Little Book on Perl

Name: Little Book on Perl
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ISBN: 9780139279553

ISBN-10: 0139279555

ISBN-13: 9780139279553

Edition: 2000

Authors: Robert W. Sebesta

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Perl is a programming language of growing significance in the world of software development. A Little Book on Perl meets that growing academic market need for Perl books. This book attempts to target experienced programmers, whether that experience has come from professional programming or from the first two courses in a degree program in computer science. Neither a comprehensive reference book nor a tutorial, this book lands somewhere in the middle of these two models. The reader's advantage is a new model-no need to have prior knowledge of awk or C, or even anything about UNIX-since the contents of the book do not depend on any particular computer platform. bull; bull;Provides some…

Book details

List price: $74.80
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 12/29/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 190
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English




Introduction



What Perl Is



Scripts versus Programs



CGI Programming in Perl



Central Characteristics of Perl



How to Get Perl



An Example



Summary



Exercises



Scalar Types, Expressions, and Simple Input and Output



Scalar Literals



Scalar Variables



Scalar Operators



Mixed-Mode Expressions



Assignment Statements



Simple Keyboard Input and Screen Output



An Example



Running a Perl Program



Bitwise Operators



Summary



Exercises



Control Statements



Control Expressions



Selection Statements-if and unless



Interactive Statements-while, until, and for



Ways Out of a Block-next, last, and redo



Statement Modifiers



Stopping Execution with die



A Bit More about Input



An Example



The Debugger



Summary



Exercises



Arrays



Introduction to Arrays



List Literals



Arrays



Referencing Array Elements



An Example



Slices



Scalar and List Context



The foreach Statement



List Operators



An Example



Command-Line Arguments



Summary



Exercises



Hashes and References



The Structure of Hashes



Operators for Hashes



An Example



References



Nested Data Structures



Another Example



Summary



Exercises



Functions



Fundamentals of Subprograms



Functions without Parameters



The Scope and Lifetime of a Variable



Parameters



An Example



Indirect Calls to Functions



Predefined Perl Functions



The sort Function, Revisited



The pack and unpack Functions



Summary



Exercises



Pattern Matching



Introduction



Simple Patterns



More Complex Patterns



Remembering Matches



Extensions to Regular Expressions



The split Function, Revisited



Substitutions



An Example



Translating Characters



Summary



Examples



Files, Input and Output, and Formats



Filehandles and Files



Opening and Closing Files



Reading and Writing Files



Portability and Files



File Tests



Removing and Renaming Files



Formats



The Top-of-Page Format



Summary



Exercises



Cgi Programming with Perl



Introduction



The Common Gateway Interface



Simple Linkage to CGI Programs



Handling Forms



An Example



The Basics of CGI .pm



An Example Using CGI .pm



Another Example



Summary



Exercises



Advanced Topics



Directories



Getting System Information



Launching Programs



Communicating through Sockets



Using UNIX DBM Databases



Graphical User Interfaces Using Tk



Summary



Exercises