Minimal Perl

Tables

Chapter 1

1.1

Forehead markings for the Perl dialects of Perlistan

6

Chapter 2

2.1	Effects of Perl’s most essential invocation options	17
2.2	The data and record-number variables	24
2.3	Employing user-defined scalar variables in the Shell and Perl	26
2.4	Comparison of Shell and Perl scripting techniques	29
2.5	Using switch variables	33
2.6	Shell and Perl techniques for writing messages to STDOUT and STDERR	36
2.7	Special variables for I/O operations	42
2.8	Special variables for formatting output	43
2.9	Standard option clusters for Perl commands and scripts	45

Chapter 3

3.1	String escapes for representing control characters	56
3.2	Fundamental capabilities of greppers and Perl	58
3.3	Matching operator syntax	60
3.4	Essential syntax for regular expression	63
3.5	Compact character-class ...