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It is primarily associated with PHP, Ruby and Perl programming languages, which use it to declare hashes. Using a fat comma to bind key-value pairs in a hash, instead of using a comma, is considered an example of good idiomatic Perl. [ 1 ]
Perl Data Language (abbreviated PDL) is a set of free software array programming extensions to the Perl programming language. PDL extends the data structures built into Perl, to include large multidimensional arrays , and adds functionality to manipulate those arrays as vector objects.
Perl 5 has built-in, language-level support for associative arrays. Modern Perl refers to associative arrays as hashes; the term associative array is found in older documentation but is considered somewhat archaic. Perl 5 hashes are flat: keys are strings and values are scalars.
name'Length: name'First: name'Last: ALGOL 68: UPB name - LWB name+1 2 UPB name - 2 LWB name+1 etc. LWB name 2 LWB name etc. UPB name. 2 UPB name etc. APL ⍴ name (⍴ name)[index] ⎕IO (⍴ name)-~⎕IO (⍴ name)[index]-~⎕IO: AWK: length: 1: asorti: C#, Visual Basic (.NET), Windows PowerShell, F#: name.Length: name.GetLowerBound(dimension ...
^d Although Perl doesn't have records, because Perl's type system allows different data types to be in an array, "hashes" (associative arrays) that don't have a variable index would effectively be the same as records.
The hash mark character introduces a comment in Perl, which runs up to the end of the line of code and is ignored by the compiler (except on Windows). The comment used here is of a special kind: it’s called the shebang line.
Perl Programming Documentation, also called perldoc, is the name of the user manual for the Perl 5 programming language. It is available in several different formats, including online in HTML and PDF. The documentation is bundled with Perl in its own format, known as Plain Old Documentation (pod).
Perl interpreters have been developed for most operating systems (platforms), taking into account the idiosyncrasies of each, so all such platforms can theoretically run the same code. Text manipulation – anything from spell checking, to search and replace operations using regex, to natural language processing.