Picking Up Perl, 2nd Edition

Author(s) : Bradley M. Kuhn, Neil A. Smyth
Publication date : July 2005
Free license : GNU Free Documentation License

Book excerpts:

Thanks to Neil A. Smyth for suggesting the 2nd Edition.

This is a freely redistributable tutorial book for the Perl language. It does not assume any prior knowledge of Perl. However, a reader familiar with standard computer science concepts such as abstraction, stacks, queues, and hash tables will definitely find her way through this book with ease. In other words, anyone with a knowledge equivalent to a first-year of college computer science courses should find this book very basic. Those of less experience may find this book challenging.

The material covered in this book is designed to prepare the reader to enter the world of Perl programming. This book covers the basic data and control structures of Perl, as well as the philosophies behind Perl programming. The native search patterns used in Perl, called regular expressions, are introduced and discussed. These concepts are introduced through the use of examples. It is hoped that readers find these examples fun.

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Linuxtopia also hosts this compact Perl tutorial, An Introduction to Perl

Thanks to Neil Parkes for this link

Linuxtopia.org has just published the 2nd Edition of Picking Up Perl. This edition includes 3 brand new chapters, covering Basic Input, Perl Output and Working with Filehandles, contribution of Neil A. Smyth.

Details of the new chapters are:

8. Basic Input with Perl
8.1 Reading Input from Standard Input
8.2 STDIN and Redirection
8.3 Input Control using the Diamond Operator
8.4 Input and the Default Variable

9. Perl Output
9.1 Standard Output and the print Operator
9.2 Formatted Output and the printf Operator
9.3 Field Widths with printf

10. Working with Filehandles
10.1 An Overview of Filehandles
10.2 Opening Filehandles
10.3 Reading, Writing and Filehandles
10.4 Closing Filehandles
10.5 Getting File Information

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