Perl tutorials & labs.

The most practical Perl path for VLSI — built around the workflows engineers actually inherit when they join a team with legacy EDA Perl. From Perl's historical role in the industry through fundamentals, control flow, subroutines, file handling, regular expressions (where Perl earned its reputation), text processing, hashes for EDA data, filelist generation, netlist processing, synthesis and STA report parsing, regression automation, UVM log analysis, CSV and report generation, integration with Bash and Tcl, the Perl → Python migration path, defensive debugging, five industry case studies (netlist analyzer, timing report parser, coverage report parser, regression dashboard generator, legacy flow maintenance), tiered interview mastery, five pre-merge review checklists, and the misconceptions that bite both Perl maintainers and Perl-migration teams.