Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Scalar data
  • Arrays and list data
  • Control structures
  • Hashes
  • Basic I/O
  • Regular expressions
  • Functions
  • Miscellaneous control structures
  • Filehandles and file tests
  • Formats
  • Directory access
  • File and directory manipulation
  • Process management
  • Other data transformation
  • System database access
  • User database manipulation
  • Converting other languages to Perl
  • CGI programming
  • Includes bibliographical references (page xxii) and index