l_mint

Perl is an interpreted programming language known for its power and flexibility. It combines the familiar syntax of C, C++, sed, awk, grep, sh, and csh into a tool that that is more powerful than the separate pieces used together. These pages will teach basic data structures, flow control, and string manipulation in the context of writing a common CGI program for a Web server.

Prerequisites

• Basic programming experience (fortran, c, basic, whatever)
  
• No Perl, awk, sed, sh, csh, or grep is necessary, although it's useful.
  

Disclaimers

This tutorial is necessarily a simplified version of what perl can do. If you know perl, you could find "errors" in many of my statements, but on the other hand, if you know perl, you understand why I'm leaving out the subtleties. Also, I'm leaving out any of the great things about perl 5.