This note provides a detailed explanation of the following topics in
Perl: Introduction to Perl, Numeric and String Literals, Variables, Arrays,
Operators, Perl Statements, Functions, References, Files -- Input and Output in
Perl, Regular Expressions, Special Variables, Handling Errors and Signals,
Objects in Perl, Perl Modules, Debugging Perl, Networking with Perl, CGI
Programming in Perl, CGI Scripts, Using Perl with Web Servers.
This book assumes that
you know absolutely nothing about programming at all and that Perl is your first
language. However, basic operations such as making text files are outside of the
realm of this tutorial.
This PDF covers the following topics
related to Perl : Introduction and philosophy, Basics, Variables and data types,
Important concepts, Control structures, I/O, Interacting with UNIX.
The aim of this note is to give you not just an understanding of the
workings of the perl interpreter, but also the means to investigate more about
it, to analyze and solve bugs in the Perl core, and to take part in the Perl
development process.
This note covers the following topics: the basics, arrays, program
arguments and conditionals,, reading and writing to files, more loops and some
math in perl, subroutines,, hashes associative arrays, string manipulation, more
regular expressions, file and directory manipulation, time and perl modules,
system commands, network modules, programming techniques and review.
This book covers the following
topics: Parts of the Interpreter, Internal Variables, The Lexer and the Parser,
Fundamental operations, The Runtime Environment, The Perl Compiler, Hacking on
perl and Perl 6 Internals.