Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours (3rd Edition)
Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours (3rd Edition)
ISBN: 0672327937
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 241
Pages: 241
Authors: Clinton Pierce
- 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
Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours (3rd Edition)
ISBN: 0672327937
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 241
Pages: 241
Authors: Clinton Pierce