Title: Pro Perl Parsing Author(s): Christopher M. Frenz Pages: 272 Publisher: Apress Publication date: 2005 Language: English Format: PDF ISBN-10: 1590595041 ISBN-13: Description: Perl, one of the world's most diffuse programming languages, was born out of the need to resolve the creator's dissatisfaction with what were at the time standard data-parsing solutions. Indeed, since the 1.0 release in 1987, Perl has been heralded for its powerful parsing capabilities&emdash;features that are further enhanced through the thousands of Perl extensions made available through CPAN (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network).
Pro Perl Parsing begins with several chapters devoted to key parsing principles, discussing topics pertinent to regular expressions, parsing grammars, and parsing techniques. This material sets the stage for later chapters, which introduce numerous and powerful CPAN parsing modules, and provide an ample supply of example applications.
About the Author
Christopher Frenz is a bioinformaticist at New York Medical College and is the author of Visual Basic and Visual Basic.NET for Scientists and Engineers. Frenz is an expert in Perl and scientific programming, in addition to the .NET platform.
Review:
I thoroughly enjoyed this...I write and maintain a fair amount of Perl, and matching and parsing patterns is often the largest part of the work.
- A.P. Lawrence, Information and Resources for Unix and Linux Systems
CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1 Parsing and Regular Expression Basics
CHAPTER 2 Grammars
CHAPTER 3 Parsing Basics
CHAPTER 4 Using Parse::Yapp
CHAPTER 5 Performing Recursive-Descent Parsing with Parse::RecDescent
CHAPTER 6 Accessing Web Data with HTML::TreeBuilder
CHAPTER 7 Parsing XML Documents with XML::LibXML and XML::SAX
CHAPTER 8 Introducing Miscellaneous Parsing Modules
CHAPTER 9 Finding Solutions to Miscellaneous Parsing Problems
CHAPTER 10 Performing Text and Data Mining
INDEX
Title: Pro Perl Parsing