Perl Weekend Crash Course^TM

by Joe Merlino

ISBN13:
9780764548277
ISBN10:
0764548271
Edition: CD
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 2002-01-01
Publisher: Wiley
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Summary

Perl Weekend Crash Course covers the fundamentals of Perl programming including the basic grammar of Perl, syntax, and data manipulation and transformation. In addition, you'll find coverage of perl modules, functions, regular expressions, CGI programming and programming the SQL database interface via the DBI perl module. Perl Weekend Crash Course shows you how to embed Perl within an Apache server and it includes a CD-ROM that provides you with all the code and auxiliary files, pre- and post-assessment software to evaluate the user's progress, and other value-added software.

Author Biography

<b>Joe Merlino</b> is a freelance consultant and technical author from Boston, Massachusetts. This is his sixth book.

Preface

vii

Acknowledgments

FRIDAY

(2)

Part I-Friday Evening

(34)

Getting and Installing Perl

(8)

An Overview of the Language

(10)

The Very Basics

(6)

Getting Help

(9)

SATURDAY

(2)

Part II-Saturday Morning

(66)

Using Text Editors

(10)

Basics of Programming Style

(10)

Variables 1: Scalar Data

(10)

Variables 2: List and Hash Data

(12)

Statements and Expressions

(8)

Operators

(15)

Part III-Saturday Afternoon

106

(70)

Basic Input and Output

107

(10)

Control Structurs

117

(14)

Functions I: Perl Native Functions

131

(14)

Advanced Input and Output: File Manipulation

145

(10)

Advanced Input and Output: Directory Manipulation

155

(10)

Using the Operating System

165

(11)

Part IV-Saturday Evening

176

(46)

Regular Expressions

177

(12)

Data Transformations

189

(12)

Formats

201

(10)

Functions II: User-Created Functions and Subroutines

211

(11)

SUNDAY

222

(2)

Part V-Sunday Morning

224

(64)

Getting and Installing Packages and Modules

225

(8)

Using Packages and Modules

233

(8)

A Case Study: The Database Interface Module

241

(12)

Creating Your Own Packages and Modules

253

(10)

The Standard Library

263

(12)

References

275

(13)

Part VI-Sunday Afternoon

288

(51)

Introduction to Web Programming

289

(12)

Passing Data via CGI

301

(14)

The CGI.pm Module

315

(12)

Apache and mod_perl

327

(12)

Appendix A-Answers to Part Reviews

339

(10)

Appendix B-What's on the CD-ROM

349

(1)

Index

350

(31)

Hungry Minds End-User License Agreement

381

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