Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module P205. This topic is presented on public courses Perl Programming, Perl bootcamp

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Learning to program in Perl / Perl Programming - training course - Programming Perl - for newcomers to the language Learning to program in Perl / Perl Programming - Programming Perl - for newcomers to the language This course introduces you to the Perl programming language. ... http://www.wellho.net/course/ppfull.html  [course]

Learning to Program in Perl / Perl Programming - training course - Learning Perl - whether you're new to programming or 'converting'. Learning to Program in Perl / Perl Programming - Learning Perl - whether you're new to programming or 'converting'. This course covers programming in the ... http://www.wellho.net/course/lpfull.html  [course]

Perl Bootcamp - training course - The fundamentals of the language. Perl Bootcamp - The fundamentals of the language. This course covers the fundamentals of the Perl programming for computer professionals who are new to ... http://www.wellho.net/course/bpfull.html  [course]

The backtick operator in Python and Perl In Perl, and in shell programs too, the backtick operator causes the enclosed string to be executed as a command and the result (as generated on STDOUT) ... http://www.wellho.net/mouth/324_The- ... -Perl.html  [short article]

String matching in Perl with Regular Expressions Some languages used adaptive or overridden operator to perform a task depending on the operands - for example in Java, the "+" operator adds numbers, ... http://www.wellho.net/mouth/1849_Str ... sions.html  [short article]

x operator in Perl So often, newcomers to programming try to use an "x" operator to multiply - and it doesn't work; they should use "*" in most languages. In Perl ... "x" ... http://www.wellho.net/mouth/254_x-op ... -Perl.html  [short article]

Regular Express Primer Over the years I've been teaching people about Regular Expressions, I've learnt what does and doesn't work in such tuition. A casual question I saw yesterday ... http://www.wellho.net/mouth/1195_Reg ... rimer.html  [short article]

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One of Perl's great strengths is its string handling. It can perform operations on a character-by-character basis, or on strings as a whole. It also has a powerful facility known as regular expressions, which allows the knowledgable programmer to write one line of code that would otherwise be pages long!

This topic is presented on public courses Perl Programming, Perl bootcamp

bticks	backtick operator - runs an operating system command
cs	Exercise answer - completing a sentence
dqs	Single, double and back quotes
fil_tar	Filtering a log file for 'lua'
finsent	Trimming a sentence
firststring	low level string functions demonstrated
heredoc	Use of a here document for copyright block
pattern	Regular expression learning tool
perlstring	Ways of writing strings in Perl
pf2	Filter roads.xyz to match a pattern (using open or die)
pfilter	Filter roads.xyz to match a pattern
pig	Regular expression - first example with anchors, literals, groups, and counts
plook	Simple example of reading and filtering a data file
prop2	Using double quoted strings to change case
prop3	single and double quotes, q and qq strings
proper	Case changes on string
pws	Use of eq rather that == for string comparison
romance	Quoted strings, qq strings and here documents
sc	Case insensitive comparison
singlename	regex to look for a single name

Perl is a great tool for handling huge data files