Perl book

[Sundar_7]

Folks,

Looking to get started with Perl. Need some suggestion on good Perl books. Oreilly's Learning Perl has some good reviews in Amazon. Any inputs?

Sundar.

[Patrick Wallek]

I highly recommend ANY of the O'Reilly books. They are one of the best publisher's out there, in my humble opinion.

[Jeff_Traigle]

I found the entire O'Reilly Perl library useful a few years back when I decided to create a small CGI project for myself. I bought all of them and still have them (collecting dust now :) ) on a shelf at home. "Learning Perl" is a good beginning. The only book I wasn't impressed with in the collection was "Perl in a Nutshell".

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=284175
Is an article that Wendy van Dijk wrote, and it describes exactly this question.

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperl3/

and use the perldoc command.
Nothing so complete and accurate as the online docs

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn [ who would tell you to read "Programming Perl" ]

[Geoff Wild]

If you take the HP Perl Programming course, you get the O'Reily Programming Perl book free!

http://www.hp.com/education/courses/h4311s.html

The corse is well worth - I took the RAIL version.

Rgds...Geoff

[Rick Garland]

*I like the "camel" book (O'Reilly's animal on one of their PERL books)

I also have the "Perl for System Administration" book - another O'Reilly book. (The picture is that of a praire dog or of an otter.)

[Doug O'Leary]

Hey;

It helps, not necessary, but certainly helps to know C ahead of time. I borrowed a copy of "learning perl" (O'Reilly's) and breezed through it in about a week. Following that, the only perl books I bought were the Programming Perl (reference book) and the Perl cookbook (short snippets of code that *REALLY* come in handy).

After that, it's just a matter of using it.

The comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup is a good source of help but make sure you have a thick skin going in there. There are some incredible prima donas there...

[Paul_481]

Hi,

Try this link.

http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/perl/sysadmin/

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi Sundar,

Camel book is the best what i could say. Also, you can try this,

http://www.greenteapress.com/perl/
[Learning Perl the Hard Way ]

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2000/06/27/perlbook.html

http://learn.perl.org/library/beginning_perl/
[Beginning Perl]

-Arun