This docume
               nt is intended to g
             ive you a quick overview
            of the Perl programming lan
         guage, along with pointers to f
        urther documentation. It is intend
       ed as a "bootstrap" guide for those
       who are new to the language, and pro
      vides just enough information for you
     to be able to read other peoples' Perl
     and understand roughly what it's doing,
      or write your own simple scripts.  This
      introductory document does not aim to b
     e complete. It does not even aim to be
     entirely accurate. In some cases perfec
      tion has been sacrificed in the goal
       of getting the general idea across.
       You are *strongly* advised to follo
         w this introduction with more in
          formation from the full Perl
            manual, the table of conte
              nts to which can be fo
                 und in perltoc.