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Foreword

Preface
1. Introduction
Part I. Beginner Concepts
2. All About Arrays
3. Perfect Programming
4. Precedence
5. The Birth of a One-Liner
6. Comparators, Sorting, and Hashes
7. What Is Truth?
8. Using Object-Oriented Modules
9. Unreal Numbers
10. CryptoContext
11. References
12. Perl Heresies

Part II. Regular Expressions
13. Understanding Regular Expressions, Part I
14. Understanding Regular Expressions, Part II
15. Understanding Regular Expressions, Part III
16. Nibbling Strings
17. How Regexes Work

Part III. Computer Science
18. Infinite Lists
19. Compression
20. Memoization
21. Parsing
22. Trees
23. B-Trees
24. Making Life and Death Decisions with Perl
25. Information Retrieval
26. Randomness
27. Random Number Generators and XS

Part IV. Programming Techniques
28. Just the FAQs: Suffering from Buffering
29. Scoping
30. Seven Useful Uses of local
31. Parsing Command-line Options
32. Building a Better Hash with tie
33. Source Filters
34. Overloading
35. Building Objects Out of Arrays
36. Hiding Objects with Closures
37. Multiple Dispatch in Perl
Part V. Software Development
38. Using Other Languages from Perl
39. SWIG
40. Benchmarking
41. Building Software with Cons
42. MakeMaker
43. Autoloading Perl code
44. Debugging and Devel::

Part VI. Networking
45. E-mail with Attachments
46. Sending Mail Without sendmail
47. Filtering Mail
48. Net::Telnet
49. Microsoft Office
50. Client-Server Applications
51. Managing Streaming Audio
52. A Napster Client Library
53. A 74-line IP Telephone
54. Controlling Modems
55. Using Usenet from Perl
56. Transferring Files with FTP
57. Spidering an FTP Site
58. DNS Updates With Perl
Part VII. Databases
59. DBI
60. Using DBI with Microsoft Access
61. DBI Caveats
62. Beyond Hardcoded Database Applications with DBIx::Recordset
63. Win32::ODBC
64. Net::LDAP
65. Web Databases the Genome Project Way
66. Spreadsheet::WriteExcel
Part VIII. Internals
67. How To Improve Perl
68. Components of the Perl Distribution
69. Basic Perl Anatomy
70. Lexical Analysis
71. Debugging Perl Programs with -D
72. Microperl

Index

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