Perl stands for Practical Extraction and Reporting Language. It was developed in 1987 by Larry Wall, and it has evolved over time. It’s a High-Level Scripting Language supporting powerful regular expressions.
Aim of this Course
Is to help:
Beginners get started with Perl,
Professional hone their Perl skill set, and
Experts refresh their Perl knowledge,
Topics Covered
1. Introduction
2. Course Overview
3. Finding Perl
4. Perl Basics – Getting Started
First Perl Program, Data Types, Operators, Loops, Conditional Statements, Subroutines
5. Regular Expressions
Special Characters, Quantifiers, Anchors
6. File Read and Write Operations
Few Facts, File Checks, File Read, Write, Append, and Read Write
7. SpreadSheet Read and Write Operations (including various formatting operations)
Relevant Modules to use, SpreadSheet Read, SpreadSheet Write (with various formatting operations)
8. Interfacing with MSSQL databases
SQL Basics (How to create a database and table, how to use a database, how to insert into, query from and delete from a database), Using Perl to connect to MSSQL database and perform various different table operations.
9. Generating HTML formatted content (Using User created Perl Module)
HTML very brief overview, How to create and use a Perl Module, Generate HTML formatted content in Perl using the generated Perl Module.
Why Use Perl?
Disclaimer
Every effort has been made to make this course as complete and as accurate as possible, but no warranty is implied. The author shall have neither the liability nor the responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damages arising from the information contained in this course or other resources accompanying this course.
This course is an independent work of the author and is not endorsed by his employer.