Chapter 13. Perl Programming

Perl is a popular scripting language that is available for most platforms. Its popularity is especially prevalent on Linux platforms, although it is still popular on most UNIX-based platforms. The Perl scripting language also seems to find widespread use as a CGI language for Web servers.

Perl provides a database interface (DBI). This DBI module provides a standard interface for accessing a vendor's database driver (DBD). By using the DBI module to write scripts that access databases, Perl programmers do not need to write vendor-specific code. Rather, if they want to change which database to access, all that needs to be done is switch which DBD module is referenced.

This chapter describes the DBI interface and uses ...

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