First script

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examples/firstperl/hello_world.pl

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use v5.8.7;   # use 5.008007;
use strict;
use warnings;

print "Hello world\n";
print 42, "\n";

run it by typing perl hello_world.pl

On unix you can also make it executable: chmod u+x hello_world.pl and then run like: ./hello_world.pl

A couple of notes

• Strings and numbers
• Strings must be quoted, you can use special characters such as "\n"
• The print statement (Output) - gets comma delimitered list of things
• ; after every statement