Perl Programming for Beginners: An Introduction to Learn Perl Programming with Tutorials and Hands-On Examples

✍ Scribed by Metzler, Nathan

• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 135
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Scope of Perl
   How relevant is Perl in 2020 and beyond?
   What are the prerequisites of learning Perl?
   What will I learn from this book?
3. Getting Started
   3.1 Installing Perl on Windows
   3.2 Installing Perl on Unix-like systems
   3.3 Perl Scripts/Programs
   3.4 Script Execution
   3.5 Hello World!!! Script Execution
4. Basic Syntax
   4.1 Statements
   4.2 Comments
   4.3 Code Block
   4.4 Identifiers
5. Writing your first Perl script
   5.1 print Function
   5.2 Syntax Errors
6. Data Types and Variables
   6.1 Data Types
   6.1.1 Scalar
   6.1.2 Arrays
   6.1.3 Hashes
   6.2 Variables
   6.2.1 Declaring Scalar Variables
   6.2.2 Numeric Values
   6.2.3 String Values
   6.2.4 Display Scalar Variables
7. User Interaction
8. Operators
   8.1 Arithmetic Operators
   8.2 Assignment Operators
   8.3 Comparison Operators
   8.4 Logical Operators
   8.5 Bitwise Operators
9. Decision Making
   9.1 if-else Statements
   9.2 unless Statement
10. Loops
    10.1 while Loop
    10.2 do-while Loop
    10.3 until Loop
    10.4 for Loop
    10.5 Nested Loops
    10.6 Control Statements
    10.6.1 next Statement
    10.6.2 last Statement
    10.6.3 continue block
    10.6.4 redo Statement
11. Arrays
    11.1 Array Creation
    11.2 Accessing Array Elements
    11.3 Range Operator
    11.4 Arrays and Loops
    11.5 foreach Loop
    11.6 Reading user input into arrays
    11.7 Array Manipulation
    11.8 Sorting Arrays
12. Hashes
    12.1 Accessing and Manipulating Hashes
    12.1.1 Check if a Key Exists
    12.1.2 Delete Hash Elements
    12.2 Fetch Keys and Values
13. Subroutines
    13.1 Defining a Subroutine
    13.2 Calling a Subroutine
    13.3 Passing arguments
14. Strings
    14.1 String Basics
    14.2 String Concatenation and Repetition
    14.3 Search within a string
15. File Handling
    15.1 Basics of File I/O
    15.1.1 Open Files
    15.1.2 File Modes
    15.1.3 Close Files
    15.1.4 Create a simple file
    15.1.5 Writing to a file
    15.1.6 Reading from a file
    15.1.7 Search text inside a file
16. Programming Examples
    16.1 Prime or Composite
    16.2 Fibonacci Series
    16.3 Sum of digits of a number
    16.4 Reverse a number
    16.5 Menu driven program
    16.6 Lowest Common Multiple
    16.7 Search for an element in an array
    16.8 Greatest element in an array
    16.9 Bubble Sort
    16.10 File Copy
17. Final Thoughts