In this lesson we will learn about statements. The print command will be used to demonstrate statements. Statements are separated by semicolon characters. A sequence of strings to print, separate by commas, will all be printed one after the other. A statement, or a comma, does cause the printing to be on multiple lines. To get a new line, a special two character sequence, "backslash n" must be used.
Here is the code that you are asked to type into the Liveperl window, and run, by the video instruction.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w # print is a perl builtin function # It prints strings. print "This is a single statement."; print "Look, ", "a ", "list!"; # The ';' character separates statements print "This is "; print "two statements.\n"; print "But this ", "is only one statement.\n";