Perl Programming

These books describe and explain Perl, a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl is noted for its idiomatically rich syntax, its extensive use of regular expressions and the large module archive CPAN.

Contents

About Perl

Beginning Perl

Getting started

Editors and IDEs

Perl Installation and Setup

First program

Basic variables

Strings

Numbers

Comments

Conditionals

Control flow

Declarations

Operators

Variables

Data types

Scalar variables

Array variables

Hash variables

References and data structures

User input-output

Advanced output

Filehandles

Statement modifiers

Functions

Perl 5.10 additions

Exercises

More Perl

Regular expressions

Regular expression operators

Regular expressions reference

Code reuse (modules)

Perl objects

Structure and style

Interfacing Perl

GUI and desktop programming

CPAN

Using a Bitcard account

DBI - Perl database interface

Web development

CGI

FastCGI

mod_perl

HTML::Mason

HTTP::Engine

PSGI

Unicode UTF-8

Perl and beyond

Perl 6

Humour

Sample code

First example code to get you started

Second example code to get you started

Reference

Concept index

Function reference

Keywords

Quick-reference cards

Useful modules

Websites

Related Wikibooks

Perl 6 Programming

Apache/mod perl