INTRODUCTION
If you're like most people, you've felt frustrated at one time or another because you just couldn't do what you wanted to do with your computer. That one simple and obvious utility that would make your life so much easier was missing. Whether it was a utility to get a stock quote, to show off your photograph collection, or even to display your favorite comics, it just wasn't there.
This book is all about writing those utilities quickly and easily. Perl is the ideal language for writing utilities. The language itself frees you from many of the details of programming and lets you just write something useful. The language is ideal for text manipulation, and let's face it, most utility programming is 95 percent text processing.
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