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Concepts

• Welcome: what is Perl?
• Perl and the Web
• Static Web content
• Dynamic Web content
• What you'll need: 1
• What you'll need: 2
• Your first script: 'hello world'
• Running your first script on a web server

First Steps

• Program flow
• Variables
• Strings and quotes
• More about strings
• Basic operators
• Combined operators
• More combined operators

Data Types

• Scalars, hashes and arrays
• Working with arrays
• More about arrays
• Array functions
• More array functions
• Multidimensional arrays
• Taking elements out of arrays
• More array manipulation
• Working with hashes
• Extracting data from hashes
• Multidimensional hashes
• Now you try: Data Types

Making Choices

• Introducing conditionals
• Conditional operators
• Conditional blocks
• The equality operator
• String comparison operators
• 'else' clauses
• The 'elsif ladder'
• Logical operators
• Nested conditionals
• Now you try: Choices

Loops and Control Structures

• Repetition: the 'while' loop
• Using the 'while' loop
• The 'do..while' loop
• Iteration: the 'for' loop
• Looping over an array
• Nested loops
• The 'foreach' loop
• Now you try: Loops

Strings and Pattern Matching

• Extracting a substring
• Locating a substring: 1
• Locating a substring: 2
• Changing case
• Here-document style strings
• Introducing regular expressions
• Matching simple patterns
• Case-insensitive pattern matching
• Matching globally
• Wildcards
• Character sets: 1
• Character sets: 2
• Quantifiers
• Using quantifiers: 1
• Using quantifiers: 2
• Alternation
• Subpatterns: 1
• Subpatterns: 2
• Greedy vs non-greedy quantifiers
• Examples of non-greedy matching
• Replacing using patterns
• Subpattern replacement: 1
• Subpattern replacement: 2
• Now you try: Strings

Interacting With The Filesystem

• Reading from a file
• Writing to a file: 1
• Writing to a file: 2
• Writing to a file: 3
• Reading a file's contents at once
• Changing the default output filehandle
• Reading user input from the command line
• An interactive shell script
• Refining the script: 1
• Refining the script: 2
• The script complete
• Working with directories
• Changing the current working directory
• Running executable files: 1
• Running executable files: 2
• Command-line arguments
• Now you try: Interacting with Filesystems

CGI

• Running a CGI script on 'localhost'
• Checking errors
• Uploading your script: 1
• Uploading your script: 2
• Environment variables: 1
• Environment variables: 2
• Serving HTML
• The query string
• Accessing GET variables
• Handling URL-encoded characters
• Using HTML forms
• Reading POST data
• Now you try: CGI

Intermediate Coding Techniques

• Reusing code
• Subroutines
• Arguments
• Returning a value
• Explicit returns
• Variable scope
• Modules and Packages: 1
• Modules and Packages: 2

Database Interactivity

• Perl and databases
• Connection handles
• Statement handles
• Running the script
• Using placeholders in SQL
• Now you try: Database Interactivity