DTP-250 --- Perl Programming

The Perl Programming course is a comprehensive course that explains the Perl programming language, from basic through advanced syntax

The Perl Programming course is a comprehensive course that explains the Perl programming language, from basic through advanced syntax. This course is aimed at a wide range of job roles, including Programmers, System Administrators, Web Authors, and Operators. It explains how to use the Perl programming language to write quick yet powerful scripts to take advantage of Perl's system administration capabilities and issue Perl commands.

The course is taught on the Solaris Operating Environment, however the material is suitable for any operating system, including Linux, UNIX, Windows, and Mac OS.

•     Use basic UNIX commands such as rm, cp, man, more, mkdir, ps, and chmod

•     Exposure to any other programming language (C, C++, Java)

•     Create and edit text files in vi or another available text editor

•    Experience with shell scripting (Bourne/Korn)

• Administrator

• Application Developers

• Developer

• Web Administrator

5 Days

Perl Programming (DTP-250) Content Details

The Perl Programming Language Determine your version of Perl Identify the default directories searched for Perl library files Create a command-line script that prints a simple message Create a simple script that prints a simple message Test a script's syntax without executing the script Scalars Define and describe numeric and string scalar data Create string and numeric scalar variables Modify scalar variables using operators Print scalar values using single and double quotes Remove \n from user input using the chomp command Calculate a value using scalar operators based on user input Control Structures Print a message using an if statement Print a message using a compound if/elsif/else statement Use a for loop to display a list numbers Use a foreach loop to perform calculations on a list of numbers Use while loops to repeatedly perform logical tests using an if/elsif/else statement Print formatted text with a Here document Exit from a loop using loop controls and statement modifiers Use a switch construct in Perl to print a message Arrays Create an array variable and assign scalar values to the array Determine the length of an array using an array operator Use array slices to assign new values to an array Determine the length of an array using a scalar variable Use pop to modify the contents of an array Sort an array Process the values passed in a command-line array Read the output of a UNIX command into an array Hashes Print a hash using a foreach statement Access, add, and delete keys and values from a hash Print a hash using a while loop and the each function Determine the number of occurrences of a string in an array using a hash Determine if a key and value exist in a hash   Basic I/O and Regular Expressions Use the operator to read a file specified on the command line, line-by-line Use the printf command to format the output of the script Test for a word or phrase in a file using regular expressions Use anchors and character classes in regular expressions Use alternation in regular expressions Use variable interpolation to define regular expressions Substitute one text string for another using regular expressions Extract parts of strings using regular expressions Filehandles and Files Use filehandles to open a file Use die to display an error message if there is an error accessing a file Append data to the end of a file Use a filehandle to read the output of a program Subroutines and Modules Create script that uses the strict pragma Create subroutines that accept passed parameters and return desired results based on the values passed Include a subroutine that uses the my operator to create private variables Use a Perl library file in your script Use a Perl package in your script Create a Perl module and call it from a script File and Directory Operations Use file operators to determine the characteristics of a file Display the contents of a directory using chdir and globbing Display the contents of a directory using directory handles and readdir Rename files Create symbolic links to files Display all symbolic links in a directory Set file permissions for files based on their extensions Overview of CGI Programming Send a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) page to a browser using a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) script Use a Here document in a CGI script to send an HTML page to a browser Read an HTML form using the GET or POST method

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