Perl Training Australia - Text Processing with Perl

Trainer:	Damian Conway
Length:	1 day
Target Audience:	Novice perl programmers who are familiar with simple I/O and variables, and who want to a deeper insight into the techniques of Perl's "core business": extraction, manipulation, and reporting of data.

This tutorial will show you how to use a range of standard Perl features and numerous CPAN modules to read in, decipher, process, and reformat ASCII text data.

You will learn:

how regular expressions work, and how to make them work better for you;
how to balance nested brackets and match delimiters without a complex regular expression;
how to recognize and process common text formats like CSV and various tagged mark-up notations;
how to use grammar-based parsing to extract text with complex structure;
how to preprocess archived text formats like (g)zip, tar, uuencoding, MIME, and binary formats;
how to handle ambiguity and errors when processing text;
how to convert your processed data back into readable text, in either fixed or floating formats;
how to extract, process, and generate simple natural language data;