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This documentation contains the core documentation for Perl version 5.8.8, in HTML format.

If you are new to the Perl language, good places to start reading are the introduction and overview at perlintro, and the extensive FAQ section, which provides answers to over 300 common questions.

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Highlighting and linking of code examples

The Perl documentation contains thousands of examples of Perl code. These feature syntax highlighting and linking of function / module names to their respective documentation pages, e.g.

#! /usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $greeting = "Hello, World!";
print $greeting,"\n";  # Say hello