This free Perl book contains a concise description of all Perl statements, functions, variables and lots of other useful information. The purpose of the Reference Guide is to aid in the use of Perl, to look up the syntax of specific functions, statements and the meaning of built-in variables.
Book Description
It is not a self-contained user guide – basic knowledge of the Perl language is required. It is not complete – some of the more obscure variants of perl constructs have been left out. But all functions and variables are mentioned in at least one way they can be used.
Table of Contents
- Command line options
- Syntax
- Variables
- Literals
- Operators and precedence
- Statements
- Subroutines, packages and modules
- Pragmatic modules
- Object oriented programming
- Arithmetic functions
- Conversion functions
- Structure conversion
- String functions
- Array and hash functions
- Regular expressions
- Search and replace functions
- File test operators
- File operations
- Input / Output
- Formats
- Directory reading routines
- System interaction
- Networking
- SystemV IPC
- Miscellaneous
- Information from system files
- Special variables
- Special arrays
- Standard modules
- Environment variables
- The perl debugger