Beginning Perl

James Lee is a hacker and open-source advocate based in Illinois. He holds a master's degree from Northwestern University, and he can often be seen rooting for the Wildcats during football season. As founder of Onsight, Lee has worked as a programmer, trainer, manager, writer, and open-source advocate. Lee coauthored Hacking Linux Exposed, Second Edition, as well as Open Source Web Development with LAMP. He enjoys hacking Perl and has written many articles on Perl for Linux Journal. Lee also enjoys developing software for the Web, reading, traveling and, most of all, playing with his kids, who are too young to know why dad's favorite animals are penguins and camels.

• First Steps in Perl.- Scalars.- Control Flow Constructs.- Lists and Arrays.- Hashes.- Subroutines/Functions.- Regular Expressions.- Files and Data.- String Processing.- Interfacing to the Operating System.- References.- Modules.- Object-Oriented Perl.- to CGI.- Perl and DBI.