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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133
EAN: 9780596001780
Format: Illustrated
ISBN: 0596001789
Label: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 264
Publication Date: June 26, 2002
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Sales Rank: 185256
Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Rating:  - Honest Assessment of Burke's Perl & LWP
This is not your typical clunker with endless pages of filler material. It gets right to the point. If you want to learn about using Perl to interact with the internet, this would be a good book to help you get there. I have purchased several Perl books that supposedly teach you how to write code for use with the internet, but they are difficult to understand, and most of the examples just don't work. This book is an exception to that trend. It is the only one I have found so far that has useable, ... Read More
Rating: - A Wonderful Book
I bought this book to get information automatically on japanese stocks(for example, charts, price, volume, PER, PBR, ROE, ROA, News, messages on Yahoo! Japan BBS for stocks) from the WEB every day.
Somehow this book has not yet translated into Japanese language.
I think this book would sell very well if translated into Japanese. Many demands.
This book is self-contained about the WEB, so you need little Perl programming rules and don't have to have knowledge on the Internet ... Read More
Rating: - This book can teach you expert-level web scraping/munging.
If you aren't yet comfortable using object-oriented Perl modules, the multitude of examples will at least allow you see how it's done even if you're a bit fuzzy on what's happening 'underneath' when you call object methods. If you're comfortable learning how to do something without knowing exactly why it works, then the author's clear step-by-step explantions and numerous progressively more powerful examples should make this book accessible even to relatively innexperienced Perl programmers.
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Rating: - Great book!
If you are unfamiliar with LWP and web scraping, or HTML parsing using tokens and trees, I strongly recommend this book. It's the best *introduction* to these topics I've been able to find. Sean's style is clear and concise-just what I expect from an O'Reilly book.
To get the most out of this book, you'll want to be familiar with Object Oriented programming in Perl, because (with the exception of LWP::Simple) all the modules discussed in this book use objects.
Also, don't expect the ... Read More
Rating:  - Terrible, bug-infested book...
I really don't know how the previous 5 reviews gave this book 5 stars. I was really excited about this book when I first read the reviews, and now here I am only a few chapters in and already thinking about dumping it altogether. This book has so many flaws for its size, the biggest of which was the codes. I am no Perl expert, but could find my way around in a decent size program. However, no examples I have tried so far in the book actually worked, and some of these are just 10-20 lines long. I am completely ... Read More
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