I've really been cranking on Perl recently, and more specifically paging back through a book I bought last year called "Spidering Hacks" from O'Reilly.
This is an incredible reference. The most intrigueing thing to me is that the authors had no quams putting 3 pages of straight perl code if they needed to. It is prefaced nicely and you are directed to where to get the proper PPD modules, and then the code is remarked wonderfully with plenty of comments. Hack #78 shows you code to create your own dictionary bot using Net:
ict and a site called
#78 requires knowledge of LWP UserAgent, which is explained in Hack #10 earlier in the book.
If you're looking for some challenging examples of perl's abilities you gotta check this one out. A great introduction as well.
This is an incredible reference. The most intrigueing thing to me is that the authors had no quams putting 3 pages of straight perl code if they needed to. It is prefaced nicely and you are directed to where to get the proper PPD modules, and then the code is remarked wonderfully with plenty of comments. Hack #78 shows you code to create your own dictionary bot using Net:
ict and a site called #78 requires knowledge of LWP UserAgent, which is explained in Hack #10 earlier in the book.
If you're looking for some challenging examples of perl's abilities you gotta check this one out. A great introduction as well.
