Perl Tutorial

Perl is an abbreviation 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 released on December 18, 1987.

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

Perl's most important feature is its built-in regular expression functionality, as well as the huge third-party code library CPAN.

Who is this tutorial for?

This tutorial is suitable for developers who want to learn the Perl programming language from scratch. Of course, this tutorial will also go deeper into some modules to help you better understand Perl applications.

What you need to know before learning this tutorial

Before continuing with this tutorial, you should understand some basic computer programming terminology. If you have learned other programming languages such as PHP or ASP, it will help you understand Perl programming faster.

First Perl Program

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