Perl Programming for Beginners: An Introduction to Learn Perl Programming with Tutorials and Hands-On Examples

1. Introduction
2. Scope of Perl
	How relevant is Perl in 2020 and beyond?
	What are the prerequisites of learning Perl?
	What will I learn from this book?
3. Getting Started
	3.1 Installing Perl on Windows
	3.2 Installing Perl on Unix-like systems
	3.3 Perl Scripts/Programs
	3.4 Script Execution
	3.5 Hello World!!! Script Execution
4. Basic Syntax
	4.1 Statements
	4.2 Comments
	4.3 Code Block
	4.4 Identifiers
5. Writing your first Perl script
	5.1 print Function
	5.2 Syntax Errors
6. Data Types and Variables
	6.1 Data Types
		6.1.1 Scalar
		6.1.2 Arrays
		6.1.3 Hashes
	6.2 Variables
		6.2.1 Declaring Scalar Variables
		6.2.2 Numeric Values
		6.2.3 String Values
		6.2.4 Display Scalar Variables
7. User Interaction
8. Operators
	8.1 Arithmetic Operators
	8.2 Assignment Operators
	8.3 Comparison Operators
	8.4 Logical Operators
	8.5 Bitwise Operators
9. Decision Making
	9.1 if-else Statements
	9.2 unless Statement
10. Loops
	10.1 while Loop
	10.2 do-while Loop
	10.3 until Loop
	10.4 for Loop
	10.5 Nested Loops
	10.6 Control Statements
		10.6.1 next Statement
		10.6.2 last Statement
		10.6.3 continue block
		10.6.4 redo Statement
11. Arrays
	11.1 Array Creation
	11.2 Accessing Array Elements
	11.3 Range Operator
	11.4 Arrays and Loops
	11.5 foreach Loop
	11.6 Reading user input into arrays
	11.7 Array Manipulation
	11.8 Sorting Arrays
12. Hashes
	12.1 Accessing and Manipulating Hashes
		12.1.1 Check if a Key Exists
		12.1.2 Delete Hash Elements
	12.2 Fetch Keys and Values
13. Subroutines
	13.1 Defining a Subroutine
	13.2 Calling a Subroutine
	13.3 Passing arguments
14. Strings
	14.1 String Basics
	14.2 String Concatenation and Repetition
	14.3 Search within a string
15. File Handling
	15.1 Basics of File I/O
		15.1.1 Open Files
		15.1.2 File Modes
		15.1.3 Close Files
		15.1.4 Create a simple file
		15.1.5 Writing to a file
		15.1.6 Reading from a file
		15.1.7 Search text inside a file
16. Programming Examples
	16.1 Prime or Composite
	16.2 Fibonacci Series
	16.3 Sum of digits of a number
	16.4 Reverse a number
	16.5 Menu driven program
	16.6 Lowest Common Multiple
	16.7 Search for an element in an array
	16.8 Greatest element in an array
	16.9 Bubble Sort
	16.10 File Copy
17. Final Thoughts