Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module P222. This topic is presented on public course
Perl Extra
Programming in Perl is an art as well as a science. You can write code that looks beautiful and runs like a well-oiled machine, or you can write code that's quite otherwise. In this module, we'll look at how you can write code that's reliable, runs fast, and is easy to maintain.
Articles and tips on this subject | updated |
4611 | Hungarian, Camel, Snake and Kebab - variable naming conventions In my program, I'm going to use a variable to hold the number of people (in a group or in a category) perhaps. What should I call that variable?
There are a whole lot of different conventions available to you - here are some I have used / come across
Camel case: numberOfPeople
A series of words, ... | 2016-01-03 |
2657 | Want to do a big batch edit? Nothing beats Perl! I still love Perl ...
Wanting to convert a file of lines like this:
<img src=rp_153_track.jpg><br><br>
into lines like this:
rp_153_track.jpg <img src=rp_153_track.jpg><br><br>
The code is as simple as:
/=(.*?)>/;
print "$1 $_";
And ... | 2010-06-23 |
2688 | Security considerations in programming - what do we teach? Many moons ago, I wrote and presented a security course - and ever since that time I have been acutely aware of the need to consider security in every aspect of system design, program writing and maintenance. And these days - with many of our programs "exposed" to people to run from remote places via ... | 2010-03-25 |
2399 | Firefighting with Perl If the building is blazing, you'll go right ahead and put the fire out with the extinguisher. Hopefully you'll have been trained to use the right sort of extinguisher on the right fire, but you won't leave the fire to blaze just because the "date last serviced" record has become smudged and you don't ... | 2009-09-07 |
1181 | Good Programming practise - where to initialise variables It's a good idea to initialise your variables directly before you use them for the first time if you're going to use them as accumulators.
By accumulator I mean that you're going to write assignments such as:
$n += 4; # Perl
incr notepad; # Tcl
lappend flcodes [lindex ... | 2007-05-11 |
743 | How to debug a Perl program Have you every written a Perl program that doesn't perform as you would wish? Yes, everyone who's written a Perl program has done that. Once any syntax errors have been corrected, you run your program for the first time and you check - VERY carefully - the results. Any errors, and the patterns of errors, ... | 2006-06-05 |
Examples from our training material
control | regular expression efficiency demo - control |
try1 | regular expression efficiency demo - start with literal |
try2 | regular expression efficiency demo - start with anchor |
try3 | regular expression efficiency demo - remove use of $& |
try4 | regular expression efficiency demo - process line by line |
try5 | regular expression efficiency demo - read into list |
try6 | regular expression efficiency demo - via foreach |
try7 | regular expression efficiency demo - index rather than regex |
trybench | regular expression efficiency demo - testing with benchmark module |
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Perl as a language for style and efficiency.
Planning your programming.
Efficiency.
Fast operation?.
Programs written quickly?.
Programs that are easily maintained and altered to new requirements?.
Programs that require minimal memory?.
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