Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours

Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours teaches readers new to Perl the necessary basics of Perl and then shows them how to apply that knowledge in real-world Web development. The book is divided into three sections: The first third of the book teaches the basics of the Perl language. The second third of the book builds on this foundation, and shows the reader how to interact with the file system, operating system, and network. The last third of the book focuses on Web development.It begins with the basics of CGI and then moves quickly into building common Web solutions such as data collection, multi-page forms, e-mail forms, and using Perl as a Web templating system.