Advanced Perl - Other Course

Perl Overview

• PERL history

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

• Running Perl scripts

• Data types

Scalar Data types

• Numeric functions Interpolation

• Literals and variables

• Numbers and strings

• String functions

Arrays

• Variables

• Creation, Assignment and access

• Built array functions

Flow Control

• Relational and logical operators

• Control loops

• Conditional statements

Subroutines

• Basic I/O (STDIN, STDOUT, STDERR)

• Directory Processing

• Files handle and file handling

• System Processing Management

• Error handling

Hashes (Associative Arrays)

• Variables, creation, assignment and access

• Access

• Build in Hash Functions

• Hashes as arrays

Regular expression

• Pattern matching

• Wildcards and character classes

• Templates

User Defined Functions

• Using and creating Functions

• Arguments and Return values

• Prototypes

• Scooping

ADVANCED PERL

Perl Modules

• Package Introduction

• Package Statement

• BEGIN and END blocks

• Modules Introduction

• Require Function

• Use Function

• Installing Perl Modules

• Create the Perl Module

CGI Programming

• CGI Introduction and Architecture

• Web browsing

• HTTP Header

• CGI Environmental Variables

• Handling Files

• GET and POST methods

• Checkbox, Radio button, Text Area Data, Drop Down box to CGI Program

• Using and retrieving cookies

Object Oriented Perl

• Creating hard References

• Anonymous Arrays

• Anonymous Hashes

• Object Basics

• Defining a Class

• Creating and Using Objects

• Defining methods

• Inheritance

• Method Overriding

Database Management

• Architecture of DBI Application

• Notation and Conventions

• Database Connection

• Operations

• Disconnecting Database