Perl is a programming language developed by Larry Wall, especially designed for text processing. Though Perl is not officially an acronym but many times it is used as it stands for Practical Extraction and Report Language. It runs on a variety of platforms, such as Windows, Mac OS, and the various versions of UNIX. This tutorial provides a complete understanding on Perl. Include: 1.Perl - Introduction 2.Perl - Environment Setup 3.Perl - Syntax Overview 4.Perl - Data Types 5.Perl - Variables 6.Perl - Scalars 7.Perl - Arrays 8.Perl - Hashes 9.Perl Conditional Statements - IF...ELSE 10.Perl - Loops 11.Perl - Operators 12.Perl - Date & Time 13.Perl - Subroutines 14.Perl - References 15.Perl - Formats 16.Perl - File I/O 17.Perl - Directories 18.Perl - Error Handling 19.Perl - Special Variables 20.Perl - Coding Standard 21.Perl - Regular Expressions 22.Perl - Sending Email *****Advanced 23.Perl - Socket Programming 24.Object Oriented Programming in PERL 25.Perl - Database Access 26.Perl - CGI Programming 27.Perl - Packages & Modules 28.Perl - Process Management 29.Perl - Embedded Documentation
