--- title: "Using knitractive with Perl" author: "Jeroen Janssens" date: "`r Sys.Date()`" output: github_document --- *View the corresponding [perl.Rmd file](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jeroenjanssens/knitractive/master/vignettes/examples/perl.Rmd) to learn more about how this page was generated.* ```{r setup, include = FALSE} knitractive::start("perl", rexpect::cmd_docker(image = "rakudo-star:2021.04"), prompt = "^(>|\\*)$") ``` Create a function in Perl. ```{perl} sub hello($name = "World") { say "Hello, $name!"; } ``` Use function in a later chunk. ```{perl} hello(); hello('R Markdown'); ``` *View the corresponding [perl.Rmd file](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jeroenjanssens/knitractive/master/vignettes/examples/perl.Rmd) to learn more about how this page was generated.*