Chapter 3. Creating and running a Perl program

Table of Contents
In this chapter...
Logging into your account
Using perldoc
Using the editor
Our first Perl program
Running a Perl program from the command line
The "shebang" line
Comments
Command line options
Chapter summary

In this chapter...

In this chapter we will be creating a very simple "Hello, world" program in Perl and exploring some of the basic syntax of the Perl programming language.