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Introduction to Perl Programming: a Stroll Through Perl

Text: Learning PERL (the Llama book), 2nd ed., Randal L. Schwartz, OšReilly & Associates, 1997.

PERL4 is an interpreted language that can be regarded as a cross between C, Unix shell, sed and awk. It is a C-based language which can also deal directly with Unix commands and file system and easily do string processing matching.

In this course, we will concentrate not on using PERL in systems programming, but in using PERL for CGI programming, i.e. implementing programs activated from Web pages.

In general, we use PERL for tedious high level things which can take a long time to program but not much execution time. For computationally intense programs, we would use a compiled language such as C.

Our first lecture on Perl will show a series of small programming examples from Chapter 1 of the Learning Perl book, designed to illustrate the main features of the language. Later we will cover each topic in more detail.

Table of Contents for Introduction to Perl Programming: a Stroll Through Perl

001 Introduction to PERL Programming:
    a Stroll Through Perl
    from "Learning Perl", 2nd ed. by Randal L. Schwartz
002 PERL4
003 The Simplest Program:  Hello, World!
004 Scalar Variables and Keyboard Input
005 Conditional and Comparison
006 While Loop
007 Arrays, also known as lists
008 Associative arrays
009 Regular Expressions and String Matching
010 Substitute and Translate Operators
011 Subroutines
012 Reading Files
013 Sending commands to the operating system
014 Formatting output and using file names
015 Further Topics