In the future, the Perl Maven Cookbook will have hundreds of examples with explanation on how to accomplish various tasks.
In the future, it will probably cost around $40 to get an electronic version of this cookbook.
In the meantime we are in the process of building it and you can get a copy free-of charge. More than that. You can actually help building it by sending ideas and comments on the existing examples.
The current edition has the following examples:
- Create Linux/Unix user account - a wrapper around adduser
- Reporting file system diskspace usage like df
- Reporting diskspace usage on a mail server
- A du like script
- Send files by e-mail
- Read Excel file
- Process file with fixed width records
- Process file with multi-line records
- Process multi field csv file
- Fetch web page
- Generate web page (CGI)
- Parse XML file
- Database access using DBI and DBD::SQLite
- Accessing and LDAP server using Net::LDAP
- Tie::File
Added to 0.02
- How to read a CSV file using Perl? (Added in 0.02)
- How to create an Excel file with Perl (added in 0.02)
- Reading from LDAP in Perl using Net::LDAP (added in 0.02)
One of them even has detailed explanation.
Currently only people registered to the [Perl Maven newsletter](/newsletter) will get the cookbook.
What do people say?
Just wanted to say thanks for the cookbook. It looks like a great start on a very useful resource indeed. There are a couple of recipes in there that I can see immediate use for in some stuff I'm doing right now. - [Richard Thomas](http://retco.com.au/)