Advanced Perl Programming, 2nd Edition

Advanced Perl Programming, 2nd Edition

Chapter 1. Advanced Techniques
Section 1.1. Introspection
Section 1.2. Messing with the Class Model
Section 1.3. Unexpected Code
Section 1.4. Conclusion
Chapter 2. Parsing Techniques
Section 2.1. Parse::RecDescent Grammars
Section 2.2. Parse::Yapp
Section 2.3. Other Parsing Techniques
Section 2.4. Conclusion
Chapter 3. Templating Tools
Section 3.1. Formats and Text::Autoformat
Section 3.2. Text::Template
Section 3.3. HTML::Template
Section 3.4. HTML::Mason
Section 3.5. Template Toolkit
Section 3.6. AxKit
Section 3.7. Conclusion
Chapter 4. Objects, Databases, and Applications
Section 4.1. Beyond Flat Files
Section 4.2. Object Serialization
Section 4.3. Object Databases
Section 4.4. Database Abstraction
Section 4.5. Practical Uses in Web Applications
Section 4.6. Conclusion
Chapter 5. Natural Language Tools
Section 5.1. Perl and Natural Languages
Section 5.2. Handling English Text
Section 5.3. Modules for Parsing English
Section 5.4. Categorization and Extraction
Section 5.5. Conclusion
Chapter 6. Perl and Unicode
Section 6.1. Terminology
Section 6.2. What Is Unicode?
Section 6.3. Unicode Transformation Formats
Section 6.4. Handling UTF-8 Data
Section 6.5. Encode
Section 6.6. Unicode for XS Authors
Section 6.7. Conclusion
Chapter 7. POE
Section 7.1. Programming in an Event-Driven Environment
Section 7.2. Top-Level Pieces: Components
Section 7.3. Conclusion
Chapter 8. Testing
Section 8.1. Test::Simple
Section 8.2. Test::More
Section 8.3. Test::Harness
Section 8.4. Test::Builder
Section 8.5. Test::Builder::Tester
Section 8.6. Keeping Tests and Code Together
Section 8.7. Unit Tests
Section 8.8. Conclusion
Chapter 9. Inline Extensions
Section 9.1. Simple Inline::C
Section 9.2. More Complex Tasks with Inline::C
Section 9.3. Inline:: Everything Else
Section 9.4. Conclusion
Chapter 10. Fun with Perl
Section 10.1. Obfuscation
Section 10.2. Just Another Perl Hacker
Section 10.3. Perl Golf
Section 10.4. Perl Poetry
Section 10.5. Acme::*
Section 10.6. Conclusion

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