Randal Schwartz's Perls of Wisdom [Paperback]

* Provides the insights of a true Perl wizard! A compendium of the best-selling author's magazine articles: While some of Randal's columns are available from his web site, not all are, and the book will organize the material into reasonable order, teach concepts, and then expand on the reader's skills.

* Teaches basic techniques to programmers just learning Perl.

* Describes and demonstrates unique applications of existing CPAN modules.

Randal Schwartz's Perls of Wisdom is a collection of more than 70 columns from popular and prolific Perl columnist Randal Schwartz. These insightful pieces cover everything from Perl basics to how to decompose XML using an HTML parser. Schwartzs unique writing style and (sometimes) truly twisted use of Perl makes for exciting reading for those who want to enhance their Perl skills.

1. Advanced Perl Tutorials
2. Text Searching and Editing
3. HTML and XML Processing
4. CGI Programming
5. The Webmaster's Toolkit

Randal Schwartz is one of the best-selling authors of all time, having been fortunate enough to coauthor two of the seminal books on learning Perl. Perl is perhaps the seminal programming language of the Internet boom and one of the most popular programming languages for doing anything from system administration to parsing a CSV file. In addition to Programming Perl and Learning Perl, Randal has completed a book for intermediate Perl developers, and has been the Perl columnist for UNIX Review, Web Techniques, Sys Admin, and Linux Magazine.

Randal Schwartz's Perls of Wisdom is a collection of more than 70 of Randal's columns, teaching everything from Perl basics to how to decompose XML using an HTML parser. Randal's unique writing style and (sometimes) truly twisted use of Perl makes for excitinlS.