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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.
The structure of the Perl programming language encompasses both the syntactical rules of the language and the general ways in which programs are organized. Perl's design philosophy is expressed in the commonly cited motto "there's more than one way to do it".
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 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.
Such programs are called "scripts". In this regard, perl is considered to be a scripting language. Typical operations performed by shell scripts include program execution, printing text, and file manipulation (copying, renaming, deleting, etc.). Being an interpreted language, perl has the following advantages: Platform independence
This comparison of programming languages (array) compares the features of array data structures or matrix processing for various computer programming languages. Syntax [ edit ]
#!/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"
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).