Course Benefits
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:- Appreciate the brevity of Perl and be able to get most tasks done using very few lines of code
- Operate on scalars and understand contexts
- Work with lists and arrays and perform various operations on them
- Deal with hashes and write powerful programs using them
- Use strings and regular expressions to process huge amounts of text easily
- Generate reports and formatted output
- Design subroutines to reuse code and improve program organisation
- Work with files and directories
- Interact with the environment, command line arguments and OS calls
- Install and use packages from CPAN
- Build modules and understand symbol tables
- Use references for writing powerful scripts
- Develop object-oriented Perl scripts
- Access databases using DBI
Target Audience
- Freshers who want to start with scripting
- Developers who want to switch from mere programming to scripting in order to develop code faster
- Testers and administrators who want to automate
Prerequisites
- Working knowledge of C