Perl has been described as C, awk, sed, and shell programming all wrapped into one language. Learn how to take advantage of Perl's power through examples and extensive hands-on exercises. This course introduces object-oriented programming in Perl using an NT environment.

Perl Training Audience

Programmers and system administrators.

Perl Training Prerequisites

User-level skills in the NT environment are required. The ability to write programs in a high-level, structured language (such as C) is recommended.

Perl Training Course duration

4 Days

Perl Training Course outline

Overview of Perl
	What is Perl? Running Perl Programs Perl Scripts as Executable Programs Sample Program Another Sample Program Yet Another Example
Perl Variables
	Three Types of Variables Variable Names and Syntax Variable Naming Lists Scalar and List Contexts The Repetition Operator
Arrays and Hashes
	Arrays Example - The @ARGV Array Array Functions Array Slices Hashes Hash Functions Scalar and List Contexts Revisited
I/O: Input Operations and File I/O Filehandles
	The open Function The Input Operator Default Input Operator The print Function File Operation Functions Reading Directories
Operators
	Perl operators Operators, Functions and Precedence File Test Operators Assignment Operator Notations The Range Operator Quotation Operators Pattern Matching Operators
Flow Control
	Simple Statements Simple Statement Modifiers Compound Statements The next, last and redo Statements The for Loop The foreach Loop
Regular Expressions
	Pattern Matching Overview The Substitution Operator Regular Expressions Special Characters Quantifiers (*, +, ?, {}) Assertions (^, $, \b, \B)
Subroutines
	Overview of Subroutines Passing Arguments Local Variables Passing Names Returning Values
Quoting and Interpolation
	String Literals Interpolation Array Substitution Backslashes and Single Quotes Command Substitution Here Documents
References
	References Creating References Using References Passing References as Arguments to Subroutines Anonymous Composers Hard References as Hash Keys The Symbol Table
Complex Data Structures
	Two-dimensional Arrays in Perl Anonymous Arrays and Anonymous Hashes Arrays of Arrays Arrays of References A Hash of Arrays A Hash of Hashes
Packages and Modules
	Packages BEGIN and END Routines require vs. use Modules The bless Function
Object-Oriented Programming in Perl
	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
Advanced Regular Expressions
	Substrings Substrings in List Context RE Special Variables RE Options Multiline Res Substituting with an Expression Perl5 RE Extensions
Binary Data Structures
	Variable-Length (Delimited) Fields Variable vs. Fixed Handling Binary Data The pack() Function The unpack() function The read () Function C Data Structures