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Learning to Program with Perl

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For a long time Perl has been a popular language among those programming for the first time. Although it is a powerful language many of its features mean make it especially suited to first time programmers as it reduces the complexity found in many other languages. Perl is also one of the world's most popular languages which means there are a huge number of resources available to anyone setting out to learn it.

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Getting Started with Perl
Conditions, Arrays, Hashes and Loops
File Handling
Regular Expressions
Subroutines, References and Complex Data Structures
Perl Modules
Interacting with External Programs
Cross Platform Issues and Compiling

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Licence: Other (Non-Commercial)

Keywords: perl, Babraham Institute

Authors: Simon Andrews