Perl tutorial for professionals

Download free Perl tutorial course in PDF, training file in 39 chapters and 109 pages. Free unaffiliated ebook created from Stack OverFlow contributor.

Table of contents

• About
• Getting started with Perl Language
• Getting started with Perl
• Comments
• Single-line comments
• Multi-line comments
• Variables
• Scalars
• Array References
• Scalar References
• Arrays
• Typeglobs, typeglob refs, ?lehandles and constants
• Sigils
• Hash References
• Hashes
• Interpolation in Perl
• What is interpolated
• Basic interpolation
• True and false
• List of true and false values
• Dates and Time
• Date formatting
• Create new DateTime
• Working with elements of datetime
• Calculate code execution time
• Control Statements
• Conditionals
• Loops
• Subroutines
• Creating subroutines
• Subroutines
• Subroutine arguments are passed by reference (except those in signatures)
• Debug Output
• Dumping with Style
• Dumping data-structures
• Data::Show
• Dumping array list
• Lists
• Array as list
• Assigning a list to a hash
• Lists can be passed into subroutines
• Return list from subroutine
• Hash as list
• Using arrayref to pass array to sub
• Sorting
• Basic Lexical Sort
• Comments
• Interpolation in Perl
• Dates and Time
• Subroutines
• Lists
• File I/O (reading and writing files)
• Strings and quoting methods
• Object-oriented Perl
• Regular Expressions
• Unicode
• Randomness
• Packages and modules
• Easy way to check installed modules on Mac and Ubuntu
• Perl commands for Windows Excel with Win32::OLE module
• Perl Testing
• Attributed Text
• Memory usage optimization
• Perlbrew
• Compile Perl cpan module sapnwrfc from source code

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