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Perl is one of the most popular text processing languages in the world. It allows you to create extremely efficient text parsers for all sorts of applications.

This interactive course will help you get up to speed on Perl, starting off with basic concepts like loops, strings, and arrays. You'll build your way up to more complex topics like data structures and packages.

No background knowledge is needed. Anyone willing to understand the principles and syntax of Perl to use it in the future will find this course useful.

Learn Perl from Scratch

## Variables
A *variable* in any programming language is a named piece of computer memory to hold some program data. *Variables* are an essential part of a computer program.

You can declare a variable in Perl using a `$` sign followed by its name,  e.g., `$myVar`.

# Variables
A *variable* in any programming language is a named piece of computer memory to hold some program data. *Variables* are an essential part of a computer program.

You can declare a variable in Perl using a `$` sign followed by its name,  e.g., `$myVar`.

# Variables
A *variable* in any programming language is a named piece of computer memory to hold some program data. *Variables* are an essential part of a computer program.

You can declare a variable in Perl using a `＄` sign followed by its name,  e.g., `＄myVar`.

Learn how you can use variables to store data and understand the differences among various data types available in Perl.

Getting Started

Variables

Operators

Conditional Statements

Loops

Subroutines

Strings

Arrays

Packages

Conclusion

Variables and Data Types

Variables