Introduction to Perl Table of Contents  

Course Information

Perl Basics

Overview

What is Perl?		1
Setting up the environment		1

Perl By Example

Hello World!		2
Hello, $name!		3
Hello Again!		4

     

Perl Language Syntax

Data Types

4

Variable Types		5
Dereferencing Symbols		6
Scalar Variables		7
List Variables		8
Assigning to List Variables		9

Basic List Functions		10
Using Associative Arrays		11
Basic Associative Array Functions		12
Strings		13
File Test Operators		14
Basic Program Flow		15
FOREACH loop feature		16
Loop Control Statements		17
Command Line: Accessing		18
Command Line: Proccessing		19
Subroutines: Defining Subroutines		20
Subroutines: Passing and Accessing Subroutine Parameters		21
Subroutines: Returning Values		23
Subroutines: Accessing Return Values		24
Scoping: Variable Scoping		25
Regular Expressions: What are they?		26
Regular Expressions: Basic Patterns		27
Regular Expressions: Special Patterns Macros		28
Regular Expressions: Special Escape Characters		29
Regular Expressions: Pattern Matching		30
Regular Expressions: Pattern Matching by Example		31
Regular Expressions: Pattern Matching Options		32
Regular Expressions: Pattern Filtering		33
Regular Expressions: The Substitute Operator		34
Regular Expressions: The Transpose Operator		35
Regular Expressions: Advanced Pattern Filtering		36
Regular Expressions: The Grep function		37