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Warnings
Put a ; at the end of each line
autovivification
- If testing for existence of a hash key beware that all intermediate keys will be created by the test. In below example
$hash1($key1}
will be created if it does not exist yet.
if (exists $hash1{$key1}{$key2) {
...
} else {
...
}
)
Things that do work
Searching and matching is explained in Regular Expressions.
- Print out the contents of $variable in a structured format
use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper($variable);
if-then-else:
if < expr > {
<codeblock>
} elsif < expr ) {
<codeblock>
} else {
<codeblock>
}
- $var += <value>
- Add <value> to $var (works for -, *, / too)
- $string .= $addstring
- Concatenate $string and $addstring
- $string =~ s/<regexp>/<newvalue>/[g]
- Substitute <regexp> with <newvalue> in $string. The g modifier makes the all occurrences of <regexp> are substituted.
- $newstring = substr($string,start,length)
- Return substring of $string
- sprintf(format,$string)
- Return formatted string. format is e.g. "%.3f". Check Python:Strings#Advanced for all formats.
- $exitcode = system("a command")
- Executed the command in a subprocess and return the exitcode
- $output = `a command`
- Execute the command and return all command output
Hashes
- %newhash = (%oldhas1,%oldhash3)
- Merge 2 hashes (works if all keys are unique)
Files
- open (FH, "< filename") || die("Open failed for filename")
- Open filename for reading on filehandle FH. Exit the program when the open failed
- @array = <FH>
- Read the file opened on FH into @array (1 element per line
Flow control
The usual works (if-then-else, for , foreach)
- ||die("message")
- || causes the statement only to be executed if the previous failed. Stop the program and write messaged to standard error.
- || do {codeblock};
- Like die but not exiting the program, use to do additional actions on the failure of the previous command