Perl Language

What’s inside

• Foundations — scalars, arrays, and hashes, and the context (scalar vs list) that decides what your code actually does
• Text Power — regular expressions across two deep chapters plus real text processing, Perl's original superpower
• Structure — references and nested data, OOP with bless, subroutines, and pulling modules from CPAN
• Robustness — eval and Carp for errors, file I/O, dates and system calls, and debugging like a pro
• Modern Perl — map and grep, closures, scope, functional style, and command-line tools with Getopt
• Professional Perl — testing with Test::More, releasing distributions, performance, Unicode, and the culture that keeps code maintainable
• "Try Every Possibility" code, trap-annotated — idioms and the famous traps marked # BROKEN: and # ILLEGAL:, so you meet them in safety first
• A practice challenge + a harder bonus in every chapter — with hidden solutions and a dedicated Challenge Answers chapter
• 3 Capstone Projects — kvstore.pl, budget.pl, and chatty.pl, a multi-client chat server built on IO::Socket::INET and select