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A Gentle Introduction to
Perl Programming

Base types

 

Data types

Base types

There are a number of base types, we can combine these in a number of ways to build more complex types (or classes).

1. [ Perl ] Basic types


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Type declarations are not required in perl. Values will be converted implicitly as required.

There are no boolean values: The value zero and the empty string are treated as false.