Producing Homepages

Downloads

• ActiveState Perl (http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActivePerl/)

References

• Randal L. Schwartz and Tom Phoenix, Learning Perl, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 2001
• Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Jon Orwant, Programming Perl, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 2000

and a variety of tutorials on the Web.

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Quick Notes

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• Perl program for "Hello, world!"
• Perl CGI program for "Hello, world!" homepage
• Perl variables
• Subroutines
• Perl functions
  • open, close (filehandles)
  • read (filehandles)
  • die
  • chomp (strings)
  • split (strings)
  • tr (strings)
  • s (strings)
  • pack
  • hex (numbers)
• Control structures - foreach, if, or, etc.