COMP 2400 Software Tools

Goals: 

• Understand Perl regular expressions & file handling
  • Exercise (cont.) Download all .pdf & .tar.gz extension files from a popular Perl book webpage
• Perl split command (exercise: write a Perl script to input the README file, remove new line characters, and print the string so that the output lines up all occurrences of  the string " a ". )

Useful commands/tips:

• to run a command from within a Perl script, enclose it between a pair of backticks, e.g.
  `wget URL`; 

Useful Links:

• Perl Book

Online Tutorial:

• Perl introductory tutorial