Overview of Perl
Writing Perl Scripts
• Getting Started
• Types of variables
• Formatting a report
• Accessing records by key(s)
• Operators
• Subroutines
• passing arguments
• using as functions
Special Uses of Perl
• System administration
• Filename manipulation
• Text manipulation
• Process control
Miscellaneous Perl Features
• Efficiency considerations
• Translating awk and sed scripts to Perl
• Common errors
Using Perl Typeglobs
• Perl variables, symbol tables, and scope
• Typeglobs usage with functions
• local, global, private variable scopes
Using Perl References
• Purpose of references
• Querying a reference
• Symbolic references
• Multi-dimensional arrays
• Complex hash structures
• References to functions
• Closures
Perl Modules and Packages
• Basic packages
• Packages and component files
• Using Exporter and the ISA array
• Initialization and destruction
• Accessing the symbol table
Object Oriented Perl Programming
• Objects in Perl
• Inheritance
• Methods of passing arguments to the constructor
Data persistance methods
• Flat file databases
• Concurrent access and lock mechanisms
• Using the Tie capabilities
• MLDBM (multi-level database) extension
Extending Perl
• Writing an extension feature for Perl
• Implementing a Perl extension
• Perl Scripts for Networking with Sockets
An Introduction to Perl/Tk
Adding documentation to Perl procedures
Overview of Data and Databases
The Perl Database Interface Extensions
Programming the Perl DBI
