Perl Glossary

Definition of the perl programming term 'assignment operator'

Definition of the perl programming term 'hash'

Definition of the perl programming term 'list'

Definition of the perl programming term 'scalar'

Perl is great for pattern matching text using regular expressions. But regular expressions aren't peculiar to Perl. So what are they?

CPAN is one of the greatest things about Perl. Why re-invent the wheel?

Who created Perl? Find out a bit more about Larry Wall - the man who made it all possible.

Perl chop() is a handy function which removes the last character of a string. Find out how, and when, to use it.