| 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 using an NT environment. Course Length: 4 Days Course Tuition: $1390 (US) |
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| Prerequisites | |
| User-level skills in the NT environment are required. The ability to write programs in a high-level, structured language (such as C) is recommended. | |
| Course Outline |
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• Overview of Perl What is Perl? Running Perl Programs Perl Scripts as Executable Programs Sample Program Another Sample Program Yet Another Example • 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 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 a List Context RE Special Variables RE Options Multi-line REs Substituting with an Expression Perl5 RE Extensions • 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 Contact us for course schedules or more information. |
