From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com> Subject: Sequestration Date: 22 May 1998 14:29:38 GMT To try to make some amends for the ridiculous amounts of non-Perl crud and destructive flaming that I was largely responsible for inciting over the last two days, I have just posted a dozen useful pieces of tips for doing cool things with Perl. Nearly all of them I've posted before in one place or another, but often only to private mailing lists, or embedded in larger messages where the code examples were likely to be missed. Those examples will find their way into Perl Cookbook, which I must now buckle down and finish. I won't be posting again until then. PCB is the answer to the two missing chapters that were ``lost'' between the first and second editions of the Camel. It has always been our intention to restore those to you in some form, and this is that form. Actually, the PCB is very much more than those two missing chapters. The book is completely filled with quite literally *thousands* of examples, complete with illustrative prose explanations, which were admittedly largely omitted from the postings I just made. Its page count will likely be somewhat higher than anticipated, but that just means more examples. Here's a table of contents, not counting front-matter or back-matter: Strings Numbers Dates and Times Arrays Hashes Pattern Matching File Access File Contents Directories Subroutines References and Records Packages, Libraries, and Modules Classes, Objects, and Ties Database Access User Interfaces Process Management and Communication Sockets Internet Services CGI Programming Web Automation We only have a week left to add polish before it goes out of our hands and into that of the production crew. The book will be in print later this summer, and yes, you'll pay for it. But it is my understanding that the code segments, such as those I have just posted, will all be available via anonymous ftp for downloading. Enjoy. --tom http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cookbook/ -- Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time. --Larry Wall in <1992Aug13.192357.15731@netlabs.com>