Shows how to write, debug, and run a Perl program, describes CGI scripting and data manipulation, and describes scalar values, basic operators, and associative arrays.

Covers the basics of developing Perl scripts and includes instructions for creating simple games.

Product Description: This book teaches the principles of natural language processing and covers linguistics issues. It also details the language-processing functions involved, including part-of-speech tagging using rules and stochastic techniques. A key feature of the book is the author's hands-on approach throughout, with extensive exercises, sample code in Prolog and Perl, and a detailed introduction to Prolog...read more

A guide to getting the most out of Perl covers such topics as productivity hacks, user interaction, data munging, working with modules, object hacks, and debugging.

Product Description: Perl is a flexible, open-source, and widely accessible scripting language used by systems administrators and others to automate their daily tasks. "Perl Power!: The Comprehensive Guide" will cover every aspect of the most up-to-date version of Perl including scalar data, lists, arrays, hashes, subroutines, files, directories, strings, and much more...read more

Provides information on creating a variety of Perl utilities.

Provides information on using the ticketing system Request Tracker.

Looks at the Perl test tools and offers a series of exercises that cover such topics as bundling test suites, testing databases, and testing Web sites and projects.

Presents guidelines on the art of coding with Perl, covering such topics as naming conventions, data and control structures, program decomposition, interface design, and error handling.

Offers a tutorial explaining how to use Perl scripts and modules to create such CGI Web applications as data collection, shopping cart, server push, and e-mail forms.

A guide the advanced features of the Perl programming language covers such topics as dispatch tables, iterators, partitions, parsing, and linear equations.

Working on the assumption that the reader has no formal training in programming, Perl Programming for Biologists demonstrates how Perl is used to solve biological problems. Each chapter opens with a set of learning objectives, provides numerous review questions and self-study exercises, and concludes with a bulleted summary of key points. The author incorporates numerous real-life examples throughout the text. Upon completing the book, readers are able to quickly perform such tasks as correcting recurring errors in spreadsheets, scanning a Fasta sequence for every occurrence of an EcoRI site, adapting other writers' scripts to one's own purposes, and most important, writing reusable and maintainable scripts that spare the rote repetition of code.

Presents a collection of articles on the Perl programming language, covering such topics as text searching and editing, CGI programming, Website management, and HTML and XML processing.

With insightful tips and techniques for programming with Perl, this efficient little guide provides immediate solutions with field tested examples to help programmers and Web developers quickly solve problems and fully utilize the power and flexibility of the cross-platform programming language. Original. (Intermediate)

Covers the basic concepts of the Perl computer language, including such topics as data types, control flow constructs, writing custom functions, and object-oriented programming.

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Product Description: Informatics in the genomic setting involves the storage, search, and manipulation of textual data such as nucleotide and protein sequences and related matter such as structural or functional annotations, authors, cross-links to other sequences or structures, and more...read more