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Book SynopsisThis book is an introduction to programming for linguists.
Table of Contents1 Introduction; 1.1 Why Use Perl?; 1.2 The Command Prompt/Console; 1.3 How to Navigate a File System; 1.3.1 Understanding File System Hierarchies; 1.3.2 Navigating Through File Systems; 1.4 Plain Text Editors; 1.5 Installing Perl and Perl/Tk on Your Computer; 1.5.1 Installing Perl; 1.5.2 Installing the Perl/Tk Toolkit; 2 Basic Programming Concepts - 1; 2.1 How to Issue Instructions (Statements); 2.2 How to Store Data in Memory (Variables); 2.3 What to Store & How (Basic Data Types); 2.3.1 Scalars; 2.3.2 Arrays; 2.3.3 Hashes; 2.4 Understanding About Defaults (Special Variables); 2.5 Making Your Code More Intelligible (Comments); 3 Basic Programming Concepts - 2; 3.1 Making Decisions (Flow Control); 3.2 Doing Repetitive Tasks Automatically (Basic for Loops); 3.2.1 The for Loop; 3.2.2 Iterating over Array Elements; 3.2.3 The foreach Loop; 3.3 More Repetitiveness (Further Loops); 3.3.1 The while loop; 3.3.2 The until Loop; 3.3.3 Controlling Loops Further; 4 Working with Text (Basic String Handling); 4.1 Chomping & Chopping; 4.2 Extracting a Substring from a Longer String; 4.3 'Adding' Strings Together; 4.4 Establishing the Length of a String; 4.5 Handling Case; 5 Working with Stored Data (Basic File Handling); 5.1 Opening a Filehandle; 5.2 Tweaking Your Input and/or Output Options; 5.3 Reading from a Filehandle; 5.3.1 File Processing in List Context; 5.3.2 File Processing in Line Context; 5.3.3 Slurping in Scalar Context; 5.4 Default Filehandles; 5.5 Writing to a Filehandle; 5.6 Working with Directories; 6 Identifying Textual Patterns (Basic & Extended Regular Expressions); 6.1 Matching; 6.2 Character Classes; 6.3 Quantification; 6.4 Grouping, Alternation & Anchoring; 6.5 Memorising; 6.6 Modifiers; 6.7 Extended Regular Expressions;7 Modifying Textual Patterns (Substitution & Transliteration); 7.1 Substitution; 7.2 Greediness; 7.3 A Very Brief Introduction to Markup Languages (SGML, HTML & XML); 7.4 Transliteration; 8 Getting Things Into the Right Order (Basic Sorting); 8.1 Keys & Sort Order; 8.2 'Vocabulary Handling' (Creating Simple Word Lists); 9 Elementary Texts Stats (Creating Basic Frequency Lists); 9.1 Complex Sorting; 9.2 Word Frequency Lists; 9.3 Implementing a List; 9.4 Sorting & Printing the List; 10 More Repetitiveness or How to Tie Things Together (Introducing Modularity); 10.1 Functions & Subroutines; 10.1.1 Creating Your Own Subroutines; 10.1.2 Calling a Subroutine; 10.1.3 Localising Variables & Being Strict With Yourself; 10.2 References & Modules; 10.2.1 Basic Named References; 10.2.2 Anonymous References; 10.2.3 What Do Modules Look Like?; 10.2.4 Importing & Using Modules; 10.2.5 Writing a Simplistic HTML Page Downloader and Parser; 11 Objects; 11.1 OO Concepts; 11.2 Creating an Object in Perl; 11.3 Creating a Regular Verb Object; 11.4 Instantiating the Verb Object; 11.5 Creating Appropriate Accessor Methods; 12 Getting Graphical (Simple User Interfaces); 12.1 Elements of a GUI; 12.2 Basic Steps in Creating Tk Programs; 12.3 Adding Widgets; 12.4 The GUI Concordancer - An Advanced Example; 12.4.1 Adding a Menu Bar & the Remaining GUI Elements; 12.4.2 Programming the Functionality; 12.4.3 Handling the Text Widget; 13 Conclusion; Appendix A - Sample Solutions; Appendix B - How to Get Further Help on Perl; References
