Known as much for its confusing, often oddball, syntax as for its efficiency and speed, Perl has a mystique that very few languages can match. This first article in a new series gives novice and intermediate programmers an introduction to the basics of the language.

The part 3 of the Perl 101 series teaches you more about Perl's control structures - including the FOR and WHILE loops - and also introduces you to Perl's array variables.

After covering the basics of the language, this second article in the series teaches you about Perl's variables and operators, and also introduces you to conditional expressions.

A Beginner's guide to PERL An introduction to PERL which shows users how to parse forms, and use arrays. The tutorial has been designed with comprehensive examples and step by step explanations.

Here is a nice introductory tutorial on programming in Perl. Main topics include: Running a Program, Strings, String Matching, Loops, Forms, Reading Input, File Input/Output, The Browser, Subroutines, and more.

This is an introduction to simple output in a perl script. The case study goes into greater detail with quotes and EOF markers and how metacharacters and escape sequences modify the output.

This 8-page tutorial covers a wide range of Web programming in Perl. It starts off with the basic concepts, and then goes into more advanced topics such as subroutines, variables, functions, operators, control statements, and file manipulation. If you are just starting to learn Perl or want to go back to the basics of Perl, you will find this tutorial very helpful.

What is CGI? What is Perl? Chmod? Executable? 501 Errors? What is a cgi-bin? Find your answers to these questions in this introdutory CGI tutorial. It also covers creating dynamic content, configuration on the server-side, the whole server-side process, CGI script debugging, and more.

The tutorial covers the definition and how to start creating CGI programs in Perl. Many key CGI elements are explained with solid examples. Topics include: Forms, Environment Variables, Imagemaps, Tracking the User and more.

Intended for anyone who knows HTML, but doesn't know Perl or CGI programming, this Web-based class introduces you to writing Perl CGI scripts, teaches you the basics of writing CGI's, and walks you through several examples of common CGI programming applications for the Web.

This introductory tutorial on CGI takes a look at what CGI is, requirements to run CGI scripts, how to install (upload) CGI scripts onto your server and more.

Covers Basic structure of a CGI script, Variables in Perl (Scaler and array variables), Decision Trees in Perl, and Opening and reading files in Perl.

This CGI tutorial teaches you the basic skill of perl programming needed by all perl programmers. Topics include subroutines, 'if' statements, qq, error handling, debugging, and using forms.