The Perl Programming Language at Perl.org. Links and other helpful resources for new and experienced Perl programmers.

After installing Perl you will want to actually run some Perl code. You need to use a command line (Windows, Mac OSX, Unix/Linux) program to do this.

Here is the basic perl program that we'll use to get started. #!/usr/local/bin/perl # # Program to do the obvious # print 'Hello world.'; # Print a message. Each of the ...

The Perl languages borrow features from other programming languages including C, shell script (sh), AWK, and sed. They provide powerful text processing ...

Latest Perl Version and Further Up-to-date Information. The latest stable release of Perl is 5.20 – for example, it doesn't have CGI built-in anymore. Detail on ...

Perl is a programming language which can be used for a large variety of tasks. A typical simple use of Perl would be for extracting information from a text file and ...

Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation and now used for a wide range of tasks including system ...

16 Oct 2000 ... A Perl program consists of statements, each of which ends with a semicolon. Statements don't need to be on separate lines; there may be ...