Errata

"...that lept from..."

NOW READS:
"...that leapt from..."

p. 21, second to last paragraph, ending of last sentence previously read
"...can't recall whay you did what you did three months ago)."

NOW READS:
"...can't recall why you did what you did three months ago)."

"...converts between numbers to strings as needed."

NOW READS:
"...converts between numbers and strings as needed."

p. 29, Fourth paragraph, first sentence;
"Another common assignment operator is the string concatenate operator".

NOW READS:
"Another common assignment operator is made with the string concatenate operator".

p. 33, First paragraph under "Comparison Operators".
The following sentence HAS BEEN ADDED to the end of the paragraph:
"So, if you get writers' block, just let the cat walk across the keyboard, and debug what results."

p. 46, second footnote, third line from bottom of page:
" ...rewrite it straightforward in Perl..."

NOW READS:
" ...rewrite it straightforwardly in Perl..."

p. 54, fourth paragraph under "<STDIN> in List Context", second sentence:
"It turns out that if you give chomp a list of lines, it will remove the newlines
from each item in the list."

NOW READS:
"It turns out that if you give chomp an array holding a list of lines, it will
remove the newlines from each item in the list."

In the examples under "The shift and unshift operators":
unshift @array, 4; # @array now has (4, 5);

Extra semi-colon removed. NOW READS:
unshift @array, 4; # @array now has (4, 5)

The term void context is just a fancy of saying that the answer

NOW READS:
The term void context is just a fancy way of saying that the answer

p. 83, third paragraph, first sentence:
It's easy to see whether an element of the hash is true or false, do this:

NOW READS:
It's easy to see whether an element of the hash is true or false; do this:

p. 101, sentence ending the first paragraph;
...even zero times."

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...even zero times" (because * is the "times" operator in multiplication).

p. 108, last paragraph. The line break in "w-type" HAS BEEN ALTERED so that the
command doesn't appear hyphenated.

p. 117, second footnote, a space HAS BEEN ADDED between $_ and the following word.

p. 119, second from last paragraph, second and third sentences;
Notice that there's no comma in the output (because the comma is outside of
the memory parentheses). That leaves the comma out of memory two.

NOW READS:
Notice that there's no comma in the output. Because the comma is outside of
the memory parentheses in the pattern, there is no comma in memory two.

p. 124, third line, the capital S in the middle of the word "as" HAS BEEN DELETED.

Variable name $a HAS BEEN REPLACED with $fred
variable name $b HAS BEEN REPLACED with $barney.

p. 86, last line of last code example, the left curly brace
HAS BEEN CHANGED to a right curly brace.

p. 114, exercise 8-4. "thought" and "was" HAVE BEEN CHANGED to "think" and
"is", respectively, in the third and fourth sample strings (for a total of four changes).
That is, the second sample sentence NOW READS, "I think that that is
the problem", and the third NOW READS, "I think that that that is the
problem".

"If you pattern matches something..."

NOW READS:
"If your pattern matches something..."

YAPE::Regexp::Explain
should be
YAPE::Regex::Explain

"The value between the angle brackets is interpolated similar to a..."

NOW READS:
"The value between the angle brackets is interpolated similarly to a..."

"...Barney uses the Perl's link function..."

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"...Barney uses the Perl link function..."

p. 203 (and the corresponding entry on page viii), the heading "Getting
Down and Dirty with Fork".

NOW READS:
"Getting Down and Dirty with fork"

"...maybe somone presses..."

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"...maybe someone presses..."

p. 226. Line break problem in the footnote
"perl-func manpage"

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"perlfunc manpage"

"thas has"

NOW READS:
"that has"

by Tom Chrisitansen and Nathan Torkington

NOW READS:
by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington

The footnote previously read:
"Folks who know about the logical-and operator, which we saw in Chapter
10, could do both tests /fred/ and /wilma/ in the same if conditional.
That's more efficient, more scalable, and an all-around better way than
the ones given here. But we haven't seen logical-and yet."

The first sentence NOW READS: "Folks who know about the logical-and
operator, which we'll see in Chapter 10, ..."

"Folks who know about the logical-and operator, which we saw in Chapter
10, could do both tests /fred/ and /wilma/ in the same if conditional.
That's more efficient, more scalable, and an all-around better way than
the ones given here. But we haven't seen logical-and yet."

The first sentence NOW READS: "Folks who know about the logical-and
operator, which we'll see in Chapter 10, ..."

"...that's handled by the uncommenting the..."

NOW READS:
"...that's handled by uncommenting the..."

p. 273, at the end of the explanation for exercise 13-3:
The word "line" HAS BEEN CHANGED to "statement"