| Course Description | |
| Perl has been
described as C, awk, sed, and shell programming all wrapped into
one language. Learn how to take advantage of Perl's power through
examples and extensive hands-on exercises. This course introduces
object-oriented programming in Perl. Course Length: 5 Days Course Tuition: $1690 (US) |
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| Prerequisites | |
| Fundamentals of UNIX. C Programming is recommended. | |
| Course Outline |
| • Overview of Perl What is Perl? Running Perl Programs Example Programs • Perl Variables Three Types of Variables Variable Names and Syntax Variable Naming Lists Scalar and List Contexts The Repetition Operator • Arrays and Hashes Arrays Example - The @ARGV Array Array Functions Array Slices Hashes Hash Functions Scalar and List Contexts Revisited • I/O: Input Operations and File I/O Filehandles The open Function The Input Operator Default Input Operator The print Function File Operation Functions Reading Directories • Operators Perl operators Operators, Functions and Precedence File Test Operators Assignment Operator Notations The Range Operator Quotation Operators Pattern Matching Operators • Flow Control Simple Statements Simple Statement Modifiers Compound Statements The next, last and redo Statements The for Loop The foreach Loop • Regular Expressions Pattern Matching Overview The Substitution Operator Regular Expressions Special Characters Quantifiers (*, +, ?, {}) Assertions (^, $, \b, \B) • Subroutines Overview of Subroutines Passing Arguments Local Variables Passing Names Returning Values • Quoting and Interpolation String Literals Interpolation Array Substitution Backslashes and Single Quotes Command Substitution Here Documents • References References Creating References Using References Passing References as Arguments to Subroutines Anonymous Composers Hard References as Hash Keys The Symbol Table • Complex Data Structures Two-dimensional Arrays in Perl Anonymous Arrays and Anonymous Hashes Arrays of Arrays Arrays of References A Hash of Arrays A Hash of Hashes |
• Packages and Modules Packages BEGIN and END Routines require vs. use Modules The bless Function • Object-Oriented Programming in Perl What is Object-Oriented? Why Use Object-Oriented Programming? Classes, Objects, and Methods in Perl Inheritance, the "is-a" Relationship Containment, the "has-a" Relationship Overloaded Operators Destructors • Advanced Regular Expressions Substrings Substrings in List Context RE Special Variables RE Options Multiline Res Substituting with an Expression • Binary Data Structures Variable-Length (Delimited) Fields Variable vs. Fixed Handling Binary Data The pack() Function The unpack() function The read () Function C Data Structures • Multitasking with Perl What are Single and Multitasking? UNIX Multitasking Concepts Process Creation with fork Program Loading with exec() File Descriptor Inheritance How UNIX Opens Files One-Way Data Flow - Pipes Final Result - Page Viewing • Sockets Programming in Perl Clients and Servers Ports and Services Berkeley Sockets Data Structures of the Sockets API Socket System Calls Generic Client/Server Models A Little Web Server • Appendix 1 - The Perl Distribution Where Can You Get Perl? How Do You Build Perl? What Gets Created and Installed? Differences Between Platforms • Appendix 2 - The Perl Debugger Overview of the Perl debugger Debugger Commands Non-Debugger Commands Listing Lines Single Stepping Setting and Clearing Breakpoints Modifying the Debugger The -w and -D Flags Contact us for course schedules or more information. |
