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Tables of Contents for Perl for Dummies
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
1
5
Part I: Getting Started with Perl
5
64
Perl's Place in the Programming World
7
12
Running Perl on Your Computer
19
16
Diving into the Guts of Perl
35
16
A Perl Program Tour, Times Two
51
18
Part II: The Basic Perl Programming Ingredients
69
80
Terrific Text
71
18
Nifty Numbers
89
10
Learning to Love Lists
99
16
Creating Cool Conditionals and Lovely Loops
115
16
Doing Advanced Stuff with Operators and Functions
131
18
Part III: The Nuts and Bolts of Perl
149
90
Perl and CGI: Web Server Programs Demystified
151
20
The Files Go In, The Files Go Out
171
18
Beyond File and Directory Basics
189
12
Stringing Along: Pattern Matching and Regular Expressions
201
22
Looking Like a Pro: Subroutines, Imported Code, and Graceful Exits
223
16
Part IV: Advanced Perl Demystified
239
52
Perl Gets Cozy with the Web, E-Mail, and XML
241
18
Associative Arrays and Multidimensional Lists
259
14
Dancing with Databases
273
4
Controlling Your Computer from Perl
277
6
Object-Oriented Perl
283
8
Part V: The Part of Tens
291
36
Ten Guidelines for Programming with Style
293
8
Ten Really Short, Really Useful Perl Programs
301
6
Ten Advanced Perl Topics
307
8
Ten Great Perl Web Sites
315
4
Ten Cool Features Introduced with Perl 5
319
4
Ten Reasons Why Perl Is Better Than Java
323
4
Part VI: Appendixes
327
36
Appendix A: The Great Perl Reference
329
30
Appendix B: About the CD
359
4
Index
363
16
IDG Books Worldwide End-User License Agreement
379
2
Installation Instructions
381