Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days, Second Edition

Summary

Often programming books give you a lot of wordy background, but don't give you enough actual code examples for how to do stuff. Although I won't claim that this book shirks on the wordy background (you may snicker now), these example sections offer you some longer bits of code that accomplish real things and show how a real-world script is put together.

In today's lesson, we explored two longer scripts. The first is a simple searchable address file, which used a text-based database of names and addresses. The script to process that file enabled you to process a reasonably complex search pattern, including nesting logical expressions and grouping words and phrases via quotes. You could extend this example to cover just about any situation ...