PERL: PERL Programming for Beginners. Learn Programming PERL, 2019 Edition. (Step-by-Step PERL Programming)

2021 PERL Programming Language

If you’re just getting started with Perl Programming language, this is the book you want whether you’re a programmer, system administrator, or web hacker. Perl is suitable for almost any task on almost any platform, from short fixes to complete web applications. Learning Perl teaches you the basics and shows you how to write programs up to 128 lines long—roughly the size of 90% of the Perl programs in use today. Each chapter includes exercises to help you practice what you’ve just learned. Other books may teach you to program in Perl, but this book will turn you into a Perl programmer.
Perl stands in for "Practical Extraction and Reporting Language" even though there is no authorized acronym for Perl. You may create your own acronym, and no one will mind. Perl was created by Larry Wall in 1987 when he was employed on a bug reporting system and "AWK"- a programming language he was using for the purpose was not helping him much. He is still the chief architect and developer of Perl. If we want to define Perl in one sentence: Perl is a high-level, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl is a programming language specially designed for text editing. It is now widely used for a variety of purposes including Linux system administration, network programming, web development, etc

What is Perl Programming?

Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation and now used for a wide range of tasks including system administration, web development, network programming, GUI development, and more.

Perl is a stable, cross platform programming language.
Though Perl is not officially an acronym but few people used it as Practical Extraction and Report Language.
It is used for mission critical projects in the public and private sectors.
Perl is an Open Source software, licensed under its Artistic License, or the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Perl was created by Larry Wall.
Perl 1.0 was released to usenet's alt.comp.sources in 1987.
the latest version of perl is 5.28.
Perl is listed in the Oxford English Dictionary.
What are the Features of Perl?

Perl takes the best features from other languages, such as C, awk, sed, sh, and BASIC, among others.

Perls database integration interface DBI supports third-party databases including Oracle, Sybase, Postgres, MySQL and others.

Perl works with HTML, XML, and other mark-up languages.
Perl supports Unicode.
Perl is Y2K compliant.
Perl supports both procedural and object-oriented programming.
Perl interfaces with external C/C++ libraries through XS or SWIG.
Perl is extensible. There are over 20,000 third party modules available from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN).

The Perl interpreter can be embedded into other systems.


What you will Learn in this Perl Book:

Introduction to Perl
Environment Setup
Perl Syntax
Perl Data Types
Perl Variables
Perl Scalars
Perl Arrays
Perl Loops
Perl Operators
Perl File I/O
Perl Directories
Perl Error Handling
Much, Much More!