1. Introduction Questions and Answers Is This the Right Book for You? Why Are There So Many Footnotes? What About the Exercises and Their Answers? What Do Those Numbers Mean at the Start'of the Exercise? What If I'm a Perl Course Instructor? What Does "Perl" Stand For? Why Did Larry Create Perl? Why Didn't Larry Just Use Some Other Language? Is Perl Easy or Hard? How Did Perl Get to Be So Popular? What's Happening with Perl Now? What's Perl Really Good For? What Is Perl Not Good For? How Can I Get Perl? What Is CPAN? How Can I Get Support for Perl? Are There Any Other Kinds of Support? What If I Find a Bug in Perl? How Do I Make a Perl Program? A Simple Program What's Inside That Program? How Do I Compile My Perl Program? A Whirlwind Tour of Perl Exercises
2. Scalar Data Numbers All Numbers Have the Same Format Internally Integer Literals Nondecimal Integer Literals Floating-Point Literals Numeric Operators Strings Single-Quoted String Literals Double-Quoted String Literals String Operators Automatic Conversion Between Numbers and Strings Perl's Built-In Warnings Interpreting Nondecimal Numerals Scalar Variables Choosing Good Variable Names Scalar Assignment Compound Assignment Operators Output with print Interpolation of Scalar Variables into Strings Creating Characters by Code Point Operator Precedence and Associativity Comparison Operators The if Control Structure Boolean Values Getting User Input The chomp Operator The while Control Structure The undef Value The defined Function Exercises
3. Lists and Arrays Accessing Elements of an Array Special Array Indices List Literals The qw Shortcut List Assignment The pop and push Operators The shift and unshift Operators The splice Operator Interpolating Arrays into Strings The foreach Control Structure Perrs Favorite Default ……
4. Subroutines 5. Input and Output 6. Hashes 7. Regular Expressions 8. Matching With Regular Expressions 9. Processing Text With Regular Expressions 10. More Control Structures 11. Peri Modules 12. File Tests 13. Directory Operations 14. Strings and Sorting 15. Process Management 16. Some Advanced Peri Techniques
A. Exercise Answers B. Beyond the Llama C. A Unicode Primer D. Experimental Features Index
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