Perl Tutorial: Start

• A basic perl program
  • The first line
  • Comments and statements
  • Simple printing
• Running the program
• Scalar variables
  • Operations and assignment
  • Interpolation
  • Exercise
• Array variables
  • Array assignments
  • Displaying arrays
  • Exercise
• Filehandling
  • Exercise
• Control structures
  • foreach
  • Testing
  • for
  • while and until
  • Exercise
• Conditionals
  • Exercise
• String matching
  • Regular expressions
  • The $_ special variable
  • More on REs
  • Some example REs
  • Exercise
• Substitution and translation
  • Options
  • Remembering patterns
  • Translation
  • Exercise
• Split
  • Exercise
• Associative arrays
  • Operators
  • Environment variables
• Subroutines
  • Parameters
  • Returning values
  • Local variables