Presentations for 2003

Chuck began our regular Perl meetings with a script for searching Perl's FAQs for questions relating to a keyword or phrase. He shows the various steps he used to develop this program and in the process showed a sampling of Perl's features.

Chuck gives an overview of Perl's regular expressions. This topic is an ongoing source for questions from new and experienced Perl programmers.

One of the places that Perl really shines is on the command line. Although most of the Perl code you write will live in programs, Perl makes it easy to solve quick problems with command line parameters. Chuck covers the most commonly needed command line options and some operators that are particularly useful in this mode.

This presentation covers some of the areas where Perl is at its most powerful: strings and lists. Chuck's presentation covers some string manipulation which may look familiar and list manipulation which may not.