Author Joshua Mostafa takes users through the versatile and powerful programming language known as PERL, a server side language whose primary duty is to handle dynamic content and service clients on the Internet. What separates PERL from other scripting languages is its flexibility. Users don't need to code in a certain way to effectively use PERL and have fun doing it. Joshua shows you what tools you need to get started in PERL and what resources to visit in order to perfect your scripting. Start learning now by clicking one of the topics below!
Your first script: hello world
Running your first script on a web server
Introducing regular expressions
Case-insensitive pattern matching
Greedy vs non-greedy quantifiers
Examples of non-greedy matching
Reading a files contents at once
Changing the default output filehandle
Reading user input from the command line
Changing the current working directory
Now you try: Interacting with Filesystems
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