1. The Practical Extraction and Report Language -- 2. Perl Quick Start -- 3. Perl Scripts -- 4. Getting a Handle on Printing -- 5. What's in a Name -- 6. Where's the Operator? -- 7. If Only, Unconditionally, Forever -- 8. Regular Expressions - Pattern Matching -- 9. Getting Control - Regular Expression Metacharacters -- 10. Getting a Handle on Files -- 11. How Do Subroutines Function? -- 12. Modularize It, Package It, and Send It to the Library! -- 13. Does This Job Require a Reference? -- 14. Bless Those Things! (Object-Oriented Perl) -- 15. Those Magic Ties and DBM Stuff -- 16. CGI and Perl: The Hyper Dynamic Duo -- 17. Perl Meets MySQL - A Perfect Connection -- 18. Interfacing with the System -- 19. Report Writing with Pictures -- 20. Send It Over the Net and Sock It to 'Em! -- A. Perl Built-ins, Pragmas, Modules, and the Debugger -- B. SQL Language Tutorial -- C. Perl and Biology -- D. Power and Speed: CGI and modp̲erl.