Learning Perl Student Workbook, 2nd Edition

This is an ebook-only workbook to accompany the 6th Edition of Learning Perl (“the Llama”). If you’re just getting started with Perl, this is the book you want—whether you’re a programmer, system administrator, or web hacker. This 6th edition of Learning Perl covers recent changes to the language up to version 5.14. Exercises are presented in the first half of the workbook, with the answers in the second.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Scalar Data
• Chapter 3. Lists and Arrays
• Chapter 4. Subroutines
• Chapter 5. Input and Output
• Chapter 6. Hashes
• Chapter 7. In the World of Regular Expressions
• Chapter 8. Matching with Regular Expressions
• Chapter 9. Processing Text with Regular Expressions
• Chapter 10. More Control Structures
• Chapter 11. Perl Modules
• Chapter 12. File Tests
• Chapter 13. Directory Operations
• Chapter 14. Strings and Sorting
• Chapter 15. Smart Matching and given-when
• Chapter 16. Process Management
• Chapter 17. Some Advanced Perl Techniques
• Chapter 18. Databases (bonus chapter)