Programming Perl

Target Audience

• Java, C, C++, C# programmers who want to have a tool for daily tasks

Prerequisites

• At least one year experience in one of the high-level language such as Java, C, C++ or C#
• Experience on either Microsoft Windows or Unix/Linux

Objectives

• To be able to use Perl as a tool in some daily tasks
• To use Perl to automate small tasks need by programmers

Course Format

• Duration of the course can be 4 hours frontal lecture
• It can be extended by 4 more hours hands-on exercises to fill a day
• There is also a short 1 hour lecture version

Syllabus

1. Introduction
   • History, how to install Perl, how to run scripts
   • Syntax of the language
   • Basic I/O
   • Scalar values and variables (numbers and strings)
   • Control flow
   • Lists and arrays (context)
   • Hash (associative arrays)
   • Functions, subroutines
   • Accessing files
   • Interaction with the file system
   • Error handling
   • Regular Expressions
   • Using references
   • Using modules
   • Using OOP style
   • Installing modules on UNIX/Linux and on Windows systems
   • Database access, cleaning up old records from the database
   • Generating reports on daily activity
   • Sending e-mail reports
   • Converting Excel or CSV files to database rows and vice verse
   • Converting Excel files to XML and vice verse
   • Cleaning up temporary files
   • Backup of database and the file system used by the application

Contact

Contact: Gabor Szabo gabor@hostlocal.com
Phone: +972-54-4624648