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

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 those text …

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 prototyping …

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/

There are many reasons to use Perl, including 108,000 modules ready for you to use.

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 impart …

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 impart …

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 contents or …

"There's more than one way to do it" is the motto of Perl, but this book aims to take you through them all. We'll take you from installation, through the core language elements - regular expressions, …