Advanced Perl programming : from advanced to expert William Rothwells Advanced Perl Programming continues where his previous book left off more or less as it guides you through advanced techniques of the Perl programming language starting with command line options references and arrays and hashes from advanced data types. Next youll learn about typeglobs for symbolic entries. Additionally youll see advanced subroutine handling then packages and namespaces. Furthermore youll build advanced modules and install CPAN modules. Unlike Java and C++ modules have been around in Perl for a long time now. Along the way youll learn and use POD mark up language for Perl documentation. Moreover youll get a survey of the many advanced features and data structures of the current Perl programming language. Youll also get a survey of the new features of the latest Perl 5.x release. After reading and using this book youll have the tools techniques and source code to be an expert Perl programmer. You will: Carry out command line parsing and extract scripts Create references; return values from a reference; work with the ref Function and strict refs Work with advanced Perl data types using arrays hashes and hash of hashes Use Typeglobs for symbol table entries Build modules and install CPAN modules Write documentation for Perl using POD Work with the newest features in Perl including the smartmatch operator yada yada automated regex modifiers the CORE namespace and more. 1. Command Line Options 2. References 3. Advanced Data Types: Arrays 4. Advanced Data Types: Hashes 5. Typeglobs 6. Advanced Subroutine Handling 7. Packages and Namespaces 8. Building Modules 9. Installing CPAN Modules 10. POD 11. Advanced Features 12. Advanced Data Structures 13. New Features.