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, in which numerous powerful CPAN parsing modules are introduced, accompanied by an ample number of example applications.
The first book focused solely on data parsing, a task commonly deemed Perl’s greatest strength Couples an introduction to data parsing concepts and techniques with practical instruction regarding the key Perl modules capable of facilitating often complex parsing tasks The author, Christopher Frenz, is a bioinformaticist and expert on Perl and scientific computing