Comment Tip #1: Avoid 'Learning Perl' by O'Reilly! (Score 1) 65
Hope you haven't purchased _Perl_Buy_Example. It can be downloaded for free from http://www.rcs.ru:8102/useful/Perl5/noframes.htm
If you are into all-inclusive tomes then be sure to scope out _Perl5_Complete_ published by McGraw-Hill ( their the ones that like to put corporate ads into the textbooks of elementary school children and then blame it on the companies that purchased the space ... but, what the heck, no-corporate-body is perfect ). Once you really dig into Perl you may well change you mind about O'Reilly's Perl books.
If you are into all-inclusive tomes then be sure to scope out _Perl5_Complete_ published by McGraw-Hill ( their the ones that like to put corporate ads into the textbooks of elementary school children and then blame it on the companies that purchased the space
