Learn Perl Programming
Learn Perl Programming
Through Real Examples
About the Book
This book evolved out of a course on Perl programming that I teach in the Bay Area. The engagement level in the class peaks when we write real code. This book draws on the same energy: We are going to learn by writing code.
This book is dedicated to people who know the thrill of automating tedious tasks, who like making the computer do their work for them, who like getting more done by working smarter.
This book targets people who want to learn Perl. At the end of this book you will be able to:
- Write Perl programs
- Take existing Perl programs and modify them to fit your needs
- Find useful Perl modules on CPAN and use them in your code
- Add Perl to your resumé, and apply for Perl jobs
About the Author
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Who should read this book?
- Why was this book written?
- How is this book different from other books?
- Who is the author?
- How should this book be used?
- Final words
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 What is Perl
- 1.2 Perl Resources
- 1.3 Installing Perl
- 1.4 Perl Scripts
- 1.5 Perl BAT Files
- 1.6 Perl Documentation
- 2 Perl Data Types
- 2.1 Scalars
- 2.2 Numeric Scalars
- 2.3 String Scalars
- 2.4 Perl One-Liners
- 2.5 Scalar Variables
- 2.6 Arithmetic Operators
- 2.7 Assignment Operators
- 2.8 Increment/Decrement Operators
- 2.9 String Operators
- 2.10 Unary Operators
- 2.11 Reading Input
- 2.12 Population Calculator
- 3 Control Flow
- 3.1 Using
if,elsif,else - 3.2 Relational Operators
- 3.3 Ternary Operator:
$a ? $b : $c - 3.4 Falseness
- 3.5 Logical Operators
- 3.6 Short Form
if - 3.7 Looping with
whileandfor - 4 Lists and Arrays
- 4.1 Creating Arrays
- 4.2 Array Operations With Side-Effects
- 4.3 Array Operations Without Side-Effects
- 4.4
@INCPath - 5 Reading and Writing Files
- 5.1 Command Line Arguments
- 5.2 Reading Files
- 5.3 Stock Prices
- 5.4 Capturing Program Output
- 5.5 Writing and Appending to Files
- 5.6 File Test Operators
- 6 Regular Expressions
- 6.1 Pattern Matching
- 6.2 Substitution
- 6.3 Map and Grep
- 7 Hashes
- 7.1 Defining Hashes
- 7.2 Building Hashes
- 7.3 Looking Up Values
- 7.4 Looping Over Values
- 7.5 Checking For Key Existence
- 7.6 Removing Key From Hash
- 7.7 Calculating Frequencies
- 7.8 Environment Variables
- 8 Functions
- 8.1 Defining and Calling Functions
- 8.2 Useful String Functions
- 9 Array and Hash References
- 9.1 Array References
- 9.2 Hash References
- 9.3 Nesting Array References and Hash References
- 10 Object-Oriented Perl
- 10.1 Defining and Using Objects
- 10.2 CPAN and Modules
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