A Beginner's Guide to Perl

• Introduction
• Super-Basics
  • That First Line, And Other Details
  • The Print Statement
  • Variables
  • Assigning to Variables
  • Getting Input from the User
  • Subroutines
  • While
  • Pattern Matching and Regular Expressions
  • Substitution
  • A Little About Arrays
• More Control Structures
  • If/Then/Elsif/Else
  • Unless
  • For
  • Until
  • While
  • Foreach
• File Manipulation
  • Filehandles
  • Filename Globbing
  • Opendir
• Using Unix from within Perl
  • Writing to a process
  • System calls
  • Backticks
• Making Your Output Look Nicer
  • printf
  • Formats
  • "Here" Documents
• Arrays
  • General
  • Push
  • Pop
  • Slice
  • Join
  • Split
• Associative Arrays

Appendices