Introduction to Perl Scripting

About this Course

This course presents the introductory capabilities of Perl. More than 130 complete programs, including input and output, illustrate how to use Perl. An optional advanced appendix covers the use of Perl modules and is covered if time permits.

Audience Profile

This course is for programmers, technical managers, and system and network administrators.

At Course Completion

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Specify the features of and uses for Perl.
• Describe and use literals and variables.
• Use Perl arrays and associative memory.
• Describe and use programming control structures.
• List and use operators.
• Format and print program output.
• Perform basic file manipulation.
• Access and manipulate directory information.
• Create and use functions.
• Describe and use special regular expression characters.
• Use Perl to perform UNIX like operations.

Prerequisites

Basic familiarity with UNIX or Windows, and the ability to create and modify a small file.