User Input and Output
Variable interpolation
examples/perl/variable_interpolation.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my $name = "Foo";
print "Hello ", $name, " - how are you ?\n";
print "Hello $name - how are you ?\n";
More about strings and interpolation.
Read from the keyboard
examples/perl/read_from_stdin.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
print "Enter your name, please: ";
my $name = <STDIN>;
print "Hello $name - how are you ?\n";
chomp
examples/perl/read_from_stdin_chomp.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
print "Enter your name, please: ";
my $name = <STDIN>;
chomp $name;
print "Hello $name - how are you ?\n";