Sams Teach Yourself CGI in 24 Hours, Second Edition

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Hour 10. Delving Further into Perl

Because Perl is the most commonly used language for writing CGI scripts, developers have created many tools to simplify Perl programming. Although teaching you the Perl language itself is beyond the scope of this book, I will discuss some tools and recommend some resources that can help out. In this hour, I’ll cover the following topics:

Taking care of common programming tasks with CGI.pm
Using cgi-lib.pl—the precursor to CGI.pm
Handling errors with CGI::Carp
Taking Advantage of CPAN
Finding out more about Perl programming

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