Perl Hacks: Tips & Tools for Programming, Debugging, and Surviving

✍ Scribed by Poe, Curtis, Conway, Damian, Chromatic, & Damian Conway & Curtis "Ovid" Poe & Curtis (Ovid) Poe

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 304
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Perl Hacks taps into the collective wisdom of the world's most creative Perl gurus, so you can learn from their experiences. It's the perfect book for experienced developers looking for time-saving practical tips or dabblers who are simply curious about Perl's many cool capabilities. Topics include user interaction, data munging, working with modules, object hacks, and debugging.

Abstract: Perl Hacks taps into the collective wisdom of the world's most creative Perl gurus, so you can learn from their experiences. It's the perfect book for experienced developers looking for time-saving practical tips or dabblers who are simply curious about Perl's many cool capabilities. Topics include user interaction, data munging, working with modules, object hacks, and debugging

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Perl Hacks
About the Contributors
Acknowledgments
Damian Conway
Curtis "Ovid" Poe
Technical Reviewers
Preface
How To Use This Book
How This Book Is Organized
Conventions Used in This Book
Using Code Examples
Safari Enabled
We & d Like to Hear from You
1. Productivity Hacks
Read Module Documentation
Find Module Comments
Hacking the Hack
2. Put Perldoc to Work
Answer a FAQ
Webify It
Find that Module!
Browse the Code
3. Browse Perl Docs Online
Running the Hack
Hacking the Hack
4. Make the Most of Shell Aliases
Useful Shell Aliases
Juggle multiple module versions. Don & t forget multipart commandsRemember configuration options
Find a module & s version
Change Unix paths to Windows paths and back
5. Autocomplete Perl Identifiers in Vim
Finding Identifiers Automatically
Hacking the Hack
6. Use the Best Emacs Mode for Perl
Use a special mode just for Pod
7. Enforce Local Style
Within Vim
Within Emacs
8. Don & t Save Bad Perl
Running the Hack
Hacking the Hack
9. Automate Checkin Code Reviews
Hacking.

✦ Subjects

Perl (Computer program language)