This course has been developed from scratch, any comments, suggestions, or corrections from the reader would greatly be appreciated. This course is designed to be used on the Web but it also tries to have a "seminar" feel to it. That is, sometimes items are in bullet fashion and summarized.

Course Contents:

Prerequisites and Conventions

What is PERL?

• Course Order (suggested)

What does PERL do?
Invoking a PERL script
Syntax
Data Types
Statements
Relational Operators
Quotes
Filehandles
First PERL Program
Builtin Functions
File Test Operators and Functions
Special (predefined) Variables
First PERL Program (revised)
Regular Expressions
PERL program (form processing example)
Items Not Covered

Course References