Delve into Perl, a popular text processing language. Gain insights into loops, strings, and arrays, progressing to complex data structures and packages. No prior knowledge required.

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Perl is one of the most popular text processing languages in the world. It allows you to create extremely efficient text parsers for all sorts of applications.

This interactive course will help you get up to speed on Perl, starting off with basic concepts like loops, strings, and arrays. You'll build your way up to more complex topics like data structures and packages.

No background knowledge is needed. Anyone willing to understand the principles and syntax of Perl to use it in the future will find this course useful.

Learn Perl from Scratch

Which one is not a data type in Perl?

Which is not a floating point type?

Perl variables need to be declared before adding a value to it.

Perl variables need to be declared before adding a value to it.

What is the data type of the value `'5'`?

What is the data type of the value <code>'5'</code>?

Which symbol is used to create an array?

Solve this quiz to practice your concepts of variables and data types.

Getting Started

Variables

Operators

Conditional Statements

Loops

Subroutines

Strings

Arrays

Packages

Conclusion

Quick Quiz on Variables