APS Perl Workshop

This webpage is intended to support the Perl programming workshop offered to APS grad students in summer 2004.

Introductory	Intermediate	Advanced
What is Perl, Anyway? Basics of Perl Programs How To Create a Program Syntax Basics Statments Whitespace Braces Comments Functions Data Types Scalars Numbers Mathematical Operators Strings Useful String Functions Strings versus Numbers Arrays Array Functions Hashes Functions for Hashes Control Structures If() Conditionals Numbers Strings Compounding Conditions For Loops Foreach While Loops Controlling Your Loops Functions Passing Arguments Returning Values Input and Output Printing to the Screen Also, here are some exercises to try out.	More I/O Fun Getting Input from the User Command-Line (Invocation) Arguments Opening and Closing Files Reading from a File Writing to a File Regular Expressions Wildcards Groupings and Alternatives Quantifiers Character Classes Anchors Replacements with Regular Expressions Memory Variables Other Match Variables Modifiers Transliteration Answers to Questions Here are more exercises to play with. Note the first one.	Calls to the Operating System system() and exec() Capturing Output Working with Files File Tests Deleting and Renaming Files Globbing More with Data Types and Structures Arrays of Arrays Hashes of Arrays Others Warning Exiting Without Warning Trapping Errors Taint-Checking Redirecting Default Output Feeling out of Sorts Making it Modular Importing Modules and Other Files

Also, here are some exercises to try out.

Here are more exercises to play with. Note the first one.

All, you might want to check out these resources.

Last modified: Thu Jul 15 11:13:08 Mountain Daylight Time 2004