Perl Tutorial Video

Concepts
 Welcome: what is Perl? Demo
 Perl and the Web Demo
 Static Web content Demo
 Dynamic Web content Demo
 What you'll need: 1 Demo
 What you'll need: 2 Demo
 Your first script: 'hello world' Demo
 Running your first script on a web server Demo

First Steps
 Program flow Demo
 Variables Demo
 Strings and quotes Demo
 More about strings Demo
 Basic operators Demo
 Combined operators Demo
 More combined operators Demo

Data Types
 Scalars, hashes and arrays Demo
 Working with arrays Demo
 More about arrays Demo
 Array functions Demo
 More array functions Demo
 Multidimensional arrays Demo
 Taking elements out of arrays Demo
 More array manipulation Demo
 Working with hashes Demo
 Extracting data from hashes Demo
 Multidimensional hashes Demo
 Now you try: Data Types Demo

If you purchase the CD all the contents listed below are also included.

Making Choices
Introducing conditionals
Conditional operators
Conditional blocks
The equality operator
String comparison operators
'else' clauses
The 'elsif ladder'
Logical operators
Nested conditionals
Now you try: Choices

Loops and Control Structures
Repetition: the 'while' loop
Using the 'while' loop
The 'do..while' loop
Iteration: the 'for' loop
Looping over an array
Nested loops
The 'foreach' loop
Now you try: Loops

Strings and Pattern Matching
Extracting a substring
Locating a substring: 1
Locating a substring: 2
Changing case
Here-document style strings
Introducing regular expressions
Matching simple patterns
Case-insensitive pattern matching
Matching globally
Wildcards
Character sets: 1
Character sets: 2
Quantifiers
Using quantifiers: 1
Using quantifiers: 2
Alternation
Subpatterns: 1
Subpatterns: 2
Greedy vs non-greedy quantifiers
Examples of non-greedy matching
Replacing using patterns
Subpattern replacement: 1
Subpattern replacement: 2
Now you try: Strings

Interacting With The Filesystem
Reading from a file
Writing to a file: 1
Writing to a file: 2
Writing to a file: 3
Reading a file's contents at once
Changing the default output filehandle
Reading user input from the command line
An interactive shell script
Refining the script: 1
Refining the script: 2
The script complete
Working with directories
Changing the current working directory
Running executable files: 1
Running executable files: 2
Command-line arguments
Now you try: Interacting with Filesystems

CGI
Running a CGI script on 'localhost'
Checking errors
Uploading your script: 1
Uploading your script: 2
Environment variables: 1
Environment variables: 2
Serving HTML
The query string
Accessing GET variables
Handling URL-encoded characters
Using HTML forms
Reading POST data
Now you try: CGI

Intermediate Coding Techniques
Reusing code
Subroutines
Arguments
Returning a value
Explicit returns
Variable scope
Modules and Packages: 1
Modules and Packages: 2

Database Interactivity
Perl and databases
Connection handles
Statement handles
Running the script
Using placeholders in SQL
Now you try: Database Interactivity