Review
Wicked Cool Perl Scripts
by Steve Oualline
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Book Description Most Perl programmers have been frustrated
at one time or another because the system just wouldn't do what they
wanted it to do. There was that one simple and obvious utility that was
missing that would make life so much easier: A tool to get a stock
quote, show off a photograph collection, or even display a collection
of favorite comics. Wicked Cool Perl Scripts is about writing those utilities quickly and easily. A collection of handy utilities that solves difficult problems, Wicked Cool Perl Scripts is a great resource for the savvy Perl programmer.
From the Back Cover
You can do a lot
of strange and wonderful things with the Perl language—if you know how.
Many Perl programmers have been frustrated at one time or another
because the system was missing some simple and obvious utility. Wicked
Cool Perl Scripts is your guide to writing those utilities quickly and
easily. This book contains a wide variety of scripts including
ones that make use of really cool Perl features (see script #1
Automatic Help Option) and Internet data mining (try script #18 Getting
Stock Quotes or script #19 Comics Download). It also contains
games (like Teaching a Toddler, script #35), programs to make system
administration easier (such as Mass File Renaming, script #21), and
even a program to help someone hiking the Grand Canyon (script #42
Location Finder). Even the most experienced programmer can
benefit from script #46 the Regular Expression Grapher which shows you
how a complex expression like /^.*(a|b|c).+$/ can be made into a
simple, easily understood graph. If you’re a Perl programmer
who wants to learn the ins and outs as well as the hidden corners of
the language, Wicked Cool Perl Scripts will show you simple and elegant
hacks as well as some extreme examples of power programming. With
Wicked Cool Perl Scripts in hand, you’ll be doing things you never even
thought possible in Perl. You’ll be using the language to do real work,
of course, but you’ll also be producing wickedly cool programs. |