Perl 5 how-to
Mike Glover, Aidan Humphreys, Ed Weiss · 1996
Perl basics creating programs file manipulation environmental variables and commands file handling advanced control structures user input matching, filtering, transforming writing reports in Perl DBM files program automation forks, sockets, shared memory, RPCs and pipes client server network programming functions, libraries, packages and modules handling anchronous events data structures sorting and searching and recursion special file processing system administration with Perl Perl praxis the Perl debugger C programming and Perl Perl tricks predefined variables the Perl 5 curses extension graphical user interfaces interacting with SQL databases incorporating new libraries. Appendices: Internet resources compiling extensions.