Mastering Modern Perl: Writing Efficient and Maintainable Code

Exercise: Exception Handling

Explore how to improve error handling by converting traditional if-else error reporting into Perl's exception handling. This exercise helps you write idiomatic and maintainable code using Perl's robust exception mechanisms.

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1.Introduction to Modern Perl

2.The Perl Philosophy

3.Perl Identifiers and Variables

4.Control Flow: Conditionals and Looping

5.Data Structures

6.Packages and References

7.Operators

8.Functions

9.Regular Expressions and Matching

10.Objects

11.Style and Efficacy

12.Managing Real Programs

13.Perl Beyond Syntax

14.What to Avoid

15.Perl and Its Community

16.Next Steps with Perl

17.Appendix

Exercise: Exception Handling

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