Perl Programming Essentials

Course Duration

5 Days

Audience

Employees of federal, state and local governments; and businesses working with the government.

Prerequisites

Basic familiarity with any programming or scripting language is helpful. No prior Perl experience is required.

Course Description

In this course, you will learn the basics of writing and running Perl scripts. You also will learn how to use more advanced features such as file operations, report writing, the use of regular expressions, working with binary data files, and using the extensive functionality of the standard Perl library. You will immediately be able to use Perl to complete tasks in the real world.

Course Outline

• 1. An overview of Perl
• 2. Creating and running Perl programs
• 3. Basic Data and I/O
• 4. Logic and Loops
• 5. Lists and Arrays
• 6. Reading and writing text files
• 7. List functions
• 8. Formatting output
• 9. Hashes
• 10. References
• 11. Text and Regular Expressions
• 12. Raw file and data access
• 13. Subroutines and variable scope
• 14. Working with the operating system
• 15. Shortcuts and defaults
• 16. Data wrangling
• 17. Using the Perl Library
• 18. Some Useful Tools