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Introduction to Perl 5.10

Perl 5.10 adds more useful features to the language than any other release since Perl 5.0.0.

This one-day tutorial provides a detailed introduction to those new features, along with practical examples of how they can improve the performance, robustness, and maintainability of your code.

Topics covered include:

• Backward and forward compatibility using the feature pragma

• Smartmatching comparisons

• Perl's new switch statement

• New features within regular expressions

• State variables

• Handling defaults with the defined-or operator

• I/O enhancements

• New and improved file and filetest operations

• Recursive sorting

• New and improved special variables

• The new UNITCHECK execution phase

• New and improved core modules and pragmas

• New documentation

• Deprecations and feature removals

• Where to expect better (or worse!) performance

Course format

1 day seminar

Who should attend

Perl programmers of all skill and experience levels will benefit from this class.