Length of Course: 3 days

Overview:
This three-day programming class provides programmers the knowledge to create PERL scripts. Students will develop experience to automate system tasks via hands-on programming exercises in conjunction with the lecture.

Prerequisites:
Prior to attending this class, students should have the following experience:

• Programming experience in a structured language (C, C++, Java, Cobol) is required.

Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

• perform operations on scalar values
• use scalar, array and associative array variables
• use flow control statements such as if, unless, while, until, for and foreach
• use conditional expressions such as numeric and string comparison, regular expressions, file testing and Perl statements
• create and use file handles to read and write directly to files
• create format statements to make formatted output
• use regular expressions to search for and replace sub-strings within a string
• use PERL utilities such as split, join, index and substr
• control the file system and processes from within a PERL script
• create and use functions including handling the scope of variables
• import existing modules into your PERL script