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Mohd Mohtashim has Published 251 Articles
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Perl stores all the numbers internally as either signed integers or double-precision floating-point values. Numeric literals are specified in any of the following floating-point or integer formats −TypeValueInteger1234Negative integer-100Floating point2000Scientific notation16.12E14Hexadecimal0xffffOctal0577
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Perl is a loosely typed language and there is no need to specify a type for your data while using it in your program. The Perl interpreter will choose the type based on the context of the data itself.Perl has three basic data types: scalars, arrays of scalars, and hashes ... Read More
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Perl borrows syntax and concepts from many languages: awk, sed, C, Bourne Shell, Smalltalk, Lisp, and even English. However, there are some definite differences between the languages. This chapter is designed to quickly get you up to speed on the syntax that is expected in Perl.A Perl program consists of ... Read More
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Perl uses the backslash (\) character to escape any type of character that might interfere with our code. Let's take one example where we want to print double quote and $ sign −Example Live Demo#!/usr/bin/perl $result = "This is \"number\""; print "$result"; print "\$result";OutputThis will produce the following result −This is ... Read More
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You can use double quotes or single quotes around literal strings as follows −Example Live Demo#!/usr/bin/perl print "Hello, world"; print 'Hello, world';OutputThis will produce the following result −Hello, world Hello, world$There is an important difference between single and double-quotes. Only double quotes interpolate variables and special characters such as newlines , ... Read More
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A Perl program does not care about whitespaces. Following program works perfectly fine −#!/usr/bin/perl print "Hello, world";But if spaces are inside the quoted strings, then they would be printed as is. For example −Example Live Demo#!/usr/bin/perl # This would print with a line break in the middle print "Hello ... Read More
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Comments in any programming language are friends of developers. Comments can be used to make program user-friendly and they are simply skipped by the interpreter without impacting the core functionality. For example, in the above program, a line starting with hash # is a comment.Simply saying comments in Perl start ... Read More
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Perl is a general-purpose programming language originally developed for text manipulation and now used for a wide range of tasks including system administration, web development, network programming, GUI development, and more.A Perl script can be created inside of any normal simple-text editor program. There are several programs available for every ... Read More
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Interactive Mode ProgrammingYou can use Perl interpreter with -e option at the command line, which lets you execute Perl statements from the command line. Let's try something at $ prompt as follows −$perl -e 'print "Hello World"'This execution will produce the following result −Hello, worldScript Mode ProgrammingAssuming you are already ... Read More
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