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

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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

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 …

The most important Perl parsing rule is the first one discussed below: when processing a quoted construct, Perl first finds the end of that construct, then interprets its contents. If you …

The Perl documentation is maintained by the Perl 5 Porters in the development of Perl. Please contact them via the Perl issue tracker, the mailing list, or IRC to report any issues with the …