Overview
This course focuses on text manipulation using regular expressions in PERL. Practical application for text manipulation like processing data files and code files like C and Java will be used. The course will be project oriented where each day ends with creating a small project that parse C files, extract data from comma separated files, generate HTML and XML files
Audience:
Programmer, Developer, Testing personnel, Quality assurance staff who are involved in dealing and generating scripts to control applications
Delivery:
The course will be 50% lectures, 30% labs, 20% project development
Requirements
A good background of C or Java Programming
Course Outline
Day 1
- PERL Programming Language
- Text functions in PERL
- creating files in PERL
- extracting Data from files
- Project 1
Day 2
- Regular expression basics
- Text patterns
- Using Regular Expressions in text parsing
- Creating a flexible grammar
- Project 2
Day 3
- code instrumentation using PERL
- introduction to HTML
- translating text and data into HTML and XML
- extracting data from XML and HTML files
- Project 3