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PERL Tutorials

This tutorial will guide you to learn the basics of PERL and its syntax.
In our examples we would be incorporating our PERL scripts with HTML, CSS, and PHP. Lets start with a quick history of PERL, its file types and its importance.

PERL - Practical Extraction and Report Language

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Perl History PERL is a UNIX based language and was created in 1987 by Larry Wall. It was originally created for UNIX based systems and it gradually evolved into a powerful tool for the internet. PERL is very simple and short. Due to its value added features like flexibility, portability and easy usage its popularity increased. Nowadays PERL is widely used to automate several tasks. Getting started Visit perl.org and download the latest version of PERL. This tutorial is web based and we recommend you to check with your web host if PERL is installed on the server and find its path. You can use any text editor ( vi, notepad ) to write your PERL scripts. PERL file extensions A PERL file must be save with a .pl extension. The file can contain letters, numbers and symbols but must not contain a space. The other extensions you may come across are: .pm - Perl module .ph - Perl header .pod - Perl documentation ( POD stands for Plain Old Documentation) Main features of PERL The main features of PERL are: Perl is free. Perl is simple to learn, concise and easy to read Perl is fast Perl is extensible Perl has flexible data types Perl is object oriented Perl is collaborative
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