Topics

Part 1: Overview

An Overview of Perl

Part 2: The Gory Details

Bits and Pieces
Unary and Binary Operators
Statements and Declarations
Pattern Matching
Subroutines
Formats
References
Data Structures
Packages
Modules
Objects
Overloading
Tied Variables

Part 3: Perl as Technology

Unicode
Interprocess Communication
Threads
Compiling
The Command-Line Interface
The Perl Debugger
Internals and Externals

Part 4: Perl as Culture

CPAN
Security
Common Practices
Portable Perl
Plain Old Documentation
Perl Culture

Part 5: Reference Material

Special Names
Functions
The Standard Perl Library
Pragmatic Modules
Standard Modules
Diagnostic Messages
Glossary
Index