Day 14. Exploring a Few Longer Examples

To finish up the week, let's explore a couple longer, more useful examples that make use of the techniques you've learned so far in the book. We won't spend a lot of time on background in this lesson, nor will you have any quizzes or exercises to work through at the end. Consider this a brief pause to look at code in detail. This is the second of three example lessons, one after each six or so lessons, to cement what you've learned.

Today we'll look at two longer Perl scripts:

• An address-book script that stores names and addresses in a simple text database format. Our Perl script will allow you to search for addresses in the database using simply logical AND and OR tests

• A Web log file analyzer. This script takes the standard Web server log format (called the common log format) and generates various statistics about how the Web site is being used.