Perl for dummies
- 4th.
- New york. Wiley Pub 2003
- xx, 381 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- For dummies. .
Getting Started with Perl -- Perl's Place in the Programming World -- Understanding the Purpose of Programming -- Making Computers Compute -- Translating Your Language into Computer Language -- Designing Computer Languages -- Appreciating the Benefits of Perl -- Many Versions, One Perl -- Differentiating Between Perl 5 and Perl 5.6 -- Exploring the New Features of Perl 5.8 -- Running Perl on Your Computer -- Perl Isn't Just for UNIX Anymore -- UNIX: Perl's First Home -- ActivePerl on Windows -- Perl for Mac Users -- Working with Perl on the Command Line -- Other Perls -- Utilizing the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network -- Working with the ActivePerl Package Manager -- Getting Help -- Diving into the Guts of Perl -- Grabbing a Text Editor -- Examining Some Basic Components of a Perl Program -- Creating Perl Programs Using Statements -- Keeping Tabs on Statements: Indenting and Spacing -- A Five-Minute Guide to Numbers and Text -- Working with Variables and Literals -- A Perl Program Tour, Times Two -- Examining the Inside of a Sample Program -- Exploring a Program with More Features -- Avoiding the Most Common Oversights -- The Basic Perl Programming Ingredients -- Terrific Text -- Checking Your Work: The print Statement -- Defining Strings -- Differentiating between Visible Characters and Character Values -- Quoting Text -- Manipulating Strings -- Performing Simple String Transformations -- Getting Information from Strings -- Writing for the World in Perl 5.6 and Perl 5.8 -- Nifty Numbers -- Contrasting Integers and Real Numbers -- Using Perl's Basic Math Operators -- Doing Math and an Assignment at the Same Time -- Autoincrementing and Autodecrementing -- Employing Simple Numeric Functions -- Converting Numbers into Strings -- Working with Really Big Numbers -- Counting in Nondecimal Number Systems -- Learning to Love Lists and Hashes -- Listing the Basics -- Specifying Elements and Slices of Lists -- Using Lists to Simplify Basic Tasks -- Using the print Statement with Lists -- Adding and Removing List Elements -- Splitting Strings with the split Function -- Using Scalar Variables -- Employing Existing Lists -- Distinguishing Context Types -- Using List::Util in Perl 5.8 -- Understanding the Basics of Working with Hashes -- Writing Hash Data to a File -- Creating Multidimensional Lists -- Creating Hashes Consisting of Lists -- Writing the Files for Lists within Lists -- Creating Cool Conditionals and Lovely Loops -- Exploring Basic Logic Statements -- Working with Conditional Statements -- Going Around in Loops -- Creating switch structures in Perl 5.8 -- Using Expressions as Logical Values -- Caveat Emptor: Jumping around Programs by Using Labels -- Doing Advanced Stuff with Operators and Functions -- Using Undefined Variables -- Looking for Strings within Strings -- Applying Some Fancy Formatting to Text and Numbers -- Tracking Time -- Picking Random Numbers -- Shifting Bits with Bit-Level Operators -- Converting Lists to Strings -- Rearranging Lists -- The Nuts and Bolts of Perl -- The Files Go In, The Files Go Out -- Understanding Perl File Types -- Opening and Closing Files -- Specifying Filenames and DirectoryPaths for Various Operating Systems -- Reading from a Text File the Easy Way -- Writing Text to a File the Easy Way -- Running Tests to Get Information on a File -- Moving File Streams in UNIX: Standard In, Standard Out, and Standard Error -- Beyond File and Directory Basics -- Reading from and Writing to Binary Files -- Changing File Characteristics -- Grouping Filenames by Matching Characters -- File Features Strictly for UNIX Users -- Getting the Nitty-Gritty Stats on Files -- Working with Directories of Files -- Stringing Along: Pattern Matching and Regular Expressions -- Working with Regular Expressions -- Making Inexact Matches in Regular Expressions -- Searching the Beginning or End of a String -- Using Quantifiers for Numerical Matches -- Getting the Match Results -- More Programming Magic with the m// Operator -- Using the grep Function -- Doing Simple Substitutions with the s/// Operator -- Using the split Function with More-Advanced Regular Expressions -- Using the tr/// Operator -- Looking Like a Pro: Subroutines, Imported Code, and Graceful Exits -- Saving Steps with Subroutines -- Importing Prewritten Perl Code into Your Programs -- Ending Perl Programs Gracefully -- Advanced Perl Demystified -- Perl and CGI: Web Server Programs Demystified -- Writing CGI Programs in Perl -- Using Environment Variables -- Gathering Information from HTML Forms -- Using GET and POST to Collect Form Data -- Displaying Output to the User -- Creating an HTML Form -- Using Redirection to Link to Other Sites -- Exploring a Few Other Environment Variables -- Working with Apache and Perl -- Handling CGI and HTML with Mason -- Perl Gets Cozy with the Web, E-Mail, and the Rest of the Internet -- Using the libwww-perl Library -- Getting Your E-Mail -- Pinging with Perl -- Using Net::FTP to Grab Files -- Delving into Domain Names with Perl -- Using Perl as a Gateway to XML and Web Services -- Exploring the Role of Perl and XML in Web Programming -- Combining XML and Perl -- Checking a Document for Accuracy -- How Do You Want to Read It? -- Writing an XML Document -- Reading and Writing XML in Other Ways -- Looking into Web Services -- Connecting Web Services and Perl -- Dancing with Databases -- Managing Databases Using Hashes -- Opening Databases -- Closing Databases -- Tips on Opening and Closing Databases -- Controlling Your Computer from Perl -- Getting with the System -- Controlling a Windows or Mac Computer with Perl -- Using UNIX-Only System Functions -- Object-Oriented Perl -- Understanding the Advantages Object-Oriented Programming -- Defining Objects, Methods, and Arguments -- Perl's Objects Made Easy -- Considering a Real-World Object Example -- The Part of Tens -- Ten Guidelines for Programming with Style -- Examining the Perl Creator's Style Preferences -- Choosing Your Operator -- Parentheses Are Your Friends -- Flexible Ordering for Conditionals -- Commenting about Comments -- Standout Line Treatments -- Comments Cohabitating with Code -- Naming Your Variables Descriptively -- Capital Offense, or Not? -- The Beauty of Blank Lines -- Ten Really Short, Really Useful Perl Programs -- Collecting Unique Lines -- Getting Rid of Multiple Blank Lines -- Printing Lines from a File in Sorted Order -- Printing a Range of Lines from a File -- Listing Just the Files in a Directory -- Listing a Directory by Size -- Sorting Directories by Extension -- Creating a Simple Calculator -- Randomizing a List -- Generating Random Mnemonic Passwords -- The Great Perl Reference -- Perl Operators -- Perl's Operator Hierarchy -- Perl's Functions and Statements -- Perl's Special Variables -- Perl's Predefined File Handles.
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