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

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