Session: An Overview of Perl

What is Perl
Perl is compiled and interpreted
Perl Advantages and Disadvantages
Downloading and Installing Perl
Which version of Perl
Getting Help
Session: Creating and running Perl Programs

Structure of a Perl program
Running a Perl script
Checking syntax and warnings
Execution of scripts under Unix and Windows
Session: Basic Data and I/O

Numeric and Text literals
Math operators and expressions
Scalar variables
Default values
Writing to standard output
Command line arguments
Reading from the standard input
Session: Logic and Loops

About flow control
The if statement and Boolean values
Using unless and elsif
Statement modifiers
warn() and die()
The conditional construct
Using while loop and its variants
Using the for loop
Exiting from loops
Session: Lists and Arrays

The list data type
Accessing array elements
Creating arrays
List interpolation
Arrays and memory
Counting elements
Iterating through an array
List evaluation
Slices and ranges
Session: Reading and writing text files

File I/O Overview
Opening a file
Reading text files
Writing to a text file
Arrays and file I/O
Using the <> operator
Session: List functions

Growing and shrinking arrays
The split() function
Splitting on whitespace
Assigning to literal lists
The join() function
The sort() function
Alternate sort keys
Reversing an array
Session: Formatting output

Using sprintf() and printf()
Report formatting overview
Defining report formats
The write() function
Advanced filehandle magic
Session: Hashes

Hash overview
Creating hashes
Hash attributes
Traversing a hash
Testing for existence of elements
Deleting hash elements
Session: References

What is a reference
The two ways to create references
References to existing data
References to anonymous data
Dereferencing scalar, array, and ash references
Dereferencing elements of arrays and hashes
Multidimensional arrays and other data structures
Session: Text and Regular Expressions

String length
The substr() function
The index() and rindex() functions
String replication
Pattern matching and substitution
Regular expressions
Session: Raw file and data access

Opening and closing raw (binary) files
Reading raw data
Using seek() and tell()
Writing raw data
Raw data manipulation with pack() and unpack()
Session: Subroutines and variable scope

Understanding packages
Package and Lexical variables
Localizing builtin variables
Declaring and calling subroutines
Calling subroutines
Passing parameters and returning values
Session: Working with the operating system

Determining current OS
Environment variables
Running external programs
User identification
Trapping signals
File test operators
Working with files
Time of day
Session: Shortcuts and defaults

Understanding $_
shift() with no array specified
Text file processing
Using grep() and Using map()
Command-line options for file processing
Session: Data wrangling

Quoting in Perl
Evaluating arrays
Understanding qw( )
Getting more out of the <> operator
Read ranges of lines
Using m//g in scalar context
The /o modifier
Working with embedded newlines
Making REs more readable
Perl data conversion
Session: Using the Perl Library

The Perl library
Old-style library files
Perl modules
Modules bundled with Perl
A selection of modules
Getting modules from ActiveState
Getting modules from CPAN
Using Getopt::Long
Session: Some Useful Tools

Sending and receiving files with Net::FTP
Using File::Find to search for files and directories
Grabbing a Web page
Some good places to find scripts
Perl man pages for more information
Zipping and unzipping files

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