Perl Programming Language

The PERL programming language is well-known for its abilities to operate on textual data, and produce summaries and reports. However it has many other features and abilities, making it good for a general programming language. This course covers some of the enormous array of PERL functionality, to allow a student to start solving real problems using the language.

Previous experience with another programming language.

5 Days

Instructor-led course, with practical computer-based exercises.

• Introduction
  Course overview
• Getting Started
  chop, chomp, operators, stdin, stdout, pipes, if statements, loops, regular expressions, file I/O, printf
• Operators and Literals
  comparison operators, bitwise operators, logical operators, quoting, octal and hex
• Flow Control
  while, until, for, foreach, do-while, do-until, next, last, redo, open OR die
• Lists and Arrays
  Splitting a Table into a List, Lists and Arrays, Operations on Arrays, Functions that Operate on Arrays, Command Line Arguments, Scalar and Vector context
• Hashes
  inialising, accessing, keys and values, lookups, word frequency program, reading a file into a hash, searching hashes, environment variables
• Subroutines
  Passing Parameters, Using @_, Returning Lists and Scalars, Local and Global Variables, Difference between 'my' and 'local', Function Prototypes
• Miscellaneous
  PERL Running in nawk Mode, $_ and $@, References, Using references with functions, Passing Arrays to functions, <> operator, Exception Handling
• Modules and Packages
  Defining and Using Modules, Defining and Using Packages, Exporting functions, Defining the Inheritance Tree, How to Require a Module, How to Use a Module
• Object Orientation
  Classes, Objects, Attributes, Methods, Blessing Objects, Constructors,
• PERL-Tk
  Buttons, Checkbuttons, Layout Managers, Drawing Shapes, Scrolling Widgets, Mouse Events, Menus, Timers
• Web Programming with CGI
  Overview of CGI, Writing a simple Perl CGI script, Using the CGI module, Using forms, Object Oriented CGI
• Database Programming
  DBI, connecting to a database, creating a database, INSERT, UPDATE, SELECT, databse error handling
• Pattern Matching
  String Functions, Pattern Matching, Defining Regular Expressions, Simple Patterns, Complex Patterns, Substitution

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