28. The Perl Scripting Language

Objectives

After reading this chapter you should be able to:

• Use perldoc to display Perl documentation

• Run a Perl program on the command line and from a file

• Explain the use of the say function

• Name and describe the three types of Perl variables

• Write a Perl program that uses each type of variable

• Describe the Perl control structures

• Write programs that read from and write to files

• Use regular expressions in a Perl program

• Write a Perl program that incorporates ...

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