Converting yourself to Perl

Perl module P255

Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module P255. This module is presented on Private Courses and Specially Run Courses only

Logistics

Examples from our training material

al1	Passing a list in Perl
al2	Passing by reference in Perl
al3	Passing to an included file
allo	Lists rather than arrays
c1	Perl Context - another demonstration
cf	A quick tool - web log filtering
cstr	Writing Strings in Perl
demo	Documentation for you Perl program
demo.html	Sample output from pod2html
diane_horse	Inverted blocks and less common conditionals
extras.pm	Module forl use in al3 demo
fil_tar	Filtering a log file for 'lua'
filer	Directory Processing
flipper	Reporting size and age of files
gdi	Throwing a die question - sample answer
greet	Regular Expression to match a floating point number
lidem	List manipulation examples
lll1	Log File Analysis
log2	Analyse requests to our server by IP address
logger	Filtering all matching lines from a log file
loglooker	Further log file analysis
onion	Look for IP addresses that have accesses common images
oops	Reading from user, echo, calculation
pcode	Filtering a log file for images
peephole	Read data into a hash and sort keys
peeps.txt	Sample Data
prg	Lottery selection
self	Using Perl for Sys Admin
skillstep	Report on the first word on [each] line.
superls	Report on recently modified files
xmas	giving out Christmas money

Background information

Some modules are available for download as a sample of our material or under an Open Training Notes License for free download from [here].

Topics covered in this module

Logistics.
What is Perl?.
How do I write and run Perl programs?.
Basic Program Structure.
Variables.
Operators.
The Environment.
Blocks, conditionals and loops.
Input and Output.

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