A review of the Perl basics, suitable for a newcomer to Perl who's converting from another language, and also for trainees who have never programmed before but have studied our earlier modules. This module covers writing, storing and running programs, using variables, and calculations. It also introduces string and numbers, and how Perl converts between them
This topic is presented on public courses
Perl Programming,
Perl bootcamp
Examples from our training material
| language | Perl language fundamentals - example |
| read_write | Read a value, calculate, output an answer |
| rw2 | Using chop to get rid of the newline |
Opentalk forum discussions related to this topic
New line characters beware
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Perl is a powerful, modern scripting language
Delegate - Perl class, Dharhan
Background information
Some modules are
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Topics covered in this module
First Perl program.
Comments and documentation.
Comments.
Documentation.
Executable statements.
Print statement.
Variables and assignments.
Calculations.
Summary.
Reading data.
File handles.
Read from operator.
Strings v numbers.
String operators.
Summary.
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