Perl is a language that combines some of the features of C, sed, awk and shell. See the
Perl 5 UN*X Distribution manual pages for more hype.
Note that not all of the functionality in these pages is supported by Windows NT Perl 5.
There are also two Nutshell Handbooks published by O'Reilly & Assoc. for Perl 4 that are a good reference.
See the 'More Information' section of "README.TXT" for more sources of information.
Included in the Windows NT Perl 5 Manual is the following:
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