On Mon, 7 May 2001, Me wrote:
> Data Munging with Perl is another option.
> It has a very different feel from the above books.
> It goes through its topics in a systematic fashion --
> it seemed almost plodding to me, with perhaps
> 3 jokes in the entire book. However it remains a
> high quality book and is probably an excellent
> choice if you want to do anything more than an
> hour or two's worth of data munging in the next
> few months. I loved it, dry style notwithstanding.
I have a copy of this one coming to me soon. Data munging was what led me
to start using Perl a coyuple years ago, after I got tired of writing
hundreds of lines of C only to discover I could do the same in 3 lines of
Perl. :-)
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/btfwk/
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