Perl Tutorial Book

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--- The Detailed Node Listing --- Preface
Preface
1. Getting Started
2. Working with Scalars
3. Arrays
4. Control Structures
5. Associative Arrays (Hashes)
6. Regular Expressions
7. Subroutines
A. Background of Perl
B. GNU Free Documentation License
General Index
Purpose of this Book
Acknowledgments
Obtaining the Most Recent Version
Audience		Who should read this book?
Material Covered		What does this book cover?
Conventions Used in this Book		How do I read this book?
Getting Started
1.1 A First Perl Program
1.2 Expressions, Statements, and Side-Effects
Working with Scalars
2.1 Strings
2.2 Numbers
2.3 Scalar Variables
2.4 Operators
2.5 Output of Scalar Data
2.6 Special Variables
2.7 Summary of Scalar Operators
Strings
2.1.1 Single-quoted Strings
2.1.2 A Digression--The print Function
2.1.3 Double-quoted Strings
Single-quoted Strings
2.1.1.1 Special Characters in Single-quoted Strings
2.1.1.2 Newlines in Single-quoted Strings
2.1.1.3 Examples of Invalid Single-quoted Strings
Double-quoted Strings
2.1.3.1 Interpolation in Double-quoted Strings
2.1.3.2 Examples of Interpolation
2.1.3.3 Examples of Interpolation (ASCII Octal Values)
2.1.3.4 Examples of Interpolation (ASCII Hex Values)
2.1.3.5 Characters Requiring Special Consideration
Numbers
2.2.1 Numeric Literals
Numeric Literals
2.2.1.1 Printing Numeric Literals		Using `print` with numeric literals
Scalar Variables
2.3.1 Scalar Interpolation		Expanding scalar variables in double-quoted strings
2.3.2 Undefined Variables		Before a Variable has a value, It is undefined
Operators
2.4.1 Numerical Operators		Operators for numeric scalars
2.4.2 Comparison Operators		Operators to compare scalars with each other
2.4.3 Auto-Increment and Decrement
2.4.4 String Operators		Operators for string scalars
Arrays
3.1 The Semantics of Arrays
3.2 List Literals
3.3 Array Variables
3.4 Manipulating Arrays and Lists
Array Variables
3.3.1 Array Variables
3.3.2 Associated Scalars
Manipulating Arrays and Lists
3.4.1 It Slices!
3.4.2 Functions
3.4.3 The Context--List vs. Scalar
3.4.4 Array Interpolation
Functions
3.4.2.1 Arrays as Stacks
3.4.2.2 Arrays as Queues
Control Structures
4.1 Blocks
4.2 A Digression--Truth Values
4.3 The if/unless Structures
4.4 The while/until Structures
4.5 The do while/until Structures
4.6 The for Structure
4.7 The foreach Structure
Associative Arrays (Hashes)
5.1 What Is It?
5.2 Variables
5.3 Literals
5.4 Functions
5.5 Slices
5.6 Context Considerations
Functions
5.4.1 Keys and Values
5.4.2 Each
Regular Expressions
6.1 The Theory Behind It All
6.2 The Simple
6.3 Pattern Matching
6.4 Regular Expression Shortcuts
The Simple
6.2.1 Simple Characters
6.2.2 The * Special Character
6.2.3 The . Character
6.2.4 The \| Character
6.2.5 Grouping with ()s
6.2.6 The Anchor Characters
Subroutines
7.1 Defining Subroutines
7.2 Returning Values
7.3 Using Arguments
Background of Perl
A.1 A Brief History of Perl
A.2 Perl as a Natural Language
A.3 The Slogans

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