talk to the Animals.; 13.2 Introducing the Method Invocation Arrow; 13.3 The Extra Parameter of Method Invocation; 13.4 Calling a Second Method to Simplify Things; 13.5 A Few Notes About @ISA; 13.6 Overriding the Methods; 13.7 Starting the Search from a Different Place; 13.

8 The SUPER Way of Doing Things; 13.9 What to Do with @_; 13.10 Where We Are; 13.11 Our Barnyard Summary; 13.12 Exercises;Chapter 14: Introduction to Testing; 14.1 Why Should We Test?; 14.2 The Perl Testing Process; 14.3 The Art of Testing; 14.

4 The Test Harness; 14.5 The Standard Tests; 14.6 Adding Our First Tests; 14.7 Measuring Our Test Coverage; 14.8 Exercises;Chapter 15: Objects with Data; 15.1 A Horse Is a Horse, of Course of Course--Or Is It?; 15.2 Invoking an Instance Method; 15.3 Accessing the Instance Data; 15.

4 How to Build a Horse; 15.5 Inheriting the Constructor; 15.6 Making a Method Work with Either Classes or Instances; 15.7 Adding Parameters to a Method; 15.8 More Interesting Instances; 15.9 A Horse of a Different Color; 15.10 Getting Our Deposit Back; 15.11 Don''t Look Inside the Box; 15.

12 Faster Getters and Setters; 15.13 Getters that Double as Setters; 15.14 Restricting a Method to Class Only or Instance Only; 15.15 Exercise;Chapter 16: Some Advanced Object Topics; 16.1 UNIVERSAL Methods; 16.2 Testing Our Objects for Good Behavior; 16.3 The Last Resort; 16.4 Using AUTOLOAD for Accessors; 16.

5 Creating Getters and Setters More Easily; 16.6 Multiple Inheritance; 16.7 Exercises;Chapter 17: Exporter; 17.1 What use Is Doing; 17.2 Importing with Exporter; 17.3 @EXPORT and @EXPORT_OK; 17.4 Grouping with %EXPORT_TAGS; 17.5 Custom Import Routines; 17.

6 Exercises;Chapter 18: Object Destruction; 18.1 Cleaning Up After Ourselves; 18.2 Nested Object Destruction; 18.3 Beating a Dead Horse; 18.4 Indirect Object Notation; 18.5 Additional Instance Variables in Subclasses; 18.6 Using Class Variables; 18.7 Weakening the Argument; 18.

8 Exercise;Chapter 19: Introduction to Moose; 19.1 Making Animals with Moose; 19.2 Improving the Race Horse; 19.3 Further Study; 19.4 Exercises;Chapter 20: Advanced Testing; 20.1 Skipping Tests; 20.2 Testing Object-Oriented Features; 20.3 Grouping Tests; 20.

4 Testing Large Strings; 20.5 Testing Files; 20.6 Testing STDOUT or STDERR; 20.7 Using Mock Objects; 20.8 Writing Our Own Test::* Modules; 20.9 Exercises;Chapter 21: Contributing to CPAN; 21.1 The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network; 21.2 Getting Prepared; 21.

3 How PAUSE Works; 21.4 Before We Start Work; 21.5 Preparing the Distribution; 21.6 Uploading the Distribution; 21.7 Testing on Multiple Platforms; 21.8 Announcing the Module; 21.9 Exercises;Answers to Exercises; Answers for Chapter 1; Answers for Chapter 2; Answers for Chapter 3; Answers for Chapter 4; Answers for Chapter 5; Answers for Chapter 6; Answer for Chapter 7; Answers for Chapter 8; Answers for Chapter 9; Answers for Chapter 10; Answers for Chapter 11; Answers for Chapter 12; Answers for Chapter 13; Answers for Chapter 14; Answer for Chapter 15; Answers for Chapter 16; Answers for Chapter 17; Answers for Chapter 18; Answers for Chapter 19; Answers for Chapter 20; Answers for Chapter 21;Index of Modules in this Book;Index;Colophon;.