What is Perl?
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December 5, 2012 3:53 PM
Practical Extraction and Reporting Language (Perl) is an open-source scripting language that processes text to make it easier to use in reports. For example, you can use Perl to access and update databases. Because Perl incorporates elements of other programming languages, there are multiple ways to use it.
For more information, see Perl.org.
