Fundamentals of Perl

Fundamentals of Perl

Learning Perl isn't difficult but having the the right course material makes a lot of difference between success and failure.

Below you can find the content of the course as it existed in 2007.

Since then it went thought a lot of changes and additions. The new latest version will be available soon.

Syllabus

History, how to install Perl, how to run scripts Basic I/O Scalar values and variables (numbers and strings) Control flow Lists and arrays (context) Hash (associative arrays) Regular expressions, pattern matching Functions, subroutines Accessing files Interaction with the file system Error handling Processes and Signals Using references Using modules Using OOP style Installing modules on UNIX/Linux and on Windows systems Using CGI to write simple Web applications Using LWP to write web scraping programs

Fundamentals of Perl