You should be able to:

• Understand the different Perl data types: scalars, arrays of scalars, and associative arrays of scalars, known as “hashes”.

• Be able to manipulate Strings including using Regular Expressions.

• Understand and use standard libraries to manipulate date and time objects, files, URLs.

• Develop functions and call them.

• Use regular expressions to validate user input.

• Parse and manipulate data from files and URLs.