Meetings

Perl Data Structures

Sam McGee

Tuesday April 12th 2005 at 7:00pm
Wheaton, Illinois Institute of Technology - Rice Campus, Room 103

Abstract

This presentation is an introduction to processing data structures using standard Perl (5.6.0). Interspersed throughout the talk will be suggestions and helpful hints learned through experience.

Time permitting, the talk will cover:

* Data::Dumper module,

* for control statement,

* foreach control statement,

* grep operator,

* map operator,

* sort operator,

* Schwartzian Transform technique.

Speaker Bio

Sam works for Goldman Sachs Execution and Clearing, L.P. located in the Chicago Loop. He has been programming since 1980, using COBOL, C, C++, Expect and Perl. At GSEC he uses Perl to monitor trading applications, track metrics and supply information to internal business users.

Getting to the meeting

The next PerlSIG meeting of UniForum Chicago will be:

        IIT Rice Campus
        Room 103
        201 East Loop Road
        Wheaton, IL 60187-8489

Directions to IIT - Rice Campus in Wheaton
The 19-acre campus is located just northeast of the intersection of Naperville and Butterfield roads in sou th Wheaton's Danada development. The campus is three miles west of the Butterfield Road interchange of the N orth-South Tollway (I-355) and two miles north of the Naperville Road interchange of the East-West Tollway ( I-88).

From the North or South: From I-355 (North-South Tollway), exit westbound at Rt.56/Butterfield Road and proceed west 3 1/2 miles on B utterfield Road to East Loop Road. Turn right onto East Loop Road (Phillip's 66 Gas Station on the corner); the campus will be on your right about a block north of Butterfield Road, behind Cozymel's. Park in the Student parking lot behind the building. Room 103 is the first room inside the north enterance.

From the I-294 (Tri-State Tollway), take the I-88 (East-West Tollway) westbound and follow directions "From the East or West" below.

From the East or West: From I-88 (East-West Tollway), take the Naperville Road exit. At the traffic light, turn left onto Naperville Road and continue north for 1\275 miles to Rt. 56/Butterfield Road. Turn right onto Rt. 56/Butterfield Road and proceed 1/4 mile to the first traffic light (East Loop Road). Turn left on to East Loop Road, ( Phillip's 66 Gas station on the corner); the campus will be on your right about a block north of Butterfield Road, behind Cozymel's. Park in the Student parking lot behind the building.

Room 103 is the first room inside the north enterance.

Contact Scott Nemec at president@UniforumChicago.org for additional information about the meeting.