Notes on Perl

• Compiling: How to compile and run a Perl program
• Debugging: Debugging in Perl
• Web information on Perl: tutorials and other information available on the web.
• Books

Compiling Perl programs

• Invoke the Perl interpreter in command-line mode (for use on short Perlscripts), e.g.,
  % perl -e -w 'print "Hello World!\n"'

• Arrange for your Perl script to invoke Perl automatically; to do this, have
  #!/usr/bin/perl -w

  as the first line of your Perl script (say, mine.prl), make this script executable, e.g.,

  % chmod 0700 mine.prl

  and execute the script by typing that script's name, e.g.,

  % mine.prl

Debugging in Perl

% perl -e -d 'print "Hello World!\n"'

See pages 506-529 of Wall, Christansen, and Orwant for further details.

Web information on Perl

• The Perl Institute Home Page.
• The Perl Home Page.
• Red Swain's Perl 5 reference guide
• A 1999 article from LINUX Magazine by Larry Wall on the origins and philosophy of Perl (found by Mike Rowe (mrowe@cs.mun.ca)).

Perl books

Title:	Cross Platform Perl - for UNIX and Windows NT
Author:	Eric F. Johnson
Publisher:	M&T Books.
ISBN:	1-55851-483-X
Suggested By:	Dean Barnes (dbarnes@cs.mun.ca
Title:	Learning Perl (Second Edition)
Author:	Randal L. Schwartz & Tom Christiansen
Publisher:	O'Reilly & Associates
Pages:	269
ISBN:	1-56592-284-0
Suggested By:	Wesley Green (wgreen@cs.mun.ca
Title:	Perl in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference
Author:	Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour & Nathan Patwardhan.
Publisher:	O'Reilly & Associates
ISBN:	1-56592-286-7
Suggested By:	Dean Barnes (dbarnes@cs.mun.ca
Title:	Programming Perl (Third Edition)
Author:	Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, & Jon Orwant
Publisher:	O'Reilly & Associates
Pages:	1076
ISBN:	0-596-00027-8
Title:	Programming Perl (Second Edition)
Author:	Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, & Randal L. Schwartz
Publisher:	O'Reilly & Associates
Pages:	645
ISBN:	1-56592-149-6

Created: January 17, 2000
Last Modified: March 22, 2001