Perl is mainlty used to write interactivwe programs that may assist the user of a web site. An example of Perl is the yahoo search program or the login for hotmail. Anything that you have to login on the internet uses perl. Perl is also a lot alike C and some of the other languages. You still need a Compiler just like C. You also need to find the Perl Soucre functins on your computer which you can download. If you are using it on the internat you need ot find where the sever has it located. you can do this by typing in the location for example:

            #!/usr/local/bin/perl

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Print Text

 
         Print("text here");

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Inputs

 
       &inputline = <STDIN>

<STDIN> looks for a line of input just like in C.

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If statements

 
   If Statement(){
        then do this
   }

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Next Line

 
               n\

put a n\ in the print command to make it go down a line just like C

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