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Wicked Cool Perl Scripts Useful Perl Scripts That Solve Difficult Problems

Copyright © 2006 by Steve Oualline.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Oualline, Steve.

Wicked cool Perl scripts : useful Perl scripts that solve difficult problems / Steve Oualline.

-- 1st ed.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 1-59327-062-3

1.  Perl (Computer program language) 2.  Object-oriented programming (Computer science)  I. Title.

QA76.73.P22Q523 2006

005.13′3--dc22

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