This book is not intended as a comprehensive guide to Perl; on the contrary, in order to keep the book from growing unmanageably large, we've been selective about covering only those constructs and issues that you're most likely to use early in your Perl programming career | ;-_=_Scrolldown to the Underground_=_-; Learning Perl By Randal Schwartz, Tom Christiansen & Larry Wall; ISBN 1-56592-284-0, 302 pages. Second Edition, July 1997. (See the catalog page for this book.) Search the text of Learning Perl. Index Symbols | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X Table of Contents Foreword Preface Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Scalar Data Chapter 3: Arrays and List Data Chapter 4: Control Structures Chapter 5: Hashes Chapter 6: Basic I/O Chapter 7: Regular Expressions Chapter 8: Functions Chapter 9: Miscellaneous Control Structures Chapter 10: Filehandles and File Tests Chapter 11: Formats Chapter 12: Directory Access Chapter 13: File and Directory Manipulation Chapter 14: Process Management Chapter 15: Other Data Transformation Chapter 16: System Database Access Chapter 17: User Database Manipulation Chapter 18: Converting Other Languages to Perl Chapter 19: CGI Programming Appendix A: Exercise Answers Appendix B: Libraries and Modules Appendix C: Networking Clients Appendix D: Topics We Didn't Mention Examples The Perl CD Bookshelf Navigation Copyright © 1999 O'Reilly & Associates. All Rights Reserved. Foreword Next: Preface Foreword Contents: Second Edition Update Attention, class! Attention! Thank you. Greetings, aspiring magicians. I hope your summer vacations were enjoyable, if too short. Allow me to be the first to welcome you to the College of Wizardry and, more particularly, to this introductory class in the Magic of Perl. I am not your regular instructor, but Professor Schwartz was unavoidably delayed, and has asked me, as the creator of Perl, to step in today and give a few introductory remarks. Let's see now. Where to begin? How many of you are taking this course as freshmen? I see. Hmmm, I've seen worse in my days. Occasionally. Very occasionally. Eh? That was a joke. Really! Ah well. No sense of humor, these freshmen. Well now, what shall I .
