Perl Tutorial

Perl stands for Practical Extraction and Report Language, which can be translated as "Practical Report Extraction Language."

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language.

Perl was originally designed by Larry Wall and was first released on December 18, 1987.

Perl borrows features from C, sed, awk, shell scripts, and many other programming languages.

One of the most important features of Perl is its integrated support for regular expressions and the extensive third-party code repository CPAN.

Who Should Read This Tutorial?

This tutorial is suitable for developers who want to learn the Perl programming language from scratch. It will also delve into some modules to help you better understand Perl's applications.

Prerequisites for This Tutorial

Before continuing with this tutorial, you should have some basic understanding of computer programming terms. If you have experience with languages like PHP or ASP, it will help you learn Perl more quickly.

First Perl Program

For most programming languages, the first introductory code is "Hello World!" The following code uses Perl to output "Hello World!":

Example

#!/usr/bin/perl 

print "Hello, World!\n";