Instant Perl Modules

by Douglas Sparling

This is a hands-on guide that aims to show programmers how to save time and extend the capabilities of Perl with the use of modules. It provides more than 100 Perl modules, including: accessing... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 007212962X
• ISBN13: 9780072129625
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.5" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Simplifies using Perl Modules BUT

I found this book to be very enlightening to expand the world of Perl modules to me. I was somewhat disappointed , however in the lack of detail in the GD graphics library area. The DBI documentation is right on and very useful.Part of the beauty of the book is to describe processes you would have to wade thru many readmes. The GD Library part is deceptive as the GD library install has a lot of prerequitites, not listed in the book. The book shows some cool examples on the GD library ...a little more content in this area around the mysterious subject(maybe if they simplified this too) of how to create the shared library libgd. This appears to be a mystery on the web in general. I am not a novice PERL programmer and it was sad to see how convoluted it was to get the GD library to work vs, as described in the book. Bottom Line in this review....this is a book worth buying, however, be careful not to assume that getting thr GD module...one of the more glamourous modules discussed, is as easy as stated.Doug and Frank...keep up the good work.your book helps to start fill a gap in the Perl module area....well written, easy to follow.

One fine book!

This is a great book, I recommend it highly. It has many practical examples and covers some concepts that are not so easy to find in a lot of the common documentation. Buy this book!

Instantly Useful!

Minutes after opening this book I was installing the Perl/Tk module in a private directory (explained on page 6). There are well written examples on how to use the various modules. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in learning to use Perl modules to their advantage.