this is also a new book just released by manning. i am trying to get a
copy or two for boston.pm. i will let you know if and when i get them. i
will post a review here also when i get my copy. note that you can buy
an ebook version in PDF for only $13.50. this is a new way to me for
publishing technical books and i haven't seen it before with any perl
books. manning seems to be trying to innovate in this area. printing it
yourself would save you a lot of money or you could just print the
chapters you want. i say print since i HATE using acroread.
also i have a conflict and will miss the meeting tomorrow. i have
chastised our fearless leader for not checking for conflicts with
another event we both usually go to. he said he will be more vigilant
next time. :)
uri
Manning Publications announces the release of:
Data Munging with Perl
By David Cross
A V A I L A B L E J A N U A R Y 2 0 0 1
Greenwich, CT -- The transformation of data from one format to
another, colloquially "munging," is one of the most common programming
tasks. The new Manning book, Data Munging with Perl, examines this
important process in detail and shows how well suited Perl is for
these tasks. The book will be useful to programmers using any
programming language who carry out data munging as part of their
daily routine. Programmers who are more experienced in Perl will
learn a number of new Perl techniques to make their jobs easier.
Although aspects of data munging are much discussed online within the
Perl community, this is the first Perl book entirely focused on
munging. The book covers the waterfront of issues and techniques
including appropriate methods for reading and writing various data
formats, from unstructured text files through record based file
formats and binary data, to highly structured formats like HTML and
XML. XML is fast becoming one of the most frequently seen data
formats and this book is the first to cover XML processing with Perl
in some depth. The book culminates with techniques for building
parsers that will handle any file format you are likely to need.
For a closer look at Data Munging with Perl, Manning offers
components of the book online: the table of contents, two sample
chapters, the index and source code can be viewed at
www.manning.com/cross/. As an added perk, the publisher
runs an Author Online discussion forum for discussions between
readers and the author, Dave Cross. Found at the book's web page,
Author Online is open to all visitors, including those who do not own
the book.
Data Munging with Perl is part of an innovative new Manning
program begun in 2000: Ebooks in PDF format. The ebook edition
contains the complete text and illustrations of the printed edition, plus
a linked index and bookmarks to every entry in the Table of Contents.
It is available from the publisher's Web site now--weeks ahead of the
printed edition--and is sold at a considerable saving off the printed
edition.
Data Munging with Perl
ISBN 1930110-006
www.manning.com/cross
Printed Edition - Softbound, 304 pages, $36.95
Ebook Edition - PDF format, 2 MB, $13.50
Ebook edition is only available from publisher's Web site:
www.manning.com/cross. Printed edition is sold through Manning and
everywhere that technical books are sold.
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