Perl Training

• What is Perl

• Perl at the Command Line

• Perl Scripts

• Print Functions

• Literals

• Quoting Rules

• Here Documents

• Variables

• Naming Conventions

• Scope and Package

• Scalars

• Assigning a value to a Scalar Variable

• Curly Braces and Scalars

• The $_ scalar variable

• Arrays

• Slices

• Split Function

• Associative Arrays

• Predefined Filehandles

• Standard Input

• Standard Output

• Standard Error

• Operators

• Arithmetic Operators

• String Operators

• Assignment Operators

• Precedence and Associativity

• Relational and Equality Operators

• The if Construct

• Testing Equality

• The if/else Construct

• Numeric Operators

• String Operators

• Logical Operators

• The if/elsif/else Construct

• Autoincrement and Autodecriment Operators

• String Operations

• Range Operator

• Regular Expressions

• Simple Statements and Modifiers

• Pattern Matching

• The Metacharacters

• The tr function

• Pattern Matching Operators

• Loops

• Labels and Blocks

• The while Loop

• The Until Loop

• The For Loop

• Labels, Loops, and Loop Control

• The foreach loop

• Nested Loops and Labels

• User Defined Filehandles

• A Little About Dying

• The close function

• Open for reading

• Open for writing

• Open for appending

• Open for pipes

• The eof function

• Arguments and More Arrays

• The @ARGV array-Command Line Arguments

• ARGV and the Shift Functions

• Array Built-in Functions

• The grep function

• The split function

• The join function

• The splice function

• The pop function

• The push function

• The shift function

• The unshift function

• The reverse function

• The sort function

• The chop function

• The chomp function

• More associative Arrays

• Associative Array Functions

• The keys function

• The values function

• The each function

• The delete function

• The exists function

• The %ENV Array

• Subroutines

• Defining and Calling a Subroutine

• Passing by Reference

• Passing By Value

• The local Function

• The return Statement

• The Standard Perl Library

• The @INC Array

• Packages and .pl Files

• The require function

• Including Standard Library Routines

• Modules and .pm Files

• Using a Perl5 Module

• Packages

• The Symbol Table

• Using The Strict Pragma

• The Standard Perl Library

• Including a Standard Perl Library Routine

• Using a Perl5 Module from the Standard Perl Library

• Including your Subroutines from Another Directory

• The Exporter Module and the @ISA Array

• Using Modules from the Standard Perl Library

• Using Perl to Create Your Own Module

• References

• Symbolic References (aliases and typeglob)

• Hard References (pointers)

• Anonymous Variables and References

• Object Oriented Perl

• OOP Terminology

• Classes

• The my Function

• Objects

• Methods

• Destructors

• Inheritance

• The @ISA Array

• Derived Classes

• Perl Modules and Documentation

• Another Look at the Standard Perl Library

• POD Files

• POD Commands

• How to Use POD Interpreters

• Using a Module from the Standard Perl Library

• Tying Variables and DBM Files

• The Tie Function

• Predefined Methods

• DBM Files

• Creating and Assigning Data to a Database

• Deleting Entries from a Database

• DBI module

• Database programming using DBI module

• Defining a SQL string using DBI

• Running perl scripts from web