It still boasts some of the most powerful regular expressions to be found anywhere, and its support for Unicode text is world-class. Perl's roots in text processing haven't been forgotten over the years. Its general-purpose programming facilities support procedural, functional, and object-oriented programming paradigms, making Perl a comfortable language for major projects. It combines some of the best features of sed, awk, and sh, making it familiar and easy to use for Unix users to whip up quick solutions to annoying problems. The language is intended to be practical (easy to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant, minimal). It's widely used for everything from quick "one-liners" to full-scale application development. Over the years, Perl has grown into a general-purpose programming language. It quickly became a good language for many system management tasks. ![]() ![]() "Perl" officially stands for "Practical Extraction and Report Language." It was originally a language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information from those text files, and printing reports based on that information. ![]() The perl command is the interpreter of the Perl programming language.
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