Perl Scripting - Administration Course

1. Perl Overview

• PERL history

• Basic concepts (assignment, comments Standard I/O, print)

• Running Perl scripts

• Data types

2. Scalar Data types

• Numbers and strings

• Numeric functions Interpolation

• String functions

• Literals and variables

3. Flow Control

• Conditional statements

• Control loops

• Relational and logical operators

4. Arrays

• Variables

• Creation, Assignment and access

5. Hashes (Associative Arrays)

• Hashes as arrays

• Build in Hash Functions

• Variables, creation, assignment and access

• Access

6. Subroutines

• Basic I/O (STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR)

• Files handling

• Directory Processing

• System Processing Management

• Error handling

7. Regular expression

• Templates

• Pattern matching

• Wildcards and character classes

• Recovering previous matches

8. User Defined Functions

• Using and creating Functions

• Arguments and Return values

• Prototypes

• Scooping