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#!/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 # 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 – 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).
This includes Perl itself, nearly all publicly released modules, many scripts, most design documents, many articles on Perl.com and other Perl-related web sites, and the Parrot virtual machine. Pod is rarely read in the raw, although it is designed to be readable without the assistance of a formatting tool.
#!/usr/bin/env python3 # -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-print ("Testing") The gcc compiler (since 2017) looks for a comment in a switch statement if a case falls-thru to the next case. If an explicit indication of fall-thru is not found, then the compiler issues a warning about a possible coding problem.
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 ...
Keep in mind that if you help develop Wikipedia as a central repository of Perl know-how, you will have a Perl programming resource that you can refer back to whenever you need to. So instead of just keeping scattered notes on the various components and features of Perl on your computer desk, compose paragraphs in Wikipedia articles where you ...