"Perl for Perl Newbies" - Part 1

Contents

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. The capabilities of Perl
  • 1.2. A brief history of Perl
  • 1.3. The perl development cycle
• 2. Basic Output (The "Hello World" program)
  • 2.1. More about semicolons
• 3. Expressions
  • 3.1. Operators and Precedence
  • 3.2. Functions
  • 3.3. More about strings
    • 3.3.1. Escape Sequences
• 4. Variables
  • 4.1. "+=" and friends
• 5. Input
• 6. The For Loop
• 7. Conditionals
  • 7.1. Numerical Comparison Operators
  • 7.2. String Comparison Operators
  • 7.3. Boolean Operators
  • 7.4. True Expressions vs. False Expressions
  • 7.5. elsif
• 8. The While Loop
  • 8.1. last and next
• 9. Arrays
  • 9.1. The ',' operator
  • 9.2. Negative Indexes
  • 9.3. The foreach loop
    • 9.3.1. The for keyword and the .. operator
  • 9.4. Built-In Array Functions
  • 9.5. The x operator

Licence

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