Mastering Perl, 2nd Edition: Creating Professio... May 2026
The book is structured into several core functional areas to improve your Perl development workflow:
: Deep dive into recursion, grammars, lookarounds, and global matching.
: Updated to include modern tools like autodie and TryCatch . Improved Logging : Enhanced coverage of the Log4perl module. Mastering Perl, 2nd Edition: Creating Professio...
This edition added roughly 50 pages of content and includes several major revisions from the original 2006 text:
: Storing data efficiently using bit operations, bit vectors, and modern formats like JSON and Sereal. Updates in the Second Edition The book is structured into several core functional
: Reorganized data persistence into Perl-specific vs. Perl-agnostic formats, with new material on JSON and YAML .
: Now includes advanced features like recursive regexes and regex grammars. This edition added roughly 50 pages of content
: Detailed techniques for profiling with Devel::NYTProf and benchmarking Perl programs to identify bottlenecks.
