The World of Scripting Languages

The World of Scripting Languages will be an ideal tutorial for Web developers and application programmers wishing to broaden their skill set, and also provides a toolkit of examples for students taking programming languages courses that focus on scripting.

David Barron is the author of The World of Scripting Languages, published by Wiley.

Preface

xi

Acknowledgements

xiii

PART ONE THE BIG PICTURE

1

(14)

Introduction to scripts and scripting

3

(12)

Scripts and programs

3

(1)

Origins of scripting

4

(1)

Scripting today

5

(1)

Characteristics of scripting languages

5

(2)

Uses for scripting languages

7

(5)

Web scripting

12

(1)

Java

13

(1)

The universe of scripting languages

13

(2)

PART TWO LANGUAGES

15

(278)

Getting the job done in Perl

17

(47)

The Perl phenomenon

17

(1)

Introducing Perl

18

(6)

Names and values in Perl

24

(4)

Variables and assignment

28

(1)

Scalar expressions

29

(3)

Control structures

32

(4)

Built-in functions

36

(1)

Collections of data

37

(4)

Working with arrays and lists

41

(4)

Working with hashes

45

(2)

Simple input and output

47

(1)

Strings, patterns and regular expressions

48

(10)

Subroutines

58

(3)

Scripts with arguments

61

(1)

Conclusion

62

(1)

Reference: operators and precedence

63

(1)

Advanced Perl

64

(54)

Finer points of looping

64

(1)

Finer points of subroutines

65

(3)

Using pack and unpack

68

(1)

Working with files

69

(5)

Navigating the file system

74

(2)

Typeglobs

76

(2)

eval

78

(1)

References

79

(7)

Data structures

86

(2)

Packages

88

(1)

Libraries and modules

89

(3)

Objects

92

(5)

Objects and modules in action

97

(3)

Tied variables

100

(3)

Interfacing to the operating system

103

(6)

Creating 'Internet-aware' applications

109

(3)

'Dirty hands' Internet programming

112

(4)

Security issues

116

(2)

Tcl

118

(30)

The Tcl phenomenon

118

(1)

The Tcl philosophy

118

(1)

Tcl structure

119

(1)

Tcl syntax

120

(1)

Understanding Tcl: the parser

120

(4)

Variables and data in Tcl

124

(2)

Control flow

126

(1)

Data structures

127

(3)

Simple input/output

130

(2)

Procedures

132

(3)

Working with strings

135

(1)

Working with patterns

136

(4)

Working with files and pipes

140

(2)

Putting it all together: some example code

142

(2)

Reference material

144

(4)

Advanced Tcl

148

(28)

The eval, source, exec and uplevel commands

148

(1)

Libraries and packages

149

(3)

Namespaces

152

(3)

Trapping errors

155

(1)

Event-driven programs

156

(3)

Making applications 'Internet-aware'

159

(2)

'Nuts-and-bolts' Internet programming

161

(5)

Security issues: running untrusted code

166

(3)

The C interface

169

(4)

The Java interface

173

(3)

Tk

176

(34)

Visual toolkits

176

(1)

Fundamental concepts of Tk

177

(5)

Tk by example

182

(16)

Events and bindings

198

(4)

Geometry managers

202

(5)

Perl-Tk

207

(3)

Visual Basic and VBA

210

(47)

The Visual Basic family

210

(3)

Visual Basic: the core language

213

(17)

The Visual Basic way of objects

230

(1)

Object models and type libraries

231

(1)

Working with objects

232

(9)

System objects

241

(4)

Event-driven programming

245

(2)

Working with Visual Basic (the application)

247

(8)

Reference: operators and operator precedence

255

(2)

Advanced Visual Basic

257

(36)

Developing Internet-aware applications

257

(5)

COM objects

262

(2)

The Visual Basic event model

264

(3)

Class modules

267

(9)

Drag-and-drop

276

(9)

Creating ActiveX controls

285

(1)

Interfacing to the Windows API

286

(2)

Accessing external databases

288

(5)

PART THREE SCRIPTING WEB CLIENTS AND SERVERS

293

(102)

JavaScript

295

(31)

What is JavaScript?

295

(1)

Object models

296

(1)

Design philosophy

297

(1)

Versions of JavaScript

297

(1)

The JavaScript core language

298

(15)

System objects

313

(9)

Advanced facilities

322

(2)

JavaScript and Java

324

(1)

JavaScript operators and precedence

325

(1)

VBScript

326

(18)

What is VBScript?

326

(1)

The VBScript core language

327

(8)

Objects in VBScript

335

(3)

New features in VBScript 5

338

(6)

Scripting Web clients and servers

344

(24)

Client-side Web scripting

344

(18)

Active Server Pages

362

(6)

Dynamic HTML and the DOM

368

(27)

Dynamic HTML

369

(1)

Document object models

369

(1)

The Netscape document object model

370

(5)

The Microsoft document object model

375

(5)

The W3C document object model (DOM)

380

(1)

The event model

381

(10)

DHTML scriptlets

391

(4)

PART FOUR THE MICROSOFT SCRIPTING MODEL

395

(54)

Scripting Microsoft Office

397

(28)

VBA

397

(1)

Macros and macro languages

398

(1)

WordBasic

399

(2)

The Office object models

401

(3)

Programming the Word object model

404

(11)

Modifying Word's built-in dialogs

415

(1)

Events

415

(3)

Automation: programming the Office suite

418

(4)

Using the Windows API

422

(1)

Macro viruses

423

(2)

The Microsoft Scripting Runtime Library

425

(15)

Scripting hosts, scripting engines and object libraries

425

(1)

The Scripting Runtime Library

426

(1)

The Dictionary object

426

(2)

The File System Object Model

428

(2)

Working with the FileSystem Object object

430

(2)

The Drive object

432

(1)

The File and Folder objects

433

(2)

Text I/O with the TextStream object

435

(5)

The Windows Script Host and the Script Control

440

(9)

What is the Windows Script Host?

440

(1)

The Windows Script Host object model

441

(3)

Examples

444

(2)

The future of the Windows Script Host

446

(1)

The Script Control

446

(3)

PART FIVE AND FINALLY

449

(28)

Loose ends

451

(23)

Pre-history of scripting

451

(1)

Precursors of scripting

452

(7)

AWK

459

(5)

REXX

464

(10)

Epilogue

474

(3)

Appendix

477

(8)

Index

485

(5)

Scripting Program Index

490

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