perl 5.8.7-10ubuntu1 (amd64 binary) in ubuntu dapper

Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language
 An interpreted scripting language, known among some as "Unix's Swiss
 Army Chainsaw".
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 Perl is optimised for scanning arbitrary text files and system
 administration. It has built-in extended regular expression matching
 and replacement, a data-flow mechanism to improve security with
 setuid scripts and is extensible via modules that can interface to C
 libraries.