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Perl tutorial provides basic and advanced concepts of Perl. Our Perl programming tutorial is designed for beginners and professionals both. Perl is a cross-platform environment and library for running JavaScript applications which is used to create network and server-side applications. Our Perl tutorial includes all topics of Perl such as installation, example, operator, operator type, control statement, loop,comments, arrays, string, escaping characters, namespace, hashes, regular expressions, functions and subroutines, file handling, error handling. etc - Perl Programming Introduction Perl is a programming language which was originally developed for script manipulation. But now Perl is used for a variety of purpose including web development, GUI development, system administration and many more. It is a stable, cross platform programming language. For web development, Perl CGI is used. CGI is the gateway which interacts with the web browser and Perl in a system. Its typical use is extracting information from a text file and printing out report for converting a text file into another form. This is because it got its name after the expression, "Practical Extraction and Report Language". Programs written in Perl are called Perl scripts, whereas system programs to execute Perl scripts are called Perl program. Perl is an interpreted language. When a Perl program run, it is first compiled into a byte code, then it is converted into machine instructions. So writing something in Perl instead of C saves your time. It supports most of the operating systems and is listed in Oxford English dictionary. Its concepts and syntax is taken from many languages like awk, bourne shell, C, sed and even English.