Chapter 7. Built-in functions
Understanding and managing evaluation context | ||
Programming with functions that generate or process scalars | ||
Programming with functions that process lists | ||
Globbing for filenames | ||
Managing files with functions | ||
Parenthesizing function arguments | ||
Summary |
One of the properties of a programming language that makes it easy and gratifying to use, or the opposite, is the collection of built-in functions it provides. Perl has literally hundreds of these, including the relatively mundane ones called print
, printf
, warn
, and die
that you encountered in part 1. But Perl has much more advanced functions as well, such as one that provides the basic infrastructure for implementing arbitrary data transformations, ...
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