Basic Perl: Getting Started
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Installing Perl and Some Great Free Editors (11:56)
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Hello World (6:19)
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Downloading Text and Videos: Updated Version 2023 (14:26)
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Downloading Text and Images With Perl (Old version!) (14:05)
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Arrays and Checking Whether Files Exist (15:03)
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Reading Files and Beginning Regular Expressions (17:25)
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Writing Files and Replacing Text (20:17)
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Wildcards in Regular Expressions (6:06)
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Groups: Finding Out What You Actually Matched (6:58)
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Quantifiers: Greedy vs. Non-Greedy (10:09)
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Escape Sequences (14:42)
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Numeric Quantifiers (9:26)
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Test Your Perl and Regex Knowlege - First Test (25:02)
More on Reading Files Line By Line: Tips, Tricks and Vital Knowledge
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Split and Reading CSV Files (10:51)
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Join and Viewing Data Using Data::Dumper (7:21)
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Chomp and Removing Spaces in Splits (9:28)
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"Pushing" Onto Arrays (7:37)
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Arrays of Arrays (16:14)
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Hashes: Lookup Tables in Perl (16:22)
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Iterating Over Hashes (12:48)
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Arrays of Hashes (8:01)
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Storing CSV Data in a Data Structure (12:37)
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Validating CSV Data (11:32)
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Cleaning CSV Data (17:37)
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Test Your Perl and Regex Knowlege - Second Test (29:02)
Web Scraping and More Regular Expressions
Building a Complete Progam: Command Line Options
Parsing XML and Complex Data Structures
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Finding All Files in a Directory and Filtering Arrays (20:34)
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Processing Files One By One (10:55)
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Parsing XML with Regular Expressions (22:27)
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Using XML::Simple, and Extracting Data from Complex Structures (18:16)
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Extracting Data from Complex Structures: A Complete Example (18:11)
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Building Complex Data Structures (14:26)
Working with Databases
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Free Databases to Use with Perl (9:19)
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Creating Databases with MySQL (18:07)
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Connecting to a Database (10:04)
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Inserting Data into a Database (12:40)
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Deleting Data and Executing Dataless SQL Commands (3:33)
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Getting the IDs of Records You've Just Inserted (15:02)
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Querying Databases (12:29)
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Exporting Data (6:31)
Perl One-Liners
Modules and OO Perl
Web Application Basics
Basic Sysadmin Tasks
Appendix 1: Example Data
Appendix 2: Alternate Systems
