Download or read book Perl Language Reference Manual written by Larry Wall and published by Network Theory.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual is a printed edition of the official Perl reference documentation from the Perl 5.12.1 distribution. It describes the syntax of Perl and its built-in datatypes, operators, functions, variables, regular expressions and error messages. For each copy of this manual sold, the publisher (Network Theory Ltd) will donate 1 USD to The Perl Foundation to support the further development of the language. Further topics are covered in the "Perl Library Reference Manual (Volumes 1-6)," the "Perl C API and Internals Manual," and the "Perl Unicode and Locales Manual" (available separately).