PERL SCRIPTING ONLINE TRAINING

PERL SCRIPTING COURSE CONTENT
1: Getting Started with Perl
	1. What is Perl?
	2. Where Can I Get Perl?
	3. A Simple Perl Program
	4. Simple I/O
	5. Perl Variables
	6. Control Flow - Decisions
	7. Control Flow - Loops
	8. Altering Loop Control Flow
	9. Statement Modifiers
	10. What Is True And What Is False?
	11. The Special Variable $_
2: Perl Operators
	1. Introduction
	2. Table Of Perl Operators
	3. Arithmetic Operators
	4. String Operators
	5. Relational Operators
	6. Logical Operators
	7. Bitwise Operators
	8. Assignment Operators
	9. The Conditional Operator
	10. Range Operator
	11. String Functions
	12. The eval Function
Chapter 3: I/O
	1. Introduction
	2. String Literals
	3. The print Function
	4. Here Documents
	5. The printf Function
	6. The sprintf Function
	7. Filehandles
	8. Opening Disk Files
	9. File Open Errors
	10. The die and warn Functions
	11. File Operators
4: Arrays
	1. Basic Concepts
	2. Assigning Values To An Array
	3. Accessing Array Elements
	4. Array Functions
	5. push and pop
	6. shift
	7. sort, reverse, and chop
	8. split and join
	9. grep
	10. splice
	11. Command Line Arguments
Chapter 5: Associative Arrays
	1. Basic Concepts
	2. Associative Array Functions
	3. Updating Associative Arrays
	4. Accessing Environment Variables
Chapter 6: Subroutines
	1. Calling Subroutines
	2. Passing Arguments to Subroutines
	3. Returning Values from Subroutines
	4. The require Function
	5. Packages and Modules
	6. The @INC Array
	7. Predefined Subroutines
	8. Comparison Subroutines for Sorting
Chapter 7: Pattern Matching and Regular Expressions
	1. Introduction
	2. Regular Expression Syntax
	3. The Match Operator
	4. Regular Expression Meta-Characters
	5. Anchors
	6. Single Character Matches
	7. Some Special Issues
	8. Character Classes
	9. Multiple Character Matches
	10. Alternation
	11. The Substitution Operator
	12. The Translation Operator
Chapter 8: Accessing System Resources
	1. Introduction
	2. File and Directory System Calls
	3. The stat Function
	4. The utime Function
	5. The fork Function
	6. The exec and wait Functions
	7. Handling Signals
	8. The system Function
	9. Command Substitution
	10. Opening Pipe Files
Chapter 9: Generating Reports with Perl
	1. Formats
	2. Formatting Examples
	3. Multi-Line Values
	4. Multi-Line Text Blocks
	5. Sending a Report to a File
	6. The select Function
	7. The Special Variable $~
	8. Top-of-Page Formats
	9. Bottom-of-Page Formats
	10. A Sample Report
Chapter 10: Perl and CGI
	1. What is CGI?
	2. Web Servers and Browsers
	3. HTML
	4. HTML Forms
	5. Form Elements
	6. A Typical CGI Application
	7. CGI Input
	8. CGI Output
	9. Using the CGI.pm Module
	10. CGI Environment Variables
Appendix A: Command Line Options and Debugging
		1. Running Perl on the Command Line
		2. Summary of Command Line Options
		3. The Perl Debugger
		4. Perl Debugger Commands
		5. Other Debugging Aids
		6. The strict Module
Appendix B: More About Regular Expressions
		1. Remembered Matches
		2. Greedy Regular Expressions
		3. Nested Remembered Patterns
		4. Matching for Multiple Occurrences in a Loop
Appendix C: References and Data Structures
		1. References
		2. Syntactic Sugar
		3. Anonymous Arrays
		4. Higher Dimensional Arrays
		5. References and Subroutines
Appendix D: Comparing Perl 4 and 5
		1. Operators
		2. Packages
		3. Typeglobs
Appendix E: Advanced Perl
		1. What is in the Advanced Perl Course
		2. A Taste of Object Orientation
		3. A Taste of Network Programming
Appendix F: Perl Development Using Eclipse
		1. Features of the Perl Plugin
		2. Creating a Perl Project
		3. Running a Perl Program
		4. Preferences - EPIC
		5. Preferences - Editor
		6. Preferences - Content Assist
		7. Preferences - Folding
		8. Preferences - Mark Occurrences
		9. Preferences - Templates
		10. Templates
		11. Preferences - Source Formatter
		12. Preferences - Task Tags
		13. Accessing Perl Documentation
		14. Project Properties
		15. Debugging
		16. Testing Regular Expressions