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The document outlines a course on Perl programming, covering both basic and advanced topics such as data types, operators, loops, conditional statements, and subroutines. It includes details on the structure of Perl code, including the use of scalars, arrays, and hashes, as well as various operators and control structures. Additionally, it provides guidelines for commenting code and accessing documentation.

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4.+Perl+Basics

The document outlines a course on Perl programming, covering both basic and advanced topics such as data types, operators, loops, conditional statements, and subroutines. It includes details on the structure of Perl code, including the use of scalars, arrays, and hashes, as well as various operators and control structures. Additionally, it provides guidelines for commenting code and accessing documentation.

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Robin Garg, Instructor: Power of Perl (A course covering basic and advanced Perl)
 First Perl Program
 Data Types
 Operators
 Loops
 Conditional Statements
 Subroutines
 Few Points

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 Refer the code
 Talk about:
 First line in the code (also known as the Interpreter line or the “shebang” line)
 Tells which interpreter to use (show an example)
 Usually located at “C:\” in windows, and at “/usr/bin/” in Unix/Linux
 -w
 Used to flag warnings. It warns about the potential to misinterpret syntax located in the script.
 use strict;
 Checks for the definition and the usage of the variables in the script. This stops the execution of the script instead of
just giving warnings.
 Show an example of type of Error flagged by this

 Ground Rules:
 Comments begin with #
 All statements end in ;
 {} are used to combine statements in to blocks

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 Scalars
 Single Value, Name preceded by $, assume any value assigned (be it integer, hexadecimal, float, character, string),
scope defined via keyword “my” (“my” is required if we have use strict; in the code)
 Names of Scalar - Must not begin with digit, is case-sensitive, and some special names are reserved (like $_ and $1)

 Arrays
 Multiple Ordered Values, Name preceded by @, can store any number of Ordered Scalars (strings, numbers,
combination), indexed by number, dynamic sizes and values, easy iterations (using for, foreach, etc), scope defined
via keyword “my”
 Index of an array starts from 0 and each scalar of an array can be referred via $array[$index]. Negative number
index count from the end.
 Discuss the use of , “” .. qw [] in the different examples
 Discuss the use of shift, unshift, push, pop

 Hashes
 Multiple Unordered Scalars organized in key/value pair, Name preceded by %, can store any number of Unordered
Scalars (strings, numbers, combination), indexed by key name, dynamic sizes and values, easy iterations (using for,
foreach, etc), scope defined via keyword “my”
 Scalars are stored in random order, search faster as compared to an array
 To refer a value of Scalar: $hash{$key}, Value to a key can be assigned directly via $hash{$key} = Value

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 Numeric
 ++, --, +, *, +=, *=, <<, >>
 Increment, Decrement, Addition, Multiplication, Assignment, Bitwise

 String
 ., x, .=, x=
 Concatenation, Repetition, Assignment

 Quoting
 qw (one we saw in arrays)

 Boolean
 >, <, lt, gt, ==, !=, eq, ne, &&, ||, !, and, or, not, ?:, >=, <=, ge, le

 List
 shift, unshift, push, pop, split, join, sort, reverse, grep

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 for
 foreach
 while
 until
 while do

 Loops assign to $_ by default

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 if, elsif, else
 unless

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 Subroutines are used to group related statements that could together form a task.
 Subroutines are declared by “sub” keyword
 Subroutines are called via “&”
 Arguments can be passed both by value and reference
 Subroutines can return values
 Nested subroutines (recursion) are possible

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 Getting more information on a command:
 perldoc, man

 How to comment a block of code in Perl?


 Use “=for comment” at the start of the block and “=cut” at the end of the block

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