Re: Get me excited about perl

[GrandFather]

in reply to Get me excited about perl

• Regular expressions.
• join, split, sort, grep and map.
• Hashes
• Dynamic arrays with push, pop, shift, unshift, splice
• DWIM (most of the time)

Much of Perl's power derives from the richness of the language, but the features listed above give huge text and list processing power. Even better, Perl is very portable across platforms with a lot of common file manipulation built in.