Learning Perl Exercises
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Learning Perl Exercises

About the Book

Each chapter of O'Reilly Media's Learning Perl has exercises at the end. At in-person classes, I've often posed extra exercises for those who wanted to do more. I've collected all of those in this book and provided detailed, in-depth discussions of the various ways to solve each exercise.

Our original idea was to provide this companion book as a bundle for formal classes, and I still hope that's how people might use it. If you are an instructor, take the exercises you see here an incorporate them into your own classes. You don't have to buy one for every student, but I hope that you'll be kind to me at checkout. Your support allows me to create even more Perl content.

This book was originally published by O'Reilly Media as Learning Perl Student Workbook and last published in 2012. I reverted the rights back to myself and updated the book for the Seventh Edition of Learning Perl. Additionally, I kept some chapters on Databases and Smart Matching that we've removed from the book. This new version is another book from Perl School.

About the Author

brian d foy
brian d foy

brian d foy is one of the most prolific authors in the Perl programming community. He's the author of Mastering Perl and Learning Perl 6, and the co-author of Learning Perl, Intermediate Perl, Programming Perl, Effective Perl Programming, and others. He helps people and companies use Perl through education, training, and consulting.

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Table of Contents

  • Preface
    • Is This Book for You?
    • Support Files
    • Some History
    • List of Chapters
    • Versions in Exercises
    • The Flintstones
    • Acknowledgments
    • Perl School
    • Preface to the Second Edition
  • Introduction
    • Exercises
    • Answers
  • Scalar Data
    • Exercises
    • Answers
  • Lists and Arrays
    • Exercises
    • Answers
  • Subroutines
    • Exercises
    • Answers
  • Input and Output
    • Exercises
    • Answers
  • Hashes
    • Exercises
    • Answers
  • In the World of Regular Expressions
    • Exercises
    • Answers
  • Matching with Regular Expressions
    • Exercises
    • Answers
  • Processing Text with Regular Expressions
    • Exercises
    • Answers
  • More Control Structures
    • Exercises
    • Answers
  • Perl Modules
    • Exercises
    • Answers
  • File Tests
    • Exercises
    • Answers
  • Directory Operations
    • Exercises
    • Answers
  • Strings and Sorting
    • Exercises
    • Answers
  • Process Management
    • Exercises
    • Answers
  • Some Advanced Perl Techniques
    • Exercises
    • Answers
  • Smart Matching and given-when
    • Exercises
    • Answers
  • Databases
    • Exercises
    • Answers

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