Advanced Perl Programming

Advanced Perl is an intermediate and beyond hands-on course that focuses on several common application domains (e.g. Networking, database access). Geared for experienced Perl programmers, this course teaches students how to leverage the more advanced features of Perl using the latest skills and best practices. Students will learn about and explore next-level Perl capabilities and features such as: Using Shortcuts, parsing text, using references, using CPAN to access the Perl library, working with objects in Perl, Exception Handling, Database Access, Network Programming and much more. Students will leave this course armed with the skills they need to handle advanced Perl development and scripting tasks.

Retail Price: $2,495.00

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Course Days: 4


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Course Objectives

This course is approximately 50% hands-on, combining expert lecture, real-world demonstrations and group discussions with machine-based practical labs and exercises.  Our engaging instructors and mentors are highly experienced practitioners who bring years of current "on-the-job" experience into every classroom.  

Working in a hands-on learning environment, guided by our expert team, attendees will learn to:

  • Create efficient data structures using references
  • Understand advanced text parsing techniques
  • Access data from relational database systems
  • Create reusable modules
  • Design and use objects
  • Create TCP/IP clients and servers

 

Course Prerequisites

This in an intermediate and beyond level course is for experienced Perl programmers who want to leverage their basic Perl knowledge into production-quality tools.


Course Agenda

 

Please note that this list of topics is based on our standard course offering, evolved from typical industry uses and trends. We will work with you to tune this course and level of coverage to target the skills you need most.

Session: Reference refresher

  • Creating references
  • Anonymous arrays and hashes
  • Dereferencing
  • References and subroutines
  • References and arrays
  • Complex data structures

Session: Data wrangling

  • Reading text files
  • Creative use of <> and $/
  • Matching and substituting
  • RE review
  • Using backreferences
  • Parsing lines
  • Using here documents and __END__
  • Converting data with pack/unpack

Session: Shortcuts and Defaults

  • The ubiquitous $_
  • How to use <>
  • Pattern matching in brief
  • File tests on _
  • One-liners

Session: Modern Perl

  • Features added since 5.0
  • Higher-order functions
  • Say()
  • Switch statement (given/when)
  • Smart matching
  • Defined-or
  • State variables
  • Lexical $_


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