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Perl
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose scripting language. It is optimized for scanning arbitrary text files and system administration. It has built-in extended regular expression matching and replacement, a dataflow mechanism to improve security with setuid scripts and is extendable by modules that interface to C libraries.
Last updated 23 May, 2005
Versions
5.9.1
5.9.1 devel released 2004-04-13
- Released: 13 Apr, 2004
- Code Maturity: Developmental
5.8.6
5.8.6 stable released 2005-02-04
- Released: 4 Feb, 2005
- Code Maturity: Stable
- Source Archive: http://www.cpan.org/src/perl-5.8.6.tar.gz
- Licenses: Perl
- Interfaces: Command Line
User Community and Support
See http://www.perl.org/docs.html for a complete list of documentation
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- Mailing List Info/Archive
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- Paid support available from http://ActiveState.com at http://www.activestate.com/Products/Perldirect/; http://www.perl.org/phbs/training.html for a list of consulting firms