For years, experienced programmers have relied on Effective Perl Programming to
discover better ways to solve problems with Perl. Now, in this
long-awaited second edition, three renowned Perl programmers bring
together today’s best idioms, techniques, and examples: everything you
need to write more powerful, fluent, expressive, and succinct code with
Perl.

Nearly twice the size of the first edition, Effective Perl Programming, Second Edition, offers
everything from rules of thumb to avoid common pitfalls to the latest
wisdom for using Perl modules. You won’t just learn the right ways to
use Perl: You’ll learn why these approaches work so well.

New coverage in this edition includes

• Reorganized and expanded material spanning twelve years of Perl evolution
• Eight new chapters on CPAN, databases, distributions, files and filehandles, production Perl, testing, Unicode, and warnings
• Updates for Perl 5.12, the latest version of Perl
• Systematically updated examples reflecting today’s best idioms

You’ll
learn how to work with strings, numbers, lists, arrays, strictures,
namespaces, regular expressions, subroutines, references, distributions,
inline code, warnings, Perl::Tidy, data munging, Perl one-liners, and a
whole lot more. Every technique is organized in the same Items format
that helped make the first edition so convenient and popular.