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Basic Perl and CGI
This is the second in a three part series of courses on Perl and CGI:
- PERL101 - Introduction to Perl
- PERL102 - Basic Perl and CGI
- PERL103 - Perl, Forms, and CGI
This course covers the basics of the Perl programming language, with an introduction to the Common Gateway Interface, or CGI, that is the interface between a web server and code used to generate dynamic content. It assumes that PERL101 was taken as a prerequisite. This course reviews some of the concepts introducted in PERL101 and expands on them, as well as introducing more of the Perl language. The course outline is as follows:
- Introduction
- Variables
- Scalar Variables
- Arrays
- Lists
- Hashes
- File Handles
- Scope - my, our, local
- Special Variables - $_,$/, etc..
- Printing
- The print Function
- The printf Function
- Strings
- chomp and chop
- length
- sprintf
- substr
- Case - uc, lc, ucfirst, lcfirst
- Character Substitution and Pattern Matching
- =~
- s/// - Substitution
- m/// - Matching
- tr/// - Transliteration
- The split function
- File and directory related functions
- Directory Functions
- chdir
- mkdir
- rmdir
- opendir
- readdir
- closedir
- File Tests
- File functions
- open
- eof
- close
- unlink
- rename
- Directory Functions
- Introduction to CGI
- Before writing to a page...
- Environment Variables
- Summary
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