Perl Weekend Crash Course covers the fundamentals of Perl programming including the basic grammar of Perl, syntax, and data manipulation and transformation. In addition, you'll find coverage of perl modules, functions, regular expressions, CGI programming and programming the SQL database interface via the DBI perl module. Perl Weekend Crash Course shows you how to embed Perl within an Apache server and it includes a CD-ROM that provides you with all the code and auxiliary files, pre- and post-assessment software to evaluate the user's progress, and other value-added software.