by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Jon Orwant
ISBN 0-596-00027-8
Third Edition, published July 2000.
(See the catalog page for this book.)

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Table of Contents
Copyright Page
Preface

Part I: Overview
Chapter 1: An Overview of Perl

Part II: The Gory Details
Chapter 2: Bits and Pieces
Chapter 3: Unary and Binary Operators
Chapter 4: Statements and Declarations
Chapter 5: Pattern Matching
Chapter 6: Subroutines
Chapter 7: Formats
Chapter 8: References
Chapter 9: Data Structures
Chapter 10: Packages
Chapter 11: Modules
Chapter 12: Objects
Chapter 13: Overloading
Chapter 14: Tied Variables

Part III: Perl as Technology
Chapter 15: Unicode
Chapter 16: Interprocess Communication
Chapter 17: Threads
Chapter 18: Compiling
Chapter 19: The Command-Line Interface
Chapter 20: The Perl Debugger
Chapter 21: Internals and Externals

Part IV: Perl as Culture
Chapter 22: CPAN
Chapter 23: Security
Chapter 24: Common Practices
Chapter 25: Portable Perl
Chapter 26: Plain Old Documentation
Chapter 27: Perl Culture

Part V: Reference Material
Chapter 28: Special Names
Chapter 29: Functions
Chapter 30: The Standard Perl Library
Chapter 31: Pragmatic Modules
Chapter 32: Standard Modules
Chapter 33: Diagnostic Messages
Glossary
Index
Colophon