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Perl Basics

Welcome to my little tutorial on Perl basics. This should give you enough information to start programming Perl. (Or it would if were complete. See learn.perl.org until then.)

The examples have a Un*x flavor because that's what I like to work in and because Perl was developed for Un*x. However, they should be portable to Windows, Mac or other platforms with little or no modification.

Note: Perl comes with extensive documentation which is available through the program perldoc. At times in this tutorial, I will refer you to these docs simply because there is no reason for me to try to come up with something better. :-) So, when you see something like perldoc perl, it means that you should run perldoc perl from your command line. The core perldocs are also available at perldoc.com.