COMP 2400 Software Tools

Goals: 

• Understand Perl Basics
  • Create and run a script to print Hello World!
  • Common extension for a Perl script is .pl (on Windows .plx)

Useful commands/tips:

• if you make the script executable, you can run it by typing the name of the script at the command line
• you can also run it as
  $ perl -w scriptName.pl
• The first line is always #!/usr/bin/perl (or the appropriate path to the interpreter)

Useful Links:

• Perl Book

Online Tutorial:

• Perl introductory tutorial