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This site contains the complete documentation set for Perl version 5.8.6, in both HTML and PDF formats.
What's new?
16 January 2005 - Perl code examples now have syntax highlighting, e.g.
#! /usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $greeting = "Hello, World!"; print $greeting,"\n"; # Say hello
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