Perl Primer - Chapter 8 - Other Features
by Linda Naughton
Here are a few other things Perl can do for you (not covered in this primer):- String parsing (substrings, upper/lowercase manipulation).
- Advanced control structures (unless, until, etc.).
- Error trapping.
- Database integration through the DBI package.
- GUI support through the TK package.
- Web support for sockets and CGI.
- Advanced file operations (file info, iterating on all files in a directory, directory operations) through the File package.
- Binary data through pack/unpack.
- Process management.
- Processing unix signals.
- Advanced regular expressions.
- Advanced object-oriented support.
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