Perl Scripting Training

Curriculum:

Getting Started With Perl:

• What is Perl?
• Where Can I Get Perl?
• A Simple Perl Program
• Simple I/O
• Perl Variables
• Control Flow – Decisions
• Control Flow – Loops
• Altering Loop Control Flow
• Statement Modifiers
• What Is True And What Is False?
• The Special Variable $

Perl Operators:

• Introduction
• Table Of Perl Operators
• Arithmetic Operators
• String Operators
• Relational Operators
• Logical Operators
• Bitwise Operators
• Assignment Operators
• The Conditional Operator
• Range Operator
• String Functions
• The eval Function

I/O:

• Introduction
• String Literals
• The print Function
• Here Documents
• The printf Function
• The sprintf Function
• Filehandles
• Opening Disk Files
• File Open Errors
• The die and warn Functions
• File Operators

Arrays:

• Basic Concepts
• Assigning Values To An Array
• Accessing Array Elements
• Array Functions
• push and pop
• shift
• sort, reverse, and chop
• split and join
• grep
• splice
• Command Line Arguments

Associative Arrays:

• Basic Concepts
• Associative Array Functions
• Updating Associative Arrays

Subroutines:

• Accessing Environment Variables
• Calling Subroutines
• Passing Arguments to Subroutines
• Returning Values from Subroutines
• The require Function
• Packages and Modules
• The @INC Array
• Predefined Subroutines
• Comparison Subroutines for Sorting

Pattern Matching And Regular Expressions:

• Introduction
• Regular Expression Syntax
• The Match Operator
• Regular Expression Meta-Characters
• Anchors
• Single Character Matches
• Some Special Issues
• Character Classes
• Multiple Character Matches
• Alternation
• The Substitution Operator
• The Translation Operator

Accessing System Resources:

• Introduction
• File and Directory System Calls
• The stat Function
• The utime Function
• The fork Function
• The exec and wait Functions
• Handling Signals
• The system Function
• Command Substitution
• Opening Pipe Files

Generating Reports With Perl:

• Formats
• Formatting Examples
• Multi-Line Values
• Multi-Line Text Blocks
• Sending a Report to a File
• The select Function
• The Special Variable $
• Top-of-Page Formats
• Bottom-of-Page Formats
• A Sample Report

Perl And CGI:

• What is CGI?
• Web Servers and Browsers
• HTML
• HTML Forms
• Form Elements
• A Typical CGI Application
• CGI Input
• CGI Output
• Using the CGI.pm Module
• CGI Environment Variables

Command-Line Options And Debugging:

• Running Perl on the Command Line
• Summary of Command-Line Options
• The Perl Debugger
• Perl Debugger Commands
• Other Debugging Aids
• The strict Module

More About Regular Expressions:

• Remembered Matches
• Greedy Regular Expressions
• Nested Remembered Patterns
• Matching for Multiple Occurrences in a Loop

References And Data Structures:

• References
• Syntactic Sugar
• Anonymous Arrays
• Higher Dimensional Arrays
• References and Subroutines

Comparing Perl 4 And 5:

• Operators
• Packages
• Type globs

Advanced Perl:

• What is in the Advanced Perl Course
• A Taste of Object Orientation
• A Taste of Network Programming

Perl Development Using Eclipse:

• Features of the Perl Plugin
• Creating a Perl Project
• Running a Perl Program
• Preferences – EPIC
• Preferences – Editor
• Preferences - Content Assist
• Preferences – Folding
• Preferences - Mark Occurrences
• Preferences – Templates
• Templates
• Preferences - Source Formatter
• Preferences - Task Tags
• Accessing Perl Documentation
• Project Properties
• Debugging
• Testing Regular Expressions

Reference:

• Special Perl Variables
• Regular Expression Meta-Characters
• Internet Resources