CPS 600 Project — Tutorial PERL

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How to read this tutorial Perl project? 1. Introduction to Perl. 1. What is Perl? 2. Who creates Perl? 3. Perl’s license. 4. Which platforms can Perl run on …

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Welcome to my CPS 600 Tutorial Project
– PERL
You are the visitor number since February 1, 1996 to look at my Information Age project
page at EST.
Table of Contents
How to read this tutorial Perl project?
1. Introduction to Perl
1. What is Perl?
2. Who creates Perl?
3. Perl’s license
4. Which platforms can Perl run on?
5. Where can I get Perl’s information?
6. How can I begin a perl program?
7. Is it a Perl program or a Perl script?
8. Is Perl difficult to learn?
9. Should I program everything in Perl?
2. Scalar Data
3. Array and List Data and Associative Arrays
4. Control Structures
5. Basic I/O
6. Formats
7. Regular Expressions
8. Functions
9. Filehandles and File Tests
10. File and Directory Manioulation
11. Converting Other Languages to Perl12. Glossaries and/or man pages
13. Examples
14. Difference between Perl4 and Perl5
15. WWW sites for Perl
16. References
How to read this tutorial Perl project?
Chap 1 introduces Perl briefly. It includes “What is Perl?”, “Who creates Perl?”, “Perl’s license”
and so on.
Chap 2 ~ Chap 11 introduce basic ideas of Perl. These chapters are based on Perl4. However, you
will not feel much different when you use these basic ideas on Perl5. Please check the Chap 14
section for the comparison between Perl4 and Perl5. You can refer to the WWW sites for Perl
and/or References for advanced Perl information.
Chap 12 includes links to on line man pages and manuals.
Chap 13 includes examples/answers for 2 famous books — the Programming Perl (Camel book)
and the Learning Perl (Llama book).
Chap 14 compares the difference between Perl4 and Perl5 briefly. Generaly speaking, Perl5 adds
more features but the compatibility is very high. You can check Metronet Perl5 Info in the WWW
sites for Perl for more Perl5 new features.
Chap 15 includes some WWW Perl sites for you to refer. They may have latest updated
information of…