Perl Tutorial
Perl is a programming language developed by Larry Wall, especially
designed for text processing. Though Perl is not officially an acronym
but many times it is used as it stands for Practical Extraction and Report Language. It runs on a variety of platforms, such as Windows, Mac OS, and the various versions of UNIX.
This tutorial provides a complete understanding on Perl.
Audience
This reference has been prepared for beginners to help them understand
the basic to advanced concepts related to Perl Scripting languages.
Prerequisites
Before you start practicing with various types of examples given in this
reference, we are making an assumption that you have prior exposure to 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 −
# # Hello World Program in Perl # print "Hello World!\n";