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C Operators Missing from Perl 4. Statements and Declarations 4. Simple Statements 4. Compound Statements 4. Loop Statements 4. Loop Control 4. Bare Blocks 4. Case Structures 4. Global Declarations 4. Scoped Declarations 4. Scoped Variable Declarations 4. Lexically Scoped Variables: my 4. Lexically Scoped Global Declarations: our 4.

Dynamically Scoped Variables: local 4. Pragmas 4. Controlling Warnings 4. Controlling the Use of Globals 5. Pattern Matching 5.

The Regular Expression Bestiary 5. Pattern-Matching Operators 5. Pattern Modifiers 5. Modifying strings en passant 5. When a global substitution just isn't global enough 5. Metacharacters and Metasymbols 5. Metasymbol Tables 5. Specific Characters 5. Wildcard Metasymbols 5. Character Classes 5. Custom Character Classes 5. Classic Perl Character Class Shortcuts 5. Unicode Properties 5. Perl's Unicode properties 5. Standard Unicode properties 5. Unicode block properties 5. Defining your own character properties 5.

Quantifiers 5. Positions 5. Progressive Matching 5. Capturing and Clustering 5. Capturing 5. Clustering 5. Cloistered Pattern Modifiers 5. Alternation 5. Staying in Control 5. Letting Perl Do the Work 5. Variable Interpolation 5. When backslashes happen 5. The Regex Compiler 5. Fancy Patterns 5. Lookaround Assertions 5. Nonbacktracking Subpatterns 5. Programmatic Patterns 5. Generated patterns 5. Substitution evaluations 5. Match-time code evaluation 5.

Match-time pattern interpolation 5. Conditional interpolation 5. Defining Your Own Assertions 6. Subroutines 6. Syntax 6. Semantics 6. Tricks with Parameter Lists 6. Error Indications 6. Scoping Issues 6. Passing References 6. Prototypes 6. Inlining Constant Functions 6.

Care with Prototypes 6. Subroutine Attributes 6. The locked and method Attributes 6. The lvalue Attribute 7. Formats 7. Format Variables 7. Footers 7. Accessing Formatting Internals 8. References 8. What Is a Reference? Creating References 8. The Backslash Operator 8.

Anonymous Data 8. The anonymous array composer 8. The anonymous hash composer 8. The anonymous subroutine composer 8.

Object Constructors 8. Handle References 8. Symbol Table References 8. Implicit Creation of References 8. Using Hard References 8. Using a Variable as a Variable Name 8. Using the Arrow Operator 8. Using Object Methods 8. Pseudohashes 8. Closures 8. Closures as function templates 8. Nested subroutines 8. Symbolic References 8. Braces, Brackets, and Quoting 8. References Don't Work as Hash Keys 8. Data Structures 9.

Arrays of Arrays 9. Creating and Accessing a Two-Dimensional Array 9. Growing Your Own 9. Access and Printing 9. Slices 9. Common Mistakes 9. Hashes of Arrays 9. Composition of a Hash of Arrays 9. Generation of a Hash of Arrays 9. Access and Printing of a Hash of Arrays 9. Arrays of Hashes 9. Composition of an Array of Hashes 9. Generation of an Array of Hashes 9. Access and Printing of an Array of Hashes 9. Hashes of Hashes 9. Composition of a Hash of Hashes 9. Generation of a Hash of Hashes 9.

Access and Printing of a Hash of Hashes 9. Hashes of Functions 9. More Elaborate Records 9. Generation of a Hash of Complex Records 9. Saving Data Structures Packages Symbol Tables Autoloading Modules Using Modules Creating Modules Module Privacy and the Exporter Exporting without using Exporter's import method Version checking Managing unknown symbols Tag-handling utility functions Overriding Built-in Functions Objects Brief Refresher on Object-Oriented Lingo Perl's Object System Method Invocation Method Invocation Using the Arrow Operator Method Invocation Using Indirect Objects Syntactic Snafus with Indirect Objects Package-Quoted Classes Object Construction Inheritable Constructors Initializers Class Inheritance Inheritance Through ISA Accessing Overridden Methods Method Autoloading Private Methods Instance Destructors Managing Instance Data Field Declarations with use fields Generating Classes with Class::Struct Generating Accessors with Autoloading Generating Accessors with Closures Using Closures for Private Objects New Tricks Managing Class Data Summary Overloading The overload Pragma Overload Handlers Overloadable Operators When an Overload Handler Is Missing nomethod and fallback Overloading Constants Public Overload Functions Inheritance and Overloading Run-Time Overloading Overloading Diagnostics Tied Variables Tying Scalars Scalar-Tying Methods Magical Counter Variables Tying Arrays Array-Tying Methods Notational Convenience Tying Hashes Hash-Tying Methods Tying Filehandles Filehandle-Tying Methods Creative Filehandles A Subtle Untying Trap Perl as Technology Unicode Building Character Effects of Character Semantics Caveats Interprocess Communication Signals Signaling Process Groups Reaping Zombies Timing Out Slow Operations Blocking Signals Files File Locking Passing Filehandles Pipes Anonymous Pipes Talking to Yourself Bidirectional Communication Named Pipes System V IPC Sockets Networking Clients Networking Servers Message Passing Threads The Process Model The Thread Model The Thread Module Thread creation Thread destruction Catching exceptions from join The detach method Identifying threads Listing current threads Yielding the processor Data Access Synchronizing access with lock Deadlock Locking subroutines The locked attribute Locking methods Condition variables Other Thread Modules Queues Semaphores Other standard threading modules Compiling The Life Cycle of a Perl Program Compiling Your Code Executing Your Code Compiler Backends Code Generators The Bytecode Generator The C Code Generators Code Development Tools Avant-Garde Compiler, Retro Interpreter The Command-Line Interface Command Processing Location of Perl Switches Environment Variables The Perl Debugger Using the Debugger Debugger Commands Stepping and Running Breakpoints Tracing Display Locating Code Actions and Command Execution Miscellaneous Commands Debugger Customization Editor Support for Debugging Customizing with Init Files Debugger Options Unattended Execution Debugger Support Writing Your Own Debugger The Perl Profiler Internals and Externals How Perl Works Internal Data Types Extending Perl Using C from Perl Creating Extensions Using Functions from an External C Library Adopted as the undisputed Perl bible soon after the first edition appeared in , Programming Perl is still the go-to guide for this highly practical language.

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