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The first line is a shebang, which identifies the file as a Perl script that can be executed directly on the command line on Unix/Linux systems. The other two are pragmas turning on warnings and strict mode, which are mandated by fashionable Perl programming style. This next example is a C/C++ programming language boilerplate, #include guard.
#!/usr/bin/perl print "Hello, World!\n"; 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.
Diagram of the mechanism of using perl modules. A Perl module is a discrete component of software for the Perl programming language.Technically, it is a particular set of conventions for using Perl's package mechanism that has become universally adopted.
#!usr/bin/perl – called the "shebang line", after the hash symbol (#) and ! (bang) at the beginning of the line. It is also known as the interpreter directive. # – the number sign, also called the hash symbol. In Perl, the # indicates the start of a comment. It instructs perl to ignore the rest of the line and not execute it as script code.
The loop control keywords are treated as expressions in Perl, not as statements like in C or Java. The next keyword jumps directly to the end of the current iteration of the loop. This usually causes the next iteration of the loop to be started, but the continue block and loop condition are evaluated first.
member val Bar = value with get, set: COBOL level-number bar clauses PROPERTY. level-number bar clauses PROPERTY «WITH» NO SET. level-number bar clauses PROPERTY «WITH» NO GET. Cobra pro bar from var «as type» get bar from var «as type» set bar from var «as type»
A binary-to-text encoding is encoding of data in plain text.More precisely, it is an encoding of binary data in a sequence of printable characters.These encodings are necessary for transmission of data when the communication channel does not allow binary data (such as email or NNTP) or is not 8-bit clean.
Learning Perl, also known as the llama book, [1] is a tutorial book for the Perl programming language, and is published by O'Reilly Media. The first edition (1993) was authored solely by Randal L. Schwartz , and covered Perl 4.