What is perl script and what can one use it for?

it is a language to do things on server. You can use it to receive data from forms, send emails, connect to a database, extract reports and other stuff





More info:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PERL

What is perl script and what can one use it for?
Perl is a mature programming language with its origins in UNIX. If you are running Mac OS X, Linux, BSD, or another UNIX or UNIX-alike then you probably have it installed on your system already. If you are running Windows then you can find details of several different distributions of Perl at http://win32.perl.org/wiki/index.php?tit...





Perl 6 is expected to arrive in the next few years http://dev.perl.org/perl6/





A Perl script is a piece of software written in Perl. The line between "program" and "script" is not clearly defined and there is a lot of debate about the subject. See http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=556842 for more information.





As for what Perl can do, many people's experience of it is limited to its use in CGI scripts (CGI is a way for a webserver to run a program in response to getting a request for a URL instead of just opening a static file), but really the answer is "practically anything". http://www.perl.org/app.html lists some resources for Perl toolkits for building web applications, regular graphical desktop applications, talking to databases, and more. There is also a large collection of third party modules which cover almost every topic under the sun at CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/





It would be easier to describe what Perl can't do - it isn't very good when it comes to performing really low level operations with hardware, but see http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=516556 for a wider view.





(There is also PerlScript (as opposed to "a Perl script", which is a means of using Perl inside ASP or client side in Internet Explorer, but it isn't very common. See http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/Ac... )
Reply:Perl is an older computer language that is used for many different things.





http://cgi.resourceindex.com/Programs_an... take a look at the script categories and you'll see just what it does.