Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days

by Lemay, Laura

• ISBN13: 9780672313059
• ISBN10: 0672313057
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Macmillan Computer Pub

Summary

Teach Yourself Perl in 21 Days will cover the basics in the first few chapters, and then move to practical uses of Perl and in-depth discussions of more advanced topics. Later chapters will also delve into software engineering topics, with discussions of modular code and object-oriented programming. CGI will be covered in one chapter, but will not be the focus of the book. Teach Yourself Perl will rely heavily on longer working examples and code, as opposed to small snippets and code fragments. Each chapter will include two to three smaller complete examples and one major one that illustrates most of the concepts for that chapter and builds on the chapters before it.

Author Biography

Laura Lemay is one of the world's most popular authors on Web development topics. She is the author of the best-selling Sams Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days and Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML in a Week. She is known for her ability to clearly explain even the most difficult technical topics, while complementing her discussions with interesting yet practical examples.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(4)
WEEK 1 GETTING STARTED	5	(158)
An Introduction to Perl	7	(22)
Working with Strings and Numbers	29	(22)
More Scalar Data and Operators	51	(20)
Working with Lists and Arrays	71	(26)
Working with Hashes	97	(20)
Conditionals and Loops	117	(30)
Exploring a Few Longer Examples	147	(16)
WEEK 2 DOING MORE	163	(194)
Mainpulating Lists and Strings	165	(26)
Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions	191	(30)
Doing More with Regular Expressions	221	(26)
Creating and Using Subroutines	247	(32)
Debugging Perl	279	(18)
Scope, Modules, and Importing Code	297	(32)
Exploring a Few Longer Examples	329	(28)
WEEK 3 ADVANCED PERL	357	(208)
Working with Files and I/O	359	(28)
Using Perl for CGI Scripting	387	(30)
Managing Files and Directories	417	(18)
Perl and the Operating System	435	(32)
Working with References	467	(38)
Odds and Ends	505	(34)
Exploring a Few Longer Examples	539	(26)
Appendixes	565	(2)
A Perl Functions	567	(38)
B A Survey of Perl Modules	605	(20)
C Installing Perl on a UNIX System	625	(10)
D Installing Perl for Windows	635	(6)
E Installing Perl for the Macintosh	641	(6)
Index	647