Debugging Perl: Troubleshooting for Programmers [Paperback]

Martin Brown (Author)

Book Description

Series: Debugging | Publication Date: October 2, 2000

This work aims to deomonstrate how to best use the features of Perl to create functions and to re-use existing code to develop applications that eliminate problems before they appear. It features boxed elements that focus on specific coding techniques for writing applications.

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From the Back Cover

Write error-free programs from development to deployment!

Sidestep disaster with the tips, techniques, and expert insights contained in this one-of-a-kind resource. Debugging Perl shows you, step-by-step, how to fix buggy code and prevent errors from ever slipping into your programs. All the details you need to know are here—from avoiding syntax, logic, and variable problems as you program to troubleshooting with the Perl debugger, profiler, and compiler. Plus, you’ll get design tips, little-known traps to watch out for, and a cross-referenced appendix of error messages. When your Perl scripts must run cleanly on every system every time, turn to the real-world solutions offered in this unique handbook.

Learn to:

Optimize your code using the Perl debugger, profiler, and compiler
Troubleshoot variable expressions, regular expressions, compile-time statements, run-time outputs
Stamp out bugs caused by syntactical and logical mistakes
Implement subroutines, modules, and expressions to automatically detect potential problems
Trap errors using manual techniques, the Perl debuggers, and through the use of Perl’s pragma system
Manage Perl memory usage and control system resources
Evaluate your scripts using test harnesses, code breaking, and system stress calculations

About the Author

Martin C. Brown is the author of Perl: The Complete Reference and Perl Annotated Archives. He has more than 15 years of multi-platform programming experience in Perl, Shellscript, Basic, Pascal, C/C++, Java, JavaScript, VBScript, and Awk.

Product Details

• Paperback: 425 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies; 1st edition (October 2, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072126760
• ISBN-13: 978-0072126761
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,245,684 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You need this before you meet the "real world", August 29, 2001

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Goldin Evgeny (Tel-Aviv, Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Debugging Perl: Troubleshooting for Programmers (Paperback)

Very good. Author isn't only describing "how to debug Perl programs" but he's
mainly concerned in "how to write Perl programs that you won't need to debug" - this
sounds better, right ? A "hands-on" developer experience brought by someone who obviously
stepped on most of errors people may step and trying to warn you before you're doing
the same.
If "Programming Perl" is about "Perl", this book is about "real-world-Perl" and .. hey ..
those things aren't the same, as you should know (you *will* after reading the book).
Thank you, Martin !

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's about time..., January 21, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Debugging Perl: Troubleshooting for Programmers (Paperback)

After a countless number of Perl books have been published, not much has been published like this book. The Learning Perl books are great, but learning the syntax isn't always the needed information to programmers. This book is different in that it focuses on some of the quirky odd things that you may run into programming. After designing in Perl for 3 years, I still run into times the code does not work the way I thought it would (maybe from thinking in C, Java, etc terms) and need a book of quirks instead a book of syntax. Finally, a book about how Perl behaves (or misbehaves). Great work. Long live Perl.

8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's about time..., January 21, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Debugging Perl: Troubleshooting for Programmers (Paperback)

After a countless number of Perl books have been published, not much has been published like this book. The Learning Perl books are great, but learning the syntax isn't always the needed information to programmers. This book is different in that it focuses on some of the quirky odd things that you may run into programming. After designing in Perl for 3 years, I still run into times the code does not work the way I thought it would (maybe from thinking in C, Java, etc terms) and need a book of quirks instead a book of syntax. Finally, a book about how Perl behaves (or misbehaves). Great work. Long live Perl.