The Perl Programming Language at Perl.org. Links and other helpful resources for new and experienced Perl programmers.

Perl officially stands for Practical Extraction and Report Language, except when it doesn't. Perl was originally a language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information from those text …

There are many reasons to use Perl, including 108,000 modules ready for you to use.

The Perl FAQ Perl FAQs are available as part of your Perl distribution with the perldoc perlfaq command. Read FAQs online at http://learn.perl.org/faq/

Perl is a highly capable, feature-rich programming language with over 37 years of development. Perl runs on over 100 platforms from portables to mainframes and is suitable for both rapid prototyping …

Perl was originally a language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information from those text files, and printing reports based on that information.

The perl tarball includes these tutorials. Start with perlintro and then continue with other tutorials. Perl.com's Beginners Introduction to Perl This six-part tutorial covers the basics, aiming to impart …

Official Docs The perldoc.perl.org contains the official documentation from the Perl distribution (s). Here are some direct links which may be of interest. Manual Pages Core Modules Tutorials

You'll see how to access and work with databases in Perl, write CGI scripts to generate web pages and beyond. Coverage is bang up to date, using Perl 5.6 in all our examples and there's a handy …

The perl tarball includes these tutorials. Start with perlintro and then continue with other tutorials. Perl.com's Beginners Introduction to Perl This six-part tutorial covers the basics, aiming to impart …