Chapter 13. WEB DEVELOPMENT
The Internet, and some form of HTML or web environment-based development, is hard to avoid these days.
Perl has for years supported web and HTML projects, largely because of its text processing abilities. Parsing the data supplied by a client through a web server is relatively easy in Perl using a combination of split() and a regular expression. Furthermore when outputting the information the ease with which we can output text, interpolate variable data and communicate and integrate with outside data sources makes Perl an obvious choice. In fact, I doubt Perl would be as popular a scripting language as it is today if it wasn't for its extensive use in web development.
To make the whole development process easier Perl ...
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