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Perl and CGI

So how does Perl fit into this scenario?

CGI scripts typically:

  • do lots of complex string manipulation
  • write many complex strings (HTML) to output
Perl is good at manipulating strings ⇒ good for CGI.

Libraries for Perl make CGI processing even easier.

CGI.pm is one such library   (see later for more details)