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Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours (3rd Edition)

ISBN: 0672327937
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2005
Pages: 241

Authors: Clinton Pierce

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• SAMS Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours THIRD EDITION
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• About the Author
• Acknowledgments
• We Want to Hear from You
• Reader Services
• Introduction
• How to Use This Book
• Conventions Used in This Book
• Part I: Perl Fundamentals
• Hour 1. Getting Started with Perl
• Installing Perl
• Documentation
• Your First Program
• Summary
• QA
• Workshop
• Hour 2. Perl s Building Blocks: Numbers and Strings
• Literals
• Scalar Variables
• Expressions and Operators
• More Operators
• Exercise: Interest Calculator
• Summary
• QA
• Workshop
• Hour 3. Controlling the Program s Flow
• Blocks
• The if Statement
• Looping
• Other Flow Control Tools
• Exercise: Finding Primes
• Summary
• QA
• Workshop
• Hour 4. Stacking Building Blocks: Lists and Arrays
• Putting Things into Lists and Arrays
• Getting Elements Out of an Array
• Manipulating Arrays
• Exercise: Playing a Little Game
• Summary
• QA
• Workshop
• Hour 5. Working with Files
• Opening Files
• Reading
• Writing
• Free Files, Testing Files, and Binary Data
• Summary
• QA
• Workshop
• Hour 6. Pattern Matching
• Simple Patterns
• The Metacharacters
• Substitution
• Exercise: Cleaning Up Input Data
• Pattern Matching Odds and Ends
• Summary
• QA
• Workshop
• Hour 7. Hashes
• Filling Your Hash
• Getting Data Out of a Hash
• Lists and Hashes
• Hash Odds and Ends
• Useful Things to Do with a Hash
• Exercise: Creating a Simple Customer Database with Perl
• Summary
• QA
• Workshop
• Hour 8. Functions
• Creating and Calling Subroutines
• Scope
• Exercise: Statistics
• Function Footnotes
• Summary
• QA
• Workshop
• Part II: Advanced Features
• Hour 9. More Functions and Operators
• Searching Scalars
• Transliteration, Not Substitution
• A Better Way to print
• Exercise: A Formatted Report
• New Ways with Arrays
• Summary
• QA
• Workshop
• Hour 10. Files and Directories
• Getting a Directory Listing
• Exercise: The Unix grep
• Directories
• Unix Stuff
• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About THAT File
• Exercise: Renaming Files En Masse
• Summary
• QA
• Workshop
• Hour 11. System Interaction
• The system() Function
• Capturing Output
• Pipes
• First Lesson in Portability
• Summary
• QA
• Workshop
• Hour 12. Using Perl s Command-Line Tools
• What Is the Debugger?
• Exercise: Finding the Bug
• Other Command-Line Stuff
• Summary
• QA
• Workshop
• Hour 13. References and Structures
• Reference Basics
• Recipes for Structures
• Exercise: Another Game, Maze
• Summary
• QA
• Workshop
• Hour 14. Using Modules
• A Gentle Introduction
• A Quick Tour
• Full List of Standard Modules
• Summary
• QA
• Workshop
• Hour 15. Finding Permanence
• DBM Files
• Exercise: A Free-Form Memo Pad
• Text Files as Databases
• Random File Access
• Locking
• Summary
• QA
• Workshop
• Hour 16. The Perl Community
• What s Perl All About, Anyway?
• The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)
• Your Next Steps
• Other Resources
• Summary
• QA
• Workshop
• Part III: Applying Perl
• Hour 17. Writing Modules
• Building a Module
• Scoping Revisited
• Another statement: our
• Example: A Module to Handle Common File Information Requests
• Summary
• QA
• Workshop
• Hour 18. Object Primer
• Classes, Properties, and Methods
• Example: Implementation of Car in Perl
• Example: File Information Class
• Summary
• QA
• Workshop
• Hour 19. Data Processing
• How to Look at Data
• Dealing with Table Data
• XML Data
• Summary
• QA
• Workshop
• Hour 20. Perl as a Glue Language
• Weather Station
• Presenting Data as PDF
• Reading and Writing Excel Spreadsheets
• Summary
• QA
• Workshop
• Hour 21. Introduction to CGI
• Browsing the Web
• Don t Skip This Section
• Your First CGI Program
• What to Do When Your CGI Program Doesn t Work
• Summary
• QA
• Workshop
• Hour 22. Basic Forms
• How Forms Work
• Passing Information to Your CGI Program
• Web Security 101
• A Guestbook
• Summary
• QA
• Workshop
• Hour 23. Complex Forms
• The Stateless Web
• Hidden Fields
• A Multipage Survey
• Summary
• QA
• Workshop
• Hour 24. Manipulating HTTP and Cookies
• The HTTP Conversation
• More Details on Calling CGI Programs
• Cookies
• Long Term Cookies
• Problems with Cookies
• Summary
• QA
• Workshop
• Part IV: Appendixes
• Appendix A. Installing Modules
• Picking the Right Module
• Installing the Modules Under...
• What to Do When You re Not Allowed to Install Modules
• Index
• index_SYMBOL
• index_A
• index_B
• index_C
• index_D
• index_E
• index_F
• index_G
• index_H
• index_I
• index_J
• index_K
• index_L
• index_M
• index_N
• index_O
• index_P
• index_Q
• index_R
• index_S
• index_T
• index_U
• index_V
• index_W
• index_X
• index_Y
• index_Z