Beginner - Intermediate Level Users.
Includes CD-ROM.
With this book you can get up to speed programming Perl scripts in a single weekend. It covers the fundamentals of Perl programming, including the basic grammar of Perl, syntax and data manipulation and transformation. It also includes coverage of Perl modules, functions, regular expressions, CGI programming and programming the SQL database interface via the DBI Perl module, and how to embed Perl within an Apache server.
The CD-ROM includes all the code and auxiliary files, pre- and post-assessment software to evaluate the user's progress and other value-added software.