Perl Syntax

The DBI is a database access module for the Perl programming language. It defines a set of methods, variables, and conventions that provide 

Free tutorials and references for PERL Programming Common Gateway Interface (CGI) Database Interface (DBI) with PERL 

 This tutorial shows how to use simple comparisons and regular expressions in Perl.  Almost everything we put in an ‘if’ expression is going to be comparing a variable with a value, or a variable with another variable.

 There are two ways of measuring time: ages from today, and counting from an arbitrary date in the past. So, for example, you can get that a file is 28.5 days old, or you can find out that the file was created 

 You’ve already seen simple arrays. We used them for the “command line” variables. Simple arrays begin with the “@” symbol. 

 All Perl lines must end in semicolons. Perl does not use the carriage return to indicate the end of a line, it uses the semicolon.

This free book is an excellent tutorial book for beginners. It is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning Perl himself. 

This free book is an excellent tutorial book for beginners. It is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning Perl himself. 

Perl is an interpreted language, like QBasic, with which you can write programs to run on UNIX servers and which you can call from your web pages. 

Knowing which commands work with one another can help you come quickly up to speed on the Perl functions that are available to you.