Perl 101 Quick Start - Quickest approach to learn perl

[Jack C. Mahaffey]

I'm scheduled for a perl class in a couple of weeks and would like to get familiar with the basic constructs of the language.

I administer both HP-UX and Windows NT servers and would appreciate any useful info that could get me up to speed on the language.



Thanks... Jack...

[Helen French]

These could be just a starting:

http://www.perl.com
http://use.perl.org
http://www.perl.org

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Jack


1. man perl
2. Perl by O Reily
3. www.perl.com
4. The best to learn is by doing it



Manoj Srivastava

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

I suggest you get 3 O'reilly Books:

'Learning Perl', 'Learning Perl on Win32 Systems', and 'Programming Perl'. The Win32 version of 'Learning Perl' was worth it for me just because of the Process Management chapter.

Probably the main thing that you need to be very familiar with is regular expressions.

[Richard Briggs]

I learned perl by myself then took HP's perl class.

O'Reilly's Camel Book (programming Perl) is an excellent read through tutorial...

and this site has helped a great deal as well:
^^^^^^^^^^^^

http://www.ebb.org/PickingUpPerl/

rab

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

If you already know awk, go find the awk script for which you think you were *realy* clever and use a2p to convert it to perl and see how that looks in perl syntax.

Same for sed with s2p

perldoc -f func

for all the weird functions you cannot understand

[Mark Landin]

www.perlnomks.org is an excellent online Perl community with assistance and resources for both newbies and veterans alike.

[Mark Landin]

Uh, that's www.PERLMONKS.org. I typo-ed that in my earlier response...

[Jack C. Mahaffey]

Thanks for the help. I really like the perlmonks.org site and the Picking Up Perl suggestions.

jack...