Learning Perl : Making Easy Things Easy and Hard Things Possible,9780596001322

Learning Perl : Making Easy Things Easy and Hard Things Possible

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Edition: 3rd
ISBN13: 9780596001322
ISBN10: 0596001320
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Pub. Date: 2001-07-01
Publisher(s): Oreilly & Associates Inc
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Summary

Learning Perl is the quintessential tutorial for the Perl programming language. The third edition has not only been updated to Perl Version 5.6, but has also been rewritten from the ground up to reflect the needs of programmers learning Perl today. Other books may teach you to program in Perl, but this book will turn you into a Perl programmer.

Author Biography

Tom Phoenix has been working in the field of education since 1982. After more than thirteen years of dissections, explosions, work with interesting animals, and high-voltage sparks during his work at a science museum, he started teaching Perl classes for Stonehenge Consulting Services, where he's worked since 1996. Since then, he has traveled to many interesting locations, so you might see him soon at a Perl Mongers' meeting. When he has time, he answers questions on Usenet's comp.lang.perl.misc and comp.lang.perl.moderated newsgroups, and contributes to the development and usefulness of Perl. Besides his work with Perl, Perl hackers, and related topics, Tom spends his time on amateur cryptography and speaking Esperanto. His home is in Portland, Oregon.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
Introduction
1(18)
Questions and Answers
1(3)
What Does ``Perl'' Stand For?
4(4)
How Can I Get Perl?
8(4)
How Do I Make a Perl Program?
12(5)
A Whirlwind Tour of Perl
17(2)
Exercises
18(1)
Scalar Data
19(21)
What Is Scalar Data?
19(1)
Numbers
19(3)
Strings
22(4)
Perl's Built-in Warnings
26(1)
Scalar Variables
27(2)
Output with print
29(5)
The if Control Structure
34(1)
Getting User Input
35(1)
The chomp Operator
36(1)
The while Control Structure
37(1)
The undef Value
37(1)
The defined Function
38(2)
Exercises
39(1)
Lists and Arrays
40(16)
Accessing Elements of an Array
41(1)
Special Array Indices
42(1)
List Literals
43(2)
List Assignment
45(2)
Interpolating Arrays into Strings
47(1)
The foreach Control Structure
48(1)
Perl's Favorite Default: $
49(2)
Scalar and List Context
51(3)
<STDIN> in List Context
54(2)
Exercises
55(1)
Subroutines
56(17)
System and User Functions
56(1)
Defining a Subroutine
57(1)
Invoking a Subroutine
57(1)
Return Values
58(2)
Arguments
60(2)
Private Variables in Subroutines
62(1)
The local Operator
63(1)
Variable-length Parameter Lists
64(3)
Notes on Lexical (my) Variables
67(1)
The use Strict Pragma
68(1)
The return Operator
69(4)
Exercises
71(2)
Hashes
73(13)
What Is a Hash?
73(3)
Hash Element Access
76(4)
Hash Functions
80(3)
Typical Use of a Hash
83(3)
Exercises
84(2)
I/O Basics
86(12)
Input from Standard Input
86(2)
Input from the Diamond Operator
88(2)
The Invocation Arguments
90(1)
Output to Standard Output
91(3)
Formatted Output with printf
94(4)
Exercises
96(2)
Concepts of Regular Expressions
98(7)
What Are Regular Expressions?
98(2)
Using Simple Patterns
100(2)
A Pattern Test Program
102(3)
Exercises
103(2)
More About Regular Expressions
105(10)
Character Classes
105(2)
General Quantifiers
107(1)
Anchors
108(1)
Memory Parentheses
109(2)
Precedence
111(4)
Exercises
113(2)
Using Regular Expressions
115(13)
Matches with M//
115(1)
Option Modifiers
116(1)
The Binding Operator, =∼
117(1)
Interpolating into Patterns
118(1)
The Match Variables
119(3)
Substitutions with s///
122(3)
The split Operator
125(1)
The join Function
126(2)
Exercises
127(1)
More Control Structures
128(20)
The unless Control Structure
128(1)
The until Control Structure
129(1)
Expression Modifiers
130(1)
The Naked Block Control Structure
131(1)
The elsif Clause
132(1)
Autoincrement and Autodecrement
133(2)
The for Control Structure
135(3)
Loop Controls
138(4)
Logical Operators
142(6)
Exercises
147(1)
Filehandles and File Tests
148(20)
What Is a Filehandle?
148(2)
Opening a Filehandle
150(2)
Fatal Errors with die
152(3)
Using Filehandles
155(2)
Reopening a Standard Filehandle
157(1)
File Tests
157(11)
Exercises
167(1)
Directory Operations
168(6)
Moving Around the Directory Tree
168(1)
Globbing
169(1)
An Alternate Syntax for Globbing
170(1)
Directory Handles
171(2)
Recursive Directory Listing
173(1)
Exercises
173(1)
Manipulating Files and Directories
174(18)
Removing Files
174(2)
Renaming Files
176(1)
Links and Files
177(5)
Making and Removing Directories
182(2)
Modifying Permissions
184(1)
Changing Ownership
184(1)
Changing Timestamps
185(1)
Using Simple Modules
185(7)
Exercises
190(2)
Process Management
192(16)
The system Function
192(3)
The exec Function
195(1)
The Environment Variables
196(1)
Using Backquotes to Capture Output
197(4)
Processes as Filehandles
201(2)
Getting Down and Dirty with Fork
203(1)
Sending and Receiving Signals
204(4)
Exercises
206(2)
Strings and Sorting
208(13)
Finding a Substring with index
208(1)
Manipulating a Substring with Substr
209(2)
Formatting Data with sprintf
211(2)
Advanced Sorting
213(8)
Exercises
219(2)
Simple Databases
221(12)
DBM Files and DBM Hashes
221(3)
Manipulating Data with pack and unpack
224(1)
Fixed-length Random-access Databases
225(3)
Variable-length (Text) Databases
228(5)
Exercises
232(1)
Some Advanced Perl Techniques
233(16)
Trapping Errors with eval
233(3)
Picking Items from a List with grep
236(1)
Transforming Items from a List with map
237(1)
Unquoted Hash Keys
238(1)
More Powerful Regular Expressions
239(3)
Slices
242(7)
Exercises
247(2)
A. Exercise Answers 249(32)
B. Beyond the Liama 281(22)
Index 303

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