Perl Programming on UNIX

Course Description

Perl has been described as C, awk, sed, and shell programming all wrapped into one language. In this intense, 5-day, hands-on programming course, you will learn how to take advantage of Perl`s power through examples and extensive exercises. Arrays and hashes, I/O, regular expressions, subroutines, and complex data structures are covered in depth. The course also introduces object-oriented programming in Perl, as well as UNIX multi-tasking and Perl sockets programming.
5 days
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Prerequisites

Fundamentals of UNIX. Experience in a high-level programming language, such as C, C++, or Java, is strongly recommended.

Course Introduction

Course Objectives
Course Overview
Using the Workbook
Suggested References

Overview of Perl

What is Perl?
Running Perl Programs
Sample Program
Another Sample Program
Yet another Example

Perl Variables

Three Data Types
Variable Names and Syntax
Variable Naming
Lists
Scalar and List Contexts
The Repetition Operator

Arrays and Hashes

Arrays
Array Functions
The foreach Loop
The @ARGV Array
The grep Function
Array Slices
Hashes
Hash Functions
Scalar and List Contexts Revisited

Quoting and Interpolation

String Literals
Interpolation
Array Substitution and Join
Backslashes and Single Quotes
Quotation Operators
Command Substitution
Here Documents

Operators

Perl Operators
Operators, Functions and Precedence
File Test Operators
Assignment Operator Notations
The Range Operator

Flow Control

Simple Statements
Simple Statement Modifiers
Compound Statements
The next, last, and redo Statements
The for Loop
The foreach Loop

I/O: Input Operations and File I/O

Overview of File I/O
The open Function
The Input Operator < >
Default Input Operator
The print Function
Reading Directories

Regular Expressions

Pattern Matching Overview
The Substitution Operator
Regular Expressions
Special Characters
Quantifiers (*, +, ?, {})
Assertions (

Advanced Regular Expressions

, $, \b, \B)

Subroutines

Substrings
Substrings in List Context
RE Special Variables
RE Options
Multi-line REs
Substituting with an Expression
Perl RE Extensions

References

Overview of Subroutines
Passing Arguments
Private Variables
Returning Values

Complex Data Structures

References
Creating References
Using References
Passing References as Arguments to Subroutines
Anonymous Composers
The Symbol Table

Packages and Modules

Two-dimensional Arrays in Perl
Anonymous Arrays and Anonymous Hashes
Arrays of Arrays
Arrays of References
A Hash of Arrays
A Hash of Hashes
And So On...

Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming in Perl

Packages
BEGIN and END Routines
require vs. use
Modules
The bless Function

Binary Data Structures

What is Object-Oriented?
Why Use Object-Oriented Programming?
Classes, Objects, and Methods in Perl
Inheritance, the "is-a" Relationship
Containment, the "has-a" Relationship
Overloaded Operators
Destructors

Multitasking with Perl

Variable-Length (Delimited) Fields
Variable vs. Fixed
Handling Binary Data
The pack Function
The unpack Function
The read Function
C Data Structures

Sockets Programming in Perl

What are Single and Multitasking?
UNIX Multi-tasking Concepts
Process Creation with fork
Program Loading with exec
File Descriptor Inheritance
How UNIX Opens Files
One-Way Data Flow – Pipes
Final Result - Page Viewing
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