Perl Basics part 2: Scalars, Arrays, and Hashes

In this part 2 section of perl basics, we will learn about perl scalars, arrays, and hashes which are heart of the perl language syntax.  In C, Java and C++ programming languages we call varibales which holds or stores data, here in perl we call it scalars.  Scalars are defined with prefixed ‘$’ symbols as shown below. Read the rest of this entry »