Learning Perl 6th Edition by Randal L Schwartz, Brian D Foy, Tom Phoenix ISBN 1449303587 9781449303587

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Author: Randal L Schwartz, Brian D Foy, Tom Phoenix

Learning Perl 6th Table of contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction

1. Questions and Answers

2. Is This the Right Book for You?

3. Why Are There So Many Footnotes?

4. What About the Exercises and Their Answers?

5. What Do Those Numbers at the Start of the Exercise Mean?

6. What If I’m a Perl Course Instructor?

7. What Does “Perl” Stand For?

8. Why Did Larry Create Perl?

9. Why Didn’t Larry Just Use Some Other Language?

10. Is Perl Easy or Hard?

11. How Did Perl Get to Be So Popular?

12. What’s Happening with Perl Now?

13. What’s Perl Really Good For?

14. What Is Perl Not Good For?

15. How Can I Get Perl?

16. What Is CPAN?

17. How Can I Get Support for Perl?

18. Are There Any Other Kinds of Support?

19. What If I Find a Bug in Perl?

20. How Do I Make a Perl Program?

21. A Simple Program

22. What’s Inside That Program?

23. How Do I Compile Perl?

24. A Whirlwind Tour of Perl

25. Exercises

Chapter 2. Scalar Data

1. Numbers

2. All Numbers Have the Same Format Internally

3. Floating-Point Literals

4. Integer Literals

5. Nondecimal Integer Literals

6. Numeric Operators

7. Strings

8. Single-Quoted String Literals

9. Double-Quoted String Literals

10. String Operators

11. Automatic Conversion Between Numbers and Strings

12. Perl’s Built-in Warnings

13. Scalar Variables

14. Choosing Good Variable Names

15. Scalar Assignment

16. Binary Assignment Operators

17. Output with print

18. Interpolation of Scalar Variables into Strings

19. Operator Precedence and Associativity

20. Comparison Operators

21. The if Control Structure

22. Boolean Values

23. Getting User Input

24. The chomp Operator

25. The while Control Structure

26. The undef Value

27. The defined Function

28. Exercises

Chapter 3. Lists and Arrays

1. Accessing Elements of an Array

2. Special Array Indices

3. List Literals

4. The qw Shortcut

5. List Assignment

6. The pop and push Operators

7. The shift and unshift Operators

8. Interpolating Arrays into Strings

9. The foreach Control Structure

10. Perl’s Favorite Default: $_

11. The reverse Operator

12. The sort Operator

13. Scalar and List Context

14. Using List-Producing Expressions in Scalar Context

15. Using Scalar-Producing Expressions in List Context

16. Forcing Scalar Context

17. in List Context

18. Exercises

Chapter 4. Subroutines

1. Defining a Subroutine

2. Invoking a Subroutine

3. Return Values

4. Arguments

5. Private Variables in Subroutines

6. Variable-Length Parameter Lists

7. A Better &max Routine

8. Empty Parameter Lists

9. Notes on Lexical (my) Variables

10. The use strict Pragma

11. The return Operator

12. Omitting the Ampersand

13. Nonscalar Return Values

14. Persistent, Private Variables

15. Exercises

Chapter 5. Input and Output

1. Input from Standard Input

2. Input from the Diamond Operator

3. The Invocation Arguments

4. Output to Standard Output

5. Formatted Output with printf

6. Arrays and printf

7. Filehandles

8. Opening a Filehandle

9. Bad Filehandles

10. Closing a Filehandle

11. Fatal Errors with die

12. Warning Messages with warn

13. Using Filehandles

14. Changing the Default Output Filehandle

15. Reopening a Standard Filehandle

16. Output with say

17. Exercises

Chapter 6. Hashes

1. What Is a Hash?

2. Why Use a Hash?

3. Hash Element Access

4. The Hash As a Whole

5. Hash Assignment

6. The Big Arrow

7. Hash Functions

8. The keys and values Functions

9. The each Function

10. Typical Use of a Hash

11. The exists Function

12. The delete Function

13. Hash Element Interpolation

14. The %ENV hash

15. Exercises

Chapter 7. In the World of Regular Expressions

1. What Are Regular Expressions?

2. Using Simple Patterns

3. About Metacharacters

4. Simple Quantifiers

5. Grouping in Patterns

6. Alternatives

7. Character Classes

8. Character Class Shortcuts

9. Negating the Shortcuts

10. Exercises

Chapter 8. Matching with Regular Expressions

1. Matches with m//

2. Option Modifiers

3. Case-Insensitive Matching with /i

4. Matching Any Character with /s

5. Adding Whitespace with /x

6. Combining Option Modifiers

7. Other Options

8. Anchors

9. Word Anchors

10. The Binding Operator, =~

11. Interpolating into Patterns

12. The Match Variables

13. The Persistence of Memory

14. Noncapturing Parentheses

15. Named Captures

16. The Automatic Match Variables

17. General Quantifiers

18. Precedence

19. Examples of Precedence

20. And There’s More

21. A Pattern Test Program

22. Exercises

Chapter 9. Processing Text with Regular Expressions

1. Substitutions with s///

2. Global Replacements with /g

3. Different Delimiters

4. Option Modifiers

5. The Binding Operator

6. Case Shifting

7. The split Operator

8. The join Function

9. m// in List Context

10. More Powerful Regular Expressions

11. Nongreedy Quantifiers

12. Matching Multiple-Line Text

13. Updating Many Files

14. In-Place Editing from the Command Line

15. Exercises

Chapter 10. More Control Structures

1. The unless Control Structure

2. The else Clause with unless

3. The until Control Structure

4. Expression Modifiers

5. The Naked Block Control Structure

6. The elsif Clause

7. Autoincrement and Autodecrement

8. The Value of Autoincrement

9. The for Control Structure

10. The Secret Connection Between foreach and for

11. Loop Controls

12. The last Operator

13. The next Operator

14. The redo Operator

15. Labeled Blocks

16. The Ternary Operator, ?:

17. Logical Operators

18. The Value of a Short-Circuit Operator

19. The defined-or Operator

20. Control Structures Using Partial-Evaluation Operators

21. Exercises

Chapter 11. Perl Modules

1. Finding Modules

2. Installing Modules

3. Using Simple Modules

4. The File::Basename Module

5. Using Only Some Functions from a Module

6. The File::Spec Module

7. CGI.pm

8. Databases and DBI

9. Exercise

Chapter 12. File Tests

1. File Test Operators

2. Testing Several Attributes of the Same File

3. Stacked File Test Operators

4. The stat and lstat Functions

5. The localtime Function

6. Bitwise Operators

7. Using Bitstrings

8. Exercises

Chapter 13. Directory Operations

1. Moving Around the Directory Tree

2. Globbing

3. An Alternate Syntax for Globbing

4. Directory Handles

5. Recursive Directory Listing

6. Manipulating Files and Directories

7. Removing Files

8. Renaming Files

9. Links and Files

10. Making and Removing Directories

11. Modifying Permissions

12. Changing Ownership

13. Changing Timestamps

14. Exercises

Chapter 14. Strings and Sorting

1. Finding a Substring with index

2. Manipulating a Substring with substr

3. Formatting Data with sprintf

4. Using sprintf with “Money Numbers”

5. Advanced Sorting

6. Sorting a Hash by Value

7. Sorting by Multiple Keys

8. Exercises

Chapter 15. Smart Matching and given-when

1. The Smart Match Operator

2. Smart Match Precedence

3. The given Statement

4. Dumb Matching

5. when with Many Items

6. Exercises

Chapter 16. Process Management

1. The system Function

2. Avoiding the Shell

3. The exec Function

4. The Environment Variables

5. Using Backquotes to Capture Output

6. Using Backquotes in a List Context

7. Processes as Filehandles

8. Getting Down and Dirty with Fork

9. Sending and Receiving Signals

10. Exercises

Chapter 17. Some Advanced Perl Techniques

1. Trapping Errors with eval

2. Picking Items from a List with grep

3. Transforming Items from a List with map

4. Unquoted Hash Keys

5. Slices
    - Array Slice
    - Hash Slice

6. Exercise

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