Adopted as the undisputed Perl bible soon after the first edition appeared in 1991, Programming Perl is still the go-to guide for this highly practical language.
Perl began life as a super-fueled text processing utility, but quickly evolved into a general purpose programming language that's helped hundreds of thousands of programmers, system administrators, and enthusiasts, like you, get your job done.
In this much-anticipated update to the Camel, three renowned Perl authors cover the language up to its current version, Perl 5.
14, with a preview of features in the upcoming 5.
In a world where Unicode is increasingly essential for text processing, Perl offers the best and least painful support of any major language, smoothly integrating Unicode everywhere--including in Perl's most popular feature: regular expressions.
Important features covered by this update include: New keywords and syntax I/O layers and encodings New backslash escapes Unicode 6.
0Unicode grapheme clusters and properties Named captures in regexes Recursive and grammatical patterns Expanded coverage of CPANCurrent best practices.
| Feature | Regular expressions |
|---|---|
| Important features covered by this update include | New keywords and syntax |
