This completely updated & revised edition brings you up to the minute with: Complete coverage of Perl 5; Bug fixes to existing versions; Full treatment of CGI scripting. Includes hands-on tutorials, from simple reports to sophisticated Perl scripts. Paper. CD ROM included. DLC: Perl (Computer program language) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. The publisher, Prentice-Hall ECS ProfessionalThis tutorial/reference is the ideal guide for UNIX professionals who want to (or must) learn Perl as quickly as possible. Perl (Practical Extraction and Report Language) -- a public domain interpreted language used for manipulating text, files, and processes -- combines the best features of many of the UNIX utilities, including grep, awk, sed, tr, shells, and the C programming language. Due to its unique features, Perl has gained popularity recently, and is quickly becoming the preferred programming language of systems administrators. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.