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#!/usr/bin/perl # Loads the module and imports any functions into our namespace # (defaults to "main") exported by the module. Hello::World exports # hello() by default. Exports can usually be controlled by the caller. use Hello::World; print hello (); # prints "Hello, world!\n" print hello ("Milky Way"); # prints "Hello, Milky Way!\n"
#!/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.
#!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.
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).
qrpff is a Perl script created by Keith Winstein and Marc Horowitz of the MIT SIPB. [1] It performs DeCSS in six or seven lines. The name itself is an encoding of "decss" in rot-13. The algorithm was rewritten 77 times to condense it down to six lines. [2] In fact, two versions of qrpff exist: a short version (6 lines) and a fast version (7 lines).
More broadly using #!/usr/bin/env for any script still has some portability issues with OpenServer 5.0.6 and Unicos 9.0.2 which have only /bin/env and no /usr/bin/env. Using #!/usr/bin/env results in run-time indirection, which has the potential to degrade system security; for this reason some commentators recommend against its use [ 17 ] in ...
The Perl virtual machine is a stack-based process virtual machine implemented as an opcodes interpreter which runs previously compiled programs written in the Perl language. The opcodes interpreter is a part of the Perl interpreter, which also contains a compiler (lexer, parser and optimizer) in one executable file, commonly /usr/bin/perl on various Unix-like systems or perl.exe on Microsoft ...
Perl provides three loop control keywords that all accept an optional loop label as an argument. If no label is specified, the keywords act on the innermost loop. Within nested loops, the use of labels enables control to move from an inner loop to an outer one, or out of the outer loop altogether.