How This Book Is Organized

Chapter 1: General Purpose Utilities

Perl is an ideal language for the small but helpful programs for everyday use. Chapter 1 includes scripts for tasks such as currency conversion, generating daily reminders, and finding duplicate files.

Chapter 2: Website Management

Perl and the Web go together. This chapter contains scripts that make web administration easier. You can use the scripts in this chapter to check your website for integrity, check for hackers, and even throw hackers off your system.

Chapter 3: CGI Debugging

This chapter includes a variety of techniques and tools for debugging CGI programs.

Chapter 4: CGI Programs

Now that you know how to debug CGI programs, you can try a few. The programs in Chapter ...

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