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Sometimes you want to query one table, use that result to query
another table, and then use that result to query yet another table. It’s
tempting to do this as three separate queries, ...
Perl understands numbers specified in binary (base-2), octal (base-8), and hexadecimal (base-16) notation only when they occur as literals in your programs. If they come in as data—such as by readin...