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Perl is popularly called as Practical Extraction and Report Programming Language. It was developed by Larry Wall, which was specially designed for the text processing. It is easy, simple, uses natural language elements. It is a high-level, extremely portable, interpreted and dynamic programming language. It runs on a variety of platforms, such as Windows, Mac OS, and the various versions of UNIX.
This tutorial gives you a complete idea on Perl.
Audience
This is actually prepared for beginners to help them analyse the basic to advanced concepts of Perl Scripting languages.
Prerequisites
Before going to start practicing with different types of examples given in this reference, the beginners need to have prior knowledge of C programming and Unix Shell.
Execute Perl Online
For most of the examples given in this tutorial you will find Try it option, so just make use of this option to execute your Perl programs at the spot and enjoy your learning.
Try following example using Try it option available at the top right corner of the below sample code box −
#!/usr/bin/perl
# This will print "Hello, World"
print"Hello, world\n";
Perl Scripting Tutorial: List of Topics
- Perl Scripting
- Perl Introduction
- Perl Environment
- Perl Syntax Overview
- Perl Data Types
- Perl Variables
- Perl Scalars
- Perl Arrays
- Perl Hashes
- Perl Conditional Statements - If...else
- Perl Loops
- Perl Operators
- Perl Date And Time
- Perl Subroutines
- Perl References
- Perl Formats
- Perl File I/o
- Perl Directories
- Perl Error Handling
- Perl Special Variables
- Perl Coding Standard
- Perl Regular Expressions
- Perl Sending Email
- Perl Socket Programming
- Object Oriented Programming In Perl
- Perl Database Access
- Perl Cgi Programming
- Perl Packages And Modules
- Perl Process Management
- Perl Embedded Documentation
- Perl Functions References
