Top Perl Studio is an Integrated Development Environment for Perl with the special emphasis on CGI programming. Top Perl Studio provides powerful and easy-to-use solution for editing, testing and deploying Perl based applications.

Main features of Top Perl Studio includes:

Executing CGI/Perl scripts through the internal HTTP server
Preview the output of CGI/Perl scripts in the internal browser
Built-in FTP client for handling files on remote servers.
Function and parameter completion for built-in Perl functions
Syntax checking for Perl code
HTML tag completion
Visual file comparison utility
Configurable syntax highlighting for Perl, HTML, SQL, XML...
Server explorer
Local file system view

Features:

Internal HTTP server: Users may test their CGI/Perl scripts without a need for external HTTP server. Users may also disable this feature to test their CGI/Perl scripts with external HTTP server
Internal browser (requires MSIE 4.0 or higher): Users easily preview the output of CGI/Perl scripts
Built-in FTP client enables opening and editing scripts directly from remote servers
Customizable syntax highlighting for Perl, SQL, HTML, XML, Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), JavaScript, PHP, Python and Java
Function and parameter completion for built-in Perl functions: You can quickly see Perl function list by pressing Ctrl+Enter and Shift+Ctrl+Enter for a hint pop-up containing parameter reference for selected function.
Visual file comparison utility
Server explorer panel: You can easily access the files which will be served
File explorer: You can easily access local file system while you are working with Top Perl Studio
Code snippets: You can easily access CSS and HTML tags
Advanced code editing capabilities (Multiply undo/redo, find/replace, indent/unindent ...)
Automatic correction (similar to MS Word).
Tabbed multiply document interface
Backup & automatic saving of files
Automatic parentheses highlighting
Column mode editing: While pressing Alt key, you can edit in column mode
Bookmarks
Highly Customizable