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All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report

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  • The quoting on the line
    print "\"Hello World\"\n";
    may be written as
    print qq|"Hello World"\n|;
    print qq{"Hello World"\n};
    to avoid escaping the doublequote char (for less cluttered code).

    (type "perldoc perlop" and search for "Quote-like" to read more)

    I guess those small things is what makes people say Perl code is unreadable. No, wait!?! That doesn't seem right...
  • I'd suggest this as a good second line:

    use strict;

    It's a good habit to get into. Spots many common errors and points them out to you, when you try to run the script. Even finds them before you try to run the script, if you use the "-c" option from the commandline. For example:

    perl -c myscript.pl

    For even more information about possible trouble spots in your program, add this line, too (up towards the top somewhere):

    use warnings;

    While you're learning, you'll get more verbose (explanatory) er

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