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 numbersare one and the same

Variable interpolationand string literals

Arrays and lists

Hash tables

Iteration

Reading from files

Regular expressions

Regular expressionmeta-characters

Literal meta-charactersin regular expressions

Usefulness of regularexpressions