Programming in Perl Technologies


		    Basic/Intermediate (Unix and Windows platforms)


			COURSE DESCRIPTION

	
	This course teaches both the programming interface and the techniques	    
	that can be used to write procedures in Perl (Practical Extraction
	and Report Language).  Perl is available for all Unix platforms
	and for all Windows variants.



			COURSE OBJECTIVES

	Each student will be able to use Perl techniques and commands
	to write scripts to perform various user and administrative tasks.
	
	
			COURSE TOPICS

		Overview of Perl
			Purpose of the language
			History of the development of Perl
			Control capabilities:
				files
				processes
				network

		Writing Perl Scripts
			Getting Started
			Types of variables:
				user-defined
				lists
				scalars
				associative arrays (hashes)
				system specials
				global specials
			Formatting a report
			Accessing records by key(s)
			Operators:
				precedence
				arithmetic
				increment/decrement
				pattern matching
				relational
				conditional
				assignment
			Subroutines
			passing arguments
			using as functions

			  
			  
		Special Uses of Perl
			System administration
			Filename manipulation
			Text manipulation
			Process control



		Miscellaneous Perl Features
			Efficiency considerations:
				time
				space
				portability
				programmer
				maintenance
			Translating awk and sed scripts to Perl
			Common errors


			COURSE DURATION

	This course normally requires three (3) days, approximately 50%
	lecture and 50% lab time.


			COURSE PREREQUISITES

	For Unix users, completion of the Fundamentals of Solaris/AIX/HP-UX/Linux 
	course is assumed.  A knowledge of awk is useful but not mandatory.

	For Windows users, basic knowledge of a text editor such as Wordpad  or
	Notepad is useful.