Perl
a high-level scripting language, originally created to help automate text processing, now used more broadly.
Origin of Perl
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How to use Perl in a sentence
And, difficult though it is, people who believe they may be sick must try to self-isolate, even if they’re not able to get a test right away, Perl says.
Patients Are Waiting Weeks for COVID-19 Test Results. Here's Why That's a Huge Problem | Jamie Ducharme | July 22, 2020 | TimeThen he created an Internet version of his HyperText program, writing it in just a few hundred lines of Perl code.
Perl and Dalia themselves are wearing beautiful sheitels of long streaming curls.
The Sisterhood of Bulletproof Stockings: It’s Ladies’ Night for Hasidic Rockers | Emily Shire | September 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWith Perl in particular, a former makeup artist, there is a sultriness to her metallic eye shadow and her painted lips.
The Sisterhood of Bulletproof Stockings: It’s Ladies’ Night for Hasidic Rockers | Emily Shire | September 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPerl asks her bandmate Dalia as she looks it up on her iPhone.
The Sisterhood of Bulletproof Stockings: It’s Ladies’ Night for Hasidic Rockers | Emily Shire | September 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
At that same time, Perl, now 27, was going through her second divorce.
The Sisterhood of Bulletproof Stockings: It’s Ladies’ Night for Hasidic Rockers | Emily Shire | September 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe fortifications of the town at the main arm of the Perl estuary could not have been more primitive.
The Accumulation of Capital | Rosa LuxemburgMr Myers, using Du Perl's conception of a threshold, has termed the former our subliminal self.
Occultism and Common-Sense | Beckles WillsonOh, then, perhaps you can tell us the way to Perl, or Pirl Street?
The wanderings and fortunes of some German emigrants | Friedrich GerstckerPerl gives a most interesting account of the domestic life of the family in the last days of the master's life.
Richard Wagner His Life and His Dramas | W. J. HendersonFrau Perl said when they build on a roof it brings good fortune always.
A Round Dozen | Susan Coolidge
British Dictionary definitions for Perl
/ (pɜːl) /
a computer language that is used for text manipulation, esp on the Internet
Origin of Perl
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