Becoming a master -- Advanced regular expressions -- Secure programming techniques -- Debugging Perl -- Profiling Perl -- Benchmarking Perl -- Cleaning up Perl -- Symbol tables and typeglobs -- Dynamic subroutines -- Modifying and jury-rigging modules -- Configuring Perl programs -- Detecting and reporting errors -- Logging -- Data persistence -- Working with Pod -- Working with bits -- The magic of tied variables -- Modules as programs.

This is the third in O'Reilly's series of landmark Perl tutorials, which started with Learning Perl, the bestselling introduction that taught you the basics of Perl syntax, and Intermediate Perl, which taught you how to create re-usable Perl software. Mastering Perl pulls everything together to show you how to bend Perl to your will. It convey's Perl's special models and programming idioms.This book isn't a collection of clever tricks, but a way of thinking about Perl programming so you can integrate the real-life problems of debugging, maintenance, configuration, and other tasks you encounter as a working programmer.