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Tables of Contents for Perl Debugged
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xi
Perlness
xii
Who Are You?
xiii
What This Book Covers
xiv
Getting Perl
xv
Typographical Conventions
xvi
For Further Reference
xvii
Perl Versions
xvii
Acknowledgments
xix
Introduction
1
16
Reality
2
1
Why Perl?
3
2
Know the Environment
5
1
Know the Language
5
2
Online Documentation
7
8
References
15
2
The Zen of Perl Developing
17
10
Attitudes
19
2
Beliefs
21
2
Behavior
23
2
Improve Your Craft
25
1
The Bottom Line
25
2
Antibugging
27
26
Beginning
28
1
Writing Code
29
5
Observation
34
2
Documentation
36
4
Developing
40
2
Accident Prevention
42
5
Tips for Reducing Complexity
47
6
Perl Pitfalls
53
24
Syntactical Sugaring
54
8
The Hall of the Precedence
62
5
Regular Expressions
67
1
Miscellaneous
67
10
Tracing Code
77
12
Dumping Your Data
79
1
Making it Optional
80
2
Raise the Flag
82
2
At Your Command
84
3
Taking the Long Way Around
87
2
Testing Perl Programs
89
16
Inspection Testing
92
1
Unit Testing
93
3
System or Regression Testing
96
6
Saturation Testing
102
1
Acceptance Testing
103
1
References
103
2
The Perl Debugger
105
22
Basic Operation
106
1
Starting
107
14
Getting Graphical
121
6
Syntax Errors
127
16
Typo Pathologies
129
9
A Menagerie of Typos
138
5
Run-Time Exceptions
143
18
Symbolic References
146
6
Check That Return Code!
152
2
Taking Exception to Yourself
154
1
Playing Catch-Up
155
4
Confession Is Good for the Soul
159
2
Semantical Errors
161
12
A Bit Illogical
162
1
Reading Directories
163
2
But What Did It Mean?
165
4
printf Formats Don't Impose Context
169
1
Conditional my
169
2
Bringing Some Closure
171
2
Resource Failure
173
22
Optimize for People First, Resources Later
174
2
Benchmark It!
176
9
Making Things Better
185
10
Perl as a Second Language
195
14
Tips for Everyman
196
1
Tips for the C Programmer
197
3
Tips for the FORTRAN Programmer
200
2
Tips for the Shell Programmer
202
2
Tips for the C++ or Java Programmer
204
5
Debugging CGI Programs
209
24
CGI
210
1
Web Servers
211
1
500---Server Error
212
2
Basics
214
1
Security
214
4
Heading Off Errors
218
2
cgi-test
220
1
Eavesdropping
220
4
CGI.pm
224
1
Command Line Testing
225
2
Dying Young
227
1
Debugger Interaction
228
2
ptkdb
230
3
Conclusion
233
4
Finis
234
1
The End
234
2
This Really is the End
236
1
Appendix A Perl Debugger Commands
237
14
A.1 General Syntax
238
1
A.2 Commands
239
6
A.3 Options
245
3
A.4 Environment Variables
248
3
Appendix B Perls of Wisdom
251
4
Index
255