For years, experienced programmers have relied on Effective Perl Programming to discover better ways to solve problems with Perl. Now, in this long-awaited second edition, three renowned Perl programmers bring together today’s best idioms, techniques, and examples: everything you need to write more powerful, fluent, expressive, and succinct code with Perl 5.

Nearly twice the size of the first edition, Effective Perl Programming, Second Edition, offers everything from simple tips to full-fledged solutions, rules of thumb to common pitfalls and how to avoid them. You won’t just learn the right ways to use Perl: you’ll learn why these approaches work so well.

New coverage in this edition includes

Nine all-new chapters on CPAN: databases, debugging, distributions, external processes, files and filehandles, “Production Perl,” testing, and Unicode

Systematically updated examples reflecting today’s best idioms

More coverage of application and user interface techniques

More hands-on exercises and solutions: great for individual programmers and training environments

You’ll find it all here: strings, numbers, lists, arrays, strictures, namespaces, regular expressions, subroutines, references, distributions, inline code, warnings, Perl::Tidy, data munging, Perl one-liners, and a whole lot more. Every technique is organized in the same items format that helped make the first edition so convenient and popular.

Joseph N. Hall has programmed for a living since 1984, taught his first computer class at age fourteen, and has worked with Perl since 1993. Josh McAdams, a programmer for Google, is the voice of Perlcast. He has hosted two Perl conferences, conducts meetings for Chicago Perl Mongers, has spoken about Perl at events worldwide, and is a CPAN author. brian d foy is coauthor of Learning Perl, Fifth Edition,(O’Reilly Media, 2008) and Intermediate Perl, Second Edition, (O’Reilly Media, 2006) and author of Mastering Perl (O’Reilly Media, 2007). He established the first Perl user group, the New York Perl Mongers; published Perl Review; maintains perlfaq; and has ten years of Perl training experience.