preface 1. Introduction Questions and Answers Is This the Right Book for You? Why Are There So Many Footnotes? What About the Exercises and Their Answers? What Do Those Numbers Mean at the Start'of the Exercise? What If I'm a Perl Course Instructor? What Does "Perl" Stand For? Why Did Larry Create Perl? Why Didn't Larry Just Use Some Other Language? Is Perl Easy or Hard? How Did Perl Get to Be So Popular? What's Happening with Perl Now? What's Perl Really Good For? What Is Perl Not Good For? How Can I Get Perl? What Is CPAN? How Can I Get Support for Perl? Are There Any Other Kinds of Support? What If I Find a Bug in Perl? How Do I Make a Perl Program? A Simple Program What's Inside That Program? How Do I Compile My Perl Program? A Whirlwind Tour of Perl Exercises 2. Scalar Data 3. Lists and Arrays 4. Subroutines 5. Input and Output 6. Hashes 7. In The World of Regular Expressions 8. Matching With Regular Expressions 9. Processing Text With Regular Expressions 10. More Control Structures 11. Peri Modules 12. File Tests 13. Directory Operations 14. Strings and Sorting 15. Smart Matching and Given-when 16. Process Management 17. Some Advanced Peri Techniques index
