Perl Practical Extraction and Report Language

11/5/03


Click here to start


Table of Contents

Perl Practical Extraction and Report Language

Scripting Languages

Is Scripting a Paradigm?

Perl and the Web

Perl vs Java

Perl has a “Little Language” philosophy

Comments on the Book by Sebesta

Running a Perl Program

A Perl Script for the Web

Online help

The Fundamental Data Types

String Operations

Support for processing text: Immediate, embedded (“Here”) Documents

Choice of Interpolating or Not

Choice of Interpolating or Not

Interpolation -- Not

Arrays

Hashes (Associative Arrays)

Quick Example of CGI Processing: The HTML Form

CGI Processing: The Perl Script

Author: Steven L. Tanimoto

Email: tanimoto@cs.washington.edu

Home Page: http://www.cs.washington.edu/people/faculty/tanimoto.html

Download presentation source