Perl Scripting

PERL history

Running Perl scripts

Data types

Basic concepts (assignment, comments

Standard I/O, print)

Numbers and strings

Literals and variables

Numeric functions Interpolation

String functions

Conditional statements

Relational and logical operators

Control loops

Variables

Creation, Assignment and access

Built –in array functions

Variables, creation, assignment and access

Access

Hashes as arrays

Build in Hash Functions

Basic I/O (STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR)

Files handle and file handling

Error handling

Directory Processing

System Processing Management

Pattern matching

Templates

Wildcards and character classes

Recovering previous matches

Recovering previous matches

Using and creating Functions

Arguments and Return values

Scooping

Prototypes