Perl - Embedded Documentation

You can embed Pod (Plain Old Text) documentation in your Perl modules and scripts. Following is the rule to use embedded documentation in your Perl Code − Start your documentation with an empty line, a =head1 command at the beginning, and end it with a =cut command and an empty line. Perl will ignore the Pod text you entered...

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Perl - Process Management

You can use Perl in various ways to create new processes as per your requirements. This tutorial will list down few important and most frequently used methods of creating and managing Perl processes. You can use special variables $$ or $PROCESS_ID to get current process ID. Every process created using any of the mentioned methods,...

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Perl - Packages & Modules

What are Packages? The package statement switches the current naming context to a specified namespace (symbol table). Thus − A package is a collection of code which lives in its own namespace. A namespace is a named collection of unique variable names (also called a symbol table). Namespaces prevent variable name collisions between...

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