Perl Programming Training Course

Overview

This course gives a comprehensive introduction to Perl programming.

Course Outline

Running Perl programs

• Creating a Perl script

• Running Perl scripts

• Getting help with perldoc

Variable types and contexts

• Scalars, lists and hashes

• Strings and interpolated strings

• Special variables

• Context

• if/else/elseif

• do, while, until, for and foreach

Compound data structures

• References to named variables

• References to anonymous data

• Multidimensional arrays

• Multidimensional hashes

Managing files and user input

• Standard I/O streams

• File handles

• Command line arguments

• Reading and writing data files

Perl regular expressions

• Extracting important text information

• Perl regular expressions

• Altering data with substitutions

• Global and case-insensitive matches

Perl Operators

• Arithmetic expressions

• Replicating and growing strings

• Assignments operators

• File attributes

• Logical operators

• Ranges

Subroutines

• Defining and calling a subroutine

• Passing and receiving parameters

• Returning values to the caller

Perl Functions

• String functions for text manipulation

• List functions

• Sorting data

• Manipulating file system entries

• Reading binary files

• split and join

• Formatting tabular output

Object Orientation

• OO in Perl

• Methods, classes and constructors

• Obtaining third-party packages from CPAN

• How to use use

• Defining a schema to employ OO modules

• Calling methods with the -> syntax

• Passing initialisation parameters