In this carefully paced course, leading Perl trainers and a Windows NT practitioner teach you to program in the language that promises to emerge as the scripting language of choice on NT. Based on the "llama" book, this book features tips for PC users and new NT-specific examples, along with a foreword by Larry Wall, the creator of Perl, and Dick Hardt, the creator of Perl for Win32. Contents include: An introduction to "the Perl way" for Windows users, A quick tutorial stroll through Perl in one lesson, Systematic, topic-by-topic coverage of Perl's broad capabilities, Innumerable, brief code examples, Programming exercises for each topic, with fully worked-out answers, Access to NT system functions through Perl, Database access with Perl, CGI programming with Perl, and Perl modules for OLE automation and the Registry.
