Learning Perl
Helping you get started with Perl 5....
There are many reasons to use Perl, including 108,000 modules ready for you to use.
- List contents of a directory
- Setting up a local static web server
- Reading and writing to file
- Validate an email
- Resolving DNS
- Read a spreadsheet
- Sending an email
- Processing configuration files
Perl examples
- > Installing Perl 5 - and setup guide
- > First program - and some basic best practices
- > Perl Modules - introduction
- > Examples - what can you do with Perl?
- > Perl documentation
- > Perl books
- > Frequently Asked Questions
What would you like to learn?
Existing developers / system administrators
If you are already a developer or systems administrator, in any language, on any platform, please skim through the site, there are lots of details and resources which you will still find useful. It is also worth reviewing to find out what 'Modern' Perl actually is.
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Starting points
Related sites
Tip
Database interfaces DBIx::Class provides an Object Relational Mapper (ORM) to databases (e.g. Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Postgress, Access etc)
Networking and Colocation
