Name: "Perl"
Details: "The scripting language Perl 5"
Extension: ".pl"
Line Comment: "#"
String Literal: "\""
String Literal Escape: "\\"
Character Literal: "'"
Character Literal Escape: "\\"

Shebang: "#!/usr/bin/perl\n\n"
Before Named Paragraph Expansion: "\n{\n"
After Named Paragraph Expansion: "}\n"
Start Definition: "%S ="
End Definition: "\n;\n"

# In its usual zany way, Perl recognises the same #line syntax as C, thus in
# principle overloading its comment notation #:

Line Marker: "#line %d \"%f\"\n"