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00.01 | Welcome to the spoken tutorial on Variables in Perl. |
00.07 | In this tutorial, we will learn about Variables in Perl |
00.12 | I am using Ubuntu Linux12.04 operating system and |
00.18 | Perl 5.14.2 that is, Perl revision 5 version 14 and subversion 2
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00.26 | I will also be using the gedit Text Editor. |
00.31 | You can use any text editor of your choice. |
00.35 | Variables in Perl: |
00.37 | Variables are used for storing values, like text strings, numbers or arrays. |
00.45 | Once a variable is declared, it can be used over and over again in the script. |
00.50 | Scalar represents a single value and can store scalars only. |
00.56 | Scalar variables are declared using $ (dollar) symbol. |
01.00 | Let us look at Variable Declaration: |
01.03 | A variable can be declared as follows: dollar priority semicolon
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01.09 | Variable names in Perl can have several formats. Variables must begin with a letter or underscore |
01.18 | And may contains letters, digits, underscores or a combination of above 3. |
01.24 | Variables declared with CAPITAL letters have special meaning in Perl. |
01.30 | So avoid declaring variables using Capital letters. |
01.34 | Now open the Terminal and type gedit variables dot pl ampersand
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01.44 | The ampersand will unlock the command prompt on the terminal. Now press Enter. |
01.50 | This will open the variables.pl file in gedit text editor. |
01.56 | dot pl is the default extension of a Perl file. |
02.01 | Type the following in the file; dollar priority semicolon and press Enter. |
02.10 | So we have declared the variable priority. |
02.13 | You do not need to declare a variable before using it; |
02.18 | you can just use it into your code. |
02.21 | Now let us assign a numerical value to the variable priority. |
02.26 | For this type dollar priority space equal to space one semicolon |
02.33 | and press Enter. |
02.34 | Next, type |
02.36 | print space double quote Value of variable is: dollar priority slash n double quote complete semicolon and press enter |
02.51 | slash n is the new line character. |
02.53 | Now save this file as variables.pl at any location. |
03.02 | In my case, it will get saved in /home/amol directory. Now save this file |
03.11 | Now, let us change the permissions of variables.pl file, which we just now created. |
03.18 | To do so, on the Terminal type, chmod 755 variables dot pl |
03.27 | This will provide read, write & execute rights to the file. |
03.33 | To compile this Perl script, on the Terminal |
03.36 | type ;perl hyphen c variables dot pl |
03.42 | Hyphen c switch compiles the Perl script for any compilation/syntax error. |
03.49 | Now press Enter |
03.51 | This tells us that there is no syntax error in our script. |
03.56 | Now let's execute the Perl script by typing perl variables dot pl and press Enter. |
04.06 | The output displayed is as highlighted. |
04.10 | We can also assign a string value to the variable we declared. |
04.15 | Switch back to the Text editor window. |
04.18 | Instead of dollar priority equal to one; type |
04.22 | dollar priority equal to in single quote high |
04.28 | Please note that the assignments are evaluated from right to left. |
04.3 | A scalar can hold data of any type, be it a string, a number |
04.39 | Save this file and compile the script once again by typing
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04.45 | perl hyphen c variables dot pl now press Enter. |
04.51 | This tells us that there is no syntax error.
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04.55 | Execute the script by typing perl variables dot pl and press Enter. |
05.04 | The output is as shown. |
05.07 | Now switch back to the Text Editor window.
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05.10 | You can also use scalars within a double-quoted strings as |
05.15 | dollar priority in double quote String
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05.20 | Save this file and close it. |
05.22 | let us learn how to declare multiple variables. |
05.27 | To do so open the new file in Text Editor. |
05.31 | onTerminal type - gedit multivar dot pl space ampersand and press Enter.
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05.43 | This will open multivar dot pl file in text editor |
05.48 | Now type - |
05.50 | dollar firstVar comma dollar secondVar semicolon and press Enter. |
06.00 | To copy the value of variable dollar firstVar to dollar secondVar, type - |
06.08 | dollar firstVar space equal to space dollar secondVar semicolon and press Enter. |
06.19 | All mathematical operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, can be done on these variables |
06.30 | Let us see how we can achieve this using Perl. |
06.34 | Switch to text editor. |
06.36 | And now let us assign the value 10 to both these variables by typing, |
06.41 | dollar firstVar equal to dollar secondVar equal to ten semicolon And Press Enter. |
06.51 | Now to print the values, type |
06.55 | print double quote firstVar: dollar firstVar and secondVar: dollar secondVar slash n double quote complete semicolon press Enter. |
07.17 | Now save this file. |
07.19 | Now let us add the values in the two variables. |
07.23 | For this type |
07.25 | dollar addition space equal to space dollar firstVar plus space dollar secondVar semicolonand Press Enter. |
07.43 | Notice, we haven't declared the variable addition. |
07.47 | Once again, to print the value of the variable addition, type |
07.53 | print double quote Addition is dollar addition slash n double quote complete semicolon |
08.05 | Save this file |
08.07 | To compile this file again on terminal type |
08.12 | perl hyphen c multivar dot pl |
08.18 | There is no syntax error so we can execute the script... |
08.24 | by typing perl multivar dot pl
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08.30 | This will produce an output as highlighted. |
08.34 | Similarly, try subtraction, multiplication and division.
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08.39 | I have written the code here. |
08.41 | Now let us save this file and close it. |
08.46 | Now compile the file by typing |
08.48 | perl hyphen c multivar dot pl |
08.54 | There is no syntax error. |
08.55 | So we can execute the script as perl multivar dot pl
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09.02 | On execution the output will look like this. |
09.07 | This brings us to the end of this tutorial. |
09.11 | In this tutorial we have learnt, |
09.14 | To Declare and Use scalar variables in Perl |
09.18 | Assignment |
09.20 | Declare a number variable. |
09.22 | Assign 10 to it. |
09.24 | Print the variable declared. |
09.27 | Declare 2 string variables. |
09.29 | Assign these values to them - “Namaste ” and “India”. |
09.34 | Print those 2 variables one after the other.
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10.29 | Hope you enjoyed this Perl tutorial. This is Amol Brahmankar signing off. |
10.34 | Thanks for joining. |