Publisher's Synopsis
PERL for Beginners
If you're just getting started with Perl Programming, this is the book you want-whether you're a programmer, system administrator, or web hacker. Perl is suitable for almost any task on almost any platform, from short fixes to complete web applications. Learning Perl teaches you the basics and shows you how to write programs up to 128 lines long-roughly the size of 90% of the Perl programs in use today. Each chapter includes exercises to help you practice what you've just learned. Other books may teach you to program in Perl, but this book will turn you into a Perl programmer.
Perl stands in for "Practical Extraction and Reporting Language" even though there is no authorized acronym for Perl. You may create your own acronym, and no one will mind. Perl was created by Larry Wall in 1987 when he was employed on a bug reporting system and "AWK"- a programming language he was using for the purpose was not helping him much. He is still the chief architect and developer of Perl. If we want to define Perl in one sentence: Perl is a high-level, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl is a programming language specially designed for text editing. It is now widely used for a variety of purposes including Linux system administration, network programming, web development, etc.
Topics include:
-Introduction to perl
-Environment Setup
-Syntax
-Data Types
-Variables
-Scalars
-Arrays
-Loops
-Operators
-File I/O
-Directories
-Error Handling
-Much, Much More!
