Welcome to my Perl 101 learning outline, today i will show you what we will be learning and also present to you part I.
Each class of Perl 101 will be published 3-4 days from the previous one.
INDEX I. What Perl is, and what is perl used for LINK II. Basic Perl syntax and operations, simple arithmetic ( Scalar variables ) LINK III. Array variables and working with them LINK IV. Hash variables, also called associative arrays, and what are they good for LINK V. Control structures and conditionals LINK VI. EXERCISE VII. Filehandling VIII. Regular expressions IX. Subroutines X. Power of perl modules XI. FINAL EXERCISE
Perl 101 - PART I.
What Perl is, and what is Perl used for
Perl was written by Larry Wall, in 1987 for UNIX as a high level interpreted dynamic programming language, and current version is version 6.
Perl can be used to perform many different tasks, from simple filesystem and mathematic operations and writing fun code, to using it and its modules to make fully automated, tcp and udp communicationg server applications.