New in 2e

I’m updating Mastering Perl, using v5.18 as the current version of Perl, using O’Reilly’s Atlas early release publishing system. You can read the draft of Mastering Perl 2e for free, sponsored by OSCON.

Chapters

1. Introduction
2. Advanced Regular Expressions
3. Secure Programming Techniques
4. Debugging Perl
5. Profiling Perl
6. Benchmarking Perl
7. Cleaning Up Perl
8. Symbol Tables and Typeglobs
9. Dynamic Subroutines
10. Modifying and Jury-Rigging Modules
11. Configuring Perl Programs
12. Detecting and Reporting Errors
13. Logging
14. Lightweight Data Persistence
15. Working with Pod
16. Working with Bits
17. The Magic of Tied Variables
18. Modules as Programs

Appendices

• Further Reading
• brian’s Guide to Solving Any Perl Problems