Perl Programming Introduction
This intensive course provides a solid introduction to the Perl programming language. Hands-on exercises reinforce key concepts
- Cost: Price on application
- Duration: 4 Days
- This course is not available as part of our public schedule but can be provided on a customised client specific basis.
Familiarity with C, prodecural programming, or shell scripting is beneficial.
Running Perl programs
Basic statement syntax
Comments, variables, basic operators and functions
Reading from standard unput, writing to standard output and standard error
Arithmetic, assignment, relational, logical, bitwise, and string operators
Precedence and associativity
If-else elsif, and unless statements
The warn(), die(), and exit () functions
While and until loops
Scalar variables: character strings
Escape sequences
Defining and using list variables
Assigning list elements to other variables
Command line arguments
Working with list ranges and list slices
Creating hashes from lists
Adding and deleting hash elements
Opening a file
Determining file status
Using pipes
Substitution and translation operators
Value formats
File access, link, and directory manipulation functions
Process, mathematical, string, scalar, list manipulation, and time functions
Separator and pattern match variables
-n and -p options
Creating multidimensional arrays
Importing modules into a program
Creating and using classes