Programming Perl

Positions; 5.7 Grouping and Capturing; 5.8 Alternation; 5.9 Staying in Control; 5.10 Fancy Patterns; Chapter 6: Unicode; 6.1 Show, Don't Tell; 6.2 Getting at Unicode Data; 6.3 A Case of Mistaken Identity; 6.4 Graphemes and Normalization; 6.5 Comparing and Sorting Unicode Text; 6.6 More Goodies; 6.7 References; Chapter 7: Subroutines; 7.1 Syntax; 7.2 Semantics; 7.3 Passing References; 7.4 Prototypes; 7.5 Subroutine Attributes; Chapter 8: References; 8.1 What Is a Reference?; 8.2 Creating References; 8.3 Using Hard References; 8.4 Symbolic References; 8.5 Braces, Brackets, and Quoting; Chapter 9: Data Structures; 9.1 Arrays of Arrays; 9.2 Hashes of Arrays; 9.3 Arrays of Hashes; 9.4 Hashes of Hashes; 9.5 Hashes of Functions; 9.6 More Elaborate Records; 9.7 Saving Data Structures; Chapter 10: Packages; 10.1 Symbol Tables; 10.2 Qualified Names; 10.3 The Default Package; 10.4 Changing the Package; 10.5 Autoloading; Chapter 11: Modules; 11.1 Loading Modules; 11.2 Unloading Modules; 11.3 Creating Modules; 11.4 Overriding Built-in Functions; Chapter 12: Objects; 12.1 Brief Refresher on Object-Oriented Lingo; 12.2 Perl's Object System; 12.3 Method Invocation; 12.4 Object Construction; 12.5 Class Inheritance; 12.6 Instance Destructors; 12.7 Managing Instance Data; 12.8 Managing Class Data; 12.9 The Moose in the Room; 12.10 Summary; Chapter 13: Overloading; 13.1 The overload Pragma; 13.2 Overload Handlers; 13.3 Overloadable Operators; 13.4 The Copy Constructor (=); 13.5 When an Overload Handler Is Missing (nomethod and fallback); 13.6 Overloading Constants; 13.7 Public Overload Functions; 13.8 Inheritance and Overloading; 13.9 Runtime Overloading; 13.10 Overloading Diagnostics; Chapter 14: Tied Variables; 14.1 Tying Scalars; 14.2 Tying Arrays; 14.3 Tying Hashes; 14.4 Tying Filehandles; 14.5 A Subtle Untying Trap; 14.6 Tie Modules on CPAN; Part III: Perl as Technology; Chapter 15: Interprocess Communication; 15.1 Signals; 15.2 Files; 15.3 Pipes; 15.4 System V IPC; 15.5 Sockets; Chapter 16: Compiling; 16.1 The Life Cycle of a Perl Program; 16.2 Compiling Your Code; 16.3 Executing Your Code; 16.4 Compiler Backends; 16.5 Code Generators; 16.6 Code Development Tools; 16.7 Avant-Garde Compiler, Retro Interpreter; Chapter 17: The Command-Line Interface; 17.1 Command Processing; 17.2 Environment Variables; Chapter 18: The Perl Debugger; 18.1 Using the Debugger; 18.2 Debugger Commands; 18.3 Debugger Customization; 18.4 Unattended Execution; 18.5 Debugger Support; 18.6 Profiling Perl; Chapter 19: CPAN; 19.1 History; 19.2 A Tour of the Repository; 19.3 The CPAN Ecosystem; 19.4 Installing CPAN Modules; 19.5 Creating CPAN Distributions; Part IV: Perl as Culture; Chapter 20: Security; 20.1 Handling Insecure Data; 20.2 Handling Timing Glitches; 20.3 Handling Insecure Code; Chapter 21: Common Practices; 21.1 Common Goofs for Novices; 21.2 Efficiency; 21.3 Programming with Style; 21.4 Fluent Perl; 21.5 Program Generation; Chapter 22: Portable Perl; 22.1 Newlines; 22.2 Endianness and Number Width; 22.3 Files and Filesystems; 22.4 System Interaction; 22.5 Interprocess Communication (IPC); 22.6 External Subroutines (XS); 22.7 Standard Modules; 22.8 Dates and Times; 22.9 Internationalization; 22.10 Style; Chapter 23: Plain Old Documentation; 23.1 Pod in a Nutshell; 23.2 Pod Translators and Modules; 23.3 Writing Your Own Pod Tools; 23.4 Pod Pitfalls; 23.5 Documenting Your Perl Programs; Chapter 24: Perl Culture; 24.1 History Made Practical; 24.2 Perl Poetry; 24.3 Virtues of the Perl Programmer; 24.4 Events; 24.5 Getting Help; Part V: Reference Material; Chapter 25: Special Names; 25.1 Special Names Grouped by Type; 25.2 Special Variables in Alphabetical Order; Chapter 26: Formats; 26.1 String Formats; 26.2 Binary Formats; 26.3 Picture Formats; Chapter 27: Functions; 27.1 Perl Functions by Category; 27.2 Perl Functions in Alphabetical Order; Chapter 28: The Standard Perl Library; 28.1 Library Science; 28.2 A Tour of the Perl Library; Chapter 29: Pragmatic Modules; 29.1 attributes; 29.2 autodie; 29.3 autouse; 29.4 base; 29.5 bigint; 29.6 bignum; 29.7 bigrat; 29.8 blib; 29.9 bytes; 29.10 charnames; 29.11 constant; 29.12 deprecate; 29.13 diagnostics; 29.14 encoding; 29.15 feature; 29.16 fields; 29.17 filetest; 29.18 if; 29.19 inc::latest; 29.20 integer; 29.21 less; 29.22 lib; 29.23 locale; 29.24 mro; 29.25 open; 29.26 ops; 29.27 overload; 29.28 overloading; 29.29 parent; 29.30 re; 29.31 sigtrap; 29.32 sort; 29.33 strict; 29.34 subs; 29.35 threads; 29.36 utf8; 29.37 vars; 29.38 version; 29.39 vmsish; 29.40 warnings; 29.41 User-Defined Pragmas; Index of Perl Modules in This Book; Colophon;