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Perl Primer

By Linda Naughton

This tutorial provides an introduction to Perl, with examples and exercises.

About the Primer

This primer is intended for experienced developers familiar with other programming languages, particularly C++. It was written as "talking points" for a presentation, so it is not as verbose as some other tutorials you might find. I hope it is useful nonetheless.

References

Learning Perl. Randal L. Schwartz and Tom Phoenix. O'Reilly & Associates.


Chapters
Introduction
Variables
Control Structures
Subroutines and Functions
Input/Output
Regular Expressions
Classes
Other Perl Features


Exercises
Printing Decimal and Hex
Push vs Shift
Custom Sort
Creating Hashes
While Loop
Foreach Loop
Creating a Subroutine
Passing Parameters by Reference
Command Line Input
Reading a Text File
Output to a File
Regexp Basics
Regexp Wildcards
Regexp Quantifiers
Regexp Character Classes
Regexp Groups
Regexp Memory
Regexp Anchor
Regexp Substitutions
Test Package
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