One of Perl's great strengths is its string handling. It can perform operations on a character-by-character basis, or on strings as a whole. It also has a powerful facility known as regular expressions, which allows the knowledgable programmer to write one line of code that would otherwise be pages long!

This topic is presented on public courses Perl Programming, Perl bootcamp

bticks	backtick operator - runs an operating system command
cs	Exercise answer - completing a sentence
finsent	Trimming a sentence
firststring	low level string functions demonstrated
heredoc	Use of a here document for copyright block
pattern	Regular expression learning tool
perlstring	Ways of writing strings in Perl
pf2	Filter roads.xyz to match a pattern (using open or die)
pfilter	Filter roads.xyz to match a pattern
pig	Regular expression - first example with anchors, literals, groups, and counts
plook	Simple example of reading and filtering a data file
prop2	Using double quoted strings to change case
prop3	single and double quotes, q and qq strings
proper	Case changes on string
pws	Use of eq rather that == for string comparison
romance	Quoted strings, qq strings and here documents
sc	Case insensitive comparison
singlename	regex to look for a single name