Picking up Perl
(No Frames) |
Bradly M. Kuhn |
A complete Perl tutorial, with all of the following topics: Expressions, Statements,
and Side-Effects ,Working with Scalars , Strings , Single-quoted Strings , Special
Characters in Single-quoted Strings , Newlines in Single-quoted Strings , A Digression--The
print Function , Double-quoted Strings , Interpolation in Double-quoted Strings
, Characters Requiring Special Consideration Numbers , Numeric Literals , Printing
Numeric Literals , Scalar Variables , Scalar Interpolation , Undefined Variables
, Operators , Numerical Operators , Comparison Operators , Auto-Increment and Decrement
, String Operators , Assignment with Operators , Output of Scalar Data , Special
Variables , Summary of Scalar Operators , Arrays , The Semantics of Arrays , List
Literals , Array Variables , Array Variables , Associated Scalars , Manipulating
Arrays and Lists , It Slices! , Functions , Arrays as Stacks , Arrays as Queues
, The Context--List vs. Scalar , Array Interpolation , Control Structures , Blocks
, A Digression--Truth Values , The if/unless Structures m The while/until Structures
, The do while/until Structures , The for Structure , The foreach Structure , Associative
Arrays (Hashes) , Variables , Literals , Functions , Keys and Values , Each , Slices
, Context Considerations , Regular Expressions , The Simple , Simple Characters
, The * Special Character , The . Character , The | Character , Grouping with ()s
, The Anchor Characters , Pattern Matching , Regular Expression Shortcuts , Subroutines
, Defining Subroutines , Returning Values , Using Arguments ,Background of Perl
, A Brief History of Perl and Perl as a Natural Language |
