AUDIENCE:   System administrators and developers who want to use the power of the language more fully. PREREQUISITES:   Students should have attended our Perl Programming - Part 1 course or have equivalent knowledge. DURATION:   2 days. Hands on. OBJECTIVES:   Perl is a mature, extremely flexible, general-purpose language, which is especially well suited to textual manipulation. In addition to its extensive built-in facilities, there are vast freely-accessible libraries of Perl code to help build almost every conceivable application. This course builds on the techniques in Perl Programming - Part 1. It covers the more advanced programming and data structuring techniques provided by Perl, including references, modules and object-oriented techniques, suitable for high-level applications of all types. COURSE CONTENT:   Review Data types and their manipulation Control structures and subroutines Text manipulation Input/Output techniques References Basics revisited Multidimensional arrays Reference types and ref() function Reference constructs Advanced data structure examples Sorting an array of references Subroutines Reference passing and prototypes Subroutine pre-declaration Anonymous subroutines Call by reference Prototypes Overloaded functions? Useful Standard Library modules Math modules Time modules Benchmark.pm Config.pm File/directory standard library modules: File::Basename, { File::Copy, { File::Find, { File::Path File and Directory Manipulation Emulating operating sytems commands Globbing and directory handles Packages and modules Namespaces and packages use and require Module semantics @INC array lib module File/directory standard library modules BEGIN...END blocks AUTOLOADing Object-oriented programming Background to object-orientation Accessing object methods Class methods and attributes bless() function The -> notation and variations Perl-style inheritance, @ISA special array Polymorphism Introduction to the tie command Private data via closures Regular Expressions Miscellaneous/advanced functions and keywords Random numbers eval bit manipulation pack and unpack Advanced array functions Other miscellaneous function GM07/10