Beginning Perl Programming: Self-Study Guide & Student Manual

English | 2018 | 344 Pages | PDF | 10 MB

Beginning Perl Programming: Self-Study Guide & Student Manual (Learning Perl Book 1)
Using this hands-on guide, learn how to:

• Perform operations on scalar values
• Use scalar, array and associative array variables
• Use flow control statements such as if, unless, while, until, for and foreach
• Use conditional expressions such as numeric and string comparison, regular expressions, file testing and Perl statements
• Create and use file handles to read and write directly to files
• Create format statements to make formatted output
• Use regular expressions to search for and replace sub-strings within a string
• Use Perl utilities such as split, join, index and substr
• Control the file system and processes from within a Perl script
• Create and use functions including handling the scope of variables
• Import existing modules into your Perl script