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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 "Corrected".

The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.

Color Key: Serious Technical Mistake Minor Technical Mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question



Version Location Description Submitted By Corrected
Printed Page 52
6 lines from the bottom

"The conditional is evaluated first with the while and until modifiers except when
applied to ado {} statement . . . "

NOW READS:
"...applied to a do {} statement..."

 Anonymous  Jun 2005
Printed Page 58
PREMATCH Variable

$'
$PREMATCH

should be:

$`
$PREMATCH

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 66
2nd Paragraph under "Pattern-Matching Operators" heading

m/pattern/gimosxe
->
m/pattern/gimosx

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 Anonymous  May 2007
Printed Page 302
3rd paragraph, under Net::FTP

Implements a simple FTP client in Perl (see Chapter 16).
->
Implements a simple FTP client in Perl (see Chapter 18).

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 Anonymous  May 2007
Printed Page 344

Test::More is called "Yet another framework for writing test scripts.
Its more flexible successor is Test::Builder"

NOW READS:
"Test::More a more flexible successor to Test::Builder, which you
probably don't -- or won't -- need to deal with directly. That is to
say, Test::More is built on top of Test::Builder, and makes your life
easier."

 Anonymous  Jun 2005
Printed Page 375
Topmost Perl script, 2nd line

print << EOF
->
print <<EOF;

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 Anonymous  May 2007
Printed Page 375
Topmost Perl script, lines 8-12

$ENV{'SERVER_NAME'}<BR>
$ENV{'SERVER_PORT'}<BR>
$ENV{'SERVER_SOFTWARE'}<BR>
$ENV{'SERVER_PROTOCOL'}<BR>
$ENV{'GATEWAY_INTERFACE'}<BR>

->

$ENV{'SERVER_NAME'}
$ENV{'SERVER_PORT'}
$ENV{'SERVER_SOFTWARE'}
$ENV{'SERVER_PROTOCOL'}
$ENV{'GATEWAY_INTERFACE'}

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 Anonymous  May 2007
Printed Page 397
line 26 (syntax example in mid-page) under textfield

print $query->textfield(-name=>'name',
-default=>'value',

->

print $query->textfield(-name=>'name',
-value=>'value',

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 Anonymous  May 2007
Printed Page 464

$mailer = Mail::Mailer->new('sendmail)';

NOW READS:
$mailer = Mail::Mailer->new('sendmail');

 Anonymous  Jun 2005
Printed Page 527
code block

"use URI::URL;" HAS BEEN ADDED to the top of the code block

Also,

"$url = URI::URL->new('www.ora ..."

NOW READS:
$url = URI::URL->new('http://www.ora ...".

 Anonymous  Jun 2005
Printed Page 556
2nd code example

my $html = '<p>Some Text. <a href="http://blah"My name is Nate!</a></p>';

NOW READS:
my $html = '<p>Some Text. <a href="http://blah">My name is Nate!</a></p>';

 Anonymous  Jun 2005
Printed Page 566
Section "path_query"

Sets and gets the escapted path and query components.
->
Sets and gets the escaped path and query components.

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 Anonymous  May 2007
Printed Page 566
Section "path_segments", 2nd sentence

In a scalar content, ...
->
In a scalar context, ...

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 Anonymous  May 2007
Printed Page 566
Section "path_segments", 3rd sentence

In a list contents, ...
->
In a list context, ...

#######################################

 Anonymous  May 2007