This new book by the worlds leading programming language textbook authors carefully explains how to use Perl as a general-purpose programming language and how to program multi-tier, client/server, database-intensive, Internet-and-Web-based applications. Dr. Harvey M. Deitel and Paul J. Deitel are the principals of Deitel & Associates, Inc., the internationally recognized corporate training and content-creation organization specializing in C++, Java, C SHARP, C, Visual Basic, XML, Python, Perl, Internet, World Wide Web and object technologies. The Deitels are also the authors of the worlds no.1 Java and C++ textbooks, Java How to Program, 3/e and C++ How to Program, 3/e. In Perl How to Program, the Deitels and their colleagues, Tem R. Nieto and David C. McPhie, discuss topics you need to build complete, Web-based applications including: *CGI/HTML forms/XML/CGI.pm *Control Structures/Arrays/Hashes *Regular Expressions/Strings *Objects/Encapsulation *OOP/Inheritance/References *Database/DBI/SQL/Signals/Contexts *Security/Accessibility *Typeglobs/File Globbing *Networking/Sockts/Internet Protocols *Cookies/Session Tracking *Filehandles/Data Structures *Process Control/Forking/Piping *S