Your First Perl Program

Several issues face a programmer who is about to write his or her first program in an unfamiliar programming language. How is the text for the program prepared? How do I translate this program into something that can be executed by the machine? How is it executed? These issues reside more or less outside of the programming language. Then there are other issues that are more directly related to the programming language itself. These include topics such as data types and control flow constructs. This chapter discusses both types of beginning issues.

Preparing Your Perl Program

For modest programs such as the ones that we demonstrate in this chapter, the first step is to prepare the source code for your program. In order ...

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