Contents

• What is Perl?
• Cool things about Perl
• What can Perl be used for?
• Our first Perl program
• Running our first program
• good_greeting.pl
• good_practice.pl
• TMTOWTDI
• Perl Data Types: scalars
• Perl Data Types: arrays
• Perl Data Types: hashes
• Perl Syntax: while loop
• A Perl implementation of 'grep'
• Perl Syntax: for loop
• Perl Syntax: foreach loop
• Perl Syntax: subroutines
• A data munging example
• Data munging continued
• Perl Documentation
• Perl resources on the net
• The End