Errata

Advanced Perl Programming

Errata for Advanced Perl Programming, Second Edition

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The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".

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Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update

Version Location Description Submitted By Date submitted Date corrected
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Page vi
headings under Chapter 5

The entry for "Categorization and Extraction" has an extra leading space.

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Page 3
Figure 1-2

the label for 'a should be *a

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Page 9
2nd paragraph in the "Closures" sidebar

...(it'll give you an error under use strict.
should read
...(it'll give you an error under use strict).

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Page 11
very bottom of page

In the last line on the page, "conceivable" is misspelled "concievable".

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Page 17,18
Figures 1-5, 1-6

In both figures 1-5 and 1-6, "readline" is misspelled "redline".

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Page 20
1st paragraph of section "Messing with the Class Model"

The paragraph suggests that @INC package variable is used to handle inheritance.
This should be the @ISA package variable.

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Page 82
1st code example on page

the line of "===" signs
is mis-aligned. Remove all the thinspaces between "=". It should read
like the following (viewed in constant-width), with each header ("ID",
"Received", "From", "Subject") aligned with the start of a sequence of
"===..." below it:

format STDOUT_TOP =
ID Received From Subject
===== ========== ======================================== ====================
.

format STDOUT =
@<<<< @<<<<<<<<< @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
$_->id $_->received $_->from_address $_->subject

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Page 97
second line of text

"... the Headercomponent found ..." should be
"... the Header component found ..."

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Page 117
final sentence on page

misplaced comma in "well, that"
change to: "It's just as well that, as with so many things in Perl, there's more than one way to do it."

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Page 139
figure 4-1

the word "Track" over the lower-right grey box should be lowercase "track".

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Page 141
Second text line after 1st code fragment

"reltionships" should be "relationships"

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Page 146
figure 4-3

the figure was built for an old example, and is incorrect and confusing for the current example.
Update figure with the following text:
- In the first bubble, "/view/beer/1" changes to "/artist/edit/110".
- In the third bubble, "view" changes to "edit" and "beer" changes to "artist".
- In first bubble on the right, 'Load up row "1"' changes to 'Load up row "110"'.
- In the second bubble on the right, "BeerDB::Beer->view" changes to "CD::Artist->edit".

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Page 187
code sample below 2nd paragraph

The last two statements of the code sample misspell "$identity" as "$itentity".

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Page 188
4th paragraph, 2nd sentence

"Perls doesn't know..."
should be:
"Perl doesn't know"

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Page 195
footnote at bottom of page

"it has kernel" should be "it has a kernel".

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Page 211
subroutine definition at the bottom of the page

The subroutine defined at the bottom of the page should be named "error" instead of
"not_found" for consistency with the text and code in the "A POE Web Server" section
(pages 210-212).

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Page 212
4th paragraph

Change:
after awhile
to:
after a while

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Page 213
1st paragraph

The code was correct for the 0.03 version of XML::RSS::Feed,
but the interface has changed. The current version of the code can be seen
at http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?POE::Component::RSSAggregator


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Page 215
2nd paragraph

Kwalitee Assurance
should be:
Kwalitee Ashuranse

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Page 228
code sample after second paragraph

The last line of code:
"push @classes if $class->isa('Test::Class');"
is missing an argument to push(). The code should read
"push @classes, $class if $class->isa('Test::Class');"

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Page 228
third paragraph

"That's how we define test methods and un the test,..."
should be:
"That's how we define test methods and run the test,..."

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Page 235
3rd paragraph, 1st sentence

"This determines that the user's format it safe and ..."
should be:
"This determines that the user's format is safe and ..."

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Page 237
2nd paragraph

Change:
HV*s for arrays
to:
HV*s for hashes
^

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Page 238
First paragraph after table

Note from this that arrays and 3hashes are...
should be:
Note from this that arrays and hashes are...

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Page 241
3rd Paragraph (in the code)

The line of code:

if (SvTRUE(get_sv("MyModule::DEBUG", TRUE")) {...

clearly has too many quotes/is missing a quote around TRUE. Either

if (SvTRUE(get_sv("MyModule::DEBUG", "TRUE")) {...
or
if (SvTRUE(get_sv("MyModule::DEBUG", TRUE)) {...

worked fine for me (using ActivePerl on XP with VC++6 and similar-ish code: testing
whether a variable had been created already in the main package)




Note from the Author or Editor:
The quotes around TRUE should be removed and the line should read:

if (SvTRUE(get_sv("MyModule::DEBUG", TRUE)) {...

The reported version with "TRUE" will compile but give warnings - get_sv requires an integer, not a string, as second parameter.

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Page 257
Line just before code snippet at bottom of page

"we can look up "e" and get (1,4), (3,4), and (4.1)."
should be:
"we can look up "e" and get (1,4), (3,4), and (4,1)."

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Page 257
1st code block

The code block:
my @neighbors= ...
is missing the last line.
The missing line is:

,[3,4],[4,3]]]);

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Page 266
code at bottom of page

In the code for whiten(), the call to tr is missing a space in the replacement list:
"tr/01/ /" should be "tr/01/ /"

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Page 271
Right hand column, line 18

"applications, Web (see Web appliations)" should be
"applications, Web (see Web applications)"

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