Sams Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours (3rd Edition)

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SAMS Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours THIRD EDITION
By Clinton  Pierce
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Publisher: Sams Publishing
Pub Date: June 15, 2005
ISBN: 0-672-32793-7
Pages: 480
 

Table of Contents    Index

      Copyright
      About the Author
      Acknowledgments
      We Want to Hear from You!
      Reader Services
      Introduction
        How to Use This Book
        Conventions Used in This Book
      Part  I.   Perl Fundamentals
          Hour  1.   Getting Started with Perl
        Installing Perl
        Documentation
        Your First Program
        Summary
        Q&A
        Workshop
          Hour  2.   Perl's Building Blocks: Numbers and Strings
        Literals
        Scalar Variables
        Expressions and Operators
        More Operators
        Exercise: Interest Calculator
        Summary
        Q&A
        Workshop
          Hour  3.   Controlling the Program's Flow
        Blocks
        The if Statement
        Looping
        Other Flow Control Tools
        Exercise: Finding Primes
        Summary
        Q&A
        Workshop
          Hour  4.   Stacking Building Blocks: Lists and Arrays
        Putting Things into Lists and Arrays
        Getting Elements Out of an Array
        Manipulating Arrays
        Exercise: Playing a Little Game
        Summary
        Q&A
        Workshop
          Hour  5.   Working with Files
        Opening Files
        Reading
        Writing
        Free Files, Testing Files, and Binary Data
        Summary
        Q&A
        Workshop
          Hour  6.   Pattern Matching
        Simple Patterns
        The Metacharacters
        Substitution
        Exercise: Cleaning Up Input Data
        Pattern Matching Odds and Ends
        Summary
        Q&A
        Workshop
          Hour  7.   Hashes
        Filling Your Hash
        Getting Data Out of a Hash
        Lists and Hashes
        Hash Odds and Ends
        Useful Things to Do with a Hash
        Exercise: Creating a Simple Customer Database with Perl
        Summary
        Q&A
        Workshop
          Hour  8.   Functions
        Creating and Calling Subroutines
        Scope
        Exercise: Statistics
        Function Footnotes
        Summary
        Q&A
        Workshop
      Part  II.   Advanced Features
          Hour  9.   More Functions and Operators
        Searching Scalars
        Transliteration, Not Substitution
        A Better Way to print
        Exercise: A Formatted Report
        New Ways with Arrays
        Summary
        Q&A
        Workshop
          Hour  10.   Files and Directories
        Getting a Directory Listing
        Exercise: The Unix grep
        Directories
        Unix Stuff
        Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About THAT File
        Exercise: Renaming Files En Masse
        Summary
        Q&A
        Workshop
          Hour  11.   System Interaction
        The system() Function
        Capturing Output
        Pipes
        First Lesson in Portability
        Summary
        Q&A
        Workshop
          Hour  12.   Using Perl's Command-Line Tools
        What Is the Debugger?
        Exercise: Finding the Bug
        Other Command-Line Stuff
        Summary
        Q&A
        Workshop
          Hour  13.   References and Structures
        Reference Basics
        Recipes for Structures
        Exercise: Another Game, Maze
        Summary
        Q&A
        Workshop
          Hour  14.   Using Modules
        A Gentle Introduction
        A Quick Tour
        Full List of Standard Modules
        Summary
        Q&A
        Workshop
          Hour  15.   Finding Permanence
        DBM Files
        Exercise: A Free-Form Memo Pad
        Text Files as Databases
        Random File Access
        Locking
        Summary
        Q&A
        Workshop
          Hour  16.   The Perl Community
        What's Perl All About, Anyway?
        The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)
        Your Next Steps
        Other Resources
        Summary
        Q&A
        Workshop
      Part  III.   Applying Perl
          Hour  17.   Writing Modules
        Building a Module
        Scoping Revisited
        Another statement: our
        Example: A Module to Handle Common File Information Requests
        Summary
        Q&A
        Workshop
          Hour  18.   Object Primer
        Classes, Properties, and Methods
        Example: Implementation of Car in Perl
        Example: File Information Class
        Summary
        Q&A
        Workshop
          Hour  19.   Data Processing
        How to Look at Data
        Dealing with Table Data
        XML Data
        Summary
        Q&A
        Workshop
          Hour  20.   Perl as a Glue Language
        Weather Station
        Presenting Data as PDF
        Reading and Writing Excel Spreadsheets
        Summary
        Q&A
        Workshop
          Hour  21.   Introduction to CGI
        Browsing the Web
        Don't Skip This Section
        Your First CGI Program
        What to Do When Your CGI Program Doesn't Work
        Summary
        Q&A
        Workshop
          Hour  22.   Basic Forms
        How Forms Work
        Passing Information to Your CGI Program
        Web Security 101
        A Guestbook
        Summary
        Q&A
        Workshop
          Hour  23.   Complex Forms
        The Stateless Web
        Hidden Fields
        A Multipage Survey
        Summary
        Q&A
        Workshop
          Hour  24.   Manipulating HTTP and Cookies
        The HTTP Conversation
        More Details on Calling CGI Programs
        Cookies
        Long Term Cookies
        Problems with Cookies
        Summary
        Q&A
        Workshop
      Part  IV.   Appendixes
          Appendix  A.   Installing Modules
        Picking the Right Module
        Installing the Modules Under
        What to Do When You're Not Allowed to Install Modules
      Index
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