http://www.scriptsocket.com/videos.php Perl video tutorials for new to advanced programmers. en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?1 Part 1 features details on where to download Active Perl, where to download a good Perl Editor and how to say 'Hello World'. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?2 Part 2 covers the very basics of scripting. Opening and exiting a program. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?3 Part 3 explains variables with basic examples. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?4 Part 4 covers arrays. How to create, print, grow, shrink and empty an array. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?5 Part 5 covers more array functions. How to push, pop, shift and unshift an array. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?6 Part 6 covers more array functions. How to merge, reverse and sort an array. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?7 Part 7 offers a few tips and shortcuts for creating arrays. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?8 Part 8 explains looping arrays with the foreach loop. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?9 Part 9 shows basic conditional statements: if, elsif, else and unless. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?10 Part 10 covers operators and precedence. Addition, multiplication, division, subtraction and auto-increment/auto decrement of numbers. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?11 Part 11 covers operators and precedence. Modulus, power of, use integer, ==, !=, eq, ne. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?12 Part 12 explains the while loop and the reverse while loop, the until loop. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?13 Part 13 explains the functions map and grep. Examples of how they can be applied to arrays. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?14 Part 14 explores hashes. How to create hashes and reference each key/value pair. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?15 Part 15 shows how to loop through hashes with the each, keys and values functions. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?16 Part 16 shows hash functions exists, defined and delete. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?17 Part 17 shows how to reverse the key/value pairs of a hash, sort hashes and merge hashes. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?18 Part 18 explains the split and join functions. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?19 Part 19 shows the functions lc, uc, lcfirst, ucfirst and a method to ucfirst every word in a string. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?20 Part 20 shows the functions length, substr, index and rindex. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?21 Part 21 shows how to generate and use random numbers with the rand function and how to round numbers to any decimal place with the sprintf function. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?22 Part 22 shows how to use the time function to format the time simply and in a more advanced way. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?23 Part 23 shows how to comment and label your code. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?24 Part 24 explains the most basic regular expressions. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?25 Part 25 shows the basics of subroutines. Continue with Perl tutorial 88 next! http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?26 Part 26 shows how to open, read, and close a text file. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?27 Part 27 shows how to write to and append a text file. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?28 Part 28 shows how to rename, copy and delete files. Plus how to use the stat function to get the size of a file. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?29 Part 29 shows how to open, read, close, make, change and remove directories. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?30 Part 30 explains how to use the glob function to get a list of files in a directory that match a certain extension type, eg .txt files only. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?31 Part 31 shows the steps to take to upload a perl script to your server. Ascii mode, chmod files and folders. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?32 Part 32 shows how to print a block of text with one print statement. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?33 Part 33 talks about file test operators: -e, -z, -s and -d. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?34 Part 34 explains the chmod function and how to set read, write and execute permissions for files and folders. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?35 Part 35 shows how to use sendmail to send and recieve email from a script securely. Plus, how to remove HTML tags from the email message, and how to create a rudewords filter. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?36 Part 36 shows how to create a form for the web where method=post that we will learn how to parse in the next tutorial. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?37 Part 37 shows how to parse the web form from the previous tutorial where method=post and print out the data. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?38 Part 38 shows how to create a form for the web where method=get that we will learn how to parse in the next tutorial. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?39 Part 39 shows how to parse the web form from the previous tutorial where method=get and print out the result. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?40 Part 40 shows how to create and parse a simple and concise query string. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?41 Part 41 explains how to capture and use environmental variables in your scripts. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?42 Part 42 shows the use of the require function to read information from other scripts. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?43 Part 43 shows how to use CPAN.pm to install a perl module on your computer as well as point out some minor problems like the .LOCK file and the NMAKE error and how to fix them. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?44 Part 44 shows how to use the LWP::Simple module to get a web pages source code. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?45 Part 45 shows how to use the LWP::Simple ,HTML::TreeBuilder and HTML::FormatText modules to download, parse and format a web page into plain text. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?46 Part 46 shows how to use the LWP::UserAgent module to emulate a browser and download a web pages source code. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?47 Part 47 shows how to use the IO::Socket module to connect to a web server and download a web page. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?48 Part 48 shows how to use the HTML::LinkExtor module to extract the links and images from a web page. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?49 Part 49 shows how to use the HTML::HeadParser module to extract the title, description, keywords, content type meta data etc. from between the head tags of a web page. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?50 Part 50 shows how to use several modules to download multiple web pages to html files to view offline on your computer or to create a mirror site. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?51 Part 51 shows how to create and work with a simple flat file database. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?52 Part 52 explores the CGI.pm module to create html tag shortcuts and to generate html web pages on the fly. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?53 Part 53 continues to explore the CGI.pm module to create meta tags, body attributes, images, links and formatting. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?54 Part 54 explores the CGI.pm module to create tables. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?55 Part 55 explores the CGI.pm module to create forms starting with a text box, password box, radio buttons and check boxes. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?56 Part 56 explores the CGI.pm module to create forms continuing with a scroll box, text area, hidden field, submit and reset buttons. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?57 Part 57 uses the CGI.pm module to parse a form. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?58 Part 58 explores the CGI.pm module to generate a frameset and frames on the fly. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?59 Part 59 explores the CGI.pm module to generate an image map. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?60 Part 60 explores the CGI.pm module to set and read cookies. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?61 Part 61 explores the CGI.pm module to create an upload form and upload files to your server. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?62 Part 62 explores the CGI.pm module to redirect a browser. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?63 Part 63 explores the CGI.pm module to return an image from a script. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?64 Part 64 shows a few methods to benchmark your code. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?65 Part 65 shows how to redirect the browser with Location. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?66 Part 66 shows how to use the File::Find module to find and search for files and directories on your computer or server. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?67 Part 67 shows how to install, remove and upgrade modules with the Perl Package Manager - PPM. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?68 Part 68 shows how to use the Date::Calc module to easily create a calendar, work out date differences, print dates, if leap year or not, if a valid time or not and much more. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?69 Part 69 shows how to use the File::Compare module to easily check if two files contents are exactly the same. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?70 Part 70 shows how to use the Business::CreditCard module to validate a credit card, get card type and generate the last digit checksum number. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?71 Part 71 shows how to use Perl formats. Easily left and right justify and center text. Create your own text formats. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?72 Part 72 shows how to use text slices with Perl formats. Easily format a long string of text. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?73 Part 73 shows how to use Perl formats to create a multiline list. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?74 Part 74 shows how to use Perl formats to create a document header with a multiline list and write it to file. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?75 Part 75 shows how to use Perl formats to create a multipage report from a datafile that can be printed out on a printer. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?76 Part 76 shows how to use Perl formats to create low-level formatting with the formline function. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?77 Part 77 shows how to create hard references to variables, arrays, hashes and subroutines and how to de-reference those references and access the data. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?78 Part 78 shows how to create symbolic references to variables, arrays, hashes and subroutines and how to de-reference those references and access the data. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?79 Part 79 shows how to create and use typeglobs. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?80 Part 80 shows how to create and use anonymous arrays, hashes and subroutines. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?81 Part 81 shows how to create and use references to typeglobs and file handles. Also shows some other data types such as lvalue and code. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?82 Part 82 shows how to create references and de-reference references using the symbol table. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?83 Part 83 shows how to de-reference references using the arrow operator and how to omit the arrow operator when accessing multi-dimensional arrays. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?84 Part 84 shows how to pass and return multiple arrays to a subroutine by reference. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?85 Part 85 shows how to use the ref operator to determine the type of data that a reference refers to. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?86 Part 86 explains the use of closures to initialize a subroutine with data before using it and retain the scope of lexical variables. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?87 Part 87 shows how to create function templates using closures. A bit like generating subroutines on the fly. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?88 Part 88 shows how to declare subroutines and how to call the subroutine from above or below the subroutine code. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?89 Part 89 shows how subroutine prototypes work. Define the type of data accepted by a subroutine. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?90 Part 90 shows some of the ways to read arguments passed to subroutines. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?91 Part 91 shows how to return values from subroutines with 'return'. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?92 Part 92 shows how to set the scope of variables with the 'my' and 'local' keywords in subroutines. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?93 Part 93 shows how to create and use multidimensional arrays of arrays. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?94 Part 94 shows how to create and use multidimensional hashes of hashes. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?95 Part 95 shows how to create and use multidimensional arrays of hashes. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?96 Part 96 shows how to create and use multidimensional hashes of arrays. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?97 Part 97 explains and demonstrates the chop and chomp functions. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?98 Part 98 shows how to read typed input with STDIN. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?99 Part 99 explains how the 'for' loop works. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?100 Part 100 shows how to store data structures on disk with the storable module and how to retrieve them later. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?101 Part 101 uses the Data::Dumper module to print out data structures. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?102 Part 102 shows how to copy data structures. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?103 Part 103 shows how to write and read a database file. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?104 Part 104 shows how to sort databases. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?105 Part 105 shows how to create a text file database. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?106 Part 106 uses the crypt function to encrypt a string. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?107 Part 107 uses predefined variables in pattern matching to find a match, pre-match and post-match in a string. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?108 Part 108 uses the predefined variables output field separators for the print operator and array values. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?109 Part 109 makes use of the current input line number predefined variable to count or fetch a number of records from a file. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?110 Part 110 uses the output record separator predefined variable to separate records easily. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?111 Part 111 explains the default variable which is the most used predefined variable in perl. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?112 Part 112 demonstrates some regular expressions such as matching the beginning and end of a line, match a digit, match a word character, match white space and match any character. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?113 Part 113 demonstrates regular expressions character classes. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?114 Part 114 demonstrates regular expressions alternative match patterns. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?115 Part 115 demonstrates regular expressions quantifiers. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?116 Part 116 demonstrates the use of regular expressions assertions. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?117 Part 117 demonstrates the use of regular expressions backreferences to refer to previous successful matches. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?118 Part 118 demonstrates the use of regular expressions backreferences to refer to previous matches, 2nd part. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?119 Part 119 demonstrates the use of regular expressions lookahead and lookbehind assertions. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?120 Part 120 demonstrates the use of regular expressions pos function and the \G assertion. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?121 Part 121 demonstrates how to use function calls and expressions inside regular expressions with the e modifier. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?122 Part 122 demonstrates the use of the ee modifier in regular expressions. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?123 Part 123 shows how to use the x modifier in regular expressions to allow whitespace and comments to make regex's easier to read and understand. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?124 Part 124 shows how to use the o modifier in regular expressions to compile the regex only once. http://www.scriptsocket.com/videotutorial.php?125 Part 125 shows how to use the qr operator to create compiled regular expressions.