Brief Perl Language Reference

Table of Contents for Perl Constructs

(There are additional links on some of these pages.)

• Perl Basics 1 -- The Perl Language
• Perl Basics 2 -- The Perl Language
• Typical Perl Program Structure
• How to Execute a Perl script
• Perl Scalar Variables
• Operators
• Quotation Marks
• Date and Time
• Perl Arrays
• Conditional Statements
• For Loops
• Foreach Loops
• While Loops
• Hash Tables
• The Server ENVironment
• Regular Expressions
• Character Classes for Regular Expressions
• Meta Characters for Regular Expressions
• Reading from Files
• Writing to Files
• File Handles
• File Tests
• Locking Files
• Reading Directory Content
• Perl Special Variables
• Sorting with Perl
• User Defined Functions
• Perl's Calling Conventions for Functions
• String Functions
• Splice Function
• Print Large Chunks of Text with HERE Documents
• How to Write your First CGI Script
• Loading the CGI Module
• Passing Values to CGI Scripts on the Command Line
• Writing Secure CGI Scripts
• Function Oriented CGI Scripting
• CGI Scripts using a HERE Document as Template
• Object-Oriented CGI Scripting
• Starting a Validation Script
• Link to the Wider World of Perl Documentation