--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am also a beginner and wondering if there are any other recommended
> books other than the camel book from O'Reilly. I have been asked to
> display information from the Oracle Database on the web using Perl
> and CGI. So far, I mostly know how to check for patterns. Gulp!!
LOL!!!
"Programming the Perl DBI" by Alligator Descartes and Tim Bunce
and once you get behind your ears dry,
"Advanced Perl Programming" by Sriram Srinivasan (an *excellent* book)
and maybe
"Mastering Algorithms with Perl" by Orwant, Hietaniemi and MacDonald
Still, personally, I strongly recommend a thorough understanding of the
native documentation before even bothering to spend money.
Check perldoc for:
perlfunc # a must
perlsyn # a definitely should
perlop # you gotta know your operators
perlvar # builtins are your friend
perlsub # functions or your own!
perldata # data structures
perlre # regex's...
etc., and then to graduate from the kit to the toolbox,
perlmod
perlreftut
perlref
perlobj
perlboot
perltoot
perltootc
perlbot
and go from there as research directs.
There are lots I left out.
Hell, just perldoc perl for a list!
> Thanks for any input.
>
> Olivier
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Paul [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 2:05 PM
> >To: n6tadam; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Re: I am a real begginer to perl......
> >
> >
> >--- n6tadam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Dear All,
> >>
> >> I wonder if someone could help me. I have been programming in bash
> >> for years
> >> now, but I have decided that I would like to use perl.
> >>
> >> My question is: "how do I tell perl to open a file for reading, do
> >> various commands, and then output those changes to a new file"???
> >
> >lol -- you'll have to be more specific.
> >My best suggestion is that you just sit down with perldoc perlfunc
> and
> >look for commands like open() that look useful to the task at hand.
> >
> >For examples, to open a file for reads,
> > open F1, $file or die $!;
> >then read a line from it with
> > $line = <F1>;
> >
> >"do various commands" is horribly vague. Perl is often called a
> >"scripting language", but in though it's convenient code like bash,
> >it's probably functionally closer to C. It's a high level language,
> >complete with bit operators and anonymous memory allocation and
> complex
> >data structures. Assuming editing, though, try opening the file as
> >above, and just printing your results to STDOUT, which you can
> direct
> >as you like from the command line. i.e., once $line is edited to
> your
> >liking, just
> > print $line;
> >
> >then you can use standard bash command-line redirection of output
> and
> >error messages as you're already wont to do. =o)
> >
> >Paul
> >
> >> Thanks in Anticipation,
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Thomas Adam
> >>
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