施瓦茨、福瓦、菲尼克斯编写的《Perl语言入门(影印版第6版)》绝对是每一位Perl程序员此生必读的经典著作之一。此书蕴含的知识极为丰富，即便拥有多年Perl编程经验的人，哪怕只是粗浅翻阅本书代码示例，也同样会获益匪浅。”

如果刚开始学习Perl这门语言，那么《Perl语言入门(影印版第6版)》就是你所需要的——不管你是一名程序员，还是系统管理员，抑或是网络黑客。这本由施瓦茨、福瓦、菲尼克斯编写的《Perl语言入门(影印版第6版)》被整整两代Perl用户呢称为“小骆驼书”，根据作者从1991年开始的教学经验积累汇聚而成，多年来十分畅销。此次第六版涵盖了最新的Perl5．14版本的变化。

Perl能在绝大多数平台上完成几乎所有任务，不管是简单的修修补补，还是大型完备的网络应用。《Perl语言入门》从最基础的开始教起，然后逐渐深入，让你慢慢能够自行编写多至128行的程序——如今90％的Perl程序差不多都是这般大小。本书每章都包含若干习题，帮助你巩固消化刚学到的知识。也许其他书籍只是想着灌输Perl编程的条条框框，但本书不同，我们希望把你培养成一名真正的Perl程序员。

preface

1. Introduction

Questions and Answers

Is This the Right Book for You?

Why Are There So Many Footnotes?

What About the Exercises and Their Answers?

What Do Those Numbers Mean at the Start'of the Exercise?

What If I'm a Perl Course Instructor?

What Does "Perl" Stand For?

Why Did Larry Create Perl?

Why Didn't Larry Just Use Some Other Language?

Is Perl Easy or Hard?

How Did Perl Get to Be So Popular?

What's Happening with Perl Now?

What's Perl Really Good For?

What Is Perl Not Good For?

How Can I Get Perl?

What Is CPAN?

How Can I Get Support for Perl?

Are There Any Other Kinds of Support?

What If I Find a Bug in Perl?

How Do I Make a Perl Program?

A Simple Program

What's Inside That Program?

How Do I Compile My Perl Program?

A Whirlwind Tour of Perl

Exercises

2. Scalar Data

3. Lists and Arrays

4. Subroutines

5. Input and Output

6. Hashes

7. In The World of Regular Expressions

8. Matching With Regular Expressions

9. Processing Text With Regular Expressions

10. More Control Structures

11. Peri Modules

12. File Tests

13. Directory Operations

14. Strings and Sorting

15. Smart Matching and Given-when

16. Process Management

17. Some Advanced Peri Techniques

index