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

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

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/

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 …

You'll see how to access and work with databases in Perl, write CGI scripts to generate web pages and beyond. Coverage is bang up to date, using Perl 5.6 in all our examples and there's …

Over the years, Perl has grown into a general-purpose programming language. It's widely used for everything from quick "one-liners" to full-scale application development. The language is …

Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation and now used for a wide range of tasks including system administration, web development, …

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 …

Strawberry Perl (a Perl packaged for Windows) is recommended as you get many useful modules (especially those that are tricky to install) along with it. To interact with the command line and …