Mastering Perl
Mastering Perl By brian d foy
Foreword by Randal L. Schwartz
July 2007
Pages: 342

| Table of Contents | Index | Sample Chapter | Colophon

Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1 Introduction: Becoming a Master

    1. What It Means to Be a Master

    2. Who Should Read This Book

    3. How to Read This Book

    4. What Should You Know Already?

    5. What I Cover

    6. What I Don’t Cover

  2. Chapter 2 Advanced Regular Expressions

    1. References to Regular Expressions

    2. Noncapturing Grouping, (?:PATTERN)

    3. Readable Regexes, /x and (?#...)

    4. Global Matching

    5. Lookarounds

    6. Deciphering Regular Expressions

    7. Final Thoughts

    8. Summary

    9. Further Reading

  3. Chapter 3 Secure Programming Techniques

    1. Bad Data Can Ruin Your Day

    2. Taint Checking

    3. Untainting Data

    4. List Forms of system and exec

    5. Summary

    6. Further Reading

  4. Chapter 4 Debugging Perl

    1. Before You Waste Too Much Time

    2. The Best Debugger in the World

    3. perl5db.pl

    4. Alternative Debuggers

    5. Other Debuggers

    6. Summary

    7. Further Reading

  5. Chapter 5 Profiling Perl

    1. Finding the Culprit

    2. The General Approach

    3. Profiling DBI

    4. Devel::DProf

    5. Writing My Own Profiler

    6. Profiling Test Suites

    7. Summary

    8. Further Reading

  6. Chapter 6 Benchmarking Perl

    1. Benchmarking Theory

    2. Benchmarking Time

    3. Comparing Code

    4. Don’t Turn Off Your Thinking Cap

    5. Memory Use

    6. The perlbench Tool

    7. Summary

    8. Further Reading

  7. Chapter 7 Cleaning Up Perl

    1. Good Style

    2. perltidy

    3. De-Obfuscation

    4. Perl::Critic

    5. Summary

    6. Further Reading

  8. Chapter 8 Symbol Tables and Typeglobs

    1. Package and Lexical Variables

    2. The Symbol Table

    3. Summary

    4. Further Reading

  9. Chapter 9 Dynamic Subroutines

    1. Subroutines As Data

    2. Creating and Replacing Named Subroutines

    3. Symbolic References

    4. Iterating Through Subroutine Lists

    5. Processing Pipelines

    6. Method Lists

    7. Subroutines As Arguments

    8. Autoloaded Methods

    9. Hashes As Objects

    10. AutoSplit

    11. Summary

    12. Further Reading

  10. Chapter 10 Modifying and Jury-Rigging Modules

    1. Choosing the Right Solution

    2. Replacing Module Parts

    3. Subclassing

    4. Wrapping Subroutines

    5. Summary

    6. Further Reading

  11. Chapter 11 Configuring Perl Programs

    1. Things Not to Do

    2. Better Ways

    3. Command-Line Switches

    4. Configuration Files

    5. Scripts with a Different Name

    6. Interactive and Noninteractive Programs

    7. perl’s Config

    8. Summary

    9. Further Reading

  12. Chapter 12 Detecting and Reporting Errors

    1. Perl Error Basics

    2. Reporting Module Errors

    3. Exceptions

    4. Summary

    5. Further Reading

  13. Chapter 13 Logging

    1. Recording Errors and Other Information

    2. Log4perl

    3. Summary

    4. Further Reading

  14. Chapter 14 Data Persistence

    1. Flat Files

    2. Storable

    3. DBM Files

    4. Summary

    5. Further Reading

  15. Chapter 15 Working with Pod

    1. The Pod Format

    2. Translating Pod

    3. Testing Pod

    4. Summary

    5. Further Reading

  16. Chapter 16 Working with Bits

    1. Binary Numbers

    2. Bit Operators

    3. Bit Vectors

    4. The vec Function

    5. Keeping Track of Things

    6. Summary

    7. Further Reading

  17. Chapter 17 The Magic of Tied Variables

    1. They Look Like Normal Variables

    2. At the User Level

    3. Behind the Curtain

    4. Scalars

    5. Arrays

    6. Hashes

    7. Filehandles

    8. Summary

    9. Further Reading

  18. Chapter 18 Modules As Programs

    1. The main Thing

    2. Backing Up

    3. Who’s Calling?

    4. Testing the Program

    5. Distributing the Programs

    6. Summary

    7. Further Reading

  1. Appendix Further Reading

    1. Perl Books

    2. Non-Perl Books

  2. Appendix brian’s Guide to Solving Any Perl Problem

    1. My Philosophy of Problem-Solving

    2. My Method

  3. Colophon

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