• grasp the syntax of Perl
• invoke Perl
• interact with users through standard I/O
• do file I/O
• use various built-in functions
• embed comments in your code
• write loops, branches, and related control structures
• process text in a variety of powerful ways
• find, compare, and modify strings
• process list variables
• process arrays
• use regular expressions and the associated Perl operators
• use special features of Perl 5
• process command-line arguments
• use Perl's special built-in variables
• write modular code (subroutines and structure)
• grasp issues of Perl programming style
• apply the notion of scope
• generate attractively-formatted output
• use boolean operators
• pipe to Unix utilities
• use associative arrays
• handle dbm files
• write object-oriented Perl code
• make your programs robust
• handle errors, generate messages, terminate gracefully
• use Perl's debugger

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