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=head1 NAME
perlintro -- a brief introduction and overview of Perl
=head1 DESCRIPTION
This document is intended to give you a quick overview of the Perl
programming language, along with pointers to further documentation. It
is intended as a "bootstrap" guide for those who are new to the
language, and provides just enough information for you to be able to
read other peoples' Perl and understand roughly what it's doing, or
write your own simple scripts.
This introductory document does not aim to be complete. It does not
even aim to be entirely accurate. In some cases perfection has been
sacrificed in the goal of getting the general idea across. You are
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advised to follow this introduction with more information
from the full Perl manual, the table of contents to which can be found
in L.
Throughout this document you'll see references to other parts of the
Perl documentation. You can read that documentation using the C
command or whatever method you're using to read this document.
Throughout Perl's documentation, you'll find numerous examples intended
to help explain the discussed features. Please keep in mind that many
of them are code fragments rather than complete programs.
These examples often reflect the style and preference of the author of
that piece of the documentation, and may be briefer than a corresponding
line of code in a real program. Except where otherwise noted, you
should assume that C