The Zen of Perl

8/19/99


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Table of Contents

The Zen of Perl

Perl

Design philosophy

What is it used for?

Perl is incredibly useful

Perl language features

Sample task

Running Perl code

Ultra-fast byte-compilation

Perl philosophies

Conditionals in Perl

Larry Wall is a linguist

Variables

Comparisons

Strings and numbers are one and the same

Variable interpolation and string literals

Arrays and lists

Hash tables

Iteration

Reading from files

Regular expressions

Regular expression meta-characters

Literal meta-characters in regular expressions

Usefulness of regular expressions

Author: Greg J. Badros

Email: badros@cs.washington.edu

Home Page: http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/341/CurrentQtr