Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

On successful completion of this course the student should be able to:

Ï        explain the advantages of using Perl for a scripting tool

Ï        demonstrate the proper use of Perl syntax, including control structures and expressions

Ï        properly use of scalars, arrays and associative arrays

Ï        demonstrate how to write and properly use Perl regular expressions

Ï        demonstrate the use of built-in Perl functions

Ï        design and write Perl functions

Ï        use of the various types of Input and Output.

This course is an on-line course featuring reading material, on-line discussions, and individual lab assignments.

Through exams and lab assignments students will be assessed to determine if they are able to:

Ï        Setup and Communicate through a secure shell with a Linux system

Ï        Create scripts that will execute automatically in the Linux environment

Ï        Write scripts which demonstrate ability to input data to the script through pipes, keyboard input, and files.

Ï        Write scripts which demonstrate ability to output data to screen and files.

Ï        Write scripts to demonstrate knowledge of Perl data types.

Ï        Write scripts to modify the contents of files.

Ï        Write scripts to extract specific contents of a file.

Ï        Show effective use of regular expressions in Perl..

Ï        Show use of arrays and lists.

Ï        Use the sort function in Perl.

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will have satisfactorily accomplished the goals and objectives listed in this content guide. 

Ï        Explain why to use Perl instead of other scripting tools like sed, awk and shell scripting.

Ï        Explain how to obtain Perl for various operating systems

Ï        Explain how to automate the execution of a Perl script

Ï        Define and use scalar literals, variables and scalar operators

Ï        Define and use lists, arrays, slices, and array operators

Ï        Define and use associative arrays (hashes) and hash operators

Ï        Demonstrate the use of Control Expressions

Ï        Demonstrate the use of Selection Statements like if and unless

Ï        Demonstrate the use of Interactive Statements like while, until, foreach and for

Ï        Demonstrate the use of the Perl statements next, last, redo and die

Ï        Demonstrate the use of pattern matching

Ï        Demonstrate the use of the substitute command

Ï        Demonstrate the use of the translate command

Ï        Discover the wealth of built-in predefined functions

Ï        Write scripts which sort data

Ï        Use other standard Perl functions like split, chomp, chop, Perl functions 

Ï        Design and create a function without parameters

Ï        Design and create a function with parameters

Ï        Use the standard input operator <>

Ï        Use print and printf for output

Ï        Use files and file handles

Ï        Open and close files

Ï        Read and write files