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Title: Excellent Reference Book - Not a Text Book
Review: I picked this book up because it was the text book for a college class on Perl. The chapter on regular expressions is a God-send for those who haven't ever done any pattern matching. From there, the book maintains the quality of an excellent reference manual.Several weeks into the course, a couple of us in the class decided to get another book to help learn the ins and outs of Perl. We bought Waite Group's Perl 5 Interactive Course. Using both books, the class created some amazing scripts, icluding a web server.I particularly enjoyed the humor in this book, especially the references to Star Trek and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. A definite plus!!!
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