Book Description
Randal Schwartz's Perls of Wisdom is a collection of more than 70 of Randal's columns, teaching everything from Perl basics to how to decompose XML using an HTML parser. Randal's unique writing style and (sometimes) truly twisted use of Perl makes for exciting reading for readers who want to enhance their Perl skills.

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Randal Schwartz's Perls of Wisdom is a collection of more than 70 of Randal's columns, teaching everything from Perl basics to how to decompose XML using an HTML parser. Randal's unique writing style and (sometimes) truly twisted use of Perl makes for exciting reading for those who want to enhance their Perl skills.

About the Author
Randal L. Schwartz is a well-known personality in the Perl community. He is a best-selling author and established columnist.

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The Barnes & Noble Review
If you￯﾿ﾽre clued in to the Perl community, you￯﾿ﾽve seen Randal Schwartz￯﾿ﾽs work everywhere. Hey, he did coauthor Larry Wall￯﾿ﾽs original Programming Perl, making him the go-to guy for magazine publishers seeking Perl wisdom. Now he￯﾿ﾽs brought together his coolest ideas from years of columns. Intellectually, you know Perl can do just about anything. This book will really bring it home to you.

Schwartz￯﾿ﾽs solutions cut a wide swath across Perl￯﾿ﾽs capabilities. Text searching and editing. HTML and XML processing. CGI programming and loads of other Webmaster stuff (from DBI to a really simple, handcrafted ￯﾿ﾽpoor man￯﾿ﾽs load balancer￯﾿ﾽ). You￯﾿ﾽll find plenty of useful stuff here -- but even if you didn￯﾿ﾽt, you￯﾿ﾽd learn tons of stuff about Perl. If only all programming authors explained their code this well! Bill Camarda, from the March 2005 Read Only

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