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Learn Perl by Doing - Part 4

by John Purcell

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What you'll learn

In the final part of this tutorial series you'll discover some tips, tricks and concepts that will take your Perl programming to the next level. We'll look at an example of the famous Perl one-liners to replace text in files, you'll discover how to create modules in Perl, dividing your programs into logical, reusable units, we'll look at basic "object-oriented" (OO) programming in Perl, some basic sysadmin-type tasks, and we'll even create a simple dynamic website using Perl and the common gateway interface (CGI).

About the author

After working as a software developer and contractor for over 14 years for a whole bunch of companies including CSC, Proquest, SPSS and AT&T in the UK and Netherlands, I decided to work full-time as a private software trainer. I now live in the beautiful city of Budapest, Hungary, from where I run the website http://www.caveofprogramming.com.

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