Programming Perl

This, along with the other courses can be given either on-site in the offices of the client or on-line via Zoom or other means. Contact Gabor Szabo for more details.

Goals

To be able to use Perl as a tool in some daily tasks
To use Perl to automate small tasks need by programmers

Audience

Java, C, C++, C# programmers who want to have a tool for daily tasks

Prerequisites

At least one year experience in one of the high-level language such as Java, C, C++ or C#
Experience on either Microsoft Windows or Unix/Linux

Course format

Duration of the course can be 4 hours frontal lecture
It can be extended by 4 more hours hands-on exercises to fill a day
There is also a short 1 hour lecture version

Syllabus

Introduction

History, how to install Perl, how to run scripts
Syntax of the language
Basic I/O
Scalar values and variables (numbers and strings)
Control flow
Lists and arrays (context)
Hash (associative arrays)
Functions, subroutines
Accessing files
Interaction with the file system
Error handling
Regular Expressions
Using references
Using modules
Using OOP style
Installing modules on UNIX/Linux and on Windows systems
Database access, cleaning up old records from the database
Generating reports on daily activity
Sending e-mail reports
Converting Excel or CSV files to database rows and vice verse
Converting Excel files to XML and vice verse
Cleaning up temporary files
Backup of database and the file system used by the application

Resources

If you are interested in this course, contact Gabor Szabo for more details.