2 BASIC PROGRAMMING CONCEPTS – 1

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. LIST OF FIGURES viii
4. LIST OF TABLES ix
5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS x
6. 1 INTRODUCTION 1
7. 2 BASIC PROGRAMMING CONCEPTS – 1 14
8. 3 BASIC PROGRAMMING CONCEPTS – 2 30
9. 4 WORKING WITH TEXT (BASIC STRING HANDLING) 48
10. 5 WORKING WITH STORED DATA (BASIC FILE HANDLING) 56
11. 6 IDENTIFYING TEXTUAL PATTERNS (BASIC AND EXTENDED REGULAR EXPRESSIONS) 69
12. 7 MODIFYING TEXTUAL PATTERNS (SUBSTITUTION AND TRANSLITERATION) 80
13. 8 GETTING THINGS INTO THE RIGHT ORDER (BASIC SORTING) 91
14. 9 ELEMENTARY TEXTS STATS (CREATING BASIC FREQUENCY LISTS) 95
15. 10 MORE REPETITIVENESS OR HOW TO TIE THINGS TOGETHER (INTRODUCING MODULARITY) 99
16. 11 OBJECTS 115
17. 12 GETTING GRAPHICAL (SIMPLE USER INTERFACES) 121
18. 13 CONCLUSION 137
19. Appendix A SAMPLE SOLUTIONS 139
20. Appendix B HOW TO GET FURTHER HELP ON PERL 167
21. REFERENCES 169
22. INDEX 171