Perl Fundamentals

This free online course will teach you to program in Perl, a general-purpose programming language.

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In this free course, you will learn how to:

Discuss briefly the history of the Perl programming language
Recognize how to create and use variables
Recognize loops and conditional statements in Perl programming
Distinguish between lists and arrays
Outline the syntax for creating an array
Explain standard input and output files in Perl programming
Define hashing and outline the syntax for creating a hash
Define subroutines, and create and invoke subroutines using the appropriate syntax
Outline regular expressions to solve different problems
Compare and contrast different regular expressions
Recognize metacharacters and the qualifiers acceptable in Perl

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