Perl In Your Hands: For Beginners in Perl Programming

This book provides a guide to those who are beginners in Perl by providing a wide variety of examples. Also the chapters are carefully organized in way such that it helps the reader to understand each and every concept of this book. The book covers on the following topic: BACKGROUND OF PERL VERIFYING THE INSTALLATION SAVING AND EXECUTING SCRIPTS BUILDING BLOCKS OF PERL SUBROUTINES BASIC PERL PROGRAM READING INPUT FROM CONSOLE MULTIPLE ASSIGNMENTS SOME SPECIAL FEATURES SLICING ARRAY HASHES TYPEGLOBS UNDEFINED VALUES SPECIAL TOKENS CODE BLOCKS AND STATEMENTS IF STATEMENTS UNLESS STATEMENTS LOOPING STATEMENTS REVISITING SUBROUTINES PACKAGES AND MODULES SPECIAL BLOCKS OF PERL DATA MANIPULATION STACK REGULAR EXPRESSIONS ERROR HANDLING MECHANISM FILE HANDLING MECHANISM OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMING REFERENCES (POINTERS) PROCESS HANDLING DATABASE ACCESS SYSTEM INFORMATION NETWORKING USER INTERFACE DESIGN