Beginning Perl Programming
- Author: William “Bo” Rothwell
- ISBN: 1484250540
- Year: 2019
- Pages: 202
- Language: English
- File size: 3.2 MB
- File format: PDF, ePub
- Category: Perl
Book Description:
Moreover, this publication covers pattern fitting and shows that Perl is very flexible and powerful, and it isn’t afraid of this cloud. After studying and using this book, you’ll have the ability to begin writing your own scripts to address many programming and web problems.
This is a book for those people who believed that we didn’t need to learn Perl, and now we know it is more omnipresent than ever. You’ll observe that Perl has evolved into a multipurpose, multiplatform language present entirely everywhere: heavy-duty web applications, both the cloud, systems management, natural language processing, and financial engineering. This publication offers valuable insight into Perl’s role regarding each one these tasks and more giving you a great start on your Perl programming adventure.
What You Will Learn
- Perform operations on scalar values
- Use scalar, array, and associative array factors
- Work with flow control statements like if, unless, while, before, for, and foreach
- Read and write directly to documents with file handles
- Use conditional expressions such as numerical and string comparison, regular expressions, file testing, and Perl statements
- Format output with format statements
- Look for and replace sub-strings inside a string using regular expressions
- Master Perl utilities like split, join, index and more
- Control the file system and processes from within a Perl script
- Build functions for tasks such as managing the scope of factors
- Import existing modules into your Perl script