"Perl for Perl Newbies" - Part 4

Contents

• 1. CPAN Modules
  • 1.1. Manual Compilation
  • 1.2. The -MCPAN Interface
• 2. The sprintf function
  • 2.1. Supported Conversions
  • 2.2. Flags to the conversions
  • 2.3. Width and Max Width
• 3. Alternate Forms for Writing Strings
  • 3.1. q{}, qq{} and Friends
  • 3.2. Here Document
• 4. Executing Other Processes
  • 4.1. The system() Command
  • 4.2. Trapping Command Output with `...`
  • 4.3. open() for Command Execution
  • 4.4. String::ShellQuote
• 5. More about || and &&
  • 5.1. For sort()
  • 5.2. The "and" and "or" Operators
• 6. Exceptions
  • 6.1. die and eval
  • 6.2. The Carp module
  • 6.3. The Error.pm module
• 7. More System Functions
  • 7.1. Directory Input Routines
  • 7.2. Random File I/O
  • 7.3. File Tests (-e, -d...)
  • 7.4. chdir(), getcwd() and mkdir().
  • 7.5. The stat() Function

Licence

To the extent possible under law, Shlomi Fish has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to Perl for Perl Newbies. This work is published from Israel.