Programming Perl
By: Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Randal L. Schwartz, with Stephen Potter.
Contributors: Schwartz, Randal L.; Christiansen, Tom.
Edition: 2nd Edition, Covers Perl 5
Series: A Nutshell handbook
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Beijing; Cambridge; Farnham; Köln; Paris; Sebastopol; Taipei; Tokyo
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 645
Copyright date: 1991, 1996
Subjects: Perl (Computer program language); Programming Languages
First sentence: Perl is a language for getting your job done.
Description: If Perl itself is the first legend of Larry Wall, this book - affectionately known everywhere as The Camel Book - is the second. If you buy only one book about Perl, no one in the Perl community will question your judgment in buying this one.

Contents include an extensive overview of the language and its syntax; a complete reference for all Perl functions, operators, and standard library modules; an explanation of Perl references and complex data structures; a detailed account of Perl's object-oriented features; and much more, including efficiency, debugging, invocation options, program security, interprocess communication, autoloading, etc.
Notes: "Programming"--Cover.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: An overview of Perl; title: The gory details; title: Functions; title: References and nested data structures; title: Packages, modules, and object classes; title: Social engineering; title: The standard Perl library; title: Other oddments; title: Diagnositic messages; title: Glossary; title: Index.