Perl Programming, In Easy Way, For Beginners, Quick Start Guide: Perl Language, Crash Course Textbook & Exercises

About This Book
"Perl in Easy Way" is a textbook for high school and college students; it covers all essential Perl language knowledge. You can learn complete primary skills of Perl programming fast and easily.
The textbook includes many practical examples for beginners and includes exercises for the college final exam, the engineer certification exam, and the job interview exam.

Source Code Available
This book provides source code for reference; you can reference the source code for better study, or copy the source code to your favorite editor to test the programs.


Table of Contents

Hour 1
What is Perl?
Install Perl
Run First Program of Perl
Perl Comment
Data Type
Escape Sequences
Print
Here Document
Identifier

Hour 2
Variable
Constant
String
Array
Element Range
Array Size
The First Element
The Last Element
Extract Elements
Sort Elements
Conversion
Merge Arrays

Hour 3
Hash
Check Existing
Get Hash Values
Hash Size
Add or Remove Element
Iterate Through Hash
Arithmetical Operators
Comparison Operators
Logical Operators
Assignment Operators
Dot Operators
Increase & Decrease

Hour 4
If Statement
If-Else Statement
Unless Statement
Unless Statement
Ternary Operators
While Loop
Do…While Loop
Until Loop
For Loop
Foreach Loop
Continue
Last

Hour 5
Local & Greenwich Time
Subprogram
Subprogram With Parameters
Return
Public & Private Variable
Static Variable
Reference
Cancel Reference
Format Output (1)
Format Output (2)

Hour 6
Open a File
Write to File
Read from File
Input by User
File Copy
File Rename
File Remove
File Information
Directory Operation
Create a Directory
Open & Read a Directory
Change & Remove a Directory

Hour 7
Die Function
Warn Function
Sysopen Function
Match Operator
RegExp Variable
Substitute Operator
Lowercase & Uppercase Convert
Remove Double Character
Delete Specified Characters
Default Variable
Show the Perl comments

Hour 8
Class & Object
Constructor
Class & Object Example
Define a Method
Inheritance
Package
BEGIN & END Modules
Module
Require

Perl Questions & Answers
Questions
Answers