Perl Programming

These books describe and explain Perl, a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl is noted for its idiomatically rich syntax, its extensive use of regular expressions and the large module archive CPAN.

Contents

 * /About Perl//

Beginning Perl

 * /Getting started/
 * /Editors and IDEs/
 * /Perl Installation and Setup/
 * First program
 * /Basic variables/
 * /Strings/
 * /Numbers/
 * /Comments/
 * /Conditionals/
 * /Control flow/
 * /Declarations/
 * /Operators/
 * /Variables/
 * /Data types/
 * /Scalar variables/
 * /Array variables/
 * /Hash variables/
 * /References and data structures/
 * /User input-output/
 * /Advanced output/
 * /Filehandles/
 * Statement modifiers
 * /Functions/
 * /Perl 5.10 additions/
 * Exercises

More Perl

 * /Regular expressions/
 * /Regular expression operators/
 * /Regular expressions reference/
 * /Code reuse (modules)/
 * Perl objects
 * /Structure and style/

Interfacing Perl

 * GUI and desktop programming
 * /CPAN/
 * Using a Bitcard account
 * /DBI - Perl database interface/

Web development

 * /CGI/
 * /FastCGI/
 * mod_perl
 * /HTML::Mason/
 * /HTTP::Engine/
 * /PSGI/
 * /Unicode UTF-8/

Perl and beyond

 * /Perl 6/
 * /Humour/

Sample code

 * First example code to get you started
 * Second example code to get you started

Reference

 * /Concept index/
 * /Function reference/
 * /Keywords/
 * Quick-reference cards
 * /Useful modules/
 * /Websites/

Related Wikibooks

 * Perl 6 Programming
 * Apache/mod perl

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