Perl Cookbook, does anyone have it?
John Call
seem to have reached Georgia yet.
If you do have it, do you like it? From what I've seen on the ORA site it
looks good.
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IBM Interactive Media
Patrick Timmins
It's not in Omaha yet either, and I'm sure I'm starting to really irritate
the folks at the various Barne's & Noble stores around town!
I "don't need no stinking review" ... I *know* it will be good. I don't think
Tom C. is capable, morally, of putting his name on anything that isn't first
rate.
Patrick Timmins
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Patrick Timmins <ptim...@netserv.unmc.edu> wrote:
>In article <6s1aau$1g4i$1...@ausnews.austin.ibm.com>,
> "John Call" <jo...@interactive.ibm.com> wrote:
>> Has anyone gotten a copy of this yet? I'm dying to get it and it doesn't
>> seem to have reached Georgia yet.
>>
>> If you do have it, do you like it? From what I've seen on the ORA site it
>> looks good.
>>
>> --
>> John Call
>> IBM Interactive Media
>
>Tom C. is capable, morally, of putting his name on anything that isn't first
>rate.
>
good. It's basically a huge (750 pages, counting the index and everything)
number of commonly asked (and some not so commonly asked) questions, and
resonable solutions, often with more than one way to do it shown. It's
going to be a very useful reference book to add to the Perl library -
there's nothing that beats sample code with good explanation, once you're
beyond the Learning Perl stage.
With some luck, it'll help to reduce the number of FAQ-type questions here -
it certainly answers many of them, in a form that the users can actually
use.
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brian d foy
>checking my amazon order status twice a day!
maybe i should put my second copy on one of those auction script sites ;)
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... I *know* it will be good. I don't think
> Tom C. is capable, morally, of putting his name on anything that isn't first
> rate.
>
> Patrick Timmins
> U. Nebraska Medical Center
>
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Ordered mine two weeks ago from amazon, it's not there yet either. :-(
I've already made use of 3 of the examples from the web page in a project I'm
working on. This book will be great!
David
checking my amazon order status twice a day!
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Scott Boss
> In article <6s29q2$mag$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, dtu...@pobox.com posted:
>
> >checking my amazon order status twice a day!
Barnes & Noble, Amazon.Com, Walden Books, Borders, etc... has not
received their shipment from Orielly yet. I have called all of them multiple
times. I *think* that it will be just days before they get them. Then it
will take a few days for them to send it out to all their stores (or Mail it
for Amazon..com).
>
>
> maybe i should put my second copy on one of those auction script sites ;)
If it (the cookbook) is like the other Orielly Perl Books, I would not
trade it for it's weight in gold (or silver).
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> If it (the cookbook) is like the other Orielly Perl Books, I would not
> trade it for it's weight in gold (or silver).
But, you could cash in the metals, buy another copy,
and pocket the profits! Pretty decent profit, too, since
this book is supposed to be in the 700 page range.
Scott
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I don't want to sound like I'm advertising here, but the book will be
shipped for free worldwide, and most of our US customers get their orders
within a week. Plus the site is written in Perl (partly by me :)
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Michael J Gebis
}brian d foy wrote:
}> In article <6s29q2$mag$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, dtu...@pobox.com posted:
}> >checking my amazon order status twice a day!
} Barnes & Noble, Amazon.Com, Walden Books, Borders, etc... has not
}received their shipment from Orielly yet. I have called all of them multiple
}times. I *think* that it will be just days before they get them. Then it
}will take a few days for them to send it out to all their stores (or Mail it
}for Amazon..com).
From Amazon this morning:
We thought you'd like to know that the following items have been
shipped to:
Michael Gebis
...
------------------------------------------------------------------
Ordered Title Price Shipped Subtotal
------------------------------------------------------------------
1 The Perl Cookbook 31.96 1 31.96
...
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Scott Boss
"Perl Cookbook" this morning. Their website reflects their statement. So
within a few days I will be a very happy camper.
Scott Boss
Tom Vaughan
the wait if you could't get there for a copy.
Tom
Scott Boss (Scott...@bridge.bellsouth.com) wrote:
: Well I just heard from Amazon that they have shipped all the pre-orders for
Digital Puer
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> Ordered Title Price Shipped Subtotal
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> 1 The Perl Cookbook 31.96 1 31.96
The Bookpool (www.bookpool.com) *always* has lower prices than any other
bookstore. They're selling it for $26.50. I've been a very satisfied
customer for the last 2 years.
Michael Rubenstein
<Scott...@bridge.bellsouth.com> wrote:
>brian d foy wrote:
>
>> In article <6s29q2$mag$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, dtu...@pobox.com posted:
>>
>> >checking my amazon order status twice a day!
>
> Barnes & Noble, Amazon.Com, Walden Books, Borders, etc... has not
>received their shipment from Orielly yet. I have called all of them multiple
>times. I *think* that it will be just days before they get them. Then it
>will take a few days for them to send it out to all their stores (or Mail it
>for Amazon..com).
>
>>
>>
>> maybe i should put my second copy on one of those auction script sites ;)
>
> If it (the cookbook) is like the other Orielly Perl Books, I would not
>trade it for it's weight in gold (or silver).
Amazon, however, did not let the fact that they haven't received the
book stop them from shipping a copy to me; I got mine today.
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Owen Cook
Timmins) wrote:
>>doesn't
>> seem to have reached Georgia yet.
>It's not in Omaha yet either,
Guess it will never get to Australia
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Craig Nuttall
Owen Cook <rc...@pcug.org.au> wrote in message
35e8342...@newshost.pcug.org.au...
Fear not, I have a copy on order from a Brisbane distributor and
they assure me that the new version will be available early
September........... but the Aust. price will be a killer for
some......... $89 if memory serves correctly :-(
Anyways....... My library of O'Reilly books has been well worth
the investment and I doubt that the cookbook will be any less
than well worth the money :-)
Craig
eli
its not complete, however, without a recipe for camel and/or llama from
martha stewart. ;) maybe the 2nd ed.
e.
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David Adler
>congrats to the authors for a well done hefty tome. a great cheat sheet.
More like a cheat rock....
Ducking...
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I ordered a copy from Amazon last week; they are knocking a few bucks off
the $39.95 [US] price. As of that point, it was back ordered, but there
must be lots of interest; it was #256 on their best seller list.
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Scott Boss
been reading it (bits and pieces) and it is a darn good book. Well
worth it's weight in gold. I suggest it for anyone that write perl
programs.
Scott Boss
Atlanta Perl Mongers Fearless Leader
Patrick Timmins
mden...@dekalb.dc.peachnet.edu (Michael L Denniston,CD108C SCIE,299-4097,3)
[snip]
>
> I ordered a copy from Amazon last week; they are knocking a few bucks off
> the $39.95 [US] price. As of that point, it was back ordered, but there
> must be lots of interest; it was #256 on their best seller list.
I ordered mine from Amazon last Friday (8/28/98), it shipped Saturday,
I should be getting it today or tomorrow. I'm *very* happy about this.
Sometime early last week, it was in the double-digits on the best
seller list (50-something or 60-something, if I recall). It's selling
like hot-potatoes, or sliced bread, or whatever that thing is that sells
really well.
Tom Christiansen
In comp.lang.perl.misc,
ptim...@netserv.unmc.edu (Patrick Timmins) writes:
:I ordered mine from Amazon last Friday (8/28/98), it shipped Saturday,
:I should be getting it today or tomorrow. I'm *very* happy about this.
I'm happy that you're happy. :-)
:Sometime early last week, it was in the double-digits on the best
:seller list (50-something or 60-something, if I recall). It's selling
:like hot-potatoes, or sliced bread, or whatever that thing is that sells
:really well.
Actaully, it's even better than that. It was #21 on Friday over
all titles in print, not just computer titles, and is #39 today
as of this posting.
Here's a little program that could have been in the cookbook
if I'd only written it by then. :-)
--tom
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# amarank -- rank amazon books
# tch...@perl.com
# version 1.1, Mon Aug 31 06:48:06 MDT 1998
use strict;
use Getopt::Std;
use Text::Wrap qw($columns &wrap);
use HTML::FormatText;
use HTML::Parse;
use HTML::TreeBuilder;
use HTTP::Request;
use HTTP::Request::Common qw(GET POST);
use HTTP::Response;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use URI::URL;
$columns = 75;
sub UNKNOWN { 999999999 }
sub usage {
print STDERR "$0: @_\n" if @_;
die <<EO_USAGE
usage: $0 [-s] [-t] [-a] [-v] [-r] [-w columns] [-n count] title
-s search on subject
-t search on title [DEFAULT]
-a search on author
-r raw output only, don't rand first (faster output)
-n num show only the first n books
-w cols wrap at this many columns (DEFAULT: $columns)
-v debugging
EO_USAGE
}
$| = 1;
my(
$browser, # the virtual browser we'll use as user agent
$curreq, # the current HTTP request object
$response, # the current HTTP response object
$content, # raw HTML of
$which_search, # subject, author, or title
$form,
$formatter,
$his_base,
$hitlist,
$bookcount,
$next_screen,
$search_string,
$url,
%opts,
%Desc,
%ISBN_Rank,
%ISBN_Title,
%Seen_ISBN,
);
sub fdie { die sprintf @_ }
sub dprint { print STDERR @_ if $opts{'v'} }
@opts{qw!s t a!} = (0,0,0);
getopts("rstavn:w:", \%opts) || usage("argument error");
if ($opts{"w"}) {
$columns = $opts{"w"};
}
if ( $opts{"s"} + $opts{"t"} + $opts{"a"} > 1 ) {
usage("only one of opts s, t, and s allowed.");
}
$which_search = $opts{"t"} ? 'title'
: $opts{"s"} ? 'subject'
: $opts{"a"} ? 'author'
: 'title';
$search_string = "@ARGV" || "perl";
$url = "http://www.amazon.com/";
$browser = LWP::UserAgent->new();
$browser->agent("amarank/1.0");
$curreq = GET($url);
$curreq->referer("http://wizard.yellowbrick.oz");
if (($response = $browser->request($curreq))->is_error()) {
fdie "Failed to lookup $url: %s\n", $response->status_line;
}
$his_base = $response->base;
dprint "His base is $his_base\n";
unless ($response->content =~ /Full search: <a href\s*=\s*"([^"]*)">/) {
die "couldn't find full search\n";
}
$url = url($1, $his_base);
dprint "New url is $url\n";
$curreq = GET($url);
$curreq->referer($his_base->as_string);
if (($response = $browser->request($curreq))->is_error()) {
fdie "Failed to lookup $url: %s\n", $response->status_line;
}
$his_base = $response->base;
dprint "base is $his_base";
die "no title search: $content" unless $response->content() =~
m#Enter\s*Author.*?Title.*?(<form[^>]*?action\s*=\s*"([^"]+)".*?)</form>#is;
$form = $1;
$url = url($2, $his_base);
dprint "Search is at $url\n";
$curreq = POST $url, [
"author" => $which_search eq 'author' && $search_string,
"author-mode" => "full",
"title" => $which_search eq 'title' && $search_string,
"title-mode" => "word",
"subject" => $which_search eq 'subject' && $search_string,
"subject-mode" => "word",
"submit" => "Search Now",
];
$curreq->referer($his_base->as_string);
if (($response = $browser->request($curreq))->is_error()) {
fdie "Failed to lookup $url: %s\n", $response->status_line;
}
$hitlist = $response->content();
dprint "base is $his_base";
while ($hitlist =~ m{
<b> \s*
<a \s+ href \s* = \s*
" (/exec/obidos/ASIN/(\d+))/[^"]+" \s* >
(.*?)
</a></b>(.*)
}xig )
{
my($bookurl, $isbn, $title, $text) = ($1,$2,$3,$4);
next if $Seen_ISBN{$isbn}++; # top few are dups
$bookcount++;
last if $opts{'n'} && $bookcount > $opts{'n'};
for ($title) {
s/&/&/g;
s/</</g;
s/>/>/g;
s/"/"/g;
}
$ISBN_Title{$isbn} = $title;
print STDERR "[ISBN $isbn: $title]\n" if $opts{'v'} || !$opts{'r'};
$url = url($bookurl, $his_base)->abs . "/t";
$curreq = GET $url;
$response = $browser->request($curreq);
if ($response->is_error()) {
printf "Failed to lookup $url: %s\n", $response->status_line;
exit(1);
}
my $data = $response->content;
$data =~ s/<\/?t[rhd].*?>//isg; # they have bad html in here
my $html = parse_html($data);
my $formatter = HTML::FormatText->new(leftmargin => 0, rightmargin => 500);
my $ascii = $formatter->format($html);
for ($ascii) {
my($rank) = /Amazon\.com\s+Sales\s+Rank:\s*([\d,]+)/;
($ISBN_Rank{$isbn} = $rank || UNKNOWN) =~ s/,//g;
s/.*\|\s*\n//s;
s/\[(TABLE|FORM) NOT SHOWN\]//gs;
s/Learn more about.*?ordering//si;
s/-----.*$//s;
s/\r//g;
s/^ +$//g;
s/^Our Price.*//m;
s/^You Save.*//m;
s/(?=List Price)/\n/;
s/\n{2,}/\n/g;
unless ($opts{'r'}) {
$Desc{$isbn} = $_;
} else {
print map { wrap("", " ", $_) . "\n" } split /\n/;
print "\n";
}
}
}
exit if $opts{'r'};
for my $isbn ( sort { $ISBN_Rank{$a} <=> $ISBN_Rank{$b} } keys %ISBN_Rank ) {
$_ = $Desc{$isbn};
s/(Amazon\.com\s+Sales\s+Rank:.*\n)//;
print "Rank: ", ($ISBN_Rank{$isbn} == UNKNOWN)
? "Unknown"
: commify($ISBN_Rank{$isbn}),
"\n";
print map { wrap("", " ", $_) . "\n" } split /\n/;
print "\n";
}
sub commify {
my $text = reverse $_[0];
$text =~ s/(\d\d\d)(?=\d)(?!\d*\.)/$1,/g;
return scalar reverse $text;
}
__END__
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Mark-Jason Dominus
eli <ela...@artsci.wustl.edu> wrote:
>its not complete, however, without a recipe for camel and/or llama from
How about this:
Stuffed Camel
1 whole camel, medium size
1 whole lamb, large size
20 whole chickens, medium size
60 eggs
12 kilos rice
2 kilos pine nuts
2 kilos almonds
1 kilo pistachio nuts
110 gallons water
5 pounds black pepper
Salt to taste
Skin, trim and clean camel, lamb and chicken. Boil until
tender. Cook rice until fluffy. Fry nuts until brown and mix
with rice. Hard boil eggs and peel. Stuff cooked chickens with
hard boiled eggs and rice. Stuff the cooked lamb with stuffed
chickens. Add more rice. Stuff the camel with the stuffed lamb
and add rest of rice. Broil over large charcoal pit until
brown. Spread any remaining rice on large tray and place camel
on top of rice. Decorate with boiled eggs and nuts. Serves
friendly crowd of 80-100.
Shararazod Eboli Home Economist, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
The idea of a camel stuffed with lamb stuffed with chickens stuffed
with eggs sounds appropriately Perlish to me. Personally, I think it
sounds like it needs about a pound of sage, but I realize that that
wuold not be authentic.
If O'Reilly ever has a Perl Conference in Philadelphia, and if Mary
Koutsky volunteers to help me with the roasting, I will cook and serve
this for the Perl 5 Porters. Good thing the recipe calls for a medium
camel; I don't think the local stores carry them any larger.
John Porter
>
> 12 kilos rice
Typo -- should be 120 kilos of rice.
> Personally, I think it sounds like it needs about a pound
> of sage, but I realize that that would not be authentic.
No; but I would use cumin and sumac, and several kilos of
either dried limes or pickled lemons.
> Good thing the recipe calls for a medium camel;
> I don't think the local stores carry them any larger.
Well, I have yet to see camels raised for food (or anything else,
for that matter) in the U.S.; but llama farms are not unherd of.
Llama a la Ram-a
(This recipe may be adjusted for any size party;
allow one llama per guest.)
1 llama
2 kilos maize meal
2 kilos onions
2 kilos black beans
2 kilos roasted green chilis
250 grams crushed dried hot peppers
1 kilo white cheese, grated
1 XXXtra large flour tortilla (10 packages large tortillas
may be substituted, if necessary)
1 pinch epazote
lard (Llama lard is recommended, if available)
Boil the beans until mushy; fry in lard; stir in the cheese.
Boil the maize meal until pasty; fry in lard.
Fry the onions in lard until golden, adding the dried pepper
and other seasonings about half-way through.
Skin, de-bone, and pound thin the llama.
Spread the beans, maize, and onions in layers on the llama.
Layer the roasted peppers on top of that.
Roll up, and secure with string.
Grill over large wood fire until almost charred;
baste frequently lard.
Wrap with flour tortilla(s) and slice;
serve with rice.
We recommend Modelo Negro as a fine accompaniment.
--
John Porter
Uri Guttman
MD> How about this:
MD> Stuffed Camel
<snip of amazing recipe>
MD> Shararazod Eboli Home Economist, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
MD> The idea of a camel stuffed with lamb stuffed with chickens stuffed
MD> with eggs sounds appropriately Perlish to me. Personally, I think it
MD> sounds like it needs about a pound of sage, but I realize that that
MD> wuold not be authentic.
i agree with the perlishness of the recipe. why wasn't it in the
cookbook? my wife asked me how to cook perls when i told her about the
book! :-)
MD> If O'Reilly ever has a Perl Conference in Philadelphia, and if Mary
MD> Koutsky volunteers to help me with the roasting, I will cook and serve
MD> this for the Perl 5 Porters. Good thing the recipe calls for a medium
MD> camel; I don't think the local stores carry them any larger.
i think this should be the main course at the banquet at the perl
conference. other conferences have major banquets with awards, boring
speeches, rubber chicken, etc. we could have this dish and lots of good
beer to wash it down (and maybe drown out the taste ?).
or better yet make <mee> eat the whole thing so he would finally learn
something about camels!!!
uri
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John Porter <jdpo...@min.net> writes:
>
> Well, I have yet to see camels raised for food (or anything else,
> for that matter) in the U.S.; but llama farms are not unherd of.
Pun intentional?
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I R A Aggie
+ lard (Llama lard is recommended, if available)
+
+ ...fry in lard...fry in lard...Fry the onions in lard...baste
+ frequently lard.
Arteries.....clogggggiiiiinnnngggggg.....must....escape.....
*ack*
Mark-Jason Dominus
>>
>> 12 kilos rice
>
>Typo -- should be 120 kilos of rice.
Yes. And I wonder if 60 eggs are enough. After you finish stuffing
eggs into 20 chickens, there aren't going to be very many left to
garnish it like it says you should.
Jonathan Stowe
>Mark-Jason Dominus wrote:
>>
>> 12 kilos rice
>
>Typo -- should be 120 kilos of rice.
>
>
>> Personally, I think it sounds like it needs about a pound
>> of sage, but I realize that that would not be authentic.
>
>No; but I would use cumin and sumac, and several kilos of
>either dried limes or pickled lemons.
>
>
>> Good thing the recipe calls for a medium camel;
>> I don't think the local stores carry them any larger.
>
>Well, I have yet to see camels raised for food (or anything else,
>for that matter) in the U.S.; but llama farms are not unherd of.
>
> Llama a la Ram-a
>
<etc>
Oh this is a fine time for me to discover that Perl is not recommended
by the Vegetarian Society - Mind you I hate to think what they would
have in the "Python Cookbook".
Mrs Gellyfish was just recounting how she had "Camel pad stew" in
Egypt a few years ago - apparently it was barely edible.
/J\
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Beirne Konarski
>
> Has anyone gotten a copy of this yet? I'm dying to get it and it doesn't
> seem to have reached Georgia yet.
>
> looks good.
>
> --
> John Call
> IBM Interactive Media
I got mine from Barnes & Noble for $31 including shipping. It is a very
good book, especially if you do better learning from example code than
from instructions. Each topic describes how to solve some sort of
problem. There is then a code sample, and a description of what the
sample does and any issues involved. I'd recommend it highly.
Beirne
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j
<bei...@neo.lrun.com> wrote:
>John Call wrote:
>>
>> Has anyone gotten a copy of this yet? I'm dying to get it and it doesn't
>> seem to have reached Georgia yet.
>>
>> If you do have it, do you like it? From what I've seen on the ORA site it
>> looks good.
*snip*
I got mine from barnes and noble online as well, just got it today.
Haven't had much of a chance to look through it in depth, but from
what I've seen, it's a great book. Lots of common problems (and not
so common ones) and how to fix them in numerous ways.
And it's the first ORA book (the only ones worth buying, really) to
cover the tk extensions for perl in depth... ;) happy day.
Just by scanning through it, I'd recommend it.
Eisen Chao
Some goooood stuff there...
John Call (jo...@interactive.ibm.com) wrote:
: Has anyone gotten a copy of this yet? I'm dying to get it and it doesn't
: seem to have reached Georgia yet.
:
: If you do have it, do you like it? From what I've seen on the ORA site it
: looks good.
:
: --
:
:
bj
> I got examples from Web site and put on a floppy to take home.
>
> Some goooood stuff there...
>
> John Call (jo...@interactive.ibm.com) wrote:
> : Has anyone gotten a copy of this yet? I'm dying to get it and it doesn't
> : seem to have reached Georgia yet.
> :
> : If you do have it, do you like it? From what I've seen on the ORA site it
> : looks good.
Tis very good! I would not recomend trying to learn Perl from it, but
as a reference book for a beginner (thats me), it is a great book for
getting ideas and starting points. The Panther book still hurts my
head in places.
Currently in the middle of reading it cover to cover, whilst jumping
around as I use the recipes to solve day to day crap. I would say it
is a must have for the bookcase unless you are a serious Perl hacker.
Why go through the pain of writing crap code, when you can start with
good code, and then break it... :-)
bj
Erich L. Markert
Can't wait for Perl Data Structures book.
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